Energy: How It Affects the Skin

Thanks for inviting me to dinner tonight. Without telling you, I am going to show up an hour earlier than expected. I guess that will cause you a little bit of panic. Perhaps I will ask for a tour of your home and I will certainly have to visit your restroom. While you are busy preparing our meal, I will slip quietly away to find your electrical panel. I will then flip the switch that controls the electricity going into the kitchen.  After waiting for a few minutes, I will enter the kitchen, throw my arms into the air and proclaim “What’s to eat, I’m famished!”

There is a pretty good chance that the second round of panic brought on will be much more intense than the first one … wouldn’t you agree?
Let us consider the ramifications of the previously desribed scenario. The food would not be properly prepared, which means that all the vitamins, nutrients, proteins, minerals, phytoestrogens, phytonutrients, EPA, GLA, essential fatty acids, et cetera would either not be available for consumption at all or the quality would be less than the required amount necessary for the efficient and effective assimilation and future management of the human body. As a result of this, the parts (organs) of this machine (human body) receive less than they need to replicate, duplicate, repair, defend, and retain homeostasis which causes the working “parts” to breakdown and age. A domino effect has now been put in motion whereby the parts of the body that are deficient cause an on going degeneration of everything else (i.e. the bad apple that spoils the rest of the barrel). The outcome is that the “internal body” cannot supply the “external body” (the skin) with the necessary requirements to achieve and sustain a long, healthy and useful life. And, how did all this happen? I flipped a switch!

Energy And the Human Body
So let us “flip” through this concept of energy as it affects my and hopefully your favorite subject: the skin. To start with, every organ and system of the human body requires energy (the “kitchen electricity” example above) in order to function … including the skin. Every molecule has a nucleus. The nucleus controls the everyday workings, habits, output and effectiveness of its respective molecule. Inside the nucleus are the controlling “factors” that guide the molecule on a second-by-second basis. There is the DNA which is responsible for the “character” of the skin; there is the RNA which is responsible for the “personality” of the skin; and there is the ATP which is the energy factor and the subject of this article. ATP stands for Adenosine TriPhosphate. During the wakening hours of each person, the ATP disperses energy as directed by the brain. Nerve receptors all over the body and skin send signals to the brain, on a second-by-second basis, requesting energy in order to operate. The brain considers all the requests and divides them up — judiciously directing the available energy. Unfortunately, all requests are not answered. Why?

Physiology Of the Human Body
A quick lesson in physiology. Our bodies resemble a hierarchy. The first organ to get anything (vitamins, minerals, nutrients, water and energy) is the brain; second is the heart; third are the lungs. Of course, the last organ of the body to get all the good stuff is the skin. So, during the wakening hours of a person’s life, all the organs above the skin on the priority ladder get their demands filled while the skin has to get by with next to nothing.

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