shouldn’t it have the opposite effect on the skin
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Imagine you have a car with a paint job that is very delicate and will fade if it gets too much sunlight.
Now imagine you put a big black blanket over that car.
Yes, the blanket absorbs a lot of the light and makes it warm. But the blanket is made of stuff that A) isn’t very damaged by UV and B) you don’t care if it gets damaged. It wasn’t heat that you were worried about, it was UV.
Melanin is that blanket. It doesn’t get damaged by UV like the other parts of skin. So people who have more of it have less UV hit the skin cells that can be damaged by it.
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