Mm-hmm

...

when it becomes leaky, these junctions become a little bit too loose and becomes too permeable.

So what can happen is food molecu- food molecules, substances get into the bloodstream from the gut that shouldn't be getting in there and cause inflammation and activate the immune system.

So there's various things that can cause leaky gut, like food sensitivities.

But essentially, um, leaky gut is...

Oh, do we have a picture up there?

Mm-hmm.

I've been trying to switch to cleaner products for my three-year-old, but every natural baby wash i find is so expensive and i can't tell if it's actually any better than what we were using before is there a simple way to know which ingredients really matter and which are just marketing oh that's a great question

yes totally and i would go back to those like red flags you know um so you know the dermatological dermatologists tested natural clean uh those are not regulated terms So the best thing you can do as a parent is read what are the ingredients in the actual product.

Fewer ingredients is better.

Avoid things with fragrance.

Avoid sulfates.

And avoid the preservatives, the parabens and the formaldehyde-releasing preservatives.

Because those types of preservatives, they're antimicrobials, right? So you don't want to be— That's a preservative, it's an antimicrobial.

So the picky eater complex.

line the uh joyous hello joyous right

so i created my line of product i've always been into diy like making my own products it's just something that i've always loved doing because i feel a lot of the times that i can make it better than what i can buy and then i know what's in it just like with food i like to make my own meals and make my own food because i know what i'm putting in my own food so a couple years ago my husband and i launched hello joyous And we are all, we call it skinimalism.

That's a concept.

So it's like the

minimalist approach to skincare.

Use fewer products with fewer ingredients, all certified organic botanicals, all waterless.

Your skin doesn't need 10 different products.

We're like the anti-Sephora effect.

We're talking about skin hygiene, skin health.

Yeah, so if we're talking about this age, like infants, less is more.

I think many parents have this idea that they need to be bathing their baby every day.

And it's so unnecessary because most babies are not covered in dirt.

They haven't been rolling around in a mud puddle.

So with my daughter, Vienna, I wanted her to have as healthy skin as possible because being that I had suffered from eczema myself...

So I, for the first, well, she's 10 now.

when it

Tell us a little bit about this and how this arms families, young parents for themselves and their children to eat the best real food, nourishing food for their skin and immune systems on a daily basis.

Yeah, so this is my most recent book and I wrote this book and created these recipes with my recipe testers being kids and also being my husband who can be picky.

So I created this as a book of recipes for families based on whole based foods.

without restricting a lot of foods.

Cause if you just add a lot of good stuff, you don't have to worry about, you don't have to worry about the sh the refined sugar.

So I don't in my book, of course, I don't have any refined sugars.

All my recipes are lower sugar made with things like maple syrup.

no i think i'm glad you brought that up because i think you know if there is inflammation in the gut the microbiome is disrupted a bit then the propensity for a child to have food allergies increases at the same time yeah so good to mention and also really what are the key ones you know dairy eggs eggs

So as it relates to eczema, and you formulated a bunch of different products specific to this protocol, right? What can you share with us that way?

I think let's take the level by level.

Number one, you have to have the prebiotics, which are really the soil, the environment for the probiotics to live and create the correct probiotics.

So we've got the prebiotics, then the probiotics.

Fermented foods, that's like always the best place to get them.

But the two most prevalent probiotics, you know, found in infants and children, Bifidobacterium breve, and then, you know, Bifidobacteria longum, probably the most important for the intestine and the skin.

So then we've got prebiotic, we've got the probiotic, and then we come into the new territory, postbiotics.

Yeah, what's happening there?

They're food for

our friends that we're just a host to.

So, you know, lots of polyphenol-rich foods, berries... apples and pears and always eat the skin.

It always makes me cringe when I see people like peeling apples and pears for their

So the fiber foods.

Yes, the fiber-rich foods.

Yeah, all the fruits and veggies to really nourish the gut microbiome.

And sometimes people get so focused on like, oh, am I eating a probiotic-rich food? I always like to say just eat a variety of lots of different fruits and vegetables because different polyphenols feed different bacteria.

Was it hard? Did you feel like you had super high expectations? Did you impose a lot of that on her?

No, not at all.

I was...

I knew that, of course, you know, what I eat and the supplements I take and how I treat my body was so important, but I had been doing this for years anyway.

So it wasn't like I just got pregnant and I was like, oh my gosh, what am I going to do? And when I had Vienna, I always...

You know, my husband and I always said, like, we're not going to be super rigid.

We are going to continue to eat the way we do, which is whole and nourishing and never be like, no, you can't have that.

the classroom.

Uh-huh

... to care for your skin and what you eat because it's going to affect your, affect your baby.

So what I...

You know, instead of...

I know the moms watching out here are like, "Ah," getting so anxious and nervous about that.

But think about it as an opportunity-

Yep.

But yeah, ex- ex- eczema is just a sign or a symptom that something, you know, is going on deeper, and addressing the root cause is really what we're gonna get into and talk, talk about today.