This chat covers:

• A quick explainer on organelles, mitochondria, and DNA • The mitochondrial DNA and how this is different to our genetic DNA • How skin ages • The role of UV light • Sunscreen • Tracking skin damage • Lifestyle interventions • Mark’s story • Can lines and wrinkles be reversed?

Prof. Mark Birch-Machin is the founder of Skin Life Analytics and has been a professor in Molecular Dermatology for over 30 years. He's also the recipient of the prestigious Society of Cosmetic Scientists Lifetime Achievement Award.

Skin Life Analytics offers non-invasive testing that can test and track how our skin is ageing at its deepest cellular level – or as their website puts it, ‘making the invisible, visible’.

You can find out more at https://skinlifeanalytics.com/

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