{"id":1182841,"date":"2023-03-06T13:10:48","date_gmt":"2023-03-06T18:10:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/plastic-surgeon-warns-1-type-of-exercise-ages-your-face-faster\/1182841\/"},"modified":"2023-03-06T13:10:48","modified_gmt":"2023-03-06T18:10:48","slug":"plastic-surgeon-warns-1-type-of-exercise-ages-your-face-faster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/plastic-surgeon-warns-1-type-of-exercise-ages-your-face-faster\/1182841\/","title":{"rendered":"Plastic surgeon warns 1 type of exercise ages your face faster"},"content":{"rendered":"

A New York plastic surgeon has gone viral for cautioning that lots of running<\/a> can prematurely age the face.<\/p>\n

\u201cHave you ever seen a long-distance runner, long-time runner that didn\u2019t have a gaunt, old face?\u201d Dr. Gerald Imber asks in a TikTok video<\/a> that has been viewed almost 3 million times.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s what happens,\u201d he continues, calling it his pet peeve. \u201cYour knees go, your ankles go, your back goes and it\u2019s kind of dumb.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Imber says he\u2019s just calling it like he sees it and that people watching the clip have to take it with a grain of salt and a sense of humor.\u00a0<\/p>\n

One reason lots of running leads to premature facial aging is all the bouncing \u2014 there\u2019s no \u201ccheek bra\u201d to hold the face in place as gravity takes a toll, he notes.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you take a look at any slow-motion film or a romantic comedy of two people running towards one another on the beach, you see their cheeks going up and down, up and down,\u201d Imber tells TODAY.com.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery single time your heel pounds on the ground, it pulls a little bit on the collagen and elastic tissue. That is essentially the reality of the loss of elasticity. It\u2019s an undeniable fact because you can see it move. It\u2019s also unquantifiable because nobody wants to take biopsies every two weeks of their cheeks.\u201d<\/p>\n

He recommends no-impact or low-impact exercise<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Another reason Imber cites for the \u201cgaunt, old\u201d face is the loss of facial volume. Long-distance runners are thin to begin with and everyone loses face volume as they age, which can be more pronounced with extreme exercise, he says.<\/p>\n

Dr. Boris Paskhover, a facial plastics and reconstructive surgeon at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, says he doesn\u2019t disagree.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you\u2019re doing all this super high intensity aerobic exercise, you\u2019re going to lose body fat everywhere. And if you lose body fat in your face, well then you\u2019re going to have that gaunt, thinned-out look,\u201d Paskhover tells TODAY.com.<\/p>\n

But there\u2019s no objective clinical evidence proving either that or the notion that bouncing while running ages the skin by stretching it, he says. Paskhover calls the video \u201ccommentary than anything else.\u201d<\/p>\n

Imber is upfront that his comments are essentially anecdotal and subjective.<\/p>\n

He recommends exercise that minimizes the impact on joints and soft tissue such as riding on a stationary bicycle or using a stair machine. It\u2019s perfectly fine to run a little bit every day or a few times a week, but the idea is to avoid the \u201crepetitive beating that your face is taking\u201d with more extreme running, he adds.<\/p>\n

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Long-distance running and the heart<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Beyond what long-distance running can do to the skin and joints, there\u2019s also the question of how it impacts the heart.<\/p>\n

The benefits of regular exercise<\/a> are clear, including blood pressure reduction, cholesterol improvement and a mental health boost, says Dr. Andrew Freeman, director of cardiovascular prevention and wellness at National Jewish Health in Denver, Colorado.<\/p>\n

But long-distance running may be both good and bad for the heart. Marathon runners show small markers of myocardial damage such as troponin in the blood<\/a>, and a study showed some degree of heart muscle scarring<\/a> that occurs after long-distance running for a while, Freeman says.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Every year in marathons, even the more competitive ones where people have been training for decades, runners have heart attacks, he adds.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat said, we know that people in societies that move more and move longer seem to do better in that they have less heart disease<\/a>. So it\u2019s hard to balance all of that,\u201d Freeman tells TODAY.com.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere might be a dose (of exercise), if you will, that may be very different for different people.\u201d<\/p>\n

The minimums are clear: If you don\u2019t exercise at all, outcomes are always terrible, Freeman says. The maximums are less well known. Some people can run for hundreds of miles with no adverse issue while others can\u2019t and it\u2019s very difficult to know who\u2019s who, he notes.<\/p>\n

Freeman advises people to check with their doctor first and then aim for 30 minutes of breathlessness a day.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a lot of controversy as we get to the higher levels of exercise about what\u2019s right,\u201d he says. \u201cBut I really want to be careful that we don\u2019t dissuade people from exercising.\u201d<\/p>\n

This article was originally published on TODAY.com<\/a><\/p>\n

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