The New Natural: Your Ultimate Guide to Cutting-Edge Age Reversal - Softcover

Sadick, Neil; Marshall, Samantha; Dinkes, Adam

 
9781609619084: The New Natural: Your Ultimate Guide to Cutting-Edge Age Reversal
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1609619080 ISBN 13: 9781609619084
Verlag: Rodale Books, 2012

Inhaltsangabe

From one of the most widely respected dermatologists and beauty innovators comes the most advanced guide for keeping—or attaining—a more youthful face and body without going under the knife.

Obvious face-lifts and Botox overload are passe, now that a new generation of fillers, laser treatments, and topical preparations are helping millions look younger and more natural for decades. Prominent dermatologist and cosmetic surgeon Dr. Neil Sadick explains how every woman, at any age, can have beautiful, healthy skin without a scalpel or surgery.

Starting off with the basics of skin care and damage-prevention we all need in our early adult years, Sadick highlights the most efficacious cosmetic products and discusses the best practices for preserving a glowing, youthful appearance. For older readers looking to maintain healthy skin and reverse damage caused by age and the environment, he reviews the various nonsurgical options available: from the modern day breakthrough of cell therapy to cosmeceuticals, fillers, and treatments for cellulite and hair loss. Throughout he recommends brand-name products and treatments for every budget.

User-friendly and backed by the latest science and technology, The New Natural is every adult's guide to the most advanced anti-aging protocol for achieving young, vibrant skin now and in the future.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

NEIL SADICK, MD, is a professional dermatologist and a medical advisor to Christian Dior, Avon, and other cosmetic and pharmaceutical companies. He is the author of 12 textbooks and is frequently featured in newspapers and women's magazines. He lives in New York City.

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PART I

PREVENT

(Ages 0 to 80)

CHAPTER ONE

THE NATURAL AESTHETIC

NOBODY IS PERFECT

Ann couldn't recognize herself anymore. After multiple cosmetic procedures, including a brow-lift, a neck-lift, and a nose job, she was starting to get that alien plastic look, and she was distraught. The 55-year-old housewife from Long Island had so much filler in her cheeks that she looked as if she had balloons under her eyes, her lips--overly plumped with silicone-- resembled those of a platypus, and their disproportion made the rest of her features look as if they didn't belong on her face. When Ann showed me a picture of how she looked before she had all that work done, I noticed that she had once been a stunningly beautiful woman. She had a few lines and folds, and a little sagging around the jowls, but nothing that would have required the drastic surgical intervention she had endured over the years.

Many aging women just like Ann have bought into the myth that cosmetic surgery can turn them back into their younger selves, and the results can be disastrous. And every time they try to improve upon the first bad job, it just gets worse. That's when they come to see me.

While I couldn't get Ann completely back to the pre-surgical look she was born with, I could clear up some of her damage with a few fine-tuned procedures (all of which I will discuss in more detail throughout the book). Luckily, the filler in her cheeks was Restylane, which has an antidote. After I toned down that puffy chipmunk look, she already looked much better and more natural. But there were still several pull marks on the side of her face from the lifts, so I treated her with a laser resurfacing procedure, which softened the lines and greatly improved the overall texture of her skin. A few weeks later, I added Sculptra--a volumizing filler--deep below the skin's surface, to correct the architecture of her face as much as I could and to build a more natural plumpness around her cheeks. The lips were another matter. The sili-cone could be removed only with a painful surgical procedure, and the resulting scarring could be worse than what she already had. I referred her to a plastic surgeon I trusted and encouraged her to weigh the pros and cons of yet another potentially risky surgery.

LESS IS MORE

The anti-aging treatments I discuss in this book are not meant to turn you into a totally different person. They are designed to correct marks of aging gradually and gently as they occur so that you can maintain your natural looks and always look gorgeous, young, and healthy--for your decade. Don't make Ann's mistake and try to look unrealistically younger.

Appreciate your unique beauty and do everything you can to protect what you already have. Instead of seeking the surgical quick fix, focus on the new paradigm for age prevention and reversal: cell turnover, or the shedding of dead skin cells to make way for younger cells and improve the texture of your skin's surface and stimulation of collagen, a major component of connective tissue. Collagen is basically protein, made up of amino acids strung together like long chains of linked building blocks, and it is the foundation that gives your skin its support and thickness. The more collagen you have, the tighter the skin and the more you can fight against gravitational pull. In later chapters, I will discuss many ways you can put your skin to work for you. Maintaining a natural, youthful look is not about cutting and removing skin as you would in a face-lift. Instead, the focus should be on volume repletion for thick, plump, youthful skin.

Before I launch into the various anti-aging options you might want to consider at different stages in life, you should know that I am biased. Everything I stand for is about reversing the past trends that have distorted our perceptions of human beauty and caused lifelong damage to patients like Ann. Ninety percent of the time I advocate against plastic or cosmetic surgery, but I am not saying never. I am a board-certified cosmetic surgeon and I do occasionally perform surgical procedures, but for most of my patients, I just don't feel that cutting and removing skin and fat tissue are necessary.

HOW MUCH IS TOO MUCH?

Doctors and patients have lost sight of what's natural when it comes to the aesthetics of cosmetic enhancement and age reversal. Young actresses are distorting their features with fillers to create pouts like a pair of sausages. It's not sexy, it's comical. And it doesn't look real. Women are getting childlike button noses that don't fit their faces. Women and men are getting brow-lifts that pull their faces up so high, they look permanently surprised. When I see these patients, I immediately think of Howdy Doody. Other patients are freezing their faces into perfect Botox masks and going crazy with injectable fillers and implants for a lumpy, cartoonish effect.

People generally know when someone has had too much done--whether it's a nip and tuck or filler. We've all seen the celebrities with cosmetic procedure disasters. They're under enough public scrutiny, so I am not going to add my voice to the choir by naming names. All you have to do is pick up a tabloid at the supermarket checkout for the latest in the list of top 10 worst makeovers. But the trick is knowing when you are going too far on your own path to age reversal. It's hard for us to see ourselves as others do. We may focus on a flaw that we think needs to be corrected where the rest of the world sees nothing. A doctor can guide us, and even opt to refuse a procedure, but patients can always find someone less scrupulous who is willing to give them what they believe they need.

KEEP IT REAL!

Set your skin up for success with proper prevention: sunblocks, antioxidants, cosmeceuticals, and proactive skin care.

Choose a practitioner with aesthetic goals that match yours--if a doctor is known for one look, it's not likely that you will get something different.

Build good anti-aging practices now to avoid drastic surgical measures later.

Eyes, lips, nose, cheeks--these are all features that can throw off the proportions of the rest of the face. Lips are the most common problem area, which is why I always urge patients to leave them alone. But it's all too easy to overfill other areas of the face as well. Instead of looking rested and refreshed, a patient who goes too far looks puffy, even lumpy. So manage your own expectations and decide what you are really going for when you step into that doctor's office. Bring in a picture of yourself looking your best 5 to 10 years ago to give the doctor a visual guide. Much depends on the aesthetic sense of your dermatologist or plastic surgeon. Make sure their artistic instincts lean toward the subtle. Ask to see as many before and after pictures as you can. That is your right as a patient. The rest is up to you.

You know you are in good shape when your friends have no idea you've gotten work done. They think you look great and assume it's because you've spent the last month at the spa. They ask you where you went on vacation. But if they starting asking you who did your nose, or your eyes, or your cheek implants, it's a bad sign. And if they say nothing because they are too embarrassed to draw attention to the elephant in the room, it's even worse.

THE NEW NATURAL

Recently there's been a backlash to this quest for inhuman perfection. Hollywood actresses who have had too much surgery are losing roles. Casting directors are eschewing the frozen foreheads in favor of women who can move their faces and show emotion. They're giving the juicy parts to actresses from outside of Los Angeles, and even outside of America, where the plastic surgery craze hasn't gone as far and most women in show business still have their original noses and lips.

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Verlag
Rodale Books
Erscheinungsdatum
2012
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1609619080
ISBN 13 
9781609619084
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