Melanotan What It Is and Its Relation to Skin Cancer What are 'melanotan' injections? Explaining the controversial tanning drug Dazed Sharing my personal experience with Melanotan tanning injections (now nasals) how vanity led me down the path of using it, thinking Id done all my research. Now, years later, Im dealing with the 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 longer lasting than Figure 4 from Changes of melanocytic lesions inducedby Melanotan injections and sun bed use ina teenage patient with FAMMM syndrome Semantic Scholar