An overview of stretch mark issues, and how to prevent and manage them
Stretch marks are tears in a skin matrix changed by atrophy, a situation differentiated by weakness, thinning, roughness, stiffness decrease in the size of tissues, reduced cellular proliferation, and decreased function, also named atrophia. What you can see on the surface are scars left behind by the constitution of scar tissues buried within the skin. Those tears can not be avoided with simple moisturizers. Moreover, the marks will not dissolve with collagen boosters or by simply abrading or resurfacing the superficial layer of the skin; only by the activity of enzymes that 'digest' or dissolve scars and non-functional tissues and simultaneously reconstruct healthy tissues.
What heals stretch marks?
Stretch marks can be avoided by renewing skin's density, strength, suppleness, and elasticity. This can be realized with the support of biological molecules formed by glycans (complex sugar chains) and peptides, proteins and enzymes that encourage to the orchestrated and systematic proliferation of all the constitutive elements of healthy skin: collagen, elastin, proteoglycans and glycosaminoglycans. Meanwhile treatment demands enzymes and messenger molecules to bridge communication between cells and allows them to differentiate scar tissues from functional healthy tissues and reduce them into their amino-acid components to then reconstruct healthy tissues.
What would help your skin prevent or eliminate stretch marks?
The stretch mark treatment s and prevention products you see nowadays are aimed at renewing skin matrix by promoting the synthesis of collagen or elastin (e.g. those containing ingredients such as ascorbic acid, copper peptides, palmitoyl pentapeptide or oligopeptides).
Unfortunately, this technique fails or falls short in practically all people afflicted with atrophic skin, whereby the dermis is too fragile and not strong enough to support stretching beyond what it has been accustomed too, probably due to the precise chemistry of skin changed by such condition and an inability to answer to matrix synthesis boosters.
This failure is perhaps due to something decisive missing in those treatments; an ingredient that would stimulate your body eliminate scar tissues and that would help prevent stretch marks by strengthening your skin and helping it becomes more resilient.
What is Really Needed to Treat Stretch Marks?
Two things acting in concert. First, your body needs to be able to differentiate or identify scar tissue from the surrounding functional tissues in the skin matrix. Second, it must be able to degrade the proteins that those scar tissues are made off and separate their component amino-acids and use them to create new skin matrix elements.
This can only be possible by the concerted action of two main ingredients
One is messenger molecules that are able to bridge communication between cells and allow them to differentiate scar tissues from functional healthy skin tissues. The other crucial ingredient are enzymes that both dissolve or 'digest' non functional cells, worn out or damaged skin cells AND trigger proliferation of new collagen and elastin fibers from within the skin matrix.
A Surprising Solution by Life's Genius
Fortunately, there is a complete & balanced solution for stretch mark prevention and treatment. One packed with antioxidants, collagen, elastin boosters, enzymes and cell communicating ingredients that improve and orchestrate the intricate balance between the degradation of cells that are dying periodically and/or cells that have become damaged by overstretching and the use of their constitutive amino-acids for the reproduction of new cells and all the crucial structural elements of healthy skin.
It is not a chemical, man made drug, clever concoction of isolates, pharmaceuticals, herbs, moisturizing botanical oils, or extracts designed in a cosmetic industry. No. It is a natural compound of biologically active compounds that is already the most complete and balanced solution created by a living creature to protect and fully recover its skin when damaged. In addition, although this creature is in an evolutionary stage different from humans, nevertheless its skin is made of the same crucial elements we find in human skin: collagen, elastin, proteoglycans and glycosaminoglycans.
Glycosaminoglycans are the water holding molecules in the skin responsible for providing binding, hydration, and swelling pressure to tissues enabling them to withstand compression and stretching forces, which thus prevent tearing and scarring of the deep layers of the dermis.
The stretch mark treatment and prevention product made with this natural, biological solution is natural, not some isolate derived or extracted from it. In addition, it is not only effective for preventing stretch marks but is also safe as it is totally compatible with living cells.
Treatment with the product works through a removal process named hydrolysation. By continued application on damaged tissues messenger molecules recognize damaged proteins and act in concert with enzymes that gently strip the skin to remove the build-up of scar tissues. These enzymes go to work like biological catalysts on each individual cell. They clean out the debris, open clogged pores, consume the dead material, and open up the vascular system to bring new oxygen into the cells. Moreover, they activate and accelerate proliferation of fibroblasts and all the structural components of healthy skin including the water holding molecules (proteoglycans and glycosaminoglycans), collagen and elastin skin fibers, which finally are assembled in an orderly or orchestrated way, thus minimizing scars and marks.
The product comes in two versions. One plain to prevent stretch marks, which is best to treat recently formed stretch marks. The second version is a home microdermabrasion product which is embedded with micro-crystals to abrade stretch marks that are older or rough on the surface as they help to break down or exfoliate damaged skin physically while massaging the crystals, and thereby facilitate the penetration of the cream deeper within the skin.
Read all about this new biological ingredient that represents a new alternative in stretch marks removal, removal of scars and prevention of stretch marks.
Published June 8th, 2007