The best way to fight aging is not retinol, but...

Compiled by: Gong Zixin

Retinol

Can be called the "anti-aging king"

In recent years, there has been a trend of "early C and late A".

Major brands have launched

Skin care products containing retinol or retinoid ingredients

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Forget Your Retinol Night Cream

A study by Edith Cowan University found

travel

Probably the best way to fight premature aging!

An innovative, interdisciplinary study uses the principle of increasing entropy, a universal law describing the natural progression from order to disorder, as a theoretical basis for assessing how travel affects human health from a sociomaterial perspective.

The entropy perspective holds that travel can induce changes in entropy, where positive experiences may slow the increase in entropy and thus enhance health, while negative experiences may cause an increase in entropy and impair health.

"Aging as a process is irreversible. Although it cannot be stopped, it can be slowed down," said Ms. Hu, a doctoral candidate at Edith Cowan University in Australia. "Travel is not just for leisure and entertainment, it also contributes to people's physical and mental health."

Active travel experiences can enhance personal physical and mental health by exposing people to new environments, engaging in physical activities and social interactions, and fostering positive emotions. These potential benefits have been demonstrated through practices such as wellness travel and yoga travel.

Travel Therapy: Slowing Down Time

The researchers pointed out that from the perspective of entropy, travel therapy can be used as a groundbreaking health intervention. As an important aspect of the environment, positive travel experiences can help the body maintain a low entropy state by regulating the four major systems of the body.

Travel often exposes people to new environments and relaxing activities, and new environments can stimulate stress responses, increase metabolic rates, and have a positive impact on metabolic activity and the body's ability to self-organize. These situations may also trigger adaptive immune system responses, which improve the body's ability to sense and defend against external threats.

In short, the self-defense system becomes more resilient and hormones that aid in tissue repair and regeneration may be released and boost the function of the self-repair system.

Leisurely travel activities may help relieve chronic stress, inhibit overactivation of the immune system, and promote the normal functioning of the self-defense system. Engaging in recreational activities may release tension and fatigue in muscles and joints, and this relief helps maintain the body's metabolic balance and improves the effectiveness of the anti-wear system. In this way, organs and tissues can remain in a low-entropy state.

Travel includes physical activities such as hiking, mountain climbing, walking, and bicycling. Physical exertion promotes metabolism, energy expenditure, and material transformation, all of which help coordinate self-organizing systems.

“Participating in these activities can enhance the body’s immune function and self-defense capabilities, and strengthen its resistance to external risks. Physical exercise can also improve blood circulation, speed up the transportation of nutrients, and help eliminate waste, which together maintain an active self-repair system. In addition to supporting the body’s anti-wear system, moderate exercise is beneficial to bones, muscles and joints.”