Thyroid and Your Skin

Typically, people do not connect their skin condition with their thyroid, even though they are related. How many people will know to connect that dry, itchy winter skin with their thyroid or even those cracks on their hands and fingertips?
Facial skin is definitely effected by the function of your thyroid and can bring on dry skin and crows feet earlier than usual. One reason for a low thyroid is the lack of iodine in your body. When you begin to renew you thyroid by adding iodine you can expect to notice that your skin will get more moist and feel softer. It could actually begin to look like it did when you were 19 years old. Adding iodine will replenish your skin from the inside out and while you are at it, add some omega-3 fish oil and your skin will reward you be looking like it did years ago.
Just about everyone, except the Japanese diet, is lacking in essential fatty acids, the fish oils, and these are important for the maintenance of the glands in your skin that produce oil. Another skin hormone is estrogen, as it is part of the good skin looks that we all want back again.