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(viii)  To transmit sensations such as pain, cold and touch – The extensive network of nerves within the skin feeds information constantly to the brain concerning pain and our surroundings. On the one hand, we are thus warned of harmful extremes of temperature or of other dangers, while on the other, touch can be one of the most powerfully soothing and pleasurable of sensations.

Main causeS of Ageing and Wrinkles

Ageing Process

17.  To be alive is to live, to live is to get older, and to get older is to get wrinkles! Wrinkling is not just a superficial process but is actually a roadmap of your overall health and fitness status. The dermis (inner layer of skin) becomes thinner with age because cell division slows down. The network of elastin (the protein which causes the skin to stretch) and collagen fibres (the major structural proteins in the skin), which support the outer layer, also loosen. Around 30’s, you are probably just starting to see fine lines that bracket your mouth and radiate out from the corners of your eyes when you smile, talk or squint. How soon wrinkles appear for each of us and how noticeable they become, depends to some extent on heredity, to a greater extent on diet and also on the natural ageing process in which the skin loses its elasticity and becomes thinner, drier and more fragile.

18.  Our bodies are pre-programmed to age. As we age, it takes both knowledge and a sustained daily programme to maintain the good health and appearance that we took for granted for so many years. The skin ageing is of two kinds. The first is the inevitable, natural, biological ageing – the intrinsic ageing. The intrinsic ageing is largely genetic and includes the natural effects of gravity (skin sag), expression lines, sleep lines and impacts of hormonal changes. The second kind – the extrinsic ageing – is an ageing over which we have certain control.

19.   The natural intrinsic ageing process can be greatly accelerated by the extrinsic ageing process through the way we sleep, speak and exercise and what we eat. It also depends on the excessive exposure to the sun, a fact that is responsible for 90% of unnatural ageing of the skin. One can realise this sun factor after looking at the fact that wrinkling of the face, neck, arms and hands comes much earlier than other parts of the body less exposed to the sun. The other 10% of the accelerated skin ageing is due to certain disease conditions and owing to the way we use our face to express our thoughts, feelings and behaviours. Frowning,