🧬 How to Practice “Slow Aging” – A Dermatologist’s Guide to Aging Your Skin Healthily

How to apply Professor Jeong Hee-won’s slow-aging concept to dermatology

Hello, this is Yonsei Bombit Dermatology.

These days, instead of “looking young” or “anti-aging,” the concept of “Slow Aging” is getting attention.

Professor Jeong Hee-won from the Geriatrics Department at Asan Medical Center emphasizes the importance of slow aging: “Rather than trying to stop aging, let’s age slowly and healthily.”

Today, based on Professor Jeong Hee-won’s slow-aging theory, we’ll explain in detail how to slow skin aging from a dermatology perspective.

1️⃣ What is slow aging?

According to Professor Jeong Hee-won, slow aging does not mean forcing aging to stop, but normalizing the pace of aging so that you can age healthily.

✔ The key to slow aging is not simply extending lifespan

✔ but maintaining quality of life and vitality.

He especially points out that in Korean society, accelerated aging often appears due to fast-paced lifestyles and stress.

To prevent this, adjusting everyday habits such as diet, exercise, and brain health management is essential.

2️⃣ The core of slow aging: meals, exercise, and brain health

Professor Jeong emphasizes the following three things for practicing slow aging.

✔ Healthy eating habits (slow-aging diet)

• Replace white rice with beans, mixed grains, and whole grains

• Base meals on the Mediterranean diet or DASH diet, focusing on vegetables, nuts, and fish

• Apply the MIND diet with brain health in mind (olive oil, berries, etc.)

✔ Strength and flexibility exercise

• Consistent strength training to maintain muscle mass

• Combine stretching with aerobic exercise

✔ Brain health management

• Get enough sleep and manage stress

• Maintain cognitive function through regular breathing exercises, meditation, and more

3️⃣ Dermatology perspective: self-care for slow aging

Skin, like the rest of our body, also needs habits that manage the pace of aging slowly.

If you apply Professor Jeong Hee-won’s slow-aging principles to dermatology, it looks like this.

✔ 1. Improve your diet for your skin

• High-glycemic foods (sugar, white rice, snacks, etc.) accelerate skin aging.

• Increase antioxidant-rich foods (blueberries, nuts, green vegetables), and

• Eat fish rich in omega-3s (salmon, mackerel) more often.

✔ 2. Consistent hydration and strengthening the skin barrier

• Maintain skin moisture balance by drinking enough water every day, and

• For skincare products, those containing hyaluronic acid, ceramides, and panthenol are recommended.

✔ 3. Regular low-intensity exercise

• Light aerobic exercise improves blood circulation in the skin,

• helping to brighten facial complexion and improve firmness.

✔ 4. Antioxidant skin care

• Use antioxidant ingredients such as vitamin C serum, retinol, and niacinamide

• consistently in your morning and evening routines.

✔ 5. Sleep and stress management

• Deep sleep promotes collagen regeneration and skin recovery.

• Stress increases dermatitis, acne, and the speed of aging, so

• it is important to manage it consistently through meditation, breathing exercises, and more.

4️⃣ Slow-aging self-care habits recommended by dermatology

• Use sunscreen every day (SPF 30 or higher)

• Be sure to add an antioxidant serum in the morning

• Avoid harsh peeling or scrubbing and cleanse gently

• Instead of a face mask every day, strengthen moisture and soothing care with hydrating and calming masks 1–2 times a week

• Reduce habits that worsen the skin condition, such as smoking and heavy drinking

✨ In closing

Slow aging is not just for “looking young.”

Its goal is to age more healthily while maintaining quality of life.

Just like with meals, exercise, and brain health management, keeping small daily habits for your skin is the most reliable way to slowly reduce the pace of aging.

Yonsei Bombit Dermatology is here to support your slow-aging journey with the goal of natural and healthy skin aging.

📍 Yonsei Bombit Dermatology

📞 02-837-8275

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