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<h1 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #008c93;">Anti Aging Skin Care Treatments &#8211; Reality Or Illusion ?</span></h1>
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<p>A quick look at the marketing presentations for the elite, big name skin care companies would have you believe that their <strong>anti aging skin care treatments</strong> turn back the hands of time and make you look “years younger”.</p>
<p>In fact not long ago I saw a commercial from a leading, global skin care company, claiming that their  Retinol products are <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>“ a breakthrough treatment clinically proven to give 10 years back to the look of your skin”.</strong></span> Wow!</p>
<p>SMOKE AND MIRRORS?</p>
<p>No matter where you look in the anti aging industry you can see similar claims being proudly highlighted for all kinds of miraculous &#8216;fountain of youth&#8217; type products. Of course  what we consumers really want to know  is:</p>
<p><strong>DO THEY ACTUALLY WORK?</strong></p>
<p><strong>Any of them?</strong></p>
<p><strong>Or is it all just make believe – smoke and mirrors – snake oil ?</strong></p>
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<p>Well, the truth be told it&#8217;s part reality and part illusion! Let me break it down for you.</p>
<p>For the majority of anti aging skin care skin treatments these claims are just pure fantasy (as any of us aging baby boomer&#8217;s know all to well).  <strong><span style="background-color:#ffff66;">A careful examination of the majority of skincare formulas  reveal that the pitifully small concentrations of the key active ingredient(s)  means there&#8217;s no way they could duplicate  proven results from clinical research and studies.</span></strong></p>
<p>Most of them do make your skin feel great and look decisively better just after you&#8217;ve applied them BUT what about when you wash them off or don&#8217;t apply them? The reality is that the saggy skin, blemishes, fine lines and hardcore wrinkles are still there – unchanged!</p>
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<h1 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #07606f;"><strong><span style="color: #07606f;">These ridiculously small concentrations barely qualify the active ingredient(s) as active ingredients!</span></strong></span></h1>
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<p>Notice I said <strong>“majority”</strong> of products? There are some chemical free, anti aging skin care products out there with the formulas and necessary levels of leading key actives to truly help with firming up your skin and structurally reducing fine lines and blemishes.</p>
<p><strong><span style="background-color:#ffff66;">It&#8217;s also true however that you must be a realist in accepting that there are limitations to what even the most effective products can do by themselves.  The reality is you need more than just a &#8216;one track&#8217; topical skincare approach in your anti aging efforts. A comprehensive, three part, &#8216;inside-out&#8217; anti aging skin care system  is what you need to produce the most effective results.</span></strong></p>
<p>Naturally, you want to know which anti aging skin care treatments will work the best. That will require you to understand what causes your skin to age. So, let&#8217;s get straight to it. <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>There are 3 fundamental causes of skin aging </strong><span style="color: #000000;">and any anti aging skin care treatments whose formula does not contain ingredients which address ALL THREE (for starters) is not worth your attention and definitely not worth your money.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #07606f;"><strong>1. The actions of free radicals</strong></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #07606f;"><strong>2.  Reducing  levels of hyaluronic acid</strong></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #07606f;"><strong>3. Loss of collagen and elastin</strong></span></span></p>
<p>These are the culprits that cause your wrinkles, blemishes, saggy dull skin, and all the other superficial signs of aging!  <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>The key to understand here is that these three causes are interrelated and unless you address all of them at the same time you will not be successful with your anti aging program.</strong></span> That&#8217;s why an effective anti aging skin care cream MUST have an ingredient base which can tackle all three!</p>
<p>In this article I will address the first cause in the list above &#8211; Free Radicals. No doubt you&#8217;ve heard the term <strong>“free radicals”! </strong>Understanding and combating the action of free radicals is a vital step  in avoiding premature aging, premature death from major degenerative disease and  for maintaining healthy, clear and firm skin as you age.</p>
<p>Despite the fact that they age us, free radicals are natural and play an essential role in a healthy human body !  If you&#8217;ve every cut open an apple and left it exposed to the air then you&#8217;ve seen free radicals at work. They attack the apple and the skinless parts quickly turn brown as they decompose. This is a process called oxidation &#8211; the very same process that&#8217;s going on inside you with every breath you take.</p>
<p>Free radicals are a class of molecules in your body.  Unfortunately, as far as aging is concerned, they are unstable. So, your body makes an effort to balance the problem. To do this, the unstable molecule swipes a part (an electron) from a neighboring stable molecule and so becomes stable. But in a catch 22 situation the healthy molecule which lost an electron now in turn becomes a free radical. Free Radicals can attack DNA, leading to dysfunction, mutation, cancer and create the conditions for the onset of debilitating degenerative diseases including heart disease.</p>
<p>Since many chemical reactions in your body inevitably produce free radicals, <em><strong>their production is continuous and inescapable.</strong></em> They&#8217;re not only inside you but outside as well. Twenty first century living means your health is impacted by environmental and dietary toxins and stressors every single day. Free radicals are one such example!</p>
<p>Now, let&#8217;s look at the impact of free radicals on your skin. If you&#8217;re well read you will no doubt be aware of the critical importance of maintaining high levels of HEALTHY collagen  in your skin. <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>But free-radical attacks on your collagen cause cross-linking of protein molecules which leads to stiffness in your tissue.</strong></span> As a result your skin begins to lose it&#8217;s suppleness and tautness. Since collagen stays in your skin for many years these free radical attacks continue and the damage is cumulative- it builds up, up, up <strong>and your skin deteriorates and ages more, more,  more!</strong></p>
<p>Since we can&#8217;t stop free radicals completely, that leaves us with the <strong>option of  managing their numbers so as to reduce the destructive impact from oxidative stress on your health.</strong> That&#8217;s where anti-oxidants come in. We all know that anti-oxidants are the good guys because they &#8216;give up&#8217; a spare electron to the free radical thereby eliminating it!  So, it seems obvious then that we need to take  lots of antioxidants into our bodies!</p>
<p><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>But anti-oxidants are not all equal. Some are really powerful while others are far weaker. </strong></span>And  it&#8217;s important to understand that there are different types of free radicals in different parts of your body which can only be neutralized by different antioxidants. So, it makes sense to take in a wide range of antioxidants so you have the dynamic synergistic effects of a large network of antioxidants working throughout your body.</p>
<p>To be significantly more successful with your anti aging efforts you should make sure to prioritize the most powerful antioxidants into your daily nutritional intake. So, <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>which are which? </strong></span>The well known vitamin antioxidants, like Vitamin C and A, are fairly weak (and cheap). Vitamin E is a well established exception &#8211; it&#8217;s a potent antioxidant and crucial to skin health. There are numerous antioxidants but the following 8 have been established as the <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong><em>MOST POWERFUL:<br />
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<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #07606f;"><strong>L-Glutathione</strong></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #07606f;"><strong>CoQ10</strong></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #07606f;"><strong>Grape Seed</strong></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #07606f;"><strong>Green Tea</strong></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #07606f;"><strong>Gingko Biloba</strong></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #07606f;"><strong>Alpha Lipoic Acid</strong></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #07606f;"><strong>Lutein</strong></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #07606f;"><strong>Bilberry</strong></span></span></p>
<p>The problem here however is that most of these are either not present or exist only in insufficient quantities in our diets. That&#8217;s why  21st century  nutritional intakes  must be supported with a  multi nutrient nutritional health supplement.</p>
<p>The market&#8217;s most effective health supplement formulas contain ALL of these powerful antioxidants. But commonly you&#8217;ll be lucky to find just two or three of them in most multi vitamin or nutritional vitamin supplement formulas. <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>The type of nutritional supplements you use ultimately makes a huge difference in the results you&#8217;ll get. </strong><span style="color: #000000;">If your budget allows you should use science-based,           <a class="alignleft" href="http://www.nutritional-supplement-truths.com/Total-Balance.html" target="_blank">premium grade health nutritional supplements</a></span></span></p>
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<p>Now, let&#8217;s relate this to your skin. As you have probably figured out, what we are looking for is the inclusion of  these strong antioxidants in skin care formulas. <strong>This is a key point of difference between the most effective anti aging skin care treatments and the less effective ones. </strong>The antioxidants from our list above which are used in anti aging skin care products are:</p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #07606f;"><strong>CoQ10</strong></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #07606f;"><strong>Grape Seed</strong></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #07606f;"><strong>Green Tea</strong></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #07606f;"><strong>Alpha Lipoic Acid</strong></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #07606f;"><strong>Lutein</strong></span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #07606f;"><strong>THREE KEY CRITERIA TO CONSIDER BEFORE YOU PART WITH YOUR CASH<br />
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<p>When comparing brands before buying you need to consider <strong>three crucial factors</strong>:</p>
<p><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>Safety </strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>Effectiveness </strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>Price</strong></span></p>
<p>There&#8217;s many nasty industry secrets that you absolutely need to know when it comes to skin care product safety! Use this link to read my earlier post about <a href="http://www.skincare-antiaging-secrets.com/skin-care-products-and-dangerous-ingredients/" target="_blank">skin care products and dangerous ingredients</a></p>
<p><strong><span style="background-color:#ffff66;">When looking at the &#8216;effectiveness&#8217; angle of anti aging skin care treatments, your most important task is to make sure a product contains ingredients to address all three fundamental causes of skin aging.</span></strong></p>
<p>For starters you now know the most effective ingredients for treating one of these causes &#8211; free radicals.  In my next two posts I&#8217;ll discuss what to look for in respect of the other two causes.</p>
<p>Finally, you have to consider the <strong>PRICE and VALUE FOR MONEY.</strong></p>
<p><em>Are you a savvy shopper who none-the-less  has spent a small fortune over the years yet failed to see any tangible and SIGNIFICANT anti aging benefits in your skin.</em><strong></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="background-color:#ffff66;">All elite anti aging skin care creams are ridiculously over-priced.  That&#8217;s because they are not priced according to the cost of producing them but rather at the highest level the market will bear!</span></strong> It&#8217;s all too common for them to build in a &#8216;hype premium&#8217; for supposed new breakthrough ingredients (for example Idebenone &#8211; a synthetic analog of CoQ10 &#8211; for which no comparative studies exist!)</p>
<p>There&#8217;s simply no need to pay $70, $80, $100 or more for an anti aging skin care treatment. <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>Sadly, what is usually the case is that the more expensive a product is, the really effective ingredients are included in way smaller (ineffective) doses. </strong></span>You see, the elite brands are manufactured to a set price. When you add in the tremendous costs associated with the marketing and distribution methods used, as well as the <strong>greed of shareholders</strong>, these companies simply <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>cannot afford to formulate highly effective formulas.</strong></span> (Just imagine if they had to print the dose amounts for all ingredients on the bottle!)</p>
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<em><span style="color: #07606f;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Over the years these giant multi nationals have skillfully educated consumers into believing that the more pricey a skin care product is,  the more effective it must be. This is simply NOT TRUE !</span></span></em></p>
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<p><strong><span style="background-color:#ffff66;">Thankfully, there are some reputable skin care manufacturers out there, (they&#8217;re always smaller companies) who greatly reduce fixed expenses by selling direct to the consumer and price their products according to the cost of manufacturing them while also settling for a fair profit. This is a smart strategy – produce the most effective anti aging skin care formulas possible, give great value for money and keep profit margins low!  This way there is no incentive for other companies to copy.</span></strong></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #07606f;"><strong>The Anti Aging Skin Care Treatments Which Get My Vote And Make Up The Core Of My Own Anti Aging Skin Care System</strong></span></span></p>
<p>To finish up I&#8217;d like to tell you about the highly effective anti aging skin care treatments I personally use. These formulas are currently unmatched in the market. <strong>It&#8217;s important to keep in mind that  I worked for a skin care product manufacturer.</strong> I learned a great deal of the science behind anti aging skin care products &#8211; from the chemists and scientists who formulate them. I&#8217;ve reviewed hundreds of anti aging skin care treatments.</p>
<p>Oh, and I  got to know all the <strong>industry secrets and shortcuts </strong>as well &#8211; the things skin care manufacturers definitely don&#8217;t want you to know! They&#8217;re sprinkled throughout my posts on this website.</p>
<p>The manufacturer is &#8216;<span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>Xtend-Life.&#8217; A medium sized family owned company based in New Zealand.</strong></span> All their flagship products contain the &#8216;BIG THREE&#8217;. These are the in demand, cutting edge  anti aging ingredients right now for skin care formulas.</p>
<p>My friends (and spies) in the skin care industry tell me that most of the elite skin care companies are currently gearing up to incorporate these three ingredients into their products. (But they have long lead in times when creating and launching a new product so it will be about 1- 2 years before the &#8216;BIG THREE&#8217; start appearing in the elite brands.)</p>
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<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #07606f;"><strong>THE  BIG THREE:</strong></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #07606f;"><strong>** CYNERGY TK™</strong></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #07606f;"><strong>** Nanobelle CoenzymeQ10</strong></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #07606f;"><strong>** Phytessence Wakame</strong></span></span></p>
<p>Read about the skin care benefits of these <a href="http://xl.xtend-life.com/skincare/Overview.aspx" target="_self">super ingredients</a></p>
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<p>Here&#8217;s the exact reasons why I chose the anti aging skin care treatments from Xtend-Life as the core of my own personal anti aging system.</p>
<p><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>1. MOST EFFECTIVE INGREDIENTS.</strong> The &#8216;Big Three&#8217; and other highly effective support ingredients.<br />
<strong>2. 2-3 TIMES MORE OF THE ACTIVE INGREDIENTS </strong> than most other brands.<br />
<strong>3. NO CHEMICALS WHATSOEVER! </strong>All ingredients are natural and the products are <strong>PURE ENOUGH TO EAT!</strong><br />
<strong>4. COST ABOUT A  HALF TO A THIRD </strong> of the (moderately priced) elite brands.</span></p>
<p>I&#8217;ve yet to find any other anti aging skin care products which come even close to matching these four factors.</p>
<p>So, if you  have the time and don&#8217;t mind doing research please use the information from this article to do your own analysis of anti aging skin care treatments. If you would like to research the Xtend-Life range of anti aging skincare products I&#8217;ve included a link below which will take you straight to the product range page on the Xtend-Life website.</p>
<p><a href="http://xl.xtend-life.com/skincare/Overview.aspx">Xtend-life cell rejuvenation technology</a></p>
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<p>Are you currently using (or considering how to piece together) some form of effective <strong>anti aging skin care system</strong> to slow down the effects of aging and keep you looking your best?</p>
<p>Regardless of whether you&#8217;re young, middle aged or in your senior years people naturally want to look their best.  And more importantly, we absolutely <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>DON&#8217;T WANT TO LOOK OLD BEFORE OUR TIME!</strong></span> Unfortunately, that&#8217;s exactly what&#8217;s happening in western society and it&#8217;s a <strong>direct consequence of living in the ultra modern, twenty first century.</strong></p>
<p>Civilized western lifestyles, compounded by the continually increasing effects of inescapable daily exposure to harsh and dangerous environmental and dietary toxins and stressors have resulted in a <em><strong>&#8216;</strong>speeding up&#8217; of the  rate at which we naturally age!</em></p>
<p>The clinically established outcome of this precipitous health disaster, (which is still in the making), is the <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>EARLIER AND EARLIER ONSET OF DEGENERATIVE DISEASE!</strong></span> This is clearly visible in the ever rising statistics for the incidence of all major degenerative diseases at younger and younger ages. Health conscious consumers have evidently woken up to this as exemplified by  the skyrocketing profitability of the anti aging products and nutritional supplements industries in recent years.</p>
<p>But, living in a civilized society isn&#8217;t all gloom and doom for our health and beauty! The exciting truth of the matter is that with the technology and knowledge now available it&#8217;s not difficult to <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>defy nature and look way younger than your chronological age. </strong></span>No doubt you&#8217;ve seen many examples of people in their 40&#8242;s looking like they&#8217;re in their late 20&#8242;s (and others in their 40&#8242;s looking closer to 60 years old!)</p>
<p>For along time these age differences have been put down to the <strong>“it&#8217;s in the genes” theory</strong> but this is now largely discredited by mainstream science. Most scientists now generally agree that genetics probably doesn&#8217;t play more than around a 10% role in the general manner and appearance of our health  as we age (and a persons inner health naturally reflects on their physical appearance!).</p>
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<p><strong><span style="background-color:#ffff66;">So, let&#8217;s go straight to what you need to know!</span></strong> To put together an anti aging skin care system  in the most effective manner, capable of significant tangible results, and without extreme measures like plastic surgery,  <span style="color: #ff0000;"><span style="color: #000000;"><em>you must establish a system based on three crucial and interrelated parts</em>:-</span><strong> </strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #07606f;"><strong>** Lifestyle</strong></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #07606f;"><strong>** Nutrition </strong></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #07606f;"><strong>** Cell Rejuvenation Topical Skin Care </strong></span></span></p>
<p>If you expect real success with an anti aging skin care system you absolutely need to do more than just buy expensive &#8216;elite&#8217; skin care products.  Let&#8217;s look at the three parts involved in a sensible, science based anti aging system. (in no set order!)</p>
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<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #07606f;"><strong>Your Anti Aging Skin Care System:- Lifestyle</strong></span></span></p>
<p>The various  components of your regular  lifestyle and any new lifestyle choices you make will have a fundamental and significant impact on how you look as you age. This of course is obvious to most people but the fact remains that lifestyle is an integral part of any anti aging skin care system and can&#8217;t be ignored.</p>
<p>Obviously there are way too many &#8216;age increasing&#8217; lifestyle examples to discuss here so let&#8217;s just look at three of the worst, well known examples. It&#8217;s (extensively) <strong>scientifically established that you&#8217;re going to age before your time if you are a heavy smoker.</strong> Even low level smoking  increases your aging processes, bringing you closer to degenerative disease. If you drink alcohol heavily in addition to smoking then you&#8217;re simply going to get there waaaaaay faster.</p>
<p>Stress is definitively linked to accelerated aging. One obvious cause of stress, for a large majority of  people, is an incessant desire for increased financial gain – a factor which is inextricably woven into modern day lifestyle decisions.  So, reducing stress becomes a critical factor in your anti aging efforts. That&#8217;s where exercise can be helpful because it has the capacity to reduce stress for most people!</p>
<p>Exercise  is an inherent component  of the lifestyle section of a successful anti aging skincare treatment system but the key is <span style="color: #000000;"><strong>MODERATE EXERCISE! </strong></span>Heavy exercise results in substantially increased oxygen intake which in turn significantly increases <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>FREE RADICAL PRODUCTION  &#8211; ONE OF THE FOUR FUNDAMENTAL CAUSES OF HUMAN AGING! </strong></span>If you do love engaging in heavy exercise then you must seriously increase your daily intake of antioxidants to counter increased free radical production.</p>
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<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #07606f;"><strong>Your Anti Aging Skin Care System :- Nutritional Intake</strong></span></span></p>
<p>“You are what you eat”! We&#8217;ve all heard this saying and pretty much most people these days understand that it couldn&#8217;t be more true (despite the way they continue to eat!).</p>
<p>If your regular diet is significantly full of processed foods then don’t expect your skin to look good as you age (and don’t expect to enjoy good health either!). It&#8217;s a diasterous fact that <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>processed food accounts for around 90 % of the US food supply!</strong></span> Processed food  is low in, and in many cases near devoid of,  key nutrients in comparison with fresh raw food. This includes essential vitamins and minerals in addition to other extremely  important nutrients that keep your body and health functioning as nature intended.</p>
<p>Your body is designed to function optimally based on a regular intake of a wide range of essential nutrients in certain &#8216;optimal&#8217; amounts. Without these,  the conditions for the onset of degenerative disease are established.  If your diet is primarily based on processed foods then its a given that you&#8217;re not taking in all the nutrients your body requires. <strong><span style="background-color:#ffff66;">All those life shortening diseases and debilitating health conditions you fear and don&#8217;t want to happen are probably going to, simply because you&#8217;re setting the conditions which allow them to take root and overwhelm your body&#8217;s defenses.</span></strong></p>
<p>Now, let&#8217;s relate this specifically to your skin!  If you&#8217;re not receiving the &#8216;correct&#8217; amounts of essential nutrients on a DAILY BASIS  your skin will <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>LOSE ELASTIN AND COLLAGEN on a progressively FASTER basis. </strong></span>An insufficient supply of  anti-oxidants from all that  processed  food will also have a profoundly destructive effect on your skin.  The sagging, blemishes, wrinkles and so on which you so desperately want to avoid or offset, will arrive before time and to a far greater extent than is necessary (and controllable).  There&#8217;s no &#8216;fountain of youth product or pill&#8217; out there which can significantly overcome this increased deterioration of your skin while requiring no change to a  nutrient deficient diet.</p>
<p><strong><span style="background-color:#ffff66;">The bottom line is that you MUST take action to protect your skin from the INSIDE OUT! </span></strong>(and of course you&#8217;re improving your health at the same time!) <em>That&#8217;s where certain professional grade nutritional health supplements can play a critical supporting  role. </em>If you&#8217;re serious in generating the most <em>effectiveness</em> from your anti aging skin care system then you must eat a lot of fresh and preferably <em>raw </em> foods (replacing processed foods). Cooking, of any kind, <em>destroys a number of key enzymes</em> so, the more raw foods you can handle the better. (My own diet is around 75% raw!)</p>
<p>While this &#8216;diet&#8217; section of your anti aging skin care system may be obvious to many, the reality is that the &#8216;average&#8217; health conscious person is simply not going to do a complete 360 and take up a near perfect diet. So, the market leading nutritional health supplements can supply you with  missing or insufficient  nutrients. The more comprehensive the formula the better.</p>
<p><strong><span style="background-color:#ffff66;">The most effective supplement formulas have  ingredients from <span style="font-size: medium;">ALL THESE CATEGORIES:</span></span></strong></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #008c93;"><strong>Vitamins<br />
Minerals<br />
Trace Elements<br />
Enzymes<br />
Antioxidants<br />
Amino Acids<br />
Anti-Glycation Agents<br />
Neuronutrients<br />
Flavanoids<br />
Carotenoids<br />
Methylation Agents<br />
Adaptogens<br />
Calorie Restriction Mimetics<br />
Standardized Herbal Extracts<br />
Common and Specialized Co-factors</strong></span></span></p>
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<p>I&#8217;m not referring to  simple multi vitamin /minerals formulas here &#8211;  but rather <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>multi &#8216;nutrient&#8217; science-based formulas.</strong></span> The leading brands currently cost around $40 to $50 a bottle. If you can afford it then this is without doubt the <strong>most sensible and beneficial anti aging preventative health-care action you can take </strong>(in addition to substantially improving your regular dietary intake from food).</p>
<p>BUT&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;you must know what questions to ask and exactly what you&#8217;re looking for in the most effective <a href="http://xl.xtend-life.com/info/TB.aspx" target="_self">nutritional health supplement </a>formulas.</p>
<p><strong><span style="background-color:#ffff66;">Many of the (so-called) &#8216;elite&#8217;, popular and well known health/vitamin supplements are actually quite weak </span></strong>– filled up with ridiculously over the top amounts of the <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>cheapest ingredients like vitamin C, calcium and magnesium. </strong></span>In reality they offer extremely poor value for money in comparison to the best formulas available.</p>
<p>I review hundreds of supplements each year (and I used to work in the supplement industry for a specialty supplement manufacturer) so I know what I&#8217;m talking about when it comes to the science underlying effective supplements.  (The health supplement my family and I use  has 97 ingredients covering every single one of the ingredients forms from above, including a number of specialized anti aging ingredients rarely used in the supplements industry.  The retail price is $47. Use this link if you&#8217;d like to research this <a href="http://xl.xtend-life.com/info/TB.aspx" target="_blank">cutting edge nutritional health supplement</a></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #07606f;"><strong>Your Anti Aging Skin Care System :- Topical Skin Care Formulas</strong></span></span></p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">This is where most people go wrong</span></strong> with their anti aging skin care systems because they base them  only on using topical anti aging skin care products. These products are of course the <strong>easiest for taking action </strong>to avoid the visible or superficial effects of aging, but without applying the diet and lifestyle parts diligently, topical skin care can only <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>work like a band aid</strong></span> (although an important band aid!).</p>
<p>People also get it wrong here because <strong><span style="background-color:#ffff66;">they spend a small fortune on &#8216;famous&#8217; anti aging skin care products which absolutely cannot meet their anti aging marketing claims. </span></strong> Elite skin care product companies are extremely skilled at putting together highly effective marketing presentations which manipulate people&#8217;s thinking and seduce them into buying excessively over priced products, through persuasive adverts highlighting the <strong>ultra desirable lifestyle</strong> that &#8216;supposedly&#8217; comes from having great looking skin via their skin care products.</p>
<p><strong><span style="background-color:#ffff66;">The crux of the problem here is that these clever marketing efforts have (over time) ‘educated’ society into believing that the more we pay, the more effective the product must be!</span></strong></p>
<p>Is this correct? NO, it&#8217;s generally <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>NOT TRUE!</strong></span><br />
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If you &#8216;break apart&#8217; and carefully examine the formulas of skin care products, <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>what  you will usually discover is that the more popular and expensive a brand is, the  less of the highly effective ingredients which are present. </strong></span>With all their marketing sots, shareholder pressures and expense heavy distribution structures, the elite companies <strong>simply can&#8217;t afford to include the best, clinically effective  ingredients (and in effective dose amounts).</strong></p>
<p>Preconceptions are set in peoples mind through the power of advertising and marketing spin, all of  which tends to stop people from questioning and evaluating the true anti aging capabilities of the upmarket and famous brands.</p>
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<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #07606f;"><strong>So, what should a skin care formula, based on the best of the nutritional sciences, be able to do?</strong></span></span></p>
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<p><strong> There are two things which are critical!</strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">1:-</span> <span style="color: #ff0000;">NATURALLY IT MUST BE EFFECTIVE !</span></strong> Able to produce REAL and TANGIBLE anti aging results which can ONLY be achieved by addressing the <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>THREE FUNDAMENTAL CAUSES OF SKIN AGING:</strong></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #07606f;"><strong>**  Loss of collagen and elastin</strong></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #07606f;"><strong>**  Lower levels of hyaluronic acid</strong></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #07606f;"><strong>**  Oxidation through the action of free radicals</strong></span></span></p>
<p>The simplest way these days to determine how effective an ingredient is, is to research it online. Just google it and read away! Look for clinically established evidence to support the effectiveness of each of the anti aging ingredients in any skin care product you are examining. For the most reliable results do a  &#8216;scholar&#8217; search and stick to trusted  sites (particularly those with &#8216;.gov&#8217; url&#8217;s)  This step is extremely important and the success of your anti aging skin care system depends heavily on it!</p>
<p><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>2:-</strong></span> <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>USES ONLY SAFE INGREDIENTS !</strong></span></p>
<p>Just because a company charges an arm and a leg for their latest skin care formula doesn&#8217;t mean it&#8217;s not going to hurt you (now or especially years down the track). Here&#8217;s a perfect example for you. <strong><span style="background-color:#ffff66;">Did you know that one of the world&#8217;s most well known, popular and elite international brands (their name begins with ( C ) actually contains a <span style="font-size: medium;">PESTICIDE!</span></span></strong></p>
<p>Fragrances are ingredients you must be on the &#8216;lookout&#8217; for. Please consider the word ‘fragrance’ as you would a real live minefield. Extreme Caution Required!</p>
<p><strong><span style="background-color:#ffff66;">The term ‘Fragrance’ can refer to up to <span style="font-size: medium;">4000 </span>separate ingredients &#8211; many of which are toxic and/or carcinogenic!</span></strong></p>
<p>The long term impact of them ‘seeping’ into your blood stream is still unknown. Do you really want to take this risk just because a product smells lovely? <strong>Many common fragrances can affect your central nervous system</strong>, causing depression, hyperactivity, and irritability. ‘Fragrance Free’ is what you want to see in big bold letters on the front of any skin care products you use or are considering buying.</p>
<p><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>Have you heard of parabens?</strong></span> (methyl, propyl, butyl, and ethyl paraben)</p>
<p>Parabens are chemicals used as powerful preservatives in both the skincare and pharmaceutical industries! <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>studies suggest they may cause cancer and interfere with your body’s endocrine system, in addition to causing allergic reactions and skin rashes. </strong></span>The elite brands have to use them because there is a lengthy lead time from product  manufacture to when you purchase the product. Oh and parabens are very cheap for manufacturers to use!  <strong>Sadly, your health comes in a distant second to manufacturers bottom line profits. </strong>That’s why they continue to use toxic parabens!</p>
<p>From now on this is what you should be looking for you are looking for on your skin care bottles and tubes:</p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #07606f;"><strong>** Paraben Free</strong></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #07606f;"><strong>** Fragrance Free</strong></span></span></p>
<p>Another key criteria is to check whether a skincare manufacturer is a <strong>signatory of the Compact for Safe Cosmetics.</strong></p>
<p>Now you know the  key criteria to look for when it comes to the &#8216;topical skin care&#8217; section of your anti aging skin care system. <strong>While MANY skin care products fail miserably in meeting all (or any) of these criteria they are some products in the market which DO meet them all and come with affordable price tags. </strong>They always come from smaller or medium sized companies (particularly family owned and/or don&#8217;t have shareholders or venture capitalists). These effective and high value for money  products are not coming out of the huge multi national skin care companies (for the reasons I referred to earlier).</p>
<p>The skincare products I use come from the <strong>Xtend-Life company </strong>all the way down in New Zealand where the regulatory structure of the supplement industry is tough – tougher than the States!</p>
<p><strong><span style="background-color:#ffff66;">All their flagship products contain the BIG THREE CLINICALLY PROVEN ANTI AGING INGREDIENTS  (which the industry&#8217;s elite skincare companies are currently gearing up to start using):</span></strong></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #07606f;"><strong>** CYNERGY TK™</strong></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #07606f;"><strong>** Nanobelle CoenzymeQ10</strong></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #07606f;"><strong>** Phytessence Wakame</strong></span></span></p>
<p>Since these have become known as the most powerful anti aging ingredients known to science I&#8217;ve been getting a flood of emails asking about them. In a nutshell:-</p>
<p><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>Cynergy TK™</strong></span> is a very new breakthrough in skin care, not yet available in the big brand-name products.  It is <strong>proven in clinical trials to stimulate the regrowth of collagen, elastin and new skin cells.</strong></p>
<p><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>Phytessence Wakame</strong></span> has certainly been in the news. It&#8217;s an extract from a specific type of Japanese sea kelp which  inhibits a harmful enzyme (hyaluronidase) responsible for breaking down hyaluronic acid in your skin. <strong>Phytessence Wakame gradually increases your levels of hyaluronic acid to the amounts normally found in a much younger person! (This is also clinically proven!) </strong></p>
<p><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>Nano-Lipobelle H EQ10 </strong></span>is one of the most potent anti-oxidants discovered. This is CoEnzyme Q10 in a special ‘nano-emulsion’ form, which can <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>penetrate down through seven layers of skin.</strong></span> It is extremely effective at ‘gobbling up’ free radicals in your skin, which results in quite a dramatic anti-wrinkle effect.</p>
<p>If you&#8217;d like to read about or research these cutting edge formulas use this link to jump over to their respective pages on the Xtend-Life website.  <a href="http://xl.xtend-life.com/skincare/Overview.aspx" target="_self">Xtend-Life cell rejuvenation skin care products</a></p>
<p>Finally, I&#8217;d like to explain why I didn&#8217;t  talk about sunlight and sun exposure in this article. It&#8217;s because the damaging effects of sunlight are <strong>grossly exaggerated</strong>, usually by those professionals and companies with a vested financial interest!  Although sunlight is a major source of Vitamin D the reality nowadays is that many people are not getting enough sun because of the resultant fear and hype. This has led to <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>common Vitamin D deficiency in most western country&#8217;s. These Vitamin D deficiencies are in turn creating numerous negative health implications.</strong></span></p>
<p>Skin care products should not contain an SPF ! Why?  Because they are <strong>chemicals with potential long term negative results!</strong> (the jury is still out as these SPF formulas have only in recent years started appearing in skin care products.) The most sensible approach is to use a high SPF factor sunscreen when directly exposed to excessive sunlight rather than as an every day habit (which has become the norm for many) .</p>
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<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #07606f;"><strong>Your Anti Aging Skin Care System :- Look Great!     Feel Great!</strong></span></span></p>
<p>They go together, feeding off one another &#8211;  LOOK GREAT  and you&#8217;re  going to FEEL GREAT. Isn&#8217;t that what just about everybody would give an arm or leg to achieve?</p>
<p>With the technology available in these modern times we live in, along with the ease of accessibility to information on the internet, <strong>it&#8217;s never been easier to research and evaluate before you buy. </strong>Of course being able to sift through all the marketing spin and deliberate mis-leading mis-information while doing your research and product comparisons is not at all easy.  So much of it is so convincing and &#8216;appears&#8217; backed by clinical evidence. This is where industry insiders can be of so much help. We can assist you to move quickly through the jungle of lies and <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>get you a transparent and fair starting point from which your research can effectively begin.</strong></span></p>
<p>Real anti aging must be based on  a system as you&#8217;ve now learned.  It cannot exist on the action of just one measure. If you diligently follow what I&#8217;ve set out in this article your anti aging skin care system will definitely work and you can feel great in knowing that you&#8217;re getting the  most effective anti aging results possible according to  the technology and anti aging knowledge currently available. Not only will your skin continue to maintain it&#8217;s youthful properties for far longer but your internal health will be boosted so that degenerative disease cannot get a foothold.</p>
<p>You can read more anti aging articles over at my website <a href="http://www.nutritional-supplement-truths.com/index.html" target="_blank">nutritional supplements truths</a></p>
<p>Here&#8217;s to your anti aging skin care system.</p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #07606f;"><em><strong>Great Health       Great Skin Always</strong></em></span></h3>
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<p><em><strong>Brett</strong></em></p>


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