Science of Skin

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A child's skin, vibrant and self-restoring, shows the balance and harmony that most of us are born with. As we age, this balance is affected by food, pollution, bad decision and the poisons we ingest, disrupting the harmony of the skin.

This is the first page of a very precise and suggested path of study of this "Science of Skin." This page IS the first step in that journey. At the end of this page you'll see the sequence of further steps. You can also, obviously, use the drop-down menu to look for whatever you wish.

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"AGE" is not the problem, but it is the CHOICES we make on how to treat our bodies and skin. THESE are the factors that cause what we mistakenly call "aging skin."

Yes, the accumulation of many years of poor choices can only come from "many years" and therefore age, but we put the causation on the wrong target -- it is those choices that bring about unhealthy skin.

Many people select a very common choice for improving their skin -- I hope you'll see that the choice of using cosmetic products is actually a poor choice for restoring the health and beauty of youthful skin. Cosmetics generally add insult to the injury of other poor choices.

It's like giving the guy an aspirin -- it may relieve the pain, but it cures nothing!

What is needed is a recognition of the cause of the unhealthy skin and a restoration of the good choices that had been omitted.

Choices are made, consciously, by people who seem to want to kill themselves, or at least damage their skin badly. Many hundreds of years ago it was well understood (before MD's and during the reign of "grandmothers") that a mother should breast feed her child. We then came into a period when "learned" (and "evilly ignorant") doctors told mothers that breast feeding was the WRONG thing to do. My own mother (I was born in 1931) firmly believed the first milk she saw when just ready to breast feed me was "bad." It was, of course, the very colostrum that all new mothers produce to pass on their immune protection to the baby. My mother was convinced by the doctors she knew about that her "milk was bad," so I was a bottle-fed baby from the start.

There's a slogan that's tossed around in breastfeeding circles: "Breast is best." But for all its recognized benefits, breastfeeding, in the United States, is still a misunderstood, undervalued and politicized. Doctors get little if any training on the subject in medical school. The government claims to support it but in practice often works against it. Employers don't offer the flexibility working mothers need to do it successfully. And the corporations that make baby formula wield an astonishing amount of influence over public policy and the medical profession. (source)

There was a period of intense "teaching" that breast-feeding was bad -- an mothers threw over the teachings of their own mothers and bought into the chemical age.

So it has been that children went through periods of the years when it was considered healthy to get a beautiful sun tan -- young girls did not think they were pretty if their skin was white instead of tan. You see this stupidity even today -- go to any beach and look for the acres of skin being exposed to the harmful ultraviolet light -- with few words on prevention from doctors who are paid mainly to dispense a pill for a disease.

How mad is this madness? Take a look in the Yellow Pages of any city for the "tanning salons" where you can get a "healthy tan" from -electric bulbs -- and avoid the harsh atmosphere of fresh ocean air!

So, we have made many wrong choices in life with many of those the direct consequence of stupid and evil care givers, even including some many parents.

This batch of wrong choices can be aligned with poor advice from authority figures AND to an increasing amount of ignoring of good advice that has managed to seep into the public view.

The number one type of current conscious poor choice is certainly covered by the word "DIET!"

The image on the right, above is all too common in our Western Culture -- and if there is anything bad for skin you can certainly find it on the table above -- and in the stomachs of millions of youngsters who never mature into thinking adults who might quite this addiction. This image, incidentally, illustrates one of the hundreds of images on this web site -- used to portray both good and bad choices people make. The image above is the first image on a Gallery Tour of Choices that starts HERE.

There is hardly anyone more prominent in the "bad diet" department than Coca Cola advising you to drink a soda -- and a great number of other advertisers pedaling chemical foods that need a sugar wash to finish the job.

ALL bad skin is not the result of what would appear to be conscious choices, as when there is an accident, or in the case of Jean Ross, Co-Founder with Karl Loren, of Vibrant Life. She had deadly cancer of the esophagus that left her in a near-dead condition when she was admitted into a Hospice in June 2004, to die. Just about then, an image of her showed much more "wrong" than her skin, yet no matter what the bad choices or the terrible accidents of life may have befallen your skin, it can be improved toward normal with proper nutrients and new choices that are good for the skin and life.

The photo on the left was taken by Karl Loren in mid-2004, and now in mid-2006, when this page is first published she has made so many right choices that her body and skin look very very different -- below left two photos below -- and on the left.

Every honest skin product in the world has been developed with the idea of regaining the skin of a healthy child. But only Vibrant Skin™ products approach this from the concept of re-balancing the skin with nutrition that actually restores the original harmony of the skin you were born with.

The science of skin has been hidden in chemicals and a "wrong science" laid on man from his own wrong choices on what data to believe.

The skin of kids, when not being used in Madison Avenue ads and posed by young models will most usually NOT be retouched -- particularly if I TAKE the picture and tell you -- "no retouching."

Even very bad diets of young children often do NOT affect their skin until they are much older. The un-retouched image (taken by Karl Loren on 24 June 2006) to the right is a young girl whose skin shows the perfection of youth yet whose diet includes the soda and sugar of addiction.

Those few people who retain the harmony of a youthful skin as they age, when investigated, have usually made the right choices on food and care for their skin.

You can use this type of "amateur" image for the basis of the change we expect with Vibrant Skin Repair cream. Why not? Restore your skin to that of your youth!

The "care" does not include chemical additives nor medical remedies, but simply the right food and natural cleansing and exercise that all healthy skin thrives on. The corruption within the US and Western medical systems is nowhere more obvious than in the field of psychiatric medicine:

The panelists were also critical of a recent action by the Food and Drug Administration to add new warnings about potential birth defects to the Paxil [a psychiatric drug] label. In December, the FDA issued a health advisory saying it determined exposure to Paxil in the first trimester of pregnancy may increase the risk of congenital malformations. The advisory said an as-yet-unpublished Swedish study of 6,896 women found a doubling of cardiac defects among infants born to mothers who use Paxil, compared with those in the general population. Most of the cardiac defects involved the failure of the wall between the left and right sides of the heart to completely develop.(source)

You can choose to nourish and balance rather than deprive and disrupt.

Vibrant Skin is the food your skin thrives on. Healthy skin is beautiful skin.

Think for a moment what is the function of "skin?" Obviously "skin" serves to protect the stuff inside the body from leaking out -- and protects it against invasion by bacteria and other nasty stuff. So, skin is the primary protection the body has to keep bad stuff from getting in.

Yet, of all the various parts of the body, the skin is the most sensitive to sensation. You "feel" things by and through your skin. So, your skin is sensitive to sensations and it is sensations that drive much of man's motivations for work and play.

Here is that image on the left, mentioned above, of Jean Ross in 2006. This is the skin of a 69 year old woman who has gone through months of radiation and chemotherapy. She has more improvement to do for her skin, but even thus far she has made a remarkable restoration from a previous state of poor health. In the image above she wore a scarf because she had NO hair. The image on the left shows her own, real hair. (Remember that the primary ingredient in our Skin Repair Cream is sulfur and that sulfur is also the primary nutrient for hair as well as skin.) Jean's hair has been restored from complete baldness -- and using organic sulfur has been part of the reason.

The "skin" on different parts of the body has more SIMILARITIES than DIFFERENCES. There are important differences, but it is very much the same whether you look at the outside of the lips, or the inside of the lips. Does the skin stop just because its location is covered by other body parts.

Is the arm pit any less "skin" because the pit is so seldom seem?

Skin is an amazingly complex organ and, by weight, the largest of the body. It covers some 22 square feet and weighs around 9 pounds (roughly 7 percent of body weight). Its integumentary system provides the front line of defense for the body, as well as being expressive of physiological conditions and emotional states. Skin is the extension of our nervous system to the outside of the body. Often referred to as our third lung, it is involved in processes of exchange between the internal and external environments -- respiration, absorption and elimination. (Source)

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The image to the right, of course, shows quite beautiful skin but there is little likelihood that this commercial photo has NOT been retouched. I, Karl Loren, will present on these pages a photographic technique that "sees through" the falseness of cosmetic layers used to hide the unhealthy skin -- your health skin should not need either re-touching or face powder!

Science has recognized this term "skin" with abundant research and the typical use of fancy words, such as with the term "epithelial cells"

Epithelial tissues cover or line all body parts both externally and internally. (source)

With as much research as has been done on "skin" it is not surprising that there are many scientific studies on skin and the nutrients which affect the health of skin. Click here for a general large batch of abstracts from such studies -- in a pop-up window.

CONCLUSIONS: This is the first time that epidermal proliferation and its dependence on ageing have been measured non invasively on the human face.
: The higher tryptophan fluorescence values on the face vs. the protected site are indicative of accelerated rates of epidermal proliferation in the presence of chronic environmental insults.
: The repair potential of facial skin, i.e. its ability to maintain high proliferation rates, is maximal in younger populations and gradually decreases with age. (Source)

So, it is true that "skin" would not be the proper term for the "inside of the stomach" even though "epithelial tissue" would generally be accurate for both areas.

The skin in your mouth has very specialized sensation detectors, but so do the genitals have very specialized sensation detectors. And, why is the skin around a woman's nipple so much different from the skin around her toe? There are answers to these questions and the answers point up the differential health needs of different parts of the skin.

There are obviously differences, but there are many similarities. It is fair to say that there are far more similarities among the different pieces and locations for skin than there differences between "the skin" and the organs, such as the liver and heart.

Skin is a rather fabulous subject to study -- and to look into the "science of ..."

Consider that the skin is a "life support system" that we all have -- probably the most important such system we have. Isn't it worth keeping in good shape -- after all it protects us from a lot of stuff and gives us all those juicy sensations.

In a better form of truth it is "skin care" that is the life support system -- with proper care of the skin it can and does act as the life support system we all depend on.

Skin has several layers. You can learn more about these in a technical sense by clicking HERE for structure of skin, HERE for the information on the means by which skin receives nourishment (blood) or HERE or HERE for enlarged images of body organs showing the location and relative size of the capillaries as opposed to the arteries.

If you study all of those pop-up windows you'll find that the nourishment needed by the skin is brought to it only by the capillaries -- they are so small, and spend so much of their time "collapsed" that any approach to skin care cannot be complete without examination of the role of nourishment through some transdermal method -- the older you get the less nourishment gets to your skin and the more you begin to feel that you must rely on drugs and chemicals.

Click here for the vital elements of a feast for the skin!

Click here for a tour of the gallery of bad skin conditions. Use the drop down menu to leave that tour.

Click here for a tour of the gallery of healthy skin conditions.

Click here for a tour of the gallery of choices people make, both good and bad, that affect their skin.

Click here for a tour of the terrible skin conditions that do exist -- some of which you may have personally. It is the theme of this Web Site and our business philosophy that drugs and cosmetics are NOT the treatment or cure for these skin conditions -- rather it must be the restoration and maintenance of normalcy through proper choices of nutrients and life style -- and specifically with the concentrated nutrients that may reverse a downwardly trending skin condition.

The technical "science of skin?" That is all wrapped up inside the single most vital element in skin nutrition -- sulfur. Organic sulfur is deficient in most people and particularly deficient in those who suffer from bad skin conditions. In the proper form nutrients rich in sulfur can and should be added to your life -- to bring back good skin and to keep it.

This web site is HEAVY with scientific studies on sulfur and research on the health of "wool!" "horses hooves!" and "leather." Sounds strange? The sad truth is that research on human skin (and fingernails and hair) have been driven by commercial drug and cosmetic interests rather than honest looks at food, diets and exercise.

It is well known that sugar and Coca Cola are "bad for the skin." So, why do so many people continue to eat and drink those "foods" which damage their skin and health? The image on the right? What chance in life does that child have for a healthy life, much less just "skin," with a role model who feeds junk to his face and gets just what he deserves.

You may need to be shocked out of the "bad food rut" you are in? Try taking the "bad food gallery tour" here.

Leave the answer to the consciousness of the Madison Avenue Cosmetic Kings who try to convince you that beauty lies in a tube of ointment or cream with ingredients that would be dangerous to eat!

The subject of exercise for the health of the skin is often neglected -- it is easier to sell magic potions than to convince some pretty girl to sweat. Yet, exercise, particularly by girls under 20 years old has shown to be a very certain way of reducing the chances of breast cancer 15 years later.

But a growing body of evidence shows that a woman's risk for breast cancer may be determined far earlier in life. Cellular changes that can lead to cancer likely begin in childhood when breast tissue is just beginning to develop.

So while strategies like diet, exercise and -- for high-risk women -- prevention drugs like Tamoxifen may help stave off breast cancer in midlife, scientists are also beginning to look at prevention efforts for young girls. What's increasingly clear is that the health decisions parents make for their daughter in preschool, adolescence and the late teen years have the potential to dramatically alter her risk for breast cancer as she becomes a woman. (source)

This is the bottom of this first page --- where you can see the suggested series of steps for further understanding not only this newly researched and presented "science of skin" but all the features of the new skin repair cream being introduced with this web site.

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The study path just below is also found in the drop-down menu, under the first title ("Welcome"), the first sub-title: "Basics in Sequence For Study."

1. Science of Skin (this page)

2. The power of choice

3. The science of sulfur

4. "Wool" Equals "Hair" "Leather" Equals "Skin"

5. Sulfur In Animal Feedstuff

6. Elements Of "Life"

7. Living Fluids

8. What is Transdermal Sulfur

9. Methyl Sulfonyl Methane ( " MSM " )

10. The Ingredients in Vibrant Skin Repair Cream

11. Field Trial by Karl Loren Personal

12. The Price

13. The Distributor Opportunity

14. Free Samples

The main theme for this new product is well presented in the following image:

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