My name is Kellie, and I created your optimized skincare routine and plan. I focused on your high and medium-risk priorities based on your DNA test. I also considered your Yudoyu quiz results which told us about your skin type and feelings about your skin. Your personalized routine includes products packed with ingredients that, with consistent use, will improve current skin quality and protect your future face. Please add lifestyle and dietary changes (outlined below) for an added boost toward happier, healthier skin!
Warmly,
Kellie and The Yudoyu Team
We are here to help if you have any questions! Email us at hello@yudoyu.com.
Oily Skin + Uneven Tone + Sensitivity + Acne + Over 40
DNA ANALYSIS EXPLANATIONS
Our lab tests 16 core and dozens of secondary genetic markers that contribute to skin protection and premature aging and can play a big role in your skin’s future well-being.
The genes tested are cataloged according to their structural, functional, and metabolic effects on the skin.
Each Skin DNA category provides 1 of 3 outcomes: High Risk, Medium or Low Risk.
How does your skin compare with the rest of the population?
Yudoyu’s partner lab SkinDNA® has established one of the world’s largest derma genetics databases with more than 2 million DNA profiles*.
Our data allows us to discover distinctive skin aging traits shared between groups of people.
The enzyme responsible for Collagen Breakdown is heightened. As such, you may break down collagen faster than it is produced and be prone to skin laxity and looseness.
The Antioxidant Glutathione responsible for Collagen Protection is functioning optimally. Great job, genes!
You are still in the optimal range. Consider collagen-boosting ingredients in the future after you have targeted the higher-risk categories.
Wrinkle Factor: You have a less-than-optimal ability to break down glucose efficiently. Excess glucose molecules stick to collagen and elastin, binding fibers together. This leads to the formation of wrinkles, thinning skin, free radicals, and structural skin damage. We’ll give you some ideas on how to reduce this risk and help keep fine lines away!
Inflammation Response: This gene functions less than optimally and may sometimes over-respond to perceived threats, irritating skin cells. You may occasionally experience itching, redness, skin sensitivity, hay fever, or other allergies.
Detox: Your body is not breaking down xenobiotic compounds such as cigarette smoke, exhaust fumes, air pollution, and alcohol as well as it should. Variations in this gene can create internal inflammatory responses causing redness, rashes, and acne.
Skin Sensitivity: Your body has a near-optimal ability to break down toxic chemical compounds in everyday pollution. Likely, you do not suffer inflammation or irritations caused by perfumed products, active skincare ingredients, and general city pollution.
UVA Defense: Your genetic outcome suggests that your body is excellent at repairing your skin from DNA damage caused directly by exposure to UVA rays (also known as the “Aging Rays”).
Breaking down UV Radicals: You have optimal UV Radical repairing ability. After sun exposure, this gene is crucial for maintaining the overall health and integrity of the skin by repairing damage UV Radicals might have caused.
Way to go, DNA!
Antioxidant Power: Your genes can produce Superoxide Dismutase and Glutathione Antioxidants, the body’s most crucial antioxidants. You are less prone to the destructive effects of free radicals.
Pollution Defense: UVB radiation, fumes, carbon, and smoke, if not efficiently broken down, can oxidize and cause damage to the skin’s wall. Your genes can break down these pollutants efficiently!
Overall, you are in great shape, but using products rich in antioxidants to help combat environmental stress will help keep your skin glowing!
Melanin Production: Your body produces irregular volumes of melanin (pigment). As a result, your skin is sensitive when exposed to sunlight and more prone to freckling and hyperpigmentation. You may also be prone to white spots (hypo-pigmentation). Your skin likely burns rather than tans.
Photo Defense: Genetically, your body is functioning less than optimal in breaking down free radicals produced from UVB rays. These “Burning” Rays are responsible for sunburns and pigmentation responses.
Want to start smaller? Try your cleanser, toner, and moisturizer first, then add more later.
Remember to use a broad-spectrum SPF daily (rain or shine). You’ll find more great choices and add-ons in your “just for YU shop.”
Here is your personalized skincare plan based on your results!
Add these easy-to-do lifestyle habits to your daily routine.
Look for these topical ingredients when shopping for skincare.
Please consult your doctor before you begin a new dietary plan.
These minimally-invasive professional treatments will benefit your skin’s texture and make you glow!
Want to dig deeper? Learn about the causes and symptoms of poor skin health, and view our comprehensive list of beneficial ingredients and treatments.
Selected for you!
Lymphatic drainage is a facial massage to boost the body’s natural draining system. The face is left visibly more lifted, firm, and youthful by assisting in the movement of excess toxins, water, fats, and proteins down the lymph vessels and into the nodes!
Step 1: Apply treatment oil or cleansing balm of choice. Fingers should not drag but glide easily over the skin with little to no resistance.
Step 2: Follow the directional guide demonstrated in the illustration. Using light pressure, gently massage the face upwards and outwardly. Pressure should be not unlike moving a pen across a table. The key is to lift and relax muscles! If redness occurs, lighten the pressure.
Step 3: Finish with a glass of water, herbal tea, or warm broth for added hydration.
What if I’m doing this wrong?
If you are working in upward and outward motions with light, relaxing amounts of pressure, you are certain to fight against one of the main causes of wrinkles – gravity.
Ice Cubes: Freeze some cucumber slices, or make custom spa water cubes with green tea, whole-leaf aloe juice, and cucumber. Once frozen, glide cubes across your face, focusing on irritated or red areas of the face
Need more time? Try Anne Semonin Express Radiance Cubes pre-packaging ready-to-freeze ice cubes.
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This smoothie not only contains an astounding amount of some of the best whole food sources of antioxidants but tastes like a decadent dessert. (Go on, have it for breakfast, we won’t judge).
Here is one of our favorite shortcuts to having both bone broth and soup, without having to make both separately. Did we also mention how delicious it is?
Roasted bell peppers and tomatoes are two of the top ten foods highest in Vitamin C, making this hummus a super-charged source and convenient snack for any time!
This firming, nourishing, best-thing-since-sliced-bread recipe is not only delicious, but easy to make, and extremely affordable.
† Watch for the symbol: These products and ingredients may contain high amounts of iodine. See the iodine warning below before using.
Thyroid Disease Warnings: If you, or someone in your family, are prone to or suspect you might have thyroid disease, we recommend avoiding the use of all of the following ingredients in both skincare and supplements unless otherwise instructed by your healthcare provider:
These ingredients are enormously high in iodine content, a proven, major thyroid disruptor. When applied topically, they can enter the bloodstream.
Resources: https://www.drchristianson.com/the-iodine-controversy/
