Eat your way to beauty - Your guide to a healthy skin

We have tried everything to deal with our fussy skin, including expensive facials, lotions, antibiotics and other painful procedures. The umpteen cosmetic products designed, from natural extracts to chemical concoctions for the perfect skin were just not enough. It was clearly time to look beyond remedies that were merely skin-deep and get to the root of the matter. What is a skin type diet? How does it work? Let us walk through how a diet for healthy skin works. Certain factors regulate skin characteristics – lipids, the natural moisturizing factor (NMF), sebum, Hyaluronic Acid (HA) and Aquaporin (AQP). Each has a different role to play for your skin. The NMF is responsible for hydration, desquamation and plasticity of skin. A well-balanced NMF production and secretion would require intake of proteins, lipids and water. Sebum, on the other hand, is responsible for the oil secretion from the sebaceous glands onto the skin – it con...