Avoid “skin-hostile” stimulants such as caffeinated drinks, alcohol and tobacco!
Coffee and black tea
If possible, avoid coffee and black tea. If you do drink coffee or black tea, please drink no more than two to three cups daily and please do not sweeten. If you drink more than three cups of coffee or black tea, you usually have a high loss of body water, minerals and trace elements. Your skin also suffers from this. It dries out and develops wrinkles at an early stage. Also avoid cola drinks, sweet lemonades, fruit juice drinks and fruit nectars. Prefer low-calorie or calorie-free drinks such as mineral water, unsweetened herbal and fruit teas.
Alcohol
Limit your intake of alcohol. A healthy diet includes no more than one to two bottles of beer or one to two glasses of wine daily, preferably red wine. You should avoid spirits. If you have guests, always offer and ask for non-alcoholic beverages when you are a guest yourself. When one or two glasses of wine turn into many glasses, alcohol has a bad effect on your skin in addition to being harmful to your health. The smallest vessels can burst.
Tobacco consumption
Become a non-smoker or stay one. Nicotine, as well as the many other toxins in tobacco smoke, causes capillaries – the smallest vessels in our bodies – to constrict, and the walls of blood vessels are attacked. As a result, only a reduced amount of blood reaches your body cells and thus the body tissues and organs: the supply of nutrients and vital substances is throttled and the cells’ ability to regenerate is reduced. Smoking has a detrimental effect on the entire cell metabolism. The effects of these cell toxins are visible to everyone in the area of the skin: the skin appears sallow, the face shows a gray complexion – wrinkles form early, especially in the face and neck region. The characteristic smoker’s face always has wrinkles, usually circular around the mouth. Smoking also leads to dry and leathery skin. Nicotine not only constricts the skin vessels, but in extreme cases leads to tissue atrophy (collagen and elastin degradation), not only in the facial skin, if smoked for many years. The numerous noxae (toxins) of tobacco smoke also form large quantities of free radicals throughout the body, which can lead to changes in the body’s cells and genetic material and thus trigger cancer (oxidative stress).
