Health Shows Up On the Skin

Health is more than the absence of disease and beauty is more than an absence of an unpleasant manifestation of unhealthy or prematurely aged skin!

Health is resilience — the natural ability to probably return to normal functioning whenever the individual is physically or mentally attacked. And let's face it, we seem to be under almost constant attack,

be it against our body, our ego or our feelings.

Popular admonition such as, "Don't worry so much or you'll get an ulcer!" reminders of the connection between body, mind and emotions. Our body reflects the destructive results of mental and emotional attacks just as much as it does microbiological causes, bacterial or viral.

This fact is now being re-discovered by both the public and health professionals. In most cases, Western health professionals are trained to respond to the manifestations of physical or mental problems. Fundamentally, they are in the disease fighting business. Their mission is not about promoting optimum health which would create an enhanced sense of beauty and well-being.

The notion of prevention in Western medicine focuses on vaccination and other drug-oriented solutions to contain specific conditions.

Medical doctors are generally not trained to develop an interest in regularly seeing customers who are healthy with a view of ensuring that they continue to remain that way. The unacceptably high and runaway cost of this practice will eventually force changes. As a practical result, the know-how necessary to maintain health has to be sought outside the mainstream Western health establishment.

Under the current demographic title wave of the baby boom, the forces of the market are nudging alert medical and beauty professionals into alternatives and new ways, creating the so-called integrative medicine arena. 

Spa Finder Magazine, January 2009, dubbed energy medicine #1 among new trends that would impact spas beyond 2009 and pointed to the growing importance that spa professionals and their customers are placing on effective and holistic ways to improve results.

For over 35 years, Phytobiodermie has been refining its fully integrative approach to skincare with energetic and natural products based on the energetic principles of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Ayurveda.