Skin Tightening Naturally with Radiofrequency

It is inevitable that as we age, our skin changes. It can become more laxed, show the signs of damage from past sun exposure, and become more wrinkly and thin. I like to compare the skin to a mattress. When you have a new mattress, it is strong and the fibers are tightly woven. As it wears, the mattress can lose its strength, bow and thin. The aging skin can act in the same way. Younger skin is plump, more supple, fresh and tight. Aging skin loses collagen and it often becomes thinner, like an old mattress.

Pair aging with the natural lowering of hormones of perimenopause, menopause and andropause in men, and the results will be an acceleration of the aging skin process. It is vital to take care of your skin by eating a healthy whole foods diet, getting enough sleep, having adequate water intake, using the correct daily skin care regimen for your skin type and taking good quality supplements that promote healthy skin. Another important factor of healthy, youthful skin is balancing declining hormones of aging. It is important to get your hormones checked by a hormone specialist who understands the importance of hormone optimization for healthy aging. Correcting imbalances in the body is key.

Radiofrequency treatments offer a natural solution to improve the quality of your skin through collagen regeneration. Radiofrequency technology uses a gentle heating system that heats the skin to the correct temperature that will stimulate your body’s own ability to make collagen. The heating creates damage to the dermal layer and stimulates your body to repair the damage, resulting in lifting, tightening and inducing collagen regeneration. Unlike lasers, fillers, chemical peels and other skin technologies, radiofrequency facial and body treatments have no down time. RF treatments are great for those who don’t want to do facial injections or can easily be supplemental to those treatments for more youthful skin.

Radiofrequency treatments can be used to help lift, tighten and reduce the appearance and creation of wrinkles. It can be used to treat crow’s feet, droopy eyebrows, angry lines and expression lines of the forehead and brow. It is a great eye lifting and brightening treatment. It also can lift and tighten around the mouth, reducing fine lines, marionette lines and droopy corners of the mouth, and lift and tighten under the chin and neck. Body treatments help with flabby, loose skin of the arms, inner thighs, belly and love handles. Another bonus is a decrease in cellulite in those body treatment areas.

Often, a series of treatments are recommended and vary depending on the persons quality of skin, age and how they respond to treatments. There are no limitations as far as skin color or type like some other laser skin treatments. RF treatments are like a very targeted hot rock massage on the treatment area and are very tolerable without pain.

Treatment frequency initially is recommended generally, one treatment per month per decade of life for the face and neck (a series of three to six).  Some patients, depending on their skin quality, sun damage, age and how their skin responds to the treatments, may need fewer treatments. After the initial series is completed, maintenance treatments can be done quarterly or once or twice a year, whenever the skin starts to show sagging again or you would like a lift. Body treatments need to be spaced out every two weeks initially for a series, then as needed for best results.

RF treatments offer a natural way to look your best – having more youthful, tightened and lifted skin for 2022. FBN

By Christina Kovalik NMD, LAc

Dr. Christina Kovalik NMD, LAc, The Vitality Doctor, is a naturopathic physician and acupuncturist specializing in hormone optimization, optimal health and vitality. She is a new Flagstaff resident, practicing since 2004, and opened her second location in Doney Park in 2020. For more information, visit thevitalitydoctor.com or call 928-863-6086.