Shining with Dr. Diamond

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. Um, can you believe what a professional I am? It's hard to believe. I've never seen you in anything other than "Alo." [laughs] Okay, you guys, we're just in a raw dog this in Starbucks because we've been talking so much already. I am so fucking excited. I'm being genuine for the first time ever. The incomparable Dr. Jason Diamond is here today. Woo! Clapping. Thank you. Tammy, what are you, Tammy? Are you Dr. Diamond's, you're my right hand, but are you his right, like how do we explain who you are? You know, I just try to get him to the finish line. You do everything. I just try to get him to the finish line. That is a good answer. That's great. Can we talk about the finish line and how we started today? Yeah, sure. Okay, so we had a record start time of 10-30. We've been waiting. It's now 10-40. We've 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'm sorry to believe you. Unbelievable. Comes, 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. Yeah, there was a nice little sound proof like glass line already sat in there, kicked my feet up on the couch. It was? Yeah, it was great. I was watching basketball videos from last night. Oh, were you? Yeah. What were you watching? 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 flipping through. I had spent the last 30 minutes doing that. Okay, wait. First of all, are we in the playoffs? The Lakers are in the playoffs. Yes. Okay. Are we going to make it to the finish line? No. There's no fucking way, right? No fucking way. So we're paying LeBron to just basically almost get us there and then not. Yes. He needs a Tammy in his life, basically. He needs a, yeah. And he has it, but he's hurt. It's Luca. He's hurt. He can't do it by himself. I'm honored. Wow. Also, by the way, the audience has checked out. Okay. Do you want to talk about you? Yes. My favorite thing to talk about. It's the only thing I know. 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 fucking fun. Great. Because we're going to get into all the technical shit, but I want to talk about you as a person. Great. Starting with. And Tammy, you jump in as much as you want. Okay. Sounds great. Six, fifteen. Yeah. I'm obsessed with people's morning routine. So this is how we start every interview, because I'm a hard-hitting journalist. Okay. Six, fifteen. No, can you believe it? By the way, are you a game I face? I'm looking your face. You see that I need more Botox already? You look great. No, I like it because of you. But remember, we practice our script, which is what? My cheekbones are naturally what? Hi. And lateral. And chisels. Yes. And model ass. You've improved them over time, which we're going to get into everything I've done, too. Okay. Six, fifteen. Walk me through that. What's for breakfast? So I don't eat breakfast right when I wake up. I get up. Okay. I go right downstairs. Okay. I go outside. I put my bare feet in the grass and I stare at the low-level sun. I do that for probably, and by the way, as I go out there, I take this exact bottle of water, the exact one. So rich. And I stand out there and I drink my water and I stare at the sun for five minutes. It's low-level sun and I just stare it because you can't really see the sun is just coming up. That's really five minutes. It's the first thing I do. And what is that? Does that ground you? 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 low-level light does. It does that. Like if you look at when the sun is high, that doesn't reset your body. Your body knows when the sun, the light levels are low. Like the sun is just coming up. It knows that. That means okay. Time to wake up. 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 the perfect way to start the day. Holy fuck. That's some surgeon-ass shit. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. So post-circadian rhythm getting in line here. Do you do this on surgery days too? I do it every day. Okay. So then when do we have breakfast and what are we eating for breakfast? Okay. So I'm not there yet. Okay. Oh, I'm sorry. I don't want to rush you. Okay. Okay. I got it. You want to say annex? Yeah. Okay. Okay. Okay. So then after I've done for about five minutes, then I sit down outside and I just sit in like, in a chair, and I just drink this water and do some breathing and however long it takes me to drink this bottle of water, it's usually about 20 minutes and sit there slowly drinking it, then I make my coffee, black coffee, just black coffee. And then I have that outside, also, I sit outside and I have that. What if it's raining? I sit underneath like an awning thing. Oh. By the way, awning is low-key rich. Okay. I'm sorry. Holy rich people are awning. I'm sorry. It was like I sit under that thing, you know, the thing that covers your head. 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? Are we ready for food after coffee? We're not even close. No, not even close. We haven't even cold plunge. Okay. Yeah. There's a whole lot. This is so wealthy. Continue. Okay. Continue. Okay. Okay. So then, then it's cold plunge time. So I get in the cold plunge for three minutes. It's 41 degrees for three minutes. Then I get out of the cold plunge and I go downstairs to the gym and I work out. And this is when the first patient arrives. He's still working. Of course, bitch. 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 fucking needles. He's doing his own two cards. No, we're on his time. Okay. So, all right. 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, it would just wherever 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 fuck is going on? Who's fucking morning stuff? And it's also not like you're waking up at four o'clock in the morning. Yeah. Yeah. Well, that's why I'm late every day very much. And this is why I'm going to get my first great hair. No, it's crazy. It hasn't happened. It's unbelievable. Yeah. Okay. So, again, I don't want to rush through this because I now I realize this morning routine is extremely serious. By the way, usually people are like, I wake up at six, I had Cheerios and I'm here. You. I didn't know we were going to unlock the view. Yeah. Yeah. It's a big thing. Okay. Maybe hit the sauna. Are we working out for an hour? Yeah. Hour. Yeah. So, are the bitches knocked out already on the table or when we get into the office? This is a non-surgery day. 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. Yeah. This is an office day. Surgery days, I don't do all that stuff because I have to be there at like 730, so I cut it way short. But you meditate. Yeah, I meditate. Every day. Every day. And okay. 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 the whole time kind of. Okay. And then, I'll go inside and I'll eat breakfast after the sauna. Okay. That's when I eat breakfast. What's your breakfast? I usually just have like four eggs, some avocado and maybe some orange slices. Holy shit. Very simple. You're like a rich white woman. It's my crazy. Like, who does this? It's so good. I love it. It's like, I get, 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. That's what you stick with. Okay. And so then we're at the office. Does that conclude the morning routine? Because I want to make sure we get every day. So that pretty much concludes the morning routine. 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. 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've 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 a high stress kind of job, you know, so it's like, it's like, it's not even like I do it once a week. It's not even like you need to tend to it once a week. It's like, it's constant. Is that something they taught you in medical schoolers? This is just as you've evolved as a surgeon. You 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 talked to all the experts, we, we discussed these things. And so it's just my, my worldly experience. How many surgeries a week do you do? Well, that depends on what I'm doing. The most common surgery I do are facelifts, but facelifts often involve eyelids they involve. They might involve fat and grafting, they might involve lasering. There's like a whole very, 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 the, I do one a day, not just not more than one a day. Yeah. Okay. Right now, are we like in a trend? Are you, are you seeing an uptick? Because you've obviously been doing, how long have you been doing facelifts? 25 years. 25 years. And you, I hurt, I saw when you were 33, you were already the top guy doing facelifts. I was up there. Okay. So explain the difference between, because this is all the rage right now that I'm seeing all over my phone, deep plane facelift versus regular facelift. That's the youngest person that you're seeing now, and what's the oldest person is. You got it. Okay. So I can give like a long answer to that or a quick answer. Whatever medical school ask answer you want to give me is your time to shine. Okay. Okay. A deep plane facelift is all the rage as, as if it's something new. It is not anything new. The surgery's been around for probably 40, maybe even 50 years. And I learned it from the guy who coined the term and described it. A guy from Dallas. He's retired now. He was Sam Hammer. He described it. He started it. He, and he taught it to a Beverly Hills guy and I learned it from them. Like from the beginning, it's the first facelift I ever did is what I built my career and my reputation on. So it's 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. 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 we've been doing this. I was talking about the Deplanned Facelift on Dr. 9202 and 2002. My favorite show. Okay, so that means you're cutting to deeper layers of the face. That's correct. And how long is that usually? How long does that usually take? To do the surgery? Yeah. If it's just the facelift, probably about four hours. But Dr. Mteler, the analogy that you use is that when you explain the Deplanned versus mass lift, you're literally cutting the skin and cutting through muscle to reposition the muscles. That's right. That's the Deplanned. So, 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 can come up with. It's kind of like, imagine you pulled up some tube socks and you went running. You're going running. You know, the sock 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 the deeper muscle that we call the smasler, S-M-A-S. Think of that as the smasler. When you want to snug it up, 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. If you went too tight, you might tear the sock if you don't go tight enough. That's like snugging up the smasler. How do we know from doing it for 25 years, from doing thousands? How do you know how tight to snug it up? It's just my experience, but it's that kind of thing. It's snugging that back up. That's basically what a smasler deep plane lift is doing, okay? Okay. Okay. Can we talk about a smasler deep plane that you just did that I was blown away from that I talked to Tammy about? Yeah. Try to see Tudor. Try to see Tudor. Who is public about it? That facelift is. I didn't think you had it in ya. I was fucking believable. Well, then you haven't been around. So, I clearly, because it was still, there's no scar. There's no scar. But that's, this is normal. This is usual. The best facelift of the ones you don't know, I've done that same sort of on 50 people you know personally that you would never know. Like literally that. You're going to encounter it in the next two weeks and they don't talk about it. Like people you know. How many years have I been coming to your guys' office now? When did I start therapy? You're sick. By the way, I. It's on record. On record. Am I your fake? You can just lie. I'm your favorite. I'm your most entertaining patient. Let's just be honest. How much do you laugh in my appointments versus any other. I say you're my third favorite. Who the fuck is the one that's like, right? I'm his favorite. I love him. Basically, the whole game is that I have probably the worst phobia, injection phobia of anybody you've gone, right? Probably, probably. So basically what he does is we do Botox. He has a beautiful hand. He does sculpting. I do sculpting with you, which is, okay, fine, let's get it. What is sculpting exactly? 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 contours. It's the opposite of creating puffiness. People are always worried, "I don't want my face to look puffy." This is 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 figured out over years how to do this. It also, what it really does is it adds balance to the face. I genuinely have naturally high cheekbones, but I've done sculpting with you probably, what do you think? Five times? More? Less. Whatever. Everyone's like, "Oh, you look like you've had absolutely nothing done because nothing you do looks unnatural." It really just, I don't, it just makes you look more, not even angular, just balanced. I mean, that's the goals, be undetectable and make you look your best, yeah? Oh, you're so fucking good at your job. Okay. And then also another trick that I'm going to tell the audience is that when, because you will not fill my nasolabial folds, but you'll do a drop of filler here and here. Right. And that puffs out. Right. The puff isn't the right word, but it pushes out. It pushes out. Where the bone starts to resort. That's why people get these deep creases between their nose and their cheek. It's because the bone in that area called the pre-maxilla, the bone there starts to resort. And when that starts to, and reserves on everybody, it's like osteoporosis, right? Oh, man. 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. But can I say, can I just have you explain, Dr. Diamond, because it is diamond facial sculpting. It's a trademark procedure. No, it is. No one else can do this fucking shit. 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, right? And so that really, he knows where to inject exactly where makeup artists, 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 a contour. But also talk about like, a lot of guys do it. I don't think I've done it on myself. It's, oh, it's great for guys too, because everybody looks better. Are you injecting yourself? I do a few little things myself, and then I have my inner due, because it's hard for me to get the angles. So many guys get, especially lately, the work that these men are getting. Are you appalled? Like it looks fucking awful. Oh, I've been appalled at the bad work. 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. It gives the field and the overall feelings about plastic surgery, like a terrible name reputation. And I see the, and I'm like, why did the doctor do that? Yeah, it really upsets me when I see that stuff. What's the percentage of men you see versus women? I would say men are probably around 30%. Would you like that to be higher? No, I'm good with it. I mean, look, I love taking care of guys, I do, it's really fun, but it's a little bit, as far as the surgeries go, it's a little bit more elbow grease involved. Okay. So I love doing it, but it's, but I like the percentage, 36, 37 years, great. Okay, so what are you double certified in? Tell that audience. A double board certified in head, neck, surgery, and facial plastic surgery. Okay, but you also do boobs. Are you do not do boobs? No, no, just faces. Just faces. I was thinking of boobs and nose. Just faces. Okay, just faces. Okay. I first started, when I first started 25 years ago, I did a couple of breast augmentation and a couple of times I learned how to do them and I can do them, I'm certified to do them. And then within the, it was literally like the first three months because you got to pay your bills and you got to use it. And I do, I want 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. So my very first, my very first month, like a couple of months in practice, I did a couple of breast augmentation and the patients loved it. And then, and then I decided, it just took me like a ton of breaks. I said, you know what, I want to be the world's best face 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 or not a jack of all trades. So I just, a problem with the decision, okay, no more breast 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 breasts. Like, what are you talking about? I said, yeah, I decided not to do it. Like, I literally, and so I had to turn down all of these people right off the bat. It was really odd. >> 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 is an injector who's not a plastic surgeon, what are they? It's just an RN. >> I mean, no. >> I mean, dentists can do it, nurses can do it. >> No, no, no, no. See, I, the reason I go to Dr. Diamond is A, because I'm fortunate enough to be able to. But the reality is, is you are a plastic surgeon. You are not just sticking shit in my fucking face and seeing, like, what's going to happen? No, like, I know, and I going back to like, my anxiety is so bad with injections. 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, that was a bad, I almost passed out for no reason. >> You've gotten much better. >> I've gotten much better. I've gotten much better. >> I wish we had a camera on there when I always, every time, I'm like, oh shit, I'm going to be like, oh, fuck. >> No, every time. >> No, so the last, you're such a fucking out. 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 am. >> And he literally injects the needle, team, we ready, and goes, oh, shit. >> And I was like, what the fuck is happening? Am I bleeding? Am I blind? Like what? And Tammy and I look at each other and like, he's such a fucking idiot. I literally can barely do it, but to go on with my compliment, you know the anatomy of a face. You are not just sticking shit 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 done to your face, you need to go to a literal professional to do these things. >> Yeah, the thing is, look, can there be talented injectors who don't know the anatomy? >> Sure, you can, but there's so much important anatomy underneath, and I'm operating on it three days a week. I know where all your arteries and nerves are without even touching you. I know where they are and know how to avoid them. And you hear about, here's this thing that's important to understand. People treat fillers like it's not even medicine. They treat it like it's like, you know, it's just kind of facial. And the reality is, it can be done very safely, and it can be done very well. 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 oftentimes because if you got the filler into a blood vessel It could cause blindness. It could cause a stroke. It could cause loss of skin. You don't have these issues with certain, like these things don't even happen with facelifts. - This is never gonna happen to you more. - This is never gonna happen. - Because I'm going to you. - That's right, but I'm saying, like-- - Her number one fear was just like, it can happen, it's important. - It can happen. Oh, it can definitely happen. And I have people come in all the time, they say, Doc, can you just feel a little filler in my nostril, and 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 you even hear, there was someone in town, like a 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 where you can start. It'll never work. Like, there are very danger zones that can cause serious complications. And I don't think people realize that, you know, fillers can be very serious. You got to go to someone who knows the anatomy and who's very experienced with this. - 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 cannula. Okay, explain that. I want to talk about under eye. People are obsessed with under eyes. I'm obsessed with under eyes. We're going to need more time. I have so many fucking questions now, sorry. Let's talk about the best way to approach for somebody who's never gone any sort of work done. And they're like, I just want to fill under my eyes. What is the best approach to that? - So this is, I mean, this is a long answer because the eyes are so variable. People's anatomies are so variable. And the eyes are oftentimes one of the first areas that people notice they're aging on. So like, oftentimes 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 jowls. 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 hollowness. Some people have dark circles. Some people have veiny looks. And people have pigment problems. Some people have thin, fine, creepy skin. It's a whole series of things that can occur. So there's no one answer that I can't give you. - So for me, when I finally get the coneyes 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. Dimons right 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 fucking hard to get this fucking appointment. Okay, but now he's on my podcast. So he has to get me in. We had an appointment for PRF. There's a difference between PRF, PRF and PRF. PRF is a workout, right? - Yeah, okay. - You're an anti-expionizer, right? - Yeah, salmon, the PDRF. - Oh, the salmon. Okay, oh my god, you're never leaving. Then we have to get into the skin care 'cause I want to talk about it. Okay, under my eyes, should I be doing filler or should I be doing PRF? - If you're asking me about you, it would be PRF. - Yes, always about me. - It would be PRP, PRF for you. I wouldn't do filler now. - What is PRF, PRP versus filler? - It's your blood. It's, we take your blood and we spin it down and we concentrate all the platelet. It's called platelet-rich plasma. The platelets are a part of the blood that contain proteins and growth factors and all those types of things. 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, it's all like a serious yellow color. That's the PRP, that's what goes to heel areas. So we figured out over the years that if you concentrate, 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, 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. - 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 it. - You're gonna fill up, yeah. - Don't you think that's what I need most on my face? Don't lie to my audience. - Uh, no. (upbeat music) - What's your favorite surgery to perform? - Facelift. - Is that, okay. - That's my favorite. - So you, do you wanna do like facelift, brow lift, like you wanna do full combo plate? - I mean, what not what I wanna do is what people often need when they're in the market for making their face look better, right? 'Cause it's an upper third of the face, it's a lower third of the face. Oftentimes you want them to look their best together. So oftentimes, I'd say I do a brow lift on 80% of my facelifts, I'd say at least. - Try two days. - Two days. - What, what's two days? - Two days surgery. - No, he, let's talk about you. - This week has been a marathon. - I wanna, okay. - We thought a marathon. - I have some other personal questions about you too. So, okay, what happened Tuesday? Tell me. - It was a patient from, like a Scandinavian person who's living in China, like is China, she lives in China, but. - We don't need to think about it. - What the fuck? - We don't need geographic. - Yeah, we need to know what you did. - We don't need to talk about the procedures you did. - Okay, well, I'm just telling you, so she had a bunch of-- - This is nerd, I didn't realize. - She had a part. - She literally has had multiple surgeries over there. And so everything we did for her was a revision. And revisions are harder. So we did a revision brow. If revision, upper eyelids, revision, lower eyelids, revision, facelift, 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 and nanofat's the stem. So we take your own stem cells and we put them on your face. It was a, I mean, it was probably close to a 12 hour surgery, but everything is, and it was just totally safe. We used the board certified anesthesiology. It is completely safe, and she's already doing great, but some, you know, revisions take longer than first time, 'cause I gotta deal with scar tissue, destroy anatomy, I gotta figure out what's, what it's, so. - Because to customize the chin implant. - Customize the chin implant for her, yeah. - So he custom designs these implants over six hours before the surgery even starts. And that was because beauty is a game of millimeters, is what Dr. Diamond always says. - Amen. - 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 untapped beauty in people's spaces. So she really wanted to, like, be on her way to looking the next decade of her life, being a lot prettier, younger. And so he addressed every single facial feature in a way that coalesced to give her, like, this really beautiful aesthetic, but it required addressing every feature on the face. - So the funny thing about that, though, is, like, people are gonna hear, I'm like, I need a 12 hour, you need to, this is, this is, and that, she's gonna look more natural. - Yeah. - Then she did before. - Yeah, you have to undo all the bad work. - Yeah, it's like undoing stuff, yeah. - Well, then 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. - But what's our deal for next time? I get Botox and you just slam it. - You want your forehead to look like an ice skating rink. - Ice skating rink. And I tell them all the time, I'm like, I wanna pretend like I'm pulling up to a goddamn strip mall. Okay, in the deep vow, and I want you to pretend, forget all the fucking teachings you've had. I want you to freeze those fucking 11s. You said, you need a little movement. I don't want it to move, 'cause I look like I have a fucking bulsack protruding from the middle of my fucking forehead. So next week, we're flattening, flattening. Okay, let's talk about 12 hour surgeries. How are you actually performing a surgery for 12 hours? - Yeah, it's just something that I am built to do. It's weird. I have an attention span of a puppy dog if it comes to anything else. - We know. - But when it comes, but when it comes to surgery, I literally can sit there all day in the zone and not even figuring anything. 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 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 I'm gonna go to the bathroom. I literally-- - That was my next question. - I'm like, so here's a little thing, but I'll give you a little information. Hopefully it's not TMI. - No, I give, we want all the TMI. - I'm a bit of a germaphob. 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-- - I could go to our flights to Dubai. - Yeah, so-- - You're not paying on the flight to Dubai. - The flight to Dubai is 17 hours, so I go to the bathroom once. I go to the bathroom once. - So, like, you won't even drink water on the plants. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - I'm a bit-- - Okay, we just talked about this on a reason episode, but do you fly into JFK or New York when you fly into New York? - Usually JFK. - No, guys, we gotta switch it. I love the JFK. - No, we need to be doing New York. It is going to save your time. Where are you staying in the city uptown or downtown? Depends, it depends on where we're staying patient. JFK, I'm sorry, New York. Okay, sorry, continue on. So you're not paying, so for 12 hours, you're not eating, you're not drinking. - 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 face, 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 on my throat within eight minutes, and then I'm back in. So I do get these late minute breaks here and there, but when it's appropriate between sides or whatever, so I will take a couple breaks, but I don't need to. I used to not. I used to not, and then I ended up getting a clot in my leg, so 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 embolism. - What does that mean for the audience? - That is a bad thing, the 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 embolism, and that's got like a 10% dead-on arrival. Yeah, people die from that, often. And so that happened to me, and so you always hear like when people sit on airplanes and don't get up, they get risk for clots. When people sit all day and they're not moving around, they can get their risk for a clot. The clot forms in the deep leg, and it just slowly works its way up. - How did we, it is really important to get up there. on planes. I do that a lot. But how did we find this out? How what happened? Well, what happened was, well, it all started with a 12 hour surgery or 10 hour surgery. I didn't get up once. This is this is six years ago. No, I didn't get up once. Did the whole surgery didn't get up once. No water, no nothing. 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 it altitude, 7,000 feet. So it's hard to breathe up there anyway. If we went right now and we walked, we'd be like, Dr. Diamond, you missed the part where the next day you went on. That's why you're doing it. That's why you're fucking there. So you went to Greece and then you felt like, I didn't want to bore it. No, we're not bored. We're about to make you human. I want to get your human being performing research. Okay. Okay. Okay. So then the next day after that 12 hour surgery, we flew, we went on a family vacation, we flew to Europe. And so I was on and I was exhausted from the surgery. I never get tired during the surgery. I get tired after. 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. Okay. 12 hours. We land. And I'm walking through the airport and my calf hurt. I'm like, shit, I pulled my calf. And I pulled my calf before like running. So I know three or four days in the vacation. I'm kind of limp and around. I'm like, that's so weird. Like, what did I do? Four or five days later in the vacation, it went away. I'm like, that's weird because the last time I pulled my calf years ago, it takes three weeks to go away. But it went way fast. I'm like, all right, whatever. I forgot all about it. So about two weeks after the surgery, literally two weeks after two weeks after how often do you get a Charlie horse? I will say since you sit down. Not often, not often, but I, you know, Charlie horse is one of the worst pains you can never have. Yeah. I mean, they happen to me when you sleep, you jump out of bed like everyone has your foot. Yeah, 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 up everyone does and, 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 disappointed because Friday, the day before, she had me see this patient who was like a favor. And they were, and this, so I see this patient as a favor. I'm like, and I love doing favors, but I wasn't in the mood to do this favor. By the way, I was, and I was really pissed that I had to see this patient. I see this patient as a favor. They were, they weren't going to pay. It was like, it was like going to be a free. I was so pissed. I was so pissed. So, so I, I come in. I see this pay. I leave sure enough an hour after I leave that patient calls out and says, Oh, I just got diagnosed with COVID. 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 COVID from this guy because because remember, I think I have to remember everybody said during COVID, they couldn't breathe. So I just thought it was COVID. So I'm up in big bear. I can't breathe more than normal. Like I'm like, I can't, I can't breathe right now. 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. I didn't complain to anybody all day. He complains about everything else. But can we say? Yeah. So, so I'm fuming at Tammy because I thought she got me COVID from seeing this guy. So, so that. So anyway, so we have a bunch of, we have a bunch of, we have a bunch of the house is full. It's our house. Oh, you have a house there. You got to include the property. Okay. We have a house there. So, so we have, we have 10 adults. We have 10 kids. The house is packed. Everyone's 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 the tears. But Oh, do it. That'll be good for reading. So 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 their time out, 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 we have to park, walk around for 40 minutes to an hour. 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. It's crazy. So, so we're walking around. I'm like, I'm like, I'm going to die. I'm going to die. And I didn't know 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. Yeah. And she says, what's wrong with you? You haven't said a word all day. And she goes, Oh, my God, you're as white as a ghost. So, so she puts this thing on me in my, my, my oxygen sats are like 83%. It was crazy. Like, yeah, it's like emotional, you know? And so, oh my God, I didn't, I did not realize it was this serious. It was very serious. Yeah. So we brace 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. Yeah, it was a massive embolism. And I hear the term. I'm like pulmonary embolism. I've heard about it as a doctor for years. I'm like, holy shit. I got an embolism. Like, and the thing was, it's, it's, it's like middle of COVID, right? It's the middle of COVID. She couldn't even be in there with me. I'm like, by myself, it's crazy. And so I thought I'm going to die in this hospital room. 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. That is absolutely terrified. Yeah. Yeah. It was crazy. It was crazy. And the funny, and here, now here's not the funny thing, but the, but the, the, the way like, God must have been like looking after us because, because so my, when, when I couldn't breathe, and so we're up at Big Bear, and she realizes my saturations are 83%. How did she check that? Because she had like an apple watch or something. Someone put something on me. I don't even know. I don't remember. Okay. And she's like, Oh my God. And she's a doctor. She's like, this is something's going on. And so my friend, who is there, Mark, he's got a portion. He drives real tights like, do let me raise you down there. We thought it might be altitude sickness because sometimes you get that up at altitude. Yeah. She's like, you got to get down the mountain. And it's like an hour drive. You down the mountain. No, it was an hour drive. 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 up. You know, he's got a portion 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, 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 and he gets Jessica, right? He gets Jessica to take me. So she drives me down. We switch cars. He was going to race me down. But she's like, she's like, Audrey. 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. No, she's such a man. Yeah. She said, I'm not taking you home, right? So she makes me go. And uh, but had Mark taking me, I would said, Mark, take me home. He would have taken me home. I would have died in bed. Yeah, I would definitely died in bed. He would have rate. Yeah. Okay. What tested they, how did they come to the conclusion that this was a pulmonary embryo check? They check. They check a blood clot thing. 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 this, so then they immediately get into a CT scan, which is the definitive test. So they check 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. Was there surgery? Are there was no surgery? No, it's no surgery. It's, uh, it's, uh, anti-coagulants. Yeah. So what does that mean? It just means that you just inject you with a bunch of medication to break up the client. Yeah. Yeah. And, and then a little aside to that tune, this might bore everybody, but no, no, this is riveting. Trust me. So, yeah. So I'm not even kidding. So I'm in this Glendale hospital, um, because it was closer than going to Cedars. I might not have made it to Cedars. So Glendale, because Glendale's like 45 minutes from the bottom of the mountain where we were. Cedars was the hour and a half. Not to interrupt you. Okay. So it's something that starts in the leg. So how, and if it gets to your lungs, you're basically dead on arrival. Exactly. Yes. So do we know where it was? It started in the calf. That was a calf. Yes. But then how far did it go? It has to work its way. All the way up your calf, all the way up your venous system into your chest. And then was it that, but it had not made it that far when you had gotten to the hospital or we don't know where it had. That's why I couldn't breathe all day. Oh, so it was in the lung. That's why I couldn't breathe. It was in the lung. Now I'm in such good shape. And I done breathing the exercises might for years. And I was like, it's such, I was such good health. Otherwise, I think that's contribute to why I was able to. Yeah. Yeah. So I'm in the hospital in Glendale. A 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. I had never once in my life been a patient in hospital. So they so they so they come in. They say put the gown on. I put the fucking gown on the wrong way. Can we have fun again? Because that's crazy. Right? That is. You're supposed to put it open to the back. I didn't even know. I've never been a patient. So you're literally not just things around. By the way, when I read this, I knew it sounded serious. I had no idea you had gone through something like this. Okay, then how long are you in the hospital? So okay. So I'm in Glendale. They there's now by the way, We get to go into hospital at midnight. Like we get there at midnight. I didn't even know what it was yet. They don't let her come in 'cause it's COVID, so she just goes home, I check in. By the time they figure out, it's probably three or four in the morning, I'm like, "Fuckin' pulmonary ralsant, four in the morning, I find out, so I'm in this room." And I'm freezing cold 'cause the gown is open, I'm like, "I hate you, I'm like." So they say, "Okay, so they admit me to the hospital in Glendale." And they, first thing in the morning, Sunday morning, they bring this pulmonaryologist into the room. He's a lung specialist. And he says, this is a major embolism. Some can be real small, some can be ruby. This was really big, meaning it's clogging up the venous 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 basically go in 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, we need to do that." So I'm like, "Well, whatever you think, man, I wasn't think, I was exhausted." And you're alone having to be in the position. And I'm alone. And I've made this decision. So I'm like, "Okay, if that's what you think." So, in the meanwhile, all of a sudden, I think I called Tamiya and I called some people. Oh my God. Well, so then, all of a sudden, I get a call from this guy, Victor Tapson. He was the head pulmonologist at Cedar Sinai, who's an expert in this stuff. He calls me my cell phone. Oh my God. Yeah. 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 like I get him on the phone." He's like, "You're not going to inter-entral radiology." Woo! Like, what is this? Like, I think-- No, I think there were so many, like God was totally looking over Dr. Diamond. Though those that week, I think changed everything. Yeah. I think that week was like-- And 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. And he could-- he wanted to come back to work. Like, he literally wanted to make the hospital. And he got down the hill. Yeah. And he was like, "I'm ready." And no, they were like, you need to stay home. And you need to really, really work through this. But I think a different man came out of that experience. You changed your entire perspective. So what do you think changed the most, just having just more gratitude for everything, taking your time? Yeah, I mean, yeah, appreciating, trying to appreciate everything. That is absolutely terrifying. How-- what was the recovery like? How long were you home? Oh, I got home in a day. A day. Because once the anticoagulants were in and it's breaking up the clot, as soon as you start to normalize, then you're OK. You're at a danger. So I got at a 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 three months to go away, six months. But at that point, your body is already accommodated, quote, so if it didn't kill you, you accommodate pretty quickly. Yeah. So I was home. You were back to work, when? Back to work. A week. No, not a-- don't tell me a week. Was it a week? I think it was early then. I think I got to the hospital and I'm Monday. Do you want to know that he was fucking crazy coming back to work a week? No, so he was supposed to stay home for a week, but I texted him because he was-- that what I really appreciated 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 touched, we were touching base all the time. And so I was like, he was like, I'm so bored. I don't know what to do. Oh my god, I was like, I almost died, but I'm bored. And I do feel like he's like, I'm just sitting on my couch. And I was like, do you feel like designing an implant? Well, no. Like, three weeks. Don't forget, we were supposed to make a house call in San Francisco that Friday. And I wanted to go. Remember? No, no. Yeah, we were supposed to have a house call, and I wanted to go. Just we're going to go figure out. And I made the executive, so you are not doing that. We are not doing that. Yeah. He's not going to have an implant. It's crazy. Yeah, but only it's crazy. A few days, you know. 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. No. No, you just go forward. No, I just go forward. But can we say let's-- He didn't have COVID. He didn't have COVID. I tried to come with you early about making fun of shoes. It didn't land. But again, that means I'm not going to make fun of you. She's anymore. Dr. Diamond likes to wear these, like, luweve, like duck shoes. Which I get more compliments on. They are the worst shoes. I get more compliments. I'm going to get him some shoes to wear. I get more compliments on these shoes. What do we want to talk about some fucking skin care after that horrific, fucking event? I'll wear it, I don't know. That is-- How would you like to talk about? That was-- Now I like you more, and I'm pissed. So that was six years ago. You're healthy ever since. You could get back to work. Can we talk about Dr. Diamond's medicine? Yeah, so-- No, no, wait. We have a question. God, he's so smart. He's writing a thesis on this podcast. I love that I don't have to do any work. Like, I just want to ask you questions about what you've-- I guess, manufactured, designed, created. When did we start? When did we start the skin care? Well, I had been-- I had the idea for skin care 10 years ago, probably. And 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 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 then-- so it really started-- thought of about 10 years ago. But this, Dr. Diamond's medicine, really, was really start about six years ago. So right after this whole-- Right, yeah. It was right around that time, yeah. What was the first product we launched? What, Tammy? Correct him if you need to. No, it started before that experience. And then when COVID happened-- But we launched how many years ago. Because it's inspired by our signature diamond insta-visual. OK, let's talk about the insta-visual really quickly. So let's see. So we just say what's official is, yeah. OK, so the insta-visual I've gotten five times. Tammy has to hold my hand through the micro-needling. You're never there for me during that. It's fine. You're there for me for the Botox. It literally is, don't tell me. You get a laser. It is an IPO laser first. Yes. Correct. Which I get with what? Yeah, no, no. No, no. I fucking raw dog it because I'm a warrior. I can't do it. I just go in there and these women are fantastic. I do it on me full, full thing because 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 like laser resurfacing sometimes with an IPL, PRF injections, micro-needling with PRF and PRP, and then our collagen, micro-collagen. What's the difference between PRF and PRP quickly? Slightly rich fibrin, and then platelet rich plasma. It's just a small change. There's a few more blood particles in the PRF and 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 fucks you up. It is so good, my face, literally. And there's no downtime. Your face is maybe what? A teensy bit drive for like three days, not even. 24 hours usually slightly red. But when I say like, it's not red. No, no, no, it does not stay red. Slight pink for the day. We have like some patients who are pretty dramatic. I did not get pink and I'm really dramatic. 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, you look like a gorgeous fucking girl. Yes. And you feel it right, right away, which is why we wanted medicine to have that feeling right away when you apply it. But when I say this week has been a marathon, like the Met is coming. Coming. So you're missing on the chase. You've seen everyone die of an institution. Of course. Okay, what was the first product you launched? So the first product was the InstaFacial Collection, which started with the plasma, which is that square. I know. And then the emulsion, which you don't have here. I have all the people working. Okay. Okay. So that's part of it. So what is this doing making you gorgeous? That's gross factors. That's gross factors, which is essentially equivalent to your PRP. It's your daily dose of PRP. Morning and night. Morning and night. Yeah. Guys, this shit is so fucking good. Yeah. Morning and night. It's awesome. It's the best. Next is the emulsion, which is like your laser in the bottle. That's your retino and your hyaluronic acids. And essentially replicating the laser part of the InstaFacial. Okay. And then next is the infusion, which is your 100% biomedical collagen, which is completes the InstaFacial, those three. So together they work synergistically, and that's what we launched with the InstaFacial collection. Synergistically is a word. Okay. Wait, let's talk about the latest, because this. I didn't even know that. So I'm glad I learned that. This shit's no joke. Yeah. I love the design of the whole thing too. I lived is great. 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 eyelids. Upper and lower. I've been using it. Yeah, there were. You sent me one. Do you know that? I didn't know that. You had an event last night. I didn't get invited. It's okay. It's easy to be enough in the office, and it's like I'm done. But this, you know, I feel like most people make a bunch of products, and they're all fucking crap, and this shit is unbelievable. Well, it's all, yeah, 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. It's got to be something that's worked. 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 you all the time. I know exactly your face needs. 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 doesn't work. And so we just, we create products based on what problems are out there that don't have solutions. Okay. Let's talk about, for real. 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 fucking person, but has money to spend, and don't bullshit how the fuck are people getting into this office? I mean, they're not. They're not. I don't know. Realistically, like, are they calling, what is the weight list right now? Two years? Two years? Four years? I mean, it's long. It's lengthy. But I do, how do you, how do you, how do you cut the, like, what are some, give me two tips to maybe get ahead, call me, and then I call you, or how does that work? Right. Yeah, I do feel like, you know, someone, and I will say, we're one of the only offices, and you can correct me if you feel differently, is that, like, we, we'll 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 doesn't stop working. Yeah. 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 like at the end of the day, like we really do try to be really accommodating to patients, both new patients or our existing patients. Oh, yeah. Anyway, we can make it work. And you're going to see me post brow lift, post all the stuff. This was so informative. You're going to have to come on for part two. Yeah, we never talked about the baseball, the raw, I mean, 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 had a way better chat, I think. Is there anything that we need to bring up right now that we did not bring up? I don't think so. Medicines amazing. 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 as you know, I would not say this shit was good if it wasn't fucking good. We need to send my mom one. She's pissed. She wants to be on PR. No, she's always like, why do I have to be like, she's fucking like, why don't I get anything? By the way, she, lastly, she will get in that office. He'll fucking do 100 needles and once no problem so effortlessly doesn't move. I'm literally like hyperventilating. Anyway, I'm obsessed with you now. It'll gross. Okay. Thank you guys for coming on. 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