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Sun Aug 31, 2014 10:51 am  |
| is anyone taking vitamin B complex, horsetail, green smoothies, more protein, less sugar, more veg and fruit, and what differences have you noticed? There's research saying eating red and orange fruit and veg eg beetroot, melon, carrot gives a better skin colour, more golden even on darker skin colours. having two helping daily for 6 weeks gives a signficant difference. Anyone want to do the challenge? |
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Sun Aug 31, 2014 11:45 am |
I think whole foods do make a difference too hussar! I eat Paleo and take extra calcium/mag, vit D3 5K iu, CoQ10 400mg (this helps get rid of crows feet), VitaMedica HealthySkin supp, and some others Ive probably forgotten. Sometimes I take a collagen sup with vit C when I think of it and a secretagogue formula to tweak hGH.
The American Academy for AntiAging Medicine's website sometimes has interesting new info about nutrition:
http://www.worldhealth.net/ |
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Sun Aug 31, 2014 2:25 pm |
Hi Fawnie 
just want to say thank you for your generosity over the years in sharing your knowledge and experience. it's inspiring because you walk the talk.
What do you think about MitoQ? it's the active form of COQ10; ubiquinol in a format that enters skin cells. Can it be done at home as the serum is too expensive for regular use?
Apparently it's safe for long term use.
http://www.truthinaging.com/mitoq-moisturizing-anti-aging-serum
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MitoQ |
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Sun Aug 31, 2014 3:02 pm |
| Health Force Nutritionals supplements (chlorella, antioxidants, spirulina, enzymes, etc.), multi, Vit D (3,000 IU/day), magnesium, B complex, B12, cal & mag, MSM complex, time-released Vit C. |
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Sun Aug 31, 2014 3:04 pm |
| Paleo, Intermittent Fasting, smoothies from my Nutribullet, astaxanthin, lycopene, lutein, more supps than I care to mention. |
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Sun Aug 31, 2014 7:54 pm |
Great question. I'm Paleo and eat ketogenically. So...no sugar or flour. I feel that both are enemies of my face  I also do daily intermittent fasting. I actually only eat dinner. No breakfast or lunch. Lots of water. Water is my only drink besides an AM cup of coffee.
I eat bone broth or great lakes gelatin every day, and take msm. I drink a gallon of water daily (that's 128 ounces) and it's made a huge difference in the quality of my skin. |
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Mon Sep 01, 2014 9:04 am |
| little vase wrote: |
Great question. I'm Paleo and eat ketogenically. So...no sugar or flour. I feel that both are enemies of my face I also do daily intermittent fasting. I actually only eat dinner. No breakfast or lunch. Lots of water. Water is my only drink besides an AM cup of coffee.
I eat bone broth or great lakes gelatin every day, and take msm. I drink a gallon of water daily (that's 128 ounces) and it's made a huge difference in the quality of my skin. |
I really disagree with eating only one meal a day. I cannot think of any dietician, doctor (medical or Naturopathic) advise eating one meal a day. |
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Mon Sep 01, 2014 12:06 pm |
| Autumn1995 wrote: |
I really disagree with eating only one meal a day. I cannot think of any dietician, doctor (medical or Naturopathic) advise eating one meal a day. |
Er....okay? That's cool! |
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Mon Sep 01, 2014 4:37 pm |
Plenty of people are eating one meal per day. The Warrior diet is one example. I myself could never do that. I would die of hunger.  |
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Mon Sep 01, 2014 7:15 pm |
| Pandax12 wrote: |
| Plenty of people are eating one meal per day. The Warrior diet is one example. I myself could never do that. I would die of hunger. |
Hah...I thought so too! But for some reason, eating ketogenically ( very low carb, as you already know ) is a giant appetite suppressant for me. I like to eat! I love to eat. I really love having the one big meal. |
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Mon Sep 01, 2014 10:42 pm |
i've heard great things about bone broth making significant improvements to skin. really good to hear they're true.
About eating one meal in the evenings. This is meant to be the best way to do intermittent fasting. I've tried it myself and it works great but only if you're basically healthy in the first place. Apparently if one has thyroid problems breakfast is the most important meal of the day to kick start the metabolism. By the way thyroid problems cause facial changes like drooping eyebrows and redness under the lower lash line and at the outer corner of the eye, amongst many other symptoms, one of them being unable to do intermittent fasting for any length of time. |
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Tue Sep 02, 2014 7:49 am |
That's good to know.
I think it works so well for me, and is great for weight control. I also really enjoy not having to think about food or taking the time to stop to eat until dinner. And then I really, truly enjoy the process of preparing it and eating it.
hussar01, have you been taking any of the things you mentioned in your initial post? I'm up for a challenge if you want to pick one! It would be so helpful to have someone to compare notes with.
Yes the bone broth has been amazing for me. I first read about it on a reddit subforum for keto. A man was using it while dieting, and he said it helped all of his stretch marks go away. He also said it tightened up the loose skin under his arms. He was in his 40s, too, so not a young-un |
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Tue Sep 02, 2014 7:05 pm |
| What is bone broth? Do you prepare your own and how is it done. Thanks. |
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Wed Sep 03, 2014 6:41 am |
| TheSweetLife wrote: |
| What is bone broth? Do you prepare your own and how is it done. Thanks. |
Hi, TheSweetLife,
It tastes good, and it's full of collagen. I make my own from the bones and cartilage of whatever meat I've cooked recently. I freeze the bones; chicken, beef, pork..whatever. Then when I have a pot full, I cook it down in water and a few splashes of apple cider vinegar. You cook it slowly all day (or two) and then store it in the fridge, and use it for cooking or for soup broth. It basically turns into gelatin - thick and opaque. There are lots of variations on how to prepare it if you google. Obviously not for vegans and vegetarians......
Oh and the vinegar draws out all of the cartilage from the bone joints, that's why it's in there. |
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Wed Sep 03, 2014 2:23 pm |
OMG Little Vase, YES. This forum is an education and an inspiration but this challenge is all the incentive I need now to get going with my own beauty plan!
I'm thinking 30 days of:
i) No sugar and low carbs in general
ii) Two daily servings of beetroot and other fruit/veg. I'll report back on any skin improvements.
I can't get organised with the bone broth just yet, unfortunately, so will leave that for a later challenge.
What do you have in mind Little Vase? |
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Thu Sep 04, 2014 8:18 am |
| I'll do what you're doing! When do you want to start? How are you going to take the beetroot? In some kind of capsule or tea, or are you going to juice roots? I can do whatever! |
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Thu Sep 04, 2014 3:25 pm |
I am in ladies!!!
I started a diet 3 days ago using myfinesspal application . I really love the way they present there journal is very simple and I can connect it to my fitbit ( a gadget that is counting steps)
I have to loose 10-12 lbs not too much but that what I collected in the last 3 years and the worst is that is going up .
What I am eating now is kind of low carb , high protein + greens and one fruit a day ..... If you are interested in my progress in myfitnessspal I am taly_ly ... I'll report here as well regarding my skin . I am also planning to go back and take Biosil , Neocell+ vitamin C, MSM
Currently I am taking
Krill oil
Vitamin d
Calcium+Magnesium
Turmeric
Selenium
Ginseng
I might add some green veggies juice - but probably that will be a powder
I forgot to mention about the diet that in the past I tried WW somehow successful (lost 10 lbs in 6 months and put them back in one year)
This time ww doesn't work it seems that the "no limit fruit" is just not right for me ... I can eat all day only fruit and that would be zero points and I am not loosing a gram .. oh well I am gaining |
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Thu Sep 04, 2014 7:11 pm |
I've cut down on my supplements A LOT in the past year! The only ones I take daily now are a fish oil and a trubiotic. Every 2-3 days I'll take an astaxanthin, D, a few others. I just can't justify the expense and hassle when I have no way of knowing how much good they do. I really wish the FDA would start regulating supplements just as they do food and drugs. It would make them a little more expensive, but the quality would be 100% guaranteed.
Other than that, I have lots of smoothies and salads. I'm a big "real soup" person, as many of the rest of you apparently are. Besides just bones I also like to put in shrimp shells, crawdad heads, etc, in my broth. It's supposed to be good for your bones and joints to add crustacean shells. Don't know if it's true, but it sure tastes great! |
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Fri Sep 05, 2014 7:54 am |
| I've been addicted to taking supplements because I want to have better skin so I've started on a few brands including nivea, neutrogena, and most recently biocorrex, and of the three, I definitely noticed that biocorrex did more for my skin from the inside as they were capsules that I had to drink every day with water. Amazing results! |
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Fri Sep 05, 2014 11:33 pm |
| little vase wrote: |
| TheSweetLife wrote: |
| What is bone broth? Do you prepare your own and how is it done. Thanks. |
Hi, TheSweetLife,
It tastes good, and it's full of collagen. I make my own from the bones and cartilage of whatever meat I've cooked recently. I freeze the bones; chicken, beef, pork..whatever. Then when I have a pot full, I cook it down in water and a few splashes of apple cider vinegar. You cook it slowly all day (or two) and then store it in the fridge, and use it for cooking or for soup broth. It basically turns into gelatin - thick and opaque. There are lots of variations on how to prepare it if you google. Obviously not for vegans and vegetarians......
Oh and the vinegar draws out all of the cartilage from the bone joints, that's why it's in there. |
Thanks Little vase. I did not realize it should be cooked all day or longer. |
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Sun Sep 07, 2014 6:23 am |
| sugar causes wrinkles and inflammation. If you never eat sugar you wont get cancer as cancer needs sugar to exist. I do a lot of things but I take anastaxathin; that helps to improve the skin and decrease wrinkles by 30%,it also helps vision.I take lycomato which is a natural internal sunscreen that protects the skin from sun.I do not use sunscreen since there are harmful ingredients like MSG in it(under a different name, compaies have learned that the public does not want the neurotoxin MSG(causes dementia among other things)so it now has many different names to hide under.By the way, common tabe salt has sugar in it so use those pink himalayan pink crystals in a grinder from trader joes if you want to avoid suger. |
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Sun Sep 07, 2014 12:46 pm |
Great!! lets start the no sugar, lots of veg diet. I'm eating beetroot as often as possible because I have sallow skin that needs brightening. Let's do 30 days starting tomorrow Mon 8 Sept ladies.
Just to know that you are both doing this with me is so inspirational.
Let's start |
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Sun Sep 07, 2014 7:10 pm |
| Ok, tomorrow it is! I will eat zero sugar. So, all whole foods, no sugar in anything unless it's already in the food. I'll eat veggies or salad every night for dinner, and will also eat beetroot! |
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Sun Sep 07, 2014 8:17 pm |
let's see what happens lol anyway my sugar intake is zero anyway lots of stevia but I eat fruit and sometimes lots .... So here I have to be careful
I'll add the beets for skin
Sweet dreams We need the beauty sleep for our glowing skin ladies
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Mon Sep 08, 2014 5:18 am |
| I use organic beet root crystals - they taste good and you can add them to anything - I sprinkle them on salads, yogurt and smoothies |
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