Should We AVOID Wearing Sunscreen?!?

should we or shouldn't we be wearing sunscreen when it comes to sun exposure getting outside getting that sunlight on our body into our eyes to help with circadian rhythm to help with vitamin D levels what do you guys think so I completely understand the importance of getting the sun into your eyes and onto your body so that you can absorb some of that sunlight and you can improve your vitamin D levels which is an important hormone some people you know have heard about chemical sunscreens how the chemicals get into your bloodstream which is a real thing and for that reason I personally avoid using chemical sunscreens I don't need it I don't want them a lot of people have irritated skin and their eyes get really irritated from this stuff so a lot of people have switched over to using mineral-based sunscreens and the mineral sunscreens that are out there have gotten so much better the formulas used to be quite horrible and they used to be really like terrible textures and they would leave like horrible white cast and then it kind of changed over the years where they got a little bit better but they're really expensive and now finally we have some that are great that have great ingredients and they're more affordable so I'll share my two favorite ones later on in the video obviously these are just the ones that I'm using that I find to be affordable with great ingredients and really nice formulas the truth is many guys especially don't wear sunscreen anyway and this is just a fact of life at least in the United States I don't know many men who wear sunscreen even if you try to teach them to do that from a young age it's not the easiest thing they are not often many guys aren't into skincare or sunscreen okay so that's one thing if you are somebody who is doing any type of skin care routine that involves any active ingredients from vitamin C glycolic acid to you know if you're micro needling if you're Nano needling whatever you're doing if you're doing something to your skin if you're using trano and or retinols obviously you must wear sunscreen on your face or you could put yourself at risk for damaging your skin even further than if you weren't using any of those products most people would tell you to wear sunscreen you know if you're light skin certain skin tones and certain ethnicities are more susceptible to getting skin cancer and so if you have a lot of freckles in your light skin kind of like me you may be more at risk if you have many family members who have had skin cancer even a couple of family members in your immediate family who have had skin cancer I believe your chances of getting it are higher if you've had skin cancer in the past your chances of getting it are much higher and so I have had many of those things every single family member in my family has had skin cancer except for my sister and I hope that she never does some of the skin cancers that you end up getting are ones that have developed from sun damage that happened years prior like 10 years prior and that makes sense in my case so I've done a couple of videos in the past you can check them out if you're interested in my skin cancer experience I had skin cancer on the back of my neck a couple of years ago it was just a small bump it kind of felt like a zit but it just didn't go away and it felt a little bit weird it looked like the color of my skin and that little tiny bump turned into a big ordeal a very big ordeal they cut out such a large chunk of skin in order to clear the margins and make sure nothing else is going on there for whatever reason the guy the surgeon who did it told me to remove the stitches myself I know it sounds absurd it was likely a result of my location he should have just told me to go to my local hospital which is an hour for me and have them help me but instead he suggested that I remove them myself now you got guys a lot of you out there have had some rough experiences with medical personnel and may understand where I'm coming from when you do find somebody who's skilled and who knows what they're doing it's absolutely amazing and I am so fortunate and grateful but I have had many unfortunate and negative experiences so just for that reason alone and many of you have had similar problems I would highly recommend doing whatever it takes to avoid having to go in to get medical care you know because the likelihood of things going wrong it's going to increase the more things you have to get done so for that reason alone please think about this now when it comes to skin cancer mine was removed I ended up having problems my stitching was messed up and things opened up and I had the nastiest looking scar I also went somewhere and had multiple other things removed off of my back the one that you need to really really be aware of and be more cautious of is melanoma this is extremely serious and if people people are brushing this off that is very concerning because melanoma can spread extremely fast and it can be deadly it is a very dangerous form of skin cancer and that is something to definitely take seriously when it comes to this topic of sun exposure and sunscreen now recently I had something suspicious on my back it grew to twice the size of what it was previously and it was scabbing and it had like a very rough texture it took weeks for me to get in just to see a primary care doctor to help me and he did a um shave biopsy and you guys all I can say is whatever you do before allowing any medical person to cut into your skin ask every question imaginable you can never ask too many questions I didn't anticipate a problem and there's a bit of a problem and I'm not trying to complain listen this is absolutely nothing compared to people who are dealing with AB actual melanoma mine was not melanoma thankfully was very fortunate when it comes to what he did it was going to be a shave biopsy it's very easy the mole is just cut off with a scalpel and in my past experiences it was cut off flush with the skin but this time he ended up using some silver nitrate and I'm not sure how he did the shave biopsy cuz I couldn't see it I don't know if he gouged it out like a deep indentation or if the silver nitrate he used burned through my skin which is what somebody else told me likely happened but I ended up and I I still have a scar on my back it's still healing and it's been weeks and weeks and it still looks just as bad I'm going to show you a photo it's going to be graphic I'll show you right here what it looks like right now or what it looked like a couple weeks ago or a week ago so it's weird because the part that he cut out was actually close to the size of like a pencil eraser but the size of this um SCAR or this thing that's healing right now in the gouged out area is many many many times larger than the actual size of that mole I don't know what's going to happen with it it looks really not great normally I can handle looking at photos of things even if it's on my own body and it looks horrifying to me but this one I was so horrified when my son showed me some photos of it and uh we were concerned that it looked infected I tried getting a hold of the doctor or nurse again who did this and he was quite delayed in responding and I ended up talking to like paying $30 to talk to a nurse in a video and sent him a photo and he thought that it was healing like okay but he was ALS so kind of baffled at why it looks like that and so much was gouged out and I believe he thought that it was related to the silver nitrate like burning the skin I'm not quite sure you guys so if there's any nurses watching feel free to share your opinions on it hopefully it will heal and like even out but it just adds to like the battle wounds on my back so for me my perspective on sunscreen is that it is important to protect yourself from the Sun it can ravage your body and if you are in unfortunate person to get skin cancer on your face you guys it is really really bad and like traumatizing because they can't just carefully and sweetly cut it out they need to like gouge out the area around it and there's no other way to put it nicely and so if you have it on your nose if you have it anywhere on your face there could be like a gaping hole please don't look this up don't look up any photos I've accidentally seen some photos and I know somebody who had had this on their face and it's exactly what I'm saying is what happened and that is traumatizing when it comes to sunscreen use and when it comes to people saying how important the sun is I totally get both sides I get it I feel like there are good formulations out there such as mineral sunscreens like the ones I have here but also I feel like if you go out earlier in the day when the UV is less strong less harsh then you could get some sun exposure and some people might want to be selective if it were me and I was trying to get some sun exposure I could leave my legs exposed my legs have had very little sun exposure compared to the rest of my body and I feel like I'd be totally fine with that and even my arms could be exposed even though I do already have a lot of freckles and sunspots if I want to I can definitely leave my arms exposed without sunscreen but I personally have to apply it all around here and on my face I want to do that to try to help prevent um skin cancer and if you're a guy especially but women too please also if you're applying sunscreen apply it behind your ears and on your ears because this is an area that less people realize um it's a very common area to get skin cancer especially for guys and especially if they're driving and this part is exposed to the window uh my brother and my dad both had skin cancer here and I know my dad had to get a lot cut out like they really hack you up when they're doing this they do these procedures all the time because skin cancer is so common and they are just like in and out you're getting in and out like an assembly line unfortunately depending on where you're going to and it can be really a horrible experience and I would not wish it on anybody the whole thing is very stressful so for that reason I just wanted to share some of my thoughts on it here are some products that I personally like you know because of the price and because of the formulas and because they are mineral sunscreens they're not using any horrible toxic chemicals they are using zinc oxide as their main protector of your skin which is great actually zinc is very good for your skin and if you have issues with acne it's a especially helpful for the skin so this one right here is an SPF 30 it the brand is good molecules and it's their Sheer Mineral sunscreen I think this one even though it looks like a small bottle it lasts me a very long time a little goes a long way it is a beautiful amazing formula I think this will work on any skin type if you have um let's say drier skin I think this one is better and this is pipet sunscreen SPF 50 this is a really really great product so if I need extra coverage and I'm going to be outside a lot more I'll use this on my face and this has more of a white cast but if you blend it in really well I feel like it does go away and I use this on my body as well it's a great product so that's all I have for you guys today I love to hear your thoughts on the importance of sun exposure and whether or not you wear sunscreen I know a lot of people don't want to bother with it it's like a hassle but if you've had issues of skin cancer it's a bit less of a hassle to have to go through putting on a little sunscreen doesn't take very long so with that said I hope you guys have a great weekend and take care