Best Foods for Acne: Gut-Based Approach for Skin Health | Dr. Robynne Chutkan
The Exam Room by the Physicians Committee
Physicians Committee
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🗓️ 18 July 2024
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
A poor diet can destroy healthy skin, but a good diet can bring a flawless complexion right back.
That is the key to Dr. Robynne Chutkan's gut-based approach to treating skin conditions from the inside out. Her method shows that acne, eczema, rosacea, and psoriasis don't have to be treated exclusively with expensive treatments and messy creams.
Dr. Chutkan joins "The Weight Loss Champion" Chuck Carroll on The Exam Room LIVE with tips and for restoring glowing skin and getting rid of unwanted and embarrassing blemishes.
In this episode:
- Foods that help acne
- Foods that help eczema
- Foods that help rosacea
- Foods that help psoriasis
- Worst foods for skin health
- How antibiotics impact the skin
- How does the gut control skin health?
- What is a gut-based approach to healthy skin?
- And more!
Dr. Chutkan is dedicated to incorporating microbial optimization, nutritional therapy, mind-body techniques, and lifestyle changes into her therapeutic approach to digestive disorders.
Dr. Chutkan is a board-certified gastroenterologist, author, longer-serving faculty member at Georgetown University Hospital and founder of the Digestive Center for Wellness. She also hosts The Gutbliss Podcast.
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| 0:00.0 | Today on the exam room. How common is it for an adult to be struggling with acne |
| 0:08.3 | specifically and is it more often than not driven by their diet? |
| 0:13.7 | Their dietary factors in almost everyone. |
| 0:16.0 | It's true that there are hormonal reasons, etc. |
| 0:18.8 | But about 30% of adults still struggle with acne. |
| 0:22.2 | So it's a huge problem in adulthood and even in |
| 0:24.5 | teenage years if you go into a typical high school you might see 30% of the |
| 0:30.5 | teenagers with absolutely clear skin, 30% with really, really severe cystic |
| 0:36.2 | acne and then another third with a little bit of blemishes. And I'll tell you |
| 0:41.4 | that that is not genes or hormones or anything else. It's |
| 0:45.6 | interaction of all of it. So acne, like a lot of conditions, there is a |
| 0:49.7 | genetic predisposition, but the genes alone don't create the condition. |
| 0:53.7 | It's the Physicians Committee. |
| 1:05.2 | Hi I'm the Weight Loss Champion Chuck Carroll raising health IQs coast to coast |
| 1:10.0 | and around the world. Hi to the exam roomies listening in Sugar Land, Texas, Tacoma, Washington, |
| 1:16.8 | and Cat Mandu, Nepal. |
| 1:19.6 | Wherever you are Acme, pimples, blemishes, they are no fun. |
| 1:36.1 | They can straight up ruin your day. |
| 1:39.0 | But on this day, we are taking a look at getting rid of them and restoring healthy skin from the inside out. |
| 1:46.2 | It is a gut-based approach to a flawless complexion coming up here on the exam room. |
| 1:54.0 | Now, in previous episodes, we have already learned that a poor diet can destroy healthy skin. |
| 2:01.0 | But on the flip side side a good diet can bring back that smooth |
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