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The line where it says that it will tan you in one treatment is speculation.
I've been following the development of melanotan fairly closely, thought about buying stock in the company but as of now i think it's to risky.
What they know so far is in the first stage of clinical trials everything was administered by injection. a daily injection for 10 days. And it will yeild a somewhat light base tan, it wont be dark at all. But what interested me wasn't that melanotan gives you this "dark" tan right away because all the medical research i've read says it wont do that, but it WILL give a skin type 1 or a type II the ability to tan like a skin type 3. Which means that if your a skin type one and can't really tan or a fair skin type II this drug will give you the ability to get a very nice tan in the sun, and will also keep you from burning so easy just like a skin type III.
The reason Cancer rates are so high in Australia is because you have a population of fair skin people who's skin has not evolved to such a hot climate, so the majority of people there burn very easy and they have a high skin cancer rate.
I think the media is making melanotan look like a drug that would kill the tanning industry, i'd say the exact opposite... now all those skin type one people who had to use crappy sunless tanners can now go to tanning beds and get a nice tan. I think melanotan will kill the dha sunless tanning industry though.
why i haven't invested in melanotan... because as the article stated it still as 70 million dollars worth of clinical testing before it can even be considered for approval, getting a drug approved is not a easy process... nor a cheap one.
Just my 2 cents
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