Cosmetic physician (KNMG): what does that mean?

A plastic surgeon or cosmetic doctor… In your search for a specialist who can help you treat your imperfections, you will come across many different options. Who does what? And where can you go? If you can no longer see the forest for the trees, this is quite logical – it’s not easy. As a […]
Where do these viruses come from anyway….

Nice historical overview of communicable diseases.Pay particular attention to the time between pandemics.Almost every disease originated from animals. So-called zoonoses. Think SARS, MERS, Ebola, AIDS, swine and bird flu etc. We owe this to our intensive livestock farming and in the Far East the overcrowded animal markets.These are literally hothouses for new diseases from which […]
Botox and fillers compared to Asian countries

In this broadcast of NOS on 3, Dr. Tom Decates talks about the increase in Botox and Filler treatments. Also in comparison to Asian countries like South Korea.
Success

Busy busy busy. Being busy is socially desirable and a status symbol in our Western culture. Just say out loud, “I have nothing to do this week” and register your feelings with that.Are you already filling up your week with fun things? Stop, no, this week you have nothing to do. Research shows us that […]
Face masks against Corona

In the hospital, my complication consultations continue, as usual, then I wear a mouth mask. In the Netherlands, we now have more than 14500 infections and more than 1330 deaths as a result of the Corona epidemic.If we want to reduce the risk of infecting each other, we can sometimes take an extra step, such […]
Walking for your brain

Did you know that walking calms your brain? https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23467965This research shows that walking helps with stress, frustration and brain fatigue! Now that we all have a little less exercise space and also have to keep 1.5 meters distance and not much will change in the next few weeks it is good to get out of […]
Stress

Are you stressed, or have you been stressed a lot? Start investigating where that came/came from.Make sure you have less stress, or preferably none, in the coming year! Everyone is familiar with it. Some more than others. Sometimes stress is necessary and good in certain situations. Your body goes into overdrive and all kinds of […]
Brussels sprouts

It’s winter, and in winter we eat stew!You may wonder how we used to get through the winter without the many kinds of fruit we can now get at any time of the year….How did we get our vitamins? Nature usually has an answer.Take Brussels sprouts for example… 1 cup of Brussels sprouts provides you […]
Carrots – beta-carotene

Did you know that one large carrot is equivalent to about 241% of adh vitamin A? Carrots contain beta-carotene, the precursor to vitamin A, and our bodies convert it into vitamin A.Vitamin A is essential for eye health and an important factor regarding immunity, growth, development, mucous membranes and skin.Carrots are also full of carotenoid […]
So what exactly is a filler?

Fillers belong to the category of injectables. They are injectable gel-like fillers for the skin based on Hyaluronic Acid (medical term Hyaluronan). Hyaluronic acid is a proprietary compound that consists of long chains of disaccharides. Disaccharides are in turn a chain of 2 monosaccharides.These saccharides all fall under the category of reducing sugars. These sugars have […]