If you are like most people with a problem skin condition, you’ve spent countless hours researching solutions. You’ve probably tried many different products with the hope of finding something that would improve your skin. Any non-optimum skin condition can cause embarrassment and affect self-esteem and quality of life.
What most people don’t know about the underlying cause of skin problems
Inflammation is at the core of most health issues. Unresolved, chronic inflammation is a feature of a wide range of chronic health conditions, including skin conditions.
Acute inflammation is a necessary, protective response of the body tissues to adverse stimuli, like irritants, or damaged cells due to injury. Acute inflammation lessens when the stimulus is removed. In contrast, chronic inflammation is an ongoing response to stimuli that doesn’t end and the longer it continues the more it causes cellular degeneration and damage.
In fact, chronic inflammation is recognized as one of the four primary factors that affect health and cause degeneration in the body.
What effect does chronic inflammation have on the body?
Chronic inflammation can affect the following:
- Skin health and inflammatory skin conditions
- Immune system health
- Cardiovascular health – many heart attacks are caused by inflammation around the heart, and high blood pressure can be caused by inflammation of the blood vessels.
Dr. Robert Crea stated, “Tackling inflammation will be at the core of medicine for the next 20 years. Cellular inflammation, and trying to control it, is going to be at the core of medicine over the next 20 years and people want to manage it with natural compounds.”
What can you do about chronic inflammation?
The good news is you can do something about chronic inflammation. Eating more plant-based whole foods will help. In addition, taking a supplement designed to have a powerful, positive impact on chronic inflammation will provide extra anti-inflammatory support.
Dr. Robert Weiss says, “Plant-based whole foods are the most powerful disease modifying tools available to practitioners – more powerful than any drugs or surgeries.”
Treating skin conditions from the inside
If you have an unresolving skin issue it is very likely you have chronic inflammation in your body.
Most people try to tackle their skin condition with a topical solution but creams, gels or lotions don’t always deliver the desired result.
Skin conditions need to be addressed from inside the body as that’s where the chronic inflammation is happening.
Adding olives and olive oil to your diet can support better skin health because olives contain olive polyphenols. Taking an olive polyphenol supplement can help, too. There are numerous studies supporting the benefits of olive oil and olive polyphenols. These can be found on PubMed.gov
The Time to Act is Now
Every cell has a turnover rate. Skin cells are replaced every 30 to 40 days, depending on your age. If you start doing things now to impact the health of your skin cells, the new version of these cells will be better than the last.