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Ep 287 – The Rogue Pharmacist: Minerals Matter – The Key to Healthy Skin
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Minerals can play a crucial role in achieving radiant, healthy skin. Whether you are dealing with dryness, acne, or signs of aging, minerals can repair the skin barrier, reduce inflammation, and enhance the complexion. In this episode of The Rogue...
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Benjamin Knight Fuchs
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Maggie Stasik
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Hello and welcome to ASCP and the Rogue Pharmacist with Benjamin Knight Fuchs. In each episode we will explore how internal and external factors can impact the skin. I'm Maggie Stasik, ASCP's program director and joining me is Ben Fuchs, skincare formulator and pharmacist. Hey Ben.
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Benjamin Knight Fuchs
Hey Maggie.
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Maggie Stasik
We're talking today about why minerals Matter. Whether you are a skincare enthusiast or simply curious about the science behind healthy skin, this episode is for you to kick things off. Can you explain, Ben, why minerals are so vital for skin health and how they impact our skincare routines?
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Benjamin Knight Fuchs
Well, that was great. Why Minerals Matter Yeah, you like that, huh? Well, minerals are matter. That's great. Because matter, the foundation of matter, is what we call minerals. In the world of nutrition, minerals are the most confusing subject even for nutritionists to understand. And that's because there's different forms that minerals take. Really, the word mineral, it's kind of a misnomer, because what we're really talking about when it comes to nutrition is atoms. When atoms are squished together, they form rocks, which are basically what people think of when they think of minerals. But in the body, there's no rocks, with some exceptions, like the skeletal system and the teeth, and those are really minerals. But all the chemistry in the body that we assume or we call mineral based are really about atoms. And that's really confusing because atoms are labile, they change. And this is what makes minerals so hard to understand. First of all, they're not really minerals, they're atoms. And atoms are really. There's no such thing as an atom. They're just electrical energy, and we call them atoms. There's, you know, what we call an atom? This is kind of bizarre. Is 99.9999-999-9999% empty space. So how does. How do we figure that if everything's made of atoms, how can 99.999999% be empty space? Well, there's a problem there, right? Because you're mostly empty space. If you took all of the matter of all the human beings on planet Earth and squished it together, the solid matter, it would maybe fill a thimble, right? The rest of us is just energy. It's just empty space. So all of this creates confusion. In trying to understand what minerals are and what they do, I refer to them, I technically call them as atoms. And they're on the periodic table. If you've ever seen the periodic table, it's got a box of different atoms, and that's really what's running the show in the body. Those are the foundations of everything. They build everything. And they come in through foods. And if you're supplementing, they also come in through supplements. In terms of how they affect the skin from a topical perspective, there's not really much you can do with ordinary minerals, because minerals are big and they're going to sit on the surface of the skin. The classic example is zinc. And we know that people don't even want to use zinc on their skin. Why? Because it makes your skin white? Because it sits on the surface of the skin. Of course we know that. That the surface effects of zinc are great for the sun, and this is why I love using zinc topically as a sun protectant, but that's not going to help your chemistry. Another mineral that's used topically is selenium. Likewise, like with zinc, that doesn't penetrate either. But selenium's got some really interesting properties in term, from a topical perspective, as a calming effect on the skin. It can support exfoliation and that's why it's used for treat dandruff and psoriasis. Another really fascinating mineral that's great for the skin but doesn't really penetrate is silica. In fact, these are the three, probably the three most important topical minerals, and none of them will get through the stratum, corneum, silica, zinc and selenium. Now, I love zinc for acne topically because topically you can do some wonderful things with topical zinc for acne. In fact, it's one of the few topical ingredients that will actually address acne at the causal level. Although there are other ingredients like retinoids and salicylates that you can use, but topical zinc can be used as well. Topical selenium, as I said, for selenium and the silica, as wonderful as it is and as important as it is for connective tissue and for healing, isn't going to really do much on the stratum corneum. So there's not much you can do with rock. I call them rock minerals. These minerals that are big topically, with some exceptions, like with selenium and zinc and not really with silica, mostly with selenium and zinc. However, there are. There's another type of mineral or what's called a mineral, but it's really an atom. And this is powerful stuff. And this is the stuff that's in veggies and in fruits. And this is the reason why you want to eat your veggies and eat your fruits and your grains and your beans and, you know, all the nutri, all the phyto. Phytonutrients that you're supposed to get from fruits and vegetables and grains and beans, etc. And this is a very, very, very, very specialized form of what's called a mineral, but really is not a mineral. And I think we may have talked about this before, seems like it's familiar, but repetition is reinforcement. The Earth is just like the moon. If you go into the earth, the core of the earth, the center of the earth, you'll find the moon in the sense that it's all rock and there's no life on the rock. There's no life on the Moon. There's no life in the center of the Earth or the core of the Earth. But the Earth is different from the Moon because we do have life. We got trees and we got animals. We got all kinds of stuff. How is it that we have life on the Earth or on the Earth, but not on the Moon? Well, it turns out that on the Earth, you have about 6 to 12 inches or maybe 18 inches of something on top of the Moon. The moonlight core. What is that stuff that's on top of the Earth that gives rise to everything? Soil. So what exactly is soil that allows it to create fauna and animals and all of the wonderful things that we see on the Earth and are not on the Moon? Well, it turns out on the top of this core in the center of the Earth, there are microbes, bacteria and fungi. And these microbes, they call them lithotropes. Litho means stone, trope means eating. And these lithotropes, these stone eaters, they eat the rock. They eat this core of the Earth that is just like the Moon. And as they're eating it and digesting it, they. They're secreting out long strings of atoms. And this rock is, like, squished. It's all. Rock's dead because everything's squished. It's like if you're on a subway or on a bus or if you go to dia. I don't know if you've been to DIA lately, but they have these trains in dia and it's like you're. You're like, squished in. You can't even move. I don't know how they. I don't know what they're thinking. People with their suitcases and everybody's all tight and they can't move, right? But as soon as a few people leave, they spread out. Well, it's the same thing with these rocks. These lithotropes can eat the rocks and secrete out long strings of atoms. And instead of this rock that's got all the atomic materials squished together and it can't do anything, now you have individual atoms. And these individual atoms are now reactive. Instead of being like a rock that can't do anything, they now you have reactive atoms. You've turned the rock into a living string of atoms. And this living string of electrically active atoms now can react with water. And that's the secret. See, if I take a rock and I put it in my bottle of water here, it's going to sink to the bottom. Nothing's going to happen. But once a lithotrope has processed this rock and created long strings of atoms and I put it in my water, it will now dissolve and that creates a completely different substance. Now, instead of an inert dead rock, you have an electrically active string of atoms. And because the string of atoms is electrified and it can interact with water and conduct electrical charges, it also generates magnetism, because wherever you have electricity, you have magnetism. That's why they call it electromagnetism. Right. So via the action of the lithotropes, dead rock has been turned into electromagnetic atoms. And these electromagnetic atoms can now pull in amino acids and fatty acids and vitamins and create these nutritional complexes that can create life. And in fact, biologists now believe that that life began in these polyelectrolyte. They call them poly, meaning many electrolyte, meaning they dissolve in water. These polyelectrolyte atoms that have attracted in moisture and created something called clays. And these clays can now suck in vitamins and aminos and create these entire life giving complexes. And biologists believe that this is how life began. So what does all this have to do with the skin? Well, it turns out these polyelectrolyte substances that can pull in vitamins and minerals and amino acids are incredibly valuable skin care ingredients. Number one, they can pull in other active ingredients, and they act as magnetic penetrants that can pull active ingredients from skincare products through the stratum corneum into the basal layer, even into the cells. And these are electromagnetic. They can actually act as transdermal penetrance for active ingredients. But it's much even better than that because these polyelectrolytes are electrically active. So they can facilitate the movement of electrical energy in the skin and in cells themselves. And in fact, they can revivify cells, they can bring cells to life. Cells that are not, that are sleepy or not functioning as appropriately as they should, can be reanimated and revivified via the electrical energy of these polyelectrolyte atoms that can be applied topically. But it's even better than that because these poly electrolytes pull in oxygen, and oxygen is the, if not the most important, it's one of the most important elements in the skin. So you can oxygenate the skin and you can oxygenate cells themselves. Remember, you're getting not only activity on the skin, but also in the cells. It seemed better than that because these polyelectrolytes are among nature's best Antioxidants, they both pull in oxygen and, and they act as antioxidants as well. But it's even better than that because these poly electrolytes can pull water in to the skin, so they can hydrate the tissue. And remember they're going into the cell also, so they can hydrate the cell. And much of the cell's behavior is dependent on efficient or effective or adequate hydration of the cell. These poly electrolyte minerals can hydrate the cell. They're anti inflammatory, they're wound healing, so they can be used for people who have broken skin, for people who have burns, for people have dermatitis. And on top of everything else, they can support the delivery of other nutrients. We call these poly electrolytes fulvic minerals, which you've heard the term, I'm sure. And they're found everywhere in nature, particularly in the soil, but also in the, in the sea, in the, in mountains. And also there are forms, not exactly fulvic minerals, but there are forms in the ocean as well that have electrical properties. And when they are combined with all of the vitamins, minerals and phytonutrients in the soil, they're referred to as fulvic acids. And they have, because they have a low ph. So fulvic acids, fulvic minerals, polyelectrolytes are not only incredibly valuable for the skin topically, but they're also important internally because the same oxygenating, antioxidant, hydrating, revivifying, reanimating, electrifying benefits that you get topically when you apply on the skin occur internally as well. And this makes them incredibly valuable nutritional supplements. Also, it's why you want to be eating your vegetables, because vegetables and fruits and things that grow out of the soil are nature's richest sources of, of these fulvic minerals. So you have macro minerals, the large minerals, the silica and the selenium and the zinc, which have some topical properties. But the most important way to introduce minerals, if you will, into the body is through fruits and vegetables, produce, beans, grains, any natural food that hasn't been processed too heavily processed, as well as through supplements. And we have a truth. One of our most important products is our fulvic mineral supplements. I use them liberally in my topical products as well. Also the silica that we just talked about, which is really big and very important. These polyelectrolytes dissolve silica to make it more readily available for the connective tissue. So in addition to their own benefits, they help support the activity of silica for wound healing and bone building, and healthier connective tissue for anti wrinkles and anti aging.
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Maggie Stasik
That concludes our show for today, and we thank you for listening. But if you just can't get enough of Ben Fuchs, the ASCP's rogue pharmacist, you can find him at truthtreatments. Com. For more information on this episode, or for ways to connect with Ben Fuchs, or to learn more about ascp, check out the show notes.