Hey guys, welcome back to Skin Anarchy. It's Zecta. I'm really excited about our episode today because

we're interviewing a brand that's really been kind of a game changer for a while now. I'm sure a lot of

you have heard about them. So without further ado, please welcome Dr. Anthony Naclo, who's the founder of

8th Day. Welcome, Dr. Nackelon. I'm so excited to host you. Thank you so much. Thanks for having me.

Yeah, I'm excited to dive in. I've been a fan of eighth day, I think long before we connected.

I remember seeing your products and trying them myself prior to ever connecting with your team.

And I find it to be very unique, your approach coming from the regenerative side

of medicine and bringing it to skincare. I'd love for you to walk us down memory lane,

if you don't mind, and tell us about your medical background. What led you to creating a

skincare line? Yeah, thank you for that intro, and I'm humbled to hear that you've enjoyed the brand

and the products. So I'm a dermatologic surgeon focused on reconstructive treatments for patients that have had skin

cancer, specifically something called Mo's Micrographic Surgery.

And this is typically for facial skin cancer and people who have complicated facial tumors.

So working a lot with patients that have had

pretty disfiguring types of skin cancer and using wound healing techniques to try to help them.

My career began when I graduated from residency and I worked with one of the foremost dermatologists

in West Hollywood, who was at the time treating HIV patients with

what's called facial lipoatrophy. So people who had sort of lost facial volume due to the HIV

medications that they were taking. And this idea of bringing somebody back to baseline,

bringing them back to themselves again, and the power of that, it became my

beauty philosophy. It's what I gravitated towards, which is reconstructive work, as opposed to

sort of cosmetic enhancements or changing somebody's appearance to sort of meet some sort of perceived

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