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Vitamins for skin health
Last reviewed: 23.04.2024
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Skin is the largest human organ. And the most vulnerable, because it is the skin that protects us from external influences. Cold, heat, bacteria and mechanical injuries. What vitamins can we support the skin?
How to determine that the skin lacks vitamins?
As soon as you see the peeling, sores, pimples, redness instead of a beautiful, smooth, evenly colored skin, this is a signal that your skin is sorely lacking in nutrients. Or rather - vitamins.
By the way: the first signals about problems with your body skin can not be from the face. No. The first will react ... Your heels and elbows. They will appear a lot of keratinized cells, which you can not remove even when treated with scrubs and pedicure. They will grow again and again.
This is because toxins are excreted from the body not only by sweat glands. Dead skin is cells that have not peeled off and in which many substances harmful to the body are located.
Do not consider this a temporary phenomenon and treat the skin from the outside. With a lack of vitamins, it should be treated from the inside. But how? Vitamins!
Vitamin A for skin health
Vitamin A is a very useful substance, which in the body is responsible for maintaining sufficient moisture in the subcutaneous layers. If vitamin A is not enough, the skin will be rough and touch and peel off.
Its dryness can not be eliminated by any moisturizers and creams. You know this situation: all the most expensive creams have tried, and the skin looks moistened only in the first 5-10 minutes? This means that you pay little attention to vitamin A in the diet.
Vitamin C for skin health
This vitamin is responsible for the formation of collagen fibers, which makes our skin supple. Over the years, collagen fibers stretch, and the skin becomes flabby. To prevent this from happening, the diet should have enough vitamin C in the pharmacy or taken from the products.
If you have a lack of vitamin C in your body, then your wounds and cracks will heal slowly. Just like the slightest bruises. If your skin responds very quickly to any touch with bruises, you need vitamin C in sufficient or increased doses. They will help you identify a dermatologist.
Vitamin E for skin health
The cells of our skin are constantly updated. If the body lacks vitamin E, this process is not active. Vitamin E also has the property of protecting your skin from an overabundance of sunlight.
If you burn even with the slightest exposure to sunlight, you need to see a doctor to calculate the dose of vitamin E - you have a clear deficit in the body.
B vitamins for skin health
In group B there are a lot of vitamins under different numbers. All of them play an important role in the processes of skin renewal and its condition. Vitamin B1 is struggling with premature aging.
Vitamin B2 helps you look beautiful thanks to a smooth and healthy complexion
Vitamin B6 in sufficient quantity is an even skin without peeling and roughness, it is responsible for the health of the skin surface.
Vitamin B9 struggles with the harmful effects of ultraviolet radiation on our skin.
Vitamin B10 protects us from sunburn and premature aging.
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A group of vitamins responsible for the purity of the skin
This vitamin D, PP, vitamin K, taken in the complex, will help maintain a healthy skin. They control its elasticity, elasticity, beautiful healthy color. These vitamins protect against freckles and age spots, and also fight with inflammatory processes and swelling.
Vitamins and sports
Of course, one's vitamins do not provide skin health. You need a healthy diet, and exercise. If you will constantly engage in sports - feasible for you! - it will improve your blood flow, metabolic processes and as a consequence - the color and condition of your skin.
It is also important that your diet is reasonably balanced. Take vitamins not only from pharmacy vitamin complexes, but also from food.
Let your skin always be healthy and beautiful, and you - happy!