Dr. Shawana Vali

So if I stimulate fibrin, you can actually get fibrosis as well.

It can go the other way.

And then elastin is that, you know that tensile?

Do you want it to be loose and lax or do you want it to be tight?

And you actually want things to bounce back.

You want it to be tight, but you want it to bounce back.

With age, you get the laxity.

It's not going back up.

So can you remember those days when you used to put on weight and lose weight?

Yeah.

And the skin never expanded.

Right.

Or you used to, I don't know if you, you know, if you body train in weight and you debulking.

Yeah.

So I say to patients, after the age of 35, be very careful of weight gain and loss or muscle gain and muscle loss.

Because after the age of 35, you've got significant fibroblast degradation and your fibrin and elastin is not as strong as it used to be.

So it doesn't bounce back.

Whereas with collagen, you can keep upregulating it with different treatments that I have.

Most modalities in my industry work on collagen fibers one and three.

We don't really concentrate on fibrin and elastin.