Maggie Miley Kelly · Licensed Esthetician · Educator · Author
Your Skin on Stress · Module 03
Your gut, skin and brain are in constant conversation. Stress disrupts all three at once — and healing one begins to heal the others.
✦ Tap any card to explore that systemHypothalamus · HPA axis · cortisol · stress command center
Trillions of microbes regulate immunity · mood · inflammation
Barrier · immune defense · reflects internal imbalance
Runs from brainstem to gut · carries 80% of signals upward · activated by breathing, touch and sound
Stress kills beneficial bacteria · leaky gut
Skin becomes porous · reactive · dehydrated
Brain fog · anxiety · heightened reactivity
Feed the gut · calm the nervous system · repair the skin barrier · all three respond together
Feed good bacteria
Activates vagus nerve
Protects skin biome
Restores all three