If you think anything like me, then thinking about putting one more candle on your birthday cake every year is something that makes you cringe with dread.
Certainly there are some good things about getting older, like gaining much needed wisdom, and the cake is a treat as well.
But getting wrinkles, age spots, and the steady loss of a firm, supple and youthful appearance? Absolutely not.
I was a maniac about trying to find a way to reverse time (or at least reduce how fast it was going) when it came to how I looked that I invested a lot of time and money on different anti-aging skin care items that guaranteed to do just this.
The most notable are those products which are heavily marketed as having collagen and elastin in them.
Now I am a reasonably educated person, at least I thought I was.
I am aware of what collagen and elastin is.
Collagen and elastin are two important proteins that are pivotal to keeping the skin looking young, firm and supple.
I have read material about how the main issue with getting older is as this happens our body starts to reduce the speed at which we make these two proteins.
This is what causes the steady decline of the skin.
Knowing all of this, I figured it made sense that collagen and elastin creams would work as I was told by the cosmetic companies.
After all if the only problem is a loss of collagen and elastin, then solving this problem would be as simple as using products that have them in them, right? This is not the case, after I threw thousand of dollars down the drain on different collagen and elastin creams, and did not get any results at all, I made the choice to look a little harder.
I performed some research.
I found out that these creams never really had a chance of being successful, because the collagen and the elastin are able to be taken into the body.
These two proteins have molecules in them that are simply too big to get through the skins outer layer! Even if a way existed for these proteins to pass through the skin, they still would not work.
This is because our collagen and elastin system is very complex in nature.
We would not be able to utilize any collagen or elastin we took in topically.
All of this might sound very discouraging, but I discovered something important when doing my research.
The way to keep our young looking appearance still resides in having more of the proteins collagen and elastin.
The technique we would use to achieve this is different though.
Rather than utilizing products that have collagen and elastin in them, we would utilize products that help our body's to make these.
You will be happy to hear that these products are currently out there on the market, and they have substances inside of them that will do just this.
I talk more about my amazing finding on my website.