Lifestyle choices and Your Antioxidants Levels

Your Prysm Score reflects more than just what you eat—it’s also shaped by linked to how you live every day. Antioxidants like carotenoids defend your body against oxidative stress, but factors such as poor sleep, high stress, UV exposure, pollution, and smoking can deplete those defenses over time. The good news? Small, consistent lifestyle shifts can help maintain stronger protection and move your Prysm Score upward.

_Source:_{Møller et al., Chem Biol Interact, 1996}

What Causes Antioxidants stress?

Sress & Sleep: The Recovery Equation

When stress levels run high, your body produces more free radicals. At the same time, lack of quality sleep limits your body’s ability to repair itself. Together, these habits can drain antioxidant reserves.

_Source:_{Davinelli et al., Cell Mol Neurobiol, 2024}

Your Move: Prioritize 7–9 hours of restful sleep, practice stress-reducing habits like deep breathing or mindful breaks, and notice how your Prysm Score trends when these habits are part of your routine.

Environmental Toxins: Minimize the Hidden Drain

Smoking, second-hand smoke, and air pollution increase oxidative stress dramatically, depleting your body's antioxidant levels and taking a toll on your Prysm Score.

_Source:_{Sierra-Vargas et al., Int J Mol Sci, 2023}

Your Move: Avoid smoking, reduce exposure to polluted air when possible, and add more colorful fruits and vegetables to your daily diet to help replenish carotenoids.

Smoking, second-hand smoke, and air pollution increase oxidative stress dramatically, depleting your body's antioxidant levels and taking a toll on your Prysm Score.

UV Exposure: Skin Protection Matters

Sunlight is essential for your body to produce vitamin D, but too much UV exposure can damage skin and accelerate oxidative stress. Over time, this oxidative stress affects your body’s antioxidant levels.

_Source:_{Naylor et al., Maturitas, 2011}

Your Move: Wear sunscreen daily if going outside, seek shade during peak hours, and consider consuming skin-supportive carotenoids like lutein and lycopene through supplementation or fruit and vegetable intake, which are measurable in your Prysm Score.

Everyday Habits that Build Your Score

Nourish consistently - Fill your plate with brightly colored produce—reds, greens, oranges, and yellows.

Hydrate wisely - Dehydration during exercise can increase oxidative stress.

_Source:_{Pence et al., Nutrients, 2025}

Move often - Regular activity supports circulation, cardiovascular health, and healthy body composition.

_Source:_{Cornelissen & Smart, J Am Heart Assoc, 2013,}_{Paluch et al., Circulation, 2024}_,_{Noh et al., Medicina (Kaunas), 2024}

Stack your supplements - Pair your lifestyle with Prysm Certified products, clinically validated to improve carotenoid status over time.

Why This Matters

Oxidative stress is what makes an apple turn brown after it's cut—it’s natural, but too much can weaken your body’s defenses. By engaging in smart lifestyle habits that help minimize oxidative stress, you’re strengthening your foundation for vibrant health and healthy aging.

Next Steps with Prysm iO

Take a baseline scan today.
Check your score weekly to see how lifestyle tweaks affect your antioxidant levels.
At 30, 60, and 90 days, celebrate your progress and refine your routine.
Keep stacking your habits with Prysm Certified supplements to sustain long-term results

Why Back By Research, Designed For Results

Stress & Sleep

Higher blood levels of carotenoids were significantly associated with a lower risk of sleep issues in adults (observational using NHANES data).

_Source:_{Tang L et al., 2024}

Skin carotenoid score was inversely related to severity of anxiety in subjects undergoing medical treatment (observational).

_Source:_{Li DG et al., 2017}

Smoking & Pollution

Individuals who smoke have lower concentrations of carotenoids in both the blood and in tissue samples from the mouth, indicating a higher oxidative stress burden.

_Source:_{Gabriel HE et al., 2006}

Higher environmental exposure to smoke was correlated with lower blood levels of some carotenoids, including beta-carotene.

_Source:_{Windome R et al., 2010}

UV Exposure & Skin Protection

Supplementing with a nutritional blend containing carotenoids for 8 weeks protected against UV-induced skin damage.

_Source:_{Wood SM et al., 2017}

Oral carotenoid supplementation for 12 weeks had a protective effect against UV exposure.

_Source:_{Heinrich U et al., 2003}

Supplementing with a blend of collagen peptides, lutein, and phytoceramides improved skin attributes, including skin radiance, texture, and overall appearance, and also increased skin carotenoid levels.

_Source:_{Shelly NH et al., 2021}

Diet & Everyday Habits

Skin carotenoid score (as measured by Raman Spectroscopy) correlated with total fruit and vegetable intake, total carotenoid intake, and total serum carotenoid concentration.

_Source:_{Ahn S et al., 2024}

Concluded that skin carotenoids may be used as a valid biomarker of fruit and vegetable intake in children.

_Source:_{Aguilar SS et al., 2014}

Skin carotenoid status can serve as a biomarker for dietary carotenoid and fruit/vegetable intake in Singaporean adults.