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Okay girls. I have them. Can I get rid of them? Not really. A wrinkle is caused by the deteriortation of the skins elastic like substance called collagen. The sun over time causes us to lose collagen cells and they are replaced as we age. It is a slow earth time process called aging girls. Once the collagen is gone, nothing short of cosmetic surgery where they remove collagen cells from the lower extemidies and put them into the valleys of the face called wrinkles. This fills the valley and stretches the skin. Tada! No more valley, no more wrinkle.

BUT, this too shall pass eventually and the collagen cells will depart as before if you continue with daily sun exposure. A tan is not really healthy science. We need only a very small exposure period to the sun to help our bodies process vitamin D. Otherwise, indirect light is sufficient.

By taking a controlled amount of vitamin e and adding a good skin hydrator to my daily routine, I have improved my over all appearance in a most visual way to all that know me.

I also use the horseradish and yogurt formulae to slough off dead skin cells and vanish the brown age spots that showed up on the back of my hands uninvited after turning 50. After a year of care, they are history!

I've never heard of the horseradish and yogurt for brown spots. Does it have any other positve impacts?
Danielle

Horseradish has a chemical compound in it that yes, it does have a mild irriatation effect to the skin. That is why you mix it with the cheap plain yogurt. The two together, form another compound that exfoliates the skin and reduces the brown spots until they pretty much fade out of view over time. One treatment is not going to do it. But one treatment, allowing it to dry and then washing off, you will feel the difference immediately.

Over time, depending on the darkness of the age spot it will lighten to the point of not being visible or barely so. Mine have really lightened over the past year and a few are gone. I had around 6 obvious ones on the right hand and now only two. The left hand there were 3 and now none.

This over the course of a year and using the treatment once every week so that is 52 treatments. You can skip a week of course. The more you can stand the use, the sooner the result. Do not over due it if you have sensitive skin. You can tell by the redness and irritation if you are doing it too often. Else, one time each week, 7 days apart should not be a problem. Be patient. Take a digital picture for reference.

One other really extreme system is the use of a topical agent for removing "warts." "Tinamed" wart remover is 17% salicylic acid. So, a daily application on the spot for a week to 10 days and the skin will come off and yup, so will the brown spot but it will remain red for up to 90 days as it heals. So this works and it is extreme but for someone that does not mind having a "white" spot on their hand for a week or so, and has only one or two spots to remove, it works the quickest but not without severe iriatation. Like falling down and skining your knee girlfriend. You are chemically skining yourself, ouch! No scar to follow if you keep clean and do not you know, pick at it....!Yuk!


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Danielle Marie

Hi Danielle(s),
I have heard from numerous sources that hemmoroid cream will also reduce wrinkles. I won't do anything for brown spots, but it's good for small wrinkles in the skin. It's only temporary though. Not a permanent fix.
Darn those UV rays!

Hugs,
Kyra

Hi Kyra:

Yes, hemorrhoid cream gives the immpression of reduced wrinkles. Why? This compound uses a form of "zinc" hydrate that draws moisture away from the cells that it comes into contact with. So let's see what that means.

Place a very small amount around the ridges of the valley = wrinkle and the skin loses moisture so as to flatten out and the deep valley = wrinkle seems to disappear.

So you are really removing water from the plumped up collagen cells around the valley that is caused by the lack of collagen. Since you cannot fill in the Grand Canyon, you decided to knock down the ridges about the Canyon to make the earth's surface in that area appear more even.

In the long run this can and may have a lasting effect on the exisiting collagen and it's life span. Wider wrinkles in your older years.

This is why hemorrhoid cream is a temoporay fix at best. I would really limit my use of such a product to perhaps times that are holiday parties etc. Regular use will no doubt in the long run not be such a good thing.



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Danielle Marie

W magazine has an article on a new treatment for wrinkles (page 93). I was reading it last night in the bookstore (didn't buy it). But it seems the product is doctor prescribed, if I remember correctly.

There is another product Seraderm, receiving much attention:

http://www.idirectshopping.com/products ... dex_01.htm

Every TG person should be required to take three specific college courses and pass them.

01. Human Anatomy and Physiology I + II.

02. General Chemistry I.

03. Theories of Human Development (Social Science).



Girls, anything you buy over-the-counter (OTC) in the USA cannot and will not in any serious way, alter your physical cell structure or really reduce or stop the signs of aging.

The very best that you can hope for is perhaps, smooth skin by use of any of the quality skin moisturizing agents. Drinking 8 glasses of water everyday will be a greater help than anything else; oh yes and a sensible diet of fruits, nuts, vegtables and quality protein.

Recently, A British chemist was highlighted on the NBC television show, "Dateline." He completely disembowled the cosmetic industry when stating that the majority of products use the same ingredients in different proportions. That for the most part, one could do as well by smearing "LARD" on ones face except for the fact that it might clog your pores and have a rather distasteful look.

There are prescription medicines that can have a more profound effect on us but, they too, cannot really cause the human body to generate new collagen cells where there aren't any or where they have died off as in the "valley" that we call a facial wrinkle. That crease that you see is where the collagen is gone. It will not come back except by surgery where they take collagen from another part of the body and inject it into the missing area. You are less likely to have a reaction or rejection of your own collagen.

Girls, ignore those commercials. The industry goes and finds models that have the appropriate genetic traits and then parades them out and say, look at what our product has done for this woman. My favorite commercial is the hair commercials where the woman is absolutely stunning with 30 inch long silky hair. Often she is oriental or of polynesian birth. Genetically, these women have strong dark hair. Their growth cycles are very long and so they get great results.

Western women and African American woman do not fair so well. Look at all the REAL women in magazines such as AARP, for the over 50 set, for the most part their hair is very short, thin, but easy to take care of.

Really gals, come on now! "Wishin' and hopin' is for the song," we need to get real about what really works and what is just hype and another pruduct mix with little real evidence that it can do anything.

Sorry girls. I am telling you this for your own good. I have nothing to gain and several people to irritate if anything else. Unless people want to start sending me their money then I too will tell you a great story or two.

Hugs

Dr. Danielle Marie La Belle, Ph.d.

Hi Danielle,

Hey it's good to hear from you again.

The best solution to wrinkles and aging is poor eye sight which usually accompanies such things. LOL.

Love Darlene.

Thanks for the info, Danielle!

Now, I wonder if the yogurt mixture will work for these spots on by back?

Dear Lorna:

About your back.

You need to to consider what you are talking about. If they are genetic, that is, passsed on down to you from a family member, (parent, grand-parent, etc), then I would say no. You are not talking about the pigment change that takes place in the skin after years of sun exposure. Typically, that is a condition that is associated with caucasian (white) individuals. Those of a darker complexion (skin pigment) are better protected naturally from the sun's rays (ultra-violet) than light skinned people.

The cells that carry the instructions for the "spot" on your back die and new ones with the same chemical information are born and replace the dead cell. Therefore the "spot" lives throughout your lifecycle. But, if a cell, is corrupted, it then becomes what we call a "cancer" cell as it is for the most part not cooperating with the planned cell structure.

Therefore, doing anything to the "spot" may cause cells to become "cancer" like, that is why doctor's are reluctant to attempt removal unless there are sure they can do so with a high degree of success and not cause cell (DNA) disruption/corruption.

How the "cancer" cell transmits it's bad chemical data to other cells is not totally known or they would have a method to prevent this information from being sent on to other cells and could stop cancer as we know it dead in it's tracks without chemotherapy etc.

Since there are different types of cancers, the answer for that condition I think lies in the "Human Genome Project." Some day we may be able to stop various cancers by denying a cancer the ability to transmit it's corrupt data to another cell, thus, preventing both the spread and continuation of the cancer growth.

I know this is long, but, a good answer is typically constructive and covers the topic in a reasonable fashion. Reasonable can be defined on a personal level of experience.

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Hugs

Dr. Danielle Marie LaBelle, Ph.D.

Well there is a new product that contains DMSO that if does 1/10 of what it claims would work miracles. You can get the products through health food outlets or over the internet.

The FDA to date does not regulate the "natural healing" industry. So, without actually out and out lying, they can pretty much say as they please. Most products carry a legal disclaimer that the product is not intended to treat any particular known condition or disease.

We do know that some things saw as "Saw Palmetto" seems to work in trials for enlarged prostate. But there are 100's of untested products on the market that if used in excess can do harm. Even [vitamin A] in excessive quantities can cause an overdoes effect. So, bee-careful about what you knowingly ingest just because of advertsing. I have never found marketing people saying bad things about their product in order to sell it .

Recently I witnessed a television asvertisement for a weight loss compound that indicated that it was not for the causal dieter as it was "too powerful." They were using the psychology of, "it is too good for you and you can't have it" to get you to buy it and show them that you can if you want too.

Not to wander to far off course:

People are duped everyday of the year. My "Chemistry Professor" told us about all the common compounds used in skin care products for example that are nothing more than glicerin oil of some form. shaken, stirred, hydrogenated etc. Oil on the surface of your skin will hold the natural moisture in. The trick is to not have it feel like oil.

Hugs

Danielle Marie