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In a pilot study, treatment with a reparative skin cream lowered cytokine levels linked to Alzheimer’s, heart disease and diabetes.
The skin may be linked to body-wide inflammation linked to numerous chronic diseases of aging.
A low level of inflammation—dubbed “inflamm-aging”, is experienced as we age.
This age-related inflammation has been linked to chronic diseases, including Alzheimer’s disease, cardiovascular disease, and diabetes.
"Decreasing inflammation simply by treating the skin dysfunction seen in aging could have profound health effects”, said lead author Theodora Mauro.
Thirty-three older adults between the ages of 58 and 95 applied the cream all over their bodies twice a day for 30 days.
Using the cream reduced the amount of all three cytokines, implicated in age-related inflammatory diseases.
The study was published in the Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology at UC San Francisco.
