Beyond Aesthetics: How Hormones influence skin ageing
Hormones can affect your skin at any age, especially during key life stages like puberty, menstruation, pregnancy, and menopause. During puberty, when sex hormones surge, teenagers often deal with excess oil, leading to blemishes and acne. Women with their monthly periods experience regular hormonal fluctuations that can cause breakouts, skin sensitivity, and irritation.
Our skin is clearly sensitive to hormonal changes, but did you know that some hormones can also influence how our skin ages? Keep reading to learn more about how hormones influence skin ageing and the best way to manage skin ageing.
Hormones: what are they?
Hormones are essential for life. These substances are produced in the body and act as chemical messengers, orchestrating vital processes like growth, metabolism, reproduction, and regulation of blood pressure, blood sugar, and body temperature. So, how do they work?
Hormones travel through the bloodstream, sending signals to various organs, muscles, and tissues, including our skin. At different stages of life, hormone levels fluctuate, impacting how smoothly these processes function. When you think of skin ageing, do any specific hormones come to mind? Below, we’ll explain how hormones influence skin ageing and why they are crucial for maintaining healthy skin.
Hormones and skin ageing
There are over 50 different hormones in the human body.(1) Amazing, right? The main ones that can impact skin ageing and that you might recognize are:
- Oestrogen: Often called the “beauty hormone,” it boosts fibroblast activity for increasing collagen and elastin production, and hyaluronic acid levels, helps maintain epidermal thickness, and assists in skin hydration. It also plays a role in skin defence against oxidative stress.
- Progesterone: Vital for balancing oestrogen levels, it is anti-inflammatory and promotes keratinocyte development for healthy skin barrier function (hydration, protection).
- Testosterone: Helps regulate sebum/oil production, skin hydration, inflammation, and is key to maintaining skin density.
When these hormones are disrupted, fluctuate, or dramatically decrease, it affects the skin functions they regulate, leading to changes like inflammation, reduced resistance to oxidative stress, loss of skin density, poor tone, and decreased hydration, which can accelerate the signs of skin ageing.
Hormone havoc: the menopause
Menopause occurs when the ovaries stop functioning, menstruation ceases, and oestrogen and progesterone levels plummet. During this time, women often notice an acceleration in skin ageing: increased dryness and sensitivity, more noticeable lines and wrinkles, loss of elasticity, and even sagging. Studies show that the decrease in skin thickness and collagen levels is related to “the period of oestrogen deficiency, rather than chronological age.”(2)
The effects of this challenging stage of life highlight the influence of certain hormones on skin ageing at a cellular level. The natural regeneration process and normal functioning of the dermis become less effective and need a boost. Enter NCTF® 135 HA!
NCTF® 135 HA: helping the skin fight back
NCTF® 135 HA is FILLMED’s iconic, polyrevitalising pink solution, the New Cellular Treatment Factor, with its unique and comprehensive formula based on cellular biology. It contains 60 scientifically selected, perfectly balanced essential ingredients that work together to create an ideal environment for skin cell stimulation.
By providing the dermis with everything it needs to function properly, NCTF® 135 HA helps activate and support the skin’s natural regenerative process. Think of it as a long-term skin activator that can help fight skin ageing.
What’s the NCTF® 135 HA protocol?
This ingenious cocktail of hyaluronic acid, 12 vitamins, 24 amino acids, 6 coenzymes, 5 nucleic acids, 6 minerals, and antioxidants combines nourishing ingredients, skin cell metabolism boosters, and defence against free radicals. Pretty cool, right?
The recommended multipuncture* injection protocol for optimal results is 3 sessions at 3-week intervals. You can undergo 2 protocols a year, with possible maintenance sessions as well. Ask an aesthetic doctor for more details on how this can help with skin ageing issues.
*Use our NANOSOFT® micro-needle, for a nearly painless injection.
FILLMED leading the way…
NCTF® 135 HA is a prime example of how aesthetic solutions can support the skin’s natural regenerative functions even when hormones are wreaking havoc. This is largely due to the pioneering science behind it, with rigorously chosen and precision-dosed ingredients.
We need hormones to live. By understanding their influence on cell regeneration and the skin ageing process, we can make positive choices to support the skin’s natural functions and keep it looking radiant and youthful longer.
- Endocrine Disruption, EPA (US), February 2024
- Estrogens and ageing skin, M. Julie Thornton, Dermato Endocrinology, April 2013
NCTF® 135 HA is an injectable medical device. Ask your doctor for advice. If any adverse event occurs, please inform your doctor. Vigilance contact (notification of an adverse event): vigilance@fillmed.com
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