My name is Liz, and I created your optimized skincare routine and plan. I focused on your high and medium 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,
Liz and The Yudoyu Team
We are here to help if you have any questions! Email us at hello@yudoyu.com.M
Combination + Sensitive + Over 50
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 traits shared between groups of people.
Gene performance is either normal, impaired, or deficient. Remember, your DNA is only a part of your skin equation, and we can help you on YOUR path to healthier, happier skin.
You produce close to normal collagen levels to counteract the breakdown process.
COLLAGEN BREAKDOWN: Normal – The enzyme responsible for Collagen Breakdown functions optimally.
COLLAGEN PROTECTION: Impaired – The antioxidant responsible for protecting collagen functions less than ideally. Your skin may not receive the full support needed to keep collagen healthy.
Your body has a reduced ability to break down glucose. Excess glucose has been linked to a number of age-related traits, amongst them – wrinkles.
WRINKLE FACTOR: Impaired – You have a less-than-optimal ability to break down glucose efficiently. Excess glucose molecules stick to collagen and elastin, binding fibers together, leading to wrinkles, thinning skin, and structural skin damage.
You may have a higher probability of irregular pigmentation, sunburning, patches of redness, broken capillaries, brown spots, and expression lines.
GENES TESTED:
MELANIN 1: Normal – Your skin optimally provides the amount of melanin needed to protect you for short intervals of sunlight exposure
MELANIN 2: Deficient – You are more prone to freckling, hyperpigmentation, and white spots (hypo-pigmentation). Your skin is likely to burn rather than tan.
PHOTO DEFENSE: Deficient – Your body minimally breaks down free radicals produced from UVB (Burning) Rays once they have entered the skin. These rays are responsible not only for sunburns but also for pigmentation responses.
UV RADIATION REPAIR: Normal – Your genes are excellent at repairing your skin from damage caused by UVA Radiation (also known as the “Aging Rays”).
UV RADICAL REPAIR: Deficient – Your genetics minimally repair damage from Free Radicals produced by the sun and UVA exposure.
You may have a reduced ability to produce essential antioxidants.
GENES TESTED:
ANTIOXIDANT PRODUCTION: Impaired – You have less than the optimal ability to produce TWO crucial antioxidants. This may make you more prone to rough texture and dull, uneven skin tone.
POLLUTION DEFENSE: Normal – Your genes can efficiently break down pollutants, that can break down the skin’s cellular wall, such as car exhaust, carbon, and smoke.
Your results indicate that you have near-normal risk factors for chemical sensitivity and skin inflammation. You may sometimes experience skin irritation when using highly active products.
GENES TESTED:
INFLAMMATION: Impaired – Your body may occasionally over-respond to perceived threats, irritating skin cells and causing itching, redness, skin sensitivity, hay fever, or other allergies.
DETOX: Normal – Your body can break down xenobiotic compounds such as cigarette smoke, exhaust fumes, air pollution, and alcohol. Keep in mind these compounds can still be harmful to you!
SKIN SENSITIVITY: Normal – Your body has an 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.
…based on your results.
Want to start smaller? Look for the * next to “add to cart” for your best beginner products.
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 advice.
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.
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/
