Is It Bad to Get Freckles From the Sun?

I always get so excited when my freckles start to pop off in the spring! I used to think they just looked cute… but now I know they’re way cooler than that!

My freckles are literally storage tanks for UV light. 🤗.

The melanin (darker pigment) in my freckles helps me harvest UV light from sunlight.

Melanin absorbs UV light during the day… stores it in my freckles... and then offloads the stored light to my body at night.

🙏Those of us who live at higher latitudes can be glad for our freckles… because our bodies pull on these little UV light stores in the winter months when UVB light disappears.

((Ah ha… so this is why my freckles disappear in the winter - I’m literally using the light up!))

Here are just a few examples of how UV supports the body:

☀️Gives you a natural high via a biochemical called POMC
☀️Lowers your blood pressure by dilating blood vessels with nitric oxide
☀️Calms down the sympathetic stress response
☀️Raises parasympathetic tone, helping your rest-and-digest response
☀️Kicks off the pineal melatonin pathway (to help you sleep)
☀️Supports T-3 thyroid production

P.S. UV light has been vilified for decades… but if you dig deeper beyond the mainstream warnings, you’ll find it’s simply misunderstood (and UV light in isolation or in a lab/tanning booth interacts very differently with our bodies than UV light found in full spectrum sunlight).

Do you have freckles? Are you ready to celebrate them now?!