CARNOUSTIE AYURVEDA & WELLNESS RESORT Grand Hyatt Goa

SEEING DIET AND environment as the main causes for accelerated skin degeneration, the medical team at Carnoustie Ayurveda & Wellness Resort (carnoustieresorts.com) recommends dietary changes. You need to modify your diet according to your body’s doshas: vata, pitta, and kapha. This could be in the form of incorporating herb-infused water to fortify dietary values, or adding more organic vegetables to your meals. Alternatively, natural baths can help. While a mud bath can prevent diseases, a plantain-leaf bath helps increase peripheral blood circulation to accelerate toxin elimination from the body.

FOR DR RATHEESH KUMAR, the director of spa and recreation at Grand Hyatt Goa (hyatt.com), the trick lies in embracing simple lifestyle choices. Maintaining a low-fat diet rich in fruits and vegetables, drinking at least eight glasses of water every day, sleeping for a minimum of six hours, and regular meditation are key to slowing down ageing of skin. Applying an effective sunscreen lotion helps as well. To further slow down skin ageing, Kumar suggests consumption of some herbal Ayurvedic supplements. “Triphala, brahmi, turmeric, and ashwagandha contain antioxidants that destroy free radicals.

Their anti-inflammatory properties resolve skin conditions, and the phytochemicals present stimulate metabolic activities.”