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the skin saviour
I t’s time to stop loading cosmetics on your skin, instead start from the inside out for youthful, glowing skin. Collagen constitutes 25 per cent of your body’s protein. The most common form is type I, found in the skin, bones, tendons, ligaments and parts of the eye. The most important role of collagen in the body is providing the structural ‘scaffolding’ that surrounds cells and supports cell shape so they can develop and function, just as steel mesh reinforces a concrete block. Collagen plays a vital role in the health, growth and repair of all body tissues, including the skin, mucous membranes, ligaments and tendons, as well as bones and cartilage. Collagen also exhibits antibacterial, cholesterol-lowering and immune-regulating activity and acts as an antioxidant, blocking free radicals and protecting skin cells from ultraviolet (UV) radiation and reducing the signs of photo- ageing. Collagen’s structure gives skin its strength and durability, and is a vital part of the internal framework or structure that is responsible for smooth, firm, beautiful
skin. A decline in collagen, however, leads to wrinkles and the appearance of aged skin. Wrinkle prevention With age, the skin’s level of collagen drops by around 1.5 per cent each year. This is due to two factors: one, a natural decline in collagen production, and
the underlying epidermis. Combined with other skin-ageing factors, such as nutritional deficiencies, exposure to environmental toxins like cigarette smoke and UV radiation from the sun, you have the perfect recipe for wrinkled, sagging skin. The answer, strangely enough is to supplement your diet with collagen, the best form being obtained from fish. Vitamin C also enables the rebuilding of your skin collagen, while skin-loving vitamins A and E along with minerals zinc and silica support the repair and growth of skin, hair and nails. You can protect your skin’s collagen levels by avoiding radiation from the sun, thereby minimising free radical damage. But also vastly increasing your intake of these skin protecting antioxidants, obtained from fruit extracts further reduces the damaging impact of free radicals hitting the skin surface. For battling other causes of skin deterioration, and the exposure to environmental toxins that you cannot avoid, a nutritional supplement like Morlife’s Antiox Beauty Collagen will help to optimise natural skin function and ward off signs of ageing. Check the box “Fact file: Collagen” to ensure your supplement measures up.
Users of collagen beauty supplements report seeing improvements in a few weeks, and they are amazed by the results. Users report actually feeling their skin is noticeably improved, not only does it look better but it ‘feels’ better too. One person explained, ‘oh wow! I am in love with my skin.’
two, an acceleration in its degradation, thanks to increased activity by the enzyme collagenase. Without collagen, our skin dries and wrinkles form from not being ‘fed’ from
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