Welcome to Getting Curious. I'm Jonathan Van Ness. And every week I sit down for a 40-minute conversation

with a brilliant expert to learn all about something that makes me curious. On today's episode,

I'm re-earing an episode from July 2019 with dermatologist Dr. Emily Newsom, where I ask her,

does some protection have that it factor?

Welcome to Getting Curious. This is Jonathan Van Ness. I'm so excited on this episode. We're going to

talk about skin, sunscreen, and what is going on. So to do that, we've got Dr. Emily Newsom, a dermatologist,

a literal doctor. How are you?

Hi, thank you so much for having me. I'm so excited to be here.

Thank you for coming. So basically, you went to school and then you went to med school and then you

became a dermatologist. Yes. Which a dermatologist is. We specialize in anything having to do with

skin hair and nails. So you're basically the cosmologist of the doctors. Yes, but it's not all

glamorous, but yes, we do anything having any kind of rashes or disease of the skin, skin cancer.

Well, I've got the psoriasis. Yes, so we treat psoriasis. We hate the psoriasis. It's very annoying.

But really, what I was curious about is I'm always talking about sunscreen and how important it is,

and protecting our skin, etc., etc. But then just like a few weeks ago, the FDA came out and said

that it does actually go straight into our bloodstreams. Now I'm feeling a little nervous that I've

been telling everyone in their mom to wear sunscreen all the time, but I don't want to keep the skin

looking gorgeous. So just wanted to check in on the concerns about sunscreen. What you think is

great about sunscreen? Should I just be taking a parasol with me everywhere I go? Should I just be

wearing head to toe, body leotards and the sun? What do we need to be doing? Yes. So I'm obsessed

with sunscreen also, and I really appreciate that you spread the word on sunscreen. And it's

really interesting, this article that came out, basically the FDA did a study because they want

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