Guest Blog by Naturopath Kelli Kolar
As a naturopath and nutritionist I love to support you to make better choices about your diet and skincare routines and look much younger and healthier.
Sugar triggers a process called glycation, where sugar molecules bind to proteins like collagen and elastin, causing them to become stiff and malformed. This leads to various skin issues, including premature aging, inflammation, and acne.
The sympathetic, parasympathetic and enteric nervous systems form the autonomic nervous system – an intricate and wonderful web of nerves that connect and are in contact with the entire body!
They act in different key functions to keep your body moving, responding, sensing, processing and staying connected.
We know it's important to lower our stress response and stay calm, but how exactly do we do that? Here we show you 5 of our favoutie ways...
Every day is not the same for us or our skin. There are constant changes in the climate, our daily diet and our physiological state of the body.
So how do we protect our skin and balance our health and wellness every day?
To help you achieve a daily nourish and nurture regime for your precious skin, we're sharing here our Mayella Mantra that drives the way we do skincare.
Succulent, juicy and plump. These are signs of both a healthy cactus as well as healthy hydrated skin.
To survive in harsh, dry conditions cacti have developed techniques to hold water within their fleshy folds and use of their spines to provide shade as well as reduce airflow creating a mini habitat within a habitat. We humans, however, whilst being incredibly amazing are not able to hold our water quite so well.