What An Esthetician Can Do For You

What do you think of when you hear the word “esthetician”? Often people confuse the word esthetician with “anesthesiologist”. While we can both “knock you out”, we just have different ways of doing it! 

As a long time esthetician, I have become aware that clients don’t really understand exactly what we can do for them. Despite industry claims that consumers are savvy and looking for high tech treatments, my experience has been that clients rarely know about all the amazing treatments we can offer. Few understand that we can actually affect a change in the skin.

One of the ongoing perceptions of esthetics is that it’s just a feel good service. What we, on the clinical side, call a ‘fluff & buff” service, meaning the old school basic facial of cleanse, extract, massage, and done.

In the modern world skincare has advanced light years beyond this old school model. Today’s “facial” can actually make a change in your skin. And with proper home care products and protocols, an esthetician can teach you how to have the best skin of your life. If you only let her.

Let’s explore some of the modern services available from a trained clinical esthetician.

Products: An esthetician has advanced treatment products and in depth training on how to use those products. Modern skin treatment products have specialized delivery systems, specialized ingredients, specific protocols for use, and they can be biomimetic, meaning they are skin similar. It takes a trained esthetician to understand how these products work together to best benefit your skin and teach you how to use your home care to your best advantage.

Microcurrent: This extremely low level of electricity mirrors the body’s own natural electrical rhythms. It acts as an external source of energy that the body can use to accelerate healthier looking skin. Not only does it recharge your skin cells and promote hydration, it also helps to re-educate your facial muscles to tone and return them to their former firmness.

LED Light Therapy: This technology was originally developed by NASA and has been scientifically proven to re-regulate cellular function stimulating the body’s cells towards balance, resulting in cellular regeneration. LED Light Therapy is amazing for the treatment of acne, killing acne bacteria in the skin, and for the rejuvenation of aging skin, and lightning of pigmentation issues.

Collagen Induction Therapy: CIT is a holistic alternative to medical CO2 laser resurfacing treatments. Unlike laser treatment, CIT has little to no down time. CIT stimulates the body's own production of collagen within the dermis, resulting in firmer, smoother, more even toned skin.

Electrocoagulation: Also known as Diathermy, this is a method for removing small spider veins, telangiectasia, cherry spots, age spots, milia, and sebaceous hyperplasia via electro-dessication. No down time, minimal pain and near immediate results. It’s a great way to get rid of all those weird skin “things”.

Manual Lymphatic Drainage: This gentle, non-invasive manual technique has a relaxing and calming effect which reduces pain, while enhancing fluid movement in the skin, reducing puffiness and promoting detoxification. It assists in reducing inflammation, clearing acne, relieving migraines, and creating a deep sense of well being.

With all these amazing treatments available, there is so much more to a facial today than in days gone by. A well trained, clinical esthetician will be able to use a variety of these treatment methods to create a comprehensive and holistic program that will restore health and integrity to the skin allowing for a more youthful appearance. Gone are the days of only addressing symptoms, the future of skin care lies in looking at the underlying causes and developing a holistic and comprehensive treatment plan to ensure healthy skin for life.

Trust a trained esthetician for some amazing treatments, your skin will thank you! 

WHAT’S GOING ON WITH FISH OIL BURPS?

(enteric coated is not the answer) 

You don’t like to take fish oil because you get those nasty fish oil burps. So to combat that, someone recommended you take “enteric coated” fish oil capsules. No more fishy burps,right? Well, maybe. But guess what else there is “no more” of? Absorption of nutrients! That’s right! Enteric coated fish oil capsules provide zero nutritional value to your body.

Here’s how it works. You take the enteric coated fish oil capsules, and because of the coating, they don’t break down in the stomach, but move right on through to the far end of the small intestine where they finally break apart and continue through you. So no icky fish oil coming from your tummy. Well, by bypassing your stomach, you have kept many of the digestive triggers shut down. Your body doesn't know there is something there with nutrients it needs to absorb.

Fish oil is a fat,obviously. Fat requires a particular set of digestive triggers in order to be assimilated. When fat is in the stomach, fat digesting enzymes are triggered.As the fat moves from the stomach through to the small intestine it triggers bile from the gall bladder and more fat digesting enzymes from the pancreas.Fat itself must be present to trigger the fat digesting enzymes. No fat, no trigger, no absorption. If you have coated the fat with a man-made coating, it becomes invisible to the body and just passes through without triggering digestion. It might, however, provide you with gas and loose stools. (Way better than fish oil burps, right?) So that results in no absorption of the nutrients, which is the reason for taking the fish oil in the first place.

So, why do you get fish oil burps? Because it is not being properly emulsified in your stomach and it is becoming rancid. And yes, it can become rancid in a very short time. What causes rancidity to take place? A low-fat/no-fat diet. Once again, it is the lack of fats in your system to trigger the release of bile and fat digesting enzymes to emulsify the fish oil. Simply coating the capsules does absolutely nothing to help you. But eating a diet rich in natural fats will absolutely help you, in many ways.

Oh, and one last thing, enteric coatings can be made of waxes, shellacs, and plastics. Yuck. Instead of trying to muscle down giant, plastic coated, fish oil capsules, just try flavored liquid fish oil. It goes down easy, doesn’t taste bad, won’t give you burps and will more quickly trigger those fat digesting enzymes so you can more quickly get the benefits of those Omega 3s.

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