Rick Springfield sat down with Joe Rogan on The Joe Rogan Experience for a conversation that touched on his four decades in music, his time in Vietnam as a young touring musician, and, unexpectedly, the world of experimental skincare treatments.
The 77-year-old “Jesse’s Girl” singer, who Rogan noted looks remarkably youthful for his age, credited his wife with getting him interested in skincare years ago, admitting he once worried his bandmates would tease him for it.
“I thought, well, guys skin’s different from women’s skin, you know, we got whiskers, we don’t need all that stuff, but skin is skin,” Springfield said.
That interest has since evolved into something far more scientific. Springfield revealed he has spent four years participating in a trial with a company called BMI that uses a person’s own cells to create a rejuvenating serum.
“They take a sample of your cells from behind your ear and they grow your cells and the growth serum,” he explained. “They pull the growth serum from that and put it into something that you put back on your face.”
Springfield then went on to bring up a very different, and much stranger, approach used elsewhere in the industry.
“Have you heard of Skin Medica? They have one, only they use baby foreskins,” he said.
Rogan responded with visible surprise, asking, “Baby foreskins, for real?”
Springfield confirmed, “Yeah. Newborn foreskins. That’s what they get the growth factors from.” He was quick to note the distinction between that method and his own treatment. “But this is your own growth factor. So you’re putting that back on your own body, back in your, you know, on your face. It’s been pretty amazing,” he said.
Rogan, for his part, made his preference clear: “I would prefer your method. I’m not into baby foreskins on my face.”
The two went on to compare notes on regenerative treatments more broadly. Rogan mentioned newer stem cell approaches using exosomes and “muse cells,” which he called the latest iteration of the technology, noting that cells taken from older donors tend to be less effective than younger ones.
