258. SPF Is Not Enough: The Cellular Repair Protocol Your Skin Needs This Summer
About this episode
This episode discusses the deeper effects of UV exposure on skin health and the importance of cellular repair beyond just using SPF.
When summer skin starts looking dull, congested, tired, or slower to recover, it is easy to blame the obvious things: heat, sweat, sunscreen, long days outside, or the wrong moisturizer. So the conversation usually stays on the surface. Use SPF. Cleanse better. Switch to lighter products. Add antioxidants. But before we treat summer skin like another product problem, there is a deeper question worth asking: what is the sun doing to the cell before you ever see the damage in the mirror? In this episode of Biohacking Beauty, I want to take the sun conversation past burns, wrinkles, and dark spots. I’m walking through what UV exposure does to the systems your skin depends on to keep up with summer: cellular energy, NAD, mitochondrial function, and DNA repair. Because the skin does not only need protection from the sun. It also needs enough repair capacity to deal with the damage that gets through. Young Goose's Skin Under the Sun campaign is active from June 15 through June 28 at younggoose.com What’s Discussed: (01:50) The light-activated repair tool humans lost. (06:10) Why NAD matters for skin energy and repair. (10:15) How UV exposure increases oxidative stress and disrupts NAD…
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