Posted by herbmaster on Jun 15, 2009 in Uncategorized
Although everyone eventually gets wrinkles and lines, we do have some control over how long they take to form. Check out these basic tips on anti-aging skin care that will help diminish the inevitable signs of aging
Try to avoid too much sun exposure
Too much ultraviolet light from the sun’s rays are harmful to skin and a prime cause of aging. There is no doubt that you are at greater risk of prematurely aged skin if you practice tanning. They are also at a greater risk for skin cancer.
Most facial cosmetics have a sun block built in but if you use products that don’t or don’t use makeup on your face you may want to consider a sun block. Using a sun block is great but keeping yourself out of the sun is even better. Tanning and tanning beds are not recommended. Wear a hat when playing golf or other sports or working in the yard.
Moisturizing your skin
Harmful elements like wind, sun, and smoke can sap moisture from the skin. Adding moisture every day gives the skin’s outer surface the opportunity to absorb this and also acts to protect against those harmful elements.
Hydration
When skin is properly hydrated it is better equipped to fight off pollutants and irritants throughout the day and the chances of wrinkles are reduced. Once it is dry and dehydrated it becomes more difficult.
Fruit juice makes a good substitute if you can’t drink water for hydration purposes.
Foods to eat include:
• Apples
• Watermelons
• Citrus fruits of all varieties
• Leafy green vegetables
• Tomatoes
Antioxidants
Antioxidant products usually contain large amounts of vitamins that attack free radicals and assist the body to repair damaged cells.
Anti-aging Products for Skin Care
Many anti-aging skin care products perform well as moisturizers but these products just can’t get through the layers of skin to actually repair or replace the body’s own collagen. Good products are those containing high levels of vitamins E and A, or just vitamin E oil on its own.
If you are over 45 and suffering from low human growth hormone (hgh) secretion levels, then Gen F20 HGH Releaser may assist you to increase your hgh levels which then improves the look and feel of your skin, and reduces fat while increasing lean muscle.
If you smoke, drink alcohol, eat poorly, get insufficient sleep, and don’t exercise then the effects of Gen F20 are reduced.
Exfoliate Regularly
This is a natural process your skin is supposed to go through every month or so, as the lower layers push up and remove the top layers naturally. You can help this process along by exfoliating on a regular basis.
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Posted by herbmaster on Jun 15, 2009 in Uncategorized
These days the catch word in the health and wellness industry is the often-heard antioxidant term. It probably sounds like “antioxidants for your health, for longevity and anti aging, for living healthy lives”. But do you know what these antioxidants are? How they work? Logical conjecture would most likely lead you to conclude that antioxidants combat “oxidants” in the body. But how do they work? What is the antioxidant oxidant battle really about? Let’s delve deeper into cell oxidation and free radicals.
It’s interesting to note that the entire issue of cell “health” in the body really boils down to bioelectric imbalances. And this imbalanced cell degradation usually happens at the time of energy production by the cells. Atoms or molecules in our bodies that somehow lose an electron become unstable, making them a free radical, or an “oxidant”. They will then try to take another electron from its immediate surrounding in an attempt to stabilize again. In doing so it has made the nearby molecule also unstable, or a free radical. It too will search to replace its missing electron by doing the same thing. The free radical action becomes a chain reaction. This reaction leaves cellular damage in its wake, causing the aging of a cell and in extreme cases, a cancerous cell.
Free radicals tend to be derived from the oxygen molecule because it has a higher tendency to lose an electron. It is a paradoxical molecule because we need it to survive and metabolize food into energy. But when it becomes a “reactive oxygen species” it creates cellular damage in its wake.
About 5% of the energy produced by the mitochondria in our cells is turned into free radical oxygen molecules. The mitochondria are our bodies’ energy factories. They take the nutrients from food and create water and energy in our bodies. Unfortunately, they are also a source of free radical creation. The other source or cause of free radicals in the body is when there is any kind of trauma happening upon the body such as an infection.
It’s amazing how such an integral molecule for our survival, can also be a harbinger of cell destruction. But nature has substances that counteract the damaging effect of free radicals. These are the antioxidants. These compounds can come from our diet or can be ready made by our own bodies. They can be vitamins, enzymes or amino acids.
Free radical damage to the cell is very complex. Scientists at first believed that free radicals damaged the cells by attacking the nucleus. It was discovered later that the damaged began initially at the lipid filled cell wall. The free radical destabilizes the oxygen in the cell wall creating oxidized fat. This fat then proceeds to attach the interior of the cell and the DNA through proinflammatory chemicals that keep on being propagated through the chain reaction of free radicals. Free radicals cause cell inflammation that in turn causes aging of the cell. Antioxidants can stop free radicals before they even reach the cell membrane, minimizing cell inflammation.
Enter the Anti Oxidants
Most of the antioxidants needed to stop free radical damage can be found in specific nutritional foods. But the human body also makes its own defense against free radicals.
The main antioxidant created by the human cells is called Glutathione. It is released by the cells when there’s a free radical attack. It is a tripeptide consisting of 3 different amino acids. These are glutamic acid, cysteine and glycine. It is considered to be the “Master Antioxidant”. It detoxifies at the cellular level, and it also boosts the immune system.
When cells undergo too much inflammation and oxidation, the body’s levels of Glutathione are used and then depleted to de-oxify the free radicals that caused the cell inflammation. Glutathione is made in the body by the cells. There are natural substances in the form of supplements that you can take to increase Glutathione production. There are also a few pharmaceuticals that can also help create it. This antioxidant is the most important one, so it is good to learn how “keep production up”.
Increasing Glutahione production the natural way really simply involves eating the right vegetables. These vegetables are high in Alpha Lipoic Acid (ALA) which promote the synthesis of Glutathione in the cells. The vegetables that contain ALA are tomatoes, broccoli, spinach, Brussels sprouts, rice bran, peas, cauliflower, kale, bok choi, cress, mustard, horse radish, avocados, red beets, rosemary, grape seed extract, bilberry extract, and pine bark (which has Pycnogenols), and turmeric.
Supplements to also improve the production of Glutathione are B vitamins, and Dimethylglycine or DMG for short.
Other Antioxidants
There are many different substances in food that offer antioxidant protection. Some of these by name are cartenoids, xanthophylls, flavonoids, flavon-3-ols, catechins, resveratrol, indoles, glucosinolates, omega 3 fatty acids. Even some vitamins and chemicals are considered antioxidants such as vitamin E, sulfur, and vitamins A, C, B and D. The list goes on and it would be quite a long article to go into all of them.
In conclusion, all anti oxidants have three things in common. One-They are more attractive to free radicals than the surrounding tissue so that the free radical can be contained and diffused before they damage the cell. Two- They have to be non toxic to the body. Three- They have to be able to be fat soluble in order to be able to penetrate the cell plasma membrane, and be able to stop any damage of it. The free radical damage begins at the cell plasma membrane and it triggers damage from there to the entire cell.
Tags: anti aging food, anti-aging, antioxidants, catechins, flavon-3-ols, flavonids, free radicals, glutathhione, resverarol, resveratrol
Posted by herbmaster on Jun 12, 2009 in Uncategorized
If you are serious about disposing of wrinkles, you should stop smoking right now. Cigarettes do a number of things to your body that could cause premature wrinkles to form. Cigarettes inhibit the amount of collagen that your body makes to fix wounds and repair damaged skin, which can lead to deeper wrinkles. Cigarettes also inhibit the body’s circulation, which means blood will not reach the capillaries (minute blood vessels ) in the skin on your face, meaning more dead skin, wrinkles, and less color in your cheeks.
Staying out of the sun should help you get rid of wrinkles. If you’re sun worshipper like myself, you’re painfully aware of how bad the sun is for your skin these days. Not only do you do a ton of squinting in the sun, manufacturing “crows feet” wrinkles around the eyes, but if you’ve ever seen a man or woman who just will not stop tanning, you may see what I am speaking about–their skin is like leather. Do yourself a favor and reduce wrinkles by putting on suntan lotion if you are going to be around between the top hours of daylight ( one thousand am – 3:30 pm), and wear sunglasses when you go out, too.
Avoid powerful soaps and scalding water if you need to lose wrinkles. A lot of people make an organisation between exfoliating face washes and the reduction of wrinkles. The fact of the matter is, cruel facial cleaners, hot water, and soaps that claim to get rid of wrinkles only serve to make your skin less healthy and more prone to forming wrinkles by murdering the top layers of your skin and seeping the oil out of layers of skin below that. Over time, this incessant abuse of your skin will show in the number and deepness of your wrinkles.
A diet rich in Hyaluronic Acid might be to your ticket to dump wrinkles. Studies done have shown that folks who ingest a large amount of hyaluronic acid ( sweet potatoes are loaded HA) live longer compared to folks who do not. Because the absence of hyaluronic acid is typically times the cause of premature wrinkles, it’s safe to assume that hyaluronic additions are an effective means to get rid of wrinkles. There are, some studies linking HA to cancer. So, before you start off to your local health foods shop in pursuit hyaluronic acid supplements, do a little research and maybe see a nutrionist or a doctor and ask them for a second opinion about this matter.
Anti wrinkle treatments that contain Glycolic Acid and moisturizing creams may help shed wrinkles. You have 2 decisions for Hydroxy acids : alpha and beta. For reasons we can’t get into here, alpha hydroxy acids are best for treating sun-damaged skin that isn’t prone to things like acne. Put simply, teens should keep away from alpha hydroxy acids, and go with beta hydroxy acids which are better for treating clogged pores, whiteheads, blackheads, and to keep away from early wrinkles.
Tags: Anti Wrinkle, anti wrinkle treament, anti-aging, get rid of wrinkles
Posted by herbmaster on Jun 11, 2009 in Uncategorized
This article goes through the basic information on resveratrol and trans-resveratrol. If you have not heard about resveratrol before then this is a good place to begin your search.
What’s Resveratrol?
Resveratrol or trans-resveratrol as it is sometimes called, is a phytoalexin which is naturally produced by a variety of plants when under attack by pathogens like bacteria or fungi. Resveratrol is manufactured through a chemical synthesis form japanese knotweed. Resveratrol has also been discovered in the skin of red grapes and is also a constituent of red wine.
Where does Resveratrol come from?
The Resveratrol comes two main sources: the skin of red wine grapes and from japanese knotweed. Recent advances in scientific process have allowed resveratrol to be synthesized and also it can be extracted from natural sources.
Is Resveratrol a scam?
As with anything there are many products that advertise falsely but Resveratrol is a widely accepted element that produces wonderful results for humans in the proper doses. Companies do exist that make a solid product that is for sure worth the price.
Why do people say resveratrol assists with anti-aging?
The reason for all the discussion surrounding resveratrol and anti-aging is that there have been several scientific studies that have suggested that resveratrol energizes a set of genes that slow the aging process among other things. Read more…
Why can’t I just start drinking lots of red wine instead of taking capsules?
Well, you certainly can drink red wine, and that would be great, but only because red wine is quite tasty, not because you will be able to ingest large enough amounts of resveratrol. Red wine does not have much concentrated resveratrol. When you compare resveratrol in supplement form with resveratrol in red wine you find that you would need to drink at least several bottles per day to get a similar amount.
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