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Devanshi Garg Sareen

@devanshigarg

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founder of @motif_skincare
I read longevity science so you don't have to
skin & health, translated for day-to-day life

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2026 #toryburchfellows - still taking it in.
I started @motif_skincare because I ran out of things to try. The questions I’ve asked while building it have been the ones I didn’t see the industry asking. What does the skin really need? Why are my choices making my skin worse? Where is the research?
To now be in a room with founders across every category asking the same kinds of questions in their own industries - is exciting but also a privilege. As is, being welcomed into that room by @toryburch herself.
Grateful to the @toryburchfoundation for creating that room. And to everyone cheering me on along the way. by @devanshigarg

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Sign up with the link in bio.

There are people you admire for their work. And then there are people you admire even more for who they are.

Matin Maulawizada is one of those rare people.

For over 30 years, he’s worked with some of the most recognizable faces in the world, from Angelina Jolie to Claire Danes and Jessica Chastain. But his artistry is only a small part of what makes him extraordinary.

A molecular biologist by training, Matin was championing "clean" and non-toxic beauty and beauty standards and the importance of healthy skin long before they became industry conversations.

Raised alongside six sisters, he’s a feminist at heart. A vocal advocate for women, a champion of independent, female-founded brands, and someone who has used his influence to prop up and create opportunities for others.

There’s a soulfulness to Matin. In an industry so focused on appearances, he’s always stood for something deeper.

He was one of Motif’s earliest believers, and we’re incredibly proud to call him a friend.

And now, we’re bringing our shared philosophy of healthy skin and beautiful makeup to life together.

Something very special is coming. Stay tuned. by @devanshigarg

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I love you papa ✨ by @devanshigarg

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Comment “COLLAGEN” and I’ll send you the short version of what vitamin C does for your skin

Linus Pauling was the only person ever to win two unshared Nobel Prizes - and later became famous for making some very big claims about vitamin C.

The implications for the skin are significant. Your body cannot make collagen without vitamin C.

You don’t need megadose supplements to act on that science. Vitamin-C-rich foods like peppers, citrus, berries and kiwi give your body an essential cofactor it needs to build collagen.

Sometimes the useful longevity advice is much simpler than the hype: eat the colorful stuff.

I’m Devanshi, founder of @motifskincare. I read the longevity science so you don’t have to and translate it into what can actually work for your skin and health in everyday life.

#LinusPauling #VitaminC #Collagen #LongevityScience #SkinHealth
{vitamin C foods, collagen production, collagen synthesis, skin collagen, healthy aging, skin longevity, vitamin C and skin, citrus fruits, bell peppers, berries, kiwi, nutrition for skin, evidence based wellness} by @devanshigarg

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Comment “BLUEPRINT” and I’ll send you the one-page longevity cheat sheet that turns Bryan Johnson’s $2M experiment into what best to do for your skin every day.

Bryan Johnson is the tech founder who turned his own body into a laboratory. He spends around $2 million a year, works with a team of some 30 doctors, scores every organ and weighs every bite, all under a project he calls Don’t Die. The most extreme thing he tried was a multigenerational plasma swap, taking his teenage son’s plasma into his own veins.

Then he stopped it. His own data showed no benefit, and he said so publicly. The single most sci-fi thing he attempted is the thing he quietly walked away from.

But the takeaway for your life right now is almost anticlimactic: the boring basics beat the biohacks.

Strip away the theater and the millions, and what actually moved his numbers were things you already have, free. Protect your sleep first, it’s the closest thing we have to a longevity drug, and your skin does its repair while you get it.

The expensive stuff made headlines. The free stuff made the difference. Start with sleep.

I’m Devanshi, founder of @motifskincare. I read the longevity science so you don’t have to and translate it into what can actually work for your skin and health in everyday life.

#BryanJohnson #LongevityScience #DontDie #SkinLongevity #HealthyAging

{Bryan Johnson, Blueprint, Don’t Die, plasma exchange, biohacking, longevity basics, sleep and aging, skin longevity, healthy aging, longevity research, sustainable habits, sleep and skin} by @devanshigarg

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Comment “VAMPIRE” and I’ll send you the one-page longevity cheat sheet that turns Wyss-Coray’s young-blood research into what to actually do for your skin every day.

Tony Wyss-Coray, a Stanford neuroscientist, ran one of the strangest experiments in aging science. When his lab connected the bloodstreams of a young mouse and an old one, the old mouse’s brain started working like a younger one. Later, young plasma on its own could restore memory in aged mice. It’s the research that launched a thousand headlines about “young blood.”

Today the science has taken a more useful turn. Wyss-Coray’s team found that exercise releases factors into your own bloodstream that carry some of those same youthful signals, at least in mice, and one of them runs higher in older people who stay active. Meanwhile, paying for young-plasma transfusions was never proven in humans and drew an FDA warning.

But the takeaway for your life right now is much less exotic: you already make the good stuff when you move.

You don’t need anyone else’s blood. A walk, a workout, anything that gets you moving is the closest free version we have. And your skin lives downstream of the same circulation, so what’s good for your body tends to show up on your face.

You can’t buy it. You can move for it. That’s the whole secret.

I’m Devanshi, founder of @motifskincare. I read the longevity science so you don’t have to and translate it into what can actually work for your skin and health in everyday life.

#TonyWyssCoray #LongevityScience #YoungBlood #SkinLongevity #HealthyAging

{parabiosis, young blood, plasma rejuvenation, GPLD1, exercise and aging, blood factors, longevity research, cellular repair, skin longevity, healthy aging, brain aging, Stanford longevity} by @devanshigarg

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Comment “SOUR” and I’ll send you the plain-English guide to the gut-skin connection, and how to start supporting it.

More than a century before “gut health” became a wellness category, Nobel Prize-winning scientist Élie Metchnikoff was already asking whether the bacteria in our intestines could influence how we age.

His fascination with fermented milk helped lay some of the earliest foundations for what we now think of as probiotics.

Today, we’re learning much more about the gut microbiome and its relationship with the rest of the body - including our skin.

The science is still evolving, but the everyday takeaway is simple: try adding one fermented food a day. Yogurt, kefir, kimchi, sauerkraut - whatever you’ll actually eat consistently.

I’m Devanshi, founder of @motifskincare. I read the longevity science so you don’t have to and translate it into what can actually work for your skin and health in everyday life.

#ElieMetchnikoff #LongevityScience #GutHealth #GutSkinAxis #Microbiome

{fermented foods, probiotics, gut microbiome, gut skin connection, skin microbiome, healthy aging, yogurt, kefir, kimchi, sauerkraut, longevity habits} by @devanshigarg

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Comment “REPAIR” and I’ll send you the one-page longevity cheat sheet that turns Yamanaka’s Nobel-winning discovery into what to actually do for your skin every day.

Shinya Yamanaka discovered that cells could essentially be rewound. In 2006, Yamanaka found that just four signals could reprogram a mature cell back into a young, blank-slate state. The discovery transformed how we think about cellular identity and regeneration, and earned him the Nobel Prize in 2012.

Today, researchers are studying whether versions of this process (known as cellular reprogramming) could someday restore aspects of youthful cell function without completely resetting a cell’s identity.

But the takeaway for your life right now is much less futuristic: consistency beats intensity.

Our bodies already have remarkable systems for repair and renewal. So when it comes to our skin, the gentle routine we can sustain for a year is likely to serve us better than the aggressive one we abandon after three weeks.

The boring stuff counts. Showing up counts. Give biology time to do its job.

I’m Devanshi, founder of @motifskincare. I read the longevity science so you don’t have to and translate it into what can actually work for your skin and health in everyday life.

#ShinyaYamanaka #LongevityScience #CellularReprogramming #SkinLongevity #HealthyAging

{Yamanaka factors, cellular reprogramming, epigenetic reprogramming, cell rejuvenation, regenerative medicine, longevity research, cellular repair, skin longevity, healthy aging, skincare consistency, sustainable skincare routine, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine} by @devanshigarg

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Comment “CALM” and I’ll send you a quick way to tell if your own skincare routine could be quietly inflaming your skin 🧬

Judith Campisi discovered the problem with “zombie” cells 🔬

For years, almost no one believed they existed. But Campisi’s research showed that some cells stop dividing without dying. Instead, they linger and release inflammatory signals into the healthy tissue around them. These are called senescent cells, and they’re now recognized as one of the biological processes linked to aging.

In skin, that slow, persistent inflammation can contribute to thinning, dullness and a loss of resilience over time.

Here’s the part that changes how we think about skincare.

For years, we’ve been taught that more products, stronger acids and more active ingredients lead to better skin. But if your routine is constantly irritating your skin, you may be adding the very inflammation you’re trying to prevent.

Sometimes, more is the problem.

The day-to-day takeaway is surprisingly simple: this week, subtract. Keep the two or three products you know your skin loves, pause the rest, and give your skin a few nights to settle. That’s exactly why, at Motif, we build around supporting the skin’s biology and calming unnecessary inflammation instead of chasing the ingredient of the month.

I’m Devanshi, founder of @motifskincare. I read the longevity science so you don’t have to and translate it into what can actually work for your skin and health in everyday life.

#SkinLongevity #Inflammation #JudithCampisi #CellularHealth #SkinScience

{senescent cells, zombie cells, skin inflammation, inflammaging, skin longevity, longevity science, healthy skin barrier, skincare routine, skin barrier repair, evidence based skincare, cellular aging, skin health, skin resilience, over exfoliation, sensitive skin, skincare science} by @devanshigarg

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How many times have we been taught to question our skin before questioning the system?

A product doesn’t work. A routine goes viral but does nothing. An ingredient that was supposed to change everything leaves us disappointed.

And almost without noticing, we stop asking whether the advice was wrong. We start asking whether we are.

Maybe our skin is too sensitive.
Too complicated.
Too different.

That might be the biggest failure of modern skincare. Not that products don’t always work. But that we’ve been taught to interpret every disappointment as a personal flaw instead of evidence that skincare has become increasingly driven by trends, marketing and endless experimentation.

The strange thing is that biology has never been this uncertain.

We know the skin needs a healthy barrier.
We know it needs protection from UV damage.
We know collagen declines with age.
We know chronic inflammation matters.
We know the microbiome plays an important role.

Those fundamentals haven’t changed. What changes is everything that’s built around them.

Healthy skin isn’t a mystery to solve.
It’s a biological system to support.

I’m Devanshi, founder of @motifskincare. I read the science so you don’t have to and translate it into what actually works for your skin and health in everyday life.

{skin barrier, skin biology, evidence-based skincare, skincare routine, skin health, microbiome, collagen, inflammation, healthy skin, skincare myths, skincare education, longevity skincare, science-backed skincare, dermatologist skincare, skincare tips by @devanshigarg

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Comment “DIAL” and I’ll send you the plain-English breakdown of Cynthia Kenyon’s research and what it means for your day-to-day life. 🧬

In 1993, Cynthia Kenyon challenged one of biology’s biggest assumptions: that aging was simply random wear and tear.

By changing a single gene in a tiny worm, she doubled its lifespan while keeping it healthier for longer. The discovery transformed how scientists think about aging and helped launch the modern longevity field.

The gene she studied controls how cells respond to insulin - the same hormone involved in regulating blood sugar after we eat.

That doesn’t mean sugar is the sole cause of aging. But it does tell us that how our bodies handle blood sugar is one of the biological pathways that influences healthy aging.

The practical takeaway is refreshingly simple: you don’t have to give up sugar.

Just don’t eat it naked.

Pair it with protein, healthy fats or fibre, or take a short walk after your biggest meal to help reduce the glucose spike.

Small habits, repeated consistently, are often where longevity begins.

I’m Devanshi, founder of @motifskincare. I read the longevity science so you don’t have to and translate it into what can actually work for your skin and health in everyday life.

#LongevityScience #HealthyAging #BloodSugar #Glucose #CynthiaKenyon

{insulin, blood sugar spikes, glucose control, longevity, aging research, insulin signaling, healthy aging, skin longevity, protein with carbs, fiber, post-meal walk, metabolic health, longevity habits, Cynthia Kenyon, daf-2 gene} by @devanshigarg

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