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When treatment is overlooked pregnancy, body building, rapid weight gain and even rapid growth become a common factor that causes stretch marks.

Stretch marks are generated by anomalous hormone activity. You don't have to be a pregnant woman or be overweight to get them. As a matter of fact, it is a very usual skin affection, but most people who have them are embarrassed and try to keep them to themselves.

Stretch Mark Associated Causes:

* Pregnancy

* Normal growth for teenager boys and girls

* Rapid weight variations

* Long term nutrient deficiency

* Sudden change in physical or environmental conditions

* Some medication may also generate stretch marks, especially steroids related medications.

The real problem is that the body uses the wrong information about skin development. This leads skin to produce insufficient quantities of collagen and elastin, which conform the skin's connective tissue. When connective tissues are not strong enough to endure over-stretching they break apart and stretch marks appear.

Although in many cases they seem to just appear overnight this isn't necessarily true. They are born from deep skin layers and slowly progress to the skin's surface.

Stretch marks affect young and old, men and women, fat and thin. In most cases they don't cause harm or irritate the skin so a lot of people don't even acknowledge them until they are in plain sight.

In the beginning 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 usually change to a pale silvery white which is the final step of their developement.

Most people think that stretch marks are not treatable 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 bother enough or maybe in a doctor's eyes 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 product isn't one rich in elastin and collagen, but one that stimulates the generation of collagen, elastin and the water retaining ability of healthy skin. Collagen is the skin's building block, and elastin is the protein which confers skin its elasticity. By increasing the levels of these proteins in your skin, from the inside out , you can strenghten the epidermal layer.

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