How Your Skin Speaks Directly To You
As a physician, skin is like magic to me. In medicine, we see the miracle of skin repair all the time: You can cut it during surgery, and it will grow back together within a week. You can scrape it to take a biopsy, and it will re-establish an intact barrier within days. You can puncture it with a needle, and it will fill back in to stop bleeding within a matter of minutes… sometimes seconds. Skin is miraculously quick at creating new cells, removing old ones, repairing structural damage, and re-establishing blood flow. In science, we have …
