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Functional Medicine is Leading the Next Era of Aesthetics — Nick Tvrdik · The Dr. Randi Show

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purposes only and do not constitute medical advice.
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Hello everyone, and welcome to the Doctor Randy show.
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We're very excited to have Nick Tverdick, the owner of Aria
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Integrated Health on the show today.
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So excited to have Nick. I've known him for years.
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So excited to have him as a guest on the show.
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He has so much going on and so much to talk about.
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Not only Aria, but also a business venture that's about
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five years in the making. Practice Empowered.
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So I'd love to hear all things going on with you, Nick.
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But every time I jump on social media, I see your face.
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So I know you're staying busy. I know Arya has been around for
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about 14 years. So congratulations.
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One of the largest in the country, over 15,000 patients.
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What you are doing there is groundbreaking, as I understand.
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I think over 20 devices and every type of treatment under
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the sun. So as we dive into the
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technology and innovation and aesthetics, Nick is our perfect
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guest. So welcome, Nick, and feel free
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to tell us a little bit about what you're up to these days.
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Thank you, Doctor Randy. I'm, I feel blessed to be here
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and if I can help any of the listeners on their path, because
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this can be a bumpy road. And trust me, we've made the
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mistakes and we love doing this. And as you said, we've been
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around for 14 years and treat a lot of patience.
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And if we can help you not make the same mistakes again, that's
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what we're, that's what we're doing.
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But also take where your business is now early to the
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next level. And that's where that technology
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and the innovation really come into play.
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Great, Nick, I would love to start with a hot topic that I've
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been researching a lot lately. I've also been testing a lot
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lately. So I've have a lot of products
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coming being shipped to me and they are all fall under one
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category of exosomes, right? And I'm trying so many different
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brands, trying so many different kinds and there's a lot of
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mystery behind exosomes, right? It seems that there's the kind
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that use in clinic, there's the kind that we use at home, and I
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think the consumer out there remains somewhat confused about
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exactly what exosomes are, what they do.
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You know, why we need the version that's in clinic, why we
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have a version that's at home? How long is the actual shelf
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life? Do they need to stay in the
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refrigerator? So I think you're the pro and
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I'd love to educate our audience, not only just the
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listeners that are trying exosomes for themselves, but
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clinics that are interested in adopting exosomes into their
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clinics. It sounds like you've done an
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amazing job of that. So I think they could use your
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advice. Yeah, absolutely.
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And it's a, it's a confusing world because you hear a lot of
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of kind of nonsense that's out there.
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And the way that I like to talk to our patients about exosomes,
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and this might be a lame analogy, but it seems to work.
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Because really, if we have any controlled damage, the way your
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body heals is if you think about the stem cells that are actually
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healing the tissue as the worker bees and the worker bees are
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going to use different tools and scaffolding to rebuild that type
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of tissues. Think about that being the wax
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or the tools that is your proteins and your growth
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factors, right? However, there's another piece
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to it where there's pheromones which are really driving the
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bees to do something. So they need to go to this area
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and repair that tissue. That's like where exosomes
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really play into the part is we're able to drive that natural
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healing response to where we want it.
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So we've been using exosomes and stem cells were really about
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nine years we jumped into the regenerative medicine space.
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When I say regenerative medicine, yes, we've done knee
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injections, joint injections, IV, all different types of
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regenerative treatments, but we've also done a lot of hair
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regeneration treatments. And how can we really maximize
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facial aesthetics treatment, whether it be RF, microneedling
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or post ablative treatment, how can we really boost those
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results? And that's where biologics come
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into play. The technology and where these
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products have come from and where they are now has changed
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dramatically. So I'm glad you're having me on
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here to hopefully clear up some of the confusion because they're
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just like with anything, especially in aesthetics, that
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can be Wild West and what's real, what's not.
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So I'm glad we're having this conversation.
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Yeah, absolutely. And I am too, because I think
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the mystery behind it reminds me of what happened with GLP 1.
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So remember the buzz started around GLP ones and people just
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what is this and what's going to happen next?
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And I think clinics were confused, patients were
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confused. And I feel like that's the stage
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that we are at right now with exosomes.
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So sounds like you were there from the beginning.
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You use them in clinic, but do you also sell them for patients
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to take home? Tell me a little bit about that.
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So that's a great question. So let's break down some of the
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why it's so confusing out there. So I'm a big believer in
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utilizing umbilical cord derived biologics, right?
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If you were to take a healthy 50 year old, and I'm going to talk
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about stem cells here for a second.
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This is just on average, if you were to take a healthy 50 year
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old and you wanted to use their own stem cells, so it's all the
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stem cells for that patient, they would go in and they take
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bone marrow out of the patient, spin it down.
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And on average, a healthy 50 year old is going to be left
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with 2500 Mesentimo stem cells, OK.
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And then they'll put them in the joint.
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And stem cells are so powerful that even just those 2500 can
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really make a big difference. We don't inject less than 5
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million stem cells into any patient's joint right now.
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They're coming from umbilical cord tissue.
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So the reason why I say that is we're able to have the purest
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and most viable form of stem cells when we're utilizing it
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from the umbilical cord tissue. So when I say umbilical cord
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tissue, Wharton's Jelly, predominantly the reason why I'm
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talking about stem cells is where the quality of exosomes
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and the end result from those exosomes is directly
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proportional to the quality of the stem cells that they're
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being derived from. So when I say that is the
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question that everybody should ask and I'm going to piss off a
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lot of companies by saying what I'm about to say, but anytime
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you're talking about exosomes, you need to ask what is the post
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thaw viability rate of the stem cells you're getting these
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exosomes from? Yeah, and.
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These aren't questions that people are answering answering a
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because it's typically garbage. So on average, from what I
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understand, the average post on viability rate for a Warton's
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Jelly stem cell product is sitting around that 60% range,
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5060%. So the exosomes that we're using
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it is and I'll share the name later, but it's coming from a
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post on viability rate of 90 to 93% exosomes coming from those
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stem cells. OK.
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That is a very high and really industry standard from what I
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have seen. So the higher the quality of
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stem cells you're deriving your exosomes from, the better the
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quality are going to be. Now that being said, to go along
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with do we send patients home with them, we currently don't.
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Right now we keep all of our exosomes cryo preserved.
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So the exosomes that we use -20 is all that's needed for proper
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storage. We have a -80° freezer.
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We also have a liquid nitrogen Dewar in our clinic.
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So we store full live umbilical cord derived stem cells
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etcetera, etcetera, depending on what we're treating.
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But the results when you can combine quality exosomes coming
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from a quality stem cell product are going to take your aesthetic
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patients results to an entirely different level.
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I love Nick, you are the expert in this.
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This is what we've been waiting to hear.
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This is this is great. But it makes sense because some
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of these bottles that I'm receiving say growth factors on
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them. And so next is home.
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So it's really interesting. But the things I'm receiving are
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the at home treatments. But I understand now.
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So there's two different but so how do you feel about the at
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home treatments? Just curious.
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Any sort of biologics, if you're going to get a regenerative
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response, OK, I know in clinic exactly what we're seeing
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because we objectively track and we're going to break down some
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exosomes a little bit more. And I don't know if you can call
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me the expert. I know enough to be dangerous.
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There's definitely people that are a lot smarter than me in
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this space. But I've been in the game a
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decent amount of time. So I'm going to talk some more
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about exosomes, if that's OK. So I personally believe what is
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Jelly from umbilical cord tissue is the absolute gold standard
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for where your exosomes are coming.
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So our product for instance, it's a four MLS of actual
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exosomes and A5ML vial, it's Cryopreserve and it's 400
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billion exosomes with 400 growth factors and 400 proteins in that
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one vial. We're talking about like when
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people are out there, I'm not going to name names, but there's
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a lot of stuff out there that is expensive that really is not
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giving very much. So most products out there
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sitting at 10 billion and they might have bone marrow aspirate
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from somebody in the I know. So bone marrow aspirate derived
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exosomes may be mixed with some Morton's Jelly 10 billion.
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OK, the one and the other super popular brands is actually
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coming from post abdominoplasty adipose stem cells.
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So you're taking, let's just call it what it is on average
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middle-aged people which aren't healthy to begin with, otherwise
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they wouldn't need the abdominoplasty.
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You're taking those adipose derived stem cells and then
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you're forcing it to regenerate dermal tissue.
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Doesn't make much sense. Yeah, two companies out there
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singing at 10 billion and 10 billion.
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We're only playing with 400 billion right now with 400
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growth factors, 400 proteins, all from umbilical cord tissue.
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So ask questions, ask questions and if they can't answer, they
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what's the post thought viability rate, run like the
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wind. Or you can contact me.
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I would love to help you get the best results for your patients
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that you can. Yeah.
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And Nick, I love that you're you've always been for a minute.
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I met you very generous with your time and expertise.
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And I think that says a lot about you because you want other
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clinics to do well, not just your own, and you want to show
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them the way. And clearly you're an expert on
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this science. And I think that a lot of
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clinics are still, hey, what should I do?
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Which one should I bring on? But yeah, I was reading about
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exosomes from cadaver tissue, all kinds of things out there.
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And that do we want, you know, cadaver tissue?
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No. So you're right.
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Like people really need to understand the science behind
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what's being applied, what's being used, and it's not all
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created equal. So I love that you're the expert
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on this. Thank you.
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Thank you for. We can maximize patients results
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and I'm a firm believer that we are all in this together.
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If I can help somebody in Florida that's listening to your
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podcast not make mistakes and make more money, help their
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patients get better results, not spend money on bad technology or
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something out there, we're making the world a better place.
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Try to have some altruism along with this.
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Entire no, it's great that you do that.
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And I think this industry is craving that and craving
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somebody who speaks out as the voice of reason, the expert, and
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somebody who's generous with their time.
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And I want to dive in a little bit more to what you're doing
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for different clinics. But before we go there, not only
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are exosomes on top of everybody's mind, but I would
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say the second most popular topic that people approach me
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about or want to hear about are peptides, right?
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That's right behind it. Peptides are, they're saying
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this is the fountain of youth. I can tell you that as I scroll
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through social media at night, I'm seeing all from the
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celebrities down to patients talking about if they tried a
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peptide or they you're interested in trying a peptide.
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And there's just thousands of responses of people talking
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about amazing results and how they're suddenly transported
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back 20 years in time with their ability to work out or whatnot.
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So I'm interested to hear your thoughts about peptides and
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where you're going with it. Yeah.
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So this is really an exciting and I'm using this word very
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intentionally frontier because the data out there isn't fully
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there to support us at Aria and along with thousands of other
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doctors and clinics global, globally is OK.
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We've had the access to these for for decades.
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Where is this really able to take us and the answers very far
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and places that we haven't been able to do just with diet or
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exercise or supplementation in the past.
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So I'm very excited for where peptides are going.
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I'm also very excited to see some actual data around some of
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the clinicals that I'm sure will be coming out.
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But there's also, I want to clear up a lot of confusion out
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there because people are making some wild claims out there on
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what's happening. I see it yes.
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Like should I order that? So wild claims out there right
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now the data and when I say data, double-blind peer reviewed
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white papers that really support this, we're not quite there yet
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for how many peptides are out there.
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So please anybody out there that's listening, we also need
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your help in really figuring out, OK, what are the protocols
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that you're seeing? And then let's put together a
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full actual clinical data trial around what we're trying to
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accomplish because we're figuring this out as we go.
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We stick much more with just the straight, the driven responses
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for what we know because it's been suppressed.
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And thank you, Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk because they're
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like, oh, peptides, they're dangerous except for the ones
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that we have patented, right? Thank you, drug companies.
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But when I say that other peptides are equally as
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powerful, So understanding what they can do, there's so much out
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there about showing that BPC 152nd 7 can really help with
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tissue repair at least. So they're saying, but is that
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going to be the best solution for an individual patient?
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We're still trying to figure that out.
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However, we are truly on the core frontier of this space and
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we're going to be sharing as much as we possibly can.
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So when we do hopefully dog again in the future, Andy,
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whether it's next year or six months, I'll have even more data
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around this that can really show you some results around.
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It. Yeah, I'd love that because I
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think that we're all intrigued by it.
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Let's face it, everybody wants to be young, right?
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No matter if you're 35, you're 55, you're 60, you want to look
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younger, we want to stay younger.
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We're constantly searching for the fountain of youth and if
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that is in the form of a peptide, we want to know about
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it. What are the favorites that
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you're using right now in clinic for the peptide?
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So right now we have a patient, one of my very good friends,
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actually. He's a big snowboarder and he
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went up to the mountains 3 weeks ago and just broke tib fib high
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spiralized break and he's 56, right?
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So he's not going to heal like an 18 year old, right?
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Doesn't have the stem cells, he doesn't have all the
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testosterone. It's just all the healing
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capabilities that young kids have.
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So we got him. We're actually throwing the book
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at him. He got a source for some HGH and
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also we are really guiding him down the testosterone and the
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BBC 157. We're utilizing photobiome
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modulation, so some PBM with him to really reset some of that
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neural connection pathways because we don't want him to
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atrophy. A very long answer to your
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question is peptides play a part in the overall functional
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picture of what we're doing. And I think that's the same case
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with the aesthetic side as well because is OK, when the patient
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comes in, are we just going to CO2 their face off or are we
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really going to take a look at what's happening with their
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skin? Where have they lost their
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muscles, their connective tissue messed up?
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What is that program really going to look like?
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Have they gone through menopause?
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Are they having hot flashes? So now their estrogen is in the
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basement. Are they going to be able to
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really respond as well and keep the results because their
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hormones aren't optimized as it could be if we're taking a look
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at the whole whole picture? So where I started rambling, but
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when we get into this whole conversation is we're utilizing
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both on the healing side as well as the aesthetic side as part of
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a true functional look at each individual patient for what they
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have going on. A peptide by itself is going to
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change the world. If you have a 60 year old with a
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higher hemoglobin A1C, are we going to put them on a GOP1 or a
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peptide to help drop that down? Of course.
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Is that the only thing that we're going to do?
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Absolutely not. What got them into where they
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weren't recovering with exercise?
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They don't have that that really driving anymore to get up and go
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work out. They don't have the emotional
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control to stop eating the food. So it's taking a look at the
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entire picture and treating that patient functionally to really
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get them to that next level of results, whether that's looking
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better, feeling better or living longer or just healthier in
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general. It's a full functional outlook
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is how I think we should be doing it, but I'm also biased.
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Well, Nick, you're biased, but you're doing things well and
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you're doing things right and you're winning.
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And I think that at the end of the day, I think most clinics
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out there are striving at this time, even if they weren't
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before, to become functional, to become a functional clinic.
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And I think those that are not hopping on to that will
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eventually have to because I think that we've seen such a
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wave of change. Let's talk about the ghost in
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the room here, the GLP ones that the weight loss drugs for just a
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minute, because those that didn't jump on for a second
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really got left behind. And look how fast people were
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having results. I watched friends and family
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just, you know, just shrink down in size and how impressive that
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was. And that became the
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conversation. If you ask me for functional
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right, because it became now not only do we just give this person
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a shot to take home, but now we have to make sure they're eating
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right, they're exercising, they're getting their
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nutritional values. And we've all seen the horror
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stories of these 25 year old women with osteoporosis, right?
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Because they didn't eat anything except 1 egg a day for the last
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year. So I think that becoming and
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turning into this functional medicine, even if we're just in
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aesthetics, like treating the whole person, their body, you're
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the leader with this. And I think this is where the
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industry is going. I think it's where we have to go
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still. Right now, on average,
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nationwide, 40 to 50% of the weight that people are losing is
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lean mass. Yes, like for my good friend
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Doctor Chef in in Denver, he always likes to talk about the
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Biggest Loser effect. It's happening nationwide right
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now. I don't care so much about the
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number on the scale. It's more about the body
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composition. He says this all the time.
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But for all the viewers out there, all the listeners out
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there that aren't familiar with the Biggest Loser effect is and
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I'm just blanket statements. So if the data is a little off,
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you'll understand what I'm trying to say at the end of this
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where they followed 14 contestants of The Biggest Loser
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and on average, let's just say their basal metabolic rate,
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right? So how many K cows they were
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going to burn throughout the day just being alive was 2000.
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So after they go on extreme calorie depletion diets and
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extreme exercise programs, yes, they all lost to say on average
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200 lbs. At the end of that 200 lbs,
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their K cows per day dropped to 1350.
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OK, here's the problem. They all gained the fat.
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Fat back Plus, except now, metabolically speaking, their
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entire body. They're fighting with their
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hands tied behind their backs because they don't have that
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basal metabolic rate. Because they were not watching
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the muscle at the same time as losing all this fat.
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So are GOP ones amazing? Yes, they're one of the
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strongest longevity drugs out there if they're done
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appropriately. However, functionally speaking,
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people aren't even paying attention if you don't.
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If you are not paying attention to what is happening with your
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patients, what is their skeletal muscle mass?
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Is it going up? Is it going down?
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If it's going down, are you having direct intentional sit
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down conversations with your patients over, hey, we have to
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change this. You have to get minimum 1g of
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protein per pound of ideal body weight, ideally 1.3 based on
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what doctor Gabrielle Lyon is saying out there to make sure
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that we're protecting the muscle.
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That's not even getting into exercise, but this is proper
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care for your patients. And if you're not having these
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functional, shouldn't even be functional.
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This is just what we should be doing that that's it's
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important. So it was a very long winded
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answer to your question, but we need to be having the functional
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conversation not only on the health but also on the aesthetic
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side. Because people come in and throw
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their hands up and if you look at their hormone symptomology
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checklist and it's all over the board, they're fatigued, right?
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They have inability to lose weight.
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Their hands are cold all the time.
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And you go and you say, hey, I think we might want to do a full
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comprehensive hormone panel here and have you sit down with our
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functional health practitioner because based upon some of what
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is going on here, you might have some issues.
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And then we'll just walk down the list.
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Fatigue is testosterone, thyroid, iron, ferritin, vitamin
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B12. And you just go down the list
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and educate. My PCP did a thyroid panel and
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everything was normal. That is not function rate.
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It is not functional health where very rarely has a patient
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had a full comprehensive hormone panel or even full comprehensive
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metabolic and fatigue panel before they come in or when you
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get into a comprehensive lipid panel, which is really important
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for a lot of these patients. So where we are in functional
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health and how it directly feeds into the results that are
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possible with aesthetics is a mandatory and necessary
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conversation. Once again, I'm biased, but
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we've been doing this and having these conversations for 14 plus
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years because that's really where we are at.
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How can people make sure to take care of themselves to make sure
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that as they're losing 3040 lbs at a time and their body fats is
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still super high. What do we recommend?
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Because not every clinic is doing the right thing right now,
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whether they're trying or they're learning or they're
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figuring it out. Let's give them the benefit of
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the doubt. But at the same time, for the
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listeners out there, how, how do the patients take better care of
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themselves? And how can the clinics get
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themselves better aligned with the patients to make sure that
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we're seeking help and not just weight loss?
25:33
Yeah, I know that's a great question and I'm going to answer
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and I may upset some people because when we're seeing
25:41
patients that we've had in the past and we get them on an in
25:44
body scan. So I like body composition
25:47
scanners we personally use in body.
25:49
Zika makes a good one. There's some other good ones out
25:52
there, but you have to track it. So I know you said give them the
25:55
benefit of the doubt. I say screw that.
25:59
If you are not paying attention to your patients overall health
26:03
and what you're doing, you're hurt.
26:05
You can hurt people. Personally, that's how I feel.
26:08
And we have gotten patients where they have just wasted
26:11
away. And there's tons and tons of
26:13
stories where, yeah, somebody loses 40 plus pounds out there
26:18
and they're like, Oh my gosh, the scale.
26:20
This is great. The fastest way to lose weight
26:24
is to lose muscle, everybody. It's much more dense and it
26:29
weighs more than that. If you are not fueling your
26:33
body, you're not going to just lose fat with the weight.
26:38
We care about body composition. Dr. Gabrielle Lyons speaks about
26:42
this all the time. My good friend Doctor John Chef
26:45
is all about muscle. So if these clinics are not
26:50
tracking body composition on their patients with specifically
26:55
the GOP one peptides, you got it.
26:58
You have to pay attention because you can very easily be
27:02
hurting people. We see the data out there.
27:05
These are very serious averages. When you're saying 40 to 50% of
27:08
the weight that people are losing is lean mass, you are not
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doing any help to your patients if you're not tracking it and
27:17
holding your patients accountable to the lifestyle to
27:19
do it. And then if they're still not
27:21
doing, now you have to have a technology conversation, OK, how
27:24
can we actually build muscle for the patient if they're not going
27:28
to do it for them or we pull the plug on managing their GOP 1.
27:32
So this is a very important conversation that needs to be
27:36
had. And some of the clinics out
27:38
there really need to look at themselves in the mirror and see
27:41
if they're doing this the right way once you get unbiased.
27:44
No, but that brings us to another important topic of what
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you are doing for clinics with Practice Empowered.
27:52
I think if you're doing the entire industry a favor, right
27:56
and you're bringing what you have done and grown and honed in
28:00
and you're bringing it to other offices.
28:02
And not everybody does that, right?
28:04
Because some people want to keep it all secret for themselves.
28:07
But I think it's great that you're helping clinics grow.
28:11
You're helping clinics understand what's the best way
28:14
to grow and you've been hugely successful.
28:17
It's like when when they say only take advice from somebody
28:22
that you emulate. I remember being much younger in
28:25
my 20s and going to a gym that I signed up for and they gave me a
28:30
personal training session. And this personal trainer came
28:32
out, was like a complimentary personal training session.
28:35
And I was like, looked at this person that came out and I was
28:39
like, I don't want to look like this person, right?
28:41
This was person who is completely out of shape but
28:44
wanting to tell me what to do. So you are the person who is in
28:49
the best shape with your business and you're the prime
28:52
example of what clinics need to follow.
28:56
So if you don't mind telling us a little bit about practice and
28:58
power. Yeah, absolutely.
29:00
So we got thrown into this. Actually.
29:03
We weren't planning on starting this.
29:05
And a good friend of mine, he worked for a company is OK, by
29:08
the way, I'm sending you 2 clinics out for you to train him
29:11
for this. And Stephanie, who's my
29:13
substantially better looking and smarter wife, we're like, OK,
29:16
looks, we're getting into consulting.
29:19
And yes, we dive into some of the clinical aspects and how we
29:22
can functionally optimize treatments and things like that.
29:26
But what we found out very painfully is really 80% of this
29:32
entire space on the aesthetic side or even functional side is
29:36
lead generation, lead conversion, proper patient flow,
29:40
how you do a consultation and money and follow up like not
29:45
that complicated. Now, that being said, it's cost
29:49
us 14 years of our lives and millions of dollars of pain
29:53
running through walls face first to really figure it out.
29:55
I'm not trying to pat myself on the back too much, but we've
29:58
done a really good job of figuring it out.
30:00
We don't want everybody to have to go through the same pain
30:04
again. That's how Practice Empowered
30:07
really started. So we do a day and a half, two
30:10
days in training in our actual clinic.
30:12
So you see how this process works.
30:15
How does the patient flow need to work most efficiently for you
30:19
to optimize your business? You Get full access to all of
30:21
our vendors, all of our paperwork, all of our back ends,
30:25
who we use for marketing, advertising, who we use for our
30:29
exosomes, all of that. By the way, reach out.
30:32
Anybody who's listening to me, feel free to reach out.
30:35
I'll give you all of our contacts.
30:37
But it's really helping people not make the same mistakes that
30:41
we have. And my background's actually in
30:43
business, right, where a lot of these doctors, they, they've
30:47
never been taught business. And it's unfortunate because
30:51
then they're thrown to the wolves in this marketplace and
30:54
they don't have the tools. And that's really what practice
30:56
and power it is all about. This is going to sound very
30:59
corny, but this is a quote by Pablo Picasso.
31:03
But he said the meaning of life is to find your gift, and the
31:08
purpose of life is to give it away.
31:10
And that's really what Stephanie and I are trying to do with
31:13
this. And it's working very well.
31:15
Everybody leaves with the tools needed to really take off
31:20
because everybody's still going to make mistakes, right?
31:23
It's just going to be your own. And we're trying to help people
31:26
in that smooth of a paved road as we possibly can.
31:30
And it's really built around energy based device treatments
31:34
because that's where all the margin is and helping people.
31:38
Here's how you advertise the top high, high value, high dollar,
31:42
high revenue treatments. And then it's easy to sell down
31:45
as opposed to the opposite. So it's we really like to help
31:48
people. And now we have friends all over
31:50
the country. We've had several 100 clinics
31:53
out. So it's been we feel blessed.
31:56
I can tell by when you're talking about it is lighting you
31:58
up, right? It's that you're helping build
32:01
clinics all over the country and some of them are your
32:04
competitors, but you don't, even if you're like, there's enough,
32:07
everybody wants to look better, look younger, right?
32:10
So there's definitely enough of us that are out there seeking
32:14
these treatments. But I think it's just it, it
32:16
speaks to who you are, your character, which is why we
32:20
wanted you on today, because you're building, you're helping
32:23
build the industry. From the minute I met, you were
32:26
warm with your energy, your, your generosity of who you are
32:29
and the wealth of knowledge that you have.
32:31
And I think that that's a game changer in life, right?
32:34
You'll always be successful because you're just helping
32:37
others level up and continue to climb.
32:40
How many offices have you helped so far?
32:42
How many clinics? Oh, it's right at 200 at this
32:46
point in time. So quite a few over the last
32:49
five years and it's been an amazing experience.
32:52
And for everybody that's listening out there, we are all
32:55
in this together. There's three things that
32:58
there's plenty of in this world. Wrinkles, fat and pain.
33:02
OK, it's not going anywhere if I can help other clinics make
33:09
money and get better at the business side, we almost have a
33:12
compounding interest effect for how many patients we can help by
33:16
helping these other doctors and clinics and nurses and
33:19
practitioners and business people run the business
33:22
appropriately. But as you can tell from the
33:24
from this podcast, we deeply care about the functional side
33:28
of things. How can we at the end of the day
33:30
where they help our patients not only look better, but feel
33:33
better, healthier and live longer.
33:36
And it's amazing how many and patients that we've affected by
33:40
helping businesses. So it's been an amazing
33:42
experience and Stephanie and I would feel blessed to be able to
33:46
do this. You're super inspiring, Nick,
33:49
and I think that this podcast is going to be on fire because
33:53
people love to hear other people be successful.
33:56
Your passion behind what you do is so inevitable.
33:59
It's just it's contagious. It's infectious.
34:02
So congratulations on all of your success.
34:05
I do hope that you'll come back in about 6 months and tell us,
34:09
you know what else is new and hot in in aesthetics?
34:12
Innovation. That's really where things are
34:14
going. I know that when we reconnect in
34:16
six months, we'll have a home new list of things that you're
34:19
working on, but I then you do it and you do it right and you do
34:23
it all the way. And you're not going to do
34:26
something unless you've studied it.
34:27
What's going to help your patients?
34:29
Look, at the end of the day, everybody in this world wants to
34:31
make money, but you're monetizing things that really
34:35
are helping your patients and we can tell that you care.
34:37
So thank you so much for joining us today for being a part of our
34:42
amazing network here. But moreover, just before we
34:45
close, how can people reach? How can they get in touch with
34:49
you, even if they just want to start a conversation?
34:52
Learn more about Practice Empowered or learn more about
34:54
Aria? What's the best way to get in
34:56
touch? Yeah, absolutely.
34:57
The best way to do is actually e-mail at consulting at practice
35:02
empowered.com. That'll come straight to us.
35:05
So if you want to know who we use for XS homes, it's called
35:08
Revive X by the way, but or any of our other vendors.
35:12
I want people to get the right treatments because there's so
35:15
much BS out there and please feel free to reach out.
35:18
So consulting at practice empowered.com or if you want to
35:23
see what we're up to at our clinic, different technologies,
35:26
devices, all of that. You can also check out our
35:28
website, which is Aria integrative health.com.
35:32
And I know that's a mouthful. Perfect.
35:34
We'll. Tag you all over our posts when
35:37
we put this out there so that everybody can find you easily.
35:41
Like I said, you're all over my feed.
35:43
So thanks again, Nick, and we can't wait to catch up with you
35:46
again soon. Thank you so much Doctor Randy.
35:49
I appreciate being here. Hopefully this help people and
35:51
we'll do this again soon. Definitely.
35:54
Hi everyone. Doctor Randy Boyett holds a PhD
35:58
and is a recognized leader in the aesthetics and medical
36:00
industry. She is not a licensed medical
36:03
doctor. All commentary and product
36:05
recommendations are based on industry expertise and are
36:09
provided for informational purposes only.