While it's customary to protect your skin with creams and oils, it's less common to reinforce it from the from the inside. Yet some foods contain active ingredients active ingredients effective and more effective and , above all, less harmful in preventing such as sunburn.
In summer, your skin is particularly exposed to various aggressions. And while you often hear about the sun sun, it's not the one that causes the most damage.
Allow me to sound a few warnings before revealing the 4 nutrients more powerful than your sunscreen. Because before thinking about protection, it's important to know important to know what you're being attacked by. And your worst enemy is not the sun, but the water in your water!
How to protect your skin from the sun?
It's a real pleasure to refresh yourself with a a dip in the pool. Many hotels have swimming pools to ensure to satisfy their guests...
If you're having a good time right now, your skin is under attack. Because one of the most aggressive agents for your skin is the chlorine used to "disinfect" water1. Let's not forget that chlorine was used as a combat gas!
Moreover, illnesses linked to chlorinated pools (Brooks syndrome, asthma, respiratory insufficiency) are now recognized as recognized as occupational diseases2.
Not surprising, given that chlorine derivatives chlorine derivatives (chloramines) are highly volatile substances, irritating irritating not only to your skin, but also to your eyes and lungs. Several studies have shown that swimming-pool frequentation increases the risks:
- eczema,
- eye problems,
- asthma,
- de skin aging,
- skin cancers.
Another factor to consider: the sun.
Overexposure to the sun's ultraviolet (UV) rays rays leads to the release of free radicals, responsible for numerous skin disorders (Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, age-related macular degeneration age-related macular degeneration, stroke, cancer, diabetes, premature aging...)3.
To counter all these attacks, it's best to be to be well armed. This is where your diet can play a major defensive role. It will strengthen your skin from the inside and and prepare it for external aggression.
There are protective nutrients that prevent the visible damage caused by cellular deterioration: wrinkles, spots, dryness...
Protect your skin from the sun: the solution is in your plate
La vitamine E est reconnue comme un antioxydant majeur capable de stopper la propagation de la lipoperoxydation4. Autrement dit, elle protège les acides gras dans vos membranes cellulaires.
This is how it fights against oxidative stress and premature aging of your entire body, including your epidermis.
Vitamin E helps maintain your connective tissue connective tissue by limiting the formation of bridges between collagen molecules. Its benefits don't stop there, however, as it also also acts as a first line of defence against the sun's harmful rays.
Stored in the cell wall, vitamin E will prevent UV rays from penetrating your body before the cell intervenes.
What's more, several clinical studies
suggest that vitamin E can act as a photoprotector. It
reduce erythema and edema, and act directly on sunburn.
sunburn5.
Where can I find vitamin E?
Note that your best sources are polyunsaturated vegetable oils, such as wheat germ oil oil, safflower oil and sunflower oil, as well as almonds, hazelnuts almonds, hazelnuts, pine nuts and sunflower seeds.
Protect your skin from the sun by strengthening your natural against UV rays
UVA rays are not very powerful, but as they can penetrate the dermis, they skin aging. They also promote sun allergies and are the cause of malignant melanoma.
UVB is up to 95%, depending on the state of the ozone layer. ozone layer. They only reach the epidermis, causing sunburn almost 1,000 times faster than UVAs. In large quantities, they can be responsible for skin cancer.
So to help your skin to do its job of protection, you can rely on on vitamines C. It works with vitamin E to protect against sunburn. La vitamin C will also boost your skin's antioxidant power .
En strengthening your immune systemit will restore vitality to your skin, making it less sensitive to aggression. less sensitive to aggression. It is also necessary for the repair of your connective tissue6. As it is destroyed by heat, we suggest you consume foods containing it raw.
In addition, during periods when your skin is more "attacked", eat at least at least 3 fruits and 2 vegetables rich in en vitamin C.
The advantage is you can vary so you don't get bored: oranges, lemons, strawberries.., papaya, guava, broccoli, cabbage...
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Sources :
[1] Les effets du chlore sur la peauCentre de la peau pour enfants, dermatologie pédiatrique et adulte
[2] Non-infectious occupational respiratory diseases in swimming pool and balneotherapy center personnelINRS
[3] Guide to antioxidant supplementsDaniel Sincholle, Claude Bonne.
[4] BJORNEBOE A. et al., Absorption, transport and distribution of vitamin E, J Nutr, 1990, 120: 233-242
[5] Vitamine E et santé de la peau, Université d'État de l'Oregon
[6] EBERLEIN-KÖNIG B et al., Protective effect against sunburn of combined systemic ascorbic acid (vit. C) and d-a-tocopherol (vit. E), J Am Acad Dermatol, 1998, 38 (1): 45-48