Dr. Sean Arendse

Not quite that fabulous, but I am a full-time emergency physician at the State Trauma Centre and I work across the emergency department and the trauma unit.

And then in my spare time, I am medical director for Flawless Rejuvenation, which is a full-service sort of skin clinic, one location in Hampton and one in Toorak.

Yeah, I do a fair bit of training and run a couple of courses about safety in the cosmetic industry.

And then, yeah, I try and attend as many conferences as I can a year to keep abreast of what's happening in this rapidly changing environment of cosmetics.

So, yeah, it's a fun industry to be in.

Yeah, I try to be.

Okay, so biostimulators are not fillers, they're not angiococcus, they're something that are completely different.

So what a biostimulator is, is really usually a medicine which will encourage your cells to produce elastin and collagen.

Mm-hmm.

Now, when you talk about elastin and collagen, you think about the skin.

So the collagen there is to give your skin strength and to be like the scaffolding of your skin.

And elastin is there to give your skin its kind of stretchiness and recoil.

Now, if you look at a child, so look at Jagger or your youngest, Darcy.

Mm-hmm.

Have a look at their skin, how plump and how elastic their skin is.

And when you pinch it, it kind of recalls and snaps back and it's nice and thick and pudgy.

So we have elastin and collagen.

And as we age, we start to lose the ability to make elastin and collagen.

So around about puberty, we start to decrease the amount of elastin and collagen we make in our skin.

And it usually is about 1% to 1.5% per year.