drops like a rock. By age 70, we synthesize only about 10 percent to 20 percent of our youthful levels of DHEA. Optimal levels are associated with protection against cardiovascular disease and cancer, decreased risk of osteoporosis, healthier bones and immune system, better memory, and better sexual function. DHEA also increases the production of collagen, making your skin appear smoother and younger looking.
Estrogen. Produced by the ovaries, estrogen is our chief female hormone. It plays an important role in postponing age-related diseases, such as heart disease and osteoporosis. As estrogen dips, less collagen and elastin (the skin-firming proteins) are produced, and wrinkles set in. Estrogen also helps skin stay moist by boosting hyaluronic acid. Simple dietary changes can also help support youthful estrogen levels. For example: Eating vegetables like broccoli and Brussels sprouts —they contain indols, compounds that are essential to healthy estrogen balance.
There's lot information to suggest that repletion of these hormones and others to more youthful levels can postpone, even reverse, many signs of aging – and I give you that info in The Hormone Fix so you can look and feel better and younger. In this breakthrough new book, you’ll learn so many strategies for turning back the clock.
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Eat Keto-Green. When you follow my exclusive Keto-Green Diet – a combination of eating keto and going alkaline, you’ll discover a true “fountain of youth.” It avoids high-sugar foods and carbs in favor of healthy proteins, good fats, and alkalizing veggies – all of which put your master hormones – insulin, cortisol, and oxytocin in youth-sustaining balance. Because it also supplies adequate protein, the diet helps boost growth hormone, another rejuvenating hormone.
Drink Bone Broth. In The Hormone Fix, you’ll learn how to make bone (or vegetable) broth. It is alkalinizing, full of hormone-balancing minerals, and supportive of youth hormones and overall health. Consuming this amazing broth is a miracle worker for skin because it contains healing proteins such as collagen, proline, and glycine – thereby keeping your skin supple, resilient, smooth, and taut. This broth also helps with digestion, joint function, immunity, skin and virtually every other function in the body.
Substitute Unhealthy Carbs for Healthy Fats. The “right” fats help with hormone balance, keep you feeling energetic, and support youth hormone production. For a long time we’ve been told to be wary of fat, and thus we slashed fat in favor of carbs. I believe this unfortunate low-fat movement contributed to the hormonal challenges we women face today. While following my Keto-Green Diet, healthy fats to eat are avocados, egg yolks, homemade mayo, Hollandaise sauce, nuts, olives, olive oil, coconut oil, MCT oil, grass-fed butter or ghee (on vegetables and meat and in soups) and homemade salad dressings.