March 25, 2026

Salmon Sperm: Shocking Skincare Care Hack You Need to Know

Salmon Sperm: Shocking Skincare Care Hack You Need to Know

What if the biggest skincare trends right now are not the ones actually improving your skin? Salmon sperm DNA after microneedling. GLP-1 weight loss drugs everywhere. And skincare routines that somehow require 20 steps. In this episode, a licensed naturopathic doctor cuts through the noise and explains what truly improves skin and long-term health. We break down regenerative aesthetics, collagen induction, microneedling, and the buzz around PDRN. You will also hear the real conversation aroun...

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Season 1

What if the biggest skincare trends right now are not the ones actually improving your skin?

Salmon sperm DNA after microneedling. GLP-1 weight loss drugs everywhere. And skincare routines that somehow require 20 steps. In this episode, a licensed naturopathic doctor cuts through the noise and explains what truly improves skin and long-term health.

We break down regenerative aesthetics, collagen induction, microneedling, and the buzz around PDRN. You will also hear the real conversation around GLP-1 medications, muscle loss, hormones, and the habits that matter most. Protein, sleep, resistance training, and hydration.

If you care about skincare, longevity, hormone health, and practical wellness, this episode delivers clear insights without the hype.

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00:00 - Meet The Naturopathic Doctor

03:05 - Why She Chose Naturopathic Medicine

10:50 - Root Cause Care From Family History

17:40 - Regenerative Aesthetics Over Fillers

21:40 - PDRN After Microneedling Explained

26:55 - GLP-1 Weight Loss Risks And Fixes

33:55 - Cupping And Dry Needling Benefits

39:55 - Longevity Consults Labs And Supplements

45:55 - Food Rules Protein Vegetables And Dairy

59:58 - Simple Skincare SPF And Hyperpigmentation

01:06:08 - Longevity Comes Back To Basics

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Why don't you introduce yourself and your background into wellness and how you treat aesthetics, right?

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Your wellness and aesthetics.

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Yeah, definitely a combination of both.

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So I'm a licensed naturopathic doctor in the state of Arizona.

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Graduated from Sonoran University of Health Sciences in 2023.

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And then I went on to do a family uh medicine uh residency for about a year.

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Um, and then I started looking into opening up a business.

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Yeah.

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However, um, I had a little bit of a poor experience um kind of looking for work and working with other naturopathic dogs who sometimes are um a little bit more uh trying to take advantage of the younger docs.

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Is that the process of joining another practice?

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Yeah, a lot of the time of what I felt joining this guy.

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Oh, get out.

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It's like, God, just guy just trying to take advantage of me.

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No.

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No, I'm kidding.

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But but that's how then yeah, just any type of medicine that's how it works.

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A lot of the time it's like a profit split situation, um, and you have to do your own marketing and all of that.

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And so um, I was gonna join another practice, but I had already set up my location in Scottsdale.

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And essentially they said that their non-compete wouldn't allow me to have that like location and coexist um while working out their practice.

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And so I basically said, I mean, sorry, I know you're probably afraid that I'm gonna steal your patients, but I'm just gonna do my own thing.

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And then slowly but surely I started growing it, and uh then I became a uh clinic director at a uh health optimization practice in Gilbert.

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Um, and that's when I really started learning more about like longevity, peptides, a lot of hormone replacement therapy, and seeing a lot more patients um who are interested in those kinds of treatments, like peri postmenopausal women, um, and really like gathering more expertise in that field.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Just so people know where to find you, where are your practices?

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Yeah.

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Um so currently my practice is uh in Paradise Valley.

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Okay.

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Yep.

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So up in PV Mall.

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Oh, yeah.

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Technically uh Phoenix Zip Code.

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Yeah.

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It's a little confusing because across the street is Scottsdale Zip code.

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Oh awesome, yeah.

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Yeah, Tatum and Shea.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, Tatum and Cactus.

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Yeah.

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It was just there, uh Whole Foods.

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Oh, nice, yeah, it's right across the street.

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Yeah.

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Um what we were picking up chia seeds?

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No.

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There's for the kids.

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It's a bunch of whole foods.

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Yeah.

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Yep.

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Gotta give them a cross-fed mail.

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How'd you how did you get into the naturopathic like arena or field?

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Yeah.

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So um when I was pre-med over in New Jersey, I went to university at Rutgers and um, you went to school in Jersey.

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Not everybody's Italian.

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This one over here trying to study medicine.

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Um I studied all like the conventional pre-med classes because my full intention was to go to allopathic medical school and like become a surgeon.

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Um, and quickly I realized that that kind of lifestyle was not up my alley.

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It was just too demanding in terms of the training that was involved and the time commitment that was involved as well.

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So good choice.

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Um yes.

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Um, definitely happy that I made that choice.

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Um, and so I wanted to incorporate somehow nutrition and medicine at the same time.

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So I got my master's in clinical nutrition and um, and then I tried to see if I could kind of mesh like allopathic medicine and nutrition together.

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It seemed like it was gonna be a very difficult road if I tried to do that.

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Yeah.

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Um, and so then I tried to look for um like a field of medicine that already incorporated nutrition, and I found naturopathic medicine.

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Um, the closest school was in Connecticut, um, but I ended up kind of relocating to the West.

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Are you from New Jersey or been there?

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Did you go to school in Connecticut?

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Uh no, they had a naturopathic school there, which would have been the closest one to Jersey, and I would have considered going there, but they were revamping their program at the time.

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Yeah.

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So you came out So I came out here, I visited some schools in like San Diego.

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Um, but living in San Diego would have been super expensive at the time.

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That was like 2019.

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Um it's even more expensive now.

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It's even more expensive now.

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I know.

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And at the time you could live with the homeless people though.

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There's a lot of tent.

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That's true.

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If you've got a sturdy tent, you're good.

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I mean, it's nice weather most of the year, so that's something, but um, but yeah, so I thought that the school here in Arizona was definitely more well established.

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Yeah.

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Um they had like a research program, they did a lot with like um botanical medicine, which I'm super into, and um, they had really exceptional training in nutrition.

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Yeah.

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Which school did you go to here?

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Sonoran University of Health Sciences.

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Sorry.

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At that time, it was Southwest College of Naturopathic Medicine.

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No, I I think that's that's the good route to take because like you know, if you did family practice in the traditional allopathic way, they kind of cut you short on well, you won't learn nutrition, you won't learn hormones, you won't learn peptides.

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Yeah, and then on top of it, to do it in your practice, it's kind of like fraught upon.

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Where is it well, sort of is like a lot of people are getting into that now, where you know, with the with RFK and stuff, I think uh there's a little more leniency, but you know, uh supposed to do certain things, just the US is very litignous, especially if you carry an MD under your name, so it's a lot harder to run a lot of this stuff.

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So yeah, but for me, like I really got into it, and you know, I just hated like patients coming in, and people would just tell them diet and exercise, and then they're coming to me thinking they're gonna get fat loss with liposuction.

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And I'm like, no, we gotta train you, we gotta get your hormones right, we gotta we gotta get your nutrition right, and these are the things you need to eat, and this is what you need to do for exercise, so you get to good weight that then you can have surgery and look good rather than just doing like surgery and like thank you for your money.

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See you next next week.

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Same way like I've known this guy for 45 years, and I didn't know he knew what litiginous meant.

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Vocabulary word of the day.

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Yeah, I I trained in New York, so you kind of got to know you gotta get verbose.

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Yeah, verbose and okay, verbose.

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Sorry.

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So yeah.

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What was an early like sign of like, oh, this, like, you know, even like us going into medicine, like we really want to go into it.

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And like, what was an early sign of you being like, oh, this is really my shit, like this is what I want to do, yeah, uh, thing like that.

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Um, so growing up like as an immigrant and um going to all of my like grandma's doctor's appointments, Dominican Republic.

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Okay.

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Yep.

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Um, so I had to translate for them at doctors' offices and all these different things.

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And so too young for that, obviously, but I really got exposed to kind of like medical terminology very young.

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Um and when I saw the like doctor-patient interactions that they were having, it was very brief.

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It was really just like a 10-minute visit, um, kind of going over the basics, maybe high and by, listen to heart and lungs, and then kind of calling it a day, prescribing a medication, okay, see you in three months.

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Yeah.

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Um, and it just seemed like more needed to be done.

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Yeah.

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Um, like except a plug in the hole.

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Exactly.

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Yeah.

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And the hole's leaking.

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Yeah.

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There's other holes.

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Yeah.

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Yep.

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Um, and so especially when I saw that uh when my grandma first immigrated to this country, like she was fit.

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And as soon as she started consuming an American like standard diet, type 2 diabetes, high cholesterol, hypertension.

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So I'm like, there's gotta be something because she still has good diet habits, but the ecosystem has changed, and there's gotta be like a root cause as to why these things are going on.

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Yeah.

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Um not just that, the simple carbs get simpler.

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Like they there's like you consume that stuff, it's probably worse than alcohol and like whatever is out there.

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Like it's it's I don't know.

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It's we're we're gonna get I promise you within two years we're gonna get type three diabetes.

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I thought that was already and then we're gonna get to like type three, and we're gonna call it triabities.

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Oh gosh.

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Like you're gonna try to get it.

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So I I get it.

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The uh Caribbean diet is carb heavy too.

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It's very starch heavy.

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Um, there's rice, there's beans, there's pasta, there's plantains, um, and it's all on one plate.

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Fried foods too.

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Fried foods too, yeah.

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Also, like the it's lower socioeconomic levels.

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So like I went to St.

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Lucia and they were just like, oh, this highest level of like heart disease, blood pressure, um diabetes, and I order a meal at just like a stand, and it was just like starch, starch, starch, starch, and a couple cubes of chicken as well.

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Oh my goodness.

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This'll this'll just be a little treat, almost like a dessert.

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It's also tough guin the stuff too, though.

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Oh yeah, yeah.

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Oh, absolutely.

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Uh a Caribbean island gifts.

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It's expensive.

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Yeah, I remember I I did med school in St.

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Martin, and when we did a few clinical rotations, like everyone's sugars were like over 200 and blood pressures were like super high, and they're like, Oh yeah, this is their normal.

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They just live their life that yeah.

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They didn't even try to balance it or make it, you know, they were on meds, but they're like, ah, they're they're gonna survive.

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It's asymptomatic too, you know.

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If they don't feel bad, yeah, they probably won't do anything about it.

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And that's I think where a lot of the education that we should be giving is why we should be doing it.

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So, what are you some of your main focuses in your practice?

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Yeah.

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Um, so of course, aesthetics is a big part of that, but I like to do more like regenerative aesthetics, yeah.

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So not relying so much on the conventional injectables that really don't do much for like the skin itself and like regenerating collagen and things like that.

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Yeah.

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Um I know I'm not supposed to ask a woman this, but how old are you?

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I'm 31.

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31.

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Your skin looks fantastic.

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Thank you.

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I invest in it.

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I am a billboard.

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This is marketing.

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Yeah, it definitely is.

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You look great.

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Thank you.

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I'm gonna try and delay Botox as long as I can.

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Yeah, yeah.

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Yeah, we're you know, we run a plastic surgery office.

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Do we do fillers?

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Yeah, but we I try to talk people out of fillers.

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The only thing I do fillers is for the nose.

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The rest of it's like either PRP exosomes or fat or is like all we use.

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Like try to stay away from the rest of it.

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Pretty much promoting growth hormones or growth factors, sorry, to you to the areas you want.

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What are some of the things you do in your practice?

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Yeah, so um, at least for the aesthetic side, I do a lot of microneedling.

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Yeah, um, so I also try to learn a lot from um Korean pharmacists and what they do in South Korea, just because they far um lead, you know, the US, outpace the US in terms of like aesthetics and savvy.

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What?

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Maybe kimchi.

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Maybe kimchi.

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That'll be really good for like your intestinal balance and any dysbiosis for sure.

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Um Asians age slower than a lot of races.

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But but the Koreans are even even better.

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They top they top the Japanese and Chinese.

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Yeah, because we we want to like my wife's into it and she wants to bring a whole like Korean skin line to our practice.

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So she identifies as South Korean now.

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Well, she could pass for it.

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Yeah, she couldn't.

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No, no, she doesn't I can't say this, but she's not scorped enough to be Korean.

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But she's got the almond-shaped eyes.

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She's Afghani, but okay, yeah.

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She's close, she's close.

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She's got a mix of all of Asia.

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Like a five-hour road trip basically down there.

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Yeah.

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So, yeah, so we went to Spain and there was a store that just sold Korean products.

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Oh, nice.

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And she bought like almost everything in that store to try them out.

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And she she totally loves it.

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Her skin was already great, but like she's always done retin A is like big for her.

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So, yeah, we bought a lot of products from there.

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They got like a lot of things with salmon sperm.

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Oh, yeah.

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Yeah, oh yeah.

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That's what she's trying to do.

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It's trying to bring it.

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Yeah, took out her favorite products to try to bring it from Kur Korea.

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Yeah.

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I've definitely been huge on um like the PDRN.

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Yeah.

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Um, and then that's uh like the salmon sperm DNA.

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Oh, okay.

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I like a specific brand called Redrin.

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Okay.

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Yeah.

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Um it's pretty high quality, I would say, um, but also rigorously tested.

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And it's been around for a very long time.

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Like they're already injecting this in many countries.

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That's that's approved, but it's not approved for injection.

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Not in the US.

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It's approved for topical skincare, right?

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Yep, it's approved topically.

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Yep.

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So I put it on right after doing microneedling.

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Yeah, Ash was trying to get me to be the ambassador for the current because he he works with one of my friends works with the company, and he was trying to make me.

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Do you think the FDA has a limitation on it has to be this many percent salmon sperm DNA for you to advertise it as that?

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I don't know.

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Or maybe there's another company who wants a similar product, but well, the like you I bet you it's probably your certain companies don't want to be able to do that.

00:14:53.360 --> 00:14:54.960
They'll lose out on a big market.

00:14:55.519 --> 00:15:08.720
Yeah, because it's gonna change like Botox, and like Botox is gonna take a hit from it because people are gonna hit yeah, people are gonna get the collagen, get rid of the wrinkles without like doing Botox.

00:15:09.120 --> 00:15:10.000
And it's regenerative.

00:15:10.080 --> 00:15:16.480
Yeah, you know, your body's doing the work, you're just kind of giving it the stimulus that it needs, the directions that it needs, kind of similar to exosomes.

00:15:16.639 --> 00:15:18.240
Yeah, it's like caveat to your face.

00:15:18.480 --> 00:15:18.720
Exactly.

00:15:18.879 --> 00:15:23.600
Basically, oh man, that shit costs a lot.

00:15:23.759 --> 00:15:24.480
You're gonna eat that?

00:15:24.639 --> 00:15:26.240
It's like, no, I'm gonna rub it on my face.

00:15:26.399 --> 00:15:27.759
I'm gonna put it on my face.

00:15:28.080 --> 00:15:30.799
There's someone in town that injects it, I know.

00:15:30.879 --> 00:15:34.960
Um the PDRN.

00:15:35.200 --> 00:15:36.159
The PDRN, yeah.

00:15:36.799 --> 00:15:39.360
Um, so far, I the Fountain Hills.

00:15:39.519 --> 00:15:40.960
I I know the family doc.

00:15:41.279 --> 00:15:42.000
He's a Persian dude.

00:15:42.320 --> 00:15:43.200
Oh, cool, yeah, yeah.

00:15:43.440 --> 00:15:43.919
Interesting.

00:15:44.080 --> 00:15:45.120
Yeah, very nice.

00:15:45.360 --> 00:15:46.720
He's got excellent results.

00:15:46.960 --> 00:15:47.600
Yeah.

00:15:47.919 --> 00:15:48.240
Yeah.

00:15:48.399 --> 00:15:54.000
You want like that ultra filler fish face for Instagram.

00:15:54.399 --> 00:15:57.759
Top that with injecting actual fish eggs in your face.

00:15:57.919 --> 00:16:00.000
Yeah, you are good to go.

00:16:00.320 --> 00:16:02.799
Oh my, that doesn't seem optimal at all.

00:16:04.960 --> 00:16:05.840
It all goes away.

00:16:06.000 --> 00:16:06.480
It's trendy.

00:16:06.559 --> 00:16:07.679
Actually, it all goes away.

00:16:07.840 --> 00:16:09.919
I hear filler doesn't go away.

00:16:10.080 --> 00:16:12.240
Like some does, some stays.

00:16:12.399 --> 00:16:16.639
Like when you get it so many times, you're you just build the scar tissue, I think.

00:16:16.720 --> 00:16:17.279
Yeah, yeah.

00:16:17.600 --> 00:16:22.240
Yeah, like granulomas, they're called, like around what's injected.

00:16:22.399 --> 00:16:30.159
So even if the filler's not there, that scar tissue, like you saying, it is that's why the lips, you see the lips, they just keep on growing.

00:16:30.399 --> 00:16:38.240
It's like you know, they think they need more part of it's part body dysmorphic, but part of it's just that scar tissue that never goes.

00:16:38.559 --> 00:16:49.440
Oh my gosh, you know, especially the lips, and you got the muscles underneath there, so it it like you notice if you get a cut on your lip, it gets pretty hard, like and when it's healing.

00:16:49.519 --> 00:16:51.519
And people are like, is this abnormal?

00:16:51.600 --> 00:16:54.720
And it's like three months, six months, and it'll be hard as a rock.

00:16:54.879 --> 00:17:00.080
And when you're continuously injecting with a needle, that's gonna lay down some heavy scar tissue.

00:17:00.480 --> 00:17:00.720
Absolutely.

00:17:00.879 --> 00:17:01.440
And information.

00:17:01.840 --> 00:17:08.880
Yeah, so I I and don't act like you know what it means to have bigger lips because you have some Dominican blood.

00:17:09.359 --> 00:17:16.640
Yeah, they my clients who come in for you know whatever it is that they're there for, but particularly the ones who are interested in lip filler, they're like, you inject your lips, right?

00:17:16.720 --> 00:17:17.359
And I'm like, what?

00:17:17.519 --> 00:17:21.200
No, no, I think if I showed you a picture of my mother, you'd be like, Oh, yeah, probably not.

00:17:22.640 --> 00:17:29.839
I I hate it and look, it's almost as painful for me at it as it is for the patients.

00:17:30.240 --> 00:17:36.160
And on top of it, I'm like, dude, this is no matter how long they tell you it's only gonna last six months.

00:17:36.319 --> 00:17:38.240
I don't know how you go through that pain every six weeks.

00:17:38.559 --> 00:17:40.240
It's so gosh, I can only imagine.

00:17:40.319 --> 00:17:40.400
Yeah.

00:17:40.559 --> 00:17:44.960
I've had people go like vasovagal on the table um during like lip filler.

00:17:45.200 --> 00:17:46.480
Yeah, and we have to stop.

00:17:46.559 --> 00:17:49.119
And and I'm like, we gotta massage it, like it's gonna.

00:17:51.920 --> 00:18:00.400
But yeah, I think um I've gotten a lot less requests for filler and a lot less requests for Botox and way more inquiries on collagen induction.

00:18:00.559 --> 00:18:00.880
Yeah.

00:18:01.119 --> 00:18:02.720
And what's your response to that?

00:18:02.960 --> 00:18:03.359
I love it.

00:18:03.519 --> 00:18:04.079
How do you induce it?

00:18:04.240 --> 00:18:07.119
Botox isn't gonna do a thing for your skin, honestly.

00:18:07.440 --> 00:18:08.880
Oh, I agree completely.

00:18:09.279 --> 00:18:11.680
I think it just makes it shinier over time.

00:18:12.000 --> 00:18:12.480
Shinier?

00:18:12.720 --> 00:18:15.119
Yeah, it matters because it's like similar to it.

00:18:15.279 --> 00:18:21.839
It also thins out the muscle, which you know, as you you lose the muscle, you're gonna lose volume in your bone as well.

00:18:21.920 --> 00:18:22.799
So 100%.

00:18:23.359 --> 00:18:28.079
So overall, it's probably you know, you're gonna become more deficient and lose volume.

00:18:28.319 --> 00:18:28.720
Definitely.

00:18:29.200 --> 00:18:36.240
And and shiny shininess of skin also matters on how much baby oil you put on it.

00:18:36.559 --> 00:18:37.440
I learned this from P.

00:18:37.680 --> 00:18:38.000
Diddy.

00:18:38.720 --> 00:18:39.759
Oh, oh boy.

00:18:42.480 --> 00:18:43.920
He was shiny as fuck.

00:18:44.559 --> 00:18:46.240
We should have seen it coming.

00:18:47.359 --> 00:18:48.000
We should have.

00:18:48.240 --> 00:18:49.279
We really should have.

00:18:49.519 --> 00:18:51.519
Because wow, that was a lot of baby oil.

00:18:54.880 --> 00:19:03.279
But so someone was saying like African Americans go through like a thousand bottles of baby oil a year or something.

00:19:03.440 --> 00:19:04.480
And I'm like, What?

00:19:04.720 --> 00:19:06.799
I'm like, that would match to how many bottles P.

00:19:06.960 --> 00:19:09.599
Diddy had in the in a year?

00:19:09.920 --> 00:19:12.319
Maybe he likes to just buy things when they're on sale.

00:19:12.960 --> 00:19:14.720
That was probably put out there by P.

00:19:14.960 --> 00:19:16.319
Diddy's defense attorney.

00:19:16.640 --> 00:19:16.880
I know.

00:19:17.039 --> 00:19:17.200
Right.

00:19:17.519 --> 00:19:18.880
I I heard it's normal.

00:19:19.039 --> 00:19:20.400
This is perfectly normal.

00:19:20.559 --> 00:19:22.400
Every African American does this.

00:19:22.720 --> 00:19:26.799
As if it's not even like hydrating for your skin.

00:19:27.200 --> 00:19:27.359
I know.

00:19:27.599 --> 00:19:29.759
So you divide that by 50, what do you get?

00:19:30.000 --> 00:19:31.279
Like 20?

00:19:31.599 --> 00:19:40.160
So you you go through I think like 20 bottles of baby oil a week.

00:19:40.880 --> 00:19:42.319
That's exactly that's absurd.

00:19:42.720 --> 00:19:43.359
Yeah.

00:19:44.799 --> 00:19:46.559
But hey, it it happens.

00:19:46.720 --> 00:19:49.519
So um so if P P.

00:19:49.680 --> 00:19:52.720
Diddy ages well, we we should have him on this podcast.

00:19:53.039 --> 00:19:55.519
I think that's got nothing to do with the baby oil.

00:19:56.160 --> 00:19:58.160
So you're doing the aesthetic injections.

00:19:58.480 --> 00:20:02.640
Are you doing injections for like like tendon sheaths and stuff like that?

00:20:02.720 --> 00:20:04.400
Or like no therapy.

00:20:07.039 --> 00:20:29.359
No, because this comes up because we talked about collagen, and yeah, I had a guy today talking about like I I don't know, his therapist was like, you should get collagen injected into your because he had a below knee amputation, and to get that injected into your uh patellar tendon, and I'm like, I'm like, that just doesn't seem like it.

00:20:29.440 --> 00:20:30.880
I'm like, there's a lot better stuff.

00:20:30.960 --> 00:20:36.160
You got exosomes, you got PRP, you got you got stem cells and or peptides.

00:20:36.240 --> 00:20:37.440
I'm like, why would you inject?

00:20:37.759 --> 00:20:39.680
I'm like, collagen doesn't make any sense to me.

00:20:40.160 --> 00:20:46.720
It's the same like argument, not argument, but a lot of patients ask me, oh, like, should I be taking collagen supplements?

00:20:47.279 --> 00:20:48.400
Is it gonna help my skin?

00:20:48.559 --> 00:20:49.279
No, yeah.

00:20:49.759 --> 00:20:50.079
No.

00:20:50.480 --> 00:20:53.920
It you wish you know it's gonna go like into your skin.

00:20:54.319 --> 00:20:59.680
Although the thorn collagen peptide, it it it's not just the collagen that's in it.

00:20:59.920 --> 00:21:04.480
They they have a good mixture in there that does improve skin quality.

00:21:04.640 --> 00:21:11.759
When you know, especially when I I started taking like GLP ones, it it definitely like brought to you by thorn bioproducts.

00:21:12.160 --> 00:21:12.960
Collagen supplements.

00:21:15.680 --> 00:21:22.160
It's not fucking thorn the ozampic face or whatever they call it.

00:21:22.480 --> 00:21:33.279
Like you could get rid of it with just like taking some whether it's the protein, but like there's the other like they have some fruit extracts and stuff in there that help with hydration for your skin.

00:21:33.519 --> 00:21:35.359
I think that's more of the help.

00:21:35.519 --> 00:21:39.839
And the collagen does part of it, but more of it was the other stuff in it.

00:21:40.319 --> 00:21:41.279
Definitely, yeah.

00:21:41.680 --> 00:21:50.000
And there's a lot of uh like lean muscle mass and just muscle mass loss in general that happens with the use of like the GLP ones.

00:21:50.640 --> 00:21:58.079
Um, and so that's another risk that I have to talk about with patients all the time because they're like, Oh, like I want to lose this many pounds and this much time.

00:21:58.400 --> 00:21:59.759
Um, but they haven't learned.

00:22:00.400 --> 00:22:00.880
How to eat.

00:22:01.279 --> 00:22:03.680
They don't know what triggers them to eat the way they do.

00:22:04.240 --> 00:22:11.119
And so I'm like, hey, listen, like you might have a higher risk of dehydration and like bone density loss.

00:22:11.279 --> 00:22:15.279
And so these are things, especially in my peri postmenopause women who want to start GLP ones.

00:22:15.440 --> 00:22:20.799
I'm like, you really have to pay attention to protein intake and hydration, resistance training.

00:22:20.960 --> 00:22:29.440
Um, because otherwise and getting their hormones balanced, because if they don't have appropriate testosterone, they're they're not putting on lean muscle now.

00:22:29.839 --> 00:22:37.359
That's pretty much the two main points of anybody getting on GLPs hormone optimization and resistance training.

00:22:37.599 --> 00:22:37.680
Yeah.

00:22:37.920 --> 00:22:40.079
Like everything else has to be in check.

00:22:40.160 --> 00:22:41.599
Their sleep's got to be in check.

00:22:41.680 --> 00:22:43.119
If their sleeps off, they're not.

00:22:43.359 --> 00:22:44.079
They're also not in the case.

00:22:46.559 --> 00:22:46.960
Honestly.

00:22:47.200 --> 00:22:47.599
So yeah.

00:22:48.559 --> 00:22:53.279
So yeah, but like a lot of people are handing out GLP ones, like it's candy.

00:22:53.519 --> 00:22:53.839
Oh, yeah.

00:22:54.079 --> 00:22:56.960
And someone just got caught, I heard, in North Scottsdale.

00:22:57.359 --> 00:23:03.200
And it was a nurse that was just injecting it, um, having the patients come in to get injected.

00:23:03.359 --> 00:23:08.480
There's no medical director, and she got taken down for a felony.

00:23:08.880 --> 00:23:13.039
There's there's people injecting free silicone for fillers.

00:23:13.200 --> 00:23:17.599
Like there's no surprise that there's people using GLPs.

00:23:18.000 --> 00:23:26.079
Well, no, everyone knows that, but so it's someone like a nurse was running her own thing and she she got hit with a felony, of course.

00:23:26.319 --> 00:23:28.240
Which is kind of I think kind of crazy.

00:23:28.559 --> 00:23:31.039
It's big, you know, that'll mess up your whole career.

00:23:31.200 --> 00:23:32.079
Yeah, yeah.

00:23:32.400 --> 00:23:35.359
And we're reaching out to that nurse we are hiring right now.

00:23:36.880 --> 00:23:37.920
Oh, they are.

00:23:41.759 --> 00:23:42.400
Right.

00:23:42.720 --> 00:23:46.000
No, people do crazy things, like well, yeah.

00:23:46.079 --> 00:23:54.000
We bought a whole bunch of liposuction stuff from a guy that had no medical background, a laser tech that was injecting fillers.

00:23:54.319 --> 00:23:54.559
What?

00:23:54.720 --> 00:24:05.759
See, he was he was scheduling people, like thank God this guy was brought into our life because of all the equipment we were able to purchase at a discount.

00:24:06.079 --> 00:24:08.240
But what he was doing is wrong.

00:24:08.319 --> 00:24:18.079
Yeah, he was a laser tech, he was scheduling patients and getting plastic surgeons to come in there to do the liposuction and stuff.

00:24:18.400 --> 00:24:22.720
And I think eventually he was just doing the procedures himself.

00:24:22.960 --> 00:24:23.680
No, no, no.

00:24:23.839 --> 00:24:32.880
So in Vegas, they were doing just Botox and fillers without anyone in the medical field in some location.

00:24:33.119 --> 00:24:33.599
Yeah.

00:24:33.839 --> 00:24:40.480
And then he came to Arizona and he was getting people to come and do liposuction.

00:24:40.640 --> 00:24:46.160
He wasn't doing it, he was never even able to open the doors here because they didn't finish construction.

00:24:46.240 --> 00:24:47.279
He had all this equipment.

00:24:47.680 --> 00:24:48.400
Oh my god.

00:24:48.720 --> 00:24:55.039
They had done stuff at another office and then they moved to this office, but it never got fully remodeled.

00:24:55.599 --> 00:25:00.480
Dude, the non-invasive stuff that he had in there, we were just like, What?

00:25:00.720 --> 00:25:03.119
Like all the cool sculpt and things.

00:25:03.359 --> 00:25:08.000
I just like we were both like, how how does this even work?

00:25:08.240 --> 00:25:14.079
Like each one of these things loses money for us, but whatever.

00:25:14.240 --> 00:25:16.319
Thanks for your Libo equipment.

00:25:16.480 --> 00:25:19.359
Yeah, well, he was like, I need to make my Lambo payment.

00:25:20.240 --> 00:25:23.599
I'm like, if you're worried about making Lambo payment, you should not have a Lambo.

00:25:24.319 --> 00:25:27.200
No, what goodness, what a poor investment.

00:25:27.440 --> 00:25:28.799
Yeah, you might be watching this.

00:25:28.880 --> 00:25:29.200
I don't know.

00:25:29.440 --> 00:25:30.000
That's okay.

00:25:30.160 --> 00:25:30.799
Yeah.

00:25:31.279 --> 00:25:32.480
Yeah, he was trying to set up.

00:25:32.880 --> 00:25:34.799
If you're watching this, it's a lesson to you.

00:25:34.960 --> 00:25:36.160
Stop doing that stuff.

00:25:36.559 --> 00:25:39.519
Every few months he's like, Do you want to do a teaching course for Lipo?

00:25:39.680 --> 00:25:40.400
I'm like, no.

00:25:41.119 --> 00:25:43.279
Thank you for the cheap equipment.

00:25:43.759 --> 00:25:44.160
Wow.

00:25:44.400 --> 00:25:53.359
Yeah, he's been trying to get me to do one of these big, like, high definition lipo like courses because the courses are big money maker.

00:25:53.440 --> 00:25:55.359
Um other medical professionals, I suppose.

00:25:55.519 --> 00:25:56.720
Yeah, you just bring in people.

00:25:57.039 --> 00:26:04.480
Even some plastic surgeons, even some plastic surgeons make more doing courses than doing plastic surgery.

00:26:04.720 --> 00:26:06.960
Yeah, it's a huge thing.

00:26:07.200 --> 00:26:07.519
What?

00:26:07.839 --> 00:26:10.000
I'm about to become a life coach.

00:26:11.039 --> 00:26:12.400
Some of the most unqualified people.

00:26:13.039 --> 00:26:17.279
Teach you how to get bigger breasts, get more defined abs.

00:26:17.839 --> 00:26:20.000
Like, we don't need to do surgery.

00:26:20.319 --> 00:26:24.640
Just$3,000 for this like four-hour course.

00:26:24.880 --> 00:26:25.440
Oh my god.

00:26:25.599 --> 00:26:28.079
And I will I will teach you two-week program.

00:26:29.200 --> 00:26:31.440
I'll teach you what classic surgeon to go to.

00:26:31.680 --> 00:26:33.200
It's four four-week program.

00:26:33.440 --> 00:26:38.480
As if oh, and you can double dip because you get the patients there and you get payments from the person.

00:26:38.880 --> 00:26:42.000
But if you give me six thousand dollars, then we get the three-week program.

00:26:42.640 --> 00:26:42.880
Okay.

00:26:43.200 --> 00:26:45.039
Wow, six thousand dollars.

00:26:45.359 --> 00:26:46.720
That's not any old audience.

00:26:47.200 --> 00:26:48.880
There's always ways to make money.

00:26:49.680 --> 00:26:50.480
Of course.

00:26:51.920 --> 00:26:53.119
There's no shortage.

00:26:53.519 --> 00:26:55.200
You gotta know where to get it.

00:26:55.519 --> 00:26:58.480
We gotta get into more stuff you do.

00:26:58.880 --> 00:27:04.799
Because I keep talking shit and like rambling off into the like abyss.

00:27:05.359 --> 00:27:11.359
We want we want more of so you do a lot of acupuncture and cupping, the fire cupping.

00:27:11.839 --> 00:27:13.759
And what's the difference between cupping?

00:27:13.920 --> 00:27:14.640
The fire cupping.

00:27:14.799 --> 00:27:15.920
It's fire cupping, right?

00:27:16.079 --> 00:27:18.000
Or you call it fire cupping versus regular.

00:27:18.480 --> 00:27:20.400
It's more uh traditional way of doing cupping.

00:27:20.720 --> 00:27:20.880
Okay.

00:27:21.039 --> 00:27:23.279
So glass cups, um creating a vacuum.

00:27:23.680 --> 00:27:23.839
Yeah.

00:27:24.160 --> 00:27:24.720
So you heat it.

00:27:24.880 --> 00:27:26.240
Yep, you heat it very briefly.

00:27:26.799 --> 00:27:28.319
Generates negative pressure.

00:27:28.640 --> 00:27:28.960
Exactly.

00:27:29.119 --> 00:27:32.000
You place it on the skin, and then it creates a vacuum.

00:27:32.079 --> 00:27:38.240
So the different layers of tissue actually go kind of separate from themselves, and you get uh more blood flow to the surface.

00:27:38.720 --> 00:27:40.400
Do you move it around with the cupping?

00:27:40.960 --> 00:27:44.799
So ideally, you want to put some oil down before you start moving it around, otherwise it can be very peanut butter.

00:27:45.039 --> 00:27:45.759
Baby oil, yeah.

00:27:46.240 --> 00:27:49.759
Like baby oil, like a thousand bottles of baby oil.

00:27:50.559 --> 00:27:51.839
It's like medicinal.

00:27:52.640 --> 00:27:55.359
In case you ever get caught in that cupping.

00:27:55.680 --> 00:27:56.799
I'm gonna say cupping.

00:27:57.119 --> 00:28:00.079
No, like ten miles away from any bottle of baby oil.

00:28:03.119 --> 00:28:05.519
Excuse me, we've spent millions on that already.

00:28:06.000 --> 00:28:10.240
My wife is a physical therapist, as I brought up multiple times in this show.

00:28:11.680 --> 00:28:13.200
She loves cupping, drying.

00:28:13.279 --> 00:28:22.720
I love cupping, dry needling, taping, all those techniques like really help like loosen things out.

00:28:22.880 --> 00:28:23.119
Absolutely.

00:28:23.359 --> 00:28:30.400
And I'm like, and it's not like some of the stuff with physical therapy, you're like in pain for like 24 hours.

00:28:30.880 --> 00:28:36.079
Like cupping, I I swear it's like within like two hours, three hours.

00:28:37.759 --> 00:28:40.799
She's like, okay, we're gonna do some fascial release.

00:28:40.960 --> 00:28:42.480
I'm like, Yeah, I sound painful.

00:28:44.160 --> 00:28:45.279
Sounds like bullshit.

00:28:45.359 --> 00:28:59.680
Like that's just another layer of tissue, but like cupping really gets to that where I think like whether it's posture-wise or something, like your fascia gets pretty tight.

00:28:59.839 --> 00:29:00.079
Yep.

00:29:00.240 --> 00:29:04.319
And then with like cupping, dry needling, it loosens it up.

00:29:04.559 --> 00:29:07.680
So like it you just feel better in different positions.

00:29:08.079 --> 00:29:30.799
You can break up that uh tissue, um, but also the cupping actually brings circulation up into the surface, and the darker the mark, which people call bruises, they're not actually traditional bruises, because you're not there's no wound that's going on, there's no breaking of any blood vessels that's happening, it's just blood coming up to the surface, and depending on the color of that blood is kind of the status of how well you are circulating that blood.

00:29:30.880 --> 00:29:37.440
So the darker it is, the closer it is to purple, um, the more stagnation there is, the more tightness there is, the poorer the circulation.

00:29:37.680 --> 00:29:37.920
Yep.

00:29:38.079 --> 00:29:46.720
And so kind of with continued treatment, that color is supposed to get lighter and lighter, and then eventually you probably don't even really need cupping and you can just do the needling.

00:29:47.440 --> 00:30:01.759
Do you think do you think the fire cupping has better release and shorter treatments than I kind of understand it, but for the general public, they might not get it because I I think with increased heat you're gonna get increased vascularity coming up.

00:30:02.000 --> 00:30:02.400
Absolutely.

00:30:02.640 --> 00:30:04.880
But um are are you getting better results?

00:30:05.759 --> 00:30:06.880
I am getting better results.

00:30:07.039 --> 00:30:13.440
Um I have both in the office, like the plastic ones that you have, like the manual suction, um kind of more of the ones that the PTs use.

00:30:13.519 --> 00:30:16.720
Um, and then also the glass ones that you're doing the fire cupping.

00:30:16.799 --> 00:30:27.440
And I always find that um right off the table, people tell me they feel a lot better um in much shorter time with the fire cupping relative to the plastic cups.

00:30:27.599 --> 00:30:27.759
Okay.

00:30:28.000 --> 00:30:31.200
Do you have to do a fire ritual before the fire cups?

00:30:31.519 --> 00:30:33.839
Just like chant around them for like five minutes.

00:30:34.160 --> 00:30:38.240
It'll it'll have a really positive like placebo effect.

00:30:38.400 --> 00:30:39.680
I'm I'm not kidding you.

00:30:39.759 --> 00:30:43.279
Though it's like people be like, oh shit, I'm really into it.

00:30:43.440 --> 00:30:46.079
Or maybe do like a couple of the sound bowls.

00:30:46.400 --> 00:30:47.119
Oh yeah.

00:30:47.359 --> 00:30:52.160
Well, that's uh that's actually super popular now at like yoga events and a lot of like corporate events too.

00:30:52.240 --> 00:30:53.440
People are doing like sound bowls.

00:30:53.920 --> 00:30:57.759
I try to do it on my kids at night, and they do not fall asleep.

00:30:57.920 --> 00:30:59.359
Me and my wife fall asleep.

00:30:59.519 --> 00:31:00.799
They're like jumping off the bed.

00:31:02.799 --> 00:31:05.920
I put it on YouTube and put that's not sound bowls.

00:31:06.160 --> 00:31:06.559
Oh, okay.

00:31:06.720 --> 00:31:07.680
I feel like it'd be cool.

00:31:07.759 --> 00:31:15.119
You should like get some bowl and actually do it, and then let's get they have a few kids kept that coming up.

00:31:15.200 --> 00:31:17.039
Yeah, no, you you gotta do it yourself.

00:31:17.119 --> 00:31:23.039
You can't get the vibrations with the TV likes speakers.

00:31:23.440 --> 00:31:29.119
You actually have to do it, and then if you get the kids doing it, I'm pretty sure they're gonna love it.

00:31:29.839 --> 00:31:31.920
And then I'm gonna come there for treatments.

00:31:32.799 --> 00:31:33.759
I'll take advantage of that.

00:31:33.920 --> 00:31:34.559
I'm ordering it.

00:31:34.720 --> 00:31:38.000
Amazon's gonna deliver overnight delivery.

00:31:38.240 --> 00:31:39.519
I love soundbowls.

00:31:39.599 --> 00:31:42.079
I can't get over soundballs.

00:31:43.440 --> 00:31:49.599
Like, it's the easiest way to put me into like the most relaxed mindset.

00:31:50.480 --> 00:31:59.599
And yeah, any any type of meditation I've tried, like there's a lot that have worked really well, but like soundballs.

00:31:59.759 --> 00:32:02.079
I'm like, let's go.

00:32:02.319 --> 00:32:02.799
Let's go.

00:32:02.960 --> 00:32:03.200
Let's go.

00:32:03.519 --> 00:32:04.799
It's such a simple way to.

00:32:05.119 --> 00:32:06.400
I mean, we're all energy, right?

00:32:06.480 --> 00:32:08.160
Our atoms vibrate at certain frequencies.

00:32:08.480 --> 00:32:16.240
So it makes sense that you know, at a particular frequency, that that's gonna kind of level you out in terms of uh emotional regulation and nervous system.

00:32:16.880 --> 00:32:18.880
I have no emotions, neither does he.

00:32:19.039 --> 00:32:20.000
He has less emotions.

00:32:21.680 --> 00:32:23.359
They told me I'm emotionally retarded.

00:32:23.440 --> 00:32:27.279
They had a test in uh uh surgical training.

00:32:27.359 --> 00:32:35.920
He's heard the story, but like I never tried it tests, I didn't do well until med school, and then I was like top-notch on every test.

00:32:36.400 --> 00:32:45.359
And then during training for surgery, they had this experimental test at Mass General, it was for emotional intelligence.

00:32:46.240 --> 00:32:57.759
And the program director was like, I they haven't even like told us what the results mean, but they told me I have to talk to you.

00:32:57.920 --> 00:32:58.960
I'm like, okay.

00:33:06.880 --> 00:33:10.000
Oh my god, I'm like, oh, that's really good.

00:33:10.160 --> 00:33:11.119
First percentile.

00:33:11.200 --> 00:33:16.480
He's like, no, you want 99th percentile, and you're on the first percentile percentile.

00:33:17.359 --> 00:33:20.640
Um like outlier, like moron on this test.

00:33:20.799 --> 00:33:21.759
Oh my gosh.

00:33:22.000 --> 00:33:25.920
And my immediate response was like, but I tried.

00:33:26.079 --> 00:33:26.559
Oh no.

00:33:28.240 --> 00:33:35.119
And then I went home and I told Sarah, my my wife, I was like, I had to go meet with the program director.

00:33:35.440 --> 00:33:40.480
This isn't a like a permanent spot, so I'm trying to look good any way I can.

00:33:40.720 --> 00:33:51.440
I'm like, this guy was just like told me I'm like an idiot with emotions, and I tried on this test, and she just looks at me, she's like, Oh, yeah, I could have told you that.

00:33:51.599 --> 00:33:53.200
But that's good looking surgery, isn't it?

00:33:53.440 --> 00:33:54.240
That's what I was gonna say.

00:33:54.319 --> 00:33:55.440
I'm like, that's probably fine.

00:33:55.680 --> 00:33:56.960
Yeah, yeah, you don't want to be emotional.

00:33:57.359 --> 00:34:02.480
If you're like a family doctor, but I wonder if they tested differently for male versus female.

00:34:02.799 --> 00:34:11.360
I don't know if it's like medical fields, because like medicine had the same tests and stuff, but it was just a hilarious situation.

00:34:11.599 --> 00:34:17.920
Looking back, and the way I came back, I was like, my initial response is like I tried.

00:34:18.880 --> 00:34:20.559
Like I studied for this thing.

00:34:20.800 --> 00:34:21.519
What do you mean?

00:34:21.760 --> 00:34:23.280
Like I tried to do my.

00:34:33.760 --> 00:34:36.239
Yeah, it's tough to take the a test like that, though.

00:34:36.400 --> 00:34:40.079
Just like you said, you're gonna try to figure out like what they're looking for.

00:34:40.480 --> 00:34:43.599
But they also asked the same question like eight times.

00:34:43.920 --> 00:34:46.559
Well, it's probably better now with AI.

00:34:46.639 --> 00:34:49.519
A they that could probably figure out definitely not.

00:34:49.679 --> 00:34:55.840
The AI is just built that shit and then like take it to an exponential level.

00:34:56.000 --> 00:35:02.480
Like something for comes to how emotionally idiotic I am.

00:35:02.800 --> 00:35:13.679
But like if a test that I don't think is accurate then builds on AI to build upon itself, it's gonna become more and more idiotic.

00:35:14.000 --> 00:35:23.119
Potentially, but I I bet you like your your emotional retardabilities probably more that's like a Trump word.

00:35:23.360 --> 00:35:24.159
I created it.

00:35:24.719 --> 00:35:26.480
Creationally retarded.

00:35:26.960 --> 00:35:27.840
I created it.

00:35:28.559 --> 00:35:30.480
I am an emotional retard.

00:35:30.559 --> 00:35:31.440
I'm sorry.

00:35:31.760 --> 00:35:37.199
But like if you if you're married for three plus years, you all of a sudden you have no more emotions.

00:35:37.360 --> 00:35:40.639
You're like, you just don't want to get into a fight anymore.

00:35:40.960 --> 00:35:42.639
That is true, avoiding.

00:35:43.039 --> 00:35:49.920
But if you're in a relationship more than three years, you're more likely to have kids together.

00:35:50.000 --> 00:35:53.360
And when you have kids, you definitely have more emotions.

00:35:54.639 --> 00:35:55.440
More or less?

00:35:55.679 --> 00:35:56.079
More.

00:35:56.320 --> 00:35:59.519
But more towards the kid, but less towards you, like the general.

00:36:00.079 --> 00:36:01.360
No, more overall.

00:36:01.679 --> 00:36:05.760
Because I remember when Ari was born, I was just like, oh my god.

00:36:06.000 --> 00:36:08.800
There's a meaning to this feels really weird.

00:36:09.039 --> 00:36:11.039
What is this feeling I'm having?

00:36:11.519 --> 00:36:12.159
Empathy.

00:36:12.559 --> 00:36:13.599
Oh, empathy.

00:36:13.679 --> 00:36:15.599
Yeah, like what else am I feeling?

00:36:15.679 --> 00:36:17.760
It's like I've never felt this before.

00:36:17.920 --> 00:36:19.119
Like, this is fucking awesome.

00:36:19.519 --> 00:36:20.800
Warm and fuzzy in here.

00:36:22.559 --> 00:36:23.760
Almost that seizures.

00:36:24.000 --> 00:36:26.320
It's not a concrete feeling.

00:36:27.199 --> 00:36:30.159
This is like a needle of feelings.

00:36:30.880 --> 00:36:32.000
And it was emotions.

00:36:32.159 --> 00:36:38.159
It was like, I pretty much only watch cartoons now because of emotions.

00:36:38.400 --> 00:36:40.239
I cried during cartoons.

00:36:40.400 --> 00:36:41.599
I good for you.

00:36:41.760 --> 00:36:43.039
I cried during the spickled.

00:36:43.440 --> 00:36:47.519
But you were over you were over-emotional when you were young, though.

00:36:47.760 --> 00:36:54.880
That is true, but I also shut myself off because my uncle that we grew up with always called me a pussface.

00:36:55.679 --> 00:36:57.840
Gonna adopted because you were darker screen.

00:36:58.079 --> 00:36:58.400
You're darker.

00:36:59.039 --> 00:37:01.760
They found you in the trash can in Bombay.

00:37:01.840 --> 00:37:04.000
Yeah, you're not actual part of the family.

00:37:04.239 --> 00:37:05.280
Oh my god.

00:37:06.159 --> 00:37:12.159
But I actually found that really funny, even though I was like seven or eight, like hearing this.

00:37:13.360 --> 00:37:17.760
I have been, I used to cry a lot, and I completely shut off.

00:37:18.079 --> 00:37:26.559
And I really don't think I was emotionally like intact with anything until my daughter was born.

00:37:26.960 --> 00:37:33.519
And that that was just like that moment was like holy shit, life changing.

00:37:33.760 --> 00:37:34.320
Yep.

00:37:34.960 --> 00:37:36.159
Things are real now.

00:37:36.400 --> 00:37:37.199
Things are very real.

00:37:37.599 --> 00:37:38.480
It's not about you.

00:37:38.639 --> 00:37:39.039
Nope.

00:37:39.199 --> 00:37:39.840
Fuck you.

00:37:40.000 --> 00:37:42.000
Stop thinking about yourself.

00:37:42.239 --> 00:37:43.440
It's about somebody else.

00:37:44.239 --> 00:37:46.159
Yeah, I'm gonna delay that as long as possible.

00:37:47.920 --> 00:37:49.599
Don't why?

00:37:50.159 --> 00:37:51.679
It might be too late sometime.

00:37:51.840 --> 00:37:52.000
Yeah.

00:37:52.159 --> 00:37:53.039
Oh, it's possible.

00:37:53.199 --> 00:37:55.119
But I think I'll be okay with it if it doesn't happen.

00:37:55.679 --> 00:37:57.920
Like he just said, like quietly in the microphone.

00:37:58.000 --> 00:37:59.519
He's like, this is the greatest thing.

00:38:01.199 --> 00:38:02.559
It actually is.

00:38:02.800 --> 00:38:06.480
It's it's yeah, it's the greatest thing in my life.

00:38:06.639 --> 00:38:09.280
So go out there and have a kid.

00:38:09.519 --> 00:38:10.559
Yeah, I don't know.

00:38:10.800 --> 00:38:12.559
I think I'd rather have two kids.

00:38:12.800 --> 00:38:14.320
No, I'm an only child.

00:38:14.400 --> 00:38:14.880
That's foreign.

00:38:15.039 --> 00:38:15.840
That's a foreign concept.

00:38:16.320 --> 00:38:17.599
We're a family of four kids.

00:38:17.840 --> 00:38:18.480
Oh, solid.

00:38:18.559 --> 00:38:18.800
Yeah.

00:38:18.960 --> 00:38:23.599
Is it a foreign concept because your family's based in the DR?

00:38:24.239 --> 00:38:29.599
I guess it's because I like just grew up around a very small circle of like family members.

00:38:29.840 --> 00:38:34.480
It was just like super matriarchal, like mom, grandma, me.

00:38:34.639 --> 00:38:37.760
They both helped, like, played pivotal roles in raising me.

00:38:38.000 --> 00:38:39.199
Was your dad around?

00:38:39.440 --> 00:38:43.440
No, he actually, so my parents got divorced when I was eight years old.

00:38:43.760 --> 00:38:47.280
And um at that point, I was already in the US.

00:38:47.360 --> 00:38:49.280
I came here when I was like, I don't know, one.

00:38:49.519 --> 00:38:56.000
Um so I was like too young at the time to really comprehend what divorce was.

00:38:56.159 --> 00:38:56.880
I was like seven.

00:38:57.039 --> 00:38:57.280
Yeah.

00:38:58.159 --> 00:39:08.079
And so maybe like into adulthood is when I was like, oh, maybe I should probably try to make a relationship with this person.

00:39:08.320 --> 00:39:12.400
Um, which here and there kind of, but still kind of an estranged relationship.

00:39:12.559 --> 00:39:16.719
Um, but I have like a really good relationship with my aunts and uncles, so his siblings.

00:39:17.039 --> 00:39:17.360
Okay.

00:39:17.599 --> 00:39:18.079
Yeah.

00:39:18.320 --> 00:39:23.679
Um but he actually was like more involved in like substance abuse.

00:39:23.760 --> 00:39:24.719
He was an alcoholic.

00:39:24.800 --> 00:39:30.639
And so those were pivotal reasons as to why my mother needed to step away from the situation.

00:39:30.880 --> 00:39:35.440
Um, and so that was a big reason as to why we even moved to the US in the first place.

00:39:35.679 --> 00:39:38.960
Um, and was he in the US or back in D.

00:39:39.440 --> 00:39:40.639
He actually never came to the US.

00:39:40.800 --> 00:39:46.719
He'll he stayed in Dominican Republic, he eventually got like sick renal failure and passed away from that sickness.

00:39:47.599 --> 00:39:50.960
Yeah, I mean as much as you care, I'm sorry for you.

00:39:51.280 --> 00:39:52.079
Yeah, thank you.

00:39:52.159 --> 00:40:00.159
But um so like I was listening to your Instagram, you do like these 30-minute virtual visits on longevity.

00:40:00.639 --> 00:40:03.599
So, what's involved in like a consult like that?

00:40:03.760 --> 00:40:04.559
What do you talk about?

00:40:04.639 --> 00:40:06.559
What do you try to find out from patients?

00:40:06.880 --> 00:40:09.440
So uh it could be virtual or it could be in person.

00:40:09.760 --> 00:40:14.239
Um, usually once they book the appointment, they'll have a questionnaire to answer about a lot of different things.

00:40:14.320 --> 00:40:22.880
So I try to hit upon as many body systems as I can um in terms of digestion, sleep, stress, nutrition, um, a lot of different things.

00:40:23.360 --> 00:40:32.000
And um, of course, for the women, like I asked them about their menstrual cycles and everything like that, just because that will really point me in the direction of what I need to expand upon in that 30-minute visit.

00:40:32.079 --> 00:40:32.239
Yeah.

00:40:32.400 --> 00:40:39.840
Um, and so once I kind of figure out, okay, this is likely the pattern that's going on, then I can order more targeted lab testing.

00:40:40.239 --> 00:40:49.199
Um, and then after that, we probably follow up in like a month because it takes kind of a while for them to receive the kit for the blood test and then actually go to the lab and do all of that.

00:40:49.360 --> 00:40:53.679
But yeah, then uh they come in for a 60-minute consult, whether that's virtual or in person.

00:40:53.760 --> 00:40:56.079
Uh, we go through the lab work line by line.

00:40:56.239 --> 00:40:57.440
I answer all the questions.

00:40:57.519 --> 00:40:57.599
Yeah.

00:40:57.840 --> 00:41:01.039
And then I give them like my recommendations, the protocol.

00:41:01.119 --> 00:41:04.000
And it's usually a combination of like many different things.

00:41:04.320 --> 00:41:08.800
So I usually try to incorporate, of course, nutritional uh recommendations, nutritional counseling.

00:41:08.880 --> 00:41:11.039
That's usually like foundational baseline.

00:41:11.119 --> 00:41:16.079
Um, and then I also incorporate herbal medicine depending on what's going on hormone-wise.

00:41:16.320 --> 00:41:22.960
Um, if they are truly deficient in hormones, then of course we can start like bioidentical hormones to help replenish those.

00:41:23.199 --> 00:41:26.559
Um, but then like diet, exercise, those are foundational.

00:41:26.719 --> 00:41:31.199
Um herbs in terms of like adaptogens to help to re-regulate the uh nervous system.

00:41:31.599 --> 00:41:36.400
Um and then after all of that, you know, micronutrient repletion, everything like that.

00:41:36.559 --> 00:41:42.320
Then they'll come back in about 12 weeks and we'll do retest um basically kind of to see their progress.

00:41:42.400 --> 00:41:51.039
Um, because a lot of people are deficient in so many nutrients and they're like, I have chronic fatigue, I'm not sleeping, and then I figure out, oh, you're actually anemic.

00:41:51.199 --> 00:41:53.840
Yeah, you know, or your vitamin D is like a 10.

00:41:54.079 --> 00:42:05.440
So But you also have all these people like, you know, they're like, you don't need supplements, you gotta just eat whole foods, but like you know, a lot of people can't keep up with that diet of the city.

00:42:05.599 --> 00:42:08.719
What foods have vitamin D other than maybe egg yolk?

00:42:08.880 --> 00:42:09.199
Yeah.

00:42:09.440 --> 00:42:11.280
Like sunlight?

00:42:11.519 --> 00:42:11.840
What?

00:42:12.400 --> 00:42:13.039
Sunlight?

00:42:13.280 --> 00:42:20.960
I mean, yeah, but everyone has their own conversion rate as to how much yeah, to also get the appropriate amounts of people escape the sun in Arizona, yeah.

00:42:21.199 --> 00:42:24.559
They have to, or else we get cancer for survival.

00:42:24.960 --> 00:42:33.119
Plus sunlight, how much losses are it it's not super hot, only like two or three months out of the year, so basically, yeah.

00:42:33.360 --> 00:42:37.039
Um but still, people work in offices most of the time, they're indoors, yeah.

00:42:37.280 --> 00:42:44.480
And um you're probably not gonna get severe symptoms um from having like insufficient vitamin D.

00:42:44.880 --> 00:42:48.400
Um, it could come back as a constellation of different vague symptoms.

00:42:48.559 --> 00:42:48.719
Yeah.

00:42:48.960 --> 00:42:49.119
Yeah.

00:42:49.199 --> 00:42:51.039
And until you test, you won't really know.

00:42:51.199 --> 00:43:01.119
Um, and I applaud the like conventional family practice physicians and NPs and PAs who actually like test for these things and include a ferritin and the iron panel.

00:43:01.199 --> 00:43:28.320
And I I personally think um specifically for vitamin D, vitamin T vitamin D levels probably fluctuate so much throughout the day because I published the study for vitamin D levels on um this was during COVID on severe COVID patients that ended up dying or spending extra time in the ICU.

00:43:28.800 --> 00:43:36.320
And you you got to see that like the vitamin D level is not like it kind of doesn't mean anything.

00:43:36.639 --> 00:43:50.719
And vitamin D levels say that um because it can fluctuate widely day to day, and then like one day you don't get sun versus one day you do.

00:43:51.199 --> 00:43:59.519
So majority of the patients that we saw that had severe COVID symptoms, this was early on in COVID.

00:44:00.320 --> 00:44:12.639
In New Orleans, where people are dying, like we noticed that the patients that go to the ICU, the patients that die, they they just had like really low vitamin D levels.

00:44:13.199 --> 00:44:15.760
Vitamin D correlates with your immune system.

00:44:16.000 --> 00:44:19.039
If you have like it's gonna improve your immune system.

00:44:19.119 --> 00:44:24.159
So but traditionally they teach you vitamin D just works with calcium for bone strength.

00:44:24.639 --> 00:44:26.400
They don't tell you vitamin D.

00:44:27.039 --> 00:44:33.920
Well, it's it's a powerful nutrient, but everyone's vitamin D receptors are on every cell of your human body.

00:44:34.880 --> 00:44:39.039
So there's no way that that receptor's there and it doesn't serve a purpose.

00:44:39.360 --> 00:44:39.760
Exactly.

00:44:40.159 --> 00:44:44.239
But it can the the reason I'm saying like the levels don't mean anything.

00:44:44.719 --> 00:44:46.320
You should just be taking vitamin D.

00:44:46.559 --> 00:44:46.800
Yeah.

00:44:47.039 --> 00:44:49.039
Or or getting some type of sun.

00:44:49.360 --> 00:44:49.519
Yeah.

00:44:50.000 --> 00:44:52.559
I know like supplement with the and get sun.

00:44:53.920 --> 00:44:54.079
Yeah.

00:44:54.320 --> 00:45:03.679
So so the the people who were dying in New Orleans from COVID early on, like they just had a significantly lower amount of vitamin D.

00:45:03.840 --> 00:45:03.920
Yeah.

00:45:04.800 --> 00:45:08.320
And you don't know if it's correlative or causative.

00:45:08.559 --> 00:45:08.800
Got it.

00:45:09.039 --> 00:45:15.599
Because were they just deprived of vitamin D because now they're just in a hospital bed.

00:45:15.760 --> 00:45:15.840
Yeah.

00:45:16.239 --> 00:45:18.639
It's part of the overall picture though.

00:45:19.119 --> 00:45:21.199
It's like your immune system's shut down.

00:45:21.280 --> 00:45:21.679
So yeah.

00:45:22.559 --> 00:45:27.280
But I I didn't realize it was in the receptors on every cell in your human body.

00:45:27.440 --> 00:45:31.679
Because in med school, they're just like vitamin D, calcium, as the bone strength.

00:45:32.320 --> 00:45:34.880
You're not taught anything else outside of that.

00:45:35.119 --> 00:45:35.440
Yeah.

00:45:35.840 --> 00:45:42.960
Um so well, a lot more has been found out about a lot of these supplements and and the nutrients and stuff, too.

00:45:43.199 --> 00:45:52.400
There's been more effort put into it instead of like before it was like, yeah, you think you know, we had our food groups and all that garbage.

00:45:52.719 --> 00:45:52.960
Oh my god.

00:45:53.199 --> 00:45:54.400
Oh my gosh, the food being red.

00:45:54.960 --> 00:46:01.760
So what are some of the diets that you recommend for most patients?

00:46:03.360 --> 00:46:04.559
That's why you're emotions.

00:46:09.519 --> 00:46:10.000
Sorry.

00:46:10.239 --> 00:46:10.800
Sorry, yes.

00:46:11.119 --> 00:46:14.639
So what so what are some of the diets that you recommend for patients?

00:46:15.199 --> 00:46:17.280
Um it really depends on what their lab show.

00:46:17.440 --> 00:46:20.719
So um I try to make it as individualized as possible.

00:46:21.039 --> 00:46:24.800
I really haven't found that kind of one size fits all diets work.

00:46:25.039 --> 00:46:28.639
Um you really have to meet people where they're at in terms of what are they ready to change.

00:46:28.880 --> 00:46:35.039
Diet and uh food intake are psychological in nature, and so you have to work on behavior change.

00:46:35.199 --> 00:46:36.960
Um, and that's a hard thing to do.

00:46:37.199 --> 00:46:42.800
And there's a lot that goes into it in terms of like uh bio-psychosocial aspect of like analysis, right?

00:46:42.880 --> 00:46:46.559
And so I try to take um a holistic approach to it as much as I can.

00:46:46.719 --> 00:47:03.119
But in general, um, if I, for example, I work with a wide um age range of women, but if they're let's say postmenopausal, um they um have like low estrogen, low progesterone, of course, we're gonna go ahead and provide those.

00:47:03.360 --> 00:47:08.480
Um but resistance training along with um a high protein diet is gonna be super important.

00:47:08.880 --> 00:47:14.239
And then um at least 50 to 60 percent of your plate should be non-starchy vegetables.

00:47:14.320 --> 00:47:16.719
Yeah, um, a wide variety of them.

00:47:17.199 --> 00:47:22.559
People really limit themselves in terms of like the amount of vegetables they consume, they only know about like three or four.

00:47:22.719 --> 00:47:22.800
Yeah.

00:47:22.960 --> 00:47:26.159
And they're like, that's it, like none else exists, it's whatever the grocery store has.

00:47:26.559 --> 00:47:35.599
Well, even even like you know, like I try to introduce new stuff to to my kids, and but the grandparents, it's always carrots and broccoli.

00:47:35.760 --> 00:47:36.639
That's all they feed them.

00:47:37.440 --> 00:47:38.079
They're like they like it.

00:47:38.159 --> 00:47:42.239
I'm like, yeah, because you keep yes, you keep on just giving them the same thing.

00:47:42.400 --> 00:47:48.079
They're not their taste buds, are and we take them different places and they eat everything.

00:47:48.480 --> 00:47:52.000
Like, and we know it, but you gotta have different colors on your plate.

00:47:52.239 --> 00:47:54.079
You can't have have the same thing.

00:47:54.320 --> 00:47:54.800
That's the thing.

00:47:55.199 --> 00:48:05.760
I've heard his three-year-old tell me they say A5 Why you're I'm like, hey, A5.

00:48:06.159 --> 00:48:08.559
Okay, no, they they provide them the best.

00:48:08.639 --> 00:48:14.559
Like, we try to do it for my daughter too, but yeah, she prefers like I'm just like mac and cheese.

00:48:14.800 --> 00:48:17.119
Yeah, I mean stop simple carbs.

00:48:17.280 --> 00:48:23.679
Like it's not like just although mac and cheese isn't bad and organic, and the cheese part, yeah, plenty of protein.

00:48:24.079 --> 00:48:24.480
Exactly.

00:48:24.639 --> 00:48:30.239
Yeah, yeah, but she just wants carbs, carbs, carbs, and simple carbs.

00:48:30.639 --> 00:48:36.159
But like the crazy, crazy thing is, like, I picked up their cheese uh bottom, like provolone cheese.

00:48:36.239 --> 00:48:39.840
One slice has more protein than a whole egg.

00:48:39.920 --> 00:48:43.039
I'm like, uh, I'd rather eat the provolone cheese.

00:48:43.199 --> 00:48:45.840
Absolutely, you know, yeah, or wrap the egg in the floor.

00:48:46.000 --> 00:48:48.639
You can put it on so many foods, yeah, and it tastes great every time.

00:48:48.800 --> 00:48:51.360
Hey, I picked up a piece of provolone cheese.

00:48:51.519 --> 00:48:53.119
It's got so much protein in it.

00:48:53.360 --> 00:48:54.320
It's more than an egg.

00:48:54.480 --> 00:48:57.679
So it's like six grams or nine grams of protein, and it's that's crazy.

00:48:58.000 --> 00:48:58.719
Parmesan, too.

00:48:58.960 --> 00:49:01.199
Yeah, parmesan is so high in protein.

00:49:01.519 --> 00:49:13.039
Pecorino Romano are supposed to do really well with um like even like glycemic index, like throw your sugars off left and right.

00:49:13.199 --> 00:49:17.119
The the hard the hard cheeses are supposed to be the best.

00:49:17.280 --> 00:49:19.920
So, what are your thoughts on milk?

00:49:20.320 --> 00:49:27.760
Like the it's a huge topic, and like I've changed because I we used to drink like gallons of milk.

00:49:28.079 --> 00:49:30.639
Oh god, we never bad milk.

00:49:30.719 --> 00:49:32.800
We used to try to drink a gallon of milk a day.

00:49:33.119 --> 00:49:34.480
2% reduced fat.

00:49:34.960 --> 00:49:51.360
Or used to drink the whole stuff, but like at the time we didn't know well, we were broke too, so it wasn't like like the grass-fed milk we get our kids, but like you spend an extra on milk when you're broke, yeah.

00:49:52.079 --> 00:50:04.400
Yeah, so we drank a lot of milk, and then I stopped drinking milk for a long while because everyone talks about how it's inflammatory and this and that, but like I I think if you're drinking the appropriate milk, it's not inflammatory at all.

00:50:04.480 --> 00:50:09.840
And like, you know, we're doing all these protein shakes and everything, and they're all milk protein.

00:50:10.719 --> 00:50:13.679
So you're staying away from milk, but then you're introducing it.

00:50:13.920 --> 00:50:15.679
Everyone's drinking protein shakes.

00:50:15.840 --> 00:50:18.239
I'm like, so where does it give?

00:50:18.400 --> 00:50:22.719
And you're adding milk to your protein shake is gonna add that protein on top of it.

00:50:22.800 --> 00:50:30.880
So don't worry, he's gonna try to wind you down a rabbit hole that approves him for breastfeeding still.

00:50:31.039 --> 00:50:31.599
Oh, yeah.

00:50:32.239 --> 00:50:33.280
No, after six.

00:50:37.039 --> 00:50:37.920
I got it would have probably saved it.

00:50:38.079 --> 00:50:38.800
In a capsule.

00:50:38.960 --> 00:50:39.360
I got it.

00:50:40.000 --> 00:50:40.719
In a capsule.

00:50:40.960 --> 00:50:42.719
Would have probably saved those COVID patients.

00:50:43.039 --> 00:50:44.719
Fuck that simulac bullshit.

00:50:45.119 --> 00:50:46.159
Increase their IgA?

00:50:46.320 --> 00:50:46.480
Yeah.

00:50:46.719 --> 00:50:47.920
You know, absolutely.

00:50:48.239 --> 00:50:49.519
You can just mute my mic.

00:50:50.239 --> 00:50:54.400
That's better than the collagen protein, you're gonna actually build immunity.

00:50:54.559 --> 00:50:57.519
So I'm not uh against milk.

00:50:57.760 --> 00:50:59.519
Um, I'm not against dairy either.

00:50:59.840 --> 00:51:05.679
I treat a lot of people with acne, and so sometimes that can be a trigger, especially if they're allergic to some of these proteins.

00:51:05.840 --> 00:51:11.280
Um, but in general, like pasture raised, grass-fed, you know, grass finished.

00:51:11.519 --> 00:51:13.760
Um that's pretty good.

00:51:14.079 --> 00:51:16.400
Fermented facials.

00:51:16.639 --> 00:51:17.599
Your omega-3s.

00:51:17.920 --> 00:51:18.559
No, I'm serious.

00:51:18.639 --> 00:51:20.159
We should do milk facials.

00:51:20.239 --> 00:51:25.119
Um people who have no allergic reactions, just do like a high quality.

00:51:25.920 --> 00:51:30.719
I think if they're not allergic and if you heal their gut, I think it's gonna be they'll be able to tolerate it.

00:51:30.880 --> 00:51:31.199
Absolutely.

00:51:31.360 --> 00:51:35.199
Plus fermented, you know, kefir, like yogurts, cottage cheese.

00:51:35.280 --> 00:51:37.440
Yeah, love that as long as it's from like a quality source.

00:51:37.519 --> 00:51:38.079
Yeah, yeah.

00:51:38.320 --> 00:51:41.440
Um, cow before I drink that.

00:51:41.840 --> 00:51:42.159
Oh my god.

00:51:42.400 --> 00:51:44.079
It better have lived a happy life.

00:51:44.239 --> 00:51:44.480
Yeah.

00:51:44.639 --> 00:51:45.199
All right.

00:51:45.440 --> 00:51:46.320
That's the only cow.

00:51:46.800 --> 00:51:48.400
What do you feel about um?

00:51:48.719 --> 00:51:51.280
So I here we go.

00:51:51.920 --> 00:51:53.840
And Rush chuckles, it's gonna be good.

00:51:54.079 --> 00:52:04.960
Well, well, our our sister-in-law just bought some and got really sick, and I think they're like their son also got very sick that night.

00:52:05.119 --> 00:52:07.519
So unpasteurized milk, the raw milk.

00:52:07.840 --> 00:52:09.119
What are your thoughts about that?

00:52:10.000 --> 00:52:13.360
Yeah, I was like, Well, what about for a facial?

00:52:15.360 --> 00:52:17.199
So, so it's become big though.

00:52:17.360 --> 00:52:17.920
It raw.

00:52:18.639 --> 00:52:24.400
And like, but like the cases of Bartonella and hospitalization from unpasteurized milk.

00:52:24.719 --> 00:52:26.000
Completely preventable.

00:52:26.159 --> 00:52:26.559
Yeah.

00:52:26.880 --> 00:52:28.719
We pasteurize it for a reason.

00:52:28.880 --> 00:52:30.320
Yeah, it's full of bacteria.

00:52:30.800 --> 00:52:35.119
I think this whole carnivore diet and maybe did the liver king drink.

00:52:36.400 --> 00:52:38.079
Did he did he drink raw milk?

00:52:38.239 --> 00:52:38.639
I don't know.

00:52:38.800 --> 00:52:41.039
The the guy known as the liver king.

00:52:41.360 --> 00:52:41.679
Goodness.

00:52:42.480 --> 00:52:45.599
He probably smells like that.

00:52:45.679 --> 00:52:53.440
I just drink unpasteurized milk and I burn vials of measles vaccines.

00:52:54.559 --> 00:52:58.480
They found uh like cases at like the Phoenix Airport recently.

00:52:58.639 --> 00:53:00.239
Yeah, and I was like Measles?

00:53:00.480 --> 00:53:04.239
Yeah, measles was yeah, they had a few cases in the round.

00:53:05.519 --> 00:53:06.239
Vaccinated.

00:53:08.559 --> 00:53:13.199
I just won't be against these strain of measles, but fuck it.

00:53:13.280 --> 00:53:15.599
It was 30 years, 40 years ago.

00:53:15.840 --> 00:53:16.239
100%.

00:53:16.719 --> 00:53:19.440
It's some type of measles, it's some type of measles.

00:53:20.159 --> 00:53:22.480
It's not with the COVID prong.

00:53:22.880 --> 00:53:23.199
Right.

00:53:23.440 --> 00:53:24.000
Ah, fuck.

00:53:24.400 --> 00:53:29.679
But the whole vaccine thing, there's parts of it that are good, parts of it that are, you know, there's certain things.

00:53:29.840 --> 00:53:36.639
You're like, you know, when your kid goes in and gets 12 different vaccines, you're like, what the fuck is going on?

00:53:36.880 --> 00:53:38.800
Like, this is not normal.

00:53:38.960 --> 00:53:40.159
Like, does he really?

00:53:41.840 --> 00:53:43.360
Yeah, fuck this kid.

00:53:43.599 --> 00:53:49.440
Oh, he doesn't have another thigh to inject in, so we'll give him liquid form, you know.

00:53:49.679 --> 00:53:51.760
Fucking it's such a- Guess what?

00:53:51.920 --> 00:53:55.360
We put 25 milliliters into one injection.

00:53:55.519 --> 00:53:58.320
Yeah, it's just gonna go right in the thigh right here.

00:53:58.719 --> 00:54:00.239
Like the largest muscle.

00:54:00.559 --> 00:54:04.320
Every virus, you could just probably wipe it off their countertop.

00:54:05.119 --> 00:54:06.079
Inject it.

00:54:06.880 --> 00:54:09.519
I'm gonna go for my COVID booster for the first time.

00:54:09.840 --> 00:54:10.320
Really?

00:54:10.480 --> 00:54:10.719
No.

00:54:11.039 --> 00:54:13.199
I was gonna say, what's gonna make you do that?

00:54:13.840 --> 00:54:14.239
I know.

00:54:14.400 --> 00:54:21.840
I skipped every booster and then, like, five years later, be like, oh, now that this has been discredited, I'm going in.

00:54:22.079 --> 00:54:22.239
Right.

00:54:22.480 --> 00:54:24.239
I don't want this to do anything.

00:54:24.480 --> 00:54:26.800
I don't want this shit from five years ago.

00:54:27.360 --> 00:54:30.800
I don't want I I don't care about getting the new COVID.

00:54:30.960 --> 00:54:32.320
I don't want the old COVID.

00:54:32.719 --> 00:54:40.239
The painful part of the painful part is like, well, honor health now, like you walk in and security makes you wear a mask.

00:54:41.199 --> 00:54:41.440
Really?

00:54:41.599 --> 00:54:42.800
And I'm like, what the fuck?

00:54:42.960 --> 00:54:45.519
And they have the bullshit masks that don't do anything.

00:54:46.159 --> 00:54:50.239
I asked them, I'm like, uh, didn't we just prove this like a couple of years ago?

00:54:50.559 --> 00:54:54.800
Yeah, and my face completely like those masks, like my face breaks out.

00:54:54.880 --> 00:54:55.760
I'm like so alert.

00:54:56.159 --> 00:54:56.800
It's a big problem.

00:54:56.880 --> 00:54:57.280
Yeah, yeah.

00:54:57.440 --> 00:55:00.079
And I'm like, I'm not gonna wear these fucking shitty masks.

00:55:00.159 --> 00:55:10.159
So they have like kind of like a metal detector and stuff that scans for weapons and stuff, and then once you walk through that, you pick up your mask and walk in.

00:55:10.559 --> 00:55:12.320
So I pick it up.

00:55:12.719 --> 00:55:18.960
So when they they asked me when they forced me to like pick up the mask, I slap the whole box of maxes aside.

00:55:19.199 --> 00:55:22.079
But you guys didn't pick out this gun, motherfuckers.

00:55:24.239 --> 00:55:25.360
Wrong worry.

00:55:26.239 --> 00:55:27.760
You're paying attention to the wrong thing.

00:55:28.400 --> 00:55:29.920
Kill as many people as me.

00:55:30.159 --> 00:55:31.039
Fuck off.

00:55:32.559 --> 00:55:34.000
Now they're gonna watch you.

00:55:34.239 --> 00:55:34.880
Yeah, right.

00:55:35.119 --> 00:55:35.760
They're gonna watch you.

00:55:36.239 --> 00:55:38.559
Now the hospital that doesn't have a metal book.

00:55:41.119 --> 00:55:42.079
Like every time.

00:55:43.360 --> 00:55:45.039
I'll find a place to hide it.

00:55:45.199 --> 00:55:45.360
Yeah.

00:55:46.400 --> 00:55:47.360
Off subject.

00:55:47.519 --> 00:55:48.000
Yes.

00:55:48.480 --> 00:56:04.480
I never had like, despite me being an Iranian, I never had terrorist thoughts until after 9-11 happened, and there were like$50 round trip tickets to go see him down in St.

00:56:04.639 --> 00:56:05.119
Martin.

00:56:05.599 --> 00:56:13.920
So my brother and I went went down, and we he's got a my brother has a really bad temper issue.

00:56:14.000 --> 00:56:17.280
He's a neurosurgeon, so he kind of flips out quickly.

00:56:17.920 --> 00:56:21.039
But I was just like 50 bucks, let's do it.

00:56:21.199 --> 00:56:26.639
And it's just like, we are gonna get fucking searched all the time.

00:56:27.199 --> 00:56:37.840
But two times on the way to the airplane, like in that tunnel to get into the airplane, yeah, they come up to us too.

00:56:37.920 --> 00:56:40.320
It's like, you two have been randomly selected.

00:56:41.119 --> 00:56:42.239
Of course, of course.

00:56:42.880 --> 00:56:44.719
This is predictable.

00:56:45.199 --> 00:56:47.599
I'm I'm fucking die laughing at the situation.

00:56:47.760 --> 00:56:48.960
My brother's flipping out.

00:56:49.199 --> 00:56:54.239
It's like the first time it's like, oh, okay, which you know, go ahead, search us, whatever.

00:56:54.559 --> 00:56:58.960
The second time he was fucking losing his shit.

00:56:59.440 --> 00:57:01.360
He's just talking shit to him the whole time.

00:57:01.840 --> 00:57:02.159
Oh my god.

00:57:02.320 --> 00:57:03.519
Fuck you, you motherfuckers.

00:57:03.679 --> 00:57:05.679
It's like fucking random search, fuck you.

00:57:06.159 --> 00:57:07.360
It doesn't help your case.

00:57:08.079 --> 00:57:15.360
I'm like, I'm just telling him, I'm like, dude, we talked about this when we bought$50 round trip tickets.

00:57:15.519 --> 00:57:16.159
Oh my god.

00:57:16.320 --> 00:57:17.679
There's gotta be a catch, dude.

00:57:17.920 --> 00:57:23.199
Like, it would be like right now, like flying frontier around the world for 50 bucks.

00:57:23.360 --> 00:57:23.679
Exactly.

00:57:24.000 --> 00:57:27.760
Like, it's gonna be like as bad of a situation as we had.

00:57:28.719 --> 00:57:31.360
I was just like, please fucking calm down.

00:57:31.519 --> 00:57:34.079
Let's just get on this fucking plane.

00:57:34.320 --> 00:57:34.880
Please.

00:57:35.119 --> 00:57:42.559
But coming back to the story, I always thought of like, I don't think I should even be saying this on here.

00:57:42.800 --> 00:57:49.599
But I was just like, oh, if I were to commit a terrorist act, how would I do it?

00:57:49.760 --> 00:57:54.239
And I'm like, oh, these motherfuckers just took over a plane with box cutters.

00:57:54.480 --> 00:58:07.039
It's like, I can't bring on a glass like object into the airport, but I can buy a drink in a glass bottle after security.

00:58:07.360 --> 00:58:08.239
It's safer glass.

00:58:09.119 --> 00:58:12.400
Pretty sure I could take over a plane with two broken glass bottles.

00:58:12.800 --> 00:58:13.599
Of course.

00:58:14.079 --> 00:58:24.159
Because you break one over one person's head, another over another person's head, and now you're left with two sharp objects to take over the rest of the plane.

00:58:24.400 --> 00:58:25.679
Extremely sharp objects.

00:58:25.920 --> 00:58:26.960
So I don't know.

00:58:27.039 --> 00:58:29.280
I this could be titled.

00:58:29.840 --> 00:58:32.559
You get creative how to take over.

00:58:33.599 --> 00:58:35.920
This is a wellness podcast, by the way.

00:58:36.960 --> 00:58:39.039
Totally all about wellness.

00:58:39.360 --> 00:58:42.320
We should have had a behavioral specialist here today.

00:58:42.800 --> 00:58:52.800
In case your pilot's forcing like simple carbs on you or something, you have to defend yourself against all these processed foods and shit.

00:58:53.039 --> 00:58:54.159
You can defend yourself.

00:58:54.239 --> 00:58:54.960
There's always a way.

00:58:56.639 --> 00:58:59.039
Do they give you glass bottles in the plane?

00:58:59.280 --> 00:58:59.920
No, nothing.

00:59:02.960 --> 00:59:05.679
Asking me for details, it's like further incriminating you.

00:59:06.079 --> 00:59:06.559
Oh my god.

00:59:06.800 --> 00:59:08.000
How much I've thought about this.

00:59:08.320 --> 00:59:09.280
We're adding to the case.

00:59:10.719 --> 00:59:13.840
They don't serve glass bottles on the plane.

00:59:14.559 --> 00:59:14.880
They do.

00:59:14.960 --> 00:59:16.480
They serve glass wine glasses.

00:59:16.639 --> 00:59:17.199
Wine glasses.

00:59:17.280 --> 00:59:17.519
Yeah.

00:59:17.840 --> 00:59:17.920
Oh.

00:59:19.039 --> 00:59:21.599
Stop giving me the I don't condone.

00:59:22.159 --> 00:59:25.760
I guess they think that people in the first class are less likely to commit these crimes.

00:59:26.320 --> 00:59:27.119
They give them the glass.

00:59:27.360 --> 00:59:28.800
Oh god, that's another tip.

00:59:29.039 --> 00:59:30.719
Fly first class.

00:59:32.000 --> 00:59:33.519
You walk into the pilot.

00:59:35.119 --> 00:59:42.719
Why do you need to fly 20 Saudis in a commercial when you can just fly four in first class?

00:59:42.960 --> 00:59:44.559
It might actually be cheaper.

00:59:44.800 --> 00:59:45.679
Come on, God.

00:59:50.079 --> 00:59:53.760
This spiral is totally stalled wellness.

00:59:54.880 --> 00:59:56.239
I'm trying to make my skin look.

00:59:56.639 --> 00:59:57.280
Longevity.

00:59:57.599 --> 00:59:58.000
Yeah.

00:59:58.320 --> 01:00:02.320
So I take a broken glass bottle and scrape my skin.

01:00:02.719 --> 01:00:03.199
No, no, no.

01:00:03.519 --> 01:00:05.280
So what's your skincare routine?

01:00:05.360 --> 01:00:06.159
Let's hit on that.

01:00:06.400 --> 01:00:07.360
My skincare routine.

01:00:08.480 --> 01:00:12.480
So I'm not a huge fan of like 10, 20 step skincare routines.

01:00:12.559 --> 01:00:12.719
Yeah.

01:00:12.960 --> 01:00:14.639
It's just it's not sustainable.

01:00:14.800 --> 01:00:15.039
Yeah.

01:00:15.440 --> 01:00:18.480
Also, your skin barrier is going to go to shit.

01:00:18.639 --> 01:00:20.639
Like it's just not gonna, you know, work.

01:00:20.800 --> 01:00:24.239
So for me in the daytime, uh last step always SPF.

01:00:24.639 --> 01:00:27.440
Um and what SPF do you use?

01:00:27.679 --> 01:00:29.519
What levels should people use?

01:00:29.760 --> 01:00:30.559
At least 30.

01:00:30.719 --> 01:00:31.280
At least 30.

01:00:31.519 --> 01:00:32.079
Yeah, definitely.

01:00:32.400 --> 01:00:33.119
What do you use?

01:00:33.280 --> 01:00:34.079
I use a 30.

01:00:34.239 --> 01:00:34.400
Okay.

01:00:34.559 --> 01:00:34.800
Yeah.

01:00:34.960 --> 01:00:37.679
I carry one uh by a Japanese brand, Shiseido.

01:00:38.159 --> 01:00:41.920
Um it's 45, but it's like a portable, it's just like a stick kind of.

01:00:42.159 --> 01:00:42.320
Yeah.

01:00:42.400 --> 01:00:42.559
Yeah.

01:00:42.639 --> 01:00:44.559
And I think the easier the better it is.

01:00:44.800 --> 01:00:45.199
Honestly.

01:00:45.360 --> 01:00:45.599
Yep.

01:00:45.679 --> 01:00:50.320
Um, and if you go to like South Korea, people are constantly reapplying their sunblock.

01:00:50.480 --> 01:00:54.719
They're carrying around umbrellas, like they are not exposing themselves to the sun.

01:00:54.960 --> 01:00:58.639
This is like, no, they don't want hyperpigmentation, they don't want wrinkles.

01:00:58.719 --> 01:01:00.480
And I'm like, yeah, makes sense.

01:01:00.719 --> 01:01:02.400
Yeah, but you still need vitamin D.

01:01:02.639 --> 01:01:02.880
Yeah.

01:01:03.119 --> 01:01:07.039
They're also single because the darker they get, they lose value.

01:01:08.559 --> 01:01:12.079
Wolf women, they're going on strike, they're not getting married.

01:01:12.960 --> 01:01:14.719
They're not getting married at all.

01:01:15.760 --> 01:01:16.880
But yes.

01:01:17.599 --> 01:01:18.239
Yes.

01:01:19.360 --> 01:01:21.119
On top of this, PF.

01:01:21.360 --> 01:01:22.239
I'm sorry.

01:01:22.559 --> 01:01:23.840
I'm gonna go to the bathroom.

01:01:24.320 --> 01:01:24.639
Okay.

01:01:25.679 --> 01:01:26.320
You do that.

01:01:29.599 --> 01:01:34.559
Okay, so in the morning, um, I typically do just like a light foaming cleanser.

01:01:34.960 --> 01:01:46.960
Um, and then I follow that up with uh ultra-low molecular weight, hyaluronic acid, um, and a vitamin C serum, uh, usually between 10 to 15%.

01:01:47.679 --> 01:01:56.320
Um and I alternate that with either uh like a 5% niacinamide, um, kind of just for the hyperpigmentation.

01:01:56.480 --> 01:01:56.800
Yeah.

01:01:57.039 --> 01:01:59.920
Um and then I do my moisturizer.

01:02:00.079 --> 01:02:04.800
So I like to incorporate a lot of products that have um Centella sciatica.

01:02:04.960 --> 01:02:10.480
Um, it's a herb that really helps to um increase collagen production in the skin.

01:02:10.559 --> 01:02:10.719
Okay.

01:02:10.880 --> 01:02:16.400
Um, but one component of it called Medecacide has been used time and time again in a lot of different Korean products.

01:02:16.480 --> 01:02:16.639
Yeah.

01:02:16.800 --> 01:02:24.239
And one of my favorites is actually a product called the Medeca Cream, um, which stands for Medecacide by Centelian24.

01:02:24.480 --> 01:02:26.880
And it is, it's been superb.

01:02:27.039 --> 01:02:28.320
Um honestly I haven't had to switch.

01:02:29.679 --> 01:02:29.840
Yeah.

01:02:29.920 --> 01:02:30.079
Yeah.

01:02:30.239 --> 01:02:33.199
It's been around since the late 60s.

01:02:33.519 --> 01:02:42.639
Um and it first came out to help people heal their scars after surgery because um those Medeca sides are really good at like collagen regeneration and remodeling.

01:02:42.800 --> 01:02:43.119
Yeah.

01:02:43.280 --> 01:02:45.039
And so it's really good at healing scars.

01:02:45.119 --> 01:02:45.199
Yeah.

01:02:45.360 --> 01:02:51.679
And so I really try to prioritize that, especially after doing microneedling, yeah, um, because it really helps to optimize the healing process.

01:02:51.760 --> 01:02:52.079
Yeah.

01:02:52.320 --> 01:03:04.480
And if let's say um I'm treating someone with like acne scars, um, I absolutely recommend a product that has medicasides or centella um so that they can heal it a little bit more efficiently.

01:03:04.960 --> 01:03:19.199
Um have you thought about like compounding something that has your nicotinamide riboside or um and like your vitamin C what's a good you know, like how high do these vitamin C serums go?

01:03:20.719 --> 01:03:28.559
Yeah, because some people really like for me, like I think even like 10% oh like my skin flakes.

01:03:29.360 --> 01:03:30.000
Oh yeah, okay.

01:03:30.239 --> 01:03:34.159
Yeah, I my skin's pretty sensitive to a lot of this stuff.

01:03:34.480 --> 01:03:40.320
So but like how and how low could you go to have an effect with vitamin C?

01:03:40.480 --> 01:03:40.719
Do you know?

01:03:41.039 --> 01:03:45.760
Um I usually start with 10% if we're actually like actively treating hyperpigmentation.

01:03:46.079 --> 01:03:46.159
Okay.

01:03:46.719 --> 01:03:58.559
Um and it really just depends on like skin type too, um, and like what type of hyperpigmentation we're treating, if it's more like melasma type or post-acne hyperpigmentation, um, different like actives for different things.

01:03:58.719 --> 01:03:58.800
Okay.

01:03:59.039 --> 01:04:04.159
Um but overall I love a vitamin C that's at least 10 to 15% in concentration.

01:04:04.320 --> 01:04:09.679
But of course, um, if you're sensitive to it, then we can start with a different type of active that still does the same purpose.

01:04:09.840 --> 01:04:09.920
Yeah.

01:04:10.079 --> 01:04:14.719
Uh maybe like uh niacinamide, tranxemic acid, for example, um, and do that.

01:04:14.960 --> 01:04:17.039
Uh niacinamide and tranixemic acid.

01:04:17.840 --> 01:04:18.159
Yeah.

01:04:18.320 --> 01:04:21.840
Um, those are super popular ingredients in uh different like Korean products as well.

01:04:22.320 --> 01:04:23.519
Why'd you look at me like that?

01:04:23.679 --> 01:04:26.159
Like you were like that word had more than four syllables.

01:04:26.800 --> 01:04:27.760
Did you not catch that?

01:04:29.039 --> 01:04:30.159
It's TXA.

01:04:30.400 --> 01:04:33.679
Now he's gonna uh pretend like he knows what that word meant.

01:04:33.920 --> 01:04:36.239
Or PDRN polydioxy ribonucleotide.

01:04:36.480 --> 01:04:39.360
TXA is used for you guys had me have flaky skin.

01:04:39.440 --> 01:04:41.440
I need all the help I can get.

01:04:42.320 --> 01:04:46.400
You probably just need to um make sure your barrier's intact, you know?

01:04:46.559 --> 01:04:50.239
Because a lot of the time with this I need is GI cleanse.

01:04:50.480 --> 01:04:56.559
Yeah, I think the diet, like fixing the diet, is gonna be the biggest thing.

01:04:56.800 --> 01:05:01.039
100% diet, stopping alcohol, liver cleanse.

01:05:01.280 --> 01:05:02.400
Yeah, that's a big one.

01:05:02.559 --> 01:05:12.079
Um, there's a lot of good herbs, uh, like burdock root, for example, that is really good at um reducing inflammation in the liver, but also acts to reduce inflammation in the skin too.

01:05:12.239 --> 01:05:13.519
Okay, and kind of cleanse it.

01:05:13.920 --> 01:05:14.159
Burdock.

01:05:14.559 --> 01:05:15.280
Burdock root.

01:05:15.440 --> 01:05:15.599
Okay.

01:05:15.760 --> 01:05:16.000
Yeah.

01:05:16.159 --> 01:05:23.039
Um, it's more like a traditional like Japanese um kind of yeah, the guy we had a few weeks ago, he talked about it too.

01:05:23.199 --> 01:05:23.519
Oh, yeah.

01:05:23.760 --> 01:05:23.920
Okay.

01:05:24.400 --> 01:05:27.760
You guys spat off so much shit that like you gotta go.

01:05:28.079 --> 01:05:28.960
I was like, what skincare?

01:05:30.000 --> 01:05:31.199
Burdock root?

01:05:31.360 --> 01:05:35.280
Like I I I hate Japanese skincare stuff.

01:05:35.440 --> 01:05:36.480
I prefer Chinese.

01:05:36.719 --> 01:05:37.440
Oh, interesting.

01:05:38.159 --> 01:05:39.360
Oh, I was like, what about it?

01:05:39.760 --> 01:05:42.639
I'm very racist when he comes to skincare root.

01:05:43.039 --> 01:05:44.320
He doesn't do skincare root.

01:05:44.559 --> 01:05:44.960
Yeah, I think.

01:05:45.280 --> 01:05:45.679
Come on.

01:05:46.000 --> 01:05:47.760
I once in a while use soap.

01:05:48.079 --> 01:05:48.719
What?

01:05:50.880 --> 01:05:52.639
Oh it dries out your skin.

01:05:52.880 --> 01:05:54.000
What do you mean?

01:05:54.320 --> 01:05:55.920
Being outside dries out your skin.

01:05:56.000 --> 01:05:56.800
We live in the desert.

01:05:57.039 --> 01:05:58.079
That is true.

01:05:58.320 --> 01:05:59.760
That's why I run into cats.

01:06:00.559 --> 01:06:01.039
Once in a while.

01:06:01.360 --> 01:06:01.760
Why?

01:06:02.079 --> 01:06:02.480
Please.

01:06:02.719 --> 01:06:03.360
I don't.

01:06:05.440 --> 01:06:18.400
We we just asked one final like what do you what do you think uh is one thing that's gonna change the in longevity medicine that most people aren't doing that you really promote?

01:06:18.800 --> 01:06:19.840
Um foundations.

01:06:20.000 --> 01:06:28.400
Honestly, longevity is making sure that you are age-proofing all of your foundational um aspects of health, all the pillars of health, right?

01:06:28.480 --> 01:06:38.079
So we mentioned sleep, we mentioned diet, um, stress, and um making sure that you're exercising, moving your body on a regular basis, going outside and actually getting sun.

01:06:38.239 --> 01:06:48.079
Um, these are things that benefit so many aspects of our health and have been shown to like extend life time and time again in various different studies and among different populations.

01:06:48.239 --> 01:06:56.159
So there's no need to go on crash diets or do some crazy expensive biohacking, like strengthen your pillars of health and foundations.