Shining with Dr. Diamond | The Morgan Stewart Show

Ajouté : 2026-05-21

[00:00:01]Hey everyone, I'm Morgan Stewart and welcome to the Morgan Stewart show. I'm going to be talking about pop culture, fashion, my personal life, and just a warning, I will be giving my opinions on everything. And those opinions are subject to change. Okay, now let's get into it.

[00:00:16]>> Can you believe what a professional I am?

[00:00:18]>> It's hard to believe. I've never seen you in anything other than aloe.

[00:00:23]>> Okay, you guys, we're just going to raw dog this and start because we've been talking so much [ __ ] already. I am so [ __ ] excited. I'm being genuine for the first time ever. The incomparable Dr. Jason Diamond is here today.

[00:00:35]Clapping.

[00:00:36]>> Tammy, his what? What are you, Tammy?

[00:00:38]Are you Are you Dr. Diamond's right?

[00:00:39]You're my right hand, but are you his right? Like, how do we explain who you are?

[00:00:44]>> You know, I just try to get him to the finish line.

[00:00:46]>> You do everything. I just try to get him to the finish line.

[00:00:48]>> That is a That is a good answer. Can we talk about the finish line and how we started today? Sure.

[00:00:52]>> Okay. So, we had a record start time of 10:30.

[00:00:57]We've been waiting. It's now 10:40. We started because Dr. Diamond, who went to medical school and is, you know what, you are double certified in plastic surgery because I researched you for three days. I didn't know you were that talented. I >> It's hard to believe.

[00:01:09]>> Unbelievable. Comes gets gets checked in and sits on the couch and waits for us for 20 minutes and doesn't come to the actual booth to record.

[00:01:17]>> Yeah, there was a nice little soundproof like glass light. I just sat in there, kicked my feet up on the couch. I just Yeah, it was great. I was watching like basketball videos from last night.

[00:01:25]>> Oh, were you? What were you watching?

[00:01:27]Let's get into that. Well, I was just watching the NBA playoffs, you know. I was just kind of because I was working late, so I didn't get to watch them. So, I was just flipping through that. I had spent the last 30 minutes doing that.

[00:01:34]>> Okay. Wait, first of all, are we in the playoffs?

[00:01:36]>> Uh, the Lakers are in the playoffs. Yes.

[00:01:38]>> Oh, okay. We're again, are we going to make it to the finish line?

[00:01:40]>> No, there's no [ __ ] way.

[00:01:42]>> No. No [ __ ] way.

[00:01:43]>> So, we're paying LeBron to just basically almost get us there and then not. He needs a Tammy in his life.

[00:01:47]Basically, >> he needs a Yeah. And he has it, but he's hurt. That's Luca. He's hurt. So, LeBron can't do it by himself.

[00:01:53]>> You're Wow. Also, by the way, the audience has checked out. Okay, let's get it. Do you want to talk about you?

[00:01:59]>> You want to talk about you?

[00:01:59]>> My favorite thing to talk about. It's the only thing I know.

[00:02:01]>> Okay. First of all, I do want to say I'm so excited you're on the show because first of all, I've seen all the podcasts that you've been on. This is going to be really [ __ ] fun.

[00:02:07]>> Great.

[00:02:08]>> Cuz we're going to get into all the technical [ __ ] but I want to talk about you as a person.

[00:02:11]>> Great.

[00:02:11]>> Starting with And Tammy, you jump in as much as you want. Okay, >> sounds great.

[00:02:15]>> What time did you get up this morning?

[00:02:16]>> Uh, probably 6:15.

[00:02:18]>> Is that an everyday occurrence?

[00:02:20]>> Yeah, pretty much.

[00:02:21]>> 6:15. Yeah.

[00:02:22]>> I'm obsessed with people's morning routine. So, this is how we start every interview because I'm a hard-hitting journalist.

[00:02:27]>> 6:15. No, I Can you believe it? By the way, are you looking at my face?

[00:02:31]>> I'm looking at your face.

[00:02:32]>> You see that? I need more Botox already.

[00:02:33]>> You look great.

[00:02:34]>> No, I look great cuz of you. But remember, we practice our script, which is what? My cheekbones are naturally what?

[00:02:39]>> High and lateral and chiseled and model.

[00:02:42]>> You've improved them over time, which we're going to get into everything I've done, too. Okay. 6:15. Walk me through that. You wake up.

[00:02:48]>> Yeah. Wake up.

[00:02:49]>> What's for breakfast?

[00:02:50]>> So, I don't eat breakfast right when I wake up. I get up. Okay, >> I go right downstairs.

[00:02:56]>> I go outside. I put my bare feet in the grass and I stare at like the lowle sun.

[00:03:02]>> I do that for probably Oh, and and by the way, as I go out there, I take this exact bottle of water, the exact one, and I stand out there and I drink my water and I stare at the sun for you five minutes. It's lowle sun and I just stare because you can't really see the sun. It's just coming up. But I do that for like five minutes. That's the first thing I do. F >> And what does that do? Does that ground you?

[00:03:22]>> It well it resets your circadian rhythms. Like one of the most important things you can do for your It's like a biohacking thing. One of the most important things you can do for your body is tell it it's time to wake up and get moving. And that's what lowle light does. It it it does that. Like if you look at when the sun is high, that doesn't reset your body. Your body knows when the when the sun the the light levels are low. Like the sun is just coming up. It knows that. That means okay, time to wake up. And that sets the this the cascade for the whole day. So that when it's night time, your body knows it's time to wind down. So it's a whole thing. It's a perfect way to start the day.

[00:03:54]>> Holy [ __ ] that's some surgeon ass [ __ ] >> Okay, so post sarcadium rhythm getting in line here. Do you do this on surgery days, too?

[00:04:01]>> I do it every day.

[00:04:02]>> Okay, so what then? When do we have breakfast? And what are we eating for breakfast?

[00:04:05]>> Okay, so I'm not there yet.

[00:04:07]>> Oh, I'm sorry. I don't want to rush you.

[00:04:08]Tell >> I got Let me You want his Xanax?

[00:04:11]>> I tell Dr. I mean, every time I go to his [ __ ] office, which is often, I'm like, if you were under six feet, I wouldn't put up with any of this [ __ ] [ __ ] Under 6'3, I wouldn't put up with this [ __ ] The only way you get to be this snarky is because of how tall you are. So, >> well, I'll take it.

[00:04:28]>> Okay. So, let us So, walk us through when when you're ready to get a breakfast. Tell us.

[00:04:32]>> Okay. I'm not ready yet. No rush. So then I So after I've done that for about 5 minutes, then I sit down outside and I just sit in like a in a chair and I just drink this water and just sort of like do some breathing and just how and however long it takes me to drink this bottle of water. It's usually about, you know, 20 minutes. I sit there slowly, drink it. Then I make my coffee, black coffee, just black coffee. And then I have that outside also. I sit outside.

[00:04:56]Wow.

[00:04:56]>> And I have that.

[00:04:57]>> What if it's raining?

[00:04:59]>> I still Well, I sit underneath like an awning thing. So even it's raining. By the way, awning is like lowkey rich.

[00:05:04]Okay.

[00:05:05]>> Only rich people have awnings. No one [ __ ] knows what awning.

[00:05:08]>> He was like, "I sit under that thing."

[00:05:10]You know, the thing that covers your head.

[00:05:11]>> I'm going to ask you, Tammy, can I ask him when we get to the food or I don't want to rush him. Is that okay? Can we Are we ready for food after coffee?

[00:05:17]>> Close. No, not even close.

[00:05:18]>> You haven't even cold plunged.

[00:05:19]>> Okay.

[00:05:20]>> Yeah, there's a whole lot.

[00:05:21]>> This is so wealthy. Continue. Continue.

[00:05:24]>> So then then it's cold plunge time. So I get in the cold plunge for 3 minutes. It's 41° for 3 minutes. Then, are you ready? Then I get out of the cold plunge and I go downstairs to the gym and I work out.

[00:05:39]>> And this is when the first patient arrives. He's still working.

[00:05:41]>> Of course, [ __ ] I've been in that room. I'm in the shining room and I'm waiting an hour and a half. I'm like, I need five [ __ ] needles. And >> he's doing his own two.

[00:05:47]>> No, we're on his time. Okay. So, all right.

[00:05:50]>> So, then I work out and then when I'm done working out and that might be a weightlifting thing, it might be just cardio and like core stuff. I'm what just whatever the day is. Then when I get out of that, if I have time, I hit the sauna. If I have time, it depends how I'm running. If I have time, >> are we at the Aman? What the [ __ ] is going on? Who's [ __ ] morning star?

[00:06:08]And it's also not like you're waking up at 4:00 in the morning.

[00:06:11]>> Yeah. Yeah. Well, that's why I'm late every day pretty much.

[00:06:14]>> And this is why I'm going to get my first gray hair.

[00:06:16]>> No, it's crazy.

[00:06:17]>> It had to happen soon.

[00:06:18]>> Unbelievable. Okay, so I again I don't want to rush through because I now I realize this morning routine is extremely serious. By the way, usually people are like, I wake up at 6:00. I had Cheerios and I'm here. you. I didn't know we were going to unlock the U.

[00:06:28]>> Yeah, it's a big thing.

[00:06:29]>> Okay, so cold plunge. We work out, maybe hit the sauna. Are we working out for an hour?

[00:06:34]>> Yeah. Hour.

[00:06:35]>> So, are are the [ __ ] knocked out already on the table or when we get into the office?

[00:06:39]>> This is a non-surgery day. This is a this is an office day when I when I'm supposed to be there. When you're coming in, I'm supposed to be there at 10:00.

[00:06:45]That this is an office day. Surgery days, I don't do all that stuff because I have to be there at like 7:30. So, I cut it way short. But these meditate?

[00:06:52]>> Yeah, I meditate regardless every day.

[00:06:54]Every day.

[00:06:55]>> And Okay. So when so when I'm in the sauna, I'm meditating a little bit. When I'm doing my my coffee and my water, I'm meditating. I'm like trying to get meditation in the whole time kind of.

[00:07:04]And then I'll go inside and I'll eat breakfast after the sauna. Okay. That's when I eat breakfast.

[00:07:09]>> What's for breakfast?

[00:07:11]>> I usually just have like four eggs, some avocado, and maybe some orange slices.

[00:07:15]>> Holy [ __ ] You're like a rich white woman. This is crazy. Like who does this?

[00:07:19]>> It's so good. I love I love it. It's like I could I'm the kind of person I could eat the same thing every single day for the rest of my life. Like I don't like when I find something I like, I stick with it.

[00:07:30]>> That's what you stick with. Okay. And so then we're at the office. Are we Is does that conclude the morning routine? Cuz I want to make sure we get everything.

[00:07:35]>> That pretty much concludes the morning routine.

[00:07:37]>> Okay. Got it. All right. Now we're going to go back in time. That's I have to say though in the line of work you're in, it is probably extremely important for you to be mentally clear.

[00:07:47]>> Well, you have to take care of your mental state. Like it's not even like once in a while. It's it's not and it's not even like daily. It's like every like every waking minute you've got to you got to address your mental your psychological state. It's like it's active work to keep keep stable and calm and steady and in in in a high stress kind of job, you know? So it's like it's like all it's not even like I do it once a week. It's not even like you you need to tend to it once a week. It's like >> it's constant.

[00:08:13]>> Is that something they taught you in medical school or is this is just as you've evolved as a surgeon. just know >> this is just me evolving as a surgeon and being in the wellness world. You know, I'm I'm an expert in the wellness world as well as facial surgery. You know, I talk to all the experts. We we discuss these things. And so, it's just my my worldly experience.

[00:08:30]>> How many surgeries a week do you do?

[00:08:32]>> Well, that depends on what I'm doing.

[00:08:34]The most common surgery I do are facelifts, but facelifts often involve eyelids. They involve they might involve fatten grafting. They might involve lasering. There's like a whole v a lot of variety of what can be done at the same time as a facelift. But that that's usually like a six seven eight hour surgery. So I only do one of those when I do that. And so that's the most common thing I do. So you know and I might operate three days a week. So at most I do three of those a week. It's not like I'm doing 10 of those. I do one a day.

[00:08:59]Not just not more than one a day. Yeah.

[00:09:00]>> Okay. Right now are we like in a trend?

[00:09:02]Are you are you seeing an uptick? Cuz you've obviously been doing How long have you been doing facelifts?

[00:09:05]>> 25 years.

[00:09:06]>> 25 years. And you I heard I saw when you were 33 you were already the top guy doing facelifts.

[00:09:10]>> I was up there.

[00:09:11]>> Okay. So explain the difference between cuz this is all the rage right now that I'm seeing all over my phone. Deep plane facelift versus regular facelift. What's the youngest person that you're seeing now?

[00:09:20]>> Yeah. Okay.

[00:09:20]>> And what's the oldest person you're seeing?

[00:09:22]>> You got it. Okay. So I can give like a long answer that or a quick answer.

[00:09:25]>> Whatever medical school answer you want to give me. It's your time to shine.

[00:09:28]>> Okay. A deep plane facelift is all the rage as as if it's something new. It is not anything new. This surgery has been around for probably 40 maybe even 50 years. Not that long. And I learned it from the guy who coined the term and described it. A guy from Dallas. He's retired now. His name was Sam Hammer. He he described it. He started it. I learned he and he taught it to a Beverly Hills guy and I learned it from them like from the beginning. It's it's the first facelift I ever did. It's what I built my career and my reputation on.

[00:09:54]So, it's nothing new. It just means it's a thorough release of the underlying muscles >> and so that you can reposition the underlying muscles appropriately rather than just like >> stretching skin.

[00:10:04]>> Stretching skin essentially. That's what it means. So it's all the rage now and I don't know why it went viral a few years ago but but we've been doing this I I I was talking about the deep lane facelift on Dr. 90210 in 2002.

[00:10:16]>> My favorite show.

[00:10:17]>> Yeah.

[00:10:18]>> Okay. So that means you're cutting to deeper layers of the face.

[00:10:20]>> That's correct.

[00:10:21]>> And how long is that usually how long does that usually take >> to do the surgery?

[00:10:24]>> Yeah. Uh if it's just the facelift, probably about four hours.

[00:10:27]>> But Dr. Teller, the analogy that you use, when you explain the deep plane versus mass lift, >> you're literally cutting the skin and cutting through muscle to reposition the muscle.

[00:10:35]>> That's right. That's the deep plane. So smart. So, so here here's here's an analogy I'll give. People always ask, well, how do you know how much to tighten the muscles and how do you know where you are? Here's the best analogy that I've that I can come up with. It's kind of like imagine you pulled up some tube socks and you went running. You're going running and you know the socks sit up on your calf nice and snug. Well, imagine after you've run for a while, they kind of sag down to your ankle and you're like, "All right, I want to snug that sock back up." Think of that sock as like this the deeper muscle layer. We call the smash layer, smas. Think of that as the the smash layer. When you want to snug it up, you grab the you grab the sock and you kind of just snug it back up to where it feels tight and appropriate. And you could go too tight.

[00:11:14]If you went too tight, you might tear the sock if you don't go tight enough.

[00:11:17]That's like snugging up the smash layer.

[00:11:19]How do we know from doing it for 25 years, from doing thousands? How do we know how tight to snug it up? It's just from experience, but it's that kind of thing. It's snugging that back up.

[00:11:29]That's basically what a SMASS or deep plane lift is doing. Okay.

[00:11:33]>> Okay. Can we talk about a a Smazzler deep plane that you just did that I was blown away from that I talked to Tammy about.

[00:11:39]>> Trad Tutor who is public about it. That facelift is I didn't think you had it in you.

[00:11:46]>> [ __ ] believable.

[00:11:47]>> Well, then you haven't been around. No, I clearly because it was so there's no scar. There's no scar.

[00:11:53]>> But that's that's this is normal. This is usual. The best facelifts are the ones you don't know. I've done that same surgery on 50 people you know personally that you would never know like literally that you're going to encounter in the next two weeks and they don't talk about it but like people you know.

[00:12:14]>> How many years have I been coming to your guys' office now? When did I start therapy?

[00:12:18]>> You're so, by the way, I on record on record. Am I your f? You can just lie.

[00:12:23]I'm your favorite. I'm your most entertaining patient. Let's Let's just be honest.

[00:12:28]>> How much do you laugh in my appointments versus any other?

[00:12:30]>> You're my third favorite.

[00:12:31]>> Who the [ __ ] is the one? Let's lie, right? I'm his favorite.

[00:12:34]>> Game he plays.

[00:12:35]>> And basically the whole game is that I have probably the worst phobia, injection phobia of anybody you work on.

[00:12:43]Right.

[00:12:44]>> So basically what he does is we do Botox. He does a really He has a beautiful hand. He does sculpting. I do sculpting with you, which is Okay, fine.

[00:12:50]Let's get in. What is sculpting exactly?

[00:12:52]>> Sculpting is my proprietary technique where I'm injecting a product, a filler, but I'm injecting on the bone. This isn't in the skin. It's on the bone just to create peripheral lateral elevations and contour. So, it it's the opposite of creating puffiness. So, people are always worried, I don't want my face to look puffy. This is the this is the the antidote for puffy. When people have been overfilled somewhere else or swollen and puffy from something else, we fix it with this. We can make a fatter face look slimmer from this. So, it's just the way that I've figured out over years how to do this.

[00:13:24]>> And it also what it really does is like it adds balance to the face. Like I genuinely have naturally high cheekbones, but I've done sculpting with you probably what do you think like five times more? Less, whatever. And the the everyone's like, "Oh, you look like you've had absolutely nothing done."

[00:13:38]Because nothing you do looks unnatural.

[00:13:40]It really just I don't It just like makes you look more not even angular, just balanced.

[00:13:47]>> That I mean that's the goal is to be undetectable, make you look your best.

[00:13:50]Yeah.

[00:13:50]>> Oh, you're so [ __ ] good at your job.

[00:13:51]Okay. And then also another trick that I'm going to tell the audience is that when you cuz you will not fill my nasal labial folds, but you'll do a drop of filler here and here. And that puffs out, >> right? Puff isn't the right word, but it pushes out the where the bone starts to res. That's why people get these deep creases between their nose and their cheek is because the bone in that area called the pacilla. The bone there starts to resorb and when that starts to and it resves on everybody. It's like osteoporosis, right? Your leg bones get thinner, the face bones get thinner, too. When that happens, there's like a cave in there. And the answer is not to fill it. It's to kind of push the area out a little bit. And that looks natural and works beautifully. And you'll never you'll never look puffy or fake or anything like that.

[00:14:33]>> No. But can I say can I just have you explain Dr. Diamond because it is diamond facial sculpting. It's a trademark procedure.

[00:14:38]>> No, it is. No one else can do this [ __ ] [ __ ] and that is why he's on my podcast >> and it's his own. But can you also explain that like a lot of people because it's exactly where makeup artists will sculpt the face with contour. And so that really like he knows where to inject exactly where a makeup artist and we've had like very famous makeup artists come in and they're like, "It's crazy that you're the only person who does it where I contour." But also talk about how like a lot of guys do it. I don't think people realize how many >> yourself. It's Oh, it's great for guys, too, because everybody looks better.

[00:15:05]>> Are you ejecting yourself?

[00:15:07]>> I do a few little things myself and then I have my partner do some of it cuz it's hard for me to get the angles.

[00:15:13]>> So many guys get especially lately the work that these men are getting. Are you appalled? Like it looks [ __ ] awful.

[00:15:20]>> Oh, I've been appalled at the bad work.

[00:15:22]I mean, it really pisses me off when I see bad work out there. It has since I've started, even 25 years ago, because it's like this is giving us such a bad name. and it gives the the the field and the and the overall feelings about plastic surgery like a terrible name and reputation and I see the and I'm like why did the doctor do that? I I Yeah, it really upsets me when I see that stuff.

[00:15:41]>> What's the percentage of men you see versus women?

[00:15:43]>> I would say men are probably around 30%.

[00:15:45]>> Would you like that to be higher?

[00:15:47]>> No, I'm good with it. I I mean I look I I love I love taking care of guys. I do.

[00:15:51]It's really fun. Um but it's a little bit as far as surgeries go, it's a little bit more elbow grease involved.

[00:15:57]So, I love doing it, but it's but I like the percentage. 30 370 is great. I have >> Okay. So, what are you double certified in? Tell that audience.

[00:16:04]>> I'm double board certified in head and neck surgery and facial plastic surgery.

[00:16:08]>> Okay. But you also do boobs or you do not do boobs? No boobs?

[00:16:10]>> No, just faces.

[00:16:11]>> Just faces, nose. I was thinking of boobs and nose.

[00:16:13]>> Just faces.

[00:16:14]>> Okay. Just faces. Okay.

[00:16:15]>> But I'll tell you a funny story. When I first started, when I first started, we're talking 25 years ago, >> I did a couple breast augmentations and a couple tiny. I learned how to do them and I I can do them. I'm certified to do them. But and then within the it was literally like the first three months cuz you know you you got to pay your bills and you got to do and I knew I wanted to be a face specialist and I learned all the most advanced face things and I learned some basic body stuff and the body surgery is so easy.

[00:16:40]So my very first my very first month like couple months in practice I did a couple breast augmentations and the patients loved it. And then and then I decided it just hit me like a ton of bricks. I said you know what I want to be the world's best facelift surgeon. I can't I have to just do that. I can't be a guy who's doing everything or I'll never I wanted to be a master, not a jack of all trades. So, I just abruptly made the decision, okay, no more breast.

[00:17:04]And the funny thing is those patients then sent like their friends in like literally like a couple weeks later. I said, sorry, I'm not doing breast. Like, what are you talking about? I said, yeah, I decided not to do it. They're like, how long you been pract Like I literally and so I had to turn down all these people right off the bat. It was really odd.

[00:17:19]>> No, but I feel like that is the right way to do it. You I and that is the reason why I go to you separately is because here's the thing. Everyone, if somebody's an injector who's not a plastic surgeon, what are they? Just an RN?

[00:17:28]>> Oh, any I mean dentists can do it.

[00:17:30]Nurses can do it.

[00:17:31]>> No, no. See, I the reason I go to Dr. Diamond is a because I'm fortunate fortunate enough to be able to. But the reality is is you are a plastic surgeon.

[00:17:39]You are not just sticking [ __ ] in my [ __ ] face and seeing like what's going to happen. Fingers crossed. No, like I know. And I going back to like my anxiety is so bad with injections.

[00:17:49]Basically, our whole run of the show is I come in, I have to have an apple juice. You do a few pokes and then I have to get up to make sure I'm not blind. I have to go to the mirror. I have to sit back down. We have to get the fan. Remember that one time I really almost had a That was a bad I almost passed out for no reason.

[00:18:04]>> You've gotten much better.

[00:18:05]>> I've gotten much better. I've gotten much better. But >> I wish we had a camera on there when I always every time I'm like, "Oh shit."

[00:18:11]Like I'll be like, "Oh, fuck." Every day.

[00:18:12]>> Every time. No. So the la You're such a [ __ ] ass. The last time I was there, what were we What were we doing? It wasn't filler. It was maybe Botox or it was maybe Botox on the side. Or was it my lip? Am I even your lip? I don't know.

[00:18:24]>> What was And he literally injects the needle. Team, are we ready? And goes, "Oh shit." And I was like, "What the [ __ ] is happening? Am I bleeding? Am I blind? Like what?" He's And we Tam and I look at each other. We're like, "He's such a [ __ ] idiot. I literally can barely do it." But to go on with my compliment, you know the anatomy of a face. Like you are not just sticking [ __ ] in random places. And God forbid something does happen. I am in the presence of a professional. We know how to handle situations. So if you're in a position where you want to get filler or anything to your face, you need to go to a literal professional to do these things.

[00:19:00]>> Yeah. The thing is, look, can there be talented injectors who don't know the anatomy? Sure, you you can, but like there's so much important anatomy underneath and I'm operating on it three days a week. I know exact I know where all your arteries and nerves are without even like touching you. Like I know where they are and know how to avoid them. And you hear about here's the thing that's important to understand.

[00:19:18]People treat fillers like it's not even medicine. They treat it like it's like, you know, just getting a facial. And the reality is it can be done very safely and it can be done very well. You know, and you can get lucky even if you don't know the anatomy. But the important thing to understand is the >> complications that can occur from a filler are more serious than complications that can occur from surgery. Often times >> because if you got the filler into a blood vessel, it could cause blindness.

[00:19:46]It could cause a stroke. It could cause loss of skin. You don't have these issues with certain like these s these things don't even happen with facelifts.

[00:19:56]>> This is never going to happen to you.

[00:19:57]>> This is never going to happen because I'm going to you.

[00:19:59]>> That's right. But I'm saying like her number one fear was just it can happen.

[00:20:03]Oh, it can definitely happen.

[00:20:05]>> And I have people come in all the time.

[00:20:06]They say, "Doc, can you just fill a little filler in my nostril rim?" My nurse has done this for me for years to lower it down. That's one of the most risky places you could ever do anything because of the way the blood vessels are. And I even you even hear I there was someone in town girl who was making a living with her face. She had someone inject her nostril with filler lost her whole side of her nose. She'll spend the rest of her life traveling the world trying to figure out reconstru. It'll never work. Like there are very danger zones that can cause serious complications and and I don't think people realize that. You know fillers can be very it can be very serious. It's you got to you got to go to someone who knows the anatomy and who's very experienced with this.

[00:20:44]>> That's 100% why I go to you especially because of the anxiety I have. And also the one did you remember when I was like can you just fill under my eye with a small needle and you said no I have to use a canula. Okay explain. I want to talk about under eye. People are obsessed with under eyes. I'm obsessed with under eyes. Let's talk about the best way to approach for somebody who's never >> gotten any sort of work done and they're like I just want to fill under my eyes.

[00:21:03]What is the best approach to that?

[00:21:04]>> So this is I mean this is a long answer because the eyes are so variable.

[00:21:08]People's anatomies are so variable and the eyes are often times one of the first areas that people notice they're aging on. So like often times the first visit somebody will make to me when they're in their 30s or even early 40s is about their lower eyes. As people get older, they start to focus more on their neck and their jaws. But early on people will notice their lower eyes first. And what kind of problems do they see? It's a huge myriad of things. Some people have puffiness. Some people have hollowess. Some people have dark circles. Some people have veiny looks.

[00:21:37]Some people have pigment problems. Some people have thin, fine, crepey skin.

[00:21:41]It's a whole series of things that can occur. So there's no one answer.

[00:21:45]>> So for me, when I when I finally get the konise to let you inject under my eye, which by the way, I do want to say we had an appointment last week. This is another thing I do with Dr. Diamond straight to camera. I make an appointment and then I cancel every single week because my anxiety is so bad. And then I'm like, just tell Tammy we're so sorry because it's [ __ ] hard to get this [ __ ] appointment. Okay.

[00:22:01]But they now he's on my podcast so he was supposed to get me in.

[00:22:05]>> We had an appointment for PRF.

[00:22:07]>> Yeah.

[00:22:07]>> There's a difference between PRF, PRFM, and PR. PRX is a workout, right?

[00:22:12]>> Yeah. Okay.

[00:22:13]>> P90X. P90. Yeah.

[00:22:14]>> Yeah. Okay. Under my eyes, should I be doing filler or should I be doing PRF?

[00:22:20]>> If you're asking me about you, it would be about me.

[00:22:23]>> It would be PRP. PRF for you. I wouldn't do filler. Now, >> what is PRF PRP versus filler?

[00:22:28]>> It's your blood. It's we take your blood and we spin it down and we concentrate all the platelet. It's called plateletri plasma. The platelets are a part of the blood that contain proteins and growth factors and all those types of things.

[00:22:38]So like when you get injured, you know when you've got a cut on your arm and it turns into a scab and that scab falls off, it's all yellow sear. It's all like a cirrus yellow color. That's the PRP.

[00:22:49]That's what that's what goes to heal areas. So we figured out over the years that if you concentrate it, it can really expedite healing and facilitate collagen production and all kinds of things. So it's like and so we use your own we concentrate and we inject that in. We'll lay it on the skin. We'll use needles to penetrate it to get it through all the layers. That's the most conservative often best treatment for somebody who's not quite ready for something more serious and it can be an awesome awesome answer. So for you that's what I would do. You don't need filler under your eyes.

[00:23:18]>> How many times should I do it before I see results? You'll see results after one treatment, but oftentimes people need to do it four, five, six times over the course of a year just to really get a build. Yeah.

[00:23:28]>> Don't you think that's what I need most on my face? Don't lie to my audience.

[00:23:32]>> Uh, no.

[00:23:40]>> What's your favorite surgery to perform?

[00:23:42]>> Facelift.

[00:23:43]>> Is that okay?

[00:23:43]>> That's my favorite.

[00:23:44]>> So, you do you want to do like facelift, brow lift? Like you want to do full combo plate? I mean what not what I want to do. It's what people often need when they're in the market for making their face look better, right? Because it's an upper third of the face. It's a lower third of the face. Often times you want them to look their best together. So often times I'd say I do a brow lift on 80% of my facelifts. I'd say at least >> Tuesdays.

[00:24:08]>> What? What's Tuesdays?

[00:24:09]>> Tuesday surgery. No, he >> Let's talk about this week has been a marathon for Dr. I want a marathon.

[00:24:14]>> I have I have some other personal questions about you too. So, okay. What happened Tuesday? Tell me.

[00:24:18]>> It was a patient from ch like a Scandinavian person who's living in China. Like is ch she lives in China.

[00:24:23]But >> we don't need to.

[00:24:24]>> What the [ __ ] We don't need geographic [ __ ] We need to know what you did.

[00:24:27]>> Talk about the procedures you did. Such a nerd. I didn't realize >> she had she literally has had multiple surgeries over there like and so I everything we did for her was a revision. And revisions are harder. So we did a revision brow lift, revision upper eyelids, revision lower eyelids, revision faceelift, revision rhinoplasty, >> lip lift. It was like it was a long long surgery, but everything was a CO2 laser, >> fat transfer, >> fat transfer with nanofat, nanopats, the stem. So we take your own stem cells and we put them on your face. Um, it was a I mean it was probably close to a 12-hour surgery, but everything it's and which is totally safe. We use the board certified anesthesiologist. is completely safe and she's already doing great, but some, you know, revisions take longer than first time cuz I got to deal with scar tissue, destroyed anatomy, I got to figure out what's what. It's so >> he customized a chin implant.

[00:25:16]>> Customized a chin implant for >> So, he custom designs these implants over 6 hours before the surgery even starts. And that was because beauty is a game of millimeters is what Dr. Diamond always says. Amen.

[00:25:26]>> And she wanted to look prettier. Like her goal wasn't to only look younger, it was to look prettier. And I think Dr. Diamond like untaps beauty in people's faces. So she really wanted to like be on her way to looking the next decade of her life being a lot prettier, younger.

[00:25:39]And so he addressed every single facial feature in a way that coalesed to give her like this really beautiful aesthetic. But it required addressing every feature on the face.

[00:25:47]>> So the funny thing about that though is like people are going to hear, "Oh my god, you did 12 hour, you did this, this and that." She's going to look more natural than she did before.

[00:25:55]>> Yeah. You have to undo all the bad. It's like undoing stuff. Yeah.

[00:25:57]>> Well, that your hand is extremely natural. Well, that's that's I mean, I've honed every procedure I do over this period of time to be undetectable.

[00:26:04]>> What's our deal for next time I get Botox? And you just slam.

[00:26:07]>> You want your for to look like a ice skating ring.

[00:26:08]>> Ice skating ring. And I tell them all the time, I'm like, I want to pretend like I'm pulling up to a goddamn strip mall, okay, in the deep val. And I want you to pretend forget all the [ __ ] teachings you had. I want you to freeze those [ __ ] 11s. He's like, you need a little movement. I don't want it to move cuz I look like I have a [ __ ] ball sack protruding from the middle of my [ __ ] forehead. So, next week, we're flattening.

[00:26:30]Okay, let's talk about 12-hour surgeries. How are you actually performing a surgery for 12 hours?

[00:26:35]>> Yeah, it's just something that I am built to do. It's weird. Like, I have an attention span of a puppy dog if it comes to anything else. But when it come but but when but when it comes to s like I literally can sit there all day in the zone and not even think of anything.

[00:26:51]It's it's a weird thing. I don't understand it either, honestly. But part of all the morning routine that I do and all the training that that I do in that regard, I can sit there in the zone forever. And another little fun fact, I could sit there for 10 hours and not even go to the bathroom. I literally >> That was my next question.

[00:27:06]>> I'm like I'm a So So here's a little thing, but I'll give you a little information. Hopefully it's not TMI.

[00:27:11]>> No, I'm give We want all the TMI.

[00:27:13]>> I'm a bit of a germaphobe. I hate public bathrooms. I have never seen an airplane bathroom from LA to New York. Not once ever in the history of my life have I ever been in the bathroom in an airplane. I go six, seven hours like it's nothing. Okay. Like Yeah.

[00:27:27]>> Talk about our flights to Dubai. Yeah.

[00:27:29]>> You're you're not paying on the flight to Dubai. You have to fly.

[00:27:31]>> The flight to Dubai is 17 hours. So I go to the bathroom once. I go to the bathroom once.

[00:27:35]>> But like he won't even drink water on the plane.

[00:27:37]>> Yeah. Like I'm I'm >> Okay. We just talked about this on a recent episode, but do you fly into JFK or New York? When you fly into New York?

[00:27:43]>> Usually JFK.

[00:27:43]>> No. Guys, we got to switch it.

[00:27:45]>> I love the Jet flu to New York.

[00:27:46]>> We need to be doing Newark. It is going to save your time. Where are you staying in the city? Uptown or downtown?

[00:27:51]Depends. It depends on where we're seeing patients. JFK, I'm sorry, New York.

[00:27:54]>> Okay. Sorry. Continue on. So, you're not peeing. So, for 12 hours, you're not eating, you're not drinking.

[00:28:00]>> So, when I do a 12-hour surgery, the point is I can sit there for as long as I need to. Now, there are times in the surgery, like when we finish one side of the facelift, let's say, then we have to turn the head, get the other side prepped, and that takes about 10 minutes. So, I will break out, I'll go to the bathroom, drink a water, and maybe shove something down my throat within 8 minutes, and then I'm back in.

[00:28:18]And so I do get these late minute breaks here and there when when it's appropriate between sides or whatever.

[00:28:25]So I will take a couple breaks but I don't need to. I used to not I used to not and then I had I got I ended up getting a clot in my leg.

[00:28:32]>> No, don't don't walk us into that. I want to ask you about it. So when we were doing our diligent research >> pulmonary embolism, >> I had a pulmonary embism. Yes.

[00:28:41]>> What what does that mean for the audience?

[00:28:43]>> That is a bad thing. A pulmonary embolism is when a clot forms somewhere in a vein in your body and then works its way to your lungs and then if it works its way to your lungs that's called a pulmonary a pulmonary embolism and that's got like a 10% dead on arrival rate. Yeah. People die from that. Um often so that happened to me and it's come so you always hear like when people sit on airplanes and don't get up they get risk for clots. Um, when people sit all day and they're not moving around, they can get they're at risk for a clot. The clot forms in the deep leg and then it just slowly works its way up and then it suffocates you.

[00:29:21]>> How did we It is really important to get up on planes. I do that a lot. But how did we find this out? How what happened?

[00:29:27]>> Well, what happened was Well, it all started with a 12-hour surgery or 10-hour surgery. I didn't get up once.

[00:29:33]This is this is six years ago now.

[00:29:34]Didn't get up once. Did the whole surgery. Didn't get up once. No water, no nothing.

[00:29:38]>> I was dehydrated. But I but it's just what I had done my whole life. I didn't think anything about it. And then about two weeks later, I was up in the mountains in Big Bear where we'd like to take the kids and stuff. And that's at altitude. 7,000 ft. So it's hard to breathe up there anyway. If we went right now and we walked, we'd be like, >> "But Dr. Diamond, you missed the part where the next day you went on."

[00:29:57]>> That's why you're here. That's why you're [ __ ] here.

[00:29:59]>> You went to Greece and then you felt >> I didn't want to bore it.

[00:30:01]>> No, we're not bored. We're want to make you human. I want cuz you're a human being performing these surgeries.

[00:30:06]>> Okay. So then the next day after that 12-hour surgery, we flew we went on a family vacation. We flew to uh Europe.

[00:30:13]And so I was on and I was exhausted from the surgery. I I I never get tired during the surgery. I get tired after.

[00:30:18]So I was still exhausted the next day from the long surgery. So we get on the plane. I literally slept the entire flight. I don't even think I got up.

[00:30:25]Okay. 12 hours. We land and I'm walking through the airport and my calf hurt.

[00:30:30]I'm like, "Shit, I pulled my calf." And I've pulled my calf before, like running. So I don't know, 3 or 4 days in the vacation, I'm kind of limping around. And I'm like, that's so weird.

[00:30:37]Like, what did I do? Four or five days later in the vacation, it went away. I'm like, that's weird. Cuz the last time I pulled my calf years ago, it takes 3 weeks to go away, you know? So, but but it went away fast. I'm like, all right, whatever. Forgot all about it. So, about 2 weeks after the surgery, like literally two weeks after two weeks after, how often do you get a Charlie horse? I will say since you sit down, this is just a side.

[00:30:58]>> Not often, but I, you know, >> Charlie horse is one of the worst pains you can ever have.

[00:31:02]>> Yeah. I mean, they happen to me when you sleep, you jump out of bed like everyone else. foot's like, "Yeah, I mean it happens, but this was a little different." So anyway, so about two weeks after the surgery, so 10 days after the calf pain, I'm up in Big Bear in the mountains and I always huff and puff. Everyone does. And um but but I'm like super huffing and puffing. I'm like I'm like dying. And I was actually pissed at Tammy. I was really pissed at Tanny because Friday, the day before, she had me see this patient who was like a favor and they and this p so I see this patient as a favor. I'm like and and I love doing favors, but I wasn't in the mood to do this favor by the way and I I was really pissed that I had to see this patient. So I see this patient as a favor. They they weren't going to pay.

[00:31:45]It was like it was like going to be a free >> I will soberize him after this how this story went.

[00:31:49]>> I was so pissed. So, so I I come in, I see this p I leave. Sure enough, an hour after I leave, that patient calls up and says, "Oh, I just got diagnosed with CO." So, I was all up in this guy's face and nose, and he got diagnosed with COVID. So, I'm like, "Fuck, I was just in the face of somebody with COVID." So, the next day in Big Bear, while I'm not breathing, I'm like, I got CO from this guy. Because remember, >> I think I have CO.

[00:32:12]>> Remember, everybody said during CO they couldn't breathe. So, I just thought it was CO. So, I'm up in Big Bear. I can't breathe more than normal. Like I'm like I can't. So >> I can't breathe right now.

[00:32:23]>> So I go the whole day and I'm out on the lake. I'm working with like the kids are younger. I'm helping them jet ski and water ski and I'm working. It's hot out there and I'm on the boat pulling kids in and out of the boat. And meanwhile my energy my my my battery was at 2% like what it normally is. And I'm like something's wrong. But I didn't complain to anybody. I'm just sitting there.

[00:32:42]>> I didn't complain to anybody all day.

[00:32:44]>> He complains about everything else. But can we say he complains about complain here?

[00:32:47]>> I'm fuming at Tammy cuz I thought she got me co from seeing this guy. So So that So anyway, the house is full. It's our house.

[00:32:54]>> Oh, you have a house there. Little rich plastic surgery. We have a house. We have a house there. We have a house there. You got to include the property.

[00:33:00]Okay. We have a house there. So So we have we have 10 adults. We have 10 kids.

[00:33:05]The house is packed. Everyone's running around. Meanwhile, I don't even have the strength to sit upright. So after the day after the day, this is a crazy story. Sometimes it brings me tears, but >> Oh, do it. That'll be good for radio.

[00:33:17]>> After the day of being on the lake and I'm just like dying and not saying anything, we come in, the sun's going down and all the adults are like in the kitchen and like and and they're talking about what they're going to do. And everyone says, "Let's go into the village to dinner." And I'm like, "Oh my god." I'm like, I can't even imagine getting up out of this chair and going to the village where you have to park, walk around for 40 minutes to an hour.

[00:33:40]It's crowded. I couldn't even I'm like, how am I going to do this? But I did it >> on literally 1% energy. I did it. Yeah.

[00:33:48]It was crazy. So So we're walking around. I'm like I'm like I'm gonna die.

[00:33:51]>> I'm gonna die. Like I like And I And I didn't know. I didn't I didn't know what it was. It was crazy. And so we get back and again all the adults are kind of drinking in the kitchen and hanging out and I'm literally I got I'm like laying on the couch and Jessica, my wife, she comes in and she's a doctor.

[00:34:08]>> Yeah.

[00:34:09]>> And she says, "What's wrong with you?

[00:34:10]You haven't said a word all day." And she goes, "Oh my god, you're as white as a ghost.

[00:34:13]So, so she she puts this thing on me and my my my oxygen stats are like 83%. It was crazy.

[00:34:21]>> Like, yeah, it's like emotional, you know, and so >> Oh my god, I didn't I did not realize it was this serious.

[00:34:28]>> It was very serious. Yeah. So, we race down the mountain. She gets me to to a hospital and uh Yeah. And they're like, >> "Okay, hospital, tell us. I'm dying to know the rest."

[00:34:39]>> Yeah. It was a massive embolism. And I hear the term I'm like pulmonary embolism. I've heard about it as a as a doctor for years. I'm like holy [ __ ] I got an emolism like and the thing was it's it's it's like middle of CO, right?

[00:34:54]It's the middle of CO. She couldn't even be in there with me. I'm I'm like by myself. It's crazy.

[00:35:01]And so I thought I'm going to die in this hospital room.

[00:35:04]Finally, like they gave me some medicines and it worked and it kind of kicked in. And so I so I made it. But yeah, I almost died.

[00:35:13]>> That is absolutely terrifying.

[00:35:16]>> Yeah. Yeah, it was crazy. It was crazy.

[00:35:19]And the funny and here now here's not the funny thing but the but the the God must have been like looking after us because >> so my when when I couldn't breathe and so we're up at Big Bear and she realizes my saturations are 83%.

[00:35:33]>> How did she check that?

[00:35:34]>> Because she had like an Apple Watch or something. Someone put something on me.

[00:35:36]I don't even know. I don't remember.

[00:35:38]Okay.

[00:35:38]>> And she's like, "Oh my god." And she's a daughter like this is something's going on. And so my friend uh who was there, Mark, he's got a Porsche and he drives real fast. Like dude, let me race you down there. We thought it might be altitude sickness cuz sometimes you get that up at altitude.

[00:35:52]>> She's like, "You got to get down the mountain." And it's like an hour drive to get down the mountain.

[00:35:55]>> No, it was an hour drive.

[00:35:56]>> Yeah, it's an hour drive to get down the mountain. So Mark's like, "I'll drive you." He's like, "I'll drive you. We'll race down. I'll be down, you know, he's got a Porsche." I'm like, "Fine." So we get into the car and he's going to drive me down. And and then he looks at me. He says, "What if something happens?" He said, "I you know >> he's like he's like I'm like maybe Jessica should take me." He's like, "All right." So he goes back in. He gets Jessica, right? He gets Jessica to take me. So she drives me down. We switch cars. So she drives me down. He was going to race me down, but she's like she's like, "I'll So she drives me down.

[00:36:24]We get to the bottom of the mountain and I feel a little bit better. I feel 10% better, but not not a lot better. And I'm exhausted now because I've been on no oxygen. I've been working all day in the high heat. I'm exhausted. I'm like >> I'm like I feel a little better. I was like, "Just take me home."

[00:36:43]>> She man, such a man.

[00:36:45]>> Yeah.

[00:36:45]>> She said, "I'm not taking you home."

[00:36:46]Right. So, she makes me go and uh but had Mark taken me, I would have said, "Mark, take me home. He would have taken me home. I would have died in bed."

[00:36:54]>> Yeah. I would have definitely died in bed.

[00:36:55]>> What test did they how did they come to the conclusion that this was a pulmonary ambulance?

[00:36:59]>> They check They check a blood clot thing. they they can check your clotting levels and that's called the D- dimer and that was really high. So as soon as they see that they they like so then they immediately get into a CT scan which is the definitive test. So they checked the D- dimer level. It was super high. They got me right into a CT scan and that's how they that's the diagnosis.

[00:37:15]>> Was there a surgery or there was no surgery?

[00:37:17]>> No, it's no surgery. It's uh it's a anti-coagulants. Yeah. Yeah.

[00:37:21]>> So what does that mean?

[00:37:22]>> It just means they just inject you with a bunch of medication to break up the clot. Yeah. Yeah. And and then a little aside to that too and this might bore everybody but >> No. No. This is riveting. Trust me. I'm not even kidding.

[00:37:33]>> So, I'm in this Glendale hospital um because it was closer than going to Cedars. I might not have made it to Cedar. So, Glendo cuz Glendel is like 45 minutes from the bottom of the mountain where we were. Cedars was an hour and a half.

[00:37:42]>> Not to interrupt you. Okay. But so, it's something that starts in the leg. So, how and if it gets to your lungs, you're basically dead on arrival. Yes.

[00:37:49]>> So, where do we know where it was?

[00:37:50]>> It started in the calf. That was at cal.

[00:37:52]>> But then how far did it go?

[00:37:53]>> It has to work its way all the way up your calf, all the way up your venus system into your chest. And then >> was it that was but it had not made it that far when you had gotten to the hospital or we don't know where.

[00:38:01]>> No, it had that's why I couldn't breathe all day.

[00:38:03]>> Oh, so >> it was in the lung. That's why I couldn't breathe. It was in the lung.

[00:38:06]That's why I couldn't breathe. Now I'm in such good shape and I had done breathing exercises my for years and I I was like such I was in such good health otherwise. I think that's contributed to why I was able to Yeah. Yeah.

[00:38:19]>> So I'm in the hospital in Glendale. The little funny part about it was I in all my years at this point, this was this I was 50 at the time. I've been a doctor for 25 years.

[00:38:30]>> I had never once in my life been a patient in a hospital. So they so they so they so they come in, >> they say, "Put the gown on. I put the [ __ ] gown on the wrong way." You know? Yeah. I put THE I PUT THE >> I was like, "Can we have fun again?"

[00:38:44]Because that's crazy, right? That is >> I put the on open in the front and you're supposed to put it open in the back. I didn't even know. I never did a patient. You're literally just things are out. Got it. And then how, by the way, when I read this, I knew it sounded serious. I had no idea you had gone through something like this.

[00:39:00]>> Okay. Then how long are you in the hospital?

[00:39:02]>> So, okay. So, I'm in Glendel. They This Now, by the way, we get to Glendale Hospital at midnight. Like this. We get there at midnight. I didn't even know what it was yet. They don't let her come in cuz it's co. So, she just goes home.

[00:39:14][ __ ] >> I check in. By the time they figure out, it's probably 3:00 or 4 in the morning.

[00:39:18]I'm like [ __ ] pulmonary. At 4 in the morning, I find out. So, I'm in this room.

[00:39:22]>> I'm and I'm freezing cold cuz the gown is open. I'm like, so they so they admit me to the hospital in Glendale and this and they then first thing in the morning, Sunday morning, they bring this pulmonologist into the room. He's a lung specialist.

[00:39:37]>> And he says and he says, "This is a major embolism. Some can be real small, some can be real big. This was really big, meaning it's clogging up the the Venus system big time." He's like, "I think we need to get you to interventional radiology." That means they bring you to radiology. They use X-rays and they they and they basically go in with like with a with catheters and stuff right into the clot and they literally mechanically break it up and stuff. He's like, "This thing is so big.

[00:40:05]We need to do that." So, I'm like, "Well, whatever you think, man. I I wasn't think I was exhausted >> and you're alone having to make >> I'm alone having made this decision."

[00:40:12]I'm like, "Okay, if that's what you think." So, in the meanwhile, all of a sudden, you know, I think I called Tammy and I called some people.

[00:40:19]>> Oh my god.

[00:40:20]>> So, so, so then all of a sudden, I get a call from this guy, Victor Tapsson. He was the head pulmonologist at Cedar Sinai who's an expert in this stuff. He calls me my cell phone.

[00:40:32]>> Oh my god.

[00:40:33]>> Yeah. He's like, dude, he's like, hey, I'm on vacation. I'm up in Montana, but I heard what's going on. He goes, what's going on? I tell him. He says, who's your doctor? I tell him. He goes, I train that guy. Get him on the phone.

[00:40:42]He's like, "You're not going interventional radiology."

[00:40:45]>> Like when I say like I think No, I think there was so there were so many like God was totally looking over Dr. Diamond like those that week I think changed everything.

[00:40:57]>> Yeah. So he immediately gets me transferred to Cedars. I'm there for one day. They do the right things which is just medications and then I go home. And so yeah, so that was the story.

[00:41:06]>> And he could he wanted to come back to work. Like he literally wanted to leave the hospital when he got down the hill.

[00:41:11]>> Yeah. And he was like, "I'm ready." And no, they were like, "You need to stay home and you need to like really really like work through this." But I think a different man came out of that experience.

[00:41:22]>> You you changed your entire perspective.

[00:41:23]>> Yeah.

[00:41:24]>> So, what do you think changed the most?

[00:41:25]Just having just more gratitude for everything, taking your time.

[00:41:28]>> Yeah. I mean, yeah. Appreciating trying to appreciate everything. Yeah.

[00:41:32]>> That is absolutely terrifying. How what was the recovery like? How long were you home?

[00:41:36]>> Oh, I got home in a day. A day. Cuz once the anti-coagulants are in, it's breaking up the collide. As soon as you start to normalize, then you're okay.

[00:41:41]Hey, you're out of danger. So, I got out of danger once, you know, the heart rate came back to normal, the oxygen came back to normal, everything started. So, at that point, even though there's a clot there, it takes 3 months to go away. Six month. But at that point, your body is already accommodated quickly.

[00:41:54]So, it didn't kill you. You accommodate pretty quickly. Yeah. So, I was I was home. And >> you were back to work when a week.

[00:42:00]>> No, not a Don't tell me a week. Was it a week?

[00:42:02]>> I think it was earlier than that. I think I got out of the hospital on a Monday.

[00:42:04]>> Is he [ __ ] crazy coming back to work?

[00:42:06]So he he was supposed to stay at home for a week, but I texted him cuz he was the what I really appreciate about Dr. Diamond, too, is like it was obviously very serious, right? And there were very serious moments during when it was happening, when he was in the hospital, when he was home, but he always had a sense of he injected a sense of humor into it. And so there was it was a Wednesday and we had like touched B. We were touching base like all the time.

[00:42:28]And so I was like >> like he was like, I'm so bored. I don't know what to do.

[00:42:32]>> Oh my god, I'm bored. Almost died, but I'm bored. And I was like, do you feel like he's like I'm just sitting on my couch and I was like, do you feel like designing an implant? We have no like 3 weeks.

[00:42:40]>> Don't forget we were supposed to make a house call in San Francisco that Friday and I wanted to go. Remember?

[00:42:45]>> You are so correct.

[00:42:47]I wanted to go just we're going to go.

[00:42:48]>> I made the executive decision. I was like, you are not doing that. We are not doing that.

[00:42:52]>> Yeah.

[00:42:52]>> Do you feel now that you pay attention to your health way more? Like any sort of thing that feels off, you're like no, you're just you just go forward.

[00:43:00]>> I just go forward.

[00:43:01]>> But can we say like he didn't have CO?

[00:43:03]He didn't have co I I tried to we joked too early about making fun of his shoes.

[00:43:06]It didn't land. But again, that means like I'm not going to make fun of his shoes anymore. Dr. Diamond likes to wear these like LeB like duck shoes and >> which I get more compliments on the worst.

[00:43:16]>> I'm going to get him some shoes to wear.

[00:43:17]>> I get more compliments on his shoes.

[00:43:18]>> Let's What do we do? We want to talk about some [ __ ] skin care after that horrific [ __ ] event.

[00:43:24]>> That is >> How would you like to talk about >> now? I like you more and I'm pissed.

[00:43:28]So that was 6 years ago. You're healthy ever since. You could get back to work.

[00:43:33]Can we talk about Dr. Diamond's medicine?

[00:43:36]>> Yes. So, yes.

[00:43:37]>> No, no, wait. We have qu God, he's so smart. He's like writing a thesis on this podcast. Like, I love that I don't have to do any work, but like I just want to ask you questions about what you've manufactured, designed, created.

[00:43:47]>> When did we start when did we start the skincare? Well, I had been I had the idea for skincare 10 years ago probably and we had some prop we had some initial things we were trying and we created and we were testing out but we didn't have the we really didn't have the resources or the the real I don't know we didn't really have the real mindset to really do it. So we kind of played with it about 10 years ago and then it quickly just died out. It was a great product >> but it but then so it really started the thought of about 10 years ago but we this Dr. Medicine really was really started about 6 years ago.

[00:44:26]>> So right after this whole thing it was right around that time. Yeah.

[00:44:30]>> What was the first product we launched?

[00:44:32]What Tammy correct him if you need to.

[00:44:34]>> Yeah. No it started before that experience and then when co happened >> but we launched how many years ago?

[00:44:39]>> Because it's inspired by our signature diamond instacial.

[00:44:42]>> Okay let's talk about the instacial really quickly. Can we just say instacial is? Yeah.

[00:44:45]>> Okay. Okay. So, the instafacial I've gotten five times. Tammy has to hold my hand through the micro needling part.

[00:44:50]You're never there for me during that.

[00:44:50]It's fine. You're there for me for the Botox.

[00:44:52]>> It literally is, >> don't tell me. You get a laser. It is an IPL laser first.

[00:44:58]>> Yes.

[00:44:58]>> Correct.

[00:44:59]>> Which I get with what?

[00:45:01]>> Yeah. No numbing.

[00:45:02]>> No numbing. I [ __ ] raw dog it cuz I'm a warrior. I can't do it. I just go in there and these women are fantastic.

[00:45:07]They do it on me. Full full thing cuz we can't do numbing. Then it's followed by micro needling. We also do so the laser part is customized to the person but it's always light laser resurfacing sometimes with an IPL PRF injections micro needling with PRF and PRP and then our collagen microcolagen >> what's the difference between PRF and PRP quickly >> plate rich fibbrin and then platelet rich plasma >> it's just a small change it's just a few more uh blood particles in the PRF than PRP but it's essentially the same thing they have slight differences very slight >> if you have anything that you need to go to and you need to look gorgeous this facial [ __ ] you up it is So good. My face literally and there's not there's no down time. Your face is maybe what a teensy bit dry for like 3 days. Not even >> 24 hours usually slightly red.

[00:45:51]>> It's not red. No, no, it does not stay red.

[00:45:53]>> Slight pink >> for the day.

[00:45:56]>> We have like some patients. We're pretty dramatic.

[00:45:58]>> I did not get pink and I'm really dramatic.

[00:46:01]>> But you're all of a sudden you just like you feel like you've just had like yogurt splashed on your I don't know.

[00:46:05]You look like a gorgeous [ __ ] queen.

[00:46:07]>> And you feel it right right away. Which is why we wanted medicine to have that feeling right away when you apply it.

[00:46:12]But when I say this week has been a marathon like the Met is coming >> coming. So you're on Monday. So everyone diamond instac of course. Okay. What was the first product you launched with?

[00:46:21]>> So the first product was the instafacial collection which started with the plasma which is that square. I know >> and then Yeah. And then the emulsion which you don't have here.

[00:46:29]>> I have all of it. Okay. So yeah. So that's part of it. So >> what is this doing? Making you gorgeous.

[00:46:33]>> It's growth factors. It's growth factors which is essentially equivalent to your PRP. It's your daily dose of PRP.

[00:46:38]>> Morning and night.

[00:46:39]>> Morning and night.

[00:46:39]>> Guys, this [ __ ] is so [ __ ] good.

[00:46:41]>> Yeah. morning and night. It's awesome.

[00:46:42]It's the best. Next is the emulsion, which is like your laser in the bottle.

[00:46:46]That's your retinoid and your hyaluronic acids and essentially replicating the laser part of the instacial. Okay? And the next is the infusion, which is your 100% uh bioidentical collagen, which uh it completes the instacial, those three.

[00:46:59]So, together they work synergistically, and that's what we launched with the instacial collection.

[00:47:02]>> Synergistically is a word. Okay, great.

[00:47:04]Wait, let's talk about the latest cuz this I didn't even know that. So, I'm glad I learned that. This shit's no joke. I love the design of the whole thing, too. Eyelift is great. This is uh this is designed for again like we talked about the eyelids being problematic. This is designed to address essentially every issue you could have on your on your eyelids upper and lower.

[00:47:21]And there I've been using it. You sent me one. Do you know that?

[00:47:24]>> I I didn't know that, but I >> You had an event last night. I didn't get invited. It's okay. Next time always >> they're top of the list.

[00:47:30]>> He sees me enough in the office and he's like, I'm done. But this, you know, I feel like most people make a bunch of products and they're all [ __ ] crap and this [ __ ] is unbelievable. Well, it's all Yeah, this is this we don't put anything out that's not Everything we put out is based on a proprietary treatment we do in the office. I'm not going to put out just another something.

[00:47:45]It's got to be something that's work that's tested. Our office is a living lab. We test it on our patients well before it ever comes out. I know what my patients need. I like you I mean I see I see you all the time. I know exactly what your face needs. I I I have the same relationship with thousands of people where I see their face. I understand their face and I know what works. I know what what doesn't work.

[00:48:04]And so we just we create products based on what problems are out there that don't have solutions.

[00:48:09]>> Okay, let's talk about for real like if you want to go to Dr. Diamond and you are not in the circle, you are not famous and you are not you're just like a normal [ __ ] person but has money to spend and don't [ __ ] How the [ __ ] are people getting into this office?

[00:48:23]>> I mean to I don't know >> how like how realistically like are they calling what is the wait list right now?

[00:48:30]>> Two years. It's a four years.

[00:48:31]>> Yeah. I mean it's it's long. It's lengthy.

[00:48:34]>> How do you cut the like what are some give me two tips to maybe get ahead?

[00:48:37]Call me and then I call you or how does that work?

[00:48:39]>> Yeah, I do feel that if you know someone and I will say we are one of the only offices and you can correct me if you feel differently is that like we will work our very best. If there is a way that I can make it happen, if you are in town and you're only in town for 48 hours, if there's a way that we can make it happen and he is such a like a he plays >> he doesn't stop working.

[00:48:58]>> Yeah. He's like if I'm like this patient's only here for like 48 hours, I'd love to see her. We go in on Saturdays, we'll come in early, we'll stay late because we do >> it's not for you.

[00:49:08]>> At the end of the day, like we really do try to be really accommodating to patients, both new patients or our existing patients, and anyway, we can make it work.

[00:49:17]>> Guys, listen, you're going to see me post brow lift, post all the stuff.

[00:49:20]>> Can't wait.

[00:49:21]>> This was so informative. You're going to have to come on for part two.

[00:49:25]>> Yeah, we never talked about the baseball. the baseball, the raw. I mean, I I knew New Jersey, but then you were born in Pennsylvania. I mean, I had a whole rapid fire that we don't even need to get to because we we had a way better chat. I think medicine's amazing. I, by the way, I wouldn't They're not absolutely not paying me. I'm paying them my college tuition to see him. So, just so you know, I would not say this [ __ ] was good if it wasn't [ __ ] good.

[00:49:45]We need to send my mom one. She's pissed. She wants to be on PR. She's always like, "Why don't I have She's [ __ ] like, why don't I get anything?"

[00:49:53]By the way, she lastly, she will get in that office. He'll [ __ ] do a 100 needles in once. No problem. So effortlessly doesn't move. I'm literally like >> hyperventilating. Anyway, I'm obsessed with you now. Ew, gross. Okay, thank you guys for coming on. So fun. This was so fun.

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