Dr. Natasha Cook

patients and clients might get the wrong advice in different institutions and with people that have different levels of education.

So when it comes to pigment and treatment in winter, winter's a great time.

One, you've got low UV, right?

So you've got low UV, the chance of the pigment getting reactivated and your results lasting longer are higher, right?

We all know our skin looks better in winter when we're not outdoors in summer.

And you only need a couple of percentage of UV once you've already developed pigment to reactivate it.

You need a lot of chronic cumulative exposure to program it to make pigment because babies and little kids don't have pigmentation.

Then once you've got it, those little melanocytes are now planned and programmed that they will respond very rapidly to little bits of UV despite wearing SPF, which I'm a double SPF fan if you really want to.

protect and preserve issues with pigmentation.

Winter's an amazing time, lower UV levels.

We all tend to hibernate in winter anyway.

We're not as active.

If you're going to shed.

And great for body because you're covered, right?

So yeah, treatments for skin rejuvenation, pigmentation, face, body, everywhere really.

Definitely I'm more busier in the winter months of the year than I am in the summer.

And get diagnosed.

I think that's a really important thing.

Yeah, or maybe being somebody who doesn't have that clinical acumen or capacity and people can get sold some treatments that actually weren't the right fit for their problem.

And then one or two things happen.