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Troll_Bait
Joined: 04 Jan 2006
Location: [T]eaching experience doesn't matter much. -Lee Young-chan (pictured)
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 Posted: Tue Oct 03, 2006 10:37 pm Post subject: Women's skin ages faster than men's: study |
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Women's skin ages faster than men's: study
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Women's skin ages faster than men's, according to a German study using a new laser-based technique to measure damage from sun exposure and aging.
The study, published in Optics Letters, a journal of the Optical Society of America, was based on a new technique in which doctors shine pulses of infrared laser light to look at the deeper layers of the skin and measure aging.
The imaging of collagen and elastin, whose degeneration causes wrinkles and loss of smoothness, found that women lose collagen faster than men.
"The dependence appeared to be sex-dependent, with women's skin losing collagen at faster rates than men's," according to the researchers from Germany's Freidrich Schiller University in Jena and the Fraunhofer Institute of Biomedical Technology in St. Ingbert.
Collagens are a group of proteins in the dermis, the connective tissue layer of the skin, and are responsible for the strength of skin. The human body makes a lot of collagen in youth but production declines with aging.
Currently, dermatologists who want to examine a patient's collagen network in the dermis have to remove a sample of tissue and look at it under a microscope.
Authors of the study said this new non-invasive test might one day help in testing anti-aging cosmetic products as well as in the study of skin diseases that affect the collagen structure.
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CabbageTownRoyals
Joined: 14 Sep 2006
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| Posted: Wed Oct 04, 2006 3:35 am Post subject: |
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Booo
Slightly related: whats going on with the Korean SKKII skin care range, its been on the news all time time in Korean, I don't know what the scandal is... Anyone followed that? |
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sillywilly
Joined: 20 Jan 2003
Location: Canada.
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| Most of the girls I know look less wrinkly than their male counterparts. it could be that they take better care of their skin, though. On the other hand, males can get away with more wrinkles. So unfair |
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Hollywoodaction
Joined: 02 Jul 2004
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So does this mean that women are wasting their money on all those cosmetics? My wife would probably argue that this means she must buy more of the expensive stuff.  |
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Guri Guy
Joined: 07 Sep 2003
Location: Bamboo Island
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I am curious about those Hi, Collagen drinks you can buy at convience stores.
It says it has 1,000 mg of Collagen in them. Do they actually do anything? They come in two flavours, apple and peach. They actually don't taste too bad. Anyone have any thoughts? |
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djsmnc
Joined: 20 Jan 2003
Location: Dave's ESL Cafe
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Grimalkin
Joined: 22 May 2005
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| Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2006 3:35 am Post subject: |
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...or snake oil? |
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Grimalkin
Joined: 22 May 2005
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| Guri Guy wrote: |
I am curious about those Hi, Collagen drinks you can buy at convience stores.
It says it has 1,000 mg of Collagen in them. Do they actually do anything? |
Quench your thirst maybe? Apart from that the collagen they contain has no benefit for your skin. Consuming collagen to improve your skin has no more effect on your skin than eating skin would! |
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Grimalkin
Joined: 22 May 2005
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Booo
Slightly related: whats going on with the Korean SKKII skin care range, its been on the news all time time in Korean, I don't know what the scandal is... Anyone followed that? |
There was a scare that the Korean SKKII skin care range made in China contained toxins. |
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Hollywoodaction
Joined: 02 Jul 2004
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| Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2006 5:06 am Post subject: |
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| Guri Guy wrote: |
I am curious about those Hi, Collagen drinks you can buy at convience stores.
It says it has 1,000 mg of Collagen in them. Do they actually do anything? They come in two flavours, apple and peach. They actually don't taste too bad. Anyone have any thoughts? |
You just bought yourself a very weak sports drink. Collagen is a protein, so it will get broken down into amino acids in your digestive system. Enzymes and stomach acidity break down proteins into amino acids because they are just too big to enter the blood stream. That's why insuline (you got it, a protein) is injected. If it was taken orally, it would become food...like the collagen in your drink. Sure, some of the amino acids could be used to make collagen in your body, but it's unlikely. The amino acids that make up collagen are also found in other proteins. Glycine, for example, is the same whether it comes from a steak or collagen. |
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princess
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: soul of Asia
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| I've heard it has something to do with the fact that men shave their faces, which exfoliates the face, removing dead skin cells. Women's answer to this is using exfoliating products on their skin. I was just telling my Mom that I don't think many Korean women age that well. I can't recall seeing any Korean ajummas who look as good as Bo Derek. She looks GREAT for her age. She has nice, long hair, not the "typical" ajumma 'do. |
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