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- Medical Video: 15 Bad Habits That Age You Faster Without You Noticing It
- How do the habits of drinking alcohol and smoking make you old fast?
Medical Video: 15 Bad Habits That Age You Faster Without You Noticing It
Maybe you already know that drinking alcohol and smoking can damage your health. Smoking and drinking alcohol can cause cirrhosis, fatty liver, lung cancer and other diseases. But if these consequences don't stop your bad habits, maybe this one effect can: make your face look old for a few years from your actual age.
How do the habits of drinking alcohol and smoking make you old fast?
Long-term smoking habits cause the skin to appear grayish and the appearance of fine lines around the eyes and mouth. Although the initial skin damage caused by smoking is difficult to see, the effect will occur after 10 years later.
Nicotine in cigarettes causes blood vessels in the outer layer of the skin to narrow, so that blood flow under the skin is not smooth. Skin that does not get enough nutrients and oxygen (which is carried by the blood) will quickly be damaged and dry. In addition, chemicals released through cigarette smoke also damage collagen and elastin, a fiber that maintains the skin's natural moisture and suppleness. As a result, the skin begins to decline and wrinkles faster.
Likewise with alcoholic beverages. True alcohol is poison to the body. When you drink liquor, the heart will work hard to rinse out any toxins in the body. But when the alcohol content in the liver is out of reasonable limits, the poison cannot be broken down and disposed of properly. As a result, these poisons can affect skin health - pimples, wrinkles, dry skin, spots and black spots, eye bags, and make the skin color turn yellow (symptoms of jaundice or jaundice). Moreover, alcohol can also cause dehydration and lack of sleep. These two things are important risk factors that can accelerate skin aging.
Reporting from Men's Health, a study published in Journal of Epidemiology & Community Healthconcluded that besides making you look old, the habit of drinking alcohol and smoking can really change the physical characteristics of your face. These two bad habits are reported to increase the risk of folds in the auricle and gray rings around the retina of the eye. Men who smoke are also twice the risk of developing yellowish plaques on the eyelids.
So, still want to drink alcohol and smoke?
