Sunscreen, Melanoma, and The Real Story
This article does NOT constitute medical advice.
Consult with your physician before making any changes to your medical plan.
Consult with your physician before making any changes to your medical plan.
Your dermatologist, the FDA, and most of the modern world have told you that sunlight will give you skin cancer. Perhaps this is true, but it begs many questions. Why do people living their whole life outdoors in sunlight year round in ancestral tribes NOT get skin cancer regardless of latitude? Why do people with higher vitamin D levels (indicating more sun exposure) have a lower risk of all-cause mortality, including lower cancer mortality? Why do people with skin cancer generally have low vitamin D levels revealing that they don't get much sunlight? Why do people working indoor jobs have a higher rate of melanoma than people working outdoor jobs? Why do sun-seekers have a much lower all-cause mortality than people who do not go out into the sunlight, including death from skin cancer? Why do people living closer to the equator, where there is stronger sunlight exposure, live longer than those living farther from the equator? Why does avoiding sun exposure increase all-cause mortality? Why do smokers who get lots of sun exposure have the same life expectancy as non-smokers who get little sun exposure? Why are some countries like Australia changing guidelines and are now beginning to recommend more sun exposure? What's the real story?
This is directly from the FDA's website regarding sun exposure and sunscreen.
BACKGROUND - The skin has three basic layers: epidermis (outermost), dermis (middle), hypodermis (innermost). There are three basic types of skin cells. The primary skin cells are called keratinocytes which produce a protein called keratin that gives skin its strength and waterproofness. Melanocytes are a skin cell that produce melanin which we discussed in the article Light, Electrons, and Water As Nutrition For Quantum Health. Melanin absorbs all wavelengths of light including UV light to protect the skin as it forms a little "hat" over the keratinocytes of the lower epidermis. Dark skin gives more protection. Langerhan skin cells are a type of cell involved in immune response. As keratinocytes mature they evolve outward from the hypodermis, to the dermis, to the epidermis, and are eventually shed at the surface. Ultraviolet sunlight penetrates the skin at various depths depending on the wavelength of light. Longer wavelength UV light like UV-A penetrates to the dermis, while shorter UV light like UV-B only penetrates to the epidermis. The UV-B wavelengths can lead to DNA damage and mutations that may possibly lead to cancer, but the body has evolved many, many repair mechanisms to handle this constant process. If the rate of repair is greater than the rate of damage then there are generally few problems. As these keratinocytes move outward from the hypodermis to the epidermis any cancerous cells will likely be shed before they can cause problems. Skin cells will also use apoptosis to kill damaged cells as we've discussed in the article Non-Toxic Cancer Treatment. As we discussed in the article Anemia: Iron, Copper and Vitamin A the master antioxidant in the mitochondria is melatonin. Melatonin is made in the mitochondria from early morning sunlight, which we will discuss more later, and is used to repair free radicals. For this reason, it is mandatory that you receive at least an hour of early morning sunlight if you plan to receive UV light during mid-day. These repair processes are important because it is not the number of total mutations that are problematic, but rather the number of unrepaired mutations that are problematic. You must get morning sunlight in order to repair damage that strong afternoon sunlight may cause, and most people are not getting this morning sunlight.
Melanoma is a type of skin cancer that is a tumor of melanocytes mostly correlated to sunburn exposure, not chronic overall sunlight exposure. Squamous cell skin cancer (carcinoma), on the other hand, is a tumor of keratinocytes which is correlated to total chronic overall sunlight exposure, not sunburn. Squamous cell skin cancer is much more common than melanoma but has a much lower mortality rate. But, these are correlations, not causation. As we will see later in this article, sunlight may NOT be the cause of skin cancer at all. It may be manmade artificial forms of light and non-native electromagnetic frequency (nnEMF) that are the root cause of skin cancer, and sunlight may only exacerbate the situation. If you build your solar callus slowly by getting increasing amounts of UV light starting early in the spring at your latitude without burning your skin then you will dramatically lower your risk of melanoma and squamous cell cancer. If you maintain very pale skin all spring and then take a two week holiday in the middle of summer resulting in sunburn then you may increase your risk of melanoma and squamous cell cancer. But, again, these skin cancers may ultimately be due to the amount of manmade EMF exposure you receive year-round. If you build your solar callus daily by getting early morning sunlight for at least an hour you will improve your body's ability to repair damaged caused by the sun. Vitamin D plays a role in this as people with higher levels of vitamin D have lower incidents of melanoma, and people with lower levels of vitamin D have higher incidence of melanoma. Vitamin D acts as a natural sunscreen in the skin. Read the article called Secosteroid Hormone D to learn more about vitamin D. In Australia, melanoma is more common in indoor workers and less common in outdoor workers. Also, melanoma is more common in people who are less tan and less common in people who are more tan. Squamous cell skin cancer is more common in outdoor workers than indoor workers, and more common in the tan than the non-tan.
DATA - Let's start with the 2018 meta-analysis of 29 studies and over 300,000 people called Use of sunscreen and risk of melanoma and non-melanoma skin cancer: A systematic review and meta-analysis. The study reported that "Neither melanoma nor non-melanoma skin cancer were associated with sunscreen use." How can this be? Centralized medicine tells us that sunlight causes skin cancer. Your dermatologist tells you to stay out of the sun. What is going on? Let's go deeper.
Another study called Sun Exposure and Mortality From Melanoma concluded that "Sun exposure is associated with increased survival from melanoma."
Take a look at this 2005 study by Mohr et al regarding colon cancer and latitude. The study looked at 175 countries and the relationship between colon cancer and latitude. The data below, for men, suggests a benefit to sunlight exposure as those countries with the lowest latitude had the lowest amounts of colon cancer. The study shows the same result for women. The study also shows the similar results for breast cancer in women. What is even more interesting is that the study found that, "Countries with persistently high percentage of cloud cover had significantly higher incidence rates of breast and colon cancer." We know that cloud cover drastically reduces the amount of UV light that reaches people on the ground, but yet people getting less UV light are getting more cancer. People getting more UV light are getting less cancer in general. We must question the narrative that dermatologists have been telling us.
As questioned above, is sunlight actually causing skin cancers or is the sunlight just pulling the pin on a hand grenade that has been loaded by something else? In other words, if we were to fix the "something else" would these people still get skin cancer when exposed to sunlight or would they be just fine? Some of the data in the literature shows a correlation between sunlight and some forms of skin cancer, but all of the participants in these studies are randomly selected from the general population. We know from other studies that 93% of the general population is sick. What if a sunlight study was performed on the 7% of the population that is healthy? Would those people get skin cancer from sunlight? I will posit that this 7% of healthy people would NOT get skin cancer from sunlight, and that if the 93% of people in the general population who are sick would follow some simple health principles then they too might not get skin cancer from sunlight. Is the health of mitochondria in our cells being pushed to the brink of dysfunction by "something else" and then sunlight pushes it over the cliff? Let's find out!
Your dermatologist will scare you with data showing that melanoma cases are 6 times higher than 40 years ago. Researcher Adewole Adamson explains that we cannot possibly attribute this rise in cases to UV light alone because UV light alone could only increase melanoma cases by 2 times, not 6 times. He actually shows that there is no correlation whatsoever between how much sunlight you receive and your risk of melanoma. What he does find is that there is very direct correlation between melanoma and the number of dermatologists practicing in the location where melanoma patients live. In other words, the 6 times increase in melanoma cases is due to overdiagnosis alone, not sun exposure. Adamson found that melanoma diagnosis is based on impression, not hard endpoints. In other words, a dermatologist or a pathologist looks at a sample and says "Yeah, it looks like a melanoma". But "looks like" is not a hard endpoint like a heart attack or death. If a pathologist looks at lots of samples then they will find lots of samples that "look like" melanoma. That does NOT mean it definitely is melanoma. Overdiagnosis means that dermatologists and pathologists make more money and do not get sued for failure to diagnose. While diagnosis has risen 6 times the number of deaths has not risen. The dermatologists claim they are saving these lives by diagnosing more cases, but the data doesn't agree. Perhaps this epidemic is being created artificially.
So what's the real story?
A 2002 paper called Melanoma Incidence and Frequency Modulation (FM) Broadcasting found a very strong correlation between the implementation of FM radio in a given country and the rate of melanoma in that country. Many countries were included in the study. The study showed increasing melanoma cases with closer proximity to the source of FM radio. Another study called Increasing Melanoma—Too Many Skin Cell Damages or Too Few Repairs? found the following:
The same study shows in Sweden how both melanoma and lung cancer began to rise at the same time. You can see this in the graph below. Included are some other interesting graphs that you need to understand.
The study hypothesizes that FM radio frequency is responsible for the rise in melanoma as follows:
Another study called Malignant melanoma of the skin - not a sunshine story! concluded that "The increased incidence and mortality of melanoma of skin cannot solely be explained by increased exposure to UV-radiation from the sun. We conclude that continuous disturbance of cell repair mechanisms by body-resonant electromagnetic fields seems to amplify the carcinogenic effects resulting from cell damage caused e.g. by UV-radiation." In other words, non-native electromagnetic frequency (nnEMF) is the hand grenade and UV light is just pulling the trigger. Given all of the details in this article thus far this conclusion makes quite a bit of sense. Something in our environment drastically changed in the middle of the 20th century in order to cause an explosion of all diseases including skin cancer.
The study called Effects of electromagnetic fields exposure on the antioxidant defense system concluded that nnEMF triggers oxidative stress and causes changes in blood antioxidant markers. Yet another study concluded that Electromagnetic fields stress living cells. The book by Martin Blank called Overpowered: The Dangers of Electromagnetic Radiation (EMF) and What You Can Do About It goes into great detail about nnEMF with many resources. We can go on and on with more data on nnEMF and its connection to disease, but let's move on to the next topic instead.
MELATONIN - To understand this section you need to read the article called Non-Toxic Cancer Treatment so that you have a basic understanding of the Warburg-effect and cancer. Melanoma skin cancer utiizes the Warburg-effect. In this article we showed many times that sunlight exposure decrease mortality and disease. But, how? There are a great many ways, but in this section I want to focus on the power of melatonin. Most people think of melatonin as a hormone or neurotransmitter-like compound that is produced in the pineal gland and helps you fall asleep. It is much more than that. Most melatonin is produced in the mitochondria of cells and is the master antioxidant of the mitochondria. As Warburg metabolism takes over in cancerous cells those cells begin to stop making ATP in the mitochondria through oxidative phosphorylation and instead begin to make ATP in the cytosol (fluid component of cytoplasm) of the cell through non-oxidative glycolysis. In other words, a cancerous cell no longer uses the electron transport chain of the mitochondria to make energy as the mitochondria have become dysfunctional. (Read Non-Toxic Cancer Treatment for better understanding and resources.)
Melatonin is made in the mitochondria from sunlight, AND melatonin is shown to restore oxidative phosphorylation in cells employing Warburg metabolism.
This is PROFOUND! Melatonin basically fights cancer, and sunlight makes melatonin in the mitochondria. So, it is preposterous to think that you will get skin cancer from sunlight alone if sunlight is literally making the cure. I'm not going to explain all the melatonin science in this article, but here are some studies with the details:
- Melatonin inhibits Warburg-dependent cancer by redirecting glucose oxidation to the mitochondria: a mechanistic hypothesis
- Anti-Warburg Effect of Melatonin: A Proposed Mechanism to Explain its Inhibition of Multiple Diseases
- Switching diseased cells from cytosolic aerobic glycolysis to mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation: A metabolic rhythm regulated by melatonin?
- Melatonin modulates the Warburg effect and alters the morphology of hepatocellular carcinoma cell line resulting in reduced viability and migratory potential
- Melatonin and Pathological Cell Interactions: Mitochondrial Glucose Processing in Cancer Cells
- Melatonin Reverses the Warburg-Type Metabolism and Reduces Mitochondrial Membrane Potential of Ovarian Cancer Cells Independent of MT1 Receptor Activation
- Melatonin inhibits lung cancer development by reversing the Warburg effect via stimulating the SIRT3/PDH axis
- Melatonin suppresses Akt/mTOR/S6K activity, induces cell apoptosis, and synergistically inhibits cell growth with sunitinib in renal carcinoma cells via reversing Warburg effect
- Melatonin and the von Hippel–Lindau/HIF-1 oxygen sensing mechanism: A review
- Melatonin, mitochondria, and the cancer cell
- Significance of Melatonin in the Regulation of Circadian Rhythms and Disease Management
Melatonin is made in the mitochondria from sunlight, AND melatonin is shown to restore oxidative phosphorylation in cells employing Warburg metabolism.
This is PROFOUND! Melatonin basically fights cancer, and sunlight makes melatonin in the mitochondria. So, it is preposterous to think that you will get skin cancer from sunlight alone if sunlight is literally making the cure. I'm not going to explain all the melatonin science in this article, but here are some studies with the details:
- Melatonin inhibits Warburg-dependent cancer by redirecting glucose oxidation to the mitochondria: a mechanistic hypothesis
- Anti-Warburg Effect of Melatonin: A Proposed Mechanism to Explain its Inhibition of Multiple Diseases
- Switching diseased cells from cytosolic aerobic glycolysis to mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation: A metabolic rhythm regulated by melatonin?
- Melatonin modulates the Warburg effect and alters the morphology of hepatocellular carcinoma cell line resulting in reduced viability and migratory potential
- Melatonin and Pathological Cell Interactions: Mitochondrial Glucose Processing in Cancer Cells
- Melatonin Reverses the Warburg-Type Metabolism and Reduces Mitochondrial Membrane Potential of Ovarian Cancer Cells Independent of MT1 Receptor Activation
- Melatonin inhibits lung cancer development by reversing the Warburg effect via stimulating the SIRT3/PDH axis
- Melatonin suppresses Akt/mTOR/S6K activity, induces cell apoptosis, and synergistically inhibits cell growth with sunitinib in renal carcinoma cells via reversing Warburg effect
- Melatonin and the von Hippel–Lindau/HIF-1 oxygen sensing mechanism: A review
- Melatonin, mitochondria, and the cancer cell
- Significance of Melatonin in the Regulation of Circadian Rhythms and Disease Management
MITOCHONDRIAL HEALTH - As was discussed in the article Non-Toxic Cancer Treatment, the health of mitochondria is absolutely essential in cancer healing and prevention. Take the time to go back to that article and re-read the basics of mitochondrial health. Implement all of the daily applications into your life. We know from the work of researchers like Roeland Van Wijk that mitochondria make UV light that is stronger than the sun. Read his book and the cited references for more information. How then is it possible that UV light from the sun would cause skin cancer if our own mitochondria are making UV light that is stronger than the sun? It doesn't make sense. It seems far more likely that skin cancer is being caused by nnEMF.
SUNSCREEN - Your dermatologist and the NIH will still tell you to wear sunscreen even after you explain all of this to them. Is sunscreen safe? Well, we just established that absorbing sunlight is absolutely essential to health. So, no, sunscreen is not safe because it blocks the sun. What about the chemicals in sunscreen? Does the skin absorb those chemicals? Yes, the skin absorbs the chemicals in sunscreen. The FDA's own study called Effect of Sunscreen Application on Plasma Concentration of Sunscreen Active Ingredients found that "All 6 of the tested active ingredients administered in 4 different sunscreen formulations were systemically absorbed and had plasma concentrations that surpassed the FDA threshold for potentially waiving some of the additional safety studies for sunscreens." Make the decision for yourself, but I will only consider wearing sunscreen if I am on a boat for several days in a row in high UV index. Otherwise, I will not be wearing sunscreen. The harms associated with those chemicals are not known.
APPLICATIONS IN DAILY LIFE - Let's discuss this in terms of your day. What should you do each day, all day, in order to reduce your risk of skin cancer?
1.) You MUST, MUST , MUST see the sunrise every single day for the rest of your life even if it is cloudy, snowy, or rainy. This preconditions your body for the strong UV light of mid-day. This signals your mitochondria to make melatonin that will allow your cells to repair. Even in winter, when there is little UV light, you must see the sunrise to maintain and optimize your circadian rhythm that is essential for mitochondrial health.
2.) Eat very few carbohydrates in the winter to limit deuterium that is detrimental to your mitochondria. As sun exposure increases you can eat more carbs, but eat them in the morning when the TCA cycle is activated by morning sun.
3.) Drink deuterium depleted water to maximize mitochondrial function and health. See the article Non-Toxic Cancer Treatment for more details on this.
4.) Gradually expose your bare skin to UV light beginning in very early spring. Increase your UV light exposure as your skin tans so that you have a good tan as summer solstice approaches.
5.) Avoid eating all seed oils. Seed oils contain very unstable fatty acids that occupy your cell membranes and are very susceptible to oxidation. Strong UV and unstable fatty acids in the cell membranes of skin cells is a bad combination.
6.) Get mid-day UV sun exposure every day on bare skin but NOT to the point of sunburn. Start slowly in the spring and increase as your solar callus develops. Stay outside once you have gotten adequate skin exposure, but go in the shade. You will still get important sun signals while in the shade in both your eyes and skin. Green light reflected from trees is a health benefit while you're in the shade. Don't wear sunscreen, just go in the shade. Sunscreen will block beneficial light that your skin still receives while you're in the shade. Do NOT wear sunglasses ever, except when driving into bright sunlight or when living on a sailboat for several days. Blocking the sun from your eyes with sunglasses while the rest of your body receives sunlight gives opposite signals to the brain. Don't do it.
7.) Ground with bare feet to the earth. Grass, rock, sand, dirt, and even untreated concrete will allow a flow of electrons into the sweat glands of your bare feet providing plenty of free electrons for your mitochondria to drive ATP production and optimal health.
8.) In winter, get as much cold exposure as possible without getting frostbite. Cold exposure forces your mitochondria to uncouple, and mitochondria make their own UV light that is stronger than the sun when exposed to cold. It makes little sense that UV light from the sun would cause skin cancer when our mitochondria make UV light that is stronger than the sun. This UV light powers our brain.
9.) See the sunset as often as possible.
10.) After sunset be very strict about eliminating ALL blue light. Remove all LED bulbs from your home. Use candlelight, red light, or minimal incandescent light. Wear blue blocking glasses after sunset. Put blue light filters on all TV's, computers, and phones. Change all device "Settings" to "Nighttime Mode". Your brain needs to know it is nighttime in order to make melatonin and fight cancer.
11.) Eliminate nnEMF as much as possible. Put routers, modems, and smart meters in a Faraday cage. Turn them off at night. Remove all electronic devices from your bedroom. Keep your phone in "Airplane Mode" except when actively using it. Do not drive an electric car or use solar power in your home.
1.) You MUST, MUST , MUST see the sunrise every single day for the rest of your life even if it is cloudy, snowy, or rainy. This preconditions your body for the strong UV light of mid-day. This signals your mitochondria to make melatonin that will allow your cells to repair. Even in winter, when there is little UV light, you must see the sunrise to maintain and optimize your circadian rhythm that is essential for mitochondrial health.
2.) Eat very few carbohydrates in the winter to limit deuterium that is detrimental to your mitochondria. As sun exposure increases you can eat more carbs, but eat them in the morning when the TCA cycle is activated by morning sun.
3.) Drink deuterium depleted water to maximize mitochondrial function and health. See the article Non-Toxic Cancer Treatment for more details on this.
4.) Gradually expose your bare skin to UV light beginning in very early spring. Increase your UV light exposure as your skin tans so that you have a good tan as summer solstice approaches.
5.) Avoid eating all seed oils. Seed oils contain very unstable fatty acids that occupy your cell membranes and are very susceptible to oxidation. Strong UV and unstable fatty acids in the cell membranes of skin cells is a bad combination.
6.) Get mid-day UV sun exposure every day on bare skin but NOT to the point of sunburn. Start slowly in the spring and increase as your solar callus develops. Stay outside once you have gotten adequate skin exposure, but go in the shade. You will still get important sun signals while in the shade in both your eyes and skin. Green light reflected from trees is a health benefit while you're in the shade. Don't wear sunscreen, just go in the shade. Sunscreen will block beneficial light that your skin still receives while you're in the shade. Do NOT wear sunglasses ever, except when driving into bright sunlight or when living on a sailboat for several days. Blocking the sun from your eyes with sunglasses while the rest of your body receives sunlight gives opposite signals to the brain. Don't do it.
7.) Ground with bare feet to the earth. Grass, rock, sand, dirt, and even untreated concrete will allow a flow of electrons into the sweat glands of your bare feet providing plenty of free electrons for your mitochondria to drive ATP production and optimal health.
8.) In winter, get as much cold exposure as possible without getting frostbite. Cold exposure forces your mitochondria to uncouple, and mitochondria make their own UV light that is stronger than the sun when exposed to cold. It makes little sense that UV light from the sun would cause skin cancer when our mitochondria make UV light that is stronger than the sun. This UV light powers our brain.
9.) See the sunset as often as possible.
10.) After sunset be very strict about eliminating ALL blue light. Remove all LED bulbs from your home. Use candlelight, red light, or minimal incandescent light. Wear blue blocking glasses after sunset. Put blue light filters on all TV's, computers, and phones. Change all device "Settings" to "Nighttime Mode". Your brain needs to know it is nighttime in order to make melatonin and fight cancer.
11.) Eliminate nnEMF as much as possible. Put routers, modems, and smart meters in a Faraday cage. Turn them off at night. Remove all electronic devices from your bedroom. Keep your phone in "Airplane Mode" except when actively using it. Do not drive an electric car or use solar power in your home.
This article does NOT constitute medical advice.
Consult with your physician before making any changes to your medical plan.
