Are you living a high-stress life? Is your nutrition optimal or a little off? Is a quality night’s sleep hard to come by? Are you exposed to environmental toxins? If you answer yes to any or all of the above, it’s highly likely that you’re experiencing a degree of excess inflammation in your body. The cascade effect of this inflammation has the ability to age you prematurely from the inside out. So, what exactly is “inflammageing” and how does it impact your skin? A dive into examining what’s going on in the body below skin surface level, plus understanding how to protect yourself from the damaging effects of cellular inflammation, is a beauty and wellness secret you’ll want to know about. Here’s the science behind mitigating inflammation in order to slow the clock on ageing.
Ageing vs premature ageing
Physiological ageing is inherent to the natural cycle of being human. Over your lifespan, cellular processes and your body’s ability to repair and regenerate slows down. This results in myriad changes to various systems in your body. When it comes to beauty, the thing most people are invested in preventing is the ageing of the largest organ — the skin. With age, your skin thins and becomes less elastic and more fragile. The fatty tissue that offers youthful “padding” just below the skin also decreases. This results in
