{"id":2582,"date":"2016-04-07T00:20:40","date_gmt":"2016-04-07T00:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.humnutrition.com\/blog\/?p=2582"},"modified":"2022-03-28T20:01:42","modified_gmt":"2022-03-28T20:01:42","slug":"how-adaptogens-save-your-skin-from-stress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.humnutrition.com\/blog\/how-adaptogens-save-your-skin-from-stress\/","title":{"rendered":"How Adaptogens Save Your Skin from Stress"},"content":{"rendered":"It can be hard to notice the real toll stress takes on your skin until the damage is already done. Stress is already commonly considered as a precursor to an extensive list of health concerns. Ailments include but aren’t limited to heart & lung health, weight gain, blood sugar imbalances, mood swings, and digestive disorders. But, stress can also lead to stressed skin, causing anything from breakouts, dark circles, irritation, redness, to wrinkles and fine lines.\n\nThat’s where adaptogens<\/a> come in. These herbs help prevent your body from reacting to stress. They can also save your skin from worry lines, among other stressors. Let’s take a closer look at how adaptogens can save your skin from stress starting with how stress impacts the skin.\n

How Stress Impacts Skin<\/h2>\nThe growing field of psychodermatology<\/a> is all about the mind-skin connection. It addresses the apparent link between our emotional state, the body’s physiological response to our emotional state, and the outcome of this response on our skin, body, health, and well-being.\n\nAs a matter of fact, stress doesn’t just feel bad. It can actually wreak havoc on your skin\u2014as well as your spirit. Stress is a key factor in damaging skin cells<\/a> that lead to breakouts, aging, redness, dullness, fine lines, or dry and irritated skin.\n

What Science Says<\/h3>\nOne study in mice shows that a stress-triggered hormone called glucocorticoid can lead to or worsen psoriasis and eczema. Other research links chronic bursts of cortisol<\/a> in the system to elevated blood sugar.\n\nAs a result, these spikes in cortisol damage the collagen and elastin that keep skin smooth, firm, and supple. Furthermore, cortisol increases oil production in the skin, creating an environment prone to breakouts. (See more about the activation of the stress system in the body and how this impacts skin here<\/a>.)\n\n\"Big\n

your stress response<\/h2>\nWhen you deal with chronic stress, the following cycle takes place in your body:\n