Skin-deep anti-ageing with collagen treatments
A look at different types of collagen treatments such as injections, micro-needling, supplements, and creams
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Even with a longer health-span, that is longer lives and longer active lives, I don't think anyone imagines octogenarians playing golf and windsurfing but looking like their skin is about to fall off their bones. Appearance is important psychologically and also physically when you consider that the skin is the largest organ of the body providing protection against infection and helping control temperature.
Collagen makes up around 30% of protein in mammals and is the most abundant protein,
Radical life extension advocates typically suggest that we will want to revert to our 20-something bodies, but in the meantime I'll be tracking scientifically proven products that keep skin and hair healthy.
Live Forever Club - 14-Feb-2024
To name a few, moisturizers with acidic pH and emollients with active ingredients can help
Read more...Lifespan.io (LEAF) - 02-Feb-2024
They used a drug called rapamycin in mice to boost the cell cleaning (autophagy)
Read more...University of California, San Diego (UCSD) - 11-Jan-2024
The findings pave the way for personalised skincare approaches
Read more...Business Wire - 14-Dec-2023
It's based on sirtuins research and claims to provide visible results in 14 days
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Etiology, diagnosis and treatment of skin disease in the elderly population written by Ronald Marks
Overview of the diagnosis and treatment of geriatric skin diseases edited by Robert A. Norman
A look at different types of collagen treatments such as injections, micro-needling, supplements, and creams
Skincare product R&D budgets exceed the National Institute on Aging's budget - let's get it focussed on real anti-aging science