What causes age-related changes in the body?
With age, the body goes through a myriad of biochemical changes that naturally decrease muscle and skin tone, increase fat storage, and impair the body’s ability to repair and heal. Changing levels of the hormones that promote development and youth early in life start to contribute to the aches and pains deep in the body as well as the outward sags and wrinkles that so many people try desperately to avoid. “Decreasing levels of estrogen, progesterone, testosterone, and thyroid hormones [and] increasing levels of cortisol and variations in levels of insulin are all associated with… internal and external aging,” explains the medical expert.
