Our paradigm of treatment begins with "why". You first discuss and are evaluated and advised by Dr. Julia Hunter and the team at Skin Fitness Plus to inform and educate you objectively on all the pros, cons, advantages and limitations of options, treatments and technology on the market worldwide. Dr. Hunter is known as an expert on ingredients, technology and treatments- what works and why. Her approach to treating patients is looking at the body as a whole because the skin is the largest organ of the body and is a window to what is going on inside. Aging, melasma, acne, brown spots, rosacea, skin tags, sensitive skin, psoriasis, eczema, gastrointestinal issues, weight and cellulite struggles, high blood lipids, disease, lack of energy, brainpower, libido, depression and more are all interrelated because the organs of the body are an orchestra and if one is out of harmony they are all negatively impacted and manifest the dysfunction concomitantly. We do see patients just for dermatological concerns and issues and just for facials and injections, however, we are always delving deeper to cure the problems rather than just treating the symptoms to keep you healthy as well, because without health there is no beauty.

So at SFP, we prescribe and utilize skin and nutritional products that have no harmful, inflammatory, negatively hormone altering, aging, skin thinning, disease promoting chemicals and therapeutic concentrations of ingredients so you SEE and FEEL a continual progressive result internally and externally. We treat your entire body otherwise you only get 50% of the results you are seeking-at best! When you are looking for help and/or prevention, you are wasting a portion of your investment in anything that does otherwise. We do need on occasion to use some pharmaceuticals, so we balance their downside with the needed upside. The best and individualized lasers, technology and treatments are added, as and if needed and desired, to reach the layers of the skin that even the best, state of the art and strongest skin products, treatments and peels cannot, as comprehensively as possible reverse, turn back the clock and slow down the ticking. We use lasers and technology secondarily-to treat the deep areas of the skin unreachable by skin products and peels because we see that the best, fastest and most rejuvenating results, with the best longevity of results - and the best use of funds and promoting health - are achieved first by skin products and peels that work, then lasers and technology that treat and address the rest of the entire skin. Lasers and technology must be chosen from knowledge of which are the best tool for the job, are most synergistic and with the least side effects and downtime.

You have the opportunity to be beautiful, energetic, healthy and happy. There is NO magic bullet despite being marketed to believe there is because the body-and science- does not work like that. We are awash in a sea of products, technology and treatments, which are generally just competing brands, more of the same, more commerce than science. You NEED to understand why and the difference between all your options; achieve peace of mind and confidence in your decisions through knowledge and common sense, understand the limitations and realistic expectations, why this vs. that. Our method of practicing medicine is that our job is to advise based on our expertise, experience and evaluation of worldwide techniques however together, we make the “right” choice by creating an individualized Action Plan that works! We incorporate solutions that are doable, commonsensical, pragmatic, scientifically correct and affordable. There are differences between men, women, skin of pigment, young and old, sick and healthy and we incorporate these into your unique Action Plan.

SKIN FITNESS PLUS EXCLUSIVE PARADIGM OF TREATMENT
Without health, everything you do to promote and preserve beauty works 30-50% at best. Provide your body with what it needs and wants and it will reward you. It’s not deprivation…it’s moderation. Read the ingredients of everything you put on or in your body. Mimic nature. You build your house on a firm foundation. The firm foundation of health and beauty is ingredients that the body needs (are lacking) and can penetrate into where they need to go, have the chemical form the body can recognize and receive, are not toxic and inflammatory and are therapeutic. Otherwise, your money is just spent on advertising, packaging and marketing. In discussion with you about all the options available, doable solutions at different budgets, an individualized Action Plan is prescribed for your age, sex, pigmentation, skin problem, prevention, restoration, rejuvenation and lifestyle, to progressively and visibly create and sustain healthy beauty that is young at any age!

STEP 1—Your Individualized SFP Action Plan
Preferably a whole body health assessment to the cellular level of all organ health, utilizing the BIOMERIDIAN technology, Dr. Julia Hunter prescribes an Action Plan specific to the needs as well as desires of each individual patient. It is imperative to create health (and some patients seek our advice just for that) along with beautiful whole bodies otherwise only a small percentage of desired results are achieved with no longevity. The Action Plan is created as a strategic plan of prescribed treatments, products and procedures to prevent disease, skin cancer risk, aging as much as possible, rejuvenate, tighten, thicken and properly maintain skin; encompassing diet and nutrition, exercise, supplements and bio-identical hormones if required, to achieve your goals and with longevity of result by scientifically creating healthy, beautiful skin and bodies - internally and externally. The side effect of what we do is promoting health!

STEP 2—Skin Product Titration
Skin Cosmeceuticals are the foundation of your skin care house. They must have therapeutic concentration, chirally and chemically correct ingredients that are needed, missing, that the skin has a receptor for, so it can recognize and turn on a positive not a negative function and can penetrate through the skin, into the appropriate layer and into the skin cell itself and even it’s nucleus. Only then do raw materials reach the skin cell’s factory mitochondria where results are manufactured. Without chirally correct, therapeutic ingredients, skin products do nothing, or at best sit on the surface, or have a damaging chemical form to inflame, disease and more quickly age the skin. The skin, your body’s largest organ, needs active, therapeutic ingredients - meaning ones resulting in progressive, continual improvement you see and feel. We treat the skin of the entire body because you want to restore, prevent and repair laxity, sun damage, stretch marks, acne, scars, growths, discoloration and abnormal blood vessels. We attempt to get you on therapeutic automatic pilot at home as much as possible, so daily you are walking up the staircase of achieving health and beauty. This also allows our patients living around the world to meet their goals.

STEP 3— Correct Exfoliation and Peels
Correct Exfoliation. Scientifically correct skin treatments and products, exfoliation, peels and medi-facials that are therapeutic, not just feel good, science not commerce, concomitantly reverse, rejuvenate, prevent and slow down the ticking of the clock. Just as in physical training, therapy must be individualized and increased for goals to be achieved and with aging. In the skin, there are different layers and depths and all must receive therapy otherwise results are minimized. Constructive not destructive peels clear, clarify and reverse the skin stagnation of aging and damage, along with correct skin products, restore the protective acid mantle of the skin, which is there to discourage skin infection like Staph and Strep, decrease abnormal blood vessels and renew volume due to building collagen, elastin, skin cells and moisture. We prescribe physiologically correct and therapeutic exfoliation techniques, not microdermabrasion, for many scientific reasons. Correct exfoliation speeds new cell and collagen growth, resulting in tighter, clarified, more detoxified skin, purging skin damage, abnormal cells, hyperpigmentation and diminishing the barriers to skin therapy. There is no to minimal downtime and the immediate results provide glowing, polished skin. Unlike microdermabrasion and scrubs, the skin is not abraded, wounded and inflamed, is evenly leveled, and our technique can be utilized over the entire body.

STEP 4 - Laser Technology
Lasers and Tightening Devices - They are the only method to treat the deep layers of the skin, where products, peels and chemicals cannot penetrate. Treating the deep layers can achieve the degree of rejuvenation, tightening, contouring, some scars, stretch marks and cellulite resolution that otherwise might be considered for surgery and can be used to do so on skin of the entire body. Unlike surgery, correct technology treats the skin, results in new collagen, elastin and fibroblast production that is of the most youthful form, tightness, density and longevity. Tightening technology can be used alone or synergistically prior to or with surgical procedures for enhanced outcome. Lasers are also needed to eliminate abnormal blood vessels and brown spots and lesions, which persist after correct and therapeutic products, exfoliation and peels take care of the bulk.

We completely understand and evaluate the science and physics, the merits, downside, cost and comparative results of all lasers and technology available, even new products on the market, and measure if and when they are truly needed, justified and useful. All technology and lasers are not created equal especially in the results they achieve. The techniques and technology we utilize are truly the best tools for the job vs. everything else, consistently delivering optimum results with the least downtime and maximum safety. We will be delighted to communicate our research, conclusions, justifications and comparisons.

• SKIN FITNESS PLUS APPROVED LASERS are precision instruments that safely stimulate the collagen and elastin framework supporting the skin for tightening via creating new collagen, elastin, and fibroblasts and for treating active acne, remodeling scarring, keloids and for oil reduction. Others remove vascular abnormalities and lesions, spider veins, growths, rosacea and brown spots and peels and stimulates new skin components.
• THERMAGE
• HAIR REMOVAL AND SKIN TIGHTENING LASER

All technology and lasers are not created equal especially in the results they achieve. Skin Fitness Plus chooses those, which scientifically have been shown and proven to be the best tool for the job, consistently deliver best results with least downtime and maximum safety.

STEP 5-MAINTENANCE
You maintain your car, home and many possessions. Just as in physical training, skin and body therapy must be tailored, titrated, boosted and in some cases progressively increased for goals to be achieved, stemming aging and health maintenance. In the skin, there are different layers and depths and all must receive ongoing therapy intermittently otherwise results are diminished. Healthy organ function must be maintained. Nutritional, pharmaceutical and hormone therapies must be titrated and assessed. Each step of your integrative Action Plan is re-evaluated and results are measured not only by how you feel, look and perform but also by the BioMeridian Technology-a better physical exam to scientifically assess your skin cell and body’s organ performance.

Botox and Fillers - tools in the toolbox that are utilized and recommended if needed, to achieve resolution of lines and laxity. If youthful skin function is maximized their use is lessened. Both are facial sculpting so must be done closely scrutinizing the asymmetry and uniqueness of each face.

Eyelash Growth and Tinting, Eyebrow Growth and Shaping and Non-Toxic Make-Up are available to enhance the above procedures and treatments. Always providing the best tool for the job, Skin Fitness Plus offers a NON–toxic, NON–inflammatory makeup. Why treat and pamper your skin with healthy products and treatments to have it only become irritated by chemically harmful makeup? Dr. Hunter and the Skin Fitness Plus team work diligently (as it is not easy) to find healthy makeup that does not inflame your skin and thwart the beauty, restoration and disease prevention we are creating.

Sclerotherapy -The optimal choice and gold standard for eliminating unsightly spider and varicose veins, provides the fastest resolution and best results.

Without health there is no beauty. Life leads to death and gravity always wins, but we can keep you looking 10-15 years younger and we can optimize your health as a result. We prevent, turn back the clock to a certain degree and slow down the ticking of the clock with the goal to lead a long AND quality, disease free life. There is no magic bullet and nothing works overnight because the body just doesn’t work like that. You have to address all the pieces of the body’s puzzle in a doable, practical and affordable way, utilizing the best tools for the job and that’s the state of the art in today’s world. There are many branches and methods of medicine, which need to be chosen and coordinated for the patient’s best being. Everyone has to be treated uniquely because his or her physiology is unique.

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