Hey, everybody. Welcome to this week's episode of Red Pillar Healthcast. My name is Dr. Charlie Faganholz

here with Lauren Johnson, FMP. And we have another Q&A session this week. So as we always say,

we love doing this. It is a very efficient way of answering what the people want to hear about.

And so we wrote down one, two, we wrote down six questions today. And Lauren,

let's start with the first one. Severe teen acne. And I'm going to emphasize severe because all

acne is not created equal. No, it's not. And I feel like this person has probably been offered,

if it's a, if it's a girl, birth control and acutane. If it's a boy, just some acutane. And hopefully some conversations about how to be careful because acutane is not one that is. It is very, very, very toxic. And so that is one, and it's, it's a very high form of vitamin A.

And it just amazes me that they would, that they use it in this way. And they don't think,

well, maybe there's something better or less toxic that we could give to our teenagers for

acne. But this is something that's really common.

Like, I mean, this is something that's all over.

And it's part of the way we live, the foods we eat.

And it's part of some of the gut issues that we talk about a lot on this podcast.

So I would say first things first is foundations.

What are you putting on the skin? I would really, if it's a girl especially, but even if it's a boy, there are some really

great skincare products for acne from clear stem. And I would really consider those are clean

products that really do work well for that skin barrier.

I would focus more on like less on like the clarity and like the vitamin C things.

And I would focus more on just a gentle scrub and some of their serums.

And then and then start building that that skin barrier back up

and then it's going to move into the exfolience.

Don't use a bunch of harsh exfoliants on that because that can just irritate it more.

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