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Beauty Bytes with Dr. Kay: Secrets of a Plastic Surgeon™

600: Exploring the Power of the Microbiome with Kiran Krishnan

Beauty Bytes with Dr. Kay: Secrets of a Plastic Surgeon™

Kay Durairaj, MD, FACS @beautybydrkay

Business, Arts, Fashion & Beauty, Health & Fitness, Management & Marketing, Medicine

4.9608 Ratings

🗓️ 13 February 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Microbes, Prebiotics, Skin Barrier, Gut Health - Join us in this week's podcast where we sit down with microbiome expert, Kiran Krishnan! We learn about the ins and outs of the microbiome, specifically how it's a key communicator between our brain, skin, and gut! Between the top five foods you should eat to skincare ingredients that will improve our skin's barrier, there are so many factors that play a role in maintaining a balanced microbiome. Tune in to find out how to improve your microbiome and achieve optimal health! 

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0:00.0

Well, hello, hello, guys. You're listening to Beauty Bites with Dr. K, Secrets of a Plastic

0:19.3

Surgeon. And today on the podcast, we are interviewing

0:22.1

Kieran Krishnan. He is a medical microbiome expert. He's a renowned research microbiologist with

0:29.6

17 years of experience dealing with microbiome, diet, nutrition. He's been a researcher in

0:36.4

molecular biology and microbiology at the University of Iowa.

0:40.8

And he's done over 50 private label nutritional products.

0:44.0

And I'm so excited because he's going to teach us how our biology, our bacterial biology,

0:49.7

impacts our brain health, our skin health, our body health, and our GI health, right?

0:55.3

Yes, absolutely.

0:56.6

Thank you so much for having me, Dr. Gay.

0:58.3

I'm excited to be here.

1:00.0

Yeah, we did a panel together at The Aesthetic Show a couple years back,

1:04.4

and I thought you were such a great speaker and very eloquent,

1:08.1

so I'm excited for you to teach me in my audience.

1:11.7

What do we need to know about the microbiome?

1:14.8

Yeah, well, to define the microbiome for the audience,

1:18.2

the microbiome is defined as the totality of microbes

1:21.6

and all their genetic elements as it relates to the host.

1:25.3

And of course, we are the host.

1:27.1

Now that genetic elements part to me is actually a really critical part,

1:31.0

because when we look at our system, right,

1:33.2

we all know that we have genes within our cells and our chromosomes,

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