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"While the degree to which we wrinkle is determined genetically to some extent, wrinkles are also revealing signs of our lifestyles. speaking of signs Wrinkles are hereditary. Parents get them from their children. —American actress and singer Doris Day For example, wrinkles can be a telltale sign that you've spent a lot of time in the sun without skin protection, or that you've been overexposed to certain toxic chemicals. wrinkles can also be a dead giveaway that a person is or has been a heavy drinker or smoker." - Joan Liebmann-Smith, Ph. D., and Jacqueline Nardi Egan, Body Signs: From Warning Signs to False Alarms...How to Be Your Own Diagnostic Detective (Get the book.)

"The sun's rays cause wrinkles, which are one kind of collagen break. (Add vitamin C to your face cream and those wrinkles vanish, or at least diminish.) Vitamin C is also essential for recharging other vitamins, including beta-carotene, which becomes a pro-oxidant without vitamin C's help. (Pro-oxidants are the bad guys; antioxidants are the good guys.) Because these plant compounds have become such an intrinsic part of our cellular functioning, is it any wonder that their presence or absence in our foods would act as a satiety switch?" - Dr. Steven R. Gundry, Dr. Gundry's Diet Evolution: Turn Off the Genes That Are Killing You - And Your Waistline - And Drop the Weight for Good (Get the book.)

"The degradation of collagen leads to wrinkles that can be caused by aging or smoking. These wrinkles are partly due to oxidative damage by free radicals. As we age, collagen becomes more highly cross-linked and therefore more rigid. Injected collagen is used in cosmetic surgery, especially to thicken lips. Ferrous iron is required as a cofactor for collagen synthesis in the body. Vitamin C plays its role as an antioxidant to reduce the iron from its oxidized state. The iron can then go on as a cofactor to make more collagen." - Dr. Steve Blake, Vitamins and Minerals Demystified (Get the book.)

"We are taught antipathy toward our wrinkles, cellulite, superficial varicosities, and nocturia (waking to urinate). These ubiquitous changes of later life are far less dramatic than those of puberty, which we were taught to celebrate. Are these ubiquitous changes of later life diseases? Are wrinkles a disease? Should we consider a face lift a cure? Is graying a disease? I am not being facetious. Graying is a consequence of biological senescence. The follicles that turn skin cells into hair lose the capacity to introduce pigment." - Nortin M. Hadler MD, Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America (Get the book.)

"Growth Hormone Deepened wrinkles in the face, thinned upper lip, receding jaw. Melatonin Tired, anxious face; premature aging. Low Sex Drive The typical orgasm lasts twelve seconds in both men and women, and averages about twelve minutes in total per year. Yet it consumes a great deal of our waking thoughts. Women like sex every bit as much as men, and we miss it as we age. Let's face it, with age, orgasms can become more elusive or less intense." - Phuli Cohan, The Natural Hormone Makeover: 10 Steps to Rejuvenate Your Health and Rediscover Your Inner Glow (Get the book.) "The skin tends to dehydrate with fine wrinkles, unkindly referred to as "elephant skin." i Low Cortisol gives rise to skin rashes and inflammations of any kind, which shouldn't come as too much of a surprise. What do you put on inflamed skin? Topical cortisone. Joints and skin inflame when Cortisol is too low. The eyelids tend to redden and the face can have an unhealthy ruddy appearance. Eczema, seborrheic dermatitis, hives, vitiligo, and pigmentations often occur, and brown age spots can appear on the face and lower arms." - Phuli Cohan, The Natural Hormone Makeover: 10 Steps to Rejuvenate Your Health and Rediscover Your Inner Glow (Get the book.)

"Frequent or prolonged sun exposure is a major contributor to premature aging and wrinkles. Antioxidants, including the flavonoids, protect the skin from free radical damage. Flavonoids in general are well known for supporting healthy collagen and elastin and maintaining their elasticity. In part, they do this by realigning these proteins to a more youthful, undamaged form. Among the polyphenols in green tea, EGCG and ECG show the strongest effect in reducing collagenase activity. Supplementing the diet with antioxidants, such as green tea's polyphenols, lessens the likelihood of wrinkles." - Lester A. Mitscher and Victoria Toews, The Green Tea Book (Get the book.)

"Add vitamin C to your face cream and those wrinkles vanish, or at least diminish.) Vitamin C is also essential for recharging other vitamins, including beta-carotene, which becomes a pro-oxidant without vitamin C's help. (Pro-oxidants are the bad guys; antioxidants are the good guys.) Because these plant compounds have become such an intrinsic part of our cellular functioning, is it any wonder that their presence or absence in our foods would act as a satiety switch? Get enough in your system and you and your genes stop looking for them." - Dr. Steven R. Gundry, Dr. Gundry's Diet Evolution: Turn Off the Genes That Are Killing You - And Your Waistline - And Drop the Weight for Good (Get the book.)

"It is as though our bodies rust from the inside out—causing, among othet things, dry, wrinkled skin. But wrinkles are the least of our problems. When the process gets really out of control, it can cause tumors, hardening of the arteries, and macular degeneration to name just a few. The bottom line is that we can think of free radicals as ravenous molecular sharks—sharks so hungry that in little more than a millionth of a second, they can be making a frenzied attack on a healthy neighboring cellular molecule. Why Are Free Radicals So Deadly?" - Jon Barron, Lessons from The Miracle Doctors: A Step-by-Step Guide to Optimum Health and Relief from Catastrophic Illness (Get the book.)

"Plastic surgery is much like a new coat of paint on an old car. wrinkles, sagging skin, hair loss, facial hair, and weight gain are usually caused by hormonal imbalance and deficiency. Supporting your hormones will not only make you feel better than any plastic surgery, it can enhance the procedures you may be destined to try. When I attend anti-aging conferences, roughly half of the audience are plastic surgeons, who know that without hormone support their handiwork is doomed to deteriorate all too quickly. • Progesterone is usually the first hormone to decline in women." - Phuli Cohan, The Natural Hormone Makeover: 10 Steps to Rejuvenate Your Health and Rediscover Your Inner Glow (Get the book.)

"The same laser light that is used to shoot down enemy missiles or as a death ray in a movie is also used by your eye-doctor to improve your vision via Lasik surgery or by your plastic surgeon to remove facial hair and wrinkles. Again, the difference is merely one of frequency and amplitude. The proper use of energy in the healing arts has a long and significant history. From the TENS machines and laser surgery that we've already mentioned to the use of sound waves to break up kidney stones, or X-rays and magnetic fields to see into the body and the use of light to clean the blood." - Jon Barron, Lessons from The Miracle Doctors: A Step-by-Step Guide to Optimum Health and Relief from Catastrophic Illness (Get the book.)

"Hairs start to sprout on your chin, wrinkles multiply and deepen, pubic hairs gray, and extra fat appears around your knees or waist despite the latest diet craze, step classes, or kickboxing. Sex can begin to feel like a chore and orgasms seem elusive or just not worth the effort. You feel too hot, or too sweaty, or too tired. Even the people you love can become a challenge. Perimenopause is not a great time to be dealing with teenagers, aging parents, lawyers, career changes, or haggling with siblings about whose turn it is to take Dad to the doctor. Let's face it, it can just plain suck." - Phuli Cohan, The Natural Hormone Makeover: 10 Steps to Rejuvenate Your Health and Rediscover Your Inner Glow (Get the book.)

"When we are deficient in potassium we age prematurely and start to develop loose flesh, lines, and wrinkles in the face and neck. For dietary considerations, note that refined foods lose many of their minerals, including potassium, during the milling and refining process. There is an interesting discussion of the benefits of acv in Dr. DeForest Jarvis' book Folk Medicine. Dr. Jarvis was a country doctor in Vermont in the first half of the 1900s and recorded his observations on the benefits of including acv in the diets of both humans and animals." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.) "These include wrinkles, sagging skin, muscle loss, thinning hair, decreased energy, and diminished sex drive. Researchers have now determined that these changes of our bodily state are closely related to decreasing levels of Human Growth Hormone (hgh). hgh is secreted by the pituitary gland. It is then transported by the bloodstream to the liver where it is converted into growth factors, the most important of which is insulin-like growth factor 1 (igf-i). This is the factor that is mainly responsible for producing our youthful attributes." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.)

"Promising preliminary work indicates that alpha-hydroxy acids (better known as fruit acids) may eventually turn out to be as effective as Retin A in reducing fine wrinkles when applied topically. The fruit acids are found in grapes, oranges, apples, lemons, grapefruit and in sour milk and sugar cane, among others. When fruit acids were first used to treat age spots, researchers observed a reduction in wrinkles, as well. Fine wrinkles yielded to the acids more readily, but even some moderate wrinkles were said to disappear, sometimes with as little as two months of treatment." - Sheldon Saul Hendler, The Doctor's Vitamin and Mineral Encyclopedia (Get the book.)

"Although most of us want to look younger right away, smoothing out wrinkles is not as critical to our health as restoring the efficient functioning of our internal organs. Skin quality will be improved as a matter of course when the body is ready. The body knows what the priorities for health are—which things to work on first. Just cooperate with it by giving it what it needs, instead of trying to dictate what it has to work on. Let it do its job and it will serve you as the loyal and wise servant that it is. What Will This Cost?" - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.)

"And lifestyle drugs, those treating the problems and irritations that come with age, such as hair loss, wrinkles, and reduced sex drive, became the industry's new rage. Pfizer was perhaps the first in the industry to transform itself so clearly into a consumer-marketing machine. Since its founding in 1849 by Charles Pfizer and his cousin Charles Erhart, the drug company had shown a knack for getting people to take more medicine." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.)

"John Harley, a transplanted West Virginian whose dry, quick humor and deep smile wrinkles soften his exacting edge, today manages a research staff of two hundred as chief of the Arthritis and Immunology Research Program at the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation (OMRF). Most days he can be found more or less racewalking through the halls of his research institute as he moves between his research lab, teaching classroom, and the hospital, often shadowed by a handful of students and an assistant towing a cart full of files." - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.)

"Two extracellular proteins, collagen and elastin, are particularly affected, and we see it in the skin as wrinkles. The formation of AGEs throughout the body is an accelerated aging process, hence the apt abbreviation of glycosylation or glycation as AGE. AGE-related changes to collagen and elastin are believed to contribute to the stiffness of blood vessels and the urinary bladder, as well as impaired functioning of the kidneys, heart, retinas, and other organs and tissues." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.)

"As the collagen-supporting network weakens with aging, the skin becomes slack with folding, lines, and the appearance of wrinkles. Ultraviolet light exposure increases the production of collagenase, which breaks down the collagen fibers permitting wrinkles to appear. Additionally, ultraviolet light slows the production of new collagen. Researchers in France have found a special molecule containing the amino acids lysine, threonine and serine that resemble a small piece of collagen." - James A. Howenstine, A Physician's Guide to Natural Health Products That Work (Get the book.)

"These wrinkles are partly due to oxidative damage by free radicals. As we age, collagen becomes more highly cross-linked and therefore more rigid. Injected collagen is used in cosmetic surgery, especially to thicken lips. Ferrous iron is required as a cofactor for collagen synthesis in the body. Vitamin C plays its role as an antioxidant to reduce the iron from its oxidized state. The iron can then go on as a cofactor to make more collagen. Vitamin C as an Antioxidant Vitamin C is one of the most important antioxidants." - Dr. Steve Blake, Vitamins and Minerals Demystified (Get the book.)

"It is also responsible for the wrinkles on your face when you have been exposed to too much sunlight over the years.The problem is that rust not only exists in the visible or outside world, we actually rust on the inside. And this contributes to impaired metabolism, weight gain, and aging. Think of this as wrinkles on the inside. Let's see how rusted you are. Take the following self-assessment to get a sense of how out of balance this key to UltraMetabolism is for you. Score 1 point each time you answer "yes" to the following questions by placing a check mark in the box on the right." - Mark Hyman, Ultra-Metabolism: The Simple Plan for Automatic Weight Loss (Get the book.)

"Local application of the synthetic tretinoin (vitamin A acid) is used to bleach pigmented spots, smooth wrinkles, and reduce sunlight damage. 2. Mica. Mica is the name for a group of fine crystallized minerals that create a light glow in facial cosmetics by increasing the reflection of light. They can be colored or colorless. Mica is harmless, except when inhaled as a fine dust, when it can cause acute or chronic lung irritation. 3. Bisabolol." - Samuel S. Epstein, Randall Fitzgerald, Toxic Beauty: How Cosmetics and Personal Care Products Endanger Your Health . . . And What You Can Do about It (Get the book.) "A statistically significant association has been demonstrated between the long-term use of aluminum anti-perspirants and Alzheimer's disease (40,41), and aluminum anti-perspirants have also been shown to produce oxidative skin damage, notably wrinkles and aging (see chapter 10 for more details). Sunscreen Ingredients See chapter 8 for details." - Samuel S. Epstein, Randall Fitzgerald, Toxic Beauty: How Cosmetics and Personal Care Products Endanger Your Health . . . And What You Can Do about It (Get the book.) "In fact, restylane has been shown to be more effective than collagen in double blind clinical trials six months after injection by dermatologists in the naso-labial folds, wrinkles that run from the bridge of the nose to the corners of the mouth (). It's also cheaper than collagen. Injections that combined restylane and the prescription drug Botox (botulinum toxin) were also reported to be more effective than injections of either product alone. 9. Peptides. Peptides are chains of amino acids often used in anti-wrinkle products." - Samuel S. Epstein, Randall Fitzgerald, Toxic Beauty: How Cosmetics and Personal Care Products Endanger Your Health . . . And What You Can Do about It (Get the book.) "The consequences of ignoring the risks include not just the tell-tale pink flush, tender skin, and eventual peeling of sun burn, but longer-term effects: accelerated aging, premature wrinkles, and skin cancer. To protect ourselves, we've been encouraged to apply sunscreen daily, or even more frequently if going out in the sun for extended periods of time. What we haven't been told is that sunscreens can be dangerous, to our health and to the environment. How could this be?" - Samuel S. Epstein, Randall Fitzgerald, Toxic Beauty: How Cosmetics and Personal Care Products Endanger Your Health . . . And What You Can Do about It (Get the book.)

"Snyder wrinkles his nose when I bring up maraschinos: "That's a bleached-out way to dump bad cherries." But when I ask him about the Grapple's safety, he reaches into his pocket. "A cell phone is a good example. What's a cell phone going to do to me? We don't know." He holds his phone to his ear questioningly as though he might hear an answer or, perhaps, the ocean. Part of what makes Snyder's contrivance so compelling is the secrecy with which he discusses it. His answers are peppered with talk of pending patents, levels of confidentiality and intellectual property issues. " - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.) "His cheeks lift as though pulled up by some invisible pulley system, and the wrinkles streaming from his eyes tighten. His face brightens for just an instant! And then . . . Then, the eyebrows descend like thunder as the inescapable realization crushes him yet again, the same relentless search that haunted his father now tormenting him. "We're on the verge of discovering the treasure—as you can see, the evidence is overwhelming," he says, picking up a piece of fossilized coral in the shape of the letter Y. Everything seems impregnated with significance." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.)

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