Full Transcript Podcast Introduction and July Skin Health Focus 0:04 Hey everybody, welcome to the Eat Pray Faith podcast with Dr. Tracy. That is me 0:09 and I am so excited to dive into this topic of skin health for the entire 0:14 month of July. We will be focusing here. Our next few episodes are going to be 0:19 all dedicated to understanding your skin. not just your face, not just 0:25 aging, but understanding how the skin actually is one of your first signs and 0:31 symptoms to something going on deeper in the body. So, today we're going to talk 0:37 about common skin complaints. Um, skin SOS is what I would call this. What your 0:44 skin is really telling you about your health. What we can we do about it. Is 0:49 it just normal signs of aging? and my upcoming course for both practitioners 0:56 and lay people. So stay tuned cuz this is going to be a great episode. 1:00 So skin integrity, let's talk about this and just try to to break down some 1:06 things. You know, the most common skin complaints that I hear is loss of tone, 1:12 especially with women that are approaching 40 and 50, uh discoloration, 1:18 breakouts, that can happen at any time, even in adolescence. So skin health is 1:22 just not reserved for the older population where women and or men are 1:27 going through changes right in their uh age or hormones whatever that looks 1:32 like. Of course premature aging is in that but skin issues can start in 1:37 infancy as we know and they are all telltale signs that something internal 1:43 is going on first. You have to remember that the skin itself is an organ both 1:48 absorption and detoxification. So it has two functions. It's a dual organ and 1:54 it's part of what we call the innate immune system. This is the immune system 1:58 that recognizes things that are you or not you without ever creating an 2:03 antibbody against whatever the antigen or culprit is. So this is our first 2:09 level of identifier uh part of the immune system, part of absorption, 2:14 nutrition absorption, etc. And then also part of detox. So your skin is vital. 2:19 This is not just something like, hey, let's just put on a great cleanser and 2:23 eliminate toxins. Of course, that's part of it. And we're going to get into that
Why Skin Integrity Reflects Internal Health 2:27 in later episodes, but for for today, I just want to talk about the SOS, the the 2:32 top things that people complain about. What are the deeper meanings and how can 2:37 we help you? So, number one is skin integrity and tone. And you know, this 2:42 this is a big one because it's one of the first signs that our collagen, our 2:48 elastin, our role of nutrition and vitamins, um our liver access, 2:54 everything is being affected. And so, we really have to look at it for what it 2:58 is. It's just it's not just normal aging. Um, I mean, obviously as we get 3:03 older, we will naturally lose some elastin. We will naturally lose the 3:07 ability to regenerate new and healthy cells because our cells are aging. But 3:13 when we're seeing this early on, when we're seeing this in our 30s and our 3:17 40s, that's not really natural. So, let's talk about what does skin 3:22 integrity and tone mean? What's like the biochemistry behind it, right? some 3:26 geeky information for you to to understand so that you realize that when 3:30 you're putting collagen in your coffee in the morning, it's actually doing a 3:33 thing. So, skin tone and firmness, they rely on collagen and different types of 3:38 collagen. I'm not going to get in all to the details. They also rely on elastin 3:43 and these are proteins that are synthesized by the body and they're 3:48 created and they are created in the dermis which is the layers of skin. So 3:52 collagen production requires certain nutrition things like vitamin C, zinc, 3:57 copper, also amino acids such as glycine, proline, etc. So amino acids 4:02 are important. You know, your vitamins and minerals are important and just 4:06 supplementing a little bit of collagen, just a biohack around all of those 4:10 things are important. And later again we're going to talk about sun and the 4:14 impact and how to protect yourself naturally because everything that you 4:18 learn today is going to start building the bridge of how do you keep your skin 4:24 healthy in certain situations not just all the time. So another big impact on 4:31 skin health you know can be things that we put on topically as well and stress. 4:37 So stress and toxin load to your body are about the same thing. They all 4:42 create a fight or flight. So when we're talking about tone and integrity, we 4:47 don't want things like our fibro blast to to decline. We don't want things to 4:54 break down due to oxidative stress. An oxidative stress 4:59 is a result of toxicity stress, emotional stress, physical stress, 5:06 mental stress, anything can create oxidation in the body. So if you're 5:10 looking at tone and elasticity of the skin, we have to look at your nutrient 5:15 base, what toxic load you're applying already outside, inside, right? What is 5:21 your face creams? Are they natural? Do they have chemicals in them that may be 5:25 creating more oxidative stress in the cells? You have to remember that in the 5:29 United States, we do not have the strict look at our uh products in the cosmetic 5:36 industry. So in other countries like Europe, they have banned hundreds of the 5:42 chemical composition elements that we allow into our skinincare products. And 5:49 in the course in the Academy of Abiding Wellness, if you go visit that, I have 5:55 uh a course called Foundations of Health. And I would recommend everybody 5:58 take it even as a refresher even if you think you know it. Because in there I do 6:03 talk about things in our food, things in our household, things in our skin care 6:08 products that can be very dangerous creating oxidative stress, creating 6:12 premature aging of cells. And really, that's what we're talking about. Again, 6:16 the skin's a reflection of what's going on inside. So, if you have these things, 6:21 integrity issues of the skin, tone issues of the skin where it's sagging, 6:25 it's not the same as it used to be. You kind of look like a little bit of an 6:28 alligator, there are things that you can do to actually help enhance that from 6:32 the inside out. And there are things that you can do more naturally 6:35 topically. So, let's talk about a few solutions, right? Because this is really 6:38 what you guys want to know. Like, how do I have my skin be healthy because my 6:43 cells are healthy? How do I keep that youthful appearance? And it really 6:47 starts from the inside out. So, number one, um, collagen peptides. These are 6:51 some of my favorite things. These are going to supply what we call hydrayzeed 6:56 collagen. Uh, easy absorption. Collagen, you know, is again part of the integrity 7:02 and tone of the skin, and you just need to replace it because you can't always 7:05 get it from your food. If you have poor digestion, maybe you're not eating a lot 7:09 of collagen based foods, maybe you don't have the branch chain amino acids to 7:12 process it. So replacing it is easy. One or two scoops a day in a favorite 7:18 beverage, a shake, coffee. I start out in the morning by adding vital proteins, 7:23 collagen peptides to my coffee every morning. Sometimes I add it to my 7:27 preworkout shake along with some branch chain amino acids. All of these links, I 7:32 do have a skin glow bundle that I put together for you. The link is going to 7:36 be in the comments, so please check that. But for now, let's just talk about 7:40 each individual item. The second thing that I really, really love every single 7:45 day that I utilize in my shakes or in my pre-workout drink is Proline Greens by
Collagen, Greens, and Topical Support for Tone 7:51 Nutritional Frontiers. Now, again, it's in the Skin Glow bundle. So, go click on 7:55 it. You can get all of these items. You can get one of the items in the bundle. 7:59 You don't have to buy the whole thing. I also have provided you with a discount 8:03 code below that is in the show notes, so check that out. But the proline greens 8:08 is really interesting because it provides you with the phytonutrients 8:12 that's going to reduce oxidative stress in the skin. It has its own liver detox 8:18 matrix. It's proprietary and I actually had a hand in formulating this product 8:23 with Jamie Dorley at Nutritional Frontiers and it was a great experience 8:28 because we got to formulate a green strength that not only provides 8:32 probiotics, a detox matrix, phytonutrients, 8:37 uh, and so important for protein metabolism and amino acid availability 8:41 when you support the liver and help it nutrify itself and detox. So, I knew 8:48 that this product was going to be an accelerator of just overall general 8:53 health. But when you apply it with collagen peptides, you're getting the 8:58 antioxidants, you're reducing that ROS, um the oxidative stress of the cells and 9:06 you're detoxifying the liver, which again, some of these things when we go 9:10 into discoloration, which is our next one, we're going to talk about why an 9:13 unhappy liver is not good. So again, you got the vital proteins, collagen, you 9:18 got the proline greens, and just if you did those two overall, you'd have better 9:23 healthier skin, a healthier liver, a better detox elimination pathway. So 9:28 many things. The other thing that it supplies is other nutrients like zinc, 9:32 copper, and vitamin C, which are essential co-actors for the skin. you 9:37 know, anything that's citrusbased, um, anything like that is going to 9:42 really be helpful for the skin. Because if you think about how God created the 9:46 world and if we would eat regionally for where we live and seasonally for where 9:51 we live, we would have good health. So, think about the tropical areas where 9:56 people live that have high exposure to the sun, abundance in vitamin C 10:01 producing trees, right? You have grapefruit, you have oranges, you have 10:04 things that are just loaded with phytonutrients. You also have um a a 10:10 plethora of fat, coconut, avocados, nuts. So these are the things that that 10:18 grow in high tropic and high sun areas because the body needs these nutrients 10:23 in order to have good integrity when you have higher exposure to the sun. It is 10:29 why people in those areas tend to have more melanin in their skin. They tend to 10:34 be darker. So melanin is actually a peptide in the skin that not only will 10:41 give you that beautiful sun kiss glow, but it's great for your neurological, 10:46 it's great for your libido. It's actually great for appetite control. Do 10:51 you ever notice when you go to the beach how good you feel? That your mood comes 10:54 up, that you feel sexier? That's melanin. So when we're looking at 11:00 regional and seasonal, we have to eat for the environment we're in and drink 11:05 for it. So this is a really easy thing that you can do. And proline greens 11:09 comes in both chocolate and it comes in apple cinnamon. So depending on what 11:14 your flavor is, I put the chocolate in the bundle because sometimes I like to 11:18 add a scoop of the proline greens to my coffee to give it a little mocha taste 11:23 with the collagen peptides and that makes me happy. All right. The other 11:27 thing that you can look at topically if you're looking for something to put on 11:32 your face, and this is something that I personally use every single day is GHKCU 11:36 cream. Now, this is a copper peptide. It's known as the beauty peptide, and it 11:42 will stimulate that fibroblast activity in the skin. It helps increase collagen 11:47 synthesis, and it helps with tightening and integrity. It's a peptide. It's 11:52 already in your skin. it just naturally declines because our copper levels 11:56 actually decline. And that's a big thing, ladies. If you want to really 12:01 enhance your health, take a look at your thyroid and your T3 because honestly, I 12:08 will tell you most people they have high TSH 12:12 or low TSH due to lack of copper. So, get your blood work done. Again, our 12:18 specialists at, you know, Tracy Stropend ND Teleahalth System can help you. Tune 12:23 in there if you need some help. But the GHK cream is one of my favorite things. 12:27 Now, I like to do a little microderm with it, which is just a little roller 12:31 that you can get off of any website like Amazon. Um, you roll the skin with it. 12:37 It's kind of like little needles that go and they create a porous effect to the 12:41 skin. And then you apply the GHKCU cream. You wait one to two minutes and 12:46 then you just go on with your natural moisturizing regimen. Obviously, we want 12:51 to apply it to clean skin, but make sure that you have 12:56 a cleanser that's going to be not only um gentle on the skin, but clean for the 13:01 skin. Again, upcoming episodes, I'll talk about my face care regimen, but 13:07 skin in general, right? So, on the face, we have that. I know that's usually the 13:12 first place that people want to take care of, but you also have to look at 13:16 what else is it telling you about your body. So, skin integrity and tone big. 13:23 Let's move on to number two, discoloration. Now, these are anything 13:29 from hyper pigmentation to malaysia to dullness in the skin, red patches, 13:37 flares, things like that. This often stems from something that's being 13:42 triggered in the skin. Now, that can be from a few things. People have food 13:46 sensitivities that can trigger um hives, which is a skin issue. It can also 13:52 trigger redness on the cheeks. Now, when we talk about my face, tongue, nail 13:57 course for both practitioners and lay people, if you have redness that flares 14:02 up on your cheeks, your cheeks are indicative of your digestive system on 14:08 the face. So, if you look at a face map, your cheeks tell me about your 14:11 digestion. So if you get flares of redness there, you have acne there, you 14:16 have discoloration of any kind there, you have dry skin there, I know that you 14:20 already have digestive issues, and you might have a little bit of low 14:24 hydrochloric acid. So interesting. I'm going to give you little nuggets all 14:28 through this. So pay attention, write it down because something's going to hit 14:31 home with you, right? But overall discoloration can mean toxicity, 14:37 irritation, um you know, if you're getting redness, 14:41 patches, hives, anything like that. Also, it can mean estrogen dominance. 14:46 So, if you're getting brown patches, little spots, that can mean liver 14:50 congestion. You know, age spots, I think, is what they're called. But they 14:55 don't necessarily mean it's because you're getting older. You might have 14:59 some estrogen dominance coupled or even caused by your liver congestion. So 15:06 again, the body speaks. And those age spots don't just land on your face. You 15:10 can have them on your arms, on your legs. So it can be anywhere. Remember, 15:15 we're talking about the skin we're in, not just about the face. So poor 15:20 detoxification can equal a buildup of things like Billy 15:25 Rubin, estrogen metabolites which are not getting excreted and these can cause
Discoloration, Liver Health, and Hormone Balance 15:32 uneven skin tones. You can also have a reaction of some sort like histamine 15:39 that's going to create a hive like effect. You can have discoloration, 15:43 uh redness, you can have temperature changes in the skin. So, keep all of 15:48 this in mind when you're looking for what can I do? Well, some of the 15:53 solutions that I would offer out is if your skin color discoloration 15:58 happens after you eat something or drink something, you may need enzymes. um 16:04 betane hydrochloride based enzymes like betazyme that you can find on my store 16:09 or just overall uh plant-based enzymes like cyzime are 16:14 all very beneficial and you can find those on my store. Again, the link is 16:19 down below in the show notes. So, go check some things out because you might 16:24 find some things that can really help you uh with these skin issues. The other 16:29 thing is looking at your hormones. Again, you know, blood work overall, I 16:34 think, is just the easiest thing that people can do. You can tell a lot just 16:38 from a baseline blood work panel. But if you need blood work, please reach out. 16:42 We can get that done for you. But ladies, you should be looking and men at 16:48 your hormones anytime you're past the age of 40. Most of the alopathic model 16:52 will tell you you don't have to worry about it because, oh, what do you need 16:55 estrogen for when you go through menopause? Well, you do. That's why 16:58 you're losing bone density. It's not because you're not eating calcium. It's 17:02 because your hormones are imbalanced. And osteoclast and osteoblast activity 17:08 are heavily influenced by balanced hormones. So, get your blood work done. 17:13 Make sure you're not in estrogen dominance or low progesterone. Ladies, 17:17 testosterone matters. So, there's a very simple product that you can utilize 17:22 that's safe across the board called Estro Cleanse. Now, it's going to 17:26 contain things like DIM and calcium dlucarate, which is going to support 17:30 estrogen metabolism. It's going to help you have the right conversion of the 17:36 estrogen that your body's already naturally producing. It's not going to 17:40 enhance any more or any less. It's just going to work with what you have. Now, 17:44 if you have high cortisol, you're going to have skin issues. Skin can also be 17:49 hair, nails on your tongue, tongue that's coated. We're going to talk all 17:53 about that in the face, tongue, and nail course. So, I want you to pay attention 17:57 more to why these things are happening, not just using some serum that you 18:03 bought in a big box store or saw at late night when you're not going to bed on 18:07 time and you're getting it off something like QVC. Is that still around? I don't 18:12 know. But anyway, so ensure that your methylation, your detoxification 18:19 and all systems are go for the right liver support and hormone support. That 18:27 is going to help you the most with anything like discoloration on the skin, 18:32 blemishes, etc. If it's food based, allergy triggered or toxin triggered, 18:37 you have to know what the SOS is. What is the source of stress? And by 18:42 eliminating whatever that is and then enhancing your gut with good probiotics 18:47 and digestive enzymes, you can see great results in your skin. Remember, this is 18:53 an inside out project. Nothing starts on top of the skin unless you literally had 18:59 something thrown on you and you had a reaction to it. That does happen. I'm 19:03 not saying it doesn't, but I'm talking about generalization of what's happening 19:08 with your skin. All right. Number three. If you're getting frequent blemishes or 19:13 breakouts, we may need to look at something. Number one, why would this 19:18 happen? Well, there's several reasons. Number one, gut health can be a major 19:22 contributor to blemishes and breakouts as we discussed in the prior one with 19:27 discoloration. So, how well inflammation in the GI 19:31 tract, you have interlucan one, interlucan 6, TNF alpha. These are 19:37 triggers that stimulate the immune system to create inflammation, cytoine 19:43 storm. And when you have inflammation, it goes everywhere because it's in your 19:47 bloodstream. And sometimes your body just needs to get rid of it. And so with 19:52 all of that, it can create what's called a gut dispiosis. You can have sebum 19:57 production and it can clog pores. So all of a sudden, you're breaking out in 20:02 acne. And where it is on your face matters and we'll learn that in the 20:07 face, tongue, and nail class. If it's on your chin, that means it's hormonal. If 20:11 it's on your cheeks, that means it's digestive. So, lots more to learn there, 20:16 but just keep in mind that one of the pathways of frequent blemishes and 20:21 breakouts is gut health. So, simply by eliminating inflammatory foods, adding 20:27 probiotics and digestive enzymes, and grabbing that bundle that's in the 20:32 comments where you're adding collagen and those proline greens for the 20:36 detoxification, phytonutrients, probiotics, all the things we talked 20:40 about before can really make a difference. And then you can start 20:44 adding the GHK cream topically to help with the peptide integrity because 20:49 peptides, those are just short chains of amino acids, guys. Your body's supposed 20:53 to make them naturally, but if you have digestive issues, you can't make the 20:58 right chains of amino acids. So, if you have frequent blemishes and breakouts 21:03 due to that, it could be an issue and your resolution might simply be by 21:08 fixing your diet and your gut health. The other avenue that can take place is 21:13 hormone imbalance. Now, this is a huge topic, but I'm going to just simplify 21:18 it. insulin resistance at the core. You are 21:24 embracing a nutrition plan that your body doesn't like that is creating too 21:30 much sugar or glucose in the blood which over time your insulin receptors get 21:36 desensitized and so your body just can't take in any 21:41 more sugar. That sugar in your system creates oxidative stress which we now 21:45 know is going to break down integrity and it also is going to inhibit 21:51 detoxification and it's also going to create 21:55 inflammation. So when your body becomes resistant to 22:00 the sugar that's in your system, insulin resistant, it's not producing enough of 22:06 the hormone, it's actually a peptide, insulin to grab the glucose and pull it 22:13 into the cells, you have the very first sign of hormone imbalance. That can lead 22:19 to estrogen dominance. It can lead to liver congestion or be caused by liver 22:27 congestion. You could have what's called androgen dominance, higher testosterone, 22:33 higher androgens, which are more of your male hormones in both men and women, 22:37 which is going to create things like blemishes, breakouts. Women that have 22:43 PCOS have frequent breakouts, not only on 22:47 their face, but on their back and on their chest. And so by balancing those 22:52 um testosterone levels, DHEA levels and all the other androgens for women, which 22:57 is based in insulin resistance, you can see improvements overall in your 23:03 skin. They also experience hair growth. So again, collagen, that's what hair is, 23:10 you know, we it's an extension of our skin just like our nails, you know. So 23:14 we have to we can't segregate out the body to be like hair's hair's over here, 23:18 but skin's over here. It's all the same. It all comes from the same mitochondrial 23:21 ATP regeneration. It all comes from the ability to detox, balance your hormones, 23:27 have good gut health, and also create the peptides that your body needs in
Breakouts, Gut Health, and Insulin Resistance 23:32 order to keep the integrity. So, if you're having frequent blemishes and 23:36 breakouts, you got to figure out what's your SOS. Is it your digestion? Is it 23:40 your hormones? Is it something else? Is it just poor detox pathways? Again, go 23:46 get that bundle. The proline greens does all the things, helps with that. If you 23:51 find out that it is based in insulin resistance, some other add-ons that you 23:56 could do would be things like bourberine with each meal. 23:59 Adding a good uh gut health protocol, you know, with the probiotics, digestive 24:04 enzymes with each meal, and then the product GI complete powder, which comes 24:08 in lemon lime or raspberry. Again, you can get everything on my store. These 24:12 are the products that I know and love that I've seen work. If it's hormone 24:16 imbalance, you're going to want to look at which hormones are imbalanced. You 24:21 know, utilizing estrogens could be great, but what if you have high DHEA or 24:26 high testosterone? That's usually based in insulin resistance. So, again, we're 24:30 going to go back to bourberine, a very simple thing to put in that can be safe 24:34 across the board and effective. Again, you can always reach out to me or my 24:39 team and we're happy to help you. So, we've covered three key signs that your 24:46 skin is yelling, screaming, SOS, stop the source of stress, integrity and 24:51 tone, discoloration, and frequent blemishes and breakouts. 24:55 So, we have two more. And again, I think the next two really get wrapped up in 25:02 aging, but they're not. So, premature wrinkles and sagging. This could go back 25:06 to integrity and tone, but wrinkles have a little deeper effect. Now, depending 25:11 on where they are on the face can tell me a lot about you. So, you ever have 25:17 your mom stare at you when she's angry and she's kind of squints her eyes and 25:20 she gets those lines right by her eyebrows right on the inside. We call 25:25 them anger lines. If you have those all the time without looking at somebody in 25:31 anger, that's usually a sign that your liver is congested. If you have a 25:36 straight up and down line between your eyebrows in the center, right above the 25:41 bridge of your nose, that tells me that your spleen or immune system is 25:46 challenged. Different things on your face are going to tell me the physical 25:52 discernment. What's going on inside with your body? It's not always because we're 25:57 getting older. Sometimes your body is giving us a sign that we need to address 26:02 something bigger on the inside. So why do we get wrinkles and sagging just as a 26:11 product of skin integrity tone breakdown? Well, 26:16 glycation which is high sugar intake can create wrinkles and sagging. You also 26:23 again have that oxidative stress. you know, that's going to create 26:26 mitochondrial regeneration. It's going to decline the ATP, the cellular energy 26:32 for you to actually regenerate new and healthy cells. It also, if you are 26:39 looking at premature wrinkles and sagging, that can be hormone imbalance, 26:43 especially estrogen depletion in women. I know ladies, they're going to tell you 26:47 you don't need estrogen anymore, but you do. Estra estradiol is produced by the 26:52 ovaries. Estrone is produced by the adrenal glands. And so when you go 26:56 through menopause, you still produce estrogen. It's just a different type. 26:59 You still need it for, as I said, healthy bones and tissues, also mood, 27:04 but they're going to tell you you don't because you know what? They don't know. 27:07 They they didn't study women's hormones. They just studied medications that they 27:12 can give you if you have it, and they're not even really that good at it. So, 27:15 keep in mind the system, the alipathic system is not always the best source for 27:22 your solutions. And when's the last time you went to your OB/GYN and she drew 27:26 blood and looked at your hormones when you weren't pregnant? Yeah, probably 27:30 never point never. And then when you go through menopause, you know what they 27:34 say? Well, you don't need blood work because you don't need hormones anymore. 27:37 Really sad how you're treated, ladies. As for men, getting premature wrinkles 27:42 and sagging sometimes. And for some reason, you guys are called 27:46 distinguished when that happens. You guys get gray hair and wrinkles and 27:49 everyone's like, "They're so distinguished." You guys are you you're 27:52 all that in a bag of chips. But if you don't like it, you can still follow 27:56 these exact same things, solutions, recommendations that I'm making here. 28:03 Again, I am a practitioner, but I'm not your practitioner. So, you always should 28:08 check with your practitioner before starting anything new and make sure it 28:12 doesn't interfere with any medications you currently are on. All right, so 28:16 let's move into premature wrinkles and sagging. Done. This is where the GHK CU 28:24 cream can be so awesome because it tightens the skin and it can reverse 28:30 signs of aging. I mean, I really love my peptide topical. it. It's just so great. 28:37 And some of them can have retinol in them if you want it. Um or hyaluronic 28:42 acid that was going to add some hydration. 28:46 All of these things are so good. So guys, grab it. You're going to love it. 28:50 Telling you, you'll never go back. All right, last one. Cracking or dry skin. 28:54 This one I think is often due to a couple things. A, dehydration. Now, do I 29:00 think we should overdrink water? Absolutely not. Sometimes I think people 29:04 drink too much water. They dilute out their minerals. And I know everyone's 29:07 like a gallon of water or, you know, you need to drink an ounce for your body 29:12 weight. So if you're 150 lbs, you want to drink half your body weight in ounces 29:17 every day. So dividing that by two, that's how many ounces you would drink. 29:22 I don't always agree with that. I think you should drink when you're thirsty to 29:27 satisfaction. And you shouldn't dehydrate yourself with other things 29:30 like copious amounts of coffee or alcohol which can have secondary issues
Wrinkles, Sagging, and Dry Skin Solutions 29:36 and deplete the body in other way. Number one, too much coffee is going to 29:39 tax the adrenals and too much alcohol is going to stress the liver which we now 29:43 know can be an issue above with hormone instability and also um just insulin 29:50 resistance and being able to utilize the nutrients that we have. The other reason 29:54 that people could have dry cracking skin is lack of essential fatty acids. Now, 29:59 good fats are vital. We need these guys. We need good fats. Every single single 30:04 cell in your body is surrounded by what we call a lipid billayer that surrounded 30:09 by fat. So, you need fat in order to keep the integrity, the shape of the 30:15 cell. It's not just the fact that the cell gets old or can't regenerate well. 30:20 It loses its shape. It's kind of like your butt, right? I mean, when you're 30:24 20, look completely different than when you were 60. So, that is cellular shape 30:28 and integrity. And when your skin is cracking and dry, you could have low 30:33 levels of fatty acids. So, the skin lipid barrier, we need that. 30:40 It's made of certain things like fatty acids and cholesterol. 30:45 So, we're going to talk about cholesterol here for just two minutes 30:48 because I did a whole podcast on cholesterol. actually a series of three 30:52 podcasts on why cholesterol is good. It combines with good fats to help with 31:00 skin lipid barrier. The myelin sheath around all your neurotransmitters is 31:06 made of cholesterol. That's going to be your brain integrity. Your brain is made 31:11 of fat. It requires cholesterol. So, if you have dry cracking skin and 31:16 you're on some sort of statin, please do two things today. If you do 31:21 nothing else, go to my store, get CoQ10, 31:26 and buy some sort of omega, please. It it it may save and change your life. I'm 31:34 telling you, because a statin will deplete CoQ10. 31:39 Just giving you some advice there. Okay. 31:44 Dehydration, essential fatty acid lacking. Guys, drink water. Don't 31:51 overdrink things that are going to dehydrate you, things that are 31:54 diuretics. Keep the sugar in check. Inflammation can cause that. Also, just 31:59 things like low iron, low vitamin D, low magnesium. How do you know that you have 32:04 those things? Simple blood work test can show that your vitamin D levels are easy 32:10 to test. So are your iron levels. A baseline test with full thyroid panel 32:15 and everything will cost you about $115. That is not a lot to invest in your 32:21 health. I will guarantee you you've spent that on a dinner that you probably 32:25 didn't even like including tip. So prioritize your nutrition plan. 32:31 Prioritize your health because your skin is trying to tell you something. It's an 32:36 SOS of an internal thing that's happening and the consequence is landing 32:41 on your face, your tongue, your nails, your back, your chest, the integrity, 32:46 the dryness, the cracking, your feet, your toes, the discoloration of the 32:50 nails. Think about skin as a whole, not just on your face. I mean, I I get 32:57 it. We all want to have that youthful appearance, but we just worry about that 33:00 from the neck up. Guys, what's happening from the neck down matters more, I 33:04 promise you. One last thing I'm going to let leave 33:07 you with is just, you know, people have always asked me about red light therapy 33:10 and the red light mask. They seem to be going around. It's like a big thing. A I 33:15 have one and I love mine. It's something that I did for myself uh about 2 years 33:19 ago that I invested in one. Um I love it because it's something that I can just 33:24 wear and continue to work and vacuum and do the things. Very simple just to put 33:28 on for 20 minutes. I will do that at night after I put my GHK CU cream on 33:35 because red light therapy is actually an amplifier of all things skin. Now, 33:41 there's two types of red light. There's near infrared and far infrared. The near 33:45 infrared targets more surface issues. Um, it's near. It's not going to 33:50 penetrate really deep. It's going to get through maybe one or two layers of the 33:54 dermis. Uh, so wrinkles, breakouts, texture, integrity, things like that. 33:58 That's why it's a skin mask. The far infrared, it goes deeper. It goes far 34:03 into the muscle, far into the lymphatic, even into bone. And so that supports 34:08 detox, also collagen. So you need both. So I do have a far infrared sauna that 34:15 is a full sauna that I get in. And then I have a red light mask that I'll use 34:19 topically for my face. Works great for kids that might have acne issues. uh 34:24 works great for you ladies that you know you're doing all these things as your 34:27 beauty regimen. It might be something that you could 34:31 invest in for yourself and give yourself a little treat. So, uh the fringe red 34:36 light mask is on my store. I love it. Again, um the link is in the comments 34:42 for everything that or in the show notes that for everything I talked about
Red Light Therapy and Closing Takeaways 34:46 today. the Skin Glow bundle that has your collagen, your proline greens, your 34:51 GHKCU cream that can be bought as one unit or you can pick and choose what you 34:57 want out of there. Also, if you don't like the flavor, you can choose a 35:00 different flavor. So, just letting you know, but the chocolate is delish and 35:04 you know, ladies, who doesn't eat chocolate? And guys, I know you like 35:07 chocolate, too. I'm not just talking to ladies, but women tend to care about 35:11 their skin a little bit more than men. I think I think men only care when 35:14 something's falling off of their body and then they're like hm do you have 35:18 anything for this you know and I'm like by that point I'm not sure. So inside 35:22 out skincare what's your SOS figure it out make sure 35:27 you stay tuned by subscribing to my email or this podcast because I'm going 35:32 to be I can't talk. I'm going to be releasing a new course for 35:38 practitioners, advanced face, tongue, and nail analysis. 35:43 Uh, it's going to be an incredible course that not only talks about 35:46 physical but emotional levels of what your skin is telling you. We're going to 35:51 talk about body language, personalities, different um shapes of eyebrows and 35:57 noses and chins and mouths, and it's going to be awesome. For the lay person 36:02 that's listening to the podcast, I haven't forgot about you. I'm going to 36:04 give you a DIY face, tongue, and nail analysis course. Little bit less 36:08 intense, but just enough so that you can make the educated decisions for your 36:13 health and the health of your family. Just simply by looking at the body and 36:17 God's physical discernment of what your skin is telling you, you can make some 36:22 really great educated choices on your health every single day. So, thanks for 36:27 joining me today, guys. I've really enjoyed our time together. Make sure you 36:31 check out the show notes for all those links. If you found this podcast 36:35 helpful, please pass it along to somebody. Make sure you subscribe and go 36:38 find me on all social media channels cuz I would love to get to know you better. 36:42 Thanks for being here and God bless. [Music]
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