It would be naive to believe that changing your nutrition is going to wipe out all your wrinkles or completely stop skin aging. I wish! But it is just as naive to think that you can eat (or neglect to eat) whatever you want without any effect on your skin. What you eat affects every organ in your body and your skin is no exception.
You may think that as long as you are using good skin products, your skin will be properly nourished. As much as I would like to believe that myself, it is far from the truth.
When you are applying a serum or cream with nutrients on your skin, do they really penetrate down to your skin cells? They may just “sit there” until your next shower.. How much of the active ingredients actually get into your skin cells depends on the skin’s condition, concentration of the ingredients, manufacturing technology and many other factors. That is why it is very important to get a proper skin analysis from your skin care professional before you get a treatment and when choosing skin care products.
Good skin care products provide excellent help for your skin in many ways, but it is never enough to ensure an all-around skin nutrition.
Advantages of nourishing the skin from within
Every cell in the human body needs dozens and dozens of nutrients and metabolites. Some, like vitamins, minerals and essential amino acids need to come from food. When the nutrients are ingested and absorbed into your bloodstream, they are sure to be delivered to your skin cells. Others are produced by the body and provide it itself. No skin care product can replace that.
Nutrition has some effect on the mechanisms of aging of the body as a whole, including the aging of the skin. Nutrients and foods that benefit your skin also tend to benefit other body systems and overall health.
Limitations of nourishing the skin from within
Skin aging is a combination of the mechanisms of aging innate to human physiology plus the environmental damage from sun, wind and pollution. Proper nutrition may help partly inhibit physiological aging but does little to protect the skin from the outside world. The latter must be achieved by limiting sun exposure, use of proper (UVA+UVB) sun blocks and other measures discussed throughout this site.
Peptides and growth factors are easily broken down by digestive enzymes, they become inactive after going through the digestive system, and therefore can be used only topically.
Bottom line
A balanced nutrition of the body is important for maintaining healthy skin. It may not produce striking rejuvenation, but neglecting it will make your skin age considerably faster.
Improving nutrition in a person with nutrient deficiencies often results in a younger looking skin and partial reversal of some signs of aging. On the other hand, “cutting-edge” skin rejuvenation treatments are likely to be far less effective or even completely fail if your skin is deficient in one or more essential nutrients.
Finally, some nutrients taken in doses higher than the minimal requirement, but still in the safe range, may produce skin benefits above and beyond what the basic balanced nutrition does.
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