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Melanin

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Nov 12, 2026

Patrick ColesGUEST
77:46
And I have moles all over my skin, for example.
Patrick ColesGUEST
77:49
And interestingly, Melanin, which is the pigment in moles, is a metal chelator, again, so it binds to toxic metals.
Patrick ColesGUEST
77:59
So moles are packed full of toxic metals.
Patrick ColesGUEST
78:02
Lipomas and cysts and skin tags are full of lipophilic toxins.
Matthew GetzinGUEST
75:36
Yeah.
Matthew GetzinGUEST
75:37
So yeah, But then there's the idea of melanin.
Matthew GetzinGUEST
75:41
Melanin is really quite, you know, we use melanin in our bodies to absorb UV radiation.
Matthew GetzinGUEST
75:49
It can be problematic, right, for the same reason we just said, the MA damage in UV, but in our skin um our keratinocytes right they actually create these capsules around our nuke the nucleus of our cells to protect us from uv damage the same is true for uh fungi fungi do the same thing where they protect their dna
KKHOST
76:14
yeah yeah plants do that too

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Matthew GetzinGUEST
88:01
Yeah.
Matthew GetzinGUEST
88:04
Okay, and then we'll stop by melanin again.
Matthew GetzinGUEST
88:06
So I just wanted to kind of like go back to this and just say like, Melanin has been on my radar since grad school.
Scott ZimmermanGUEST
27:40
Okay.
Scott ZimmermanGUEST
27:41
Now it's really, the other thing that we know is it's from Yakima is, is that in the UV, Melanin, the outer layer, the outer 50 microns, appears to be highly oxidized.
Scott ZimmermanGUEST
27:56
So when I oxidize it, it reduces the absorption in the UV because melanin absorbs very strongly.
Scott ZimmermanGUEST
28:04
So this thin little layer on the outbar of our skin has been essentially photobleached.
Eric BergHOST
0:02
But in actuality, it's not necessarily the liver that's causing those spots.
Eric BergHOST
0:07
It's really just too much of this thing right here called melanin, okay? Melanin is a pigment on your skin.
Eric BergHOST
0:15
It's what gives your skin certain color.
Eric BergHOST
0:18
And this pigment protects against UV radiation.
Eric BergHOST
0:34
And then you have infrared.
Eric BergHOST
0:36
And so if you go in the sun, you're constantly getting hit by certain amounts of radiation.
Eric BergHOST
0:42
And Melanin is there to protect you against this UV very specific band of energy.
Eric BergHOST
0:50
And so this pigment melanin is very similar to the pigment in plants, okay? Like chlorophyll is a pigment in plants.
Sarah SchauerHOST
34:43
They produce a protective pigment, melanin, and deliver it to neighboring skin cells.
Sarah SchauerHOST
34:48
These use it to build parasols by spreading the pigment over their cell nuclei.
Sarah SchauerHOST
34:53
Melanin also oscillates within the frequency of UV rays, thereby capturing its energy and protecting our genome.
Sarah SchauerHOST
35:02
All people have the same number of pigment-producing cells, but the thickness of the parasols varies according to skin color.
Sarah SchauerHOST
35:09
Melanin also oscillates within the frequency of UV rays.
Sarah SchauerHOST
35:14
That is incredible.
Sarah SchauerHOST
35:16
I'm sorry, that's beautiful.
Nat CollierGUEST
58:39
But there are ways that you could produce light inside of your body.
Nat CollierGUEST
58:42
And melanin, like they're finding...
Nat CollierGUEST
58:44
Melanin, people are like, oh, it's just a tans.
Nat CollierGUEST
58:46
Like, no...
Nat CollierGUEST
58:46
There's melanin in the brain.
Nat CollierGUEST
58:48
Melanin holds a charge.
Nat CollierGUEST
58:50
Melanin goes around and will take mutated cells and get rid of those for you.
Nat CollierGUEST
58:55
Like it is alive.
speaker_0HOST
2:30
Mathematics cannot be colonize absolutely unequivocally.
speaker_0HOST
2:39
I have already established that melanin is the sources, primordial substance, in carbon, in carbon.
speaker_0HOST
2:54
The physics underneath the physics, melanin is the physics underneath the Melanin is the chemistry underneath chemistry.
speaker_0HOST
3:11
Melanin is the biology underneath biology.
speaker_0HOST
3:17
I have already proved that melanin is the capacitor in our black bodies.
speaker_0HOST
3:30
Melanin is the antenna in our black bodies.
speaker_0HOST
3:37
Melanin is the breastplate protection in our black bodies.
speaker_0HOST
3:45
Melanin is the helmet brain protection in our black bodies.
Peter ForhanGUEST
23:38
The thing that's giving my skin tone, the reason that my skin looks like this instead of clear water is purely because of the melanin.
Peter ForhanGUEST
23:47
And so melanin is the darkest naturally occurring molecule in nature.
Katie WellsHOST
23:52
Melanin
Peter ForhanGUEST
23:52
is a
Katie WellsHOST
23:53
fascinating, massively important molecule
Peter ForhanGUEST
25:20
substance region of the brain, and it's the black substance region because it's melanin.
Peter ForhanGUEST
25:25
And so this begets a large conversation, which is that melanin's role is not to shield UV light.
Peter ForhanGUEST
25:31
Melanin's role is to make our body a better and better and better solar panel.
speaker_6SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
47:50
Yep.
speaker_6SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
47:50
Tons of melanin in the brain, in the skin.
speaker_6SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
47:54
Melanin also stores iron and can pull iron out of circulation.
speaker_6SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
48:00
So we see that in the eyes and we see that in the ears.
speaker_6SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
48:04
That's like thanks to the work inside of the ears, actually, where there's this melanin ferritin thing happening in the cochlea.
Anjali MatoGUEST
43:51
I mean, the second thing is there is a variation in how different ethnic groups will age as well.
Anjali MatoGUEST
43:56
Melanin, we know, can be more protective in terms of aging.
Anjali MatoGUEST
43:59
So there is that as well that one needs to consider in terms of aging.
Anjali MatoGUEST
44:03
The third thing that I think a lot of people don't realize, if you've been acne prone, your skin's quite oily, you will age well.

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