384: The Effects of Stress on Skin
Beauty Bytes with Dr. Kay: Secrets of a Plastic Surgeon™
Kay Durairaj, MD, FACS @beautybydrkay
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🗓️ 1 December 2021
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s podcast we are talking all about the effects of stress! As we all know, stress can have many negative effects on the body. High levels of stress can cause anxiety, irritability, depression, headaches, insomnia, and more. Stress in the skin may include dehydration, dryness, and increased signs of aging. Exposure to stress plays an unfavorable role to the skin’s health. It is important to try to limit your stress and find the target sources of your stress! In this podcast, I discuss different triggers of stress, their effects, how to adapt to stress, and how to treat stress for healthy skin. Do your skin a favor and listen now!
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"Stressing the Treatment of Stress for Healthy Skin" by Brian Goodwin, Eminence Organic Skin Care
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| 0:00.0 | Well, hello, hello, guys, you're listening to Beauty Bites with Dr. K. Secrets of a Plastic |
| 0:19.7 | Surgeon, and it's time for a podcast |
| 0:22.1 | and this is the holidays. It is a fun season, but it is a stressful season. And all of us need to |
| 0:30.0 | realize the impact that stress has on our overall health as well as your skin. I don't think |
| 0:36.2 | we understand enough how much stress can wreak havoc on healthy |
| 0:40.7 | skin. And we all feel stress in our lives. And it gives you all these side effects, including |
| 0:46.9 | fatigue, irritability, restlessness, anxiety. Stress levels are definitely on the rise since 2020 and the pandemic has hit with up to 30 to |
| 0:58.0 | 70% of people experiencing stress that affects them mentally, physically, and affects your skin. |
| 1:04.7 | I think each and every one of us has had skin breakouts during the pandemic and hair loss. |
| 1:10.3 | And stress is this physical, mental, or emotional thing that really causes bodily harm, |
| 1:18.3 | mental tension. |
| 1:19.7 | It can be external stress from your work, psychological situations. |
| 1:24.2 | Stress can be internal related to illness, medical procedures, perceived anxiety. We worry a lot. |
| 1:33.6 | Stress can initiate this fight or flight response in your body, and it's so complex that some |
| 1:39.3 | research has shown that people that get premature gray hairs get it because of the fight or flight adrenaline |
| 1:44.6 | response versus people that have no gray hairs. They sort of have this low level stress that |
| 1:51.6 | does not really affect them mentally. People who are always on the run performing, they have |
| 1:56.8 | fight or flight stress. Those are the people that get gray hair. That explains me, |
| 2:01.4 | fight or flight all the time. And surgeons, I think, definitely have that. They go into surgery. |
| 2:06.1 | They have to be hypervigilant and alert. They have to perform. Going into a speech or performance |
| 2:12.1 | is, you know, very much a high stress situation. And your skin can have breakouts with increased levels of |
| 2:19.2 | irritation, rosacea flare-ups, dermatitis, all kinds of issues including dehydration, increased |
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