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It may take more than an apple a day

I’ve always thought that foodies should be in reasonably good health, if we manage to control excess indulgence, due to the fact most of us must be busy eating all kinds of foods, lots of fresh stuff, seasonal food, stuff we make ourselves. Compared to those living on lots of processed foods, we should be paragons of health.

And inner health surely gets reflected on the outside, so we should be absolute pictures of health. Although there’s possibly the downside of our liking for matching wine and food, but I heard that drinking wine only adds two years to your skin’s age. Smoking, for balance, apparently adds ten years, so I’m sticking with my daily vino.

But now I am part of a not very scientific experiment based on a sample trial of two of us to see if adding something to the daily wonders of great food can have a positive effect on skin. I have a friend who is a CACI facial therapist, and she has noticed a difference in a client’s skin after 1 month on Imedeen. Now, given that one of us won’t see 40 again and one’s facing into it, we’re prepared to give it a go.

We’re not changing anything else, so I’ll still be having a glass of wine most nights, two on others, and whatever I’m eating anyway. I’ll still be sticking with my Protect & Perfect (I’ve sworn by this stuff for a very long time, well ahead of Horizon), not smoking, and a lot of sun protection. I’ll be trying, as usual, to drink quite a bit of water each day. We’ll see what happens. I have seen some previous studies from researchers I would trust to suggest a skin effect from an oral supplement, but it was a very different combination to this.

Will report back, good, bad or indifferent.

Fabulous apple photo by Denise Cross on Flickr.