My life has always
changed, starting from my face.

Until I was twenty-two, I was just a girl who loved skincare. At boarding school, we'd fall asleep talking about our skin. That was happiness.

A traffic accident ended that.

I remember eighty-nine facial reconstructive surgeries. The stitches came to over two thousand. A doctor who broke with the conventions of the time took on my reconstruction. My appearance came back.

What fell apart was my body.

As the years went by, something kept festering deep in my face. My posture collapsed, my back curved, and I felt my body aging in fast-forward.

Wherever I went, no one took it seriously. Nothing ever showed up on a test. No name was ever given to it. So nothing was ever done about it, either.

Desperate to put my own body back together, I spent over three thousand dollars learning a Chinese bodywork method. It did nothing at all.

Neither fascia work nor skeletal work ever reached the pain. What was left was the skin.

One day, in the middle of washing my face, I noticed something.

—Wait. My body feels light right now.

That familiar, full-body tightness that always followed washing had disappeared. Sensation was coming back into my skin.

I didn't test a theory. The phenomenon came first.

The temperature and angle of the water. Where the lather sits. The instant a towel touches skin. A motion everyone repeats every single day, with no design behind it at all. There was an answer hiding in it.

My face came back. My body came back. And then, my youth came back.

Fig. 2 — Age 32 to Age 55

I am sixty-three now. I walk all day in five-inch heels and run around carrying heavy loads. It's a different body from the one that once needed an electric blanket in the middle of summer.

But when I told people, no one believed me. I was met, again and again, with looks that said I must be out of my mind—claiming that washing your face could change your health.

In Japanese, this was something I couldn't say.

So I said it in English instead. I only ever posted five videos to YouTube.

Five years have passed. Searching "rejuvenation of body shape," my videos still sit somewhere between first and fifth place, as of August 2026. Some days, all five results are mine.

The view counts aren't high. No crowd came rushing in. What's doing the judging is simply how search works. And still, the content itself has stayed near the top for five years.

That's when it first occurred to me: maybe this has real value after all.

From there, I started reading far more of the scientific literature.

Reading it, I was startled. That facial skin affects the health of the whole body had already been written down—not in one paper, or two, but many.

And yet, that's where it stopped.

The point had been made in the papers, and no one had carried it any further. Out in the real world, the face was still spoken of only as an object of beauty. There was a wide gap between what had been written and what was actually being done.

That's when I decided this had to reach people, no matter what.

The process I went through to change my own body was, in effect, the work of turning that literature into a practical method.