Welcome to The Holistic Skin Guru, where what's on the surface is

just as important as what's underneath. I'm your host, Aamena.

Let's dive deep into the world of holistic skincare. Welcome

to yet another episode of our podcast and today

I want to delve into the aging skin. So

we get told on a daily basis about

how anti-aging this and anti-aging that And

sometimes these messages can be a little bit overwhelming

as we get into our 30s and our 40s

and our 50s and so on. So I don't want you to freak out.

Aging is actually a beautiful process and it's part of life. And

as we age, we grow and we mature. So I

would like you to think about embracing each stage of

your life and look at it as gaining knowledge, not

just in everyday things, but also in

how we see ourselves. When we look in the mirror, are

we pleased with what we see or are we just looking for

the faults in our image? So

what is the aging skin then? The aging skin is

a natural progression

of our life. So in our 20s

our skin is at its optimum, so it's functioning in the

best way possible. We are producing the correct levels

of collagen and elastin in our skin. But

as we age from the age of 20, our

skin stops producing collagen and elastin at

a rate of 1% each year. So

you do the math. By the time you're 30, that's 10%. 40, that's

20%, 50, that's 30%. Now, I don't want to scare you, but it

is something that you need to think about putting back into

your skin. And it's not just about topical treatments.

It's not just about popping a hyaluronic acid

on your skin, which is, it is part of the solution, but

it's not the only solution. So start thinking

about how you include ingredients

into your food that actually is high in collagen that's

going to help your body produce more. So sort

of thinking about the health of your skin from within. You'll hear me

talking about this in every single podcast and I'm

all about a holistic approach and looking at your overall

health to then have that glow in your skin. So

that's what we want. We want the aging process to

be an easy one. Do we want to look like we're 20 when

we're 40 and when we're 50? I don't want to.

I still want to look like myself and I don't

mind if I have a few wrinkles around my eyes

but I want to glow with health. I want to look healthy and

I want to feel healthy and this is the point about

aging. So from now on, you're gonna hear me use the word pro-age instead

of anti-age because we're gonna embrace every

single part of our aging process. So to understand aging,

we need to understand the skin and what's going on with

our skin from the surface all the way down

into the deeper layers and even further than that. So

the messages we receive or have received over the course

of our lives is, you know, our skin

is going to get saggy, our skin is going to get wrinkled. We need to

put this cream on and this serum on and that's the way to prevent

aging. Well, I think it's time for us

to be a little bit mature about this topic and talk about

all the other elements that are contributing to

the aging process that we can actually tackle and

give ourselves some really fantastic results. And this is very

exciting for me because no one is talking about this. In

the holistic world, we talk about it quite a bit, but

in the mainstream, no one is actually discussing this.

And I find it so strange. because every Tom,

Dick and Harry is having Botox and fillers and

they're not thinking about the aging process. So

this is one of the my most favorite things to talk about with my clients because

I can see the light bulbs going off as

I explain this to people and I hope the same thing happens for

you. So first of all, our skin has layers

in it. We have several dermal layers and then we

have what we call the subcutaneous tissue. And

a subcutaneous tissue is really where the youth

of our skin sits or the age of our skin sits. So

we want to try to keep our subcutaneous tissue as

young as possible. And In doing so, we

need to stimulate the subcutaneous tissue so that

it can produce more collagen, more elastin. So

this area is very, very important and it's about 4.5 mil

down into the skin. So different treatments will treat

different areas in the skin. So when you're treating the

subcutaneous tissue, you're usually looking at treatments like

radiofrequency. And I think out of all

the holistic treatments on the market today, Haifu is

probably going to be up there in giving you

the results that you want, especially from the age of 40 onwards.

Because what Haifu is going to do is it's going to

stimulate the subcutaneous tissue in such a way that

you get up to six months of collagenic production,

which is fabulous. There's a lot of

myths out there when it comes to haifu and I will delve into that

topic on another podcast, so keep an

eye out for that one. But in the mainstream

we have a lot of treatments that are

doing different things in different layers of the skin. So for example, what

is microneedling going to be doing? You know, what is microdermabrasion

doing? What is intense

facial massage or a buckle massage doing? I already

explained what haifu is doing. So if all these treatments have

affecting change in different places in the skin. So

there is not one single treatment that can treat everything.

And that's one of the biggest take homes that I would like all of

you to understand is that there is

no one treatment solution for everything. If

you have pigmentation, for example, we can treat that. And

then if you wanted to treat something else like skin laxity,

we're going to look at another treatment to treat that. However, you

will get some tightening of the skin with

a microneedling session. It's just limited. So,

you know, you can be treating skin in different ways and

affecting change for different areas of the skin. And

it's about you understanding when you're coming in for a

treatment, what it is that that treatment's gonna be doing for you on that

day. I also want you to start thinking about your

skin as yours. It doesn't belong to us. We

have you for a small amount of time and if

you're coming in for regular treatments we can do more and we can help

you more. So you have your skin on a daily basis and

I want you to start thinking about how you can affect change on

your skin on a daily basis because you have your skin every

day and what you put it through is how it's gonna respond.

Okay, so apart from the layers of the skin, nobody's talking

about our bone structure, our muscles,

and something that you may have heard holistic therapists talk

about before, which is called the fascia. I

want you to think about the fascia as a sack

or very thin lining that's holding everything together. And

all of these elements age. It's not just our skin

or our dermal layers. Everything else underneath is also

aging. So our bone structure, our bone

density changes as we age, and with it goes

our muscles, and then our skin starts

to droop. So if we're thinking about keeping our bones

healthy, and we're thinking about what's happening with our

fascia, you need to start coming in and

having some lymphatic drainage treatments, and you can also do those

at home. If you follow us on Instagram, you'll see some of my videos

around face yoga, which involve lymphatic drainage,

and that's gonna really help everything just start moving

correctly. And our lymphatic

system sits right next to our immune system. So if

our immunity is good, our lymphatic system is good, they

really piggyback off each other. And that

directly affects our skin. So a lot of you

will come in and will say to me, Oh, as I'm aging, I

just feel like I'm really bulky in my face. And I don't

understand why. So that is actually called

stagnation. And when you come in for a

holistic treatment, like near lifting, we can actually

help drain a lot of that stagnation out by using

lymphatic drainage movements. So understanding your

treatments and what is happening in the skin and

looking further than just the dermal layers actually

will give you a better understanding on how to treat your skin. And

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