re: Trash Your Sunscreen and Other Summer Sun Tips

Luv.2.B.Healthy — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 16:44:48 GMT

Hi, does anyone know if I should be using something on my daughter who is in and out of the water for 6 hours at a time? If I use Olive Oil or any other natural substance it will just wash off. Any suggestions?

re: Trash Your Sunscreen and Other Summer Sun Tips

Steve923 — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 19:05:32 GMT

If you google "BEC5" you will see a ton of companies selling products containing it. There appears to be a theory that it is effective in treating skin cancer, based on work done in the UK. Any websites or articles out there that are unbiased third parties that discuss and review BEC5? I haven't found anything on Mercola's site beyond the comment from "curadem". Curadem may be speaking truthfully but I can't know that since he/she seems to be affiliated with a company which sells a product containing BEC5.

-Steve

re: Trash Your Sunscreen and Other Summer Sun Tips

curaderm — Sat, 31 May 2008 20:28:59 GMT

There are 5 main factors that influence the risk of skin cancer.

* skin pigment and ability to tan

* heredity

* exposure to chemicals

* amount of exposure to sunlight, and

* people who have had organ transplants and are on immuno-suppressive

drugs are prone to developing squamous cell carcinoma

Sun exposure can be reduced by changing patterns of outdoor activities

to reduce time of exposure to high-intensity UV radiation (the sun is

strongest from 11am to 3pm), wearing protective clothing (such as long

sleeves and hats) when exposed to sunlight, and by using adequate

amounts of sufficiently 'appropriate' protective sunscreen.

Sunscreen is not a substitute for avoidance of sun exposure and indeed

most if not all sunscreens contain either an organic chemical compound

(such as oxybenzone and others) that absorbs UV light or an opaque

material (such as Titanium dioxide or Zinc oxide) in micronized forms

that reflect light, or a combination of both.

Ironically both organic chemical blocks and the mineral physical

blocks have been shown to cause cancer. These compounds when

activated by UV light produce free radicals that lead to cancer. It

has been shown that these compounds do penetrate the skin. Thus these

sunscreens could, while preventing sunburn, contribute to sun related

cancers. Unfortunately there is no safe sunblocks available.

It is for these reasons we have developed a sunscreen, Curasol BEC,

that in addition to the questionable sunblocks also contains BEC the

same anticancer ingredient found in Curaderm BEC5 the treatment of

skin cancers. The amount of BEC is too low to eradicate already formed larger skin cancers, but is

high enough to kill skin cancer cells very early in their development.

Thus if the UV activated organic chemical blocks and/or the mineral

physical blocks transform normal cells into cancer cells cell culture studies, the BEC glycoalkaloids will eliminate these early cancer cells.