Health and Fitness

As part of the natural aging process, many people start to experience sagging skin and fat deposits in their neck and jaw line areas, problems which are traditionally addressed through facelift surgery. However, a lot of potential patients hesitate to get a facelift because they worry about looking 搕oo pulled?and going through a long and painful post-operative healing period.

In response to the patients?request for a younger, natural-looking appearance that doesn抰 take significant time away from their busy schedule, the “weekend facelift” was developed. This is a revolutionary new technique that offers a simpler and less invasive alternative to the traditional facelift.

“Weekend facelift?generally implies limited face contouring procedures ?like liposuction and skin tightening in the neck, jowl and chin area ?which heal in a few days with few recovery problems. While it does not have the same extensive results as a full surgical facelift, the weekend facelift allows people to go…

After you抳e scheduled your facelift surgery appointment, your surgeon will likely give you a list of things you can safely eat or drink up to two weeks prior to your procedure. However, if you haven抰 received any instruction or you are just considering the procedure at the moment and want to know everything about it, it抯 important to know the dietary restrictions prior to getting a facelift.

There are many obvious compounds to avoid before surgery, as they thin the blood, which is absolutely not ideal before this or many other surgeries, as it prevents blood from clotting quickly, or sometimes at all. These anti-coagulant drugs include common ones such as aspirin.

A Word About Salicylates

But, there are a number of supplements and foods that contain high amounts of other substances that don抰 allow the blood to clot easily. These include those containing salicylates (foods with high amounts of aspirin-like substances), Omega-3…

One of the earliest signs of facial aging is the development of jowls or jowling. The jowls are areas of skin and fat that have fallen from the side of the face to hang along or below the jawline. As we age, these areas tend to become more noticeable as the sag worsens. The once straight jawline of youth is gradually replaced by the saggy full jowls of the aging face. Why this occurs is the age-old phenomenon of time and gravity, weakening the attachments of the skin to the underlying muscle so that a tight bond between the two no longer exists.

Patients are really bothered by the development of jowling, particularly younger ages who see it as the reality that aging is occurring. There are numerous options to treat the jowls, both surgical and non-surgical, with varying degrees of effectiveness. The most effective methods, to no surprise, are surgical…

Answering the 1 million dollar question of how you can freeze the aging process is a challenging feat to all of us in the skin care industry because we are continually giving you solutions that are fighting against the clock of time that will always continue to tick. Although we may be able help educate you in slowing down the process of aging or suggest cosmetic surgical and nonsurgical procedures, time will continue to steal your youth.

However, in spite of the life long pursuit for the fountain of youth, many celebrities have attempted to master the removal of wrinkles. Just pick up People magazine and it read for yourself. Fourty-five year old actress Virginia Madsen from the film Sideways is the new spokesperson for Allergan, Inc., who is the maker of Botox and Juv餥rm.

She says, “I made a lot of choices to keep myself youthful and strong. I work out.…