Tag: melanin

A tan is the absolute best skin protector there is and ever will be

Christopher Rasmussen MD, MS (aka "Reality Renegade") | August 10, 2013 | 0 Comments

  THE DREADFUL TAN   As it turns out a tan is the absolute best skin protector there is and ever will be. We have evolved over millions of years a special sunscreen portfolio of several types of skin melanin of which eumelanin the black-brown pigment found in black and brown hair and brown eyes […]

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Sunscreen use may actually increase the risk of cutaneous malignant melanoma (CMM).

Christopher Rasmussen MD, MS (aka "Reality Renegade") | August 3, 2013 | 0 Comments

This weeks blog will feature the relationship between sunscreen use and malignant melanoma (MM or CMM). In the last few years compelling data have confirmed what many scientists have been saying for decades now. That sunscreens are anything but safe. That they may actually be causing the one deadly cancer that their intended use is […]

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