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The Mineral Connection to Healthy, Glowing Summer Skin
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Want better skin? Start with minerals.
Minerals nourish your skin from the inside out. They’re a simple, natural way to help with wrinkles, elasticity, sun damage, and even anti-aging.
Your skin needs extra minerals during hot weather, when dehydration and sun damage take their toll. Replenishing a few key minerals will ensure that you look and feel great, all summer long.
July is UV Safety Month, so let’s talk about how minerals keep your skin smooth, and why they’re essential for every summer skincare routine.
The Best Minerals for Sun Damage and Wrinkles
Sun exposure causes ~80% of visible skin aging. [*] Sunlight contains ultraviolet (UV) radiation that bypasses your skin’s protective outer barrier, causing damage to the interior of your skin cells. That’s why summer is the most difficult time of year for your skin.
UV radiation from the sun destroys collagen and elastin, the two main proteins that keep your skin smooth. [*] As sunlight breaks down these proteins, your skin begins to wrinkle and sag. The result is rapid aging.
Sun exposure is healthy in moderation. In fact, your skin needs a moderate amount of UV radiation to make vitamin D, which supports your hormones and brain function. [*]
However, over the course of decades, even healthy sun exposure gradually wears down your skin, causing low-level oxidative stress that damages proteins and creates wrinkles.
That’s where minerals come in. Minerals act like an internal sunscreen, supporting your skin during sun exposure.
Research shows that two key minerals, zinc and selenium, help your skin deal with daily stress from sun exposure.
Minerals for Sun Protection
Mineral |
Skin Benefit |
Zinc |
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Selenium |
Minerals should never replace sunscreen. However, boosting your zinc and selenium stores can help slow (or even reverse) sun damage. They can also reduce wrinkles, keeping your skin smooth all summer long.
Minerals for Skin Hydration and Elasticity
Collagen and elastin are the two major proteins that make up your skin. They work together to maintain your skin’s structure:
- Collagen keeps your skin firm, smooth, and hydrated. It acts like scaffolding, holding up the top layer of your skin and keeping it taut. Collagen also helps your skin cells retain water, which prevents your skin from drying out. [*]
- Elastin is a long, stretchy protein that acts like a rubber band. It allows your skin to move and flex and then snap back into place. Elastin keeps your skin tight and elastic, as its name suggests.
You lose about 1% of your collagen and elastin each year you age. [*] Sun exposure speeds up the aging process by causing collagen and elastin to become disorganized. They twist into each other and stop working properly, damaging your skin’s structure. [*]
As collagen and elastin decline, your skin loses its tautness. It wrinkles, thins, dries out, and becomes less elastic, all of which leads to visible aging.
Minerals can help your skin stay smooth and hydrated. Certain minerals feed your fibroblasts, the special cells that make collagen and elastin.
Silicon and copper are the two most important minerals for collagen and elastin production.
Silicon is essential to keep collagen high. Your collagen-producing fibroblasts use more silicon than almost any other cell type in your body.
In a 2018 study, older women took silicon daily for 6 months. Silicon reversed signs of skin aging and led to: [*]
Increased skin collagen
Fewer wrinkles
Better skin hydration
- Tighter skin
A 2005 study found similar results. Women who took silicon daily for 20 weeks reversed age-related skin roughness and had better skin elasticity. [*]
Copper works alongside silicon to make collagen and elastin. If you increase them at the same time, you’ll see fast, noticeable improvement in your skin’s wellbeing.
A 2014 study found that increasing copper comes with four main skincare benefits: [*]
Greater skin collagen and elastin
Reduction of fine lines and wrinkles
Better skin elasticity
- Higher water content in skin cells
For supple, hydrated skin all summer long, get more silicon and copper. Together, they support the structural proteins that stop your skin from aging.
How to Use Minerals for Natural Skincare
Minerals are a simple way to make your skin more vibrant. They can help with wrinkles, guard against UV damage, and keep your skin hydrated, especially during the summer.
BEAM Minerals makes skincare easy. Our full-spectrum liquid formula delivers every mineral your skin needs to thrive, in an optimal ratio, with high bioavailability.
To support your skin every morning, simply take a shot of BEAM Minerals when you wake up. It adds 30 seconds to your day—no cabinet full of pills or complex routine required.
Try nourishing your skin with minerals. It’s a natural, effective way to keep yourself looking radiant.
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FAQs
Can I take BEAM Minerals with my other supplements?
Yes, in fact, BEAM Minerals will enhance the bioavailability of all your other supplements.
What is the difference between Micro-BOOST™ and Electrolyze™?
Electrolyze™ is primarily composed of Fulvic Mineral Complexes . Fulvic complexes are small molecules that provide inter-cellular transport for nutritional elements into the cells and carry bio-waste out of the cells. Fulvic complexes are flavonoids , which provide many benefits in the body.
Micro-BOOST™ is primarily composed of the Humic Mineral Complexes . Humic complexes are large molecules that are extra-cellular, meaning they do not enter the cells but stay outside the cells. They are highly-charged molecules that attract, through their electrical charge, bio-waste, free radicals and heavy metals. They ultimately carry bio-waste out of the body. Thus, we call them “Nature’s Janitor”.
How many milligrams (mg) of an electrolyte (Potassium, Magnesium, Sodium, Calcium, etc.) is there in BEAM Minerals?
The quantities of each element in BEAM Minerals products are measured in “parts per million” (ppm), rather than the “milligrams” (mg). Here is the information which usually helps to understand the difference:
Milligrams (mg) vs parts per million (ppm)
In comparing our products to other supplements, people want to know how much of an electrolyte is in our products (like potassium, magnesium, sodium, calcium). Usually they are looking for an amount in milligrams (mg).
We have a hard time answering that question, because the electrolytes (and other elements) in BEAM Minerals products are measured in parts per million (ppm). So how can consumers compare?
The answer is a little complex, but here’s the high points.
The electrolytes in BEAM Minerals products are provided in “trace” amounts that are completely dissolved and thus 100% bio-available, immediately introduced into your circulation when you consumed them and will produce and active effect.
When you take a 320mg pill of magnesium, your body is only able utilize about 12-20% of it as it takes some time because your body has to digest it first. Whatever is not dissolved gets processed out of your body.
When you take a capful of liquid Electrolyze™ and/or Micro-BOOST™, you receive approximately 5.22 ppm of magnesium in which 100% of the magnesium is immediately available to your body. In addition, an important to know is that the magnesium in BEAM Minerals products stay in your system much longer building up healthy levels as you continue to take it daily.
