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Background Info
There are three layers to your skin;
the epidermis, dermis and hypodermis
The epidermis is a thin layer that protects your skin through keeping germs out and moisture in. Ranges from 0.05mm to 0.1mm, which is insignificant.
The dermis is much thicker layer that contains collagen and elastin. It contains your blood vessels, sweat glands, oil glands, hair follicles, and nerve endings. Ranges from 1.0mm to 1.3mm, which is moderately significant.
The hypodermis is the most variable layer of your skin depending on what body fat you’re at. It is just a layer of fat. Ranges from 1.0mm to 7.0mm depending on your body fat/fat distribution, which is moderately to very significantly important.
A corticosteroid is a topical medicine meant to treat inflammatory issues like redness and swelling. It also disrupts skin moisture and thins it. In this case, it could probably thin the skin by anywhere from 0.5mm to 2.5mm.
An ultrasound cavitation is a device that causes low frequency ultrasound waves to create bubbles in fat tissue that liquefy them and are then rid of by the body’s lymphatic system.
My Theory
If your shitty ESR is caused by wide cheekbones rather than a shitty IPD, maybe you could improve it by losing weight, using a corticosteroid, and/or using an ultrasound cavitation. Getting down to a low body fat percentage is crucial (something I need to do) and could cause anywhere from 1.0mm to 6.0mm off your bizygomatic measurement, maybe even more (only if you’re over 30% body fat which is unlikely for most of you guys). Corticosteroids can cause skin thinning and is often used to make the nose smaller. If this same concept is applied around your cheekbones, you could lose anywhere from 0.5mm to 2.5mm on all three layers of skin total as it also slightly affects the hypodermis. If your fat distribution is really bad, maybe an ultrasound cavitation could be used to melt some of the fat off the cheekbones, but should only be used after you’re at a healthy body fat. It could help by maybe 1.0mm to 3.0mm of thinning.
For example, if someone’s bizygomatic is 152mm with a normal IPD of 64mm, they would have a 42.1% ESR. If this person has say, a 4.0mm thick hypodermis, and they either lose weight or use a UC to lose 3.0mm of fat per side of cheekbone (6.00 total), they would then have an ESR of 43.8%. If they go further with corticosteroids and lose say 1.00 of dermis and hypodermis per side of cheekbone (2.0mm total), they would then have an ESR of 44.4%, which is just barely ideal (according to CreatingAttractive’s old formula sheet).
Note: This is just a theory (a Game Theory!). Do not expect guaranteed results if you decide to try some of the stuff mentioned here.
Tdlr; Fat loss/melting and skin thinning could theoretically affect the ESR measurement through achieving a lesser bizygomatic width.
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