I'm Dr. Shannon Ritchie.

I'm a doctor of physical therapy, fitness trainer, and founder of Fethlo Fitness.

In the Dr. Shannon show, you'll learn applicable tools to improve your health based on science.

Welcome to the show.

Hi, everyone.

For the longest time, I've been wanting to do a podcast about skincare.

If you're anything like me, I am super overwhelmed when it comes to skincare.

I keep it really simple, partly because I'm not sure what's evidence-based and what's just a waste of my money and what's actually going to make a difference, what's safe for my skin. And so I wanted to have an expert on that was evidence-based.

And Amy Coburling is the perfect person for this. She is a dermatology PA. She is evidence-based,

but she likes to keep things really simple. So in today's episode, we talk about

how exercise affects your skin. We talk about how you can keep your skincare really simple

and the three primary skincare products that she recommends everyone use, which was really helpful.

I'm going to go get two of them today.

We talk about why skincare is more than just ascetics. We talk about treatments like

microneedling and lasers. We talk about filler and Botox, and her opinions on that.

We talk about diet and why diet is important for your skin and how it can

kind of like buffer certain pollutants and external environmental factors that can ultimately cause

aging of our skin. So very informative episode. I learned a lot. Without further ado, here is Amy. Okay, so I'm so excited for this one,

because this is the first skincare episode that we've had, and I love your approach to things.

So let's go into just the first question. My audience is exercise focused. And what does the data say about exercise and how it affects your skin?

So it's very interesting because I think up until recent years, the dermatology world was

very skeptical about any kind of changes that we might see in the skin based on diet and exercise, but we're

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