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From Vogue to Regenerative Medicine: The New Science of Skin — Dr. Julie Russak · The Dr. Randi Show

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Now let's get into the episode. Hello everyone, and welcome to
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the Doctor Randy Show, where we talk about innovation, the
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people, and the ideas that are shaping the future of aesthetics
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and medicine. Our guest today has been a super
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doctor. She has been featured in Vogue
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and the New York Times, and she is one of Manhattan's most in
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demand dermatologists and running one of the busiest
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dermatology practices in the city.
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Please welcome Doctor Julie Rusak.
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Thank you so much. Thank you so much for having me
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here. I appreciate it.
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And I'm pretty excited about talking about what I'm
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passionate about skin innovation.
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Excellent Doctor Rusak, we're so excited to have you on the show
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today and in researching you I was blown away by all that
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you've accomplished and all that you've done in the industry and
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you are the go to. So you have built a reputation
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as one of the leading voices in aesthetics.
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What do you think has been the driving force behind that
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success? I think the driving force is
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really science, science that is behind and everything that we're
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discovering and understanding how our skin ages with the rest
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of the body and being able now to maybe not fully repair it,
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but definitely have an intervention.
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Yes, well, the science is everything, right?
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Because otherwise. It's best.
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Marketing. So with everything that you have
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accomplished, what excites you the most about where aesthetics
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is heading right now? Aesthetics is heading in a great
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direction right now. Regeneration is really the
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keyword right now in medicine overall, and aesthetics is
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really gaining ground fast with that.
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We can see when we are regenerating our skin is on the
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outside, so it gives us right away kind of up to date
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understanding of what is happening in our body.
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And there's more and more things that we're discovering that help
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us to do that. Doctor, when you think about
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innovation, what breakthrough do you think is really changing the
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game right now in our industry? Being able to repair rather than
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just mask signs of aging So in the past we used a lot of
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different tools, but we were really masking the signs of
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aging. Right now we are really starting
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to use science, molecular science, intercellular science
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to change how our skin aging. And when we say aging, we're not
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talking any more about lines or wrinkles, we're talking about
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intercellular aging. So using really understanding,
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scientific understanding of that, using molecules that help
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us to tap into stem cells, the most primordial cells in our
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body, and use them to regenerate all the organs, including the
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skin, is what's driving the regenerative medicine and
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regenerative aesthetic medicine. That's the.
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Future, right, Regenerative for our aesthetics, for our bodies,
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everything. I think in the next 5 to 10
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years, everything is going to be that shift where we're not going
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backwards. I agree.
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One of the questions I wanted to ask you because I'm originally
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from New York and New York is yes, that's where we get our get
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up and go right. So New York is one of the most
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competitive markets in the world.
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How do you build loyalty when patients have so many endless
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choices in New York? Oh, you're absolutely right.
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The choices are endless. But I think that building the
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report and understanding with your patients, majority of my
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patients has been with me for many, many years.
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We grow together, we age together, but we also understand
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what this aging is meaning to us at every different stage in our
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lives. And again, at this point in our
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life, a lot of my patients are where I am.
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We're a little bit older, we're definitely a little bit wiser.
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And we understand that aging is not really the bad things.
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We understand that aging means that we are gaining.
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We're gaining in our lifespan and the value that comes with it
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is indispensable. But the lifespan in the health
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span is what we are really starting to understand.
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So a lot of my patients, we share the same view, but it's
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not only about the lifespan, it's about the health span and
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helping them to age healthy and to live a healthy life is.
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I feel like that's where we gain that understanding and we are on
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the same page with a lot of my patients and that's where the
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loyalty comes from. It sounds like you're very easy
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to talk to your patients probably love that bedside
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manner and that you're into innovation.
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I'm sure one of the things that you've probably seen in our
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industry is that some dermatologists or any doctor,
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right, any sector of the medical industry, some are really stuck
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in their ways, right? And then some are very forward
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thinking. And I think in aesthetics and in
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dermatology, that is where we need the most forward thinking,
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right? Because that's where we need the
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most results. So Speaking of innovation, I
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recently heard that you brought in one of the latest
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technologies in skin care, Definage, which is rooted in a
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new type of peptide, which I'd love you to talk about because
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I'm probably not the expert in it, but I'd love to dive into
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this with you. Can you tell us about this new
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peptide and the results that you are seeing with your patients?
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So I've actually had Deafenosh in my practice for a good number
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of years and we pair it together with all the regenerative
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procedures that we do. So Deafenosh is rooted in
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understanding that there is a defense in molecule that allows
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us to activate cells, primordial cells that hasn't been really
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used for the regeneration of the skin.
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So it's great for skin that is already showing signs of aging,
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that skin that we've tried in the past to use the retinols and
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antioxidant, everything else to repair itself.
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And we're always stepping into the same cells, regenerating
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regenerated defensive molecules allow us to actually activate
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cells that has not been used in the past, our reserve, so to
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speak, cells that are at the bottom and bring them to the
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surface of the skin. And therefore, those healthy
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cells then can act harder for us and make everything else on the
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surface look better. But that look is really not
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just, as I said, that kind of like the superficial look.
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It's really repairing and using the healthy younger cells that
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we're activating with defense in molecules.
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It's so interesting and it's such a new twist because we are
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really hearing so much about vitamin C, retinol, growth
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factors. How does this really differ from
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that? Well, it's definitely very
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different, but not necessarily one versus the other.
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In order to really create a healthy skin, you kind of need
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to have everything. It's the same thing as eating.
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You can't eat the same one healthy food, right?
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You need the whole rainbow of all your vegetables.
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And that's how I look for skin care.
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So being able to tap into those primordial cells, then give your
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skin the antioxidants that you need, then also use a retinol to
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help repair all together. It works very, very
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synergistically. But there's a lot of patients
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also, they cannot use one versus the other, right?
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You know, for some of the patients is a little bit too
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harsh. Vitamin C, sometimes vitamin C
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is too irritating for the patients.
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Definos uses defensive molecules that work in a completely
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different pathways. They're peptides.
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There's no acids that are involved.
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There's no irritants that involved.
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So patients, even with very sensitive skin, patients with a
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barrier that is broken down, rosacea, acne, they can all use
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it. That's phenomenal because I'm
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constantly hearing stories of people who are too sensitive to
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vitamin C on retinol. And I think every one of us is
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guilty of overusing these products, right.
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So we've gotten into a stage sometimes where we're like, this
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is great. Maybe I'll just put more and
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more. And I don't think anybody alive
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has not woken up one day and been like, what did I do to my
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skin? And like, you know, too much
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irritation And then when we're trying to exfoliate because
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there's. And it makes it so much worse.
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Yes, so much so it's great to know that there is an option
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that can still reengineer yourselves without that
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irritation. So that sounds like that's where
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Definage comes in. So one of the things that I was
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reading about is that, well, let's face it, Doctor Rusack,
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the first areas that show the signs of aging are neck and the
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under eyes, right? And I have been trying the
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Definage products and they're quite phenomenal.
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Blown away. I've been very dedicated to
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using the neck and the eye product.
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And I think the real test of skin care is the eye and the
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neck. And how does Definage approach
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those areas, if you could talk about that a little bit?
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So you're absolutely correct, the skin around the eyes will
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start and we'll go top the bottom.
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The skin around the eyes is the thinnest skin on our whole body.
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It doesn't have any oil glands, but we put it through the most
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wear and tear. The amount of times that we
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blink then we smile. We constantly put that skin
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under stress. They're really starting to pay
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attention early to the skin and helping it to regenerate and
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repair. Because it's so thin, there's
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not a lot of areas for us to exfoliate, so exfoliants don't
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work under the eyes. There are not oil glands, so
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there's not much we can do on that skin but protect and repair
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and bring the cells that are at the bottom.
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That can then generate a little bit more college and a little
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bit more elastin that's around the eyes.
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Neck is a different problem. Neck is probably one of the
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toughest skin because neck is good until it's not and then
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there's not much we can do. It doesn't have a lot of support
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structures. There's no fat cells, there's
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not a lot of dermal cells that can repair it.
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It also put under a lot of stress because we constantly use
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it. We turn, we twist, and now you
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have to add the cell phones to it.
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We're all on our phones looking down.
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So we're all developing the tech neck.
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We see it in younger and younger patients.
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The really understanding what is the problem with the necks, that
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the skin is so different and being able again to use
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molecules that create newer health, the cells and bring them
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to the surface, that's what defenses are about.
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Yes, my neck, whenever I am on a Zoom.
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I'm sure you do the same thing. We pick ourselves apart.
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I remember, yes, we do. When COVID hit and we all, you
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know, resorted to Zoom for every meeting, I remember seeing my
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neck and being like what, what, Whose neck is that?
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So, you know, I think that having something that really
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helps the neck, I have already started to see an improvement
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with the neck cream. I'm a big fan.
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I'm going to bring it out and this is the packaging.
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Packaging is beautiful. I love how the pump, we don't
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have to stick our fingers in there.
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It's a great. Very important, Very important.
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And I'm sure your patients are loving this as well.
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And I'd love to talk a little more about the eye product
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because one of the things that I like to talk about when I'm
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talking about eye products is dark circles, puffiness.
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And this product, not only is it fantastic, but the applicator,
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unbelievable, right? You know, it's cooling.
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I mean, even right now my whole room is 1 temperature and this
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is like 20° colder and makes the application so much easier.
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And we're not sticking our fingers into the jar and then
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sticking them on her face. So does this product, in your
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opinion, address the puffiness and dark circles as well?
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So puffiness and dark circles under the eyes, it's a very
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multifactorial problem. It's not one or the other.
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If there was only one course of puffiness and darkness, we would
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fix it by now, right? So it's a very multifactorial
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problem and therefore overall just regenerating the skin,
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getting it a little bit thicker, creating a little bit more
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collagen, creating a little bit more of the strength in it.
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It addresses all of the above and that's why it really does
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help with all of the above. Great.
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And also with the eye cream as well as the neck cream.
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The neck cream is called the six week neck cream.
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Why is it called that? Well, it takes time for your
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body to produce collagen and elastin.
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It takes time for your cells to regenerate themselves.
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But the studies have really shown that patients are starting
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to see the results in six weeks. That's why they call it like
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that. Doesn't stop in six weeks,
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Absolutely not. But it's great even at six weeks
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to start seeing the results. And that encourages a lot of my
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patients to stick with it and continue because we know neck is
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difficult. There was always a lot of
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different creams on the market, but the problem is that none of
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them actually worked as well before.
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Great. So your patients are seeing the
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results and they're seeing it fast and.
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Therefore, they're continuing to use a product.
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So we get the efficacy from the compliance.
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Right. And that's kind of like going to
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the gym, right? Once we start results, then we
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go back to the gym until you start seeing the results, it's
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hard to get up and go. And one of the things that you
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mentioned that I really liked was that it's never just one
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ingredient in our skin care that we have to rotate our products.
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And I'm a big fan of skin cycling.
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So I use many different products and all week long that I feel
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like each one of them plays a role.
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But I can't layer on 10 products a night, right?
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So tell me your thoughts about that mixed in with Definage.
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What do you recommend? I really do believe in cycling.
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We cycle a lot of different products.
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One is depending on the seasons of the year, but we in my
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practice mostly cycle depending on the procedures that patients
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do in the office. When we do by stimulatory
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injections, we stimulate production of collagen and
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elastin. So we pair it very often with
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Definos to really see that synergistic effect.
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The same thing sometimes with the lasers, especially with
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radio frequency microneedling. Radio frequency microneedling
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and Definos is the perfect, perfect combo.
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You deliver it a little bit better, even deeper under the
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skin, so you get more of the results.
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But also with radio frequency microneedling, we do the same
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energy wise but with the same stimulation that now we have the
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defense in molecules helping us to achieve.
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So a lot of my patients use it in between their procedures to
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achieve kind of additional value to the procedures that they do
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in the practice. Wow.
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So it's really like a booster. It's helping boost the results
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of the treatments. It's very synergistic product
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that goes well with all the energy and all the other
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procedures that we do in the office.
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Excellent, excellent. What age do you recommend?
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Is this? Is definage a line for
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prevention or is it really a line for just correction?
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What age would you recommend for people to start using definage?
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I always say that prevention works much better than
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correction, though. Prevention, studying it early,
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understanding that for all of us, we understand the
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pathophysiology, we know that the skin around the eyes is
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going to show the first signs of aging.
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So why not prevent it? Because we know that it's
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happening. And the same thing with the neck
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for a very long time. We as women and men too, we pay
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attention a little bit more to our face, but the neck is only
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when we already see the signs of aging.
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So I always encourage my patients to start early and
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prevent in those signs so then we don't have to repair them.
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But at the same time, once you're already kind of starting
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to see that there is more laxity and there's a little bit less
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relaxing and collagen in your neck, you can definitely start
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it also. Absolutely.
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I think that getting people to stick with it and see the
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results. And one thing I wanted to
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mention that you don't see very often is that in my studies of
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definage that there were 30 clinical studies, right, which
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that's very rare for skin care brand.
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And I think that speaks volumes, especially to you as a
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physician. I'm sure that makes you feel
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more comfortable with the product and recommending.
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And have you seen, well, obviously you've had it in your
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practice for a long time. What are the real world
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transformations that you're seeing?
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What are your patients telling you and coming back in and
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reporting? Well, the defenses, if you
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really look at the research and go back and what actually
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brought it into my practice, what it was used for and how it
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was discovered. It was discovered for wound
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healing. So we understand what it does to
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our cells. And then it only was translated
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into more of an aesthetic product.
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So it falls originally a clinical product and therefore
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we have a huge scientific back into that.
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And that's very rare for the aesthetic brand.
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My patients bring it back and they report that their skin is
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feeling healthier. That's the most important
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things. Healthy skin looks beautiful.
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So it's not just about that. They see less lines or less
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wrinkles. They are reporting their skin is
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looking healthier and hence they see all the aesthetic results
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also. But it's not just for the face.
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As you mentioned, we use it on the neck, but you can also use
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it on your whole body. Because the same problems that
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we're seeing on the face, on the neck, we also start seeing on
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the body, upper arms, thighs, a lot of other areas that we are
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now starting to pay attention to that we were not paying as much
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attention. That's great areas for the
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defenses also. Yes.
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I think as we age we start to see some funny areas and we're
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like, how did that happen? Like our elbows, right?
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Exactly. Exactly.
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Upper arm Yes you suddenly catch a little funny view in the
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mirror sometime you're like where did that come from so it's
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great to know that we. It's great to see in your 20s
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nobody ever cared about their elbows, but give it a couple
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more years and then you really start understanding what the
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elbows really mean, right? And you know what's funny is we
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never see our own elbows. I had I had a very aha moment
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once I was getting my hair done in the salon and the hairdresser
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said, turn around, let me take a picture of the back of your
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hair. She had curled it and
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highlighted it. And she took a picture with my
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phone. And then I looked at my back,
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right. So she took a picture from the
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back of me and then I saw the picture and that was the first
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time I saw my elbows and I gasped, right.
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So you don't really see these things until you do and then?
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You do and then they can Unsee it.
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Oh yes, then you can Unsee it. I was like, why is nobody making
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laser treatments for my elbows? But I know there are treatments
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out there but. Absolutely.
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We treat elbows all the time. Yes, yes.
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So now I'm worried about my elbows, but that's.
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Well, you can use definition. You can put it on your elbows
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too. Yes, I'm going to start doing
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that. I'm going to take my neck cream
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and put it on my elbows. Well, it will work.
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Doctor Rusaka, one of the things I wanted to bring up is that
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obviously you are a recognized authority by your patients or
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patients see the results and the industry has noticed as well.
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You have been recognized by New Beauty as a top Dr. since 2014.
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So congratulations. Thank you is the sponsor of our
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podcast and they do such a phenomenal job of being the
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beauty icon of this industry. And I wanted to ask you, what
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has that recognition meant to you and how do you feel that it
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has impacted your practice? New Beauty has been very
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supportive of our practice for a very long time.
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My practice evolves through time, as science evolves, as
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understanding of the aesthetic evolves, and it hasn't been
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always easy and very straightforward.
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I started regenerative aesthetic practice very, very early.
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Where talking to patients about drawing blood and talking to
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patients about diet was most of the time that was a little bit
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of a surprise. Look, you're a dermatologist.
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Why? You're talking to me about my
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gut health and my diet. And your beauty has been very,
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very supportive of all the progress that we've been seeing
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inside and trying to translate into our practices from the
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very, very, very beginning. So it means a lot to me.
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That's fantastic and it's great to know that they are supporting
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you even if when you were doing things that others were not
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doing and they say you've been ahead of the curve on
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regenerative medicine. Do you think that clinics that
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are not embracing this are going to be left behind if they're not
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prepared? I don't want to say such a
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strong statement, but I do think that at this point we are really
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understanding that you cannot treat the skin and you cannot
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expect natural healthy results that we are expecting from
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regenerative medicine right now. If you don't understand
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regenerative medicine, if you don't practice regenerative
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medicine, it is just your organ. You cannot expect that you can
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treat the organ without understanding how the rest of
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the body kind of plays a role in it.
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Sure. Well, on that note, what do you
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think or see on a regular basis that is one treatment or trend
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in your expertise that you think might be overhyped at the
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moment? Oh, that's a good 11 overhyped
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1. I don't know.
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I don't know about 1, overhyped 1, because I strongly believe
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that there's not one thing that fits everybody.
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It's very individualized, but at the same time, it's really a
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multitude of stimulation that we're doing right now.
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You go to the gym and you can't expect that you're going to be
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training just for your biceps, but the rest of your body is
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going to look great, right? So it's really multiple
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modalities using energy devices by stimulatory molecules.
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We're going into the era of stem cells and exosomes.
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So it's really a combination of a lot of different things,
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different injectable peptides, different topical peptides,
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deliveries of different mechanisms, but it really gives
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us results. I don't think that it's just one
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thing that is overhyped. I think that maybe overusing one
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things is 1 things. But other than that, I think
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that you have to really be familiar with a lot of different
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modalities and use them all together.
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OK, great answer. Great answer.
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Because some come in very opinionated on that, right.
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So if you had a patient and you had to tell them they could only
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use three products for the rest of their life, how would you
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prioritize those three products? By a stimulatory molecule.
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By a stimulatory molecule and then some form of microbiome
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support and stimulation. OK, great answer.
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And that's not the usual answer. So that's definitely progressive
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and I think that it's what we need to hear.
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So I love that. Appreciated.
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And you are recognized not only just for results, Doctor Rusak,
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but also for being a thought leader.
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How do you see your role in shaping where aesthetics is
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going next? Education, education of
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patients, but also education of our peers.
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Dermatology for a very long time was very transactional field
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where patients wake up in the morning.
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They decided that they need to see a dermatologist, whether it
23:47
was for Botox or for fillers, because that's what patients
23:49
think about in those terms. And they would come, they would
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have the injection, they would expect the results right away,
23:56
instant gratification, and then they disappear for a very long
23:59
time. It's starting to change and it
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needs to change even more. Really understanding that
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achieving good results requires maybe not as much, but requires
24:10
not just instant gratifications, but understanding of what
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regeneration really means, that it's investing in yourself
24:17
early. It's investing into the results
24:19
that might not show up when you are leaving the practice, but
24:22
that will be much more of a long term results.
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Sure. Well, I think that makes great
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sense. And I think that you being at
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the forefront and using your voice to talk about these things
24:34
will really help shape the industry.
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So what you're doing is really helping the entire industry.
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Thank you. If you could design the next
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innovation in skin care, what problem do you think we still
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need to solve that we have not solved yet?
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I think one of the biggest problems that we are trying to
24:53
move away from is really overuse of things, overuse of topical
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products. We talked a little bit about it.
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We think that if a little bit is good, then more is better and
25:04
it's definitely not the case. But also I think that really
25:08
understanding that healthy it means beautiful.
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And we are starting to see that that it's not the artificial
25:15
from the outside beauty that is going to give us long term
25:18
results and really educating patients, but educating media
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education providers who deliver those results.
25:26
That it's not about overdone. Look, it's not about overdone
25:30
lips that we have to move away into really creating beautiful,
25:34
healthy individual faces and not the same standard for everybody.
25:40
I completely agree. I think you're spot on there.
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And I think that we need to focus more on feeling beautiful
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and then we wind up looking beautiful, right?
25:48
Absolutely. Feeling beautiful, feeling
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healthy, and that's translating to us looking beautiful.
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That's great, and you've been practicing for many years at the
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absolute highest level. What is something that you know
26:03
now that you wish that you knew earlier in your career that you
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feel like you could have made a difference earlier?
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Would it be the regenerative factor?
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It's absolutely the regenerative factor.
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I wish that in my 20s I knew about everything that I know
26:17
right now and focused on healthy living.
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We'll see inside and everything that we right now know that is
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good for us, that in the past we have thought about it.
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It's kind of like what just people just think about it.
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It's really health and mind and inside that then translates on
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the outside. Yes, I think that I agree.
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If I knew some of the things about skin in my 20s and 30s
26:39
that I know now, I probably would have done things a little
26:42
bit differently, done the prejuvenation, the, you know,
26:45
some of the things that even the preventative Botox, right, that
26:49
was just the last few years where people really started
26:51
doing that to prevent in certain areas.
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You know, I have a few wrinkles that will never go away because
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I didn't prevent them. I'm treating them right.
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So. So we do.
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We do our. Best younger generation is
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really understanding right now. They're doing a little bit and
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as you said, that preventing, but we didn't know in the past
27:10
we used Botox to treat something.
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Right now we use Botox completely differently.
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We use Botox to prevent things. We understand that having
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movement in your forehead is really not what's going to show
27:20
your age. It's having certain look, a
27:24
certain perception that is making you older.
27:26
And we're using everything that we have in our toolbox, so to
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speak, very differently now. Yes, yes, we definitely are.
27:34
I probably started in skin care many, many years ago where, you
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know, we were just doing moisturization.
27:39
There were no actives, right? So it's a pretty big change.
27:43
So I wanted to wrap things up, but your voice is so strong and
27:48
so compelling, and I wanted to give you one more chance to just
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really talk to the patient that is listening.
27:56
That feels overwhelmed by all of the options out there, right?
28:01
With skin care and how to treat and how to do.
28:03
And some people just throw their hands in the air and they just
28:06
do nothing, right because they're not sure how to start.
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What is your best advice for cutting through the noise for
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our listeners, for our viewers, and choosing what really works
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and what's the best way to get started on that?
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Well, focus what is healthy for your body.
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Focus on that, not on all the trendy things, not on all the
28:25
latest that you're reading, anywhere that is hyped up, but
28:29
think about it, what is healthy for your body and that will help
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you to move through all that process for skin care.
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It doesn't have to be complicated.
28:37
It has to be smart, right? In the mornings, you want to
28:40
protect your skin. You want to protect your skin
28:43
from the environmental damage. You want to protect yourself
28:46
skin from the UV radiation, so you focus on that.
28:49
You focus on antioxidants, you focus on SPF.
28:52
At night is when our skin regenerates.
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You want to focus on peptides and retinols that help your skin
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to regenerate. Again, not complicated and it
29:01
doesn't have to be 10 different steps.
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And then think about it, What is your skin regenerating, what
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it's doing? It's producing collagen,
29:08
elastin, and healthy molecules. So you need to have good healthy
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building blocks for it. I talk a lot to my patients
29:15
about their diet. I talk to my patients about
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their gut microbiome because it's not necessarily just what
29:20
you eat. It's also what you absorb, how
29:23
your body processes, all of that.
29:25
That is also very, very important.
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And then how you utilize it. So exercise is very important.
29:31
Your overall health, your overall mind is is also very,
29:34
very important. So focus on that.
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We know what is good for us. It's sticking to that.
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That is not always easy and we don't always comply, but if you
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start really be a little bit more mindful of that, then
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you'll reach the results. That's an amazing answer and I
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couldn't agree more. So thank you so much, Doctor
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Rusack, for being here today. It's been a pleasure having you
29:58
on the show. I can't wait to see the future
30:00
of what you bring to the table. I'd love for you to come back on
30:03
the show early. My pleasure.
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What you're up to and what's going on in your practice, and
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also what's happening with Definaj.
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It sounds like they're on the cutting edge of what's
30:13
happening. Absolutely.
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Well, thank you so much for having me.
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It's been such a pleasure. And thank you for allowing me to
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talk about what I'm passionate about and science and skin and
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everything else that needs to be done for us to look healthy and
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beautiful. Thank you.
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All right, Doctor Rusack, have a wonderful day and thanks
30:29
everybody for joining the show. Thank you.
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Doctor Randy Boyett holds a PhD and is a recognized leader in
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the aesthetics and medical industry.
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She is not a licensed medical doctor.
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All commentary and product recommendations are based on
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industry expertise and are provided for informational
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