The skin is your body’s largest organ, working constantly to protect you from environmental stress, pathogens, and dehydration. Because it is exposed daily, it often shows the earliest signs of hormonal shifts and aging. Changes like dryness, thinning, uneven tone, or loss of elasticity can reflect what is happening inside the body.
We can support the skin’s resilience with treatments that stimulate its natural repair process. Microneedling with PRP uses collagen induction and the healing properties of growth factors to renew the skin. At NuVida, we offer this treatment along with many others to our patients in Highlands Ranch, CO, and the surrounding areas.
How Hormones and Age Impact the Skin
Hormones influence nearly every layer of the skin, from oil production to collagen structure. Estrogen helps maintain skin thickness, hydration, and elasticity by supporting collagen synthesis and increasing hyaluronic acid levels. When estrogen declines during menopause, skin can become thinner, drier, and more prone to fine lines. Testosterone and cortisol shifts also affect the skin, sometimes causing acne, inflammation, or slower wound healing.
Aging adds another layer of complexity. Fibroblasts, the cells responsible for producing collagen and elastin, become less active as you age. Blood flow to the skin slows, reducing oxygen and nutrient delivery, and the outer barrier becomes less effective, leading to dryness and increased sensitivity. When you combine hormonal changes with age-related slowdown, the skin loses its ability to recover and regenerate the way it once did.
What Microneedling Does for Aging and Hormonal Skin
Microneedling stimulates your skin and activates its repair systems. The devices create microchannels in the skin, prompting it to rebuild itself with fresh collagen and elastin. Fibroblasts become more active, helping restore the structure and firmness that often decline with age or hormonal shifts. Circulation also improves in the treated areas, allowing more oxygen and nutrients to reach the skin.
The treatment tightens the skin through collagen and elastin production and helps regulate uneven pigment by encouraging turnover in the deeper layers where discoloration often starts. You may also notice improvements in texture, as microneedling supports cellular turnover. After a series of treatments, pores may appear smaller, sun damage may fade, and fine lines and wrinkles may decrease.
What PRP Does for Aging and Hormonal Skin
PRP, or platelet-rich plasma, is derived from a small sample of your blood that is refined to isolate concentrated platelets and growth factors. These components are part of your body’s natural repair system and help trigger regeneration in tissues that need support. When applied to the skin after microneedling, PRP signals your cells to rebuild, strengthen, and renew. In skin affected by aging or hormonal shifts, this can reactivate repair functions that have slowed over time.
Growth factors in PRP support collagen remodeling, help thicken thinning skin, and improve moisture retention by encouraging hyaluronic acid production. PRP can also reduce inflammation and oxidative stress, which tend to increase with hormonal fluctuations. It may help regulate pigment by influencing melanocyte activity within the dermis. Combined with microneedling, it creates a healing response that addresses changes below the surface.
Why Combine Microneedling and PRP?
Combining microneedling and PRP creates a stronger signal for your skin to repair itself. Microneedling opens precise channels, allowing the PRP to reach deeper layers where it can work more effectively. Instead of sitting on the surface, growth factors penetrate the areas that need repair and help the skin rebuild with better structure and function.
This combination works especially well for skin affected by aging or hormonal changes. PRP encourages lipid production and supports cells that maintain your outer barrier. Microneedling improves absorption and carries these signals deeper, activating repair in areas that have slowed down. Together, they help restore a more stable, responsive foundation for healthier skin.
What to Expect From Your Treatment
We start by cleansing your skin and applying a topical anesthetic blend that includes benzocaine, lidocaine, and tetracaine. You rest with the numbing cream for about 30 minutes. While you wait, we draw about 30 cc of blood and prepare the PRP by spinning it in a centrifuge to separate the red blood cells.
Once your skin is numb, we remove the anesthetic, cleanse your skin again, and prep the surface with alcohol. Then we begin microneedling in sections, usually starting with the forehead and moving across the face at carefully adjusted depths between 0.25 mm and 1.75 mm. We apply PRP topically and allow it to penetrate deep into the microchannels created with the SkinPen® device. The process typically takes 30 to 45 minutes, depending on whether we treat the neck. A series of three to six treatments is often recommended for optimal results.
Treat Your Skin to Microneedling With PRP in Highlands Ranch, CO
Microneedling with PRP gives your skin the tools it needs to respond to aging and hormonal changes from within. By combining mechanical stimulation with concentrated growth factors, you support real repair in the layers that matter most. We offer treatments at NuVida in Highlands Ranch, CO, using the SkinPen and PRP for effective, skin-specific results. To schedule a visit or ask questions, call (303) 903-3775 or reach out through our online form.