Here are our top lifestyle choices for slower ageing and beautiful skin:

1. Exercise Regularly

The best way to slow down ageing is to stay in great shape.

Older people who exercise regularly throughout their lives, tend to have the muscle mass, cholesterol levels, and even immune system function of much younger people and it’s also fantastic for your mental wellbeing too.

2. Eat Whole Foods

Whole foods boost your body’s supply of nutrients that keep cells healthy, reduce inflammation, and reduce the risk of major chronic diseases associated with age.

Limit your intake of processed foods that contain added sugars, fats, and salt to help prevent inflammation, diabetes and heart disease.

3. Get Enough Protein

Studies show protein is especially important in maintaining muscle mass as we age.

Snack on protein sources like nuts, plain Greek yoghurt, or cottage cheese. You can also add ‘protein-toppers’ to your meals, such as hummus to a sandwich, diced chicken to pasta, or beans to a salad.

4. Spend Time Outdoors

Vitamin D, the ‘sunshine vitamin,’ helps keep your bones strong, and it may also help protect against age-related conditions like heart disease and cancer.

Of course, this doesn’t mean sun-baking (and wear your SPF!). You can also get vitamin D in foods, such as salmon and eggs.

5. Protect Your Skin From The Sun

The sun can cause skin damage, wrinkles and increase the risk for skin cancer—all of which promote internal and external ageing.

Guard against premature skin ageing by covering up with clothing, wearing a broad-spectrum SPF 30+ or higher and seeking shade. Slip, slop slap, seek & slide!

6. Avoid Toxins

Cigarette smoke, excessive alcohol consumption and environmental toxins we’re exposed, speed up the ageing process.

Smoking is particularly damaging, causing internal damage to your genetic code, as well as blood vessels and multiple organ systems.

7. Stay Hydrated

Drinking enough water is critical as our bodies need water for important functions such as regulating body temperature, maintaining healthy skin and joints, digesting food, and removing waste.

Drink water even when you aren’t thirsty and eat foods with high water content.

8. Get Some Sleep

It’s called beauty sleep for a reason!

When you’re snoozing, your body gets busy repairing cell damage. If you cut your sleep short, you can accelerate the visible and internal signs of ageing and be susceptible to age-related diseases like heart problems, high blood pressure and diabetes.

Anit-Ageing Treatments & Products at Skin Clinic Blyss

Our anti-ageing treatments can assist with any ageing skin conditions. Our Vita-Sol Slow Ageing Powders are a powerful blend of organic superfoods as a source of organic vitamins and minerals and traditional herbs to support healthy ageing as well  acne and inflammatory skin conditions such as rosacea.

The Different Skin Treatment Lasers

Insta-Glow – Laser Genesis

The lunch time laser treatment. The ‘super facial’ that gives no downtime – just glow. This laser ‘facial’ uses a 1064nm wavelength – the target being water molecules within the collagen layer in the dermis, to gently heat the dermis, boosting collagen production, improving fine lines and wrinkle as well as rosacea. No downtime, no pain.

BBL – Broad Band Light

While BBL is not really a laser, we have added it as it has a similar mechanism of action on the target. This treatment is great for sun damage, brown spots (freckles), rosacea and general photo-rejuvenation. The target depends on the filter used – for example a 515nm will target brown spots and pigmentation and a 560nm haemoglobin AKA blood or redness in the skin. Brown spots will darken immediately after treatment and slough off over the next 3 – 5 days to reveal clear healthy skin. This is our particular favourite to treat rosacea.

No downtime, Pain 3/10.

PDL – Pulsed Dye Laser

This is laser that uses a 595nm wavelength and targets redness in the skin, especially good for large vessels on the side of the nose. These lasers are now being explored for scarless skin cancer treatments as a combination therapy for Basal Cell carcinomas (BCC) and Squamous Cell Carcinomas (SCC).

No downtime, Pain 4/10.

Erbium Laser

Also known as a cold laser, Erbium uses a 2940nm wavelength to target water in the skin, vaporising the superficial skin tissue in a controlled manner. Erbium laser is suitable for mild to moderate wrinkles, superficial pigmentation.

Downtime 2 – 5 days, Pain 3/10.

Fractional C02 Laser

This is the best laser to treat deeper lines and wrinkles, acne scars, severe sun damage, scars and general skin texture issues. Using a 10600nm wavelength – the target being water within the dermis, we are able to control the depth that this laser penetrates. Fractionated C02 creates micro channels into the skin, heating the tissue in these columns that leads to fibroblast and collagen remodelling.

Downtime 3 -14 days depending on the condition being treated, expect heat within the skin for 1 -2 hours post treatment and swelling for 1 -10 days depending on the treatment intensity.

Laser & BBL Treatments at Skin Clinic Blyss

Our Laser & BBL treatments can repair pigmentation, rosacea and acne as well as reduce scarring and wrinkles while improving skin texture and skin tone. These advanced light based therapies are performed by our highly skilled and experienced dermal therapists, clinicians, Nurse and Doctor after a detailed consultation. See Our Skin Treatment Menu.