Skin Care That Really Works

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
The following is a paid podcast. iHeartRadio's hosting of this
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the ideas expressed.

Speaker 2 (00:09):
Well Doctor Arthur Perry, he's one of the top plastic surgeons.
He's got offices in Manhattan, New Jersey. You know what,
He's been doing the show here on w R for
years and years and years. Very popular show and a
great plastic surgeon. Everybody has questions on this subject, so
he's the guy to ask.

Speaker 3 (00:25):
Doctor Arthur Perry, and the public wants to know.

Speaker 2 (00:28):
The public doesn't get a damn. And I went to
his office and I said, I said, look at my face.
He goes, yeah, look at your face. We're going to
do with your fan What can you do with his face?

Speaker 4 (00:36):
I go like that, I say, what I got.

Speaker 1 (00:37):
Go look at this, I'm getting old.

Speaker 2 (00:39):
I said, I want to maybe you can fix it
up a little bit.

Speaker 4 (00:40):
Doctor Oz, are you there, I'm here Ark, and I
want to get a plauged you. Having worked with you
on a book and numerous other activity, you want to talk.

Speaker 3 (00:46):
To Arthur Perry the best in plastic.

Speaker 4 (00:49):
Surgery, workable knowledge, but also your grace at delivery content
which is why it's been a blessing to have you
on my show so many times.

Speaker 3 (00:54):
When I was a resident at the University of Chicago,
we had.

Speaker 4 (00:57):
A smart as a really brilliant giftus position. I want
to pay you bit the highest true I can give
to a surgeon, which is when people come to you,
they don't come for an operation, they come for an opinion.
And that's why I trust you with my friends and relatives.
I didn't realize we were going to get the Michael
Jordan of Plastic Surgeons nine O two and zero bows
to this guy.

Speaker 3 (01:15):
And welcome. This is Board certified plastic surgeon, doctor Arthur Perry.
And you are listening to What's Your Wrinkle right here
on WOAR And if you're listening in your car on
a Wednesday morning, well probably isn't war. It's got to
be the podcast straight talk about cosmetic surgery. And I
hope you all are subscribing. I know, I know my

(01:36):
friends are, and you should too. All right, this is
the show about you, the show about your wrinkles, the
show about your jowels, the show about your small breasts
or droopy breasts or enormous breasts, or maybe a buttox
that's too large or too small. Now, that's the That's
what we talk about on this show. I'm a board
certified plastic surgeon, host of What's Your Wrinkle for twenty years.

(02:00):
Today we are broadcasting from the studios the iHeart Studios
in Midtown Manhattan, Beautiful iHeart Studios, with Noa Fleischmann as
my sidekick in the in the booth there fending the
you know, he's taking the phone calls and he's protecting
the station from God knows what I might say on
the air. We talked about ozebic vulva a couple of

(02:22):
weeks ago, and I know he had his finger on
the bleep button just in case. But you know, I
talk about all those things because as a plastic surgeon,
I'm in the business of making you look better. That's
what we do. Plastic surgery is all about improving your
self esteem, and we do that sometimes by kind of

(02:43):
turning back the clock. If you've got jowls and wrinkles
and you're you know, you're sixty something years old, and
you look in the mirror and you see your mother,
and you loved your mother, but you know, you don't
want to look like your mother. You want to look
like someone twenty years ago, or fifteen years ago or
ten years ago. Go well, so we can rejuvenate you.
Or maybe just maybe you look in the mirror when

(03:05):
you're twenty five years old or even eighteen years old
and you say, I don't like that. Nos, I think
my chin is too small. I think my breasts are
too small. So plastic surgeons will sometimes change your appearance
to something that you have never been before. But the
goal of good plastic surgery is to make you look
you ready for this one. I want you to look normal.

(03:28):
I want you to look average. Average is a good thing.
You know. A lot of people want to stand out
and make themselves look really bizarre. Look at all those
Hollywood types with these enormous buttocks and enormous lips. Is
that really what we want? I mean, the average person
just kind of wants to fit in, and plastic surgeons

(03:48):
help you do that. So that's what I do. What
do you do? Well? You listen to this show and
you get through life the best way you can. And
one of the things that a lot of people do
just to look as good as possible is to use skincare.
In fact, something like ninety percent of women use skincare,
and we're not just talking about soaps beyond soaps. And

(04:12):
for men, well, the numbers are smaller, certainly in the
ten to twenty percent. Most men don't buy a lot
of skincare other than maybe they'll put some moisturizer on
during the middle of the winter when their skin is chapping.
But most men don't. But women, you know, you just
have to walk into the big stores, walk into Macy's,
walk into Nordstrooms, walk into Bloomingdale's or Saphora or alto

(04:36):
any of those stores, and it's incredible, right, You look
around and there are so many products, so many products
out there. How do you choose is what's worthwhile and
what's worthless? Well, this is a show that we're going
to try and get through that. Now. The disclaimer, of course,
is that I have my own line of skincare, and
because of that, you have to take what I say

(04:57):
with a grain of salt, you know, biased. But my
skincare line started actually with this radio show almost twenty
years ago, when I was in the middle of winter.
The very first day when I was on the air,
I started talking about skincare and someone heard me talking
about my skincare program that was very complicated that I

(05:18):
designed for my patients. You know, I would do a
multi step program. I would, you know, have my patients
use vitamin C products and vitamin A products and fruit acids.
And it was complicated because there really was just you know,
kind of complex regimens out there. But someone happened to
be listening to me who owned a very large company,

(05:38):
and I wound He called me up and he said,
you know, would you create a line of skincare for me?
And that's how I got into the skincare business because
I said, I'll do it, but I'm not going to
put my name on just some something off the shelf.
I need to create the best possible skincare. So when
we come back from our break, we're going to talk
about what really constitutes good skincare, what it's all about,

(06:01):
what works and what doesn't, And we're going to talk
about my skincare program. I'm doctor Arthur Perry, host of
What's Your Wrinkle right here on WOR. I hope you're
enjoying this great fall weather. We're gonna take a short break.
We'll be back after these words. Did you know that

(06:22):
your skincare may be hurting you more than helping you.
I'm Board certified plastic surgeon, doctor Arthur Perry. The foundation
for looking good is clean, healthy skin. So I've created
a program that is so simple that everyone can stay
on it long enough to see real results. It starts
with an incredible skin cleaner called clean Time. It's actually

(06:43):
good for your skin. Protect your skin with my Daytime
SPF twenty cream in the evening, Feed your skin with
my Powerhouse Nighttime Serum. Nighttime has Vitamin CNA, antioxidants and
skin brighteners. And if you like moisturizers, well, I've created
soft Time with our minds and Vitamin D. Throw away
the bags of useless products and try doctor Perry's Skincare.

(07:06):
Join the thousands of people whose skin is healthier. That's
doctor Perry's Skincare on Amazon dot com. And don't forget
to listen to my radio show right here on wor
Every Saturday evening at six pm. You're listening to What's
your Wrinkle with doctor Arthur Perry.

Speaker 1 (07:21):
What's your Wrinkle?

Speaker 3 (07:23):
And We're back. I'm board certified Plastic serch and doctor
Arthur Perry, and this is what's your wrinkle right here
on woar and I hope you're having a great evening.
You know, as we get into the fall, the UV
index begins to go down, but you still need your sunscreen,
and we'll get into that later in the show. You
do need if here's your rule of thumb. You know,

(07:45):
it's pretty simple. If the UV index is over three,
and you say, what on Earth is the UV index?
You don't have to know what it is. Just look
on your iPhone, look on the weather app. It says it.
You just scroll down. You'll see something you probably haven't
even noticed before, but there's a UV index, and if
it's above a three, then you need sunscreen that day.
All right. To understand skin care, you need to first

(08:09):
underscan stand your skin. What it does. The skin is
the biggest organ in the body, and you know we
take it for granted, right, It's just this thing here.
It's not as important as the liver, the brain, or
the heart, or the lungs or one of these very
important organs that I learned about in medical school. The
skin is the thing that we all see, so you know,

(08:31):
you identify as a human because you see someone's skin,
and that's enclosing and containing all the things that are
necessary for your body to run. And really your body
is there just because it needs to take care of
your brain. It's all about that. But we won't get
into the philosophy of being alive. But let's just look

(08:52):
at your skin. Now, your skin, if you think about it,
there's really only two important layers of the skin. The
outer layer is called the epidermis. Now, that's the water
proofing layer, so it keeps water out. Of course, we
know that when it rains, it doesn't soak into our body.
It basically repels, although if you sit in the bathtub
long enough you'll kind of hydrate your skin a bit.

(09:13):
But the epidermis's role is to keep things out and
waterproof your body. And then the second layer down if
you kind of skin your knee, then you see what's
called the dermis. That's the second layer, and that is
basically collagen. It's the structural layer of our skin. It's
what holds us together. So without collagen, we'd be kind

(09:36):
of a jellyfish, you know, we wouldn't have much shape.
We need collagen in our skin and around our bones
and all our organs. So our skin really has the epidermis,
which is the waterproofing layer, and then the dermis, which
is the structural layer that contains collagen. Now, the waterproofing
layer is also designed not to keep out just water,

(09:59):
but chemicals and toxins and things like that, so that
in the old days, if you walk through a field
of some sort of a berry and there was a
little verry juice or fragrance that got on your skin,
if it was toxic, you would die like an insect
or a frog mighte because their skin is not so durable.

(10:21):
But our skin keeps out the toxins. It's designed to
do that. But because it keeps out the toxins, it
has an implication in skincare. Skincare, you know, we put
these different chemicals on our skin. I know everybody wants
to think of skincare as as wholesome and the word
is clean now, right, you know, and organic and holistic, right,

(10:45):
But in actuality, all skincare is just a bunch of
chemicals that we're putting on our skin. We're not designed
to put anything on our skin, and in fact, anything
we do put on our skin we try and keep out.
It's only the very small molecules that can get through. So,
if you think about it, anything that can actually do
something like a nicotine patch or an estrogen patch, or

(11:08):
a skull polymene patch if you've had surgery, those patches
are all very small molecule chemicals. And in skin care also,
the chemicals that actually can get through are all small molecules. Now,
I don't want to bore you, I don't want your
eyes to glaze over, but the things that really make
a difference, like vitamin C and vitamin A and fruit

(11:29):
acids and things like that, they're all very small molecules.
And the things that we have to inject into the skin.
You've heard of collagen, right, Yeah, I just talked about it,
But if you put collagen on your skin, it's an
enormous molecule. It's like trying to squeeze an elephant through
a chain link fence. It's not getting through, but that
little tiny mouse might get through because it's a smaller animal. Well,

(11:53):
these small molecules can get through the skin, the big
ones can't. So things like collagen and haluronic acid and
botch a line on toxin that's botox. Those things that
we hear about in skincare well they're way too big
to get into your skin. They just sit on the
surface of the skin and do almost nothing. So that's

(12:13):
why we need to inject those things. It penetrates that
layer of the skin that keeps things out. So if
you want a big molecule to get in the body,
you have to put it in somehow, either to eat
it or to inject it. So what does that mean.
There's big implications with skincare. And when you go into
those stores and you see these funny ingredients like charcoal

(12:35):
or placenta or exazomes or you know, there's so many.
Every couple of years, you know, the industry is looking
to sell new products and they want something really sexy
and really interesting because they know that you'll buy it.
You'll buy these things. Whether or not they work, it
doesn't matter. So the peptides, well, they were one of

(12:56):
the early things about twenty or so years ago that
we're designed to revolutionize skincare. Absolutely revolutionized skincare, right, But
if you think about it, the peptides, and I have
thought about it, and I've read every paper that's pretty
much ever been written about skincare. I do this as
a scientist, and I do it as a plastic surgeon,
as a chemist, Well, the peptides can't possibly penetrate the skin.

(13:21):
They can't because they can they're too big a molecule.
And it's like trying to break the speed of travel
faster than the speed of light. You know, it's a
physical principle, and you can't go faster than the speed
of light. There's no way you can do it. Even
Einstein counn sorry, And you cannot get substances that are
used through the skin without injecting them. So the entire

(13:44):
field of peptides actually can't even do anything. It can't
and that's why the companies that have peptides, and I
won't mention brand names here, but the companies that put
peptides in their skincare also they're not stupid. They know
you're going to want to see some thing, so they
might bundle them with vitamin C or vitamin A or
one of those things that is scientifically proven to make

(14:06):
a difference. And you have no idea that when your
skin starts looking a little bit better and you've got
this one hundred and fifty dollars cream on your skin,
you think it's that expensive ingredient and in fact it
was the very inexpensive vitamin C for instance. So when
I look at skincare as a scientist and as a
plastic surgeon, and when we go all the way back

(14:26):
twenty years when I first designed my Wonder what I called,
you know, the best skincare you could possibly come up with,
that was what I wanted. The first thing I wanted
to do was keep it simple, right, we want to
keep skincare simple because you know and I know that
if you have a six step morning program and an

(14:48):
eight step evening program, you're going to do it. The
first month, you'll plunk all that money down, You'll walk
out of that store with bags of stuff, and you'll
do it for a week. And the second week it
might cut a couple of things, and by the time
you get to a month, maybe you're at half of
those and you just won't stay around to you won't

(15:08):
use it long enough to see the results. We're gonna
take a short break now. I'm board certified plastic surgeon,
doctor Arthur Perry, host of What's Your Wrinkle. When we
come back from the break, we're gonna talk about what
really does work and why they say that sixty is
the new fifty. But while you may feel and act fifty,

(15:29):
the mirror doesn't lie. But that's where plastic surgery comes in.
I'm board certified plastic surgeon, doctor Arthur Perry, and I
love helping patients look younger and better. If you've got
sagging cheeks, jowls, and that dreaded turkey gobbler, it might
be time for a little nip and a tuck. You
look more rested and yes, younger with my short scar
facelift and the artistic injection of wrinkle filler or a

(15:52):
laser peel. But that might be just what it takes
to get you looking as good as you feel. Let's
sit down for an hour consultation in my new Park
Avenue office. Together we'll come up with a plan to
help you look your best. Give me a call at
eight three three Perry MD. That's a three three p
E R R Y M D. Check me out on
the web at Peryplastic Surgery dot com, and don't forget

(16:13):
to listen to me doctor Arthur Perry, every Saturday evening
at six pm right here on WOR. You're listening to
What's Your Wrinkle with Doctor Arthur Perry What's Your Wrinkle?
And we're back. I'm board certified plastic surgeon, doctor Arthur Perry,
host of What's Your Wrinkle and on the internet in
the podcast world, it's called straight Talk about Cosmetic Surgery.

(16:35):
And you know why I did that. I named it
that because if you're searching for me, you know, how
do you know What's Your Wrinkle? But if you're searching
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It's free and you'll get it sent to your mailbox
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got hundreds and hundreds on the internet, on Apple podcasts

(16:57):
and on iHeart podcasts and all over all the podcast world.
All right, So, and by the way, if this is
the first time you're listening to this show, where have
you been twenty years at wor And you know, I
love every Saturday evening being here, and I hope you
love listening to the show if you are interested in

(17:18):
seeing me. I'm a real plastic surgeon. By the way,
I do facelifts, I do eyelid lifts, I do Lippos suction.
Last guy in the country to call it that Tommy
tucks and breast augmentations, and I'm one of the few
guys that actually really enjoys injecting filler in a very
artistic and creative way. I won't make you look like
a duck. So give me a call. I've got offices
in Manhattan on Park Avenue in eighty fifth Street and

(17:42):
in Somerset, New Jersey, and I am now the plastic
surgeon at well By Messer, which is a wonderful multi
specialty practice for wellness on sixtieth Street between Park and Lexington.
All right, so that's who I am and who are you?
You're the person getting the skin care and being duped
by so many companies because most skincare doesn't work. That's unfortunate,

(18:07):
but it's really true. So if you see a product
that contains vitamin C in it and they say put
it on in the morning, you know that it can't work.
Why can't vitamin C work in the morning. It's really
very simple. It gets destroyed by ultraviolet light. And I
wonder why would there be these products out there? Are
the companies? Do they just not have, you know, real clinicians,

(18:30):
real chemists. Do they not understand this or do they
not care? I don't know. I don't know what the
answer is, but that's one of those things. Or these
companies would use a type of vitamin C that the
body cannot use. You know, we're very unique. We have
to use something called l ascorbic acid. Llescorbic acid. Go
back to tenth grade chemistry to understand that one. But

(18:50):
you know, the federal government allows other forms of vitamin
C to be called vitamin C, but your body can
only use elliscorbic acid. So if you see something called magnesium,
a scorable phosphate or something like that, well it doesn't work.
There's no proof that it actually does. Vitamin C is
the single best ingredient for skincare because not only is

(19:12):
it necessary for the production of collagen, it is you
can't you know, if you don't have vitamin C, you
can't make collagen. And remember scurvy, you know, your wounds
would fall apart. The sailors coming over from England to
the United States started getting scurvy until they put limes
on board, and that's why they were called limeys. They
didn't understand that it was the vitamin C and the

(19:35):
limes that kept them from getting scurvy. But that's what
it was so. Vitamin C is one of those chemicals
that we need. We can't make it, and only one
specific form can you yourselves see. And it's so good
because it stimulates the formation of collagen and it's necessary
for the formation of collagen. It also xfoliates and it

(19:56):
tastes good and you can get forty times the level
vitamin C if you put it on your skin in
a ten percent concentration as opposed to just eating it.
Eating it's good. You know, eat one thousand milligrams a day.
That's good. And by the way, since I'm telling you this,
I'm not your doctor. I'm not unless I am your doctor.
So when I say these things, it's not specific medical advice.

(20:18):
It is simply my opinion. If you want to change
your regimen or take vitamins, you need to speak to
your own doctor. So anyway, back to vitamin C. It
is the single best ingredient most studied. There is something
in the area of four thousand publications that support the
use of vitamin C and the skin. It thickens the skin.
If you put it on your skin for about six

(20:39):
months and a ten percent concentration, you can document that
your collagen will thicken, and that is asking an awful
lot if you think about it. If you are a
programmed to thin your skin from age thirty on and
you do, you thin your skin at a rate of
one percent per year every year until it gets pay
per thin when you're in your seventies, right, and just

(21:00):
kind of slowing the process, that's asking a lot. Imagine
stopping that thinning process, that's asking an awful lot. And
imagine actually reversing the process and thickening the skin. That
is really asking your skin to do an awful lot.
And it takes good skincare to do that, but it
is possible, and vitamin C is what does it? Not
these placental extracts and the stuff that you can't even pronounce,

(21:25):
it's ridiculous and so expensive, just basic skincare.

Speaker 1 (21:28):
No.

Speaker 3 (21:29):
When I designed my skincare program, I wanted it to
be simple, simple enough so that you could stay on
it long enough to see the effects. And while I
can measure effects of my skincare at one month with
very sophisticated computerized cameras, you will not see a change
in your skin in the mirror. And that's really what
counts with your friends, with your family and in the

(21:49):
mirror until you hit about three months. But if you
stay on a skincare program long enough to see the effects,
you will look better. Can I guarantee that, of course,
but most people do. Your skin looks better, It looks smoother,
less wrinkles, less rough, less brown, sploshy pigmentation. And the
number one part of my skincare is called nighttime. You

(22:12):
put it on your face at night because vitamin C,
just like I said, and also vitamin A are light sensitive.
You put them on at night so that they stay on.
If you put those on in the morning, then they
don't do anything. They're inactivated right away. So at night
you put this. And why is it a serum because
you don't need garbage on your skin. Every single ingredient

(22:34):
in my skincare has a reason. Now nighttime makes sense.
Put it on at night. You've got vitamin C, vitamin A,
and fruit acids, which are exfoliants. They thin the dead
layer of cells on the surface of the skin and
let the other ingredients penetrate. That's number one. The second
most important part of my skincare regimen. Believe it or not,

(22:54):
it is a bar soap and people are saying, what
do you mean bar soap? Why would I use bar soap?
How how plebeian? Oh my goodness, how old fashioned. Well
guess what. You don't need preservatives in a bar soap.
So that's a great thing right there. And I designed
this bar soap to be the correct pH, the right

(23:16):
pH of your skin. Almost all soaps are alkaline, more
like baking soda. The right pH of your skin is
supposed to be acidic, and acidic means it will decrease
the the proliferation of bacteria and yeast on your skin.
And that's a good thing, less inflammation, if there's less
bacteria and yeast. So how about the SuDS. You know

(23:38):
everybody likes sulfates, right, bad for you? I used ki Yaha.
It's from the Chilean soap bark tree, and it is
wonderful so soap the forgotten step child of skincare. It
is actually a very important step. You want to keep
your skin looking good and use a good quality soap.
So this week we've talked about the soap and the nighttime.

(23:59):
Next week we'll get into the other components of skincare.
So once again, my name is doctor Arthur Perry. If
you're interested in me learning about me, you go to
my website. It's Perry Plastic Surgery dot com. And the
products that I talk about on the show, the Nighttime,
the Daytime, the clean Time, and the soft Time, they're

(24:20):
all great products and they're on Amazon dot Com. That's
how you have to get them. Oh, if you have
absolutely must, you could call my office and my employees
will send it to you. But Amazon's a way to
go with free shipping and all the subscribe and save
and all the things that Amazon has to offer. You know,
I ordered something from Amazon yesterday and I got it

(24:41):
twelve hours later. It's incredible what they can do. So
Amazon dot Com and if you're interested in making an
appointment with me two one two seven five three, eighteen
twenty in New York. Noah, thanks so much for great engineering.
We'll see everybody next week. Bye bye. Now, did you

(25:03):
know that your skincare may be hurting you more than
helping you. I'm Board certified plastic surgeon, doctor Arthur Perry.
The foundation for looking good is clean, healthy skin. So
I've created a program that is so simple that everyone
can stay on it long enough to see real results.
It starts with an incredible skin cleaner called clean Time.

(25:23):
It's actually good for your skin. Protect your skin with
my Daytime SPF twenty cream in the evening, feed your
skin with my Powerhouse Nighttime serum. Nighttime has vitamin CNA,
antioxidants and skin brighteners. And if you like moisturizers, well
I've created Soft Time with seramides and vitamin D. Throw
away the bags of useless products and try doctor Perry's Skincare.

(25:47):
Join the thousands of people whose skin is healthier. That's
doctor Perry's Skincare on Amazon dot com. And don't forget
to listen to my radio show right here on wor
every Saturday evening at six pm.

Speaker 1 (25:59):
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