Why Winter Makes Skin Misbehave Winter increases flares of eczema, rosacea, dry skin, and seborrheic dermatitis due to cold air, dry indoor heat, hot showers, heavy clothing, stress, and holiday eating. These stress both the skin barrier and immune system. External triggers (cold, dryness) combine with internal triggers (gut shifts, inflammation, nutrient changes) and lower the threshold for flares. Barrier Basics: Effects of Cold, Dry Air Cold air + indoor heating reduce hum

Hair loss can feel deeply personal—affecting confidence, identity, and emotional wellbeing. While conventional dermatology often focuses on medications and topical drugs, a functional nutrition approach looks deeper: Why is the hair follicle signaling disrupted? What biological, nutritional, hormonal, or inflammatory imbalances are shifting follicles into shedding instead of growth? Understanding this requires a look at the hair growth cycle, what disrupts it, and how nutriti

Understanding how brain circuitry, calcium channels, and nutrition intersect in autism spectrum disorders The Brain Circuitry Behind Autism — New Insights from the Thalamus A recent study published in Science Advances , titled “Reticular thalamic hyperexcitability drives autism spectrum disorder behaviors in the Cntnap2 model of autism,” offers groundbreaking insight into the brain mechanisms behind autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Using a genetic mouse model lacking the Cntna

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