Peter Attia· MD
I tell people if they're trying to achieve a goal, whether it's treating me malasma, sun damage, or they're getting ready for a child's wedding or we have to do a procedure, I would tell them to tough it out because if you use that retinoic acid every single day, your body acclimates to it very quickly. It may take 6 weeks, 7 weeks, 8 weeks, but you get your skin used to it and then you reap all the benefits. But some patients are always going to quit. So from that standpoint, then I'm a quitter. Yeah. So we would give you 5 days a week retinaldahhide, two days a week retinoic acid and tell you to start that way and then maybe as your skin acclimates to it you can change that proportion.