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402+ evidence-based articles from the Body Tonic RX clinical team on hormone health, peptide therapy, metabolic optimization, and the future of aesthetic medicine.
April 9, 2020
Quarantine Tantrum, Focus on Gratitude and Skinbetter’s LINES (pretty much topical filler)!
I had my first quarantine tantrum yesterday. It wasn’t too bad…but it was just like when all the annoyances and worries of the past three weeks converge in one moment. I think it started with my trip…
April 6, 2020
Did Your BBL Get Cancelled? Even Tone Can Help
We sure wish we could be spending time with all of you at Body Tonic RX! We miss YOU, and the feeling of family as we catch up on life’s events at the front desk or during treatments. Unfortunately, t…
March 26, 2020
Best Treatments for Acne Scarring
Do you all watch Schitt’s Creek? It’s one of my favorite shows…I’ve rewatched it probably 6 times. Oh my god DAVID!:) There’s an actor who plays Bob, and he has horrible acne scarring. I SO wish we co…
March 18, 2020
Giveaways + Specials + Flattening the Curve
Hello to our fellow quarantine-ers! Per CDC recommendations, we closed Body Tonic RX until March 30th to help with social distancing and try to do our part to limit the spread of COVID-19. Yesterday w…
February 5, 2020
Brows, Botox, and Brightening
Oh hey blog! It’s been a minute! I sure do miss getting to write about whatever great newness is happening here at Body Tonic RX, but dang it’s been crazy up in here since November! Bringing on our ne…
August 13, 2019
Treating Through Text: Recommendations From a Friend’s Selfie
A friend texted me a selfie the other day and said they had “a med spa question.” They were pointing out an area of skin under the eye that was darker, slightly thinner, with more prominent wrinkles t…
July 12, 2019
Forever Young BBL Study: Regulators of Aging Skin Can Be Altered
If you’re a nerd like I am, you’ll enjoy this article that outlines the research behind the Sciton BBL and how it really does produce a functional genetic change in aging skin so that it is more youth…
July 3, 2019
Botox for Better Skin Quality
I generally try to wait until I’m back to “baseline” before I get my Botox injections. For me it’s not necessarily the lines that stand out the most to me, but more the quality of my skin. It’s an alm…
June 23, 2019
Five Ways to Make Your Eyes Pop
Tear Trough Enhancement This treatment places filler directly under the eye. The skin in this area is very thin and so the vessels underneath are easily visible, often showing through as dark circles.…
June 11, 2019
Part One: Injections + Skincare for Men
You know how one minute you’re talking to your friend about, oh, say getting a new gym bag, and the next minute you’re scrolling through Instagram and up pops an ad for the newest Under Armour gym bag…
June 9, 2019
I Am a Cautionary Tale: Do as We Say, Not as We Do
If you’ve been a Body Tonic RX client for awhile, you probably know that microneedling is a staff favorite, and you’ve likely experienced this treatment yourself. For several years the microneedling d…
June 7, 2019
Microblading and My Search for Perfect Brows
I’ve always had such strange brows. I mean of all the things to be strange on a body, why that?!! They’re super thick, and they grow any way they want to: straight out, up, down. Here’s a few stories…
May 31, 2019
Antioxidants are Skincare Super Heroes
I think it may have taken me a few years of being at Body Tonic RX to really GET why we need antioxidants, and to understand what they really do. Antioxidants and free radicals are mentioned all the t…
May 18, 2019
5 Tips to Perfect Lips
Our schedule is always packed with lip enhancements! I’d have to say it’s one of the most common enhancements people come in for. Some of our younger clients come in wanting just a little extra plump,…
May 10, 2019
Study Finds Sunscreens May Enter the Bloodstream: Here’s What You Need to Know
CNBC recently published an article (pasted below) about a study that is looking into potentially dangerous chemicals in certain types of sunscreens. The chemicals in question are in chemical sunscreen…
April 25, 2019
Trending Treatment: Radiesse for Jawline Definition
Before and after treatment photos at the bottom of this blog. I’ve noticed that sometimes certain treatments are trending and the schedule is full of them. Lately it’s been Radiesse for jawline defini…
March 19, 2019
Five Options for Treating Your Dark Spots and Pigmentation
When people find out I work at a medical spa, one of the questions I get asked the most is, “What can I do about these,” as they point to dark spots on their face. There are so many options! I’ll take…
March 11, 2019
Best Treatments for When You Go Makeup Free
The other day I said to Karen: I feel pretty until I get to work. She said something like: Well that’s because the industry we’re in. Beauty and anti-aging is everything. I said no, it’s not that. I j…
February 25, 2019
New Ways to Treat Saggy Knees, Crepey Neck, and Cellulite
We had an advanced injection training this past Friday on different ways to use Radiesse dermal filler to correct crepey areas of skin, improve skin tone, texture, and replace volume loss, on body are…
January 25, 2019
My 4 and a Half Year Picture: Aging in Reverse
The ten year before and after picture trend got me thinking about what we all looked like when we started Body Tonic RX. I thought I sort of looked the same, but when I put my pictures together, it ap…
December 7, 2018
No Downtime Treatments for When There’s No Time Left!
Well we’ve reached that time in December where many people have lots of events and parties to go to, or at the very least work holiday dinners. In medical spa land, that means people don’t really want…
December 2, 2018
Filler Up! 44th Birthday Blog
I’m turning 44 on the 27th and I wanted a little refresh of my face before the big day. We all tend to do that here: make sure we’ve got fillers and Botox on board before a birthday. I had/have a dece…
November 5, 2018
It’s Laser Season! Which One Do You Need?
The sun is finally less intense and beach time is over. Our schedule has been filling up with Halos, BBLs and Nano Peels. We get a lot of questions about which treatment does what. So here’s just a qu…
October 12, 2018
Kardashians, Crack Dip, and Changing Up the Anti-Aging Plan
Last night my boyfriend was gone and I enjoyed a very “girly” evening (albeit a very early evening too)! I watched three episodes of the Kardashians. I started watching the show years ago with my daug…