Rowan Jacobsen

That's how your body's supposed to do it.

Well, you know, it's a look.

It's an interesting look.

It would definitely offer skin protection.

I mean, if it's melanin, it's definitely... I mean, that guy can probably...

Be outside all day.

Melanin clearly protects you from skin cancer.

If you have super dark skin, like African ancestry, your melanin is absorbing 97%, 98% of the UV rays.

It's super effective.

He did.

But the other thing is if you do it naturally, right, if you just get a little sun every day and slowly build up, you're not just making melanin.

You're also increasing your body's damage repair system.

Like you have all these like nucleotide excision repair, things that fix your DNA and fix cells that have gotten screwed up.

And that will also ramp up every day.

And it's not just sunlight, like exercise, same thing, like anything that.

that like stresses the body a little bit.

It's like hormesis, right?

So all those things are going to cause your damage repair system to crank up and be ready.

So you could probably want those to like the melanin and the damage repair to to like go up together.

Yeah.