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A Functional Medicine Doctor's Recommendations
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Protecting Your Skin
Quick Take-aways
Wait 20 Mins to Apply
Use Creams
Get a Skin Checkup Annually
LOOK FOR
Creams
SPF 50 or less
Zinc Oxide, but no nano-particles
Avobenzone
Mexoral SX
AVOID
Spray-ons
SPF Higher than 50
Oxybenzone
Retinyl Palmitate
Added Insect Repellant
Some Sun is Good for You
Sun exposure is not all bad. We generally like patients to get up to 20 minutes a day of moderate sun exposure without sunscreen to improve natural Vitamin D levels.
Take a Whole Body Perspective
Functional Medicine doctors don't just treat one system in isolation or prescribe treatments without heeding the health impacts on other parts of the body. Functional Medicine recognizes that our bodies' systems are interrelated.
We take into account your whole body health and advise our patients to do the same.
Don't Let a Healthy Decision Turn into a Poor Decision
When it comes to choices in sunscreen, Functional Medicine doctors are concerned with:
- Product directions that steer you to poor overall protection (high SPF products)
- Applying active ingredients to body parts they are not meant for (sprays)
- Ingredients that could cause other health issues:
- Hormone or thyroid disruption
- Inflammation
- Allergic reactions
Learn More . . .
Doc's Pick - FACE
Aveeno Positively Mineral Sensitive Skin Sunscreen Lotion, SPF 50
We like this fairly affordable high SPF non-nano-particle mineral lotion that goes on pretty transparently with a good rub.
Look up your favorite product here.
Doc's Pick - BODY
Goddess Garden Sport Mineral Sunscreen Lotion, SPF 50
We like this fairly affordable high SPF non-nano-particle mineral lotion that goes on pretty transparently with a good rub.
Look up your favorite product here.
Dr. Margit Winstrom, MD
Functional Medicine
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- Looks for the Root Cause Instead of Just Treating Symptoms
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