You looked in the mirror and something had changed. And someone told you it was just aging.
Dr. Nanos sits down with Dr. William Umansky — a board-certified plastic surgeon with over 30 years in practice in La Jolla, Stanford-trained, named by his peers one of San Diego's Physicians of Exceptional Excellence — for the plain-language conversation most women never get.
They get into what estrogen actually does to skin, and why up to 30% of dermal collagen goes in the first five years after menopause, which is why the change can genuinely feel like it happened overnight. They get into rapid weight loss and the face, and Dr. Nanos makes the point that it was never really about the medication — the same thing happens after any large, fast weight loss. They get into where fillers stop working and what that conversation should sound like.
And then the part that should make you sit up: there is no medical board preventing a physician from another specialty from performing your facelift or your liposuction. "Cosmetic surgeon" is not a recognized board. Dr. Umansky explains exactly what to check, in about five minutes, before anyone operates on you.
Plus breast implants start to finish, saline vs. silicone, how long they last, when to scan them, the rare lymphoma, and whether mammograms are safe, and a rapid-fire round on sunscreen, side-sleeping, and "preventive" facelifts.
This is The Kind Revolution where we bridge science, compassion, and courage.
Hosted by Dr. Georgine Nanos, MD, MPH | Kind Health Group, Encinitas, CA
Guest: Dr. William Umansky, MD | drumansky.com
For education, not medical advice.
