The Best Trick for Clear Skin (Acne, Aging, Wrinkles, Liver Spots)

Summary

In this engaging video, Dr. Eric Berg DC offers insights into achieving clear and youthful skin by embracing fasting. His personal journey through acne, linked to self-esteem issues, forms the grounding narrative as he reveals fasting as the cost-effective solution to improve not just skin health but overall well-being, including better metabolism, immune function, and longevity. Dr. Berg explains the science behind how fasting triggers processes like autophagy and boosts stem cell production, which contribute to reduced inflammation and enhanced skin quality.

Highlights

• Fasting is not just for weight loss; it transforms your skin's health as well 🌟.
• Skipping breakfast and sticking to two meals daily can tremendously impact your skin's quality 🕒.
• Fasting boosts natural processes like stem cell production and autophagy, key in anti-aging and clear skin 🔄.
• Reducing carbohydrates and adopting a ketogenic diet further enhances skin benefits 🥑.
• Using sun exposure wisely and including probiotics can visibly improve skin condition 🌞.
• Cod liver oil is a superior source for necessary omega-3s and vitamins A and D 🐠.

Key Takeaways

• Fasting is a powerful tool for achieving clear, youthful skin ✨.
• Reducing meal frequency helps to decrease insulin levels, benefiting skin health 🍽️.
• Fasting supports autophagy, a process that replaces damaged cells, improving skin texture 🔄.
• Supporting your diet with ketogenic practices can enhance fasting benefits 🍳.
• Natural elements like sun exposure and probiotics play a vital role in skin health ☀️.
• Omega-3s, especially from sources like cod liver oil, provide essential nutrients for the skin 🐟.

Overview

Dr. Eric Berg, a prominent figure in the wellness world, shares a surprising yet simple trick for achieving clear and youthful skin: fasting. By taking a look back at his own struggles with acne, he highlights fasting as an accessible solution that costs nothing yet offers profound benefits beyond just skin health.

He elaborates on the mechanisms at play: fasting reduces insulin release, leading to decreased skin issues. The process of autophagy during fasting rejuvenates cells, while stem cell production and reduced inflammation contribute to a healthier complexion. Adding a ketogenic approach further amplifies these effects by maintaining lower insulin levels.

Dr. Berg touches on the importance of sunlight, probiotics, and omega-3 supplements for skin health. Cod liver oil emerges as a key supplement, providing essential nutrients that typical fish oils miss. He wraps up with an invitation to his audience: participate in a survey that will help tailor future content, underscoring the community-driven approach to his informative videos.

Chapters

• 00:00 - 00:30: Introduction and Survey Request The chapter introduces a topic on achieving clear, youthful skin, emphasizing that the advice is not just for acne but also for overall skin health. Before diving deeper into the subject, the speaker requests the audience to participate in a survey to help determine what content they would be most interested in regarding skin care videos.
• 01:00 - 01:30: Self-Esteem and Acne The chapter 'Self-Esteem and Acne' discusses the importance of self-awareness regarding one's skin condition. The speaker urges viewers to assess their skin's current state, observing issues such as oiliness, dryness, flakiness, red spots, aging spots, wrinkles, or acne. This personal inspection is meant to help individuals better understand their skin and address any concerns, potentially improving self-esteem by acknowledging and dealing with skin issues. Additionally, the speaker encourages viewers to complete a survey to guide future video topics, emphasizing audience participation and tailored content creation.
• 02:00 - 02:30: The Cost of the Trick The chapter titled "The Cost of the Trick" begins with the narrator recalling their struggles with severe acne as a teenager and how it severely affected their self-esteem, making them more reclusive. This experience leads to the main topic of the chapter, which aims not only to offer a remedy for acne but also to provide advice for achieving youthful and attractive skin. The narrator addresses viewers who are dealing with acne, promising a solution that will eliminate the problem.
• 03:00 - 03:30: Benefits of Fasting The chapter discusses the many benefits of fasting, emphasizing its cost-effectiveness since it's free and can even save individuals money ranging from 300 to 500 dollars per month. Beyond economic benefits, fasting can lead to improved skin, a better metabolism, and possibly a longer lifespan. The tone includes a touch of sarcasm to underscore how accessible and beneficial fasting can be.
• 04:00 - 04:30: Fasting and Skin Improvement The chapter discusses the numerous benefits of fasting, extending beyond improvements to skin health. It highlights how fasting can enhance the immune system and reduce the need for medication. Fasting is also beneficial for treating viral and bacterial infections, as well as strengthening the immune system and improving vision.
• 05:00 - 05:30: Fasting and Anti-Aging Fasting can be beneficial for a variety of health issues, including eye problems such as cataracts, glaucoma, and diabetic retinopathy. It can also improve mental and cognitive functions including mood, memory, focus, and concentration. Additionally, fasting has the potential to promote neurogenesis, the growth of new brain cells.
• 06:00 - 06:30: Autophagy and IGF-1 The chapter 'Autophagy and IGF-1' discusses the relationship between fasting, insulin reduction, and hormone health. It highlights how fasting can significantly reduce insulin levels, which in turn can regulate androgens. This regulation can greatly improve conditions such as acne, especially in relation to polycystic ovarian syndrome and high levels of androgens. The discussion references remarkable studies conducted during Ramadan that demonstrated significant improvements in health outcomes related to these hormonal changes.
• 07:00 - 07:30: Inflammation and Skin Health This chapter explores the relationship between inflammation and skin health, specifically addressing conditions such as dermatitis, itching of the skin, acne, psoriasis, and rosacea. It poses an intriguing question about how temporary fasting or caloric restriction can potentially benefit skin health by mimicking the body's natural processes rather than starving it. The study analyzed suggests that these dietary strategies might aid in reducing inflammation and improving skin conditions.
• 08:00 - 08:30: Causes of Poor Skin Health In this chapter titled 'Causes of Poor Skin Health,' the discussion focuses on the detrimental effects of frequent eating on skin health. Historically, people consumed food less frequently, but modern lifestyles have led to constant grazing, with individuals having six to seven meals a day. This frequent eating causes repeated triggering of insulin, which is linked to numerous health issues, including skin problems. The chapter suggests that fasting, or reducing meal frequency, aligns more closely with the body's natural design and can be beneficial for skin health.
• 09:00 - 09:30: Fasting for Gallbladder and Skin Health The chapter discusses the beneficial effects of fasting on gallbladder and skin health. It explains how fasting activates certain genes that improve survival by reducing the frequency of eating. A significant increase in stem cells is observed during fasting. These undifferentiated cells can transform into any needed cell type, thereby replacing damaged cells with new ones, which contributes to anti-aging.
• 10:00 - 10:30: Simplified Fasting Method The chapter discusses the benefits of autophagy, a process where the body recycles old or damaged cells, effectively replacing them with new, healthy ones. This process boosts stem cell production and improves skin cell health. It explains how autophagy contributes to overall cellular rejuvenation and maintenance.
• 11:00 - 11:30: Advanced Fasting Tips This chapter focuses on the benefits of fasting, particularly for skincare and collagen production. Fasting can increase IGF-1, which functions like growth hormone, aiding in collagen growth. This is crucial as aging leads to the loss of collagen, particularly collagen type one fibers, and elastin, resulting in brittle and loose skin. Additionally, fasting boosts VEGF, contributing to tighter skin.
• 12:00 - 12:30: Additional Tips for Skin Health The chapter 'Additional Tips for Skin Health' discusses various ways to improve skin health. It emphasizes the importance of increasing blood flow to the skin, which aids in decreasing scarring and enhancing overall wound healing. The process of autophagy is highlighted, as it plays a role in eliminating skin scarring, including pockmarks from acne. Additionally, the chapter points out that reducing inflammation is critical for skin health, as many people suffer from general redness. These methods collectively contribute to a healthier and more vibrant skin appearance.
• 13:00 - 13:30: Survey Reminder and Conclusion The chapter discusses factors that cause skin inflammation and how addressing them can improve skin health. It emphasizes that frequent eating, consumption of sugar, carbs, and omega-6 fatty acids (found in seed oils), are detrimental to the skin. Additionally, stress, due to elevated cortisol and insulin levels, adversely affects the skin. Reducing these factors can lead to notable improvements in skin appearance.

The Best Trick for Clear Skin (Acne, Aging, Wrinkles, Liver Spots) Transcription

• 00:00 - 00:30 today i'm going to talk about one of the best things you can do for clear skin but not just for acne but for overall wonderful amazing youthful looking skin now before i dive in there's something very important i want to mention i want to ask you a very very big favor there's a survey that i want to do to find out what information what videos you would be most interested
• 00:30 - 01:00 in and i would really really really appreciate if you filled it out at the end of this video i put a link down below for this survey that way i don't have to guess so much of what topics you might be interested in all right now let's dive in now if you look at the mirror right now and you look at your skin do you notice that your skin is oily or dry or flaky or does it have little red dots do you have aging spots do you have wrinkles do you have acne what does your skin look like
• 01:00 - 01:30 for me as a teenager my skin was absolutely terrible i had the worst acne boy there's nothing worse for your self-esteem than having a lot of acne it really makes you avoid people it makes you shy it is terrible for your self-esteem and if you're watching this and you have acne or you know someone that has acne send this video because after you watch this video and apply what i'm going to show you you won't have acne anymore but this is not just about acne it's about having youthful looking amazing skin this trick
• 01:30 - 02:00 that i'm about to reveal is extremely expensive and i'm just being very sarcastic because it is the cheapest thing on the planet it actually is free it costs you nothing in fact you'll save a lot of money you could save up to three to four to five hundred dollars a month okay just by doing this one thing and then end up with not just wonderful skin but some other cool benefits a better metabolism you may live longer
• 02:00 - 02:30 a better immune system less need for medication etc etc and if you guessed asking you're correct the benefits of fasting are amazing and again they go way beyond just your skin it can actually improve infections okay if you have a viral infection or a bacterial infection or you just want to strengthen your immune system fasting is the answer it's wonderful for your vision in your eyes any type of
• 02:30 - 03:00 eye problem if it relates to either cataracts or glaucoma or diabetic retinopathy fasting can help mental and cognitive issues i'm talking about mood improvements uh improvement in memory focus and concentration also literally you can grow new brain cells okay with this simple cheap remedy called fasting decreasing your risk for cancer and even if you get cancer doing fasting can actually get rid of cancer i've done videos on that
• 03:00 - 03:30 anti-aging and hormone health you see when you do fasting you greatly reduce insulin which then can help regulate androgens and greatly improve acne from polycystic ovarian syndrome or even high levels of extra androgens which are causing the acne what i'm going to show you is based on some really amazing studies that they did on ramadan there were significant improvements on the following from
• 03:30 - 04:00 the study that i'm going to put down below dermatitis itching of the skin inflammation reduction acne psoriasis and rosacea okay so i mean this is actually quite fascinating the question is how can you like starve your body and improve your skin it doesn't make sense well you're not starving your body you're basically just mimicking what your body has been designed to do and that would be go for a period of
• 04:00 - 04:30 time without eating it's only very recently that we started eating so darn frequently because food is available everywhere and now we have like six seven meals a day we're constantly grazing that is the absolute worst thing you can do for your skin and your health because every time you eat you trigger insulin and insulin is behind so many problems including skin problems so the opposite of doing frequent eating is fasting so you're just mimicking what your body is designed to do and has
• 04:30 - 05:00 developed all sorts of genes that turn on and can help you survive you actually survive better when you don't eat so frequently there's significant increase in stem cells these are cells that are undifferentiated they're not determined yet they're just kind of basic cells and they can turn into whatever you need at the time so we're basically replacing the damaged cell with the new cell this is called anti-aging right so you
• 05:00 - 05:30 increase your stem cells number two autophagy what is autophagy autophagy is a condition where your body recycles old damaged cells okay so it will basically take the damaged cells that you have from various reasons and it will replace them so you actually have new wonderful amazing skin cells okay so that's one thing also there's a certain hormone that's made by
• 05:30 - 06:00 your liver it's called igf-1 okay it works like growth hormone so when you increase igf-1 you can increase collagen growth because as you age you lose collagen at least you lose collagen one fibers and then you also lose your elastin which your skin becomes brittle it becomes atrophied and loose so fasting can help tighten your skin as well it also increases this other thing called a v-e-g-f which basically
• 06:00 - 06:30 increases blood flow to your skin and decrease uh scarring from certain things that can damage your skin because you get an overall wound healing and you also have the autophagy which actually can help get rid of scarring in the skin especially if you have like pock marks from acne things like that and then generally what it can do is it can reduce inflammation which is the most powerful thing to make your skin look good so many people are walking around with general redness of the skin
• 06:30 - 07:00 rashes which is caused by inflammation so if we can reduce that all of a sudden your skin looks amazing now like i said before the worst thing for the skin is frequent eating okay uh sugar carbs omega-6 that would be like the seed oils very inflammatory for the skin stress i don't know if you notice this but when you go through stress your skin just kind of wigs out it just does not do well because of the cortisol and that also increases insulin it's kind of
• 07:00 - 07:30 equivalent to eating sugar basically and stress increased cortisol which breaks down your proteins okay and your skin is part protein allergies see fasting can actually improve allergies and allergies can create skin reactions food environmental a toxic liver and a toxic colon can affect your skin greatly and guess what fasting can improve that as well now the gallbladder okay your gallbladder
• 07:30 - 08:00 stores and concentrates bile that helps you break down fats because your skin is part fat you need the gallbladder to pull in these key omega 3 fatty acids as well as the fat soluble vitamins vitamin a and vitamin d so without a gallbladder or or without bile your skin kind of looks kind of messed up also going on a low-fat diet really destroys your skin and your hair so we need a sufficient amount of fat in our diets to have nice
• 08:00 - 08:30 skin autoimmune you could have an autoimmune problem with the skin psoriasis sema things like that well guess what the best thing for autoimmune conditions is fasting because it helps your immune system and it drops inflammation and then as you get older you lose the collagen like i mentioned in elastin well guess what autophagy building up new stem cells can greatly turn things around now how do
• 08:30 - 09:00 you do fasting very very s simply okay this is the simplest way i can explain it okay just skip your breakfast okay have coffee add some mct oil in your coffee it makes things really easy and it gives you these things called ketones that will decrease hunger and you have energy to make it to the first meal which is lunch now the first step is basically don't change what you eat just do two meals a day okay that's it no
• 09:00 - 09:30 snacks don't even change what you're eating make it simple first meal is at noon second meal at six no snacks in between don't even worry about how much you eat okay just two meals guess what's gonna happen you're gonna have 18 hours of fasting plus if you don't eat between these two hours you have an ad additional four hours that's 22 hours of fasting do you know what that would do to your skin it would be incredible not even changing
• 09:30 - 10:00 what you eat okay just from the fasting now that would be step one now to make it even better we reduce the carbs we go in a ketogenic diet and then of course gradually go into phase two which is the healthy version of the ketogenic diet now there's some additional things you can add okay and sun being outside that vitamin d and also the infrared of the sun can greatly greatly help your skin your gut has a huge influence over your
• 10:00 - 10:30 skin so either taking a probiotic or fermented foods like sauerkraut kimchi kefir very important with your skin and then the last thing which is kind of a little ninja trick is the cod of oil if you took cod liver oil you would get not just omega 3 fatty acids but you get vitamin a and vitamin d which you don't get in normal fish oils so omega-3 is like a fish oil on steroids
• 10:30 - 11:00 now i don't want you to forget about this survey so i put that link down below i really really appreciate you doing this survey and that way i'll know what to do the next video on and the next video to watch okay in this series is one on fasting so you have all the details of how to fast correctly check it out i put it right here
• 11:00 - 11:30 you