Fun story: How to slow down skin aging?

Oftentimes, we talk about the traces of time, and these traces not only accompany our growth and enrich our experiences, but also leave memories on our bodies, typically on our skin.

When you reach a certain age, aging will come. You may feel that you can still climb several floors in one breath, or run several kilometers, or even stay up late to play a few games, but the marks on your skin are ruthlessly telling you that time is slipping away. The most typical example is wrinkles on the skin. As you age, wrinkles are the first to appear, which can be said to be a precursor to aging.

Why do we age? This may be a question that many people ask. Today we will not talk about those specific details, such as stem cell failure and telomere shortening. We will talk about aging from a general perspective.

01. Why does skin age?

In fact, aging is generally the result of the addition and subtraction of the human body. Let's take the skin, which is the most susceptible to aging, as an example to talk about the addition and subtraction process of the skin.

Our skin is composed of multiple layers of cells such as keratin and dermis, which together form our skin barrier system. However, this system has been undergoing the test of addition and subtraction since the day we were born.

Addition: The skin constantly repairs and renews itself.

First of all, cells have their own repair mechanisms, including DNA damage repair, protein misfolding and elimination, and other basic biological processes. If the repair capacity is exceeded, the cells will go to programmed cell death, but don't worry, our human cells can still replicate and proliferate to fill the gap. In addition, there are stem cells that can continuously supply new cells.

Subtraction: Unstoppable damage.

As an exposed part of the body, the skin is in direct contact with the environment and is therefore very susceptible to environmental influences. Ultraviolet damage caused by the sun and changes in body temperature caused by wind can cause skin damage, not to mention the ubiquitous microorganisms that also exist on the skin and can cause skin infections, etc. All of the above can cause skin damage.

Some people may ask, then can we live in a place that protects our skin better than a greenhouse? The answer is of course no, because in addition to these external subtractions, there are also subtractions inside the body, that is, continuous damage and aging. Cells are metabolizing all the time, and as long as they metabolize, they will produce oxidative damage, and these damages are continuous. Although the body has the ability to repair, but as time goes by, the repair ability will also decline. The result is irreversible aging.

It can be seen that it is precisely because of the existence of addition and subtraction in the body that the two compete with each other to balance each other, and either the east wind overwhelms the west wind, or the west wind overwhelms the east wind.

When we are young, the body's ability to repair and replace is stronger, so we are forever young. However, once we pass a certain point, the repair ability is lower than the damage ability, and aging is inevitable.

02. So is aging equal for everyone?

Does aging affect everyone equally? Not really. You may have noticed that some people of the same age look old, while others look radiant. There are also many comparisons of people of the same age on the Internet, which will definitely surprise you.

Why does this happen? Of course, there are differences in innate factors, that is, the influence of genetic factors. After all, different people have different genes, so their physical fitness will naturally be different.

However, putting all this aside, the most important thing is that different people have different ways of adding and subtracting to their skin.

For example, people who work in relatively poor working environments, such as those engaged in agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry and fishery, are exposed to wind and sun as their basic life. They also face irregular work and rest schedules, malnutrition, etc., and they often do not pay much attention to taking care of their skin. As a result, these people have poor skin.

On the other hand, like many celebrities, they have a good working environment and pay attention to skin care, constantly adding to their skin, so they protect their skin very well. Some of them even appear "ageless", which is enviable.

Because of this, we may be able to learn some skin care secrets from them to delay skin aging.

03. How to fight against aging from the root?

How to fight aging from the root, I guess everyone is tired of hearing too many truths, such as not staying up late and eating a proper diet, which are definitely the important basis of skin care. On this basis, we can also do some root repair on the skin and enhance the self-healing ability of the skin's own cells.

In fact, in recent years, the mainstream skin care industry has been focusing on how to make the skin healthier. Some skin care products have been studying how to promote the skin's self-healing ability and enhance the cell renewal ability, so as to remove harmful factors and restore the skin to health. For example, some add seaweed ingredients. Seaweed itself is rich in protein, vitamins and minerals, and also contains a series of rich physiologically active substances such as alginic acid, fucoidan, mannitol, fucose, etc.

These substances have the effects of coping with metabolic stress and promoting the proliferation of keratinocytes, and these effects are exactly what many skin care products need most. After all, metabolic stress and aging are closely related. Relieving metabolic stress can effectively delay aging, and the proliferation of keratinocytes can effectively reduce the manifestations of skin aging, especially the latter. In many cases, senescent cells will appear in aging skin, making it difficult for the skin to renew. Only by removing these restrictions can the skin be restored to health.

It can be said that aging is an inevitable process for humans at present. We cannot reverse aging in general, but this does not mean that we can just leave it alone. Instead, we can delay it through adjustment. The essence of addition is repair at the cellular level, which is the root repair that La Mer insists on . It allows cells to recover and gain certain advantages in fighting aging, which can make the skin younger. Therefore, increasing addition and reducing subtraction can slow down the aging of the skin, which is also a real anti-aging from the root.