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Beauty Bytes with Dr. Kay: Secrets of a Plastic Surgeon™

771: Mitochondrial Health: The Hidden Foundation of Youth

Beauty Bytes with Dr. Kay: Secrets of a Plastic Surgeon™

Kay Durairaj, MD, FACS @beautybydrkay

Business, Fashion & Beauty, Health & Fitness, Arts, Management & Marketing, Medicine

4.9608 Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

✨ Your mitochondria are the powerhouses inside every cell — the engines that keep your skin glowing, your brain sharp, and your energy steady. Over time, stress, poor sleep, toxins, and aging can slow them down. When your mitochondria struggle, you feel it everywhere: fatigue, slower recovery, dull skin, inflammation, and accelerated aging.

The good news? You can support and rebuild mitochondrial health with smart lifestyle strategies, targeted supplements, and regenerative treatments. 🧬

In this week’s Five Minute Friday, we’re diving into why mitochondrial health matters, how it connects to longevity and beauty, and practical ways to keep your cellular engines strong and youthful.

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0:00.0

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

0:19.3

Surgeon.

0:20.0

Today we're going to talk to Dr. Jeff Gross,

0:22.4

who's a neurosurgeoning. He's doing amazing things with bioregenerative therapies and stem cells.

0:27.4

He is from San Diego. He's successfully treated 95% of his neurosurgical patients without surgery.

0:35.3

He does have an active practice in neurosurgery with his focuses on spine.

0:40.2

And he is helping people from all around the world who've had unsuccessful surgeries elsewhere.

0:47.2

He's currently practicing in San Diego. He also volunteers in Southern Nevada Health District.

0:53.9

And he's a controversial champion, and he's fighting for everyone to have access to ethically derived stem cells, products that will be bioregenerative.

1:06.0

I think we're going to learn so much today about misconceptions about stem cells.

1:10.0

He's an invited speaker

1:11.7

and lecture at the biohacking conferences and anti-aging events. And he's also author of a spine

1:18.3

chapter of a medical textbook on regenerative stem medicine published in 2022. So welcome to the podcast,

1:25.4

Dr. Gross. Thank you. Thank you for having me.

1:28.8

You have helped thousands of people just avoid surgery.

1:32.3

Like how did you begin your journey in neurosurgery and spine care?

1:38.0

Well, I was interested in the nervous system in college.

1:41.9

And, you know, I have background in biochemistry and molecular

1:45.3

biology, but I knew I wanted to go into the nervous system and I knew I wanted to use my hands

1:50.4

as a surgeon. So neurosurgery was sort of a natural fit. And then maybe a couple years into my residency

1:58.1

of neurosurgery, I got interested in the spine aspect of

2:02.6

neurosurgery because the spine is so complex. And it really takes, you know, a Sherlock Holmes

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