This is certainly an interesting question that I have been asked many times and have really never seen any specific information on When the best time to get a tan is? [include file=ad1.txt]
I mean nothing that had any scientific evidence or research behind it. Check out this article from Newscience.com which did a lab rat test to try and figure out which is the safest time of day to tan whether you sunbathe or use a tanning bed.
WANT to top up your tan? Then aim to catch some rays early in the day when your circadian rhythms might make it safer.
“If you really must go to a tanning booth, do it in the morning,” says Aziz Sancar of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His team found that a mouse’s circadian rhythms impede its ability to repair DNA damage caused by UV radiation in the morning. Because mice are nocturnal, you would expect the opposite in people.
After three UVB sessions a week for 25 weeks, mice placed under a UV lamp only in the early morning had five times as many tumours as mice exposed 12 hours later.
In mice, “handyman” proteins that fix DNA damaged by UV seem to be more active in the evening. Mice bred to have no circadian rhythms were as likely to develop cancer in the morning as in the evening (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1115249108).
So what is your take on it. Do you think that this was enough evidence on the matter to be convincing enough for most people.