Your body is made up of anywhere between 60% and 75% water from the time you're born to the time you reach adulthood. So, staying hydrated is essential to keeping many of your body's key functions healthy — including your largest organ, the skin.
Here's why proper hydration is so important to maintaining a radiant complexion and how you can benefit from an IV treatment for healthy skin.
Hydration and skin health
Hydrated skin normally equals healthy skin. Certain environmental factors, such as weather, can further influence how much water you need to keep your skin hydrated. For example, you may notice that your hands and lips get dry and cracked during the cold winter months. This is largely due to low humidity levels (a measure of air's water vapor content), which draws moisture from your skin's surface layer. This results in moisture loss, which leads to tight, flaky, or dull skin.
Dry skin can also make wrinkles and fine lines more noticeable.
Drinking fluids throughout the day can help, but there's a faster, more efficient way to replenish dry skin. You can hydrate from the inside out with an IV treatment for healthy skin. IV therapy delivers hydration straight into your bloodstream, which quickly plumps shriveled skin cells so they can regain their supple quality.
Key nutrients for healthy skin support
In addition to hydration, some IV therapy treatments also provide nutrients to support your skin's strength and natural glow. For example, The Revitalize Packagefrom Blue IV contains four powerful skin-enhancing compounds to promote your best skin. Here's how each of them works.
Biotin
Biotin, a B vitamin, is an essential nutrient. It supports key tasks like gene regulation and cell signaling, and it's long been used for its beauty benefits, too. Hair loss, skin rashes, and brittle nails are all common signs of biotin deficiency. So, while research is limited, it's widely believed that biotin supplementation may play an important role in hair, skin, and nail health.
In one study, eight participants with brittle nails were given biotin. At the end of the study, their fingernail thickness had improved by 25%. In another study, women with thinning hair who took a multivitamin with biotin reported significant hair growth by the end of the study. As for skin, biotin helps form the fatty acids that nourish your skin and keep dryness at bay.
B12
Another B vitamin, vitamin B12 does a lot of important work in the body. This powerhouse vitamin helps form your red blood cells and contributes to the healthy functioning of your nerves and DNA. It also helps keep your complexion smooth and even. Without enough B12, the skin can develop unusual pigmentation, like vitiligo or hyperpigmentation (patches of skin that are darker than your usual skin tone). Vitamin B12 deficiency is also linked to skin concerns like eczema and canker sores. Finally, B12 helps boost collagen production, the protein that keeps your skin looking firm, smooth, and healthy.
Vitamin B12 deficiency is also linked to hair loss and premature graying, so this nutrient boasts hair health benefits, too.
Zinc
You may be most familiar with zinc's immunity-boosting benefits, but this nutrient wears many hats. In skin, zinc deficiency impairs your natural collagen production process and makes it harder for wounds to heal. Zinc helps repair skin injuries and reduces inflammation, which can help calm acne and inflammatory skin conditions like eczema.
Zinc also supports skin cell turnover, your skin's process of making new cells to replace old ones. So, making sure you're
getting enough zinc is important for forming new, healthy skin cells.
Glutathione
Last but certainly not least is glutathione. Glutathione is an antioxidant with powerful anti-inflammatory effects throughout the body — including your skin. Throughout your life, your skin is exposed to environmental stressors like pollution, sun damage, and harsh chemicals. Antioxidants like glutathione come to your skin's rescue, neutralizing those destructive forces to prevent them from causing damage.
And if that weren't enough, glutathione can brighten skin tone, reduce wrinkles, and improve skin elasticity.
Feeling confident in your skin
These amazing skin benefits are easily accessible through mobile IV therapy. With mobile IV therapy, a trained, certified nurse comes to you with hydrating fluids and these skin-boosting nutrients on your schedule. Ready to get started? Book an appointment today and a nurse will reach out to confirm the details. Your skin will thank you!
