1. Your skin is like a Body Guard – your own personal body guard! it
offers protection. One of its most important jobs! Our skin provides a
barrier to harmful environmental aggressors like germs and UV radiation.
Even our skin’s ability to “tan” is a system designed to protect us
from the sun. And our skins ability to renew itself is as well. Did you
know your skin sheds 50,000 cells every minute? Globally, dead skin
accounts for about a billion tons of dust in the atmosphere…
2.
“Think of your skin like a raincoat”– just like a bestie in the rain, it
is a barrier to water! Our skin cells need water. Yet if the surface
of our skin did not have a “waterproofing” effect, all the water in our
skin would evaporate and the cells would die. How does it work? The
outermost layer of skin is made up of keratin, which really really
really likes oils much more than it likes water - “Hey water you can’t
sit with us!”
3. Your skin is like a Sponge – it absorbs things.
While the outermost layer of skin is designed to repel water, it can
also selectively absorb oily substances that are small enough to
penetrate in between the cells and get unnnnnder your skin!
4.
Your skin is like a Manufacturing Plant – it synthesizes chemicals.
Meaning its continuously working! Complex chemical reactions are
constantly going on in our skin to keep cells regenerating, repairing
damage and even converting sunlight into Vitamin D.
5. Think of
your skin as a Thermostat – “It regulates your body temperature.” When
we are hot, our skin can cool our entire bodies by sweating and also
increasing blood flow, which allows heat to be lost through the skin. In
contrast, when we are cold, the diameter of our blood vessels
decreases, which reduces blood flow, retaining heat in the body. Mmm
what’s smell? Ok we all know that we sweat, but did you know that the
skin releases as much as three gallons of sweat a day in hot weather.
The areas that don't sweat are the nail bed, the margins of the lips,
the tip of the penis, and the eardrums. Nice to know… but Ooh, that
smell: Body odour comes from a second kind of sweat—a fatty secretion
produced by the apocrine sweat glands, found mostly around the armpits,
genitals, and anus. The odour is caused by bacteria on the skin eating
and digesting those fatty compounds. Yum!
6. Your skin is like a
Switchboard – it “transfer information”. Nerves in the skin respond to
different stimuli, including touch, pain, pressure and temperature by
passing along information to the central nervous system…That’s why
massages feel soooooo good!
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