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Dr. Teo Soleymani

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Huberman Lab
How to Improve & Protect Your Skin Health & Appearance | Dr. Teo Soleymani

Cleansing may be something that's beneficial for you to take off that excess sebum. If you're one that has dry skin, if you're one that had sensitive skin as a child, then over-cleansing is going to be a problem. You're going to want to minimize that and keep that moisturization or that barrier protection going.

Huberman Lab
How to Improve & Protect Your Skin Health & Appearance | Dr. Teo Soleymani

um there's a lot of factors to this i i i think ashton kutcher and mila kunis famously said they shower i think once a week or something like that and it stirred up a lot of conversation when that came out truth be told you don't have to cleanse every day if your skin is otherwise fine and healthy and you're not bothered by anything you live a lifestyle in which you're not sweating excessively or producing a lot of sebum

Huberman Lab
How to Improve & Protect Your Skin Health & Appearance | Dr. Teo Soleymani

um there's a lot of factors to this i i i think ashton kutcher and mila kunis famously said they shower i think once a week or something like that and it stirred up a lot of conversation when that came out truth be told you don't have to cleanse every day if your skin is otherwise fine and healthy and you're not bothered by anything you live a lifestyle in which you're not sweating excessively or producing a lot of sebum

Huberman Lab
How to Improve & Protect Your Skin Health & Appearance | Dr. Teo Soleymani

um there's a lot of factors to this i i i think ashton kutcher and mila kunis famously said they shower i think once a week or something like that and it stirred up a lot of conversation when that came out truth be told you don't have to cleanse every day if your skin is otherwise fine and healthy and you're not bothered by anything you live a lifestyle in which you're not sweating excessively or producing a lot of sebum

Huberman Lab
How to Improve & Protect Your Skin Health & Appearance | Dr. Teo Soleymani

Myself same thing. I work out so I Shower after working out and I usually shower before I get into bed because after a long day of work I tend to have you know things on my skin that shouldn't be there That's only fitting for me because if I don't I tend to have problems I tend to break out I tend to have things that you know shouldn't happen because of my hygiene habits That said I

Huberman Lab
How to Improve & Protect Your Skin Health & Appearance | Dr. Teo Soleymani

Myself same thing. I work out so I Shower after working out and I usually shower before I get into bed because after a long day of work I tend to have you know things on my skin that shouldn't be there That's only fitting for me because if I don't I tend to have problems I tend to break out I tend to have things that you know shouldn't happen because of my hygiene habits That said I

Huberman Lab
How to Improve & Protect Your Skin Health & Appearance | Dr. Teo Soleymani

Myself same thing. I work out so I Shower after working out and I usually shower before I get into bed because after a long day of work I tend to have you know things on my skin that shouldn't be there That's only fitting for me because if I don't I tend to have problems I tend to break out I tend to have things that you know shouldn't happen because of my hygiene habits That said I

Huberman Lab
How to Improve & Protect Your Skin Health & Appearance | Dr. Teo Soleymani

there is no indication or no medical necessity to have to cleanse your skin even once a day. Oftentimes, older patients cleanse or shower once a week and they're totally fine, but it'll have to be defined by your skin and what problems or ailments are specific to you. Generally, If you work out, if you let sweat dry on your skin, it causes several problems.

Huberman Lab
How to Improve & Protect Your Skin Health & Appearance | Dr. Teo Soleymani

there is no indication or no medical necessity to have to cleanse your skin even once a day. Oftentimes, older patients cleanse or shower once a week and they're totally fine, but it'll have to be defined by your skin and what problems or ailments are specific to you. Generally, If you work out, if you let sweat dry on your skin, it causes several problems.

Huberman Lab
How to Improve & Protect Your Skin Health & Appearance | Dr. Teo Soleymani

there is no indication or no medical necessity to have to cleanse your skin even once a day. Oftentimes, older patients cleanse or shower once a week and they're totally fine, but it'll have to be defined by your skin and what problems or ailments are specific to you. Generally, If you work out, if you let sweat dry on your skin, it causes several problems.

Huberman Lab
How to Improve & Protect Your Skin Health & Appearance | Dr. Teo Soleymani

Number one is irritation itself from the salts that crystallize from the sweat drying off. Number two, the sweat itself is a source of food for certain yeast that are normal symbiotic yeast that live on our skin. So it contributes to things like dandruff, what we call tinea versicolor, which is a type of yeast that grows on our skin. So generally, if you work out, try to wash those things off.

Huberman Lab
How to Improve & Protect Your Skin Health & Appearance | Dr. Teo Soleymani

Number one is irritation itself from the salts that crystallize from the sweat drying off. Number two, the sweat itself is a source of food for certain yeast that are normal symbiotic yeast that live on our skin. So it contributes to things like dandruff, what we call tinea versicolor, which is a type of yeast that grows on our skin. So generally, if you work out, try to wash those things off.

Huberman Lab
How to Improve & Protect Your Skin Health & Appearance | Dr. Teo Soleymani

Number one is irritation itself from the salts that crystallize from the sweat drying off. Number two, the sweat itself is a source of food for certain yeast that are normal symbiotic yeast that live on our skin. So it contributes to things like dandruff, what we call tinea versicolor, which is a type of yeast that grows on our skin. So generally, if you work out, try to wash those things off.

Huberman Lab
How to Improve & Protect Your Skin Health & Appearance | Dr. Teo Soleymani

Also, if you are one of acne prone skin, if you're an adolescent, if you're a teenager, if you're an adult dealing with acne, The sebum that your body's producing is food for the bacteria that caused this. So you tend to want to clean some of that excess sebum off. Those are simple indications to cleanse both your face and your body.

Huberman Lab
How to Improve & Protect Your Skin Health & Appearance | Dr. Teo Soleymani

Also, if you are one of acne prone skin, if you're an adolescent, if you're a teenager, if you're an adult dealing with acne, The sebum that your body's producing is food for the bacteria that caused this. So you tend to want to clean some of that excess sebum off. Those are simple indications to cleanse both your face and your body.

Huberman Lab
How to Improve & Protect Your Skin Health & Appearance | Dr. Teo Soleymani

Also, if you are one of acne prone skin, if you're an adolescent, if you're a teenager, if you're an adult dealing with acne, The sebum that your body's producing is food for the bacteria that caused this. So you tend to want to clean some of that excess sebum off. Those are simple indications to cleanse both your face and your body.

Huberman Lab
How to Improve & Protect Your Skin Health & Appearance | Dr. Teo Soleymani

But if you're not having any problems, you actually don't need to do any of that. In Europe, they shower and cleanse at a fraction of the frequency that we do in the United States. And when you look at incidences of the most common skin conditions, they're the same.

Huberman Lab
How to Improve & Protect Your Skin Health & Appearance | Dr. Teo Soleymani

But if you're not having any problems, you actually don't need to do any of that. In Europe, they shower and cleanse at a fraction of the frequency that we do in the United States. And when you look at incidences of the most common skin conditions, they're the same.

Huberman Lab
How to Improve & Protect Your Skin Health & Appearance | Dr. Teo Soleymani

But if you're not having any problems, you actually don't need to do any of that. In Europe, they shower and cleanse at a fraction of the frequency that we do in the United States. And when you look at incidences of the most common skin conditions, they're the same.

Huberman Lab
How to Improve & Protect Your Skin Health & Appearance | Dr. Teo Soleymani

So when we think about the scalp, when we think about dry or flaky scalp, we think about two main conditions, either seborrheic dermatitis, which is medical grade dandruff, or the medical name for dandruff, or psoriasis. They're two different entities, but they generally contribute to the same problem, which is redness, flaking, and dryness of the scalp.