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High blood sugar level makes you look older
Looking young
Study
We tend to assume that people with a low BMI are older than is the case. Everything that says money works the other way: expensive clothes or a chic hairdo make people look younger. When the researchers had corrected the estimates for these kinds of factors they got the figure shown below. As you can see, the non-diabetic 50-60 year-olds look older the higher their fasting glucose level is. And the diabetics look oldest of all.
AGEs
If this happens in the skin, structures build up in the collagen and elastin that get in the way of repair processes. And that's how AGEs accelerate the skin's ageing process. AGEs do the same in a lot of other places too, like the blood vessels, kidneys and the cartilage. So the ageing that's visible in the face is an indication of the invisible biological ageing.
The 'rejuvenating effect' of a lifestyle that leads to a lower glucose level is not very big, according to this study. But it's worth noting that the study probably underestimates the effects of a high blood sugar level. The photos that the researchers used were of participants in the Leiden Longevity Study; and these people have genes that predispose them to age slowly.
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