One of the main causes of the emergence of pimples and acne on the skin is due to excess production of progesterone.

The days before the menstrual period are more likely to leave these small grains, since the increase of progesterone causes increased accumulation of fat, sebaceous glands become blocked.

Hormonal imbalances. Hormones are suffering at every moment unstable low altitudes.

These changes are not old, that is, although they are more common among teenagers, no one gets rid of them, or at forty-much less in adolescence.

Poor feeding. Not all foods are equal and everyone is so harsh to the skin such as chocolate, pasta, sausages or spicy food. If you want to avoid those pesky blackheads and pimples, forget about them.
Hygiene.

Remember that acne is a matter of fat accumulation in the skin and fat that if our skin is added to the outer fat (pollution, dirt), the result can be disastrous. Therefore, it is advisable to wash your face as often as possible.

There is no foolproof treatment for acne, although many specific creams and ointments can help, but before choosing randomly is advisable to talk with your doctor.

The second is the biological age and is marked by cellular aging. Now a group of scientists has just identified for the first time, some genetic variants associated with the latter age of humans, a discovery that opens new avenues to investigate some age-related diseases. The researchers, led by Professor Nilesh Samani, Department of Cardiovascular Sciences at the University of Leicester (UK) carried out an analysis of more than 500,000 genetic variations in the human genome in two European cohorts with 2,917 participants and then verified their findings in 9,492 other participants.

What they have discovered, it is said in the journal Nature Genetics, are some variants, all based around the same gene, the third-that make people who carry them have shorter telomeres. Telomeres are part of the chromosomes and its length is considered a marker of biological age. Shorter, more ‘old’ do to our body.

According to the authors, the telomeres are strong genetic determination, between 40% and 80% – and although we are all born with a certain length of these structures, then is changing as a birthday, and cells are dividing. “What we have done is identify a genetic variant that telomeres shorten and make them biologically older” Samani said.

“Given the association that science has been established between telomere shortening and the risk for certain diseases, including heart or some tumors, our study throws the question of whether individuals carrying this variant are also more likely to get sick” he adds.

“The work suggests that some people are genetically programmed to age faster. In particular, the shorter length of their telomeres equivalent to three or four years of biological age,” said Tim Spector, of KingŽs College London, who also participated in the research. However, also remember that in addition to genetics, cellular aging is influenced by other factors as “snuff, obesity or sedentary lifestyle.”

The winter diet

And the first thing is to start a good diet:

1. FATS: Fats are less dear friends from many diets because they believe they are harmful and only cause weight gain, cellulite and pimples. However, fats are essential for body functions, especially the heart and brain, and the cold season, fat is necessary for the skin and the hair will require more in this kind of weather. So what should you care is included in the diet of vegetable fats (charities) and those containing almonds, walnuts, pine nuts, sunflower seeds, olive oil, etc..

2. FRESH VEGETABLES: it is necessary that you include the menso two fresh juices daily, considered especially since the Mexican carrot contains lots of vitamin A for skin and eyes. You can choose 2 or 3 vegetables juice and change daily. We also recomdeamos sprouts that are ideal to strengthen the skin and eyes.

3. CITRUS FRUIT AND ACID: Vitamin C is essential in cold weather. As this vitamin is water soluble, it is very easy to remove, so you should consume daily in juice or fresh fruit. The kiwi, pineapple, lemon, orange, grapefruit, strawberry, tangerine, tamarind, etc., are some fruits high in vitamin C content area Also broccoli and green peppers are rich in this vitamin.

Creams, oils and tips to protect your skin, hair and eyes

It is important that, just like when you go to the beach nourish and care for your skin, so do the cold season, because this can actually be harmful to the dermis.

1. Before you go out, wear a moisturizing cream. The cream of cocoa butter or shea are great for nourishing the skin.
2. When you return to your home or after being exposed to wind, wash your face with mineral water and re-apply a moisturizing cream.
3. Drink plenty of water to prevent your skin from drying.
4. Once a Week kicks off, apply a mask of avocado with olive oil and mayonnaise.
5. Selenium is an important antioxidant and an essential for beautiful skin and hair. If you do not forget to include in your diet, goat cheese, eggs, seafood, legumes and whole grains.
6. If you will be exposed to the weather, wear glasses so your eyes do not resent severe wind chill.
7. Exercise! This also give you heat, helps you take your movement necessary nutrients to all parts of your body thoroughly.

In the past we have given advice on how to soothe the skin by natural means, and we talked about the importance of certain habits such as eating fresh food and varied, applied natural masks, exfoliate the skin to help cell regeneration and cleaning habits have and the good rest, as the latter area to help the skin to restore and regenerate.

Sometimes proper diet (not eating cow’s milk and refined sugar among the most important tips to heal the skin), combined with healthy habits intelligent are full of patience, are sufficient to largely restore the health of the dermis. However, if set all these efforts with the act of entering ourselves to eradicating the root causes major upset of the dermis, we get a really successful and permanent cure.

Emotional energy

Emotional energy is, say, the fertilizer that feeds the entire body, is what makes “grow” on us either flowers or trees or, if poor, dry grass, the emotional energy which can make in our body can live beautiful colors and smooth, or may not nurture of life and energy, and dry again this place called body which, in this case, would represent the land that feeds on such emotional energy.

Emotions and body

We may feel many emotions, perhaps we are hard to find the relationship that we feel with what the body says. However, we could simplify this process very simple: if our emotions are based on love, our bodies evidenced with all those qualities as beauty, health, strength, harmony, tenderness and “soft” to characterizes this emotion. If our emotions are non-love, body evidenced with irritation, resistance, voltage, redness, pain, discomfort, and dry, say that love is the feeding water and non-love is the water that is lacking in nutrients as it disappears from our lives.

In fact, nothing of what we feel or experience in our lives is right and wrong: the real problem is the attitude we have towards it.

Everyone can have challenges, problems and conflict situations, everyone can have certain conditions that seem favorable. But it is the attitude with which we inject these experiences that we can “nurture” or “malnourished” experience. If our attitude is always renewed, and looking for change and positive transformation, it will feed any experience whatsoever, and our intention is reflected throughout our body.

However, when the way we respond to something is one of resistance or evasion, distrust, fear, criticism or blame, then the energy transmitted to the body is precisely not-love, no confidence, and then there is tension, irritation, irritation and pain (guilt becomes pain in the body), and, speaking of the skin, lack of love and understanding becomes a “dry”, love flows into our area, there is no nutritional attitude about what is live, not smooth for life because there is no understanding.

How to inject love?

In reality, every situation in life represents a challenge for us to grow, is when you do not grow you die. The skin is a very sensitive to what we feel, because it is our wrapper to interact with the world. When you have resentment and anger past, when we feel threatened by not being able to grow our greatest joy and freedom, we began to keep “dirt” that is, feelings of resentment, guilt and fear either for us or for someone in the past we feel responsible for our situation.

This may seem very complex to solve but it is not, the most important point here is daring to live what I really want to live. How do we do this? There are many ways to help build self-confidence to dare do what we really want, reading, seeking appropriate help, but above all, have a strong intention to grow and mature. I think one of the deepest problems that trigger the discomfort of the skin is the fact that we are afraid to face life in our own way, which means we do not want or can we grow, we want or need to continue to rely on something or someone who irritates us or no longer satisfies us.

Sunlight produces infrared (heat), visible light (colors), ultraviolet (UVA, UVB) that cause tanning and cellular changes that predispose to cancer. This radiation is greatest between 10 am and 4 pm. At this time the level of UV radiation is larger, more aggressive and carcinogenic.

Taking the Sun

A tan is a defense mechanism of the skin as it acts in a UV filter. Sun exposure in normal skin should be performed 10 minutes of exposure increasing every day since the first one not to exceed 15 minutes, avoiding the midday hours. At 10 days the skin will be ready to withstand the sun without any problems other than accumulation of solar radiation (important for preventing skin cancer).

Keep in mind that leather is each redheads and blondes have little ability to tolerate sunlight, chestnuts have a tolerance that can be considered normal, dark-skinned and tolerate greater speed in decision-sun .

Tips for sunning

What are sunscreens
The sun protection factors only offer an increased tolerance time to sunlight (particularly UVB), but not abolish, in general, the effects of the sun in its entirety.
Shown useless broad spectrum of action and to filter UVA and visible light (except the Avene 60). In these cases, the filters can be effective based on titanium dioxide.

Protective factors should be applied 30-45 minutes before sun exposure start, being removed by sweat and water. Why should they be conducted frequently and especially after bathing.

Protection rates are the factor by which we must multiply to know how long it protects us, example, a protection factor 20 allows 20 minutes exposure to the sun as if it were only 1 minute. The filter 50 allows 50 minutes as if it were one. We find filters from factor 2 to factor 50 or more who call or screens total.

Young children and the sun

Newborns and babies under 5 months should not be exposed to the sun.

Until three years, with great care.

The greatest of this age should be exposed to the sun, as it is a producer of vitamin D, but not be exposed to an intense tan and especially burns, leaves skin very predisposed to cancer in adults, their skin is much more fragile to changes in solar radiation. Always with sunscreens. Solar radiation accumulates and its carcinogenic effect is cumulative with age …

Do not forget the issue of dehydration from the heat!

Sunbathe During Pregnancy

The problem in pregnancy with the sun is the appearance of sunspots what is called “chloasma” which appears on the face and usually subsides after pregnancy.

Pill

Women taking the contraceptive pill, should be more careful in the sun?

It is a medicine called phototoxic, meaning that produces greater absorption of solar radiation and only for areas which causes chloasma or coffee stains very poorly tolerated aesthetically.

Special Care

Perfumes cosmetics with sunspots produced by phototoxic effect, the sun must be taken with the skin clean and protective filters, nothing more.

UVA rays are considered less aggressive than UVB rays, but has a sufficient risk to be carcinogenic, its effects are cumulative in addition to its effect on skin aging. The less the better …

Some tips for people with “problems” with the sun

Should minimize possible skin exposure to ultraviolet rays, visible light and shortwave. Here are some tips that can be useful.

* Move to fresh air just before 9 am and after 4 pm
* Wear clothes and a wide-brimmed hat that will not allow light penetration.
* Avoid prolonged exposure to fluorescent lamps
* Protect your face and hands with the sun protection factor higher than found.
* Use sunglasses.
* Do not get talking with friends on the street
* If you are fond of bullfighting, buy shadow entries
* The ideal career for you is the miner’s
* If you no longer choose to spend the holiday in cloudy or rainy places
* Place protections opaque to ultraviolet rays to the windows of your car
* Use sunscreen.

Malaria is a disease caused by the Plasmodium parasite is usually transmitted by the bite of certain mosquitoes infected female.

Half of world population 2500 million people live at risk of contracting the disease.

Between 300 and 500 million people become ill with malaria each year and kills about 3 million each year, every minute, for 3-5 children die of malaria.

2000 million people were exposed to Cover the skin to prevent malaria .The sick person may have different symptoms. Fever is the first symptom. It is cyclical, the product of the destruction of infected red blood cells. You can easily reach 41 ° C, with chills. Some hours later, the fever drops and chills stop. Between two and four days later (depending on the species of Plasmodium), the cycle repeats. The symptoms of uncomplicated malaria (fever and chills) are rather nonspecific, so that the health agent who is not alert to this possibility may miss the diagnosis. Untreated malaria can kill within hours (around 24 hours), is an important diagnosis in any patient with a history of travel or residence in endemic areas. The most common symptoms, as well as fever and chills are: headache, muscle aches (myalgia), joint aches (arthralgia), malaise, headache, marked decline and digestive disorders (nausea, vomiting and diarrhea). These symptoms may be easily confused with influenza, gastroenteritis, including typhoid fever, rheumatic fever and bacterial meningitis. All signs and symptoms vary depending on the species of Plasmodium, the parasite load and immune status of the patient. One way to avoid it is to cover our body with clothes that cover their most of the body. The use of repellents (usually based on diethyltoluamide – DEET) is quite effective. Sleeping with nets or beautiful. Spray the bedroom with insecticide containing pyrethrum. Avoid activities outside the home during the night (mainly between 18:00 and 20:00 hours), when mosquitoes are most abundant and active.”>the disease of malaria, a startling figure considering that worldwide there are 6,500 million, of which 500 million contracted the disease.

Approximately 515 million clinical care were due to malaria parasite in 2002, an amount that is 50% higher than that recorded by the World Health Organization.

Cover the skin to prevent malaria

The sick person may have different symptoms. Fever is the first symptom. It is cyclical, the product of the destruction of infected red blood cells.

You can easily reach 41 ° C, with chills. Some hours later, the fever drops and chills stop.

Between two and four days later (depending on the species of Plasmodium), the cycle repeats.

The symptoms of uncomplicated malaria (fever and chills) are rather nonspecific, so that the health agent who is not alert to this possibility may miss the diagnosis.

Untreated malaria can kill within hours (around 24 hours), is an important diagnosis in any patient with a history of travel or residence in endemic areas.

The most common symptoms, as well as fever and chills are: headache, muscle aches (myalgia), joint aches (arthralgia), malaise, headache, marked decline and digestive disorders (nausea, vomiting and diarrhea).

These symptoms may be easily confused with influenza, gastroenteritis, including typhoid fever, rheumatic fever and bacterial meningitis.

All signs and symptoms vary depending on the species of Plasmodium, the parasite load and immune status of the patient.

One way to avoid it is to cover our body with clothes that cover their most of the body.

The use of repellents (usually based on diethyltoluamide – DEET) is quite effective.

Sleeping with nets or beautiful.

Spray the bedroom with insecticide containing pyrethrum.

Avoid activities outside the home during the night (mainly between 18:00 and 20:00 hours), when mosquitoes are most abundant and active.

When the heat starts, we begin to take our clothes off, and discovered the problems left by the winter dry skin, cracked hands and feet and calluses, extra kilos, etc. Then it is good time to get into action and improve the texture of the skin preparing it for a tan even and hair care before the sun to reach it. But be careful, because this is not achieved with one day of treatment, but steadily, day by day, we reach the summer in top form.

Body Skin

In winter, the skin becomes thickened, therefore a polish for the summer. This is for a dry massage can be done at home, filling the imitating a steam sauna, and stay there for 15 minutes. After making plant with a glove upward circular motions from the feet to the neck.

Another method is by grinding granulated cream or gel for that purpose, which is typically sold in drugstores, and applied in the shower.

Care of the body before summer

To hydrate, if the body skin is dry, you can opt for neutral oil, almonds, walnuts or coconut. For all skin types are different variety of creams with vitamins A, D, E, ginseng, aloe vera, collagen and others.

Facial skin

We begin with a deep cleansing, hydration and nutrition. To clean use soap or dermatological cream, always start with the T-zone (forehead, nose and chin), continue on down to the cheeks and neck with circular movements, without exerting much pressure with your fingers.

You can make a grainy cream polish to remove dead cells, and then avoid the tan is uneven.
Vitamin C creams are moisturizers, also recommended the collagen, elastin, vitamin A and E.

Hair

It’s time to start with cream baths and blisters to repair tips punished. If you take note highlights the sun lightens the color and gives more light, so choose a darker shade than you normally use.

The gels and creams with sunscreen are ideal to protect your hair before going to the beach or pool. Anyway should make a good cut when he returns from vacation to trim the ends and open dry by the sun, wind, chlorine or salt.

The program for the care of your skin should include the following three steps:

1. Cleaning
Twice a day, morning and night, clean your face with a mild cleanser. Gently massage without rubbing your skin. Rinse. Towel dry applying tap lightly.

2. Hydration
While skin is still wet from the rinse, apply a mild lotion or cream to retain moisture.

3. Protection
Do not forget to apply sunscreen daily. In addition to premature aging, the sun can darken the melasma. Adequate protection against damage from the sun is essential for women with melasma should always avoid exposure to sunlight, sunlamps or UV rays and heat, wind or cold. In case you have to be exposed to these items, use a sunscreen with an SPF of 30 or higher every day. Brimmed hats can express their style and at the same time create shade for your face. Be sure to wear sunglasses to protect the delicate eye tissue and prevention of strabismus.

U.S. scientists have found that cigarette smoke not only accelerates the aging of the skin in areas that receive sunlight but also those who are hidden from the sun’s rays, a study published today in the journal Archives of Dermatology.

The investigation found that cigarette smoke was a factor that increased the skin lesions in areas like the inside top or bottom of the buttocks.

Until now it was known that the smoke was combined with the sun to cause premature wrinkling of the skin, but the study conducted by scientists at the Health System at the University of Michigan, adds a new dimension to the link between smoking and the damage to the skin, the scientists said.

“We examined skin protected from sunlight and discovered that the number of cigarettes smoked per day and the number of years the person smoked was related to the level of skin lesions,” said Yolanda R. Helfrich, study author and professor of dermatology at the School of Medicine of the university.

The researchers reached this conclusion after developing a nine-point scale to measure the degree of aging of the inner area of the skin from the arms of 77 participants.

The scientists looked at the photographs and assigned grades in which zero represented no wrinkling and eight represented severe fine wrinkling.

They also reviewed photographs of the participants a year later and assigned grades to determine the level of increase in injuries.

Also gathered information on participants in interviews, including age, ethnicity, smoking history, use of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, use of dietary supplements and herbs, exposure to sunlight, in the case of the number of children women, hormone treatments and contraceptives.

The people who participated in the study were smokers or had been by an average of 24 years.

In general, participants over 45 years, the degree of skin aging was significantly higher among smokers than among nonsmokers.

In the age group 45-65 years, smokers had an average score of more than two, while nonsmokers had an average of less than one.

In the over 65 years, smokers had an average score of six, while nonsmokers had an average of four, the scientists said

Diagnosis

The history is very important: age of onset, family history of photosensitivity, with seasonal symptoms, duration of exposure required, latency between exposure and onset of clinical description of the rash and its distribution, time of resolution if have minimal exposure, sunscreen use, drugs that are taken, local applications of cosmetic products, occupational exposure (welding arcs, lasers, UV lamps, industries, etc …) and others.

Treatment

* The best treatment is prevention, which in this case is to remain under cover, pointing out that UVA rays can penetrate the glass (generally do not filter out wavelengths> 320 nm) and that the clouds are not a protective factor solar. Exanthems by the Sun

* In addition, direct exposure to the sun at sunset is less dangerous than in the light of a cloudy afternoon. The white light of fluorescent lights can cause problems only in highly sensitive patients, depending on their proximity.

* Clothes do not provide complete protection, as according to tissue type, thickness and color can allow the passage of spectra of light waves long wavelength (UV and visible light) can pass through thin fabric of nylon or cotton.

* The sun protection factors only offer an increased tolerance time to sunlight (particularly UVB), but in fact may allow a normal life. Shown useless broad spectrum of action and to filter UVA and visible light. In these cases it may be effective titanium dioxide. Protective factors should be applied 30-45 min before the start of exposure to the sun, being removed by sweat and water.

* In the case of a drug or substance recognized as responsible, its withdrawal does not mean the immediate disappearance of the photosensitivity, which may persist for some time.

* As a topical treatment can be used topical corticosteroids.

* In the systemic treatment beams were used PUVA, antimalarial drugs, beta-carotene and antihistamines.

Polymorphous light eruption

It is characterized by delayed abnormal reactions to UV rays of the sun, manifesting as various lesions: erythema, papules, plaques and vesicles.

In each patient, the rash tends to be constantly in a single presentation, the most frequent and Papulovesicular papular. It is the most common solar rash, predominantly in females. Appears at the beginning of the season of sun (spring) and used to improve the acquisition tan.
It begins 18-24 hours after exposure to the sun for a few minutes or several days, and lasts about 7-10 days. Often, exposed areas are not affected and yes, on the other hand, trunk, neck and chest, or extremities.
The diagnosis and treatment are based on the same principles as in solar urticaria.