Welcome to the Vitalife show I'm Doctor Janine Bowring and today I'll be sharing
with you some yoga facial exercises for nasolabial folds that's what they're
called the smile lines and I think it's great if you're smiling a lot, but you
know as we age unfortunately what happens is that gravity starts to pull
down and these nasolabial folds can become more pronounced making us look a
little bit older. So if you're at all interested in lifting the face and doing
it naturally then stay tuned for this entire video. So the first thing that you
know I usually recommend besides the exercises that I'm gonna show you is to
avoid smoking if you can because of course when you're smoking you're
drawing all of those muscles towards your mouth and that can cause those
nasolabial folds to get much worse. Avoid your sun exposure as well so make sure
you get some natural sunlight on your skin and other parts of your body which
is great for your vitamin D but in terms of your face always make sure that it's
protected well with your SPF and wearing a hat. The other thing is sleeping on
your side so if you're a side sleeper you usually will notice that one side of
those smile lines will be worse than the other if you tend to sleep on one side
more so than the others, so as much as possible try to prop your head up I know
it's you know you have to get used to that but try to prop your head up a
little bit as you're sleeping to minimize those smile lines as well. So
let's talk about the facial exercises one of my very favorite ones that is
great toning of the entire face and to strengthen the muscles because you want
to be lifting and you want to maintain that muscle structure in the face is to
actually push down on those nasolabial folds and smile, so and you should be
able to feel those muscle contractions as you're doing it and I know a lot of
our viewers you ask well how many repetitions ideally should we do for
this one I like about 20 repetitions so you're going to repeat that 20 times of
contracting and relaxing as you're gently holding down those
my own lines this will help to strengthen those muscles in that area.
The other one this is the final one called the puffer fish basically what you're
going to do is puff up your cheeks and then you can go from side to side which
I'll show you as well. So you're going to puff up don't laugh at me and then you
can puff from side to side, I know it's hilarious but what you
should feel internally is you can feel this tingling sensation and that's
because you're stimulating that blood flow your stimuli stimulating those
muscles to be contracting. The other thing that you can do is and this is a
great one again for the entire face is to gently hold back your skin and then
you're gonna blow so you want to hold back your skin very gently and then blow.
So again these are fantastic exercises I hope that you love them in terms of the
diet I'm always asked you know what are some of the things that you do for your
skin Doctor Bowring and one of the favorite things is to eat foods that
have those essential fatty acids, so plenty of nuts and seeds which is
fantastic. Avocado has those natural essential
fatty acids and also vitamin E which is really protective and soothing natural
anti-inflammatory and antioxidant for the skin and helps to that you know
retain that moisture in the skin as well as omega-3 fatty acids in supplements. So
if you want to learn more about the supplements at vitatree the vitafish oil
is one of them so you can check that out at vitatree.com. But also in terms of you
know your overall health be happy and smile as much as you can but make sure
that you're also maintaining that proper muscle function and that proper you know
conductivity in the entire nervous system of your face to make sure that
you're minimizing those lines and wrinkles. So thanks for joining me today,
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