Binge Eating Disorder and How Appetite Suppressants Can Help

The news is riddled with stories regarding the high rate of obesity in America, but what they don’t talk about is the secret eating disorders that cause the uncontrollable weight gain. Buried in shame and guilt, few people come forth for help, especially if they have a binge eating disorder. Luckily, there is a way for people suffering from this disease to be treated using appetite suppressants though.

Symptoms

The main symptom of having a binge eating disorder is consuming a large amount of food within a short period of time without forced vomiting afterwards. This is what makes it different from anorexia or bulimia. Both of these other eating disorders lead to the affected person attempting to rid their bodies of the extra calories that were consumed through dangerous dieting methods, laxatives, and vomiting. However, they will still struggle with feelings of worthlessness, anxiety, anger, and disgust just as those with other eating disorders do. This will cause them to attempt to hide their binge eating from others. Sometimes, they will even be able to stop for a while. A stressful situation that raises their levels of anxiety will often trigger the binge eating again though. Surprisingly, not all binge eaters are severely overweight. It can occur in thin people who have dieted for a very long time too. Researches believe that this is due to a survival mechanism in the body that is trying to prevent death from starvation.

Damaging Effects to the Body

The fast absorption of a huge amount of calories on a regular basis contributes to many illnesses, such as diabetes and high blood pressure. Because people suffering from this disease often binge eat at least once a week or more for several months at a time, the extra calories make weight loss very difficult. They eat far past the point of feeling full, and this can cause spikes in insulin and raised cholesterol levels. It also puts a significant amount of strain on the heart, which must work harder during the digestive process. 

Treatment

Depending on the severity of a person’s condition, they may need an appetite suppressant to reduce the constant cravings for food. Appetite suppressants are especially helpful for those who have the most severe type of binge eating disorder that leads to them binge eating up to 10 times per week or more. By getting their appetite under control, weight loss is much easier, and their health will improve.

With a variety of services designed to help you feel and look your best, Trilogy Health offers free no-obligation consultations.

Are you tired of looking at your tattoo that you wish you didn’t get in the first place? Do you ever wonder if there is a way to get rid of it for once and for all? You´re not alone.  Fortunately, there have been great advances in the Tattoo removal industry with improved technology that are more powerful and effective at clearing black as well as multi-colored tattoos in significantly shorter length of time than the most common laser device used today called the Q switch laser.

The Science Underlying Tattoo inks

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Tattoo inks contain metals like lead, copper, manganese and mercury. These metals make tattoos permanent once injected deep into your skin. Your immune system recognizes these particles as intruders in your body. As a result, it releases white cells to get rid of these particles. The white cells work to remove these particles by sending them to the liver to be processed and excreted. However, the white cells are only able to handle a small amount of particles as the ink particles are too big.

How Laser Tattoo Removal Works

In order to remove a tattoo you need to break up the ink particles embedded into your skin. Lasers are able to do this by heating up the ink particle and making it expand but fast enough so that half of the particle remains cool. This hot and cool process rips the particle apart. The white cells are then able to absorb them and carry them to the liver to be eliminated from the body.

The lasers don’t burn the tissue. Instead, the energy collapses into a shockwave. The shockwave vibrates through the skin and causes the upper layer of skin to lift up and appear white or frosting.

Choosing the right laser and provider

Not all laser tattoo removal devices are created equal.  Choosing the right provider and laser device is critical to your success.

Trilogy Health is proud to offer one of the most advanced laser systems for tattoo removal called the Enlighten, introduced in 2014.  It offers dual wavelength (1064 nm and 532 nm) and dual pulses (picosecond or nanosecond) technology allowing the provider more versatility and options for breaking down the ink particles in tattoos. These dual wavelengths have been shown to result in faster, less painful and fewer treatments than devices using only 1 wavelength.

Laser Tattoo Removal Procedure using the ENLIGHTEN laser:

• Tattoo area is cleaned with alcohol pads and numbing cream is then applied to area 30 minutes prior to treatment.
• Protective eye shields are worn during the procedure.
• Your doctor will test your skin with the laser to determine the most effective energy for treatment.
• A handheld device will be used against the surface of the skin, activating the laser light to remove the tattoo. The feeling is said to be similar to a rubber band being snapped against your skin. Ice will also  be available to minimize discomfort.
• The total number of treatments needed depends on different factors such as the colors and ink types used on the tattoo, the intensity of the tattoo, the size of the tattoo, and the body location of the tattoo. You should expect multiple treatment sessions. However, your provider can give you a better idea of the total number of treatments needed during your consultation and once your treatments begin.
• After the procedure, you may experience redness and swelling. However, these are only temporary side effects.  A moisturizing ointment and temporary bandage is often all that is needed after treatment.

Contact Dr. Ellyn Levine and her team of experienced medical providers specializing in Laser Tattoo Removal at Trilogy Health to get a free consultation. Learn more on their website, www.sdtattooremoval.com and watch Dr. Levine’s segment on CBS 8 San Diego demonstrating a treatment.

Intense Pulsed Light “IPL”

Skin imperfections, especially in pigmentation and skin tone, can be dramatically reduced through Intense Pulsed Light “IPL”. The procedure is non-invasive and involves very little discomfort. Since it deals with issues that are caused by aging and photo damage, it is performed by a light-based device that heats abnormal red and brown pigments and destroys unhealthy blood vessels with thin walls. The skin then rejuvenates itself through natural processes.

With improved skin tone, the patient develops a more youthful glow. Photofacial therapy lightens brown spots and freckles, removes benign pigmented and vascular lesions, and treats rosacea. Treatments can be customized according to skin tone and condition. Although the procedure seldom requires anesthesia, a cooling gel may be necessary for vascular lesion elimination. Otherwise patients may feel a slight pinch or sting from the pulse of light.

Within about three weeks after treatment, significant improvements should be evident. Darkened spots should flake off, and redness should go away. Any swelling should disappear a few hours after the procedure. Patients with rosacea will have to repeat the process in order to keep the redness at a minimum.

With a variety of services designed to help you feel and look your best, Optimal Health, Weight and Laser Center offers free no-obligation consultations.

Even though it probably feels like you just put your decorations away, the 2016 holiday season is here. Before you know it, you’ll be busy baking, shopping, traveling to see relatives, and attending all those wonderful holiday parties. It’s easy to forget about your skin at a time like this.

Be Dazzling for the Holidays by Following These Skin Tips Now

We are fortunate in California to not have extreme variations in temperature that people in other climates experience in November and December. However, that doesn’t mean you’re immune from what extreme temperature changes can do to your skin: you may have skin that is sensitive to even the slightest change in weather conditions, or you could also be traveling to visit relatives who live in a cold climate.

Without adequate preparation, your skin will show the stress of this change by becoming flaky, red, or dry. A big change in your diet due to traveling, a busy schedule, and overindulgence in holiday goodies can cause this to happen as well.

You might not be able to control the hectic pace of the holiday season, but anyone can carve out a few minutes to do the following:

• Stay as physically active as possible
• Make sure you’re getting at least seven hours of sleep every night, preferably eight hours
• Drink plenty of water
• Limit long, hot showers
• Use a daily moisturizer

These habits will prevent your skin from drying out as well as reduce your stress level. That means your skin is less likely to respond with an acne breakout, redness, flakiness, and other common problems.

Consider a Laser Skin Treatment

You may still struggle with problem skin even when you do all the above. Or perhaps you just want to look especially dazzling for the holidays. If either of these is the case, you may want to consider getting professional skin treatment.

At Optimal Health, we offer two painless treatments that give impressive results in just a few outpatient sessions. Intense Pulsed Light (IPL) with Cutera LimeLight reaches the deepest layers of your skin to smoothen wrinkles, remove brown spots, reverse sun damage, and more. We use it to treat patients with a variety of skin tones and severity of skin problems.

Laser Genesis is an outstanding option for laser skin treatment. It has been clinically proven to increase the production of new collagen as well as decrease pore size, redness, scars, and fine wrinkles. It can treat any area on your face or neck, and works quickly and effectively.

Our patients tell us that getting a skin treatment is extremely relaxing, especially knowing that they are doing something good for themselves and their skin. What could be a better gift to yourself? Click here to learn more or schedule an appointment.

With a variety of services designed to help you feel and look your best, Optimal Health, Weight and Laser Center offers free no-obligation consultations.

Do you ever look in the mirror and wonder who that person with all those lines around her eyes staring back at you is? Or do you ever find yourself wondering where those age spots came from? Well, you’re in good company. Thousands of women (and men) every year decide to take advantage of the new advanced laser skin treatments to rejuvenate their skin to minimize — and even eliminate! — wrinkles, lines, scars, sun damage, and age spots.

With the holiday season fast approaching, why not give yourself the gift of confidence that comes with an improved appearance? There’s no reason to just live with the problem when so many laser treatment options are available. Here are some of the most requested:

Laser Genesis™ Skin Therapy

This treatment is an excellent option for men and women with facial scarring or redness, fine wrinkles, or enlarged pores. The Laser Genesis emits heat to stimulate collagen production at your deepest skin layers.

For redness caused by problems such as rosacea, Laser Genesis sends additional heat to the dilated capillaries of your skin to reduce redness. You will notice improvement after each session regardless of your specific issue. Most patients complete four to six sessions.

Women should remove all makeup before this procedure and men may need to shave in the area receiving treatment. No additional preparation is necessary and you can resume normal activities immediately after your appointment. After the procedure, you should plan on wearing sunscreen on your face and neck for added protection.

Intense Pulsed Light

This treatment, called IPL for short, is effective at eliminating sun damage, brown spots, redness, and tiny veins. At Optimal Health, we use Cutera® LimeLight™ to treat these conditions on a variety of skin tones and conditions. It has three different settings customizable to your specific skin issue. For example, the A setting can eliminate light brown spots while the strongest C setting is appropriate for problems such as severe sun damage.

Most people achieve the results they desire from this treatment in one to three sessions. If you develop new spots in the future, just come back for another treatment. While you can prevent some problems by practicing smart sun safety habits, issues such as rosacea are permanent. Fortunately, you can reduce the appearance of a reddened face dramatically with IPL.

Laser Hair Removal

Does having bushy eyebrows, stubborn hair at the bikini line, or unwanted back hair leave you feeling down? Laser hair removal is the solution. Forget about razor burns, the pain of waxing, or electrolysis. One of the best (and the one we use) is the Cutera hair removal laser to permanently eliminate unwanted hair from virtually anywhere on your body. It typically takes three to six sessions to get rid of the body hair for good. Just imagine not having to ever shave again!

With a variety of services designed to help you feel and look your best, Optimal Health, Weight and Laser Center offers free no-obligation consultations.

If you’re like a lot of people who have a tattoo, you were excited when you got it – confident that you’d love it forever. But now that you’re older (and wiser), you may be having regrets. Perhaps the tattoo no longer reflects your style. Or maybe you want to put a different tattoo in its place. You can’t go back in time and never get the tattoo in the first place, but with today’s tattoo removal technology, you can eliminate it.

In the past, tattoos were removed in a number of painful ways, like dermabrasion, acid, and surgical removal. Thankfully, tattoo removal has evolved. These days, tattoos are removed through the use of lasers. Although there are several excellent laser technologies on the market, at Optimal we use the enlighten™ laser system.

What is Enlighten?

The enlighten laser is a revolutionary tattoo removal system that utilizes nanosecond and picosecond technology to send ultra-short bursts of light through the upper layers of your skin to where the ink is located. These light pulses don’t hurt and the sensation is no more painful that lightly snapping a rubber band against your skin. To give you an idea of how fast the light pulses are, consider that a picosecond is one trillionth of a second, which is a thousand times faster than a nanosecond.

Over the course of several treatments, the laser light breaks up the ink into tiny particles that are absorbed by your body. After absorption, your body eliminates the minuscule ink particles through its normal processes. With enlighten, you could require up to 40 percent less treatment sessions than other laser tattoo removal methods.

The reason we offer both picosecond and nanosecond technology is to give clients the option to choose the pulse speed they prefer. Generally speaking, we recommend the picosecond for dark ink tones and dense designs. If you have a light or shaded tattoo, using nanosecond is usually sufficient. No other device currently exists that enables tattoo removal practitioners and patients to choose pulse speed based on individual factors. Skin types from extremely light to extremely dark can all benefit from the enlighten laser.

Through with your tattoo?

Tattooing your (former) love’s name may have seemed like a good idea at the time, but now you’re over it. No worries…your regrettable tattoo can soon be history. If you’re ready to remove, then we’re ready to help you. Give Optimal a call and we can evaluate your tattoo and let you know how many sessions you should expect. This differs for each person based on ink colors, age of the tattoo, location, composition, depth, and a number of other factors.

With a variety of services designed to help you feel and look your best, Optimal Health, Weight and Laser Center offers free no-obligation consultations.