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This is Well, a podcast about wellness in all its forms.

I'm Ariel Laurie, and each week I'm sharing unfiltered conversations with people shaping how we feel, live, and look.

Come for the substance, stay for the honesty, and leave with the tools to be well, inside and out.

I hope that you are ready for a fun, high-energy, passionate conversation about surgery and aesthetics,

but also things that you don't typically hear in episodes that I do

with plastic surgeons. So I am talking to Dr. Ryan Neinstein, and this conversation to me was so

fascinating. He's one of the most sought after plastic surgeons in the world. He's known for

meticulous artistry, innovative techniques. There were articles about him in the world. He's known for meticulous artistry, innovative techniques.

There were articles about him in the New York Post and airmail about how he basically delivers

the burkin of bodies. And that is something that you don't forget. So we are diving into

everything from how he screens patients for surgical readiness,

which I found to be really interesting and also the psychology of enhancement versus transformation

because there is definitely a difference. And he actually had an interesting perspective where he said,

you know, he's screening patients for

any kind of red flags, but they're also screening him. So it's kind of a mutual relationship that

you are entering with your surgeon. And I had never thought about it that way. We are, of course,

talking about mommy makeovers and how things like menopause, how GLP ones, weight loss, reshape the body, and what can actually be

done about it. And his typical patient is actually somebody who's very health conscious. They

probably work out. They take care of themselves. And at some point, whether it's after having children,

whether it's after losing a lot of weight, whether it's because somebody is taking a medication, they have excess skin, all of those things just don't move the needle enough.

So, you know, he really looks at these surgeries as empowering and really life altering for people in the best way. And something that he said in the

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