Rowan Jacobsen
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4 series
first heard Jul 2022
last heard 26 Jun
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Yeah, huge.
Like skin type is kind of everything.
People who have really dark skin basically don't get sun induced skin cancer.
Almost never.
And the you know, the authorities don't tend to talk about that because they want things to be they want to have like these one size fits all recommendations.
But those recommendations to basically always avoid the sun are written for the super fair people, especially if you have red hair, orange freckles.
Then you actually have a mutation in your melanin gene that makes you super susceptible to skin cancer from sunlight.
So if you've got that phenotype, lots of moles, red hair, freckles, you do have to be really careful.
And you can only do so much.
You're not going to tan that much anyway.
Your melanin is just different.
Everybody else, yeah, you're much less susceptible, and you can make more melanin pretty easily through tanning.
Yeah, yeah.
It's really weird.
Yeah, and I don't know what's going on there exactly.
It seems like that peptide is maybe making you, there's things called photosensitizers that make your skin super, like you just absorb solar radiation really well then, but not necessarily in a good way.
And that can make you make tons of melanin to try to compensate.
So I wonder, that peptide might be triggering melanin as a compensation mechanism for extra protection from sunlight.
Or maybe it's just making melanin happen independently of sunlight.
Well, weird, because alpha-MSH, the thing that it is mimicking, that's how your body makes melanin.
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