The Prescription News

Ever look down at your hands and wonder, When did I get so old? Between inclement weather, pollution and stresses our skin takes a constant beating. And the breakouts! Granted, last night’s chips probably didn’t help, but overall you’ve been really trying to be healthy, yet nothing seems to help your skin.

You’ve read the ads and tried it all – scrubs, night creams, facial peels, astringents, loofahs… No luck.

Then you run into a friend you hadn’t seen in months and she looks drop-dead fantastic. It’s hard to pinpoint what’s different but it’s just an overall glow about her. “Sally,” you say. “What on earth have you done?” And she didn’t know, she’d been doing what you’d been doing – improving her diet, drinking more water, cutting out refine sugars. You and she go back and forth until you nail it down.

The only difference in your routines is that Sally began taking vitamins for healthy skin.

“Unbelievable!” you exclaim.

That may not have been all there was to it but what an easy, painless and affordable thing to try. And it makes some sense because just like the rest of the body needs specific nutrients we don’t find in food, why wouldn’t our skin? You’d tried everything else (and some of them were doozies) but this seemed too easy. But who can say? If looked at in terms of simple value per pound – if vitamins do offer the improvements that Sally experienced? It sure beats the prospect of more invasive and painful treatments down the road.