{"id":546,"date":"2018-05-25T22:42:42","date_gmt":"2018-05-26T02:42:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.melanomaeducation.net\/?p=546"},"modified":"2019-07-15T11:03:33","modified_gmt":"2019-07-15T11:03:33","slug":"no-clean-pill-of-health-a-skin-cancer-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melanomaeducation.net\/no-clean-pill-of-health-a-skin-cancer-scam\/","title":{"rendered":"No Clean Pill of Health: A Skin Cancer Scam"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In the 19<sup>th<\/sup> century, they were called \u201c<em>Snake-Oil Salesmen<\/em>\u201d; men who traveled from town-to-town pitching useless beverages that they touted as the cure for whatever ails you. They still exist today, except they\u2019re now called \u201c<em>scammers<\/em>\u201d. And in our contemporary times, they have a wide variety of much more effective tools at their disposal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Times and technology may have changed; but the practice of morally-divested people trying to scam the public for personal profit has not. Sometimes, despicably, they\u2019re willing to endanger the health of others for money.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Accept No Substitutes<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The <em>United States Food &amp; Drug Administration<\/em> (FDA) has blown the whistle on multiple companies that sell tablets with the promise of protecting those who use them from the effects (including <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.melanomaeducation.net\/2018-projected-u-s-melanoma-incidence\/\">skin cancer<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.melanomaeducation.net\/melanoma-potpourri\/\">potentially lethal melanoma<\/a>) of the <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.melanomaeducation.net\/indirectly-speaking-the-impact-of-secondary-uv-exposure\/\">sun\u2019s harmful UV rays<\/a>. The FDA has, thankfully and publicly, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fda.gov\/ICECI\/EnforcementActions\/WarningLetters\/ucm608257.htm\">lowered the boom<\/a> on the following companies because their pills offer as much skin protection as eating a <em>Tic Tac<\/em> would. In other words, they offer none.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>\u201cAdvanced Skin Brightening Formula \u2013 made by GliSODin Skin Nutrients, of Toronto, Ontario<\/li><li>Sunsafe Rx \u2013 made by Napa Valley Bioscience, of Santa Monica, CA<\/li><li>Solaricare \u2013 made by Pharmacy Direct, Inc., of Dover, DE<\/li><li>Sunergetic \u2013 made by Sunergized LLC, of Woodbury, NY\u201d*<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Per the cited source article, FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb made his point clearly and concisely with this statement: <em>\u201cThere\u2019s no pill or capsule that can replace your sunscreen.\u201d <\/em>And if there ever is, the FDA will officially let us all know.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Blanket of Insecurity<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s human nature to believe that, if a product is widely available for sale, it must\u2019ve been approved by some federal agency. But if that were true, you\u2019d never see an (involuntarily) bald man anywhere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If a person buys a fake watch on a city street, the most it costs him or her is some money lost with a free lesson thrown in. However, to trust your health to a useless medication can cost you your life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Most people are inherently good, and as such can\u2019t fathom that others might try to profit off risking their health. Unfortunately, those type of people, and companies, are out there. The good news is that today\u2019s tech can work for us, too. Before entrusting your skin\u2019s health (or any other area) to a seemingly magic bean, do some quick online research. Whatever the product, there are sure to be numerous reviews, opinions and\/or facts posted about it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you\u2019re <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.melanomaeducation.net\/spf-is-far-less-important-than-how-much-is-applied\/\">tanning<\/a>, either naturally like this person below, artificially (<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.melanomaeducation.net\/more-tanning-salons-ignoring-state-laws\/\">tanning beds<\/a>), or even out in the sun at all, your best defense is <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.melanomaeducation.net\/spf-fact-versus-fiction\/\">properly<strong> a<\/strong>pplied (and frequently re-applied) sunscreen<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/melanomaeducation.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sunbather-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-545\" srcset=\"https:\/\/melanomaeducation.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sunbather-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/melanomaeducation.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sunbather.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Spending a few minutes to verify health claims is the best investment you can possibly make.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"note\">Source article and photo credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.acsh.org\/news\/2018\/05\/23\/sun-protection-pills-are-fraudulent-and-harmful-fda-warns-13005\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">American Council on Science and Health (ACSH.org)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the 19th century, they were called \u201cSnake-Oil Salesmen\u201d; men who traveled from town-to-town pitching useless beverages that they touted as the cure for whatever ails you. They still exist today&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[43,64,80],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/melanomaeducation.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/melanomaeducation.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/melanomaeducation.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melanomaeducation.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melanomaeducation.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=546"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/melanomaeducation.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1078,"href":"https:\/\/melanomaeducation.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546\/revisions\/1078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/melanomaeducation.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melanomaeducation.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melanomaeducation.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}