Your skin changes as you age:
- wrinkles, age spots and dryness;
- thinner skin that loses fat, becoming less plump and smooth;
- slower healing.
What speeds it up
- Sunlight is a major cause. Protect yourself by:
- staying out of the sun when it's strongest;
- using sunscreen with SPF 15 or higher;
- wearing protective clothing;
- avoiding sunlamps and tanning beds.
- Smoking adds wrinkles — more with the number of cigarettes and years smoked.
Treatments
Many products claim to revitalize aging skin or erase wrinkles, but the Food and Drug Administration has approved only a few for sun-damaged or aging skin. Various treatments can soothe dry skin and fade age spots.
Sources
Based on "Skin Aging," MedlinePlus, U.S. National Library of Medicine, drawing on the NIH National Institute on Aging; a work of the United States government in the public domain.
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