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women of my age are definitely all concerned about this era of our lives. So what do you recommend
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for softening or reversing those first signs of aging? So the little fine lines a lot of times they
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are aggravated there appears is more obvious when the skin is dry and women in particular
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with perimenopause and menopause start to experience more skin dryness overall and it can be subtle
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in the beginning you may not realize it so this is where regular consistent moisturizing ends up
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helping you out a lot doesn't go in there and reverse the actual wrinkle but it improves moisture
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retention in the outermost layer of the skin which is being lost more readily as we age and by
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doing that it really lessens those little fine I call them dehydration lines. That's a great way to
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put it. Welcome Dr. Dre to rooted in wellness I am so excited to have you here especially considering
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having me you're welcome especially considering my background a lot of people who might be new to
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to my community I actually start in the cosmetic world so brands like Christian Dior and Tom Ford and
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unfortunately at that time I noticed I was just slathering my body in a lot of chemical
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fragrances which I know you talk a lot about and I think that there's a really smart way to do
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skincare and you simplify it so much for your audience which is exactly why you have the following
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that you do so I'm so thrilled to have you on before we get started as I was mentioning know this
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podcast is all about ancient wisdom but inner modern world and really how we can become more rooted
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hence the name so it's rooted in your health and in yourself but also like your inner wisdom
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to heal and kind of cutting down all the noise that's out there so we're living in an era where
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we're like totally overstimulated emotionally physically mentally spiritually I'd love to know
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just to start things off personally what's you know one or two things that help you feel really
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rooted every day well I think a big thing that I've implemented over the years is turning off all
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of my devices about an hour before I am supposed to go to bed I really find that that helps me
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calm my mind so that I can go to sleep and I believe that the light from the devices does keep
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my brain at least a way longer than it needs to be just sets up a vicious cascade of staying
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out longer than I need to and that really has a drastic effect on all parameters of your health
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if you're not getting good sleep so that's really bound you know I guess you could say
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going back to more traditional way as bizarre as it sounds to not have a screen in front of
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your face but I would say that's made a huge difference for me and it's so simple right like I'm
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sure I don't know if you wear any sleep devices or if you tractor sleep with screens or without screens
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and the impact and if we're sleeping better you know we see it in our skin we'll talk more about
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on the flip side I always ask you know especially the doctors that come on you've been on this
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journey of what works and you obviously are learning what doesn't work for your system what are
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things that you notice make you feel really operated in your daily life so one being on a screen
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before bed but what else um I would say overextending myself to too many things at one time I think
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now that we're so connected it's a blessing and a curse that you can easily overextend what
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you're able to offer someone else and it starts to not only take a toll on those relationships with
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people because it can only be so many places at one time but it also wreaks havoc in your own
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life causing a lot of unnecessary stress so I think really setting firm boundaries in place
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is essential um because now that we're so connected and people can get in touch with you
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at any moment at any time of the day or anywhere in the world you really have to
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yeah yeah 100% and do you have boundaries for yourself at night like I just imagine you with
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everything that you talk about you've got some pretty strict boundaries for your nighttime rituals
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is that something where you put this into practice let's take a quick break to talk about something
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collagen and elastin like they should and even worse they release harmful inflammatory chemicals
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Mona for 15% off trust me your skin will thank you well I really like to wind down about an hour
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to an hour and a half before I go to bed like I said no screens and I really I always take a shower
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and I feel like once I'm in the shower and doing my nighttime skin care routine then it's pretty much
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I'm off offline out of out of contact that's a goal at least I'm not saying that I'm perfect about
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it so those of you out there are like but you answered my comment at two in the morning so it's not
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it's not perfect but that's definitely the goal is to you know wind down because I think
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that it's really easy to just keep going oh my god that is exactly why I asked that question because
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I think the people with a lot of them look at experts or practitioners like you and me like we've
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got it figured out but I think we can own in on the things that we know really work for ourselves
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and I think that if we keep making this part of the messaging for people eventually it's just
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going to catch on we have to make that trend a little bit more all right so let's let's switch
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gears so when we think about this insane massive global skin care market I think it hit over 200
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billion dollars like it's insane it's driven by social media it's driven by these like hashtags
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of clean beauty and wellness trends and yet still to this day 72% of women say that they feel
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completely overwhelmed by skincare choices and 59% don't even know what skincare ingredients they
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can actually trust anymore because we're hearing it all right and it's hard to know what works and
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heart it's hard to know what what doesn't where we're wasting our time and money so let's start
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off by like cutting through some of that noise and talking about like the routines that actually
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work and what it looks like for you so you being such a trusted voice in this skincare world
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how you merge science without the fluff I think is really important can you just tell us first
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what inspired you to enter the world of dermatology and how did your mission kind of evolved from
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that into the educational work that you do so I was actually working in a lab during medical school
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on a mouse model of skin cancer that was sort of my gateway into dermatology I really didn't know
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what specialty I was going to go into at that time I originally thought I was going to be an OB
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GYN and then found out that was like not for me and so while I was working on this project it led me
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to work with a dermatologist and it really opened my eyes to all of the ways in which dermatology
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as a specialty you can go in so many directions there's hair there's skin there's nails there's
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skin cancer or there's medical dermatology there's you know cancer surgeries I mean it goes on
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and on there were a lot of potential avenues and it's such an accessible organ that it's also a
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great potential sounding board to answer really interesting research questions so that's what led
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me into dermatology and in starting in their early stages of my career and in training I always
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found it so frustrating for patients because we only have so much time in that visit and you know
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most of us learn how to swallow a pillow and learn young maybe easier for some of us than others
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but we really don't get like education training on how to put skin care on or how to put
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topical medications on so what seems really intuitive for me at this point just because of my
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background is something that's just not natural to a lot of people and so I turn to YouTube
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to create content about basically skin care and essentials for skin care also and in doing that
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I came across a lot of bad information out there that I wanted to debunk and it's kind of evolved
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from there what a cool story and to your point that's so true like even in the world of health
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and wellness and nutrition in Ayurveda we think about our skin like it's a massive organ we
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digest with our skin and yet no one talks about it and I'm sure you've probably come across
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like so many people who like maybe they don't even consider going to a dermatologist until something
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goes wrong instead of for prevention or maybe understand how our skin directly influences
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everything inside of our body like yeah it really really does have a lot of value in terms of
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telling you when things are going on internally I tell this to my audience on YouTube all the time
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but it really is a window to what's going on internally and one of the cool things about the
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specialty is that you oftentimes can just walk into a room and know what's wrong with somebody just
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by looking at something on their skin or their nails or in their mouth I mean it's really
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amazing like you could actually save someone's life just by knowing what a bump on their skin is
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and I'm not being hyperbolic there are situations like that where you end up helping a patient
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get to a diagnosis that would have taken a ton of lab tests and invasive testing to figure out
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just because their skin was like hey look at me so yeah it's really great and to your point
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about you know the digestive tract there is definitely a close link between the gut and the
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skin and a lot of crosstalk between those two systems and you do see a lot of overlap of skin
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and digestive problems together my own process like over the past 20 years if it was an
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Ayurvedic practitioner or traditional Chinese medicine doctor like I'm always so amazed at the
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amount of time that they spend looking at your hair and your skin and your nails and your tongue
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to really give them insight no lab tests no expensive procedures or anything like that so I love
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that you speak about that and like what great information for people to use because we're not
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getting it anywhere and when you mention your story like I remember when I worked in the cosmetic
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world I would love meeting with all the scientists that would come in so obviously it's no secret
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to our listeners every big beauty brand out there there's like a scientist that finds an ingredient
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becomes this like star ingredient that's like the star of the show it's going to be the cure all
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but would you agree that from that translation especially in the world of like big beauty
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um it kind of gets watered down a little bit so like the science might be there but then they've
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got to make it sell they've got to make it you know a really great price it's got to make it smell
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good would you say a lot of that is really like lost in translation when it hits consumers in the
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marketplace absolutely I think brands become so laser focused on coming out with something that's
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going to capture the consumer attention because you know you buy your cleanser your moisturizer and
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sunscreen you got to they got to get you coming back for something else a new ingredient or
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something of that sort and something that they teach us as physicians that I think is you know
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germane to skin care as like you never want to be the first doctor to be using a new drug like
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always best to stick with what's been around a while and wait for those newer things to really
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parks out to see if they're actually going to prove to be what you know the exciting study claim
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that was going to be and I'm the same whole true for claims made in skin care um there are always new
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anti-aging ingredients that come out and get you know really popularized and you know if you
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actually look into the science it's like how do you need to tell me you actually figured out how
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to get that into the skin in a cream I'm not buying it and you know over time they kind of
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fizzle out and you know I think it's good to have a healthy degree of skepticism for new
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hyped ingredients and with social media always you know blasting things on our feet all the time
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you might be led to believe that like you have to have all these things and you know it's kind of
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funny because I spend a lot of time trying out different skin care products new products reviewing
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them on my channel so I probably test out hundreds honestly but then at the same time my baseline
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messaging is you actually really don't need all these things you really just you know wash your
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face put on a moisturizer if your skin feels dry and protect your skin from the sun like that's
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really what most people need unless you have some skin disease then you know maybe you need a
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topical treatment or a certain skin care product to support the needs of that skin condition but
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by and large I mean that that's really it so all these new exciting ingredients they might help
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they might lead to some visible improvement in the skin but you know they're only so many you
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only have one face can't put everything on there so yeah can you reiterate that because look
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the skin care world the beauty world is just like supplementation and weight loss like everyone is
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still despite decades of falling off the wagon and finding out something doesn't work everyone is
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still so addicted to find like what the next best thing is what the next best thing is and we
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constantly give these things ago but can you just recap what you just said what does truly effective
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skin care as a routine look like for you well honestly it's a big part of it is consistency
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I think a lot of people you know like I said things come out left and right like every time you
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you look up there's like 10 new ingredients products things that are like almost happily gray out
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someone's claiming change the game for them but you really have to stick with skin care for a
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while to see any kind of change you know six weeks so people claim they put on a cream and you know
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all of a sudden they look 10 years younger that's definitely not likely now so um and you know
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you have to give a given ingredient time to work or give them product time to work and also keep
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in mind that the more things you add the more likely you are to run into irritation and problems
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and conflicting with all of the different products and formulations and so it's best to just
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keep things simple and just keep repeating what is you know seemingly well tolerated for you
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and working and allow it to really do something and stay consistent with it you know the basic
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tenets of skin care cleanse moisturize protect they really do pay off in the long run if you stay
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consistent with them and helping your skin you know providing a supporting role to skin cleanse
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moisturize protect that is simple I absolutely love that yeah I remember working with one big
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beauty brand and they discovered this exclusive grape from the south of France with a molecule
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in it that was going to make everything better and your skin was going to become more firm
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but then you turn around the ingredient label and it's like the very last ingredient after about 30
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ever other ingredients so yeah we got to stop like sensationalizing all of these things and
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especially in the world of social media where a lot of influences are saying this is the cure all like
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we just have to really look into um one what it is to what the ingredients are and like really
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if something says it's too good to be true then it probably is too good to be true right that old sage
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advice absolutely so we had a lot of questions that came in obviously from a lot of men and women
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about really feeling empowered through their skin um but without having to chase like all of these
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aggressive or invasive treatments that are coming up I want to know from you what is aging gracefully
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mean to you and what does it look like actually in practice so I think the biggest thing that
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we see where people have signs of accelerated skin aging and it's you know there's it's
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expected normal and healthy for our skin to age and it ages you know in a pretty typical
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pattern but where people can run into you know problems things that they want to avoid are doing
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things that push the gas pedal and make things more significant and yes there's a cosmetic
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consequence if you will to that looking older or wrinkles but there's also a health change
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associated with that and that the more for example Sunday I'll mention that you have going on
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the more likely you are to have skin cancers the more likely you are to have poor wound healing
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as you get older so it's not just about the way it looks that's kind of an added benefit of
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taking care of your skin but it's also keeping that organ system healthy and things that people
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might participate in um throughout their lifetime that are not good for the health of your
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skin long term or tanning uh tanning beds smoking and excessive alcohol consumption all of those
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things are really hard on your whole body but your skin in particular yeah absolutely they're
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they're stressors right and what a good protocol you know I love what you just said because
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you know we think always about what we can add what we can add what we can add but ultimately it's
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often about these big yet simple things that we can often just take away right so I love the call
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that out I also know like you were so great at calling out um a lot of these fads and one of those
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really is this clean beauty phase that we're in right now right so I talk about this all the time
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with my clients especially with my healing journey kind of doing an audit of your house of
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ingredients that may be contributing to you know if it's I hate the buzzword inflammation but
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just like the accumulation of things in your system that would manifest on your skin um I don't
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know about you but when you walk into Sephora and their clean beauty section when you're looking
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at being gradients and stuff like that it's just like I think the FDA kind of have their hands
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in that pot too but can you talk to us about your perception of clean beauty and what's happening
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out there so clean beauty is a marketing term it doesn't really have any substance to it at all
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anyone can say that their product is clean but what does it mean to be clean what does it mean to
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not be clean what is deciding and like and it also sends a message that there's some sort of
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special regulatory oversight over certain skin care products that are safer when all skin care
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is you know safe obviously you can have adverse skin reactions things of that sort but
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consumer safety is the same for all of these products there's not you know some special
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vetting of products that call themselves clean and so you know one brand might say they're
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clean because they use a certain preservative and not another preservative okay well is that
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preservative really better was the other preservative really bad so it gets into I mean it's
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a very misleading and I'm not a fan oh I love it I'm not a fan it's just such marketing it's
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like it's just another gimmick I would say that it's another one of those dangling carrots especially
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for a brand if they have to reformulate to hit the clean category and whatever that was decided
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upon they could have you know 12 or 13 clean ingredients to fall under that category and yet you'll
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still see like petroleum byproducts or you know fragrances a lot of like really harsh chemicals even
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um you know colors and stuff like that that are just unnecessary I can't say that they add anything
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outside of these insorial appeal for the whole experience that are beneficial for for skin so
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it's really important to know that like I really want people to feel empowered when they're
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purchasing and look if it was actually clean like natural beauty we would probably pick something
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off of a tree crush it up put it into a jar but you know obviously that could never that could never
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work yeah from my perspective the biggest harm that comes from skincare products to your health
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is directly to the skin in the form of a contact dermatitis and that can be a contact dermatitis
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it is largely irritation or a contact dermatitis because you become allergic to an ingredient in
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the product and it's one of those things where you know people are allergic to peanuts but we don't
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say never ever eat peanuts unless you're allergic so it's kind of the same thing with skincare
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ingredients there are certain skincare ingredients that are common allergens and if you're going to
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develop an allergy to something in the product these are like the most common culprits like fragrance
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is pretty much the most common culprit allergen in skincare products for someone to develop a
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problem too and the funny thing is is that these clean beauty brands will say no synthetic fragrance
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but then natural fragrance it's still it's still the same issue like there's nothing about the
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natural fragrance that's going to be non allergen you know if you're allergic you're allergic
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doesn't matter what buzzword there is and so that's for me always been one of the most frustrating
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things is that these quote unquote clean brands for a patient with contact allergy you know they're
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still going to have there's they still need to read the ingredients there's nothing about them
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that's somehow safer that the other ones were unsafe just you have this problem and you have to
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look out for this ingredient and along those lines there's been a lot of clean beauty marketing
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around these preservatives are bad and we're not using those so what ends up happening
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is that they replace a preservative with another preservative which turned out to be even more
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likely to cause contact dermatitis the isothiazolanones so that's a real negative consequence
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of the misleading marketing is that it forces brands to make decisions about their
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formulations that aren't necessarily in the consumers best interest and they do it to attract
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the consumer but it can cause and end up causing more problems in the long run and do you speak
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about you know let's just take for example fragrances that come in a lot of skincare products and
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the connection to hormone disruption or thalates so that's outside of my area of expertise as far
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as the thalates I'm not a cosmetic formulator but my understanding and the research that I've
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done and speaking with cosmetic chemists and formulators is that the thalates is like a broad
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category and from what I understand the the presence of those and fragrances is not thought to
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actually be of concern for for the endocrine system my biggest issue with fragrances is for people
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who have a more of a likelihood to develop allergies to them as a big reason why I caution
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choose fragrance free it's safer safer in the sense that you you might be somebody who is
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in a situation where you're just more likely to become sensitized and allergic to fragrance so
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better to to try and lessen that that risk by going fragrance free not everyone needs to go
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fragrance free but some people are more a risk people who have certain types of exomas for example
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they're they'll see a dermatologist and the dermatologist will tell them I would only use
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fragrance free skincare that's why they're maybe more at risk for problems to it and the
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endocrine disruption thing I think is another category where it's really easy to scare the
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consumer unnecessarily based on a lot of times what we call preclinical studies so like animal
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models and things of that sort that 95% of the time don't necessarily translate to humans and we
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have a lot of safety data with the ingredients and skincare that we do have so yeah thank you for
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your honesty in that I think there's a lot of fear like coming up from both worlds on fragrances and
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a lot of these ingredients like they just haven't been around long enough but at the end of the day
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the failures are what binds the fragrance to your skin for a long period of time there's no reason
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for you to be smelling like peaches or strawberries or like these fragrances if you know that those
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ingredients are going into your skin why not just do your own research and just like drift the
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air of caution if you're looking to support any imbalance or symptom that you're suffering from
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just something to to consider but why not just opt for fragrance free is there any ingredient that
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you tend to avoid? I try my best although it's not easy to avoid the preservatives in the
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thizelanone clause not because they're necessarily directly harmful to your health but rather
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they are a higher risk of allergic reactions happening to those as a matter of fact those are
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one of the preservatives where they regulated the amount in like Europe and they've seen a decline
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in the incidence of people having problems to it as a result so I also have a topic dermatitis
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so I try and avoid it but that being said from time to time I use certain anti-dandruff
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shampoos that have that ingredient because the dandruff shampoo ends up helping and so I
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run that risk but I'll have to say yeah I try and avoid that just because of my background skin
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issues I try and avoid fragrance but like I said I'm trying out so many products for purposes of
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reviewing on my youtube channel it's sometimes they do end up testing products with fragrance
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and you know but by and large I try and avoid levon fragrance I should say like scented moisturizers
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on my face plus they just you're I find them annoying headache and like I don't want that smell
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in my face all day um and I think I'm not sure to your point of like if it's not necessary why
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have it um I get to a certain extent because certain raw ingredients have an off-putting odor
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and so consumers aren't necessarily going to want to use something that smells like rotten eggs for
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example so I get it from that perspective but I think a lot of times brands hold on to this
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idea and I guess it translates monetarily for them that consumers want a luxury experience and they
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you know associate the fragrance with that but a lot of people at least from my audience are like
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please no the fragrance we don't like it it's irritating to our skin like um stop doing that and
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over the years since I started on youtube I have definitely seen a rise in fragrance free skin care
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that you know people are excited about and buying so there's definitely a market for it
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dot com such a great call out and I love that you say like just customizing based on your own
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needs like you so I think that's important um all right let's switch gears now to a hot topic
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I'm gonna shout out there's a lot of people that sent in questions so Laura Diaz Christian Rodriguez
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Amy Dysar Polina they're all asking about fine lines wrinkles and sagging skin
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women of my age are definitely all concerned about this era of our lives so what do you recommend
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for softening or reversing those first signs of aging so the little fine lines a lot of times they
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are aggravated there appears is more obvious when the skin is dry and women in particular with
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perimenopause and menopause start to experience more skin dryness overall and it can be subtle
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in the beginning you may not realize that so this is where regular consistent moisturizing ends up
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helping you out a lot doesn't go in there and reverse the actual wrinkle but it improves moisture
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retention in the outermost layer of the skin which is being lost more readily as we age and by
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doing that it really lessens those little fine I call them dehydration lines when the skin is dry
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so that really can pay off a lot just consistently moisturizing the skin also it's never too late to
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start protecting your skin from the sun a lot of the wrinkles have to do with just lifetime sun
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exposure damages the collagen and the deeper layers of our skin and so it's never too late to
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start sun protection it can help slow down the process for you and protect what you do have
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and then as far as ingredients that can actually make a physical difference in collagen formation
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there is retinal is a cosmetic ingredient that you can buy you know at the drug store or
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retinal the hide is kind of related to it and those ingredients can help to improve how the
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skin turns over make it turn over more efficiently because with age that kind of gets a little lazy
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so it can improve that improve the smoothness of the skin and also can tell the cells and the
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deeper layers of the skin to make healthier collagen so that's another evidence-based ingredient
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family now of course their prescription forms of that that have a lot of data behind them for
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for doing those things and that you know work maybe a little bit faster but not everyone tolerates
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them not everyone wants to go down the rabbit hole of having to see a doctor and have a prescription
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for something for wrinkles so they're more inclined to use an over-the-counter cosmetic retinal
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or retinal the hide which can work and do you recommend like if that's a primary concern would
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you go the prescription route over the over-the-counter route you know it really depends on
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your the degree of concerns that you have I think some people are already seeing a dermatologist
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or a doctor who feels comfortable prescribing them or nowadays you can get them actually through
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these telehealth platforms that you know is they're definitely easier ways to get access to them
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and still a lot of people just find that there are two intents for lack of a better word they get
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a lot of dryness peeling and they tolerate the cosmetic forms much better and that works better
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for them I even know dermatologists who can't tolerate that like there's nothing about becoming
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a dermatologist that makes ingredients work for you okay so there are dermatologists that I know who
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themselves at home they don't use like treadmill I'm not because it's bad they're prescribing it
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left them right but they just don't tolerate it it's too dry it's too irritating but they'll use
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the cosmetic things so it's definitely an individualized outcome also I didn't mention this but
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you can buy a dapalene which is an acne treatment over the counter that's an actual retinoid
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and a lot of people end up using that it's not indicated for wrinkles but it can improve wrinkles
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as well we've seen that clinically trial and error right I definitely tried a prescription
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retinal and it was great until it wasn't and then my skin started to feel a little bit dry and
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flakey and stuff like that so yeah I think it's like you've got to really just tune into what your
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skin needs and maybe even at the time of year and in terms of sagging skin what about like all
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these lasers that are happening right now you know micro needling with PRP is definitely having a
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moment what are thoughts on sagging skin a lot of the maybe more intense treatments that are out there
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so for sagging some of that is related to how the the face ages over time it's not just your skin
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now but it's the underlying framework the bone you get bone loss especially around your eye
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and you end up having the the cheek descent and so things just kind of start to droop and then
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they're you know the jaw area can be more obvious you can have a lot of sagging in the lower neck
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creams skin care products that you buy without a prescription they're not going to change those
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things they're not going to replace loss bone and that support there you're looking at more
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treatments that you would have in office certain tiny treatments like ult therapy for example
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or radio frequency in office can tighten these areas and from them and you can get a nice lifting
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effect also strategic placement of filler depending on the area can just kind of help to
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provide a little bit of support in some of these areas and get reversal of that but
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the other thing people nowadays are hearing a lot about with the rise in use of the medications
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for weight loss the GLP1 agonist the year of people saying oh it was a big phase so I always let
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people know that it's not necessarily those drugs but anytime you have a rapid or profound weight
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loss you can get a lot of hollowing and sagging in those situations so I wouldn't say that as a way
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to discourage anyone who who needed necessarily to go on a weight loss journey to do so but
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there are ways to kind of lessen that in the process by making sure you're fueling your your body
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still getting in good protein you're being on those medications out of safe dose your doctor is
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monitoring you so it's not like so extreme the weight loss is in a healthy rate and at the end
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of the day if you do have a lot of sagging which many people end up with when they lose a lot of
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weight there are cosmetic interventions that can can be offered to replace that so you're just
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making me think there's going to be a whole new wave isn't there after all these GLP1s that
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are going to be used there already is a large increase in demand for cosmetic procedures around
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around those medications and weight loss but it's to be clear it's it's not the drug it's just
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the weight loss like people who have weight loss surgery for example also can see those same
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changes in their face I mean anytime you lost if you were to lose a lot of weight especially
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very quickly you know it can make you look older I'll lose it on my cheeks first before
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anywhere else in my body isn't it isn't it always like that same thing with hair right we lose the
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hair that we want and then we grow here where we don't want it oh my god girl yeah I'm older than
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you so yeah this is like front and center for me so you mentioned a few things there but like
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radio frequency low hanging fruit non-invasive totally supportive for tightening the skin I think
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that that's like maybe a really great way to start and would you say consistency to because like we
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look at all therapy I wish all therapy was affordable for a lot of people because it's also non-invasive
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but when we look at all of these things it's consistency also right like when you commit to doing
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some sort of a treatment you have to be consistent with it for a certain period of time there's no
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kind of one-and-done treatment out there exactly exactly maintenance and maintenance
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maintenance things like that yeah definitely when I pay the top yeah go ahead
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and you know it's it's one of those things to where how motivated are you to do these things
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and I always tell people they're not necessary they're not medically necessary so just because
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there's that's you know kind of one of the consequences of us having so much access these days
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to so many people is that you are led to believe especially the way algorithms feed you things
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that everybody is doing these procedures and then once you hit this age you've got to be you know
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going in and doing these procedures and you don't so it's it's really a personal decision it's
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great that we have them but I also want people to know that like lots of people don't do them and
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you know it's fine too that's so true like we can't trick the system it's just like the world of
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nutrition you know you can do the best workout on the planet but if you're drinking a bottle of wine
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every night and going having fast food every single weekend then you're probably not going to get
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the same reward so it's this holistic view and do you often talk about that internal aspect like
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do you ever look at blood labs from your clients um so blood work is a very helpful tool
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in a variety of skin issues and hair for sure um and and yes definitely uh for dermatology blood
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work is yeah something would look out a lot but um you know I always emphasize on my in my content
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to people that like lifestyle habits really really really pay off in the long run as far as
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how healthy you are able to stay and how your you know your skin looks yeah but also the the
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health piece of it the longevity it really all adds up it has a you know compounding effect
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the those healthy behaviors of staying active eating a balanced diet um getting good sleep
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managing your stress and I think that those things are boring they don't always you know
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generate the clicks your fruits and vegetables like make sure you're sleeping but
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that that really does make a huge difference for sure what if true wellness wasn't about
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extreme diets or the latest trends but instead about daily sustainable habits that actually work
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my name is Mona Sharma celebrity nutritionist and I have spent years blending functional medicine
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with ancient healing practices and with the help of my colleague Dr. Mark Hyman we've narrowed it
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massive impact we have to make that go viral because it's funny my world and your world everything
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that you just said is the exact same foundation as well as so many of the practitioners that come
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on here it's the foundations get the foundations right and like a lot of the other symptoms just go away
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all right and the funny thing isn't that it's you know a small habit change can trickle
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down into the other areas like for example I encourage people to just try exercise it's some
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frequency walking it doesn't have to be some intimidating intense thing but then that ends up
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leading you to sleep better and it has benefits for your stress level so now you're hitting
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a couple of different key pillars of health just by being able to go on a walk for example it's
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it's you know really a lot of things can end up changing for you in a positive direction
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you're talking my language everything's connected I love that thank you for saying that
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all right another really hot topic is hyperpigmentation so when we think about this is men and
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women and things that they can be doing you have a lot of really great videos on like simple
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washes that you can do for your skin and really how to treat this as we age for me like it's a 40
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thing I live in Los Angeles for crying out loud so like now I feel like I'm way more sensitive to
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the sun in my 40s than ever before I know a lot of that's hormonally driven but some of us just
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have different skin texture and a lot of people of color also more prone to that right can you
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elaborate on them definitely definitely so anything in the skin that causes some inflammation
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whether it be acne or eczema or a condition called severing dermatitis which is really common
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actually related to dandruff but you get these flaky patches like around your nose and your
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eyebrows all of this inflammation for people especially who have pigmented deeper skin tones
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it can leave behind either hyperpigmentation or it can take away the background skin color and
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lead to hypo pigmentation skin lightening and that post inflammatory pigmentary change it can linger
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for a while and it stays around as long as a couple of things that came about first of all what it
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was that led to it if it was a really inflammatory like the more inflammation the more stubborn and
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significant the pigmentation is likely going to be so for example really inflamed cystic acne
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may have a more stubborn dark spot than just like a little bug bite that maybe you picked out a bit
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and also how long it went flared up and untreated can also make that residual
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pigmentary change all the more stubborn so that's a big thing like the pigment change is what
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bothers people the most but you also have to address that underlying causative factor for short
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and then of course the sun will drive more of the hyperpigmentation to stick around and to stay
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around a lot longer so the sun protection piece becomes very important also for people with deep
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skin tones specifically you know you think about the sun and dermatology where I was talking about
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ultraviolet radiation being the main thing but there's also a visible light right that is what
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illuminates everything and of that there's blue light and we come to learn that that blue light
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from the sun because it's a really strong dose from the sun it actually can lead to more stubborn
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hyperpigmentation in deeper skin tone specifically paler skin types it doesn't it's not clear that
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it does anything but for deeper skin tones there's just like true mechanism there and we recommend
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people try to use sunscreens that are tinted because the tint comes from ingredients called iron
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oxides that seem to help protect from the blue light they don't protect from the ultraviolet
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radiation would also drive it but they protect from that blue light piece of things so if you choose
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a tinted sunscreen you kind of are covering both of those bases for fading or helping to
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fade the hyperpigmentation you also can get those pigments from your makeup from foundation and
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things of that sort as well so you know if you don't find a tinted sunscreen that works well for
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you you could also be using like your foundation for that iron oxide piece of things oh that's
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good no one's talking about blue light so what you're making me think of then is well one are doing
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things like peels way too invasive and on the flip side SPF what's the number that we should be
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wearing every day when we go outside yeah definitely so chemical peels can actually be incredibly
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incredibly helpful for helping to fade post-inflammatory hyperpigmentation as well as sunspots age
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spots and the you know the nice thing about peels is that there are a few different agents that
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can be used and depths of peel and you can go really conservative and do multiples over time
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roll low low and slow and that actually can really help people get clearer faster just by being
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patient on the peels so going to a dermatologist you know who has a training and knows pigmented
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skin and everything of that sort you really can get some very nice results actually with chemical
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peels so yes that's definitely an option also sun protection it's it's funny the recommendation
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is always SPF 30 or higher and I think that's a great baseline measurement the thing about sunscreen
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that makes it so annoying not only do you have to apply it and apply it every day regularly
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but you also have to apply apply enough of it a thick enough layer the way it's that measurement
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is is devised they put it on the skin in a pretty thick layer when they're doing the testing
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so in order to compensate for that the higher the SPF that you choose the more likely you are at
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least to get a good protection on just because of the nature in which most people apply sunscreen
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in a thinner layer than they should because it's annoying to apply it that thick like when you really
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try and apply it as thick as you need to it's like especially if it's a mineral sunscreen and then
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people are like okay what is on your face yeah that's one of the challenges I thought I
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thought a big component of sunscreen that's like my whole channel tagline right sunscreen and
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subscribe but also you need I suggest other protective measures especially when you're out in
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the sunny day like hats and you know long sleeves are you that woman are you if I would if I were to
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see you leave your house are you leaving with a big brim hat and big sunglasses is that you
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yeah I do I mean I live in Houston it's like sunny from 2 a.m. to 3 a.m. next morning it seems like
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the sun here is always yeah yeah very intense um and you know I was just in Florida recently and
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they don't call it the sunshine state for for no reason but you know other areas of the world they
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don't have as much um sun you know intensity and so you know there they can be a little bit um we'll
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say negligent with the sun protection but it's not as as drastic as it is here you know in certain
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areas of the world like Australia has very strong sun that's why they have such a high
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amount of skin cancer and they've got really you know from a public health standpoint they have really
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comprehensive sun protection requirements like the children in the schools there you
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know there's got to be shade and things like that because it's so so intense there for sure
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what I'm really hearing you say like this is ultimately our prevention right so the type of
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sunblock and I'll fully emit as a woman I hate the feel of sunblocks on my skin I put a new one
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on this morning and it was like completely white I look like a ghost until I warmed it all out with
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makeup so you've got to find one that you like but I think that this is one area where like put it
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on your face find one that you really really really really like um also go back to those important
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thing with sunscreen like there's so much conflicting information out there about sunscreen it
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really can scare people and terrify them but honestly the best one is the one that you're
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actually going to use because you know I you can get into the science and the specs of different
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sunscreen ingredients like the wavelengths and the breadth but if you're not putting it on your
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face it's completely useless and it's not a perfect intervention by any means because like I said
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people don't apply enough of it it's you know it's definitely a I would never tell someone to
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rely solely on sunscreen like as their only means of sun protection for example when they're
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on the beach all day and you know I would always say rain and other things but it's it's definitely
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you know important but it doesn't work if it's not applied totally in at the end of the day I'm
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with you there's so many studies coming out and there's a lot of really shitty poor quality
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sunblocks that are out there with like really gross ingredients and those fragrances that we talked
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about before but at the end of the day if I'm looking at this through lens of aging just look at
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skin where there's been studies of people who have used suns some blog versus those who don't like
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you just see firsthand the the benefit of it for from a anti-age standpoint so let's stick with
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that one all right switching to ancient wisdom a little bit let's talk about caster oil so caster oil
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I think is like it's really cool that this ancient ingredient that's come from you know seeds
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is now resurfacing um you know in Ayurvedic medicine it's often used either as a laxative or
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used for detoxification and I love seeing these like ancient rituals come back caster oil packs and
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the nutrition world are also really trending right now um why do you think it's trending you've
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done a lot of educational videos on it why do you like it so caster oil is commonly found in
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skin care products it's a moisturizing oil it's very viscous it's very thick so it's actually you
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know as an ingredient it's really good for moisturizing the skin and a lot of people who use it on
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their lashes um they feel like it has helped their lashes grow now I don't know about that but I
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will say because it is so viscous it really coats the hair and it can make them look thicker and it
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also can help cut down on breakage of hair you know the hair the lashes so um I I can see why people
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like using it um this is a case with anything you put on your skin whether it's you know caster oil
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or anything there's always a possibility for you to be someone who reacts negatively to it either
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again irritation or allergic reaction and allergic reactions are possible with anything but they
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definitely can happen with with caster oil um and you know you want to be careful if you are using
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it around your eyes some people develop a lot of irritation up close to the lash line so I always
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suggest you know maybe just putting it towards the tips for the conditioning benefits um so as long
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as people are aware that you know there's a possibility not everything that's natural is
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necessarily safer per se but yeah I can definitely see why people like it as an ingredient um it is
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very moisturizing it has a compound in it called racinolayic acid that has a lot of um potential
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anti-inflammatory effects uh and you know it's uh used I think um into I think it can induce premature
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labor because of that so you know pregnant women have to be careful about you know adjusting it
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but um it it definitely makes sense that people find certain health benefits for that it is
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a laxative um so I caution people about ingesting it um and I I can see you know I I don't know
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that I fully buy into the caster oil pack thing but you know theoretically I guess the compounds
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maybe they can relax the muscle um somehow if they got in that way um and you know help with
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perhaps cramps or something like that but I you know I'm not going to say that I believe that works
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but as an ingredient it's it's really moisturizing a lot of people feel like it it's good for
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hair growth and I wish me had studies on that um showing that you know if it can help with the
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hair growth that theoretically there's a potential mechanism there but there's not any research study
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looking at it so as far as I can tell at least it's moisturizing for the hair but um because it's so
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thick I do warn people this is rare um but there is a uh situation where it could cause some
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matting of the hair depending on your hair time so that's another thing that we've seen a couple
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of times it's rare but just another possible thing to keep in mind but yeah it's definitely a
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popular um remedy for a variety of things you said russinalic acid that was what is anti-inflammatory
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and yeah like that in and of itself is amazing so if we know that something's going to help to
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lower inflammation it would just make sense and like you in my world so with caster oil packs around
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the abdomen trending it's a really big diabetic tradition also around like a lot of fasting
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experts out there as well there isn't a lot of scientific data but I think that this is just one
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of those things often when people introduce really healthy rituals it causes them to make other
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really better healthier choices so whether you believe it or not I think for those of you who have
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listened I'm sure some people listening are just like oh my god I swear by caster oil packs and it
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works for you I think it's it's great and I love that you talked about the hair growth aspect because
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like oh my gosh hair growth is a hot topic now right you talk a lot about hair loss hair especially
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in the utterance of the eyebrows and stuff like that there's a lot of brands that are creating
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products with this in um is that something that you do would you ever take a um an eyelash or
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sorry a mascara one and put some caster oil in your eyebrows do you ever do that I haven't done
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that no but I know that's a very popular thing to do to condition it definitely could help condition
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the lashes like I said to what extent it actually grows hair I wish we had a study but um you know a
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lot of uh you know that's a popular market now for lash and brow growth serums and it's funny
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because most many of them with a few exceptions have um and a class of ingredients called
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prostaglanin analogs and that's actually what uh latisse is um latisse the prescription
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lash growth medication has the active drug is something called bimatipros but there are
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similar compounds that are considered cosmetic and are what are you so they do work to grow
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hair wherever they're applied the brows the lashes but they have the same side effects that
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latisse can eyelid irritation red eyes can cause hyperpigmentation of the eyelid area or whatever
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skin area you're applying it to obviously if it gets under your eye it can cause a little hairs
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to grow there and some people even develop uh this fat loss around the eye related to these
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compounds so it's one of those things were like you know because they're cosmetics people aren't
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necessarily being worn about that like they would be if they were getting the prescription latisse
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but um you know that's a situation where you would think that castor oil would be like a safer
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alternative yeah it still has a risk of irritation but there's no report of it causing fat loss
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around the eyes like could potentially happen with these so you know it's one of those things were
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sometimes the maybe maybe the castor oil is safer i don't know it's so funny because we want to
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believe right oh it's so simple it's one ingredient and all these people are talking about the benefits
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we want to be able to use it and see those results so yeah i'm with you i mean i love that it's one
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simple ingredient that everyone can include um but definitely you know don't believe the hype
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of everything else right just trust they're using like some some thing you know pretty much there's
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there's going to be side effects with 99% of things right but it's the transparency of side effects
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that i think is really frustrating not only with skincare but with wellness things like supplements
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and things of that sort like some people are okay with the potential of
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hyperpigmentation of their eye life forever but if they didn't know that they develop it then
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they're really like upset about it what a good foundation you guys keep going you and i keep going
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back to the basics like understanding internally what could be impacting your hair your skin your
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hair growth i love that you brought that up um there was a question on hyperthyroidism and
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hair loss also how should someone know this like should they go to their doctor they're having a
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lot of hair loss first do they go to their dermatologist first what do you say yeah i'm hair loss
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is really complicated and so um dermatologists are the hair specialty we get the training on all
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the hair loss disorders how to diagnose them how to note they're related to an underlying health
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problem like the thyroid and so it's you know if you are having hair loss see your health care
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provider and ask them you know like i'm really worried about this could you refer me to a dermatologist
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dermatology well usually approach hair loss by of course examining you asking you questions about
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your medical history and then actually looking through your scalp looking at your hair they
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might even take a biopsy of the scalp to look under the skin and go from there to figure out
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what is going on but to the point about thyroid both hyper too high of thyroid hormone or hypo
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which is a lot more common too low both of them impact the hair can cause hair loss brittle hair
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changes in the hair texture and we do see a lot of thyroid problems and hair loss together and
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it's one of those things where a lot of times people will end up in the dermatologist office
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with a hair problem and we find out oh you actually have a thyroid disease that has been missed
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because um you know maybe it wasn't checked or something of that sort but yeah thyroid is
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possible also a lot of a lot of hypo thyroid is autoimmune and those patients tend to have a
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tendency to have other autoimmune things so they may have autoimmune hair loss it's called alopecia
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ariata they might also have little ligo that's another that's a skin problem where you lose the
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pigment in the skin often can be seen in people who have hypo thyroidism so yeah there's there's a
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lot of overlap there but to answer the question hair loss I really push for people to see a dermatologist
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if they're able to because a lot of hair loss um it it has a window of time where you can really
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get in there and correct it but if you let it go untreated you won't you'll lose that hair and
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you won't get it back and that's really what you know hair loss is really really psychologically
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distressing for people to go through so I definitely encourage people to to see a dermatologist
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if they're able to it's funny I always ask my clients to build a care team so a doctor that's
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their partner in healing and a dermatologist should definitely be one of those people so you're listening
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to this find a dermatologist who's your partner in feeling best and really one like you today you
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keep under keep emphasizing this idea of also understanding your biology you know a lot of
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guests that are listening right now sick preet uh Dr. Gary you know they're talking about these
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internal issues that you're talking about and maybe to bring things full circle stress and diet
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are those two pillars also like we've talked about inflammation of the skin hair loss autoimmune
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condition like it really all does go together doesn't it 100% 100% yes yes with the hair like the
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hair growing hair is so demanding I believe it or not like those little hair follicles they have
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so much work to do they are a lot of energy so that when your body is under a lot of stress whether
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it be emotional stress or physical stress like you've been ill you've had a big surgery you have a
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fever your hair follicles they check out they're like this is not the time to be making hair
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and so hair loss is often a warning sign of of health problems but definitely stress definitely
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stress can cause hair loss for sure thank you for bringing that up everything is connected and often
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it's the simple things that we can do that has such profound impact on the way we look but also our
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energy how we feel and our body functions so I'm mindful of your time let's wrap this up with
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some rapid fire questions okay so what is one common mistake that you are seeing most people make
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when it comes to their skin recently my body was trying to tell me something my glow was gone water
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wasn't cutting it and I was riding this weird energy roller coaster sluggish in the morning crashing
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by 3 pm and totally wired at night coffee obviously made things worse and no amount of skincare was
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helping to bring the glow back to my skin then I found something that actually worked
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which I am so here for it's the kind of support that your body feels and that your skin shows
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so if you're over the burnt out bloating or dull skin phase and you want to try something that
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I think a lot of people who deal with well common mistake people make is not protecting their skin
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from the sun regularly and you know they're doing all of these things with their skin care routine
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they're trying out all of these anti-aging searones but they're like lacking that foundational
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piece and maybe they're going out and tanning and it's kind of like all right well that serum
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is completely useless like this is the main thing that you should focus on the other thing that
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is actually a habit that a lot of people develop that's really hard to break is picking the skin
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some people do it absolutely some people do it as a stress coping mechanism especially people
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who have acne maybe they get stressed out they pick their skin or they want to pop or squeeze
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and that backfires all the time it can cause hyperpigmentation scarring make the acne worse or
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the skin problem worse and you can get an infection there and it does become this kind of habitual
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thing that a lot of people get into and of course you know like I was saying um not to be
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to dead horse but the internet has always like shown us things that we probably don't need to watch
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in those pimple popping videos come up and uh devices squeeze your face and it's like
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no don't do that don't do it your split is like there is a barrier like well you know
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breaking holes with it but it's actually really hard for a lot of people to break that it
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becomes like a full flood you've seen no people bite their nails when they get stressed out
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some people pick their skin um it's really hard to break and you know it's 10 years old
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a lot of inflammation I was thinking if he was scratching all these gaps he does so many sports
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and I'm like oh my god you're you're setting a habit that you're going to take on into your teenage
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years so yes no picking no breaking of your skin what excites you most about modern dermatology or
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skin care science right now well I I really get excited about new advancements in
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therapeutics that can help people who have certain inflammatory skin conditions different um
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drugs that come out that address like very specific arms of the immune system to really
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help clear those um and also those kinds of drugs that end up treating cancers it's wild to
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me that when I was a medical student like um people who had invasive melanoma it was such a grave
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prognosis and not to say that it's like no longer a grave prognosis but we do have these new
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medications newer or I should say they're not actually new but um time flies um but they've
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actually really helped people with with invasive um cancers live longer and I just think that that
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is really an amazing testament to the hard work that sciences can do to discover therapeutic
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targets that really help people um not suffer so much yeah it's the coolest part about science
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that I absolutely love all right so for our men there's actually balance of men and women that
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sent in their questions so if we were to just simplify this if you could leave those listeners
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with just like a simple takeaway to feel confident in their skin care regime every single day
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what would like the three or four things be let's just recap that for them coming from a dermatologist
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you can feel confident if you are staying consistent with your skin care routine and
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include some degree of cleansing moisturizing if you need it and protecting your skin from the
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sun and I say if you need it because there are also people out there who have never used a moisturizer
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and are completely fine they don't feel like their skin is dry they don't have any sort of skin
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problem um I find a lot of men fall into this category maybe because men have thicker skin
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they don't tend to lose water from the skin as readily and they you know they don't really
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necessarily need a moisturizer so if it's not broken you know we'll need to go fixing it with a
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product um so really just to understand that a lot of the hype around skin care is just that
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and that you you're likely doing exactly what you need if you you know prioritize a protection
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and some degree of consistent cleansing is is important but a lot of a lot of really what goes
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into healthy skin is your lifestyle habits here it is again lifestyle what you're consuming I love
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Dr. Dre thank you so much I mean in a world where skin care is trending with so much
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confusion online thank you for the science that you've given and a really simple approach to
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basic daily routines I'm so excited to know you and I can't wait to have you back on thank you
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well thank you for having me Mona I really appreciate it this has been great and I um you know
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hope everyone out there feels a little more confident about their skin thank you and thank you
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for everyone who sent in all the questions I'm pretty sure we caught the three biggest categories
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today so pass it out to those um who have the same concerns about their skin and aging well and
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feeling great in your skin thanks Dr. Dre
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women of my age are definitely all concerned about this era of our lives. So what do you recommend
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for softening or reversing those first signs of aging? So the little fine lines a lot of times they
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are aggravated there appears is more obvious when the skin is dry and women in particular
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with perimenopause and menopause start to experience more skin dryness overall and it can be subtle
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in the beginning you may not realize it so this is where regular consistent moisturizing ends up
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helping you out a lot doesn't go in there and reverse the actual wrinkle but it improves moisture
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retention in the outermost layer of the skin which is being lost more readily as we age and by
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doing that it really lessens those little fine I call them dehydration lines. That's a great way to
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put it. Welcome Dr. Dre to rooted in wellness I am so excited to have you here especially considering
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having me you're welcome especially considering my background a lot of people who might be new to
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to my community I actually start in the cosmetic world so brands like Christian Dior and Tom Ford and
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unfortunately at that time I noticed I was just slathering my body in a lot of chemical
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fragrances which I know you talk a lot about and I think that there's a really smart way to do
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skincare and you simplify it so much for your audience which is exactly why you have the following
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that you do so I'm so thrilled to have you on before we get started as I was mentioning know this
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podcast is all about ancient wisdom but inner modern world and really how we can become more rooted
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hence the name so it's rooted in your health and in yourself but also like your inner wisdom
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to heal and kind of cutting down all the noise that's out there so we're living in an era where
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we're like totally overstimulated emotionally physically mentally spiritually I'd love to know
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just to start things off personally what's you know one or two things that help you feel really
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rooted every day well I think a big thing that I've implemented over the years is turning off all
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of my devices about an hour before I am supposed to go to bed I really find that that helps me
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calm my mind so that I can go to sleep and I believe that the light from the devices does keep
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my brain at least a way longer than it needs to be just sets up a vicious cascade of staying
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out longer than I need to and that really has a drastic effect on all parameters of your health
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if you're not getting good sleep so that's really bound you know I guess you could say
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going back to more traditional way as bizarre as it sounds to not have a screen in front of
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your face but I would say that's made a huge difference for me and it's so simple right like I'm
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sure I don't know if you wear any sleep devices or if you tractor sleep with screens or without screens
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and the impact and if we're sleeping better you know we see it in our skin we'll talk more about
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on the flip side I always ask you know especially the doctors that come on you've been on this
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journey of what works and you obviously are learning what doesn't work for your system what are
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things that you notice make you feel really operated in your daily life so one being on a screen
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before bed but what else um I would say overextending myself to too many things at one time I think
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now that we're so connected it's a blessing and a curse that you can easily overextend what
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you're able to offer someone else and it starts to not only take a toll on those relationships with
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people because it can only be so many places at one time but it also wreaks havoc in your own
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life causing a lot of unnecessary stress so I think really setting firm boundaries in place
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is essential um because now that we're so connected and people can get in touch with you
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at any moment at any time of the day or anywhere in the world you really have to
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yeah yeah 100% and do you have boundaries for yourself at night like I just imagine you with
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everything that you talk about you've got some pretty strict boundaries for your nighttime rituals
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is that something where you put this into practice let's take a quick break to talk about something
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and get exposed to UV rays our skin cells enter senescence they stop rejuvenating and producing
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collagen and elastin like they should and even worse they release harmful inflammatory chemicals
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and cause neighboring cells to become dysfunctional too it's like a domino effect that makes our skin
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Mona for 15% off trust me your skin will thank you well I really like to wind down about an hour
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to an hour and a half before I go to bed like I said no screens and I really I always take a shower
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and I feel like once I'm in the shower and doing my nighttime skin care routine then it's pretty much
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I'm off offline out of out of contact that's a goal at least I'm not saying that I'm perfect about
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it so those of you out there are like but you answered my comment at two in the morning so it's not
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it's not perfect but that's definitely the goal is to you know wind down because I think
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that it's really easy to just keep going oh my god that is exactly why I asked that question because
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I think the people with a lot of them look at experts or practitioners like you and me like we've
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got it figured out but I think we can own in on the things that we know really work for ourselves
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and I think that if we keep making this part of the messaging for people eventually it's just
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going to catch on we have to make that trend a little bit more all right so let's let's switch
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gears so when we think about this insane massive global skin care market I think it hit over 200
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billion dollars like it's insane it's driven by social media it's driven by these like hashtags
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of clean beauty and wellness trends and yet still to this day 72% of women say that they feel
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completely overwhelmed by skincare choices and 59% don't even know what skincare ingredients they
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can actually trust anymore because we're hearing it all right and it's hard to know what works and
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heart it's hard to know what what doesn't where we're wasting our time and money so let's start
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off by like cutting through some of that noise and talking about like the routines that actually
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work and what it looks like for you so you being such a trusted voice in this skincare world
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how you merge science without the fluff I think is really important can you just tell us first
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what inspired you to enter the world of dermatology and how did your mission kind of evolved from
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that into the educational work that you do so I was actually working in a lab during medical school
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on a mouse model of skin cancer that was sort of my gateway into dermatology I really didn't know
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what specialty I was going to go into at that time I originally thought I was going to be an OB
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GYN and then found out that was like not for me and so while I was working on this project it led me
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to work with a dermatologist and it really opened my eyes to all of the ways in which dermatology
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as a specialty you can go in so many directions there's hair there's skin there's nails there's
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skin cancer or there's medical dermatology there's you know cancer surgeries I mean it goes on
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great potential sounding board to answer really interesting research questions so that's what led
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me into dermatology and in starting in their early stages of my career and in training I always
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found it so frustrating for patients because we only have so much time in that visit and you know
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most of us learn how to swallow a pillow and learn young maybe easier for some of us than others
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topical medications on so what seems really intuitive for me at this point just because of my
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background is something that's just not natural to a lot of people and so I turn to YouTube
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to create content about basically skin care and essentials for skin care also and in doing that
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I came across a lot of bad information out there that I wanted to debunk and it's kind of evolved
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from there what a cool story and to your point that's so true like even in the world of health
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and wellness and nutrition in Ayurveda we think about our skin like it's a massive organ we
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digest with our skin and yet no one talks about it and I'm sure you've probably come across
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like so many people who like maybe they don't even consider going to a dermatologist until something
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goes wrong instead of for prevention or maybe understand how our skin directly influences
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everything inside of our body like yeah it really really does have a lot of value in terms of
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telling you when things are going on internally I tell this to my audience on YouTube all the time
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but it really is a window to what's going on internally and one of the cool things about the
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specialty is that you oftentimes can just walk into a room and know what's wrong with somebody just
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by looking at something on their skin or their nails or in their mouth I mean it's really
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amazing like you could actually save someone's life just by knowing what a bump on their skin is
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and I'm not being hyperbolic there are situations like that where you end up helping a patient
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get to a diagnosis that would have taken a ton of lab tests and invasive testing to figure out
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just because their skin was like hey look at me so yeah it's really great and to your point
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about you know the digestive tract there is definitely a close link between the gut and the
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skin and a lot of crosstalk between those two systems and you do see a lot of overlap of skin
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and digestive problems together my own process like over the past 20 years if it was an
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Ayurvedic practitioner or traditional Chinese medicine doctor like I'm always so amazed at the
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amount of time that they spend looking at your hair and your skin and your nails and your tongue
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to really give them insight no lab tests no expensive procedures or anything like that so I love
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that you speak about that and like what great information for people to use because we're not
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getting it anywhere and when you mention your story like I remember when I worked in the cosmetic
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world I would love meeting with all the scientists that would come in so obviously it's no secret
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to our listeners every big beauty brand out there there's like a scientist that finds an ingredient
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becomes this like star ingredient that's like the star of the show it's going to be the cure all
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but would you agree that from that translation especially in the world of like big beauty
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um it kind of gets watered down a little bit so like the science might be there but then they've
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got to make it sell they've got to make it you know a really great price it's got to make it smell
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good would you say a lot of that is really like lost in translation when it hits consumers in the
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marketplace absolutely I think brands become so laser focused on coming out with something that's
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going to capture the consumer attention because you know you buy your cleanser your moisturizer and
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sunscreen you got to they got to get you coming back for something else a new ingredient or
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something of that sort and something that they teach us as physicians that I think is you know
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germane to skin care as like you never want to be the first doctor to be using a new drug like
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always best to stick with what's been around a while and wait for those newer things to really
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parks out to see if they're actually going to prove to be what you know the exciting study claim
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that was going to be and I'm the same whole true for claims made in skin care um there are always new
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anti-aging ingredients that come out and get you know really popularized and you know if you
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actually look into the science it's like how do you need to tell me you actually figured out how
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to get that into the skin in a cream I'm not buying it and you know over time they kind of
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fizzle out and you know I think it's good to have a healthy degree of skepticism for new
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hyped ingredients and with social media always you know blasting things on our feet all the time
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you might be led to believe that like you have to have all these things and you know it's kind of
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funny because I spend a lot of time trying out different skin care products new products reviewing
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them on my channel so I probably test out hundreds honestly but then at the same time my baseline
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messaging is you actually really don't need all these things you really just you know wash your
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face put on a moisturizer if your skin feels dry and protect your skin from the sun like that's
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really what most people need unless you have some skin disease then you know maybe you need a
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topical treatment or a certain skin care product to support the needs of that skin condition but
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by and large I mean that that's really it so all these new exciting ingredients they might help
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they might lead to some visible improvement in the skin but you know they're only so many you
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only have one face can't put everything on there so yeah can you reiterate that because look
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the skin care world the beauty world is just like supplementation and weight loss like everyone is
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still despite decades of falling off the wagon and finding out something doesn't work everyone is
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still so addicted to find like what the next best thing is what the next best thing is and we
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constantly give these things ago but can you just recap what you just said what does truly effective
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skin care as a routine look like for you well honestly it's a big part of it is consistency
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I think a lot of people you know like I said things come out left and right like every time you
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you look up there's like 10 new ingredients products things that are like almost happily gray out
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someone's claiming change the game for them but you really have to stick with skin care for a
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while to see any kind of change you know six weeks so people claim they put on a cream and you know
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all of a sudden they look 10 years younger that's definitely not likely now so um and you know
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you have to give a given ingredient time to work or give them product time to work and also keep
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in mind that the more things you add the more likely you are to run into irritation and problems
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and conflicting with all of the different products and formulations and so it's best to just
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keep things simple and just keep repeating what is you know seemingly well tolerated for you
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and working and allow it to really do something and stay consistent with it you know the basic
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tenets of skin care cleanse moisturize protect they really do pay off in the long run if you stay
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consistent with them and helping your skin you know providing a supporting role to skin cleanse
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moisturize protect that is simple I absolutely love that yeah I remember working with one big
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beauty brand and they discovered this exclusive grape from the south of France with a molecule
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in it that was going to make everything better and your skin was going to become more firm
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but then you turn around the ingredient label and it's like the very last ingredient after about 30
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ever other ingredients so yeah we got to stop like sensationalizing all of these things and
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especially in the world of social media where a lot of influences are saying this is the cure all like
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we just have to really look into um one what it is to what the ingredients are and like really
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if something says it's too good to be true then it probably is too good to be true right that old sage
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advice absolutely so we had a lot of questions that came in obviously from a lot of men and women
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about really feeling empowered through their skin um but without having to chase like all of these
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aggressive or invasive treatments that are coming up I want to know from you what is aging gracefully
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mean to you and what does it look like actually in practice so I think the biggest thing that
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we see where people have signs of accelerated skin aging and it's you know there's it's
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expected normal and healthy for our skin to age and it ages you know in a pretty typical
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pattern but where people can run into you know problems things that they want to avoid are doing
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things that push the gas pedal and make things more significant and yes there's a cosmetic
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consequence if you will to that looking older or wrinkles but there's also a health change
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associated with that and that the more for example Sunday I'll mention that you have going on
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the more likely you are to have skin cancers the more likely you are to have poor wound healing
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as you get older so it's not just about the way it looks that's kind of an added benefit of
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taking care of your skin but it's also keeping that organ system healthy and things that people
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might participate in um throughout their lifetime that are not good for the health of your
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skin long term or tanning uh tanning beds smoking and excessive alcohol consumption all of those
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things are really hard on your whole body but your skin in particular yeah absolutely they're
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they're stressors right and what a good protocol you know I love what you just said because
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you know we think always about what we can add what we can add what we can add but ultimately it's
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often about these big yet simple things that we can often just take away right so I love the call
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that out I also know like you were so great at calling out um a lot of these fads and one of those
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really is this clean beauty phase that we're in right now right so I talk about this all the time
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with my clients especially with my healing journey kind of doing an audit of your house of
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ingredients that may be contributing to you know if it's I hate the buzzword inflammation but
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just like the accumulation of things in your system that would manifest on your skin um I don't
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know about you but when you walk into Sephora and their clean beauty section when you're looking
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at being gradients and stuff like that it's just like I think the FDA kind of have their hands
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in that pot too but can you talk to us about your perception of clean beauty and what's happening
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out there so clean beauty is a marketing term it doesn't really have any substance to it at all
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anyone can say that their product is clean but what does it mean to be clean what does it mean to
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not be clean what is deciding and like and it also sends a message that there's some sort of
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special regulatory oversight over certain skin care products that are safer when all skin care
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is you know safe obviously you can have adverse skin reactions things of that sort but
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consumer safety is the same for all of these products there's not you know some special
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vetting of products that call themselves clean and so you know one brand might say they're
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clean because they use a certain preservative and not another preservative okay well is that
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preservative really better was the other preservative really bad so it gets into I mean it's
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a very misleading and I'm not a fan oh I love it I'm not a fan it's just such marketing it's
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like it's just another gimmick I would say that it's another one of those dangling carrots especially
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for a brand if they have to reformulate to hit the clean category and whatever that was decided
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upon they could have you know 12 or 13 clean ingredients to fall under that category and yet you'll
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still see like petroleum byproducts or you know fragrances a lot of like really harsh chemicals even
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um you know colors and stuff like that that are just unnecessary I can't say that they add anything
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outside of these insorial appeal for the whole experience that are beneficial for for skin so
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it's really important to know that like I really want people to feel empowered when they're
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purchasing and look if it was actually clean like natural beauty we would probably pick something
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off of a tree crush it up put it into a jar but you know obviously that could never that could never
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work yeah from my perspective the biggest harm that comes from skincare products to your health
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is directly to the skin in the form of a contact dermatitis and that can be a contact dermatitis
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it is largely irritation or a contact dermatitis because you become allergic to an ingredient in
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the product and it's one of those things where you know people are allergic to peanuts but we don't
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say never ever eat peanuts unless you're allergic so it's kind of the same thing with skincare
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ingredients there are certain skincare ingredients that are common allergens and if you're going to
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develop an allergy to something in the product these are like the most common culprits like fragrance
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is pretty much the most common culprit allergen in skincare products for someone to develop a
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problem too and the funny thing is is that these clean beauty brands will say no synthetic fragrance
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but then natural fragrance it's still it's still the same issue like there's nothing about the
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natural fragrance that's going to be non allergen you know if you're allergic you're allergic
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doesn't matter what buzzword there is and so that's for me always been one of the most frustrating
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things is that these quote unquote clean brands for a patient with contact allergy you know they're
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still going to have there's they still need to read the ingredients there's nothing about them
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that's somehow safer that the other ones were unsafe just you have this problem and you have to
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look out for this ingredient and along those lines there's been a lot of clean beauty marketing
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around these preservatives are bad and we're not using those so what ends up happening
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is that they replace a preservative with another preservative which turned out to be even more
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likely to cause contact dermatitis the isothiazolanones so that's a real negative consequence
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of the misleading marketing is that it forces brands to make decisions about their
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formulations that aren't necessarily in the consumers best interest and they do it to attract
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the consumer but it can cause and end up causing more problems in the long run and do you speak
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about you know let's just take for example fragrances that come in a lot of skincare products and
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the connection to hormone disruption or thalates so that's outside of my area of expertise as far
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as the thalates I'm not a cosmetic formulator but my understanding and the research that I've
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done and speaking with cosmetic chemists and formulators is that the thalates is like a broad
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category and from what I understand the the presence of those and fragrances is not thought to
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actually be of concern for for the endocrine system my biggest issue with fragrances is for people
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who have a more of a likelihood to develop allergies to them as a big reason why I caution
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choose fragrance free it's safer safer in the sense that you you might be somebody who is
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in a situation where you're just more likely to become sensitized and allergic to fragrance so
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better to to try and lessen that that risk by going fragrance free not everyone needs to go
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fragrance free but some people are more a risk people who have certain types of exomas for example
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they're they'll see a dermatologist and the dermatologist will tell them I would only use
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fragrance free skincare that's why they're maybe more at risk for problems to it and the
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endocrine disruption thing I think is another category where it's really easy to scare the
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consumer unnecessarily based on a lot of times what we call preclinical studies so like animal
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models and things of that sort that 95% of the time don't necessarily translate to humans and we
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have a lot of safety data with the ingredients and skincare that we do have so yeah thank you for
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your honesty in that I think there's a lot of fear like coming up from both worlds on fragrances and
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a lot of these ingredients like they just haven't been around long enough but at the end of the day
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the failures are what binds the fragrance to your skin for a long period of time there's no reason
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for you to be smelling like peaches or strawberries or like these fragrances if you know that those
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ingredients are going into your skin why not just do your own research and just like drift the
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air of caution if you're looking to support any imbalance or symptom that you're suffering from
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just something to to consider but why not just opt for fragrance free is there any ingredient that
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you tend to avoid? I try my best although it's not easy to avoid the preservatives in the
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thizelanone clause not because they're necessarily directly harmful to your health but rather
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they are a higher risk of allergic reactions happening to those as a matter of fact those are
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one of the preservatives where they regulated the amount in like Europe and they've seen a decline
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in the incidence of people having problems to it as a result so I also have a topic dermatitis
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so I try and avoid it but that being said from time to time I use certain anti-dandruff
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shampoos that have that ingredient because the dandruff shampoo ends up helping and so I
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run that risk but I'll have to say yeah I try and avoid that just because of my background skin
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issues I try and avoid fragrance but like I said I'm trying out so many products for purposes of
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reviewing on my youtube channel it's sometimes they do end up testing products with fragrance
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and you know but by and large I try and avoid levon fragrance I should say like scented moisturizers
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on my face plus they just you're I find them annoying headache and like I don't want that smell
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in my face all day um and I think I'm not sure to your point of like if it's not necessary why
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have it um I get to a certain extent because certain raw ingredients have an off-putting odor
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and so consumers aren't necessarily going to want to use something that smells like rotten eggs for
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example so I get it from that perspective but I think a lot of times brands hold on to this
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idea and I guess it translates monetarily for them that consumers want a luxury experience and they
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you know associate the fragrance with that but a lot of people at least from my audience are like
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please no the fragrance we don't like it it's irritating to our skin like um stop doing that and
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over the years since I started on youtube I have definitely seen a rise in fragrance free skin care
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that you know people are excited about and buying so there's definitely a market for it
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dot com such a great call out and I love that you say like just customizing based on your own
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needs like you so I think that's important um all right let's switch gears now to a hot topic
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I'm gonna shout out there's a lot of people that sent in questions so Laura Diaz Christian Rodriguez
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Amy Dysar Polina they're all asking about fine lines wrinkles and sagging skin
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women of my age are definitely all concerned about this era of our lives so what do you recommend
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for softening or reversing those first signs of aging so the little fine lines a lot of times they
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are aggravated there appears is more obvious when the skin is dry and women in particular with
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perimenopause and menopause start to experience more skin dryness overall and it can be subtle
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in the beginning you may not realize that so this is where regular consistent moisturizing ends up
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helping you out a lot doesn't go in there and reverse the actual wrinkle but it improves moisture
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retention in the outermost layer of the skin which is being lost more readily as we age and by
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doing that it really lessens those little fine I call them dehydration lines when the skin is dry
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so that really can pay off a lot just consistently moisturizing the skin also it's never too late to
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start protecting your skin from the sun a lot of the wrinkles have to do with just lifetime sun
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exposure damages the collagen and the deeper layers of our skin and so it's never too late to
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start sun protection it can help slow down the process for you and protect what you do have
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and then as far as ingredients that can actually make a physical difference in collagen formation
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there is retinal is a cosmetic ingredient that you can buy you know at the drug store or
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retinal the hide is kind of related to it and those ingredients can help to improve how the
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skin turns over make it turn over more efficiently because with age that kind of gets a little lazy
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so it can improve that improve the smoothness of the skin and also can tell the cells and the
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deeper layers of the skin to make healthier collagen so that's another evidence-based ingredient
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family now of course their prescription forms of that that have a lot of data behind them for
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for doing those things and that you know work maybe a little bit faster but not everyone tolerates
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them not everyone wants to go down the rabbit hole of having to see a doctor and have a prescription
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for something for wrinkles so they're more inclined to use an over-the-counter cosmetic retinal
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or retinal the hide which can work and do you recommend like if that's a primary concern would
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you go the prescription route over the over-the-counter route you know it really depends on
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your the degree of concerns that you have I think some people are already seeing a dermatologist
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or a doctor who feels comfortable prescribing them or nowadays you can get them actually through
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these telehealth platforms that you know is they're definitely easier ways to get access to them
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and still a lot of people just find that there are two intents for lack of a better word they get
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a lot of dryness peeling and they tolerate the cosmetic forms much better and that works better
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for them I even know dermatologists who can't tolerate that like there's nothing about becoming
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a dermatologist that makes ingredients work for you okay so there are dermatologists that I know who
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themselves at home they don't use like treadmill I'm not because it's bad they're prescribing it
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left them right but they just don't tolerate it it's too dry it's too irritating but they'll use
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the cosmetic things so it's definitely an individualized outcome also I didn't mention this but
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you can buy a dapalene which is an acne treatment over the counter that's an actual retinoid
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and a lot of people end up using that it's not indicated for wrinkles but it can improve wrinkles
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as well we've seen that clinically trial and error right I definitely tried a prescription
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retinal and it was great until it wasn't and then my skin started to feel a little bit dry and
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flakey and stuff like that so yeah I think it's like you've got to really just tune into what your
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skin needs and maybe even at the time of year and in terms of sagging skin what about like all
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these lasers that are happening right now you know micro needling with PRP is definitely having a
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moment what are thoughts on sagging skin a lot of the maybe more intense treatments that are out there
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so for sagging some of that is related to how the the face ages over time it's not just your skin
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now but it's the underlying framework the bone you get bone loss especially around your eye
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and you end up having the the cheek descent and so things just kind of start to droop and then
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they're you know the jaw area can be more obvious you can have a lot of sagging in the lower neck
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creams skin care products that you buy without a prescription they're not going to change those
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things they're not going to replace loss bone and that support there you're looking at more
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treatments that you would have in office certain tiny treatments like ult therapy for example
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or radio frequency in office can tighten these areas and from them and you can get a nice lifting
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effect also strategic placement of filler depending on the area can just kind of help to
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provide a little bit of support in some of these areas and get reversal of that but
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the other thing people nowadays are hearing a lot about with the rise in use of the medications
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for weight loss the GLP1 agonist the year of people saying oh it was a big phase so I always let
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people know that it's not necessarily those drugs but anytime you have a rapid or profound weight
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loss you can get a lot of hollowing and sagging in those situations so I wouldn't say that as a way
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to discourage anyone who who needed necessarily to go on a weight loss journey to do so but
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there are ways to kind of lessen that in the process by making sure you're fueling your your body
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still getting in good protein you're being on those medications out of safe dose your doctor is
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monitoring you so it's not like so extreme the weight loss is in a healthy rate and at the end
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of the day if you do have a lot of sagging which many people end up with when they lose a lot of
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weight there are cosmetic interventions that can can be offered to replace that so you're just
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making me think there's going to be a whole new wave isn't there after all these GLP1s that
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are going to be used there already is a large increase in demand for cosmetic procedures around
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around those medications and weight loss but it's to be clear it's it's not the drug it's just
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the weight loss like people who have weight loss surgery for example also can see those same
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changes in their face I mean anytime you lost if you were to lose a lot of weight especially
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very quickly you know it can make you look older I'll lose it on my cheeks first before
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anywhere else in my body isn't it isn't it always like that same thing with hair right we lose the
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hair that we want and then we grow here where we don't want it oh my god girl yeah I'm older than
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you so yeah this is like front and center for me so you mentioned a few things there but like
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radio frequency low hanging fruit non-invasive totally supportive for tightening the skin I think
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that that's like maybe a really great way to start and would you say consistency to because like we
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look at all therapy I wish all therapy was affordable for a lot of people because it's also non-invasive
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but when we look at all of these things it's consistency also right like when you commit to doing
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some sort of a treatment you have to be consistent with it for a certain period of time there's no
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kind of one-and-done treatment out there exactly exactly maintenance and maintenance
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maintenance things like that yeah definitely when I pay the top yeah go ahead
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and you know it's it's one of those things to where how motivated are you to do these things
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and I always tell people they're not necessary they're not medically necessary so just because
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there's that's you know kind of one of the consequences of us having so much access these days
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to so many people is that you are led to believe especially the way algorithms feed you things
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that everybody is doing these procedures and then once you hit this age you've got to be you know
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going in and doing these procedures and you don't so it's it's really a personal decision it's
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great that we have them but I also want people to know that like lots of people don't do them and
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you know it's fine too that's so true like we can't trick the system it's just like the world of
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nutrition you know you can do the best workout on the planet but if you're drinking a bottle of wine
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every night and going having fast food every single weekend then you're probably not going to get
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the same reward so it's this holistic view and do you often talk about that internal aspect like
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do you ever look at blood labs from your clients um so blood work is a very helpful tool
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in a variety of skin issues and hair for sure um and and yes definitely uh for dermatology blood
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work is yeah something would look out a lot but um you know I always emphasize on my in my content
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to people that like lifestyle habits really really really pay off in the long run as far as
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how healthy you are able to stay and how your you know your skin looks yeah but also the the
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health piece of it the longevity it really all adds up it has a you know compounding effect
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the those healthy behaviors of staying active eating a balanced diet um getting good sleep
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managing your stress and I think that those things are boring they don't always you know
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generate the clicks your fruits and vegetables like make sure you're sleeping but
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that that really does make a huge difference for sure what if true wellness wasn't about
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extreme diets or the latest trends but instead about daily sustainable habits that actually work
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that you just said is the exact same foundation as well as so many of the practitioners that come
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on here it's the foundations get the foundations right and like a lot of the other symptoms just go away
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all right and the funny thing isn't that it's you know a small habit change can trickle
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down into the other areas like for example I encourage people to just try exercise it's some
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frequency walking it doesn't have to be some intimidating intense thing but then that ends up
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leading you to sleep better and it has benefits for your stress level so now you're hitting
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a couple of different key pillars of health just by being able to go on a walk for example it's
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it's you know really a lot of things can end up changing for you in a positive direction
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you're talking my language everything's connected I love that thank you for saying that
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all right another really hot topic is hyperpigmentation so when we think about this is men and
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women and things that they can be doing you have a lot of really great videos on like simple
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washes that you can do for your skin and really how to treat this as we age for me like it's a 40
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thing I live in Los Angeles for crying out loud so like now I feel like I'm way more sensitive to
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the sun in my 40s than ever before I know a lot of that's hormonally driven but some of us just
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have different skin texture and a lot of people of color also more prone to that right can you
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elaborate on them definitely definitely so anything in the skin that causes some inflammation
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whether it be acne or eczema or a condition called severing dermatitis which is really common
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actually related to dandruff but you get these flaky patches like around your nose and your
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eyebrows all of this inflammation for people especially who have pigmented deeper skin tones
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it can leave behind either hyperpigmentation or it can take away the background skin color and
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lead to hypo pigmentation skin lightening and that post inflammatory pigmentary change it can linger
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for a while and it stays around as long as a couple of things that came about first of all what it
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was that led to it if it was a really inflammatory like the more inflammation the more stubborn and
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significant the pigmentation is likely going to be so for example really inflamed cystic acne
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may have a more stubborn dark spot than just like a little bug bite that maybe you picked out a bit
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and also how long it went flared up and untreated can also make that residual
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pigmentary change all the more stubborn so that's a big thing like the pigment change is what
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bothers people the most but you also have to address that underlying causative factor for short
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and then of course the sun will drive more of the hyperpigmentation to stick around and to stay
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around a lot longer so the sun protection piece becomes very important also for people with deep
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skin tones specifically you know you think about the sun and dermatology where I was talking about
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ultraviolet radiation being the main thing but there's also a visible light right that is what
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illuminates everything and of that there's blue light and we come to learn that that blue light
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from the sun because it's a really strong dose from the sun it actually can lead to more stubborn
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hyperpigmentation in deeper skin tone specifically paler skin types it doesn't it's not clear that
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it does anything but for deeper skin tones there's just like true mechanism there and we recommend
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people try to use sunscreens that are tinted because the tint comes from ingredients called iron
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oxides that seem to help protect from the blue light they don't protect from the ultraviolet
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radiation would also drive it but they protect from that blue light piece of things so if you choose
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a tinted sunscreen you kind of are covering both of those bases for fading or helping to
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fade the hyperpigmentation you also can get those pigments from your makeup from foundation and
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things of that sort as well so you know if you don't find a tinted sunscreen that works well for
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you you could also be using like your foundation for that iron oxide piece of things oh that's
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good no one's talking about blue light so what you're making me think of then is well one are doing
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things like peels way too invasive and on the flip side SPF what's the number that we should be
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wearing every day when we go outside yeah definitely so chemical peels can actually be incredibly
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incredibly helpful for helping to fade post-inflammatory hyperpigmentation as well as sunspots age
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spots and the you know the nice thing about peels is that there are a few different agents that
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can be used and depths of peel and you can go really conservative and do multiples over time
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roll low low and slow and that actually can really help people get clearer faster just by being
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patient on the peels so going to a dermatologist you know who has a training and knows pigmented
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skin and everything of that sort you really can get some very nice results actually with chemical
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peels so yes that's definitely an option also sun protection it's it's funny the recommendation
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is always SPF 30 or higher and I think that's a great baseline measurement the thing about sunscreen
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that makes it so annoying not only do you have to apply it and apply it every day regularly
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but you also have to apply apply enough of it a thick enough layer the way it's that measurement
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is is devised they put it on the skin in a pretty thick layer when they're doing the testing
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so in order to compensate for that the higher the SPF that you choose the more likely you are at
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least to get a good protection on just because of the nature in which most people apply sunscreen
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in a thinner layer than they should because it's annoying to apply it that thick like when you really
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try and apply it as thick as you need to it's like especially if it's a mineral sunscreen and then
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people are like okay what is on your face yeah that's one of the challenges I thought I
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thought a big component of sunscreen that's like my whole channel tagline right sunscreen and
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subscribe but also you need I suggest other protective measures especially when you're out in
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the sunny day like hats and you know long sleeves are you that woman are you if I would if I were to
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see you leave your house are you leaving with a big brim hat and big sunglasses is that you
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yeah I do I mean I live in Houston it's like sunny from 2 a.m. to 3 a.m. next morning it seems like
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the sun here is always yeah yeah very intense um and you know I was just in Florida recently and
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they don't call it the sunshine state for for no reason but you know other areas of the world they
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don't have as much um sun you know intensity and so you know there they can be a little bit um we'll
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say negligent with the sun protection but it's not as as drastic as it is here you know in certain
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areas of the world like Australia has very strong sun that's why they have such a high
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amount of skin cancer and they've got really you know from a public health standpoint they have really
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comprehensive sun protection requirements like the children in the schools there you
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know there's got to be shade and things like that because it's so so intense there for sure
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what I'm really hearing you say like this is ultimately our prevention right so the type of
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sunblock and I'll fully emit as a woman I hate the feel of sunblocks on my skin I put a new one
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on this morning and it was like completely white I look like a ghost until I warmed it all out with
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makeup so you've got to find one that you like but I think that this is one area where like put it
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on your face find one that you really really really really like um also go back to those important
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thing with sunscreen like there's so much conflicting information out there about sunscreen it
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really can scare people and terrify them but honestly the best one is the one that you're
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actually going to use because you know I you can get into the science and the specs of different
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sunscreen ingredients like the wavelengths and the breadth but if you're not putting it on your
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face it's completely useless and it's not a perfect intervention by any means because like I said
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people don't apply enough of it it's you know it's definitely a I would never tell someone to
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rely solely on sunscreen like as their only means of sun protection for example when they're
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on the beach all day and you know I would always say rain and other things but it's it's definitely
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you know important but it doesn't work if it's not applied totally in at the end of the day I'm
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with you there's so many studies coming out and there's a lot of really shitty poor quality
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sunblocks that are out there with like really gross ingredients and those fragrances that we talked
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about before but at the end of the day if I'm looking at this through lens of aging just look at
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skin where there's been studies of people who have used suns some blog versus those who don't like
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you just see firsthand the the benefit of it for from a anti-age standpoint so let's stick with
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that one all right switching to ancient wisdom a little bit let's talk about caster oil so caster oil
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I think is like it's really cool that this ancient ingredient that's come from you know seeds
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is now resurfacing um you know in Ayurvedic medicine it's often used either as a laxative or
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used for detoxification and I love seeing these like ancient rituals come back caster oil packs and
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the nutrition world are also really trending right now um why do you think it's trending you've
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done a lot of educational videos on it why do you like it so caster oil is commonly found in
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skin care products it's a moisturizing oil it's very viscous it's very thick so it's actually you
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know as an ingredient it's really good for moisturizing the skin and a lot of people who use it on
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their lashes um they feel like it has helped their lashes grow now I don't know about that but I
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will say because it is so viscous it really coats the hair and it can make them look thicker and it
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also can help cut down on breakage of hair you know the hair the lashes so um I I can see why people
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like using it um this is a case with anything you put on your skin whether it's you know caster oil
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or anything there's always a possibility for you to be someone who reacts negatively to it either
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again irritation or allergic reaction and allergic reactions are possible with anything but they
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definitely can happen with with caster oil um and you know you want to be careful if you are using
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it around your eyes some people develop a lot of irritation up close to the lash line so I always
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suggest you know maybe just putting it towards the tips for the conditioning benefits um so as long
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as people are aware that you know there's a possibility not everything that's natural is
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necessarily safer per se but yeah I can definitely see why people like it as an ingredient um it is
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very moisturizing it has a compound in it called racinolayic acid that has a lot of um potential
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anti-inflammatory effects uh and you know it's uh used I think um into I think it can induce premature
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labor because of that so you know pregnant women have to be careful about you know adjusting it
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but um it it definitely makes sense that people find certain health benefits for that it is
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a laxative um so I caution people about ingesting it um and I I can see you know I I don't know
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that I fully buy into the caster oil pack thing but you know theoretically I guess the compounds
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maybe they can relax the muscle um somehow if they got in that way um and you know help with
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perhaps cramps or something like that but I you know I'm not going to say that I believe that works
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but as an ingredient it's it's really moisturizing a lot of people feel like it it's good for
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hair growth and I wish me had studies on that um showing that you know if it can help with the
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hair growth that theoretically there's a potential mechanism there but there's not any research study
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looking at it so as far as I can tell at least it's moisturizing for the hair but um because it's so
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thick I do warn people this is rare um but there is a uh situation where it could cause some
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matting of the hair depending on your hair time so that's another thing that we've seen a couple
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of times it's rare but just another possible thing to keep in mind but yeah it's definitely a
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popular um remedy for a variety of things you said russinalic acid that was what is anti-inflammatory
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and yeah like that in and of itself is amazing so if we know that something's going to help to
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lower inflammation it would just make sense and like you in my world so with caster oil packs around
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the abdomen trending it's a really big diabetic tradition also around like a lot of fasting
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experts out there as well there isn't a lot of scientific data but I think that this is just one
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of those things often when people introduce really healthy rituals it causes them to make other
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really better healthier choices so whether you believe it or not I think for those of you who have
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listened I'm sure some people listening are just like oh my god I swear by caster oil packs and it
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works for you I think it's it's great and I love that you talked about the hair growth aspect because
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like oh my gosh hair growth is a hot topic now right you talk a lot about hair loss hair especially
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in the utterance of the eyebrows and stuff like that there's a lot of brands that are creating
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products with this in um is that something that you do would you ever take a um an eyelash or
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sorry a mascara one and put some caster oil in your eyebrows do you ever do that I haven't done
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that no but I know that's a very popular thing to do to condition it definitely could help condition
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the lashes like I said to what extent it actually grows hair I wish we had a study but um you know a
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lot of uh you know that's a popular market now for lash and brow growth serums and it's funny
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because most many of them with a few exceptions have um and a class of ingredients called
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prostaglanin analogs and that's actually what uh latisse is um latisse the prescription
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lash growth medication has the active drug is something called bimatipros but there are
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similar compounds that are considered cosmetic and are what are you so they do work to grow
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hair wherever they're applied the brows the lashes but they have the same side effects that
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latisse can eyelid irritation red eyes can cause hyperpigmentation of the eyelid area or whatever
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skin area you're applying it to obviously if it gets under your eye it can cause a little hairs
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to grow there and some people even develop uh this fat loss around the eye related to these
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compounds so it's one of those things were like you know because they're cosmetics people aren't
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necessarily being worn about that like they would be if they were getting the prescription latisse
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but um you know that's a situation where you would think that castor oil would be like a safer
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alternative yeah it still has a risk of irritation but there's no report of it causing fat loss
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around the eyes like could potentially happen with these so you know it's one of those things were
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sometimes the maybe maybe the castor oil is safer i don't know it's so funny because we want to
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believe right oh it's so simple it's one ingredient and all these people are talking about the benefits
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we want to be able to use it and see those results so yeah i'm with you i mean i love that it's one
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simple ingredient that everyone can include um but definitely you know don't believe the hype
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of everything else right just trust they're using like some some thing you know pretty much there's
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there's going to be side effects with 99% of things right but it's the transparency of side effects
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that i think is really frustrating not only with skincare but with wellness things like supplements
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and things of that sort like some people are okay with the potential of
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hyperpigmentation of their eye life forever but if they didn't know that they develop it then
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they're really like upset about it what a good foundation you guys keep going you and i keep going
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back to the basics like understanding internally what could be impacting your hair your skin your
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hair growth i love that you brought that up um there was a question on hyperthyroidism and
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hair loss also how should someone know this like should they go to their doctor they're having a
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lot of hair loss first do they go to their dermatologist first what do you say yeah i'm hair loss
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is really complicated and so um dermatologists are the hair specialty we get the training on all
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the hair loss disorders how to diagnose them how to note they're related to an underlying health
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problem like the thyroid and so it's you know if you are having hair loss see your health care
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provider and ask them you know like i'm really worried about this could you refer me to a dermatologist
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dermatology well usually approach hair loss by of course examining you asking you questions about
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your medical history and then actually looking through your scalp looking at your hair they
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might even take a biopsy of the scalp to look under the skin and go from there to figure out
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what is going on but to the point about thyroid both hyper too high of thyroid hormone or hypo
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which is a lot more common too low both of them impact the hair can cause hair loss brittle hair
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changes in the hair texture and we do see a lot of thyroid problems and hair loss together and
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it's one of those things where a lot of times people will end up in the dermatologist office
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with a hair problem and we find out oh you actually have a thyroid disease that has been missed
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because um you know maybe it wasn't checked or something of that sort but yeah thyroid is
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possible also a lot of a lot of hypo thyroid is autoimmune and those patients tend to have a
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tendency to have other autoimmune things so they may have autoimmune hair loss it's called alopecia
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ariata they might also have little ligo that's another that's a skin problem where you lose the
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pigment in the skin often can be seen in people who have hypo thyroidism so yeah there's there's a
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lot of overlap there but to answer the question hair loss I really push for people to see a dermatologist
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if they're able to because a lot of hair loss um it it has a window of time where you can really
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get in there and correct it but if you let it go untreated you won't you'll lose that hair and
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you won't get it back and that's really what you know hair loss is really really psychologically
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distressing for people to go through so I definitely encourage people to to see a dermatologist
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if they're able to it's funny I always ask my clients to build a care team so a doctor that's
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their partner in healing and a dermatologist should definitely be one of those people so you're listening
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to this find a dermatologist who's your partner in feeling best and really one like you today you
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keep under keep emphasizing this idea of also understanding your biology you know a lot of
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guests that are listening right now sick preet uh Dr. Gary you know they're talking about these
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internal issues that you're talking about and maybe to bring things full circle stress and diet
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are those two pillars also like we've talked about inflammation of the skin hair loss autoimmune
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condition like it really all does go together doesn't it 100% 100% yes yes with the hair like the
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hair growing hair is so demanding I believe it or not like those little hair follicles they have
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so much work to do they are a lot of energy so that when your body is under a lot of stress whether
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it be emotional stress or physical stress like you've been ill you've had a big surgery you have a
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fever your hair follicles they check out they're like this is not the time to be making hair
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and so hair loss is often a warning sign of of health problems but definitely stress definitely
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stress can cause hair loss for sure thank you for bringing that up everything is connected and often
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it's the simple things that we can do that has such profound impact on the way we look but also our
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energy how we feel and our body functions so I'm mindful of your time let's wrap this up with
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some rapid fire questions okay so what is one common mistake that you are seeing most people make
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when it comes to their skin recently my body was trying to tell me something my glow was gone water
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wasn't cutting it and I was riding this weird energy roller coaster sluggish in the morning crashing
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by 3 pm and totally wired at night coffee obviously made things worse and no amount of skincare was
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helping to bring the glow back to my skin then I found something that actually worked
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draining you after I drink it daily with warm water sometimes some almond milk and it seriously
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replace my morning coffee ritual then there's the BT fountain electrolytes this one surprise me
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I drink tons of water daily but lately with the change in season I'm still feeling depleted
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these electrolytes actually help yourself absorb water and they're loaded with ceramides that
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hydrate your skin from the inside out within a week my skin looked plumber and more alive
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which I am so here for it's the kind of support that your body feels and that your skin shows
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so if you're over the burnt out bloating or dull skin phase and you want to try something that
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I think a lot of people who deal with well common mistake people make is not protecting their skin
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from the sun regularly and you know they're doing all of these things with their skin care routine
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they're trying out all of these anti-aging searones but they're like lacking that foundational
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piece and maybe they're going out and tanning and it's kind of like all right well that serum
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is completely useless like this is the main thing that you should focus on the other thing that
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is actually a habit that a lot of people develop that's really hard to break is picking the skin
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some people do it absolutely some people do it as a stress coping mechanism especially people
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who have acne maybe they get stressed out they pick their skin or they want to pop or squeeze
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and that backfires all the time it can cause hyperpigmentation scarring make the acne worse or
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the skin problem worse and you can get an infection there and it does become this kind of habitual
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thing that a lot of people get into and of course you know like I was saying um not to be
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to dead horse but the internet has always like shown us things that we probably don't need to watch
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in those pimple popping videos come up and uh devices squeeze your face and it's like
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no don't do that don't do it your split is like there is a barrier like well you know
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breaking holes with it but it's actually really hard for a lot of people to break that it
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becomes like a full flood you've seen no people bite their nails when they get stressed out
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some people pick their skin um it's really hard to break and you know it's 10 years old
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a lot of inflammation I was thinking if he was scratching all these gaps he does so many sports
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and I'm like oh my god you're you're setting a habit that you're going to take on into your teenage
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years so yes no picking no breaking of your skin what excites you most about modern dermatology or
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skin care science right now well I I really get excited about new advancements in
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therapeutics that can help people who have certain inflammatory skin conditions different um
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drugs that come out that address like very specific arms of the immune system to really
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help clear those um and also those kinds of drugs that end up treating cancers it's wild to
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me that when I was a medical student like um people who had invasive melanoma it was such a grave
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prognosis and not to say that it's like no longer a grave prognosis but we do have these new
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medications newer or I should say they're not actually new but um time flies um but they've
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actually really helped people with with invasive um cancers live longer and I just think that that
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is really an amazing testament to the hard work that sciences can do to discover therapeutic
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targets that really help people um not suffer so much yeah it's the coolest part about science
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that I absolutely love all right so for our men there's actually balance of men and women that
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sent in their questions so if we were to just simplify this if you could leave those listeners
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with just like a simple takeaway to feel confident in their skin care regime every single day
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what would like the three or four things be let's just recap that for them coming from a dermatologist
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you can feel confident if you are staying consistent with your skin care routine and
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include some degree of cleansing moisturizing if you need it and protecting your skin from the
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sun and I say if you need it because there are also people out there who have never used a moisturizer
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and are completely fine they don't feel like their skin is dry they don't have any sort of skin
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problem um I find a lot of men fall into this category maybe because men have thicker skin
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they don't tend to lose water from the skin as readily and they you know they don't really
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necessarily need a moisturizer so if it's not broken you know we'll need to go fixing it with a
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product um so really just to understand that a lot of the hype around skin care is just that
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and that you you're likely doing exactly what you need if you you know prioritize a protection
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and some degree of consistent cleansing is is important but a lot of a lot of really what goes
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into healthy skin is your lifestyle habits here it is again lifestyle what you're consuming I love
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Dr. Dre thank you so much I mean in a world where skin care is trending with so much
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confusion online thank you for the science that you've given and a really simple approach to
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basic daily routines I'm so excited to know you and I can't wait to have you back on thank you
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well thank you for having me Mona I really appreciate it this has been great and I um you know
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hope everyone out there feels a little more confident about their skin thank you and thank you
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for everyone who sent in all the questions I'm pretty sure we caught the three biggest categories
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today so pass it out to those um who have the same concerns about their skin and aging well and
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feeling great in your skin thanks Dr. Dre
