This episode digs into one of aesthetic medicine's biggest current conversations: how GLP-1 medications affect facial volume, collagen, and elastin, and why a knowledgeable, multidisciplinary team matters as much as the medication itself. Drs. Alexander and Badessa discuss what happens when rapid weight loss outpaces skin and structural support, and what a thoughtful, long-term plan for facial health actually looks like.

The conversation also turns personal, as Dr. Alexander shares candid details from her own recent facelift, neck lift, and eye surgery, including the gut healing, hormone work, Sculptra, and laser treatments that prepared her skin beforehand, and the healing protocols that followed. She speaks openly about the buyer's remorse so many patients feel in those first days of recovery, and how going through it herself deepened her ...