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Speaker 1: Beyond the Beauty is a production of I Heart Radio.

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Speaker 1: I'm your host, Bobby Brown. I'm really excited to talk

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Speaker 1: to my next guest, Dr Howard mira Ad, a name

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Speaker 1: that most of us have known forever as these amazing

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Speaker 1: dermatological skincare products that are in all the department stores.

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Speaker 1: You've seen him forever. I don't really know that much

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Speaker 1: about him, and when doing my research reading about him,

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Speaker 1: he has such an interesting story. How he was born

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Speaker 1: in Baghdad, you know, put himself through medical school, had

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Speaker 1: so many jobs in between, and honestly, he was the

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Speaker 1: first person that figured out the correlation between beauty and wellness,

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Speaker 1: and his skincare approach always depended on that. He is

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Speaker 1: quite something and I'm looking forward to understand why he

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Speaker 1: looks so good at eighty one years old and what

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Speaker 1: he does and here about his company. So here's my

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Speaker 1: conversation with Dr Howard Murad. So, Dr Murad, I have

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Speaker 1: to tell you, reading your biography, reading everything that you know,

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Speaker 1: my amazing producer gave me, I wish there was a book.

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Speaker 1: Is there a book of your life story? No, that

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Speaker 1: really isn't. Maybe that should be, but yeah, you know

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Speaker 1: that's written several books, um, but not specifically about my

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Speaker 1: life story, a lot of it on my personal website

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Speaker 1: D R. Howard your ad dot com. But we'll we'll

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Speaker 1: start at the beginning, because your name has been in

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Speaker 1: my radar on my radar for decades, and I don't

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Speaker 1: really know that much about you and reading about you.

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Speaker 1: You've had some fascinating life so a lot of the

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Speaker 1: listeners you know, are new to to who you are.

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Speaker 1: So could you start at the beginning? Where were you?

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Speaker 1: I was born in Baghdad. That that was a country

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Speaker 1: And as a child, we were fortunate to be able

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Speaker 1: to migrate out of the country, um and come to

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Speaker 1: the United States. I came here when I was seven

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Speaker 1: years old. Yeah. You were New Yorker correct, Yeah. I

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Speaker 1: grew up in New York. I went to college in

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Speaker 1: California and sort of I never impact Uh, And you

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Speaker 1: went to medical school, but you also went to pharmaceutical school.

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Speaker 1: Well it's a story, you know. I tell people make

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Speaker 1: your mark on the campus of life and letter direct you. Um.

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Speaker 1: I always kind of was interested in science as a younger,

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Speaker 1: younger person, I wanted to be an engineer. But then

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Speaker 1: somehow or other I didn't get calculus very well. And

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Speaker 1: my older brother was a pharmacistant, said you like science,

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Speaker 1: why don't you go into pharmacy school, And so I did.

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Speaker 1: While I was in my farmacy school, I thought, well,

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Speaker 1: I'd like to go to medical school. Probably won't get in,

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Speaker 1: but I'll apply anyway. And I tell people, might make

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Speaker 1: where you're gonna go. You let it, you let it

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Speaker 1: take you. So it took me to go to medical school,

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Speaker 1: and even there I always wanted to be on the surgeon.

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Speaker 1: Uncle Sam had different plans for me. Sent me to

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Speaker 1: of care of surgery. And when I came back for

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Speaker 1: my second year of duty, I was attached to the

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Speaker 1: life entirely. And then your first practice was in Los Angeles.

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Speaker 1: It wasn't Los Angeles. It's a little community by the

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Speaker 1: in nineteen seventy two. But you were one of the

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Speaker 1: early doctors that realized that it's lifestyle and food and

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Speaker 1: inclusive health. Inclusive means everything is connected, so over time

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Speaker 1: And as a dermatologist, I was recognizing the patients that

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Speaker 1: and um. The other thing that really changed my life

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Speaker 1: is understanding hydration. Now people think of hydration and drinking

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Speaker 1: do we get better hydrated? Well, maintaining the barrier function

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Speaker 1: making sure you're using sunscreens with antioxidants and inflammatories. And

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Speaker 1: So that connection was very important. So the other problem

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Speaker 1: eating water rich foods. It's very important if you look

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Speaker 1: at diet, basically, water rich foods are healthy for you.

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Speaker 1: magic only happens when you create your own um and

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