Why Your Skin Is Begging You to Heal Your Gut First
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What is the connection between skin health and gut health?
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What you're eating is so much more important than what you're putting on your skin.
Yeah.
You know, the food that you're putting in your mouth is so much more important than what topical things you're putting on your skin. And so it made us start to have this conversation, which I thought I was saying all the time, but that I think sometimes people don't realize or understand or the connection is not made. That how important what you're choosing to eat every minute of the day, you know, how much that impacts your skin.
Yeah, I mean, the traditional medicine focuses on the outside in. What stuff you can slather on your face, what creams, potions, lotions, or maybe taking antibiotics, which is a whole problem we're going to talk about in a minute. But most of our skin health comes from the inside out.
Yes.
So if you want great skin, if you want glowing skin, if you want clear skin, if you want to get rid of your acne, if you want to get rid of your eczema, if you want to get rid of your psoriasis, if you want to get rid of rosacea, all these things come from the inside out and traditional dermatology focuses on the outside in. And it doesn't really work that well most of the time, even when you work on the outside in. And it's difficult, it's expensive, these medications are absorbed. My rule is if you wouldn't eat it, you shouldn't put it on your skin.
And a lot of times with the topical treatments, whether it's steroids for eczema or topical antibiotics for acne, they can work in the short term, but in the long term, they disrupt your skin and make you more prone to getting it in the future. For example, we know both topical steroids and topical antibiotics are going to get rid of that really important layer of good bacteria. Yeah. that's on our skin.
So wait, you have a microbiome on your skin is what you're saying.
I know, it's kind of cool, huh? Not only in our digestive system, but lining our skin. And so those medications, though they can be helpful in the short term, in the long term, they're damaging, they're getting rid of all of those good bacteria, which are really important first line of defense. And so then you create a dysbiosis or an imbalance in the good and bad bacteria on your skin.
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