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Biostimulators Explained: What Everyone Is Talking About

16 Jun 2026

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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?

2.613 - 4.035 Jess Roberts

A listener production.

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5.157 - 15.574 Bec Chard

I'm Bec Chard. And I'm Jess Roberts. And we're done with the smoke and mirrors. Fainish shares honest stories about what it takes to look amazing because we did not wake up like this.

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And you should know the stuff that we chat about on this podcast is based on our personal experiences.

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21.023 - 25.937 Bec Chard

We're sharing it for your entertainment. It's definitely not medical advice.

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26.138 - 29.347 Jess Roberts

And we'll always be clear with you when something is a paid endorsement.

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Please always chat with your qualified healthcare team before making any decisions about your health.

49.762 - 62.673 Jess Roberts

Hey guys, it's Bec Jard. And Jess Roberts. And welcome to Fainage. How you going, babe? I'm good. How are you? I'm all right. I'm just a bit annoyed. Are you? I'm annoyed. Oh. Are you, um, what's it called? Ovulating. Not ovulating. The feel of the fourth week.

62.693 - 63.354 Bec Chard

Luteal phase.

63.674 - 64.054 Jess Roberts

Yeah.

Chapter 2: What are biostimulators and how do they differ from fillers?

129.8 - 133.704 Bec Chard

I'm like, no, I can fill them out when I get there.

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133.745 - 139.711 Jess Roberts

That whole like, come in 10 minutes early to fill out a form. Yeah. That's what we want. Yeah, a paper form.

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139.831 - 148.5 Bec Chard

I don't need all these emails and notifications and say, you haven't filled out your form, you haven't done this. I fill out the fucking form when I get into the office. Yes.

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148.48 - 156.128 Jess Roberts

It pisses me off. Yeah. And going on medical appointments, we used to go to our doctor and go, you might need a referral. And they would refer it to the doctor.

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Chapter 3: How do biostimulators work to promote collagen and elastin production?

156.148 - 173.087 Jess Roberts

Yeah. And then the doctor will call you and go, hey, we've just got your referral. Let's book you an appointment. Now it's like, here's your referral. And then you've got to send it via an email to the specialist that you're seeing. And then you've got to call up. Yeah. There's another step in there now. Yes. It's like, oh.

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173.187 - 191.599 Bec Chard

It's just like the life. Can we just go back? To the good old days when there weren't apps and forms and all these BS for everything and we just need to simplify our lives. When we were building our house, the electrician was like, oh, do you want to put in, I think it was called Seabus or something.

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191.579 - 192.201 Jess Roberts

We had that.

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192.221 - 208.322 Bec Chard

Something like home automation system and do you want to do this? And I'm like, why would I want that? Oh, because you can turn on your lights and your heating before you even arrive home and you can turn the pool on and get it warm and all these things to automate your life. And I thought, well, that's going to be a pain in the ass because...

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208.302 - 229.101 Bec Chard

there's going to be system updates, it's not going to work. And it was like $30,000, right? And then you know that with the advances in technology, that all that investment in five, 10 years, there'll be something else that's updated. Like now you can just do like a, hey, Alexa or whatever, and they can do it for you. But all of these extra things, I'm like, no, hear me out, electrician.

229.201 - 239.57 Bec Chard

I want a plain old light switch, like the ones that we used to have in the 80s and 90s that you just go over and with your finger, you turn it off and off. That's all I want.

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Yep, I'm the same.

240.131 - 253.105 Bec Chard

He's like, oh, really? But you can... I'm like, no, I don't want all the connections. I don't want the apps. I don't want the headaches. I don't want the service guy having to come over and update the freaking software because, of course, we can't turn the lights on. We can't turn the heater on because the system's gone dead. No, give me a freaking light switch.

253.225 - 253.825 Jess Roberts

That's all I want.

Chapter 4: What potential risks and side effects should patients be aware of?

265.878 - 284.856 Jess Roberts

We had it all put through the system. We've still got it all through the building. And yeah, there's always issues. Always. And it costs so much money, right? And like we got it when it was like first started. So we paid top dollar for it. Yeah. I think it's all right now. I haven't heard Val complain about it. Maybe he swapped it over already. I don't know. But yeah. He's got Alexa now.

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284.996 - 285.697 Jess Roberts

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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Yeah, I don't know. Yeah.

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287.218 - 290.781 Jess Roberts

She's cheap. Yeah, she's cheap. Yes. No, I agree. I agree. Do you know what I miss?

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What?

291.462 - 306.802 Jess Roberts

And I used to do it for my mum and mum said it and I wish this happened to me because I'm so bad because I forget my passwords for everything because I'm constantly changing passwords. So anyway, it comes with apps for school and emails, all of that stuff. And obviously having three kids, having a lot of kids, there's just so much life happening.

306.822 - 323.991 Jess Roberts

Like you said, I just miss the days where the kid used to write in the diary about Tuesday is pupil free day or like Friday is free dress day. Bring a dollar coin in for red nose. That's it. Just the kids to write it. It teaches them how to like schedule into their diary.

Chapter 5: How can patients manage expectations for aesthetic treatments?

324.112 - 331.605 Jess Roberts

Yeah. The diary comes home because we've got to sign it anyway. Yeah. Comes home, we look at it and go, oh, okay, tomorrow is this. Yeah. That's all you want.

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331.625 - 353.111 Bec Chard

You don't need the forms, the permission forms that come from the schools every day, the consent form to go to the incursion at school or the excursion or the whatever. It's like just tick the box, yes, my kids are allowed to go to everything for the whole year. Yeah, yeah. That's it. If you're listing schools, don't bother sending any more forms. The Judds are in. So is the Roberts. We're in.

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353.572 - 370.763 Jess Roberts

In. Unless it's 5.30 in the morning, I have to get up and take you to Run Club Scarlet. That's not happening. And you know the funny thing is I didn't sign the fucking forms and I still take my kid. So I don't know why I'm signing the forms. Why do I need to sign the forms? She's going to go and do it anyway. How many times I've not signed the forms?

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370.803 - 388.142 Jess Roberts

And then I've gone, shit, that excursion was on Thursday. Scarlett, did you go to the zoo on Thursday last week? She goes, yes, mum. So I had the sports because she makes my lunchbox. And I was like, oh, I've just seen the reminder. I never signed it. They still took it. So why do we have a fucking form? Sorry. They still take them.

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395.598 - 418.164 Bec Chard

So, guys, today we are having one of our really good friends on. He's the owner of Flawless in Hampton and Toorak. He's also one of the head emergency department physicians across Alfred Health. So, yes, when you're in big trouble and your life needs saving, this guy, he's the one. He is.

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We do call him at 2am in the morning sometimes, like, our kids sick, what do we do?

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Yeah. So, you know, like Alfred Health in Melbourne, if you're not from Victoria listening, is the major trauma hospital here. It's big. In the past, it's had its own TV show. And Sean, he's often the guy meeting the helicopter as it choppers in these people who are really, really unwell. And he's also on that show. Yeah, a lot of multi-traumas, big car accidents. Sean's out there at the helipad.

450.976 - 474.221 Bec Chard

He's the first guy they see and he literally is saving lives and he's been doing this for so long. Plus, he's also, yeah, into aesthetics and has his flawless clinics. And we've been lucky enough. We actually met him through school. He's a school dad. Yeah. We go to his clinic. We are customers and clients there. And we have partaken in many a biostimulator in the last, what, 18 months?

474.322 - 477.005 Jess Roberts

Oh, yeah. Two years? Yeah. Four different ones on Friday.

Chapter 6: What factors influence the effectiveness of biostimulators?

485.413 - 498.745 Bec Chard

Today, it's all about biostimulators. This is the buzz product. Everyone wants to know about it. It is confusing because there's so many different types, salmon, jizz, hyaluronic injections, you name it. So Sean's going to break it all down. Yeah, dumbify it for us.

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499.446 - 505.491 Jess Roberts

Welcome to Vainish, Dr. Sean. Thank you, Jess. So good to have you in here. So let's talk about your qualifications.

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505.471 - 506.293 Bec Chard

Talk yourself up, mate.

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Let the world know how fabulous you are.

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508.897 - 527.833 Dr. Sean Arendse

Not quite that fabulous, but I am a full-time emergency physician at the State Trauma Centre and I work across the emergency department and the trauma unit. And then in my spare time, I am medical director for Flawless Rejuvenation, which is a full-service sort of skin clinic, one location in Hampton and one in Toorak.

528.218 - 535.927 Bec Chard

In your spare time, you just run these aesthetic medical clinics. In your spare time. And you do heaps of training as well, right?

536.028 - 554.31 Dr. Sean Arendse

Yeah, I do a fair bit of training and run a couple of courses about safety in the cosmetic industry. And then, yeah, I try and attend as many conferences as I can a year to keep abreast of what's happening in this rapidly changing environment of cosmetics. So, yeah, it's a fun industry to be in.

554.543 - 578.027 Bec Chard

It's really interesting because a few years ago, when you're talking about aesthetics and injectables, it was anti-wrinkle and filler. And that was pretty much it. And then in the last couple of years, all of a sudden, all the talk is biostimulators. Yeah. So we thought, Sean, that we wanted to get you on because you inject all of these. You're trained in it. You train people on how to do it.

578.047 - 588.284 Bec Chard

Yeah. So we had Dr. Cara MacDonald in to talk about fillers and we thought let's get biostimulators covered and we thought you were just the perfect person to do so because you're across it all.

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