Skin Reflects Overall Health
Glowing skin is one of the ultimate prizes of health and is a great way to measure overall health.
Skin as our largest organ reflects the health of organs that feed it.
The health of skin would also logically determine how well we utilize sunlight, the most important nutrient.
Skin is a visible way to measure progress, rather than relying on occasional lab tests that are often too narrow to reflect overall health.
Feeding the skin from the inside-out can help much more than cosmetically treating the symptoms.
Topicals are Limited
Even supposedly organic skin products usually give me a headache.
Topicals can be denatured by extracting and isolating ingredients leading to oxidation, a natural process that damages skin, even if it begins in antioxidant form because it might not be stable in holding its electrons to donate and thus turn into an oxidizer on your skin. I’ve noticed that vitamin E oils, even food based oils, can go rancid indicating that extracts of E from some sources that do not work well alone.
Skin Nutrients
What many people consider the most important skin nutrient is retinol, animal source vitamin A.
Retinol has so many roles in the body that you ought to treat it as an overall nutritional need or deficiency.
One of the best sources of A is raw butter, which in my experience does more for the skin and overall health that just about anything.
It has the fat for solubility for minerals and vitamins.
Butter has cholesterol that is also necessary for skin, hormones, and many other functions.
Butter is a broad spectrum nutrient but does not necessarily work as well just putting it on the face.
Collagen powders I have not noticed helping the skin or anything. These are cooked, isolated and denatured so they are not necessarily delivered to the skin.
One component of collagen formation is vitamin C or ascorbic acid that may be more utilizable by being assembled on the spot into collagen with the right cofactor nutrients from other fresher or raw foods. C also has many other roles for systemic health that protect the skin, like detoxification.
Detoxifying Through the Skin
One cause of skin damage is toxicity that is being detoxified through the skin.
Your body wants to clean your brain more than it cares about your vanity.
A little clay mask can clean the surface but a thick mask can pull out even more in my experience.
It’s important to detoxify the whole body and organs, the lymph, liver, kidneys, and gut, to redirect toxins in that manner to spare your face and strengthen your organs to feed your skin.
Vitamins like C and E that are used for skin are important for detoxifying internally by working as part of the antioxidant network that includes glutathione, alpha lipoic acid and ubiquinol. I’m not saying you should take a supplement for each of these.
Sulfur is another important detoxification mineral that is also known as good for skin.
Sulfur helps utilize sun light and protect against sun burn, UV damage.
Sun and Far Infrared
Sun light is the most important nutrient for overall health because it is not just for vitamin D but to increase electrons throughout your whole body as a major component of what energy is to help nourish skin from inside out.
Sun can either help skin or damage it, depending on:
1. Time Of Day
Everyone has heard that the UV aspect of sun can damage skin, but that is not inevitable, it is not bad and does not cause cancer. Damage is the result of imbalance and missing cofactor nutrients for utilizing UV.
The UV portion of sun has the vitamin D.
The red range from visible to invisible infrared helps develop protection from oxidation through the creation of an enzyme in the skin called catalase, which can also be bought as a supplement to protect against using hydrogen peroxide in the hair, just to illustrate a point. Red light protects by essentially building a solar callus.
Red light in the morning protects against the high UV hours around solar noon.
There may be a sweet spot of balance in the transition from morning to the noon centered block where both are present just up to 1.5-2 hours before noon in my area of Michigan, USA. The Swiss sun doctor Rollier said the best times are in the red range up to 2 hours before noon, or after, which implies there is still enough UV for vitamin D outside the strongest UV block of hours.
If you have a UV lamp for the winter, get a far infrared lamp or sauna to help utilize UV.
I recommend the Relax Sauna brand of sauna and lamps for the face.
RELAX SAUNA brand. Did you read that? People always ask even though I spell it out.
You can use infrared in an unlimited way for general energy and on the face because it does not burn, but it does not have vitamin D.
You can store vitamin D all summer to last the winter.
There is also vitamin D in foods so you don’t have to take supplements.
So that is why I only use the FIR Relax Sauna Brand of lamp and sauna.
2. Cofactor Food Nutrients
Cholesterol and sulfur are key nutrients to utilize sun light explains MIT research Dr. Stephanie Senoff.
These help with both vitamin that has to be produced by healthy skin, and the conversion of photons of light to electrons.
Those nutrients also prevent sun burn, in my experience, no matter how long or at what time I am out, even without red light prepping.
Skin is like a solar panel that produces energy, so it needs all its parts, too. Skin health would logically determine how well we utilize solar energy.
Complete Nutrition
In order to utilize and digest sulfur and cholesterol or fatty foods, many other cofactor nutrients are important that vary on individual base. Not “for” a symptom, but as a weak link in the chain of energy production for all functions. The foundation is magnesium, potassium, sodium that is necessary to absorb everything else like sulfur.
Suflur intolerance is based on nutritional deficiencies like molybdenum.
Allergic to everything, histamines, etc, with a wrecked gut can be a probiotic imbalance and deficiency.
A solution to one problem depends on the solution to all problems since you are only as strong as your weakest link.
Nutrients “for” skin are for everything, including hormones and utilizing the sun’s energy.
Complete solutions are individualized and require assessment, not random suggestions on social media based on matching symptoms to remedies in a universal manner.
Skin quality as a way to measure health can tell you if something is missing, but not necessarily what it is.
I draw upon ancestral nutrition that is broader than the current state of science and biohacking.
The fun begins when you get compliments as other people help track your progress.
Skin as our largest organ reflects the health of organs that feed it.
The health of skin would also logically determine how well we utilize sunlight, the most important nutrient.
Skin is a visible way to measure progress, rather than relying on occasional lab tests that are often too narrow to reflect overall health.
Feeding the skin from the inside-out can help much more than cosmetically treating the symptoms.
Topicals are Limited
Even supposedly organic skin products usually give me a headache.
Topicals can be denatured by extracting and isolating ingredients leading to oxidation, a natural process that damages skin, even if it begins in antioxidant form because it might not be stable in holding its electrons to donate and thus turn into an oxidizer on your skin. I’ve noticed that vitamin E oils, even food based oils, can go rancid indicating that extracts of E from some sources that do not work well alone.
Skin Nutrients
What many people consider the most important skin nutrient is retinol, animal source vitamin A.
Retinol has so many roles in the body that you ought to treat it as an overall nutritional need or deficiency.
One of the best sources of A is raw butter, which in my experience does more for the skin and overall health that just about anything.
It has the fat for solubility for minerals and vitamins.
Butter has cholesterol that is also necessary for skin, hormones, and many other functions.
Butter is a broad spectrum nutrient but does not necessarily work as well just putting it on the face.
Collagen powders I have not noticed helping the skin or anything. These are cooked, isolated and denatured so they are not necessarily delivered to the skin.
One component of collagen formation is vitamin C or ascorbic acid that may be more utilizable by being assembled on the spot into collagen with the right cofactor nutrients from other fresher or raw foods. C also has many other roles for systemic health that protect the skin, like detoxification.
Detoxifying Through the Skin
One cause of skin damage is toxicity that is being detoxified through the skin.
Your body wants to clean your brain more than it cares about your vanity.
A little clay mask can clean the surface but a thick mask can pull out even more in my experience.
It’s important to detoxify the whole body and organs, the lymph, liver, kidneys, and gut, to redirect toxins in that manner to spare your face and strengthen your organs to feed your skin.
Vitamins like C and E that are used for skin are important for detoxifying internally by working as part of the antioxidant network that includes glutathione, alpha lipoic acid and ubiquinol. I’m not saying you should take a supplement for each of these.
Sulfur is another important detoxification mineral that is also known as good for skin.
Sulfur helps utilize sun light and protect against sun burn, UV damage.
Sun and Far Infrared
Sun light is the most important nutrient for overall health because it is not just for vitamin D but to increase electrons throughout your whole body as a major component of what energy is to help nourish skin from inside out.
Sun can either help skin or damage it, depending on:
- Time of day
- Cofactor food nutrients.
1. Time Of Day
Everyone has heard that the UV aspect of sun can damage skin, but that is not inevitable, it is not bad and does not cause cancer. Damage is the result of imbalance and missing cofactor nutrients for utilizing UV.
The UV portion of sun has the vitamin D.
The red range from visible to invisible infrared helps develop protection from oxidation through the creation of an enzyme in the skin called catalase, which can also be bought as a supplement to protect against using hydrogen peroxide in the hair, just to illustrate a point. Red light protects by essentially building a solar callus.
Red light in the morning protects against the high UV hours around solar noon.
There may be a sweet spot of balance in the transition from morning to the noon centered block where both are present just up to 1.5-2 hours before noon in my area of Michigan, USA. The Swiss sun doctor Rollier said the best times are in the red range up to 2 hours before noon, or after, which implies there is still enough UV for vitamin D outside the strongest UV block of hours.
If you have a UV lamp for the winter, get a far infrared lamp or sauna to help utilize UV.
I recommend the Relax Sauna brand of sauna and lamps for the face.
RELAX SAUNA brand. Did you read that? People always ask even though I spell it out.
You can use infrared in an unlimited way for general energy and on the face because it does not burn, but it does not have vitamin D.
You can store vitamin D all summer to last the winter.
There is also vitamin D in foods so you don’t have to take supplements.
So that is why I only use the FIR Relax Sauna Brand of lamp and sauna.
2. Cofactor Food Nutrients
Cholesterol and sulfur are key nutrients to utilize sun light explains MIT research Dr. Stephanie Senoff.
These help with both vitamin that has to be produced by healthy skin, and the conversion of photons of light to electrons.
Those nutrients also prevent sun burn, in my experience, no matter how long or at what time I am out, even without red light prepping.
Skin is like a solar panel that produces energy, so it needs all its parts, too. Skin health would logically determine how well we utilize solar energy.
Complete Nutrition
In order to utilize and digest sulfur and cholesterol or fatty foods, many other cofactor nutrients are important that vary on individual base. Not “for” a symptom, but as a weak link in the chain of energy production for all functions. The foundation is magnesium, potassium, sodium that is necessary to absorb everything else like sulfur.
Suflur intolerance is based on nutritional deficiencies like molybdenum.
Allergic to everything, histamines, etc, with a wrecked gut can be a probiotic imbalance and deficiency.
A solution to one problem depends on the solution to all problems since you are only as strong as your weakest link.
Nutrients “for” skin are for everything, including hormones and utilizing the sun’s energy.
Complete solutions are individualized and require assessment, not random suggestions on social media based on matching symptoms to remedies in a universal manner.
Skin quality as a way to measure health can tell you if something is missing, but not necessarily what it is.
I draw upon ancestral nutrition that is broader than the current state of science and biohacking.
The fun begins when you get compliments as other people help track your progress.
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