Your skin is the largest sense organ of your body. It’s also an important element of attraction—a good reason to prioritize its care. However, some lifestyle choices you make every day—what you eat, the places you visit, and how long you sleep— may affect the appearance of your skin.
In the post, we revealed a few secrets on how to achieve glowing, youthful, and healthy skin.
- Watch what you eat
If you want skin you are proud of, you must be ready to eat right and stop unhealthy eating habits that are detrimental to your skin. For glowing skin, we recommend incorporating vitamin C into your diet while reducing fats and carbohydrate intake.
While changing your diet may seem hard, following a diet that benefits your skin can improve your looks. Foods containing high antioxidants, like fish, fruits, and vegetables, effectively protect the skin. And if you want to avoid breakouts, we recommend complex carbohydrates (such as whole grains and pasta), including healthy proteins.
Also, steer clear of dairy products as they are associated with acne flares.
- Eat your vitamins
If you have an anti-aging cream, it is likely to contain vitamin C or E. While these antioxidants are designed to work from the outside, determining how to put them into use from the inside can help your skin.
And how do you do that? Simple!
Eat foods that consist of vitamin C or E. You should also consider adding the mineral selenium to the list. It’s effective in protecting your skin from UV rays. In fact, vitamins and selenium may help reverse signs of aging, such as wrinkles and skin discoloration. ‘
- Quit smoking
Did you know that smoking causes 9 out of 10 cancer deaths? In addition to shortening your lifespan and putting you at risk of severe health conditions, smoking can damage your skin. It can result in the formation of premature wrinkles and dry skin.
Smoking diminishes blood flow to the skin and is associated with the breakdown of collagen. Less collagen in the skin raises the risk of skin wrinkles. And, as you probably know, pursing your lips regularly promotes wrinkles, as well. So, try to end your smoking habit so you have healthy skin and live long.
- Supplement Collagen
Your body and skin contain a variety of proteins. However, one of the most abundant is collagen. Sadly, your collagen level diminishes as you age. The good news is with collagen supplements like marine collagen peptides you can boost your collagen levels, thus improving hair, skin, and nail health. Specifically, this peptide can help reduce wrinkles, making your face fresh and thus boosting your confidence.
- Exercise
Exercising is good for your well-being, quality of life, and the largest sense organ in your body, the skin. This activity improves circulation, which is important in nourishing your skin. Improved blood circulation produces more oxygen and nutrients, which are beneficial in the production of collagen. Collagen helps prevent wrinkles.
Don’t bother about sweat—hitting the gym and performing a few exercises wouldn’t block your pores. Just ensure you wash your face after exercising and don’t wear tight headbands, which can trap sweat and irritate the skin.
Conclusion
Many lifestyle choices you make each day contribute to your skin issues. Sadly, many of you aren’t aware of this. Thanks to this post, you can review your lifestyle choices and make necessary adjustments for your skin and confidence.
I take collagen every day. Not only for my skin, I notice my hair and nails looks healthier too!
I’m so glad to hear that!
I will keep these tips in mind. My skin can get so dry in the cooler months.
Right. Mine too.
I so agree with exercise. My skin looks nice since I exercise.
Yes, most definitely!
These are great tips and stuff that I always take into consideration when thinking about my skincare.
Right!
My nieces and nephews gave up dairy in an effort to control their acne, and it seemed to work. This si the first I’ve read about selenium. I’ll have to get some.
That’s good to hear giving it up really worked.
Diet is a biggie when it comes to our skin. When we eat healthily we provide the skin with the nutrients it needs to stay healthy and look great. That also includes what we drink. Having plenty of water daily helps elimination processes function efficiently and helps flush out toxins.
Yes, definitely!
Those are such beautiful tips. I often forget to take collagen; this post is a great reminder.
Glad to be of some help.
What a really great tips you have here! Thanks for the reminder!
Of course!
I found out my acne was hormonal so when I started taking meds for another reason my acne cleared up for the most part. Plus, I drink mostly water now.
Glad to hear that helped for you.
I will keep these tips in mind, thanks for sharing this with us.
Of course!
These seem like simple steps to follow in order to get that nice glow-up!
Yes, certainly.
Exercise does absolute wonders for the body. Also staying hydrated with water. I see I huge difference in my appearance and how I feel when I remember to do those 2 things daily.
Yes, most definitely. They both work well for me too.
I can definitely use some of these tips. My skin needs some help for improvement!
Right! Mine too!
I do take my vitamins daily and I try my best to exercise regularly too. I do agree about collagen as well.
Me too!
These are all true and helpful! Start inside and it will reflect on the outside! Clean gut, clean skin….
Yes, definitely!