Sun Exposure and Sunscreen: What is Healthy and What is Not

Feel Good Podcast with Kimberly Snyder

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Society & Culture, Education, Talk Radio, Health & Fitness

4.6 • 993 Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2024

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Kimberly Snyder discusses the importance of sun exposure and how to protect our skin. She highlights the benefits of sunlight, such as synthesizing vitamin D and improving mood and sleep patterns. However, she also emphasizes the risks of overexposure, including skin cancer and premature aging. Kimberly recommends using non-chemical sunscreens with zinc oxide or titanium dioxide and wearing hats and sunglasses for added protection. She encourages getting sunlight on the limbs for about 10 minutes and using sunscreen on the face and neck. Overall, she promotes a balanced approach to sun exposure and skincare.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the feel good podcast with Kimberly Snyder. My goal is to help you develop a holistic lifestyle based on our four cornerstone philosophy, food, body, emotional well-being, and spiritual growth.
0:15.3	This holistic approach will help you feel good, which I define as being connected to your
0:19.7	most authentic highest self, and this is the place from which your energy, confidence,
0:24.7	creativity, true power and true beauty will start to explode. Every week we
0:30.4	provide you with interviews from top experts in their field or a solo cast from yours truly to support you in living your most beautiful, healthy and joyful life.
0:40.0	I'm your host, Kimberly Snyder, founder Saluna, New York Times best-selling author and holistic wellness, nutrition and meditation teacher.
0:48.0	Let's get started.
0:52.0	Hi, loves, welcome back to our Thursday Q&A show. Today we're going to be talking about the sun, which is such a powerful energy in our lives, Pretty much all life comes and is able to be sustained here on
1:07.6	planet Earth through this energy of sunlight which of course furnishes the
1:12.1	plants and the animals that eat the plants and those of us that eat animals and plants,
1:18.0	there's this primary powerful energy of the sun, and yet we want to treat the sun with great respect
1:26.4	because of course we're able to get vitamin D, we're able to awaken our energy in different ways.
1:34.5	Some traditions talk about light codes
1:39.1	and wisdom that comes through when we're
1:41.7	able to sit in the power of the sunlight.
1:45.0	But we wanted, today we're going to be talking about specifically how much sun exposure is really healthy and what ingredients to look for in sunscreens and how to really protect our bodies.
1:56.3	So this is an important topic.
1:57.5	We're here in the sunlight, in the height of summer, although some of you may already be starting school soon.
2:04.0	My kids don't start school until the end of August.
2:08.4	So we have a couple weeks left.
2:10.2	We're going back to Hawaii. But if you're, even if you're starting school or you're sort of back in the flow of fall,
2:17.9	there's still a lot of sunlight for those of us in the northern hemisphere and this topic relates all year round because sun
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