Environmental and Emotional Stress Can Take a Toll on Your Skin
Anxiety and stress not only wrecks havoc on your head but also on your complexion. Are you stressed out at the office or in your home life? Is your skin inflamed, prone to acne breakouts, or affected by afflictions like dry skin and rosacea? Odds are there is a direct link between the mental angst you feel in the office or at home and the appearance of your skin.
There is not one single person on the face of the earth who loves stress. While it can be beneficial in making you finish that last second book report or studying for your economics exam, it can be disastrous when you are up all night worrying about credit cards or the loss of a loved one. What anxiety does is directly alter the hormonal balances in your body. When these vital balances are modified, your skin shows it. Chronic stress changes the body's biochemistry and is responsible for prompting an increase in sebum production, an enlargement of the sebaceous glands, acne inflammation, rosacea inflammation, and oily skin.
The bad news gets even worse. Emotional anxiety isn't the only kind of stress that can affect your skin. Environmental contamination and poor air quality can lead to skin disorders. We all know mills put tons of pollutants into the air just like automobiles do. The problem is smaller elements like animal dander, adhesives, pollen, wind, and high levels of humidity can affect skin. What are people to do with apparently everything on the planet producing stress? How can we avoid stress, or at least fight it, and have glowing skin?
What can you do to assure a stress-free life and therefore healthy skin? Taking a few minutes to reduce your daily stress can pay off in healthier skin. A few hints can help people have a clean complexion. Try to:
* Relax. This is obviously easier said then done but it is crucial to take a deep breath every few minutes and center yourself.
* Eat right. Eating a pizza won't give you a breakout the next day but your overall eating habits do affect your skin. Eating lots of fruits and salads and drinking lots of water will keep skin strong.
* Avoid smoking cigarettes and lessen the consumption of alcohol. Smoking and drinking reduces white blood cells and therefore immunity. In turn, the skin becomes more vulnerable to mental and physiological stressors.
* Go to the gym. The benefits of exercise and stress reduction are immense. Exercise also improves the appearance of skin by cleaning pores and improving oxygen levels in skin cells.
Let's be candid here, emotional stress and skin care is not a new concept but yet diminishing anxiety is never as easy as people make it seem. When stress, both mental and environmental, is constant, your body's hormone levels can go up, adversely altering the skin and how it works. Since stressed skin is damaged skin, what it requires most is to be healed and rejuvenated to regain its natural look and radiance.
There is a new biological skin care adaptogen that will effectively heal lesions and afflictions aroused by stress while helping alleviate and soothe stressed skin while simultaneously addressing skin renewal. The biological component works in synergy with other all natural ingredients to:
* Remove damaged cells within the dermis by the activity of biological enzymes.
* Revitalize the capacity of the skin to stay hydrated by stimulating the biosynthesis of glycosaminoglycans and proteoglycans, the molecules that give skin its capacity to maintain water.
* Destroy free radicals using its strong antioxidants.
* Control the activity of dangerous, pathogenic skin bacteria.
* Govern dermal fibroblast proliferation and excess collagen.
* Manage blood vessel development and oxygenation within the capillaries in the skin contributing to its proper nourishment.
* Stimulate the use of the amino acids that the biological enzymes free and activates fibroblast stem cells which favor the proliferation of new strong connective tissues and all the basic elements of healthy skin
* Prompt the formation of the extracellular binding between cells, increasing skin strength, decreasing weakness.
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Published November 14th, 2007
