Abstract

The key to beautiful skin is muscles. Major cosmetics manufacturer Pola has uncovered new facts about skin and muscles. This article explains this based on scientific evidence and introduces effective exercises.

Author’s Information

[Fujita Satoshi] Professor, Faculty of Sports and Health Science, Ritsumeikan University. Born in 1970. Graduated from the School of Sports Medicine and Management, Pfeiffer University, North Carolina, in 1993. Completed his doctoral studies at the University of Southern California Graduate School in 2002. After receiving his doctorate (exercise physiology), he worked as a lecturer in internal medicine at the University of Texas Medical School and a specially appointed assistant professor at the Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, University of Tokyo, before assuming his post at Ritsumeikan University in 2009. He has received academic awards from the American Physiological Society (APS) and the American Society for Nutrition (ASN). His specialty is exercise physiology, particularly the metabolic response of skeletal muscle to exercise and nutritional intake. (This data was published at the time this book was published.)