Dr. Shawana Vali

You're deaf and you have an inflammatory skin condition.

You have cellular turnover.

which increases your aging faster.

Inflammation causes cellular turnover that causes your cells to break down faster.

If I take you and your twin sister, if you don't have acne and your twin sister has acne, she will age faster.

She will see folds in her skin a lot more easily than you.

Wow.

So when you have an inflammatory skin condition, we have to dry you up.

We have to override your inflammation.

So if you're using emollients and moisturizers, you're making my job much harder.

So I think there's a massive...

key piece needed in education and where whoever you're going to your practitioner your physician your makeup artist your beautician they really need to understand skincare ingredients or makeup ingredients does is this lipophilic does is it lipid soluble is it hydrophilic is it water soluble does it actually get to the right end point to give us the change we want or is it just sitting there doing nothing

Yeah, so most skin conditions are inflammatory based.

And this notion of inflammation has only happened in the last five years where everything is inflammatory based.

Such a buzzword.

Everything in medicine is inflammation-based now, every diagnosis.

But actually, skin conditions are inflammatory-based.

Inflammation per se, just in a general term, is cellular turnover, rapid, fastened cellular turnover.

That's all it is.

So for me, when I'm looking at skin conditions, is this a skin condition with accelerated cellular turnover and damage, or is it not?