The skin is the mirror of our lives. Stress, lack of sleep, mood, and the little “sins” as too much alcohol and nicotine, can be read clearly. But most is our skin from drying out, which causes aging us. Like a fruit that gets too little water, “wrinkles” our body – inside and out.

Why is that? We drink too much?


Each of us will have seen before, that the first fine lines around the mouth or around the eyes with increased fluid intake can not be drinking all. The lines remain persistently as where they are and it also goes to the invisible parts of the body.

The time demands its toll sooner or later …

… No later than when the hormone production is reduced, from about the age of 35. The decrease in hormone concentration in our body has the consequence is that the skin cells develop more slowly, the body produces less collagen and elastin and the production of hyaluronic acid is reduced. The result: The skin blood flow is weaker and drier. The “invisible” to us, the inner life-giving factors such as bone, cartilage, brain cells, eyes, ears, organs become less liquid.

The hyaluronic acid deposits of forty year olds are filled only half, at the age of sixty is just a tired remainder comprised of 10 percent. No wonder that the body deficiency signs can be seen and felt. A chain reaction gets under way at the end to rub the joints, the brain dries out, forgetfulness is only the beginning.

The obvious consequences of declining hormone levels can be at least on the skin to some degree “iron out”. By applying hyaluronhaltigen creams, gels or ointments, dry eyes can moisten with hyaluronhaltigen drops.

Who has confidence in one’s memory is mentally fitter
If you believe that your memory gets worse with age, it can be a self-fulfilling prophecy. Researchers at North Carolina State University found that seniors who believe that older people should perform worse on memory tests actually showed a much worse performance than seniors who give to these negative stereotypes of aging and the declining memory nothing. In a study published in April 2009 showed the psychology professor Dr. Tom Hess and a team of researchers at NC State, that the memory capacity of older adults in certain situations suffer when negative stereotypes are activated. “For example, older adults during a memory test poorly, if you tell them that older people are not in this particular type of memory test is good,” says Hess. Similarly, the memory suffers when seniors believe they would be “stigmatized” if so look down others because of their age on them.

Stigma and prejudice lead to poorer memory performance
“Such situations for older adults are part of everyday experience,” says Hess, “So, for example, make themselves worried about what to think Job colleague of them, a negative impact on their performance -. And thus may enhance the negative stereotypes” But Hess added: “The positive side of that who are not stigmatized feels or has an environment in which the prevailing positive attitudes to aging, a much better memory performance shows.” In other words, if you are convinced that the aging do not have a devastating effect on your memory, then you will do in tasks in which memory plays a role, well more likely.

The study also showed that the negative effects were strongest among older adults with the highest level of education. “This is consistent with our view that people who assess their ability to remember the highest, most sensitive to the negative conclusions of stereotypes, and thus most likely to show the difficulties associated with the stereotype.”

If these findings confirm, this is basically a comforting message: If I know that they are my own stereotypes affecting my memory, then yes I can do something. I can not just forget …

More and more people are suffering a double burden and increasing stress to which they are exposed to in everyday life. Therefore, wellness is the latest trend. The sauna has a high wellness factor – you can do yourself a favor and leave all the worries of everyday life behind and relax. Here bustle and noise definitely have to look for anything.


But not only can escape the stress in a sauna. Perspiration also contributes to health. The body is purified and the immune system, heart and circulation are strengthened. In addition, the body against colds is tough. Due to the heat and subsequent cooling can also dissolve tension and headaches.

But not only for medical reasons, the sauna is perfect. The visit to a sauna also has an effect on your skin. The skin will look fresher and healthier and beyond the well-being in general much higher.

But how can you be really healthy to sweat? Physicians recommend that you clean yourself thoroughly before visiting cubicles with a soap, but after that the body should be washed only with water without soap. Very important it is that you never out of breath or immediately after physical exertion such as goes through sport into the cab. The visitor should preferably be located in the sauna in a lying position, because it means the whole body can be heated uniformly. The sauna should take about 10-15 minutes, in the final two minutes should be taken back a sitting position. After the sauna, a proper cooling is important because this will promote blood circulation. One should start with a cool air bath, which should not last more than five minutes. The ensuing cold hose showers, it would be best to start with the hands and feet, and slowly the body-center prefabricate. Then a resting stage 10-15 minutes is recommended.

Following, take note: you sweat more when they go completely dry in a sauna cabin. During an acute viral infection a sauna is not recommended. The proper detoxification effect comes into existence only if you drink only after bathing much and not while. Although warm after sweating rooms availability should be avoided sweating because you are otherwise at risk of infection and circulatory overload.

Many advantages to a sauna to visit – for the health and personal well-being are essential.

The transition from the cold in the colder months as often happens suddenly. Those who do not immediately with warm clothes on sets, has quickly gone cold. However, those who followed the report and provided with a warm sweater, thick socks and long pants, has already won.

Resilience is of course always the best prevention for it to remain in the cold season healthy and fit and his health to do good. In no case should immediately do the heating. Those who are particularly well harden needed only on cold winter days heating. Temperatures well above 20 degrees should prevail in a room before. So-called cold showers (alternating hot and cold) cure, especially so because they place the circulation going and thus stimulate the blood circulation. A walk or a round of jogging every day, come rain, possibly even to the work site and back again, is always recommended. You should sleep with the window open as possible, even on cold days. A warming blanket protection in any case before hypothermia in bed.

The high vitamin content of vegetables and fruit of the regional environment, one should make full use. No day should pass without at least one does not a pear, an apple, a couple of plums in season, of course, has not eaten raw.

A little cold, one should not respond to high doses of medication, but first take home remedy. A cup of elderflower tea with honey, a tablespoon of cranberries, a cover of fresh potatoes around the neck and sweat in bed, usually seem even miracles.