Doctor approved step by step guide to building an effective anti aging skincare routine that WORKS!

hi everyone I'm Dr Amir Kum board certified facial plastic surgeon founder and creator of caram MD skin I specialize in facial Rejuvenation which basically means I help people look as young as they feel and on today's episode of skin School we're going to talk about the ABC's of skin care and what I mean by that is basically vitamins a b and c but not just those I'm going to talk about the perspective of why and how you can create an optimal skin care routine that truly will defy aging and I'm going to preface this by saying what we're going to talk about is how the skin ages what is the most important thing you need to do to basically prevent and manage skin aging and what and how these particular active ingredients these important vitamins fit into the into the Spectrum but also I'm going to give you a bonus at the end some important other actives that are working in a different aspect in a different capacity but really why these vitamin A B and C are so critical to any type of active skincare routine all right so let's break it down and let's discuss it this way I think this will put everything in perspective for you so what is happening to your skin during the aging process so remember this starting around the mid-20s and I think it's like 27 is the true peak of the collagen production of the skin and why is that so important well the peak of collagen production means that what the skin is actually made of is being constantly reinforced and increased right so if we take the thickness of the skin the majority of what makes up that skin is collagen now of course there's elastin there's keratin but majority of it is collagen so 27 is our Peak collagen is being pumped and produced by the fiber blast we love it skin looks amazing thick Supple beautiful it's all the things that that make up youngl looking skin then there's a slow decrease as you can see in this chart here this slow decrease continues from 27 on starting around per menopause for women there's a sharp decrease and that sharp decrease causes a major loss in the production of collagen so remember we said thick skin lots of collagen what happen happens when the collagen is decreasing well the skin gets thinner what thin skin look like it looks crepey it looks fine lines and wrinkled it starts to you know have this kind of like softness to it it doesn't have a good turer to it all these things now keep in mind that as this is happening there's something that is causing this to occur and what does that cause it's estrogen and that is why this is correlating so closely with param menopause and menopause because as estrogen levels drop so does the collagen your fiber blasts kind of go on on vacation mode they're like okay we've done enough over the last 45 years 50 years and hey we we don't want to do it anymore right this is where this is where we have to come in and bypass those lazy fiber blasts and get them to do what they want to do or what they're destined and and truly meant to do which is to keep those collagen factories on and on and on for as long as we desire to have beautiful skin now here's the story it's kind of an interesting thing is as humans you can make an argument we're not even supposed to be living that long right I mean pre-antibiotic era life expectancy was around 30 now suddenly life expectancy is in the 70s we're 80s even in some countries and we're getting to a point where where we're living longer and healthier lives and we want to look the way we feel right ultimately we want to look the way we feel so it behooves us to figure this thing out right if we're young enough to hear this and we have great skin to begin with you can actually prevent your skin from aging you heard me right you can actually prevent your skin from aging if you're a little bit more mature and your Skin's gone gone through it a little bit and and started to show signs of aging or has full-blown signs of aging you can actually reverse a lot of that those changes and Skin Care is literally your hero in all of that it's not lasers it's not micro needling it's not surgery we're talking about the actual skin we're not talking about shape by the way just keep in mind we're talking about skin so skin care is super important but most people don't get the skin care you know components right they hear stuff here and there they friends are on this thing they old knowledge new knowledge all gets mixed in and becomes a very confusing mess and they rarely know what to do for themselves so the ABCs is very simple these are things that are going to directly stimulate collagen and if we stimulate collagen over time then what happens is as this natural curve wants to go this way we're going to turn turn it back up and get back up to those levels that we had when we were younger it's pretty pretty straightforward it's a it's a reasonable desire and an important goal to have and we can do it but why ABC is because not just one product we're going to use multiple products to effectively create Synergy and Synergy is the concept where 1 + 1 equals 3 or four and doesn't equal two right so when you're using things that are working in tandem in combination we're getting way more out of it is not is a nonlinear type of an improvement so everything I'm going to mention here I'm going to give you five collagen stimulating actives that really should be in your skincare routine every single day and then I'm going to give you a few other things that are going to help other aspects of your skin as a bonus and then I'm also going to give you just a couple things that you can do in the office to further this cause and things that are going to be efficient generally not too costly and very low risk all right so here's what it comes down [Music] to why vitamin A B and C well vitamin A is basically a derivative of retinol you all heard of retinol and retin a vitamin A is a derivative what does retinol do multitasking it stimulates collagen it improves cell turnover it decreases pigmentation it all around makes the skin appear younger and the skin get thicker over time it even exfoliates a little bit the surface of the skin so those dead layers of of keratin that builds up on the surface that gets so one of the most important aspects is retinol vitamin A vitamin B is NY cinnamide specifically B3 what does nicomide do I have a video that just went out recently on nicomide benefits and why it's so important so I won't go into all the details but also multitasking what does it do helps stimulate collagen helps decrease pigmentation improves the Skin Barrier function so skin becomes more hydrated keeps pollutant out it's anti-inflammatory decreases inflammation calms the skin decreases pore production by decreasing inflammation and the production of oil wow vitamin A vitamin B vitamin C topical vitamin C typically is a serum what it does is it also stimulates collagen also decreases pigmentation it brightens the skin improves hydration I mean we're talking about like basically three individual actives that are doing essentially the same thing but doing it in different ways so you're attacking and improving the biochemistry of the cells by three different mechanisms and that's what gives us the Synergy that we keep talking about so vitamin A vitamin B vitamin C are absolute musts in an anti-aging treatment period and what makes these things active you got to keep in mind everything I'm telling you is it's working at the cellular level it's turning on the cell that has basically chosen biologically to shut down and age so if you're turning it on it is super super important that you keep it on as long as possible and that's why at the Forefront of all this is consistency right if you're going to get you know on this path no number one if you figure out what the right things to do and this is what this video is helping you to do find the right things to do and do them consistently you're going to win all right so vitamin A B and C those are the the key pieces of any skin regimen now here are some bonus components peptides peptides are short chains of amino acids that also turn on the cells to do the things that we wanted to do they signal the cells to turn on collagen improve hydration some of them decrease pigmentation but really at the Forefront is the production of collagen same thing with the second bonus component which is growth factors there's human growth factors there's plant-based growth factors as well which we have in our product in the illuminate basically the concept is the same you're trying to stimulate and increase the production of collagen and help the skin in this active growth phase right so vitamin A B and C add peptides add the uh growth factors now you have five collagen stimulating components in your skincare routine that are all fighting this downward shift and turning it back over I always think about it as like a river right it's like the river is rushing towards aging and then you're trying to swim upstream but now you're with these products you're kind of like in a motorized boat going upstream and you're you're able to actually get Upstream so that's really really the the Crux in understanding of why these particular five ingredients are so important and just and this is not meant to be a plug but just to explain how passionate I am and and how much I believe in it all these particular active ingredients for collagen production are in the trifecta because a lot of you might be thinking oh God how am I going to get all of these different aspects into my skincare routine well you know that was the whole premise of the trifecta to make it super simple to do so all of them are included in the three steps that that are part of um the the regimen now let's talk about what you can do in the office to continuously build more collagen and trust me when I say I'm I'm harping on Colleen but I'm telling you that is the entire anti-aging story what can you do you can injure the skin with micro needling tiny little dots of injury caused by those needles that creates a Cascade tells the skin hey we need to heal how does a skin heal it heals by collagen right so increasing collagen production through micr needling light chemical peels will do the exact same thing any type of physical trauma to the skin surface will cause the skin to build more collagen so these are a couple basic things that I want you to keep in mind if you're going to do something in the office generally speaking do something that that you can tolerate doing on a regular basis meaning it's not going to beat up your skin too much so Micron needling is generally safe every 3 months or so you can do it a little bit more frequently but you don't need to um light chemical peels same same sort of thing very mild chemical peels creates a little bit of injury causes the skin to do what it needs to do these are the the key aspects of it I wouldn't do heavy lasers I wouldn't do anything that's highly um going to burn the skin and all that kind of stuff because that's just's a lot of trauma for the skin to go through and and over time it actually wears down the skin in in a negative way people who get like deep resurfacing under their eyes 5 10 years later they always got these like thin crepey skin under their eyes for example same thing with the face you've see people with like deeper surfacing they end up with like the waxy white skin that's never a great great look you want your skin to be moving in the right direction kind of like what you would do if you're on this like beautiful regimen of daily diet and exercise 5 10 years later your body is just like amazing and it keeps moving in that direction that's the whole idea now we talked about daily things that you can do this is all skin care component right vitamin A B and C peptides growth factor supplement and augment if you've got like really kind of thinner more crepey skin supplement with some of these treatments in the office do not forget to do your neck neck is skin just like everywhere else you want to make sure you treat your neck and your eyelid skin exactly the same that's very very important thing you don't necessarily need a whole another eye eye cream or neck cream all the things you use on your face should be able to be used on the skin of the face and neck that was another one of the things that we engineered the trifecta to allow to do also sun protection you're going to do all this stuff trust me when I say this you want to make sure that you're protecting your skin against the sun now don't tell me that vitamin D conversion is the reason why you should be getting full-blown sun on your face because you can get it on your torso you can get it on your body and convert all the vitamin D you need very very simply with with you know not a lot of facial exposure at all but if you're going to expose your face to the sun trust me when I say that you're going to start to see collagen breakdown at a rate that's nearly greater than anything you can do in terms of building up with the products and the treatments that we talked about so SK sun protection is probably step one and most important aspect of all of the stuff so keep that absolutely in mind so taking all of this into into consideration that's your collagen production story now I'm just going to throw out a a couple bonus points here things that are going to help plump up your skin honic acid that's a very beautiful and important component because it it's like a sponge it goes into the skin and it creates a situation where it draws water and the skin gets plump and supple and it immediately you start to see changes so for you that like instant gratification you want to have honic acid at least included in your um products or as a separate serum again it's included in the trifecta you also want to do something that is bringing oil to the skin believe it or not even if you have oily skin you want to increase the oil that you're getting to the skin because that decreases the amount of oil that your skin produces as a result what ends up happening is the pores don't get overworked and they don't get clogged and you have less noticeable pores finally pigmentation and I think I mentioned that those three individual um you know vitamin A B and C helps with with pigmentation but that rounds out the story because there are things like licorice root extract there's a number of other Botanical lighteners that you use in addition if you have s with pigmentation the three that the big three that I just mentioned in addition to some of these other non hydroquinone based liers can all together work in beautiful Synergy to help your skin be even toned and decrease pigmentation production so folks I hope that puts it into nice uh perspective and you get an idea of the concept of multitasking the idea of combination therapy and approaches and really the logic of having you know lots of different things working in your benefit and your favor if you do it the right way you combine it with with sun protection you will literally defy skin aging can't do anything about sagging can't do anything about volume loss you're going to have to come to see me for those things but the skin is 100% on you you can absolutely do it and that's why I've become so passionate about the notion of it because I can obviously only operate on so many people each month but I can certainly help a lot more people um achieve their skin anti-aging benefits by informing them educating them and even providing products that will will do that effectively and efficiently all right folks I hope that gave you some beautiful perspective on the a b and C's of good skincare if you enjoyed this video please uh subscribe if you haven't already if you like content like this and you want to get more of it um sign up for the caram journal it's a newsletter that comes out to your inbox each week put a lot of time and energy in giving you good content there as well so I want you to take advantage of that if you have any questions drop them in the comments below love to hear any of your thoughts and if you enjoyed it hit like and most importantly folks send this to some friends and family let's get them um informed and educated so people can make good decisions for themselves and ultimately know what they are doing when they're doing it all right hope you enjoyed it watch more skin school videos to get more background information on different topics that uh that are related to your skin all right thanks so much Dr Amir [Music] Carol

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Length: 16min 37sec (997 seconds)

Published: Wed Oct 11 2023