#264 Q&A Skin Health, Grass Fed vs Grain Fed Meat, Intermittent Fasting and More

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Took some time but it was worth it. Alright, so the question about the grass-fed meat. So, yeah, like depends on your macros. If you're eating like a higher fat macro ratio, then it doesn't have to be lean. It can still be fattier. Or if you're eating like a lower fat macro split and then or eating like higher carb diet, then yeah, like a leaner piece of meat would be a bit better for that. From a nutrition perspective, which one is better? Like, yeah, like there are more of these like fat soluble vitamins in the fat. And but there's also other compounds that you get from the lean meat regardless if it has fat or not. Like creatine, carnitine, iron, all these different kinds of vitamins, minerals, that you'd get them still from the meat itself as well. So it depends a lot on your own macros and calories as well. Like leaner meat is still lower in calories and most people, well, actually a lot of people would benefit from a slightly lower calorie intake in general. So, yeah, personally, I, like I, when I do eat, let's say, lean or which one would I prefer, I usually, I try to eat like a moderate kind of fatty meat. I don't go like a super fat, I don't go like a wagyu sort of thing. And I don't go for like a leaner lean steak either.

So there aren't like a lot of these, you know, there are like fat soluble vitamins in the fat, but you can get some of them from the lean meat as well. And because it's not going to be zero fat. So and the amount of fat you need isn't like a crazy amount.

All right, let's keep going.

And the same question that quality of the meat, are the benefits of grass fed also in the flesh or only in the fat?

Well, that's a good question. I think that the grass fed beef that is fattier is healthier than grain fed fat. So to say, so the grain fed fat tends to be more inflammatory and has more of these toxins even. And those kinds of things compared to grass fed fat. So yeah, like if you're eating fat, then the fat should be as high quality as possible. Because your body makes your own cells and cell membranes out of the fat that you eat. And if you're eating a bunch of like bad quality fats, especially, you know, the rancid oils and trans fats or whatnot, then that's going to be quite bad. It's not as bad as it is with grain fed meat, but it's still not as good as the grass fed fat, so to say. So, yeah, like the fat should be as high quality. If you don't have access to grass fed fattier beef, then you can choose to get it like the lean grain fed beef. And then add your healthy fats into there, if you want to be like super cautious with it, so. That's the way I should do it. How do you get pale skin, but how do you get a better skin like yours? Well, I think I don't do like any special things for my skin. I actually think that I don't take care of my skin at all.

I live in the countryside and I do a bunch of like exercise and those things. So I do think that I actually like scruff up my face too much a little bit. But yeah, like the things that I think are most important for skin health are like nutrition generally. So eating a good anti-inflammatory diet or a diet that doesn't cause you excess inflammation, a diet that doesn't cause oxidative stress and a diet that doesn't damage the collagen tissue and doesn't damage the kind of fibroblasts that hold the skin intact or hold the skin upward. So things that damage that usually are a lot of these inflammatory oils, trans fats, excess sugar consumption tends to do that as well, like hyperglycemia, diabetes. Those things damage the collagen tissue and make it more limp, for lack of a better word. And yeah, it kind of falls down as a result of that. A higher protein intake helps with that because your skin is made of protein and you need to rejuvenate that on a regular basis. Yeah, like a low protein diet is going to be bad. From a collagen standpoint, then you do want to eat some foods that have collagen, like fish skin, fish has, chicken skin, generally proteins as well as these tendons and ligaments, bone broth parts. Those are going to have like more glycine and collagen, as well as like vitamin C that helps to recycle the collagen. So yeah, that's kind of from a nutrition side, just eat protein, not too much carbs, don't become diabetic, don't eat like the inflammatory fats and fruits and vegetables, those kinds of things, berries. Those are all good for that. Other besides nutrition, then I also think that things like the red light device, red light therapy is a really awesome thing for the skin. A lot of the studies find that it helps with acne, helps to clear out different kinds of infections, helps to speed up wound healing, helps to heal scars. I have a bunch of different red light devices. Usually if I'm like blue light itself, like the one that is shining on my face at the moment, and the artificial light coming from a screen, that is also harmful for the skin. It damages the mitochondria, damages the skin, collagen tissue, causes oxidative stress in excess. So yeah, the excess blue light, excess artificial light is also going to damage and speed up the skin aging. So you need to kind of balance it with something like red light, or use like filters, use blue blocking glasses. And yeah, you know, these red light devices, small ones, I have actually just near here. When I'm working, usually in the morning, when I start working, on my left here, I have the bright daylight lamp that basically helps to kind of kick out the circadian rhythm, give my body the signal that it's daytime. Starts, yes, the circadian clocks in the brain. Wakes me up, nice. And also have next to that, I have the red light as well. So we're going to get the full spectrum, so to say. Full spectrum, the solar spectrum almost similar to that. The red light is also good for the eyes, as long as you're not looking at directly into that. So that's why I do mostly for my skin, which isn't like much. I don't use any creams or something. The sauna can be good for that. The cold is usually good for that, kind of slows down. At least like in theory slows down some of the processes that go on there, like lowers inflammation, and that's also good. So yeah, just kind of all these things related to just this hormetic lifestyle. Of course, excess stress is going to be bad. Not sleeping enough is going to be bad. But yeah, those are the main principles. Main general principles. Okay, we have a bunch of questions now. While we're yapping away.