Black MD: In rare occasions, dark-skinned people can get skin cancer. But sunscreens won’t help.

[Abraxus]

White people be dying under the sun to get a darker bronzed complexion and get cancers yet hate black people with a passion. Make up yo fukking mind bytches

 

[truth2you]

Vitamin D supplements are useless. Your body won’t absorb it.

Go out and let the sun touch your skin. Thats the only way.

Millions of Americans take vitamin D. Most should just stop.

I'm not praising Vitamin D supplements, but I don't think they're useless, If taken correctly. A little extra vitamin d, especially for winter times, is good

You need magnesium for vitamin d to be effective. Eating a handful of peanuts before taking some, makes sure it is absorbed, and processed properly, A lot of nuts & seeds, are rich in magnesium, and a handful is all that is needed.

Low magnesium levels make vitamin D ineffective: Up to 50 percent of US population is magnesium deficient

 

[™BlackPearl The Empress™]

Vitamin D supplements are useless. Your body won’t absorb it.

Go out and let the sun touch your skin. Thats the only way.

Millions of Americans take vitamin D. Most should just stop.

Did you even read your own article? lol

"Of course, there are some cases when supplementation can be helpful: During pregnancy, for example, or for people who have been diagnosed with health conditions that may lead to vitamin deficiencies, like liver disease or multiple sclerosis. People with asthma, those who don’t get into the sun at all (like the homebound or institutionalized), or those from ethnic backgrounds with darker skin — African, Afro-Caribbean, and South Asian — may also benefit from a supplement."

Plenty of articles say supplements don't work and that is simply not true. I have cured a number of things from supplements including prediabetes, low progesterone and acne. shyt if I have a hang over I pop an electrolyte supplement and it gets me right as rain.

Supplements work and they're fairly cheap thanks to Amazon. The study never said if those people where also taking or had normal levels of magnesium which converts the Vit. D to a usable form. If they had low magnesium then of course it didn't work.

 

[™BlackPearl The Empress™]

That study was done in Baltimore, on blacks, so I wouldn't dismiss it. Especially if knowing blocking out the sun will cause problems with your health. Its bad enough women wear tons of makeup, but to add even more blocker to more skin parts, that is a recipe for disaster as you get older. And supplements can't do what the sun does. Your body can make, at least, over 20,000 equivalent units from the sun, and it will go to each body part, plus ramp up metabolism. Just taking supplements is a crap shoot. What if your metabolism is slow for the day? What if you shyt most of it out from your diet?

It doesn't matter if we are mixed, you still have melanin. If you need more, your body will know because it was in the sun. The only way it would hurt you if your diet isn't right. If you don't eat much carbs or too mcuh protein, and not proper sleep, you won't create the signals to make enough melanin.

It's always nice to say what everyone should be doing but the reality of life is that people lead completely different lives and there is no one fits all solution.

Supplementation is a good alternative for people who can't or don't have the desire to lay out in the sun.

I will never understand why people are so anti supplements. They work and they are helpful but I guess it's just easier to be dismissive and shake your finger at folks.

There is also that part of the article that says there is no standard way to test for the vitamin. They used bone health as a measure which could also be other factors so idk how reliable this one study is.

Imma keep taking my supplement and you keep doing whatever you think is best.

 

[Coco Loco]

Sounds like overkill to me every 90 minutes on a normal day
I agree though ridiculous that people think we can't get skin cancer.

That's exactly how I looked at my Black dermatologist when she said it. Since then I've heard generally the same thing.

 

[Virtuous_Brotha]

Why would you think its ridiculous if damn near every melanated person in the WORLD rarely deals with skin cancer?

Did you forget blacks were slaves in the hot ass south doing work ALL DAY, and still never had to deal with skin cancer.

I know why whites talk about it all the time, its normal in their community. Where do you think the term "redneck" came from?

No idea breh all i know is its possible

 

[truth2you]

It's always nice to say what everyone should be doing but the reality of life is that people lead completely different lives and there is no one fits all solution.

Supplementation is a good alternative for people who can't or don't have the desire to lay out in the sun.

I will never understand why people are so anti supplements. They work and they are helpful but I guess it's just easier to be dismissive and shake your finger at folks.

There is also that part of the article that says there is no standard way to test for the vitamin. They used bone health as a measure which could also be other factors so idk how reliable this one study is.

Imma keep taking my supplement and you keep doing whatever you think is best.

Maybe you made this post before you read my last post, so you already know how I feel on supplements. My point was if you use sunscreen you are blocking way more vitamin d to be made naturally, and hoping a supplement will give you the health the hormone is claimed to give

As far as the study, are you sure you read it the one I linked? The study measured two different forms of Vitamin d. Most test that doctors give only measure the bound up form of vitamin d, this is the one whites are high in. This is why they are said to have moderate to high levels of vitamin D compared to blacks, but once you measure for the active form of vitamin D, blacks are not low anymore. This can help explain why blacks have the best bone health, while test showed they had low levels of Vitamin D. It was the test that was the problem, this is what the article was about. What's sad is that came out in 2013, yet rarely anyone talks about it, we know why!

 

[froggle]

That's not sunburn, that is just your skin stripping off the old cells, ready to make new cells SO you won't get skin cancer or sunburned. I assume you went from one temperature, and lack of sunlight, to an extreme change in temps & sunlight. If you were to do a natural progression, this wouldn't have happened

Go ask a white person what being Sunburned is, you will see how real it is for them

So should I not wear that sunblock then? Cause i hated when my skin stripped and it would hurt like whoa! I only noticed at the beach tho....anything else the melanin just soaked up the sun

 

[Luke Cage]

If i'm in direct sunlight for an extended period of time i can see needing a little sunblock even as a black man. Once i got some light peeling on my nose because we were at a water park all day. But despite that, i still feel like this (below) would've been enough protection for me honestly. So i don't bother with sunblock.

 

[truth2you]

So should I not wear that sunblock then? Cause i hated when my skin stripped and it would hurt like whoa! I only noticed at the beach tho....anything else the melanin just soaked up the sun

I would only use it for one to two times, after that your skin should be used to the high intensity by then if you go to the beach regularly or out in the sun during the warm months.

The beach hits harder because of the sand reflecting the light. Water does also, but not as much as sand

A good tip is to drink carrot juice daily. If you get a lot of sun, and drink it, watch how your skin will look

 

[Eddie Brock]

Can’t wait to go jogging 4+ miles shirtless in 90 degree heat this afternoon

 

[froggle]

I would only use it for one to two times, after that your skin should be used to the high intensity by then if you go to the beach regularly or out in the sun during the warm months.

The beach hits harder because of the sand reflecting the light. Water does also, but not as much as sand

A good tip is to drink carrot juice daily. If you get a lot of sun, and drink it, watch how your skin will look

Sounds like a coli thread: " I drank carrot juice daily and was out in the sun....watch my melanin glisten"

 

[Actually6Foot3]

I'm not in the sun long enough to develop skin cancer from it anyway so much so my doctor makes me take Vitamin D sups as I'm always deficient

I'm also dark as hell

Haven't work sun screen in years

I'd be curious to see studies done on skin cancer and sub saharan Africans many of whom never where sun screen.

 

[RTF]

I'm not in the sun long enough to develop skin cancer from it anyway so much so my doctor makes me take Vitamin D sups as I'm always deficient

I'm also dark as hell

Haven't work sun screen in years

I'd be curious to see studies done on skin cancer and sub saharan Africans many of whom never where sun screen.

Skin cancer is rare. It’s almost as if they have a natural skin of defence.

 

[Benefited]

FACTS

THE SUN DOES MORE GOOD FOR BLACK PEOPLE THEN HARM. IN AFRICA AND CARRIBBEAN PEOPLE RARELY GET SKIN CANCER AND THEY RARELY DIE FROM IT. THIS IS WHITE FOLKS PROBLEMS.

Like I said before. Don’t burn yourself. Don’t go from a cold climate to super hot without protection because you will burn.

But you’re not white. The sun is not your enemy. It’s actually your friend. You need more of it regularly. It’s harder for your body to store Vitamin D. Sunlight and vitamin D reduces blood pressure, heart disease, risks of cancer etc. Water, sun, fruit, vegetables, exercise. This will prevent you from getting so many illnesses.

We have to realize we have been GMO'd.
Thats why making any statements like "sunscreen won't help", "you need sun,stay in it for hours", "take supplements" etc,none of it tells the entire story. I believe all of these things CAN be true under the circumstances. Black people have to re-regulate ourselves again,and get our glands back in order. But there is just too much going on, fake and poisoned food with hormones that fukk with our glands,people masterbating everyday with all the porn everywhere,people who have inherited defencies and don't realize it,the sugar intake,zinc defeciency etc. Theres no way we should assume peoples pituatory gland is working normally and able to do its job as its supposed to do in peace. There are just too many variables,I'm pretty sure cancer is mostly related to gland disfunction as well.