# Why exactly does the skin lose fat with age?

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Does anyone know how it happens? The most common answer is “hormones” but that doesn’t explain a lot.  
It seems to be a gradual thing, just look at the face and hands of a child \> teenager \> adult \> elderly person.  
It happens to both men, women and people in between. It happens to both fit people and unfit people.