Your skin, hair and nails are the windows to your health, telling you when you are in great shape or when you are in trouble. It is good to question your health or nutritional program based on these indicators.
Many of the health and hormonal problems women face could be due to cutting out not only the “bad” but also the “good” fats from their diet. When you cut out all fats, problems show up rather quickly in your skin, hair and nails.
Your body desperately requires the “proper fats” for ultimate skin beauty especially as you age. Essential fatty acids obtained from both the Omega-3 and Omega-6 fatty acid families are absolutely critical to women’s beauty. Women who consume the beautifying oils daily enjoy fresh clear skin, strong nails and thick hair.
Beautiful skin, free from redness, dryness, scaling and swelling requires the proper fats in order to maintain the correct balance of a family of chemical messengers called prostaglandins. Prostaglandin’s which strongly influence skin health, are the body’s chemical messengers governing many processes, including inflammation. They are not stored in the body. They must be constantly synthesized from essential fatty acids (EFA’s) taken in from the diet.
The best dietary sources of EFA’s include flaxseed oil, select types of fish, and evening primrose oil. While flax seed oil and select types of fish (eg. wild salmon, mackerol and trout) supply Omega-3 fatty acids, evening primrose oil is one of nature’s richest sources of an even rarer fatty acid: the Omega 6 fat called gammalinolenic acid (GLA).
The exceptionally high GLA content of evening primrose oil makes it beneficial to skin health. This is because the other EFA’s require two key enzymes for metabolism and utilization that are not present in the
skin whereas GLA is already in a body-ready form.
If the body is lacking GLA, the skin is required to form it from precursor compounds provided by the liver and then depends on the blood for transport to the skin. Although the body can convert linolenic acid (LA) into GLA, it may be more beneficial to provide a constant supply of already-formed GLA from evening primrose oil. That’s because the body’s capacity to convert LA to GLA decreases with age, and this may increase the body’s dietary requirements.
Both evening primrose and flax oils are available separetely, however you may be able to achieve better results from a formula that combines flax and evening primrose oils, especially supporting moist, healthy skin. Both GLA and EPA – a major polyunsaturated fatty acid found in fish oil, which the body also produces from the raw materials in flax oil – are potent inhibitors of the chemical leukotriene B4, which is known to contribute to skin inflammation. Another reason for using flax and evening primrose oil together is that under the influence of Omega-3 oils, such as EPA and DHA, the body is far more likely to convert GLA to favorable prostaglandins.
Flax’s Omega-3 fatty acids also inhibit the body’s production of inflammation-causing arachidonic acid, which is usually found in animal foods along with saturated fat. By doing so, flax favorably inhibits the body’s conversion of arachidonic acid to pro-inflammatory prostaglandins.
Where to find evening primrose and flax oils: Health food store or Natural products supermarket or you can buy supplements directly @ Arbonne International or Life Force.
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