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Functional Medicine, Aesthetics & Longevity with Dominika Laureto · Ageless and Timeless Podcast®

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Speaker 1: Good morning everyone. This is Michelle Hughes from Ageless and Timeless.
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Speaker 1: I have a guest today that I met about a
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Speaker 1: year ago in Chicago where she has her medical facilities
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Speaker 1: medical spa facility facilities.
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Speaker 2: Actually there are a lot more than a medical spot.
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Speaker 2: We'll talk about that in the moment. But good morning, Dominico.
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Speaker 1: Her name is Dominica Loretto and she's an incredible human being.
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Speaker 1: So we'll talk about her background and her journey. But
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Speaker 1: good morning and welcome Hi.
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Speaker 3: It is such a pleasure to be here with you.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, we can thank Rob Fletcher, our mutual friend, for
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Speaker 1: connecting us and was wonderful to be in your VIP
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Speaker 1: lounge at the Biohackers World conference in Chicago. So I
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Speaker 1: just went to the the one in La the one
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Speaker 1: that they just had.
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Speaker 2: You were not there.
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Speaker 3: I take care.
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Speaker 1: No.
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Speaker 4: I was speaking the same weekend as they had conference.
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Speaker 4: I was speaking at esthetic conference at the same time,
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Speaker 4: so I couldn't attend, was it. Yeah?
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Speaker 2: The good news.
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Speaker 1: The good news is you now are on the speaker's
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Speaker 1: VIEWAU right, you're getting the circuit. That's great. That's so
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Speaker 1: good that you're spreading the word. Well, let me just
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Speaker 1: tell our audience just a little bit about your journey
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Speaker 1: and then you can take over. So you're you know,
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Speaker 1: you're looking at a person who just didn't do it
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Speaker 1: the easy way. She came here as an immigrant from Poland,
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Speaker 1: had almost zero dollars in her bank.
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Speaker 2: Account, and but knew that she wanted to, you know,
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Speaker 2: build a business. But she went, you became You were
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Speaker 2: a nurse first, right, Kamunika.
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Speaker 4: Right, So I became a nurse, and now I'm actually
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Speaker 4: finishing nurse practitioners, so that's it's happening like very very soon.
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Speaker 4: So but yes, originally I became a nurse without any
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Speaker 4: money and any English.
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Speaker 3: So that's that's the funt that's right.
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Speaker 2: I forgot but that you didn't even speak English, I didn't.
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Speaker 3: Yes, I didn't speak English.
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Speaker 4: I went to school for English as a second language,
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Speaker 4: and teachers said that I was smart enough to go
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Speaker 4: get regular college classes. I passed the exam, I graduated
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Speaker 4: just with the you know, associate degree, and then I
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Speaker 4: enrolled in nursing college or nursing university, which I got
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Speaker 4: accepted in.
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Speaker 3: I passed.
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Speaker 4: I actually graduated with the second highest GPA in the
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Speaker 4: entire school. Early speaking English, I was studying with the dictionary.
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Speaker 4: So and the reason I wasn't like the best the
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Speaker 4: best was that sometimes on a test I couldn't really
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Speaker 4: understand what the question was asking because I didn't have
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Speaker 4: the ability to comprehend language at the time. But yeah,
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Speaker 4: I mean I managed to get three point nine four
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Speaker 4: GPA at the end, so very proud of myself. And
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Speaker 4: worked in emergency room for a long time and I
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Speaker 4: became Trauma Honors Specialists, so I was actually taking more
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Speaker 4: you know, intensive cases and all trauma cases. And then
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Speaker 4: I did a little bit of management, but I did
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Speaker 4: not really like that, so I went back to do
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Speaker 4: er and then I got into like equality improvement. So
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Speaker 4: I was on a bunch of project in emergency room,
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Speaker 4: and when COVID hit, I just did not really like
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Speaker 4: the ethic of I mean, there was just a lot
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Speaker 4: going on. So at that point I decided that it
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Speaker 4: was time for me to just change these So when.
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Speaker 1: You were in the emergency room by that time, could
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Speaker 1: you speak English?
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Speaker 3: Yeah? So yes.
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Speaker 4: At the time, so I I was already US citizen
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Speaker 4: when I know, I had a green card when I
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Speaker 4: started working in emergency room, that I became US citizen,
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Speaker 4: So yes, I could definitely speak the language, I could
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Speaker 4: write the language, but you know, the first couple of
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Speaker 4: years in ER was a lot of learning curve because
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Speaker 4: I couldn't I didn't know all the supplies names in English.
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Speaker 4: I knew what it was in Polish, but I couldn't
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Speaker 4: under you know, I just didn't. So it was still
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Speaker 4: learning the little things in a medical jargon and things
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Speaker 4: like that. So it took me a moment, you know,
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Speaker 4: And I mean still sometimes when I hear something there
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Speaker 4: are words, I'm like, I don't know what that means.
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Speaker 3: I have to like, you know, che GPT.
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Speaker 4: But obviously now I'm much better to understand the full context,
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Speaker 4: so it's easy.
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Speaker 3: I can communicate easy, you know.
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Speaker 4: So I studied for the nurse practitioners, so obviously the language.
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Speaker 4: So now when I talk my husband, who is you
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Speaker 4: was born as like, what are you saying?
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Speaker 3: I don't know what you're saying?
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Speaker 4: So but yeah, but at the beginnings, we're tough, you know,
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Speaker 4: we're not easy. But the United States is definitely a country
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Speaker 4: that that you can create your future and if you
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Speaker 4: really want something, you can go and get it.
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Speaker 1: I think you are the prototypical role model for the
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Speaker 1: American dream. Uh, and this is what we you know,
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Speaker 1: we all aspire when we talk to people who have
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Speaker 1: come from other countries, we know, legally come.
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Speaker 2: From other countries. Actually, yes, yes, that's a big that's
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Speaker 2: a big one.
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Speaker 1: But when you when you going through that journey other
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Speaker 1: than the language, which is that's huge. I mean, I
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Speaker 1: cannot imagine any American going to Poland and going into
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Speaker 1: an er lab and being able to not only you know,
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Speaker 1: speak to other people and to the patients, but also
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Speaker 1: understand the methodology, like you said, the medical side of things.
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Speaker 1: So you you know, people who empathize with because Americans
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Speaker 1: are the worst and speaking other languages were so spoiled,
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Speaker 1: you know, because everybody wants to speak English.
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Speaker 2: We don't have the incentive.
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Speaker 1: But I'm always so impressed with people who have English
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Speaker 1: as their second language and can speak it like it
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Speaker 1: is their first primary.
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Speaker 2: Language and learned it as an adult, not as a child.
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Speaker 1: So anyway, so while you were doing all of that
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Speaker 1: in the ER, and you were seeing a lot of
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Speaker 1: conventional medicine approaches, and you come from Poland where you
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Speaker 1: had more of an upbringing that was let's say, functional.
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Speaker 2: Side of medicine, more more holistic. What bothered you?
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Speaker 1: What were some of the things that you said, I can't,
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Speaker 1: you know, accept this or I want to change the practice,
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Speaker 1: the practice the way they do it here.
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Speaker 2: Is there anything that bothered you there?
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Speaker 4: Yeah, And I think it still bothers me because whether
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Speaker 4: it's emergency room or primary doctor office, it's just said
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Speaker 4: that our healthcare system is designed only to treat chronic.
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Speaker 3: Disease or emergencies.
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Speaker 4: It's not designed to make someone healthy or prevent diseases.
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Speaker 1: Right.
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Speaker 4: The insurance fits that model. So you only go to
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Speaker 4: the doctor when you're sick or when you have issue.
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Speaker 4: You don't go there to ask, Hey, what supplements I
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Speaker 4: should take? I'm feeling great, I want to feel better.
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Speaker 3: You go when you're sick, and the insurance will only
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Speaker 3: cover the treatments or medications there are designed to manage
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Speaker 3: the chronic disease and like emergency visits or urgent care. Right,
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Speaker 3: So we are very.
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Speaker 4: A custom or like ray or, we live in this
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Speaker 4: model that we only see and look at. Okay, if
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Speaker 4: my insurance doesn't cover that, I'm not gonna get it, right,
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Speaker 4: because it's not it's just you're so limited and true
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Speaker 4: health Honestly, comes from a lot of stuff that we
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Speaker 4: or a lot of treatments that we can do at home.
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Speaker 4: But you gotta be like CEO of your own health.
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Speaker 4: You you're the one who needs to look into the
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Speaker 4: healthy ways of living because the doctor won't tell you that.
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Speaker 4: They're just limited by what the insurance is telling them.
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Speaker 4: So you're come in feeling I don't know.
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Speaker 3: If you have.
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Speaker 4: A headache, they're gonna give you a medication for headache.
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Speaker 4: But that's not they're not gonna dig in and try
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Speaker 4: to find the cause of this headache or root cause
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Speaker 4: like functional recourse because they don't have time. Insurance doesn't
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Speaker 4: cover type these type of tests. It's just not designed
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Speaker 4: that way.
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Speaker 2: Well here's yeah, go ahead. Good.
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Speaker 3: It's very like being in emergency room.
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Speaker 4: I think the most frustrating things that we had people
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Speaker 4: who were coming in with so many different issues and
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Speaker 4: we were just putting a bendate. It was such a
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Speaker 4: superficial care unless like someone was really sick. Okay, then
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Speaker 4: you get admitted to the hospital. But back pain, okay,
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Speaker 4: take thail and all. If it's severe day you know,
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Speaker 4: opioids or things like that. The X ray comes back fine,
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Speaker 4: you just the searched home. No one is asking you, okay,
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Speaker 4: what's your daily activities? How do you sleep? You know,
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Speaker 4: do you move around? No one is asking about the
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Speaker 4: diet because we people, doctors, nurses don't have time for that.
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Speaker 4: And it's not it doesn't fit in that model that
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Speaker 1: And so right, it's the root cause functional medicine is
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Speaker 1: actually superseded here in the conventional allopathic by symptom based
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Speaker 1: medicine with pharmaceutical drugs being or ASAI as you mentioned,
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Speaker 1: you know, being the solution. And that's just like you said,
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Speaker 1: a band aid. So this is the sickness of the
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Speaker 1: American healthcare system. It's very dominated by it is dominated
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Speaker 1: by pharmaceutical cartel. And you need to basically take one
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Speaker 1: medication that has side effects and now you're taking another
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Speaker 1: medification to address the side effects of the first medication.
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Speaker 1: Before you know it, you have a shelf of pills
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Speaker 1: and you're down a big black hole. So it's very
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Speaker 1: much it's not a surprise that people have awakened. Many
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Speaker 1: people have awakened to what you and I both recognize
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Speaker 1: as a much better model system, which is to look
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Speaker 1: at the route, look for the root cause. But you
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Speaker 1: know that unfortunately ends up being concierge medicine or functional
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Speaker 1: approaches are not insurance base. And so the other sickness
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Speaker 1: is the insurance companies are at fault for not being
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Speaker 1: more proactive about finding other models that will be covered,
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Speaker 1: other methods that will be covered. So we have a
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Speaker 1: system that's kind of it's very sick. I mean, it's
12:14
Speaker 1: a sick care system, right. Unfortunately, Well, so let's go
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Speaker 1: back to how you evolved and to you know, here
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Speaker 1: you are, You're in the er.
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Speaker 2: You have this incredible.
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Speaker 1: Knowledge that you've gained, this amazing and you're learning a
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Speaker 1: new language, learning a discipline in a foreign country. And
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Speaker 1: now you're recognizing that you don't support what you're giving
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Speaker 1: out is information and solutions.
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Speaker 2: So now what happened next?
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Speaker 4: So then during COVID, I went and got before COVID,
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Speaker 4: before I got a certification or got certified to be
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Speaker 4: an aesthetic aesthetic nurse injector. And I initially just want
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Speaker 4: to do it as a part time gig, like Okay,
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Speaker 4: this is just a fun job, will give me extra money.
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Speaker 3: So but then when COVID hit.
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Speaker 4: I stayed in a hospital for a little bit longer.
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Speaker 4: I wasn't at the bedside at that time. I was
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Speaker 4: doing department budget and like equality improvements and I.
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Speaker 3: Don't know something. It was just a lot of so
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Speaker 3: I have a high integrity, and there were like things
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Speaker 3: that I was like, Okay, I could understand certain things,
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Speaker 3: but certain things I don't know. I just I'm like
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Speaker 3: I don't want to be in this environment. Like I
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Speaker 3: did not feel like well with myself.
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Speaker 4: And I felt that I'd rather just keep my integrity
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Speaker 4: and ethic is very important for me. So my side
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Speaker 4: gig was doing well, and I was like, I'm just
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Speaker 4: gonna do this more full time and then I'll figure
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Speaker 4: it out later worst case scenario if I have to
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Speaker 4: come back to the emergency room. So then I started
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Speaker 4: working full time for a medical SPA and I was
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Speaker 4: actually working with the doctor who had a background in
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Speaker 4: functional medicine, and she was Her approach to aesthetic was
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Speaker 4: much so much different, and I think.
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Speaker 3: That I love, I just absolutely love that she.
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Speaker 4: Was very much into you know, wellness first, then aesthetics,
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Speaker 4: a lot about like functional functional medicine root cause. Then
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Speaker 4: moving on, I partner up with with a physician and
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Speaker 4: open my own practice where he is a medical director
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Speaker 4: and his background is an emergency room too. But if
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Speaker 4: he was the same thing, he just got sick of
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Speaker 4: it not being able to help people the way he
14:51
Speaker 4: want help. So he is doing more like an integrative
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Speaker 4: medicine in our office and I do as esthetic and
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Speaker 4: more of a functional So let's say, if you come in,
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Speaker 4: he discussed your service and if you need on a biotic,
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Speaker 4: he's going to you know, prescribe on a biotic for you.
15:09
Speaker 4: But let's say if there is you have a back pain,
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Speaker 4: we do p RP, we do stem cells.
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Speaker 3: So just a more that you know, regiative.
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Speaker 1: Medicine more than just an antibiotic or or right, uh,
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Speaker 1: a band aid solution that you were seeing before.
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Speaker 2: So yeah, you are.
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Speaker 1: You know, your business is at the intersection of longevity medicine,
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Speaker 1: regenerative medicine, I should say, or and aesthetics.
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Speaker 2: And you know because you bring me, you know the
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Speaker 2: background in the.
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Speaker 1: Esthetic side, and he brings the functional medicine side. So
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Speaker 1: your clients are actually getting a much more complex and
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Speaker 1: thorough protocol to come to you then if you went
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Speaker 1: to a typical aesthetic medical spar or all they have
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Speaker 1: are the treatment.
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Speaker 2: So just tell me what it's like.
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Speaker 1: If I'm a typical patient coming in and I want
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Speaker 1: to recognize I want to embrace both. I want the regenerative,
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Speaker 1: I want to understand all the medical side, and I
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Speaker 1: also want the improvement in the physical.
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Speaker 2: So what would happen to me if I came to you?
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Speaker 4: So usually, so if you coming in and you have
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Speaker 4: you know, complex of different or you know, several different goals,
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Speaker 4: typically what we start with is some sort of body measurements.
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Speaker 4: In blood work, we have phlebottomist or LEB in the house,
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Speaker 4: so it's easy because I'm just sending you to the
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Speaker 4: next room, we get in comprehensive blood work report, and
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Speaker 4: then depending on what the issues are that that comprehensive
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Speaker 4: blood work report. My vary a little bit, but it's
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Speaker 4: usually about seventeen pages of report. It is a very comprehensive,
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Speaker 4: you know. So that's a typical approach when you're coming
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Speaker 4: in and you're like, oh, I want I have all
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Speaker 4: these issues and I want a B, C, D and E.
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Speaker 3: Right, so that's the best way to start.
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Speaker 4: And then looking at your body measurements, how your body functions,
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Speaker 4: you know, what is the bone density or what is
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Speaker 4: the fat percentage. And then looking on the blood markers,
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Speaker 4: I can and really pinpoint, Okay, this is what you
17:30
Speaker 4: need to change in your diet. This is what you
17:32
Speaker 4: need to change. When it comes to activity. You're doing
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Speaker 4: too much cardio or you're not doing enough.
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Speaker 3: You need to do more resistance training.
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Speaker 4: And then like if there are any supplementations that you
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Speaker 4: need so and you typically people need some sort of
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Speaker 4: support with supplementations peptides, if they're open to peptides. And also,
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Speaker 4: I can give you a treatment plan for aesthetics because
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Speaker 4: a lot of times, and that's what happens with aesthetics
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Speaker 4: when you go to aesthetic METSPA, no one ever does
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Speaker 4: blood work right. So you go, they do treatment. They
18:08
Speaker 4: have no idea how you're going to respond to that
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Speaker 4: treatment because they don't understand your context. They don't know
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Speaker 4: whether you inflame, if you have hypothyroidism or maybe hyper tyroidism,
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Speaker 4: if there are high lipids or traglysterrites in your body.
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Speaker 4: All these things will impact how your tissue responds to
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Speaker 4: aesthetic treatments, especially when you're inflamed. If you're inflamed, you're
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Speaker 4: not gonna get good response because you have too much
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Speaker 4: inflammatory cytokinds. So how we do it and why it's
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Speaker 4: better because if you're inflamed, I will tell you, Okay,
18:46
Speaker 4: let's not do this laser now because you're not ready
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Speaker 4: for it. Let's give you BPC one fifty seven or
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Speaker 4: whatever the case might be. Let's just lower this inflammation
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Speaker 4: and then we can actually do laser or whatever like
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Speaker 4: you're looking for to do, you know, So we're getting
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Speaker 4: much better success with these treatments. People are much happier,
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Speaker 4: and with wellness, they not only then look better, but
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Speaker 4: they feel so much better. When you feel better, you
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Speaker 4: carry yourself better, you look brighter because you're just healthy internally,
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Speaker 4: and you have more energy, you move more, all these things.
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Speaker 4: So that's how we build our practice. We are very successful.
19:26
Speaker 4: We do not do any marketing. We are just word
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Speaker 4: of mouth. We are super busy. We're moving to a
19:32
Speaker 4: we have two places. One we just moved to a
19:35
Speaker 4: bigger location than now. Second location, we are moving to
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Speaker 4: a much bigger space and we're going to be doing
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Speaker 4: just really a unique blend of wellness, functional, regenerative, integrative medicine.
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Speaker 2: Well this is yeah.
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Speaker 1: So basically that's why I said the intersection of regenerative
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Speaker 1: and aesthetics, because you know, truly, if you start only
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Speaker 1: with the aesthetics and you have already a body that
20:03
Speaker 1: hasn't been examined medically, you're basically wasting throwing away your money.
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Speaker 2: Because I think so yeah, and.
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Speaker 4: You know it's and I all because obviously my background
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Speaker 4: in aesthetic medicine, so I do aesthetic medicine, but I
20:18
Speaker 4: am also a very truthful person and very transparent.
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Speaker 3: Yes, when you when you.
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Speaker 4: Come in and now you know I can early I
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Speaker 4: can easily detect whether someone is let's say, inflame. I
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Speaker 4: can't because it's been like years of practice. When I
20:31
Speaker 4: look at someone, I know, okay, there, you know. I'm
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Speaker 4: not about grabbing your money and having one time client
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Speaker 4: that just you know, leave me, I don't know, two
20:41
Speaker 4: thousand dollars and never comes back because got no results.
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Speaker 4: I am all about building long term relationships.
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Speaker 3: I am all.
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Speaker 4: About giving you results because that's my success.
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Speaker 3: That's how I measure success. If I can't take.
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Speaker 4: You from point A to point Z and you're happy
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Speaker 4: and you're going to bring your mom, daughter, aunt, and friend,
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Speaker 4: that's that's my success.
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Speaker 1: You know, right, Well, a lot of a lot of
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Speaker 1: your clients probably already have a doctor. Are they receptive
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Speaker 1: to letting your medical advisor in, you know, the practice.
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Speaker 1: Are they receptive to letting him do the blood work
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Speaker 1: and then you're doing the body composition like like you
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Speaker 1: just described. So are people open to that typically even
21:27
Speaker 1: though they may already have a doctor who covers them
21:31
Speaker 1: with insurance if they're allopathic, So that's you know, that
21:35
Speaker 1: would be one of the hurdles I would see that.
21:37
Speaker 1: People with limited resources are going to say, well, I
21:39
Speaker 1: can't really afford to have two doctors, and the one
21:42
Speaker 1: doctor I have I get covered by my insurance. So
21:45
Speaker 1: how do how do I go down that path of
21:48
Speaker 1: embracing concierge medicine.
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Speaker 3: So a couple of things, I mean a lot of
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Speaker 3: things with that.
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Speaker 4: Most of the times, people who maintain their primary physician,
21:59
Speaker 4: they to us and we draw different block work. So
22:03
Speaker 4: whatever they didn't get in an office, we are adding
22:06
Speaker 4: to what we're giving them our treatment plans. Some patients
22:10
Speaker 4: share this with their doctors. Some patients don't because they know, Okay,
22:15
Speaker 4: he's not gonna this is not his thing, right.
22:18
Speaker 1: Right, Well it's threatening to him even though he's only
22:22
Speaker 1: you know, seeing you for fifteen minutes every you know, whatever,
22:26
Speaker 1: you know, let's say once a year, I mean, and
22:28
Speaker 1: then giving.
22:29
Speaker 2: You a prescription. That's the typical role protocol.
22:32
Speaker 1: But yet they're still threatened when another practitioner is coming
22:37
Speaker 1: in and giving you very different information than much deeper
22:42
Speaker 1: than they are.
22:43
Speaker 2: So yeah, it is a competitive.
22:47
Speaker 4: Yes it is, and not you know, I don't want
22:50
Speaker 4: to say anything better about doctors, because there are great
22:53
Speaker 4: doctors out there, but everything is fluid and changing.
22:58
Speaker 3: We all need to learn every day.
23:01
Speaker 2: You know.
23:01
Speaker 4: It doesn't matter like MD just that you have MD
23:05
Speaker 4: next to your name. It doesn't mean that you're expert
23:08
Speaker 4: in everything you know because things are changing, The medications
23:11
Speaker 4: are changing everything. So if someone is not open to
23:17
Speaker 4: you know, at least just look into other you know,
23:22
Speaker 4: modalities or other ways of healing, that's that person is
23:28
Speaker 4: not going to be in business for a long time.
23:30
Speaker 3: Because I think that as society, we.
23:34
Speaker 4: Are moving away from the Western medicine and people people
23:38
Speaker 4: don't want to be on seven different medications. People want to,
23:42
Speaker 4: you know, learn how to live health your life without
23:45
Speaker 4: being stuck on you know, so many different medications.
23:49
Speaker 3: So I but.
23:50
Speaker 4: There are doctors now they're learning, they're open to you know.
23:56
Speaker 4: And then we have some doctors that are saying to
23:58
Speaker 4: our to our patients. I don't know much about functional medicine.
24:02
Speaker 4: I don't know much about hyper brick chamber. I don't
24:04
Speaker 4: know nothing about peptides. But I'm open to it. If
24:06
Speaker 4: you feel better, then I'm open. Yeah, I'm fine with that.
24:12
Speaker 4: We have some we have some patients that no longer
24:15
Speaker 4: go to primary physician. They come to us and we
24:18
Speaker 4: just manage their primary care needs as well.
24:22
Speaker 1: Right, So let's jump over to something that's very important today,
24:27
Speaker 1: and I mean I'm just jumping segue to another very
24:32
Speaker 1: important subject, and that is the weight loss because many
24:35
Speaker 1: of the if you you know, if you're unless you're
24:39
Speaker 1: hiding under a rock, many of the articles that you
24:44
Speaker 1: see today on the internet are relating.
24:47
Speaker 2: To g l g LP ones or semi blue tide.
24:50
Speaker 1: So tell us what your experience has been with using
24:54
Speaker 1: g l P ones with your with your clients or
24:57
Speaker 1: your patients and the and the medical contexts.
25:02
Speaker 3: Okay, Yes, definitely very popular, not just for a weight loss,
25:06
Speaker 3: but also like inflammation. People take it for inflammation, cardio protection,
25:10
Speaker 3: even neuroprotection.
25:12
Speaker 4: So two sides and I can talk weeks on GLP
25:16
Speaker 4: one because we have so much data on it and
25:20
Speaker 4: feedback and all these cyclinical experiences when it comes to
25:25
Speaker 4: how we handle GLP one, and we do GLP one
25:29
Speaker 4: for a long time before even the golpiece were you know,
25:33
Speaker 4: popular because we never followed that typical dose structure and
25:41
Speaker 4: we are implementing the functional medicine piece to it. We
25:45
Speaker 4: do have great success with that and our patients are
25:51
Speaker 4: highly successful there's.
25:53
Speaker 3: No weight regain. At the end of the journey, they
25:56
Speaker 3: feel amazing.
25:58
Speaker 4: Their muscles is the same or just slightly decreased, sometimes
26:04
Speaker 4: even higher because they really took to the heart or
26:09
Speaker 4: the guidance that we gave them. So it's been great.
26:13
Speaker 4: But I'm going to tell you this, we never had
26:17
Speaker 4: a patient that was on MEGS dose of any of
26:19
Speaker 4: the whether it was JLP one or jill P two.
26:23
Speaker 4: A law to mid dose and mid dose only for
26:27
Speaker 4: people who were really needing loose a.
26:29
Speaker 2: Lot of weight.
26:30
Speaker 1: Like so you do the labs as a peace that's
26:33
Speaker 1: like number one, that's.
26:34
Speaker 2: The biggest anybody that's that's uh.
26:39
Speaker 1: Using PEP guides without those labs is is unprofessional in
26:44
Speaker 1: my opinion, because you know what the person's health issues are.
26:49
Speaker 1: So someone who is diabetic type two diabetes, that say
26:53
Speaker 1: they're going to have a different dose than someone who's
26:56
Speaker 1: just trying to lose weight. For So the word micro
27:02
Speaker 1: doosing has become a big name in the TLP nomenclature
27:08
Speaker 1: because many of your patients are not needing it for diabetes,
27:12
Speaker 1: which was the original the original purpose of the drugs.
27:15
Speaker 1: So they really have expanded and now they're saying they help,
27:19
Speaker 1: like you just said, cardiovascular, many people actually don't go
27:25
Speaker 1: through scarcopenia like they've been promoting that forever that you know,
27:30
Speaker 1: yeah you can go on a GLP one, but you're
27:32
Speaker 1: going to lose your muscle. And now people are smart
27:34
Speaker 1: enough to realize how to counteract that, like you said, right,
27:37
Speaker 1: and with people like you who are educating them. So
27:41
Speaker 1: the question really is the big one that I've heard
27:44
Speaker 1: is for side effects. Negative side effects is when you
27:49
Speaker 1: lose a lot of weight, the skin becomes laxed because
27:53
Speaker 1: you have now basically shrunk and now.
27:57
Speaker 2: Your skin is still at the old weight.
28:00
Speaker 1: Now you've got this new body that's much more toned
28:05
Speaker 1: in terms of its weight size or its body size,
28:08
Speaker 1: but the skin hasn't adapted, and now you've got to
28:12
Speaker 1: deal with that. So how how do you How have
28:15
Speaker 1: you approached that that problem?
28:17
Speaker 4: So Number one, that happens a lot of times when
28:22
Speaker 4: people were mismanaged, meaning they went to the provider or
28:27
Speaker 4: they got it online because people were buying glps online
28:33
Speaker 4: and they were injecting high dosages or max dosages, and
28:40
Speaker 4: then it caused severe coloric restriction and severe weight loss.
28:45
Speaker 4: Like immediately with that you're gonna lose a lot of
28:50
Speaker 4: muscle with that. And yes, the skin doesn't have time
28:53
Speaker 4: to adapt to the new body, right when you go
28:58
Speaker 4: slow and you tell that's what I tell the patient.
29:01
Speaker 3: I'm like, you're gonna be with me for like eight months.
29:04
Speaker 3: I'm gonna see you once a month for at least
29:07
Speaker 3: eight months. We're gonna do it slowly. It's not a race.
29:11
Speaker 3: It's you know, this is you need long term results.
29:15
Speaker 4: And I really am very strict on protein and resistance training.
29:21
Speaker 3: They have to do it. If they don't do and
29:22
Speaker 3: I say, and women, women are good.
29:25
Speaker 4: Because when I say, you're gonna your face is gonna
29:27
Speaker 4: look really really bad if you're not gonna eat enough protein.
29:29
Speaker 4: Because that's that's that's true. They have to eat protein.
29:33
Speaker 4: They have to do resistance training. And the other thing
29:36
Speaker 4: that I am making sure their hormones are balanced. So
29:42
Speaker 4: they need enough estrogen, they need enough progesterone, they need
29:45
Speaker 4: enough discosterone. If because estrogen right, the skin the same thing,
29:50
Speaker 4: so they.
29:51
Speaker 3: Their hormones have to be optimized.
29:53
Speaker 4: A lot of times I'm adding either supplements or I'm
29:58
Speaker 4: adding another peptides that's helping with the skin. So something
30:02
Speaker 4: like GHKCU. Also depending like if there's a twenty five
30:06
Speaker 4: year old, maybe I'm not worrying about that college and
30:09
Speaker 4: laws as much as I'm morning if someone is fifty five, right,
30:13
Speaker 4: So context matters, right, But we're adding additional things. I'm
30:17
Speaker 4: meeting with my patients once a month, whether me or
30:20
Speaker 4: my doctor would sometimes both of us, and the discussion
30:24
Speaker 4: is always the same. Protein protein, protein, And people are honesty.
30:28
Speaker 4: I mean, they investing money. It's it's you know, the
30:31
Speaker 4: insurance doesn't cover so they so I say, if you
30:33
Speaker 4: invest money, make sure you're getting the best out of
30:37
Speaker 4: that investment because it's going to cost you a lot
30:39
Speaker 4: of money at the end of day.
30:41
Speaker 3: So make sure you're doing your job. I'm gonna do mine,
30:44
Speaker 3: you're gonna do yours.
30:46
Speaker 1: You know, it's difficult when someone doesn't have an appetite,
30:50
Speaker 1: and this is probably the biggest enemy to what you're
30:53
Speaker 1: proposing to them. It's not that they don't recognize the
30:56
Speaker 1: importance of protein. It's that they just don't feel hungry,
30:59
Speaker 1: and they're that's.
31:00
Speaker 3: Why those that's why.
31:02
Speaker 4: So yeah, that's why I'm meeting with people every three
31:07
Speaker 4: to four weeks. Because if let's say they're saying to me,
31:10
Speaker 4: I don't even eat thousand calories a day. That do
31:15
Speaker 4: has got to be the decreased. They have to be
31:18
Speaker 4: able to eat. If they're not able to eat, then
31:21
Speaker 4: it's pointless. They're going to regain the weight back the
31:23
Speaker 4: second they stop the medication.
31:26
Speaker 3: They're gonna lose too much muscle.
31:28
Speaker 4: And honestly, nowadays I don't feel we're talking about weight loss,
31:33
Speaker 4: but truly we should be talking about body recomposition.
31:37
Speaker 3: That's what truly the goal is. It's not because sometimes
31:41
Speaker 3: you can be one hundred sixty pounds all fat, no muscle,
31:45
Speaker 3: and one hundred sixty pounds muscle and a little fat
31:48
Speaker 3: looks way different exactly, and muscle is an organ of longevity, right,
31:54
Speaker 3: So we want to build a muscle. That's what we want.
31:56
Speaker 4: We want a body recomposition, not necessarily a number on
31:59
Speaker 4: a scale going down.
32:01
Speaker 2: So you said you're doing a body company. Use the
32:03
Speaker 2: embody or do you use any.
32:05
Speaker 4: Yes, we use the embody right now. We are getting
32:09
Speaker 4: Dexo scan in our new facilities. We just don't have
32:12
Speaker 4: a physically place. We limited by space, but so in
32:16
Speaker 4: body for now and then Dexo skin when we move
32:20
Speaker 4: in because it's.
32:22
Speaker 1: Dexas scan, takes up a lot of space and it's
32:24
Speaker 1: very expensive machine. So congratulations for being able to offer
32:29
Speaker 1: that to your your patients, your clients because you know
32:34
Speaker 1: normally now that's something that insurance will pay for.
32:38
Speaker 4: Yes, I heard that that some insurance will pay for
32:41
Speaker 4: Dexo scan.
32:41
Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, because I do my dexa scan every three years.
32:45
Speaker 2: And but you know, if you're on.
32:47
Speaker 1: A semi glue tide or GLP one, you need to
32:51
Speaker 1: do it more often because bone loss. We were talked
32:53
Speaker 1: about bustlecyclopenia, but what about bone loss, which happens if
32:58
Speaker 1: you're not eating, you're undergo, right, so that as a baseline,
33:03
Speaker 1: you know, before they start the GLP one or two.
33:06
Speaker 1: And then so okay, So of the GLP ones we have,
33:10
Speaker 1: you know, zembic, wagovi jaro, those.
33:13
Speaker 2: Are kind of the originals.
33:14
Speaker 1: Now we have all these new ones, trzepartide and retitrude tide,
33:19
Speaker 1: which hasn't even been approved that people are using it already,
33:23
Speaker 1: but it's gotten huge support from the FDA in terms
33:27
Speaker 1: of the response twenty eight percent fat loss. That's I
33:31
Speaker 1: think retitrude tide has the highest fat loss without the
33:35
Speaker 1: regaining of weight of any of the current ones. But
33:40
Speaker 1: there are some new ones coming along now. When I
33:42
Speaker 1: was at the show, they were giving out these oral ones. Yeah,
33:47
Speaker 1: and even candy, these caramels that this company has. I'll
33:51
Speaker 1: send you a picture of it because they gave me samples.
33:54
Speaker 1: So now they want you to do this, like before
33:57
Speaker 1: each meal, you take one of these care and supposedly
34:02
Speaker 1: it supports your weight loss.
34:05
Speaker 2: Now I looked at the ingredients.
34:06
Speaker 1: I don't see anything magical in them, but I and
34:10
Speaker 1: I can't tell you that it works or doesn't because
34:13
Speaker 1: I'm not a good candidate for that, but because I'm
34:15
Speaker 1: not trying to lose weight.
34:17
Speaker 2: But that is on the market.
34:20
Speaker 1: That was they had a big booth that The conference
34:24
Speaker 1: I just came from was called Changing Life and Destiny.
34:27
Speaker 1: Was Al Pernie as the founder of that, and they
34:30
Speaker 1: have it annually in Dallas.
34:32
Speaker 2: So it's one that you might want to consider.
34:34
Speaker 1: Everybody that goes says it's the best one of all,
34:37
Speaker 1: even better than they You know, everybody loves a four M,
34:41
Speaker 1: but a four M is so huge it's hard to
34:43
Speaker 1: navigate the exhibit hall, and you know, this one is
34:47
Speaker 1: much it's like it's like the biohackers world.
34:50
Speaker 2: It's much smaller and more multi Yeah. But anyway, so
34:53
Speaker 2: back to the skin creepiness. Is there are there any other.
35:00
Speaker 1: Esthetic treatments that you are using in conjunction with helping
35:04
Speaker 1: people with their diet and making sure they get enough
35:07
Speaker 1: protein and that they're not going through.
35:11
Speaker 2: Not only muscle loss but bone loss.
35:13
Speaker 1: So what's It's a complex challenge I think for someone in.
35:18
Speaker 2: Your medical role.
35:20
Speaker 1: So what what can you do aesthetically like on this
35:23
Speaker 1: is there are there lasers?
35:24
Speaker 2: Are there injections? What?
35:26
Speaker 3: Yes?
35:27
Speaker 2: Yes, I know GHKCU helps. I mean, yeah, that's something.
35:31
Speaker 1: Honestly, I think every woman shouldn't be doing that, just
35:34
Speaker 1: preventatively as you get into middle ages.
35:37
Speaker 2: And it's just it's.
35:38
Speaker 1: Not that big a challenge, I mean, and it's so important.
35:42
Speaker 1: It's it's basically copper and you're basically just tightening the
35:47
Speaker 1: skin and uh and smoothing the skin. So to me,
35:51
Speaker 1: if I had only one peptid to take or two peptids,
35:55
Speaker 1: I'd take BPC one five seven and GHKCU unless I
35:59
Speaker 1: had a very specific, you know, issue that I was addressing.
36:02
Speaker 1: But for overall wellness, those are the two that I
36:06
Speaker 1: you know, I.
36:07
Speaker 2: Like the best. But they course there's so many.
36:09
Speaker 1: So let's go back to the question though about you
36:11
Speaker 1: know what what is there can be done esthetically and
36:15
Speaker 1: internally nutritionally to help with crappiness.
36:19
Speaker 4: Okay, so I just the one one uh A sentence
36:24
Speaker 4: on GHKCU. I love GHKCU, I use it all the time.
36:28
Speaker 4: The only thing for like the audience, if you are
36:31
Speaker 4: purchasing GHK, make sure you are getting it from the
36:35
Speaker 4: proper sources because GHKCU is tricky because it has that
36:40
Speaker 4: copper right, So copper is a metal, So you want
36:44
Speaker 4: to make sure that that GHK is actually properly compounded
36:50
Speaker 4: because they need to have a proper bond. So GHK
36:55
Speaker 4: has a strong affinity to copper. If it's not compounded properly,
37:01
Speaker 4: the bond is malfunctioning, and that it causes free copper
37:06
Speaker 4: in a body. You don't want that because it can
37:08
Speaker 4: it can cause toxicity. You want to make sure that
37:11
Speaker 4: your your peptite is compounded properly right pitch, right temperature,
37:15
Speaker 4: and all of the things they do, because you do
37:18
Speaker 4: not want to cause more harm than.
37:21
Speaker 3: Good.
37:22
Speaker 4: And I actually had a I mean not my client.
37:25
Speaker 4: But I had a client that called me for consultation.
37:29
Speaker 4: We did consultation that she didn't proceed with me because
37:32
Speaker 4: she said that, you know, pharmaceutical pep tites are expensive,
37:35
Speaker 4: that she can buy it for seventy five dollars online.
37:39
Speaker 4: I said, I said, that's yeah, that's your choice, go ahead.
37:43
Speaker 4: And then she called me from the hospital because she
37:47
Speaker 4: I don't know what was if she missed those or something,
37:51
Speaker 4: but she had a major reaction to it. Her blood
37:55
Speaker 4: pressure was sky high, one eighty over one hundred and
37:58
Speaker 4: ten and she felt horrible. And I said, I'm like,
38:03
Speaker 4: I mean, you're in a good hands in er. Nothing
38:06
Speaker 4: I can help you with. But this is why I
38:08
Speaker 4: stress like when it comes to certain peptides and make
38:10
Speaker 4: sure that sourcing is is really good.
38:13
Speaker 1: Well, actually I would go a step further and say
38:17
Speaker 1: never ever, bye.
38:19
Speaker 3: Thank you guys.
38:20
Speaker 1: These are medical injections. It's you know, they are amino acids.
38:24
Speaker 1: They are made in your body, and they are really
38:27
Speaker 1: signaling molecules. But let's just say you're buying it from
38:29
Speaker 1: a fourteen year old influencer on Instagram and it's coming
38:34
Speaker 1: out of China. You don't know that that person is
38:37
Speaker 1: not going to tell you. And the other good news
38:39
Speaker 1: is that Robert F. Kennedy is now yes, reinstating you
38:44
Speaker 1: know what the FDA took off the market, which included
38:47
Speaker 1: g HKCU and BVC. You know, stupidly, I mean, honestly,
38:52
Speaker 1: I'm being being very direct, but honestly, these pep guides
38:56
Speaker 1: are much safer than pharmaceutical drugs, and yet they would
39:00
Speaker 1: taken off the market for lack of scientific evidence. Thank goodness,
39:05
Speaker 1: that was in the Biden years. Thank goodness. Now that
39:09
Speaker 1: RFK is in that position in the in the Health
39:13
Speaker 1: and HHS, he is seeing the mistake and he uses
39:19
Speaker 1: peptides himself, so he knows. But that's going to make
39:22
Speaker 1: it much safer because now people maybe they're paying more,
39:26
Speaker 1: but much better to not never take a risk.
39:28
Speaker 2: And this is where you know what, Sometimes what you
39:31
Speaker 2: pay for.
39:33
Speaker 1: Is going to make the difference, and particularly when it's
39:35
Speaker 1: something you're rejecting medically. So I'm telling everybody that's watching today,
39:41
Speaker 1: listen to Dominica. Listen to me, never ever ever buy
39:46
Speaker 1: from a source that you don't know where it's coming from.
39:50
Speaker 1: Because a lot of this has become the wild wild West,
39:53
Speaker 1: and so many people are selling stuff that isn't is
39:58
Speaker 1: not efficacious and can harm you like your your patient
40:02
Speaker 1: that called you from the hospital.
40:04
Speaker 2: So I think this is.
40:05
Speaker 1: A huge, huge issue today, and thank goodness for RFK
40:09
Speaker 1: that now they're available, so you have no excuse except
40:12
Speaker 1: for money, and right for them, maybe only do it
40:18
Speaker 1: less frequently and maybe fewer of them to take pick
40:22
Speaker 1: the ones that.
40:22
Speaker 2: Are the most urgent for you, right.
40:25
Speaker 4: And I honestly think that as these compounding pharmacies will
40:29
Speaker 4: be allowed to compound them without limitations. Now you have
40:33
Speaker 4: a competition and the prices will go down. Right, So
40:37
Speaker 4: I think that pharmaceutical peptides, the pricing will go down
40:41
Speaker 4: so people can afford that, and definitely much better to
40:45
Speaker 4: come to a doctor office and get them prescribed, get
40:47
Speaker 4: your blood work done, see what you actually need what
40:50
Speaker 4: you don't because sometimes you think you might need this
40:52
Speaker 4: peptide and actually you might need something completely different. So
40:56
Speaker 4: that's that's that's my advice. And now going back to
40:59
Speaker 4: the sthetic treatment. When it comes to aesthetics, we do
41:04
Speaker 4: a lot of different things depending on what is your
41:07
Speaker 4: budget or how much you want to invest into that.
41:09
Speaker 4: So let's say if money is like no object, yes,
41:14
Speaker 4: lasers are great. They're usually higher price ticket, but you
41:19
Speaker 4: do one or two when you're done, and they are
41:21
Speaker 4: very good for skin resurfacing, collagen building, things like that.
41:26
Speaker 4: There are let's say, like a mid tier options, something
41:30
Speaker 4: like sculpture, which is actually my favorite love sculpture because
41:34
Speaker 4: it does not change your face, it doesn't necessarily put
41:39
Speaker 4: too much volume, but rebuild s collogen It gives you
41:42
Speaker 4: that subtle.
41:45
Speaker 3: Tightening.
41:46
Speaker 4: Oh my gosh, I just love how the skin looks
41:48
Speaker 4: like in I can see a difference after one treatment
41:52
Speaker 4: on someone who is like forty years plus, provided that
41:56
Speaker 4: there's no major issue on the blood work right, there's
42:00
Speaker 4: like no sky high inflammation or insulin resistance or things
42:04
Speaker 4: like that, because when when we're dealing with insulin resistance,
42:08
Speaker 4: a lot of regenerative treatment will not bring an effect.
42:13
Speaker 4: And then like a lowest tier, like if someone is
42:15
Speaker 4: on a budget but wants to do something just then
42:18
Speaker 4: old fashioned micro kneeling amazing and you can do it,
42:23
Speaker 4: you know, every three months, or if someone wants to
42:27
Speaker 4: do three search in every month. It doesn't break your pocket.
42:31
Speaker 4: But it's such a good treatment. We use different serums.
42:34
Speaker 4: Now there's so much available we Actually my favorite is
42:39
Speaker 4: PDGF with micro kneeling. It gives you results, instant results
42:43
Speaker 4: right after, and people love it.
42:47
Speaker 1: Okay, So is that an EXI zome that BF PDGF
42:52
Speaker 1: is platelet derived grow factors?
42:55
Speaker 2: Oh oh yes.
42:56
Speaker 4: And I know there's like a lot of drama on
42:59
Speaker 4: social media about it about like injecting that we just
43:03
Speaker 4: use it for micro kneeling. Very happy with using that
43:06
Speaker 4: for micro knealing. It's it's truly amazing. And I have
43:10
Speaker 4: a client who is seventy four years old.
43:14
Speaker 3: And she's you she has done.
43:18
Speaker 4: You know, and facelifts and all kinds of different treatments.
43:22
Speaker 4: She's like, this is my favorite out of all of
43:25
Speaker 4: the things that I've ever done.
43:26
Speaker 3: I just like this the best.
43:27
Speaker 4: So just playing micro kneeling using this as a you know,
43:33
Speaker 4: glide and then post micro kneeling, it gives you that
43:36
Speaker 4: skin tightening effect and you look like you have a
43:41
Speaker 4: filter on your face that you don't really have to
43:44
Speaker 4: wear a lot of makeup, you know, afterwards.
43:46
Speaker 1: So so is it your own platelets that you're taking
43:50
Speaker 1: from the So.
43:51
Speaker 3: It's not like the PRP that you take.
43:54
Speaker 4: Yeah, so it comes in a syringe. So like these
43:59
Speaker 4: exo zoons are using now right. It comes in the vio. Also,
44:01
Speaker 4: PDGF comes in a syringe. You mix it with hyurenic acid.
44:05
Speaker 4: It gives you more like plumpiness and hydration and what
44:08
Speaker 4: I do, I just use it as a glide for
44:10
Speaker 4: micro kneeling and the rest of the syringe that I
44:13
Speaker 4: put it after and it's beautiful, beautiful effect. So for
44:18
Speaker 4: someone on a budget, I think this is like my
44:20
Speaker 4: number one treatment that I would recommend, you know, and
44:25
Speaker 4: then sculptra and then lasers if if people have time
44:28
Speaker 4: for downtime, cause lasers obviously sometimes you have like five
44:31
Speaker 4: days that you need to be od So what.
44:34
Speaker 2: Do you think, what's your favorite laser?
44:36
Speaker 1: Because people are confused today that you know, they say
44:39
Speaker 1: the CEO two is still the Cadillac, but there's you know,
44:42
Speaker 1: huge downtime.
44:44
Speaker 2: But if you had, you.
44:46
Speaker 1: Know, somebody who doesn't have the the flexibility of the downtime,
44:50
Speaker 1: what what laser do you recommend?
44:53
Speaker 3: Yeah? So honestly, so there is many. So one of
44:57
Speaker 3: them I like.
45:00
Speaker 4: Moxie, which is by sighton, so a less side effect
45:04
Speaker 4: or less downtime, but still some the one we have
45:09
Speaker 4: in the office, which is just a similar effect to Moxie,
45:13
Speaker 4: but a lower price point. It's called Genesis. But you
45:17
Speaker 4: gotta do like three sessions and on that no downtime.
45:21
Speaker 4: You can't just go out the same day. So that's
45:25
Speaker 4: the most popular because women like that. They look like
45:29
Speaker 4: they just got something done, they look bright, they look glowing.
45:35
Speaker 3: So then we have peril, which is more ablative, but
45:38
Speaker 3: that's kind of not as bad as coeo too. But yeah,
45:42
Speaker 3: you five days, you just no events, no obviously no
45:46
Speaker 3: sun for like another three weeks, but nothing major going
45:49
Speaker 3: on because it gives you Yes.
45:50
Speaker 1: So the the way I see it, A lot of
45:54
Speaker 1: the dermatology centers in California they say going for the
46:00
Speaker 1: halo once a year and then do the moxi three
46:04
Speaker 1: times a year as a maintenance. So, but the halo
46:07
Speaker 1: is more of a quasi. It's not fully ablated, but
46:11
Speaker 1: it's half and half. I guess right, So what do
46:14
Speaker 1: you think of that? Have you used the halo?
46:16
Speaker 3: Yes, halo, Yes, I have used it. I did like it.
46:22
Speaker 3: So let me put it this way. I did like it.
46:26
Speaker 4: The results were good, but sometimes, let's say for people
46:32
Speaker 4: who are on a budget, I felt personally that for
46:40
Speaker 4: what the results were the price.
46:42
Speaker 3: Was just a little too high.
46:44
Speaker 2: I agree with you, thank you.
46:45
Speaker 3: Yeah.
46:46
Speaker 4: And the thing is and seton this amazing laser company.
46:49
Speaker 4: They're like, you know, the Lamborghini of all the lasers.
46:53
Speaker 4: So the price of the treatment comes from the price
46:57
Speaker 4: of the laser itself and using disposable and disposable are
47:01
Speaker 4: crazy expensive, so that goes towards that price. So I
47:07
Speaker 4: just felt that's why we don't do it anymore. In
47:10
Speaker 4: our office, I felt like, oh my god, Like, who
47:13
Speaker 4: can afford doing three treatments at that price and then
47:18
Speaker 4: additional treatments to maintain I'm like, at this point, you
47:21
Speaker 4: better just say for the facelifting, you know, like so yes,
47:26
Speaker 4: when it comes to these lasers, I am more towards
47:31
Speaker 4: that lasers or devices or just have a little bit
47:34
Speaker 4: of lower price points so people can't afford it. Because honestly,
47:39
Speaker 4: if there is a lot of laxity in the skin,
47:43
Speaker 4: there's no non invasive device they can fix that, right,
47:48
Speaker 4: So like we have to have the expectations and be
47:52
Speaker 4: on the same page.
47:53
Speaker 3: It will help, it will deliver results.
47:56
Speaker 4: But if lifting the tissue is the goal, and maybe
48:01
Speaker 4: sometimes it's better off. Okay, save up your money do
48:04
Speaker 4: something minimal like micro needling to just get you by
48:08
Speaker 4: and you know, but but yeah, but we have clientele
48:11
Speaker 4: who just want to get it all done and then
48:14
Speaker 4: that will halo would just be okay, yes, that's that
48:16
Speaker 4: would be your.
48:17
Speaker 3: You know plant.
48:18
Speaker 4: But I felt like a lot of women were saying
48:21
Speaker 4: that it's just a little too pricey for what the
48:24
Speaker 4: result is afterwards.
48:26
Speaker 2: Yeah, and it's an ongoing thing.
48:27
Speaker 1: You have to do it annually, right along with if
48:30
Speaker 1: you're going to do the approach that they're recommended the
48:33
Speaker 1: halo once a year and the Moxie three times a year.
48:36
Speaker 1: So now you're into three moxies as well as the
48:38
Speaker 1: one time very expensive halo. So yeah, I mean, you
48:41
Speaker 1: do look good from what I read about and talk
48:45
Speaker 1: to people about. With the moxie, there's almost no downtime.
48:49
Speaker 1: You just you look like you have a sunburn and
48:51
Speaker 1: your face looked glowing for a couple of days and
48:53
Speaker 1: then a little bit of feeling but not not bad.
48:58
Speaker 1: But then afterwards, you know, they they say every three
49:01
Speaker 1: to four weeks you need to come back.
49:04
Speaker 4: So and then you edit a botox and then you're
49:07
Speaker 4: edding on some filler and yeah, that's your fifteen thousand
49:11
Speaker 4: dollars a year.
49:12
Speaker 3: Makers you know, yesterday.
49:14
Speaker 1: On the internet there was a woman in your position
49:17
Speaker 1: who was injecting a patient in her thighs with radis.
49:24
Speaker 1: I had never seen that before, but you know, obviously
49:28
Speaker 1: it kind of like you can deduce from what radius is,
49:33
Speaker 1: which is, you know, a very severe, a very intense
49:35
Speaker 1: filler which doesn't dissipate as quickly as some of the others.
49:40
Speaker 1: So apparently that woman had skin laxity and that was
49:45
Speaker 1: the solution.
49:46
Speaker 2: What do you think of that?
49:48
Speaker 4: So I'm assuming she was using hyper diluted radias, not
49:52
Speaker 4: just because yes, in a syrnch it's very thick and
49:57
Speaker 4: it will create a lot on nodules. You hyper dilute
50:01
Speaker 4: with like normal salines or bacteriostatic water.
50:04
Speaker 3: You can.
50:08
Speaker 4: Kind of injected under the skin to improve that skin laxity,
50:15
Speaker 4: you know, and like a in a abdomen if you
50:20
Speaker 4: have lexity in a skin and.
50:22
Speaker 3: Pie some arms neck.
50:25
Speaker 4: So, yes, that's that's the thing we do it in
50:29
Speaker 4: our office too.
50:30
Speaker 3: Is it popular treatment? Not really?
50:33
Speaker 4: Probably not popular. I'm not really promoting this heavily. I
50:39
Speaker 4: would say that maybe I see a good results.
50:43
Speaker 3: On fifty percent of patients. So see, I'm someone who
50:47
Speaker 3: if I don't if the treatments don't give me, like
50:51
Speaker 3: eighty five percent of people like are it's a success
50:55
Speaker 3: that I'm I'm just okay, let's.
50:56
Speaker 2: You're not going to do it.
50:57
Speaker 1: Yeah, So with people who do, let's go back to
51:01
Speaker 1: the g lp ones and the skin laxity issue. But
51:03
Speaker 1: I don't want to dwell on it too much, but
51:05
Speaker 1: I do want to be sure that people have a
51:07
Speaker 1: solution with it, because there's so many people that I'm
51:10
Speaker 1: hearing are complaining about this, is that that's really the
51:13
Speaker 1: only you know, most people are saying. That's the only
51:15
Speaker 1: real downside that I've had on the Redditrue tide. I
51:18
Speaker 1: don't know the other ones they say ozempic face and
51:22
Speaker 1: and other issues that you know have become lawsuits for
51:27
Speaker 1: those other those other GLP ones.
51:30
Speaker 2: But the Rettrude Tide isn't even on the.
51:32
Speaker 1: Market officially yet, so there's no real downside other than
51:37
Speaker 1: they're producing these studies saying it helps with other like
51:41
Speaker 1: inflammation and cardiovascu like.
51:43
Speaker 2: We talked about.
51:44
Speaker 1: So but but as far as that skin laxity, just
51:47
Speaker 1: to be sure people are safe combined, give us a
51:52
Speaker 1: little bit of like a protocol that you would use
51:54
Speaker 1: if combining nutrition. And this is both skin laxity for
51:58
Speaker 1: bone loss and collagen and elastin laws, so because they
52:03
Speaker 1: go together.
52:04
Speaker 2: In most cases.
52:06
Speaker 1: So what would be the nutritional profile that you would propose?
52:10
Speaker 1: I know that you know they say proteins should be
52:12
Speaker 1: at least one gram per kound of weight or something,
52:16
Speaker 1: But why don't you go through that and then believe
52:19
Speaker 1: that subject? But I just want to be sure people
52:21
Speaker 1: understand they can do things surface with certain lasers that
52:26
Speaker 1: will help tighten the skin, and then they can also
52:29
Speaker 1: very important do internally.
52:31
Speaker 2: And guides ingen. So go through like what you would do.
52:36
Speaker 2: Let's just say it were you. Let's just say.
52:38
Speaker 1: You've lost you know, twenty five pounds on a reditude
52:42
Speaker 1: tide and you want to help because you have so
52:44
Speaker 1: much knowledge, what would you do for yourself?
52:47
Speaker 4: So again I'm going to go back to that a
52:50
Speaker 4: blood work, right, So we're going to just talk about
52:53
Speaker 4: the general template here. But the most important thing is
52:57
Speaker 4: get your blood worped on, check your nutrients, check your
53:02
Speaker 4: any type of inflammation, check your insulin resistance, because sometimes
53:07
Speaker 4: even people on GLP one still have insulin resistance, check
53:10
Speaker 4: your lipids, things like that, check your hormones. So number one,
53:14
Speaker 4: correct any deficiencies. If you're deficient in zinc, take zinc supplements.
53:18
Speaker 4: If you have high homocysteine, you gotta take methylated b
53:23
Speaker 4: U vitamins, so that would be number one. So correct
53:28
Speaker 4: any deficiencies. You know, if the triglyceoids are high, you
53:32
Speaker 4: gotta take Omega three. You got to change your diet
53:35
Speaker 4: because that tells me you eat, you know, too much sugar,
53:37
Speaker 4: maybe too much alcohol and things like that.
53:40
Speaker 3: So foundation always first.
53:41
Speaker 4: Always, you know, if your I don't know corde result
53:47
Speaker 4: is too hire or to low, some aginal fatigue, make
53:49
Speaker 4: sure the sleep may be some stress coping, uh, you know, treatments, meditation,
53:55
Speaker 4: things like that.
53:56
Speaker 3: So foundation first.
53:58
Speaker 4: So let's say we have this corrected, and now we
54:00
Speaker 4: want to just improve skin collagen. And you know, an
54:06
Speaker 4: elastin GHK great peptides to add. It's going to synthesize
54:11
Speaker 4: more collagen and it's going to go also to synthesize
54:14
Speaker 4: more elastin, which is very important.
54:16
Speaker 3: So that would be my one ad. On the other
54:19
Speaker 3: thing when it comes to peptids.
54:20
Speaker 4: Sometimes if you have skin issues, maybe like adult acne
54:27
Speaker 4: or some ezema or things like that. I will add
54:30
Speaker 4: BPC to the regimen or all pill because it's great
54:34
Speaker 4: for healing the tissue, helping helping with skin conditions as well,
54:39
Speaker 4: especially when it comes from the God.
54:42
Speaker 3: Sometimes KPV is another.
54:43
Speaker 4: One that I'm adding right, so now I'm covering the
54:48
Speaker 4: internal and sometimes also very often we are adding a
54:54
Speaker 4: growth hormone releasing peptides if someone has a low IGF one,
54:59
Speaker 4: because that also has anti aging properties because it's going
55:03
Speaker 4: to stimulate your grow hormone.
55:04
Speaker 3: It's going to promote lean.
55:05
Speaker 4: Muscle mass, reduce fat, but also more we have a
55:09
Speaker 4: lot of grow hormon when we we lose it when
55:11
Speaker 4: we get older. It's important for women to maintain proper
55:15
Speaker 4: amount of IGF one which is being stimulated by these
55:20
Speaker 4: grow hormone releasing peptides, and.
55:24
Speaker 2: That and that that would be testa morelen or TV five.
55:27
Speaker 4: And would be the two test morele and if morele
55:30
Speaker 4: and CGC or sermolean and even like the very like
55:37
Speaker 4: a first generation or a gentless would be a surmorale
55:41
Speaker 4: and it doesn't have a huge spike in grow hormone.
55:45
Speaker 4: It gently increases IGF one but has some anti aging.
55:48
Speaker 3: Properties, so women like that one. So something like that.
55:52
Speaker 4: People look women look better by just using sleep improved.
55:56
Speaker 4: Sometimes your skill looks bad because you don't sleep.
56:00
Speaker 3: So all that matters. Patient context matters.
56:02
Speaker 4: That's why my consultation is always sixty minutes, because I
56:06
Speaker 4: am going to find a solution for your problem.
56:09
Speaker 3: And think about that.
56:11
Speaker 4: That a lot of external issues comes from internal health. Right,
56:16
Speaker 4: you got sleep, bad diet, alcohol.
56:18
Speaker 3: Things like that. So I'm going to think that.
56:21
Speaker 4: And now anything aesthetic is just a cherry on a cake,
56:24
Speaker 4: that's right. So and then I'm going to ask you
56:26
Speaker 4: what is your what's your budget? Be honest, tell me.
56:30
Speaker 4: If it's two hundred dollars, I'll find you something for
56:32
Speaker 4: two hundred dollars. If you want to invest and you're
56:35
Speaker 4: like I want the best out of the best, I'll
56:37
Speaker 4: give you the best out of the best, and then
56:39
Speaker 4: just work with some more budget.
56:40
Speaker 1: You know.
56:41
Speaker 4: So, like I said, microneling would be like the minimum
56:45
Speaker 4: sculptra I love sculpture. That would be like, admit, it's
56:48
Speaker 4: about like nine eight hundred dollars or nine hundred dollars
56:51
Speaker 4: for treatment, and then lasers are usually past the thousand
56:56
Speaker 4: for what you need. So so that's my yeah, and
57:01
Speaker 4: you know there is like I haven't even scratched the
57:04
Speaker 4: surface with you today.
57:05
Speaker 1: I mean, there's know any other questions like HBO, t
57:08
Speaker 1: ex zones, plate lit ridge p R P. You know
57:14
Speaker 1: what's the other one p pf R Yeah, what does
57:18
Speaker 1: that standout?
57:19
Speaker 3: Plate lit, platelet, rich, fibrant orb vibrant yees.
57:24
Speaker 1: So what I suggest, because we we just got flagged
57:27
Speaker 1: that we're out of time, So what I want to
57:30
Speaker 1: suggest is that we have you come back.
57:32
Speaker 2: We're not.
57:32
Speaker 1: We have an opening, but not until November, so it
57:35
Speaker 1: gives us plenty of time for people to digest what
57:37
Speaker 1: they had today. But honestly, Dominique, there's you know, I
57:41
Speaker 1: really my whole goal in this podcast is to help people.
57:45
Speaker 1: And you know, the way we look even though we
57:49
Speaker 1: both agree and everybody should know that it does come
57:54
Speaker 1: internally first.
57:55
Speaker 2: They say internal and external beauty.
57:57
Speaker 1: But you can't start with the extra and expect big
58:01
Speaker 1: change if you're don't address the internal. And that's what
58:03
Speaker 1: makes you so refreshing and so innovative in your approach
58:08
Speaker 1: versus a lot of these medical spots that are even
58:11
Speaker 1: just you know, esthetic spots.
58:13
Speaker 2: That don't ever even go to that.
58:15
Speaker 1: So I want to explore this further and I want
58:18
Speaker 1: to get into some other protocols, and I'm sure we'll
58:21
Speaker 1: have some feedback on We'll put a lot of stuff
58:24
Speaker 1: in the show notes that people can contact you.
58:27
Speaker 2: So just give us a quicking on how someone can
58:29
Speaker 2: reach you.
58:31
Speaker 1: And also, I know you said you wanted to offer
58:34
Speaker 1: a little gift for our viewers, So just do those
58:37
Speaker 1: two things for us, and then we'll do us around
58:40
Speaker 1: you as soon as we have an opening.
58:43
Speaker 4: Sure, So easiest way would be Instagram probably which is
58:48
Speaker 4: Dominika Underscore Loretto, So that's the easiest way to reach
58:55
Speaker 4: out to me. Email is fine as well, so if
58:59
Speaker 4: you can put my email in a note. And when
59:02
Speaker 4: it comes to these gifts today, I would love to
59:05
Speaker 4: offer someone when when if you if I have a
59:08
Speaker 4: local audience in Chicago, I would love to offer a
59:12
Speaker 4: either aesthetic treatment. We can do microhne ning with PDGF,
59:18
Speaker 4: we can do a laser or a full consultation wellness
59:21
Speaker 4: consultation with blood work and peptides, so that's done before
59:27
Speaker 4: the local and then if someone is obviously out of state,
59:30
Speaker 4: then we are I think limited to a full consult, right, So.
59:35
Speaker 2: You know, here's the thing.
59:37
Speaker 1: What you just offered for anyone that's in Chicago would
59:40
Speaker 1: make me get on an airplane. Cho that's a pretty
59:44
Speaker 1: that's a very generous offer. So are well thank you?
59:48
Speaker 1: So everybody will see that in the show notes. And
59:50
Speaker 1: also what is your email? Just for people that have
59:53
Speaker 1: with reference right now?
59:54
Speaker 4: So it's my name, Dominica dot a lift Supreme at the.
59:58
Speaker 3: Gmail dot com.
1:00:00
Speaker 4: Yeah. Also, I have a book coming out which is
1:00:02
Speaker 4: actually coming out next week. It's called Awaken, so for
1:00:07
Speaker 4: someone who wants to know more about the Foundation's functional aesthetic,
1:00:13
Speaker 4: all that stuff. I think I put all my heart
1:00:15
Speaker 4: into that book. So if you guys have like thirty
1:00:17
Speaker 4: five dollars to spend, the book's going to be on
1:00:21
Speaker 4: Amazon probably next sometime next week. Yeah.
1:00:26
Speaker 2: Oh my goodness, I didn't even know you were working
1:00:28
Speaker 2: on a book.
1:00:29
Speaker 3: That's I've been working on it for over a year.
1:00:31
Speaker 4: I've been so busy, but I finally finished and I
1:00:34
Speaker 4: have like a little event, a local event here next week.
1:00:38
Speaker 4: The book is being delivered to me tomorrow and I
1:00:40
Speaker 4: think they're going to put it on Amazon sometime next week.
1:00:43
Speaker 3: But it's truly.
1:00:44
Speaker 4: Even my husband said that was so interesting, and he's
1:00:48
Speaker 4: not into you know, women's stuff.
1:00:50
Speaker 1: You're not trying to sell something, you're trying to inform.
1:00:53
Speaker 1: So could you send us a link with a picture
1:00:57
Speaker 1: of the book so we can put that on the podcast.
1:01:00
Speaker 1: We'll put that as a we'll help to promote the
1:01:02
Speaker 1: book a little bit because we want people to, you know,
1:01:04
Speaker 1: know about it. I didn't realize it was so imminent.
1:01:07
Speaker 1: I didn't even know what was happening. But now that
1:01:09
Speaker 1: I know it exists, let's let's give it a little
1:01:12
Speaker 1: push in terms of Okay, so send us all right, well,
1:01:16
Speaker 1: we have to go