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The edible skincare diet

Eating well could be better for skin health than applying lotions and potions. But which vitamins and nutrients will yield the healthiest glow?
  1. Sarah DeWeerdt

    1. Sarah DeWeerdt is a freelance science journalist based in Seattle, Washington.

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Biochemist Margreet Vissers shares a common enemy with skincare companies: the highly unstable free radicals that damage cells and attack DNA. Her latest work, however, which looks at the effects of vitamin C on skin health, is not focused on developing new creams or lotions. “I’ve been known to say to cosmetic companies, ‘you know you’d probably be better off eating your product than rubbing it on’,” says Vissers, who heads the Centre for Free Radical Research at the University of Otago in Christchurch, New Zealand.

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Nature 563, S94-S95 (2018)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-018-07433-7

This article is part of Nature Outlook: Skin, an editorially independent supplement produced with the financial support of third parties. About this content.

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