How Collagen Loss Affects Your Skin?
What is Collagen?
Collagen is the substance that holds our skin together and is the most abundant protein in the entire body. It makes up around 30% of proteins in the human body, is the key structural protein that ensures cohesion, elasticity, and strength of skin, tendons, ligaments, cartilage, and bones.
Amongst all types of collagen in our body, nearly 90% of the collagen in our body is Type I collagen, which is responsible for youthful-looking skin, help keeping our skin looking firm and smooth.
Test your Collagen Status with "The Snap Test"
Before we go into the details of causes of collagen loss and supplementing those losses, let's quickly do a simple snap test to see whether our collagen level is up to standard:
Use your thumb and forefinger, very gently pinch the skin under your eye and quickly release.
If the skin returns to normal quickly, this means good elasticity. Your collagen level is up to standard.
If however, it doesn't immediately return to the original smoothness, takes a second or so, this could be reflective of not optimal skin elasticity. Regular and multi-dimensional collagen supplementation is recommended.
Collagen loss is one of the main causes of skin aging
Regardless of the results of our "snap test", loss of collagen is a natural process that happens as we age, and/or together with a number of other external factors we will discuss below, all of which will impact on our body and cause our bodies to produce less and less collagen.
Loss of collagen will cause our skin to become thin and less elastic as time goes by. Our skin may start to sag and wrinkle. You might notice a lack of natural fullness, many people may even experience a drier complexion because there is not enough material for sebum production. As a result, we may look older than we should be. The aging, and the result in aging, comes around back and forth if we do not take it seriously.
The Causes Of Collagen Loss
By the time we hit our 30s, our collagen starts to take a massive drop by 1-2% every year. If you've hit this milestone, you will noticed that your skin doesn't bounce back like it used to be, that you see more lines and creases from daily activities like sleeping, talking on the phone, and working.
Unfortunately, it's not just age that are causing these wrinkles. There are external factors at play against collagen and we experience many (or all) of them every day:
- Sunlight
- Smoking
- Drinking
- Pollution
- Diets high in sugar
Exposure to the above puts you on the fast-track to collagen loss.
As we have repeatedly emphasize (in our Natural Skincare articles) the importance of living a healthy lifestyle, some of the above can be avoided, effects minimized, and better managed. Whether or not we want to have good skin condition, and how much we do to minimize the effect of unavoidable aging, is your choice and reflects on your face.
Methods for Collagen Restoration
Collagen is the most essential protein for your skin's integrity and longevity. Thankfully, preventing collagen loss is simple, and collagen restoration is multi-dimensional, below are a few methods:
Stimulation: Face Yoga
Check out our articles for Face Yoga. Just a few minutes a day helps deliver vital nutrients to your skin and promote collagen and elastin production.
Internal: Diet and Nutrition
Collagen can be restored with a well-balanced diet. The following essential vitamins and minerals are vital for producing collagen, but before you shop for any particular supplement, remember you will need only very little amount of each per day, do not over-dose your minerals: Proline, Glycine, Vitamin C, Zinc, Copper.
Collagen Supplement
An alternative to acquire separately for the above essential vitamins and minerals, collagen supplement drinks become simple and handy for our busy lives. Collagen supplements are already broken down which is why supplements are actually more efficiently absorbed than the collagen found in food.
We recommend BLOOM Collagen Complete Drink, which contains Type 1 collagen major in supporting skin health. More importantly, it is an all natural product containing natural citrus flavor, with no preservatives or artificial sweeteners.
Ingredients - 10,000mg of Peptan marine collagen - Wolfberry extract - CoQ10 - Jasmine green tea extract - infused with Young Living Grapefruit, lemon and Lime Vitality (US FDA apprved) essential oils - Skin supporting vitamins and minerals
Benefit - Supports outer beauty from within with liquid marine collagen - 2000da small molecule collagen allows good absorption and assimilation - Rich in antioxidants
How to Use - Drink one bottle a day to support outer beauty from within - Shake well before use
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Source: Young Living, Face Yoga Method
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