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Abby Borbon-Roaquin, a manager and clinician at Ulan Medical Spa in San Diego, California, has been a registered nurse for over 14 years, and is experienced in providing many types of medical aesthetic procedures such as anti-aging light therapy.

What does anti-aging light therapy do?

Anti-Aging Light Emitting Diodes (LED) therapy is a skin rejuvenation device. It works with visible red LEDs and invisible infrared LEDs with the bodys natural processes to counteract the effects of aging. This treatment can be used for men and women of all ages and skin types. So it means that selecting appropriate candidates is important.

Why we need it?

Our cells cannot manufacture the skins supportive structures faster than before, as we grow older. And we have to suffer environment damage from the suns rays. It will speed this process and damage our skin and cells that produce elastin and collagen. Light therapy can stimulate these cells to help counteract the effects of aging on the skin by being delivered at specific times.

What the theory of anti-aging light therapy?

The red light of anti-aging light therapy promotes the production of collagen that gives our skin its firmness and elasticity. The production of collagen is normally stimulated by inflicting a controlled injury on the skin. For instance, laser resurfacing, chemical peels and some non-invasive tightening produces work by inducing a controlled injury. This injury will promote collagen production by stimulating a healing process. But the red light doesnt injure your skin and support your bodys collagen production. We at Ulan Medical Spa are really excited about this new technology.

What should I do during treatment and how many treatments should I take?

Before the treatment starts, you should cleanse your face to remove any makeup or sunblock. In order to let the light absorb better, we will put an exfoliating solution on your face before the treatment. Then we will give you with safety eyewear and position the light about 1 or 2 inches away from your face. Each light therapy will last about 20 minutes. You will feel relaxed all the time. And you can return to your normal routine without any pain, redness or irritation. Usually, patients need 8 to 12 treatments and they will take over 4 to 6 weeks. So the treatments have to be at least one day apart. You can have a consultation with your skincare professional to adjust the number of treatments if appropriate.

What results can I expect from the treatment and how long will the effects last?

You will see a brighter, clearer and smoother complexion at first. After several treatments, you will notice an improvement in skin tone clarity, and texture, with your pore sizes reduced. Most patients can see a marked difference in 2 or 3 weeks after finishing the last treatments. Over 80% of subjects in studies report a softening of fine lines and wrinkles, and 75% report improvement in skin smoothness and softness.

After finishing your treatments, you will still continue to see improvement for 8 to 12 weeks. Because we continue to age every day, you may choose to go on a maintenance item to continue the treatments. Maintenance treatments are customized based on an individuals needs.

What other treatments can be combined with anti-aging light therapy at Ulan Medical Spa?

At Ulan Medical Spa, we provide some other treatments that can be combined with anti-aging light therapy. It is appropriate to combine anti-aging light therapy with anti-acne light therapy for some patients. For this, we alternate blue light, which destroys acne bacteria, with the red light, which can reduce inflammation.

We often precede the anti-aging light therapy treatment with the HydraFacial. Its a skin resurfacing treatment that deep cleanses, extracts, exfoliates, and hydrates while bathing your skin with skin-specific serums for acne-prone, anti-aging, dry or oily skin. And the combining of anti-aging light therapy treatment and chemical peels is also often used at Ulan Medical Spa.

Anti-aging light therapy works well when combined with the ReFirme treatment, which tightens and tones your skin. ReFirme combined with light therapy yields better results in terms of firming, toning and rejuvenating.

It was late 2003 at 67 years old that something inside kept prompting me to
write a book. I didnt even know what I would write about but because I had
mentioned it to my kids, for Christmas that year my novelist daughter Summer
gave me the tools a writer needs.

The inklings I kept getting at first were that I was supposed to write about
growing younger, but I kept brushing away that notion. After all, I was just
beginning to be inspired with a few techniques for reversing aging and had
not been practicing them for very long. Besides, who would believe it?

Then early in 2004 other techniques kept coming to my attention. I began
practicing and writing them down, thinking perhaps I should be brave and
consider a book sometime in the future, especially if my results continued to
astound me.

The confirmation that I was definitely to pursue writing a book on how to
grow younger came during David Morehouses Extended Remote Viewing class I
attended in San Diego, California, in mid-August 2004 with Pintki Murray of
Taos.

For one session, instead of the usual target based on a random set of eight
numbers, our assignment was to journey into The Matrix and bring back
messages. A year before if I had heard that it was possible to transcend time
and space and view objects and events at a distance, I might have been quite
skeptical. Yet here I was in Phase 3 of Remote Viewing, still surprised and
delighted with how successful I had been in identifying many elements of each
target in Morehouses workshops.

The Matrix was ready for me and I clearly heard five messages. When the
session ended, I promptly wrote all five in my journal. Four messages I
deemed fascinating and worthy of future pondering, but the fifth seemed to be
pure nonsense, and silly. I couldnt wait to tell Pintki to give her a good
laugh.

The journey to The Matrix was the last viewing session of the day so Pintki
and I walked to a restaurant for dinner. She asked if I had received any
messages.

I got a really silly one, I said, anticipating her charming laughter.
I heard Spin clockwise to become younger.

She didnt laugh. Of course, she said. Thats one of the five
Tibetan Rites of Rejuvenation.

I stopped walking and stared at her, unable to believe what I was hearing. We
were in the middle of crossing a major highway and Pintki had to grab my arm
and pull me to safety on the other side.

It was totally inconceivable to me that spinning clockwise could be a
technique for getting younger. My analytical mind challenged the notion and
reasoned that, if anything, spinning counterclockwise would be a more logical
technique for reversing the aging process.

Pintki continued, We have the book with those Tibetan exercises. Its
called The Ancient Secret of the Fountain of Youth and spinning
clockwise is the first of the five exercises.

I couldnt ignore the promptings any longer. The Matrix, or Spirit, or God,
had just given me solid confirmation that I was on the right track with the
ideas and techniques I had discovered for growing younger. Now I had to write
the book.

When we returned, Pintki lent me her book on the Tibetan Rites of
Rejuvenation and shortly after, I added the Five Tibetans to my daily ritual.
You can see how to perform them at
http://www.howtogrowyounger.com/p/tror.html

Today, seven years later, I look back at that time and marvel at the miracle
of that day. About that experience, two things I know for sure: 1) The
Tibetan Rites really work. I now have enormous energy; a strong, healthy body
and clear, sharp mind – and not even one gray hair, and 2) I am incredibly
grateful to the Tibetans for teaching me these Rites of Rejuvenation and
inspiring me to write my anti-aging book.

My tip for you is to turn off your busy mind, slip into the silence and allow
for the miracles to occur.