Mona Gohara

A morning shower allows for time to meditate and regroup before starting a long or hectic day, this mindfulness can decrease inflammation in the skin by keeping levels of a hormone called cortisol capped.

The wrong cleanser can wreck your skin, if you use a standard soap — a cleanser that has a basic pH — it strips the skin of natural oils and compromises the skin barrier, leading to irritation and dry, lackluster skin. Using a mild, pH-neutral nonsoap cleanser helps moisturize while you cleanse and deposits skin-identical lipids back into the skin.

It’s just like when you eat a whole vegetable. You may be getting more nutrients than we even know about.

There is a false sense of immunity amongst populations of color and the doctors caring for us, cancer is cancer ; no population is fortunate enough to be exempt from this disease.

For a mask to have any chance of fitting properly, it needs to be mask to skin, not mask to hair, if a mask can completely cover a beard, there( shouldn't) be any problem. If not, a beard is very likely to create a small gap between facial skin and mask unless one fastens the mask tightly.

Many infectious disease experts will say that if you can eliminate facial hair, or if you can at least trim it just so it fits within the confines of the mask, then that's advisable, there have to be solutions for people where that's not an option. And that's something that, as medical providers, we need to address.