Saranya Wyles, M.D., Ph.D.

But there's a lot of places that are utilizing these regenerative injectables, which is an area of concern.

where we need to pause and be cautious.

You know, I think Kim Kardashian talked about the salmon sperm facials and everybody started to talk about like getting these injections from, they're called PDRN.

They're basically just nucleotides, ATCG that you can inject, but they're sourced from salmon sperm.

And it is a big thing in Korea and people were starting to utilize them here in the US, but it's not FDA approved for injections.

So you have to be really cautious of what med spas are marketing because most of them are

are not FDA approved.

Yeah.

I mean, I think the power of consistency, I can't emphasize enough what the research around skin span that we've done and the power of consistency with simple habit, whether it's diet, movement, sleep, stress management, and then combining with

doing simple habits of skin barrier repair, right?

I should also mention colloidal oatmeal, which is in a lot of products like Aveeno, which is something really simple, but we've had over 50 years of research on it as a topical way to strengthen your skin barrier.

So I think what's under-emphasized is really the power of consistency.

And then from a more interventional approach, I would talk about biostimulators.

I'm a big fan of injectable biostimulators.

which have been around for decades now.

And the protocol has been optimized over time.

And it's really creating very nice changes in the skin for collagen elastin.

So these are polylactic acid or Sculptra and calcium hydroxylapatite like Radiesse.

So these are injected.

You have to go to a well-trained injector because all of these procedures do carry risk of complications depending on the injector and