{"id":1870,"date":"2018-06-05T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-05T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.willclower.com\/blog\/2015\/07\/the-internal-spf-the-top-5-countdown-of-best-foods-number-4.html"},"modified":"2019-06-03T23:04:47","modified_gmt":"2019-06-04T03:04:47","slug":"the-internal-spf-the-top-5-countdown-of-best-foods-number-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/blog\/?p=1870","title":{"rendered":"The Internal SPF. The Top 5 Countdown of Best Foods. Number 4."},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><img data-opt-id=931943444  fetchpriority=\"high\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1081\" src=\"https:\/\/mlcmmqmgggev.i.optimole.com\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.willclower.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/StrawberrySmoothiemine.jpg?resize=221%2C166&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"221\" height=\"166\" \/><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: 'Century Gothic', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;\">Ellagic acid. You\u2019ve almost certainly never heard of this component of at least 46 different fruits and nuts.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: 'Century Gothic', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: 'Century Gothic', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;\">But it&#8217;s a huge cancer fighter found in highest concentrations in strawberries, raspberries, blackberries, pomegranate, walnuts, and pecans.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;\">So yes, it is a cancer fighter also crazy good for your skin. How good?\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;\">If you whip up a little baggie of healthy trail mix before hiking in the sun, will this actually help your skin at all? Or will you just end up wishing you\u2019d stuck with your version 1.0 trail mix of M&amp;Ms, Peanut M&amp;Ms, and caramels? <\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;\">We should talk about the cancer stuff first though, because it\u2019s kind of amazing. The ellagic acids found in these berries and nuts can help protect your DNA from damage and mutations. Mutations are great in zombie movies and sadly outdated explanations for superhero powers.\u00a0 But for you and your skin, they\u2019re definitely on the not invited-to-the-party list. <\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;\">One of the ways ellagic acid foods safeguard your DNA is by allowing cancer cells to go ahead and die like normal cells do after they\u2019ve lived a long healthy productive life of whatever it is they do all day.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;\">That way, instead of cells going all zombie apocalypse, never dying and eating your organs, they shut down, die, and go to heaven. <\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;\">Back to your skin, it turns out that ellagic acid can also inhibit the growth of melanoma cells, which are the Darth Vader of skin cancers. Fight them, you must.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;\">Foods with ellagic acid can help you do just that. In fact, in <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/25386288\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;\">three cancer cell lines<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;\"> investigated, ellagic acid inhibited the growth and spread of them all. \u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;\">Keep in mind that this protection was found for cells living in a petri dish and, while promising, doesn\u2019t show that eating blackberry pie everyday will help your skin just yet. One particular study did seem to show that oral consumption of pomegranate extract (high in ellagic acid) helped protect the skin from sun burn \u2026 but that was just one study.\u00a0 <\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;\">So far, this all sounds weak so far, except that there\u2019s another aspect to it. You know how when some people get in the sun, they get those brown patches. They\u2019re like little smutty grayish stains, largely on their forehead, cheeks, nose and upper lip.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;\">Exactly zero people want this. <\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;\">Those face blotches are caused by sun damage which, you guessed it, are prevented AND reversed by eating foods that have ellagic acid in them. <\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;\">Now I have your attention. <\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;\">An ellagic acid extract from pomegranate did this by <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/16377895\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;\">inhibiting the number of dark melanocytes<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;\"> in the epidermis. 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