Dr. Elizabeth Boham
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The Dr. Hyman Show · The 5R Protocol That’s Helping People Reverse Disease Naturally · 2 Jun 2025
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And they cause lots of bloating. And so that means we just have to do more work before we can start it. Yeah. So... So you got the re-inoculate and then you got the... And then repair. And that's the fourth R. So that's things like giving good protein, good amino acids, which are the building blocks of protein. To repair. Yeah, to help repair that barrier, that coffee filter.
We have to repair it with good protein. And sometimes we use amino acids like glutamine that help repair it. We'll give more zinc, whether it's from food sources or as a supplement. Maybe we'll give some vitamin A, which also helps with healing that barrier. It helps with healing the endothelium in the gut. So those are things we will do to repair. And then rebalance, right?
That's the fifth R, which is really focused on managing our stress and how we're reacting to the world. Because we know that when our parasympathetic nervous system is engaged, when that calming nervous system is engaged through meditation and yoga and breath work, that our body has the ability to heal. And it heals better when our body is at rest.
Yeah. Because it's impacting your immune system too, right?
So we can do tests like you said on, is there increased intestinal permeability or leaky gut? Because we know that those imbalances cause inflammation. And we know inflammation causes all sorts of things, including acne.
What you're eating is so much more important than what you're putting on your skin.
You know, the food that you're putting in your mouth is so much more important than what topical things you're putting on your skin. And so it made us start to have this conversation, which I thought I was saying all the time, but that I think sometimes people don't realize or understand or the connection is not made.
That how important what you're choosing to eat every minute of the day, you know, how much that impacts your skin.
Yes.
And a lot of times with the topical treatments, whether it's steroids for eczema or topical antibiotics for acne, they can work in the short term, but in the long term, they disrupt your skin and make you more prone to getting it in the future. For example, we know both topical steroids and topical antibiotics are going to get rid of that really important layer of good bacteria. Yeah.
that's on our skin.
I know, it's kind of cool, huh? Not only in our digestive system, but lining our skin. And so those medications, though they can be helpful in the short term, in the long term, they're damaging, they're getting rid of all of those good bacteria, which are really important first line of defense. And so then you create a dysbiosis or an imbalance in the good and bad bacteria on your skin.
And then that just makes you more prone to getting more acne in the future. So it may be okay in the short term, but it's not getting to that underlying root cause.
Yes.
Absolutely.
Yeah. I mean, one of the things we know with foods is that when you eat foods that are really refined and processed, foods that are high in sugar and refined carbohydrates, you'll get a spike in your blood sugar. And you'll often get that spike in insulin after you get a spike in blood sugar, right? So you eat food, your blood sugar goes up, the body makes a lot of insulin.
And that spike in insulin and blood sugar will cause a follicular hyperkeratinosis.
I know, right? Which just means that there's extra, that in the follicles of the skin, the skin's not turning over as well as it should. And so cells get stuck in the skin. And then those stuck cells can get more inflamed and acne can get produced. So one of the major things we always start with is pulling away the refined and processed foods and the sugary foods.
And starchy foods, right? Anything that's going to cause that insulin spike. You can really see signs of insulin resistance on the skin in so many different ways.
Yes. Right? Right. So their insulin is higher than somebody who doesn't have insulin resistance. And that high level of insulin causes a lot of shifts in the skin. It causes that follicular hyperkeratosis that causes the acne. It can cause more skin tags. It can cause something called
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