Essential Skincare Routines for Women Over Forty with Dr. Mamina Turegano

Well Beyond 40

JJ Virgin

Nutrition, Fitness, Health & Fitness

4.5 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 14 January 2026

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

If your skin could talk, what might it say about how you’re aging? Would it say “This woman is rocking it” or “There might be a few things that you can tweak”? In this episode, my guest and I explore how your skin is far more than a beauty metric—it’s a living reflection of your hormones, inflammation, stress, and overall health. I’m joined by Dr. Mamina Turegano, a triple board-certified dermatologist with a powerful internal-medicine perspective on aging skin. Together, we break down what actually works after 40, what’s hype, and how to build a smarter inside-out strategy for skin longevity. What you’ll learn: (02:05) Why your skin is a direct reflection of hormones, inflammation, and mitochondrial health. (05:35) How stress and cortisol can trigger acne, hives, dandruff, and flare-ups. (09:01) What estrogen decline during perimenopause does to collagen, hydration, and skin thickness. (12:44) Which skincare ingredients have the strongest evidence for anti-aging after 40. (19:18) How peptides, autophagy, and cellular senescence affect visible skin aging. (25:49) Why hydrocolloid patches work so well for hormonal and inflammatory acne. (28:04) What red and blue light therapies actually do for inflammation, acne, and rejuvenation. (42:33) How to fade dark spots, melasma, and acne scars without making pigmentation worse. Love the podcast? Here’s what to do: Subscribe to the podcast. Leave a review. Text a screenshot to me at 813-565-2627 and wait for a personal reply because your voice is so important to me. Want to listen to the show completely ad-free? Go to http://subscribetojj.com Click “TRY FREE” and start your ad-free journey today! When you’re ready, enjoy the VIP experience for just $4.99 per month or $49.99 per year (save 17%!) Full show notes (including all links mentioned): http://jjvirgin.com/drmamina Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.1	Any kind of stressor, mental stressor, even how we think can manifest on the skin. We see it all the time.
0:35.7	We see hives when people get stressed. We see dandruff. We see acne.
0:40.3	Speaking of acne, I found those little spot things.
0:43.3	The hydrochaloid patches. Oh my gosh, this is the greatest thing.
0:47.3	Huge fan of those. It works. It helps the acne heal faster. It's pulling fluid out,
0:52.3	but also providing a healing environment by keeping it
0:55.0	occluded. As someone's starting to go into perimenopause, what is happening to your skin?
1:00.8	There's a pretty drastic decline in estrogen, thinning skin, wrinkles, hydration, more hair loss.
1:08.8	I would assume that HRT could be a great front line here.
1:13.9	HRT can be such a game changer.
1:16.0	It's so unfortunate that people were misinformed.
1:22.4	Hey, I'm JJ Virgin.
1:23.7	PhD dropout, sorry mom,
1:26.6	turned four-time New York Times best-selling author. As a certified nutrition
1:30.9	specialist, fitness hall of famer, and globally recognized leader in health, I'm driven to keep
1:36.3	asking the tough questions and use my podcast to simplify the science of help into actionable
1:42.4	strategies that help you thrive.
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