Our guest on this episode is Lovely Laban, a Nurse Practitioner: a friend and colleague of Kyle’s. Lovely is an N.P. who specializes in aesthetics. She and her husband Jake own several clinics here in the Portland area and in Santa Monica, CA. She shares her story with us and says that she ‘derives her joy in making people feel better about themselves.
The discussion today, as usual, is quite lively and we learn a lot about aging and our looks. The fundamentals of beauty starts with our SKIN. Diet/stress/genetics/smoking/sun/environment all determine the condition of our skin and how it ages.
We chat about:
-Helpful supplements
-How protein intake affects skin elasticity
-Environmental pollutants
-The basics of good skin care
-Peels, facials, masks, and facial exercises
-Bio-identical hormones and aging
-Botox, fillers, and surgery
-Fat transfers
-Weight loss later in life
-Collagen
-Acne and hyperpigmentation
-Parabens in skincare
-Racial and genetic variants as it relates to skin
In closing, we ALL agreed: SELF CARE IS NOT SELFISH: when you feel good about yourself, there is nothing you cannot accomplish.
How you feel INSIDE is reflected in how you look OUTSIDE. Take care of you
TOP 3 by Lovely:
1. Eat a balanced diet, low sugar, hydrate!
2. Topical Retin A plus daily skin care: go from thin(serum) to thick(moisturizer); wear SPF
3. Some injections as able
Meditate/seek happiness: again, you are as beautiful as you feel inside.
It is OKAY TO CARE ABOUT YOU.
