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| Treatment of skin sagging after weight loss |
Q : I lost 50 pounds and now have overweight skin folds. Is there anything I can do about this issue? Shouldn't something be said about collagen supplements?
A : The skin is genuinely flexible—it extends and contracts as we move our joints and in different conditions, for example, pregnancy and labor. Skin contains collagen and elastin, two proteins that impart a few properties to an elastic band. Like an elastic band, they lose their capacity to contract if extended excessively for a really long time a period.
The "life structures" of skin (that is, thickness and different qualities, including versatility) fluctuates everywhere throughout the body; flexibility relies on upon your age (youthful skin is more versatile) and the measure of weight you lose. Sun introduction and smoking lessen versatility.
A : The skin is genuinely flexible—it extends and contracts as we move our joints and in different conditions, for example, pregnancy and labor. Skin contains collagen and elastin, two proteins that impart a few properties to an elastic band. Like an elastic band, they lose their capacity to contract if extended excessively for a really long time a period.
The "life structures" of skin (that is, thickness and different qualities, including versatility) fluctuates everywhere throughout the body; flexibility relies on upon your age (youthful skin is more versatile) and the measure of weight you lose. Sun introduction and smoking lessen versatility.
No sustenance or supplement, including collagen supplements, will redress hanging skin. Practice won't expel or change overweight skin, yet quality preparing can tone and build up muscles under the skin, and that can enhance appearance a bit. You would need to manufacture heaps of muscle to round out the listing skin.
On the off chance that your issue is extreme, your doctor may allude you to a plastic specialist. Individuals experiencing weight reduction surgery, who may lose a large portion of their body weight, frequently have surgery to evacuate overabundance skin. There are numerous surgical methods: abdominoplasty (tummy tuck),
gluteoplasty (for the backside), and brachioplasty (arm lifts). Surgery is costly, and protection may not cover it. It will create scarring and conveys dangers, for example, disease. You should be submitted not to recover the weight. There are additionally some nonsurgical, noninvasive procedures that utilization lasers to fix the skin, yet these are of restricted value.
