Inflammaging: Need to Know
Inflammation is your body's way of protecting it from harm. The swelling that forms on your skin after a bump, the redness around a breakout or cut, a raised area around a mosquito bite are all examples of the inflammatory response in our skin.
What's more tricky to spot is chronic low-grade inflammation that increases as we age - it's called inflammaging and presents itself in the skin as collagen and elastin depletion, uneven texture, and slower healing.