Skin Cancer Support Group
If you or a loved one has skin cancer, this is the community to discuss your experience, find support, and meet others going through the same. Skin cancer is a malignant growth on the skin, which can have many causes, including repeated severe sunburns or long-term exposure to the sun. Skin cancer generally develops in the outermost layer of skin so a tumor is usually...
(I posted most of the following on the Chronic Pain Board, but thought that this information may be helpful here also.)
For those of you that are interested in maintaining your Vitamin D levels, and are using sun exposure for this purpose, below is a link to a highly rated App to help you know how much sun exposure you need based on your location and other factors. This app has been available for some time for IOS phones, but just recently became available for Android devices.
If you have not studied this subject closely, I think you will be surprised by what you need to do to get enough Vitamin D produced by the sun. Ten minutes outside, fully clothed or with large amounts of sunscreen, will not get the job done. Also, if you live in the northern half of the country, it is almost impossible to achieve the correct levels with sun exposure alone, especially in the winter months (even in the south it is difficult).
On this same general topic, it is now considered dangerous to use vitamin D supplements without also taking vitamin K2. K2 is totally different than vitamin K1 that is almost always contained within your multi-vitamin. Really, they should have called K2 something else to reduce confusion. If you have not read about K2, just do a search for it, there is a lot of information coming available on this important vitamin and its relation to vitamin D and calcium. (This does not apply if vitamin D is obtained via sun exposure.)
http://dminder.ontometrics.com/
For those of you that are interested in maintaining your Vitamin D levels, and are using sun exposure for this purpose, below is a link to a highly rated App to help you know how much sun exposure you need based on your location and other factors. This app has been available for some time for IOS phones, but just recently became available for Android devices.
If you have not studied this subject closely, I think you will be surprised by what you need to do to get enough Vitamin D produced by the sun. Ten minutes outside, fully clothed or with large amounts of sunscreen, will not get the job done. Also, if you live in the northern half of the country, it is almost impossible to achieve the correct levels with sun exposure alone, especially in the winter months (even in the south it is difficult).
On this same general topic, it is now considered dangerous to use vitamin D supplements without also taking vitamin K2. K2 is totally different than vitamin K1 that is almost always contained within your multi-vitamin. Really, they should have called K2 something else to reduce confusion. If you have not read about K2, just do a search for it, there is a lot of information coming available on this important vitamin and its relation to vitamin D and calcium. (This does not apply if vitamin D is obtained via sun exposure.)
http://dminder.ontometrics.com/
I prefer to avoid sun as much as I can, I take vitamin D instead.
I want to avoid more surgeries, biopsies,scars.
In any case, it is very important that when taking vitamin D supplements that you also take vitamin K2. The research is very clear that vitamin D in a pill does not provide the same benefits as getting vitamin D the way man has for hundreds/thousands of years. I noticed on my last lab report that the lab could tell that my vitamin D level was caused by supplementation.
Anyone taking a vitamin D supplement should also be taking K2. I do not, because I have an odd reaction to it; even with a very small dosage. This is even more important if a person is also taking a calcium supplement. How do you think calcium gets into a person's bones and teeth and not just stay in the arteries and heart? Sun provided vitamin D provides the pathway, supplemental D does not, without taking K2.
Overall, a very interesting, and complicated, subject and the science does not have all the answers to skin cancer even though they like to preach that they do.