People's preoccupation with anti-aging skin car products
that claim to make you look younger, is not surprising when
most of us can expect to live longer and have fuller more
active lives. This group of products generally work by
enabling the synthesis of collagen, which is the main
protein of connective tissue in animals and the most
abundant protein in mammals. Collagen is related to other
anti-ageing substances in the body called anti-oxidants.

You probably know many anti-oxidants by name, including
vitamin C, the use of which is still, even now, hotly
debated in the science and nutrition community. The main
problem when using any skin care treatments which use
vitamin C is that oxidization can occur as soon as they have
contact with the air.

To get around this some skin care treatments are based on
derivatives of vitamin C, which are more stable and less
expensive. These new anti-oxidant products are not quite as
good as vitamin C although other naturally occurring
compounds, vitamin E and lipoic acid can achieve the same
effect.

The body uses vitamin E as an anti-oxidant and is also used
to increase the natural defense we have against disease,
including many types of cancer, it is a fat soluble vitamin
in people's blood. Lipoic acid is also an energy making
component of the body, found in every cell, it can also help
reduce the ageing process which affects the skin.

Other compounds called phytochemicals, have proved to be
beneficial in the formulation of anti-ageing skin care
products. A further benefit of these phytochemicals is their
ability to prevent the onset of breast cancer, prostate
cancer and colon cancer all of which are on the increase
globally.

Other vitamins from the B group, are also used in
anti-ageing skin care like vitamins B5, B6 and B12 for
example. The use of anti-ageing skin care products is a huge
scientific field to research and has far greater potential
than just producing goods that reduce the visible signs of
age.

Although current regimes are effective, there are still many
challenges to finding better and more efficient ways to
combat the effects of time. Hopefully, these challenges will
get resolved in due course and better and cheaper
anti-ageing skin care products will be produced.

In some respects the real way ahead lies in our own hands as
there are many things we can do to reduce the signs of aging
naturally. So, drinking plenty of water, getting a good
night's sleep, exercising regularly, maintaining healthy
eating habits and keeping stress at bay are essential means
of delaying the aging process.

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