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Bexi’s Story

As a child I had severe eczema on my face and all over my body. My dad would wrap bandages on my legs, arms and neck to prevent me from scratching my skin raw while I slept. In the morning the bandages would be stuck to my flesh. Daily process: rip bandages off under cold running water; go to school with weepy, crusty skin that hurt when I moved; gut it out; fall over at the end of the day dreading repeating the ordeal. Dad pleaded with me not to scratch, so I wouldn't end up with severely scarred legs as an adult. I naively retorted that I would get plastic surgery to cover the scars. Buying and using makeup was like negotiating a minefield; I never knew what would cause a flare-up. The condition of my skin dictated my lifestyle; no makeup, no wool or acrylic clothing, limited social outings, no camping. The questions would always be, "Will my skin be OK with this?" and "Do I want to deal with the concerned questions and gawking stares from people?"

​Drugs provided temporary relief, e.g., corticosteroids, which create dependency, like any drug used as a Band Aid. Commercially available skincare products, such as Aquaphor, Vaseline and Eucerin, just made my skin oily, sticky and itchy, and worse, caused breakouts. Other products from Aveeno, Neutrogena, Mary Kay and Alba Botanica left my skin dry and itchy. Natural solutions suggested by doctors, such as oatmeal and saltwater baths and butter scrubs, were ineffective.

I went to graduate school to investigate how we can use diet and lifestyle to prevent disease. My Mom has always maintained that fresh food is healthy food. No matter how tired she was, we rarely ate processed foods or ate out. She cooked everything from scratch. This sparked my interest in preventing, rather than curing disease, and healing, rather than managing disease through diet and lifestyle.

​Metabolic pathways are interconnected and complex. In my graduate studies I researched the effects of the synthesised vitamin, folic acid, compared to its naturally occurring form, folate, on breast cancer progression, I discovered that even slight modifications to nutrient structure very often have totally unpredictable, long-term effects on the body as a whole.

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