July/August 2017 AsiaSpa 51can’t handle will show up in your skin. Your
skin should always run acidic so it holds
moisture, and your body should always
run alkaline. When you take the Alkalising
Greens, your internal environment flips
alkaline and balanced which will have a
positive effect on the skin.”
Another supplement enjoying a cult
celebrity following is Lumity. Created by
founder Dr Sara Palmer Hussey, the two-step
morning and night soft gel supplement was
formulated for anti-ageing. She says, “The
condition of the skin is determined firstly
by inner health and its ability to counteract
the nine causes of ageing – glycation,
inflammation and oxidative damage being
the main threats. To minimise these threats,
Jackson warns it’s very difficult to make
claims without them. “Many supplements
contain naturally derived ingredients. The
company isolates what it believes is the active
compound and concentrates it, when in
effect less is often more – as hyaluronic acid
is never found at these high concentrations in
the body and can be
damaging. Personally
I would choose a
100 per cent natural
extract, not naturally
derived.”
The key is giving
t h e s k i n t h e b e s t
b u i l d i n g b l o c k s
possible by eating
and drinking ingredients that support
it, while realising that some drinks are
simply a cocktail of water, sweeteners
and preservatives. In 2016, Coca Cola
was legally forced to remove the health-
promoting claims on its VitaminWater drink.
With a sugar content of around 32 grams per
32floz bottle, nutritionally, it’s on par with
a bottle of coke.
Supplements are not the answer to
slowing the ageing process – feeding
the skin from within is a game changer.
It’s important to be mindful that often
the powders look and taste anything but
beautiful, and a lot of disguising is needed
to make them palatable. But just maybe,
the fact that people are investing in these
pricey products means that they really are
choosing to invest in their health which can
only be a good thing.protection and repair is needed.” She
clarifies that the difference between Lumity
and other anti-ageing supplements is
that “certain nutrients have been proven
clinically to improve the condition of
the skin in terms of hydration levels,
transepidermal water loss, skin density/
collagen structure
and elasticity. Lumity
has been shown to
improve these skin
health markers by up
to 22 per cent.”
J a ck s o n wa r n s
that many supplement
producers just take
what is fashionable
and blend them together. “You are mixing
numerous chemicals as each plant extract
contains 20–30 compounds. So if you have
more than six ingredients, that’s over 120
different chemicals ingested simultaneously- each from a separate plant, sometimes a
separate continent – all reacting together,
often without any therapeutic effect at all.”
He advises buyers to err on the safe side by
choosing a supplement with a maximum
of six ingredients. “Personally to have any
health benefits, I would use medicinal grade
pharmacopeia extracts, that can safely make
clinical or medicinal claims. Look for the Ph
Eur (European Pharmacopoeia) next to an
extract to give you a level of security that
you are actually taking something that will
have a benefit.”
Questioning the level of scientific peer
reviewed papers written on these elixirs,
“When balance is
achieved your skin holds
moisture ”
~ Dr Simone Laubscher
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