Dr Robert Freund

New Podcast on “The Entrepreneurial MD”

From entrepreneurialmd.com:

Robert (Rob) M. Freund MD has big dreams.

As a practicing plastic surgeon with a restless, curious mind, he has joined the elite crew of physician inventors with patents and products that actually sell.

Not only does he tinker and invent, but he has also found time to write two books (the second is soon to be published), while ensuring he doesn’t miss his son’s baseball games. I was relieved to hear that he doesn’t sleep much – otherwise I’d have to believe he is super-human.

Listen to this lively 20 minute podcast in which Rob offers a glimpse into his full and creative professional life. Then tell us what you think …

Fat Transfer

Fat Transfer is a great technique that has taken a lot of criticism in the past.
What is it? What are its’ limitations?
Fat is taken from one area of the body and injected as a filler into another area of the body.
Why?
Fat can be used to fill a contour defect from liposuction. It can be used to correct a contour defect from other surgeries, like breast biopsies or mastectomies.
Fat transfer can be used to improve cosmetic deficits.
It can be placed in wrinkles, deep facial folds or the hollows under your eyes. It can also be placed in hollow temples, along the jawline, around the eyes or in the lips.
It can also be used to reduce the aged look of older hands. Remember that the hands can give away the age of even the youngest looking older person.
The benefits of fat over other synthetic fillers is that it is natural, safe (no allergic reaction to your own tissue) and most people have enough to fill large deficits (unlike synthetic fillers which come in expensive 1 milliliter vials).
The complaints in the past have been about lack of durability and too much injection at one time. These complaints go hand in hand. The doctor knows that only the live tissue will survive; he/she also knows that only a small number of the cells that are injected are alive, therefore they inject a large amount of fat to compensate. This large amount is lumpy and distorted and then goes away in an irregular fashion.
The Viafill system – Just out! is designed to provide a larger number of live cells thus eliminating the necessity of overfilling.
Fat Transfer has moved back into the conversation as the most important cosmetic and reconstructive filler. Stay tuned for more information.

Sleep ‘n Beauty

Early to bed,
Early to rise,
Makes a man
Healthy, Wealthy and wise.

But the saying should add—younger looking too!

I write this after a roller coaster ride on wall street this week. No one I know is sleeping well and everyone is afraid that their job is on the line.

One thing I am sure of: like all cycles, these bad times will end. However, the stress of the times and what it does to your skin may not! You see – every night when you go to bed, the levels of a stress hormone called Cortisol goes down. Conversely, diminished sleep and added stress makes the level in your bloodstream rise.

What does cortisol do to you? Well, Cortisol modulates many bodily functions: it effects your ability to think, to reason, to love, but most importantly it affects your skin and youthful looks. The most important thing to keeping your skin looking and feeling young is to keep the content of collagen and elastin in your skin high. When you were a baby, collagen and elastin levels were extremely high in your skin hence the term “soft as a baby’s bottom”. But if you can read this, those levels are getting lower each and every day. One of the enzymes that assists in reducing the levels of collagen and elastin is called metalloprotease. This bad enzyme which makes you look older, goes up as cortisol rises. Thus, lower the cortisol level and you lower the level of metalloprotease and subsequently collagen and elastin rise – this means healthier, younger looking skin. A great example of what not to do is to become the president of the United States. That sleepless, thankless, stressful job makes everyone age rapidly during their term. I guess the reason presidencies only last 4 years was to give president’s skin a chance to recover.

In the end, the more sleep you get the better you look.That advice is the cheapest advice on beauty that you will ever get on this Blog!