Shining with Dr. Diamond

Summary

The Morgan Stewart Show: "Shining with Dr. Diamond"

Date: May 20, 2026

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Overview

In this candid, high-energy episode, Morgan Stewart returns with her trademark wit and vulnerability for a compelling conversation with the renowned facial plastic surgeon Dr. Jason Diamond and his indispensable right hand, Tammy. Morgan pulls back the curtain on glamour, medicine, and well-being, blending pop culture insights with raw, laugh-out-loud moments. The trio delves into Dr. Diamond's meticulous routines, his medical expertise, the psychology behind cosmetic surgery, and the harrowing, life-changing experience that shaped his current outlook. It's an episode that explores beauty (inside and out), anxiety, success, self-care, and what it takes to truly "shine."

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Key Topics & Insights

Dr. Diamond Unfiltered: Morning Routine & Wellness Philosophy

[03:23 - 08:48]

• Dr. Diamond's structured, mindful mornings:

  • Wake-up: 6:15 a.m. every day.
  • Grounding practice: Barefoot in grass with water, gazing at sunlight for circadian rhythm reset.
  • "It resets your circadian rhythms...one of the most important things you can do for your body is tell it it's time to wake up and get moving. And that's what low level light does."
    (Dr. Diamond, [04:31])
  • Coffee ritual: Black coffee outside under the awning—rain or shine.
  • Cold plunge: 3 minutes at 41°F.
  • Gym workout: Mix of weights, cardio, or core, followed by a sauna session (if time permits).
  • Meditation: Integrated throughout—during morning sunlight, sauna, and coffee time.

• Described as "the perfect way to start the day," Dr. Diamond frames this routine as essential for mental clarity and enduring the pressures of high-level surgery.

• On tending to mental well-being:

  • "It's not even like once in a while... it's constant... it's active work to keep, keep stable and calm and steady in a high-stress kind of job."
    (Dr. Diamond, [08:58])

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Behind the Scalpel: Facelift Trends & Surgical Expertise

[09:43 - 13:29]

• Dr. Diamond's Specialty & Experience:

  • Over 25 years performing facelifts; surgery can span 6–8 hours.
  • His personal favorite operation: Facelift ([27:42]).

• Deep Plane Facelift Explained:

  • Not a new technique, but trending due to social media.
  • Developed by Sam Hammer; Dr. Diamond learned from the original innovators.
    "It's the first facelift I ever did. It's what I built my career and my reputation on. So it's nothing new...it just means it's thorough release of the underlying muscles... rather than just stretching skin."
    (Dr. Diamond, [10:39])
  • Uses analogy of "snugging up tube socks" to explain tightening underlying facial structures ([11:49]).

• On Notable Patients & Natural Results:

  • Shout-out to Tracy Tutor’s undetectable facelift.
  • "The best facelifts are the ones you don't know. I've done that same surgery on 50 people you know personally that you would never know."
    (Dr. Diamond, [13:06])

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The Art of Subtle Enhancement: Injectables, Filler Safety, and Anatomy

[15:23 - 18:22], [20:10 - 22:39]

• Diamond Facial Sculpting—Proprietary Technique:

  • Filler injected on the bone for lateral lift & balance, not puffiness.
  • "It's the opposite of creating puffiness. This is the antidote for puffy."
    (Dr. Diamond, [15:31])
  • Used by makeup artists as a reference for facial contouring.
  • Emphasizes subtle, undetectable results for both men (approx. 30% of his clientele) and women.

• On Filler Safety & Choosing a Qualified Provider:

  • Only double board-certified in head and neck surgery & facial plastic surgery—does not perform breast augmentation anymore to maintain specialization.
  • Warns of major complications (blindness, stroke, loss of skin) if fillers are mishandled.
  • "People treat fillers like it's not even medicine... But the important thing to understand is the complications that can occur from a filler are more serious than complications that can occur from surgery oftentimes."
    (Dr. Diamond, [21:43])
  • Strongly advocates that injectables should be done only by experts who fully understand facial anatomy.

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Under-eye Treatments & Modern Aesthetic Medicine

[23:29 - 26:14]

• Filler vs. Platelet-Rich Plasma (PRP/PRF) for Under-Eyes:
  • Under-eye concerns vary (puffiness, hollowness, pigment, skin quality).
  • For non-surgical, natural improvement, PRP/PRF is recommended over filler.
  • "If you're asking me about you, it would be PRP. PRF for you. I wouldn't do filler."
    (Dr. Diamond to Morgan, [25:16])
  • Explains PRP as "your own blood, concentrated... to expedite healing and facilitate collagen production."
    (Dr. Diamond, [25:23])
  • Results after one treatment, with a series of 4–6 for best results.

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A Near-Death Experience: Dr. Diamond’s Pulmonary Embolism

[32:35 - 46:21]

• Pulmonary Embolism Story (Intense and Emotional):

  • Caused by 12-hour surgery without breaks, dehydration, and subsequent long-haul flight.
  • Symptoms included calf pain, severe shortness of breath at altitude, and extreme exhaustion.
  • Wife (also a doctor) caught the low oxygen saturation at 83%, prompting a race to the hospital.
  • Diagnosed with a massive pulmonary embolism—“that’s got like a 10% dead on arrival rate.” ([33:32], [38:39])
  • “I thought I’m going to die in this hospital room. Finally, they gave me some medicines... and so I made it. But, yeah, I almost died.”
    (Dr. Diamond, [38:50])

• Impact & Recovery:

  • Emotional recount of nearly dying; credits his fitness and support network.
  • Pulmonology experts intervened, shifting him from an invasive procedure to the proper course of meds.
  • “A different man came out of that experience. You changed your entire perspective... appreciating, trying to appreciate everything.”
    (Morgan & Dr. Diamond, [45:43]–[45:54])
  • Back at work within a week, though his team insists on more caution.

• Health Lessons:

  • Heed early warnings; don’t brush off symptoms.
  • Changed travel/surgery habits to be more attentive to physical well-being.

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The Diamond Approach: Skincare Innovations & The InstaFacial

[48:08 - 53:43]

• Dr. Diamond's Skincare Line:

  • Concept began 10 years ago, formalized after his health scare.
  • Launch tied to signature “InstaFacial”—a multi-step in-office treatment.
  • "Everything we put out is based on a proprietary treatment we do in the office. I'm not gonna put out just another something."
    (Dr. Diamond, [52:12])
  • First launches: Plasma (growth factors = “a daily dose of PRP”), Emulsion (retinoid + HA = “laser in a bottle”), Infusion (bioidentical collagen), and most recently, EYE LIFT for upper and lower eyes.

• On Results & Testing:

  • Office is "a living lab"—products are tested on real patients before coming to market.
  • Designed to deliver visible results, quickly, with proprietary formulas.

• On Accessibility:

  • Dr. Diamond's practice has a substantial waitlist (approx. four years for new clients).
  • Some flexibility for emergencies or high-profile referrals, but generally difficult to get in.

• “If you wanna go to Dr. Diamond and you are not in the circle...you are not famous and you are not... you're just like a normal fucking person...how are people getting into this office?” —Morgan ([52:45])

  • Tammy: "It's long, it's lengthy, but I do... we will work our very best... if there is a way that I can make it happen... we'll come in early, stay late, because we do that." ([53:07])

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On the demands of his craft:
  "When it comes to surgery, I literally can sit there all day in the zone and not even think of anything. It's a weird thing. I don't understand it either, honestly. But part of all the morning routine that I do... I can sit there in the zone forever."
  (Dr. Diamond, [30:39])

• On filler risks:
  “I know where all your arteries and nerves are without even, like, touching you... the complications that can occur from a filler are more serious than complications that can occur from surgery oftentimes.”
  (Dr. Diamond, [21:43], [22:24])

• On pride in subtle work:
  "The best facelifts are the ones you don't know. I've done that same surgery on 50 people you know personally that you would never know."
  (Dr. Diamond, [13:06])

• On lifestyle after major health scare:
  “That week changed everything... You changed your entire perspective. So what do you think changed the most? Just more gratitude for everything?”
  (Morgan & Tammy, [45:17]–[45:54]) “Trying to appreciate everything. Yeah.” (Dr. Diamond, [45:51])

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Segment Timestamps

• [03:23] — Dr. Diamond’s morning routine and why he does it
• [09:43] — Trends in facelift surgery, the “deep plane” distinction
• [15:23] — “Diamond sculpting,” injectables, and artistry of enhancement
• [20:10] — Why anatomical knowledge is essential and filler dangers
• [23:29] — Under-eye treatments: filler vs. PRP/PRF, safety
• [32:35] — Pulmonary embolism story: health scare and life impact
• [45:17] — How health crisis changed Dr. Diamond’s perspective
• [48:08] — Dr. Diamond’s skincare line origins and philosophy
• [52:45] — Wait times, access to care, and office culture

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Episode Takeaways

• Self-Care isn’t selfish: Dr. Diamond demonstrates that high performance and wellness must go hand-in-hand, especially in high-impact careers.
• Expertise matters: In the world of aesthetics, true artistry and anatomical knowledge are essential for both safety and natural results.
• Don’t ignore your body: Dr. Diamond’s story is a powerful reminder to not dismiss warning signs when it comes to your health.
• Beauty is about balance and subtlety: The best outcomes are those that enhance and restore, not create an “overdone” look.
• Skincare that works: Innovation comes from deep expertise and understanding real-world needs.
• Life can change quickly—gratitude and adaptability are key.

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Tone & Style

The conversation maintains an irreverent, playful, yet deeply honest tone. Morgan’s humor and transparency pull the best out of her guests, while real talk about phobias, anxiety, and imperfection make the episode exceptionally relatable. Both medical explanations and beauty secrets are delivered in plain language, with technical depth but always accessible—and always with a wink.

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For Listeners

This episode is a must-listen for anyone interested in modern beauty, wellness routines of the high-performing elite, surgical artistry, or the very human stories behind the glitz. Dr. Diamond and his team show vulnerability, expertise, and genuine care, while Morgan anchors the show with the candor and relatability only she can bring.

Transcript

[A]

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[B]

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[A]

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[C]

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[A]

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[C]

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[B]

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[C]

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[A]

Okay, so in order to support our show, we need the help of some great advertisers. Okay? And we want to make sure those advertisers are ones you guys are actually going to want to hear about, but we need to learn a little bit more about you to make that possible. Okay? So I need you to go to podsurvey.com morgan and take a quick anonymous, okay, anonymous survey that will help us get to know you better. That way we can bring on advertisers you won't want to skip. Once you've completed the quick survey, you can enter for a chance to win 100Amazon gift card terms and conditions apply. As again, that's podsurvey.com Morgan M O R G A N. Thank you. Hey, everyone, I'm Morgan Stewart and welcome to the Morgan Stewart Show. I'm gonna be talking about pop culture, fashion, my personal life, and just a warning, I will be giving my opinions on everything. And those opinions are subject to change. Okay, now let's get into it. Can you believe what a professional I am?

[C]

It's hard to believe I've never seen you in anything other than aloe.

[A]

Okay, you guys, we're just gonna raw dog this and start because we've been talking so much shit already. I am so fucking excited. I'm being genuine. For the first time ever, the incomparable Dr. Jason diamond is here today. Clapping.

[C]

Thank you.

[A]

Tammy. What? Are you Tammy, are you. Are you. Dr. Diamond's right? You're my right hand, but are you his right? Like, how do we explain who you are?

[B]

You know, I just try to get him to the finish line.

[A]

You do everything.

[B]

I just try to get him to the finish line.

[A]

That is a good answer. Can we talk about the finish line and how we started today?

[C]

Yeah, sure.

[A]

Okay, so we had a record start time of 10:30. We've been waiting. It's now 10:40. We've started because Dr. Diamond, who went to medical school and is. You know what? You are double certified in plastic Surgery. Cause I researched you for three days. I didn't know you were that talented.

[C]

It's hard to believe.

[A]

Unbelievable. Comes gets checked in and sits on the couch and waits for us for 20 minutes and doesn't come to the actual booth to record.

[C]

Yeah, there was a nice little soundproof, like glass light, you know, I just sat in there, kicked my feet up on the couch. It was. Yeah, it was great. I was watching like basketball videos from last night.

[A]

Oh, were you?

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

What were you watching? Let's get into that.

[C]

Well, I was just watching the NBA playoffs. You know, I was just kind of. Cause I was working late so I didn't get to watch them. So I was flipping through that. I spent the last 30 minutes doing that.

[A]

Okay, wait, first of all, are we in the playoffs?

[C]

The Lakers are in the playoffs. Yes.

[A]

Oh, okay. Again. Are we going to make it to the finish line? No, there's no fucking way, right?

[C]

No fucking way.

[A]

So we're paying LeBron to just basically almost get us there and then not. He needs a Tammy in his life, basically.

[C]

He needs it. Yeah. And he has it. But he's hurt. That's Luca. He's hurt. So LeBron can't do it by himself.

[B]

I'm honored.

[A]

Wow. Also by the way, the audience has checked out. Okay, let's get in. Do you want to talk about you? Do you want to talk about you?

[C]

My favorite thing to talk about. It's the only thing I know.

[A]

Okay. First of all, I do want to say I'm so excited you're on the show because first of all, I've seen all the podcasts that you've been on. This is going to be really fucking fun.

[C]

Great.

[A]

Cause we're gonna get into all the technical shit. But I wanna talk about you as a person.

[C]

Great.

[A]

Starting with. And Tammy, you jump in as much as you want.

[B]

Okay, Sounds great.

[A]

What time did you get up this morning?

[C]

Probably 6:15.

[A]

Is that an everyday occurrence?

[C]

Yeah, pretty much.

[A]

6:15.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

I am obsessed with people's morning routine. So this is how we start every interview. Because I'm a hard hitting journalist.

[C]

Okay.

[A]

6:15. No, I. Can you believe it? By the way, are you looking at my face?

[C]

I'm looking at your face.

[A]

You see that? I need more Botox already.

[C]

You look great.

[A]

No, I look great. Cause of you. But remember, we practice our script, which is what my cheekbones are naturally. What?

[C]

High and lateral and chiseled and model

[A]

S. You've improved them over time, which we're gonna get into. Everything I've done too. Okay. 6:15. Walk me through that. You wake up?

[C]

Yeah, Wake up.

[A]

What's for breakfast?

[C]

So I don't eat breakfast, right when I wake up, I get up.

[A]

Okay.

[C]

I go right downstairs, I go outside, I put my bare feet in the grass and I stare at like the low level sun. I do that for probably. Oh, and by the way, as I go out there, I take this exact bottle of water, the exact one so rich. And I stand out there and I drink my water and I stare at the sun for five minutes. It's low level sun. And I just stare at. Because you can't really see the sun. It's just coming up. But I do that for like five minutes. That's the first thing I do.

[A]

And what does that do? Does that ground you?

[C]

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

[A]

Holy fuck. That's some surgeon ass shit.

[C]

Yeah. Yeah.

[A]

Okay, so post sarcadium rhythm, getting in line here. Do you do this on surgery days too?

[C]

I do it every day.

[A]

Okay, so then when do we have breakfast? And what are we eating for breakfast?

[C]

Okay, so I'm not there yet.

[A]

Okay.

[C]

Oh, I'm sorry.

[A]

I don't want to rush you. Okay, Tell it.

[C]

I gotta. Let me. You want a Xanax?

[A]

No. I tell Dr. Diamond every time I go to his fucking office, which is often. I'm like, if you were under six feet, I wouldn't put up with any of this fucking bullshit. Under six' three, I wouldn't put up with this bullshit. The only way you get to be this snarky is cause of how tall you are. So.

[C]

Okay, well, I'll take it.

[A]

Okay, so let us. So walk us through. When you're ready to get a breakfast, tell us.

[C]

Okay, I'm not ready yet.

[A]

Okay, no.

[C]

So then. So after I've done that for about five minutes. Then I sit down outside and I just sit in a chair and I just drink this water and just sort of like do some breathing and just. And however long it takes me to drink this bottle of water, it's usually about, you know, 20 minutes. I sit there slowly drinking it. Then I make my coffee. Black coffee, just black coffee. And then I have that outside also. I sit outside. Wow. And I have that.

[A]

What if it's raining?

[C]

I still. Well, I sit underneath like an awning thing. So even it's raining.

[A]

By the way, awning is like low key rich, okay? Only rich people have. No one fucking knows what an awning he was like.

[B]

I sit under that thing. You know, the thing that covers your head.

[A]

I'm gonna ask you, Tammy, can I ask him when we get to the food or. I don't want to rush him. Is that okay? Are we ready for food after coffee?

[C]

Are we even close? No, not even close.

[B]

You haven't even cold plunged.

[A]

Okay.

[C]

Yeah, There's a whole lot.

[A]

This is so wealthy. Continue, continue.

[C]

Okay, so then, then it's cold plunge time. So I get in the cold plunge for three minutes. It's 41 degrees for three minutes. Then. You ready? Then I get out of the cold plunge and I go downstairs to the gym and I work out.

[B]

And this is when the first patient arrives. He's still working out, of course.

[A]

Bitch. I've been in that room. I'm in the shining room. And I'm waiting an hour and a half. I'm like, I need five fucking needles.

[B]

He's doing his own two cardio.

[A]

No, we're on his time. Okay?

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

So all right.

[C]

So then I work out and then when I'm done working out, and that might be a weightlifting thing, it might be just cardio and like core stuff, just whatever the day is. Then when I get out of that, if I have time, I hit the sauna. If I have time. It depends how I'm running. If I have time.

[A]

Are we at the iman? What the fuck is going on? Who's fucking morning star? And it's also not like you're waking up at 4:00 in the morning.

[C]

Yeah, yeah. Well, that's why I'm late every day, pretty much.

[B]

And this is why I'm gonna get my first gray hair.

[A]

No, it's crazy.

[B]

It hasn't happened.

[A]

But soon. But unbelievable. Okay, so again, I don't wanna rush through because now I realize this morning routine is extremely serious, by the way. Usually people are like, I wake up at Six. I had Cheerios. And I'm here. You. I didn't know we were gonna unlock the. You.

[C]

Yeah, it's a big thing.

[A]

Okay, so cold plunge. We work out, maybe hit the sauna. Are we working out for an hour?

[C]

Yeah. Hour. Yeah.

[A]

So are the bitches knocked out already on the table or when we get into the office?

[C]

This is a non surgery day. This is an office day. When I'm supposed to be. When I'm coming in, when you're coming in, I'm supposed to be there at 10. This is an office day. Surgery days. I don't do all that stuff because I have to be there at like 7:30. So I cut it way short. But.

[A]

But you meditate.

[C]

Yeah, I meditate regardless. Every day? Every day. And okay, so when, so when I'm in the sauna, I'm meditating a little bit. When I'm doing my, my coffee and my water, I'm meditating. I'm like trying to get meditation in the whole time kind of. And then I'll go inside and I'll eat breakfast after the sauna. Okay. That's when I eat breakfast.

[A]

What's for breakfast?

[C]

I usually just have like four eggs, some avocado and maybe some orange slices.

[A]

Holy shit. You're like a rich white woman.

[C]

It's my favorite.

[A]

It's crazy. Like, who does this?

[C]

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

[A]

That's what you stick with. Okay. And so then we're at the office. Are we, is, does that conclude the morning routine? Because I want to make sure we get everything done.

[C]

That pretty much concludes the morning routine.

[A]

Okay, got it. All right, now we're going to go back in time.

[C]

That's.

[A]

I have to say though, in the line of work you're in, it is probably extremely important for you to be mentally clear.

[C]

Well, you have to take care of your mental state. Like it's not even like once in a while. It's, it's not. And it's not even like daily. It's like every, like every waking minute you've gotta, you gotta address your mental, your psychological state. It's like it's active work to keep, keep stable and calm and steady and in a high stress kind of job, you know, so it's like, oh, it's not even like I do it once a week. It's not even like you need to tend to it once a week. It's like it's constant.

[A]

Is that something they taught you in medical school or is this just as you've evolved as a surgeon?

[C]

You just know this is just me evolving as a surgeon and being in the wellness world. You know, I've. I'm an expert in the wellness world as well as facial surgery. You know, I talk to all the experts, we discuss these things, and so it's just my. My worldly experience.

[A]

How many surgeries a week do you do?

[C]

Well, that depends on what I'm doing. The most common surgery I do are facelifts. But facelifts often involve eyelids. They involve. They might involve fat and grafting. They might involve lasering. There's like a whole. A lot of variety of what can be done at the same time as a facelift. But that. That's usually like six, seven, eight hour surgery. So I only do one of those when I do that. And so that's the most common thing I do. So, you know. You know, and I might operate three days a week. So at most I do three of those a week. It's not like I'm doing 10 of those. I do one a day. You can't. Not more than one a day. Yeah.

[A]

Okay, Right now, are we, like, in a trend? Are you. Are you seeing an uptick? Because you've obviously been doing. How long have you been doing facelifts?

[C]

25 years.

[A]

25 years. And you. I heard. I saw. When you were 33, you were already the top guy doing facelifts.

[C]

I was up there.

[A]

Okay, so explain the difference between. Because this is all the rage right now that I'm seeing all over my phone. Deep plain facelift versus regular facelift. What's the youngest person that you're seeing now?

[C]

Yeah. Okay.

[A]

And what's the oldest person you're seeing?

[C]

You got it. Okay, so I can give, like, a long answer to that or a quick

[A]

answer, whatever medical school ass answer you want to give me. It's your time to shine.

[C]

Okay. A deep plane facelift is all the rage. As. As if it's something new. It is not anything new. The surgery's been around for probably 40, maybe even 50 years.

[A]

Not that long.

[C]

And I learned it from the guy who coined the term and described a guy from Dallas. He's retired now. His name was Sam Hammer. He described it. He started it. I learned he. And he taught it to a Beverly Hills guy. And I learned it from Them, like, from the beginning. It's the first facelift I ever did. It's what I built my career and my reputation on. So it's nothing new. It just means it's thorough release of the underlying muscles and so that you can reposition the underlying muscles appropriately rather than just like, stretching skin. Stretching skin, Essentially, that's what it means. So it's all the rage now. And I don't know why it went viral a few years ago, but, but we've been doing this. I, I, I was talking about the deep plane facelift on Dr. 90210 in 2002.

[A]

My favorite show.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

Okay, so that means you're cutting to deeper layers of the face.

[C]

That's correct.

[A]

And how long is that usually? How long does that usually take to do the surgery?

[C]

Yeah, if it's just the facelift, probably about four hours.

[B]

But, Dr. Teller, the analogy that you use.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

When you explain the deep plane versus

[A]

mass lift, you're literally cutting the skin and cutting through muscle to reposition the muscle.

[C]

That's right. That's the deep plane.

[A]

So smart.

[C]

So, so here, here's, here's an analogy I'll give. People always ask, well, how do you know how much to tighten the muscles? And how do you know where you are? Here's the best analogy that I've, that I can come up with. It's kind of like imagine you pulled up some tube socks, and you went running. You're going running, and, you know, the socks sit up on your calf nice and snug. Well, imagine after you've for a while, they kind of sag down to your ankle, and you're like, all right, I want to snug that sock back up. Think of that sock as, like, this, the deeper muscle layer we call the SMAS layer. Smas. Think of that as the SMAS layer. When you want to snug it up, you grab the, you grab the sock, and you kind of just snug it back up to where it feels tight and appropriate. And you could go too tight. If you went too tight, you might tear the sock. If you don't go tight enough, that's like snugging up the smash layer. How do we know from doing it for 25 years, from doing thousands, how do we know how to tight to snug it up? It's just from experience, but it's that kind of thing. It's snugging that back up. That's Basically what a SMAs or deep plane lift is doing. Okay.

[A]

Okay. Can we talk about a Smaszler deep plane that you just did that I was blown away from that. I talked to Tammy about.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

Tracy Tudor. Tracy Tudor, who is public about it. That facelift is. I didn't think you had it in ya. I'm fucking believable.

[C]

Well then you haven't been around.

[A]

No, I clearly. Because it was so there's no scar. There's no scar.

[C]

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

[A]

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[C]

to your guys office now when did I start therapy?

[A]

By the way I on record, on record am I your favorite? You can just lie. I'm your favorite. I'm your Most entertaining patient. Let's just be honest. How much do you laugh in my appointments versus any other?

[C]

I'd say you're my third favorite.

[A]

Who the fuck is the one in. That's lie, Right? I'm his favorite. He plays this game, and basically the whole game is that I have probably the worst phobia injection phobia of anybody you work on, right?

[C]

Probably.

[A]

So basically what he does is we do Botox. He does a really. He has a beautiful hand. He does sculpting. I do sculpting with you, which is. Okay, fine, let's get it. What is sculpting, exactly?

[C]

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

[A]

And it also. What it really does is it adds balance to the face. I genuinely have naturally high cheekbones. But I've done sculpting with you, probably. What do you think? Like, five times more, Less, Whatever.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

And everyone's like, oh, you look like you've had absolutely nothing done because nothing you do looks unnatural. It really just. I don't. It just, like, makes you look more. Not even angular, just balanced.

[C]

I mean, that's the goal, is to be undetectable and make you look your best. Yeah.

[A]

Oh, you're so fucking good at your job. Okay. And then also another trick that I'm going to tell the audience is that when you. Because you will not fill my nasolabial fold, but you'll do a drop of filler here and here. And that puffs out.

[C]

Right. Isn't the right word, but it pushes out. Pushes out where the bone starts to resorb. That's why people get these deep creases between their nose and their cheek. It's because the bone in that area called the premaxilla, the bone there starts to resorb. And when that starts to. And it resorbs on everybody, it's like osteoporosis. Right. Your leg bones get thinner. The face bones get thinner, too. When that happens, there's, like, a cave in there. And the answer is not to fill it. It's to kind of push the area out a little bit. And that looks natural and works beautifully and genius. You'll never look back. Puffy or fake or anything like that.

[B]

No. But can I say. Can I just have you explain, Dr. Diamond? Cause it is diamond facial sculpting. It's a trademark procedure.

[A]

No, it is. No one else can do this fucking shit. And that is why he's on my

[B]

podcast, and it's his own. But can you also explain that, like, a lot of people? Because it's exactly where makeup artists will sculpt the face with contour.

[A]

Right.

[B]

And so that really, he knows where to inject exactly where a makeup artist. And we've had, like, very famous makeup artists come in, and they're like, it's crazy that you're the only person who does it where I contour. But also talk about how, like, a lot of guys do it.

[C]

I don't think people realize how many men. Oh, it's great for guys, too, because everybody looks better.

[A]

Are you injecting yourself?

[C]

I do a few little things myself, and then I have my partner do some of it because it's hard for me to get the angles so many

[A]

guys get, especially lately, the work that these men are getting. Are you appalled? Like, it looks fucking awful.

[C]

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

[A]

What's the percentage of men you see versus women?

[C]

I would say men are probably around 30%.

[A]

Would you like that to be higher?

[C]

No, I'm good with it. I mean, look, I love taking care of guys. I do. It's really fun, but it's a little bit. As far as surgeries go, it's a little bit more elbow grease involved.

[A]

Okay.

[C]

So I love doing it, but it's. But I like the percentage. 36. 30. 70 is great.

[A]

Okay, so what are you double certified in?

[C]

Tell the audience Double board certified in head and neck surgery and facial plastic surgery.

[A]

Okay, but you also do boobs or you do not do boobs? No.

[C]

Boobs. No, just faces.

[A]

Just faces. Nose. I was thinking of boobs and nose.

[C]

Just faces.

[A]

Okay. Just faces. Okay.

[C]

But I'll tell you a funny story. When I first started. When I first started on 25 years ago, so I did a couple breast augmentations.

[A]

Okay, so you can do them.

[C]

And a couple times I learned how to do them. And I can do them. I'm certified to do them. But. And then within the. It was literally, like the first three months. Cause, you know, you gotta pay your bills and you gotta do this. And I knew I wanted to be a face specialist. And I learned all the most advanced face things, and I learned some basic body stuff. And the body surgery's so easy. So my very first. My very first month, like, couple months in practice, I did a couple breast augmentations, and the patients loved it. And then. And then I decided it just hit me like a ton of bricks. I said, you know what? I want to be the world's best facelift surgeon. I can't. I have to just do that. I can't be a guy who's doing everything or I'll never. I wanted to be a master, not a jack of all trades. So I just abruptly made the decision, okay, no more breasts. And the funny thing is, those patients then sent, like, their friends in, like, literally, like, a couple weeks later. I said, sorry, I'm not doing breasts. Like, what are you talking about? I said, yeah, I decided not to do it. They're like, how long have you been practicing? I Like, I literally. And so I had to turn down all these people right off the bat. It was really odd.

[A]

No, but I feel like that is the right way to do it. You. I. And that is the reason why I go to you separately is because here's the thing, everyone. If somebody's an injector who's not a plastic surgeon, what are they? Just an rn.

[C]

I mean. Oh. I mean, dentists can do it. Nurses can do it.

[A]

No, no, no. See, I. The reason I go to Dr. Diamond is a. Because I'm fortunate. Fortunate enough to be able to. But the reality is, is you are a plastic surgeon. You are not just sticking shit in my fucking face and seeing, like, what's going to happen.

[C]

Fingers crossed.

[A]

No, Like, I know. And I. Going back to, like, my anxiety is so bad with injections. Basically, our whole run of. I come in, I have to have an apple juice, you do a few pokes, and then I have to get up to make sure I'm not blind. I have to go to the Mirror. I have to sit back down. We have to get the fan. Remember that one time I really almost had a. That was a bad. I almost passed out for no reason.

[B]

You've gotten much better.

[A]

I've gotten much better. I've gotten much better, but I wish

[C]

we had a camera on there. When I always. Every time I'm like, oh, shit. I'll be like, oh, no.

[A]

Every day. Every. No. So the last. You're such a fucking ass. The last time I was there, what were we doing? It wasn't filler. It was maybe Botox or it was maybe Botox on the side. Or was it my lip?

[C]

It might have been your lip. I don't know.

[A]

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

[C]

Yeah. The thing is. Look, can there be talented injectors who don't know the anatomy? Sure, you can. But, like, there's so much important anatomy underneath, and I'm operating on it three days a week. I know exactly. I know where all your arteries and nerves are without even, like, touching you. Like, I know where they are and know how to avoid them. And you hear about. Here's the thing that's important to understand. People treat fillers like it's not even medicine. They treat it like it's like, you know, just getting a facial. And the reality is it can be done very safely, and it can be done very well, you know, and you can get lucky even if you don't know the anatomy. But the important thing to understand is the complications that can occur from a filler are more serious than complications that can occur from surgery oftentimes.

[A]

Why?

[C]

Because if you got the filler into a blood vessel, it could cause blindness, it could cause a stroke, it could cause loss of skin. You don't have these issues with certain. Like, these things don't even happen with facelifts.

[B]

This is never going to happen to you, Marc.

[C]

This is Never gonna happen.

[A]

Because I'm going to you.

[C]

That's right. But I'm saying, like, her number one

[B]

fear was, it can happen.

[A]

This is important.

[C]

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

[A]

That's 100% why I go to you, especially because of the anxiety I have. And also the one. Did you remember when I was like, can you just fill under my eye with a small needle? And you said, no, I have to use a cannula.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

Okay. And explain. I want to talk about under eye. People are obsessed with under eyes. I'm obsessed with under eyes. We're going to need more time. I have so many fucking questions now. Sorry. Let's talk about the best way to approach for somebody who's never gotten any sort of work done. And they're like, I just want to feel under my eyes. What is the best approach to that?

[C]

So this is. I mean, this is a long answer. Because the eyes are so variable. People's anatomies are so variable. And the eyes are oftentimes one of the first areas that people notice they're aging on. So, like, oftentimes the first visit somebody will make to me when they're in their 30s or even early 40s, is about their lower eyes. As people get older, they start to focus more on their neck and their jowls. But early on, people will notice their lower eyes first. And what kind of problems do they see? It's a huge myriad of things. Some people have puffiness. Some people have hollowness. Some people have dark circles. Some people have veiny looks. Some people have pigment problems. Some people have thin, fine, crepey skin. It's a whole series of things that can occur. So there's no One answer I can't give you.

[A]

So for me, when I finally get the. To let you inject under my eye, which, by the way, I do wanna say we had an appointment last week. This is another thing I do with Dr. Diamond. Straight to camera. I make an appointment and then I cancel every single week because my anxiety is so bad. And then I'm like, just tell Tammy we're so sorry because it's fucking hard to get this fucking appointment. Okay. But now he's on my podcast, so he wants us to get me in. We had an appointment for PRF?

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

There's a difference between PRF, PRFM and PR. PRX is a workout, right? Yeah. Okay.

[C]

P90X. P90X.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

Salmon.

[A]

The PDRM. Oh, the salmon. Okay. Oh, my God, you're never leaving. Then we have to get into the skin care because I wanna talk about it. Okay. Under my eyes. Should I be doing filler or should I be doing prf?

[C]

If you're asking me about you, it would be.

[A]

Yes, always about me.

[C]

It would be prp. Prf for you. I wouldn't do filler.

[A]

What is prf? PRP versus filler.

[C]

It's your blood. It's. We take your blood and we spin it down and we concentrate all the platelet. It's called platelet rich plasma. The platelets are a part of the blood that contain proteins and growth factors and all those types of things. So, like when you get injured, you know when you' got a cut on your arm and it turns into a scab and that scab falls off, it's all yellow sear. It's all like a serous yellow color. That's the prp. That's what. That's what goes to heal areas. So we figured out over the years that if you concentrate it, it can really expedite healing and facilitate collagen production and all kinds of things. So it's like. And so we use your own. We concentrate, we inject that in, we'll lay it on the skin, we'll use needles to penetrate it to get it through all the layers. That's the most conservative, often best treatment for somebody who's not quite ready for something more serious. And it can be an awesome, awesome answer. So for you, that's what I would do. You don't need filler under your eyes right now.

[A]

How many times should I do it before I see results?

[C]

You'll see results after one treatment, but oftentimes people need to do it four, five, six times over the course of a year. Just to really build it. Yeah.

[A]

Don't you think that's what I need most on my face? Don't lie to my audience.

[C]

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[A]

What's your favorite surgery to perform?

[C]

Facelift.

[A]

Is that okay?

[C]

That's my favorite.

[A]

So you. Do you want to do like facelift brow lift? Like you want to do full combo plate?

[C]

I mean, not what I want to do. It's what people often need when they're in the market for making their face look better. Right. Because it's an upper third of the face. It's a lower third of the face. Oftentimes you want them to look their best together. So oftentimes I'd say I do a brow on 80% of my facelifts. I'd say at least Tracy Tudors look Tuesdays.

[B]

What?

[A]

What's Tuesdays?

[B]

Tuesday surgery. No, he. Let's talk about this week has been

[A]

a marathon for Dr. Yeah, I want to. We've had a marathon. I have some other personal questions about you too. So. Okay. What happened Tuesday? Tell me.

[C]

Well, it was a. It was a patient from like a Scandinavian person who's living in China. Like is China. She lives in China. But we don't need to.

[A]

What the fuck? We don't need geographic shit. We need to know what you did to her face.

[B]

Talk about the procedures, you know.

[C]

Okay, well, I'm just telling you. So she had a bunch.

[A]

Such a nerd. I didn't realize she had a.

[C]

She literally has had multiple surgeries over there. Like. And so. So I. Everything we did for her was a revision and revisions are harder. So we did a revision. Brow lift Revision upper eyelids. Revision lower eyelids. Revision facelift. Revision rhinoplasty. Lip lift. It was like, it was a long, long surgery, but everything was a CO2 laser fat transfer. Fat transfer with nano fat. Nano fat's the stem. So we take your own stem cells and we put them on your face. It was a. I mean, it was probably close to a 12 hour surgery. But everything which is totally safe, we use the board certified anesthesiologist. It is completely safe. And she's already doing great. But some, you know, revisions take longer than first time. Cause I gotta deal with scar tissue, destroyed anatomy. I gotta figure out what's what. It's.

[B]

So he customized a chin implant.

[C]

Customized a chin implant for her.

[B]

So he custom designs these implants over six hours before the surgery even starts. And that was because beauty is a game of millimeters is what Dr. Diamond always says.

[A]

Amen.

[B]

And she wanted to look prettier. Like her goal wasn't to only look younger, it to look prettier. And I think Dr. Diamond like untaps beauty in people's faces. So she really wanted to like be on her way to looking the next decade of her life being a lot prettier, younger. And so he addressed every single facial feature in a way that coalesced to give her like this really beautiful aesthetic. But it required addressing every feature on the face.

[C]

So the funny thing about that though is like, people are going to hear, oh my God, you did 12 hour. You did this, this, this and that. She's going to look more natural than she did before.

[A]

Yeah. You don't undo all the bad work.

[C]

Yeah, it's like undoing stuff.

[B]

Yeah, well, that.

[A]

Your hand is extremely natural.

[C]

Well, that's, that's, I mean, honed every procedure I do over this period of time to be undetectable.

[A]

But what's our deal for next time? I get Botox and you just slam it.

[C]

You want your floor to look like a ice skating rink.

[A]

Ice skating rink. And I tell them all the time, I'm like, I want to pretend like I'm pulling up to a goddamn strip mall. Okay. In the deep, Val. And I want you to pretend, forget all the teachings you've had. I want you to freeze those fucking 11s. He's like, you need a little movement. I don't want it to move because I look like I have a fucking ball sack protruding from the middle of my fucking forehead. So next week. Week we're flattening. Flattening. Okay, let's talk about 12 hour surgeries. How are you Actually performing a surgery for 12 hours.

[C]

Yeah. It's just something that I am built to do. It's weird. Like I have an attention span of a puppy dog. If it comes to anything else we know. But when it comes. But, but, but when, but when it comes to sir. Like I literally can sit there all day in the zone and not even think of anything. It's a weird thing. I don't understand it either, honestly. But, but part of all the morning routine that I do and all the training that I do in that regard, I can sit there in the zone forever. And another little fun fact, I could sit there for 10 hours and not even go to the bathroom. I literally.

[A]

That was my next question.

[C]

I'm like, I'm like. So here's a little thing, but I'll give you a little information. Hopefully it's not tmi.

[A]

No, we want all the tmi.

[C]

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

[A]

Talk about our flights to Dubai.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

You're not peeing on the flight to Dubai.

[C]

The flight to Dubai is 17 hours. So I go to the bathroom once. I go to the bathroom once.

[B]

But like, he won't even drink water on the plane.

[C]

To the extent. Yeah, yeah. Like I'm a man.

[A]

Okay. No, we just talked about this on a recent episode. But do you fly into JFK or Newark when you fly into New York?

[C]

Usually jfk.

[A]

No, guys, we gotta switch it.

[B]

I love the jet flew to Newark.

[A]

We need to be doing Newark. It is going to save your time. Where are you staying in the city? Uptown or downtown? Depends.

[B]

It depends on where we're seeing patients.

[A]

Jfk. Okay, I'm sorry. New York. Okay, sorry. Continue on. So you're not peeing. So for 12 hours you're not eating, you're not drinking.

[C]

So when I do a 12 hour surgery, the point is I can sit there for as long as I need to. Now there are times in the surgery, like when we finish one side of the facelift, let's say, then we have to turn the head, get the other side prepped and that takes about 10 minutes. So I will break out. I'll go to the bathroom, drink of water and maybe shove something down my throat within eight minutes and then I'm back in. So I do you get these late minute Breaks here and there when it's appropriate, between sides or whatever. So I will take a couple breaks, but I don't need to. I used to not. I used to not. And then I ended up getting a clot in my leg.

[A]

No, no, don't walk us into that. I want to ask you about it. So when we were doing our diligent research. Pulmonary embolism.

[C]

I had a pulmonary embolism.

[A]

What does that mean for the audience?

[C]

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

[A]

And so it was. How did we. It is really important to get up on planes. I do that a lot. But how did we find this out? What happened to you?

[C]

Well, what happened was, well, it all started with a 12 hour surgery or 10 hour surgery. I didn't get up once. This is six years ago now. Didn't get up once. Did the whole surgery. Didn't get up once. No water, no nothing. I was dehydrated. But it's just what I had done my whole life. I didn't think anything about it. And then about. About two weeks later, I was up in the mountains in Big Bear where we'd like take the kids and stuff. And that's at altitude 7,000ft, so it's hard to breathe up there. Anyway, if we went right now and we walked, we'd be like.

[B]

But Dr. Diamond, you missed the part where the next day you went on.

[A]

That's why you're here. That's why you're fucking here.

[B]

You went to Greece and then you felt it.

[C]

I didn't want to bore.

[A]

No, we're not bored. We want to make you human. I want to. Because you're a human being performing these things.

[C]

Okay, okay, okay, okay. So then the next day after that 12 hour surgery, we flew. We went on a family vacation. We flew to Europe. And so I was on and I was exhausted from the surgery. I Never get tired during the surgery. I get tired after. So I was still exhausted the next day from the long surgery. So we get on the plane. I literally slept the entire flight. I don't even think I got up. Okay. 12 hours, we land, and I'm walking through the airport, and my calf hurt. I'm like, shit, I pulled my calf. And I pulled my calf before, like, running. So I don't know, three or four days in the vacation, I'm kind of limping around. I'm like, that's so weird. Like, what did I do? Four or five days later into the vacation, it went away. I'm like, that's weird. Cause the last time I pulled my calf, years ago, it takes three weeks to go away, you know, but it went away fast. I'm like, all right, whatever. Forgot about it. So about two weeks after the surgery, like, literally two weeks after anxiety. Two weeks after.

[B]

How often do you get a charley horse? I will say, since you sit down,

[C]

this is just a sidebar, not often, but I. You know, Charlie horse is one of

[A]

the worst pains you can ever have.

[C]

Yeah, I mean, they happen to me. When you sleep, you jump out of bed like everyone else. Your foot's. Yeah, I mean, it happens, but this was a little different. So, anyway, so about two weeks after the surgery, so 10 days after the calf pain, I'm up in Big Bear in the mountains. And I always huff and puff. Everyone does, but I'm, like, super huffing and puffing. I'm like. I'm, like, dying. And I was actually pissed at Tammy. I was really pissed at Tammy because Friday, the day before, she had me see this patient who was like, a favor. And they. And this. So I see this patient as a favor. I'm like, and. And I love doing favors, but I wasn't in the mood to do.

[A]

He doesn't want to do a favor, by the way. He's so full of shit.

[C]

And I. I was really pissed that I had to see this patient. So I see this patient as a favor. They. They weren't going to pay. It was like. It was like going to be a free.

[B]

I will sober my. After this. How this story went.

[C]

I was so, so pissed. So. So I come in, I see this page. I leave. Sure enough, an hour after I leave, that patient calls up and says, oh, I just got diagnosed with COVID So I was all up in this guy's face and nose, and he got diagnosed with COVID So I'm like, fuck. I was just in the face of somebody with COVID So the next day in Big Bear, while I'm not breathing, I'm like, I got Covid from this guy he calls me because, remember, I

[B]

think I have Covid.

[C]

Remember, everybody said during COVID they couldn't breathe, breathe. So I just thought it was Covid. So I'm up in Big Bear. I can't breathe more than normal. Like, I'm like, I can't.

[A]

I can't breathe right now.

[C]

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

[B]

He complains about everything else, but can

[A]

we say, yeah, he complains about everything.

[C]

Fuming at Tammy, cuz I thought she got me code from seeing this guy. So, so that. So anyway, so we have a bunch of. We have, we have a bunch of. We have a bunch of. The house is full. It's our house.

[A]

Oh, you have a house there. I'm a little rich plastic surgeon. You got to include the property.

[C]

Okay, we have a house there. So we have, we have 10 adults. We have, have 10 kids. The house is packed. Everyone's running around. Meanwhile, I don't even have the strength to sit upright. So after the day. After the day. This is a crazy story. Sometimes it brings me to tears, but, oh, do it.

[A]

That'll be good for reading.

[C]

So after the day of being on the lake and I'm just like dying and not saying anything, we come in, the sun's going down, and all the adults are like, in the kitchen and like, and they're talking about what they're going to do. And everyone says, says, let's go into the village to dinner. And I'm like, oh my God. I'm like, I can't even imagine getting up out of this chair and going to the village where you have to park, walk around for 40 minutes to an hour. It's crowded. I couldn't even. I'm like, how am I gonna do this? But I did it on literally 1% energy. I did it. Yeah, it's crazy. So we're walking around, I'm like, I'm

[A]

like, I'm gonna die.

[C]

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

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

And she says, what's wrong with you? You haven't said a word all day. And she goes, oh, my God, you're as white as a ghost. So she puts this thing on me, and my oxygen stats are, like, 83%. It was crazy. Like. Yeah. It's, like, emotional, you know? And so.

[A]

Oh, my God. I did not realize it was this serious.

[C]

It was very serious. Yeah. So we raced down the mountain. She gets me to a hospital, and. Yeah.

[A]

And they're like, okay, hospital, tell us. I'm dying to know the rest.

[C]

Yeah, it was a massive embolism. And I hear the term. I'm like, pulmonary embolism. I've heard about it as a doctor for years. I'm like, holy shit, I got an embolism. And the thing was, was it's like, middle of COVID right? It's the middle of COVID She couldn't even be in there with me. I'm like, by myself. It's crazy. And so I thought, I'm going to die in this hospital room. Finally, they gave me some medicines, and it worked. And it kind of kicked in. And so I made it. But, yeah, I almost died.

[A]

That is absolutely terrifying.

[C]

Yeah, it was crazy. It was crazy. And the funny. And here. Now, here's not the funny thing, but the way, like, God must have been, like, looking after us 100%, because so when I couldn't breathe. And so we're up at Big Bear, and she realizes my saturations are 83%.

[A]

How did she check that?

[C]

Cause she had, like, an apple watch or something. Someone put something on me. I don't even know. I don't remember. And she's like, oh, my God. And she's a doctor. She's like, this is. Something's going on. And so my friend who was there, Mark, he's got a Porsche, and he drives real fast. Like, dude, let me race you down there. We thought it might be altitude sickness. Cause sometimes you get that up at altitude. She's like, you gotta get down the mountain. And it's like an hour drive to get down the mountain.

[A]

No, it was an hour drive.

[C]

Yeah, it's an hour drive to get down the Mountain. So Mark's like, I'll drive you. He's like, I'll drive you. We'll race down. I'll be down. You know, he's got a Porsche. I'm like, fine. So we get into the car, and he's gonna drive me down, and. And then he looks at me, he says, what if something happens? He said, you know, he's like. He's like. I'm like, maybe Jessica should take me. He's like, all right. So he goes back in. He gets Jessica, right? He gets Jessica to take me. So she drives me down. We switch cars. So she drives me down. He was gonna race me down, but she's like. She's like, I'll Dr. So she drives me down. We get to the bottom of the mountain, and I feel a little bit better. I feel 10% better, but not. Not a lot better. And I'm exhausted now because I've been on no oxygen. I've been working all day in the high heat. I'm exhausted. I'm like. I feel a little better. I was like, just take me home. No, man.

[A]

Such a man.

[C]

She said, I'm not taking you home. Right. So she makes me go. But had Mark taken me, I would say, mark, take me home. He would have taken me home. I would have died in bed. Yeah, I would have definitely died in bed. He would have. Yeah.

[A]

Okay. What test did they. How did they come to the conclusion that this was a pulmonary embody?

[C]

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

[A]

Was there a surgery or. There was no surgery.

[C]

No, it's no surgery. It's. It's anticoagulants. Yeah. Yeah.

[A]

So what does that mean?

[C]

It just means they just inject you a bunch of medication to break up the cl. Yeah, yeah. And. And then a little aside to that, too. And this might bore everybody, but.

[A]

No, no, this is riveting. Trust me.

[C]

So.

[A]

Yeah, I'm not even kidding.

[C]

So I'm in this Glendale hospital because it was closer than going to Cedars. I might not have made it to Cedars, so. Glendale. Because Glendale's like 45 minutes from the bottom of the mountain where we were. Cedars Was an hour and a half.

[A]

Not to interrupt you. Okay, so it's something that starts in the leg. So how. And if it gets to your lungs, you're basically dead on arrival, like you said.

[C]

Yes.

[A]

So where. Do we know where it was?

[C]

It started in the calf. That was a calf game that I.

[A]

Yes, but then how far did it go?

[C]

It has to work its way all the way up your calf, all the way up your ve. Into your chest.

[A]

And then was it that. But it had not made it that far when you had gotten to the hospital or we don't know where.

[C]

No, it had. That's why I couldn't breathe all day. Oh, so it was in the lung. That's why I couldn't breathe. It was in the lung. That's why I couldn't breathe. Now I'm in such good shape. And I'd done breathing exercises for years, and I was like, such. I was in such good health otherwise. I think that's contributed to why I was able to. Yeah. Yeah. So I'm in the hospital in Glendale. Little funny part about it was I. In all my years at this point, I was 50 at the time. I'd been a doctor for 25 years. I had never once in my life been a patient in a hospital. So they. So they. So they come in, they say, put the gown on. I put the fucking gown on the wrong way.

[B]

You know, I was like, can we have fun again?

[A]

Because that's crazy, right? That is.

[C]

I put the gown open in the front. You're supposed to put it open in the back. I didn't even know. I'd never been a page.

[A]

So you're literally just. Things are out. Got it. And then how, by the way, when I read this, I knew it sounded serious. I had no idea you had gone through something like this. Okay, then. How long are you in the hospital?

[C]

So, okay, so I'm in Glendale now, by the way. We get to Glendale hospital at midnight like this. We get there at midnight. I didn't even know what it was yet. They don't let her come in. Cause it's Covid. So she just goes home. I check in. By the time they figure out it's probably three or four in the morning. I'm like, fucking pulmonary illness at four in the morning. I find out. So I'm in this room, and I'm freezing cold. Cause the gown is open. I'm like. I'm like. So they say, okay. So they admit me to the hospital in Glendale. And this. And they. First thing in the morning, Sunday morning, they bring this pulmonologist into the room. He's a lung specialist. There's a pulmonologist. And he says, this is a major embolism. Some can be real small, some can be real big. This was really big, meaning it's clogging up the venous system big time. He's like, I think we need to get you to interventional radiology. That means they bring you to radiology. They use X rays, and they basically go in with. With catheters and stuff, right into the clot. And they literally mechanically break it up and stuff. He's like, this thing is so big. We need to do that. So I'm like, well, whatever you think, man. I was in. I was exhausted, and you're alone having

[A]

to make this decision, and I'm alone,

[C]

having made this decision. So I'm like, okay, if that's what you think. So in the meanwhile, all of a sudden, you know, I think I called Tammy and I called some people.

[A]

Oh, my gosh.

[C]

So then all of a sudden, I get a call from this guy, Victor Tapson. He was the head pulmonologist at Cedar Sinai, who's an expert in this stuff. He calls me. My cell phone.

[A]

Oh, my God.

[C]

Yeah. He's like, dude, he's like, hey, I'm on vacation. I'm up in Montana. But I heard what's going on. He goes, what's going on? I tell him. He says, who's your doctor? I tell him, he goes, I train that guy. Get him on the phone. He's like, you're not going to interventional radiology.

[B]

Like, when I say no, I think there were so many. Like, God was totally looking over Dr. Diamond. That week, I think, changed everything.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

I think that week was like.

[C]

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

[A]

And he could.

[B]

He wanted to come back to work. Like, he literally wanted to leave the

[A]

hospital when he got down the hill.

[B]

Yeah. And he was like, I'm ready. And no, they were like, you need to stay home, and you need to. To really, really work through this. But I think a different man came

[A]

out of that experience. You changed your entire perspective. So what do you think changed the most? Just having. Just more gratitude for everything. Taking your time.

[C]

Yeah. I mean. Yeah. Appreciating. Trying to appreciate everything. Yeah.

[A]

That is absolutely terrifying. What was the recovery?

[B]

Like?

[A]

How long were you home?

[C]

Oh, I got home in a day. A day. Because once the anticoagulants are in and it's breaking up the clot, as soon as you start to normalize, then you're okay. You're out of danger. So I got out of danger once again. You know, the heart rate came back to normal, the oxygens came back to normal. Everything started. So at that point, even though there's a clot there, it takes three months to go away, six months. But at that point, your body is already accommodated quickly. So if it didn't kill you, you accommodate pretty quickly. Yeah. So I was home, and you were

[A]

back to work when?

[C]

Back to work?

[A]

No, not. Don't tell me. A week. Was it a week?

[C]

I think it was earlier than that. I think I got out of the hospital on a Monday.

[B]

Do you want to know the.

[A]

Is he fucking crazy coming back to work?

[B]

So he was supposed to stay at home for a week, but I texted him. Cause he was that. What I really appreciate about Dr. Diamond, too, is, like, it was obviously very serious, right? And there were very serious moments during. When it was happening, when he was in the hospital, when he was home. But he always had a sense of. He injected a sense of humor into it. And so there was. It was a Wednesday, and we had, like, touched. We were touching base, like, all the time. And so I was like. Like, he was like, I'm so bored. I don't know what to do.

[A]

Oh, my God.

[B]

I was bored.

[A]

Almost died, but I'm bored.

[B]

And I do feel like he's like, I'm just sitting on my camera couch. And I was like, do you feel like designing an implant? We have, like, three weeks.

[C]

Don't forget. We were supposed to make a house call in San Francisco that Friday, and I wanted to go, remember?

[B]

You are so correct.

[C]

Yeah. We were supposed to make a house call, and I wanted to go just. We're gonna go.

[B]

See, I made the executive decision. I was like, you are not doing that.

[C]

We are not doing that.

[B]

Yeah. Yeah. But he, like, he.

[A]

That is crazy.

[C]

Yeah, the whole thing's crazy.

[B]

A few days, you know.

[A]

Do you feel now that you pay attention to your health way more like, any sort of thing that feels off? You're like, no, no, no.

[C]

You're just.

[A]

You just go forward.

[C]

I just go for it.

[B]

But can we say, like, he didn't have Covid?

[A]

He didn't have Covid. I tried to cry. We joked too early about making fun of his shoes. It didn't land. But again, that means, like, I'm not gonna make fun of your shoes anymore. Dr. Diamond likes to wear these, like, loewe, like duck shoes, which I get

[C]

more compliments on the worst shoes. I get more compliments.

[A]

I'm get him some shoes to wear.

[C]

I get more confidence than these.

[A]

Do we want to talk about some fucking skincare after that horrific fucking event?

[C]

Whatever. I don't know.

[A]

That is how.

[B]

What would you like to talk about?

[A]

That would. That was. Now I like you more and I'm pissed. So that was six years ago. You're healthy ever since you could get back to work. Can we talk about Dr. Diamond's medicine?

[C]

Yes. So yes.

[A]

No, no, wait. We have question. God, he's so smart. He's like writing a thesis on this podcast. Like, I love that I don't have to do any work, but like, I just want to ask you questions about what you've, I guess manufactured, designed, created. When did we start? Start. When did we start the skincare?

[C]

Well, I had been. I had the idea for skincare 10 years ago probably, and we had some. We had some initial things we were trying and we created and we were testing out, but we didn't have the. We really didn't have the resources or the. The real. I don't know, we didn't really have the real mindset to really do it. So we kind of played with it about 10 years ago and then it quickly just died out. It was a great product, but it. But then. So it really started the thought of about 10 years ago, but we. This Dr. Adams medicine really was really started about six years ago.

[A]

So right after this whole horrific.

[C]

Right, yeah, it was right around that time. Yeah.

[A]

What was the first product we launched?

[B]

What?

[A]

Tammy, Correct him if you need to.

[B]

Yeah, no, it started before that experience and then when Covid happened.

[A]

But we launched how many years ago?

[B]

Because it's inspired by our signature Diamond Instafacial.

[A]

Okay, let's talk about the instafacial really quick.

[B]

Can we just say what the instafacial is?

[A]

Yeah. Okay. So the instafacial I've gotten five times. Tammy has to hold my hand through the microneedling part. You're never there for me during that. It's fine. You're there for me for the Botox. It literally is. Don't tell me you get a laser. It is an IPL laser first. Yes, Correct. Which I get with what? No numbing. I fucking raw dog it because I'm a warrior. I can't do it. I just go in there and these women are fantastic. They do it on me full, full thing. Because we can't do numbing. Then it's followed by microneedling.

[B]

We also do. So the laser part is customized to the person, but it's always light laser resurfacing, sometimes with an iPad. PRF injections, microneedling with PRF and PRP. And then our collagen. Micro collagen.

[A]

What's the difference between PRF and prp?

[B]

Quickly. Platelet rich fibrin and then platelet rich plasma.

[C]

It's just a small change. This is a few more blood particles in the PRF than prp, but it's essentially the same thing. They have slight differences. Very slight.

[A]

If you have anything that you need to go to and you need to look gorgeous, this facial you up, it is so good. My face, literally. And they. There's no downtime. Your face is maybe what, a teensy bit dry for like three days, not even 24 hours.

[B]

Usually slightly red. But when I say like this. It's not red.

[A]

No, no, it does not stay red.

[B]

Slight pink for the day.

[A]

Barely.

[B]

We have like some patients who are pretty dramatic.

[A]

I did not get pink and I'm really dramatic. But you're all of a sudden you just like. You feel like you've just had like yogurt splashed on your face. I don't know. You look like a gorgeous fucking queen. Yes.

[B]

And you feel it right, right away. Which is why we wanted medicine to have that feeling right away when you apply it. But when I say this week has been. Been a marathon, like, the Met is coming, coming.

[A]

So you're on Monday. So everyone you've seen. Everyone, of course. Okay, what was the first product you launched with?

[C]

So the first product was the instafacial collection, which started with the plasma, which is that square.

[A]

I know.

[C]

And then. Yeah. And then the emulsion, which you don't have here.

[B]

I have all of it. We have all of it. Okay.

[C]

Okay. So. Yeah, so that's part of it.

[A]

So what is this doing making you gorgeous? That's growth factors.

[C]

It's growth factors, which is essentially equivalent to your prp. It's your daily dose of prp.

[A]

Morning and night.

[C]

Morning and night.

[A]

Guys, this shit is so fucking good.

[C]

Yeah. Morning and night. It's awesome. It's the best. Next is the emulsion, which is like your laser in the bottle. That's your retinoid and your hyaluronic acids and essentially replicating the laser part of the instafacial.

[A]

Okay.

[C]

And then next is the infusion, which is your 100% bioidentical collagen, which completes the Instafacial. Those three. So together they work synergistically. And that's what we launched with the Instafacial collection.

[A]

Synergistically is a word. Okay, great. Wait, let's talk about the latest, because this, I didn't even know that. So I'm glad I learned that. This shit's new, no joke. Yeah, I love the design of the whole thing too.

[C]

Eye lift is great. This is designed for. Again, like we talked about the eyelids being problematic. This is designed to address essentially every issue you could have on your eyelids. Upper and lower. And they're.

[A]

I've been using it.

[C]

Yeah, there are.

[A]

You sent me one. Do you know that?

[C]

I didn't know that, but I.

[A]

You had an event last night. I didn't get invited. It's okay. Next time you're top of the invite list. Because he sees me enough in the office and he's like, I'm done. But this, you know, I feel like most people make a bunch of products and they're all fucking crap. And this shit is unbelievable.

[C]

Well, it's all. Yeah, this is. This. We don't put anything out. That's not. Everything we put out is based on a proprietary treatment we do in the office. I'm not gonna put out just another something. It's gotta be something that's work, that's tested. Our office is a living lab. We test it on our patients. Well, before it ever comes out. I know what my patients need. I like. I mean, you're like. Yeah, I see you all the time. I know exactly what your face needs. I have the same relationship with thousands of people where I see their face, I understand their face. And I know what works. I know what doesn't work. And so we just. We create products based on what problems are out there that don't have media, social.

[A]

Okay, let's talk about for real. Like, if you wanna go to Dr. Diamond and you are not in the circle, you are not famous and you are not. You're just like a normal fucking person. But has money to spend and don't bullshit. How the fuck are people getting into this office?

[C]

I mean, they're not.

[A]

They're not. I don't know how realistically, like, are they calling. What is the wait list right now? Two wait lists. Two years.

[B]

It's four years.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

I mean, it's long, it's lengthy, but I do.

[A]

How do you. How do you. How do you cut the. Like, what are some. Give me two tips. To maybe get ahead. Call me and then I call you. Or how does that work? References.

[B]

Yeah. I do feel that you know someone. And I will say we are one of the only offices, and you can correct me if you feel differently, is that, like, we will work our very best. If there is a way that I can make it happen. If you are in town and you're only in town for 48 hours. If there's a way that we can make it happen. And he is such a. Like a.

[A]

He doesn't stop working.

[B]

Yeah, he's like. If I'm like, this patient's only here for, like, 48 hours. I'd love to see her. We go in on Saturdays. We'll come in early. We'll stay late. Because we do that.

[C]

It's not fair.

[B]

At the end of the day. At the end of the day, like, we really do try to be really accommodating to patients, both new patients or our existing patients, in any way we can make it work.

[A]

Guys, listen, you're gonna see me post Brow lift. Post all the stuff.

[C]

Can't wait.

[A]

This was so informative. You're gonna have to come on for part two.

[C]

Yeah. We never talked about the baseball.

[A]

The baseball? The Racha. I mean, I knew New Jersey, but then you were born in Pennsylvania. I mean, I had a whole rapid fire that we don't even need to get to.

[B]

We.

[A]

We had a way better chat, I think. Is there anything that we need to bring up right now that we did not bring up?

[B]

I don't think so.

[A]

Medicine's amazing. I. By the way, I wouldn't. They're not. Absolutely not paying me. I'm paying them my college tuition to see him. So just so you know, I would not say this shit was good if it wasn't good. We need to send my mom one. She's pissed. She wants to be on PR because she's always like, why don't I have Susan? She's like, why don't I get anything? By the way, she. Lastly, she will get in that office, he'll fucking do a hundred needles in once.

[C]

No problem.

[A]

So effortlessly doesn't move. I'm literally, like, hyperventilating. Anyway, I'm obsessed with you now. Ew, gross. Okay, thank you guys for coming on. So fun.

[B]

This was so fun.

[A]

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