A YouTube conversation (Ben Greenfield) discussing skin conditions—especially vitiligo—and phototherapy. Speakers recount personal experience with vitiligo, a German dermatologist’s hydrogen-peroxide–reducing cream called pseudocatalyse, repigmentation from UV exposure, and cautions about burns and eye safety with ultraviolet light.
Oh, I burnt myself, dude. Turns out you literally can't get skin cancer, basically with vitiligo, so. And it's crazy because it's the sun and ultraviolet light that actually repigmented my skin. And I was. I was pretty disfigured by the time I was nine, to the point where, you know, people were like, I couldn't go anywhere, dude. And once this doctor in Germany, like, I went to 20 doctors, dude. They put every single type of cream on me. I used to have to put makeup on myself every morning. And so this German doctor found out that, wow, these people have too much hydrogen peroxide in their skin. So she developed a cream called pseudocatalyse. She was a PhD researcher and a dermatologist. She developed this cream. It reduced the hydrogen peroxide in your skin within 10 minutes. I've made all the mistakes with ultraviolet.
Light, but if you're facing it, do you have to be cautious about eye exposure? Because I've heard that with red light, the eye protection goggle thing isn't as big of a deal, but with UVA and uvb, it might be.
Yeah, man, because I. And I've seen this happen, dude. Well, I've done it to myself. One, I've made all the mistakes with. With ultraviolet light, dude. I burned myself so bad a couple times.
You burn yourself.
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