Vegan & want glowing skin - read about what the evidence shows & what your options are

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Vegan & want glowing skin - read about what the evidence shows & what your options are

In order to make healthy skin, your body needs the building blocks to synthesise important skin proteins like collagen and elastin. These building blocks are known as amino acids.

If you are a vegan or vegetarian, you will really struggle to do this, as these diets are plant based - and there is not a lot of protein in plants. Learn about how to optimse your diet, and skin/metabolic diet in this blog by GP and Aesthteic Physician Dr Jemima Grant.

For my plant based patients looking to optimise skin, I suggest they supplement their diets with protein. Increasing protein will improve the look and feel of skin and also improves the outcomes of a collagen induction treatment such as microneedling, tixel, ultraformer and lasers. This is based on my experience observing clinical results - but I did recently find some evidence on this topic to share.

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✨ NMN - the supplement you should be taking to improve skin, health & prevent ageing.

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✨ NMN - the supplement you should be taking to improve skin, health & prevent ageing.

In the last few months,  I have been doing a deep dive into metabolism and the genetic pathways that determine how and why we age. This type of information is not even in textbooks yet! One of the things I have learnt is that we can mitigate some of the metabolic impacts of ageing and disease by taking supplements to regulate our metabolic function, reduce our blood sugar and improve the ability of our body to read and replicate DNA.

🌟 The star compound here are NMN (Nicotinamide Mononucleotide) which is a form of Vitamin B3 that increases NAD+ (nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide), a coenzyme present in all living cells and central to healthy DNA expression and energy production.

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