3 Easy But Little-Known Steps To *Glowing* Skin (Do THIS to Get Rid Of Baggy Eyes, Cellulite & Scars!) With Amitay Eshel

**Ben Greenfield** (0:00)
My name is Ben Greenfield, and on this episode of the Boundless Life Podcast.

**Amitay Eshel** (0:05)
Methylene blue is a crazy, impressive compound when applied topically. Normally, it's a problem because you become blue when you apply it on your skin.

**Ben Greenfield** (0:14)
Yeah, you know, everybody right now is thinking, that's ridiculous, I've seen what it does to the mouth, there's no way I'm putting that on my skin.

**Amitay Eshel** (0:20)
It took us a very, very, very long time to find a way to bypass the skin and not to stain the skin.

**Ben Greenfield** (0:26)
Okay, so explain. Welcome to the Boundless Life with me, your host, Ben Greenfield. I'm a personal trainer, exercise physiologist and nutritionist, and I'm passionate about helping you discover unparalleled levels of health, fitness, longevity and beyond.
In this episode, I'm giving you three easy, but little known steps for beautiful glowing skin. Did you know skin actually produces light? We'll find out about that in the episode, along with how to get rid of scars, cellulite, baggy eyes, the best of biohacking beauty with Amitay Eshel. Let's do this. Amitay Eshel is the guy I rely on to look eight years old because he is the engineer of beauty, right Amitay?

**Amitay Eshel** (1:23)
Something like that, yeah.

**Ben Greenfield** (1:26)
Yeah, so you've been on the podcast before, obviously. If any of you have heard of Young Goose, which is the, man, I don't like to use the word beauty care product because it sounds so not to gender appropriate, effeminate.
What word do men use?

**Amitay Eshel** (1:45)
I don't know. Skin biohacking for that matter, it's probably the most male dominant way to describe it.

**Ben Greenfield** (1:54)
What did you say? Skin biohacking?

**Amitay Eshel** (1:57)
I think skin biohacking is probably the most...

**Ben Greenfield** (2:02)
Doesn't really roll off the tongue like beauty does. I don't know. How about confidence? Because that's why I take care of my skin because I like to have confidence that I just don't look like the grandma from something about Mary or some other washed up cigarette smoking, you know, wrinkled, sun-damaged, you know, poser when I'm on a video or on stage. Like I actually like to... I like for my skin to look healthy because I... You probably agree with this. It kind of reflects what's going on underneath, right?

**Amitay Eshel** (2:35)
Yeah. And I think it's...
The more of a high performer you are, the more you're asking for from your body to perform day in, day out. There is... At some point it actually detracts from how your skin looks. You're kind of subverting resources somewhere else. So if you are a person that needs to show up, not only perform well, but also communicate that level of performance to lead others, et cetera, you end up needing to do something skin specific to make sure that your cells function optimally as well.

**Ben Greenfield** (3:17)
Yeah. Can you just look at somebody and I guess you could go as deep as you want on this and see their skin and kind of tell what might be going on biologically or physiologically deeper down.

**Amitay Eshel** (3:34)
So follow the money. There are actually startups that are... So first of all, there's data, there are studies showing that you could kind of guesstimate someone's biological age, not chronological, but biological age to a very high degree of accuracy by the way that they look. And there are actually startups that are looking, you know, AI, pattern recognition, photo recognition startups, looking at inferring, you know, different conditions or again, overall kind of well this biological age score off of how someone looks like.

**Ben Greenfield** (4:10)
Right. I'm assuming like we're getting more complex than just like you have eczema or you have leprosy. Like, it's actually going a little bit more deeper than that.

**Amitay Eshel** (4:22)
Yeah. Yeah. Definitely. It's not like, are you a leper? Yes or no. It definitely goes much, much deeper than that.
One of the craziest things that you can infer is mitochondrial function. For many different reasons, but mitochondria, part of that redox, yeah, part of that mitochondrial energy production is emitting a far infrared or generally infrared light. And since we can see the lower end spectrum of infrared light, we can see until about 810 nanometers depends on individual abilities, we can actually associate skin glow or what we call like skin luminescence and associated with mitochondrial function and vice versa. If someone's mitochondria is dysfunctional, we will interpret it as someone who looks pale, looks dim, etc.

**Ben Greenfield** (5:24)
Wait, so you're saying like when people use a word like glow or luminescence, that's not just like a figure of speech, like we actually are emitting white?