Contents:
- Medical Video: What to do when face is darker than body? - Dr. Rasya Dixit
- The advantage of having black skin
- 1. Protected from sunlight
- 2. Reducing the risk of skin cancer
- 3. Protect the nervous system
- 4. Immune to several diseases
- 5. Lower risk of a baby with disability
- 6. Make you stay young
- 7. Have strong bones
Medical Video: What to do when face is darker than body? - Dr. Rasya Dixit
For some people, especially women, having white skin is a dream. In fact, not infrequently people are willing to spend not a little money to do skin whitening treatment in order to get dream white skin. In fact, did you know that research shows that people who have black skin are far healthier than whites?
The advantage of having black skin
1. Protected from sunlight
Everyone has the same number of melanocytes (cells that produce melanin), no matter what skin color they have. However, the difference is the size and distribution of the melanocytes. The larger the size of the melanocytes, the more black the skin will be.
The most important advantage of having a large amount of melanin in the skin is being able to protect the skin from sun exposure. This will make the skin protected from short-term effects such as severe sunburn. But remember, despite having a lot of melanin, people with dark skin are not fully guaranteed from sun damage. So, don't heat it without sunblock, huh.
2. Reducing the risk of skin cancer
Because it has many melanin pigments, this makes black people more protected from UV light than white people. This makes exposure to UV light on the skin of black people not easily damage the tissues of their cells, thereby reducing the risk of skin cancer, especially the type more commonly known as basal and squamous cell cancer.
3. Protect the nervous system
Melanin pigments fight free radicals and are proven to protect the central nervous system from fungi Cryptococcus neoformansor cryptococcal infection. This fungal infection causes swelling and irritation of the brain, as well as spinal cord.
4. Immune to several diseases
In insects, melanin is known to protect against disease attacks by swallowing and killing micro-organisms. The researchers also assume that melanin has the same function in humans. This might also explain the reason why white soldiers when serving in humid environments such as forests are three times more susceptible to serious skin diseases than those who have black skin.
5. Lower risk of a baby with disability
Melanin functions to filter ultraviolet light to prevent damage to DNA. That way, dark skinned women have the lowest rates of birth defects.
6. Make you stay young
Melanin has many significant benefits for health including health benefits. Because, melanin is able to protect the skin from the causes of long-term damage associated with aging such as wrinkles, rough surface textures, and others. In addition, people who have black skin also tend to have collagen fibers that are thick and thicker than white skin. That is why owners of dark skin tend to look younger.
7. Have strong bones
The large amount of pigment in dark skin can store vitamin D3 reserves that come from sunlight. This is what makes the owner of dark skin a smaller risk of osteoporosis because it is able to absorb more calcium.
