Teenagers playing soccer or football are getting Achilles tears. This is now the number one injury. The skin over your gastrocnemius have more POMC than anywhere else. Sunlight is crucial to maintaining the collagen in the Achilles
Dr. Jack Kruse: "I'm gonna make this even crazier for you guys since I now know that you work with a lot of high school kids. You know the number one injury, because I used to be an All-American football player and baseball player in college, so that's the reason why I'm really passionate about athletes. Most of the stuff I do now is on TBI, but this one really, really hit the point home. Chris, you're old enough like I am. Do you ever remember a ton of people getting Achilles tears back in the '60s and '70s who are athletes?"
Chris Scarborough: "No."
Dr. Jack Kruse: "Very rarely happened. Now everybody who plays soccer, everybody who plays football, all these kids are getting it. Now this tie-in you're gonna love. On the skin over your gastrocnemius, those skin cells have more POMC neurons in them than anywhere else. You know where that came from? That came from the body sculpting plan that moved us from chimp to human. So guess what happens when you don't have any exposure of that area to sunlight to bring the melanin there? The collagen in that area gets weaker and you don't make enough water, and guess what happens? [holds both fists together then pulls them apart]
John Nelson: "It seems like my podcast partner actually tore his Achilles."
Chris Scarborough: "Yes, he did. Yes, he did. About ten years ago."
Dr. Jack Kruse: "Oh, is that right? I didn't know that."
Chris Scarborough: "It was something. Yes. What so funny is, it was the stupidest thing in the world. But it was very, very unusual. Even the surgeons are like, 'I've never seen this in a 45-year-old man.' It's like, 'I've never seen this before.'"
Dr. Jack Kruse: "I guarantee you had white legs when it happened."
Chris Scarborough: "Probably. It was October. But still, I was 45 when I broke down. But a lot of the cases that I'm bringing up, these are teenagers."
Dr. Jack Kruse with John Nelson and Chris Scarborough @ 50:09–52:05 (posted 2023-06-20) https://youtu.be/oeJiX7LQq00&t=3009