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Cosmetic Dermatology Confidential: Dr. Kelly Stankiewicz Jan 11, 2022

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Is botox a toxin? What is the purpose of fillers? What does CoolSculpting do and what should we be aware of before doing it? What do we need to know about lasers? What are the cautions for doing more invasive facial resurfacing treatments? What new skincare treatments are on the horizon? What should we do every day for better skin? In what order should we apply our skincare?

Kelly Stankiewicz, MD, FAAD is a board-certified dermatologist with a passion for all things skin. After graduating from medical school at Indiana University School of Medicine in 2006, Dr. Stankiewicz completed her dermatology residency at the Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center in 2010 and a clinical fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School and the Wellman Center for Photomedicine in lasers and cosmetic dermatology in 2011. She joins the SuperAge podcast to help us understand the world of dermatology. What should we be doing and what shouldn’t we be doing?

Dr. Stankiewicz recommends everyone to check in with a trusted doctor or esthetician to decide on your skin goals and needs. Categories of topical products that Dr. Stankiewicz recommends incorporating: daily sunscreen, antioxidants, exfoliants (retin-A, glycolic acid, etc.), growth/rejuvenating serums (peptides, smart molecules, etc.).

“Number 1: sunscreen. If there’s nothing else that you do, you must stay out of the sun. I hope everybody knows that by now.”

“The cosmeceutical industry is huge. And anybody can sell anything.”

“I would recommend to everybody to have a doctor or an esthetician who they truly trust to lead them in the right direction.”

“I find that overdoing it can make you look old. Too much plastic surgery, too much filler, makes you look old. When you’re chasing minor imperfections, that's when you can overdo it.”
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Connect with Dr. Kelly Stankiewicz:

Website - https://thedermatologyhouse.com/meet-dr-kelly-stankiewicz/

Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/thedermatologyhouse/

Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/thedermatologyhouse/

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Are Injectables the Future of Plastic Surgery?: Dr. Lara Devgan Jan 05, 2022

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How can we optimize our skin without injectables? When are injectables a good idea? What about surgery? What lifestyle habits improve the way we look? What products should we use for hydration, texture, hyperpigmentation, or fine lines?

Dr. Lara Devgan is a board-certified, Yale-educated, Johns Hopkins Medical School-instructed, and Columbia/ New York Presbyterian Hospital-trained plastic & reconstructive surgeon. Her special interests are cosmetic surgery of the face and body, and reconstructive surgery for breast cancer, skin cancer, and facial injuries. She joins us on the podcast to discuss the different options for aesthetic enhancement from skincare to injectables to surgery.

What you will learn:
- How to optimize your skin without any injectables
- The lifestyle habits that improve the look of our skin
- The power of injectables
- When surgery is a good option for someone
- What society gets wrong about plastic surgery

“One of the best things that you can do for your own self esteem and for your own facial beauty is to allow certain flaws to continue to exist.”

“I would never want to create in the world this idea that anybody who is not interested in plastic surgery needs plastic surgery. I think the whole goal of plastic surgery as a field is to give people safe, medically appropriate options. Not to create the need to adhere to a certain kind of body image.”

“Why is it so impossible to consider that you can be a person of substance who also cares about how they present to the world?”

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Connect with Dr. Lara Devgan:
Website - https://laradevganmd.com
Instagram - https://instagram.com/laradevganmd
Skincare Brand - https://drlaradevgan.com

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Being Deep, Light, and Mindful: The Unflappable Alex von Bidder Dec 22, 2021

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Alex von Bidder is a yogi, meditation practitioner, and happens to have run one of the most famous restaurants in the world for over 40 years: The Four Seasons in New York City. He joins us to discuss how one can keep their head in a hurricane of chaos, being bribed for a table at the restaurant with stacks of cash, not having a table for Jackie O, immigrating to the US from Switzerland, and conquering his fears.

Alex was our first podcast guest and he has such a fascinating story that we felt inclined to run his episode again.

What you will learn in this episode:

⁃What the high-end restaurant industry is like

⁃What it was like for Alex to immigrate to the US

⁃How to conquer your fears to stay young

⁃The mission of “The Mankind Project”

⁃What one can learn about themselves through yoga and how it can help your mind

⁃What lucid dreaming is

“I always want to explore my fears. I always thought if I’m afraid of something, I at least have to get to know what the fear is about.”

“When you look around in your daily life, there are a lot of people that are seemingly alive physically but they are dead in their minds or in their emotions. The minute you put yourself in a situation where you actually have to worry about your life, you are alive. You are awake. That’s a really good experience and very important to cultivate that on some level.”

“Most people as they get older, whatever scares them, they try to avoid. And when you do that your life shrinks.”

“Frequent yoga practice really affects someone’s mind in a good way. You learn a lot about yourself and you learn a lot about your mind.”

“When I fall in life, when I make mistakes, when my business closed, I just get up again.”

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The Mankind Project: http://mankindproject.org

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The Positive Prescription: Dr. Samantha Boardman Dec 14, 2021

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How can we shift our mindset from “What’s going wrong?” to “What’s going right?”? How can self-care become damaging to ourselves and our relationships? What is the importance of connection with others? Why is being mediocre at something new a good thing for us? How can we use imagination and play to create a more fulfilling life?

Dr. Samantha Boardman, a New York based positive psychiatrist, is committed to fixing what’s wrong and building what’s strong. Historically, psychiatry has focused on the diagnosis of disease and the treatment of individuals with mental illness. Positive Psychiatry takes a more expansive approach, focusing on the promotion of wellbeing and the creation of health.

Dr. Boardman received a B.A. from Harvard University, an M.D. from Cornell University Medical College, and completed a 4-year residency program in Psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College. Now, she is a practicing positive psychiatrist, author, and published in a variety of scientific journals. She joins us on the podcast to share how to let go of the binary bias that things are either going good or they’re going bad, the importance of our relationships, why learning something new is a positive thing, how to get back to our more childlike, playful self, and more.

What you will learn in this episode:

How to reframe your mindset to a more positive one
The importance of connection and friendship outside of your romantic relationship
The power of being playful and imaginative
The benefit of learning something new and being mediocre at it

“We have this binary bias: things are either good or they’re bad. But how can we hold both together? I do think it’s possible for us to look for the strengths within our challenges. What are we learning here? Where are we finding some purpose? How are we connecting with other people? How are we adding value in some way?"

“As children, we’re trying this all the time. But as an adult, you do contract a bit, life gets narrower, and we’re much more afraid to try things that are new.”

“We can actually think more clearly and use our imagination much more effectively sometimes when we think through the lens of someone else.”
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Connect with Dr. Samantha Boardman:

Website: https://positiveprescription.com

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drsamanthaboardman/

“Everyday Vitality”: https://positiveprescription.com/book#book

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Career Re-Boot, You Are Stronger Than You Think You Are: Wendy Perrotti Dec 08, 2021

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Many of us believe that what limits us are our external circumstances. However, we are often internally self-limited. When we push back on our limiting beliefs, we are capable of any and everything.

Wendy Perrotti, co-founder of Camp Reinvention, and David Stewart, founder of AGEIST, discuss these self-limiting beliefs and the possibilities that follow when we stop believing in them, where the attitude of fragility comes from when society is looking at someone in midlife and beyond, the importance of feeling useful, why we must search for our purpose rather than our passion, and much more.

What you will learn in this episode:
- Why we hold self-limiting beliefs, how to let go of them, and the possibilities that follow
- Why society views us as fragile
- Why we must continue to feel useful and helpful to others
- Why we need to look for our purpose, not our passion

“The burden that most people feel is ‘What if?’

“I’ve never seen anyone who truly succeeds forward. Every success is almost like an ending point. We fail forward. It’s everything that you try and fail and try and twerk and play with and experiment with that actually moves you forward to those successes that are like bam! Did that, check it off the list, and then we fail forward again.”

“All of those little things that you have lived through, that you have triumphed over, that you have merely survived, if you notice them for the win of it rather than for the pain of it, my god, by the time you hit our age, we feel completely invincible!”

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Connect with Wendy Perrotti:
https://www.campreinvention.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/wendy-perrotti/

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Unlocking the Secret to Better Energy: Dr. Michael Breus, The Sleep Doctor Nov 30, 2021

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Want to improve your health and boost energy? Align your life with your chronotype and body type to better understand when to fast, exercise, and sleep.

If we aren’t getting adequate sleep, a lot of physical and mental problems can follow from the obvious symptoms like fatigue and brain fog to more serious things like increased risk of dementia. What is an adequate amount of deep and REM sleep? What are the minimum and maximum amount of sleep we need each night? What should we do if we wake up in the middle of the night? What’s the deal with intermittent fasting and sleep? Should we take melatonin? We have had Dr. Michael Breus, The Sleep Doctor, on the SuperAge podcast twice and now he returns for a third time to answer these questions and more.

What you will learn in this episode:
- How our body types and sleep chronotypes can inform what sleep schedule we would thrive on
- Why it is so important to have a consistent sleep and wake routine
- The minimum amount of hours we need to sleep each night to function properly
- How much sleep is too much sleep
- What to do if you wake up in the middle of the night
- Melatonin’s role in sleep
- The importance of vitamin D

“When you wake up in the morning at a consistent time, let’s say it’s 6:15, when the sunlight hits your eyeball, you have special cells in your eyeball called melanopsin cells. These turn off the melatonin faucet in your brain which allows you to kind of clear the brain fog and wake up. The more consistent you are with it, the more your body can expect when to turn off the melatonin faucet. When it turns off the faucet in your head, it sets a timer for roughly 15 hours later to start melatonin.”

“You would actually be considered drunk behind the wheel if you get less than 5 1/2 hours just from a reaction time standpoint.”

“Sleep is a lot like love: the less you look for it, the more it shows up.”

“If there are folks out there who do like to get up around daybreak, there’s actually data to suggest that watching the sunrise, is very healthy for your circadian rhythms and very good for your eyeballs.”
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Connect with Dr. Michael Breus:
Website - https://thesleepdoctor.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thesleepdoctor/
Dr. Breus’ book “Energize!: Go from Dragging Ass to Kicking It in 30 Days”: https://www.amazon.com/Energize-Dragging-Ass-Kicking-Days/dp/0316707023

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Gut Health, Microbiome, and the Brain. Everything You Need to Know: Dr. Emeran Mayer Nov 17, 2021

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“Gut-health” has become a buzzword in the wellness industry, but what exactly is our gut and how do we know if it’s healthy? What role does it play in our overall health? What is its connection to the brain? Do probiotics or fermented foods do any good for our gut? Does fasting impact the gut microbiome? What are 5 things we can do for a healthier gut?

Dr. Emeran Mayer, gastroenterologist, author, neuroscientist, and professor in the Departments of Medicine, Physiology and Psychiatry. At the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA joins us on the SuperAge podcast to discuss these questions and shares his expertise on the gut microbiome.

What you will learn:

What the “gut” and “microbiome” actually are
How the health of our gut impacts the health of everything else in our bodies
The guts connection to our brain
Whether probiotics and fermented foods really work for improving gut health
How fasting may impact the gut
5 things to do for a healthier gut

“I think what we have observed is that our modern lifestyle is not very conducive to a healthy gut because of what we eat and the whole standard American diet story that plays a significant role.”

“What happens in the gut does not stay in the gut. It goes through various signaling molecules to every part of the body.”

“If you’re stressed in your brain, or you have negative emotions in your brain, your gut knows it, because it gets these signals. And vice versa, if your gut is imbalanced, your brain knows it.”
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Connect with Dr. Emeran Mayer:

Website: https://emeranmayer.com
Books:
- The Gut-Immune Connection: https://emeranmayer.com/the-gut-immune-connection-book/
- The Mind-Gut Connection: https://emeranmayer.com/book/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/emeranmayer/

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HRT, Estrogen and Menopause, New Scientific Findings: Dr. Rebecca Dunsmoor-Su Nov 09, 2021

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Much of what is thought about hormone replacement therapy is outdated and untrue. We do a deep dive into what is HRT, what are the benefits, and who should and should not be taking it. What happens during a women’s hormone journey from childhood to post-menopausal? How are hormones and a woman’s brain connected? What happens in a women’s body during menopause? What is hormone replacement therapy? Does HRT increase the risk of breast cancer? What is the relation between hormones and the cardiovascular system? How does menopause impact sleep?

Dr. Rebecca Dunsmoor-Su is the Medical Director of Menopause services at the Women’s Wellness and Gyn Specialties Clinic at Swedish Medical Center. She is also the Chief Medical Officer at Gennev. Dr. Dunsmoor-Su joins us on the SuperAge podcast for an information-dense episode all about menopause. She explains what happens leading up to and during menopause, some of the symptoms like weight gain, trouble sleeping, brain fog, and how they are addressed, how we can use hormone replacement therapy to improve symptoms and longevity for women post-menopause, and much more.

What you will learn in this episode:

What a woman’s body goes through in terms of hormones from childhood all the way through post-menopause
The impact of menopause on the brain
Everything we need to know about hormone replacement therapy and some of the myths around it
How menopause impacts sleep and what can help
How menopause impacts brain health and the cardiovascular system

“Estrogen replacement does not cause breast cancer. And I like to shout that from the rooftops. We have many studies that tell us that estrogen replacement does not cause breast cancer.”

“Women who start hormone replacement therapy within 5 years of their last period actually reduce their cardiovascular risk. They also slightly reduce their risk of colon cancer and they reduce their all cause mortality overtime.”

“When women are transitioning through menopause, we’re talking about 5-10 years of disrupted sleep. That’s a lot of impact to the brain.”

“Menopause is fine and functional if you’re going to live to be 65. You’ve got 10 years to survive menopause, you’re going to be okay. We live to 95, 100, 105! That’s a long time, that’s almost half your life without the hormones that sort of keep things going. So I think that we need to adjust.”

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Connect with Dr. Rebecca Dunsmoor-Su:
https://swedishfoundation.org/frontline-Dunsmoor-Su
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rebecca-dunsmoor-su-92a4997b/
Gennev: https://gennev.com

Check out the app, CBT-i Coach, that Dr. Dunsmoor-Su recommends for at home Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for insomnia: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/cbt-i-coach/id655918660

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Change Your Life By Changing Your Brain: Dr. Patrick Porter, PhD: Neuroscience Expert and Founder of BrainTap® Nov 03, 2021

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Why do we feel good in the mountains, looking at a fireplace or by the ocean? It is not the pretty landscapes, it has to do with their vibration frequencies. Neuroscience has now figured out how to use sound and light to produce the same brain effects to bring people to deep states of relaxation and inspiration.

Dr. Patrick Porter is a brain researcher, author, speaker, and founder of BrainTap. He, along with his team, are passionate about re-programming and optimizing our brains. He joins us on the SuperAge podcast to discuss how light, sound, and vibrations impact our brain function and overall state of being, why sleep continues to be so crucial for better health, the specific brain frequencies, and why we need time in all of them, and more.

What you will learn in this episode:
-The role of specific brain frequencies (example: beta, alpha, delta, theta)
-How to re-program your brain to perform better
-The brain’s role in sleep and sleep’s role in brain function
-Why people are drawn to places like the ocean, the mountains, or fires
-How BrainTap can help you relax, focus, or create

“If you’re not getting deep, level 4 sleep, I don’t care if you’re in bed for 10 hours. You’re not going feel good, you’re going to be tired, you’re going to have brain fog, because your brain is full of junk, it hasn’t cleansed itself.”

“A creative mindset is more energizing than a problem-solving mindset.”

“We’re supposed to be taking a nap next to the zebra and the gazelle but instead, most Americans will go out and get coffee, tea, or chocolate and stimulate instead of use their electrical system and take a nap.”

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My 9 Month Fitness Transformation: Susan Guidi Oct 26, 2021

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Is it too late to get healthy? How can someone take control of their physical and mental health no matter what age? What importance does community play in going through a complete life transformation? How do the thoughts in our heads manifest into reality? What is Susan’s healthy routine? Can women lift weights and not get bulky?

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In 2019, Susan Guidi was not putting herself first. She wasn’t taking care of herself physically, she wasn’t mindful about what she was eating, and she wasn’t thinking kind thoughts about herself. Now, Susan is a 64-year-old grandmother who is leg pressing 305 pounds. Beyond her impressive physical transformation, Susan has gained newfound confidence, motivation, and a palpable excitement for life. She wakes up grateful everyday and deeply believes that her possibilities are infinite. She hit the reset button on her life in her 60s and now she inspires other women, shows up for her loved ones in a new way, and, most importantly, shows up for herself. She did it with “no pills, no crazy cosmetic procedures, just determination, grit, and mindset!”

To give you an idea of where Susan started and what she is up to now, check out her workout and diet routine below.
Starting weight: 181 pounds at 5’5"
Lowest weight: 136 pounds
Maintained weight: 138 pounds
Her deficit macros for workout days were: 165g protein (P), 150g carbs (C), 45g fat (F)
Non-workout day deficit macros were: 165g P, 75g C, 50g F
Initial workout routine: Weight train 5x/week, Cardio 7x/week
Susan is currently in a “reverse” diet and exercise routine to build muscle.
Muscle building phase macros for workout days: 175g P, 135g C, 40g F
Non workout day macros for muscle building phase: 175g P, 90g C, 45g F
Muscle building phase workout routine: Cardio has been reduced to 20 mins a day 5x/week, weight training has been increased to 75-80 mins a day 5x/week

Example week of workouts during Susan’s muscle-building phase:
Monday - calves, quads, light hamstrings
Tuesday - chest, delts, light triceps
Wednesday - back, glutes, calves
Thursday- rest day (maybe some ab training)
Friday - hamstrings and glutes
Saturday - shoulders and arms
Sunday - rest day (maybe some ab training)
20 mins of cardio 5 days a week
Work on pull-ups and that is 5x/week

“Life is hard, so choose your hard.”

“I want to be vital for my grandbabies. I want them to say, ’This is my grandma, look what she can do! Can your grandma do that?’”

“How would you treat a baby? You would nurture them, love them, and feed them the most delicious things so they would be healthy. So I incorporated all of those things towards myself.”

“The cool thing is, once you love yourself, it’s so much easier to love other people.”

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Connect with Susan Guidi:

Instagram: @kikimousegetsfit

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