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in this video I’m going to share some

tips on how to deal with loose skin how

to tighten up your skin and to do it

naturally so you could hopefully avoid

some of the surgeries they do or more

invasive type treatments now what

exactly is loose skin well your skin has

been overstretched to the point where it

has not come back to its original form

it’s like taking this rubber band and

stretching it out but the rubber band

doesn’t come back to the original form

so what is going on with that well

there’s two main problems a problem with

your collagen and also a deeper fiber

called elastin which is supposed to give

the collagen some elasticity and so the

question people have is should I just

start eating more collagen that help

typically it is not a lack of the

consumption of collagen that causes this

problem usually this problem comes from

getting older losing a lot of weight can

produce loose skin excessive sun

exposure going through pregnancy smoking

has a risk factor being a diabetic can

give you a lot of loose skin or even

going through a lot of stress can create

a lot of breakdown of these collagen

fibers so let’s just dive into all the

different component parts and the things

that you can start doing immediately

let’s start with hormones okay you have

two different sets of hormones you have

those hormones that build up your

collagen and elastin and then you have

hormones that break down the collagen

and connective tissue within the skin

and the main hormone that does that is

cortisol and cortisol is an a catabolic

hormone which means it breaks tissue

down it breaks proteins down and

collagen and elastin is protein so of

course you have the stress component

that activates cortisol on the flip side

you have hormones that are do the

opposite they’re anabolic hormones like

growth hormone which is also everything

about anti aging and burning fat but

growth hormone has a very specific

purpose into helping

proteins grow muscle collagen connective

tissue

Etc and there’s three main ways to spike

growth hormone number one high intensity

exercise training

with specific emphasis on intensity the

more intense you do this exercise the

more stimulation of growth hormone

you’re going to create so what would

that be well

sprinting hopping on some type of

elevation that’s called Plyometrics spin

bike anything that involves intensity

but the key is keeping it short so you

don’t over train thus high intensity

interval training right so you’re not

going to do a sustained high intensity

you’re going to do short bursts of high

intensity with lots of rest in between

so you might rest for two three four

five days making sure that inflammation

and that recovery is happening also what

inhibits growth hormone is glucose so

this is why you need to be on a low carb

ketogenic diet now the other important

factor with growth hormone is getting

enough sleep which also crosses over to

helping you with the stress so if you’re

trying to build up growth hormone and

you’re not sleeping it’s going to be a

huge problem if you have a problem

sleeping you probably need to watch some

of the videos I have down below

regarding that one topic but in this

video I’m just going to cover all the

different points and then you can see

what you need to focus on later this

next thing is very interesting there’s

another anabolic hormone anabolic

meaning building up proteins and that is

insulin insulin induces or triggers new

elastin

remember that type of connective tissue

that allows the elasticity in your skin

to keep it like a rubber band well

insulin triggers that which is

fascinating because you would think just

the opposite because you’re probably

thinking diabetics well in Diabetes Type

2

you have a situation where you have

insulin resistance you have a lot of

insulin going through the body but not

in the cells because the cells are

resistant yet the other parts of the

body might have too much insulin with

diabetes and insulin resistance which is

the majority of the population you have

a situation where you have an insulin

deficiency which could definitely create

a problem with insulin so how do you

correct this and get more insulin

you basically fix insulin resistance and

you do that with the ketogenic diet

intermittent fasting and you also do

that with exercise now the other problem

with insulin resistance is it blocks

your ability to get fuel get nutrients

and receive amino acids so the very

building blocks of protein that you need

to build for collagen and elastin are

going to be inhibited when you have

insulin resistance so ultimately part of

this plan has to include fixing insulin

resistance to be able to then pull in

these amino acids and also prevent

atrophy which is a loss of muscle all

right the next thing I’m going to talk

about is related to collagen and elastin

there are cofactors there are nutrients

that help the development of collagen

and help the creation of elastin and the

most important cofactor okay is vitamin

A and I’m not talking about what most

people think about vitamin A which is

beta-carotene which is the precursor I’m

talking about the active form of vitamin

A retinol which only comes from animal

products right like egg yolks cod liver

oil fatty fish butter versus spinach

which has the beta-carotene but that has

to convert into the active form and a

lot of people don’t convert very much of

it Unfortunately they they change the

definition of vitamin A to mean both the

precursor beta-carotene as well as

retinol but they’re two completely

different molecules so vitamin A is a

really important cofactor for building

up collagen in fact all of the fat

soluble vitamins are really important in

your skin and so this is why going on a

low-fat diet is very bad for skin Health

here’s a diet that I came across while I

was in practice people were doing this

diet called Ideal Protein right

well was it ketogenic yes it was low

carb but it was also low fat typically

the healthy version of the ketogenic

diet is not low fat okay it’s higher

amounts of fat in moderate protein in

this diet it was low fat low carb and

the protein that was recommended were in

these packaged foods like soy protein

isolates so you have this lean process

protein that they were giving these

people and what I noticed a person in

this program

they just look older with their skin the

skin look very unhealthy they look like

it aged it was dried out it looked

wrinkly and so did the hair so you can

tell a lot about what’s going on

internally by just looking on the

external part of someone’s body and the

more low fat you do the less fat cyber

vitamins you’re going to have and your

skin needs a good amount of fat the next

cofactor that’s really important in

collagen and elastin especially is iron

but not your regular iron the heme iron

which is the more bioavailable iron

which is in red meat it’s in shellfish

it’s not in vegetables that’s the

non-heme form of iron you need the bile

available form so just the fact that I

mentioned these two cofactors tells us

what kind of diet you need you need to

do animal products that are not lean

okay that are a bit more fatty to get

both the retinol as well as the iron

that you need so if someone is going to

do a plant-based vegan diet they better

figure out how they’re going to get

these key nutrients I’m not saying it’s

not possible you can do it it’s just a

lot more difficult unfortunately a lot

of people do plant-based end up eating

too many grains to omega-6 fatty acids

which just filled their body up with

inflammation and worsen the situation

all right the last cofactor is vitamin C

and I want to mention something about

vitamin C vitamin C well you probably

heard that it’s connected to your your

collagen but most people are taking the

synthetic version of vitamin C it’s not

the type that comes from nature so the

best way to get your vitamin C is to

make sure that you’re either doing a

food-based concentrate or you’re doing

foods that are high in vitamin C and one

of the best foods for that would be

sauerkraut sauerkraut hands down has

more vitamin C than any other food it’s

like 10 times the amount of vitamin C

that our bodies require but but you can

also get vitamin C from peppers from

berries things like that the next topic

is exercise

is a necessity but make sure you don’t

over train when you exercise you’re

creating new vascularization it’s called

neovascularization and you’re getting

new blood vessels where you’re carrying

more nutrients and more circulation

which is what you want to do you’re also

going to build up more muscles just

underneath the skin to fill in this Gap

that occurred from the overstretching of

the skin so it will fill up the space

and give you a nice appearance that

there’s less loose skin and of course

exercise will stimulate the growth

hormone if you do the high intensity

animal training and then there’s

prolonged fasting okay prolonged fasting

gives you what’s called an epigenetic

effect on skin because you’re putting

your body into an autophagy state where

it’s recycling old damaged proteins and

let me explain old damaged proteins

when someone has insulin resistance or

they’re a pre-diabetic or a diabetic

they have a lot of glycation going on

what is glycation well it’s a situation

where you’re eating too many carbs and

this protein is combining with the sugar

to make the protein unavailable so a

diabetic has a lot of glycated proteins

and that’s how they measure it in A1C

for example is a situation when you have

this average blood sugars for three

months so we have this interaction

between a certain amount of sugar with

your protein in your blood and it’s

creating damage okay and you can measure

that with this test and you can see how

much or how little you have of this

glycated effect but that damage or

glycation effect also happens in the

eyes and the kidney and the arteries and

the brain and the nerves all over but it

also happens in the Skin So if you have

glycation going on in the collagen and

elastin it’s going to make that tissue

unavailable and it’s not going to

stretch and be elastic anymore it also

happens in your arteries too which can

lead to high blood pressure

so the cool thing is that you can get

rid of some of this glycation by doing

prolonged fasting like three days or

longer when you do that your body starts

to clean up this damaged protein and

recycle it and rejuvenate it so that’s a

really cool thing that you can do and

the next thing is part of the last two

things I mentioned which is basically

you’re creating a a hermetic effect

which you’re adding a little bit of

stress to the body to cause the body to

adapt and become stronger so prolonged

fasting gives you hermetic effect so

does exercise but there’s other things

too

like heat in cold putting ice cold water

on your face

and then putting warm or hot water in

your face back and forth can create this

harmonic effect and there’s some

interesting research on that which I’ll

put down below creating this hermetic

stimulation of your skin cells and

causing the tissue to tone but again

that’s for loose skin on the face but

what if it’s on the rest of the body

well then you’re going to have to do it

for the rest of the body now I want to

mention something about Sun for a second

because too much sun is very bad on your

skin and what I mean by that is if you

expose to the Sun to the point of burn

but a little bit of sun which is the

point before you burn is a good thing on

a regular basis because it creates a

hermetic effect that can actually

stimulate healthy skin but that also

depends on how much melanin you have the

color of your skin and if you’re very

very fair complected you’re going to

burn very easily so that is the other

variable you have to watch out for so I

covered a lot of different things that

you can do to improve your skin right

now pick one or two of them and just get

started and keep working on it over time

but out of all these points I think the

most important one for your skin would

be prolonged fasting now I have a video

on this which I also include an

additional thing you should do if you

have loose skin if you’re doing

prolonged fasting and that is taking

certain amino acids so that way

you’re not going to really break the

effectiveness of your fast because

you’re not eating like protein per se

you’re eating the building blocks which

is very low calorie so you can get the

benefits of fasting but also get the

benefits of the amino acids that can

help build this connective tissue and

elastin and I put that video up right

here check it out