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The Art of the Brand
Dr. Linda’s Ultimate Wellness Routine: Peptides, Skin Cycling & Longevity Hacks
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- [00:00]
Camille
You've broke the system, you figured it out.
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Linda
Sometimes you need a little bit of Botox, you know, just to like decrease these muscles. Like, is that. That's not terrible. Sometimes you need a little bit of lip filler just to balance you a little bit. This is not terrible. You know, people make it seem like.
- [00:13]
Camille
It'S so bad, but it was like the difference. Because it takes a very long time to let go of seven pounds, eight pounds. Like, it's not easy to do. And it's so hard when you feel, you feel down, you want to be disparaging, you want to make jokes about yourself. You put that energy out there. Like science has finally progressed to a where like, you don't have to feel shitty for two months while you're losing the eight pounds. Don't.
- [00:37]
Linda
Yeah, your skin is your third kidney. You know, if you see somebody with great skin, typically 9% of the time they're healthy.
- [00:43]
Camille
Okay, but everybody's talking about peptides. Peptides, peptides, peptides, peptides. Now you're the first person to tell me that Ozempic GLP1s are peptides. What the fuck is a peptide? What a brand, what a brand, what a brand, what a mighty good brand. Say it again now. What a brand, what a brand, what a brand, what a mighty good brand. Welcome to the first official episode of Camille and Friends. Yeah, really not about branding.
- [01:10]
Linda
Is this really. I love this.
- [01:12]
Camille
This is the kind of shit that people want to see. We recorded it on my phone and.
- [01:18]
Linda
We had super impromptu.
- [01:20]
Camille
Actually it came out of nowhere. And what was the response?
- [01:23]
Linda
Like everybody was like messaging me like, oh my God, send. Do more of this. They're like, what is the enzyme? What are you doing? You need to do more of this. You. It was legit. Like my phone was blowing up and I was like, what? From this random lunch, like little like questionnaire that you did. It was literally just like one second thing you were doing.
- [01:42]
Camille
What are you doing?
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Linda
I was in the middle of just doing an enzyme like intake like I typically do.
- [01:47]
Camille
So we're going to break down from morning, noon to night, Monday to Sunday, all of the things. Because I think. Well, it's clear. Everybody thinks. What makes you you is fascinating. So let's break it down.
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Linda
So I am. I own one clinic and it's a multidisciplinary medical clinic.
- [02:04]
Camille
Cool.
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Linda
So we really focus on integrative medicine. So basically thinking about like, prevent. More preventative. I really believe from the get go, when I finished med school, that our current western medical system is really Acute. You know, people are coming to us because they have a condition, and typically you're putting a bandage on the situation. Why don't we look at the root cause of it? So then when I decided to open my clinic, I was working at different hospitals and different clinics around the city, and I never saw something, a place that I would typically want to go to or where I would want my parents and my friends to go to. So I wanted something that looked really cute, that was, like, you know, really modern, was esthetically pleasing, and also didn't have, like, you know, you go to a walk in clinic and you see on the. On a blank wall, it's like, do you have chlamydia? That's kind of not actually warm and welcoming. So that was kind of like the thing. Let's not make.
- [03:02]
Camille
No. Yeah.
- [03:04]
Linda
So when we decided to make one clinic, it was really about making it welcoming that people came in, and it felt like this was somewhere you can discuss about your problems, not about your current problems only, but also something that you've been struggling with for. For a long time. So when we were introducing different clinicians and different doctors and colleagues to my group, I really wanted someone that had that same type of approach. So our doctors are amaz. You know, they care about you. It's not just because you're a patient. They actually really look deep into why. Why you had this rash or why you're feeling depressed or why you're having low energy and trying to figure out the root cause of it. So that's why we. We really have other practitioners, because I believe westernized medicine is good for what it is. I went through that system, but I grew up in a very holistic Eastern medicine household where my parents never gave me Advil or Tylenol, that we drink herbs when we were not feeling well, that my mom, like, put, like, silver spoons on my back when I was sick and had a cold, and she, like, rubbed my feet with, like, iodine. So I grew up in a very Eastern household, but obviously I went through a Westernized school system when I went through med school and did my residency and fellowships and so on like that. So I wanted to integrate that together, and that's why one clinic was made. And while I was doing that, I just had a huge passion for skin. And because your skin is your third kidney, you know, if you see somebody with great skin, typically 99% of the time, they're healthy. If someone has bad skin, it's typically something internally that is messed up with them. So it is your third kidney. So we. So I love figuring out how to help people with their skin because you're kind of helping them internally. Like. Like kind of do an outside, inside approach. And also it's a huge, like, you know, face card. When you have beautiful skin, you feel more confident. People have. You become more ambitious, you live a more fulfilling life because you feel better. So I think it's like a huge thing. And then when I. When I started going through this career path, I just love aesthetics. You know, I'm a girl. I love. I'm a super girly girl, and I love, you know, the artistry of injectables. So that really led me to this. So my practice is mainly injectables. Right now, we are skinceuticals flagship, so we do a lot of skinceuticals advanced clinical facial treatments. We have a. We have some lasers. One that I really, really love is our airlase laser.
- [05:38]
Camille
I'm so excited to talk about this.
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Linda
Yeah, it's like, literally, it. The technology is really based on. From the. From things that have been perpetuating Korea, and they made it really accessible here for people to use because it. There's no downtime, literally. We'll do. We'll do it one time. There literally is no time downtime. It feels like a warm candle on your face. Why I say it is that a lot of reasons why people don't want to do lasers is because it's painful and there's downtime, and no one wants to be able to say that you can't go somewhere for a week because your face is peeling, you know? And also, as you get more mature, you don't want to rip and tear your face.
- [06:17]
Camille
Yeah.
- [06:18]
Linda
So it's better to maintain the thickness and the health of your face and your skin. So I really like AR because it really targets three different chromophores of your skin. It targets the water, so it really helps, like with collagen formation, and it also targets the melanin. So. So any area of your skin that has, like, pigment, you're beautiful skin, you don't have that. But any area you have hyperpigmentation, it really zaps those pigments and prevents you from getting new pigment. So people have melasma. I really like it on people who have skin types 4 and above. So there's different. There's something called the Fish Patrick scale of skin, you know, so you're probably like a two, right? I'm like a three, four. Because you see the Asian, the real Asian Woman. Like, they're covered all in, like, porcelain white. Porcelain white. But they have a high propensity to pigment.
- [07:06]
Camille
Yeah.
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Linda
So that's. The Fitzpatrick is based upon that. And why I love this specific laser because it's good for my skin type and above. And that's a lot of patients that I see. We live in. You know, we live in Toronto.
- [07:18]
Camille
Yeah.
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Linda
So it doesn't create any downtime for people who have our skin type that have a propensity to hyperpigment and, you know. And the point of doing these lasers is not to hyperpigment, you know?
- [07:28]
Camille
Yeah.
- [07:29]
Linda
So I love that. And also, it helps with hemoglobin, so if you have any, like, spider veins or any areas of red spots or any areas that you have, like, I actually love using it. Today I was using on a patient. We just did her lips and her full face injectables, and I just ran the laser over, and it got rid of her bruising. So it's amazing. Like, that, too, because it breaks down.
- [07:48]
Camille
Holy shit.
- [07:49]
Linda
Yeah. It breaks down the hemoglobin. So therefore, it breaks down that, like, ecchymosis, which is like, a little, like, bruise. And so therefore, your body is able to absorb it and get rid of it faster.
- [08:00]
Camille
Well, that's a huge upside, too. Hey. Like, if you're doing things full face, because that's your whole thing is you do the full facial balancing. But the thing that sucks is you get those, like, obvious bruises where people are like, we know what you did two days ago, but if you can break that down before you leave. Holy. Yeah.
- [08:17]
Linda
And we've done it on so many patients now. That was one of the biggest motivators of getting it, because it's such a synergistic thing. Yeah. And, like, you have to realize that, like, even though there's gonna be downtime, obviously everybody knows when you're getting injectables, you're not gonna walk outside. Some of my patients actually go for lunch because they don't really bruise at all. I try really cognizantly.
- [08:37]
Camille
Must be nice.
- [08:39]
Linda
I try. But sometimes some people are just bruisers, and you can't really help with your. Yeah, yeah.
- [08:43]
Camille
I'm a bruiser.
- [08:44]
Linda
Okay. Yeah. Like, well, lips are typically bruising because it's. So there's so much blood supply.
- [08:49]
Camille
Yeah. Yeah.
- [08:50]
Linda
So that's, like, a normal thing. But, like, that's why we made one clinic, because it kind of has everything under one roof, especially as a Torontonian. Like, you know, we don't have time to go from one place to another place. Like, I want to go here. Like, do a medical check on me afterwards. Let me get a facial. Let me get an injectable. Let me get some IV drips. You know, let me go get some lab work done. If you need to go to the pharmacy, we have a pharmacy on site. So everything you know is under one roof. One clinic.
- [09:17]
Camille
One clinic, yeah.
- [09:18]
Linda
So that was this. In the intent of it, to me.
- [09:21]
Camille
You'Re really fascinating because you're kind of all the things. Like, you are fashionable, you're athletic, you don't age. You are a doctor. You are a great mom. It's really overwhelming. I don't know where to start to break down all the things. How did you know you wanted to be a doctor?
- [09:40]
Linda
Oh, I feel like you. I'm like, that's so sweet of you. Gosh, make me blush. I have blush on. So crazy enough. So basically, I was always fascinated in medicine. Like, I love science. Like, I was, like, that little nerd that, like, was so curious about. Like, why did this happen? You know, like, there's those kids that. Well, my son is like, that nova. Like, he's always like, why is this? Why is this so, like, literally, when I have him, I feel like it's just a reflection of how I was when I was.
- [10:07]
Camille
Oh, cool.
- [10:08]
Linda
Like, I'm super curious like you. If you tell me something, I will go and research about it and try to understand it and figure it out. Like, that's always been who I am. So I felt like. And I was always interested in, like, the human body. So it was just a topic that just really resonated with me. And then when my brother was in high school, in elementary school, he was diagnosed with lupus. I don't know if you know what it is, so it's an autoimmune disease. So he has systemic lupus, which affected his whole body. And we were basically living at Sick Kids for a while, for a few years. And as. And he was almost actually about to get kidney transplant, and I was his only donor. So I was actually about to give my kidney to my brother until they found out that dialysis was actually working and we didn't have to do that. So I loved all the doctors at Sick Kids. Like, I continuously. I'm still. I'm an ambassador for sick kids because I'm. I'm so in love and in awe of everything they do. And as a result, my brother was literally about to die. You know, like, he had to get a kidney because he was his. His Kidneys were just shot dead. Wow. And it's so rare, actually, in lupus, for one, a boy and who's Asian to have lupus. And we had none of that in our family. It's mostly more common in actually girls and actually more like black, like individuals. That is actually a higher propensity. So we were in shock, and the doctors really just put our whole family at ease. And from that moment on, I was, like, felt like indebted to this career path. And I was like, I want to give back. And while I was going through med school, it was, like, always the thing, even though there's moments I wanted to give up, because it was like, literally almost two decades of my life in school. And I just. Just remembered, like, how, like, these people saved my brother's life. And I felt like that was something I owed back to them. And obviously, I don't ever regret it. And I felt like my career path really, really changed because initially I thought I wanted to go into surgery, and I did that for. And then I realized that I was so much more fascinated with the skin. And then when I was doing that, I just saw how my experiences in surgery really mirrored back into now being an injector because I'm. I really understand the anatomy.
- [12:36]
Camille
Yeah.
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Linda
So when I look back on it, I'm like. Even though I thought my path was so weird and so. So, like, all around and looping, I feel like maybe you probably think that too. Like, sometimes you're like, why did I do this? And then when you look back, I'm like, oh, my God. That totally makes sense, because that's. I'm so confident in what I'm doing because I. I've done something so much more invasive before.
- [12:56]
Camille
Yeah. You know, it's a really true opening of it. And I even think, too, what you touched on, which is interesting, is hack life doesn't give you credit because you're not cutting corners, but, like, you know how to execute in. In all areas of what's fascinating. But it really does stem from your interest in, like, understanding and perfecting whatever question is in front of you.
- [13:19]
Linda
That's a good insight. I didn't think about that.
- [13:21]
Camille
That's why the digestive enzyme was so interesting to everybody, because you live your life. You guys go out for dinner all the time. Like, you're in exceptional shape. Like, you never look tired, but you're doing all the things. So you've broke the system. You figured it out.
- [13:36]
Linda
Well, it's a lot of work, girl. It's like a. It's a village. It takes. You know, I think that life is just. We're so blessed to be living. You know, I think that, like, maybe because of my experience in med school and residency and the first day that I was a resident, I was thrown into having to declare someone dead. Like, I had to tell a patient that I just met that day that he had pancreatic cancer and he was going to die in a few days.
- [14:05]
Camille
Oh, my gosh.
- [14:05]
Linda
And I think that really thickens your skin and also makes you appreciate life so much. So I think there were so many moments in my life that made me learn to appreciate life so much that it was like the things that I worry about, like, oh, my God, I can't sleep, I don't have time. Or. Or like. Or if I have a challenge that happened to me because I got in a fight with somebody, whatever it is, like, obviously I'm human. I feel it. I'm like, that sucks. That person's annoying or whatever it may be, or I did something wrong. And then I'm like, you know what? I'm going to feel that feeling and then I'm going to be moving forward. Because it's not that big of a deal. In a big scheme of things, I'm lucky. I'm alive and I'm living and I get to do the things I love to do. And it's true. Like, it is a challenge, you know, like, my life is busy. Like, every second of my day is usually, like, clocked in, you know, like, I have something to do, but I think I'm like, lucky. You know, instead of saying, I have to do this, I'm like, I get to do this. And I think that's like, I'm privileged because I think that I work so hard to get here. So if I'm complaining about not sleeping, then it's like, you know, I'm not appreciating, like, the privilege.
- [15:08]
Camille
That's so interesting because you're like, you've gone from a Buddhist background. Your husband is Muslim born Muslim born Muslim.
- [15:17]
Linda
Yeah, but he doesn't really practice it.
- [15:19]
Camille
But you came from, like an Eastern medicine background. You studied Western medicine, which is completely devoid of, like, empathy and emotion. You really enjoy, like, Kabbalah, more like spirituality. So, like, you can't put you into a box.
- [15:36]
Linda
Oh, thank you. Well, I don't want to be put in a box.
- [15:38]
Camille
No, you don't be put in a box. But even like you're saying, like, to. To be thankful for life and happy for life, like, what another Rung to this. That's such a fascinating perspective.
- [15:46]
Linda
Oh, thank you for seeing that. You know what? I think that. I think that life is all about balance. So it's like when you say that I'm doing all these things. Yeah. On the outside, there's moments that everything looks like it's perfect, but it's never perfect. You know, there's like. Sometimes my husband said something to me, made me upset or something that might, like, something happened to my son, and I'm upset about it or whatever it may be. I feel as if, like, I take a moment to feel the feeling, so then I don't repress it. Because I think that's really when you mess up in life because you start repressing so many things, and then later on it adds up, and then you are anxious and you just blow up on people, and that's when you don't become the best version of yourself. And then there's blockages in your life. So I feel like if you want to have an abundant life and to have some peace and harmony and happiness is really to feel the feeling and just know we're human and then just move forward. Because really, most of the time, these things are just lessons.
- [16:47]
Camille
Yeah.
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Linda
You know, and it's like I grew up Buddhist, and when I. When I'm so blessed to be able to have that spiritual connection and to be able to, like, really learn how to meditate and be able to, like, get rid of any negativity in my mind. Because knowing that lack is really just a hindrance. And whatever you wire is whatever you fire in your brain. You know what I'm saying? So it's like, if you're thinking that, like, I feel fat or I feel bloated or whatever, then you're gonna exude that outside.
- [17:15]
Camille
Yeah.
- [17:16]
Linda
And then you're gonna spend the whole day feeling that way and not feeling the best. So it's like, feel the best way, even if that's not how you feel, like, fake it. And then that that energy will live within you. And then you'll start making better choices. You'll be like, you know, what if I feel good about myself that I'm gonna decide to clock in berries, you know, at 9:30 in the morning instead of sleeping in. And then, trust me, there's times that I've actually slept in. I'm not saying I do this all the time, but. But I try to consistently. Because also, being the best version yourself, you don't fill your cup first. How can you give. Give yourself to other People, you're just gonna be a miserable person to everybody around you. And especially as a mom, like, I don't want that baggage to be on my kid, you know, so. So it's like, I think that made me even more focused on trying to be the best version of myself. And I think that's why I became so connected with Kabbalah. Because when I became a mom, I just felt like things were more overwhelming because now I had to add another schedule body. Yeah.
- [18:16]
Camille
Yeah.
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Linda
You know, like, now it's like I have to do drop off. So it's like, I. I love doing drop off. Don't get me wrong. I love doing drop off every day. I do drop off every day. I do pick up every day. I take my kid to all his extracurricular activities because that's a moment that will never be taken back. And this is such a short period of time. And, like, as we get older, you are going to not want to see your parents and not want to hang out with them. So I'm, like, trying to preserve that as much as possible, but it is an additional thing that I have to do. But I'm so lucky because I have such a great team. Like, my staff is amazing. So I've changed my schedule to accommodate that. My husband's phenomenal. He's so supportive. You know, I do so much for work, and he's always there to help me with bedtime when I'm not. Like, for example, yesterday I was at a conference. I was at this, like, filler seminar, and, like, Amir was there to, like, put Nova to bed and, you know, give him a bath and do all the things, even though he forgot to get. Take him to his haircut. But it's all good. But you know what I'm saying, it's like, it's because I have so much help. Yeah. It's not really just me. It's literally, as I said, it takes a village. But because. But I think I'm just constantly trying to realize and remember that if I want to be the best version of myself, I need to fill my cup first. So that's why I clock in. Like, on my calendar, I have the gy. I have my workout on my calendar. You know, I have, like, girls girl time, girl lunches on my calendar. I have, like, spa time. I have time to go get my hair done. I have time to get my nails done. Those things bring me joy, you know, so. And then when I do all those things that I'm able to, like, be home and be present as much as I can. Even though, you know, obviously I think I need to detox my phone sometimes. But I would say that I consciously am trying to be a better version of myself by taking time to fill my cup first.
- [20:09]
Camille
So what does your day look like? Start me from the morning. Morning to the end.
- [20:12]
Linda
So my wake up is typically around 7am you know, I like to sleep in in as much as I can.
- [20:18]
Camille
Yeah, love it.
- [20:19]
Linda
My son, he does not wake up until 7:40 in the morning. So I usually that time I meditate. I like, I do like a Joe Dispenza meditation or I have, I do something on Mindvalley and like those are my two favorites. And then after that I usually while I'm doing that, I have a red light mask on my face. So multitasking. And then at the same time I'm a huge proponent of like Baja sea salt. So because it's just like such great minerals. And as I say, I try to have more food as my as I supplements versus taking supplements itself. So I add Baja sea Salt into my water. I have like warm water in the morning with lemon. And that's like what, that's the first thing I have in the morning. And then, and then we just do morning wake up so we get ready for school work. I get, I get all my gyms. Usually I prepare all my gym stuff and my next day stuff for Nova and I the night before. So when I wake up and then I basically get both of us out of the house, Nova has breakfast. I have like, I've been starting to try to have like half an egg in the morning. I'm just not a morning food person because it makes me feel nauseous. But I recently heard a podcast, a Mel Robin saying that females need to have some protein before they work out or you're just eating your protein. So I've been consciously trying to do that. I'm not good at that right now. And then afterwards I do drop off and then I usually do a workout class. I'm like a class workout person. I can't be at the gym because I'll just take too like long.
- [21:57]
Camille
Did you get nothing done?
- [21:58]
Linda
Yeah.
- [21:58]
Camille
Or I won't go.
- [21:59]
Linda
Yeah, I'm not moving. I need to like be in a class. I like like the music. So I'm a big like Barry's person and Legree person. I like the music. I like like other people around. I like this community. And honestly that's like one hour where I'm not on my phone which is like such A blessing. No one ever bugs me during that time. So that's like a really me time. Like everybody knows, like you can't bug Linda at 9:30 in the morning or 10am because that's when I'm like, I need to work out. And that's my therapy, to be honest. And then afterwards I had to work, so I'm usually at the clinic until I do pickup. And my pickup is usually around three. And then afterwards I take my kid to an after school activity that usually does. So he's really into Kumon right now. And also. So listen, he has a huge propensity for reading. And when he was young he wanted me to read him like all the books. And honestly, like, I cannot read the same book on like Spider man like five times a day. And I was just like, my God, I need to like have somebody else do this. So then we put him in Kumon and he really loved it. So I'm just trying to like push this Kumon thing on him for a bit. And then he also. My husband really wants him to be in martial arts, so he's in mma. And he really loves that because he thinks he's like a ninja. He really thinks that he's a ninja like every day. He's like doing. If you ever see pictures of us, he'll do some random ninja moves in the picture.
- [23:22]
Camille
Or he does the no mom.
- [23:23]
Linda
Oh yeah, he does that too. When he's like not into taking photos. And then honestly after that it's literally dinner and then bedtime. So really my day is not that fascinating.
- [23:35]
Camille
Okay. But it's like what's in the day? So what do you eat after your workout? What workouts you do?
- [23:39]
Linda
Okay, so, so I typically do berries four days a week.
- [23:42]
Camille
That is crazy. Like you do the tread and the floor four days a week.
- [23:46]
Linda
You know what? I need to do it because I love to eat. So this is a reason for me to eat whatever I want without having guilt about it.
- [23:54]
Camille
So like, is that the secret is just berries four days a week.
- [23:58]
Linda
And I also do legree once or twice a week because I think that you also, as females, you need to like work those little small muscles. So and I like the balance and I like the stretching and also I love Jeffrey's class cuz he plays like old school hip hop and I'm just like, okay.
- [24:12]
Camille
But Jeffries also, he's an evil pilates instructor. He likes to like, he has like an evil laugh in the corner.
- [24:20]
Linda
Like he, like, he enjoys it.
- [24:22]
Camille
He enjoys the torture. Like he's like, I'm gonna try to put together the craziest routine and just see, like, how far these people will actually take this seriously.
- [24:30]
Linda
Yo, girl, I totally agree. I told them, like, jeffrey, stop doing Cirque du Slay here. Yeah, I tell. I told him. But you know what?
- [24:37]
Camille
Honestly, he's a g. He's a shout out to Jeffrey.
- [24:40]
Linda
Like, he. He was the reason that I got, like, abs from Lagree Legit.
- [24:43]
Camille
It wasn't those in the four days a week berries. It was the lagree.
- [24:46]
Linda
I don't know. I feel like berries helps me lean out. I think my body type. I need berries. I know some girls don't like. They don't like that. They don't like that high cardio. They don't like the hit. I know they say that girls shouldn't be doing hit because it's high in cortisol. For me, I feel like it works. You know, she went to med school.
- [25:03]
Camille
She can handle it.
- [25:04]
Linda
I don't know, like, exactly. I feel like I'm not. I'm prone. I'm like, I. My stress level, I'm, like, able to deal with.
- [25:11]
Camille
Oh, I feel like you need it. Like, you need that kind of an environment.
- [25:14]
Linda
Yeah, I think I need.
- [25:15]
Camille
My hips just hurt thinking about doing four days a week berries. Like, I feel like two times a week would be like, that's a good week for me.
- [25:22]
Linda
Okay, so that's. That's good for you then. If you can do that, that's what you should do.
- [25:25]
Camille
That's why we're doing the Camille and Friends podcast. I need the motivation for, like, okay, so what do you have after berries? What do you eat?
- [25:31]
Linda
So I wish I could say that I eat right away after berries. Sometimes I don't have time sometimes. Most of the time, I grab a smoothie at Berries, and now nut bar just opened, which I'm super excited about. Oh, the one in Yorkville? Yeah. So now I can kind of interchange, because sometimes you get bored of the smoothie, and at other times. I love Mandy's. Have you had the Mandy's organic broth?
- [25:52]
Camille
No.
- [25:52]
Linda
Oh, my God, girl, it's so good. It's like. It's not like pho, but, like, almost like it.
- [25:57]
Camille
There's no protein in it. It's all.
- [25:59]
Linda
It's.
- [25:59]
Camille
It's not like, meat protein.
- [26:00]
Linda
Yes. Bone broth.
- [26:01]
Camille
Oh, Mandy's.
- [26:02]
Linda
Yeah.
- [26:02]
Camille
Because, man.
- [26:03]
Linda
Oh, they have a mushroom one, and they also have, like. Because it's from Ripe, they. They did a collab with Ripe, and so it's like they're. They have their chicken bone broth that's bomb. Like, it's almost like a pho, but like, obviously not the same, but almost cool. And also you have to realize the glycerin in the bone broth, like the collagen and actually coats your stomach. So if you. If you had fasted in the morning, which I often do unintentionally because I just don't have time, then it actually helps with your gut health. It decreases inflammation. So like, everybody who is did it is trying to break the intermittent fast. You should have a bone broth first because actually coats your stomach before you eat food.
- [26:43]
Camille
What's your order at Berries for a smoothie?
- [26:45]
Linda
Berries. You know what? I make my own smoothie. It's a chocolate PB with half banana, double vegan. And then if I drank a lot the night before, I add activated charcoal or ate crappy. And then I also add spinach to get some greens and collagen. And then the get well, which is like a probiotic. I know I get so much crap in my smoothies, but if I drink the night before, I take an activated charcoal supplement. Take thorn. I'm a huge Thor, like, supplement person. I think that they have great studies on all their supplements.
- [27:17]
Camille
So, yeah, we gotta ask, like, okay, so, like, there's just so much. Okay, so before we move on to what does Linda do on the night? So she goes out. What does Linda eat after she has her smoothie and or bone broth?
- [27:30]
Linda
Okay. So I tip is what. What's my food? Okay. So I always try to have protein and like vegetables and then like a. And like, like a good carb. So it's like, honestly, right now, I was really on a Mandy salad cake for a minute. So I was doing like an endless summer with double chicken for a bit. But then I like, that's the thing that it's a sagittarius in me. I just do too much. So, like, I got over it because I ate too much. And now I thinking about it, like, I want to vomit because I overdid it.
- [27:59]
Camille
Yep.
- [27:59]
Linda
But so I typically honest have. It's always like a protein. So it's like it's like a grilled chicken or grilled salmon. And then I have like some. A little bit of rice and then like a salad. I'm really into, like, trying to put more probiotics and prebiotics in my food because I find that my gut, even though I eat healthy, it's not like I have sometimes stomach issues that's why I take digestive enzymes. So I've been doing a lot of, like, pickled, like, kimchi and pickled vegetables.
- [28:26]
Camille
That's the whole thing. You're supposed to always have it on your plate.
- [28:29]
Linda
Yeah. So I've been adding that a lot on my plate now, which has helped because my morning bathroom moments are amazing now. Yeah.
- [28:37]
Camille
Love that for you.
- [28:37]
Linda
I know. Thank God.
- [28:38]
Camille
It's like every morning it just hits.
- [28:39]
Linda
Oh, thank God. I had to because it was going. It was like it was causing me. To.
- [28:43]
Camille
Me, it's a constant battle. It's just, you know, I just. It's. I'm. I'm just working through life.
- [28:48]
Linda
Listen, you need to get Magnes magnesium bisglycinate. You need to take two of them at night.
- [28:53]
Camille
Okay.
- [28:54]
Linda
That's like the dosage I found. I was, like, trying different dosages. I did four, and it was like. It was like crazy. It was too much. You like day out. Okay. And then one was not helping. So then I found two was a good number for me. I think you have to taper and figure out for yours. But I found that really helped because magnesium bisclycanate, especially bisclycinate. It helps, like, relax the GI tract. And for me, I feel like it's like, a little tight. A little bit. That's why I do. And also the hot. The warm water with lemon, that really just pushes everything, apparently.
- [29:22]
Camille
That's actually huge. That, like, simple little thing of the hot water and lemon. It's like a big one.
- [29:27]
Linda
Yeah.
- [29:27]
Camille
I had this. Another friend of mine was telling me that the trick is a coffee and half a fruit, but you can't move, so you cannot get up. You have to drink the coffee and you have to have half the fruit. And if you have not gone to the washroom yet, someone else fills up your coffee cup, you can't move. But you would go to the washroom.
- [29:46]
Linda
But you know what I thought? I'm not a coffee girl. I actually survived med school without coffee. I know. That's crazy.
- [29:52]
Camille
You do berries with no coffee?
- [29:54]
Linda
No, I. I actually don't like the taste of coffee. The only time you'll ever see me drink coffee is in an espresso martini.
- [30:00]
Camille
Love that.
- [30:01]
Linda
Because it doesn't taste like coffee.
- [30:02]
Camille
I love that. Do you like creamy or non creamy?
- [30:05]
Linda
I like, like, no sugar, and I like it creamy. But I don't know what they do. I don't know. They have to do something. You know what? I had a recent one. What's that? You know, the lasagna place? No, that new oats, like bomb you have to have. It's like. It's like amazing lasagna. But they made an amazing espresso martini because they took the actual, like beans, grinded them up, and then put it in an espresso machine and made fresh espresso and then put it. Oh, my God. I'm just thinking about it. Like, can we go? Right.
- [30:35]
Camille
Let's go there tonight.
- [30:36]
Linda
Amazing.
- [30:37]
Camille
Let's go there.
- [30:38]
Linda
So good. And this. And the lasagna was. Was amazing. It was like really, really good. Like, I had to, obviously.
- [30:44]
Camille
Oh, yeah.
- [30:44]
Linda
But like, it was phenomenal.
- [30:46]
Camille
Okay, and then when you're gonna go drinking, what do you do? Do you have more salt?
- [30:51]
Linda
Oh, I have these, yeah.
- [30:53]
Camille
Well, okay. We'll do what's in your purse in a second.
- [30:55]
Linda
Okay, so I'll show it to you. So there's like these vitamins that I take. It has like DHM and like milk thistle, and it's basically like an anti hangover vitamin thing. I actually really like this other brand called Zbiotica. It's like basically medically engineered, like probiotic, that they put a. They put a gene that helps break down the toxin that creates alcohol, which is acetaldehyde. But the problem is because it is from the States, it's medically engineered, you can't get them in here. So every time I go there, I buy some, but I, like, don't buy enough. But that's actually the one thing that I actually think is the best thing. But my substitute is this. It's called a no days off. Actually, one of my girlfriend's sisters told me about it. I love that one actually too, because I was recently trying different ones. But I definitely love, love, love, love that one. That one was bomb because it has like B vitamins in it and. And different types of vitamins that help with detoxing your body after you drink. So I find that really, really helps me. And I do electrolyte. So I always. If you always go out, I love this. Well, I have in my bag because I literally love this one. It's called hydrate.
- [32:07]
Camille
I never heard of it.
- [32:08]
Linda
Okay, so I found it. I was researching different ones. It's a sports research. This brand is actually really good. It's. It has not only sodium and potassium, which are the electric, the electrolytes you need, but it also has like other vitamins in it too. So, like, when you're drinking this, you're actually taking vitamins. So it has like zinc, calcium, magnesium, biotin for all the girlies. And it has no sugar, which is really, really important. And the flavors are not bad. I don't like things that have artificial flavor, but it's like most of them is all like, concentrate, like cherry pomegranate concentrate. This one's cherry pomegranate. I like the lemon lime. That's my favorite. Because alcohol is a diuretic. So what it does is it makes you pee. So you lose a lot of your electrolytes. And when you are dehydrated, that's usually when you have that headache, and that's when you start feeling crappy. So if you replenish it before you're actually drinking, then you're kind of balancing it out a little bit, you know? And then unfortunately, water, even though it does hydrate you, it doesn't have the same amount of electrolytes like sodium, potassium that you need. This kind of just helps the balance because when you pee, you're peeing all of it out. You're peeing not only water, you're peeing also potassium, sodium in your body. And that shift really dehydrates people. And that's when you get that. That really bad headache in the morning. And also your skin isn't great, so at least this balances out as well.
- [33:31]
Camille
What are your thoughts on, like, microdosing GLP1s when you go on vacation?
- [33:36]
Linda
So a lot of my patients do it. You know, we. We often. We often get a lot of my patients on GLP1 micro dosing when they are just on a maintenance dosage of GLP1. So some patients of mine are, like, really beautiful fit, but they just want to have a micro dose of GPL1 when they're traveling, so they don't get stressed out about eating, because sometimes the desire of food really overwhelms a lot of people. So we put them on a very, very small micro dose.
- [34:07]
Camille
Like less than 0.25.
- [34:09]
Linda
Oh, yeah. A lot less than 1.25. So less than even the starting dose, sometimes 0.1.
- [34:15]
Camille
How do you get that?
- [34:16]
Linda
So what we do is some of them are vials, so we don't do the pen for those micro dosing. So there's something called, like, Mounjaro, which actually has actually less of a nausea profile than the famous Ozempic. So a lot of my patients, we actually put them on Mounjaro. It's a different type of peptide. It's the same family. It's a GLP one, but it's just a different brand of it. And we put them on a very, very small dose and they just micro dose them once a week. And that decreases the craving and also decreases your need to overeat because it makes you feel full faster. Because that's what GLP1 does, right? Upregulates and makes you have that sense of satiety more. So then you don't really need to eat that much. And people are on vacation, they're enjoying it and they're having less anxiety and they come back and they are not skinnier than they are, but they haven't gained weight, you know. And also it decreases inflammation because what GLP1 does is they showed amazing studies actually neurogenically. They're actually giving it to a lot of patients who have neurogenic disorders because it decreases neurogenic inflammation. So it helps that too. So you feel less inflamed.
- [35:26]
Camille
Yeah, I feel like the pendulum, like it was like a moment of like, holy, everyone's gonna have cancer. Everyone's like, shit's breaking down. And then now I feel like it's swung to like, this is really gonna change a lot of things. And it's not as bad as it as people initially were saying it was.
- [35:42]
Linda
I think if it's dosed appropriately and if people are, I totally agree with you. Like if it's dose appropriately and if people are actually working out and maintaining their muscle mass and maintaining their protein consumption, then GLP1 is great for those type of people. But if you're not and you're just using it as like, like a, a way to eat whatever you want and break down your body, and break down your body because obviously if you don't have energy for food because it's calorically deficient, restricts you, then where are you going to get energy from your muscle? And not only does it take out, so people think it's taking like actually the protein out of your muscle, but it actually takes also the fat out of your muscle too, you know. So that's why when you're people who get slimmer it they even though their muscle may get smaller, but it's actually also taking away the fat from your muscle, which is actually a good thing. So if you are maintaining your muscle mass. Resistance training. So when we put our patients on a resist an actual weight loss program, we highly tell them that they need to be on appropriate micro vitamins that are supporting their weight loss and in addition to also making sure that they're doing a lot of resistance training and consuming at least one gram of protein per body. Weight. I know that's challenging to do because if you weigh 120 pounds, 130, 140 pounds, you have to eat 140 grams.
- [37:01]
Camille
Which is actually so hard to do.
- [37:03]
Linda
Which is so challenging to do. But I think if you're in the morning, what I try to do is that in the first thing in the morning, I try to put protein powder in my water because at least that's 30 grams of protein.
- [37:13]
Camille
Oh, yeah.
- [37:14]
Linda
So like you check mark that there. After workout, you do another 30. So that's like 60.
- [37:19]
Camille
That's halfway through.
- [37:20]
Linda
That's. You're halfway there. You know, if you weigh under 20 pounds. So if you try to do those hacks, obviously those are challenging things to do. I think what I think would be easier is that if people had a protein like one of these things, like these. Don't you think, like, if they have a protein pack like one of these things. I know if it's not like made out of.
- [37:41]
Camille
Yeah, I know.
- [37:41]
Linda
Plastic.
- [37:42]
Camille
Well, have you tried Core power?
- [37:43]
Linda
Put it in there. No.
- [37:44]
Camille
Oh, my gosh. Well, the only thing is that the Core Power is kind of like fake sweet a bit, but it's like 42 grams of protein and it's like in. It's in milk. Oh, but it's lactose free.
- [37:54]
Linda
Okay.
- [37:55]
Camille
They have lactose free ones. It's kind of like a bit of a skinny milkshake. Now every time I drink one, I'm like, this just can't be good for you. But it's got a high protein count. Okay, but to what you're saying, we could do that. Somebody could do that.
- [38:10]
Linda
Yes.
- [38:11]
Camille
In a more easily to consumable packet size.
- [38:14]
Linda
Yeah, exactly. For people on the go, obviously we want to be like conscious of like waste. I was trying to put mine. I put mine in like a little container, like a little glass container.
- [38:24]
Camille
But is there one here? And the what's in your purse?
- [38:26]
Linda
No, I forgot because I used it.
- [38:28]
Camille
Okay.
- [38:29]
Linda
It's actually my car.
- [38:30]
Camille
So you recommend Manjaro?
- [38:32]
Linda
Yeah. So instead of semiglutide, which is ozempic, this is terra glutide or something. Terazepic glutide. This is just a fancy way of saying it's just another type of GLP1, you know?
- [38:45]
Camille
So like, it's a different molecule.
- [38:47]
Linda
It's a different molecule. So as a result, the side effects are. The side effects of Mounjaro makes you. The people who get really nauseous on Ozempic, we just switch them to Mounjaro and They don't have that, that side effect because of that specific peptide. I love Mounjaro actually because you can microdose because it's in a vial. You know, sometimes the pen is easier for people who are scared of needles. I guess I'm just obviously not scared of needles. But for the people who like really need really like we want to microdose them and they are on a like a very like specific dosing. I like the Mounjaro better. You're able to fine tune it better and I find that people actually also I've seen weight loss like more rapidly on Mounjaro. It could be because you don't have the side effects so you were able to up your dose a little bit more faster. So that's the, that's what I like. But there's, there's newer, newer peptides on the market actually that I've seen even better than that. That actually increases weight loss more than Windjarozempic now. Crazy out in la. Yeah. That they made some sick ones that I actually would love to try but it's not approved yet here. But that actually helps with like liver functioning and like kidney functioning, cardiovascular functioning as well. I think it's also probably as related because of the anti inflammatory effect of it. So I'm interested in seeing those.
- [40:21]
Camille
Okay. But everybody's talking about peptides. Peptides, Peptides, peptides, peptides. Now you're the first person to tell me that Ozempic GLP1s are peptides. What the is a peptide?
- [40:32]
Linda
Good question. Well, peptides are like the new thing. You know better. Yeah, it's like honestly I would love.
- [40:39]
Camille
It's the new exosomes.
- [40:40]
Linda
Yeah, it really is. So peptide is basically a protein. A protein that has a function. And this protein for example works with function.
- [40:50]
Camille
I like that.
- [40:51]
Linda
For Ozempic, the function of this protein is to help you with your metabolism and make you feel full faster. That's the simplest way of saying it. There's a whole like cyclic Krebs cycle thing of it where it increases your glycogen and your glucose movements of your body and moves out of your muscle and stuff like that. Like that's too complicated and no one's going to remember that. Essentially it just makes you feel fuller, faster. So therefore you have a caloric deficiency and you lose weight. Because in order to lose weight is really called you need to have a caloric deficit. That's really the only way. So you can do it in a healthy way where you work out and you not eat health.
- [41:27]
Camille
Less.
- [41:27]
Linda
Yeah, less. And then you, you know, try. Try to do time restricted eating, which is called intermittent fasting and all these things. Yeah, but some people aren't able to do that because, you know, food becomes like a craving and they focus on it so much. So then you use it as like an external force. It's not bad. Like, I feel like people make it seem so bad, especially Hollywood, because people were on it and then you saw like a really large, like Adriana Lehman. All of a sudden she became so skinny. Don't. I'm not saying anything bad about that. Like, she looks amazing. I'm not saying she was on it or not. I'm just saying, like all of a sudden, within a year, like that. That's really shocking. Right? So I don't think it's a bad thing. I think people make it seem like it's terrible. I think if it's done appropriately, then it's healthy, which is sometimes we need a little bit of a boost. Like, you know, sometimes you need a little bit of Botox, you know, just to like decrease these muscles. Like, it's not. That's not terrible. Sometimes you need a little bit of lip filler just to balance you a little bit. This is not terrible. You know, people make it seem like it's so bad. Like we are. You're doing things like dyeing your hair, getting your nails done, getting your lashes done. It's the same thing we're just doing. It's making it seem like it's worse because, I don't know, society makes. Seems like injectables are crazy because maybe you're seeing girls that look like they got injectables done, but if it's done tastefully, then you can't even tell it's undetectable. That's good work. Majority of people have had things done, but if it's done appropriately, then you can't tell. So then it looks natural. Then you're like, I want a natural girl. Boys. No, girls are natural. We get our hair done, we get our nails done, we get our lashes and we get a facial. We do all these things. This is not considered natural, but that's what. What's wrong with that, you know? So I think that society makes it seem like it's so wrong. So what's wrong with microdosing stuff with a little bit of GLP1 because you're having a hard time losing the extra 20 pounds of baby weight. And you know, it's really making you feel really insecure about Yourself. And now you lost some weight and now you have all this energy and you can put your cute clothes on, you can go with your girlfriends and you can be a good wife and be a good mom because now you have all this. What's wrong with that? I think that society makes you feel bad about doing things to make you feel good because they also feel insecure about themselves. So don't let those people make you feel that way.
- [43:32]
Camille
Love it. Mic drop.
- [43:33]
Linda
Sorry. It's just like I'm so passionate about this cuz it happens to me so many times with my patients. Like, don't tell anybody. I'm like, okay babe, of course I'm not going to tell anybody. But like why? Like don't feel bad about it. Like you should be empowered that like you want to take care of yourself, you want to be the best version of yourself. So you can be a good version, good mom, you can be a good wife, you can be a good daughter, you can be a good friend when you feel shitty with yourself. Excuse my French.
- [43:54]
Camille
Yeah.
- [43:55]
Linda
And you literally perpetuating that negative energy all around you. And we can simply just change it by. I'm not saying come and get Botox and filler, although you can. But I'm not saying to do that. I'm saying obviously it requires to deeply feel better about yourself. But sometimes somebody needs a little bit of a boost. So I'm just saying these things are a little bit boost because it motivates you to do things.
- [44:16]
Camille
But I think we should talk about that. Like, honestly, what I really love about GLP1s is it's very easy to get like off the horse and like to your point, like how shitty you feel. Like we came back from a hall of being on vacation for probably not vacation, sorry. We went on a hall for being off on work, traveling for almost two months straight and I was eating out every single day. Like even with trying to eat healthier, you get like a cocktail here, you get like, you get a bite of dessert somewhere. And then I came back and I didn't fit into any of my clothes. And I. It's not even that I put on a lot of weight, it's just it doesn't take much to actually not really fit into your clothes anymore. Especially if you're someone that really doesn't, doesn't really like spike and decrease. And we tried it. I tried like I got, I got one pen, did the one pen I use like it over. I didn't do it every week. I would do one kind of Every two weeks, every three weeks was working out, eating healthy. But it was, like, the difference, because it takes a very long time to let go of seven pounds, eight pounds. Like, it's not easy to do, and it's so hard when you feel. You feel down, you want to be disparaging, you want to make jokes about yourself. You put that energy out there, and it really makes a difference to, like, your mental health and clarity. Why can't we normalize that? Like, science has finally progressed to a point where, like, you don't have to feel shitty for two months while you're losing the eight pounds. Don't.
- [45:38]
Linda
Yeah, exactly. I love that. And I love that you shared that. And it's true. Like, I love that you're so vulnerable and you're able to share that. Because it's true. Like, why do we have the resources? If you're doing in a safe way with the guidance of, like, a professional medical physician, then why are you not using that tool? You know?
- [45:59]
Camille
And if you're not being healthy, someone can see that you're not being healthy. Yeah, but, like, no one can take anything away. Like, if you're working out, if you're eating healthy and you're getting, like, help, you're winning.
- [46:09]
Linda
Yes.
- [46:09]
Camille
Because we can now, actually, we can now win by, like, hacking. I can go on zoom and not look like I'm tired because I can get my eyelashes done. Yeah, it's a hack.
- [46:20]
Linda
Yeah.
- [46:21]
Camille
I'm here for it.
- [46:22]
Linda
Yes, exactly. Why not? Why not? You feel better about yourself, then you're able to perform better.
- [46:26]
Camille
That's all I'm here for.
- [46:27]
Linda
Exactly.
- [46:27]
Camille
Haters are gonna hate regardless of how I'm feeling. So if I've got to feel good about it.
- [46:30]
Linda
Exactly. You cannot. You can't satisfy anybody. No. I'm so happy you did it. And did you like it? Did you have any side effects from it? No.
- [46:37]
Camille
It's the best fucking thing.
- [46:38]
Linda
Good.
- [46:39]
Camille
I loved it.
- [46:40]
Linda
Yes.
- [46:40]
Camille
Literally, I was able to, like. Because I didn't change anything. My approach to how to eat healthy didn't change my. I wasn't going home and crushing chocolate cakes. Like, I was on a diet. Like, I was working out three to four times a week. But there's nothing worse than when you're doing that for three weeks and you like your body. You don't quite see the full, like, the change yet, and you're just like, we live in also such a fast pace, Especially when I'm on content all the time. Like, we're recording two, three times a Week. All I'm doing is watching myself and seeing myself. And, like, you want to get somewhere faster. So. No, it was amazing because I didn't change anything. I. It enhanced. Good. It was an enhancement.
- [47:22]
Linda
I love that.
- [47:22]
Camille
To my life.
- [47:23]
Linda
I love that. And we've been using it on diabetic patients for eons. So, like, there's so many studies on it. So, like, when people were saying, this is so bad for you. This is so bad. Anything that. That's bad. Anything can be bad for you is done inappropriately.
- [47:35]
Camille
No.
- [47:36]
Linda
What's.
- [47:36]
Camille
Yeah, but also, what's. Like, let's. If we're gonna talk about, like, what's bad. Like, what are we eating?
- [47:40]
Linda
Oh, yeah. Like, soil systems. Terrible.
- [47:43]
Camille
Like water. We're. We're drinking water at a pla. Like, there's just. There's an abundance of bad, you know? Like, it's just. It's. It's truly just to pass judgment.
- [47:52]
Linda
Exactly. And I think that people say it because they're insecure about themselves, so they're projecting that negativity on you. So, you know what? Like, you have to realize you just need to continue living your life. And if you are feeling bad about £5, and you've been working out for a few months and you can't get rid of that, we can help you, you know, so it's yourself. Yeah, exactly.
- [48:14]
Camille
So the one thing that I love and it also kills me about Dr. Linda is like, I've seen Doc. I've seen Linda at Barry's several times. The lighting is horrible at Barry's. Kid. You not. She doesn't have one pore.
- [48:26]
Linda
Oh, God, please. That's not true. Thank you.
- [48:30]
Camille
It, like, it keeps me up at night. And when we were at Barry. When we were at lunch two weeks ago, everyone said to me that your skin looked great. I thought your skin looked great. It was on brand that your skin looked great. But then you said you were gonna do a purge of retinol. So. Talk to me about what? Do you cycle through your skin?
- [48:48]
Linda
Oh, yes. Skin cycling is my favorite thing right now. So I've been doing it for a while, but I've been. I've been really tuning into it because I felt like I was over exfoliating. Do you feel like sometimes over exfoliate? Because people are like, you should exfoliate. Exfoliation is amazing. But sometimes when you over exfoliate, then you dry your skin. Your skin actually. When your skin dries out, pores actually open up.
- [49:08]
Camille
Okay.
- [49:08]
Linda
And then that's when people get larger Pores, because your pores are trying now to get more hydration. So. And also you're overusing products that you don't need to. And I'm saying that from somebody who owns a clinic that sells products, actually try to decrease your product usage by skin cycling. So I like doing this. People have a different way of skin cycling. But what I do is I do. So day one is like my. Let's say my. Day one is my exfoliation day. So I do my vitamin C in the morning, and then I do like. I do like my discoloration defense, which is skinceuticals product, because that's trane stomach acid, which helps with melanin formation. So as somebody who has a lot of melanin, I try to do that just to prevent the risk of melasma. They did a study in women actually who were pregnant, postpartum pregnant, and they had a lot of postpartum bleeding, and they gave them tranexamic acid pills. And these pills stopped their bleeding. And simultaneously, these women who had melasma got rid of the melasma at the same time. So as a result, they found out that, you know, triadic acid helped people with melasma. So now we use it actually for patients orally for. But now they made it topically as well. I don't have melasma, but I want to prevent it. So that's like. I do like a discoloration thing in the morning, and then at night I do my exfoliation. And so I use like a chemical exfoliant because I think it's safer versus a scrub. Because sometimes scrubbing you, like, scrub too, too hard, and you really don't want to just ruin your skin barrier, especially as you get more mature, because that's really something you want to. So I do a chemical exfoliant, which brand. So I'm. I'm not trying to like, promote skinceuticals, but honestly, I've tried every single brand and this one works for my skin. And everything is formulated by science and there's no additives to it. So I use.
- [51:02]
Camille
SkinCeuticals is also my favorite brand though too. It's. It's the best everything you.
- [51:06]
Linda
Every time.
- [51:07]
Camille
It's luxury.
- [51:08]
Linda
Well, it's like every single. If you realize it's over 200 peer. I'm like a science nerd. So they have over 200 peer review articles on each active ingredient.
- [51:16]
Camille
No.
- [51:17]
Linda
And that's freaking amazing. You know, like, so, you know, it works. They do skin biopsies of People and they look at their cells and they're like, this actually works. Collagen is formated or discoloration, melanin decrease. So I use blemish. And Asia. I like that. I think it's strong enough for me. And now they just open. They just have a new thing called, called cell catalyst, which actually boosts up the. The exfoliation. So I use those in combination, and then I use, like, my triple lipid moisturizer. So that's so day one, it's like.
- [51:42]
Camille
Fat on your face. It is amazing. It is nice.
- [51:46]
Linda
Oh, man, I love that you call them. You go, girl. So number one is exfoliation day one. Day two is your retinol day. So that's when you're like, you plan your retinol day to be in the beginning of the week before you go out, because typically you're gonna peel a little bit, you know, so percentage of.
- [52:02]
Camille
Retinol do you do.
- [52:03]
Linda
So I've upped my retinol dose before. I was at like 0.003, so I was really low because my skin really can't handle retinol. Well, I know some people have really, really thick skin, and that doesn't help. Now I'm at 0.1, which is. I think it's a. It's like a normal dose. Some people are, like, at 1, which I find is too, too strong for me.
- [52:23]
Camille
I do the 0.5. The SkinCeutical 0.5.
- [52:25]
Linda
Okay, so that's good.
- [52:26]
Camille
But I'm higher than you, no?
- [52:28]
Linda
Oh, yes, you are higher than me.
- [52:31]
Camille
Okay, next.
- [52:32]
Linda
So then. And then my skin is just really sensitive to retinol. Like, it really peels. So I. I don't like to peel too much. And then. And so you have to realize. So the reason why I do the first day is exfoliation, why I explain it. So you're getting your skin prepped to peel from retinol. So you exfoliate. You use a chemical exfoliant. So it gets the skin ready for the. For the retinol. So it enhances the retinol better. So then day two is the retinol. Day three, four is when you want to now moisturize because your skin is about to peel. So that's the moisturizer day. So you don't use any chemical exfoliant, any retinol. And so you're saving product, too, because you're not using those products every day. And then you're really moisturizing. Sometimes I moisturize for three days. Sometimes I do like two, three, depending on how my skin reacted. And then I go back to exfoliation and retinol. Does that make sense?
- [53:19]
Camille
Every week.
- [53:20]
Linda
Every week.
- [53:20]
Camille
So you cycle every week?
- [53:21]
Linda
Yeah.
- [53:21]
Camille
Monday's your Monday day. Tuesdays your Tuesday. Okay.
- [53:23]
Linda
Yeah.
- [53:24]
Camille
And then Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, your hydration days.
- [53:26]
Linda
Yeah.
- [53:26]
Camille
And Saturday, Sunday.
- [53:27]
Linda
No. And then I go back to exfoliation.
- [53:30]
Camille
Oh. So you're not on a seven day cycle, you're on a five day cycle.
- [53:34]
Linda
I'm a five day cycle. Wow. Sometimes a six day cycle, depending if I. If I peeled a lot. So that day I was on a retinol day that my. I was. I was purging. I don't know how you didn't see it. My skin was like crazy that day. Thank you for see it. Okay, thanks. Yes. And you can tell when. That's why I tried. I always tell people, do your retinol in the beginning of the week because if you wanted to go out on the weekend, your skin is gonna, like, the makeup's gonna go on. Not cute.
- [53:59]
Camille
It's like. Did you ever have pores?
- [54:01]
Linda
Yes, man, I have pores. I have four. Thank you for saying that. I really appreciate that.
- [54:06]
Camille
Like, what else? Like how. Why, like, do you not have any on your nose?
- [54:10]
Linda
Well, I do. I do microneedling with exosomes three times. Three times a year.
- [54:15]
Camille
Okay.
- [54:15]
Linda
I'm a huge believer in micro needling. I've been doing that for years. Because you have to realize intentional trauma with the. Is really important to stay.
- [54:24]
Camille
It's kind of controversial though, why some people are like, trauma to the face is trauma to the face.
- [54:29]
Linda
Even though your chemical exfoliating and then retinol, that's really superficial epidermal skin that's being removed. If you want to go a little bit deeper, which is the dermal area, which is where you get a lot of pigmentation, where you're getting some scarring and some uneven skin tone. You need to go a little bit deeper. So that's why microneedling is really good. But then to even add and stack. So I'm really into stacking treatments. So it's like, you know, doing, doing the skincare every day and then doing your chemical peels once every two months and then doing your microneedling every once every four months. I know it sounds so much. And then, no, it's just not enough.
- [55:04]
Camille
So keep going.
- [55:04]
Linda
And then you do your laser. So the laser goes deeper. So that's why I call stacking.
- [55:08]
Camille
Okay.
- [55:08]
Linda
The first thing is like, skin care every day.
- [55:10]
Camille
Yeah.
- [55:11]
Linda
And then you do a little bit of superficial where you do this chemical peel.
- [55:14]
Camille
Which one? Like a jesser, like a light.
- [55:17]
Linda
So skin suitables, we have our skin suitables pro ball protocol that we use which is like a, it's like a mix of a glycolic acid with a lactic acid lunch peel.
- [55:26]
Camille
Or is it like a snake peel?
- [55:28]
Linda
I'm, I'm more into like a lunch peel. I don't, as I always say, I'm always trying to keep, keep my skin integrity to like keeping it as much as possible, retaining that. Yeah, because as you get more mature, like I'm 42. No, am I 42? Yeah, I'm 42. I'm turning 43 in the, in December and it's like, like you can see like the thickness of your skin decreases each, each like year. So like trying to maintain that is hard. So that's why, that's why microneedling is good because it, it adds collagen to your skin.
- [55:58]
Camille
Did you do the microneedling with prp?
- [56:01]
Linda
So I was doing PRP initially until exosomes came out and I read the research of exosomes. So much better. Listen, PRP is great because it's your own skin, but you have to realize the growth factors in your skin is limited and it's very sleep, it's very variable based upon your diet. If you drank the night before, if you had enough fluid, if you had enough protein that day, if you, you know, if your cortisol wasn't good, if your sleeping wasn't good. So like to take all that time to draw blood and, and stamp my face with a microneedling pen, I want to know that like that growth factors is actually going there. So I, I love exosomes and I like plant based exosomes personally. Because if you realize plant genome is actually 99% the same as our genome, it's the same. They have the same organelles, mitochondria, all this stuff. So they have the same genome. So if you're able to make growth factors that are specifically for, to tell the cells, hey, make collagen, hey like make elastin, you know, get rid of this melanin, whatever it may be, you're, it's in a bottle. So like, like I know for sure I'm putting that in my face or like, like when I had, when I did my whole Glenda Halloween outfit and I like created traction alopecia and I gave myself a bald spot on my head, I literally injected in my hair. That's why I have bangs now because my, my little baby hair started growing back and I was like, this looks kind of weird and alfy let me just decide to have bangs now. And I'm still figuring it out. But yeah, it was great. Thank you. I'm figuring it out. But I stamped exosomes in my scalp and it was these hair exosomes and they were bomb. My hair grew back literally within a month. And typically the hair cycle takes sometimes four to six months to grow. So I'm a huge believer of exosomes, especially good exosomes.
- [57:51]
Camille
Where do you get good exosomes versus bad exosomes?
- [57:53]
Linda
We've gone through all the different types of exosomes on the market that is available in Canada. And I really like, like the exosomes that we carry now. I've tried every single exosome on the market. This one I really like because it penetrates this. It penetrates really well into your skin because that's really the great limiting step if an exosome is able to penetrate in your skin. So this has like a lipophilic like molecule that is held in. So therefore, because it's fat based, it can penetrate in your skin really, really well even even if you don't stamp it into your skin with the micro channels of a micro needling thing. So I like that as well. And there's been so many great studies about the specific exosomes that we use versus other ones.
- [58:35]
Camille
Interesting.
- [58:36]
Linda
Yeah. So I do microneedling with exosomes three times a year. And the hair exomes I just recently did because of my random traction alopecia I caused myself.
- [58:49]
Camille
And then you do lasers quarterly.
- [58:51]
Linda
Yeah, so I do laser. So you know what? I like, like stacking my lasers initially in the beginning and doing like it every two to four weeks to get the most benefit. Benefit. The aerolase one I like because it's, it has no down time and it doesn't really like damage your skin and it just creates like a really light thermal heat. So it's like very comfortable. I call it like a, like a lunchtime blazer because you literally can come in and do it and go outside. Like I literally did it the day before my birth, like the morning of my birthday party. And my makeup went on better because it, it's, it attracts water. So then it stimulates collagen in your skin. So I love that. And then it also hits melanin, so it breaks down. Like if you have any pigment, I have some pigment from the sun and it breaks down your Pigment really, really well. But you need to do it, like, every two weeks to really get that effect. Because it's not like a strong laser, like a CO2 laser that will really, like, put you away for like, two weeks. Your face will peel off and stuff like that, which I'm not a huge fan of, as you know, I said I like to retain my skin thickness. And then the third thing it does, it hit hemoglobin. So if you have any red blood cells or blood vessels, so like spider veins and stuff on your face, and some people who are a little bit more glowy, we like to get rid of those. And even in people who have a lot of inflammation. So acne patients is really great because it gets rid of those, like, red acne aggressive lesions. And it actually attaches to the P. Acnes, which is the P. Bacteria, which is acne bacteria, and kills it, too. So I love all those. Those. I love this specific laser specifically because it's really safe on skin types, like, who are darker, like my skin types and above. And so it's good on all skin types. And there's no downtime.
- [60:29]
Camille
So those are the three treatments you do a year?
- [60:32]
Linda
Yeah, that's what I do a year. Is anything else? No.
- [60:35]
Camille
Like, you don't do, like, a forma or anything like that.
- [60:37]
Linda
You know what? I tried Softwave. That thing was freaking painful. Okay. I can handle pain. I had my son without an epidural. Okay. I pulled him out like Kourtney Kardashian did. It was so painful, the soft wave. Like, I was screaming, like, it was so painful. That is an ultrasound that basically tightens your skin. You only need to do one, maybe two a year. Did I see a difference? I don't know. Like, it was that significant to be less painful. I did Morpheus. It was also not my favorite thing to do. I did it on my stomach. I saw some results, but again, it was super painful. And I would never do on your face, because it can. It. It will, like, kill fat on your face if it's done at a certain level. So I wouldn't. I would not do that. I would. I think on the stomach, I've seen some results. On my stomach, I did three. I didn't love it, but I've done. I've done that in soft way life. Those are my most latest treatments.
- [61:41]
Camille
You're going to Korea.
- [61:43]
Linda
I would love to go to Korea. I've been asking you to take me freaking to Korea, girl.
- [61:46]
Camille
It's got. I mean, I'm ready for a trip. Number three. Let's do it.
- [61:49]
Linda
I would love to go to Korea. I would love to try all the things. The salmon sperm. We. We have that. We do that too. We don't. We don't have ruja on the brand that they have there, but we have, like, I'm using vamp right now, which is made from Ravenous, which is Canadian made, and they put a little bit highlight on. Like I said. I actually really, really love that too, actually, for under eye. For people who have darkness and under eye. Using that with some, like, PRP or exosomes in that area, I'm. I'm loving that combination, actually, for people who have darkness in the under eye.
- [62:16]
Camille
Cool. Let's see what's in your purse.
- [62:18]
Linda
Okay. Let's see what's in my purse.
- [62:19]
Camille
So I'm so excited.
- [62:21]
Linda
So much stuff in my purse right now because I've been running around. This is typically. Not typically my bag, but this is like my.
- [62:28]
Camille
But it's like the podcast edition.
- [62:29]
Linda
Yeah. So a paddle brush. Because Arten, my hair guy, said that you need a padded brush for your bangs, so you do this, this, and then you straighten out. So I've been trying to figure out this bang thing like this. And I like the Mason Pearson brush because it's borehead, so it stimulates the oil, so it makes your hair healthier and shinier, and. And it does. It prevents breakage. So I'm a huge proponent of the Mason pyramid. I know it is an investment, but I wanted. I actually should get the smaller one so I can throw it in my bag.
- [62:57]
Camille
The mini.
- [62:57]
Linda
Yeah. So I have this because it's like, every time I. If I ever wear jewelry, I don't like wearing it while I'm working. And I don't want to just throw my jewelry because I'll lose it, because I'm just, like, so forgetful. So just like a jewelry case. Because when I'm, like, working, I don't like wearing jewelry, so I just take it out and just throw in here so I don't forget about it. And then sunnies. So, you know, like, I don't. I. I don't like carrying a sunny sunglass case because it's just so bulky. So you just use, like, any, like, usually, like, a garment bag or sometimes the sunnies, they have, like, those little things. So this is my favorite sunglasses right now. These are my sunglasses in the moment.
- [63:38]
Camille
You look so fast. You're speedy.
- [63:43]
Linda
These are my favorite sunnies.
- [63:45]
Camille
Love them. Yeah. Honestly, I'm gonna wear them for the rest of the Podcast.
- [63:49]
Linda
I saw them online and I try to order them here, but they don't have them. No, they look good.
- [63:54]
Camille
No, I don't look good in fast sunglasses. I look good in huge sunglasses.
- [63:58]
Linda
So gum. I'm a huge. Like, I just have to have gum all the time. And I like the pure gum because it doesn't have, like, aspartame and it's, you know, kind of good for you. Even though I freaking also heard recently that it has microplastics in them.
- [64:10]
Camille
Everything has microplastics.
- [64:12]
Linda
So as I showed you guys, my electrolytes, because I never leave home without electrolytes because I'm working out and my son love electrolytes, so I put them in his water. So we always have some electrolytes on us. A phone charger, obviously, because my phone is always dead.
- [64:29]
Camille
I don't find those chargers to be the best. The apple ones.
- [64:32]
Linda
You know what, it's just convenience because, like, I don't like having a charger I have to plug in. I like to just like make safe it.
- [64:38]
Camille
I know, but it doesn't charge to 100.
- [64:40]
Linda
You know what? I find mine charges pretty good, but I also have two of these in a bag, so I find the little.
- [64:47]
Camille
Nimble ones to be the best. Even though they require a cord. You get like two or three charges from zero to full.
- [64:53]
Linda
Really?
- [64:53]
Camille
Yeah. Brand is not nimble.
- [64:55]
Linda
Okay. I don't know. I've never heard of them.
- [64:56]
Camille
Yeah, that's my trick.
- [64:59]
Linda
And then my favorite sunscreen. This is literally my favorite sunscreen all time. I've tried every single different sunscreen. This is my favorite one is a mineral sunscreen. You guys know the difference between a mineral and a chemical?
- [65:08]
Camille
No. What's the difference?
- [65:10]
Linda
Okay, so don't ever buy chemical sunscreens. It literally allows UV actually penetrate your skin.
- [65:16]
Camille
Interesting.
- [65:17]
Linda
A mineral sunscreen prevents even the. The UVA and UVB rays to even penetrate your skin because of the zinc dioxide in it. So I always love a mineral sunscreen. So just always buy a mineral sunscreen if you ever look at sunscreens. Most of the sunscreens, unfortunately, at other places, even though I love Sephora, is actually chemical. So pay attention that you ask for a mineral sunscreen, because then the. The UV ways don't even touch your skin. This is my favorite skinceutical physical fusion because it has like a tint and like, I typically don't wear makeup, so it, like, it gives you kind of like an almost like a blurring BB cream type of thing on it. And I like the. I like the consistency of it.
- [66:02]
Camille
If only there was a makeup and skincare in one.
- [66:05]
Linda
I know. Keys with a apple airtag.
- [66:10]
Camille
Cool.
- [66:10]
Linda
You always lose your stuff. Tampons.
- [66:17]
Camille
She's not holding back. Can you pull some more accessories that I can use on my chair here?
- [66:22]
Linda
What do I also. I have here. Okay. Oh, my God. I got this at Berries for free. And then I loved it so much, I actually went back and bought more.
- [66:30]
Camille
When marketing activations work, HP face, like.
- [66:34]
Linda
Her mist is so good. It's like a rose refresh mist. Feel it. So, you know, like, when your skin feels a little dry.
- [66:40]
Camille
I'm ready.
- [66:41]
Linda
Feel it. And it has, like, this nice, like, rose scent to it like that.
- [66:45]
Camille
I see the brand.
- [66:46]
Linda
It's HB face. She. And it's Canadian. Canadian, by the way.
- [66:52]
Camille
It doesn't have a good packaging, but good smell.
- [66:55]
Linda
Okay. New skincare. So I like getting. I like putting HA intensifier Multi Glick. And it's like the new. They. They reformulated the HA intensifier.
- [67:04]
Camille
Oh, wait, is it purple still.
- [67:07]
Linda
The bottle? Yeah, still. Because it made it with purple rice. Yeah. So it helps, like, break. It prevents a breakdown of hyaluronic acid. And also, I just love this one because I put it on my lips as kind of like a little, like, a lip glow, but it actually also hydrates your lips too.
- [67:24]
Camille
You know what's hilarious? Oh, well, thank you so much. This is the best. What's in your purse? Christina said that a bunch of. A bunch of the people that worked at SkinCeuticals when they. When keto was huge would all put the ha on their lips because it has, like, a little, like, a sugary taste to it. Yeah.
- [67:42]
Linda
That's so funny. It does, because I think it has the purple rice gives it that little bit. Have you guys tried Lee Lash? It's, like, from the uk.
- [67:49]
Camille
No.
- [67:50]
Linda
So this is, like, my favorite lash serum. And I literally put it on, like, while I'm in my car. You have fake lashes, So I put on my eyebrows.
- [67:57]
Camille
Oh.
- [67:58]
Linda
And then when I was also had my. My episode of my hair loss, I put it on my hair, my hair loss area. And even though I have thick eyelashes on, you can still put it on your eyelashes because it thickens your eyelashes. So your eyelashes are able to hold the lash better, the lash extensions better. And I also put it. I like to put it on my bottom lashes because that they just look more sultry.
- [68:21]
Camille
Okay.
- [68:22]
Linda
So I tried many, many brands, and this is my favorite one.
- [68:25]
Camille
Leelash.
- [68:26]
Linda
It's a little pricey, but I think it's worth it. Okay. God, I have so much crap in here.
- [68:31]
Camille
Okay, that's really good stuff. Let's keep them engaged.
- [68:33]
Linda
Vitamins. So this is the, the digestive enzyme, which is the, the enzymatic digest gold thing that I was talking to everybody about because it has like all the pancreatic enzymes that you don't sometimes have as sufficient. It breaks down fat, protein, carbs. Every time I take it before a meal, I don't get bloated. And when I don't, I really see the fat. Cool. And then this is the one that it's like I have it all in one because I usually throw it from one bag to another bag because usually when I go out. But this is the, the anti alcohol one that like the handy hangover one that I was talking about, which is, which is called no days off.
- [69:08]
Camille
No is off.
- [69:10]
Linda
And then adds to cart. And then look at all my lip stuff.
- [69:15]
Camille
Oh, geez. This is a commitment.
- [69:17]
Linda
Well, okay. So ravenous just. Just gave me these cute little lip plumpers, but damn, they work. Guys. Okay, it's like you put it on and your lips are super plump because. And it stings. I swear it probably has cayenne or something. I actually didn't even look at the ingredients, but it's amazing. And I like the small one because you can just throw it in any bag. But you put this on and seriously, my lips are naturally full. So like you, you can't really tell, but I can feel it looking more like hydrated.
- [69:49]
Camille
It's like it gives you that like.
- [69:51]
Linda
Feel good effect and it's super plumpy. Super plumpy. Okay, so I'll tell you what is my favorite lip combo.
- [69:58]
Camille
Okay.
- [69:58]
Linda
I recently been using hourglass. I kind of like it. I'm not a huge in love with the. See now it's minty. I like this color specific. It's called crave. But the problem is, see, I used it all. But the problem is that I feel like it's. It's like the longevity is not long enough for the cost of it, you know? So even though I love, love, love, love this color, the value isn't there. Yeah. So I'm not. I didn't restock that the Sephora sale, but I did restock all my Dior lip stuff because I'm a big Dior lip girly. This is my favorite. So everybody's people have been asking me, what's my lip combo? So this is my lip combo and I learned it from my Makeup artist Moave Melanie. I follow her on Instagram. She just bomb dot com. But anyways, this is my favorite lip liner. That's what I'm wearing right now. I'm not doing it because I don't want to ruin it, but Morph Sweet tea is amazing. Everybody needs to add this to their cart. It's always sold out. It actually is on Sephora right now because I just restocked a bunch during the sale. It's like $10, but it lasts forever. I love it. I love this color. I think it looks amazing in everybody. And then I put, like, a lighter color. I recently bought this one because I was using Chardis, but then it that one got discontinued. But I really love this one too. It's dior. It's a 220 Rouge, but it's, like, a lighter color. So I like that darker and lighter because I feel like it creates a little bit more dimension. And then I put this, like, really sheer gloss on it. And this one is one by Dior, and I love this gloss because it's so sheer, but it just, like, blends the liner and the lip together. Kind of see it?
- [71:38]
Camille
Very nice. Love. Perfect combo.
- [71:40]
Linda
But I forgot to mention. I totally forgot. Oh, my God. I found this new. So I'm a big Dior addict. Lip glow Girl. Like, I've tried every single color. I like cherry, but cherry became a little bit too cherry and red for me, so now I'm switching to this color called soft Nude. I think it's the new one. And I love, love, love this one too. It's kind of like, mirrors this. It's like, a good combo together. So I would say, like, these. These are all, like, my favorite combo right now, this lip thing.
- [72:05]
Camille
Okay.
- [72:06]
Linda
But I also love when I don't do this lip thing, and I just do it all natural. I love poppy coral. Poppy coral is like this, like, cute peach color on my lips, and it's, like, a little bit pink. Little peachy. I love the Dior Glow formulations. The only issue is you finish it and you literally have this much left. So it's like you feel like you spent, like, $60, and you literally, like. I still buy it because I'm just a sucker for them. But as a mom, can't go anywhere without having some entertainment for Nova, because you know he's gonna drive me insane when I make him sit at brunches with me. But it's not his fault because he's actually a really, really good boy. But I usually carry some, like, little Activity for him. Actually, this seems bougie, but it's not. Like, Chanel gave me these free, like, little. Little. Give me these free, like, little markers. And, like, it's such a good size, you just throw it in your bag. So, like, because Nova usually goes there often with me, and then they want to entertain him, so they gave him these free ones, which is so sweet. So now I throw in my bag and I use it so, like, he can do. These are little Kumon, like, little booklets that he, like, loves doing. Like, he's obsessed with that. Like, he'll be like, I want to do more. I want more. So I always have in my bag, so at least it's entertainment. But also, like, he's learning. And he was really into Spider man, so I had this right now, but I should probably throw it away because he now is into Batman. But, like, this is, like, I have, like, little activities for him to do. So when I'm, like, out and about, and I'm like, let's say I want to have brunch with my girlfriends or whatever, or having dinner with my husband, at least I can give him an activity to bypass his time before he asks for screen time. So I. I have that.
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Camille
Okay.
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Linda
Oh, my God. So I have injections because I was recently doing. I forgot to give myself some of my weekly longevity shots. So I. I know this sounds dangerous, but it's in a Ziploc bag, okay? So safe. And it's also capped. And I'm a physician, so it's fine. I probably. I. So. So the three that I'm obsessed with is nad, because NAD is like, living energy source for your cells. And all your cells need ATP, which is the precursor of which NAD is the precursor of to make ATP. So all our cells need ATP to function. And as we get more mature, we lose the. The amount of NAD in our body. So I just kind of boost myself with a little bit nad. It's like, literally like a caffeine shot, okay. For your body. So I do that every week with glutathione. Again, when you create so much energy for yourself, the cells start creating free radicals because it's working. So this combats the free radicals. It also helps, like, break down, makes new ATP. It helps make mix vitamin C and E, which are also antioxidants. It also detoxifies your liver. It also makes your skin and hair and also decreases melanin in your skin, too. So glutathione is phenomenal. And then I also have, oh, B12, because we just don't eat enough protein. So B12 also, it's, like, good for, like, that protein synthesis and helps restore, so it prevents you from being deficient in B12. So these are the things I do. I do them all once a week and I just forgot to do them. So I threw in my bag because I had to do them. So that's cool. One thing here, you're not getting these back.
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Camille
Phillip, throw them in your bag.
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Linda
Oh, have you guys ever had lumify eye drops Drops? Oh, my God. These are. Must have. Okay, so basically what it does, it makes your sclera white. It makes your eyes bigger. And as an Asian, sometimes when I'm working so much, my eyes get really red and sleepy. So it just really opens up your eyes. I like it better advising because Visine creates some reactive hyperemia. So it actually makes your eyes red later. So it's actually more dangerous. This is really amazing. Like, my eye doctor actually recommends it as well.
- [75:53]
Camille
Is this one that also makes your eyes more blue?
- [75:56]
Linda
No, it makes the white of your eyes more white. So therefore, it will make probably your eye, your blue, more blue. You try it. Right.
- [76:03]
Camille
Try with me over here in the corner.
- [76:04]
Linda
Okay. So obviously, married to a dentist, I have so much floss because you can't go anywhere without cleaning your teeth after you eat. And then because I have these permanent retainers, my dentist, my husband and his people harbor dental. They said I need to use this specific floss, which, if you ever tried this floss is amazing because it really cleans out, like, even the crevices. Yeah, this is. This floss is amazing because if. Even if you use these picks, it only cleans, like, the sides. But if you want to clean the back of your teeth and if you have permanent retainers in the back, it cleans those and prevents like, the buildup of, like. Cool. Yeah. So I really like this cloth recently and. Oh, yeah, I. Sunglass cleaning wipes.
- [76:43]
Camille
I'm excited. Chasing my new eyes, guys.
- [76:46]
Linda
Okay.
- [76:47]
Camille
Okay.
- [76:47]
Linda
So, like, you know, you don't want to smell bad and sometimes working all day and going to the gym. So I have, like, a few perfumes. So, like, this one is my favorite, but clearly I just ran out. So it's like the Rouge 540. It's literally my. My, my. My favorite one ever. It's like I'm a sad sandalwood, like, you know, oud type of smell person. I like that. My friend, he recently just got me these too. Like, like, so I just threw him because he actually, I just saw Him. So he just threw in my bag these oud ones I haven't tried yet. So I want to try that.
- [77:20]
Camille
I feel scarred from all the oud in the Middle East. It's so strong.
- [77:23]
Linda
You didn't like it on?
- [77:25]
Camille
No. Didn't love it?
- [77:27]
Linda
No. Okay.
- [77:27]
Camille
But I think the oud in the Middle east maybe is a bit different.
- [77:29]
Linda
Than what Cartier is using, obviously. AirPods, even though people are saying that creates a lot of emf, apparently it's.
- [77:37]
Camille
Bad for your brain, but whatever. It's so good.
- [77:38]
Linda
But I like listening to it when I'm like, like, you know, getting my nails done. Pimple patches. Have you guys ever used Miracle patch? Oh my God. Anytime I get a pimple, you put it on like immediately. It really helps create a color effect. And then, well, if Nova ever gets hungry, I give him these things. They're like these Persian like it's kind of like fruit roll ups, but like natural. They're. Yeah. So I love these. They're like these little Persian things that I get from this really good Persian natural store called Tavas. So they actually just open up one in Yorkville. I'm really, really excited. Yeah. They're called La Vac and I'm like obsessed with them for him cuz it gives him a little bit of sugar. But it's like healthy is. And then obviously my wallet and then my keys. I think that's all that's in my bag. Oh yeah, my. So I thought we were going out later on, so I wanted to change into a smaller bag. This is so extra. So I just had to like another small bag. And inside this, actually inside this bag, it's another, it's other, other stuff inside the bag because it's actually like, oh.
- [78:38]
Camille
My God, she's got a purse divider inside the mini.
- [78:42]
Linda
This purse divider is amazing. It's made out of like this nice satin. So it doesn't. Doesn't mess up your bag because look, look, it already got dirty. And then it has like a hairbrush in here too. And then. Oh my God. When you have a small bag, you need to like, you don't want to, you don't want to put it on the table. You don't need that person that's like showing their bag. So it's like you have this little hook thing and then it hooks your bag inside there.
- [79:06]
Camille
That's amazing.
- [79:07]
Linda
Magnetic. I got this in Ibiza at this like place called Leo. And like every time I see it, I just look at it. It makes me happy.
- [79:13]
Camille
So where did you get the little mini insert?
- [79:16]
Linda
Oh, my God. Okay. I can't remember the brand right now, but, like, this woman makes them and she made, like, this line. Yeah. I have one in every single bag because. Because it keeps your bag the frame, and also allows you to put so much stuff in your bag and still see them. And this one is so good because it's actually, I like this. This choice one better because it's, like, made of satin. So soft. I'll show it to you. It's like, literally, she makes them, and they're so beautiful. Like, look how pretty they are. Like, how cute. And you can. I got this one. It's like Birkin origami, the little dividers so you can put all your stuff in there. So just optimize it.
- [79:53]
Camille
Optimizing the Kelly.
- [79:54]
Linda
Yeah. And it keeps the form so it doesn't mess up your bag. Anyways, that's what's in my bag. That seems like crazy how much crap I had in this bag. Gosh.
- [80:04]
Camille
I'm here for it.
- [80:05]
Linda
Okay. Sorry. I typically don't carry this much.
- [80:08]
Camille
Okay, so lastly, as you're packing up your bag, your jewelry is always, like, it just came from the jeweler. How is it so shiny?
- [80:15]
Linda
Oh, my God. So a hack. I do is I. Before, I was going to my jeweler and always get my jewelry washed, like, every weekend. I'm like, this is so high made, you know? And I'm like, I don't want to be that person. Also so annoying. So my girlfriend was like, you should just buy an ultrasonic. It's like an ultrasonic thing that you can buy on Amazon. I'll tell you about it, and you can link it. It's, like, literally so affordable. And then there's like a little blue wash thing that you throw in it. And I put my jewelry. Every time I wear my jewelry, I just throw it in there, and then I just press the button. And then the morning it's clean, and then I just, like, rinse it. And I use, like, a micro. Microfiber cloth, and I just clean it and I put it in. In, like, a safe. And if it's really, really dirty, then I use, like, a brush and I brush it. There's like. If you. You know the Cartier kit, they give you, like, a cleaner.
- [80:57]
Camille
Yeah.
- [80:57]
Linda
Which I feel like the cleaner creates film, but I like the brush and the microfiber. So I use the brush in the microfiber with the cleaning agent from the sonic thing, and it's, like, really affordable. It's like 20, $30?
- [81:08]
Camille
Yeah, I bought one of those.
- [81:09]
Linda
You can even put like, you have a. You can even put your retainer in it. Obviously, that's kind of gross.
- [81:15]
Camille
Sunglasses. The opportunities are endless.
- [81:18]
Linda
Yeah, you can put everything in.
- [81:19]
Camille
Everything. Well, this is a great episode of Camille and Friends. Linda, thank you for.
- [81:23]
Linda
Oh, my God. I forgot I had a face mask. I forgot. Oh, yeah, this is a really great face mask. It's called the suitable biocellular storage mask. We use it actually after all our facials because it really. It's like, it really increases this skin barrier. Like, it protects the skin barrier face after, like getting the peel and everything like that. And especially like after micro needling. I love this. It's just really calming and soothing.
- [81:46]
Camille
What about the men?
- [81:47]
Linda
The men can do the same thing. You should be getting longevity shots. You can. If you have. You have five to 10 pounds of weight to lose and you just need a little bit help, you can do some semi glutide or terraglutide or whatever.
- [82:00]
Camille
Oh, so a different peptide. Yeah, they do different ones.
- [82:03]
Linda
No, same one. Same one. You can do the same one. But we can. We just. Just Joshua differently because men are larger, men can do the same thing as women do. You know, it's. This is. The treatments are not just geared just for a woman. Women are highly more likely to do it because they have a higher propensity for procedural pain. They did a study and they showed that men cannot tolerate procedural pain versus women. I think that's why God allowed women gave women the gift of having a baby, because if men had that gift, human species would not be alive. But like, men cannot tolerate, are not really good at tolerating that. But there is a new hair thing that's coming. It has growth factors and helps penetrate into the skin without needing needles for men and women. But men really benefit from this because most men have issues with alopecia more than females, which is hair loss. And Botox and filler. Men are getting Botox and filler now. A lot of my patients are sending or bringing their husbands in for those treatments as well, because the wives are looking really young and their husbands are getting jealous of that. So, yeah, I think that that's a normal thing. And lasers too. So everything that women are doing, men could do as well. And all the enzymes, I think that we just exercise different than men. Men can do intermittent fasting and do hiit exercises and do compound weights and get a lot of strength development and weight loss more than females. Because our body. Our body produces muscle and tolerates cortisol more differently in men. That's the reason why I've been trying to decrease my intermittent fasting and hiit exercises. Because we just work out a little bit less than men just based upon our physique. But men can do the same thing, guys. You guys just need to be ready for it. It.
- [83:52]
Camille
Except this is a lot of info. We're definitely doing a round two.
- [83:55]
Linda
There's a lot of info. Sorry.
- [83:57]
Camille
So from now on, I need you to start tracking. Just think about what would be interesting for part two Episode.