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    10 days ago

    Our primary outer protein is basically keratin, which can be tinted orange(carotene), beige (collagen) or brown/black (melanin).

    The green pigment is a byproduct of bilirubin catabolism, which we don’t have because we use a different pathway to metabolize and recycle it.