- [Lorie] Danielle Flemingcan finally feel comfortable
about going out and enjoying life.
For years, embarrassing skin problems
caused her to avoid people.
- Because I was having issues
with acne all around my mouth area,
kind of patches of dry spots
and red bumps and it wasjust, it was terrible.
- She's not alone.
Skin conditions like acne,eczema and premature aging
are on the increase,
and you'll likely besurprised at the reason.
Recently scientistsdiscovered our obsession
with cleanliness cando more harm than good.
Too often, things likeanti-bacterial soaps
and harsh scrubbing tools can wipe out
the good bacteria on our skin.
- You gotta get a little dirty
to have beautiful, glowing skin.
- [Lorie] Celebritydermatologist, Whitney Bowe,
says groundbreaking researchover the last couple of years
uncovered our skin microbiome.
- A lot of people don't realize
that our skin is covered in trillions
of microscopic organisms.
So right after you get outof the shower in the morning,
when you think you are clean,
your body is covered.
Again, trillions.
And they are just swarmingthrough your eyelashes
and diving into your belly button.
- [Lorie] In her book, DirtyLooks, Dr. Bowe explains
how these tiny warriors fightchronic skin conditions.
- We have to learn tolove these good bugs.
If we learn how to nurture
and protect these healthystrains of bacteria on our skin,
that's really the secret to having
beautiful, glowing, radiant skin.
- [Lorie] She says over cleansing
can destroy good bacteria.
- Before I felt the need totake a shower in the morning,
take a shower at night, scrub my skin,
have a loofa, use the antibacterial soap,
suds up really well.
I would even rub alcohol on it
'cause I thought it would dry it up
and it would get rid of it.
- [Lorie] Measures like thesetrigger an immune response,
which can lead to inflammation.
- I'm not telling peopleto stop showering.
I'm certainly notrecommending going to sleep
with your makeup on,
but I do think that there'ssomething to be said
for taking a very gentle approach
when it comes to cleansing our skin.
- [Lorie] While step one ispreserving the good bacteria
already on our skin,
Dr. Bowe says step twoinvolves adding to that number
with topical probiotics.
- Right now, you'respraying a live bacteria.
And actually this brand has found a way
to find these live bacteria that
no longer exist on our skin.
So through evolution, throughour very hygienic practices
over the years, we'vekilled off these good bugs.
- [Lorie] In additionto putting probiotics
directly on the skin,
Dr. Bowe recommends somepre and post biotic items
to fortify the skins microbiome.
- There's just a huge surge right now.
All of these new productsare hitting the market
and this trend is not going anywhere,
it's just gonna climb exponentially.
- [Lorie] That's not all.
While growing goodbacteria on the outside,
Dr. Bowe reminds us toalso nurture the inside.
- An unhappy gut leads to unhappy skin.
- [Lorie] She says a diethigh in sugar destroys
the good bacteria in our gut,
which magnified Danielle's problem.
- I was addicted to cupcakesand cookies and chocolate
and anything that was in the house
that I was feeding my kids as a treat,
I was also eating myself.
- [Lorie] However, avoiding those foods
and consuming good bacteria canclear things up within days.
- So I stopped eatingas much processed sugar,
white breads, and I started adding
different things to my diet.
So I started taking probiotics.
I started drinking theKambucha that was recommended.
I started eatingsauerkraut, weirdly enough,
because that seems to doa lot also for your skin.
- [Lorie] So while skinproblems are on the rise
they can be reversed byimproving the bacteria balance
on our skin and in our gut.
- Lorie Johnson's here with us.
Lorie, you look absolutely radiant.
Are you putting thatmother's dirt on your face?
(laughing)
- Oh thank you.
I have to say that's the makeup department
so I can't take credit for it.
You should see me without my makeup,
which would never happen.
But yeah, this stuffis called Mother Dirt.
This is actually live bacteria.
It's perishable, itlasts for about a month.
And the actual bacteria iscalled nitrosomonas eutropha
and this bacteria is in dirt.
This is the bacteria that's in dirt
and it used to be allover our skin but we don't
have it any more becauseabout 100 years ago,
we moved inside and tocompound the problem
is if we do have it onour skin, we kill it
with these antibacterial soaps.
So if you were walking aroundin the dirt in your bare feet,
you get a lot of this goodbacteria on your skin.
So, the key is to get it onthere and to keep it on there.
- Well really, you'resaying God put in the dirt
of this earth somethingthat's very beneficial for
human beings and we've washed it off.
- That's right and this is the same thing
that's going on in our gut.
We've talked about this before.
It's a two process thingwhere we aren't getting
the good bacteria like we once did
and the bacteria that wedo have, we're killing
with our lifestylechoices, so we need to put
the good bacteria in our gutwith things like probiotics.
We've talked about this many times before
and then, we need to nurturethem with the prebiotics,
feed them to good stuff.
Same thing with our skin.
This is the good bacteriathat we need to spray
on our skin, see just like this.
- [Pat] It's just that simple, huh?
- This is actual live bacteria.
- And you're spraying that onyour skin right this second?
- It does and what you'resupposed to do is spray it
on your skin about twice a day,
do it preferably in areas where you sweat
because this bacteria eatsthe ammonia in our sweat.
- [Pat] Come on!
- This is what it doesand it excretes nitrous,
nitric oxide and nitritesthat are wonderful.
They battle the bad bacteriaand fight off the bacteria
that cause skin problemslike acne, rosacea,
psoriasis, prematureaging, and sensitive skin.
- How many women have some kind of acne?
Is it a big problem?
- Yes, it's a terribleproblem, but men too!
Rosacea, psoriasis, thisredness, that's the inflammation.
So this has been shownto reduce skin problems
in about a month's timefor 35% of the people
and I love this product.
There are probably going tobe more probiotics like this
because now, scientists are catching on.
I just wanna say I'm notgetting any kind of compensation
for this, this is just a good product.
This is what you find in the dirt.
So, if you don't wanna use this,
go roll around in the mud.
- What's that called again?
- This is called MotherDirt in the, it's called AO,
which Ammonia-Oxidizingbecause as I mentioned,
it eats up the ammonia in your sweat.
- If a woman or a man has acne
or acne scars, you put that stuff on
and those little critters startgoing to work on your face?
- They sure do and theyneutralize, they soothe,
they restore the Ph balance.
This is stuff that helpsyour skin but you also
have to keep it alive and wereally need to refrain from
using those antibacterial soaps.
That's too much.
We're over-cleansing.
We just need regular soap.
- Wow!
- And also the antibacterialcleansers that we use,
ya know, to clean our homes,these antibacterial products,
as the name suggests.
- So many people, I mean,I read some of these books
and they've got the leadcharacter showering every time
you turn around.
They get up, they take a shower.
They get ready to go tobed, they take a shower.
Constantly, it's like a big deal.
But what you're saying is,that is killing the good
bacteria off their skin.
- That's right.
Regular soap is OK butit's the antibacterial soap
and the over-cleansinglike with the loofas
and the crazy cleansing tools that we use,
the super scrubbers and things like that.
We need to just be more moderate.
- Now, what if their acne scars.
There's acne scars on their face.
Will these little crittersactually begin to change that?
- It could help.
It's definitely worth a try.
It's not a miracle productand for more information
on this and other skinissues, we invite our viewers
to go to our website,CBNNews.com and in fact,
my entire interview withDr. Bowe is on our website.
She's my guest on HealthyLiving, so if people go to
our website and go to the showslink, you can click on that
and watch Healthy Living.
- You contacted her in Chappaqua, New York
and she invited you tocome up and you sat around
her pool and enjoyed lunch
and she shared all this stuff with ya.
- She is wonderful andshe's as knowledgeable
as she is beautiful and sheis as beautiful on the inside
as she is on the outside.
She's really a great dermatologist.
And I feel blessed that sheshared her information with us.
- Those probiotics you'vegot in that little box,
that's Garden of Life.
- Right.
- Is that for men or women or both?
- Actually, this particularkind happens to be the kind
that I take.
This particular brand isformulated by your friend and mine,
Dr. David Perlmutter, whoour viewers probably know
because we've featured him somany times on The 700 Club.
He's the gut guy, he's the gut guy.
So, these are wonderful probioticsand Dr. Bowe talks about
the importance of good gut health
for our skin as well and shetalks about the gut, brain,
skin connection and by the way, Danielle,
who I featured in the storywho had the terrible acne
and now she's gorgeous,
when she stopped eatingsugar and started taking care
of her gut, her depression went away.
- Well, this gut biome is so important,
there's so many diseases,autoimmune diseases
that result from a bad gut, right?
- A leaky gut, that's rightbecause when we destroy
our gut lining, they getbig holes in the gut lining
and these important thingsgo out of those holes
and into our bloodstreamand our immune system
recognizes them as foreigninvaders and attacks them.
That's an autoimmune disease.
- Give me the names of fouror five of those autoimmune
diseases that are causedbecause we don't have
the appropriate gut biome.
- Well, we're talking aboutthings like muscular sclerosis.
- [Pat] How about Parkinson's?
- Not so much, not so much.
Yeah, yeah, but we knowthat the gut microbiome
and having a strong gutaffect our entire health.
- A bunch of things calledautoimmune diseases.
Give us some of them.
- Well, one of them, MSand a couple of the names
escape my mind right at the moment.
- [Pat] How about depressionand things like that?
- Right, depression isdefinitely tied into our gut,
without question, and ouremotions and our brain.
Depression isn't necessarilyan autoimmune disease
where your immune systemis attacking your own body,
but it's definitely--
- The TV is literallyjammed up with advertising
for medication that willaddress these particular
conditions and they don'tsay one word about gut biome
but they should.
- Well you talk to peoplewho have improved their
gut microbiome and they'll tell you that
their mood improved drastically.
- If somebody wants toget that, I know you say
you're not being compensated.
Neither am I but where do they get it?
- The manufacturer is calledMother Dirt and they can find
information on our website, CbnNews.com.
- They will spray that on their face
and spray it on their arms.
- Right and then theinstructions are spray it on
before you sweat.
You know what, we sweat at night!
So, you're supposed to sprayit on before night time
in the areas where yousweat, like ya know,
under your arms and on yourscalp and on your hands
and things like that becauseit likes to eat our sweat.
- Oh my goodness.
Well, you get prettyintimate with little Lorie
on these things butlike it or not, this is,
we're trying to help you.
So Lorie, thank you so much and again,
if you wanna get this stuff,it's on our website, Lorie.
- CbnNews.com.
- CbnNews.com, God bless ya, thank you.
