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6 Ways To Protect Your Skin While Enjoying That Summer Sun

Medical Reports, Positive Parenting / By Laura Koniver, MD

Well it’s closing in on summer and I hope you have moved some of your indoor activities outside to take advantage of the warmth and sunshine and grounded earth waiting outside to boost your health. If you need help, read through this idea list and pick one to do outside today: Hate Going Barefoot? 27 Fresh, Alternative Ways To Get You Outside Grounding This Spring This naturally brings up concerns about skin cancer and photo aging effects from sun exposure — but don’t let that stop you from going outside. A large medical study published in the Journal […]

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Jun 3 2024

My 6 Favorite Ways To Protect Your Skin While You Enjoy The Sun

Medical Reports / By Laura Koniver, MD

As we slide towards summer, I’d love to encourage you to get outside and get grounded to our earth as much as possible. This brings up concerns about skin cancer and photo aging effects from sun exposure — but don’t let that stop you from going outside. Here’s why: A large medical study published in the Journal of Internal Medicine found that folks who avoided sun exposure actually had a shorter life span… with a decreased life expectancy that was shorter than even heavy smokers who bathed in the sun. What?!?! Yes. This was a huge study looked at

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Jun 5 2023

Sunscreen May Not Reduce Melanoma Risk (Here is what can…)

Medical Reports, Organic Lifestyle / By Laura Koniver, MD

A new study (presented at the American Public Health Association Annual Meeting on Nov 19, 2016) shows that sunscreen did not have the ability to reduce future melanoma risk. 466 children (enrolled in the study at age 6) were followed for almost a decade (through age 15) and with a detailed report of annual sun exposure and sunscreen use as well as annual skin exams, which identified and documented skin lesions. This is the longest term study on new mole development ever conducted. And unfortunately, the results reveal that there was no association between sunscreen use and subsequent development

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Jun 12 2017

Avoiding The Sun Is Actually More Deadly Than Smoking

Grounding, Medical Reports / By Laura Koniver, MD

A recent article, published in the Journal of Internal Medicine on March 16, 2016, found that folks who avoided sun exposure had a decreased life expectancy, similar to smokers who bathed in the sun. This study looked at almost 30,000 participants (females ages 25 – 64 year old with no history of malignancy) over a span of 20 years. Researchers followed participants for over 20 years and tracked health outcomes and life span. What did they find? Researchers found that even when smoking was factored in, the life span of those who avoided the sun was over 2

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Apr 18 2016

6 Ways To Protect Your Skin While Enjoying That Summer Sun

My 6 Favorite Ways To Protect Your Skin While You Enjoy The Sun

Sunscreen May Not Reduce Melanoma Risk (Here is what can…)

Avoiding The Sun Is Actually More Deadly Than Smoking

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