June 27, 2024 • 34 mins
What if you could reclaim your intimate life and boost your sexual wellness with a simple yet groundbreaking treatment? Allie Edwards from Renova Med Spa Aesthetics joins us again to talk all about the power of the O-Shot, what this procedure is, and its benefits. From tackling midlife challenges like vaginal dryness and decreased pelvic floor strength to enhancing your sexual satisfaction, she offers invaluable insights into how this revolutionary procedure can significantly improve your quality of life. Whether you're facing current issues or considering proactive treatment, this episode is packed with essential information to help you prioritize your pleasure and well-being.
In this episode, we discuss:
1. The O-Shot: What it is and how it works.
2. Common challenges in women's sexual health.
3. Benefits and potential side effects of the treatment.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Welcome to the Don't Call Me Midlife podcast.
I'm Nicole and I'm Alex.
We're your coffee-addicted,wine-loving, Amazon-obsessed mom
squad.
Think of us as your new besties, but with a podcast.
And, just like you, we'renavigating the Google-defined
chaos of midlife while wranglinga pack of boys.
But here's the twist we're morethan just moms and wives.
We're on a mission to reclaimour identities beyond motherhood
(00:24):
, and we're bringing you alongfor the wild ride.
Now, we don't pretend to haveall the answers to life's
mysteries, but we're so good atlearning and laughing our way
through them.
So whether you're sipping fromyour trusty Stanley, indulging
in an oat milk latte fromStarbucks or raising a glass of
Whispering Angel, get ready tohang with us.
Together.
We'll keep it real, have somelaughs and remind you that this
(00:44):
crazy journey called life is oneadventure worth sharing.
Okay, ladies, we are going towelcome back Allie Edwards from
Renova Med Spa Aesthetics herein Castle Rock, Colorado.
She was on before, but we hadher come on again to talk about
(01:05):
the O-Shot, and it is going torock your world.
It's going to be I learned.
I learned so many things Like Iknow, Nicole, like a lot of our
body and emotions change duringthis age, but I didn't know
that particular area changes too.
So this is this is actuallyreally useful information, being
proactive ladies about ourbodies.
(01:26):
So you're this is actuallyreally useful information being
proactive ladies about ourbodies.
So you're going to reallyreally enjoy this.
Allie is a sweetheart, has somuch information.
Okay, Good morning ladies.
Hi.
Nicole, Hi, Good morning Allie.
Hi.
Nicole, Hi, Good morning Allie,Hi there, Hi.
Okay, Honestly, this episode isgoing to rock your world,
(01:49):
Literally.
Wow, that's aggressive, Nicole,for this morning Buckle up,
that's all I'm going to sayBuckle up, we're excited.
We love Allie.
She's been on here before.
We just had to have her backbecause she's one of our faves,
right?
Aw, thanks guys.
Yes, you give so much goodinformation and I think you give
(02:16):
so much more to our ladies thanwe realize, and I can't wait to
have our listeners learn allabout the O-Shot.
Yay, super excited.
So what's in your cup, Nicole?
I just have a bunch ofquestions and curiosity, Like oh
that's what's in my cupFiguratively today.
Figuratively today.
Yeah, I'm so curious.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
What about you, Alex?
What's?
Speaker 1 (02:40):
in your cup.
So this is sort of funny and Iknow it's not the healthiest
drink, but my family has beenobsessed with Dr Diet Pepper and
we have, I like, stocked myfridge for the summer.
I know it's not healthy at all,but it is like my favorite soda
if I am going to drink it andmy mother-in-law we got this
from my mother-in-law Cause whenyou go to her house it's the
funniest thing she has like thecases of soda in her fridge that
(03:04):
is like root beer, sprite, drPepper, cause she drinks a Dr
Pepper like every single day.
So it's soda, it's soda.
I don't care, enjoy, you canput whatever you want in your
cup.
What's in your cup, allie?
Speaker 2 (03:23):
I think I did this last time too.
I have, oh, and I came prepared.
This time I have the aminoenergy.
Ooh, so I drink it everymorning.
It's like my version of coffee,I guess, and it has like aminos
.
It's got a little caffeine,it's got a little rana, is that?
Speaker 1 (03:43):
grape flavored.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
This one is grape flavored.
It's my favorite flavor, Um,but I have a nice little um
Tumblr of it every morning, soyou don't drink coffee.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
I don't drink coffee.
Same question we're like waitwhat no coffee?
Okay, let's definitely linkthat in the show notes.
I mean, I could never stopcoffee, but I'm interested in an
extra little boost, Like achaser.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
I can definitely do a coffee chaser, so I don't drink
coffee in the afternoon too.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
My goodness, there you go.
Okay, love that, allie, are weready to dive into this?
Yes, yes, you start, nicoleTalk all about it.
Well, I don't really knowanything about it, but I do have
lots of questions.
So we have Allie, and she isthe owner of Renova Med Spa here
in Castle Rock and she hassomething called the O-Shot that
(04:37):
she offers in addition to otherservices, and we brought her on
here because this is a hottopic, literally and
figuratively, and so we justwant to educate everybody on
what the O-Shot actually is.
Gathering from the name, whenyou say O, I would think orgasm.
(04:58):
So I don't know if that's allit entails, but I would like to
hear a little bit more fromAllie on what exactly the O-Shot
is.
Is that the real name?
Speaker 2 (05:09):
Allie, it is the real name O-Shot, so there's a
doctor that coined it, theO-Shot.
There's the P-Shot, there'sother shots.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Wait, it's P for what P for the boys?
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Penis.
Oh okay, I didn't know that.
Huh, yeah, we don't do that, soyou can put that one out there.
Um, don't come to us, but, um,there is no test for that.
But we do, definitely do the Oshop and it was honestly a few
years ago that we decided tobring it on, because I realized
how, as women and midlife, westart going through changes, and
(05:57):
I think for a long time, peoplejust chalked it up as normal,
like, we have increased vaginaldryness, we have decreased
pelvic floor strength, um, sowe're leaking, we're wearing
pads when we work out all ofthese things, and and then sex
becomes more of a chore and it'snot as enjoyable and so like
(06:23):
decreased libido, but also likeI'm not getting orgasms or
nothing happens anymore, and soand again, I think people just
chalked it up to hey, this is anormal thing and I guess this is
how it's going to be the restof my life.
And with the OSHA, I found thatthat's not the case.
(06:44):
You can continue to enjoyhaving sex.
You can revitalize that area ofyour body to do what it used to
do, and so I think I'll go tothat like how we do it.
Go to that like how we do it.
What we do with the Oshot isthat we use PRP from your body,
(07:10):
your blood, which isplatelet-rich plasma.
So we draw your blood, we spinit and we get the plasma the
platelets and growth factorsfrom your blood and inject it
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into the clitoral hood and thevaginal wall.
That sounds painful, that soundsscary.
I get it.
I totally and honestly.
Until you do it, it will soundscary, but I don't know that
there has been a person that'scome in that's like, oh my gosh,
(07:51):
that was the worst experienceever.
I'm never going to do it again.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
We numb the crap out of that area and honestly so.
We have a topical numbing.
Is it a topical or is itanother?
Speaker 2 (08:02):
shot, okay, is it a topical or is it another shot?
Okay, so we do a topical,numbing, um, and we also do, uh,
um, another shot.
So, while your blood isspinning, um, you're numbing and
, interestingly enough, that's ahighly vascular area and it
numbs fairly quickly.
And so, um, because of that,usually people are numb enough
(08:26):
with the topical.
We also do a little shot rightbefore, just so that it's a
little extra numb.
But, honestly, by the timewe're done, people are like wait
, is that it?
We're done, you did it.
And so, and we do everything tomake sure that you're the most
comfortable that you can be Ithink the most uncomfortable is
(08:49):
just that area and havingsomebody in that area.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
But yeah, but we've all had babies.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
I think that's probably fine, I was going to
say like, as a woman, I thinkyou've had your pap smears,
you've had your IUDs, you've hadyour babies, all of the things.
There's people that's beenthere, you know, and so and
we're all nurses, nursepractitioners, there at our
clinic, and I mean I've seenthousands of vaginas we trust
(09:20):
you, girl.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
Can we backtrack one one, one step, alia?
So what?
What is the most common sort ofproblem?
I would say that women come toyou and I'm curious the age
range is it?
Is it midlife, is it?
And do we see these problemsthat you talked about in the
beginning?
Some of those, it sounds like,could also be due to, like us,
having babies too, right.
(09:41):
And then also, I actuallydidn't realize some of these I
don't want to say problems orthings that happened to our body
were because of age.
Right, I like how you said wejust sort of normalized it,
right.
But knowing there's probably alistener lady out there that's
like, oh, I didn't know that waspart of, like, the aging
process per se.
(10:01):
Right, but it is, and that'swhy we wanted to do this episode
, letting people know that thiscan happen but it doesn't have
to happen, right?
So so what, what is like theage range and what is the most
common like situation thatpeople come to you Cause I'm
sure you have to ask that, right, like, what are they dealing
(10:21):
with?
Speaker 2 (10:21):
No, absolutely, um, honestly, it's more toward um.
So I have two groups.
I have postpartum, so you knowyounger moms that there's been a
lot of trauma down there andgoing on that decreased
(10:42):
sensation, um, decreasedstimulation.
So there's that, and I will saythose young moms, the results
for them are like off the charts.
Just because they're young,they have increased collagen,
their tissue is still like youngand vital, all of those things.
My second group are myperimenopausal, postmenopausal
(11:06):
women, right, um, that if youthink of the things that you're
seeing, like on your face, onyour skin, um, all of the things
, those are aging, so that areais also aging, so the tissue,
(11:26):
well, no one's looking at theirhoo-hahs, you know, all the time
be like, oh, look at thatsagging a little more, like no
one sees that.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
And my mom likes to fill me in on things that will
happen to me.
So your mom, my mom does so Ihave no idea about this Right.
She didn't even tell me toshave my legs, guys, so I had no
clue.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
So yes, thank you.
Thanks, Andrea.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
I got you, alex, you got me, okay, okay, so this is
so interesting.
So going back to the midlifeladies in perimenopause you see
just physical changes, right.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
Yes, and a lot of them.
So if you think of tissuelaxity, so like we all start
getting gels and things likethat, tissue laxity is happening
in your vaginal wall outside,like on your labia, all of those
things things start justchanging a little bit and due to
hormones and things like that,you have increased dryness in
(12:26):
that area and because there'slaxity, there's a decrease in um
, like wall strength, yourpelvic wall strength.
So you have more incontinence.
You have um.
The dryness is painful, just ingeneral, but not even to
mention like insects, likethat's very painful.
(12:48):
And so like there's no amount oflube.
You can ask these ladies, Ijust it hurts your heart because
they're like there's no amountof like, just lube that you can
use that can help, and it hurts.
It's like the Sahara down thereand it just sounds
uncomfortable, even if you'rejust sitting there.
(13:08):
Just normal, yeah, just normally.
I think it hurts.
And then add that on to yourlike, like, to your like.
Sexual wellness is hurts, right, does hurt, it does, but so
those kind of things, and if youhelp with like tissue
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regeneration, so that's whatplatelet-rich plasma does, it
goes in and it boosts, it givesyou like like a nice little I, I
don't know, like a, not a shock.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
Shock is a bad word to use for that area, but yeah,
well, maybe it could be good.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
Like it does.
It stimulates your nerves.
It stimulates your tissue toregenerate and become tighter.
It helps like nine out of 10.
Women says it helps so muchwith the dryness down there.
And especially like right offthe bat some of them.
It takes a few times, like forthe tissue regeneration and the
(14:11):
nerve stimulation, like two orthree times doing the O-Shot,
but the vaginal dryness likefirst time, just awesome.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
Does it?
Does it change physiologically,like when we talk about laxity?
Does it just kind of liketighten things up?
Does it go from like for theolder ladies, like you know,
from a U back to a V like?
Does it like lift it a little,or?
Speaker 2 (14:38):
okay, yeah, no, that's a that's a great question
.
No, it does it.
Um, in the sense.
So the two places that weinject it that I told you about,
so the clitoral hood, so togive that those nerve
stimulation in the um, in theclitoris, and then where we go
in the vaginal wall, like nearthe g-spot, they're intended for
(14:58):
like that nerve stimulation,but because it goes near that
vaginal wall, like near the Gspot, they're intended for like
that nerve stimulation, butbecause it goes near that
vaginal wall, it does tighten upthat tissue in there.
We're not doing anything likeexternally, so like we do have
other things that we can do forthat and we have machines, and
so we do like to incorporate ourOshot with some of our other
services to get all of thosethings like holistically taken
(15:23):
care of yeah I.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
I had a friend that did um what's it called vaginal
labial labial labial wait whatis that?
Speaker 2 (15:34):
what is that?
That's when you have littlefloppy labia and then they
tighten it up.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
Oh, it says like a lip lift, it's like a facelift.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
It's a facelift for your vagina.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
Poor Alex is dying.
Well, I am so glad that that'sout there for people.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
I think you'd be surprised how many people get it
Wow.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
What?
The lip lift or labiaplasty?
Yeah, labiaplasty, yeah, Ithink.
I don't know, it's probably.
Well, I think, if you havechildren like that, it's all
exacerbated, right, if it?
Makes you feel better.
do it right Like we're, we're atthe point where if you're going
to get Botox, if you're goingto if you believe in it or not,
(16:20):
it doesn't you know if it'sgoing to make you feel better
and more confident to have thatarea nice and tight, then do
that Right, because sex issomething that is, at our age,
like really important to connectwith our husbands on right,
this is a I feel like we are ata stage where we're so busy Our
(16:44):
kids are like almost alwaysaround and Nicole and I have
talked about this on otherepisodes right, to have that
connection is the one thing thatwe do have with no one else in
this world.
Right, hopefully, um is is withour husbands.
So I think, making sure thatyou really really have a healthy
sex life, whatever that lookslike for any of you, you really
it is really important to have ahealthy relationship, I believe
.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
But I agree important to have a healthy relationship,
I believe.
But I agree and I think that itshouldn't just be, you know,
one sided, because I think thatas women, we get to a point, and
I think that that's what'shappened historically.
Is that like, well, it's justgoing to suck from now on and
I'm just going to do it becauseI love my husband and I am a
(17:19):
good partner and I want to makehim happy, and but that's not
the case.
It doesn't have to be like that.
And I think that as women, webecome unselfish and we've
always been unselfish, like withour children and our families
and all of this stuff and thenyou just feel like, well, and to
this part of my life, that thisis where it is now, like just
have to suck it up.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
No that's not okay, that's not okay.
Women can enjoy sex too.
It is okay, it's okay.
We deserve it too.
Everyone deserves it, you, you,you deserve to have that
intimacy with your husband,right, um?
So tell us a little bit.
Do you know anyone, likepersonally, who's gotten this
shot?
Or do you get feedback, like,do you have surveys from your,
(18:04):
from your clients, or what doyou do?
Speaker 2 (18:13):
Yes.
So, survey, I don't know howwas your weekend?
Um, no, honestly, I um we do.
We follow up with our umclients to make sure that, hey,
how's everything going?
Do you, did you get what youexpected?
That kind of a thing I will sayI myself have had it and,
(18:34):
honestly, the first time that Igot it was really more, for I
was trying to see if it wouldhelp strengthen my pelvic floor.
I have like the whole peezingissue where I sneeze and I pee,
um and yeah, but um and so I wasthinking, oh, maybe it'll help
more for that.
So the first time I did it,honestly I can say it was kind
(18:56):
of meh, like maybe it helpedwith my pelvic floor strength,
maybe it didn't.
I didn't really see any changesexually.
Um, then I did it.
So this is why we recommendthree um so that it can get to
(19:21):
its optimal.
So the second time I did it, Iand I never had any issues
having an orgasm, but I couldn'tstop.
My husband was long done, canyou repeat that?
It didn't stop and I I you knowlike I've had multiple before
(19:46):
but I I almost passed out.
I was like just dying.
And my husband was long doneand I was like just be quiet.
He is so proud of himselfbecause he's thinking like, yeah
, I got, you know I did this andI'm like you're like, you know
(20:07):
my industry right.
I was like oh my gosh, I'mgonna die like I, I don't know,
and everyone.
I pray that everyone feelssomething like that sometime in
their life.
But honestly, it went from likeoh, I was probably like a good
you know seven or whatever, tolike 2020.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
So is that like?
Every time, every time, likedoes the shot wear off?
Or like what.
How does it work like that?
How do you space about?
Speaker 2 (20:38):
So, um, honestly, for a long time it was like how do
you space about so?
Um, honestly, for a long timeit was like that was a constant,
and then I saw it kind oftrickled down, not necessarily
like um, it wasn't like itdidn't wear off necessarily, but
I think we talked about thislike it just plateaued like oh,
(21:00):
you know, we're still good, yeah, it wasn't as intense, um, so,
I'm definitely like a 18 yearold orgasm to maybe like a 32
year old orgasm.
I would just say there you go,um, but honestly I don't know, a
32, like at 32, I don't knowthat I was enjoying it as much
(21:23):
as I am now Like, yeah, I'm afan, yeah, um but honestly I
think I would do it again.
Yeah, so for me, after thatsecond time, I, for me I reached
that optimal result, so I don'tfeel like I needed a third one
right away.
Um, it's been about over a yearnow and I feel like I would be
(21:47):
up for another one.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
Okay, but between the first and second.
Yeah, and is there like a is itkind of like Botox, where
you're just like you start tonotice, or is there a
recommended time?
Speaker 2 (22:01):
Yeah, no, um.
So usually after the once youhit like your optimal, like
where you want to be, um, thenit's yearly, so, like we
recommend, just like a yearlymaintenance.
But honestly, sometimes peopleare like, oh, after six months I
need a little bit of a boost,that kind of a thing.
And I mean, like what you weresaying, just like Botox it does.
(22:24):
If you never do it again,that's fine, it's not going to
hurt anything, it's not ifanything it helped, um, put you
that much further along, likewith in terms of tissue
regeneration, um, but if youkeep it up, good for you.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
Are there any?
Speaker 1 (22:47):
are there any side effects of taking it?
Like anything, like you can'thave sex for a certain amount of
time or things like that thatyou would feel like that
naturally would happen to yourbody.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
Um.
So downtime wise, like rightafter um, there actually is no
downtime.
I always tell the ladies thatyou know, if you want me to tell
you there's downtime, I'm happyto give you a hall pass, like
just to tell you it's a week Idon't, one week I can't, but um,
there really isn't.
And a lot of people that wehave done because right after
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you do it you have thatinflammation and there's
actually increased sensation forthose, like first two couple of
weeks, um, but there's nodowntime.
You could have a little bit ofspotting again, more from the
injection site, not becauseyou're spotting vaginally, like
you should not have any vaginalbleeding.
(23:42):
The nice thing about this isit's all your own stuff, so
we're not injecting anythingchemical, we're not injecting
anything that's not from yourown body, and the beauty of this
is is that the human body is aphenomenal thing and we're just
helping stimulate it to do whatit does best and so really like
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the effects of it.
You can't, you really can't gowrong.
Um, there's always a risk ofinfection whenever you poke a
needle into anything.
Um, a needle into anything, um,but very, very minimal.
There literally is we do twopokes, that's it.
(24:33):
Um, we obviously clean verywell, but um it just I.
There's very little sideeffects with that.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
This sounds good.
I think, nicole, we should signup.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
We should be your testers and let everybody know
what we think.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
What we think.
I mean I think you knoweveryone, probably at this age,
whether it's you know, youprobably have something going on
, I would assume, right At theend of forties, right, so it
could help, it could help anyone.
Well, I have a question.
I am not experiencing a lot ofnegative things down there yet,
(25:05):
but would this be a goodpreemptive?
Let's start now and kind ofjust, I mean I'm 47.
I mean, obviously there'schanges going on, but nothing's
impacting me where I feel like Ineed.
I need to do something.
I don't feel like myself.
Or do you wait?
Like is there?
(25:26):
No, would you recommend?
Speaker 2 (25:28):
one over the other.
I, I, I like I don't think thata lot of people think that way
because we we're not necessarilythinking about that, unless
there's something wrong aboutthat, unless there's something
wrong.
But I definitely think thatlong-term, if you're doing
things to help again regeneratetissue down there and help
(25:50):
keeping it nice and tight, thatit will help you more long-term.
So, absolutely Likepreventatively doing something,
you don't have to do it as often.
I don't think I would do, youknow, like once every other year
kind of a thing, and just seehow it goes.
But um, I think that long-termyou'll be better off.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
Okay, so being proactive is good, not reactive,
correct?
We like to be proactive inmidlife right, yes.
Yes, that is like botox.
I mean, it is there, you goright and weight training and
eating healthy and taking, youknow, fish oil the makeup will
be better ali how much does thishow?
Much does I mean that yourplace?
(26:32):
Just in general, if someone wasgonna go to you in colorado or
find another place, how much isthis?
Speaker 2 (26:39):
so, um, they at Renovo we charge it's nine, 50
per shot.
Um, we do have a package thatwhen you like buy three, you get
.
Um, I want to say it's like 10%off of the whole thing.
So even if you don't use so,let's say you have your first
(26:59):
one and you're like boom,optimal, great, you can bank
those other two for like a yearlater or another year later.
So but I do say that once youwere a little bit older, it
takes a little bit more tostimulate.
When I say a little bit older,I'm saying like probably
post-menopausal.
(27:20):
So I'm talking about our like 55plus women um that it just
takes a little bit more tostimulate that tissue and to
stimulate collagen.
So I do think three is optimal.
Um, but you will start seeingsomething after, even after the
first.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
So if someone, if someone who doesn't live in
Colorado, if they're interestedin getting one, how do you make
sure it's like a reputable place?
You know, cause I'm sure if youlooked up OSHA in Boston
there's probably a lot of peoplejust like who give Botox or any
of those.
We're just using those asexamples.
But how, how would someone knowto make sure the place was
legit if we couldn't come to you?
Speaker 2 (27:59):
Yeah, I um honestly doing research, like looking at
their website, making surethey're credentialed in the
sense that they are a medicalprofessional, like um, so it
needs to be a doctor, a PA, anurse practitioner, somebody and
somebody that has been trainedappropriately.
And so there's um, and honestlyI would ask so, like when
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making an appointment and doingthat, say, hey, so who is
performing the O shot and howwere they trained?
Like what, what's theirtraining behind it?
So honestly, I would just Iwould ask the clinic but,
looking on their website, shouldhave a lot of information on it
and you want to know that theycan speak to it too.
You know, like you want to seethat they have testimonials of
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people that have had it.
But that's a really greatquestion because you shouldn't
just let anyone miss.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
Right, no like anything.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
Don't go straight for the.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
Groupon right.
Don't do not go for the Groupon.
Oh my God, Do they still makeGroupons Like I think they?
Speaker 2 (29:01):
do.
Oh my God, that was like a hugething in the twenties.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
Okay, I love that.
How do we find you, allie?
What's your?
What's your?
Speaker 2 (29:08):
Instagram, Um at Renova, underscore med, Um and
yeah, there's a lot ofinformation there too.
I think we have like on our umhighlights.
There's a.
There's a lot of testimonialsabout the OSHA and women's
health, regeneration and women'swellness, so we have a whole
(29:30):
lot of other things that we dofor women's wellness that helps
out with that, but definitelythe OSHA is a popular one.
We do a lot of it.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
Oh, you're so helpful .
Yeah, check out her Instagram,just because she has lots of,
lots of good information onthere about skincare and
healthcare and sort of all thatstuff.
You guys sort of do it all.
I know, when I was out inColorado with Nicole, I met you
in person and we, we, we went toyour place.
So it is, it is a special placewith all those ladies that are
really like so nice.
So, yes, nicole wants to work.
(30:13):
So, nicole, what time is it?
It's my favorite time.
It is unsolicited advice time.
Okay, so we've given lots ofadvice, but, nicole, what would
(30:35):
be sort of like your one littlebit of advice today?
Oh, my goodness, oh geez, alex,just I was not prepared to give
unsolicited advice.
Besides, get the OSHA, I mean,that's obviously advice.
Speaker 2 (30:46):
Like, you deserve it ladies.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
Yes, um, I guess lean in your curiosity because, um,
I have heard of the OSHA.
When I go to Allie's clinic, Isee, you know information out
there and I just have beenthinking like, oh it's, I'm not
there yet, I don't need it.
But you know, in asking Allie,she said it's a good idea to
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potentially think of this as ahow did you word it?
Like proactive type proactive.
Yes, be proactive, be proactive,be curious.
Okay, get curious.
I like that, nicole, good job.
(31:32):
How about you?
What's your unsolicited advice,alex?
I would say, you know, leaninto your intimate relationship,
right Like?
Talk to your partner about yoursex life and how do they
envision it.
How do you envision it?
Right Cause it's a journey aswell, like what we're, what
we're doing, or yourexpectations in our twenties,
thirties, forties, fifties aredifferent.
So, you know, I view it as oneof the most sacred things of a
marriage and I think it's it'sreally important to do.
(31:55):
Um, so I think I think, justbringing up the topic maybe it's
not comfortable for you or, youknow, maybe your spouse is
really excited about talkingabout it, I don't know.
Just keep on revisiting it,right Cause, cause it can be
really fun, and maybe you needto add some spice and fun to it
too.
Just saying, turn up, turn upthat dial, turn it up, turn it
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up.
Speaker 2 (32:17):
Men, um, when you know we have a lot of people
that are like, oh, don't tell myhusband I did this procedure,
like how much it was.
There has not been one husbandthat has disagreed or like, oh,
you want the OSHA, here you go,have at it.
They are very accommodating forthat Right.
Speaker 1 (32:37):
It's a win-win for both people.
I think you know.
Speaker 2 (32:39):
Yes, yeah, a hundred percent.
Aw, people, I think you knowyes, yeah, a hundred percent.
So my unsolicited advice is beunapologetically selfish.
Sometimes I think that, umagain, as women, we give so much
of ourselves and then we justthink that that's part of our
nature and then's what we do,that we get to enjoy that part
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of our life too.
And, like I like how you said,you know, just communicate with
your partner, and because thingschange and your desires change,
the things that you wantchanges and they should be a
part of that just as much as you.
And so I think just beingunapologetically selfish a
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little bit is okay.
Oh, I love you, thanks.
Speaker 1 (33:31):
I love you too.
Speaker 2 (33:32):
I love you guys, I love you all.
Speaker 1 (33:34):
There's like a love fest.
Oh my gosh.
Thank you, allie.
We're going to have you on forpart three.
I think we got to talk to youmore about lots of stuff, so
thank you so much for your time.
Thank you, allie, and we'lltalk to you guys soon.
Bye, bye-bye, and that's a wrapfor today's episode of Don't
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Okay, ladies, we are going towelcome back Allie Edwards from
Renova Med Spa Aesthetics herein Castle Rock, Colorado.
She was on before, but we hadher come on again to talk about
(01:05):
the O-Shot, and it is going torock your world.
It's going to be I learned.
I learned so many things Like Iknow, Nicole, like a lot of our
body and emotions change duringthis age, but I didn't know
that particular area changes too.
So this is this is actuallyreally useful information, being
proactive ladies about ourbodies.
(01:26):
So you're this is actuallyreally useful information being
proactive ladies about ourbodies.
So you're going to reallyreally enjoy this.
Allie is a sweetheart, has somuch information.
Okay, Good morning ladies.
Hi.
Nicole, Hi, Good morning Allie.
Hi.
Nicole, Hi, Good morning Allie,Hi there, Hi.
Okay, Honestly, this episode isgoing to rock your world,
(01:49):
Literally.
Wow, that's aggressive, Nicole,for this morning Buckle up,
that's all I'm going to sayBuckle up, we're excited.
We love Allie.
She's been on here before.
We just had to have her backbecause she's one of our faves,
right?
Aw, thanks guys.
Yes, you give so much goodinformation and I think you give
(02:16):
so much more to our ladies thanwe realize, and I can't wait to
have our listeners learn allabout the O-Shot.
Yay, super excited.
So what's in your cup, Nicole?
I just have a bunch ofquestions and curiosity, Like oh
that's what's in my cupFiguratively today.
Figuratively today.
Yeah, I'm so curious.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
What about you, Alex?
What's?
Speaker 1 (02:40):
in your cup.
So this is sort of funny and Iknow it's not the healthiest
drink, but my family has beenobsessed with Dr Diet Pepper and
we have, I like, stocked myfridge for the summer.
I know it's not healthy at all,but it is like my favorite soda
if I am going to drink it andmy mother-in-law we got this
from my mother-in-law Cause whenyou go to her house it's the
funniest thing she has like thecases of soda in her fridge that
(03:04):
is like root beer, sprite, drPepper, cause she drinks a Dr
Pepper like every single day.
So it's soda, it's soda.
I don't care, enjoy, you canput whatever you want in your
cup.
What's in your cup, allie?
Speaker 2 (03:23):
I think I did this last time too.
I have, oh, and I came prepared.
This time I have the aminoenergy.
Ooh, so I drink it everymorning.
It's like my version of coffee,I guess, and it has like aminos
.
It's got a little caffeine,it's got a little rana, is that?
Speaker 1 (03:43):
grape flavored.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
This one is grape flavored.
It's my favorite flavor, Um,but I have a nice little um
Tumblr of it every morning, soyou don't drink coffee.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
I don't drink coffee.
Same question we're like waitwhat no coffee?
Okay, let's definitely linkthat in the show notes.
I mean, I could never stopcoffee, but I'm interested in an
extra little boost, Like achaser.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
I can definitely do a coffee chaser, so I don't drink
coffee in the afternoon too.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
My goodness, there you go.
Okay, love that, allie, are weready to dive into this?
Yes, yes, you start, nicoleTalk all about it.
Well, I don't really knowanything about it, but I do have
lots of questions.
So we have Allie, and she isthe owner of Renova Med Spa here
in Castle Rock and she hassomething called the O-Shot that
(04:37):
she offers in addition to otherservices, and we brought her on
here because this is a hottopic, literally and
figuratively, and so we justwant to educate everybody on
what the O-Shot actually is.
Gathering from the name, whenyou say O, I would think orgasm.
(04:58):
So I don't know if that's allit entails, but I would like to
hear a little bit more fromAllie on what exactly the O-Shot
is.
Is that the real name?
Speaker 2 (05:09):
Allie, it is the real name O-Shot, so there's a
doctor that coined it, theO-Shot.
There's the P-Shot, there'sother shots.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Wait, it's P for what P for the boys?
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Penis.
Oh okay, I didn't know that.
Huh, yeah, we don't do that, soyou can put that one out there.
Um, don't come to us, but, um,there is no test for that.
But we do, definitely do the Oshop and it was honestly a few
years ago that we decided tobring it on, because I realized
how, as women and midlife, westart going through changes, and
(05:57):
I think for a long time, peoplejust chalked it up as normal,
like, we have increased vaginaldryness, we have decreased
pelvic floor strength, um, sowe're leaking, we're wearing
pads when we work out all ofthese things, and and then sex
becomes more of a chore and it'snot as enjoyable and so like
(06:23):
decreased libido, but also likeI'm not getting orgasms or
nothing happens anymore, and soand again, I think people just
chalked it up to hey, this is anormal thing and I guess this is
how it's going to be the restof my life.
And with the OSHA, I found thatthat's not the case.
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You can continue to enjoyhaving sex.
You can revitalize that area ofyour body to do what it used to
do, and so I think I'll go tothat like how we do it.
Go to that like how we do it.
What we do with the Oshot isthat we use PRP from your body,
(07:10):
your blood, which isplatelet-rich plasma.
So we draw your blood, we spinit and we get the plasma the
platelets and growth factorsfrom your blood and inject it
(07:31):
into the clitoral hood and thevaginal wall.
That sounds painful, that soundsscary.
I get it.
I totally and honestly.
Until you do it, it will soundscary, but I don't know that
there has been a person that'scome in that's like, oh my gosh,
(07:51):
that was the worst experienceever.
I'm never going to do it again.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
We numb the crap out of that area and honestly so.
We have a topical numbing.
Is it a topical or is itanother?
Speaker 2 (08:02):
shot, okay, is it a topical or is it another shot?
Okay, so we do a topical,numbing, um, and we also do, uh,
um, another shot.
So, while your blood isspinning, um, you're numbing and
, interestingly enough, that's ahighly vascular area and it
numbs fairly quickly.
And so, um, because of that,usually people are numb enough
(08:26):
with the topical.
We also do a little shot rightbefore, just so that it's a
little extra numb.
But, honestly, by the timewe're done, people are like wait
, is that it?
We're done, you did it.
And so, and we do everything tomake sure that you're the most
comfortable that you can be Ithink the most uncomfortable is
(08:49):
just that area and havingsomebody in that area.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
But yeah, but we've all had babies.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
I think that's probably fine, I was going to
say like, as a woman, I thinkyou've had your pap smears,
you've had your IUDs, you've hadyour babies, all of the things.
There's people that's beenthere, you know, and so and
we're all nurses, nursepractitioners, there at our
clinic, and I mean I've seenthousands of vaginas we trust
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you, girl.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
Can we backtrack one one, one step, alia?
So what?
What is the most common sort ofproblem?
I would say that women come toyou and I'm curious the age
range is it?
Is it midlife, is it?
And do we see these problemsthat you talked about in the
beginning?
Some of those, it sounds like,could also be due to, like us,
having babies too, right.
(09:41):
And then also, I actuallydidn't realize some of these I
don't want to say problems orthings that happened to our body
were because of age.
Right, I like how you said wejust sort of normalized it,
right.
But knowing there's probably alistener lady out there that's
like, oh, I didn't know that waspart of, like, the aging
process per se.
(10:01):
Right, but it is, and that'swhy we wanted to do this episode
, letting people know that thiscan happen but it doesn't have
to happen, right?
So so what, what is like theage range and what is the most
common like situation thatpeople come to you Cause I'm
sure you have to ask that, right, like, what are they dealing
(10:21):
with?
Speaker 2 (10:21):
No, absolutely, um, honestly, it's more toward um.
So I have two groups.
I have postpartum, so you knowyounger moms that there's been a
lot of trauma down there andgoing on that decreased
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sensation, um, decreasedstimulation.
So there's that, and I will saythose young moms, the results
for them are like off the charts.
Just because they're young,they have increased collagen,
their tissue is still like youngand vital, all of those things.
My second group are myperimenopausal, postmenopausal
(11:06):
women, right, um, that if youthink of the things that you're
seeing, like on your face, onyour skin, um, all of the things
, those are aging, so that areais also aging, so the tissue,
(11:26):
well, no one's looking at theirhoo-hahs, you know, all the time
be like, oh, look at thatsagging a little more, like no
one sees that.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
And my mom likes to fill me in on things that will
happen to me.
So your mom, my mom does so Ihave no idea about this Right.
She didn't even tell me toshave my legs, guys, so I had no
clue.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
So yes, thank you.
Thanks, Andrea.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
I got you, alex, you got me, okay, okay, so this is
so interesting.
So going back to the midlifeladies in perimenopause you see
just physical changes, right.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
Yes, and a lot of them.
So if you think of tissuelaxity, so like we all start
getting gels and things likethat, tissue laxity is happening
in your vaginal wall outside,like on your labia, all of those
things things start justchanging a little bit and due to
hormones and things like that,you have increased dryness in
(12:26):
that area and because there'slaxity, there's a decrease in um
, like wall strength, yourpelvic wall strength.
So you have more incontinence.
You have um.
The dryness is painful, just ingeneral, but not even to
mention like insects, likethat's very painful.
(12:48):
And so like there's no amount oflube.
You can ask these ladies, Ijust it hurts your heart because
they're like there's no amountof like, just lube that you can
use that can help, and it hurts.
It's like the Sahara down thereand it just sounds
uncomfortable, even if you'rejust sitting there.
(13:08):
Just normal, yeah, just normally.
I think it hurts.
And then add that on to yourlike, like, to your like.
Sexual wellness is hurts, right, does hurt, it does, but so
those kind of things, and if youhelp with like tissue
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regeneration, so that's whatplatelet-rich plasma does, it
goes in and it boosts, it givesyou like like a nice little I, I
don't know, like a, not a shock.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
Shock is a bad word to use for that area, but yeah,
well, maybe it could be good.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
Like it does.
It stimulates your nerves.
It stimulates your tissue toregenerate and become tighter.
It helps like nine out of 10.
Women says it helps so muchwith the dryness down there.
And especially like right offthe bat some of them.
It takes a few times, like forthe tissue regeneration and the
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nerve stimulation, like two orthree times doing the O-Shot,
but the vaginal dryness likefirst time, just awesome.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
Does it?
Does it change physiologically,like when we talk about laxity?
Does it just kind of liketighten things up?
Does it go from like for theolder ladies, like you know,
from a U back to a V like?
Does it like lift it a little,or?
Speaker 2 (14:38):
okay, yeah, no, that's a that's a great question
.
No, it does it.
Um, in the sense.
So the two places that weinject it that I told you about,
so the clitoral hood, so togive that those nerve
stimulation in the um, in theclitoris, and then where we go
in the vaginal wall, like nearthe g-spot, they're intended for
(14:58):
like that nerve stimulation,but because it goes near that
vaginal wall, like near the Gspot, they're intended for like
that nerve stimulation, butbecause it goes near that
vaginal wall, it does tighten upthat tissue in there.
We're not doing anything likeexternally, so like we do have
other things that we can do forthat and we have machines, and
so we do like to incorporate ourOshot with some of our other
services to get all of thosethings like holistically taken
(15:23):
care of yeah I.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
I had a friend that did um what's it called vaginal
labial labial labial wait whatis that?
Speaker 2 (15:34):
what is that?
That's when you have littlefloppy labia and then they
tighten it up.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
Oh, it says like a lip lift, it's like a facelift.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
It's a facelift for your vagina.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
Poor Alex is dying.
Well, I am so glad that that'sout there for people.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
I think you'd be surprised how many people get it
Wow.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
What?
The lip lift or labiaplasty?
Yeah, labiaplasty, yeah, Ithink.
I don't know, it's probably.
Well, I think, if you havechildren like that, it's all
exacerbated, right, if it?
Makes you feel better.
do it right Like we're, we're atthe point where if you're going
to get Botox, if you're goingto if you believe in it or not,
(16:20):
it doesn't you know if it'sgoing to make you feel better
and more confident to have thatarea nice and tight, then do
that Right, because sex issomething that is, at our age,
like really important to connectwith our husbands on right,
this is a I feel like we are ata stage where we're so busy Our
(16:44):
kids are like almost alwaysaround and Nicole and I have
talked about this on otherepisodes right, to have that
connection is the one thing thatwe do have with no one else in
this world.
Right, hopefully, um is is withour husbands.
So I think, making sure thatyou really really have a healthy
sex life, whatever that lookslike for any of you, you really
it is really important to have ahealthy relationship, I believe
.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
But I agree important to have a healthy relationship,
I believe.
But I agree and I think that itshouldn't just be, you know,
one sided, because I think thatas women, we get to a point, and
I think that that's what'shappened historically.
Is that like, well, it's justgoing to suck from now on and
I'm just going to do it becauseI love my husband and I am a
(17:19):
good partner and I want to makehim happy, and but that's not
the case.
It doesn't have to be like that.
And I think that as women, webecome unselfish and we've
always been unselfish, like withour children and our families
and all of this stuff and thenyou just feel like, well, and to
this part of my life, that thisis where it is now, like just
have to suck it up.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
No that's not okay, that's not okay.
Women can enjoy sex too.
It is okay, it's okay.
We deserve it too.
Everyone deserves it, you, you,you deserve to have that
intimacy with your husband,right, um?
So tell us a little bit.
Do you know anyone, likepersonally, who's gotten this
shot?
Or do you get feedback, like,do you have surveys from your,
(18:04):
from your clients, or what doyou do?
Speaker 2 (18:13):
Yes.
So, survey, I don't know howwas your weekend?
Um, no, honestly, I um we do.
We follow up with our umclients to make sure that, hey,
how's everything going?
Do you, did you get what youexpected?
That kind of a thing I will sayI myself have had it and,
(18:34):
honestly, the first time that Igot it was really more, for I
was trying to see if it wouldhelp strengthen my pelvic floor.
I have like the whole peezingissue where I sneeze and I pee,
um and yeah, but um and so I wasthinking, oh, maybe it'll help
more for that.
So the first time I did it,honestly I can say it was kind
(18:56):
of meh, like maybe it helpedwith my pelvic floor strength,
maybe it didn't.
I didn't really see any changesexually.
Um, then I did it.
So this is why we recommendthree um so that it can get to
(19:21):
its optimal.
So the second time I did it, Iand I never had any issues
having an orgasm, but I couldn'tstop.
My husband was long done, canyou repeat that?
It didn't stop and I I you knowlike I've had multiple before
(19:46):
but I I almost passed out.
I was like just dying.
And my husband was long doneand I was like just be quiet.
He is so proud of himselfbecause he's thinking like, yeah
, I got, you know I did this andI'm like you're like, you know
(20:07):
my industry right.
I was like oh my gosh, I'mgonna die like I, I don't know,
and everyone.
I pray that everyone feelssomething like that sometime in
their life.
But honestly, it went from likeoh, I was probably like a good
you know seven or whatever, tolike 2020.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
So is that like?
Every time, every time, likedoes the shot wear off?
Or like what.
How does it work like that?
How do you space about?
Speaker 2 (20:38):
So, um, honestly, for a long time it was like how do
you space about so?
Um, honestly, for a long timeit was like that was a constant,
and then I saw it kind oftrickled down, not necessarily
like um, it wasn't like itdidn't wear off necessarily, but
I think we talked about thislike it just plateaued like oh,
(21:00):
you know, we're still good, yeah, it wasn't as intense, um, so,
I'm definitely like a 18 yearold orgasm to maybe like a 32
year old orgasm.
I would just say there you go,um, but honestly I don't know, a
32, like at 32, I don't knowthat I was enjoying it as much
(21:23):
as I am now Like, yeah, I'm afan, yeah, um but honestly I
think I would do it again.
Yeah, so for me, after thatsecond time, I, for me I reached
that optimal result, so I don'tfeel like I needed a third one
right away.
Um, it's been about over a yearnow and I feel like I would be
(21:47):
up for another one.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
Okay, but between the first and second.
Yeah, and is there like a is itkind of like Botox, where
you're just like you start tonotice, or is there a
recommended time?
Speaker 2 (22:01):
Yeah, no, um.
So usually after the once youhit like your optimal, like
where you want to be, um, thenit's yearly, so, like we
recommend, just like a yearlymaintenance.
But honestly, sometimes peopleare like, oh, after six months I
need a little bit of a boost,that kind of a thing.
And I mean, like what you weresaying, just like Botox it does.
(22:24):
If you never do it again,that's fine, it's not going to
hurt anything, it's not ifanything it helped, um, put you
that much further along, likewith in terms of tissue
regeneration, um, but if youkeep it up, good for you.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
Are there any?
Speaker 1 (22:47):
are there any side effects of taking it?
Like anything, like you can'thave sex for a certain amount of
time or things like that thatyou would feel like that
naturally would happen to yourbody.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
Um.
So downtime wise, like rightafter um, there actually is no
downtime.
I always tell the ladies thatyou know, if you want me to tell
you there's downtime, I'm happyto give you a hall pass, like
just to tell you it's a week Idon't, one week I can't, but um,
there really isn't.
And a lot of people that wehave done because right after
(23:22):
you do it you have thatinflammation and there's
actually increased sensation forthose, like first two couple of
weeks, um, but there's nodowntime.
You could have a little bit ofspotting again, more from the
injection site, not becauseyou're spotting vaginally, like
you should not have any vaginalbleeding.
(23:42):
The nice thing about this isit's all your own stuff, so
we're not injecting anythingchemical, we're not injecting
anything that's not from yourown body, and the beauty of this
is is that the human body is aphenomenal thing and we're just
helping stimulate it to do whatit does best and so really like
(24:08):
the effects of it.
You can't, you really can't gowrong.
Um, there's always a risk ofinfection whenever you poke a
needle into anything.
Um, a needle into anything, um,but very, very minimal.
There literally is we do twopokes, that's it.
(24:33):
Um, we obviously clean verywell, but um it just I.
There's very little sideeffects with that.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
This sounds good.
I think, nicole, we should signup.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
We should be your testers and let everybody know
what we think.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
What we think.
I mean I think you knoweveryone, probably at this age,
whether it's you know, youprobably have something going on
, I would assume, right At theend of forties, right, so it
could help, it could help anyone.
Well, I have a question.
I am not experiencing a lot ofnegative things down there yet,
(25:05):
but would this be a goodpreemptive?
Let's start now and kind ofjust, I mean I'm 47.
I mean, obviously there'schanges going on, but nothing's
impacting me where I feel like Ineed.
I need to do something.
I don't feel like myself.
Or do you wait?
Like is there?
(25:26):
No, would you recommend?
Speaker 2 (25:28):
one over the other.
I, I, I like I don't think thata lot of people think that way
because we we're not necessarilythinking about that, unless
there's something wrong aboutthat, unless there's something
wrong.
But I definitely think thatlong-term, if you're doing
things to help again regeneratetissue down there and help
(25:50):
keeping it nice and tight, thatit will help you more long-term.
So, absolutely Likepreventatively doing something,
you don't have to do it as often.
I don't think I would do, youknow, like once every other year
kind of a thing, and just seehow it goes.
But um, I think that long-termyou'll be better off.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
Okay, so being proactive is good, not reactive,
correct?
We like to be proactive inmidlife right, yes.
Yes, that is like botox.
I mean, it is there, you goright and weight training and
eating healthy and taking, youknow, fish oil the makeup will
be better ali how much does thishow?
Much does I mean that yourplace?
(26:32):
Just in general, if someone wasgonna go to you in colorado or
find another place, how much isthis?
Speaker 2 (26:39):
so, um, they at Renovo we charge it's nine, 50
per shot.
Um, we do have a package thatwhen you like buy three, you get
.
Um, I want to say it's like 10%off of the whole thing.
So even if you don't use so,let's say you have your first
(26:59):
one and you're like boom,optimal, great, you can bank
those other two for like a yearlater or another year later.
So but I do say that once youwere a little bit older, it
takes a little bit more tostimulate.
When I say a little bit older,I'm saying like probably
post-menopausal.
(27:20):
So I'm talking about our like 55plus women um that it just
takes a little bit more tostimulate that tissue and to
stimulate collagen.
So I do think three is optimal.
Um, but you will start seeingsomething after, even after the
first.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
So if someone, if someone who doesn't live in
Colorado, if they're interestedin getting one, how do you make
sure it's like a reputable place?
You know, cause I'm sure if youlooked up OSHA in Boston
there's probably a lot of peoplejust like who give Botox or any
of those.
We're just using those asexamples.
But how, how would someone knowto make sure the place was
legit if we couldn't come to you?
Speaker 2 (27:59):
Yeah, I um honestly doing research, like looking at
their website, making surethey're credentialed in the
sense that they are a medicalprofessional, like um, so it
needs to be a doctor, a PA, anurse practitioner, somebody and
somebody that has been trainedappropriately.
And so there's um, and honestlyI would ask so, like when
(28:21):
making an appointment and doingthat, say, hey, so who is
performing the O shot and howwere they trained?
Like what, what's theirtraining behind it?
So honestly, I would just Iwould ask the clinic but,
looking on their website, shouldhave a lot of information on it
and you want to know that theycan speak to it too.
You know, like you want to seethat they have testimonials of
(28:44):
people that have had it.
But that's a really greatquestion because you shouldn't
just let anyone miss.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
Right, no like anything.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
Don't go straight for the.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
Groupon right.
Don't do not go for the Groupon.
Oh my God, Do they still makeGroupons Like I think they?
Speaker 2 (29:01):
do.
Oh my God, that was like a hugething in the twenties.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
Okay, I love that.
How do we find you, allie?
What's your?
What's your?
Speaker 2 (29:08):
Instagram, Um at Renova, underscore med, Um and
yeah, there's a lot ofinformation there too.
I think we have like on our umhighlights.
There's a.
There's a lot of testimonialsabout the OSHA and women's
health, regeneration and women'swellness, so we have a whole
(29:30):
lot of other things that we dofor women's wellness that helps
out with that, but definitelythe OSHA is a popular one.
We do a lot of it.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
Oh, you're so helpful .
Yeah, check out her Instagram,just because she has lots of,
lots of good information onthere about skincare and
healthcare and sort of all thatstuff.
You guys sort of do it all.
I know, when I was out inColorado with Nicole, I met you
in person and we, we, we went toyour place.
So it is, it is a special placewith all those ladies that are
really like so nice.
So, yes, nicole wants to work.
(30:13):
So, nicole, what time is it?
It's my favorite time.
It is unsolicited advice time.
Okay, so we've given lots ofadvice, but, nicole, what would
(30:35):
be sort of like your one littlebit of advice today?
Oh, my goodness, oh geez, alex,just I was not prepared to give
unsolicited advice.
Besides, get the OSHA, I mean,that's obviously advice.
Speaker 2 (30:46):
Like, you deserve it ladies.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
Yes, um, I guess lean in your curiosity because, um,
I have heard of the OSHA.
When I go to Allie's clinic, Isee, you know information out
there and I just have beenthinking like, oh it's, I'm not
there yet, I don't need it.
But you know, in asking Allie,she said it's a good idea to
(31:12):
potentially think of this as ahow did you word it?
Like proactive type proactive.
Yes, be proactive, be proactive,be curious.
Okay, get curious.
I like that, nicole, good job.
(31:32):
How about you?
What's your unsolicited advice,alex?
I would say, you know, leaninto your intimate relationship,
right Like?
Talk to your partner about yoursex life and how do they
envision it.
How do you envision it?
Right Cause it's a journey aswell, like what we're, what
we're doing, or yourexpectations in our twenties,
thirties, forties, fifties aredifferent.
So, you know, I view it as oneof the most sacred things of a
marriage and I think it's it'sreally important to do.
(31:55):
Um, so I think I think, justbringing up the topic maybe it's
not comfortable for you or, youknow, maybe your spouse is
really excited about talkingabout it, I don't know.
Just keep on revisiting it,right Cause, cause it can be
really fun, and maybe you needto add some spice and fun to it
too.
Just saying, turn up, turn upthat dial, turn it up, turn it
(32:16):
up.
Speaker 2 (32:17):
Men, um, when you know we have a lot of people
that are like, oh, don't tell myhusband I did this procedure,
like how much it was.
There has not been one husbandthat has disagreed or like, oh,
you want the OSHA, here you go,have at it.
They are very accommodating forthat Right.
Speaker 1 (32:37):
It's a win-win for both people.
I think you know.
Speaker 2 (32:39):
Yes, yeah, a hundred percent.
Aw, people, I think you knowyes, yeah, a hundred percent.
So my unsolicited advice is beunapologetically selfish.
Sometimes I think that, umagain, as women, we give so much
of ourselves and then we justthink that that's part of our
nature and then's what we do,that we get to enjoy that part
(33:05):
of our life too.
And, like I like how you said,you know, just communicate with
your partner, and because thingschange and your desires change,
the things that you wantchanges and they should be a
part of that just as much as you.
And so I think just beingunapologetically selfish a
(33:26):
little bit is okay.
Oh, I love you, thanks.
Speaker 1 (33:31):
I love you too.
Speaker 2 (33:32):
I love you guys, I love you all.
Speaker 1 (33:34):
There's like a love fest.
Oh my gosh.
Thank you, allie.
We're going to have you on forpart three.
I think we got to talk to youmore about lots of stuff, so
thank you so much for your time.
Thank you, allie, and we'lltalk to you guys soon.
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(33:56):
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