Many times, we talk about the traces of time, and these traces are not only accompanied by our growth and rich experience, but also leave memories on our bodies, typically on the skin.
When you reach a certain age, aging will come, maybe you 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 traces on your skin are ruthlessly telling you that the years are slipping away. Typical are wrinkles on the skin, which appear first as we age, which can be said to be a precursor to aging.
Why does aging happen to be a question that many people have to ask, today we will not talk about those special details, such as stem cell failure, telomere shortening, we will talk about aging from a general perspective.
01, Why does skin age?
In fact, aging in general is the result of addition and subtraction of the human body. Taking the skin that is most likely to show aging as an example, let's talk about the addition and subtraction process of skin.
Our skin is made up of multiple layers of cells, such as keratin and dermis, which together form our skin barrier system. However, this system begins to experience the test of addition and subtraction from the day we are born.
Addition: The skin's own continuous repair and renewal.
First of all, there is a repair mechanism in the cell itself, including DNA damage repair, protein misfolding and clearance and other basic biological processes, and for those beyond the repair ability, it will lead to the programmed death of the cell, but don't worry, our human body's cells can also replicate and proliferate, so as to make up for the gap. In addition, there are stem cells, which can continuously supply new cells.
Subtraction: Unstoppable damage.
As an exposed part of the body, the skin is in direct contact with the environment, so it is very susceptible to environmental influences, such as UV damage caused by sun exposure, changes in body temperature caused by wind blowing, not to mention the ubiquitous microorganisms that also exist on the skin, which can cause skin infections and other conditions, all of which can cause skin damage.
The answer is, of course, no, because in addition to these external subtractions, there are also subtractions within the body, that is, a steady stream of damage and aging. Cells are metabolizing all the time, and as long as they are metabolized, they will produce oxidative damage, and these damage is continuous. Although the body has the ability to repair, it also decreases over time. The result is irreversible aging.
It can be seen that it is precisely because of the addition and subtraction of the body that the two are balanced by each other, either the east wind overpowers the west wind, or the west wind overpowers the east wind.
When we are young, the body's ability to repair and replace is stronger, so we are infinitely young all the way, but once we cross a certain point, the repair ability is lower than the damage ability, and aging inevitably comes.
02, so is aging equal for everyone?
Is aging equal for everyone? Not really. I'm sure you've noticed that at the same age, some people are already old, and some people still look radiant. There are also a lot of peer comparisons on the Internet, and watching them will definitely surprise you.
Why is this happening? Of course, there are differences in innate factors, that is, genetic factors, after all, different people have different genes, so there are naturally differences in physical fitness.
However, aside from these, the most important thing is that different people add and subtract different ways to the skin.
For example, people with a relatively poor working environment, such as those engaged in agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry and fishery, wind and sun exposure is the basic life, but also face irregular work and rest, insufficient nutrition, etc., and often they do not pay much attention to the addition of skin, the result is that these people's skin is poor.
On the other hand, like many celebrities, they have a good working environment, pay attention to skin care, and constantly add to the skin, so they protect the skin well, and there will even be people with "frozen age", which is enviable.
Because of this, we may be able to learn some skincare secrets from them to make the aging of the skin come later.
03, How to fight aging at the root?
How to root anti-aging, too many truths are estimated to be tired of everyone listening, such as not staying up late, reasonable diet, these must be an important foundation for skin care. On this basis, we can also do some root repair on the skin to enhance the self-healing ability of the skin's own cells.
In fact, in recent years, the mainstream skincare industry has been focusing on how to make skin healthier. Some skin care products have been researching to promote the skin's self-healing power, so that the ability of cell renewal can be enhanced, which can remove harmful factors and restore the skin to health. For example, some ingredients added to seaweed, 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.
After all, metabolic stress and aging are closely related, relieving metabolic pressure can well delay aging, and the proliferation of keratinocytes can effectively reduce the performance of skin aging, especially the latter, many times, senescent cells will appear in aging skin, resulting in difficult skin renewal. Only when these restrictions are lifted can the skin be restored to health.
It can be said that aging is an inevitable process of human beings, and we can't reverse aging in general, but this does not mean that it is left alone, but can be delayed through regulation, and the essence of addition is the repair at the cellular level, that is, the root repair that La Mer insists on, so that cell recovery can gain a certain advantage in the fight against aging, so that the skin can be more youthful. Therefore, increase the addition and decrease the subtraction, so that the skin can slow down the rate of aging, and it is also a real anti-aging from the root.