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Episode 183: Healthy Skin Barrier Function, Ayurveda, and the Importance of Less Is More

profile-imageElisha L. Reverby, LE

Episode description

Have any clients asking about the perfect skin care routine? They might be in for a surprise. This week, we’re joined by Elisha Reverby as she discusses how products aren’t always the solutions. Listen in as she walks us through Ayurvedic doshas, the importance of diet, and how washing isn’t as simple as it sounds. Each Thursday, join Dr. Raja and Dr. Hadar, board-certified dermatologists, as they share the latest evidence-based research in integrative dermatology. For access to CE/CME courses, become a member at LearnSkin.com.

Elisha Reverby is a licensed esthetician who has spent 20 years focused on healing her client's skin and repairing their barrier using food as medicine, a less-is-more intentional skin care routine and therapeutic touch that focuses on lymphatic drainage and removing tension and stagnation within the skin.

As an added resource, Elisha is providing a complimentary download of her eBook titled "Guardians of Glow: Unveiling the Trio of Lipids Behind Your Resilient Skin Barrier." This eBook explores the crucial role of lipids in maintaining a healthy and strong skin barrier. For those interested in a more comprehensive exploration of beauty from within, Elisha offers a course titled "Eat Your Way To Gorgeous," which delves into nutrition for enhancing beauty and overall wellness.

You can access these resources and learn more at www.eliqueorganics.com.

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Elisha L. Reverby, LE  

Elisha Reverby’s career in organic beauty and wellness span over 25 years. She has been mentored by some of the most esteemed chemists and beauty industry experts and is a pioneer in natural skin care, formulating and manufacturing her own skin care products at a time when there were no labs to do it for her.

Elisha’s passion for skin nutrition began in the home with a mom whose core values were rooted-in health and using food as medicine. These directly influence how Elisha lives her life and how she advises her clients. She has transformed the most troubled skin and unhealthy lifestyles with a straight-forward, loving and easy-to-digest approach that combines nutrition, lifestyle medicine and her signature Simple Beauty skin care routine. You can email Elisha at [email protected]

Elisha is a serial entrepreneur. Apart from being CEO of Elique Organics, she owned Get Waxed, an nationally recognized organic waxing & skin care boutique in Venice Beach. Get Waxed was recognized as the Best in LA by Allure, LA Weekly and InStyle magazine and has been featured on ABC News, Z Living Channel and Vogue magazine. Elisha has created Limited Edition collections for Crosby Street Hotel and ABC Home, both in New York City and Elique has been featured in WWD, CNN, Huffington Post, Los Angeles Times, Lucky Magazine, Jewish Woman magazine and Edible Westside. She is a CA and NY State Licensed Esthetician, Dr. Vodder Certified Manual Lymphatic Drainage therapist, Certified Ayurvedic Wellness Educator and Chef.

Elisha is a philanthropist and creates wellness days for those less advantaged and with the help of her clients she distributes homemade food and other essentials to the homeless community in Los Angeles. Personally, she relishes in a good who-dunnit and one day dreams of a mountain property where she will grow plants, distill hydrosols, host retreats and give a home to any animal that needs one.

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Hadar Lev-Tov  

MD MAS

Dr. Hadar Lev-Tov is a board-certified dermatologist with extensive research experience. Throughout his training and in daily practice, he has always believed that the key to achieving health for his patients is grounded in his ability to truly connect to their experiences and perceptions of health and well-being. Maimonides, one of the greatest philosophers of all time realized that human knowledge, often represented as "science," is limited. As a physician, he feels he would be a fool to believe all is known. Maimonides said, "The physician should not treat the disease but the patient who is suffering from it." LearnSkin is his journey to a better understanding of his patients.

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Raja Sivamani  

MD MS AP

Dr. Raja Sivamani is a board-certified dermatologist and practices as an integrative dermatologist at Pacific Skin Institute. He is an Adjunct Associate Professor of Clinical Dermatology at the University of California, Davis and Director of Clinical Research and the Clinical Trials Unit.He is also an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at the California State University, Sacramento and an Associate Professor of Dermatology at California Northstate University, College of Medicine.He engages in clinical practice as well as both clinical and translational research that integrates bioengineering, nutrition, cosmetics, and skin biology. With training in both Allopathic and Ayurvedic medicine, he takes an integrative approach to his patients and in his research.He has published over 100 peer-reviewed research manuscripts, 10 textbook chapters, and a textbook entitled Cosmeceuticals and Active Cosmetics, 3rd Edition with a passion for expanding the evidence and boundaries of integrative medicine for skin care.

About Podcast

Welcome to the Learn Skin podcast with your hosts, board certified dermatologists, Dr. Raja Sivamani and Dr. Hadar Lev-Tov. Each week, we will be bringing you the latest in Integrative Dermatology. Send us your questions, comments, and suggestions by email to [email protected] and you may be featured in a future episode.

Hosts:  Hadar Lev-Tov, MD MAS & Raja Sivamani, MD MS AP
Audio Engineer: Ryan Toledo
Editor: Jake Zawlacki

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