How Does Stress Show Up on Your Skin?

The Functional Aesthetician

Stress doesn’t just affect your mood; it impacts your entire body, including your skin, gut, hormones, and nervous system.

In today’s episode, we talk about how stress triggers breakouts, skin sensitivity, melasma, premature aging, gut issues, inflammation, and adrenal fatigue

You’ll learn how the skin reacts to cortisol, how chronic stress disrupts digestion and hormones, and how the gut-brain-skin axis affects everything.

Plus, small daily habits you can start today to calm your mind, support your adrenals, and strengthen your skin barrier.

If your skin has been changing overnight or your stress feels unmanageable, this episode will give you clarity, direction, and steps to feel better from the inside out.

In this Episode, You’ll Learn:

• How stress impacts acne, melasma, and premature aging
• How the skin barrier breaks down under chronic stress
• How stress contributes to gut and hormone imbalances
• Cortisol's impact on the skin
• Signs of adrenal fatigue and chronic burnout
• Simple ways to support your skin, gut, and adrenals through daily habits

Resources Mentioned:

1. PubMed Brain-Skin Connection: Stress, Inflammation and Skin Aging:https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4082169/
2. PubMed Editorial: The gut-skin-brain axis in human health and disease: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9979212/
3. Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/skindeepil

บท

1. How Does Stress Show Up on Your Skin? (00:00:00)

2. Intro: Stress (00:00:37)

3. How stress impacts your skin (00:01:47)

4. How stress breaks down the skin barrier (00:03:38)

5. Stress and premature wrinkles (00:04:52)

6. Melasma and stress (00:05:50)

7. The Gut-Brain-Skin Connection (00:08:50)

8. How our body handles stress (00:11:23)

9. Stress and the HPA Axis (00:13:42)

10. Cortisol (00:15:08)

11. Adrenal fatigue (00:15:50)

12. How to lower stress (00:20:48)

13. Closing thoughts (00:23:15)