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by James Hamblin (Author)
Lo que tu rutina de skincare necesitaba!
Cremas hidratantes, jabones, serum, bloqueadores, tónicos... cuáles son los mejores productos y cómo combinarlos para tener esa piel limpia y radiante? Y si se requiriera de menos productos para cuidarnos?
Estas y más preguntas nos acechan con regularidad, porque los mensajes sanitarios son confusos; y los de la industria de la belleza, contradictorios.
Named a Best Book of 2020 by NPR and Vanity Fair
One of Smithsonian's Ten Best Science Books of 2020
"A searching and vital explication of germ theory, social norms, and what the modern era is really doing to our bodies and our psyches." --Vanity Fair
A preventative medicine physician and staff writer for The Atlantic explains the surprising and unintended effects of our hygiene practices in this informative and entertaining introduction to the new science of skin microbes and probiotics. Keeping skin healthy is a booming industry, and yet it seems like almost no one agrees on what actually works. Confusing messages from health authorities and ineffective treatments have left many people desperate for reliable solutions. An enormous alternative industry is filling the void, selling products that are often of questionable safety and totally unknown effectiveness. In Clean, doctor and journalist James Hamblin explores how we got here, examining the science and culture of how we care for our skin today. He talks to dermatologists, microbiologists, allergists, immunologists, aestheticians, bar-soap enthusiasts, venture capitalists, Amish people, theologians, and straight-up scam artists, trying to figure out what it really means to be clean. He even experiments with giving up showers entirely and discovers that he is not alone. Along the way, he realizes that most of our standards of cleanliness are less related to health than most people think. A major part of the picture has been missing: a little-known ecosystem known as the skin microbiome--the trillions of microbes that live on our skin and in our pores. These microbes are not dangerous; they're more like an outer layer of skin that no one knew we had, and they influence everything from acne, eczema, and dry skin, to how we smell. The new goal of skin care will be to cultivate a healthy biome--and to embrace the meaning of "clean" in the natural sense. This can mean doing much less, saving time, money, energy, water, and plastic bottles in the process. Lucid, accessible, and deeply researched, Clean explores the ongoing, radical change in the way we think about our skin, introducing readers to the emerging science that will be at the forefront of health and wellness conversations in coming years.
Author Biography
JAMES HAMBLIN es editor de salud en la revista The Atlantic. Es el anfitrión de la videoserie If Our Bodies Could Talk. Participó en la Yale University Poynter Fellowship en Periodismo, además de haber impartido seminarios en la Escuela de Medicina de Harvard, Wharton Business School, Columbia Mailman School of Public Health, el festival SXSW, entre muchos otros. Su trabajo ha sido publicado en The New York Times, Político Magazine, Bon Appétit, Comedy Central, NPR, BBC, MSNBC, New York y The Awl. La revista Time lo incluyó en su lista de las 140 personas que hay que seguir en Twitter, Grearist lo nombró una de las personas más influyentes en los medios de comunicación y BuzzFeed lo nombró «el doctor más encantador de la web». Es autor de los libros Si nuestros cuerpos hablaran y Si nuestra piel hablara. Vive en Brooklyn.
