“Most
Sunscreens Do Only Half The Job, Blocking Unsafe UV-B Rays, But
Not Skin-Damaging UV-A
Can We Get Better Cover?” By Jennifer Huget, Special
to the Washington Post, Tuesday June 28, 2005
“With growing certainty and trepidation,
dermatologists, cancer doctors and anti-aging gurus over the past
decade have come to realize that available sunscreens may fight
only half the battle, fending off the sun’s short-wave UV-B
radiation. What’s missing is an equally useful weapon against
longer-wave UV-A rays, whose deleterious effects have only
recently come to light.” (Gaia Research has been
saying this in the prior decade!)
“Scientists have come to understand that
while UV-A damage isn’t immediately visible. UV-A is now
thought to be a prime culprit in premature wrinkling. More unsettling,
UV-A now is believed to alter skin cell's DNA,
causing mutations that can lead to the big ‘C’ (cancer).”
(Gaia Research has been saying this in the prior decade!)
“(Only) Avobenzone (a drug), Titanium
dioxide and Zinc oxide (two natural minerals) are known
to protect against UV-A (& UV-B). An application for the human
drug product Mexoryl (irresponsibly already in use outside the USA
and available on eBay, for example) is currently undergoing regulatory
review before the FDA for permission to market or use commercially.”
(Gaia use safe [non-nano-particle] Zinc oxide & Titanium dioxide)
Below follows how I put the above-summarised ‘revelations’
in considerable scientific detail some 10 years ago. As I have said
before. “We Lead; Others Follow”. “In
Us You Can Trust. Science Fact, Not Science Fiction”.
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