Hello and welcome to February 35, a podcast about the things we do to take care of ourselves.

I'm Dori Shafrier.

And I'm Elise Hugh, and we are two friends who like to talk a lot about serums.

And this is one of our new You Ask, We Answer episodes, formerly known as many episodes,

but now they are longer and meatier, more questions.

And we really get into things. So thank you as always for your questions.

We have so many good ones today. So I'm excited to get to all of them. Yay. But first,

Elise, how's it going? It's going all right. I've survived my rave over the weekend uh as part of my

middle-aged rave club mark um i think i have one a quarter in me i think i can go once a quarter

i think if it gets more frequent than that like i might have deleterious health functions, you know, like, it might not be good or effects.

So, it was really fun, though. And then, uh, otherwise, I'm in pretty good spirits, very busy. They call this May Sember for a reason.

I have this irregularly updated substack that areack that used to be a tiny letter that I started

in 2015 because I was keeping in touch with like eight of my friends after I moved to Korea.

And I would just like share links to whatever stories I had just published, not published,

but like reported. And like some links and things

that I had been reading. And a lot of the times it was stuff of international interest or Asia

related because my perspective was a little different from the other side of the world.

And I just kept doing it and it kind of grew. And then Substack was coming online or other people started doing substack.

And I was like, oh, I'll just bring it over there.

But I have no rhyme or reason to it.

It doesn't come out at any sort of regular intervals.

But then I've been like all stressed out because I have too much stuff going on.

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