Welcome to the Optimal Protein Podcast. I'm Vanessa Spina.

Hello, my friends. Welcome back to the podcast. I am super excited for today's episode.

We have a very unique guest on today. She's actually a female surgeon and one of the first

women surgeons that I have ever gotten to interview, and that is Dr. Candice

Kickler. She is a board certified surgeon at Hasst Plastic Surgery in Palm Beach Gardens in Florida,

and she completed medical school at the University of South Alabama College of Medicine.

And she first started out working for several years doing weight

loss surgery and aesthetics. And then she completed an additional fellowship training in cosmetic

plastic surgery. And she's now a fellow of the American Academy of Cosmetic Surgery, as well as

the American College of Surgeons. and she primarily focuses in her career on

body-quintering, liposuction, breast surgery, and injectables. And she still really enjoys

researching obesity, health, and wellness. And she's also an active wife and mom of two boys.

I honestly don't know how she does it all. And I'm just so impressed by her

and how she is a surgeon. There are not that many women out there who are surgeons. And it was such an

interesting discussion to get to talk about her opinion on what the root cause of obesity is

and what she learned from doing so much weight loss

surgery over the years. And then we get to also talk about some really interesting things,

sort of like the psychology of, you know, Botox and fillers and injectables and filters on

Instagram and how that has been changing people's perception of themselves and how they look

and trends happening in injectables and Botox and filler and even what happens to your

filler or Botox if you're getting it and you're also doing intermittent fasting which is a

question that I've always wondered about and I think it was a really interesting and unique conversation. And I was so glad to get the opportunity to talk to

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