2. A Healthy Liver is Your Skin’s Best Friend

Healthy skin depends on reducing the levels of toxins in your body, and the first step to doing this is to take fewer toxins in. The next step is to build a healthier liver. Your liver is a real workhorse. In addition to purifying all of the bad things you take into your body, your liver makes thousands of critical biomolecules, helps digest every bit of food you eat, and is a critical part of your immune system. Building a healthier liver is one of the best things you can do to improve your skin health and your health in general.

We all need a break every once in a while to recover from the stress of our daily lives, right? Remember your last vacation? Remember how great you felt, and how much more productive you were when you got back? Well, your liver is the hardest working organ in your body, and it deserves a vacation to. A great way to give your liver a break is with a gentle detox diet. Detox diets consist of healthy, nourishing foods that require very little work from your liver (or the rest of your digestive system) to digest. This allows your liver, and the rest of your digestive system, to divert energies that normally go into digestion to the task of cleaning house. When you detox, your liver (and your gut, your fat cells, and everywhere else in your body where toxins accumulate) begins to empty out all of the toxins that have been accumulating from your diet over the course of years, and excretes all of this junk though your intestines and kidneys.
 
Once your liver is free of all of these toxins, it can better do its job of keeping the rest of your body clean and toxin free. This ultimately results in less toxic, healthier skin. Gentle detox is easy. For a week or so, limit your diet to steamed veggies, brown rice, quinoa, olive oil, and/or other easy to digest foods.  Drink a lot of fluids and consider taking a few supplements to help your body clean itself out. Check out our ReEvolution One Week Detox for the complete program.

3. Healthy Skin Also Requires a Healthy Gut

It’s actually a toss up weather your gut or your liver is more critical to skin health. The two work so closely together, and depend on one another so much that one can’t really be healthy without the other. The basic principles of gut health are, essentially, the principles of good nutrition and good health in general: Eat natural foods, including lots of fiber, hydrate thoroughly, choose low glycemic carbs and avoid sugar, white flour, and processed food. Check out Simple Enjoyable Healthy Eating for more info.

If you experience regular problems with digestion, including gas, bloating, cramping, constipation, or loose or small pellet like stool, there’s a good chance that your gut health is being compromised by food allergies and/or chronic infection. This is a pretty serious issue, and addressing it will make a remarkable change in your health and vitality. Food allergies and overgrowth of yeast, parasites, and bad bacteria are issues that affect literally millions upon millions of Americans, seriously undermining their health. Dealing with these issues requires professional help from a good naturopath or holistically minded physician. If you have any of the symptoms listed above, and also suffer from poor skin health and/or chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia, an inflammatory bowl disease, or any other autoimmune immune disorder, you should seriously consider tracking down a good practitioner who can asses the health of your gut and help you resolve any complications. Take a look at Dealing with Candida and Eliminating Food Allergies for more.