Probiotic sun screen

I have believed that humanities evolution together with bacteria means that our current abuse of our partners in life is resulting in vulnerabilities that are being misunderstood. My father was forever telling me how important it was to take my Acidophilus - Bifidin tablets. He was a math major at Southern Illinois University Carbondale but I believe his passion was human biology and psychology. He believed in vitamins and probiotics and made sure my mother and I always had a good regiment of both.

I am now a homeless veteran. I have spent a lot of time out of doors and unwashed so to speak. So I have experience with a more natural state of human exobiology than the average guy who chlorinates to death the biosphere on his surface. One thing I have noted is a pronounced loss in tolerance to sun exposure when I've bathed in chlorinated water. So being the son of a learned man, who always pushed me to ask the right questions, I said "What If". Is it possible that the bacteria that we evolved with have been keeping our skin safer from, among other things, the sun. What if my high school biology teacher or rather the text book he was "encouraged" to use, was wrong when it said our first line of defense was the epidermis. What if humanities first line of defense has always been the flora and fauna living in and on the epidermis.

About 15 years ago I went to a guys house party that featured bad music and more than enough black light. A large mirror in one room revealed a difference between me and my host. I was green and he was dark in the black light. He was quite amused at my obvious lack of "proper hygiene". But I was quite clean enough having bathed in a local lake just that morning. My host had been swimming in a chlorinated pool as had many of the other guests at the party. I noted differing degrees of green vs dark among the guests.

Years later I surmised that bacteria have the ability to withstand ultraviolet light. They must have to live on the skin of humans who love the sun. What if those bacteria are also allowing us to withstand ultraviolet light. How do the bacteria fluoresce and why? Perhaps a bacteria mutated and gained the ability to withstand ultraviolet light by producing molecules able to fluoresce. That mutant was successful and multiplied. Any way, now many bacteria fluoresce and I believe they do so because it is to their advantage and ours.

I wrote about this to several people over the past 10 years or so with no replies. I do not, therefor, expect you to reply or even to read this. But I am glad you are doing what you are doing. I say it is the pinnacle of arrogance for Humanity to continue to believe that we have enough knowledge safely or wisely apply technologies as we have done. Once it was a "fact" that lead was a very good material to make utensils and water pipes out of. It was once acceptable to wash tar off human skin with gasoline. Asbestos once made great cigarette filters. And today it is quite acceptable to go swimming in enough chlorine to obliterate our first line of defense. Then we slather on a variety of chemical goo to take the place of the perfect sun screen.