Why Does Skin Change So Dramatically After Menopause?
Good skincare, proper sun protection, and a healthy lifestyle can slow the aging process and keep skin looking its best. But after menopause, skin seems to age overnight. Within the first five years post-menopause, women lose an average of 30% of collagen density, among other changes. Why the dramatic acceleration of signs of aging?
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It’s all about estrogen.
We think of estrogen in terms of its role in reproduction, but it’s also a critical component in skin health. Estrogen plays a significant role in supporting healthy cell function, maintaining hydration and collagen production, regulating sebum, providing antioxidant and anti-inflammatory protection, and improving vascularity.
Estrogen declines gradually as women age, but after menopause, estradiol levels drop sharply. The steep and rapid decline of this critical signaling hormone means skin undergoes dramatic tone and texture changes.
How does the loss of estrogen affect the skin?
-Dryness due to a decline in sebum and reduced barrier function
-Thinning, crepiness, and laxity related to the loss of collagen and elastin
-Redness due to reduced barrier function, increased skin reactivity, and changes to vasodilation
-Increased sensitivity can result from loss of hydration and natural lipids in the skin, which leave skin more vulnerable to irritation
-Hyperpigmentation can sometimes be more of an issue antioxidant and anti-inflammatory protection declines along with estrogen. Additionally, years of UV exposure can mean a buildup of pigment that can surface more easily on thinner skin.
To target these complex issues, we’ve been focusing our research on innovative new therapies that specifically target the key components involved in skin aging to reawaken cellular memory and restore youthful skin function.
Breakthroughs in Ageless Technology
Fine Lines, Wrinkles
Morning Serum
The ultimate quenching and plumping serum. Hyaluronic acid plus specialized neuropeptides, signaling peptides, and DMAE deliver intense multi-level hydration and extracellular matrix support to give skin renewed buoyancy, radiance, and lift. Enriched with powerful antioxidant and anti-inflammatory compounds to protect skin’s structural components from age-accelerating damage.
Creates a potent synthesis of results when combined with Vivant’s Retinyl Propionate or GFP Complex therapies to restore a youthful appearance.
Nightly Serum
This clinically proven, breakthrough formula targets the effects of declining horomones to restore youthful skin function and appearance. GFP Complex, plus specialized proprietary peptides enhanced by FF3 Technology, catalyze intensive renewal and hydration, transforming dry, thinning skin into plump, smooth, radiant skin. Dramatic results in as few as two weeks.
Photodamage, Dark Spots
Morning Serum
This high-potency serum combines neuropeptides and DMAE with Clinical Mandelic Acid to combat signs of aging and sun damage, pigmentation, laxity, and dryness. Niacinamide and Pseudoalteromonas Ferment deliver added hydrating, brightening, and firming benefits.
Advanced actives powered by FF3 Technology nourish the skin with essential hydration and work over time to visibly improve tone, texture, and firmness, including dynamic and static wrinkles, revealing smoother, more youthful, and healthier-looking skin.
This comprehensive formula is the perfect progression for acne or hyperpigmentation-prone skin needing an extra active boost.
Nightly Serum
An ultra-targeted repair serum for accumulated UV damage (photo-aging). A powerful brightening and regenerative formula to reverse discoloration and retexture photoaged skin.
Before purchasing this product it is highly recommended to do a Vivant Virtual Consultation.
The FF3 Technology-powered formula features specialized pigment-regulating peptides and our proprietary GFP Complex (phyto-derived growth factors + patented vitamin A propionate) to improve the appearance of uneven skin tone, lines, wrinkles, and loss of firmness in as little as two months.
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