Ginger & Me The science behind it

The Exclusive Science

An industry first, NEUROCOSMEDICS is designed to target an emerging science in skin aging known in the professional beauty and dermatology world as neuro-aging and inflammaging. This acknowledged but rarely addressed science is based on the latest research on the skin-brain connection and focuses primarily on the effects of internal and external stress and the profound impact it has on the way skin responds, reacts, and consequentially ages at a much faster rate than we’ve ever understood.

It is widely known and understood that the external environment: UV and pollution, damages the structure and appearance of skin, leading to obvious signs of premature aging visibly presenting as hyper-pigmentation, lines, wrinkles, loss of volume and structure as well as thinning skin that appears inflamed, sensitive and shows dilated capillaries. What is often not understood, however, are the elements that contribute to this breakdown in the skins structure and appearance.

When the skin experiences stress from the environment it sends stress signals to the brain that initiate a protective, inflammatory response in the body. However, an overstimulation of this response forces the skin to work in overdrive and, with more stress than the skins immune system is equipped to deal with, the skin fails to keep up with the level of repair necessary and begins to breakdown at an alarming rate, known now as inflammaging: aging induced by chronic underlying inflammation.

In a modern world, the impacts of stress don’t end there… Add to this the stress the body and mind experience daily – the pressure of expectation, obligation, and the inability to unplug, and it can be said the body is just as overwhelmed by stress as the skin. This overdrive of stress triggers internal responses leading to poor sleep, compromised gut health and an array of mental health conditions, as well as the early onset aging of nerve cells known as neuro-aging.

Neuro-aging occurs when the nerve cells in skin that are responsible for directly communicating with the precious cells that produce collagen and elastin (fibroblasts) begin to send toxic messengers that render the fibroblast inactive.