“People ask me, what’s the microbiome? It’s you. It’s as much part of you as your arms, heart, or lungs—you just can’t see it or feel it," says skin microbiome expert Larry Weiss, M.D. "We are constantly dancing into the unknown, and we shouldn’t get too attached to our preconceived notions because historically they always get surrendered to the ideas that we can’t yet imagine.” And nowhere is this more true than when studying the skin microbiome, an area of research we’ve only just scratched the surface of. In this episode of Clean Beauty School, mindbodygreen beauty director and host Alexandra Engler chats with Weiss about the future of skin care, how we can learn about ourselves through the microbiome, and why skin care is health care.

Show notes:

-Learn more about Symbiome

-Inflammatory conditions are on the rise

-Rise of eczema and asthma in children

-Research on the skin microbiome

-The engrafted microbiome vs. the biofilm

-Read more about the yanomami tribe

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106: The new science of inflammation & the skin microbiome | microbiome expert Larry Weiss, M.D.