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www.ascpskincare.com 47 therapy. RO is a high osmotic pressure in the capillaries that pulls fluid from the extracellular volume (ECV) into the veins. This forces a large amount of effluvia and toxins from inside the cell out through the cell wall, leaving a clean, healthy matrix around the cell. This creates a fantastic environment for coenzymes and antioxidants to flourish and ward off attacking free radicals and other inflammatory agents. But like all other aspects of the body, there has to be balance to maintain the results of RO. The negative pressure of RO has to have equal positive pressure as well. This is accomplished by the pulsing effect of an enzymatic mask. Pulsing creates a positive or rest phase that allows the osmotic pressure to smooth out naturally. The smoothing-out effect means that fluids are pulled from a place in the skin's tissue that has a low osmotic pressure due to trauma or dermatitis to a higher reverse osmotic pressure. The higher pressure is referred to in healthy skin as hydrostatic (equilibrium of fluids). Normally we always have this hydrostatic status in our capillaries that are in the ECV outside the cell membrane. All the nutrients we need for healthy skin go from our blood to the ECV, so it is important to maintain this hydrostatic pressure during an enzyme treatment to prevent the absorption of nutrients, immune stimulators, and anti-inflammatory agents from going back into the blood too slowly. If the absorption is too slow, we end up with edema, too much heat, and inflammation of the skin. When the mask is removed after approximately 45 minutes, test to see if the enzyme mask treatment is really working. If the osmotic pressure is not balanced and the absorption of nutrients is too slow, the skin will be uniformly red and feel warm or hot. These symptoms also mean that the oxygen in the skin has not successfully reached the mitochondria— making the treatment practically worthless. If the enzymatic mask treatment is properly formulated and performed, all the peripheral capillaries will be sharply outlined on the client's face and neck in various configurations (sort of like a road map) and the skin will feel cool and firm to the touch. This proves that equal osmotic pressure has been maintained and vital therapeutic activity has taken place in the deeper regions of the skin. Most clients are quite alarmed when they see this "road map" look on their skin for the first time, but the visible effects last only 20 minutes. There has also been strong evidence from teachers of the Vodder Method of Lymph Drainage that this type of pulsing enzymatic treatment mimics the subtle and fine-tuned movements of manual lymph drainage massage. Many doctors and therapists claim this to be true from their experiments, and apply the enzymatic masks over all the focal areas of lymph nodes. FACIAL MUSCLES AND ENZYMES The fragile, underlying facial muscles can be strengthened, much as any muscle in the body can, with exercise. However, facial exercises are tedious and require a religious daily routine to achieve and maintain results. Most clients will not devote the appropriate time to this type of regimen. Electrical stimulation with the so-called facelift machines offers only about a 20 percent result in muscle stimulation. Voluntary contraction of facial muscles using enzyme treatments has a much more natural and lasting effect in that the muscles themselves are moving on their own accord against resistance. If you apply strong enzyme mask "bands" to the skin, from motor control point to motor control point, you can accomplish this voluntary action. Most facial, neck, and décolletage muscles are lateral, horizontal, or vertical. These can be worked with predicable results. The oris oculi and oris orbicularis (muscles of the mouth and eyes), however, should not be treated in this manner as they are round and unpredictable as to the direction they may contract. ENZYME THERAPY FORMULATION Enzyme therapy formulation is not an easy process from the manufacturing level. It can be costly and time-consuming to produce. Numerous enzymes are required for efficient catalytic functions in the presence of atoms of small, non-protein molecules. This includes ingredients that stimulate enzymes already present in the skin and coenzyme molecules, many of which are only transiently associated with primary enzymes. Then there are the side-chain groups of amino acid residues that make up the enzyme molecule at or near the active site in the skin that requires a catalytic event. These factors make true enzymatic therapy unattractive to most manufacturers of skin treatment products. For more than 47 years, I have depended on the art of enzyme therapy as my primary form of skin revision and find its uses to be applicable in nearly every skin disorder or aging skin situation. If by some stroke of fate I was forced to relinquish all of the many tools we have at our disposal as professionals and had to choose only one tool to keep, I would choose enzyme therapy.