@@JamesWelsh My step-mother used to cover herself in coconut or olive oil and go sunbathing. She would be bright red and peeling ever year. She aged really badly too. The best time was when she was out of coconut oil or olive oil and she used an olive oil based salad dressing instead haha I swear to god that's the truth. I'm not sure how she's still here, to be honest.
Lol long ago I worked at a plant nursery (lots of sun exposure). I was re-upping my sunscreen when a coworker told me how sunscreen causes cancer. I countered with, "so does UV radiation..." His response, "it's all about your mindset. You can decide whether the sun gives you cancer or not." He then proceeded to light a cigarette. 🤦♀️😂
@@hellsbells8689omfg your mom is giving Kramer from the Seinfeld episode where he slathers himself in butter before sunbathing. I bet she smelled delicious, too 😂🍗🥗
The ingredient list moment was comedy gold. My man just sold bottled water with gold foil and called it a drinkable sunscreen. My body's frequency can't stop hollering
Re: Chirality, this is a chemistry term used to describe three dimensional molecules that aren't symmetrical. Any asymmetric molecule has two versions, like you have two hands. They're the same but perfect mirrors of each other. Chirality is a relatively new thing we consider in consumed products, mostly because we can't isolate the two versions in a lab. They'll have the same size, the same boiling point, the same electromagnetism, etc. So if one version is bad, we have to treat them as if they're both bad. However, chirality IS a big marketing buzzword because the most infamous example of chiral chemicals was thalidomide. One version reduced nausea. The other caused birth defects. Referring to something as "chirally correct" is fear mongering the same way calling it "toxin free" is fear mongering. Also, if someone actually found a reliable and cost effective way to separate chiral molecules, they wouldn't be selling magic water on the internet lmao.
I was going to say similar. It is possible to separate chiral molecules and specifically manufacture the particular one that's wanted, the main driver being in medicine where the "wrong" version can be responsible for some of the unwanted side effects as you pointed out. I wouldn't say that "chirally correct" is always fear mongering. If he says it about water it definitely is... water is not a chiral molecule :)
I thought drinkable sunscreen was like edible makeup. Like, you still had to apply it on your skin, but it's safe if you accidentally licked it. Apparently not.
Does anyone remember Jessica Simpson’s line of edible skincare and body products? It was like, lotions, creams, body sprays, and maybe hair products, if I remember correctly… Am I dating myself here? I think this was maybe the mid-2000’s? Edit: okay, I was right!!! It was called Dessert Beauty! 😅
I saw them once as a kid and it was amazing 😍😍😍 I thought she was a genius. I couldn’t understand why other brands weren’t using this technology and I sincerely believed it was the best scientific development I’d ever see in my lifetime, I imagined edible furniture and construction that grew back after you took a bite would be next. My mum had a lot of difficulty bringing me back to reality 😂 I was a tomboy so I wasn’t interested in beauty products until that moment but beauty was suddenly a lot more interesting if it meant I could snack at the same time!! Mum didn’t let me get any sadly 💔
I also thought it was gonna be something like they said it was okay to accidentally consumed it only to find out its bad for your skin and insides, I guess we gave them too much credit
they’re selling holy water blessed by a magic machine and saying it’s magic potions…there’s something very medieval about it. the fact that the internet enables people to do this instead of making it impossible to get away with is so wild
You don't have a clue about anything do you holy water is incredibly magickal it's a pagan thing not a Christian thing you should try doing research every once and a while ( pagan witch of over 30 years here and yes witchcraft is real proven by science many times it's a manipulation of energy not only within ourselves but also the energy around us )
The whole "holistic health" community rave about those holy waters and "frequencies". That’s the only word they remember from their high school science class and they just ran with it, extrapolating what they are to a nonsensical point.
OH MY GAWD OSMOSIS. I met BJ at a convention once, and told him how my cheeks are sensitive. He immediately said “YOU HAVE YEAST INFECTION” so loudly that everyone looked at us. I politely told him I have dermatographia, sun sensitivity, etc but nope. He did not listen, and repeated how my yeast infection will be fixed with their products…Like what??? Everything he said didn’t make sense and why did he needed to yell “yeast infection” multiple times? I don’t know.
@@hellowilson5335Quacks have a real obsession with yeast/candida for some reason. That Jilly Water lady basically claimed candidiasis caused every ill and her fermented kale sea water would totally fix it right up.
You can get skin fungal infections caused by natural yeasts. (Basically your normal skin bacteria that gets out of hand, ik as i had it after a bad skin reaction to a washing product). But i dont think it affects areas like the cheeks?? I had it in various "damper" areas and my scalp, i needed antifungal tablets to get rid of it as nothing topical or any "natural" remedies were working for months
People are so desperate to believe in magic beauty potions, they will convince themselves they really work and look amazing until the day they die. Dumbo and the magic feather syndrome. 😂
@@user-cd6xp5lk4c 7:32 they literally claimed that a few pumps of water with some gold in it provides the same protection from the sun as an SPF 30 product. that sounds to me like saying that it replaces sunscreen. I don't think there's any way to interpret that statement other than saying that the gold flake water is a valid and equal alternative/replacement to SPF 30 sunscreen. ETA: also, the original claim on the old labels as shown @ 11:20. it's even worse than saying it's replacing sunscreen.
@@minjaarsic3327 He never once said it would replace sunscreen.. go back and listen to the interviews All that label claims is that it allows for increased sun exposure.. that could mean added protection on a higher temp day .. no where does it say that it replaces sunscreen.. ppl like to misinterpret many things .
What’s frustrating about the misuse of the word “holistic” is that it’s not bad in and of itself- but it’s not a type of medicine. It’s an approach to medicine. “Holistic” means “taking the entire system into account.” When you see a doctor whose approach is holistic and say you have knee pain, they’ll want to know all of the other context in addition to your standard medical history. What do you do with your time? Do you have a job where you’re on your feet all the time? Do you play sports or have other athletic pursuits? The lifestyle of the individual is just as vital a component as their complaints. My GP is a DO (Doctor of Osteopathy) which has some sort of woo roots but ultimately has the same sort of residency and accreditation requirements as a MD. I have multiple chronic illnesses and the DO’s holistic approach to medical care is actually why I chose one over an MD. I feel like people who continue to buy are in the same sunk-cost-fallacy boat as people stuck in MLMs. The fact that they wasted time and money and got scammed is potentially devastating. I feel like that fallout is a too high a price but that’s why it’s not me, ig 😬
I'm in Canada and my Dr is a DO from the US. (DOs seem to be more common there?). I was telling my therapist (an MD) about him and said the word holistic. She paused and asked me his name and she looked him up bc she was suspicious 😂! I'm like "no.... it's not woo woo crap. It's just a bit different than an MD." Anyway, best Dr I've ever had in my 50 years!
Yeah… I think I’ll pass on that…. That’s a big no from me. His drinkable sunscreen sounds like a 5 minute hack. 0/10 Jackie’s from me 😂😂😂😂😂 Have a great day James !!! ❤
Hey James, I was hired by Osmosis as a development consultant for skincare/makeup products for just over a year. I never had any involvement with the development of the harmonized elixirs. But, if you ever want to talk about what it was like working with Dr. BJ, give me a call … 😳
This sounds like how homeopathy "works", which is super popular in Germany, where I live. A few years ago I was told by my therapist to get a homeopathic product for panic attacks. I asked the pharmacist what it is and how it works, and she started to tell me how this is sugar with diluted extracts of something, and then it's being "energized" and diluted even further and the dilution "energizes" it even more, so the more you dilute it, the "stronger" it is. I don't even want to know how my face looked like when i was just staring at her in disbelief. I thought I came to a medical institution and not a witch's hut. In Germany you can buy homeopathic "remedy" in pharmacies and some health insurance companies even reimburse you for these peoducts. And guess what, homeopathy has been studied over and over and over and never have they found effect going beyond a placebo effect. Don't get me wrong, the placebo effect can be super strong, but there are people out there refusing cancer treatment in favour of sugar balls that will absolutely not cure you if you are seriously ill.
Are you serious? Those things and somewhat common to hear in my country in South America. We have doctors and hospitals but access is hard because of high demand and few hospitals so people turn to those kind of stuff. I have also heard it in people that are high middle class with access to medical treatments. I just believe there is some type of people who just prefer to believe in those kind of things even when have been proved to not work.
I thought homeopathy was just a load of shit too but I was dealing with hormone issues and nothing worked so tried homeopathy and it fkn worked! No idea how.. but my hormone profile was significantly different after 2 months of treatment!
@@CrystalVokac I had a similar experience with that panic medication and I thought I was losing my mind 😂 until I read a study about open-label płacebos. Have a read, it's really interesting! Basically, when you know it's a placebo, but you know how the placebo effect works, it can still work for you. I believe this is what happened to me at least.
@@moniboni92 actually I have heard about that!! Like they’re discovering we can basically trick our brains into healing us somewhat hahaha isn’t that mental!? I thought it could be placebo but don’t you need to believe in it for it to work?! I didn’t believe in it and was just taking it with no believe that there would be any improvement.. tripped me out either way haha!
@@merrivideo definitely a rich(er) people thing for sure here as well! It also often correlates with a certain type of world view, weirdly many far right people turn to this as well as magic numbers you write on pieces of paper and then stick them to the hurt area of your body. Homeopathy seems to be an entry to these types of "remedies" for many people. 🙈
Just a note, holistic means "entire body", not homeopathic. Holistic care is care that takes into consideration the entire holistic system (the body). For example, treating a patient who has eczema with holistic care is asking them questions about their stress, not just their skin (looking at the effects of the brain on the skin). What the doctor said is so stupid tho, and i don't even need advanced chemistry and biology knoledge to disprove the things he spits out. Thanks for the video, love u :)
@@heyguysits-nicoleyou are absolutly correct. Since they want to convince people that "fixing their vibes" will help them with their skin "issues", holistic is the perfect word to sound scientific while saying garbage. Thats why they use it and thats why people aren't sure what it means.
As a beauty therapist, it stresses me that not enough people know about the Dr behind Osmosis!! Thank you for this. It's been hard for me to get other people on board. 😊 I brought up this issue at a prior work place and about the drinkable sunscreen and my boss just didn't want to know and swore by it. Argh!!
A a physician, who appreciates a multidisciplinary approach to overall health, BJ is spouting a bunch of bs that was likely put together by an inebriated anti-vaxxer, and is triggering my annoyance into the stratosphere. Appreciate you and the deep-dives you do, James! 🎉❤
Sunscreen of today is VASTLY different from sunscreen from the 80s and 90s (when I learned to hate it, despite being the fairest redhead in Florida 😂). Our bad experiences as kids inform our practices as adults - and we pass our prejudices on to our kids. It’s a cycle I’ve seen among a ton of my friends who hate sunscreen and so haven’t been keeping up with the AMAZING sunscreen options coming from the rest of the world. I now spend WAY too much time telling GenXers about Asian sunscreen options so they will use it, and so their kids will put it on their own kids. ❤
All that to say, it is impossible to express how truly awful sunscreen used to feel. Especially when you were supposed to put it on your face. Imagine putting crisco on your skin. It was much more like that, with a heavy, goopy feeling, than the watery sunscreens we have today. Watery/gel sunscreens were a revelation!
Hi James, just wanted to let you know, you are my emergency feel good channel. Doesn´t matter so much what the exact topic of the video is. I enjoy your calming voice aswell as your warm, kind hearted and fun presence. You have helped me through panic attacks and heart break, so i really really appreciate that. Of course I also watch when in a good mood! keep up the nice work and creative ideas
I just can’t even fathom the thought of someone’s alarm going off and then the person saying “Oh wait, it’s time to take my sunscreen” as they proceed to mist luster dusted water into their mouths 🙃
I live in Australia, and we take sun protection pretty seriously here. I'm always amazed by the north hemisphere peoples who question sunscreen. Like, try rosemary oil on a summer day here and see how you go
What will these people come up with next? Oh, I have an idea: Sound is Frequency too, right? So get ready for the Sunscreen Soundtrack™ by DJ BJ!! You're protected from the sun as long as it plays and surrounds you with the right vibrations 🤣
i've always found the debate around the usage of sunscreen so interesting, and also so far out of my reach. being australian, i feel as though i've never heard the 'sunscreen causes skin cancer' debate because most australians just know to wear it now due to our hole in the ozone layer (making skin cancer one of the nation's biggest killers). it's kind of just ingrained in our culture now to wear it, and the only people who don't are the tan-obsessed folks. very interesting to hear the massive backlash around some peoples' vitriolic aversion to something that is legitimately life-saving. idk, just my view of things - very interesting vid james! 💜
yeah! i'm in australia as well and find this is very much the case. sunscreen is extremely normalised here since childhood and i feel everyone has an older family member or person they know who has had some kind of skin cancer
I actually had a dermatologist tell me not to bother wearing sunscreen. He told me to just wear a big hat and long sleeves because we don’t know what effects chemical sunscreen might have in the long run. Needless to say, I never went back. 😂
Silly, huh? It's possible that sunscreen use leads to an increased risk of certain cancers... I'd be wanting to see a well designed study with clear findings before I believed that though. But even if that were the case, I'd wager that it saved very many more lives than it cost. With many things, it's not that there are no costs... but the benefits outweigh them, sometimes by a wide margin. It's a strange doctor that doesn't bear that in mind!
@@racheljames9187 I've always wondered what part of our system is processing and cleaning the sunscreen out of our system. Kidneys or liver or both? And what ARE the long term effects? We should start seeing the effects (if any) soon. Since it's been about 40 years since we started slathering it on infants. So we have 40'ish year olds that have been exposed to them for that long. Then it'll take x amount of cases before someone perceives a link to sunscreen, then another 10 or 20 years for research. In the meantime - I'm allergic to just about all sunscreens. Zinc is all I can use, and luckily, I think it's the safest since our body needs zinc and knows how to process it. But mostly I do what the OP's doctor says, hat & sleeves and pants - and stay out of the sun.
Sleeves? In the summer? As in more than just a mesh? I think I’d die (not entirely hyperbole considering that the heat has triggered epileptic seizures in me in the past) how are you supposed to go out in 110 f (43 c) (and with the way things have been going it will probably get even hotter in the future) weather with sleeves long and thick enough to stop the sunlight? 😫 legitimate question. I can’t even go hiking in full pants and i like hiking. I wear long shorts and sometimes high socks, then check myself over for ticks when I’m done. I can’t imagine wearing long sleeves in the height of summer
@@jeandiatasmith4512we already have some recent studies on the long-term effects of sunscreen use. There haven’t been any significant differences in (non-skin-cancer) death rates across several measurements in multiple studies. Here’s a recent one that followed people for 4.5 years (which is generally considered plenty long enough for us to discover negative effects, but which also cites a 21-year study): Lindstrom AR, von Schuckmann LA, Hughes MCB, Williams GM, Green AC, van der Pols JC. Regular Sunscreen Use and Risk of Mortality: Long-Term Follow-up of a Skin Cancer Prevention Trial. Am J Prev Med. 2019 May;56(5):742-746. doi: 10.1016/j.amepre.2018.11.025. Epub 2019 Mar 16. PMID: 30885518. I think people misunderstand the concept of “long-term effects”. We can see almost instantly when most chemicals have an effect. For some it takes time to see if they “build up” in the kidneys or liver or cells. But it doesn’t take 40 years to detect that build up. Anything that takes 40 years to *potentially* kill you, but protects you from the very real chance of skin cancer death is safer than you think. 20 people a DAY die of melanoma. 0 people a day die of sunscreen use. We can track sunscreen use. We DO track sunscreen use. There is nothing at all to suggest it harms people in the long term. Over 7,000 people are killed by melanoma each year. And many, many more are permanently disfigured. So while yes, we should do these studies, we should also understand what the studies MEAN and acknowledge the truth that we already have. How many studies should it take to convince someone sunscreen is safe?
That was actually really good advice. Many sunblock chemicals are not well studied, and there are reasons for concern. Many credible science backed organizations like the EWG and the American society of pediatrics recommend against wearing any non-mineral sunscreen. And many people won't wear mineral creams because of the color. The best protection from the sun is a physical barrier like, yeah, a hat and sleeves. Also, sunscreen use is at an all time high in the general population and so is skin cancer rates. So there's a lot of good evidence it's safest to avoid most sunscreens.
To clarify, in the US you can call yourself a doctor if you have an MD (medical doctor) degree. If your state license is revoked, it just means you can no longer practice medicine in that state. You are still considered a doctor. So unfortunately folks won't know they're a quack unless they look them up. Thanks for the video! Wish they were shut down instead of just made to put a disclaimer 🫠
I’m so glad someone is finally talking about him! I’ve been ranting about how wrong his “science” is for YEARS to my esthetics students! The high frequency waters make me so irrationally mad!!
I don't have an M.D., but I have a degree in Physics and.. that product description.. wtf? I'm always down for the impossible becoming possible but that was a paragraph of pure doublespeak.
This makes me think of the recent ad I saw here on UA-cam. Apparently, Adele lost weight by wearing an obsidian bracelet and getting ear acupuncture… Like yeah right. All these fake doctors are so disgusting. (Least the bracelets won’t give you skin cancer). 🙄
@@WendeCrow"Detox" is the one that always gets my eyes rolling, along with "chemical free". Everything is made from chemicals, water is a chemical, and your liver and kidneys entire function is to detox your body.
Thanks for spreading awareness about this. I’m sure that most of your viewers are just rolling their eyes at the ridiculousness of it all, but there are a scary amount of people that are pulled into stuff like this.
The GASP I just let out when I saw we went to the same medical school... I'm embarrassed! He also didn't list any residency training on his linkedin, hmmm interesting... no dermatology residency? Not even internal medicine residency?
This reminds me of Dr Paolo Macchiarini! He won many awards for his surgical invention, but he’d done no research and was using plastic to mend people’s windpipes and somehow it was covered up that all his patients died but they died a horrible death!
The ingredient reveal had me dying laughing! 😂 "Let's see what's in it...oh 🤭" Really though, I can't believe this was allowed to be sold. Just water???!
I like the fact that you bring up the fact that some of them are doctor who give misinformation because your brother talked about this in one of his videos. Doctors should be even more careful than the average person when it comes to giving information because they're an authority figure people trust them.Therefor it makes it even more confusing for consumers when making informed decisions because you want to be able to trust doctors.
Under "drinkable sunscreen" I imagined something similar to normal sunscreen made out of food grade ingredients... Which would be weird and hard to do, sure, but it's definitely less terrible that vibe water with decorative gold flakes sold without clinical trials to protect people from skin cancer
No it would not actually considering the fact tomatoes have been proven to be a very good defence against the sun I have been eating them since I was able to eat and not one inch of sun damage etc and we wonder why I don't have to use sunscreen at all
I'm disabled and I talk about 2 of my conditions online, Cyclic vomiting syndrome and Endometriosis, and I can't even tell you how many DMs from "dr"s and/or "medical professionals" saying they can cure my conditions (which have no cure) if I just drink some tea or use some MLM product. It's so annoying😂 I honestly don't talk about my conditions as much cuz I'd get so many messages.
omg i FEEL you, like taking your powder is not going to cure my genetic connective tissue disorder or make my brain undamage itself 😭😭 side note would love to know where you talk about CVS bc you’re the first person i’ve come across online who has it !
Oh god, same with my PCOS. It's even worse when the advice comes from someone "in the field" - 6 years in med school just to fall for pyramid schemes? Lawd.
@padohaechanfancam yeah, whenever someone says they're a dr or a medical professional then they finish the sentence by saying "this root tea cures everything, including your conditions!" I automatically think they're lying about being a dr. I've just had so many ignorant ppl in my DMs claiming they have a cure, it's hard to believe a dr would fall for the crap they sell🤷♀️
I just hate the way sunscreen feels on my skin so I adapt and avoid sunlight and going outside or use a hat or umbrella for physical shade. If I’m going to be swimming or purposefully in the sun I suck it up and apply sunscreen cause I know it’s important
I live in Australia and sun safety is taken SO seriously here. Skin cancer from melanoma is so scary. I had a great auntie who had breast cancer that developed from melanoma. I'm so pasty, as is my mum, sister, brother and step-brother, that we need to use spf 50+, not 30+ and if I remember correctly the Australian cancer council mainly sells spf 50+ these days due to how damaging the uv rays are in Australia.
This reminded of when my country had a viral sunscreen supplement, I couldn't remember if it was a pill or like a powder sachet. But it didn't last long because doctors/professionals in tiktok really protested on it. I don't remember what happened to it.
There’s a sunscreen brand called Heliocare who offer “oral supplements” that supposedly “add additional defence from within against the damaging effects of UVA, UVB, visible light and infrared-A” - I was sent some in PR but I don’t understand the science and if it’s even possible. I was sceptical so I didn’t use them. I know it’s not the same, but felt kind of relevant
I looked them up as someone else mentioned them. It’s basically an antioxidant, so that may help free radical damage on a cellular level. Or you could eat veggies, fruits, spices etc.
It's a product from Cantabria Labs Spain, it's a food supplement. As a healthcare worker: It must be done under the supervision of your doctor or specialist, especially if there's any pathology. It is based on Fernblock® technology, "Polypodium Leucotomos" (antioxidant) extracted from fern plants from Central America. There are some mixed with other active ingredients such as vitamin D, beta-carotene, inulin... In the case of D, the body produces it when exposed to the sun and fixes Calcium. Just from the diet, even a balanced one, Vit D is one of the most complex to cover, especially in latitudes with fewer hours of sunlight. That's why there are so many supplements and food products enriched with it. ISDIN also has an oral range. They are part of dermopharmacy products.
just a few minutes in and heard "chirally correct" ??? as a premed bio student, sounds like that MD really wanted to utilize the ochem they learned in undergrad!!
...so he's selling water with 24K gold flakes in it as sunscreen now? What's to stop someone else from buying gold leaf from Michael's and putting it in tapwater to achieve the same "results" for less?
He's carrying the academic title of Doctor of Medicine which is different than being Licensed or Board Certified, at least in the US. A non-practicing, unlicensed MD is still academically and MD.
@@BenJohnsonMD Mr Welsh asked if you could still call yourself Dr even if not licensed. That you are licensed doesn't change the fact that you are still a Dr with or without a license. Practicing gets a bit tetchy on that topic however.
What!? You are a twin!!!! I thought that lately you were doing your makeup for the videos and decided to cut your eyebrow for aesthetics just to realize today that I wasn't subscribed because that's your twin!!! I feel like a kid that just found out a mystery of the world.
I’ve never heard of this. This is crazy! Drinkable sunscreen like wtf 😬 when it’s actually just water with gold…nothing surprises me after hearing this.
oh no, not the quantum woowoo! as a person who studied physics, these kind of word salad explanations using like ~waves~ and frequencies drive me up the wall
I am devastated, I thought I did so much research before buying into the product! I am questioning everything now. FYI: they do not offer sunscreen/sun protection of any kind now.
In osmosis professional manual sun defense elixer states “reduces damage related to sun exposure” no where does it say takes over the role of SPF or anything he suggesting …
I want these people who say their products have some sort of "frequency" or is going to change your "frequency" to tell me what the frequency is. What's the frequency, BJ??
My formulas are proprietary so I do not list the exact frequencies. Ask yourself why I would sell a “fake” sunscreen when I make a few other normal ones. The answer is it works : )
OMG!! I’m a licensed esthetician and I started a conversation in an esthetician only Facebook group months ago and there are licensed professionals who believe this filtered water works. Not all licensed practitioners should be trusted and that’s so sad.
if you think vibrated water sunscreen is wild, wait until you hear about “raw” water 😭😂 on a more depressing note, i’ve also heard some people talk about how alternative health products are so popular, especially in america, because there are a lot of people who can’t afford to go to a hospital also that these products also prey upon victims of medical malpractice-people too traumatized to trust doctors after experiencing or being affected by professionals too burnt out or unconsciously biased to properly treat a patient
If one doesn’t believe that we are energetic beings and that the skin health starts from the inside out then it’s the best not to buy such products. It’s funny how some people still don’t believe in frequencies
When I was a young adult, this line was sold at an aesthetician I went to a couple of times. Crazy to hear about the crazy behind what just seemed like another aesthetics brand!
it’s bizarre to me that people would rather risk skin cancer. Something we KNOW about and have data for…for some unknown (debunkable) issue regarding sunscreen/zinc products….like even if there was some risk during sunscreen it’s better to protect against the thing you know with 99% certainty than the 0.0009% certainty
I’m confident this used to be sold on Goop because I remember laughing at the ridiculousness of vibrated water. Hilarity aside, let’s assume it works… wouldn’t the vibrations change when it’s, I dunno, shipped by truck across the country?
what’s funny is that there *is* effective plant/mineral based sunscreen. i can’t remember the brand, as i don’t use it much since it gets sticky rather than really fully drying, but it works like a regular spray sunscreen.
i think i figured out how it works; body = energy, energy=waves, and you can find waves in the ocean (which is water) that is so scientific and not made up at all.
When I read the title of drinkable sunscreen I actually thought of sunscreen that you put on your skin (like any normal, functioning sunscreen) that you could also drink. It didnt even cross my mind that the protection is claimed to be achieved through drinking something
5:32 "What we've learned in science" Sorry, _WE?_ Who is WE??? As a biologist, I can confidently say that we in the science community do not claim this man 😂
My god. When you showed the video of him explaining his Elixir at 6 mins, I was just cringing the whole way through. Just a video of buzzword soup! James is absolutely right that this has strong Scientology vibes. I also think the whole company, and its products, scream MLM to me.
technically, the way he branded this was legal. the FDA doesn't consider it a 'drug' bc it has no pharmaceutical ingredients, even though its claims would usually put it in that category as it is meant to be a sunscreen. the only way they would look at it and make any judgement is from a lawsuit. so good on the people who initiated the lawsuit
It baffles me how people are fine with this but not suncream which has been rigorously tested for decades. Madness 🤦♀️
Some people will do anything BUT use sunscreen 😩
@@JamesWelshthey'll literally drink poison... It boggles the mind 😂😂😂😂
@@JamesWelsh My step-mother used to cover herself in coconut or olive oil and go sunbathing. She would be bright red and peeling ever year. She aged really badly too.
The best time was when she was out of coconut oil or olive oil and she used an olive oil based salad dressing instead haha I swear to god that's the truth. I'm not sure how she's still here, to be honest.
Lol long ago I worked at a plant nursery (lots of sun exposure). I was re-upping my sunscreen when a coworker told me how sunscreen causes cancer. I countered with, "so does UV radiation..."
His response, "it's all about your mindset. You can decide whether the sun gives you cancer or not." He then proceeded to light a cigarette. 🤦♀️😂
@@hellsbells8689omfg your mom is giving Kramer from the Seinfeld episode where he slathers himself in butter before sunbathing. I bet she smelled delicious, too 😂🍗🥗
The ingredient list moment was comedy gold. My man just sold bottled water with gold foil and called it a drinkable sunscreen. My body's frequency can't stop hollering
Re: Chirality, this is a chemistry term used to describe three dimensional molecules that aren't symmetrical. Any asymmetric molecule has two versions, like you have two hands. They're the same but perfect mirrors of each other.
Chirality is a relatively new thing we consider in consumed products, mostly because we can't isolate the two versions in a lab. They'll have the same size, the same boiling point, the same electromagnetism, etc. So if one version is bad, we have to treat them as if they're both bad.
However, chirality IS a big marketing buzzword because the most infamous example of chiral chemicals was thalidomide. One version reduced nausea. The other caused birth defects. Referring to something as "chirally correct" is fear mongering the same way calling it "toxin free" is fear mongering. Also, if someone actually found a reliable and cost effective way to separate chiral molecules, they wouldn't be selling magic water on the internet lmao.
Thank you!
Ohhhhhhh interesting thanks for sharing!
This was interesting thanks for sharing
I was going to say similar. It is possible to separate chiral molecules and specifically manufacture the particular one that's wanted, the main driver being in medicine where the "wrong" version can be responsible for some of the unwanted side effects as you pointed out. I wouldn't say that "chirally correct" is always fear mongering. If he says it about water it definitely is... water is not a chiral molecule :)
That’s actually so interesting and useful to know!!
I thought drinkable sunscreen was like edible makeup. Like, you still had to apply it on your skin, but it's safe if you accidentally licked it. Apparently not.
Does anyone remember Jessica Simpson’s line of edible skincare and body products? It was like, lotions, creams, body sprays, and maybe hair products, if I remember correctly…
Am I dating myself here? I think this was maybe the mid-2000’s?
Edit: okay, I was right!!! It was called Dessert Beauty! 😅
I saw them once as a kid and it was amazing 😍😍😍 I thought she was a genius. I couldn’t understand why other brands weren’t using this technology and I sincerely believed it was the best scientific development I’d ever see in my lifetime, I imagined edible furniture and construction that grew back after you took a bite would be next. My mum had a lot of difficulty bringing me back to reality 😂 I was a tomboy so I wasn’t interested in beauty products until that moment but beauty was suddenly a lot more interesting if it meant I could snack at the same time!! Mum didn’t let me get any sadly 💔
I’m still a little disappointed that Jessica Simpson wasn’t actually a scientific genius that solved food insecurity by making everything into food 😔
I also thought it was gonna be something like they said it was okay to accidentally consumed it only to find out its bad for your skin and insides, I guess we gave them too much credit
they’re selling holy water blessed by a magic machine and saying it’s magic potions…there’s something very medieval about it. the fact that the internet enables people to do this instead of making it impossible to get away with is so wild
It’s bizarre that in 2023, these selling tactics still work!!
You don't have a clue about anything do you holy water is incredibly magickal it's a pagan thing not a Christian thing you should try doing research every once and a while ( pagan witch of over 30 years here and yes witchcraft is real proven by science many times it's a manipulation of energy not only within ourselves but also the energy around us )
The whole "holistic health" community rave about those holy waters and "frequencies". That’s the only word they remember from their high school science class and they just ran with it, extrapolating what they are to a nonsensical point.
OH MY GAWD OSMOSIS. I met BJ at a convention once, and told him how my cheeks are sensitive. He immediately said “YOU HAVE YEAST INFECTION” so loudly that everyone looked at us. I politely told him I have dermatographia, sun sensitivity, etc but nope. He did not listen, and repeated how my yeast infection will be fixed with their products…Like what??? Everything he said didn’t make sense and why did he needed to yell “yeast infection” multiple times? I don’t know.
I hate that this happened to you but lord what a visual
That man would not have survived the encounter if he did that to me 😂 I'm so sorry you dealt with that
Thats hilarious 😂. Wonder why he just jumped to yeast infections
@@hellowilson5335Quacks have a real obsession with yeast/candida for some reason. That Jilly Water lady basically claimed candidiasis caused every ill and her fermented kale sea water would totally fix it right up.
You can get skin fungal infections caused by natural yeasts. (Basically your normal skin bacteria that gets out of hand, ik as i had it after a bad skin reaction to a washing product). But i dont think it affects areas like the cheeks?? I had it in various "damper" areas and my scalp, i needed antifungal tablets to get rid of it as nothing topical or any "natural" remedies were working for months
I’m so immature, I keep laughing at “Dr. BJ.” I also can’t believe this dude sold people literal “sunscreen potion” and got away with it 😂
People are so desperate to believe in magic beauty potions, they will convince themselves they really work and look amazing until the day they die. Dumbo and the magic feather syndrome. 😂
He's still selling it! WY ACTUAL H?!?
Never once did he say it replaced sunsctern
@@user-cd6xp5lk4c 7:32 they literally claimed that a few pumps of water with some gold in it provides the same protection from the sun as an SPF 30 product. that sounds to me like saying that it replaces sunscreen. I don't think there's any way to interpret that statement other than saying that the gold flake water is a valid and equal alternative/replacement to SPF 30 sunscreen.
ETA: also, the original claim on the old labels as shown @ 11:20. it's even worse than saying it's replacing sunscreen.
@@minjaarsic3327 He never once said it would replace sunscreen.. go back and listen to the interviews
All that label claims is that it allows for increased sun exposure.. that could mean added protection on a higher temp day .. no where does it say that it replaces sunscreen.. ppl like to misinterpret many things .
What’s frustrating about the misuse of the word “holistic” is that it’s not bad in and of itself- but it’s not a type of medicine. It’s an approach to medicine. “Holistic” means “taking the entire system into account.” When you see a doctor whose approach is holistic and say you have knee pain, they’ll want to know all of the other context in addition to your standard medical history. What do you do with your time? Do you have a job where you’re on your feet all the time? Do you play sports or have other athletic pursuits? The lifestyle of the individual is just as vital a component as their complaints. My GP is a DO (Doctor of Osteopathy) which has some sort of woo roots but ultimately has the same sort of residency and accreditation requirements as a MD. I have multiple chronic illnesses and the DO’s holistic approach to medical care is actually why I chose one over an MD.
I feel like people who continue to buy are in the same sunk-cost-fallacy boat as people stuck in MLMs. The fact that they wasted time and money and got scammed is potentially devastating. I feel like that fallout is a too high a price but that’s why it’s not me, ig 😬
I'm in Canada and my Dr is a DO from the US. (DOs seem to be more common there?). I was telling my therapist (an MD) about him and said the word holistic. She paused and asked me his name and she looked him up bc she was suspicious 😂! I'm like "no.... it's not woo woo crap. It's just a bit different than an MD."
Anyway, best Dr I've ever had in my 50 years!
@@nollypolly yeah it's almost the same thing. Same training, many MD schools also do od.... Ect...
Yeah… I think I’ll pass on that…. That’s a big no from me. His drinkable sunscreen sounds like a 5 minute hack. 0/10 Jackie’s from me 😂😂😂😂😂 Have a great day James !!! ❤
-20 Jackie’s 😭😩💜
@@JamesWelsh 😂😂😂😂😂😂👍👍👍 yassss!!! I like that rating better !!!
Lol, “Forgot your sunscreen? Drop your gold ring in a bottle of water, shake, and drink! Let’s try it.” 😅
Hey James, I was hired by Osmosis as a development consultant for skincare/makeup products for just over a year. I never had any involvement with the development of the harmonized elixirs. But, if you ever want to talk about what it was like working with Dr. BJ, give me a call … 😳
I have only a single questions, the heck was goung through the guys head?
@@wingsablaze8386money, very easy money
@@wingsablaze8386💰 🤑 💸 💲 🪙 💶 💰
Oh I would love to hear this.
This sounds interesting as hell!
Insane that it was even allowed to be sold in the first place as sun protection products need to go through rigorous testing and approval etc.
This sounds like how homeopathy "works", which is super popular in Germany, where I live. A few years ago I was told by my therapist to get a homeopathic product for panic attacks. I asked the pharmacist what it is and how it works, and she started to tell me how this is sugar with diluted extracts of something, and then it's being "energized" and diluted even further and the dilution "energizes" it even more, so the more you dilute it, the "stronger" it is. I don't even want to know how my face looked like when i was just staring at her in disbelief. I thought I came to a medical institution and not a witch's hut. In Germany you can buy homeopathic "remedy" in pharmacies and some health insurance companies even reimburse you for these peoducts. And guess what, homeopathy has been studied over and over and over and never have they found effect going beyond a placebo effect. Don't get me wrong, the placebo effect can be super strong, but there are people out there refusing cancer treatment in favour of sugar balls that will absolutely not cure you if you are seriously ill.
Are you serious? Those things and somewhat common to hear in my country in South America. We have doctors and hospitals but access is hard because of high demand and few hospitals so people turn to those kind of stuff. I have also heard it in people that are high middle class with access to medical treatments. I just believe there is some type of people who just prefer to believe in those kind of things even when have been proved to not work.
I thought homeopathy was just a load of shit too but I was dealing with hormone issues and nothing worked so tried homeopathy and it fkn worked! No idea how.. but my hormone profile was significantly different after 2 months of treatment!
@@CrystalVokac I had a similar experience with that panic medication and I thought I was losing my mind 😂 until I read a study about open-label płacebos. Have a read, it's really interesting! Basically, when you know it's a placebo, but you know how the placebo effect works, it can still work for you. I believe this is what happened to me at least.
@@moniboni92 actually I have heard about that!! Like they’re discovering we can basically trick our brains into healing us somewhat hahaha isn’t that mental!? I thought it could be placebo but don’t you need to believe in it for it to work?! I didn’t believe in it and was just taking it with no believe that there would be any improvement.. tripped me out either way haha!
@@merrivideo definitely a rich(er) people thing for sure here as well! It also often correlates with a certain type of world view, weirdly many far right people turn to this as well as magic numbers you write on pieces of paper and then stick them to the hurt area of your body. Homeopathy seems to be an entry to these types of "remedies" for many people. 🙈
This has to be one of the most bizarre scams I've ever heard of!
Just a note, holistic means "entire body", not homeopathic. Holistic care is care that takes into consideration the entire holistic system (the body). For example, treating a patient who has eczema with holistic care is asking them questions about their stress, not just their skin (looking at the effects of the brain on the skin).
What the doctor said is so stupid tho, and i don't even need advanced chemistry and biology knoledge to disprove the things he spits out.
Thanks for the video, love u :)
Omg why did I think it meant like…healing with plants?! Ahhhhh haha thank you so much for clarifying this!
This explanation makes so much sense thank you 🙏
@@JamesWelshprobably because you’re thinking of the word horticulture? It has the same vibe as « holistic » imo
@@Bamboo_Roche nah i think it's bc most people who use the word holistic also think it means healing with plants lmao
@@heyguysits-nicoleyou are absolutly correct. Since they want to convince people that "fixing their vibes" will help them with their skin "issues", holistic is the perfect word to sound scientific while saying garbage. Thats why they use it and thats why people aren't sure what it means.
As a beauty therapist, it stresses me that not enough people know about the Dr behind Osmosis!!
Thank you for this. It's been hard for me to get other people on board. 😊
I brought up this issue at a prior work place and about the drinkable sunscreen and my boss just didn't want to know and swore by it. Argh!!
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A a physician, who appreciates a multidisciplinary approach to overall health, BJ is spouting a bunch of bs that was likely put together by an inebriated anti-vaxxer, and is triggering my annoyance into the stratosphere.
Appreciate you and the deep-dives you do, James! 🎉❤
lol thanks for that assurance. I was over here shocked that he said all that out loud and then let it get recorded.
I was wondering why his vibe was so familiar and you’re completely right. He has the same confidence and cadence of an antivaxxer
my physicist husband just was going arghhhhhhhh.
@@mecha5409I wouldn't trust a provaxxer. Longevity ain't swell 😂
It’s so crazy to me that this man is selling a sunscreen potion and people who are buying it aren’t even questioning it at all… like what? 😂
me, a dumbass whovian reading the title: the doctor did what ??
Same!
Yep me too
Me too
Me reading:the dog who invented it" 🤦🏻♀️
me except it’s about 8 years since i watched doctor who 😭😭
It's mad that people will go to these lengths to avoid rubbing some [extremely nicely formulated!] cream on their skin as sun protection
"but it has chemicals in it!!!!1!1!!!" or something
Sunscreen of today is VASTLY different from sunscreen from the 80s and 90s (when I learned to hate it, despite being the fairest redhead in Florida 😂). Our bad experiences as kids inform our practices as adults - and we pass our prejudices on to our kids. It’s a cycle I’ve seen among a ton of my friends who hate sunscreen and so haven’t been keeping up with the AMAZING sunscreen options coming from the rest of the world. I now spend WAY too much time telling GenXers about Asian sunscreen options so they will use it, and so their kids will put it on their own kids. ❤
All that to say, it is impossible to express how truly awful sunscreen used to feel. Especially when you were supposed to put it on your face. Imagine putting crisco on your skin. It was much more like that, with a heavy, goopy feeling, than the watery sunscreens we have today. Watery/gel sunscreens were a revelation!
yeah I know! I was alive in the 80's@@jahbern
Hi James, just wanted to let you know, you are my emergency feel good channel. Doesn´t matter so much what the exact topic of the video is. I enjoy your calming voice aswell as your warm, kind hearted and fun presence. You have helped me through panic attacks and heart break, so i really really appreciate that. Of course I also watch when in a good mood! keep up the nice work and creative ideas
🥹💜💜💜💜
I just can’t even fathom the thought of someone’s alarm going off and then the person saying “Oh wait, it’s time to take my sunscreen” as they proceed to mist luster dusted water into their mouths 🙃
This is the best mental image 😂😂
I live in Australia, and we take sun protection pretty seriously here.
I'm always amazed by the north hemisphere peoples who question sunscreen. Like, try rosemary oil on a summer day here and see how you go
What will these people come up with next? Oh, I have an idea:
Sound is Frequency too, right? So get ready for the Sunscreen Soundtrack™ by DJ BJ!! You're protected from the sun as long as it plays and surrounds you with the right vibrations 🤣
That would almost make more sense lol
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
😂😂😂😂😂
(Vibrates so hard I dissipate into nothingness)
DJ BJ 😂
His holistic wavelength talk reminds me of the origins story of La Mer.
i've always found the debate around the usage of sunscreen so interesting, and also so far out of my reach.
being australian, i feel as though i've never heard the 'sunscreen causes skin cancer' debate because most australians just know to wear it now due to our hole in the ozone layer (making skin cancer one of the nation's biggest killers). it's kind of just ingrained in our culture now to wear it, and the only people who don't are the tan-obsessed folks. very interesting to hear the massive backlash around some peoples' vitriolic aversion to something that is legitimately life-saving.
idk, just my view of things - very interesting vid james! 💜
yeah! i'm in australia as well and find this is very much the case. sunscreen is extremely normalised here since childhood and i feel everyone has an older family member or person they know who has had some kind of skin cancer
I actually had a dermatologist tell me not to bother wearing sunscreen. He told me to just wear a big hat and long sleeves because we don’t know what effects chemical sunscreen might have in the long run. Needless to say, I never went back. 😂
Silly, huh? It's possible that sunscreen use leads to an increased risk of certain cancers... I'd be wanting to see a well designed study with clear findings before I believed that though. But even if that were the case, I'd wager that it saved very many more lives than it cost. With many things, it's not that there are no costs... but the benefits outweigh them, sometimes by a wide margin. It's a strange doctor that doesn't bear that in mind!
@@racheljames9187 I've always wondered what part of our system is processing and cleaning the sunscreen out of our system. Kidneys or liver or both? And what ARE the long term effects? We should start seeing the effects (if any) soon. Since it's been about 40 years since we started slathering it on infants. So we have 40'ish year olds that have been exposed to them for that long. Then it'll take x amount of cases before someone perceives a link to sunscreen, then another 10 or 20 years for research. In the meantime - I'm allergic to just about all sunscreens. Zinc is all I can use, and luckily, I think it's the safest since our body needs zinc and knows how to process it. But mostly I do what the OP's doctor says, hat & sleeves and pants - and stay out of the sun.
Sleeves? In the summer? As in more than just a mesh? I think I’d die (not entirely hyperbole considering that the heat has triggered epileptic seizures in me in the past) how are you supposed to go out in 110 f (43 c) (and with the way things have been going it will probably get even hotter in the future) weather with sleeves long and thick enough to stop the sunlight? 😫 legitimate question. I can’t even go hiking in full pants and i like hiking. I wear long shorts and sometimes high socks, then check myself over for ticks when I’m done. I can’t imagine wearing long sleeves in the height of summer
@@jeandiatasmith4512we already have some recent studies on the long-term effects of sunscreen use. There haven’t been any significant differences in (non-skin-cancer) death rates across several measurements in multiple studies. Here’s a recent one that followed people for 4.5 years (which is generally considered plenty long enough for us to discover negative effects, but which also cites a 21-year study): Lindstrom AR, von Schuckmann LA, Hughes MCB, Williams GM, Green AC, van der Pols JC. Regular Sunscreen Use and Risk of Mortality: Long-Term Follow-up of a Skin Cancer Prevention Trial. Am J Prev Med. 2019 May;56(5):742-746. doi: 10.1016/j.amepre.2018.11.025. Epub 2019 Mar 16. PMID: 30885518.
I think people misunderstand the concept of “long-term effects”. We can see almost instantly when most chemicals have an effect. For some it takes time to see if they “build up” in the kidneys or liver or cells. But it doesn’t take 40 years to detect that build up. Anything that takes 40 years to *potentially* kill you, but protects you from the very real chance of skin cancer death is safer than you think. 20 people a DAY die of melanoma. 0 people a day die of sunscreen use. We can track sunscreen use. We DO track sunscreen use. There is nothing at all to suggest it harms people in the long term. Over 7,000 people are killed by melanoma each year. And many, many more are permanently disfigured. So while yes, we should do these studies, we should also understand what the studies MEAN and acknowledge the truth that we already have. How many studies should it take to convince someone sunscreen is safe?
That was actually really good advice. Many sunblock chemicals are not well studied, and there are reasons for concern. Many credible science backed organizations like the EWG and the American society of pediatrics recommend against wearing any non-mineral sunscreen. And many people won't wear mineral creams because of the color. The best protection from the sun is a physical barrier like, yeah, a hat and sleeves. Also, sunscreen use is at an all time high in the general population and so is skin cancer rates. So there's a lot of good evidence it's safest to avoid most sunscreens.
To clarify, in the US you can call yourself a doctor if you have an MD (medical doctor) degree. If your state license is revoked, it just means you can no longer practice medicine in that state. You are still considered a doctor.
So unfortunately folks won't know they're a quack unless they look them up.
Thanks for the video! Wish they were shut down instead of just made to put a disclaimer 🫠
You can call yourself a doctor just by getting a PhD.
I’m so glad someone is finally talking about him! I’ve been ranting about how wrong his “science” is for YEARS to my esthetics students! The high frequency waters make me so irrationally mad!!
Rationally mad! 👌
@@jackdaw99 Agree, it's completely rational! :)
I don't have an M.D., but I have a degree in Physics and.. that product description.. wtf? I'm always down for the impossible becoming possible but that was a paragraph of pure doublespeak.
This makes me think of the recent ad I saw here on UA-cam. Apparently, Adele lost weight by wearing an obsidian bracelet and getting ear acupuncture… Like yeah right. All these fake doctors are so disgusting. (Least the bracelets won’t give you skin cancer). 🙄
That we know of 😳
I am almost certain her weightloss was more semaglutide induced vs bracelets.
Thank goodness for this video! I saw other UA-camrs recommend Osmosis and I CANNOT.
me taking organic chemistry and feeling super smart knowing what chirality means 😅
The minute someone uses the word ‘nontoxic’ when talking about skincare I zone out! 😂
For me same with natural, clean, and my favorite, "chemical free' 😂😂😂
@@WendeCrow"Detox" is the one that always gets my eyes rolling, along with "chemical free". Everything is made from chemicals, water is a chemical, and your liver and kidneys entire function is to detox your body.
Thanks for spreading awareness about this. I’m sure that most of your viewers are just rolling their eyes at the ridiculousness of it all, but there are a scary amount of people that are pulled into stuff like this.
this is absolutely insane. i bet the "clean" community is losing it over drinkable sun screen though 😂
The GASP I just let out when I saw we went to the same medical school... I'm embarrassed! He also didn't list any residency training on his linkedin, hmmm interesting... no dermatology residency? Not even internal medicine residency?
BJ didn't learn anything from "science." Your description of the "Harmonizer" being a box covered with glitter and pipe cleaners is spot on!
This reminds me of Dr Paolo Macchiarini! He won many awards for his surgical invention, but he’d done no research and was using plastic to mend people’s windpipes and somehow it was covered up that all his patients died but they died a horrible death!
Thank you, James, for 100% proving humanity's common sense is damned near nonexistent!! Ugh.
Much love to you, James!! ❤❤❤❤
This was fascinating. Kinda scary that people are actually buying this stuff. As always, well done James!
The ingredient reveal had me dying laughing! 😂 "Let's see what's in it...oh 🤭" Really though, I can't believe this was allowed to be sold. Just water???!
‘Scalar energy’ energy is already a scalar?? What on earth does that mean?????
I have a physics degree and can confirm this is 1000% nonsense
Haha thought so!
It's giving skincare Oceangate vibes.
Hopefully people won't implode if they take it lol
My husband is a physicist and wanted to go bang his head against the wall listening to the description of that elixir!
I like the fact that you bring up the fact that some of them are doctor who give misinformation because your brother talked about this in one of his videos. Doctors should be even more careful than the average person when it comes to giving information because they're an authority figure people trust them.Therefor it makes it even more confusing for consumers when making informed decisions because you want to be able to trust doctors.
When that “dr” said “what we’ve learned from uh science” lmao
Could you imagine being scared of putting sunscreen on your skin because of chemicals and deciding that drinking would be better?
Under "drinkable sunscreen" I imagined something similar to normal sunscreen made out of food grade ingredients... Which would be weird and hard to do, sure, but it's definitely less terrible that vibe water with decorative gold flakes sold without clinical trials to protect people from skin cancer
Right? I was thinking it would be an antioxidant drink at least.
No it would not actually considering the fact tomatoes have been proven to be a very good defence against the sun I have been eating them since I was able to eat and not one inch of sun damage etc and we wonder why I don't have to use sunscreen at all
“drinkable sunscreen” has the same vibes as “drinkable self tan” and i’m scared 😭
I'm disabled and I talk about 2 of my conditions online, Cyclic vomiting syndrome and Endometriosis, and I can't even tell you how many DMs from "dr"s and/or "medical professionals" saying they can cure my conditions (which have no cure) if I just drink some tea or use some MLM product. It's so annoying😂 I honestly don't talk about my conditions as much cuz I'd get so many messages.
omg i FEEL you, like taking your powder is not going to cure my genetic connective tissue disorder or make my brain undamage itself 😭😭 side note would love to know where you talk about CVS bc you’re the first person i’ve come across online who has it !
Oh god, same with my PCOS. It's even worse when the advice comes from someone "in the field" - 6 years in med school just to fall for pyramid schemes? Lawd.
@myfanwydavies I usually talk about it on my Facebook or IG. I'm not a professional or anything though, so I just share my experiences 🩷
@padohaechanfancam yeah, whenever someone says they're a dr or a medical professional then they finish the sentence by saying "this root tea cures everything, including your conditions!" I automatically think they're lying about being a dr. I've just had so many ignorant ppl in my DMs claiming they have a cure, it's hard to believe a dr would fall for the crap they sell🤷♀️
I just hate the way sunscreen feels on my skin so I adapt and avoid sunlight and going outside or use a hat or umbrella for physical shade. If I’m going to be swimming or purposefully in the sun I suck it up and apply sunscreen cause I know it’s important
I live in Australia and sun safety is taken SO seriously here. Skin cancer from melanoma is so scary. I had a great auntie who had breast cancer that developed from melanoma. I'm so pasty, as is my mum, sister, brother and step-brother, that we need to use spf 50+, not 30+ and if I remember correctly the Australian cancer council mainly sells spf 50+ these days due to how damaging the uv rays are in Australia.
This reminded of when my country had a viral sunscreen supplement, I couldn't remember if it was a pill or like a powder sachet. But it didn't last long because doctors/professionals in tiktok really protested on it. I don't remember what happened to it.
was it Heliocare?
Water is great and everything but the sun doesn't care if you're hydrated 😂
Good god. This reminds me of the time this lady told my mom to give me essential oils when I was so sick I was completely bedridden.
There’s a sunscreen brand called Heliocare who offer “oral supplements” that supposedly “add additional defence from within against the damaging effects of UVA, UVB, visible light and infrared-A” - I was sent some in PR but I don’t understand the science and if it’s even possible. I was sceptical so I didn’t use them. I know it’s not the same, but felt kind of relevant
I looked them up as someone else mentioned them. It’s basically an antioxidant, so that may help free radical damage on a cellular level. Or you could eat veggies, fruits, spices etc.
It's a product from Cantabria Labs Spain, it's a food supplement.
As a healthcare worker: It must be done under the supervision of your doctor or specialist, especially if there's any pathology.
It is based on Fernblock® technology, "Polypodium Leucotomos" (antioxidant) extracted from fern plants from Central America. There are some mixed with other active ingredients such as vitamin D, beta-carotene, inulin... In the case of D, the body produces it when exposed to the sun and fixes Calcium. Just from the diet, even a balanced one, Vit D is one of the most complex to cover, especially in latitudes with fewer hours of sunlight. That's why there are so many supplements and food products enriched with it.
ISDIN also has an oral range. They are part of dermopharmacy products.
Between this guy and the Twin Flames cult, the word "harmonious" is now officially a red flag.
just a few minutes in and heard "chirally correct" ??? as a premed bio student, sounds like that MD really wanted to utilize the ochem they learned in undergrad!!
If only he had a "spousal support and rent-free life" elixir, i would hv supported him so much 😮😂
Love this series, love that I can have it playing in this background while I clean
...so he's selling water with 24K gold flakes in it as sunscreen now? What's to stop someone else from buying gold leaf from Michael's and putting it in tapwater to achieve the same "results" for less?
He's carrying the academic title of Doctor of Medicine which is different than being Licensed or Board Certified, at least in the US. A non-practicing, unlicensed MD is still academically and MD.
I am licensed in California.
@@BenJohnsonMD Mr Welsh asked if you could still call yourself Dr even if not licensed. That you are licensed doesn't change the fact that you are still a Dr with or without a license. Practicing gets a bit tetchy on that topic however.
Omg- that reviewer saying she has her baby out in the sun all summer with NO SUNSCREEN?!?
TERRIFYING!
What!? You are a twin!!!!
I thought that lately you were doing your makeup for the videos and decided to cut your eyebrow for aesthetics just to realize today that I wasn't subscribed because that's your twin!!!
I feel like a kid that just found out a mystery of the world.
never fails to be perfect still
I’ve never heard of this. This is crazy! Drinkable sunscreen like wtf 😬 when it’s actually just water with gold…nothing surprises me after hearing this.
oh no, not the quantum woowoo! as a person who studied physics, these kind of word salad explanations using like ~waves~ and frequencies drive me up the wall
I am devastated, I thought I did so much research before buying into the product! I am questioning everything now. FYI: they do not offer sunscreen/sun protection of any kind now.
Thank you so much for exposing this dude. I know professionals that support BJ and I’m just baffled. He’s not mind-blowing…he’s a hack.
In osmosis professional manual sun defense elixer states “reduces damage related to sun exposure” no where does it say takes over the role of SPF or anything he suggesting …
Sounds like an MLM meets Scientology to me. Lol the air quotes was killing me 😂😂😂😂
A fart in the bath tub is vibrated water. Would that work?😂xxx
Same science! 😂
I want these people who say their products have some sort of "frequency" or is going to change your "frequency" to tell me what the frequency is. What's the frequency, BJ??
My formulas are proprietary so I do not list the exact frequencies. Ask yourself why I would sell a “fake” sunscreen when I make a few other normal ones. The answer is it works : )
OMG!! I’m a licensed esthetician and I started a conversation in an esthetician only Facebook group months ago and there are licensed professionals who believe this filtered water works. Not all licensed practitioners should be trusted and that’s so sad.
Just gonna run the tap, have a drink and be protected from skin cancer! wow this is WILD
These vids are a breath of fresh air every time, thank you soooo much king 🙌
So glad you exposed this quackery. What a sham
I think me and my friend made something similar to this once, we put water in an empty 'rola cola' pop bottle, and put some rose petals in......
Yeah I’ve done this too….when I was 4….with water, glitter and sand 🙃
Guys keep this information to yourself we might be able to start a business if they can do it we can to
😁bet the Avon lady was shitting herself 😁
if you think vibrated water sunscreen is wild, wait until you hear about “raw” water 😭😂
on a more depressing note, i’ve also heard some people talk about how alternative health products are so popular, especially in america, because there are a lot of people who can’t afford to go to a hospital
also that these products also prey upon victims of medical malpractice-people too traumatized to trust doctors after experiencing or being affected by professionals too burnt out or unconsciously biased to properly treat a patient
If one doesn’t believe that we are energetic beings and that the skin health starts from the inside out then it’s the best not to buy such products. It’s funny how some people still don’t believe in frequencies
When I was a young adult, this line was sold at an aesthetician I went to a couple of times. Crazy to hear about the crazy behind what just seemed like another aesthetics brand!
This is so interesting and informative. I have just come across your channel and I’m so glad to find an intelligent examination of these subjects.
it’s bizarre to me that people would rather risk skin cancer. Something we KNOW about and have data for…for some unknown (debunkable) issue regarding sunscreen/zinc products….like even if there was some risk during sunscreen it’s better to protect against the thing you know with 99% certainty than the 0.0009% certainty
I’m confident this used to be sold on Goop because I remember laughing at the ridiculousness of vibrated water. Hilarity aside, let’s assume it works… wouldn’t the vibrations change when it’s, I dunno, shipped by truck across the country?
It’s wild that they didn’t pad the ingredients with minerals at the very least
Comment for the algorithm!! Listening to this while working on my resume; it's oddly soothing yet motivating haha
Happy Sunday, James 💜
"We'll call him Dr BJ from now on" hahaha I love it. 😂😂😂😂
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what’s funny is that there *is* effective plant/mineral based sunscreen. i can’t remember the brand, as i don’t use it much since it gets sticky rather than really fully drying, but it works like a regular spray sunscreen.
Why would you want your sunscreen to be drinkable?!
i think i figured out how it works; body = energy, energy=waves, and you can find waves in the ocean (which is water) that is so scientific and not made up at all.
Sorry I’m late…I was watching the replay of the Welsh Twins live. It was great and I hope they do it again soon xx
No worriessss!!! We need to remember to do them! We always forget! 💜
@@JamesWelsh I can remind you 😉 fr I was sad I missed it and can’t wait for the next one 💜
When I read the title of drinkable sunscreen I actually thought of sunscreen that you put on your skin (like any normal, functioning sunscreen) that you could also drink. It didnt even cross my mind that the protection is claimed to be achieved through drinking something
I laughed a little too hard at "we'll call him doctor bj from now on" lmao
This is the most ridiculous thing I’ve ever heard and it’s insane he’s able to continue to rip people off while also harming them 😵
5:32 "What we've learned in science"
Sorry, _WE?_ Who is WE??? As a biologist, I can confidently say that we in the science community do not claim this man 😂
My god. When you showed the video of him explaining his Elixir at 6 mins, I was just cringing the whole way through. Just a video of buzzword soup! James is absolutely right that this has strong Scientology vibes. I also think the whole company, and its products, scream MLM to me.
Me reading the title: what 😃
technically, the way he branded this was legal. the FDA doesn't consider it a 'drug' bc it has no pharmaceutical ingredients, even though its claims would usually put it in that category as it is meant to be a sunscreen. the only way they would look at it and make any judgement is from a lawsuit. so good on the people who initiated the lawsuit
5:44 the moment James looked into my soul and comprehended my incredulity towards Dr bj as it resembles his own 😂
“I’m going to read from the lawsuit.” Yeah, not a surprise. 😂😂😂😂