Word: collagenous
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...their face and discovered that it smoothed out their skin. It was just dumb luck." Many products throughout the ages, of course, have promised to reverse the aging process. StriVectin's particular solution relies on peptides--strings of amino acids that stimulate enzymes in skin cells to produce more collagen, a protein that restores the skin's structure and keeps it from sagging...
...here's the rub: many other antiaging creams use exactly the same types of compounds that target collagen production. Says Avon's research chief Janice Teal: "We've been using peptides in our products for years." Louis Rinaldi, head of Klein-Becker's new product acquisitions, counters that StriVectin's particular concentration of those compounds and the inclusion of a certain botanical extract make it more effective...
Since the attack, Frentz has shown remarkable physical progress. She still has open wounds in her right hand and elbow, but with the hole in her knee filled with matrix, a collagen product, it now bends almost perfectly. She has lost count of the number of times doctors have harvested skin from her thighs to graft onto her burned torso and arm. She's had five operations on her elbow alone and must wear a full bodysuit--"my black catsuit," she calls it--to prevent further scarring. She had to learn how to walk through her pain after surgeons took...
...rises and falls. The arteries, which are a type of muscle, even pulse to help keep blood moving along. But the fibers that make up the scaffolding of the vessel walls can take only so much flexing. As we age, the rubbery tissue slowly gets replaced with stiffer collagen. The vessels don't expand as well anymore, but the blood keeps rushing through at the same rate, increasing the pressure. The higher the pressure climbs, the more punishment the walls take, and the more collagen is added. "The vessel wall becomes almost like concrete," says Dr. Michael Weber, a past...