Skin Nutrition with Erica Rodriguez
Get Your Glow Back
Madeleine Shaw
4.8 • 553 Ratings
🗓️ 11 February 2020
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
After coming off the pill in her 20s Erica Rodriguez suffered with acne and tried to cure her skin through antibiotics, anti androgens and harsh topical treatments only to find her skin and general health got worse. With the help of a nutritionist Erica healed her gut and acne and became a nutritionist herself, helping others with their skin struggles. We spoke about the skin gut axis, the role of hormones and sleep for clear skin and how to fight skin pollution. Show notes on madeleineshaw.com/episode46
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome back to the Get Your Globe at podcast. I'm joined today by Erica Rodriguez, a |
| 0:08.6 | nutritional therapist and founder of the naturally nourished platform. Erica suffered for years with |
| 0:14.2 | adult acne after coming off the pill in her 20s. She tried recommendations from countless experts |
| 0:20.0 | in attempts to clear her skin and restore her confidence |
| 0:22.9 | with various medications which often came accompanied with severe side effects. |
| 0:28.3 | On a mission to clear her skin for good and to get to the root of her condition, |
| 0:32.5 | she changed her diet and changed her life. |
| 0:35.6 | Erica is now a qualified nutritional therapist specialising in helping |
| 0:39.5 | others to conquer their skin problems through changing their diet and lifestyle. We spoke all about |
| 0:45.1 | her top advice for clear skin, the gut skin connection and who to see if you're suffering with acne. |
| 0:50.7 | I hope you enjoy listening to this podcast. Let's bring on the wonderful Erica. |
| 0:56.7 | Erica, welcome to the podcast. Thanks for having me. Excited to be here. I'm so excited. I feel like |
| 1:03.1 | skin and nutrition are a really interesting subject and kind of very much the beginning of |
| 1:09.2 | my career in kind of nutrition health was very focused around |
| 1:13.0 | skin health so I can't wait to dive in but I would love to kind of hear your story what got you |
| 1:18.2 | interested in nutrition what got you interested in skincare okay so in my early 20s I developed acne |
| 1:25.7 | you know obviously your first port of call is to go to the GP |
| 1:29.0 | and, you know, I was on various rounds of medication because at that time, you didn't quite make |
| 1:36.0 | the link between diet and skin and acne. So yeah, first port of call went to the GP. I was on |
| 1:43.5 | antibiotics and various rounds of things like anti-androgens and also the birth control pill for my acne. So I had this for about a decade. So it was on and off for a decade. And every time I came off the medication, I thought it had cleared, but like clockwork, it would take three months |
| 2:02.2 | and then the acne would come back with a vengeance. And that was like a cycle on and off. And I just thought, |
| 2:08.2 | I don't want to be on this medication forever. And it's not good for me. Surely it's doing |
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