Well, hello, hello, guys. You're listening to Beauty Bites with Dr. K. Secrets of a Plastic Surgeon, and it's time for a podcast.

It is cold outside, and our skin is getting so sensitive.

Today, let's talk about the top treatments to strengthen your sensitive skin.

All of us can have skin sensitivity at different times in our life and it's important to cultivate skin

that has resilience and the ability to rebuild and strengthen and toughen up and skin has a reactive

mechanism that responds to elements of disturbance whether inside or outside the body internal

disturbances like stress can give you skin sensitivities.

Externally, the environment, the cold, the temperature change, the UV around us. All these

things give you sensitive skin sometimes. Sensitive skin tends to be thinner, more prone to

fragile capillaries that show through the surface of the skin, more red,

inflammatory, more prone to rashes and breakouts. All skin will react to certain external factors

like sun and wind and smoke and pollution, but sensitive skin really overreacts. And I've gone through periods in my life when I've had

super inflammatory sensitive skin and sometimes a simple change in your diet or your skin

regimen will really allow your skin to calm down. You sometimes just have to stop the vicious

cycle of what is the irritant so that your skin can do a full reset. But a sensitive reaction to your skin will show up as a flushing, redness, or a rash.

It can be gradual, it can be sudden onset.

If it's gradual and progressive, it could be something like rosacea.

And if it's a sudden onset, it could be even a rash related to an allergic sensitivity like a dermatitis or a food allergy or a reaction to something you're using in your skincare regimen.

You've got to start with an in-depth evaluation.

And we always want to talk about your lifestyle, like your sleep, your diet, your stress level, what medications and supplements you're

on. The skin truly is, as they say, one of your largest organs, and it reflects internally the

problems that your body is experiencing, whether you're having a sluggish liver. You're drinking

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