How to read the signs and feel comfortable in your own skin again.
Do your first thoughts in the morning include wondering if your skin is even worse than yesterday?
Is it hard to walk past a mirror without examining your skin?
When you suffer from a skin condition it affects every part of your life. It can make you feel lonely and separate.
No matter what skin condition plagues you—acne, rosacea, eczema, or something else—it can make your life so much more stressful. And no matter what you try, anything from medication to meditation, you still end up with flare-ups and breakouts and unbearable episodes.
But if you address the real root cause of most skin issues, something most people don’t even consider, everything will change.
An Epidemic of Unhealthy Skin
At least one in three people suffer with skin conditions, and those numbers continue to rise.
The most common issues include acne, eczema (atopic dermatitis), psoriasis, and rosacea. And while these diseases are not contagious and may not technically be considered “serious,” their effects can damage your quality of life.
Symptoms can include:
- Painfully dry skin
- Itching
- Redness
- Scaly, rough skin
- Puffiness
- Blotches and patches
- Breakouts and bumps
And while many doctors go straight toward treating the symptoms you can see, they don’t focus on what’s happening inside, where the problems start. Because all of these can be traced back to a common cause: leaky gut.
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Leaky Gut Shows on Your Skin
Leaky gut is just what it sounds like: when things normally trapped in your gut leak out into the rest of your body. And when that happens, it affects every part of your body including your skin.
Your gut (your large intestine) has a protective barrier.[1] When the barrier holds at full strength, only healthy substances pass into your bloodstream while harmful bacteria and toxins stay safely locked inside so they can be eliminated. Problem is, those harmful elements don’t want to stay inside the gut, and they’ll do anything to fight their way out.
Pathogenic bacteria in your gut microbiome (the trillions of bacteria that live in your gut) naturally produce LPS toxins—one of the biggest threats to the barrier. A gut microbiome that’s in healthy balance can handle LPS toxins easily, neutralizing them before they get out of control. But when pathogens outnumber beneficial bacteria in your gut, a condition called dysbiosis, your body can’t handle the toxic overload.
LPS toxins attack your gut barrier 24/7 until they weaken it enough to sneak through.[2] That’s a leaky gut… and it can be worse than it sounds. When you’re dealing with a leaky gut, pathogens and toxins can move into your bloodstream and cause problems everywhere in your body.[3]
That includes disrupting your skin’s own microbiome and creating the conditions for painful skin problems.
LPS Toxins Trigger Skin Flare-Ups and Breakouts
When your gut barrier becomes leaky and LPS toxins make their way into your bloodstream, they circulate throughout your body. They set off a cascade of events that lead to the factors that cause skin issues, trigger flare-ups, and make symptoms worse.
As LPS toxins cause system-wide inflammation[4] and oxidative stress[5], two major players in the onset and severity of skin disorders.
Research shows that:
- Nearly 60% of psoriasis patients have leaky gut and high levels of circulating LPS toxins[6]
- Rosacea is closely linked to gut-related conditions that involve leaky gut[7]
- Around 65% of acne patients have high levels of LPS toxins, indicating leaky gut[8]
- Leaky gut is linked to eczema flare-ups and disease severity[9]
So as long as your gut barrier is leaky, letting LPS toxins run wild, it’s almost impossible to get a handle on skin conditions. That just leaves you with red, itchy, blotchy, painful skin and the constant threat of flare-ups and breakouts.
Address Leaky Gut to Calm Your Skin
Getting LPS toxins under control and promoting a strong gut barrier is the first step in calming down anything that’s going on with your skin. Without the constant barrage of LPS toxins to fight against, your immune system can focus on balanced responses.
The first step toward that is getting your gut microbiome into healthy balance. Normally, beneficial probiotic bacteria vastly outnumber harmful pathogens in your gut microbiome. Dysbiosis flips that script, putting the pathogens in control where they and their LPS toxins attack the gut barrier. So adding to your probiotic population and getting rid of the pathogens is the only way to give your gut barrier a break. And to do that, you need probiotics that can go the distance… spore probiotics.
Research shows that a specific combination of four spore probiotics addresses this very issue. In a groundbreaking clinical trial, scientists found people who took spore probiotics had a 42% reduction in LPS toxins after eating… but people taking a placebo saw a 36% increase in LPS toxins.[10] The researchers concluded that these spore probiotics—Bacillus indicus HU36, Bacillus subtilis HU58, Bacillus clausii, and Bacillus coagulans—could effectively address leaky gut.
A healthy, balanced gut microbiome combined with a strong gut barrier can do wonders for your skin. Think clear, comfortable, and glowing with good health.
Add Anti-Aging Support With This Key Nutrient
Vitamin K2 gets less attention that it deserves, especially when it comes to healthy skin.
Your skin requires important proteins, like collagen, to stay firm and smooth. But those proteins can lose some of their functionality due to things like aging, environmental exposure, and leaky gut.[12] That’s where vitamin K2 comes in. This essential nutrient helps your body maintain sufficient collagen levels.[13]
And research shows that vitamin K2 plays a key role in calm, comfortable skin.[14,15,16]
Unfortunately though, vitamin K2 is one of the hardest nutrients to get enough of through diet alone. Luckily, a daily supplement in its most bioactive and bioavailable form, vitamin K2-7, can help you make sure you’re getting enough.
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