How, and did you have a turning point at all that really led you down this road?

Oh, for sure.

I have really bad acne.

You know, I think anyone who, whether you're an esthetician or anyone who's really focusing on acne, most likely had really bad acne.

And that was definitely the case for me.

I had acne for almost five years, despite doing all of the things I was told I was supposed to do, right? You start with the Drugstore, Clearasil, Clean and Clear, all that stuff.

Salicylic acid.

Uh, can you talk a little bit about, you know, this, I know this can be spicy and there's some myths, but can we actually reverse our gray

And so when it came to your personal journey that really healed you, what foods did you remove the top foods that you removed and what are the top foods that you added in and still continue to keep in your diet that have helped you have beautiful skin? The

biggest thing that I removed was all the processed foods, all of the junk food.

So, I mean, I was eating the vast majority of foods I was eating was coming out of a box.

And I will say my diet was particularly bad, but it doesn't have to be that bad to also be creating acne.

You could still be eating a lot better than me, but still have acne.

So I got rid of all the processed and refined foods.

I was eating a lot of sugar, cookies, pastries.

So if people have these super different gut microbiomes, then how do you treat these individuals without having to do an additional stool test and getting in there and dissecting, hey, your gut microbiome has an overgrowth of this or an undergrowth of that, and this is what I'm going to put you on.