GLP-1 medications have revolutionized weight loss, helping people shed stubborn pounds without the frustrations and failures that often accompany traditional dieting and exercise.
Seeing those pounds melt away is certainly cause for celebration, but many people find their celebration is somewhat dampened by an unexpected and unwanted “side effect:” sagging skin.
At Starkey Medical Esthetics, Michele Meinhart, FNP, helps patients embrace their post-weight-loss bodies with skin-tightening treatments designed to tone up sagging skin without surgery. Here, learn why skin sags after weight loss and how our treatments can help.
Your skin is naturally built to adjust to shifts in your body’s shape and size throughout your lifetime. To achieve this pretty amazing feat, your skin relies on two proteins: collagen and elastin. Together, these proteins help your skin stay supple, “stretchy,” and resilient.
When your body size changes, your skin forms more collagen and elastin to help your skin conform to those changes. The problem: When you lose weight rapidly or when you lose a lot of weight, your body can’t always keep up, leaving skin sagging and flabby.
Research shows significant weight gain actually damages collagen and elastin fibers, making it harder for your skin to adjust once those pounds are lost.
Worse, because we produce less collagen and elastin over time, flabbiness becomes more likely as we get older. GLP-1 medications support both significant and relatively rapid weight loss, which means plenty of people are left with loose, sagging skin once they achieve their weight goals.
Staying hydrated, eating a healthy diet rich in lean proteins, and adding muscle-building exercises to your routine are all simple lifestyle changes that support healthy skin. For many people, however, they won’t provide the amount of tightening desired, and the benefits they do provide can take time to become evident. That’s when nonsurgical treatments can help.
Starkey Medical Esthetics offers an array of options to help tone and tighten excess skin without surgery, incisions, anesthesia, or long recovery times.
Evolve Tite uses radiofrequency (RF) energy, which gently heats deeper layers of skin, stimulating collagen and elastin production over time. As production ramps up, your skin gains extra support and tonicity. The result is skin that looks and feels firmer, tighter, and smoother.
Evolve Transform uses RF energy, too, this time combining it with electrical muscle stimulation (EMS). This option is ideal for giving you a more toned, muscular look without suffering through countless reps at the gym.
Morpheus8 combines the benefits of RF energy with microneedling, ramping up collagen and elastin development while stimulating healing factors to tone and tighten skin. Morpheus8 can be a great solution for cellulite, too.
Losing weight isn’t easy with or without medication. Don’t let loose, sagging skin take away from your success or your confidence. Learn more about nonsurgical skin tightening. Request your appointment online or over the phone with the team at Starkey Medical Esthetics in Salem, Virginia, today.
