While it’s technically still Fall, your skin knows that dreaded winter weather is already upon us. The harsh cold air can be especially bothersome if your skin is more fragile or dry from aging. For a general primer on skincare for aging adults, pull out your moisturizer and take a look here.

When it comes to “winterizing” your older skin, there’s good advice from dermatologist Anetta Reszko writing in Women’s Voices For Change. Dr. Reszko warns that overheated indoor air, combined with cold outdoor wind gusts can do real damage. Her advice? Some common sense suggestions about diet and alcohol combined with more specific advice about avoiding lanolin in your skincare, finding oil-based moisturizers, turning on the humidifiers and turning down the hot showers. And for men, who are largely ignored when it comes to aging skincare advice, there’s a new article in none other than GQ Magazine that provides a comprehensive strategy of keeping skin supple and nourished well into your later years. 

Finally, for both men and women, there is newly-published research with potentially groundbreaking results when it comes to aging skin. A new study out of Drexel University has found that the topical application of rapamycin, an FDA-approved drug to suppress the immune system after organ transplantation, seems to slow the aging process when applied to the back of hands. Over the course of the clinical trial, hands to which rapamycin was applied had more collagen and fewer visible signs of aging (wrinkles and skin sagging) than the hands that received the placebo. While this research needs further investigation, it could lead to one more weapon in our battle against the visible signs of aging. To find out more, put aside your mirror and look here.