How To Look Younger Than Your Age Naturally - Anti Aging

How To Look Younger Than Your Age Naturally - Anti Aging

Did you know that going to space drastically slows down the aging process?
There are other factors that we can’t control, like genetics. Then you have things that affect the aging process that we can control, like the amount of sun exposure, stress, smoking, drugs, and alcohol, as well as the amount of exercise and sleep you get. But one of the biggest things that age you is SUGAR.

The cell is the simplest form of life, and we’re made of tens of trillion cells. To stay alive, the cell has to have energy. Usually, that entails burning glucose, which any cell can do.

When glucose is inside a cell, it's broken down in glycolysis. Alternatively, if the mitochondria are overwhelmed, pyruvic acid is diverted to go down the de novo lipogenesis (DNL) pathway, which converts sugar into fat. In this pathway, the pyruvic acid is turned into a fatty acid called palmitic acid, which is attached to a glycerol molecule and shipped out of the liver cell as a triglyceride molecule.

It’s the triglyceride molecule deposited in fat cells throughout the body. The two energy pathways, especially inside the mitochondria, continuously release by-products called oxygen free radicals that are toxic to the cell. But your cells do their best to detoxify them; otherwise, it will be the cell's death.

Specifically, it’s the peroxisome of the cell which releases its antioxidants, which are basically the antidote to those toxins.
Do you ever wonder why we get wrinkles as we age?
Or why do we get cataracts and atherosclerosis?
Yes, it's the aging process, but specifically, at the biochemical and cellular level inside your body, it results from glycation.

It's basically the human body’s version of carmelizing, or browning, occurring in all of our cells. The only way it stops, though, is if we die. But it can be slowed down. The slower the glycation, the slower you age. Glycation occurs when sugar, either glucose or fructose, combines with the amino acid component of protein. When they attach, the protein becomes stiffer. Most of these damaged proteins end up being swept away by the garbage man of the cell. But the garbage man isn’t perfect at his job, especially when he is overwhelmed with too much garbage.

So what happens?
You’re left with AGEs, or advanced glycation end products, which impair cellular function and ultimately age you quicker. It’s also to say that you’ll be healthier for longer. And part of this process depends on if the sugar we’re dealing with is glucose or fructose.

Glucose and fructose are structurally similar, both being monosaccharides, and both are found in dietary sugar (for example, sucrose in fruit, high-fructose corn syrup in a lot of processed food, even brown sugar, honey, agave, and maple syrup).

But here’s the thing. Fructose acts much faster in the glycation process than glucose, 7 times faster! So at least in this sense, sugar is worse than starch. And sugar in the form of fructose is worse than glucose. Collagen is the main extracellular protein in the body, meaning it resides outside cells. It’s the major component of connective tissues, like skin, tendons, and cartilage.

Because it's so prominent, has a long half-life, and is accessible to the glucose that floats around in our bloodstream, it’s the perfect setup for glucose and fructose to attach to it. This increases collagen stiffness. The decrease in flexibility is a result of AGE-mediated collagen cross-links. This occurs not just in the skin but also in the aorta.

When you look at tissue samples from insulin-dependent diabetic patients, they have increased AGE-modified collagen due to chronological age. Still, the observed levels were comparable to normal individuals twice as old as those of diabetic patients.

So if you want to slow this process down, the simple answer is to reduce sugar intake, especially when it comes to fructose. Generally speaking, processed foods have the most added sugar, and the most added sugar is fructose. The worst culprits are candy, pies, cookies, pastries, cakes, doughnuts, ice cream, sugar-sweetened drinks like soda, juice, and any syrup, including lattes. But there are also many “hidden” added sugar in things like cereal, yogurt, salad dressings, and other condiments like ketchup and BBQ sauce.

Doctor Mike Hansen, MD
Internal Medicine | Pulmonary Disease | Critical Care Medicine

[DoctorMikeHansen]

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[azcactusflower]

At a previous job, I asked a 96 y.o. woman what her secret was (she looked and acted in her 70s). She said, "I avoid sugar." Feb 2020, I happened to run into her at the grocery store, she said, "Can you believe it, I'm turning 103 in April." She often crosses my mind and had planned on visiting her but the lockdown stopped that

[knightowl]

Besides overexposure to the Sun, and excessive drinking and smoking, I think genetics plays the largest role in aging. I only recently started to reduce my sugar intake. And people always thought I was 10-15 yrs younger than my actual age. As a male at age 70, I still have most of my natural dirty blonde hair and a few facial wrinkles, except for my hands which were often exposed to the sun while working outdoors.

[MaroArmoni]

Honestly I could listen to this guy all day 🤣 He breaks everything down so easily to understand and follow. Love this Channel so much 🥰

[chrismullan]

i worked in social services 30 years, one thing i know is many of the people i went to in 80s 90s, had one thing in common, eat fresh food, small amounts, dont have much stress, get good sleep, drink water, dont sit all day, still want to know what is going around them, most important chatting to people, being lonely is a killer, and also having a pet helps alot.

[Skyeyez]

I can thank my mom for always cooking organic meals and hardly any sugar in our diets. I hated it growing up, but appreciate it now.

[gregwilvert]

I’ve been eating a whole plant foods diet with almost no added sugar for three years and my weight is at the healthiest possible, arthritis has gone away, I feel much better overall, my skin has a supple leather feel and doesn’t get oily or dry and I have a healthy appearance when I look in the mirror.

[elizabethramsey]

I’m thankful my informally educated mom got it right about too much sun exposure, alcohol and sugar. And I’m thankful I just look my age than older in this very image conscious part of the globe.

[blak]

Wow! It takes a whole semester to study what you talk about. You just taught me in 5 mins. Impressive! Thanks!

[mattsheen]

Thank you Dr Hansen, sadly our culture has taught us how to eat food that satisfies the tongue and not the body, in turn, it’s what drives the food industry and until recently there has been a challenge to the status quo, and thanks to video’s and great human beings like you who help us make positive changes-

[Aria-cddq]

Doctor Mike makes medical videos on random topics so interesting. Appreciate the hard work 🙏🏽

[jimpavlyuchenko]

Living is so hard. One of the few pleasures we get to enjoy for a very low price turns out to be killing us, oh well.

[momofnine]

Thank you so much for your videos, they’re very educational and help me to make changes in my lifestyle and diet to improve my health.

[anisotropicplus]

Great video! Thanks for producing and sharing it.

[mochapoundcake]

The pace is pretty fast and yet I was able to keep up and it was very clear to me. Excellent!

[asktheetruscans]

I work 70-80 hours in the sun, all summer for 32 years now. I don't drink pop (soda), very little alcohol, and take alternately luke-warm and cold showers, never hot! I also cook most of my own food and garden as much as possible. I'm in my 50's and turn down women in their early 20's and college girls constantly. I've known people in my own family who got skin cancer, despite years of using sunscreen. Vitamin D3 production offsets sun exposure, as long as you don't strip off your natural sunscreen through hot showers.

[pacalvotan]

I cut out added sugar from my diet in January 2017. Combined with a topical DIY Hyaluronic acid and vitamin C solution (applied daily), people think I'm about 15 years younger than I actually am.

[lfgame]

Very informative. Also short and concise. Nice visual effect too.

[bkucinschi]

I love this video, packs a lot of useful information in only about 5 minutes.

[NSWS]

I cut out the vast majority of sugar from my diet 6mo ago as well as going full OMAD/IF 20/4 every single day. For me it has been HANDS DOWN the greatest decision I ever made BAR NONE