How Anti Aging Supplements Can Keep You Looking Young?
July 3, 2009 by Marecris
Filed under Anti-aging basics
There is scientific evidence that getting enough antioxidants in your skin care routine will help you look younger. A French study concluded that women who consumed vitamins C and E, and betacarotine were almost 25% less likely to get new wrinkles and lose almost 10% of the wrinkles they had. Antioxidants are known to protect the collagen and elastin in the skin from damages caused by free radicals.
You can get antioxidants from foods that are high in oxygen radical absorbence capacity (ORAC). Such foods include blueberries, broccoli, Brussel sprouts, cranberries, kale, plums, prunes, raisins, raspberries, and spinach. You also need to make sue you get enough vitamin A. If you are low on vitamin A, your skin care routine will not work as well. Vitamin A helps your skin grow and renew skin cells. The skin cells are replaced constantly and the old ones come off revealing the new skin cells. Vitamin A has antioxidant properties and also improves the health of the layer of fat below the skin. Vitamin A improves the condition of your skin and prevents damage to the skin.
You may not have enough Vitamin A if your skin is dry and rough, your skin is breaking out, your skin is very delicate and prone to getting wrinkles, your skin texture is not good, and your fingernails are weak and break easily. The key thing about vitamin A anti aging supplements is you should only take in the amount that is recommended per day or else too much will build up in the body. About 10000 IU of vitamin A each day is what is recommended.
Another of the important anti aging supplements is vitamin C. Vitamin C improves skin condition by increasing collagen. If you don’t have enough vitamin C, your skin will age faster and possibly have UV damage. The recommended daily amount of vitamin C is between 500mg to 2000mg.
ALA or alpha lipoic acid is another one of the important anti aging supplements that works very well when taken with vitamins C and E, and co-enzyme Q10. ALA is not actually an antioxidant but it helps with recycling other antioxidants you take in. ALA also helps reduce inflammation in the body and increases resistance to insulin. Resisting insulin is important for preventing obesity and heart disease. Having enough ALA in the body means glucose is taken out of the blood faster. ALA is also helpful for stopping fibers from cross linking and that slows down the aging process and reduces wrinkles.
The body does produce ALA but not very much. The ALA that our body makes helps create energy in the cells. The only way to get the antioxidant benefits of ALA is to have more in the body than is needed by our cells to work normally. As you get older, your body produces less and less ALA. A benefit of having enough anti aging supplements like ALA is that it is fat- and water-soluble. That allows it to help your entire body. The majority of antioxidants are not soluble in both fat and water. Vitamin A is one of the anti aging supplements that is fat soluble while vitamin C is water soluble. You need about 50mg to 100mg of ALA anti aging supplements per day but you should talk to your doctor before taking ALA if you are pregnant or nursing.

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