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

and today's podcast is going to be so amazing.

I am a huge fan of regenerative aesthetics and we're interviewing Dr.

Laura Ellis.

She's a distinguished physician, entrepreneur, innovator in the field of regenerative

derm and she's the co-founder and chief executive officer of Lev Ellis.

And this company is doing some amazing things with the human secret tone, which we'll

have to go into exactly what that is.

But Dr. Ellis is a leader in molecular medicine, molecular biology and aesthetics.

She's got such a passion for bridging science and beauty

and using her expertise to bring it into aesthetics. I'm excited your product is about to launch

in a couple weeks. Welcome to the podcast. Thank you, Dr. Kay. This is very exciting. Thank you for

having me on. Of course. So you have a molecular biology background,

a Bachelor of Science and Biochem and Molecular Biology from North Carolina State University.

And then you went to med school. You got your medical degree. And then how did you leave medicine

to become an entrepreneur? Are you still in medicine? Well, I am still in medicine.

However, I left my practice of 25 years about a year ago, as far as patient care goes.

I still am medical director and I've got several locations.

I have been practicing regenerative aesthetics for about eight years, which is quite a while,

considering that it's relatively new.

In the baby field of regenerative, that's like a long time.

It is a long time, but with that molecular biology background, before I went to medical school, I actually went to, I did a guest scientist stint at the CDC and worked in the private sector at Bechton Dickinson. So a lot of benchwork, which led me to this interest in regenerative medicine or regenerative aesthetics in particular when it came along.

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