¶ Professional Skincare and Sun Protection
Hi, Dr. Mo. I'd like you to tell us a little bit about your skincare program and the essentials after somebody has invested their time and money into getting youthful appearance with Botox and injections and other things. Let's go with the importance, how you feel about your skincare.
So we think about when we're trying to get healthier on the inside, we might do things like diet and exercise, might get tested and see what nutrients we're deficient in, maybe take some supplements, might modify our eating so that we're we're healthier on the inside based on our individual needs.
And people, you know, forget about their skin. Or you might try different things that may or may not work for them. And we look at if you went to Target or or Alta and looked at the skincare, it it's really confusing. There's a lot of stuff out there. This has led to the biggest growth in
cosmetic medicine, which is physician dispensed skincare, which is a professional rate, much stronger. And it has to be get from a it really only comes from a doctor's office because they're gonna have to give you instructions on how to use it. I'm gonna go over that a little bit because they're a little too strong to use without specific instructions.
And if you look at, you know, you have a hundred things that you could use, what's the most impactful? And there's really really four that, you know, everybody should be doing in my opinion that have the biggest impact and you can add on things
condition specific after that. Now one without a doubt is sunblock that goes on after your skin care. And Sunblock has the ability to slow down aging. And there was an interesting study, I think it was Johnson and Johnson did this. They published it about six or eight years ago. And they were using a skin elixir
to help aging and they gave people the skin elixir or placebo for two months and they found this special skin elixir had less brown spots, less redness, less capillary, slightly less wrinkling. And when they un un unveiled what it was, it was simply sunblock. And we don't think about The exposure we get to ultraviolet light because we call it sunblock, it's actually should be ultraviolet light block. I'm standing here in a building that was built in 2000, it's got fluorescent lights.
That spew out ultraviolet light. You can get a sunburn from ultraviolet light. We did a m surgical mission in Peru a few years ago and they had fluorescent lights that would not be allowed in America, but we all got sunburns and keratitis of our eyes because there was so much Fluorescent most much alter by light giving off by lights. By the lights. No, LED lights don't have that.
But but fluorescent does. So does natural sunlight, so does incandescent lights. And we're exposed to that all the time. So we can slow down aging with this sunblock. And that goes on last. So we're gonna just talk about that and I think you can have your opinion on what kind of skincare to use. Typically a mineral based skincare is what we use, but they also sort of work.
¶ Essential Vitamin C, Retinol, Glycolic
So the big three are a vitamin C, and not just a vitamin C, a potent multi-strand vitamin C. So there's many forms of vitamin C. This one has seven in it, we call it radiant C. And the vitamin C reduces what's called oxidation, which is really the mother of aging and senescence, something that causes your skin to break. Breakdown, which is constantly having to fix itself, and eventually your body's ability to fix itself gets impaired. And with vitamin C, we have less we see less redness.
More brightness to the skin, less brown spots, better texture to the skin. And then something of what's called a retinoid or retinol, retinoic acid, retinaldehyde. We use a tretinol, uh which is the a strong a strong form of vitamin A. So this is a vitamin A retinol. And the
The alcohol forms of vitamin A are the most suitable for for anti-aging purposes, very well tolerated. They do cause some drying, but they not as likely to as a as a as a acid form, which would be like retin A, a little too strong. And then a glycolic moisturizer.
Alpha hydroxy it's called the alpha hydroxy acid, the most common anti-aging cream that exists. So these three. So we have a medical grade skincare, a vitamin C that's that's professional grade that typically might be too strong for some people to have rosacea or a lot of redness. You can start using it two or three days a week. Retinol.
In the case we use a trentinol, which is a little stronger than standard retinol. That's usually used about twice a week and then you gradually increase it as tolerated. Some people can use it every day, but most people are using it a few times a week. This is put gets put on at night, the vitamin C in the morning, the vitamin A at night, vitamin A gets retinol in the glass.
The glycolic moisturizing when you use twice a day. If you just do these three things for three months, your skin will be brighter and more youthful. In our case, if you buy it from us or it's free. we we guarantee it. So more youthful and brighter or it's it's free. These are these are the sure thing. And this is our really our mainstay for
¶ Beyond Core: Lasers and Sirolimus
skincare. We have some other things as well. We use this Eventone, Age Defense, which is a for somebody that's got melasma or some pigment disorder, and it uses a mixture of things like cogic acid, some anti-inflammatories, and hydroquinone. We've got a Our own sunblock. We have our eye-wish pear serum, which is a lighter form of vitamin C, vitamin E, and retinol to use around the eyes for dark circles around the eyes or
uh skin crapiness of the eyes. We also have a s a strong moisturizer used for once people have medical conditions of their skin or they're getting a laser resurfacing done. And one of the biggest mistakes I see in our practice in our providers and in the public
is people wanting to do a laser treatment to treat some condition of their skin and they don't invest in this in the skincare, you are wasting your money. Particularly some treatments like Clarembrillian or Fraxal, which is really designed to get s medications into your skin. If you're not doing skincare, you're gonna get that stuff back.
And it'll come back faster than you want it to. So don't do the treatments if you're not gonna do the skincare. And one I'm really fond of is called Serrolimus. Must some of you might have heard of rapamycin. It's the same drug. So serolamus is a drug or mapomycin, let's call it rapamycin, is a drug that's being tested for aging, slowing down aging in humans as a pill.
and creature and plant has been tested on is being tested in humans currently, but it has been tested pretty extensively on the skin. And it does slow down, even to some degree, reverse the age of the skin, increases the collagen content of the skin. increases increases the thickness of the skin, improves a reduced pore size, and improve texture and color of the skin. So serolamus uh is not to be used with a laser. It does impair healing if you have a laser injury. And something you use
Two or three days a week. One bottle will last about three months or so. And that comes from a pharmacy's gotta be prescribed. We can't get guarantee serolamits because it's a prescription. We get it from a different company. But that's something I like to see people on really of any age. Uh it is used in children for certain conditions, safe at any age.
And if I talk about my big three plus a sunblock four, um then sirole mis might be number five as an optional one. Once you're doing this first three, I wouldn't do sirolamus without it because it's not preventative, it's more repairing stuff.
stuff. So I think skincare is something that is maybe in our practice we've not been the best of communicating to our customers about and our patients about, particularly when they're doing laser services services. And I hear a lot of times people say, well they just want to do a laser and see how it works. Well if you're doing a laser that's designed to get medications in your
You're wasting your money if you don't do the medications. In this case, vitamin C, retinol, and some condition specific.