I'm going to share the best remedy that you can use for hyperpigmentation dark spots on the face there are bleaching agents that people are using on their skin that do get rid of these dark spots but they end up destroying the cells that make the pigment the other big problem is we're blaming these dark spots or aging spots on the sun this is why they tell you to completely avoid the sun to prevent this hyperpigmentation right now they actually put sunblocker SPF chemicals in literally all the moist izers facial creams to block this UV radiation
they'll tell you that you can get all your vitamin D from food or a few minutes in the sun this is a complete lie if you actually have a skin cream or a face cream that has this sunscreen in it I wouldn't use it on your face if you take a younger person and you compare them with an older person and you're looking at this hyperpigment issue you basically don't even see it in younger people you only see it in people over the age of maybe 35 40 50 60 as we get older becomes more
of a problem in our skin we have a pigment and it's called melanin melanin is made by cells called melanocytes if you compare someone who's like 18 or 20 years old to someone that's 60 the concentration of these little melanocytes is much different when we're younger we have a lot more concentration we're older we don't what causes the melanocytes to produce melanin vitamin D what's the primary trigger to make vitamin D the sun where we're going to talk about What vitamin D does to melanin in a second but I just wanted to show you this
apple right here you can see this apple on the left versus apple on the right slightly different colored both of these apples are being oxidized by oxygen but this one has protection I put some lemon juice on it it's an antioxidant this one had no protection against oxidation oxygen so it's going brown same thing happens with the skin see oxidation triggers melanin there's other things too there's environmental pollution there's stress the key factor that you need to know about is this word oxidation because that gives you a clue on how to correct this problem what's
the opposite of oxidation antioxidation from antioxidants what's interesting about antioxidants is that melanin is like the ultimate antioxidant to protect against DNA damage what happens is you naturally expose yourself to the sun you get a slight tan the darker the skin the more the filtering effect of the V radiation also we get more filtering of the production of vitamin D because the way that you make vitamin D is from this UV radiation interaction on your skin with cholesterol that's all interesting information but what's really important about this topic is What vitamin D does to your
melanocytes but vitamin D helps protect against the oxidation factor it's a very potent antioxidant is there research on this yes there is but it's mixed but if you look at the research I think the reason why it's mixed is because the dosage of vitamin D that they're using is way too low and way too infrequent because they're basing it on an outdated RDA for vitamin D A lot of the confusion with vitamin D revolve around this RDA what our bodies require each day to survive right and they have it at 600 IUS which is a
crazy low number if we're basing our research on that number and if we do a research project with low amounts of vitamin D we're probably not going to see much result because to create a therapeutic dosage you need more than 600 IUS I did a video recently on autoimmune diseases one that pertains to this topic is on Vitiligo that is like the opposite condition that we're talking about it's not a hyperpigmentation it's a loss of pigment you have areas around your skin that are kind of like bleached or white targeting the melanocyte so we get
these little areas of lack of pigment remember I talked about vitamin D helps modulate the melano site it can increase or decrease melanin well guess what there's some fascinating information to show that you can actually greatly improve vitil Lago by taking 20 to 30,000 iuse the vitamin D3 every single day the bottom line is vitamin D greatly influences the cells that make melanin if you have enough vitamin D in the skin you will have protection against this over production of melanin the problem is if you're following the main recommendation of avoiding the Sun and and
using these Sun Blockers you are going to be severely low in vitamin D there's two things I'm going to recommend number one is kind of a quick fix and it's a very safe thing to do and it's a home remedy and it's very effective for many reasons which I'll get into but number two I would start working on building up your vitamin D levels consuming at least 10,000 maybe 20,000 IU use of vitamin D3 each day in addition to that I would start to build up antioxidant networks in the body to make them you need
high quality protein high quality amino acids fish eggs meat these antioxidants also are made from trace minerals zinc copper iodine you can get that from shellfish as well as sea salt of course you need other nutrition too like the B vitamins vitamin C vitamin E all of these will start building up your antioxidant Network Works what would be a good remedy to use as kind of a quick fix to see change in the tone of our skin the remedy is plain unsweetened yogurt of course I would get the grass-fed organic yogurt rubbing it all over
the skin leaving it on the face for 5 minutes washing it off and just doing that once a week some people do it three times a week it really depends on how bad your problem is the first thing it has is a key ingredient called lactic acid lactic acid in yogurt is a lot more gentle than putting pure lactic acid on your skin lactic acid dissolves the bonds between dead skin cells that have this darkened pigment on them the yogurt also adds another cool effect it gives the skin more probiotics you have this living ecosystem
of this microbiome on your skin not just for this hyperpigmentation but just to keep the skin healthy if there's excess inflammation or red that will go away if you have a real serious problem with this you can always make it stronger by adding in just a pinch of turmeric to the yogurt mix it up apply it on the face now we have the extra benefit of adding a more powerful antioxidant to this to speed it up but it's not necessary the yogurt is going to create a really nice effect over time that's going to be
safe gradual and it's going to make your skin feel really soft and very healthy I know some people are saying well should we be putting acids on our face and the answer is yes because the pH of the skin is acidic you don't want to alkalize it you don't want to put a sun blocker on your face you don't want to avoid the sun you can be out in the sun just don't get burned regular exposure to the sun is extremely healthy and our bodies were designed for that taking more vitamin D and building up
the reserve of vitamin D is going to help modulate that little melany so your body can get the right amount of melanin thanks for watching and I will see you in the next video
