Premature aging can develop at the genetic level. This is a progeria disease. Also, factors that are not related to genes can affect the onset of the condition.
Progeria
Syndrome of premature aging is detected extremely rarely. This fatal disease of a genetic nature develops only in children. Premature aging syndrome is detected in approximately one out of four to eight million newborns. The likelihood of a disease is the same for both girls and boys.
Newborn babies diagnosed with premature aging syndrome look healthy enough. However, when they reach ten to twenty-four months of age, they experience symptoms of progeria.
Among the main signs of the disease, it should be noted:
- a sharp slowdown in growth;
- baldness;
- weight loss;
- stiffness in the joints;
- generalized atherosclerosis.
Despite the fact that premature aging syndrome can be detected in children belonging to different ethnic groups, patients are surprisingly similar. As a rule, patients rarely live more than twenty years. The average life expectancy of such patients is about thirteen years.
Children with progeria are genetically susceptible to premature progressive cardiac abnormalities. In almost all cases, a fatal outcome occurs precisely due to these diseases. Among the complications of cardiovascular origin, stroke, hypertension, heart failure, angina are detected.
Premature aging of non-genetic origin
With natural aging, corresponding to old age, almost everyone manages to come to terms. However, when premature aging occurs, the condition becomes a serious problem. Women react very painfully to the development of this condition.
Under the influence of certain factors, premature aging of the skin appears first , then the internal systems and organs. As a result, often the actual age of many people is significantly less than biological.
Early skin aging manifests itself in different ways. As a rule, the cover becomes wrinkled, dry, there is swelling of the lower and upper eyelids, omission of the corners of the mouth.
The main reasons for the development of the state, in the first place, include lifestyle, disease, climate, nutrition, as well as the state of the environment.
Among the types of aging of the skin, photoaging is also distinguished. The condition develops as a result of insufficient moisture and an excess of sun exposure. It should be noted that it is impossible to replenish the moisture concentration in the skin, simply by consuming a large amount of liquid. For it, it is necessary to use special means, the properties of which are the ability to retain water molecules.
One of the destructive factors is smoking. As you know, it contributes to the narrowing of blood vessels, depriving the body of oxygen. As a result, nutrients do not reach the upper skin layer, it begins to break down, succumbing to the effect of free radicals.
The penetration of toxins can paralyze important body functions, which, in turn, will provoke a lack of necessary products in the skin.
Specialists give great importance to vitamins. Keep in mind a proper, balanced diet that contains healthy foods.
Psychoemotional factors also influence the condition of the skin. Under the conditions of modern, often stressful, life, the body is depleted very quickly. In this case, it is necessary to pay attention to the regime of the day, to control working hours and rest periods.
Thus, it is possible to prevent early aging not only of the skin, but also of the whole organism.