AGEING
You Are What You Eat
At Just Josef, we believe that what we put on our skin is just as important as the food we eat. You would have heard that eating foods that are covered in chemicals are harmful to your health, but many people aren’t aware that a great deal of what we put on our skin is absorbed into our bloodstream. While there are some chemicals that are too large to enter our bloodstream some are small enough to penetrate through the skin, examples of these are nicotine and birth control patches. It takes 26 seconds for chemicals to enter our bloodstream from products we are placing on our skin.
From the moment we wake up we are subjecting our bodies to chemicals either through ingestion, inhalation or absorption. It is scary to think about how many harsh chemicals we are downloading every day. Once these chemicals enter the bloodstream they disrupt normal hormonal function and have toxic effects throughout the body. Some experts believe that the chemicals that are absorbed through the skin are far more dangerous than the chemicals taken in by the mouth.
When we eat food that contains toxins our body flushes them out of our system via the liver and kidneys where enzymes can break them down. Chemicals that are absorbed through the skin enter our bloodstream and bypass the liver which means they aren’t broken down and flushed out fast enough. They can build up in our body and can be stored in our body fat and brain.
Our skin is our largest organ an Adults skin on average weighs 2.2 kgs and is around 2 metres squared. Skin acts as a barrier to chemicals and harsh sun rays, it prevents harmful bacteria from entering our body it keeps us warm and cools us off when we’re hot, if eyes are the window to the soul, then the skin is undoubtedly the window to our overall health.
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