Winter Skincare: How to Revitalize Your Skin from the Inside Out

Posted: February 11, 2025 | By: Shanon Peckham

Whether you’re dealing with Santa Ana winds or bitter-cold winter storms, wintertime can really test your skin. You may start to notice your skin drying out, itching, or looking more dull. While it’s completely normal for this time of year, there are several ways you can encourage healthier-looking and feeling skin with nutrition during the darkest time of the year.

Hydration & Good nutrition

First things first: Make sure you’re getting enough water. Not only does regular hydration help your skin look more plump and nourished, but it also enables your musculoskeletal structure to show through better and improves skin elasticity.^1,2 This is just a fancy way of saying it can reduce the appearance of lines/bags and better emphasize your face/body structure rather than the skin on top. To ensure you’re getting the best quality water, we recommend drinking only reverse osmosis, activated carbon filtered water, which removes harmful PFAs and other compounds you don’t want in your body.³

But water alone isn’t enough! This fragile outermost layer of your body is your largest organ, protecting you from dangerous microscopic invaders, regulating your temperature, and helping you synthesize vitamin D (which are all super important for overall health and well-being).⁴ Your skin needs certain nutrients to fulfill these functions, necessitating a healthy, nutrient-rich diet. Many fruits and vegetables contain antioxidants, which can help your body fight free radical damage at the cellular level. Vitamins (A, C, E, and D) and minerals (Magnesium, Calcium, Zinc, and Selenium), obtained through food and/or supplementation, can also bolster your epidermal health.^5,6 For more healthy eating tips, check out our YFast page!

Pro Tip: Set an hourly alarm to help you remember to drink water.

Collagen

When it comes to looking and feeling our best, collagen is one of our most important allies. Not only does it help us build strong bones and joints, it also helps us maintain beautiful skin, hair, and nails. Unfortunately, our bodies produce less and less collagen naturally as we get older.⁷ Lower collagen levels can impact our enjoyment of life by manifesting as wrinkly or dry skin, hair loss, joint stiffness, and limited mobility.

Collagen naturally helps with wound healing and plays a big part in our body’s natural scarring process. When taken as a supplement, it can improve skin hydration, elasticity, and roughness, which may help diminish the appearance of wrinkles. Collagen has also been demonstrated to promote better growth and strength of nails, as well as hair.^8,9,10,11,12 Adding a collagen supplement to your daily routine can help you combat these symptoms for healthier skin and connective tissues.

Pro Tip: Add a scoop of collagen to this Banana Muffins recipe for a delicious, collagen-packed breakfast treat!

Probiotics & Digestive Enzymes

Did you know your skin mirrors your gut health, and vice versa?¹³ If you want clear, comfortable, glowing skin, you need to nourish a healthy intestinal microbiome! That’s why it’s super important to ensure your GI tract has the nutrients it needs to thrive. Firstly, you can invest in maximum nutrient absorption and efficient digestion by looking after your digestive enzymes, which keep a steady supply of nutrients flowing to your cells (including your skin cells).¹⁴ If you’re concerned about enzyme deficiency or digestive discomfort (we’re talking to you, lactose-intolerant ice cream lovers!), give supplemental digestive enzymes a try!

Maintaining a healthy microbiome is all about balance. When there are too many bad bacteria and not enough good bacteria, it can weaken your immune system and throw off the rest of your body, including your skin. This can show up as worsened acne/scarring, dermatitis, and irritated/dull/more fragile skin, among other unwelcome changes.¹³ Thankfully, there’s a natural and easy fix: Supplement more good bacteria! “Probiotics are live beneficial microbes, prebiotics are food for these microbes, and postbiotics are the beneficial compounds produced by probiotics,” states a 2023 study on gut microbiota.¹⁵ “Each plays a distinct role in the symbiotic relationship with the human host and significantly contributes to the body’s overall homeostasis.” You can bolster your microbiome by upping your intake of fiber or fermented foods and trying these supplements:

Ultimate Microbiome™ – Provides prebiotic, probiotic, and postbiotic support.

Ultimate Nightly Essense™ – Provides both probiotics and enzymes to help you maintain a healthy digestive system.

Ultimate Enzymes™ – All the essential enzymes you need in one convenient, easy-to-swallow capsule.

Intestinal Tone – Get a healthy dose of gentle fiber, plus prebiotics and probiotics, in every scoop.

Pro Tip: Add a sugar-free yogurt layer to your Chia Seed Pudding for a gut-healthy snack.

Antioxidants & More

Antioxidants, a beneficial compound present in many bright-colored fruits and dark greens, are a must-have for skin and overall health. They can help our immune systems fight back against environmental damage, oxidative stress, and accelerated aging at the cellular level.¹⁶ Many high-antioxidant plant extracts (like aloe, chamomile, tea tree) can help moisturize or clean your skin, treat skin conditions like acne or dermatitis, reduce redness or inflammation, prevent or mitigate sun damage, and even promote procollagen production/wound healing.¹⁷

Vitamin A (Retinol), Vitamin E, and Vitamin C can help address unwanted skin conditions (like acne and psoriasis) while also minimizing the signs of skin aging.^18,19,20 Biotin supplementation can also be helpful for those with a deficiency, keeping hair, skin, and nails healthy.²¹ Trace minerals like Zinc and Selenium have similar protective effects and help with the normal functioning of your epidermal layer.^22,23 In addition to eating a high-antioxidant diet, you can support healthy skin with these antioxidant-enhanced products:

Nano Balance™ – Support your health at the cellular level with Organic Nano Curcumin, Manuka Honey, Black Pepper, and Thyme Oil.

Youngevity Waterless Vitamin C – This primer serum provides Vitamin C, an antioxidant, for healthier-looking and feeling skin.

ZRadical™ – Vitamins, botanicals, and high-antioxidant Fucoidan from the sea support a healthy immune system.

Muscadine 20™ Fresh Mint Toothpaste – Provides a high-antioxidant extract toothpaste to support dental and overall health.