How do I reduce my wrinkles?

Wrinkles develop more and more as we age, but that doesn’t mean we can’t slow their progression and reduce their severity.

For the biggest improvement of your wrinkles, start with these three tips. For more ideas, keep reading!

Top 3 Tips to Improve Skin Wrinkles

1. Protect your skin against sun exposure. Always apply sunscreen, and wear caps and hats as much as possible.
2. Take specific supplements that are healthy for the skin: copper, zinc, vitamin C, vitamin A, B-complex vitamins, and omega-3 fatty acids are all important ingredients the skin needs to thrive.
3. Take specific supplements that have scientifically proven to slow down aging and that can also reduce wrinkles. These are supplements like: alpha ketoglutarate, glucosamine, glycine, and oral hyaluronic acid containing acetyl-glucosamine. NOVOS Core contains all these ingredients and more. 

Additional tips to improve skin wrinkling:

• Hydrate the skin: this means drinking a lot of water and using hydrating skin creams twice daily. You can also drink green tea or white tea, 100% pomegranate juice and zero-sugar cacao drinks, which all have shown to improve skin health. 
• Consume a healthy diet. This means a lot of vegetables, fruits, nuts, fatty fish, legumes, mushrooms. Avoid unhealthy fats and too much sugars and carbs. Click here to learn more about a healthy longevity diet. 
• Do not smoke.
• Drink (very) little alcohol. Alcohol is converted in substances that damage DNA and stem cells, also in the skin. Drink maximum one glass of alcohol per day, and include alcohol-free days. 
• Reduce stress. Stress causes accelerated aging of the skin and can even accelerate hair greying. Scientists found out why here. 
• Get enough sleep. Find more than 50 tips to sleep better here. 
• Take supplements and foods that reduce inflammation. When we get older, our body becomes more and more inflamed (this is called “inflammaging”). This inflammation also damages the skin. Herbs like ginger, turmeric, oregano, cinnamon, garlic, and thyme reduce inflammation. So take omega-3 fatty acids (whether from supplements or foods like fatty fish, walnuts, chia seeds or flaxseeds), pterostilbene, fisetin, olive oil and green tea and white tea. 
• Avoid repetitive facial movements. If you always frown your forehead, or squint your eyes, or raise your eyebrows you will get more wrinkles in these areas. Become aware of these automatic muscle contractions and try not to do them. Try to relax your face more.  
• Use skin creams: unfortunately, most skin creams only have a very small effect on skin aging, they mainly hydrate the skin and give it a bit of radiance so the skin looks superficially somewhat better. Creams with very high doses of vitamin A derivatives or vitamin C have shown to reduce wrinkles somewhat. But they don’t tackle the real cause of wrinkles sufficiently: aging. 
• Exercise more. Exercise improves blood circulation to your skin, and improves the immune system, and releases all kinds of substances that repair the body.   
• Ever heard of sleep wrinkles? That is what you can get if you sleep too much on your belly or on your side, pushing parts of your face hard into your pillow for hours on end during the night. Try to sleep more on your back, or if you are a belly sleeper, try at least to sleep more on your side. Also use a pillow that is not too rough. Use finely woven pillow covers, or pillow covers made from silk. 
• Prevent cleaning your skin too much and too harsh: soaps, specific oils, and other detergents can actually dry out or always remove the thin oily layer that is naturally present on your skin.
• Micro needling: puncturing small holes in the skin, so that the skin repairs itself more which could also improve wrinkles. See a cosmetic center for trained practitioners. 
• Dermabrasion: scraping of the skin, so that the skin repairs itself more which could reduce wrinkles. 
• Botox injections. Botox is a substance that prevents the nerves from activating the muscles in your face. You move less facial muscles, so you get fewer wrinkles. 
• Laser therapy: laser light to stimulate skin cells and also kill them so the skin repairs itself more.
• Chemical peels: using chemicals to remove the upper layers of the skin, which then repair and regenerate the skin. 
• Facelifts, including micro-face lifts. 
• Injections with regenerating substances like platelet-rich plasma (PRP from “Vampire Facials”) or stem cells.