Introduction
Over the past several years, people have commented at how I look younger than my age. This commenting has really amped up since I passed 33-34 years of age. I’m almost 37, but could pass for 27-32. Those of you who have met me in real life can attest to that.
There are even some people who have met me when I was 22-25 have seen me again in 2015-16, and the most common thing they say is “you look the same.”
So I wanted to share some of the things that I do to slow the aging process, and will try to quote some articles to back it up. I must admit that I haven’t been doing all this consciously with the express purpose of anti-aging, it was just some things I’ve done all my life.
Plus I was lucky to be raised by a good mom who knew a lot of unique home remedies for sickness, how to pick healthiest foods from the store, what seasoning to mix with food, and made me take my vitamins every morning before school. She’s now in her sixties, but people have mistaken her as my sister instead of my mother!
But over the past few years, I’ve become more aware of anti-aging methods and even much more so when I wrote a book about low testosterone and TRT.
Anyway, here it is...
Your Skin
The main component of your age, as you appear to other people, is your skin. Not coincidentally, your skin is the largest organ of your body. To look young, your skin is the first priority.
Take care of your skin, and you subtract years off your apparent age. Then you won’t ever need to use botox or any of that toxic shit.
I’m not going to recommend a magic skin cream or skin care product here, because there aren’t any that really stands out from the thousands of products out there. At best, they can make your skin look good but only temporary. At worst, they clog your pores and cause allergic reactions.
The number one thing that impacts your skin is the climate you live in, particularly during your younger years. It makes sense because your skin is always exposed to the temperature, humidity, and quality of the air in the place you spend your time in.
The worst possible climate for your skin is dry and polluted. The low relative humidity dries out your skin, making it look pruny and leathery over time. Pollution is bad because your skin absorbs the airborne toxins over time. Some toxins go into your bloodstream, which the liver detoxifies, but others build up in your skin over time, speeding up the aging process.
Back to what’s good for the skin -- you want to live in a humid climate with clean air. At the same time, you want to limit your sun exposure to 30 minutes or less per day, on average. Too much sun, no matter the temperature or humidity, will damage your skin. Sunscreen is not good for your skin either (some brands give me eczema, so I use zinc oxide-based sunblock only when necessary, like at the pool or beach).
Humidity is great for your skin as it keeps your skin soft and moist. Relative humidity should be at least 50% or higher throughout most of, if not the entire day.
Clean air? Self-explanatory. Unfortunately, most humid climates are hot as hell in the summers. It sucks when you step out the door and you’re immediately dripping with sweat. But it really does wonders for your skin. In fact, your sweat keeps your skin moist. The salt and electrolytes within your sweat get reabsorbed into your skin cells, keeping them healthy.
I’ve lived in a humid climate all my life. East Coast USA, Texas (yes even Texas is humid), and now I’m in Thailand. Every time I visit a much drier climate like Arizona or California, where the relative humidity stays under 20%, my skin gets very dry and itchy.
There is indeed one thing you can apply onto your skin to make it look younger, but we’ll get back to that after I talk about hair.
Graying Hair
Another factor in your apparent age, as you appear to others, is your hair -- or more accurately, the presence of any white or gray hair.
There is no set age when hair turns white. Some people start getting gray hair in their 20s, others hold off well into their 50s. Most are somewhere in between. It’s different for everyone because it is primarily genetic. You can’t stop it, but you can delay it.
Graying hair is the result of your hair getting less pigment, or melanin. When we are born, our melanin stores (or cells called melanocytes) are topped out for each hair follicle, giving our hair its color.
As we get older (and unhealthier), our melanocyte function decreases within each follicle. Some follicles run out of melanin before others, giving some of our hairs a white or gray appearance. Once a hair loses pigment and goes white, there isn’t a way to reverse it.
However, there are several things you can do to slow this graying process down, extending the life of the melanin store within your hair follicles.
Coconut Oil and What All The Fuss is About
If there is anything on this planet that is close to being a magic potion for anti-aging, it is Coconut Oil.
Full disclosure: I’m not affiliated with any business selling coconut oil, nor am I making a dime from espousing the benefits of coconut oil here.
I use it myself, though not everyday as I should. It has been magical for my hair and skin. It’s also good for the teeth and for the gut flora.
Here are five ways to use coconut oil to make yourself look younger:
1. Face. Melt a tiny dollop in your hands and rub the oil all over your face, nose, forehead, cheeks, and around the eyes, including the crow’s feet areas. I also rub a few more drops onto my beard. You only need a few drops -- no more than three or four. More than that, you face will just look oily.
The nice thing about coconut oil is it won’t clog your pores like other oils would. It is the most natural oil and it is the most compatible with your skin, which does needsa small amount of oil to retain its moisture and stay healthy.
2. Hair. Rub a small dollop into your hair and massage your scalp. Again, no more than 3-5 drops worth, or your hair will look oily. Using coconut oil on your hair daily helps slow the graying process by keeping your follicles healthy.
3. Cooking with coconut oil is the single most healthy adjustment you can make to your diet. Throw out all the other oils -- canola, sunflower, vegetable, and even olive oil. Cooking with these oils on high heat will break down long chain fatty acids into free radicals, which actually speed up aging.
Coconut oil is different because it is 100% saturated fat, which means its long chain fatty acids cannot be broken down by high heat. Unsaturated fatty acids (including mono- and polyunsaturated) can be broken down by heat. Not good.
4. Teeth pulling with coconut oil is another way to keep your teeth healthy. There is already a thread on this by Roosh, and coconut oil is the best oil for this. Simply take a spoonful and swish it in your mouth for 5-15 minutes. When you’re done, don’t swallow! Spit it out.
The benefits of teeth pulling with coconut oil is it removes toxins from your mouth, helps whiten your teeth, and kills harmful bacteria.
5. Gut flora. Swallowing one spoonful a day helps your digestion and improves your gut flora as coconut oil has anti-bacterial and antifungal properties.
How to Buy: You have to be careful what brands of coconut oil you buy from the store. This is very important. It must be cold pressed extra virgin. At room temperature, it should be solid, white, and opaque.
If it’s clear and liquid-y at room temperature, don’t buy it! These are “fractionated” oils. Fractionated coconut oil is coconut oil but with the long-chain fatty acids removed via hydrolysis and steam distillation. For our purposes, do not use that kind. My mom tried to use it on her skin and it caused an allergic reaction. I told her to switch to the cold pressed kind, and she had no reaction whatsoever. She now uses it every day.
The right kinds should be very easy to spot. Just look for solidified and opaque white jars of coconut oil that say “cold pressed”, and you really can’t go wrong.
Water
While we may not need to drink as much water as we’re led to believe by the authorities, it is very important to not get dehydrated at any time. We only need just enough water, and not much more.
It’s much better to take smaller sips throughout the whole day, than to drink an entire jug in one sitting. Drinking a buttload of water all at once throws off your electrolyte balance, and then you still get dehydrated a short time later after sweating and pissing away most of that water.
I’ll have a small glass of water every hour or take a few sips every 15-30 minutes. When it comes to water, I think of myself as a grape. A grape needs just enough water to retain its full and healthy shape. But once it gets short of adequate water, its skin starts to wrinkle. Starve it further of water, it becomes a wrinkly and pruney raisin.
We are mostly bags of water. Premature wrinkling is a sign of dehydration, and wrinkles make you look older. So definitely drink that water if you want to look and feel young. But don’t drink it all in one sitting as to not throw off your electrolyte balance -- a few sips every so often is just enough.
Proper Exercise versus Overtraining
I used to do tons of cardio and believed that was the healthiest way to exercise and stay in shape. I used to be a cross-country runner and a bike racer.
Now I believe that one can do too much cardio, and it is much easier to cross that line than many people think.
For us men, our focus should, not surprisingly, be weight training and lifting. A little cardio a few times a week is good. I won’t get into a debate about this, but a few high intensity bursts do much more for your metabolism and energy level than hours and hours of marathon biking and running.
We’ve all seen marathon runners who look 20 years older than their actual age. We’ve all heard about the seemingly healthy triathlete who suddenly drops dead of a heart attack in the middle of a race.
None of this is a coincidence.
Marathon training and long endurance cardio sessions do much more damage to our bodies than is purported in the media or fitness articles. Beyond the optimal amount of cardio, too much of it stresses your adrenals, disrupts the endocrine system, releases free radicals causing oxidative stress and promotes inflammation that speeds up aging.
There are many ways to exercise properly and everyone is different, so I won’t outline a one-size-fits-all exercise regimen here. But to prevent overtraining, keep training volume under control and look into split training (doing different exercises each day to prevent overuse or repetitive injuries on muscles and joints).
Watch for tell tale signs of overtraining like insomnia, irritability, elevated resting heart rate, vulnerability to infections, etc... and back off until you’re getting at least 7-8 hours of quality sleep a night.
Nutrition
As cliche as it sounds, you are what you eat. Bad diets can’t overcome anything else you do to delay aging. You might get away with a bad diet in your 20s. However, once you reach 30 you’ll want to be more careful what you eat if you want to look and stay young -- and keep slaying younger chicks.
Eat more of:
- Poultry (no hormones, no antibiotics)
- Beef (grass fed)
- Eggs
- Salmon (make sure it is wild caught)
- Green leafy vegetables like spinach
- Tuna
- Shellfish (check their source and water quality)
- Some nuts
- Some fruits
Avoid:
- Coffee
- Alcohol
- Cigarettes
- Starchy foods like potatoes and bread
- Processed meat
- Anything with added sugar
Yes, we already know all of the above. But I feel everyone makes nutrition way more complicated than it needs to be. Unfortunately, food processing companies like Monsanto has the agricultural industry in a chokehold, making it hard to eat healthy in the West. To conclude this section, I will just leave this documentary here and let you form your own opinion: Food, Inc.
Other Helpful Tips
- Get quality sleep of at least 7-8 hours a night. Buy a comfortable mattress and pillow if you need it.
- Do what you can to reduce stress from work and family.
- Don’t sit more than 5 hours per day. Less than 3 is even better.
- Laugh more.
- I know I said to avoid alcohol, but it’s okay to have a drink every now and then if it helps reduce tension and lubricate social relationships.
- Get rid of toxic people in your life who try to drag you down with them. Especially toxic chicks!
TL;DR Summary
- Take utmost care of your skin
- Use coconut oil for skin, hair, teeth pulling, cooking, and eat one spoonful a day
- Drink just enough water, neither too much nor too little
- Eat clean
- Don’t overdo cardio
- Do whatever it takes to get enough sleep
- Don’t sit too much
Sources
http://gaizupath.com/what-causes-white-hair/
http://www.completehumanperformance.com/...ve-stress/
https://authoritynutrition.com/how-much-...k-per-day/
http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/fawnia33.htm
Over the past several years, people have commented at how I look younger than my age. This commenting has really amped up since I passed 33-34 years of age. I’m almost 37, but could pass for 27-32. Those of you who have met me in real life can attest to that.
There are even some people who have met me when I was 22-25 have seen me again in 2015-16, and the most common thing they say is “you look the same.”
So I wanted to share some of the things that I do to slow the aging process, and will try to quote some articles to back it up. I must admit that I haven’t been doing all this consciously with the express purpose of anti-aging, it was just some things I’ve done all my life.
Plus I was lucky to be raised by a good mom who knew a lot of unique home remedies for sickness, how to pick healthiest foods from the store, what seasoning to mix with food, and made me take my vitamins every morning before school. She’s now in her sixties, but people have mistaken her as my sister instead of my mother!
But over the past few years, I’ve become more aware of anti-aging methods and even much more so when I wrote a book about low testosterone and TRT.
Anyway, here it is...
Your Skin
The main component of your age, as you appear to other people, is your skin. Not coincidentally, your skin is the largest organ of your body. To look young, your skin is the first priority.
Take care of your skin, and you subtract years off your apparent age. Then you won’t ever need to use botox or any of that toxic shit.
I’m not going to recommend a magic skin cream or skin care product here, because there aren’t any that really stands out from the thousands of products out there. At best, they can make your skin look good but only temporary. At worst, they clog your pores and cause allergic reactions.
The number one thing that impacts your skin is the climate you live in, particularly during your younger years. It makes sense because your skin is always exposed to the temperature, humidity, and quality of the air in the place you spend your time in.
The worst possible climate for your skin is dry and polluted. The low relative humidity dries out your skin, making it look pruny and leathery over time. Pollution is bad because your skin absorbs the airborne toxins over time. Some toxins go into your bloodstream, which the liver detoxifies, but others build up in your skin over time, speeding up the aging process.
Back to what’s good for the skin -- you want to live in a humid climate with clean air. At the same time, you want to limit your sun exposure to 30 minutes or less per day, on average. Too much sun, no matter the temperature or humidity, will damage your skin. Sunscreen is not good for your skin either (some brands give me eczema, so I use zinc oxide-based sunblock only when necessary, like at the pool or beach).
Humidity is great for your skin as it keeps your skin soft and moist. Relative humidity should be at least 50% or higher throughout most of, if not the entire day.
Clean air? Self-explanatory. Unfortunately, most humid climates are hot as hell in the summers. It sucks when you step out the door and you’re immediately dripping with sweat. But it really does wonders for your skin. In fact, your sweat keeps your skin moist. The salt and electrolytes within your sweat get reabsorbed into your skin cells, keeping them healthy.
I’ve lived in a humid climate all my life. East Coast USA, Texas (yes even Texas is humid), and now I’m in Thailand. Every time I visit a much drier climate like Arizona or California, where the relative humidity stays under 20%, my skin gets very dry and itchy.
There is indeed one thing you can apply onto your skin to make it look younger, but we’ll get back to that after I talk about hair.
Graying Hair
Another factor in your apparent age, as you appear to others, is your hair -- or more accurately, the presence of any white or gray hair.
There is no set age when hair turns white. Some people start getting gray hair in their 20s, others hold off well into their 50s. Most are somewhere in between. It’s different for everyone because it is primarily genetic. You can’t stop it, but you can delay it.
Graying hair is the result of your hair getting less pigment, or melanin. When we are born, our melanin stores (or cells called melanocytes) are topped out for each hair follicle, giving our hair its color.
As we get older (and unhealthier), our melanocyte function decreases within each follicle. Some follicles run out of melanin before others, giving some of our hairs a white or gray appearance. Once a hair loses pigment and goes white, there isn’t a way to reverse it.
However, there are several things you can do to slow this graying process down, extending the life of the melanin store within your hair follicles.
Coconut Oil and What All The Fuss is About
If there is anything on this planet that is close to being a magic potion for anti-aging, it is Coconut Oil.
Full disclosure: I’m not affiliated with any business selling coconut oil, nor am I making a dime from espousing the benefits of coconut oil here.
I use it myself, though not everyday as I should. It has been magical for my hair and skin. It’s also good for the teeth and for the gut flora.
Here are five ways to use coconut oil to make yourself look younger:
1. Face. Melt a tiny dollop in your hands and rub the oil all over your face, nose, forehead, cheeks, and around the eyes, including the crow’s feet areas. I also rub a few more drops onto my beard. You only need a few drops -- no more than three or four. More than that, you face will just look oily.
The nice thing about coconut oil is it won’t clog your pores like other oils would. It is the most natural oil and it is the most compatible with your skin, which does needsa small amount of oil to retain its moisture and stay healthy.
2. Hair. Rub a small dollop into your hair and massage your scalp. Again, no more than 3-5 drops worth, or your hair will look oily. Using coconut oil on your hair daily helps slow the graying process by keeping your follicles healthy.
3. Cooking with coconut oil is the single most healthy adjustment you can make to your diet. Throw out all the other oils -- canola, sunflower, vegetable, and even olive oil. Cooking with these oils on high heat will break down long chain fatty acids into free radicals, which actually speed up aging.
Coconut oil is different because it is 100% saturated fat, which means its long chain fatty acids cannot be broken down by high heat. Unsaturated fatty acids (including mono- and polyunsaturated) can be broken down by heat. Not good.
4. Teeth pulling with coconut oil is another way to keep your teeth healthy. There is already a thread on this by Roosh, and coconut oil is the best oil for this. Simply take a spoonful and swish it in your mouth for 5-15 minutes. When you’re done, don’t swallow! Spit it out.
The benefits of teeth pulling with coconut oil is it removes toxins from your mouth, helps whiten your teeth, and kills harmful bacteria.
5. Gut flora. Swallowing one spoonful a day helps your digestion and improves your gut flora as coconut oil has anti-bacterial and antifungal properties.
How to Buy: You have to be careful what brands of coconut oil you buy from the store. This is very important. It must be cold pressed extra virgin. At room temperature, it should be solid, white, and opaque.
If it’s clear and liquid-y at room temperature, don’t buy it! These are “fractionated” oils. Fractionated coconut oil is coconut oil but with the long-chain fatty acids removed via hydrolysis and steam distillation. For our purposes, do not use that kind. My mom tried to use it on her skin and it caused an allergic reaction. I told her to switch to the cold pressed kind, and she had no reaction whatsoever. She now uses it every day.
The right kinds should be very easy to spot. Just look for solidified and opaque white jars of coconut oil that say “cold pressed”, and you really can’t go wrong.
Water
While we may not need to drink as much water as we’re led to believe by the authorities, it is very important to not get dehydrated at any time. We only need just enough water, and not much more.
It’s much better to take smaller sips throughout the whole day, than to drink an entire jug in one sitting. Drinking a buttload of water all at once throws off your electrolyte balance, and then you still get dehydrated a short time later after sweating and pissing away most of that water.
I’ll have a small glass of water every hour or take a few sips every 15-30 minutes. When it comes to water, I think of myself as a grape. A grape needs just enough water to retain its full and healthy shape. But once it gets short of adequate water, its skin starts to wrinkle. Starve it further of water, it becomes a wrinkly and pruney raisin.
We are mostly bags of water. Premature wrinkling is a sign of dehydration, and wrinkles make you look older. So definitely drink that water if you want to look and feel young. But don’t drink it all in one sitting as to not throw off your electrolyte balance -- a few sips every so often is just enough.
Proper Exercise versus Overtraining
I used to do tons of cardio and believed that was the healthiest way to exercise and stay in shape. I used to be a cross-country runner and a bike racer.
Now I believe that one can do too much cardio, and it is much easier to cross that line than many people think.
For us men, our focus should, not surprisingly, be weight training and lifting. A little cardio a few times a week is good. I won’t get into a debate about this, but a few high intensity bursts do much more for your metabolism and energy level than hours and hours of marathon biking and running.
We’ve all seen marathon runners who look 20 years older than their actual age. We’ve all heard about the seemingly healthy triathlete who suddenly drops dead of a heart attack in the middle of a race.
None of this is a coincidence.
Marathon training and long endurance cardio sessions do much more damage to our bodies than is purported in the media or fitness articles. Beyond the optimal amount of cardio, too much of it stresses your adrenals, disrupts the endocrine system, releases free radicals causing oxidative stress and promotes inflammation that speeds up aging.
There are many ways to exercise properly and everyone is different, so I won’t outline a one-size-fits-all exercise regimen here. But to prevent overtraining, keep training volume under control and look into split training (doing different exercises each day to prevent overuse or repetitive injuries on muscles and joints).
Watch for tell tale signs of overtraining like insomnia, irritability, elevated resting heart rate, vulnerability to infections, etc... and back off until you’re getting at least 7-8 hours of quality sleep a night.
Nutrition
As cliche as it sounds, you are what you eat. Bad diets can’t overcome anything else you do to delay aging. You might get away with a bad diet in your 20s. However, once you reach 30 you’ll want to be more careful what you eat if you want to look and stay young -- and keep slaying younger chicks.
Eat more of:
- Poultry (no hormones, no antibiotics)
- Beef (grass fed)
- Eggs
- Salmon (make sure it is wild caught)
- Green leafy vegetables like spinach
- Tuna
- Shellfish (check their source and water quality)
- Some nuts
- Some fruits
Avoid:
- Coffee
- Alcohol
- Cigarettes
- Starchy foods like potatoes and bread
- Processed meat
- Anything with added sugar
Yes, we already know all of the above. But I feel everyone makes nutrition way more complicated than it needs to be. Unfortunately, food processing companies like Monsanto has the agricultural industry in a chokehold, making it hard to eat healthy in the West. To conclude this section, I will just leave this documentary here and let you form your own opinion: Food, Inc.
Other Helpful Tips
- Get quality sleep of at least 7-8 hours a night. Buy a comfortable mattress and pillow if you need it.
- Do what you can to reduce stress from work and family.
- Don’t sit more than 5 hours per day. Less than 3 is even better.
- Laugh more.
- I know I said to avoid alcohol, but it’s okay to have a drink every now and then if it helps reduce tension and lubricate social relationships.
- Get rid of toxic people in your life who try to drag you down with them. Especially toxic chicks!
TL;DR Summary
- Take utmost care of your skin
- Use coconut oil for skin, hair, teeth pulling, cooking, and eat one spoonful a day
- Drink just enough water, neither too much nor too little
- Eat clean
- Don’t overdo cardio
- Do whatever it takes to get enough sleep
- Don’t sit too much
Sources
http://gaizupath.com/what-causes-white-hair/
http://www.completehumanperformance.com/...ve-stress/
https://authoritynutrition.com/how-much-...k-per-day/
http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/fawnia33.htm
