What exactly are Age Spots?

Age Spots and the Sun

Preventing Age Spots.

Age spots are also recognized as Liver Spots, Lentigos, and Lentigines.

How To Identiify Age Spots:
Age spots appear as dark brown or black spots.
Age spots produce no change in color following exposure to sun.
Age spots will appear as areas of dark pigmentation on the skin, similar to

freckles.
Age spots generally appear in people during mid-life.

Age spots are generally widespread in people with fair skin. Age spots can

appear anywhere on the skin, but they will appear mainly on the hands, the

forearms, the legs, and the face; as these areas are usually exposed to the

sun. 

Sunscreens do not provide satisfactory protection from certain elements of

the sun’s rays that cause age spots. Sunscreen as a rule blocks the UVB rays,

but not the UVA rays. The UVA rays penetrate the skin where the new skin

cells are formed, and damage the skin causing it to produce brown pigments

that act as natural sunblocker to deter any more harm.  This is the main

cause of age spots, and they do not not merely appear with age.

Herbal Remedies Preventative Care for Age Spot
Take 25 milligrams of mixed carotenoids on a daily basis, beginning 8-10 weeks prior to exposure to summer sun. Also take approximately 2,000 milligrams of Vitamin C, and 800 IU of Vitamin E, on a daily basis.

The Healing Process:
The simple but, usually costly, way to deal with age spots is to apply cosmetic creams that have alpha-lipoic acid, licorice extract, or topical vitamin A derivatives, or vitamin C, straight to your skin. At times these treatments show visible results in a few weeks, although skin lighteners can in fact cause skin darkening, particularly any made with hydroquinone.

Yellow and orange vegetables and fruits and plant-based products containing alpha-calowestmake, beta-calowestmake and gamma-calowestmake the skin far less susceptible to the sun. This is a cheaper form of treatment, but it can also be very effective.

Also high levels of sugar in the bloodstream can sugar-coat collagen with a proceedure known as glycation. Glycation also causes cross-links in the collagen framework of the skin, making it less suttle, susceptible to wrinkling, and harder to relieve inflammation, and that contributes to the formation of age spots. Drinking sufficient amounts of water, and keeping hydrated, all during the daylight hours will lower the concentration of sugar in the bloodstream and reduce the skin damage caused by glycation.