Anti Aging

In this day and age that everybody wants to look young and beautiful, skin care companies are luring consumers to buy their products by putting statements such as "the best anti-aging skin creams you have ever tried" on their glossy advertisements.

More often than not, in order to justify their high profile advertising, these products are quite expensive.

In relation to the above, let me give you some market research information from a consumer report I was reading the other day. This will hopefully shed some light on the issue we are discussing:

This report says that though a market research that was carried out, it is confirmed that consumers are willing to pay extra for a product which promises to work wonders for their wrinkles and firm up their skin. At the same time, however, they are reluctant to pay more than even 10 USD for a mere skin moisturizer.

The obvious question, then, is: Do the actual results after using a high profile anti-aging skin cream, justify its high price?

To answer this question, this report goes on to present another startling finding: Human volunteers were asked to try on themselves for a number of days, various anti-aging creams. There ranged from cheap ones to very expensive -- the ones marketed as best anti-aging skin creams.

After the test period ended, the "before" and "after" conditions of the skin were compared, using close up photos which were taken at each stage.

It turned out that in some cases there was hardly any difference between the before and after shots. But others showed more visible differences. So, did price count?

"We didn't find any relationship between price and performance," the person in charge of the experiment stated.

In fact, the most expensive product that was tested, was less effective than most!

So, what is the lesson to take home? Merely that the price and the marketing hype about an anti-aging skin cream, do not necessarily guarantee its effectiveness.

Personally what I do and I strongly encourage you to do the same, is always look at the ingredients that the anti-aging cream contains. Below, I give you a couple of examples of ingredients that I use for my skin and are scientifically proven to be effective:

First, it is Phytessence Wakame. This has Japanese origin and it is extracted from a type of seaweed to be found in the seas near Japan. What is special about this is that it prevents an enzyme called hyaluronidase from breaking down hyaluronic acid, a substance which has a very essential role to play, when it comes to the health of your skin. You can really feel your skin becoming elastic and soft when you use it over time.

The second ingredient I would like to mention to you is Cynergy TK. This is also very powerful stuff. It basically consists of keratin, which is a natural substance helping the skin to retain its youthful look and feel.

Like these two ingredients, there are a whole lot more which can wonders for your skin.

In this day and age, everybody agrees that choosing a suitable anti aging skin care product can become a very difficult task. There are hundreds of products available on the market, all claiming that they offer the perfect solution for all your skin care worries.

The skin care industry is quite a lucrative one. Literally hundreds of millions of dollars are spent every single year, just in United States alone. The problem with most of all these anti aging skin care products, however, is that, more often than not, they don't live up to the expectations of the person who bought them. Most of the time they prove to be worthless, or, even worse, they cause all different types of damage to the skin, ranging from minor to more severe. However, there is always the bright side: If you do your research and you exercise caution, then you can find a quality anti skin care product which is suitable for your skin type. Below, I will give you a few tips which will help you in your selection:

1. First of all, stay away from any products which contain any type of fragrance. You may be aware that fragrances contain toxins. When you apply the skin care cream or lotion on your skin, these toxins can potentially enter your bloodstream through your skin pores, causing you harm.

2. Second, and pay close attention to this, avoid any anti aging skin care products which list collagen as one of their ingredients. Now, in order for you to understand what I am talking about, I need to give you a little background: Most of you are probably aware that collagen is a protein which is underneath our skin and helps it to stay firm and youthful looking. As we age, collagen is gradually depleted and as a result, our skin begins to sag and form wrinkles. Because of all the hype surrounding collagen, people are often misled to believe that anti aging skin care products which list this protein as one of their ingredients, will do wonders for their skin. Nothing could be further from the truth. What science tells is that molecules of collagen are so big, that they cannot penetrate the pores of your skin. Therefore, they stay on the surface, doing nothing! So, in essence, you are giving away your hard earned precious money to buy something that is totally useless!

3. This fact leads to my third and last tip. Instead of focusing your attention to find an anti aging skin care product containing collagen, try instead to look for products with ingredients which, when applied topically, have been scientifically proven to stimulate your body to generate more collagen itself. Examples of these ingredients are Phytessence Wakame and Cynergy TK™. In short, the former is extracted from natural sea kelp, found in the waters near Japan, while the latter is a natural substance (this is a quite a new breakthrough discovery by the way), which is found in the wool of sheep in New Zealand. As already said, it has been proven through scientific experimentation on human volunteers, that these substances, when penetrated into the human skin after topical application, actually stimulate the production of collagen, making your skin more supple and youthful looking. Minerals rank with protein as the most neglected, haphazardly obtained nutrients in our American diet. And more especially in the diets of persons past forty. One of the 'three starvations of later years,' spoken of frequently in nutritional reports, is mineral starvation. (The other two ''starvations' in older bodies are protein and vitamin B-complex.)Protein and minerals are so closely linked that to advise you to eat plenty of protein, without stressing the need for equal care in obtaining a full quota of minerals, would be to tell only half the Eat-and-Grow-Younger story. A report made this year to the National Academy of Sciences by a research team headed by Dr. Cannon emphasizes that the minerals potassium, phosphorus and magnesium are essential in the diet for proper use of all body-building protein foods. This research team discovered that omitting potassium from the diet could lead to eventual congestive heart failure. Dead tissue developed within the heart muscles six days after potassium was taken out of the diet. But when potassium was restored to the diet, the body muscles began to rebuild, and the dead tissues in the heart healed. In other words, with potassium again present, protein could resume its appointed task of repairing and replacing body cells. Protein and minerals are the chief actors in the nutritional drama, while vitamins play a secondary, although essential, role (vitamins, the front-page news of the past decade, are now recognized as being solely activators, that is, substances needed to set other substances into action). To neglect any of these three food elements is to wreck the nutritional drama. Yet to star vitamins over protein and minerals is an equally unsound practice. You can't repair your body cells with vitamins alone, nor can you expect vitamins to do the nutritional work of minerals.

Each of the three food elements-protein, minerals, vitamins has its own specific task in preparing your body for a long, youthful life. If I seem to emphasize protein and minerals more than I do vitamins, it's only because I feel certain the vitamin story is well enough known not to need detailed repetition in this book. On the other hand, I'm afraid the mineral story has been too often pushed into the background by 'sensational' vitamin news. Yet today, more than ever before, nutrition experts are turning to mineral therapy. The final report of the New York State Joint Legislative Committee on Nutrition for 1947 contains an article by Dr. C. Ward Crampton, noted authority on diseases of older persons, in which he .states: 'The foremost nutritional defects in the mature and aging are calcium, iron and protein.

Seventy-five per cent of the men of sixty suffer a lack of one or more. On the other hand, many suffer dietary excesses, notably carbohydrates and possibly cholesterol.'Dr. Crampton goes on to report that the American diet is more deficient in calcium than in any other food element. Our ordinary menu is calcium-poor. This calcium deficiency accumulates, becoming increasingly serious as the person grows older. Calcium is so important an ingredient of your blood that your bloodstream will attempt to maintain its calcium level, even though it has to rob other body parts of their vitally needed calcium. That is why, in many older persons, the bones, robbed of their calcium by the blood, become more fragile, resulting in easily fractured arms, legs and hips. It is also why calcium-starved heart muscles and brain cells often give up the struggle to maintain normal functioning in bodies that are comparatively young in years. Your nerves, your heart, your teeth, your brain cells, your blood-all need sufficient calcium to remain healthy, and to function as nature intended. Commenting that 'calcium poverty is one common cause of aging that can be corrected,' Dr. Crampton prescribes a grain of calcium lactate for each year of your age, taken in three doses three hours after each meal.

An inexpensive and convenient way to obtain added calcium in the diet is through the use of powdered skim milk. This dry milk provides needed calcium and protein, along with iron, copper, manganese, cobalt and other trace minerals-less the fats which are wisely limited during the later years. Even though you obtain ample calcium in your diet, quite unknowingly you may be allowing certain foods to rob your body of this vital mineral. Beet greens and spinach contain oxalic acid which deprives the body of its calcium; but you can eat turnip greens, kale and dandelion greens with full assurance that you are not upsetting the balance of this valuable mineral in your body. In fact, dandelion greens that springtime dish of your childhood-have high calcium and vegetable protein content which make them an excellent spring salad. Also, don't indulge in cocoa or rhubarb too freely, since both of them have a high oxalic acid content, and by frequent use of these two foods you run the risk of lowering your calcium reserves. It is Dr. Crampton’s belief that a deficiency of iron is nearly always present in the 'uncared-for person in the higher-age brackets.' He says that the typical person of sixty is anaemic, iron-poor and body-poor, unnecessarily so. And this condition is worse in those persons who are following some unwise diet because of 'dyspepsia' or 'indigestion.' Insufficient hydrochloric acid in the gastric secretions is a common cause of iron poverty in the older body.

Minerals that regulate everything in the human body from 'sight to sex' are lacking in a vast acreage of the croplands that spread across our country. Agricultural scientists are accumulating more and more evidence that a wide variety of human ills are caused by the poor nutrition furnished by foods grown in mineral-starved soils. Dr. K. Starr Chester, head of a staff of farm researchers, has announced that numerous studies show the soil in nearly every state lacks one or more trace elements-cobalt, copper, zinc, manganese, boron. All food grown on mineral-poor soil (and the soil on American farms is estimated to have lost from 50 per cent upwards of its mineral contents in the past fifty-five years) is dangerously inadequate in iron, calcium, phosphorus, sodium, potassium, magnesium and sulphur.

For this reason, I cannot say to you with confidence that such-and-such a vegetable or fruit will provide you with this, that or the other mineral. I can tell you that a certain food should provide certain minerals. But, strictly speaking, the only way I know of at the present time (until some of our high authorities and conservation experts wake up and make obligatory the preservation and restoration of minerals in the farm and garden soils of our nation) to give you foolproof advice on minerals is to recommend the use of a reliable mineral concentrate, provided you are in doubt about the mineral content of the foods available to you. The multiple-mineral concentrate is the best way to use a mineral supplement to the diet. In whatever way you choose to obtain your full daily quota of minerals, for the sake of the restored youthfulness and the long life you so ardently desire, don't neglect these vital food elements. They are minute-to-minute essentials to your health.

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