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Ingestible Beauty

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Ingestible Beauty

Published: Sun, 1 Nov 2009

Description: Facelift found at the bottom of a cup of coffee?

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" Lighter note it's called in adjustable beauty there is collagen coffee now there are multi vitamin gummy bears that you can -- New trick cosmetics are all the rage but can you really get a facelift. In your morning cup of coffee. Here to explain what's behind this new oral beauty trend is New York City plastic surgeon doctor Michelle you go to the co-founder of beauty scoop. An adjustable beauty products stuck together thanks for being here thanks for having me what is it digestible beauty."

" Oral beauty actually the category consists of three sub categories that's functional foods like you mentioned that collagen -- marshmallows things like that. Supplement switching typical pills and beauty beverages and there's a lot of interest in beauty beverages. Partly because the ingredients have science driven. Benefits and their clinically proven results let's go first through all want -- just talk a functional foods you're talking about spinach here you know we're talking about things like collagen infused marshmallows vitamin infused gummy bears even coffee with that collagen OK just a little work I really drank a cup of coffee with collagen does my skin look better. They have not been any clinically proven data on those types of things and because of that the consumer markets when consumers are not really very confident in those products. And the industry in that area is not rapidly growing. Focus and -- in that case let's move on to the next one and the and that are that they killed the supplements just tells things that you get -- DNC or even upscale ones like doctor Tara -- and those do you have benefits. And consumers do enjoy. Purchasing those because consumers beauty consumers are very educated now on they want more than just the name brand -- pretty packaging and the beautiful. You know pictures that go along with that they wanting greens that are affected. And they can get those what's in these pills and supplements well there's all different things and -- the the beauty beverages sometimes have the same I ingredients that are very effective that the differences in the beauty beverages. There's bio availability that means that the ingredients are being in -- are able to be used by the body. Much more rapidly and the clinical studies. While they're not on -- supplement forms there are clinical studies on the -- beverages they're several of them such as your own product beauty scoop what did the study say about drinking something let me try to read from -- so you what's inside you beauty. Others will be -- averages are different there's also glow well which is a competitor of ours and they can range from different ingredients of the -- well as from -- primarily an anti oxidant Blanton. And -- who has the building blocks for better healthier skin hair and -- so it includes your peptides and -- along with anti accidents. And like you asked the study showed that 86% of people who use it noticed improvement in this inherent else within three weeks Anglo Ellis doing shut some studies as well now. Drug with better right now let's take three weeks -- I don't know that you see much difference except except from hydration right now I think -- good but in the meantime let's talk but getting -- screen T blocks people think that in the morning does that help your staff for green tea and coffee actually are ingredients that are hi Aaron are. Products that are. -- an anti oxidant sending in general anti oxidant helped to neutralize free radicals from the sun. The question is by drinking green tea or coffee can and you can reduce skin cancers for example or other cancers. They've been lots of studies bottom line is the NIH did a review of all the studies back in 2008 in that I'm -- in August 2009. And there's no conclusive data that shows that it reduces -- sent -- doctor Michelle you go to all -- all the information on all my blog at Boston red dot com or FOX & Friends in two minutes."

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