Nutritional benefits not showing?

Sep 26, 2015

Kayla E.

I hope this is in the right section, I didn't know where to put it!
A year or so ago, I learned the beauty benefits of avocado, green tea, etc. for hair and skin. Ever since, I've been drinking a lot of green tea and eating avocados regularly, but I haven't noticed any difference. In fact, my skin's gotten worse.
Is it normal not to see any differences? Does this happen to a lot of people?
Sorry that this is a weird question!

Sep 26, 2015

Hannah K.

Things like green tea and avocado work in conjuction with a healthy diet and exercise and skincare, not instead of. I don't know your skincare and exercise routine and your diet as you didn't include it in the post. However, whilst these things are deemed often as miracle products - like manuka honey - they don't work on everyone. If you're a teen or young adult, your skin worsening could be hormonal, which is beyond the control of any diet, skincare or exercise routine

Sep 26, 2015

Jenna L.

I'm sorry but just eating/drinking some "natural" remedy isn't going to make skin perfect. It takes an all in all healthy lifestyle, not just eating an avocado or drinking green tea.

Sep 27, 2015

Kayla E.

Hannah, thanks, that makes sense! I agree, both are important. Jenna, I know that, which is why I take care of myself all around :) these were just small additions to my already extensively healthy lifestyle. I am not depending solely on avocado and green tea, that would be silly if I were expecting any results.

Sep 27, 2015

Alyx T.

Honestly you're not going to see results unless it was a drastic change. If you already eat healthy, exercise etc, and you add in green tea you won't notice a change. If you went from eating McDonald's all day every day and never exercising, you'd notice a difference if you changed both.

But sometimes things don't work for everyone. For example for me, cutting out dairy makes me breakout. If I go a few days without a glass of milk, I break out. Whereas some people need to use dairy free products to cut down on hormonal acne. Of course with the guidance of a doctor or nutritionist.

But to pin point it to the green tea and avocado making your skin worse is nearly impossible, unless your environmental elements changed, like pollen count, pollution, sun rays etc, and no new products, no big hormone changes, no factors changed other than the added green tea and avocado. Skin care requires so many factors and can be impacted by so many external and internal factors. So I would continue to eat healthy, and live a healthy lifestyle, but make sure your skincare routine suits your skins needs and isn't too harsh. If you can I'd go to a dermatologist or Esthetian to get your skin looked at and recommendations for products to use that would suit your skins needs. I hope I helped, sorry it's kinda rambly I was interrupted half way through and kinda lost my train of thought but I can't see everything I wrote lol.

Sep 27, 2015

Kayla E.

Thank you sooo much, Alyx. I think maybe it's my hormones. I really appreciate your help! 😄

Sep 28, 2015

SophistcatedChocolate C.

Also to add onto that. Although fruits, veggies are good for you it depends where you get them from too sometimes. Like with Green tea sometimes has added unhealthy ingredients, not 100% tea, preservatives, and more. Health food stores are good to get your food from, or farmers market. It can be the meat that you eat, anything tbh like @Alyx had said :) Continue to do you Ma!