Summer sun exposure makes your skin look ten years older, and autumn is the time for urgent skin care

Ms. Lin, 28, is a real estate agent. During the day, she often needs to ride a bicycle to take clients to see houses. She is either outdoors in the sun or staying in an air-conditioned office. Unconsciously, her complexion has not only become darker, but her skin has also become unexpectedly dry and rough, and she even has fine lines and sagging skin on her face. Everyone says that she looks much older.

The ultraviolet rays are strong in the summer. If you forget to protect your skin from the sun, your skin will easily get tanned, develop fine lines, and age and lose elasticity.

Strong sunlight in summer can cause a lot of skin problems

The ultraviolet rays in Taiwan are strong in the summer. If you accidentally forget to use sunscreen, your skin will easily get tanned, develop fine lines, and lose elasticity. Also, because you often stay in air-conditioned rooms, where there is a large temperature difference between the inside and outside of the air-conditioned room, you may experience oil-water imbalance and dry skin. Throughout the summer, you feel your skin condition is getting out of control and you don’t know what to do? It’s not too late to take emergency tonic food as autumn approaches.

Natural polyphenols enhance antioxidant power and restore skin's natural radiance

Research from Stanford University has confirmed that green tea polyphenols in green tea have antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties, which can prevent the skin from being damaged by ultraviolet rays. In fact, there are many precious substances in nature that are beneficial to the health of human skin, but some ingredients are difficult to take in from daily diet, and various natural polyphenols are one of them.

Polyphenols have good antioxidant activity and can work with other antioxidants such as vitamin C, E and carotene to exert antioxidant effects in the body, remove bad molecules and free radicals that are harmful to human health, prevent aging, and maintain skin vitality and good complexion.

The polyphenols contained in various vegetables and fruits are indeed a good antioxidant choice.

Taking in six kinds of polyphenols from nature is a good choice for skin nourishment in autumn

There are many kinds of natural polyphenols that can help the human body improve its antioxidant capacity, such as black bean polyphenols, which are popular in Japan and have the function of regulating physiological functions and promoting health; grape polyphenols and blueberry polyphenols, which contain a large amount of anthocyanins and help anti-aging; cocoa polyphenols, which are rich in flavonoids and effectively help skin beautification; and tomato polyphenols and green tea polyphenols, which are familiar to everyone.

However, these natural polyphenols are found in the peels and seeds of most fruits and vegetables, such as black bean peels, bilberry seeds, etc. It is actually very difficult to take in the amount required by the human body in a day. For example, to achieve the daily effective sun protection of green tea polyphenols, you need to drink 1.5 liters a day, but this may cause side effects such as palpitations and insomnia. Therefore, skin care must be combined with the intake of other natural polyphenols. However, due to the busy pace of life and westernized eating habits of modern people, they do not consume enough fruits and vegetables in a day, which in turn affects the intake of polyphenols.

Nutritionist advice: Eat more fresh fruits and vegetables to supplement antioxidants

Everyone knows that eating more vegetables and fruits is good for health, and the polyphenols contained in various vegetables and fruits are indeed a good antioxidant choice.

Senior nutritionist and health management CEO Chen Yunfan advises the public: "Daily intake of fruits and vegetables is very important, but now the proportion of people eating out is increasing, and it is not easy to get a complete intake of fruits and vegetables. Supplementing with freshly squeezed fruit and vegetable juice is one way. In addition, you can also choose nutritional supplements to replenish the antioxidants needed by the body."

Supplement natural polyphenols to boost antioxidant power and improve vitality

Medically confirmed, dark-colored plants are darker in color because they are exposed to more sunlight in their growing environment. These dark-colored plants absorb more sunlight by deepening their color (increase in anthocyanins and flavonoids) to prevent damage to other important cells caused by the sun. This type of fruit and vegetable is rich in anthocyanins and polyphenols, which can be antioxidants, thereby increasing the moisture content of the skin's stratum corneum and keeping the skin hydrated. If you cannot fully replenish your body through dietary supplements, you can take an appropriate amount of polyphenol extract supplements to make your body full of vitality.