Baggy Eyes, wonder why?

Scientists believe that the fat in the eye socket expands with time as we age. This may help those of you combat the issue because you are not quite comfortable or satisfied with your bodies’ natural progression with age.

Eyelids are not just irrelevant flaps of skin upon your face. As a matter of fact, they are incredibly crucial for protecting your eye from debris and damage. The eye and eyelid are so connected that the pressure of the eyelid on the eyeball may cause one of the most common vision troubles that effect people. Eyelid surgery, top or bottom, is more common than you might think. Nearly 241,000 U.S. residents had it performed just last year, putting it in the top four among surgical cosmetic procedures performed. Most of these surgeries don’t remove any fat, however. They just move it around or, in a more invasive move, tighten the muscle that surrounds the eye or tighten the ligament that holds the eyeball in place.

The most common treatment performed currently is the excision of fat to treat a ‘herniation of fat’ - meaning that the amount of fat in the eye socket does not change but the cover that holds the fat in place, the orbital septum, is weakened or broken and fat slips out. This orbital septum weakening or herniation-of-fat theory is what most plastic surgeons have been generally taught. However, studies show that there is actually an increase in fat as we age, and it is more likely that the fat increase causes the baggy eyelids rather than a weakened ligament, which some professionals might believe. (Currently, there have been no studies showing that the orbital septum weakens at all.) Researches though have looked at detailed MRI images of subjects between the ages of 12 and 80 on average. The findings showed that the lower eyelid tissue increased with age and that the largest contributor to this size increase was fat increase. These findings might change the way some plastic surgeons and other professionals treat the physical effects ‘baggy eyes’. Fat removal should be part of the process, the researchers figure. Or, you could just come to terms with how Mother Nature intended you to be! But if you’d rather not, then I suggest using some of these products that might assist with your issues before heading to the doctor for a little ‘snip snip’! Check out Biosil by Natrol, Dermalex-MD for Dark circles under eyes or Olivella Olive Moisture Oil for starters.