Paul Saladino· MD
if you are going to burn if you are light skin cover up get a small amount of sun exposure develop your solar callous as we talked about earlier in this episode get that uva and uvb into the different layers of your skin get that uvb producing melanin gradually dark and gradually think about being in the sun as a piece of homework that is my prescription for you get into the sun gradually especially as we are going into the summer this is your chance to fill up your sun reserves that's vitamin d and other compounds that are produced from the sun in your skin and stored in your body but do that gradually if you're going to be out in the sun too long to safely be in the sun without burning based on your relative amount of melanin in your skin then cover yourself