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Dr. Teo Soleymani

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

our body tries to replenish that with the oils. So when people wash their hair, sometimes they feel like their hair becomes more limp or dull or lifeless. It's because we've taken that artificial oil coating that replaced the cuticle and washed it off. So good news is you're not gonna do any harm putting any of the topicals on your scalp.

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

our body tries to replenish that with the oils. So when people wash their hair, sometimes they feel like their hair becomes more limp or dull or lifeless. It's because we've taken that artificial oil coating that replaced the cuticle and washed it off. So good news is you're not gonna do any harm putting any of the topicals on your scalp.

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

our body tries to replenish that with the oils. So when people wash their hair, sometimes they feel like their hair becomes more limp or dull or lifeless. It's because we've taken that artificial oil coating that replaced the cuticle and washed it off. So good news is you're not gonna do any harm putting any of the topicals on your scalp.

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

Bad news is you probably won't bring a lot of it back to life either. But when we treat flakiness, redness, things like that, we're treating two entities, usually with topicals. And because we're either trying to treat overproliferation of something or trying to calm down the skin's immune system.

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

Bad news is you probably won't bring a lot of it back to life either. But when we treat flakiness, redness, things like that, we're treating two entities, usually with topicals. And because we're either trying to treat overproliferation of something or trying to calm down the skin's immune system.

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

Bad news is you probably won't bring a lot of it back to life either. But when we treat flakiness, redness, things like that, we're treating two entities, usually with topicals. And because we're either trying to treat overproliferation of something or trying to calm down the skin's immune system.

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

No, I think, one, you're absolutely right. The more expensive does not mean better. In fact, they sometimes become more problematic because there's more ingredients in the more expensive products, including elegant fragrances and stuff like that, which can be problematic. That's number one. The second thing to know is that, generally speaking, there is some connection between

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

No, I think, one, you're absolutely right. The more expensive does not mean better. In fact, they sometimes become more problematic because there's more ingredients in the more expensive products, including elegant fragrances and stuff like that, which can be problematic. That's number one. The second thing to know is that, generally speaking, there is some connection between

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

No, I think, one, you're absolutely right. The more expensive does not mean better. In fact, they sometimes become more problematic because there's more ingredients in the more expensive products, including elegant fragrances and stuff like that, which can be problematic. That's number one. The second thing to know is that, generally speaking, there is some connection between

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

skin health, skincare, and this realm of beauty, which people overlap a lot in. And when we trend into this realm of beauty, glamor, et cetera, price and objectivity are taken out. And that's why you see a lot of skincare products that are so expensive because they draw towards another level of desire that's not just medical, it's aesthetic.

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

skin health, skincare, and this realm of beauty, which people overlap a lot in. And when we trend into this realm of beauty, glamor, et cetera, price and objectivity are taken out. And that's why you see a lot of skincare products that are so expensive because they draw towards another level of desire that's not just medical, it's aesthetic.

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

skin health, skincare, and this realm of beauty, which people overlap a lot in. And when we trend into this realm of beauty, glamor, et cetera, price and objectivity are taken out. And that's why you see a lot of skincare products that are so expensive because they draw towards another level of desire that's not just medical, it's aesthetic.

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

And that's where you'll find creams that are two, $300 for a little amount of cream that does the same thing that your jar of petrolatum or Vaseline or Aquaphor does. That part is really hard to mitigate.

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

And that's where you'll find creams that are two, $300 for a little amount of cream that does the same thing that your jar of petrolatum or Vaseline or Aquaphor does. That part is really hard to mitigate.

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

And that's where you'll find creams that are two, $300 for a little amount of cream that does the same thing that your jar of petrolatum or Vaseline or Aquaphor does. That part is really hard to mitigate.

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

But in general, almost everything that we as dermatologists and skin cancer surgeons and experts in the field recommend are really cheap, cost-effective, and they have the least amount of ingredients in them. And that's what I would recommend. That's what I recommend for my family and for my patients.

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

But in general, almost everything that we as dermatologists and skin cancer surgeons and experts in the field recommend are really cheap, cost-effective, and they have the least amount of ingredients in them. And that's what I would recommend. That's what I recommend for my family and for my patients.

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

But in general, almost everything that we as dermatologists and skin cancer surgeons and experts in the field recommend are really cheap, cost-effective, and they have the least amount of ingredients in them. And that's what I would recommend. That's what I recommend for my family and for my patients.

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

You don't have to spend a lot to have excellent skin care, and you don't need to have it be a multi-step routine. Oftentimes, people overdo it, you know, The more steps there are, there's more chances that something your skin will respond to negatively. The more chances you are to have a bad outcome to an ingredient of a product you're putting on your skin.

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

You don't have to spend a lot to have excellent skin care, and you don't need to have it be a multi-step routine. Oftentimes, people overdo it, you know, The more steps there are, there's more chances that something your skin will respond to negatively. The more chances you are to have a bad outcome to an ingredient of a product you're putting on your skin.