Simple Anti-Aging Secrets to Look Younger Than Your Age

Hey guys, Dr. Axe here, doctor of natural medicine and founder of draxe.com. In this video, I'll be talking about natural anti-aging secrets to make you look younger than you actually are. And I'll tell you, have you ever noticed that some people look much older than they are and some people look much younger?

Well, I'll be talking about the best essential oils, vitamins, supplements, natural treatments, and diets to help you look younger faster, tone and tighten up that skin. Here as well. Let's dive right in. Number 1, this might surprise you, follow a ketogenic diet or move in and out of ketosis. Now, the ketogenic diet or ketosis is where your body starts burning fat as fuel or fat for energy.

Now, your body's first source of fuel is typically carbohydrates or sugar. Your body will burn that up and use it for energy. Now, if you remove sugar from your diet and consume a diet that's higher in fat, and a moderate amount of protein, your body will start burning fat for energy. And ketones have actually been shown to be your brain's— one of your brain's favorite sources of fuel.

It can actually help balance insulin levels. You know, insulin is that hormone that when it gets off can cause issues with diabetes or other hormone problems or lack of energy or those sort of energy ups and downs during the day. A ketogenic diet really kind of helps your body keep a steady state of insulin throughout the day, and by doing that can help you actually age slower and look younger.

What I recommend to most of my patients is following a diet where some days you're in ketosis, some days you're not over time. But starting off with a ketogenic diet is also by far the number one diet to help you lose weight and lose it fast and keep the weight off. Number 2, eat more superfoods on a daily basis.

Certain, you know, do a superfood powder every morning in your smoothie with organic super greens, something that has spirulina or chlorella, those really dark-colored algaes. Berries such as acai berry and goji berry, which are very high in antioxidants. Also, certain herbs like turmeric and ginger and cayenne pepper and rosemary and cinnamon.

Consume more superfoods, especially super herbs, super vegetables, and super berries on a daily basis. All of those will help you look younger, longer. A few other foods as well. Wild-caught salmon high in omega-3 fats is great for reducing inflammation in the body, helping you age slower, as is bone broth.

You know, bone broth or consuming a protein powder from bone broth is great, very high in collagen. As you age, your body stops producing less collagen. So if you can get more collagen in your diet, it can tone and firm up your skin. And help naturally thicken your hair, help thicken your nails, and help improve giving you glowing skin.

Get more of these nutrient-dense superfoods in your diet on a daily basis to help you age slower and practice those principles of anti-aging. Number 3, drink tea. One of my favorite teas is green tea, especially matcha. You know, green tea contains a compound called EGCG, which stands for epigallocatechin gallate. Epigallocatechin.

This herb or this tea has been shown to fight cancer, fight heart disease, and promote youthful-looking skin. So if you really want to age slower and naturally support healthy energy levels, drink green tea every single day, especially sencha and matcha are the 2 most powerful types of green tea to get in your diet every single day.

Things like white tea and rooibos and oolong can be great teas as well. Age-fighting oils, pomegranate oil, carrot seed oil, apricot oil, those are great types of carrier oils and using those in conjunction with essential oils such as geranium, lavender, myrrh, and other floral oils like rose can really help hydrate the skin.

In fact, there's a reference in biblical medicine where Esther in the Bible uses 5 floral oils including myrrh for 6 months getting ready for her wedding. And it actually says in there that, you know, these were very effective beauty treatments and she was, again, a very beautiful woman.

So again, they were used historically, these are used today, but again, I would use carrier oils such as pomegranate or carrot seed oil and then blend in essential oils like geranium, myrrh, and lavender. Use those on your skin as an anti-aging serum daily, great for reducing aging of your skin. Number 5 here, follow a Blue Zone diet.

Now, here's the thing you got to know, everybody's different, everybody does good with different types of diets. Some people do better with a ketogenic diet, some people do better with a Mediterranean diet, some people do better with a traditional Chinese medicine diet. It's good to know yourself. Here's the truth with everyone though, most people need to eat more herbs and vegetables, okay?

That's an absolute. So again, as part of a Blue Zone diet, you'll notice in Blue Zones there's a lot of plants, there's a lot of vegetables, herbs, fruit. Along with that, oftentimes wild-caught meats like wild salmon, grass-fed beef, organic chicken and turkey. But here's the key, real food. Okay.

All of the civilizations where people lived in a Blue Zone, which meant they had a lot of people living to be 100 years old or older, their diet was very high in nutrients and antioxidants and they didn't eat much processed food at all. That's the key. So again, following a Blue Zone-like diet can absolutely help you live longer. Number 6, take the right supplements.

If you want to age slower, here are the top supplements I would recommend. Number 1, A bone broth, a protein powder that comes from bone broth. Remember, you got to get more collagen in your diet on a daily basis. Number 2, ashwagandha. Ashwagandha is an herb that supports your thyroid and adrenals and can also help slow the aging process.

Number 3, I would recommend taking an organic super greens powder or a green superfood. It's where you're getting greens and superfoods in powder form. Adding that into a smoothie or beverage a day, that's number 3. Number 4 is I would do an omega-3 supplement. Omega-3s such as a fish oil can help reduce inflammation in the body, helping you live longer.

And then a high-quality multivitamin can also be great, a great natural anti-aging supplement. Number 7, exercise. Now, what's really unique is if you study the Blue Zones, people that lived longer didn't necessarily do a lot of weight training or they didn't necessarily go and do a lot of running, they were active. That was really it. They were very active. So that's the key here.

It's not doing this really regimented exercise program. It was being moving, but listen, not sometimes, every day being active, going on long walks, jogging in the park, doing some weights, sometimes doing yoga, sometimes doing barre, sometimes doing Pilates, or picking one thing and consistently just moving on a daily basis can help you age slower and live longer. Number 8, medicinal mushrooms.

In fact, reishi mushroom in China was known as the mushroom of immortality. In Russia, chaga is known as the mushroom or the fungi of anti-aging. And a very similar thing if you look at Ayurvedic medicine and how they might use cordyceps and other types of very unique mushrooms.

So mushrooms actually really support the immune system, can slow the aging process, and they're really high in a type of polysaccharides that supports cellular communication in your body's repair system, helping your skin heal. Intermittent fasting. You know, most of the time we eat right when we wake up and we stop eating sometime around bedtime. So we might eat even a 16-hour window.

What you got to remember this principle, listen, this is one of the most important things I'll ever say in regards to anti-aging. Foods don't heal you, your body heals itself. Your body has a better chance to heal itself when your organs aren't working. When you're consuming fat, your liver is working. When you're consuming carbs, your stomach is working.

When you're consuming certain other foods, your colon is working. We want to rest your body, give it time to rest and heal. And so intermittent fasting is where you maybe only eat during a 6-hour window. So maybe you start eating around noon and you finish up, you know, you eat at noon, 3:00, and 6:00, or just noon and 6:00 rather than eating breakfast.

So you skip breakfast, you don't eat late at night, and you maybe only eat to an 8-hour window rather than a 16-hour window. What this does is it allows your body to rest, repair, heal, and cleanse. You know, fasting has been doing— people have been fasting for health almost since the beginning of time.

It's a principle that's practiced in all different types of medicine from Greek medicine to Chinese medicine to biblical medicine and it has great benefits. But intermittent fasting, basically skipping breakfast and then consuming a diet that's high in vegetables, that's high in herbs, that's high in wild meats and fruits, things like that, is a great way to age slower.

The reason is, as well, it helps balance out insulin levels and it helps increase human growth hormone, which is known as your anti-aging hormone, keeping you younger longer both for men and for women. So remember these tips when it comes to aging slower and really looking, you know, in order to look younger than you actually are. Try out a ketogenic diet.

Consume more superfoods such as spirulina and acai berries. Drink tea, especially green tea like matcha. Use age-fighting oils like pomegranate and carrot seed oil, lavender, geranium, and myrrh. Follow a Blue Zones diet. Big thing there, eat real food.

Use certain supplements like we talked about, a protein powder that comes from bone broth, ashwagandha, omega-3 fats, a multivitamin, and organic super greens powder. Exercise and just move daily. Try out some additional mushrooms like reishi, cordyceps, shiitake, chaga, and practice intermittent fasting.

These are all ways that have been scientifically and medically proven to slow the aging process, help you look younger. And hey, if you've enjoyed this live training video, make sure to subscribe here to my YouTube channel and also make sure to check out some of my other advanced trainings on things like essential oils and how to use food as medicine on this page. Guys, this has been me, Dr. Axe.

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