Post Procedure Skin Maintenance by Dr. Vimali Paul When you take your car in for servicing, you still have to fill it with gasoline, oil, and put air in the tires to keep you on the road. Skin maintenance also requires some aftercare to keep us looking our best. We use lasers and skin lightening creams to get rid of sun damage, but if we don’t apply a sunscreen (every day!) of SPF 30 or higher, the damage returns or worsens. We get facials or laser rejuvenation, but if we aren’t keeping our skin clean and hydrated with basic skin care products at home, we can still look dull, blotchy, and either too oily or too dry. Any skin care regimen requires a bit of a commitment, but if we are results-oriented, we find time to maintain healthy, fresh-looking skin. Wash your face morning and evening to keep residue from building up and clogging the pores. Skin care products
are type-specific, so read the labels or ask your skin care professional what is right for you. Use active ingredient products (retinol, vitamin C, hydro-quinone, etc.) consistentlyfor best results. While some skin conditions must be treated by a physician with topical or internal medications, we can still be pro-active with our skin care by being educated and informed about the products we use. Put your best face forward and maintain that healthy glow! Call or visit us at the Derm Bar Med-Spa to set up a free consultation with one our licensed skin care professionals and to see which products are available in order to maintain your best skin! 85 Declaration Dr. Suite 100 Chico, CA 95973 | 530.342.2672
Are You a Sensitive Person? by Dr. Dina Rabo, DC Ask yourself these questions: Do you suffer with irritability, nervousness or depression? Have you been dealing with being overweight and struggled for much of your life? Do you reach for carbohydrates over protein most of the time? Do you crave carbohydrates and sugary foods much of the time? Does your diet consist of a lot of processed foods like white bread, pastas, sweets or sugary cereals? Are you a woman and are over forty?
If you answered “yes” to most of these questions, you may be carbohydrate sensitive. Having uncontrolled reactions to foods or even physical reactions to this food group that may cause many adverse health conditions in the future. Such conditions may involve insulin resistance, diabetes, metabolic syndrome, and thyroid problems. Carbohydrate sensitivity 2. How often do you stretch your legs can be attributed to an imbalance of and back each week? hormones, pancreatic dysfunction, or even 3. How often do you get a massage? poor learned eating habits over time. 4. How often do you plan and eat a home It’s not that carbohydrates are bad to eat; it’s that we over consume them or certain cooked healthy meal each week? 5. How often do you look in the mirror and metabolisms don’t function as well with appreciate your uniquely beautiful certain types of carbohydrates. Carbohydrates are often our “comfort foods” like figure and features each week? chocolate and ice cream or a glass of red If you are unsatisfied with your reflective wine. Ideally, we want to make better answers, let the specialists at Advanced choices with more unprocessed and Body Dynamics coach you through a healthy living/self loving program that natural carbohydrates. Start to replace may include soothing Aquatic Therapy the sugary cookies, cereals, chips, and at our brand new, state of the art hydro- fast food meals with “good” carbohydrates therapy pool, scheduled stretching like brown rice, oatmeal, yams or sweet sessions, and endorphin raising cardio- potatoes, and other natural high-fiber vascular classes complete with fun and carbohydrates. These would be better delicious meal preparation coaching choices as they do not cause high spikes and advice. in your blood sugar thereby helping to Love your body, it’s the only one you get! maintain an overall “feeling of fullness” and even less “mood swings,” yet promote Scott Amick, CPT sustained energy.
Self Love and the Wonka Wash by Scott Amick, CPT
If you’ve ever had the opportunity to step into the Advanced Body Dynamics studio, you will have entered an environment free from harsh self judgement, brimming with positive energy, complete with fresh, empowering quotes on our whiteboard every morning. I like to invoke the memor y of the “Hsaw Aknow ” from the famous Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory film when describing what happens when you walk through the front door of ABD. Hsaw Aknow is the “Wonka Wash” spelled backwards! In this case the threshold of ABD acts as a hsaw aknow in which all negative self judgment is squeaky cleaned from each person that chooses to enter. As Valentine’s Day approaches and we take a chance to show that special someone how much we care for them, I invite you to answer the following “Love Quiz” to find out how much you care for your own body. 1. How often do you raise your heart rate to elicit an endorphin response each week?
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