Anti-Aging Skin and Body

Many people see skin care or anti wrinkle creams as an anti aging treatment. Although you can do things to reduce the appearance of aging, we are still growing old. Some creams promote healthy skin and can help skin become healthier but avoiding excessive sunlight and smoking can do so much more to improve the overall health of your face.

Skin creams do not prevent aging, but they can make the skin healthier. This is the secret to how they work. It does not matter if the product is a basic antioxidant or something that helps to exfoliate dead cells. It does not matter if they have vitamins or antioxidants; the end result you are after is clear skin and healthy cells and to get it you need to address the root cause of cellular damage.

What is the root cause of cellular damage and wrinkles?

Pinpointing the Triggers
- UVA Radiation and Free Radical Oxydation
- Reduced Cellular Turnover
- Chronic Inflamm-aging

Ultraviolet Radiation and Oxygen Radicals
It is well-known that ultraviolet light induces harmful photochemical reactions in the skin and inflammation therein.

During exposure and as repair of the UV damage takes place, super-oxide radicals are formed in the skin. UV irradiation also causes some microvascular damage in the skin. This leads to local hemorrhage and “leakage” of blood cells into the dermis. Iron from the hemoglobin accumulates in the extra-cellular matrix of the tissue as Fe +2 and Fe +3. It is known that iron catalytically participates in the conversion of superoxide radicals to hydroxyl radicals, a species which is known to be very damaging to tissue.

In addition to their role in UV radiation induced tissue damage, oxygen radicals are known to be capable of reversibly or irreversibly damaging compounds of all biochemical classes. Some of these compounds include nucleic acids, proteins and free amino acids, lipids and lipoproteins, carbohydrates, and connective tissue macromolecules. These compounds may have an impact on such cell activities as membrane function, metabolism, and gene expression.

Reduced Cellular Turnover
Billions of cells die in the body every day by normal processes (apoptosis). These dead cells need to be recognized by phagocytes and cleared rapidly.

Specific cells in the body are designed to ingest dangerous particles, such as invading bacteria. These professional eating cells, or phagocytes, also eat dead or dying cells. This process of clearance of dead or dying cells is necessary to allow for the repair of damaged tissue and to maintain normal tissue. When this process of cellular ingestion (phagocytosis) is deregulated, the body becomes susceptible to chronic infections and autoimmunity disorders.

Inflammation is a noun, the verb that reflects the process is “inflammaging”.
Inflammation is what we see as a result of the first response of the immune system to infection or irritation and may be referred to as the innate immune cascade. Imagine your body calling 911 for help. At the first sign of inflammation, all those cells respond like fire trucks to a blaze. Inflammation normally constitutes the body’s initiation of healing or putting out the flames we can say. However, when inflammation is not properly regulated, it can result in chronic diseases. Would you continue to spray water on a fire that has been put out? You body sometimes continues to send responders to a site that does not require the help. Arthritis is caused when chronic inflammation leads to joint pain and damage. Chronic inflammation can also contribute to conditions such as atherosclerosis, obesity, Alzheimer. Deregulated or overzealous inflammatory responses can cause eczema, psoriasis, acne, rosacea, and contribute to photo-aging and other skin problems and disorders.

It is important to understand that inflammation is neither “healthy” nor “unhealthy” on its own: Inflammation helps fight disease, but it comes at the cost of suspending the body’s normal immune and catabolic processes. In the short term this is often a valid trade-off, but in the long term it causes progressive damage.

The problem with inflammation is our body reacts in very much the same way it learned to react during the millions of years of our evolutionary drift. By sending to any site of injury and insult to our body, even to the slightest one, all its army of immune system soldiers (lymphocytes, macrophages, neutrophils…) , overcharged with chemical death weapons to get rid of the offenders, with no consideration even for its own cells that might happen to be in their way and also do get killed. After all… it used to be a matter of life or death! NOT OF BEAUTY AND HEALTH.

This is what is meant by inflammatory reaction. And, Oh Boy! You might as well bet those soldiers are inflamed!

Counteracting the Triggers
Got the point? Modulating the inflammatory response is the recipe for success! Cool down guys (immune cells), past are the times when bacteria and other micro-organism ruled. Or is it just wishful thinking? Is it not true that we carry on and inside our body three times more bacteria than the number of cells our organism is made of?

Fact is our body is ingrained with the memories of past battles, fought to protect our system whenever damaged or injured and does not listen to just any argument made up by the pharmaceutical companies or those selling anti aging products aiming to reduce the appearance of aging.

During our evolutionary drift, injuries and wounds represented a serious threat to our organism, not only due to blood loss, but also due to tissue damage or infection from the invasion of foreign bodies such as dirt, splinters, and bacteria. The adult wound healing mechanism that evolved to respond to this threat has two fundamental characteristics: First, there is a rapid and robust inflammatory response, with recruitment of activated macrophages, neutrophils, and lymphocytes to the injured site; and second, there is a fibrotic “walling-off” response to isolate the foreign body, with liquefaction of adjacent tissue which leads to abscess formation and scarring.

Is the inflammatory response still appropriate?

Scar Less Healing
“An abscess and its subsequent scar is not an evolutionarily optimized end point for today’s injuries,” Dr. Mark Ferguson, D.D.S., Ph.D., professor in the faculty of life sciences at the University of Manchester, England, says. The abscess and scarring response, with its massive inflammatory overdrive, is optimized for a very different type of skin lesion than those occurring nowadays where hygiene and clean faces and bodies rule. The abscess and scar is induced by this inappropriate inflammatory response.

Something is missing in all the products out there. Something that would let your body know it is being taken care of properly, and does not need to react with its inflammatory army. Not just the natural or chemical ingredients that fight the signs of aging when it is already too late, but also the accumulated damage from excess solar radiation and free radicals plus the wear and tear that becomes chronic inflammatory lesions.

A new glycoconjugates fluid made of glyco or sugar molecules bound to soluble proteins, enzymes, co-enzymes, and basic elements like copper, calcium, iron and zinc, produced by a little creature to protect, repair, renew and deeply moisturize its skin is the promising breakthrough ingredient that can yield those results.

Martha Fitzharris
http://www.articlesbase.com/health-articles/healthier-skin-can-now-be-achieved-with-a-skin-care-product-that-you-dab-on-your-skin-124066.html

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