The young American actress Emmy Rossum owes her fame primarily to the hit film The Day After Tomorrow. The film’s plot is about an Ice Age created by global warming, and the script tells the story of how this warming would start after the Gulf Stream stopped flowing. This would lead to the Northern hemisphere cooling down, triggering the next Ice Age and freezing over Europe and the USA. By the way, whether the so-called global warming is actually caused by CO2 produced by us, or if CO2 is increasingly released into the atmosphere by microorganisms becoming more active due to ocean warming, remains to be seen.
This disaster film is full of scenes of destruction caused by the tremendous cold and horror at the lethargic reaction from the government. Some erotic scenes were included as a little extra.
In the film, Emmy has to equip herself to take on the extreme cold – in New York City temperatures fall to minus 72 degrees. In real life, the actress also has to fight against the elements, not ice and snow, but the sun and her very fair skin. The actress begins slowly preparing her skin for the summer and sunbathing weeks in advance.
Until now, Emmy has worked on this by eating lots of yellow and orange fruits, consuming as much beta-carotene as possible which in turn can be converted into Vitamin A by the body. In addition to apricots, mangos and carrots, the petite brunette actress finds the Sharon fruit most effective. Sharon fruits are a cultivated form of the kaki, currently grown in only ten countries. The cultivated kaki is rarely to be found in supermarkets, making it a little harder to find out if the fruit does actually make a difference.
Is there another way to do this? Is there an alternative to consuming huge amounts of kaki or applying sunscreen? It’s not always clear which ingredients are even in sun protection products. Once again, aluminum in particular is being referred to as a harmful substance.
As a blog reader, you will know that I have often informed you about the use of the melanotropin hormone. The melanotropin hormone helps the pigment cells to produce the brown pigment melanin, visibly tanning the skin and protecting it from UV light at the same time. In order to stimulate the so-called melanin synthesis, melanotropin (or substances similar to it) can be administered before going out in the sun.
Taking melanotropin is also helpful for the treatment of light allergies and pigment disorders. The melanotropin hormone stimulates the pigment cells to instantly produce more melanin, causing the skin to tan more quickly and preventing it from being sunburnt, despite being exposed to the sun. Even people with a very fair skin, like Emma, a Nordic type, would not need to go without an attractive, natural tan.
Excessive exposure to UV light makes the skin age quickly and increases the likelihood of contracting skin cancer at some time. If melanotropin is taken regularly, it may even have the potential of slowing down skin aging. Scientific studies are currently being conducted on whether melanotropin can even contribute towards reducing the risk of skin cancer developing.
The application of melanotropin analogues to stimulate tanning is a promising type of therapy. At present, it is the subject of much controversy, but is in clinical use in Italy and Switzerland for the treatment of sun allergies.
Irrespective of this, no melanotropin analogous substance is currently approved for use in the EU or anywhere else. For this reason, any serious treatment is permitted by law only as an individual, customized therapy with magistral administration of the substance by the physician treating the patient.
If Emmy Rossum were to consider undergoing this kind of therapy, she would not have to avoid the sun and spend so much time on protective measures. She would certainly have more time to concentrate on her art history studies and could let climate experts ponder the question of whether CO2 is to blame for global warming, as well as saving the world from the next climate disaster.
DDr. Heinrich, MD
