Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Beyond Synthol - New Innovations in Site Enhancement Oil Solutions.

Synthobolic - The Bodybuilding Site Enhancement Oil Solution



Muscle Labs USA has brought many new innovations to the bodybuilding community. We spent a year researching A unique  product that is secretly being used by bodybuilders in the United States to enhance body parts. 

They fly to Tijuana, Mexico to see Dr Luis Casavantes. Many have gotten their chest, biceps, triceps, calves, and buttocks enhanced.  

PMMA(polymethylacrylate) is approved in the United States as the brand name Artefill but it is too expensive to be used in larger volumes required for enhancing body parts.

A New Product by Muscle Labs Is Growing In Popularity

Representatives of Team Muscle Labs USA recently  attended the second International Congress meeting on Bioplasty in Guadalajara Mexico last week. 

The reason we felt this was important to discuss is simple, it might be time that products like Pump & Pose,synthobolic,esikclean and other site enhancement oils get some recognition for their legitimate use.
For years the debate on the use of site enhancement oils in bodybuilding goes back and fourth. Is it dangerous & freakish body modification or is it a legitimate cosmetic enhancement product? 

The secret truth is, bodybuilders have been using the site enhancement oil for decades. When you have the right product,and it is done correctly, it is both effective and safe.

In 2010, Muscle Labs USA innovated "Synthobolic". Synthobolic is a pharmaceutical grade, lab prepared muscular site enhancement oil. This product can put 2,3 and even 4 inches on a single bicep in 30 days. Real Synthol is PH balanced so there is no irritation or uncontrolled swelling, and contains a mild anesthetic for a pain free application. Unlike other Synthol site enhancement oils which simply contain a simple "mct oil", Synthobolic brand by Muscle Labs USA contains a complex blend of sterile fatty acids, proteins,in a sterile collagen base.

Cosmetic Site Enhancement Oil 

Cosmetic and dermatology physicians from Mexico, Spain, Argentina, Brazil, and Colombia  came to share experiences on the use of PMMA (polymethylacrylate) which is commonly used to treat HIV related facial and buttock lipoatrophy and other non HIV related physical abnormalities.

Bioplasty is a technique of  injectable implantation  done  under local anesthesia for facial and buttock lipoatrophy and for reshaping other body parts which may have been affected by wasting or malnurishment stemming from disease or serious injury. 

The site enhancement oil product usually used is PMMA (polymethylmethacrylate microspheres) and it is  usually  (but not always) injected using a micro-canula (a gun like device that enables faster and smooth dispersion of the product under the skin) . 

Currently Two brands used overseas are Metacryl and Newplastic.  In the States, Artefill is the only PMMA based product approved (for cosmetic use, not lipoatrophy).

It was confusing to find out that Bioplasty really is a brand name for the specific use of NewPlastic which was created by Dr Nagul in Brazil (he wrote a book on the procedure and trains doctors in Porto Alegre, Brazil).   

But Bioplastic is only one of the several PMMA options available worldwide but it seems to be spreading fast around the world.
 
We presented  the current status of facial lipoatrophy solutions in the United States and the challenges we still face with access and the lack of an economical permanent solution to facial and buttock lipoatrophy. 

Dr Luis Casavantes reviewed the different options available for facial and buttock lipoatrophy. Dr Gottfried Lemperle from the US reviewed management techniques for potential complications like granulomas.  

Dr Marcio Serra from Brazil reviewed his experiences during the past 12 years of work. He and colleges from Brazil also described their national free assistance program for people with facial lipotrophy. 

Physicians in Mexico want to use Brazil’s model to provide economical access to patients in Mexico with facial wasting.

PMAA and Site Enhancement Oil Applications


The most interesting part of the conference was the 3 hours in which all of us got to watch 5 doctors apply PMMA (Metacryl or NewPlastic) to patients in the operating room from a giant screen. 

Some use a gun-like canula to inject the product and others using insulin syringes.  It was great for to see the different techniques in person.

Muscle Labs USA staff was impressed with the work on Dr Suzana Barreto from  Sao Paulo, Brazil. She does a MRI on patients before she injects them with PMMA and a few months later to see how the implant behaves in people. 

She showed great slides on MRI results of the face and buttocks. She also compared MRIs done in patients that have had silicone injected to show how silicone migrates and shifts in tissue. 

I would love for her to present in the United States since we had never seen anyone who has MRI data on patients with any injectable implants.

It amazing that the USA is so far behind  of all of these countries when it comes to dealing with facial and buttock lipoatrophy in a permanent way. 

As said before, the PMMA product in the US is Artefill, which is not approved for HIV lipoatrophy (only for cosmetic purposes- wrinkles, etc)  and was priced horribly high for it to be cost effective for us in HIV. 

Luckily, its patent expires next year, which will open the door for Brazilians to bring their cheaper option to the US.

The two options approved by the FDA (Sculptra and Radiesse) are non permanent and not cost effective for those  with more advanced facial lipoatrophy. 

They both require yearly touch ups in most patients. Currently, Medicare pays for both but the reimbursement amounts are too low to entice doctors to use it for HIV patients.  

Both products have patient assistance programs that are decreasing in scope with time.

The other two products  that can be used in the US for facial lipoatrophy but that are not approved for that use are Silicone 1000 micro droplets and Artefill, and both are permanent. 

Neither gets reimbursed and there are no patient assistance programs for them. It would be interesting to see an economic analysis of the total cost for each for a facial wasting grade 2-4 in  a 5 year period. 

Although use of Synthobolic has primarily been  used to increase muscle mass volume, there are reports of individuals who have used it for facial & buttock cosmetic purposes.

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