There’s no denying to the fact that a youthful and glowing skin makes you look more beautiful. No matter how expensive treatments and cosmetics you go for, nothing shines brighter than a healthy glowing skin. In fact, a healthy body and a sane mind is all we need to look beautiful.
However, we often end up ignoring our health and our face is a mere reflection of our inner health. In simple words, we are what we eat and our skin is a mirror of our health, whatever we feed it reflects! Our metabolism is the foundation of a healthy and youthful skin, but what happens when you start dieting? Does that impact your skin and lead to skin aging? Read on to find out more about it !
Does fasting help
Fasting or call it fad dieting, to an extent healthy fasting helps the body maintain a healthy balance, but going for extensive and auesterious fasting to lose weight can simply affect your overall health and the visible signs of it our pretty evident on the skin.
According to a recent study, fasting increases the body’s metabolic activity, which further leads to a healthy body and skin. Moreover, it also imparts anti-aging benefits. In fact, fad diets like intermittent fasting helps in losing weight and can increase lifespan.
As per a study conducted by Dr. Takayuki Teruya and a team of scientists at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University in Japan, the study was conducted to examine the impact of metabolism on skin aging. As per the research, the fasting and calorie restriction boosts metabolism and immunity.
How it impacts skin health
While fasting, our body starves for a prolonged period of time, which leads to metabolic changes. Our body derives energy from the food we eat and in the absence of that our body banks on the stored fats to derive glucose (energy) and this process is known as gluconeogenesis. The body extracts glucose from non-carbohydrate sources, such as amino acids. Another good thing about fasting is that it leads to higher level of purines and pyrimidine in the body which increases the level of antioxidants in the body, which help in improving the overall health and improves the skin health too.
As per the study, the increase in antioxidants helps in sustaining a balance, while the body is starving. This happens to be the body’s natural mechanism to deal with starvation. This further helps in building back the loss caused due to oxidative stress and free radicals.
Key to everlasting youth?
In simple words, fasting and eating healthy helps the body to maintain a healthy balance, which further leads to strengthening the metabolism, which further improves the immunity. And the hike in the level of antioxidants lead to a healthy skin and reduces skin aging. However, after fasting the intake of healthy food reduces skin aging. So, eating at the right interval and eating healthy is the key to a healthy skin.
