Skin Consultations

A skin consultation teaches you how to keep your skin active and vital for many years by:

• Providing you with a plan to help prevent premature aging of your skin.
• Discovering if your skin is fully active as an organ.
• Educating you about your skins roll in your overall health, and providing you with steps you can take to improve it.
• Giving you handouts, and dietary suggestions relating to your skin.
• Looking at what nutrients you could be lacking and what may be creating deficiencies.
• Reassessing the cosmetic products you are using, and their compatibility with your own skin.

The skin is the largest surface organ of our body, and it is responsible for many functions relating to our health and beauty. I find that skin is one of the most over looked and under-diagnosed organs today. If our skin becomes under-active, problems may start occurring in our body. In some cases our skin may have already been underactive for many years.

In Chinese medicine many organs influence our layers of skin, and its activities. Skin has important functions such as, eliminating toxins, absorbing nutrients (including vitamin D from the sun), and lubricating and moisturizing body surfaces to protect against bacterial invasion or injury. Our skin also helps regulate body temperatures (hot and cold).

Today there is major concern in the amount of people; including younger people; being diagnosed with various types of skin cancer. There also seems to be a notable amount of people aging more accelerated then in the past. I am finding that in my clinic a large percentage of the people that I see have underactive skin. Often only a few small steps are all it takes to help start reversing this problem.