skin is the largest organ of our [Music] bodies as a kid I kind of destroyed mine I was in the sun all the time no sunscreen and now I'm in my 40s I'm paying the price when we started blueprint we had the goal measure every organ of the body including skin and slow the speed of aging and then reverse the aging damage I had a lot of skin aging damage and what we've done is we've used various Technologies to measure my skin damage and my age I'm going to show you three things today I'm going to start with the creams then I'm going to show you lasers or devices and then I'm going to tell you what you should do on a daily basis I wake up I wash my face with cave it's got some uh salicylic acid which is like just enough to keep my face uh blemish free I also micro do Accutane so I currently take two pills a week each one's 40 milligrams which has really been great I do a few anti-aging therapies that have a side effect of acne for example rapamycin which is one of the most promising an antiaging drugs it's used for people who are doing organ transplants it suppresses immune system kind of counterintuitive the dose I'm taking has acne side effect so this is really great for some acne control I just applied this atap poo cream uh we've been trying this now for 3 weeks like we do with every cream we're motivated to see does this work by the markers we can measure so this is basically feeding fat cells in my face because I'm trying to rejuvenate the volume of my face this is supposed to help but again we're 2 weeks in and it could be in the case that in a week or two weeks or 4 weeks from now it's in kind of like the cream graveyard on my counter well we're not doing it anymore because it's got to prove that it's worthy of existence in the protocol otherwise it's out what we've basically found is that creams don't move the needle on data like if you're trying to really address the crow's feet or you're trying to reduce the UV damage which you can't see with your eye it's on a machine using multi-spectral Imaging uh you really need to use the devices like lasers and other things IPL which I will show you in a minute so uh basically in summary the routine is very simple I wash with this in the morning I put this cream on I just dab it on again trial we'll see if it works and then I put sunscreen on elta MD I wear sunscreen because the Sun causes damage it ages the skin and caus the Aging damage so I try to spend my time in the sun in the early mornings or in the evenings when the UV index is low otherwise I stay out of the Sun but when I am in the sun I do have sunscreen on Welcome to the clinic here is kind of how we understand reality with blueprint it's like food where we've constructed a diet for my 2,250 calories where every calorie has to fight for its life so we have these ideal markers of where we want the organs to be and we have the food and if the food does not deliver the marker that we expect it to it's out the same is kind of true with the clinic where we have these markers for example with skincare like UV damage por size Reds Browns Etc if we don't hit the markers the technology is out and so let me show you how we do these Baseline measurements to get us orientation of where my starting point is this device here is a clinical grade system that's typically in dermatology offices it's called multi-spectral Imaging and it gives you this dashboard of I think eight to 10 different biomarkers when I started it was pretty terrifying I look like a zombie face you see all the damage what was interesting is my son taled I had a surprise birthday party for him all his friends came up here it was really kind of cool like 16 17 year olds and their skin is just beautiful they put their faces in here and then they see their zombie face and they're like wait a second but my skin looks so great I've wore sunscreen my whole life they're just unaware that they've had so much sun damage especially living in Southern California so this is an exilus device this is for the face this is a radio frequency technology this tip here warms up and you kind of roll it over the skin and it's used for collagen production and for tightening the skin Skin So as you age you lose firmness of the skin and less collagen so we're trying to revolumize and that was in particular a problem with me because in the beginning of blueprint I lost a lot of facial volume due to my caloric restriction I've since increased my my caloric intake but we've tried to increase volume if you see my pictures from a year ago to now it's a big difference I've revolumize quite a bit so we did this for a protocol we've paused this because we're a little bit worried about it being potentially a cause for fat loss so we we have a device uh that measures heat we stay at exactly 40 to 42c anything above is used for fat burning but anything below uh should be restorative but just out of precaution because we're trying to rejuvenate volume we've paused this device so it's pending future analysis also we pause this because we've become very recently uh positive on a technology called tixel we don't yet own the device we're buying it now but that uses thermal mechanical ablation so it uses a titanium tip and it delivers these these intense pulses of heat and we found it is safe so we've used lasers we've used RF and they all have these prosen cons there's always some nuances with the technology tixel refining is safe it's efficacious it does the same things like uh firmness and collagen production so I'm now three Therapies in we like the results so far Again by using the multi-spectral imaging technology to measure the markers we also have things like this device it measures Advanced gly impend products so basically junk build up in the skin you put your arm on this thing and it measures it so adjacent to the face on skin you're looking at the whole body and so this particular reader you can see here you can find age on the bottom on the x- axis here and the result is your y- AIS so for example if you're 20 years old you want to have you'll be right here on the result for normal one line below standard deviation is better than normal the one is above I was my first measurements were in the red like I was really bad and so this again is looking at cardiovas vascular health for the skin so whether you're looking at UV damage or or Browns or Reds or por size uh we're looking at the the skin Health across the entire body we started using this device this is BBL also known as IPL intense pulse light and there's different wavelengths there's 515 695 800 640 and we started doing full body treatments there was a small study at Stanford that showed that it changed the genetic expression of skin to be dramatically younger it wasn't a big enough study that gave us a huge amount of confidence but enough where we're like you know what let's play with this so we started doing whole body and it was basically effective at eliminating a bunch of the skin damage because I never had a shirt on when I was growing up as a kid I was always burned and tanned on my upper body and so I had a lot of skin damage on my face and my upper body and so I've basically got my skin back to the majority of that skin damage being gone another device which we've used which is kind of like it's con in and out of our protocol is saluma pro it's a bit expensive it's $1,500 for this this so it's kind of a big buy uh but I did this for a while it has both red and blue light and red is for collagen production and healing skin Health uh blue is for uh acne so I did this for a bit for blenders control when I was having side effects from some of the medications I was taking but I no longer uh do it so um it kind of comes in and out of the protocol but it's kind of hard to pinpoint because the effect is so subtle and the devices we use have such a big effect like the tixel system or BBL and then finally let me walk over here and show you this we have uh stayed with redite therapy we weren't certain whether it Justified the time I do this uh three times a week uh for 12 minutes so it's a total of uh 36 minutes a week and it uses both red light and near infrared uh but I stand right here in between them it's kind of a a hacky setup and uh it's good for skin health for healing for uh mitochondrial Health it even has red light therapy has been shown to be useful for depression when it's exposed to the forehead so there's all kinds of things that just has General Health benefits and because I do work out quite a bit I'm pretty active uh giving a little boost to my recovery so this one we feel like the evidence is there to support doing this even though we can't directly measure its effect because it's compounded upon other things we do and that's a basic tour of the the clinic you get an idea of how fast we move the things we try uh I'm very happy with the progress we've made looking at my damage I think when I started I was in like a 98 percentile U my skin age was like 64 on one of the markers and I'm back I'm on my recent measurement I was I think to between 37 and 42 so had significant improvements in the measurement okay welcome to the kitchen you're really weird this is the exciting part I have a few things that are a little unconventional gu I'm kind of unconventional but on my windows I have really big ones all over the house I get a lot of sun in the morning at night and so to control the environment we have a tint on here that knocks out like 99. 9% of UV I get a lot of comments about my pel skin I'm a vampire that's what I'm trying to do okay but really Sun causes damage it ages your skin it makes you look older so you don't want that and what the objective of blueprint is not to adhere to cultural norms of a tan the the objective is slowing my speed of aging and reversing aging damage that includes sun damage so I try to control what comes in my window when I go outside I'll walk to the cafe close by I will take an umbrella with me and I'll have the umbrella above my head that is weird in the United States of America in other places of the world it's very common and very normal so just to be aware that other people do have skin practices that are useful try to avoid damaging your skin this happens when there's High UV that means so between 10:00 a. m.
and 400 p. m.
