Skin Regeneration and Nutrition
DiamondHeart
Skin Regeneration and Nutrition
Nutritional and dietary factors are always involved when our skin shows symptoms of imbalance or dis-ease. These changes are some of the most important ones you can make to support balance and vibrancy in your organs, tissues, and body systems.
THE THREE STRONG POINTS
There are three major points of change that are the essential dietary aspects for clearing skin conditions. They are:
1-ESSENTIAL FATTY ACIDS (EFA’s). As discussed below.
2-DAIRY FOODS. Eating excess milk, ice cream, cheese, butter, and other dairy products clogs our skin and creates a lot of extra mucous in the body. To bring this back into balance, many people must avoid any dairy products for some time before their skin will respond favorably. Gradually most people can add a small amount of dairy products back into their diets over time. If you suspect you may have this sensitivity, try eliminating them completely for 6 weeks and see what happens to your skin.
3-MAGNESIUM DEFICIENCY. As discussed below.
EFA’s: SUPER-NOURISHING FOODS
Your body’s cells are surrounded by a lipid layer (fatty acids). To keep every cell in your body flexible and healthy, you need an abundance of essential fatty acids (the “good” fats) in your diet.
Without these fats in abundant supply, your body is forced to use the wrong fats in maintaining cells. This results in weak, aging skin that dries out and does not produce its own sebum. If toxic fats and by-products reach a critical point, it can create skin that breaks out and produces pus, trying to expel toxic accumulation from its cells.
Neither of these conditions reflect true vibrant health. And both dry skin and over-active skin will be corrected by adding essential fatty acids to our diets.
Essential fatty acids are available ONLY in cold-pressed oils. Eat a variety of these oils for the strongest support.
-Cold-pressed olive oil
-Cold-pressed flax seed oil
-Cold-pressed macadamia nut oil
-Cold-pressed sesame oil
-Cold-pressed green tea seed oil
-Many other cold-pressed oils
Remember-heat destroys the EFA’s. Always add these oils after cooking, as a condiment or flavoring to your rice, grains, vegetables, and salads. Some oils, like olive, macadamia nut, and coconut can be heated and still retain SOME food value.
If you cook your oils, always add a little more after cooking to make those EFA’s available. Always avoid any oils or fats that are hydrogenated or partially hydrogenated. Read your labels.
In order to get sufficient quantities of these oils, you will need to add around 1/4 cup to your diet daily. At the same time, you will want to eliminate butter, cream, lard, refined oils, and foods containing saturated non-essential fats, including pastries, dairy products, and deep fried foods.
BALANCING YOUR MINERALS-THE FOUNDATIONAL FOUR
For clear and beautiful skin (and health in almost every system), your body needs four essential minerals. Not only does it need these minerals, but they must be in the proper balance in your body. These four minerals are
-Calcium
-Magnesium
-Sodium
-Potassium
Most of us are aware of the need for calcium to maintain healthy teeth, bones, heart, and nervous system. What most people don’t know is that calcium will not stay in your body tissues if it does not have sodium and magnesium to hold it in solution. What looks like a calcium shortage is often really a magnesium shortage-or a sodium shortage!
Our diets contain a lot of calcium, yet we often suffer from a calcium deficiency because the other necessary minerals (primarily magnesium) are not in supply. For this reason, I encourage people to try a very absorbable liquid magnesium supplement called Calm. Many cases of acne have cleared up in weeks with the addition of Calm to the diet. You may be one of those with a magnesium shortage. If so, you will begin to see improvement within a few weeks.
To read more about or to purchase Calm, click below.
BALANCING YOUR DIET FOR OPTIMUM NUTRITION
The following guidelines will help you return to a natural way of eating that can restore health and regenerate your body. Every food you put into your body becomes the raw materials for cells and blood. You become what you eat. This makes it so important to put vibrant, whole foods filled with life force into our bodies!
Eat lots of these foods:
Fresh vegetables, including greens; spinach, lettuce, chard, escarole, endive, cilantro, parsley, astragalus, kale, cabbage; root vegetables; potatoes, carrots, sweet potatoes, yams, squashes, beets, turnips, parsnips, yucca, jicama; and vegetables like eggplant, asparagus, peppers, onions, corn, peas, green beans, broccoli, zucchini, brussel sprouts, alfalfa and bean sprouts, beans, etc. AVOID canned vegetables! They have very little life force compared to frozen and fresh ones.
Whole grains like bulgur, quinoa, millet, rice (if you like only white rice, try blending it with brown, Thai red, or black rice), oats, rye, barley, buckwheat, spelt, kamut, amaranth, etc. AVOID refined white flour and pure white rice. Limit wheat products, pastas, breads (even whole grain), refined baked goods such as cookies, pastries, and granola bars.
Lots of raw seeds-put them on top of salads, vegetables, in burritos, casseroles, meatloaf, anything after it has been cooked, so you keep the whole nutrients available. Sesame, hemp, plantain, flax, fennel, cumin, anise, poppy, sunflower, etc. Nuts are great too-but soak them over night before eating. They will be much easier on your system to digest-and taste better too. AVOID nuts and seeds that have been roasted, heated, or salted.
Fresh fruits, including melons, apples, pears, peaches, grapes, plums, all kinds of berries, star fruit, lemons, oranges, grapefruits, pineapple, limes, pomegranates, bananas, nectarines, etc. Dried fruits are great-only if you soak them over night before eating! Soak all your raisins, dried apricots, dried cherries, etc. for better digestion and hydration.
AVOID canned fruits!
Protein foods such as tofu, fish, sesame butter, shiitake mushrooms, eggs.
Soup! Nature’s best regenerator is soup that contains fresh vegetables. AVOID canned soup-it is devoid of the life force you will find in home cooked soups. (There are some ready-made soups available in cartons that are fairly vibrant).
Eat moderate amounts of these foods:
High protein foods, chicken, poultry, lamb, beef, shell fish, pork. Some of these foods are necessary for most people moving from a modern diet to a natural way of eating.
When you eat these foods, eliminate the refined carbohydrates that they are often served with: Eat the hamburger without the bun, eat the roast beef without the roll, salad, and potato. Your body will handle the digestion process much better if you do not combine other foods with meat.
Better digestion means less toxic by-product and no fermentation in the intestinal tract. Then your skin, lungs, liver, kidneys, and colon do not have to work so hard to neutralize and eliminate these toxins.
Limit or eliminate entirely these foods:
-Carbonated soft drinks-especially DIET! Replace with juices, teas, nutmilk.
-All diet sweeteners-replace with maple sugar or maple syrup, stevia extract, honey, or xylitol.
-Milk-replace with nutmilk. If you have access to real goat’s milk or cow’s milk that is unhomogenized, you can consume it in moderate quantities. It is the pasteurization and especially the homogenization process that creates a challenge with milk.
-Coffee. This completely upsets the acid balance and burns out the adrenals and nervous system, especially if you use it every day.
-White sugar and refined flour products.
-Alcohol. Moderate amounts of wine are beneficial for some people. For some, moderate amounts of beer. It is far better to have one glass every day than seven glasses once a week! Alcohol is taxing for kidneys, liver, and spleen energies. Moderation is the key. Many people will not feel really vibrant until they eliminate it entirely, especially those with candida, fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue, or alcohol addiction.
CORRECTING INTERNAL IMBALANCES
When our skin shows symptoms of imbalance, it is reflecting a state within the body that is out of balance. The primary issues for skin conditions are often hormonal imbalance, toxic accumulation in the body, and heat or stagnation in the lung energy. If you have acne, eczema, rashes, dry skin, or aging skin you can support permanent change by taking herbs and/or hydrosols to correct these issues.
DiamondHeart Hydrosols that can balance these conditions include Labrador tea, chickweed, horstail, and yarrow.