Dr. Samantha Ellis
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What is the mechanism there?
We think it's because your skin and when your muscles contract, they produce something called myokines, which are signaling molecules that can trigger your skin to reduce inflammatory markers and produce more collagen.
Well, actually, I do think your skin does look good.
And I feel like you're on like this sort of like upswing journey.
But this is also talking about making choices for not just your skin, but for like your whole body, your mental health.
Anything you're doing to support your entire body is going to be reflected in your skin.
But now we just have more data to show that more clearly.
So cortisol, which is your stress hormone, can drive oil production in the skin.
And oil production is one of the core things that cause acne.
We think of oil production, irregular skin cell turnover that sort of clogs the pore.
And then that leads to an accumulation of acne causing bacteria.
And then you have inflammation with that.
So anytime you have a cortisol spike in the body, it can lead to increased oil production, which absolutely can drive that acne process forward.
Now, I would not say cortisol is the strongest hormone driver of acne.
Testosterone, DHT, those are the bigger ones, but it absolutely plays a part.
It's possible.
That definitely is one way to think about it.
Also, a lot of people in their 30s are becoming sort of perimenopausal as much as we don't want to think about that being something that happens in our 30s.
It can.
And as you start to get those fluctuations in hormones, you get these sort of like surges and then these sort of regressions of hormones.
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