Young and Profiting with Hala Taha (Entrepreneurship, Sales, Marketing)
Dr. Anthony Youn: The Five Pillars of Staying Younger for Life | Wellness | E315
Mon, 04 Nov 2024
When Dr. Anthony Youn entered high school, his jaw began growing abnormally, to the point where he could stick his tongue through the gap between his upper and lower teeth. To fix the problem, he underwent plastic reconstructive surgery. Not only did it profoundly change how he looked and felt about himself, but it also set him on the path to a career in plastic surgery. Today, he’s one of the world’s most trusted plastic surgeons, known for his holistic approach. In this episode, Anthony shares some of his best hacks for maintaining youthfulness, from skincare and nutrition to his favorite non-invasive treatments for naturally slowing aging. In this episode, Hala and Anthony will discuss: (00:00) Introduction (03:07) The transformation that sparked his passion for plastic surgery (04:13) Plastic surgery as a last resort (06:29) Growing his business with social media (13:15) Building multiple income streams as a professional (21:09) Holistic Plastic Surgery (32:51) The Importance of Looking and Feeling Your Best (35:30) Aging Gracefully: Audrey Hepburn's Timeless Beauty (36:21) The Five Pillars of Youthful Skin (37:35) Two-Minute Skincare Routine for a Youthful Glow (40:54) Sunscreen: Myths, Facts, and Recommendations (57:56) Fermented Foods and Gut Health (59:53) Facial Massages: Fact or Fiction? (01:03:49) Botox and Fillers: What You Need to Know (01:06:44) Final Thoughts and Key Takeaways Dr. Anthony Youn is a well-known plastic surgeon, author, and social media influencer with over 8.4 million TikTok followers. Known as "America's Holistic Plastic Surgeon," he advocates for natural rejuvenation, focusing on wellness and non-invasive methods over surgery. His latest book, Younger for Life, offers practical, science-based strategies for turning back the clock through diet, skincare, and natural remedies. In addition to running a successful medical practice, Dr. Youn hosts the popular Dr. Youn Show podcast. He regularly appears on TV shows like The Rachael Ray Show and Dr. Oz. Connect with Dr. Youn: Dr. Youn’s Website: https://www.dryoun.com Dr. Youn’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anthony-youn-07a0b223/ Dr. Youn’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tonyyounmd/ Dr. Youn’s Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@doctoryoun Resources Mentioned: Dr. Youn’s Book, Younger for Life: Feel Great and Look Your Best with the New Science of Autojuvenation: https://www.amazon.com/Younger-Life-Great-Science-Autojuvenation/dp/1335007873 Dr. Youn’s Podcast, The Dr.Youn Show: https://www.dryoun.com/podcast/ LinkedIn Secrets Masterclass, Have Job Security For Life: Use code ‘podcast’ for 30% off at yapmedia.io/course. Active Deals - youngandprofiting.com/deals Key YAP Links Reviews - ratethispodcast.com/yap Youtube - youtube.com/c/YoungandProfiting LinkedIn - linkedin.com/in/htaha/ Instagram - instagram.com/yapwithhala/ Social + Podcast Services: yapmedia.com Transcripts - youngandprofiting.com/episodes-new Entrepreneurship, entrepreneurship podcast, Business, Business podcast, Self Improvement, Self-Improvement, Personal development, Starting a business, Strategy, Investing, Sales, Selling, Psychology, Productivity, Entrepreneurs, AI, Artificial Intelligence, Technology, Marketing, Negotiation, Money, Finance, Side hustle, Startup, mental health, Career, Leadership, Mindset, Health, Growth mindset. Mental Health, Health, Psychology, Wellness, Biohacking, Motivation, Mindset, Manifestation, Productivity, Brain Health, Life Balance, Self Healing, Positivity, Happiness, Sleep, Diet
Chapter 1: What sparked Dr. Anthony Youn's passion for plastic surgery?
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You can use your body's own regenerative abilities to turn back the clock. It's a concept called autojuvenation. And there are five things really that if you do really focus on that, you can look five to 10 years younger.
Guess my age.
27?
Oh my gosh. I feel like I have so much advantage in the business space because I look younger.
There are so many people who do find that when they look in the mirror and they feel better about themselves, that that can really impact their job performance.
You are a huge TikTok star, so over 8 million followers. How can we leverage social media without it being about what we look like?
What it comes down to is...
Young and Profitors, we have an amazing episode for you today. It's very unique. We're going to be talking about how we can be younger for life, how we can be young and profiting forever. And we've got the best guest to talk about it today, Dr. Anthony Yoon. Dr. Anthony Yoon is a plastic surgeon, and he's also a social media star.
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Chapter 2: What is autojuvenation and how can it help maintain youthfulness?
I am so looking forward to this conversation. I am a skincare fanatic, so I love talking about skincare. This podcast is Young and Profiting, so we want to look as young as possible for as long as possible. So you are the perfect guest to have on the show. And so I really want to focus this episode on two main parts.
Number one is your career and your career journey as a holistic plastic surgeon, how you got there, some of the lessons that you've learned along the way. And then I want to talk about how we can look and feel our best, how we can be younger for life.
Sounds great.
Okay, so I loved learning how you first got interested in plastic surgery. And I did find out that in your teenage years, you had a very personal experience with a major plastic surgery makeover. So tell us about what you were like in your teens and what that experience was like for you.
Yeah, Hala. So thank you. Basically, I grew up in a small town in the middle of Michigan. We're the only Asian family. So my parents immigrated from Korea. My dad's a physician. He's an obstetrician gynecologist. And I developed, and I think it was honestly a mutation because there's nobody in my family that's ever had this before. But when I got into high school, my jaw started growing.
And growing and growing, and it wouldn't stop growing to the point where I graduated high school and my jaw stuck out so much that I could stick my tongue through the gap between my bottom and my front teeth. My jaw stuck out that far. And so I ended up having orthognathic plastic reconstructive surgery where they broke my jaw, set it back, they wired it shut for six weeks, and that...
profoundly changed how I looked and in the end, how I felt about myself. And so that really was the starting point for me of my journey into realizing that making changes to your appearance can really profoundly impact your self-esteem, your self-identity, how you carry yourself. And that set me on the path to going into the field of plastic surgery.
How do you feel that that surgery impacted your future career-wise? Do you think you would be as successful as you are today had you not have gotten that procedure?
No, because people would walk into my office, they would see me and go, well, if he didn't get anything done, why should I get something done? And they would leave. It's an unfortunate statement on society.
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Chapter 3: How does social media influence a plastic surgeon's business?
Chapter 4: What are the five pillars of youthful skin?
And so then I parlayed that appearance on Dr. 90210, literally two minutes into eventually doing a lot of national television shows like the Rachel Ray Show, Dr. Oz. That was on those shows, some of them dozens of times.
But kind of like an actor who starts realizing that the roles are going to younger, better-looking people at some point, I reached that point where the producers weren't calling me as much. They were picking other doctors who were, once again, younger and better-looking than me. And I realized I had to pivot because that was drying up. And that's when I started looking at social media.
I teach social media. So I teach people how to grow on LinkedIn. I'm a big LinkedIn influencer. And one of the biggest pushbacks that I get is that they're like, well, Hala, you're like a pretty girl. Of course you have social media followers. What about if we're not attractive? And I always tell them it has nothing to do with what you look like.
So Anthony, you're an attractive guy, but you're not Bella Hadid, right? And I'm not Bella Hadid either. So talk to us about... why it doesn't really matter about your looks. And especially when you are owning a business or you have a professional service, how can we leverage social media without it being about what we look like?
I am 51 years old and I know that there are a lot of better looking, more muscular plastic surgeons who are on social media than I am. Yet why do I have more followers than any other plastic surgeon in the country? It's crazy. Like I'm in Detroit for God's sakes, you know? And really I think what it comes down to is I started focusing on social media probably back in 2017, 2018.
And I was doing Facebook and Twitter and that stuff. And it was doing okay. But it wasn't until 2019 and then 2020 when the pandemic hit, I was one of the first OG kind of influencers, physicians on TikTok. The pandemic hits, everybody's at home, and my practice closed for two and a half months. Now, at the time, I had no idea how long it was going to be closed for.
I mean, it was a crazy, scary time for so many of us. And I realized at that point that I need to do something to help people. I volunteered at my local hospital if they needed me. But God forbid, if it's a pandemic and you need a plastic surgeon to come in to treat your patients, like it's got to be like the end of the world type of situation. So thank God we didn't get to that point.
But I want to do something to help people. And I realized that I don't have to put stuff out there to try to get patients to come in my office because it was closed.
So I just started creating content that for me, I thought was fun, that was entertaining, that was interesting, that was maybe educational, but not always, but that could even just help people pull themselves out of that horrible, crazy, scary time for 10 seconds, 20 seconds, five minutes, whatever it was, That's what I ended up trying to create. And that was when everything exploded.
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Chapter 5: How can nutrition and gut health affect your appearance?
And so then I have, like I said, my own skincare line called You and Beauty. We have skincare and supplements. That's a big part of another mode of income that we have, stream of income. And then those are the main things I can think of just offhand. When most physicians, they look and we go to our meetings and they talk about, you have your practice consultants and you know what they talk about?
They talk about how do you convert more patients to have surgery? How do you get more patients in the door? I've got a two-year waiting list. I don't want more patients necessarily calling me. I don't need that because it's already a huge waiting list. Then how do I impact people and help people? And then at the same time, profit myself off of that.
so good. It's so inspiring. I'm sure there's so many people out there that are doctors, lawyers, accountants, they've got professional services. And it's like you can parlay your experience into an online brand and then monetize that online brand and have multiple revenue streams like you mentioned. So I didn't hear you say that you're monetizing your podcast.
And you are speaking to the podcast princess. So if you need support monetizing your podcast, let's definitely talk about it.
We are working on that. So yeah, what happened is I had my book come out in January, Younger for Life. And I've had a podcast for many years, but honestly, when my YouTube and all my video stuff exploded, I kind of put the podcast a little bit on the back burner. I still did it here and there and stuff.
And then once my book came out, I started really looking at what media in general, what was going on with the whole... media landscape in general. And I realized that I really need to refocus on the podcast because there's so many people that are listening. I listen so much. It's just for years, I thought that maybe I could do better with the video stuff. But now the video stuff is doing so well.
It's like, hey, you know what? I've got a little bit of extra time. Let me focus more on the podcast. So we are looking now at monetizing it. It's been growing. It's back to much better than even where it was before I started taking time off of it. And that's a really exciting thing.
You just mentioned time. You've got some time. A lot of business owners who want to grow a personal brand online, they're like, well, I don't have time for that. I'm not an influencer. I'm an entrepreneur. Talk to me about how you actually make time for your content while balancing being an author, a podcaster, a doctor.
So I think that you have to look at it as these are things that you need to love to do. So for example, for me, I operate every Tuesday and Thursday. I see patients every Monday and Wednesday. And I used to operate Friday mornings. Technically, when I started my practice, I used to operate all day Fridays.
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Chapter 6: What is the difference between anti-aging and reverse aging?
I do recommend at least SPF 30. If you're gonna be inside, do you have to wear it? Not necessarily, but definitely you're gonna be out quite a bit, then sunscreen is helpful. That's all you have to do in the morning. Cleanse, vitamin C serum, and then a sunscreen. In the evening, got to cleanse your skin.
If you only wash your skin once a day, make sure it's in the evening because you got to get rid of the day's worth of dirt and grime and pollution and oil and all that type of stuff. And definitely makeup. So wash your skin at night and then you want to apply an anti-aging cream. The one I usually recommend as a starter is a retinol.
Retinol is a form of vitamin A. Most big skincare companies have a retinol moisturizer. That's a cornerstone for our Youn Beauty line, a retinol moisturizer. Science shows that those are the most potent anti-aging creams out there if you don't have a prescription, okay? So use a retinol at night. If you have real sensitive skin, if you've got real sensitive skin, then use bakuchiol.
Bakuchiol is a plant-based alternative to retinol. Appears to work very similarly, but it's more easily tolerated. And technically, that's it. Maybe once or twice a week, exfoliate your skin with a nice, gentle exfoliating agent, whether it's an at-home peel or like a scrub. That's all you have to do. So really that's the two minutes, five years younger.
Morning, cleanse, vitamin C, sunscreen, night, cleanse, and a retinol. If you want to apply a moisturizer on top of that, if it's real dry, then feel free to do that. And then once or twice a week, exfoliate your skin. And that's all you have to technically do.
It sounds really easy, but I'm sure I have mostly male listeners, surprisingly, and I'm sure they're listening to this like, I'm not doing all that.
All right. If you're a guy and you want to say you want to limit what you're doing, first thing is definitely use a facial cleanser, not bar soap, because bar soap will definitely dry your skin out. Apply the sunscreen if you're going to be out. If you're not, then at least do a vitamin C serum. And then at night, you just got to apply the retinol. You can skip the exfoliating part of it.
That's fine. Just do those things. You don't want to get to that point where you're 50, 60, 70 years old and you go, geez, why didn't I do any of this earlier? Now what am I going to do?
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Chapter 7: How does one's internal health reflect on their skin?
So I'd love to just hear your thoughts about using these at-home machines or even getting professional spa treatments to actually build collagen. I think it's just a little bit more effective than the topical treatments.
Yeah, I think that those are great. And I think that right now we're hitting a renaissance where there's so many at-home devices that can be helpful. I think the first thing for your listeners, if you say, hey, what should I start with? The easiest thing is to get a red light therapy, either a mask or a red light therapy handheld or a tabletop device.
So red light therapy, we know the idea behind red light therapy is that the energy from that red light gets taken up by the mitochondria of your cells. And mitochondria basically are the powerhouses of our cells. And it causes our cells to create more ATP, or more energy. So essentially the red light energizes your cells to be more youthful.
And there are studies that do show, not a lot of studies, but there are studies that do show that using red light therapy can increase the elastin and the collagen content in your skin. So I'm a big fan of red light therapy. I do it myself at home, not as much as I should, just because I always forget, honestly.
I do it a lot on my head because I have a laser helmet that I use because my hair, God forbid, was thinning a bit. And so that definitely helps. So the first thing I would recommend would be red light therapy. There are at-home, as you mentioned, radio frequency devices. There are at-home laser hair removal devices and stuff like that.
And I think more and more of those are becoming more and more powerful and safer and safer to use. But the first thing I would recommend would be red light therapy because I think that one has the most science behind it and probably the most potential benefit.
And then if you're going into an office setting, part of the reason why I don't do red light therapy too, in addition to forgetting about doing it, is I do do treatments in my office. And those are obviously going to be more powerful than those. And so whether it's certain chemical peels, one of our most popular treatments is Morpheus 8. That's radiofrequency combined with microneedling.
And that's a really good skin tightening, non-invasive skin tightening treatment. There's so much out there that's really exciting.
Yeah. Radio frequency to me, I think is the future. I feel like there's going to be radio frequency spas that open up and so many people don't know about it. And it's, I think, the fountain of youth in my opinion. Okay. So you mentioned your hair loss. I recently became single. And so I am of the age where now I'm starting to go on dates with guys that are losing their hair.
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Chapter 8: Why is looking and feeling your best important for career success?
These byproducts are called free radicals and they can damage the DNA of our cells that they build up to a too large of an extent. So just the fact that we're alive, our body creates as a consequence of being alive free radicals, and then our body will actually create antioxidants to neutralize these free radicals.
And if you're in a very healthy state, if you're like Dave Asprey, then the amount of antioxidants that your body is creating is probably very similar to the amount of free radicals your body is creating, and you're in a good homeostasis.
However, if you're exposed to a lot of pollution, if you're eating a lot of ultra processed foods, a lot of deep fried foods and things like that, if you're smoking, then those free radicals can be much greater than the antioxidants that your body is creating.
And that creates a state we call oxidative stress, where those free radicals are so numerous that they're now attacking the DNA of your cells that can lead to premature aging and even potentially cancer down the line. So what, once again, stops those free radicals, neutralizes them? Antioxidants. I mentioned earlier when we were talking about skincare, vitamin C and vitamin C being an antioxidant.
Antioxidants are basically in the pigment of the fruits and vegetables that you eat.
And so if you eat only, let's say, orange fruits and vegetables, and you only get a certain type of those pigments, a certain type of antioxidants, but if you eat the rainbow of colorful fruits and vegetables, now you're getting a wide variety of those antioxidants and hopefully a lot of them to neutralize the free radicals and to slow down or stop that premature aging process.
I had a doctor on the show one time, Dr. Gundry, who told everybody to give fruit the boot.
Yes.
And I remember for like six months, I didn't eat fruit. And my mom was getting so mad at me. She's like, eat your fruit. And I started, and I was like, yeah, I feel much healthier eating fruit.
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