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This shield of ours is the barrier that
keeps the outside world from devouring us. Not just lions and tigers want to eat us, just about everything out there wants to take us apart in one way or another. Scratch the top protective laying off your skin and see how long it takes for both animal and vegetable to come and start to feed
on you. Bacteria and fungus are on us and all around us in a normal environment,
the only thing holding them back is your healthy skin.
Beside just keeping us protected, it does many critical jobs to keep us healthy and alive.
It maintains and controls body temperature, if the environment is to cold it constricts its blood flow the keep the blood warm, if it's to hot it fills with blood and cools it by sweat evaporation. Also it controls and keeps in most of our fluids, remember we're more than 50% to 70% water, it gets rid of body waste and makes
essential vitamin D from sunlight.
Our skin is made up of hundreds of cell layers in a continuous state of development,
within every square inch which is about a tenth of an inch thick, there are nearly 40 million cells, and all mixed in
20 blood vessels, more than a thousand sensory points (nerve endings), about 650 sweat glands, and almost 100 sebaceous glands. Our system and brain have to keep track of and control
the thousands of square inches that comprise our body surface, is it any wonder that we get an irritating itch now and then.
Those sensory points are nerves that are our sense of touch and feel and warn us when there's irritation or to much pressure, heat or impact. They transmit the information to our system, it processes the threat and
sends a message to the appropriate nerves to give us an itch or pain. Those sweat glands keep us cool and get rid of waste. Sebaceous glands keep our skin lubricated and toned, they also exude waste, this can be a problem if the gland becomes inflamed and or the duct is blocked.
Our skin cells starts out in the basement stratum called the dermis and move upward as new cells develop beneath them. As they
move up to become part of another stratum called the epidermis they change, lose moisture, start to flatten out and become mostly keratin, called keratinocytes think of them as soft microscopic finger nails, yes it's the same stuff. In this mix some cells will turn into melanocytes to give your skin it's color and others will become langerhans cells that guard your skin against intruders.
When those keratin cells reach the surface they have completely flattened out died and become tough little shields to give your skin it's ability to withstand all the bumps and scrapes of life. Since new cells are forming continuously the top cells are sloughed off at the rate of millions a day.
The whole skin process from birth to death takes about a month.
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psorXma is absorb- ed by the
epidermis and it's healing ingredients go into the dermis to quite
nerves by blocking the itch and pain messages, stopp- ing inflammation
and eliminating any bacteria and fungus in and on your skin. Plant
sterols in psorXma then give your skin cells a wellness booster.
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