5 Reasons Your Friends Look Younger than You

Emma Watsons and Jennifer Lawrence are born in 1990.

Do you have some fortuitous friends who were born in the same year but they look way younger? Then there are some of the not-so-lucky ones who look more matured and haggard? Are there any scientific reasons behind premature ageing or is it purely based on unhealthy habits? Here are 5 reasons why your friends look younger (older) than you.

DNA Affects Your Biological Clock

Secret's Hana and SNSD Yoona are "same-age friends" born in 1994.

"Each of us has a different ageing speed

due to our inborn genes."

Researchers are now saying that despite being the same chronological age, each of us has a different ageing speed due to our inborn genes. In the study, among those who were biologically older, some appear younger than their actual age and their ageing process also seemed to stretch slower. Out of the numerous factors that affect ageing, as much as 80% are found to be not related to genetic and therefore within our might to decelerate. The other gratifying finding from the study is that the other 20% that's DNA-based is alterable to a certain extent. Don't worry, we are still able to turn the tables around!

A Healthy Diet Loaded with Nutrients

Eating clean and green does not just keep your figure slim and body healthy. The wrinkle-fighting antioxidants in fruits and vegetables plus healthy fats in fish boost you up for the perfectly clear and smooth complexion! Load up on food rich in omega-3 fatty acids such as chia seeds, walnuts, and oily fish, as they help maintain cell membranes by protecting the skin and enveloping it with moisture.

"The polyphenols in green tea

stop harmful free radicals

from damaging the skin and

accelerating the aging process."

Green tea has superb anti-ageing and antioxidant benefits that slows down signs of ageing. The polyphenols in green tea stop harmful free radicals from damaging the skin and accelerating the ageing process. It also flushes out toxins, heals blemishes and scars, reduces inflammation and improves skin's elasticity. This is one of Japanese's open secrets in looking youthful and beautiful.

Regular Exercise and Plenty of Beauty Sleep

Sticking to a regular exercise routine helps to maintain your healthy weight range, reduce stress and keep you staying youthful. When you exercise, your pores dilate and purge trapped impurities and dirt for a clearer complexion. Not only that, working out also helps to open up the tiny arteries in your skin, improve your blood circulation, send more oxygen and nutrients to repair cell damage caused by the sun and environmental pollutants. The nutrients produced during exercise stimulate fibroblasts, the collagen-producing cells in the skin, to work more efficiently making your skin look younger and more radiant.

"The nutrients produced during exercise stimulate

fibroblasts, the collagen-producing cells in the skin,
to work more efficiently making your skin
look younger and more radiant."

Do stay mindful that sweat can cause skin irritations, therefore it is important to keep your hygiene level spark and clean to get a beautifully clear complexion.

As you snooze your way in Slumberland, you are getting plenty of beauty-boosting benefits. This 7 to 9 hours a night rest leave you not just looking radiant and refreshed, this is also the optimal time when many skins, hair, and body products are most effective because they penetrate better when you are asleep.

Say No to Smoking

A pocket-size cigarette contains more than 4000 toxic chemicals, many of which are known to damage collagen and elastin, the fibers that furnish your skin with strength and elasticity. Are you aware that a cigarette also contains skin-destructing carbon monoxide and nicotine? Carbon monoxide ousts the oxygen from your skin, nicotine curtails blood circulation causing parched and discoloured complexion. Smoking also depletes many nutrients including vitamin C, which helps to protect and repair skin damage.

"The longer duration and
the more cigarettes

you inhale,

the more crinkles
you are likely to end up with."

The longer duration and the more cigarettes you inhale, the more crinkles you are likely to end up with. Crowned as one of the main causes of facial wrinkling in both men and women, smoking is on par with ageing. Unless you want to accelerate the ageing process of your skin, gain more wrinkles faster and be plagued with premature skin damages, you better stop smoking now.

Extra Help from the Aesthetic Doctor

Sometimes, we've reached the point where we just need the magic touch from the powerful hands of the aesthetic doctors. An aesthetic doctor performs minimally invasive and non-invasive procedures to enhance one's appearance within the span of a few hours with little to zero downtime. You'll be surprised how some people stay the same even after 10 years, the truth is that many of them may have received aesthetic help since their early 20s. Here are some of the best "skin-freezing" aesthetic treatments:

Rebuild lost collagen - Dream Sculpture

Power of Dream Sculpture: Look 5 years younger naturally

"Dream Sculpture uses poly-L-lactic acid

to replace lost collagen

resulting in a more supple, lifted and

youthful-looking complexion

gradually over the course of 2 - 4 weeks."

The loss of collagen starts at one's 20s and is one of the determining factors to visible facial ageing such as sagging, wrinkles, and loss of elasticity. Collagen is a fibrous protein found in the deep dermis that provides the solid base structure to the skin and supports the functions of elastin and hyaluronic acid (HA). Elastin keeps the skin supple; HA lubricates to keep the skin hydrated.

"The optimal result of Ultherapy will

take place naturally and gradually
over the span of 2 to 3 months or more."

Ultherapy is a FDA-approved painless and non-invasive aesthetic procedure that uses medical ultrasound to image and treat the skin deep below the surface, without affecting the outer layer. During this comfortable treatment, one may feel a warm prickly sensation when the ultrasound energy hits the skin. The skin responds naturally to the energy by producing new collagen resulting in tighter and more lifted skin from deep within over time. The optimal result of Ultherapy will take place naturally and gradually over the span of 2 to 3 months or more. This treatment is also Jennifer Aniston's open secret to look so fabulous as always.

"Silhouette Soft threads are biodegradable,

meaning that it leaves no trace in the body

over a period of time."

Silhouette Instalift is a minimally invasive treatment to lift the droopy skin with 100% bio-absorbable threads. The principal component of Silhouette Instalift is Polylactic acid (PLA), a well-known polymer that has been used for biomedical and pharmaceutical application due to its biocompatibility.

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