January 27, 2005

• A Picture's Worth

  
  

  I know that old saying about the picture and the thousand words - so I hunted up some photos.  This first is a photo of a man named Eric Wilkey.  Eric is blond, fair skinned and a landscaper by trade.  He has a history of skin problems from sun damage so when he heard about DNA Repair cream he was anxious to try it.  He started with a visit to his dermatologist to document the lesions on his face.  And because he's a skeptic, he only used the DNA Repair on one side, the worst side.  This photo is Eric, six weeks later...

  
  

  

  
  

  Skin care has improved tremendously over the past fifty years.  Our grandmothers had lotions and creams which contained waxes and oils that made the skin temporarily feel better but which wrought no improvement in the skin and in many cases were ultimately harmful.

  
  

  Then we began to learn about beneficial ingredients and real skin care was born.  This first generation of products remains 90% of what you buy at the store.  They contain ingredients that feel good on the skin but provide a temporary effect.  They are an improvement because the known harmful ingredients and allergens have been removed. 

  
  

  Second Generation skin care includes ingredients that impact the chemistry of your skin.  These products have UV protection and include Alpha Hydroxy, Retinol and Retin_A.  These are great products which are able to bring real skin improvement to some people.  But the way that the Alpha Hydroxy acids etc. work is by creating a wound response in the skin.  They interact with the sruface of the skin and send a signal that tells the skin cells that the surface has been compromised, so your skin peels away just like you've experienced a sunburn.  For the people who can use them, they bring out new fresh skin.  The problem with these products is that because of the way they work approximately half the population can't use them at all.

  
  

  Gen III skin care addresses this need.  Gen III technology uses a special molecule called a liposome to deliver ingredients beneath the surface of the skin.  I'm so fascinated with how this works - pardon me for a moment of geekiness.  The liposome is stable at the ph of your outer skin (6) but when it gets beneath the skin, it breaks open at the ph of your dermis (4).  This means that ingredients are delivered directly at the cellular level.  Synergy's Gen III line targets the fibroblasts to stimulate production of collagen.  As more collagen is produced, the skin fills out and fills in - a bit like blowing up a balloon, which smooths fine lines and wrinkles. 

  
  

  

  
  

  Gen III skin care creates healthy skin.  The epidermis thickens, collagen voids are filled in, and there is improved circulation and blood flow which gives skin the healthful glow of younger skin. 

  
  

  Gen IV technology is DNA Repair.  Synergy owns the patent for this technology, it's not available anywhere else.  Their DNA Repair cream uses the bi-pyramidal liposome to deliver the enzymes your DNA require to repair UV damage.  These enzymes are present in our bodies normally, but insufficient quantities of the enzyme mean that some DNA strands replicate their damaged form which leads to the lesions you can still see on the right side of Eric Wilkey's photo above.

  
  

  I've been using Gen III and Gen IV products.  I started by using only DNA Repair for four weeks, then I added the Gen III to my daily routine.  Almost everyone I talk to says, "Did you do before and after photos?"  or  "Why didn't you just use it on one side of your face?"  And the short answer is - after all the research I did before I got the product, I didn't pause a second.  When I had it in my hand I immediately started using it without thinking about documenting with photos.  And NO - I wasn't about to only use it on one half of my face.  I didn't want anyone walking up to me saying, "What happened to THAT side ...?!?"

  
  

  Sigh - I found a photo of my face from last Spring that shows my wrinkles, mostly on one side.  But you can see how deep they are around my eyes, beside my mouth, and around my lips.  You can see them very deep on my forehead.  The only reason this photo exists is that with Faith took it, she was standing far enough away that it wasn't until I looked at the WHOLE thing (not at 25%) that I realized how many wrinkles were visible.  LOL  And my NOSE!  Why is it that your nose grows in a photo? I have a beak like the wicked witch!  (I'm glad I live behind that thing so I don't have to look at it.) 

  
  

  

  
  

  I know it's grainy, but you can see what I'm talking about. 

  
  

  And here is a photo taken five minutes ago with no make-up.  I was trying to sort of duplicate the angle of my face so its comparing apples to apples. You can see that there are still some wrinkles.  But the difference has been enough to provoke comments.  I've been using these Synergy products for less than two months because I started on a Thursday in mid-December. 

  
  

  

  
  

  NOW - I'm going to put on my make-up and go to work. 

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