One factor you are able to do to ‘reverse ageing’ and be extra like biohacker Bryan Johnson
A health guru has spilled the beans on a simple supplement that could help “reverse” the signs of premature ageing, as we all strive to keep looking youthful.
Ageing is an inevitable journey but not everyone is keen on embracing those tell-tale signs. While some folks start seeing grey hairs before they’ve even waved off their 20s, others enjoy a smooth complexion well into their golden years. As we age, our skin loses its youthful plumpness due to the decline of collagen, leaving it sagging and increasingly fragile.
Dr. Eric Berg, a chiropractor famed for his easy-to-follow health tips and a massive following of more than 12 million YouTube subscribers, has revealed his secret to keeping skin radiant and resisting the relentless march of time.
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An expert on longevity has been doling out advice on how to keep Father Time at bay, with vitamin D at the top of his list. In a popular video, he explained: “By 40, we’ve lost around 25% of the collagen in our connective tissue.
“Certain antibiotics, ultraviolet radiation, high sugar consumption, and poor diet can contribute to collagen breakdown and speed up premature ageing. Vitamin D helps protect you against the loss of collagen and premature ageing.”
He doubled down on the importance of the vitamin, saying: “Vitamin D helps protect you against the loss of collagen. This is why I recommend everyone should be taking at least 10,000 IU of vitamin D for many different reasons. One being the protection against premature ageing.”
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Not one to overlook physical activity, the doctor extolled the virtues of exercise for its role in ramping up the body’s collagen production.
To get your body bustling with collagen, hit the gym or just ‘use the body more’, the doctor advises, hinting that regular movement like doing planks could nudge your body into making more of the youth-preserving protein.
He added: “One of the most powerful anti-stress hormones is called oxytocin and there’s a way to basically make your own cultivated dairy product, with a very specific microbe, to grow that in a milk culture that you consume; a half a cup of this every day.
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“The cool effect that it has on your body is that that microbe releases something that travels up through a nerve called the vagus nerve right up into the brain, and it goes right into the hypothalamus and there’s receptors waiting there to be triggered.”
Tech guru Bryan Johnson has established a reputation over the years as someone who has funnelled millions dollars into desperately trying to stay young.
Johnson constantly makes headlines for his strange behaviour in the pursuit of staying “forever young”, including using transfusions of his own 17-year-old son’s blood.
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