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Facial exercises help middle-aged women appear more youthful<\/h3>\n

January 03, 2018 | By\u00a0Marla Paul<\/p>\n

CHICAGO – A 30-minute daily or alternate-day facial exercise program sustained over 20 weeks improved the facial appearance of middle-aged women, resulting in a younger appearance with fuller upper and lower cheeks, reports a new Northwestern Medicine study. This is the first scientific study to test the premise of facial exercise improving appearance.[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space]Read full article<\/a>[\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css_animation=”” row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”full_width” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern”][vc_column][vc_separator type=”normal” color=”#d76399″ up=”50″ down=”50″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css_animation=”” row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”full_width” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern” background_color=”#ffffff” z_index=””][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text]\"All[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

All hail Meghan Markle’s antiaging secret weapon: Face yoga<\/h3>\n

Abby Haglage for Yahoo Lifestyle –\u00a07 February 2018<\/p>\n

Soon-to-be royal Meghan Markle’s\u00a0starring role on\u00a0Suits<\/i>\u00a0made looking young \u2014 as is inevitably the case in Hollywood \u2014 a priority. So when the 36-year-old started to feel the effects of aging taking shape, she did what any self-respecting woman of a certain age does: face yoga.<\/strong>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css_animation=”” row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”full_width” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern” background_color=”#ffffff” z_index=”” css=”.vc_custom_1602704273594{padding-bottom: 10px !important;}”][vc_column][vc_column_text]The practice \u2014\u00a0 which involves an intricate set of movements to tone the muscles in your face \u2014 has been around for years and is widely credited to Anelise\u00a0Hagen, a New York yoga teacher. Hagen published a book on it in 2006, aptly titled Yoga Face. In it, she bills the practice as a\u00a0\u201cnatural alternative antiaging regimen that women can do anytime and anywhere \u2014and in just minutes.”[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1540263476329{background-color: #ffffff !important;}”]Markle, who is set to marry Prince Harry\u00a0on May 19 in England, said she was introduced to the antiaging concept by famed facialist Nicholas Joss. \u201cI do facial exercises from one of my favorite aestheticians \u2026 who basically has you sculpt your face from the inside out,\u201d Markle recently told Birchbox. \u201cI swear it works, as silly as you may feel. On the days I do it, my cheekbones and jawline are way more sculpted.\u201d[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1540263628901{background-color: #ffffff !important;}”]Hagen says her motivation for creating a face yoga practice stemmed from her own desire to relieve the facial and neck tension she felt. \u201cFacial\u00a0muscles are involuntary. They give away our secrets \u2014 whatever we\u2019re thinking or seeing,\u201d Hagen tells Yahoo Lifestyle. \u201cTension has a strong gravitational pull, and when you release it, even just stretch your face, it feels better.\u201d[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1540263689548{background-color: #ffffff !important;}”]What began as workshop at a local New York studio soon blossomed into a regular class, a book, and now an entire movement. Hagen\u2019s theory,\u00a0which has been adopted by many ”face yoga experts” in her wake, is that the muscles in your face are no different than muscles in the rest of your body. If you don\u2019t tone them, they will sag. So face yoga does just that, in a series of unusual, awkward, and \u2014 sometimes \u2014 bizarre moves.[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1540263862896{background-color: #ffffff !important;}”]When Hagen premiered the idea of face yoga years ago, she says, many were quick to downplay it. \u201cThere were a lot of doubters at first, most of which came from the plastic surgery world,\u201d she tells Yahoo Lifestyle. \u201cBut now there have been a lot of studies that have validated my work.\u201d To get the news that a soon-to-be princess now uses the practice was even more exciting to Hagen.[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1540301820916{background-color: #ffffff !important;}”]\u201cIt\u2019s super validating when someone like that is associating with the work I\u2019ve done,\u201d Hagen tells Yahoo Lifestyle. \u201cI\u2019m happy to hear Meghan is embracing it. She\u2019s a positive role model for beauty, inside and out.\u201d While Hagen is now taking the phenomenon internationally, hosting a retreat in Costa Rica this March, others are still growing the face yoga community on U.S. soil.[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1540302163088{background-color: #ffffff !important;}”]The process works by stimulating blood flow to the hypodermis (lower layer of the skin), the dermis (middle layer), and the epidermis (upper layer).\u00a0\u201cWorking all these layers correctly will increase the blood circulation, allowing more oxygen and more nourishment to reach the cells of the skin,\u201d Collins said. \u201cThe result is a clear, healthy complexion with a beautiful glow which has less toxins and has a better ability to absorb moisture.\u201d[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1540304151717{background-color: #ffffff !important;}”]A study\u00a0from Northwestern now offers the first scientific evidence that face yoga works.\u00a0Published in the Jan. 3 issue of\u00a0JAMA Dermatology<\/em>, the study found that middle-aged women who did a 30-minute daily (or every-other-day) facial exercise program for 20 weeks ended up with \u201ca younger appearance, with full upper and lower cheeks.\u201d[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1540304198467{background-color: #ffffff !important;}”]Led by Murad Alam, MD, a dermatology professor at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, the study suggests face yoga could be a low-cost, all-natural antiaging option. \u201cNow there is some evidence that facial exercises may improve facial appearance and reduce some visible signs of aging,\u201d Alam said. \u201cThe exercises enlarge and strengthen the facial muscles, so the face becomes firmer and more toned and shaped like a younger face.\u201d[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1540304351383{background-color: #ffffff !important;}”]To determine the ages of the women in the study, two dermatologists relied on a standardized facial aging scale (Merz-Carruthers Facial Aging Photoscales) that looks at 19 different features of the face. The most significant changes reported were in the upper and lower cheeks, resulting in an overall decrease in the average ages estimated from 50.8 years to 48.1 years).[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1570736363329{background-color: #ffffff !important;}”]While Markle\u2019s endorsement may be reason enough to try face yoga (because, hey, if she\u2019s marrying a prince, she\u2019s got to be doing something right), the JAMA study should be taken with a grain of salt. The results suggest face yoga could be beneficial, but much larger studies need to be done in order to say definitively that it\u2019s helpful.Until then, feel free to try it. 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