Get a bit of sunshine to clear away those pimples.
Despite what dermatologists say, sun can help to cure acne. Just off the top of my head I can think of four ways sun exposure helps with acne.
- Sunshine eases stress and makes you feel better. I’m sure you’ve noticed you feel happier on a sunny day than on a rainy day. Sun exposure triggers the body to release serotonin. Serotonin is known as the feel good hormone. Feeling better is good for your health, and thus also good clear skin.
- Increases vitamin D production. You get most of your vitamin D from sunlight. It’s produced in the skin when exposed to sunlight. Vitamin D is one of the most important vitamins for overall good health.
- Sun helps you sleep better. In Wake Up To Clear Skin (comes free with Clear for Life, but the sales letter might not show it) I mentioned that sun exposure is one of the most important factors behind a good, healing sleep. If you don’t get enough sunlight your sleep suffers. Poor sleep almost ensures you won’t get clear. Because sleep is such an important factor in permanently clear skin I wrote the Wake Up To Clear Skin report that shows simple ways to sleep better and optimize your sleep time.
- Kills bacteria. Sunlight kills acne causing bacteria in the skin. Some people say that UV light penetrates the skin and even disinfects the blood and helps to take the stress off from the liver.
Of course it would be wrong to say sun cures acne. Sun exposure is one of the elements of health and indirectly affects acne. And sun is just one piece of the puzzle, but it’s a piece you must have in place.
A word of caution about sunlight. Though sun exposure is good I don’t recommend you burn your skin. That’s still bad, causes skin damage and possibly aggravates acne.
How much sun exposure you need depends on where you live and the color of your skin. 15 to 30 minutes should be enough for most people.
I mean unprotected sun exposure. Without sunscreens. Those things are full of cancer causing chemicals and can make your acne worse by irritating the skin. Those things block the beneficial effect of sunlight and cause vitamin D deficiency. Derms recommend them because they ‘protect’ you against skin cancer.
Hogwash, I say.
Sun cancer rates have went through the roof along with sunscreen usage. And vitamin D slashes skin cancer risk by 70%. It’s crazy to think you can reduce your cancer risk by blocking the nutrient that prevents cancer and applying cancer causing chemicals on your skin.
Medical lunacy at its best.
Yes, overexposure can damage your skin. But you have antioxidants to protect yourself against that. And when you follow the diet I recommend in Clear for Life you’ll get so much antioxidants it’s almost impossible to burn yourself.
So get some sunlight. It helps with your acne and makes you feel better. This cartoon my Mike Adams explains the true nature of sunscreen and what you should do with them. Mike also has a good article about the sunscreen-cancer link here: Sunscreen Causes Cancer!
Image courtesy of Naturalnews. Original source: The Sunscreen Myth (comic)