Intermittent fasting.
Is this indeed one of the easiest ways to get tighter, more glowing skin?
Let's take that to the next level because fasting initiates
something called autophagy, and I know what you're thinking.
That means to eat yourself and if you thought you are correct,
because auto means self and Fiji.
Means the practice of eating a specified food.
So it really means, in essence, eating your.
Now the thing is we can trick our body into actually doing
this with more than just fasting.
And there's several ways, and that's the beauty of this video.
As we age, our skin loses elasticity and wrinkles become more prominent.
But did you know that fasting can actually improve your skin
elasticity and reduce wrinkles?
One of the key factors is we can reduce and.
SAG in my clinic, that's one of the most difficult things
for me to treat, is facial sag.
We can not only prevent it, but reverse some of it.
I see it every day.
Autophagy,
remember this, you can think of it like this.
You're just eating and cleaning up the area around so that
your body functions perfectly.
And when your body's functioning perfectly and you're getting rid of all those
waste products, you're able to produce collagen, elastin, and have a finely
tuned machine ready to take your skin.
A process by which a cell breaks down.
And destroys old damage or abnormal proteins and other
substances in its cytoplasm.
That's the fluid.
The breakdown products are then recycled for important cell function.
So it's a cleanup process, especially during periods of stress.
Or starvation, that's the key.
Autophagy also helps destroy bacteria and viruses that cause
infection and may prevent normal cells from becoming cancer cells.
Keep in mind, this is something that's scientifically studied.
But better yet, of course I see it in my practice.
Clinical practice is much more important than a study because I can immediately
see what the common denominators of patients in my practice who look 10
years younger than those who don't.
I'll outline a few other simple and in fact free methods.
At the end so you can achieve glow in refreshed, tighter skin.
There are several studies that looked at the effects and benefits
of autophagy on loose skin.
Specifically, a 2014 study in Japan filmed that aging fibroblasts.
Fibroblasts are those cells, uh, in the connective tissue that produce collagen
and of course, other fibers of support that hold the skin up and prevent sag.
They suffered from a.
Of autophagy.
So in other words, over time these cells slowly get clogged up with broken
parts and waste products and render them unable to produce their collagen.
Of course, their collagen keeps the skin tight and healthy.
So the researchers found and concluded through that study that
the slowdown of that autophagy process led to the deteriorat.
Of the skin and dermal integrity.
So in other words, the skin became very fragile.
And what's that lead to?
Wrinkles and sag.
In another autophagy study, this one more recent 2018, scientists looked at
the effects of autophagy and loose skin.
But this time, using an electron microscope transmission electron
microscopes use a particle beam of electrons to view the specimen and they
can magnify objects up to 2 million times.
These waste products are very small.
When scientists observed the process under these microscopes, they found
that the aging fibroblasts experienced more waste and couldn't keep up with
that waste that was being produced because there were only half as.
Autosomes in older fibroblasts as there was in younger ones, meaning
that the machinery of the cell, as we know over time decreases and it
couldn't get rid of the waste products.
Now, this spells opportunity because the cells were functioning.
It's just that they were unable to clear the waste products
that they could earlier in life.
So if we can increase the autophagy, we can make these cells more clean, more
pure, and increase the machinery of elastin collagen and support to the skin.
So that's why it's important.
Fasting is one way to induce this.
But what here are some other ways?
I'll go through five ways that you can in.
Autophagy and improve your skin Health.
Number one, as many of you know already is intermittent fasting by limiting your
eating to a certain window of time each day and give your body a chance to enter
into the autophagy that allows these fibroblasts to be better functioning.
What do I do?
Well, I tend to not eat breakfast and I eat around one or two.
And my windows from 2:00 PM to about 8:00 PM in general.
And then that gives me that window from 8:00 PM all the way through
the next day to 2:00 PM for a fast.
Now, caloric restriction, that's another one.
And you hear all these studies about mice being fed low calorie
diets and they live longer.
So by reducing your overall calorie intake, you can activate autophagy in the.
Next is exercise.
I know you don't want to hear it.
I know you hear it a lot on my channel here, but it has been shown
to increase autophagy in the body.
So incorporating regular physical activity into your routine can
improve your skin health if you really want to boost this up.
You know, hormones play a role and especially for women,
estrogen, progesterone, and key testosterone all go down.
So weight training is an important part of it.
A lot of women, I.
Are doing cardio.
They tend to, especially if they overdo it, they look older.
I want to make sure they get strength training as a part of their routine.
It's so often overlooked, but it helps with increasing autophagy,
more collagen, elastin production.
But also all important hormones.
Another one, cold exposure.
Exposure to cold temperatures has been shown to activate
atop of gene in the body.
You hear about cold showers.
I have, uh, videos on exposure to cold and in fact, in my practice area where my
practice is, there are places that have cold dunking tanks and they were measuring
testosterone levels in men and they.
200 point increase just from this cold dunking routine, and it only took two
to three weeks to show that increase.
Pretty incredible.
Next is sleep.
Getting adequate sleep is important for your overall health, but also it's been
shown to induce autophagy in the body.
So by incorporating those five methods into your routine, you
can help improve skin elasticity, overall health, and the power.
Of autophagy, mobilize it today.
I wanna know in the comments, what are you doing?
Maybe you're doing all of these.
Stay tuned here and keep your skin and body beautiful, healthy and vibrant.