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Chasing Life

What You Need to Know About Sunscreen

Chasing Life

CNN

Nutrition, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.47.8K Ratings

🗓️ 13 August 2024

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

We've all heard about the importance of wearing sunscreen, but recent headlines have raised questions about the safety and effectiveness of certain ingredients found in chemical sunscreens. In this special Chasing Life: Spotlight, CNN Medical Correspondent Meg Tirrell investigates some of the questions and concerns surrounding sunscreen. She speaks with skin cancer researcher Dr. Rachel Neale and Dr. Laura Vandenberg, who studies potential effects of certain sunscreen chemicals on hormone function. Hear about the latest findings on ingredient safety and how they could impact your daily sun protection routine. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

CNN is live from Chicago as Democrats unite to offer their support for their new nominee,

0:05.2

Vice President Kamil Harris, and her running mate Governor Tim Walls.

0:08.8

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0:16.3

For many of us the messaging about sunscreen has been clear for much of our lives, or at least

0:21.7

the past several decades. The sun has dried much harder

0:25.8

things than you so imagine what it can do to your skin. Needless dry.

0:30.3

If you're not getting the protection of a sunscreen and a moisturizer, guess what you could be doing to your skin.

0:36.0

When the sun is intense, do a dermatologist recommend, get out of the sun, get into the shade.

0:42.0

Shade SPF 45. Get out of the sun. Get into the shade.

0:42.8

Shade SPF 45.

0:44.5

Wear it to protect yourself from getting sunburned

0:46.9

and to reduce your risk of skin cancer.

0:49.6

But lately, some of what we've been hearing about sunscreen has been a little confusing and sometimes scary.

0:56.3

I'm not going to wear sunscreen this summer and neither should you.

0:59.5

Absolutely toxic made up of chemicals that are meant to be put inside your car and not on your body.

1:06.0

Since sunscreen came out, the rise of skin cancer has only gone up up.

1:10.0

Everyone tries to tell you that the sun is bad for you, to wear sunscreen, to protect yourself.

1:14.4

It's BS.

1:18.6

So on this week's episode, as we're still feeling the summer sun, we're going to sort through

1:22.3

it all to give you what you need to make

1:24.4

informed choices about how to protect yourself. We're going to dig into the connection

1:28.7

between sun exposure and skin cancer. What the science tells us about the role sunscreen can play and where the research

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