- Hey everybody. I'm Dr. Mike Varshavski and I'm about to show you my
nighttime skincare routine. Let's get ready for bed. (mellow music) - By the way, you may be wondering, what the heck is this robe? Well, a friend of mine who
makes these personalized robes made this for me as a joke. He saw my scrubs. He's like, I'm going to
make you the same thing, but in robe form. I said, well, if I wear a
white coat in the hospital, I might as well white robe where I do my nighttime routine. My skin takes an absolute beating. When I'm in the hospital, when I'm playing sports, I'm outdoors. It dries out. Especially as I get older, no one likes to admit that, but being 31 years old I'm starting to see more
dryness, more flaking. This is a Wahl beard trimmer. And for me, I like to have my
facial hair cut quite short, especially when I'm going on television or I'm seeing patients. Today it's kind of a little bit longer. And why I do it at night,
this is really interesting, is because I like for it to grow out a little bit in the morning. So I don't look completely baby faced. It gives you like, a little bit of scruff. I like that this trimmer
has a very fine edges here so it picks up even the small hairs. And then even though I don't shave, I do use a Braun shaver to get the little areas
underneath here, just to clean up so you don't look messy. Keep it simple. And then I hit the cleansing gel. Step one, get the face nice and
wet with a little water. Get a little two pump action in there. I'm also not a fan of showering at night unless I just went to the gym. like the shower in the morning so I can get the hair care routine going. Look, when it comes to cleansers I try not to be that picky. Do be careful though, if you're using a cleanser
that is exfoliating in nature, you're not using that every
day or even twice a day because exfoliators can actually do damage if you use them too often. So be careful with that. Now I'm clean, and a little pink, and a little red and a little
shiny, but that's okay. Hydration time. You know, being a family medicine doctor, we actually have training in dermatology because a lot of what we do is screening and catching problems early. So you understand skin
cancer and skin protection. That's why we're so vigilant
about putting SPF on. At the same time, it allows
me to spot marketing gimmicks. So when a company comes in and says they're the next greatest thing I can look at the science behind that and find out whether it
truly makes sense or not. And we'll say there's a lot of
lies on the market nowadays. So I try and use really simple products in order to make it less complicated. Next up, I use my Murad hydrating cream for the under eye area where I clearly need the most help on. I also like it for the eyelids. A lot of people comment
on my YouTube videos that they think I'm wearing eye makeup, like some kind of orange tone. Nope, that's just a 10
years of medical education showing themselves on my eyes. So I'm hoping Murad can
help me out with that. The reason why our eyes look
different colors sometimes, or at least our eyelids
are under eye area, a lot has to do with a, the
circulation in that area. So you have a lot of tiny blood vessels that actually are seen through the skin. And as a result, you
get interesting colors, blue sometimes, sometimes
pink, red, orange. Also really important is where the light is coming
from will also decide how bad these shadows look. For example, the reason why people use fillers in their under eye area in order to improve bags or
darkness underneath their eyes is because it pushes the area forward and there's less reflection of that light, less reflection of those
small blood vessels underneath the eyes, therefore decreasing the darkness. You know, over the last 10 years I've had certain problems with my skin. And when I was in medical school, I didn't really care that much about it because I was so buried in books or maybe spending very
limited time with my friends. Now that I'm spending time
talking to you at home, or going on television, I need
to be careful about my skin 'cause I want to look presentable. And I've tried to take more and more steps in learning about products
that are out there, speaking to dermatologists. In fact, a good friend
of mine, Dr. Bhanusali, is one of the best
dermatologists right here, right by my home. And I always ping him
if I have any questions or if we get into little arguments about certain skincare routines, it's fun in the medical
community to nerd out and talk about these subjects. So we did skincare, but now
we got to do mouth care. Now as a doctor, obviously,
I'm gonna tell you brushing your teeth twice a day, flossing, is really important but there's also a few
other things that I do. Floss, I got my Glide floss right here with a little minty taste, I think it's called cool mint, yep. I also have specific toothpaste that I've been using recently 'cause I've been having some
issues with bleeding gums, probably stress-related, a lot of people don't make the connection that your overall health,
your overall wellbeing, can actually show itself on your gums. So for me, being stressed out, I've been using a little
Parodontax for my bleeding gums. And then, this is kind of a cool hack
to share with you guys, if you're sleeping at night
and you have a stuffy nose, whether it's due to illness, allergies, you can't breathe through your nose, you breathe through your mouth. And as a result, you
develop horrible dry mouth. You wake up feeling not so great. So for me, if that ever happens to me, I use, like a dry mouth
spray just like this. And you give yourself a few
pumps before you go to bed and you wake up and your mouth
is still well lubricated. It basically works through osmosis, like, it doesn't get absorbed. So it keeps pulling moisture out so that you're never fully
dehydrated in the oral cavity. For my toothbrush. I use a
Phillips Sonicare diamond brush. I really like this because
it has a timer built into it meaning that it'll
vibrate every 20 seconds. So you do one section. Then you go to the other
section, then the other section and it really makes
sure that you follow it. When I use a manual toothbrush, I get lazy and I'm like, all right, it's
time for me to go to bed. So I like sticking with this guy here. Make sure after you brush your teeth, you also do a little
tongue scraping action. Yeah, it helps improve
your breath quality. And if you're going to bed with a partner you probably want to do that. So you can't talk about
a good nighttime routine without talking about
how to fall asleep better because you want to be getting at least seven to nine hours
of sleep if you're an adult. And for me, the way that I do that is I really try and preplan
that whole process. What does that mean? Making sure that the room is really cool so that my body temperature can drop and make me feel sleepy. Well, I have the air conditioner on, usually set to about 66 degrees everyone's going to have their own range, but for me, I like to keep it really cool. I also have a special cooling mattress from Eight Sleep that I use. That allows me to sleep
cool throughout the night. And it actually warms
up throughout the night. So when I wake up in the
morning, I'm not cold, and I can feel ready to
get up and start my day. I also have my humidifier running and I don't wake up with
a dry nose or dry mouth. I never liked that sensation. I want to keep my sleep
as sort of my sanctuary. And I think that's one of the most under focused areas of people's health that we haven't talked about enough. Like we talk about diet. We talk about exercise. We talk about mental health,
but not enough about sleep. And sleep is where you recover. Your memory improves, your
hormonal balances shift. And if we put a little
bit more focus into that you're gonna see some tremendous outcomes. We talked about cool, but now
we need to talk about dark. And I actually am so strict with this that I have two sets of blackout shades. I have the ones that go down and then I realized that there's still a sliver of light that comes in, that ends up filling the room. So I got curtains and drapes that I actually pull closed as well. There's been some research showing that even if there's like, a
candle flickering on the side it can potentially disrupt your sleep. And for me, being a
somewhat anxious individual, if I even get woken up for a short time in the middle of the night,
it's hard to fall back asleep. So I do everything in my power to try and sleep as long as I can whenever I get the chance to, at least. For those like me, who battle with sweaty
armpits throughout the day, a really cool hack is to use an antiperspirant the night before when your body's cooler so it can actually work on plugging the pores in
your armpits earlier. When you apply it in the morning, first thing in the morning, your body temperature may be warmer, you may be sweating already,
so it won't be as effective. Remember the goal of stopping armpit BO, that kind of smell, is really
about decreasing the sweat or killing the bacteria there because as gross as it sounds, the BO is just bacteria farts. That's my nighttime routine. Thanks so much for watching. Check out my channel for more medical myth-busting information and just about anything that
has to do with your health. as always, stay happy and healthy.
