Posts tagged skincare
5 Ways to Repair Skin Damage - guest blog by Higher Dose

You might not wear your heart on your sleeve, but you definitely have an organ that is outward-facing. *Drum roll* Your skin. As your body’s largest organ, your skin requires a lot of attention because it’s the body’s literal barrier to entry to external factors. However, even though your skin is your body’s protector, sun damage, stress, free radicals, poor nutrition, lack of sleep pollutants, and the natural aging process all put wear-and-tear on our skin.

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Inflammation ages your skin: cryotherapy can help!

Not all inflammation is bad. Acute inflammation—the kind that occurs immediately following an injury or infection– is necessary to initiate healing. We’re all familiar with this acute version: swelling, redness and pain immediately develop from an injury or infection as blood, leukocytes and other immune defensive biochemicals race to the scene. Acute inflammation should last a few days to a few weeks as the injury or infection is healed or cleared out by the immune system.

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