Think of it as similar to what happens when you brown meat, caramelize onions or toast bread – this is a form of glycation called the Maillard reaction. Just as sugar and heat combine to change ...

Sun exposure isn’t the only threat to skin, excess sugar and even normal cell metabolism over time can set off a chemical reaction called glycation that causes skin to deteriorate.

Because reactive oxygen species are produced via oxidative phosphorylation during anaerobic glycolysis, via the Schiff reaction during glycation, via glucose autoxidation, and via hexosamine ...

Glycation, the binding of a sugar molecule ... overshadowed by attention to oxidative stress reactions,” says Yoshikazu Yonei, an expert in anti-ageing medicine at Doshisha University in Kyoto ...