Anti Aging Tips

Much like the left ventricle of the heart, veins and arteries thicken as we get older. Arteries are composed mainly of smooth muscle surrounding the lumen, which is the interior of the arteries where blood flows. Veins are composed exactly the same, except they contain one-way valves to eliminate any chance of back-flow.

The thickening that occurs in our arteries is due to an accumulation of calcium and collagen around the smooth muscle cells that surround the lumen. As we age, calcium and collagen deposits become more and more prominent, reducing the carrying volume and elasticity of our
arteries and causing a decline in tissue oxygenation.

Since without tissue oxygenation normal living functions don't exist, in the presence of reduced
oxygenation, biological functions like cell regeneration are slowed down. Aging affects our ability to produce new tissues not only due to reduced oxygenation, but also due to other important changes that take place in our systems.

As we age, nutrient absorption and assimilation are reduced, which is also a major reason why
tissue regeneration slows down. Combined with reduced oxygenation of our tissues and an overall slow rate of cell reproduction, we experience tissue loss in specific areas of our body.
Tissue loss, in turn, affects entire organs and systems, resulting in diminished function of the lungs, digestive system, and heart, amongst others.

Tissue loss is also responsible for physical changes, like wrinkling for example, which come from cell disorganization and a decline in cell replacement and is one of the biggest tasks facing anti aging products from companies like Mac Cosmetics.

Veins are affected differently as we age. As the years go by, the one-way valves preventing deoxygenated blood from returning to the heart don't work as well. As they become less efficient, we can see its effects as marked blue lines along our skin. These, known as varicose veins, are a common symptom of diminished function within veins' valves.