How long do facial fat cells live, according to the speaker?

Name: How the Sun Ages Your Face
Uploaded: 2025-08-13T12:01:38+00:00
Duration: 21 s
Channel: Dr. Charles Mok
Description: A short explanatory video by Dr. Charles Mok summarizing how sun (UV) exposure contributes to facial aging. SPEAKER A explains that UV penetrates skin…

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How the Sun Ages Your Face

13 Aug 2025 · 0 min

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A short explanatory video by Dr. Charles Mok summarizing how sun (UV) exposure contributes to facial aging. SPEAKER A explains that UV penetrates skin and affects facial fat cells — which the speaker states live about seven years and die via apoptosis — and that sun exposure impairs stem-cell–mediated replacement of fat cells, leading to net fat loss; bone demineralization with age also contributes to facial descent.

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About seven years.

Goes through your skin. Sun does penetrate into your fat cells, and your fat cells only live about seven years. And as they die, they go through a process called apoptosis. New stem cells come in and regenerate and grow them. But the sun to some degree blocks that. So we don't get replacement 1 for 1 of fat cells, and they decline also. Again, our bones demineralize over time, so we see a descent of the face.