How to Save Your Face

Everybody wants to look young or younger. From a distance, the body shape tells all: if you have a crooked spine or an overweight physique, you look old or older than your age. At close proximity, your face tells all: if you have sunken cheeks, wrinkles, and crow's feet, you look old or older than your age. To look forever young, save your face.

To save your face, protect it from the sun. Sun-exposed face ages much faster and more severely than protected face from the relentless rays of the sun.

Alcohol and smoking may deplete your body of oxygen. Inadequate supply of oxygen creates and develops toxins during metabolism. This explains how you get cramps when certain parts of your body do not have sufficient oxygen supply.

If you are a smoker, a drinker, and a sun worshiper, you get synergistic or multiple effects of aging. You will regret when you reach forty, looking fifty or even sixty. Find out how to quit smoking and stop alcohol addiction.

Eat super foods. Get plenty of vitamin C and vitamin E to neutralize free radicals and counteract cellular damage to your skin. Get these vitamins from natural sources, preferably not from synthetic vitamins tablets. Liquid vitamins are easily absorbed by your body.

Your body needs protein, and so does your skin. Get your protein from plants, such as beans and vegetables (broccoli). If you get protein from animals, the trade off is that you get the fats as well.

Hydrate your skin: drink plenty of water (not just eight glasses of 8 oz water). Your skin cells need water for growth and regeneration. If you feel thirsty, you may already be dehydrated. Remember, your kidneys need water to function efficiently to give your skin its bounciness and firmness, the absence of which is often a sign of old age.

Maintain good atmospheric hydration for healthy and youthful skin. During winter, make sure the air is not too dry; during summer avoid traumatizing heat. If you fly frequently, make sure your skin is moisturized because in high altitude, the pressure on your skin is greater than in the air, resulting in more and faster evaporation.

Don’t scrub or wash your face too many times a day. Your face needs oil production to protect it, so do not strip away those protective oils from your skin. Individuals with a good density of facial oil glands tend to have fewer wrinkles than those who have drier skin. And don’t take a “too hot” bath, because it causes your skin to unduly produce more oil, causing damage in the process.

Cleanse and moisturize you skin with Cetaphil (an inexpensive over-the counter cleanser and moisturizer). Use sunscreen if you are exposed to the sun.

Start protecting your skin at any early age, irrespective of your gender.

Stephen Lau

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