How Does Sunscreen Work? Can it Really Prevent Wrinkles and Cancer?

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Does slathering on sunscreen do anything beyond preventing a sunburn? Can it actually stop us from getting wrinkles or skin cancer? #sunscreen #skincancer #sunburn #wrinkles

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Credits:
Executive Producers:
George Zaidan
Hilary Hudson

Producers:
Andrew Sobey
Elaine Seward

Writer/Host:
Sam Jones, PhD

Scientific consultants:
Leila Duman, PhD
Brian Diffey, PhD
Uli Osterwalder, MS
Brianne Raccor, PhD

Sources:
Ingredients: The strange chemistry of what we put in us and on us
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/bo...

Shedding More Light on Sunscreen Absorption
https://www.fda.gov/news-events/fda-v...

FDA advances new proposed regulation to make sure that sunscreens are safe and effective
https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press...

New sunscreens and the precautionary principle
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26885...

Protein oxidation, UVA and human DNA repair
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...

Use of sunscreen and risk of melanoma and non-melanoma skin cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29620...

How do the chemicals in sunscreen protect our skin from damage
https://theconversation.com/how-do-th...

Sunscreen and Prevention of Skin Aging
https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.73...

UV rays
https://www.healthline.com/health/ski...

Mechanisms of DNA damage by UV rays
https://www.news-medical.net/life-sci...

Sunscreen history
https://healthcare.utah.edu/healthfee...

Sunlight damage to cellular DNA: Focus on oxidatively generated lesions
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science...

UVA-induced cyclobutane pyrimidine dimers in DNA: a direct photochemical mechanism?
https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/artic...

How does sunscreen protect you?
https://www.yalescientific.org/2012/0...

Tanning and your skin
https://www.skincancer.org/risk-facto...

Risks of tanning
https://www.fda.gov/radiation-emittin...

Sunscreen and skin cancer
https://www.vox.com/science-and-healt...

The sunscreen gap
https://www.healthline.com/health/bla...

Skin cancer foundation
https://www.skincancer.org/blog/photo...

Generation of 8-oxo-7,8-dihydroguanine
https://www.researchgate.net/figure/G...

Wait, What’s the Deal With Sunscreen? Does It Work or Not?
https://www.wired.com/story/whats-dea...