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Getting paid for skin checks?!!?
This can be the case if your life or income protection insurance offers discounts for health checks.
Importantly you do not need to upload details of the check, blood tests results or similar, just confirmation that you have had a health check – this can be a heart health check like blood pressure and cholesterol, mens health around prostates health, womens cervical screening and breastscreen or a skin check. We then provide you with a simple proforma letter that confirms you have had this check. You provide this to your insurer and earn a discount, often around 5%. So for each $1000 of insurance you may be paying you will save $50. Examples of companies that I know offer this are TAL, Asteron Life, AIA vitality, TeachersHealth
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Vitamin B3
Vitamin B3, also called nicotinamide shows some promise for skin cancer prevention. It does not help with all skin cancer types, but read on.
Taking a daily tablet of nicotinamide may reduce the amount of non-melanoma skin cancers. There is no evidence it can help with melanoma (pigmented brown/purple skin cancers).
B3 is found in some foods – meat, mushrooms, grains and fish. However in the studies, participants were given 500mg twice a day and so this has become the suggested dose.
There has been some concern recently due to a study linking excess of a related vitamin niacin and risk of heart attack and stroke. However this was a laboratory test of blood levels associated with heart attack and there has not been a definite association between taking extra B3 and heart attack.
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