Kimchi eliminates wrinkles?

When we get older, the chances of wrinkles appearing on our skin increases. This is due to years and years of stretching. In this world, there is a kind of workout called facial exercise, which is believed to help you tone your face and get rid of the fat around your chin and cheeks. Please do it if you would like to have more wrinkles as these facial exercises do nothing but decrease your skin's elasticity.

Everyone including your great-grandmother hates wrinkles, especially those which appear around the eyes. The vain view wrinkles as the icon of deteriorating skin health while the optimists think that it signifies wisdom that one has accumulated after years of experience. Whatever it is, you definitely wouldn't want to have one.

With the Hallyu wave still going strong in Asia as well as in the West, people are becoming more familiar with Korean actors and singers. At the same time, Korean food has also seen its popularity rise over the last few years and the national food, kimchi is one that no K-fan doesn't know about.

It is said that eating kimchi helps to eliminate wrinkles, allowing you to be youthful and pretty like that sharp-nosed actress or metrosexual boy. No offence.

Kimchi is a marinated food and the process of making it does not require heat or any complicated preparation methods. Thus, nutrients are hardly lost allowing the body to receive more benefits from eating this humble dish.

The process of fermentation produces lactic acid bacteria (LAB) and other organic acids which are the main reasons why kimchi is an anti-wrinkle food. Lactic acid bacteria promotes the proliferation of subcutaneous collagen, something which loose skin lacks of. Also, LAB get rids of the reactive oxygen species in the cells, allowing you to look young for a longer time.

The making of kimchi produces many metabolites (the intermediates and products of metabolism) and most of them are able to regulate biological functions, particularly those of the group B vitamins. Many foods are unable to be synthesized hence the group B vitamins in kimchi are said to be gems as they maintain cell viability.

If you are thinking of shopping for ready-made kimchi in supermarkets, why not go the extra mile and prepare it by yourself? Most "commercial kimchi" are high in salt. Excessive salt intake will result in rapid aging where the skin starts to loosen, making wrinkles more visible.

So, do the right thing, do it yourself. Plus, if you are a K-drama or K-pop fan, you get to immerse yourself into the (complete Korean) experience.