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The Value of MELANIN

The Value of MELANIN

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Throwback post. 2020-01-23 00:46:20.

I'm back, here educating you on the value of being born with an Abundance of Melanin!

What is the value of melanin?

An ounce of gold is priced at $1,315 while an ounce of melanin is worth $10,262.

A pound of melanin is worth $160,117.98 and a kilogram of melanin is worth $353,000.

Three kilos of melanin is worth more than $1,000,000.

Melanin is a complex polymer derived from the amino acid tyrosine.

Melanin is responsible for determining skin and hair colour and is present in the skin to varying degrees, depending on how much a population has been exposed to the sun historically.

Numerous steps are involved in the biosynthesis of melanin... The first step is catalysis of the chemical L-3,4-dihydroxyphenylalanine by tyrosinase.

A lack of tyrosine can lead to albinism.

Tyrosine is only found in a specialized cells called melanocytes, inside which tiny granules of melanin pigment are contained in vesicles called melanosomes.

These melanosomes leave the melanocytes and move into other cells in the epidermis.

Mostly brown or black in colour, melanin deposits determine the skin pigment which varies depending on the number and distribution of the melanosomes.

Aside from determining skin colour, the light absorbent melanin protects the DNA against UV radiation from the sun and it is considered a potential candidate in melanoma treatment.

Melanin is found in several areas of the human body including:

• Skin where it provides skin color
• Hair
• Pupils or irises of the eyes
• Stria vascularis of the inner ear
• Areas of the brain, the substantia nigra and locus coeruleus
• The medulla and zona reticularis of the adrenal gland

Some of the different types of melanin include eumelanin, pheomelanin and neuromelanin.

When eumelanin is present only in small amounts, hair may be blonde.

Pheomelanin is also found in the hair and skin.

This type of melanin provides pink and red colors and is the main pigment found among red-haired individuals.

This type of melanin is not as protective against UV- radiation induced cancer as eumelanin.

Neuromelanin is a form of melanin found in different areas of the brain and loss of this melanin may cause several neurological disorders.

For years Dark Skin has been demonized, but you need to understand your VALUE and WORTH!

YOU MUST DEVALUE A PEOPLE TO CONQUER THEM!!

Think about this... On a planet that uses the SUN to sustain life on it; what people were designed to live on it?!

Who is naturally PROTECTED and who is not?, Hmmmmm?!

  
  
  
  
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