Can tanning truly make you healthy? Or is it lethal threatening?
Today there exist two totally opposite views about tanning:
1. Tanning is deadly
2. Tanning is good for you as it will give you Vitamin D
The reality is that both views are right but the second's much more true than the previous.
Nevertheless, like with virtually all good and healthy habits, having too much can have damaging complications and make them bad.
To pinpoint the correct amount you can safely take of a food-supplement or medicine is hard because it differs from person to person depending on many alternative individual circumstances. To control your tanning is simpler; the most vital factor is to be sure to remain well clear from burning your skin.
That's also one of the explanations why tanning is the chosen way to raise your level of Vitamin D. Tanning is also the sole natural way for your body to soak up Vitamin D. If Vitamin D was meant to take by swallowing it, Vitamin D would have been present in a mother's milk. Since all the other nourishment needed for a newly born are present in a mother's milk, except Vitamin D, it gives us a hint of how nature would like us to get it in another way, namely by tanning.
During the last 5 years, modern medical treatments has confirmed what our ancestors always knew "sunshine and tanning are necessary for human life. Modern science has additionally identified Vitamin D as one of the hormones responsible for the recovery process that's trigged by sunlight. Exposing your naked skin to UVB rays (270 "315/320 nanometers wavelength with the Vitamin D creation topping at 297 nm), is the most natural and safest way for your body to start its own production of Vitamin D. It isn't required and likely not safe, to take Vitamin D as food supplement or to drink gigantic amounts of fortified milk. Tanning is the most practical solution to get Vitamin D.
So now maybe you are convinced to get healthy by raising your Vitamin D level by tanning, now you have to find the critical UVB-rays. If it is summer or perhaps if you live close to the equator, this will be straightforward. During the remainder of the year, it is trickier and the further from the equator you are , the more cryptic it is to find UVB in nature. The sun needs to be at an angle of 50 degrees above the horizon for the UVB rays to reach the earth and the sky must be clear and free from pollution.
The Vitamin D you managed to get by tanning in the correct way during the summer will disappear at the same pace as your skin loses its tanned colour. My personal experience is that it takes about 6 weeks without tanning for my level of Vitamin D to go from really high to insufficient.
There is also a technique to stay healthy during the "flu-season", by visiting a tanning salon. The tanning lamp giving off UVB (most frequently along with UVA), is perhaps the most significant health-improving invention during the last 50 years. It's an invention easily worth a Nobel Prize.
Sadly and for reasons described in a number of other articles and posts on my blog, indoor tanning has become the primary target for the "sun-scare" lobby. One or two person's obsession to get as dark as feasible by abusing the way of indoor tanning, is motivating a fierce anti-tanning campaign. The fact is , however , that regular and moderate indoor tanning is maybe the best way to remain healthy in the time when UVB cannot be found in nature.
A regular tanning regime is good for your vitality but you have got to help your skin to stay smooth and healthy in order for the tanning sessions to work. Using dedicated tanning lotions (without SPF) of high quality, ideally primarily based on Aloe Vera, will keep your skin young and smooth while tanning in moderation.
Today there exist two totally opposite views about tanning:
1. Tanning is deadly
2. Tanning is good for you as it will give you Vitamin D
The reality is that both views are right but the second's much more true than the previous.
Nevertheless, like with virtually all good and healthy habits, having too much can have damaging complications and make them bad.
To pinpoint the correct amount you can safely take of a food-supplement or medicine is hard because it differs from person to person depending on many alternative individual circumstances. To control your tanning is simpler; the most vital factor is to be sure to remain well clear from burning your skin.
That's also one of the explanations why tanning is the chosen way to raise your level of Vitamin D. Tanning is also the sole natural way for your body to soak up Vitamin D. If Vitamin D was meant to take by swallowing it, Vitamin D would have been present in a mother's milk. Since all the other nourishment needed for a newly born are present in a mother's milk, except Vitamin D, it gives us a hint of how nature would like us to get it in another way, namely by tanning.
During the last 5 years, modern medical treatments has confirmed what our ancestors always knew "sunshine and tanning are necessary for human life. Modern science has additionally identified Vitamin D as one of the hormones responsible for the recovery process that's trigged by sunlight. Exposing your naked skin to UVB rays (270 "315/320 nanometers wavelength with the Vitamin D creation topping at 297 nm), is the most natural and safest way for your body to start its own production of Vitamin D. It isn't required and likely not safe, to take Vitamin D as food supplement or to drink gigantic amounts of fortified milk. Tanning is the most practical solution to get Vitamin D.
So now maybe you are convinced to get healthy by raising your Vitamin D level by tanning, now you have to find the critical UVB-rays. If it is summer or perhaps if you live close to the equator, this will be straightforward. During the remainder of the year, it is trickier and the further from the equator you are , the more cryptic it is to find UVB in nature. The sun needs to be at an angle of 50 degrees above the horizon for the UVB rays to reach the earth and the sky must be clear and free from pollution.
The Vitamin D you managed to get by tanning in the correct way during the summer will disappear at the same pace as your skin loses its tanned colour. My personal experience is that it takes about 6 weeks without tanning for my level of Vitamin D to go from really high to insufficient.
There is also a technique to stay healthy during the "flu-season", by visiting a tanning salon. The tanning lamp giving off UVB (most frequently along with UVA), is perhaps the most significant health-improving invention during the last 50 years. It's an invention easily worth a Nobel Prize.
Sadly and for reasons described in a number of other articles and posts on my blog, indoor tanning has become the primary target for the "sun-scare" lobby. One or two person's obsession to get as dark as feasible by abusing the way of indoor tanning, is motivating a fierce anti-tanning campaign. The fact is , however , that regular and moderate indoor tanning is maybe the best way to remain healthy in the time when UVB cannot be found in nature.
A regular tanning regime is good for your vitality but you have got to help your skin to stay smooth and healthy in order for the tanning sessions to work. Using dedicated tanning lotions (without SPF) of high quality, ideally primarily based on Aloe Vera, will keep your skin young and smooth while tanning in moderation.
About the Author:
To learn how to tan properly in order to avoid Vitamin D deficiency, is probably one of the most important call you can make for improving your health. In his Blog, Goran, TheTanningGuru, describes the method of tanning for health in a simple way that's easy to follow. There you'll also see why tanning, under the natural sun as well in a tanning bed, has got a bad reputation and who are behind the anti tanning propaganda.