Thinner upper lip with age: why it happens and what you can do

«An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.»

– Proverb

We think of lip fillers. But what ages them the most can be slowed down every day.

Look for a photo of yourself from twenty years ago and look closely at your upper lip.

With age, it becomes thinner, longer, and less defined. It is not just an impression: it can be seen under a microscope.

A study analyzed the upper lip of 15 deceased women between the ages of 27 and 78.

The older they were, the less hyaluronic acid, less collagen, and fewer muscle fibers the red part of the lip had.

In other words, the lip loses ground on three fronts at once: the filler that retains water, the structure that supports it, and the muscle that gives it shape.

And not only is less hyaluronic acid produced. More is also destroyed, because the enzyme that degrades it increases.

The caveat: there are few samples, from only one group of women, and it was funded by a cosmetic company. It describes what happens, it does not prove what prevents it.

Even so, it changes the way you look at the problem. A filler returns volume for a few months. Collagen and muscle depend on how you take care of your lips over the years.

A filler buys months. A habit buys years.

The skin of the lip is very thin and barely protects itself from the sun, which is the great accelerator of collagen loss.

And smoking is associated with more wrinkles around the mouth.

Slowing it down is not about one trick. It is about not accelerating what age already does, with a protocol that has evidence and that you can follow every day.

Your 1% improvement for today. Compound interest that accumulates.

Keep a lip balm with sunscreen in your pocket and apply it every time you go out, even in winter.

And you can also learn the techniques to keep natural hyaluronic acid from being lost and retain it longer.

This is what I cover in the Gray Hair and Wrinkles Protocol: what I do to protect the collagen in my face and lips, and which treatments have evidence and which ones do not.

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