Madonna: When High Heels Can be Fatal
Madonna has been a successful singer for more than thirty years and when her music is not in the spotlight her great looks and pep keep her fans enthralled. It is therefore not surprising that she is also surrounded by young men. Madonna’s current boyfriend is 26 year-old Timor Steffens from Holland, ironically called “Toy […]
Artificial Sweeteners Make You Fat
Bad news for consumers of “diet drinks” and “light products”: Israeli researchers have just found out that artificial sweeteners can cause an alteration of the intestinal flora which in turn raises blood sugar levels. This can indeed make you fat and even lead to diabetes. Why does hardly anyone succeed in losing weight by using […]
“Vampire Lifting” – Does It Work?
You may remember my blog Rejuvenation a la Countess Dracula in which I talked about the historical countess Erzsébet Nádasdy (nee Báthory in 1560), who fell in love with a young officer at the mature age of 50, or thereabouts. She found out by chance that a young girl’s blood that got splattered on her […]
Does Botox Make Us Look Old? (Part 3)
What to do if one injects botox anyway or has already gotten thin and dry skin because of botox? Nothing can be done against the mask-like effect caused by the muscle paralysis. It fades over the months when the paralyzing effect of botox subsides. But we can improve skin quality: Apart from the supply of […]
Does Botox Make Us Look Old? (Part 2)
Wrinkles on the face and body are caused by skin aging and skin aging is by the lack of certain hormones caused to a considerable extent. If individual endocrine glands weaken, we see certain symptoms in the face. For example, small wrinkles above the upper lip point to a lack of androgens and female sex […]
Does Botox Make Us Look Old? (Part 1)
Botox helps against wrinkles, but it makes the skin thin and dry. What to do? We all know women whose faces are wrinkle-free, but who still look old and like a mask. This is often the result of botox. Botox (botulinum toxin) is effective against wrinkles because it paralyzes is the muscles responsible for facial […]
Is Brad Pitt Turning Back Time? – Looking like 40 at the Age of 50
If you would have to guess Brad Pitt’s age, you would probably say he’s in his early forties – and that only because you maybe know him from the old TV series Dallas, in which he is playing the minor part of the young Randy. So isn’t it very surprising to hear that William Bradley […]
Can Food Make You Beautiful?
In ancient China beauty-conscious ladies were recommended certain foods – including cockscombs. Today we know that cockscombs contain natural hyaluronic acid, which improves the water binding capacity of the skin and thus protects against wrinkles. I see in my practice that even very young people benefit from taking hyaluronic acid and collagen regularly. In very […]
Methods of Rejuvenation: Hormonal Regeneration Using Bioidentical Hormones (Part 2)
With age and in times of high physical or psychological stress the performance of our endocrine glands decreases. The chronic lack of supply of our bodies with hormones leads to a decrease in performance and unwanted external changes such as wrinkles, weight gain and/or tissue breakdown (e.g., hollow cheeks). During Hormonal Regeneration® (Bioidentical Hormone Replacement […]
Methods of Rejuvenation: How Can We Turn Back the Clock of Aging? (Part 1)
Turning back the clock of aging is a dream that is as old as humanity itself. Physicians and alchemists of the past have been attempting partially bizarre methods to achieve this goal since antiquity. Chinese empresses seeking immortality were, for example, administered cinnabar components (mercury sulfide). The famous “founder” of China, Qin Shihuangdi, probably died […]