Skin health is just as important as your overall health. When it comes to promoting your skin health, you need to begin from the inside out. This blog will look at what you can do to support your skin from the inside and what lifestyle factors affect your skin health.

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“Supporting what your skin looks like is not just about what you put on it.”  - Meg

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1. How can your diet affect your skin? 

Eating a well-balanced, nutritious diet can provide the vitamins and minerals your skin needs to glow from within. These vitamins and minerals will reduce your inflammation and decrease your chances of getting breakouts.

A poor diet can cause a leaky gut. A leaky gut is when your gut lining is damaged, meaning, harmful bacteria, undigested food, etc., can seep into your system and cause a host of issues. Super fun, right? 

A healthy diet can help fix this! 

This is why a lot of people will say “my skin is breaking out because I’ve been eating horribly lately.” It’s because that food is wrecking their gut health. Health is bio-individual, meaning, there is no one size fits all. Different foods will make people break out. What makes your friend break out might not make you break out. 

Healthy foods can seal up that leaky gut, helping you to absorb vitamins and minerals a lot better! 

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2. The top vitamins for your skin and what foods to eat 
  • Vitamin A: carrots, broccoli, fish oil, wild-caught salmon, and carrots. 
  • Vitamin D: wild-caught salmon, sardines, mushrooms, and egg yolks 
  • Vitamin C: berries, oranges, bell peppers, tomatoes, and lemons 
  • Vitamin E: extra virgin olive oil, sweet potatoes, avocadoes, leafy green vegetables, and broccoli
  • Zinc: pumpkin seeds, oysters, eggs, oats, hemp hearts, and brazil nuts 
  • Of course, there are more, but these are some of the main vitamins to help your skin. 

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These are foods to include in your daily meals! 

One of my favorite, and quite frankly the easiest way to get in loads of these vitamins is……a SALAD! Now I know you might be thinking, “Megan, I hate salads” and what I say to that is just give it a try. 

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I used to hate eating salads, but I always thought I had to eat them if I wanted to be #healthy. Now, I absolutely love and genuinely crave salads. And you can get there too! 

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Next time you make a salad, add your leafy greens, cut up your tomatoes, bell peppers, add some avocado, pumpkin seeds, and wild-caught salmon, and dress it with some organic extra virgin olive oil, and a squeeze of lemon. BAM! That would be a great salad full of omega-3s for glowing skin!

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3. Other lifestyle factors that influence our skin 

While diet is a big part of skin health, there are also other factors that influence it. Can you guess what some of them are? 

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STRESS, SLEEP, and HORMONAL CHANGES….yay!

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By now we all know how much stress affects our health. Sometimes I even forgot about it too, but it really does. If you need healthy ways to reduce your stress you can check out my blog post here. 

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Sleep is also another factor that needs to be addressed if you want glowing skin. Sure, makeup can be great to help with those tired bags, but sometimes it’s nice to wake up and not have to put makeup on just because you look like you got hit by a bus. 

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I know there can be many reasons why you might not be sleeping well. Maybe you’re a mom and you have kids that don’t sleep through the night or just can’t seem to get tired before midnight. 

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The one thing I want to highlight about sleep is that every night does not have to be perfect. Reread that again. Stressing about sleep quality will probably make it worse.

Lastly, hormonal changes can cause our skin to break out which is absolutely no fun. But, guess what?

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Eating a more whole, nutritious diet will not only help your hormonal breakouts but it can also help many other aspects of your monthly cycle.

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While it's impossible to tell you exactly what foods will work for your skin, more and more research is suggesting that certain foods may indeed help promote healthy skin. There are many topical skincare products on the market that might help with breakouts, pigmentation, etc. 

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But these are only fixing the symptom, not the root cause. 

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Just like supplements are supposed to “supplement” your already healthy diet, skincare products should be viewed in the same way.

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You can’t out supplement a bad diet, just like you can’t expect skincare alone to fix bad skin. 

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