Dr. Sean Arendse

When it comes to menopause, we get this acceleration of decrease of elastin and collagen production.

And some say, say menopause lasts for three to four years, you'll get a 30% reduction in elastin and collagen production.

And you can see that.

So if you look at your kid's skin, look at your skin and how it behaves and how you pull it up, look at your parent's skin and then look at your grandparent's skin.

And you can see this deterioration gradually and the skin gets thinner, it gets more photo aged, it gets more damaged, it gets less elastic.

And that's all because we're losing elastin and collagen.

Now, there are certain things in the lifestyle that can accelerate that.

So things like smoking and things like carbohydrates will degrade collagen and elastin a lot faster.

Yeah, so it basically destroys it, links onto it, glycates it is the term, and will destroy the elastin and the collagen.

And then things like UV rays.

So that's why we're very vigilant, especially in Australia, that we wear sunscreen and protect our skin from UV rays because that's going to age us.

It's going to photo age our skin, reduce our elastin, reduce our collagen, as well as do lots of other things that are harmful to our skin.

You're not tequila.

You might be okay.

Is there too much sugar in tequila?

So what biostimulators are trying to do is switch on that production of elastin and collagen.

So I had a really good analogy from a colleague of mine, Dr. Christy, up in northern New South Wales.

Has she?

She had a great analogy for where biostimulators work.

If you think of a bed, there are lots of things that we can do to improve the base of the bed.