Wrinkles, Loose Skin, Dead Skin, Deep Lines and Cellulite. All Caused by Seized Muscles.

Blood is our skin’s moisturizer.

New blood feeds our skin from within, keeping it fresh, supple and plump.

Healthy skin has a sheen not shine with a texture like linen not silk.

Blood is pumped into the body by our heart but our blood circulation is equally dependent upon our body’s “vascular health”, the health of our veins which are all embedded within our muscles. Therefore our muscles pump the blood back. If a muscle is seized and does not pump its veins; then consequently, our blood flow is slowed down, reduced.

Healthy skin sheds up to half a million cells every hour.  Normally, our skin is totally replaced from the inside out over a 3 week time period but, as we go through life and our body becomes damaged within and as more of our muscles seize, then we develop a slower and therefore reduced blood flow which directly affects the condition of our skin.

Our “skin renewal” process underneath is slowed down and therefore on the surface, dead cells accumulate because our surface skin takes longer to shed.  The deterioration shows, as the skin which now has to remain longer than its expected time span; “dries out”, “flakes” and “takes longer to heal”.

This extended time period, also leaves our skin susceptible to “external attacks” from “micro-organisms”.  “Bacterial”, “fungal” and “parasitical” infections can lead to the “irritating inflammations” of “dermatitis”.

The condition of our skin corresponds directly to the condition of those muscles which lie beneath.  A muscle changing from health, into the first stages of deterioration, reflects its status on our skin by the surface texture becoming “jellylike” and “glassy”.

Above seized muscles, where the skin is not being adequately fed, the temperature drops and our skin feels “cool to the touch”.  The healthy sheen turns “dull” and the fresh plumpness disappears leaving the shrivelled “prune type wrinkles”.

“Deep lines” appear directly above the junction of where two or more seized muscles meet.

The suffering skin “loses its elasticity” and it “sags”.  However, the thickness of skin does not change and so the expression “loose skin” when used to describe the bulk, hanging from our upper arms or inner thighs, is misleading.  It is not just skin that is hanging; but skin, laden with “body cell debris” (i.e. dead cells and cell waste) that is being left behind because of our reduced blood flow. “Loose skin” is skin that is sagging under the weight of the internal “body cell debris” that is being left behind, like silt in a stream and the bulk is accumulating between the skin and our muscles.

As the “body cell debris” accumulates, it “pushes out” and strains against the “mesh structure” of our skin, creating the “orange peel” look which we call; “cellulite”.  As the bulk grows larger, it pushes out more and under pressure, parts of our skin’s mesh structure fail and “fatty nodules” burst out, thus completing the picture of; “lumpy, dimply, wrinkly, skin-sagging cellulite”.

Ultimately, when our blood supply is reduced, to just a trickle, then we develop the unsightly “dead skin”.  The dry, hard skin which forms in “painful crusts” at our elbows, on the knees, heels, balls of our feet and under our toes.

Our wrinkles, loose skin, dead skin, deep lines and cellulite are all caused by a reduced blood supply which is caused by our seized muscles.

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