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The Secret to Healthy, Dewy Skin Just May Be Bugs
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The Secret to Healthy, Dewy Skin Just May Be Bugs
There’s a secret language spoken within your body—constant chatter, plotting, planning, deal-making happening below the surface. The conversationalists: bacteria, fungi, viruses, and parasites that make up the microbiome in your gut, among other places. What are they discussing in their microbial language? How your organs and systems should operate. The biomass of these bugs is greater than your actual human cells by orders of magnitude. So they have a lot to say. And as science is discovering, one topic of conversation is your skin.The communication between the microbiome and the skin is officially called the gut-skin axis. It ensures that when your gut bugs thrive, so thrives your skin—staying soothed and calm, shielded with a robust outer barrier, and stocked with a natural defense against UV rays, according to Kenneth Brown, MD, gastroenterologist and The Gut Check podcast host. “Without a healthy gut microbiome, having healthy skin is very difficult,” he says.
How the bugs in your gut affect your skin
There’s a secret language spoken within your body—constant chatter, plotting, planning, deal-making happening below the surface. The conversationalists: bacteria, fungi, viruses, and parasites that make up the microbiome in your gut, among other places. What are they discussing in their microbial language? How your organs and systems should operate. The biomass of these bugs is greater than your actual human cells by orders of magnitude. So they have a lot to say. And as science is discovering, one topic of conversation is your skin.The communication between the microbiome and the skin is officially called the gut-skin axis. It ensures that when your gut bugs thrive, so thrives your skin—staying soothed and calm, shielded with a robust outer barrier, and stocked with a natural defense against UV rays, according to Kenneth Brown, MD, gastroenterologist and The Gut Check podcast host. “Without a healthy gut microbiome, having healthy skin is very difficult,” he says.