A mi Kim
s k i n – s e l f – w o r l d
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Why You Can’t Just Stick to One Type of Exercise After 40
I barely exercised in my 30s. Too busy, too tired, too many excuses. Then I had my second child in my early 40s and suddenly my body was telling me things I couldn’t ignore. That’s when I started yoga — just over a year ago now. I’m still very much a work in progress. But…
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I Thought I Had Asthma — Until Changing My Habits Changed My Symptoms
For a long time, I believed I had mild asthma. Since my early thirties, I would develop a persistent dry cough almost every night. After visiting a GP, I was diagnosed with asthma and prescribed Ventolin and Symbicort. I accepted it without much doubt — if the doctor said so, also very common here in…
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Vitamin C vs Niacinamide: Which One Does Your Skin Really Need?
Vitamin C and Niacinamide are often grouped together as “brightening” ingredients.Because of this, many people assume they do the same thing for the skin. But in reality, they work in very different ways. I like to think of skin as a house. Vitamin C is like a renovation expert.It focuses on correcting visible concerns —…
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Small Changes That Followed
After I began to understand food and gut health differently, another turning point came when a colleague introduced me to Jessie Inchauspé. I began following her Instagram and eventually read her book, Glucose Revolution. One idea stayed with me — that simply changing the order of food could help stabilise blood sugar levels. It felt…
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Food, Gut Health, and Learning to Listen
Before I started thinking differently about food, there were a few moments that made me pause. In 2020, I went through two episodes of severe gastro, and it took longer than I expected to fully recover. Later that year, I visited GP again because of ongoing abdominal pain, and during the check-up I was told…
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Probiotics, Prebiotics, and Everyday Habits
Lately, I’ve been thinking about gut health not as something that needs fixing, but simply as part of everyday well-being. Growing up in Korea, fermented foods like kimchi and doenjang, soybean paste, were always on the table — nothing special, just ordinary meals. It was only later that I realised many of these familiar foods…
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Retinol, Retinal, Retinoid — Finding What Works for Your Skin
A few years ago, I tried using retinol on its own for the first time.My skin felt irritated, and I didn’t feel like I was seeing much improvement, so I eventually stopped using it. For a while, I assumed retinol simply wasn’t for my skin. Later, when I reintroduced it more slowly and started using…
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Rest Stopped Feeling Like Laziness — Exercise, Rest, and Recovery in My 40s
There was a time when resting felt like falling behind.If I skipped a workout, I felt guilty — as if consistency meant never stopping. But in my 40s, exercise started to feel different.It was no longer about pushing harder or changing my body quickly.I began to notice how my body responded to slowing down, to…
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Why Exercise Feels Different Now
There was a time when exercise was mostly about losing weight. I measured progress by numbers — how much I lost, how quickly my body changed, how visible the results were.For a long time, that felt like the purpose of moving. But over time, something shifted. Exercise slowly became less about changing how I look,…
the Skin & within 