Recent content by Irol

silver rose, thank you for those links. i actually had no clue of the different types of melanin, so i learned something...and extended my vocabulary , all the words i had to look up! HA! tip of the cap to all who follow such jargon without a dictionary :)

ryan, all i meant by no agenda is, all the anti sun reading I've done comes from derms and cancer advocates. all the pro sun material I've read comes from sources involved with the tanning industry, like the vit d society for example. obvious agendas on both sides. I really appreciate PF and its...

thank you! i have some reading to do

Hi everyone. so I work in the tanning industry, i have read and seen countless sun scare campaigns like the big burn (Alberta health care psa), the "surgeon generals" report comparing uv exposure to smoking...the bad rap is endless. Problem is , its the exact opposite of what I've learned...

I have a hard time understanding how/when the sun , giver of life, became the big bad guy that should be avoided at all costs. Did we not evolve in the sun? Does our skin not have a mechanism devoted entirely to the process of absorbing uv light? And then another that converts the "vit d" from...

Hope this helps, From October to May, here in Canada at least, there is actually less uvb in the sun's radiation. UVB is the "burning ray" . as for your tanning question, uvb kick starts the tanning process by causing melanocytes to start producing melanin. as it absorbs into surrounding skin...