Hopefully this post doesn't come across as ignorant, though I pretty much just started diving into researching all of this. Of course this applies more so for the people who started their vitamin routines while relatively young, like mid 20s or so, where you are starting to see the first signs of aging but aren't decrepit or past the point of saving. One of the main things I am trying to reverse are fine lines on my forehead (I am 27) - their appearance seems to fluctuate all the time from being barely visible to looking like I dragged a knife across my head. I don't know if those are completely reversible, at least as far as my current age goes, since I know they are inevitable at some point, but hypothetically for the point of this post, let's just say they are completely reversible - to do that, I would assume you would likely need to take a much higher dose of collagen, hyaluronic acid, astaxanthin, etc. than you would if you didn't have any obvious damage you were trying to undo, but you wouldn't need to keep that up forever, right? I am unaware of what the body does with the supplements, in terms of does it use everything you give it, and all the reserves of it are empty by the time you take the next dose and so on, so I guess I am wondering if a lot of routines people do on this site are actually overkill? It would make sense that if you only have a little damage, that you could heal most of it, but if you're taking supplements everyday for years, are you always just postponing a decline because you're not allowing your body to have less of the required minerals/proteins, etc.? I always kind of assumed all the supplementation was just replacing what your body stops producing enough of when you get older, but I guess since even among the people who take tons of pills, not everyone looks age defying, that isn't the whole picture.
Hopefully what I'm asking makes sense.
Edited by 4EverAsked4ID, 09 March 2021 - 08:38 PM.
