Hey guys, welcome back to another episode of Century Anarchy.

This is your host Deca, and I have a wonderful bread I want to share with you today.

I'm very excited to learn about it because I have been diving a little bit more into the

microbiome and trying to understand what can we really do in terms of like maintenance care, right, when it comes to our skin's microbiome and really preserving skin integrity and making sure that whatever we're doing is not

killing off the wonderful bacteria that help create actually the skin barrier so I

would love to introduce you guys to the founder of Ask Skin Care, Trevor Stein.

Welcome to show Trevor, I'm so excited to host you.

Thank you, Edker, yes.

Exciting to get going.

Yeah, I would love to learn more about you, Trevor, and how you really decided to start the skincare line and what

really led to the discovery of creating these products?

So I come from a chemistry background. I was involved in drug discovery so we were

looking for new pharmaceuticals partially from

plants and partially from biochemicals at biotechnology sources so I

guess I come at skin care from a slightly different angle, organic chemistry.

But yeah, it was really the human microbiome project

that shifted me very strongly in the direction of fully

committing to skin care.

It felt to me in 2010 that you know you can use single molecules to attempt to shift complex ecosystems.

Now humans don't have a fantastic track record of shifting ecosystems with single molecules,

is the short story.

When we try to use, for example, DDT to take out mosquitoes or malaria for example.

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