Your Skin
Sunday, 26 October 2008
Your skin is much more than an outer surface for the world to see - it is the largest organ of your body. Plus it has a number of amazing responsibilities that you probably don't think about on a daily basis such as - 1) Protects your internal organs from injury and infection. 2) Helps detoxify wastes through perspiration. 3) Provides an important line of immune defense against infections - your healthy skin creates a barrier to viruses and bacteria. 4) Protects you against extreme changes in temperature, by controlling heat flow between you and your environment. 5) Produces and stores vitamin D, which is important to your immune system. 6) Rich in receptors, it allows you to sense conditions around you, like hard/soft and hot/cold, and send information to your brain so you can react to it for self-preservation. 7) Protects you from dehydration. The loss of any of these functions can compromise your best health, and also accelerate signs of normal aging. Put simply, you skin plays a major role in your health. It functions as an organ that can absorb and excrete both nutrients and toxins through its pores. The condition of your skin is a powerful reflection of just how healthy you are on the inside. Because your skin has the ability to absorb a great deal of what is put on it, it makes sense to choose carefully the substances you do use on it.
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