Myth: Of course, everyone ages, but the way in which your skin ages is largely up to you. While dermatologic procedures can have a big impact, they can also entail significant expense, time spent in a doctor’s office and downtime after you leave.
Fortunately, you can also get consistent, long-term results from an at-home regimen without costly appointments or going under a knife or a needle.
If you are considering a fractal laser resurfacing treatment, for instance, you might try an at-home alternative, like REDEFINE AMP MD™ Micro-Exfoliating Roller, which offers firmer-looking skin with a noninvasive at-home tool.
If you are thinking about going to the derm office for a microdermabrasion treatment, you may consider REDEFINE MACRO Exfoliator™, a handheld microdermabrasion device for extreme smoothness and radiance.
Or, perhaps you’re thinking an injectable is your only option for smoothing wrinkles and expression lines, when, in fact, there are at-home, noninvasive alternatives, like ACUTE CARE™ Skincare for Expression Lines.
Inspired by dermatologists’ in-office treatments, these and other at-home products can help delay the signs of aging without the cost or pain of injectables and plastic surgery.
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A video of a Photoshopped 100-year-old woman went viral after this extreme “virtual makeover” illustrated the dramatic results of what if the woman were 70 years younger and wrinkle-free. The video, first posted in 2003 after a “Photoshop Surgeon” reverse-aged the woman using digital technology, trended again recently with over 6.5 million views and counting .
What will your face look like 20, 30, 40 years from now? Sun damage from early in life can show up years later as wrinkles, brown spots, unevenness and sagging skin. Stress, too, often manifests in the form of expression lines around your eyes and between the brows. Even heredity can play a role.
While no product can eliminate wrinkles as dramatically as the Photoshop experiment, you can take steps today to help stave off the signs of aging tomorrow.
1. Stress Less. By making small, incremental lifestyle changes, you can help mitigate your stress levels. Practice yoga 15 minutes a day. Take a walk after lunch. Get monthly massages. And when stressful instances occur, remember to b-r-e-a-t-h-e.
2. Wear Sunscreen Daily. UV exposure from the sun is responsible for 80% of your skin’s signs of aging. Fortunately, by applying a sunscreen like REDEFINE Triple Defense Treatment every day, you can help protect your skin against these harmful aging effects that often appear later in life.
3. Fill Expression Lines. Expression lines form over time as we smile, squint, frown or furrow our brows. ACUTE CARE™ Skincare for Expression Lines can help by filling expression lines with proprietary Liquid Cone Technology that melts line-defying peptides and hyaluronic acid directly into the wrinkle for smoother-looking skin.
You might not be able to wipe 20, 30 or 40 years worth of aging from your face with a click of a keyboard, but you can help create a more youthful-looking future with some lifestyle changes and a few choice skincare products.
Sun lovers continue to crowd the beaches every summer, despite widespread awareness of the risk of skin cancer. Now, a recent study published in the journal Cell may partially explain why.
According to the researchers, chronic exposure to UV radiation causes endorphins, or the body’s feel-good hormones, to release and set off a reaction like that triggered by certain drugs, leading to physical dependence, tolerance and addiction-like behavior in rodents.
“It’s surprising that we’re genetically programmed to become addicted to something as dangerous as UV radiation, which is probably the most common carcinogen in the world,” says senior study author David Fisher of Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. “We suspect that the explanation involves UV’s contribution to vitamin D synthesis in the skin. However, in the current time, there are much safer and more reliable sources of vitamin D.”
For some time, scientists have observed a link between sunlight and mood, as evidenced by Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD), a form of depression related to changes in the season.
The connection between light and mood may also partially explain why indoor tanning is still in widespread use. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention researchers reviewed questionnaires from U.S. females ages 18-34 from 2010 and 2011, they found over 25% had used an indoor tanning bed at least once in the last year, while more than 15% had engaged in frequent tanning (10 times or more) over the same period.
Of course, the risks of UV exposure still far outweigh the benefits due to the incidence of skin cancer and the effects of photoaging.. For best results, avoid prolonged UV exposure, eat vitamin D-enriched foods like salmon, mushrooms, milk and cereal, and try a vitamin D supplement, such as ESSENTIALS Maximum D3 Vitamin D3®, as alternative healthy sources of vitamin D.
As scientific breakthroughs and healthier lifestyles push life expectancy rates upward, centenarians are becoming more the rule than the exception.
In fact, the Office of National Statistics predicts that approximately one out of every three babies born today will live to be 100. Meanwhile, academic institutions and biotechnology companies continue to research ways to delay the aging process even further.
For example, biologists at the University of California, Los Angeles, recently announced that they have identified a gene, called AMPK, that they believe can slow the aging process throughout the entire body when activated remotely in key organ systems. When the scientists tested the theory on fruit flies, the insects’ lifespan increased by about 30%, and they stayed healthier longer.
Myth: Gravity is constantly tugging on our skin, and while a stack of weights may work great for toning your biceps, facial exercises can actually have the opposite unwanted effect of enhancing your wrinkles.
Your face contains 44 muscles that are constantly contracting and relaxing. These muscles are connected to your skin, so every time they move, the skin moves with them. When you sip, laugh, cry or speak, your expressions etch indelible marks across your forehead, around your mouth, between your brows and around the perimeters of your eyes.
Over time, these repeated motions lead to deep lines and wrinkles. The more you make the same repetitive facial movements, the deeper the lines become.
While we don’t want to lose the ability to express ourselves, there are solutions that can help us lose the wrinkles that follow. Peptides and retinol can help create firmer-looking skin.
For expression lines, hyaluronic acid and peptides are now available in an innovative delivery system known as Liquid Cone Technology, offering a great alternative to injectibles for helping to fill the wrinkles and create a more youthful, smoother-looking appearance.
Myth: Of course, everyone ages, but the way in which your skin ages is largely up to you. While dermatologic procedures can have a big impact, they can also entail significant expense, time spent in a doctor’s office and downtime after you leave.
an at-home alternative, like REDEFINE AMP MD™ Micro-Exfoliating Roller, which offers firmer-looking skin with a noninvasive at-home tool.
expression lines, when, in fact, there are at-home, noninvasive alternatives, like ACUTE CARE™ Skincare for Expression Lines.
Of course, the risks of UV exposure still far outweigh the benefits due to the incidence of skin cancer and the effects of photoaging.. For best results, avoid prolonged UV exposure, eat vitamin D-enriched foods like salmon, mushrooms, milk and cereal, and try a vitamin D supplement, such as ESSENTIALS Maximum D3 Vitamin D3®, as alternative healthy sources of vitamin D.
