Inactive skin is the primary reason for wrinkles, sagging, and excess skin due to weight loss. When skin loses its elasticity; its only option is to hang or sag.
However, this condition is completely preventable, provided a skin reactivating program is implemented at the beginning of a weight loss program – which allows it to shrink with the body.
One of the most important things you can know about your skin is that it is a vital organ, and is the body’s largest organ. Your skin performs functions that are mandatory for overall good health.
The skin’s duty is to Protect, Regulate Body Temperature, and Eliminate Toxins. When it’s inactive, the pores are clogged; toxins that should be eliminated through the skin remain trapped in the body and are re-circulated back into the bloodstream. Resulting in the reduction of the skin’s overall capacity to protect, regulate and eliminate.
Concurrently, if the skin has been expanded beyond its capacity to contract it simply is unable to perform these functions. Ultimately resulting in general ill health, as well as exhibiting the signs of aging beyond one’s actual years, because wrinkles are one of the first visible signs of inactive skin.
Know How Your Skin Works
Protection
The skin protects the body from injury and harmful pathogens, and because it is slightly acidic, the use of alkaline-based soaps, such as deodorant soaps upset its natural balance, causing dryness and moisture loss. Therefore only Ph balanced vegetable soaps should be used to cleanse the body.
Regulates Body Temperature
When the weather is hot, the blood vessels expand to allow heat to escape through sweat glands. The average person can perspire as much as two quarts of fluid a day in order to cool the body. When the weather is cold, sweating diminishes and the blood vessels contract to allow the body to hold heat.
Self-lubricating
The skin contains about two million tiny oil glands to lubricate and maintain its softness and flexibility. Emotional stress, hormone imbalances, excessive weight gain as well as excess skin can also affect its ability to self-lubricate, resulting in dry, dull, scaly, and wrinkled skin.
Excretes Toxins
The skin excretes a third of the body’s excess waste in the form of uric acid, however, if the pores are clogged, or the skin is in a state of trauma due to excess skin these toxins will remain in the body, putting undue stress on the internal organs, especially the kidneys because they are the primary organ that eliminates uric acid from the body. In addition, it will manifest on the facial complexion as breakouts, blackheads, and/or acne.
The Eliminative Organs
The skin is considered a third kidney because of its ability to eliminate large amounts of toxins. The relationship between the skin and other eliminative organs is essential, in order to have optimal health the intestines, lungs, kidneys, bladder and the skin must function normally. If they do not, they will become congested, the bloodstream becomes toxic and the body becomes ill.
