Strategic care to maintain healthy skin
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The skin is our first impression, therefore through it we can reflect the way we live, our habits and even what we eat, and of course the passing of the years also through this will be noticed, but that period We can reduce aging with good care.
Many think that intensive skin care is expensive, and it turns out not because you can give yourself good care with just a healthy lifestyle.
One of the main care that we must take to our skin is to protect you from the sun, although if we know how to appreciate it properly it would bring us benefits such as the production of vitamin D, but an exaggerated exposure to the sun can cause wrinkles, spots , as well as increasing the risk of skin cancer.
The most confessional ways to protect yourself from the sun is to wear protective clothing, hats, avoid exposing yourself to the sun between 10 am and 4 pm, and if you get to exhibit yourself wear a broad-spectrum sunscreen.
Other ways to protect not only your skin but other pathologies such as respiratory and cardiovascular is No smoking, since it accelerates in skin aging and contributes to wrinkles, significantly affects the blood microcirculation in the outermost layers of the skin. skin, reducing oxygenation and accelerating the death of skin cells and destroying collagen and elastin.
To maintain a smooth skin you have to treat it in a docile way, so you must be very careful when shaving, bathing, and of course you can not miss the use of moisturizers.
The diet in a healthy way and very rich in fish oil, low fat, carbohydrates and sugars helps to promote healthier skin, it is also important to avoid hot water baths, which affect the skin cells.
Stress must be managed because it could trigger acne breakouts and other problems.
Benefits of the sun for the health of our skin
Mother Nature every dawn gives us a great star that illuminates the day called the sun, and is through its luminous rays that generate heat, it has great health benefits, as long as we expose ourselves to it properly.
Exposing yourself to the sun is one of the appropriate ways or practices for the release of serotonin, the hormone that favors us in humor, that is, sunbathing gives us happiness, and not only this, it also gives us other benefits of indirect way for our health.
One of the benefits that it brings to health is the increase in vitamin D levels, this vitamin is synthesized by the skin thanks to a photosynthetic chemical reaction that occurs when we are exposed to UVB radiation that produces the sun's rays.
This increase in the production of vitamin D causes it to accumulate in the cells of the intestine, greatly improving the absorption of calcium and phosphorus; greatly favoring bones with calcium production.
Although on many occasions we have heard that solar overexposure favors the appearance of skin cancer, but controversially, exposure to the sun helps in the prevention of other types of cancer such as ovarian, colon, pancreas, breast, among others and this thanks to the production of the increase in vitamin D.
A correct exposure to the sun also brings us a great benefit since it acts as an adjunct in the prevention of heart disease and low blood pressure.
As already mentioned above, sun exposure favors the release of serotonin making us happier and in turn improves brain function as it reduces the risk of brain disorders, among which we have schizophrenia, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, among others less remarkable.
Another of the health benefits of exposing ourselves to the sun in an adequate way is to strengthen the teeth. Vitamin D directly intervenes on the protection of tooth decay since it favors the production and reabsorption of calcium in both bones and bones. teeth.
Exposing yourself naturally to the sun, and not seeing it directly helps reduce the risk of myopia, also acts as a very effective treatment against acne.
Remember that to receive the necessary amounts of the sun for the production of vitamin D, and to help your health, you have to expose yourself between 10-15 minutes 3 or 4 days a week, when the sun is at its highest position.
Wrote @azucenita
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