Sunglasses | Can Wearing Them Cause Sunburn?

Have you ever considered that your sunglasses could be making you sunburnt? Probably not! But it’s definitely something worth looking into. Many people wear them pretty much every day, but our ancestors lived for thousands of years without having sunglasses. So what’s changed? Let’s take a closer look at the facts behind sunglasses to see if they are a benefit or a danger to our health.

How Wearing Sunglasses Can Make You Sunburnt

Our bodies are designed perfectly to be able to cope with sunlight. In fact, it’s absolutely essential to our survival. So, it’s best we fully understand how our biology is in tune with nature before interfering.

It’s actually thought that your eyes register how bright it is in order to secrete specific hormones to keep you safe from the sun. Sunlight stimulates our pituitary gland, via the optic nerve, to produce a hormone that triggers the melanocytes in our skin to make more melanin. The effect of this extra melanin is that our skin becomes tanned.

So, when you wear sunglasses, less sunlight reaches your optic nerve, meaning less warning is sent to your pituitary gland, and less melanin is made. Now think about the consequences of this. Since melanin is there to protect our cells from the damaging effects of UV radiation, if we block the sunlight getting to our eyes then it makes sense that we will be more likely to get sunburnt. In short, we can conclude that wearing sunglasses can actually cause sunburn!

Live In A Temple of Light

I noticed a while back that if I wore sunglasses and then took them off, that  the sun was WAY too bright for me to handle. It hurt my eyes and I got a headache if I didn’t wear them. I realised that this is not natural! So I stopped wearing them and, within a short period of time, I was completely fine to not wear sunglasses. Even at noon. On the beach!

Now I don’t have the need to squint my eyes. Even when many others are doing so, or wearing sunglasses. I don’t know about you but I want a Temple of Light!! Not Darkness. I have even heard that sunglasses were an invention by the Illuminati to keep the “masses” in the dark, both figuratively and literally speaking 😉

Sunglass Addiction

Of course, sunglasses do have their place to reduce glare whilst driving and other things of this nature. But I see people wearing sunglasses even in shopping centres or after the sun has gone down! Are they glued to their faces? Have they just forgotten to take them off? Maybe they have gotten to the point of being afraid of showing their own eyes in public.

Our eyes are the windows to the soul and a great source of communication with each other. We should feel free and happy. In a world filled with depression, physiological issues, skin problems, and much more, could blocking the sun from coming into our bodies, eyes, and brain possibly be a cause of this?

The Sun Is Healing, Why Block It Out?

Seattle is a city with one of the highest suicide rates in the U.S. maybe it’s because it rains 250+ days out of the year and is always cloudy?

I personally choose to live where the sun is almost always shining bright and I do my best to get in it every day and I believe that this is one of the main reasons I’m such a happy, energetic person.

I now consider it a good thing to be in the bright daylight. Wide-eyed and bushy-tailed without toxic sunblock or sunglasses!

As with all my advice, common sense prevails! So, like I said earlier, if you’re driving in traffic and it helps, then by all means wear them! But otherwise OPEN YOUR EYES and get out into the SUN!!

Thanks for reading!