melanotan articles ↓

An interesting thread over at the Rosacea Forum to do with the safety of taking melanotan. Steve, who is using Melanotan himself, points to a thread on a Melanotan message board where Robert is reporting some issues with gradual onset vision problems ; My name is Robert, I’m 23 and I had been using MT 2 for over 1 year with great …

This article from the DailyMail is offering some warnings about being too quick to jump on the Melanotan II bandwagon. It is worth remembering on top of all of the warnings below, that Melanotan specifically as a rosacea treatment is also something we know very little about. I think that the combination of rosacea sufferers desperate for relief, the relative ease of obtaining Melanotan, and the fact …

Another potential way to increase the amount of melanin in the skin is gaining some publicity from a Sep. 21 article in Nature. Whereas melanotan (Clinuvel, epitan) uses a synthetic melanocyte stimulating hormone, forskolin stimulates the production of melanocyte in fair skinned individuals by raising a chemical known as cyclic AMP (cAMP). Alas forskolin is a known vasodilator. From Rub On a Tan and …

The following recently published article confirms that melanotan is showing promise as a sun protection for people with fair skin who normally burn in direct sunlight.

Melanotan, [Nle4, D-Phe7]-a-MSH, significantly increased pigmentation and decreased UV damage in fair-skinned white volunteers, Ross Barnetson, MD, Sydney University, Sydney, NSW, Australia

Epidermal melanin can reduce some of the effects of UVR, which is the major cause of skin cancer. To …