183: Is sunscreen okay to use?
Wise Traditions
Weston A. Price Foundation
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🗓️ 15 April 2019
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
For decades, we've been told to protect ourselves with sunscreen from the sun's harmful rays or risk getting skin cancer. However, melanoma has increased, in tandem with the use of sunscreen. What's going on? Today, clinical scientist and hormone expert Dr. Elizabeth Plourde weighs in on the sunscreen debate and discusses why sunscreen may be doing more harm than good. Elizabeth has done extensive research on the chemicals in sunscreen and gives us clarity about how they are impacting coral, marine life, and our own. She explains how the ingredients mess with our hormone health. She gives us the keys to a diet that works as a kind of "solar protector," and sheds light on the role that electro-magnetic frequencies play in making us more vulnerable to the toxins in sunscreen. She also gives us insights as to why the medical community is not making this information more widely known. In sum, Elizabeth opens our eyes to the scope of the problem emanating from our use of sunscreen and what we can to curtail its detrimental impact.
For more on sunscreen's effects, visit Dr. Plourde's website: sunscreensbiohazard.com.
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| 0:00.0 | these chemicals in the sunscreen as well as preservative by itself in the sunscreen |
| 0:05.0 | can kill the coral in 96 hours to the point of being bleached white. |
| 0:09.9 | And then as I kept investigating what these chemicals do, I became horrified at how |
| 0:16.8 | toxic they are to all of us. They're extremely potent endocrine disruptors, very potent antitostroons. So they're really harming the |
| 0:27.3 | fish as well as they're harming our own bodies. Welcome to the Wise Traditions Podcast, sponsored by the Weston A Price Foundation for |
| 0:40.1 | Wise Traditions in Food, farming, and the healing arts. |
| 0:43.8 | We're your source for scientific knowledge and traditional wisdom |
| 0:46.9 | to help you achieve optimal health. Hi everybody I'm Hoda Labrada Gore and this is episode 183. |
| 1:01.7 | Our guest today is Dr. Elizabeth Plourd. Dr. Plourd is a clinical laboratory scientist |
| 1:08.0 | an NAMS certified menopause practitioner and the author of Books on Sunscreens. Today Elizabeth |
| 1:15.4 | makes a strong case for why we need to second-guess our relationship to |
| 1:18.9 | sunscreen. She breaks it all down for us how the chemicals in them are affecting the coral in the oceans, |
| 1:25.2 | marine life, and our own. |
| 1:27.8 | She goes over several of the wide-ranging health effects that can result from its use, from leaky gut to hormonal disruption |
| 1:36.2 | to impaired neurological function and even more. |
| 1:39.6 | Not only that, but sunscreen does not even necessarily protect our skin from cancer as advertised. |
| 1:45.5 | So what happens if we decide to pitch it? |
| 1:47.8 | How can we protect ourselves from sun damage, sunburn, and even melanoma? |
| 1:51.8 | Well, Elizabeth offers advice for that too. |
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