Life depends on the separation (and selective transport) between compartments. You destroy cell membranes and you destroy life. I find it appalling how the media (aided by doctors who seem to have forgotten all the biology they ever learned!) provide free advertising to products that promise to reverse UV damage using ingredients that can’t possibly fix UV damage to human skin. The products contain a bacterial extract that would contain an enzyme capable of fixing DNA damage in bacteria. Bacterial DNA is very different from human DNA and so are the enzymes capable of repairing them. There is no question that the DNA repairing enzymes of Micrococcus help this bacterium … Continue reading Why bacterial extracts can’t help your DNA