How to Take Care of Your Skin Microbiome, With Physician James Hamblin (RECAST)
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🗓️ 4 October 2021
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
This week we're learning how to better care for our skin with help from physician and Atlantic staff writer James Hamblin. Listen to hear James explain why using less soap might actually be better for your skin's microbiome and how we should be re-thinking what "good hygiene" really is. James is the author of If Our Bodies Could Talk: Operating and Maintaining a Human Body, and his latest book is Clean: The New Science of Skin.
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| 1:14.6 | And today we are learning how to better care for our skin. |
| 1:18.2 | And it's a little counterintuitive. |
| 1:20.0 | As it turns out, the right answer might not be so much so. |
| 1:23.7 | You might just be scrubbing off bacteria that might actually be helping your skin. |
| 1:28.1 | And here to help explain our skin microbiomes is journalist and physician James Hamblin. |
| 1:33.3 | We have trillions of microbes living all over us, similar to how we have them in our guts. |
| 1:39.5 | And they're not causing problems. |
| 1:42.6 | It is an ecosystem that is essentially part of who we are. |
| 1:47.3 | James is a board-certified physician, public health expert, and a staff writer at the Atlantic. |
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