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The Best Supplements for Glowing Skin
Great skincare is essential for keeping your skin glowing and healthy on the outside, but for truly radiant skin, taking care of the inside is key.
Supplements are a great way to give your skin what it needs to stay healthy from within. You might be surprised to learn that there’s an important link between gut health and skin health. This important connection means that taking care of your gut will benefit both your body and your skin.
Here’s what you need to know about supplements, the role your gut health plays in getting healthier skin, and the best supplements for glowing skin.
How Do Supplements Work?
Most of the time, the nutrients and vitamins you need come from the foods you eat. If you eat a balanced diet, you have better health. If you aren’t eating a balanced diet, you could become deficient in something your body needs to stay healthy.
Supplements work by filling in dietary gaps. If you aren’t getting enough vitamin B, for instance, a vitamin B supplement can help give your body the amount it’s lacking.
Supplements usually come with much more of the nutrient than you actually need. This is because your body doesn’t absorb as much of the nutrient in a supplement form as it does from your food. As such, a vitamin B supplement might say it gives you 200% of your daily recommended allowance of vitamin B. Your body won’t absorb all of the vitamin from the supplement, which is why there’s such a high concentration.
The ability of a supplement to be absorbed by your body is called its bioavailability. The more bioavailable a supplement is to your body, the better it will be absorbed and the more benefit it can bring you.
Probiotics and prebiotics are generally highly bioavailable for your body, making them a great choice for anyone attempting to improve their gut health. The fact that gut health plays a central role in the health of virtually every system in your body (including your skin) makes the decision to take a probiotic and/or prebiotic supplement an easy choice.
Can Supplements Help My Skin?
Absolutely! In fact, taking supplements is one of the best things you can do to encourage healthy skin function. Even if you eat a balanced diet, your skin may not be getting enough of the vitamins and nutrients it needs to function at its best, so taking a supplement can help.
What Are the Best Vitamins for Glowing Skin?
Your body needs vitamins to carry about virtually every function it has. Your skin is no exception; vitamins help your skin renew, repair, and restore itself. They help keep your skin conditioned, hydrated, and protected.
Here are some of the most important vitamins your skin needs to really glow.
Vitamin A
You’ve probably used a topical product that contains vitamin A without realizing it. There are two different types of Vitamin A, and the type your skin needs is called retinol. Retinol helps your skin make new skin cells, which is why practically every “age-defying” beauty cream available contains some type of retinol in the ingredients list.
Vitamin A also helps troubled skin. In fact, one of the most aggressive acne medications your dermatologist can prescribe is a synthetic derivative of vitamin A.
Vitamin B
B Vitamins are also essential for cellular growth and regeneration. For your skin, the absence of B vitamins can mean acne, irritation, dryness, itchiness, and flaking. You may even experience difficulty healing wounds from scratches or bumps if you are deficient in vitamin B.
Vitamin C
Your skin needs antioxidants to protect against free radical damage. Free radicals come from sources like the sun, pollution, cigarette smoke, and even some cleaning supplies. Antioxidants help shield your skin against environmental stressors, keeping your skin cells protected.
Vitamin C is also a skin brightener. When applied topically, vitamin C helps improve skin’s overall tone and texture.
Vitamin D
Vitamin D is a natural anti-inflammatory that helps keep skin soothed and helps protect against irritation. Vitamin D also plays a role in your skin’s cell turnover, and provides additional antioxidant protection against free radicals.
Vitamin E
Vitamin E is one of the most popular skin-loving vitamins. It has skin-conditioning properties that help keep your skin soft and supple, and also aids in protecting against free radical damage.
Vitamin E also helps improve skin’s overall tone, and can be used to help fade skin blemishes and areas of darker pigmentation. Vitamin E also has anti-aging properties, which allow it to smooth out fine lines and wrinkles, lessening their appearance.
Are There Other Supplements I Can Take?
You can always take a multivitamin to make sure you’re covering any gaps in your diet that could be affecting your skin. However, there are other skin-loving supplements you can take outside the realm of vitamins.
Chlorella
Also known as green algae, chlorella helps pull heavy metals out of your system on top of bringing a wealth of macro and micronutrients including fatty acids, vitamins, minerals, proteins, and polysaccharides. Chlorella can help support almost every system in your body, especially when it comes to skin health and immune support.
Chlorophyll
If you’ve spent any time on social media, you’ve probably noticed that drinking chlorophyll-laced water is wildly popular, but does it really work? It can, but here’s why: chlorophyll (which is a plant extract that gives plants their green color) is full of vitamins A, C, E, and K, the same vitamins you can get in a multivitamin or in leafy green vegetables.
The chlorophyll you add to water is more highly concentrated, which saves you from eating endless amounts of spinach, but again, it’s beneficial to your skin due to its vitamin content.
Collagen Peptides
Collagen peptides are amino acids that make up the collagen protein. Using collagen peptides can encourage your skin’s natural collagen production, which is beneficial since collagen production declines with age.
Digestive Enzymes
Your body needs the nutrients and vitamins in the foods you eat to help keep your skin healthy and your body functioning properly. However, if your body isn’t able to digest your food properly, you’ll miss out on those vital nutrients.
Digestive enzymes help your body break down your food into smaller, more manageable molecules so that the nutrients in your food are better able to be used by your body.
The RMS Beauty Within Digestive Enzyme Supplement is a one-of-a-kind formula that includes enzymes tailored to help break down molecules in a wide range of the foods you eat including fats, carbs, grains, dairy, fiber, protein, vegetables, and even sugar .
Hyaluronic Acid
Hyaluronic acid helps keep your skin hydrated. Your body makes hyaluronic acid naturally, keeping your skin healthy and your joints lubricated. It has become popular to take as a supplement, but you should take caution when using it.
There are many different grades and qualities of hyaluronic acid available, and using it minimally is your best option. If you’re using it topically, stick to a night time application only.
Prebiotics and Probiotics
We mentioned earlier that there is a major connection between your gut health and your skin health. The gut-skin axis refers to the way gut health influences the skin’s natural microbiome.
Your skin is home to numerous different strains of healthy bacteria, just like your gut, and we are now discovering that the flora in your gut communicates with the flora on your skin. One of the biggest methods of communication between the two is via immune response involving inflammation.
This means, if your skin is irritated, itchy, covered with blemishes or rashes, it could be because your gut microbiome is unbalanced.
Thankfully, there’s a great solution. Taking a probiotic and prebiotic supplement can help keep your gut health balanced, which in turn keeps your skin microbiome balanced.
When your skin’s microbiome is balanced and healthy, you experience less irritation, dryness, redness, and blemishes.
Here’s how it works:
- Probiotics. Probiotics are living organisms that help replenish the stores of healthy bacteria living in your gut. It’s essentially like sending boots on the ground to the army of good guys helping keep your gut healthy.
- Prebiotics. Prebiotics are fibers that feed the healthy bacteria that lives in your gut. Prebiotics are incredibly important to ensuring total gut health.
When you take a probiotic and prebiotic supplement, you supercharge your gut health which aids in your total health and improves your skin.
RMS Beauty Within Probiotic + Prebiotic is formulated to help encourage positive GI balance by delivering eight separate probiotic strains that keep your gut healthy and functioning properly, so your skin glows with radiance from within.
Also included, a packed lunch for the good guys in the form of RMS’s prebiotic fiber blend.
Find the Beauty Within
Taking supplements can help support your skin health and give you overall better skin. Taking digestive supplements, like enzymes, probiotics, and prebiotics, specifically targets gut health, which has a direct link to skin health.
RMS Beauty’s daily supplements help promote your natural beauty from within by giving your body the boost it needs to stay healthier, naturally.
Sources:
Probiotics, Prebiotics, and Sunbiotics-A Review|NCBI
Vitamin D and the Pathophysiology of Inflammatory Skin Diseases|Karger
