What You Eat Today You Wear Tomorrow
Our diet influences how we look, how we feel and, ultimately, how we die. Saturated fats contribute to heart disease; alcohol to liver disease; and refined carbohydrates to cancer. But one vital organ that rarely seems to get mentioned in all of this is the skin. It may be the only external organ, but it is equally affected by what we put inside our bodies. A busy and complex material, like any other in the body, skin needs a precise and complete supply of nutrients to regenerate, repair and defend itself.
The high prevalence of skin problems today is largely attributable to eating too many prepackaged, chemically preserved and calorie-dense foods lacking the nutrients that the skin needs. Skincare manufacturers have sought to remedy this situation by producing a preponderance of creams and lotions containing every vitamin from the A to K and phytochemicals to boot. Although these products provide substantial profits to manufacturers, they rarely penetrate to the dermal layers of the skin where they can have impact.
Although there are some creams on the market that actually have a positive impact on the skin, it is more effective — and undoubtedly cheaper — to eat what the skin needs from your plate. Eating is a sure way to get nutrients to where they are needed. As an added benefit, many of the foods needed for healthy skin tissue are also those that benefit the circulation, digestion and elimination mechanisms.
The most important nutrients for the skin are antioxidants. Antioxidants perform such a fundamental role in destroying the free radicals that are the root of much age-related deterioration, that they can effectively be defined as antiaging nutrients.
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