What Happens to Your Skin After GLP-1 Weight Loss
About this episode
Dr. Vincent Gardner discusses the implications of GLP-1 weight loss medications on skin health and cosmetic surgery.
Drug companies want you on these injections for life. Dr. Vincent Gardner sees it differently — and if you’re planning cosmetic surgery on the other side of a major transformation, that distinction matters. The combinations walking into our office at Eastern Shore are wild now. Someone had a Roux-en-Y a decade ago, regained, and dropped 50 more pounds on Wegovy. Someone else lost 160 pounds on Ozempic alone. Dr. Gardner explains why how you lost it matters as much as how much, and why medically supervised fasting hospitals in Europe show that gradual loss does something different for the dermis than a fast injection. The biggest myth he wants to bust: that GLP-1s will replace cosmetic surgery. The opposite is happening. Collagen and elastin don’t snap back when they’ve been stretched past their limit, and the people now booking arm lifts, buttock revisions, and abdominal pannus removals aren’t going anywhere. Plus: why he wants you 10 to 15 pounds from your goal before booking a tummy tuck, the two-week pre-op pause every weight loss medication user has to follow, and why a non-surgical skin tightening device is the wrong first move when you have stretch marks and a thin dermis…
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