It never ceases to amaze me when I see women purchasing products to improve their skin tone but continuing the same lifestyle practices that injure their skin to begin with. According to Markus Rothkranz, any effort to manipulate and treat the body (skin) for improvement without considering diet and lifestyle is as futile as "painting over rust." This makes perfect sense to me. I believe the better approach is to make your organs, tissues and blood healthy and beautiful on the inside. Once your body has been able to detoxify and cleanse itself with the foods you eat, your skin will soon reflect the changes. Here are some tips I've been able to gather.
Stop these things: You are not doing yourself any favors if you drink alcohol, smoke, drink coffee or sodas. Drink water, juiced fruits and vegetables and non-caffeinated herbal tea (except green tea). Excessive sun exposure is also a problem. You need to expose yourself moderately to the sun for good health but excessive exposure can lead to photo-aging of the skin. Fried foods, processed foods, and sugar wreak havoc on the skin and your health. (Please don't consider nutrasweet, diet sodas, or aspartame as a healthy option. Instead choose to use sparingly coconut palm sugar, date sugar, raw honey or stevia.) I personally choose not to eat animal products, dairy in particular. Animal products are difficult to digest and sap your body of energy that could be used for other things. Eating animal products also ages you faster than eating a plant based diet. Dairy products can do a number on wrecking the clarity of your skin. If, however, you decide to continue eating meat, please consider buying it at a local farm where the animals are raised humanely, roam free and have a more nutritious diet without antibiotics or hormones.
Eat an Alkaline Diet: My brother-in-law is a physician who has done studies in longevity and hyperbaric medicine. In a conversation with me he said that if you know how to prevent cancer, then you know how to slow the progress of aging. The enemy of youthfulness is free radical damage. The way to combat free radicals is to overwhelm the body with antioxidants. This means that you should eat an alkaline diet which would comprise at least 75% raw vegetables, fruit, soaked nuts, seeds, sprouts, sea vegetables, etc. Include lots of dark leafy greens. Green smoothies are the easiest way to consume these. Also consider adding juicing to your regimen. Juicing is phenomenal for the skin. Include healthful grains like quinoa, amaranth, buckwheat and millet. These foods contain the mineral silica which helps promote the elasticity of the cell membrane and thereby the elasticity of your skin. Include foods such as figs, cucumber, coconut oil, hemp seeds, aloe vera, pumpkin seeds, macadamia nuts and turmeric. According to David Wolfe, these foods are high in antioxidants and contain several minerals (silicon, sulfur and zinc) that promote the elasticity of your skin.
Use Sea Buckthorn: Sea Buckthorn is a bright orange berry that grows in the Himalayas. The local people who consume this berry regularly or drink its juice have very youthful skin. You can find Sea Buckthorn lotions and juice at health food stores. Tonya Zavasta - Beautiful on Raw, Nadine Artemis - Living Libations and Longevity Warehouse all have lotions that include this berry. Avoid body care products that are not clean! See this recent post for better alternatives.
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| David Wolfe's Eating For Beauty |
Dry brush your skin daily: I first heard of dry skin brushing when I read Dr Richard Schulze's book, There Are No Incurable Diseases. Dr. Schulze includes this practice in his Incurables Program. Dry brushing is very important for the skin. It helps to exfoliate the outer layer of dead skin cells. It stimulates blood circulation and cell turnover and it stimulates lymphatic drainage. In other words, dry skin brushing helps to detoxify your skin and ultimately, your body. Be sure to brush towards the heart. Get a brush with some sort of natural bristle. These are available at most health food stores. Tonya Zavasta sells a facial brush on her site.
Consider these supplements: I would consider these supplements for healthy skin. I suggest including some sort of superfood. I have a preference for Dr. Schulze's Superfood, but I think Sunwarrior's Ormus Supergreens is good too. Probiotics are very important for skin health as crazy as it may sound. Having healthful intestinal flora can help control the harmful bacteria in your body preventing acne. I keep things simple and just eat sauerkraut to meet this need. Enzymes are very good to have as well. We are born with a limited supply of enzymes and require them for our digestive process as well as other metabolic functions. Eating a high quantity of raw foods helps to replenish your stores, but you could also take a supplement in addition to your raw foods. Raw enzymes by Garden of Life seems like a good product. Lastly, consider taking Silica. This is the mineral that Truth Calkins and David Wolfe recommend.
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| Heal Your Face by Markus Rothkranz |
An amazing new product: First
I need to divulge some information about myself. I'm not very excited
about telling you this, but it just let's you know how excellent this
product is. After having children, the skin on my abdomen wasn't as...
well, smooth as it was before kids. The conventional approach would be
to have plastic surgery, collagen injections or what have you. I
searched high and low for a natural alternative but to no avail...
until just recently. I am using a botanically based product that is
tightening my skin and restoring it to its pre-pregrancy smoothness.
It's absolutely amazing. I'm still testing it on myself so it'll be a
couple of weeks before I do a post on it.
Recommended Reading: Consider reading David Wolfe's Eating for Beauty and Markus Rothkranz's Heal Your Face. Having
good skin is something very personal and affects us at a deep emotional
level. What most people don't know is that you do have control over the health of your skin and how fast it ages. It's most definitely not a matter of chance but a matter of choice!
Enjoy the Journey!
