Fillers and BBLs Using Fat From the Dead

For this next segment, let me start by asking a question. I know we're already sort of at the tail end of summer, but how much do you want that perfect beach body? Is it enough to discipline yourself, steal your will, go to the gym regularly, and eat a diet that is calorically deficient such that you're losing weight over time? Probably no. That's a lot of work, sounds like a bit of a hassle. So instead, is it enough to get liposuction and have someone come in and shuffle your fat around your own body? Maybe. But how about getting your own body enhanced by injecting fat that came from dead people? That a bit too much? Well, that's exactly what's happening in the cosmetic industry. They, much like the food industry, they're moving away from synthetic fillers to more natural ingredients. And these ingredients are as natural as they come. Although you might be asking yourself, why do they need to inject fat from dead people? Why not just lipo one area and move it to another? Is that really too much of a hassle? And that is still possible, but here's the twist of the story. The rise of these GLP-1 weight loss drugs are leaving people without enough fat to move around. Let's go through it all together right after you smash those like and subscribe buttons so this video can be picked up by the algorithm and shared out to ever more people. Thank you so much for doing that. Now, to begin with, when most people think about donating our bodies after death, we think of maybe lives getting saved through organ donation or scientific research being done in order to advance the level of medicine, things like that. However, there's now a new use for cadavers, butt lifts, breast enhancements, as well as hip dips, which is a type of surgery to create the classic hourglass shape. You see, the classic procedure, I guess if you would call it, is to take your own fat from one part of the body and inject it into another part. But now, the cosmetic industry's sourcing fat from dead bodies and injecting it into living people who want to enhance their figure, making the procedures a lot easier and a lot quicker. And it's worth mentioning that this is not necessarily a new development. The aesthetics industry has long harvested materials from organ and tissue donors and repurposed them for aesthetic purposes. Here is a New York plastic surgeon talking about the issue. Quote, we have been using cadaver tissue, cartilage, and bone for a while now. I use cadaver rib in complex rhinoplasties and cadaver tendons in facial reconstruction among other cadaver tissues. The difference though, is that unlike what he was describing here, facial reconstruction surgery after something like a car accident or some other serious health emergency like that, we're now using these cadaver source tissues to simply just change the aesthetics of a person. It's a purely elective procedure. And so you might be asking yourself, how did this even come about? If you rewind the clock back five years to the year 2021, that was when Tissue Bank MTF Biologics developed a way to repurpose human fat. They called their product Renuva, and it's commonly used now to restore volume in smaller areas such as the face, the hands, and the neck. Three years later then in 2024, a product called Alloclay was launched by Tiger Aesthetics, a separate company. It works in a similar way, but has a bigger volume, more suitable for body enhancement. And so now instead of just the little lines of the face or maybe the parts between the bones and the hands, now you can do entire areas that you couldn't do before. Now, the way that this process works is fascinating. You have the fat from cadavers being treated to remove all of its DNA, all the RNA, as well as all the proteins from it. Basically the whole thing is wiped clean. Then the remaining fat cells, they are more like a shell of their previous selves, I guess you can say, but they work in much the same way that a fat cell would. Then this dead person's fat is injected into a living person's area to be enhanced. The patient's body recognizes it as fat, and then their own cells convert it into their own body's fat. Biopsy procedures a year after the treatment, they show that the new fat looks and behaves exactly like native fat in the patient's own body. I guess you can say death quite literally becomes you. This process is explained fairly well by a Beverly Hills plastic surgeon named Dr. Timothy Katzen. Take a listen. So when we transfer the products, the aloe clay, it's fat cells, dead fat cells. Those fat cells are not gonna magically come to life. Those are dead, they're gone. But the fat cells are in sort of this matrix, this complex sort of structure, and that whole thing gets injected into you. And so your body replaces the dead fat cells theoretically with new soft tissue, whether it's scar tissue, whether it's collagen, whether it's new fat cells, but it's sort of this matrix which allows your body to infiltrate it and restructure it. All right, just to pause here for a super quick moment, if you've watched our program, Facts Matter, then you know that we focus on one thing, which is the facts, not speculation, not narratives, just what the data shows. And right now, the data globally is pointing in a direction people should really be paying attention to, which is the fact that global conflicts are fueling market uncertainty. That's why I believe in owning something real, something physical, something that the government can't just inflate away, which is physical gold and physical silver from today's sponsor, which is American Hartford Gold, the company that I trust and who I've been personally buying from for many years now. These are tangible assets. 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Now, this is just part of a much wider trend in the entire aesthetics industry that's moving towards more natural, and I guess you can say regenerative materials. Instead of using things like synthetic fillers, surgeons and patients are now looking towards biological alternatives that work with the body's own repair mechanisms, which in the end helps the tissue function better. So when it's just fat that's been, I guess you can say wiped clean, your own body comes in, ultimately becomes your own fat. It sits better. It looks better, at least in theory. Now, similar procedures can be performed without the need for a cadaver, for a dead person. For instance, hyaluronic acid fillers can add volume to the face as well, and the liposuction industry as a whole has long been removing fat from one area of a person's body, usually their belly, and injecting it into another. But there are two main reasons why those seeking bigger butts and bigger breasts are now calling on the dead. One is, I guess what you can call filler fatigue. This refers to the distortion, puffiness, and loss of natural facial structure that comes from long-term use, or I guess also excessive use of cosmetic fillers. This can result in stretched skin and a bloated look known as pillow face, and it's caused by water retention and a lack of lymphatic drainage. Basically, if someone has overused those fillers, you can usually look at them and tell. Then the other reason behind the shift to cadaver fat is the rise of these GLP-1 drugs, which are shrinking American bodies. You had a recent Gallup report back in July say that 11% of American adults are on either Wagobe or Ozempic. That's up from 3% in 2024. And if you do the math, that means 30 million people are currently on weight loss drugs in America alone. That's a whole lot of fat that's being shed. But some of these people are losing weight in the areas that they don't want to lose weight in, and if they then want to go and enhance certain parts of their bodies, liposuction is no longer an option for them. The GLP-1s have just literally left them without enough fat to move around the body, hoisted, I guess, by their own petards, as they would say in the UK. Beverly Hills plastic surgeon Dr. Daniel Barrett tells more about this kind of current state of affairs. And you can be awake, and you take a little injection cannula, and you inject it into the buttock so that you get volumization with fat. It works really well. Downside is it's a bit expensive, right? All of this product costs money. If you have your own fat, obviously, natural fat transfer is going to be a lot better and cheaper. But if you don't have that, or you just don't want to undergo anesthesia to get the liposuction, this is a great option to do interlocal. You sit there, we numb up the area, make a tiny little hole, and we inject the product using the syringe and this tiny little cannula here, okay? So it's generally tolerated pretty well. And then it kind of builds a little bit the first few days as it hydrates, and then it lasts forever. And so this is where donated cadaver fat comes in to basically fill the gap in the market, literally. But the obvious question here is, is it morally right to take fat from dead bodies and then use it in a for-profit way like this to create products that are then sold to people looking to look better? Especially when the person who made the donation of their bodies wasn't necessarily aware that this is what their fat is going to be used for. You see, when you go to the DMV and you check that organ donation box, that's mainly about organs for transplant, things like hearts, kidneys, liver, lungs, and so on. And it also covers the donation of tissues, things like corneas, skin tissue, bone, tendons, heart valves, as well as ligaments. Fat is not usually considered, but fat can be recovered as a part of that tissue donation process, especially when either skin or other tissues are already being taken out, meaning that no one is actually being asked whether they'd like to donate their fat to cosmetics rather than only donate their organs to save lives, but the fat might still be getting donated to those companies. But obviously, that's not guaranteed to happen since there are so many factors involved in being a broad organ donor. The bulk of the fat inventory actually winds up coming from whole body donation programs or tissue banks. If you donate your body to one of those types of services, thinking that it's going either for science or for organ donations to help save lives, then the fat has to, I guess, go somewhere, and that somewhere might be in somebody else's butt. Now, whether it's ethical or not is a different question from whether it's legally permitted. And you had Professor Arthur Kaplan of bioethics at NYU tell this to the CNN, quote, it really is betraying altruism to make money. I think that's an ethics problem. On the flip side, you had a New York-based plastic surgeon, Dr. B. Aviva Preminger tell Beauty News, the Beauty News website, the following, quote, I do not believe the use of donor tissue is inherently unethical, but it does require careful discussion so that patients can make truly informed decisions. A Massachusetts-based plastic surgeon added the following, quote, it's no different than using tendons to replace a torn ACL or bone graft to replace areas where the bone has deteriorated or even receiving a blood transfusion. Human tissue has been used for a long time to treat different issues within the body, and this is no different. And so there you have it. Leave your thoughts in the comments about what you think on this issue. Is it ethical or is it outside the pale of what you assume you are donating your body for? But at the same time, would you feel better about your fat just being discarded in the process of, I guess, harvesting the organs or harvesting the tissue for donation? Is it better that it's getting used? Should you have been compensated maybe is the better question on the front end when you signed yourself up to be an organ donor since that is a for-profit procedure? Let me know. What do you think in the comments section below? I'd love to know. Then lastly, three things. One is the description box will be filled with all the links from our research for today's episode if you wanna dive into anything regarding the history of this procedure as well as sort of where it is right now, as well as the Ozempic situation, the tie-in with the so many people losing weight like crazy on these GLP-1 drugs that they literally have to use the synthetics. Second of all, please do smash those like and subscribe buttons so the video reaches ever more people if you haven't done that already. Now's a great opportunity. Thank you so much for that. And then lastly, on an unrelated note, if you ever have wondered what happens to us after we die? Great question. Very non sequitur, but great question nonetheless. Well, over on Epic TV, we just published a phenomenal documentary called Final Hours where we interviewed people who surprisingly know the answer to that question. These are people who experienced the other side. They either clinically died, meaning no breath, no brain activity, no heartbeat, or they experienced some form of coma, meaning just no brain activity. But regardless, they were able to get resuscitated. They came back to life remembering what they saw on the other side, the portals they went down, the music they heard, the beings they interacted with, the life review they were able to experience, and the insights they came to were amazing. One woman, she had late stage cancer. She was absolutely on her deathbed. It was to the point where the doctors even told her family just to say their final goodbyes. And then she went into a deep coma. She had this experience of going to the other side, seeing her life from this completely different vantage point and she knew suddenly what her illness was actually caused by. It was something internally inside her own soul. She came back to life and then her cancer went away naturally. She went into 100% complete remission after she was given a new lease on life. You can hear her story and it truly is amazing. And it's those types of stories that really make you rethink almost everything that you think you know about life. This is like the type of frontier of science that I can really get behind. The stuff in AI, also interesting, slightly frightening. This, however, ironically, near-death experiences, studying them, studying the people studying, the work of the people studying them, much less frightening, even though I guess it involves death. Anyway, that's all to say that the movie was phenomenal. I was thinking about it for several days after I watched it and a lot of people have told us that it changed the way that they viewed life. So I would highly recommend it. The link to it will be right there at the top of the description box below. Just smash that link. It'll take you to the page on Epic TV where you can watch Final Hours right away. Technically I was dead, but I felt that this was more real than real. And I felt more. Thousands have glimpsed something vast and loving waiting on the other side. I was surrounded by beings. Some of them I recognize from this life. It's more just like a light, the light of God. I was so happy. I just felt like more and more of the pain of this world was just floating away. What do these human experiences mean for our collective soul? The more we can come into harmony, love, and kindness, the more we're aligned with the essence of the universe. And then until next time, I'm your host Roman from The Epic Times. Stay informed and most importantly.