Longevity, Wellness & Aesthetics with Dr. David Yew

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ADRIENNE: 
Welcome back, and thanks for listening to the Team Lally real estate show, home of the guaranteed sold program, or we’ll buy it. I’m Adrienne and I’m atilio, and if you have any questions, just give us a call at 7999596, 7999596,

ATTILIO: 
or check us out online at Team Lally com. Our guest today is board certified and founder of esthetics Hawaii, originally from New York City here in both his undergraduate and medical degrees from Columbia University, and has been serving Hawaii Community since 2002

ADRIENNE: 
he is passionate about helping people look and feel their best through safe, evidence based esthetic treatments known for his natural results and personalized care. He’s built a trusted practice focused on education, empowerment and long term relationships. Please welcome back our guest. Dr David you, Hi, Doctor, you,

DR. DAVID YEW: 
Aloha, aloha. Hi, team, hello, hello.

ADRIENNE: 

So we got questions. Yeah. So since the last time you’re on our show, there has been some exciting things happening for esthetics Hawaii, especially with this brand new office in Kakaako. Yeah, tell us about, you know, how that came about, and just like the design and the vision, yes,

DR. DAVID YEW:
oh, that’s a

DR. DAVID YEW: 
great topic. I love esthetic treatments in South Korea, Korean, and I go frequently back and forth, and it seems that Korean esthetics has really been at the forefront skin care in terms of people traveling. They always seem to talk about how wonderful the esthetic spot.

ADRIENNE: 
to be like a Korean Med Spa, but here in Honolulu, yeah, and it’s, it’s beautiful. It’s a beautiful location. It’s um, but Right, right next to the BMW dealership, right across from Lexus.

ADRIENNE: 
In the eye, that’s right. So if,

DR. DAVID YEW: 
yeah, if you’re at BMW, and you look directly across, we’re on the corner of Imperial Plaza and facing one side and then the other side faces directly across Yanagi sushi.

ATTILIO: 
I think it’s, it’s interesting too, because I was thinking about it, doctor before you came on the show. Is like lot of people go to Korea, you know, it’s like Mexico. We have the corona. Jamaica, we have munchies.

ATTILIO: 
You know, Hawaii, where the Aloha state. So places like and, and and Korea is known for for esthetics, esthetics, travel and stuff like that. So you’re saving some people, you know, and they all their Hawaiian Miles is going to be converting over to Alaska. So they might as well just, you know, keep those miles to go other places. And then, instead of Korea, come to your office in Kakaako.

ADRIENNE: 
There you go. We’ll see you some Yeah.

DR. DAVID YEW: 
So, yeah, there thank you. That was part of the plan, actually was to bring some of the best esthetic services in the world.

DR. DAVID YEW:
And Korea, like you said, is at the forefront of that. So we do offer quite a bit of the same procedures. An exciting one is the Korean glass skin procedure. That’s something that we offer as well.

ADRIENNE: 
And then Dr Yew what other kind of services are being offered? I know you guys offer a wide variety of things there at esthetics Hawaii. Wait, hold on. The listener is like, what is this Korean glass procedure? Can you? Can you give us little hints about it? So people be like,

ATTILIO: 
sign up for that. What is it about? Tell us more.

DR. DAVID YEW: 
Sure. I’ll answer that, though. It’ll help segue right into Adrienne question as well.

DR. DAVID YEW:
So we had a couple of clients that went to Korea, and they kept mentioning, oh, they’re doing this Korean glass skin procedure. Do you offer it? Yes. And several years ago, so I went, and it’s basically a combination of a very light filler mixed with a specific concentration of Botox together. Yes, then you place it very superficially, mostly in the cheek area. And what it will do then is it will give this sort of hydrated, glossy appearance. And it’s there’s no downtime, it doesn’t hurt. So you’re kind of getting the best of Botox and fillers at the same time. Nice.

ADRIENNE: 
It’s exciting now, Dr, Yew all these new procedures. So I’ve known Dr you for many years, and one of the things that I really respect and enjoy about him, and you know how his approach is that these procedures, he will do them on himself first, he will test everything out first, before he offers it to his patients.

DR. DAVID YEW: 
Yes, I’m still doing that. I feel like I’m doing it more now than I ever have before. Yeah, and, and the main reason why that’s part of our core values, one of them, is to treat others the way that they want to be treated. Yes.

DR. DAVID YEW:
And on that note, if we’re going to offer something to somebody, well, then I better make sure that I know all the pros and cons and make sure that the results match the marketing. Yes. So it seems in this world today, this amazing world of information and marketing that there seems to be more products, treatments and devices coming out all the time, more than I’ve ever seen it before. Yes, and so therefore, you know, we need to be careful to you. Test it all. And I think that’s one of the strategies that we want to focus on, is to be an honest expert advocate, yes,

ATTILIO: 
yeah, because with a lot of the Yeah, go ahead, yeah, go send you No, I was gonna say that. I here’s what I noticed. They put the word Korean in front of everything. Like this guy was like, we do Korean couples therapy. You’re gonna come in, we’re gonna yell at you and tell you, figure it out, and then we’re gonna hit you and then send you guys. But everything is like, we in this but you actually go in, you go to Korea,

ADRIENNE: 
yeah. And then with the when you have it done on yourself, I don’t know if you’re still doing this, it’s like you do like, half of your face or half of whatever. Yeah, you can compare. And so Dr Yew is walking around with half he’s like, half done. Yes. He calls that the Quasimodo test. He’s so dedicated.

DR. DAVID YEW: 
Yeah, it is the Korean Quasimodo. Who’s that Batman character that had half his face? Yeah, the character was two face.

ATTILIO: 
There you go. He was nice on one side, and then he was evil on the other side. And then so he had dark black hair on one side and then great white hair on the other side. Dr, you while he’s testing his different techniques, yep, and he’s gonna have a booth at Comic Con, no.

DR. DAVID YEW: 
Well, we just tested something two weeks ago. Oh, wow. And once again, half the face, past the neck,

DR. DAVID YEW:
there’s, I think 80% of the things that are out there, yeah, are either no different than what’s existing or inferior, yes, so just take that into account. So if you’re looking, if a consumer were to look at 10 new products that come out on their on their feed. Yeah, 80% of that is going to disappoint them, yes. So you’re either going to spend the money and then get disappointed, or I know I’m trying to teach my children. You know that in this world of like information overload, I think the challenge is to discern what is real from what is just exaggeration. Yes,

ATTILIO: 
yeah, especially with the influencers, yeah, because I talked about it on a previous show where a lot, unfortunately, a lot of adults, kids, everybody, somebody who’s got 50 million views, will make a statement about something. And then there was a Chinese I was listening to a podcast about pearls in China, and this one influencer was just wearing necklaces, and the pearl necklaces, and the entire show sold out. Now that’s one thing you’re putting laying on your neck, but when you’re talking about stuff that’s going to be injected into your neck, I want to not be relying on influencers and surface level information. Nope, you got to rely on Dr. You’ve done the research. He’s done the research on himself. Tell us more about the core values within you guys company, you know as part of your mission statement,

DR. DAVID YEW: 
sure that’s that’s really the key to everything. Yeah. So we rebranded, in addition to getting a brand new, beautiful office, and

ATTILIO: 
makes me want to go when you put the salty

DR. DAVID YEW: 
or mud bath. Yes,

ATTILIO: 
yes, I want to get a Korean mud bath now, but you were saying,

DR. DAVID YEW: 
so what we try to tell our staff is that from the moment that they pick up the phone, yes, they the client should feel that they’re being cared for

DR. DAVID YEW:
when they come into the office to get treated, our providers and myself will uplift them, yes, like a but like a butterfly. And then finally, if this works, then they will feel empowered to go out into the world and to be their best self. Yes,

ADRIENNE: 
well, I would, I would agree. I would agree with these core values and then how your staff is trained, and they are, you know, living into the core values with how they treat the clients. Yeah, not only you been over a decade, over a decade working with Dr, you Yes, and doctor, you said something that really struck me, and I always remember it every time I in your presence, is that you you your experience that you want to have with your clients is that

ATTILIO: 
people can’t tell that they visited your office in

ADRIENNE: 
Adrienne, you had some more questions for Dr you or, Oh yeah, so let’s, let’s talk about the all the services that you guys offer, because I know it’s, it’s pretty vast. So let’s, let’s go through, in case one of our listeners want to come and have a visit. We’re excited to hear that because of hearing the core values, and that’s what’s the underlying foundation of all these services that you’re providing. So it creates trust. It creates, you know, people are excited and want to know more. Yes, so, so let’s, let’s talk about the services. Yeah,

DR. DAVID YEW: 
sure. As you were talking Adrienne, thank you for coming forward on that I was looking at the dates, and we’ve been together for 15 years. 15, oh my goodness. See Time flies. You made her feel so uplifted and well that that like 15 was for her reality 10, I said, over a decade, over a decade. There you go. Very long standing relationship, you know,

DR. DAVID YEW: 
keeping me looking beautiful, very similar. I mean, Adrienne, you’re beautiful, with or without anything. Yes, and I agree. And she puts a lot of work, she puts a lot of work into this. Yes. So I think for the listeners, I would just want people to know that it’s very much like your hairstylist. You know, if you’re the kind of person that sticks with the same stylus for many, many years, I think you should approach the face the same way, yes, you know, it’s a relationship they know you,

DR. DAVID YEW:
and I think the face is a little more complicated. So to your point, we want to have the long approach where we see you over time. And I challenge the people on social media, if you’re listening, stop putting before and after photos on the same day. I would love to see a before and after photo of somebody over 10 years. Yes,

ADRIENNE: 
well, Dr Yew has that of me,

ATTILIO:
yeah,

DR. DAVID YEW: 
yes, I do it. It’s on my slideshow too. So thank you, because it says what you do is long lasting.

ADRIENNE: 
The things there’s trust, yeah, I don’t let anyone touch my face, except for DR, you and me. You,

ATTILIO: 
you know, and you give you the best compliment, Doctor, you because you know, in the iPhone, you when people call each other and you’re in the phone, the.

ATTILIO: 
Face fills the whole screen. Now the face fills the whole screen. So when Adrienne calls me, her face fills the whole screen and be and partially due to you and my relationship with her, I smile when I get a call from her, Oh, because her face fills the whole iPhone

ATTILIO: 
and stuff that is so sweet. And that’s without Photoshop too, right? Straight up. Just a straight on photo. No effects, no, no, whatever, all those things that people do to it, the doctor you effect, if anything.

DR. DAVID YEW: 
So going back to you know, what is it that we what is the services? Yeah, I want to go over the services that most esthetic practices have, that we have, and some of the exciting things that are that we now have, that go beyond it.

DR. DAVID YEW:
So I think our bread and butter that we’re known for is injectables. Yes, so injectables include things like Botox, injectable fillers, Sculptra, in addition to that, we also want to emphasize skin care and skin quality with things like micro needling, things such as Morpheus, which is radio frequency and micro needling. And then part of the thing we really want to also add to this is longevity wellness. Okay, that’s an interesting word, longevity, esthetic, wellness, yes.

ADRIENNE: 
So what do you have for that? Longevity? Yeah, sure, yeah. So this is exciting.

DR. DAVID YEW: 
So I will be 55 very soon. Okay? And in addition to looking youthful on the outside

DR. DAVID YEW:
at this age, now in my mid 50s, I’m actually more concerned about being youthful and healthy on the inside, from my heart and brain as well. Yes. So, you know, people know this guy named Brian Johnson,

ATTILIO: 
yeah, the he spends $100,000 a year just on supplements and tests all sorts of stuff, right?

DR. DAVID YEW:
That’s right. Yep, that’s right. So he is the guy that’s trying not to die, and he has, he’s a millionaire, and he’s doing all kinds of things, yeah, to live longer. So think of what we do as taking some of the things that he’s doing, but with medical supervision, guidance and evidence based approach, yes, because I think 80% of the things he’s doing is sort of skeptical and I question it, yeah, but there’s 20% in there that is actually quite valid and worth pursuing. Gotcha. So we’ve added a few of those. Oh, nice,

ATTILIO: 
yeah, because he’s, he’s he, yeah, he’s developed. People have known who like who immediately, who you said. But tell us about so you went and got Brian Johnson’s 20% Yeah. Tell us more. What is it? Yeah.

DR. DAVID YEW: 
Okay, so number one, the buzzword this year seems to be peptides. Have you

DR. DAVID YEW:
guys been hearing that, you know, in the news, peptide?

ADRIENNE: 
I actually used some peptides to help heal my knees after I tore both my ACL from the surgery. And it was like it worked wonders. Yes,

DR. DAVID YEW: 
exactly. So there’s a few of these peptides that are medically valid. So it sounds like you probably used BP, 157, that’s the one. That’s the one that’s right. So I’m on that right now. And the other one that I think most of the world is familiar with is ozempic or monjara, yes, weight loss and

DR. DAVID YEW:
yes, it’s beyond that. The weight loss is just the tip of the iceberg. Yeah. So it’s been around long enough now, but they’re actually seeing more benefit, not just in the diabetes or weight loss, yeah, but actually, I think the power of this is even bigger, and it’s in the cardiovascular benefits, okay, and the brain health benefits, hmm,

ATTILIO: 
you have my millions of people trying it, so they’re getting A lot of data, a lot of data, right?

DR. DAVID YEW: 
Exactly, yeah. So I think the vast majority of the data right now is focused on weight loss and diabetes, yes, but in my but in my personal experience,

DR. DAVID YEW:
my cholesterol, my hemoglobin, a. One See, my blood pressure, these, all these things have been so treated with the dlps, which are ozempic and Jaro, that I’m off of all all my medicines that I was taking prior. Wow, to being on them. Wow,

ADRIENNE: 
that’s pretty amazing. Yeah, so you’re having additional benefits.

DR. DAVID YEW:
Oh, and it’s huge. It’s huge in so many ways that go beyond the obvious. So I’ll just, you know, say a few of them right now, yeah, for anyone that has any struggles with cravings or addictions, yes, you know the alcohol is one, let’s just say eating late at night with carbs,

ATTILIO: 
sweets, late at night, sweets, oh, better give me that ozempic One. There’s ding dong wrappers all over my car.

ATTILIO: 
I need those ozempic.

DR. DAVID YEW: 
It’s amazing you, if you do it those ding dong wrappers, you’re not going to have them. I mean, you may have one,

DR. DAVID YEW:
you still have this desire to, like, try it, but you’re just not going to eat 10 of them. I’ll be vulnerable. Yeah, I love drinking alcohol. Yeah? And I would think to myself, Oh, yeah, a glass of wine a day is good for you. Yeah, that’s actually not true. Yes, most people do not just stick to one glass a day. Yeah, and over the course of many years, when you get into your 50s and 60s, I think the alcohol could become more problematic, yeah, then someone who’s 25 going out drinking, and you know, they can recover just fine, yeah? So ever since I’ve been on this My wife has been so pleased I’ll have an occasional drink, yeah? But overall, I just don’t have the craving.

ATTILIO: 
That’s amazing. I need to get this stuff. I went on vacation with Adrienne, and I told her, I’m going on a car to get something. And then what I went to the Quickie Mart and I got a bunch of Snickers. And then I was, she’s like, she got up the next morning, like, what the heck? What? Where did these Snickers come from? I was hiding them all over the room.

ADRIENNE: 
Okay, Dr, Yew we are. Our show is coming. Dr, you again? I agree, yeah. This has been an amazing conversation. It’s like a white lotus episode series. You just want more.

ATTILIO: 
Everybody’s talking about it, and they want to invite you back. And our listeners gotta give Dr you a call esthetics Hawaii. But if there’s Dr Yew if there’s any one last thing you want to share with our listeners, what would it

DR. DAVID YEW:
be? Experience matters

DR. DAVID YEW:
true. Yeah. Med spots opening every month somewhere, yeah. And if you’re going to them, just ask an honest question. Yeah, hey, how long you’ve been doing this? Yes, and if it’s less than five years, just know that they’re still learning. It doesn’t mean that they’re not good. It just means experience does matter. So tell them your research. Tell them you left something in your car and go to Dr Yew’s, there you go.

ATTILIO:
you go.

ADRIENNE: 
Never. Thank you.

ATTILIO: 
Thank you. Dr, Yew all

DR. DAVID YEW:
right. Thank you. Okay,

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