Articles.
Trigger explainers grounded in the literature. Notes on how Skinframe analyzes patterns. First-person accounts from people who've spent years figuring this out.
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Why hot drinks flare rosacea (and the temperature that doesn't)
The vasodilation pathway, what the literature actually says, and a workable rule for staying caffeinated without the afternoon flush.
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What we mean by "Tier A, Tier B, Tier C"
How Skinframe ranks evidence, the math, the thresholds, and why we'll always show you the count behind a claim.
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The red wine paradox: a year of logging
One user's logbook, transcribed. What looked like a wine trigger turned out to be the late dinner. The data didn't lie, the assumption did.
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Reading an azelaic acid trial: what to track, what to ignore
A practical framework for using your own log to evaluate whether a topical is actually doing something, without falling into the regression-to-the-mean trap.
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Why severity is a dial, not a slider
The case for ordinal scales over continuous ones in self-tracking, and why we landed on five steps.
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Sleep and skin: a 72-hour question
Why Skinframe's sleep correlation window is three days, not one, and what the literature on circadian skin-barrier function says about delayed flares.
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"My dermatologist asked where I got the report."
A patient hands over a one-page Skinframe PDF and unintentionally changes how her appointment goes.
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Why we don't compute a "rosacea score"
Single-number health scores are seductive and almost always wrong. What we built instead, and the trade-offs we accepted.
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