Red Alinsod, MD - Cosmetic Gynecologist in Dallas, Texas

Eva Sheie (00:03):
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Eva Sheie (00:31):
Welcome back to Meet the Doctor. My name is Eva Sheie and my guest today is a Red Alinsod, and he is some might say the cosmetic gynecologist. Welcome to the podcast.

Dr. Alinsod (00:42):
Thanks so much. It's a pleasure to be here. I'm glad you invited me.

Eva Sheie (00:46):
Well, I honestly have been following you for a very long time, not just because of what you've worked on in your career, but because I have had friends work with you and for you over the years, and so it's always funny when you realize how small the little cosmetic world is. Will you, I mean, I think you should really start by telling us how you even started down the path of cosmetic gynecology, because I believe you were one of the first.

Dr. Alinsod (01:15):
Yes. It actually came down to me wanting to do surgery. I was an OB GYN resident, but my passion was doing surgery. So I initially wanted to become a female cancer surgeon because they had the toughest surgeries I thought. And my current field that I do is urogynecology, that's fixing bladders and rectums and things like that. That wasn't really a thing back in 1990 when I was finishing my residency. And so I actually did pursue a pelvic surgery, gynecologic surgery fellowship, and I got into Yale's gynecologic oncology program. But if you remember, 1990 was the time of the Gulf War, the first Gulf War, and so I was Air Force. They paid for my medical school, so they pulled me out of training. I didn't even get to start really, and I had to do my four years of payback, and by the time the war ended, I decided, I had been head of gynecologic services at two Air Force hospitals.

(02:14):
I really liked the benign surgery, so I decided not to go and pursue the oncology and instead pursue the benign surgery. So I started doing more pelvic reconstruction, fixing bladders, fixing rectums, and this was the time when laparoscopic surgery was just starting in the United States, and so I did a lot of laparoscopic surgeries. And then back in 1990, I had patients at Nellis Air Force Base. I was in Las Vegas at Nellis, and my patients would ask if I would do some of the cosmetic stuff like reducing the labia or tightening the vagina. And at that time, no one was really doing that as an elective thing, and since I was in the Air Force, I wanted to serve the Air Force wives. I started doing those procedures, they were approved by my commander, and so that's where I started doing the labial surgeries. I transformed my cancer surgery, such as vulvectomy. I made them into a cosmetic surgery, and instead of just cancer, I made modifications, refined it, and I started doing the labia surgery of the minora, the majora. I started doing hood surgeries. They were all cancer surgeries in the past, so I just modified it to become a cosmetic surgery. Then I started teaching that years later, and I started growing a program and I taught for 20 years, and now I am teaching mostly online and I'm slowing down a little bit on my live teaching. And so it's a great journey.

Eva Sheie (03:47):
When you got called out of Yale, as we are at those young ages, we are really angry when our plans change unexpectedly. Do you remember how that felt to have you?

Dr. Alinsod (03:58):
I was super pissed. I mean, it was so competitive to get into Yale's program. I was told that there were between 30 and 35 applicants for the one slot, and so I worked my butt off. I actually went over there, did rotations. I was basically a slave over at Yale New Haven Hospital for a little while because I wanted them to see me and how hard I worked. Anyway, I got in and I was very joyful, but when the Air Force decided that they would rescind my deferment, they actually deferred me. They said, okay, you can go there, spend your two or three years and then come back and do your active service with us. But the Gulf War started. You can't do anything about that. So they needed their surgeons active, and so I was very upset. I was very, very upset. But in the long run, I am thinking about it, my joy came from the benign surgeries, and it was a happier field. So God did me a favor. He put me in the right field into the right surgeries where it's more joyful, happy, creative, cosmetic inside of the cancer surgery. So I'm thankful actually it happened in retrospect. I can forgive now.

Eva Sheie (05:10):
Yeah, a sense of humor is often interesting like that, isn't it?

Dr. Alinsod (05:14):
Yeah, yeah. God has a strange sense of humor.

Eva Sheie (05:18):
Yes. So did you stay in the United States or were you sent overseas during that time?

Dr. Alinsod (05:25):
During that time, I was the lowest officer in the OB GYN department at George Air Force Base in Victorville. That was the home with the wild weasels. If you don't know what they are, those are the F4 phantom jets that are supposed to fly into an area and get shot at by missiles, they're purposely trying to get shot at, and so that the planes behind them can then lock onto the radar where those missiles are from and then destroy those missiles. So I was at George Air Force Base home of the Wild weasels, and I was a junior officer, so my senior officer, we all wanted to go to the, we were young and so young and stupid. We all wanted to go to war or have these grandiose ideas of fighting. And so I was a junior officer and they made me stay. My senior officers were the ones that got to go to Saudi Arabia and have fun. When they came back, they were all just happy Bravo man. They got to travel and all that. They experienced a once in a lifetime thing. I didn't get to go. I had to man the actual hospital and do the gynecology for the hospital, and I had to deliver babies, so.

Eva Sheie (06:31):
That was my next question. You had to do everything right?

Dr. Alinsod (06:34):
Yeah, I did to be the base OB GYN, the one base OB GYN. So I was on call every night. I had no break.

Eva Sheie (06:44):
How many babies did you deliver?

Dr. Alinsod (06:46):
Oh, I can't remember. I stopped delivering babies almost 20 years ago, but in let's say 20 years of delivering babies that I did do over 10,000.

Eva Sheie (06:56):
Yes, not a small number.

Dr. Alinsod (06:59):
Lots of babies.

Eva Sheie (07:02):
And lots of nights where you probably didn't get to sleep much.

Dr. Alinsod (07:06):
Yeah, a lot of those. But I had fantastic nurse midwives at the two Air Force bases I worked at, so they made life so much easier for me. They would take turns taking call and I would back 'em up also, and so I got to sleep more than in residency. So that was a blessing.

Eva Sheie (07:26):
It's all relative.

Dr. Alinsod (07:27):
Yeah, it's all relative.

Eva Sheie (07:28):
Okay. So during this time, you're really sort of forming a perspective on what cosmetic gynecology is. Nobody's calling it that, but there's demand. Patients are asking you for this.

Dr. Alinsod (07:40):
Yeah, there's a demand. Nobody, it was not a field at all. And in fact, doing Labiaplasty was called modified vulvectomy or radical vulvectomy. At that time. There was no words such as labiaplasty at that time. There was no words, words such as clitoral hood reduction. Vaginoplasty meant creating a vagina for some congenital disease at that time. So no, these were all just new things. And when I got out of the Air Force in 94, I joined a group in Los Angeles, a big multi-specialty group. They had probably 150 doctors, 12 OB GYNs. And so for my first 10 years, I was a pelvic reconstructive surgeon doing mostly urogynecology in Los Angeles, in the Northridge area where the earthquake was. And a little aside is that's where I met my wife. She gave me a tour of the hospital right after the earthquake. The Northridge hospital was all pretty destroyed, and she was touring me to show me, do you really want to work here? I mean, we just got killed by this earthquake.

Eva Sheie (08:45):
She was trying to get you to leave?

Dr. Alinsod (08:48):
She was just trying to tell me that this is a dangerous place. Well, when I met her, I knew I'd her, and so I said, I'm working here. So I stayed on that area. When I met her on that tour, I knew she would be the one.

Eva Sheie (09:04):
Really?

Dr. Alinsod (09:05):
Yeah, it's true. No one believes me. Even my wife says, oh, you're just making that up. But it's true. She gave me the tour of Northridge Hospital that was just shattered to bits by the earthquake. They were delivering babies in the parking lot. That's how bad it was at that time.

Eva Sheie (09:24):
So what did you do next to get her attention? What was the next thing you did?

Dr. Alinsod (09:29):
Oh, I was a big chicken. It took me another year and a half to ask her out.

Eva Sheie (09:34):
So you took the job so you could be near her. What was her job at the hospital?

Dr. Alinsod (09:37):
She was head nurse. She was charge nurse for labor and delivery for babies. So I got to know her character. She got to know mine in the pits there, doing deliveries, taking calls and all that. That was a good way to get to know her.

Eva Sheie (09:54):
I bet. Okay, so now you're in Northridge, you're there for 10 years, and then this multi-specialty group.

Dr. Alinsod (10:03):
Right, and multi-specialty group. I had to take OB call, but really the focus of my practice was doing surgeries, and I was in surgery about two to two and a half days a week. So I was doing what, 30 cases a month and higher sometimes a lot of surgeries, pretty much surgical based practice. And I got involved with many of the companies who were designing and developing pelvic reconstructive devices for incontinence, for fallen bladder, fallen rectum. And I designed a bunch of things for different companies such as incontinence devices, and do you remember those meshes that were in the news all the time and so many lawsuits flying because of meshes? Well, I own the patents to those things, two of them. And so it was one of my best inventions, but it was probably my least profitable invention because FDA took a lot of it out of the market.

(11:01):
Too many untrained doctors were doing the surgeries. Great system, great device, and it's still out there on the market today for select patients. It's really wonderful for the right patients, but too many untrained doctors were doing these cases, and a lot of the lawyers got in on it and started doing these class action suits. And so what I thought were brilliant inventions and patents were kind of retired and put aside. So when that happened, I'd made a change again. I left my practice in Northridge and I was recruited as a pelvic surgeon, a urogynecologist in Laguna Beach, California, in Orange County, in South Orange County. And at that time, there was no one doing full-time urogynecology in all of San Clemente, Dana Point, Laguna Beach, San Juan Capistrano. So they recruited me. South Coast Medical Center recruited me and brought me to Orange County, built out my office, got me a staff supported me, and I grew the urogynecology practice then.

(12:07):
And that's also the start, 2005, by the way, January 5th, 2005. That's when I decided, well, no one's doing this kind of specialty of cosmetic gynecology. Why don't we make something of it? Because there's a demand. People are willing to pay for these procedures. There's very few skills or know what this skill is all about. And so I started teaching the stuff I did. I started teaching it and announcing it around the world that I was teaching the labiaplasty. And I had come up with techniques on how to do 'em in the office, the wonderful stuff. I didn't have to take the patients to the operating room. I can do entire labiaplasty vaginal tightening surgeries in my office because I had learned how to numb them in the office very comfortably. And we were able to do 'em even more safe in my office than in the operating room because there were no needles in the back. There was no tubes down your throat, you didn't even have to have an iv. You're awake talking to me while I was doing surgeries. And that attracted a lot of doctors from all around the world. And my training program just blossomed from 2005 up until I sold my practice about almost two years ago.

Eva Sheie (13:22):
I know quite a few plastic surgeons who went to see you for that training.

Dr. Alinsod (13:26):
Yes, the plastic surgeons are wonderful. And so I used to run a congress for a decade from about, what was it, 2006 to 2015, I ran the Congress on Aesthetic Vulvavaginal surgery, cavs, C-A-V-S, and we had one motto and the motto was, we were medically agnostic. We didn't care what specialty you were in, dermatology, plastics, gynecology. As long as you had an interest and you had the skill, it all came down to skill, skill and knowledge. And so we were just medical agnostics at that meeting. We invited doctors from all specialties to come in and speak, and I did that for a decade and now it's run by Dr. Marco Pelosi in New Jersey, and we have our yearly meeting, and he's done a brilliant job running and teaching around the world. He's very influential, and the two Pelosi's, senior and junior are able to run it and take the stuff that I've helped with and they've taken it to another level.

Eva Sheie (14:33):
I love the collegiality. And what I want to try to draw a connection to is that when you're all oriented around helping women have better lives and everything else is easy, and I wonder what elements of that have been a part of what you've been doing?

Dr. Alinsod (14:54):
I think for me, people know me as the second chance doctor, because for example, I have, being in Orange County where I lived in the average HFO woman was 44. So these are people who are done having kids, alright? Their kids are high school or maybe in college already, and many of them are divorced and they want to rekindle that old magic and they're just not secure about it because the damages of childbirth and labor plus aging things look saggy or are just very painful, dry. And so that's kind of what I specialized in. I became the second chance doctor, they saw me after feeling this way and we were able to get their tissues back to the way it was in their twenties and thirties, non-surgically, and then if they needed surgery to get it to appear a certain way, not a saggy or a loose as before or get back the snugness of their vaginal canal, for example, someone who's had 10 pound babies. We were able to do that. So I kind of got known by my patients as the second chance doctor, and I'm trying to bring that here to Dallas now and help our practice, Dr. Brady and I, we worked together to be the second chance practice of Dallas inTexas, and that's really our goal is to help the women out there who feel that it's over. We can't do anymore we're, our sex lives are done. No, it isn't. You got the second chance we can help you.

Eva Sheie (16:36):
Do you find that most women think once these kinds of things or conditions happen that they really don't know that there's ways to fix it?

Dr. Alinsod (16:44):
Most don't. They're very shocked that we have non-surgical ways to do an energy-based device, such as radiofrequency or lasers to get their tissues back the way they were because they hear nothing but negative maybe in the news or the media that, for example, one example is lasers can burn, they'll burn you, they'll scar you. There was a whole big FDA thing about it just a few years ago, and that was the extreme fringe edges of people who weren't trained trying to do it. The trained people know how to do it, and it's exceptionally, exceptionally safe and helpful. And now we have biologic stuff like platelet rich plasma, amniotic fluid exosomes that can make your tissues look and function the way they were when you're in twenties and thirties. Really just those simple things, a little energy and a little biologic can bring things back to normal if not better than before. And you don't even have to have any kind of surgeries for that. You can start on hormone thereapy, for example, and start getting back your sex drive or get rid of those hot flashes, improve your sleep, improve the moisture in your genital tissues, non-surgical stuff. And then for those who want to have a certain appearance or a certain tightness, then they can have surgery if they want. But that's not the majority. The majority can be helped non-surgically in very safe manners, and it's not like millions of dollars either.

Eva Sheie (18:19):
Let's try something maybe fun, maybe I think it's fun and maybe you think is not fun, but.

Dr. Alinsod (18:23):
Sure, sure.

Eva Sheie (18:24):
Let's do the three most common things you think women don't know we can fix and how you fix them.

Dr. Alinsod (18:32):
Okay, so let's start with something that's non-surgical inability to become aroused or orgasmic.

Eva Sheie (18:41):
Kind of a big deal.

Dr. Alinsod (18:42):
Kind of a big deal. People think, oh, I'm old. It's just aging. It's just gone. It's just gone. I had my time. It's over. I just better remember what happened before.

Eva Sheie (18:52):
That one time.

Dr. Alinsod (18:53):
That one time. That's not true. You can bring back, it's all about blood flow. If you can bring back the blood flow to the clitoral nerves, the G-spot area, if you believe in that and just increase the blood flow in that area, you'll get your moisture back and in some cases the sensitivity comes back. But not only that, there are treatments out there such as radio waves and let's say platelet rich plasma, your own growth factors can be used to improve the way the nerves sense things. Alright, for example, 2016 I published an article showing that radio waves can improve the sensitivity of the clitoral area and genital tissues so that you can achieve an orgasm in one half to one third less time than before treatment. These were patients who had a hard time achieving orgasms, so I treated them with radio waves.

(19:52):
Radio waves alone, I didn't even use any biologics and treating them with radio waves. At that time I was using ThermiVa. I owned the patent on ThermiVa. I don't work with a company anymore, but it's a great device and I treated the genital areas, the G-spot areas, the clitoral area, exceptionally safe. It feels like a warm massage and you treat that area. And I had doctors in San Diego, a dermatology practice who teaches other doctors. They have a fellowship. They did biopsies on these sites and they found that these treated areas had an increase in density of small nerve fibers. Can you believe that? The first known energy-based device to show an increase in the density of small nerve fibers. And that explained while women were getting better sensitivity and were now able to achieve orgasms without as much work as they used to, I was able to help women who are completely anorgasmic. They hadn't had an orgasm in years achieve it. Not all of 'em. I was successful in about three out of five. I didn't help everybody, but in three out five, those anorgasmic women were starting to have orgasms again. So that's one myth.

Eva Sheie (21:02):
This was like 10 ish years ago, right?

Dr. Alinsod (21:04):
Yeah, I did the srudy 2015 to 2016 and I published it in 2016.

Eva Sheie (21:09):
Okay. So if ThermiVa was sort of V one, what have you done since then?

Dr. Alinsod (21:16):
Well, I've worked with ThermiVa, the radio frequency, and I still think radio waves for this kind of condition is still the best. I've also worked with certain companies on lasers, and lasers are wonderful for moisture production to do micro damage to the inside of the vaginal tissues to force new blood vessels to be formed and with new blood vessels. By the way, if some of our audience may not know vaginal moisture is from blood flow, it's not from glands or anything like that. So if you increase blood flow inside the vagina, that blood has serum and that serum passes through the walls of the blood vessels and into your vagina. So the actual moisture in a vagina is called a transudate. It's from the blood vessels, it's not from a gland. So if you can increase the blood flow in the vagina, you can help.

(22:05):
So we're now able to do it. My original research was radio waves, but me and my friends and more so my friend in Argentina, Adrian Gaspar, he showed that the use of lasers inside the vagina could do the same thing as radio waves. He's a brilliant man. I did a lot of my further research using amniotic fluid, believe it or not, the amnio fluid where babies swim around. I was able to find that that was anti-inflammatory and I used that and injected it on the basis of the bladder, and my patients with overactive bladder had reduction in having to wake up at night or having to pee 20 times in a day. So amniotic fluid has been found to be tremendous for overactive bladder.

Eva Sheie (22:53):
Where were you getting the amniotic fluid? I'm asking the question everybody wants to ask right now.

Dr. Alinsod (22:59):
Well, you get it from planned C-sections. These patients who are infertility patients are managed in a different way. They have cultures taken all the time. They're checked for infections, and at the time of c-section, you collect the fluid before the baby's delivered and then you deliver the baby. So the amniotic fluid is collected from screened patients at the time of C-section, and then the amniotic fluid is then treated to kill any bacteria or viruses, and the amniotic fluid is then collected thousands to millions of uses and no infections with amniotic fluid because it's been screened. And I think, I'm not sure exactly, but amniotic fluid may be one of those that they also gamma irradiate to kill any viral particles. So those have been pretty mind blowing stuff. We didn't have much many other choices for overactive bladder other than drugs, pelvic floor, physical therapy, sometimes Botox injections into the bladder, and now really simple amniotic fluid, one minute injection on the base of the bladder. Isn't that amazing?

Eva Sheie (24:05):
That's incredible.

Dr. Alinsod (24:06):
Yeah.

Eva Sheie (24:08):
Well, you kind of gave us number one and number two together because if number one was treating anorgasmia with radio waves, then number two was treating urinary incontinence with amniotic fluid.

Dr. Alinsod (24:19):
Number three, probably labial surgery. I do a lot of labiaplasty and people didn't realize you can do something about it. In fact, there's still a lot in the population out there who are mad at doctors like me who do these type of surgeries because they think you should just live with it. It's part of nature. And you're mutilating patients by doing this.

Eva Sheie (24:45):
Anyone who says that doesn't have to live with it.

Dr. Alinsod (24:47):
Right, exactly. They don't have to live with it. If you were born with one breast that was tiny and the other one with those massive to your knees and you want 'em to look similar and the same, I don't think you'd have too hard time with that. Or let's say your nose is deviated so much that you can't breathe or it's just a letter L on your nose. Would it be okay to fix that? It's the same thing. It's a cosmetic surgery. It's an elective thing. It's not life or death, it's a cosmetic, but if it's going to improve your appearance and your self-esteem, I don't know why you're trying to limit the choices of women instead of expanding their choices to help themselves. One of the youngest patients I did a labiaplasty on was a 14-year-old. It was the most embarrassing thing for this poor young girl. She was in swim team and she was swimming a leg of a relay, so she swims a leg of her relay, she gets out of the pool and her mother sitting in the stands just gasped because her labia sticking out of her swimsuit and she didn't know it.

Eva Sheie (25:47):
Oh no.

Dr. Alinsod (25:47):
The whole audience is watching her running across the pool area with her labia sticking out. Mom grabs a towel, runs over to her and covers her, and she's in tears. She doesn't know what's going on, and she finds out the entire stadium, saw her labia hanging out. 14 years old, see how traumatic that is? Oh my goodness. Anyway, the weekend later they flew to see me, there in Florida. They flew to see me in Laguna Beach and we fixed that. And now she competed in high school and college with a lot of confidence and just that simple, very safe in-office surgery saved that girl's self-esteem improved their quality of life. So the naysayers out there are just not looking at the whole picture.

Eva Sheie (26:37):
They never are.

Dr. Alinsod (26:38):
Yeah.

Eva Sheie (26:40):
Well, okay, so you're in Dallas. What inspired you or motivated you to move from Newport Beach? Is that where you were?

Dr. Alinsod (26:48):
I was in Laguna Beach.

Eva Sheie (26:50):
Laguna Beach. When you're not from California, the beaches are all really the same, aren't they?

Dr. Alinsod (26:55):
Yeah. Where are you recording from?

Eva Sheie (26:57):
I'm in Austin.

Dr. Alinsod (26:58):
Oh, okay. Okay. So you're a Texan too.

Eva Sheie (27:01):
Yeah, I got here as fast as I could.

Dr. Alinsod (27:04):
Well, I had a happy career in Laguna Beach. It's the best place to practice. I was there almost 20 years and got to know my staff, my patients really well, and it was a hard decision to leave. But when your kids move, my youngest son goes to TCU and after being there for a little while, he says, dad, I love Texas, I love Fort Worth. And he says, I'm not coming back to California. And I go, what? You're not, why you're a California boy. He says, dad, I love it here. And so my daughter, who is about 10 years older than my son, and she's an artist, she does set design art direction. She went to art center in Pasadena and was working in the Hollywood area. She did movies and things like that. She goes to visit my middle son at TCU and they have a good time and she takes a drive to Dallas just to see what the market is like. So she goes to Dallas and goes to the North Park Mall. Do you know that mall up there? It's really nice. And she sees a sign artist needed. So she applies in a week later. She gets the job to be the head artist at Louis Vuitton.

(28:19):
Yes. To do all the artwork on the luggage, the a hundred thousand dollars luggage, those expensive cases that people, yes. So she's the artist.

Eva Sheie (28:30):
So, she's like the custom ones?

Dr. Alinsod (28:31):
Yes. So they give her that job. They hadn't found an artist of good quality for 18 months, and she goes in there and they test her. What do they do? They give her a piece of Louis Vuitton leather. Right? You've seen the Louis Vuitton standard leather, and they give it to her and they say, alright, draw something three dimensional. And they gave her a bunch of other stuff to do, and so she does the work and she sends it in, and the New York Louis Vuitton judges call her within a week. She's really good. Samantha, my daughter's Samantha, she was really good. So she got the job. Then she moves to Texas, to Dallas, and after about six months, she also calls us and says, dad, I'm not moving back to California either. Dylan and I are going to stay in Texas.

Eva Sheie (29:16):
It happens.

Dr. Alinsod (29:17):
It happens. And so my wife looks at me and she goes, we got to move you know? And I go, yeah, and so in one weekend we decide to sell the house. We got it sold in a weekend, and then my practice was the harder part. It took me a couple months to sell the practice and start the transition to Texas. And so that's how I ended up in Texas and loved it since. We've just really enjoyed being here, working with Dr. Wesley Brady and the fantastic staff here in Dallas. And I don't have a live teaching anymore. I gave that to the one who purchased my practice. But I have expanded my online teaching with my collection of about 20 years worth of videos, and I created platform. Have you ever heard of Netflix?

Eva Sheie (30:10):
I have.

Dr. Alinsod (30:10):
You know what Netflix is, right? Well, I created a platform where I put all my gynecologic surgeries and I call it Gynflix. And I have subscribers to Gynflix from all over the world, about 60 countries of doctors, watch my videos and learn how to do these labial surgeries, nonsurgical treatments, OShot, vampire wing lifts, vaginoplasty. And so I use my Gynflix as my teaching now, and I also use Gynflix to teach the lay public. I've been working a month on a basic 30 minute labiaplasty explanation and teaching video for the lay public, and I'm about to release it this afternoon. So perfect timing. Yes.

Eva Sheie (30:51):
Oh. That's exciting. Well, if you give us a link, we'll make sure we put it in the show notes

Dr. Alinsod (30:55):
For this episode. I sure will. I sure will. And that would be a free video. It's taken me over probably 120 hours to put together because it's surgery plus live, plus my best pictures, and I'll release that this afternoon.

Eva Sheie (31:09):
Excellent. So are you still training in person if someone wants to come see you in Dallas in that office?

Dr. Alinsod (31:16):
No, I don't have a live training here anymore. And so I will be using mostly my online teaching in the future. You never know what will happen if the opportunity internationally comes around. I've been asked to train internationally. This year is going to be busy. I'll be in Peru next week, and then the Philippines and Istanbul, and there's a lot of places to teach this year. This is my year to start traveling again. I haven't traveled much in the past two years because of the pandemic and the move to Texas and all that.

Eva Sheie (31:54):
So for patients who might be considering a visit to see you, what kinds of things are you taking care of there in the Dallas office?

Dr. Alinsod (32:02):
I'm a pelvic re constructive surgeon. So the tough stuff I take care of are the fallen bladders, fallen uterus, fallen rectums, leaky bladder repairs. Those are my bread and butter things. And I also do endometrial ablations for those who bleed a lot if they need the lining of their uterus ablated. So those are the fun things I do. And I don't do the laparoscopy anymore, but the elective stuff that I do are the labia minoraplasty, the labia majoraplasty, clitoral hood reductions, perineoplasty to make the outside look pre pregnancy, vaginoplasty to tighten the inside. And then a growing business, huge business actually is management of anal skin tags. No one wants to take care of them, those things that hang out there, general surgeons, GI doctors, nobody wants them. And so we have a full-blown anal skin tag excision practice here in Dallas. Dr. Brady's done a brilliant job setting it up and getting it marketed, and we both do the surgeries for that. Other surgeries we do are non-surgical things such as ThermiVa and some of the laser treatments. We have an InMode and a ThermiVa, and we have a Mona Lisa here. I do all the vampire wing lifts, the plumping of the Labia majora, the OShot. And here's the thing, not too many, no one in your audience will know about this, but Clitoxin was launched just a couple of weeks ago and we're a Clitoxin center. Do you know what that is?

Eva Sheie (33:36):
No. And it's rare that I haven't heard of something. So now I'm intrigued.

Dr. Alinsod (33:40):
Dr. Charles Reynolds, the inventor of the OShot, brilliant man, he added Botox to the PRP and injecting both PRP and Botox into the clitoris results in vasodilation and increased blood flow of that area. And not only that, the Botox travels up nerves into ganglion of the brain to help with desire. So not only does it increase sensitivity, but his theory is that the Botox travels to centers of the brain that then liven or wake up your desire, sexual desire. He has a small study he published, it just came out two weeks ago, and he presented his research at the International Society of Cosmetic Gynecology about a month ago, and now he's training doctors for it will be a center offering this to women in the Dallas area, Texas area, wherever you're coming from.

Eva Sheie (34:39):
I am dumbfounded.

Dr. Alinsod (34:41):
I thought that would be a new thing for you.

Eva Sheie (34:43):
Okay. Well, you're going to have to come back and tell us more about that one because there's a lot more to unpack there.

Dr. Alinsod (34:50):
It's a lot to unpack. I'm going to be doing my own newsletter, by the way, for your audience out there, I have three newsletters that you should look at on substack.com. The first one is for the lay public, and it's called the Feminine Wellness Newsletter. So please take a look at that for the lay public. And I really go into details on certain topics. The second one made for doctors, if there are doctors listening to this is my cosmetic gynecology newsletter. And I tackle all the feminine wellness stuff too, but in a doctor level. And my third one I just started this year in January, is my Labiaplasty newsletter where I give details on how I achieve my labiaplasty results. So that's obviously for a specific group of surgeons who want to do plasty. So I have those, they're all on Substack. Look 'em up.

Eva Sheie (35:41):
Okay, I will. We'll put those in the show notes too.

Dr. Alinsod (35:44):
Awesome.

Eva Sheie (35:45):
And so for patients who would want to come see you in Dallas, where should they look online for more information?

Dr. Alinsod (35:51):
It's easy. Alinsod institute.com.

Eva Sheie (35:54):
Okay.

Dr. Alinsod (35:55):
Yeah. Alinstod institute.com. For those who want to watch my surgical videos, that would be Gynflix.com.

Eva Sheie (36:02):
Very memorable.

Dr. Alinsod (36:04):
Can I plug our really easy telephone number?

Eva Sheie (36:06):
Of course.

Dr. Alinsod (36:07):
It's nine four five. My two favorite calibers in Texas.

Eva Sheie (36:12):
Nine, the nine millimeter and the 45?

Dr. Alinsod (36:15):
I purposely chose that. It's a Waxahatchee number. 9 4 5 9 0 0 7 5 7 6. 9 4 5 9 0 0 7 5 7 6.

Eva Sheie (36:28):
Well, thank you. I can't say thank you enough, Dr. Alinsod. It was really a true privilege to talk to you today.

Dr. Alinsod (36:35):
Thank you. This is so much fun. This is probably the most fun I've had doing a podcast, so thank you for the invitation. I'm going to have to thank Dion for getting me on this too.

Eva Sheie (36:46):
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