Best of B Team: Injury Recovery Hacks: Healing Without Knives

A lot of “wellness” sounds good until you ask one question: does it actually work, and can someone explain why without the hype? That’s where we start. Josh Saffran, Matt Marrs and our permanent guest Rob Nelson, start talking about how our med spa has grown by listening to patients, doing the research, and refusing to chase every shiny trend that floats through the aesthetic medicine world. If you care about skincare that delivers, med spa services in Bentonville, or just making smarter choices with your health, you’ll feel right at home. 

We share what it looked like to go from a small set of offerings to a real operation with a strong staff, including how Madison came in as a part-time nurse and earned her way into the spa manager role by focusing on patient care, alternatives, and follow-through. From there, we get into the fun stuff: facial treatments, exfoliation, medical grade serums, acne and acne scarring, fine lines, and the microdermabrasion style device that leaves clients staring at a jar of “gunk” they didn’t know was in their skin. Gross, satisfying, and surprisingly educational. 

Then we pivot into peptides and injury recovery, including BPC-157 and why people are using it for stubborn issues like knee pain and meniscus injuries. We talk subcutaneous injections near the injury site, what dosing can look like, and the concept of angiogenesis as part of the healing conversation. We also keep it grounded: BPC-157 is not FDA approved, and nothing here is a reason to ignore your doctor or skip surgery when you truly need it. Education is the point, because the more you understand, the better your decisions get. 

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Transcript

Welcome And Cast Banter

SPEAKER_00 0:10

Welcome to the B Team Podcast. I am your host, Josh Stafford, with my co-host at Mars, and our permanent guest, Rob Nelson. We're here every week to talk to you about all things Bettonville, bourbon, and business. The B Team Podcast.

SPEAKER_02 0:25

Be here. I mean, he looks all tanned up. He looks like he's been on vacation or something. I mean, it must be uh the stuff I'm doing at the med spa and my my skin glows. I've been getting a lot of compliments on my skin lately.

SPEAKER_00 0:36

From Haley, your mom, and the friend in Hawaii?

Building The Med Spa Team

SPEAKER_02 0:39

Yep. Same people. Three viewers. Same three viewers. Before we get into peptides, though, we I mean, they've been here, right? How long have you been open up? Just uh a year and three or four months.

Madison Steps Into Leadership

SPEAKER_01 0:52

So tell us about the journey. Yeah, it's been crazy. So from you know, two years ago, my brother not wanting to be a full-time doctor anymore. Uh he okay. Sorry. Um, you know, sharing kind of his vision for what he wanted to create. Um, and me and him, two guys that you know knew what we wanted but didn't know how to do it, and uh getting together and putting a staff together that actually, you know, people could come in and get high-level treatment, yeah, which is super impressive. Things are that things are actually the team we assembled has been unbelievable. And since we opened including Madison, of course. Madison I was sure that we give a shout out here. Well, we'll tell you about Madison in a minute, but you know, we've added a lot of services because the the clientele and the patients that we see have asked for how you know, what do you think about this or what do you think about that? They don't they may not know the word peptide or sure whatever, but they like man, I like how this makes me look or I like how this makes me feel. And and so we just do a lot of um research. Um there's a lot of noise in the med spa business, uh things that are hokey and so we don't just jump into things, uh, but we've added a lot of services to win one of the things we added was Madison. So uh we had a need about oh almost a year ago now, right? June last year, maybe we had a need for a part-time nurse. Um we went through some changes after she joined us as a part-time nurse. She's uh still an ER nurse in Gravit and works at the hospital occasionally, too much, but she uh you know showed a super high capacity to really take care of patients and listen to them and find different alternatives. And so we promoted her to spa manager. So she runs to that.

SPEAKER_03 2:49

Yeah, cheers to that.

SPEAKER_00 2:51

Cheers.

SPEAKER_03 2:52

Cheers.

unknown 2:53

Thank you.

SPEAKER_00 2:54

Well, that means you have to spend more time with Bobby, though.

SPEAKER_03 2:56

Not complaining. As long as he brings Angie. I like I really like her.

SPEAKER_00 3:00

We all like Angie, we tolerate Bobby. We like Angie. That's how it usually goes.

SPEAKER_02 3:08

Like, uh, not complaining as long as the Angie's there. Anyways.

Facial Tech And The Gunk Jar

SPEAKER_01 3:15

Anyway, so um, you know, I think we just kind of started doing facials when we started a year ago. Um, we have two estheticians now. We've got uh microderma brasia machine. Don't know what that does, but evidently it's need to get it done yet?

SPEAKER_02 3:30

No, I haven't, but I'm very familiar with it.

SPEAKER_01 3:32

Yeah, because you're paying the bill. Um but it explains it. And it foliates your face and then injects medical grade serum into there to help with you know, whether it's acne or acne scarring or five months of wrinkles, that kind of thing. And the most fun part, and all the clients love this part, it sucks out gunk. Well, I can't see. That's the medical. That's the medical term. It sucks out gunk. And so you start with a clean jar of water, and then all the clients get to see all the gunk that we pull out of their face done. Um, they're rebooking. Uh, but it but it's a what really is a great uh service. Your pricing is amazing as well, too. You'd have to go.

SPEAKER_02 4:13

I was gonna say what's pricing for me, so I'll have to say the jar is more.

SPEAKER_03 4:20

Right, right.

BPC 157 For Injury Recovery

SPEAKER_02 4:21

Do you all want to touch briefly on what we're doing for injury? The daily touch on that real quick. What kind of what kind of injury?

SPEAKER_03 4:31

All three of us are on that right now. Well, you're about to start. But um, yeah, so that one, I mean, if that could be in our drinking water, that would just be amazing. Um, it's it's good for a whole bunch of stuff. Um, it's outside of that um GHRP class. It's called BPC 157. Um, and now that I've said it, it's gonna come up on your phones all over the place. But um, so it is one of those more site-specific injections. So for me, I tore my meniscus several years ago, went through, hey, me guys! I need to hear something mad me.

SPEAKER_00 5:00

I mean, it's hard to hold to the end. This is amazing. You want to see my scum? Boom, we just got it in.

SPEAKER_01 5:08

Do you have anything for tick bites?

SPEAKER_03 5:11

Do you have something for tick bites? Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 5:13

Uh we're testing it on my tick bites. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 5:16

I mean, so torment minis several years ago, went through physical therapy, all the scans, all the stuff, and they were like, I mean, surgery is pretty much your only option, or it's just always gonna buckle. Um, did a little over a week of BPC 157 and I got a huge improvement in my mobility, less swelling, less pain.

SPEAKER_00 5:33

Is it a shot? So right into the menaceus?

SPEAKER_03 5:36

So it's all sub-Q. So we all, no matter how much weight you lose, you always got a little layer of fat between beneath your skin, and that's just good. That's good. We don't want to lose that. So that's where your injection's going. It's just right beneath the skin near your point of injury. So I just popped it right in above my knee for um, you know, I think about nine days. Um I'm able to. So you have to shoot it every day for nine days? Twice a day, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 5:57

Twice a day. Oh, god, morning and night. So you're getting away.

SPEAKER_03 6:00

Yeah, that almost that almost knocked Angie out. She was like, twice a day for two weeks.

SPEAKER_02 6:05

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. And and I talked to her, she said, yes, I could share that today. Because, you know, I mean, thank God. It it it it's a suit today. Look, here's the thing like, why would you not want to share something that could I mean, like so has she started it? Uh no, not yet. It's on order.

SPEAKER_03 6:22

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 6:23

It's on order, should be in it. Now you're gonna have to give her the shot. Yeah. Or she could come into the spot.

SPEAKER_03 6:27

Yep. Yeah, we're more than happy to do that.

SPEAKER_02 6:28

So will it be for her the one she got surgery or the other one? Yeah, no.

SPEAKER_03 6:32

The one she got surgery.

SPEAKER_02 6:33

Yeah, so I feel I didn't know if that one was already. No, no, no, no. No, no, it's fine. Um, but it'll it'll just help with good.

Healing Claims Safety And Surgery

SPEAKER_03 6:39

Well, I mean, yeah, so it helps. Um, the medical word is angiogenesis, so it helps you form new blood vessels to that injured area. Um, there's a couple orthopedic surgeons who are prescribing it's a you know, not FDA approved, whatever, but um, they're recommending it to their pre-op patients. And some of them are coming forward and they're like, I don't really think I need the surgery anymore. Like, I'm fine. Obviously, if you have the through and through tear of your rotator cuff or whatever, don't skip your surgery. But um, your recovery time is cut down by at least 40% um pre or post-op with this stuff. Um, like I said, I've this is a years old injury that's been, you know, doctored up and done whatever, and I'm I'm seeing huge improvement. So yeah.

SPEAKER_02 7:20

Did you have surgery or did you not have surgery? So so you because it acted so well, you opted not to do the surgery.

SPEAKER_03 7:26

I mean, I just have been putting off the surgery for several years. But yeah, like I live on the third floor and there's no elevator. And like, I'm telling you, within a week of starting these, I was carrying stuff up and down the street apartment. I was like, oh, my knee's not clicking anymore.

SPEAKER_02 7:41

I mean, a world-class athlete like myself should have it. I mean, should try it. Yeah. Well, they didn't that they're just waiting for you to come in again.

SPEAKER_00 7:49

Well, I I didn't know that this thing existed. Just to and that's I know the education is most important.

SPEAKER_02 7:55

This is for the boots felt good on the camera. Like, we have let me put a needle on it. This is just all for me. Yeah, no, no, no.

SPEAKER_03 8:04

Education, like Todd's education.

SPEAKER_02 8:06

And can I clarify clarify something for the viewers? Well, we've used the word needle multiple times. It's not an I mean, it you don't even know if it went in.

SPEAKER_03 8:18

Five sixteenths of an inch. Yeah, I mean, it's you just sit down.

SPEAKER_02 8:24

Yeah. Just listening. Yeah. I'm telling you, like, like it. I mean, if you have bad eyesight, you're not gonna see it.