The #1 Deficiency behind Aging Spots

Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast

Dr. Eric Berg

Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 11 August 2024

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Find out if a mineral deficiency is the cause of your aging spots!

In this podcast, we’re going to talk about the causes and remedies of aging spots. Aging spots are sometimes called liver spots, but they’re not necessarily caused by the liver. Around 90% of people over 60 have these age spots.

Age spots are composed of melanin, the pigment that gives hair, skin, and eyes their color. Melanin protects against UV radiation, but we also need this radiation for vitamin D.

UV damage causes oxidative stress, or stress that occurs at the cellular level. Antioxidants can help neutralize this damage.

Oxidative stress triggers melanin and increases hyperpigmentation. Increased estrogen and progesterone during pregnancy, diabetes, inflammation, certain drugs, and stress can also increase melanin production.

Melanin absorbs UV rays and neutralizes the damage by dispersing it through the body and turning it into heat.

I reviewed some of the patents for age spot remedies, and they included natural remedies such as vitamin C, grape seed extract, zinc, licorice extract, and berries.

Many natural remedies for age spots include zinc and selenium. Zinc is good for everything related to your skin. It’s involved in hundreds of enzyme reactions and biochemical pathways and is considered a very powerful antioxidant. Zinc can naturally lower excess melanin production.

Zinc combined with selenium can be very effective against age spots. Selenium is a precursor to glutathione, one of the most powerful antioxidants. Selenium and zinc also protect your DNA. You can use a cream with zinc and selenium or take them as a supplement combined with other trace minerals.

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0:00.0	It's a lack of this one mineral that's causing your aging spots.
0:04.4	Now, what's an aging spot?
0:06.4	Aging spots are also called liver spots, which are not really caused by the liver
0:11.2	necessarily, but if you have a bad liver, you probably have similar skin problems.
0:17.0	So today I'm going to talk about where they come from, how to get rid of them, why do they develop kind of patches around different places in your body?
0:25.6	Are they dangerous?
0:26.5	Are they going to turn into skin cancer?
0:28.6	I'm going to cover all that.
0:29.5	90% of everyone over the age of 60 has these blemishes.
0:35.0	So I am 59, I have something to look forward to next year.
0:38.0	What we're really dealing with with this darkened spot
0:41.0	is melanin. Melanin is a pigment that's behind the color of your skin, the color of your hair, the color of your eyes.
0:50.0	And one of the big purposes of melanin is to protect you against a certain type of radiation called
0:57.2	UV radiation. Because UV can create damage in our skin cells, especially the DNA, our body has created over a long period of time this
1:08.2	umbrella that is a protective thing against the cells to protect the DNA against damage. And so one of the big things that
1:17.0	will trigger more melanin production is more UV radiation. The catch 22 is that we also make vitamin D through this UV radiation
1:29.3	when it hits our skin. And so melanin is a pigment, it's like a natural sunscreen it blocks UV and that's
1:36.7	going to also block your production of vitamin D now one of the problems with these
1:42.2	blemishes is the treatment that you get when you go to the doctor.
1:47.0	They'll do all sorts of chemical treatments, bleaching treatments, laser treatments, synthetic Vitamin A, all these different remedies,
1:55.0	which have side effects.
1:57.0	But don't worry, I'm going to give you a natural solution
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