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 want to talk all about pigmentation. This is one of my topics that I obsess about. I always

want to learn more about. I have it personally. I have hyperpigmentation. And it's the end of summer

after a busy season of sunning and sun worship we all get some

evidence of photo damage and hyperpigmentation and it's time to start correcting it what is hyperpigmentation

first and foremost so hyper of course means overstimulated over-excited in the case of pigmentation

it's over-stimulation of over-excited. In the case of pigmentation, it's over-stimulation of pigment

production in your skin. If your skin has had some inciting factors, melasma can develop,

the melanin production of your melanocytes can kick up a storm, and you can have over-production

of melanin in areas where it creates unsightly pigmentation patches.

And melanin is a good thing.

It's protective.

It's the one thing that prevents our skin from scorching every single day when we're out in the sun, getting ultraviolet damage, skin cancers, and burns.

So you need your melanin, but hyperpigmentation develops when

there's over-stimulation. So what are the things that can cause hyperpigmentation to develop?

You are going to recognize and understand these things and start seeing them happening to

your skin if you learn about it. Number one is UV radiation and the sun.

Number two is melasmo related to hormone production.

Number three, post-inflammatory hyperpigmentation, where there's an irritant or an inciting

factor that creates pigmentation from happening.

These are probably the biggest causes of hyperpigmentation.

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