Mini Series - Vitamin A Myths #3

MYTH #3 - Vitamin A is toxic

This is one of the most common myths and often arises from confusion about the Recommended Daily Amounts (RDA) for oral consumption. The RDA is the minimum amount needed to prevent diseases such as rickets and scurvy, NOT the maximum. According to the European Food Safety Authority, the upper tolerable level is 10,000 ius daily, and experts argue that it should be much higher.
Dr Fernandes is a strong advocate of supplementing with vitamin A. “When we apply vitamin A to the skin, only a fraction of it penetrates down to the level of the dermis and even the most sophisticated modern tests have barely been able to detect any vitamin A in the bloodstream even when very high doses are applied”, he says.
“I feel nervous if I don’t apply it every day via my Environ^® creams, and feel more assured if I take 40,000 – 50,000 ius of vitamin A daily”, he adds. “It works with our DNA to determine how skin cells behave, how they differentiate into specialist cells and how they mature, not just in our skin but throughout our whole body… It is fundamentally the most important molecule in addressing sun damage and anti-ageing. There is nothing else like it”.

Environ Vitamin A Treatment

Lorraine Perretta, Head of Nutrition at the International Institute for Anti-Ageing (IIAA), agrees that taking vitamin A orally is key. “It’s important to feed the skin internally as well as externally. Unless you eat liver a few times a week, you will find it very hard to get adequate vitamin A levels from your diet, so I’d recommend at least 5000 ius a day.”
 
Adapted from a post in the September 2017 IIAA Bulletin

Burton Beauty Therapist Appears at Screamfest 2017

By day Leanne Jones, beauty therapist at Skye Blue Beauty in Burton likes to pamper people and make them feel relaxed. By night she loves to make them scream with fear as she performs her character role at the annual Halloween Screamfest at the National Forest Adventure Farm in Tatenhill, near Burton on Trent.
Here she is getting made up for one of her characters;

We pulled this photo from her linkedIn profile, so you can see what she really looks like;

So, if you like a good fright visit the Screamfest scare attraction, and keep a lookout for Leanne - More details at https://www.screamfest.co.uk/

You can find Skye Blue Beauty at 153 Station Street in Burton Upon Trent

www.skyebluebeauty.net

Mini Series - Vitamin A Myths #2

MYTH
Vitamin A causes photo sensitivity
The retinol and retinoic acid forms of vitamin A do make the skin photosensitive, but the retinyl palmitate form has extremely valuable photo-protective properties. 
Research by the dermatology department at University Hospital Geneva showed that at high levels, topical retinyl palmitate was as efficient as an SPF20 sunscreen in preventing sunburn. However, UV light breaks it down, so also taking it as a supplement is recommended to support topical application.

Sun Damaged Skin

“Retinol is an alcohol and is more irritating to the skin and photosensitises it”, says Dr Fernandes. “retinyl palmitate, on the other hand, absorbs the energy of UVB and UVA just like a sunscreen does and that is why it disappears in sun-exposed skin and the skin becomes depleted.” 
"It is fundamentally the most important molecule in addressing sun damage and anti-ageing. There is nothing else like it.” 
Environ^® Founder Dr Des Fernandes

Adapted from a post in the September 2017 IIAA Bulletin

Mini Series - Vitamin A Myths #1

MYTH
Vitamin A thins the skin
Studies show that vitamin A compacts the stratum corneum and thickens the epidermis, which runs completely contrary to the idea that it has a thinning effect. It influences the genes that cause epidermal stem cells to grow into fully functioning keratinocytes and mature into healthy layers of the epidermis. Vitamin A increases the growth of the basal layer which is why the epidermis becomes thicker and therefore more tolerant to damaging environmental effects.

"You can thicken the epidermis by up to 100 per cent compared to not using vitamin A”
Environ^® Founder Dr Des Fernandes

Environ Skin Care in Burton on Trent

Adapted from a post in the September 2017 IIAA Bulletin