Hi,

In the past year i have noticed my skin and hair seems to be deteriorating.....

I am 40 years old now and have always looked very youthfull for my age, my younger brother and sister look a good few years older than me. I must have been taking my mothers side as she is 67 years old and has very little grey hair and looks about 10 years younger than she is and still fresh faced.

I was unemployed for a year for the first time in my life a year ago and now have a very stressfull job and maybe the stress is catching up with me worrying about the mortgage and stuff.

I had a great healthly head of hair and a youthfull complexion but now my hair is dry, brittle dull and lifeless and with a very dry flaky scalp, my face is also dried out on my forehead and my skin is tight.

Unlike my mother i have drank alcohol most of my adult life and maybe the signs are showing, i have always moisturised my skin and took vitamin suppliments but they don't seem to be helping anymore.

Maybe it's stress and alcohol that is doing this to me?

Anyone recommend some vitamins or advice that could help?

Thanks.

Alcohol can dehydrate, and that may be part of the problem. Omega 3 fish oil is good to take on a daily basis, and is beneficial for many things including skin.

Extra virgin coconut oil (unrefined) can be both taken internally and used externally for dry hair and skin.

Making sure you're drinking plenty of filtered water will help rehydrate inside and out.

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Thanks for the advice

I'm thinking vitamin B deficiency. Alcohol can do this. Stress can be helped considerably by vitamin B supplementation.

https://health.learninginfo.org/vitam...-your-skin.htm

A vitamin B deficiency can cause acne, sensitivity to sunlight, cracked lips, dryness, wrinkles, rashes, and an uneven complexion.

If supplementing, it is not necessary to take more than 50mg complex per day. More will just wash out in the urine. Do make sure that you take a complex, not just a single vitamin B. They should be in balance. Not all the vitamin Bs in a B Complex are the same milligrams, just the important ones. Also, take a vitamin B12 sub lingual (under the tongue type of supplement).

For the hair, sometime try apple cider vinegar as a hair rinse in the shower. A cup of the vinegar, then rinse. A little could be added to the shampoo. I suppose you could use white vinegar, but I prefer the ACV. ACV make me feel like I'm being healthier.

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Thanks again for the advice.

For the past month i have been taking a Multi-B Complex along with a mixed wheatgrass/barleygrass/spirulina/chlorella powder -(which tastes disgusting)... and my skin and hair look a lot healthier.

My hair is not brittle anymore and does not look as fine

I would benefit a lot more if i stopped drinking alcohol but this is the routine i have been in for years.....i work 12 hour shifts then relax with a few beers when i'm off.

Today i started drinking matcha green tea and i found it really delicious......not bitter like the supermarket brands i have tried and i would like to keep drinking it daily......

Do you think its fine to drink these all in the one day?

Thanks again.

All in one day? Yes. All together? No. Why? The wheatgrass combo is alkalizing. The vitamin B needs to have stomach acid working in good order. Actually, vitamin B is one of the things necessary to produce stomach acid. So take wheatgrass combo separate from everything else. Tea is also good for you, but it contains tannins which interfere with the digestion of proteins and some herbs, so you don't want to drink that around things like chlorella or spirulina. It will defeat them.

Hair responds to silica. Taking that will really help. The flaking scalp is almost always a scalp fungal issue but it many not be candida but a different fungus.

Why don't you look at the 9 step osteoporois plan that I wrote. If you dont have osteoporosis dont do the mega dosaging on the horsetail. But all other things may be an issue for you and you could need supplementation in these areas. Do the maintence dose of 2 caps 3xd for a few months. Keep up with the B vitamin. Try to restore gut flora and balance.

https://www.healthsalon.org/524/nine-...eoporosis-plan





40 seems to the the turning point for lots of people. Catch this stuff early and you will do well. Also really consider changing your alcohol patterns. You didnt say how much you drink but if it is over two drinks a day start by reducing by one for a few months. When you get down to one drink a day reduce that to only 6 days a week, then 5 days a week etc. you can also try replacing some of that hard liquer with a red wine a couple of days a week.

I have a friend who is an alcoholic. She was heading for some pretty severe problems. She just cant or wont stop drinking her vodka. But she has added nutritonal supplements as you are doing and she is very careful about her diet eliminating sugars, and denatured foods, and she is going much better. Liver function improved, cholesterols improved. Creases on ear lobes reduced. Although she understands because of the alcohol she will never be perfect she feels a lot better. Alcohol is a lot of sugar so reduce it in other areas.

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Hi again,

I am a male and don't think i have osteoporosis or candida, but i think all my dry skin problems started when i started drinking alcohol many years ago.....i don't get drunk or drink hard liquor....i only drink white wine or have a few beers.

The symptoms i have experienced for the past few years have been....

Dry scalp
Psoriasis on my elbows
Recurring thrush...down below....never been able to get rid of it with over the counter and natural treatments?

My father is an alcoholic but has not touched a drop in 25 years so i know what to look out for, i do drink more than i should but have never tried to stop.....this is how i relax after a stressfull time at work.

If you have thrush you have candida. Thrush is candida likely or at least some kind of fungal infection.
flaking scalp is almost always a fungal issue.
psoriasis is often a fungal issue also but not always.
I had psoriasis and cured it with mega dosages of vitamin D3. I know of others who cured it with MMS, which did not work for me.

Alcohol can make candida flair for some people. Candida thrives on sugar, and alcohol converts to sugar in the body.

regardless if you have osteoporosis or not the 9 step plan is for you at a reduced dosage of the silica. Since you have candida you do have a gut issue.. so the digestive enzymes are likely called for. Silica will build your structural integrity from years of decline. It builds collegen not only in the bones but in hair, skin, etc and makes skin more elastic and hair less brittle. The vitamin D3 is essential to dealing with psoriasis. I know a number of people now who have cured their psoriasis with sufficient D3 orally and applied topically as well. I suggest that you get your vitamin D3 levels checked.

Thanks for the advice again, time to get my Vit D levels checked out i think.