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04-25-2019 11:28 AM
From American Academy of Dermatology
What causes our skin to age?
Many things cause our skin to age. Some things we cannot do anything about; others we can influence.
One thing that we cannot change is the natural aging process. It plays a key role. With time, we all get visible lines on our face. It is natural for our face to lose some of its youthful fullness. We notice our skin becoming thinner and drier. Our genes largely control when these changes occur. The medical term for this type of aging is “intrinsic aging.”
We can influence another type of aging that affects our skin. Our environment and lifestyle choices can cause our skin to age prematurely. The medical term for this type of aging is “extrinsic aging.” By taking some preventive actions, we can slow the effects that this type of aging has on our skin.
11 ways to reduce premature skin agingThe sun plays a major role in prematurely aging our skin. Other things that we do also can age our skin more quickly than it naturally would. To help their patients prevent premature skin aging, dermatologists offer their patients the following tips.
Note: Some anti-aging products prescribed by a dermatologist may burn or sting. When using a prescription anti-aging product, this can be okay. Just be sure to let your dermatologist know.
Never too late to benefit
Even people who already have signs of premature skin aging can benefit from making lifestyle changes. By protecting your skin from the sun, you give it a chance to repair some of the damage. Smokers who stop often notice that their skin looks healthier.
04-25-2019 11:41 AM
Common sense information here. I wish I would have known this in the 60s. We suntanned without any lotion. Used babyoil for fast tan. It’s a wonder I have any skin at all. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
04-25-2019 11:50 AM
Well, I do all those things listed and even more and my skin is very good at age 63. I have worn sunglasses outside on sunny days and cloudy days for probably the last 20 years and ... I have no eye wrinkles at all.
When I went to the dermatologist to get a skin check a month ago, she told me I have the skin that people come to her to try to achive.... now that was a very nice complement for me as I always seem to only see my flaws or things I do not like about my body in the mirror.
04-25-2019 11:53 AM
@CherryHugsNo surprises for me as I head for one more high 70's birthday. Even my vascular doctor would agree, I think He reminds me at each of my yearly checkups (partially blocked carotid artery) that genetics plays something like a 5% control over what happens to our bodies with all the rest of what happens controlled by our life style choices.
Beauty may be only skin deep, but lots of the same things that maintain beauty maintain our overall health. Too bad for me it took so many, many years before I finally accepted that.
04-25-2019 11:55 AM
A lot of aging comes from poverty. If you look at pictures in of people in extreme poverty in rural America you see people that look twice their age due to lack of a good education, access to jobs, poor food choices, smoking, lack of excercise, mental illness, and the worse is generational bad choices of staying in these conditions.
My husband left for the Marine Corps when he was 18 and lives a completely oposite of his family who live in abject poverty in rural Atoka Oklahoma, a town where time forgot. His large family who still all live there are all extremely obese. None of them finished high school. They all smoke. All of the them have children before 18 are not married and cannot afford the children. Every single person in his family is on goverment welfare of some kind. This lifestyle causing extreme aging and is so very sad.
I have no idea how to end this poverty except to leave as my husband did. It makes me so sad people in rural America are aging way before there time.
04-25-2019 12:21 PM
04-25-2019 12:29 PM - edited 04-25-2019 12:48 PM
I do believe that living in poverty does contribute to poorer general health and aging. No health care... no dental... no money to purchase luxury items for face and skin. And those in poverty most likely are not eating a good diet. Now I know not everyone in poverty is this way... but I am sure the majority of them are. Education of course is HUGE.....Lack of education contributes in a major way the health of the poor. Making poor choices... drugs, cigarettes, drinking
04-25-2019 12:30 PM
@Brisky wrote:
Aging has more to do with life style choices and the luck of the draw.
And genes
"Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference."
04-25-2019 12:42 PM
04-25-2019 12:44 PM
S T R E S S accelerates aging. Seems people look more youthful when they just get back from their vacations.
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