Chemist Forces Children to Eat Sun Block
My wife and I are unconventional parents. We didn’t vaccinate our children.
They don’t go to public school. We don’t let them drink their weight in soda.
And we make them eat their sunscreen. Before you report me to Child Protective
Services, let me assure you that I’m not talking about the conventional,
synthetic sun block that is loaded with poisons. I’m talking about edible sun
block in the form of carotenoids.
Carotenoids are members of a family of nutrients that protect plants and
animals from excess sunshine. Just like melanin, they are colorful molecules
that reflect UV rays. About 700 different types of carotenoids have been
identified. Each of the pigments functions as Mother Nature’s sunblock. When
humans ingest carotenoids, they are deposited into the skin to prevent sunburn
and (ultimately) oxidative stress, which can lead to cancer.
Leading sources of carotenoids are eggs, spirulina, chlorella, dark-green leafy
vegetables (kale, collards, and spinach), and yellow-orange fruits and
vegetables (apricots, cantaloupe, carrots, sweet potatoes, yams, and squash).
The recommended daily intake of carotenoids is 100 to 200 grams per day of
these foods.
The most potent carotenoid is a red pigment found in algae, salmon, trout,
shrimp, and lobsters. It is known as astaxanthin. The algae are normally green.
But when subjected to sunshine, they produce the red pigment naturally. Once
ingested, astaxanthin is 1,000 times more effective at protecting skin from UV
damage than other carotenoids.
Edible sunblock is your first line of defense against sunburn, cancer, and
prematurely aging skin. So make sure you pack plenty of carotenoids in your
kid’s lunchboxes this summer.
Posted in Natural Cures
July 11th, 2008 at 9:14 pm
This is fascinating information. I’ve never heard this before. It makes perfect sense, however. Sunscreen products have only been on the market for a few years. It seems they may be causing more harm than good in terms of blocking vitamin D absortption and therby creating more illness. I hope this is getting out there to other people. I no longer wear sun block unless I’m really at risk for prolonged, damaging exposure - which is rare. Thanks for your wonderful insight.
July 22nd, 2008 at 10:31 am
Shane - I’d love it if you would talk more about this subject. I’ve wondered why I haven’t been sunburnt in the last few years despite not wearing sunscreen and spending a couple of hours every afternoon outside. Now I know…it’s the spirulina I’ve been taking for the last few years! No Sunburn and No funky bumps on my skin from the sunscreen chemicals. And this is from a fair skinned red-head!
September 6th, 2008 at 5:16 pm
You advertising site said:
“Vaccines are purported to work by triggering immunity. It is “thunk” by the experts that by exposing our immune system to weak or dead infectious agents, such as measles or a flu virus, that it creates the appropriate immune defense. This logic has been used to defend the use of every vaccine to date. Yet, each vaccine has proven that the theory is nothing more than mental masturbation for nerdy scientists; it sounds good and feels better, but it’s not the real thing. At best, vaccines only temporarily boost our defenses, which hardly compensates for the myriad of potential side effects. Few people are aware of – or willing to accept - these cold, hard facts.”
Care to provide some real documentaiton? That is, documentation that your claims are physiologically correct. References to verifiable sources would be the minimum satandard, not just the idleconjecture of anti-vac merchants of disease, disability and death.