HeyJaredAlabama The Beautiful: The Eastern Shore Cosmetic Surgery Podcast
Alabama the Beautiful is the cosmetic surgery podcast co-hosted by Dr. James Koehler and Dr. Vincent Gardner, surgeons with over 2 decades of expertise in cosmetic surgery and their trusty co-host Kirstin, your best friend, confidante, and the snarky yet loveable “swiss army…
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Body Lift: What Recovery Really Looks Like, Week by Week (opens the original)
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Six months. That's about how long it takes for swelling to fully settle after one of cosmetic surgery's biggest transformations — and the first ten days feel entirely different from month six. Dr. Vincent Gardner walks through the day-by-day reality of a full body lift: soreness, three to four surgical drains, and a new non-narcotic pain protocol that's changing how people get through the first week. He and Dr. James Koehler cover the parts nobody warns you about — where swelling pools in unexpe
Can You Really Get Rid of a Scar After Surgery? (opens the original)
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There's no such thing as erasing a mark on your skin. The best a cosmetic surgeon can do is trade it for a thinner, flatter line placed where a waistband or bathing suit hides it — which is exactly what a tummy tuck does with an old vertical C-section scar. Dr. James Koehler and Kirstin Jarvis get into the honest gap between removing a scar and improving one, and why every operation leaves a mark no matter how skilled the hands that made it. For a cosmetic surgeon, where that line sits and how i
Where Did My Butt Go? (opens the original)
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You did the work and the pounds are gone, but the skin didn’t disappear. Dr. Vincent Gardner walks through what a full body lift actually does after major weight loss: how a lower body lift combines a tummy tuck with a buttock lift and an auto-augmentation so you don’t end up flat, and how an upper body lift erases the back rolls with an open book tummy tuck that carries the incision all the way around. He also clears up the timing questions people get wrong. You no longer have to wait a full ye
2026 Trends: What’s Real and What’s Hype? (opens the original)
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Filler migration is all over TikTok, biostimulators get sold as a “natural” alternative, and people are choosing a surgeon by follower count. Dr. James Koehler and Dr. Vincent Gardner react to it all in real time. Kirstin reads off the year’s biggest injectable and body claims and asks for gut reactions. The doctors sort what holds up from what doesn’t: why less filler is winning, why “natural” biostimulators are still just filler with a better publicist, and what a lip flip can and can’t actual
What GLP-1 Weight Loss Does to Your Face (And How to Fix It) (opens the original)
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We hear about the weight loss, the body changes, the transformation. What almost nobody mentions is what that same transformation does above the collarbone. Significant weight loss, whether from medication or lifestyle, can pull volume out of your cheeks, jawline, and neck and leave a face that looks years — sometimes a decade — older than the body it's attached to. Dr. Koehler explains why a fuller face actually reads as younger, especially in people over 50, and why "Ozempic face" isn't really
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