When your skin is at its prime – cells turning over like clockwork, fibroblasts churning out collagen – your complexion is smooth, bright, and youthful. As you know, that beautiful operation slows down with age. But there’s a way to hack the machine, spurring it to regain its peak performance. Coined regenerative dermatology, these antiaging strategies help boost or reignite some of the skin’s own natural processes, like collagen production, so your skin acts as it used to – and looks more like it too. “For years, the goal of cosmetic dermatology was to fix signs of aging, like Botox to smooth fine lines or fillers to lift sagging skin,” says Marnie Nussbaum, a New York City dermatologist. “As we did those treatments, we discovered a positive side effect: long-term…
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Shape Singapore (Digital) - 1 Issue, August/September 2019