There's so many factors that contribute to your skin aging.

A lot of women present into clinic at the age of 50. That's 10, 20 years

of sun damage, poor diet, high alcohol intake, bad

sleep. I want you to start thinking about what you've put yourself through

over the last few decades. Why do we recommend a vitamin C?

Vitamin C is an antioxidant and it will strengthen the

skin, helps regenerate skin cells. And this is the real

beauty of vitamin C. It is a tyrannoside inhibitor. What does

that mean? We wanna make sure that you're looking after your skin,

but you're also understanding how your skin is aging in

all the different layers. 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 our very first session of Skin School. In

this episode, we're going to try to explain the

health of skin to you so you can start making very

informed and educated decisions around your skin. So

what is the health of your skin? The health of your skin is

the subcutaneous tissue, the suborbital fat

under the eye. That's what makes us look more youthful. And

as you get older, the buccal fat pads are what

makes us look really, really youthful. So, you know,

when we're looking at our skin, we're not just looking at

Is the skin looking bright? Is it looking even? Is

it looking flawless? Those are things

that we do look at, but we're also looking at the total health of

the skin. Is the skin looking plump

and healthy and gorgeous, or is it looking gaunt and

grey and dull? So this is very important about

looking well and looking healthy and radiating that

youth. A lot of people come in and the first thing they say is,

I hate my jowls. You know, they're sagging and I want to lift them.

And so they talk about haifu and they talk about lifting treatments,

but no one's really discussing what is actually happening

in the skin. You know, how are we aging? How's that

skin aging? And what can we do to prevent that? Because

prevention is better than cure. I mean, you can spend thousands and thousands of

dollars on lifting treatments, But isn't it better to

just prevent that from happening right from the get-go? And a

lot of our lifting treatments can only lift

the skin in small increments. And so if

you really leave it to the last minute, so you're in your 50s

or late 50s or early 60s and you've got a lot of sag in your

jowl area, Haifu might give you a little bit of a

lift, but the truth is you're going to have to have surgery. So we

don't want to get to that point. We want to make sure that you're looking after

your skin, but you're also understanding how your

skin is aging in all the different layers. So it's

not just the skin on the surface. It's not just the dermal layers. It's

also the muscle. It's also your bone that's aging

and your fascia, and that's sagging that

sagging is happening like a sack because our collagen is

reducing each year from the age of 20. We're reducing our

collagen production naturally by 1%. So, you

know, by the time you're 30, that's 10%, 40, that's 20%, 50, that's 30% and so on. So

we really have to look at where that volume loss

is coming from and what's going on in our skin. You know, are

you drinking enough milk? Do you have enough calcium in your body? Are

you eating products

or is your diet high in collagen? A

lot of people eat chicken's feet and I know it's not for everyone, but

it is very, very high in collagen. Or are you taking a

collagen supplement? Are you taking the correct collagen supplement?

you know, is it a hydrolyzed collagen? Because the collagen molecule

is quite large and you can't just take collagen. That's why there's

so many studies out there that say collagen doesn't work because people are

taking the wrong kind of collagen. It needs to

be a hydrolyzed collagen because those proteins are

broken down into smaller fractions that

the body is able to then take in and

that's where you get your collagen increase

from. The volume loss in areas in your face

are contributing to the sagging in the jowls. And so

this is why I'm really reluctant to just spot treat in

my clinic. You know, a lot of people will come in and say, oh, you

know, I'm getting a bit of sag in my cheek area or whatever, and

they just want to treat this area. But many times if

we're treating up here and we're lifting and we're lifting,

all of this tends to lift as well. And so I like to

treat the face as a whole. I'm not a fan

of treating just symptoms. And then

as a holistic skin therapist, I'm gonna ask, and my team's gonna ask

a lot of questions about your lifestyle, about how

you're looking after your skin and what you're doing at home, because the

treatment is only 30% of your results. What you do

at home is 70% of your results. We can give

you that power punch with our treatment, and then you maintain at

home what we've done until we see you for

your next visit. So treating the

face as a whole is a very big thing for us. We also

have thought about how long, you know, have you thought

about how long it's taken your skin to get to this point?

A lot of women present into clinic at the age of 50, 55, 60. So

that's 10, 20 years of maybe sun damage, maybe

bad poor diet, high alcohol intake,

bad sleep. You know, there's so many factors that

contribute to your skin aging that

we can't realistically push that

much in one session. So I want you to start

thinking about what you've put yourself through over the last few decades

and then come to us and let's have a very honest discussion about

how we can bring you forward. and give you the results that

you want. And in most cases, we need to do a

range of treatments. You know, we might need to do one

SQT treatment, followed by a Haifu Glow, followed

by a knee lifting treatment with some buckle massage. And then

we need to correct your skin care and put you on a collagen supplement. And

so this is not all about just, you know, making money out of you because a

lot of people think, oh, she's just trying to sell me stuff. No, we actually

are looking at your circumstances and we're looking at the

right sort of treatments to make sure that you

actually get a result and your results can happen in

a really natural way. Because if you're not going to go for the

filler and the injectable route, The holistic way

to treat is going to be a little bit slower, but it

will be a lot more beneficial to you and your skin overall. So

aftercare, we can all agree that nobody

thinks that they can go to the gym once and

eat McDonald's and have an amazing body. That would be

completely unrealistic. In the same vein, we want

you to start thinking about your skin in that way. We want to

give you that power punch that you would get in the gym for your face. then

you have to go home and use the correct skincare on your skin

to make sure that it is actually benefiting your skin and

that your skin is actually working in synergy with your home

care. So professional skin analysis to help you

understand your skin, your lifestyle, environmental stresses

that you put your skin through daily, this will all help us as

a skin therapist to find the best solution for your skin. If

you're over 30 and you've started incorporating a

vitamin C into your daily skin regimen, then good for you

because we need to see everybody from the age of

30 starting to use a really, really

good vitamin C on their skin, something clinical,

something prescribed. that will actually start to

help the skin regenerate because you see a vitamin

C is actually an antioxidant and

it will help restructure the skin. And

if you're using a vitamin C during the day, well done. You

need to also be incorporating a vitamin A in your nighttime regimen

because vitamin A derivatives or retinols, I love

them because as I've explained in a previous video about retinols, and

I'll pop the links below about how you can use a retinol,

but the reason I love retinols is because they work

really well in synergy with the vitamin C. So you use the vitamin C

during the day, you use a retinol at night, and the two of them work

really well together to regenerate your skin cells, turn

over the skin cells and really give you a much more youthful

and glowy complexion. Now, why do we recommend a vitamin C?

Well, because vitamin C is an antioxidant and

it will strengthen the skin. Vitamin C helps regenerate

skin cells and It will also lighten any dark

spots on the skin. And this is the real beauty of vitamin C.

It is a tyrenicide inhibitor. What does that mean? Tyrenicides

are enzymes in the skin. that act like the glue that

helps the melanocytes to clump together. And vitamin

C blocks these enzymes from helping the pigmentation

to form. So this is why vitamin C is so key

as a skin health ingredient, especially for skin clarity,

even skin tone and reducing further pigmentation and

damage. The consistent use of vitamin A

will also help to turn over the skin cells and will help

the skin regeneration. And vitamin A

is also an antioxidant, just like vitamin C. It's going to

transform your skin, helping to improve your skin's texture

and overall clarity. So you can see that, you

know, these two ingredients, very simple ingredients,

are a power punch when used correctly and used

with professional guidance. So hey guys, we've

started the Skin School sessions. If you have anything that

you would like to ask about your skin, please drop a comment below

and let us know and we're happy to cover it in the Skin School

session. Skin School is all about educating you around

your skin to help you make those really, really good

decisions for you moving forward. I hope you enjoyed today's episode

and it's given you some gems to take home and something

to think about of your daily routine and care.

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