Younger for Life with America’s Holistic Plastic Surgeon®

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Thank you so much, Debra. It's always a pleasure to hang out with you.

Well, here's— all of our listeners know I'm pro-aging more than I'm anti-aging, but then when we talk about skin, I'm like, please turn back the clock. So, so just to, just to be totally transparent, I want to dive right in, and I want to— you have a— you, you have a new term that I'm a whole lot less familiar with than others. Autojuvenation. What do you mean by that?

So autojuvenation is a term I came up with that basically describes a new way to look at rejuvenating the body. And essentially, it's using your body's own regenerative abilities to rejuvenate itself. You know, so I'm a board-certified plastic surgeon, and people ask me, you know, hey, how can I look younger? And if you ask most plastic surgeons, how do you turn back the clock, they'll say, oh, you get a facelift, you get your eyelids done, you get Botox, you get filler. What they don't look at is how powerful your body can be to turn back the clock, to help you look and feel better without going under the knife or needle. And one of the things that I did, you know, many years ago, I thought that I'd reached the pinnacle of success in my practice. And, you know, in surgery, you have this term called "to cut is to cure," or "you can only heal with cold steel." And it's this idea in surgery that the goal is to bring people to the operating room. And many years ago, I thought that I'd hit the pinnacle of success in, in my career, and I had a patient that had a terrible complication, and it caused me to rethink everything that I was doing. And I realized that the goal that was taught to me when I went through my training and, and, um, uh, residency and medical school, the goal to bring patients to the operating room is a false one. It should be the exact opposite. It should be how to keep people out of the operating room. That should be the goal. And so, after I had this patient who had this terrible complication that I couldn't have prevented, she couldn't have prevented, it just happened because when you're in surgery, things sometimes can just happen, that it got me into thinking I need to find a better way to do this. And, that better way became this concept of autogjuvenation, which has led to my book, "Younger for Life." [Speaker:Debra Atkinson] Love this.

Okay. I'm going to ask you, let's start on the flip side. What is it? I mean, is there more than age that causes our skin to age externally? You know, you, you talk about 5 reasons. I can give you a 6th because that would be getting a puppy at 59. That was a bad idea. I like my sleep and I realize how much right now. But what are those 5 reasons other people have that, that ages skin?

So yeah, there are basically 5 things that you can truly focus on that can really make a big difference. And the first thing is nutrient depletion. One of the things that we know of is that our, our, the food that we eat, especially the fruits and vegetables, our produce is not as nutritious as it used to be. And we believe this may be due to industrial farming practices of today. There was actually a study that looked at different fruits and vegetables over 49 years between the years 1950 and 1999, and they found a steady decrease in at least 6 different nutrients year by year by year. And those nutrients included protein, iron, and vitamin C. And so there is this belief in the holistic health community, which I believe is true, is that our food is not as nutritious as it used to be. And so, uh, how do you change that? Well, you ideally, uh, there are some studies that do show organic produce, uh, may be more nutritious than conventionally grown produce. Supplements also can be a big part of it, but really keeping in mind that nutrition is really the basis of the aging of our skin. Second cause of, of the aging of our skin is collagen degradation. Now, our skin is composed 70 to 80% of collagen, and it's the part of our skin that causes our collagen to be nice and tight and firm. And as we get older, starting really as early as our mid-20s, we start to lose collagen. And we lose about 1% of the thickness of our collagen every year. In women after menopause, that increases to 2% a year. And that's why as we get into our 60s and our 70s and our 80s, our skin gets thinner and thinner and thinner. And so counteracting that, huge thing. Third cause of aging of the skin is free radicals and oxidation. Uh, and it's that free radical process where our body's natural metabolism will create waste products called free radicals. And our body then also creates antioxidants to neutralize those free radicals. Free radicals, when you have too many in your body, they can be damaging to your cells and they can cause premature aging. And so fighting that with antioxidants, super important. Fourth cause of aging of our skin is inflammation. And I really put sugar at the, at the, really at the crux of inflammation because sugar can cause our skin to become more inflamed. Via a couple processes, via glycation and via chronic spikes of insulin. And then the final cause of aging of our skin is buildup of cellular waste. When our cells are functioning, they create waste products, they create used products that are proteins that can sit inside our cells. And if that protein, if those used organelles and waste products, those proteins are not removed from the cell or recycled for energy, they can build up and cause our cells not to function as well. And to do that, we have to undergo a process called autophagy. And we do that— we, we get autophagy going essentially by taking time off of not eating. So it's complex. There's these 5 main causes, and I'm happy to break down each of those and things that you can do if you'd like for each of these causes.

You know what I'd like to do for listeners? You, you went over it, and I think it's probably obvious to some, but for those for whom it's not. When you talked about sugar, you talked about glycation.

Yes.

Would you just step back for a second and define that?

Yes. So sugar, if you look at any food that we eat, sugar is a great ager of our bodies on the inside. And it does that by two processes. And the first process is glycation. Very simple. Sugar, sugar molecules, they can— sugar can actually bind to the collagen of your skin Now collagen itself is, is in highly packed fibers, kind of like the logs of a log cabin. And as, and when we're young, those logs of our log cabin, those, those collagen logs basically are nice and tight and cause our skin to feel tight and firm and youthful. But as we get older, those collagen fibers, those logs on log cabins start to become frayed. They start to fall apart. And what sugar does is sugar can actually bind to that collagen and kink it and make it even worse. Worse and can prevent that collagen from becoming tight again. And, and when you get that sugar-collagen hybrid, that those connectors, that is called, called an advanced glycation end product, appropriately termed AGEs. And that's one way that sugar can prematurely age the skin is by literally binding to our collagen and causing it to become kinked and essentially older. That's one reason why your skin, as you get older, feels looser, it feels rougher, it's because of those advanced glycation end products where that collagen is not tight anymore.

Such a great definition. I want to ask you something about that then, curiosity. And I'll tie in caffeine too, although obviously not as related to sugar, but alcohol. And, and just, I've noticed that over time, you know, as, as I get compliments on, you, you look younger. And I don't think that I look younger. I think that maybe though I'm not aging as quickly as people who go heavy on the caffeine or go heavy on alcohol, because I rarely drink. Talk about alcohol. So is that related to dehydration, or is it related to its metabolizing as sugar, and that's glycation happening?

I think with alcohol it's multifactorial. It's both. I think when you look at caffeine and alcohol from a more short-term perspective, it is— both of them dehydrating. You know, both of them will cause dehydration of the skin. Now, the, the question that I— so we know that alcohol, you know, it's also on top of that a toxin, uh, and your body needs to try to get rid of that toxin to function in a healthy manner. Uh, and so too much alcohol can obviously create major issues from the toxin standpoint as well as from the dehydration standpoint. I think that the big question, Debra, in my mind is What about red wine? You know, is it okay to drink a glass of red wine a day? And everything that I've looked at study-wise and, and with all my reading and, uh, is that one glass of up to one glass of red wine a day can be very beneficial because of the, the large amount of antioxidants that are present in the red wine. However, once you get past about one glass, then the toxic effects of the alcohol become overwhelming and and it becomes a net negative for your body. So my recommendation in general would be is if you like wine and you want to drink wine, then by all means I'd go with red wine because that has more antioxidants than white wine, and ideally have up to 1 glass a day. Or if you say, well, do I need to drink wine to be healthy? I don't really like the effects of alcohol, then by all means don't. You don't need to, right? That's okay. You can get your antioxidants from other good things like, let's say, dark chocolate.

Yeah, yeah, we're not driving you to drink, although I'm gonna, I'm gonna do something that's gonna contribute to what seems like a persuasive argument to go have a drink. And that is that about 7, 8 years ago, there was a study that came out in regard to bone density that suggested those individuals— and of course there's many other life habits that probably came into play describing— but individuals who had a drink a day on average were actually better off in their bone density than those who were teetotalers and didn't drink at all. Found that shocking.

Yeah, yeah. So, but the question is, is that a, um, is it a cause or an effect? You know, is it that the drinking caused that, or is it people who only have one drink a day maybe overall taking better care of themselves than people who have a ton of drinks, or people who binge drink, or something like that? I mean, I don't know.

But it was also then those who have no drinks, they were better off if they had a drink than non-drinkers. Yeah.

Then the question is, what drink is that? If they have like a shot of vodka, is that, is that, is that better? I don't know. Do you want to do a study?

Yeah, we could test it.

You'd be the perfect person.

Yeah.

I'm like you, like I'm not one to, to drink a lot. You know, you and I have been to many, uh, get-togethers with holistic health experts and You know, I feel sometimes lame because, you know, you have friends of ours that are, I mean, they're pushing them back, you know. And for me, I'm happy with a glass of wine and I'm good, or a beer is fine. And, and that's usually good for me.

Okay. So I'm dying to know the answers to this next question. It's, so we're talking about food and how it's not nearly as probably helpful as it was years ago. What about supplements then? Adding in things, what, what do you recommend?

So yeah, for me, I stay pretty simple with supplements. Um, you know, I've talked to a number of, a number of our friends and colleagues who, you know, I know somebody I was talking with the other day who he cycles his supplements. Well, you know, these days I take these and these days I take that. You know, for me, the way I look at it, I try to, as a surgeon, I try to simplify things. I don't want to make it too, too complicated. So what I recommend for if you're looking at anti-aging and you are looking at autojuvenation, you want your body to rejuvenate itself from the inside out, there's very simple supplements that everybody should consider taking. Now, the first is a good multivitamin because once again, we know that our food is not as nutritious as it used to be. Uh, and so once again, taking a good multivitamin can definitely help. There's actually a study that looked at, it was like 70 different diets. It's a lot of diets. And they found that every single one of these diets, none of them met the, um, None of them met the RDA recommended nutrition guidelines if you ate that diet as it's, as it is described with the food that's available here in the United States.

Yes.

And so taking nutritional supplements, I think, can be very helpful. The first thing would be a good multivitamin. The second, I'm a big fan of omega-3s. I think that we just don't get a lot in our diet in general, especially here in the United States. And so taking a good, healthy omega-3 supplement, I think, is very important. Ideally fish oil if you are not plant-based. If you are plant-based, then there are some algae-based alternatives. The next one is to take a daily probiotic. Health of the microbiome, super, super important to our overall health. And what people don't realize is that there is a connection between the health of your microbiome and the health of your skin. There is a gut-skin axis. So the health of our gut really shows up in our skin. And this is something that we are just learning about over the last 10 years or so that there are, are skin conditions, especially inflammatory skin conditions like eczema, like acne, like rosacea, that do have a gut health component to it. So taking a daily probiotic, I usually recommend 3 billion colony-forming units or more for, um, ideally you don't wanna get less than that, cuz it may not be enough to, to do a whole lot. Um, and then I would recommend an antioxidant supplement, ideally one that combines a, a a number of different antioxidants. You know, you wanna get some resveratrol. You wanna get some CoQ. There's so many different options there, but definitely taking a good antioxidant supplement would be helpful. And then the final thing that I recommend for almost everybody is a collagen supplement. And this is where it gets a little more controversial. There's some people who will say that collagen supplements don't work. I really disagree with that, and I do recommend In general, if you're not plant-based, everybody take a collagen supplement.

So wait, is there a limit or a max to the amount of collagen?

Not necessarily. I mean, it's a protein, so I think like any type, you know, you don't want to take too, too much protein. I mean, I think there has been definitely a tendency— it's interesting right now, I think, Debra, and I'm sure you've been interested in it as well, is that there's two kind of camps out there. There's the camp of Um, what I think a lot of holistic docs are going towards is trying to avoid sarcopenia or the loss of muscle mass as we get older and the fact that maybe we're not getting enough protein in our diet. And so trying to increase the amount of protein as you get older so you can be stronger. And, and in general, I agree with that. But there are also anti-aging scientists who are finding that the more protein you get, it can potentially reduce your longevity long-term. Um, and it could have to do with potential interactions with, uh, different longevity genes. And so there's kind of this back and forth. I think in general, when we look at it from a skin perspective, then more protein is going to be better because collagen— I'm sorry, our collagen is a protein and you want to get sufficient protein to, um, to, you know, to create enough collagen so that you can fight off that collagen loss process. And we know that collagen also, type 3 collagen, is present in, in muscles. And so that also can help too. So So collagen, I'm a big fan of, and I think in general increasing protein intake as you get older is most likely a helpful thing.

Yeah, and I think that is something to consider and make the distinction about. I do think the jury may still be out for a while, but most of those experts who will say that adults who are having, you know, a lot of protein may shoot themselves in the foot when it comes to longevity agree that after the age of 65, no, we got to turn it on, we need more protein. So there seems to be this distinction, like, at a certain age, which is always, I think, disconcerting. But one of the things that I always recommend is, for anybody listening, you're a study of one, you know, keep track on a smart scale what's happening to your muscle. So if you do try and go lower, and I, I I'm also an advocate for intermittent fasting a little bit, not only for skin as you're talking about, but for the autophagy and the energy and the, the cleanup that ultimately will help fitness. But we need to probably exercise in a, in a fueled state.

So yeah, I think that, that when you look too at the causes of death as you get older, I mean, one— and we've talked, you and I have talked about this before is breaking a hip. And that— there actually was a study that found that if you're over the age of 50 and you break your hip, that you are 50%— you have a— literally, it's like a 50% mortality rate over the age of 50. And the fact that it's so high, and when you do break a hip, you know, what prevents that type of thing from happening? It's all those things that you recommend. It is resistance training. It's It's working out those fast-twitch muscle fibers, and it's also being strong as you get older and not, you know, losing that, not having that sarcopenia. And so, uh, it— I mean, all of that does make sense to me as well.

Yeah. Yeah. Okay. So I'm dying to know, you and, and of course your wife, I mean, right, your number one client and raving fan, what, what's the best healthy skincare routine?

So it's so confusing nowadays. You know, you can go to Sephora and there are just tables of, you know, this is, you know, use this product, use that product. Oh, copper is a new thing, or it's bakuchiol. So that really what I try to do with my followers, and I do in my book, is I want to simplify everything for everybody so that you don't have to feel that you are confused when you go to the department store, the drugstore, or Sephora, or any of those places. So what I recommend, very simple, is every morning you want to cleanse your skin for— with a cleanser that's appropriate for your skin type. And so if you've got oily skin, then ideally you want to use a foaming type cleanser that may help reduce some of that oil. On the flip side, if you've got really dry skin or if you have really sensitive skin, then a more milky or hydrating cleanser may work better for you. After you cleanse your skin, then I do recommend an antioxidant serum. You know, we talked about one of the major causes of skin aging is oxidation and free radicals, and free radicals are neutralized by antioxidants. And so taking antioxidants by eating the rainbow of fruits and vegetables can help to reverse that aging on the inside, but you can also reverse it on the outside by applying an antioxidant to your skin as well. So following the cleansing with an antioxidant serum, the most common one used is vitamin C. Most skincare lines have a vitamin C serum available, and if you want to take that to the next level, there was a study that showed that if you combine vitamin C and vitamin E, that those products are synergistic together and you can get an even bigger change and even more protection from those free radicals. So after you do an antioxidant serum, I do recommend a sunscreen at least an SPF 30. I'm happy to talk about some of the, um, uh, controversies with that in a minute if you'd like, but I do in general recommend a sunscreen at least SPF 30. And if that's all you do in the morning, that's enough. Cleanse, antioxidant serum, and sunscreen. Now at night, super important, you have to cleanse. You want to get rid of the day's worth of dust, grime, pollution, uh, and your makeup. And if you do wear makeup, then a lot of people find that they get a lot of, uh, great, um, effects from doing a double cleanse. So starting off with an oil-based cleanser that can help to remove the oil and the dirt and the makeup, and then following that up with your regular cleanser. After your cleanse at night, you want to apply some type of an anti-aging cream. And the one that most doctors recommend, myself included, as a starting point is a retinol. Retinol is a form of vitamin A, and of all of the different anti-aging ingredients out there, is probably the most studied and found to be the most effective. It can help to reverse fine lines, it can reduce spots, it can thicken the collagen of your skin, and it can even potentially reverse early pre-skin cancers. So that's a big deal. And at night, that's all you have to do. If you are in an area that's really dry and/or it's really, really cold and dry, then if you want to apply moisturizer, feel free. But it's a fallacy that moisturizers make you younger. They don't. They just hydrate your skin. Just like drinking water isn't going to make you younger, it's just going to hydrate you. But it can, you know, usually I recommend using a moisturizer for comfort as needed. And then the final thing, Debra, is to exfoliate your skin. And I usually recommend exfoliating once or twice a week, either with a nice gentle scrub or with an alpha hydroxy acid type of a peel. And really, that's it. You know, 3 steps in the morning, 2 steps at night, and then once or twice a week exfoliate, and you're going to be way ahead of everybody else.

So one of the things that sometimes I'll come across is someone saying you don't need to wash your face in the morning. What are your thoughts about that?

Um, in general, if you only picked one time to wash your face and then you want to pick definitely at night because you know what happens at night, you know, you're in general, you're in bed, you're not getting all this stuff, you know, um, uh, you're not getting all the dirt and pollution and all that onto your face. Uh, More importantly, honestly, I would say wash your pillowcases. If I had to pick somebody who washes their face in the morning but doesn't wash their pillowcase, or wash their pillowcase and not wash their face in the morning, I'd say wash your pillowcase.

Okay.

Because you can get bacteria and even fungi that, that can live on your pillowcase, especially if you're the type that goes to bed with wet hair, then you can grow stuff on your pillowcases. And so that you want to be definitely aware of. Um, so for me, you know, sometimes I will, when I wash my face at night, at times in the morning I'll actually just rinse my face off, especially if it's, let's say, real cold and dry. Then I don't know that you have to cleanse again. In general, I would say yes, you should. But once again, if that's one that you skip, that's, you know, I would skip that if you need to. I would try to trade that for washing your pillowcase, no 100%.

Okay, fair, fair enough. Are there some special behind-the-scenes treatments that people can do at home to make their skin look and feel younger? What do we need to know about that? We're not in there.

Yeah, you know, I think the, the first thing that I would start with is really actually a favorite, a lot of, of a lot of people in the holistic space. And I did do some research on it, is red light therapy. So red light therapy is something, I mean, you can do it anything from, there's handheld devices that you can treat, let's say, a quarter of your, of your face at a time, to tabletop devices. I like one called the Lume Box, to masks that you wear that look kind of creepy, to actual whole red light beds that people get into. So, these red light, the red light therapy is completely non-invasive. It doesn't create any heat or anything like that. And we don't know 100% why it works, but we do know that there are studies that do show that it helps to improve fine lines and wrinkles. It helps to improve blemishes, it helps to improve the tone and the texture of the skin, and I think that's one reason why it's such a favorite of holistic health experts. The question though is, why do these things work? And right now the belief, I think the closest thing we have as far as an explanation is we think that it may help to stimulate your mitochondria to essentially be like a, almost like a power station for your mitochondria. And as your listeners may know, your mitochondria are the powerhouses of the cells.. And one belief we have as we get older is that those mitochondria don't function as efficiently. They don't create as much power as they used to. And there's a belief that by using these red light therapy devices, that that red light can trans— can essentially transfuse or give the red light energy to the mitochondria of the cells to help power them. And we even believe that that can help with things like growing hair. So if you've got thinning of the hair, There are studies that do show that using a low-light laser, red light type of a device on your head can help to cause the hairs to grow more into a growth phase. And we believe that that works in a very similar fashion.

Awesome. Okay, so question for you.

Curiosity.

I mean, you've seen a lot of people over the years. Can you tell when you have somebody in front of you, can you tell you have someone who exercises? Versus doesn't based on the quality of their skin?

Hmm, I don't know that, that I can tell for sure. I can tell if they're smokers, definitely. I see that like immediately when they come into my office. I have an idea of the type of a diet they have, but as far as exercising, that one's a tougher one. We do know that there are studies that do show that exercising does help to slow down the aging of your skin. There's some controversy regarding which exercises are better than others, but we do know that exercising overall is great for your skin and obviously overall longevity. One of the reasons why we think that it can help with the skin is it's in its own way helping promote autophagy. And it's the whole idea as well of like hormesis of when you put your body under acute stress that it activates longevity type genes. To help you to live longer. So I think that, you know, with exercise, there's so many things that you can get out of it. You know, from a very superficial perspective, you know, exercising can help increase the blood supply, the circulation to your tissues, and especially to your skin. And that can be great in and of itself. But then going deep down into the cellular level, I think there's so many different factors that are involved with it. But to answer your question specifically of the skin, I don't know that I can tell that. Um, but I would tell you, definitely exercising does exert an anti-aging effect to the skin as well as the entire body.

Good answer. That's a safe answer on this show.

And one of the things actually I find that was really interesting, and I put it in my, my book, Younger for Life, um, is stress. You know, stress really, I think, is something that causes aging of our skin as well as of our entire body. You know, we know that, that stress can cause you to, to have a higher risk of heart attacks and ulcers and stuff like that, but a lot of people don't realize that stress stress can make you look older too. And you only need to look at the US presidents when they enter office and when they exit office 4 or 8 years later to know that stress can really cause your skin to age. So true. And so one of the, yeah, so one of the big parts of my book, um, you know, Younger for Life is, are those lifestyle changes that you can make that can help to autojuvenate your body and meditation being a huge part of it, you know, and meditation, just taking time to meditate, you know, every day, every other day can really exert major, major anti-aging effects of your body. You know, exercise, you mentioned, and we talked earlier about fast-twitch muscle fibers and doing the right types of exercises, those that you recommend that people do as they get older. It's so important because walking is not enough. That's one thing that I mentioned in the book is that walking is great exercise, but it's not enough. You've got to do more than that. And then gratitude. You know, having a sense of gratitude, uh, which is a big part of the book as well, uh, that also can be anti-aging for your skin.

Love that. Okay. So tell me a little bit about your 21-day autojuvenation. So do you have meditation and exercise tucked in there, or what is that all about?

I wish that's gonna be more advanced stuff. So I created this 21-day jumpstart. I wanted to make it very simple and it really focuses on 4 main things: what to eat, when to eat, supplements to take, and skincare products to use. And so we took people and we, uh, had them really focus on these 4 things, you know, so we put them on a certain type of a diet. We had them start on intermittent fasting just twice a week for weeks 2 and 3. So it's not a huge lift here. Um, put them on the right nutritional supplements and on the right skincare products.. And we saw what happened over the span of 21 days. And it was remarkable. We had people saying that they, they haven't had energy like this in years. We had people saying that they had random strangers come up to them and say, what are you doing to your skin? Because your skin looks fantastic. And so many people that say, oh, I'm, you know, I had lunch with one of my friends and they asked me the same thing, you know, without knowing that they were doing this 21-day jumpstart of what is happening to your skin because you're doing something right. Uh, and so that's something that I have put together for, for the book and that we're actually doing, um, as an online challenge for people starting January 1st, where they can join me as well as thousands of other people, um, to do this challenge together. So you can start the new year with a new you. Uh, very simple, 3 weeks, you know, simple changes in your diet and intermittent fasting, just a couple days a week for weeks 2 and 3. Skincare products and supplements. All this you can do. You can— you don't have to buy my stuff. You can buy your own. Just follow those instructions and you're going to see a real nice change in your skin.

That is amazing. Okay, so every listener is probably going to want to know, how do I get in on that? Where do I get started?

So the place I would go would be my website is autojuvenation.com, as well as my social media. So I'm going to be announcing it on social media and you just need to— I mean, I'm all over Instagram and TikTok. And Facebook and, and all that.

Aren't you like the king of like Instagram, YouTube, and TikTok at this point?

I don't know that I would say that. I'd say more like a, uh, uh, maybe a court jester, or even prince is too much. Maybe court jester. But, um, but yeah, we're going to be announcing it all on social media, and, uh, it's completely free. So even if you don't want to necessarily get the book, feel free to do the challenge with us. But if you, if you preorder or buy the book, then we will give you also— there are extra recipes in the book. We will give you a free recipe book on top of what's in the book. We'll also give you a shopping list that you can print out and bring to the store to get you going with the 21-day jumpstart. And we'll give you a gift certificate for my online store if you want to buy any products or skincare products or supplements to get you going with the jumpstart as well. So a lot of great stuff. And if you want to start the new year in as a new you, then give me 3 weeks, 21 days, and we will get you there. People not only find their skin looks better, that they find that their energy is improved, and they even lose some weight in the process if they want to do that. So, and there's no restrictions on how much to eat or anything like that. It's, it's, it's really all about improving your skin, improving your lifestyle, and getting yourself feeling and looking better.

I love it. And you have made it so easy by, by not putting all those restrictions in. So the book again is Younger for Life, available I'm sure where— everywhere books are sold. Yes. Anything you want to add about the book? Tell us a little bit about the layout of the book. I mean, what can we expect chapter by chapter or resources-wise?

Yeah, really what I wanted to do is create a book that somebody could read through and actually enjoy reading it. There's a lot of kind of fun little stories, and I'm kind of self-deprecating. And so I tried to make it not this kind of like, you know, I've read a lot of our, my friends' books and our colleagues' books. And a lot of, you know, these types of health books can be considered kind of dry. And I wanted to read one that people could actually really enjoy reading, maybe even chuckle through it at times. And so there's a lot of interesting stories in there with my patients, my followers, myself, stupid things that I've done in life. But really, in the end, it's a true guide to turning back the clock holistically. So if you're looking in the mirror, you're in your 30s, your 40s, your 50s, or more, and you're not liking what you're seeing in the mirror, but you don't want to go under the knife, you don't want to go under the needle or spend a ton of money, this is how to use your body's own regenerative abilities to turn back the clock with autojuvenation. And you don't have to buy anything. You don't have to, you know, do anything hardly different. Really, you can use your body's own regenerative abilities to do that for you. And, and it's really exciting because I'm so excited to get this out there, and I really appreciate you spreading the word. The website is autojuvenation.com if you want to learn more about it.

Beautiful. Oh, this has been so great and so many great nuggets. So all the notes will be literally in the show notes, everyone. If there's a question you wish I would have asked, first of all, I'm going to send you directly to Autojuvenation so you can you can join the 21-day challenge and make sure you get the book. But you can drop a note to me and/or to Dr. Yoon as well, and I'm sure you will learn the right things to do and the answers to your questions. You can visit flipping50.com/youngerforlife to do all of that and get all of the assets. And what are you waiting for? Let's start Flipping 50 today. Whoa!

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