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Mark Michnick

Mark Michnick

Dr. Mark Mitchnick is a pediatrician, life sciences entrepreneur, and co-founder of Burnd sunscreen, who invented transparent zinc oxide (Z-Cote), the breakthrough that made mineral sunscreen clear and wearable.

Aug 21, 2026

23:57
Oh, you were going to say something, Dan.
23:59
Yeah, so it's important to us because we think it should be important or is important to the customer base that we want to establish to our little tribe, so to speak.
24:11
And the reality in skincare, and this is not going to be true universally for other industries, but there's actually just a handful of stuff that actually does anything.
24:21
And the rest of it is marketing nonsense.
24:24
Yeah.
24:26
And I say that, and I can walk 60 feet that way and go on my wife's shelves, and there's more there in cost than I made my first year out of medical school, right? So you can know something, and then you can actually believe and act on something.
24:47
But the reality is the single most important thing anybody can do for their skin is not overdo it in the sun.

22 MINS LATER

47:02
For people who genuinely want to make better decisions, is there a way they can tell the difference between evidence-backed advice or brands who just simply sound convincing?

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