In this video, you'll discover some of the best foods that you can eat for anti-aging
and younger looking skin.
Every single day, people are spending small fortunes on anti-aging, whether it's in the
way of surgeries, pharmaceuticals, or even lotions and potions. And the truth is, that's
not where true anti-aging comes from. We're led to believe that through a lot of fancy
marketing, but the truth is that true anti-aging comes naturally through the things that you
implement on a daily basis. That's what gives you a glowing complexion. That's what gives
you a youthful looking body, youthful looking skin, and I'm going to teach you what to do
in this video - things that you can implement today, take action steps today to look better
tomorrow. So stick around to the end. But before we get started, I'm Dr. Zyrowski and
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Like I said, a lot of people getting misled, thinking that all these different lotions,
potions, and surgeries are the route to go with anti-aging. It all comes down to what
you do naturally. At the end of this video, what we'll do is discuss the research behind
this and what research is pointing to as the top matters that you should be concerned about
if you're concerned about anti-aging.
Let's talk about foods first. Now some of my favorite anti-aging foods. This is important.
This is the action steps you will take today in order to look younger tomorrow. Start implementing
these foods that are proven scientifically to support good skin health. Now, nuts are
a big one. Now, nuts are one of the foods that we really love in our family because
it's easy to have a bag of them in the car. You’re getting hungry and you're able to
just grab them and you're not like left to all the junk food out there when you don't
have any other good, healthy food around. So, nuts are something that we like to have
in our home, in our car. They're easily accessible, but the truth is they offer a lot of benefits.
Now, they have things like Omega-3s in them, loaded with zinc, vitamin E. When it comes
down to vitamin E is that vitamin that's pretty much in every skin lotion out there, because
it has such a profound impact on benefiting your skin. And so, lots of good nutrients
in there that are skin supportive. Some of the best nuts are going to be walnuts, almonds,
or even some cashews. Now, here's the thing that we have to take into consideration too,
when it comes to utilizing those particular nuts for skin health, is that it's always
best to use raw. When we get the roasted nuts, essentially, it's just going to damage some
of the nutrient content in there that we would otherwise get if we were eating them raw.
So, we want to make sure that we eat raw whenever possible. A lot of times, most people grow
up with the roasted nuts that are salted. Try to find them salted in a good Himalayan
salt, a good pink salt, and then get them raw and you're going to get the most benefit
from them.
Green tea is next. Now green tea is something that's so easy to just put on your list of
things to do for the day. Have a hot green tea, have a cold ice green tea. Green tea
is really good and it's loaded with tons of antioxidants and polyphenols, which are proven
to support skin health. We'll get to the antioxidants in just a moment when we talk about the research
here, but the antioxidants are very important for your overall skin health because they
protect it. The other thing too, with green tea is well, hey, it actually helps you lose
weight and do a couple of other really great things for the body.
So, adding in some green tea is a no brainer.
Fatty fish is next on my list of favorite foods for anti-aging - loaded with Omega-3s
and also vitamin E. When it comes to the fatty fish, we want to be thinking of the acronym
SMASH fish. Now that SMASH fish is going to be the fish that have the highest amount of
Omega-3s in them. They’re some of the best ones for our body. The other thing that we
want to think about when we're eating fish is that we're making sure that we are getting
good quality fish. We want to get the wild caught stuff, not the farm raised stuff, because
the farm raised stuff is just gross in a lot of ways. You're going to find more mercury
in it. So, we want to make sure we're getting the wild caught. And even at that, we don't
want to over consume fish. I like to have fish maybe one to two times per week, but
we don't want to over consume fish, because there is a great chance that fish in general
is going to have some heavy metals in it. So, we gotta be careful with that. Buy the
best quality stuff we can, but on the same hand, don't overdo it.
Olive oils and other great food that we can have in order to support our skin health loaded
with monounsaturated fat. Monounsaturated fat has been shown in the research to help
us with the skin elasticity and just really help promote a glowing complexion. Olive oil
is great in so many ways. The thing is we want to watch out for when eating it is that
we don't want to heat it because it can denature that fat. We don't want to fry with it. It's
a fat that we can best utilize cold. Now, you can just drizzle it over your meat, use
it as a finishing oil, or you can put it on a salad. That's all excellent ways to use
olive oil.
Leafy greens are next on the list. And I know that this is a no brainer because leafy greens
are going to be some of the most nutrient dense foods we eat - loaded with lots of vitamins,
lots of minerals. And let's look at spinach and kale when we think of some of the best
ones to have. These are going to be super foods in the way that they're just so nutrient
dense. Now these different nutrients are incredibly important for keeping a younger looking body,
anti-aging, but also having that glowing skin, that glowing complexion you're looking for
it.
Dark chocolate is another one. When I say dark chocolate people love when I say eat
more dark chocolate because that fits into most people's dietary regiments. And so the
dark chocolate is great loaded with flavanols and resveratrol. Now, when we look at dark
chocolate, it's going to have raw cacao in it. So that's something that we really want
to make sure that we're being aware of when we buy it. We don't want to buy a Hershey's
bar, dark chocolate, loaded with a whole bunch of sugar. We want to buy a good organic dark
chocolate that's about 70, 80% cacao in it. And that's where you're going to get the benefits.
So flavanols resveratrol highly, highly beneficial for anti-aging and having good youthful looking
skin.
Bone broth is next on our list. That's very important when we talk about having a good
complexion, having good youthful looking skin for a couple of reasons. First of all, the
bone broth is going to have the hyaluronic acid in it. It's going to have the collagen
in it. The other thing about bone broth that's really great is that it supports our gut health.
So not only does it have some of the components that support skin health, but it supports
our gut health. Now what I do - here's your bonus tip - when I have bone broth, one of
the things I like to do is I like to squeeze some lemon in it because that lemon is loaded
with vitamin C. The vitamin C combined with the bone broth ensures that the bone broth
will be utilized well in the collagen making process, the collagen utilization process
in the body. So, a little bit of vitamin C with some bone broth is great. Now in our
home, we like to use bone broth on a regular basis. About every week we make some bone
broth, we utilize it for making like a chicken bone broth soup, a beef bone broth stew, or
even just having it as a glass of bone broth in order to support our overall health. Now,
if you want to learn how to make bone broth, because I'm not going to teach you that in
this video obviously, I'll put a link in the description below as to some other resources
for that. I've done a whole video with my wife in the kitchen on making bone broth.
And just like any of the topics we're discussing here, I always put lots of resources in the
description. This is the start of the conversation, but you kind of get all the little pieces
put together as you look in the description and see the different resources I share down
there.
Probiotic-rich foods are also going to be very important if you're interested in having
good at youthful looking skin because what our skin health is, is really a mirror or
a manifestation of our gut health. If we have poor gut health, then there's a good chance
we also are going to have poor skin health. A lot of people with poor gut health have
a lot of rashes. They have a lot of just really unhealthy-looking skin. Improve your gut health,
you'll dramatically see that your skin and appearance will improve as well. I mean, one
of the things that happens with my wife, as soon as she actually stops taking her probiotic,
let's say she runs out or she forgets to take it for a few days, she automatically noticed
that she has more breakouts on her face. It's like clockwork. So, whether you're eating
probiotic-rich foods or taking a probiotic, either way, very good for your skin health.
Now, when it comes to some of the probiotic-rich foods, we can talk about foods that are like
kimchi, sauerkraut, we can utilize some cheeses, fermented pickles. All these different foods
are great and loaded with different probiotics that are really good. Even utilizing things
like kombucha that are going to be a fermented drink. So, utilize that. Some other foods
that you could implement as well is going to be papaya and pomegranate. Those two I
don't have here, but the two little bonus ones that you can add papaya has the papain
in it and that is utilized in a lot of different skin products. And so, it's very beneficial
for your overall skin health. It's supposed to help get rid of dead skin cells and also
promote the new skin cell production. So that is going to be good. And then, like I said,
the pomegranates just really nutrient dense a lot of vitamins in there, especially vitamin
C.
Now let's go ahead and talk about the next step here. So here's some of the foods that
you need to implement. Next is what is the research saying as the top ways that people
are aging quickly today. First is going to be AGES. AGES stands for advanced glycation
end product. Basically, what this is, is where you combine a diet that's rich in protein,
fats, and sugar, you get this glycation process that starts to break down the body. It's associated
with heart disease and cancer and all kinds of problems. And it's also associated with
having a not very healthy-looking skin and also aging faster. One of the things here
that we have to really take into consideration, when we think of the AGES, these advanced
glycated end products is sugar. So, sugar is a major problem here. And let me tell you,
I say this all the time. If you want to look older than anybody else, eat lots of sugar.
If you want to be the oldest looking person in your block, make sure you're eating lots
of sugar. Of course, I'm saying that facetiously, but the truth is, is that sugar just really
breaks down the body. And it really just speeds up the aging process. And of course, it adds
to this issue right here. So, if you want to have good looking skin and you just want
to age gracefully in general, cut out the sugar. It's so important.
Inflammation. So, a lot of inflammatory problems are leading to advanced aging. Now what this
basically means here is that a lot of people are suffering from a low-grade inflammation
in their body that is chronic. It just never goes away. They're constantly having negative
immune responses. They're gut health isn't good. They're not eating well. They're not
exercising. A lot of people have this inflammation leading to the infla-aging. Okay. So what
the research shows on this, if we want to shut down that inflammation, we have to shut
down that NF Kappa B cycle in the body. It's an inflammatory cycle in the body that we
have to shut it down. Some of these foods that we're mentioning right here are going
to be very important for it. They all have this huge benefit in shutting down inflammation,
things like olive oil, things like Omega-3s, green tea, and the antioxidants - all very
important for that process. Resveratrol is incredibly powerful for shutting down the
inflammatory process. So, all these foods mentioned here are going to support that,
but it's important also that we're exercising and following just in general, a good, healthy
diet, a good whole food based diet that doesn't have sugar in it if we don't want to age fast.
Next on our list is oxidative stress, reactive oxygen species. If we want to age fast, then
we are going to just do all the things that cause a lot of oxidative stress, whether it's
in the way of physical stress, mental stress, physiological stress - these all cause oxidative
damage in the body. And so, we want to stop these reactive oxygen species in the body.
How we do this as we just add in more antioxidants - green tea, a lot of these different foods
that we're talking about, lots of leafy greens. These are what the research is pointing to
when they say, well, let's take a deeper dive into why people are aging faster. Let's take
a deeper dive into why people are having this skin that just is rough and wrinkled, and
having a poor texture to it. Why is it happening? This is what it's pointing to right here.
Now let's go ahead and talk about some other things that you can do. So, when we think
of aging, first of all, we think of what we can do internally. Internally is this food
right here that we're mentioning. And now the next is what can we do externally? Externally,
what we can do is use some things like vitamin E oil. We can use things like a probiotic
face mask. You can literally just use yogurt as a face mask in order to help with aging.
Making sure that we're putting the proper things on our skin, we're supporting our skin
in every way possible is going to be beneficial. But the point that I want to make here is
it's not about internal and it's not only about external, it's about doing both of them.
Now internally is going to be number one. This is priority. And then external is number
two. And by the way, if you want to learn more about how to stop sagging skin if you
have a lot of saggy skin on your body, let's say you lost a lot of weight, I did a whole
video on that. I'll put that right up here, very powerful. And in that video, I even give
like a special skin serum concoction that we make in order to help reduce some of those
wrinkles. So, check that video. I'll also put it in the link in the description below.
Next on our list is going to be microbiome. So, we think of internal, external, and then
microbiome. The microbiome is so important. The microbiome is referring to the bacteria
that's on our skin, in our gut, in our bodies in general. They're in every area of our body,
in our sinus cavities, you name it. Now, this microbiome is very important for skin health
in general. Now, a lot of companies are coming out and coming up with like a microbiome skin
lotion. I'll put in a link in the description to the one that I use. There's microbiome
supports for your gut. That's in the way of taking probiotics, using kombucha, using these
probiotic-rich foods. So, supporting that bacterial culture that is on our skin, in
our bodies is going to be very beneficial to our overall skin health. There's so much
emerging science coming out on this and it's very cool. So, supporting your microbiome
is key.
When it comes to just aging, anti-aging in general, these are the things we want to look
to. We don't want to go to the store and pick up $30 lotions and get into all these crazy
things that don't really matter that much. We want to make sure that we're taking care
of ourselves. I can tell you that for me, it's always crazy to see working with so many
patients out there whereas like I'll have some patients that are 60 years old and they
look like they're 80. And then I'll have patients that are 60 years old and you're thinking
that they're 40. It's unbelievable the difference between one person to the next. But guess
what I always see? The person who looks 20 years older, they're the people who they've
never exercised. They’ve never paid attention to what they eat. They've never really taken
care of their body. Whereas like the person who looks 20 years younger than your actual
age are the people who have always paid attention to what they're eating. They've always been
in the gym working out. They've always taken action when it came to their health. As you
age, this will be a huge differentiating factor between how you look, how your skin looks,
your complexion, how people view you, how you're able to actually go out in the world
and enjoy life. I mean, that's something that's important to consider. I know a lot of people
get caught up in their looks, but the truth is, is that if you feel terrible every single
day and your body is chronically inflamed and you don't have the proper means to just
go out and enjoy life because of being in pain and just in general, not feeling well,
then that's no life anyway. So, we want to make sure that anti-aging isn't just about
what we look like, but how we feel and how our body is performing.
So, give this video a thumbs up, share it with your friends, put in the comments section
below if you use some of these tips here, and then lastly, check out this video over
here to further improve your skin health.
So about every three months that our skin cells completely turn over. As they turn over,
they're going to become healthier and healthier if you're consuming these different nutrients
that are really essential when it comes to skin…