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1:36Speaker 4Welcome back to the Peptide of the Week podcast.
1:39Speaker 4I am your host JD Denham and not across the way from me for the 1st time sitting right next to me today. Actually, you've sat next to me a few times back today. 1st started. Though. We 1st started. My good friend and cohost, mister William T. Haas. What's up, man? It's good to be here. I'm like floating also against this back the black background with a black shirt. Yep. We got a lot of people in this room right now. It's a little hot. We gotta turn the AC off, so that's part of the game. But we got 2 gentlemen sitting across the way,
2:09Speaker 4Doctor. Sam, who is a 20
2:12Speaker 4year
2:13Speaker 4ER doctor. He
2:15Speaker 4has seen some stuff, so we wanna dig into that. That's gonna be a good conversation,
2:19Speaker 4but he's transitioning
2:21Speaker 4to
2:22Speaker 4hair restoration. He's the owner of My HairMD. Right next to him is the general manager of HairMD,
2:28Speaker 4who is Todd
2:30Speaker 2Padberg. Welcome guys. Nice. Thank you. You. Thank you.
2:33Speaker 4Is
2:34Speaker 4my introduction,
2:36Speaker 4but in your own words,
2:37Speaker 5who are you? Tell us a little bit about you. All right. Well, my name is Sam Borge. I'm a physician.
2:44Speaker 5I've
2:45Speaker 5trained in emergency medicine.
2:47Speaker 5I practiced emergency medicine for over 20 years,
2:51Speaker 5believe it or not. And
2:54Speaker 5recently, in the last few years, kind of had some life changes, got married, had
2:58Speaker 5twins, and kind of
3:01Speaker 5needed to change pace a little bit. So I've
3:04Speaker 5kind of
3:05Speaker 5shifted gears and got into
3:08Speaker 5hair transplant and been doing hair transplant surgery for the last few years and
3:13Speaker 5kind of
3:15Speaker 5been shifting the way I treat patients, I think.
3:20Speaker 5It's been it's So, been an interesting transition.
3:23Speaker 2And you're good at it. It's nice to
3:26Speaker 2you, I had the hair transplant by you. And
3:29Speaker 2I think it's and it's looked it looks incredible, and everybody tells me that. Like, damn, why does it look so good? Because I didn't go to Turkey and do it like everybody else. But
3:39Speaker 2you being a ER doc, which means you're doing surgery and have to have good hands, like, damn, that the hair transplant is a labor intensive process. It still blows my mind that you couldn't do it. My big ass dumb hands would like,
3:51Speaker 2would mess something up for sure. So,
3:55Speaker 5skills translate. Yeah, I mean, it's
3:58Speaker 5a different type of a surgery, you know, the kind of surgical procedure that I've been used to are
4:04Speaker 5things that have to happen immediately and generally not
4:10Speaker 5always something that you can
4:12Speaker 5kinda take time to
4:14Speaker 2do. Let's go. Yeah. Let's go. So Yeah. Was last. But it's
4:19Speaker 5kind of a
4:21Speaker 4much more relaxing process actually doing it. Yeah. Let's put it that way. You said though that it's time something's happened in your life and it's time to kind of change the pace. Now, is that coming from you? Is that coming from your bride? That's a good question. Yeah, man. I think
4:37Speaker 5I'm married. Both sides. We all are. Both sides are involved in that decision, I think. Yeah. But honestly,
4:43Speaker 5I think yeah, having twins,
4:45Speaker 5having children really changes your perspective.
4:47Speaker 5Yeah. You know, when I was young and younger and and single, it, you know,
4:53Speaker 5kind of I'd
4:55Speaker 5love that adrenaline rush of working in an ER. I still do, actually.
4:59Speaker 5But, you know, this is a different type of a rush,
5:03Speaker 5being able to take care of your family and spend time with your kids and watching them grow. And so think that really
5:11Speaker 5was the driving factor in all of this. And, yeah, my wife likes it too. I'm working less nights. I'm not working on the weekends and yeah. So But you still are working hard. Like, you just came here. You've been at work for 24 hours. That's true. I yeah. I've been working 24 hours. You drove straight here. Right? I mean- You're used to it. I
5:31Speaker 5do like working.
5:32Speaker 5I'm not afraid to work, but
5:35Speaker 5I'm changing the focus a little bit here. So
5:39Speaker 4let's talk a little bit about the ER because that's,
5:42Speaker 4is that 20 years? That's a very long time for any career.
5:46Speaker 420 years in an ER with what you see on a daily basis, which for most of us, we wouldn't want to see it for a day.
5:54Speaker 4Talked a little bit off camera about it affecting your psyche for 1 and 2,
5:58Speaker 4cortisol,
5:59Speaker 4things like that of just stress levels. So
6:02Speaker 4do you feel that 1,
6:06Speaker 4is 20 years on average or is that like longer than normal?
6:10Speaker 4Would imagine that would be a hard career to stay in for a long time.
6:14Speaker 5Those of us that do emergency medicine
6:17Speaker 5tend to burn out more than some of the other fields of medicine.
6:21Speaker 5Stress
6:22Speaker 5levels are high and basically,
6:25Speaker 5you you're running for the 8 hour shifts, 12 hour shifts, and
6:29Speaker 5medicine
6:32Speaker 5has sort of changed in those 20 years in a lot of ways.
6:36Speaker 5We we are seeing more patients. We are dealing with
6:41Speaker 5high acuity sick patients all the time. So, you know, and and you really have to be
6:47Speaker 5on point.
6:48Speaker 5Like, you have to be on top of your game. You cannot
6:51Speaker 5make mistakes. Life or death? Yeah. It's life or death. And and, you know, the
6:57Speaker 5that's those are those are high stakes. So it it does take a toll on you.
7:02Speaker 5You know, we are professionals when we are at work. Yeah, you're in the zone. We're in the zone. We're taking care of patients.
7:10Speaker 5You know, you don't let things
7:12Speaker 5that may not go as planned with 1 patient affect how you take care of them. Yeah, you stay emotionally detached from it. You have to. Yeah, you have to. You do. Right. You can't do this job otherwise.
7:21Speaker 4No. Is it, is it
7:24Speaker 2I don't know if this is gonna like be the right way to
7:26Speaker 4articulate this question, but
7:29Speaker 4like snipers, for example, are a certain breed. They're cut from a certain cloth. Is an ER doctor cut from a certain cloth?
7:36Speaker 4That's 1 of when you were in med school,
7:38Speaker 4that's what you chose. That's right. You're talking about like high pace. Like we've all been in an ER, like, holy shit. Woah.
7:44Speaker 4You deal with that every day, day in, day out, probably days at a time.
7:49Speaker 5Is it a certain cloth that you you all are Yeah. Think? I think I think I think there definitely is a certain type of personality that can thrive
7:57Speaker 5in
7:58Speaker 5that chaotic setting.
8:01Speaker 5Know, it's kind of an interesting thing when you go through med school,
8:05Speaker 5you're basically
8:06Speaker 5going to classes for 4 years with the same people. You get to know some of your classmates.
8:11Speaker 5And then at the end of med school, when everybody chose their specialties and sort of settled where they wanted to be,
8:18Speaker 5you kind of think yourself, oh, that makes sense. That's the kind of person that would do
8:23Speaker 5that kind of a specialty. The
8:27Speaker 5students that end up doing emergency medicine,
8:30Speaker 5tend to be kind of more social. We get along with people. Can communicate in general pretty
8:37Speaker 5well with all types of people, and that's something that we have to do on a day to day basis.
8:42Speaker 5I mean, I always say the ER is a great equalizer.
8:45Speaker 5You could be
8:47Speaker 5a homeless patient
8:49Speaker 5that's that's abusing drugs right next to the CEO Yeah. Of the Fortune 500 company Right. Yeah. Jason Gertes. And
8:56Speaker 5you
8:57Speaker 5have a few minutes to extract information
9:00Speaker 5from both patients.
9:03Speaker 5And it's important to be able to kind of establish that rapport with the patient in a very short time so I can get the information I need to best treat
9:11Speaker 5that patient. So, yeah. What about temperament?
9:15Speaker 2I mean, that's interesting. What's the personality traits? Like, my guess is that
9:19Speaker 2everybody who is super calm and laid back and not a is the 1 who does well in the yard. I I think you're right. You
9:26Speaker 5definitely have to roll with punches,
9:29Speaker 5and you can't really get too stressed out in in these situations because Right. Well, the patient's sensitive when you're like that. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Sure. Yeah. Yeah. And I mean, the nursing staff senses it. I mean, even even amongst emergency physicians, there's a little bit of varying temperament, but in general, yeah, we are more laid back. We can deal with the stress and we
9:50Speaker 2handle it a lot better than some of the other Yeah. Types of doctors out there. Does does every doctor have to start or at least do their internship or I know that I forget the word, but you'd know it, in an ER?
10:02Speaker 2Is that like the always the starting point? No, not necessary. Do you have to do any type of training like mandatory in an ER? So
10:10Speaker 5when you're in medical school,
10:12Speaker 5take the 1st couple years, it's basically book time. Okay. You're just, you're just learning and you take boards,
10:20Speaker 5which is, you know, USMLEs,
10:22Speaker 5which is a standardized test all across the board, and then you start the last 2 years rotations where you're actually working clinically. So you're no longer in that kind of school setting. You're out there. And some
10:34Speaker 5of those rotations
10:36Speaker 5may include emergency medicine. When
10:39Speaker 5I was in medical school, it wasn't a mandatory
10:43Speaker 5rotation, but, you know, you learn a lot about yourself as you do those rotations. You know, you do you kind of ask yourself, can I do this
10:52Speaker 5for the rest of my career? Can I can I work in this type of aesthetic? Is this something that's gonna make me happy?
10:59Speaker 5I think that helps differentiate
11:02Speaker 2kind of pathways for for students. It kinda strikes me as, because he's right. All these questions, that is absolutely true. It seems like that's a rough job for 20 years, and there's a way easier way to do it. Right?
11:12Speaker 2No. To Easy just be a family-
11:14Speaker 2It is rough for me. Family doctor. Yeah, it's satisfying. But satisfying. For
11:19Speaker 5the type of docs
11:21Speaker 5that we are. Same life? Yeah. Yeah. I mean, yes. It's good know. It doesn't always go, you know, like that. You know? For sure. You deal with things
11:29Speaker 5that don't work out the way you intend. And you always you're playing with fire all the time. Somebody's gonna get burst, you know, occasionally, and that's just
11:38Speaker 4an unfortunate part of doing the job. But, yeah, it is very fulfilling when it goes well. But do you I don't know if he answered it. If he did, I'm sorry, but I wanna ask it again because I'm curious. So is 20 years a general, or is that a long time? I would imagine most people fizzle out within what, maybe 10 most? Or do some of the practice? I yeah,
11:58Speaker 5I think I think emergency physicians, they
12:02Speaker 5they do branch out, but 20 years, yeah, it's a long time. I'm not sure, like, what the true average is, how many, like, how many people last that long, but
12:12Speaker 5people try
12:13Speaker 5to do it for 20 plus years. I mean, there's people out there that are doing it for 30 years, 35 years before they before they yeah. Yeah.
12:21Speaker 5Love
12:22Speaker 5it. I mean, I do love it. I really do.
12:25Speaker 5But it's
12:27Speaker 5difficult to do that
12:29Speaker 5and do it forever, and it's difficult to do it while
12:33Speaker 5giving the appropriate focus to family,
12:37Speaker 5you know. So it's,
12:39Speaker 5I think it's okay to sort of branch out and kind of
12:43Speaker 5do different things. Yeah. But, yeah, I do love it. And a lot of the ER docs I know, do love it. Trying something different, evolving. I mean, they were supposed to. Evolving. Exactly. Right? I
12:52Speaker 4do you feel you said that
12:55Speaker 4medicine
12:56Speaker 4has changed in those 20 years. What do you what like, kinda break that down a little bit. That's kind of intriguing. What did you mean? Yeah.
13:04Speaker 5There's
13:05Speaker 5been a lot of changes even from the time that I started. I mean, I think 1 of the things when you're
13:11Speaker 5training, you're working in an academic center often, and
13:15Speaker 5the focus is really taking care of patients. The economics of medicine is less of a factor.
13:21Speaker 5When
13:22Speaker 5you graduate and you're
13:24Speaker 5finished training, you're working out in a private hospital,
13:28Speaker 5there are different
13:29Speaker 5motivating factors and there are different forces that
13:33Speaker 5can sometimes influence
13:36Speaker 5from more
13:38Speaker 5powerful positions. So, yeah,
13:41Speaker 5I think that changes
13:44Speaker 5things a little bit, and I think that
13:46Speaker 5the economics of medicine has definitely changed
13:51Speaker 5in the last 20 years.
13:53Speaker 2I Let's get back to you, Todd. We want you to make your introduction of yourself.
13:58Speaker 6Before we get lost and forget about it. Yeah, that's all good, man. It's all good. So I've been in this business for 15 years. I'm the general manager here. I basically consider myself the utility man. I do everything. I can assist her in surgery,
14:12Speaker 6the equipment breaks, I can fix the equipment. I do the consultations,
14:15Speaker 6help with marketing, you name it. So
14:18Speaker 2do it all. And you did,
14:20Speaker 6when I went in there, you were the artistic 1, right? Correct. Yep. It helped us. If I ever heard of mine. Yep. Yep. We do it together, but I get it started. Yes. Keep it nice and natural looking. Yes. Yeah. And by the way, your hair is looking great. So
14:33Speaker 6everybody understands this. It's only 4 months.
14:36Speaker 6Yeah. So you're still in the infancy of it. It's just gonna keep getting better and better and better. Yeah. Well, thank you. That's exciting. Yeah. No. It looks great. And Blake, when you just you guys, you know, I went in there and
14:48Speaker 2you took a Sharpie to my head, right? Yep. And said, okay, here's this is how we're gonna make your hairline. And you said, you don't want
14:55Speaker 2each peak to be the same exact
14:58Speaker 2distance away, right? Because you walk in a room- You can draw his attention to it. Yep. And
15:03Speaker 2I thought it was really interesting, I guess, 1 was to
15:06Speaker 2make sure that we put some hair on the sides because that's what
15:10Speaker 2frames a person's face. Correct. And if you have no hair there,
15:14Speaker 2you got no frame. And now we just kind of look strange with some hair on the top. A little hair hat. But also you guys, when you drew it, it was a jagged line. Right? Correct. Up and down and up and down. Yep.
15:25Speaker 6And uneven on purpose. Right. And that's how it grows naturally. Right? So when you push it back, it's not a straight line. Right? You can't tell you had a hair transplant. Right. Whereas the opposite end goal. Right? In other countries, they may not do that or care. No. Yeah, you can just see in their advertising, not doing it, especially in Turkey. I'm
15:44Speaker 6not saying they don't do good work. They do, the hair grows, but it's not as natural looking. And
15:50Speaker 2also,
15:52Speaker 2so that okay. Explain to me this too. When you guys created the actual hairline, you
15:58Speaker 6told me that there were specific hairs that you implanted there. That's correct. Tell me about that. Remind me. Along the very front of the hairline, we actually use single hairs. Okay? For most of you, if you don't understand, a hair graft has 1 to 4 hairs in it. And if you stick 1 in the front that has 4 in it, you can see it a mile away, especially for guys like you and I with very soft hairs. That means 1 follicle,
16:19Speaker 64 hairs grow out of it. Right? That's the average thing. So is that average? I'm not what's the average
16:25Speaker 6hair? About 2.5
16:26Speaker 6per graft. That's right. So you and I have a lot of ones and twos. I can just tell by looking at have fine hair. Right? He has a lot of threes and fours wise. Hairset aren't thick. Lucky bastard. Right?
16:37Speaker 6Okay. Yep. So, anyway, we
16:40Speaker 6they have a petri dish that and then the quadrants. Right? It has ones, twos, threes, and fours. That way, know where to place them, but we always put little singles in the very front to keep it soft and natural looking.
16:50Speaker 6And in fact, too, we try to pull those hairs from the side because they're even softer than the hairs from the back. Nope. There's a lot of artistry involved in this. Put.
16:58Speaker 2The hair so it is pointing the right way as opposed to pointing like this way? Yeah. So when when you're making incisions to kind of create
17:06Speaker 5the outline Yeah. For where these grafts are gonna go,
17:10Speaker 5it's the angle is very important. The sort of the balance is very important,
17:16Speaker 5you know, and so
17:18Speaker 5you you you make everything
17:20Speaker 5to give you that natural look. That's kind of
17:23Speaker 5that takes time and it takes you know, you sort of have to be spatially oriented and kind of look at a big canvas and
17:31Speaker 5plot things out
17:33Speaker 5spread it evenly and give it
17:36Speaker 2balance. And that's important. Know, just like everything else in the medical and surgeries, like usually, well, in this whole world, everything is automated.
17:44Speaker 2Is there an automated hair transplant
17:47Speaker 2program? Is there
17:49Speaker 2a way to do that without humans? And I don't even know if it's possible. Sure, sounds like it's probably not a good idea. Yes, it's not So there are machines that Yes, are more
17:59Speaker 2we
18:00Speaker 6don't have it, but my understanding is a lot of the times the physician has to go back in and do a lot of the extraction and do a lot of the site making
18:07Speaker 6on top of the machine doing it to keep it looking natural. The human hand has to be involved.
18:12Speaker 6Seriously, that's what we found. I think also,
18:15Speaker 5know, there's definitely an art to it, but
18:18Speaker 5the feel of when you're doing the procedure, like, the machine can't always sense, like, how deep things have to go when the certain give
18:26Speaker 5in the needle occurs.
18:28Speaker 5And, you know, if you
18:30Speaker 5you go too deep, you can start injuring some of the blood vessels underneath and
18:36Speaker 5that will affect the
18:38Speaker 5quality of the transplant. So, these sort of things you pick up when you do
18:43Speaker 2the procedure and you kind of get that feel for it. Because I could hear it all. Mean, like as your I couldn't feel it, I think, because you guys numbed me up appropriately, but you can hear in your own ears
18:53Speaker 2the puncture going cutting through the skin. It's like a little crunch. Yeah, it's a little crunch and you have no way to stop. You can't just chisel it and make
19:04Speaker 51, right? The machine tends to
19:07Speaker 2Right, right. So I guess give us, so we are here,
19:11Speaker 2everybody, I've got my hair transplant and this podcast is about talking about peptides and
19:18Speaker 2getting, I don't know, getting healthy, everybody getting healthy, happy, living your life better, doing anything that makes us, if you look better, you feel better, you better, you play better.
19:27Speaker 2We're talking a little bit about this and this is what you guys do. Give us a quick or tell us how it goes. I'm a new patient, from start to finish, kind of how a hair transplant goes.
19:37Speaker 2We just talked about a little bit of it, but I don't know. Share the mic somehow. It's a process. I mean, you know,
19:44Speaker 5whole procedure itself will take somewhere between 6 to 8 hours, depending on how many grafts we're working on. So, if you take 3,000
19:54Speaker 5grafts and you're trying to transplant them from
19:57Speaker 5the area in the back of the head, which is the donor zone,
20:00Speaker 5the safe zone where
20:02Speaker 5some of the hormones, the DHT that can negatively affect the hair on the
20:08Speaker 5kind of the mid scalp, the frontal scalp,
20:11Speaker 5the crown,
20:13Speaker 5it doesn't have as much of an effect on the hairs in the back. Really? So that's why we take hairs from that area, but you essentially have to remove
20:21Speaker 53000 hairs. Geez. Make 3,000
20:24Speaker 5sides
20:25Speaker 5and then Replace them. Place 3,000.
20:27Speaker 2And we say reminisce. It's not plucking hairs. It's literally cutting out the entire circular It's
20:32Speaker 2very all same.
20:34Speaker 2Teenage.
20:35Speaker 2And you put it in 4 different
20:37Speaker 6compartments in the petri dish? Yeah, that way they can understand we got ones, twos, threes, and fours. Yeah, you wanna make sure you don't put any of those heavy ones up in the front because you can see them a mile away. Wow, interesting.
20:47Speaker 5It's a lot of it has to do with kind of the optical illusion. Right? Yeah. The artistry of it, you take
20:54Speaker 5some of the grafts, the the grafts that have 3 or 4 hairs, you basically get more coverage if you put those in the thinner areas in the back. And it's not as,
21:04Speaker 5you know, aesthetically important,
21:06Speaker 5but what you want is some density back there. And that's kind of what helps because you have a very limited you have a limited number of grafts that you can work with. And that number is what? I know we did something like 3,000 or something like that. Yeah. So,
21:19Speaker 5mean, 10 maybe. Yeah, it depends on on everybody's a little different, but it's somewhere between
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22:52Speaker 5Possible
22:53Speaker 2grafts in the donor zone. Right. And that's why you can you can't obviously take all of them out because then you'll be bald in the back. And those will never be, those are not growing back. There is You're the follicle out. You're taking the whole follicle out. There is no recovery time. I was actually, I had it in my brain like, alright, I gotta wait, you know, 6 months and then those will replenish themselves back here. Yeah, they don't grow back, but
23:15Speaker 5certain treatments may help
23:17Speaker 5some of the follicles that don't have healthy hairs or are in a bad sort of part of the
23:25Speaker 5hair growth process,
23:27Speaker 5kind of convert them back into the healthier part of the process or, you know, and those
23:34Speaker 5hairs that are miniaturized
23:35Speaker 5may improve. So,
23:37Speaker 5you may get improvement in your donor,
23:41Speaker 2but you not get new follicles. They don't regenerate. Oh, yeah. Didn't know that. But so some people can be like halfway bald. They do it bad.
23:49Speaker 6Yeah. It looks like- You harvest. Yeah. You can see- Right. During the look scalped.
23:55Speaker 6When we're doing- Yeah.
23:57Speaker 6That's why when we do the FUE, we spread it over such a large area. Yeah. Because if you do too many too close together, you'll be able to see through your hair. It looks patchy. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So you've done it for 15 years, you said? Yes, sir. Yep. In the 15 years, has the process changed?
24:12Speaker 6Oh, it'll be pretty much been this way for It's similar. Some of the tools have changed. The artistry has definitely changed depending on where you are.
24:19Speaker 6I'm pretty anal about that stuff. It's, you know, my name's on it, so I wanna make sure that it looks very natural. Like, we've taken into consideration the age appropriate hairlines, etcetera. Yeah. Guys want these straight hairlines across the front. We're not gonna do that. Yeah. African American, yes, we'll do that or maybe Hispanic because they like to line it up nice and straight.
24:37Speaker 6But for a white boy like yourself, I'm not gonna do that. Yeah. Like, I'll argue in circles with these guys. They're like, oh, they're rounded off. No. Rounded hairlines are for females. That's right. Yeah. There's male hairlines and female hairlines. Now they draw this smile.
24:50Speaker 4We're not doing that. Sorry. Has there been a difference in like So in the last 15 years, has there been a difference in
24:56Speaker 4what you've seen come in like more men losing their hair maybe because diet or lack of nutrition or overweight.
25:03Speaker 6Plethora of stuff that we deal with. Would say it's the same, to be honest. I haven't really noticed much difference. We
25:10Speaker 6are getting a lot more patients coming in now that are concerned about eyebrows and we do facial hair as well, Right? So,
25:17Speaker 2yeah. Wow.
25:19Speaker 5See, that- So, I think
25:22Speaker 5people are attaching
25:25Speaker 5some of the emotions,
25:26Speaker 5that feeling
25:27Speaker 5good about yourself.
25:29Speaker 5They're they're more inclined to do that probably now than they have been in the past. And I think especially, like, men. I mean, you know, women,
25:37Speaker 5it's kind of have been Yeah. It's changed. More open to it. Right? But but men are becoming more open to to it because not only I mean, you look better, you feel better. And that's that's an important part of it. Having improved
25:49Speaker 5morale helps you in a lot of components of your life. That confidence will this a bit in regards to The stigma. Botox. Yeah. Maternity Botox,
25:57Speaker 2facials. Sure. Most people do like Yeah. The stigma of all of these- Yeah.
26:03Speaker 4Wasn't okay. It wasn't manly before. Yeah. Yeah. Where it's okay, you can age well. Yeah, you can age well. You can age well, you look good. You're losing your hair. I mean, I'm just gonna wear a hat.
26:14Speaker 2Well,
26:15Speaker 2rather have the hair transplant than anything with a dentist, but I would like to go under general anesthesia for my next dental- Especially the root canal.
26:23Speaker 2Just, when I was a little kid, they forgot to, they were giving me a filling and they, so that jagged needle that they put into well, they usually put the topical anesthetic on you 1st. They neglected
26:34Speaker 2that step,
26:35Speaker 2and I could just and I was little kid, I didn't wanna say anything. I knew it was coming. I was like, yep. But, well,
26:40Speaker 2oh my god. I can still just feel it in my bones. That
26:44Speaker 5hurt really bad. So I'm always Oh, there's different, yeah, there are different ways to do local anesthesia. I mean, sometimes they're doing nerve blocks. So you basically just do 1 injection,
26:52Speaker 5try to anesthesize the whole nerve, which may take out a part of the jaw or, I mean, a part of the scalp. Like, we can do nerve blocks as well to kinda make it a little bit easier. And I yeah. And, like, to be fair, I remember
27:06Speaker 2so I'm a big guy. I metabolize things very fast. I also,
27:10Speaker 2as we all know, it was sober because I had a drug problem. So I've
27:15Speaker 2my body is used to narcotics and
27:18Speaker 2and make meds, and I swear I get I flush them quick and I build tolerance
27:22Speaker 2real fast. I had my, was playing basketball several years ago and had my, I got an elbow to my
27:27Speaker 2lip and it was cutting like in 0.5, like down to down to the skin, right? And I went to the ER and they gave me a little injection,
27:35Speaker 2said, I'll be back in 15 minutes, tell me it'll be numb.
27:38Speaker 2Like, the doc had to come back 4 times. Yeah. I'm like, nope, still feel it. Another 1, still feel it. And then at the end of my, dude, it's just not gonna just do the stitches. They're definitely Feel everything. It's okay.
27:49Speaker 2Varying degrees metabolizing.
27:51Speaker 6Yeah, he knows that. Patients patients are different. So- I think when you work out and you're in shape, it makes a difference too. He knows I burned through it quick too. Towards the end, I'm like, feel that a little bit. I mean, it's not brutal.
28:04Speaker 2It's always at the end of the day, same thing- It is. It
28:08Speaker 2more. It doesn't hurt more. You just put color in at the end of the day. At the very end of the When you're just beat up and fragile, and that's why it hurts so much. And
28:20Speaker 2then,
28:21Speaker 2so I don't know, tell us about what are you guys doing about recovery? Like about
28:24Speaker 2do we either have a transplant?
28:26Speaker 2And then how do you help or advise?
28:30Speaker 2I know me personally and not from necessarily
28:33Speaker 2your
28:34Speaker 2medical advice, but I take peptides because I like them and I take them for all healing me everywhere else. And so I did, hell, I use words like GHK- shampoo
28:45Speaker 2after every day and still do.
28:47Speaker 2And I did, you know, BPC and TB, not directly like injecting into my head, but,
28:53Speaker 2and I have healed fast and apparently you're supposed to lose your hair too.
28:57Speaker 2And so I don't know if it's the peptides
29:00Speaker 2that has made it grow back so well and not ever like- Is that common? Falling out, but is that common or what you guys do for follicles? So,
29:06Speaker 5yeah, everybody's different. It's difficult
29:09Speaker 5to tell, you know, because there
29:11Speaker 5isn't great
29:13Speaker 5data, however, but, you know, there's definitely some potential
29:18Speaker 5likely in some of the peptides. We know that copper tends
29:22Speaker 5to help
29:23Speaker 5with collagen production, can help
29:26Speaker 5certain situations
29:28Speaker 5with some of that regeneration,
29:31Speaker 5stabilizing
29:34Speaker 5collagen itself, the scalp,
29:37Speaker 5BPC-157:TB-500probably,
29:41Speaker 5you know, with the angiogenesis
29:43Speaker 5helping with some of the blood flow.
29:46Speaker 5Know, those
29:48Speaker 5are good things when you're talking about recovery.
29:51Speaker 2I know you're not allowed to write, tell based on because of your You did not tell me to take these things, right? I know I'm asking you not that questions because you're not allowed to answer on air, but still. So,
30:02Speaker 2what do you guys do for follow-up treatments
30:05Speaker 2to help people with the full restoration process? Yeah,
30:09Speaker 5we're a full hair restoration clinic. You know, our bread and butter is hair transplant, but there are
30:15Speaker 5many different ways
30:17Speaker 5to kind of help with hair restoration. So, you know, some of the treatments that we offer, you know, with regards to
30:25Speaker 5PRP you can do
30:27Speaker 5that
30:27Speaker 5kind of helps with growth factors in the scalp, may help those follicles sort of
30:34Speaker 5wake up a little bit and kind of go into that healthy
30:38Speaker 5growth phase of the hair cycle.
30:42Speaker 5Some of the newer regenerative techniques
30:45Speaker 5we offer,
30:46Speaker 5laser
30:48Speaker 5light
30:49Speaker 2can help Yeah, so as
30:51Speaker 2we do more than just hair transplant. So I think there are options for people. What about medication? So I actually, because so like I probably lost some of my hair because I was doing testosterone. Yeah.
31:04Speaker 2Testosterone converts into estrogen.
31:07Speaker 2Yes, rapidly and readily,
31:09Speaker 2but also DHT. DHT, yeah. DHT
31:13Speaker 2closes up your pores. So
31:15Speaker 2I took
31:19Speaker 2dutasteride
31:20Speaker 2and
31:21Speaker 2what was the other? Minoxidil.
31:23Speaker 6That's the same 1 too. Yep.
31:25Speaker 2Why is that? Why would I take that? Why did I take that? You're taking it to block the conversion of DHT,
31:31Speaker 6basically from testosterone to DHT. DHT miniaturizes
31:34Speaker 6the hair follicles and then eventually won't come back. So this helps block the miniaturization.
31:38Speaker 2That's right. And what does minoxidil do? Minoxidil will help with vasodilation
31:43Speaker 5and some extra That blood
31:45Speaker 5also is helpful for the follicles.
31:48Speaker 5It takes some time for those medicines to really fully work. And
31:53Speaker 5a lot of times it's
31:55Speaker 5important to concomitantly do the medication
31:58Speaker 5after transplant. It gives you a better chance to have a
32:02Speaker 2successful transplant. Is Benoxidil like a weak form of Viagra or something?
32:08Speaker 5Yeah, no. Not necessarily.
32:11Speaker 2Why? Are you getting a good effect? No.
32:13Speaker 2Viagra is a
32:16Speaker 2vasodilator.
32:17Speaker 2It just helps blood flow. Yep. Your body wants to push blood somewhere. It opens
32:23Speaker 5it up to push blood. Yeah. Through nitric oxide, it'll help with blood flow vasodilator. Yeah. It it works a bit differently. I mean, as far as
32:32Speaker 5I guess,
32:34Speaker 5they're both vasodilators in certain places, but yeah, they work That's
32:38Speaker 5your connection.
32:39Speaker 5Mechanisms are different.
32:41Speaker 2Are we going talk about cost?
32:43Speaker 6What does it cost? We going talk Sure. About Yeah. So we average about $3 per graft basically. So normally FUE is $3.50 a graft and then FUT, which is the strip method, the older method is $3 per graft. It's great. It's real easy pricing
32:57Speaker 6based on graft numbers. Everything's included. All the medications included, you don't have to go pick it up at the pharmacy.
33:03Speaker 6There's no tax. People don't realize that a lot of times on medical procedures.
33:07Speaker 6So if I say it's $9, it's $9 out the door. There's no hidden cost. We don't charge you for some places charge you for, like, the gowns. They charge you for your aftercare meds, none of that stuff. So real simple pricing. Yeah, I mean, there's a lot of variability in pricing out there. I think 1 of the things that's important for us is
33:23Speaker 5we want to
33:26Speaker 5give people a fair price. And I
33:29Speaker 5think
33:30Speaker 5all too often, yes, it is labor intensive, but it's
33:34Speaker 5our
33:35Speaker 5model is to kind of make it more accessible.
33:37Speaker 6But there are lots out there charging $30. Well, I was gonna say the kind of work we do, we should be getting $5 a graph. The issue is it's very competitive. Like, I think we do some of the best work around, honestly. This guy's got it locked in. And what did your neighbor remember?
33:53Speaker 4Your neighbor? Well, I had no idea. I've never even looked into it and my neighbor had had it and I was like, I'm starting to leave my hair on top.
34:02Speaker 4I literally had no clue. I'd never looked into it, had no desire
34:06Speaker 4to do that. And then he's outside watering his lawn in the backyard. I'm in the backyard. I'm like, Hey, man. I said, so you know you had the hair transplant. I'm all, what does that cost? Like, you know, and he's like,
34:15Speaker 4what did he say? He said, oh, 25.
34:18Speaker 4And I'm like, oh, that's not bad. $2,500?
34:20Speaker 2That's not and he goes, no. $25.
34:22Speaker 2He's like, we took out a 2nd on my home. I'm like, oh,
34:25Speaker 2didn't
34:26Speaker 4wear a hat. Was he in Newport Beach? Most likely. I don't know where he got it done, but that's where we lived. But I had no clue that that was the cost of it, but his looked like crap. I don't know if he doesn't listen. Didn't spend that kind of money. Well,
34:40Speaker 2because he just didn't look like he really did anything.
34:44Speaker 2I'm like, I
34:45Speaker 2did the kind of cost analysis and like it sure made
34:48Speaker 2a lot more sense to go to you guys because even just straight price wise, like all of the money that I would spend and time off of work and hassle in travel,
34:59Speaker 2right,
35:01Speaker 2made up the difference of me just having to drive to San Diego. I did get a hotel room there
35:06Speaker 2because I didn't want to deal with the drive
35:09Speaker 2home. Right. Like
35:11Speaker 2brain injured a little bit. Probably
35:14Speaker 5wise to do that, but we don't let you drive after the procedure. That's right.
35:19Speaker 4You're talking to about- Okay, so maybe that's why. And they're curious because I've
35:23Speaker 4never looked into it.
35:25Speaker 6I'm assuming there's financing. There is financing available, yes. And you guys finance? We don't finance the house. Have several connections for 1 who finances. Yeah.
35:33Speaker 2Yeah.
35:36Speaker 5I mean, we try to make it easier for patients to do it. I mean, I think also that we talked about the difference between, you know, going to Turkey, a price, any part of it, but it's a different experience here. You know, I contact every single 1 of my patients.
35:49Speaker 5Have to check on. I mean, we take pride in what we're doing there. So I think,
35:55Speaker 5and
35:56Speaker 5our patients notice that. And
36:00Speaker 5not necessarily doesn't work like that when you use somebody on a continent far away has your money and
36:07Speaker 5has already given you a transplant and is pretty much done with you. Well,
36:11Speaker 2you were saying that you wanted to get into different type of not medicine,
36:16Speaker 4but
36:17Speaker 4bedside manner, I guess, is the way to say that. So is that what you're trying to do? Because you're talking about
36:23Speaker 4ER,
36:24Speaker 4woah, down to very probably slow pace and tedious,
36:27Speaker 4very different, like hard left onto
36:30Speaker 5slow. Yeah, I mean, the transplant is a
36:33Speaker 5part of like what I really wanna do. I mean,
36:36Speaker 5is a transition, yeah, from the ER to doing transplant, I think
36:40Speaker 5kind of my passion is what I'm looking at is sort of shifting
36:44Speaker 5where
36:45Speaker 5I'm treating patients,
36:47Speaker 5you know, and
36:48Speaker 5how I'm treating patients. For
36:50Speaker 520 years, I see patients at the of the tail end of their disease process and that emergency situation where something bad really happened to them, and you try to kind of pull them out of that situation. I think it's important to,
37:05Speaker 5all too often, as physicians, probably
37:08Speaker 5don't get a chance to focus on
37:10Speaker 5keeping people well and helping
37:13Speaker 5them sort of stay well and healthy
37:16Speaker 5and, you know, age well. Yeah. And that's that's hair is 1 component of it, but there's there's other things I like to be to do and I'm already kind of working on. Tell us about those things. So what's next? What are you doing now? What else is what other projects do you guys have? So, yeah, we're
37:33Speaker 5Well, 1 of the things I'm doing now, I'm working with another doctor, a buddy of mine, also an ER doc, and we're gonna be
37:40Speaker 5We've actually pretty much launched our telehealth site where we're gonna
37:45Speaker 5be physicians,
37:47Speaker 5MDs that are manning it,
37:50Speaker 5establishing
37:51Speaker 5a patient physician relationship,
37:55Speaker 5helping
37:56Speaker 5people with different
37:57Speaker 5types of longevity wellness
38:00Speaker 5treatments.
38:01Speaker 5And
38:02Speaker 5I think that's
38:04Speaker 5important. You know, we do that as physicians.
38:08Speaker 5Think a lot of times
38:10Speaker 5corporate medicine has sort of dissolved some of that patient physician relationship that really makes medicine
38:18Speaker 5special. So, you know, it's important for us to try to focus on that. And so we want to do something different in the telehealth world. Like what? What are some of those? Like being available?
38:30Speaker 2Making Being
38:33Speaker 5personalized
38:34Speaker 5treatment plans, listening to patients,
38:39Speaker 5kind of convey what's important to them, what's going to make them
38:43Speaker 5better,
38:43Speaker 5where they see themselves
38:46Speaker 5progressing to and kind of working
38:48Speaker 5with that as an outline to
38:51Speaker 5make a personalized plan for them, whether it's
38:54Speaker 5some of the
38:55Speaker 5weight loss treatments,
38:57Speaker 5optimizing hormones,
38:59Speaker 5even just like hair restoration is gonna be part of this, some of the more wellness longevity
39:04Speaker 5kind of treatment plans. We're getting started, we're gonna be definitely incorporating
39:10Speaker 5lab biomarkers,
39:11Speaker 5monitoring
39:12Speaker 5these, making adjustments to plans. And, you know, a lot of times, we don't see that in a lot of these bigger telehealth websites. You know, it's about Turn to burn. Yeah, exactly. Get get you on a subscription
39:25Speaker 2and- Well, right. They just want it's like Jimmy, his friend,
39:28Speaker 2usually, I guess, maybe a woman, but Joan,
39:31Speaker 2her friend telling her, Hey, this is what I do. They're like, All right, I just want to get that. And I just want to I'll just find the easiest way to get that. Right? Right. Even though that totally may not be right for her whatsoever
39:42Speaker 2and people are unique and just because her friend got good results doing 1 thing, and just told her all about the good highlights and not about anything bad. Right. She just goes, Oh, I just want this for cheap.
39:53Speaker 2Instead of actually speaking to somebody. So cool.
39:57Speaker 4So you get back to the basics. And
39:59Speaker 4it wouldn't be me if I didn't ask.
40:01Speaker 4People on the show know me.
40:03Speaker 4Western medicine,
40:05Speaker 4doctors have lost some steps and rightfully so, they prescribed stuff and they didn't know what was in it. So I would imagine that's affected
40:13Speaker 4how you're treated. I don't know if it would bleed on to maybe ER doctors as much as maybe certain doctors,
40:20Speaker 4but rightfully so. I mean, if you have doctors who we are supposed to trust,
40:25Speaker 4right? And they deserve that trust because you guys have worked for it. But if you're prescribing something to somebody you don't know what's in it, that's a problem.
40:31Speaker 4And like they shouldn't be doing that. And so lack of trust for doctors.
40:37Speaker 4And that's 1 of my
40:39Speaker 4problems with doctors is because of that. So if you just get back to, I think kind of the basics and doing what you just said, which is great,
40:46Speaker 4what's your objective? What's your sleep like? What
40:49Speaker 4do you do for work? And like ask questions
40:52Speaker 4that affect them,
40:53Speaker 4their lifestyle, their cortisol, and all those things.
40:57Speaker 4That's how doctors should get back to, I think. And if you do that, I mean, that's Sure. I mean, medicine is not a 1 size fits all And
41:04Speaker 5I think that's
41:06Speaker 5a lot of the time in some of these clinics that there's protocols,
41:11Speaker 5you fall into this category and you're gonna get this treatment. And that's not always the right move. I agree with you. I mean,
41:18Speaker 5we've strayed a little bit certain ways. You know, I think that
41:23Speaker 5we've also put in a lot of time and a lot of years and and we've we've studied a lot and it's Sure.
41:31Speaker 55 minute chat GPT conversation doesn't always cover, you know, what we know. So, you know, there is
41:38Speaker 5some value,
41:40Speaker 5you know, as kind of being,
41:42Speaker 5I won't say authority figure, but, you know, we have a
41:46Speaker 5bigger knowledge base to a certain degree. So,
41:49Speaker 5know, you're smart.
41:52Speaker 5Read a lot. Yeah, we were nerdy back in the day. We might still be nerdy.
41:58Speaker 5I think in general, like, you know, there should be some value. Have you noticed patients
42:05Speaker 2treating you differently
42:06Speaker 2over the years?
42:08Speaker 2And starting with COVID, I think was the 1st, well, maybe not 1st, but like, right, really opened a lot of people's eyes, made a lot of people skeptical
42:15Speaker 2of Western medicine and of the authority figures that we all had put our faith in.
42:21Speaker 2And I guess it's for everybody. But yeah, have you noticed a change in how people have
42:27Speaker 5dealt with Yeah, I think
42:29Speaker 5so 1st of all, COVID,
42:31Speaker 5that time was a very unique time. Right? So you're talking about a global pandemic Mhmm. With
42:38Speaker 5all sorts of unknowns. And
42:41Speaker 5guys like me were
42:43Speaker 5frontline docs. Like,
42:45Speaker 5I was also
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44:17Speaker 5K.
44:18Speaker 5And we took care of patients. Sure. You know, we didn't know if we were gonna
44:23Speaker 5especially at the very beginning, we didn't know if we were gonna die. Sick. Yeah, because
44:28Speaker 5there were doctors that were dying. So, but, you know, we felt it was important to take care of people and even
44:36Speaker 5not to hate all my
44:38Speaker 5the other docs out there, a lot of specialists, they closed up shop. They stayed at home. But,
44:44Speaker 5you know, us as the frontline docs, we were there every
44:48Speaker 5day, every shift.
44:50Speaker 5And then
44:51Speaker 5things started changing and where everybody is like, oh, you know, you're
44:57Speaker 5doing COVID tests and introducing COVID into us. Yeah, I Why why would I do that? Right. Right. You didn't think I'm gonna make what it's get. Right? So things were just coming out of left field. It didn't really make much sense. Sure. I think
45:12Speaker 5some of us
45:13Speaker 5probably took a little bit of like a
45:16Speaker 5moral blow, like when that was occurring. Yeah. Because,
45:20Speaker 5honestly, that's now I was thinking about it. I was like, listen, I'm needed right now. Like, I yeah. I'm I'm here. I saw plenty of people die. I mean, like, you saw people dying in the waiting room. Like, it was it was happening. Like,
45:32Speaker 5it was real deal. And then, you know, things kind of dust started settling a little bit. Know? Some of the vaccinations came out and
45:39Speaker 5also some of the treatments changed. There's more information. I mean,
45:43Speaker 5that's just how things work. HGHTS-2020. Yeah, hindsight is always 20 20. So,
45:47Speaker 5yeah, I think that's kind of changed a little bit, but
45:50Speaker 5it's important to gain the trust of patients back.
45:55Speaker 4Know, get But back to I think it's easy to do that because you've already said it. You have earned your right for the respect. You have done things that we don't want to do. I don't want to go to school for 20 years. Know it's 20 years, but you know what I mean? You've earned it. You're a
46:09Speaker 2doctor.
46:10Speaker 4I think it'd be very easy, which is just do what you were trying to do is spend some time with the people and learn about them and try to truly help them and That's see symptoms what
46:20Speaker 4what people don't want.
46:22Speaker 4That's why people are seeking peptides.
46:25Speaker 4The cool thing about COVID was
46:28Speaker 4it shifted
46:29Speaker 4people to 1 go, this is weird, something's off. And then 2,
46:34Speaker 4really start to want to get healthy. And that's amazing because the food we eat is shit, it's poison. There we breathe is shit, it's poison.
46:42Speaker 4Could go on and on and off. I mean, the food is fake and you know what I mean? And people finally know that. Now we can start to seek
46:50Speaker 4true health, which is why our peptide is amazing because they're chains of amino acids, you know? Mean, there's other things that you need to do. But that's what we're Yeah. Mean, focusing on
46:59Speaker 5kind of going
47:01Speaker 5into the cell and
47:03Speaker 5working on
47:05Speaker 5optimizing
47:06Speaker 5certain characteristics of how your body's already
47:10Speaker 5doing things,
47:12Speaker 5that's not that's not a problem. Like, that's medicine
47:16Speaker 5will always change.
47:18Speaker 5So if we are not looking at
47:21Speaker 5changes and looking at kind of different
47:23Speaker 5ways of treating
47:25Speaker 5disease processes or even keeping people healthy, mean, that's on us. We shouldn't be doing that. That's a problem. So,
47:33Speaker 5you know, guys talk about it. This is a gray area a lot of times, unfortunately, but it's going to change. It
47:38Speaker 5just needs more information, just like how it changed with COVID.
47:42Speaker 2We
47:43Speaker 2met you a while ago, several months ago, right? And you came in here and you were starting to like, okay,
47:49Speaker 2doctor, I want to learn more about peptides, right? You said, I hear nothing but good things, but
47:55Speaker 2I want to just talk to you guys about
47:58Speaker 2them. And you did tell us, you go, I guess when we were saying goodbye, you're like, okay, well, I need to go establish
48:06Speaker 2myself as an actual expert before
48:08Speaker 2I can even He get into the said, I got a lot of research to do, right? And that is the right attitude. It wasn't about money. Was about that's- We
48:18Speaker 2both talked about when you left. Physicians
48:21Speaker 5and
48:22Speaker 5doctors and a lot of people in medical industry,
48:25Speaker 5we consider ourselves lifelong learners.
48:28Speaker 5I don't want to stop learning.
48:30Speaker 5Things are going to evolve and
48:32Speaker 5I
48:33Speaker 5want to be there evolving
48:34Speaker 5too. I don't wanna be stagnant. Like, sure, I can save you. I can save your ass if I need to, like, in emergency.
48:42Speaker 5But, you know, I wanna, you know, save the people in other ways and help them kind of
48:49Speaker 5be happy with their day to day life and improve their day to day existence too. The science is there. Science is there.
48:57Speaker 2I'll play devil's advocate real quick though, Jay. You did say that,
49:01Speaker 2know, people were worried that doctors were giving the patients
49:05Speaker 2things that they didn't even know was in there. So my 1st ringing bell is OxyContin,
49:09Speaker 2right? Like OxyContin.
49:11Speaker 2That's the biggest
49:12Speaker 2that we personally know several friends who've died because of And
49:17Speaker 2doctors were just, Oh, medical rep, tell me what I should give them. Okay, I'll give them that. Right.
49:23Speaker 2But
49:24Speaker 2this is kind of the same argument why
49:27Speaker 2peptides as a doctor
49:29Speaker 2should be slow played because there isn't enough research and you don't want to be giving people something you don't know much about, right?
49:37Speaker 2Unfortunately, so there's a devil's advocate argument, right? Say, you don't want me to give people, you don't want me to give people things that I am not 100%
49:45Speaker 2sure
49:45Speaker 2what they do and what the long term repercussions are? Well, shit, that means I can't give people
49:51Speaker 2many better because we don't know what the long term we
49:54Speaker 5don't know much about them quite yet. Yeah. I mean, we all kind of know there's
49:59Speaker 5a lot of research that needs to still be done,
50:03Speaker 5but you can't really ignore,
50:05Speaker 5you know, some
50:08Speaker 2promising, like- Benefits. Benefits.
50:10Speaker 5You and you can't, like, close your eyes to them. Like,
50:14Speaker 2it
50:14Speaker 5They're coming about a week. Yeah, like, I mean, there's
50:18Speaker 5gonna be more information, there's gonna be more studies, there's gonna be well designed studies that
50:23Speaker 5are gonna potentially show the therapeutic benefit.
50:27Speaker 5And that's just science. I mean, it's gonna take time. Unfortunately, we lag sometimes behind it, and there's gonna be the early adopters, right? And those are the guys
50:37Speaker 5doing things. And like but we are always more conservative. Like, as
50:42Speaker 5physicians,
50:43Speaker 5as medicine.
50:45Speaker 5And it's gonna take time, but you know, like,
50:47Speaker 5I'm not
50:48Speaker 5close minded. I'm gonna be willing to change. I'm gonna do my research. I'm gonna learn.
50:54Speaker 5And
50:54Speaker 5I think that's
50:56Speaker 5all you can do in this situation and that's the best way to sort of handle it. Now,
51:00Speaker 2all that, with peptides, right, there's so
51:03Speaker 2it's
51:04Speaker 2tough to forecast long term ramifications, but with peptides and a lot of these
51:08Speaker 2short chain amino acid peptides, right?
51:10Speaker 2I wonder, is it possible to
51:14Speaker 2forecast all of just because they're so simple, some of them, KPV is lysine, proline, and valine.
51:20Speaker 2My guess is how hard is that really to
51:23Speaker 2see what just just looking at it and knowing what we know to know what the potential bad things this could possibly do even long term? Because it's so simple. Right? Shouldn't we be able to
51:33Speaker 5forecast that or so? There's a lot of factors. Right? You know, you talk about a lot of dosing
51:40Speaker 5is yeah, the the different parts of your body, how things kind of work together.
51:46Speaker 5Like, what happens if you change a balance of something within you know, So these kind of things, they take time. However Yeah. You know, there's
51:56Speaker 5the the
51:58Speaker 5it's it's gonna be it's gonna be something that we're gonna kind of
52:02Speaker 5learn about. And, yeah, so- Yeah, okay. Fine. Fine.
52:08Speaker 4People are doing me the way. People are learning me the way. Like
52:11Speaker 4literally be blind, like either the doctors like get on board or the trains are passing. Because people want to be healthy in peptides. I mean, the chains of amino acids. I'm not saying they don't have any type of risk, but compared to some of the medications that are prescribed to people on a daily basis, they have little to none. Yeah. I think we could. Even the government's kind of coming on board at this point, right? Didn't RFK-
52:32Speaker 6What happened Yeah, to
52:34Speaker 5there's
52:35Speaker 5some changes
52:37Speaker 5the
52:37Speaker 5kind of classifications
52:39Speaker 5It's through the
52:41Speaker 5gonna be positive. I mean, it's gonna lead to
52:43Speaker 5basically better research probably. It's going to lead to
52:48Speaker 5some of the early
52:50Speaker 5adopters, physicians kind of having a little bit more leeway.
52:54Speaker 2Greater availability all over. Yeah.
52:57Speaker 5Nevertheless, you still have to kind of do it in a conservative fashion. I
53:02Speaker 5don't think you're gonna throw 12 peptides a year back.
53:06Speaker 2And
53:08Speaker 5it's always about kind of
53:10Speaker 5slowly easing into things, And you know,
53:14Speaker 5everybody's gonna be probably affected differently.
53:16Speaker 6So, you know, that's gonna there's gonna be a learning curve there for sure. So, Todd, you're buff, leaching. You're ripped up when you see your veins. Like, what do you take?
53:25Speaker 6So What do you do for your physical health, basically? Like, everything. So it's interesting. I am now I'll be 57
53:31Speaker 6years old in September. K. Yeah. 57. Yep. Love it. Well, the hair helps. He did my hairline, so you know. I've
53:39Speaker 6been doing the same workout for 20 years, so it's consistency. I know it should probably change some things, but that's I've been doing the same thing for a very long time. What does the workout look like? Basically,
53:49Speaker 6just a, you know, chest workout,
53:52Speaker 6both bi tri workout, shoulders, and then legs again. Didn't I do my legs for like 20 years since I've had 6 knee surgeries. You know, we played ball. Okay. Yeah. But
54:01Speaker 6my kids are like, you have chicken legs. I get that all the time, So we're
54:06Speaker 6back in on the legs. Yeah. And that's definitely helpful. Now, I'm also taking Retta,
54:11Speaker 6right, Tesamorelin
54:12Speaker 6BP-one
54:14Speaker 6hundred 57, and then I take 1 cc a week of testosterone, which I started at 50. You know, I'm not a doctor. I can't give advice, but I would say for most men, you need to look into it. It's game changing. Changing. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Well, we talk about this all the time. Yeah. So we everybody knows where our stance is. And for those of you out there who think, oh, you're in shape because you're taking that, it's
54:33Speaker 6it's because it's not 1
54:35Speaker 6cc because that's all they'll give you. Right? They're not gonna give you 400 mg that we you know, right? Like bodybuilders
54:42Speaker 6take. Even then. Yeah. Right. Absolutely. Yeah. I'm just trying to stay lean and in shape. You said it's consistency.
54:48Speaker 6Absolutely. Consistency. Yes. And I have a 10 a wife who is 10 years younger, so that's motivating, and she works out harder than I do. So yeah. I think we all do, actually. She's all she's into fitness. Dude, she'll work out for an hour and 0.5, and I'm out of there in 45 minutes. Yeah. Right? Yeah. She'll shame me, I'm like, hey. I this is working for me. Yeah. Exactly. Later.
55:06Speaker 6And kids, you have some active kids? Yes. I have stepchildren. Yep. I got a 15 year old, a 13, and a 12. Boys. All boys. So it's been great. Yep.
55:15Speaker 213, 15, 12. Damn. Yeah. So it's in, like, full force. Yeah. Met him with some very young breaking stuff. Yeah. My wife and I have been together almost 9 years now. So, yeah, it's been good. Good for you. Stepfather's good stuff. She is, man. Yep. Yeah. I've, me too. Like, I have a 9 year old. I guess I'm not actually a stepfather, but basically I live with him and my girlfriend's a child and
55:35Speaker 2we love him and he's a boy.
55:37Speaker 2Yeah. Dude, but he's a full full figured boy who, wants to run around and
55:41Speaker 6causing trouble and but at least he wants to throw balls and- Yep. Wait till they get in the sports script. You'll end up coaching like I did. I had no idea I would be a coach, and I've turned out to love it. Yeah. Did coach you said that you're now coaching his tackle football team? Yeah. It looks like I got nominated to be the head coach of an 11 u Pop Warner team, so that'll be new.
56:01Speaker 6Done a lot of that flag football coaching in the past. And then last year, I coached a girls high school flag football team, which was awesome. That's actually the fastest growing sport in the country is girls flag football. I hear about that. I hear people who tell us that they have a daughter and playing flag football and just silly. It's something. I'm
56:18Speaker 6barely 5 10, and some of these girls are 6 feet tall that are on the team. It's crazy. And they're I went to last time I went to Hawaii, we were on the plane with the women's,
56:27Speaker 2they had the women's Hawaiian team. Okay. In flag football, they were just coming back from playing the, like, national championship game, and they had just won
56:37Speaker 2the national championship.
56:38Speaker 2Well, Sydney, it's all other girls their age playing football. And it'll be in the Olympics now too. Really? Which is great. Yeah. Oh, really? Really? Wow. Yep. Girls or bulls? Girls. I don't know about men. I know about women. For sure. Yeah. Awesome. That's interesting. Well, coaching football, so I when I graduated college and and I played college football, my my best friend was the
56:57Speaker 2head, was the athletic director of the junior high that I went to. Okay. Where I'm from, we do junior high 7th, 8th, and 9th grade, and only 8 and 9th graders can play football. So he called me up and said, hey, do you wanna be able to be a coach? So I was the head coach
57:11Speaker 2of the 8th grade, which is JV, right? The 8th graders, he was the head coach of the varsity, but as a D coordinator of the
57:18Speaker 2varsity team also.
57:20Speaker 2I will say that that was
57:22Speaker 2like 1 of the more, the most like fulfilling
57:25Speaker 2things I've ever done. And it was fun.
57:29Speaker 2Mean, just working with these kids, like telling them,
57:32Speaker 2you know, sitting with them before practice and say like, dude, you'd better do your homework. Like, it's not cool to not do your homework and smoke weed. And then not eligible and
57:41Speaker 2that sucks. And then put a helmet on. So we didn't have enough guys and some of these guys were the 1st time ever. Sure. And
57:47Speaker 2I mean, there were plenty of practices where I just put a helmet on. I'm like, right, you offense, scrimmage, we have like 6 guys on playing middle linebacker.
57:53Speaker 2And went to go and then accidentally thought I almost injured our star quarterback, but shoving them over. But it was a blasted. And I remember,
58:04Speaker 2yeah, we were good. Luckily, we had some major talent.
58:06Speaker 2Nice. But I spent a month with them pre pregame before the 1st game, practicing, practicing, practicing. And then 1st we kick off, great. They get the ball. And I got defense, get out there. Everybody knows their positions. We've been practicing that. They all run out and I have my D linemen are back where safeties
58:24Speaker 2are. My corners are like getting in the middle of the line of scrimmage
58:29Speaker 2and all the parents behind me are like, what's that coachman doing? Get to your positions,
58:34Speaker 2people. But they figured it out, luckily. And after a couple of weeks, I thought I had 1 of the mothers said, hey, can
58:41Speaker 2we talk to you after the game? And I was like, here we go.
58:46Speaker 2And
58:47Speaker 2she'd said nothing but positive stuff. Said like, the kids love you. Okay, good. And this is like the best they were worried about football. This is the best experience they've ever had. I
58:55Speaker 2guess I'm maybe saying good things about myself, but it really rewarding, and those kids remembered me forever. So, Well, no. Time consuming and it was fun, man. Selfless job. Right? It really is because it's a lot of time. Yeah. A lot of time. A lot of time. Especially football. Like, you have to plan every inch of practice. Yes. Right? Yep. Every day. They mean a mentor,
59:15Speaker 5like, to
59:16Speaker 6children. Mean, that's- And you are mentoring. You're giving a lot of life lessons while you're out there too. It's actually really good. Huge. It's a great experience.
59:24Speaker 4Love it, guys. Now you know how fast the hour goes.
59:28Speaker 4Oh, yeah. Everybody that sits here, it's been an hour? That's how fast the call in a podcast it goes.
59:33Speaker 4Where can people find you guys? They've
59:36Speaker 6been listening, they've been intrigued, they wanna reach out, how they get ahold of you? Yes, the best way to get ahold of us and come directly to me. Right? Don't call the office. I don't wanna go into the salespeople. You come directly to me. It's
59:48Speaker 6feel free to email me. Super simple. Just Todd@MyHairMD.com.
59:52Speaker 6Okay. Right? Easy. We'll put it on there too. That's perfect. Yeah. Yeah. And I'll get back to you really quickly. That's sweet. Yeah. Tell them maybe that they heard about you from this. Yeah. And if you're not in the state, that doesn't matter, right? We can do a
1:00:05Speaker 2online consultation. Sweet. Which is not a problem. And you get the fly, you get an excuse to go to San Diego. That's right. Nothing
1:00:12Speaker 4wrong with that. It was inside tonight. Nice, man. It was inside. It's great. I grew up going to that beach. Nice. Good stuff. Well, it's been a pleasure, gentlemen. I'm sure we'll be in touch,
1:00:22Speaker 4but other than that, anything before we
1:00:25Speaker 2end this? No, cool. Look forward to seeing what you guys are doing. I'm always interested, I guess every new doctor
1:00:32Speaker 2with their new take on alternative
1:00:35Speaker 2type medicines or emerging medicines and treatments. So I'm excited that to see what you can come up with and yeah, what the future holds. We're gonna be busy.
1:00:46Speaker 4We're hustling. Good. You're stuck. Other than that, make sure that you join
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1:01:05Speaker 4liberation, baby. There's a lot of cool new info too that I just put up there. Yeah. Awesome. Nice. And if you didn't watch last what it dropped yesterday, the podcast
1:01:14Speaker 4with Paul back to here, that was a that was a great podcast, so make sure you listen to that 1. That was rad. Other than that, we will catch you on the next round. Take care. Good, folks. Appreciate you. Thank you, guys.