
Cancer Treatment and the Skin Barrier with Dr. Barbara Paldus of Codex Labs
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Dr. Barbara Paldus of Codex Labs joins Skin Anarchy to explain how cancer treatments affect the skin barrier and what gentle supportive care can look like. This episode is educational only, not medical advice, and everything here should be run by your oncology team first.
What is the skin barrier?
Not one wall, but a living defense system. Dr. Paldus describes five interconnected barriers: physical, chemical, microbial, immunological, and neurosensory. "We go from the physical to the chemical to the microbial to the immunological and to the neurosensory." Each one, she notes…
The skinny
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