The Blog
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Winter Is Not a Vitamin D Emergency
Every winter, the vitamin D conversation starts again. The days get short. The UVB disappears. Everyone gets their bloodwork done, watches the number fall, and starts slamming vitamin...
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Light for Babies and Kids
TL;DR Outside within an hour of waking. Five minutes. Shade counts. Every day you can. Bright days. Trees over umbrellas when you have the choice. Overhead lights off after...
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Dry Skin and a Damaged Barrier Are Not the Same Problem
Almost always repeated inputs rather than one dramatic event. Over-cleansing. Water that's too hot. Actives used more often than the skin can recover from. Fragrance. Physical exfoliation. And underneath all...
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How to Read a Skincare Label
In most skincare, the base is water, plus the emulsifiers that hold water and oil together, plus the thickeners that make it feel like a cream instead of a puddle,...
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Natural Deodorant: Why Body Odor Is a Signal (and How Magnesium Fixed Mine)
I quit conventional deodorant years ago and never went back. Here's how that actually happened, because the story is the whole point. After my first baby, in early...
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Water: Fluoride, Filters, and What Actually Matters
Here's the truth about me: I'll come home and drink nothing but straight aquifer mountain well water, or splurge (financially) on deuterium-depleted Litewater — and I'll also happily go...
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Why Your Skin Is Oily and Dry at the Same Time
The goal is barrier repair, not oil control. That means gentler cleansing — less frequent, lower-surfactant formulas, lukewarm rather than hot water. It means not over-exfoliating,...
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Why Your Skin Freaks Out During Seasonal Transitions (And Why Spring is Often the Worst Month)
Your skin isn't broken. It's behind. Give it a few weeks, keep the routine stable, and resist the urge to overhaul. Transitional flares almost always settle...
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I Don’t Believe in Skincare
This is another thing I have noticed. For all the explosion in products, information, and routines, people do not seem calmer about their skin. They seem more anxious. More products,...
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Food Isn't Fuel
This is also where I think skincare and food actually overlap more than people realize. A lot of conventional beauty messaging teaches the same fragmentation as conventional nutrition...
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Efficient Eating
We are surrounded by food content, recipe content, grocery content, macro content, restaurant content, snack content, wellness content, and endless debates about ingredients, yet many people still act...
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Cooking from Scratch
Is our food boring? Yes, sometimes. But everybody eats. Everybody is full. Everybody feels good. And I think that matters a lot...