How to reverse wrinkles using food (and only food)

I visited my doctor this week and noticed some brochures about botox, microdermabrasion, and restylane fillers. I asked the resident aesthetician if she thought it was possible to reverse wrinkles using food only, and she replied, “No. There’s no way. Fillers are the only way.”

I have to respect that she’s trying to make a living, but since I personally know several women who indeed have reversed their wrinkles using only specific food choices, I thought I’d post about how one can do this at home, using a grocery store in place of a needle.

Why are wrinkles caused?

Our skin has 3 layers: epidermis on top, dermis, and subcutaneous tissue underneath.

The dermis contains the structural elements of the skin, the connective tissue. Collagen is one protein that is a type of connective tissue which gives the skin its strength. Elastin fibres are another type, which lends to elasticity.

Where the dermis and epidermis meet is where connective tissue delivers nutrients from blood vessels to the epidermis. The stronger the connective tissue, the more nutrients reach the skin, giving it a youthful appearance.

As we age, less collagen is produced by the body, and the elastin fibres wear out. The connective tissues weaken without a diet high in minerals. These changes in the scaffolding of the skin cause tiny sags, which are wrinkles. Other factors leading to breaking down our body’s collagen are the sun, pollution, free radicals, and toxins.

Imagine it as a building that has pillars keeping the roof up: if the pillars weaken over time and the roof starts to sink, the thing to do would be to rebuild the pillars – we wouldn’t put something on top of the roof to fix the pillar. So, anti aging serums and creams fill in the holes temporarily, but cannot restore the youthful plumpness, stretched look, and elasticity for the long term.

Many people are starting to discover this and reverse their wrinkles themselves, at home, simply by instituting a simple change in nutrition.

Foods & minerals that erase wrinkles

1. Sulfur-residue foods

Sulfur-residue foods contain enzymes that help keep the skin flexible and the collagen strong, rebuilding it and protecting it from damage. Many people are deficient in sulfur because it’s extremely volatile: it’s either evaporated or destroyed by cooking.

Sulfur-residue foods:

• Bee pollen
• Cabbage
• Hot peppers
• Broccoli
• Garlic
• Horseradish
• Radish
• Kale
• Onions
• Pumpkin seeds
• Spirulina
• Watercress

2. Foods containing the mineral Silicon

Silicon maintains the strength and elasticity of cell walls and connective tissue. It directly aids in the regeneration of tissues, and thus makes a direct impact on the skin’s wrinkles.

Sources of Silicon:

• Radishes
• Romaine lettuce
• Burdock root (can be consumed as a tea)
• Cucumber skin
• Bell pepper skin
• Tomato skin
• Young leafy greens
• Steel cut oats
• Barley
• Spinach
• Bananas
• Apricots
• Nettles
• Red lentils

3. Foods containing the mineral Zinc

Zinc is essential for skin beauty. It promotes cell repair and growth, and is a key member of a group of enzymes that helps to maintain its collagen supply.

Without zinc, the enzymes that rebuild new collagen do not function properly.

In addition to preventing wrinkles, Zinc also prevents and aids in the healing of stretch marks, cellulite, and other outward signs of aging.

Great Zinc sources:

• Poppy seeds
• Pumpkin seeds
• Sunflower seeds
• Pine nuts
• Cashews
• Macadamia nuts
• Sesame seeds
• Young coconuts (“old” ones are the brown ones we see in regular stores, and won’t do. “Young” ones can be purchased from Asian markets).

We highly recommend that these foods are eaten raw, since heating foods over 118°F causes the enzymes to be denatured, and destroys 50% to 80% of the nutrients.

Good luck, and let us know how it goes!

Sources:

• Dr. Heather Brannon, MD
• Dr. Gabriel Cousens, MD
• Jessica Moore, Registered Holistic Nutritionist
• Eating for Beauty, by David Wolfe, Nutritionist
• Victoria Boutenko, Author, Green for Life, and a woman who reversed her wrinkles naturally
• Cambridge University Press: A provisional database for the silicon content of foods in the United Kingdom http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=924600

Why we love wheatgrass

Wikipedia tells us that Charles F. Schnabel, an agricultural chemist, conducted experiments with young grasses in 1930, when he used freshly cut grass in an attempt to nurse dying hens back to health. The hens not only recovered, but they produced eggs at a higher rate than healthy hens.

Encouraged by his results, he began drying and powdering grass for his family and neighbors to supplement their diets. The following year, Schnabel reproduced his experiment and achieved the same results. Hens consuming rations supplemented with grass doubled their egg production.

Wonderful.

Src: Meyerowitz, Steve (April 1999). “Nutrition in Grass”. Wheatgrass Nature’s Finest Medicine: The Complete Guide to Using Grass Foods & Juices to Revitalize Your Health (6th Edition ed.). Book Publishing Company. p. 53. ISBN 1878736973.

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Why cold water swimmers appear younger

“Tempering the body with cold water” is sourced in Victoria Boutenko’s book, 12 Steps to Raw foods, and continually referenced in raw vegan circles.

Simply, it involves submerging our bodies in water with a temperature below 12°C (53°F) for 1 to 2 minutes.

The effects are amazing:

1. Re-activates cells leading to a younger appearance:

-”During the brief application of cold water, blood vessels in the skin abruptly contract, pushing a large amount of blood inside the organism.

-This re-activates inner capillaries, which are typically atrophied by age 30, due to an unhealthy lifestyle.

-The regeneration of many capillaries ensures that inner organs receive the necessary nutrients for optimal performance.

-This results in the younger appearance of cold-water swimmers.”

2. Destroys diseased cells and reverses disease:

-Scientists demonstrated that this causes the body to find diseased cells and destroy them, reversing many degenerative diseases of liver, kidneys, and heart, as well as mental problems.

3. Purges free radicals:

-Tempering the body with cold water increases the rate of the metabolism. This brings about the purging of free radicals, heavy metals, nitrates, and pesticides. Additionally this cleansing occurs via skin and lungs, and unloads the burden on the kidneys.

4. Dramatically strengthens immunity:

-While constantly protecting ourselves from cold and heat, we keep our bodies at the same temp, disabling our natural systems of thermal regulation.

-When exposed to cold, an organism that has not been trained to regulate its temperature loses its heat ~30 times faster than a tempered body. One can get sick from minor changes in outside temperatures, e.g. waiting five minutes in the rain.

Our guests will definitely be taking a quick cold dip at the Georgian Bay beach this coming spring.

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