Sunlight Shrinks Your Facial Fat

Name: Sunlight Shrinks Your Facial Fat
Uploaded: 2025-07-17T12:00:18+00:00
Duration: 34 s
Channel: Dr. Charles Mok
Description: This content was created by Dr. Charles Mok. This content was uploaded by Dr. Charles Mok. This is a YouTube video titled 'Sunlight Shrinks Your Facial…

17 Jul 2025 · 1 min

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This content was created by Dr. Charles Mok. This content was uploaded by Dr. Charles Mok. This is a YouTube video titled 'Sunlight Shrinks Your Facial Fat' (created 2025-07-17) containing an explanatory monologue by a single speaker about how aging and chronic sun exposure contribute to facial fat loss. The speaker discusses age-related fat redistribution (gain in belly/legs, loss in face), describes how UV penetration reaches subcutaneous fat, and explains fat cell turnover (about 5–7 years), apoptosis, and replacement by pre-adipocytes as the mechanism for maintained fat cell numbers and progressive facial volume loss.

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As we age, we have loss of fat in our face. We might gain fat in our bellies or our legs or thighs or arms. We typically lose it in our fat, mostly because of solar exposure or sun exposure. So the sun, when it goes through your skin, it penetrates through your epidermis and the dermis and gets to the subcutaneous fat. And what happens with sun exposure, particularly chronic sun exposure, is that the fat cells that are turning over, they Only live about 5 to 7 years in your body, in your face. And then as a fat cell dies, it goes through a process called apoptosis. It gets replaced by a pre adipocyte or a stem cell to make a new fat cell. That's why typically, your number of fat cells stays about the same.