Of course you want to keep your innate, natural beauty for as long as you possibly can. Exactly that is what this web page helps you to do. Understanding how ageing happens empowers you with a way out of premature ageing.
Look at the diagram on the right and notice the squiggly line underneath those 'brick-like cells'. There the epidermis has an irregular surface with downward fingerlike projections known as rete ridge keratinocytes (pegs) which are the primary sites of attack in (premature) ageing. These rete ridge pegs do two important things:
1- they interface with upward projections of the papillary dermis, thus anchor the epidermis to the dermis and help prevent the epidermis from sliding back and forth on the dermis. As the skin (prematurely) ages, this dermal-epidermal junction tends to flatten, thus contact surface of epidermis and dermis can decrease by one-third. This loss increases the potential for dermal-epidermal separation, so sagging results. Now you know just how correct people are when they compain that their skin no longer feels nice and tight.
2- a second important function of these rete ridges is nutrient exchange. A benefit of their squiggly surface is that this dramatically increases contact area which improves the epidermal uptake of nutrients from the blood vessels in the underlying dermis.
Wrinkles and Anti-Ageing - advice from a clinician
Wrinkles and Anti-Ageing - how wrinkles form
Most skin changes relate to excessive free radical damage via endogenous (in your body) or environmental pollution or excess sunlight. Free radicals are reactive oxygen molecules that lack 1 electron, they scavenge that electron from one of your body cells and thereby damage them. Tissue in your skin that gets damaged by free radicals is: collagen including elastin fibres and fats such as sebum (skin oil) and subcutaneous fat.
Changes to fat are easiest to understand as you already know what happens to butter, its goes rancid and this is lipid peroxidation caused by free radicals. And yes, something very similar happens to fat cells and fatty membranes in your body too. Collagen including elastin denatures and for elastin this means that its 'elastic band' properties fade i.e. skin doesn't bounce back anymore (a simple if not depressing test for that is twisting the skin on the back your hand and see how quickly it bounces back to its original position).
With (premature) ageing the rate of normal cell replication slows down, at age sixty you'll have some 80% less growth hormone than when you were twenty. From thirty onwards the output of human growth hormone by the pituitary gland declines. So, on top of cells being damaged by free radicals, the replication of normal (replacement) cells slows down... With (premature) aging both epithelial and fatty layers atrophy and become thin even if abdominal or hip fat remains abundant. Can you influence this process? Thank goodness you can and Aloeride® is one effective step to take.
Fine lines and wrinkles arise because of irregular thickening of the dermis (collagen damage by free radicals) and because of a decrease in the amount of water held by the epidermis (dry skin, possibly undemineralised thus not retaining). Deeper lines or furrows are classified as either dynamic or static. Dynamic lines such as laughter or frown lines appear with movement i.e. the activity of facial muscles. Static lines are unchanged with muscle movement. Eventually even dynamic lines become static.
Wrinkles and Anti-Ageing - hormone wrinkles
Hormones affecting the skin are produced by ovaries (females only obviously), adrenal glands and thyroid gland. A dwindling level of oestrogen may initiate the peri-menopausal phase which results in drier skin, reduction of skin elasticty, increased wrinkles. If you'd say that this seems little different from what happens because of free radicals then you are correct. The natural remedy to free radicals and improving hormone panels also are the same.
One hormone affecting both male and female skin is thyroxin (thyroid gland): too much thyroxin shows a warm, smooth, sweaty, flushed skin whilst too little thyroxin produces a dry, coarse thickening of skin with reduced ability to sweat. Before considering prescribed thyroxin medication, a read of Dr.Med. Barry Durrant-Peatfield's book The Great Thyroid Scandal and How To Survive It might be a good idea. Other hormones affecting both male and female skin are adrenal glucocorticoids, an excess of which causes thinning of the skin and loss of connective tissue support of capillaries making one susceptible to injury and bruising.
Wrinkles and Anti-Ageing - five effective wrinkle remedies
The earlier in life you start looking after what you've got, the longer you'll keep it and keep it looking nice.
1- Optimum Nutrition - From above, second paragraph you know that electron-donating nutrition is the very basis of anti-ageing. You may achieve that via plenty of raw foods with dark green, red and purple colours but most people simply do not (proportionally to their free radicals) ingest enough, so supplementation is wise, but supplement wisely!! Optimum nutrition for skin must include good, unpolluted omega 3 oils and a minimum of 1.5L pure water every day (doubly useful as green or white tea).
2- Minimum Pollution - This is as much a theoretical no-brainer as it is a common practical pitfall. Everybody knows that smokers puff away their chance of nice skin and get deep naso-labial furrows. But sometimes eating the wrong-foods-for-you contributes to unhealthy skin (not talking about a mountain of chocolate obviously creating spots). If this is a major issue then doing a food sensitivity test might be a good idea.
3- Accellerated Repair - Nothing works better than Aloeride®. Very often people, who started with Aloeride® only for their digestion report an improvement in their skin. Note that Aloeride® is a food supplement and not only provides extra nutrients but also improves uptake of those nutrients you choose to put into your digestive tract. Next to using Aloeride® by mouth, did you know that Aloeride® works fabulously well in facial masks.
4- Hormones - The opening shot for any hormonal issues should be are there sufficient nutrients to make hormones? For very often this is the crux of the matter. But do supplement wisely!!.
5- Facial Acupuncture - This technique received a lot of television time recently. It works because the extremely fine acupuncture needles excite the brain cortex (via C fibres) upon which a group of responses is launched: anti-inflammatory, endomorphin release, vasodilation and for one's wrinkles the so important accellerated wound repair. See Integrated Medicine Practice for more information.
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