Botox and fillers leaves a deep hole in your wallet and

you don't get long lasting results. There are also some

risks and side effects to repetitive injectables. You need to

understand that it's just. Microneedling is another way

for you to encourage collagen production in the skin.

This will naturally give you a much healthier, younger looking

skin. Botox and fillers, they are just a temporary

solution. 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. Today,

we're gonna be talking Botox and fillers. Are they

short-term solutions and what are their limitations? Well,

Botox or sometimes called botulinum toxin

is a neurotoxin that temporarily paralyzes or

relaxes muscles. It's commonly used in cosmetic procedures

to reduce the appearance of wrinkles and fine lines, particularly

in areas like the forehead and around the eyes and

sometimes around the nose. Dermal fillers are

different to Botox. They are injectable substances, usually

containing hyaluronic acid or collagen, and

they're used to add volume and to fill in wrinkles and

restore facial contours. They provide a plumping effect,

smoothing lines and enhancing areas that may have lost volume

due to aging. Now, Botox and fillers

are temporary. You can go back every

three months and get them redone, but they are just a

temporary solution. The research is showing

that according to a study published in the JMA Facial

Plastic Surgery magazine of 2018, that Botox

and fillers are temporary solutions and their effects typically

last for a few months to a year. necessitating repeated

treatments to maintain results. Now, what does

that mean? It means that it leaves a deep hole in your pocket, in

your wallet, and you don't get long-lasting results. There

are also some risks and side effects to repetitive injectables, and

some people are for it and some people are against it.

At the end of the day, depending on which side of the camp you sit on, you

need to understand that it's just temporary. You

know, Botox and fillers can have their

own potential risks and side effects. For example, it

can include bruising or swelling, and in some

rare cases, more severe complications such as infections

or allergic reactions. And we also know that repetitive Botox

injections can lead to Botox fatigue, which

can prevent them from working in the future. Now, with

Botox and fillers, there is some limited tissue

rejuvenation. And, you know, the studies have suggested

that Botox and fillers can address specific

concerns like wrinkles and volume loss. But overall,

their effectiveness is limited and it

doesn't promote overall skin rejuvenation or

address tissues on a deeper level, which

is what we're trying to do in holistic treatments. Now,

the gradual loss of efficacy means that Botox and

fillers diminish their resistance,

develop in patients and they diminish over time, which

means that the dose needs to be increased each time the client or

the patient goes in to have it done. Now, when

we look at these things, we're not just writing

them off as never do them or you know, they're the worst thing for

your skin. I believe that they do have a place within

aesthetics and it's fine to have a

bit of Botox if you know you haven't looked after yourself

and you've got a wedding coming up and you want a quick fix as

long as you know that that is not a long-term solution and

within three or four months or a few months, you're gonna have to go back

and redo it. It's fine for just

giving you that little bit of a lift every now and then, but

it's not your end game. Organic methods

such as near lifting, micro needling, Haifu

and other holistic alternatives are going to give you better long-term

results. Because as our skin ages, we

lose our collagen production and our elastin production naturally goes

down each year from the age of 20. But when we do

our organic treatments, we're actually encouraging that

collagenic healing or that collagenic production in the skin. And

that way we're actually moving our skin's age younger.

And so that's why holistic treatments and organic treatments are

a lot better for our skin. Now I'm gonna go through and explain each

one because near lifting, Haifu, microneedling, microdermabrasion,

all these treatments are really great treatments to help encourage

collagen production in the skin, but they all do it in a different way.

Neolifting stimulates collagen production in the skin. It

promotes tightening and rejuvenation. And it's all

about the skin's muscles and

the tissues and just stimulating that with our hands.

So there's no machines involved. It is a very technical, skillful

technique that's used on the skin in a treatment. It

goes for 90 minutes. It's incredibly relaxing, but the

skin responds by lifting and tightening. And

the more often you do this, the better your skin looks. So think

of it like exercise for your skin. Another treatment

that has been thrown around, you know, we hear about it all

the time, is called HIFU. HIFU is High Intensity

Focused Ultrasound. It is a non-invasive treatment

and it's used to lift the skin. What it does is

it delivers the focused ultrasound energy into

the subcutaneous tissue in the skin and stimulates the

collagen production, helping the skin to produce more

collagen over time. Now you get different types of

HIFU treatments. Some will give you up

to 60 to 90 days worth of collagen production,

while other HIFU treatments will give you up to six months. And

it'll just depend on the technician and the treatment and how

much you're paying for it, because as you build more

collagen, the treatment becomes more expensive. Haifu

treatments can provide significant skin tightening effects and

they have had studies to show that they've

observed improvements in skin laxity and wrinkles after

Haifu was carried out. But Haifu must

be carried out by an experienced technician. And

there's a little disclaimer here. Check that the clinic that you

go to is not just using clever marketing to get you

into the door and you get no results because

they have reduced their pricing so they can significantly reduce

the treatment. So if you want a full Haifu treatment, you

need to pay the money because it is an expensive treatment. And

a good question to ask is what depths will be

used in the Haifu session? Now, different areas

of the face, we use different depths into the skin. The

strength of the machine has got nothing to do with your results. And

the D's, you know, 4D, 7D, 11D, 16D

has got nothing to do with the energy output or

the strength of the machine or how good the treatment is going

to be. These are all just marketing gimmicks. by

clinics who are trying to get you in the door and demystify the

whole treatment and try to get you to come in and spend

your money with them. And that's fine. Just make sure that

your session goes for about an hour to

half an hour. Good clinics take their time, spend

their time with you and don't treat you like a number. They also

want to consult with you correctly and they want

to see you on a return visit. So if those things

are happening, that means you're in a good clinic that actually looks after

their clients, that wants to see results. Do not

be price driven with Haifu. If you go for the cheaper

treatments, unfortunately you're going to get a lower

grade session. So please do your homework and

ask questions and you can email us or you

can comment below and we'll try to answer the questions or

even send us a message. We are Haifu experts and we're happy

to guide you. Now, microneedling is another way

for you to encourage collagen production

in the skin and this will naturally give

you a much healthier, younger looking skin, eliminate

fine lines. Microneedling can help you to

not only stimulate collagen production, it can also improve your

texture of your skin, reduce the appearance of wrinkles, and

it can actually reduce pigmentation and scarring in

the skin. With microneedling, we can produce up to

250,000 microchannels in the skin. With SQT

bio-microneedling, we can produce up to 3.5 million

channels in the skin. So you've got a few options there.

You can do your regular microneedling with the device and you'll get

results with that. Or you can come and see us and we

can do SQT bio-microneedling and we

can get your results really, really fast with that one. No devices

in that treatment, but the results are incredible and within

seven days. Now, the Journal of Cutaneous

and Aesthetic Surgery found that microneedling can be effective

in treating acne scars and promoting collagen remodeling and

increasing cellular turnover to reduce pigmentation, making

it a valuable option for skin rejuvenation. So the

science is already backing us and we know that microneedling is

excellent for skin rejuvenation and collagen production. So what are

the advantages of organic methods over traditional treatments? Well,

they're longer lasting. And that's pretty much the

best answer that I can give you because organic

methods can provide longer lasting results compared to other

treatments. And by stimulating your natural collagen production,

we can contribute to sustaining incredible improvements

in your skin and reversing the aging process because

when we produce collagen in the skin, we can actually build that

collagen that the skin is naturally depleting as we age.

We can also increase our skin rejuvenation in

a much deeper way, and microneedling will not

only build that collagen and elastin synthesis, it also

contributes in rejuvenation of the skin. So overall,

a holistic approach is going to have fewer risks and side effects

compared to invasive procedures like Botox or fillers or

even facelifts. And it just depends

which side of the fence you sit on and what you're comfortable doing with your

skin. We know that, you know, holistic benefits

of organic treatments by far are

much better for concerns like wrinkles and volume

loss. but they are slower so it takes a bit of

a longer time to get you your results. While Botox and

fillers are temporary solutions you get an instant result and

sometimes people are after that you know if you're going to a wedding or

a function and you want that instant result go for it if you're happy

to put something that may

be considered toxic into your skin. But

if you want to go more natural, think of organic methods like

near lifting, haifu, micro needling to

give you a more holistic approach to your skin rejuvenation. And

you can get a much better glowing, more longer lasting results

that way. If you enjoyed this episode, Please feel

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