When autoimmune disease undermined her skin health, nutritionist Ginger Downey, MS, CNS, sought natural solutions. She offers diet tips for skin optimization, emphasizing that what you feed your skin is as important as what you put on your skin. Downey underscores the importance of the microbiome, and links skin disorders to leaky gut syndrome. She enumerates the ingredients to avoid in skin products, and highlights which are beneficial. What vitamins, minerals, essential fatty acids and nutraceuticals support skin wellness? As a principal in DermaMed Solutions, a company that supplies spa owners, dermatologists and plastic surgeons with innovative skin solutions, Downey discusses microdermabrasion, lasers, and other rejuvenative skin procedures. As Executive Director of the Board for Certification of Nutrition Specialists (BCNS) she describes the CNS credential that validates the expertise of nutrition health professionals.