How to look younger
When it comes to looking younger, we're actually dealing with a buildup of damaged proteins.The more damaged proteins you have, both internally and externally, the older you look.Damaged proteins can , So today I want to talk about how to look instantly younger. So this is what you do very important Start to find some new friends that are a lot older than you and just start hanging out with them. And you're gonna look a lot younger. But in all seriousness, there are really two viewpoints to consider when trying to look youthful: the outside-in approach versus the inside-out approach. So many people are focused on trying to look younger from the outside in. They're using all sorts of facial creams and different things they're putting on their face, like anti-wrinkle products, creams, lotions, and all sorts of things, not to mention surgery and those things as well cause a lot of issues throughout the body and can make you look older
But what about from the inside out? What are some things you can do to change your youthful appearance from the inside?
the most important thing. And that would be something called age Advance, glycation and products. That is a combination of a sugar and a protein that is bonded and stuck together. These get stuck in the body and they accumulate and they make you look older and they create all sorts of chronic inflammation and chronic disease. So if you were to take, I don't know, barbecued ribs, for example, you have sugar sauce on these ribs and they're heated. So heat that is the measurement of how much glycated protein that you have. And it gives you a number, so you can kind of look at on a scale from good to bad. And you can kind of from that determine your blood sugars over a period of three months. These ages are behind a lot of problems with just looking old, okay? But you also have something else that's related, ALE. What is that? That stands for Advanced Lip Oxidationand products, That is where you have fat that gets bound to glucose or sugar. So, AGEs are sugar and protein that gets stuck. ALEs are sugar and fat that gets stuck. Same thing, it creates chronic inflammation, disease, and it accumulates and it makes you look older. Because think about it, you have various proteins in your body. You have a lot of different proteins,I mean, you have proteins in your tendons, your ligaments, you have protein in your blood, but you also have fat membranes too. And then your nervous system, and your endocrine system, your brain, and even every cell in your body has a cell membrane made out of fat. Let's say you ate some ice cream, right? Fat with sugar heated. Deadly for this process of binding the sugar with this fat. You have also French fries, right? Because you have high heats with a starch.which is a carb, which are gonna turn the sugar really fast. And then the fat, the oil that they cook with. Then you have the cereals and the chips, the donuts, et cetera, et cetera. Now, when we talk about this ALE, the one that affects the lipids, if we look at just saturated fats and unsaturated fats like seed oils, the seed oils are much worse than the saturated fats because they're more of an unstable fat.
so if you want to look young
you better avoid those unsaturated fats because they're gonna make you look old really quick. And when I use the word oxidation, I'm talking about the concept of like certain parts of your body just like rusting out, creating what's called free radical damage, which is another thing that's a little confusing. I think the best way to understand that is think about if you had a plate that's spinning on your finger right now around a circle and it had different weights on it.
And if you took one of the weights off, it would be out of balance, right? And it would no longer balance because it's not paired anymore. It starts to becoming very radical and it starts to damage things. Too much oxidation and not enough protection, like antioxidants, you have this thing called oxidative stress. And the reason I'm bringing this up is because this relates directly to your aging. If you could just balance this thing out back and bring up your antioxidant levels, you can counter all the oxidation and the free radical damage.
to a major level. Now, as you know, other things also oxidize you as well. Smoking, drinking, pollution, taking drugs, things like that. But what's interesting about this, you always hear someone say, well, I know of my grandfather. He smoked like a fiend and he died at 100 years old. How do you explain that? Well, if you take a look at certain countries where people live a long time, like Sardinia, for example, these people that live in the mountains,
live a lot longer than people that live at the sea level. And there's an interesting article on this talking about men, because the men that lived in the mountaintop in Sardinia smoke like a fiend. So, wait a second. I thought smoking was bad for you. How could this possibly be? They should be dead by the time they're 60 or 70. How are they living past 100 years old? Well, yes, they do smoke, but they're also consuming...
a lot of antioxidants. And some of the antioxidants they're eating are actually in the cheese that they eat because their goats and their sheep consume grass in the higher altitudes which have much, much higher antioxidant levels. And those transfer into the milk, which goes into the cheese, which goes into these people that smoke. Not to mention all the other antioxidants that they eat and also the lifestyle.
they're probably not doing a lot of ultra processed junk foods. So you really need to look at the whole picture, okay? If you're consuming junk foods, yet at the same time, you're doing other things that are countering that, then that could explain why you might be surviving a lot longer. I live in a certain area where there's a lot of people who eat junk food. But even though they seem to be eating a lot of junk food, a lot of them are farmers and they're outside and they're working until dark, right? You have all this physical activity.
that is so protective against everything. It's probably countering all the bad effects from the chewing tobacco and the smoking and all the junk food. If you have enough antioxidants to the oxidation, then you're gonna be in better shape. How can we build up our antioxidant levels? Well, we can eat animals that had eaten grass or even a diversified group of plants.
versus animals have just lived on grains or we're in a feedlot, right? They're not gonna have near the phytonutrients. And those phytonutrients are more protective against things. In fact, on my farm, I sent my beef into the study and the researcher contacted me after six months and says, what are you doing? I says, what do you mean? He says, let me send you the report. So I'll put the page up right now, but you can see in this report.
the level of antioxidants compared to other farms, right? So my cattle not only get a lot of exercise because there's nothing flat, there's just mountains up and down, and there's not even a lot of grass. There's just a lot of different weeds and different plants and different herbs, which obviously has contributed to these phytonutrients. And so when you go to like Europe, France and Italy, we have some cheese where these goats and sheep that have lived on different types of grasses and higher altitudes,
I think they're more protective. But another viewpoint could be this, these anti-nutrients can create an epigenetic effect, just like exercise does, right, on our bodies. When you exercise, you actually damage your body. That then causes an adaptation and you become stronger. The same thing with cold therapy or heat therapy or fasting. Well, what about some of these plant-based chemicals, right? It could be doing the same thing. We don't know yet, but with time, I think we'll figure this out. If we want to build up,
our own antioxidants, and I'm talking about endogenous. That means from within. Our body makes these antioxidants. There's various ways we can do that, okay? We can do that by consuming antioxidants. Like if you were to consume food, like cruciferous vegetables, the phytonutrients in those cruciferous vegetables, like sulforaphane for broccoli sprouts or radishes,
will actually not only give us some antioxidants, it will trigger our genes, our enzymes from those genes to make antioxidants. Another way you can increase your own endogenous antioxidants is through fasting, exercise, and sleeping. And the more antioxidants you have, the better you're also able to detoxify as well. Because one thing about our skin, our youthfulness,
We want a good detoxification system. We don't want to build up toxic waste. And so we need a very healthy liver. If you ever take a look at someone who has a bad liver, their skin is always bad. It doesn't look healthy. Now, all of those things also trigger something else. It's called autophagy. Now, what is autophagy? Autophagy is a condition where your body starts to recycle damaged cells
and damage things within cells to repurpose them for new cells. And autophagy can also help you look younger as well. Now, if we look on the opposing scale of that, frequent eating, eating a lot of sugar, eating a lot of grains, eating a lot of ultra-processed foods will stop autophagy. Now, what do I mean by ultra-processed foods? Well, if we just take a look at the definition of the word processed, what does that mean? It means...
to change something, to alter something, to modify something, as in modified food starch, right? And then if we add this other word before it called ultra, we're talking about extreme change, okay? And making it so dead. Those are the foods that are on the bottom level that aren't really even foods, they're chemicals. And the more of those foods you eat, the older you're gonna look, the more unhealthy you're gonna look. Those things are designed to sit on the shelf
And if you think about it, even the bugs won't eat them. The other thing about creating a youthful appearance is to make sure that your liver is working, especially with this thing called bile. Bile is made by your liver, and it helps you extract fat soluble nutrients from the food that you eat. So what depletes bile? Going on a low-fat diet. This is why if you're on a low-fat diet,
your skin, your hair dries out, it doesn't look as healthy. There's a diet out there, it's called Ideal Protein, and they use soy protein isolates, which is like this modified soybean, right, and like a powder, and they use other ingredients that are really, really cheap. So it's kind of like a low-fat version of keto because it's low carb. I have noticed in practice that when people do this diet, they lose weight, but they start to look kind of older, they look dried out.
Also, if we look at the type of fat that you should be eating, the saturated fats are very stable. The unsaturated fats are very unstable. And this is why when you buy these oil, seed oils, at the store and they're sitting out, what's keeping them from going rancid? They're already rancid. So when you consume them in salad dressings, mayonnaise, basically it's in most of the foods at the grocery store. So you really have to start reading the labels.
seed oil or safflower oil or sunflower seed oil, I would avoid those. And then your salad, I would put real extra virgin olive oil, maybe some vinaigrette. Now, I do want to bring up this point on cholesterol. Cholesterol has a purpose. And the purpose of cholesterol is to help make hormones. Also, the cholesterol is needed to make cell membranes. So when someone is either on a statin drug, which block schole sterol or they're on a low saturated fat diet because they've been told they have to replace their saturated fats with the unsaturated fats, which is probably the biggest mistake in history because it's created more problems, especially obesity than anything else. If you take a look at the graph of obesity over time, sugar actually has gone down, but the only thing that hasn't gone down is the seed And so another good fat is the Omega-3 fats from fish oils. Could be sardines, salmon, cod liver oil is a really good one that I like because it not only has the Omega-3, it has the vitamin D and the vitamin A. Vitamin A is really, really important. Vitamin A supports all of your skin, both externally and also inside oils. It keeps going higher and higher and higher.
your body. One of the best sources of vitamin A is from egg
Now, you can also get an Omega-3, or at least a precursor, it's called ALA from walnuts, okay? But I would recommend getting the sprouted walnuts or just buy walnuts, soak them in water overnight, then dry them out in the oven for a little bit and then consume them. That way you don't have any of the things that can create digestive issues. And then you get the sun, okay? The sun can make you look If you are in the sun and you just get a slight tan and you don't overdo it, it's gonna be okay and you're not gonna actually age the skin. What happens when you're out in the sun as well and we need sun is that we also get, over 50% of the rays are infrared. Infrared is very, very therapeutic to your skin. Infrared can penetrate like two inches inside the body and it goes in the body and it can help increase
Melatonin. And it's not just for sleep, it's also a very powerful antioxidant. So when you're exposing your skin to sun, you don't overdo it, it's a healthy thing, but some people can overdo it. I know as a teenager, I overdid it. I let myself get burned so many times. Well, that's not healthy. That can really age your skin
A significant contributor to protein damage in the body is the presence of AGEs (advanced glycation end products). To mitigate AGEs, it’s crucial to promote a state known as autophagy. During autophagy, the body breaks down and recycles old or damaged proteins to create new, functional ones. This process plays an important role in maintaining a youthful appearance.
One of the most effective ways to activate autophagy is through intermittent fasting. For those already practicing intermittent fasting, stepping it up with OMAD (one meal a day) can be beneficial. More advanced individuals may even explore dry OMAD for heightened results.
Additional strategies to maintain a youthful appearance include:
• Spending time in sunlight or exposing yourself to infrared light
• Supporting liver health
• Encouraging bile production
• Including adequate healthy fats in your diet
• Eating plenty of vegetables paired with fats like olive oil
• Strengthening your antioxidant systems through regular exercise and fasting
• Avoiding sugar and refined carbohydrates
• Quitting smoking
• Managing and reducing stress levels
• Consuming moderate amounts of high-quality protein