This is how honey is candied. Time passes and instead of a viscous, elastic substance, honey turns into crumbling lumps of candied mass. So honey is our collagen, in the process of glycation, it loses elasticity and can no longer provide skin elasticity.
Glycation products stay with us forever, accumulate and disrupt metabolic processes in cells, the cell suffocates and dies.
We don't notice it until we're 30. But as soon as collagen production is reduced in the body, the effect of sugar becomes fatal for the skin.
We will not be able to avoid the glycation of collagen – this, unfortunately, is a natural process.
But we can reduce the effect of sugar on skin cells.
And only in recent years, scientists have started talking about the influence of sugar on the processes in the skin – these are the processes of glycation or glycosylating (sugar aging).
We cannot influence the time, but photoaging, free radicals, and cell glycation are influenced.
We talk about skin protection from the sun and antioxidants all the time. Today we are talking about sugar.
Skin glycation is the interaction of sugars with proteins: simple sugars coming from the blood "sit down" on protein molecules (here we are talking, first of all, about collagen – the protein of youth) "gluing" them. As a result, glycation products, or AGEs (Advanced Glycation Endproducts) are formed.