Why follow Julia Tatum Hunter, M.D., Skin Fitness Plus blogs?
This is the beginning of teaching you EVERYTHING you need to know in order to best and correctly treat the largest organ of your body-your skin-both male and female, of every age-to achieve beauty, anti-aging, prevention, restoration, rejuvenation, cure acne and scarring, rashes, hair loss, weight problems- AND spend your precious time and money on technology, products, treatments, supplements and medications that work, best, fastest, economically, with the least downtime. Know what to do, why this vs. that, all you can do, why to do it, what are realistic expectations. And learn why the side effect of doing these things is health-internally and externally.
As a medical student-once I started working with patients and physician teachers, the burning question to me was-aren’t we supposed to be curing people NOT just treating symptoms? Why I asked did I seem to be just writing prescriptions to treat the SYMPTOMS of high blood pressure, cholesterol, heart disease and most other diseases or cutting out with surgery the symptom of disease and dysfunction and NOT asking and focusing on WHY you have disease and trying to CURE it-especially before you need surgery.
It was also obvious to me then that there is a step BEFORE screening, such as for cancers-mammography, colonoscopies, prostate tests and exams, skin cancer checks- and most diseases-and that step is true PREVENTION (http://tinyurl.com/yem8ttj). I tell my patients now that unless you have genetic issues we are just not afflicted by God or whatever you believe in with disease-there is usually a WHY you have it answer or solid clues. And with clinical experience I saw that even with most genetic challenges you can mitigate and moderate them.
Certainly most diseases that we are all fearful of, that we have seen friends and family suffer so from, that we are WRONG to think are a NORMAL part of aging, CAN BE PREVENTED to a very significant extent!! No there are no guarantees and bad things do happen to good people but there are “insurance policies” against most every disease-including acne and aging that are very doable and work for most everyone You just have to know how-which is what I am going to tell you from my unique medical background and perspective and being I am told one of the very few WHOLISTIC dermatologists. You have to do your part and not pretend it cannot or will not happen to you. We all know that nothing is as easy as we would like it to be but trust me-you WANT to avoid “lying on the stretcher” as MUCH as you want to slow down the ticking of the clock, not have acne, not struggle with your weight, lose your hair, your brain, your energy, your ability to enjoy life. Ask an ER nurse or Anesthesiologist. I started as an Anesthesiologist before Dermatology and daily saw that we NEEDED and WANTED to dedicate ourselves to prevention. Even as I worked in plastic surgery, I clearly saw that we were doing nothing to prevent the symptoms patients were paying so much to try to reverse- so those same patients returned QUICKLY with the same symptoms-aging, brown spots, rosacea, gravity winning everywhere, etc and they also did not know there were alternatives to surgery and downtime and treatment methods that did not make them look “constructed”.
So knowledge is power. From the info I will give you in these 2010 blogs the ball is now in your court and YOU are in control of your appearance and health. You can have the same info that my patients in Beverly Hills have. I am giving you my roadmap, the knowledge, the tools that work best and are best use of your money, then you can make decisions that are best for YOU from a position of an overview of knowledge rather than marketing-science vs commerce. The side effect of what I will teach you is HEALTH-internal and external. The most you can look is 10-20 years younger than your age and the earlier you start doing the right thing, the younger and more healthy you will remain.
Life is a self-discipline issue and none of us like self-discipline nor have enough of it but when you look and feel MUCH younger than those you compare yourself to, it is powerful motivation. AND you CAN eat, drink and make merry and NOT suffer the consequences IF you know HOW to do it CORRECTLY. Life is about the balance and is meant to be lived and I am NOT into deprivation, nor doing an unreasonable amount to achieve the goal.
So in 2010 I am going to give you-doable solutions at every budget, no matter where you are in the world. I have patients all over the world so I am knowledgeable about your challenges and what is available to you.
Why you ask am I doing this, why should you listen to me and what does dermatology have to do with health, hormones, weight, Alzheimer’s, diabetes, hypothyroid, hair loss and a myriad of other internal diseases?
First-my passion as a physician and a person is for you to live a LONG and QUALITY, fun and happy, self-satisfied, well-lived, disease free life, be YOUNG and look and FEEL as fabulous as humanly, scientifically and economically possible at ANY and EVERY age and NOT WASTE your precious time and money on what is NOT the best solution, tool for the job, method of prevention or is commerce, NOT science. I have seen a lot of patients-male, female, young, old, all types of skin of color- who come to see me, who have spent a lot of money, not have the outcome they expected or desired, irreversibly no longer look like themselves or what they want to look like, lose objectivity about the way they look, having been cared for by a lot of experts, tried a lot and still suffer the symptoms of diseases, acne, recurrent rashes, eczema, psoriasis, hormone dysfunction and on an on. That really bothers me. I am told repetitively that I am one of the few WHOLISTIC dermatologists and from a VERY unique perspective of medical background, who looks at the body as a whole-that asks WHY do you have that rash, acne, symptom, cellulite, aging, hair loss, weariness, etc and what do I need to do to CURE that problem as much as possible rather than just treating the symptom in perpetuity, a mind that has always been open and hears and questions and ponders and digests information from as many different sources as possible- always asking the WHY question-“why this technology, test, product, supplement, medication, use of time, vs. that, what works and why, what is the least we can do to get the most, what do we have to do to prevent and reverse, look and feel as fantastic as possible, die old in our sleep after dancing until dawn at a great party somewhere lovely- NEVER having gone to the hospital and looking enviably young but NATURAL.
YEARS of experience in medicine and working with an overview of all sorts of worldwide, varied practitioners of medical and spiritual points of view have taught me that I as both a physician and person have a UNIQUE and pragmatic, commonsensical approach and consciousness. I am a person and physician who cares, who always tries first to do the “right” thing, tries to cure the problem and in a doable, affordable, practical way, sees the forest not just the tree so considers all the pieces of the body’s puzzle, which is why I am a WHOLISTIC dermatologist, have always been committed to proving to MYSELF what works and why-questioning always not accepting or being sold.. I am a show me don’t tell me person and as I say to my patients-the “proof is in the pudding” meaning if YOU the patient don’t see and/or feel the results then the therapy is probably not working, So I am sharing what I have learned and proved to myself and my patients, with you, because I want everyone, not just in Los Angeles, to have equal opportunity to be healthy, look as young and fabulous as humanly, scientifically, technologically and economically possible. I have learned from my medical practice how much need there is worldwide for what I continue to learn and prove and I want to give you information that I hope will help you immensely, evolve and shape medicine and health in a positive way, open minds, spark discussion and bring down the absurdly and VERY avoidable high cost of disease by giving you the tools and information to prevent and cure and love how you look and feel GOOD. It is not a good choice to wait until you have symptoms and then treat you. Prevention is BETTER and cheaper and then YOU as much as possible are in charge of your destiny and the captain of your happiness ship.
So stay tuned-men, women, teens, skin of all colors as I teach you what I mean when I say that “from health comes beauty” (http://tinyurl.com/ya8g53f), why the largest organ of the body is a window to what is going on inside (http://tinyurl.com/yd2peu5), what skin products (http://tinyurl.com/yebks88), foods (and how to prepare) (http://tinyurl.com/yc9nluq), exercise, diets, hormones (http://tinyurl.com/y9vblpo), lasers (http://tinyurl.com/yaduuhl), technology , treatments (http://tinyurl.com/yeymoza) – work, are best tools for the job, best use of funds-and WHY and how to best use the tools in the toolbox! Start doing your homework!
