HEALTH AND FITNESS
1 - Avoid Steroids
Steroids have many dangers to a body. One of the ingredients in certain steroids actually reacts with the skin and can cause your body to form stretch marks. The stretch marks can occur anywhere – the legs, arms, abdomen and buttocks. Steroids given for treating medical conditions are not the suspects, but steroids used for body building and weightlifting . These types of stretch marks mainly occur in men.
2 - Quit Smoking
Smoking daily is harmful for many reasons. The smoke and products you exhale with the smoke damages the elastin of the skin. Day after day, with repeated exposure only damages the elastin more. Wrinkles and stretch marks can appear on the face, but also the neck, arms, legs and entire body of a smoker.
3 - Avoid Rapid Weight Gain During Pregnancy
This may seem an impossible task if you are pregnant, but it is not. You still need to gain weight, but at a steady and consistent rate which allows your body to adjust. If you gain one pound a week for a month, but then jump up twelve pounds in the next week, you skin has to grow much faster than it is used to. It probably cannot accommodate the growth safely that quickly and will result in stretch marks.
4 – Hypnosis
Another new trend in fighting stretch marks is by using hypnosis. Trained doctors in the weight loss field believe that hypnosis can also control your body’s response to something. For instance, they have a session where they tell you your body is healthy, your skin is healthy,you look great, and you have no stretch marks. If your mind believes that, then your body will follow in kind. They believe the mind can alter or affect the way you look. And they manipulate the mind for
your benefit.
5 - Use Sunscreen
Sunscreen is a preventative measure in the battle against stretch marks. Whenever you go outside into the sun, cover your skin well with a high SPF sunscreen. The sunscreen dries out not only the top layers of skin, but the underneath layers as well. When the lower layers of sky dry up, the collagen also dries up. When collagen dries up, the skin is easier to damage. Stretch marks can happen with little
provocation.
What Causes Stretch Marks
6 – Prednisone
Prednisone is a medicine used to treat various illnesses. If it is prescribed for your health, you must take it. However, if you know that it will predispose your body to stretch marks, you can fight the battle and win with a little knowledge. Apply moisturizers regularly,take an enriched vitamin, drink plenty of water and exercise. You may do these things already, but do them routinely for the best results. If you don’t need prednisone for a specific reason, avoid it.
7 - Birth Control
Certain birth control methods have a dose of hormone that also can increase your chances of getting stretch marks. The depo provera shot and Dianette set up women’s skin to be prone to stretch marks. If you are taking either of these, consult your doctor to switching to a new kind with lower risks. Don’t skip your birth control, just control your diet, drink water and use moisturizers until you see your physician.
8 - Get Treatment for Depression
Depression affects more than your mind. It affects your whole body. When the brain has a chemical imbalance resulting in depression, the chemical makeup in your skin changes too. The skin becomes dry, the collagen can become weak and stretch marks will appear. To keep this from happening, visit your doctor and talk to him about your
options. Being on a prescription anti-depressant doesn’t have to be for life. But it can help your whole body in the short term.
9 - Take Vitamins
No matter how hard we try to eat a balanced diet, it is never quite good enough. To make up for this, make it a practice to take a vitamin every day. The vitamins will help your skin from the inside out and keep the elastin and collagen healthy. And stretch mark free.
10 - Environmental Changes
It’s hard to control outside influences on our lives. Those outside changes can affect our health in ways we never imagined. Say, a detour is on the next street over directing traffic to your street. The car traffic is much heavier, resulting in much more fumes and exhaust outside of your house. The fumes and exhaust can affect your system. They get in your body and wreak havoc with the normal flow of things. While you can’t change this outside influence, others you can. Stay
away from bars where there are heavy smokers. Avoid living near a manufacturing plant that spills lots of pollution in to the air. Avoid swimming in polluted or heavily chemical waters.
11 – Puberty
Puberty is going to happen, no matter what. Expect the changes in your body to be drastic, and then you won’t be surprised if they aren’t.
Puberty is the result of many hormones changing and developing your body. Many of these hormones will affect the skin in the form of acne,growth spurts and stretch marks. To reduce the stretch marks, keep taking vitamins, drink water and exercise. Feeding the hormonal urges with junk food will only make the acne and skin problems worse!
12 - Rapid Weight Loss
Just as rapid weigh gain can cause stretch marks, rapid weight loss can too. Drastically dropping pounds can pull the fat stored around the skin quickly. This can result in skin sags. Sags can make the skin pull and stretch, even though the weight is going down. The added pressure of sags on the skin can cause stretch marks everywhere. And when you are losing weight drastically, the vitamins and nutrients
may not be at the level they should, resulting in dry and damaged skin. Try to lose your weight slowly and maintain good health. Certain Medical Conditions also predispose a body to having stretch marks. These conditions cannot be helped, but if you have one, you know you will need to take extra measures to ensure you do not have excessive stretch marks on your body.
13 - Cushing's Syndrome
Cushing’s Syndrome is a hormonal disorder that affects the entire body. This hormonal imbalance causes the skin to be thin and weak.Weak and thin skin in prone to stretch marks, which is also common in people who suffer from Cushing’s disease. There isn’t much to do to prevent the stretch marks, except take as good of care of your skin as possible. The doctor’s will prescribe medicine to relieve any symptoms, but your skin will need moisturizers and plenty of vitamins to stay strong.
14 - Topical Corticosteroid Overuse
This medicine is a steroid placed on the outside of the skin to treat certain skin disorders. Too much use can be a bad thing. Overuse causes the collagen to break down prematurely. And by now, we know that collagen is the main thing that prevents stretch marks. To help this vicious cycle in your body, takes lots of vitamins and collagen building supplements.
15 - Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome
This hereditary disease affects the collagen in one’s body. The collagen doesn’t form correctly and the tissues are weak, amongst other symptoms. The collagen that is not strong under the skin results in stretch marks. Depending on how severe your case is determines your plan of treatment. Consulting a physician is the only way to combat this disease.
There are many homeopathic people who believe in homemade remedies to cure every ailment. However, they don’t give up their recipes for free. Many mix them up and sell them in apothecary shops or in small specialty stores. Occasionally you can find a recipe. Try the following at your own risk. They have no proven results.
Recipes:
16 - Stretch mark Oil
Need one dark glass 50 ml bottle.
In a bowl, pour 50 ml of wheat germ oil
Add:15 drops of essential oil of lavender
10 drops of the essential oil of neroli
Mix together and massage into the skin daily after bathing.
17 – Stretch Mark Cream
¼ c cocoa butter
1 tbsp wheat germ oil
1 tsp sesame oil
1 tsp apricot kernel oil
1 tsp vitamin E
2 tsp grated beeswax
1 tsp vanilla abstract (for smell)
Mix all the ingredients together in a 2 quart pan and leave out the vanilla. Heat the mixture until everything is melted. Stir well and remove from heat. Add in the vanilla, stir and allow to cool. When cool, store in a jar and keep airtight. Massage in to your skin daily or as needed.
Other Wives’ Tales
The Old Wives’ Club members had tricks and tips for everything. Here are some other ways they say will get rid of and prevent further stretch marks from appearing on your body for any reason.
18 – Topical Vitamin C
They probably have a way to make this, but most people have to go to a store and get it. It is available in beauty stores, health stores and some drug stores. Vitamin C comes in a cream or oil form and can be rubbed in to the skin in prone areas to prevent stretch marks.
19 – Green Tea
They won’t spill too many secrets surrounding this anti-oxidant. The best bet is to drink green tea, rather than spread it over the body. Green tea can come in caffeinated and decaffeinated forms, as well as loose tea and bagged tea. Try it several ways before you decide how you like it best. Drink daily for best results.
20 – Soy products
Eating soy products has shown to have many positive effects on the body, not just the skin. Soy products help women through menopause, keep hormone levels in check and fight certain diseases.
If you aren’t sure about soy products, get a soy supplement that you can add to meals in a small way. You won’t hardly notice the taste when you try it a little bit at a time. Gradually add more or cook with soy products in your every meal.
With most human bodies, stretch marks are inevitable. With proper care and preventative measures taken, you can reduce the number and severity of them.
Feel confident again by following these methods
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