The Melanin

If you go outside into the harsh sunlight and wonder about protecting your eyes, consider this. Inside your eyes is a pigment called melanin. It's the same pigment which gives your skin and hair its color. But melanin provides more than color. It is the most powerful protection against UV and visible light around. It is, after all, nature's solution to the problem of hazardous light.

MELANIN GOES BEYOND UV PROTECTION

Melanin absorbs the higher energy light more strongly than the lower energy light. So it absorbs the UV more than the blue and the blue more than the green - and so on. In this way melanin provides protection to the lens of the eyes against UV, and then provides near optimum protection to the retina by filtering the different colors in proportion to their ability to damage the tissues of the retina. Because the blue light is reduced, so is the glare, and vision is enhanced. However, blue light is not eliminated so that color balance is maintained. All of these features happen naturally with melanin - through the wisdom of nature.

WE LOSE MELANIN AS WE GET OLDER

About 20% is lost in the eye by the age of forty and about 30% is lost by the age of fifty. Melanin sunglass lenses provide us with a way of compensating for this lost melanin. And for people with blue eyes, these sunglass lenses offer a means of acquiring extra melanin protection in light harsh environments. The role melanin plays in eye protection is critical; ophtalmologist have reported that melanin in the eye reduces the risks of age-related macular degeneration (AMD).

HOW DO WE GET MELANIN INTO SUNGLASSES LENSES?

The patented PPT technology for synthesizing melanin allows us to blend melanin with the highest quality plastics and yet preserve the enormous light filtering strengths of the melanin. The result is a patented sunglass lens that copies nature's own photoprotective pigment.

TODAY YOU CAN PROTECT YOUR EYES WITH THE SAME PIGMENT CHOSEN BY NATURE

Nature has given us Melanin, its own eye protection against the normal solar radiation exposure. Unfortunately, the quantity of melanin in our eyes decreases with ageing while health risks increase due to the environment’s degradation (ozone whole), the increased leisure time spent sun bathing (mountains and seaside) and the increased average life-span of mankind. Melanin sunwear lenses are the most efficient response available today for eye protection against solar radiation based on a "natural" concept. For this reason Melanin will increasingly become the most suitable protective element in a sunwear lens aside from its constructive, functional and cosmetic evolutions.

CONCLUSIONS

MELANIN lenses offer users the following benefits:
- They protect your eyes against all eye disease correlated with solar radiation.
- They allow us to see colours naturally, with no chromatic alteration.

No other lens now on the market can provide better protection without altering visual comfort and our natural perception of colours.
- They slow down the ageing of skin and formation of wrinkles around the eyes.
- They reduce glare and consequent visual fatigue.
- They improve the sharpness and contrast of images.
- They reduce visual stress and increase comfort.