Hey guys, it’s Wengie here.
Welcome back to my channel,
and ever since I told you guys that I was 30, you guys freak out,
and I got so many comment on it, some of them completely hilarious,
but I definitely owe you guys some anti-aging tips and what I discovered recently,
re.. literally blew.. rea-literally, literally brew ugh.. oh my god,
literally blew my mind,
because this isn’t something I ever learned in school and my parents never told me this
it’s is one of the most awesome anti-aging tips I ever found out in my life, and is not skin care
I always been a firm believer that what you put inside your body has a bigger effect on your skin
and your overall health than what you put on top,
although a good skin routine is super important, I may stress really really important
looking young and looking gracefully has a lot to do with what you put into your body
and what I recently realized, bacon could actually be giving me wrinkles,
other things that I’ve been putting into my body have also been very bad for it,
I actually didn’t even know until I started reading this book called ‘how not to die’ is a New York Best Seller
I highly recommend it, I am gonna explain more about in the description box and link it for you guys
what I read on it rea-literally change the way I look at my food
I’m actually really excited I could share this over 900,000 thousand of you guys,
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at the end of the video,
I am gonna be giving you some super easy ways to incorporate this new diet in your life style
because I am lazy and if I can do it, I am sure you can.
What I just discovered in this book is that the amount of AGEs in your food
can actually affect the aging process, whether you get wrinkles,
and high levels of AGEs can also promote insulin resistance,
which is hand in hand with things like diabetes
and it makes it harder for you to lose weight,
and AGEs stands for Advanced Glycation End Products
is kind of like a very perfect acronym
because it spells AGE and it helps with anti-aging, meant to be.
What AGEs does is it actually increases the oxidizati… the oxidization and that is bad for aging
because antioxidants reduce oxidization and keeps us looking young, where oxidization does the opposite.
Foods with high levels of AGEs can actually increase oxidization levels
to a point where your body can’t handle it
it increases inflammation and basically it just ages you and it could age you prematurely
if you are consuming too many AGEs.
Some of the most innocent things you eat on your plate has crazy amounts of AGEs
so bacon that has been microwaved for 3 minutes has over 90,000 AGEs
and canned corn has 195 AGEs so the difference in just like food choice is incredible
the other thing I discovered that was crazy is that even the same food items
can have a huge difference in AGEs just depending on how you cook it
So chicken that has been fried by 8 minutes has over 73,000 AGEs
but if you take the exact same chicken and boil it for an hour, there is only a little over 11,000 AGEs
you can even eat the exact same food and cook it differently
and you can vastly reduce the amount of AGEs you consume
in general fruit and veggies have low levels of AGEs
and fats, sugars, processed foods, and meat have higher levels
cooking methods with high levels of moisture such as steaming, boiling,
cooking at low temperature, like stewing and slow cooking it reduces the amount of AGEs
cooking methods that are really dry and really really hot like over 300 degrees
can actually dramatically increase the amount of AGEs
things like frying, grilling, barbecuing, baking,
goodbye barbecues forever, so long
and one thing to know is that even if you fry or cook vegetables and fruits
in these really high temperatures and dry methods
it actually doesn’t increase the amount of AGEs that badly
compared to foods with high fat or sugar content such as meat
and I wanted to take you guys to brunch
to show you how I changed the way I eat after finding out this information
I love going to cafes with my fiance,
how like eating lower AGEs actually doesn’t affect your enjoyment of food
we are heading to a healthy food cafe
I try and pick dishes that are legumes, vegetables
and if you feel like something meaty you can consider mushrooms,
avoid a lot of cheese and bacon and sausages are super high in AGEs
ask them to substitute the meat with something else if you can
we got a spoon
got it all over my hands ~laughs~
you know is not as fatty as normal nachos in terms of the meat,
there is not much oil, is all vegetarian, no cheese, chip tomato mince
and I feel like they are baked and not fried, is really good.
think poached eggs instead of fried eggs,
poached chicken instead of fried chicken or roasted chicken
and also look for things that are raw instead of baked or roasted,
when I go out now I try to look for cafes that have the words like whole foods or even like vegetarian cafes.
Have the choice of picking the healthiest thing from the menu even if you can’t pick the restaurant.
so as I mentioned before a really quick and easy way to reduce the amount of AGEs is in your food
is actually to change the way you cook things try steaming things more often,
going to restaurants with steam foods, boiling food, we use a slow cooker,
instead of using the high heat on your stove, turn it to low heat and cook it a little bit longer
also avoid things like burn bits, crispy bits, they can actually increase your AGEs dramatically
and they are actually not that great for you
if you avoid burning your food that can save you a lot of AGEs,
so if you do have to have barbecues, marinating these meats in a citrus based kind of marinade
like lemon or lime can actually reduce vast amounts of AGEs once you cook it
so I hope that this little gem of information inspires you to change the way that you eat
so that we can all be vampires
living a healthy lifestyle low in AGEs can actually reduce a bunch of diseases
like heart disease, diabetes, alzheimer’s disease, and kidneys failure
there is no harm in changing the way you eat
key bonus is that we get wrinkles a lot later in life
and I think a really fun exercise
would be for you guys to list 1 kind of food substitution change after listening to this video,
so are you gonna replace you know fried chicken with boiled chicken?
I love to know what your tips are and I’m sure you guys will inspire other people to make changes
reducing AGEs is only of course a small component of a healthy lifestyle
I got a whole playlist of diets and sort of exercise tips on my channel
so I’m gonna link that down below in here for you guys
I went through a huge weight loss phase, where I tried to become healthier
so don’t forget that I love you guys so so so much,
and I’ll see you guys right back here in a couple of days
bye