How Adaptogens can help your Skin
Adaptogen is a term given to describe those gifts found in nature that have the ability to induce suitable adjustments in our body, at a cellular level, and work by helping us protect the body from various kinds of stresses while stimulating the body's innate self-rejuvenation mechanism. These agents reinforce the body's defensive system thus controlling bodily mechanisms and helping us move towards true health. An adaptogen is a natural solution 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 increase our body's energy levels. Adaptogens aim to normalize body functions, and when the job is done, they are disposed or absorbed back into the body with no secondary effects nor harm to the body, unlike allopathic drugs.
Nowadays, we can change. Air conditioning, indoor lighting and plastics are just a few of the innumerable conveniences we are able of controlling. Yet, however necessary or life-supporting these goods can appear in the short-term, in the long-run they are a double-edged sword, burdening us with unwanted secondary effects.
Environmental side effects such as the greenhouse effect and the variousheavy metals and other chemicals that are invading our bloodstream are the most obvious answer to technology. These by-products of "The good life" are now representing a main problem for the adaptation and survival of several species and bio-systems that are found here, on planet Earth. The only way to endure such negative changes is to change ourselves and to adapt to a quickly changing and tense environment.
As a society we seem focused on impeding our body's innate ability 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 a good prognostic for our species.
Rene Dubois, the humanist scientist declared, "This state of adaptedness gives a fake sense of security because it doesn't have a lasting value and doesn't prepare for the future." Therefore, it seems that the best way to survival is to enhance our adaptability to our surroundings, not the other way around. This means that, instead of entrusting our health to chemicals or extracts from natural elements, it may be a better option to reinforce our body, our defensive mechanism, and ourselves while developing a better understanding of Nature's gifts instead of abusing whatever new extract we ingeniously take from nature, this is where adaptogens can be of great significance.
Fortunately for us there is a class of natural solutions available that can aid the organism adapt better to its environment, whether that environment be drenched with harsh chemicals or simply defined by rapid change. These wonderful properties of Nature are called adaptogens, and can be offered by some natural natural skin care products.
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Published February 7th, 2008
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