The 8 Foods That Negatively Impact Your Skin Health
Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast
Dr. Eric Berg
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🗓️ 24 September 2023
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
Today let’s talk about what foods to avoid for healthy, vibrant skin and the best ways to handle skin problems.
Altered hormones or an issue with your biochemistry can lead to all kinds of skin issues. It’s crucial to focus on what you're putting in your body to get rid of acne and other skin problems.
The worst foods for your skin:
1. Low-fat foods
2. Sugary foods
3. Grains and alcohol
4. Vegetable oils
5. Processed protein
6. Milk and whey protein powder
7. Low-antioxidant foods
8. Foods that destroy the gut flora
The best diet tips for healthy skin:
• Consume higher amounts of fat
• Avoid sugar and carbs
• Consume nutrient-dense foods
• Consume foods high in phytonutrients
• Consume a variety of plants
• Consume high-quality protein sources
Other ways to support skin health:
• Do fasting
• Get out in the sun (don’t get burned)
• Take cod liver oil
• Reduce stress
• Exercise
• Avoid smoking
• Avoid alcohol
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| 0:00.0 | Let's discuss the eight worst foods for your skin. |
| 0:03.6 | So typically, if a person has a skin problem, |
| 0:06.0 | they may go to a dermatologist, right? |
| 0:07.9 | And they get a diagnosis, and then they get a treatment, |
| 0:12.6 | maybe some type of steroid cream, or something to reduce inflammation. |
| 0:18.4 | Or maybe they don't. |
| 0:20.4 | They might just cover up the skin problem |
| 0:23.4 | with some type of makeup or use some type of cream or some type of remedy. Today I'm going to talk |
| 0:29.6 | about some real common things that people ingest that cause the problem, so then you can avoid it. It's not normal to have all these |
| 0:39.9 | skin problems, right? And so if your biochemistry is messed up or your hormones are altered, |
| 0:47.4 | the thing to focus on is what you're inputting into the machinery, into your body. |
| 0:53.1 | All right, so let's start from the top. |
| 0:54.3 | Number one you have low fat foods. Okay let me explain this and this relates to some of the |
| 1:01.2 | other points as well but 50% of your cells, I'm talking about the membrane of your cells, |
| 1:10.4 | especially in the skin, are made out of saturated |
| 1:13.1 | fat. So we've been told so many times to avoid saturated fat and we replace those with other |
| 1:19.6 | types of fat or go low fat. And that is one way to make your skin look very unhealthy. Saturated |
| 1:27.2 | fat is totally okay to eat as long as you don't |
| 1:29.3 | add all the other things that come with it like sugars and things like that. And also if you can |
| 1:33.8 | digest the fat too. If you have your gallbladder remove, for example, that might be an issue. |
| 1:37.8 | In which case you just have to take some bile salts. But also, what is in fat? You have all |
| 1:41.9 | the fat-siable vitamins, which are really important for your skin. You got vitamin A, what is in fat? You have all the fat-siable vitamins, which are really important for your |
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