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Friday, January 6th, 2012
Television
health guru Dr. Mehmet Oz better known as “Dr. Oz” said on his program
this week he is re-thinking his position on indoor
tanning sunbeds because they are an abundant source of natural vitamin D
production as well as other compounds made in the skin. “The sun
provides vitamin D in a very unique way. But it also provides tons of
other compounds besides vitamin D.” Oz said in an interview on his own
program with health educator Dr. Joseph Mercola. “I am rethinking
tanning beds. In the last year I have looked at a lot of information. …I
think there is a value of UVB radiation, not just for vitamin D but for
other sources as well.” Oz was commenting on Mercola’s recommendation
that use of sunbeds in the winter is a key to good health.
Mercola
is among those who believe humans need 8,000 IU of vitamin D daily to
assure that vitamin D blood levels are in natural range consistent with
outdoor living and at levels indicated by hundreds of studies to be
associated with lower risk of health problems from cancer to heart
disease and autoimmune disorders. No food source comes close to delivering that level of vitamin D. UVB from sun exposure can make up to 20,000 IU of
vitamin D in the skin without the risk of an overdose, as the skin
naturally de-metabolizes any extra vitamin D. When Mercola told Oz that
he recommends sunbed usage in the winter Oz’s in-studio crowd reacted in
shock. The two health education icons in endorsing sunbed usage to make
vitamin D showed that they still do not fully understand all of the
photobiology of tanning equipment. Oz suggested that most sunbeds emit
UVA but not UVB and that consumers need to look for equipment that emits
measurable UVB. “Dermatology has been misleading Oz,” Smart Tan Vice
President Joseph Levy said. “More than 90 percent of sunbeds today emit UVB
and UVA in dosages consistent with natural sunlight. But we’re glad
that he seems to be open to the fact that there is a natural benefit to
UV from sunlight, and that sunbeds can be a good surrogate for that.” Oz
still says he does not recommend sunbed usage for tanning — just for
vitamin D production. “Again, that’s not a straight distinction,” Levy
said. “Tanning has nothing
to do with vitamin D production melanin production happens while
vitamin D is being produced. They happen at the same time.” Mercola also
continues to make issue of magnetic ballasts used in some sunbeds,
alleging that electromagnetic fields (EMF) are dangerous. But EMF levels
generated by sunbeds expose users to less EMF than cell phone usage
very small dosages one would find in many electronic products. Sunbed
industry representatives have asked Mercola to document the source of
his allegation about ballasts but have never received an answer. Mercola
and Oz also refer to what they called “safe” tanning beds those that
emit UVB and which use electronic ballasts instead of magnetic ballasts.
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