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166. Red vs. Near Infrared Light and Why Sunglasses are Blocking Healing Light Rays with Dr. Mike Belkowski

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Sunglasses and Sunburns

Sunglasses may be even a bigger deal because by covering your eyes and not allowing your pupil to dilate or or constrict as normally should within the sunlight, that actually has a negative consequence for your skin. It's because of the sunglasses almost as much as it is from your body being conditioned to be being covered up. Dr. Jack Cruz says you can build up what he would call your solar callus. Over time, if you get exposed to sunlight, you can build it up over the course of weeks or the course of months but still wouldn't want to be outside for hours on end between 10 and 3 or 10 and 2 where the UV is most intense.

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