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Dr. Lamina Turugano is a triple board certified dermatologist, internist and dermatopathologist.

You might already know her if you listen to our Clean Beauty School podcast, which I hope you do,

or if you're on TikTok or Instagram as she has a massive following.

And today we're going to chat about the full body biome, which is one of our 2022

wellness trends to watch.

Lamina, welcome. Thank you so much for having me. So great to have you. You are prolific on

Instagram and TikTok putting out so, but you put out so much goodness. It's educational,

informational, always grounded in science and a little bit playful and I love it. So great

to have you. Yes, and so happy to be here. So we're going to talk about the skin microbiome.

Let's start with an overview. Could you start there and just give us a primer on the role of

the skin microbiome? Yes, definitely. So a lot of people probably already know this, but

we have a very healthy ecosystem of bacteria and yeast for fungi living on our skin.

And depending on the area of your body, you know, there are different types of bacteria or yeast.

But the purpose of the bacteria, they interact with these organisms in general. They interact

with the immune system that's sitting in the superficial layers of our skin and it keeps our

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