What if modern aesthetic medicine stopped chasing trends and returned to science, safety, and patient outcomes?

In this episode of Younger By the Minute, we sit down with Dr. Daniel Suissa, a board-certified plastic surgeon known for his evidence-based approach to body contouring and fat transfer. With advanced training in clinical epidemiology and a deep commitment to patient education, Dr. Suissa explains why aesthetic results should never come at the expense of safety.

We dive into:

1. The science behind fat transfer and regenerative aesthetics
2. Why lifestyle, nutrition, and movement directly impact surgical outcomes
3. How his Soft Sculpt technique improves precision, comfort, and recovery
4. Common aesthetic myths that need to disappear
5. Why avoiding unnecessary anesthesia can dramatically improve recovery
6. What patients should do before and after body procedures to maximize ROI

This is a must-watch conversation for anyone considering body contouring, injectables, or aesthetic procedures, or for providers who want to practice medicine with integrity in a noisy industry.

🎧 Topics include: fat transfer, liposuction safety, body sculpting without general anesthesia, patient education, recovery optimization, and regenerative aesthetics.

⏱️ Chapters

00:00 – Introduction

01:17 – Who is Dr. Daniel Suissa & why science matters in aesthetics

02:14 – Why he chose plastic surgery

07:18 – The role of epidemiology & evidence-based medicine

10:38 – Why safety must come before aesthetics

12:04 – What is Soft Sculpt & how it’s different

15:42 – Improving outcomes through better tools & technique

18:16 – Fat transfer vs implants & injectables

23:02 – Ethics, balance & long-term aesthetic integrity

25:15 – Who is the ideal patient for fat transfer?

28:55 – How lifestyle affects surgical results

32:47 – Post-procedure recovery & what actually works

36:57 – Aesthetic myths that need to disappear

40:03 – Training, body composition & natural results

42:43 – Final thoughts on confidence, health & longevity

Connect with Dr. Suissa on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/squlpt

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Hey. another episode of Younger

by the minute.

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I'm your host, Jamie Speiser,

and I'm always here with my other half.

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I'm Jennifer Speiser,

and I'm super excited today

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because we have an incredible

special guest, a physician

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whose reputation is rooted in science,

safety and innovation.

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Doctor Daniel Suissa is a board certified

plastic surgeon.

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No, not only for his surgical skill,

but for his deep commitment to evidence

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based esthetic medicine with advanced

training and clinical epidemic

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epidemiology,

he brings a level of scientific

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rigor that is rare in our industry,

and it is rare.

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What truly sets Dr.

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Suissa apart is that he blends

data, artistry and patient education.

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He is an active researcher,

a peer reviewer for the top

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medical journals, and the mind behind

transformative approaches.

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His approaches to body contouring,

which includes his world

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renowned New technique called Soft Sculpt,

which I'll let him get into.

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But from how training and nutrition

can augment surgical outcomes to the rise

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of minimally invasive body shaping,

to how his patients

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can make safe, informed decisions

in a world full of noise.

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Doctor Sweets that brings

the kind of conversation we love.

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Science first

honest, transparent and patient centered.

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Second, welcome to the show.

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We are honored to have you welcome.

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I know I'd like you to go ahead.

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Well, and like I said, before we joined,

we had already heard of you.

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So it was funny when we got,

you know, connected.

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I was like, this can't be real.

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So yeah, I'm very excited to talk to you

and just learn more about you.

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Thank you.

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We appreciate. You.

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And the next time we're down in Florida,

we're going to have to come see you right?

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Yeah, yeah.

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So I guess we'll just start basic.

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You know, we just kind of get like how,

how and why did you get into plastic

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surgery?

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Right.

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Right.

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answered this question before

and I think this is,

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you know, the honest truth is that part

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of it was,

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It you.

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Right.

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too. That's been fun.

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And so it's,

I think it's an incredible specialty.

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I think medicine is a

is a it's a privilege to

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Yeah.

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You know, I love that.

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I know it.

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Like you said, it's a basic question,

but I love how you answered that because,

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you know, I can relate.

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And so many people that I've talked

to is like, I got into it because I like

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at first, what got me into

is I used to like fixing cars.

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And then I started fixing people.

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But, you know, you brought up TV shows

and it just brought me back to like that.

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The early 80s, late 80s fitness shows.

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And I always used to watch them, you know,

because, you know, for me, growing up,

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I was put into a bodybuilding gym

when I was 13, and I just always strived

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like I want when I get older,

that's how I want to look.

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And so that's

what kind of drove me into it.

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So kind of like you said, like,

what's my answer?

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So when I answer, that seems generic,

but it is raw, it's honest

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and it's very truthful.

So I love your answer.

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I think it was great.

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And thank you for bringing me down

memory lane with old 80s fitness.

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Show as. Well. And I. Guess.

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I think

it also speaks volumes to your passion

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because as you mentioned in the beginning,

say you wanted to be a plastic surgeon.

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That doesn't mean that

that's where you're going to end up,

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because it is very competitive.

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And I don't know if everybody knows that.

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Right?

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Like, you have your path,

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but it depends on where you're going

to get your fellowship.

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And residency

and what they're going to let you do.

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So it's hard and you know it.

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You have to be passionate about something

that's hard because I believe

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that you have the longest fellowship

in residency besides neurology.

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Correct?

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Yeah, it's.

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Right, right.

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Like who's cut out?

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100%.

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Because that is something like we talked

about the noise in the esthetic industry.

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And I've been in it now since 2004.

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And there's so much noise

and there needs to be a change.

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And this is not

what this podcast is about,

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but in how, you know, the mid-levels

and the other providers do their work.

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So I, I hear you there because we need

we need more of that from everybody else.

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That's in doing different types

of esthetic medicine in general.

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How how do you think also having clinical

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training and epidemiology

plays into you as a plastic surgeon?

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right?

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That's what my father does, is

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the world renowned epidemiologist, teaches

all over, gives talks all over.

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He's been on boards of huge pharmaceutical

companies, you know, for expertise.

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And so I, I mean,

I realize the value of that very early.

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And the other thing I realized is

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it wasn't as common,

especially when I was doing it.

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And I decided to, to pursue that.

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It wasn't as common in surgery.

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I think now there's more

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and more of that trend

to kind of understand research better.

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There's there's a bit more of that,

which is great, which is so important,

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because ultimately there

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Yeah.

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the pressure

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to publish, if you don't publish,

you'll never get tenure.

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If you don't publish, you'll you won't be

able to be a professor in this universe.

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You don't publish,

you're not going to get grants and funds.

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So there's a lot of pressure to publish.

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And unfortunately,

that leads to sometimes,

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you know,

I'm not saying this intentional, right.

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It's not intentional,

but it leads to more mistakes.

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And when you get a lot of different types

of studies, some good,

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some average, some bad,

you need to know how to differentiate.

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You need to know how to read them

to understand, okay, this is high

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Right.

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Well and I think it also speaks volumes

to how you were able

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to create your soft scalp

because you have been taught with

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in a way that makes you want to analyze

so you can discern things.

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So it's all about how you can even make

a micro adjustment

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to bring in a better result,

to yield, yield a better patient outcome.

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And that is also something

that's very much

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needed in the world of esthetic medicine.

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Because you said it very well.

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Like now we have more people doing

injectables, more people doing surgeries,

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more people doing liposuction

that aren't even plastic surgeons.

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And they

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they really don't have the good basis

or the good foundation underneath them.

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And it is creating some issues.

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And I think that's

where people don't always know

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what they're getting

when they go into an office.

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So I think it really helps to augment

what you already do very well.

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And I think that's

probably what sets you apart.

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we do, and

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it always starts with

I mean, esthetic result is a given.

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You have to and you have to do your best

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and you have to prepare people

mentally in terms of expectations.

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Never overpromise. Right.

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It's more like under-promise overdeliver.

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But safety comes number one.

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Safety is an obsession.

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In fact, honestly, like

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people who know me

well would be saying, yeah, it's

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they've the everything

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I'm guilty.

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Yeah.

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Well.

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Now, yeah.

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Not even applies to life.

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And I just think that some of us are wired

a little bit differently.

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And, you know, I always say that

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for every you know, personality trait,

that is a benefit.

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So like, being a perfectionist

is, is good.

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You're going to be very detail oriented,

but it's also

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really it in on the other side

to make sure

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you know where you where it bleeds into

who doesn't end up biting us.

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Yeah.

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All right. I get that.

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So I would love to hear more

about the soft soft sculpt technique

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and what that is and how you came

to, you know,

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start to do it.

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Tesla

didn't invent the car, you know, I mean,

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you know, they didn't invent the car,

but they didn't even

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Right.

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and at least believing that we're having

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a huge impact on the world, I think that's

what it's that's what it's about, right?

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I mean, no, you're right.

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Are we wrong?

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The batteries.

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Yeah.

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others, which sounds cliche,

but it's the truth.

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You know, it takes years to realize that.

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Because we don't know

that when we're teenagers, you know?

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So, I, I, I think I,

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I do the,

you know, you do the absolute best you can

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and you always push it forwards and you,

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it always has to be with your heart

in the right place, I think.

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And I think that's the key, you know,

it can't be about money.

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It can't be about success.

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It can't be about visibility or fame.

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It can't be, can't be.

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Those things

need to be out of the picture.

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It needs to be

about, you know, the patient.

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Yeah.

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Well, no, I actually loved it because it,

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it did veer off, but it's actually what

I think everybody needs to hear

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because I don't think

that a lot of people do take that oath.

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You know, some people

do have the wrong intention in mind.

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And you're right.

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If you if you do things with a good

with a good outlook

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and your moral compass

aligned with whatever faith you believe in

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and just do it and you just keep pushing,

you will end up getting there.

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And sometimes it can be hard,

and that's what has to keep you going.

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In regards to the treatment,

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you know how. Yes.

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How do you do it?

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what I was trying to say.

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Maybe I'll just go a little more precise

here, but basically we

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makes it more comfortable, also safer

because you can get nerve damage

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from those vibrations,

if it's safer and more comfortable

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where he's

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Right.

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stainless steel and all materials

that don't leach

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microplastics into the patient's fat,

because those are going to be re injected.

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So everything is thought out.

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Little details

did we reinvent the wheel. No.

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But we try to improve it.

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You know one little advancement at a time

and make the patient

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the patient, you know, more comfortable

make it safer for the patient.

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Make it better for the surgeon,

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and just try to,

you know, bring the specialty forward.

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And, you know, if everybody does

a little, little contribution

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like this here and there,

I think we get there.

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In terms of the techniques,

it's the same thing.

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So that was the technology.

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The you.

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That.

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Yeah. Well

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as someone who has had liposuction

and it has a less than desirable outcome

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from all the things

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that you mentioned that you got away from

cannula was too large, you know

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placement of you know the incision sites

were a little bit too big.

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All those things

I feel like a lot of patients

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or listeners might not understand, like,

you are able to really sculpt

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the body without needles or stitches

and you can really,

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really contour someone's figure

and they don't even have to go under.

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General anesthesia

because it's comfortable.

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And then you're taking all these steps

to make sure that they're not getting any

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infection as well.

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And that's it's huge. It's huge.

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Can even get away from the plastics,

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get away from the plastics

and everything else like that,

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because that's going to cause

inflammation, which is going to impact

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recovery time,

which is going to impact desired outcome.

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Yeah. Those are, as you say,

they're little steps.

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But just like in the surgery,

you know, just a two millimeter incision

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or just like anything like Tony

Robbins talked about,

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just a two millimeter

shift can create generate a big outcome.

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Yeah.

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And make

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you just have less downtime

and more come for it.

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And like you said,

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you're actually giving yourself

and those that do this more precision.

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And I think that's also a very big thing

because some of that equipment's

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really heavy.

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You know.

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Ahead, it may.

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Yeah.

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it is.

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Something meant you need it.

You have no choice.

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It's it's it's important.

It has changed medicine.

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I am not anti anesthesia at all.

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Thank God for anesthesia.

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But if you can avoid it,

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like in our case, well,

then the patient gets to move around.

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They're more active.

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They avoid those blood clots

that you get from not moving around.

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And the recovery is better because you

were not knocked out for several hours.

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You're breathing on your own and people

just feel less down than they do.

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Those meds have a tendency

to put people down

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for sometimes a few days,

sometimes a week,

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and that's a critical period

where you want to be moving.

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Our patients are walking around,

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so these are all little things

that kind of play in.

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And then we take that fat,

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we process it like we were saying

with those glass canisters, a bunch of,

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you know, patented technology

to make it clean and safe.

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And we use that fat and

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You said

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well and I love

that and I love your morals and ethics

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because there's a lot of fads out there

and you're

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keeping true to what the integrity

of what esthetics means.

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Esthetics is balance.

Esthetics is symmetry.

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Esthetics is as much as we can.

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And so I really, really do like that

because you can get caught into the trap

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where people are a little bit

proportionately distorted,

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and it's just not the best for the patient

long term.

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Because look at even the Kardashians,

they're, they're I think they're,

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they're even smaller now, you know.

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So like they had this. Yeah.

They're I think. They're under six.

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Look I know but it's it's really true.

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And you're since Covid for me

as an injector.

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And I have stopped

using a lot of injectables,

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I try to keep it extremely regenerative.

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What whether it's using PRF,

obviously I can't harvest and re inject

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fat in my practice,

but I've thought about that

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because the long term, you know,

risk versus benefit with patients

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as mast cell activation

syndrome has become prevalent, as you know

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all these all my patients hormones change

and they're mostly women

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and they're more prone

to autoimmune issues.

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You have to think about whatever you did.

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And injectables are an implantable thing.

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And so you have to think about what you're

putting in your patients.

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And fat is your fat.

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And it's it's

what you're doing is very ethically sound.

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And I love it.

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I like I said,

I'm going to have to come down, but.

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Well, thank you.

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And a key point to like,

you know, you keeping things natural.

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Because I at one point in

time was used to prep

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a lot of people

for bodybuilding shows, mainly women.

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And so you could definitely tell

when you pull women

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down to that low of a body fat percentage,

you can literally see

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the implant lining,

especially as they start to move.

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So, you know, for some women that can be,

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you know, cause,

insecurity and stuff like that.

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But, you know, when you're coming at it

from a more natural state,

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obviously

you're not going to see that part.

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So I think it's it's I think

it's a pretty, pretty cool procedure.

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And I think it's definitely one

people should definitely be looking into

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when they're looking into augmentation

of either bras or glute.

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Well, and that brings me up to a question

I wanted to ask you.

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So what is your ideal patient?

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Do you want them to be at the stable

weight that they would generally be at?

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Like,

I don't know if a competitor going up

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and down would be the best

once they start to invest into this.

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But like somebody

that's at their goal weight,

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you know, they're not too overweight,

but they're at that perfect body

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fat percentage.

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What's your ideal patient body

fat percentage or just patient in general?

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Yeah.

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See that's what I do.

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Yeah.

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That's.

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I'm there with you.

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Yeah.

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Right.

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I think it depends on the body shape.

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It depends on what the person

is trying to achieve.

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Are we just removing a bit?

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Are we trying to augment the breast.

And you're very thin.

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And then I need to kind of figure out

where I'm going

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to get the fat that I need,

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which surprisingly, even in very petite,

thin women, it's

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incredible how much they're always like

that came out of me.

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You know, it's it's always impressive.

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You know, the first times I would do it,

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What?

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It's full of stem cells.

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So take it, put it back,

put it in your face.

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At least.

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Back.

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You can do.

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But it's full of stem cells, too.

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It's just so good for you.

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And what do what do you wish

patients would understand

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before surgery about the role that

their lifestyle plays in their results?

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enough fiber or, you know, like it's.

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Did you put sunscreen like, the list of,

like, you can't do anything and it's stuff

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you know, you believe in as a physician,

you balance.

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You have to balance life in there.

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And it's it's not always easy.

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I can tell you what's optimal.

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And so what I try to do with my patients

is and what we try to do is, look,

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give me six weeks,

you know, give me six weeks of your life.

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I'm not going to never drink again.

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Never smoke, never nothing.

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But give me six weeks, you know, stop

before you put good stuff in your body.

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Be healthy, exercise, sleep early.

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Live a healthy lifestyle

which the truth is, almost every

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everybody knows what it is, right? Today.

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Everybody has access to information.

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Hey healthy lifestyle.

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What didn't burn it comes out.

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It's it's it's almost so accessible

that the point is,

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the reason we're not all doing

it perfectly is because it's tough.

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But if you ask somebody,

hey, can you do this for me?

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For six weeks?

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Maybe they won't be perfect,

but they're going to do way better

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than if you say,

I need you to do this forever.

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You know, I have a buddy of mine.

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We might.

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We're at the age where you start

getting tested for cholesterol.

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You know, like,

thank God everything's good over here.

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But, but, like, my buddy tells me,

he's like, I have my cholesterol.

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You know, they're taking my blood

in, like, two weeks.

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So I stopped eating cheese.

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I started this,

I've been on the treadmill every day.

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I'm like, but,

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Right.

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Yeah. I.

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It will have an impact on your experience.

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It will have an impact

on how nervous you are.

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The morning of

it will have an impact on on, you know how

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you feel after the procedure,

how you recover from it,

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how mobile you are, how well you sleep

the first few nights,

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all of those things will and probably

even the final result, to be honest.

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And, you know, things

that are sometimes hard to prove.

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But you kind of have to wonder

if I do everything right just during

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that time of pre-op and healing,

you're going to get better results.

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You're going to have a better

experience. You're going

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Yeah.

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I think, you know, you nailed that there.

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You know,

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six weeks is a good enough window of time

for them to establish some good habits

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that if they start to fall off the wagon

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a little bit,

they're going to start feeling worse.

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And hopefully that's the catalyst

to keep them going.

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But also kind of reinforcing

the fact of like,

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you're getting ready to spend

quite a bit of money on this.

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You might as well maximize your ROI

on this by taking care of yourself

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the way you need to

to get the desired outcome.

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I mean, that's

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that's exactly what we preach,

which is just even with our nutritionists.

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You know, if you're going to do six month

of nutrition with us,

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our goal is to maximize it

and get the most ROI of this.

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But also establish

good patterns and habits.

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So you continue this long, long term

and you don't lose the ROI in any year.

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And you know,

you spent the money for nothing.

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There we go.

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Love to.

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Yeah.

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Right.

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That's true. Yep.

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Correct.

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Get you great traction.

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What is your favorite thing

or what's in your protocol post procedure?

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Do you guys incorporate lymphatic drainage

or anything like that?

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Peptides.

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approved.

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But they sound like at least

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some of them have a lot of, potential.

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And, you know, I think research is going

to start trickling in

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and it's going to start supporting this.

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And, you know, the FDA is always behind.

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Sometimes the FDA ends up being right.

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Hey, no, no, no, it was a good thing

we didn't happen. Sometimes they're wrong.

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And that's medicine.

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Medicine

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Yeah. Yep.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Right.

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But eight as put 0.8 kilograms.

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Yeah.

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Point eight per kilogram of body weight.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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that I

can support with good medical research.

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And, that

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That's.

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Yep. Yeah.

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And when you're ready like we,

we can definitely all help each other

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with a variety of things

because peptides are they are.

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But it is a gray area. And I get that.

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You know I understand

where you're coming from because

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I often thought that the less

than desirable outcome that I had one

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I know it was provider

it whenever I'll have you do an assessment

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and we can even share it

with the listeners.

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But I thought, okay, maybe

lymphatic drainage would be the answer.

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And then I had another surgeon assessed me

and he was like, no, it wouldn't have.

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So it's just very interesting

because those are the things that you see

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on social media.

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And then the consumer,

even when they come into my practice,

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has this idea of what's right

and what's wrong.

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And, you know,

so I'm glad that you're debunking this

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and really talking about those trends.

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Speaking of that, what is one esthetic

myth you wish would disappear

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that.

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it melts away

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that a lot of people still to

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yourself and bleed

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and after it stops bleeding,

you get that liquid serum that comes out.

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That's clear, right?

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That's fluid lives in our tissues

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Yeah.

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I'm really glad you brought that up,

because again, with me prepping people

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for shows and the fact

I've been a personal trainer for 25 years,

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that's a really common thing.

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I get asked a lot

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when I'm still training clients,

you know, is what is my thoughts on that?

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And it's like, well, that that's not

my area of expertise and stuff like that.

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My goals squat more, lunge more like,

you know, build the muscle.

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But it is good to know because now,

now I have, you know, answers.

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I can go back to them with and reassure

them that is something they seek out.

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At least I can give them some information

to kind of debug something

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they might be hearing well.

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And genetically some people's like glutes

just won't grow or,

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you know, they I mean literally

you can put the fat anywhere.

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So that's the even the face.

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It's got to go somewhere.

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But you know, for somebody

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that has a smaller glute,

like I've been wanting a BBL forever. So,

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but it's

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just I do think that

it is definitely still, I even hear peers

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that say that, you know, and it is a myth.

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What is one thing every patient should do

before a body procedure?

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And before you answer that,

do you believe in augmenting

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what you do with things

like personal training?

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Because that's your health

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and your exercise I.

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Awesome I love it.

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So if somebody wanted to find you

you have an Instagram page

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I believe it's soft sculpt. Correct.

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Squlpt. That's it.

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S-q-u-l-p-t .

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Sculpt with a Q. That's awesome.

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And is there anything

that we didn't touch on that

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you would like the listeners

to know about?

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you have all these roles in life,

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and we love

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I just

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yeah,

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I say.

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I say it all the time.

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We have to be selfish to be selfless

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and, you know, taking an hour or so hour

out of the day

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just to be selfish so you can be selfless

for the rest of the day.

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It's just an hour. Yeah.

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So. Well.

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And even feeling like doing something

to make it to boost your confidence,

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that's the one thing I love about

our industry is there are things.

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And God bless all these things that we now

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have, or surgeons like you

that are even modifying and improving

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upon procedures that can help

people feel good in their own skin.

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Because when you feel good

and you look good, you do good.

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You're just better.

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You're a better,

you have better impact on the world.

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And nobody should feel that way.

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Like he got a hair transplant

this summer and,

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you know, it's just you just

everybody deserves that.

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And we have the resources, so why not?

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Right.

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Well, thank you.

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Thank you so much. Yeah.

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Thank you for your time today.

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We know you're a busy individual.

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We really appreciate the getting to know

what you do more and to get to know

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you more.

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So and like we said,

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the next time we're down in that Florida

area will be looking you up.

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Next.

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I'll get you taken care of.

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We'd be honored to have you.

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And yes, maybe we'll be able to come down

and I'll be a patient as well.

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So thank you.

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Have a great day.

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much. You guys are

Thank you. You too. Take care.

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Bye. Hey.