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Collagen Treatment
Collagen, a structural protein found in skin, provides strength to the skin and is responsible for giving that smooth, young and healthy radiant appearance. In technical terms, it helps provide support and shape to our body cells. About 33% of the protein in our body is collagen.
How collagen is related to beauty?
It is inevitable that with age, our skin will gradually lose its natural elasticity giving rise to wrinkles, lines. The rate and age at which they appear depend on a number of factors such as heredity, lifestyle. This is because of decreasing collagen levels in our body and decline in collagen production in our body. The final result is a wrinkled face and aged skin.
How to protect current collagen level and prevent further decrease ?
The degradation and recycling of old, damaged collagen is a healthy natural process. It occurs continuously though out our lives but as we age, the level drops down due to an increase in degradation. But you can cut down on the decline by -
- Avoiding exposure to ultraviolet radiation of the sun. UV rays contribute most to premature ageing of skin. Whenever out use a sunscreen (SPF 15 or more ) and take other necessary precautions like wearing a hat, using anti-UV sunglasses.
- Prevent free radical damage by use of oral and topical antioxidants. These anti-oxidants fight free radical from UV light, ozone, pollution, and prevent degradation of collagen.
- Eat a good, healthy balanced nutritious diet full of fresh fruits and green vegetables. They contain lot of anti-oxidants which will protect the healthy functions and build up of collagen protein.
Natural collagen synthesis can be stimulated by -
- Use of chemical exfoliates - stimulates cell renewal.
- Intake of vitamin C.
- Supplementing with specific peptide fragments which boost collagen production.
Collagen skin treatment -
- Collagen injections have been proven to be a safe and effective method to reduce appearance of facial lines and wrinkles and give a more youthful look.
- Tests for allergy essential
- Avoid exposure to sun after taking collagen injection.
- Persons suffering from diabetes or autoimmune disease like HIV/AIDS, cancer, heart problem should not take collagen injection.
- Lot of collagen creams are now available in the market. Though the improvement by these creams is not very substantial but they serve a good complimentary ointment to other skin treatments.
- Collagen capsules are also available in the market. General dosage is 400mg capsules. Their recommended dosage is three capsules per day. By using collagen capsules to stimulate collagen synthesis, your whole body becomes more youthful from within, whereas collagen injections only work locally.
Collagen injection treatment programme is customised. It depends on age, skin type/condition, area damaged and amount of damage.
Precautions -
A word of advice - Before going for any kind of collagen skin treatment it is always better to consult your doctor because effects and side-effects of any treatment is person specific - varies with different skin types.