What a Doctor Wants You to Know About Whole-Body Collagen Health
That loose, jiggling skin on the back of your upper arm is more than an aesthetic annoyance. According to Dr. Mandell, a physician with 15 years of clinical experience, it is a clinical signal, your body's way of telling you that something is going wrong beneath the surface. And if ignored, the problem will not stay confined to your arms.
Dr. Mandell explains that the human body is one integrated system. Sagging skin on the arms does not develop in isolation. In his clinical experience, patients who present with posterior arm laxity (loose skin on the back of the upper arms) frequently also show early changes in the jawline and neck, the abdominal wall, and sometimes the veins of the lower legs. In more advanced cases, hernias can develop—a protrusion of internal tissue through a weaken...