Thread by @Grimhood

“You know when you get red, everybody in the UK and the US thinks that that’s a sunburn, but it’s not.

You know what happens when UV light actually hits your skin? You get pink. You know why you get pink? Because it’s drawing red blood cells up to the surface of your skin.

You know why that happens fundamentally? Inside red blood cells are two pigments: one is hemoglobin, and the other one is porphyrins. Let’s talk about porphyrins, do you know what they do? They absorb ALL spectral frequencies of UV light. You know why you get pink?

Because you have red blood cells up to the surface. Where is that UV light stored? It’s stored in porphyrins and it’s stored in hemoglobin.

Little known fact: hemoglobin has four different areas where it absorbs light, one of them is at 280nm which is in the UV range, all the three are in the infrared range, which is why blood is red.

The porphyrins hold onto that UV light, your skin gets pink, and what happens? The porphyrins keep coming back to your skin to get rid of the redness.

Most people think “sunburn is bad”, but it’s only bad if you’re anemic.

It’s only bad if you have those other issues associated with it. If you can’t harvest the light that’s stored in your skin.

The reason why Irish and UK people have more freckles than other people in the world is because melanin is a storage protein for UV light.

You come back and harvest it with porphyrins in your red blood cells. Here’s the crazy thing: when you eat, you know that blood is shunted to your gut? For the exact same reasons.

Any place that light is released to a surface, red blood cells follow. Why?

Because we’re designed to harvest that UV light to run your system.”

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