First the bad news. Facial wrinkles are an inevitable part of the aging process. The development of wrinkles is directly related to genetic makeup, lifestyle, and exposure to the elements. The inexorable course of events that lead our skin to age must be understood so we can take the necessary steps to the slow the …
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Skin Care Commandment #2- Avoid Sun Damage (Video)
Length: 55 sec There is absolutely no excuse for sunbathing, certainly no excuse for sunbathing without sunblock. There is nothing positive that you will get from this in the long run. Let’s use a little bit of common sense. You need to two things, you need excellent sunblock and you need an excellent antioxidant serum, …
read more >Skin Care Commandment #3: Understanding the Science of Aging
Regulation of the aging process is largely genetic. Our intrinsic aging speed is determined by hereditary factors, and individual response to aging accelerants in the environment. The number one culprit being sunlight. All together these factors are responsible for the individual pace of aging. At some point, the machinery simply wears out, the skin loses …
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Let’s talk about Youth Corridor Antioxidant Boost (Video)
Length: 35 seconds Hi, I’m Dr. Gerard Imber. Let’s talk about Youth Corridor Antioxidant Boost. This is a skin serum that was developed initially for my patients. This is a combination of potent Vitamin C, Vitamin E and melatonin. And I think that this has been scientifically shown to be the most effective way to …
read more >Skin Care Commandment #4 Running and Exercise
Springtime is the perfect time to begin a new fitness routine and shape up for summer time fun. The warmer weather and longer days gives us the motivation to set goals and burn off winter blues. Finding the right exercise routine plays a huge role in maintaining a fitness program. Running is one of the …
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Aging: Prevention Maintenance Correction (Video)
Video length: 74 seconds I’m Dr. Gerard Imber, and we are talking about aging. We mention that we age like our family, we age based on the environment in which we live and how we manipulate it. But I always encourage my patients to deal with prevention and small procedures that maintain their appearance and …
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read more >Skin Care Commandment #5 – Don’t Smoke
Smoking contains 4000 toxins including tar, carbon monoxide, nicotine, formaldehyde and ammonia, just to name a few. With each puff of a cigarette you are inhaling millions upon millions of free radicals that attack the healthy cells of the body. This explains the reason smokers tend to have distinctive characteristics from gaunt and aged skin …
read more >April is National Rosacea Awareness Month
Rosacea is a common skin disorder that causes chronic inflammation to the cheeks, nose, forehead, eyelids, and chin. It is most common in patients with fair skin and can be associated with skin disorders such as acne and seborrhea. Fortunately, Rosacea is controllable, but unfortunately, not curable. Flare-ups vary for each individual so it is …
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What Age Should I Start Using the Antioxidant Boost Serum? (Video)
For your convenience the transcription for this video is available below: I am Dr. Gerald Imber. Someone just asked me at what age should people start using the Youth Corridor antioxidant boost serum. It’s a wonderful question. Because the serum works in two ways: it prevents environmental damage to the collagen and to the surface of your …
read more >Botox and Hyperhydrosis
When we hear the word Botox the first thing that comes to mind is wrinkles. Botox was first launched to the beauty and healthcare industry for the treatment of fine lines and wrinkles and is one of the leading cosmetic procedures. Botox has recently been FDA approved for the treatment of hyperhydrosis, a medical condition …
read more >A daily dose of green tea for the skin
Green Tea is a huge buzzword in the beauty industry today recognized for its number of beneficial properties to the health of the skin. Green Tea contains 10 times the antioxidants of fruit and vegetables and reacts as an anti-inflammatory. The majority of green tea is grown in China and is extracted from the leaf …
read more >Top 10 Anti Aging Skin Care Commandments #6
Anti-Aging Tip # 6: Don’t gain and lose weight repeatedly Maintaining a relatively constant weight makes great sense for a volume of reasons. For our purposes it is important to avoid the stretching of the skin caused by weight gain and the laxity that follows weight loss. At some point we can no longer get …
read more >Q: Is your moisturizing lotion used for your whole body or just facial skin?
Dr. Imber: Youth Corridor Gentle Moisturizer w/ Green Tea is designed for facial use. It is fine for the entire body, but it becomes expensive using rich, intensive moisturizers over the entire body. Most people substitute thinner, less effective body creams or lotions for this purpose.
read more >Feeling dry and dull from the harsh winter?
Jump start your spring skin care regimen with natural botanicals that will exfoliate the skin giving you a healthy glow moving in to summer. In most effective products Alpha hydroxy acids are the exfoliants of choice. They play an important role in skin care by encouraging the shedding of superficial skin cells, and are effective …
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