Dr. Anthony Youn

Now, it's important to differentiate

acute inflammation from chronic inflammation because there are a lot of treatments that we do that are that create acute inflammation you can get laser treatment you can get micro needling you can get chemical peels these all create acute inflammation and when you cause acute inflammation or you damage the collagen of the skin in a very short-term way when the collagen heals it gets tighter and that's why i love all those by the way that's why your skin gets tighter after these treatments right

But chronic inflammation is a different thing.

And so sugar can create chronic inflammation by chronic insulin spikes, and then that can cause premature aging as well.

You can get type 2 diabetes because essentially when you're getting so much sugar and the insulin keeps going up and down, up and down, eventually your tissues don't respond to the insulin so well.

And if it's not responding to the insulin, your blood sugars go up, and then that's when you eventually get diabetes.

insulin resistance and then type 2 diabetes and that leads to all sorts of other problems and so reducing the amount of sugar that you eat is the first step that i encourage people to consider you know you and i we have a lot of our followers that live in the quote-unquote flyover states you know i'm from michigan you know you're tennessee um i have a lot of my followers that live in small towns they follow me on you know tick tock or instagram and and they're not living in miami or la or new york

um and for some of them just the act of hey you know going from three cans of soda pop a day to one or two is a big deal and so i encourage people who are listening you know whether you're a follower of mine uh or a bunny is that just to reduce some of the amount of sugar you drink so if you have three cans of soda pop try to reduce it to two maybe substitute that other one for a can of kombucha you know something a little bit different or a green tea or something or even just plain water just water water i'm not sponsored by them but this is the best water in the world mountain valley water i love them

because just making those little changes can be huge deals.

And I really encourage people who are listening that if you can do that, be proud of yourself because those are big steps towards that goal.

The second thing I encourage people to do is try to reduce the amount of ultra processed foods.

Because those, once again, they contain free radicals and then free radicals can cause damage to your skin by this process called oxidation.

So taking those two huge groups of food out, I think is so, so important, a reducing amount that you can eat of that.

And then what you want to replace that with are colorful fruits and vegetables.

We talked about the antioxidants in them.

healthy sources of protein.

And so I'm a big fan of grass-fed beef, of pastured pork, pastured chicken, wild caught fish, sustainably caught fish that you have vetted.

That's good too.

So tilapia, there are some studies showing.

So there are omega-3 fats and omega-6 fats.