Are you over thirty-five and trying to navigate all the messages we get from social media and popular culture on what the best way is to maintain your youthful look and always look younger than your friends? The science of anti-aging has evolved so much and there are so many different procedures and products available to maintain your natural beauty that it is quite frankly overwhelming.
Dr. Norris at Nicole Norris MD Medical Spa has masterminded a total anti-aging solution to simplify the process. Over her last 10 years in the aesthetic and wellness space, she has curated what she considers an extremely effective maintenance recommendation for men and women who want to look as young as they feel.
“I like to think of the face like a bed in a beautiful bedroom. Intrinsic aging causes our mattress to deflate due to loss of facial bone and fat pads. Extrinsic aging thins and tatters the sheets over the top due to loss of collagen and elastin in our skin. The bedroom where this bed is represents our overall fitness including our muscle mass, percentage body fat, and general health. Aging gracefully in appearance is multifactorial. We need to maintain our sheets, mattress, and bedroom to maintain our confidence in our reflection in the mirror,” explains Dr. Norris.
She continues, “Let’s break down this analogy. First, how do we get nice high thread count sheets i.e. restore our skin? My favorite way to do this is with procedures like Hydrafacial or facials with dermaplaning as often as possible to keep the skin glowing. Microneedling treatments or laser resurfacing treatments three times per year are essential in keeping the texture of the skin and sun damage under control. Daily use of medical grade antioxidants and sunscreens prevent further aging and protects your investment. Botox or Dysport are injectable medications to smooth out the wrinkles in your sheets most often used for expression lines and need to be done 2-4 times per year pending your age and desired result.
Second, let’s talk about the mattress. Every year our face experiences bone loss of the cheeks, temples and jaw line. Our natural fat pads of the mid face deflate a little more each year. With these changes, our facial shape changes and women lose their heart-shape faced and men lose their chiseled appearance. There are two ways to restore the mattress of the face. One is with dermal filler which is a gel-like substance injected under the skin and along bone to lift and fill areas of loss mimicking bone and fat pad. The other is Sculptra (poly-L-lactic acid), a biostimulant that naturally restores fat pad and bone in the face. It can also create new collagen to treat lines and wrinkles. Filler gives you an almost immediate result whereas Sculptra can take six months to see an improvement. Sculptra can last five or more years and filler lasts one to two years. Sculptra always provides a very natural result because your own body cannot produce “overdone” results.
Now what about the bedroom that this bed is in? Without the bedroom, there is no bed! We must do everything that we can to maintain good health to age well. This of course means staying active and eating foods that are beneficial to our muscle and bone. By maintaining healthy muscle mass and body fat we will not only look younger, but we will feel more youthful. Sometimes as we age, staying fit is challenging due to our loss of natural hormones and depleted metabolism. It seems to take an overwhelming amount of effort to lose fat or gain muscle compared to what it used in our youth. At NNMD we have created a concierge medical weight management program called GET FIT to get your body back in shape. Our program can be tailored to adults of any age with the combination of weekly health coaching, prescription weight loss medication, and soon, even bioidentical hormone therapy, “finishes Dr. Norris.
At NNMD, we created twelve-month treatment plan to redecorate your bedroom complete with a new mattress and bed linens. It is our NNMD Elite + Membership program. By joining this program, all the tools you need for this transformation are included with significant cost-savings when you make this one-year commitment to age in reverse. Check out our Elite + Membership details on our website or reach out to an NNMD team member to learn more about this unique aesthetic and wellness membership program.