The #1 Anti-aging Hack

there is a hidden reason why people are aging a lot faster than they should be and this is really important and unfortunately a lot of people are not concerned about aging until they start to age at any age you need to know this if we have too much iron we do not live as long and it's related to iron deficiency anemia if most of us are deficient in iron and we get it in the diet obviously that should improve it to some degree right on the flip side we're accumulating more and more iron there's an

incredible paper by professor Bruce Ames I'm going to put it down below which talks about some research that he did in identifying old tissue versus younger tissue as it relates to iron well we have all sorts of amazing systems in the body to protect us against iron iron rusts out our organs if you took something called hydrogen peroxide you probably have it in your medicine chest you take hydrogen peroxide and put it in an open wound and you see it bubbling up and it kills bacteria just think about adding hydrogen oxide to iron it's going

to be severely reactive that creates a lot of damage within your cells the DNA of the cells the membrane the mitochondria I'm not drinking hydrogen peroxide so how would that be a problem your body makes hydrogen peroxide not to mention our immune system uses hydrogen peroxide to kill microbes but if that system breaks down all hell breaks loose I think what happens with these anemic kids they have something called dysfunctional iron where iron is locked up to the point where it's not available to the red blood cell so they become anemic yet at the same

time they might have too much here we are adding all this iron to the food supply and we're wondering why it doesn't work it may be even making things worse too much iron will really put you at risk for Alzheimer's Parkinson's cancer heart disease because iron can create a lot of oxidative stress too much oxidation without having the buffer which is the antioxidant networks you can get antioxidants from food and supplements but your body makes antioxidants in fact that's way more important than the antioxidants from the food a lot of people also have chronic infection

they get inflammation and then on top of everything the fact that we are getting older and we're aging means that we're going to naturally accumulate more iron 70% of all your iron is stored in protein in your blood that helps you carry oxygen the hemoglobin storage you can pretty much look at that as a a very large bowl okay that stores iron and then you have fertin which is like a teacup like 10% and fertin is supposed to be inside your tissue where it can protect you against this free Iron and control when it's released

when you see high levels of fertin in the blood recycling your red blood cells every 120 days and it's creating new red blood cells and so you have this incredibly efficient recycling system it's recycling iron and you have all these different mechanisms and proteins and involved in transporting iron protecting iron because iron can be very reactive and the other problem is your body doesn't want to have too much free Iron because certain pathogens microbes can eat iron infections love the iron and they will steal iron for their fuel our bodies don't want that so we

tend to hold this iron and keep it in a safe place and what can happen because of this dysfunctional iron is your poor red blood cells can't get the iron yet we have way too much iron in the tissue and unfortunately iron increases the growth of cancer and then there's also a lot of people that when they donate blood man do they feel better well that would be a perfect indication that you have too much iron if you don't fix the underlying cause you just gave a temporary solution what is the underlying cause there's some

fascinating information that talks about copper copper is a very very important Trace mineral if you have too much iron and N enough copper this is a big problem but before you start taking copper I recommend you start to limit the amount of iron you're exposed to I would never take any supplement with iron at all this is in the flower products it's in the grain products it's in a lot of refined carbohydrates what foods are high in Copper shellfish organ Meats like beef liver if you don't eat those Foods sunflower seeds do have a good

amount of copper even dark chocolate has some copper just make sure you don't get the chocolate with a lot of sugar how do we make sure our bodies are producing enough antioxidants to counter some some of this oxidative stress to illustrate this I want to explain a personal thing that happened to me recently there's a very in-depth test that you can do on your body it's called a metabolomic test I was doing this test like very frequently like once every two weeks and what was really interesting about this it kept showing high levels of oxidative

stress I'm like that's weird upon looking at this deeper I realized what it was I was exercising like crazy and exercise produces a tremendous amount of oxid of stress as well as hydrogen peroxide what I personally needed to do to counter that is to build up my antioxidant reserve and to do that I needed more glutamine which is an amino acid you can get the most glutamine from red meat and then I R tested myself and it was much much better the point was there's all sorts of things that can increase the need for more

antioxidant help alcohol smoking pollution junk Foods when we think about antioxidants I always thinking about like vitamin C and vitamin E which are really important and you should definitely get those in your diet but with your own antioxidant networks protein is probably the most important thing this is why it's so important to consume enough protein as you get older and this is one reason why I don't encourage people to be vegans because it's very difficult to get the quality protein I have a really good friend who is a foot surgeon and she told me every

time she does surgery she notices the muscles just are not pink they're not red they're kind of gray and that's probably anemia the problem with vegans is they have to take an iron supplement and they're not getting this heem iron and heem iron only comes from animal products like meat and I'm not saying not to be a vegan or vegetarian I'm just saying it's difficult there are other things that help build up your antioxidants too now I already mentioned copper but zinc and manganese these are trace minerals that can come from shellfish Seafood things like

that magnesium and selenium which is another Trace mineral what are some other things you can do to get this iron out of your tissues that go beyond avoiding iron and building up your internal antioxidant networks one is coratin one of the best sources of coratin is onions curcumin from turmeric is a good one too increasing your melatonin can be very very therapeutic I have a whole video on this I'll put the link down below one of the best sources of melatonin is infrared over 50% of the Rays of the sun is infrared infrared increases melatonin

and melatonin can help you regulate iron also anything with tannins like black tea would be great but the most powerful key later for iron is called lacto ferin you can get it when you consume raw milk or raw milk cheese because it's in Dairy that can help you decrease iron in your cells you can also get it as a supplement as well the next time you get your blood test make sure they include fertin you want that number as low to zero as possible I hope I put this on your radar enough for you to

really do these action steps that I mentioned so thanks for watching and I will see you in the next video