# 820: The Gut-Skin Connection: Fixing Permeability, Fasting Safely & Hacking Your Microbiome

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Podcast: [Beauty Bytes with Dr. Kay: Secrets of a Plastic Surgeon™](https://stenobird.com/podcast/beauty-bytes-with-dr-kay-secrets-of-a-plastic-surgeon-410187)
Published: 2026-04-08T02:22:41+00:00
Episode link: https://audioboom.com/posts/8884573
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Duration seconds: 3815

## Resource

Are your daily probiotics actually healing your gut, or are they just passing straight through your system? In this fascinating episode of Beauty Bytes, I am joined by clinical nutritionist Oscar Coetzee to discuss the massive paradigm shift happening in longevity medicine: cultivating powerful "Keystone" bacteria. Oscar explains why standard probiotics are like buying a bouquet of "cut flowers" that inevitably wilt, and introduces the revolutionary science behind anaerobic strains that actually plant themselves into your gut lining. We dive into the incredible benefits of Akkermansia, a bacteria that triggers your body's natural GLP-1 production, and uncover a specific microbe that produces endogenous salicylic acid to clear acne and rosacea from the inside out. If you want to understand the true gut-skin connection, this is a must-listen.

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