The Role and Factor Influencing of Skin and Body

The Role and Factor Influencing of Skin and Body:

The Role of Skin

Skin is the ultimate multi-tasker, performing many functions that are essential to our overall well being. It plays an important psychological role. As the most visible indication of health, the condition of our skin affects how we feel about ourselves and how others view us. But skin’s most important role is as the first line of defence between our bodies and the world we live in. It protects us and helps to keep us healthy by:

·        Maintaining the balance of fluids in the body. Binding in moisture when necessary and preventing moisture loss.

·        Regulating body temperature: it insulates our body, conserves heat in cold conditions and perspires to cool the body down when it gets hot. 

·        Sensing pressure and pain: absorbing shock and alerting us to danger.

·        Guarding the whole body from external aggressors.

Factor Influencing of Skin

Many of the external factors that skin protects us from have, in turn, an impact on skin itself.

• ·        UV exposure, changes in climate and temperature and the use of chemicals in the workplace or harsh cleansing products at home can overtax skin’s natural neutralizing capability, impair its ability to bind in moisture and weaken its effectiveness as a protective barrier.
• ·        Washing too frequently with water that is too hot can also cause skin to dry out, damage its permeability barrier and trigger skin conditions.
• ·        An unbalanced diet, little or no exercise, stress, a lack of sleep, smoking, dehydration and certain medicines all influence skin.
• ·        Skin is also affected by a number of internal factors: genetics, biological ageing, hormones and specific conditions such as diabetes.