// Stress and your Complexion
York and New Jersey and clinical professor of dermatology at the Mt. Sinai Medical Center in New York City.
The better shape your skin is in as the holiday season starts, says Goldberg, the better you will look throughout the season.
What can also help: Increasing the moisture level in your skin, also starting as early in the season as possible.
"A lot of the skin stress that appears during the holidays, including some dark circles, can be the result of a lack of moisture, particularly if you live in a colder climate and are exposed to indoor heating," says Sumayah Jamal, MD, associate professor of dermatology at the NYU Medical Center in New York City. Once you begin drinking alcohol, she says, you add to the dryness, and even that extra glass or two of wine could push you over into another skin type.
One way around the problem, she says, is to trade up to a richer, more emollient moisturizer, beginning right at the start of the holiday season.
More spots – Acne and stress are directly related so if you’re experiencing adult acne, whatever your age, look at your stress levels. Stress causes an inflammatory response in the body and leads the pores to become clogged and break.
When this happens you get redness and pus – a pimple. Moreover, under stress your adrenal glands (two small kidney shaped organs that sit on top of your kidneys administering stress hormones cortisol and adrenalin) go into overdrive.
PREMATURE AGEING: Stress makes us more prone to bags under the eyes, grey hair and wrinkles . This leads to the release of more androgens – make hormones – from your sex organs and more androgens leads to pimples. In women this effect is magnified as we have more androgens made in our darnel glands than men do.
LACK OF RADIANCE: This occurs because blood flow has slowed down and blood is being pumped into the muscles to rule the fight or flight reactions.
ACCELERATED AGEING: One US study found that women who were most threatened by the anticipation of stressful tasks looked older at a cellular level, some by as much as ten years.
BAGS UNDER THE EYES In some cases, this is because people don’t sleep enough and have an obsession with waking up early to get a headstart on the day. According to Auriole, the effect isn’t reversed by weekend lie-ins. Other people might wake in the small hours because of their stress load. It’s all the same – stress is the enemy of sleep.
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INCREASED JAW SIZE: This comes from tooth grinding, typical of stressed out Type
Help can be achieved with a mouth guard but according to a dentist, the brilliant James Goolnik at Bow Lane Dental, what is really needed is to find a way to deal with the stress because a mouthguard could stop your teeth wearing down but it doesn’t stop the grinding itself.
SAGGING SKIN: The result of decreased blood flow and dehydration from stress leeching the vitamins, blood and moisture from the skin and focusing it on the muscles.
FINE LINES AND DRY SKIN: Stress reduces the skin’s own protective barrier made of healthy oils known as lipids, causing them to evaporate. This rich, moist barrier is hard to replace, even with the best creams, which is why stressed people’s skin always looks so desperately dry. Time to learn those breathing techniques.
REDNESS: Stress is also a key element in inflammatory skin conditions such as rosacea, which is exacerbated if you’re dealing with stress by using alcohol (red wine increases the likelihood of rosacea and broken capillaries). Moreover, other inflammatory skin conditions including eczema and psoriasis are directly linked with stress.
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