Dr. Vishal Patel
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first heard Jun 2025
last heard Jun 2025
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Well, you know, I mean, our partners are our hotels, Four Seasons and the Ritz Carlton. I think the one that I get the biggest kick out of are the IV drips at the pool. Yeah. They look sexy and it, and I think there's a fascination with pumping your body full of stuff, but there's no evidence that it works.
You know, my team of scientists and researchers, we've poured over the literature, trying to find some, some kernel of truth for why that might make someone feel better. And our best, most informed conclusion is it's because you're well hydrated. afterwards. You got pumped full of a liter of water and of course you're going to feel better.
But there's no evidence that being injected with B12 is necessary or beneficial for most people. So that's one. Another one where I'm really skeptical are peptide injections. And I don't know if you've turned around your cosmetics over the past couple of years, but most cosmetics nowadays have proprietary peptides.
Peptides are short chain amino acids, you know, some building blocks of any protein. And on one hand, they're being studied as a new type of drug, as a vehicle for delivering drugs because they're so powerful and so potent. And on the other hand, labs are whipping this stuff up. Cosmetic companies are whipping this stuff up in the lab. I can't find a toxicology report online.
And then they put this and they bottle up in a cream and you can put it on your face. And yes, you have outcomes. It will reduce your wrinkles, but at what cost? And that's what concerns me, is that in the pursuit of, call it anti-aging or looking younger or living longer, we're willing to make... sacrifices where we don't know the full cost of it. And again, my background was in proteomics.
I studied proteins, peptides and amino acids and all the things that they do in the human body. And they're so powerful. So the way that a peptide works is it triggers so many cellular pathways that we scientists don't even understand what cellular pathways and signaling pathways have been triggered by the peptide. It's a little bit of magic at the moment and not entirely scientific.
Yeah. And plus many of them are proprietary. So in Sensei's work, as we look at skincare and try to find evidence-based skincare products for our customers, there's been so many brands we've said no to because they concocted this chemical in their lab. There's no published peer-reviewed toxicology report that we can stand behind, that we can believe in. And Yeah, and I think that's unfortunate.
But on the other hand, I feel like the consumer, maybe because of podcasts like this, I think consumers are becoming more informed and discerning. They're looking for transparency in ingredients and manufacturing and quality. And I feel like that's part of Sensei's mission is to keep educating and informing our listeners so that they can make more informed choices.
Thank you. I think that may be a bug, might be an error.
Cause no, so if you, you have one, so, you know, and, um, and I appreciate you bringing that up to me and, uh, it's silly, but not really.
No, it's important to understand that. Yeah. And it's so, you know, one point where you're correct, it, it doesn't, saunas don't raise your core body temperature. Actually our core body temperature doesn't change unless you have an infection or there's something really dire happening. But when you take a cold plunge or you're in a sauna, it's, it is peripheral temperature.
It's skin temperature that's being modulated. So I think that's with infrared radiation, it is true that infrared radiation from an infrared sauna does penetrate below the skin, but it is inconclusive if that's why it's beneficial for your health. or more or less beneficial than traditional sauna.
Again, from the science and evidence, I think it's just a different mechanism of heat and radiant heat production. A little less air pollution in an infrared sauna versus a traditional charcoal sauna. But you're absolutely right. It needs to get you hot and you need to be sweating and you need to do it for 15 minutes so that your heart rate is pounding.
And I like to be a little dizzy by the time I step out of a sauna.
It's not as efficient. Yeah.
You're not wrong on that one. Yeah. Yeah. Thank you for pointing that out actually. And it's important.
Gosh, yeah, I mean, it's fascinating. So I'll give you just like some fresh hot takes, I guess, because I'm here in Cabo, like, you know, we just opened our operation. I'm literally testing some of the equipment on myself yesterday. So there's some fascinating, maybe we can talk about thermography.
Yeah, it's fascinating. I don't know if you've ever seen a thermal image or a heat map, but a thermal camera has a special type of infrared sensor. And so it detects infrared radiation. You know, they use it in, gosh, I mean, in home construction. So they can look behind, like through the wall in a way and identify leaks or, you know, gaps in insulation.
But when you point an infrared sensor at the human body, what you're looking at in that heat map of the human body is heat dissipation from the skin. which is an indicator of differences in circulation. So you see hotspots, which could mean vasodilation. There's more blood in those areas and you see cold spots.
What's fascinating is that we're beginning to correlate those hotspots and cold spots to muscular imbalances and asymmetries. So the muscles that you overuse and overused muscles can be because either you're working out too hard or you're holding a lot of stress or tension in a certain muscle.
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