S E1130: Richina Lukes: Black Hair and Health
This Is Karen Hunter
Knarrative
4.5 • 888 Ratings
🗓️ 23 November 2022
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Karen and her guest Richina Lukes-Milledge, nurse practitioner, and CEO of L’Èlite MediSpa Inc, a medical spa that offers a variety of health, wellness and aesthetic services. Discuss the hair products often used by Black women that may contain endocrine-disrupting chemicals that are linked with serious health issues.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Karen Hunter and welcome back nurse practitioner |
| 0:17.0 | CEO at Elite Medi Spa. Let me welcome the one and only Regina, Luke's Millage. |
| 0:24.1 | Hi, welcome back. |
| 0:26.0 | Hi, Karen, how are you doing? |
| 0:27.6 | Thank you for happy back. |
| 0:29.2 | Listen, the first time you were here with your cousin Dante |
| 0:32.1 | was really amazing, and I wanted to have you back to |
| 0:34.9 | talk about your journey because we were talking a lot about the skin and all of the things that |
| 0:38.8 | you're doing with the nutrients and you know giving people the shots that that are making them feel like they're |
| 0:44.9 | teenagers and all that is lovely but I wanted to also you know talk about some things |
| 0:50.8 | I'm watching this hair tales on Hulu with Tracy Ellis Ross and |
| 0:55.6 | Oprah and Lisa Ray and I mean it's amazing talking about that journey for women for black |
| 1:01.5 | women with our our hair but they don't really talk about |
| 1:05.4 | the deleterious impact of perms on our bodies and the you know the poor health that comes from it |
| 1:15.0 | when we try to straighten the products and I'm sure the smoke |
| 1:19.6 | from the hot comb and I'm sure it's all of that is probably bad but you're a breast |
| 1:25.1 | cancer survivor ten years and being a nurse practitioner and now in this |
| 1:31.0 | wellness space how important has that been for keeping you healthy? |
| 1:36.0 | Well, Karen, that's been hugely important and you are correct. |
| 1:40.0 | You know, the things that we put in our body, whether it be food, the things that we put in our body whether it be food the things that we put on our body |
| 1:45.9 | PIRMS hair products oils moisturizers we definitely have to be conscious of it because there are so many ingredients in there that are not the |
| 1:56.8 | healthiest. There's a lot of preservatives just to make things last longer and you know some smell good stuff in there so you know a lot of |
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