How Skin Health is Linked to Your Gut (and how you can improve both)

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Coming up: kimchi, kefir, exercise and eating, some unusual good habits, the surprising truths of your gut–skin axis, and how our innovative 20+ ingredient multivitamin can help your skin, your stomach, and your health.

🍀 Hey—it’s Elaine and Rob, the married-couple parent-of-two team behind Sentro Labs.

Confession time: we’re in our 40s 😬

… so we’re at that age when skin can start drooping, sagging, and getting more wrinkly.

(and, if, like Elaine, you’re in perimenopause (or menopause), unbalanced estrogen might even lead to acne, whiteheads, blackheads, and other types of red and pimply skin).

💅 Here’s the thing: because of clever cosmetics companies (and their even-cleverer marketing), most of us believe that skin is ONLY affected by the lotions + creams we put on it. 💅

… but that’s not true. You see:

In our years of taking, making and researching supplements, we’ve realised: skin health genuinely isn’t skin deep. Instead, it’s also related to diet, hormones, gut health, hydration, and your immune system…

👉 …and, for skin health, what you put inside your body is more important than what you put on your body. Here’s more:

The ‘gut–skin axis’—in brief

Basically, the ‘gut-skin axis’ is the two-way communication system between your gut and your skin:

✅ When your gut is healthy, it absorbs nutrients efficiently, and works effectively—which is likely to result in clearer, smoother, more-resilient skin.
❌ But when your gut health isn’t great, it can trigger inflammation, hormone imbalances, and poor nutrient absorption—which is likely to result in less-clear, less-smooth, less-resilient skin.

Your gut, your immune system, and your skin—in more detail

There are MANY major ways your gut is connected to your skin:

An unhealthy gut might have gaps + cracks in its lining (sometimes unofficially called ‘leaky gut’). When this happens, your inflamed gut can cause inflamed skin.
The gut is of course where vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants are absorbed. If your gut isn’t working properly, it won’t absorb nutrients properly—and a lack of nutrients can negatively affect collagen production, immunity, and skin repair.
A healthy gut helps regulate estrogen and other hormones—and if your gut balance is off, your skin might not look great. This is especially important during perimenopause and menopause, when your estrogen levels are already unbalanced*.
Around 70-80% of your immune system lives in the gut. And the better your immunity, the better your skin is likely to look.

*Elaine currently manages perimenopause with HARMONY, which is specifically designed to ease the symptoms of menopause + perimenopause. Featuring Vitamin D, Magnesium Bisglycinate, Zinc Bisglycinate, Vitamin B12, Vitamin B6, Selenium, and Lion’s Mane, it can boost your mood and energy—and helps balance out cravings, crashes, and hormones.

👉 Anyway, for people aged 40+, like us, taking care of your skin (by taking care of your gut) is especially important—at our age, collagen production declines, and skin repair slows. So, here’s how we manage it:

The 5 ways we take care of our gut

With more fermented foods: like kefir, kimchi, sauerkraut, and non-alcoholic beer.
We eat fewer processed foods: and focus on eating more ‘real’ food.
We eat more fibre and drink more water.
We focus on sleep: this is an easy way to improve your gut health, and reduce your stress. We manage our sleep and stress in many ways—but one of them is by taking a daily dose of EQUILIBRIUM.
Getting more exercise: and even walking can help!

… but you can also manage your gut health (and your immunity and overall health!) by taking a simple-but-effective daily supplement. Which brings us to…

BIORESILIENCE (and the energy + glow you’ve been looking for)

BIORESILIENCE is our unique daily multivitamin.

Specifically engineered for full-body health, it features over 20 carefully-chosen and carefully-dosed ingredients. In our years of trying, testing + taking supplements, many have worked for us, and many haven’t—and BIORESILIENCE features all the ones that have. Convenient!

A daily dose of BIORESILIENCE helps your body in 5 main ways (and since you’re reading this blog post, you’ll be most interested in the final 2):

Energy, focus, and mood
Cardiovascular support
Bone and joint health
Gut health + digestion
Immune support

… and unlike most multivitamins, it includes probiotics—and therefore supports your gut and immunity in a way that most multivitamins never could. Which means, it’s great for your skin! 🥳

Also unlike most other multivitamins, it comes in the form of a tasty powder (and not a pill!). You put one scoop in your water, drink it down, and get on with your day—knowing you and your body are being taken care of.

We think it’s the best (and best-tasting!) multivitamin ever made 💊

🍀 It’s made in Ireland, it’s science-backed, it’s affordable, and it’s independently tested by Supplement Certified—so you know you’re getting exactly what you’re paying for. Oh, and because we’re now part of Guaranteed Irish, we’re officially high-quality, trusted, and reliable! 🍀

Skin health, gut health, and more: final thoughts

To sum up, your skin is massively influenced by your gut and your immune system (and, again—70-80% of your immune system lives in your gut).

Ways we take care of our skin (without just buying lotions and creams) include:

Eating more fermented foods—and fewer processed foods
Eating more fibre and drinking more water
Trying to improve sleep and reduce stress
Getting more exercise

We also take a daily dose of BIORESILIENCE. Our multivitamin powder which includes vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, lesser-known health-boosters, and even two types of probiotics. It supports your gut and your immunity—and therefore also supports your skin.

Want to know more about how we’re improving our health into our 40s and beyond?

♀️ From Elaine, here are some recipes for women in menopause + perimenopause
♂️ And here's how Rob naturally boosted his testosterone (without TRT!)

Thanks for reading, and thanks for visiting Sentro Labs,

Elaine and Rob 🙏