“What ten weeks of scans taught me about redness and pigmentation.”

I started in aesthetic medicine in 1999 and have worked in it full-time since 2005. For most of those years, when a patient came in with redness or pigment spots on the cheeks, the forehead or the jawline, my toolbox was an outside-in toolbox: peelings, lasers, the right sun protection. Those still work. But over the years one thing kept nagging me.

The skin we were treating was not a blank surface. It was skin under stress. Oxidative stress, sun damage, smoking, simply getting older. That stress does two things: it drives the pigment we were trying to fade, and it turns the skin into a barrier. A barrier that even a very expensive cream struggles to get through.

“Put a very expensive cream on the face and you will always get insufficient results, because the skin has become a barrier. We get through it with peelings and lasers, but also from within.”

Why I stopped guessing

Impressions are treacherous. A patient looks fresher because she slept well, or because the light in the room is kind. So at Omea I follow every patient with the Observ skin diagnostic system: the same light modes, the same angle, the same protocol at every visit. Pigment, redness, texture. When something changes, I can see it side by side instead of remembering it.

That is also why, when BRONN asked me to follow patients on a daily SKIN FUEL™ routine, I said yes on one condition: we measure. One capsule a day, nothing else changed in their skincare or lifestyle, a new scan every month for about three months.

What the scans showed me

Case 01 is the one I keep coming back to. At baseline: pronounced pigment spots on the cheeks, forehead and jawline, an uneven tone, a face that looked restless and tired. At week three the spots were visibly softer in contrast. At week ten, pigmentation was markedly softer across the whole face, the tone even and calm. Same skincare, same life, one capsule a day. You can see the three captures below.

I want to be careful here. This is one person, and skin is personal. That is why we are following forty participants at Omea, not one. The pattern I see so far, in pigment, in redness, in how fresh the skin looks, is what makes me want the full picture. When those results are in, BRONN will publish them, whatever they show.

Why this particular supplement in the project

I would not follow just any product with my scans. SKIN FUEL™ contains NAD+ precursor, the molecule I want to see because it feeds the cellular processes behind skin renewal, combined with hyaluronic acid and Vitamin C, which contributes to normal collagen formation and to protecting cells from oxidative stress*. And it is formulated with ABSORPTIX®, BRONN's own logic for actually getting those ingredients to the cell rather than losing them on the way. That is why I agreed to follow it.

“Supplements are not just expensive marketing. But do not let yourself be fooled either. Let yourself be guided by people who know, by results based on clinical studies and objective measurements.”

Outside and inside, woven together

The biggest myth in anti-aging is that we can solve everything with injectables. I still do peelings and lasers, and I still tell every patient to use sun protection. But I now also tell them: build from within. Inner beauty, what you build up from the inside, radiates outward. When the two approaches are woven together, that is when I see the most beautiful skin.

So this is what I ask of the people who want to work on redness or pigmentation with me. Be patient: skin renews in cycles, give it three of them. Be consistent: one capsule, every day. And let us measure, so that neither of us has to guess.

Dr. Orlando Argento, aesthetic physician, Omea · Tessenderlo