How to prevent skin looseness, maintain your firmness and tighten up your skin, on thighs, face and whole body

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The 8 top tips for skin tightening / firming
For firm skin, make sure you get enough protein
To tone up your skin, have plenty of impactful physical activity
To preserve skin firmness, have a diet rich in polyphenols, carotenoids and vitamin C
For fast, impressive skin tightening,have a course of deep-acting, high-power radiofrequency treatments
To protect your skin tightness, avoid sugar, smoking and fried food…
To avoid breaking down hard earned collagen, do not yo-yo / crash diet
Nourish your skin from the outseide with a real skin firming cream
Have a skin tightening/cellulite treatment in London with the experts
Advanced, infrared / blue / red light therapy treatments in London at LipoTherapeia
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The 8 top tips for skin tightening / firming

Thousands of pages can be filled with information about the theory and practice of skin tightening but it all boils down to 8 crucial points:

Plenty of protein intake (collagen and elastin are proteins)
Impactful physical activity (to stimulate collagen production)
Polyphenols, carotenoids and vitamin C (to stimulate collagen/elastin production and protect existing collagen/elastin)
Deep-acting, high-power radiofrequency (to significantly stimulate collagen production)
No crash dieting / yoyo dieting (to avoid breaking down your existing collagen)
No sugar, smoking or fried food (to protect existing collagen/elastin)
Apply daily a real skin firming cream, i.e. one with multiple, high-purity skin firming actives in high concentrations
Have regular high-power LED phototherapy to maintain skin firmness and skin wellness

Now let’s examine these 8 points in more detail.

For firm skin, make sure you get enough protein

Your skin is made of collagen, elastin and other proteins and the fact is that most women consume way too little protein. Aim for 40-60 grams of pure protein per day.

If you are vegan or for some reason you can not attain enough protein through your diet, supplement with vegan/whey protein powder. Collagen powder supplements are also helpful.

On the other hand, collagen protein pills are just inadequate, quantity-wise. And shop-bought collagen drinks are just too expensive, per gram of collagen, in relation to a shake you can make with a collagen powder at home.

To tone up your skin, have plenty of impactful physical activity

Any physical activity is good for skin firmness, but physical activity which provides some mechanical stimulation to your collagen cells via mild or intense vibration is even better.

Vibration results in fibroblast collagen synthesis via a process called mechanotransduction.

Such activities include walking, running, exercise classes that involve some jumping/stepping and most sports (tennis, volleyball, basketball, hockey etc).

Swimming, although it involves no impact, is also great, due to the micro-massage that water provides to the skin while swimming.

To preserve skin firmness, have a diet rich in polyphenols, carotenoids and vitamin C

One of vitamin C’s more important roles in the body is to help with collagen production. Polyphenols also aid in that respect and they also protect existing collagen from breakdown and oxidative damage and glycation.

Polyphenols and carotenoids are mainly found in fruits (especially berry fruits), brightly coloured and dark leafy vegetables, herbs and spices.

If you can also source a body cream with high concentrations of purified polyphenols, such as EGCG, curcumin, asiatic acid, chlorogenic acid etc, this will be of help too. Just apply it every day, as no cream works if applied only once in a while (see also Tip #7 below).

For fast, impressive skin tightening,have a course of deep-acting, high-power radiofrequency treatments

Strong, deep-acting radiofrequency is the fastest acting, most effective and safest skin tightening method - far superior and safer to any other skin firming technology.

Radiofrequency stimulates:

Fibroblasts to synthesise more collagen and elastin
Fibroblast differentiation (i.e. more collagen cells)
Existing collagen fibre contraction

Just keep away from extreme intensity radiofrequency or other extreme intensity treatments that aim to literally burn your skin inside in order to produce deep skin scar tissue (e.g. HIFU, radiofrequency microneedling etc), which is then baptised “skin tightening”.

Skin tightening treatments should be stimulating, not destructive.

How can you tell a destructive radiofrequency or other treatment? Simple: if you need numbing cream or numbing injections, it’s destructive. Proper radiofrequency should never be painful, so you should never need numbing cream.

(On the other end of the spectrum, low intensity RF or superficial RF doesn’t work either.)

Deep-acting, high-power radiofrequency is superior to all the other six tips on this list, but you cannot have RF everyday.

Plus, I would not suggest you live an unhealthy life and just receive RF treatments to make up for it either, so please follow all other six tips too.

To protect your skin tightness, avoid sugar, smoking and fried food…

…in order to minimise glycation, inflammation and oxidative damage to your collagen and elastin.

Most people know about free radical/oxidative damage and inflammation, which can damage any body tissue, including skin and blood vessels. But what about glycation?

Simply put, glycation is the damage of proteins by sugar-like molecules.

Glycation can affect both skin and blood vessels, leading to skin looseness and cellulite, as well as many degenerative diseases. Furthermore, glycation can also lead to oxidative damage and inflammation and vice versa.

if you want to have firm, young looking skin and young arteries/heart, you definitely do not want much glycation, inflammation or free radical damage occurring in your body.

So reduce sweet food and sweet drinks, to reduce glycation.

And reduce fried food and smoking, which are major drivers of glycation, inflammation and free radical damage.

You don’t want to build with one hand (e.g. having a protein shake or receiving RF treatments) and damage with the other (e.g. smoking or eating sugary/fried food).

To avoid breaking down hard-earned collagen, do not yo-yo / crash diet

Every time you crash diet you lose a lot of protein, including skin protein. Every time you put on weight you mainly put on fat.

Give it a few cycles of yo-yo dieting like that and you eventually replace your nature-given firmness with diet-given flab. Simple as that.

If you have to lose weight, do it slowly, with enough protein in your diet and with exercise.

Nourish your skin from the outside with a real skin firming cream

To supply your skin with all the natural actives it needs for collagen/elastin synthesis and protection, use a real skin firming cream, i.e. one with multiple, high-purity skin firming actives in high concentrations.

Good examples are hydroxyproline peptide, cocoa flavanols, EGCG (green tea extract), asiatic acid, asiaticoside, madecassic acid, madecassoside (gotu kola extracts) and chlorogenic acid (green coffee extract), among others.

Have regular high-power LED light therapy to maintain skin firmness and skin wellness

High-power LED phototherapy in the red (~630nm) and near infrared (830nm) wavelengths is well known for its impact on mitochondria, the cells’ energy powerhouses.

By helping to maintain proper mitochondrial function, red/infrared light therapy:

Helps protect cells for cellular senescence and inflammation
Boosts circulation, via the stimulation of nitric oxide synthesis
Helps boost cell function, including fibroblast collagen and elastin synthesis

The total sum of those actions means aging and skin laxity prevention*.

(Light therapy does not significantly boost skin tightness, as high-power, deep tissye radiofrequency but it helps maintain it. And when received just after a radiofrequency, it also boosts the effects of RF treatment.)

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At LipoTherapeia we have specialised 100% in skin tightening and cellulite reduction for more than two decades and 20,000+ sessions.

This is all we study and practise every day and have researched and tried hands-on all the important skin tightening equipment and their manufacturers.

As strong, deep acting radiofrequency and deep-acting, high-power ultrasound cavitation are the technologies of choice for skin tightening and cellulite reduction, we have invested in the best RF/ultrasound technologies in the world.

Furthermore, over the last two decades we have developed advanced RF and cavitation treatment protocols in order to make the most of our technologies, for maximum results, naturally and safely.

And for even better, faster results, we now combine our RF/ultrasound treatments with high-power red/infrared light LED treatment.

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Advanced, infrared / blue / red light therapy treatments in London at LipoTherapeia

At LipoTherapeia we are passionate about phototherapy (also known as photobiomodulation/PBM, red light therapy, infrared light therapy, blue light therapy, LED light therapy etc) and we use the most powerful equipment available today (up to 200mW/cm2), for best results and treatment of large body areas.

We use specialised therapy protocols for skin rejuvenation / anti-ageing, pigmentation / post-inflammatory hyperpigmentation (PIH), moderate/severe acne, skin redness, sensitive/inflamed/irritated skin, wound healing, sports injuries / musculoskeletal pain and overall wellness / well-being.

Our LED phototherapy sessions are comfortable, deeply relaxing and super-safe and are great to enhance our radiofrequency/ultrasound treatments for skin tightening / cellulite reduction.

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