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Brought to you by, Jonathan Tipton & Steve Reed of Benchmark Home Loans, Benchmark Happenings is a podcast that is a biweekly discussion about living in and moving to Northeast Tennessee along with the local real estate market. Join your host Christine Reed as she interviews Jonathan & Steve, local business owners, sought-after industry experts, Veterans, Realtors, Benchmark clients, and more.
Benchmark Happenings focuses on discussing all things related to mortgages and Northeast Tennessee. Placing the spotlight on all the reasons you would want to live in and move to Northeast Tennessee, Benchmark Happenings highlights upcoming events, local businesses, things to do, and other aspects related to Northeast Tennessee. We will also be answering mortgage questions from buyers, sellers, and real estate agents as well as discussing everything going on in our local real estate market.
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Kelly Rogers on Aesthetic Mastery and Holistic Skincare at Performance Medicine
Unlock the secrets to maintaining a youthful appearance as Kelly Rogers from Performance Medicine shares her transformative journey from marketing to mastering aesthetics. Discover how Botox can serve as a preventative ally rather than a quick fix, and why a consistent skincare routine is essential. Kelly passionately discusses the increasing interest from men and the vital role of continuous education to stay updated on the ever-evolving fads and technologies in the aesthetics world. Get a glimpse into the complex landscape of skincare, where lifestyle choices like diet, hydration, and exercise play a crucial role in enhancing the effects of treatments.
Dive into a world where beauty meets science, where maintaining a natural look is both an art and a philosophy. Kelly takes us through her personal skincare regimen, highlighting techniques like microneedling and radiofrequency for vibrant skin. Explore the holistic approach at Performance Medicine, which integrates everything from hormone management to vitamins for overall well-being. We also delve into the realm of body contouring and fat reduction, emphasizing the necessity of maintenance treatments and hormonal balance in achieving desired results. Whether it’s addressing cellulite, dark spots, or considering surgical options for major issues, this episode is your guide to navigating the aesthetic journey with insight and expertise.
To help you to navigate the home buying and mortgage process, Jonathan & Steve are currently licensed in Tennessee, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, and Virginia, contact us today at 423-491-5405 or visit www.jonathanandsteve.com.
This is Benchmark Happenings, brought to you by Jonathan and Steve from Benchmark Home Loans. Northeast Tennessee, johnson City, kingsport, bristol, the Tri-Cities One of the most beautiful places in the country to live. Tons of great things to do and awesome local businesses. And on this show you'll find out why people are dying to move to Northeast Tennessee. And on the way we'll have discussions about mortgages and we'll interview people in the real estate industry. It's what we do. This is Benchmark Happenings, brought to you by Benchmark Home Loans, and now your host, christine Reed. And now your host, christine.
Speaker 2:Reed. Well, hello everybody. We're back with another fantastic episode of Benchmark Happenings, and today we have Kelly Rogers with Performance Medicine. So, Kelly, thank you for being here today. Awesome, Thank you for having me. Oh, it's our pleasure, we love it. And I'm so excited today because we're going to talk about aesthetics yes, and that is what you do and the invasive procedures, some non-invasive procedures, and you know, when I think about aesthetics, Kelly, it's to me it's so confusing. There's so much out there, just basic skin care. It's like what in the world do you do? What do you choose? So tell us a little bit about yourself. So what got you into this line of work as a professional?
Speaker 3:so after college I started working for my dad at performance medicine and I was helping him with the website and you know, doing things in my degree like, like you know, marketing and communication stuff, and I really took an interest to all the aesthetics that was happening around the office. He started to do Botox and Juvenerm and then we had estheticians and they were doing lasering and I just thought it was really cool and so I started to go to his A4M conferences with him and really picked up an interest and he was going to kind of fade out aesthetics and I was like no, no, no, no, if I go get my license to do this, can we keep it on.
Speaker 3:He's like yes, absolutely. So I did and I love it. It is ever-changing and I feel like it is a big part of performance medicine, because you want to look how you feel. Absolutely yeah, and we believe in feeling young and I mean, if you feel young, you've got to look young. You know, you can't feel young and look old.
Speaker 3:No, absolutely not Terrible, yeah, so that's what got me into it, and I meant just the continuing education is so important and I love it. There are new things coming out every week. It seems like I mean, but there's a lot of fads too, which a lot of gimmicks you'll see on Instagram. I mean, I've definitely fallen for some of them. You know, this will make you look completely different you know?
Speaker 2:Well, maybe you can share some of those things with us, so you know we won't waste our money.
Speaker 2:you know our hard spent money on trying to look good because you know, I know that. You know, hey, I love aesthetics, I love getting Botox. I wish I would have started when I was super young, you know. But do you have like an age limit for Botox? I wish I would have started when I was super young, you know. But do you have like an age limit for Botox, Kelly, as far as young people coming in wanting Botox, or does it really matter?
Speaker 3:I would say I think I started getting Botox. I'm 37. I started getting it around 23. Okay, just a little bit, just a tiny bit, and I think that's a good age to start, because your cells start to slow down in your skin. They don't regenerate like they did when you're 21. Come 25, everything starts to slow down even more. Come 30, you know after that, it's just you really have to take matters into your own hands.
Speaker 2:Okay, Well, and we're going to talk more about that because I think that's really important for women especially listening and I know a lot of men now are interested in the aesthetics yeah, and it's not just the injectables. There's so many things that are non-invasive, but what's the basis, kelly, of really we can do all-invasive, but what's the basis, kelly, of really we can do all these things? But really what's the basis of that taking effect and you continuing to look good?
Speaker 3:I would say the first thing when someone comes in to see me, if they're around the age of 50s, 60s, I just ask them immediately what do you do every day for your skin? What have you been doing? Because what you do in your 30s is going to affect your 40s, what you do in your 40s is going to affect your 50s, and same thing with 60s, 70s. So I ask them their basic skincare routine, what kind of products they use. If they've had any new procedures like Botox or you know and a lot of them have and they're still like, well, botox didn't work. And I'm like I mean, it's not a magic wand, botox is preventative, I mean that's what it is. So and I don't think people realize that they think Botox it's like a magic little syringe, it's going to make you look 20 years younger, and it's not.
Speaker 3:If you don't have the skin barrier strong beneath it, then it's not going to last as long and it's not going to look as good. I wouldn't say throwing money down the drain, but just skin care and skin procedures non-invasive go hand-in go, hand in hand with botox and fillers. You don't want to go get a face full of fillers and not have a good skincare routine or not.
Speaker 3:I've ever gotten a you know hydrafacial or that microneedling is great I mean I did microneedling um on myself and then on patients as well, and their botox will last twice as long. Okay, because you're building up that skin barrier, making that skin thicker.
Speaker 2:So is it the the microneedling? Is it cause? Is it causing like little micro injuries? Is that helping your body to generate collagen?
Speaker 3:Yes. So, generating collagen. The radio frequency is lifting, oh so you could do that with radio frequency. Yes, so that's kind of the new thing. It's um we use the virtue RF machine and it's um. It's very similar to Morpheus, um, it's a little bit newer, depending on what type of machine you have but it's. It's pretty much the same thing, Um, but yeah, it's going to use that technology to create little micro injuries to grow collagen and then lift to the radio frequency Nice.
Speaker 2:So does it work on those of us who are older to continue, you know, doing the microneedling Kelly?
Speaker 3:Oh yeah.
Speaker 2:So we can still generate that collagen 100%.
Speaker 3:Well, that's good to know A hundred percent. Well, that's good to know. Yeah, I've had people come in that are thinking about facelifts or you know, blepharoplasty, and you know not all insurance is going to cover that. And so people are like, well, what can I do to help lift my skin? And I, the first thing I would say I mean microneedling, the you know with radio frequency. And then the old therapy is another favorite of mine, and that's just straight radio frequency and it goes all the way down almost to the bone. You can see the bone on the ultrasound Is that like heat?
Speaker 2:Yes, so it's like a heat therapy, and is the purpose of that to stimulate collagen as well? Yes, okay, so you recommend maybe some combinations of those treatments?
Speaker 3:Yes, if you've got more of like. I would say, if you've been doing stuff to your face, you know being consistent with a routine and you know you've had microneedling before, then old therapy will just straight up lift and it also helped texture a little bit. But the microneedling, the virtue that I use, is going to help all of that Okay. And then if you really want that powerful lift, I'd love doing a lower facial therapy where it goes right, you know, mid-nose line to underneath your chin, right where that little you know area gets lax. Yes, turkey neck, yep.
Speaker 2:Well, we can say it, you can say it.
Speaker 3:Kelly, the turkey neck. The turkey neck Terrible.
Speaker 2:We're getting close to turkey season.
Speaker 3:Yes.
Speaker 2:And we don't want those right?
Speaker 3:No, we want to eat those, we want to eat the turkey we don't want to have that neck.
Speaker 2:We don't want to display it, just eat the turkey right. Exactly, exactly so. But how often should someone, when you put together a treatment regimen, so a good skincare line, what is some good skincare products that we could use? Or maybe that you provide and you, you know, consult with your clients to use on a daily basis?
Speaker 3:So our, our office carries skinceuticals, neocutis, glide tone revision, and there's another one I'm thinking of.
Speaker 3:Yeah it'll, it'll come to me in a second, but, um, I choose the best products in my opinion, um, from those I, oh and we use Obagi as well and Zen, Obagi, Zio, Um, so I pulled different products from those lines, what I think are the best. Um, I don't just like to have one product line. Sure, I don't believe, like Obagi has you know, a six step program which is great for some people but not for everybody, not for a lot of people. So I try to incorporate every single thing that you know someone could need from each different line OK, and there's a big difference in your products, which are medical grade.
Speaker 2:Yes, they have more of the active ingredients that our skin needs, right? Yes, yes, versus me going to Walmart to get some Olavole.
Speaker 3:Yes, because what Olavole, you know and nothing against it. Sure, you know you're using something, that's great, but they could tell you that this has this much retinol in it or hyaluronic acid, um, and it doesn't have to have barely any of it in there, and you don't know where it's coming from. I mean, it does not have to meet those requirements that medical grade skincare has to meet. So you know, when you're getting medical grade skincare you're actually getting what it says you're getting okay, so you're getting enough of the hyaluronic acid and the retinol to actually be effective?
Speaker 2:Yes, so, save your money. Save your money, yes, and, and, and invest in your medical grade products.
Speaker 3:Yes, they last longer. You don't have to use as much, obviously, um, I mean, they're more potent, it's all the same thing. It's just you're going to save money in the long run.
Speaker 2:Yes, yes and then on. So what would be a good recommendation as far as someone doing the microneedling, like Botox and microneedling Like how often Is it like a monthly thing, or how often do you recommend that for for individuals?
Speaker 3:So what I would say if someone came to me, um, you know 50s, 60s, I would suggest, you know, first getting on a good skincare out with a procedure like microneedling, oral therapy and then doing Botox on top of that. You can't do Botox first and then do something like old therapy or microneedling or even a hydrafacial immediately after. You have to wait two weeks for the Botox to kick in.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 3:Yeah, and at that point they're like, well, you know what? I already spent money on this Botox and my face seems to be looking a little better. So they're like I don't need that. And then they'll come back and then they'll say, oh, the Botox didn't work. So you really want to do those skin procedures, in my opinion, first, and then you want to top it off with the Botox, the filler and I love filler. I feel like nowadays, you know you can look at somebody and know they're overfilled and it's just yeah, I mean, that is something that I can see right away, and especially around the.
Speaker 2:I don't know what do you call these Kelly?
Speaker 3:Nasal ablifolds.
Speaker 2:Thank you, so have you seen that where they used to fill this area here? To get rid of those little frown lines or whatever. What do we call these lines? Um, I don't know.
Speaker 3:But I don't, but anyway it's, it's just overfilled in that area you don't want to puff your face up like a blowfish. I meant, like you know, that is what I want to tell people. Is you can? I mean a blowfish looks younger than you know, a 65 year old woman, but does it look better? No, it looks like a blow fish. So, you know, I mean stay away from that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we don't want to do that, and I'm not downing filler.
Speaker 3:I love filler, right Um. I have filler on my face. I think it's great, but you really you look, look, amazing.
Speaker 2:You're absolutely beautiful your skin. I'm looking at your skin your skin actually glows. Thank you it does.
Speaker 3:Um, it's gorgeous. I credit it to well. Healthy eating. That's first and foremost, um. You know vitamins. You know working out, sweating out you know, toxins.
Speaker 3:But, um, then then comes the skincare and the procedures and I and I think me personally I like to do, um, microneedling on myself every, every, like six months. So I'm 37. Um, and I started out with the virtue at the radio frequency microneedling three in a row, like three, and you want to keep those like a month apart. The radiofrequency microneedling three in a row, like three, and you want to keep those like a month apart. I will sprinkle in like a little Botox, maybe like a month after my last microneedling, and then six months later, that's when really everything kind of like settles. You're like, okay, well, now you can see what you need to tweak. From there you can do a little bit of old therapy forehead lift. That's really nice.
Speaker 3:You want to continue to build collagen as you're getting those Botox and fillers. Because if you just get Botox and don't do anything else, you're going to freeze those muscles and I mean it's not really been studied by how those muscles are going to react later on. You know they could atrophy, you could have a heavy forehead. You don't want that. Um, you want to continue to build collagen. And my brother that does the Botox, andy, he, um, he preaches that, uh, he wow. You know cause, like he's, like a lot of people, their brow, like they'll have so much Botox in their forehead that it sinks lower than their brow bone. Like their eyebrows will be lower.
Speaker 3:And it's just like you cannot do that. It's just not good for you. You've got to space things out. You've got to really, you know, get with the professional Right, like myself.
Speaker 2:And you know, Call Kelly. I mean because that is so good, Kelly? Because you don't hear those things, Because a lot of people say, oh, I'm just going to get Botox and, like you said, they're just doing that, but they're not doing anything else no, and you'll go to a place and a lot of places.
Speaker 3:They'll just fill you right up and, just you know, send you out the door and it's like you need more than that you know.
Speaker 2:One thing I love about what you all do at Performance Medicine is it's truly a holistic approach. Yes, and I started coming there I guess maybe two years now, and the vitamins, the hormones actually did the cardiac Cleveland panel.
Speaker 3:Oh, that is a great panel.
Speaker 2:So I'm going to see your dad the end of November to have it all my results. So and I think you mentioned it earlier about your lifestyle, because that is so important, I mean it's you know, how do we eat? Do we drink water? Are we hydrating Exactly and exercise? It's not just to look good, but also it's all encompassing of our health and our whole body right, yes, I mean.
Speaker 3:Another example I'll have someone come to me and you know I've done everything on them and they'll get Botox. There's still smoke in a pack of cigs a day, okay, and not working out and eating, terrible, and it's, you know, like okay, that's why it's not working, that's right. I wouldn't say I don't like the term not working, or is this going to work? I mean it's going to help, it's going to enhance. Nothing's going to just magically make your face look like it's no silver bullet. No, no, there is no. I mean plastic surgery. Yeah, I mean that is a fix.
Speaker 3:You know, if you're and I can look at somebody and say, hey, a fix. You know, if you're and I can look at somebody and say, hey, what I can do probably won't have the results that you're going to want or maybe really need Exactly. Um, I mean, if you have, if someone comes to me with kind of a turkey neck, you know there's only a certain point that I can help fix it. Um, and you know the microneedling is great for that old therapy. Um, um, and you know the microneedling is great for that old therapy. Um, kybella is great for if you've got like a fat pocket under your chin Um, but if there is just so much laxity and there's no collagen, you know nothing.
Speaker 3:It's just hanging there Really. The only way to fix that is surgery Is as a surgical.
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And so, uh, what are some other things that you can do besides facial? And so, what are some other things that you can do besides facial? I know you've got some cool new machines in to help with. Yes, you know, some of us have a little muffin top. Oh yes, Sometimes your little muffin top, no matter how well you eat or how much you exercise that it's still there. So what do we do about that?
Speaker 3:Kelly, well, that is one of my favorite machines that we have. So we have the Physique body contouring machine and we also have the Evolve. They do the same thing. One is a laser and one is radiofrequency. Okay, I like them both. If you've got a lot of like fat that you want want to get dissolved first and you don't want to do surgery, a lot of people don't want to.
Speaker 2:And a lot of people don't need to.
Speaker 3:Right. They just can't get that stubborn fat off. Six sessions of physique will do the trick. If you are eating right and I mean you're doing your part. You don't want to come get a physique treatment for me and then go straight to pals and go home and drink 20 beers. I mean you know you're going to want to do it. It helps though, because it it just encourages you. As you're eating right and doing all those things, you see that fat melt off and it also tightens your skin as well.
Speaker 3:I got I lost like four inches just by doing the physique and the evolve, and I'm not, I'm a healthy person, I, you know, work out and all that. So a candidate like that that maybe you know you could, you know you fluctuate and just that stubborn area, like you said, you can't get off it is a great tool for that. It doesn't hurt, it feels, feels good. Actually it's like a hot stone massage, very different from CoolSculpt, but it's, it's amazing results. I mean you want to do six treatments about a week to two weeks apart, and the results I would say. I mean mean I've got someone right now that I've done six treatments on her stomach and she was, you know, a surgery candidate and she's like I'm not getting surgery, she is, she looks absolutely amazing, she's stunned by what she's seen, but she's, you know, also, she's doing right, she's eating right, she works out, but she did that before and it just wasn't going anywhere, I mean Absolutely.
Speaker 3:So it was like that extra skin, you know, just that extra fat pocket that just won't budge.
Speaker 2:And it just kind of melted away. Yes, when you're doing a treatment, is it just how much of the abdomen can you cover for that treatment? Is it just one small section? We?
Speaker 3:have four pretty decent-sized paddles, it'll cover the entire stomach and I would say for smaller candidates it could cover that and maybe put two paddles on your arms, two paddles on your thighs, okay, and kind of do a treatment in conjunction with each other.
Speaker 2:I'm coming to see you Please do.
Speaker 3:It is amazing. And I have the TV on for you. We can watch Real Housewives. You know gossip, I mean it's a good time, yeah, so just melting the fat off We've also got. So it uses EMS technology too. So, so just melting the fat off. We've also got. So it uses EMS technology too. So it's got the muscle stimulation. So, it's great for women who have had kids that want to rebuild that abdomen, muscle back together. It is amazing for that.
Speaker 2:That is great. And I mean I had a girlfriend who she had a tummy tuck back early spring and I mean it was pretty intense and she's, she's tough, she's. She had a breast augmentation before and she said that was a piece of cake. But she said this. If I would have known how painful it was she said I would not have done this.
Speaker 2:That's what a lot of people say painful it was. She said I would not have done this. That's what a lot of people say. And I had no idea, because she had to sleep in a recliner for two weeks because she, you know, you can't you can't straighten up, you're you're kind of forward a little bit and she's still having to wear the, the garment, the undergarment.
Speaker 2:But, um, I said so when will everything kind of be healed? And she said, well, it takes about a year. Yeah, that's a long time. That scar is not small, no, and I'm thinking why not do this?
Speaker 3:Yeah, Do this Non-invasive first. Yes, I'm at 100% and I'll tell you, I'm very honest. If you need surgery, I'm going to say there is nothing. I mean, there's something I could do, but I mean. It's not going to give you the'm like, wow, this is crazy what this machine can do. I mean, you know you have to be consistent with it. You know you don't want to come one time and then come back two months later, right.
Speaker 3:So you're saying like six treatments, like two weeks apart A week, a week apart preferably, but you know some people can't make it every single week. So I mean you know, two weeks is fine, but you do want to keep those you know, or else you're going to get discouraged and wonder why you spent the money Right.
Speaker 2:Because it's not a cheap.
Speaker 3:It's a lot cheaper than getting you know a tummy tuck. Oh yeah, I mean yeah, not even comparable, but you do. You know it's important, especially times like now. You want to get what you pay for. So that's going to be stacking those every single week and just being consistent with it. Okay.
Speaker 2:So after you go through that and let's say you do the treatments and so is there, would you recommend say maybe a maintenance every so often?
Speaker 3:Yes.
Speaker 2:Just to kind of keep it yes, if you go out and eat that, pals, or?
Speaker 3:Or you go on a cruise, or you go, you know.
Speaker 2:Yes, go eat that ice cream 100%. Brownies and ice cream.
Speaker 3:I myself am one to do maintenance treatments as well. I would say, like every month or two you could come in for one. I mean I've got people that come in like once every three months just to you know, keep that fat burning, because you are burning those fat cells permanently, but you're going to get new fat cells if you gain weight. I mean, you know, if you do that like oh, look great, and you get excited, eat a lot, and then well, what's?
Speaker 2:this, then they just come back. Yes, that what's this.
Speaker 3:Then they just come back. Yes, that stinks, yes, but that's with any kind of thing you do, unless you, you know, get your stomach tied, okay, I mean Exactly. I mean people eat, so people gain weight. It fluctuates. So I think a maintenance treatment is great too. And when we sell it individually. But at first we do six treatments, okay, to really keep it consistent, six treatments to really keep it consistent. And then, um, and results are like three months after that. So we tell them to come back, like three months follow up. Um, and for the people that need to, you know, cut a little bit more. They could do 12 treatments in a row.
Speaker 3:There's no like wrong way to do it but you don't want to come in, like I said, and then come back a month later and think I think I'll just maybe do my next one. You know, it's just not going to work.
Speaker 2:You have to be consistent just like anything that works right, we've got to be consistent, just like with our health. We have to be consistent in our exercise.
Speaker 3:Yes, you don't go to the gym once and then you come back two months later and you're in the same shape you were. I mean, you're going to get out of shape, you, you're going to get out of shape you are. So I mean it's, it's a great procedure, um, if done right. I tell people this you know, just keep consistent with it. And then, um, we've got lotions that come with it that are amazing. Um, we also have a lotion by revision and it helps melt fat too, and it really does. I mean, I've used it. I'm very skeptical about everything, because you see a million things on Instagram every day.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, that's why I said it's so confusing, because you see so many things out there and the advertising makes it so enticing. Yes, they're doing a great job. That's what marketing is about, right? Amazing job, yes.
Speaker 3:I mean I myself, literally, and I do this for a living I've bought stuff and I'm like, oh, wow. And then I'm like, wow, this is why I do what I do, because those things don't work in the long run.
Speaker 2:They don't work.
Speaker 3:That's right, that's right, I mean your eyes could be lifted for one second with the crazy awesome eye cream.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, yeah, you put it under the eye and it shows. Yeah, I've seen that before. Well, it does look good it.
Speaker 3:Looks good for about I mean, 10 minutes. I mean I've had people come to me with terrible reactions from that. But I mean if it works for you know, one out of 100 million people like that's great, but don't expect for that to change your looks whatsoever.
Speaker 2:Absolutely so on this treatment. So when they call in, what should they ask for? Kelly want to do the the focused treatment around the abdomen to help melt the fat.
Speaker 3:So um I normally I like to have a consultation beforehand so I will book them for a consultation, um, and then we'll assess. You know how many treatments I think that they would need um, when they can start, when they can get on that schedule and be there, you know, every week for six weeks, um, and it takes about like 45 minutes um, so it's not bad, no no, and it does not hurt, like I said, um, it's, everything I do is fairly painless.
Speaker 3:I mean, all therapy is not painless, okay, but it's worth it. I mean, microneedling is a little itchy, but um right, you know, but the body contouring it, it has blown my mind.
Speaker 2:It feels good actually, that's awesome well and like it's probably it's painless the things that you mentioned versus you know all the botox and the fillers. Sometimes that can be pretty painful. Yes, depending on where you're having the injections. So do you like to have a consult with everybody the first time you see someone, regardless of what they want?
Speaker 3:Yes, Okay, 100%. And I ask them what comes to their face and neck and decollete? What is your skin regimen, even for your body? I mean, I've done lasering on the body before, um, for dark spots. I mean, the chest is a huge one that you know, people just yes, get a lot of sun on including myself, legs, I mean you can pretty much do anything that I have for your face, on your body so um, even like the um.
Speaker 3:There's a thing called the ultimate duo. So with the physique you can also do body microneedling for cellulite helps break like scar tissue up, okay. Um, so if someone just has like a lot of, like you know, just cellulite, sure tissue, um, it helps break that up.
Speaker 2:So you can I kind of stack those in between the physique treatments, and I think sometimes, as women, we're just more predisposed to higher fat content.
Speaker 3:Absolutely. Versus men, absolutely. And if someone's not, you know, responding great to the treatments, I ask them if they've had their hormones checked, because that's huge.
Speaker 2:I was going to ask you about hormones.
Speaker 3:Kelly, that plays a role in everything. If something is not working like it should your hormones are off. I mean because your body is acting way older than it should be If you don't have your hormones. You know, like my dad tells me, if your hormones are gone, your body is preparing to die. That's just how you know. Because after a woman gives birth and you know she goes into menopause and all that, um, I mean it's like what is that? All it's like? Are you just supposed to feel terrible?
Speaker 3:right and a lot of people were like yeah, well, this is my time, I guess, just to feel terrible.
Speaker 2:and then, oh, we've got a whole generation of women that's had a disservice because they were told that's just the way it is. You're older, you're going to gain some weight, feel bad, no energy man. That is just so wrong.
Speaker 3:Yeah, Well, I mean the hormones.
Speaker 2:I highly recommend them. It's made a huge difference. The vitamins too.
Speaker 3:The vitamins yes.
Speaker 2:I love the vitamins. I take all of them. I love methylene blue. I started that.
Speaker 3:That is amazing. Your energy levels, yes, minus the blue tongue for about 10 minutes. I think it's the best thing ever. I mean, even the blue tongue, I don't care, it prevents you from all sorts of diseases too. I mean like I mean it's you know.
Speaker 2:It's like taking ivermectin.
Speaker 3:Uh-huh, I take that too, I you know, come like flu season you know, put ivermectin in. You take orally twice a week and you're good. Yes, absolutely, and it's over the counter now. That's great. Yeah, that is great. Yeah, a lot of people don't know that.
Speaker 2:Well, kelly, this has been fantastic, I mean, I think it's just, I'd like to have you back so that we can kind of dive in a little bit more with some of these treatments, because I think it's, I think it would be a good opportunity to provide some education.
Speaker 2:Like yes what do we need to know, as as a client, on what we need to choose? As far to look better I really love what you said about the Botox. Far to look better I really love what you said about the Botox. I think that if you don't do the other things, you're just freezing muscle and it's just not going to work. You're just throwing money in a syringe. You're throwing money in a syringe.
Speaker 3:That's right. And not think it's bad, but you're just not going to get what you want.
Speaker 2:Yes, yeah, well, thank you for being on the show.
Speaker 1:Thank you so much, christina. I appreciate it. You're awesome. Thank you, come see me obviously, absolutely Everybody. Thank you, kelly. Thank you. This has been Benchmark Happenings, brought to you by Jonathan Tipton and Steve Reed from Benchmark Home Loans. Jonathan and Steve are residential mortgage lenders. They do home loans in Northeast Tennessee and they're not only licensed in Tennessee but Florida, georgia, south Carolina and Virginia. We hope you've enjoyed the show. If you did, make sure to like rate and review. Our passion is Northeast Tennessee, so if you have questions about mortgages, call us at 423-491-5405. And the website is wwwjonathanandstevecom. Thanks for being with us and we'll see you next time on Benchmark Happenings.
