Younger Skin Starts in the Gut

Other excellent detoxifiers include onions and leeks

Glow givers: If you want your skin to glow, increase your intake of red, orange and yellow vegetables, such as sweet potatoes, carrots, butternut squash, red peppers and citrus fruit

Helix aspersa Müller

Line-fighting leaves: This means dark green leafy vegetables, such as spinach, kale and watercress

Dirty hormone fixers: These include the cruciferous vegetables, such as cabbage, cauliflower, Brussels sprouts and broccoli

Asiaticoside asiatic acid (Centella asiatica) is

glycolic acid or salicylic acid. Both

Chamomilla recutita (matricaria) extract is a potent antioxidant that helps reduce irritability

Bacteria-boosting prebiotics: These help feed the good bacteria in the gut. In addition to onions and leeks, this group includes Jerusalem artichokes, dandelion leaves, asparagus, chicory and bananas. In one study, simply adding these foods alone to people’s diets raised levels of their good bacteria numbers by 133 million in a week.4

red peppers and citrus fruit. Researchers at Scotland’s University of St. Andrews showed that eating two extra servings daily of orange, yellow or red foods, which contain substances called carotenoids, markedly altered skin tone to create a natural healthy glow. It took just six weeks to show effects.1