Valuable Sunscreen Safety You Need to Know to Protect & Support Your Health

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May 14, 2025 • 39 mins

🎙️ Episode 34 | Valuable Sunscreen Safety to Protect & Support Your Health for Life

Ever wondered if sunscreen is really protecting you—or if it could be causing harm instead? In this episode, I unpack the shocking truth about sunscreen safety, from ancient sun rituals to modern SPF science. You’ll hear my personal journey from tanning with iodine (yep!) to questioning the long list of chemical ingredients we spray on our bodies.

✨ Here’s what we dive into:

How the sun actually heals your body (mood, sleep, inflammation, and more!)
Why early morning light through your eyes resets your circadian rhythm 🌞
The real deal with sunscreen ingredients like oxybenzone and octinoxate
A breakdown of reef-safe vs. hormone-disrupting sunscreens
What mineral sunscreens are and why they’re safer for your family
Surprising foods and supplements that protect (or sensitize!) your skin
How God’s creation—from soil to sunlight—was designed to heal us 🌿

💡 Plus, I share practical tips for moms, a sunburn healing protocol, and a few faith-based reflections that’ll inspire your day.

👉 Be sure to grab the free EWG Sunscreen Guide Printable at BecomingNatural.com

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Resources Mentioned:

📔History of Sunscreen

📔The trouble with ingredients in sunscreens

📔Dietary tomato paste protects against ultraviolet light-induced erythema in humans

📔Phototoxicity in human lens epithelial cells promoted by St. John's Wort

📔Higher Orange Consumption Linked To Increased Risk of Melanoma, New Study Suggests

🎙️33 | The Shocking Link Seen Between Sleep Loss and Your Health

🙏🏻Scripture:

When Jesus spoke again to the people, he said, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.” John 8:12

Then the Lord God formed a man[a] from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being. Genesis 2:7

From the rising of the sun to the place where it sets, the name of the Lord is to be praised. Psalm 113:3

But for you who revere my name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its rays. Malachi 4:2

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