AGING CAN BE partly chalked up to a loss of collagen production, which starts slowing down at a rate of 1% a year around age 38, gradually encouraging our skin to sag, according to Dr. Alan Durkin of Ocean Drive Plastic Surgery in Vero Beach, Fla. But women are braced for the exodus of skin-plumping collagen from our faces well before that, thanks to the beauty industry. Those who wish to stem it can arm themselves with creams, serums, Botox, fillers and laser treatments. Yet the message that collagen will also be replenished less actively in our hands, arms, belly, knees and butt around the same time hasn’t been so...

Source: Wall Street Journal January 04, 2020 14:37 UTC