Ways to reduce and prevent wrinkles

Many factors can cause the skin to get wrinkles. Many people believe that aging skin is expected, but today’s information and technologies, you can look as young as you feel.  Did you know that you could play an important role in some factors that have nothing to do with getting older?

If you already have signs of aging skin, it’s never too late to start making lifestyle changes that will help benefit your skin. Here are some ways to reduce wrinkles:

• Smoking:  Quit smoking has lots of benefits, lighting up is one of the most common causes of wrinkles, it may reduce blood flow to your skin, which can make difficult cells to reach the oxygen and nutrients necessary for rejuvenate and stay healthy. Also smoke’s chemicals breakdown your skin’s elastin and collagen.

• Get adequate sleep: Adequate sleep is a key part of a healthy lifestyle and can benefit your heart, weight, mind, skin and many more. The body produces excess cortisol, a hormone that breaks down skin cell. By getting enough rest will enable you to produce more human growth hormone, which helps skin remain thick and less likely to wrinkle.
• Wear sunscreen: Most signs of aging come from unprotected skin exposure. Applying sunscreen can protect you from skin cancer and help to prevent wrinkles at the same time.
• Eat more fish:  Eat more fish especially salmon. It is a great source of protein, which is good for the skin, it’s also a source of an essential fatty acid known as omega-3 to help nourish skin and keep it plump and youthful to reduce wrinkles.
• Picking pimples: Picking pimples may result to scars, irritation and wrinkles, rather use over-the-counter or prescription products to help get rid of acne or let pimples heal on their own.
• Chewing gum: chomping gum makes mouth to continuously form different shapes. By chewing repeatedly can lead to a downward turn in the corners of the mouth resulting to pronounced muscle at the bottom of the jaw line or a wrinkle on your lower mouth.
• Not removing makeup: When you sleep in your makeup, those cosmetics plus the pollutants you acquired throughout the day soak into your skin, resulting to breakdown of elastin and collagen causing wrinkles.
• Squinting to see the computer screen or television:  Do not strain your eyes watching television or using the computer, it can cause groove underneath the skin; as the skin gets older, it loses it flexibility causing wrinkles.
• Eat more fruits and vegetables: Fruits contain antioxidant compounds, which can fight damage caused by free radicals (unstable molecules that can damage cells) and in turn helps skin look younger, more radiant and protects against some ageing effects.