At 10% of our weight and almost two square meters, the skin is by far the heaviest and largest organ in our body. But its weight is also appreciated by the multitude of its functions. Because beyond the role of protective envelope that everyone knows, our skin is used to breathe and feel.
The skin / brain relationships are much more complex than they appear and expressions such as “I have it in my skin” or “it gives me pimples” prove that popular common sense has it. fully understood. Before medicine, which for a long time decided to explain skin diseases, that we had to be interested only in this one and not in our brain. This allows us to understand why diseases as frequent as acne, psoriasis or eczema have long been treated only locally.
Today everything has changed. For example, dermatologists are interested in stress. It is known that this aggravates certain skin diseases; this is the case with psoriasis, which affects 3 million French people. A TV show on the subject, a failed school exam and the lesions start to itch. Pregnancy, skin disease, surgery can alter the growth of a nail and a streak appears. As the nail grows 1 millimeter per month, it is also possible to determine when the responsible accident took place.
Of course, when we are stressed, we tend to scratch and mutilate our skin, but it is not that simple: recent studies have shown that stress suppresses the action of certain defense cells in our body. , making us more sensitive to external aggressions, the first barrier of which is the skin. But we also know that stress can cause damage deep inside our body, the stomach for example.
At the moment, there is no cure but to know it and to try to combat this stress by relaxation rather than by the drugs against the anxiety of which we are heavy consumers, apparently without much effect on our skin!
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