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Skin Biology
Skin is actually quite astounding. As the largest organ of the body, your skin plays an extremely important role in maintaining our health as well as giving you an outward appearance. It protects you against a very harsh environment including destructive UV rays, chemical and biological pollution, bacterial and viral infections, and it helps regulate body temperature.
Skine care cremes like PureLift Ultra can often achieve close to the same results as plastic surgery!
To maintain skin's peak performance, skin must continually regenerate itself through a process of exfoliation and regeneration. The stratum corneum, or outermost protective barrier of the skin epidermis, originates from the cellular layers below and is sequentially sloughed off its outer layers. As you get older, the ability for you to shed old or dead skin cells and replace them with new healthy cells slows down. A skin renewal cycle that could take as little as a few days in infants can take as long as several months in middle-aged adults. As the body slows its ability to replace skin cells, more and more dead, discolored, and potentially cancerous cells build up on the surface layers of skin causing lines and wrinkles, congestion, breakouts, weak skin elasticity, and uneven skin tone or discoloration. Most individuals exhibit one or more of the following conditions as a result of a slowed skin cycle:
• AGING/PHOTO DAMAGED SKIN - Fine Lines, Age Spots, Wrinkles, Dullness, Sagging Skin. Starting in our twenties, we begin to see fine lines around the mouth and on the forehead. Gradually, the condition worsens to include deeper lines, brown spots, sagging skin, and broken capillaries.
• ACNE - Excessively Oily Skin, White or Black Heads, Pustules, or Acne Scars. Genetics, hormones, and diet contribute to excessive oil and glycerin production, trapping bacteria causing infection and scarring. Acne can occur or recur at any age.
• HYPERPIGMENTATION – Uneven Complexion with Age Spots or Freckles, Blotchiness or Irregular Coloration, and Spotting. Hormones, sun and UV light exposure, and exposure to extreme heat or cold causes stimulation of pigmentation cells in the lower layers of the dermis. As pigmented cells migrate to the surface they become trapped by a slower exfoliation cycle causing uneven coloration and spots.
Each of the above conditions can be treated successfully to counteract their current affects and to help slow down or hold off future recurrences. Treatment approach is dictated by the current state of your skin, your age, your sex, and your overall health. Many treatments involve some level of accelerated exfoliation through chemical, physical, or laser technologies followed by antioxidant therapies to encourage faster, healthy skin cell turnover. These treatments include Micro-dermabrasion, Chemical peels and laser skin resurfacing. Today, clinical treatments can be coordinated with a medical grade home skin care regimen and ingested supplements to sustain results. Treatments should be monitored regularly and modified to keep the skin balanced and reactive to ever changing conditions. Furthermore, combining the expertise of a physician and skin care professional is essential in today's complicated health and wellness environment.
Skin Health
The good news is that today we have graduated to a state where we have solid science, tools, and proven techniques to help us look our best at any age. Unfortunately, taking a hit and miss approach to the vast array of offerings is expensive and often produces less than expected results or even competing results, improving one condition but creating another. And how do you factor in lifestyle, diet, hormones, and your overall health into the equation?
How about working with a personal “skin health trainer” to help you manage the maze of skin care technologies, anti-aging treatments, and wellness programs? Imagine working with a knowledgeable professional to help you create a personalized and affordable plan to achieve lasting results with minimal impact on our daily life? A typical age-defying plan would coordinate minimally invasive cosmetic procedures with a simple, daily medical skin care regimen at home. For example, chemical and laser exfoliation when combined with topical antioxidant therapy, smoothers like Botox® Cosmetic, dermal fillers like Restylane™, and daily supplements rich in antioxidants and essential fatty acids can achieve dramatic results including diminishing of lines and wrinkles, reduction of breakouts, more continuous skin tone, and reduction in benign and pre-malignant cells. Even a simple daily home care regimen of medical grade exfoliation and antioxidant nourishing can achieve noticeable results after just a few weeks if you know how to put together the regimen for your specific skin condition.
So, let's stop searching for the miracle procedure or the latest fad cream and make a commitment to a comprehensive and lasting skin health program. Start today by looking for skin health professionals that will work with you and your physician to develop and manage a personalized, lifelong age-defying plan that achieves lasting results.
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