Dr. Mitchell Elliott Bender

I don't know why it's called liver spots, but they're related a lot to sun exposure.

Again, ultraviolet light.

So that's something that is in many ways preventable, and they can be treated cosmetically also.

So I would say common sense, you want to use, number one, sunscreen and practice protection.

Sensible, you know, you can go outside, you can have a fun life, you can do fun things, but protect yourself the same way you put seatbelts on when you go in your car.

Yeah.

We're not telling you not to drive, but you want to be careful.

You want to have a well-balanced diet.

I think the evidence is showing that an anti-inflammatory diet, a vegetarian diet, or a Mediterranean diet is going to help every organ system, including your skin.

That's a big takeaway.

Moisturize everybody, anybody from newborns all the way to people 110 should be moisturizing their skin and using gentle skincare products.

Dermatologists, because we see so much cancer, we're recommending that adults go in for an annual physical exam, even if they feel fine.

I just know a lady who went in for a skin exam.

She was feeling fine.

She had no complaints.

Someone looked at a very tiny spot on her form, maybe four or five millimeters in diameter.

It was an early melanoma.

It was diagnosed, removed.

She's going to be fine.

she doesn't have to worry about that.