How You Can Keep Your Skin Youthful

As each and every one of us gets older we start to take note of those around us who maintain healthy looking, radiant skin, and those of us who don’t. This of course leads to specific key inquiries into the cause of aging skin and how to delay it from happening. A number of factors can contribute to wrinkling of the skin: poor dietary habit,, or worse yet… a smoking habit. One more: the total absence of an exercise routine. The list that scientific research continues to add on to just keeps growing.

The truly unfortunate part of this whole dialogue is that there is a big genetic component. Your genetics do play a part in the basic composition of your skin, and how much it’s able to maintain its own elasticity and fend itself from the dire effects of variables like reactive oxygen species (ROS), UV radiation, and advanced glycation end products. The fantastic news is that science is demonstrating through the field of epigenetics that the manner in which your genes express themselves can be greatly variable and environment dependent.

What the science is actually revealing is that it is possible for to take control. You do not have to give up and allow your skin to follow some kind of fatalistic course. To assume otherwise is to surrender to a some kind of nihilistic point of view which is counter-productive, entirely unnecessary, and demonstrably untrue.

Just what are the steps a person can take to prevent aging of the skin? One is to eat a diet abundant in vegetables, and very low in sugar. Some daily fruit is okay, but in great excess even sugar from fruits can be detrimental. Sugar generates advanced glycation end products (AGES) which can damage DNA, and accelerate aging. It’s also important to get a lot of fiber (approximately 20-30g per day), and a diverse variety of minerals. Often people boost their intake by supplementing with vitamin pills, because it can be difficult to cover all of the bases otherwise.

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