Dr. Mitchell Elliott Bender

The same thing has happened with psoriasis.

People have looked at the immunology of psoriasis, and you probably have seen all these commercials on TV with medications, and they are just fabulous.

And so we could take people with psoriasis and who were

Again, very uncomfortable, had bad rashes on their hands, their face, their scalp, groin area, trunk, extremities.

You put them on one of these medications and they get 90 to 100% better.

When these medicines first came out, maybe 15, 20 years ago, the FDA wanted to see a 50% improvement.

That was their low bar.

Now, if you apply for FDA approval, you have to show 90% or better improvement.

That's how far we've come.

And this is all due to research of understanding the molecular biology and designing drugs that can interfere with the abnormalities.

Does that make sense?

It's a whole new ballgame.

It's a whole new ballgame.

If you go back even 10 years ago, what we do now is very different than what we would have done 10 or 15 years ago.

The diseases haven't changed, but our therapy has changed.

And I think it's made, frankly, it's a lot of fun to be a dermatologist treating these patients because you get them on the right medication and it changes their life.

Yeah, it's a very good question.

It's actually a very timely question.

First of all, your skin, just like every organ, needs some basic nutrients.

It needs protein.