Melanin, Blessing or Curse?

[SatiyaH]

chephren said:

The amount of melanin you have in your skin depends on the copper content. Dark skinned people have more in their skin than circulating, thus the hair tends to be wavy or coiled with more iron in hair and blood.

Melanin production in skin varies in the three racial groups. 'Black' skins do not contain any more melanocytes than white ones do. But there are differences in the melanin granules in the differently colored skins. In black skins the granules are larger, whereas in white skins they are less obvious.

In Asian people, the melanosomes are relatively large in size, and are distributed within the skin cells as a mixture of single and complex forms.

In African skin the melanosomes are even larger; they are heavily pigmented and scattered singly throughout the keratinocytes.

In white Caucasian skin the melanosomes are smaller and have less melanin; they are distributed as clumps in keratinocytes.


In Caucasian skins the proportions of the two main melanin pigments, eumelanin and phaeomelanin, vary over a huge range.

Two basic types of melanin are found to varying degrees in human skin: black eumelanin and red pheomelanin. Black Eumelanin, which is most abundant in dark-skinned populations, may offer considerable protection against UV. Red pheomelanin, however, is far less UV-protective and may actually contribute to UV damage; it can be broken down easily by UV, forming "free radical" molecules that may contribute to skin cancer. Redheaded individuals tend to have large amounts of pheomelanin in their hair and skin, and/or a decreased ability to make eumelanin. This could explain why they tend to tan poorly and are at high risk of sun damage.


My point of asking if melanin is a blessing or a curse is not racist in nature, as many responses may be in 'defense' of melanin, but from a scientific perspective:

A recent studied concluded:“Outdoor workers who use sunscreens and sun-protective clothing may be protecting themselves from wrinkles, cancer, and even lupus."

Reflecting the disease’s disproportionate impact on women, 90 percent of the subjects in the Carolina Lupus Study were women. The group with the highest rates of lupus contraction is African-American women; however, they did not show increased lupus susceptibility due to sunlight exposure, but due to the protective effects of melanin content in skin cells.
Lupus is autoimmune, the body turning on itself. Melanin becoming toxic.

[Nubian Ninjah]

congregator.net/medicalnews/tietjen/index.html

[Master-9]

SatiyaH said:

Lupus is autoimmune, the body turning on itself. Melanin becoming toxic.

Lupus means: WOLF, it is geneticly passed from a certain seed of Tam-hus(whites), nubians are becoming infected because we are(have) mixing our seed. Why is lupus attacking mostly black females(and not males)?

[SatiyaH]

Master-9 said:

Lupus means: WOLF, it is geneticly passed from a certain seed of Tam-hus(whites), nubians are becoming infected because we are(have) mixing our seed. Why is lupus attacking mostly black females(and not males)?

If it is from mixing with whites, they white don't more whites have it? People of all ethnicities may get lupus. However, lupus is three times more common in African American women than in white women. As many as 1 in 250 young African American women will get the disease.
And, that "mixing" doesn't explain why more black women have it.

I do not know why the disease is more common in African American women. However, research doctors supported by the National Institutes of Health are studying this difference. Researchers are studying why minorities are more inclined to get lupus, what causes its onset, and why is it mild in some and severe in others. Other researchers are studying why the signs of lupus differ between African American women and white women.
There are three major types of lupus:

lupus that affects certain parts of the body (systemic lupus erythematosus)
lupus mainly of the skin (discoid or cutaneous lupus)
lupus caused by medicine (drug-induced lupus).

In some people, no matter what shade of skin, an attack of lupus may be brought on by being in the sun, even for a short period of time.

Men can get all forms of lupus. However, 9 out of 10 people who have lupus are women.


"Lupus is a disease that can affect many parts of the body. It can affect the joints, the skin, the kidneys, the lungs, the heart, or the brain. Only a few of these parts of the body are affected in most people. Something goes wrong with the body's immune system in lupus. We can think of the immune system as an army within the body with hundreds of defenders (known as antibodies). They defend the body from attack by germs and viruses. In lupus, however, the immune system becomes overactive and goes out of control. The antibodies attack healthy tissues in the body. This attack induces inflammation, causing redness, pain, and swelling in the affected parts of the body. "


www.4woman.gov/faq/african_american.htm

[SatiyaH]

African-American women make up 13.1% of all women in the US.

Mortality rates for African-American women are higher than any other racial/ethnic group for nearly every major cause of death including heart disease, lung cancer, cerebrovascular disease, breast cancer, and chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases.(1)



Arthritis:

Arthritis is the third most common chronic condition and the leading cause of activity limitation in African Americans.(2)


Autoimmune Disease:

African American women are three times more likely than white women to get lupus.(3)

African American women tend to have more severe disease than do white women. For example, African American women are more likely to suffer seizures and strokes.(3)

The death rate from Lupus among black women rose by 70%. There was only a small increase in what was reported in the rate for white women.(4)


Cancer:

African-Americans are more likely to develop cancer than any other racial/ethnic group in the United States.(5)

African Americans are almost twice as likely to die of cancer than any other minority group, and 20% more likely than whites.(6)

The frequency of premenopausal breast cancer in African-American women is twice the rate of Caucasians. Studies show that in most instances, that in African-American women, by age 40, the cancer has already spread.(7)

Although the overall rate of breast cancer in African-American women is not as high as compared to white women, they suffer the highest death rate from the disease once detected.(7)

Black women have the highest incidence of and mortality from colon and rectum cancer than any other ethnic or racial group.(8)

Black women with ovarian carcinoma are at an increased risk of death compared with white women with the same disease.(9)

While Hispanic women have almost 50% higher incidence rates of cervical cancer than black women, black women are 75% more likely to die from the disease.(8)


Diabetes:

The prevalence of diabetes in African-American women is approximately 85 percent higher than Caucasian women.(10)

15% of African American woman have diabetes, compared to 6.9% of white women.(11)

Non-Hispanic black women aged 45-64 had more than twice the rate of undiagnosed diabetes as non-Hispanic white women the same age.(12)

Non-Hispanic black women had the highest age-adjusted mortality rate (51.7 per 100,000) from diabetes in 1999.(13)

Compared to non-Hispanic whites, non-Hispanic blacks have more than twice the incidence of end-stage renal disease.(14)


Heart Disease:

Heart disease is the leading cause of death for black women in the U.S.(6)

Black women have the highest age-adjusted mortality rate from heart disease.(6)

The higher mortality rates of heart disease in black women seem to be the result of a higher proportion of black women exhibiting the risk factors for increased mortality-cigarette smoking, hypertension, diabetes, high blood cholesterol, inadequate physical activity, and obesity.(15)


The Association of Black Cardiologists have developed and educational video on preventing heart disease for African American women. To download this free video featuring poet Maya Angelou, please visit the Association of Black Cardiologists at www.abcardio.org/womensCenter/heartHealth.htm.
HIV/AIDS:

Among women, 71% of the 4500 newly diagnosed cases of HIV African American.(16)

The AIDS case rate for black women is 20 times higher than for non-Hispanic white women, and more than three times higher than any other minority group.(17)

Four times as many black women as any other racial or ethnic group of women die from HIV disease.(6)


Mental Health:

Almost two thirds of black, Hispanic, and Asian women who perceived a need to see a mental health professional did not see one in the past year compared to 35% of white women.(18)




Reproductive Health:

Black women have a much higher pregnancy related death rate compared to white or Hispanic women.(18)




Sickle Cell Disease:

Sickle Cell Disease, an inherited blood cell disorder, is more common among African Americans. It is estimated that the disease occurs in 1 in every 500 African -American births and that 1 out of 12 African-Americans carry the sickle cell trait.(19)



You tell me how that is because of "mixing". If that were true, if the whites were "defective" then they would be highest! There are less African American women in this country than white women, but they suffer more from the above diseases! Explain ya self!

[SatiyaH]

Basically, if you are so "genetically" superior then how come your genes cannot survive some mixing without all the above conditions occuring?

[Master-9]

SatiyaH said:

Basically, if you are so "genetically" superior then how come your genes cannot survive some mixing without all the above conditions occuring?

Superior doesn't mean it can't be weaken by dilution of defected genetics, that the whole point of not mixing your seed(genes)....

[SatiyaH]

Master-9 said:

Superior doesn't mean it can't be weaken by dilution of defected genetics, that the whole point of not mixing your seed(genes)....

Ok, if whites genes were so defective, then they would have died out a lonnnng time ago! What you say is not scientific, but ethnocentric. From what you are saying, the white 'dilution' is dominant. There isn't that damn much mixing to explain how African Americans are suffering as stated above. If your genes are dominant, then they would dominate over the defective trait. A black person mixes with white and usually that child will be darker than the white parent with thicker hair and black features. But are you saying that it's limited to that? That the "diseases" you claim are from whites carry on thru and your dominance cannot "cure" it or avoid it? I mean, they should be recessive traits!
Here's one for you: What's the average age of mortality (death) amongst Pygmies of Africa who never mixed in with whites? They live off the land and don't eat "poison" foods of the west as explained by Chephran? And look like they've been triple dipped in eumelanin Age 50! That's it-that's their survival rate. They die of old age and disease around the age of 50.

[Master-9]

SatiyaH said:

And look like they've been triple dipped in eumelanin Age 50! That's it-that's their survival rate. They die of old age and disease around the age of 50.

First of all, watch your tone, you are speaking to a man, second you ignorance has fooled you into believing that 50 can't be old age for them, why live the physical when you can live the spiritual

[NAR]

The mortality rate of the little people (pygmies) is in agreement with the natural cycle. The number fifty-two (13 x 4) was sacred to the elders reckoning system, for fifty-two was the number of years for one short cycle, one of the thirteen heavens or nine hells. For instance, the birth and death dates of the Prince of the dawn, Queztalcoatl, according to the Christian calendar was AD 947 and AD 999 respectively. This also applies to Lord Pacal Votan of Nachan (house of sky-four-snake), in modern day palenque, whose remains was re-discovered in 1952.

Quetzalcoatl = AD 999 - AD 947 = 52 years
Pacal Votan = AD 683 - AD 631 = 52 years

Moreover, the elliptical orbit of sirius B around sirius A is more accurately in agreement with the sacred calendar of 52 years, the new fire ceremony.


In Beauty, in goodness,
Amantaca Ce Acatl Topiltzin
13 x 9

[SatiyaH]

Master-9 said:

First of all, watch your tone, you are speaking to a man, second you ignorance has fooled you into believing that 50 can't be old age for them, why live the physical when you can live the spiritual

The only "man" I humble myself before is my own husband. On here, you're just another screenname on the internet be you male or female and I call it like I see it. If I've struck a nerve with you, then I can see where you may get touchy about my tones.
Besides--we're just typing words--you've never even heard my tones. Get that paltalk working on one of your pc's and then I'll dazzle you with my linguistics!

[NAR]

Now if you add 52 years to the time Pacal Votan's tomb and bones was discovered in AD 1952, brings you to the present time of AD 2004. This is also the same year that Atum Re (the sun) is re-born.

9 x13

Aafetri said:

The mortality rate of the little people (pygmies) is in agreement with the natural cycle. The number fifty-two (13 x 4) was sacred to the elders reckoning system, for fifty-two was the number of years for one short cycle, one of the thirteen heavens or nine hells. For instance, the birth and death dates of the Prince of the dawn, Queztalcoatl, according to the Christian calendar was AD 947 and AD 999 respectively. This also applies to Lord Pacal Votan of Nachan (house of sky-four-snake), in modern day palenque, whose remains was re-discovered in 1952.

Quetzalcoatl = AD 999 - AD 947 = 52 years
Pacal Votan = AD 683 - AD 631 = 52 years

Moreover, the elliptical orbit of sirius B around sirius A is more accurately in agreement with the sacred calendar of 52 years, the new fire ceremony.


In Beauty, in goodness,
Amantaca Ce Acatl Topiltzin
13 x 9

[SatiyaH]

Master-9 said:

First of all, watch your tone, you are speaking to a man, second you ignorance has fooled you into believing that 50 can't be old age for them, why live the physical when you can live the spiritual

According to the Centers for Disease Control, the average lifespan in the U.S. has increased by 30 years since 1900.

Given that there have been more medical advances since that time than in all of human history to that point, given that with the mapping of the human genome the likelihood is that within the next hundred years we will have isolated and corrected many if not all of the genetic diseases that shorten the human lifespan, it's possible to assume that the human lifespan will increase exponentially over the next three hundred years. A lifespan of 150 is not only possible, it's likely.


There is no difference between spiritual and physical.
Recall Ansaar doctrine--angels were flesh and blood!

[Master-9]

SatiyaH said:

it's possible to assume that the human lifespan will increase exponentially over the next three hundred years. A lifespan of 150 is not only possible, it's likely.

Why do you whites want to live so long?

Nefish is in the blood

[1dell]

There is sucha forum Shamgod, it's called Illixir. It's further at the bottom

shamgod777 said:

Peace Sister I appreciate the sciece dropped on Vitamin D--I will look into that further. I am not a person that is extremely conscious on the foods that I eat"(meaning I'm not a raw vegatarian). But I do not eat red meat. But being in this god damn Atlanta it has me eating more chicken that I have in a life time.
Maybe we can create a forum were we can all contribe health tips that we have tried and discuss its EFFECTIVE RATE. Cause like some people used certain internal cleansers. Which seems to work for YOU. Especially since the brother 1dell just had a seed. Maybe we can contribute some good Baby tips on food preparation and alternatives. Also this can be a forum where we discuss the pros-/cons of immunization. Something on those lines.


Peace.