Chapter 1: What insights does Dr. Anthony Youn share about aging without surgery?
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Chapter 2: How did Dr. Youn's upbringing influence his career in plastic surgery?
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Most little girls grow up wanting to be doctors and lawyers and shit, and I was like, I want to be super hot, make a lot of fucking money, and be a rock star's wife. That was my goal as a child, and here we are. What's up, babies? Welcome back to another episode of Dumb Blonde. Today we have America's holistic plastic surgeon in the house, Dr. Anthony Yoon. What's up, baby? How are you?
Thank you so much for having me on the show. This will be a lot of fun.
Dude, I am so stoked to have you. My husband is even more stoked that you're here.
That's awesome.
I had no idea that he was such a huge fan of yours.
I didn't. You just told me this. I'm shocked. And I'm I mean, it's awesome. Yeah. I mean, I saw his when he gave his his speech, his talk at this CMAs. And it's great. I mean, I'm a fan myself.
It's crazy because he's like that at home. And I'll be like, who are you preaching to? I'm like, it's just me and the kid here. Like, you don't have an audience. Tone it down, Bubba. You know, so he's that's literally what you see is what you get with him. So you are kind of like doing a podcast tour right now because you, my sweet sir, are a author. Yes.
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Chapter 3: What are the most common misconceptions about cosmetic procedures?
Yes. And you've written four books.
Yes. So this is my fourth. This is an anti-aging book called Younger for Life that I'm super proud of. And I really appreciate that you're having me on today.
Absolutely. I'm so excited to dive into what this is and stuff like that. You have three other books. One of them is called The Age Fix, In Stitches, and Playing God.
yes so i actually wrote two memoirs about becoming a doctor and then becoming a plastic surgeon and kind of the craziness that happens that ensues and then i've written two anti-aging books the age fix then this is my latest one i mean i need all the anti-aging tips that you can give me You look like you're 12 years old.
What are you talking about? I love you. Listen, do you want to make out? Because we can. So, okay, I definitely want to talk about your, you know, whenever you went to medical school because one of those stories actually resonated with me, and we'll talk about that in a little bit.
But let's talk about how you were influenced by your father to become a doctor and take me on that journey and stuff like that as a child.
Yeah, so I basically grew up in a traditional Korean household. My parents immigrated here from Korea before I was born. And so the day literally that I was born, my dad decided I was going to be a doctor, but it's not that I was going to be any doctor, like that wasn't enough.
Like I was going to be either a neurosurgeon, a cardiac surgeon, you know, a transplant surgeon, one of these like high powered surgical specialties. And pretty quickly as I was in medical school, I realized that this was not my personality. The day that I saw a 60-year-old man stumble out of a call room in the middle of the night to attend to a trauma, I was like, I don't want to be that guy.
And then even throughout all my training, I did three years of general surgery training where I trained as a general surgeon, and you're working the ICUs, you're working in trauma bays. I was just honestly deathly afraid that one of my patients would die and it would be my fault.
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Chapter 4: What personal experiences shaped Dr. Youn's perspective on body image?
And so I realized very quickly that that just wasn't for me. And so I ended up finding the field of plastic surgery, which really talked to me a lot. The interesting thing is I initially thought I was going to do family practice for a while. So I'm like, I don't want to be with this type of surgeon. Maybe I'll do family practice and work with families and stuff.
And my dad was not approving of that at all.
Your dad was an OBGYN, correct? Yes. So that's kind of why he and he was, you know, the traditional, you know, just this is how you're going to do it. And I'm planning your life. How did that make you feel as a child? Did you feel like you just didn't have a choice?
So, yeah, but I was like the middle child. So I was the dutiful middle child. You tell me to do something and I'll do it. But, you know, for him, he grew up on a rice farm in Korea with six other siblings and he became a doctor. They put all their resources into him and then he literally lifted his whole family up out of poverty.
And he brought half of them here to the United States where they kind of now are living the American dream. And so for him, all he knew was that doctor equals success. And so he didn't want his kids to be living on the streets, but then his belief was either you live on the streets or you're a doctor and there's nothing in between, like he didn't know.
He's like, look, it works for me, it'll work for you.
So then I thought maybe I'll do family practice. And I told him and he was really unhappy with that. And one night as I was visiting my parents after I told him I was going to do and he was really unhappy,
And he was just unhappy because he didn't feel like you were like being an overachiever or he felt like you were kind of slacking off. It wasn't enough.
It wasn't enough. It wasn't enough to be proud of him. You know, my son, like, you know, we always want in our children more than what we have.
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Chapter 5: How does nutrition play a role in maintaining youthful appearance?
You know, and for him, he looked at that was less than what he had.
That's going to be a heavy kind of a heavy cross to bear for you because you're like, damn, dad, I just want to do what I want to do.
I mean, I think that is, but you know, what happened is, is I'm at home, I'm visiting for a night and I'm in my twin bed that I grew up in, you know, when I was a kid and two in the morning, the door opens up and my dad tells me, move over. So here I go, I scoot over and the two of us, two adult males are lying in my twin bed, looking at the ceiling.
And he goes, Tony, if you want to be a family practice doctor, you can. He goes, you will never pay off your loans. You're going to be poor for the rest of your life. You're going to be seeing 50 patients a day. But if you want to do that, then that is fine. And then shortly thereafter, after he gave me his blessing, I ended up finding the field of plastic surgery and absolutely loved it.
Well, plastic surgery holds a spot dear to your heart too because as you say in one of your books, you talk about how you had a feature that you were, I don't want to say embarrassed by, but just didn't like about yourself. Can we dive into that a little bit?
Yeah, so I mean, I was quote unquote normal looking until probably about the 10th grade. I went through a growth spurt and my jaw started growing basically twice as quickly as the rest of my face and the rest of my body to the point where when I was a senior in high school, my jaw was huge to the point where I could actually stick my tongue through the gap between my upper and my lower teeth.
and I hated looking at pictures of myself from the side and even if like with my senior photos from high school you could see that it just doesn't look quite right so I ended up having plastic surgery I actually had my jaw broken and set back between high school and college and it really taught me the power of how changing your appearance can absolutely change the trajectory of your life because prior to that I had very low self-esteem you know I had
self-image problems. And I thought I looked deformed. And then afterwards, it really did help me. Now, you know, I go to college and here I think that I'm going to, you know, oh, I actually look actually pretty decent now, like a regular person. And I thought, okay, the girls are going to like me now. And I couldn't find a date through all four years of college.
I find that hard to believe. No, four years.
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Chapter 6: What are the benefits of holistic approaches in plastic surgery?
Absolutely. Absolutely. You had also said in one of your books that you had some dark chapters dealing with certain physicians that were kind of self-absorbed and money hungry. Can you take me on that journey too? I think you just called it like a God complex or something.
Yeah, so I mean, as a plastic surgeon, so I ended up doing three years of general surgery, and then I did two years of plastic surgery. And then I spent a year out in Beverly Hills, where I worked with a top named plastic surgeon. And I tell you, plastic surgery in Beverly Hills was a big eye opener, because I did most of my training out in Michigan, in Michigan State.
with plastic surgeons that I felt were ethical. They were there to take care of patients and stuff. Yeah, I mean, these are kind of Midwest, down-to-earth doctors who are there to take care of people. Then you go to Beverly Hills, and my gosh, it was crazy. Nobody has a soul. And it was all about money out there. I mean, it was a point.
I remember there was a situation once where I was working with a plastic surgeon, And we were working on a woman, African-American, larger woman. We were doing liposuction on her. And she was HIV positive. And we were doing the surgery on her. And all of a sudden, he says, yep, that's it. We're done. And I go, well, we haven't finished the operation.
There's still these other areas that we can make better. He goes, you know what? She has HIV. She paid enough money. We don't have to do that anymore.
Oh, my gosh.
And I was just like, what?
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Chapter 7: What are the most surprising patient stories shared by Dr. Youn?
And I mean, I'm the fellow, so it's not my patient. I can't tell him, you know, we need to do this. But, you know, things like that, you see these things happen over and over again. Out there, I knew a doctor who would actually call the local news, lie to them about a death, let's say, that happened in the OR of a competing surgeon.
And so I was there once where a doctor called and said, hey, yeah, is this, you know, is this ABC News? He's like, yeah, you know, I don't, I'm not gonna tell you who I am. I'm a local plastic surgeon. I need to let you know that Dr. So-and-so had a patient die in his operating room yesterday. You need to look into that. And it was so not true.
Oh, my God.
I mean, people, there are even stories of people sending patients to other plastic surgeons as a way to eventually sue them so that the patient gets surgery and then eventually sues them just to try to push these people out of practice.
You guys need your own reality show. It's like the house husbands of Beverly Hills. That's crazy. That's so unethical and just wrong.
Yeah. I mean, it's the stuff that happens out there was nuts. And so I really after being there for a year, I ended up coming back to Detroit where my wife's family is from. And I started my own practice there.
And you're like, I'm not working for anybody ever again. Yeah.
It's like I want to start. I want to do this the right way where I'm actually I'm here to take care of people. I've taken ER call for accidents and dog bites and stuff for 20 years. And
Yeah, there was a story that I read that you had said there was a lady that you had worked for and she said that they're the chronically ill in an emergency room. She had said something to you that kind of like offended you about the people who would come in the emergency room.
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Chapter 8: How can listeners implement Dr. Youn's tips for looking younger?
I mean, there are so many, you know, I think working in the ER and it's hard because there are people who are, I mean, the healthcare system is so broken.
Yes.
And it's so hard because in the emergency room now is a place where a lot of people will go for everything.
Yes.
And they are completely overrun. You know, the emergency room at the hospital I work out of, I had a patient who was there recently. She actually was a patient of a different doctor who was admitted to the hospital with an infection. They asked me to take care of her. And I said, sure, that's fine. And she was there for three days and never actually got a hospital bed, like a room.
She was in the hallway for three days.
Oh, my goodness.
Because there just weren't any rooms available because so many people are using the ER, unfortunately, for things that aren't necessary. So there's a lot of stuff going on in health care right now that the whole system is broken and I'm not sure how to fix it. But throughout my training, that was something that you really saw a lot of.
Absolutely. I, um, I myself have gotten into holistic medicine in the past, probably I'd have to say four to five years. And I love the fact that with holistic medicine, it treats the problem and it doesn't put a bandaid on it. Like it tries to get to a deeper root of it. The root cause being a holistic plastic surgeon. What does that entail exactly?
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