Coming from a reconstructive plastic surgery background, predominantly carrying out burns and skin cancer surgery, I have always had an inherent passion for the restoration of healthy, functioning skin and its aesthetic outcome. Now my specialty is regenerative and aesthetic medicine, my ethos is the same.
Since launching my practice in 2015, I have imaged and analysed patients’ skin daily, and come to understand how the effects of lifestyle factors and behavioural habits can accelerate skin ageing. Excessive sun exposure, sugar and alcohol consumption, illness and medication, lifestyle factors and behavioural habits, as well as the increasing stress and pressures of life and work, affect patients and produce inflammation.
Whilst short bursts of inflammation are manageable and sometimes even beneficial to some extent, chronic, prolonged stress accelerates the degradation of collagen, elastin and hyaluronic acid (HA)…
