Hey, guys, today we're gonna talk about how to look at least 10 years younger. Okay, so I'm 54 years old, going on 29. And my wife is 55. And I'm going to tell you our secret.
But if I tell you this, you have to promise not to tell anyone. Okay, you're gonna have to sign off on the comment below and say you won't tell anyone. This is just between you and me in the four walls. And I'm just being totally kidding around. Because this is really it's not really a secret. It's just very basic common sense. Because if you think about it, if you want really useful skin, what is skin made of? Fat in protein, okay. Is it made out of unsaturated fats? No, it's made out of saturated fats. So take a wild guess what you should be eating more of. That's right. cholesterol and saturated fats, the exact things that they tell you not to eat. I mean, think about it. If you go on a low fat diet, you start getting old really fast. So if you want aging skin, just starve yourself of fats, okay, especially saturated fats. Alright, now, what does cholesterol and saturated fats do for you? Well, there's three things 50% of your cell membranes are made out of cholesterol, okay, because we need cholesterol body makes it and we need it from our diet. It also helps you make bile to help you digest the fat that you're eating, especially to extract the fat soluble vitamins out of that fat. Also, the cholesterol is needed to make hormones. Because as you know, as you get older, you lose your hormones, you look older, right? So we want to make sure the food the precursors, the raw material for your hormones are there very, very important. Now out of all the fats and the vitamins, vitamin A is the most important anti aging, fat soluble vitamin for your skin. Okay, the epidermis and the dermis, the different layers of the skin are controlled by vitamin A. And if you have enough vitamin A, your skin will be soft and firm. And it won't be so dry because vitamin A deficiency creates dry skin scaly skin, it's called actually quantification, which is really rough skin, you get acne. I don't know if you knew this, but the genes that make collagen need vitamin A so vitamin A triggers the production of collagen. Now, where do you get vitamin A? Well, you can get it from leafy greens, right? But the beta carotene in the living greens, including kale, and spinach and other greens is a precursor. It's not that retinol, the active form of vitamin A, it has to be converted into the active form. So it's important to consume these things, these antioxidants, these phytonutrients but if you're doing high amounts of beta carotene, without enough of these active forms, your skin is not going to look as useful. You really need the active form of vitamin A. So guess where you get vitamin A egg yolks, okay, cod liver oil, butter, salmon, fish, goat's cheese, make sure that the color all you get is Virgin cod liver oil, it's just a higher quality. Make sure the eggs that you consume are pasture raised organic, very important. The next important vitamin would be vitamin E, okay, vitamin E protects the skin against aging against sunburns against oxidizing, okay? It will prevent wrinkles to it actually is anti scarring. And it supports your pituitary hormones. Okay, so it's another key nutrient to help as a building block, especially if you're going through menopause. As you get older, your ovaries go in hibernation, they go on retirement, they don't work anymore. So that means you don't need as many sex hormones. So the pituitary doesn't output as many hormones and the vitamin E starts dropping down, you need vitamin D for the sex hormones. So it's very, very important to have vitamin E. Where do you get vitamin E?
Well, you get it from Palm oil, eco friendly, of course, especially the red palm oil, leafy greens, you can get it from wheat germ oil, I don't like that source, but you can olive oil, seeds and nuts. And a lot of the other foods that I mentioned vitamin A also have vitamin E. Now the other thing on the flip side that you need to focus on is what to avoid. Okay, the number one thing to avoid to prevent aging skin is ag ease just so happens. It stands for age, the stands for advanced glycation end products. Now what is that, basically, when you combine protein is sugar, or protein with fat, like in a deep fried donut, or french fries. Or if you're taking a protein like barbecued ribs, and you're actually combining all that sugar with the protein, you create these sticky proteins, and the protein starts getting sticky, and it starts clogging everything up in the eye and the artery in your glands. But it's going to make your skin look very, very old, very, very fast. Smoking is going to age the skin. And of course, smoking actually causes these advanced glycation end products as well. Stress, we want to avoid cortisol, cortisol, in high amounts, ages the skin. So definitely avoid these things right here. And of course, sugar, avoid sugar and refined carbohydrates simply because that's going to oxidize an age seems very, very fast. So this is just one more reason that the healthy ketogenic diet is important. If we also add intermittent fasting to this, we can accelerate it even more because we get repair actions. And when you're doing intermittent fasting, you go through a tapa G, which kind of cleans out these damaged proteins that are unusable now. So you can clean up the old stuff within a minute fasting with healthy keto, add enough saturated fats to provide these nutrients and other nutrients to start looking younger. So thanks for watching, and I will see you in the next article.
