Dr. Anthony Youn
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Studies show that they definitely help with the thickness of collagen in your skin.
The other thing though is collagen is a protein.
And so eating higher protein, especially as you get older, can definitely be helpful with your skin as well as other body parts as well.
That's not easy to do, especially if you're intermittent fasting.
It is, and there definitely is a huge push now in nutrition and nutrition circles that the lower protein diets are definitely not the best, especially as you get older.
We developed something called sarcopenia, and this is basically breakdown of muscle as we get older.
And one of the things that we worry about as we get older and a very common cause of death is breaking a hip.
uh there was one study that found that over the age of 50 and i'm like 51 so i guess i'm in that group now that if you break your hair if you break your hip over the age of 51 it's something like a 30 mortality over 12 months goodness gracious why is there like a um so it's just it's so integral and i think part of it is that it's so hard to recover from
and so a big thing as you get older is trying to keep mobile trying to keep your reflexes as well as your balance intact it's so so important right yoga yes so that's one of the big things in my book is yoga so really what you want to look at is balance and and strength via the fast twitch muscle fibers so
To put it simply, a lot of people as they get older, they believe that walking is the only exercise they need to do.
And my parents and my in-laws, that's what they think too.
It's like, oh, I walk two miles a day, so that's all I have to do.
If you get those 10,000 steps, that's awesome.
And that will definitely help with your healing or with your aging overall and being healthy.
But the problem with just walking, when you think about it, is you're only using those muscles that propel you forward.
you're not using any other muscles, okay?