Is your skincare routine aging your skin? | Dr. Barbara Sturm

We cause a lot of inflammation on a daily or three times a week basis. So what's happening with the inflammatory response here? What happens to our healing factors? What happens to all the emergency health? Do they exhaust?

Yes, they do get exhausted. I mean, a lot of skin care routines I'll refer to as borrowing from your future. So you get a present, return today at a cost tomorrow. Thinning the cell layers, removing the protective seven layers of dead skin that are on top of your skin for a reason. Not getting to the root cause of the skin degradation, which is a lack of healthy blood flow. What we call angiogenesis, a deconstruction of the skin, which is a reduction of collagen, elastin and fibrin, the scaffolding that holds the skin together.