We all discover, sometimes a little late, that as we age our skin looses its elasticity, and starts to look dried out, wrinkled and aged. When we were younger, our skin was smooth, moist and beautiful. What causes this to happen? The causes are many however exposure to the sun, harsh soaps and chemicals, and other factors contribute to the aging of our skin.
As the body ages, the appearance and characteristics of the skin change. Visible aging of the skin starts as the natural regenerative process begin to slow. The skin replaces old cells more slowly and there is a slower turnover of the surface skin and slower wound healing. As we enter middle age, thinning of the skin begins, due in part, to hormonal changes. This thinning makes the skin more fragile and vulnerable to damage by abrasion and more sensitive to irritating environmental factors. The moisture holding properties of the skin become dryer and looser as we age. The skin loses fat, so it looks less ‘filled out’ and smooth. The number of blood vessels in your skin also decreases with age and the skin loses its youthful color and glow.
Our skin is made up of about 80% collagen. Collagen is the wrinkle-eliminating, moisture attracting protein that is abundant in our skin when we are young. Starting around the age of 18, collagen production by the cells in our skin slows down. By the age of 30, we make 1% less collagen per year, and the enzyme that destroys the collagen increases. When collagen production goes down, destruction goes up. Elasticity is our skin’s living element. We laugh, we frown, we raise our eyebrows, yet our faces never crack! This is thanks to elastin. Elastin gives the skin its the ability to stretch and then snap back into shape, much like a rubberband. As we age, our elastin levels, like collagen, decrease. Keratin is the protein thats packed into your hair shaft, and is considered one of nature’s beauty proteins. Like collagen, keratin begins to diminish by the time we’re 18 years old. With aging, this gene begins working slower and slower. This gene is also responsible for giving your nails strength and beauty. So, our skin begins to show the results of fine lines and wrinkles, our hair breaks more easily, and our nails chip or break.
Dr. Lisa A. Zdinak, M.D. is a trained molecular geneticist and cosmetic laser surgeon with a very popular and successful practice on Manhattan’s Upper East Side and in Palm Beach. Dr. Zdinak has isolated the essential ingredients that helps our skin to produce collagen and elastin, called the Genetiskin Line of skin rejuvenating products. The Genetiskin line is made up of a range of nutraceutical supplements vital to the production of youthful, healthy collagen and elastin, as well as critical anti-oxidants that work with each other to preserve the collagen and elastin in our skin and protect it from the ravages of aging stresses, like sun exposure, bad sleeping habits, gravity and environmental stress, lack of exercise, etc. Genetiskin is not a multivitamin, it is a highly targeted nutritional regimen for the skin designed to produce new collagen, preserve existing collagen, and protect the skin from the usual aging stresses and also from free-radical attack. Genetiskin is simply the purest, most potent skincare vitamin regimen in the world.