Dr. Anthony Youn

And when I was their age, I was always at fast food places.

And now my kids, it's weird because they go out with their friends.

They get Poke Bowls.

They get sushi.

It's crazy.

They get Korean food and stuff.

It's good because there is, I think, a group, especially I think the younger generation, are more understanding of what's going on with their food and everything nowadays.

So the first thing that I would recommend, um, so let's start about what to try to reduce.

Okay.

So the great ager of our skin food wise is sugar.

Sugar is the number one cause of premature aging of the skin.

And it does that because the sugar will actually bond to the collagen in our skin.

So I mentioned earlier that the collagen makes up 70 to 80% of our skin.

And when you ingest sugar, sugar will actually bond to that collagen, those logs of that log cabin, and will cause those logs to become kinked.

And the combination of when the sugar and the collagen hybrid, the connections of that are called advanced glycation end products or AGEs.

Kind of makes sense, AGEs, you know, because they prematurely age you.

And so sugar can do that by literally physically bonding to the collagen of your skin, causing your skin to feel rougher, to have more wrinkles, to be drier, and essentially more aged.

It also increases, when you get sugar spikes, you get insulin spikes.

Insulin spikes causes chronic inflammation.

And chronic inflammation is one of the great agers of our skin, and sugar once again being kind of the big thing.