Young and Profiting (YAP) with Hala Taha
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 was Dr. Youn's journey into plastic surgery?
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 2: What is the concept of autojuvenation?
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 3: How can nutrition and skincare help in aging gracefully?
Chapter 4: What are the two-minute skincare routine tips?
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?
Chapter 5: What are the myths and facts about sunscreen?
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.
It was when I stopped worrying about being a quote-unquote plastic surgeon that everything really exploded for me. And I think part of it was that people saw, number one, I'm doing my own social media. The posts weren't made by somebody else. They were made by me. It was obviously me doing it. And then number two, I wasn't worried about having to say certain things, say things the right way.
I don't curse much, but every once in a while, you throw something like that in if that's really natural to you. And that's really when things did really well.
I love it that you infuse humor into your content. You have this fake feud with, I think, your best friend, Dr. Lee, which I just always think is so hilarious when you do those posts. So talk to us about the importance of infusing humor along with educating, because I know a lot of people are learning from you too, but they're also laughing with you.
Yeah, I think really what it comes down to is you have to look at it as edutainment. So anybody can follow 50 other plastic surgeons who will talk about where the scars go if you're going to get a tummy tuck, or what are the risks of having a facelift surgery? And it gets boring after a while.
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Chapter 6: How does gut health affect skin health?
Chapter 7: What is holistic plastic surgery?
Chapter 8: How can social media influence a medical practice?
Thank you so much for having me, Holly. I appreciate it.
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?
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