Melanin Movement

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Comment by YAHELKANAH on June 19, 2012 at 2:17pm

It is imperative that We, descendants from the transatlantic slave trade, engage in vital & open discussion concerning the new jim crow laws engineered against Us as a People.  The advent of "western nanotechnology" is the final solution to exterminate Us as a People (Psalms 83:3-4) identified by Our "melanin content" in addition to Our historical records found in the TORAH.  Nanotechnology offers the deceptive union between man & machine whereby "human" consciousness can be "downloaded" into robotics, and thus creating super human abilities.  Concept of "the eternal consciousness" is becoming a feasible, although deceptive, reality of mastering & accessing the "tree of life."  Do not discard Biblical consideration in addressing this prophesied reality.  Blessings & Shalom,

Comment by Maurice Thompson on October 3, 2010 at 10:47pm

For More In Depth Information about Melanin and it's place for ALL Huemanity, check out Dr Jewel and Dr T,O. Moore on "The Melanology Show" on Blogtalk Radio
www.blogtalkradio.com/thejewelnetwork

Peace

Comment by Yola Oladefah Botswana on September 4, 2010 at 3:36pm

Here are some electron microscopic images of melanin producing cells. For technical purposes, the term, melanin, specifically refers to eumelanin, the yellow/brown anti-oxidant, as opposed to pheomelanin, the red oxidant

Within these cells, melanin is formed in granules of melanosomes, which vary person to person in number and concentration. No 2 melanosomes are the same.

Melanin is a polymer of smaller subunits, or monomers, of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen (C,H.O,N) crosslinked together. Since the polymerization is heterogenous and random, No 2 melanin molecules are the same.

When melanin-producing cells are ready to secrete melanosomes, the configuration changes from an ellipsoid shape to that of an octopus with its tentacles shooting out melanosomes.

Melanin-producing cells are found throughout the body:
Skin- melanocytes and melanophages
Eye- retinal pigment epithelium in the retina, and also found in the iris and choroid
Brain- neuromelanin in the substantia nigra, locus coeruleus
Ear- melanocytes in the cochlea
Fat- brown fat
Hair- hair bulb

Melanin is also found in the adrenals, liver, urine and just about every organ in the body. Understanding melanin's embryological formation in the neural crest cells and its distribution throughout the body is useful in understanding its role in our body functions.



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Comment by Yola Oladefah Botswana on September 3, 2010 at 9:45am

Brotha Kamal,

Thank you for posting. The song and video are no doubt melanofantastic. How do we get this on the radio?

Comment by Kamal Imani Amen on August 30, 2010 at 11:57pm

Comment by Imhotep Kushan on July 14, 2009 at 1:16am

Divine molecule... it's in the universe, it's in the earth and us (The Melanin-ite Children)

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Comment by Zumbi on May 22, 2009 at 1:29pm

Melanin is such a Beautiful Thang!

Comment by Yola Oladefah Botswana on April 12, 2009 at 8:53am

Studies show brown fat may burn large amounts of calories when activated by cold.
The CBS Evening News (4/8, story 6, 2:00, Couric) reported that "there's a particular kind of body fat that's actually good to have, and someday it might help us shed pounds." And, "scientists have long thought that this substance, brown fat, which helps vulnerable infants stay warm, disappears completely by the time we grow up to be adults. But it turns out that is not the case, and that fact might lead to a new way to lose weight," NBC Nightly News (4/8, story 7, 2:20, Williams) added.

In a front-page story, the New York Times (4/9, A1, Kolata) reports that three studies, "appearing Thursday in the New England Journal of Medicine, indicate that nearly every adult has little blobs of brown fat that can burn huge numbers of calories when activated by the cold, as when sitting in a chilly room that is between 61 and 66 degrees." The studies showed that "thinner people appeared to have more brown fat than heavier people; younger people more than older people; people with lower glucose levels, presumably reflecting higher metabolic rates, had more than those whose metabolisms were more sluggish; and women had more than men."

"In one of the new studies, researchers at Maastricht University Medical Center, in the Netherlands, examined 24 young men, about half of them lean and half overweight," the Washington Post (4/9, A1, Brown) reports on its front page. Participants were "kept in a cool room (61 degrees Fahrenheit) for two hours and then given a PET scan, which lights up any tissue that is using a lot of glucose, showing that it is highly active on a metabolic level." Similarly, a Swedish team of researchers "kept five volunteers in a cool room for two hours and then gave them PET scans while intermittently putting one foot of each subject in an ice-water bath." The "brown fat deposits lighted up each time." They found that "after the men had been kept cold, activated brown fat deposits were seen in 23 of 24 of them," and "lean men had about four times as much brown fat activity as the overweight men." But, "when several were retested without first being cold, there was no brown fat activity."

The Wall Street Journal (4/9, Armstrong) reports that "the advent of high-tech medical imaging...has given researchers a new glimpse into the human body that reveals that not only is brown fat present in adults, but that it also is metabolically active." The researchers identified brown fat using "combined images taken with positron-emission tomography, or PET machines, with those from computed tomography, or CT machines."

In a separate study, researchers at "Joslin Diabetes Center, Harvard Medical School and three hospitals in Boston looked at scans done on nearly 2,000 patients to diagnose various health problems," the AP (4/9, Johnson) reports. They "were looking for 'substantial' depots of brown adipose tissue -- defined as being greater than four millimeters across, with the density of adipose tissue, and with high metabolic activity according to uptake of 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose," MedPage Today (4/8, Smith) reported. They found "such deposits in 76 of 1,013 women (or 7.5 percent) and 30 of 959 men (or 3.1 percent) -- a difference that was significant at P<0.001 and corresponded to a female-to-male ratio greater than two to one." Notably, "there was 'considerable variation' in tissue activity from time to time in the same patient." The study also showed that "probability of the detection of brown adipose tissue was inversely correlated with age, beta-blocker use, and body-mass index."

HealthDay (4/8, Gardner) reported that Dr. Spyros Mezitis, an endocrinologist with Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City, questioned whether the findings "can be applied -- if we can use medication to make this brown fat more active and help people lose weight." He added, "This is something that opens a new vista of maybe drugs that will treat obesity in a more effective manner." Time (4/8, Park) and the Minneapolis Star Tribune (4/9) also covered the story.

Comment by Nadir Shakur on April 9, 2009 at 6:30pm

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