A high-protein, anti-inflammatory diet is the optimal nutritional approach for skin health.

“If you're going to pick one simple diet for optimal skin health it's a high protein anti-inflammatory diet”

Sun exposure, while beneficial for hormone and vitamin D synthesis, can accelerate skin aging and increase the risk of certain cancers when excessive.

“sun exposure will disrupt the collagen and elastin but mostly the collagen composition of your skin in a way that makes it appear as if you're aging faster okay so sun exposure yes ages the skin now that does not mean however that you want to avoid all sun exposure”

Mineral sunscreens are preferable to chemical sunscreens because some chemical ingredients may act as hormone disruptors.

“I tell my patients they have to use mineral sunscreens as opposed to chemical sunscreens. Cheapest trick in skincare. You can go to Walgreens and spend $6 on Aquafor and your skin will look better in 30 days, guaranteed.”

Chemical sunscreens are less effective than mineral sunscreens because they degrade rapidly when exposed to sunlight.

“I'm so on board with you about the problems with chemical sunscreens because the other problem it creates is that patients think they're covered and then the chemicals that are actually protecting against the UV damage become inactivated over time and you don't know because you still have the film o”

Correcting a folate deficiency can lead to the reversal of age-related dark spots.

“Medical case reports have documented reversal of dark spots after correcting folate deficiency even in seniors over 70.”