Stretch marks are those disfiguring colorations that occur on the skins of some people, especially following periods of rapid growth. The periods of rapid growth in question here include things like puberty (as one grows to their full adult body size), pregnancy and ‘ordinary’ weight gain; the variety associated with ‘binge eating’ and lack of exercise.

Skin marks carry no clinical risk of themselves. No complications have ever been observed as stemming solely from the stretch marks. They can nonetheless be disconcerting to the people on whom they occur, as they can be cosmetically unattractive.

Now a question that tends to occur, whenever the issue of skin marks is brought up for discussion, is as to why some people are prone to the stretch marks – while others are not. It is this, then, that leads to this exploration of some of the factors that affect the formation of stretch marks.

1) One factor that affects the formation of skin marks (and which explains why stretch marks occur in some people and not others) is genetic heritage. This is genetic heritage with regard to skin elasticity: the inborn ability of the skin to withstand pressure from within (in the form of growth) without tearing. Some people seem to be genetically gifted with ‘hardier, more elastic’ skin, while others have skin that cannot quite withstand much strain without tearing internally – and forming skin marks. Thankfully, even those not gifted with very ‘hardy’ skin have a number of things they can do to increase their skin’s elasticity, though they may never get to be as elastic as those to whom skin elasticity is a part of their genetic heritage.

2) The second factor that affects the formation of stretch-marks is hormonal changes. Unlike genetic heritage, hormonal change affects the formation of stretch-marks in a more direct way. This is where the people who have higher levels of human growth hormone (leading to faster and more significant growth) are more likely to have skin marks forming on them than those with lower levels of the same hormone. Since the production of growth hormone is in turn affected by levels of sex hormones, it turns out that the hormonal connection in the formation of stretch-marks is extremely strong. On another score, these hormones are known to have an effect on skin tone and elasticity, which is another way they can affect the formation of stretch-marks.

3) The third factor that affects the formation of skin marks is diet. The connection here is obvious: for a person eating more of the ‘fattening’ foods (junk foods for instance) is likely to have significant weight gain, resulting in too huge an internal pressure on the body, and ultimately, skin marks. On another score though, a diet a persistently lacking in adequate intake of water could see what was initially quite elastic skin lose its elasticity – due to dehydration, making it more prone to the stretch marks. Thus, the effect of diet on skin marks is considerable.

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