How Adaptogens can help your Skin
Adaptogen is a name given to describe those gifts found in nature that have the capability to produce suitable adjustments in our body, at a cellular level, and act by helping us shield the body from several kinds of stresses while stimulating the body's own self-rejuvenation mechanism. A good health relies on these adaptogenes which reinforces the body's defensive system thus controlling bodily mechanisms. An adaptogen is a biological remedy that helps bolster our innate resistance to illness and impede stress from taking a toll on our nervous, hormonal and immune systems as well as elevate our body's energy levels. Adaptogens intend to normalize body functions, and when the job is completed, they are disposed or absorbed back into the system with no secondary effects nor damage to the body, unlike allopathic drugs.
Today, thanks to the latest technology, we are able to change our natural environment virtually at will. Air conditioning, central heating and plastics are just a few of the innumerable conveniences we are capable of controlling. Yet, however necessary or life-supporting these things can appear in the short-term, in the long-run they are a double-edged sword, burdening us with undesirable secondary effects.
Environmental side effects such as the thinning ozone layer and the variousheavy metals and other chemicals that are flooding our body are the most evident answer to technology. These by-products of "The good life" are now representing a main problem for the adaptation and continuity of various species and bio-systems that are found here, on planet Earth. The only way to survive such negative changes is to change ourselves and to adapt to a quickly changing and tense environment.
As a society we seem concentrated on impeding our body's innate capability to adapt by permanently forcing the environment to meet our every whim instead of us being the ones that change. In Darwinian terms, this is not an optimistic prognostic for our species.
Rene Dubois, the humanist scientist declared, "This state of adaptedness confers a fake feeling of security because it doesn't have a lasting value and doesn't prepare for the future." Dubois' words shows us that we must be in tune with our surroundings, not the other way round. This implies that, instead of entrusting our body to pharmaceuticals or extracts from biological elements, it may be a better option to reinforce our body, our defensive system, and ourselves while developing a better understanding of Nature's gifts instead of abusing whatever new element we cleverly take from nature, this is where adaptogens can be of great importance.
Fortunately for us there is a type of natural solutions available that can aid the organism adapt better to its environment, whether that environment be filled with harsh chemicals or simply defined by rapid change. These natural riches are called adaptogens, and can be offered by some biological skin care solutions.
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Published February 7th, 2008