Skin ageing is a natural process, and it starts earlier than most people expect. The protein that keeps skin firm and full is collagen, and after about the age of 25 it falls by roughly one percent a year. As it drops, skin begins to loosen, fine lines appear, and wrinkling slowly sets in.
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Slow your skin's ageing before you need Botox
What speeds all of that up is the ordinary, everyday things: uncontrolled sun exposure without sunscreen, the stress most of us carry, and skin that is simply not looked after properly. Left alone, that is accelerated ageing.
The useful part is that it can be slowed. Collagen-boosting and collagen-rejuvenating procedures, started early rather than late, help the skin repair and replace what it is losing. PRP is a common and cost-effective one, using your own blood; collagen boosters and exosomes are others. Each puts proteins and the building blocks of collagen back into the skin, so it reads as younger, with fewer fine lines.
Kept up over time, these delay the early need for Botox, fillers and thread lifts. Which collagen booster suits you is a consultation question, not a one-size plan, because it depends on your skin. The point of starting early is simple: it is easier to keep collagen than to chase it once it is gone.
Associate Professor Dr. Lubna Rani Faysal
MBBS (Gold Medalist), FCPS (Dermatology), MHPE · 13 years in dermatology
