A recent discovery about how to maintain good skin may surprise you. Our body makes its own form of cannabis (that's right, formal name for pot), similar to THC, the active ingredient in marijuana, and it may play an important role in maintaining healthy skin. This important finding may help researchers create new drugs that can... Read more
When I followed the story of the woman in France who had the first face transplant, I noted that a huge obstacle for the surgeons to overcome was convincing the chain smoking patient that she had to quit - permanently - in order for the surgery to work and for there not to be rejection or complications during healing.
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Nervous about a date?? Rest assured some of you will get that fateful, larger than life zit, that invariably shows up when we are stressed and can ill afford it....did you say stressed?? Well did the pimple actually erupt because you were stressed?? or did you get stressed because the pimple erupted??According to experts - yes, the acne may... Read more
When I talk to skin care experts about anti-aging skin treatments, one of the roadblocks seems to be the actual delivery of the active ingredients. Your cream, lotion or topical potion needs to have a delivery system that allows the active ingredients to get to the target layer of skin or into actual skin cells. Sometimes it... Read more
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