A few years ago, many social media channels, especially Twitter, were shaken with photos of different women showing their wrists. Each of them had a mole on the same part of their body and tried to understand how this was possible.
These photos still occupy social media from time to time. We wanted to not be indifferent to this situation and give an answer to this question.
First, let’s look at how moles appear.
Moles are cells under the skin that have extra pigmentation. Sometimes we have them at birth, but sometimes they appear or become more pronounced over the years due to our exposure to the Sun. According to the researchers, the existence of moles can be explained by two different factors: the harmful effects of the Sun and the MC1R gene.
There are two different types of melanin in our body, eumelanin and pheomelanin. These types of melanin – also known as pigments – give our skin, eyes, and hair the color it belongs to. Eumelanin is a brown-black pigment found in dark hair, skin, and eyes.
This pigment plays a very important role in protecting the skin from UV radiation, and its deficiency causes damage from the Sun.
Pheomelanin is the opposite of eumelanin; It is a pigment that is predominantly seen in people with red hair, pale-light skin and green eyes and has a reddish yellow color. In fact, how many moles we have in our body also depends on the type of melanin we have.
At this point, researchers confirm that people with fair skin and red hair, who have more pheomelanin pigments, can have more moles on their bodies in direct proportion.
So why do these moles appear more on our hands and wrists?
The biggest reason for removing moles, which can also be expressed as the harmless overgrowth of these pigment-producing cells, which cause small brown spots on the skin, is, on the other hand, excessive exposure of those areas to the Sun.
For example, where is the area that gets the most sun while driving? Our hands and wrists, of course. In addition, how often do we apply the sunscreen that we apply liberally to these areas to protect our face? Maybe we forget most of the time.
In fact, it’s not an unsolved mystery that 8 out of 10 people have a mole on their hands, and especially on their wrists.
In summary; Although the pigments we have have an effect, our exposure to the Sun is largely directly proportional to the number of our moles. So the more Sun, the more me!
In addition, this means that moles appear in whichever part of our body is exposed to the Sun.
If you do not want these brown spots on your body to increase, you can take care to apply sunscreen regularly to every area.
Of course, it is also useful to keep the moles you have under control. Although these brown spots are mostly harmless, their color changes, development and evolution to a shape other than round can be a sign of different disorders.
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