7 Health Benefits If You Have Dark Skin

For some people especially women, having white skin is a dream. In fact, according to a study that people who have dark skin are much healthier than whites.

Here are the advantages of having dark skin:

1.    Sheltered from the sun

Everyone has the same number of melanocytes (melanin-producing cells), regardless of skin color. However, the difference is the size and distribution of melanocytes. The larger the size of melanocytes that are owned, the skin will be black.

The most important advantage of having a high amount of melanin in the skin is to protect the skin from exposure to sunlight. This will keep the skin protected from short-term effects such as severe sunburn. But remember, despite having a lot of melanin, dark-skinned people are not fully assured of sun damage. So, do not be a hotbed without sunblock.

2.    Reduce the risk of skin cancer

Because it has a lot of melanin pigment, it makes blacks more protected than UV rays than white people. This makes UV exposure to black skin is not easy to damage the tissues of cells so as to reduce the risk of skin cancer, especially the more common type known as basal and squamous cell skin cancer.

3.    Protect the nervous system

Melanin pigments are responsible for free radicals and are shown to be capable of protecting the central nervous system from the fungus Cryptococcus neoformans or cryptococcosis infection. This fungal infection causes swelling and irritation of the brain, as well as the spinal cord.

4.    Immune to some diseases

In insects, melanin is known to protect against disease attacks by swallowing and killing micro organisms. The researchers also assume if melanin has the same function in humans.

This may also explain why white soldiers while on duty in humid environments such as forests, are three times more prone to serious skin diseases than those who have blacks.

5.    Lower risk of deformed baby

Melanin serves to filter out ultraviolet light to prevent damage to DNA. That way, dark-skinned women have the lowest rates in the case of birth defects.

6.    Keeps youthful

Melanin has many significant health benefits including health benefits. The reason, melanin able to keep the skin from the causes of long-term damage associated with aging such as wrinkles, coarse surface texture, and others.

In addition, people who have black skin also tend to have collagen fibers that are many and thicker than whites. That's why dark skin owners tend to look younger.

7.    Has strong bones

A large number of pigments on dark skin is able to store the reserves of vitamin D3 that comes from the sun. This is what makes dark skin owners less risk of osteoporosis because it is able to absorb more calcium.

Source :Kompas