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Aging with no wrinkles? It now looks possible, and daily Vit-C is the key.
While consumers spends billions of dollars every year slathering various costly ointments on their face to ward off wrinkles, a startling new study strongly suggests that the wrinkle-free dream may be both achievable and cost-efficient.
Ironically, it has nothing to do with rubbing expensive creams on your skin…so put your wallets aside and let’s review the findings of researchers from Yonsei university in Korea.
Researchers ran their experiment using SKH-1 hairless mice, which are models for skin aging — as they age, their skin wrinkles just like humans.
The experiment was done by administering daily vitamin C to the mice, from the human equivalent of 0, 400mg and 1600mg per day. This was done for six months, at which point the mice had all become the human equivalent of middle aged.
What the researchers found was striking — skin appearance of the middle aged mice was a direct linear response to the amount of vitamin C they had been supplemented with.
Middle-aged mice with no Vitamin C supplementation had the usual wrinkled skin, the ones with 400mg…