Passion Struck with John R. Miles - Dr. Anthony Youn on How to Feel Great and Look Your Best EP 394

Episode Date: January 2, 2024

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Dr. Yoon guides us on how to turn back the biological clock naturally. Listeners will gain invaluable insights into reversing the aging process, developing a skin care routine, for lasting youthfulness, and adopting practices for better sleep, exercise, and overall wellness. Dr. Yoon also shares his expertise on the latest beauty trends from red light therapy to at home, derma planning, and gives a candid look into cosmetic procedures like Botox fillers and more. Lastly, we touch on breast implant illness. Opic many listeners have asked me to have a guest address. This episode is not just about looking younger, it's about embracing a lifestyle that promotes overall health and longevity. Dr. Yoon's unique line of professional expertise and

accessible advice makes this a muscleist, for anyone looking to feel and look their best in any age. Go in us as we explore the art of the aging gracefully with Dr. Anthony Yoon, a true visionary in the field of plastic surgery and wellness. Thank you for choosing Passion Star and choosing me, be your host and guide on your journey to creating an intentional life. Now, let that journey begin. I am absolutely thrilled and honored today to bring you Dr. Anthony Yun on Passionstruck. Welcome, Tony.

Thank you so much for having me, John. This will be a lot of fun. I am such a fan of all that you're doing on social media and we're going to get into that. But I think for the audience, it might be good for them to get an understanding of who you are and how you grew up. So my father, as I told you, grew up between eight and 11 mile in Detroit, and I know you grew up in a small town in Michigan, whereas I understand it, you were maybe the only Asian child that you knew.

What was that like and how did it shape who you are today? Yeah, I actually wrote about this in my first book in stitches, but it was interesting, because I grew up in a tiny town called Greenville in the middle of Michigan. It's about 45 minutes northeast of Grand Rapids. And we were just like you mentioned, we are the only Asian family life because my parents had immigrated from Korea. They're the first generation. Yet I'll, with my friends and everything, I lived a different kind of a life. And one thing that is huge with some of the stuff that I'm sharing nowadays on diet is I find it really fascinating

because just growing up, we ate a lot of traditional Korean food. Yet when I would go out with my friends, it would be McDonald's and Burger King and KFC and Pizza Hut and all of that. So it was definitely an interesting upbringing. I wouldn't trade it for the world. I am definitely a small town kid, but I've had a lot of experiences as a plastic surgeon and Los Angeles, in New York, and now I'm in Detroit. I wanted to ask, what led you into wanting to become a plastic surgeon? So really the day that I was born, I think like a lot of Asian, especially middle sons. I had my dad told me I was going to be a doctor.

And my parents had pretty much had their own path from my life, their own plan, and they said, okay, you're going to become a doctor, but you're not just going to become a doctor, you're going to become a high powered surgeon. So my dad would say, you're going become a doctor, but you're not just gonna become a doctor, you're gonna become a high powered surgeon. So my dad would say, you're gonna be either a neurosurgeon, a cardiac surgeon, or a transplant surgeon. And I, the beautiful son that I am, I went through what they told me to do,

and I had this kind of general idea that I wanted to help people, whatever I end up doing, I just wanna help people. And so it made sense. Okay, my parents tell me I'm gonna be a doctor, and I do wanna do something where I'm helping people, whatever I end up doing, I just want to help people. And so it made sense. Okay, my parents tell me I'm going to be a doctor and I do want to do something where I'm helping people. So I'll just follow that path. And as I got into medical school, I started working with doctors and I thought, okay, I'll go into surgery. And then one night it was three in the morning, I was taking call as a medical student overnight and I saw a 60 year old man

stumble out of a call room in the middle of the night to attend to a trauma. And I realized as I watched this trauma unfold that this is not me. Like I do not want to be that person that makes these life or death decisions for people. And maybe that person dies. And then I'll go and eat food in the cafeteria right afterwards and push it out of your mind. That just is not my thing. I didn't think that I would be able to honestly handle that. This idea that my dad had that I was going to be this high-powered surgeon that's in a stressful field. I decided that was not what I wanted to do. And it took a long time for my parents to come to grips with that. I told my dad I wanted to be a family doctor,

and he was not grips with that. I told my dad, I wanted to be a family doctor and he was not happy with that. But after a few months, I was actually in my old twin bed at my house, visiting for a weekend. And the middle of the night the door cracks open, my dad comes in, he tells me, Tony, move over. So I move over and I'm lying there in my twin bed. He lies down next to me.

Both of us grown men in the twin bed and he says, Tony, if you want to go family practice, that's okay. You can. You have my blessing. And he said, you're never going to pay off any of your loans. You're going to be poor for the rest of your life. Nobody's going to care. But if that's what you want to do, go ahead and do it. And then actually I discovered the field of plastic surgery. And I realized, oh my gosh, this is a field I want to do because I've always been an artist all my life. And this kind of combines artistry with surgery. I do love work with my hands. And I ended up choosing that field. And and now my parents are really happy because they like the idea of, oh wow, he's actually a plastic

surgeon. I absolutely do think it's one of the most creative skills you could use in medicine. If you've got that creative side to you. Yeah, and I've painted in the past and stuff like that. And I love doing surgery itself, but it was that whole distress. I'm not into making a split second decision that will either save somebody's life or lose it. Because those times in my life,

when I have had patients in mind, let's say as a general surgery resident and stuff like that, who haven't lived because they've had cancer and something like that, it's just, it's so hard. And I have so much admiration for people who can do, deal with that every day. I just can't. I can completely understand.

My fiance is now a primary care provider, but she used to be an ICU nurse, and she did that for about 10 years and would just tell me about the stress of day in, day out having to deal with death. And I tell you, ICU nurses are some of the most skilled people in health care period. When I was a resident in an intern going through the ice and I worked in a lot of ICU's in my three years of general surgery training. And on a lot of times I would honestly ask the ICU nurse, here I'm a physician.

I'm the one technically supposed to be in charge, and I'd ask him, what do you think we should do here? And almost always I would follow their advice, and that would be the right thing to do. Thank you for sharing that. And I'm gonna really switch topics on you. I live in St. Petersburg, Florida, a little bit warmer than where you are in Detroit.

But there's this restaurant that's right down the street for me called Harvey's. It's been open since 1984. And during COVID, the owner told all his staff that he would take care of them. Most of the employees have worked with them for 15, 20 years. And he did what he said he was going to do. And you had a similar journey at the beginning of COVID as I understand it, you made a commitment to your staff to continue to pay them despite facing really

financial uncertainties. Can you share with us how this challenging time led you to embrace social media? And it's now even rise to 15 million followers for you. Oh, thank you. Yes, it was March of 2020. I had just paid off all my taxes and I didn't have a lot of money in the bank at the time. And COVID hit and literally within the span of three days, I found out that I had to close

my practice down. Now I was one of the first people in my area to close their practice down. At the time, it was very scary. We didn't know what was going on. And they said, look, if you are essential health care practitioners, you can stay open. And I remember coming into the office on a Monday morning, and I just saw the fear in my employees eyes because we didn't know what was going on back then. You just hear you heard these stories of people dying in New York and stuff. And I could see the fear in their faces. And at that point, I made the decision before we were actually told that you should close down. I thought, you know what, this is crazy.

I said, well, let's maybe we'll close for four or five days and just so that people can get their bearings, we can see what the heck is going on here. And then maybe in a week or so, five days days we'll open back up. Well, fairly quickly after that, we were given the order that all nonessential practices need to close down. Interestingly, a lot of plastic surgeons, they didn't close down.

They go, we think Botox is essential. We think plastic surgery is essential. We're doing reconstructive surgery, maybe. And so a lot of practices stayed open and those this big kind of fighting in between some plastic surgeons, so I should do close down, should do not. So I was one of the first in my area to close down. And just like you said, I told my employees, I said, look, my employees have been with me, some of them have been with me since I started 19 years.

And I said, I told all of them, I'm going to pay you for as long as this goes, I will take care of you. I said, I don't know that I can pay you 100% of your salary every two weeks, but I'm going to do everything I can to make sure you get paid and that this is not going to financially devastate you. And then I close my practice down. And I look to my schedule, we canceled everybody. We started doing some online consultations, which would literally bring $200 a day, maybe, which when you've got 11 employees, that's not going to go very far. And I started thinking, how can I make money to help pay them? I have savings. I can always use that if I need to. And the biggest checks that I was getting that I was looking at that were

non-patients were from Google. We're from social media. I've done social media for a long time. And I did it mainly as a marketing tactic, get people to know who I am, to educate them, and stuff. And I thought, at this point, really what I want to do is help people. And I volunteered for my local hospital if they needed me, and thank God they didn't, because man, if you've got COVID and you have a plastic surgeon taking care of you, that's gotta be really mad scenario.

You don't want me taking care of you if you've got COVID. And so at that point, I made the decision. I said, look, I'm not, I don't have to act like a doctor that that everybody expects it. I'm supposed to be. I'm just going to entertain people. And if I can take them for 30 seconds, a minute, five minutes out of the scary, crazy time that it was, the lonely time that it was, and give them just a little respite from that, maybe make them chuck a little bit, then that in and of itself, maybe enough for me to help people. And so that's when my social media exploded,

I think because people were looking for company, and I had so many people afterwards email me in comment. Thank you so much for keeping me company during the pandemic. And I realized I said, I can help 30, 50 people in my office every day and maybe change their lives, or through social media, I can help 30, 50 people on my office every day and maybe change their lives or through social media I can help hundreds of thousands even millions of people a day Maybe not quite the same as when I'm seeing them in the office

But I could still help them to get through this horrible scary crazy time And it really honestly it was a privilege to be able to do that and so we were closed two and a half months And once again my biggest checks were from all the different social media companies, and it really helped me stay afloat and pay all my employees until we were open back again. I'm going to have to do some more intense studying on what you're doing, because this is absolutely working much better than what I'm doing. I launched. Well, thank you very much. I launched the show for many of the same reasons is I could have coached people individually, but it really limits your time and how many people you can really

help. And so part of launching the podcast and the YouTube channel and other things was to try to bring hope, inspiration and meaning to so many people out there who I feel desperately need it and with what's going on in the world. Well, and you're doing a great job. You've got one of the top five health podcasts in the country. That is amazing. So I commend you and I really am so blessed to be on your show. The honors, my Tony.

And one of the reasons I wanted to have you on is you're one of the few doctors who will address some of the topics that are top of mind. Many of my listeners who when they heard you were on the show wanted me to ask you a few questions. So I'm going to address those before we get in the book. And the first one is breast implant illness, which is a topic of considerable debate right now in plastic surgery. And I wanted to tell you Tony, this is one that hits close to home for me, because a few years ago, I dated a woman who underwent a double mastectomy because she had the Baraka gene.

But following her breast implant surgery, she began experiencing a variety of distressing symptoms. And I remember she was beside herself because she couldn't understand if it was a hormone issue. She was in her mid-30s, so that seemed unlikely. But given this personal connection and the growing reports from many women who believe that their breast implants are causing symptoms like eye-hear headaches, brain fog, muscle aches, even hair loss, what does the latest scientific research say about breast implant

illness and is it a recognized medical condition? So, unfortunately, we don't have a lot of science and it's not technically a recognized medical condition yet. So, let me just give you a little bit of the background, I think, for people to really get the whole picture about breast implants and BI. So implants have been around for many decades. In the late 80s and early 90s, it was a huge kind of a hubbub, a big stir that was created

by a lot of women who believe that their breast implants were making them sick. At the time, Dow Chemical was making a lot of breast implants. They were sued in a class action lawsuit. They went bankrupt. And in 1992, the FDA imposed a moratorium on silicone breast implants. Basically, they said, you can no longer, plastic owners can no longer implant these unless they're in an FDA approved study.

So each of the main breast implant companies started up a study to study whether silicone implants were potentially causing illnesses where they're having complications that a lot of these women were claiming. So the study went on for gosh, like 14 years, and then in late 2006, the FDA abruptly lifted the moratorium on silicone breast implants, allowing them to be used again.

Now, throughout this process, we were using saline implants throughout that whole time. And once that moratorium was lifted, a lot of plastic surgeons believe that this was essentially proof, let, okay, everything we've told you all this time, breast implants are safe, they don't cause these illnesses, this was essentially proof that okay everything we've told you all this time breast implants are safe they don't cause these illnesses this was their proof and it really became dogma in plastic surgery that breast implants do not make people sick if people have these types

of symptoms that you're mentioning it is from something else it could be psychological it could be autoimmune who knows but it's not the implants. So fast forward about another decade, a couple of websites start coming up and Facebook groups start getting filled with tens of thousands of women telling their stories about how their implants are making them sick and when those implants removed, how they seem to get better. Now for me, I'm a board certified plastic surgeon. I went through all the traditional training. And I go to our national conferences and I believe the same, the dogma, that was

what I was always told. They said, Oh, this is what the studies say. But honestly, John, I didn't really read those studies carefully. This is just what you go to the meetings and they all tell you they lecture this to you. So I started seeing some of my own patients who said, Yeah, I've got these weird symptoms. I've been looking at this breast implant illness. What do you think, Dr. Yoon? And at the time I had undergone a metamorphosis in my practice, really looking at holistic medicine, alternative medicine. And I started thinking, well, why don't I look a little more into this? And I went to these websites that these women were creating about BII, breast implant illness. And these studies that they're citing,

I never heard of them, because they weren't in our plastic surgery literature in our plastic surgery journals. They were in rheumatology journals, internal medicine journals, and none of the plastic surgeons ever told me about them, and we don't look at those journals. So I started looking into this,

and I thought, wow, there is really something here. So I went public with this many years ago, and I tell you the backlash was pretty swift, John. At the time I was really rising up as a rising plastic surgeon in our national societies and literally within the span of a few months, all of my committee assignments were gone and I was basically persona non grata. I had plastic surgeons calling me and saying, hey, you're a good friend of mine. I just want to give you a tip. Stop talking about this BII stuff. People are not happy with you. Honestly, after thinking about that and really weighing it, I don't really care if they're upset

with me because really what I'm trying to do is spread what is real information and support patients and especially women who really have gotten the short end of the stick with this whole thing. And so the fact really is that there are not a lot of studies that have looked at BII. Our societies now actually have turned the corner and they are now studying it. And this is a subject now at all of our annual meetings. And more and more plastic surgeons are being open to the fact that this is most likely a real thing.

And so now they're asking me to talk about it, but for many years, that was not the case. So really, where the fact remains is that anywhere from 55 to 85% of women who have breast and plants and develop these symptoms that you've mentioned, brain fog, fatigue, rashes, hair loss, muscle aches. 55 to 85% of them seem to get better when those implants are removed. Not everybody, but the vast majority do get a significant improvement in their symptoms,

but we just don't have the studies to know who's at risk, what percentage of women are at risk. These are things that are being done right now. percentage of women are at risk. These are things that are being done right now. And are there any other factors that anyone has found like genetic predisposition or anything else that makes this more apparent to some and not to others? Yeah, there are a lot of beliefs in holistic medicine. One of them is it could be a bacteria related and I think that's possible. It could be what we call a biofilm related. A biofilm is a tiny amount of bacteria that can coat the surface of an implant in certain cases and it's possible that the body is reacting to that bacteria causing this type of autoimmune symptoms. It's also possible. It's believed that heavy metals may have had something to do with it,

but recent studies have really, that's most likely not the case. Genetic predisposition is definitely possible. We just don't know. That's the thing. Studies are coming out, but really very slowly coming out with it. The big things that we need to find out is who's at higher risk of it? What's the percentage chance that you might get it? What we're finding out now, I know how to treat it,

is just there's no true study for it. It would be great if we had some type of a blood test, a silicone reactivity test or something that would tell you that you're at risk of bi, but right now it's called a diagnosis of exclusion where essentially you get tested for everything else. And if all comes back negative and you have implants and you've got all these symptoms, then let's take your implants out and see if you get better. And unfortunately, that's the only way to really test for it. Thank you for all that insight. After the interview, if there are any resources you could give me to put in the show notes, I'll definitely do that for the audience. Yeah, it's a hot topic and it's something that I think we really just, in the end, honestly,

John, is we need to listen to women and believe their stories. And for way too long, those stories were not being believed. I think that's a great way to end this aspect of the interview. Another hot topic that many of the listeners have asked me about when they heard you were coming on is how do you balance surgical interventions and non-evasive treatments? And I have to tell you, Tony,

I remember meeting Carrot Top about 14 years ago. And sometimes the plastic surgery outcomes can be unpredictable. But I ran into him maybe five years ago. And my God, he looked like a completely different person. And I hate to pick on him. But it's an obvious example of someone who has done a number of procedures. Can you share some of your insights on why some plastic surgeries, particularly among high profile individuals, don't always produce a zired result. And if you're a person considering this,

how do you go about that choice of either doing a surgical procedure or a non-invasive one? Yeah, I think that Kierta, I've actually heard recently that he has the best show in Vegas. So if somehow he listens to this, I am a fan of his, I've not Kierta I've actually heard recently that he has the best show in Vegas. So if somehow he listens to this I am a fan of his I've not actually heard his show, but I heard it's like the best one in Vegas. It is awesome I love going to it. He's under the radar and people are like oh my gosh

This is seriously the best show in Vegas, but people like Kierta we believe have had obviously a lot of plastic surgery We don't he's never admitted to it obviously, but I think that there are two real reasons why you see, especially celebrities undergo too much work. The first reason is honestly, society is not kind to them, especially women as they get to a certain age. It's hard for them to get certain roles and they get passed up for the younger, quote unquote, more attractive actor. And it's tough. And so I do think that there is an outside pressure for a lot of especially women and some men now in Hollywood too, to look a certain part and naturally the face changes we age. So I think that's part of it. I think that there's this pressure that that normal people like you and I just don't understand. And we can't even empathize with because we don't know what

it feels like to be a woman in Hollywood who's getting older and the roles are drying up and they want to work. The second thing is to call body dysmorphia or BDD. It's estimated that about 1% of the population has body dysmorphia. And essentially that is a psychiatric condition where what in the mirror is different than what everybody else sees. And so you see almost like a carnival funhouse mirror version of yourself whenever you look in the mirror. Now, whereas like somebody may have a tiny bump on their nose and everybody looks at that, oh, that's a tiny bump. It's nothing to that person. That bump is the size of Mount Rushmore. And they do not understand why people can't see how absolutely hideous that bump on their noses. And so the undergo plastic surgery after plastic surgery and a misguided attempt to correct

a perceived deformity that was never even there in the first place. This is the kind of idea that you may have seen with, let's say Michael Jackson, who's had multiple operations on his nose. A lot of by dysmorphia does actually focus on the nose for some reason. But I think that you combine those two things. We think that about 1% of the general population has some type of bidesmorphia of plastic surgery patients. That's upwards of 10%. And you combine that potential risk of bidesmorphia with the pressures of Hollywood. And now you see people who have got these pillow faces that are overly blunt, the lips that are huge, and a lot of them don't realize how plastic they look.

They're just trying to look like they feel that this 20-year-old actor looks like themselves and it's tough and I sympathize with them because now too, obviously, people poke fun at them and stuff like that. It's just it's a difficult situation. And so what would be your recommendation if someone is thinking of either going under the knife or looking at an alternate way to approach this? How do you help your patients decide? Yeah, so I think the first thing you need to consider is plastic surgery should

always be used as a last resort. So if anybody asks me, Dr. you, and if I have this operation, what's the worst thing that can happen to me? My answer is you can die. We always start off with you can die because you can. There's about a one in 50,000 chance that you can die in a cosmetic operation. And obviously if you're in poor health, that number is higher. If you're in better health, the small operation that number is much lower. But you've got to consider the risks versus the benefits. Now, when you're looking at surgery, and let's just talk about facial surgery, for example, there's so many things, and this is part of

the book, I know we're going to talk about it in a little bit, but there's so many things that you can do short of going under the knife that can help turn back the clock and give you beautiful and healthy and youthful looking skin. But there are things that know cream, know non-invasive treatment, not even ejection is going to make better. So if you've got droopy skin, let's say, of your neck, if you've got jowls that you really don't like, if you've got excess skin hanging from your upper eyelids, excess skin is the one thing that these non-invasive treatments will not treat, period. If you've got a loose skin

from your tummy after having four children and you've got rashes underneath that, the only way to really get rid of it is surgery. But taking the issue of excess skin out, if you take that out of the equation and it's not that's causing you to not be happy with your appearance, then we have so much else that you can do without going under the knife. Okay, well, we're going to explore a bunch of that and I'm gonna put up a copy of the book It's behind you as well, but your new book is coming out on January 2nd and I found it such a fascinating Reage I was very happy that I got an advanced reader copy of it Oh, thank you, but Tony the book starts out with a provocative question. How old are you really?

Can you explain what you mean by this and how it ties into your concept of auto-juvenation? Yeah, so early there's a lot of ways to look at age. There's your chronological age, and so for me my chronological age is 51. There is your technically biological age, so there are many different ways, and I don't know how accurate these are, but there are many different, let's say, blood and urine tests and things like that, where you can try to get what your inside ages, essentially how old is your body functioning. So somebody, let's say, has all their years had bad, been on a bad diet, they've had not taken care of their body, then their actual biological age, much maybe, maybe much higher than their chronological age. On the flip side, if you've been really taking care of yourself, then your biological age may be much less than your chronological age. And then there's the age that you present yourself as. And interestingly enough, there was actually a study. The question that I've always wondered and something that I was looking into when I was writing this book

is does looking younger make you live longer? And the answer actually is it appears to be so. There was actually a study from Denmark where they looked at something like 1100 people and they're all twins, identical twins. So genetically they were identical and they found that the younger looking of the identical twin tended to live longer than the older looking one.

But we don't know if that's causation or correlation. Is it that the person looked younger because they had a better lifestyle? Maybe they were had healthier habits? Or is it actually the fact that looking younger seems to help you live longer? I don't know. And it probably is a combination of both. Okay. Interesting. I'm going to have to look more into that study, especially looking at different wins and see how that plays out. In chapter one, you go into discussing the nature of aging and how gracefully are we doing it. And your perspective, what constitutes aging gracefully and how can we assess our own aging process? Yeah, I think everybody, when I look at aging and aging gracefully, some people think, oh,

you're aging gracefully, you're not having work done. And I don't think that's necessarily the case. The way that I look at aging, honestly, and I think the way that I try to encourage people to look at aging, and I struggle with this myself being a 51 year old man, is that it is a blessing to get older, period, because if you didn't get older, that means that you're in the ground. And we don't want that. But at the same time, it's no fun to look in the mirror

and to see a face that you may not be happy with. Unfortunately, as we get older, we get wrinkles, we get sunspots, we get thinning hair, and all of that. So it's no fun to necessarily look in the mirror and see a face that you don't recognize or one that looks older than how you feel inside. And so for me, the way I look at aging gracefully is having gratitude that you're getting older, having gratitude that you are on this earth for another day, another month, another year,

but at the same time, understanding that sometimes it's no fun to get the backaches, sometimes it's no fun to feel stiff, sometimes no fun to look in the mirror and see things that you don't want to see but you can actually fight that every step of the way and you can do that in a way that can actually even be fun. It can be exciting and you can do that even as a team with let's say your partner or with your friends. And so that's what I try to encourage people is to look at aging gracefully as basically aging in a way that contains a lot of gratitude, but at the same time, doesn't mean that you don't have to do something to fight that process.

And when it comes to aging, there are a number of physiological and what many people don't even think about is environmental factors that contribute to it. How much control do we really have over these processes? that contribute to it. How much control do we really have over these processes? Well, we believe that about 20% of our aging is genetic and things that are in your genes that you cannot change, but the other 80% is in your control. And that's a lot of control that we have. And this is a concept called epigenetics, where your genes will contribute approximately 20% but the rest of it is how you live your life.

And really, and this kind of comes to that concept of auto-juvenation. And it's this belief that if you give your body the tools that it needs, you can make major changes in your health, in your skin, and your internal biological age as well. The problem I think is that in our traditional society and our American society is that we typically don't give people those tools, the people are not educated in how to use those tools and how to turn back the clock naturally, and that's been my goal with writing this book

is to use the inner, so the idea behind auto-juvenation is using your body's own regenerative abilities to rejuvenate itself. Because once again, if your body's own regenerative abilities to rejuvenate itself. Because once again, if your body has those regenerative abilities, it just needs to have the right environment and the right tools to do that. Okay, thank you for sharing that. Over the past year, I've done a number of interviews that happened to be earlier in the year around epigenetics, biological age, etc. And these were with people like Carifid's Gerald, Amy Shaw, Mark Heimann, Wilcole, and others. In chapter three, you start introducing

your younger for life program. Can you discuss some of the core principles of it and how it differs from other anti-aging approaches that I may have covered on the show? Yeah, it was funny because I'm a traditionally trained classic surgeon, like I mentioned earlier. I have a lot of friends of mine who are in the alternative space. I will call fantastic doc. I just did his podcast the other day. And it's funny because if you're to ask a alternative medicine physician, how do I get beautiful, youthful, healthy skin? They'll tell you got to heal your gut. If you ask a dermatologist, how do I get beautiful, healthy, younger looking skin?

They'll tell you to wear a sunscreen and use a retinal. If you ask a plastic surgeon, how do I get that? They'll tell you to use Botox and have a facelift. And so the way that I look at overall anti-aging per se is a ideally a combined or integrative approach. Is to take a lot of the teachings and concepts, let's say, from a Dr. Mark Hyman, from Dr. Fitzgerald, and then to combine that with what we have learned

with traditional dermatology and plastic surgery, as a true kind of inside outside combination. And so the way I look at it first is I look at, okay, what can you focus on for aging of the skin? And I would argue that there are five main causes of skin aging, at least five that we can really target. The first one is nutrient depletion, the second one is chronic inflammation, the third one is oxidation and or free radicals, the fourth one is collagen degradation, and the fifth cause of aging of our skin

is a build up of cellular waste. And that's what we focus on in general for turning back the clock of the skin. Interestingly enough, food is present. The diet to eat, the food that you eat is present in almost all of those. Okay, so why don't we start with the food that we eat? In Chapter 8, you list age accelerating foods. Can you give some examples of these foods and why they're detrimental to our aging process? Yeah, so as far as bad foods, the way I would look at that is that there are two of these causes of asian of the skin that definitely are contributed by bad food. So the first one is chronic inflammation. Now, the food that you eat can create inflammation in your skin. And the

one that I would focus on mainly the first one would be sugar. Sugar truly is a great age of our skin. And it ages our skin using two different pathways. The first pathway is glycation. And essentially what this is that our skin itself is composed of collagen. 70 to 80% of our skin is collagen. And it's the part of our skin that causes our skin to feel tight, to feel smooth and firm. And as we get older, starting in our mid 20s, we start to lose about 1% of the thickness of our collagen every year. In women after menopause, that increases up to about 2% a year. So how sugar can impact the collagen of our skin is that when you ingest sugar, the sugar

can actually bond to this collagen fibers. And the way I describe it, the collagen is like the logs of a log cabin. And when you're younger, those logs are nice and tight, and your skin is tight as well. But as you get older, those logs become frayed, they start to fall apart. Incomes a high sugar diet. And what happens is that those sugar molecules will then bond to the collagen causing that collagen to fall apart even more. It becomes kinked. And you get this kind of sugar collagen hybrid connector that are called advanced

glycation end products. It's appropriately titled AGEs, okay? And these basically cause then the collagen verced scan to be permanently kinked and essentially prematurely aged. So that's the first way that sugar impacts the College of Merced scan. The second way is called is chronic inflammation through chronic insulin spikes. So you get chronic sugar spikes, that can create chronic insulin spikes, and when you get chronic insulin spikes, that can lead to insulin resistance, and that can create chronic insulin spikes. And when you get chronic insulin spikes, that can lead to insulin resistance and that can cause chronic inflammation as well. So if you were to do one thing diet wise

to help your skin to look younger, if you were to get rid of one thing diet rise, I guess I'd say, to make your skin look younger, it would be to reduce the amount of sugar that you ingest. And there was one survey I found that in the standard American diet, 20% of the calories in the standard American diet come from sugar, sweetened drinks like soda pop, like energy drinks, fruit juices. That is a lot of basically empty calories just from sugar.

I think that's an important one to highlight. I think the other one that people don't think about is we often think of our desserts and sweets that we would like or maybe the sodas as you brought up I think other things people don't really consider are white rice the breads we're eating and just the other night We didn't want to use a sour cream on our chili So we were gonna use a yogurt that I bought at Trader Joe's, just their standard Greek yogurt. And I was shocked to see that it had 16 grams of sugar and 14 were added sugars. So you really have to look at the foods that you're eating if you want to eat cleanly as a core message I would say as well. Yes, I totally agree. And like I said, sugar is the number one thing. The number two thing,

though, that I would look at to avoid food wise for your skin are ultra processed foods. And like to sugar is the number one thing, the number two thing, though, that I would look at to avoid food-wise for your skin are ultra-processed foods. And these are foods that don't look anything like the original food that they were before. I mentioned to you that one of the main ages of the skin is oxidation and free radicals. These are basically compounds that can damage the DNA of your cells. And certain foods are filled with free radicals. And the ones with the most free radicals are these ultra-process foods, like processed dessert foods, cookies, cupcakes, those types of things that you buy typically in packages that last forever. Those two, they're filled with free radicals, that is definitely damaging to your skin. Yeah, it's even speaking of Trader Joe's interesting how when you buy bread from the supermarket,

it tends to last for weeks on weeks, you buy it from Trader Joe's, you got mold on it, and do it three days, which just shows you process versus non-process foods. Exactly. One of the topics I'd love to talk about because it's something that I do personally is intermittent fasting. In the chapter nine, you cover why stopping to eat promotes cellular rejuvenation. How does intermittent fasting play a role in auto jubination? Yeah, I know you're a big fan of intermittent fasting and that

makes me happy because I do that as well. So intermittent fasting, I mentioned five main causes of aging of the skin, one of the main causes of aging of the skin. One of the main causes of aging of the skin is build up of cellular waste. So our cells basically, as they function, they create cellular waste products. And these are proteins and organelles and even used mitochondria.

And these will build up in our cells. And the only way to really effectively get rid of them is for your cells to undergo a process called autophagy. Autophagy means self-eating, and essentially it is an intracellular recycling process. When our cells run out of energy to fuel them, then they kick into this process of autophagy where they start then using this intracellular waste products,

these proteins and organelles and old mitochondria, and start using them actually for energy. It's really this kind of great recycling process. And when it uses this for energy, this autophagy occurs, and that cellular waste is basically used up, now the cells start to function more efficiently, more youthfully. So the process of autophagy is one that is a very

anti-aging process that a lot of anti-aging scientists are big on. But the problem with autophagy is that in the standard American lifestyle, we're used to eating all the time. And even at one point, doctors are saying, hey, instead of eating a couple of big meals in the day, just snack all day, that's a better way to go. And there's nothing that could be further from the truth. And so for autophagy to occur, for this intracellular recycling and renewal to happen, you have to be off of eating for a period of time, ideally at least 12 hours.

You need to give your body time to fast for 12 hours where you're not providing it with all this energy, and then you allow those cells to undergo that process. Ideally, what I recommend in the book is to do a 16 hour fast if you can. Now for some people, even doing a 12 hour fast can be difficult for them. And so I encourage you to start where you can and then try to build your way up. And what we find is that by doing that, it's going to help yourself to function more efficiently, more youthfully. And then the one thing that we added to that I haven't heard anybody do before, but I thought was really fascinating. And we saw some nice results with it.

Is that people would then fast. So basically they would stop eating at 8 p.m. and then they would not eat until noon the next day. In which case, then they would break their fast at the lunchtime. But what we discovered basically, there are certain foods that can promote autophagy, that process even while you're eating. And those foods are healthy fats, like omega-3 fatty acids and monounsaturated fatty acids

and polyphenol rich foods. By eating these types of foods, even when you break your fast, that whole next day you could be also helping to continue steveling that autophagy process even though you're eating. And what we found is that this interest study renewal, people find that if they do that regularly,

they start seeing their skin looking nicer. It really is an anti-aging way, a natural anti-aging mechanism that you can kick on. You just have to give your buy the tools to do that. I love it. I'm a true believer of it. I've been doing it for years. I feel completely different when I do it,

than when I don't do it. And to me, once you can get into that pattern, it's one of the easiest things that you can possibly do. And it saves you money because you're not eating a meal. Well, I think that I encourage people to, it is a muscle. It's like a muscle that you have to work. Don't expect you're going to do a 16 hour fast regularly, just like that. People get hungry, but your body will learn and you will learn that you don't have

to eat as much food as you may be eating right now. And as regularly. Now initially, it may take a little time to get used to it, but just try it. Start with the 12 hours. Gradually work your way up to 16 and you will notice that, man, I'll skip breakfast and I still feel fine. Like, I'm not that hungry. It definitely takes a little bit of time, but work at it and I encourage people definitely try it. It definitely takes a little bit of time, but work at it and I encourage people to definitely try it. Another area I wanted to cover that can be controversial is supplements. I am a huge believer in supplements. My fiancee is more of a holistic doctor, so she is as well. But I have to tell you, every single year I get in my primary care physician and he asks me what supplements I'm taking. He just shakes his head and he tells me they don't do anything.

But I will give you some of the ones that I'm taking. And I take magnesium in pretty high qualities because of what I've learned from Dominic Dagestino about it being one of the most underutilized supplements that you can take. I followed Rhonda Patrick's guidance on what I'm doing for omegas and take really high levels because especially for me, I have suffered from previous traumatic brain injuries, so I really need it to supplement my hormones for cognitive functioning. I take Resveratrol, I take Beat Supplements, Mushroom Supp supplements, a carifid sterile recommended, and I do a lot around zinc,

the vitamin B, variety, and then I also do a daily detox to help detox my lungs, my colon, et cetera, as well as some of the other core organs. But in this chapter, you discussed some of the supplements. You recommend, I was hoping maybe you could talk about some of the ones I've talked about, discussed some of the supplements you recommend. I was hoping maybe you could talk about some of the ones I've talked about, maybe some of the ones I've missed. Yeah, I think the ones that you're taking, I'm familiar with most of them and I think those are great. Agnesium is something that actually my wife and I were just talking about yesterday,

because she's like, I haven't been sleeping that well lately. So she's getting herself started on that on its own. For me, I think the way I look at it is I am also very pro supplement, but I'm not a supplement biohacker. I have friends of mine who'll take 200 pills in a day, and I just it's not me. But also I hear what you're saying with the family doctor, and I find the family doctor story is something I hear all the time because one of my favorite supplements is collagen. I take that too. I'll put information out there on social media and I'll have people reply, oh, my family doctor told me it's a waste of time and money. Don't do it. And I find it passing. There's a doctor that is on social media and he's a weight loss surgeon. Older guy is probably in the 60s, got a big bushy beard and he speaks with a lot of authority on these

matters of nutrition. And he made a video a couple of years ago about collagen supplements, basically stating that collagen supplements do not work. If you really want collagen, just go buy some jello gelatin. It will do the same thing. And I thought at the time, oh, she's, I disagree, but I'm not going to get an argument with the guy. And interestingly, just several weeks ago, I saw another video pop up as I'm on TikTok or Instagram,

and it was him watching that original video and then swiping it away and saying, guys, I was wrong. Collagen supplements do work. Sometimes you have a belief, and when you actually look in the studies, you find that what you believed was wrong and I was wrong. And I thought, oh my gosh, he actually came forward and said that he was wrong on this. I think family doctors a lot of times their anti-seplement because they don't really know. And if you actually look at collagen specifically, me being a plastic surgeon and a skin expert, collagen is a huge one because once again, our collagen is 78% of our skin. And the big question has always been, do collagen

supplements help the collagen of your skin? And doctors will tell you, no, because it's a large protein, which is true, that will get broken down in your stomach, and how do you even know it's going to get to your skin? So why even bother? Well, the fact is that there are a plethora of studies that are proven that collagen helps with your skin. So for example, John, there was a meta-analysis published in 2021, over 1100 people. They took hydrolyzed collagen peptides for 90 days and found a statistically significant improvement in wrinkles, hydration, and elasticity of their skin. 1100 people. There have been prospective randomized placebo-controlled clinical trials where they put people on

hydrolyzed collagen peptide supplements and actually biopsy their skin afterwards and find an increase in the amount of collagen in their skin. Yet still doctors will poo poo it and for me the reason why I think doctors do that is number one They're either just anti any supplement. They don't even look at the studies, they just are anti supplement. And or number two, they just haven't looked at the studies. Like me with breast implant illness many years ago, saying, Oh, yeah, that breast implants don't make you sick. I never looked at the studies. I was just told that that was the case. How many of these family docs have actually gone on medline and did a medline research of collagen and its effects on the skin. I guess it's probably not that many.

Well, it's amazing how little nutrition is actually taught in most medical programs to begin with, much less how much anyone is paying attention to it outside of that medical curriculum that they went through. Yeah, it's true. I got almost no education in nutrition in medical school. This is stuff I had to learn on my own as a practitioner. Tony, I'm going to dive quickly into part three of your book, which is to renew with skincare from the outside in. And in here, you go through a number of different things, such as skincare routines, you explore treatments for agil skin, How you protect the skin, et cetera?

How you cleanse it? Out of all of these, does one of them rise to the surface as being more important than the others? Or is it really doing all of them in conjunction with each other? Yeah, that's a great question. I think that there's a lot of confusion in skincare nowadays because you'll go to Sephora or you go to a department store and there's so many products that promise this. This one's better than Botos.

This one will erase your wrinkles overnight. There's just so much misinformation and just lack of knowledge, I think, in skincare. For me, the way I look at it is, yes, there are a couple of things that do rise above. What I encourage you to do, really, some people focus too much on things like cleansers or toners or even serums. Really what it comes down to is I will we created this very simple skin care routine that I'd love to share it literally takes two minutes a day and this is a starting point for anybody who wants a healthy skin care routine. The first thing is in the morning I encourage you to cleanse your skin use a cleanser appropriate for your skin type. use a cleanser appropriate for your skin type. And so if you've got dry skin,

then you want to use a milky or hydrating cleanser. If you've got oily skin, then a more foaming cleanser will be better for your skin. And then very important would be to apply an antioxidant serum after that. Anti-oxidants fight free radicals or oxidation. I mentioned earlier that certain foods are filled with free radicals,

but free radicals are actually also in pollution, in cigarette smoke, and in other things that we are exposed through our environment. And so our body's defense against free radicals, which as I mentioned earlier, they damage the DNA of ourselves. Our body's defense are antioxidants. And you can take antioxidants by mouth. That's one reason why we recommend eating the plethora of fruits and vegetables, a rainbow of them, but you can also apply it to the surface of your skin. And the most common antioxidant use for the skin is vitamin C. Bonus, if you want a more synergistic effect, you can add vitamin E to the vitamin C as well. That's going to give you actually a synergistic effect and even better antioxidant coverage.

And then after that, I do recommend applying a sunscreen, especially if you're gonna be out during the day, at least an SPF of 30. But really in the morning, that's all you technically need to do. Cleanse your skin, use an antioxidant serum like Vitamin C, and then a good sunscreen. At night, super important,

you have to cleanse your skin. If you only cleanse your skin once a day, make sure it's at night. That way you can clean off the days worth of dirt and grime and dust and pollution. If you wear makeup, that's also you want to get that off as well. You want to really get your skin nice and clean. And then you want to apply an anti-aging cream. Now, the one that we usually recommend you start with is a retinol.

Retinol is a derivative of vitamin A. Prescription strength is retinol. You may have heard of retinol, that's prescription strength. Over the counter strength is retina. You may have heard of retina, that's prescription strength. Over the counter strength is retinol, and most skincare companies have a retinol in their skincare line. And technically, that's all you have to do at night. Clean your skin, apply an anti-aging cream like a retinol, and then if you wanna apply moisturizer on top of that,

feel free, but it's not mandatory. If you've got oily skin and you don't wanna apply moisturizer, bile means don't need to, that's not going to be anti-aging technically. And then once or twice a week, I encourage you to exfoliate your skin. You can use a gentle scrub or you can use like an alpha hydroxy acid peel. When you exfoliate your skin, you get rid of that upper layer of dead skin cells. It will actually send a cellular signal to your deeper skin cells to turn over more quickly. And this can rev up that kind of cellular rejuvenation process of your skin, can even help get rid of, let's say, dark spots that you don't like more quickly as well.

So very simple skin care routine, a couple of steps in the morning, a couple of steps at night, once or twice a week, exfoliate your skin. And if that's all you do, John, you're going to be way ahead of everybody else. Anything else on top of that is just gravy, really. That's great advice. And throughout the book, you have even more advice from ranging from everything, from recipes that you have in here

to other guidance that you give. So it really is a great guide. If you're a listener today, to pick this thing up, to go into some of the more in-depth things that Tony covers throughout his book. I did want to quickly touch on part six of your book, though, which is regenerating with next level holistic anti-aging treatments.

And you cover a whole range of topics from DIY anti-aging treatments to professional in-office procedures, including how do you manage age-spot, sagging skin, eye rejuvenation. Can you maybe give one of the most effective strategies for these common aging concerns? I think that the first thing I would encourage people if they're listening to this, it's one thing if you have the time, the money, and the physical access

to a med spot or a dermatologist or plastic surgeon, but not everybody does. And so what I wanted to do was share with readers how they can actually take matters in their own hands in a safe manner. One great way for you, if you're listening today and you're like, look, I'm on, let's say, a fixed budget, I want to look better. I can't spend thousands of dollars on these treatments is to consider red light therapy. That's a good entry level treatment. Red light therapy can come in many forms.

You can have a handheld device that you treat a quadrant of your face at a time. It can come as a tabletop, a rectangular thing that you look into for a period of time. It can even come as like a Hannibal Lecter looking creepy mask that lights up behind. But all of these function to do the same thing. The idea is that this red light energy is actually infused into your cells. Your cells take up this energy by the mitochondria. The mitochondria are the powerhouses of our cells, and it causes them to rev up production of ATP, which is the energy creation by our cells. So the idea is that this red light device can help to supercharge your cells to function more efficiently, have more power,

and that truly is anti-aging. Now, some people will use red light therapy for, let's say, pain and recovery after workouts and things like that, but there are actual studies that have looked at the quality of the skin after being treated with red light therapy. And they found an improvement in wrinkles, hydration, and the tautness and the fullness of the skin as well. And if you're improvement in wrinkles, hydration, and the taughtness and the fullness of the skin as well. And if you're going to do one thing, and you wanted to have good bang for your buck, the first step would be red light therapy, the second step, if you're looking for something very quick and

easy is derma planning, derma planning, basically, you can use very specialized blades to essentially exploit the top layer skin and get rid of the vellus hairs. Now we do this in my office. It costs about $100 by an aesthetician to do it, but you can literally buy little derma-planing devices on Amazon or at your local health store and you can do it for just a few dollars on your own. And your skin will feel nice and smooth afterwards.

Okay. And in the book, you have a lot more different examples of things that you can do in the house. Another great resource for the listener to pick up. Well, this is a question I'd love to end the interviews on Tony. If you could give the listener the most important takeaway you want them to hear from your book and our discussion today, what would it be? I think the biggest takeaway I would take from something like this is that looking younger and extending your life, there's more to it

than just getting rid of wrinkles. And what I try to encourage people is to look beyond just the physical. And yes, the book, and I try to give you tips on how you can improve that physical part of you, but so much of growing older, the importance is more than just skin deep. And so in the book, I tell a story about a little dog that I adopted that we rescued. My wife and I are really big into senior dog rescue. And we have adopted five

senior dogs at different stages of their lives. And what I learn from these dogs are lessons that I take into my practice and into what I try to show my followers. And so we adopt these little dogs who have their own medical conditions, they've basically been discarded. And they have so much love and appreciation that they give back. And we had this little guy named Sammy and we adopted him. He was 12 years old at the time.

He was basically in a shelter on a concrete floor with a little bed that smelled of pee. And he was given up by his previous owner because he had been attacked by a group of pit bulls. And he was in the hospital for so long that he no longer was house trained. And basically, he was banished the basement by the owner's boyfriend. And eventually, she was convinced to give him up to a rescue. So we adopted him and honestly for about three months this little guy was really skittish. He tried to run away a few times and then after about three months, you could tell all the sun, it's like he let out this sigh and he knew that he was home and he knew that he

was around people who loved him. Now throughout the time that we had him, which was we had him for about three years, he had issues with a slip disk in his back. He was unable to walk for a while and stuff. But the entire time, he literally had a smile in his face every day, and he was just so happy to be alive and to be loved and to be appreciated. And while you are learning how to turn back the clock, why you're learning how to feel happy with your appearance, always try to keep that in mind, is that it is such a blessing to be alive in today's day and age and try to look at gratitude,

just the fact that the of the miracle that it is to be alive at this time and to be able to enjoy basically living, especially amongst people that you love. So that's I think what I would like to leave people with is that you know what, it's a blessing to get older and if you want to fight it every step away, by all means do that, but be happy that you're able to do that at the same time. I love that ending. Last night I went to Toastmasters and our word of the day was grateful. So what a wonderful thing.

I'm grateful to you, John, for having me on your show and for letting me tell my stories and give a little bit of advice here and there. So thank you. Oh, Tony, you're so welcome. And maybe you can just end by letting the audience understand where they can find you because you are everywhere, but they're not familiar with you. I would always encourage people to take a peek at the book. And one thing that a lot of people don't realize is there is a website called bookshop.org

Bookshop.org is a website where you can buy books and order them. And the good thing with that is it supports local booksellers. And so if you've got a local bookstore of yours, independently owned, if you go to that bookshop.org, you can actually choose your local bookstore. And if you order a book there, they will actually send the profit of that sale to your local bookstore. And so we always encourage people, if you're going to consider buying younger for life, try to go to bookshop.org first, obviously there's on all the other big places, Amazon and Costco and all that, but try to support your local bookstores and a lot of people don't realize that's available. Otherwise, the website that we have is called autojuvenation.com and we have a ton of free gifts for people who order the book as well. I love that you brought that up because I'm I recommended reading list from all the people I interview.

I have your typical source Amazon and then I put bookshop.org on there as well to help support them. Well, Tony, thank you again so much for being here with such an honor to have you. Thank you, John. It was my pleasure. I appreciate it.

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