The Ultimate Anti-Aging Vitamin - HealthpediA
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While there is a debate about what one single vitamin helps to fight the effects of aging the best, there are a few that are shown to help fight signs and symptoms that come with age. Vitamins A, C, and E are all proven to combat the effects of time on body and skin. Vitamin K is also seen to be a wonderful anti-aging vitamin, stronger than any of the other three vitamins, but much less well-known.
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Antioxidants are known to provide benefits to the skin by neutralizing what are called free radicals. Free radicals are oxygen molecules that are unstable because they have only one electron instead of the two they should have. They are a natural result of body processes, but they bounce around inside the skin until they find a second electron to steal from another molecule, and this molecular battle causes wrinkles and lines in the skin. Environmental factors like smoking and sun damage to the skin can increase free radicals’ number and damage.
Vitamins A, C, and E are all common ingredients in skin care creams, rinses, and lotions. The absorption rate varies with these products, but antioxidants that are absorbed into the skin smooth lines and wrinkles by getting rid of the free radicals that help cause them.
Vitamin K, although less well-known, is seen by many to be the ultimate anti-aging vitamin because it has effects on the rest of the body as well as just the skin. It is a more powerful antioxidant than vitamins A, C, and E. It will help prevent degenerative disorders such as osteoporosis and heart disease. Many people suffer from a lack of vitamin K, even though it is produced naturally in the body: in the blood, and within the heart, lungs, liver, pancreas, and kidneys.
Vitamin K helps to reduce the amount of Interleukin that is produced naturally through the aging process. This hormone increases inflammation everywhere in the body and has been linked to arthritis, heart diseases, and Alzheimer’s. Also, called Il-6, Interleukin production is always in effect within the body, but is sped up through the aging process.
Vitamin K also combats hardening of the arteries, called arteriosclerosis. The introduction of calcium into arteries forms harmful lesions that slowly break up the arteries and keep them from functioning as they should. Vitamin K is shown to reduce the amount of calcium that gets into the arteries and also reduce damage to the heart valves from this process.
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