Dr. Lana Del Porto
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The Viral Eye Colour Trend Exposed
I've been getting it, right?
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The Viral Eye Colour Trend Exposed
So instead of putting it in your eye, you put this white cream under your eye.
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The Viral Eye Colour Trend Exposed
But what they say is that these drugs edit the genes that express pigment in your iris.
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The Viral Eye Colour Trend Exposed
And it gets absorbed through your tear trough skin.
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The Viral Eye Colour Trend Exposed
None of this is making any, you know, medical sense to me.
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The Viral Eye Colour Trend Exposed
So for keratopigmentation, we know that the colour fades with time.
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The Viral Eye Colour Trend Exposed
But what's even worse than that is that
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The Viral Eye Colour Trend Exposed
as the colour fades, you don't return to a cornea that's clear.
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The Viral Eye Colour Trend Exposed
The cornea that remains and slowly depigments is cloudy.
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The Viral Eye Colour Trend Exposed
And so they say that about 10% of people require more pigment at about five years.
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The Viral Eye Colour Trend Exposed
But, you know, these are the people that are doing it.
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The Viral Eye Colour Trend Exposed
So who knows if that's true.
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The Viral Eye Colour Trend Exposed
I don't know if I believe anything they say.