Exercise benefits your skin

We know that exercise is good for your heart and bones, but did you know that exercise has a positive effect on your skin’s appearance too? Here’s how:

Exercise makes you sweat. Sweat purges your body of toxins that can clog pores and plague your skin with pimples and blemishes. The body only has so many mechanisms to rid itself of toxins — the kidneys, the liver, and the skin. Exercise increases blood flow to the skin, increases neuronal stimulation, and allows the sweat glands to increase their functions and rid the toxins. Once you sweat out those toxins, it's important to wash them off — you don't want to leave them on your skin. Always shower after a workout to prevent bacterial or fungal infections that may occur from dirt clogging up your pores.

Exercise tones your muscles. The more toned you are beneath your skin, the healthier your skin will look and feel. The stronger and firmer your muscles are, the more support your skin will have and the more firm and elastic it will appear. Toning your muscles may also help to minimize the appearance of cellulite, the dimply fat that often strikes thighs and buttocks. You can't exercise cellulite away, but you can help it look better.

Exercise boosts oxygen and blood flow to the skin. Studies have shown that regular exercise boosts blood flow enough in type 2 diabetics to help reduce the risk of skin problems that lead to amputation. Exercise gets the blood flowing, and that increased blood flow carries more oxygen to the skin. The boost in blood flow and oxygen to the skin cells also carries nutrients that improve skin health, supporting all the effort you make with moisturizers and other skin care products on the skin surface.

Exercise eases stress. Exercise is a great way to relieve stress. Those mind-body benefits may extend to your complexion. Though studies are small, some show that stress may worsen, if not actually trigger, acne. Stress may also trigger flare-ups of psoriasis and a condition called shingles. It’s known to boost hormone production and suppress the body's ability to heal, but regular workouts can keep stress — and possibly hard-to-manage skin conditions — under control. When you’re feeling tense, let exercise keep any frown lines at bay too.

Exercise gives your complexion a beautiful, natural glow. When you exercise, your skin begins to produce more of its natural oils that help skin look supple and healthy. While that can naturally moisturize skin, remember to cleanse your face gently as part of your skin care routine when you shower to prevent any breakouts.

Make exercise your secret skin care ingredient for a young, healthier, and smoother complexion.

Vitamin C helps skin care

Vitamin C is taken internally to help the body with the immune system, to protect from radicals, to keep your gums healthy and boost energy. The average person should have 60 mg of Vitamin C (3/4 cup of orange juice) a day.

If a person smokes, it is recommended they get 100 mg per day. You can get your Vitamin C by pills or by eating oranges, grapefruits or other citrus fruits. It can also be found in tomatoes, peppers, broccoli and potatoes.

In the beauty industry women and men have been trying numerous organic and healthy vitamins, minerals and other substances to help them feel and look younger. Seeking the fountain of youth through mother nature to slow down father time.

Vials of Vitamin C can be applied topically to improve the skin's health. Repair, Renew and rejuvenate your skin. Vitamin C also produces collagen which is reasonable for holding your muscles firmly. It has been reported that applying vitamin C to the face can build more collagen, firm up the skin and keep you younger looking.

Vitamin C is also known as ascorbic acid and is used to eliminate dark spots on the skin and eliminate and control acne and oily skin.

Can we really stop aging?

There are many products on the shelves today that boast they can stop, diminish or reduce the aging process. From moisturizers to chemical peels, there's something for every skin type and disorder. 

Much of what your see, the surface skin such as dryness and lines comes as a result of exposure to the sun, photodamage. I guess most people feel invincible when they are younger and therefore don't heed good advise about slathering on sunscreen everyday, not just when you're going to the beach or pool.

Unfortunately for fair skinned people, the lighter your complexion the worse the damage is likely to be. 

From age spots and spidery veins to your body shape, aging doesn't make life easy for anyone. And most of this is just aesthetic, or superficial, cosmetic appearance. What goes on inside the body, as it ages, i.e., how you treat it over the years, is another topic. 

Women's skin comes from the hormone estrogen. As women get older their estrogen levels fall and studies have shown that the loss of estrogen can cause dryness, shrinking and fine wrinkles.

Smoking is another culprit for poor skin. Not only does it cause fine lines and wrinkles it robs the skin of nutrients such as elastin.

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Caffeine Protect from Skin Cancer

Lead researcher Dr. Paul Nghiem, an associate professor of dermatology at the University of Washington in Seattle, states,"We've found what we believe o be the mechanism by which caffeine is associated with decreased skin cancer."

During the study, Nghiem's team looked at caffeine's effect on human skin cells in a laboratory that had been exposed to ultraviolet radiation. They found that in cells damaged by UV rays, caffeine interrupted a protein called ATR-Chk1, causing the damaged cells to self-destruct. 

According to Ngheim, caffeine has no effect on undamaged cells.

ATR is essential to damaged cells that are growing rapidly and caffeine specifically targets damaged cells that can become cancerous. Caffeine more than doubles the number of damaged cells that will die normally after a given dose of UV, added Nghiem. this is a biological mechanism that explains what we have been seeing for many years from the oral intake of caffeine. 

On a topical study, Nghiem has been experimenting by applying caffeine directly on the skin (of mice and humans. According to Nghiem, "It suppresses skin cancer development by as much as 72 percent in mice." (more on website, FloridaSpaGirls.net)