Today’s show guest is Nadine Artemis, the expert in sun exposure. Nadine and I talk about the many fallacies and myths regarding sun expose. We’ll discuss breast cancer, melanoma and sun gazing, the sun screen conspiracy and the toxic chemicals you’re probably putting on your body or have at some point. In this show we will be reminded of the sun as a gift and an essential ingredient for optimum health, and how you should be exposing yourself safely on a regular basis.

Nadine Artemis is a gifted aromatologist and visionary who gathers and works with the purest ingredients and the intelligence embodied in plants to create her revolutionary line of essential oils, elixirs and serums for health skin care and beauty. As a key speaker at conferences and television, Nadine has received glowing reviews for her work in the Hollywood Reporter, The New York Times and The National Post. Through her company Living Libations, Nadine offers products that bring out the strength of the world’s botanicals without relying on synthetics. Nadine is able to tap into the purest essences, enabling her to create the most sublime botanical compounds.

May the sun become your good friend!

Luke Storey

“The doctor goes where the sunshine doesn’t”

“Getting sunburned is actually easier on our DNA than processing the cell damage from being in the sun with sunscreen”

EPISODE BREAKDOWN

• Nadine’s journey and inspiration that led her into creating skin care
• Sun exposure, fear, cancer, vitamin D, sun spots
• Greeks & Egyptians: ancient history of sun bathing and worship
• Turn of the century and the epidemics emerged from lack of sun
• 1903, Dr. Auguste and sun exposure protocol for curing tuberculosis, rickets, and other ailments.
• Sun is the best masseur, it stimulates the skin and helps tone the muscles without movement
• Sun’s interaction with eye sight: squint a lot? Drop the sunglasses and sun-gaze
• Unpacking the practice of sun-gazing and eye exercise
• Sun’s interaction with the skin - classic faults with sun-screen: carcinogenic chemicals, endocrine disruption, blocks UVB.
• Getting sunburned is easier on DNA than damage from sunscreen
• Correlation between sunscreen use and melanoma
• Skin converts sun beams into regenerative substances: melanin, sulphur, vitamin D
• Sun tanning at solar noon - best time
• Keeping Vitamin D levels optimal reduces risk of breast cancer by 50%
• Nutrition and the real causes of age spots, wrinkles and melanoma
• Skin health: diet and essential oils
• Products, essentail oils & tips for sun extension, skin enhancement & recovery

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