Full Transcript Podcast Introduction and Guest Background 0:00 We had a guy who came in and says, Dom, I just don't like how I look. 0:03 Let me just do a laser. 0:04 And I said, walk me through your previous two weeks of what you've been doing. 0:08 Well, it turns. 0:09 A guy doesn't sleep well because he's overstressed with the job, travels a lot, doesn' drink enough water, does an exercise, 0:16 eat horrible diet, and drinks too much alcohol. 0:19 Meet Domenica Larratto, founder of Supreme Wellness Aesthetics. 0:22 She's dedicated to helping people look and feel their best through innovative anti-aging solutions. 0:27 Stay tuned for her insights. 0:29 Some of these foods that are out there are full of toxins. 0:32 A lot of this foods, they shouldn't be even considered foods. 0:35 If something has 47 ingredients and you can't even pronounce it, it's not eatable. 0:40 Let's talk about some aesthetics. 0:41 Asthetic always starts with you. 0:43 You have some procedures that you're very passionate about. 0:46 Yes, I love sculpture. 0:47 We do a lot of sculpture in our clinic. 0:50 It's a bio-stimulator. 0:51 So Brazilian butt lift. 0:52 Some of these women, they got booties that look like they've been sculptured. 0:56 Are you familiar with how to do this procedure? 0:57 Yes. 0:57 Well, first of all. 0:58 For your health, how important is exercising? 1:06 Welcome to another episode of a Healthy Point of View podcast. 1:09 I'm your host, Sam Tahata. 1:11 Today we have a new guest here that has come in all the way from Chicago. 1:17 And this one I really, really am really going to enjoy doing this interview because it's very similar to my story, right? 1:26 Someone who came from more of that traditional allopathic medicine to then going more into that holistic approach to people's health and wellness. 1:34 And also diving into the aesthetics medicine. 1:38 And I know there's a lot of registered nurses, paramedics that are trying to dabble into this industry. 1:44 Some of you guys that have already started in this. 1:46 Industry and I want you to hear not just my story, but also her story so you can really understand that it's okay and you. 1:54 Can make it happen. 1:55 You don't have to be a doctor. 1:57 It's good to have the doctor on your side, but you can do it through your profession as a registered nurse or a paramedic. 2:04 And today we have Dominica Loreto. 2:07 How are you? 2:08 I am good. 2:09 Thank you, Sam. 2:10 I have been really honored to be here. 2:13 And yes, I did start my career in aesthetic medicine as a registered nurse. 2:20 So I'm currently in nursing practitioner school, so soon to become a nurse practitioner. 2:25 But yeah, my journey started as registered nurses. 2:28 Yeah, so this is interesting because when I first connected with you, we were at the A4M, and a mutual friend of ours, Rob Fletcher, 2:37 introduced me to yourself and your husband. 2:39 And you guys have a beautiful wellness, aesthetic practice in Chicago, in the Chicago area. 2:45 And as we're communicating and talking about you coming on the podcast, I start hearing your story and I'm like, man, your stories is very similar to mine, 2:55 where you became a registered nurse and were working in the hospital system first, right? 3:00 Correct, yes. 3:01 And I want people to kind of understand why you made that decision from going from working at the hospitals system for many years to where your at today. 3:11 So I, yes, I was working about eight years in emergency department. 3:16 So, was trauma certified nurse, so I taking really heavy cases. 3:22 I went into nursing because I truly wanted to make a difference. 3:27 I want to help people. 3:28 And yeah, I wanted. 3:30 So I was fully committed, 100% dedicated to my job. 3:44 I mean, it took me a moment, but I finally realized that it didn't matter how long of a shift I was working, I couldn't make a difference because the system 3:54 is broken. 3:58 Firstly, a lot of people in the United States, unfortunately, don't have health insurance. 4:04 So these people, when they seek medical help, medical assistance, they don' have a place to go, so they go to emergency room. 4:12 And not that I'm saying this in a negative, you know, I don''t want to be a negatives here, but when those people come to ER, 4:20 they crowd the emergency rooms. 4:22 So they take up the resources that they took up nurses time and doctor time, nurse assistant, you know, phlebotomist, x-ray technician, 4:30 everyone's time. 4:32 And unfortunately, then we cannot dedicate 100% of our time to people that truly need our help, right? 4:39 So a lot of times it feels or it felt like we were trying to just get to the next patient because it was like a race and everything was about measurement,
Leaving Emergency Medicine for Aesthetics 4:51 you know, door to doctor, a door, to admission, or to discharge. 4:57 Everything was measured. 4:59 And honestly, at the end of the day, it is all about productivity, how fast you can run, and how many people you see within your shift. 5:08 And we just want to make sure that our boxes are checked and we didn't have any fallouts and just met the benchmarks. 5:16 So it was just very frustrating, you know? 5:18 Like I never had a time to sit down with a patient and ask, hey, what's your lifestyle? 5:24 What did you eat today? 5:26 Did you exercise? 5:27 I mean, I was lucky if I could get through their medication list and no one was ever questioning it because we truly had No time. 5:35 Yeah, and I can relate to that because when you know, obviously I was a firefighter paramedic for 12 years and Working in emergency medicine and had that 5:43 opportunity to to work in the ER as well, too on my days off And what was happening was is that emergency? 5:49 Medicine the er was becoming people's primary care, right? 5:54 Yes which a lot of the times the type of illnesses that were coming into the door, you had people that we're just having like the common cold and coming 6:03 in because they felt sick or someone having other type issues that can easily be number one, prevented if they're taking care of their lifestyle or number two, 6:13 having access to some kind of healthcare provider that doesn't tie up the emergency room. 6:20 Emergency rooms should be for people who are having an actual acute emergency. 6:24 who's having a heart attack, some kind of cardiac dysrhythmia, someone who has fainted, a stroke, something of that nature. 6:34 Chest pain, right. 6:35 So I can relate to that 100%. And I actually kinda experienced the same thing, where I said, I feel like I'm not giving everything that I could to society 6:47 when it comes to actually helping people. 6:49 Because same things, it was more of a numbers game, we're consistently just kinda like, moving quickly, right? 6:56 Where is the time where you can actually sit down and assess people? 7:00 So I relate with it. 7:01 And so at what point in time in your career did you say, you know what, enough is enough, I wanna do it differently? 7:09 So it was right, I mean not right but I think in 2017 I got a certification as a nurse injector and I did it more for fun, 7:18 like just a side gig. 7:21 I started to work a part time at Med Spa and then right before COVID our hospital was getting busier and bussier, and we had more issues with you know, 7:33 a lot of patients, understaffed, not enough doctors, So I started to take less shift in the hospital, more shifts in in The Med Spa and I realized, 7:43 okay, well here, I know it's a beauty industry, but I feel like I'm actually making a difference because I am making people look better and they're living happy. 7:52 So it just, it was making me happy, I felt more fulfilled doing this than trying to make a difference and like struggling with the system. 8:04 So then I started working at the Med Spa full time. 8:08 I was taking like a one shift a week in a hospital. 8:11 And I wasn't fortunate that I met a doctor who had the same passion as I did for like, you know, a wellness, beauty industry. 8:22 Didn't want to have a practice, but didn't wanna operate solo, so we just partner up. 8:27 And then the spa was open in the middle of COVID, it was opened in 2020. Oh, you open your practice in the middle of COVID? 8:35 Oh wow. 8:36 Right in a middle off COVID. 8:37 Were you nervous and scared of it? 8:39 You know, I don't know. 8:41 I was just so ready to actually do something that I felt like, OK, this is it. 8:48 That I wasn't even thinking about being shut down and not having a client in. 8:53 And actually, the 2020 was a very good year because once the government allowed to places to be open. 9:01 We had such an influx of everyone coming in and trying to enhance their beauty, let's say. 9:09 And you know, at the beginning, I'm not saying that aesthetic field was like ideal. 9:14 I saw a lot of negatives too, like the spot that I worked, it was all about numbers too every 10 minutes. 9:24 You know we had to meet a quota, we have to like sell, sell sell and as many people as we can. 9:30 I honestly didn't like that. 9:31 I had a vision. 9:32 If I truly want to create something that was client or patient centered, I want implement the holistic approach that aesthetic always starts with wellness 9:43 and we're getting to the root of the problem. 9:46 Because a lot of aesthetics issues are actually caused by chronic inflammation, gut health, hormonal imbalances, oxidative stress, 9:56 and all that stuff. 9:57 So that was my vision. 9:58 And like I said, I was lucky that the doctor kind of followed my lead. 10:03 And when we open, we started with, you know, aesthetic treatments, but our consultation consultations were longer. 10:10 So let's say Botox appointment was 30 minutes, not 10. Then filler appointment with an hour and we were doing more of assessment. 10:18 And shortly after we implemented functional medicine. 10:21 Um, so we had a functional Madison provider that does blood work. 10:26 and then analyze blood work from functional perspective and treats people with supplementation. 10:32 So we had that. 10:33 In 2020, we opened another location that was truly fully equipped in all aspects of wellness services. 10:44 We grew really fast. 10:45 In our second location, we provide regenerative treatments done by our doctor. 10:52 We provide hyperbaric chaper therapy, red light, ozone treatment, HAQAT, which is full detox, PMF, sauna, cold plunge, arp wave therapy recovery, 11:05 salt room, IVs, blood work, so like everything, yeah. 11:09 That's like the one stop shop, I love it. 11:11 Yeah, it is. 11:12 So, one of the things you mentioned, and when we were talking before backstage, you mention that when you got into aesthetics, 11:20 You decided to actually follow Dr. 11:22 Shino Bay very closely, which he does, he is the voice of functional aesthetics medicine. 11:28 And I had the opportunity to have him on the podcast before, And we talked about that. 11:33 And a lot of the ways that you see medical providers treating patients with aesthetics, with the neurotoxins and the fillers and everything else,
Building a Wellness-Focused Med Spa 11:41 it's in a way where it almost like putting a band-aid on the issue. 11:46 So bringing in the wellness services, by doing the comprehensive blood work that your doing, you're able to actually figure out what the root cause is 11:54 of why they have the sunken face and potentially dehydration, nutrient deficiencies and all of these other things. 12:02 So what made you actually start thinking about these other services to target these root causes? 12:10 So OK, so we have a lot. 12:12 So when I was working at MedSpot, I obviously sometimes saw like 30 clients a day and a. 12:18 Lot of them were coming from different places with either like botched faces or after receiving unnecessary treatments or like, 12:26 let's say, complaints with, Inflammatory skin disorder in the light and they were saying, oh, I've tried a B and C and it didn't work. 12:35 Can you do something? 12:36 Well, first of all, why don't we just draw your blood? 12:39 I think it's just a common sense to me. 12:41 I don' I Don't even know how to explain it differently, but you look at someone and you know, okay, you don''t need any aesthetic like there's something 12:49 not right with you, we gotta take care of your wellness. 12:52 Like that's the holistic approach. 12:54 That's taking, you know, considering your physical, your mental, social, like spiritual aspect of well-being, right? 13:05 And a perfect example, I, We had a guy who came in and says, Dom, can you do a laser on my face? 13:12 I just don't feel good. 13:14 I look like, just I don' like how I looked like. 13:16 Let me just do laser. 13:18 And I said, well, okay, walk me through like your like previous two weeks of what you've been doing. 13:25 Well, it turns, the guy doesn't sleep well because he's overstressed with the job, travels a lot, doesn' drink enough water, 13:32 does an exercise, eat horrible diet and drinks too much alcohol. 13:37 Well, I can tell you what the solution's gonna be there, right? 13:40 The outcome's not gonna to be good. 13:42 Well the laser's, so I'm like, laser is not going to fix anything, it's just gonna put a band-aid, you're gonna look good for five minutes, 13:49 but if you don't fix all these things, then you gonna come back in two weeks and be like hey, like I paid that much money but it didn't really help me. 14:00 So what I did instead, is I said okay, why don' we do this? 14:02 Try like stress management, sleep right a diet like and i'm not saying do everything at once but start with one thing pick something right pick, 14:12 something that it's the easiest so let's say eight hours of sleep and we so he agreed um he said and I said drinking honestly like if you if, 14:21 you're not limiting alcohol intake that's gonna make everything worse right that gonna, make you gonna not feel good and you not gonna look good So he agreed, 14:31 no alcohol and then sleeping more. 14:35 And we put him in a hyperbaric chamber. 14:37 He did actually 20 sessions and he documented it himself. 14:41 Actually, I think he posted on Instagram too. 14:43 His before when he was inflamed, puffy, red face to after It's like a completely different person. 14:51 That's amazing. 14:52 Amazing. 14:53 Isn't that so rewarding when you can see all your hard work on the fruition? 14:57 Like I am so passionate about it. 14:59 You don't even know. 15:01 I love it and the stories we have, that's why we grew so fast. 15:04 And that is why people trust us and then, you know, They appreciate our honesty and integrity. 15:11 I love seeing those changes. 15:13 Yeah. 15:14 Because I know that, you know, now you not only look good, but you feel so much better. 15:20 Right. 15:21 You're obviously very data driven. 15:23 Yes. 15:24 So what type of different data points are you guys using with your patients? 15:29 Like objective or you asking so like subjective obviously so client feedback. 15:34 So we very Strong like our receptionist nurses doctor. 15:40 Everyone is collate collecting subjective data when it comes to objective Depending on what treatments but we don't use scale. 15:48 Let's say like for weight loss. 15:49 We use tape measurement and We are getting DEXA scan for more like objective results and blood work. 15:56 So let's say when it comes to like inflammation, like this gentleman in particular, we drew his bloodwork inflammation markers, 16:03 his CRP before and then after. 16:08 Basically use now so blood work is are like a base. 16:12 Yeah, bloodwork is definitely important. 16:14 We use the dexa We have the Dexa for body composition analysis. 16:18 we are actually in a process of Purchasing a building that it's you know, 6,500 square feet, so we're gonna put a DEXA scan in. 16:28 So we can have a space right now. 16:31 We just limited on our space, we maximized. 16:34 That's awesome. 16:35 Are you guys using any other data points like ORing or any of the wearables? 16:41 We have some of our clients are wearing like whoop or whatever of their choice. 16:48 Yes, or quite a few clients who are on memberships and they track their data. 16:56 So let's say they come for hyperbaric chamber and ADIV, red light therapy and the measure their sleep quality and recovery the night before and night after 17:09 and then they send us data and it's usually like tremendous difference. 17:13 Amazing. 17:14 Yeah. 17:15 So, OK, so going to the wellness, I know you have a very strong passion for peptides. 17:21 Yes. 17:22 What are some of your favorite peptide that you utilize? 17:25 Many of them. 17:26 But I think we talk a little bit about a few of that. 17:29 The one that I truly love and I feel like almost everyone is a candidate, it's MOTC, M-O-T-S slash C. 17:39 That's mitochondrial derived peptide, and it's composed of 16 amino acids, so it is a small peptid. 17:47 So what it will do is actually improving functions of your mitochondria, producing more energy for the body. 17:55 And actually, MADC is activating AMPK, which is like a crucial energy sensor in a body. 18:03 So very incredible to improve physical performance, endurance, good for athletes, or like average people who just wanna have more energy and be better 18:13 at the gym. 18:15 Also, it's gonna reduce your oxidative stress, so it has anti-aging properties. 18:21 The other reason I like this peptide a lot is that it's a great adjunct to GLP-1. 18:28 So for people who are on a low dose of GLp- 1 or trying to lean off, or I'm sorry, wean off of glp1, the MATC, it is an amazing adjuct because it will 18:42 increase your increase or glucose uptake, it's gonna increase a fat breakdown in the body, and also inhibits gluconeogenesis, 18:51 which is like glucose storage in a liver. 18:56 So yeah, increases insulin sensitivity. 18:59 So very good, we have a lot of patients on it in addition to GLP-1 or like when they're ready to just, okay, I don't wanna do GLp-one anymore, 19:08 We just transition them to Mod-C. 19:10 I mean, just listen to all of those benefits. 19:13 And I'm pretty sure there's even more benefits to that. 19:15 Yes, yes. 19:15 So that's amazing. 19:17 What other peptides? 19:18 Okay, so like talking about GL-P1, because I know this is one that has like either you love it or you hate it. 19:26 And I listened to a couple of your podcasts and I know we were, you know, there are talks about ozempic phase and muscle wasting, 19:33 which I agree with, but. 19:36 There, there is, you know, GLP one micro dosing, which I honestly love. 19:42 So like, You know GL P one has receptors throughout the body, right? 19:47 So that's why it does all the things that does it has.
Root-Cause Aesthetics and Patient Assessment 19:49 Receptors in a brain. 19:51 so it's going to act on a center of hunger. 19:55 It's gonna suppress the appetite. 19:56 it as receptors in your intestines. 19:59 Then it is going prolong the feeling of fullness, so now the receptors are in the pancreas. 20:05 It's going to shoot up insulin when the blood glucose is high. 20:09 So that's why it's a great for weight management or weight loss. 20:16 Now, you know, the studies is coming up or coming out saying that GLP-1 is great cholesterol because it lowers your lipids. 20:25 It lowers the block pressure. 20:26 Its cardioprotective, neuroprotective. 20:29 It's going to vasodilate your vessels. 20:32 So it's like relaxing the vessels and it is going reduce your systemic vascular resistance. 20:37 It is so great for cardiac. 20:40 And I know that people who are not manage well on the GLP ones, they have all kinds of side effects. 20:45 They lose muscle. 20:48 and all the things, but when you, in a context of micro-dosing, it's honestly a great option for people, even like you and I, 20:57 who just want to improve overall metabolic health. 21:01 Because microdoseing of GLP-1 is going to prevent insulin resistance. 21:06 And you know, insulin resistant is like a key to all kinds of chronic, you now, illnesses, right? 21:14 Obesity. 21:16 diabetes type two, so it's gonna prevent the insulin resistance. 21:21 Now also what we see in our clients on microdosing, it shuts off that emotional eating so people have a better emotional control over food and they make 21:34 better choices. 21:34 So that's like a great success. 21:39 We have a group of people who report that they are not depressed anymore because GLP-1 is neuroprotective, so also it's going to reduce the inflammation 21:50 in the brain. 21:51 And from that anti-inflammatory standpoint, it is a very powerful anti inflammatory agent. 21:58 It's gonna down-regulate your pro- inflammatory cytokines, It is going up- regulate your antiinflammatories cytokingines. 22:07 So it great for people to deal with anything like systemic inflammation, chronic inflammation. 22:13 I truly, for that reason, I really, really like it. 22:19 That's amazing. 22:20 And another thing, too, that I've noticed with our patients is women who have PCOS. 22:26 It has worked phenomenal for them. 22:27 Yes. 22:28 I've even seen women that have PCOS that had issues getting pregnant. 22:33 And you have the semi-glutide babies that come out, right? 22:38 The other thing that I have seen is alcohol. 22:42 Patients that are consistently drinking a lot of alcohol, they don't have that dependency anymore. 22:49 So our Chief Medical Officer, Dr. 22:51 Christopher Davis, who's an interventional cardiologist specializing in functional medicine, He was actually the first person that I've seen, 23:00 besides now hearing you, that's been doing the microdosing of the GLP-1 drugs. 23:06 And, you know, for the listeners who don't understand the difference is that GLp-2 drugs are typically on a sliding scale. 23:13 Every four weeks, they're going up, almost double the dose, depending, if it's the semi-glutite or the terzipatite, it has a slide in scale, 23:20 So this is a little bit of a different approach, which obviously, between Dr. 23:24 Davis and even yourself, you guys are seeing success with it. 23:28 Yes, and it's funny, because we, our doctor, we started doing microdosing before we heard the term micro dosing. 23:37 Right. 23:38 So basically, it is taking a subtherapeutic dose of the GLP-1, I don't even know, we don' even have one single patient on a full therapeutic dose of semi-glutite 23:53 or other GLP ones. 23:54 We try to incorporate diet, activity. 23:59 all other like consultations, wellness, functional medicine, just because we want to keep these people on a lower dose. 24:07 So it's easier for them to wean off later, it causes less side effects. 24:11 And we started doing micro dosing because, we had a lot of inflammatory issues, so chronic inflammation, rheumatoid arthritis, 24:20 things like that. 24:22 We just came up with like, oh, let's try like a tiny, tiny dose. 24:26 It was working. 24:27 And then all of a sudden we hear, Oh, there's such a thing like microdosing. 24:30 So, yeah. 24:31 Well, one of the things you said earlier also is what the GOP want drugs. 24:35 One of things that the industry has seen a lot of is that patients are losing weight, but it's not the appropriate weight. 24:41 Its muscle weight And when we talk about health span and longevity, we need muscle, right? 24:48 And this is why we're so adamant about making sure we do the true body composition analysis, putting people through the in-body DEXA scan, 24:55 to be able to make sure that the weight that we are losing is the appropriate weight. 25:00 Now with the microdosing, you mentioned that that helps where it's not so aggressive, where then the patient ends up losing a lot of muscle weight rather 25:10 than fat. 25:10 Right. 25:11 It's more like subtly is going to suppress your appetite. 25:14 So just people control themselves better. 25:16 The other thing is too, I feel like with the GLP once you truly need to dedicate the time for the consult and educating your clients. 25:27 Because if yes, if let's say I live on pizza and ice cream and take some of my glutide and then eat less of the pizza, an ice scream. 25:39 It's not fixing anything, it's just right. 25:41 I'm gonna lose weight, but I'll most likely lose all of my muscle. 25:45 weight. 25:46 So the education is a key like you have to increase your protein intake and you Have to, um, you know, engage in some sort of activity that you either 25:56 lift weights or do some Sort of resistance training. 25:58 Otherwise, it's just no point. 26:00 Like if you're not committed to do these changes like that, You should be on it. 26:05 You're you not a right candidate because it is not just a miracle that You just take a pill and lose a bunch of weight It's not meant for that. 26:14 So let me ask you this, for your health, how important is exercising?
Peptides and Microdosed GLP-1 Therapy 26:20 Very important. 26:21 I exercise five to six times a week, depends on, you know, like my, let's say schedule, but I try to do it five or six time a day. 26:31 So I have a personal trainer. 26:33 Mainly I don't do any cardio, I do strength training because my age, bone density and muscles, very important, like, you know, 26:41 for hormones for everything. 26:42 So my workouts are mainly based on it's a weightlifting resistance training. 26:48 And honestly, I learned that from mind pump because I listened to mind pumps. 26:53 So they kind of got me on I'm like, Oh, maybe I should not do cardio so much anymore. 26:58 And I switched the best decision in my life. 27:01 Awesome. 27:02 Feel great. 27:03 It's just I can eat a lot. 27:05 I don't have to worry about you know, my metabolism is fast. 27:09 Yeah, just I think activity, sleep, and diet, like the basic three things that you gotta do. 27:18 You know, I heard a guy on social media, a doctor, he said that if you show him a person who smokes and drinks but exercises, 27:31 that that person will potentially outlive the person that doesn't smoke and drink and doesn' exercise. 27:37 I believe that. 27:38 That's how important exercising is. 27:41 Now, what about nutrition? 27:42 How important is nutrition also? 27:44 Very important. 27:45 I, you know, I've always ate good because when I was growing up in Poland, we didn't have any junk food. 27:54 You know we was a communism country. 27:56 It was like really nothing in a store. 27:58 So we were lucky to to get like fruit. 28:02 And then like in 90s when Poland became democracy and we were allowing imports you know we we're eating fruits and vegetables but it was all basic so I 28:14 don't even have a taste buds like for junk stuff so yeah I think I follow a good diet for majority of my life I always prioritize protein I'm having a 28:31 hard time now because I have a mutation on my gene. 28:36 It's called BRCA2. 28:38 So that's a Mutation that causes a higher risk for breast cancer in women. 28:44 And so up to 70%. So when I went to a doctor, they want me to follow more of a plant based diet, because a lot of meats in United States are just not healthy 29:01 from hormonal too much preservative and hormones. 29:05 So I'm trying to now find a way to get a plant-based diet, but still get enough protein in my body, so yeah. 29:12 So, obviously, nutrition is very important, it's key. 29:16 Now, right now, there's been a lot of talk with this movement, Make America Healthy Again, with RFK Jr. 29:23 And one of the things that's like, what are we putting in our bodies, some of these foods that are out there are full of toxins. 29:31 So what's your take on making America healthy based off of foods out with these big food companies? 29:40 I love the movement. 29:44 I hope that they will truly follow through and a lot of these foods will be banned. 29:51 Because honestly, they shouldn't be even considered foods. 29:54 If something has 47 ingredients and you can't even pronounce it, especially I can pronounce, so it's not eatable. 30:03 Yeah, I think we should go back to eating more, you know, whole foods. 30:10 And I know we're living in a society that unfortunately we have to make sure that everything is convenient because people are busy and they don't have 30:21 time to cook, right? 30:21 When I was growing up, my mom was cooking dinner every day. 30:25 It's not a case anymore, but there are ways that you can grab a salad. 30:30 That type of food should be more accessible. 30:34 When you go to the store, 70% of the stores, it's all junk, right? 30:39 And then you have a small section that can buy fruit and vegetables. 30:42 It should kind of be opposite. 30:44 Have a smaller section for the people who want to just indulge in eating chips and drink coke and have the majority of store with healthy, 30:55 you know, food that it's accessible for everyone. 30:58 So it is not pricey to the point that you can't even afford eating healthy. 31:03 Yeah, yeah. 31:04 You know my parents are talking about the grocery store. 31:06 My parents would always tell me when you go to their grocery, store you should try to shop on the perimeter of the store is typically that's where all 31:15 your produce and all the natural stuff is at. 31:17 So, all right, so we're talking about the wellness stuff. 31:21 Let's talk about some aesthetics, right? 31:23 Because obviously you are totally into aesthetics. 31:26 You take care of yourself aesthetically very well. 31:29 Um, you follow Dr. 31:30 Shinobay, who is like the guru behind medical aesthetics functional aesthetics medicine. 31:35 So there's some procedures that you do at your clinic. 31:37 Obviously you'd do the stuff that everyone else does. 31:40 Also the neurotoxins, the fillers, but you have some, uh, procedures. 31:44 That you're very passionate about. 31:45 Hmm. 31:47 Yes, I love Dr. 31:48 Shinobe and I loved Sculptra and he's like the godfather of S sculptra injections. 31:55 So I actually, we do a lot of sculpture in our clinic and we follow His technique on sculpture. 32:04 So like for those who don't know what sculpture is because a lot of people call it dermal filler, but technically it's It's a bio stimulator, 32:13 right? 32:13 So it is a biostimulator that enhances your body ability to produce its natural collagen. 32:20 And Sculptra comes in a powder form. 32:24 You have to dilute it with bacteriostatic water. 32:26 And once injected, it causes mild inflammation and that the inflammation triggers fibroblast to stimulate more collagen. 32:37 OK. 32:38 So I think the reason that it's not very popular It doesn't give you instant gratification and doesn' have instant results. 32:47 So it takes, because it take time for the collagen to, you know, be formed in your tissue. 32:54 Um, so technically it's like a three to six months, um, process. 32:59 And so you're injecting it, You look beautiful because you put a lot of fluid in you face, but then the fluid goes down. 33:07 You kind of go back to your old normal and then you waiting that, three, two, six, months. 33:12 And it also usually takes about three to two to three sessions for like the most optimal results. 33:19 I love it because it's all natural and it gives you like very subtle natural results as well. 33:25 It's great for improving skin tone and texture and to replace volume loss but in a very subtle, natural way. 33:36 By producing its own halogen. 33:37 So when you said two to three different sessions, how far out are the sessions? 33:41 So we are doing every four weeks. 33:44 Every four week, okay. 33:45 Yeah. 33:46 and then unlabeled for the facial rejuvenation, then, you know, off-label, different parts of the body, right? 33:56 So the off label, that's actually, it's very popular here in South Florida, which we do at the Liquivita clinics as well, 34:03 too, is we've seen a lot of celebrities, and I think some of The Kardashians or The Genders or something like that, they've done it. 34:11 where they do the Brazilian butt lift with the sculpture. 34:15 So let's talk about that because the thing is is some of these women out there, they got booties that look like they've been sculptured. 34:24 Sculpture, right? 34:26 So are you familiar with how to do this procedure? 34:28 Okay. 34:30 We do those too. 34:31 First of all, not everyone is the right candidate. 34:35 Let's say if your goal is to get a very Enhanced large, but Sculptra won't do that. 34:44 It's gonna firm lift, contour, But it's a more like a subtle results, you know?
Exercise, Nutrition, and Healthy Living 34:51 And then it takes many vials. 34:53 So you can, it can take from four to 10 vial, so it, can be pricey. 35:00 But I truly love the results. 35:03 Even from like the skin quality improvement and a saddle lift and contour. 35:09 We do follow, there's a clinical studies, a technique called firm and up. 35:17 And basically, so we follow that. 35:20 And depending on what your target and end goal is, we inject it in different area of the butt. 35:26 So let's say if you want to contour, you're concentrating on the outer upper quadrant of butt, if want lift, it's more inner upper. 35:40 Different places on a butt then the sculpture will go in. 35:46 And then the dilution is a little bit different for the but we over diluted because we just want to we inject more superficial, 35:57 like one to two centimeters down to avoid large vessels that you have in a but because which obviously don't want a cousin occlusion. 36:06 What's some what's like the main reason why women are coming in to get these injections in their butt? 36:11 Do they not know how to squat? 36:14 Oh, I think that I don't want to just sound this is going to sound awful, but I thing that people do like quick fix many times. 36:26 It's easier to do that than go to the gym and do squats for a year. 36:31 Now, if you do. 36:32 That and go. 36:33 To the. 36:33 Gym, does it enhance the results? 36:35 it does um definitely and then we also like we combo sculpture with m sculpt because that's actually a great combination like if you do sculpture and follow 36:45 up if if that in someone's budget follow-up with em sculpt session it really gives you nice results but you got to maintain it right so sculpture longevity 36:56 let's say it's two maybe up to five years. 37:00 So you got to maintain it and then Emsculpt the same thing. 37:02 It's going to tone up your muscle, but then if you don't maintain that, you're just going lose it. 37:06 I always say, well, just follow up with the gym sessions and keep working out from that point on. 37:13 Absolutely, absolutely. 37:15 Are you using any kind of other lasers? 37:18 I know you mentioned Emsculp. 37:20 Yes, so on aesthetics. 37:21 So yes, we have, well EMSculpt is basically a body countering device. 37:26 We have energy devices in our office, radio frequency and micro needling. 37:32 Uh, We Have something called Neogen, which is, um, plasma resurfacing, and then we have ablative laser halo, NBBL, which is like sophisticated IPL. 37:46 Wow, you guys really do have the full domain. 37:49 We do a lot of things, yeah. 37:50 And now you're gonna have a bigger facility, 6,000 square feet? 37:53 Yes, yes. 37:55 I'm gonna go up there and visit. 37:56 Please, definitely. 37:58 If everything goes through, we'll have inspectors going through the building as we speak, so hopefully everything will go through. 38:03 Nice, nice. 38:04 So what other technologies do you expect to see in the future? 38:10 Well, I hope that hyperbaric chamber will invent red light therapy, that you can do red-light therapy in hyperbolic chamber. 38:18 Oh, That would be interesting. 38:20 That will be a very, very good combo. 38:23 From aesthetic, honestly, there's so much right now. 38:28 And I think every year there is something new. 38:31 A lot of the new technologies are actually following it. 38:35 All technology is just more nicer package. 38:39 Let's put it this way. 38:41 But I think AI is big and it's going to play a significant role in like diagnostic testing.
Sculptra, Body Contouring, and Future Tech 38:49 I I don't know, we're gonna have a screen that you just type all your symptoms and it's gonna come up. 38:56 I've been seeing stuff online, like people already talking about things like that. 39:01 It's interesting but a little scary at the same time. 39:03 But I'm happy to see what comes up? 39:05 It is, as long as it doesn't take away the role of provider, then I am fine using it. 39:15 So, Dominica, question for you. 39:19 If there's someone listening to this podcast right now that wants to take control of their health and wellness, what is one thing that you can let them know? 39:29 Well, definitely just to understand that health is your biggest asset. 39:35 Health is wealth. 39:37 And then we, you know, are not going to enjoy your life. 39:41 You're not gonna enjoy money if you don't have your health. 39:44 So take control of it. 39:46 I think you said it, become a CEO of your own health educate yourself, invest in alternative therapies, and invest your health. 39:57 We have such a big access to everything. 40:00 It's so easy to find information. 40:03 Then yeah, I would just say don't wait until it's too late. 40:07 Absolutely. 40:08 And listen, we have a lot of medical providers that are listening also. 40:13 So for the people that want to take control of the health, I appreciate that response. 40:18 But listen. 40:20 You're a registered nurse. 40:25 So you've done something that many other people haven't been able to accomplish. 40:29 For that other nurse that's out there trying to figure out how to make that maneuver into doing what you have done, what's one piece of advice you can 40:38 give that nurse? 40:39 Just, I think, don't ever give up. 40:41 Just follow your dreams. 40:42 Everything is possible. 40:43 Like you said, you don' have to be a doctor. 40:45 Um, just look around. 40:48 Find, find a Doctor who has the same passion as you do and follow you dreams, yeah. 40:54 Absolutely. 40:55 Definitely. 40:56 The meaning of work and people find you. 40:59 So my Instagram, dominica underscore supreme wellness. 41:04 My company, Instagram is supreme underscore wellness underscore aesthetics. 41:13 I hope that I'm saying that right. 41:16 And then we are located in suburbs of Chicago, Park Ridge and Willowbrook, Illinois.
Final Advice and Closing Remarks 41:23 Amazing, which we're going to include all the links down below anyways, so people are going be able to check it out. 41:28 Dominica, thank you for coming on the podcast. 41:31 We appreciate you sharing your story. 41:33 You know, this is very motivating for a lot of people that are listening. 41:37 Thank you so much. 41:38 Absolutely. 41:40 Thank you for watching another episode of a Healthy Point of View podcast. 41:43 Again, I'm your host, Sam Tahada. 41:45 Make sure you subscribe, do all that other stuff, share it, click on all the links, follow Dominica, Follow her page, her company page as well too. 41:57 Learn about the things that are out there that making people well, that make people look beautiful. 42:03 And then we'll see you on the next one.
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