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XOMD…The Skincare Line That Can Boost Mood, Confidence—And Maybe Your Sex Life — Dr. Steven Dayan · The Dr. Randi Show

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  Hello everyone, and welcome to the Doctor Randy show.
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  Today I am excited to welcome Doctor Steven Diane, renowned
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  facial plastic surgeon, New York Times bestselling author and a
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  leading educator in aesthetic medicine with over 180 published
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  articles and six influential books, including a New York
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  Times bestseller, Subliminally Supposed.
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  His latest groundbreaking innovation is Exomd, the first
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  ever mood seutical skin care line.
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  It is scientifically formulated to enhance both skin health and
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  emotional well-being. Welcome to the podcast, Doctor
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  Diane. Randy, it's a pleasure to be
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  here. I'm super excited to chat with
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  you. Excellent.
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  And that I had to write out because you've had the longest
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  intro. So thank you for having such an
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  amazing, accomplished beginning. I love it so.
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  Well, I got a lot of scars, I can tell you that.
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  I met you in person. I didn't see any scars.
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  They're all in my chest and my back.
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  To get things kicked off, let's just talk about your amazing
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  career in general. Your career integrates surgery,
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  psychology and education. What inspired you to create the
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  world's first mood suitable skin care line?
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  Exomd. That's a great question, Andy.
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  For 25 years I've been in practice, and early on in my
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  career I realized that there's something more to making people
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  feel beautiful. And that's the key to making
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  someone happy in practice because I can make a perfect
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  nose, I can make perfect eyes, and I can fit a mathematical
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  form because that's how we were taught when I was in medical
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  school, in residency and fellowship.
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  But it doesn't necessarily mean that's going to equate to a
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  person being satisfied with the surgical procedure.
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  So I had to be able to treat them surgically to make sure
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  that they were going to be happy.
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  But it was up here, I was treating their mind.
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  I wasn't treating just their face.
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  And the minute I started to realize that I was treating
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  their minds and not their face, my practice took off.
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  So I started doing a lot more research into what makes someone
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  happy and why, and that's when I went back to my college days
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  where I studied both evolutionary biology and
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  religion and philosophy and starting to weave that in into
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  what I do in aesthetic medicine. I started to come up with these
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  new theories about what makes someone beautiful and why.
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  And then I went to teaching a class undergraduate course at
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  DePaul University for 10 years on the science of beauty.
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  It's impacting culture and business in America, which led
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  to my book, which then led to so much research.
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  And the more I did this, the more I got into this, I realized
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  that we were doing something wrong in plastic surgery.
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  Plastic surgery was too focused on physical.
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  And it's not about the physical, it's about the emotional.
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  And 70% of what I do on a daily basis is treating the emotion
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  and not the physical. Now I have to put the two
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  together, but I have to make someone happy.
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  And when I started realizing that I recognize that Exomd, our
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  skin care line that I then did with my partner Sabrina Fabi was
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  going to take some of that science that I've been working
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  on over the last 20 years and put it into a skin care line.
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  So I put it into a skin care line.
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  Sabrina also, and I've been talking about this a lot, and
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  she really added in a lot of the important components for making
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  their skin look good. And then I added in a pheromone.
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  And many people know what a pheromone is, but I believe in
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  pheromones. So I was putting in a pheromone
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  by putting in a product that's based on oxytocin, is not
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  actually oxytosin, but it's a botanical that mimics oxytocin
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  that elevates the mood and make someone feel good about
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  themselves. And putting in a topical age in
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  there, a formula for skin, we were able to create this new
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  formula that really improves not just skin quality, but also
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  emotions and sexual satisfaction.
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  That's really unique. So there's a long answer to your
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  question. I can go into each one of those
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  components individually if you want, but we can take it from
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  there. That's amazing.
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  I mean, I love the story of why you did it.
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  It sounds like there's a lot of passion behind it.
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  And in our conversations, I've heard the passion.
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  It wasn't just I want to create a new product and you and I've
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  talked about that too, right? There's a lot of skin care lines
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  out there, but this one has a lot of passion behind it.
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  So I love but can. I dive into that a little bit
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  more because I think that's a really good point.
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  I want it. And I want to emphasize that
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  because over the years, 20 years I've been in practice, I've had
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  so many skin care lines come to me and say, Doctor Diane, can we
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  put your name on there? And I didn't want to do that.
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  Of course, I could have private label it.
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  I could have Doctor Diane's famous skin care, but that
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  wouldn't be me because it had nothing to do with it.
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  I uniquely incorporated into there.
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  And Sabrina, my partner in life, could have done the same thing.
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  She's #5 cosmetic dermatologist in the world.
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  She has everyone and their brother coming to them asking
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  her to endorse her skin care lines.
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  And she has celebrities asking her to endorse her skin care
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  lines, but she didn't feel good about them.
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  Like, we've got to create something that's so unique.
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  That's just something that you and I designed from the
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  beginning. So we formulated it from the
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  beginning. So everything about it, we
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  actually went out. Now we're patenting the formula
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  because it took many iterations. And so we got it just right.
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  And once we got it just right, then we had to put it in
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  packaging that was really unique because it had to have, if you
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  care about the design of the formula, you care about the
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  design of the packaging. We weren't going to just do a
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  generic packaging. And we started combining all
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  that together. We came up with a unique
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  formulation. And that's why we're so
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  passionate, because it's us. And then we also had a baby
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  along the way, you know, so we didn't just create a skinker
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  line, we created a baby. Also Mateo, our son now who's
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  two years old. So it was all happening at the
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  same time. It's all based on the same
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  concept. So it's her and I coming
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  together and and fusing our passions and our research and
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  our love for what we do. That's great.
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  While we're on the topic of the packaging, let's see it.
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  We'd love to see it. OK, I'd love to show it to you.
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  This is the X and this is the O, and they go together.
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  You can see they fit together, the serum and the moisturizer,
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  and that's really unique. You'll see this on if you put
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  this on your shelf. It looks really pretty and
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  people really like it a lot. So that's been a big win for us.
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  And I have to be honest with you, I was not in favor of this
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  at first. I said, you know what, let's go
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  to market. We got a great product and
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  Sabrina said no, it's got to be the perfect packaging.
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  I got to like it and to her credit, she was right.
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  We went back and forth, took over a year to get her right,
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  and when we did, we went with it.
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  So we're really happy that now we're making many versions of
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  this for travel size. It's so unique.
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  I'm wonderful. When I got mine, I was like
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  blown away by the packaging. So congratulations on that
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  design. I've never seen skin care look
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  like that. So again, tell us a little bit
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  more about the technology, about how this works.
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  Like how does you have something called Exo factor, right?
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  So tell us a little bit more about the science, about how it
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  enhances mood and social interaction.
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  I think that's what people are really interested in.
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  So what makes this so unique and what we call our proprietary
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  formula OX factor and it's got a combination of three components
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  to it that make it unique that we're patenting. 1 is there was
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  a Jasmine derivative that stimulate Paso receptors in the
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  skin. Now in your skin you have
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  thousands of neurons and in your skin you have norepinephrine,
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  you have serotonin, you have dopamine, you have oxytocin.
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  All these neural hormones are in your skin and people don't
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  realize that we have the skin brain axis.
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  Our skin and our brain communicate in a subconscious
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  pathway. So with those hormones in your
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  skin, if you can stimulate those hormones in your skin, then they
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  can have an influence on your endogenous release of those same
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  hormones. Now, oxytocin is really unique.
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  We know what's in our skin. Oxytocin has a unique effect at
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  the skin level. When oxytocin levels go up, you
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  have less vascular compromise. In other words, you have more
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  blood vessels that come to the skin.
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  You have more blood flow to the skin you actually have It's
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  anti-inflammatory, it's antioxidants.
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  It also has many effects for wound healing and improves wound
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  healing and reduces inflammatory markers.
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  This all happens in the skin, and as a plastic surgeon, we
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  know that oxytocin may be beneficial to people who have
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  wounds or if we're doing flaps and we need them repair.
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  Oxytocin has incredible effects there, but as a human, we know
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  when we touch someone, we hug them, we feel good.
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  Why do we feel good? One of the reasons is our
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  oxytocin levels in our skin go up.
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  Our mechanical receptors stimulate oxytocin that then has
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  a positive biofeedback loop with our hypothalamus and our
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  pituitary gland, which then releases more oxytocin.
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  Systemically. We feel good for women in
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  particular, more so than men, but it's released in both.
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  But for women, once your oxytocin levels go up, you feel
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  euphoria, you feel closer to your partner, you want to cuddle
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  with them, your memory gets better, your social interactions
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  improve, You find men more attractive, you trust men more.
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  So it's called the prosocial hormone.
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  And for that reason, we wanted to take advantage of oxytocin
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  because Sabrina and I would always talk about it when she
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  was pregnant, she glowed, she looked fantastic.
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  Some of that reasons or Majora, that reason is the oxytocin in
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  her skin. Just like when you're in love,
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  someone walks into the office, you're like, Oh my gosh, Joan,
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  what did you must have had a good night last night.
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  It was because she had oxytocin release because she had a great
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  romantic encounter. So we can see when people have
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  that afterglow and that comes from oxytocin.
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  So we wanted to get a product that we knew can stimulate
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  oxytocin levels in the skin or mimic the effects of oxytocin.
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  So that's what we aim for. That was our #1 component #2 is
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  we wanted to do something made the skin look good, skin
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  quality. So we put in phospholipids in
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  there and many products that are on their shelves that we all
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  used to have phospholipids. So we added some of those in
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  there and then we wanted to add it a pheromone.
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  That was my component. I'm like Serena, let's put a
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  pheromone in there because I believe in pheromones.
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  And I think that these chemical messengers that we release from
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  our skin can influence behaviors in others and it does.
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  And so we put those three things in there.
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  Then we had to put it to the test.
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  And by putting to the test is not easy because most skin care
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  companies do not do a test. Why?
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  Because it's expensive. It's very expensive and it's
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  risky. If you fail, what happens?
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  If you fail, then you guys start over again.
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  So most companies aren't going to spend all that money to do a
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  study and then have it fail. They're more likely to take that
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  money and put into marketing. But Sabrina and I, we're not
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  going to put our name on something unless we proved in a
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  double-blind, placebo, randomized controlled trial.
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  I'm going to say that again, a double-blind placebo randomized
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  controlled trial because so few skin care products ever do that.
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  They don't have to. So we did the most rigorous
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  testing you can do, like you would do for pharmaceutical
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  testing. And then we wanted to see what
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  would happen. And we didn't just test skin
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  quality, we did skin quality got better doing this.
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  Radiance glow of skin look great.
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  But what we also show is that confidence went up after 4 to 8
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  weeks, from 4 weeks up to 8 weeks, it got better and better,
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  up to 86% of patients at 86% increase in confidence levels.
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  Placebo had no effect like that. And then we looked at things
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  like do people find you more attractive?
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  We looked at first impressions. Yes, we tested 8 different
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  questions and in eight categories, the people who wore
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  Exomd had projected a better first impression.
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  They were more attractive. They look more socially
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  successful, more financially successful, more academically
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  successful, more athletically successful.
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  And the people looking at them didn't know they had anything
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  done. Placebo 0.
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  And the most profound of all of our data, it was when we looked
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  at sexual satisfaction and nobody looks at sexual
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  satisfaction and skin care, But because I put a pheromone in
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  there, I wanted to test what would happen.
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  So we took a validated scale, which means an accurate and
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  reliable scale, and we put a validated scale in there and
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  people had to answer questions about their sexual history and
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  their sex life. And in our clinical trial, those
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  women who wore Exomd for eight weeks had improvement in sexual
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  satisfaction in 90% of categories and 18 out of 20
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  categories is 90% placebo. 0. The difference was so profound,
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  I took it back to the statistician.
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  I'm like, I don't believe this. And she's like, no, it's true.
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  So we weren't going to talk about it, but that's the
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  question people keep asking about it.
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  Does it really improve sexual satisfaction?
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  Answer is yes, if you used it for 8 weeks.
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  In our study, we proved it did is a placebo.
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  I don't think so. It was against placebo.
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  We proved statistical significance, but it seems to be
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  really working and people like it.
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  So we're the first product, we called it a mood seutical, first
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  product to come to market in skin care that can prove those
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  three things and we're proud of it.
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  This is amazing. So it's skin care that improves
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  your sex life, right? OK, but we're not a sex cream so
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  we're first and primary focus. We're skin quality.
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  People glow. So once you glow, you feel good
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  about yourself. Which we all know because if you
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  feel good about your parents, 70% of self esteem is wrapped up
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  in appearance. If you feel good about yourself,
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  then maybe your relationships are better also.
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  So maybe it's all feeding off each other and that's probably
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  part of it too. And that's great.
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  And I think this is where aesthetics is going.
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  So if you want to look at the bigger picture, aesthetics needs
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  to be pro social in my opinion. Pro social.
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  So what does that mean? For many years, since the
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  history and inception of plastic surgery, we've been talking
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  about it, at least in our modern world, we've been talking about
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  how to make people more beautiful.
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  And that's the wrong thing to do.
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  But if we focus just on making people more beautiful, then we
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  can make perfect mathematically perfect faces.
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  That was first order. Second order was we learned that
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  when we needed to test, do people feel better after the
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  plastic surgery? So we started doing PR OS,
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  patient reported outcomes in our clinical trials.
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  We wanted to test if self esteem went up and quality of life went
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  up. So in the late 90s and early
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  2000s, we started doing PR OS and the FDA started requiring it
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  to prove that people actually felt better about themselves.
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  Then the third part is observer reported outcomes.
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  Do other people think you look better?
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  So after you get plastic surgery or after you get a botulinum
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  toxin treatment or after you get a filler, do you make a better
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  first impression? Do other people think you look
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  more natural? So we started looking into that.
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  Now I'm introducing the 4th order and the 4th order is, does
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  plastic surgery do aesthetic treatments, whether it's Botox,
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  filler or laser or facial, do they help you in your social
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  life? Do you have a better social life
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  than do they work for you? Do they improve your social
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  interactions? And I think that's where we're
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  going next with aesthetic medicine, regardless of what
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  we're doing. And I think you're going to
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  start to see in all of our clinical trials, we're going to
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  start looking at pro social benefits of aesthetic treatments
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  and we're starting that. We're pioneering that movement
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  with Exomd. So how quickly do people see the
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  results or feel the results? Should we say?
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  Anecdotally, when we did the clinical trial, people were
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  saying within two weeks they started to feel better and
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  that's what most because they start to see the glow.
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  Now in the clinical trial, we looked at them at 4 weeks and we
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  looked at them at 8 weeks. So I can only comment on what we
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  found in the clinical trial. In the clinical trial, we
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  started to see improvements at 4 weeks, but the improvement got
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  better through 8 weeks. And we could statistically show
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  because we did a crossover trial that people at 8 weeks had a
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  more profound improvement than four weeks.
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  So it went up statistically significantly from 4 to 8 weeks,
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  which means you get the benefits of four weeks.
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  They continue to get better at 8 weeks.
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  Now what would happen, We followed for 12 weeks.
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  Maybe we continue to get better, but we stopped the study after 8
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  weeks. So I don't know for sure.
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  Got it. OK.
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  But it sounds like the results are sustainable and it's
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  happening within four weeks. So that's.
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  Great around 4 weeks to tell people.
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  Expect to start to feel better about yourself.
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  You'll notice the glow on your skin.
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  And hey, if your intimate relationships are better, God
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  bless. Yeah, who doesn't want that?
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  So now. And one important thing I want
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  to mention is we don't have oxytocin in our product.
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  People always ask, do we have oxytocin?
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  We do not. We mimic the effects of it and
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  we playoff the effects of it, but we don't actually have it in
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  there. OK.
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  That's good to know. I think that's important.
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  So how do you see Exomd evolving?
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  Are there plans for new products extending it to other Wellness
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  categories? What are your plans?
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  But I think this is a great question because where is this
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  all going? So we're the first in the
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  category. And because of that, there's
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  always a lot of confusion. What is it improves my skin and
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  makes me feel good and it increases my libido or my sexual
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  satisfaction, my intimate relationships.
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  Excuse me, I don't understand this.
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  I think with this new category, what you're starting to see is
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  that aesthetic medicine in general is starting to dance
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  with sexual health and Wellness. Both fields are growing like
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  crazy and parallel. And if you look at that field,
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  you look at our field and you look at holistic medicine,
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  they're all percolating and they're all circulating.
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  Now you see what the GLP is also GLPS improved mood and they
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  improve the way people feel about themselves.
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  So they're now starting to come into our space and a lot of
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  plastic surgeons and aesthetic medicine doctors and providers
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  are now offering GLPS, which is the Ozempics of the world.
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  All this is starting to play together and dance, and I think
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  we're all figuring it out. If you go to our medical
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  conferences now, yes, we have the plastic surgery room to
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  learn how to do a deep plane facelift.
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  Yes, we have the dermatology room to learn how to get rid of
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  rosacea and increase collagen and elastin.
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  But we're starting to find a merge between the two where
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  we're talking about like, how does this all come together?
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  And I think that's forging it forward.
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  We're breaking down the trees, we're creating the past.
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  And I'm holding that flag along with Sabrina and we're helping
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  build that pathway. And I think you're going to see
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  a lot more come through that pathway now in the near future
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  as the two merge. That's great.
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  I think that you're right. We're going to see some new
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  directions in aesthetic medicine in the next year or two.
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  I'd love to talk to you for a minute about your TikTok
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  channel. OK.
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  Oh. My gosh.
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  Yeah. I've heard that is trending and
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  that you have significantly built a following on TikTok and
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  just curious, how do you feel that this platform has changed
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  the way you communicate medical advice but.
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  This is really a cute story. So I started out I was I'm not a
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  tik toker. My kids will always TikTok and
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  in fact, when they were talking about banning and I was like,
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  OK, OK, I have no problem with that.
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  Having said that, I had a young person we hired here and she was
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  working in the office and she was dating and she was out in
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  the dating world and she'd always come and ask me questions
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  like Doctor Diane, how do I know if a boy likes me?
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  Doctor Diane, how do I get boys? I never may be.
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  She was asking questions. She's early 20s.
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  So I'd answer her questions much like a dad would or a professor
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  would. And I have this enormous
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  background in the science of attraction and beauty.
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  And I've published so many articles.
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  In fact, I don't know of anyone who's published as many articles
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  as I have in the science of attraction, certainly in our
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  literature. So I refer back to that.
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  I taught a class on it. I've read a New Times bestseller
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  book. So I would answer her questions
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  with the science of attraction, how to get people to be
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  attracted to her or how she knows someone's really into her
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  and then eventually evolved into relationship questions.
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  So she goes, can I film you? I'm like, OK, so she started
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  filming this and then she started putting it on TikTok.
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  I really wasn't following TikTok.
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  Wow. It exploded and it took off and
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  I got this like trend of answering questions about what
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  is attractive, why it's attractive, and now it's going
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  into more into relationships. So I went from zero to 90,000
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  followers in three months. And the most important, the best
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  part about this is my kids think I'm cool now because like dad,
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  you're trending on TikTok and all my friends are saying it.
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  Can you stop talking about those things?
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  Because sometimes I talk about some things that may be a little
• 18:39
  bit risque, so to speak. But I will tell you, when I went
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  to go visit my daughter to college, her friends wanted to
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  go to dinner with me because they want to ask me questions.
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  So I feel validated now and I'm cool with my daughter's eyes.
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  So I think that's fun. But yeah, it's taken off and
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  it's been great. And it's very easy for me
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  because I'm just talking about things off the top of my head
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  when it comes to science of attraction.
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  Well, TikTok is secretly my favorite platform and I've seen
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  your show and it's very captivating and you're
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  definitely influencing many different generations, many
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  different people. And I think it's great that
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  you're now you're appealing to your children as well.
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  So that's good to hear. So now that you've got this skin
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  care line going, one of the things I wanted to touch upon
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  with you quickly is that you have worked with, from what I've
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  heard, a lot of high profile clients, right?
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  And everybody loves to hear about that.
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  Tell me a little bit about what it's like or something
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  surprising or things that we wouldn't expect from somebody
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  who works for high profile clients, Things that you've
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  learned or working with celebrities.
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  Would love to hear. Of course, I'm not in LA or New
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  York, so I may not be getting all the celebrities that some of
• 19:43
  my colleagues are getting, but we get a fair amount that come
• 19:45
  through Chicago, especially if they're here for an event or a
• 19:48
  show. And I can tell you this, there's
• 19:50
  been a few Times Now where I closed down my office because
• 19:52
  their agent calls their publishers calls and says close
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  down the office and they don't show.
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  And that's been disappointing. Or they come in under a false
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  name and then you're surprised when they show up.
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  Well, the one thing I can tell you that I've realized, it's
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  been pretty consistent for me. The ones that are A listers, the
• 20:06
  ones who are really good. Are always very nice and
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  appreciative. The ones who want to be a
• 20:11
  listers tend to be rude, mean and just short in nature.
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  So I, like you, have no problem treating a listers.
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  And the other thing I would say is that most importantly, and I
• 20:23
  would tell us to my young fellows and colleagues, is treat
• 20:25
  them like every other patients. It's normal to get starstruck
• 20:28
  for many people, but don't treat them like every patients.
• 20:31
  Once you start compromising and going out of your way to do
• 20:34
  things differently for them, that's when care sometimes
• 20:36
  doesn't go as well as it should. That's great advice.
• 20:40
  I think that's true when we start bending the rules and we
• 20:43
  wish we can never get back to the first part.
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  So I agree. So one of the things that I
• 20:49
  wanted to ask you about, and I have a feeling the listeners and
• 20:52
  watchers are interested to the audience.
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  So you're balancing surgery, research, books, teaching,
• 20:59
  launching a skin care line. That's all very demanding.
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  What strategies do you use to maintain your productivity,
• 21:07
  maintain your balance and you're still always it's in a great
• 21:09
  mood. It's been a different time.
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  I don't believe in the word balance.
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  I hate that word in some respects because I think it's
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  like we focus on something and we're so committed and so
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  motivated to it, and then we focus on something else and
• 21:19
  we're so committed and motivated to that and we go back and
• 21:22
  forth. I think we all do that.
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  We take the weekends. Maybe we need to relax.
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  Maybe we're working really hard during the day.
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  So I tend to get really centered and focused on something and
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  when I'm in it, I'm so in it that nothing around me it gets
• 21:34
  in Like I could sit there and can be I'm writing something and
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  I might just be so captivated that there could be a fire
• 21:39
  around me. I wouldn't even hear it or feel
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  it. So I think I get very into
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  something and I don't let my attention span when I'm into it
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  at that moment. I think that helps.
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  I'm also someone doesn't sleep much, which I think you may be
• 21:52
  similar to me, but I tend to not sleep much and I tend to get up
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  early. I'm early riser and I'm highly
• 21:58
  motivated to do a lot of things at one time, so there's pluses
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  and minus. It's that, but I don't think you
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  can change it. It's you are who you are and you
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  do what you do best and that works for me.
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  Now it doesn't work for everyone, yes, but that that's
• 22:10
  what works for me. I agree it works for me too,
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  which is why we're aligned. What is on the horizon for you,
• 22:16
  Doctor Diane? What projects will you be
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  working on next? And I'm sure when we have you
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  back in a few months, what direction will you be going in?
• 22:24
  Great question. I sold my practice last year to
• 22:26
  a platform or two years ago, met spa partners and I'm one of 40
• 22:30
  now. We're one of the best practices
• 22:32
  in North America, not the largest aesthetic platform and
• 22:34
  I'm the US medical director for that.
• 22:36
  So that motivates me and takes up a lot of my time.
• 22:39
  We're building a brand new office and I'm super excited
• 22:41
  about that. So we have our own surgery
• 22:43
  center. So I'll be continuing to operate
• 22:45
  as much as I can and really enjoy treating patients on an
• 22:48
  individual basis. At the same time, I'm really
• 22:50
  loving launching the skin care line.
• 22:52
  It's taking off and we just signed a distribution agreement
• 22:55
  in Europe to go be in 52 countries.
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  Hopefully soon we'll sign one in Canada and we'll continue to
• 23:00
  grow the skin care line because it's a movement.
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  It's not just something to make people's skin look better.
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  But I love creating new markets and that is incredibly
• 23:08
  motivating and exciting to me. That's not going to end.
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  And of course, I continue my research interests.
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  I continue to do a lot of Phase 2-3 and four clinical trials and
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  I really enjoy doing those as well.
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  And mostly in my family, I got three young daughters who are
• 23:23
  all now coming of age and moving on into their next stage of
• 23:26
  life. They're all done with college
• 23:27
  and that's fun to watch them and help shepherd them as they start
• 23:30
  to enter adulthood. And then I have a baby with
• 23:32
  Sabrina. We have a 2 year old and Oh my
• 23:34
  gosh, I cannot tell you how great is my first boy.
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  So that's a lot of fun to watch a little boy grow up and look at
• 23:40
  it from a different lens is now an older parent.
• 23:42
  So I have to say all those things, I continue to invest in
• 23:45
  them and grow and enjoy each one of them as much as I can.
• 23:48
  That sounds wonderful and we can't wait to hear the next
• 23:51
  update, but it sounds like you have a lot of great things on
• 23:54
  the horizon. So congratulations on all your
• 23:57
  success. I did not know about Med Spa
• 23:59
  Partner, so I'd love to hear more about that when we have
• 24:02
  time to talk online, but that's great.
• 24:04
  So excited for you. All right, so Doctor Diane,
• 24:08
  before you go, we would love to invite you to our speed round
• 24:12
  where I'll be hitting you with some rapid fire questions to get
• 24:16
  your instant take on a few things our listeners would love
• 24:19
  to know. Are you ready?
• 24:21
  I was born ready. OK, favorite skin care
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  ingredient right now? Jasmine.
• 24:26
  Morning skin care routine, How many steps?
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  2. One skin care trend you'd never
• 24:31
  try? Mud.
• 24:33
  Botox or fillers and you have to pick one.
• 24:35
  Botox. Best skin care advice in five
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  words or less. Sunscreen.
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  One product you can't leave home without.
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  You mean like on vacation? Can't leave the house?
• 24:45
  Yeah, or vacation. Coffee.
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  That's so funny because my next question is how many cups of
• 24:52
  coffee per day? 1.
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  Oh, not bad. OK, first thing you do when you
• 24:57
  wake up. First thing I do when I wake up,
• 25:00
  check my emails. Same.
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  What's your favorite book that you've written?
• 25:04
  The Blumley Exposed. Instagram or TikTok?
• 25:07
  Instagram. Your favorite way to relax after
• 25:10
  surgery? Being alone.
• 25:13
  What's worse for your skin, sun or sugar?
• 25:16
  Sun. Podcast or audiobooks?
• 25:19
  Podcast. Go to snack on your busiest
• 25:22
  surgical days. Nuts.
• 25:25
  One skin care habit you wish everyone would adopt?
• 25:29
  Xomd. Night owl or early bird?
• 25:32
  Both. Preventative Botox in or out?
• 25:36
  And. Craziest patient request you've
• 25:38
  ever had? Make my nose smaller so that my
• 25:42
  children will have smaller noses.
• 25:45
  That's awesome celebrity look that patients request the most.
• 25:51
  Right now, Kris Jenner. Oh yeah, that's a whole other
• 25:54
  show, but unbelievable. I had to look up her age the
• 25:57
  other day and she's 69 years old.
• 26:01
  OK, she now looks 40 again. It's.
• 26:03
  Yeah, she looks great. Yes, most bizarre reason a
• 26:06
  patient gives for surgery. Make my husband happy.
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  Strangest thing a patient said after waking up from anesthesia.
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  I'm in love with you. Celebrity facelift You admire
• 26:20
  Kris Jenner? Yes.
• 26:23
  Yes, one procedure patients request because of Instagram.
• 26:28
  Larger lips. AI imaging for consultations
• 26:31
  helpful or misleading? Both.
• 26:34
  OK, we're done with the speed bound, but let's talk about Kris
• 26:37
  Jenner for just a minute. OK, So I was watching this
• 26:40
  plastic surgeon on TikTok the other night talk about it and
• 26:44
  there's all these people just guessing, you know, what she did
• 26:46
  or what not. But they said that it was very
• 26:48
  different than a deep plane facelift and she did something
• 26:52
  different that went very horizontal instead of vertical
• 26:55
  or whatnot. So what is your take on that?
• 26:57
  A deep plane facelift is just one way of approaching the face
• 27:01
  and you can pull it vertical or you put a horizontal.
• 27:03
  So I don't think that is 1 doesn't preclude the other and
• 27:07
  they're not mutually exclusive. Did she do something to her chin
• 27:10
  perhaps and may have done some augmentation to her chin also to
• 27:12
  give her that really defined chin?
• 27:15
  That's possible. They do something along the
• 27:16
  jawline that's possible also to give her more defined jawline.
• 27:20
  So it's hard to say. You may have also cut the
• 27:22
  sometimes you can sculpt the patissima in such a way to to
• 27:25
  get a more defined jawline. He may have done that as well.
• 27:28
  The best facelift I've ever seen.
• 27:30
  So good for her. I heard she paid $350,000 for
• 27:33
  it. That's the rumor and I'm sure
• 27:36
  his practice is going to explode now.
• 27:37
  He's a good guy, so he deserves it.
• 27:39
  Yes, thanks for talking about that with me.
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  I know that the listeners want to hear about that because
• 27:44
  everybody's talking about it. So thank you for a wonderful
• 27:48
  episode. Thank you for joining us today.
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  I'm sure we'll have you back in a few months and see what you're
• 27:53
  up to and I'm sure that we'll stay in touch.
• 27:56
  Super appreciate it. I look forward to seeing you
• 27:58
  sometime soon. Absolutely.
• 27:59
  Please stay in touch. OK.
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  OK. All right.
• 28:02
  Thank you so much, Doctor Diane. OK, take care.
• 28:05
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• 28:09
  the aesthetics and medical industry.
• 28:11
  She is not a licensed medical doctor.
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  industry expertise and are provided for informational
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