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Revive With Vitamins
Beauty From the Inside Out
By Teri Brown
Two of their products – Moisture Replenishing Therapy and Clear Complexion Therapy – are therapeutic dietary supplements providing vitamin B, vitamin C and other effective ingredients essential for healthy, beautiful skin.
Dr. Earl Mindell, registered pharmacist, founder of www.newlife.freelife.com and author of Earl Mindell's Vitamin Bible for the 21st Century (Warner Books, 1999), has long believed that vitamins and health were essential to beauty. "The correct vitamins and minerals will make your hair soft and silky, your nails hard as a rock and your skin supple and smooth," he says. "A combination of carotenoid complex, with vitamins C and E, MSM (a sulfur compound) ... essential fatty acids, L-cysteine and zinc taken twice daily will give you more healthier and more beautiful skin and hair. Within a month you will see fabulous results."
Dr. Barbara Levine believes that vitamins can help a woman look her best by improving the condition of her skin, hair and nails, but there is no one quick vitamin fix that will make all your beauty woes go away. "In general, no one vitamin or mineral is the fountain of youth and beauty," says Dr. Levine, who is also the co-director of the Human Nutrition Program at The Rockefeller University in New York, N.Y. "Your best bet is to eat a healthy, well-balanced diet and take a daily multivitamin, like Centrum for example, as a 'nutritional safety net' to ensure you are getting the recommended daily amount (RDA) of essential vitamins and minerals. This will be the most beneficial towards improving the condition of your skin, hair and nails."