Melanin Science Explained: The Body’s 6th Sense — Energy, Detox, Health, Vitality, Consciousness, Biohacking, Neuroprotection, Longevity & Earth Frequencies | Quantum Biology, Melanin Research

0:03 This is the fitness wisdom. Podcast Hello and welcome back to another exciting episode of the Fitness Wisdom Podcast. Today we're welcoming back melanin research for the 4th time on the Fitness Wisdom Podcast. If you haven't already, make sure that you go and listen to the previous episodes. Those were absolutely mind blowing and I have made a dedicated playlist on YouTube, which is called the Melanin Series for anybody who is interested in finding all of the melanin and related podcasts together.

0:31 Unfortunately on Spotify, we don't have playlists yet, so you'll have to listen to those on YouTube, but which is easy for you to find, of course, if you just search, if you go to fitness with the podcast page on Spotify and you simply search melanin, you'll find all the melanin related episodes there as well. So you'll be able to dive in deeper. But today we're going to be talking about melanin from a different view from the other times that we, we discussed the importance of melanin for sensing electromagnetic fields in our environment and our ability to navigate basically using our basically melanin as a, as a sixth sense, let's say.

1:07 And also does melanin actually make us heavier in terms of in terms of body weight and how melanin contributes to balance, proprioception and posture and all of that good stuff. So definitely stay tuned for this banger episode. Welcome back to the show Line Research. It's a pleasure to have you. To be back. Awesome, brother. So let's give the first time listeners a bit of a breakdown of what melanin in actually is, in one sentence or in as many sentences as it needs, and all of its vital functions in the body.

1:37 Wow. All right. I'm not sure if I could. Lay out all of its vital. Functions in the body, but I can try my best to capture its most encompassing functions as it relates to the discussions that we're going to be having today especially. Sounds good. Yeah. So you could say that melanin is a carbon rich substance that organizes matter and energy across diverse environments. It absorbs energy from the environment and it uses it to organize matter, to maintain balance and homeostasis, and as well as to power the body.

2:22 And I guess there are about four major functions of melanin that seem to be universal. So regardless of if it's found in human beings, animals, or plant life, it's doing these particular things. It's regulating energy, it's protecting, it's amplifying, and it's organizing. That's amazing. Yeah, it's incredible. And you know that there are so many people who still think that melanin is a sign of skin damage, but maybe you could demystify that for us. Yeah, melanin is not. It's not skin damage. So what melanin does, and especially if you are someone who's trying to increase the levels of melanin in your skin in particular, that's your body's way when you get a tan or when you darken, that's your body's way of, you know, it's basically it's amplifying the melanin that's there and it's your body's way of maintaining homeostasis, of maintaining balance at this critical threshold that we call our skin.

3:29 So no, it's not damaged. If you have melanin on your skin, that's a very good thing that that's a sign that your immune system, that's a sign that your body is doing what it's supposed to do, which is produce melanin in response to sunlight. Yeah, exactly. And also the melanin, as we talked in our previous episodes, the fact that it's even found there in the embryo before, you know, life even exits the womb, we just basically clarifies to us that it's one of those, let's call it an organ, right?

4:01 That already exists within the human body clearly has an essential role there to play. Yeah, definitely. It's yeah. This is one of its most overlooked roles is in the womb. Melanin is there before you're even born, so it's present on the tip of the sperm, called the echosome, and it's also present on the egg. And this is exactly where the sperm touches or meets the egg. There's a time there's melanin nanoparticles on the tip of the sperm and on the egg. And when they touch, when those two dark epicenters meet, when they make contact, there's a flash of light.

4:41 And in biology, you may know that as the zinc spark, this is where you have this electrical activity that's generating light right within the womb. And when that happens, that's where fertilization begins. So yes, melanin is there before you're even born, right when you're conceived. And amazingly, it's there long after you're gone as well. So some of your tissues, most of your soft tissues in your body, they decay and then your bones eventually turn to ash. But what's left millions, hundreds of millions of years after that is only melanin.

5:23 So they sound melanin and fossils that are as old as 300 million years old. So yeah, it's there before you born and it's there. It's the last thing that remains of you long after you're gone. So definitely not skin damage. Guys, if you haven't already, smash that subscribe button and the like button. Now back to the show. It's basically an ancestral molecule, literally. Been here before we existed, then we'll be, we'll be here way more way longer after we're, you know, gone as a human race. Who knows what's going to happen to the humanity, you know, in 100 years with AI and everything like this.

6:01 Would you say that that melanin has magnetic like properties, for example? Like does melanin and melanin sort of attract? Yes, absolutely. So melanin is I'm going to get, I'm going to get some, some more context here too, because this is a, this is a very, how do I say this something I'm very passionate about. So I definitely want to sort of preempt our listeners a little bit more with where this discussion is going because as I talked about this, it's, it's going to be leading up to something else, which is the Earth's electromagnetic fields and how melanin relates to that.

6:42 So just to add some context for our nurse who may not be familiar with the concept of magnetic sensing or Magneto reception. This generally refers to when animals, birds, sea turtles, it's like a like trout, like salmon, when they migrate or they travel to specific locations and they do that by tracking the Earth's magnetic field. They use it as like a type of compass almost. That's called Magneto reception. And this has been observed in those species. It's very well known. And they are able to do this because they have very special materials within their bodies, mechanical materials.

7:24 They have crystals called magnetite that are sensitive to changes in magnetic fields. They have iron based molecules and things like their noses and you know, like they have chromophores in their eyes, like proteins in their eyes. Like they have all these different tools in their bodies that are sensitive to magnetism. So when they are in a magnetic field that's exhibiting some extreme changes, they're able to pick up on that through their own, you know, biological architecture. And so humans usually are left out of this conversation, though, you know, like, where do we fit in in that and for our species?

8:10 But this is something that I think is somewhat of an oversight because I think it really boils down to this concept of materialism where because we don't have the mechanical materials or we haven't been taught to frame the biological material that we do have, we haven't been taught to view it that way. This has not really been a part of the conversation. Is biological magnetic perception in the human species? So we actually do so, you know, like we, you know, most. Of our soft tissues in our bodies resist magnetic pole, which is probably also part of the reason why that is not really something that's in, you know, the the center of the conversation in terms of our capacity to be magnetically sensitive is because most tissues resist magnetic pole and that's because they don't hold enough magnetic materials like what I mentioned earlier like the magnetite, the iron, those metals.

9:17 That's what makes these animals magnetically sensitive. They have the metals that are properly calibrated with their soft tissues to make them more sensitive. So soft tissues have very weak very, very weak interactions with magnetic fields. However, this is where melanin stands out because melanin is a soft tissue. However, melanin behaves very different from other soft tissues and that it binds metals so it binds the copper like zinc magnetic materials, metals that have very high magnetic affinity.

9:53 It binds to them and it absorbs on and it stores them within its own structure. So you know, and say that in that way it gives melanin some mild magnetic property because it takes on these different magnetic materials like heavy metals and it incorporates it into its own its own Physiology. So and then it's also a semiconductor, it conducts electricity, conducts electrons, which is basically the foundation of magnetism. So you have very core essential properties of magnetic sensing in this one particular molecule.

10:32 So it's not, it's metal rich, it's rich in metals, it's absorbing, it's holding every known possible metal and it's also conducting electricity at the same time so that electrical energy can be aligned with magnetic fields. However, it's still technically a soft tissue, right? So it's not going to be, it's not going to be as strongly magnetic as iron is in isolation, right? Like it's not as it's. Not going to be responding to some extreme changes in magnetic fields because it's, it's only, you know, it's like a, you could say it's semi magnetic.

11:10 They call it paramagnetic. And the prefix of para is basically it's like para means when something sits next to or it sits alongside something else while gaining some property from it, like parathyroid, right, sitting alongside the thyroids. So you could say figuratively speaking, that melanin sits alongside or binds with magnetic materials such as heavy metal and it takes on some of their magnetic power. So this actually why and this is actually how they're able to study neural melanin in the brain.

11:54 They study it, they measure it using MRI's magnetic resonance imaging because it's, you know, it's magnetically sensitive. So they're able to literally detect its presence in the brain by using machines that detect magnetism. Just to give an idea of, you know, like the the extent of this property of melanin to be paramagnetic or to be magnetically sensitive at the body. But we can measure it just through its level of magnetism. So yeah. And that's also pretty significant for our species though, because it being a paramagnetic, meaning it's responding weekly to magnetic fields.

12:44 What that really truly means it's that it's sensitive to the shuttle frequencies, the lower frequencies in magnetic fields. So the very, extremely low ones like shaman resonance, like we're talking about no more than 8 Hertz, like those very delicate moment to moment shifts sensitive to those. And that's important for us human beings because that particular resonance of the Earth's field, that is the same range as our Theta brain wave. So our brain wave. Our. Theta brain waves resonates between 4:00 to 8:00 Hertz, and then you have the shaman resonance, which is about 8 Hertz or 7.8 Hertz.

13:25 So when we're exposed to those natural fields in nature, melanin, you could say that melanin is like a bridge or it's like an interface. It's helping us to detect and to synchronize with those subtle frequencies. And so, you know, you could be, you could say that you could be more relaxed, more intuitive, and in that process may be more creative when you're directly exposed to those frequencies because it's basically in alignment with your own brain waves. It's where your mind, your mind sits most comfortable at.

14:03 So biologically, when you what this means, what this looks like biologically is that when you put melanin in the magnetic field, what's happening is that it's electrons are shifting and they're shifting, they're aligning their spins to be parallel with the field. So the very electrical currents in the melanin itself is responding directly to the magnetic field and. Sort of like same semantics, like a little bit like the shapes that you see with the you know when they do with sound. Yeah, Yep. And then that creates A magnetism with the melanin itself where it becomes attracted to the direction of the field because it's electrons, the spin of the electrons are lining up with it.

14:49 So you know, you have that, you know, like that is, you know, I guess you could say in that sense that melanin is also absorbing information. So we think of it as absorbing light and sound and energy. But you know, you have here the met the Earth's magnetic field and melanin is directly responding to it. And then that information is then being, you know, relate to your trigemenial nerve and your brain to your substantial nigra. It's being incorporated into your nervous. System so you could say it's.

15:23 Orbiting information from the Earth's field, you know, maybe not absorbing in the literal sense, but it's basically doing what it does with other types of energy. It's act as a receiver. It's acting as a, you know, an interpreter. So it's my belief that melanin is acting as a magnetic receptor in the human species. I cannot prove that beyond a shadow of doubt and unfortunately it's an under research area. So you won't really find too many studies talking about magnetic reception in human beings, let alone melanin in that conversation.

16:06 But you will find many studies reflecting melanin's magnetic sensitivity. So it's really a matter of connecting the dots really. Yeah, if I want to regulate my nervous system, reduce anxiety and depression and get an instant feeling of calm, my go to is grounding. And This is why I make sure to get my bare feet on the ground every single day as much as I can. You see the body needs energy in order to function properly and grounding is a massive source of energy for our body. Now if I'm not grounding barefoot in the sea or on grass, I make sure to wear my earth runners which are my favorite barefoot and grounding sandals.

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17:03 Like that was absolutely mind blowing. Thank you for that. And so many questions arose as you were going on there. So I hope that I don't lose them. So like a couple of things came to mind when you, you were saying there about some things that I didn't think about actually, because my idea of our conversation was be would be to talk about if humans have the possibility to navigate the earth just like animals do along the electromagnetic fields of the earth when they migrate. And I thought that maybe humans have this possibility, right?

17:33 And maybe we can get a little bit into that as well. But you actually enlightened me with the with the fact that we're attuning our body and our nervous system to the Earth's magnetic fields. And not only do we do that when we ground anyway with our bare feet, but you're actually saying that our neuromenon neural melon in our brain, for example, is because it, it can be rich in, in metals, it can sort of act like an antenna, a receiver of this information of these low frequency energy fields. And then basically our body is able to attune to that and sort of align with that and, and harmonize with the rhythm of the earth because we know that the, the earth like changes basically like, it's like our brain wave state states change throughout the day.

18:23 So does like the Earth's like electromagnetic field, right? It changes. And then that's what also our brain is supposed to be attuned to the Earth's electromagnetic field. But when we are not in alignment with with that, that throws off our circadian rhythms. That goes also in, you know, in alignment with the light and dark cycle as well. So it all goes like hand in hand together with the seasonality and the temperature and all of that. Good stuff. But it was super fascinating to me to understand that the melanin is playing such a key role.

18:53 Like the more we are in connection with nature, melanin is able to allow us to realign basically our our brain waves to the Earth's electromagnetic wave so that we can be in harmony with nature and not sort of work against it, right? Yeah, you, yeah, that was very much the the SparkNotes of it all. That was beautiful, awesome. Like you said, it's, you know, like the, you know, every Organism has this capacity, you know, to align with the Earth's magnetic and solar patterns. But melanin is, I would say, among soft tissues, melanin is uniquely positioned to enable the body to decode electromagnetic fields because it does something that no other molecule does, and that's absorbs radiation across the.

19:51 Full. Electromagnetic spectrum. So it's not just absorbing UV radiation, it's also absorbing visible, infrared, gamma and as we just discussed, magnetic forces and once absorbed it's also transducing that energy as well. So it's. Changing that energy from one state into another, one kind into another. Changing light into sound. It's changing light into heat. It's absorbing mechanical energy, absorbing thermal energy, and it's doing what it thinks is best in the moment, wherever it's located in the body for that particular system to be the most coherent that it so that's, you know, like that's, you know, it's a, you know, if you noticed in the beginning of this podcast and you asked me what is melanin, I said that it's a carbon rich substance and I didn't call it a molecule, even though by literal definition it is a molecule.

20:49 You know, it's a combination of different elements. But with melanin in particular, I feel like calling it a molecule, it's almost putting it on the same plane as other molecules when, you know, in this particular context, it's doing something that none of them are doing, which is absorbed in the energy across the entire spectrum. So, you know, until I can think of a more precise term to describe something that does that, I'm just going to call it a substance, you know, like just to sort of just a spotlight or to better articulate its unique, its uniqueness, especially as it relate to the electromagnetic spectrum, which is, you know, something.

21:38 And again, it's metal dining properties, which is also something that you don't see in other soft tissues seems to be a molecule that was evolved almost are designed to be like an interface between energy and matter. So you know, it's like, it's almost like a mediator almost, you know, like it's taking in energy, but it exists in matter. So it's taking in energy, it's taking in forces, external forces in the environment, and it's transforming them, it's transducing them. And it's doing that so it can, you know, make the best of what it can.

22:18 So it can provide stability or provide coherence to cells, to different systems, you know, But it's definitely significant in this conversation in terms of the fact that it can absorb, you know, all 7, all 7 components of the electromagnetic spectrum. Like that is something that is almost mind blowing every time I think of it is that it interacts with the entire spectrum. It's like not just interacts with them, but it transforms them across the spectrum. So it's kind of, it's like, you know, if you have a translator, but instead of this translator just speaking 2 languages, they speak every single language in the world.

23:02 That's kind of what it, that's kind of what it's like. It's like having a translator that speaks every single language. And so that is absorbing every form of energy. And so in that process, you know, you know, within that, with that being said, it's, it makes sense why it's located in these different sensory parts of the body, why it's in, you know, your retinal pigment epithelium in the back of your eye, why it's in your inner ear. You know, why it's in your skin, why it's in all these different thresholds where energy has to cross to be internalized by the body.

23:41 It has to meet that melanized checkpoint. So it makes complete sense because melanin is the ultimate translator. So you want that translator who can speak every language there. You want it in the ears because you can absorb sound when in the eyes because you can absorb light. So it's like having that person who can, you want them to be present as much as possible. You want them in the air because they can translate the sound or they can filter the sound so you can get the most accurate pitch. And so that's pretty much why, you know, it helps me to understand at least melanin's magnetic properties.

24:21 It just becomes, you know, like another cog in the wheel of another cog in the wheel. Like, yeah, they're responding to light, sound, you know, mechanical heat. Of course you're going to respond to magnetism. Wow, that's incredible. And you mentioned there about it's metal binding properties and we talked about it previously in other podcast episodes as well at how it can bind to heavy metals, for example, to decrease the burden from the rest of the organs and the and the body in general. But then the way that you brought it about today, it made me actually think that maybe it's not necessarily, as you said, it's not binding only to heavy metals, It's binding to all types of metals.

25:02 And this is sort of like by design in a way for us to be able to pick up and perceive these magnetic fields. It seems like to me that why? Why else would it, you know, be attracted or attract all of these other metals as well as well as the heavy metals? Or does it attract the heavy metals just because it has these magnetic properties and it just attracts every metal and therefore it attracts heavy metals as well? Interacts, it binds to all metals. So you're right about that to all metals. I'm not sure about gases about.

25:35 So, you know, on the periodic table we have about 118 elements, but I would say of all the metals on the periodic table, there is, I've seen research, basically melanin interacts with all them except the gases attract the gases, to my knowledge. But yes. And it's actually the fact that it binds to these metals because it's electrically rich that it binds to these metals. This is what actually enables its magnetic properties. So it's sort of like the metal binding is, you know, you can see it as a means to an end or a means to several ends because that metal binding facilitates a lot of different processes throughout the body with, you know, the Mac in terms of this context, it's you know, it's sort of like 1 to get from, to get to Point C, which is magnetic exception, you got to get to point B, which is metal mining.

26:33 So you got to incorporate the magnetically sensitive material into your own structure in order to become magnetically sensitive yourself. And that's what melanin does, and it metals and tightly mines these metal, you know, it becomes magnetic itself. So basically those metals are acting sort of like an antenna and then they're able to draw in more energy from the environment. And then therefore we're able to decode and decipher that information because of the melanin being present there where the metals are attracting basically that energy.

27:09 Yeah, yeah, you can say that. Yep. That's amazing. And so that one of the questions which I actually had for you was that this idea of melanin binding to the heavy metal and you know how heavy metals are not the best for our overall health and well-being. And there is this idea that when we build our melanin stores in our body, that's actually good because we're able to sort of buy into these heavy metals, if we have any in our body and we're able to decrease our burden. So that actually improves our health by us building our melanin stores.

27:40 But once the melanin has bound to the metal, is it like a good thing to sort of get rid of that melanin so that the the heavy metals go out of the body? Does the melanin ever let go of the metal? Like, can you go down that rabbit hole? Yeah, sure. So it's so it's definitely a fascinating question though, because of melanin is binding metals, you know, and you know, like we're not like birds where we just shed our feathers, you know, like we're not just shedding the metal. We're not just shedding, you know, all the build up.

28:17 So the next question becomes what happens right to all of those end up top toxins, because at some point it's going to the metals are going to become toxic if you're not properly turning over. So I would say we do have mechanisms, you know, where the melanin, there's some research that melanin in this in the hair actually stores metals like copper like zinc. And so when you, you know, it's storing those metals in the here and when you said the here, you're also offloading the metals and because it's sequestered or it's being captured by the melanin and never actually penetrates the skin.

29:05 So it's not going into the, you know, the cranium, it's not able to reach those deeper layers and to get into your bloodstream. So it's sort of like a helmet almost. You have, you know, like this, you know, like this sink on top of your head that's catching all the metals. That's one, you know, sort of, you know, you can view that as one way, you know, and if you're in an environment where you know, you're constantly rubbing or you're constantly being exposed, you know, to, you know, to these different surfaces where you're in contact with those heavy metals on your skin.

29:41 You get a 10 every two weeks. You skin, you know, it turns over, you get cell turnover, new skin, so you're shedding it. So we have these different external mechanisms in terms of, you know, like if you are viewing melanin as sort of like a detox system, definitely mechanisms for that externally. Now in terms of how that looks in the body as far as and especially in the brain where that's been linked, you know, to or that's been associated with pathologies like Parkinson's disease, when you have heavy metal buildup and then this leads, you know, to neurodegeneration.

30:23 So you know, yes, melanin does normally by metals, but it can become over saturated with heavy metals when the environment has too many. So our bodies naturally contain these metals, but we need them in very specific amounts. We need them and we need them, you know, in very specific, very precise, often very moderate amounts. But when you get just a little bit more, it throws things off. So, you know, when you're in environments where its excesses, where there's a lot of pollution, you know, and a lot of exposure to this, but and you have this material like melanin that normally binds to metals that are normally in the body, right, That are normally there binds to them.

31:09 It holds them and then it releases them depending on conditions and Cellulite conditions. It releases them to, you know, to whatever is happening to, you know, to match with whatever is the energy within that particular environment. Redox activity, it's releasing them strategically and precisely exactly when they're needed and where they're needed. However, if you are, you know, your body is taking in more metals than it should, then you know, you're basically, you know, it's sort of like this very advanced system for managing metals is now being put in reverse.

31:47 Now it's put in a position where it can actually harm you because what it's normally poster, it's supposed to help you manage these metals and you're putting so much metals, you're putting so much on it that now it's the reverse. It's kind of like, you know? I think I've. Used this analogy on your podcast before. It's like pouring water into a cup, right? You pour water into a cup. The cup is designed to hold and manage liquid. But if you pour too much water and it flows past its tipping point, then you're going to have a spill or you're going to have an accident.

32:21 So, you know, you can think of melanin in the same way where let's say melanin is the cup and the metals are the water and pouring too much, you're going to have an accident. And that's where you get things like Parkinson's and different neurological disorders that have been associated with toxic metal buildup. So I would say the more toxic the environment, the more. Melanin can become burdened over time. And that stuff. Another important idea though, that melanin is not actually the thing that needs to be shed in this case, but it actually is the thing that needs to be cleaned.

32:58 Are we, you know, it's kind of like if you have a vacuum cleaner and it's normally you bought, you purchased the vacuum cleaner because you want to clean before you want to clean your furniture. But then there's so much dirt, there's so much, there's so many particles, so many contaminants that the vacuum cleaner gets clogged, right? So do you throw the vacuum cleaner out? No, you unclogged it, but you clean it, right? It's the same thing here with melanin. So the goal really isn't much about, you know, shedding the melanin that has been overburdened because the melanin is foundation is it's foundational to our biology.

33:35 So you don't want to get rid of that. What you want to do is liberate it from whatever it's holding or from whatever is holding it. You want to, you know, like whatever is preventing melanin from doing what it normally does, You need to cut back on that. You need to basically clean in the vacuum cleaner because it's definitely something that I've noticed in my studies is that it tends to be especially this particular subfield of neuroscience where we're talking about neural melanin and how exactly it's interpreted.

34:14 Is it cytoprotectives or is it cytotoxic? And so like a lot of, you know, there's a lot of circulation because there this is still an emerging field, you know, like melanin science, but neuromelanin in particular is probably the most studied area. But that's definitely some point of contention. There is like what is melanin in the brain? What is its inherent role in the brain? Is it cytoprotective or the cytotoxic? You know, it's cytoprotective by when it's cytotoxic. How do you deal with that? Right.

34:51 And so in my opinion, not really so much of, you know, interpreting melanin as being toxic because by default, like it's not something that's dirty or that toxic, it's the molecule doing the cleaning by default. So just you know, what you really what the focus really should be is rebalancing. So if you're going to deep system, you got to recharge melanin, you got to, you know, like fix that system up because that is the most advanced system across nature for, you know, detoxing heavy metals. So that is something that, you know, keep it refined.

35:33 And so like, what does that look like? Sweating. So make sure you're sweating so you're, you know, excreting those contaminants naturally. So sun exposure, right? You set, you sweat in the sun, movement, exercise, more sweat, going to maybe maybe a sauna, you know, hydration. So keeping making sure that your body is fully hydrated so you're properly moving those things throughout your system. It's something I like to do. Something that I like to do is fasting. It's fasting, it's autophagy, so you have natural cellular cleanup, right?

36:10 And then you have the cells eating cells that shouldn't be there anymore. And so that includes, you know, these different cells that have been damaged in the process, right? So staying hydrated so and sweating. So basically just. You know things that you know you already do. Things are ready to, but also being intentional, being more intentional about it, I guess, you know, giving it as much assistance consciously as you can. So, you know, I think the, the breakthrough in this particular kind of conversation in terms of the heavy metal toxin build up and you know, what happens when the melanin system breaks down.

36:59 I think what it really boils down to is I think we should be axing is instead of us axing, how do we resolve, how do we shed or eliminate toxic melanin? It should be how do we restore melanin's capacity? I. Love it. So it can we can resume its role has the body's mineral manager and everything else it does. So that's kind of how I frame it is, you know, me personally, I try to avoid my exposure to heavy metals. I also try to eat foods that are high in antioxidants, foods that, you know, are not made in those environments where that's, you know, where pollution is definitely, you know, something that's an issue.

37:53 But yes, that's how I feel about that. Imagine spiking your blood sugar without eating cake, elevating cortisol, your stress hormone without being stressed, and suppressing your body's most powerful sleep, antioxidant and regeneration hormone, which is your melatonin. This is why I make sure to wear my yellow daytime blue light blocking glasses every time when I spend time indoors under artificial lights and in front of screens to protect my eyes from oxidative stress and my entire body. And if I'm going to be exposed to artificial blue light, especially after sun's that I'm going to wear my red lens blue light blocking glasses to support my melatonin production and release.

38:27 So if you want to protect your energy levels, sleep and biology from artificial blue light. Head over to the description and you will find all of the links with a massive discount on my favorite blue light blocking glasses. Yeah, that was fantastic. Yeah, thank you so much for bringing it that way around because yeah, my, my perspective was pretty neutral that I wasn't necessarily sure if we actually need to be. Let's say, because, you know, for example, for people who have more whiter skin naturally, they get tanned in the summertime and then they lose the tan, right.

38:59 Well, I assume as well, people who have darker skin, who have more melanin in their skin, they also shed their skin cells, but it's not obviously visible like, you know, to people who have naturally white skin, right. For example, for me now my tongue is sort of fading because it's sort of like the end of the summer. And if I was to scrub my skin, it would be way easier to reveal the whiter skin underneath. So it's sort of like my melanin on the surface is sort of, you know, disappearing, let's say with the skilled skin turnover.

39:28 But what you're actually saying is that I need to try and retain onto that for as long as possible, but just prioritize on not getting, not intoxicating myself in the 1st place from those heavy metals #1 so limiting my exposure. And secondly, like, just assisting the body to find other ways to detoxify those heavy metals so we don't overburden this incredible system because it has so many more roles beyond the like, metal binding. And if it gets, you know, if it binds to these toxic heavy metals, as you said, we start to have like this manifestation of disease.

40:03 Just to show up in different areas of the body depending on where those heavy metals have accumulated. And we know that in the brain it's very, very, very harmful, for example. So then you also talked about how the the metals can, you know, go into the hair. And I was just thinking to myself that, you know, as we talked at the beginning, that the metals are acting sort of like an attractor of energy and charge or yeah, like, like an antenna, let's say. So could you say that the hair is is acting like an antenna for us to perceive the electromagnetic fields of the Earth even easier?

40:41 Would not be surprised if that was something that was occurring within, you know this within this system because it's not happening in isolation, right? So no one in the brain not working in isolation. The melanin in the ear, it's all feeding in to a particular biological end goal. So I would say, you know, that's probably something that should be incorporated into the research. You know, I think within the next 10 years, melanin will be viewed as a biological magnetic receptor in mainstream publications because we already know it is.

41:23 But in terms of how it's treated or the amount of funding that's put into those studies, I think that would be a strategic point of interest is to also look at the here because that's the crown, the top of your, that's it's very top of your body. So that's exactly where you're making that first contact right with those different magnetic forces. So that definitely something not to overlook for sure and. When you think about it, you know when you get goosebumps, for example, all your hair stand up right on your skin.

41:57 So it makes you think like like the the hair is coming to attention to sorts of pick up, I guess information about the environment. Would you agree on that? Yeah, here is very electrically sensitive, so for sure. And you know you need those two major components, right? In terms of being able to sense magnetism, you need something that is electrically sensitive in addition to being magnetically sensitive, and here qualifies as both so. For sure. Definitely and you can feel it when you since you're here, those are nerves.

42:32 So there's there's nerves that are connect that's connecting that here. So that is that's not happening in isolation. And your hair stands up, something that your body perceives, that your body picks up on. Wow, wow. And so, yeah, this could be tied to the nervous system state as well. So basically, our hair could act like as a decoder of information, just like in cooperation with melanin in our hair follicles, for example, to help us decipher whether the environment is safe or not, right? And it could inform our nervous system if it should be in a parasympathetic state or in a sympathetic state.

43:09 Yeah, definitely, for sure, definitely, absolutely. It's like like you said, it's like an antenna. You made a really awesome post on your Instagram about birds and about them like shedding their their wings. But we also discussed in the chat, like on Instagram, we talked about how birds can naturally become heavier. And I actually thought that was because of the melanin. But now what you explained about everything, you know, with the, the melanin binding properties, it makes sense that, you know, that the birds would naturally become heavier because of those heavy metals.

43:46 I wasn't actually sure of the properties, you know, in the birds. But after I read your post, I fully understood that the birds that are in the cities are exposed to, you know, they have more exposure. So therefore they're, they're naturally heavier. So until they shed their, their wings. And This is why they sort of have this inbuilt system to sort of detoxify, you know, because they are shedding their wings. Whereas as human beings, we have to be a bit more clever with our exposure and find ways to assist ourselves better.

44:14 Do you think, I think, that we as human beings have this capability? Meaning do you think that we actually weigh heavier when we accumulate more heavy metals? Or do you think that melanin is doing something else to our body weight? Do you think that we are, as you said, becoming more magnetic and are we sucked down to the earth more a bit more like magnets? What's your thoughts? Sun's down to the earth. I think. I would imagine that, you know, with the melanin, you know, metal mineral binding that, you know, like, yeah, Melanie rich tissues way more and it may not be significantly more, it may just be slightly more, way more than, you know, tissues that have less melanin or that have less condensed forms of melanin.

45:13 So, you know, like that is, you know, and then I think you mentioned yourself earlier that melanin doesn't just bind to metals. It also binds to proteins. It binds to livids, it binds to fats, so it binds to drugs. It binds to compounds. It binds, yeah, it binds to drugs. You know, some particular cannabinoids have are structurally, chemically similar to melanin. So they bind with melanin and in the soft tissues. So, you know, like when that happens and it holds on to these, when it binds to something, it holds on to it until it feels that it's, you know, safe to be released back and said until it steals, until conditions warrant the usage of those particular molecule.

46:02 So, you know, yeah, until conditions basically arise where, you know, the melanin adjusts and it releases those particular. So those molecules are those lipids, but normally binding to these things. So, you know, it's heavier. And in birds, that's definitely very significant. The fact that they're at the melanin and they're feathers behind things, it's very significant. And I'm going to tell you why. We talked about the first one already, which was, you know that it's helping them to detox. So with these heavy.

46:38 Metals that are. You know, when they molt, when they shed their feathers, they are also offloading those metals. So birds that live in Paris, you know, there's been studies birds in Paris are getting darker each passing year. They're getting darker and darker. Pigeons used to be Gray. When I was a kid pigeons were Gray and now pigeons are like maybe 80% black of the pigeons. Like they're feathers. It's heavily melanized with you melanin and that's not a coincidence. It's because pollution is rising, so their bodies are incorporating the melanin is binding these metals from the environment and when they shed, it's leading to it's preventing these metals from entering their bloodstream because it's being captured by the melanin feathers.

47:27 So it never gets into the pigeons bloodstream. So the birds stay. As a result, they stay healthier. They have less metal poisoning and these healthier birds then go and reproduce and they have offspring, you know, who inherit those, you know, particular genetic markers for annual coating, you know. And so then you have over generations, you have darker pigeons because those are the ones are resisting the heavy metal exposure, resisting the pollution. So however, in terms of why that matters beyond heavy metal, why that weight and why that heaviness matters beyond just detoxification is because that makes the feathers stronger physically.

48:13 It makes the feathers more durable. So when the feathers are slightly heavier due to melanin binding, metals, proteins, lipids, all these other, you know, substances, that's the feather is becoming heavier. Not just because of the melanin itself, but as we said, because the melanin is actually storing additional atomic mass in the form of binding. However, that is making the feathers more durable. Because you essentially get soft tissue that's more thick and that's more dense in the process. And so it becomes more structurally stable when you have a thing that has that high density, that high mass, so the feathers are down.

49:01 As quickly as they otherwise would, because they're more dense, so the more resistant do the wind to the abrasion, the more resistant. And This is why if you notice sequels, seagulls, flamingos, Pelicans, albatross name. Think of every bird that flies long distances. They all have one thing in common related to melanin. Look at their wing tips. If you notice they all have black wing tips. So birds that fly thousands of mouths, every single species has black wing tips. They have melanin concentrated at the wing tips.

49:39 The bird can be pink or it can be white like a or Gray like a seagull. But the wing tips are always melanized. And that's because this melanin in the wing tips is helping to make the feathers more durable. That added weight, that added mass is making the feathers more durable to abrasive winds, so UV rays to the friction from the atmosphere. So as they're flying thousands of miles without taking a break, they do this for a very for very long periods without resting. They just glide at certain a certain point because their body weight is so light.

50:20 And so when that happens, their feathers, their wing tips in particular is what they use to change direction. So that is, you know, the most susceptible feathers to abrasion is the wing tips. So the wing tips are heavily melanized to give it that durability, to give it that resistance to the wear and tear during those long flights. So, you know, like they're able to travel and to migrate so far because their feathers are are heavier at the wing tips. It's. More, it has more durability because of that I melanin content.

50:56 And if you notice too like that, that ties into even woodpeckers, their beak, the beak itself is heavily melanated. Of course we have other mechanisms have other structures within their noses, within their beaks that enables them to drill into trees, you know, at such impeccable speeds for such long periods. But in terms of the durability of the beak itself, having that melanin content so densely packed, so heavy within that structure, it gives it, it makes it a little bit more resistant to the wear and tear.

51:33 So yeah, it's melanin in. Birds, it's like a whole different. I should probably make more posts about it, but it's definitely a very it's a whole different subtopic. It's a whole field. As a movement specialist and nutritionist, I honestly used to think that targeted fat loss was a scam until I discovered the Lipo rap by New shape. The Lipo rap is a targeted red light therapy device which is specifically designed to target stubborn body fat areas. Research suggests red and infrared wavelengths promote like policies, which is the liberation of fat from the fat cells into your bloodstream.

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52:45 It's, it's truly incredible. And one thing that came to mind when you said about the birds slowly changing over time, you know, the Gray pigeons turning black. I was thinking to myself, why are human beings, you know, how many generations do you think it will take before we actually start getting darker? Do you think that people who are naturally with whiter skin, do you think they will also become more melanated over time because of the pollution in the world? I. Think it's possible? I think you see, I mean, you can look at freckles, for example.

53:17 Freckles, you know, it's benign and it's considered, you know, it's something that's more common definitely. And you know, people who are lighter and especially with heads in particular, you know, definitely freckles there wherever you see like the sort of, you know, like the lighter the skin, the more the freckles show up, the more common it is. But to me, freckles is just melanin trying to re emerge, smell, trying to reappear.

53:47 Yeah, I think it's definitely possible, you know, across generations, definitely something that would have to happen generationally, right? Where you have say this person has, you know, like this person when they go into the sun and they get a tan, they get very dark, but their baseline is pale, right? When they go on, they turn maybe 2 to 3 shades darker, right. And someone else who has that same, you know, like that same capacity, you know, to get much darker in the sun than they normally are and then over, you know, your offspring.

54:28 Eventually that capacity amplifies as that happens, as those pairings, you know, like, you know, as that becomes more frequent. But the Earth is, you know, definitely in a very interesting state in terms of, you know, like the amount of solar penetration that we're receiving I think is unprecedented compared to previous years. So it's definitely something that, you know, I feel like that's a topic that warrants, you know, like something beyond what I can speculate because I please speculate, but I feel like that's a topic that warrants, you know, like a.

55:15 A whole lab study like that, like, you know, like even the bit about mold, you know, where you, you were, I think you were mentioning molds, a couple of oh, and how molds are also benign, but they're there, you know, and so like why it's showing that you're even if you have a lighter skin and you're producing mold, it's showing you have the capacity there to to produce a concentrated level of melanin. It's very, you know, it's very interesting in terms of how that like how melanin changes throughout generations, even across different species.

55:59 It's very fascinating. Think that would be evolutionary biology. I think that would be called, not. Yeah, that's that's so cool. That's so mind blowing. I would love to change directions, but do you have enough time? Is are you running out of time? No, we have time, Yeah. OK, that's awesome. So yeah, I was just now wanting to change directions and go into the other roles of melanin within the body as it relates to easy water, exclusion zone water. What role do you think that melanin is playing there?

56:30 You know, because we have heard before from Gerald Pollock that basically when we shine red and infrared light on the body, we're able to create this exclusion zone water, which is this gel like water, which is in this 4th state of matter, right? And basically we have this idea that is the light that is causing the water to be like that. But I feel like if I'm not mistaken, when I read on your Instagram page you are we're actually saying that melanin is the one that is directing the show here. Well, that's my theory.

57:03 That's my theory that melanin is generating exclusion zone water and soft tissues across the body. And I'm going to explain why I feel that way and why I've reached that conclusion. But I feel also feel like this is like, this topic of structured water, especially as it relates to, you know, an even more niche topic like melanin. It's critically misunderstood. Melanin and water have a direct energetic relationship. And we know this dating back to the work of Doctor Arturo Soli Sierra, the researcher from Mexico who showed that melanin can split water molecules.

57:48 And when it does this, it releases electrons from those molecules, and those electrons generate charge. And what do you need for water? For regular water to become easy water, you need charge can be generated through infrared light or it can be generated in melanin's water splitting engine. So the reason why I position melanin as being the primary generator of that because it's not the only generator of that in the body. We have other mechanisms, we have metabolic infrared. So we have different metabolic activities that also generate charge on hydrophilic surface, you know, and then we have, you know, like biophotons, right?

58:35 So, you know, like there's different sources of charge that's acting on hydrophilic surfaces. But the reason why I posit melanin as being the primary driver behind that, meaning the one that's there before the rest of them are and the one that's present where the rest of them are not present is because melanin is found on basically all hydrophilic surfaces throughout the body. And for listeners who may not be familiar with the term hydrophilic. It basically means. Water loving surfaces, so hydro water feel love.

59:14 So things in the body that love, that attract Water is where you find melanin throughout the body. So as I'm sure most of many of your listeners already know, melanin is not confined to the surface of the body. So it's not just in the skin or the hair or the eyes, it's all throughout. It's in the bone marrow, it's in the heart, it's in the liver, the kidneys, it's everywhere. It's in the lungs, it's everywhere. So in terms of why I think melanin is central to structured water is because not just its location, but its ability to, as we mentioned before, to absorb the full spectrum of light, right?

59:59 So that includes a red that we have in the body, that includes visible light, that includes any form of light anywhere it absorbs it. And then that absorption, it can amplify that light or the energy from that light, and then it's using that. To then split the water molecules, which then generates freeze electrons, which creates the electrical potential for structured water. And the reason why I put it upstream of things like metabolic infrared, which is, you know, currently framed as the main driver of ECS because that has its limitation.

1:00:37 You know, like the tissues in the body, the organs, there's a lot of density there where metabolic IR doesn't. And so how do you explain structured waters showing up in these very, you know, very, you know, very tight corners with that metabolic IR is not hitting, it's not touching, but then you have melanin in the right. And so that's why, you know, I, you know, it basically to me that suggests that structured water depends on a system that's omnipresent. It's not just here and there, but that's.

1:01:11 Everywhere. And that's capable of generating charge continuously limited. And really the only molecule in the body that fits that criteria is melanin. It action with water alone is splitting water and producing electron electrons. That's AI mean that's like a dead giveaway that it has to be connected water. But yeah, that's and I wrote more about this in depth on melonresearch.com where, you know, it's broken down Basically everything I'm saying here, it's broken down for listeners. If you you know, if you want to read up that article on melonresearch.com in addition to posts that you might see on my Instagram page.

1:02:02 But yeah, so I, you know, I put melon and as the main, the primary driver of easy water. And then you have bio photons, you have metabolic infrared as supportive to that process. It's supporting it. So I guess people who haven't heard about easy water before and like it's functions in the body, are you able to give the listeners a bit of an an understanding of why is why do we actually need this easy water? Why is it important for our health? Yeah, of course. So for those who may not be familiar, easy water differs from drinking water and the fact that it's it's negatively charged for one.

1:02:48 And it also has a different shape, it has a different structure and drinking water. So easy water has like a, so like a crystal, like hexagonal shape to it. And it's called easy because that stands for exclusion zone. It excludes solutes. So it excludes toxins, it excludes contaminants. So it's very pure, basically like a physical barrier between solutes, meaning toxins and its own structure. And it all stores electrical energy as well. So it's like a battery. So it's storing energy, you know, and it's all throughout the body.

1:03:26 So it's like you have a battery that's available to yourself globally in your body. The body can't use drinking water, you know, to do that to to it to facilitate cellular function. It can't use drinking water to do that unless it's changed into this structured, organized state. And that within itself has tremendous effects on our health when we had a structured water. When water is changed into organized or structured water because it stores energy from light and it delivers that energy to cells to support their function.

1:04:11 So the body needs a tremendous amount of energy to function on a day-to-day basis. You have mitochondria that produces ATP chemical energy. You know, you have melanin that also produces that generates energy. Do water splitting. You have easy water that's storing energy. So there's a lot of you know, and then you eat, you know you. There's a lot. Going on where you know, for us to function coherently day-to-day, the exponential is tremendous. So structured water becomes necessary, a form of water that can store energy.

1:04:43 So like having a battery present throughout your system, have a mobile aqueous shelf cleaning battery that's continuously, that's continuously charged. Like it doesn't get any better than that. And you know, it's helping, you know, things like, you know, it's keeping when it keeps its exclusion zone. So it's keeping out impurities, right? So your cells can remain clean because it's serving as a physical barrier to solids to, you know, things that can disrupt that electrical coherence within the cells environment.

1:05:20 So you have this exclusion zone water that's basically acting as, you know, it's supporting detoxification in that way. And you know, it's providing a clean, structured environment for yourself through their work, and it's also providing energy. So what's helping mitochondria in the process to operate more efficiently? And you know, enzymes that are involved in ATP production, they have more adequate energy because of the structure. It's incredible. Yeah. That was such a great breakdown. Thank you so much.

1:05:54 Because it's very important for people to actually understand that yes, as you mentioned, melanin is playing such a critical role in this process, in the formation of this exclusion zone water. And I can assume as well in charging the exclusion zone water as well, keeping it like top, top and adequately, adequately charged for our cells to function on a daily basis. And yeah, like, you know, that the the cells need energy all the time in order to function properly and to carry out their normal biological function.

1:06:22 And is when we have this drop in this voltage and this charge within the system, when we actually start to see disease, you begin to manifest. And, and two incredible, you know, things that you mentioned there is like the melanin in the in the water. And these are basically like semiconductors, which are channeling energy throughout the body where cells are actually needing that energy. And, and if we don't have the melanin, if we don't have the water, then basically coherence doesn't exist within the system.

1:06:52 So we have incoherence, right? So then a system begins to break down because now there is no cellular communication like at the speed of light as it should be occurring at the speed of energy. And so, yeah, This is why it's so important for people to actually grasp their fundamental understanding that melanin is so vital for your overall health because it even helps us to build this exclusion zone water, which is absolutely mind blowing, blowing, you know. And so one last thing I want to ask you on the water topic before moving on to our last topic, which is about gravity posture, you know, and all that good stuff would be about molecular hydrogen being produced within the skin when the, when we split the water molecule, because we know, right, that when, when sunlight strikes our skin, then that we, we produce oxygen hydrogen.

1:07:41 And are we free oxygen, hydrogen and electrons? And so that's happening due to melanin. Do you think that the molecular hydrogen there, if I'm saying it correctly, I'm, I'm saying molecular hydrogen, maybe it's just hydrogen, I don't know because there is a difference I believe, right? One is like really, really small, whereas the other one is sort of like a building block. I was just wondering if the hydrogen that's being released is sort of like a protective mechanism, you know, in response to the UV light to sequester any excess Ros.

1:08:12 Absolutely, Yeah, The hydrogen itself is. It's like a healing gas because it's an antioxidant, the molecular that's released. It's about, I believe. Like 2 hydrogens, but those are released through the water splitting and it's an antioxidant. And for those who may not be familiar with that particular terminology in terms of how antioxidants affect our health. So antioxidants basically neutralize something called free radicals and. Free Radicals is basically these are highly energized super reactive molecules that still energy from other cells and that creates instability that disrupts cellular coherence.

1:08:59 So you know you want to keep free radicals, you want to keep them managed and not inherently bad, but you want to keep them managed. You don't want it to become excessive. So with Michael of hydrogen, it's an antioxidant, so it stabilizes free radicals. And in doing so that has a domino effect on other processes like inflammation because in doing so, it's protecting the DNA from these from these free radicals, molecular hydrogen, it's very important and it's eliminating stress on cells, right? Because radicals that's just creating more stress.

1:09:38 These reactive oxygen species is putting more stress on top of what the surface of your skin already has to deal with. So in that management, I guess you could say in that, you know, like that, you know, like that sort of cell therapy that it's providing to local tissues. The body is less inclined to over produce the chemicals that cause inflammation because inflammation is not bad. It's just too much inflammation that becomes an issue. But the B is naturally going to release chemicals that generate inflammation when you have things like damage, but it won't become excessive.

1:10:21 You know, it's our, it can become excessive, but it's less inclined to overproduce, you know, so the excess inflammation is less likely to surface when you have, you know, like this water splitting, when you have this healing agent doing molecular hydrogen that's, you know, alleviating the stress on your cells, you know, So in that way, when melanin generates easy water and it's splitting water molecules, you know, it's like a upstream biological domino effect. You know, it's shaping not just energy transfer, mitochondrial support, but it's also releasing this molecular hydrogen, you know, as a healing gas as well.

1:11:08 So yeah, it's yeah, it's amazing. So, so basically like you talk about the splitting of the the water molecule, is sunlight the only way that we can do that or is there other ways? To my knowledge and from what I've read from Doctor Herrera's research, no, it's not just UV light, infrared visible according to his research, it's it's really all forms of of light that and you know even you're sitting in your room right now, according to his research, even that's enough even that visible light that you're receiving right now knowing and to initiate what I'm so.

1:11:47 As long as you as long as you have melanin, then otherwise if you're if you don't have melanin, that is not going to happen. Well. Yeah, I mean, in your skin, right, If this, if it's absent from the skin, then it's not happening. But it's present in internal tissues, right? There's research. It's happening internally all throughout the body. Oh, wow. Yeah. So, you know, like we have, you know, we produce light within our bodies and we have LNN in our bodies as a foundational molecule, you know, so you know, the, the body, the tissues in the body, they need melanin.

1:12:26 So it's present. And so you have, you know, you have this happening endogenously, even if it's not at a level, you know, at a measurable level externally it's happening endogenous. Yeah, it's good that you keep reminding me because it's easy to forget, right? Like that you have the melanin internally. I mean, I don't forget that, but it's hard to grasp the idea that the just the visible light can go so deep inside that it's going to split the water molecule. But as you mentioned, going back to the bio photons, those are the closest things to the tissues, right?

1:13:03 And if your body is just doing its thing, doing metabolism in general, you're going to have that splitting of the water molecules, which is absolutely fantastic. So let's move on now into the the last section of our podcast, which is like the role of melanin in perceiving or understanding gravity. Like maybe let's go down that rabbit hole. Why is melanin so important for our posture and our mobility and our performance? Yeah, melanin is. Yeah, it's melanin is so significant to what you mentioned, posture, physical, you know, balance.

1:13:43 Right. This is an overlooked topic for sure, but I wanted to zoom out for a second here because at the root of this entire question is actually gravity. It's. Gravity. It's about gravity. So when you balance and you try to. Adjust your posture. And you are mobilizing. All of these are just strategies that your body is using that you are using to deal with gravity's pull. Gravity is pulling on you every single microsecond and you need to constantly adjust yourself so you don't get pulled down. So even you sitting up right now and positioning your torso, if so, you don't fall over, you don't slouch, so gravity doesn't pull you down, right?

1:14:27 So that's you. This is your strategy and you're doing it unconsciously, right? You probably didn't think about it. You just sat down, you know, Because you know, at this point it's just second nature to you. But these are really just strategies. For dealing with gravity, and that begins, that begins with melanin, it starts in your inner ear. So we have our own particular mechanism for detecting gravity. So we actually, you know, like gravity is going to exist with or without us. We have systems in place where we can observe it, we can steal it.

1:15:04 We can feel the weight of our existence because we can detect it. We can sense it through structures, through crystals that are inside our inner ears. Deep in your inner ear you have calcium crystals that move and they shift whenever gravity pulls on them. So when you tilt your head, your head is falling down. Those crystals, they shift. And when they shift, that creates causes the hair cells, very sensitive hair cells that are beneath those crystals, it causes them to bend. When that crystal move, those hair cells bend and that creates an electrical signal.

1:15:42 That signal goes to your brain. But before we even get to the brain and before we even get to the bend and before we even get to the crystal, before the crystal even forms, it comes from calcium. And what's regulating calcium, what's binding calcium and strategically releasing calcium in your inner ear is melanin. The melanin regulates globally throughout the body, but in the inner area, it's important because that calcium is strategic in terms of building crystals that you need to sense gravity and this, you know, like this particular role in terms of it regulating that calcium.

1:16:20 It's so crucial that when melanin is absent in the inner ear, or when it's not present exactly where it needs to be in those crystal forming regions, the crystals are either deformed. They're either too big. Too tiny or they don't form at all. And they've known this from studies on albino mice. So it's actually, it's not just humans, it's all like it's all mammals that have these crystals in their inner ear and you know, the melanin is regulating the calcium. It's not species dependent. It's happening across different life forms where you have, you know, where they've found, they tested albino, the mice that have albinism, you know, like the red eyes and the pink tails and the he'll have 0 who have very, very low levels of melanin in their inner ear, almost non detectable.

1:17:12 And they sound that the crystals are either deformed, they're either just too big, too big to function properly or too little, or they just don't form at all. So when that melanin is not here and it's not working properly, those crystals don't form. Then even when they do form, when the crystals do form, the tissues that are holding them in place, that are keeping them anchored so they're not wobbling all over the place, those tissues are highly melanized themselves. So of melanin, it's then the hair, the tiny hairs that bend when the crystals move, they if the hair is, is melt is pure melanin.

1:17:52 So like this particular, this ability to detect gravity, it's very, it's super melanin dependent, you know, like it's very melanin dependent. So that particular deep in that inner ear, we can't see it, but deep in there, those structures that detect gravity that allow us to sense where we are and it's filled, it's melanin dependent. And then once you receive that signal, so that signal, once that signal is produced by the hairs beneath the crystals, that has to be conducted to the brain. And what's conducting those signals is more melanin because melanin is a semiconductor.

1:18:34 So it's also supporting that electrical conduction to the brain. It's helping it get there quickly and without interference. So you have a clear signal that's Swiss and that's, you know, distortion free. So then when it gets to the brain, this goes into what your broader point about mobility movement when it gets to the brain now, So now we've detected gravity, now we have to move right now we have to regulate our response to and now we got to respond to it. And so when that sinks to the brain, it's going to the motor region of the brain, it's going to the midbrain, which is the substantial nigra, right?

1:19:11 The locus coral is so those deeply melanized regions of the brain where you open the brain up and it's literally just a huge chunk of melanin and these in the motor regions. And so the melanin there is helping to regulate dopamine. Dopamine is what's going to pick up that that gravity signal. Dopamine is what basically process that signal and to smooth coordination into smooth movement. So you get, you know, the, the, the muscle, the posture, you get the coordination, you get the balance and you have stable dopamine.

1:19:47 And so what's stabilizing that dopamine is the neural melanin. With neuromelanin, even though it's also, you know, polymerized from the dopamine, it comes from the dopamine. It also, amazingly, it modulates the dopamine at the same time. So with buffers, it binds to dopamine. So you never have an excess of dopamine because melanin is buffering it. And then it's also. Conductive too. So dopamine is activated by electrical pulses in those melanized brain regions. Melanin is a semiconductor. So it's also.

1:20:22 Stabilizing the electricity that's activating the neurotransmitter to begin with so you don't get erratic spikes of dopamine, you get smooth progressions. So dopamine is able to be stable and coherent when it has melanin, as you know, as a regulator. And that is pretty much why Parkinson's disease, why the symptoms of Parkinson's disease? If you may have noticed, it's, it's a lot of it is movement based. It's about jerky movement, falling down, not being able to have a posture, not being some of it is also, you know, some of it resembles vertical where the person doesn't even know where they are in space because you know, or either spatial orientation is so distorted because the dopamine is so impaired.

1:21:14 And that is, you know, what they've seen in Parkinson's is that there's a shortage of neural melanin. So the neural melanin not functioning properly, it's being degraded too quickly. And so that's leading to a downstream effect of dopamine. That's it's leading to instability and dopamine, which then, you know, severs the ability to actually move fluently, the gravity skill. So it's a, you know, it's definitely, I mean, yeah, I don't think I can emphasize enough how central valanin is to, you know, like our ability to maintain balance.

1:21:59 Under Gravity's field on Gravity's pool. Yes, wow, thank you for that breakdown. That was incredible. Your knowledge is next level. You literally blew my mind and I'm sure you blew the audience's mind as well. And also, you know, the fact that Melanie can, it is this receiver of information, right? It's also able to feed our brain with like a lot of information about the environment through the eyes, through the ears, through all of the sensory organs, which is what we call proprioception, right?

1:22:30 Our ability to perceive our environment and the more information we can gather, the better we can gather that information. The better our five senses or 6, our sixth sense is working, Melanie, then the the better we can actually move our bodies because it feels safe. And when our body feels safe and it doesn't feel threatened, we do not go into this, into this Free State. But when our body is, it cannot receive enough information about the environment. The nervous system tends to put us more into this three states so we don't injure and hurt ourselves, right?

1:23:04 So it's all sort of like regulates our nervous system response and our ability to move our body as well beyond whether we have enough melanin or not, but just our ability to perceive the information from the environment. And as you mentioned throughout this entire episode and all the other podcast episodes that we did, melanin is playing a central role in as being able to decipher the information through all of our senses. And that's why it's found in those areas as well, because it's so important for us as human beings to survive our environment.

1:23:36 And to be able to do that, we need to be able to gather as much information as we can from our environment. And melanin is actually doing that. So that's absolutely awesome. So now that we've talked about melanin so much, I guess people will be having a lot of questions then, like how do I go about building my melanin? We talked about it already in previous episodes, but maybe we can just give a very quick overview of a a couple of things that people can do to build up their melanin stores externally and internally.

1:24:06 And also what kind of foods can help people to, you know, assist their melanin production? Yeah. So I'll reverse answer your question. I'll start with the foods part first. Awesome. So in terms of dietary selections to support or to build melanin levels, especially internally, I would recommend shadow mushroom as a tea. Also cuttlefish ink or squid ink as a condiment. And also darkly pigmented fruits, things like blueberries, blackberries, purple grapes. The darker the fruit is most likely, most likely the more effective it's going to be in terms of supporting the melanin internally.

1:24:55 And the reason why I mentioned chaga and squid ink, it's because those both actually contain pure raw eumelanin. So it's bio available and it's absorbable. So it's not synthetic melanin, it's it's organic melanin that's absorbable, that's that's edible, that's absorbable. And melanin as it's a very stable molecule. So it's not going to be broken down, you know, like other fats and proteins that you consume. It's something that's stable throughout your system. So once it's in there, melanin goes in you as melanin and it comes out as melanin.

1:25:35 So you know that's going to help the body to replenish melanin stores. But also these particular these particular food sources, they have melanin precursors. Wow, such as tyrosine and copper. So they have the chemicals that actually stimulate melanogenesis. So you know, you need tyrosine to get melanin anywhere. Melanin in the skin, melanin in the organs, in the eyes. Tyrosine is upstream of melanin, productive melanins of melanin. Genesis means tyrosine. Even brain, even neural melanin. You know, we say that dopamine polymerizes into neural melanin, but what's upstream?

1:26:22 Dopamine tyrosine. So it's really, it boils down to tyrosine having enough tyrosine in your system in terms of, you know, supporting melanogenesis or helping your melanocytes, the more fuel to create new melanin, you know, like tyrosine. Then also dark fruits. And the reason why it's dark fruits is because the pigments and those fruits like resveratrol and the Chinas, those themselves, the pigments themselves are antioxidants. So you want those because when you consume the skin of those fruits, you're consuming the antioxidants.

1:27:03 So, yeah, so the the grapes, the cherries, those dark Reds, the dark Blues, those are antioxidants. The darker it is, the more concentrated the antioxidant. And the reason why you want antioxidants is because that reduces the burden on melanin, because melanin health is an antioxidant. But if you have a helper, if you have more antioxidants, that's less of a burden on melanin, you know, so then you can have more, your melanin can work more efficiently. But then more importantly, these fruits, like these fruits, they have precursors too.

1:27:40 They have, they have copper, they have zinc. Copper helps tyrosinase, tyrosinase, that being the enzyme that's going to help tyrosine ultimately polymerize into melanin. So copper, you know, can be thought of as another precursor, melanin. And then you, you know, like zinc the metal and zinc, you know, back to zinc spark with, you know, the embryogenesis. So Mike, and you're also, and these are metals, right? Metals, you know, they have charge. So you're also holding up your body's bioelectric reserves in the process.

1:28:23 It's a win win. So you're providing it with more metals that. Are. You know, helping when you have this heavy metal buildup, you know, if you're, if that's something that's, you know, like that's if that's an issue health wise, you know, you have a heavy metal buildup and then melanin is associated with that. This is definitely like these are things you want to consume. You want to consume natural sources that are rich and these metals like copper and zinc. So this way you don't have metals that are competing for the same binding site.

1:28:57 So, you know, yeah, increasing natural sources of metals where you consume it internally and your body knows what to do once you would consume that internally as opposed to you being getting it through pollution, which is different. And plus fruits have easy water. So you're literally adding more easy water to your system and you can, you know, like the, you know, I guess you could do that internal. You can do melanin, especially inside the body, you know, in terms of its relationship to bioelectricity and to mineral regulation.

1:29:36 You can view it as sort of like a, you know, like a governor, right? Wherever it's found, it's like a local governor because it's doing regulation. It's doing so much organizing, so much binding, you know, And then you can think of this dietary melanin that you're getting from Shagga and that you're getting from the ink. Think of that as like a Lieutenant governor, if that makes any sense. Yeah, absolutely. You know, the antioxidants, I guess they would be like the the cabinet. I don't know the top level that you know, you know, it's all it's forming team from melanin to delta cast to right.

1:30:12 So, so that's food. And then in terms of how to protect the melanin that you do have, definitely is it boils down to stress regulation. So trying, you know, like trying to, you know, stress is good for you in moderation, but of excessive stress, excessive stressors, and not just physically, but also mentally as well, because, you know, the neural melanin is buffering the stress chemicals. And so that's less of a burden on neural melanin. So that's less, you know, like less metabolic activity there.

1:30:49 And so you can preserve melanin. Do you know, like limiting your, I want to say intelligently limiting your exposure to environmental stressors like very high pitched noises, right? And to really stress out the melanin in your inner ear. Like, you know, like not being in the sun for a very long time and then suddenly going into the sun, you know where it's going to hurt your eyes because you haven't been in it and so long. That's going to be a lot of stress on your system. So, you know, keeping, you know, sun exposure is good, is healthy for melanin.

1:31:27 But yeah, like, you know, I would say pollution, you know, it's so hard to do to avoid pollution. And not just environmental would also light pollution, Sonic sound pollution, you know this since our environment is so industrialized that it just becomes more challenging as time goes on. But you know, I think, you know, like what you're doing now with your with your blue eye blockers, I think that's already pretty strategic. Yeah, very as you can see, like I started the podcast off with the yellow glasses and now I switch to the the full on biohacker mode where it even covers the sides of the eyes as well.

1:32:07 And these are like super dark red. Oh, the whole screen is red for me right now. So it's, it's to protect my melatonin, you know, because of course now it gets darker and darker sooner because the season is changing. Like now the summer time is, you know, the sun is going down earlier. And so yeah, I just need to make sure that I protect my melatonin just so I can make sure I can sleep at night, but also repair and regenerate and not overburden my, my eyes, as you mentioned, like not destroy the, the melanin in my eyes.

1:32:37 And that's a really good point, what you mentioned there about the balancing your circadian, making sure you're circadian rhythms. Are where they should be, right. So making sure you're getting darkness at the appropriate times, you're getting visible light at the appropriate times or the full like making sure that those things are properly calibrated. It keeps your system balanced, right? And melanin is that's one of its goals. It's it's a balancer. So when things are out of whack, just creating more work for melanin.

1:33:08 So when things are think melanin can function that much more efficiently. So you know like doing is it's upstream that. Well, thank you so much brother. This has been such a fantastic discussion. Like I'm sure we could keep on going like forever and there definitely will be many more incredible topics to talk about in the future. So I would definitely love to get you back on. Of course, you're always welcome. So thank you so much for coming on today and being so generous with your time. Where can people find you and connect with you?

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