Smearing Your Face With Avocado & Papayas, Dabbing Your Skin With Pineapples & Green Algae, Fixing Acne Forever & Much More With Dr. Trevor Cates.
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Ben Greenfield
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🗓️ 24 May 2017
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
https://bengreenfieldfitness.com/cleanskin
Ever consider grabbing an avocado or papaya from your kitchen and smearing it all over your face?
How about mixing up some pineapple and green algae to dab on your skin? Or how about this...did you know the first signs of nutritional deficiencies actually show up on the skin? My guest on today's show, Dr. Trevor Cates, just wrote a fantastic book called "Clean Skin from Within: The Spa Doctor's Two-Week Program to Glowing, Naturally Youthful Skin".
In it, she presents guidelines and recipes to transform your skin from the inside out. She explains the “why” of what’s happening, and how you can remedy problems. She opens by showing how to identify your skin type to reach the root cause of problems. From there you’ll learn how to create nourishing foods to create a clean mind, clear skin, and healthy body. Collagen-boosting bone broths, antioxidant-rich salads, and delicious smoothies are just a few things on the menu. You’ll also be able to whip up all-natural cleansers, toners, exfoliants, and masks... ...and get new skin within two weeks flat. Dr. Cates is a nationally recognized naturopathic doctor. She is also known, as “The Spa Dr.” and was the first woman licensed as a naturopathic doctor in the state of California, appointed by former Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to California’s Bureau of Naturopathic Medicine Advisory Council. She has worked with world-renown spas and sees patients in her private practice in Park City, Utah with a focus on graceful aging and glowing skin. She has been featured on The Doctors, Extra, First for Women, Mind Body Green and is host of THE SPA DR. Podcast. Dr. Cates believes the key to healthy skin is inner and outer nourishment with non-toxic ingredients.
During our discussion, you'll discover:
-Why it was skin issues that first got Ben and his wife to begin eating healthy...[11:50]
-Why some of the first signs of nutritional deficiencies can show up in our skin...[16:10]
-The five different skin types, and how to figure out which one you are...[19:40]
-The two favorite natural ingredients for the skin that Trevor talks about in her book...[25:13]
-Why water is not the correct pH for the skin and why you want something more acidic on your skin...[30:20]
-How digestive enzymes from things like pineapple can be used to help turn over dead skin cells more quickly...[33:20]
-What sea buckthorn does for your skin, where you get it, and why the "omega-7" in it is so important...[41:25]
-How to ensure that your bone broth is high in collagen...[44:30]
-Why mineral oil is something that should be avoided...[46:30]
-The five natural ingredients for your skin that you can get straight from the kitchen...[52:00]
-Why Trevor smears papaya all over her face, and an easy recipe with papaya, oats and yogurts that can make your face and skin look amazing...[56:55]
-A simple coconut milk grape juice cleanser recipe you make with just three ingredients...[59:40]
-And much more...
Resources from this episode: -Clean Skin from Within: The Spa Doctor's Two-Week Program to Glowing, Naturally Youthful Skin -The Greenfield Anti-Aging Skin Serum -Dr. Loren Cordain's Dietary Cure For Acne -TheSkinQuiz.com (MARGE FOR THIS AND FOR THE LINK BELOW ,USE OUR AFFILIATE LINKS) -Dr. Trevor Cates full line of skin care products
Do you have questions, thoughts or feedback for Dr. Cates or me? Leave your comments at BenGreenfieldFitness.com and one of us will reply!
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, it's Ben Greenfield. I am in Carmel, California attending a private, yes, a private masterminding |
| 0:08.4 | event down here, but I had a great workout. I'll tell you what it was. This is one I go to workouts. |
| 0:12.8 | I ran to the gym here, and if the audio sounds funny, by the way, I'm in my big cavernous |
| 0:17.2 | echoey hotel rather than my slick little home studio. I ran to the gym, and I did a weight training |
| 0:24.4 | complex. I have this habit now of when I'm at a conference or an event like this, and I know time |
| 0:31.0 | is tight. I use barbell complexes, or dumbbell complexes, or kettlebell complexes, whatever happens |
| 0:36.0 | to be available. And one of my favorite complexes is the following. I load up a barbell with a lot of |
| 0:43.0 | weight, and I pick up the weight like a deadlift, and then do a Romania deadlift, and then do a |
| 0:49.4 | bentro, a front clean, or I guess it's just a clean, to a front squat, to an overhead press, |
| 0:57.2 | to a back squat, to an overhead press. And I do all that without setting the bar down, and then I |
| 1:01.8 | just do as many repetitions as I possibly can. I recover with mobility work for about a minute or |
| 1:07.9 | two, like walking or crawl position type of mobility moves like bird dogs or or fire hydrant |
| 1:15.7 | exercises, Google those if you don't know what they are. And then I go back to the barbell, |
| 1:19.7 | and I do another complex. Again, as many as I can do until I put the bar down, usually if I've got |
| 1:24.4 | 135 pounds in the bar, for example, I'll be able to do five or six reps. And I'll just do that three |
| 1:30.8 | times. Boom, done. That's it. Lift heavy stuff. If you have no option either lift heavy stuff, |
| 1:36.8 | or find whatever cardio machine you can that that moves as many body parts as possible, like the |
| 1:42.8 | rowing machine or the elliptical thing with the arms on it, and just go to town with very short |
| 1:47.8 | explosive intervals on that. Either barbell complexes or intervals are going to give you the most |
| 1:53.0 | bang for your buck. Especially when you're on the road, like I am a lot right now, speaking of which |
| 1:58.1 | that's why you're not getting a lot of listener Q&A on the podcast these days, but fear not. |
| 2:03.6 | We are returning to listener Q&A's with some cool little twists and surprises that I think you're |
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