LONGEVITY SERIES: WHY DERMATOLOGIST HAVE IT WRONG : THE TRUTH ABOUT HEALTHY FATS & ANTI-AGING

Summary

In this video from The Beauty Doctrine, Nadia van Shakaron challenges the aggressive skincare strategies often promoted by dermatologists. Instead of focusing solely on topical treatments like powerful retinoids, which can damage the skin's protective barrier, Nadia emphasizes the importance of nourishing the skin from within. She advocates for a diet rich in healthy fats—such as omega-3s, monounsaturated fats, and medium-chain triglycerides—which are crucial for collagen production, hormone function, and maintaining the skin's moisture and elasticity. By choosing the right fats and oils both in diet and skincare, one can effectively combat aging, reduce inflammation, and support overall skin health. The video encourages viewers to redefine their approach to anti-aging by embracing fats rather than fearing them, ultimately promoting a holistic way to maintain youthful, glowing skin.

Highlights

• Nadia argues that dermatologists' aggressive skincare strategies might harm the skin's protective barrier 🛡️.
• She emphasizes the critical role of diet and healthy fats in maintaining youthful skin 🌟.
• Omega-3 fatty acids, found in foods like salmon and avocados, are anti-inflammatory and essential for skin health 🐟.
• The video highlights the dangers of processed oils and stresses the importance of choosing the right fats ⚠️.
• Nadia introduces essential topical oils for skin health like jojoba and rose hip oil 🌿.

Key Takeaways

• Healthy fats are crucial for youthful, glowing skin and overall health 🌟.
• Dermatologists' approaches can be too aggressive; internal hydration is key 💧.
• Omega-3s, monounsaturated fats, and MCTs are the good fats to focus on 🥑.
• Bad fats, like trans fats and certain processed oils, accelerate aging ⚠️.
• Topical oils like jojoba, rose hip, and hemp seed oil can enhance skin health 🌿.

Overview

Welcome to a fresh perspective on skincare where Nadia van Shakaron challenges the traditional dermatologist directives that rely heavily on aggressive skincare treatments. She argues that these methods, like the use of strong retinoids, can do more harm than good by damaging the skin's essential protective barriers. Instead, Nadia takes us on a journey to discover the importance of nourishing our skin from within, starting with the powerful impact of healthy fats.

Nadia elaborates on how the right types of fats are not only beneficial for our skin but vital for overall health, influencing hormone production and cognitive functions. Highlighting the magic of omega-3s, monounsaturated fats, and medium-chain triglycerides, Nadia suggests integrating these into our diet to aid in collagen production and skin moisturation, battling signs of aging from the inside out. Emphasizing moderation, she warns against the harmful effects of bad fats commonly found in processed foods.

As the video wraps up, viewers are left with essential tips on choosing the right fats both in their diet and skin regimen. Nadia shares her personal favorites and guides us to select quality sources and products. This holistic approach, focusing on internal nourishment and natural topicals like jojoba and rose hip oil, offers a balanced pathway to radiant skin and overall wellness. The video teases an upcoming exploration on mitochondrial health, promising more insights into reversing the aging clock.

Chapters

• 00:00 - 00:30: Introduction The chapter introduces a critique of dermatologists' approach to skincare, arguing that their methods are too aggressive. It claims that dermatologists recommend using powerful retinoids to force cellular turnover, which sacrifices hydration, moisture, and the protective lipid barrier of the skin.
• 00:30 - 01:00: Importance of Lipid Barrier and Moisture The chapter discusses the significance of the lipid barrier and moisture in skin health. It emphasizes that while diet and supplements can enhance collagen production, damaging the lipid barrier and protective epidermis poses challenges. The key takeaway is that maintaining moisture and hydration is essential for keeping the skin youthful, glowing, and plump.
• 01:00 - 01:30: Diet and Skin Health This chapter introduces the host, Nadia van Shakaron, who focuses on improving skin health naturally through diet, supplements, and non-toxic skincare. She has founded Functional Beauty principles and provides recommendations on skincare and supplements through her platform, The Beauty Doctrine.
• 01:30 - 02:30: Good Fats and Their Benefits The chapter titled 'Good Fats and Their Benefits' emphasizes the vital role of healthy fats in maintaining not only beautiful, youthful skin but also in supporting brain function and hormonal balance. The narrative highlights that the skin is the body’s largest organ and its health is significantly impacted by diet. Healthy fats serve as essential building blocks, contributing substantially more to skin health than skincare products or other interventions. Furthermore, fats are crucial for hormone production, underlying their importance in overall bodily function.
• 02:30 - 03:30: Bad Fats and Their Consequences This chapter discusses the importance of fats in maintaining healthy body functions and skin. It highlights how skipping fats can disrupt hormones, leading to improper body functioning and negatively impacting skin health. Fats are crucial for the composition of cell membranes, keeping skin cells vibrant, supple, and maintaining elasticity. The chapter emphasizes the need for adequate internal moisturizing through fats, as topical moisturizers alone are insufficient. Skincare is briefly mentioned as a topic to be covered later in the video.
• 03:30 - 04:30: Fats and Aging The chapter discusses the importance of consuming high-quality fats as a natural internal moisturizer for the body, highlighting their role in reducing inflammation typically caused by retinoids. It emphasizes the benefits of omega-3 fatty acids, which are considered anti-inflammatory. These good fats enhance brain function, improve concentration, alleviate depression and anxiety, and provide lubrication for the body.
• 04:30 - 06:30: Topical Healthy Fats for Skin The chapter discusses the importance of omega-3 fatty acids for skin health. The speaker prefers to obtain omega-3s from fatty fish like wild caught salmon and sardines, but also supplements on days when they do not consume fish. They provide a link to their recommended omega-3 supplement in the comments and on their website, beauty doctrine.com. Another category of beneficial fats mentioned are monosaturated fats.
• 06:30 - 07:30: Conclusion and Next Video Teaser The chapter emphasizes the importance of consuming healthy fats found in nuts, seeds, olive oil, and avocados. These foods help maintain the integrity of cell membranes and create a strong, resilient skin barrier. If one's lipid barrier is compromised, it's recommended to increase the intake of these foods. The chapter then introduces the next class of fats: medium-chain triglycerides.

LONGEVITY SERIES: WHY DERMATOLOGIST HAVE IT WRONG : THE TRUTH ABOUT HEALTHY FATS & ANTI-AGING Transcription

• 00:00 - 00:30 dermatologists have it all wrong I'm sorry but got to say it their approach to skincare is extremely aggressive so they're having you use all these powerful retinoids to force cellular turnover at the expense of your very precious hydration and moisture sacrificing that epidermis that protective lipid barrier forgetting well not forgetting it doesn't serve them that well so ignoring the fact that you
• 00:30 - 01:00 can boost collagen plenty through diet and supplementation but once you destroy that lipid barrier and that protective fat layer and also that protective epidermis you're in for really hard and difficult Journey so youth equals moisture and hydration so in this video we're going to learn how to max that out to keep your skin as glowing as youthful as plump as possible
• 01:00 - 01:30 [Music] if you're new here welcome my name is Nadia van shakaron your guide to better skin naturally without intervention I founded the functional Beauty principles addressing great skin through diet supplementation and clean skincare that's not introducing toxins to your skin and body you'll find my top recommendations for the best skincare and supplements on the beauty doctrine. comom as always I'll address any any
• 01:30 - 02:00 topic I start with diet because your skin is your biggest organ it's connected to your body whatever you put in your mouth is going to affect it greatly even more than skincare or any intervention healthy fats are the building blocks of a beautiful youthful skin and not just the skin your brain your brain is made up of fat we are made up of fat we absolutely need it to make hormones if you are low on fat you're not making hormones effectively and hormones are the engine of the body if
• 02:00 - 02:30 your hormones are off you cannot function properly and of course your skin suffers as a result so if you're trying to reverse aging and you're skipping the fat you can't get too far our cell membranes are made up of fat so it's really important to constantly moisturized to keep those cells vibrant and to keep them Supple and to keep that elastin elastic and so it needs to be constantly moisturized topical moisturizers are not going to be enough I will get to skincare at the end of the video what matters so much more is the
• 02:30 - 03:00 internal moisturizer consistent intake of high quality fats can also reduce inflammation which typically retinoids create within your system all right so let's talk about the good fats versus the bad fats at the top of the list are going to be omega-3 fatty acids those are your anti-inflammatory fats they make your brain function beautifully they give you concentration they reduce depression anxiety and they lubricate your entire your body amazing amazing
• 03:00 - 03:30 you cannot skip your omega-3 fatty acids I love to get my omegas from fatty fish like wild caught salmon and wild caught sardines but also supplement on those days when I'm not consuming fish supplement with a highquality omega-3 supplement I have my favorite linked up in the comments below and available on the beauty doctrine. comom next class of high quality much needed fats are the monosaturated fats and those you can
• 03:30 - 04:00 find in your nuts seeds and in the very precious olive oil if you're not consuming olive oil every day you're missing up and also find them in avocados these fats maintain that Integrity of the cell membrane creating a very strong and resilient Skin Barrier so if you have a compromised lipid barrier load up on your avocados olive oil and nuts next class of fats are the medium chain triglycerides and those are
• 04:00 - 04:30 the MCTS I'm sure you've heard of coconut oil it's high in MCTS which are also anti-inflammatory highly moisturizing and can act as hormone balancers these fats are quickly converted into energy so it's great to put a little bit of MCT oil in your morning coffee or if you feel sluggish midday have something with coconut I love to cook my rice in coconut oil it's super beneficial for your brain function metabolic health and of course Supple
• 04:30 - 05:00 and radiant skin I don't love it too much directly on the skin as 100% pure coconut oil I like it diluted in formulations because it can be cogenic but I love it as a body moisturizer next class of fats is called phospho lipids which you can find in eggs krill oil which by the way are really high in that retinol and naturally and they also contribute to that Integrity of the cell membrane now let's talk about the bad
• 05:00 - 05:30 fats unfortunately they're everywhere if you are eating at restaurants if you're buying processed foods packaged Foods even your cereals things where you would not even imagine that you would have harmful fats trust me they're everywhere those are highly processed and cheap fats so you name it cotton seed oil soybean oil sunflower oil safflower oil vegetable oil corn oil
• 05:30 - 06:00 and so on aside from the toxic load the heavy chemical processing the solvents the added fragrance yes they add perfume because if there's no perfume added to those fats they would be so rancid and so smelly you would not want to touch them now in addition to all of that they are high in Omega 6 fatty acids which are not the so great ones we can have them but in moderation we always have to have more omega-3 than Omega 6 in our
• 06:00 - 06:30 system but the opposite is true with our modern Lifestyles you always want to aim at increasing your Omega-3s because those are the anti-inflammatory ones versus Omega 6 which are pro-inflammatory if you're somebody that consumes chicken primarily as your source of protein chicken is pretty high on that harmful Omega 6 you want to balance out your diet with high quality soai salmon as well as grass-fed grass finished beef and of course those precious eggs the next class of very
• 06:30 - 07:00 harmful fats are trans fats which you'll find in processed foods and also fried foods they're highly inflammatory they cause rapid cellular damage contributing to metabolic dysfunction and when it comes to your skin they can contribute to those acne breakouts big time I have to mention one fat that's supposed to be good and yet it's mostly bad and that is avocado oil unfortunately there's very little regulation when it comes to two foods that we purchase there was a lab
• 07:00 - 07:30 that tested most avocado oils on the market and found that many of them are blended with those harmful seed oils uh many didn't even have a drop of avocado oil let's talk about how fat influences aging Beyond just moisturization and maintaining that cell membrane fats not only nourish your skin but they influence your body's ability to fight off those 12 Hallmarks of aging and the 12 hm marks of aging are what I'm
• 07:30 - 08:00 addressing in this longevity series to learn about them and understand them you will find links to additional videos in the description below so the consumption of good fats can impact nutrient sensing nutrient delivery and as simulation mitochondrial dysfunction and chronic inflammation all of which are contributors to that rapid aging and by the way fat does not make you fat it's a myth fat in fact helps you lose weight because it facilitates the exit of waste
• 08:00 - 08:30 out of your body and the assimilation of nutrients what makes your fat is actually excess sugar and carbohydrates which turn into fat in your body we must Embrace that fat not be afraid of it back to that nutrient stimulation fat soluble vitamins are essential to our health like vitamin D vitamin K hopefully you're taking those every single day um also vitamin A there are various nutrients that our bodies need
• 08:30 - 09:00 but they are fat soluble hence they need to be consumed with fat for them to be able to work now let's talk about healthy fats that will nourish your skin and strengthen that lipid barrier topically at the very top of my list are three oils hoba rose hip oil and ham seed oil all of which you can find in barrier Repair Serum adore this I cannot be without it I've been using it now for probably 10 years morning and night without fail those three fats organic of
• 09:00 - 09:30 course serve various functions in the Skin So hoba is the first one that is the most skin compatible oil with our lipid barrier it's made up of ceramides and our lipid barrier is primarily comprised of ceramides it's going to help reinforce the strength and resilience of that lipid barrier hence your skin will be a lot less susceptible to aging to inflammation to redness to sensitivity and so on the second oil
• 09:30 - 10:00 there is rose hip oil that is the most anti-aging oil I don't like it alone because it can be aggressive on the skin but buffered with hoba it's just perfect it's high in trans retinoic acid which is retinol it converts into retinol in your skin as well as Vitamin C all of us know at this point that vitamin C is integral to collagen production to breaking down pigmentation fighting off oxida damage and so on and lastly hemp seed oil is one of two oils on the planet that has amino acids because hemp
• 10:00 - 10:30 seeds are an actual protein proteins are what comprise our skin collagen is a protein elastin is a protein and so that's a fabulous oil it's very supportive for your collagen other great fats to note are shea butter that can be very good look for it in occlusives top of the list is going to be skin savior it's got a beautiful beautiful blend of those very famous frankincense oil
• 10:30 - 11:00 castor oil but also you have shea butter you have beeswax grape seed oil it's just it melts onto your skin and it's just a beautiful overnight occlusive that's going to trap all that moisture into your skin preventing moisture loss and dehydration which are why you AG there are so many oils on the market so I can't get to all of them but there's one more that's noteworthy and that is argan oil so if you're someone that's very dry select an oil that has Argan
• 11:00 - 11:30 there is one on the beauty.com H organic Serene that's one of my absolute favorites with a beautiful blend of oils not essential oils but plant oils that are nourishing and protective to the skin let's mention one more orale sensitive skin is on the rise many of my clients suffer from it because of the overuse of all these harsh chemicals and retinoids and up hydroxy and so on so a lot of people are getting sensitized if you are one of those if you're really sensitive if you feel that you your
• 11:30 - 12:00 lipid barrier is super compromised you can't even tolerate rose hip oil then go for Plum oil from this brand called lunier so you'll see that on my website I'm going to link up all of these recommendations Down Below in the next video we're going to dive into mitochondrial health and why maintaining your mitochondria those are the energy centers of the cell if you maintain those you are starting to reverse that clock so don't miss the next video make sure sure that you're subscribed and
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