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We'll tackle the growing awareness around breast implant illness otherwise
known as BII, a condition affecting many women with implants.
While not yet fully understood or recognized as a formal
medical diagnosis, BII includes symptoms like fatigue, brain fog, and
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autoimmune disorders. It's even linked to rare cancers like breast
implant associated anaplastic large cell lymphoma bia AlCl.
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Joining us tonight is going to be doctor David Rankin.
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He's the chief of plastic Surgery at Saint Mary's Medical
Center in West Palm Beach, Florida, and he's one of
the nation's top breast explant experts. He's going to join
us to shed light on the complexities of BII and
what women need to know about their health. Next in
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You're listening to a moment of Zen right here on
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I'm your host, zen Zam's welcome back to the Hydration
with Heart segment brought to you by Once Upon a Coconut. Today,
we're featuring returning guest and contributor Robert Edward Grant. He's
an innovator, a successful entrepreneur, and the best selling offthor
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of philomath. He specializes in number theory, mathematical physics, and
blockchain technologies. He's a prolific inventor and founder of several
corporate enterprises.
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He truly does it all.
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He's an expert in the realms of mystery science and
unexplained phenomena. We'll be tackling everything from the possibility of
extraterrestrial life, to the real concerns surrounding nuclear threats, and
even the strange drone sightings that have sparked more questions
than answers. Whether you believe in these mysteries or not,
the facts are out there, and today we're going to
uncover them together. Welcome to the Unveiling of the Unknown,
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exploring drone phenomena, national security, and the possibility of extraterrestrial
involvement with Robert Edward Grant.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
Welcome to the show, Superstar h II.
Speaker 5 (04:43):
Great to be with you again.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
Love having you on. You're one of my favorite contributors.
And Robert, it's fascinating how the line between fact and
fiction is becoming increasingly blurred. It's kind of scary, especially
when it comes to unidentified aerial phenomenon. Right in fact,
according to a recent survey by the National UFO Reporting Center,
not that I feel like they're accurate on anything. The
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report there was over seven thousand UFO sightings that were
reported across the US and that was twenty twenty three alone,
And with the increase in these reports, people are starting
to question the possibility that we might not be alone
in the universe. So what's your take on the current
state of these quote unquote UFOs and the growing public
interest in extraterrestrial life.
Speaker 6 (05:27):
The shift that's happening is not that there's a huge,
massive increase in the number of UAPs or UFOs, in
my opinion, it's just that the number of people that
are raising their consciousness through this global awakening that's going
on right now is actually what's changing the scenario for
everyone because what was already there before, and these interdimensional
I call them more interdimensional and interterrestrial than extraterrestrial beings
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because they've been here all along. We are now just
able to see them as we raise our consciousness. You know,
one good analogy would be like this. A bird has
to have its retinal receptor at a certain frequency in
order to perceive the colors of other birds. Now, we
often would see a certain blackbird like a crow, as
purely black, but if we raised our frequency to the
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way that other birds would see it, they would see
it with rainbow colors. This is because they have a
different frequency that they can actually have access to. Their
frequency range is much more expanded as birds than human
beings are, so as a result, they see different colors altogether.
And this is exactly what I believe is analogous to
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what's happening right now. The things that we couldn't see
before as we raise consciousness are now becoming visible to
people that are average people around the world, and we're
starting to see this massive increase in UAP reportings as
a result.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
Wow, there's a rising interest among the public within with
the US government's declassification of some military UFOUX footage, that's
sparking a lot of conversation thinking the government is hiding
more than they're letting on, and that there's a deeper
truth about these sightings. So I think, you know, people
are starting to yeah, you're right, become aware now. Speaking
of the unknown, there's also been an increase in drone
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sightings right over the US, particularly particularly near sensitive areas
like military bases, and a report in December of twenty
twenty four revealed that drones were spotted over an Arsenal
Picatinny Arsenal, a military research facility, and many speculated about
their purpose, with theories ranging from surveillance to possible threats. So,
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with the increasing drone activity, including these mysterious maneuvers and
unexplained sightings, could there be a connection between drones and
national security concerns like the possible retrieval of nuclear weapons
or dirty bombs.
Speaker 6 (07:44):
You know, if you look at declassified documents from the CIA,
you'll notice that they've known for quite some time that
human beings are capable of perceiving higher dimensions. And as
a result, if they knew that that interterational beings right
are higher dimensions and all around us, then basically they
could also know if by raising our consciousness that we
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would actually be able to perceive those things. Then there
might have to be psyops in order to control the
population so that this mass awakening happening all at the
same time wouldn't startle the public too much. You know,
it's a very very delicate balance to keep people in
their houses, to keep people from like, you know, like
losing it as it were, if they thought there was
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the end of the world coming or something crazy was
going to happen, and so they might have to actually
put in place certain syop activities in order to sort
of mitigate the risks associated with looting and everything else
that you know, a society and pandemonium could basically reach.
And I think that's one of the things that you know,
I was really startled to find. I did a podcast
recently with John Peterson, who is the CEO of the
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Arlington Institute out of Maryland, and he's worked for many
years as a futurist for the Department of Defense, and
he predicted this, he said within thirty nine days. I
did back with him in October. He said within thirty
nine days of the Joe Rogan podcast with President Trump
that there would be a huge, massive increase in the
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number of UAP sightings as well as drone sightings in
the skies. And he said this on my podcast well
before any of the first reports coming out of New
Jersey started to trickle in and then became an avalanche,
right because now we've we're hearing it over and over
and over again all over the place. And I myself,
I saw two plasmoids in Laguna Beach, and everybody in
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Laguna Beach was videotaping. I was just driving down the
street down Pacific Coast Highway, and I looked over to
see what everyone was looking at in videotaping and I
caught it also on film and it's everywhere now. So
how much of this is this expansion and consciousness that
is now allowing us to see things that we couldn't
see before. And if you look at programs and projects
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like the Stargate Project, et cetera, they have been using
things like telepathy and remote viewing for many years as
mechanisms to be able to get intelligence for the intelligence
community and particularly the CIA, but all the Three letter
agencies about access to this type of information. If you
haven't seen the Telepathy tapes which is or listened to
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it as a podcast, I highly recommend it because this
is showing this advancement of how human beings are moving
beyond the former paradigms of communication, where children with autism
have been tested on this in a very unassailable way
from a scientific perspective, and it's demonstrating that they actually
have telepathic abilities.
Speaker 4 (10:34):
I read that too, Yeah, and that's fascinating to me.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
Before we digress too far, I want to touch on
something you just said. So as we're discussing these intriguing possibilities,
we should also touch on the reports of these mysterious
orbs and plasmoids that have been spotted like you saw
and various observers have seen them. A twenty twenty study
published in the Journal of Atmospheric and Solar Terrestrial Physics
found an unusual correlation between certain atmospheric anomalies and plasma
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related objects, which some describe as orbs. What can you
tell us about plasmoids and orbs? Are these phenomena related
to extraterrestrial activity or could there be something else entirely?
Speaker 6 (11:12):
What plasma does is it's able to shear off electrons
from their entanglement associated with protons. So you know, every proton,
if it's like hydrogen, has one proton and one electron.
But what plasma is able to do is it's able
to have that electron dissociate from the proton and then
you can recoher it using electromagnetic caging into different elements potentially.
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So this is one of the scientific theories that is
basically leading to a lot of research in these areas.
So this means that you could basically use it for
things potentially like teleportation. You could you know, recohere something
you could you could basically break it apart from its
electrons and then put it back together with its electrons
again and then have it reappear somewhere else. So you
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could potentially use it in combination with things like wormholes
and Einstein Rosen bridges right as they're often known in physics.
So this is an area of the most cutting edge
science that's happening right now, combined with quantum entanglement that
I think is super interesting. I don't know that our
government has this degree. So some of the videos that
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I've seen, we might think that they're plasmoids, but they
if they are government derived, then they're more than likely holographic.
So it's more like a projection that's being projected up.
Now you have to really think that the government is
going to be super sinister, right in order to do
something like that just to trick all of the people.
And that could well be or it could be a
foreign actor. We simply don't know. And that's why I'm
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hoping to have some of these questions answered as soon
as Donald Trump takes office.
Speaker 4 (12:46):
Yeah, because he's going to be way more transparent.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
He's demanding answers, you know, because deep state obviously there's
something else going on, but the plasmoids in the orbs.
I literally saw a footage of a plasmoid or come
in contact with.
Speaker 4 (13:01):
The drone and the drone just boom went down. It
was fascinating to see.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
So you're what you just described just made so much
sense because if they really want to get in nefarious
these plasmoids and or orbs could be used for a
nefarious activity. I mean, we have planes that I've gone
missing off of radars that we just can't find, entire
airplanes that they've scared the ocean to look for and
they cannot find them, right, So it's interesting that this
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does exist. So your insights into plasmoids are totally fascinating,
just like all of your insights. As someone who's been
in the field of research and observation, one may think
there's a real scientific basis to the orb sidings, as
we may be dealing with something that challenges are understanding
or physics and the universe itself.
Speaker 4 (13:43):
So I love how you just tied it all together.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
Now, moving beyond drones and orbs, we have to consider
the darker, more disturbing possibility that some of these sightings
might have something to do with terrorist activities. Right, So,
the US government has issued temporary restrictions on drones in
several cities, including New jer Z, after reports of drone's
near sensitive sites occurred, and with the increase in concerns
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around nuclear threats and dirty bombs. Do you think that's
a possibility that some of these drone settings are connected
to such threats?
Speaker 6 (14:14):
Well, I mean, look, in this day and age, I've
learned to never say never. So I mean a lot
of things I thought would be impossible I've now learned
and through my own experience, have actually happened. Like why
did we end up with, you know, things like the
whole pandemic. I mean, now it's become widely accepted that yes,
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that was a leak out of the lab in Wuhan,
And for years everyone was like no, no, no, no, that's
a conspiracy theory. So you know, it's like, I've never
been one to be a conspiracy theorist, but when all
the conspiracies seem to be turning out to be true
in some way, shape or form, you have to start
asking the question as like, scream me, whence shame on you?
Scream me twice? Shame on me?
Speaker 2 (14:53):
On me?
Speaker 3 (14:53):
Yeah, yeah, and it's it's deeply concerning that the possibility
of a dirty bomb or a nuclear threat even being discussed,
just like that we had to deal with a pandemic.
And what's most worrying is that the recent shipment. There
was a recent shipment mentioned in the news which reportedly
involved a dirty bomb, a dirty bomb search in New
Jersey that just went missing off the port, and then
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now they're all frantically looking for this. So I do
think that we might be facing a legitimate threat here.
I don't think it's just a case of heightened paranoia.
And to your point, I don't put anything past the government,
like nothing.
Speaker 6 (15:29):
Yeah, I don't, to be honest. It's like a lot
of people are worried about, you know, the intrusion of aliens,
and you know from all the movies we've watched over
the years. But now I'm starting to wonder if all
of that approach to it was also just propaganda, and
maybe the real thing that we should be worried about
is the enemy we have within, and that is our
government itself. You know, this is where more people have
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died as a result of wars because of governments, right,
More people have died because of you know, things like
that have been forced on the populations because of government control.
That you have to ask yourself the question, what is
the role of it going forward? I have to ask
that question. I'm a human being first and foremost, I'm
a citizen of Earth, and I really don't care about
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a lot of these artificial borders that we have around
the globe. And I think a lot of people in
the world are coming to that same conclusion. So you
have to ask ourselves the question. Know, maybe I think
a lot of people think the advent of us being
able to realize unequivocally that we are not alone in
the universe is like a lot of people are just thinking,
please come help us.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
Now moving on to a as you've pointed out, there's
a gap in public knowledge about these incidents, and conspiracy
theories are beginning to swirl. For example, some have speculated
that these drones right are preparing us for an extraterrestrial
invasion given the frequency of unexplained sightings and encounters. And
there was a twenty twenty four study in Science Advance
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in SI Advances, and it noted that the discovery of
biosignatures on exoplanets may soon allow us to detect alien life.
Speaker 7 (17:09):
So could these.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
Drone sightings be a precursor to something even more profound?
Speaker 6 (17:14):
I believe so. I mean, look, I think, what's I
tend to think of it like this? So think about grasshopper.
A grasshopper lives in a field. It thinks that the
field is its universe. It dies in the same field.
Let's say it dies and comes back and gets reincarnated
as a monkey outside of Riodjianneiro in some jungle. It
has an expansion of flora and fauna. There's more different
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species for it to learn, both in plant life as
well as an animal life. Then it comes back and
gets reincarnated and lives in rural Alabama. This person in
rural Alabama has an expansion of flora and fauna. It
can watch TV. And this person knows that the sky
is super blue in Alaska, but it has never been
to visit Alaska, so hasn't really experienced it on his own.
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Then this person dies, it comes back as a metropolitan
woman like and Sam's, who has basically traveled the world
and has experience and knows that there are certain tribes
and indigenous peoples that speak certain languages, has heard about it,
may not speak those languages, but knows about it. What's
the next level of evolution? The next evolution for that
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person that personage is an expansion of fore and fun
and again. And the lex level of expansion becomes something
that starts to go beyond the scope of this current
planetary experience, right, the Earth experience. So now you start
getting into something that people refer to as the galactic federation, right,
and this expansion of planets. There are already people, lots
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of people that are experiencing life in that experience. And
one thing that we've learned in physics is that everything
we thought was fact is actually merely a facet. The
only way to get the whole truth about anything is
to sum the total of all possible subjective perspectives of
that thing. And what we now learned since twenty twenty
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two in the Nobel Prize was given in physics that
basically showed quantum entanglement is real, and the subject title
on the Scientific American article basically talking about it was
local realism is false. And this year's Nobel Prize winners
proved it. So physics as we know it as a
material construct is now literally falling apart. Physics as we
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know it. In this concept of we live in an
objective material reality is now literally disintegrating. It's dissolving entirely
and being replaced by notions of mentalism and subjectivism. What
we thought was objective is actually just subjective. And the
only way to get back to some degree of objectivity
is to some all possible perspectives of subjectivity. So this
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idea that we're not even in a reality based world
is more akin to Nick Bostrum's simulation hypothesis, and it's
somebody I actually do ascribe too. I believe that we
are in a simulation and it's a simulation of mine,
and the universe is mental, and so therefore becoming aware
of things is what changes your reality around you. It's
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the awareness that makes the shift.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
Wow, well listen, I want to have you back for more,
but thank you so much for coming on. You are amazing,
you are so insightful. You are a master at what
you do. I'd love that I call.
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You my friend.
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Welcome back, beautiful Tri State Area. You're listening to a
moment of Zen right here on seven to ten. Woar
the Voice of New York iHeartRadio. I'm your host, Zenzam's
welcome back to another segment. Of the Rankin Difference featuring
doctor David Rankin.
Speaker 4 (21:34):
Today we're covering.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
Breast implant illness, a condition that isn't well understood but
that can be debilitating.
Speaker 4 (21:40):
I can vouch for that.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
BII refers to a wide range of inexplicable symptoms that
basically can't be explained by the medical community that develop
in women who have reconstruction or cosmetic enlargement with breast implants.
It isn't an official medical diagnosis because it's just still
not well understood BII. Breast implant illness is an increasingly
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recognized condition that is going to affect many women to
come with implants, with symptoms ranging from fatigue and brain fog,
to autoimmune disorders and even rare cancers like breast implant
associated anaplastic large cell lymphoma. I know it's a big
word bia AlCl and.
Speaker 4 (22:20):
Despite these reports, BII.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
Remains under research and controversial within the medical community. So
today we're joined by our expert and recurrent contributor, doctor
David Rankin. He's a top breast explant expert in the
US and the chief of plastic surgery at Saint Mary's
Medical Center in West Bam.
Speaker 4 (22:38):
Beach, Florida.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
He has been in practice for over twenty years, but
he's very well known in the BII community. We're going
to explore the complexities of breast implant illness, what current
research is telling us, and how women can make informed
choices about their health. Welcoming now to the show is
the amazing doctor David Rankin.
Speaker 7 (22:56):
Welcome, superstar, Hey Zen, great to be here again, So.
Speaker 4 (23:00):
Excited to have you on.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
So for the audience watching and listening in your own words,
exactly what is breast implant illness and why does it
remain such a controversial topic in the medical field.
Speaker 8 (23:12):
Well, like you said, it's an association of many symptoms
that women are experiencing through their breast implants. It's controversial
because there's really no way to give a definitive diagnosis.
There's no blood tests, there's no radiologic examination where you
can definitively say you have breast implant illness. It's more
of a diagnosis of exclusion when you've ruled out other
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factors that these these women you know, potentially could have.
But you know, once you roll those out, you get
a diagnosis of BII or breast inplant illness.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
And we know that the BII this remains a very
grey area in medicine, like you said, due to its
wide range of symptoms and really lack of a universal
accepted diagnostic framework. And while patient stories have brought attention
to BII, many in the medical field are just hesitant
to recognize it as a formal diagnosis due to this
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insufficient research. So your experience working with patients affected by
BII provides such an invaluable insight. And not only in
my former patient of yours, but I follow your page
and the information that you're putting out is extremely critical
that women understand that they could be part of this demographic.
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What are the most common symptoms of breast implant illness
and how can women differentiate these symptoms from like any
other health condition.
Speaker 8 (24:34):
Well, there's a tremendous amount of symptoms that I see
in my practice. The FDA has finally come around and
recognize breast implan illness and even have it on their website,
and they list the most common symptoms as brain fog, anxiety,
joint pain, skin rashes. But really I see a lot
of GI issues, exacerbation of autoimmune issues, you name it,
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I've seen it. It's again, and that's something we can
diagnose through blood work or other types of studies. And
having your implants removed, it is a leap of faith.
Speaker 9 (25:08):
But lo and behold.
Speaker 8 (25:09):
In my practice, I see most of my patients improving
in their health.
Speaker 4 (25:13):
So when you see these consistent symptoms over and over
and over again, and then you explant these women and everything,
proof goes away.
Speaker 7 (25:24):
What do you have to say for that?
Speaker 9 (25:27):
Well, I mean the proof is in the putting.
Speaker 8 (25:28):
And you know when eighty five percent plus all my
patients have improvement in their health after explanting, you know
it's real. We need further studies to determine the root cause,
and I think you know doctors doing a lot of
explants and are really working on this along with the
medical community. It's becoming more recognized amongst my peers and colleagues,
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even in other subspecialties that are referring patients when they
see their patients improving.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
Also, what does current research indicate about the potential link
between breast implants and cancer such as what I mentioned
in my intro bia AlCl or other cancers.
Speaker 8 (26:09):
Well, we know it's a correlation and a connection, particularly
more with textured implants than with smooth implants, the BILCL
which you mentioned, and also we see a screamo cell carcinomare,
which is a cancer within the scar tissue or shell.
It is very rare, but it has higher mortality and
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morbidity than the ILCL. So that's something that we're studying
now as well.
Speaker 3 (26:36):
Yeah, and while these risks still remain relatively low, they
are significant enough to prompt FDA warnings and heighten awareness
among patients, right especially with that black box warning that
came about on all implants across the board in October
of twenty twenty one. So it's an actual thing, right now,
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It's not just hyperbole. Can you explain the differ differences?
And this is what most women are emailing our show
about between silicone and saline implants in relation to the
connection to BII and cancer risk. Are there specific materials
that are more concerning.
Speaker 8 (27:13):
Silicone and saline implants both have a silicone outer shell,
and that shell traditionally is either a smooth surface or
a textured surface. The texturing was made to try and
reduce capsular contracture or hardening of the shell around the implant.
We've seen more issues with the textured implants than with
the smooth However, there's concerns with both enough of an
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issue that the FDA took off the Alergan textured implants
from the market a few years back now, so we
know there's concern more with the texture. But both implants,
particularly with BII, can cause symptoms. It's just with the
cancer diagnosis. The texture.
Speaker 9 (27:55):
We see more commonly.
Speaker 3 (27:57):
Now for women who want additional volume but prefer to
just avoid implants altogether. What options do you offer and
how effective are they in achieving these natural looking results,
so to say, I know it's not going to be
how it was before, but what do you recommend?
Speaker 8 (28:12):
Really, the best thing we have is fat grafting, so
traditional liposuction. We collect it in a specialized mechanism made
for fat grafting. It's injected into the breast. The nice
thing about it is it's your tissue, it's not a
foreign body. The downsides really are it doesn't give a
complete implant.
Speaker 9 (28:31):
Look.
Speaker 8 (28:33):
Really, we can increase breast volume by maybe a half
cup to a full cup per per procedure, so some
women have to have it repeated, but it's the best
thing for long term volume increase without using a device
that's foreign to your body.
Speaker 3 (28:51):
Yeah, minimizing long term risks, that's what it's all about.
How important is the removal of the capsule during X
plant surgery and what are the risks of leaving it
behind for patients with BII or even cancer concerns.
Speaker 8 (29:04):
Well, you know that's a controversial topic. If you speak
with the American cytoplastic surgeons, they've done some studies which
they say, you know, a partial caps liket and your
partial removal is just as good as a full removal.
I think if you look at the studies with cancers
and cancers forming within the capsule, that just makes much
more sense to remove it and bypass any possibility of
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cancer development down the road. Also, I think personally there
is going to be evidence that comes out that the
capsule has something to do with the best endplanalist symptoms too.
Speaker 9 (29:39):
That's the anecdotal at this point.
Speaker 8 (29:40):
It's just what I see in my practices is full
removal equates more to symptom relief than partial removal.
Speaker 4 (29:47):
Now, how has social media influenced the rise of awareness
around BII and the demand for xplant surgery.
Speaker 8 (29:55):
It's been fantastic because it's an educational tool, and a
lot of these sites are women speaking to other women
and giving their experiences. It's bringing light to the fact
that this even exists because it's been kind of like
we talked about poop poo by the medical community for
a long time and brushed aside, and these patients have
not had a voice. They haven't been aware that their
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implants can be causing some of the debilitating symptoms they're
having within their life. So I think social media has
done a tremendous job in educating women in the public
in general that this could be a possibility.
Speaker 4 (30:29):
Now, lastly, I would like to know your thoughts.
Speaker 10 (30:31):
So this is somewhat a going to be a controversial topic,
but the new Motiva breast implant surgeons seem to be
pushing these to women who have previously suffered from breast
implant illness, specifically because they.
Speaker 3 (30:46):
Are recently FDA approved and extensive extensive research has been
occurring since twenty eighteen. They're considered to have a very
low risk of rupture, with manufacturers claiming that rupture rate
is less than like one percent do there Apparently there's
a unique design and high quality silicon and gel, making
them one of the more safer options on the market.
(31:07):
And they're also claiming that the implants come with a
quote unquote always confident warranty which covers replacement in case
of a manufacturing defect related rupture.
Speaker 7 (31:20):
Okay, what do you have to say to this?
Speaker 8 (31:22):
So, I know you're speaking about the Motiva implants and
they've been around a while. It's a company from Costa Rica.
They were recently fdapproved in the United States in November
of twenty twenty four. We've seen a lot of implants,
a lot of implant companies come and go. They redefine
their their gel, they make it more cohesive, it gets
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on the market and it's always the greatest new thing.
Speaker 9 (31:46):
So I think time will tell.
Speaker 8 (31:49):
It's being put out there as a smooth implant, but
really it's not quite a texture implant, but it's a
nanotexturing surface to the implant. I think, you know, when
when some of the other implants went on the market,
they were told to be you know, less less capsure
contractor less rupturey all these things in the past. So
I think in the future, my gas is they're going
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to prove to be very similar to the implants we
have on the market now, but time will tell.
Speaker 4 (32:16):
Time will tell.
Speaker 3 (32:17):
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Thank you so much.
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Sam's up next in the Going Deep segment, brought to
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expert and injector David Weir. With over twenty three years
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achieve their best look and slow down the aging process.
Personally trained by the esteemed doctor Rod Roorick, David brings
a wealth of knowledge and research on the latest cutting
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edge non invasive beauty procedures to.
Speaker 4 (33:57):
Help patients look as good as they feel.
Speaker 3 (33:59):
He's going to enjoin me today to chat all about
the world of injectables and how CO two Lift once
again is supporting both results and recovery. Welcome to the show, superstar.
Speaker 5 (34:08):
Thank you so much for having me.
Speaker 3 (34:10):
Excited to have you on so we're going to dive
right in straight to the point. You're an expert in
non invasive cosmetic procedures, particularly toxins and fillers, and interestingly enough,
in the past few years, there's been a noticeable shift
in patient preferences, with more people opting for non invasive
treatments over surgical options. In your expert opinion, what do
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you think is driving the growing demand for these non
invasive procedures and products.
Speaker 5 (34:35):
One is wanting to look natural, okay, because I think
there's a fear with surgery that you might not look natural,
So people are quite non invasive with less less severe
of a result or something like that. And then I
think my patients are also looking for a minimal downtime.
You know, they don't want the downtime of surgery, weeks
out of work, et cetera. I think with non invasive
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there's typically obviously lower risk, it's lower cost, and there's
been a huge advancement in technology, so there's a lot
of things that we could do now outside of the
operating room that twenty years ago we would never thought
or even imagine possible. I think, as far as non
invasive is concerned, a lot of my patients are looking
for a prementative aspect to aging. It's no longer corrective work.
(35:17):
It's more prejuvenation versus rejuvenation, and we can achieve that
in the non invasive aspect. And I think also with
the tool of social media and the education that's out
there something like your show, is that people are now
aware of the different aspects of non invasive medicine that
we can actually do to prejuvenate them or even rejuvenate
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them without having to go underneath the knife. And lastly,
I really think there's been a nice cultural shift that
there's no longer a stigma around having some of these
non invasive procedures done like they're were about ten years ago.
So people are more readily accessible and more readily available
to undergo some of these non invasive procedures to look
and fill their best you know, it's about a confidence, say,
(36:00):
and people are no longer as scared as they used
to be.
Speaker 3 (36:03):
Yeah, people are very educated, and you're right, You're one
hundred percent right. Social media brings a lot of information
at the forefront and we can dissect it as fast
as we want, right at the fingertips. And so that's
a little bit different than your traditional approaches where you
have to go to a website and look at them
before and afters and read patient testimonials.
Speaker 4 (36:23):
Now it's right there in your face. Right now, Let's
bring COEO two lift into the picture.
Speaker 3 (36:27):
As we know, carboxy therapy has actually been around since
the nineteen thirties injecting carbon dioxide gas underneath the skin,
right but CO two lift was able to remodel this
in a new delivery system as a non invasive topical
gel mask, which is what we're speaking to. And while
it has many monotherapy benefits, it can also be used
in combo therapies both pre and post procedure. David, what
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inspired you to pair CO two lift with injectables such
as biostimulators in your practice and how have you first
hand seen it improve a procedure's results.
Speaker 5 (36:57):
You know, I have been using a carboxye lift since
it's came to the market. I thought it was very
anecdotal in the beginning because we only used hyperbaric oxygen
in emergency situations, typically to promote wound healing if we
had a dusky flap or if we had tissue that
wasn't responding post surgery. The way that we wanted to.
(37:18):
So whenever I was introduced to this kind of novel
gel concept of being able to have like a tiny
little gel hyperbaric oxygen chamber that I could apply topically
in my practice was very interesting for me. Now, when
you think about biostimulators and how they work, they typically
work by stimulating collagen in different pathways. Rather it be
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an inflammatory pathway, rather it be a fibroblastic pathway. But
for those typical biostimulators to work, they have to be
in a environment that promotes for them to stimulate collagen.
So with carboxy Mask, you have this nice novel therapy
that you can apply topically to boost things like oxygen hydration,
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and these are things that you need when you're injecting biostimulators.
So I think of biostimulators, probably the two most popular
ones right now are going to be Sculpture and radis
that when I'm injecting these products, I think of them
as like fertilizer for my collagen. Okay, but where's the sun?
And you know, Moniker, who's a proponent obviously at the
(38:26):
CEO of Carboxy Mask, told me about this and I
started partnering it with my biostimulators, because I was like, Okay,
if I am fertilizing the yard, what am I doing
to give it the sun that it needs? And it
makes total sense to pair carboxy masks with our biostimulators
to increase oxygenation, increase the tissue moisture level, because that
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type of appropriate environment, that healthy environment, is going to
make our biostimulators just work better.
Speaker 7 (38:53):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (38:54):
I love what you just said. That's a great analogy
you put it.
Speaker 3 (38:57):
So you paired that very nicely with those we should
coin that we need sun.
Speaker 4 (39:03):
We need sun.
Speaker 3 (39:05):
A major priority of patients today is minimal downtime, at
least for me, and the shift towards non invasive treatments
is allowing that. And even following a non invasive treatment,
there are steps patients can take to continually reduce downtime
and improve the healing process. What are the common challenges
patients face during recovery from injectable treatments and in your experience,
(39:27):
how does COO two lift help mitigate them?
Speaker 5 (39:30):
So swelling and inflammation number one. Anything that we do,
typically non invasive, is going to have swelling and inflammation
and it should because sometimes that's swelling and inflammation is
what leads to the result. However, we are in an
error where patients are no longer patient. Okay, even me,
like I want everything Amazon Prime same day, Like I
don't want to wait five days for it to come,
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I want it the same day. So you know, when
we're doing injectables, some things that can happen are swelling
and inflammation. So you have carboxy therapy that speeds up
circulation and helps with lymphatic drainage, so boom, swelling and
inflammation is going to be decreased. Then you have bruising.
If you're putting a needle on someone's face, obviously there's
a chance of bruising. There's thousands of tiny little bloodvessels.
If you get a bruise, that might take seven to
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fourteen days to go away. So that's interfering with your
result right in the beginning. And patients don't like bruising.
So if I could put something on that's going to
help increase oxygenation, increase blood circulation, increase lymphatic drainage, it's
going to help mediate that bruising a lot more efficiently. Next,
Redness and Sensitivity post injection. We're using a lot of
different things like hyperchlorous acid, alcohol, chloroprep, different things to
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cleanse the skin, and that's could be very irritating. So
using something that can restore moisture balance to the skin
makes total sense to help with the microbiome of the
skin and make sure that the skin is no longer irritated.
So carboxy therapy makes sense there. And then of course
you have like dryness and dehydration, which of course carboxy
therapy is going to help increase some moisture. And then lastly,
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like I said earlier with the Amazon analogy, you know,
patients aren't patient. You know, we won't result the same day.
And what I find when I pair my carboxy therapy
with my injectables, that swelling goes away faster. The result
tends to look better faster. As opposed to saying, oh
wait a month, it'll look good in a month, I
could say, oh wait a few days and it's going
to look pretty good. You know. And patients nowadays they
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want that kind of instant gratification. So carboxy is really
cool that I can really pair it with a lot
of my procedures help speed up that process.
Speaker 4 (41:30):
Wow, you are scientist.
Speaker 3 (41:32):
Now I want to touch on one specific challenge some
patients face after receiving some fillers, vascular occlusion, which is
a rare but serious complication. What steps do you take
to prevent and manage this issue? And how can cooto
lift play a role in managing vascular occlusions in supporting
tissue recovery?
Speaker 5 (41:50):
Okay, Well, this is the giant warning label that I
have to talk about with every single injectable patient, and unfortunately,
patients have never even heard of the risks of some
of the injectables that we do. And when we inject
an implant into the skin, being hyeronic acid or even
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a biostimulator, the greatest potential risk is that we may
inject it into an artery and if we inject it
into an artery, it can actually stop the blood flow
to the area of where that artery goes okay, and
that can lead to eschemic tissue. Are the tissue dying? Okay?
Even though it is a low risk. I do have
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an entire tackle box in my refrigerator of everything proven
to fix these things. If you have cut off the
blood flow to an area, the best thing you can
do is re establish blood flow. Right, So what are
things that you can do to re establish blood flow?
Most of the time, if there are severe cases of
loss of blood flow, we send these patients to a
(42:54):
hyperbaric chamber to re establish blood flow. Now, in office,
I have a tiny little path that I can just
slap a hyperbaric chamber right over the area that has
loss of tissue perfusion. So this is very anecdotal, and
I know they're studying this in certain parts of the world.
I know doctor Walker in the UK is looking at
this specifically because he's part of the CMAC conference that
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looks at global adverse events and how to correct them. However,
if we can apply something that's going to increase oxygen
perfusion to the tissue if we have inadvertently affected arterial supply,
it makes total sense. So carboxy therapy is aning that
(43:36):
you can have in your rescue kit or your toolbox
as a way to increase patient safety in your clinic. Now,
these things are very rare, but they are a real possibility,
and there's one of it. It's like the crash card.
Like in the hospital, you have a crash card. You
don't ever want to use it, but you need to
have it just in case. And this is something that
I have in my crash card.
Speaker 3 (43:57):
Wow coo, to lift the never is to stop amazing me.
I mean, these endorsements and these testimonials are number one,
one hundred percent organic based on facts, reality and real
anecdotal information. Like you said, no one is paying you
to say this stuff. No one is forcing you to
say this stuff.
Speaker 4 (44:16):
But you explained it so nicely.
Speaker 3 (44:19):
And the fact that it's such a saving grace in
medical procedures is as a combo therapy, like you said,
monotherapy is so rewarding to know that you have a
product that is basically working wonders on many many different fronts,
which brings me to my next question. We have about
two minutes left and I want to get through this
one and one more so I know education is also
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of the utmost importance to you. You were trained under
the renowned plastic surgeon like we just mentioned, doctor Rod Roick,
and he has contributed on our show in the past.
Speaker 4 (44:48):
And as a.
Speaker 3 (44:49):
Self proclaimed research nerd, you are actively involved in ongoing
studies for the FDA and top aesthetic brands. So why
do you believe education is crucial in field for both
students and practicing professionals, especially in an air of such
rapid advancement.
Speaker 5 (45:06):
You know, because I think it is an era of
rapid inventsment. We are only as good as we were yesterday.
You know. I look at things that I was doing
twenty years ago and I laugh, I really laugh, because
I'm like, I would never do that again. I look
at things that I did ten years ago or five
years ago, and I'm like, oh my gosh, I can't
believe I did that. Now. As someone who treats my
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patients based on evidence based literature and based on what
the research and the science is telling us and directing
me to give my patient the best actual treatments to
get the best results, that is changing on a day
to day basis. You know, over the I could go
over I mean, if we had another half hour, I
could go over things that I learned in the past
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three months, new advancements in non invasive A setting medicine
that have kind of changed my practice. And this is
just in the past three months. So as an evidence
based practitioner, I have to make sure that I'm staying
on top of what the research is telling me to
make sure that I keep my patient safe and also
to make sure that I'm giving them the best treatments
to get the best outcomes.
Speaker 3 (46:06):
You said it, and with that, we are out of time.
My dear friend, It's been such a fun date. I
really enjoyed talking. I really enjoyed talking with you. I
thank you so much for your expertise, your knowledge. Truly,
you've not only does it show that you do your research,
but it really shows that you care about your patients
and patient outcome and that you put them first.
Speaker 4 (46:24):
And that's priceless.
Speaker 5 (46:26):
Thank you.
Speaker 4 (46:26):
That's a wrap, my dear friends.
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Hello everyone, welcome back to Polish Beauty. I'm your host,
Doctor daysiim to a board certified cosmetic surgeon and your
board certify OBGI. In let's talk about femin moisturizers. Yes,
we're talking about bulva vaginal moisturizers. This is something that's
incredibly important. This topic is something that's often overlook and
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not addressed often enough. So today I want to talk
about it. Okay, So this all products the feminine moisturizers
that deal with hydration of the intimate era. So it
addresses our health and it helps with your everyday life.
So I want to dismystify some of the conversations surrounding it,
(48:23):
and let's focus on what's available, all right, what's available
over the counter or in the market or in your
doctor's office. So we're going to break it down into
three different categories so that you would know which one
is good for you or which one you would like
to choose. The first one is non hormonovaginal moisturizers, the
free your products that contain holeronic acid. Yes, that's the
(48:48):
same holeronic acid that we use on the face for hydration.
And it also may contain you guess that botanicals like
alovera that is very good for shooting and it helps
with dryness, it helps with discomfort. Okay, it may also
contain glycerine. So it's really important when you're getting this
over the counterproducts that state that they're fending moisturizers, you
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want to look at the ingredients. Okay. The good thing
about this category is that it's simple to use. You
can use it every day, and there's really no long
term sequality. The only thing I caution you is to
make sure that there are no fragrances or any ingredients
that you may be reacted to, so you want to
pay attention to the label. Okay. Then your second category
(49:33):
is that vaginal lubricants. Although it's not technically a moisturizer,
but it does help with moisture during sexual intimacy. So
that's why I include that as its own category. And
when you're looking at vaginal lubricans, you know they're all based.
There's water based and then there's silicone based. Obviously, water
based is the one preferable that you should use during
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intimacy with a condom because it's more compatible you. Oil
based can custom and even some rupture to the condom,
so you have to be cautious with that. Silicon Is
it just a little bit messier to clean up afterwards, Okay,
but that's an option that's available. Then you have your
final third category, that's your vaginal moisturizers that are hormonal based.
(50:17):
This are prescription based and the ingredient in this are
too really dhea and estrogen, yes, the same estrogen you
hear about all the time. But fun fact, let me
ask you a question. Do you know how many estrogens
they are? The type of estrogens. If you set four,
you're correct. This particular estrogen we're talking about is estro
(50:38):
estro doll is technical term bioidentical hormon, meaning that your
body produces it, and that's what we use for this category.
And it comes in the form of tablet, It can
come in the form of cream, it can be a gel,
and you insert this intravationally. A woman that we need
vaginal estrogen is someone that is permedopause, menopause, breastfeeding, post chemotherapy,
(51:06):
or just going through life changes that affects their health
and they have hormonal deficiency. So this is prescription based
and you really need to consult the physicians so you
can get a prescription with this. Long term benefits of
estrogen is more than just moisturizer. Obviously helps with restoring
the tissue, yes, and also helps with elastic elasticity. Sy Basically,
(51:32):
it just helps with the overall appearance of the bulba
vaginal tissue. Besides just moisturizing it. So that's what you
really want to consult your physician so you can get
this comprehensive discussion with it. But for right now, just
to summarize, there are three broad categories that have mentioned
non hormonal vaginal lubricants and hormonal. Okay, so you have
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one of those three to pick for your feminine moisturizer needs.
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