What fruits contain collagen?? Wat can we do to prevent skin sagging?

Answer 1

10 Foods to Fight Wrinkles
From The Mirror comes this list of 10 foods you MUST eat to fight the combat of wrinkles:

Spinach

For skin that looks 38 per cent younger in just a few weeks, add dark green leafy veg such as spinach, cabbage and kale to your diet every day.

Packed with an antioxidant called lutein. You need 10mg to get results - which equates to about 4oz of spinach or 2oz of kale. Recent French research suggests this will boost skin hydration and elasticity, fighting wrinkles.

Beans

Help your body produce a vital anti-ageing substance called hyaluronic acid. Aim for at least two tablespoons of beans each day - broad or butter beans make a great substitute for mashed potatoes.

Goji Berries

Skin-guru Dr Howard Murad claims they're the most "nutritionally dense food on the planet". They have nearly 500 times more vitamin C per ounce than oranges - and vitamin C helps you make the collagen that keeps skin firm. They also contain linoleic acid, an essential fat that plumps skin up, making it look and feel younger. Available at Holland & Barrett, they're most commonly used in smoothies or sprinkled over cereal but also good in salads.

Turkey

Contains a vital skin-friendly protein called carnosine that slows down a process in the skin called cross-linking. When this happens, fibres grow into the collagen of the skin making it stiff and inelastic. This then stops it snapping back when you do things like smile, laugh or frown - and this is what causes smile lines or crows feet. Eat turkey two to three times a week.

Flaxseed

You can gulp this oil down by the spoonful, mix it into smoothies or add it to balsamic vinegar and use it as a salad dressing, but try to have a tablespoon each day.

"Flaxseed is a major source of the healthy fat omega-3," says Suzi Grant, author of Alternative Aging "Skin cells are surrounded by a fatty layer made from this and other fats so, the higher your omega-3 intake the stronger that layer is, and the plumper your skin cells are - which helps disguise lines and wrinkles."

Prunes

One of the biggest causes of skin ageing is attack by substances called free radicals, that break down healthy skin tissues. Nutrients called antioxidants help neutralise these free radicals before they can do any damage - and prunes are the fruit containing the absolute highest level of antioxidants. Blueberries are a close second. Eat five to six prunes, or a small punnet of blueberries, daily to get a great health boost.

Beetroot

This is the top choice of independent nutritionist Carrie Ruxton: "It's not only a great source of antioxidants, all purple foods contain pigments called anthocyanins that help support collagen production in the skin," she says.

Olives

Australian researchers recently discovered the more olive oil people had, the less wrinkled their skin looked. A healthy fat, oleic acid actually soaks through the membranes of skin cells plumping them up, which then makes fine lines and wrinkles less noticeable.

Chocolate

Chocolate really is good for your skin. In studies in Germany, it was found that after drinking a cocoa-packed drink, blood flow to the skin was boosted (meaning it gets higher levels of nutrients and moisture). It also seemed to be more protected against UV damage - the number-one skin ager. Only dark chocolate contains enough antioxidants to have effects, though.

Red Peppers

Sweet potatoes, carrots and more. Research from Dr Ronald Watson at the University of Arizona has found that the antioxidants in red, yellow and orange foods build up under the skin creating extra UV protection. "The effect is so strong that eating six portions a day for about two months will build a natural barrier equivalent to a factor four sunscreen," says Dr Watson.

Answer 2

Foods That Contain Collagen

Answer 3

Ingesting foods with collagen doesn't work. Instead try foods with antioxidants. I have regular chemical peels; and regardless of what some people say, they do not hurt. If they did hurt I wouldn't keep getting them. Also, check the labels of your cleansers and toners, if they contain alcohol throw them out. Alcohol will completely dry your skin and encourage dry, sagging skin. Try using a moisturizer made to combat aging. Also Lancome's Sensation Totale works really well. The c-complex is really good for this also, especially around eyes.

Answer 4

The main structural component of the lower layer of the skin (Dermis) is a protein called collagen. Bundles of collagen molecules pack together throughout the dermis, accounting for three-fourths of the dry weight of skin. Collagen is also responsible for the skin's strength. Collagen is produced by cells called fibroblasts, which are found scattered throughout the dermis.

Collagen is a connective tissue and is the cement that holds everything together-the primary mortar between the bricks of all of our smooth muscle tissues such as blood vessels, digestive tract, heart, gallbladder, kidneys and bladder, to mention just a few. Collagen, along with elastin, is a key structural component of bones, cartilage, tendons, the skin, lung tissue and blood vessels. Collagen provides structure and firmness to body tissues, while elastin provides flexibility to those same tissues.

As aging occurs, cellular proteins hook together or change shape. These changes keep the proteins from doing their jobs properly resulting in a loss of collagen and less firmness to body tissues. This process eventually leads to wrinkles. Thus, one important target of wrinkle prevention and elimination regimen is to reduce collagen breakdown and increase its supply. This task is achievable but you have to go about it in the right way.

Stimulating skin cells to produce collagen can partly reverse this process. Stimulating collagen synthesis in aged skin was shown to reduce wrinkles and improve skin texture.

First, vitamin C is essential for the synthesis of collagen , a key structural protein of the skin. Adding vitamin C to a culture of skin cells (fibroblasts) dramatically increases the synthesis of collagen. Secondly, vitamin C is an antioxidant and can help reduce skin damage caused by free radicals. So, when vitamin C is properly delivered to skin cells, there is a good chance to reduce wrinkles and improve skin texture.

Please keep in mind that taking large amounts of vitamin C orally is of little benefit for reducing wrinkles because you cannot orally obtain high enough concentration of vitamin C in the skin to notably increase collagen production.

Answer 5

It's best to put the fruit inside of you than on the outside. Look to find the cause of oily skin rather than constantly trying to rectify it. Eat more fruit n veg, less fatty foods and drink loadsa water.

Answer 6

Well, I use this range of pdts call Petalsence and it helps my skin to firm up becuase they have nano particles from some deep sea algae (like creme lamere) that will deeply penetrate your skin and help your skin become more supple and radiant.. and it is reasonably priced as well.

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What fruits contain collagen?? Wat can we do to prevent skin sagging?

Answer 8

i don't think fruits contain collegen...my understanding is that it comes from human and animal fat.