Is Your Acne Caused By What You're Eating?
The Dr. Hyman Show
Dr. Mark Hyman
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🗓️ 9 April 2021
⏱️ 16 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on this episode of the doctor's pharmacy, I think it's important that we have to recognize that we're all individuals and the cause of acne is not just one problem. It depends on your individual story. |
| 0:13.0 | Hey everyone, it's Dr. Mark. |
| 0:15.0 | The decades ago I read a book about how light dramatically influences our health because of its impact on our circadian rhythms. Ever since, I've been fascinated with the research around light exposure and how we can use light to optimize our health. |
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| 0:37.0 | My friend Dave Asprey actually coined the phrase junk light to describe the excess of blue light as well as green and violet light that disrupt our circadian rhythms. |
| 0:45.0 | Junk light reduces our ability to produce melatonin, which is a key hormone for regulating our internal clocks, sleeping well and even aging well. |
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| 1:33.0 | Now let's get back to this week's episode of the doctor's pharmacy. |
| 1:37.0 | Hi, I'm Kayo, one of the producers of the doctor's pharmacy podcast. |
| 1:40.0 | We have a tendency to think that glowing skin can be achieved as the result of what we put on our skin as opposed to what we put in our bodies. |
| 1:47.0 | In fact, we spend over a billion dollars collectively on prescriptions and over the counter products to cure acne. But eliminating acne is best approach as an inside job. |
| 1:57.0 | Dr. Hyman recently spoke about this with his colleagues at the Ultra Wellness Center, Dr. Todd Lapine and Dr. Elizabeth Bohem. |
| 2:03.0 | The skin is contiguous with the gut. So if I draw a line on the skin and I keep drawing a line and go down to my tongue and I go into my esophagus down to my stomach and my intestine, I'm still on the same surface. |
| 2:14.0 | So oftentimes, you know this mark is that's true. I thought of that. Yeah, it's not a cool thought. That's how I explain to patients. |
| 2:21.0 | So the skin is contiguous with the gut. It's an echelidermal tissue. And when their skin issues think gut. |
| 2:28.0 | It's really a tube. It's outside your body. Here's your gut. It's true. I mean, when I'm a patient with psoriasis, eczema, acne, rosacea, I treat their gut. |
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