Best Remedy for Hyperpigmentation

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Dr. Eric Berg

Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 8 February 2025

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

If you’re dealing with age spots or hyperpigmentation, this is for you. In this podcast, I’ll show you how to get rid of dark spots naturally for a healthy, glowing, even complexion. This remedy also works for hyperpigmentation prevention!

Today, I’m going to show you how to get rid of hyperpigmentation. Bleaching agents can eliminate dark spots, but they destroy the cells that make melanin.

Dark spots are often blamed on the sun, and they can become more problematic as we age. Melanocytes are cells that make the pigment melanin in your skin. These cells are affected by oxidation. To fix hyperpigmentation, focus on antioxidation from antioxidants.

Adequate vitamin D will protect you against the overproduction of melanin, preventing dark spots from forming. If you’re avoiding the sun and using sunscreen, you will be low in vitamin D!

Work on increasing vitamin D levels by consuming 10,000 to 20,000 IU of vitamin D3 daily. Build antioxidant networks in the body by consuming high-quality protein such as fish, meat, and eggs. Trace minerals, including zinc, copper, and iodine, are vital. B vitamins, vitamin C, and vitamin E are also essential.

If you want a quick fix to remove uneven skin tone, use grass-fed organic plain unsweetened yogurt. Rub it into the skin and leave it on for 5 minutes before rinsing off. Add this step to your skincare routine once per week to help get rid of dark spots.

Yogurt contains lactic acid at a gentle concentration that dissolves the bonds between dead skin cells that have darkened in pigment. It also provides probiotics to support the skin’s microbiome. If hyperpigmentation is severe, add a pinch of turmeric to the yogurt before applying it to your skin.

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0:00.0	I'm going to share the best remedy that you can use for hyperpigmentation, dark spots on the face.
0:06.3	There are bleaching agents that people are using on their skin that do get rid of these dark spots,
0:11.0	but they end up destroying the cells that make the pigment.
0:15.6	The other big problem is we're blaming these dark spots or aging spots on the sun.
0:22.0	This is why they tell you to completely avoid the sun to prevent this hyperpigmentation. Right now, they actually put Sunblocker,
0:27.3	SPF chemicals in literally all the moisturizers, facial creams, to block this UV radiation. They'll tell
0:34.5	you that you can get all your vitamin D from food or a few minutes in the
0:38.3	sun. This is a complete lie. If you actually have a skin cream or a face cream that has this
0:43.6	sunscreen in it, I wouldn't use it on your face. If you take a younger person and you compare them
0:48.6	with an older person and you're looking at this hyperpigment issue, you basically don't even
0:53.4	see it in younger people. You only see it in
0:55.5	people over the age of maybe 35, 40, 50, 60. As we get older, it becomes more of a problem. In our
1:01.6	skin, we have a pigment, and it's called melanin. Melanin is made by cells called melanocytes.
1:08.0	If you compare someone who's like 18 or 20 years old to someone that's 60,
1:12.2	the concentration of these little melanocytes is much different. When we're younger, we have a lot
1:18.4	more concentration. We're older. We don't. What causes the melanocytes to produce melanin? Vitamin D.
1:26.7	What's the primary trigger to make vitamin D? The Sun.
1:29.8	We're going to talk about what vitamin D does to melanin in a second, but I just wanted to show you
1:34.6	this apple right here. You can see this apple on the left versus apple on the right,
1:40.3	slightly different colored. Both of these apples are being oxidized by oxygen, but this one has
1:46.0	protection. I put some lemon juice on it. It's an antioxidant. This one had no protection against
1:50.6	oxidation, oxygen, so it's going brown. Same thing happens with the skin. See, oxidation triggers
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