367: James Hamblin - The Impact Of Not Showering For 5 Years
The Ultimate Health Podcast
Jesse Chappus
4.5 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 25 August 2020
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
James Hamblin (IG: jameshamblin) is a Medical Doctor & Master of Public Health but he’s not a practicing physician… he’s a staff writer at The Atlantic, a lecturer at the Yale School of Public Health, and a specialist in preventive medicine.
James is the author of If Our Bodies Could Talk and hosted a video series of the same name. His new book is CLEAN: The New Science of Skin.
In this episode, we discuss:
- Why James stopped showering
- Changing the armpit ecosystem
- It's time to re-examine your daily skin care routine
- Are your skin care products causing your acne?
- Your skin is affected from the inside out
- The history of soaps
- People are focusing more on targeted hygiene
- The psychological effect of cultural beauty trends
- Are skin care products regulated?
- Don’t believe everything you read on the labels
- Marketing ploys used to get men interested in skin care regimens
- James' journey into medicine and journalism
- Face mites live in your pores
- Healthy exposure to microbes train your immune system
- Probiotics in skin care products have not been proven to improve the microbiome
- Exposure to dogs may improve your microbiome
- The benefit of smelly feet
- All soap ingredients have an impact on the environment
- The story of Dr. Bronner’s Soaps
- A better way to wipe your bum
- Choosing a minimalist way of life
- Health, defined
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Related links:
James Hamblin - CLEAN: The New Science of Skin (book)
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James Hamblin - If Our Bodies Could Talk (book)
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| 0:00.0 | coming up on the ultimate health podcast. |
| 0:02.0 | I was kind of just trying to discern what was really important to health, |
| 0:08.0 | what was evidence driven hygiene behavior, and what was kind of stuff I could do without and what would happen to my body when I did. |
| 0:18.0 | And this was happening at the same time in 2015 when there was a surge of papers that had come out recently about the skin |
| 0:26.4 | microbiome and having been pretty into the gut microbiome and following what it had done for our |
| 0:36.3 | understanding of health. I was wondering if something similar was kind of on the |
| 0:40.7 | horizon for the skin microbiome and what all of the cleanliness, hygiene |
| 0:46.6 | beauty rituals that we tend to do were, you know, what effect those we're having on the skin |
| 0:51.6 | biome. |
| 0:52.6 | So I just kind of gradually stopped to showering |
| 0:57.6 | in any traditional sense. Hello and welcome to the Ultimate Health Podcast episode 367. |
| 1:09.0 | I'm Jesse Chappas and I'm here to take your health to the next level. |
| 1:12.0 | Each week I'll bring you inspiring and informative conversations about health and wellness, |
| 1:17.0 | covering topics of nutrition, lifestyle, fitness, mindset, and so much more. |
| 1:22.0 | And this week I'm chatting with James Hamblin. |
| 1:24.0 | He's a medical doctor and master of public health, |
| 1:27.0 | but he's not a practicing physician. |
| 1:29.0 | He's a staff writer at the Atlantic, |
| 1:31.0 | a lecturer at the Yale School of Public Health and a specialist in |
| 1:34.5 | preventative medicine. He's the author of If Our Bodies Could Talk and hosted a |
| 1:39.0 | video series of the same name. He's got a new book out which is the focus of today's chat |
| 1:43.7 | title Clean The New Science of Skin. Initially when I was determining |
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