The Sun’s Rays and Your Skin
Written on May 19, 2009 by Reuben
The sun is one of the many factors that allowed life to evolve on our planet thanks to it’s wondrous powers of life. The sun’s rays allows the human body to synthesize vitamin D which is vital for survival, activated in the skin in some way that has been programmed in our genes through millions of years of evolution. The sun is the giver and also the taker of life for it has the ability to give life, as with trees and plants, but also has the ability to kill such as the case of over-exposure to it’s harmful rays. Years of pollution has resulted in a gaping hole in the earth’s poles that is growing year by year increasing the amount of UV rays from the sun that gets through to us causing many a debilitating diseases. Skin cancer results from over-exposure to the sun’s UV rays that turns skin cells into cancerous ones due to damage in their genetic materials. The bad thing is that a severe sunburn today, can haunt you in fifteen years or so, the damaged DNA lying dormant in wait for the prime time to propagate and spread to other skin cells.
UV is dangerous to you and your skin, especially a more potent form, UV-B which is more cell damaging than the former type, but both are dangerous at too high levels. Ample sun protection for the skin on your body and face should be applied especially if the sun is hot and shining brightly. Hazy or cloudy day, don’t get too comfy for the harmful rays are there with the visible part the only thing that is missing. People also think that protection is needed only on the areas that are hit by the sun’s rays directly, not noticing that concrete, asphalt, water and even the ground you are standing on can indeed reflect UV rays up from the underside, undermining your sunscreen by hitting you where you don’t have protection. apply proper sunscreen to protect your skin from over-exposure and drink lots of fluids to re-hydrate your body especially during the summer.
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