Ok dont want to get sued and I probably could have said iphoning and you might have gotten where I was going with this blog. What did apple do with Iphone? They took something that everyone had already made in a thousand different shapes sizes and iterations and made it simple and useable. I remember unpacking my first imac (so I might as well have called it appleing it or Steve Jobsing it) but most of you would not gotten the reference.

In the seventies when I got my first mac even to unbox it, it said open me first so i just did what it said plugged it in and then it told me what to do. It was that simple. So people iphone everything in iyour life. or ifon it. I mean take what is and make it simple and understandeable and useable by everyone.

Ask yourself what would Steve Jobs do? How would he make it easier to understand easier to use? That is the secret to the most valuable company in the world. Every time they take a product they make it easier to use. Look at their air pods. How many earbuds have you owned? After I lost my $250 airpod pros I bought a similar one for $30 that lasts for days and works drop dead perfectly with my phone. Does it hook up to my ipad and computer and seamlessly switch between all the devices? No. Did it require manual connecting? Yes. So that is the difference. Make it easy and perfect and unmatchable and you can charge ten times more than anyone else in the world.

Ulthera are no 1 and 2 on my list.

Ulthera. Check out all of the lawsuits. Click here. When have you ever heard of a lawyer, let alone many lawyers take on case, unless its a slam dunk. There are even multiple lawyers that are doing class action law suits against them. You can decide on that. We were literally offered the first device in New York but we heard about potential nerve damage, so of course we said no. Ulthera utilizes ultrasound. We love it for the body to melt fat safely. Ironically we love melting fat vs freezing fat which we will discuss next. But the nerves on the face are too close to the surface of the skin, which is suspected to be the reason for nerve damage. Whether its temporary or permanent is up to the courts to decide. But why take the risk we have been doing Thermage for 17 years many thousands of successful treatments. Patients love it and return periodically to repeat the treatment because you do lose collagen every day of your life. I only repeated my Thermage after 3 or 4 years when I was in my fifties. In my late sixties I started repeating it every year.

Coolsculpting was so obviously bad that I built two websites to address the biggest concern back in 2016, paradoxical hyperplasia. http://www.Coolsculpting.nyc and http://www.Fatfreezing.info Too bad Lina Evangelista didnt see my websites. She could have avoided the disaster that happened to her. Here are a few articles about that. She was even the cover story in People Magazine she suffered so badly physically that it affected her mentally as well. She claims she was brutally disfigured and sued them for $50 million dollars. But what do I know? I am not even a doctor. But I know how to read. And when we read about the potential horrific side effects, Dr Lisa wisely chose to not even think about bringing that technology into our office. It was written in plain english. I copied Coolsculpting’s website, with their own warning and created my websites to warn people back in 2016. Talk about evil doctors only caring about money. How could anyone in good conscience offer that treatment? And many still do.

So either the doctors are stupid or so greedy they are evil. I understand it. If you read the potential side effects you would not get within 100 ft of it. The crazy part about it all is that even when it works. I will even say it might work over 90% of the time. Although I have only spoken to one person in 17,000 phone calls who said they were ok with their results. But if you melt the fat with a radio frequency based technology, the side effect is smoother tighter skin. So does it make sense to risk being brutally disfigured and if it even worked, you would have more loose skin? vs safely melting your fat, body shaping with a side effect of smoother tighter skin.

I will never forget. I went to the Coosculpting seminar. ( I always keep up on every technology even if I dont think it is good) I have to be able to justify what we do, explain what the latest technologies have to offer. I cant just say off the top of my head this is the way it was 6 years ago.

So I go to their seminar. The salesman says “let me show you something” He google searches bad coolsculpting. You will get the same results today. You see what he even described as a “shark bite” What looks like a dent in someone’s abdomen. He said “isnt this great? You can sell them 8 areas x $600, four in the front and 2 on each flank. So now you can make $4800X 4 or $19,000”. I say for what, to give them 8 shark bites vs a technician working with a wand vs being stuck in specific spots and creating a number of dents.

Its really despicable. Like I said the sad part is you can get a smoother tighter result for less money with any radio frequency technology. We happen to love Exilis but there are probably 50 other technologies that use radio frequency. To be complete before you go running off. Radio frequency needs to be operated at a very high temperature to melt fat. So you better go to someone with at least 10 years experience. It would actually be painful without medication. But you better be with an extremely experienced technician. Not a doctor. Doctors dont operate devices every day so they dont have the most experience. They went to medical school to become a doctor not a technician. I cant believe I even have to say that. And I cant believe to this day I still get uneducated people who want the doctor to treat them. It defies all common sense and logic. Although most people I speak to immediately understand it when I point it out.

While we are on this subject. Which do you think is better? A technician with a wand constantly reaching peak temperature then moving to the next area of a bunch of pads, each stuck to one spot? I have noticed that the “medspas” are now offering cutera which is merely stuck to one spot. Funny its actually kind of like Coolsculpting in the sense its stuck in one spot. Fortunately its not as “effective”. meaning that the effect is so small you will never melt enough fat to see an indentation. The absolute best we can offer today is a wand based technology, where the operator can go to the highest possible temperature and then when she reads she is at the critical temperature she can move to the next area and offer a smooth treatment that tightens the skin while body shaping.

Its really so simple that even us lay people get it immediately when it is explained to us.

One last detail sorry to toot my own horn. But we brought the first BTL Exilis device to New York in 2009. That was 9 years before BTL flooded the United States with Emsculpt. Thats the one you see on social. media. People are happy to show off abs. They are not so happy to show off other treatments. Can you imagine someone going on Instagram. saying look at all of my ugly cellulite or stretch marks before I did these treaments. That doesnt happen. We had one lady that was so thrilled she said show my ass. Of course no face or name. Most of our patients say hell no. Not even just my body part.

Sorry for the long story. But BTL is relaunching Exilis regulated to a much lower temperature so the “med spas” with their completely uneducated inexperienced personnel can offer an ineffective treatment without harming anyone. If you dont go to the higher temperature you are getting a “fairy dust treatment” Fairy dust is the term used for a light sprinkling of vitamins vs an effective dose. So I am borrowing that word to describe an ineffective treatment.

You dont want anyone operating these machines at the effective temperature that isnt extremely experience. Neither does the manufacturer. They dont want to get sued, when someone gets burned. To be clear we have performed probably 20,000 successful procedures since 2007. And we do operate these technologies at the highest most effective temperatures. That is why the most wealthy come back year after year to repeat their treatment. Oh sorry. To be clear in case you didnt notice the difference between your baby and your grandmother, one is full of collagen, the other has been losing collagen every day of her life, just like you are. So the treatments need to be repeated. The older you get the more frequently you will need to repeat treatment.

But it beats the heck out of not making collagen and merely stretching thinning skin over bones.

Heck I dont know what to say. I started there. I read all of Norman Vincent Peale’s books in the 80’s I had to. My 20 something brain had a lifetime of the worst negative thoughts and ideas.

But lets assume the majority of people reading this are adults and just ruminating. Isnt positive thinking kind of like talking to yourself positively? For a small minority I imagine if you say over and over again, I want to be healthy or wealthy eventually your subconscious will say “Ok then what should we do?” So perhaps it is a path. And maybe it is a tool that should be part of your arsenal.

I think the big problem is we are all different. And if you do not have the capacity for silence or being creative, its probably better to repeat your positive thinking in a kind of mantra vs silly self talk or the 80,000 negative thoughts you had yesterday.

I remember when I was in my mid 20’s running 5 miles a day I would repeat I want to be healthy and wealthy or something like that as a rhythm while I jogged. But in retrospect I dont think it did anything. The real magic happened with Psycho-Cybernetics by Maxwell Maltz. It was movies of your mind. PS I said listening to others was like watching a movie. Maybe watching the movies in your mind like coming attractions. Wow! where did that come from. I think its a great idea.

I have a few posts and even one I wrote today about visualizing. We all do it and truly is extremely powerful. It is more powerful than willpower and we do it every day. Read my post on how to visualize. Why is it a part of so many religions? And by the way I am discounting the supernatural nature of visualizing.

I am merely talking about the practical nature of it. For example if your wife had visualized how the couch would look on the opposite wall 30 feet on the other side of the room vs telling you to move it and lets see how it looks when it gets there you would both be happier and you wouldnt have had to move it back, and get divorced ( just kidding) All she had to do was imagine how empty the wall she removed it from would look, Just sayin.

Maybe I articulated it incorrectly. Positive thinking is probably the starting point of positive visualization. If you think of all the wonderful positive things that could happen then you can think about all of the paths to get you there.

So it will get a small thumbs up from this judge. It is better to think positive than negative. It is better to visualize, and the ultimate goal would be to feel your future every day so it becomes part of every decision.

People often will fulfill your expectations. So there is a danger of thinking negatively. Its kinda like saying “you wouldnt want to do this would you?” the exact opposite of “lets do this its going to be great” and or “lets do this cant you just imagine how great its going to feel to do this?”

But now we are getting into NLP is it visual auditory or kinesthetic. At least approach your self talk or positive talk from that angle. That alone will multiply your results. And for some it might be exponential. ie so that exact same sentence “lets do this cant you just SEE how great its going to be” vs “lets do this doesnt it “SOUND” great?” vs “lets do this, imagine how great its going to FEEL”.

Some people are more one way or the other and it is worth noting. But as I said previously nothing is as great as the present of presence. Start with that gift in all of your encounters in all of your relationships. Listen first. You have no idea what the other person is going through at this moment.

PS what about presence for you? Now I dont mean to listen to the BS self talk. The clue to differentiating the self talk from real ideas and creative thinking is easy, the first clue is it a thought you have had before. Literally one of the 50,000 you had yesterday? Secondly your mind should be quiet not repeating anything negative, nothing from the past no regrets, no worries about the future. Now you are ready to hear what your real mind can create.

Now some of the “masters” out there will call it your subconscious or your superconscious or even the supernatural or God. I dont care what you call it. It will be different and it will be in a different voice from a different place. It will be partially knowing and partially creating. Kinda of like me writing this. It just flows and creates and creates a little more. PS I just thought of “coming attractions for you” hmmm. Where did that come from?

And yes in your alone time banish all negative talk replace it with positive talk or positive thinking or positive imagining. And or in silence find your own creation.

A set of factors that increase the risk of diabetes, heart disease and stroke.

A waist circumference of more than 35 inches for women and 40 inches for men

High Blood Pressure 130/80 or higher

Fasting glucose higher than 100mg/dl

High triglycerides more than 150 mg/dl

Low LDL less than 40mg/dl for men and 50mg/dl for women

WHERE THE RICH AND BEAUTIFUL GO TO STAY RICH AND BEAUTIFUL

Ever wonder why the rich are beautiful ? In fact now a days there isn’t even a hint of plastic surgery.  Long gone are the days of “cat woman”face lifts replaced by all kinds of strange sounding technologies with equally strange sounding names, like Exilis, Emsculpt, Thermage, Carboxytherapy.   Then we have super high tech nutrition with vitamin boosts unparalleled anywhere in the world.  Rumor has it certain celebrities have called upon a certain NYC nutritionist to meet them on set to administer IV vitamins to help them get through filming in New York

I went to a nondescript location in NYC just this past week to “investigate” what the rich and famous are doing.  There was an “Emsculpt event” that I attended. I met the “beauty doctor” Dr Lisa Zdinak, hormone specialist Dr Lisonel Bissoon and celebrity nutritionist, Dr Oz Garcia who just returned from Gstaad.  Not naming names here but when you pay to summon your nutritionist to Gstaad who charges $25,000 to see him in NY I cant even begin to imagine what kind of money we are talking about,  But suffice it to say I found the secret hideaway of the rich and famous. In fact its so private there is no name on this nondescript upper west side building.  The people who live in this residential buildng have no clue that there are even doctors on the first floor of their building since there are no names on the doors only the the occasional rolls Royce waiting outside and the sometimes glimpse of a celebrity.  The only thing missing was the peepholes that the speakeasys used to have to see who was at the door before they let them in. The clientele that flocks to  this trio hails from all over the world. Precision Aesthetics,  according to their website has a large International clientele, stretching from Europe,  to the Middle East and all the way to the Far East, but no names of course and many bi-coastals from LA as well.  I heard whispers about royal families, Grammy award winners,  runway models needing a butt lift, but obviously no names, all very tight lipped. Online, I found Gwyneth Paltrow  in ads for Thermage, but Precision Aesthetics swears she is not one of their clients

Ironically for the first time some clients are willing to admit to the latest “bio-hack” /beauty treatment, Emsculpt which was what the “party” was for.  According to practice manager John Aslanian, Emsculpt is the biggest and fastest introduction in the 12 years he has been researching equipment.  And he has been researching all over the world.  Together with Dr Lisa they actually go to the AntiAging Congress in Monte Carlo to see International equipment not yet available in the US so they can be first. While there in 2009 Dr Lisa, first with the Thermage CPT was lecturing to the international doctors in attendance about the new Thermage tip. That is where he told me he met BTL Industry, then President, Jan Zarsky, who tasked the two of them to bring the first BTL Exilis to the United States 10 years ago. A machine that shrinks fat which he says results in smoother tighter skin vs freezing fat which actually creates more loose skin.    BTL is the same company that makes the new six-pack ab machine and butt lift, BTL Emsculpt

Ok enough tech talk,  What does this mean to you ?  Patients who frequent this trio,  Dr Lisa Zdinak/Precision Aesthetics, Dr Lionel Bissoon and Dr Oz Garcia often call weeks in advance of their arrival from Europe to coordinate their appointments so they can do a little skin tightening with Precision Aesthetics, walk across the hall to Dr Oz Garcia for a high tech vitamin drip, and finally, one suite over to Dr Lionel Bissoon to check and modify their hormones to be their optimal or Personal Best, which ironically is Dr Oz Garcia’s brand name.

So a small visit here might cost you a small fortune, but you can tighten skin anywhere from head to toe, reduce stretchmarks or cellulite and even shrink your fat with heat at Precision Aesthetics.  Then you can cross the hall and fine tune your eating, supplements and learn about the next high tech hack from Dr Oz Garcia. And keep your hormones youthful with Dr Lionel Bissoon.   I once heard said about hormone replacement,  “As far as mother nature is concerned once you are past childbearing you can shrivel up and die.” You can either go along with her plan, or you can keep your hormones at their youthful levels with natural hormone replacement. Natural hormone replacement is very different than synthetic hormone replacement

Almost  forgot why I was here. I am biohacking my abs with  Emsculpt at their open house event.  This newest iteration from BTL industries has taken the Aesthetic Industry by storm.  It is the first “cosmetic” treatment that is user friendly.  Because its not “cosmetic”  Technically its physical therapy.  Rather than just melting fat which is purely for cosmetic purposes, this makes muscle with the side effect of burning fat. Everyone is proud to admit they exercise, Even if they are actually just laying there doing nothing while their abs are engaged by the machine to make 20,000 crunches and lose fat in the process. Don’t tell anyone but I have heard that many women come in for Emsculpt  say “screw it just melt the fat with the other machine”  I get it, not sure I want to add muscle myself yet,  But again at least it lets you brag about exercise vs “don’t tell anyone I melted my fat”

You  cant say we don’t have choices,  Now if I can just find an extra $100,000 I can spend the day here and come out looking like a teenager again.  Hopefully as I earn my wrinkles I will also earn enough money to banish them no matter what method I choose,  Time to do my crunches. Actually not me, the machine will do it,  I can write this on my phone, while my abs are interacting with the machine and doing crunches. 2018 anonymous