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Age Gracefully: How Minerals Keep Your Skin Firm and Youthful
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Minerals are an essential part of any skincare routine.
A good mineral supplement will nourish your skin from the inside out, helping with wrinkles, hydration, and firmness. Minerals can even help repair sun damage and slow aging.
If you want firmer, more youthful skin, a full-spectrum mineral supplement is an ideal place to start. Here’s why minerals are so important for skincare.
Minerals Support Collagen Production and Smooth Wrinkles
Minerals are essential for making collagen and elastin, the two main proteins in your skin.
Collagen and elastin work together to keep your skin youthful. Collagen provides firmness and structure. It also retains water, which keeps your skin hydrated. [ * ] Elastin makes skin flexible, helping it stretch without sagging or losing its shape. [ * ]
Collagen and elastin levels decline as you age. [ * ] Your fibroblasts, the cells that make collagen and elastin, become less efficient and can’t keep up with your skin’s repair needs. As collagen and elastin levels decline, you start to show signs of aging: wrinkles, dryness, sagging, and less flexible skin.
But research shows minerals can help maintain collagen and elastin production, keeping your skin youthful:
A 2014 study found that taking copper increases collagen and elastin levels in skin. Copper helped reduce wrinkles and increase skin elasticity . [ * ]
In a 2018 study, women over 30 took silicon supplements for 5 months. They saw a continuous decrease in skin aging markers, including fewer wrinkles , less skin roughness , and better hydration . Their skin collagen levels also increased. [ * ]
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A 2024 study found that combining a multimineral supplement with collagen protein enhanced the benefits of the collagen. People who took both daily had fewer wrinkles and greater skin elasticity after three months. [ * ]
Minerals are a great way to keep your collagen and elastin levels high, especially as you get older.
How Minerals Protect Against UV Aging
Sun exposure is the other main source of skin aging. [ * ] The UV radiation in sunlight penetrates your skin and damages collagen proteins. [ * ] When your collagen is damaged it can’t maintain smoothness or hydration correctly, and your skin begins to age.
Over time, even minor sun exposure adds up, causing wrinkles, dryness, and rough skin.
Sunscreen helps slow UV aging, but you can also reverse past sun damage using minerals.
A 2022 review found that selenium protects skin from oxidative stress, the main driver of UV aging. [ * ]
A 2017 study found that selenium increased epidermal adhesion, which protects your skin cells from damaging environmental factors like sunlight. [ * ] Selenium significantly slowed overall skin aging.
A 2014 study found that taking zinc enhanced skin repair and protected against sun damage. [ * ]
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A 2012 study found that manganese is essential for preventing premature skin aging . [ * ] Skin cells use manganese to make superoxide dismutase, the skin’s main defense against oxidative stress.
Regular mineral supplementation can slow down signs of skin aging. It’s an ideal tool to keep your skin youthful, even after decades of minor sun exposure.
Support Healthy Skin Aging with Minerals
Minerals can help make your skin more vibrant. They’re an ideal addition to any skincare routine.
If you want some extra skincare support, try taking BEAM Minerals . They provide every mineral your skin needs to thrive, all in a single liquid mineral replenishment format.
All you do is take a shot of BEAM each morning. It tastes like water and nourishes your skin in 30 seconds a day.
If you want to feed your skin even more minerals, try replacing your toner with Insta-Lytes™ . It’s a mineral-rich spray that hydrates and brightens skin. Insta-Lytes™ absorb quickly and contain nothing but filtered water, electrolytes, and trace minerals. You can also use them on the go for a quick refresh. Just spritz them on your face and rub them in for smooth, dewy skin.
However you decide to include them, it’s worth making minerals a staple of your skincare routine. They’re a simple way to keep you looking your best.
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FAQs
Can I take BEAM Minerals with my other supplements?
Yes, in fact, BEAM Minerals will enhance the bioavailability of all your other supplements.
What is the difference between Micro-BOOST™ and Electrolyze™?
Electrolyze™ is primarily composed of Fulvic Mineral Complexes . Fulvic complexes are small molecules that provide inter-cellular transport for nutritional elements into the cells and carry bio-waste out of the cells. Fulvic complexes are flavonoids , which provide many benefits in the body.
Micro-BOOST™ is primarily composed of the Humic Mineral Complexes . Humic complexes are large molecules that are extra-cellular, meaning they do not enter the cells but stay outside the cells. They are highly-charged molecules that attract, through their electrical charge, bio-waste, free radicals and heavy metals. They ultimately carry bio-waste out of the body. Thus, we call them “Nature’s Janitor”.
How many milligrams (mg) of an electrolyte (Potassium, Magnesium, Sodium, Calcium, etc.) is there in BEAM Minerals?
The quantities of each element in BEAM Minerals products are measured in “parts per million” (ppm), rather than the “milligrams” (mg). Here is the information which usually helps to understand the difference:
Milligrams (mg) vs parts per million (ppm)
In comparing our products to other supplements, people want to know how much of an electrolyte is in our products (like potassium, magnesium, sodium, calcium). Usually they are looking for an amount in milligrams (mg).
We have a hard time answering that question, because the electrolytes (and other elements) in BEAM Minerals products are measured in parts per million (ppm). So how can consumers compare?
The answer is a little complex, but here’s the high points.
The electrolytes in BEAM Minerals products are provided in “trace” amounts that are completely dissolved and thus 100% bio-available, immediately introduced into your circulation when you consumed them and will produce and active effect.
When you take a 320mg pill of magnesium, your body is only able utilize about 12-20% of it as it takes some time because your body has to digest it first. Whatever is not dissolved gets processed out of your body.
When you take a capful of liquid Electrolyze™ and/or Micro-BOOST™, you receive approximately 5.22 ppm of magnesium in which 100% of the magnesium is immediately available to your body. In addition, an important to know is that the magnesium in BEAM Minerals products stay in your system much longer building up healthy levels as you continue to take it daily.
