Why do peoples skin sag when they get old?

It seems to me that this is a really big problem for old people, because it makes them look terrible. Of course, it will happen to all of us who get old, so we are all in the same boat. How can we stop this? Do you think it%26#039;s possible? Why does it happen?|||As your get older your skin loses it%26#039;s elasticity. It doesn%26#039;t spring back. It%26#039;s a lack of the certain proteins etc that help it spring back.


Do you think if it could be stopped then it would have already? People spend so much money on anti-wrinkle creams.|||There are two causes: intrinsic and extrinsic. The intrinsic cause is simply the aging process, with %26quot;wear and tear%26quot; on the elastin in the dermis. When the elastin finally wears out, the skin will not spring back like it used to. The extrinsic is due to external factors, mostly ultraviolet light. This is the part of the equation over which you have control. Try to avoid sunlight and tanning parlors by avoiding the light or wearing a good sunblock (it%26#039;s the UVA rays that penetrate deeply enough to fracture the elastin.) Retinoid products, such as Retin A, have been shown to cause the body to manufacture new collagen in the dermis, so that it might thicken up a bit, but it does not cause new elastin to be produced, so that the springiness of the skin is not corrected. Similarly, micropeels and chemical peels and any other chemical that you might have heard of do not cause new elastin to be produced.|||Collogen failure.