Your Healthy Aging Skin and Your Heart

It’s national heart health month and I would be remiss to not address it here. My youngest son has a rare disease that affects his heart. Marfan Syndrom affected people can experience aortic dissections that in most cases are fatal. When he was diagnosed at age 3; his life span was around 40. In the 14 years since, with more technology, medications and knowledge; most can live a fairly normal life span – however most individuals I know and know of only live extended lives with aortic repairs and other surgeries that need to be done based on it being a connective tissue disease. They have multitudes of issues to deal with and take multiple medications.

Doctors at Johns Hopkins told me that no vitamin therapy will do any good; maybe they won’t. They will though and I would be wrong in not making sure my son had all the ammunition possible to help his condition. Some of the very things that are good for our skin – are so because they are good for the connective tissues in our body (the glue that holds us together) and the collagen; etc. So; the nutrients that I have him on are really good for all and especially aging skin.

Vitamin C is involved in hundreds of vital biological processes in the body. Vitamin C is a water-soluble vitamin which means it is not stored in the body & needs to be continually replaced. It helps in maintaining collagen levels, healing wounds, fighting infections & coping with stress.

Signs of a deficiency in Vitamin C are:

Shortness of breath
Impaired digestion
Bleeding gums
Weakened enamel or dentine
Tendency to bruising
Swollen or painful joints
Nosebleeds
Anemia
Lowered resistance to infections
Slow healing of wounds and fractures

Vitamin C has beneficial effects on:

The immune system
Collagen and connective tissue
Hormones
Nervous system

Sources for Vitamin C: Botanic Choice Vitamin C Life Extension Vitamin C

Vitamin C for your facial skin has benefits well known – much of the Vitamin C you ingest won’t make it to your skin on the outside; so applying a Vitamin C product works as an essential factor for the normal formation, maintenance and structural stability of collagen as well as pigmentation and texture and pore refining. CellexC Perfect C Super C Vitamix I have tried Cellex C, Perfect C, but have only heard great things about Super C Vitamix.

Essentail Fatty Acids – Good for the Body/Heart/Skin
Life Extension Omega 3 Product

Signs of EFA deficiency: So you can see where they would be good for the skin! Click on the link above for a lot more information and a place to buy a very high quality EFA.

Heart Problems
Immune weakness
Fatigue
Reproductive problems (men and women)
Mood swings or depression
Poor circulation
Poor memory
Dry skin, eczema or hair loss

CoQ10

Good for cholesterol levels,
the mitochondria in all your cells which makes it a powerhouse for your skin as well and found topically in many skin care treatments
Read about CoQ10 Benefits Here

Sources for CoQ10 Life Extension’s Super Ubiquinol Botanic Choice CoQ10