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Do you ever get those little aging liver spots on your skin?

If you do, I'm going to show you how to get rid of them, I'm going to show you what's

behind that.

Now, you can call them aging spots, dark spots or liver spots, but in actuality it's not

necessarily the liver that's causing those spots.

It's really just too much of this thing right here called melanin, melanin is a pigment

on your skin.

It's what gives your skin a certain color and this pigment protects against UV radiation.

The sun gives off a lot of different waves or you could say radiation.

It's like UV waves, the visible light spectrum, which involves all these different colors

and then you have infrared and so if you've got the sun, you're constantly getting hit

by certain amounts of radiation and melanin is there to protect you against this UV

very specific band of energy and so this pigment melanin is very similar to the pigment

in plants, like chlorophyll is a pigment in plants, there's other pigments too that also

protect the plant from UV radiation and these pigments are really antioxidants so melanin

is an antioxidant and so the question is, what causes too much melanin?

In the summer months, you might notice that you have more of these spots than in the winter

because of this UV radiation.

As you get older, you might have more spots.

If you're a diabetic, you might notice more of these spots.

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