Rexonage: ‘I’ve tried every tweakment and this is astounding!’
Move over lasers and radiofrequency – Quantum Molecular Resonance, known as Rexonage, is the exciting new technology that dramatically calms redness, dials back ‘inflammaging’ and even revives inflamed joints
Do you go bright red after a few glasses of wine or a Vindaloo? Do you come back from a run a deep shade of puce? Welcome to my world. I’m lucky that my redness – a mild rosacea that shows as dilated capillaries in my cheeks – settles in a few hours after those triggers. Unlike people with serious rosacea, who deal with blotchy, hot, stinging skin almost constantly. But it doesn’t mean it’s wise just to put up with it. Skin therapists always spot my underlying redness and tell me that it will get worse if I don’t manage it, for example, by avoiding flush-inducing triggers and cutting out over-active skin care.
I do, and have tried many soothing products (Prof + Doc Watercress Serum, £30, is a recent favourite). It all helps, but with skin this reactive, flare-ups always lurk. Rosacea can be managed but rarely eradicated.
That’s not all. I’m also prone to rashes and welts in response to products my skin doesn’t like, and the odd bout of eczema. Last year, I developed infuriatingly little-understood perioral dermatitis. The common factor in all these conditions is inflammation.
Inge’s skin flushes after a run, and now (right) after Rexonage, her mild rosacea has calmed
So my ears pricked up when I heard of a new machine, or ‘energy-based device’ (as they like to say in tweakment circles) called Rexonage3. It nukes the inflammation that’s at the heart of all my various issues – as well as other skin conditions such as acne and psoriasis. And it has age-proofing effects in the bargain. As someone unable to use many potent collagen-boosting actives and treatments, such as retinol and Morpheus8, this was music to my ears.
Besides calming inflammation, Rexonage is said to increase collagen production – painlessly. While long-established energy-based devices such as ultrasound, laser and radiofrequency work by inflicting controlled damage and therefore inflammation (making them out of bounds for me), this technology is unlike anything I’ve ever experienced. Called ‘quantum molecular resonance’, it frankly sounds like something a creative marketeer has made up in an attempt to bamboozle punters with pseudo-science.
But my results speak for themselves. After six treatments by Viviana Botoaca, longevity specialist and founder of Geneviv Clinic, my before-and-after clinic pictures show that inflammation and dilated capillaries just under the surface of my skin have vanished. When I look in the mirror, my complexion is now ‘blotchless’ and I no longer suffer that blistery rash around my mouth whenever I use actives. Yes, my perioral dermatitis has been given the heave-ho as well, without the antibiotics that are usually prescribed for it.
That’s a frankly astounding result for a treatment that feels no more than a warm, relaxing facial massage.
So what exactly is this machine called Rexonage3, and why do insiders tip it as being in the vanguard of a new and painless approach to skin-regenerating tweakments?
Inge’s Rexonage results after six sessions. Image Geneviv Clinic
How does Rexonage work?
Struggling to grasp quantum physics? You’re not alone. Quantum Molecular Resonance is loosely based on the idea that the body relies on tiny electrical currents to function – QMR technology uses electrical signals at the molecular level to rev up those processes.
The frequencies ‘shake’ your cells and break their molecular bonds — like Mariah Carey breaking a glass with the ‘resonance’ in her voice. This kicks your stem cells into super-active repair mode, fixing malfunctioning cells, eradicating inflammation and reinstating peak collagen and elastin regeneration; strange but true.
What happens during a treatment?
Almost too little to believe something could actually be working. There are different hand-held applicators to pass the QMR energy over the face or body (Rexonage is also used for body sculpting and cellulite reduction) after a scent-free conductivity cream has been applied.
On my face, Botoaca used a special set of surgical gloves attached to the machine with tubes in order to to perform a gentle facial massage while transmitting the resonance directly into my skin. It feels rather like a warm hot-stone treatment – there’s not even any tingling, just pleasantness. It takes roughly half an hour and er, that’s it.
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How many Rexonage treatments do you need?
The protocol for the face is six treatments at two-weekly intervals, with maintenance sessions every seven to eight months.
What results can you expect?
Your skin often feels calmer straight away – my under-the-skin pictures showed a major reduction in redness after a single treatment. But, as this is a treatment that improves your skin’s ability to heal and repair, the best results are seen and felt over time and get better with every treatment. My perioral dermatitis cleared up after a course of QMR, as my now-calm skin no longer over-reacted to strong skincare actives and stressy situations (deadlines, bereavement and insomnia have all contributed to my skin’s reactiveness). A similar result can be expected if you have acne.
As for anti-ageing benefits, results after three months are subtle rather than dramatic; my skin looks bright and juicy, but it’s not like my wrinkles have been wiped out. Improvement is cumulative and long-term because healthier, better-functioning cells do a far better job of regenerating and getting rid of damage: this means even scars can be improved with QMR.
Inge’s Rexonage results after six sessions. Image: Courtesy of Geneviv Clinic
How is Rexonage3 different from other energy-based anti-ageing devices?
Rexonage is the first tweakment to deliver significant skin-rejuvenating benefits (alongside redness-reducing ones) without causing any injury to the skin.
The gold-standard way to rev up collagen production and so minimise wrinkles, sagging and uneven skin tone is to inflict a measure of ‘controlled damage’ on the skin, usually by means of intense heat applied just under its surface – such as with radiofrequency microneedling (ie Morpheus 8 and its ilk), fractional laser or HIFU ultrasound. The idea is that this sets off a healing response (skin will rush to repair the damage), which involves so much extra collagen, you end up looking younger and fresher.
But these types of treatments aren’t great for easily-aggravated skin prone to redness (like mine) as they can cause more ageing and flushing damage than rejuvenating healing. And even normal skin can become too inflamed from these procedures, as the damage isn’t always as ‘controlled’ as we might like (as many doctors privately admit).
Unchecked or chronic inflammation is the last thing skin needs, so doctors are always looking to team heat-based rejuvenating procedures with inflammation-quelling ones in a bid to speed up the healing process. Exosomes, polynucleotides and LED light are great examples of damage control treatments. The catch is, as patients, we have to pay for two expensive treatments instead of one.
The Holy Grail would be to not have to injure skin at all, but induce that huge influx of collagen, elastin and inflammation-busting cellular messages through gentle, damage-free internal pathways.
QMR is just that, despite the talk of ‘breaking molecular bonds’ through shaking (resonance). It’s merely what’s required to trigger repair and regeneration in a way that doesn’t cause damage, pain or discomfort.
What does Rexonage cost?
With no discomfort or side effects, the only drawback of Rexonage3 (apart from there being no safety data for those pregnant or breastfeeding) is the price. A six-session course at Geneviv Clinic is £3000, with top-up sessions costing £700.
It’s new-ish in the medical ‘biohacking’ space and therefore very expensive. But its uses are exciting. Like many biohacking technologies, QMR was first developed for medical use.
Even inflamed joints and dry eyes can benefit
Some NHS hospitals use the Q-Physio application to treat muscular and joint pain and damage where doctors might otherwise prescribe anti-inflammatory steroids. Tweakment expert and journalist Alice Hart-Davis had Q-Physio on her index finger knuckle, swollen from years of keyboard and dumbbell use. It dramatically improved after three sessions at Geneviv. Viviane told Hart-Davis that she uses Q-Physio to help patients with bad backs and dodgy knees. Some come in shortly after an injury and experience rapid pain relief. Others, who’ve had pain for years, find themselves finally improving without surgery.
There’s also a ‘Rexon-eye’ machine to treat dry eye disease.
The no pain, more gain approach
With the ‘no pain, more gain’ philosophy making headway in aesthetics, more no-damage energy-based options are coming through, although I haven’t thoroughly tried them.
The Skinova Elite device does something similar to Rexonage, only with multiple painless ultrasonic waves. It’s taken skin-obsessed Korea by storm and costs £1430 for a protocol of 12 sessions at Future Care Medical Clinic. It’s also available at Portsmouth’s Perfect Skin Solutions clinic.
Low-level laser therapy (LLLT) machines like the Rainbow Reset and Emerald lasers are other examples, boosting cell energy to rev up cell repair and regeneration (and even fat loss) without damage or pain.
Rexonage: my verdict
If you have chronic inflammatory skin conditions such as rosacea, acne, or psoriasis, Rexonage is a great long-term solution. Not only does it significantly manage your inflammation (which can be life-changing if you suffer from chronic redness, flaking or pustules), it’s an anti-ageing tweakment for us delicate-skinned people who normally have to avoid most of them. I’m also impressed at how fast it works on inflammation, and at the fact that you don’t have to have it every few months for the rest of your life, like most anti-inflammatory and many anti-ageing technologies.
With inflammation so central to the ageing process (the term is ‘inflammageing’), in truth, literally everyone can benefit from this type or damage-free de-ageing tech. That’s particularly true in (peri)menopause, when increased skin sensitivity and visible ageing call for a boost that is as gentle as it is powerful.
