Hey guys, welcome back to Skin Energy.

This is your host, Echo.

I'm really excited about our guest today because her brand is blending nutritional science with

skincare.

And we're going to be talking a lot about things like the gut skin access and understanding

what your gut physiology and the pathologies that take place can do for your skin and how that can reflect

on your skin and why skincare is a viable way of kind of, you know, having this maintenance

therapy in your day to day. So without further ado, please welcome Kat Berkey. Welcome,

thank you for having me. Yeah, I'm excited to host you. I'm excited to learn from you today

and dive into the brand. It's a beautiful brand, by the way. I've been really enjoying it. I've been testing it myself. So it's been really lovely. Nice to hear that. Yeah. I'd love to learn about your background though. If you could walk us down memory lane, tell us about your background and what got you into, you know, wanting to create a brand and,

you know, bringing it into the skincare space. Tell us a little bit more about that.

Yeah. So as you mentioned, my undergrad was nutrition, so it was really what my foundation was.

And I think where I took that was more in understanding and the biology of how we uptake nutrients,

how our body works with them.

And then my future career went into health care law and then epidemiology.

And then I worked in disease management.

So within disease management, really looking at all of these disease states, the top five,

from my perspective, had an element of, of course they do, but what I was interested in was the

element of nutrition within these disease groups.

So from that also, I learned over time really how important the gut health is.

Gut is just even now being developed and understanding how it plays a part in Alzheimer's or

whatever it happens to be, definitely our mood and how it plays a part in health in general.

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