The Body-Jet is a new liposuction technique in the United States and Dr. Lornell Hansen at LazaDerm Skincare Centre is the first physician in our area to use it. The Body-Jet uses a gentle jet of water to dislodge the fat from the connective tissue. This method of liposuction is called Water Assisted Liposucion (WAL). Because it uses water and not just suction or the mechanical ripping of traditional liposuction, it gives you a less invasive procedure with a more rapid recovery and minimal downtime. The most important part is that it provides the same results as traditional liposcuction.

Because the Body-Jet is so gentle on the body it is also gentle on the fat and can very easily harvest fat for re-injection into other areas such as the face, breasts, buttocks and hands. There are studies that show 90% of the fat cells removed are intact adipocytes (fat cells).

The Body-Jet can be used on any area in which traditional liposuction is performed. Treatable areas include the abdomen, thighs, knees, arms and beneath the chin.

We at LazaDerm Skincare Centre are thrilled to offer this new technology to our valued clients. Call (605) 275-6128 in Sioux Falls or (605) 235-1630 in Dakota Dunes today for a free consultation with Dr. Hansen. 

I deal protein is based upon how our body chooses to burn energy. Our bodies preferentially will burn carbohydrates (sugars) as its first source of energy, then protein, and then fats. The Ideal Protein Diet is based upon these proven facts. In order for your body to lose weight you must deplete the carbohydrates from your blood stream in order to start burning fat. The goal of the Ideal protein diet is to deplete the glycogen stores which are long chains of sugars found in your muscles. This will take about 3 days to occur on the diet and then you will start to burn protein and fat. It is also important to maintain enough protein in your diet or your body will start to burn protein for energy and you will begin to lose muscle.

This is the most important part of the Ideal Protein protocol as it supplies high quality protein that is easily available for your body to use as energy so that you do not lose muscle once your glycogen stores are depleted. This will allow your body to primarily burn fat from as an energy source. There are numerous studies that show simple diets based upon calorie restriction can induce the loss of both fat and muscle so it is very important to maintain enough lean protein intake with high bio-availability to avoid this problem.

The Ideal Protein diet will provide enough protein to avoid loss of muscle mass and some feel that their muscle mass has increased with the Ideal Protein diet.

At LazaDerm, we are introducing a weight loss program called Ideal Protein. It is a system that can help women to lose 3 to 5 pounds per week and men 5 to 7 pounds per week on average. The most important part of this protocol is that it will help you to lose mainly fat and not muscle. Many weight loss programs are based just on decreased calories can induce loss of muscle mass. It is important to not lose muscle as muscle is the major burner of calories. If you have less muscle you have essentially lowered your metabolism and as we all know we want to increase our metabolism not decrease it.

This is a system that is based upon decreasing the amount of carbohydrates and fat in our diet but maintaining the protein. This is much different than the Atkin's diet and others that are based upon low carbohydrate but high protein and no effort to decrease the fat intake. The problems associated with high protein diets such as gout and stress on the kidneys do not occur with this diet because it is based upon your daily need of protein not a free for all like the other diets.

What will the Ideal Protein Diet do for you?

1) Women will lose and average of 3 to 5 pounds per week and men 5 to 7 pounds per week
2) It will promote primarily fat loss
3) You will maintain muscle mass
4) It naturally suppresses you appetite
5) It will re-establish pancreatic function

You will also have a one-on-one coach and all of our coaches are medical professionals. Our coaches are registered nurses that are always directly working with Dr. Hansen. The most important part of having true medical professionals working with you is that they can work directly with your physician to order labs or even change your medications. We at LazaDerm feel that it is extremely important for patients with underlying medical problems such as high blood pressure, high cholesterol and Type II diabetes to have access to a physician. Dr. Hansen will make sure to involve your primary care physician with any labs or medication changes.

Recently at the 13th World Congress on Cancers of the Skin it has been recommended not only to use a sunscreen on your children when they are outside but also clothing to decrease their risk of malignant melanoma in the future. Numerous studies show that the more sun exposure our children have the higher the number of melanocytic and atypical nevi they will get. This then increases the risk of melanoma in the future.

Many people are using sun screens on their children these days and think they are protecting their children from the sun and its risks of sun-induced cancers. The problem with this is that sun screens are poor protection as they require very large quantities of the product to give you the true protection listed on the bottle such as the newer spf 70's and even now 100. In order to get the true spf listed on the tube you would need to use as much as the entire bottle in a single use and no-one I know is doing this.

The use of sun screens has given many parents the false sense of security. The best ways to avoid the long term risk of skin cancer especially malignant melanoma is to avoid being outside in the direct sunlight between the hours of 11 am to 3 pm, covering as much of your child's skin as possible with clothing, having them wear a hat with a brim that goes all the way around and applying sun screen to exposed skin a minimum of every 2 hours. These same rules can be applied to adults as well.

The true problem of aging, cosmetically speaking, is loss of volume and collagen in the face. Collagen is responsible for skin elasticity, and as it degrades this leads to wrinkles that accompany aging.  Sculptra is a dermal filler that causes the body to make collagen in the areas injected. As Sculptra causes new collagen to form deep within the dermis, the result is a gradually restored look of fullness that has been depleted over time. On average, three injection sessions are needed over a period of a few months. The result is a more youthful looking appearance that can last up to two years. 

Many of the current fillers are really only a good choice for filling smaller areas such as the areas around your nose and extending to the corners of the mouth called the naso-labial folds.  Sculptra is not used as a wrinkle filler but for overall loss of volume and is more suited for larger areas of the face such as in the temporal region and cheeks. The addition of Sculptra will increase our ability to more effectively treat the loss of volume in the face and the resulting wrinkles that are associated with it.