Does perfect skin really exist?

Body Stuff with Dr. Jen Gunter

TED

Health & Fitness

4.6 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 23 June 2021

⏱️ 35 minutes

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There are YouTube tutorials, magazine columns, and entire online communities dedicated to finding the “perfect skin care routine.” But what we consider to be “perfect” skin is rooted in racist, sexist and ageist ideas. So what do we need to do to protect this amazing organ that is the first line of defense for the body? Jen is joined by a dermatologist who helps scrub out skin care myths and shares acne-fighting essentials, and a sociologist who digs into the roots of racism in medicine and how they impact the access to care for people of color. Read the full text transcript at go.ted.com/BSTscript6

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0:21.8	18 and 35 live with their parents?
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0:33.1	you get your podcasts?
0:37.3	My children were born extremely prematurely.
0:41.6	One was one pound eleven ounces, and the other was one pound thirteen ounces.
0:47.5	Right after they were born, they were taken to the neonatal intensive care unit, or NICU.
0:54.1	I didn't get to hold them after birth.
0:57.2	They spent a lot of time with a breathing tube in an incubator.
1:03.0	It was really a scary time.
1:06.8	Their nervous systems were so underdeveloped that they couldn't even handle touch.
1:14.5	But as soon as they were able to be touched, we did what's called skin-to-skin care.
1:19.8	You take your tiny little naked premature baby who is still attached to a breathing tube
1:25.0	in monitors and wires, and you basically stuff them down your shirt against your skin.
1:31.9	And what happens next is incredible.
1:35.5	You actually watch the heart rate stabilize, and their oxygen levels go up.
1:42.2	You can see in real time what touch does to their bodies.
1:50.1	I never thought about touch that way before.
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