{"id":878,"date":"2018-10-31T09:03:13","date_gmt":"2018-10-31T09:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/?p=878"},"modified":"2018-11-01T09:10:01","modified_gmt":"2018-11-01T09:10:01","slug":"do-skincare-vitamins-really-work-or-are-they-just-a-fad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/?p=878","title":{"rendered":"Do Skincare Vitamins Really Work, or Are They Just a Fad?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>You know that meme about how everything that was punishment in your childhood is now reward as an adult? Going to bed early, eating vegetables, alone time. And, of course, vitamins. I\u2019m not talking about the Flintstones chewables of your childhood, though, but the latest skin-perfecting supplements, which claim to fix your acne, smooth your scars, fade your redness, and more.<\/p>\n<p>A magic little pill? Sounds too good to be true. So as your resident skeptic, I went to the experts to find out, once and for all, if these fancy vitamins really do work wonders on your skin, or if the capsules are just another kitchen-cupboard fad.<\/p>\n<p>Theoretically, that these beauty supplements would offer something you can\u2019t or don\u2019t get in the standard American diet or via a daily multivitamin: skin-boosting ingredients like collagen, alpha lipoic acids, milk thistle extract, and selenium, just to name a few of the hundreds of \u201cobscure\u201d natural ingredients across beauty supplements.<\/p>\n<p>Your skin\u2014and, for that matter, your body\u2014probably doesn\u2019t need them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s no real evidence that shows a multivitamin or a beauty supplement plays a role in your skin\u2019s health when you\u2019re an otherwise healthy person with no vitamin deficiencies,\u201d says Dr. Gohara, adding that unless you\u2019ve been tested for a deficiency, \u201cthey probably won\u2019t do much for you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marieclaire.com\/beauty\/a23909809\/vitamins-for-skin\/\">Marie Claire<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know that meme about how everything that was punishment in your childhood is now reward as an adult? Going&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":879,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[10],"class_list":["post-878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alternative-medicine","tag-alternative-medicine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=878"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":881,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878\/revisions\/881"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}