13 Ways to Look Younger Without Makeup or Surgery
1. Exercise
9 reasons exercise helps you look younger
- Exercise helps circulate more nutrients & oxygen to your skin to make you look more radiant → 8 Ways to Make Dull Skin Glow
- Exercise basically kick-starts the collagen production process of building younger skin which slows down as you get older.
- Exercise improves your posture making you look & feel younger.
- Exercise prevents free radical damage → 1 of the main things making you to look older.
- Exercise means less gray hairs because it reduces stress
- Exercise helps you sleep better. This means less dark circles & puffy eyes
- Exercise naturally boost HGH (or Human Growth Hormones) for free. No need to spend thousands on injections to look younger.
- Exercise maintains your muscle mass, gets rid of ugly body fat and prevents your skin from sagging
- Exercise literally turns back the clock. Exercise maintains the length of your telomeres which gets shorter as you age.
According to this study older people who exercised had telomeres that were about the same length as 20 year olds!
At the molecular level exercise has an anti-aging effect. Dr. Christian Werner
2. Lose Weight
Lose 10 lbs. & You'll look 10 years younger
Weight comes off from the top down. Since weight sheds in the face first, this means that losing even five pounds will make you look younger. Dr. Donna Casey
But don't lose too much weight because women should maintain a body fat percentage of at least 14% and men of at least 6% so your face can maintain the fullness from fat to maintain a youthful look → How to Lose Weight
3. Intermittent Fasting
- Intermittent fasting naturally increases your Human Growth Hormone which amps up the production of collagen for younger looking skin.
- Intermittent fasting induces autophagy and without getting overly scientific… Autophagy is basically where the cells in your body repair themselves to make a newer much healthier cell to prevent aging
4. Have More Sex
Having sex at least 3 times per week can make you look up to 10 years younger and according to Dr. David Weeks (the guy who did all the research on how sex can make you look younger…)
Having more sex is the next best thing you can do after exercise to look younger. Sex naturally releases growth hormones and sex is proven to help you live longer.
- 15 Foods to Increase Your Sex Drive
- This Exercise Gives Women More Orgasms
- Men → How to Last Longer in Bed
5. Kissing
Kissing makes you look younger by toning up more than 30 of your facial muscles.
6. Use Retinoid Creams
Retinoid creams help your body produce more collagen to look younger by getting rid of wrinkles, acne & age spots
- Use more potent prescription retinoid creams like Renova, Tazorac and Retin-A or,
- Use over-the-counter retinoid creams like DermaDoctor or Advanced Revitalift
Dermatologist Dr. Dover says any woman who looks TOO good for her age has been using retinoids → How to use retinoids to look younger
7. Stay Young With Antioxidants
Antioxidants battle the free radicals that speed up the aging process. When you get more antioxidants in your diet you'll slow down the aging process and reverse the effects of aging by eliminating wrinkles.
- Use antioxidant creams and/or 50 Foods High in Antioxidants
8. Exfoliate 1-to-3 Times a Week
When you exfoliate your skin you are basically removing all the old ugly dead skin cells (along with all the nasty oil, dirt & germs) to instantly reveal your younger looking face.
- Exfoliation boost collagen production. Once you remove all the dead skin cells exfoliating,
- Exfoliation makes it easier for your skin to absorb any moisturizer or any other skin treatments you use.
- Start to look much younger using exfoliation products containing antioxidants & retinoids
- Make sure the particles in your exfoliating scrub are smooth & tiny like St. Ives Elements Microdermabrasion and not so big & rough they may damage your skin.
9. Monthly Chemical Peels
A Chemical peel or microdermabrasion is an advanced form of exfoliation done by your dermatologist where the upper layer of skin is removed to stimulate more collagen production.
You'll look younger instantly after a Chemical peel. If you can't afford the monthly doctor visit then use an over-the-counter chemical peel like DermaNew
"In some ways, my skin is better now than it's ever been. I used to get more pimples, and my pores could look big. But through skin care, microdermabrasion, and possibly aging, my skin has gotten less oily and evened out a bit. Supermodel Cindy Crawford
10. 6-to-8 Hours of Sleep
Not getting enough sleep leads to puffy eyes and more stress which all causes you to look older.
When you sleep 6-to-8 hours each night your body produces more growth hormones to keep your skin supple & elastic preventing your skin form wrinkling prematurely.
Sleep is free cosmetic medicine, pure and simple, nothing exacerbates stress and etches in lines like exhaustion. Dr. Amy Wechsler
11. Get More Moisture
- Get more water or moisture into your skin to make it more smooth and radiant with a daily moisturizer like Dove Deep Moisture Facial Lotion
- You can also add more healthy fats, Phytoceramides and drink more water to moisturize your skin from the inside out.
Most anti-wrinkle products immediately make you look much younger simply by moisturizing your skin
I moisturize, moisturize, moisturize. No matter how late it is, when I get home, I take the time to clean and moisturize my face. I'm a big believer in that if you focus on good skin care, you really won't need a lot of makeup. 50 year old actress Demi Moore
12. Your Posture
Improving your posture will make you look more confident, look much thinner & many years younger → How to fix your posture
13. Get Whiter Teeth
- How to make your teeth whiter to look younger.
How to Stay Young Forever → 7 Anti-aging Tips
When I compare myself with women my age who haven't used sunscreen… It does seem like their skin took more of a beating 46 year old model Paulina Porizkova-Ocasek pictured above
1. Wear Sunscreen
Overexposing yourself to the sun without any protection will give you age spots, wrinkles, sagging skin and dark circles
What the sun does is fast-forward your aging clock Dr. Doris Day, M.D., clinical assistant professor of dermatology at New York University
See How to use sunscreen & make sure you wear a hat and sunglasses to protect yourself from the sun.
2. Stop Smoking
Sun exposure & smoking are the biggest age accelerators.
- Smoking makes your teeth & nails yellow and your skin wrinkly.
- Smoking prevents less blood and oxygen from getting to your skin. Most cases of premature aging in younger people is due to smoking.
- 18 Ways to STOP Smoking FOR GOOD in 2018
3. Don't use Tanning Beds
Tanning beds are just as bad as the sun for making you look older. Use a Self Tanner instead.
4. Don't eat TOO Much Sugar
Too much sugar in your diet leads to an age accelerating process in your body known as glycation.
Glycation does damage to the collagen in your skin making you lose skin elasticity causing wrinkles to appear.
5. Eat Right
Eat more healthy foods and avoid bad processed foods full of phosphates that accelerate aging by replacing the calcium in your body. Calcium controls the thickness and color of your skin.
According to Dr. Steven Dayan who is a facial plastic surgeon out of Chicago… There's evidence people who eat diets high in refined sugars get a dull, yellow cast to their skin.
6. Manage Stress
Stressing out all the time can lead to hair loss, brittle nails, dry skin and make acne worse. Cortisol released due to bad stress breaks down the skin cells leading to wrinkles → 100 Ways to Reduce Stress
7. Limit Alcohol
Too much Alcohol will dehydrate your skin making it dry and less elastic.
When I drink too much alcohol, go on a few hours of sleep, don't eat well, and don't sweat, I look five to ten years older Supermodel Brooke Shields
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