Anti-aging effects of Copper Peptide/DMAE

In an article in Body Language Dermatogy in April 2003, Dr Pickart expounded on reasons for skin aging and hope found in copper peptide. He stated that "During human ageing, skin becomes thinner and accumulates various skin lesions and imperfections. The structural proteins are progressively damaged causing collagen and elastin lose their resiliency. The skin’s water-holding proteins and sugars diminish, dermis and epidermis thin, microcirculation becomes disorganized, and subcutaneous fat cells diminish in number. Decades of exposure to ultraviolet rays, irritants, allergens, and various environmental toxins further intensify these effects. The result is a wrinkled, dry, inelastic skin populated by unsightly lesions.

Freeing Ourselves From Toxic Ties With the Past – Part I

Have you ever been flooded with emotion that seemed to be from another time or place in your life, out of proportion to whatever provoked it? Perhaps while visiting with your mother or father over holiday season you were disappointed and surprised to find yourself behaving toward them as you did when you were a teenager. Maybe you caught yourself responding to your own children in a way that was reminiscent of how your parents treated you – something you had promised never to let happen. Where do these toxic ties with our past come from and how do we sever them?

There are three major ways in which we can be ambushed by our ties to past. The first is through phenomenon of state dependent recall. In state dependent recall, a relatively uncommon mood state or emotion comes up, and magically unlocks memories of all times in our life when you felt a similar way. For example, if something a parent says reawakens a feeling of jealousy toward one of our siblings, we may find ourselves remembering all of times in past when we felt slighted or unfairly treated. This may in turn provoke an angry reaction that seems to come from out of blue.

Another type of ambush happens when we are confronted with an emotional problem that is, for moment, unsolvable. Let’s suppose weeks leading up to holidays were stressful, but you didn’t realize how bad it had gotten until you tried to unwind on your days off. Instead of relaxing, you became increasingly anxious and found yourself keeping busy by nervously cleaning around house. Why cope with anxiety by keeping busy? The answer to this question may be found by thinking back to earliest time you can remember coping this way. Perhaps it was as a child listening to your parents fight that you found solace in tidying your room. This kind of reverting back to a previous successful solution is called regression.