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How to Make Stress Less Visible on Your Skin
Your body reacts to stress like it reacts to illness—by releasing a flood of hormones and immune system chemicals meant to fight infection and restore a healthy equilibrium to your body.
When you feel anxious, worried, and fearful, the cortisol hormone floods your body to help you cope with stress.1
For example, if you have a work project due in two hours and are behind on the project, you will naturally feel stressed.
Cortisol can help you beat the deadline by boosting your energy, enhancing cognitive abilities, and even increasing your physical strength.
Cortisol is also useful under extreme anxiety-inducing circumstances involving life and death situations. Firefighters will rush into a burning building to save someone without even thinking about the danger it poses to their own lives.
And it’s mainly cortisol that gives them the feeling of power and grit necessary to perform such incredible acts.
Why Stress Ages Skin: The Downside of Cortisol
If you are constantly feeling stressed, that means cortisol levels in your body never have a chance to fall back to normal.2
Imagine yourself as a firefighter always racing into buildings on fire to rescue people.
That’s how your brain and body feel when under stress.
In addition to UV rays and aging, cortisol is a leading factor of prematurely aging skin.3
Cortisol can cause outbreaks of acne, psoriasis, eczema, and other skin conditions.
When you are under chronic stress, the skin’s oil glands go into overdrive, pumping out more massive amounts of sebum that clog pores and attract bacteria.
Inflammatory skin conditions like psoriasis react to stress by worsening due to your immune system’s response to high cortisol.
You may notice your facial skin becoming dry, flaky, and itchy if you suffer from chronic stress.
That’s because cortisol interferes with lipids and proteins’ ability to protect your skin cells from becoming dehydrated.
Lathering lotions on your face always to try and hydrate skin can’t help because cortisol keeps breaking down the protein-lipid barrier meant to retain moisture.
Unfortunately, it’s no secret that dry skin is one of the leading causes of brow furrows, fine lines around the eyes, and forehead wrinkles.
So What’s the Answer to Managing Stress?
It is a fact of life that we cannot avoid stress.
Short-term stress will not harm our physical or mental well-being, but long-term stress will, and we must reduce it by living a healthy lifestyle and learning various de-stressing techniques.
Some people find meditation or yoga to feel calmer, while others prefer taking long walks or communing with nature.4
Getting enough sleep, drinking several glasses of water every day, and having family members and friends who can help you cope with stress are also crucial to managing stress.
Rejuvenating Facial Skin Aged by Stress with Botox, Xeomin, and Juvederm
Juvederm is an FDA-approved dermal filler that smooths away fine lines and wrinkles by replenishing moisture in dry skin.5
Juvederm contains hyaluronic acid, a substance naturally produced by the body that has the unique ability to attract and retain water molecules.
Once injected into your skin, it quickly starts “plumping” out wrinkles as it hydrates and restores youthfulness to aging skin.
Botox and Xeomin are neurotoxins that freeze and relax nerves responsible for muscle contractions and wrinkles around the eyes and forehead.
The only difference between these two injectables involves the inclusion of proteins in Botox and Xeomin’s single-ingredient formula.
Some people also see faster results with Botox (less than 72 hours), while Xeomin may take several days to exert visible effects.
However, both Botox and Xeomin provide anti-wrinkle benefits for up to six months before a touch-up treatment is needed.
Renew Health and Wellness offers Botox, Juvederm, or Xeomin injectables to reduce wrinkles and fine lines as well as bioidentical hormone replacement therapy (BHRT) to restore estrogen lost to menopause.
Call us today to learn more about how we can help you manage stress, smooth away wrinkles and fine lines, and get you feeling better than you’ve ever felt!
References
https://www.health.harvard.edu/staying-healthy/understanding-the-stress-response
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4082169/
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0923181116308167
https://www.verywellmind.com/tips-to-reduce-stress-3145195
https://www.fda.gov/medical-devices/aesthetic-cosmetic-devices/dermal-fillers-soft-tissue-fillers
Your body reacts to stress like it reacts to illness—by releasing a flood of hormones and immune system chemicals meant to fight infection and restore a healthy equilibrium to your body.
When you feel anxious, worried, and fearful, the cortisol hormone floods your body to help you cope with stress.1
For example, if you have a work project due in two hours and are behind on the project, you will naturally feel stressed.
Cortisol can help you beat the deadline by boosting your energy, enhancing cognitive abilities, and even increasing your physical strength.
Cortisol is also useful under extreme anxiety-inducing circumstances involving life and death situations. Firefighters will rush into a burning building to save someone without even thinking about the danger it poses to their own lives.
And it’s mainly cortisol that gives them the feeling of power and grit necessary to perform such incredible acts.
Why Stress Ages Skin: The Downside of Cortisol
If you are constantly feeling stressed, that means cortisol levels in your body never have a chance to fall back to normal.2
Imagine yourself as a firefighter always racing into buildings on fire to rescue people.
That’s how your brain and body feel when under stress.
In addition to UV rays and aging, cortisol is a leading factor of prematurely aging skin.3
Cortisol can cause outbreaks of acne, psoriasis, eczema, and other skin conditions.
When you are under chronic stress, the skin’s oil glands go into overdrive, pumping out more massive amounts of sebum that clog pores and attract bacteria.
Inflammatory skin conditions like psoriasis react to stress by worsening due to your immune system’s response to high cortisol.
You may notice your facial skin becoming dry, flaky, and itchy if you suffer from chronic stress.
That’s because cortisol interferes with lipids and proteins’ ability to protect your skin cells from becoming dehydrated.
Lathering lotions on your face always to try and hydrate skin can’t help because cortisol keeps breaking down the protein-lipid barrier meant to retain moisture.
Unfortunately, it’s no secret that dry skin is one of the leading causes of brow furrows, fine lines around the eyes, and forehead wrinkles.
So What’s the Answer to Managing Stress?
It is a fact of life that we cannot avoid stress.
Short-term stress will not harm our physical or mental well-being, but long-term stress will, and we must reduce it by living a healthy lifestyle and learning various de-stressing techniques.
Some people find meditation or yoga to feel calmer, while others prefer taking long walks or communing with nature.4
Getting enough sleep, drinking several glasses of water every day, and having family members and friends who can help you cope with stress are also crucial to managing stress.
Rejuvenating Facial Skin Aged by Stress with Botox, Xeomin, and Juvederm
Juvederm is an FDA-approved dermal filler that smooths away fine lines and wrinkles by replenishing moisture in dry skin.5
Juvederm contains hyaluronic acid, a substance naturally produced by the body that has the unique ability to attract and retain water molecules.
Once injected into your skin, it quickly starts “plumping” out wrinkles as it hydrates and restores youthfulness to aging skin.
Botox and Xeomin are neurotoxins that freeze and relax nerves responsible for muscle contractions and wrinkles around the eyes and forehead.
The only difference between these two injectables involves the inclusion of proteins in Botox and Xeomin’s single-ingredient formula.
Some people also see faster results with Botox (less than 72 hours), while Xeomin may take several days to exert visible effects.
However, both Botox and Xeomin provide anti-wrinkle benefits for up to six months before a touch-up treatment is needed.
Renew Health and Wellness offers Botox, Juvederm, or Xeomin injectables to reduce wrinkles and fine lines as well as bioidentical hormone replacement therapy (BHRT) to restore estrogen lost to menopause.
Call us today to learn more about how we can help you manage stress, smooth away wrinkles and fine lines, and get you feeling better than you’ve ever felt!
References
https://www.health.harvard.edu/staying-healthy/understanding-the-stress-response
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4082169/
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0923181116308167
https://www.verywellmind.com/tips-to-reduce-stress-3145195
https://www.fda.gov/medical-devices/aesthetic-cosmetic-devices/dermal-fillers-soft-tissue-fillers
