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website i've been formulating skin health products for many years and uh sharing advice about how to take care of the skin i've learned a lot about how you take care of the skin a lot of stuff about how you take care of the skin that flies in the face of conventional wisdom conventional wisdom as many of you know is often wrong and it's often wrong hi janae and tom and it's often wrong especially when it comes to how we take care of our skin so today i thought i would talk about rosacea a very uncomfortable and unappealing skin condition that affects 16 million americans the most important thing in my opinion to understand about rosacea is that it's not a skin condition yes it shows up on the skin i understand that but like many things that show up on the skin uh rosacea is not caused by a skin problem it's caused by something inside the body and it's so ironic because everybody who has rosacea knows hello kendra hello susan everybody has rosacea and miranda everybody who has rosacea knows that they'll eat certain foods and then they'll get their rosacea symptoms typically it'll be alcohol or chocolate but it can be a lot of things and that's really the most important thing to understand about a lot of skin problems there's an intimate connection between the digestive system and the foods we eat and how our skin shows up for better or worse in the case of rosacea there's a couple clues a couple red flags anybody who understands biochemistry that will tell you or tell that person that rosacea begins inside the body the first clue as i say specific foods will trigger rosacea symptoms the second clue is vascularity or redness whenever you see redness or vascularity or or inflamed vascularity you're witnessing the body's immune response you're witnessing a defensive response so in combination with the fact that we know that rosacea symptoms are associated with certain foods when you throw in the fact that you've got an inflammatory vascular response it's very obvious that you're dealing with a food slash digestive system condition not a day goes by when we don't uh a truth and when i don't get questions when i'm the truth about skincare products topical skincare products for treating rosacea you can't treat rosacea with topical skin care products at best if you go to a uh dermatologist you'll probably get either a steroid cream which is anti-inflammatory or you'll get an anti-biotic cream which is also anti-inflammatory so the strategies the dermatological strategies for dealing with rosacea address the symptoms not the cause and you may get some temporary relief but here's the real problem as with a lot of skin conditions if you are if the skin condition is being caused by something that you're dealing with internally you may end up with further bodily breakdown further unpleasant bodily distress chronic disease autoimmune diseases cancer shorten longevity further down the road if you don't address the cause so yeah you can use an antibiotic cream or steroid cream to minimize if it even works but let's say that it works to minimize the symptoms associated with rosacea but if you haven't corrected the underlying leaky gut which we'll talk about here in a moment are food allergies which we'll talk about here in a moment or or a chlorhydria or hypochlorhydria low hydrochloric acid or h pylori all of these are internal issues in the digestive system that are associated with rosacea if you haven't haven't corrected those even if you've mitigated or reduced or even eliminated the symptoms with a dermatological topical like a steroid or metronidazole an antibiotic which they give sometimes topical antibiotic you haven't corrected the problems underneath and that could lead to further health issues unpleasant health issues even shortened longevity down the road so how do you deal with rosacea truly first of all you want to associate your symptoms with specific foods it seems so obvious but it's just something that we don't always do you want to associate specific symptoms uh flare-ups oiliness uh whatever your rosacea symptoms are redness obviously rosacea means redness with specific foods eliminate those foods that's step number one now it's not necessarily easy to do this because foods have lots of different things in them and how we eat when we eat a meal we eat a lot of different foods so sometimes it's hard to isolate the specific foods that are causing our skin symptoms but it's worth the effort best way to do is by keeping a food diary writing down everything you eat and then associating specific skin symptoms or any other symptoms with foods it's just kind of keeping track this is what you what a physician will do or a nurse will do in a hospital they'll chart everything you want to be like your own physician you want to chart and that's uh that's called doing a food diary that's first of all now you can also fast for a day or two if you fast for a day or two when you start eating again things are going to become more obvious to you so if you want a shortcut stop eating for a day or two this is really tricky for some food it's really tricky for everybody to stop eating for a day or two but if you really want a shortcut stop eating for a day or two and then when you start eating again uh you'll notice that your rosacea symptoms are triggered by specific foods more clearly they'll become more dramatic to you more noticeable to you if you lay off the food for a couple of days the most likely suspects and i always hate saying the most likely suspects because we always have to kind of uh find what our particular problems are our specific problems are but you know the most likely suspect hey robert eggs uh peanuts and legumes soy dairy gluten and and other compounds that are found in cereal grains so-called lectins and as i say those are kind of you know that's a guideline for things but really you have to go by your own you go by your own experience spicy foods alcohol chocolate caffeine coffee all these can be problematic for some folks when it comes to rosacea secondly there is a very important connection between a bacteria called h pylori which you may have heard of and uh and rosacea so it's thought that it may be an h pylori infection a topic a cutaneous or topical manifestation of an internal h pylori infection it's also known that stomach acid low stomach acid a condition called a chlorhydria or hypochlorhydria low stomach acid can be caused by and can exacerbate h pylori infection so acidification of the stomach is very uh can be very helpful and that is uh acidification with apple cider vinegar using apple cider vinegar with your meals also you can use stomach bitters or swedish bitters which will stimulate gastric juices you can also get hydrochloric acid drops from a pharmacy you'll have to get a prescription for that and you put a couple hydrochloric acid drops in a glass of water before your meals now hydrochloric acid will do a couple things first of all it will help eliminate h pylori infection and second of all when we don't make enough stomach acid we don't break down our foods effectively stomach acid is necessary for the activation of enzymes particularly proteases that is enzymes that break up protein when you hear ace at the end of the word hey doug whenever you hear an ace at the end of word asc you're talking about an enzyme a protease is an enzyme that breaks down protein proteases are activated by hydrochloric acid under conditions of low hydrochloric acid hypochlorhydria you're not going to activate your enzymes you're not going to activate your proteases and that means your proteins are not going to get digested completely that's very important because when proteins don't get digested completely that is they don't get broken down into their component of their building block amino acids they'll get semi broken down into something called peptides you all heard of peptides in fact i'm going to do a i'm going to do a live next week or the week after on topical peptides peptides are large amino acids or long chains of amino acids and uh they're shorter than proteins a peptide is a maybe it could be anywhere from like two pep two amino acids to ten amino acids a polypeptide can have like a hundred amino acids so peptides are just chunks of protein and they're made up of amino acids and here's the thing about peptides they're very or they can be very immunoactive so if you're not breaking down your proteins and effectively and you're leaving behind peptides those peptides under certain conditions which i'll talk about in a sec can enter into the bloodstream and activate an immune response and all of this is because you're not breaking down your pep your proteins because you're not making enough you're not activating your enzymes because you're not making enough stomach acid that's the second way that using stomach acid supplements or acidification with apple cider vinegar can be helpful this can also help you with autoimmune diseases because those same peptides that can trigger vasodilation some of the uh the cutaneous manifestations of rosacea can also result in autoimmune problems in the nerves or in the joints or in the connective tissue or in the skin for that matter so acidification of of the stomach with meals is a very important health strategy in general i absolutely love apple cider vinegar bragg's organic apple cider vinegar it's not only it's not just a source of acid acetic acid it's also a source of electrolytes source of b vitamins and you can even use it topically on your skin to exfoliate i'm going to talk about topical strategies for rosacea here in a sec um so acidification of the stomach is another strategy both for taking care of h pylori and also taking care of uh protein digestion and eliminating these the formation of these these active peptides then there's the whole issue of leaky gut now these days nobody who's interested certainly nobody listens to these facebook lives but most people in general have heard of leaky gut when i first started working with leaky gut back in the 1990s i remember there was a chiropractor in boulder and i was writing a prescription for something called an intestinal permeability drink that you would drink and you would measure how much of that fluid got into the stool and by virtue of the difference between what you drank and what was in the stool they would assess whether you had a leaky gut or not and i remember that was first i'd heard of it and i didn't really it didn't really make sense to me i didn't quite understand it but then as i started to study more and more i started to realize that this leaky gut phenomenon is something that is really affecting a lot of people and affecting a lot of people they don't know it now cut to 30 years later today and almost everybody's heard at least of leaky gut syndrome but we still have not made the connection between leaky gut and the skin as evidenced by all the topical strategies that we use to try to take care of skin care problems which really initiate in the digestive system via this leaky gut so real quick because i'm sure most of you guys understand what leaky gut is you got a tube and that's your intestine and then on the other side of the tube is blood right so we'll do the tube this way and then on the other side of the tube is blood and the way food broken down particles of food are supposed to get into the bloodstream through the intestine is uh very tightly controlled the food is supposed to contact cells and then those cells flip over and then they put the food into the and when i say food i'm talking about really nutrients into the bloodstream but when we have leaky gut as the name implies we get leaks and those leaks allow food to enter into the bloodstream willy-nilly without any control especially this can be especially problematic those those food particles or those nutrients are these peptides that we talked about earlier because now you've got the entrance of peptides but it could be a lot of things in fact one of the most important elements that gets into a toxic elements that gets into the bloodstream that causes wreaks havoc causes probably almost all immune reactions in the body uh autoimmune disease type of reactions and inflammatory type of reactions in the body almost all of them have an element of the entrance of these substances which are technically called lps's lps stands for lipo polysaccharide lps lipo means fat polysaccharide means uh sugar or it's a long sugar a complex sugar and these lipopoly saccharides we'll call them lpss that are entering into the bloodstream are also known as endotoxins and don't mean psi toxins obviously means toxins so these lps function as endotoxins and they are a huge huge health problem and i would venture to say everything from parkinson's disease to autoimmunity to cancer all have an element of lps infiltration into the blood and subsequent immune response so these endotoxins the lps's are really parts of your good bacteria or parts of the bacteria that live in the gut they're bacterial remnants and they get inside the bloodstream now once they get into the inside the bloodstream anything's possible including on the skin rosacea eczema psoriasis acne pretty much every single skin condition you can name probably even dry skin and melasma have some element of this lps infiltration this endotoxemia immuno remember means blood in the blood endotoxemia means endotoxins inside the vascular system inside the bloodstream so this is a major major problem and fixing a leaky gut is job number one if you're dealing with any health challenge including rosacea and the reason why this is so important and kind of something you want to pay attention to is because we don't it's not an automatic connection between our skin and our intestine we don't kind of think right away oh i have rosacea i have an intestinal problem it's really important to understand this mechanism if you want to truly address rosacea because there's no way to truly address it topically you can only truly address it via all of addressing all these mechanisms we're talking about here and on top of that once you really understand these mechanisms you can save yourself a lot of headaches down the road health headaches and i'm talking about some serious health challenges that can be associated with this mechanism so how do what how do these does this leaky gut form in the first place well the one of the most important and underappreciated causes of leaky gut in fact one of the most important and underappreciated causes of all disease is our ingestion of crappy fats i'm like crappy fats i'm talking processed fats and fried fats and any really especially fry fats but any highly cooked fat doesn't have to be necessarily fried frying is obviously super highly cooked to fry something you have to leave your your fatty your substance in the fat for long periods of time and at high heat so that's the most egregious culprit is these fried food fried fats deep-fried fats but any really processed fat can cause an inflammatory reaction in the intestine so if you're eating french fries potato chips um deep fried fish right fish at mcdonald's or any kind of deep fried or fried or or heavily processed fat that's heated you are running a major risk for lipopolysaccharides for leaky gut and ultimately for this lipopolysaccharide or lps infiltration i.e endotoxemia lay off the fry fats lay off the processed fats now some people will tell you to lay off any vegetable oils i don't go that far although vegetable isn't a process you want to stay away from but if your vegetable oil is a nutritional oil it's kept in the refrigerator in a dark bottle small amounts are not problematic some people tell you lay off them entirely i say just stay away from the heated and processed kind that's number one then you can use nutrients to protect fats and the most important one is vitamin e vitamin c helps selenium helps something called alpha lipoic acid helps but vitamin e is the superstar of fat protection in fact that's its main role in nature is to in the body is to protect fats in nature in in seeds and that's where it's found mostly is a lot in seeds and grains and nuts and vitamin e and seeds and grains and nuts is there to protect the seed these are all nuts and grains and seeds are all nature's bounty and they're very rich in fats and wherever you find wherever nature puts a lot of fats it'll also put vitamin e because that's vitamins vitamins rolls to protect fat so using vitamin e especially if you're eating a lot of fats and vitamin c and selenium uh and also uh alpha lipoic acid super super important and a very helpful if a little bit expensive nutritional supplement so those are all things you could do to protect fats if you're eating a lot of fats then you can also do things for a leaky gut glutamine is an amino acid and it's like it's like rocket fuel for the cells of your intestine glutamine powder or glutamine capsules that's g-l-u-t-a-m-i-n-e glutamine can be helpful for a lot of things it's really helpful for the immune system it has some blood sugar stabilizing pro properties it's used by bodybuilders in fact it's one of the most important it may be the most abundant i think it's the most abundant amino acid floating around in your blood it's a super super important anabolic well-being defensive amino acid that's extra important for the intestine and any kind of intestinal problems or just if you want to prevent intestinal problems or just if you want to be healthy you want to keep your immune system healthy glutamine is a great supplement to take now there are some physicians and some alternative physicians even who will tell you not to use glutamine i don't buy into that their feeling is that glutamine speeds things up and indeed glutamine is a stimulatory i don't say it's a stimulatory amino acid but it can help your body make stimulatory substances for example glutamate in the brain as an excitatory neurotransmitter i don't i don't totally buy into that glutamine is just so powerful and so important that i think you should be supplementing i personally supplement with five to ten grams of it every day i use a powder glutamine don't buy the capsules or the uh or the tablets they tend to be a little bit more expensive you want to say you want to be more cost effective use the powder put it right in water drink it down doesn't taste like anything i put it in my smoothie and it's just a wonderful nutritional supplement especially for leaky gut either if you have it or if you want to prevent it and then of course staying away from problem foods that's also very important because problem foods can create immune responses in the cells or in the area where the intestinal cells are leading to inflammation leading to a spreading a part of those cells and that's one of the causes of leaky gut of course everybody knows about gluten that's super problematic but there's a lot of other substances in grains and seeds and vegetables that can have this kind of inflammatory response on the uh on the intestinal lining and just because you go gluten-free doesn't mean there's other there's not other compounds in your bread or your flour your beer your your salad whatever it is you're eating they can have that kind of response so gluten-free is not enough although we all know most people know at this point that gluten can create this kind of inflammatory reaction at the level of the intestine now i'm not going to get i don't want to digress too much but i think this is really interesting you have just like you have a barrier to the blood the intestine is a barrier to the blood and that's really what the intestine is it's like a wall that separates the food from the blood you have that same kind of barrier in your brain you have what's called the blood brain barrier and this blood brain barrier keeps stuff in the bloodstream and keeps it from leaking into the brain the only just like the only things that can get into the blood through the intestine are tightly regulated same with the brain when things are floating around in your blood there's there's a kind of a a wall if you will tight cells cells are packed tightly to keep stuff from leaking into the brain from the blood gluten lectins these compounds that are found in vegetables and grains anything that's inflammatory that can cause inflammatory leaky gut or inflammatory related leaky gut can do the same thing in the brain it can cause things like dementia parkinson's disease brain fog all of these kinds of ideas all of these kinds health challenges that are mental and even depression for that matter there's a lot of health challenges in fact i'm not a lot all mental health challenges are now thought to involve some element of inflammation in the brain with the exception of course of you know strictly psychological kinds of issues somebody something happens in your life but even then there's probably some organic and biochemical and biological mechanisms and inflammation is cheap among these mechanisms and this whole leaky gut issue can affect the leaky you have leaky brain syndrome essentially leading to brain inflammation and all kinds of other health challenges that's just a digression i just thought i'd throw that because that's really really helpful marissa says thank you marissa that's that's really cool she says you've helped me tremendously with my eczema years ago never has returned because of your advice it wasn't me marissa it's the biological system all i did was tell you about it you know i don't take credit for any of this everything i'm talking about here and everything i talk about in all our lives and our youtubes these are all biology and biochemistry you cannot dispute what i'm saying here there's no physician or no drug company representative or no standard practitioner medicine they can dispute anything i'm saying here because it's all just biochemistry just biology this is you don't need a study you know i had a guy today asked me where if i had any studies to show something i said studies are silly you don't need studies if you understand biochemistry studies are based on statistics and the science of epidemiology which is barely a science uh and i don't want to get too much into you know digressing here but what i'm trying to say is if you understand biochemistry you can take do a heck of a lot of things without the pharmacomedical model and that's what we're talking about here so i talk about here every week and that's what we're talking about here today is the biochemistry of all this how all this happens and there's no way you can dispute it now back to our story sorry about that digression uh working on a leaky gut so uh glutamine powder eliminating problem foods especially fats uh essential fatty acids uh omega-3 essential fatty acids especially but all of them you guys know i like udo's blend it's a flaxseed oil and flax seed is unbelievably valuable for a lot of things even though it is a seed oil it's incredibly valuable uh nutritional supplements so many so many wonderful reasons why you want to use flax oil it's also anti-inflammatory for the intestine and of course probiotics and they're tricky probiotics are definitely tricky a lot of people say i took probiotics i didn't notice anything i took probiotics my symptoms didn't improve that's because probiotics are tricky to dose with and they're tricky to buy they're tricky to buy because there's all these different formulas and everybody's going to respond to these different formulas differently and they're tricky to dose with because it's hard to know whether you need 10 billion units a day day it's all just experimentation with brand and with dose nonetheless uh the evidence is incontrovertible that you can do dramatic things to heal a leaky gut and to heal digestive health problems even food allergies sometimes and food intolerances sometimes by using probiotics not a day goes by when there's not some study about probiotics in the brain and probiotics and vitamin d and probiotics in the immune system probiotics in the skin and probiotics and cancer and chemotherapy it's just unbelievable the stuff that's coming out about probiotics and i remember when i first started studying probiotics like almost 30 years ago there's hardly any information about these things but again these being a pharmacist has really helped me be ahead of the curve because a lot of the stuff that's mainstream now are things that we learned in pharmacy school and we did learn about gut bacteria in pharmacy school but it didn't really get going until maybe the last 20 years research and company drug companies spending money and nutritional companies spending money on research that didn't really start happening until maybe 2000 the late 1990s so probiotics super important i talked earlier about hydrochloric acid that can help because that activates enzymes by activation of the enzymes all nutrition all uh foods are made more nutritionally available the components in the foods are made more nutritionally available and you can eliminate these toxins these peptides from forming which can be pro-inflammatory so using acidification strategies like apple cider vinegar or hydrochloric acid so you got lots to work with there i'm sure i didn't cover absolutely everything but the main point about it rosacea is that it's not you're not gonna be able to handle it truly topically you gotta go internally now uh as far as uh kendra i'll answer that in a sec as far as topically okay so here's the deal topically with rosacea you cannot really address rosacea topically except by suppressing the immune system pharmacologically and when i say pharmacologically i mean with a drug obviously and the reason you need a drug to suppress the immune system is because the immune system is a good thing we might not like the rosacea we might not like like the inflammation but the immune response is pro-evolutionary it's been selected for we are the ancestors of uh of or we are the descendants of ancestors who had great immune systems whose whose skin uh this whose skin's ability to defend itself to support immunity was was really was top-notch so our just our ancestors were the ones who made it because their immune system was super active and super strong and super powerful it didn't anticipate all the toxicity was gonna have to deal with the year and that's one of the big problems that we have nonetheless to suppress this really powerful biological system and uh process you need drugs to you you have to pharmacological if you really want to suppress the symptoms you gotta have pharmacological intervention that being said there are some nutrients that can strengthen the immune system and sometimes when you strengthen the immune system it's not as jumpy it's better able to handle attacks and assaults and invasions without a full-blown inflammatory response so strengthening the immune system can sometimes help and there's wonderful topical ingredients that will strengthen the immune system of course vitamin c is the ultimate immune booster and you know if you've listened to me talk before you know anything about what i do vitamin c is the king of topical skin ingredients but it has to be fat soluble and fat soluble vitamin c has a wonderful calming effect soothing effect on the skin because it has a an ability to to strengthen and support the immune system so it doesn't have to go into full blown inflammation so topical vitamin c can help also keep in mind that topical vitamin c is not only going to help with the rosacea symptoms the the redness and the blemish formation the healing that takes place post blemish formation vitamin c is also just good for your skin and so taking care of your skin topically should be about more than just addressing the symptoms of rosacea or eczema or any other disease but of taking care of the health of the organ called the skin vitamin c is the single most important daily nutrient your skin can take topically make no mistake about it and if you really want to have healthy beautiful skin you absolutely have to be using fat soluble vitamin c in high concentrations uh on a regular basis like a daily basis or on a multi multiple times a day basis so vitamin c can be very helpful uh topically also this is kind of tricky there are some folks who benefit from things like retinol and salicylic acid retinol i think is actually a pharmacological treatment for rosacea sometimes rosacea is associated with the hyper proliferation of cells that make uh to create a topical situation that looks like acne in fact there's an overlap between rosacea and acne and also sebum production can be associated seborrhea is technically the term uh seborrhea sebum production and blemish formation pimple formation can be associated with rosacea and retinol and salicylic peels can help with those however this is a big however when you have a stimulated a very uh active a dynamic system in the skin salicylic acid retinol can make it more dynamic it can make it be over stimulating so that's why i say you've got to be careful even though both of these are considered to be ways that you can treat both rosacea i'm sorry both rosacea and acne that's salicylic acid and retinol uh and i have seen good results with both so you gotta be but you gotta be a little bit careful um some folks get benefits from vitamin vitamin k plays a role in vasodilation but in k is also a very interesting topical in the sense that it activates proteins in the skin that makes skin cells grow and skin cells divide so topical vitamin k is going to be one of those ingredients that you're going to start to see in the future more and more we use it in our dermal defense serum and there's some very interesting roles that vitamin k can play in calming down vasodilation it's not spectacular especially if you are have all the issues the internal issues the leaky gut and the food allergies etc it's not really going to change your life it's not going to make a super significant difference but it's just a good vitamin that the skin handles very well that has uh broad health giving salubrious uh salute health giving salubrious meaning health giving and beauty benefits that's topical vitamin k uh let's see what else here oh insulin blood sugar elevated insulin elevated blood sugar are both associated with seborrhea as well as with rosacea and a lot of rosacea patients are also dealing with insulin resistance so using insulin resistance strategies can also help uh the b vitamins niacin chromium laying off of sugar more fiber exercise we'll do a talk on blood sugar and insulin here uh in the next few day in the next few weeks because there's so many different things there's also uh testosterone sometimes the testosterone byproduct called dht can accumulate and that can cause a lot of problems oily skin rosacea is associated with dht uh male pattern baldness prostate issues body hair on females can be caused by dht dht inhibition is a pharmacological strategy for helping folks deal with acne and some of you guys know that they'll prescribe something called spironolactone for acne spironolactone has dht inhibiting properties i like using things like zinc in fact zinc is a must-have mineral for the skin nutritional elements for the skin i like zinc picolinate 50 milligrams a day it stabilizes dht keeps it from accumulating it's great for your skin it's a must-have treatment for acne and can also be helpful for rosacea of course essential fatty acids are always important omega-3s particularly for keeping inflammation down and the aforementioned vitamin e can be helpful um let's see what uh pumpkin seed oil and and saw palmetto both have anti-dht properties they may be helpful there's a a fat derivative an omega-6 fat derivative called gla gamma little lenic acid and that one has some nice anti-inflammatory properties that might be helpful too so all that's you know that's a lot of stuff right uh and that's all for dealing with rosacea the good news is if you do it correctly your rosacea will be gone forever forever and uh just like marissa said her eczema was gone forever when you do things correctly when you correct what's going on underneath everything's gone forever all that all your health challenges will be gone forever because you really corrected the problem and there's tons you could do with rosacea so we'll talk about uh we'll talk about um what i say i was going to talk about next time i we're talking about peptides first of all uh and then there was something else that i forgot oh insulin insulin resistance and diabetes we'll talk about that in the coming facebook lives that we do i want to answer a couple questions here that we've got i don't think i have any questions from you guys my 13 viewers here uh let's see okay so i have a whole bunch of questions i've got here uh i'm going to answer a couple of these when to use one percent retinol and when to use five percent retinol one percent retinol is i designed it to be like training wheels so that people can build themselves up to five percent retinol five percent retinol kicks butt it's an amazing way to stimulate uh all the good stuff in the skin from collagen to new cells to moisture factors to hyaluronic acid it's just a wonderful anti-aging uh topical but you have to work yourself up into five percent and the best way to work yourself to five percent is to do one percent and also you can't use your five percent all that regularly you know some people use it every other day i wouldn't use it every day some people use it every other day i personally use mine once a week twice a week kind of thing uh in between doses of your five percent you can use one percent and that will sort of top off your retinol tank without being too aggressive you always want to make sure you have rest periods between big doses of retinol and a one percent in between your five percent doses isn't necessarily going to throw off your rest period also the one percent can be dabbed on more frequently into onto dark spots you could do it twice a twice a day even the one percent you could even do with the five percent but you don't have to be as careful with the one percent so one percent can be dabbed on one percent as training wheels and one percent can be used to kind of top off your tank in the middle of doses but five percent is definitely the way to go if you can handle five percent also if you can't handle five percent uh most people can handle one percent remember retinol is 100 times weaker than retinoic acid the standard dose of retin-a retinoic acid that you get at the dermatologist's office is point zero five percent retinol five percent has that kind of potency point one point zero one percent is what they'll give you retin-a or retinoic acid if you have really sensitive skin or your tender skin thin skin something like that retinol one percent is the equivalent in retinoid power of a retinol retinoic acid point zero one percent remember with our true retinol gels not only you get the same potency as you do with the drug the drug version the retinoic acid but you also get 25 percent fat soluble vitamin c and they work together perfectly all right so let's see uh sometimes some gal wanted to know about retinol melting in the heat and that does happen retinol will melt in the heat or retinol gel i should say will melt in the heat uh stick in the fridge it'll be just as good and you'll see it's just as good just stick in the fridge takes about an hour hour and a half i didn't put any emulsifiers in there i didn't put anything that holds the thing together because i didn't want to have to i don't want a complex product you know that's the whole the whole my whole fat formulating philosophy of truth is i don't like complexity in formulation you look at formulations the standard formulations are incredibly complicated incredibly complex recipes or concoctions they have all kinds of binders and fillers and and liquefiers and solvents and i don't i don't like working with those i don't think you should have to pay for those they don't do anything for your skin so consequently retinol which only has like four ingredients in it it melts in the heat so stick in the fridge an hour later two hours later it's just just as good as new you can even keep it in the fridge if you like uh and then let's see oh this is cute why does my omega look this way omega-6 healing cream is my of all the products i've ever formulated that's my favorite product it is the most multifunctional product it's the best moisturizer you'll ever use the healing properties that stuff are mind blowing and just go on truthreview.com and check out the the reviews on omega-6 healing paint it's really is mind-blowing however it's a bizarre product it's hard to make uh it's just weird and it's idiosyncratic it's there's a reason why there's nothing like that on the market it's just a bizarre weird strange formulation one of the things that happens when we're making it is the way it settles holes develop in the surface and it has to do with the chemistry of some of the ingredients but it's still it looks even though the each jar looks unique like a snowflake like us like all people are unique all jars of omega-6 healing cream are unique it's the most kick-butt topical moisturizer healing product you'll ever use from everything from from cuts on your forehead to diabetic dry heels and feet and everything in between and anywhere in between lips and sunburn and babies diaper rashes all kinds of stuff that you could you could do with omega-6 healing cream so it looks that way because it's just a weird product it's very it is idiosyncratic got a few more of those but we'll say those for another day and see if you guys any questions here dana says she loves her omega-6 doug says how do i feel about powder probiotics versus kefir kefir makes me sick well you know if kefir makes you sick that you know there's bacteria in there and that's it's an active food kefir is an active food all these foods that have bacteria in them are active foods so anytime you have an active food you can do things in the digestive system because you've got a lot of activity in the digestive system you can disturb bacteria for example or if you sometimes digest a stomach issue you're not making enough digestive juices for example you may be irritating something with the acids from the kefir so i can't really explain why that is but if it makes you sick then i would avoid it uh you don't need to have kefir how do you feel about powdered probiotics you know powder probe i don't know a lot about powder probiotics but if you're powering a probiotic that tells me it's going through some processing i would want to see if uh i want to check to be sure that in the processing i still have my live bacteria and that's just my thinking about it uh pot pat isn't it pat says awesome all the things you can do about with the omega-6 healing cream that's what i love about it you could do so many things with it from just being a plain old moisturizer to healing burns in fact i formulated it as a burn cream that's that's uh there's a really interesting story behind that that i won't bore you with here because we've got so long on this um let's see doug says sauerkraut's great fermented vegetables are really great because not only do you get the bacteria but you get the fiber and the enzymes and the acids that are produced by the bacteria break up the the uh the uh veggie nutrients or break up the fibers and release the nutrients so the nutrients are more accessible number one you get acids from your for your digestive system number two you get fiber number three and get probiotics number four and that's with fermented cabbage if you're making sauerkraut fermented beets fermented cucumbers there's a great book called the art of fermentation i highly encourage anybody who even likes to cook a little bit it's very easy to ferment stuff but this book the art of fermentation has great recipes and you don't need to be a great chef but it has great recipes and it also explains fermentation and the importance of fermented vegetables they're just unbelievably valuable you know fermented dairy is okay too but fermented veggies really are the way to go in my opinion wellness against all the odds sherry rogers great thank you robert i i haven't heard that book i've heard i've been reading tired not toxic or toxic not tired for many years uh she's i've been reading toxic not tired by dr sherry rogers probably since the 80s or certainly since the early 90s and i i dig into it all the time unfortunately she doesn't have an index in the book so you got to kind of read through it it's really difficult to find things once you once you read through it the first time you might want to highlight and use use markers because she doesn't index anything doug says is fast and good yes fasting is the point good uh wellness against the odd robert you're awesome robert knows his stuff folks let's see ph strips rob did you call me yes somebody called me the radio show talked about ph strips i wonder if that was you uh let's see yes that was you uh eat greens greens greens greens are amazing yes sir greens are great source of omega fats you wouldn't think that right because it doesn't look fatty but greens are one of nature's best source of sources of omega fats and also greens are great sources of calcium which is another really interesting mineral that people don't understand and it is very very very uh not rated i was going to say overrated but i don't say overrated that's really important but not rated correctly we'll say it's not overrate though it's super important all right that's it i think that's all you guys i always go longer than i want but uh thank you so much for you guys support and i appreciate all of you happy holidays uh we've this will be up on facebook live we'll put this on our facebook page and this will also go on our youtube uh youtube channel and that's it have a awesome beautiful day bye for now