Well, hello, hello, guys. You're listening to Beauty Bites with Dr. K, secrets of a plasticgeon, and it's time for a five-minute Friday.

Today we're going to look at five ingredients you need to be eating for anti-aging.

And, you know, you are what you eat.

Healthy diet, vitamin supplements, essential nutrients, all these things go into making you who you are and help you with your

skin quality. The concept of improving the appearance of the skin has to be more than just

superficial creams and topical products that we apply. Physical signs of premature aging and skin changes can improve when you're

on the right diet and the right ingredients. According to Dave Asprey, the founder of Upgrade Labs

and the father of biohacking, the secret to maintaining youthful skin is not just found in topical

creams, but also in the foods that you eat. So let's go over the top five

food types that you should be eating to improve anti-aging and premature aging changes of the skin.

Number one on our list is collagen. So much of your skin is composed of collagen, and as you age, your body's collagen

production drops daily environmental factors like UV light and pollution affect collagen,

and meta-analysis of 45 different scientific published literary studies has shown that ingesting collagen biopeptides on a daily basis can improve your skin.

So many people are out there saying that collagen powders don't work, and that is simply not true.

My collagen powder, internal radiance, B.D. collagengiene collagen is amazing. It has 12.5 grams of collagen

peptides per serving. And when you take in collagen peptides, it exceeds this threshold of what

the stomach digest, it does spill over into the bloodstream. So when you are taking a high dose,

yes, some of it goes through your small

intestines and becomes processed as food and like regular protein is broken down into amino acids.

But when you have a high enough threshold of collagen peptides, the remainder of the peptides

come into the bloodstream and signal your skin that there is a process

of peptides being available, which acts like a mimic to skin being broken down. It actually

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