Youth — it’s so brief in the context of the average lifespan, but it’s the physical state in which most people want to remain. Of course, you can undergo surgeries or have serums injected into your face and body to recapture that youthful look, but there are other, less invasive ways to remain young looking.
For best results, start using these methods while you are relatively young. Your older self will thank you for it.
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Stay Out of the Sun
If you want your skin to stay youthful-looking, stay out of the sun. It’s tough if you’re a beach or general outdoors lover, but it doesn’t mean you have to avoid those venues.
Just make sure to wear plenty of sunscreen with an SPF level of 30 or more, sunglasses, and a hat covering your face. Avoid going outside during the hottest part of the day, and do no tanning; that’s just cooking your skin and exposing it to large amounts of ultraviolet radiation.
If you want to sport tanned skin during warm weather, use makeup designed to give you that bronzed look. Besides preventing skin damage leading to wrinkles and premature aging, staying out of the sun lessens your odds of developing skin cancer.
Brewer’s Yeast
By the time most people hit their late 30s or early 40s, gray hairs are sprouting. If you want your hair to remain its natural color and gray-free well into your 50s and beyond, make brewer’s yeast part of your daily diet as early as possible.
This yeast is used in the process of beer-making, and it’s full of B vitamins and essential trace minerals. It’s an inexpensive supplement available in tablet and powder forms. Not only does brewer’s yeast help prevent graying, but it aids in keeping your skin smooth and healthy.
Vitamins for the Skin
Part of staying healthy and looking young is eating the right diet. In addition to consuming healthy foods and exercising regularly, supplementing your diet with certain vitamins helps maintain good skin.
The best anti-aging supplements include vitamin E, an antioxidant that reduces the number of free radicals, the reactive molecules that can harm all cells. These unstable molecules attack the skin’s collagen, the protein which aids in keeping skin firm.
Another antioxidant, vitamin C, also battles free radicals and improves the level of collagen production in the body.
The eight B-complex vitamins improve skin and hair, among other functions, and consist of biotin, folic acid, niacin, riboflavin, and pantothenic acid, as well as B1 (thiamine), B6 (pyridoxine), and B-12(cobalamin). Always ask your health care provider before taking any supplements or vitamins.
Tretinoin
Lots of over-the-counter products promise wrinkle reduction, but only tretinoin is scientifically proven to reduce these lines. It is available by prescription, although insurance companies usually won’t cover the costs; tretinoin isn’t cheap, but it’s worth every penny.
Marketed under various brand names, including Retin-A, Renova, and Tretin-X, the product can dry your skin, but applying a moisturizer once the tretinoin is absorbed usually takes care of that issue.
Since you should avoid sunlight exposure when using tretinoin, use it only at night. Within a few weeks, and definitely within a few months, your skin should look younger and healthier. Maintaining a youthful appearance takes effort, but as one ad campaign says, you’re worth it.
With the exception of tretinoin, all of these proven methods for staying young-looking also help you stay healthy. Good health is the key to life, no matter your chronological age.
