I had an awesome client experience recently that solidified the connection of my nutritional therapy training to my skin therapy training. I think I blew my client’s mind! I know I was super excited about what we discovered. So you are probably wondering, “what does this even mean?”, “nutrition-based aesthetics”? What it means is, seeing the skin conditions present on the skin, and being able to connect them to the internal issues that your client tells you about, or connect

Got your attention? Think I’m crazy? Chicken skin is a functional food. What is a functional food, you say? Functional foods are foods that have a potentially positive effect on health beyond basic nutrition. Proponents of functional foods say they promote optimal health and help reduce the risk of disease. So how could chicken skin possibly be a functional food after all we’ve been told over the last few decades? Well, let me explain. Chicken skin contains a molecule called