Inflammation-Aging Connection Theory: Nicholas Perricone, MD, FACN, has years of research have shown that the inflammation-aging connection is the single greatest cause of aging and age-related diseases such as heart disease, diabetes, Alzheimer’s disease, arthritis, certain forms of cancer, diminished mental and physical energy, the loss of muscle mass and wrinkled, sagging skin.
HGH supplementation is not a stand alone process. To help curtail the effects of aging it’s important to recognize that what we eat can have a tremendous impact on our aging.
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This inflammation may be caused by:
- Eating a pro-inflammatory diet (i.e., high glycemic carbohydrates)
- Environmental stressors
- Weakened immune system
- Excess exposure to ultraviolet light
- Hormonal changes
- Stress
This sub-clinical inflammation goes on day after day, year in and year out, leading to disease states as well as the disease of aging. In fact, aging is a chronic, uniformly progressive, inflammatory disease that is always fatal.
Our food choices are critical when it comes to causing and controlling inflammation. This is good to know because it actually means we are in control of the situation! This is the key to health, longevity, mental clarity, well-being and beautiful youthful skin. Foods that are pro-inflammatory, such as all forms of sugar, processed foods, pasta, breads, pastry, baked goods, and snack foods such as rice and corn cakes, chips, pretzels, etc., cause a highly destructive pro-inflammatory response in our bodies. If we choose sugary or starchy foods, we trigger this pro-inflammatory release of sugar into our bloodstream, which causes our body to store fat rather than burn it for energy.
The result? Acceleration of the aging process of all organ systems in our body, including the skin, causing an increased risk of degenerative disease and inflexible, wrinkled, sagging skin. In addition, by eating that muffin or couple of cookies, the resulting insulin response triggers our appetite—causing us to crave more and more of these types of carbohydrates, resulting in a vicious cycle of overeating.
After indulging in the wrong types of carbohydrates, in a matter of hours your “feel-good” brain chemical, serotonin, will drop dramatically. These pro-inflammatory sugary, starchy foods will not only cause weight gain, wrinkles and fatigue—they will put you in a bad mood! And if you are suffering from PMS you can be assured that these foods will magnify all the symptoms one hundred fold.
That is the bad news! Now for the good news:
Fortunately we can control inflammation in our bodies. It starts with the very foods we eat. All we have to do is avoid foods that provoke a “glycemic” response in the body, i.e. cause a rapid rise in blood sugar.
Avoid: Pro-Inflammatory Foods
Stay away from pro-inflammatory foods, which accelerate the aging process. A simple rule of thumb is to consider the following: If it contains flour, and/or sugar or other sweetener, it will be pro-inflammatory. Sugary, starchy foods are poor choices and will not only pack on excess pounds, they will make you look older than your years.
Bagels Breads, rolls, baked goods Candy Cake Cookies Cereals (except old fashioned oatmeal) Cornstarch Corn bread, corn muffins Corn syrup Crackers Croissants Doughnuts Egg rolls Fast food French Fries Fruit juice—choose the fruit instead Fried foods Flour Granola Hard cheese (except for feta and grating cheeses, such as Romano and Parmesan) Honey Hot dogs Ice cream, frozen yogurt, Italian ices Jams, jellies and preserves Margarine Molasses Muffins Noodles Pancakes Pastry Pie Pita bread Pizza Pasta Popcorn Potatoes Pudding Relish Rice Sherbet Shortening Snack foods, including: potato chips, pretzels, corn chips, rice and corn cakes, etc. Soda Sugar Tacos Tortillas Waffles
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