Have you ever noticed the amazing glowing freshness of people on raw food diets (well apart from Gorillas)? It just goes to show that what you eat and the health of digestive system can be very important for skin health.

 

Yvonne Bishop-Weston founder of Foods for Life says there are many problems and conditions that affect your skin health - the trick is to establish which issue or combinations of factors are thwarting your skin health.

 

Doctor's often are often quite sceptical about nutrition therapy for skin health, but they get very little nutritional training and get most of their information from drug companies.

 

Doctors will usually prescribe strong antibiotics to cure your acne. In the long run this could make things much worse as a healthy digestive system relies on good bacteria that anti-biotics kill along with the bad bacteria.

 

If your problem is related to a mineral or vitamin imbalance then jepeordising your body's ability to optimally absorb nutrients is going to make it much harder to cure your condition.

 

A good nutritionist will establish that all your key systems are working optimally and perhaps look at food intolerances as a possible cause that is agrevating your condition.

 

There is one piece of advice that most doctors and nutritionists agree on - handed down the generations by grandmothers all over the world.

 

"It'll never get better if you pick it!"