How to Protect your Skin from DNA Damage Caused by the Sun
Yep, you heard right. The sun can actually damage your DNA! Sunlight is a form of electromagnetic energy. You also have to worry about photons – particles of energy that hurtle through space into our atmosphere, crash into our bodies and penetrate our skin. This is what’s called direct DNA damage. The other way in which the sun can damage our DNA is when it changes the molecules inside our cells’ nucleus into free radicals. These free radicals then negatively change our DNA, something referred to as indirect damage. These injuries, caused by direct and indirect damage, are called ‘dimers’. So what can we do about it? The challenge with a...