The #1 Anti-Wrinkle Myth
Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast
Dr. Eric Berg
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🗓️ 18 November 2024
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
By 40, we’ve lost around 25% of the collagen in our connective tissue. Certain antibiotics, ultraviolet radiation, high sugar consumption, and poor diet can contribute to collagen breakdown and speed up premature aging. Vitamin D helps protect you against the loss of collagen and premature aging.
The most potent stimulus of collagen is exercise. Focus on the plank exercise, eccentric exercises, and sprinting. Not only will these exercises make you look younger, but they’ll also improve the health of the vessels, valves, and tissues around your heart.
There are several anti-aging foods that you should add to your diet to prevent premature aging. Adequate vitamin C intake is essential to form collagen. Raw sauerkraut has the highest amount of vitamin C!
Vitamin K2 is vital for collagen and keeping your cartilage, ligaments, tendons, and fascia healthy. It also helps give your skin a youthful glow. Liver, egg yolk, and butter are the best food sources of vitamin K2.
Magnesium allows your body to make collagen and helps vitamin D prevent its breakdown. Dark chocolate, almonds, and spinach are the best sources of magnesium.
Zinc keeps skin youthful and speeds up wound healing. Oysters, red meat, and liver contain the most zinc. Copper is also essential. The best sources are oysters, red meat, shellfish, liver, and dark chocolate.
High-quality protein is crucial in keeping you healthy and helping you look younger. Grass-fed beef is the best source.
Intermittent fasting can promote autophagy, which has potent anti-aging effects. You must also prioritize sleep to reverse aging and have a youthful glow.
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| 0:00.0 | Now, of course, we all are going to get old eventually, but it's not necessary to age before our time. |
| 0:04.8 | And of course, most people don't like their wrinkles, so they treat the wrinkle. |
| 0:08.4 | And they treat it with creams and serums and Botox, all these different things, |
| 0:12.7 | rather than treat it from the inside out. |
| 0:14.4 | What people need to realize is the aging appearance in the outside of the body is actually happening on the inside as well. And when we're |
| 0:21.4 | talking about wrinkles, we're talking about collagen and connective tissue. The fascia that surrounds |
| 0:27.1 | all of our muscles and all of our body will become stiffened and causes to be in this certain |
| 0:31.8 | posture, which is usually slumped over. And many times by the age of 40, we've lost 25% of our |
| 0:37.3 | collagen in our connective |
| 0:38.6 | tissue. So today we're going to talk about how to prevent this problem as well as reverse it if |
| 0:43.0 | you have it. And of course, I'm talking about premature aging. I'm not talking about completely |
| 0:47.6 | stopping the aging process. That is going to be impossible. There is a certain enzyme in the body. |
| 0:52.8 | And this enzyme actually breaks down collagen. So what are the things that triggers this enzyme to go higher? Certain antibiotics. You also have ultraviolet radiation. You're out in the sun excessively, burning yourself too much. Now, that can also trigger this. However, I still recommend that you get a lot of sun, |
| 1:12.1 | okay? And I'm going to talk about that at the very end of this certain section. But let me just |
| 1:16.0 | make this understandable. The more sugar that's in your body, the more it's going to lock up |
| 1:20.6 | protein and it clogs everything up. Okay. And if you have a lot of that going on because you eat |
| 1:25.2 | a lot of refined sugars, then you're going to look really old, okay? Just as a side note, I want to explain something about sugar. Everyone's like |
| 1:31.4 | afraid of sugar and they're trying to avoid sugar and they'll start reading labels and say, wow, |
| 1:35.7 | this doesn't have very much sugar, but it has a lot of carbohydrate. What is that carbohydrate? It's |
| 1:40.6 | starch. Starch is a bunch of sugar molecules connected together. So starch is sugar. And when we talk |
| 1:47.7 | about starch, we're not even talking about like the starch and vegetables like a salad or even a |
| 1:52.9 | potato. We're talking about severely ultra-processed starch that is called either multodextrant, |
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