Mediterranean Wrinkles?

[Rossiya]

I have always believed that vitamin D is good for the skin. This would mean that people in Mediterranean countries would have good skin. However, some people have said to me that the skin wrinkles a lot due to the sun; they would point to my grandparents as prime examples, and say about how too much sun causes skin cancer due to the ultraviolet rays.

I would then put to them why not all blacks have skin cancer; they say because they have some pigment, which I believe is true.

What I'm asking is, does the sun cause you to "shrivel"? And does the wrinkling rate vary amongst different peoples (Blacks, Arabs, Asians, Mediterraneans, North Europeans etc.)?

 

[Phlegmak]

What I'm asking is, does the sun cause you to "shrivel"?

Yes.

And does the wrinkling rate vary amongst different peoples (Blacks, Arabs, Asians, Mediterraneans, North Europeans etc.)?

Without going into much detail: yes.

 

[thetrooper]

Melanin levels, anyone?

 

[Rossiya]

Melanin levels, anyone?

Ah, yes. Isn't that the pigment in black people? Do other people have it as well?

 

[thetrooper]

Ah, yes. Isn't that the pigment in black people? Do other people have it as well?

AFAIK all humans produce melanin. Some more than others.

I'm wondering if melanin levels correlate with wrinkles.

 

[Rossiya]

AFAIK all humans produce melanin. Some more than others.

I'm wondering if melanin levels correlate with wrinkles.

You're probably right. I don't know much about this.

 

[nivi]

In diffrent levels, only albino's don't.

 

[thetrooper]

In diffrent levels, only albino's don't.

Hmm, you're right about that. Let's test my 'hypothesis'*: show me a picture of an (old) albino with wrinkles.

* It's not really a hypothesis, as I'm just wondering.

 

[Mirc]

Stupid question: what does wrinkle mean?

 

[Rossiya]

Stupid question: what does wrinkle mean?

Lines in the skin, found on old people and smokers.

 

[Urederra]

those rugosities people have in the skin when they are old, like a raisin.

BTW. I don't think melanin and wrinkles are connected.
As for Vitamin D, it is actually produced by the body from pro-vitamin D when you receive sunlight. so there is a small balance, on one hand, sun exposure produces vitamin D, on the other, it dries the skin and produces wrinkles. Sun exposure also increases melanin production, in some races more than others.

 

[Mirc]

Lines in the skin, found on old people and smokers.

Ah I see, never knew the English word for that.

 

[thetrooper]

Stupid question: what does wrinkle mean?

Wrinkle, wrinkle little star.

zbârcitură in your language?

 

[Mirc]

Wrinkle, wrinkle little star.

zbârcitură in your language?

Zbârcitură? Where the heck did you take that from??

No, it's "rid" in Romanian.

Edit: Cross-cross posting....

 

[thetrooper]

Zbârcitură? Where the heck did you take that from??

No, it's "rid" in Romanian.

Busted!

 

[Mirc]

Busted!

Technically, "zbarcit" means "not smooth", so "zbârcitură" is a weird regional way of saying "un-smoothness" (not referring to skin, usually), so who said that had something in his mind......

Wiktionary?

 

[Rossiya]

That word looked more Baltic to me... Shows how much I know.

 

[Cuivienen]

Too much exposure to sunlight (specifically ultraviolet light) causes your epidermis to grow more thickly to protect the more vulnerable parts of your body beneath it. As you age, the connections binding the dermis and epidermis together weaken, causing wrinkles to develop where the epidermis is weakly connected. A thicker epidermis causes both more weakening in the connections and more skin to hang in folds. Therefore, excess exposure to sunlight causes wrinkles in old age.

 

[Masquerouge]

Zbârcitură? Where the heck did you take that from??

No, it's "rid" in Romanian.

Edit: Cross-cross posting....

Of course, since it's ride in French

 

[Mirc]

Of course, since it's ride in French

I should have expected that!