By Rob R Carmichael

Whilst anti aging vitamin peptide face creams which include Retinol and Resveratrol are important to how you look on the outside, along with longevity supplements that also include Resveratrol, anti aging vitamins are also highly essential.

1. Vitamin E

Available through many sources such as supplemental capsules, Vitamin E has many anti-aging qualities. Under the medical term “alpha tocopherol”, Vitamins E helps the skin retain moisture and is often added to sunscreens to guard against against UVB damage.

It’s also a fat-soluble compound that repairs dry, cracked skin when used as a cream or lotion.

A powerful antioxidant that protects your skin from harmful free radicals, free radicals are molecules that have unpaired electrons, and it’s due to these free radicals seek out electrons from other cells, and then oxidize them and damage the tissues they form.

A right intake of Vitamin E therefore prevents oxidation, whilst improving your immune system assisting in the expression of your genes.

Vitamin E Helps Prevent:

• Blood from clotting
• Risk of stroke or heart attack
• LDL cholesterol from contributing to atherosclerosis
• Risk of some cancers
• Cognitive delay or decline on the brain’s neurons as we age.

Source:

• Nuts
• Seeds
• Green leafy vegetables
• Vegetable oils (such as soybean, canola, and corn)
• Topical cosmetic applications.

2. Vitamin C

An important anti-aging nutrient, it’s fortunately plentiful in most people’s diets, as again it helps protect against those free radicals, which you digest or are exposed to through pollution, cigarette smoke and radiation.

Helping to regenerate other antioxidants, when applied topically, vitamin C protects your skin against damaging UV rays.

Collagen is the structural element of your skin providing shape and firmness. Vitamin C intake increases the production of collagen whilst improving firmness. This connective tissue is also important for healing wounds.

Vitamin E Helps Prevent:

• Cancer-preventing qualities
• Development of cardiovascular disease
• Formation of age-related cataracts and macular degeneration.

Source:

• Fruits (especially Guava and Pomegranite)
• Veggies (especially citrus and potatoes)

3. Vitamin K

The lack of sleep is not entirely responsible for those tired-looking dark circles around the eyes.

Those dark circles are caused by a number of factors, not just lack of sleep or aging. Vitamin K helps with one of the most common causes, the leaking of capillaries around the eyes, which inevitably results in the clotting of blood and pooling.

Therefore, research has shown that vitamin K aids in the constriction of capillaries, breaking up the tiny blood clots that form the dark circles.

It is not the ultimate cure but it should be part of your anti aging vitamin treatment plan.

Your body produces small amounts of vitamin K on its own, but consumed as a supplement or multivitamin, or a in a topical face cream will greatly benefit these dark tired looking circles around the eyes.

Vitamin K Helps Prevent:

• Loss of structural strength in bones
• Dark circles and tired looking eyes

Source:

• Kale
• Lettuce
• Spinach
• Broccoli
• Non-hydrogenated vegetable oils

4. Niacin

Specifically a B3 Vitamin, it has several anti-aging properties.

It increases your skin’s ability to retain moisture. Moist firm skin not only looks healthier, it actually helps you stay healthier by providing an unbroken barrier against bacteria, viruses and other antigens.

Dry skin is often a result of niacin deficiency. Dry skin can often lead to further problems as the cracks between your skin’s “scales” become chinks in your aging body’s armor. In addition, Niacin also acts similar to anexfoliant, helping your skin shed off dead cells promoting newer cells to move towards your skins surface.

Niacin Helps Prevent:

• Effects of aging inside your skin
• Bad cholesterol raising “good” cholesterol (high-density lipoproteins, or HDL)
• High triglycerides (fats in your blood that contribute to your overall cholesterol count)
• Risk and rate of atherosclerosis
• Hardening of your artery walls that leads to heart attack and stroke

Source:

• Poultry
• Eggs
• Meat
• Fish
• Nuts
• Enriched breads

5. Vitamin A

Retinol found in anti-aging topical face products is a source of ready-to-use vitamin A.

Vitamin A helps aging slowdown in several ways. Again, it’s an antioxidant which neutralizes the damaging effects of oxidation which is believed to be a primary cause of age-related diseases and degeneration.

As does Vitamin K, Vitamin A intake helps with circles under the eyes.Topical solutions as mentioned with vitamin A (such as Retinol and Resveratrol creams) – working as an exfoliator whilst reducing fine lines and wrinkles, has shown to reduce signs of sun damage and skin aging.

Vitamin A Helps Prevent:

• Deterioration of overall bone health
• Effects of osteoporosis as you get older