Transcript
A (0:00)
Hey, guys. Welcome back to Skin Anarchy. It's Zekda. I'm really excited about our episode today because we're interviewing a brand that's really been kind of a game changer for a while now. I'm sure a lot of you have heard about them. So without further ado, please welcome Dr. Anthony Nakhlo, who's the founder of 8th Day. Welcome, Dr. Nakhla. I'm so excited to host you.
B (0:20)
Thank you so much. Thanks for having me.
A (0:22)
Yeah, I'm excited to dive in. I've been a fan of 8th Day, I think, long before we connected. I remember seeing your products and, and trying them my prior to ever connecting with your team. And I, I find it to be very unique, your approach coming from the regenerative side of medicine and bringing it to skin care. I'd love for you to walk us down memory lane, if you don't mind, and tell us about your. Your medical background. What led you to creating a skincare line?
B (0:48)
Yeah, thank you for that intro, and I'm humbled to hear that you've enjoyed the brand and the products. So I'm a dermatologic surgeon focused on reconstructive treatments for patients that have had skin cancer, specifically something called Mohs micrographic surgery. And this is typically for facial skin cancer and people who have complicated facial tumors. So working a lot with patients that have had pretty disfiguring types of skin cancer and using wound healing techniques to try to help them. My career began when I graduated from residency and I worked with one of the foremost dermatologists in West Hollywood who was at the time treating HIV patients with what's called facial lipoatrophy. So people who had sort of lost facial volume due to the HIV medications that they were taking, and this idea of bringing somebody back to baseline, bringing them back to themselves again, and the power of that, it became my beauty philosophy. It's what I gravitated towards, which is reconstructive work as opposed to sort of cosmetic enhancements or changing somebody's appearance to sort of meet some sort of perceived standard of beauty. So through this work, I had the privilege of restoring patients back to baseline and bringing themselves back to themselves again. And in my practice, my beauty philosophy is that you look best when you look like yourself. And so I wanted to translate this work that I was doing on the regenerative and wound healing side and sort of bring that to life through a comprehensive skin care line with my beauty philosophy in mind of trying to achieve sort of the best version, the most natural and unique version of yourself that's unchanged or unfiltered or un sort of affected by what the cultural zeitgeist of telling you what to look like is.
A (2:42)
