Struggling with Acne? How Your Gut Impacts Your Skin | Ep 382

The Funk'tional Nutrition Podcast

Erin Holt

Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Alternative Health, Nutrition

4.9 • 759 Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Could your gut be the missing piece of your skincare routine? If you’ve tried every serum, cleanser, and supplement under the sun but your skin still won’t cooperate, it might be time to look inward. Inflammation, imbalanced bacteria, and sluggish digestion can all show up on your face — and Erin and lead practitioner Rachel Heintz, MS, RDN are breaking down exactly how.

Instead of masking symptoms with topicals or medications, they walk through how stool testing and targeted gut support can reveal what’s REALLY driving breakouts beneath the surface.

Did you know low stomach acid, poor bile flow, and nutrient malabsorption can block your body’s ability to detox, process hormones, and maintain healthy skin?

If you’ve been “doing everything right” without results, this episode connects the dots between your gut and the glow you’ve been working for.

In this episode:

How hidden inflammation and bacterial imbalances in your gut can fuel acne, even if your digestion seems fine
The single enzyme that can be THE missing link behind those stubborn hormonal breakouts
Root cause healing, and why Accutane and birth control suppress breakouts without fixing the underlying imbalance
How functional stool testing can get you real answers about your microbiome, nutrient absorption, and gut function
An “inside out” approach to supporting the liver, gallbladder, and gut lining to get glowing skin

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Transcript

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0:00.0	When we think about inflammation as a whole, if there is inflammation in your gut, it can be one of the biggest culprits when it comes to acne and skin health.
0:09.9	And so inflammation, it's regulated by your immune system.
0:13.3	So much of your immune system is located in your gut.
0:16.1	If there's any type of imbalance there, it can show up on your skin.
0:19.6	Welcome to the functional nutrition podcast. Spell with a K, because we do things a little
0:23.4	differently around here. I'm your host, Erin Holt, and I've got 15 years of clinical experience
0:28.1	as a functional nutritionist and mindset coach, creating a new model that I call intuitive
0:32.8	functional medicine, where we combine root cause medicine with the innate intelligence of your body.
0:38.6	This is where science meets self-trust. Your body already knows how to heal, and this show is
0:44.2	going to show you how. If you're looking for new ways of thinking about your health, be sure to
0:48.4	follow and share with a friend because you never know whose life you might change.
0:53.9	Hi, friends. We're back with another show. You guys know how I'm always talking about skin and how skin is an inside job.
1:01.8	So there are a lot of different factors that can affect the skin, both internal and external.
1:08.0	Obviously, here at the functional nutritionist, we are focusing on more of the internal
1:13.7	stuff. Today we're going to talk about skin, specifically the gut skin connection and specifically
1:20.9	specifically with acne, because we are kind of seeing an increase of that in our practice,
1:26.9	and we know that that can be a really emotional thing that a lot of people do with,
1:31.4	how we present our face to the world, can be a pretty big deal.
1:34.8	And especially adults dealing with acne that can feel all sorts of frustrating,
1:39.4	particularly if you feel like you're doing everything right.
1:42.0	So today actually is going to be a little bit of a quick and dirty episode because we're not going to do a huge, long, deep dive into the science
1:50.1	or all the potential theoretical drivers of acne. Instead, we really want this to serve as a
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