What is anti-glycation? Glycation is also one of the culprits of aging.

In recent years, women have paid special attention to anti-aging. It is generally known that anti-aging starts with anti-oxidation. However, everyone only knows one side of the story but not the details. In fact, anti-aging requires both anti-oxidation and anti-glycation. So what is anti-glycation? Let’s take a look and learn more about it!

What is anti-glycation

The saccharification reaction was discovered accidentally in 1912 by French chemist LC Maillard. When glycine is mixed with glucose and heated, it turns into a brown substance, which is the saccharification phenomenon. The anti-glycation effect mainly refers to the impact of sugar on protein molecules. In skin care, the main impact of sugar is on the collagen and elastin in the dermis - glycated collagen and elastin will lose their physiological functions and their support and elasticity to skin tissue, causing the skin to show signs of aging. Therefore, once the skin is glycated, it will look old, so we need to resist glycation and allow the skin's collagen and elastin to restore their physiological functions, thereby making the skin reach a younger state, which is also a way of anti-aging. Anti-glycation, diet and sugars/carbohydrates for anti-aging. If you want your skin to be young and firm, you need to keep the collagen and elastin in your skin elastic so that your skin is not prone to sagging and wrinkles. Sugar is one of the killers that accelerates the aging of the skin and body.

Effects of glycation on the skin

Irreversible

There is a very cruel fact: skin glycation will accompany you throughout your life as long as you keep liking to eat high-sugar food, and it is irreversible. That is, once the collagen is broken, it cannot be restored and it can’t go back, it will only get more serious.

Acne

Too much sugar will cause the body to secrete more male hormones and more oil, making it more prone to acne breakouts, so what the textbook says about eating less sweets is really useful.

Sagging, wrinkles

As we said before, after collagen is glycated, the elasticity of collagen fibers will decrease rapidly, skin elasticity will deteriorate, and sagging and wrinkles will appear immediately. In severe cases, it is similar to what we often call "face collapse."

Dark yellow

The process of collagen destruction is accompanied by a darkening of color, which is what we call dull and yellowing.

What ingredients are anti-glycation

Ingredients that have been scientifically proven to inhibit glycation reactions, such as aminoguanidine, pyridoxamine (a type of VB6) or aspirin, are often used as medical means to prevent glycation in diabetic patients. In skin care, although there is currently no reliable scientific research background to support anti-glycation ingredients, some plant extracts are believed to be able to be used as anti-glycation ingredients in skin care, such as Centella asiatica, green tea extract, etc., but further scientific confirmation is needed. The key to anti-glycation is to eat less sugar. Many health products claiming to fight glycation have been proven to be unable to reverse AGEs. Don't think that you can feel at ease after taking so-called anti-glycation pills and oral liquids. Since glycation reactions rely on oxidation reactions, antioxidant ingredients, especially a combination of fat-soluble and water-soluble antioxidant ingredients, are also one of the important means of anti-glycation. Therefore, antioxidant ingredients such as VE, VC, VA, polyphenols, anthocyanins, etc. can also be said to have anti-glycation effects.