All cells and organs in your body are not the same age when it comes to function. You can easily see the effects of lifestyle and environmental factors driving aging and chronic illness on your skin. You can see that this hand looks old. The skin is thin. It is fragile. It tears easliy. Minor bumps cause bleeding. Those changes can be simply due to age, but even in 70 year-old individuals, the skin under clothing—the skin that is protected from the sun—looks much younger. If an individual loves sun bathing and smokes, these changes can come at a much younger age. If a more youthful appearance is important to you, the best thing you can do is protect your skin from the sun and avoid cigarettes.
The irony is that when I was a young woman growing up in the Midwest, the thing we did was get a suntan, which in retrospect may have been a very unwise pursuit.
The irony is that when I was a young woman growing up in the Midwest, the thing we did was get a suntan, which in retrospect may have been a very unwise pursuit.