You shouldn’t have to be an expert in chemistry to understand why your skin ages prematurely. Unstable cells? Free radicals? Extra electrons? Mitochondria? You just want young-looking skin! Lots of corporations talk a lot about hard-to-understand scientific explanations to convince you to buy their products, which are usually assortments of chemicals which could possibly irritate your skin. You don’t really understand what’s going on with your face, so you just blindly trust them and try their skin creams. Actually, you’ve probably tried everything from orange juice to cereal, that supposedly has antioxidants, in the hopes that it will reverse the signs of aging.

Let’s try to explain the science behind this in terms that we all understand. When your skin starts to look ‘aged’, it’s usually due to several factors. Pollution in the environment, and damage from the sun’s rays has a lot to do with it. Besides this, the other reason your skin ages is because after years of using oxygen, some of the atoms in your body start to lose their electrons, damaging them and making them unstable. We call these damaged cells ‘free radicals’. Free radicals alter our DNA and cause destruction in the body, resulting in more diseased and dead cells. Worst of all, in order to correct themselves, they try to take electrons from the natural proteins in our skin. This, as you can imagine, causes lots of destruction and problems in our skin, because as free radicals take electrons from other cells, they leave those cells with fewer electrons also!

As you can imagine, our bodies are not helpless against these destructive cells. There are enzymes in the body which try to get rid of these free radicals. But, according to scientific studies, the quickest and easiest way to get rid of these cells is by special chemicals called ‘antioxidants’, which are mainly found in our diet and through external supplements. Until very recently, there wasn’t too much public information about antioxidants. However, the scientific community has begun to unveil some of the incredible information about this topic, and the media has begun releasing more and more information about these amazing chemicals. Athletes have a keen interest because of health concerns and the prospect of enhanced performance and/or recovery from exercise.

Natural Ingredient helps Win the Fight against Premature Aging

Antioxidants are effective because they are stable atoms with an extra electron, which they give to the free radicals. The advantage to this is that the free radicals don’t die off, rather, they become normal, healthy cells again. The antioxidants then safeguard the cells by neutralizing external forces (such as damage from the sun, pollution, etc) and internal factors (such as stress, emotions, metabolism, and the presence of excess oxygen). What better way to keep your face looking young and healthy than to give it these antioxidants that it is very much in need of? There are various ways to get antioxidants. You could eat more vitamin C and drink green tea, which is full of them. Fruits and vegetables that have beta carotene (like carrots, peaches, spinach, etc), are also wondeful sources. Dietary supplements like these are widely recommended to stop the effects of premature aging on your skin. However, we still have the other problem we talked about, which is the effect of UV damage on the premature aging of your skin. And if that wasn’t bad enough, the ozone layer is shrinking, which means the future holds ever greater danger to our skin.

Seeing the power of these antioxidants, scientists have recently started to create skin care products from natural ingredients that you can apply as a face cream, which will neutralize your free radicals and protect your skin against UV rays that cause skin damage. They even contain a special ingredient that ‘re-trains’ your damaged and abused skin cells how to behave like regular, healthy skin again! This has been such an amazing breakthrough for the medical and scientific communities. So, to summarize, if your skin is aging prematurely, all is not lost. Remember the secrets to keep your skin soft, young and rejuvenated: eat lots of vitamins, drink green tea, and try the natural skin care products that are on the market now to flood your skin with antioxidants, to insure your body is getting all the help it needs to revive damaged cells. If you really make the effort to do this, you should start to notice a difference in your skin almost immediately!

If you are worried about the ageing of your skin, visit our website to find antioxidant rich products that help treat free radicals and reverse the production of damaged cells.

- Barbara Ann Laroche

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