Let's talk about the effects of fasting for your skin and especially wrinkles.

I am basing this video off of several studies. I put them down below so you can check them out.

But there's some interesting effects that fasting has on your skin. Number one,

it delays something called vascular cell senescence. What does that mean? It's aging of your

vascular system. So in young skin, you have all this collagen, alastin, which is the elastic

protein that allows things to be very, very resilient and flexible. You have good vascular system,

you have good hydration, and aging skin, you're losing the hydration, you're losing the nutrients,

losing the alastin, the collagen, and the vascular system. Other than that, you're totally fine.

So number one, you can delay the aging of the vascular system. Number two, it prevents

oxidative stress. Now when you're fasting, all sorts of interesting things happen at the genetic

level because you're mimicking starvation. So the body goes in this repair mode and your body

starts building up its antioxidant defense mechanism. So you get more antioxidants and that will

prevent oxidation or oxidative stress, which is occurring from the environment, from food,

to sunlight, radiation, and other stresses. With fasting, you're stimulating a topogy,

and that is a condition where your body is recycling damaged proteins in the skin, in the cell,

in the brain, all over, but especially in the skin. So you're actually able to recycle

old damaged proteins, and your body is actually making new proteins. So it has an anti-aging effect

on your skin. Also, if you do periodic prolonged fasting, you can stimulate the stem cells

in the skin, and that will help the body make new skin as well. Now the other thing that fasting

will do is increase dermal vascular temperature. There's a certain protein in the body that is

stimulated that will increase the blood vessels to the skin, which brings nutrients and oxygen.

Because remember, when you have aging skin, you lose the blood supply to the skin.

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