Boosting your immune system 9 -Care and nurturing of your skin, the largest organ.

Emotional and physical care of your skin is important protection to you and your longevity. What is your skin?---Your skin is the largest organ of your body. It is your connection to the outside world, tactically, emotionally, and spiritually. It is also a major protection to that world. It keeps bacteria out and most other compounds like pathogens

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 What is your skin?

Your skin is the largest organ of your body.  It is your connection to the outside world, tactically, emotionally, and spiritually.  It is also a major protection to that world.  It keeps bacteria out and most other compounds except small molecules like water or solvents like acetone.  

There are things you should be careful of what you put on your skin as I mentioned before in avoiding skin toxins like methylparabens or sodium lauryl  sulfate.  

Functions of the skin

Your skin is the primary protection that keeps germs out of your body and just below the surface, your white blood cells fend off the germs.   It also expresses impurities through sweat, so is a major detoxing organ. 

Sweat serves to cool the body.  You need to evaporatively cool your body due to metabolism, either through your respiration or through perspiration.  You can perspire up to 8 quarts of water per day, depending on the temperature and amount of activity. 

If you did not sweat or exhale moisture, your body temperature would raise by about 25 degrees F in one day!  It’s that important for keeping you cool.  

Structure of the skin

There are three main layers of the skin:

• The epidermis is the sealed outer covering, a waterproof barrier and creates our skin tone with melanin.  
• The dermis contains the tough connective tissue, hair follicles and sweat glands.  Collagen is the most abundant protein in the skin, comprising 75 to 80% of the organ.  
• The deeper subcutaneous tissues, also called hypodermis, is made of fat and connective tissues.  It’s where most of your excess fat resides.  Considering this, adding excess fat could mean that you are building a protective layer for yourself to the outside world. 

The layers of the skin are subdivided into further layers but for the intents and purposes of understanding the skin, three layers are enough.

Today, I’m going to take about other ways to care for your skin.  You probably didn’t realize how complex it is, like many of your other systems in your body.  It reflects what is going on inside the body emotionally, physically and spiritually.

It needs to function well for you to be healthy. It also should look good : If your skin is sallow, lacking moisture, vitality, have dark circles under your eyes, or are prematurely wrinkled, then you can imagine that there are problems on the inside of your body.  

Skin expresses emotions

Skin expresses emotions detectable by others through pallor, coldness, “goose bumps”, redness, warmth, or sweating. 

In fact, there has been scientific (psychologic) evidence of how your skin disorders reflect the emotional and spiritual position of the person suffering them.  Persons with visible skin disorders have often been stigmatized or treated as outcasts.  Or those suffering them have taken themselves out of contact with others from shame or embarrassment.  

One of the themes that comes up often with those afflicted with skin issues is whether you are congruent with yourself.  Do you have an inner conflict, do you want something but are unwilling to take the steps to do it.  So each day, you take yourself out in some way.  This will reflect in your skin.

This emotional connection to being hyper-vigilant and skin problems are a way of saying you are fearful of contact of some sort.  This is a direction to go when thinking about your skin issues.  Ask yourself: Who or what do you want to keep from you, contacting you in some way.  Who are you wanting to repel?  Do you want to isolate yourself for some reason? 

Other emotional-skin connections

Hives, flushing, and loss of color are indications of emotional changes.  Stress, anxiety, depression, and other strong emotions can contribute to a large variety of your skin issues, including acne, rosacea, eczema, psoriasis, alopecia, and vitiligo.  The skin and central nervous system are intertwined. 

Stressed people produce more oily discharge that contribute to clogged pores and aggravate acne.  Stress can increase inflammation which can worsen eczema and trigger cold sores.  One study showed that 45% of patients with psoriasis had anxiety and many were experiencing stressful life events.  

The stress causes elevated levels of adrenal hormones, which disappear when the body enters the parasympathetic state.  Meditation and altered states of consciousness are of enormous help and moving your skin to the healing state.  

For emotional and spiritual issues of the skin, meditation is known to really help improve and even heal the skin condition.  It alters the brain chemistry and moves you into a healing state.  The state in which you are hyper-vigilant or basically with your adrenal glands activated all the time.  

Skin signals to what’s happening on the inside physically.  

Each skin symptom tell you something about what’s happening inside.  

• Dark circles might indicate a blood sugar imbalance; 
• sallowness a lack of the proper nutrients or ingesting unhealthy compounds like drugs, alcohol or cigarette smoke; 
• premature wrinkles a lack of nutrients, too much sun or too much stress (think botox).

If your skin looks terrible for your age, imagine that this is also happening on the inside, to the surfaces of all your internal organs and glands.  If you smoked for many years, not only will your skin be unduly wrinkled, sallow, and prematurely aged, so will your lungs, stomach, liver, etc.  

Four tips for caring for your skin to look good and function well:

1. Physical processes.  Sleep and exercise (which helps your body sweat out toxins).   
2. These foods are particularly helpful for improving skin health. 

• Leafy dark greens (kale, spinach, collards): vitamins A, C, and E; omega-3s; protein — plus selenium in spinach
• Eggs: protein, vitamins A and E, selenium, zinc
• Flaxseeds: omega-3s, selenium
• Legumes (lentils, chickpeas): protein, zinc
• Avocados: healthy fats, vitamins C and E
• Extra virgin olive oil: healthy fats, vitamin E

3. Supplements that help the skin: Drinking a lot of water, which will plump the skin and hydrate it, include eating extra collagen with hyaluronic acid. Good supplements include antioxidants such as Vitamin C.  Other supplements are: Vitamins A, B,  and E, zinc, fatty acids, evening primrose oil, tulsi (basil) and turmeric.
4. Meditation for moving into the parasympathetic state. Often a skin healing will make you look several years younger right away because it is energized, getting fed by the blood circulating through it at a higher rate, you get relaxed, and the stress is released from your facial muscles.  I call it energetic botox.

I hope this was very helpful today because no one wants to look older, instead want to look younger.  It is not a matter of vanity, it is a matter of good health, detoxing and protection.  

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Standout Quotes:

•  " The best protection is your body, your own immune system."
•  “The texture of your hair, how on how healthy it is depending on the healthier skin.”
•  “Your skin is your primary protection.”
•  “The dermis needs to have a lot of good connective tissue in order for you not to age prematurely.”
•  “What's going on out here is what's going on inside.”
•  “Your skin reflects your emotions.”
•  “Each day, you take yourself out in some way. So you're taking yourself out and it reflects on your skin.”
•  “I can feel everybody's emotions and I need to back off.”

Key Takeaways:

•  Your skin connects you to the outer world through touch and sensations. It brings us a lot of joy to feel the excellent warm air on our skin. When there is a lot of heat on it, it can indicate that your body is being destroyed and that you are in agony.
•  The skin provides significant protection from the outside world. It protects you from bacteria and most other substances, except for small molecules like water, which your skin absorbs, how many moisturizers function. It helps plump up the cells just beneath the skin's surface, making you look younger.
•  Some items you should avoid putting on your face because they absorb quickly, such as methyl parabens and sodium lauryl sulfate, are used as preservatives and foaming agents in skincare products.
•  Bacteria and germs or even most viruses do not penetrate the skin unless there is a cut, and when there is a cut, all of your white blood cells rush to that place to protect you and fight off any pathogens that come in.
•  There will be many fluids in the body, including lymph and blood, and the plasma and blood will express things out via the pores, particularly excess salts and other tiny molecules. It aids in the detoxification of the body, and pores primarily produce sweat to cool the body. It keeps your body from being overheated.
•  Another detoxifying mechanism is expiration and evaporation through the lungs. You also expel volatiles that does not belong in your body, such as CO2.
•  The epidermis is a sealed outer covering of the impervious skin, and your skin color, melanin, is in that top epidermis layer. So whether you're brown-skinned, olive-skinned, or white and pink is determined by the amount of melanin in your skin. The dermis is the next layer down, and it has tough connective tissue.
•  To avoid premature aging, the dermis must have a lot of excellent connective tissue. It is composed of 75 to 80 percent collagen.
•  The deep subcutaneous tissues are referred to as the hypodermis, which is located beneath the dermis. That is where the fat layer is. So subcutaneous fat is where the healthy fat is housed, down beneath the skin.
•  A topic that comes back again and over with people who have skin concerns like eczema, psoriasis, and rosacea, all those skin issues that show up a lot of times, calming the emotions down will help relieve but can't entirely get rid of it.
•  Skin problems will result from the emotional connection to being overly vigilant. You know, if you're frightened, unhappy, scared, or under a lot of stress, you can generate more oil, which will cause you to break out. It will aggravate eczema and cause cold sores.
•  The first step is to get enough sleep and exercise. Of course, it isn't easy if you're not sleeping correctly. Exercising will be difficult if you don't get enough sleep. The activity causes you to sweat and sweat away toxins, and it also activates the lymph system, which aids in the movement of pollutants.
•  The second point is that there are nutritious foods you can consume to help nourish your skin, and they are especially beneficial for boosting skin health: dark greens such as spinach, kale, and collards. It includes vitamins A, C, and E, omega-3 fatty acids, and protein from eggs. Eggs are pretty beneficial to the skin since they nourish the hair.
•  Flax seeds are abundant in omega-3 fatty acids and selenium, both of which are helpful. If you can eat legumes like lentils and chickpeas, then avocados, macadamia nuts, olive oil avocados, and make sure it's extra virgin olive oil. So, along with drinking lots of water, these are the items that will help your skin.
•  The final step is to assist your body in entering the parasympathetic nervous system. When you are calm and in action mode, you are in a parasympathetic state. As a result, tranquility is beneficial to meditation movement.

Timeline

• 00:31 Immune System: Complex and Powerful
• 0:59 Your connection to the outside world

• 01:19 Skin: Major Protection

• 1:27 Your major protection

• 01:59 The Harmful Molecules

• 02:37 Things to avoid applying on your skin

• 2:56 Skin’s major functions

• 03:59 Detoxifying

• 05:28 Lungs: Detoxing Mechanism

• 05:59 The Importance of Staying Hydrated

• 06:40 Skin Anatomy: The Dermis

• 07:28 Skin Anatomy: The Hypodermis

• 7:56 Skin’s layers
• 8:42 Care and feeding of your skin

• 09:11 Negative Effects of Smoking

• 10:10 Skin Reflects Emotions

• 11:34 Skin Conditions

• 13:15 Hypervigilance

• 14:19 Psychological Study involving Anxiety

• 14:27 Step 1 for skin care: get calm
• 15:01 https://scientifichealer.com/wakeupbrain
• 15:26 Step 2 for healthy skin: 4 tips
• 16:35 1.  Sleep and exercise
• 17:35 2.  Skin nourishing foods

• 18:27 Amazing Foods: Flaxseeds, Legumes, and Lentils

• 19:47 3.  Supplements and water
• 21:11 4.  Move to parasympathetic state
• 21:56 Summary of 4 tips

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