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Age Better with Liz Earle

Do we really need SPF every day? – with Dr Veronique Bataille

Age Better with Liz Earle

Liz Earle

Gut Health, Liz Earle, Women's Health, Supplements, Beauty, Education, Skincare, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Arts, Fitness, Midlife, Menopause, Healthy Ageing, Exercise, Fashion & Beauty, Better Second Half, Health, Wellbeing, Hormones

4.6 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2025

⏱️ 61 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

Do you wear SPF every day? Consultant dermatologist Dr Veronique Bataille joins Liz to unpack whether daily sunscreen use and avoiding the sunshine does more harm than good.


Veronique shares her advice for being skin aware and the signs of melanoma to keep on your radar.


She also details the rise in skin issues among young women caused by excessive use of skincare products, and talks Liz through the evidence on whether we need to wear SPF50 all year round.


They also cover whether vitamin D supplementation is equal to getting it from the sun, helpful ingredients for pigmentation, and skin conditions that the sun can actually be beneficial for.


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0:00.0

There is no doubt that if you really all year round apply a factor SPF 50, you will damage your

0:06.8

healthy, normal skin microbiome. I don't think we were engineered as human being to have

0:13.1

SPF 50 all year round. There are instances where you are in the sun, you are at risk, you don't

0:18.7

want to burn, you don't want to increase your risk of

0:21.6

skin cancer, it's totally acceptable. But to be something that you use when you're going from

0:27.6

the tube to your job, to home, to a shop, totally unnecessary. Have you spent the summer

0:35.4

slathering on the sunscreen and avoiding the sun? And if so, have we been doing more harm than good? Well, to dig into this in much more detail, I'm delighted to be joined by consultant dermatologist Dr. Veronique Batai. Welcome to the Liz Arl-Well-being show with me, Liz Earle, the podcast helping us all have a better second half.

0:57.8

My mission here is to bring you helpful and often new ways to thrive in later life by investing in our health and our well-being today.

1:08.1

And I also see it as my duty to really dig into the science behind the big health

1:14.2

and beauty claims that are sometimes so ubiquitous, we wouldn't really even think to question

1:19.5

them. I was one of the first to question the wisdom behind low fat diets with my book, Vital Oils,

1:25.9

that was some 35 years ago, and then challenging the

1:29.7

fear of HRT and its erroneous links to breast cancer more than a decade ago.

1:35.2

And I have to say now, I have always been a bit wary of sunscreens.

1:39.6

So today, do we need to rethink our relationship with the sun?

1:45.7

Perhaps you are just back from your summer holiday and you diligently followed public health advice to wear high factor sunscreen

1:51.0

and avoid the sun where possible in fear of skin cancer. But is being out in the sun as harmful

1:57.9

as we've been led to believe? Why do we feel so much better after a summer holiday?

2:03.5

Was it the break from real life? Or was it the Sun's interaction with our biology?

2:09.1

Dr. Veronique Batai is a consultant dermatologist, a respected and highly published researcher

2:14.5

specialising in melanoma. I want to ask her what the real

2:18.9

unfiltered science is saying about the relationship between the sun and skin cancer, how

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