Growth Factors

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 [...]

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, [...]

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