I'm white but I can tan. So I have a nice tan which I try to maintain while also protecting my skin most of the time.

still having skin damage?

sounds like a diet or health related issue

It’s almost more dangerous on colder days because you lay in the sun longer

Your skin produces melanin in RESPONSE to damage

It isn't preventative lol

<:FeelsKek:379422423206068245> bro tanning is literally the protection of your skin so you can accumulate Vit D

It prevents further damage, not what you've already got

>hence the lacck of burning

You dont understand how tanning works

"Melanin is a natural pigment produced by cells called melanocytes in a process called melanogenesis. Melanocytes produce two types of melanin: pheomelanin (red) and eumelanin (very dark brown). Melanin protects the body by absorbing ultraviolet radiation"

Isn’t melanin the amount of color in your skin

That you can have

It isn't tho. Even I, a person who tans, admits is not "protection". I mean it is protection, in the same way a callus protects you from friction when you play guitar.

Ah

Tanning itself is irrelevant to your vitamin D levels, bud.

Two separate processes that are affected by the same source

Correlation =/= causation

You do develop calluses when you play guitar on your fingers, the calluses are the body's way of protecting itself from friction damage.

That doesn't mean playing guitar doesn't fuck up your fingers lol.

Calluses and melanin are not the same thing

At all

"admits is not "protection". I mean it is protection"?????

no shit it's only a slight protection if I don't go out in the sun very much even I can get burned up when I suddenly get a lot of sun exposure. I think you'd need consistent sun exposure in low dosages.

And guitar can

Just any other physical activity for hands

Fuck up your fingers

Do you just get your sources from weird youtube health fanatics? Cause everything you're saying sounds like you're regurgitating the same shit "health gurus" say.

>been linking a wiki this whole time

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_tanning

You already have as much melanin as you'll ever have tbh. You don't need "more melaning" to be healthier.

basic knowledge on sun tanning and you even admitted to it but you're being so rarted about it

Already seen this wiki. It literally states moderate sun exposure can promote vitamin D. Not that tanning does.

So i dont know what you're trying to prove here

Other than you dont know how to read Ig uess

Not surprising though

Usually, your natural skin tone already is good enough.

Ok but take for example Africa vs Sweden

@Bloodedge explain white people that go from white/pale to tan?

African people can take heat much better than me

that's not "all they'll ever have"

My skin would get fried