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This Podcast Will Kill You

Ep 157 Retinoids Part 2: …how it’s going

This Podcast Will Kill You

Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts

Health & Fitness, Science

4.817.1K Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2024

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

That same little bottle of retinol serum sitting on your bathroom counter - how does it work? Does it actually work? Those are the questions we’re taking on in part two of our retinoids two-parter. The answers, as you might expect, are complicated. Because as it turns out, “retinoid” is a catch-all term for a bunch of different types of compounds, all of which work in slightly different ways. And on top of that, the testing required to demonstrate efficacy isn’t exactly held to the highest of standards. But we do the best with what we have to get to the bottom of this retinoid puzzle. Tune in to learn everything you ever wanted to know about retinoids. Support this podcast by shopping our latest sponsor deals and promotions at this link: https://bit.ly/3WwtIAu Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

This is exactly right.

0:06.4

This is Kate Winkler Dawson, inviting you to listen to brand new episodes of my true crime talk show, Wicked Words.

0:14.1

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0:22.2

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0:28.7

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0:34.9

the stories. New episodes of wicked words are available now wherever you get your podcasts.

0:43.4

From the moment of birth, you begin to age.

0:46.9

The changes are almost entirely internal and imperceptible.

0:51.1

But by your 20s, the sun has probably left its first telltale marks on your most

0:56.2

prominent feature, your face. You start to get tiny lines or wrinkles. Or as dermatologists put it,

1:03.4

you experience photo aging. Usually by your early 30s and with each passing year, those first

1:10.6

fine furrows begin to deepen and multiply.

1:14.4

To some, the lines are signs of character or a merry disposition to be neither fretted over nor fought against.

1:21.7

To many others, though, they are scars, reminders of the disappearance of youth.

1:31.5

Not surprisingly, then, eliminating wrinkles is a roughly $3 billion business in youth conscious America. In the past 15 months, however, we have been told

1:39.5

that much of this energy and enterprise may have been rendered obsolete by a drug that purports to improve skin tone and erase wrinkles.

1:48.9

Its scientific name is all trans-retinoic acid, but most of us know it by its brand name, Retinae.

1:55.9

Once a popular acne cream marketed by Ortho Pharmaceutical, a $600 million a year subsidiary of $9 billion

2:03.2

Johnson and Johnson. Retinae has been hailed by doctors and the press as the first drug, as opposed

2:10.5

to a cosmetic, that shows promise not only in treating the symptoms of aging, but also in actually

2:17.2

reversing part of the process itself. The

2:37.0

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