Rowan Jacobsen

That's a long time, right?

Yeah.

But all that time, UVA is just pouring into you.

And they now know that UVA is the one that probably is most likely to cause melanoma.

And they used to say, oh, no, no, it's not absorbed very much.

And then the FDA, CDC did studies a few years ago and discovered that it's absorbed at very large amounts.

It turns up at high doses or higher doses than they would like it to.

In blood, breast milk, urine, you name it.

So they're suspected to be hormone disruptors, all those classic chemical filters like oxybenzone.

There isn't much proof that they're dangerous in the amounts used.

But they definitely are absorbed at much higher rates than we thought.

And the FDA has refused to approve them as safe, pending more testing.

And nobody's done the testing.

But they're about to get phased out anyway.

Like just as of a couple months ago, the government changed the rules and is going to let in for the first time

in 30 years, new ingredients, which they've been using in Europe and Asia and Australia for decades.

And the sunscreen companies have been asking to use them and haven't been allowed to.

But they're finally going to get to use one of the main ones.

So it's called, like, bemotrizinol or something.

And there's another one that you see in Europe called, like, Mexeril 400.