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The anti-aging skin care field has boomed, with hundreds of new products being introduced to the market on what feels like almost on a daily basis. This has resulted in what we may call “skin care overload.” People have become overwhelmed and confused by the countless number of ingredients we are told are necessary for anti-aging. It has become impossible to access and apply even a fraction of these ingredients due to the cost and time involved. We feel compelled to buy multiple products every month and layer them on in order to do the most for our skin. But, as we fill our medicine cabinets with creams and serums, we are faced with the daily questions of which shall we use, which are safe and which actually work?

It has been long overdue that the various categories of anti-aging and the anti-aging ingredients themselves be ordered and categorized so that a comprehensive approach to anti-aging may be put into place. Firstly, there are many features to skin aging and people will show one or more features over time, but may differ in the features of skin aging that plague them. For example, some people develop sagging or laxity to the skin due to genetic factors, but may have little or no sun damage. Others may be covered with sun spots but have no sagging or wrinkling. The following is a validated classification scheme which allows for each clinical feature of skin aging to be assessed separately on a 4-point grading scale (mild, moderate, advanced, severe):

Classification of Skin Aging:
Laxity (Sagging)
Wrinkles
Redness
Brown discolorations
Solar elastosis (Yellowing)
Irregular texture
Abnormal growths (keratoses).1

This classification scheme of skin aging includes a severity scale as mentioned above (0=None, 1=Mild, 2=Moderate, 3=Advanced, and 4=Severe) which allows researchers or users to rank each individual person’s skin aging according to feature and severity. This scale was shown to be very useful in testing anti-aging treatments and has been published in the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology.1 Older scales tended to lump different features together into broad categories, which became less useful as treatments became more specific in targeting various facets of skin aging; for example as anti-pigment or anti-redness or anti-wrinkle. With this current anti-aging scale, our anti-aging products may be quantitatively tested to determine which individual categories of skin aging they treat and how effective they are in each category. This also allows us to hone our anti-aging regimen to our needs and to compile or group the ingredients in each category that are most effective so as to cover all categories of anti-aging in a logical manner.

The next challenge was to classify the plethora of anti-aging ingredients on the market based on the features of skin aging that they targeted or treated. I then created a classification scheme of the categories of anti-aging targeted by the ingredients that have emerged over the past decade:
Anti-Wrinkle – DNA Defense – Barrier Fortification
Anti-Redness – Cellular Restore – Emollient/Moisturizer
Anti-Brown Discoloration – Damage Reversal – Pro-Skin Thickness
Anti-Oxidants – Aging Repair – Re-Texturize

With this classification scheme, we can appreciate why people have become so overwhelmed and why they have accumulated shopping bags full of skin creams in order to meet their needs! Nevertheless, as anti-aging ingredients have emerged targeting each of these categories, ideally one would want to incorporate the best ingredients of each category in a single daily regimen to optimally treat skin aging.

Each individual may differ in which category of anti-aging they need most, yet in order to prevent and reverse all the signs of skin aging, it is still optimal for all categories to be covered by an anti-aging regimen. It is important to familiarize yourself with which ingredients fall in each category, so that you can incorporate several of each group into your skin regimen, or look for a product that covers the various categories of anti-aging in a logical way. Examples of key active ingredients shown to yield resulst in each category of anti-aging include: peptides for anti-wrinkles, plant-derived polyphenols and bisabolol for anti-redness, amino acids for anti-brown discolorations, vitamins C, E and ferulic acid for anti-oxidant, DNA repair molecules such as acetyl tyrosine and proline for DNA defense, resveratrol for cellular restore, bark extract or phoretin for damage reversal, Helianthus annuus and Ilex paraguensis extracts for aging repair, dimethicone for barrier repair, glycerin and soy lecithin for emollients, hyaluronic acid for boosting skin thickness, and mushroom extracts and sodium lactate for smoothening abnormal texture.

In sum, the field of anti-aging now has validated classification systems for the various categories of skin aging and for the plethora of anti-aging ingredients so that we can assess and determine which anti-aging actives we want in our medicine cabinet and to make certain that we cover the various categories of anti-aging in our daily regimen. With this scientific basis, we may now intelligently assess anti-aging products for their ability to comprehensively cover all the various categories of skin aging and include the various categories of anti-aging ingredients available. Finally, these comprehensive, validated classification and grading scales provide a framework for solving the anti-aging conundrum with a system for categorizing skin aging and classifying anti-aging actives to make sure you cover all your skin’s anti-aging needs.

(C) NY Derm LLC, 2010.

1) Alexiades-Armenakas, M, et al. Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology 2008 May;58(5):719-37; quiz 738-40.

Dr. Macrene Alexiades-Armenakas M.D., Ph.D., F.A.A.D., Derm-Scientist®, holds three Harvard degrees, a bachelors of arts (BA), a medical degree (MD) and a doctorate (PhD) in genetics, is double Board-Certification in Dermatology in the US and EU and Director of her own Private Practice and Research Clinic in Manhattan. Her 20+ year background in research included plant molecular biology, cell and developmental biology, genetics, photobiology and mammalian stem cell biology. She served as consultant to L’Oreal, ran clinical trials for pharmaceutical and laser companies, and serves as beauty judge to many magazines, including Allure and In Style.

The go-to skin expert for identifying actives proven to deliver results in the laboratory, clinical trials and in practice, she developed a highly advanced technology 37 Extreme Actives® high performance anti-aging cream, capable of suspending and microtargeting the greatest variety and number of proven actives in a single cream, a comprehensive product logically designed to address all the categories of skin aging. The One-Step Skincare Solution™ is the breakthrough that revolutionizes skincare and does the thinking for you. This patented advanced cream technology was designed to suspend and microtarget 37 potent actives in a single cream, which have been proven by independent testing to deliver results in all categories of skin aging.

Age gracefully with anti aging!

Aging is an inevitable process of life. Whether we’re keen on it or not, we may certainly age; grandkids will become grandparents. And as this fact is certainly true, it’s also correct that changes can be noted when we enter old-age. With this, you have got to face the proven fact that your face will start to show its age. However, this is the reason why anti age methods are favored these days; not to put a halt to aging but rather, to let us to age gracefully. This suggests entering old age without having to look and feel old.

Now, there are lot of anti aging strategies and approaches you could use to fight the signs of aging. Let’s take a look at these approaches:

1. Anti aging through disease Prevention. The single smartest thing you can do to live longer and healthier is to do all you can to stop disease and sickness. Age defying isn’t about living to three hundred years of age; it is actually about living so long as possible in good health.

2. Anti Aging through Exercise. Exercise is another great anti aging tool, and not just because it helps fight off illness. Exercise can really make your DNA younger. This suggests folks who exercise more have more fit, younger cells.

3. Anti Aging through Food. Anti aging relies on your body having the correct ‘raw materials’ to fix damage and ensure everything is working right. Eating a solid variety of healthy foods gives those ‘raw materials’ ( AKA antioxidants ) to your body. Further, avoiding the unhealthy food means you body has less ‘clean up’ work to do and can target keeping your cells, tissues and organs in their best working order.

4. Anti aging through Sleep. Getting sufficient sleep has been linked forestalling chronic illness and even living longer. Make sleep a very important part of your life, don’t purloin from your sleep to do other stuff and you’ll be feeling happy and living longer.

5. Age defying Skin Care. The skin, it’s the biggest organ in the body and the very first thing people see when they look at you. That’s why anti age skin care is a market measured in the many millions because of the guarantee of youthful skin.

6. Anti Aging Hormones and additions. An anti aging pill would be wonderful as the majority of these additions produce hormones that aids in anti aging.

Now, speaking of anti age supplements, they are indeed popular in the market nowadays. These supplements, especially those with heavy levels of antioxidants, can stop the consequences of the environment on the skin and even reverse some of the effects over time. This anti aging effect of supplements centers on the free radical damage done to the skin. For your info, free radicals are cellular byproduct from the environmental components including air pollution, sun rays, and stress and water intake. The free radicals build up in the body over time and cause some of the most typical evidence of aging.

However, anti aging supplements help to rule in those free radicals and prevent them from multiplying at a cellular level. Slowly, over time, with the constant use of anti aging additions, anti age of the skin may occur. Those wrinkles may not appear so heavy and the fine lines less recounted. However the user of the anti age supplement should note that the additions will only work as long as they’re taken constantly. Also, everyone has free radicals in the body, there’s no way to escape their production, with the use of anti age supplements like antioxidants, those free radicals don’t have to have such an obvious effect.

To sum up all, these anti aging supplements works from the inside to the outside due to the fact that they increase the production of anti aging hormones that will help you age gracefully. This is perhaps why these products are gaining popularity in the market.

To the contrary, while there are a lot of anti age tablets available in the market, it still pays well to make a wise choice, because not all products are safe to take into our body. With this, getting info about the ingredients of the product you select could help a lot. Don