Hyaluronic Acid Role - Aging skin needs to be constantly replenished with its natural moisturizer complex to attract and retain water. The network of collagen fibers below the skin is filled with a composition of water, protein complexes and hyaluronic acid (HA). As a natural component of healthy skin, HA is a jelly-like liquid that is necessary for transportation of essential nutrients from the bloodstream, via the capillary network, to the living cells of the skin. In human and animal studies, HA abnormalities reportedly occur in heart valves, TMJ, joint instability, osteoarthritis, detached retinas and premature aging syndromes. It is abundant in many of the places with hereditary connective tissue disorders such as joints, eyes and premature wrinkled skin and the main function is to cushion and lubricate these areas. As a result, hyaluronic acid is being use commercially or experimentally to correct a large portion of problems found in connective tissue disorders. It would be highly logical to consider the possibility that HA works to correct these problems because defects or deficiencies of hyaluronic acid are what cause these problems in the first place. By the time we reach our 50th birthday, we have already lost to half of the HA that we had in our youth. Free radical production, caused by excessive exposure to the sun, will overtime destroy our HA reserves. Replenishing the skin with HA can thus facilitate healing, repair and enhance anti-oxidant capacity.
Documentary - Heralded as the "key to the fountain of youth" by the press, the use of HA has revealed that there are some people who ingest a vast amount in their diets tend to live to ripe old ages. ABC News released a show on a village in Japan entitled "The Village of Long Life:Could Hyaluronic Acid Be an Anti-Aging Remedy?"
NaPCA Role - As a rule of thumb, without proper moisture, nutrients cannot be delivered to the skin, which in turn compromises the entire process of cell renewal. One of the other natural humectants (agents that attract and hold water) in young skin is NaPCA ( the sodium salt of pyrollidone carboxylic acid). The ability of the skin to hold moisture has found to be directly related to its NaPCA content. Similar to hyaluronic acid, NaPCA depletes as we grow older. It is the most powerful, non-toxic humectant known that is actually manufactured in human skin by amino acid conversion.
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