Podcast Summary
Healthy body inside and out: Focus on both inner health through comprehensive supplementation and outer health by ensuring clean air at home to support overall wellbeing.
For optimal health, it's important to focus on both the inside and outside of your body. Dr. Mark Hyman emphasizes the importance of comprehensive supplementation with AG1, which provides support for brain, gut, and immune systems with just one scoop a day. Meanwhile, ensuring clean air at home with AirDoctor filters protects against harmful particles and chemicals. Functional medicine also highlights the significance of addressing the root causes of common skin issues, rather than just treating symptoms. Siemens offers opportunities to join their team and make an impact on transforming everyday technology. Remember, your skin is your body's largest organ, and taking care of it starts with addressing underlying health concerns.
Skin care from within: Functional medicine addresses the root causes of skin issues by optimizing nutrition, healing the gut, removing toxins, and addressing individual causes, leading to improvements in overall health.
The best approach to skin care starts from within and understanding the root causes of skin issues is crucial for achieving lasting and radiant health. Traditional medicine often focuses on masking symptoms with prescriptions, but functional medicine aims to address the root causes by optimizing nutrition, healing the gut, removing toxins, and addressing individual causes. Conventional treatments for inflammatory skin issues, such as acne and eczema, can have negative side effects and may not address the root causes. For instance, topical and oral antibiotics can harm the gut, leading to long-term health issues. Functional medicine, on the other hand, addresses the root causes and can lead to improvements in overall health.
Functional Medicine and Skin Issues: Functional medicine focuses on identifying and treating the root causes of skin issues, often related to diet and lifestyle, through comprehensive lab testing and removing harmful substances while introducing beneficial ones.
Conventional treatments for skin issues like psoriasis and rosacea only manage symptoms but don't address the root cause. Functional medicine, on the other hand, focuses on identifying and treating the underlying imbalances, often related to diet and lifestyle. This may involve comprehensive lab testing for various factors such as nutrient deficiencies, food sensitivities, gut health, hormonal imbalances, and toxins. By addressing these root causes, the body's natural healing abilities can effectively treat skin issues. Functional medicine also prioritizes removing harmful substances and introducing beneficial ones. Function Health is a company co-founded to help individuals identify and address these root causes through various tests, including food sensitivity testing, stool testing, and hormone testing. These tests can provide valuable insights into what's affecting an individual's health and contributing to skin issues.
Inflammatory foods: Identifying and eliminating common allergens and potential triggers, such as dairy, gluten, and processed foods, through an elimination diet can help improve skin health by reducing inflammation and balancing hormones.
Improving skin health involves identifying and eliminating potential inflammatory triggers, primarily through diet. Common allergens and potential triggers include dairy, gluten, soy, eggs, peanuts, tree nuts, shellfish, corn, processed food, sugar, caffeine, alcohol, and nightshades. An elimination diet, such as the 10-day detox diet, can help identify food sensitivities. Reintroducing foods one at a time every three days can help determine which foods cause reactions. Healing the gut through good nutrition, probiotics, and supplements can also help improve skin health. The second phase involves reintroducing foods and identifying tolerances. Elimination provocation testing can help determine which foods to reintroduce and which to avoid. A case study of a woman with severe reactions to her boyfriend's sweat illustrates the potential benefits of an elimination diet and gut healing. In summary, quitting inflammatory foods, including gluten and dairy, and focusing on a whole foods, anti-inflammatory diet can help improve skin health by reducing inflammation and balancing hormones.
Skin Health Diet: Consuming a diet rich in phytochemicals, polyphenols, and good fats helps reduce inflammation and oxidative stress for optimal skin health. Polyphenols can repair damaged DNA and lipids, reduce skin lesions, and even prevent allergic reactions.
For optimal skin health, focusing on consuming a diet rich in phytochemicals and polyphenols, as well as good fats, is essential. These nutrients help reduce inflammation and oxidative stress, two major contributors to skin damage. Polyphenols, in particular, can help repair damaged DNA and lipids, reduce skin lesions, and even decrease the expression of IgE receptors on mast cells, which can help prevent allergic reactions and reduce symptoms. Additionally, prioritizing gut health through an elimination diet and addressing bacterial or fungal overgrowth can significantly improve skin health. For more specific information on which foods contain these beneficial nutrients, check out the table provided in the show notes. Remember, a good night's sleep is also crucial for overall wellness, so consider investing in a high-quality mattress to support restorative sleep.
Skin Health: Consuming herbal products, probiotics, vitamins D and A, and maintaining adequate prebiotic and probiotic intake supports healthy skin from the inside out.
Maintaining healthy skin involves a holistic approach, focusing on both internal and external factors. For internal health, consuming herbal products like oregano and supplements such as Candabactan AR and BR can help fight infections and repair the gut lining. Probiotics, found in foods like yogurt and supplements, support gut health and modulate the immune system. Vitamins D and A are essential for skin health, with Vitamin D maintaining skin barrier function and immunity, and Vitamin A promoting skin growth and renewal. Consuming a diverse range of prebiotic and probiotic rich foods, as well as taking supplements, can help ensure adequate intake of these vital nutrients. Additionally, testing vitamin D levels and adjusting dosage accordingly is important for optimal skin health.
Skin Health: Maintain skin health through proper nutrition, hydration, supplementation with vitamin A, omega-3, zinc, selenium, C, and E, herbs like curcumin, and light therapy like UVB phototherapy. Consult a healthcare professional before starting new supplements.
Maintaining healthy and vibrant skin involves a holistic approach, including proper nutrition, hydration, and supplementation. Certain foods, like carrots and sweet potatoes, can discolor the skin and may not convert effectively to vitamin A. Therefore, supplementing with vitamin A, along with essential nutrients like omega-3 fatty acids, zinc, selenium, and vitamins C and E, can support skin health. Additionally, herbs like curcumin and light therapy, such as UVB phototherapy, can help reduce inflammation and promote healing. Proper hydration and avoiding dehydration are also crucial for skin health. Remember, it's essential to consult a healthcare professional before starting any new supplement regimen.
Skin conditions and UVB phototherapy: UVB phototherapy can help alleviate symptoms of certain skin conditions but addressing root causes through gut healing and other treatments is essential for long-term improvement
While UVB phototherapy can help alleviate symptoms of certain skin conditions like acne, rosacea, eczema, and psoriasis, it's important to address the root causes for long-term improvement. Dr. Mark Hyman emphasizes that the skin is a window to our overall health, and these conditions are not just random annoyances. To get the best results, UVB phototherapy can be used in conjunction with other treatments, such as gut healing and addressing underlying health issues. The frequency and intensity of the sessions depend on the severity of the condition and individual response. UVB phototherapy can be administered at home through lamps, bulbs, and handheld devices, but it's important to note that natural sunlight is free but hard to control the dose. Remember, true skin care starts from within, and by focusing on gut health and addressing root causes, we can unlock lasting radiant health and beautiful skin.