Water a Forgotten Ingredient - Dehydrated Skin Accelerates the Formation of Wrinkles.

Sign of Skin Dehydration

Water is the fluid of life. When we don't drink enough water, the dehydration shows up on the skin in more ways than just surface dryness. Without an adequate amount of water to keep our body properly hydrated, here's what happens to your skin.

• Waste products from within the skin can't be flushed efficiently, leaving the skin looking dull and dingy.
• The digestive system needs water to convert food into fuel. When dehydrated, the digestive waste products may seek exit through the skin, causing eruptions and breakout.
• Normal elimination can slow down and toxins build up in the large intestine and colon, resulting in skin eruptions.
• Skin cell turnover slows down, making skin unresponsive to treatments.
• Puffy eyes and baggy eyes can be the result of water retention, which is often caused by inadequate water consumption.
• Edema and swelling of the face and skin can also be caused by inadequate water consumption.
• Dehydration causes fatigue, which shows up on the face

Dehydration can intensify the symptoms of health disorders, such as diabetes, high blood pressure, mood disorders, and some autoimmune disorders.

It can also encourages an increase in inflammatory compounds that create skin damage.

The vision of perfect skin—dewy, moist, plump, and radiant—requires water. Moisturizers helps hydrating the skin and keep water in the skin. Oily skin needs water to. May be not in the form of moisturizer .... but that depends how oily the skin is. Then look for an oil free moisturizer.

The good news is that water is readily available, abundant, inexpensive, and easy to consume.

Drinking Water

The body craves water. Every cell wants you to drink water. Every article and report indicate that we should drink 8 glasses of water a day. That is my opinion a little bit generic. We are all different in size, weight and activity level.

To calculate exactly how much water you need, using this simple formula make more sense to me:

Take your body weight in pounds. Divide by two. That's the number of ounces of water your body needs on a normal day.

For example, if you weight 150 pounds, you need 75 ounces of water a day. Assuming that an average glass of water contains 8 ounces, you need 9.375 glasses of water. Always round up the number of glasses, so for a person who weighs 150 pounds, he or she needs to drink 10 glasses of water every day.

Consider that amount of water to be your bottom line—the lowest amount you'll consume daily. But then you need to adjust your water consumption with:

• Days when you exercise vigorously, hopefully at least three days a week
• Days spent outdoors
• Hot days in the middle of the summer or on vacation?
• Living in a climate with low humidity, such as the southwestern United States?
• Living in freezing climates with very low humidity in the winter, such as Minnesota or Alaska?
• Airline travel (pressurized cabins with extremely low humidity are dehydrating)?
• Drinking alcoholic beverages that dehydrate you?
• Drinking caffeinated beverages, such as coffee, tea, diet sodas, and regular sodas?

When any or all of these conditions are present, you need to drink more water than your minimum. From a technical point of view, any liquid you consume can contribute to hydrating your body. But we aren't just talking about getting enough liquid, we are discussing having great skin. And your skin performs best when you drink good quality water.

Many liquids, such as alcoholic beverages, sodas, diet sodas, coffee, tea, and juice, can be harmful to the quality of your skin because they cause a rapid rise in blood sugar levels which leads to inflammation.

Drinking fluids is not the same thing as drinking water. Many fluids are actually dehydrating to your body, such as alcoholic and caffeinated beverages. If you consume these, you may need to drink even more water to compensate for their dehydrating effects.

A Refreshing Water Break - A Great Skin treatment

Go ahead. Take a water break. Or sip on your water throughout the day. Either way, you'll be giving your skin a treatment.

What you don't want to do is drink all of your daily water allotment at one time. That would actually be detrimental and, quite honestly, useless. You can overdose on water. If a person drinks too much water all at once, the body' s equilibrium gets unbalanced. Too much water isn't a skin treatment, it's skin and body damage.

If you get too busy during the day to pay attention to your water consumption, try this. Set a filled gallon water pitcher at your work area. Make sure that, by the end of the day, you have polished off the water and the pitcher is empty.

Don't count on thirst to guide you in drinking enough water. When you are really busy, it's easy to ignore hunger and thus forget to eat. It's even easier to ignore thirst.

Bring along a water bottle when you travel, when you go shopping, and even when you go to the movies or the theater. Have plenty of water on hand for exercise sessions and outdoor activities.

Don't be concerned about needing to run to the bathroom every hour or so when you are drinking your minimum allotment of water each day. It's actually better for your body to get up and move around every hour anyway.

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