Well, hello, hello, guys, you're listening to Beauty Bites with Dr. K, Secrets of a Plastic Surgeon, and it's time for a five-minute Friday.

This is going to be such an amazing summer.

Fruits and vegetables are one of my favorite parts of summer.

I just planted a vegetable garden.

And I think the stone fruits this year are going to be so good because it was so freaking cold and so much rain in California.

So I'm really excited, but we're going to talk about oxygen radical absorbance capacity.

ORAC, oxygen radical absorbance capacity.

What is that?

That is a measure of the antioxidant capacity of the foods that you eat. We need to be

eating a diet that is rich in high orac fruits and vegetables. These are particularly beneficial

for the skin, for your collagen, anti-aging, longevity to prevent DNA breakdown and DNA mutations

that can cause cancers. There's so many things we can be doing just at the daily level that

will improve life quality. When we look at people who live to be 100 years old, what are they doing?

Some of these things like eating high orac fruits and vegetables.

So you know that collagen is this protein that plays a vital role in the structure of your skin.

Probably the highest concentration of protein in your body is the collagen that you have everywhere.

Skin, hair, bones, joints, nails, all of your ligaments, it's all collagen.

It's vital to the structure of your skin. It provides firmness, elasticity,

and it draws water content into your tissues. As you age, your body's collagen production drops dramatically,

leading to sagging, skin wrinkles, and other signs of aging. And one of the best things we can do

to prevent collagen destruction by the free radicals around us is to eat high orac fruits and

vegetables. They slow down the process.

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