Inflammaging: How Inflammation Prematurely Age Your Skin

Have you heard of inflammation before? If not, here is an overview:

Inflammation: Redness, swelling, pain, and/or a feeling of heat in an area of the body. This is a protective reaction to injury, disease, or irritation of the tissues.

What is inflammaging?

Inflammaging means a continuous, low-grade inflammation associated with aging. Such chronic inflammatory response could build up with time and gradually causes tissue damage. It is considered as one of the driving forces for many age-related diseases such as diabetes, atherosclerosis, age-related macular degeneration (AMD), and skin aging.

It’s difficult to diagnose this issue at its early stage but there are many things that we can do as prevention to protect the aging of our skin and bodies and reduce the risk of chronic age-related conditions overall.