10 Ways to Look 10 Years Younger with Dr. Leigh Erin Connealy

Hey guys, Dr. Josh Axe here with Dr. Leigh Erin Connealy. We're so excited to be here with you today. And Dr. Leigh Erin is an expert when it comes to fighting cancer naturally. In fact, she has a great book as well on how to break through cancer we'll talk about here at the end. But we're going to go through in 10 minutes, 10 ways to take 10 years off your life. And also, we want to give you guys a shout-out. I've got my Facebook Live app pulled up here. Let me know right now the city you're from, the state you're from, the country you're from. We'd love to say hey to all of you that are watching. And Dr. Liehring here, she's from Southern California, Orange County. We're here in Nashville right now. But again, we also want to know where you're from and give all of you guys a shout-out before we jump in. All right, so we got Cindy Beamer. Hello, Dr. Liehring. Oh, let me turn my volume down here. We got Cindy Beamer watching from, looks like, Powell, Wyoming. We've got Dena Martin watching from Waco, Kentucky. We've got DJ Royals watching from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. We've got Danielle Sarna watching from San Diego here as well, Marduri Megan from Columbus, Georgia, and Stacy Gray from Oregon, and David Johnson from Orange Park, Florida. David, hey, thanks for joining us here today. So we're going to be talking about 10 ways to take 10 years off your life. And Dr. Liearn, I know that you've practiced integrative medicine for how long?

Probably about as long as I've been practicing medicine, for about 30 years. So I started out... 30 years ago, and I already kind of, because I grew up in Texas and my mother was like fanatic about how we ate and how we lived and not about using medications or anything. So I already kind of had a bent. But then when I started practicing medicine, patients would ask me like, okay, Dr. Connealy, do you know about this? Do you know about this? Well, then that led to an odyssey of exploration of all kinds of things and how we can take care of patients without hurting them.

Yeah. And I'm a huge fan. Obviously, that's the way I've practiced is integrative medicine, and we love to We'd love to hear from you right now as well. If you've ever been under the care of an integrative medical doctor or a holistic doctor of functional medicine, a doctor that practices, you know, these nutrition and natural treatments and supplementation, we'd love to hear from you. In fact, maybe give your doctor a shout-out right now on Facebook Live as well. And myself and Dr. Leigh Erin are going to jump into 10 ways to take 10 years off your life. I'm always fascinated when I see somebody who is in their 80s but they look like they're in their 50s, or on the other end, I've seen people in their 30s or 40s who look like they're 80. So we're going to talk about how to look like the person who is older but is actually looking much younger. So number 1 here, talk about positive mental attitude.

PMA. We can all start doing that, embracing that. and living it because how you think is how you look in your face. Think about it. You're frowning, you're sad, you're depressed, but we, every single day, we decide how we're going to think.

Hmm.

I decide what is the story I'm going to tell to myself, not just from the time we wake up but all throughout the day. And how we treat one another, let's think about it. We've got to have love and respect impact for other human beings. And the more that you start programming your thoughts, you may wake up and go, oh, I just don't feel good. I'm tired and everything. But what is that going to do? That's going to tell your cells negative things. Happy thoughts make happy chemicals. So we all have got to every single day wake up, we're happy no matter how we feel. We feel great. We're happy to be alive and we're happy to help someone in the world.

Great advice. Practice that attitude of gratitude first thing in the morning, can help take 10 years off your life. Number 2, get better sleep. Why is sleep so important for anti-aging?

Right, sleep. People are not sleeping today because ever since Edison invented electricity, we have not been sleeping. And what does sleep do? Sleep is magic. Sleep is medicine. Do you know you're supposed to sleep probably 8 to 9 hours of sleep? And why? Because that's when detox takes place, that's when healing takes place, that's when your immune system is taking care of unwanted things in your body. It's where your mind is all repaired for the next day to charge and work and be productive human beings. So you've got to get a good night's sleep. The magic that happens in sleep is unbelievable. So do whatever you have to do to get a good night's sleep, but not with sleeping pills. Sleeping pills—

Sure.

Will depress your immunity and increase your risk for dying. So, but there are lots of different natural ailments to help you sleep. But please make that your number one priority after your positive mental attitude.

I love it. Great advice here. A few people are giving their doctors of natural medicine a shout-out and their doctors of integrative medicine. Rusty Farrell wants to give a shout-out to Dr. Mary Travers in Austin, Texas. And let's see, we've got a few more here as well. Erin Cochran is giving a shout-out to their doctor, Dr. Wonder in Rockville, Maryland. Great stuff, guys. All right, number 3 here, hydration is key to anti-aging. Why is that?

Yes, hydration, because we were born 90% water when we were born and now we're about 75% water. So that means that every single one of our cells bathe in this beautiful fluid of water. And when you drink water, make sure that you're drinking purified alkaline energized water. Because that is what your cells are all going to bathe in, your digestive system, your brain, every single organ in your body will not work if you are not properly hydrated. And we are not drinking enough water. When you wake up, the first thing you need to do, you were fasting for 8 to 9 hours, think about it. The first thing you need to do is drink 20 ounces of water to get the whole engine of your body working.

Great advice there. Number 4, foods for cellular function.

What are maybe 3 to 5 of your favorite foods Well, my favorite foods, probably my single category of food is fats. Fats are energy. They make you have fuel. They actually, you know, people think that all women are struggling with their weight and they think, oh, if they eat fat, they're going to be fat, but fat makes you thin. So good fats though, nature-produced fats like coconut oil and olive oil and avocados, And good nuts. Then the other thing is you've got to eat the vegetables. I mean, some of the top vegetables, the broccoli family, so cruciferous family. So that would be broccoli, Brussels sprouts, cauliflower, and cabbage. The other things that are amazing fighters, garlic, lots of garlic. And now they have raw garlic in spreads.

They have raw garlic.

I mean, it's amazing. Let's say you don't want to eat garlic. You can take garlic. You can take garlic pills. Onions, onions have so many fighting nutrients. A lot of the spices, turmeric is one of the big wonderful spices that we can make with coconut. We can put it on any— you can put it on your eggs in the morning. So there's lots of foods that have amazing power.

Love it. All right, number 5 here, and we're getting some great comments here. Nancy says, first thing in the morning, H2O. And Barbie Siebold gives a shout out to their doctor who practices integrative medicine, Dr. Corwin Petty in Lowell, Arkansas. Number 5 here, talk about the power of exercise.

Exercise, you've got to move, you got to move every day. It's not like you have to go run marathon or be an Ironman, but you got to move your body. You have 800 muscles because your body has to get toxins out of the body. You've got to sweat because sweating is a way of detoxification. You've got to increase the endorphins in your brain with exercise. And then exercise also allows us to relax and be mindful of our body. So exercise is just powerful. And even if you only have a fast, intense 20 minutes, it's amazing what it'll do to the metabolism and the cellular regeneration of our body.

Great advice. All right, number 6, detoxification.

Detox. Okay, gosh, everybody looks at that word detox and they go, oh my God, they get scared. And I'm like, no, detox is not scary. It's one of probably the single most important thing that you can do. And any form of detox is good. And if you want to do relaxing things like infrared sauna, you can detox. But first of all, you've got to stop the ingestions of toxins—

Right.

In the air that we breathe, the water we drink, and the foods that we eat. So that means we've got to really embrace the farmers that are making organic foods and foods that they care about how it's— the outcome of them. And then you've got to drink water that's purifying. You've got to drink water that has been purified no matter what you do. Invest in a water purification system because every single one of your cells is bathing in this water. And then there's simple little detox things that you can do. You can do, as I said, infrared sauna, baths with Epsom salts, baking soda, and clay. You can do a lymphatic drainage by just jumping on a rebounder. You can do skin brushing. It costs nothing. You can do that in the comfort of your home. So these are things that you can They really don't take that long because now you can multitask everything.

Oh yeah. Good stuff. Well, let's specifically talk about liver detoxification or liver cleansing. What are some of your favorite, let's say, maybe foods and herbs or protocols that really support the liver detox?

Right. Well, there's liver. Why do we want to clean out our liver? Our liver sits right up here. It's a beautiful organ with a beautiful capsule and it is our filter organ. And now it's amazing how many people, people come in for abdominal bloating and I do an abdominal ultrasound and what do they have? They have fatty liver. That means they're not even drinking alcohol and they have fatty liver. That's because we're bombarded with a myriad of toxins and overloading our liver.

Mm-hmm.

You can't even think straight. You get cloudy, foggy thinking if your liver is toxic. So one of the things I tell people is I have a CBC cocktail. carrot, beet, cucumber, and then I add garlic. Patients don't want to do a liver cleanse, I have them do that little drink.

Yeah.

Carrot, beet, cucumbers with garlic, blend it all in and drink it. The other thing that I have patients do is to do an oral liver cleanse. You start on a Friday night, you start drinking Epsom salts, vitamin C, and then right before you go to bed, you do organic grapefruit juice with olive oil. Then you wake up and follow that Epsom salt and vitamin C, and you're done by 9. So that means it's not some complicated week-long thing. And then Some of the foods that you can eat, okay, radishes are powerfully detoxifying.

Really?

Very, very. People don't realize how powerful radishes are in detoxing. You can just snack on those in the day. The other liver cleanse is a coffee enema. It's very actually becoming extremely popular now. Every single one of my staff is doing coffee enemas because one started and they all said how incredible they feel. And I have patients that say, okay, okay, I'll do it. And then they put it off for months and then they finally decide, they see their kit and they go, oh gosh, I'm going to do that coffee enema. And you wouldn't believe the people come back, Dr. Connealy, I'm addicted to this coffee enema. I feel so much better. So you've got to love your liver and detoxify it.

Love it. Great advice. Number 8 here, balancing hormones for anti-aging.

Well, right, because you have to have hormones in order to live. Hormones are the drugs of our body, believe it. They're natural drugs to your body, but now almost Everyone today has hormone problems. Why? Because we're living in a chemical-laden, stressed environment and we don't have as nature tended to be. So we've got to go to a doctor who looks at the panoramic view of our body, looking at our kidney, our liver, our blood sugar, our vitamin levels, and our hormone levels. And because our hormones, because they dictate to the cell what to do and they turn it off depending on what to do. So if your thyroid, you're going to feel tired and sluggish and you're going to be a little swollen in your body and you may put on weight really easy. So you got to fix that. If you have high sugar, you also, you're going to have a bloated barrel around your tummy. If you have low adrenals, oh my God, you can't even get through the day. You wake up exhausted and you're feeling tired and you can't get through the day and you're very emotional. And then if you don't have your female hormones, your estrogen, progesterone, that, you know, your brain feels like cotton between the ears. And you have aches and pains all over the body. And if you have low progesterone, then you have thyroid hormones, your circulation is not as good, your mood is not as good. And then if you don't have testosterone, whether it's male or female, you will— people think testosterone, muscle building and all that kind of stuff, but no, testosterone helps your state of mind, your sense of wellbeing.

Mm-hmm.

It helps your energy, it helps your muscles, it helps your immune system, helps your blood sugar. So all these things that people just underestimate the power, but you got to check them all. Then there's pregnenolone. Not even heard of, but pregnenolone is your memory hormone and it's the hormone that cascades into lots of other hormones. And so I'm seeing 20-year-olds, 25-year-olds, 30-year-olds, very young people who should have optimal hormones have hormone imbalances.

Yeah, hormones are key as Dr. Connealy is talking about. You know, getting more healthy fats, working on reducing stress, getting out and exercising, some key tips there. Number 9, hyaluronic acid for anti-aging. Talk about this.

Yes. It's depleted as we age. And so hyaluronic acid helps plump up the skin, the eyes, the joints, everything in your body. And you start drinking it and/or— you have to drink it because all your cells need this stuff. Yes, you can put on topical things, but you want to always nourish the body from the inside out.

Yeah. So what food is highest in hyaluronic acid that you recommend?

Oh, I don't even really know.

Do you know? I don't really know.

I think bone broth. Bone broth, yeah.

There you go. So bone broth, animal skins, things like that. So hyaluronic acid, drink your bone broth. I did a bone broth smoothie this morning with some bone broth powdered protein. It was great. Number 10, topical vitamin C.

Yeah, well, topical vitamin C, because let's face it, all you girls out there and women out there, we're all concerned about every single little wrinkle that comes on our face. I have a 22-year-old and she's like, Mom, I'm starting to get wrinkles under my eyes because we stop the production of collagen at the age of 21. And so, yes, like I said before, all those things I said before help the skin. But topical vitamin C is a powerful antioxidant. It's a powerful rejuvenator for everything, detoxifier of the body, microorganisms, and it actually rejuvenates the skin. So it's— it is amazing. And you want to try to use vitamin C. I love it. Everything you try to do, you want to try to do it as close to nature as possible.

Love it. Great advice here. So remember these 10 tips. Number 1, have a positive mental attitude. Number 2, get better quality sleep. Number 3, hydrate your body. Number 4, eat more foods that support cellular function. As Dr. Connealy talked about, fats like avocados, you know, lots of coconut oil, the healthy fats, and lots of those cruciferous green vegetables. Exercise, getting out and move. Detox, liver cleanse. Remember her juice she talked about? CBC, the celery— no, the cucumber, carrot, and beets was great. Balance your hormones, use hyaluronic acid, get that from bone broth, and then topical vitamin C for your skin. And then check out her book. This book is incredible. It's called The Cancer Revolution. You can check out this book and more information on Dr. Connealy on her website, connealymd.com, or you can find her book on Amazon. Simply go to amazon.com.

Amazon.

And check out The Cancer Revolution. It's a groundbreaking program and book that goes over how to reverse and prevent cancer there in her book. Well, Dr. Connealy, I want to say thanks for being part of the program today. I want to thank you guys for sharing this video. Again, hey, if you haven't done this yet, help us spread the message of how to age slower. Take a minute, punch that share button, click that like button as well. If you're not subscribed here to our Facebook Live, And our YouTube Live channels, make sure you subscribe to those as well and check us out on Instagram. So guys, this has been Dr. Leigh Erin Connealy and myself, Dr. Josh Axe, and hope you've enjoyed these top 10 tips to age more slowly. Thanks, guys.