I hope you had a nice Memorial Day! I spent the weekend with some old friends at our new lake home in Brighton, Michigan. It was relaxing, but also a lot of learning (such as how to prevent geese from pooping on the beach, get a seadoo running, and tie nautical knots). In addition to […]
Do collagen supplements make your skin look younger? Does fat removed by liposuction come back elsewhere? Should breast implants be switched out every ten years? If you shave your hair, does it grow back thicker? There are so many widely held beliefs disseminated by so-called experts that it’s hard to know what’s true and what […]
Keto. Paleo. Vegetarian. Vegan. Mediterranean. There is a lot of debate among nutritionists, dieticians, and physicians about which diet is best for your health. Should you eat meat? What about bread? Is dairy bad for you? What types of fat should you eat? Like the vast majority of doctors, I wasn’t taught anything about nutrition […]
Do you love drinking wine like I do? If so, then you probably already know about the major health benefits of drinking wine, especially red wine. Red wine contains hefty amounts of resveratrol, a powerful anti-aging antioxidant. That’s the good part of wine. But what about the bad? Did you know that most commercial wine […]
What is the future of medicine? Is the future of medicine more medications, more invasive treatments, and Big Pharma, like many doctors and health care professionals would like you to believe? Or is it something more? For the past couple years I’ve introduced you to physicians and health care providers who are on the cutting […]
What you eat determines how quickly you age. You’ve heard me say it many times. The quality of the food on your plate has a huge impact on the quality of your skin. And now studies are showing a true gut-skin connection, where the health of one shows up in the other. So which foods […]
Breast Implant Illness, or BII, is one of the hottest topics in plastic surgery today. Breast implant illness refers to a constellation of symptoms that some women appear to develop after undergoing breast augmentation with implants. These symptoms include fatigue, muscle and joint pain, brain fog, fevers, rashes, and hair loss. Until recently, there have […]
What is the best injectable filler? This is a question I’m asked nearly every day. The answer is: It’s not that simple. Twenty years ago we had one injectable filler: collagen. Today we have a plethora of fillers, all with their own specific properties that make each one great for a certain part of the […]
Sculptra is the only non-hyaluronic acid (HA) filler that I recommend. It’s a powder made with poly-L-lactic acid (similar to what we use to make absorbable sutures) mixed with sterile water. The mixture is injected in small, dilute amounts to plump up areas of your face. I like to use it mainly in the cheeks, […]
One of the hottest treatments in my practice right now is microneedling. This actually isn’t a new treatment, but over the past year or so, it has regained popularity as technological advances have improved what this procedure can do to rejuvenate the skin. You may have seen handheld rollers with tiny needles that, when rolled […]
