May 1, 2025 • 49 mins
Blood is nature’s most intelligent healer—and at K6 Wellness Center, we’re using its innate power to restore vitality, enhance beauty, and support wellness in a completely natural way. In this episode of The K6 Wellness Revolution, Sharon, our founder, naturopath, and family nurse practitioner, joins Elena to share the exciting new regenerative therapies now available at K6, all rooted in the power of Platelet-Rich Plasma (PRP).
You’ll hear how PRP—drawn from your own blood—can be used to stimulate deep healing and rejuvenation, whether you're looking to refresh your skin, restore thinning hair, enhance intimacy, or lift and tone your breasts without surgery or synthetic fillers. Sharon walks you through the science behind each procedure, including the Vampire Facial®, Vampire Breast Lift®, Vampire Hair Restoration®, the O-Shot® for women, and the P-Shot® for men, all while keeping the conversation grounded in K6’s signature approach: compassionate, root-cause care that works with your body, not against it.
If you've been curious about non-toxic options for looking and feeling more vibrant—or you're exploring gentle alternatives to surgery and hormones—this episode will help you understand what’s possible when you tap into your body’s natural healing abilities. Most treatments are done in a single visit with little to no downtime, and the results build over time as your body regenerates from the inside out.
Want to find out if one of these regenerative therapies is right for you? Head over to k6wellness.com to schedule a discovery call or learn more. Your journey to feeling like yourself again might be simpler—and more natural—than you think.
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Welcome to K6 Wellness Revolution, where we
believe health is worth fightingfor.
This podcast focuses on allthings related to natural health
, wellness and vibrant living.
We know your time is valuableand I'm honored that you're
spending some of it here.
So get ready, because thewellness revolution starts right
now because the wellnessrevolution starts right now.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Welcome to the K6 Wellness Revolution Podcast.
I'm Elena, one of thepractitioners here at K6
Wellness Center in Dallas, texas, where we blend trusted
expertise, compassionate careand a passion for helping you
achieve optimal health, becausewellness isn't just a goal, it's
a revolution.
In this episode, I get to askSharon our owner, naturopath and
(00:53):
FNP at K6, all about the newestservices she'll be offering
here, including the VampireBreast Lift, vampire Facial
O-Shot, p-shot and Vampire HairRestoration.
We'll discuss how thesetreatments work, who can benefit
from them, expected recoverytimes and other essential
details to provide our clientsand audience with a clear
understanding of how theseprocedures support both
aestheticals and overallwell-being.
(01:15):
So let's jump in.
Hello Sharon, hello Alayna, solet's start with where did you
learn about these differentprocedures and what made you
want to incorporate them intothe practice?
Speaker 1 (01:29):
Okay, well, I learned I mean PRP I always knew from
more of an orthopedicapplication, but the vampire
treatment, specifically theO-Shot, was the first one that I
heard of, because I am so notcool and never saw that Kim
Kardashian was the one who gotthe vampire facial and made it
(01:50):
famous.
I'm behind the times, but Ilearned about the O shot really
through my clients, because Iprobably had almost a dozen
women over the last year kind ofcomment on yeah, I got the
O-shot and it really helped withincontinence, or I got the
O-shot and now sex doesn't hurtanymore.
And so I was like, okay, I'vegot to find out more about the
(02:12):
O-shot.
And so I looked it up and wentPRP.
Huh, okay, this is interesting.
So, um, I went through uh, drCharles Reynolds organization
he's the one who trademarkedvampire and that's where I
learned to use PRP fortherapeutic benefits to
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reproductive health.
Also some aesthetics, but youknow, when we we feel better,
when we look better, right,right, and of course, for me,
I'm interested in anythingnatural that's going to offer
therapeutic benefits to you know, whatever health conditions, um
, but I'm also all about naturalalternatives in aesthetics,
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like how can I look youngerlonger without having to inject
synthetic fillers and toxinsinto my body.
I don't want to have surgeriesand operations when I can avoid
it, and I am definitely open tousing my own platelet-rich
plasma which doesn't get morenatural than your own blood
right To help provide someamazing anti-aging results in my
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skin.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
So there you go, yeah .
So why don't we explain PRPtherapy first?
Because I know it's a.
It's a common buzzword.
A lot of people may know whatit is, but a lot of people may
not.
So what is it and how does thebody utilize it for its natural
healing processes?
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Okay.
So I think you're right becauseyou hear PRP.
But do you know what it isRight?
And?
And so in your blood, if we, ifwe, if I took a vial of your
blood and I put it in thecentrifuge and spin it at the
top, you're going to see plasmaand it's kind of the yellowy
orange, clear ish stuff, andthen there's a little bit of
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more orange and that's yourplatelets, and then below it is
all your red blood cells.
They're the heaviest parts.
So what we're doing is we'reusing the plasma around the
platelets, because the plateletsare what has all of the growth
factors and the parts that helppromote healing and tissue
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repair, and it's used for a lotof musculoskeletal injuries,
especially in joints, and iteven is used in aesthetic
procedures like hair restorationand skin rejuvenation and then
for sexual and reproductivehealth as well.
But yeah, it's basically justusing the body's own blood to
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promote healing and tissuerepair.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
It's truly amazing what your body has in it, if we
just know how to use it.
So how exactly, you know, do weget the PRP and how?
How does how does it work?
Speaker 1 (04:54):
So you know somebody comes in for whatever procedure
and whether you're here orsomewhere else getting it put in
a joint, you're going to dohave a blood draw, just like
when you go to the lab to have aregular blood draw.
But with PRP you're not usingthe same files, you're not using
the same centrifuge.
It's all much more powerfulbecause we want as many
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platelets as possible.
Right, we want to do a lot moreto separate the blood.
So it's a simple blood draw.
It's really the processing ofthe blood that's done
differently and typically, youknow, here we're going to draw
at least 20 milliliters of blood, maybe 40, depending on the
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area that we're working on, andthen we put it in a centrifuge
and that spins the blood at areally high speed and that
separates all those componentsof the blood, like we talked
about.
And then we use that, wewithdraw it into you know, a
syringe or whatever we're doing,and we apply it to the body in
whatever treatment form, whetherit's being injected in the
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reproductive organs or in thescalp for hair restoration, or
brushed over the face withmicroneedling or in the breast
area.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
Yeah, it's really pretty simple and also for
listeners who might be wonderingand don't know how long does
this process of plateletseparation take?
I mean, is this multipleappointments?
Let's talk about that.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Yeah, so the actual processing of the blood four
minutes.
I mean you spend it for fourminutes.
If you had gravy last night forsupper, maybe eight, Um, but
yeah, it's.
It's a one office visit.
Most of our appointments, forwhatever procedure we're doing,
it's an hour, two hours tops,and some of the longer
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appointments you're actuallyspending more time enjoying the
numbing process because anytimewe're going to inject somebody
with something.
We don't want to hurt people, wedon't like to cause pain, so we
like to make things as painlessas possible.
But once you inject plateletrich plasma into the body, it
releases growth factors and itreleases cytokines, and all of
(07:10):
these are the substances thatare going to help promote tissue
healing, and some of it you'renot going to tell right away,
right?
So this is the other timeelement.
It could take a couple of days,it could take a couple of weeks
, it could take up to 12 weeksreally to get the full effect in
some areas of the body.
(07:31):
Um, but for healing and tissuerepair, yeah, once you inject it
, like it gets going in the body, and so that's.
That's kind of cool.
It the growth factors, thoughthey'll also encourage the
formation of, like new bloodvessels, and that will enhance
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blood flow to the affected area.
So, especially like men witherectile dysfunction, you know
it can help with a strongererection.
With the face and this is theone I will tell our listeners,
because I am a listener, not aviewer of podcasts, but this is
one, if you're curious, my faceis now just 24 hours out from a
(08:14):
vampire facials.
You want to know when we starttalking recovery process.
This is what 24 hours.
Good example, right, right, yes,but collagen production is
really one of the big actionsthat we get here, because PRP
promotes collagen synthesis andyou have to have that to have
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tissue strength right.
Collagen is what makes us plumpand that's really helpful, even
orthopedically, like if we'rerepairing tendons and ligaments,
not just skin, and then reducedinflammation, of course,
because you get there.
We have different kinds ofcytokines, which are immune
cells, and they can help toreduce inflammation.
(08:57):
But it could also play a partin chronic injuries and
degenerative conditions likearthritis.
So bringing the immune system'sattention to an area to do
something to repair it, that's abig, big deal.
So it can take, yeah, severalweeks to a few months for the
full benefits to be realized,but the lasting effects can go
(09:19):
on and on and on, and on.
Right, it's not always well.
You got to do this every threemonths for the rest of your life
or you lose it all, yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
So if we consider simply the aesthetic side of
things, there are so manyoptions available for people
wanting more hair, fewerwrinkles, facelift, plumper
cheeks, no jowls, and we couldgo on and on right.
K6 has always, you know, reallyconcentrated on healthy diet,
healthy lifestyle, et cetera.
But now you know you'reactually we're getting to offer
(09:48):
these aesthetic services thatcenter on PRP.
So tell our listeners whatmakes PRP different from
conventional aesthetictreatments that rely on
synthetic fillers or surgicalinterventions.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
That's a really good question.
I love PRP because, first ofall, you're using your body's
own material.
So I could give you aloe vera.
It's very, very natural.
Um, it's not going to do thesame thing Like I could give it
to you for a burn or somethingright, it's very natural, it's
straight out of the earth, butyour blood is straight out of
(10:23):
your body.
So if we're regenerating stuff,if we're we're doing
regenerative medicine, if we'redoing anything, um, to help with
healing or promote anti-aging,it doesn't get more natural than
your blood.
So that is a really cool aspectof it.
Also, anything you do with PRP,it's minimally invasive, so
(10:44):
it's non-surgical.
You don't have to go undersedation, general anesthesia.
Like I said, I got my vampirefacialist my second one, I think
just 24 hours ago, and over thenext several weeks, without
extensive damage to my skintissues, my skin's going to
(11:07):
continue to look brighter fewerlines and wrinkles, less melasma
, you know all of those things.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
So it was noticeable.
When I saw you this morning, itwas very noticeable for any of
our listeners who aren't viewingit was.
It's really impressive.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
It's quite remarkable and everybody's experience is
just a little bit different,because some people don't
actually heal as fast as othersand, and you know, or some
people have more inflammationand, for instance, like one lady
that I did her facial yesterday, her skin was very thin and, um
, she is probably going to takea little bit longer to recover
(11:48):
than me, even though we'reroughly the same age.
But it's just, everybody's at adifferent place and the
beautiful thing about doing PRPis it's your body.
So you talk about meeting youwhere you're at.
It's your body meeting youwhere you're at.
So, yeah, not being invasive,though I really like that part.
And then you know, in the justthe aesthetic benefits, we're
(12:11):
not doing hair like hairrestoration.
You're using PRP, we areinjecting it in the scalp, um,
but we're not doing hair plugs,so it's not like a real painful
experience.
And breast lifts we can do amore subtle approach to breast
enhancement for women, whetherit's purely cosmetic or maybe
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they're post-explant surgery.
There's just you can do it inan office visit.
It's non-surgical, it is just akinder, gentler way of
approaching some of the thingsthat people are concerned about
and would like to improve andmaybe they're not really willing
to take, like, the big leapinto full-on cosmetic surgery.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
Yeah Well, and you brought up breast lift, so let's
start with that one.
We are obviously never a fan K6, of traditional breast lifts,
and we have a lot of clientswho've had them, but our
objections are due to the manychronic health risks associated
with them.
But this one is different.
What exactly is the vampirebreast lift and what makes it
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different from traditionalsurgical breast lifts?
Speaker 1 (13:20):
So a surgical breast lift is where they're basically
taking the breast tissue andcutting it and then they're
lifting it like putting on apush-up bra kind of right.
Now some women may do implants,which is actually inserting a
silicone bag whether it's filledwith a silicone gel or saline
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or something like that to alsomake their breasts bigger or
more voluminous, right.
But the vampire breast lift,we're actually injecting
platelet-rich plasma into mainlythe cleavage area.
So for women, you know, whomaybe they don't like the way
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their breasts look now, becausethey don't look like they did 10
years ago or before theybreastfed their children, this
is just a more subtle naturalenhancement of breast tissue and
it gives, it does give morevolume and it does give lift.
In fact they say, you know, itcan provide up to like one full
cup size, um, an increase.
(14:30):
And it's really designed tofill out for women who feel like
they don't fill out theirblouse as well.
It's going to be more in thatcleavage, that upper breast area
, that you get the, the wowfactor, that you get the wow
factor.
Really, smaller-breasted womentend to get bigger results
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simply because there's lessthere to begin with.
Right and surgical lifts, theydo carry a higher risk of
complications.
I mean, you're cutting into thebody so the risk of infection
is a little higher, and I'm notsaying this happens and I'm not
trying to scare people offanything, but these are
differences.
But you do have, you know, riskof infection and scarring and
there's breast tissue damagethat can happen, while you know
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the vampire breast lift has amuch lower risk profile and the
complications that could happenthere, the potentials are pain
and swelling and bruising.
You know there's much less riskfor infection and scarring
because these are just simpleinjections.
We're not cutting anything.
Also, vampire breast lifts aregenerally less expensive than a
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surgical breast lift or animplant.
And the results for some peopleand I think this is where it
gets into body types, like forsome women, if they, it depends
on how big you are, um, itdepends on what your goal is, um
you, your results could, couldlast, you know, like 12 to 18
months and and maybe a couple ofyears, and they say that really
(16:02):
, if your, if your weight stayssteady, you know those, those
effects are longer, long, muchlonger lasting, um, but a lot of
women do have weight changes,you know, through the seasons of
life, and then also some womenare like yeah, that was good,
let's do it again, andespecially women who have
implants.
You know women, uh, ladies andlisteners out there, if you've
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had implants and then you havethat breast gap, you know, women
feel very conscious,self-conscious about that and
they want to fill in that gap,they want that cleavage, and so
that's what this does.
So that's that's.
The big differences is one isvery minimally invasive and the
other one's purely surgical.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
And can anyone get this?
Or rather, you know who wouldbenefit most I guess you said
small breasted women or womenwho've had the implants and have
the gap.
But you know, can anyone get it?
That's really the question Iknow a lot of people ask me.
Everyone wants to know.
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
I you know ideal candidates is going to be a
woman who has like mild tomoderate sagging.
Now, if you're, I'll be crudehere for a minute.
If your breasts are, you know,hanging out with your belly
button, I don't know that thisis going to do the trick for you
, but it does give your breastsa perkier look without the need
for surgery.
Post-pregnancy changes.
(17:20):
You know, pregnancy takes atoll on breast tissue.
Everything gets swollen andthen it shrinks again, and so
the vampire breast lift isreally nice.
To just improve skin qualityand then just restore some of
that lost volume up top.
It's kind of nice.
And then, ideally, you knowwomen who want a more natural, a
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more non-surgical approach.
This is a better option forthem.
And you know, obviously andthis isn't to say people
everybody has unrealisticexpectations.
But women who come in and go,you know, I just wish I had just
a little bit more Women withrealistic expectations, both of
what their body's capable of,what's going to look good,
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that's kind of a big deal.
It's not going to give the samelevel of lift or volume that a
surgical breast lift is.
But not everybody requires that.
Now, if you have enormousbreasts that create shoulder
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pain and back pain and, like Isaid, they're hanging down at
your hip bones, then you reallymay need reduction and, you know
, a breast lift and that may bea purely surgical experience for
you.
But the vampire breast lift formany, many women is a great
option and it's a great intro.
A lot of women don't know do Iwant a breast lift, do I not?
(18:45):
Yeah, I think that's that'syeah, that's it Okay.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
And is there much recovery process for this
procedure?
Speaker 1 (18:59):
No, not really.
I mean, there's really not anydowntime for this.
Most patients go straight backto work.
We go back to their normalactivities, exercise right after
the procedure, because you'rein the office maybe an hour Some
.
You know some women mayexperience some swelling and
bruising Okay, but it usuallyresolves within just a few days
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and you could be a little soreand tender where the injection
sites are and that typicallyalso resolves just within a day
or two.
But you know, potential sideeffects could be the bruising,
the swelling, some tendernessand just right around the
injection sites.
It's not everywhere and we'renot injecting all over the
breast.
Like I said, mainly it's thatupper cleavage area.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
And it's only a few injections, right, yeah?
Speaker 1 (19:49):
Typically four injections on each breast, but
it's a pretty good little volumeof of um PRP that's put in and
there it's.
It's pretty rare that I'venever heard of an infection with
the breast, with the vampirebreast lift.
So, but I mean anytime youpierce the skin, I think you
risk infection.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
Right, that's where cleanliness comes in.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
Yes, absolutely.
That's why we're clean, yes andwow.
So we would say, wow, rare,right.
There's a small possibility ofinfection, just like there is
with any procedure.
There's a small possibility ofinfection, just like there is
with any procedure.
And then you might bleed just alittle bit, like you would with
any shot or injection.
And I have not seen anyallergic reactions to PRP,
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especially since this isself-sourced, like we're not
taking my PRP and putting it insomebody else.
But if you know you, you couldhave an allergic reaction to
some part of it, whether theanesthetic, the topical
anesthetic, or the needle or PRP, you know which would be really
strange.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
So the vampire breast lift and vampire facial.
They sound similar because oftheir names, but the application
is actually kind of different,isn't it?
Speaker 1 (21:03):
Yes, it is.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
What is the vampire facial and how is that applied?
Speaker 1 (21:07):
Yeah, and I think this is a good point to point
out.
So vampire is a trademarked umprocedure, a name by Dr Charles
Runnels, and you may find peopledoing PRP facials, prp breast
lifts, things like that, butthey're not.
Uh, he's really the pioneer ofthis and so anything that he has
(21:31):
uh condoned or or licensed,then it's called vampire, or
licensed, then it's calledvampire.
So how very male, right.
But the vampire facial, it'sdifferent.
Yes, then the breast lift,because the breast lift is
injections into the breasttissue, whereas the facial we're
using a microneedling pin and amicroneedling pin.
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Some people know what it is.
They may have had this done.
It's, it's a, it's a pin and ithas a little head on it.
We use disposable heads thathave multiple needles that will
pierce the skin anywhere from0.5 to 2.5 millimeters in depth,
which doesn't sound likea lot,until it's rolling over your
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face and it can be painful.
But what we do is we numb youup.
Real good, just like you wouldgo get numbed, you know, if
you're going to do a tattoo oranything but um vampire facials,
taking those two thingsmicroneedling to create small
tunnels or um injuries to theskin and then you brush over or,
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you know, rub over the PRP, soit's not injected into the skin,
it's applied topically into allthose little micro tunnels and
that's how the growth factorscome about.
So it's really nice becausewe're not using chemicals or
toxins, right?
Speaker 2 (22:52):
Right, right.
And how does this procedure,you know, support the body's
natural healing mechanism toimprove skin health?
Speaker 1 (23:01):
Well, the idea behind the mechanism of action of
microneedling is twofold right.
First, you've got hundreds ofthousands I think they even say
a million needle punctures bythe end of your facial At that
teeny tiny depth.
I know it sounds terrible, it'slike I just had this done
yesterday, but it didn't feellike a million injections.
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But all of this triggerscollagen production.
So like a mechanical fractionallaser, but without the risks of
scarring and there's no burnsthat come with this.
It's just very microneedlingcan be done very safely with
really all skin types and andthat is a difference too Like
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when you're doing lasers andthings, you have to be careful
with it, how sensitive your skinis and the skin type.
But okay.
Secondly, so you got themicroneedling right and then PRP
right.
That's again using your ownblood, using your own platelets
to use those growth factors andput them all over the skin to
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stimulate tissue repair and thathelps promote collagen
synthesis.
So, like my fine lines, youknow, around my nasolabial folds
, my crow's feet, my sun damage,it all just kind of magically
gets whitewashed.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
Yeah, I mean it covers an array of skin concerns
in this procedure.
Like you just mentioned, italso helps with acne scars right
and dark circles under the eyes.
I mean, what are some of theother concerns that people would
benefit from?
Speaker 1 (24:41):
Well, yeah, agne, scars are a big one, especially
people who have those pittedscars.
We can really get in there andsmooth that out.
Now.
It's important to know there'snot going to be a one and done.
If you have really bad scars,you're going to need to do this,
maybe every four to six weeksfor four to six months, you know
something like that.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
But that's encouraging for the people who
have that.
You know there is hope it canget better.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
Yeah, I agree, and sun damage especially.
It's so good to reverse theeffects of sun damage, including
like hyperpigmentation,sunspots and melasma, which for
me, my melasma is more on myneck and so I'm very excited
about getting.
I had Mary go to town on meyesterday.
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I was like make it really,really red.
But that helps to reduce theappearance of those
hyperpigmentation areas bypromoting cellular turnover,
right.
So that's going to address theuneven skin tone.
And then even dark circlesunder the eyes you can go with a
microneedling pen like right upunder the eyes and it can
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improve circulation in that area.
So again, if you have darkcircles, it's going to help
reduce the appearance of that.
And then I think, just havingmore youthful and plumper skin,
because you know, as we age,like you start to get jowls and
things get crepier.
In fact I was looking at myhands the other day.
I was like I need to do thatThen microneedling and PRP on my
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hands Cause they're starting toget a little crepey, hard on
them.
But yeah, that I mean just justincreasing collagen production
I think is so essential for theelasticity of your skin and just
the firmness too and thethickness.
So for people with friable orthin skin, you're going to get a
better result doing this.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
That's amazing, and this doesn't have much downtime,
right?
I mean, as we've already toldeveryone, you had this yesterday
, so it's a pretty quick in andout type of thing.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
It absolutely is.
Yeah, I had one not even, Ithink 23 hours ago, and my
skin's not suffering at all, soyour recovery is typically
pretty quick.
You don't want to go out afteryou have it done.
I generally recommend you knowyou want to go home, because we
brush all this PRP on your face.
You don't go home and wash itoff.
That's, that's expensive stuff.
(27:02):
You leave that on, you sleepwith that on and you don't wash
your face till in the morning.
You want to avoid activitiesreally for 24 to 48 hours, like
intense heat or, you know,sweating, that kind of thing.
I usually tell people skip yourworkout in the morning if
that's your thing.
You don't want to touch yourface a whole lot but you do want
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to hydrate.
You don't want to takeibuprofen or Tylenol or any of
those things because we want theinflammatory response right and
that goes for all of theseprocedures, right?
Thank you for pointing that out.
Absolutely, it is important toallow the redness and the
swelling.
That's the goal, right, yeah.
Because, you know, yeah, youwant some redness swelling and
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it goes down, like for me, thisis, you know, one day after and
by this weekend, I'll wear a hatif I go outside, but I'll
protect myself from the sun inthat way, but you won't even be
able to tell today.
I'll protect myself from thesun in that way, but you won't
even be able to tell today.
You know, by three days lateryou won't even know.
So it's really nice, yeah.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
Nope, it's so fun.
And that's the face.
Right, folks, we can help theface.
Now let's hear how we can helpthe hair.
How does vampire hairrestoration work to promote hair
growth?
Speaker 1 (28:18):
Because this sounds too good to be true, it's not
the same as getting a hair.
The hair plugs, you know, hairtransplants, but it's those
growth factors again in the PRPand it can reverse the process
of hair.
It's called miniaturization.
Now you have to have a hairfollicle.
This won't work if you don'thave hair follicle.
So um, um.
(28:39):
But if your hair follicles aregetting weaker, they're getting
smaller and with men especially,going through like male pattern
baldness, you would notice itlike the hair feels thinner.
Where maybe they have thickhair on the sides, that the hair
shaft itself is kind of thin ontop.
The, the PRP helps torevitalize those hair follicles
and that's kind of cool.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
So yeah, and what are some of the root causes of hair
loss that this procedure helpsto address?
Speaker 1 (29:08):
Well, you can get hair loss from a lot of
different things, right?
I mean, heredity is one ofthose things, but hormone
changes through your life andthis is men and women things.
But hormone changes throughyour life and this is men and
women um medications, stress,whether chronic or acute, um
hair treatments like women whocolor their over, process their
(29:30):
hair men do it too.
Um autoimmune disorders, umnutritional deficiencies Uh yeah
, there's a lot of things umthat can play a part in in hair
loss.
And PRP says, okay, well, you'vegot a few hair follicles, so
let's work with that.
(29:50):
And then it starts to improvethe quality of that and it
definitely like thickens thehair shaft, so it stimulates
those hair follicles to kind ofenter the growth phase and then
it improves the blood supply,which is also a part of hair
loss is poor blood supply.
So getting more nutrients andoxygen to the hair follicles is
(30:14):
important.
And then cell regenerations.
Those growth factors in the PRPwill help to promote the repair
, the rejuvenation of those hairfollicles, the damaged ones.
If they're dead they won't comeback right or PRP cannot make
them come back.
Speaker 2 (30:32):
So this is really more for when it's thinning.
Do it before it's gone, payattention to it before it's gone
, so we can turn that shiparound.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
If your head is a cue ball, I don't know that it's
going to help.
I mean, you're always welcometo try, yeah.
Speaker 2 (30:46):
Yeah, and how does PRP therapy compare to other
hair restoration techniques,such as scalp massage or red
light therapy, which do havetheir benefits, but they're
different?
Speaker 1 (30:57):
Right.
Well, in PRP again, we've gotthose growth factors, we've got
all of those platelets and soit's going to really stimulate
under the skin and we do numbthe scalp right, but it is
injection.
We're kind of nice, but it'sgoing to encourage more hair
growth at the hair follicle andit's going to thicken the shaft,
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so it is a natural approach.
Then there's scalp massage andeverybody should do it If you
feel like your hair is thinning.
It's very non-invasive, it's agood head massage and it may not
directly stimulate hair growthbut it will help improve the
health of the scalp.
It helps with circulation.
And then there's like red lighttherapy and red light.
(31:41):
I love red light therapy.
I think it's good for so manythings related to skin and wound
healing and hair quality.
But using um red light therapyyou're basically using low level
laser lights to stimulatecellular, cellular activity in
the hair follicles, and so thatwill also help improve
(32:02):
circulation or blood flow and itcan improve the health of the
follicle as well.
But you know everybody'sdifferent and the best treatment
for you is kind of kind ofdepend on what you need and the
severity of your hair loss.
I mean, if you're bald as a cueball.
Speaker 2 (32:20):
You may be headed to Turkey for hair plugs, you know
I don't know Well, and I knowtime and money can be a huge
deciding factor for people whendeciding hey, which remedy
should I try?
But I also know the otheroptions, like the red light
therapy and scalp massage.
They can take a lot longer thanPRP.
When a person gets this PRPhair restoration treatment,
(32:43):
what's the typical recoveryprocess for this and how soon do
you start seeing the hairgrowth?
Speaker 1 (32:49):
So the recovery is kind of, again, different for
everybody.
It's really minimal.
I mean you can leave here andgo do whatever you want to do.
Your scalp's going to be alittle tender because you know
you could get, you know, like Idid a full scalp the other day
and I did so.
I did the front and then I didthe back or the crown of the
head and I think there were over100 injections easily, because
(33:12):
it's about every centimeter thatwe're injecting, and so your
scalp may be a little bit tenderbut, um, it's, it's not a big
deal.
You can go do whatever you needto do the next day or that
evening or whatever.
Healing can take up to two weeks, um, if somebody's got a real
sensitive scalp and that justmeans bruising or swelling or
(33:35):
just, you know, scalp tenderness.
But yeah, you can go back toyour normal activities 24 hours.
But again, just like the face,don't go home and wash off that
PRP.
Just let it.
Let it lie, you know, till thenext day, try to wait 24 hours.
And one thing about it, thoughshedding.
It can be normal to justexperience a little bit of
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shedding and that's sometimespart of the natural healing
process and it's not necessarilylike a big cause for concern,
but initial changes.
Like are you going to see yourhair next week and go, oh my
gosh, I can see a difference?
Not necessarily, but I have hadsome men say within the first
month I can actually see my hairthickening up a little bit not
(34:20):
necessarily new growth, butwithin three to six months
that's really when most peopleare going to see the more
significant results and like newhair growth at that point and
you know the thickening of thehair shaft, increased hair
volume, and then six to 12months.
You really you know, some peoplemay need just four monthly
(34:44):
treatments and then good, I'llsee you in a year for
maintenance.
But some men need more.
Some men may need six months,but it could still take up to 12
weeks after you get thoseinjections for it to fully take
hold.
So, um, we usually tell peoplefour to six monthly treatments
and then every year you want todo one or two maintenance uh
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sessions, but you're going tosee really good results.
That's when you're going to seereally good results.
Speaker 2 (35:11):
Okay, well, seems like a pretty easy procedure to
maybe get a little more hairgrowth.
Now, though, let's talk aboutthe O-Shot, because I feel like
this is one that a lot of womendon't realize even exists and
that a lot of women need.
What is the O-Shot, and howdoes it aim to enhance female
(35:33):
sexual wellness?
Speaker 1 (35:34):
Okay, the O-Shot gets really misunderstood, I think,
and then some women know exactlywhat it's about.
But the O-Shot, it'snon-surgical and it's all for
enhancing female sexual wellnessby injecting the PRP which
we've fully covered into some,into the clitoris and the
(35:59):
vaginal area, and that is toaddress issues like low sex
drive or low libido, women whohave difficulty achieving orgasm
, or maybe they experience a lotof vaginal dryness and so sex
isn't very comfortable, womenwho have pain during intercourse
(36:23):
.
This can really help.
But even better than that and Ithink this is almost it's equal
, if not more the driving factorfor some women is the reduction
in stress and urge stress, urgeand continence.
So yeah, it's, it's, it's a,it's a multi-purpose tool.
Speaker 2 (36:45):
Yeah, it really is, and I mean, it sounds like it
can promote a lot of aspects ofpelvic floor health and overall
hormone balance, can't it?
Speaker 1 (36:54):
It can.
It provides like improvedmuscle strength because it can
stimulate again tissueregeneration and collagen
production.
That can help strengthen yourwhole pelvic floor muscles and
that can improve your bladdercontrol and it can help reduce
the incontinence that many womengo through after childbirth.
(37:15):
But with age, the PRP can alsorejuvenate and thicken the
vaginal walls, which is going toimprove elasticity and natural
lubrication.
So as you go throughperimenopause or menopause and
vaginal dryness becomes an issue, this can really help de-age,
(37:53):
if you will.
The vagina, yeah, can help a lot, um, particularly, you know,
women in menopause.
Um, but concerning overallhormones, like if it's a young
person or something you know,the jury's out it's we're not
injecting hormones, so we're not.
(38:16):
We're not specifically tryingto steer hormones in a certain
way, we're really more about thetissue itself and helping.
So some some women feel likethat O-shot just puts them over
the edge, like, yeah, estrogentherapy helped a little bit and
then I got the O shot and nowit's like sex is great again,
(38:37):
you know.
So that's kind of cool.
And then, um, yeah, stress andurinary incontinence, that that
involuntary when you cough, whenyou sneeze, when you jump, when
you laugh too hard, uh, the,the PRP therapy can really help
in that too.
But some women, even who havethe chronic pelvic pain, it can
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alleviate some of the pain fromdifferent causes like childbirth
trauma.
Some women have even reported,you know, that they have like
surgical mesh and that the OSHAhelps.
Whether it's because of theplumping up of the vaginal wall,
I don't know, but there is thatpart of it too, and yeah, so
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what should clients expectduring and after this procedure
in terms of recovery and results?
Speaker 2 (39:27):
And I know I've asked that for each one, but they're
all a little different.
Similar but different.
Speaker 1 (39:31):
They are.
The unique thing about theO-Shot is the injections
themselves take like less thantwo minutes.
You spend most of theappointment getting numb.
Speaker 2 (39:42):
Also very important.
Speaker 1 (39:45):
Very important.
That is right.
It is minimally invasive and webasically use a little bit of
lidocaine as a local anesthesiabecause we want it to be a very
comfortable experience for women.
So some women, you know,afterwards they may have a
little tenderness at theinjection site, but overall it's
very well tolerated.
(40:07):
Most women say, oh, that was it, it's like this big non-event
and it's like, okay, I did myjob very well.
But after, after the procedure,after your o-shot, usually you
can go like straight back to it.
Most women, um, had one womanthat she came in she worked on
her computer, she was on herlaptop the entire time, like had
(40:27):
no idea I had injected her, andshe's like, oh, that was the
easiest thing I've done all week.
She left.
So yeah, it's very easy.
Just, you get dressed, go backto work.
There's no downtime.
You may spot or bleed a littlebit because again, we've
injected, you know, veryvascular tissue.
A little bruising andirritation may be noted, you
(40:50):
know, but again a couple of daysand that's that's going to be
about it.
Um it.
We do recommend that women dosome pelvic floor exercises
afterwards just to enhance thetreatment, because of course the
stronger your pelvic floor is,the better your overall pelvic
health is going to be.
Yeah, so.
But women, you know, should youknow, our goal is for you to
(41:13):
experience improved sexualfunction, um, including
increased sensitivity, arousaland orgasm.
So for some women it's a gamechanger in their intimacy level
with their partner.
Speaker 2 (41:28):
So, it's important, it's really important.
And now that we've talked abouthow to support the lady's
pelvic health, what about men?
Because I know there's also theP-Shot for men and it's got
some similar but differentintended benefits.
So can you talk about this one?
Speaker 1 (41:45):
Right.
So the P-Shot for priapus shot.
It's non-surgical as well andit is for male sexual health,
specifically, or more accurately, for erectile dysfunction.
And again, we're using PRPinjections into the penis and
(42:08):
the whole goal of this is toimprove erectile function, you
know, to increase sensitivity.
Um, this is not something youknow.
Men generally ask I'm going topick on men.
Can I be sexist for a second?
Speaker 2 (42:24):
I mean, they make it easy.
Speaker 1 (42:26):
Will it get bigger?
And it's like, well, it might,might not, you know it's.
It's not about a size thing, itis really about function.
So, because the goal, thebenefit that we're after is to
have for men who strugglegetting a good, strong erection,
is for them to have a stronger,firmer erection, so through
improved blood flow and tissueregeneration, right, um, but
(42:50):
also for for them to haveincreased sensitivity, then
they're going to feel morepleasure during sexual activity
and just you know, underlyingissues like decreased blood flow
.
Now, if you have, like diabetesand you're not taking care of
your diabetes, it will causevascular issues and you will end
(43:15):
up with erectile dysfunction,among other things.
But if there, if there areother age related or, um,
external factors, or even stressrelated factors, this could
help, you know, just strengthenthe erection for for many men.
So yeah, and if you grow alittle bit, then great, but I'm
(43:40):
not promising that Right, that'snot the goal here.
No it's not an important thingto know, like this isn't a
permanent solution, right?
No, it can offer verysignificant improvements and it
can last for a long time.
It's different for every everyman.
Some men are like yeah, I liketo do this every six months.
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And then some men are like Ihad one two years ago, it's
great.
So I think you know there are alot of things that play into
that, and age is going to be oneof those things, and then other
, you know, other healthconditions are going to really
be influencing factors.
Speaker 2 (44:17):
So yeah, who's a good candidate for this procedure?
I mean, you've kind ofmentioned it, but who would
specifically be?
Speaker 1 (44:24):
So men with erectile dysfunction or ED, you know a
lot of them.
That's the big one, yeah, that'sthe big one.
And so some, also men, who arejust experiencing a decline in
sex drive or overall performance.
You know, whether it's it's acompletion thing or being able
(44:44):
to, yeah, just enjoy the wholeexperience.
You know, having a firmererection, having more
sensitivity, that can help.
On the physical side of things,it can.
You know, men with I didn'tmention this earlier Peyronie's
disease, which is a conditionand it causes a curve in the
(45:05):
penis and it can be quitepainful for men, and so this can
help.
And I think this is also a goodtime to uh, I didn't, I don't
think about this, but you know,when you do this, for for men to
uh, I didn't, I don't thinkabout this, but you know, when
you do this, for for men, it's alittle different than women.
Women get your O shot and go,you're done.
You know, enjoy your sex orenjoy not leaking.
Um, men with the P shot because,um, of the nature of the
(45:28):
differences in our anatomy, theyhave to use a pump, you know,
twice a day for several weeks topump the penis just to really
help get the full effect of thePRP, because, remember, it takes
the PRP several weeks to reallyfully get going.
So that's something, you know,that should be considered.
(45:53):
But prescription medicationsokay, some that should be
considered.
But, um, prescriptionmedications Okay, Some of those
can cause unintended sideeffects, like you know um, I'm
sorry, impotence and P-shot canhelp with that.
Whether it's blood pressuremedications or antidepressants
or things like that.
There are a lot of medicationsthat can have unintended
consequences.
(46:21):
But men in relatively goodhealth are generally going to do
better with the P-shot.
They're going to get a betterresult.
But it's really important formen to understand that the
results can vary a whole lotfrom one person to another.
And before you talk yourselfinto or out of a pee shot, it's
just really important to have agood, open, honest conversation
with a qualified healthcareprovider.
(46:45):
Right, and make sure thatyou're comfortable doing it,
that you're willing to put inthe follow-up work so that your
investment in your sexual healthis going to pay off, and also
just have realistic expectations.
You know it can offerimprovements, but if your
erectile dysfunction is 95%driven by emotional stress or
(47:08):
lifestyle stress and you don'tdo anything to fix that, this
isn't necessarily going to be.
You know what you think it is.
It may help but it may not fixeverything and you know, like
any medical procedure, there'sgoing to be risks like bruising
and swelling and infection,because we're piercing the skin.
Speaker 2 (47:27):
But, there you go, and so you talked about the
recovery a little bit for this,because this does include a
little bit more than the otherprocedures, but it still doesn't
take more than you know a fewdays for the initial bruising
swelling to go down Right, andthen a couple of weeks.
Speaker 1 (47:44):
Yeah, you know, and again, different for everybody.
Like a young, healthy guy maysay, oh, in three days, man, I
was rocking and rolling,everything was great.
Whereas, you know, an older manin poor condition may go well,
it took a month but things gotbetter.
But, yeah, full benefit.
It's going to be different foreverybody because it does depend
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on age, it does depend onexternal factors.
What are the underlying causesof the erectile dysfunction?
Whether it's trauma ormedication or hormones or some
mixture of all of those.
But the P shot, I mean, youknow, it could last 12 to 18
months or longer, for for menwho get it and some men who get
(48:28):
it, they love it and they're notever going to miss one.
You know They'll get it once ortwice a year and never stop.
So there you go.
Speaker 2 (48:37):
Yeah Well, that is a pretty straightforward answer
and explanation for each one ofthese things that I'm so excited
we get to offer here, becausewhether you are male, female,
young or old, there can be auseful place for aesthetic and
therapeutic PRP.
So if you're wanting anyspecific pricing at our clinic,
please reach out to us.
We'd love to chat with youabout this if you have even
(48:59):
further questions, because welove having these conversations
and we do hope that today'sepisode gave you new insight
into how PRP therapy can restoreand rejuvenate.
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Speaker 2 (00:27):
Welcome to the K6 Wellness Revolution Podcast.
I'm Elena, one of thepractitioners here at K6
Wellness Center in Dallas, texas, where we blend trusted
expertise, compassionate careand a passion for helping you
achieve optimal health, becausewellness isn't just a goal, it's
a revolution.
In this episode, I get to askSharon our owner, naturopath and
(00:53):
FNP at K6, all about the newestservices she'll be offering
here, including the VampireBreast Lift, vampire Facial
O-Shot, p-shot and Vampire HairRestoration.
We'll discuss how thesetreatments work, who can benefit
from them, expected recoverytimes and other essential
details to provide our clientsand audience with a clear
understanding of how theseprocedures support both
aestheticals and overallwell-being.
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So let's jump in.
Hello Sharon, hello Alayna, solet's start with where did you
learn about these differentprocedures and what made you
want to incorporate them intothe practice?
Speaker 1 (01:29):
Okay, well, I learned I mean PRP I always knew from
more of an orthopedicapplication, but the vampire
treatment, specifically theO-Shot, was the first one that I
heard of, because I am so notcool and never saw that Kim
Kardashian was the one who gotthe vampire facial and made it
(01:50):
famous.
I'm behind the times, but Ilearned about the O shot really
through my clients, because Iprobably had almost a dozen
women over the last year kind ofcomment on yeah, I got the
O-shot and it really helped withincontinence, or I got the
O-shot and now sex doesn't hurtanymore.
And so I was like, okay, I'vegot to find out more about the
(02:12):
O-shot.
And so I looked it up and wentPRP.
Huh, okay, this is interesting.
So, um, I went through uh, drCharles Reynolds organization
he's the one who trademarkedvampire and that's where I
learned to use PRP fortherapeutic benefits to
(02:34):
reproductive health.
Also some aesthetics, but youknow, when we we feel better,
when we look better, right,right, and of course, for me,
I'm interested in anythingnatural that's going to offer
therapeutic benefits to you know, whatever health conditions, um
, but I'm also all about naturalalternatives in aesthetics,
(02:57):
like how can I look youngerlonger without having to inject
synthetic fillers and toxinsinto my body.
I don't want to have surgeriesand operations when I can avoid
it, and I am definitely open tousing my own platelet-rich
plasma which doesn't get morenatural than your own blood
right To help provide someamazing anti-aging results in my
(03:20):
skin.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
So there you go, yeah .
So why don't we explain PRPtherapy first?
Because I know it's a.
It's a common buzzword.
A lot of people may know whatit is, but a lot of people may
not.
So what is it and how does thebody utilize it for its natural
healing processes?
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Okay.
So I think you're right becauseyou hear PRP.
But do you know what it isRight?
And?
And so in your blood, if we, ifwe, if I took a vial of your
blood and I put it in thecentrifuge and spin it at the
top, you're going to see plasmaand it's kind of the yellowy
orange, clear ish stuff, andthen there's a little bit of
(03:57):
more orange and that's yourplatelets, and then below it is
all your red blood cells.
They're the heaviest parts.
So what we're doing is we'reusing the plasma around the
platelets, because the plateletsare what has all of the growth
factors and the parts that helppromote healing and tissue
(04:17):
repair, and it's used for a lotof musculoskeletal injuries,
especially in joints, and iteven is used in aesthetic
procedures like hair restorationand skin rejuvenation and then
for sexual and reproductivehealth as well.
But yeah, it's basically justusing the body's own blood to
(04:39):
promote healing and tissuerepair.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
It's truly amazing what your body has in it, if we
just know how to use it.
So how exactly, you know, do weget the PRP and how?
How does how does it work?
Speaker 1 (04:54):
So you know somebody comes in for whatever procedure
and whether you're here orsomewhere else getting it put in
a joint, you're going to dohave a blood draw, just like
when you go to the lab to have aregular blood draw.
But with PRP you're not usingthe same files, you're not using
the same centrifuge.
It's all much more powerfulbecause we want as many
(05:15):
platelets as possible.
Right, we want to do a lot moreto separate the blood.
So it's a simple blood draw.
It's really the processing ofthe blood that's done
differently and typically, youknow, here we're going to draw
at least 20 milliliters of blood, maybe 40, depending on the
(05:36):
area that we're working on, andthen we put it in a centrifuge
and that spins the blood at areally high speed and that
separates all those componentsof the blood, like we talked
about.
And then we use that, wewithdraw it into you know, a
syringe or whatever we're doing,and we apply it to the body in
whatever treatment form, whetherit's being injected in the
(05:58):
reproductive organs or in thescalp for hair restoration, or
brushed over the face withmicroneedling or in the breast
area.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
Yeah, it's really pretty simple and also for
listeners who might be wonderingand don't know how long does
this process of plateletseparation take?
I mean, is this multipleappointments?
Let's talk about that.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Yeah, so the actual processing of the blood four
minutes.
I mean you spend it for fourminutes.
If you had gravy last night forsupper, maybe eight, Um, but
yeah, it's.
It's a one office visit.
Most of our appointments, forwhatever procedure we're doing,
it's an hour, two hours tops,and some of the longer
(06:46):
appointments you're actuallyspending more time enjoying the
numbing process because anytimewe're going to inject somebody
with something.
We don't want to hurt people, wedon't like to cause pain, so we
like to make things as painlessas possible.
But once you inject plateletrich plasma into the body, it
releases growth factors and itreleases cytokines, and all of
(07:10):
these are the substances thatare going to help promote tissue
healing, and some of it you'renot going to tell right away,
right?
So this is the other timeelement.
It could take a couple of days,it could take a couple of weeks
, it could take up to 12 weeksreally to get the full effect in
some areas of the body.
(07:31):
Um, but for healing and tissuerepair, yeah, once you inject it
, like it gets going in the body, and so that's.
That's kind of cool.
It the growth factors, thoughthey'll also encourage the
formation of, like new bloodvessels, and that will enhance
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blood flow to the affected area.
So, especially like men witherectile dysfunction, you know
it can help with a strongererection.
With the face and this is theone I will tell our listeners,
because I am a listener, not aviewer of podcasts, but this is
one, if you're curious, my faceis now just 24 hours out from a
(08:14):
vampire facials.
You want to know when we starttalking recovery process.
This is what 24 hours.
Good example, right, right, yes,but collagen production is
really one of the big actionsthat we get here, because PRP
promotes collagen synthesis andyou have to have that to have
(08:35):
tissue strength right.
Collagen is what makes us plumpand that's really helpful, even
orthopedically, like if we'rerepairing tendons and ligaments,
not just skin, and then reducedinflammation, of course,
because you get there.
We have different kinds ofcytokines, which are immune
cells, and they can help toreduce inflammation.
(08:57):
But it could also play a partin chronic injuries and
degenerative conditions likearthritis.
So bringing the immune system'sattention to an area to do
something to repair it, that's abig, big deal.
So it can take, yeah, severalweeks to a few months for the
full benefits to be realized,but the lasting effects can go
(09:19):
on and on and on, and on.
Right, it's not always well.
You got to do this every threemonths for the rest of your life
or you lose it all, yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
So if we consider simply the aesthetic side of
things, there are so manyoptions available for people
wanting more hair, fewerwrinkles, facelift, plumper
cheeks, no jowls, and we couldgo on and on right.
K6 has always, you know, reallyconcentrated on healthy diet,
healthy lifestyle, et cetera.
But now you know you'reactually we're getting to offer
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these aesthetic services thatcenter on PRP.
So tell our listeners whatmakes PRP different from
conventional aesthetictreatments that rely on
synthetic fillers or surgicalinterventions.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
That's a really good question.
I love PRP because, first ofall, you're using your body's
own material.
So I could give you aloe vera.
It's very, very natural.
Um, it's not going to do thesame thing Like I could give it
to you for a burn or somethingright, it's very natural, it's
straight out of the earth, butyour blood is straight out of
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your body.
So if we're regenerating stuff,if we're we're doing
regenerative medicine, if we'redoing anything, um, to help with
healing or promote anti-aging,it doesn't get more natural than
your blood.
So that is a really cool aspectof it.
Also, anything you do with PRP,it's minimally invasive, so
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it's non-surgical.
You don't have to go undersedation, general anesthesia.
Like I said, I got my vampirefacialist my second one, I think
just 24 hours ago, and over thenext several weeks, without
extensive damage to my skintissues, my skin's going to
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continue to look brighter fewerlines and wrinkles, less melasma
, you know all of those things.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
So it was noticeable.
When I saw you this morning, itwas very noticeable for any of
our listeners who aren't viewingit was.
It's really impressive.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
It's quite remarkable and everybody's experience is
just a little bit different,because some people don't
actually heal as fast as othersand, and you know, or some
people have more inflammationand, for instance, like one lady
that I did her facial yesterday, her skin was very thin and, um
, she is probably going to takea little bit longer to recover
(11:48):
than me, even though we'reroughly the same age.
But it's just, everybody's at adifferent place and the
beautiful thing about doing PRPis it's your body.
So you talk about meeting youwhere you're at.
It's your body meeting youwhere you're at.
So, yeah, not being invasive,though I really like that part.
And then you know, in the justthe aesthetic benefits, we're
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not doing hair like hairrestoration.
You're using PRP, we areinjecting it in the scalp, um,
but we're not doing hair plugs,so it's not like a real painful
experience.
And breast lifts we can do amore subtle approach to breast
enhancement for women, whetherit's purely cosmetic or maybe
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they're post-explant surgery.
There's just you can do it inan office visit.
It's non-surgical, it is just akinder, gentler way of
approaching some of the thingsthat people are concerned about
and would like to improve andmaybe they're not really willing
to take, like, the big leapinto full-on cosmetic surgery.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
Yeah Well, and you brought up breast lift, so let's
start with that one.
We are obviously never a fan K6, of traditional breast lifts,
and we have a lot of clientswho've had them, but our
objections are due to the manychronic health risks associated
with them.
But this one is different.
What exactly is the vampirebreast lift and what makes it
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different from traditionalsurgical breast lifts?
Speaker 1 (13:20):
So a surgical breast lift is where they're basically
taking the breast tissue andcutting it and then they're
lifting it like putting on apush-up bra kind of right.
Now some women may do implants,which is actually inserting a
silicone bag whether it's filledwith a silicone gel or saline
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or something like that to alsomake their breasts bigger or
more voluminous, right.
But the vampire breast lift,we're actually injecting
platelet-rich plasma into mainlythe cleavage area.
So for women, you know, whomaybe they don't like the way
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their breasts look now, becausethey don't look like they did 10
years ago or before theybreastfed their children, this
is just a more subtle naturalenhancement of breast tissue and
it gives, it does give morevolume and it does give lift.
In fact they say, you know, itcan provide up to like one full
cup size, um, an increase.
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And it's really designed tofill out for women who feel like
they don't fill out theirblouse as well.
It's going to be more in thatcleavage, that upper breast area
, that you get the, the wowfactor, that you get the wow
factor.
Really, smaller-breasted womentend to get bigger results
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simply because there's lessthere to begin with.
Right and surgical lifts, theydo carry a higher risk of
complications.
I mean, you're cutting into thebody so the risk of infection
is a little higher, and I'm notsaying this happens and I'm not
trying to scare people offanything, but these are
differences.
But you do have, you know, riskof infection and scarring and
there's breast tissue damagethat can happen, while you know
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the vampire breast lift has amuch lower risk profile and the
complications that could happenthere, the potentials are pain
and swelling and bruising.
You know there's much less riskfor infection and scarring
because these are just simpleinjections.
We're not cutting anything.
Also, vampire breast lifts aregenerally less expensive than a
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surgical breast lift or animplant.
And the results for some peopleand I think this is where it
gets into body types, like forsome women, if they, it depends
on how big you are, um, itdepends on what your goal is, um
you, your results could, couldlast, you know, like 12 to 18
months and and maybe a couple ofyears, and they say that really
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, if your, if your weight stayssteady, you know those, those
effects are longer, long, muchlonger lasting, um, but a lot of
women do have weight changes,you know, through the seasons of
life, and then also some womenare like yeah, that was good,
let's do it again, andespecially women who have
implants.
You know women, uh, ladies andlisteners out there, if you've
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had implants and then you havethat breast gap, you know, women
feel very conscious,self-conscious about that and
they want to fill in that gap,they want that cleavage, and so
that's what this does.
So that's that's.
The big differences is one isvery minimally invasive and the
other one's purely surgical.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
And can anyone get this?
Or rather, you know who wouldbenefit most I guess you said
small breasted women or womenwho've had the implants and have
the gap.
But you know, can anyone get it?
That's really the question Iknow a lot of people ask me.
Everyone wants to know.
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
I you know ideal candidates is going to be a
woman who has like mild tomoderate sagging.
Now, if you're, I'll be crudehere for a minute.
If your breasts are, you know,hanging out with your belly
button, I don't know that thisis going to do the trick for you
, but it does give your breastsa perkier look without the need
for surgery.
Post-pregnancy changes.
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You know, pregnancy takes atoll on breast tissue.
Everything gets swollen andthen it shrinks again, and so
the vampire breast lift isreally nice.
To just improve skin qualityand then just restore some of
that lost volume up top.
It's kind of nice.
And then, ideally, you knowwomen who want a more natural, a
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more non-surgical approach.
This is a better option forthem.
And you know, obviously andthis isn't to say people
everybody has unrealisticexpectations.
But women who come in and go,you know, I just wish I had just
a little bit more Women withrealistic expectations, both of
what their body's capable of,what's going to look good,
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that's kind of a big deal.
It's not going to give the samelevel of lift or volume that a
surgical breast lift is.
But not everybody requires that.
Now, if you have enormousbreasts that create shoulder
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pain and back pain and, like Isaid, they're hanging down at
your hip bones, then you reallymay need reduction and, you know
, a breast lift and that may bea purely surgical experience for
you.
But the vampire breast lift formany, many women is a great
option and it's a great intro.
A lot of women don't know do Iwant a breast lift, do I not?
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Yeah, I think that's that'syeah, that's it Okay.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
And is there much recovery process for this
procedure?
Speaker 1 (18:59):
No, not really.
I mean, there's really not anydowntime for this.
Most patients go straight backto work.
We go back to their normalactivities, exercise right after
the procedure, because you'rein the office maybe an hour Some
.
You know some women mayexperience some swelling and
bruising Okay, but it usuallyresolves within just a few days
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and you could be a little soreand tender where the injection
sites are and that typicallyalso resolves just within a day
or two.
But you know, potential sideeffects could be the bruising,
the swelling, some tendernessand just right around the
injection sites.
It's not everywhere and we'renot injecting all over the
breast.
Like I said, mainly it's thatupper cleavage area.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
And it's only a few injections, right, yeah?
Speaker 1 (19:49):
Typically four injections on each breast, but
it's a pretty good little volumeof of um PRP that's put in and
there it's.
It's pretty rare that I'venever heard of an infection with
the breast, with the vampirebreast lift.
So, but I mean anytime youpierce the skin, I think you
risk infection.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
Right, that's where cleanliness comes in.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
Yes, absolutely.
That's why we're clean, yes andwow.
So we would say, wow, rare,right.
There's a small possibility ofinfection, just like there is
with any procedure.
There's a small possibility ofinfection, just like there is
with any procedure.
And then you might bleed just alittle bit, like you would with
any shot or injection.
And I have not seen anyallergic reactions to PRP,
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especially since this isself-sourced, like we're not
taking my PRP and putting it insomebody else.
But if you know you, you couldhave an allergic reaction to
some part of it, whether theanesthetic, the topical
anesthetic, or the needle or PRP, you know which would be really
strange.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
So the vampire breast lift and vampire facial.
They sound similar because oftheir names, but the application
is actually kind of different,isn't it?
Speaker 1 (21:03):
Yes, it is.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
What is the vampire facial and how is that applied?
Speaker 1 (21:07):
Yeah, and I think this is a good point to point
out.
So vampire is a trademarked umprocedure, a name by Dr Charles
Runnels, and you may find peopledoing PRP facials, prp breast
lifts, things like that, butthey're not.
Uh, he's really the pioneer ofthis and so anything that he has
(21:31):
uh condoned or or licensed,then it's called vampire, or
licensed, then it's calledvampire.
So how very male, right.
But the vampire facial, it'sdifferent.
Yes, then the breast lift,because the breast lift is
injections into the breasttissue, whereas the facial we're
using a microneedling pin and amicroneedling pin.
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Some people know what it is.
They may have had this done.
It's, it's a, it's a pin and ithas a little head on it.
We use disposable heads thathave multiple needles that will
pierce the skin anywhere from0.5 to 2.5 millimeters in depth,
which doesn't sound likea lot,until it's rolling over your
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face and it can be painful.
But what we do is we numb youup.
Real good, just like you wouldgo get numbed, you know, if
you're going to do a tattoo oranything but um vampire facials,
taking those two thingsmicroneedling to create small
tunnels or um injuries to theskin and then you brush over or,
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you know, rub over the PRP, soit's not injected into the skin,
it's applied topically into allthose little micro tunnels and
that's how the growth factorscome about.
So it's really nice becausewe're not using chemicals or
toxins, right?
Speaker 2 (22:52):
Right, right.
And how does this procedure,you know, support the body's
natural healing mechanism toimprove skin health?
Speaker 1 (23:01):
Well, the idea behind the mechanism of action of
microneedling is twofold right.
First, you've got hundreds ofthousands I think they even say
a million needle punctures bythe end of your facial At that
teeny tiny depth.
I know it sounds terrible, it'slike I just had this done
yesterday, but it didn't feellike a million injections.
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But all of this triggerscollagen production.
So like a mechanical fractionallaser, but without the risks of
scarring and there's no burnsthat come with this.
It's just very microneedlingcan be done very safely with
really all skin types and andthat is a difference too Like
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when you're doing lasers andthings, you have to be careful
with it, how sensitive your skinis and the skin type.
But okay.
Secondly, so you got themicroneedling right and then PRP
right.
That's again using your ownblood, using your own platelets
to use those growth factors andput them all over the skin to
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stimulate tissue repair and thathelps promote collagen
synthesis.
So, like my fine lines, youknow, around my nasolabial folds
, my crow's feet, my sun damage,it all just kind of magically
gets whitewashed.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
Yeah, I mean it covers an array of skin concerns
in this procedure.
Like you just mentioned, italso helps with acne scars right
and dark circles under the eyes.
I mean, what are some of theother concerns that people would
benefit from?
Speaker 1 (24:41):
Well, yeah, agne, scars are a big one, especially
people who have those pittedscars.
We can really get in there andsmooth that out.
Now.
It's important to know there'snot going to be a one and done.
If you have really bad scars,you're going to need to do this,
maybe every four to six weeksfor four to six months, you know
something like that.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
But that's encouraging for the people who
have that.
You know there is hope it canget better.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
Yeah, I agree, and sun damage especially.
It's so good to reverse theeffects of sun damage, including
like hyperpigmentation,sunspots and melasma, which for
me, my melasma is more on myneck and so I'm very excited
about getting.
I had Mary go to town on meyesterday.
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I was like make it really,really red.
But that helps to reduce theappearance of those
hyperpigmentation areas bypromoting cellular turnover,
right.
So that's going to address theuneven skin tone.
And then even dark circlesunder the eyes you can go with a
microneedling pen like right upunder the eyes and it can
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improve circulation in that area.
So again, if you have darkcircles, it's going to help
reduce the appearance of that.
And then I think, just havingmore youthful and plumper skin,
because you know, as we age,like you start to get jowls and
things get crepier.
In fact I was looking at myhands the other day.
I was like I need to do thatThen microneedling and PRP on my
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hands Cause they're starting toget a little crepey, hard on
them.
But yeah, that I mean just justincreasing collagen production
I think is so essential for theelasticity of your skin and just
the firmness too and thethickness.
So for people with friable orthin skin, you're going to get a
better result doing this.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
That's amazing, and this doesn't have much downtime,
right?
I mean, as we've already toldeveryone, you had this yesterday
, so it's a pretty quick in andout type of thing.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
It absolutely is.
Yeah, I had one not even, Ithink 23 hours ago, and my
skin's not suffering at all, soyour recovery is typically
pretty quick.
You don't want to go out afteryou have it done.
I generally recommend you knowyou want to go home, because we
brush all this PRP on your face.
You don't go home and wash itoff.
That's, that's expensive stuff.
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You leave that on, you sleepwith that on and you don't wash
your face till in the morning.
You want to avoid activitiesreally for 24 to 48 hours, like
intense heat or, you know,sweating, that kind of thing.
I usually tell people skip yourworkout in the morning if
that's your thing.
You don't want to touch yourface a whole lot but you do want
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to hydrate.
You don't want to takeibuprofen or Tylenol or any of
those things because we want theinflammatory response right and
that goes for all of theseprocedures, right?
Thank you for pointing that out.
Absolutely, it is important toallow the redness and the
swelling.
That's the goal, right, yeah.
Because, you know, yeah, youwant some redness swelling and
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it goes down, like for me, thisis, you know, one day after and
by this weekend, I'll wear a hatif I go outside, but I'll
protect myself from the sun inthat way, but you won't even be
able to tell today.
I'll protect myself from thesun in that way, but you won't
even be able to tell today.
You know, by three days lateryou won't even know.
So it's really nice, yeah.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
Nope, it's so fun.
And that's the face.
Right, folks, we can help theface.
Now let's hear how we can helpthe hair.
How does vampire hairrestoration work to promote hair
growth?
Speaker 1 (28:18):
Because this sounds too good to be true, it's not
the same as getting a hair.
The hair plugs, you know, hairtransplants, but it's those
growth factors again in the PRPand it can reverse the process
of hair.
It's called miniaturization.
Now you have to have a hairfollicle.
This won't work if you don'thave hair follicle.
So um, um.
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But if your hair follicles aregetting weaker, they're getting
smaller and with men especially,going through like male pattern
baldness, you would notice itlike the hair feels thinner.
Where maybe they have thickhair on the sides, that the hair
shaft itself is kind of thin ontop.
The, the PRP helps torevitalize those hair follicles
and that's kind of cool.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
So yeah, and what are some of the root causes of hair
loss that this procedure helpsto address?
Speaker 1 (29:08):
Well, you can get hair loss from a lot of
different things, right?
I mean, heredity is one ofthose things, but hormone
changes through your life andthis is men and women things.
But hormone changes throughyour life and this is men and
women um medications, stress,whether chronic or acute, um
hair treatments like women whocolor their over, process their
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hair men do it too.
Um autoimmune disorders, umnutritional deficiencies Uh yeah
, there's a lot of things umthat can play a part in in hair
loss.
And PRP says, okay, well, you'vegot a few hair follicles, so
let's work with that.
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And then it starts to improvethe quality of that and it
definitely like thickens thehair shaft, so it stimulates
those hair follicles to kind ofenter the growth phase and then
it improves the blood supply,which is also a part of hair
loss is poor blood supply.
So getting more nutrients andoxygen to the hair follicles is
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important.
And then cell regenerations.
Those growth factors in the PRPwill help to promote the repair
, the rejuvenation of those hairfollicles, the damaged ones.
If they're dead they won't comeback right or PRP cannot make
them come back.
Speaker 2 (30:32):
So this is really more for when it's thinning.
Do it before it's gone, payattention to it before it's gone
, so we can turn that shiparound.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
If your head is a cue ball, I don't know that it's
going to help.
I mean, you're always welcometo try, yeah.
Speaker 2 (30:46):
Yeah, and how does PRP therapy compare to other
hair restoration techniques,such as scalp massage or red
light therapy, which do havetheir benefits, but they're
different?
Speaker 1 (30:57):
Right.
Well, in PRP again, we've gotthose growth factors, we've got
all of those platelets and soit's going to really stimulate
under the skin and we do numbthe scalp right, but it is
injection.
We're kind of nice, but it'sgoing to encourage more hair
growth at the hair follicle andit's going to thicken the shaft,
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so it is a natural approach.
Then there's scalp massage andeverybody should do it If you
feel like your hair is thinning.
It's very non-invasive, it's agood head massage and it may not
directly stimulate hair growthbut it will help improve the
health of the scalp.
It helps with circulation.
And then there's like red lighttherapy and red light.
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I love red light therapy.
I think it's good for so manythings related to skin and wound
healing and hair quality.
But using um red light therapyyou're basically using low level
laser lights to stimulatecellular, cellular activity in
the hair follicles, and so thatwill also help improve
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circulation or blood flow and itcan improve the health of the
follicle as well.
But you know everybody'sdifferent and the best treatment
for you is kind of kind ofdepend on what you need and the
severity of your hair loss.
I mean, if you're bald as a cueball.
Speaker 2 (32:20):
You may be headed to Turkey for hair plugs, you know
I don't know Well, and I knowtime and money can be a huge
deciding factor for people whendeciding hey, which remedy
should I try?
But I also know the otheroptions, like the red light
therapy and scalp massage.
They can take a lot longer thanPRP.
When a person gets this PRPhair restoration treatment,
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what's the typical recoveryprocess for this and how soon do
you start seeing the hairgrowth?
Speaker 1 (32:49):
So the recovery is kind of, again, different for
everybody.
It's really minimal.
I mean you can leave here andgo do whatever you want to do.
Your scalp's going to be alittle tender because you know
you could get, you know, like Idid a full scalp the other day
and I did so.
I did the front and then I didthe back or the crown of the
head and I think there were over100 injections easily, because
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it's about every centimeter thatwe're injecting, and so your
scalp may be a little bit tenderbut, um, it's, it's not a big
deal.
You can go do whatever you needto do the next day or that
evening or whatever.
Healing can take up to two weeks, um, if somebody's got a real
sensitive scalp and that justmeans bruising or swelling or
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just, you know, scalp tenderness.
But yeah, you can go back toyour normal activities 24 hours.
But again, just like the face,don't go home and wash off that
PRP.
Just let it.
Let it lie, you know, till thenext day, try to wait 24 hours.
And one thing about it, thoughshedding.
It can be normal to justexperience a little bit of
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shedding and that's sometimespart of the natural healing
process and it's not necessarilylike a big cause for concern,
but initial changes.
Like are you going to see yourhair next week and go, oh my
gosh, I can see a difference?
Not necessarily, but I have hadsome men say within the first
month I can actually see my hairthickening up a little bit not
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necessarily new growth, butwithin three to six months
that's really when most peopleare going to see the more
significant results and like newhair growth at that point and
you know the thickening of thehair shaft, increased hair
volume, and then six to 12months.
You really you know, some peoplemay need just four monthly
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treatments and then good, I'llsee you in a year for
maintenance.
But some men need more.
Some men may need six months,but it could still take up to 12
weeks after you get thoseinjections for it to fully take
hold.
So, um, we usually tell peoplefour to six monthly treatments
and then every year you want todo one or two maintenance uh
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sessions, but you're going tosee really good results.
That's when you're going to seereally good results.
Speaker 2 (35:11):
Okay, well, seems like a pretty easy procedure to
maybe get a little more hairgrowth.
Now, though, let's talk aboutthe O-Shot, because I feel like
this is one that a lot of womendon't realize even exists and
that a lot of women need.
What is the O-Shot, and howdoes it aim to enhance female
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sexual wellness?
Speaker 1 (35:34):
Okay, the O-Shot gets really misunderstood, I think,
and then some women know exactlywhat it's about.
But the O-Shot, it'snon-surgical and it's all for
enhancing female sexual wellnessby injecting the PRP which
we've fully covered into some,into the clitoris and the
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vaginal area, and that is toaddress issues like low sex
drive or low libido, women whohave difficulty achieving orgasm
, or maybe they experience a lotof vaginal dryness and so sex
isn't very comfortable, womenwho have pain during intercourse
(36:23):
.
This can really help.
But even better than that and Ithink this is almost it's equal
, if not more the driving factorfor some women is the reduction
in stress and urge stress, urgeand continence.
So yeah, it's, it's, it's a,it's a multi-purpose tool.
Speaker 2 (36:45):
Yeah, it really is, and I mean, it sounds like it
can promote a lot of aspects ofpelvic floor health and overall
hormone balance, can't it?
Speaker 1 (36:54):
It can.
It provides like improvedmuscle strength because it can
stimulate again tissueregeneration and collagen
production.
That can help strengthen yourwhole pelvic floor muscles and
that can improve your bladdercontrol and it can help reduce
the incontinence that many womengo through after childbirth.
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But with age, the PRP can alsorejuvenate and thicken the
vaginal walls, which is going toimprove elasticity and natural
lubrication.
So as you go throughperimenopause or menopause and
vaginal dryness becomes an issue, this can really help de-age,
(37:53):
if you will.
The vagina, yeah, can help a lot, um, particularly, you know,
women in menopause.
Um, but concerning overallhormones, like if it's a young
person or something you know,the jury's out it's we're not
injecting hormones, so we're not.
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We're not specifically tryingto steer hormones in a certain
way, we're really more about thetissue itself and helping.
So some some women feel likethat O-shot just puts them over
the edge, like, yeah, estrogentherapy helped a little bit and
then I got the O shot and nowit's like sex is great again,
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you know.
So that's kind of cool.
And then, um, yeah, stress andurinary incontinence, that that
involuntary when you cough, whenyou sneeze, when you jump, when
you laugh too hard, uh, the,the PRP therapy can really help
in that too.
But some women, even who havethe chronic pelvic pain, it can
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alleviate some of the pain fromdifferent causes like childbirth
trauma.
Some women have even reported,you know, that they have like
surgical mesh and that the OSHAhelps.
Whether it's because of theplumping up of the vaginal wall,
I don't know, but there is thatpart of it too, and yeah, so
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what should clients expectduring and after this procedure
in terms of recovery and results?
Speaker 2 (39:27):
And I know I've asked that for each one, but they're
all a little different.
Similar but different.
Speaker 1 (39:31):
They are.
The unique thing about theO-Shot is the injections
themselves take like less thantwo minutes.
You spend most of theappointment getting numb.
Speaker 2 (39:42):
Also very important.
Speaker 1 (39:45):
Very important.
That is right.
It is minimally invasive and webasically use a little bit of
lidocaine as a local anesthesiabecause we want it to be a very
comfortable experience for women.
So some women, you know,afterwards they may have a
little tenderness at theinjection site, but overall it's
very well tolerated.
(40:07):
Most women say, oh, that was it, it's like this big non-event
and it's like, okay, I did myjob very well.
But after, after the procedure,after your o-shot, usually you
can go like straight back to it.
Most women, um, had one womanthat she came in she worked on
her computer, she was on herlaptop the entire time, like had
(40:27):
no idea I had injected her, andshe's like, oh, that was the
easiest thing I've done all week.
She left.
So yeah, it's very easy.
Just, you get dressed, go backto work.
There's no downtime.
You may spot or bleed a littlebit because again, we've
injected, you know, veryvascular tissue.
A little bruising andirritation may be noted, you
(40:50):
know, but again a couple of daysand that's that's going to be
about it.
Um it.
We do recommend that women dosome pelvic floor exercises
afterwards just to enhance thetreatment, because of course the
stronger your pelvic floor is,the better your overall pelvic
health is going to be.
Yeah, so.
But women, you know, should youknow, our goal is for you to
(41:13):
experience improved sexualfunction, um, including
increased sensitivity, arousaland orgasm.
So for some women it's a gamechanger in their intimacy level
with their partner.
Speaker 2 (41:28):
So, it's important, it's really important.
And now that we've talked abouthow to support the lady's
pelvic health, what about men?
Because I know there's also theP-Shot for men and it's got
some similar but differentintended benefits.
So can you talk about this one?
Speaker 1 (41:45):
Right.
So the P-Shot for priapus shot.
It's non-surgical as well andit is for male sexual health,
specifically, or more accurately, for erectile dysfunction.
And again, we're using PRPinjections into the penis and
(42:08):
the whole goal of this is toimprove erectile function, you
know, to increase sensitivity.
Um, this is not something youknow.
Men generally ask I'm going topick on men.
Can I be sexist for a second?
Speaker 2 (42:24):
I mean, they make it easy.
Speaker 1 (42:26):
Will it get bigger?
And it's like, well, it might,might not, you know it's.
It's not about a size thing, itis really about function.
So, because the goal, thebenefit that we're after is to
have for men who strugglegetting a good, strong erection,
is for them to have a stronger,firmer erection, so through
improved blood flow and tissueregeneration, right, um, but
(42:50):
also for for them to haveincreased sensitivity, then
they're going to feel morepleasure during sexual activity
and just you know, underlyingissues like decreased blood flow
.
Now, if you have, like diabetesand you're not taking care of
your diabetes, it will causevascular issues and you will end
(43:15):
up with erectile dysfunction,among other things.
But if there, if there areother age related or, um,
external factors, or even stressrelated factors, this could
help, you know, just strengthenthe erection for for many men.
So yeah, and if you grow alittle bit, then great, but I'm
(43:40):
not promising that Right, that'snot the goal here.
No it's not an important thingto know, like this isn't a
permanent solution, right?
No, it can offer verysignificant improvements and it
can last for a long time.
It's different for every everyman.
Some men are like yeah, I liketo do this every six months.
(44:00):
And then some men are like Ihad one two years ago, it's
great.
So I think you know there are alot of things that play into
that, and age is going to be oneof those things, and then other
, you know, other healthconditions are going to really
be influencing factors.
Speaker 2 (44:17):
So yeah, who's a good candidate for this procedure?
I mean, you've kind ofmentioned it, but who would
specifically be?
Speaker 1 (44:24):
So men with erectile dysfunction or ED, you know a
lot of them.
That's the big one, yeah, that'sthe big one.
And so some, also men, who arejust experiencing a decline in
sex drive or overall performance.
You know, whether it's it's acompletion thing or being able
(44:44):
to, yeah, just enjoy the wholeexperience.
You know, having a firmererection, having more
sensitivity, that can help.
On the physical side of things,it can.
You know, men with I didn'tmention this earlier Peyronie's
disease, which is a conditionand it causes a curve in the
(45:05):
penis and it can be quitepainful for men, and so this can
help.
And I think this is also a goodtime to uh, I didn't, I don't
think about this, but you know,when you do this, for for men to
uh, I didn't, I don't thinkabout this, but you know, when
you do this, for for men, it's alittle different than women.
Women get your O shot and go,you're done.
You know, enjoy your sex orenjoy not leaking.
Um, men with the P shot because,um, of the nature of the
(45:28):
differences in our anatomy, theyhave to use a pump, you know,
twice a day for several weeks topump the penis just to really
help get the full effect of thePRP, because, remember, it takes
the PRP several weeks to reallyfully get going.
So that's something, you know,that should be considered.
(45:53):
But prescription medicationsokay, some that should be
considered.
But, um, prescriptionmedications Okay, Some of those
can cause unintended sideeffects, like you know um, I'm
sorry, impotence and P-shot canhelp with that.
Whether it's blood pressuremedications or antidepressants
or things like that.
There are a lot of medicationsthat can have unintended
consequences.
(46:21):
But men in relatively goodhealth are generally going to do
better with the P-shot.
They're going to get a betterresult.
But it's really important formen to understand that the
results can vary a whole lotfrom one person to another.
And before you talk yourselfinto or out of a pee shot, it's
just really important to have agood, open, honest conversation
with a qualified healthcareprovider.
(46:45):
Right, and make sure thatyou're comfortable doing it,
that you're willing to put inthe follow-up work so that your
investment in your sexual healthis going to pay off, and also
just have realistic expectations.
You know it can offerimprovements, but if your
erectile dysfunction is 95%driven by emotional stress or
(47:08):
lifestyle stress and you don'tdo anything to fix that, this
isn't necessarily going to be.
You know what you think it is.
It may help but it may not fixeverything and you know, like
any medical procedure, there'sgoing to be risks like bruising
and swelling and infection,because we're piercing the skin.
Speaker 2 (47:27):
But, there you go, and so you talked about the
recovery a little bit for this,because this does include a
little bit more than the otherprocedures, but it still doesn't
take more than you know a fewdays for the initial bruising
swelling to go down Right, andthen a couple of weeks.
Speaker 1 (47:44):
Yeah, you know, and again, different for everybody.
Like a young, healthy guy maysay, oh, in three days, man, I
was rocking and rolling,everything was great.
Whereas, you know, an older manin poor condition may go well,
it took a month but things gotbetter.
But, yeah, full benefit.
It's going to be different foreverybody because it does depend
(48:06):
on age, it does depend onexternal factors.
What are the underlying causesof the erectile dysfunction?
Whether it's trauma ormedication or hormones or some
mixture of all of those.
But the P shot, I mean, youknow, it could last 12 to 18
months or longer, for for menwho get it and some men who get
(48:28):
it, they love it and they're notever going to miss one.
You know They'll get it once ortwice a year and never stop.
So there you go.
Speaker 2 (48:37):
Yeah Well, that is a pretty straightforward answer
and explanation for each one ofthese things that I'm so excited
we get to offer here, becausewhether you are male, female,
young or old, there can be auseful place for aesthetic and
therapeutic PRP.
So if you're wanting anyspecific pricing at our clinic,
please reach out to us.
We'd love to chat with youabout this if you have even
(48:59):
further questions, because welove having these conversations
and we do hope that today'sepisode gave you new insight
into how PRP therapy can restoreand rejuvenate.
Naturally, if you havequestions or want to learn more,
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