Well, hello, hello, guys. You're listening to Beauty Bites with Dr. K, Secrets of a Plastic

Surgeon, and it's time for a podcast. And today we're talking all about acupuncture.

And I'm so excited to introduce you to someone who's been a really notable specialist in acupuncture in the field of acupuncture.

This is Amrit Singh.

She is a registered acupuncturist and healthcare professional in the year winner who's been doing

almost up to 13,000 acupuncture treatments in a year. Her treatments focus on cosmetic application,

fertility, digestive issues. I think this is so interesting. Amaret, welcome to the podcast.

Thanks for having me. Where are you located?

I'm in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Oh my gosh. And how is COVID over there?

It's not bad. We pretty much got things under control. I mean, we were slow to vaccinate and move forward, but,

and we're slow to remove masks and slow to get back to normal life, but that's, that's how we

are up here. Well, I love that you're doing acupuncture for facial aesthetics. Can you talk a little

bit about how that even works? I thought this was just going to be

acupuncture for actual physical ailments. Yeah. So cosmetic acupuncture is definitely a growing field.

It works because, you know, it's similar to microneadling in a sense that when you damage the skin

barrier, you're creating more of a

blood circulation, you are stimulating the healing response, and you're stimulating collagen to repair

the skin. But then there's also the holistic part, which the cosmetic acupuncture has, because

we still do body points, and we still do a holistic health assessment and a diagnosis.

And some of the acupuncture points on the face, of course, the needles are inside the acupuncture points.

So some are along the lines and the wrinkles and maybe the acne scars, but you're also doing the

acupuncture portion of it as well.

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