Well, hello, hello, guys, you're listening to Beauty Bites with Dr. K., Secrets of a Plastic Surgeon,

and it's time for a five-minute Friday. I'm going to talk to you

all about hyperpigmentation and brightening your brown spots. So if you are noticing

pigmentation changes, it generally comes from several different causes, one being the sun and solar

damage, giving you solar lentigenies or darkening brown spots.

Number two, being from hormonal changes such as pregnancy, giving you a condition called

malasma. Number three, post-inflammatory conditions where you've had irritation, acne, or irregular patches develop in the

skin that cause pigment to occur after this inflammatory cascade. And number four might be from

trauma, abrasion, or, you know, scarring that can happen to the skin. These are the biggest causes of hyperpigmentation, and none of them need to happen.

We can inhibit all of these different things.

We can inhibit sun damage by wearing a protective, reflective sunscreen, like a mineral-based

zinc or titanium.

We can inhibit changes related to post-inflammatory

pigmentation by reducing active acne breakouts or treating with anti-inflammatory ingredients. We can reduce

melasma changes by stopping the production of excess melanin by using products like tyrosanase inhibitors that block

melanin production. And we can reduce hopefully scarring by avoiding irritation of the skin

surface and skin injuries. The bottom line is brightening the skin is going to make you feel

better about yourself. You don't have to have light white skin to look good. You have to have

skin that has even tonations and really like a pearlescent, illuminant quality to it. So I like the

idea of brightening skin because as we age, skin is going to become modeled. It's going to

become irregular. It's going to become irregular, it's going to become

weathered looking. And the more we smoothen out and even our skin tones and brighten our skin,

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