Dr. Mark Hyman

Yeah, it's like tissue paper.

And it's like, yeah, you can't grab onto it with a needle and it'll rip.

And we had a terrible saying for it.

Do you remember what that is?

Tell me.

Piss poor protoplasm.

Oh, yeah.

Piss-poor protoplasm.

It's terrible.

It's kind of what doctors do to sort of deal with the gruesomeness of all the things they have to do is make jokes.

But it's a real thing.

And I think it has to do with how your body heals in wounds.

And the cause of that...

in my belief, is that it's people's overall health and diet and nutritional status.

Because, you know, if your tissues are bad and you're malnourished and you're eating tons of sugar and you're inflamed and you have insulin resistance, which is to some degree over 90% of the population is on the spectrum, not of autism, but on the spectrum of insulin dysregulation and blood sugar issues, you know, you're not going to heal as well.

Like if your vitamin A is low or your zinc is low or your protein is low, as you said, or you have a

Lower levels of omega-3s.

Even copper, like all these micronutrients that are super important.

And so I'm curious, you know, what I really found interesting was as I began to do functional medicine, I started to like, you know, use supplements and things 30 years ago.

And one of the only other doctors, two groups of doctors using supplements were plastic surgeons and dermatologists.