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Dealing with Winter Skin in Miami

It’s that time of year again. Your skin is dry, your lips are chapped, your cuticles feel like bits of sandpaper and when you get ready for bed after a long day there is a snowstorm of dry skin falling to the floor. Winter’s cold can wreak havoc on our skin from heating, dry air, and the changing barometric pressure.

Sometimes our rich creams and heavy oils just don’t do enough. But there is good news, Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) draws on proven natural skin remedies and techniques that have worked for thousands of years to help get our skin back to what we all want it to be. In fact, dermatology is a specialty of TCM practitioners. Rather than just applying treatments to the skin, TCM approaches the internal problem to find the root cause, allowing our skin to then heal itself.

The fall and winter seasons are notorious for drying us out. During these months, our skin requires specific products and food that help our bodies create moisture and energy.

TCM is a great tool to help strengthen one’s immune system. It decreases the body’s sensitivity to the cold, dryness and other negative environmental energies that dry out our skin during these brutal winter months. Tradition Chinese medicine helps balance our internal organ systems through herbs, supplements, and acupuncture to restore imbalances while also removing blockages that contribute to dry or itchy skin.

Here are some easy tips for hydrating your skin from the inside out.

  1. Avoid caffeine which can dry your skin.
  2. Drink at least 64 ounces liquid. This can be warm water with electrolytes, bone broth or teas.
  3. Eat warm food like soups or stews, baked apples, root vegetables and other cooked foods that build moisture and digestion.
  4. Increase sleep. Winter is a time when the body consolidates its energy and regenerates itself so be sure to get enough sleep.
  5. Eat plenty of cooked green leafy greens which build moisture in the body.
  6. Eat foods with omega-rich nutrients such as fatty fish like salmon and mercury-free tuna. Foods high in Omega 3s help decrease inflammation.
  7. Increase antioxidant foods like goji berries which treat dry skin in TCM.
  8. Consume yellow and orange root veggies which are high in carotenoids B carotene. In TCM these build blood and digestion.
  9. When necessary, supplement with borage, resveratrol, quercetin and antioxidants and probiotics which boost immunity and have healing properties.
  10. Lastly, utilize acupuncture to improve the quality of your skin and boost immunity, during the winter.

If your skin is feeling extra dry during these winter months, you can always reach out for help!

I specialize in women’s health, weight management, allergies, autoimmune diseases and environmental illnesses. I help patients improve and take control of their health and maintain their optimal weight.

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