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UV Camera for detecting skin damage; real or not
Monday, February 17, 2014
Detecting excess melanin in your skin, is this damage? continue reading
Melanoma. Shall we move away from the sun and focus more on embryogenesis, body weight and longevity?
Monday, February 17, 2014
There are many observations regarding the behaviour of melanoma which points away from sunshine as the main cause of this tumour. Incidence data shows that the increase is mostly seen for thin melanomas which cannot be attributed to sun exposure but increasing screening over the last 20 years. continue reading
Everything you’d want to know about Vitamin D, Sunlight and Sunbeds
Monday, February 17, 2014
Your skin can also make vitamin D if you use an indoor tanning bed. As with natural sunlight, making the vitamin D you need from a tanning bed happens within minutes. continue reading
Member Advisory to Smart Tan Members on new research paper
Friday, January 31, 2014
A new study in the Journal of the American Medical Association is getting press today — the study pools survey data collected over the past 22 years and attempts to say that indoor tanning usage is increasing and that indoor tanning is related to 400,000 cases of skin cancer in the US.
JCTA Note: research did not include any research from Canada
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D2 is not the D for Athletes – You need D3 from the Sun
Wednesday, January 29, 2014
“When the sun hits our skin, it turns into vitamin D3. The body is used to that,” Nieman said. “High vitamin D2 levels are not a normal experience for the human body...... The European scientists theorized that during winter, when vitamin D levels in the body are low, sunlamp treatments, like natural exposure to sunlight, would increase the athletes’ vitamin D3 levels and benefit muscle function.
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