FIELD NOTES
Skin, food and paying attention.
Why skin belongs in my everyday notebook, and why a personal experiment is not a promise of a cure.
The whole day interests me.
I want to understand the relationship between my food, daily rhythm, environment and skin. My interest is in looking beyond a shelf of products and noticing the rest of the day too. That is the starting question for this section, not a claim that skincare or medical treatment is unnecessary.
A plate is a record, not a diagnosis.
The meals in the archive show what I chose to document. They do not isolate one ingredient, account for every other change in my life, or measure a medical outcome. I do not want to turn an old meal photo into a before-and-after claim that the record cannot support.
The American Academy of Dermatology explains that diet can play a role in acne for some people, while diet change alone may not be enough to clear it. My interest in food does not replace that distinction. Read the AAD’s overview of diet and acne.
The kind of account I want to keep.
A useful entry would say what changed, when it changed, what else was going on and what I noticed. It would also say when I do not know. That is more interesting to me than writing a universal routine around one good photograph.
This notebook can hold experiments, questions and later corrections. It is not a treatment plan or a reason to stop prescribed care.