How To Promote Radiant Youthful Skin Through Your Diet
With Eliza Hedley
Today on Channel In, we have our beloved badass holistic sister, Eliza sharing how to get glowing radiant skin: by focusing on the food you put in your body.
Eliza is a Holistic Nutritionist, obsessed with epigenetics and nutrigenomics (the study of how our lifestyle and food influences our genes and cellular functions).
She says...
When it comes to our skin the most important thing to realise is that... that beautiful thing that you can see and touch is a living, functioning organ systems.
It contains dozens of different cells, immune cells, bacteria, fungi, mites, viruses, our skin has receptors on it recognising sex hormones and UV rays (hence how hormones and the sun influences our skin), and our skin cells require specific nutrients to be strong, robust, functioning and balanced.
I like to think of the skin in 2 ways when it comes to nutrition, diet and foods.
The first is that just as we have a gut microbiome - we have a skin microbiome - and so we want to be consistently eating foods that support the growth and colonisation of various bacterial species which help protect us from pathogens, UV damage, pollution, oxidative stress, acne, eczema and psoriasis. This is FIBER. Fiber isn't for old people or people who are constipated, fiber is for your microbiome. We (as in our own cells) don't utilise fiber at all - instead it's the matrix and functional food for our gut microbes which directly influences our skin - as our bacteria can communicate with one another. So chances are if we have any kind of inflammatory skin conditions, break outs, redness, dryness, itchiness in our skin - we have an imbalance within our gut and our skin is being a symptom of that.
Fiber rich foods include:
๐ฅ Fruits & Vegetables
Berries, Apples, Jerusalem artichoke, Garlic, Onion
๐ซ Seeds, Lentils, Powders
Green banana flour, Psyllium husks, Chia seeds, Chickpeas, Lentils, Legumes, Oats
Specific extracted supplements like inulin, partially hydrolysed guar gum, and larch.
Then our skin as I mentioned is a functioning organ and our cells - like our keratinocytes, melanocytes and Langerhan cells require specific nutrients - specifically Vitamin A, Vitamin C, Vitamin E, Vitamin D, Zinc, Omega's, Selenium, Copper, Iron, Water and Amino Acids (so many but our cells need all of these nutrients to function optimally!!) And when you think about it - our skin, hair and nails are the last place nutrients are designated because its not essential for survival to have juicy glowy skin. So we want to be eating the foods that are rich in these nutrients every single day, so that we're over flowing with an abundance of nutrients that our skin can utilise and continue to protect us from the environment.
Specific skin loving foods include - salmon, sardines, oysters, ground flaxseeds, blueberries, raspberries broccoli, broccoli sprouts, goji berries, sweet potato, apples, chickpeas, red meat, beef liver, pumpkin seeds, avocado, cacao and leafy greens.
Cass also asked me to tell you guys key skin / hair swaps I recommend - which is super hard because we're all so unique in what works for our skin / hair and what our bodies need. So as a general thing, brands I like / recommend (based off not having heaps of gut / skin disrupting ingredients) would be:
๐ฑ๐ผโโ๏ธ Agent Nateur
๐ฑ๐ผโโ๏ธ Sunday Riley
๐ฑ๐ผโโ๏ธ Sana Skincare
๐ฑ๐ผโโ๏ธ OSEA OCosmedics
๐ฑ๐ผโโ๏ธ Moon Juice
๐ฑ๐ผโโ๏ธJosh Rosebrook
๐ฑ๐ผโโ๏ธRahua Haircare
Be sure to follow Eliza on Instagram for all her knowledge.
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