Melanoytes -- Dead or Dormant?

In the 1990's, I upset conventional vitiligo experts when I stated melanocytes were not "dead," as conventional experts believed, but rather, melanocytes were dormant. I had used a B vitamin mixed with olive oil on my skin one night and woke up with a large freckle the next morning. Dead melanocytes don't produce freckles! I'm happy to say, less than a decade later, conventional vitiligo experts proclaimed they had "discovered" that the melanocytes were not dead, but were merely dormant.