![]() ![]() John Stacy recalls that his father-in-law was blue. Mountain people are used to outsider mockery - think Jay Leno as Doofus with those stupid false teeth giggling about hillbilly incest and you understand why these folks are sensitive to genetic issues. The blue people have brown blood which does not transport oxygen very well. This is good news for them since, if there is too much blueness, too high a gradation of the gene, then serious medical problems may result. It may be worth noting that Elizabeth Smith was of Irish ancestry. ![]() In the 1930s a Doctor Deeny treated two Dublin brothers with vitamin C to reverse their blue tint. There is a gradation in genetic effects that cannot always be predicted.īlue people have been reported in other places than Kentucky and Alaska. Having a single recessive gene can lead to a certain degree of blueness or not. It isn’t that two recessives lead to a dominant it isn’t that simple. Their descendants all carried the same propensity for blue skin. Martin had a recessive “blue gene” and, remarkably, married a young woman named Elizabeth Smith who also carried the gene. The Kentucky blue people could all trace their ancestry back to a French settler named Martin Fugate. Some people were able to reverse the blue process with vitamin C which, effectively, repairs the hemoglobin damaged by lack of diaphorase. Daily oral dosage would keep it that way. ![]() He began injecting people with methyl blue and their skins turned pink almost immediately. of vitamin C would do the same thing, depending on the nature of the particular condition.Ĭawein tested the blue people he found and, sure enough, they had low levels of diaphorase. Injections of methyl blue, a substance that is non-toxic and excreted in the urine, would reverse the process. Scott hypothesized that this was due to genetic factors that were exacerbated by a lack of vitamin C. The authors, E.M.Scott and Dale Hoskins, discovered that the blue-skinned people were deficient in the enzyme diaphorase causing a condition known as methemoglobinemia. Paul Karason of Kentucky who quit taking his medication for this photo.Ĭawein came across an article in Blood, the journal of hematology, that described a similar condition among some Alaskan Indians and Inuit. ![]()
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