Vitiligo Is Vital

Good morning globe, todays missive from the massive comes all the way from a different Angle (me!).

I am going to make an argument that vitiligo (light patches on the skin) is not an illness at all, it is a useful evolutionary adaptation that occurs due to the global climate’s tendency to change naturally over time.

Firstly, the sun’s rays are essential in helping us produce and regulate a number of vitamins and hence hormones in the body, ask yourself why English people go red and then tan on the Costa Del sol and why you notice the black people in western society with white patches on their face and hands (known as vitiligo).

I then looked up whether there was a connection between vitiligo and depression (I expected to find a positive answer and did). The point is it’s hard to work out whether this is caused by psychological factors (it makes you stand out and look different) or the condition itself.

But then maybe it’s just the body’s way of adapting to a changed or changing climate and actually should be left untreated and celebrated as just a natural and healthy part of who you are and not considered an illness at all and covered up, maybe the increased sun exposure from having lighter skin could be your body simply telling you it’s happier this way and producing more feel good dopamine from vitamin D.

NO ONE DIES FROM VITILIGO.

Ask yourself why having freckles is cute and vitiligo is ugly? I don’t see the difference, neither of them are a problem.