Despite our efforts to eat nutritious food, there’s strong evidence that a shortfall of many key nutrients not only impairs our wellbeing but also prevents us from having beautiful, healthy skin.
When it comes to healthy skin, what you put inside the body can be as important as what you apply topically. The Advanced Nutrition Programme™ is a cutting edge nutritional system that supports topical skincare regimen recommended by professionals.
Great skincare starts from within. The professional-only nutritional supplements range is available to consumers exclusively through beauty salons, spas and aesthetic clinics to enable a truly holistic approach to skincare.
This premium range of nutraceuticals is designed to provide optimum daily amounts of vitamins, minerals and other vital elements to support a healthy lifestyle and to help maintain a glowing complexion.
Problems like dryness, excess oil, congested skin and the signs of premature ageing may benefit from targeted supplements from the Skin range.
Advanced Nutrition Programme™ was launched in March 2006 since which time the range has grown and is now available in several hundreds of beauty salons, spas and other outlets in the UK and Ireland as well as internationally in the USA, Canada, France, Belgium, The Netherlands, Luxembourg, Germany, Poland, Greece and now New Zealand.
Good nutrition is the first step to achieving healthy skin: what you put inside your body is as important as what you apply topically. Advanced Nutrition Programme (www.advancednutritionprogramme.com) is a unique research-backed range of beauty supplements that supports topical skin care regimes, providing a truly holistic approach to skincare. Products provide optimal daily amounts of vitamins, minerals and other vital elements to support a healthy lifestyle and to help maintain a glowing complexion. And client feedback proves it gets results. Research from the British Journal of Nutrition in 2006 concluded that taking oral supplements has many benefits over topical application. It supports the importance of supplements that feed skin over the entire body, in an easily absorbable form and which can nourish even the deeper layers of the skin.
In an industry that focuses so much attention on treating skin topically, it’s easy to forget that cells are made deep within the skin where creams never reach. Beginning a skincare regime by feeding the body with the necessary nutrients to make perfectly formed cells is the foundation to a flawless complexion.
The key skin vitamins fall into two categories – the nutrients that make the skin and those that protect it. The crucial skin cell makers are vitamins A and C, plus essential fatty acids, but the question is, do we get enough of these from our diet? When we eat, the body makes sure that vital organs like the brain, heart and liver get nutrients first. So, even if you’re eating a good diet you may not be eating enough to nourish all the essential organs as well as your skin.
The skin’s super moisturisers are salmon, mackerel and sardines as these contain essential fatty acids that help form the membrane that wraps around the cell to lock-in moisture. If there aren’t enough essential fatty acids to make a perfect membrane for your skin cell then the water inside the cell can leak out, leaving skin dry and flaky. Moisturising creams provide a band-aid approach to the problem but they can’t repair the cell membrane.
Once skin cells reach the epidermis they are exposed to pollution, harsh chemicals, smoke and UV rays, and cells that were formed when there were lots of antioxidants around arrive at the skin’s surface with their own protectors. Beauty supplements provide these key vitamins, essential fats and plant nutrients, ensuring the body can make perfect skin cells. Plus, topical treatments and skincare products work better on well-nourished skin, so beauty supplements can actually help to turbo-charge skin.
Lorraine Perretta is a nutritional consultant at the International Institute for Anti-Ageing (iiaa) and brand manager for the Advanced Nutrition Programme range of supplements.
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7th May 2018