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When treatment is neglected pregnancy, body building, fast weight gain and even fast growth become a usual factor that generates stretch marks.

Stretch marks are generated by abnormal hormone activity. You don’t need to be a pregnant woman or have weight problems to get them. As a matter of fact, it is a very usual skin condition, but most people who have them are embarrassed and try to hide them.

Stretch Mark Associated Causes:

* Pregnancy

* Sudden growth spurts

* Rapid weight loss or weight gain

* Long term nutrient deficiency

* Unexpected variation in physical or environmental conditions

* Certain medication can also cause stretch marks, especially steroids analogous medications.

The real problem is that the body sends the wrong information regarding skin development. This causes skin to synthesize insufficient amounts of collagen and elastin, which form the skin’s connective tissue. When connective tissues are not strong enough to withstand over-stretching they break apart and stretch marks appear.

Although in several cases they seem to just appear overnight this isn’t entirely true. They start from deep skin tissues and gradually progress to the skin’s surface.

Stretch marks affect men and women, young and old, fat and thin. In many cases they don’t cause hurting or irritation so a lot of people don’t even acknowledge them until it’s too late to do anything about it.

In the first stage of development they are a pinkish or faint red color. The pinkish coloring is caused by micro blood vessels breaking open and bleeding. These scars generally change to a pale silvery white which is the final step of their developement.

Most people think that stretch marks are not curable because they are so difficult to erase. As a matter of fact, most doctors will even tell you: just live with them, they are not curable. But why would they say something like that if there is a way to treat them? Maybe they just don’t care enough or maybe in a doctor’s point of view stretch marks are not a serious problem because they don’t really cause any real physical discomfort

Stretch marks are fractional thickness ‘tears’ within the skin, meaning that they are basically subdural scars. The best stretch mark cream isn’t one that contains tons of elastin and collagen, but one that triggers the generation of collagen, elastin and the water holding capacity of healthy skin. Collagen is the building block of skin, and elastin is the protein which gives skin its elasticity. By increasing the levels of these proteins in your skin, from the inside out , you can strenghten the epidermal layer.

You can now erase stretch marks with topical application of an all natural treatment. Visit our homepage and find out more about our unique biological ingredient and how it can help prevent stretch marks.

- Marlyn Whipple