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Healthy Skin Antioxidants

Specific vitamins to help you to acheive that healthy, youthful look

Lutein, Lycopene, Beta Carotene, Vitamin E, Zeaxanthin, And Selenium, Can Improve The Health Of Your Skin

The antioxidant vitamins Lutein, Lycopene, Beta Carotene, Vitamin E, Zeaxanthin, and Selenium improved skin health for patients in two current studies. Scientists separated 39 participants with healthy, normal, type 2 skin, which is fair skin that burns easily and tans minimally, into three distinct groups.

Group One ingested 3 mg Lutein, 3 mg Lycopene, 4.8 mg beta carotene, 10 mg Vitamin E (Tocopherol),75 mcg of selenium daily. Group One ingested 6 mg Lycopene, no Lutein, and equal amounts of the other supplements daily. Group One ingested a placebo.

After 90 days, both supplement groups had less scaly, rough skin, that scientists measured using UV light (ultraviolet light), they had thicker, denser skin that the scientists measured by ultrasound, and had higher serum (blood-fluid) levels of antioxidants. The placebo group who did not ingest any antioxidants had no changes.

A study in Naples, Italy, at the University of Naples, showed the positive effects of Lutein and Zeaxanthin on skin in The Journal of Skin Pharmacology and Physiology. Women from the age of 25 to 50 years old
Applied a topical treatment to their skin which contained Lutein and Zeaxanthin, about 50 parts-per-million (ppm) lutein and 2 ppm zeaxanthin per day, which gave 50 mcg lutein, 2 mcg Zeaxanthin per gram. They also ingested 5 mg Lutein and 0.2 mg Zeaxanthin two times a day.

Every two weeks for 12 weeks, researchers measured skin moisture (hydration), ability to maintain size and shape (elasticity),protective fat layer (superficial skin lipids) and cell membrane damage (lipid peroxidation), and found that compared to placebo those who had taken lutein and zeaxanthin orally, topically, alone or together, had significantly improved in each measure. The oral-topical combination group averaged 60% greater hydration, 20% better elasticity, 50% more lipid protection and 64% less cell damage.

The scientists measured the patients fat protection layers, damage to skin cell membranes, skin moisture hydrations levels, and their skins elastic ability to maintain size and shape, every 14 days for 90 days total duration. They discovered that those people taking the supplement antioxidants had much better results than those who didn’t take the antioxidant vitamins. The results were an average almost seventy percent less cell damage, twenty percent better increase in elasticity, sixty percent higher skin hydration level, and fifty percent increase in protection with lipid protection layers.