So I had a question from someone who made a comment on one of the article. And they wanted to know about the anti aging creams if they should use those. And do they actually work? And the answer is no, I'm sorry, they don't make your skin any younger. What they do is make your skin a little bit tighter. And they do add more hydration on a temporary basis, but not actually younger. And in one study, which I'll put down below found the anti aging creams will reduce your wrinkles by less than 10% over 12 weeks. 10% is not even noticeable to the human eye, so you're not going to really see too much. So what is the solution? Is there a way to reverse the aging process? Or at least slow it down? And the answer is yes. If you understand the simple concept of inside out versus outside in, there's no way you're going to actually try to get the body younger by applying something topically or trying to work from the outside in. It really comes from the inside out. And it's combination of several things. But you really want to look at the balance of how much oxidation is going on. or things that are breaking your tissues down or destroying your DNA versus the antioxidants in the body which are countering all this free radical damage. And just so you know, a free radical is an unpaired electron. So let's say for example,
we have this atom right here that's supposed to be spinning around and it only has one electron it doesn't have the parent electron over here. Okay, it's missing. What happens it makes the atom very very unstable. And so it can create destruction to the body and an antioxidant will donate an electron to stabilize this to create less damage. And there's two sources of antioxidants one is exogamous that means outside the body from your diet. You're eating leafy vegetables, you're eating cruciferous vegetables, it is giving you antioxidants. And also, vitamins act as antioxidants, vitamin E, vitamin A, vitamin C, even vitamin B, one can act as an antioxidant. And they always come in networks. Because when any oxidant donates its electron, it then becomes unstable. And it can create some problems. So it will borrow an electron from another antioxidant. So they come in networks. So you have the food that you eat with antioxidants, okay, that's called exogenous, then you have endogenous antioxidants, your body actually can make any oxidants. So that's cool. So the combination of both need to be in such quantity to counter the amount of oxidation coming in from the environment, and from your diet, that's just making things break down and making you age prematurely. So what can make this worse, the big thing is glucose, high carb diets that will trigger insulin, which will then combine with certain proteins in your body and cause this other phenomena called glycation. So when you combine sugar with a protein, it creates a protein that's now non functional. And that's going to make your your tissues less elastic. And that's going to make you look a lot older. And another term for that is advanced glycation end products. And that is created by glucose having a high amount of glucose in the diet. The other thing that's interesting is nutritional deficiencies, can fail to supply certain biochemical enzymes that are supposed to repair and keep your tissue stable at the cellular level. So nutrition is a really key part in slowing the aging process down faster than it's going. So the worst case scenario is this combination between a high carb diet and low nutrients, that's going to age your skin, it's going to make you look older, it's going to age the inside of the body. And on the flip side of that if you switch your fuel from glucose to ketones, ketones act as an antioxidant, which is really, really cool. So it's a much healthier fuel source. And I always recommend the healthy version of the ketogenic diet. So that way, we can actually add the nutrients from the food to prevent the free radical damage and keep your skin and your tissues looking healthy. So there's also hormones involved. The hormone that you really want to preserve is growth hormone. Growth hormone is all about anti aging. It's all about keeping your proteins intact. And I'm talking about the skin, the hair, the nails, the inside of the body. Growth hormone is responsible for that, as we as growth hormone goes down, we want to keep it as high as possible. So there are certain things that lower growth hormone and there's certain things that will increase it. glucose, by the way, will lower growth hormone, insulin will lower growth hormone, so high carbohydrate diets stay away from them. Cortisol from stress will also inhibit growth hormone. Cortisol is very destructive on your proteins on your skin, and it will age you in an accelerated rate. Alcohol is another thing that is very dehydrating, it will inhibit growth hormone, it will make you look old. Alright, so how do we raise growth hormone? Well exercise, okay, but make sure you don't overtrain if you exercise correctly, within enough recovery, you can spike growth woman by five to 700%. So that's one key factor. Regular exercise plus exercise can if done correctly, reduce the cortisol, the stress.
And then fasting fasting is probably one of the most important things if you wanted to slow down the aging process and look younger. Also, when you do periodic prolonged fasting, you stimulate stem cells, stem cells actually help you regrow new tissue like your immune system, your gut, your skin. So fasting is probably one of the biggest things that can help you look younger, it can stimulate growth hormone by 1300 to 2,000%. And then we have sleep. Sleep is another key factor to enhancing growth hormones. So if you do intermittent fasting and prolonged fasting, you get enough sleep. You keep your stress down, you exercise you do healthy keto, that is your best bet to slow down the aging process, but to actually think that you can actually do it with a cream. It's just not going to work. Alright guys, thanks for watching and check it out a couple of these very interesting blog I have related to growth hormone
