 Aloha and Mabuhay. My name is Amy Ortega Anderson, your host for Pinoy Power Hawaii. We come to your home every Tuesday live at 12 noon. We aim to enrich and lighten, educate, entertain, and we hope to empower you. Today we have a very special guest and he is very well known, especially those that he provides tender love and care to his patients. He's also my doctor and he is the medical director for TLC Medical Center and also Honolulu Med Spa. It is a pleasure to welcome to our show, Dr. C.K. Yeo. Welcome, Dr. Yeo. Thank you, Amy. You know, it's always a pleasure to be around you because you just exude that positive energy. You make everybody feel good, doctor. So before we get into the good vibration, tell us about Dr. Yeo. Well, I think what we believe is that we all want to be happy and my mission is really to help people be happy. To be happy, I believe that they can be well. So we have a recommend them to be good health and after we get your good health and happiness, you want to make me beautiful. That's why we have Honolulu Med Spa to make you more beautiful. Yes. Okay. I know that Honolulu Med Spa is well known as far as making or helping people look beautiful inside and out. But before that, Dr. Yeo, tell us a little bit about your beginnings. Where did you come from? Well, actually I was born in Malaysia and I grew up in Singapore and I went to Australia from a medical school and I was just on the way to London to my postgraduate degree and then I dropped by Honolulu and this was such a wonderful place and decided to stay here. So you were here as a tourist? Yes, I was here as a tourist to start with. And then you liked paradise so well that you decided to stay. That's right. And we're meeting all these wonderful people of you. It's great to be in Hawaii. That is so wonderful to hear. So you're an example of someone who have come to visit or immigrated to America and then you fell in love with it and now you're living your American dream. That's right. It's a wonderful place to be. Yes. So, Doc, how long ago was this, if I may ask? Oh, this was quite a number of years ago, over 30 years ago. 30 years and you're only 35? Yes, I'm only 35 plus. Okay. 35 plus. Yes. So when you first started here, I know that do you work for, was it Queen's Medical Center? Yes, I work for Queen's Medical Center and I work for University of Hawaii. I was a professor of surgery there and I went to private practice and TLC Medical Center and about 15 years ago, we saw Honolulu Med Spa. Wow. And the rest is history, right? The rest is history. We're all enjoying ourselves over here. So, Doc, let me ask you, how did that dream of wanting to be a doctor started? Did you always want to be a doctor or did your parents come from the medical profession? No, my parents are actually business people in business, but I always want to help people and that's why I went to do the, went to medicine. We will help people, make people healthier and happier. Yes. And you got educated in Australia. Yes. Why Australia? Do you like to do things down under? Yeah, it's a wonderful place. Okay. Well, you know, Singapore is part of the British Commonwealth and we always have two places to go to either go to London, England or go to Australia and Australia is much nearer to Singapore. So, we decided to go to Singapore. I see. We decided to go to Australia. Yes. You know, our national hero in the Philippines, Dr. Huzer Rizal, was of Malaysian descent. He wasn't of a big stature, but certainly left a legacy that he is our national hero. He was from Malaysia, Dr. Huzer Rizal. He also got educated in Europe, London, and very, very well-known and admired by Filipinos. It's terrific. And today we have Dr. Yeo to look up to and to take care of the Filipinos. Dr., thank you for doing just that, making everyone happy. You also make me happy because there are times when I'm stressed, I'm hurried, my blood pressure is kind of high and the cholesterol and the sugar because of our hurried lifestyle. We tend to neglect our health, but you're there to help. And when they come to you, because I know they, I walked in there and sometimes there's 20 and 25 people waiting in your waiting room, waiting to see you. What is it about Dr. Yeo that attracts them? I think it's a passion to help people. We really like to help people. And one of the main things I tell my patients is that first of all, it's our right to pursue happiness. And I want everybody happy. I say I don't want to be happy, but I want to be well in good health. And that's why we specialize in what are called a wellness visit. And if you talk about wellness visit, most patients will say, well, I'm already well. Why should I go for a wellness visit? And that's a very good question. And I would ask that too. And my answer to my patient is that our wellness visit is very meaningful. Everything we do is very meaningful. It has to be meaningful. There's no sense in doing it. So I tell my patients, the wellness visit is very important because number one, we want to help prevent you from getting heart attack, strokes, cancer, kidney trouble. So we'll check all of that. And we also make sure you have high blood pressure, your blood pressure under control. You have diabetes. You have diabetes under good control. You have cholesterol. You have cholesterol under good control. In that way, we can prevent most of the problems that we have, which is heart attack, strokes, and even cancer. So I think the wellness visit is very meaningful and very useful. And everyone should have a wellness visit once a year. And one thing good about this is so important that we waive the co-visit fee. So the wellness visit is free and no cost to you. And I'll encourage everyone to have a wellness visit. Yes. That is very, very important. Up until I started coming to your office, I didn't take the time to go in for that visit. I'm happy that I'm now part of TLC Medical. And this way, I've developed a closer relationship and communication with your staff, and especially to have a personal relationship with you, doctor, who is there to look after my well-being. And I also enjoy our conversation on eating well, good food, and making healthy choices. I really appreciate you reminding me to choose the right, the fruits, the vegetables. And it's all done in tender, loving, caring ways. Yeah, a lot of caring has to go into taking care of people. And I'll say that, really, what we want to do is really for you to come in at least once a year for a wellness visit. And then, you know, when you've got problems, you can come and see us. But hopefully, we keep you well. And then you stay well and happy. Yes. And the other thing that I want to stress is that we also have a very good program to make you more healthy. As you know, overweight and obesity is America's biggest problem. Yes. If you look around. I totally agree. And I have a challenge with that, but I'm glad that I'm seeing you regularly for weight management. Yes. And you've really helped to keep me healthy, happy, and have the four letter word. Love. L-O-V. That's very, very important. And just to elaborate on these four last words, L-O-V-E, this is very important. It's like having passion for anything you do. And I stress to my people, anyway, you need to have that love, that passion. Then if you have more love and more passion, whatever you do, then you're going to be happier. Yes. The more loving you do, the happier you're going to become. So on that thing, that passion, I want you to have passion for your work, which means you choose a profession you really love so you can enjoy it. And don't forget to play. That's also very important. That's a four letter word, Dr. Yoh. Those are very important. Yes. Work and play. Love is very, very important. And about our weight management program. Our weight management program is very, very interesting. If you go to any weight management, weight loss program, they want you to lose weight. Unfortunately, if you lose weight and lose fat, you're going to lose muscle. That makes sense. And if you lose muscle, they're going to be weak and unhealthy. And on our weight management program, we stress about losing weight, losing fat are more important is to build the muscle so that you become very strong. Become strong. Very strong. Oh, there's a difference. Yeah. Yeah. There's a big difference. And as you know, and you've tried that before. Yes. With this program, you have to eat good. That's important. Important. And some people think that eating good means eating healthy food. Yeah. And healthy food doesn't sound very interesting for me, because it may mean that you just eat like a rabbit. Just eat. To some people, that's boring, right? Very boring. And I'd like to say that I really want to eat the food that you love to eat, which means that you not only eat vegetables, fruits and salad, but you've got to eat chicken, fish, lobster. You like lobster, Amy? I love lobster. Yes. Crab. Yeah. Yeah. That's a four-letter word, Doc. I love that. So as you can see, this is all very good food to eat. Nothing wrong with that. Yeah. Okay. And the thing on our program is to stress another thing. Okay. It's that you have to dream more and eat less. Okay. Like, remember when we had that party at 53 by the sea? Yes. With Doc's program. Every time we got a little time, cheers, okay? That's the reason behind that. Yes. Every time we need cheers. Yes. You drink the water. Okay. Oh, that's a good one, Doc. This is very important because water is the essence of life, the essence of life. If you drink more water, yeah, you can clean your body, detoxify your body, knowing that it fill up your stomach. So you go eat less. So you're full. So you're full. Yes. So I suggest you drink before you eat, drink during eat, have a lot of cheering. And that'll make you happy too, because you cheer, you're happy, and after you eat, you cheer someone and drink some more. Yes. So you're doing a lot of water with a branch of body and detoxify. So the good food, the food you love to eat and the water for your life. And do you think exercise? Yes. And I'd say that the best exercise for you is to play. You play? Yes, you play. I love those ingredients that you've just mentioned. And you can also go to gym. I think gym is good because you exercise. But more important, experience that. It's an M-scalp. Yes. We're going to talk about that, Dr. and our second portion of our program. We're going to take a quick break. We are having a hard to hard conversation with Dr. Yeo, the managing director, founder of the TLC Medical Center. And the second portion of our conversation, we're going to talk about the award-winning Honolulu Med Spa. We will be back with Dr. C.K. Yeo. Aloha. This is Winston Welch. I am your host of Out and About, where every other week, Mondays at 3, we explore a variety of topics in our city, state, nation and world, and events, organizations, the people that fuel them. It's a really interesting show. We welcome you to tune in and we welcome your suggestions for shows. You got a lot of them out there and we have an awesome studio here where we can get your ideas out as well. So I look forward to you tuning in every other week where we've got some great guests and great topics. You're going to learn a lot. You're going to come away inspired like I do. So I'll see you every other week here at 3 o'clock on Monday afternoon. Aloha. Aloha. I'm Wendy Lo and I'm coming to you every other Tuesday at 2 o'clock live from Think Tech Hawaii. And on our show, we talk about taking your health back. And what does that mean? It means mind, body and soul. Anything you can do that makes your body healthier and happier is what we're going to be talking about, whether it's spiritual health, mental health, fascia health, beautiful smile health, whatever it means. Let's take healthy back. Aloha. Welcome back to Pinoy Power Hawaii. I am your host, Emmy Ortega Anderson. And we come to your home every Tuesday at 12 o'clock live here at the Think Tech Hawaii Studios. We want to thank the wonderful staff for allowing us to help fulfill our mission. We aim to enrich and lighten, educate, entertain, and we hope to empower you. Today we're doing just that by having a prominent, well-known doctor, full of love, tender love and care. And he is Dr. C. K. the founder of TLC Medical. I am a patient and I am very, very happy, doctor. Thank you for allowing me to be a part of your wonderful establishment of keeping people happy, healthy, and well. Thank you very much, Emmy. Thank you for inviting me. I love your the ingredients or the main characters or the main things that we should have to have a happy life. Yes. To play. Very important. Yes. To have love. That's very important. And to eat the food that you love. I love that. Yeah. Everything is, you have to love the things we do. Yes. That will make you happy. So again, we focus on happiness, your health, and your beauty. And that will all make us younger and happy. That's right. We're going to talk about the other important part of living a happy life. To women is about being beautiful. Men too. It's about looking good. And you do just that with the wonderful services that you provide with the Honolulu Med Spa. Tell us about Honolulu Med Spa and how you got started. Well, Honolulu Med Spa started about 17 years ago. And we started, at that time, laser become very interesting. And they come out with a laser that can remove hair. So you do not have to shave again. In fact, Honolulu Med Spa is famous for, for painless hair removal. We have a soprano ice. We should remove your hair. So we never have to shave. Or wax again. And this produce very smooth, beautiful skin without any hair. And I think this will be the future. No one will have to shave or wax again. They just have the, have the laser hair removal. And they won't have any more hair. And the winner of the Honolulu award for best in laser hair removal. Oh, okay. And the best, you voted the best spa in Honolulu. For laser hair removal. And so number one, I think that almost everyone that shave or wax should have laser hair removal. Because this will save them time and will save them money. They love the beautiful smooth skin. Okay. So Honolulu Med Spa is the one. If you want painless hair removal, you go on down and see the wonderful staff of the Honolulu Med Spa. I'm very excited to be a patient of Honolulu Med Spa. In fact, the M-Sculpt is one of the things that I'm excited about because I want to, I want to look good. I want my body to lose the fat and yet still stay strong. Yes. I'll say that M-Sculpt is, is like nothing ever, ever seen before. It's the only machine in the world that can build a muscle and burn away fat. Wow. Honolulu Med Spa is the only one that has this machine in Hawaii right now. Right now. Yes. It's very good. It's like you had the treatment, Amy. Yes. Not too long ago. I had the pleasure of having a 30 minute treatment. That's right. And how do you feel doing that treatment? I want more. You want more? That's good. Because I want to work on other parts of my body and it really felt good. It's like into doing, is it 20,000 setups? Yes. Yes. It's equivalent to 20,000 setup with super contraction that half an hour. Yes. So that will really build up your muscle and also burn the fat. Yeah. And I didn't have to sweat and suffer the pain associated with doing 20,000 setups. So I really like the treatment, doctor. And the thing about this treatment, the beautiful part about this treatment, it makes your body strong. So we had this treatment, your core is strong. So a lot of people who have back pain, the pain goes away. People who have arthritis, they feel better because you are building up the muscle. And I think it's very important in health, we build up the muscle. You can do that by playing, which is very good. Yes. Do it by exercise. You can do it by going to a gym. Now we have M-Sculpt. M-Sculpt. Yes. That's the ultimate choice for me. 30 minutes and just like running a marathon. That's right. That's right. It's and don't have to put up with the pain or all the other consequences. No sweating. No sweating. Just relax. I just lay down and relax. Yeah. That's right. Yeah. And I felt like I'm having my six pack. You get a six pack, so you have enough of this treatment. Yes. Because it's such a strong concentration that you're having. And on top of that, the other thing we are very famous for is Cool Sculpting. Okay. Tell us about that because a lot of people have talked about Cool Sculpting and they enjoy it too. Cool Sculpting is very interesting too. And I tell you about Cool Sculpting, how it started. It started about almost 20 years ago. They were finding that these kids were getting dimples on the face. These kids were five to six years old and they couldn't figure out why they were getting dimples. So they have the investigation on that. And they found that these kids were sucking Popsicle. Oh. Interesting. Popsicle. They say, well, what happened when you suck Popsicle? When you suck Popsicle, the ice cold Popsicle will kill the fat cells. Oh. That's how they get a dimple. Wow. So there's more research that goes on. You find that fat cells, if you freeze them to 10 degrees above zero, they'll die. So now you have a machine that can freeze you to 10 degrees above zero and this will destroy the fat cell. So that's the other option is to have the Cool Sculpting. Cool Sculpting. And this will take away any fat bulges you have. The fat bulges in the stomach or underneath the double chin. We can freeze it and get rid of the fat bulges. So it is very good for reshaping, build muscle, burn fat and freeze fat. So the Cool Sculpting is effective for, you know how we have that cottage cheese look on our thighs and on our stomach. Yes. It will help. It will freeze fat and get rid of the bulges. Wonderful. Oh, now we have a solution. Yes, we have a solution for reshaping. Let's talk real quickly with the remaining time. You know, I came in and I didn't like the age lines and you gave me several treatment and I'm very, very happy with getting rid of the wrinkles and the age lines on my forehead. And I used to have deep lines running through across my forehead and of course the deeper lines by my cheeks. And I came in and you took a lot of those age lines away. Yes. Yes. I think what we did for you, we give you Botox treatment and Botox is very important. What Botox does is relax the muscle and it's the most common procedure done in America, in fact the world. And Botox is very good for frown lines. Yes. Frown lines, it's not good looking. The things that frown lines make you look angry, make you look unhappy. So if we give you a little Botox where frown line is, it will relax the muscles, the frown lines will go away. In fact, we just want to soften the frown lines so we look natural. So I think we recommend you, everyone to have Botox, to not only get your frown lines, but to feel happier. That's right. And to feel happy. The feeling is very important. That's why when you come to our place, we emphasize a lot on feeling. Yes. And if you look better, you feel better, you'll be happy. We also soften the frown lines on the forehead, on the eyes. And the other thing we can do is V-shaping to make your face look younger. You can give a little Botox. Okay. To strengthen the masseter muscle. And not only that, that is also good for teeth grinding. If anyone has teeth grinding, this will stop them. Teeth grinding or TMJ joint problem. So Botox is very useful that we use a lot. And I believe, I think we did feel this on you too. You did. The smile lines. Yes. Again, to soften it. Was that the Juvederm part, doc? Yes, the Juvederm. Okay. I'm giving away all my secrets. You look beautiful. But I want to come back for more. Because I'm like a work, working progress. Yeah, you look good, Amy. Yeah, you look younger, younger, younger all the time. Well, I play all the time, doctor. And I'm at my farm playing and working, work, play. And I'm under the sun. So you've also helped me to beat those, you know, those damaging rays of the sun. I'm also using the wonderful system that you offer at the Honolulu Med Spa. So for, to make you even look better, even look even better. Yes. We have laser treatment. Yes. And the way we use laser treatment is the number one, we look at a patient if they have skin tacks, which is very common. And I believe you call it reading, reading. There's so many things that we need to go share, all these wonderful services that you offer, doc. But we are out of time. And we haven't even talked about the zen, you know. So I want to invite you back. And I want to thank your wonderful staff, all the people that greet you, the receptionists, the nurses, your family, your son is also a wonderful part of Honolulu Med Spa and TLC Medical. 30 minutes is not enough to share all these goodies and all these secrets. But now it's out. So if you would like to join us or be a part of TLC Medical and Honolulu Med Spa, they can call, what's the number to call doctor? Call Rose. What's the number, Rose? 721-4853, correct? Yes. All right. That's the number. 721-4853 is the number to call. We want to invite you again for another edition of Pinoy Power Hawaii. And we will again invite back Dr. Yeo and of course, feature Honolulu Med Spa and also TLC Medical. On behalf of Pinoy Power Hawaii, thank you again, Tatekawaii, for allowing us to empower others. Aloha, Mabuhay, Maraming, Salamat po.