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It strengthened/increased the amount of nonliving connective tissue in your skin. This tissue provides a “scaffolding” of sorts to your skin cells to live on. It’s also the reason your skin is more firm or elastic. Fun fact: men and women’s skin have different connective tissue structures due to how hormones interact with your body’s formation of collagen. When trans people start taking HRT meds, their skin texture changes!
Think of it like flour in a cake. It’s a bulky ingredient that serves as a binding agent that helps to evenly distribute the things you actually want in a cake. Sugar, fat, flavorings, etc. Without flour your cake would just be a big goopy mess
It’s nice to have empirical data to confirm what a lot of people have been feeling for decades. A lot of the work we have to do IS bullshit. The world would be so much better off if we could focus on what really matters and divide labor evenly
That’s awesome, congrats OP! Glad things are working out for you
Oh God someone please get me the fuck out of Florida