Can tanning truly make you healthy? Or is it lethal threatening?
Today there circulate two absolutely opposite viewpoints about tanning:
1. Tanning is threatening
2. Tanning is healthy because it will give you Vitamin D
The fact is that both viewpoints are right but the 2nd is much more right than the 1st.
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 is also one of the reasons why tanning is the most popular way to raise your level of Vitamin D. Tanning is also the only natural way for your body to absorb Vitamin D. If Vitamin D was intended to take by swallowing it, Vitamin D would be present in a mother's milk. Since all other nourishment required for a newborn are present in a mother's milk, except Vitamin D, it gives us a touch of how nature needs us to get it in an alternative way, specifically by tanning.
In the last five years, modern medicine has confirmed what our ancestors always knew "sunlight and tanning are required for human life. Modern science has also identified Vitamin D as one of the hormones answerable for the process of recovery that is trigged by daylight. Exposing your exposed skin to UVB rays (270 "315/320 nanometers wavelength with the Vitamin D creation peaking at 297 nm), is the most natural and safest way for your body to start its own production of Vitamin D. It is not necessary and likely not safe, to take Vitamin D as food supplement or to drink huge amounts of fortified milk. Tanning is the best answer 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.
Unfortunately and for reasons described in several articles and posts on my blog, indoor tanning has become the main target for the "sun-scare" lobby. A few person's obsession to get as dark as possible by abusing the method of indoor tanning, is motivating a pitiless anti-tanning campaign. The truth is nonetheless , that regular and moderate indoor tanning is perhaps the easiest way to stay healthy during the time when UVB can't 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 circulate two absolutely opposite viewpoints about tanning:
1. Tanning is threatening
2. Tanning is healthy because it will give you Vitamin D
The fact is that both viewpoints are right but the 2nd is much more right than the 1st.
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 is also one of the reasons why tanning is the most popular way to raise your level of Vitamin D. Tanning is also the only natural way for your body to absorb Vitamin D. If Vitamin D was intended to take by swallowing it, Vitamin D would be present in a mother's milk. Since all other nourishment required for a newborn are present in a mother's milk, except Vitamin D, it gives us a touch of how nature needs us to get it in an alternative way, specifically by tanning.
In the last five years, modern medicine has confirmed what our ancestors always knew "sunlight and tanning are required for human life. Modern science has also identified Vitamin D as one of the hormones answerable for the process of recovery that is trigged by daylight. Exposing your exposed skin to UVB rays (270 "315/320 nanometers wavelength with the Vitamin D creation peaking at 297 nm), is the most natural and safest way for your body to start its own production of Vitamin D. It is not necessary and likely not safe, to take Vitamin D as food supplement or to drink huge amounts of fortified milk. Tanning is the best answer 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.
Unfortunately and for reasons described in several articles and posts on my blog, indoor tanning has become the main target for the "sun-scare" lobby. A few person's obsession to get as dark as possible by abusing the method of indoor tanning, is motivating a pitiless anti-tanning campaign. The truth is nonetheless , that regular and moderate indoor tanning is perhaps the easiest way to stay healthy during the time when UVB can't 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.