WRITING
Books, bylines and commentary.
Jessica Wu, MD is the bestselling author of Feed Your Face, one of the first books to connect what you eat with how your skin behaves. She has written for medical and consumer outlets ever since.
Her subjects have widened with her career. She writes on skin and aging, on artificial intelligence in medicine, on physician burnout, and on whether independent practice has a future. She follows developments in dermatology and health technology closely, and writes about them as they arrive.
The book
Feed Your Face
Younger, Smoother Skin and a Beautiful Body in 28 Delicious Days. An Amazon Top 100 bestseller and one of the first books to argue that what you eat shows up on your skin, written at a point when most of medicine treated diet and dermatology as unrelated fields.
The argument underneath it still runs through her work: skin is usually where internal change becomes visible first, and treating the surface without asking what is happening below it is only half the job.
Amazon Top 100 bestseller. Published by St. Martin's Press in 2011, and since released in the United Kingdom, China, Russia, Taiwan and India.
The New York Times reviewed it, calling the book entertaining and informative and noting its practical guidance on what to eat, and what to avoid, for particular skin problems.
Publishers Weekly praised its calm, sensible approach, and recommended it to anyone looking for better skin.
Essays and Commentary
KevinMD, October 2025
What AI can never replace in medicine
On opening a practice twenty five years ago with paper charts and a Dictaphone, using AI every day now, and the trust between patients and physicians that has eroded alongside it.
DrJessicaWu.com
Why she built Residen, a company that lets independent physicians practice without carrying a building.
WUME
Her account of the practice, on the WUME site.
The Healthy
Dermatology and skin health, written for a general reader.