Dr Victoria Manning

by Dr Vix Manning Nora Ephron put it better than most of us ever will. "Oh, the necks," she wrote. "There are chicken necks. There are turkey gobbler necks. There are elephant necks. There are necks with wattles and necks with creases... Our faces are lies and our necks are the truth." "Our faces are lies and our necks are the truth. You have to cut open a redwood tree to see how old it is, but you wouldn't have to if it had a neck." — Nora Ephron, I Feel Bad About My Neck She was writing...

If you've spent any time in aesthetics recently, you'll have noticed a shift. We're moving away from adding volume with fillers and towards something far more interesting: teaching your own skin to rebuild itself. JULÄINE is at the sharp end of that shift, and it's one of the treatments I get asked about most in clinic. What Actually Is JULÄINE? JULÄINE is a next generation PLLA (poly-L-lactic acid) collagen biostimulator, developed by Nordberg Medical in Sweden. It's injected into the skin,...

A reader's question reveals the real divide in how we approach health. A reader of Busting the Code to Ageing emailed me last week. She wanted to know whether people who engage with the book tend to focus on the practical interventions, the testing strategies, the supplementation protocols or whether they engage with the broader argument: that health should be understood proactively, not reactively. It's a sharper distinction than it might first appear, and she was right to draw it. Two Kinds...