Rowan Jacobsen

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.

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.