Our recommended nutrients, vitamins and minerals to take for a healthy skin:
Vitamin A
Zinc
Vitamin C
Omega 3 Fatty acids
Biotin
Selenium
Vitamin E
Vitamin K2
Probiotics and Gut Health
Our recommended nutrients, vitamins and minerals to take for a healthy skin:
Vitamin A
Zinc
Vitamin C
Omega 3 Fatty acids
Biotin
Selenium
Vitamin E
Vitamin K2
Probiotics and Gut Health
Acne and Problematic Skin:
AVOID:
INCREASE:
Dryness or Dehydrated Skin
AVOID:
INCREASE:
Pigmented skin, or uneven skin tone:
AVOID:
INCREASE:
Ageing skin and fine lines:
AVOID:
INCREASE:
Glycation is the process in which sugar bonds with protein to form advanced glycation end products (AGEs). In other words, once sugar enters the circulation, they attach themselves to the amino groups of tissue proteins such as collagen to slowly rearrange their youthful structure into the main culprits of damage.
As a result, once healthy collagen fibers lose their elasticity, becoming rigid, more brittle, and prone to breakage. This assault on the skin’s structural support system contributes to the ageing of tissue, and when accelerated by hyperglycemia (high blood sugar), to the gradual development of diabetic complications.
As skin ages it becomes especially vulnerable to glycation, because collagen compromises up to one-third of the body’s proteins, and has a slow turnover rate. Once glycated, collagen fibres have reduced regenerative ability, leading to wrinkles, creping and sagging that characterises skin ageing.
Limiting sugars in your diet is a well-known key to longevity, because of all the molecules capable of inflicting damage in your body, sugar molecules are probably the most damaging of all. Fructose in particular is an extremely potent pro-inflammatory agent that creates AGEs and speeds up the ageing process. It also promotes the kind of dangerous growth of fat cells around your vital organs that are the hallmark of diabetes & heart disease.
Acne and Problematic Skin:
AVOID:
INCREASE:
Dryness or Dehydrated Skin
AVOID:
INCREASE:
Pigmented skin, or uneven skin tone:
AVOID:
INCREASE:
Ageing skin and fine lines:
AVOID:
INCREASE:
Glycation is the process in which sugar bonds with protein to form advanced glycation end products (AGEs). In other words, once sugar enters the circulation, they attach themselves to the amino groups of tissue proteins such as collagen to slowly rearrange their youthful structure into the main culprits of damage.
As a result, once healthy collagen fibers lose their elasticity, becoming rigid, more brittle, and prone to breakage. This assault on the skin’s structural support system contributes to the ageing of tissue, and when accelerated by hyperglycemia (high blood sugar), to the gradual development of diabetic complications.
As skin ages it becomes especially vulnerable to glycation, because collagen compromises up to one-third of the body’s proteins, and has a slow turnover rate. Once glycated, collagen fibres have reduced regenerative ability, leading to wrinkles, creping and sagging that characterises skin ageing.
Limiting sugars in your diet is a well-known key to longevity, because of all the molecules capable of inflicting damage in your body, sugar molecules are probably the most damaging of all. Fructose in particular is an extremely potent pro-inflammatory agent that creates AGEs and speeds up the ageing process. It also promotes the kind of dangerous growth of fat cells around your vital organs that are the hallmark of diabetes & heart disease.