Anti-Ageing Treatments

Ageing is a normal process, but that needn’t prevent you from looking and feeling your best self. We all know how good we feel on a good hair day, or when we treat ourselves to that new pair of shoes. Luckily, that feeling is achievable with the help of a host of anti-aging treatments, whether it is medical grade skin preparations, line relaxing injections, or targeted treatments to a particular area of concern to you.

You may find it helpful to understand how ageing changes facial structures over time and why, with our help, you can embrace the ageing process with confidence and style. When we are talking about skin ageing, the changes that occur over the years are inevitable and are contributing factors to changes in our appearance (that we are often not happy with).

Hyaluronic Acid (HA), elastin and collagen are key molecules within the body, and are the main contributors to a dewy, bouncy, youthful appearance to the skin. When we are younger, we have an abundance of these molecules, however they begin to decrease from the age of around 30. This results in loss of skin elasticity, volume, and hydration. This is not surprising when you consider that HA is capable of binding with over 1,000 times its weight in water.

As if this wasn’t enough, the skeletal structures of the face begin to shrink.

To give you a good analogy, imagine your skin as a tablecloth, and your facial bone structure as a table. In simple terms, the table begins to shrink, but the tablecloth remains the same size, but doesn’t fit quite as well as it once did. The tablecloth becomes a little more wrinkled and looser than before.

When you apply the same principle to your face, you can begin to understand why hollows, shadows and creases begin to appear. When you add environmental factors into the mix, such as UV exposure, inadequate diet, dehydration, weight loss, stress, and smoking for example, it’s easy to see why aging can have a more profound effect on some people than others.

The excellent news however is that there is something that can be done to slow this process down, and to replace the essential molecules that we enjoyed in our youth. Anti-ageing is not about turning back the clock, its about looking great for the age you are, but if a few years are taken off in the process, that's a happy bonus .