Blog

Maintaining a Healthy Diet: How Poor Diet Causes Wrinkles

Among the things you can do at home to combat the signs of aging, maintaining a healthy diet is one of the easiest to control. Many people are not aware of the fact that what you eat has a direct impact on the health and appearance of your skin. While you are stuck at home without your anti-aging treatments, follow these diet recommendations to help prevent new or worsening lines. Continue reading “Maintaining a Healthy Diet: How Poor Diet Causes Wrinkles”

Top Ways to Pamper Your Skin While Waiting for Your Booster

Spa woman applying facial clay maskIf you get Juvederm, Botox, or other injections, you have probably been concerned about the fact that these boosters and dermal fillers are not considered essential. While no one knows how long this will last, it is clear that patients need ways to combat fine lines and wrinkles while waiting on their next treatment. Here are some ways that you can pamper your skin to minimize new lines and wrinkles, as well as prevent current lines and wrinkles from worsening. Continue reading “Top Ways to Pamper Your Skin While Waiting for Your Booster”

How to Avoid Gaining Weight While Staying at Home

weight lossWe have successfully helped many people lose weight, and many patients are currently enrolled in our weight loss programs. We know you worked hard to get here, and we want to make sure that you maintain your weight loss. Stay-at-home orders and other factors can easily contribute to weight gain. Here is what you need to consider to avoid gaining weight while staying at home.

Avoid Being Sedentary

Even if you didn’t regularly exercise before the pandemic, you were probably getting a decent amount of activity just from your everyday life and habits. If you are not an essential employee, you are probably spending most of your time at home. That means you are not getting the exercise that you were previously. Continue reading “How to Avoid Gaining Weight While Staying at Home”

Face Masks

We at Hermann Aesthetics & Wellness, like other medical professionals, believe in the use of facial masks when out in public. This may help protect you and others from receiving or transmitting the coronavirus.  In recent studies, up to 25% of people that have the coronavirus lack the symptoms and others could be contagious prior to exhibiting symptoms.  Therefore, individuals could be spreading the virus unintentionally.  We know that the virus can be spread through respiratory droplets that can be spread by talking, coughing, sneezing with or without having symptoms. Continue reading “Face Masks”

Keeping Up with Your Treatment Plan Via Telemedicine

Stay-at-home orders have affected every Florida resident in some way. One of the most frustrating things about the pandemic is that non-essential doctor’s appointments and follow ups are being canceled or rescheduled. 

While we are limited in what we can achieve without lab work and other in-person services, we are able to provide some assistance through telemedicine. Here are some of the areas of our practice where we can help you. Continue reading “Keeping Up with Your Treatment Plan Via Telemedicine”

Safer at Home, Not Suffer at Home

Dr. Anne Hermann explains how telemedicine can keep you safe

On March 26th the American Medical Association published an article supporting health care delivery via phone or email, a service known as telehealth. The AMA cited telehealth as a way to protect patients during a pandemic. CDC guidelines also urge medical providers to offer telehealth to prevent patients from coming to the office and potentially exposing themselves to germs. Continue reading “Safer at Home, Not Suffer at Home”

The Best Time for Coolsculpting

CoolsculptingCoolsculpting is one of the best body contouring treatments that you can get for a number of reasons. It is one of the only body contouring treatments that is noninvasive, nonsurgical, and has few, if any, side effects. Here is what you need to know about the best time to get your Coolsculpting treatments.

In a Single Afternoon

There is no wrong time to schedule your Coolsculpting treatment. These treatments don’t take much longer than an hour, and you can return to normal activity immediately after your treatment. This means that you can have Coolsculpting treatments in the morning before work, on your lunch break, or before that hot date that night. Continue reading “The Best Time for Coolsculpting”

Key Benefits of IPL Laser Treatments

IPL Laser TreatmentIPL laser treatments are just one of the tools we have to reverse or slow down the signs of aging. This noninvasive cosmetic treatment, also called an IPL photofacial, applies focused light to the lower layers of skin to eliminate damaged skin and stimulate new collagen production. Collagen is the protein that is most responsible for healthy, plump skin. Here are some of the key benefits of this unique cosmetic treatment.

Prevent Signs of Aging

IPL laser treatments don’t just reduce the signs of aging, they can also prevent aging. A new 10-year study out of California has proven that IPL photofacials prevents signs of aging such as sagging skin, discolored skin, or lines and wrinkles. In fact, women who got the treatments three to four times per year as a preventative measure had better, plumper, smoother skin at the end of the 10 years than at the beginning of the time period. Continue reading “Key Benefits of IPL Laser Treatments”

The Most Popular Lip Fillers

Juvederm logoHave your lips become thinner over the course of the last several years? Have your lips gotten lines that keep your lipstick from looking smooth? These lip issues are very common, and they don’t have to be left alone to get worse. There are some very popular lip fillers that can be used to restore volume to the lips and reduce or eliminate lip lines. 

Juvederm Ultra

Juvederm Ultra is a dermal filler that can be used for many uses, particularly diminishing or erasing laugh lines, marionette lines, and other lines around the mouth. Juvederm Ultra can also be injected into the lips to replace lost volume and smooth lip lines. Continue reading “The Most Popular Lip Fillers”

Advantages and Benefits of Botox

Advantages of Botox

When it comes to anti-aging treatments, Botox is probably the most widely known and trusted. While dermal fillers are great for replacing lost volume in the face and filling in the lines that result, Botox is better for resolving fine lines and wrinkles especially around the eyes and mouth. Here are some of the advantages and benefits of Botox.

Safe and Effective

Botox is extremely effective in combating fine lines and wrinkles around the eyes and mouth. It is most commonly used to treat the lines around the eyes and between the brows, but it can also be used to treat the laugh lines around the mouth. Botox works by relaxing the muscles that create repeated expression to decrease the effect of muscle movement on lines on the face. Botox can decrease the appearance of lines and wrinkles as well as prevent them from worsening. Continue reading “Advantages and Benefits of Botox”