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THR contributing editor Elycia Rubin sat down with Dr. Ava Shamban, Dr. Tess Mauricio and Crystal Muilenburg for "Age Against the Machine: The Longevity and Optimization Edit" panel. The group highlighted the efficiency of Sculptra, an aesthetic injectable that stimulates the body’s natural collagen production, and Shamban highlighted the combo of lasers at a doctor's office and science-based skin care at home.

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00:06so in terms of though what we do when we leave the office is every bit as important I mean
00:11we're not
00:12gonna go to the dentist and have you know your teeth whitened your teeth cleaned or whatever
00:15and then never brush your teeth right same thing with hair so it's really important to carry out
00:21to improve and enhance the results with what you do at home so a couple of examples I really like
00:26to use scientifically based skin care so scientifically based skin care there's some
00:32nice examples of it here there's skin better so I really like the alpha retinoic acid because that
00:38will stimulate cell turnover increased collagen production increased production of the hyaluronic
00:43acid which we also inject into the skin I have a little syringe here anybody anybody and this is
00:51wrestling kiss just saying they gave it to me without the needle but you know we have a way
00:59um and then this is the this is the skin better and I also just wanted to I always like
01:04show and tell
01:04and then um SkinCeuticals has a new product which is like a topical type of muscle relaxer it is not
01:11Botox or Xeomin or any of those but it does help enhance the results and then I also brought up
01:17a
01:17little sculpture sign too but um because that's also one less I just want to say one last thing
01:23about um so in the galderma line there's also the elastin line which is also outstanding and finally the
01:31supplements so in terms of supplements there's a really interesting one that's also in the skin
01:35better line called bio rewind which is a rosemary extract and what this does is it increases your own
01:41innate antioxidant system so it's not just adding an antioxidant it's also increasing it it's very
01:48anti-inflammatory and I think it's nice to kind of hit the whole every single point along the way
01:55because it doesn't matter what time how old you are when you start but that's when you begin your
02:00prejuvenation and I'll stop amen
02:05we love those SkinCeuticals and SkinBetter products because again they're science backed
02:10and don't waste your money on products that aren't science backed that's what I've learned after doing
02:15this for a long time and talking to the experts like you Dr. Tess again Dr. Tess Mauricio has her
02:23practice in both Beverly Hills and San Diego the M Beauty Clinic so happy to have you here you've been
02:30our regenerative aesthetics pioneer for a long time with your time machine procedure tell us about
02:35some of the treatments the modalities that are really exciting you right now and what we can expect
02:41what can we see amazing well first thank you Alicia the Hollywood Reporter for having me it's I'm so honored
02:49to be here with amazing pioneers and especially Ava and you know I there's someone special here
02:57who I was hoping would come on stage because not right I mean no pressure but because she is the
03:03queen of longevity and she's my dear friend and longtime patient Paula Abdul is here
03:10hi Paula she embodies longevity ageless living and just resilience all around and thank you so much for
03:19for coming and and doing this this for me I really I can't believe it you know as a small
03:26child from the
03:26Philippines being here on stage with all of you fabulous beautiful people so regenerative medicine
03:33what is it you know in the past really what we've been doing is filling cutting extra skin but what
03:39if
03:39we really can reverse the action of the skin what if we really can make your skin and the cells
03:46behave
03:47like it's younger and we are able to do that now and as Ava alluded there are now studies that
03:52show
03:52the things that we do as dermatologists fractional radio frequency radio frequency microneedling
03:58really can in the cellular level reverse the aging process reset the aging process the time machine
04:06procedure we coined that about 15 years ago and you know it's a full circle moment because this
04:12event is you know sponsored by Alma my very first device within the time machine procedure
04:18was the Alma Opus and it was a fractional radio frequency plasma energy I loved it because it was
04:24great for all skin types and being you know a brown girl skin of color and treatment of skin of
04:31color was
04:32very very important for me as a passion and so what we did was we combined energy so that can
04:38be lasers
04:39RF microneedling radio frequency ultrasound topical microneedling with at the time platelet-rich plasma which at the time it's like
04:48what is PRP people were using it as a filler but it's not really meant to be a filler but
04:54what we found
04:55we did have face studies is that if when you combine the energy with your patient's platelet-rich plasma they
05:02will heal better they will get optimized results and for those with skin of color we did not get the
05:09post-inflammatory hyperpigmentation that we would have expected with that amount of energy and then now fast forward 15 years
05:17later we have so much
05:18many more devices like Ava said we have so many it's so exciting the lasers have improved we're able to
05:25customize personalize we can stack them you don't need to go to Korea you can go to Ava's office you
05:31can go to my office you'll be surrounded by all these different devices and then we'll dry your blood some
05:37of you who are brave maybe maybe harvest a little adipose
05:42a little fat under local anesthesia it contains your own stem cells maybe we'll pick some hair right for hair
05:51stem cells as well and I've had that done personally and then use all the other products exosomes peptides salmon
05:59DNA you know polynucleotide incredible skin care and the results are amazing and so what we're seeing as far as
06:08our patients Paula ageless
06:11timeless timeless timeless natural and that's really the goal of all of the celebrities that I really have the honor
06:18of taking care of they don't want to look different they don't want people to say they're unrecognizable it's really
06:26invisible regenerative medicine and we are at that point it is super super exciting and I'm so happy to be
06:33part of it
06:34what an exciting time for all of us that we have all these at our fingertips thank you guys and
06:40Paula I don't know I know you have amazing genetics but obviously we have Dr. Tess to thank as well
06:46so you've got the double whammy
06:48and I thank Paula for my outfit everyone's been commenting yeah so I'm I'm so lucky that we're body doubles
06:57and I ask her I'm like Paula this is a really big event um can you know what should I
07:03wear and she she was in my clinic on Saturday and she brought a collection and this is one of
07:08them thank you Paula
07:12Paula Paula I'm next I'm your size too I love you're out by the way I'm loving all of our
07:17dewy skin it's it's dewier than normal of course because of the heat now crystal who everybody every time we
07:24talked about you every brand was like oh my god crystal's coming because she's been in the aesthetics industry a
07:30long time she's now with gal derma you have quite a legendary name I'm going to tell you I mean
07:35very favorable too so cheers to you um as these doctors
07:39shared uh gal derma's behind sculptra which is big in the regenerative aesthetic space so share a little bit about
07:47sculptra and then what we really want to know is what's coming what's new what's next can you tease anything
07:54yes okay so number one disclaimer I'm not a medical professional or medical doctor so any questions you have I
08:02will defer to my lovely um partners up here on stage um so I have been in the aesthetics industry
08:07for 20 years
08:08yes I started as a baby um thanks to all the great products so all the products you know on
08:13the market I do either marketed them sold them launched them etc um and I'm just really fascinated to watch
08:20this industry over time so like why am I here um up here with people who have so many degrees
08:26and such a long legacy of helping patients I have a different vantage point because I get to study the
08:32behavior of consumers the behavior of patients and really dig into like what do they want
08:37and so sculptra is a really interesting one it launched originally in 2009 that's a long time ago almost 20
08:44years
08:45and it's had a couple of I would call it rebirths and now we're looking at sculptra um everyone saw
08:52devil wears product too raise your hand
08:54okay a smidge of sculptra like it was in the movie do you think we paid for that
09:00yep the answer is no so cultural relevance this product has grown and I will say as a the person
09:07in charge of deciding where we spend our money in terms of patient education injector training etc we historically have
09:13not spent a lot of time or money invested in educating patients directly and so now when you see this
09:19convergence of wellness and aesthetics together the vernacular the terminology what resonates with consumers is very different than 20 years
09:27ago when they were like what does it do
09:29they're still asking those questions but now they're still asking those questions but now they're talking about it in terms
09:32of longevity and like people know what fibroblasts are they know what macrophages are
09:36I was talking to my daughter on the way here and I'm like what is regenerative medicine and she's like
09:42well that's when your skin cells regenerate themselves
09:44okay is that would you want that or would you want something else no I think options for all so
09:50that's what we believe in too right
09:52so that's a just a little bit about sculpture if you want to know the specifics about what it is
09:56it is an injectable biostimulatory product and it's intended to help your body recreate or stimulate collagen elastin and we're
10:04even seeing evidence now of fat so this is really interesting right when you're thinking about what's happening in the
10:11world and patients being on GLP medication they're coming to their practitioner asking for like I love the outcome that
10:18I have my health is improving my wellness is improving my wellness is improving my
10:21things are happening with my skin things are happening with my facial wasting so to speak and how can you
10:28help rejuvenate that and so sculpture has become from that point of view more of a phenomenon because it has
10:36those the multi multi modality approach when done correctly with the right treatment regimen over time so that's what we're
10:43seeing in the market I will say to the you just look at the data purely I don't think anyone
10:49really knew what medical aesthetics was
10:5120 years ago it's actually a term I had the honor of working at the original company and we made
10:56that term up right in rooms that I was in so that's how long ago that was and now when
11:03you think about medical aesthetics we're actually starting to hear regenerative aesthetics that's the terminology that's more commonly used with
11:10these procedures the search on google which okay people are on cloud now I get it but if you use
11:16google as the analog the search for regenerative aesthetics is up 2700
11:21100% in one year the search for sculptra is up 60% again without a ton of advertising on
11:30our side so this is a next wave from my perspective and I take it very seriously that we have
11:36an obligation as a company that brings this product to market and to continue to help people understand it and
11:42to get the information they need to be responsible with the treatment at the end of the day this is
11:47medicine right it's not a drive-through
11:50it's medicine going to people who understand the medicine the science behind it is number one priority for us so
11:56thank you for having me here I really appreciate the thank you ladies the queens of the industry
12:01you
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