It is rather the unfortunate result of decades of human ignorance of Nature to think that the Sun could be harmful. Modern science produces study after study looking at spectrums of light in isolation without controlling for artificial light, flicker rate, or other incomprehensible externalities. That's the problem when you study the parts and not the whole.

Dermal Photoreception

The concept of dermal photoreception has started to gain wide-spread attention since the 1950s when Steven et al demonstrated that sea lamprey could respond to tail illumination even in the absence of the eyes. (Source)

This is basically how your skin absorbs light. There are photoreceptive molecules called opsin that were first discovered in the eye and then found to also be in the skin. This is an ongoing field of study as is all of science. These opsins have been found to be sensitive to specific spectrums of light which infer some form of function elsewhere in the body.

Dr. Jack Kruse Excerpts

The outer portion of the retina is where the photoreceptor melanopsin is loosely covalently bound to retinol. Melanopsin/retinol controls the neural signaling along the central retinohypothalamic tract. This tract connects the retina to the suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN) which controls the circadian mechanism. This tract continues on and connects the retina and SCN to the leptin receptor in the hypothalamus.

The leptin system, in turn, controls all growth and metabolism of the organism and this system controls the circadian release of hormones from the pituitary gland using specific light frequency changes present in AM sunlight. In December 2017 we have proof melanopsin/retinol are now in human skin, subcutaneous fat, and the skins arterioles.

I will remind you that the subcutaneous fat mass links to the leptin receptor in the hypothalamus too using leptin and adiponectin as fat hormones. He who controls the frequency of sunlight via the eye and skin, calls the shots for the anterior pituitary hormones and its effect on human behavior and illness.

Sunlight and circadian rhythm has a big influence on your leptin sensitivity, your fat-burning hormone. Being leptin sensitive is a big factor in how freak athletes can eat whatever they want and maintain top performance and physique. This runs right along peak mitochondrial function.

Your skin is a topological insulator. To make vitamin D, your body requires sulfated cholesterol. Your cholesterol can only be sulfated if the sun is involved with your skin. This is a topological effect. The next step is uvb light changes the sulfated cholesterol. Metabolic water is required at the mitochondrial matrix. 3G-5G damages this process. This is why pills don't work.

Vitamin D pills are not a replacement for getting natural sunlight.

It is like paying someone else to do pushups for you...

It totally disrupts your endogenous (internal) production of vitamin D.

Neuropsin is UVA light receptor discovered in the cornea and the skin. UVA & B is taught to be bad in medical school. Why would mother nature put light receptors in our eyes and skin for these specific lights if they were bad?

We must learn to see what Nature is doing and ignore mainstream medicine when it tells you to go against Nature's designs. Nature has been doing its tests and studies for 4 billions years. A lot longer than modern medicine...

Blue light exposure ruins body composition. Melanopsin found in the subcutaneous fat on the skin. Blue light penetrates 6-10 cm in the body. This means you need to cover your neck because your thyroid can be affected. Food and exercise can't solve a quantum problem.

Artificial blue light on the skin will spike blood glucose. This means your insulin is getting spiked.

This means your body is being put into a fight or flight state. The opposite of rest, recovery, and fat-burning.

When the skin is constantly being stimulated by artificial light at night, your body will never be able to tap into deeper states of recovery that come with total darkness and fire light at night.

Sunglasses block UV light from entering the pineal gland through the optic nerves in the eyes via the central retinal pathway I spoke about in my Vermont 2017 talk on YouTube.

This prevents the brain from sending the signal to the pituitary gland to produce melanin, the pigment that tans the skin and protects the skin from UV radiation. Excess Vitamin A in the blood also causes a reduction of melanin and lowers its photochemical abilities as the picture above shows.

This implies blocking solar frequencies from the eyes lowers melanin in the skin and the RPE. Both become more susceptible to solar damage. This is an inducible event because of wearing glasses and/or use of sun creams.

Here Dr. Jack Kruse mentions melanin. This is the pigment in the skin that makes it appear darker. It is how the body prepares you to absorb more sunlight.

When you mess with your solar panel by wearing sunscreen, you harm your ability to make melanin and thus lower your ability to handle more sunlight.

More melanin means your mitochondrial redox improves. The better your redox, the better your Inner Furnace. This means better body composition, energy, skin, health, and recovery.

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Don't you need to protect your skin from sunlight?

Short answer: No.

Long answer: You need to prepare your skin accordingly to handle the Sun. This means no indoor living, artificial light, or sunglasses/sunscreens. This means starting with early morning sun to prepare you for the stronger midday sun.

Glass & Sunscreen causes skin cancer by only blocking certain spectrums (doesn't block UVA) of light and creating non-native blue light.

Luke Storey

Many suncreens only block certain portions of light and allow other portions through. Sunlight and Nature in general operates a whole as opposed to simply as a sum of its parts.

This means Nature must come as a complete package to work correctly. Messing with sunlight and trying to outsmart something you don't fully grasp (with sunscreens, sunglasses, etc.) will only cause more unintended problems down the road.

Glass windows turn sunlight to junk light. Glass takes out NIR and UVB light. Glass windows will increase skin cancer. It isolates UVA.

Dr. Alexander Wunsch

As we covered before, indoor living under toxic blue light due to the filtering effect of glass windows is a bad idea, especially if the light is hitting your skin.

We do want to avoid sunburns, yet getting sunburned is actually easier on our DNA than processing the cell damage from being in the sun with synthetic sunscreen. Sunscreen blocks our biological mechanism called melanin that was designed to guide our skin’s interaction with the sun. When we get sunburned, our ancient photoprotective melanin ensures that only a tiny fraction of our DNA is damaged by the absorbed photons. Our DNA naturally transforms 99.9 percent of the photons into heat. In this instance, heat is harmless! The remaining 0.1 percent of the photons is what causes sunburn. In DNA, this conversion of photons into harmless heat is extremely efficient. However, sunscreen damages DNA indirectly and without the warning signal of a burn. It is this indirect DNA damage that is responsible for mutations.

Sunscreen causes indirect DNA damage because the photons are not efficiently converted into harmless heat. This understanding of indirect DNA damage led to new research, like the 2007 study at the University of California, San Diego, that reviewed seventeen studies of sunscreen use and melanoma. The researchers concluded that there is a significant correlation between sunscreen use and skin cancer. And in 1998, the Journal of the National Cancer Institute reported that children who were frequent users of sunscreens had a significantly higher chance of developing moles and freckles.

Nadine Artemis

Many people would be shocked to find out that getting sunburnt is actually easier for the body to deal with than the toxic effects of the countless chemicals most people can't even pronounce on the ingredient list for sunscreens.

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"This systematic review does not confirm the expected protective benefits of sunscreen against skin cancer in the general population" (Source)

Read below for an excerpt from Nadine Artemis's article, Let the Sun Shine In.

There is also a lack of scientific evidence that sunscreens prevent skin cancer. However, synthetic sun creams do prevent sunburns. Let’s look at how this is achieved. When we apply sunscreen, sun-shielding chemicals that block UVB rays are absorbed into our skin; UVB rays do cause burns after extended time in the sun. SPF, sun protection factor, is a designation that can be used only for synthetic ingredients that have been laboratory tested to prevent sunburns. Yet SPF creates a false sense of security by disabling our skin’s early-warning protection, the sunburn, against overexposure to the sun. Essentially, sunscreen anesthetizes skin. UVB rays—the rays blocked by sunscreens—are also the nourishing rays that spark production of vitamin D in the body.

UVA rays become harmful when they are separated from their UVB ultraviolet partner by sunscreens. Current studies suggest that it is isolated UVA that damages DNA. So, slathering on sunscreen actually inhibits the much-desired vitamin D and allows the undesired penetration of isolated UVA while UVB is blocked. (Receiving hours of direct sunlight through a window will also separate the UVB and overexpose skin to UVA. Many drivers, for example, have one forearm that is more freckled than the other.)

With ingredients of oxybenzone, polymers of petroleum, parabens, and PABA, these chemical-laden lotions also block our skin’s ability to breathe; our skin’s cellular-respiration process is inhibited from inhaling oxygen and exhaling toxins and carbon dioxide. Likewise, as we soak up the sun, these chemicals bake into our bodies. Oxybenzone, an active ingredient in many sunscreens, is a powerful free-radical generator that is noncarcinogenic—until exposed to sunlight!

These carcinogens are now being recognized as agents that actually increase disease by way of their free-radical-generating properties. Sunscreen ingredients are also known to accumulate in our lipid layers, increasing our intake of free radicals, xenoestrogens, oxidized amino acids, and damaged DNA. Promoted as necessary to preserve skin from aging, sunscreen ingredients actually alter the innate intelligence of our cells, increase carcinoma risk, and prevent vitamin D production. Refuse to use sunscreens that restrain this vital cosmic connection, and let the sunshine in.Our bodies are designed to be exposed to the rays of the sun, and our skin contains all the necessary mechanisms to extract and produce beneficial nutrients from it.

The interaction of sun on skin is our human form of photosynthesis. Sunlight in the form of UVB rays touching the skin produces beneficial nutrients that our bodies require. Our skin converts sunbeams into regenerative substances of melanin, sulfur, and the steroid hormone, vitamin D. This distinct steroid hormone influences every cell in our body, and is easily one of nature’s most potent champions. I think of vitamin D as golden drops of sun fluid that we all need internally to be optimally well-oiled. (Source)

What does this mean for the Entangled Footballer?

In your training, you want to have as much skin as possible in the sun. This means taking your shirt off and rolling up your shorts. You see many pros do this intuitively.

Obviously, it would be most effective to have our entire body in the sun, but I think some people would frown on us playing with no shorts. (LOL)

In the future, I will be working on some organic tan-through athletic shorts that our tribe will get first access to.

In your life, you want to prioritize being outside as much as possible and showing as much skin as possible.