Face Lifting

Introduction Weight management in the Philippines has, for too long, been dominated by guesswork — crash diets, unverified supplements, and generic fitness advice that ignores the individual biology behind each person's body. The conversation is shifting. Physician-led body clinics are increasingly filling the gap between the gym and the hospital, offering structured, medically sound weight management pathways that treat excess weight not as a cosmetic inconvenience but as a

There is a particular kind of event that does not just promote something. It becomes something. A gathering where the products on display are secondary to the experience they produce, where the conversation is elevated, and where guests leave feeling genuinely changed. The Art of Lift was that kind of event. Hosted by Jan Medical Group (JMG) in partnership with global medical aesthetics leader BTL Aesthetics (makers of EMFACE) and iconic luxury skincare house La Mer, The Art

In a world where filters are everywhere and "perfect" is a moving target, Habie Mondido stands out for a different reason: she looks the way she looks because she actually takes care of herself. The Filipino model and content creator has cultivated a following that responds to more than just aesthetics. Her audience trusts her, partly because she does not pretend that looking good is effortless, and partly because she is willing to talk about what actually goes into it. Her p

The face ages differently from the body, and it shows. Volume shifts downward, skin loses the structural scaffolding of collagen and elastin, and what once felt firm begins to yield. For decades, the primary solutions were either surgical (facelifts, blepharoplasty) or superficial (topical products that do little beyond the epidermal layer). Neither extreme felt right for most people. That gap has narrowed considerably. Non-invasive energy-based devices, particularly those us

There is a particular frustration familiar to anyone who has trained consistently, maintained a structured diet, and achieved meaningful weight loss, yet still finds pockets of fat and lax skin that will not respond. This is not a failure of effort. It is a failure of biology. The Renewed Body Programme at Jan Medical Group addresses exactly this gap. Using BTL-certified radiofrequency technology in a physician-directed 8-week protocol, the programme targets subcutaneous fat

BGC has become one of the most health-conscious districts in Metro Manila. Its residents and workers are more likely than most to track their macros, attend functional fitness classes, and research treatment options before booking them. This same population is also increasingly sceptical of clinics that promise dramatic results from a single machine session, which has forced the local market to evolve. Body sculpting in BGC has evolved accordingly. The most credible providers

A small clinical population has been quietly accumulating in Manila dermatology practices: women whose foreheads no longer respond to Botox. There is also a second, larger population that never agreed to Botox in the first place. Dr. Jan Dipasupil, medical director of Jan Medical Group, on EMFACE Forehead, the lift designed for both. Three women walk into a Bonifacio Global City consultation room across the course of a single Wednesday morning. The first is forty-six. She h

There is a particular kind of Manila beauty conversation that has been ongoing, mostly in whispers, for the last decade. It is the conversation about the celebrity who appears on a magazine cover and looks twenty-eight when she is forty-two, and the polite agreement, in the absence of any honest disclosure, to attribute the result to good genes, good lighting, and good water. On Tuesday, Anne Curtis-Smith did something unusual. She told us what she actually does. At the BTL M