Aging Skin is Vulnerable to Eye Bags
Your skin is an amazing organ and for many years has been coping with environmental insults such as smoke, pollution, sun-exposure, poor diet choices, stressfull events in your life, and swelling from fluid retention and/or weight gain. For example, every menstration cycle causes some degree of fluid retention that stretches your skin.
Young elastic skin can simply recover its origional shape much like a rubber-band that has been stretched then released. Over time, however, environmental insults begin to permanently attack the collagen and elastin structures that are essential for maintaining your skin's elas
ticity so that it is unable to recover. Every stressful event you have endured has resulted in the production of a homorne called Cortisol which results in increased breakdown of your collagen network. As if that weren't enough, simply breathing oxygen results in glucose molecules binding to and hardening the collagen and elastin network (this process is termed "glycosylation"). As these structures begin to wear down and lose flexibility, skin begins to sag, wrinkle, and remain puffy everytime fluid builds up.
Goodbye healthy skin-- Hello puffy under eye bags!!
