Why Your Skin Isn’t Healing: The Gut, Hormone & Inflammation Connection

Dr. Mark Hyman (0:00)

You said that muscle building is one of the best ways it's a non-skincare intervention for healthier skin in midlife. Can you kind of unpack that?

Dr. Mamina Turegano (0:06)

There is a study that was really interesting. Women in their kind of midlife age range, they compared them doing aerobic exercise to strength training. The participants who were strength training actually had a thicker dermis. You know, so dermis is where our collagen sits. When you're strength training, you're increasing insulin sensitivity, and then that kind of takes a load off of your cells. You're decreasing inflammation as well. Your mitochondria are optimally functioning. When your cells in the dermis are affected by that, they're going to work better, they're going to build more collagen.

Dr. Mark Hyman (0:38)

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Mamina, welcome to the podcast.

Dr. Mamina Turegano (3:41)

Thank you so much for having me.

Dr. Mark Hyman (3:42)

You know, I've never had a dermatologist on. I'm very excited about this because when I started practicing functional medicine 30 years ago and treating people's health issues, I would notice that their skin would get better by improving their nutrition, by optimizing their gut flora, by helping them get rid of toxins, by dealing with, you know, food sensitivities. And it was quite amazing to me how things that were really chronic, persistent conditions, like dermatitis issues, like eczema, psoriasis, acne, rosacea, like a lot of the bread and butter stuff, just people have. It doesn't go away and it has to be managed. It has to be treated with medication. And, you know, traditional dermatology, at least the way I learned it, because I'm a family doctor, I learned dermatology, you know, on basic dermatology. I do basic stuff, was to put lotions, potions, gels, salves, creams, whatever you could put on the top to actually fix the problem, whether it was steroids or antibiotics or any fungals or whatever the thing was.