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Three Tips for Beautiful Skin this Winter

How is your skin handling the winter weather? It is no secret that winter weather can wreak havoc on an otherwise healthy complexion. Don’t fret! New Leaf Wellness has put together a list of three tips to keep your skin healthy and beautiful this winter.

Use Sunscreen
Don’t be fooled by the overcast skies! Just because the sun is not out as much in the winter does not mean it cannot affect and damage your skin. Make sure your skin is protected by wearing sunscreen year-round.

Expert tip! Look for makeup that also has SPF protection. Available at most of our clinics is SPF-50 Compact, either in Beige or Honey, the perfect way to incorporate SPF into your daily routine.

Stay Hydrated
Winter weather is synonymous with dry skin. When it’s cold outside, our skin struggles to stay hydrated as there is less moisture in the air for our skin to absorb. Even if you consistently hydrate your skin, you may find that your skin still lacks the deep hydration it needs. In office treatments at New Leaf Wellness can deliver results that you cannot achieve at home. Our Eclipse Microneedling treatment can nourish dehydrated skin by introducing an infusion of HA to hydrate and protect your skin from harsh elements that winter brings.

Exfoliate
Built up damaged and dead skin cells can dull your complexion and work against a healthy and luminous glow. As cellular turnover slows during the winter season, it is important to kick-start your skin’s renewal through manual exfoliation. A patient favorite all year long, The VI Peel is especially popular during the winter months.

After your skin peels from the VI Peel, your skin will be soft, smooth and supple with reduced winter related congestion, fine lines, and dry, flaky skin.

Don’t let your skin fall victim to the winter weather. Take care of your skin at New Leaf Wellness. Get your glow back by scheduling your one-on-one consultation today.

Turn Back the Hands of Time

There is no escaping the effects of aging on your body, whether it’s a decrease in energy or increase in aches and pains or any other unwanted signs of aging such as excess weight gain or drop in libido and sexual performance. Sermorelin Therapy, offered by New Leaf Wellness, can help with those aging symptoms and many others.

Research has shown that up to 75% of the ailments, aches, pains, limitations, decreased energy levels and loss of vitality associated with aging are preventable! Sermorelin Therapy is the answer!

The pituitary gland, which is located in the brain, is what determines how much human growth hormone is released into the human body. As we age, the pituitary gradually slows down this process, which brings about the common signs of aging – hair loss, decreased strength, and energy and so forth. Growth hormone is just one of a long list of hormones that begin to decrease in the body as we age. Maintaining sufficient levels of growth hormone allows men and women to hold on to signs of youth longer.

The pituitary gland usually secretes enough growth hormone until an individual reaches their late 30s or into their 40s. After that, proper balances in men and women get “out of whack” and only medical treatments can bring these balances back to normal.

Our Providers at New Leaf Wellness offer a variety of hormone therapy methods to supplement an individual’s body with the crucial hormones they’re lacking. One of the methods which we specialize in has essentially become known as a medical miracle.

Sermorelin Growth Hormone-Releasing Hormone (GH-RH) therapy targets the source of hormone production – the pituitary gland – and prompts it to continue naturally releasing sufficient amounts of growth hormone to stave off the negative effects of aging. This treatment essentially turns back the hands of time to transform an aging individual into his or her more youthful self and that is a miracle!

What is IV Nutritional Therapy

IV therapy is a method of delivering vitamins, minerals and amino acids into the body, through the bloodstream. A small intravenous catheter is placed into a vein so that these nutrients can be delivered into the body over a period of time. IV therapy is firmly based on medical and scientific research, and it is used in a variety of treatment regimens because of its power to heal the body, improve health and well being and prevent certain conditions.

Below are some of the nutrients commonly used in IV therapy:

Magnesium
Calcium
Zinc
Vitamin B5, B6, B12
Vitamin C
Glutathion

All of these vitamins, minerals, antioxidants and amino acids work together to restore what is depleted in the body.

What are the Benefits of IV Therapy?
There are clear cut advantages to IV therapy, and the benefits differ depending on the condition treated, the protocol used, the overall health of the client, and how many treatments are done.

The greatest advantage to IV nutritional therapy is that the body gets vital nutrients, amino acids, vitamins and minerals. These nutrients bypass the stomach and go directly to the organs. Levels in the body are restored so that addicts feel stronger and healthier. This is a complete turnaround from the addicted body that is exhausted from drug use, irregular sleeping, poor diet and other harmful behaviors. Withdrawal only depletes the body further.

Here are some of the improvements that are seen from IV Nutritional Therapy:

Improved energy
Improved mental focus
Decreased cravings
Increased pleasure
Pain relief
Enhanced mood
Increased calmness and relaxation
Balanced blood sugar
Improved sleep patterns

How Can You Get Started?
Even though IV therapy involves placing a needle into the arm, the process is very comfortable. It starts with getting labs drawn and having them reviewed by the Provider. Then when you get the IV Nutrition, you will sit in a bright and clean room with comfy chairs during the process, and enjoy beautiful images and messages on the TV screen. The rest and rejuvenation that comes from IV therapy makes this experience positive, laying the foundation for a long-term, healthy recovery.

The Importance of Proper Hydration on your Weight Loss Journey

As you start your journey of weight loss, one thing you are very likely looking at is your meals. You want to make sure that you’re giving your body precisely what it needs but not over feed it where it stores fat. But, are you overlooking another critical element in the game? Many people aren’t giving nearly as much consideration to what they’re drinking in and around weight loss…but they should.

The impacts of dehydration on weight loss are significant and this could be one factor that improves weight loss. Let’s look at how dehydration will impact you so that you can get straight how important this is.

Muscular Endurance
The very first manner in which dehydration impacts you is with your muscular endurance. Basically, you are going to feel fatigue quicker during the day. Your body needs to move in order to loose weight.

Fluid losses equal to just 1-2% of your total body weight will negatively impact your weight loss. The primary reason this tends to occur is because the maximum pumping capacity of the heart that can be achieved during the day will decrease, which then decreases overall activity capacity. In addition, the decrease in plasma volume will mean that there is a lower blood pressure and blood is thicker, which can also induce feelings of fatigue.

Muscular Strength
Don’t think that if you aren’t exercising you’re protected from these harmful effects of dehydration. That is not the case at all.

In addition to seeing declines in endurance, you’ll also see declines in physical strength. When around 3% of total body weight in dehydration occurs, this can result in strength losses of up to 5%, showing a greater magnitude than the dehydration itself.

Therefore, this is going to be very problematic for those who have more weight to loose. This again is going to be due to decreased reduction in blood flow and blood pressure along with an increase in core temperature.

One additional point to know here is that dehydration can also increase the rate of glycogen use by the muscle tissues, and since during strenuous activities muscle glycogen is the primary fuel being utilized, this will have a significant influence on your ability to generate force over time.

Focus And Concentration
Finally, dehydration can also influence your ability to focus and concentration. This is huge as weigh loss takes a lot of focus and concentration. When we loos focus we tend to look at the here and now not the what can be. At this point it is easy to give up.

If you don’t have the mental tenacity that you need to pursue weight loss due to dehydration, you won’t be concentrating on your future goal, thus you will be mentally weaker overall and give into temptation.

Maintaining a strong level of concentration is imperative for weight loss and dehydration will prevent you from doing so. Some may also find they start experiencing headaches during weight loss as well and some may even become light-headed or dizzy if blood pressure gets too low. This could then go on to impact balance, making it harder to focus.

So there you have the main areas that dehydration will influence your weight loss. To maintain adequate hydration, make sure to drink when you are thirsty. At New Leaf Wellness we recommend at least 96 oz– but you could do an IV Nutrition session, that will help also.

If you do this, you can rest assured you are keeping yourself well hydrated.