Protecting Your Skin

We all need to protect and look after our skin on a daily basis. There are many factors that influence aging and the awareness of these factors is essential if we are to avoid or at least monitor them. Stress, pollution, drugs, alcohol, cigarette smoking, improper nutrition, lack of sleep and ultra violet radiation play havoc on our lifestyle, which in turn stresses the skin tremendously and causes free radicals to attack the body.Free radical damage contributes greatly to the aging process by destroying healthy cells and damaging tissue. Free radicals are molecules of oxygen with unpaired electrons that desperately roam the body in search of normal healthy cells to latch onto.

Once this attachment process takes place, oxidation begins - rather like metal rusting during weather exposure. Oxidation occurs most readily in fats, therefore cell membranes rich in fat, are prime targets.