Your skin is your largest organ. Like your heart, or your liver. Meaning, it is specialized set of tissues that works together to perform necessary biological functions.
Your skin:
keeps water inside your body,
regulates your temperature, protects your internal organs from the outside world,
turns sunlight into vitamin D (a nutrient you need to stay alive),
flushes toxins out of your body.
You are made up of almost ten pounds, or twenty square feet, of skin.
Your skin is a part of a group of organs known as the integumentary system, which also includes your hair, nails, and sweat glands.
Most of us think that our skin operates completely independently from other systems in the body, such as the digestive system, endocrine system, nervous system, and so on.
We treat the skin as if it’s just a shield protecting our insides from the outside world – a shield we want to keep looking beautiful, glowing, and smooth, but a shield all the same.
The truth is, your skin belongs to the incredible, interconnected whole that is your body.
Its health is as much a part of your general well-being as the health of your other organs.
