Aging, including skin aging, is a problem affecting more and more people

One of the main challenges of modern society in the 21st century is the fight against aging, defined as a set of physiological mechanisms that alter the physical and intellectual capacities of human beings [01].

Population aging is an important factor in today’s demographic, especially as the world population of adults over 60 years old is increasing significantly at global level, thanks to a growing level of well-being spread in more and more countries, and is growing faster than all the younger age groups, thus increasing the imbalance towards the elderly population, increasingly relevant at a percentage level worldwide.

This trend was first observed in the second half of the 20th century in high-income countries such as the USA, Canada, Europe and Japan. Since the end of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st, progressive aging has also manifested itself in other countries as a consequence of increased wealth and consequently better welfare services such as those in China, Taiwan, South Korea, Singapore, Malaysia, Mexico, Brazil, India, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates [02].

Although it is good to remember that in many cultures age is associated with a form of wisdom and therefore respect, in developed societies and countries aging is more often a source of concern because of the increasing prevalence of diseases related to it, such as cardiovascular diseases, type II diabetes, dementia, cancer and chronic and degenerative inflammatory processes.

Chronic diseases of aging affect almost all organs, including our skin, which empties and loses elasticity, highlighting wrinkles, laxity and stains.
Demographic changes with the increasing incidence of the elderly population also lead to complex clinical pictures that reduce quality of life and cause several pathologies that weigh heavily on the health system and more generally on economies welfare costs, with important social implications [03, 04].

The human body comprises highly complex structures, networks of tissues, organs, proteins and genes whose balance deteriorates during aging; among these our skin is certainly important. The human skin is the most extensive organ of the body, it is in practice our border line on which we constantly suffer attacks from many external agents such as ultraviolet, hot/cold excursions, pollution and therefore suffer from changes both inside and outside the body. In practice, our skin is an extremely interesting model for evaluating the global aging phenomena of our body [01, 04, 05].

Taking care of our body by adopting correct lifestyles, with balanced nutrition, without smoking and with a moderate consumption of wine (resveratrol is an excellent adjunct in anti-aging therapies) helps to reduce the aging of our skin, giving it a better and younger look.

Simultaneously, treating the skin with Biodermogenesi® [06] allows to recover the correct hydration and production of sebum and improve its aesthetics, turgor and color uniformity, while the normalization of pH will help the skin, and consequently our whole body, to defend itself against bacterial and microbial attacks from the external environment.