I recently attended my High School Reunion - Class of 1968 and was horrified to discover that I had the worst looking skin - wrinkles, sagging jowls, large pores, rosacea, neck lines
and hooded eyelids. What is the best regime to start at my age or is it just too late - I am 58 yrs old. Thanks

These are general starting instructions. But everyone's skin is different, so it may take some experimenting to find what works best for yourself.

The process of rebuilding skin with our method is slow, but not irritating. Reducing wrinkles and skin lesions is much slower. But even very strong Retin-A takes about 2 years to reduce major wrinkles at the price of chronic redness and irritation.

Look at www.skinbio.com/beforeafterpicts.html and www.skinbio.com/nasolabial.html and read the comments.

For your face.....

Our serums work best on oily skin areas like the T-Zone and the creams are best for drier skin areas.

The fastest actions are on general skin tone and "glow".

The best results for wrinkle reduction, pore reduction, and skin tightening that that we hear from our clients use:

1. Use a very mild cleanser such our Gentle Clean. Do not over cleanse your skin. Use biological healing oils such as squalane or emu oil to remove make up .

2. Our Serum are best on sensitive skin or outbreak-prone skin. Our creams work best of dryer skin areas.

3. In the morning, use CP Serum in the morning followed by Emu Oil-S for Skin. Start with 2 drops of each daily for your face and increase the amount slowly. If your skin feels oily, blot off the excess oil with a tissue.

Later you might change to Super CP Serum.

4. For your eyes, read www.skinbio.com/cpnighteyes.html This is a difficult area but it can be rebuilt and the skin around the eyes tightened.

5. At night, you might alternate Exfol Cream or our new LacSal Cream and Protect & Restore #3 - a high retinol cream. If you have problems with acne, then use Retinol-free P&R#2.

6. Many women also use Super Cop at night, but you should use the other products before you move to this very strong product.

7. The Day Cover can be used for protection when outside.

8. SRCPs and retinoic acid applied together often work very well and gives a stronger action than SRCPs alone.

9. Daily supplements of 1 gram Vitamin C and 1 gram MSM also help rebuild skin proteins. 1 to 2 grams of Borage oil or Primrose Oil, which contains high levels of gamma linolenic acid, helps maintain skin integrity.

10. Stress inhibits skin renewal and skin repair by increasing blood cortisol. Taking 75 to 100 mgs daily of DHEA for a few months may help block the cortisol effect and stimulates skin repair.

11. Regular aerobic exercise floods more blood into the skin and speeds skin repair and scar reduction.

12. Microdermabrasion cloths (cost about $10) often help remove older skin.

Also take a look at www.skinbiology.com/naturalskinactivators.html and www.skinbiology.com/skintightening.html

Thanks Dr. Pickart. I have started on the Vitamin C and MSM but I have heard that DHEA is prohibited in Canada where I live. Is there a substitute?

What is your opinion on seabuckthorn oil for rosacea especially internally?

Thanks

DHEA is naturally in the human body and is the source of many of our hormones. But it drops by 90% between age 15 and age 70.

I have read studies on DHEA very carefully and do not see any problems with its use. It is opposed by some physicians who never perform any serious work on human aging and by many governments that want older people to die faster.

There are a lot of good things about Canada and I have many friends there but I would be dead in the Canadian medical system.