Best Foods For Healthy Skin - Dr. G's Quick Health Tip | EP 355.B

The Dr. Gundry Podcast

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🗓️ 12 June 2025

⏱️ 15 minutes

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We’ve all heard about applying sunscreen but what about EATING it? You’ve probably heard me talk about the importance of Vitamin D and while this is true, you still must avoid exposing your skin to too much sun. You can even support your skin through food! Stay to find out which food to eat for healthy skin and how to keep your skin safe.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Dr. Gundry podcast, where Dr. Stephen Gundry shares his groundbreaking research from over 25 years of treating patients with diet and lifestyle changes alone.
0:11.2	Dr. Gundry and other wellness experts offer inspiring stories, the latest scientific advancements, and practical tips to empower you to take control of your health and live a long, happy life.
0:24.0	Number one on my favorite foods for healthy skin are foods that contain probiotics.
0:32.0	Now, good health begins in the gut. Believe it or not, your gut, the lining of your gut, is your skin turned inside out.
0:42.5	And what happens in your gut is not like Las Vegas. What happens in your gut doesn't stay in your
0:53.0	gut. And it's reflected on your skin so your gut health has a direct
1:01.7	impact on your skin so probiotics are the good gut buddies so you really want good gut buddies to outweigh the bad guys. Now, there are
1:15.1	lots of foods that provide either probiotics, which are living bacteria, or postbiotics. And postbiotics are the fermentation products that bacteria make.
1:34.5	And interestingly enough, as you'll learn in gut check, my new book, dead bacteria,
1:42.4	dead probiotics actually are incredibly useful for fostering good skin health.
1:51.6	So fermented foods like vinegar, kimchi, goat and sheep kiefer that are plain, goat and sheep
1:59.7	yogurts, coconut yogurts, miso, sourcrowds, and various
2:06.3	probiotic supplements are a great way to improve your skin health.
2:13.1	There are some specific probiotic bacteria that have been shown to enhance skin thickness,
2:22.9	skin health, hair growth, hair health.
2:27.5	And that's exciting new information that a number of us have been talking about recently.
2:35.0	Number two, prebiotics.
2:39.0	Now, it goes without saying that prebiotics are important for skin health,
2:45.0	in that they support a healthy gut microbiome.
2:49.0	Remember, think about probiotics is basically grass seed. The problem with
2:55.7	grass seed is I tell my patients in the desert that if I give them grass seed and tell them to go plant it,
3:04.5	unless they fertilize and water the grass seed, it's never going to grow. And so many of us
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