Would you like to have a vibrant, wrinkle-free, even-toned complexion? Today we’ll meet a skin care expert who believes that one secret to clear, youthful skin is a diet rich in fresh fruits and vegetables and free of the toxins found in meat and processed foods.

Welcome to Healthy Living on Supreme Master Television. Today we’re going to talk with Veronika, a beauty and skin care consultant. Hi, Veronika. Can you introduce yourself?

My name is Veronika. I’m an Armenian. I have been in the beauty and skin care business for almost twenty years. And for many years I worked for cosmetic and skin care companies, and I decided to open my own skin care line about 15 years ago.

To a large extent our skin’s vitality depends on our overall bodily health.

I did a lot of reading and educating myself about natural extracts, and I found out it’s great to use; absolutely no chemicals in your body, including your food. So I started to change my diet, little by little. I started to teach my boys how important it is not to use animal products. Since then we started to change our lifestyle, which is great.

The vitamins from food; it actually makes a huge difference. There's a lot of good vitamins in broccoli, green vegetables; that's why I recommend my clients to include lots of green in their food as far as vegetables. Vitamins A, E and C produce a lot of antioxidants for the body which helps us to get protection from the sun, because it prevents sun damage. If you have stronger antioxidants, your body would get less sun damage.

Vitamin A, found in green, leafy vegetables and yellow vegetables such as pumpkins, sweet potatoes and carrots, helps to repair skin tissue, promotes cell reproduction, facilitates hair growth and improves eyesight.

Vitamin C, found in berries, tomatoes, kale, asparagus and citrus fruits, is critical in the production of collagen, which protects the skin from damage by free radicals caused by pollution and excessive sun exposure.

Vitamin E, a component of wheat germ, seed oils, walnuts, almonds and brown rice, is also an antioxidant that guards the skin against free radicals. Alpha-lipoic acid is a powerful antioxidant found in spinach, brewer’s yeast, broccoli, tomatoes and peas.

Do you recommend different things depending on the age of the person?

All the vitamins that include antioxidants, it's great for all ages. I usually recommend people after 30 to use biotin, which is a great vitamin for the skin, hair and nails. And they can use alpha-lipoic, which is my favorite antioxidant and vitamin C. It's the best vitamin. I also give my clients topical vitamin A for their skin to use topically, which has a beautiful result.

I learned for many years being in this practice how to teach my clients to be healthy from inside to outside. If their diet is not a good diet, if they are not eating based on vegetables and fruits, basically their skin is not going to respond well to their diet. So the main thing that I teach my clients is to eat healthy and be green; eat as much vegetables and fruit as possible.

What causes wrinkles and aging to our skin?

Well there are so many reasons for causing wrinkles and aging. First of all, great dehydration can cause a lot of wrinkles and aging so we have to make sure as much as we can to feed the body with vitamins, supplements and water.

We have to make sure we have enough of a shield for the skin, which is a moisturizer based on vitamins and natural extracts and the water temperature that we use and the quality of water that we use to wash and clean the skin and there's lots of reasons as far as deficiency of vitamins. That's why I emphasize the vitamins and antioxidants that it’s especially great for the skin. The deficiency of vitamins can cause a lot of wrinkles and it will quicken the aging process.

Keeping well hydrated is vital to our health. Did you know that 60% of our body weight is water? Thus to keep skin vibrant and to flush toxins from our system, it is always important to drink plenty of fluids. The esteemed Mayo Clinic in the United States recommends those in temperate climates drink at least two to three liters of water a day.

Experts recommend not to rely on thirst as an indicator of the need to drink water, because typically by that point the body is already slightly dehydrated. Fruits and vegetables also have water within them and are another great way to keep fluids in the body.

I have so many clients that they've been coming to me for 15, 18 years and I see a great difference in their skin. I teach them it’s really important they take care of themselves externally as well as internally; so just a combination of both makes a big difference.

And what is the response that you get from the clients?

Well, I get a great response because I practice that in my own lifestyle, and then I teach them and the clients follow my routine, they follow my diet, they get a beautiful response and I can see the difference.

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Drinking clean water hydrates your skin, it removes all the toxins, chemicals; it just makes a big difference. My name is Veronika. I have been an esthetician for 20 years. With my practice I use a lot of natural plants and I would love to recommend to everybody, if you like to have beautiful, healthy skin, Go Green! Be Veg.

Welcome back to Supreme Master Television. On today’s edition of Healthy Living, skin care specialist Veronika Babayan shares some handy tips for maintaining a healthy, youthful complexion.

There's lots of women, girls, older women that have no idea about their skin routine. So I decided, “Why don't I do shows, like home shows, to teach them about their regular routine?” So when I have a gathering of like five to 10 women, I just cook food and I just have them to taste the food and feel great before we start the skin care demonstration. So everybody appreciates it and that makes them come back again because they have a chance to experience the food, to eat healthy and they just love that experience.

A vegetarian diet filled with fresh fruits and vegetables is essential to maintaining healthy, attractive skin because the body easily processes these foods, which are high in nutrients that enhance skin health, stimulate cell growth and reduce skin inflammation and other conditions. Veronika now shares her personal experience of taking meat out of her diet and the resulting benefits.

My body is responding really well and I feel great about my health. The most important changes I see in my body is I feel more healthy, I feel more lightweight, and I feel emotionally very happy. I see a huge difference as far as on a psychological and emotional level and a physical level.

Veronika enjoys introducing her exemplary, wholesome, meat-free lifestyle to her clients.

Sandy became my client about nine months ago. I saw she has a lot of sensitivity on her skin and she needs a lot of help. And I started to do a consultation as far as her skin care routine. After the facial I had lunch with her. So I taught her how I eat; that’s the reason my skin is looking good. So she started to, little by little, change her diet.

I gave her a lot of information about vitamins and supplements also. Ever since she is coming to me, I see beautiful hydration; her redness has gone down like almost I would say 70%, and every time I see her, she is very happy.

So why do you keep coming back?

Why do I keep coming back? Because I love her cooking. Because I really see a huge difference each time that I see her. It's not only what you put on externally but it's also what you put inside your body that make a difference.

Veronika next describes some common skin conditions and their possible causes.

Well, pimples sometimes can be related to diet, sometimes related to stress, and sometimes related to a certain type of bacteria. Dry, flaky skin, the reason it happens could be a few reasons. One of them is environmental damage. It could be because of the hot water and it could be because of the poor circulation of blood. It happens because of poor diet, because of stress, because of not a good lifestyle, not the right lifestyle.

So I'll drink a lot of water and moderate the temperature of the water. We can also get flaky skin using a lot of soap, because the pH balance of the soap, it doesn't match with our skin pH balance. So there's a lot of alkaline in the soap that has a hard chemical that doesn't match with our skin pH balance so that way we can just get flaky skin.

Having healthy, beautiful skin is highly desirable, and now we know how easy it is to look good! Be vegan and live a confident, cruelty-free, complete life! We thank Ms. Veronika Babayan for her useful skincare tips and for reminding us that to look and feel our best, it is just as important to take care of the inside of our body as the outside.

Bright viewers, thank you for joining us on today’s Healthy Living. Up next is Science and Spirituality after Noteworthy News here on Supreme Master Television. May we all walk the way of inner beauty and virtue.

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