SunFriend Helps you Manage your Sun Exposure!

We have all been warned about the dangers of sun exposure, but sometimes we don’t hear about the health advantages of daily optimal sun exposure.

Vitamin D deficiency is a growing epidemic in America.  The question then remains, how can we get the health benefits of the sun without exposing ourselves, and our families, to the increased risk of skin cancer?  The SunFriend monitor helps us track UVA+B rays customizable to your own skin tones.

Benefits of Vitamin D

As noted on SunFriend’s website, Vitamin D benefits include:

• Lowering blood pressure
• Lessening dementia
• Lessening heart disease
• Reducing incidence of Multiple Sclerosis
• Reducing or eliminating Season Effective Disorder
• Avoiding Rickets, especially in children and babies
• Increase absorption of Calcium into the bones (lessening Osteoporosis)

The Vitamin D Council states that the best way to get Vitamin D is through bare skin exposure.

The most natural way to get vitamin D is by exposing your bare skin to sunlight (ultraviolet B rays). This can happen very quickly, particularly in the summer. You don’t need to tan or burn your skin to get vitamin D. You only need to expose your skin for around half the time it takes for your skin to turn pink and begin to burn.

How much vitamin D is produced from sunlight depends on the time of day, where you live in the world and the color of your skin. The more skin you expose the more vitamin D is produced.

Conflicting Reports?

This may seem like conflicting information from the mainstream media and health organizations.  However, SunFriend is not promoting over-exposure to the sun, resulting in skin damage or cancer.  Instead, they have developed a wearable wristband that will alert you when you have reached your skin’s limits to UVA+ B exposure.

The basic idea is to be in the sun just long enough to reap the benefits, without getting the dangers of over exposure.  The SunFriend monitor allows you to customize the settings based on your own skin tone, 1 being the fairest possible and 11 the darkest.

The initial process of finding your number is a bit of a trial and error process.  SunFriend suggests that you start testing the limits of 1-4, and increase or decrease your setting number based on if you turned red at all.  Once you set your skin tone number,  you power the monitor on and then all you have to do is check it regularly.

Once the dial lights up all the way to 11, it means you have reached your maximum exposure for your corresponding setting. When this happens, SunFriend recommends that you either go inside, cover up, or apply organic, broad spectrum sunscreen.

  Additionally, by pressing the UVI button, you can check how strong the sun’s UV Index is.

Benefits of Optimal Sun Exposure

• Vitamin D
• More awake
• Boost Immune and brain function
• Prevent heart disease and stroke
  *additional benefits, including case studies can be found on the SunFriend website

SunFriend can be purchased on Amazon for $49.99.

 A Mom’s Perspective

We loved the SunFriend monitor.  I used it on a recent trip to the beach, were the sun exposure can be brutal.  I put my setting as a 3 and after all 11 markers lit up (about 30 minutes later), I applied my sunscreen.  However, I unintentionally forgot to apply sunscreen to the back of my neck.

To my pleasant surprise, everywhere I applied the sunscreen did not burn, even though I had spent over 30 minutes in the direct sunlight.  Later that night, though, the back of my neck definitely showed a sunburn.

To my chagrin, if I had properly applied sun screen to my entire body, the SunFriend would have kept me from a sunburn!  The SunFriend is a great tool for children as well as adults and is waterproof up to 3 meters.

*I was given a SunFriend monitor for my honest review.  All opinions are my own.