“Perfectly well,” responds Dr. James Hamblin to the question of whether there have been five years since he had taken the decision to become a doctor.
“Te acostumbras. Se siente normal”, reads a BBC Mundo desde Estados Unidos.
Hamblin is 37 years old, is a professor at the School of Public Health at Yale University and is a specialist in preventive medicine.
También is one of the periodicals from the review magazine The Atlantic, in which he wrote: I stop showering, and life goes on (Dejé de ducharme y la vida continuo).
“Do we have complete years of our wide-ranging lives. How much of this time (and money and water) is a desperation?”, Said the article published in 2016.
This is another post that has the title: You shower too much (You are therefore tired).
And although he insists that nunca dejemos de lavarnos las manos con jabón, creates that with other parts of the body we will not be persistent.
We will only talk about his decision, we will talk about the five years of research that animal has in the book: Clean: the new science of skin and the beauty of doing less (Limpio: the new science of the skin and the beauty of making men), which published this year.
And that, of course, both things are left out.
Like an experiment
For this reason we ask you what you want to do, take a break and respond:
When does it take time for all the slides and where do we need the products that we use?
“Well, it’s a long story and in reality the book is needed to be explained. But I want to understand what succeeds”.
“If there are many people who are very smart. I think it is possible, but I would like to make it my goal to see the effect seriously”.
Y af 2015, tomó la decisión. What note? What is the effect?
“Otra vez es una respuesta larga”, contesta. “With the time your body is acostumbra each one has more than one hula tan mal si no usas deodorante y jabón “.
“Y u piel no se vuelve tan grasienta cuando dejas de usar jabones fuertes”.
“Many people use champagne to eliminate the aceites of the cable and then apply a conditioner to collocate synthetic aces.
“But the main thing is that it takes time (to see the effect), no sucede de la noche a la mañana“no es inmediato”.
Understand that in this case there is a common process: empezó to use less jabon, shampoo and deodorant and bathe with less frequency, so that solia practically do all the days.
“I have moments when I feel like pushing because of the extravagance, the oil is bad and I feel like I’m fat. But I’m sorry to pass. each time less“.
And the reason is that it means that it uses “less and less”, empezó and needs “less and less”.
I have four years
In its 2016 article, Hamblin wrote that “the smell of the corpses is the product of bacteria that live in our skin and feed on the acidic secretions of the south and the glistening glands that are at the base of our follicles”.
We are constantly looking for microbes, but we do not cause any problems.
To apply products in our skin and cable all the slides are “alter a balancing species between the oils of the skin and the bacteria that live” in it.
“When you shower aggressively, destroy the ecosystems. It is reproducible quickly, but species that are unbalanced and tend to favor the types of microbes that produce olor “, explained in the text.
But, despite a time, there is a regulatory process: “Your ecosystem has a stable state and bad days (…) Geen hueles como agua de rosas (…) Simple hueles como una persona “.
Hecho, in an interview published this year on the page of Yale University, Hamblin stated that there is no oil, meaning that “the microbial populations in my body do not produce the classic corporate honor that always produces”.
Between olores
In August, Amy Barrett, periodical of BBC Science Focus, Hamblin asks if he is concerned that powder “is oily” and that the person is “educated” as a notary.
Less duchas means less products to buy.
And it is true that during this time the task of asking “colleagues, friends and people who are seriously honest” to ensure that there is no one who does not perceive an unpleasant odor.
Fue asi -explica- alcanzó un punto en que no produce ese mal olor con el que estamos tan familiarizados.
It has a “propion” odor, which arouses the taste and that for other people “is not bad”.
“During the mayor’s part of our history, we will remember that it was part of how do we communicate with other people “, explained.
And so, ultimately, it has been eliminated in the midst of our social biology.
“The way we hope the people nee huela a nada o que huela a perfume, colony, bath gel or the opposite means that take mal. If you have any detectable human, it is negative “.
Barrett also asked the question which means exactly when he says that he has to bathe five years ago: ¿Changed the shower for the bath? How is it routine?
“In the book I say in a traditional sense. I enjuago when the need or when the desire, solo with water, fast, especially when connecting the cable as my hubiese acabado to despair or if apparently connected some sucio. But you can exfoliate, you can eliminate the oils simply by rubbing them and peeling your hair occasionally. Y eso es todo “.
Under his limpiez regimen, the manes with jabon and cepillarse the teeth appear to be impeccable.
The investigation
Ducharse each time less to see the reaction of his body as part of the research process for his book.
Hamblin is also the presenter of a series of salute videos called: “Si nuestros cuerpos hablaran”.
Además converts with a wide range of people, including the specialists of different camps, such as dermatologists, immunologists, allergists, including theologians.
Study in jabons and microbiology laboratories and get acquainted with theory and history, various sailing routes, to regress to where it is prosper industrial of the products for the skin.
Are all the slides with different products, jabons, gels, creams, a modern concept?
“Sí, porque no soliamos tener agua corriente. The mayor of the people has no access to water currents until the last ten years “.
“It is true that quizzes make the real podium, the kingdoms and the reindeer, but the people only podiums can happen. Quizas are metian in a river or in a lake, but there is nothing that we need to do all the days”.
“In addition we do not have the capacity to produce in mass. Because many people use jaws and tampons all use the day because it is very hard for the skin. It is very modern”.
What question do we have and what do we have to do with it? And is it only the products that we use that matter, the frequency with which we work?
“It’s a very new approach to the history of humanity: we’re gonna have so much time, money and resources and if it’s combined with the knowledge we have about the microbiome of the sky. I think curiosity is what quizzes are. be forgiven and be rewarded. “
Whole billone
Agreed with Hamblin, “all the time, we have billions of microbes living about us that we are not causing any illness“.
Hamblin never has to wash his hands with a swab.
“And when we wash the skin, we change our microbial populations and we do not understand their totality if they are good or bad.”
And insist that these are an exception, since they are extremely important in preventing infections and infections.
“The microbes in our skin are very important for their appearance and for our health as they are the intestinal microbiota for the digestive system”.
Without embarrassment, historically we associate microbes with negative algae “because only those who encounter them” when we seek out the causes of illness.
“Pero ahora, en the last decade, thanks to the technology of DNA sequencing technology, we know that microbes exist for all parties and generally do not cause diseases. “It’s a very small thing to do,” he explained.
“I have to make sure that the people consider what is being done when they are alone, because of the fact that we are afraid of the disease that provokes the microbes, but we are not afraid of all of them”.
A great interface
This is a clear statement and the interview of the BBC Science Focus, which is important.
Our skin is an extraordinary ally of the immunological system.
“These microbes in our skin are the interface between the natural world and ours”, dijo.
“The cellular cells in our sanctuary are filtered through the skin and are in contact with the signals we receive from our entourage” and, in fact, we help them to understand and understand them.
And so it is key to that the immunological system “does not react excessively to things that are inoffensive and that reaction of manner very efficient at things that are my son“.
Do you think we have an equivocal idea of what we are?
“Geen creo que todo el mundo comparta la misma Iddi de lo que estar limpio”, dice.
Some people associate it with freeing germs and microbes, but having to record that they are permanently accompanying and not all are bad.
“Quizas are more of a sensation. De hecho, it is very difficult to define”.
Has the habit of drowning been overestimated?
“Say it is a preference, but not a medical necessity”.
If many people disfrutan bañarse people, others do not show up and also feel very well, says the doctor.
If you intend to do so
His minimalist approach does not mean less time in the shower, but less space and words and, by extension, less water.
Some people who want to try a cambio can pay with duchas more short and less frequent to see if they are healthy, the expert indicates.
“It is not the city that tells the people that they should be healed,” Hamblin doubles.
If you have no interest in suggesting that it is correct and that you do not insinuate that your focus is the best for the whole world. It’s simply what the function is.
“But for those people who have had skin problems or who simply want to taste it, say that hagan menos and que empiecen lentamente y avancen hasta donde se sientan bien “.
For example, my shampoo has a point of departure for some, while others prefer to have a more gentle deodorant.
“You can arrange with more short cuts, less frequent, more holidays, menos jabón “, indica.
“I do not have anything to be dramatic about”.
And there is something to consider that is key: when we think about the health of our skin it is important to record that, in part, it is the result of our style of life, how we sleep, what we are, our levels of stress, our physical activity , which will be ingerimos, among other factors.
“The industry for the sale of personal care products is very focused on selling topical solutions (external and localized application)”.
If some can be helped, dice, it is important to think of a dermatological health approach “by adentro hacia afuera”.
Consider that the key is different from what is known as marketing because we use more products than we actually need in order to make them become our most volatile.
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