The Mitochondria Problem Behind Aging Skin + How to Recharge Your Skin and Look Younger

About this episode

Amitay Eshel discusses the role of mitochondria in skin aging and the shortcomings of current skincare products in addressing this issue.

Every fibroblast inside your dermis right now is asking 200 to 2,000 mitochondria to power its work in real time, and those mitochondria are descendants of a free-living bacterium swallowed by a larger cell 2 billion years ago. As you age, those mitochondria run slower and your cells build fewer of them to replace the ones that fail. In this solo episode, Young Goose co-founder Amitay Eshel breaks down the two sides of mitochondrial decline that drive skin aging and explains why the science-led skincare category has spent the last decades addressing only one of them. The first side of skin aging is where most skincare brands have built their products around. The other side is the one almost no skincare on the market is formulating for, and it is where the next chapter of skin longevity is being written. If you have outgrown the antioxidant-and-peptide era of skincare and want to understand what is actually happening underneath your skin as it ages, this episode is for you. What's Discussed: (01:35) The 2-billion-year-old contract inside every skin cell that is now fraying. (04:10) Why skin is one of the most mitochondria-dense organs in your body. (08:20) The 2012 paper that…

People in this episode

Host: Amitay Eshel

Topics covered

• mitochondria
• skin aging
• skincare science
• cellular health
• anti-aging

Keywords

• mitochondria
• skin health
• anti-aging
• NAD
• fibroblast
• skincare
• cellular decline

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Young Goose

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