Astaxanthin is known as a powerful antioxidant, but in fact, astaxanthin has many other skin care effects.
First, let’s know what is astaxanthin?
It is a natural carotenoid (a pigment found in nature that gives fruits and vegetables bright orange, yellow or red tones) and is abundant in freshwater microalgae. Indeed, astaxanthin can be found in the muscles of salmon, which many theories suggest provide the endurance they need to swim upstream. Another reason to enjoy even more of this delicious fish.
Here are a few of the many reasons you should increase your astaxanthin intake:
1. Help prevent wrinkles: natural astaxanthin can help promote skin health from the inside out! It penetrates the deepest layers of the skin, providing further protection for harmful free radicals that damage the skin’s collagen and help with fine lines and wrinkles, while also improving the skin’s elasticity.
2. Help remove free radicals: Although the benefits of regular exercise are well known, strenuous exercise, in particular (especially when you are not used to exercise), can increase the production of free radicals and cause oxidative stress, resulting in inflammation and soreness, and lower exercise performance. Astaxanthin is able to help clear free radicals. It helps to promote muscle recovery, improve endurance, and prevent free radicals in your muscles, so you are as strong as a salmon swimming upstream!
3. Help you interview with sunburn: It’s great to know that astaxanthin also protects your skin from harmful ultraviolet rays. UVB rays penetrate the outer epidermis of the skin, causing solar burns, while UVA rays penetrate deeper into the dermis, thus leading to oxidative stress and premature aging. Because astaxanthin penetrates all layers of the skin, it can act as an “internal sunscreen” to prevent oxidative stress caused by UVA. It has also been shown to reduce the inflammation caused by UVB exposure.
4. It’s the most powerful antioxidant in nature: as if you need more reasons to bring astaxanthin into your life, this effective antioxidant proved to be 4.6 times better than β -carotene, 110 times better than skin healthy vitamin E, and up to 6,000 times better than vitamin C in fighting free radicals.
How am I sure I have enough astaxanthin?
Increasing the astaxanthin intake is both simple and delicious. Astaxanthin-rich foods include wild salmon and salmon oil (wild salmon contain microalgae), red trout, algae, lobsters, shrimps, crayfish, and crabs. You can even take astaxanthin supplements regularly
Post time: Mar-20-2023
