The Truth About Anti-Aging Creams
what are you doing fighting the effects of aging what’s even in this oh oh oh it burns it burns hey guys Julia and crystal here for dnews in an effort to turn back time and find a way to stop the effects of aging humans have tried some pretty crazy and expensive things the good news is that there actually is a lot of science behind those anti-aging creams while they won’t stop time they may improve some of the tell-tale signs of aging first our skin is an organ designed to keep foreign antigens out of our bodies and it has layers of cells that act as a defense against disease an immune agents so it is unlikely that large molecules like proteins would be able to penetrate into the layers of our skin even if they are good for us but small molecules can so when you’re shopping for a new skin cream read the label look for things like Al Antone hyaluronic acid and retinol if you can find those names somewhere in the rest of the organic chemistry gobbledygook you’re probably on the right track right Lantern is a beneficial metabolite humans can’t produce ourselves so we have to harvest it from other sources before we smear it on our faces most of the time it comes from the comfrey plant because the other enriched sorts of Al and tine is the animal urine and no one is going to want to put that on their face but it does work a paper published in act as surgical bra silly area shows topical application in a cream can speed wound healing and increase cellular turnover which is the frost some old cells on the surface of your skin sloughing off to be replaced by beautiful new ones retinoids are a little more hardcore than al Antone and are often marketed as compounds that can reduce fine lines and increase the production of collagen a form of vitamin A these compounds are something of a wonder drug and can be used to treat everything from acne to leukemia when you encounter it in a drugstore it will appear as a low percentage of retinol in your face cream there’s a wealth of clinical literature on the effectiveness of retinol and dermatological applications and we’ve been putting it on our faces since the late 1960s so we know it works good to know we are being completely lied to what about some of the more outrageous claims we see like how our stem cells going to help like face the sim stove base cream is one of my favorite examples of sciency buzzwords being used to jack up the price of a useless product they’re useless yes but there are viable in life-saving medical applications for human stem cells I mean they do kind of seem like that torture but face cream is not one of those application stem cells are a type of primitive cells the cell that hasn’t decided what kind of tissue it wants to be yet so it’s easily manipulated by scientists but not only is there no literature to support the use of stem cells on your face they wouldn’t even be able to survive in the bottle so it best you’d be smearing dead cells on your face so gross so I’m guessing that the face mask made of Nightingale poop isn’t going to help me either yeah probably not all right but there are some other equally disgusting natural extracts that actually work like snail slime their mucus is high in hell’ uronic acid or seaweed which is packed with antioxidant and anti-inflammatory compounds actually many natural products that we find in our skincare act as antioxidant or anti-inflammatory agents right those are good words to look for when you’re shopping but just know that it’s hard to tell whether or not they are president high enough concentrations to make a difference if the cream only has tiny amounts of that stuff it probably won’t help so I basically should be definitely skeptical when I go shopping but if I’m gonna go for it I should look for a face cream with small molecule ingredients that contain antioxidants and anti-inflammatory properties yep and a little vitamin A probably wouldn’t hurt what are some other ways we can stop aging well technology might be an answer check out this video to find out how throughout our lifetime the ends of our DNA starts to get shorter and shorter and the DNA could fray causing age-related illnesses like cancer but we’ve got telomeres little caps that are like the tips of your shoelaces by keeping the caps on our DNA long and healthy we can extend our lifespan so how do you fight aging deep drink lots of water get a good night’s sleep use special skin cream let us know down in the comments below and keep coming back to dnews so you don’t miss a single episode you
