when you look at it, then, so that's the free radical, the oxidation, but there's the inflammation,

which is a whole other thing. And the way I look at inflammation is a little bit different, okay? Inflammation can be acute or it can be chronic. Acute inflammation can be a really good thing. You know, we mentioned earlier, retinol. You get on a retinol, you get a little acute inflammation. That's actually okay. Hi, I'm Natalie Jill, and I help women in their 40s, 50s, and beyond redefine, rebrand,

and laugh with aging.

Welcome to midlife conversations.

On this podcast, I do what I do best, taking complicated information that is relevant in this point of our lives now

and break it down simply with actionable steps

you can implement to level up your life. I also regularly interview some of the most

inspiring people living their best midlife years now. On this show, I cover topics about our

shifting hormones, weight struggles, our mood and focus changes, raising teenagers, our relationships,

career changes, beauty, and more. If you are new here, I encourage you go back and listen

from episode one when this podcast was previously called Listen Up for the full transformative

experience. Today I've got Dr. Yun on Midlife Conversations. I can't wait to talk with him. He reminded

me that we connected back in 2016 when he had a book called H-Fix. Well, he still has a book called

H-Fix. But I recently started really jumping into his stuff again on TikTok because he has

eight million followers on TikTok. Yep,

8 million. And he's not the typical plastic surgeon. He is the one that's wanting to keep

you out of the operating room. He's got lots of natural ways that we can avoid that,

ways that we can age really well. He is definitely not an anti-ager. He's a pro-aging well, and he's got some great tips that he shares. I have so many questions for you. Thank you so much for being here today. Thank you so much, Natalie. So let's back up a little bit. First of all, how did you end up with 8 million followers on TikTok? Where did that even come from? You're a surgeon. How did this happen?

Yeah. So, you know, it was March of 2020. I had been on TikTok for several months. We're just kind of playing around with it. And then the pandemic hits. And I find myself in an empty office with

10 employees who I promised to pay. And when I looked at my bank account, I figured out very

quickly that the money I was making the most out of was from social media because I had no patients that I could see. And then I started thinking, you know, as a physician, like, you know, it was a really scary time. People were trapped in their houses. Everybody was afraid of getting sick and their family getting sick. And as a plastic surgeon, I'm used to helping people in one way. but even though I volunteered for my local hospital, they didn't need me at the time. And thank God, because if you have a plastic surgeon taking care of your lung issues, you know, it's bad. So I thought, you know, how am I going to help people in this difficult time? And I thought, you know what, let me just start creating content to educate and entertain. And it was that entertainment part of it that really caught on.

And so I got to the point where I started realizing that, geez, you know,

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