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Mesotherapy – Body Sculpting Miracle or Hype?
Mesotherapy sounds like a great idea. Weekly injection of a fat dissolving substance. No surgery and no downtime. There is even some good theory behind it. In the 1990′s, Brazilian doctors started using phosphatidylcholine to dissolve fat and improve cellulite. It was thought to activate pathways which would cause fat to be lysed in the body, and excreted by the liver. Other substances were soon added to help with a variety of problems, and to treat conditions ranging from hair loss to pain relief. Recently, deoxycholate, which emulsifies phosphatidylcholine and is a detergent to destroy cell membranes, was thought to be …
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The Skinny on Skin
If You See Large Dark Patches
…then you have melasma. Melasma is knowns as ‘THE MASK OF PREGNANCY”, Melasma is one of the harder types of hyperpigmentation to correct because it is tied to estrogen and progesterone (found in birthcontrol pills) and affect the deep dermal layers of the skin. Melasma appears as dark patches on the skin. It can usually be found on the sides of the face, the forehead, the upper lip, the chin and the sides of the neck. Mild melasma appears as faint brown splotches that are rather small , but full blown melasma surfaces as patches of light brown skin with …
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