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How Acne Works · Stuff You Should Know

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  Speaker 1: Brought to you by the reinvented two thousand twelve camera.
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  Speaker 1: It's ready. Are you welcome to Stuff you should Know
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  Speaker 1: from House Stuff Works dot Com? Hey, and welcome to
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  Speaker 1: the podcast. I'm Josh Clark. There's Charles W. Chuck Bryant
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  Speaker 1: that makes this stuff. You should know. That's right, doesn't it?
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  Speaker 1: It does. When we're in this room, one thing happens anger.
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  Speaker 1: I was gonna say magic, angry magic, right, good, because
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  Speaker 1: get out of the hat. I haven't seen that yet.
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  Speaker 1: The angry magician. No, that's a great idea. Yeah, there
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  Speaker 1: you go. The angry comics. Ye. Yeah, there are plenty
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  Speaker 1: of them. Yeah, and for good reason too. Yeah. Yeah. Um.
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  Speaker 1: Do you remember a while back we were writing a
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  Speaker 1: lot of articles that seem to share a common theme
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  Speaker 1: a skincare Yeah, I remember that too. I didn't write
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  Speaker 1: too many of those. I wrote a lot of skin
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  Speaker 1: care NICs, Yeah I did. Um, And I learned that
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  Speaker 1: I'm fascinated by the skin. That's good. Yeah, it turned
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  Speaker 1: out to be very good. Like, um, you don't want
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  Speaker 1: to take too many showers in a day. You don't
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  Speaker 1: want the water you use in your shower to be
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  Speaker 1: too hot. Um, Like I learned these things definitively. Um. Also,
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  Speaker 1: the skin on your lips, um, there's three layers thick,
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  Speaker 1: whereas the rest of the skin on your face is
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  Speaker 1: about sixteen layers thick. And they're actually translucent, which is
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  Speaker 1: why your lips are reddish, because it's just the mucous
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  Speaker 1: membrane underneath. Ye look at that. Yeah, And you don't
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  Speaker 1: want to lick your lips too much because You're saliva
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  Speaker 1: contains a digestive enzyme which starts to break down the
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  Speaker 1: very thin and fragile skin on your lips. I got
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  Speaker 1: chopped lips a lot from licking them. Stop licking your lips.
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  Speaker 1: I'm constantly just I have oral stuff. Bite my nails,
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  Speaker 1: bite my cheeks, bite my lip, all that stuff, all
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  Speaker 1: that good fun, stressy stuff. But you don't smoke cigarettes,
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  Speaker 1: so good for you. Yeah, I guess I chewed my
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  Speaker 1: face off instead of doing that. It's a good looking face,
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  Speaker 1: thank you. Um. Well, anyway, Chuck, I just wanted to
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  Speaker 1: say all that to say that I will be um
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  Speaker 1: very interested in what we're talking about today, which is acting.
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  Speaker 1: I'm glad you are. I am too, although I've never
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  Speaker 1: really got at me, so I'm a little less like enthused.
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  Speaker 1: It's so unfair. Let's look at this right here, right now. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I have a big old white head rust to my nose.
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  Speaker 1: It won't go away. Like I was pressing it with
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  Speaker 1: my pinkies like I can. I can pop as it
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  Speaker 1: I get them. That's a tough spot, though. Josh is
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  Speaker 1: talking about the area right under the nostril that no
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  Speaker 1: man's land the nose kind of prohibits access, like you want, Well,
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  Speaker 1: it's not just that. It's very, very sensitive and like
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  Speaker 1: I was pressing it like my eyes are water ring
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  Speaker 1: and it still wouldn't pop. So I'll have to have
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  Speaker 1: you do it. Yeah, yeah, But um, I guess that's
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  Speaker 1: method podcasting, following in your footsteps, Chuck, So, um, you
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  Speaker 1: want to talk about acne first, I guess we should
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  Speaker 1: talk about the skin a little bit, right And in
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  Speaker 1: the process of how, well, let's talk about the skin.
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  Speaker 1: Did you like Tom's description? I did? Actually, I think
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  Speaker 1: think most people know by now it's the largest organ.
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  Speaker 1: But um, Tom takes a step further in a very
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  Speaker 1: buffalo bill way, and he says that if you skinned
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  Speaker 1: an adult human, there would be enough material to make
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  Speaker 1: a four by five foot area rug of skin waistin founds.
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  Speaker 1: I'm glad he didn't say how many like skin suits
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  Speaker 1: or lamp shades that would make, because that'd be really creepy.
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  Speaker 1: Creepy enough, So, yeah, ten pounds of skin on the
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  Speaker 1: on an adult body, right, and then um, most of
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  Speaker 1: the skin. There's three layers. Is the epidermis, the dermis,
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  Speaker 1: and the subcutaneous layer. Right in the sub cutaneous layer.
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  Speaker 1: I think the dermist is the fattiest layer and the
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  Speaker 1: subcutaneous layers like the nastiest layer. It's like, um, she
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  Speaker 1: just have you ever seen hall Razor, remember the woman,
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  Speaker 1: and she was coming back regenerating. She regenerated from like
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  Speaker 1: the inside out. So at one point she's just like
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  Speaker 1: muscles and blood. Just above that is the subcutaneous layer.
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  Speaker 1: I think the epidermisis kind of grows too, though, because
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  Speaker 1: it's all dead. It is dead. This is one of
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  Speaker 1: the things that fascinates me about skin. All the skin
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  Speaker 1: I'm looking at right now, and you're like that I
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  Speaker 1: can see dead. Dead is disco you know. Yeah, so
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  Speaker 1: chuck your Your skin grows like beneath the outer layer
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  Speaker 1: and it grows as crat in the sights which your
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  Speaker 1: new skin cells. Yeah, and it just your your skin
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  Speaker 1: is a constant Uh, it's constant motion pushing that dead
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  Speaker 1: skin up, up and up and out through the pores
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  Speaker 1: where they flake off into your bed, making your mattress
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  Speaker 1: heavier from like the moment it's born, when it cell divides,
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  Speaker 1: it starts making its way outward and it takes what
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  Speaker 1: does it take about a month for a skin cell
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  Speaker 1: to be born and then make it out to the
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  Speaker 1: outer later layer. That sounds about right right to the
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  Speaker 1: tune of forty to sixty million skin cells per day. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: forty thousand a minute. That's crazy. Are reaching the surface right, um.
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  Speaker 1: And so they reach the surface, and they don't just
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  Speaker 1: fall right off. Um. Along the process they die and
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  Speaker 1: there they become cornified um, which is and become kratina
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  Speaker 1: sites or cornea sites. Sorry. Um. And when they reach
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  Speaker 1: the surface, they provide a function for a while. They
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  Speaker 1: mix with sebum, which is the oil we produce that
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  Speaker 1: I really really produce. Yeah, and uh some fats what
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  Speaker 1: kind uh lipids Josh leno leic acid. Okay, So they
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  Speaker 1: mix all together and they form waterproof skin that keeps
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  Speaker 1: out water. That's huge, is why we don't soak up
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  Speaker 1: water when we walk around in the rain exactly, and
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  Speaker 1: keeps bacteria, which is why the skin is your first
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  Speaker 1: organ of um resistance for immunity. That's right. Um, So
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  Speaker 1: you've got all this process going on. Skin cells eventually
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  Speaker 1: do fall off and jump off and are sloughed off,
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  Speaker 1: and then um, beneath all that, you have the subcutaneous layer,
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  Speaker 1: and that's where the hair starts growing. Right, Yeah, that's
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  Speaker 1: where you're gonna find your hair follicle, which looks sort
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  Speaker 1: of like just a little uh, little tube with a
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  Speaker 1: little uh, a little rounder end. I would say it
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  Speaker 1: looks like a sperm, a sperm going inward towards drop.
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  Speaker 1: Sure maybe uh. And that is where the hair begins
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  Speaker 1: to grow from the bottom up, and it grows out
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  Speaker 1: of this follicle and collects on the way out. See them,
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  Speaker 1: and which we said was oil. That's why, like when
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  Speaker 1: you don't take a shower, your hair is gonna look
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  Speaker 1: all oily. And actually men I think have more see
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  Speaker 1: them than women. Yeah, and teenagers have lots of see them. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's almost equal for amongst the genders. And in Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: because that's why you get acne most often. An adolescence
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  Speaker 1: because we're taking you up through where acne starts, which
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  Speaker 1: is really see them right. Well, that has a lot
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  Speaker 1: to do with it. At least. The hair follicle is
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  Speaker 1: connected to a sebaceous gland, like you said, which is
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  Speaker 1: why your hair seems oily when it comes out. Um.
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  Speaker 1: And so you've got this whole um, you have this
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  Speaker 1: whole house of cards I guess, just waiting to screw up. Well,
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  Speaker 1: they're trying to squeez through this little poor soe those
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  Speaker 1: dead skin cells that migration they make. The way they
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  Speaker 1: get out is through the poor, through the follicle, through
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  Speaker 1: the sebaceous gland. Right. So when you have a lot
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  Speaker 1: of them coming together at once, all these dead skin
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  Speaker 1: cells are trying to get through the same door. It's like,
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  Speaker 1: um three stooges syndrome from the Simpsons. Remember Mr Burns
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  Speaker 1: had everything, but nothing could kill him because they couldn't
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  Speaker 1: all get through the door of his health. That's exactly right.
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  Speaker 1: So when you have too many skin cells, things start
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  Speaker 1: getting blocked and things back up behind it, and you've
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  Speaker 1: got trouble. Yeah, I mean that's one way it can happen. Uh.
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  Speaker 1: And they don't know why that The body would overproduce
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  Speaker 1: skin cells. But hey, it happens. Yeah, do we need
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  Speaker 1: to know why exactly. Another thing that can happen. You
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  Speaker 1: can have too much sebum, like we talked about in
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  Speaker 1: and puberty. In puberty is when that's gonna happen. Most
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  Speaker 1: likely bacteria, specifically propione Bacterium Acnes p acnes. That's uh
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  Speaker 1: found in acne lesions and in every type of acne
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  Speaker 1: that we're going to talk about. They're all lesions, right
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  Speaker 1: and and um then inflammation right, Yeah, the bacteria causes inflammation.
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  Speaker 1: When there's back up and there's bacteria, you're gonna get inflammation. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Tom put it like these were different things that could happen,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm sure they are, but it also seems to
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  Speaker 1: happen like a sequence of event. It's kind of like
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  Speaker 1: all of them. You've got too many skin cells backing up, right,
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  Speaker 1: so the sea bum backs up behind it. Well, this
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  Speaker 1: bacteria loves to eat see bum, which causes an infection
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  Speaker 1: which makes you infernt. Yeah. I saw it as a
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  Speaker 1: sequence of events to alright, So Chuck, there is a
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  Speaker 1: very long standing debate over what is worse a white
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  Speaker 1: head or a black head. What's the difference between the two. Well,
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  Speaker 1: one is an open comie dough and one is a
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  Speaker 1: closed comy dough. Do you know what a comito is? Okay,
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  Speaker 1: do you know what the word is? Coming down? Is plural?
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  Speaker 1: What do you mean what the word is? The word
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  Speaker 1: is Latin for gluttony. Yeah, and it was. It's named
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  Speaker 1: after a worm. You know how when you like, do
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  Speaker 1: you poposit and the stuff comes out and like it's
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  Speaker 1: like kind of a thin worm like tube. Well, there
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  Speaker 1: was a apparently a worm that looked very similar to
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  Speaker 1: that that loved to feed, a parasitic worm that loved
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  Speaker 1: to feed on humans that was considered particularly gluttonous. So
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  Speaker 1: the block came to be called the commodo, which means
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  Speaker 1: glutton Wow, isn't it weird and gross? And true? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: pretty much everything about this we're looking at acting on
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  Speaker 1: this sub dermal level. Yes, it's gross. It is kind
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  Speaker 1: of gross. Uh So white heads, you might think, like
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  Speaker 1: I just woke up and there's a white head on
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  Speaker 1: my nose. That just happened last night. Not true. It
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  Speaker 1: could have been a couple of months in the making
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  Speaker 1: before you finally see it, like you might. You know,
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  Speaker 1: Emily calls them underground construction when you can feel it
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  Speaker 1: and you know it's coming, but you can't see it
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  Speaker 1: or do anything about it yet, that's infection, essentially underground construction. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: at some point your your skin cells started backing up.
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  Speaker 1: They didn't make their way out of the poor and
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  Speaker 1: you're in trouble. So white heads anyway, have an open
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  Speaker 1: comy dough black head. I'm sorry, closed comy dough. Black
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  Speaker 1: heads are open and the black that you're seeing is
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  Speaker 1: just melon and it's just our skin pigment. It's oxidized,
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  Speaker 1: it's not dirt. The reason it's black is being because, um,
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  Speaker 1: it's been exposed to air, whereas with a closed comito, um,
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  Speaker 1: there is no exposure to air, so everything stays white
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  Speaker 1: just beneath the surface of the skin. And I had
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  Speaker 1: you you'd stopped me in the hall earlier and said,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I can't tell the difference between like a
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  Speaker 1: white head and a pustule what I found because you
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  Speaker 1: did find something well that the American Academy of Dermatology
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  Speaker 1: says that it's really confusing, So like, don't feel bad,
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  Speaker 1: it is confusing, thank you. A They're they're all lesions.
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  Speaker 1: But I think a white head what we typically see
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  Speaker 1: as a pimple, and a Z is the pustule, because
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  Speaker 1: in here it says the A D says a white
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  Speaker 1: head is typically a raised bump that's the same color
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  Speaker 1: as the rest of your skin, whereas the zip as
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  Speaker 1: clearly has pus the pus. But apparently that's not the
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  Speaker 1: hallmark of a white head. So I'm even more confused. Now,
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  Speaker 1: Thank you a D. Thanks for nothing. Yeah, because I
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  Speaker 1: thought a white head meant it was the white you know, pimples.
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  Speaker 1: It looking thing says here that the same color is
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  Speaker 1: the rest of your skin. Okay, well, well let's go
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  Speaker 1: with that though, I mean that the white head is
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  Speaker 1: uh just it's just pressing your skin up, so it's
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  Speaker 1: a raised bump. Whereas if it looks white, if there's
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  Speaker 1: like a clearly a white part, what has happened is
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  Speaker 1: your this this white head or black head um has
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  Speaker 1: collapsed under the skin and all that bacteria ridden sea
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  Speaker 1: bum is now causing an infection. That's what a ZiT is,
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  Speaker 1: that's right, also called a pustule. That's a pustule. There's
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  Speaker 1: also a papule, and they are a little small bumps um,
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  Speaker 1: little firm, small bumps and they don't have any kind
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  Speaker 1: of white right center, but they do feel like sand
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  Speaker 1: paper apparently if you rub your fingers across them. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I get like little dry skin bumps in the back
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  Speaker 1: of my arm. I don't know if that's the same thing.
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  Speaker 1: That's not. I don't think so. Okay, No, that's um,
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  Speaker 1: I mean it's or it's got a name. What is
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  Speaker 1: that called? What's what's really severe dry skin called exima? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's a it's a mild alright, Maybe I have exima.
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  Speaker 1: Their nodules which are larger and hard. Uh, it's um.
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  Speaker 1: A nodule is the kind of thing where you mash
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  Speaker 1: it and you mash it and nothing ever happens, and
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  Speaker 1: then it comes back and comes back because you're just
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  Speaker 1: breaking it down and it stays in there. That was
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  Speaker 1: That was definitely a nodule, wasn't it. Yeah, Because I
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  Speaker 1: would I would be like and then like it would
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  Speaker 1: go away, or first it would go and then it
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  Speaker 1: would come back. That thing was there for a while. Yeah, Man,
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  Speaker 1: it kept coming back, and they did stay for a
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  Speaker 1: really long time and to come back, and I was
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  Speaker 1: wearing like turtle necks. I brought turtlenecks back intain flapping
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  Speaker 1: was uh, and then superative nodules. Josh, you may think
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  Speaker 1: her sister boils, and they might look like that, But
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  Speaker 1: cists have different traits, one of which is uh. The
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  Speaker 1: ability to contain a trapped gas, which I thought was
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  Speaker 1: pretty interested, is nuts and pretty awesome. So that means
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  Speaker 1: that's not a cyst. I'll bet that guest stinks too
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  Speaker 1: high heaven when it's finally released. Can you imagine? Yeah
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  Speaker 1: again baby acne? Uh? Yeah, um, what is it called? Mila? Milia? Milia? Sorry,
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  Speaker 1: Mela is the niece. I think the point here was
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  Speaker 1: you can get acne from cradle to the grave. Yes, sadly, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I mean most people. Um, Tom cited something like eight
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  Speaker 1: of people get um acne, and we should say everything
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  Speaker 1: we just said was a form of acne. Vulgaris. Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I don't think he said that vulgaris is a Latin
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  Speaker 1: I think for um common yeah, right, Um, most of
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  Speaker 1: us get it. Attend people get it at some point
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  Speaker 1: in their life, he said, Um, most people, it starts
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  Speaker 1: stirring puberty and ends ac your puberty. For other people
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  Speaker 1: like me, it keeps going on here there and I mean, like,
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  Speaker 1: I take care of my face. Dude, I got a
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  Speaker 1: regiment and it's still I mean, I can imagine it
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  Speaker 1: would be much worse if I didn't take care of Simpson.
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  Speaker 1: Here are you over regimenting? No, I know what I'm doing. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to see a dermatologist soon. I need to
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  Speaker 1: find one, but I'm gonna go see one just to
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  Speaker 1: make sure I'm doing everything right. Yeah, that's not other
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  Speaker 1: steps I can take. But no, I mean I'm I
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  Speaker 1: know what I'm doing, Okay, because the only reason I
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  Speaker 1: say that is later in the article they point out
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  Speaker 1: that over washing and I remember that as a kid.
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  Speaker 1: I I I think I went through a brief period
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  Speaker 1: where I got like a ZiT or two in high
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  Speaker 1: school and so I got out like the buff puff
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  Speaker 1: and then neut regina for the first time ever and
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  Speaker 1: just scrub the crap out of my face. Started bleeding
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  Speaker 1: started breaking out, and I was like, well, I don't
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  Speaker 1: get it. I'm watching my face and it's breaking out.
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  Speaker 1: But all these years later, I have an explanation. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you're agitated your skin. Yeah, I think, um, I just
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  Speaker 1: have sensitive skin. Um. Yeah, but no, I don't use
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  Speaker 1: like soap or harsh stuff right face. It's like, I
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  Speaker 1: take care of it. So milia. Back to the babies.
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  Speaker 1: Babies can get milia. It's around the eyes or nose,
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  Speaker 1: little white bumps. It's really common. If you're a new
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  Speaker 1: parent and your kid has this, don't worry about it.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, the doctor is probably gonna tell you the
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  Speaker 1: same thing, like, don't even do anything. It'll clear up
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  Speaker 1: on its own, right in most cases. Uh. And you
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  Speaker 1: can actually get that as an adult as well. Really,
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  Speaker 1: sometimes you have milia. It's far more common in infants
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  Speaker 1: and I mean like newborns too. Um. The cause generally
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  Speaker 1: is that the skin cells are already dividing and dying off.
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  Speaker 1: But um, the sebacious claims aren't developed enough to carry
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  Speaker 1: the skin cells to the surface. So basically, when the
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  Speaker 1: doctor says just way, they'll clear upon its own, he's saying,
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  Speaker 1: just wait, your baby will grow produce more sabacious claims
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  Speaker 1: to handle this, right. That's that. Well, that's good news.
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  Speaker 1: It's great news. Uh. Pre pubertal acne uh forms and children.
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  Speaker 1: This is this is basically when you're producing your your
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  Speaker 1: androgen's your sex hormones before you should be Yeah, like
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  Speaker 1: from drinking milk. Is that what we'll do it too?
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  Speaker 1: Probably bovine growth hormone would do it. And that is
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  Speaker 1: that is when it's pre puberty, and that's and younger children,
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  Speaker 1: and that's something you probably should go to a doctor about. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: because it's I think they take it more. It's like
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  Speaker 1: a sign like, okay, you you've got this other stuff
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  Speaker 1: coming down the pike to like breasts and you're six,
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  Speaker 1: you know kind of thing. So it's just a big
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  Speaker 1: androgen dump in your body and your sabacious glance go. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: we're supposed to start working now, I guess, and you're
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  Speaker 1: gonna block little Timmy's only eight, right, I said six?
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  Speaker 1: It does it happen that young? I don't know. I'm
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: sure it could. Yeah. I would imagine the younger, the
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: more potentially problematic it is. That's the kid who ends
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: up having the mustache when he's like in the third grade.
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: The six year old boy with the breasts and the mustache.
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: Would you call him Timmy? Actually I have a friend
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: named Timmy. But my other friend, Jim. You actually know,
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: Jim did have a mustache when he was like in
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: the eighth grade. Yeah, it was pretty funny, Yeah, swarthy Jim. Yes, Um,
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: so what else, Chuck, Oh, there's rosatsia. This is the
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: one that that is pretty awful on Google images. Really yeah, yeah,
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: it can affect the nose, and you know, it's everything
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: from just redness of the nose too, horribly misshapen, bumpy nose.
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: They can get really bad. Is that the nose where
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: you see like divi it's missing from people's noses. Yeah,
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: it can't, it can't get that bad. But it occurs
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: in bouts. Right, so you have, um, you can kind
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: of tell that you're about to have about of rose
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: asia because as you find that, you flush more easily,
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: and it's because your veins and the veins in your
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: face are dilating more more, um wider. I guess that's it. Yeah,
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: it's triggers acne. Well, it triggers acne vulgaris or or
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: a lot like acne vulgaris, they said. And then I
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: also got the impression from Tom that it's problematic that uh,
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: and that people suspect that maybe you're like a raging
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: alcoholic because your nose looks like that, like you have
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: the gym blossoms. But it's really just rosation. Yeah, and
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: if you look up pictures of it, it looks like
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: a gin blossom or worse. There's I don't encourage anyone
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: to type in like plus dules into Google images because
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: it's like that body parts come up that are have
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: these things on them and might not be something you
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: want to see, you know what I'm saying, Well kind
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: of body parts. Oh, they just they had pictures of
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: of like just out of nowhere, just like feet, penises
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: with bumps on them. And I don't recommend it. Okay,
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: Well that's fair warning if I've ever heard it. Anybody
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: who does go Google image what rosatsia? Any of them? Really,
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: then you've been warned by Chuck himself. You're a dummy
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: if you do it, yes, or you're on your own
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: at least. Um. So those are generally the different types
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: of acne, right, and their causes. Um, but we missed
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: at least one. Chuck Pizza, Pizza causes acne. No, it
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: does it. I know it doesn't. That was play acting. Um,
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: that is a is a And I actually did a
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: little more research on this and diet and acne. Um.
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: That's sort of been one of the old things they
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: say it's like a greasy food and elite to acne.
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: But most doctors say that that's pretty much a myth
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: end of story. Although this this one thing I found
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: says that theoretically there could be some impact, like diet
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: has a direct effect on insulin level, and that insulin
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: is the master hormone and it has to do with
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: hormone you know, production anyway, So in theory, insulin spikes
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: could affect acne. And also things that you eat, it
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: can affect it in a good way if you eat
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: positively like veggies and fruits and seafood, and potentially if
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: you eat good foods that are rich and like omega
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: three fats like fish oil, it can be an anti
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: inflammatory and so part of the problem is inflammation. In theory,
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: it could help with that too. But you want to
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: watch um like shellfish, they're they're high and I had
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: died because that apparently can inflame activul garis Yeah, So
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: here as we say that it doesn't impact acne, r
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: saying it does, right, Yeah, I just can't believe that
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: what you eat doesn't have any impact on the function
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: of your cells. That's what I think. It's got to
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: have some impact. Um Genetics is another big one that
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: is I think probably um it's over estimated the impact
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: it has. Yes, the the genes that you inherit from
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: your parents and how they express, um, the proteins that
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: tell your sabacious clans to function in this way or
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: that way or whatever. It's going to have an effect,
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: but not as much as you know, if your dad
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: broke out a lot, you're not necessarily going to write
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: or vice versa. I don't know about my parents in
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: Acne's not a conversation that you normally have with your parents,
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: you know. More it's like, um, it was your dad bald.
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: That's the big question. That's what I don't care about.
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: As men. Dirt is not gonna affect if you have
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: a dirty face. I mean, it's not great for your
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: skin probably, but pimples and zip's happened from the inside out,
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: So dirt on top of your epidermist isn't gonna really
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: affect that. They say and then make up this one.
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: I don't know. I could see makeup definitely making your
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: break out. Yeah, the wrong kind quite using that kind. Well,
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: there's different kinds. There's a hYP hypoallergenic, which means low allergenic.
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: There's a non comedogenic which supposedly says like this won't
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: make you break out, so possibly cheap makeup. Yeah, and
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: if you have Yeah, if you have skin issues already,
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: then you should probably be aware of the types of
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: makeup that you're getting. If you're a young lady or
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: if you're a dude that's into that um and leaving
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: makeup on without removing it at the end of the day,
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: that can definitely cause you to break out because you're
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: going ahead and blocking the pores from the outside in
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: causing backups. Yeah, Stevie Nicks said that on might have
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: been Oprah. Yeah verbatim, I was quoting really now, she said.
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: They asked her why she always looks so great, and
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: she said that she's through all Like even her drug
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: days of being on tour, she never ever failed to
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: acker makeup off at the end of the night. Stevie
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: Nicks the drugs, Oh yeah, back in the day, big time,
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: I know. So she said, even if she was on
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: a bender, she would still manage to take her macup off.
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: That is that's pretty good. Yeah, Well she's the Belladonna. Um,
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: So chuck, let's say you want to get rid of
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: the acne that you do have. Right right there, I'm good. Um,
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: there's really just two things that regular old acne vol
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: garris and not persistent, not a superative nodule type acne,
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: but just plain old acne volgaras um can be treated with.
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: One is benzol peroxide and one is salacilic acid. Right,
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: and those are pretty much it. Almost all of the
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: over the counter acne treatments that you're going to find
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: anywhere are going to have one or both of those,
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: probably just one. And anyone who's ever seen like an
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: oxy commercial has heard the word benzol peroxide. Know what
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: were those pads? Were the oxy pants? Uh? Yeah, there
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: was another company because the pads sea breeze came in
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: like that was like an astringent. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, no,
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: there are pads. I guess it was oxypos come in
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: like a little like yeah, I'm taking careless And then
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: you would look at it and say, look at all
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: that stuff. The commercial Ben's oil peroxide specifically kills the
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: p agnos bacteria and it'll dry out your face, which
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: can be bad. Yeah. People, that um moisture in your
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: face is what breaks you out. Uh, your face. Being
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: too dry can break you out as much, if not more. Yeah, um,
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: you want to keep your face moisturized. Cuts down a
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: breakout kid, you know. Uh, tea tree oil. Emily uses
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: tea tree a lot to dry out a pimple, and
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: that's a good natural way to do. So cell is
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: silic acid. Um basically goes in and it's like um
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: liquid plumber for your pores. Like it just goes in
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: and destroys everything that's in that blockage and there you go.
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: It also takes off a healthy amount of the horny layer,
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: which is the most external layer of your dead skin cells.
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: Horny layer. Really, look at you. Uh. The other thing
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: that you can do, I mean those are medications you
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: can take. What you really want to do is to
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: gently wash your face with soap and warm water. But again,
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: you can't just use any soap. I mean maybe you
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: can if you have like completely insensitive skin. Yeah, uh
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: then sure maybe you can. And you'll find out pretty
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: quick what kind of soaps you can and can't use. Well,
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: most of the soap you get and the store is
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: pretty crappy anyway, right, Like, you you get what you
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: pay for it with soap, especially with face soap. It's
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: worth the extra few bucks. Uh. If you're exercising, you
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: want to shower right afterward. You don't want to let
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: sweat be under skin for too long. Yeah, you got ackney.
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: You're subacius. The reason backney is so prevalent because that
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: that part of your body is lousy with sebaceous clans.
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: Where is it head or face, back and chest? I
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: think so those are three areas because yeah, zit's it's
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: what about the butt? That's something entirely different. Those are
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: Those are just red bumps that no one knows what
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: they are. Okay. Uh. They recommend loose clothing, and they
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: recommend chilling out not being stressed. Be a type L personality,
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: which is L. The long allele on the SLC six
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: A four gene, which UM basically creates this protein that
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: ferry serotonin out of the synaps basically turns it off,
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: which is so that if you have the L allal,
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: it makes you you're a more laid back person because
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: you have more of this trans support protein. If you
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: have the S version of of that gene, then you
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: make less of the transport, meaning the serotonin stays in
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: the snaps longer, which makes you high, strong and kind
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: of angry because it activates your amygdala. So type A
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: personality Type B is actually type S and type L.
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: It sounds like somebody destrote a blog post. Isn't that cool? Though? Yeah?
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: That is cool. I like to think I'm a L,
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: but I'm probably less L than I really want to admit.
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: I don't know. Somebody posted a comment on on Facebook
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: when I put that blog post up, and they're like,
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: not everything can be explained so succinctly. But the point
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: of the blog post was is like this one explains
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: it tocinctly. Yeah, you just remove the comment and went
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: about your day and A banned him from Facebook forever.
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: What else can you do? Let's see you guy at
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: me check and what can you do to treat it? Um?
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: You can take antibiotics, either oral or topical al and
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: topical meaning like their current event type antibiotics. What about
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: a chemical peel that works too? I would think that
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: would not be a good thing if you were breaking out.
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: Is it's a good idea If you're going to do
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: that to again, show out the extra money and go
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: to a professional who can tell you, now, this is
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: the chemical peel I've done on your face. This is
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: what's safe, this is what your skin can handle. And
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: then you know, here's a product that that will do
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: the same thing at home. So don't go to the
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: place where they have to add on the subway. John's
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: Upstairs Chemical peel and Chicken processing Plant espresso. Have you
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: ever done a chemical peel? Really interesting? Yes, I've been
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: known to get it. You come out like it is
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: your face all red and stuff. No, it feels red,
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: but it's more also like very refreshing, Like it's just oh,
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: it's so nice to just kind of rub like the
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: back of your fingers along your face afterwards, because your
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: skin is just like what you're doing is just tearing
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: that horny layer right off. You're getting closer and closer
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: to that new layer of skin cells is just like
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: but it's still it's yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I think
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: you'd be in big trouble. Of themis like that's a
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: that's a third degree burn. I think you know a
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: second Apparently birth control pills can can help treat acne. Yeah. There.
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: If you watch the ads form a lot of them
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: will say like and prevents breakouts like an extra bonus, yeah,
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: because it probably cuts down on the androgens, which cuts
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: downs on the production of um sea bump, which cuts
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: down on pimples. Yeah. I didn't know they had ads
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: for birth control pills? Sure did they? Am? I just
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: am I living in the in uh Amish country here?
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: Why am I not seeing any There's this one and
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: I saw several years ago. Yeah, it was really weird.
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: Um first they had this version of it was like
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: the cartoon version of this ad, and then that one
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: went away, and then they had a live action version
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: of the same ad, same everything, same everything. But for
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: some reason they did a cartoon version and then they
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: did a live action version. They released them one after another,
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: but they were they were supposedly in no way related,
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: and it was like, I think that company was like,
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: just how much are you paying attention? How much TV
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: are you watching? Yeah? Yeah, And at the time I
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: was watching a lot of TV. So I noticed, what
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: about lasers? You can get them lasered, right, And I
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: guess that's if you have if it's really bad, then
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: they can actually laser your sebaceous glands. They say not
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: to squeeze them though, which I think is kind of laughable.
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: What do you mean, like not pop them? Yourself. They
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: is tom sive pal. You can take that with a
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: grain of salt. Yeah, I mean show me someone who
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: it doesn't pop their own zets and and it says,
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: in't here to make an appointment with the dermatologists so
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: they can pop your pimples. Really well, that's the only
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: thing too, when you get like a chemical peel or
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: a facial or whatever the the the U not anestheticist,
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: oh estheticiansan um will pop all the zips on your face.
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: And what's crazy is like, when you do it right,
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: it doesn't hurt. I guess yeah, but I mean like this,
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: the pressure they apply is minute and they're doing it
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: like off to the sides of the zip and like
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: you you're like, that was it. It didn't hurt at all.
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: Like I didn't cry at all. So it's it's kind
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: of good too, not necessarily good. At the Dirham Tall.
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: Just you could go do an esthetician and they'll do
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: the same all the same things. You'll learn a bunch
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: just by paying attention while they do it. I couldn't.
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: Emily would never let me do that. Why because she
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: loves to do it herself. Oh yeah, I mean she
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: could have been an that she has that gene to
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: where she just gets a lot of satisfaction out of
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: making that white snake come out. Yeah. In fact, she's
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: a little disappointed at my lack of pimple production in life. Yeah,
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: she would love me, you guys, actually you me loves me.
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: She does it. Um, she does it a lot too.
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: She's kind of hooked. Yeah, a lot of girls are
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: into that for some reason. I'm glad, I know, always
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: not nuts and that that's a normal for some reason too.
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: I've never been a guy who's into that. Yeah, it's
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: always girls for some reason. I don't understand. Maybe they're
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: more into skin, skin care or gross stuff coming out
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: of your skin. Maybe. So well, let's say, all right, yeah,
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: seventeen million people in America every day on a given
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: day have is it? Is that? Right? Yeah? I think
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: more than that. You go, alright, alright? Which one? Well,
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: I mean it's acting as the big word pimples. I
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: just like saying pimple. I don't like saying pimple. I
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: think it's a gross word. You like pustule, I prefer
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: pustule over. I don't likes it either. Yeah. Where we yeah,
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: we were on we were featured in the like strip zits.
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: Remember that was very nice? Yeah, yeah, and then you
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: know what I need to find out. And I don't
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: think they're black heads. Emily calls them seeds because that
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: it's like a little watermelon seed almost. It's like a
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: little white spike comes out. I wonder what that is.
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: I didn't find that in here. I guarantee it's the
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: same thing you think. Yeah, all right, I think there's
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: a very limited amount of acne. It just happens and
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: it just kind of looks different or comes out in
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: different ways, or if it sits in there long enough,
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: it comes seed. I know you're talking about. Um, well
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: that's acne. If you want to learn more about it
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: and see some cool cutaway illustrations of the skin, Yeah,
• 34:40
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• 34:42
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  Speaker 1: got several corrections. A fail safe Yeah, fail safe is
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  Speaker 1: from the mower exactly, but you don't care because you're
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  Speaker 1: having a heart attack. Anything else. Bread but the bread
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  Speaker 1: butter side up, No, that you know. I think the
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  Speaker 1: that this is right. Here's what I think, and I
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  Speaker 1: was not able to articulate it. I think you spread
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  Speaker 1: when it falls off the you know, the table stomach
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  Speaker 1: other and the butter spread evenly across, then it's not
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  Speaker 1: going to turn back over. You if if it does
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  Speaker 1: turn back over, then there was more butter on one
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