Hey guys, welcome back to Skin Anarchy. This is Zecta, and I have such a remarkable guest with me today. I am truly honored and humbled to be hosting him. He has been such a visionary and a leader in the space of skin health for so many years, and we're going to be talking about his new book that's coming out now. So without me ranting too much, please, I would love to introduce you guys to Dr. Nicholas Perricone.

Welcome, Dr. Perricone.

It's such an honor to host you.

Thank you.

And it's a pleasure getting to talk with you today and our audience.

I'm very excited about the new books.

It's just a lot of fun to get to talk about it. Yeah, I'm really excited that

you're coming out with, you know, you came out with a new book and I'd love to learn about it.

And I really want to talk about you because you've led that beauty and wellness world through so

many scientific evolutions, you know, and for me, I mean, your brand was one of the first

professional brands that I got my hands on, you know,

and I was learning about skin health. And it's just, it's so inspiring to see this, you know,

kind of come full circle for myself. So I want to ask you, you know, what really inspired

the beauty molecule, which is the name of the book for everyone listening. Why is, why is right now

the right time for this message?

Well, it's a perfect time because my last book was 10 years ago, and people asked me why this long break, I said, because really my research, I didn't see anything that was really

different from what I, my initial ideas about inflammation, aging, and disease and all the

information I have on in skin. But with my research over the past 10 years, I was, it was kind of

really enlightening to see what happened in terms of my study. So I have an unusual background,

I'm certainly a medical doctor, but I'm also

a nutritionist, and I've done original research and nutrition. But this really all started back

in medical school when I was doing my histopathology and looking at different pieces of pathology

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