Strengthening Your Skin’s Foundation: How Peptides Boost Skin’s Cell Junctions and Resilience
At Vital Assist, we focus on harnessing the power of peptides to support your skin’s resilience and health. One key way we do this is by targeting the structures that hold skin cells together - cell junctions. These junctions form the backbone of your skin’s barrier, helping it stay strong, flexible and protected from external stressors.
Understanding Skin Cell Junctions
Peptides play a vital role in skin health, offering a range of benefits from boosting collagen production and promoting skin repair to enhancing resilience against environmental stressors. Among these benefits, peptides also contribute to improving cell junctions, the specialised connections between skin cells that help maintain the skin’s strength, structure, and barrier function.
• Desmosomes: These are protein “anchors” that connect skin cells and help your skin maintain its integrity, especially in areas that experience regular friction or stress.
• Tight Junctions: Think of these as the stitches between cells. They help keep moisture in and harmful substances out, which is essential for hydrated, healthy skin.
• Gap Junctions: These are narrow channels that allow skin cells to communicate with each other, helping them coordinate responses to damage or stress.
How Peptides and KRT Genes Strengthen Skin
KRT genes are responsible for producing keratin proteins, which are essential for forming the structural framework of skin cells. Keratin helps maintain the skin’s integrity, protects against physical damage and supports the skin’s barrier function.
Peptides, like myristoyl pentapeptide-17, by stimulating the activity of KRT genes, increase the production of keratin, leading to stronger cell junctions and improved skin health. By boosting keratin production, peptides help to:
• Strengthen skin: Cells are held together more securely, making your skin more resistant to physical stress.
• Enhance moisture retention: Skin cells can lock in hydration more effectively, keeping your skin soft and supple.
• Improve barrier function: Your skin becomes better at keeping out environmental irritants and harmful substances.
The graph below illustrates how peptides like myristoyl pentapeptide-17 stimulate keratin genes, leading to stronger, healthier skin.
The Role of Lumican (LUM)
In addition to keratin, the graph highlights the gene LUM (Lumican). Lumican is not directly involved in cell junctions, but it plays a key role in organising collagen fibers, which are crucial for keeping your skin firm and elastic. By supporting Lumican activity, peptides help enhance the structure of your skin, ensuring it remains resilient and youthful-looking.
How Vital Assist Peptides Improve Your Skin’s Resilience
At Vital Assist, we incorporate these advanced peptides into our formulations to ensure your skin’s foundation remains strong, healthy, and resistant to daily environmental challenges. Our products don’t just improve your skin’s appearance, they help support its long-term health from within.
Discover the benefits of our peptide-powered skincare solutions today and give your skin the support it needs to stay strong, healthy, and radiant!
You can find collagen and keratin stimulating peptides in our Complex C Serum, Vitamin Repair Serum and Cellular Renewal Cream.