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

and it's time for a five-minute Friday day today i want to talk about exosomes i

don't know if you guys have been to aesthetic meetings but everywhere you look in aesthetics there are

companies popping up with exosomes and for patients out there who are seeing providers you might

be starting to see the word exosome used more often in

treatments, either before or after getting an intervention like before. Sometimes we'll do exosomes

prior to treatment to improve and heal redness and irritation of skin, and for other patients

will use them post-treatment, after laser, after microneedling, after procedures

that stimulate skin barrier irritation, exosomes are products that can definitely help you to

heal faster and better. But exosomes, what the heck are they? This is so exciting. They are a very

interesting addition to regenerative aesthetics and the whole portfolio of what we can do for people.

An exosome is a lipid bi-layer extracellular vesicle. That's a mouthful. So it's a little particle made of lipids on the outside and on the inside there is important messaging material these little

bubbles or vesicles carry messages like growth factors they have mRNA they have sometimes

small fragments of peptides and amino acids in them they're a mixture of signals basically, exosomes can be derived from many different

sources. When we're looking at the sources of these exosomes, we need to be concerned about, number

one, where are they getting their product and donations from? So what type of donor product is

used? Exosomes can definitely come from fat, platelets, bone marrow, umbilical cords, placenta, plants.

There's so many different sources of where exosomes can come from.

We really have to think carefully about the source of the exosome

when we're trying to understand the powerful use of the exosome.

So if, for example, I'm going to be working on hair, I might like to use an exosome derived

from hair type of follicular cells or from platelets, which platelet derived growth factor has

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