The gut and skin enjoy a constant dialogue via what has become known as gut-skin axis. In this video, Dr. J and Evan are discussing that while symptoms of gut health issues can be incredibly varied, the skin is often a great barometer for what’s going on inside the gut.
Dr. Justin Marchegiani
In this episode, we cover:
1:51 Different Skin Aspects
5:37 Getting Good Skin
13:12 How Gut affects Skin Health
20:28 Collagen Benefits
28:52 Tips to Remember
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: Hey guys, it's Dr. Justin Marchegiani here today we're going to be talking about the gut skin connection, how your gut health can impact your skin. This is a, you know, quite a big topic of discussion. A lot of my patients have gut health hormone health. And part of that whole sequelae of symptoms is going to be skin issues. And it's important right skin kind of is your first representation to the world of who you are and your health. And if you're healthy, you want good skin as a byproduct. So we're going to dive into that and talk about, you know, things you can do to improve your skin and your gut health. If it's not at an optimal level, Evan, how are we doing today, my friend?
Evan Brand: Doing really well. And you're right, when you see someone your initial gut reaction, you know, they say, Don't judge a book by its cover.
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: Pun intended.
Evan Brand: Exactly. When you look at somebody, you go, oh, wow, they don't look healthy, or they look pale, or they look frail. Or they look weak. I mean, we make a lot of quick judgments on people. So you know, for the people listening that are like, well, I don't really care about my vanity, you know, that's so vain or whatever. It's like, Well, do you want a good paying job? Do you want a good spouse? You know, you might not even get to the second date. If the person looks at you and goes, Oh, wow, you know, this person looks unhealthy. They look sickly. So I think it's, it's important to try to go beyond feeling vain about it and know that as you mentioned, your skin is it's it's a picture of your health picture. And my skin was a really good barometer. For me going through some of my detox protocols, my wife would look at me and say, Honey, you look pale, and I would go take a binder and then all of a sudden my skin tone would get better. It was almost like I was recirculating toxins. And then when I took my liver detox or binder support, my skin looked better. So for me, I kind of personally use it as a barometer. Or if I eat dairy as a treat, I may see acne pop up and I'm like, Oh, look at that. Look what I did. Here's the effect of that dairy.
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: Yeah, totally. Yeah. And the pre show, we were trying to figure out effect versus a fact. Right? And so effect is the end result. A fact is, is the verb so we're trying to wrap our heads around that the English language is quite the the crazy thing. So yeah, absolutely. So skin is very important. So there's a lot of different aspects of skin right? Its first aspect is, you know, just keeping acne and skin rashes under control, whether it's psoriasis, or eczema, or just general acne, there's different food allergens that can have effect on that. There's different enzyme and acid and just indigestion with foods, not breaking them down, that can have a big effect on that. And there can also be things like hormones. So whether it's elevations in testosterone with women, whether it's, you know, testosterone, androgens, that can have a major impact on women's skin. Also just inflammation in general food allergens, in general, high levels of insulin can create more oil from that sebaceous gland. And that sebaceous gland, that oil can feed a lot of the bacteria on the skin, which can create, obviously the acne vulgaris bacteria feeding and creating acne. So there's a lot of different mechanisms, right. So when you look at skin health or anything, is a lot of different components. And so food allergies are one component in digestion, not enough acid and enzymes, a component and of course, things like H. pylori, and bacterial overgrowth and fungal overgrowth, and parasitic infections can all impact that. And then of course, female hormones can play a big role. estrogen dominance is a big thing. Insulin resistance is a big thing. Insulin resistance can feed excess androgens and women, that's a big thing. And then of course, increase aromatization. And estrogen in men can also feed skin issues as well. So there's a lot of different connections here that play a big role. And of course, certain nutrients, if you're deficient in zinc or vitamin A, can also play a big role in skin health as well. And then, of course, poor detoxification, because your skin is the integumentary system. And it plays a major role in detoxifying. So the biggest organ of detoxification in the body. So there's a lot of different mechanisms here. And we'll kind of dive through them one by one.
Evan Brand: Imagine how much profit we could reduce from the makeup industry. If Well, I guess it would be a multifactorial process, right. And number one, you'd have to convince women that natural skin is beautiful, and that you don't need the six inch long eyelashes and all that. But imagine how much of a hit we could put into the makeup industry if we were to improve people's skin because you have so many women that they'll say oh, well, I wake up with bags under my eyes. It's like, well, it's not the bags that are the problem that needs to be covered up by makeup. Those bags under the eyes are the clue that maybe there's some lymphatic issues or there's some detoxification issues. And so many women, yeah, food allergies. You're right. I mean, I have so many women that report that just by working through some of the protocols that you and I use that they need less makeup, and of course their husbands are always wanting women to look more natural anyway, at least my wife, I look at her and I'm like wow, she's naturally pretty, I don't think you need or should be putting stuff on. So and of course, there's the mental brainwashing of society and the psychology behind makeup and all that that we don't have to get into. But I think from a biochemical perspective, women should embrace the way they look and use that as a motivating factor. to work on these underlying issues that we're talking about, meaning don't just go for the foundation or whatever, it's called to cover up the bags, let's fix the bags.
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: Yeah, and ideally you get healthier so if you want like a natural healthy makeup option, there's some decent ones out there, you need less of it to kind of get the job done. You know, because some women it's, it's, it's part of who they are is they've been doing it for so long. So let's just try to reduce it and try to use healthier ones that are going to be less toxic, right?
Evan Brand: Yeah, and the Environmental Working Group will just get that out of the way now the Environmental Working Group has done a great job of their skin deep database you and I've covered that I know you've mentioned some of the micelle products and some of these others that that are that are helpful.
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: Yeah, I like the Marie Veronique has a couple other good companies from a skincare standpoint. So the first rule of thumb when you're supporting your skin is do with food. Right? Don't put toxins and food allergies, fix your gut. Use good nutrient dense foods right your skin needs high quality fats. It needs high quality amino acids. It needs collagen in each vitamin A it needs zinc. It needs a lot of good nutrient dense foods to support it. We also want to decrease inflammation right? A lot of the junky omega six fatty acids, trans fats, foods that are refined processed grains lots of sugar that drives insulin. Insulin feeds the sebaceous glands to make oil oil can feed bacteria on the skin and create acne. And then of course, food allergens can also drive eczema can also drive psoriasis, sub harangued dermatitis right, a lot of these things that are fungal or bacterial or autoimmune base can be driven by a lot of these things. So foods really important. And again, there's a big disconnect in the dermatology community, like you go to a lot of conventional dermatology offices, they'll say in some of the pamphlets like food does not influence your skin. And that's an absolute crock of crap. Right. And part of the reason why that's the case is because dermatologists aren't educated in nutrition. They're not doctors in medical school, conventional allopathic doctors have very little education and nutrition. And when they do, it's primarily from the aspect of disease, vitamin connection, right? scurvy, but low vitamin C very, very low B one, right? A lot of these diseases that are connected to low nutrient levels. But we know health is not about diseases, it's about a health is on a continuum. And so the extreme end is a disease but there's a lot of stuff in between, that we're looking at. And part of that could be skin issues. And so certain nutrients play a big role. And I can tell you having seen 1000s of patients and hundreds who have skin issues, and I've been able to have you know 95 99% resolution with these issues, partly because of the fact that diet plays a major influence. So foods, keeping carbohydrates in check reducing insulin, insulin and women drives lots of androgens, androgens will create more cystic acne, inflammation, even dairy like even sometimes butter in really healthy people could be a problem. So I always say anytime you have any acne issues, we're cutting out 100% dairy, even carry gold grass fed butter out of the gates. And that'll be one of the first things we try to add back in as the skin gets clear to see if it's kryptonite or not. But that plays a very important role. I'm trying to get more zinc in your diet, whether it's like pumpkin seeds or oysters or just high quality grass fed beef zincs very important can always throw in some extra zinc in your molti or in a zinc lozenges things are very important for the skin vitamin A very important some studies back in the 1920s on to dermatologists called Pillsbury and Stokes and they found that probiotics and called Never Oil were very important for skin health. This is 100 years ago. So the fact that dermatologists aren't up on this literature is just ridiculous. It's because they aren't interested in a nutritional intervention. When you have retinae and clindamycin and Accutane and tetracycline and, and different, and you chrissa and you know, all these different medications that are used for skin, right, that's what their go to is and that's what they're educated on. And it doesn't fix any of the problems anyway, it's it covers it up. And so a lot of other things that can be done and have been done for a very long time.
Evan Brand: It's funny that you and I are not dermatologists, but that we have, in most cases, better results than dermatology offices. And at least if it were a comparable success rate, like with their drugs, that's palliative care. And what we're doing is root cause care. So maybe if you took Joe Blow and Jane Doe over here, and let's say they work through you and I and our protocols and testing, and then they go to the dermatology office and just get the Accutane or whatever, maybe in terms of look, maybe you'd make the person look similar because those drugs do work. But then you get off of them and things go backward. But man, all I'm saying is I think we're better at skin now. I don't know how to recognize melanoma. My grandfather's had it and he's got it cut out. So in those skin cases, yeah, go to your dermatology office. But if it's more of these chronic issues, these more functional scan issues. I tell you, we're gonna have much, much better results and somebody listening may hear what you said and go oh my god, he said 95 to 99% success rate. You're not you're not inflating those numbers. at all, I can tell you with confidence those numbers are legit that you're saying because I've seen the same thing, even within just six weeks of Gut protocol, sometimes we've had 80 to 90% improvement in skin symptoms.
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: Yeah, I think dermatologists do a really good job at handling skin cancers. You know, I think that can be very helpful picking up melanomas. There's also a lot of the autoimmune stuff that they recognize, it's typically you know, they're just going to recommend corticosteroids or some kind of, you know, immunosuppressant like Ella dal or you chrissa. They've done a lot of options, or they're just throwing a lot of antibiotics on the skin, which can screw up your skin microbiome as well, your skin has its own microbiome. So some of these things acutely may be fine. If you have a teenage kid that has an acne flare, and you want to decrease the chance of scarring, right? That makes sense. But you know, what's the long term solution, right, you need a long term solution outside of that, and they may not have those options for you. So it's good to have someone in your back pocket know where they're good know whether or not there's getting to be more holistic ones out there that understand diet plays a big, big role. And that's good to know. I mean, I think, you know, if, if your kid eats like crap, and your dermatologist says it doesn't matter, and then that keeps your kids acne flaring. Well, that's not going to fix any problems. And plus, we know skin requires nutrition, amino acids, fat soluble vitamins. So just kind of from like a foundational level, you need to consume good building blocks. So your body can repair and turn over and use those good building blocks to help your body becomes stronger, right. Food and calories that you consume and nutrients you consume. They're not just for energy, they're actual building blocks so your skin can turn over. So very important there. I think also with sunlight and things like that getting some sunlight don't burn, right, minimal urothelial dose, if you're going to go outside, make sure you're using you know, for a long periods of time where you would burn make sure you're doing a full spectrum sunscreen that's in a block out UVA and UVB for a long time, we've only blocked out UVB light, and we let a lot of UVA come in and people will damage their skin because the collagen will get destroyed. If you're chronically allowing a lot of UVA exposure, the UVB that gives you the burn is kind of the it tells you whether or not you're out there too long. But if you block the B and allow the A in, you're basically allowing yourself to potentially destroy collagen. So if you're going to be out in the sun, use a full spectrum, UVA UVB maybe even a UVC to make sure you have coverage if you would get burned, and then try to get yourself some sunlight. And then for me topically, I'm going to be using some natural retinol not a lot of the retina the retina has a lot of side effects can create redness and irritation, don't love it. But I'll use some of the retinol with some vitamin C and glue to fire and in some of the skincare products that I use, I use a really excellent prebiotic probiotic miss that have good bacteria for my skin. Because I want to really support my skin microbiome. Those are really important things for me on the skincare side. And then of course, like keeping the food allergies down. Now, for some people coming out that have a lot of acne, we're going to come out of the gates with some autoimmune stuff out of the gates because I've seen eggs and nuts and seeds, dairy and butter be problem. So we're going to be a little bit more strict out of the gates. We're going to make sure we're digesting our foods really well indigestion is a problem. We're going to look at the gut, the gut can play a major, major role. And I'll pause there and you can you can kind of dive a little bit.
Evan Brand: Sure. Yeah, I'll take it further. So the gut, to me, the big mechanism is h pylori. Now parasites are big. I mean, you saw my skin was six, maybe I can't keep up with yours, maybe six or seven years ago, my skin was messed up. And it was because I had various gut infections. I do believe parasites are a big contributor. But really, it's hard to pick a smoking gun for the gut, because Candida bacterial overgrowth, parasites, they all contribute to the same thing, which is an issue with nutrient absorption, they create this malabsorption problem. But I think h polarize is one of the big ones for people because of what it's doing with the parietal cells and reducing your stomach acid because then what's really happening is you have this domino effect of the H pylori, then allowing the purification of your food which then creates the overgrowth of even more pathogenic bacteria, which then may allow parasites to thrive because now there's not enough stomach acid to kill them off. So I really do think that h pylori was one of my big variables for my skin. And I can tell you with confidence that I've seen it in countless countless teenagers and people in their 20s that are still dealing with acne. If we get rid of H. pylori alone, we may have 60 to 75% improvement in the skin just based on that. And then the question is, well, can you bring in enzymes to help reduce some of the malabsorption and 99% of the cases? Yes, rarely is there too much inflammation or gutter rotation where we don't do enzymes and acids out of the gate. But really, if I were a dermatologist running a brick and mortar practice, you know what I'd have on my shelf, I'd have digestive enzymes, and every client that comes in with skin problems, here's your enzymes, and that would fix it.
Enzymes and HCl as long as there's not so much gastritis or gut irritation, definitely a combination of the two for sure. I 100%. Agree and then a good elimination diet plays a big role. These you know, if you have bags under your eyes, that's called allergic shiners and allergic shiners. They're basically a pool of the lymph under the iron because there's a lot of lymph in this area. And so lymphatic increase lymphatic fluid increase is going to happen with inflammation. Think about if you bump your head or get in a fight and get a black guy, what happens there's inflammation and pulling, while you're doing that at a at a micro level when you have inflammation from food, and you're going to see it in the eye area, because that's where there's a lot of lymph. So if you're having allergic shiners, right, don't carve it up with makeup, try to cut out the foods out of the gates, that's gonna be a big one out of the gates. Make sure you're consuming enough water, people that have chronically dry skin, it's not a hydration issue. Remember, fats provide a lot of the moisture to your skin to be moist and not overly dry. So if you're having a lot of chronic dry skin, you know, eat consume good water, right, but also really make sure your fats are up and make sure you're digesting those fats that's really important. And if you want to topically add some shea butter or some coconut oil to your skin, if it's the winter and you're in a really, really low humidity environment, you know, you may need to topically add a little bit of that to during the winter months if it when it's drier out. So you may want to topically hit it. But you don't want to get into the habit of only doing the topicals because you got to support your skin inside and out.
You know what's amazing now that you mentioned it like that. When my wife and I first got together, it will be 11 years ago, our diet was not like it is today. And every winner her and I both we would get really itchy our skin would get red, we get really dry skin. I'm telling you, man, I did not put lotion on but maybe once this entire winter. And I used to have to do that all the time. How funny is that? We could put the lotion industry out of business with this advice too.
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: Yeah, I mean, you may topically need to add a little bit but you'll be able to reduce the 80 to 90%. I remember when I was first trying to get healthy 15 20 years ago, 15 years ago, I was trying to low fat thing. I'm the gates and I remember one winner, my skin was so itchy and dry. And I remember I came across an article and I started adding in coconut oil and an olive oil. And I was just doing a tablespoon of a day and I remember being like Wow, my skin the dryness just it reduced at 90% with just internally adding fats, because I'm thinking like oh dryness, that just means more water, right, you need more water, but you need to be able to carry that water to the skin. And the fats provide that kind of support, the fats help bring that hydration to the skin. And so fats for me played a huge role. And I've seen that as well. And of course with all this fat phobia, the more dry your skin gets. That means the more inflamed is going to get the more inflamed the more redness and and and potential for other issues are going to happen. So if you don't have enough fats on your skin that can create this cascade of a lot of other skin issues.
Evan Brand: Well, you know what else is I've noticed too, you know, Irish descent, at least some Irish some German. And years ago, I would never be able to get tan, I would just straight burn. And I rarely wear sunscreen, maybe you advise me different. But I typically just wear like a big sun hat in the summer. If it's like 95 degrees and it's frickin hot. I might do some zinc oxide if I'm out all day, but if I'm just out like half an hour plane in the garden, and then I'm gonna head back in and cook lunch or something I'm not putting sunscreen on I'm just out there with no shirt. And I used to just burn so bad even from that dose. Now, I don't burn. The fats are helping me not burn now. Maybe it's the meats to the collagen. I mean, there's something changing where I just, I can I can bronze now, which is pretty interesting, especially for an Irish guy.
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: Yeah, the fats definitely play a big role and helping to bring calcium to the skin that can be I've seen that be something also having a lot more of the bioflavonoids whether it's Grapeseed, or a lot of the antioxidants, those can go to the skin and also have an SPF kind of factor. I know Grapeseed extract plays a big role. A lot of these oligomeric proanthocyanidins, which are like these antioxidants, and in fruits and vegetables can play a big role. The fats, like I mentioned, the omega threes play a big role.
Evan Brand: Oh, you make a good point. Yeah, sorry, I forgot to I forgot to mention that. Yeah, I mean, I do a ton of blueberries like come spring, early summer, I'm doing a ton of blueberries, I think you're right, there's probably some antioxidant factor too.
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: Antioxidant factor, there's a good fat factor, the fast to play a big role with bringing calcium up to the skin, which I know helps. And then obviously having enough zinc plays a big role because we typically, the more natural skincare is going to use like zinc oxide or titanium dioxide for kind of natural sun scare sun skincare. And so of course that that has a deflective aspect to it. And I imagine that the zinc that you consume orally is also going to play a big role. So like in summer months, you know, I'll bang down six to eight oysters in a week. And you're getting you know, eight milligrams of zinc per oyster. So if you bang down eight or nine oysters, I mean you're getting 70 or 80 milligrams of zinc and you know the daily requirements only like 10 so you can get like a week's worth of your zinc in one oyster session.
Evan Brand: Wow, that's impressive.
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: Yeah, so it's really good and you can also get some extra from pumpkin seeds too as long as you tolerate the seeds.
Evan Brand: Yeah, I actually had some pumpkin seeds yesterday they were good just some I got some sprouted ones supposedly those are easier to digest so if someone reacts, maybe tried to sprout it I personally don't have an issue either way. So some one thing to consider Alright, so we hit the gut infection piece. You did great hitting on some of the nutrients Stephen some of the good nutrients that would be in a multi which you and I make some really professional multis.
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: Alright guys, you're gonna have 20 or 30 milligrams of zinc in there. So that kind of gives you a good whack and then if you're adding in, you know, mushrooms or grass fed beef, right or any some of the healthier nuts and seeds that are out there, that and obviously, that's gonna play a big role and then collagen, collagen really helps because we're just not getting a lot of collagen based amino acids, right, we're getting a lot of muscle meat, we're not getting a lot of skin or joint. So having the skin on your chicken or chicken thighs very helpful, right having soups or bone broth helps. And you can also really take an excellent collagen amino acid support. I know mine, we use collagen from grass fed cows and we also use proteolytic enzymes to help break down those amino acids to make it easy and you can mix them in your water you can mix them in your tea or your soup or your coffee. So it's just a great way to get extra building blocks for your skin. And it also helps your hair and your nails and your joints.
Evan Brand: I was speaking to college and let me do a little rant here and an anti plug. So the bulletproof collagen bars I used to eat those. Dave Asprey is bulletproof company, who he was the CEO of and then he stepped down couple years ago and now the ex or current CEO of hostess who makes like ding dongs now he's the CEO in charge of bulletproof product. Anyway, I was at Whole Foods a couple weeks ago, I used to love eating those collagen, like the collagen bars, you know, it's like a hydrolyzed collagen with like a little bit of stevia or monk fruit in there with some organic cashews. And I go in there, and there's a new box, and it's like new and improved recipe and I'm like, Yes, this is gonna be delicious. And I didn't even read it because I just thought, okay, it's gonna be awesome, right, you know, and I get home and I start to eat it. And it's like real slimy. And it used to be kind of crumbly. I'm like, What's weird wise, it's slimy. Maybe I got a bad batch or something. And I flip it around, I look at the label. And it's no longer organic cashews. Now it's just regular cashews. And then now there's safflower oil, which Dave was extremely anti bad oils. So now there's safflower oil in there. And there was one other thing that tripped me out. But yeah, so safflower oil from organic to non organic nuts. And then there was one other thing. So luckily, I was able to return them and get a refund. But that used to be my go to thing that I'd recommend for people to get a good easy source of collagen as a snack, and I can no longer recommend that product.
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: Interesting. Yeah, I had an experience to where I bought a mainstream collagen brand at Whole Foods, I have my own called Tru collagen, but I ran out. And I needed something right away, because I typically put it in my coffee or tea in the morning. And I grabbed the you know, good one, or named a brand that everyone will recommend put it in my coffee and my coffee tasted sour as heck. And I'm like, this is unflavored what's going on. And basically, there's two ways you can manufacture collegen. Of course, like you buy the best raw material you can, but then you got to break that cut, you know that collagen into peptides, right. And so there's two ways you can do it. You can do it with sulfuric acid, or you can do it with enzymes. And so mine we do it with enzymes, which gives it a very, very neutral taste. So when you mix it and stuff, there's not an extra taste. But this brand, I guess had used sulfuric acid because that's the major side effect is you get that little bit of sourness or a little bit of a bitter aftertaste when you mix it and things. Now it's like, oh, okay, got it, even though it's unflavored. And you don't see anything in the ingredients. You know, how you extract those, how you extract those amino acids matters, and it can really affect the taste.
Evan Brand: Wow. So I'd love to put them on blast. But if you don't want to, that's fine. And we'll just tell people that storebought is not the best. And there's a reason that Justin and I have professional healthcare manufacturers. And there's a reason that what we have is considered a practitioner grade, you know, I get kind of annoyed when, when people will market supplements as like pharmaceutical grade because pharmaceuticals are crap. They're filled with corn and fillers and all kinds of garbage. So when I see like, you know, pharmaceutical grade, like vitamin C, it's like, ah, get out of here with that crap. So I would just prefer that we use the term professional, professional quality. And that's not bs marketing. That truly is a difference.
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: Yeah, when people say pharmaceutical grade, because there can still be a lot of crap and pharmaceuticals, it's more like the cleanliness of the factory or the manufacturing facility is very clean. But you could still add a whole bunch of crap into the supplement that's not clean. But because the the manufacturing process is clean. It's it's pharmaceutical grade, right? And so yeah, so it's professional grade, because we're also cutting out all of the extra crap that we know isn't going to be as good fillers, dyes, corn, you know, potential glutens all those different things that aren't not going to be as good so for sure we keep all that in consideration and then We also do testing, right? I mean, we, I tested bunches of ashwagandha from major, you know, manufacturing people that we get it in and we test it and it's got lead in it, we're like nope, see later, you know, because we need to have the highest quality of product because we're working with patients and we need to, we need to have a clinical outcome. It's not just selling something and making some money, I need a clinical outcome, I need the highest quality because that matters, the outcome really matters. So you're 100% right on that professional grade, so where to go. So we talked about collagen, I think low hanging fruit anyone, you could always do tablespoon of cod liver oil a day, tablespoon or two across the world, the vitamin A, and there's excellent central fatty acids really good at eating high quality animal products is obviously going to be great. If you're not doing high quality animal products, we'll fix your digestion. But you could always do some seafood. If you can do that, you could always do some egg yolks, you could do that. You could also do some nuts and seeds, as long as you can tolerate them, especially the pumpkin seeds can be really good or chia seeds can be really good, or at least some algae on that side of the fence can be great. And then I would say make sure you're pooping every day, make sure your bowels are regular. If you're not going every day, you can be reabsorbing a lot of toxins in your gut. And if you have a lot of bacterial overgrowth, what happens? The bad bacteria Creek creates an enzyme called beta glucuronidation, this enzyme de conjugates metabolize estrogen. So what happens is you bind these proteins to estrogen. And these proteins are that you're basically conjugating you're binding this protein, and that allows you to excrete these hormones. And this enzyme comes in their ad conjugates. It breaks the handcuffs and allows those hormones to go back into general circulation. And so it's possible that bad bacteria can really create hormonal imbalances. And if you're a female, and you have potential estrogen dominance, that can be part of what's going on. And so estrogen dominance can drive hyperpigmentation and skin issues as well. So you got to be on top of that. And of course, if you're taking the birth control pill, you can almost guarantee that you're going to be in that estrogen dominant state as well, because you have all this synthetic typically ethanol estradiol in your bloodstream as well.
Evan Brand: Yeah, well said. So we technically could have called this something like the SIBO hormone skin connection or something, but it is all connected. And we do find that when you get gut infections resolve skin's better. And also, when like you mentioned, you're knocking out the gut infections, you're able to lower the beta glucuronidation. And now that pathway, the glucuronidation pathway works more efficiently. And then you get other toxins out to like mold toxin. So you can have skin issues with mold toxin, I certainly did. And that's because we know that mold toxin can affect the gut barrier, mold can create leaky gut. So if you are treating the infections, you don't get that toxin out to you're not fully out of the woods. And in regards to testing, let's mention that real quick. And then we can wrap up. So if you're working with somebody like Dr. Justin and I what we're going to be doing is a GI map stool test or similar, we're going to be using organic acids testing, maybe some hormone profiles, and maybe some other toxin profiles. So with urine and stool, we can get so much information into this. And your dermatologist is never going to run a stool test. They're never going to run an organic acids test and find that you have clusters and Candida and strep and klebsiella, Giardia and H pylori and give you herbals to kill it herbal antibiotics antifungals. That's never the protocol. So I'm not saying don't go to them. I'm just saying if you want root cause solutions. These are the types of tests and solutions you need to implement. Not a topical steroids, which is exactly what my wife got prescribed when she had a lot of issues. They did a good job with testing, but it was a patch test. And they found that she was reacting to some parabens and all the garbage that was in her conventional skincare products at the time. So they at least did a good job of testing that. But they never tested the actual body. They just tested the chemicals. They didn't go and say hey, what are the deeper underlying issues? Oh, you've got poor methylation poor detox function. You're not pooping. You're pooping once every three days. They don't go into that.
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: Yeah, 100% you know, so we got to try to get to the root underlying issue. The problem is when you do steroids, you also weaken your connective tissue, you weaken the skin, and then it sets you up for more dependency. And then it also weakens the immune system and it could also create more blood sugar imbalances, especially if you're having to use a lot of steroids. And that blood sugar, guess what, that can increase insulin and increase insulin increases what more sebum oil production, potentially more acne. So a lot of times these medicine medications can create a vicious cycle. So you got to be very, very careful with that. So out of the gates, kind of what's the Reader's Digest version, work on the diet, work on your carbohydrates, work on certain nutrients, fat soluble vitamins work on digesting your protein, adding college and adding vitamin A and zinc. Get your gut looked at work with a good functional practitioner. If the low hanging fruit things aren't working? Right, it's okay to you know, stop guessing and assess what is going on. Also, put your comments down below. Let us know things that have already helped you in the past. I'm curious to know, let us know your successes. Also feel free and share this information with friends or family that are suffering or dealing with issues and want to dive into the next step or want to do deeper testing into it. Give us a thumbs up, I really appreciate it. And we'll put our links down below you want to reach out to Evan EvanBrand.com, great place to go. You can schedule with Evan worldwide, as well as myself, Dr. J JustinHealth.com. As well, we'll put links underneath as well where you guys can review our podcast, we appreciate your feedback. This helps us to help more people. So if you're enjoying this information right now, give us a quick review just a sentence or two, let us know if we're doing good. And if we're not give us some feedback, we always want to do better, Evan, anything else you want to highlight?
Evan Brand: Yeah, if people are just sitting there like maybe they're like halfway awake, or they're daydreaming, snap back into reality, review us, we will love you forever. We really do need the reviews, it helps us beat out other people. You know, we don't do ads on this show. Maybe one day I'll go back to doing some if I have a good partner that we work with again, but for now, this is a non ad show. And so many other shows are just filled with it. You just have to put up with the spam, we try to give you guys all killer, no filler. So I hope you recognize that. Take the two seconds go on your your app. for iPhone users, it's probably the easiest. That's the best place to review us on your Apple podcast app, see the show, click write a review. Boom, give us the stars you think we deserve? Give us a few comments. It really helps motivate us, you know this kind of a thankless job, you'll get hundreds of thousands of downloads and then maybe two people are like, yeah, that was a good episode. So we really want to hear it. And we really appreciate it. It's what keeps us fueled up and just mentioned the links, don't hesitate to reach out. We're going to save you more time and more money. Yes, you got to pay to play, so to speak to get labs and console's done, but I tell you if I knew what I know now, man, I could have saved myself years of suffering with my skin issues throughout high school. I mean, I just had, it wasn't the worst that wasn't the pizza face, kid. But I certainly have my my issues with acne. And man, if I would have been able to get it dialed in now like we do for some of our kids and teenagers that you and I work with. Wow. And we're literally changing the trajectory of their entire life. It doesn't go this is like I said the beginning. This is beyond the vanity. I mean, I had a kid in California who's 17 and now that his skin is so much better he's so much more confident he got a promotion at work so he's making more money. He's feeling better he's got a new partner so he's you know, he's he's with a female now and he was previously too like embarrassed to to want to date anyone. So I mean this this could affect everything. Career finances, this is not just how you look in the mirror. So I want people to go beyond that and think about how much more could you achieve if your skin was better? And I think the sky's the limit.
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: Yep, also scanning god are intimately connected. If you have skin issues, you may not be breaking things down. You may be gassy. You may be bloated. So look within right above below inside out. Alright guys, hope you enjoyed today's podcast. Really appreciate it. Share, care, thumbs up review links below.
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