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Insights on longevity, aesthetics & wellness
402+ evidence-based articles from the Body Tonic RX clinical team on hormone health, peptide therapy, metabolic optimization, and the future of aesthetic medicine.
December 8, 2014
Turn Back Time? Optimal Correction With Dermal Filler
If you’ve followed our blogs at all, you know that I am a big fan of fillers. They provide instant gratification, they are long lasting, and they really rejuvenate the face: they add volume and struct…
November 24, 2014
Skin Ceuticals Micropeel!!! (and some Thanksgiving Gratitude)
Since Thanksgiving is this week, I’ll start this blog with a little gratitude. Today we had a training at work. I love when I get to say that: “We had a training at work today.” It sounds super grown-…
November 16, 2014
Only the Turkey Will Have a Waddle This Thanksgiving
Lately I’ve been noticing my neck looks a little bit older than my face. The skin looks a little more lax, the texture is a little more bumpy, and I’ve started noticing shallow, horizontal lines. If y…
November 10, 2014
Micro-needling with Dermapen: Stretch Marks and a Surgical Scar
I am obsessed with micro-needling right now. I love this procedure about as much as I love fillers, and that’s A LOT. I recently started having Dermapen treatments for my stretch marks on my hips on s…
October 27, 2014
Liquid Facelift: the amazing results and instant gratification of a non-surgical facelift
Our Fall Open House is quickly approaching and one special prize that will be given away to one lucky VIP Member is a liquid facelift. SO I thoughtthis week might me a great time to get an overview of…
October 20, 2014
Whisper Chatter: A Diary of the Most Popular Laser Skin Treatment
Since I started working at Body Tonic RX in June, I’ve heard a lot of talk about The Whisper. I need to get a Whisper….or…Oooo! Let’s do a Whisper together!…or…Oh my God we need to do one on you, you’…
October 3, 2014
The Boob Crease: A Previously Small-Chested Girl Learns What That is and How to Fix it!
There’s been a lot of boob talk in my world lately. Larger breasted friends talking about boob reductions. If you’ve ever been, or are, part of the small boob club, insert eye roll when hearing the pr…
September 14, 2014
Look Hot When It’s Cold: Microneedling, Whisper, and Neocutis – Five Tips to Better Fall Skin
With our lovely cool front that just came through, and on the heels of our Neocutis happy hour, fall skin care is on my mind. And as a holiday FREAK, I am also looking ahead to the holidays (and my 40…
August 18, 2014
Restylane for Rested Eyes: tear trough injections for improving dark circles and under-eye puffiness
I got my tear troughs done Wednesday! Translation for those not in the tear trough know: I had Restylane injected into the area underneath my eye. And when I woke up in the morning and looked in the m…
August 11, 2014
Turn That Frown Upside Down! Botox for sad smiles, and other techniques you may not know are possibl
Botox for Sad Smiles Turn that frown upside down. A sad smile, or sad mouth, is where the corners of the lips are constantly pointing downward, looking almost as if they are being pulled down towards…
August 4, 2014
Intense Pulse Light (IPL) facial: or getting rid of the milky way on my face
This picture is me the day after my IPL. My forehead looks a little like I fell off my bike and got road rash. Seriously. But everyone at the spa keeps smiling really big when they see me, and getting…
July 28, 2014
Filler Up! A Lesson in Dermal Fillers: Restylane, Perlane, Juvederm, Voluma, Belotero, Radiesse
To me it seems like all over the television and movies are women running around with these full lips on perfectly placed mouths. As I’ve gotten older, and more self-conscious of my small mouth and thi…
July 21, 2014
Vanquish Part Four: A Happy Ending
I don’t like when books end. I start reading more slowly as the final pages approach. Sometimes I stop reading for a day or so….I’m reluctant to finish. And I notice that I touch the last page as I re…
July 14, 2014
Botox is Like Laughter: How Botox May Help Depression
My friend Jennifer used to laugh at everything. Everything. Even if I was recounting something that really annoyed me. She would laugh. Sometimes I would think, Does she think it’s stupid what I’m say…
June 30, 2014
Botox for Ex-Boyfriends: Botox as a Cure for TMJ
You know that gorgeous man you recently broke up with who was perfect in every way except his TOTAL unavailability? And it’s SUPER annoying and sad and makes you angry and heartbroken it didn’t work o…
June 25, 2014
Vanquish Part Deux: Body Contouring and a Period
June 18 Wellllll….today was the day of my second body contouring session using the Vanquish. I was sort of dreading it…Mainly because I had my period and had spent 30 minutes in my closet that morning…
June 18, 2014
How to Get Carded at 40 – and Other Skin Care Tips
For the last decade, I have had a goal of getting carded after I turn 40. I’m 39 and that birthday is just six months away and the chances are looking pretty slim for me! Somewhere over the last two y…
June 6, 2014
Vanquish Body Contouring in Austin
June 3, 2014 Every time I drive home, I pass the pool and see the girls laying out in their bikinis, and I think, Dear God! It’s bathing suit time again. Ugh! Then my mind races through all the little…