Loose Neck Skin

Corngold · May 20, 2025, 2:57 AM

Has anyone dealt with this?
Background - used to smoke cigarettes, weighed 180-190, walked a lot. Quit smoking, life and years went on, gained weight, lost weight several times. It isn't awful, but my neck skin is a bit loose. I notice it especially because I shaved my beard. It's dysphoric when also cutting hair because of balding. We can't all have chad jaw lines, but if my neck wasn't pseudo-fat then it wouldn't be as bad. Are there any neck stretches of workouts to tighten the skin?

DavidPS · May 20, 2025, 3:12 PM

A number of years ago, I purchased a Facial Flex for my mother. She had a stroke and it resulted in a facial droop. The device was for rehabilitation. After using the device for a few weeks, the muscles in the lower half of her face and her neck tightened her skin and decreased the depth of her facial wrinkles.

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Corngold · May 20, 2025, 3:12 PM

@DavidPS Interdasting.
I found this. The stretches feel good.

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samson · May 20, 2025, 4:25 PM

@Corngold training the hyoid through neck flexion seems like a good bet. Also mewing for proper tongue posture

DavidPS · May 20, 2025, 4:45 PM

@Corngold - Thanks like Dr. Berg's exercises and I intend to incorporate them into a daily routine. Preventive sagging.

This reminds of Face Yoga which loosely includes the neck.
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=face+yoga&sp=CAM%253D

cs3000 · May 20, 2025, 6:04 PM

@Corngold elastin fibers are a main factor to look into restoring too so the skin can keep good form. some enzymes degrade the elastin fibers elastase & a couple of the MMPs are most relevant from what ive read ,
frays & thickens the fibers

so looking for things that target those,
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9060010/#ski258-sec-0070

things i put in a document:

ergothionene (not from mushrooms because of beta glucan & androgens) , 
hit 1.5mg copper , 
hit 3000iu-5000iu Vitamin A,  
30 minutes exercise sessions twice a week ,	 
4g total glycine intake (maybe, not really a lack of collagen as problem?) , 
take 200 mg TUDCA most days to sort ER stress ,   
boswellia  (restores cartilage, so fits it restores skin function or prevents it being degraded) https://sci-hub.ru/10.1055/s-0029-1240581 BAs also enhance the metabolism of fibroblasts and, at the same
time, they inhibit human leukocyte elastase [24] and hyaluronidase [25], as well as TNF-α-induced transcription, expression,
and activity of MMP-1, MMP-3, MMP-10, and MMP-12 in human
microvascular endothelial cells [5]. All these enzymes have a key
importance in the degradation of the extracellular matrix, collagen, and elastic fibers
reverse hypothyroid hypoxia
lower H2O2-induced matrix metalloproteinase  (lower h2o2)
lower neurophil elastase and neutrophil induced metallopreoteinase (lower neutrophil response, il-8)
Inhibit MAPK  ? (mmp-12 -> mapk -> mmp9)
Drink a glass or 2 of OJ a day https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5791357/#Sec14
keep inflammation (macrophages) low ,
if need more,  support fibroblasts