Cellulite Cause & Effect

As you age the following things take place in your skin:

The amount of collagen produced is diminished and the type of collagen changes from a more youthful type of collagen to an older type of collagen.

The production of collagen never ends.

The Elastin in your skin decreases in content as well as production. But it also does not completely stop being produced.

The Melanin granules (color/pigment in your skin) in the upper layers of your skin coalesce into pocket, we call them freckles, sunspots or brown spots.

The cells of the skin age and more dead layers of skin pile up in the upper layers of the skin.

Skin cancer risks go up because of environmental influenced – sun, pollution.

What you can do to correct these problems:

Retin-A –

Increases collagen production, slows the loss of elastin, decreases the production of metalloproteases, cause the dispersion of melanin granules, reduces the rate of topical skin cancers, exfoliates the dead skin layers and improves acne as well. the down side to retin-a is

complinace –

you have to start at a low concentration and move to the highest concentration as your skin allows.

Hydroquinone –

Bleaches the sunspots and retards the production of melanin.

Sunblock-

Zinc Oxide sunblock is the best. I sell EltaMD in my practice.

Alpha Hydroxy acid-

does many of the same things as  retin-a but not as effective.

Can be used as a lunch hour peel at the doctors office – very effective at that dose.

Better then microdermabrasion of photo facials.

Anti-oxidants –

Cellex-C, Prevage or Revale are the best available.