You could end up spending a fortune on anti-ageing products, but is there a simpler way to maintain your youthful look? It turns out, there are certain foods that aren’t only bad for your wellness, but take their toll on your appearance and so simply avoiding certain foods can help you to combat the signs of ageing from the inside out. Firstly, sugar is a major culprit in making you look older. When you have excess levels of sugar in your body, the sugar attaches to your collagen which makes your skin look stiff and inflexible. In her book, Diet Myths Busted; Food Facts Not Nutrition Fiction, Ann A. Rosenstein writes, ‘losing this elastic resilience of young skin will give the skin deep wrinkles and make it look old.’ She adds that trans fats work much the same way, making your skin look old because ‘trans fats clog and stiffen the arteries and smaller blood vessels.’ Salt is another dietary ingredient which ages you. Salt dehydrates your body, which makes you fatigued and looking more tired and worn out. Excess levels of salt also contribute to kidney disease, high blood pressure and interfere with bone metabolism, so it’s a big no-no for your overall wellbeing. Another dehydrating aspect of your diet is coffee, as caffeine also makes your look and feel tired and worn out. According to The Dr Oz Show, consuming too much alcohol also dehydrates your body, leading to face full of wrinkles, redness and puffiness, with a lot less collagen. If you’re thinking you can simply replace your usual with an energy drink, think again. Dr Oz asserts that energy drinks damage the enamel in your teeth eight times more than fizzy drinks do, and this makes your teeth look yellow and unhealthy. When it comes to fizzy drinks, they tend to dehydrate your body and make you look older as they are high in sugar. GalTime.com advises water as the best replacement for fizzy drinks, energy drinks, caffeine and alcohol: ‘A good rule of thumb is to drink half your body weight in ounces. So if you weight 130 lbs, you need 65 ounces of water a day – just over eight cups.’ The website also notes that fried food contributes to collagen break down in your skin, which makes you look wrinkled and worn out.

In these contemporary times, more and more people are making use of modern technological advancements to improve their appearance and reverse the signs of ageing that can detract from one's confidence and self-esteem. Although many treatments for wrinkles exist, anti-wrinkle injections have become particularly prevalent. If you are considering getting anti-wrinkle injections to decrease or entirely remove the appearance of wrinkles, you should learn as much about them as possible. In so doing, you can determine if having anti-wrinkle injections is the right method for you to use.   To gain a deeper understanding of whether or not anti-wrinkle injections are a safe course of action for the removal of wrinkles, it is important to learn basic facts about them. In short, anti-wrinkle injections are what many consider to be a safe treatment for the emergence of wrinkles generated through muscle movement. Derived from a toxin found in cultured bacteria, anti-wrinkle injections are used in doses small enough to preclude the recipient from having systemic challenges. When the procedure is administered, the anti-wrinkle injections are placed into the muscles that are causing the emergence of wrinkles. (To attest to the safety of these small doses, proponents of anti-wrinkle injections state that much more potent doses are administered to children for the treatment of movement disorders. These large doses are safe, they say.)   Once you gain a basic understanding of what anti-wrinkle injections are, it is important that you consider several frequently asked questions about them. One question that people often ask is if the administering of anti-wrinkle injections will cause an individual to lose some or all movement and expression in the face. According to proponents of the procedure, the latest trends in the treatment allow the recipient to retain movement in parts of the face. This amounts to the individual maintaining an animated and refreshed appearance. While anti-wrinkle injections will result in you no longer being able to frown, they will permit that you laugh, smile, and look surprised.   Although anti-wrinkle injections have many benefits, there are several drawbacks that may make one want to pursue a more natural form of treatment. For example, anti-wrinkle injections usually last for about 4 months. After that point, the lines begin to return. And while the minimization of wrinkles tends to last longer with each treatment that the recipient has, the perpetual injection of chemicals into the skin can pose problems for individuals who are uncomfortable with needles or simply do not want to continually have a surgical procedure performed.   In addition to the fact that anti-wrinkle injections require continual procedures in order to keep the appearance of fine lines minimal, the procedure can engender side effects such as headache, temporary redness, slight nausea, bruising, or swelling. One final drawback of anti-wrinkle injections is the costs. Depending on your personal financial state, you may not be able to afford the prices. A rough estimate for anti-wrinkle injections that will tackle frown lines is $300, and treating the forehead costs $150.   In recognizing some of the drawbacks of anti-wrinkle injections, individuals interested in attaining smooth skin may be interested in alternatives such as anti-wrinkle creams. Some of these creams can be very expensive and are often sold over-the-counter, making a prescription and the extra costs entailed by seeing a doctor unnecessary. Anti-wrinkle creams often work through a formula containing Vitamin A, Retinol, Vitamin E and Pro-Vitamin B5. These components work within the skin to address the site where the wrinkles develop.   Another alternative to anti-wrinkle injections is adopting a healthy diet. As many wellness experts know, the antioxidants in colourful vegetables and fruits preclude unstable molecules from doing damage to healthy cells. This is important because damaged cells generate signs of ageing, including the emergence of wrinkles.   Once one considers the viable alternatives to anti-wrinkle injections that exist, the appeal of more natural mediums through which to improve the smoothness of one's skin increases. By adopting an alternative, one can preclude the emergence of wrinkles without paying exorbitant costs or enduring the side effects of the procedure.   This post comes from Dr. Farah Meher-Homji at the Cosmos Clinic, you can also find her on Dr. Farah's LinkedIn, as well as her ZoomInfo page.

One of the many features of getting older is wanting to look younger. We’re very rarely entirely satisfied with our lots in life and it’s in all of our natures to strive for that little bit more. In many respects this is fantastic; it has made us into the planet dominating force we are as a race. However, individually it can make us quite easily depressed. It’s very rare that we achieve everything we could possibly want in life and even the people that we view as ‘having it all’ tend to want something more. That said, there’s plenty you can do to look and feel much younger for much longer and it doesn’t have to cost you the world to do so. Your skin is the part of your body that people see most. It has to be tough to protect us from the elements and as we get older this protection starts to take its toll. There are all sorts of things that you can do to make sure your skin says soft and healthy; it doesn’t have to look its age. Getting into the habit of regularly exfoliating, moisturising and cleansing your skin will help to keep it looking its best. Trying getting yourself onto an anti-inflammatory diet as this has been known to be a great help to youthful looking skin. Replace your caffeinated beverages with peppermint tea and you’ll be delighted with the effects! Your hair is another part of your body which people are going to see a lot of. As we get older each individual strand of hair will start to grow in much more wiry, making us look older. If you see a stylist or hairdresser and change your hairstyle to match your new hair type you should be able to counter this. There are also all sorts of hair nutrition products which you can use to keep your hair looking and feeling glossier for longer!

Unfortunately, at some point in your life your skin will lose its bounce and the folds will begin to set. This is an inevitable process that comes with ageing, but that hasn’t stopped beauty wellness experts from trying to delay the process nonetheless. You have several anti-ageing options if you want to maintain a youthful look, and advancements in dermal fillers, laser skin resurfacing, and acne treatments continue to make aesthetic medicine safer, less painful, and more effective than ever before. This is according to the spring issue of New Beauty magazine, but Dr Simon Ourian, Medical Director of Epione Beverly Hills, is sceptical about their effectiveness. ‘I like to think that I work on the cutting edge of aesthetic medicine,’ he said. ‘But in truth I will always wait for sufficient data to be collected before I introduce new devices or products to my patients. The innovations discussed in the article are interesting but I’m not ready to add them to my practice just yet.’ One of the new devices discussed in the article is a new kind of dermal filler, which uses pressure driven by CO2. Until now, dermal fillers have only been administered with needle injections, but this can make you more susceptible to swelling and bruising. The new dermal filler, on the other hand, allows your doctor to easily control the flow of the treatment and more accurately place fillers. But the anti-ageing wellbeing boosters don’t stop there. One device now on the market allows your doctor to determine your skin type and how your skin will respond to laser treatment. This information will enable your doctor to calibrate the laser to the proper parameters, which will ensure safe and successful treatments. The device minimised your risk for complications and improves the efficacy of the treatments by factoring in your skin tone, melanin levels, and sun exposure. If lasers and fillers aren’t your cup of tea, then how about a new anti-acne pill? Manufacturers say the pill eliminates your need to eat fatty foods and is easily absorbed by your body. However, the pill is only to be used in cases of extreme acne and is currently only available via prescription.  Dr Ourian commented, ‘I’m glad to see that the article made note of that the anti-acne pill may have significant side effects. It’s important for patients to know these risks before they start any drug regimen.’