anti-aging

History of Microneedling and How It Works

It is a widely accepted tenet of aesthetic medicine that, in order to stimulate new collagen formation in the skin, we have to injure the skin. The injury turns on healing mechanisms, including stimulating the cells that make scar tissue to make collagen. For many years, the focus was on using whatever modality (laser, radiofrequency, [...]

Introducing Exosomes: A quantum leap forward in antiaging

Exosomes are going to change everything. In fact, I think exosomes could rewrite human life expectancy within my lifetime! I am pleased to announce that we now have exosomes here at Advanced Rejuvenation! What are exosomes? Exosomes are little packets containing growth factors, cytokines and other peptides, lipids, and pieces of RNA. These packets are [...]

Emsculpt Neo in people aged 60+: Improve your quality of life and your waistline

From age 30, we start losing muscle. On average, it's about a 3-8% loss per decade and accelerates after age 60. By age 80, the average person has lost about 50% of their muscle mass. The medical name for this condition is sarcopenia. Upper, comparison of arm muscles in 25 yr old (L) and 65 [...]

How growth factors keep me looking younger

I'm so impressed by SkinMedica's growth factors and I know when I'm trying to explain them to regular folk, I blind everyone with science (science nerd here) so I'm writing this article to try to explain with illustrations why this is so amazing. SkinMedica was originally making dressings for burns using cultured human cells. In science, [...]

How laser photofacials erased my sunspots and redness and gave me my mojo back

I always wanted a nice even brown tan and devoted a lot of energy to achieving that goal from my early teens until my late 30s. Unfortunately, my skin doesn't tan very well. By the time I was 40, I had lots of freckles and brown sun spots, lots of redness and a rough texture to [...]

Blue Light: A real threat or a gimmick?

It seems like every new product I see claims to protect against blue light. I decided to investigate, to determine how much of a threat blue light truly is, and whether we should all be using blue light glasses and covering ourselves in blue light protection. Science of sun's emissions We're all used to the [...]

How to improve the appearance of your decolletage

This month I had a terrible moment: my husband was driving me to work and I happened to open the visor mirror. OMG! The slanting early morning light and the position of my arm combined to reveal every little crepey wrinkle on my decolletage! Picture taken on that fateful morning, gives you an idea of [...]

How I avoided a lid lift (blepharoplasty)

I used to think that I would need a lid lift or blepharoplasty. As I approached my 40s, I could see my lids getting heavier. It was a family trait: I was heading down the same path as my mother and my older sister. As we age, our skin levels of collagen and elastin decline, making [...]

10 Draws for our 10 Years of Service: Congratulations Winners!

To celebrate our 10 years of service to our clients, we obtained 10 awesome prize draws. Our visitors and online friends entered ballots over July, August and September. The contest closed on September 30th, 2017. We would like to thank everyone who participated in the draws for their continuing support. Here are the winners: 1 CoolSculpting® [...]

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