Is it possible to clear wrinkles, without resorting to cosmetic surgery? According to the latest studies, you can look as young as you feel for a very long time. The solutions were right in front of us, all the time. Or, at least, they were right in front of some people.

Not everyone leaves near the coastline. So, not everyone is familiar with wakame kelp. In Japan, it has been something of a secret "beauty preserver" for many years. It was a part of traditional medicine, used to treat skin conditions and scalp problems. It was eaten and applied in the form of a salve to improve the skin's appearance and the overall health of the body. The salve was also used to prevent and relieve sunburn.

Modern day research has shown that wakame is very nourishing, contains more calcium than milk, along with sodium, potassium and the B vitamins. It also contains an antioxidant that acts as a natural sunscreen. But, will it clear wrinkles? It can help.

As people get older, their skin has lower levels of an amino-glucose compound called hyaluronic acid. If the think of the skins cells as building blocks, hyaluronic acid is like the mortar that holds them together. As levels decline, the skin begins to sag and look more wrinkled.

Researchers have learned that the reason for the low levels of hyaluronic acid is "increased" activity of an enzyme (Hyaluronidase) that breaks it down. They have also found that wakame kelp inhibits that enzymatic activity. It can be emulsified and including in anti-aging creams to help increase levels of hyaluronic acid and gradually increase firmness.

One of the latest discoveries concerning how to clear wrinkles is something that exists in all of the cells of the human body, assuming a person is healthy. It's an antioxidant called coenzyme Q10 or COQ10.

The importance of COQ10 to the human body cannot be overstated. When levels are depleted, muscle tissues die.

When levels in the skin are depleted, free radicals have their way and do damage of all kinds. Free radical damage is the reason that sun exposure contributes to wrinkling. If radicals are not neutralized, they damage collagen molecules, a protein that makes up the elastic fibers beneath the outer layers of skin. They damage the membranes of all of the skin's cells. Dermatologists have said that this cellular damage is the root cause of wrinkling, sagging and all of the signs of aging.

Research has shown that creams containing COQ10 can clear wrinkles by nearly 30%, after six weeks of use. The volunteers in one study were people that had sun-damaged skin, which is rough dry and wrinkled.

Wrinkling was thought to be an inevitable part of the aging process. We might have to put up with some wrinkling, if we live long enough. But, there is a growing mountain of evidence indicating that wrinkling is more of a nutritional deficiency than anything else. If we want to clear wrinkles, all that we have to do is give the skin what it needs to do its job and repair itself. COQ10 is just one of the nutrients that help. You might what to learn more about the other ones.