Melanotan is not a tan. It's an unregulated peptide with real risk. As a dermatologist, here's the reality: It has been linked to new and changing moles including cases of Nasal tanners left me suffocating in hospital' BBC News Your body already makes a hormone that tells your skin to tan. Melanotan 2 is a synthetic peptide engineered to mimic that hormone but in a version that's more potent and Sharing my personal experience with Melanotan tanning injections (now nasals) how vanity led me down the path of using it, thinking I'd done all my research. Now, years later, I'm dealing with