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SuperLife with Darin Olien

Benjamin Knight Fuchs: How to Eat Your Way to Better Skin

SuperLife with Darin Olien

Darin Olien

Activism, Motivation, Environment, Education, Self-improvement, Fitness, Wellness, Health, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 26 July 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Ever considered how the food you eat impacts your skin?
In this episode of The Darin Olien podcast, Benjamin Knight Fuchs and I explore the profound links between nutrition and skincare. As a pharmacist, he shares insights into how the principles used to promote muscle growth can be applied to skin health. We discuss the detriments of ultra-processed food on our skin and overall health and the need for a health revolution. We need to make a shift from external cosmetic products and surgeries to a lifestyle enriched with proper nutrition.
We also tackle the misconception of beauty products and the risks of an excessive reliance on external products to resolve our skin issues. Instead, we need to look at raw living foods that are rich in nutrients and beneficial for both our overall health and our skin.
Benjamin Knight Fuchs is a registered pharmacist, nutritionist and skin care chemist. For the past 35 years, he’s been developing pharmacy-potent skin health products for estheticians, dermatologists, plastic surgeons and his own savvy customers. He formulated Truth Treatment Systems™ because he saw the need for topical treatments that worked with the biochemistry of the skin. His products augment and enabled dermal processes at the skin cell (not surface) level.
What we discuss:
02:10: How did Darin and Benjamin meet?
04:35: What is missing in today’s beauty products?
11:38: What is the number one most searched skincare ingredient?
14:19: What do most people not realize about their skin?
21:53: Why is moisturizer bad for your skin?
29:20: What’s the difference between alpha hydroxy acids and hylaronic acid?
31:26: What is the most dangerous chemical we apply on our skin regularly?
34:10: What’s the difference between sunscreen and sunblock?
36:30: What is the role of melanin in our skin?
40:02: What is the role of melatonin in our health?
Key Takeaway:
  • The viable living cells in your skin are down at the bottom and not at the top. At the top of your skin, or the skin that is exposed to the external world, is really only dead skin. Thus, if you really want to change your skin, you've got adopt strategies that help the ingredients from the surface make their way down to the lower levels, where the living cells are.
  • Most people think that a lack of collagen, calcium, or peptides are the reason why they are aging. As a result, they tend to supplement these nutrients. However, the real nutrient they should be focusing on replenishing is Vitamin C. Vitamin C is the quintessential anti-aging vitamin. It builds the connective tissue and restores the body back to its useful state and eliminates the problems that people all the people have when they age. You ever see how a person walks when they're aging and their bones are soft and their skin is loose? All that are signs of connective tissue deterioration, which a lack of Vitamin C can be responsible for.
  • When you exercise, your body secretes chemicals which will activate and connect the tissue in your face. Thus, when you lift weights, you're actually stimulating collagen in your face. However, you can also exercise the skin topically. This is because exercising only helps with the top layer of the skin. If you want to treat the skin cells that are at the lower levels, you need to go further than that. Think about it this way: we know that when you exercise the muscles, you're tearing the muscles up and then the muscles grow back. Well, the skin has its own version of tearing up the muscles. It’s called exfoliation. With exfoliation, you are removing dead cells off of the surface, and sending signals down the lower living cells that they can pump new cells to the top, revealing newer looking and more radiant skin.
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0:00.0

You know, most people think that it's a lack of collagen, calcium, peptides, or the reasons,

0:11.3

the main reasons for aging of the skin.

0:13.8

And although that seems to tend to lean them towards supplements that they take in and

0:20.1

other nutrients, unfortunately, taking this approach exclusively to develop a younger

0:25.7

looking skin isn't effective.

0:27.6

It's not the whole picture.

0:29.3

While we all want, of course, we want our skin to look younger and even younger than

0:34.4

our chronological age, that's why we need to learn how our skin works.

0:40.3

We don't have to dive deep into understanding biochemically what's going on, but we need

0:45.0

to understand the basics.

0:47.1

So we don't get manipulated by all these topical skin care products.

0:52.7

We need to understand the skin care and how it interacts with the skin, the nutrition,

0:59.3

that we're putting on the skin.

1:01.0

So if you're tired of buying products, just also impulsively, and you don't actually

1:06.8

know how they work, and you don't want to waste more and more of your money with things

1:12.1

that you use, and then they don't actually work, and God forbid, they're a fatal convenience

1:17.2

because most of them are.

1:19.0

That's exactly what we're going to discuss in this episode of the Dernoline Show with

1:24.1

my great friend of over 30 years, Ben Fuchs.

1:29.2

Ben also explores this profound link between nutrition and skin care, the misconceptions

1:36.1

of beauty products, the risks of excessive reliance on external products to resolve our

1:42.5

skin issues, and what we can do to actually ensure your skin's continued, younger, vigor

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