Tight plan for tight skin

We can’t escape sagging skin all our lives, but that doesn’t mean we can’t postpone the moment when we have to say goodbye to our tight skin. Through a healthy lifestyle, for example, sun protection or surgery.

Why does the skin sag?

The key to tight skin lies in the production of collagen. This gives strength to the body and thus to the skin. Unfortunately, starting at a certain age (usually around 25), more collagen fibers are broken down than are produced. Due to this lower production of collagen (and elastin), the skin inevitably becomes less firm and less elastic.

As we age (and exercise less), we also lose muscle mass. That muscle mass keeps the skin firm. The loss of muscle mass is a second natural factor that can cause skin to sag. Because the less muscle you have, the more their supporting role disappears.

A third natural cause of lower collagen production is hormonal changes, such as during menopause.

How can you avoid skin sagging yourself?

We cannot ignore the above natural causes of sagging skin, but in addition, the key lies with yourself. Here are some tips for tighter skin:

• Protect yourself from the sun. Repeated and prolonged exposure to UV radiation damages collagen and elastin fibers.
• Eat healthy. Not taking in enough vitamins, minerals and protein can contribute to sagging skin.
• Don’tsmoke. The chemicals in tobacco smoke reduce the blood supply to the skin. Yet this blood supply is necessary to keep the skin elastic.
• Avoid stress. Prolonged stress impacts collagen production.
• Keep your weight under control. When you lose weight quickly or weight fluctuations follow one another, your skin can’t keep up and it starts to droop. In fact, along with the number on the scale, your body shape also changes.
• Use skin care productsthat firm the skin.

What if skin sagging is a fact of life?

Have you lost the plea for tight skin? Then you should at least try to maintain the current situation as much as possible and not lose further elasticity, sometimes even manage to get improvement. There are a number of options for this:

• The above skin care products.
• A treatment at MediSpa Knokke.
• Treatments at Duinbergen Clinic.

Lubricating your own creams

Treating the skin with creams at home is the easiest. Using a skin analysis can determine which products best suit your skin type. MediSpa Knokke offers this analysis to help you make the best choice.

MediSpa Knokke

There are many types of skin care for sagging skin. Depending on your personal situation, you can choose a facial treatment for example with a peeling or using the DF device to get products better into your skin.

The Medisol LED lamp treatment helps well against inflammation and treats skin aging with light.

An LPG elevator massage is used to improve blood flow to the skin and stimulate collagen production.

Finally, Dermapen treatments are highly efficient micro needling techniques that stimulate collagen production and can also be used with Platelet Rich Plasma (PRP) and hyaluronic acid.

Duinbergen Clinic

DNA analysis can help identify certain personal risks that can be optimized with nutritional supplements and life style advice. Menopause with its hormone changes has a major impact on skin quality. An inventory and treatment can provide improvement.

Furthermore, there are medical procedures that can restore some tension to the skin.
There are non-surgical treatments with injections of PRP, skin boosters and hyaluronic acid that stimulate the skin to renew itself. Of course, there are also skin tightening surgeries.

Surgery involves tightening sagging, drooping skin. This can be done on different parts of the body: the face, neck, abdomen, arms or legs. If you opt for a facelift, wrinkles are corrected at the same time.