How the Lack of Minerals Can Affect a Person's Beauty, by Polly Tig.

How the Lack of Minerals Can Affect a Person's Beauty

Photo: Ultra_Nancy

A balanced diet has many benefits. And a lack of one, can lead to many downsides. However, how do you know your body isn’t getting the right minerals or vitamins? Your body has ways to communicate to you that your diet isn’t cutting it. In fact, it has many ways to do this. Unfortunately, one of the ways your body tells you this is through premature aging, brittle hair, hair loss, and other unpleasant physical signs.

Don’t fret just yet! There are ways to combat premature aging and maintain your youthful glow. According to several studies, key nutrients consumed through a healthy diet can help fight off premature signs of aging. If you follow these self care tips below, you’ll find yourself feeling more beautiful than ever before.

Photo: pxfuel

Why Are Vitamins and Minerals Necessary For Your Body?

Minerals and vitamins are important because they keep your bones, muscles, skin, heart, and brain working smoothly. Although vitamins are straightforward to understand, minerals can get a bit tricky because there are two kinds: trace minerals and macrominerals. Our bodies need larger amounts of macrominerals than trace minerals. However, both macrominerals and trace minerals are essential.

Macrominerals include calcium, phosphorus, magnesium, sodium, potassium, chlorine and sulphur. Trace minerals include iron, manganese, copper, iodine, zinc, and selenium.

Photo: pxfuel

6 Signs that Your Body Needs More Vitamins and Minerals

Brittle, Weak Hair

• Several things can cause you to develop brittle hair. If nutrients are lacking, biotin is usually the culprit. Biotin — also known as vitamin B7 — helps the body maintain energy levels. A biotin deficiency can cause you to feel fatigue, muscle pain, cramps, and tingling in your feet and hands.

Who Suffers From a Biotin Deficiency?

• Heavy drinkers, smokers, those taking antibiotics, and people with digestive problems tend to suffer from this type of nutrient deficiency.

What Healthy Food Contains Biotin?

• Eggs, meat, fish, nuts, seeds, spinach, sweet potatoes, and bananas

Skin Disorders

• Although skin disorders can be caused by a plethora of conditions, a lack of nutrients can be a culprit, too. Specifically, dandruff and seborrheic dermatitis can be caused by low levels of zinc, vitamin B3, vitamin B2, and vitamin B6.

What Healthy Foods Contains Zinc, Vitamin B3, Vitamin B2, and Vitamin B6?

• Vitamin B3, vitamin B2, and vitamin B6 can be found in legumes, meat, fish, eggs, nuts, and green vegetables. Zinc can be found in seafood, meat, and whole grains.

Photo: pxfuel

Hair Loss

• Hair loss is very common and affects more than 50% of people. Although there is a genetic component to hair loss, a lack of iron, zinc, vitamin B3, vitamin B7, linoleic acid, and alpha-linoleic acid can contribute to hair loss as well. However, an excess of certain nutrients can cause hair loss as well. Studies show that high amounts of vitamin A and selenium can lead to hair loss.

What Healthy Foods Contain Iron, Zinc, Vitamin B3, Vitamin B7, Linoleic Acid, and Alpha-Linoleic Acid?

• Meat, fish, eggs, legumes, and dark leafy greens are good sources of iron and zinc. Vitamin B3 is found in fish, dairy, whole grains, nuts, and leafy greens. Linoleic acid, and alpha-linoleic acid can be found in nuts, soy, chia seeds, vegetable oils, and leafy greens.

Skin Bumps and Blemishes

• Keratosis Pilaris is a skin condition that can appear anywhere in the body. This condition is not well understood, but people with diets low in vitamin A and C tend to suffer from this condition. Although skin creams can help with this condition, consider upping your vitamin game to help improve results.

What Healthy Foods Contain Vitamin C and Vitamin A?

• Dairy, meat, oranges, lemons, eggs, and leafy green veggies contain healthy amounts of vitamin C and A.

Dry, Wrinkly Skin

• Too little fat can cause your skin to become wrinkled, dry, and lack the glowing quality everyone strives for. Although too much fat can cause greasy skin and breakouts, the right amount can help your skin become glowing.

What Foods Contain Healthy Fat?

• If you want the best quality skin, you need the best quality fat. Focus on eating monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fats from seeds, avocado, fish, and nuts. Omega-3 fatty acids — a polyunsaturated fat — can be found in certain vegetable oils, most popularly in coconut oil.

Photo: Lisa Fotios

Skin Burns

• If you’re out on the sun a lot and you suffer from burns easily, you might have a selenium deficiency. Selenium protects you from UV rays and, subsequently, premature aging and wrinkles. Also, carotenoids like B-carotene, astaxanthin, and retinol have been documented to protect your skin from UV rays.

What Foods Contain Selenium and Carotenoids?

• Since carotenoids are derived from vitamin A, you can get these carotenoids in your body by eating cheese, carrots, milk, fish, sweet potato, cantaloupe, and spinach. You can get selenium from eggs, brown rice, shrimp, chicken, and spinach.

Conclusion:

If you’re looking to improve your appearance, the amazing tips described above can help fight off premature signs of aging like wrinkles and brittle hair. If you rather take supplements in order to get these nutrients, you definitely can. However, the best vitamins for women and men come from organic, natural sources. If you do decide to take supplements, consult a doctor to make sure they don’t negatively interact with a medication or a pre-existing health condition.

About Polly Tig: Polly Tlg has always been interested in holistic and alternative ways of healing. Ayurveda and yoga are the best medicines for her. Deeply intuitive she finds that true healing surpasses the boundaries of the physical body and embraces the emotional, energetic and subtlest layers of our being. Polly helps people to know how to be healthy and beautiful using only natural remedies. She is an expert in Shilajit, what is one of the main superfoods of Ayurveda. She believes that nature is the best source of human health. Polly is a guest columnist and blogger.