Antioxidants: What They Have To Do With Fighting Skin Aging

Antioxidants are those substances which prevent the damage done by free radicals on the skin. The free radicals we are most concerned with when it comes to skin are the oxygen molecules that have lost an electron through some form of environmental damage. These molecules in turn float through the body and change other cell internals causing widespread but non-life threatening molecular damage.

What does this have to do with wrinkles?
Wrinkles appear as the support structures and compounds beneath the skin lose their effectiveness. These structures and substances such as collagen and elastin get weaker through cell damage. Free radicals, missing their electron seek to steal it from other molecules making them weaker and when this happens, the skin can no longer be supported and small recesses of sunken skin appear which we call wrinkles.

Antioxidants such as vitamins A,C,E and some amino acids can help prevent this destructive sequence as part of an antioxidants but the jury is out as to how effective they are and whether or not that can truly address the extensive and constant presence of free radicals on the skin.

One skin are product, Coenzyme Q10 has taken a foothold as a key product in the fight against aging skin and damage due to oxidization. Also known as ubiquinone this substance is similar to a vitamin in that it serves as a key element in converting and utilizing energy by cells in the body. Organs that benefit from this, the skin being the largest, are able to regenerate and rejuvenate more quickly providing an extra force against cell aging and structural breakdown.

Coenzyme Q 10 helps decrease cellular oxidation in skin that accompanies aging. CoQ10 enters the layers of the epidermis and reduces the level of oxidation. CoQ10 helps protect against UV light. CoQ10 activates phosphotyrosine kinases which prevents oxidation damage. CoQ10 is a very important natural nutrient for preventing aging skin care.