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🗓️ 11 July 2025
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Do you struggle with an inflammatory skin condition or want a more radiant complexion? Renowned dermatologist Dr Nicholas Perricone joins Liz to reveal the nutrition and lifestyle tweaks we should make to improve our skin health.
Liz and Nicholas discuss foods that can inflame our skin (and others that can calm it), Nicholas' three-day nutritional facelift, and the 'beauty molecule'.
Nicholas also shares his thoughts on red light therapy and sunlight for skin, plus reveals why hydrogen water might be the simplest skincare strategy yet.
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0:00.0 | When you're on the anti-inflammatory diet, inflammation starts dropping very rapidly. |
0:04.6 | So if you eat any foods that have, we call a high glycemic index that cause a rapid rise in blood sugar and then, of course, an insulin response, you start up a cascade of inflammation that lasts for three days. |
0:15.7 | Now, when you drop that inflammation, you start losing excess water, which we call edema, it's usually in the face. |
0:22.5 | And so it happens after three days, you start having much more definition of your cheekbones, |
0:26.7 | your jawline is crisp. Skin is absolutely radiant because you're producing loads of nitric oxide. |
0:33.1 | Now, I want to eliminate skin puffiness, smooth your wrinkles wrinkles and firm up a sagging jawline. Well, |
0:39.7 | who doesn't? Well, you don't need to go to your surgeon. No, no. Renowned dermatologist, |
0:44.5 | Dr Nicholas Perricone says you just need to go to your fridge. This is the Lizelle |
0:49.8 | Well-being show, the podcast helping us all have a better second half, no matter what our age or stage in life. |
0:57.6 | I'm Liz Earle and I am on a bit of a mission, you know, to find ways for all of us to thrive in later life by investing in our health and our well-being today. |
1:06.2 | And that includes, of course, how well we are outwardly aging by caring about the state of our skin. |
1:12.7 | Now that we're well into the summer, all this month, we are taking a close look at ways we can |
1:17.6 | radiate health and happiness on the outside by taking a closer look of what's going on inside. |
1:23.4 | And our skin is absolutely a barometer of what goes on within. |
1:28.3 | And that's why, having founded a major skincare brand myself, |
1:31.5 | I actually care more actually about what I put into my body |
1:34.8 | to create healthy skin cells than what goes on the outside, |
1:38.6 | although obviously that does matter too. |
1:41.2 | So I focus on things like protein and healthy fats, for example. Well, Dr. Nicholas |
1:46.2 | Perricone is a renowned physician, scientist and inventor who's pioneered the connection between |
1:52.1 | youthful health and beauty through innovative science-backed technology and research. But in his |
1:58.5 | latest book, The Beauty Molecule, he reveals that we all already have |
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