Sunday, September 03, 2006

Stress and Skin

Stress can affect the health of skin!


Stress and prolonged, uncontrolled tension, anger, anxiety all are the nemesis of good health in general and healthy skin in particular. If you are stressed out, it will reflect on your skin first! Continuous perspiration will make the skin itchy and irritable; many stress induced diseases like psoriasis, pruritus, urticaria manifests themselves to damage the structure and integrity of the skin. Hence it is imperative that you set up a regular stress management program for yourself and your family without much delay.

How does stress affect the skin?


Skin and brain originates from the neuro-ectoderm during the embryonal development. Skin, as the fifth sense organ is supplied by millions of nerve endings that are connected to the autonomous nervous system and the brain. Hence, any changes occuring in the nervous system and the brain (mind) can affect the skin adversely.
Hence, learning to relax is very important to sustain the freshness and suppleness of your skin.
Here is a Stress Management Programme which will provide you with practical steps to manage your stress:
10 Days to Stress Free Life

2 comments:

robert said...

You are right. Have improved my texture through oil control lotion from MAC Cosmetics.

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