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Juice Cleanse & Anti Aging

5/20/2022

 
Your body is equipped with programming to slow aging and prevent the concurrent diseases of aging: cancer, diabetes, heart disease, and dementia.  The interesting fact is that the body only activates these protective pathways when it experiences a drop in food intake, extreme heat or cold.  

You want to activate your anti-disease and aging programs regularly.  I do this with a seasonal juice cleanse.  Low sugar juice cleanses like we have a jolie mimic fasting, as does the first leg of the 10 Day Reset.

Doing the juice cleanse is easier when you know what you are doing for your body.  Benefits are motivating.  

What happens when you juice cleanse?

By dramatically lowering calories and protein, your body perceives this as a time of scarcity and upregulates all systems to work more efficiently creating more mitochondria, cleaning up damaged cells, upping metabolism, and tapping into fat stores. 

The ideal length of time for a juice fast or cleanse is 3 days for maximum benefit with adequate nutrition. It is also important that the cleanse be low in sugar.  You want mainly vegetable only juices and nut milk with one to two juices containing fruits other than lemon.

Here is what is happening in your juice cleanse:

Day One - You burn through stored glycogen in your liver and muscles and begin to transition into fat burning.
  1. You begin the cleanse with a green juice to cleanse the liver.  Within 2-6 hours of beginning your cleanse your blood glucose level begins to drop and you will feel a bit hungry.  The juices will keep you feeling full, but the low calories will produce hunger until the body begins to burn stored energy, or glycogen, from your liver and muscles.
  2. As the body begins to burn readily available glycogen you will feel energy stabilize and hunger subside.  Your body will also begin to break down fat - triglycerides stored in your fat cells - into fatty acids for your body to use as energy.

Day Two - Fat Burning and Brain Clarity
By this point your body has fully transitioned into fat burning.  This is the beginning of mild ketosis where the liver begins to produce ketones for brain energy.

Ketones are made from fatty acids coming from your fat cells.  This is how your stored energy becomes used energy.

The ketones created by your liver from the fatty acids fuel your brain and other organs.  The use of ketones is beneficial - it reduces inflammation, improves brain health and the creation of new neurons, and improves metabolism long term. At this point, most clients feel amplified brain clarity.

Day three - Stimulated Healing and Fat Burning
By day three, fat burning accelerates.

Due to deeper ketosis, other healing systems are activated.
  1. Neurogenesis continues
  2. Insulin levels continue to drop
  3. Metabolism increases
  4. Autophagy is activated cleaning up dysfunctional cells and cell remnants
  5. Stem cells are repaired and protective mechanisms are activated
  6. Hunger decreases


With all these positives in three days, why not continue?  Here is where the principle of diminishing returns kicks in.  With fasting you want adequate nutrition so that your body leaves the cleanse stronger than it entered.  Prolonged fasting can create nutritional deficits that are not desirable.

With a regular cleanse or fasting schedule you provide yourself with intense self activated healing that improves your immediate and long term health.

Love,
Julia
xo

Skin & longevity

5/11/2022

 
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You can increase longevity by improving the health of your skin.  It’s your largest organ and the cellular age of your skin affects vitality and, in fact, once you are over 60 the condition of your skin is of life and death importance.

Feeding our skin is not just about beauty.  Skin protects you against a myriad of allergens, pathogens, infection, and foot ulcers.  Skin thinning is a major problem as we age that weakens the skin barrier leading to tears in the skin, abrasions, easy bruising, and foot ulcers. The incidents of foot ulcers in those 65 and older is growing. Foot ulcers can lead to death within 5 years even when treated.

Bioage determination is a growing field of research which is finding that bioage of our skin correlates with longevity - mainly because of senescent cells and what is good for our skin is good for our overall body and what harms the skin, harms other cells in our body.

Senescent cells are cells that are damaged to the point that they no longer replicate, but do not die.  Senescent cells exist throughout the body, but accumulate more densely in the skin due to sun damage, environmental stressors, and nutritional oversights.

These cells inhibit the healing of the skin and are implicated in cancer, diabetes, dementia, osteoporosis, cardiovascular disease, stroke, and decline in eyesight,  Senescent cells secrete cytokines, pro-inflammatory factors that not only damage nearby cells, but also pass into the bloodstream contributing to systemic inflammation and cell dysfunction.

Eating for skin health and practicing skin care is less cosmetic, but is deeply connected to your overall health.  You can strengthen your body by  lowering the age of your skin.
  1. Up your intake of berries and dark leafy grains.
  2. Eliminate dairy - it ages the skin
  3. Fast or a fasting mimicking cleanse like our jolie juice cleanse once a season for 3 days.
  4. Have alcohol free days
  5. Get some sun, but use sunscreen judiciously.
  6. Green tea
  7. Consume collagen - bone broth, collagen added to smoothies
  8. Integrate the following into your skincare routine: vitamin c, hyaluronic acid, resveratrol, and retinols.

Specifically to decrease senescent cells:
  1. Integrate fasting or low calorie cleanses into your health plan.  Once a season allows for regular deep cleans out of senescent cells throughout the body.  You can either fast or mimic fasting through low calorie cleanses like a jolie level 2 or 3 juice cleanse as well as the 10 day reset.  
  2. A 12 hour daily fast also stimulates autophagy - the process of the body eating senescent cells. 
  3. Eat berries - strawberries and blueberries in particular - apples, mushrooms, dark chocolate, and many leafy greens.  These all contain substances which trigger the targeted death of senescent cells and repair the damage done by senescent cells.

The bonus here is the more you nurture your glow the better you feel, the more confidently you face your world, and the more you improve every aspect of health.

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    I am not a heroine, but I have chosen the person I want to be.
    ​Coco Chanel

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