Beauty In Aging: Recent Episodes
Donna Mintz
I HATED MY SKIN!! Lines, wrinkles, sagging, crow’s feet, dark spots, dry and dull skin – I hated all of it!! I was angry and frustrated and felt taken advantage of by all the promises of beautiful younger looking skin by companies whose toxic concoctions just made my skin worse. (I know many of you have felt the same way.) When I researched “clean/green” companies I found many of them blatantly lying about the safety of their ingredients. I wasted so much time and money on products with false promises. (How much money have you wasted on products??) So, I decided to do it myself. I learned how the skin works and what it needs as it ages, I learned to formulate organic skincare and how to nourish the skin. I created a skincare company that specializes in anti-aging, whose ingredients all started as plants, are organic or wild-crafted and not only reduces the appearance of aging, but cares about, and nourishes, the health of your skin. I created this podcast as a place for me to do my best to educate you on all aspects of aging, because it’s so much more than what you put on your skin. I’ll use my background as a chef, holistic nutritionist, personal trainer, esthetician and skincare formulator to help us all age with grace, dignity and a whole lot of sass.
Lasting change takes patience and must be achieved at a slow and steady pace.
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We like to do what feels best in the moment, what’s easiest, what’s most pleasurable, and what everybody else is doing, and we want it NOW.
With the 80/20 method, you can indulge 20% of the time, as long as you’re making healthy choices that make you feel good 80% of the time.
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Setting small, achievable goals that are easier to reach on your way to your end game goal, give you proof that you are on you way to achieving it.
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Your brain responds to what’s going on in your body, and external stimuli from your environment. So, give it positive stimuli to create a healthy brain.
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We are all different. We have different DNA, genes, cultures, stress levels, body types, and metabolic function. We’ve all been eating different foods, moving in different ways, breathing different air, and having different thoughts. Some of us grew up in the country surrounded by grass and trees, some grew on farms, and others grew up in major cities. Some of us smoked, did drugs and drank. We all have different food allergies, sensitivities and intolerances. We have different likes and dislikes, attitudes toward certain things, and different perspectives. We have different religious beliefs and politics, habits, perspectives, goals, experiences and relationships.
All of these things create bodies that have different gut microbiomes and amounts of inflammation, oxidative stress. These differences cause our hormones act and react differently, make us break down and use food differently, given us high blood pressure, high cholesterol, heart disease, psoriasis, rosacea, autoimmune illness, insulin resistant, diabetic, overweight, underweight, tired, fatigued or energized.
And all of these things make you who you uniquely are.
So, in order to made lasting change, you need to play detective to find out what works for you.
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In order to make healthy changes, you need to believe you can - this is self-efficacy. It's not a quality that's set in stone, it's something you need to work on and build.
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When wanting to make change, setting goals is not enough. Knowing your BIG WHY - the actual why behind the goal - will help you get you where you want to go.
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Coconut sugar, organic cane sugar, honey, maple syrup. While sounding healthier than sugar, they are all used in the body the same way and will cause the same insulin spike as regular white sugar.
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Many of us believe that pain is a normal part of aging, but it's not, it can be detrimental to your health. Taking step to reduce inflammation is the key to avoiding and reducing chronic pain.
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When we think of gut health usually the last thing we think about is our brain health, but we need to start. They each have their own nervous system, and they talk to each other. Maybe we should start listening.
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The science of nutrigenomics has proven time and time again that the food we consume talks to our genes and our genes express themselves after the conversation by causing changes to our cells.
This in turn turns genes on and off, and directly affects the risk of common chronic diseases such as diabetes, heart disease, autoimmune disease and many types of cancer.
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Diets don't work, but there are things you can do that can.
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Yo-yo dieting has been shown to have a number of health consequences, including muscle loss, fatty liver and heart disease.
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Meditation helps you close out the unnecessary windows so you can focus on what’s essential. When you re-focus, you enjoy life more and perform at a higher level.
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Yes, processed, vegan "meat" can be a convenient alternative to meat for individuals who follow a vegetarian or vegan diet or who want to reduce their meat intake for health or environmental reasons. But these fake meats are made from processed genetically modified soy, wheat, or pea protein and may also contain added preservatives, flavorings, and salt that are extremely unhealthy.
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Aging is a natural process that we all go through, and it doesn't have to be negative. With the right mindset, lifestyle choices, and self-care practices, aging can be a fulfilling and enjoyable journey.
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Hormesis is a biological phenomenon where exposure to low levels of stressors or toxins have a beneficial effect on the body’s health and longevity.
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Glycation is a chemical reaction that occurs when sugar molecules in the bloodstream bind to proteins or fats without the involvement of enzymes. This process creates harmful molecules called advanced glycation end products (AGEs), that lead to many of the illnesses we associate with "normal" aging.
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Inflammaging is defined as an age-related increase in the level of inflammatory markers in the body’s blood and tissues. It is a strong risk factor for multiple diseases that are highly prevalent in the aging process.
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We have two types of fat in our bodies - subcutaneous fat and visceral fat. Find out which one is more unhealthy, and what to do about it.
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Environmental toxins are everywhere!! They're linked to many illnesses, so it's important to take steps to avoid them.
Check out our Toxins E-book to learn what to look for to avoid them.
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Diets don't work, and here is my 9 reasons why.
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We need to get moving!! It's essential to our health, wellness, and aging process.
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There are a handful of things that cause us to age faster than we normally would. Having movement in your day and making healthy lifestyle choices can help counteract them.
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There's a lot of really good marketing out there in the food industry, let's be smarter than they are. The food industry would like you to believe that these foods are healthy, but they're not.
50 happened and I was extremely uncomfortable in my own skin and the training I had just didn't work anymore. So, to lose the excess weight and feel better I went back to my nutrition roots and bio-individuality.
Addressing chronic inflammation is essential to living a long, healthy life.
Chronic inflammation is a type of inflammation that persists over a long period of time, often months or even years. Unfortunately, it’s not something we can see or feel, it is a slow burn that causes many illnesses and diseases.
There is no one equation that works for everyone when it comes to achieving a healthy body, but there are things you can do to help achieve it.
An allergy is hard and fast and can have serious life-threatening results – think a peanut allergy and anaphylaxis – this is caused by the immune system in response to a food.
A food sensitivity or an intolerance is usually triggered by the digestive system and causes much less serious symptoms and can take hours or even days to occur.
Any of these can lead to diarrhea, bloating, constipation, gas, nausea, abdominal discomfort, rashes, hives, swelling, acne, eczema, itchy skin, headaches, migraines, respiratory problems, joint pain, fatigue, tiredness, low thyroid, brain fog and mood swings, just to name a few.
It's extremely important to address any food issues so they don't turn into something more.
Food is complex information that the body uses to direct the multifaceted actions that keep us vibrantly alive and young, or not...
Meet the hormones cortisol, insulin, ghrelin and leptin.
Hormones work in synergy with each other for many process in the body. They deliver messages to organ and tissues. When imbalanced they can cause a whole host of health issues including insulin resistance, diabetes, and weight gain.
Don't jump on the bandwagon of the latest and greatest supplement.
Supplements are a powerful way of giving your body what it's lacking and should be respected as highly as any prescribed medication your doctor prescribes to you, and unfortunately, in many cases they aren’t.
If there was a pill that was scientifically proven to benefit your brain by increasing focus; reducing stress, anxiety, and depression; and improving memory, emotional awareness, and overall happiness, would you take it?
While there isn't a pill, there is something else you can do to keep your brain healthy.
Quick fixes are just that, quick fixes, but they are consequences to them that aren't worth the risk.
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Diets are short term fixes that do more harm than good.
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Your gut and your brain are always talking to each other and the food and lifestyle choices you make have a direct effect on them.
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Do you have a growth mindset or a fixed mindset? Once is helpful and one isn't.
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Stress is a normal human reaction to something that has happened in our lives. When we experience a negative emotion, our brain goes on high alert and prepares our body to enter fight-or-flight mode.
Small stressors are all around us, so when the fight-or-flight response gets turned on often, it leaves us worn down, sick, upset, overweight, stressed out, and just generally unhappy with our life situations.
If you’d like to lose weight, look great, feel good, and age healthy connect with me at donna@donnajskincare.com to see how we can work together to do just that.
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I have very strong opinions about the health benefits of juicing and smoothies.
If you’d like to lose weight, look great, feel good, and age healthy connect with me at donna@donnajskincare.com to see how we can work together to do just that.
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We're living longer, but not healthier. Here are some tips for a healthier health span.
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Zombie cells are old or damaged cells that have stopped dividing and replicating. When this happens, they need to be “cleaned out” of the body, this is done by a process called autophagy – it removes debris and repairs damaged cells.
There are a number of ways to do this, and one of them is to eat lots of antioxidants. To help you do that, I have a free cookbook for you. You can download it at www.donnajwellness.com.
Want to become an exceptional zombie killer, lose weight, look great, feel good, and age healthy? Reach out to me at donna@donnajskincare.com to see how I can help you do that.
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Great skin is so much more than what we put on it, it's also about what we put in our bodies.
This episode has all the steps you need for amazing skin to age healthy from the inside and the outside.
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If you’d like to lose weight, look great, feel good, and age healthy connect with me at donna@donnajskincare.com to see how we can work together to do just that.
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Movement is so important for everything that helps you age healthy. Not only does it improve cardiovascular health, weight loss, and lower the risk of type 2 diabetes.
To learn how I can help you fit movement into your life, lose weight, look great, feel good, and age healthy connect with me at donna@donnajskincare.com.
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Preventing the loss of muscle mass as we age because this is essential to keeping our lifespan a thriving one.
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When I speak of a healthy gut, I’m usually always talking about keeping it healthy with food, but there are many tools that we can implement into our lives that will help keep your gut healthy.
If you’d like to lose weight, look great, feel good, and age healthy connect with me at donna@donnajskincare.com to see how we can work together to do just that.
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Meditation is not about stopping thinking, for 20 minutes, this is pretty much impossible to do.
Meditation is not worrying about your mind wandering or getting frustrated because it’s wandering or beating yourself up because you didn’t do it right. It’s the moments in between, when you focused on your breathing – that’s where meditation happens.
The term stems cells conjure up ideas of some rare type of cell with mystical powers, and in a way, that’s exactly what they are. They are special human cells that can replace damaged, old, dying, and even aging cells and it's important to activate them for healthy aging
This blew me away!! Yup, the labels on, well, anything that has a label, can legally be 20% off!!
Research shows over and over that dairy products have no benefit for bone health and dairy products and calcium don’t prevent fractures and the worst part of this is that these same studies show when that societies that consumed the most dairy, had the most fractures.
When was the last time you reached for an artificial sweetener believing you were doing something good for your body?
All the things that are happening that we’re blaming on aging, aren’t necessarily happening because we’re aging, they’re happening because we, in our minds, accept all the things that society has put on us about aging.
We’ve been on autopilot for way too long, feeding our bodies, not nourishing them, and allowing ourselves to feel like crap without any thought to the fact that what we’re actually doing is slowly and painfully killing ourselves.
Paying attention to, and nourishing, your gut bacteria is one of the most important parts of keeping your immune system strong, your body functioning well and the needle of your biological age moving backward instead of forward.
Research on Leaky Gut Syndrome has been linked to the following symptoms and conditions:
ALS, allergies and food sensitivities, Alzheimer’s disease, anxiety and depression, ADHD, autism, bloating, candida and yeast overgrowth, celiac disease and non-celiac gluten sensitivity, chronic fatigue syndrome, Crohn’s disease, digestive pain, fibromyalgia, gas, Hashimoto’s disease, irritable bowel syndrome, lupus, metabolic syndrome, migraine headaches, multiple sclerosis, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and other liver malfunction, Parkinson’s disease, PCOS, restless leg syndrome, rheumatoid arthritis, type 1 diabetes, type 2 diabetes, and skin inflammation (eczema, psoriasis, rosacea dermatitis and acne.)
'Nuf said...
When you do intermittent fasting you will automatically consume fewer calories.
Studies that have looked at the impact of calorie restriction have found that limiting calories enhances so many different things in the body:
· It helps the cells remove more waste that would normally cause cell damage.
· It has a positive effect on the genes that promote longevity and prevent disease
· Decreases inflammation in the body
· Prevents free radical damage
· Lowers the risk of heart disease, diabetes, and cancer
· Helps you lose weight
We have many different circadian rhythms in the body, but the sleep-wake cycle is one of the most clear and critical of circadian rhythms and is directly linked to your longevity and health span.
Inflammation is healthy, it keeps us alive, until it's not healthy...
Over time, chronic inflammation has a negative impact on your DNA, cells, tissues and organs. It can turn on genes that cause those aches, pains, and illnesses that we accept as a normal part of aging.
I talk about your "gut" often thinking everyone knows what I mean, but recently it has been brought to my attention that not everyone knows what I mean, so I'm clarifying this so you do.
Nutrition is confusing!
First, we were told to eat fat-free; then count calories, fat, and carbs; then we were supposed to read food labels and then listen to our doctors.
And none of this made use healthy or thin.
Bio-individuality means that we are all different and one size does not fit all.
We all have different DNA, genes, muscle mass, different levels of stress, different gut flora, etc., and making choices based on your bio-individuality will help you age healthy.
Every year in the US, more than 4 billion prescriptions are dispensed with the average 60-year-old taking 5 or more medications daily, and they all come with side effects.
We're making some changes here at Donna J.
We're leaning hard into the anti-aging and longevity aspects of wellness because I plan on living to the ripe old age of 107 and need healthy, cool people to hang out with.
We've come to accept those aches, pains and illnesses that we get after 50 as "normal" aging, and they're not, they're warning signs that you need to make lifestyle changes.
Gluten, found in wheat products are unhealthy for some people, but changing to a gluten-free diet can be difficult.
Yes, there are toxins in the ingredients we put on our bodies every day, and they are making us sick!
Many of these ingredients are known to affect our nervous system, brain, reproductive system, hormones, cells, DNA, and even cause cancer.
I believe we should have all the information we need in order to make an educated decision on what we put on our bodies, so I created our Toxins Bundle.
This is all the information you need to make that educated decision.
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Microbiome, flora, whatever fancy name you call it, it's still bacteria and the health of this bacteria is essential to having glowing skin.
Large skincare companies would have you believe that the only way to have amazing, younger looking skin is to use their products, but that is absolutely NOT true, there is more to it.
The skin is a reflection of your gut bacteria so it's really important to keep it healthy.
Chewing your food is the only thing you have control over when it comes to the digestion process. This process directly affects the health of your skin.
There are a whole slew of medications that affect the bodies nutrients in a negative way, let's talk about them.
Did you know you should combine foods so that nourish your skin?
Neither did I!! But when I found out, I knew I needed to share!
That puffy, bloated look isn't a good luck for anyone, but with our 3-pronged approach, you can alleviate the bloat
Eczema can be uncomfortable, but our 3-pronged approach will help alleviate the uncomfort.
Our 3-pronged approach to skincare will help you alleviate sagging and support collagen
Dry skin can feel tight and uncomfortable but with our 3-pronged approach, you'll never have to feel uncomfortable again.
If you have dull skin, you don't have to.
Learn the 3-pronged approach to addressing your dull skin
People with oily skin tend to over-cleanse and over-exfoliate neither is good. Find out how to address oily skin with our 3-pronged approach.
We all want our skin to stay young and glowing so, here are my best tips for that.
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Cleansing your skin the wrong way is causing damage and aging you.
Find out the correct way to cleanse skin to keep it looking young and beautiful
The appearance of your skin is far from the effect of what your put on it,
It’s the result of many complex and highly regulated interactions that take place in the body. It’s affected by everything from your genetics to your microbiome and its relationship with every system in your body.
Listen to find out how to have amazing skin.
Are the oils you're cooking your food in aging you?
Find out what to do to have great skin.
Inflammation is good and bad, find out how you can control it and in turn your aging skin.
**Heads up, this episode gets a little sciencey.
You aren't destined to have your mothers/fathers health issues, you can change your fate. Find out how.
Our ingredients are pressed from the seeds of foods eaten everyday all around the world. This is a sneak peek into some of them.
Our skin does not work in a vacuum, it works with many other systems of the body and these systems need exercise to function.
When we mention the word "microbiome", we think of our gut microbiome but we also have a skin microbiome as well.
Everything you need to know about the differences between mineral sunscreen and chemical sunscreen to make an educated decision.
Since I recorded this episode Johnson & Johnson has recalled 5 or its 6 spray sunscreens from their Neutrogena and Aveeno lines (these companies are supposed to be their healthier lines, let's rethink that) due to beneze that has been found to cause cancer
Your skin is the mirror to your internal health and all health and un-health begins in the gut.
Our bodies are made up of trillions of bacteria, so many they outnumber our cells, and we need both the good and the bad and they both play a direct role in skin health
Have you jumped on the alternative milk bandwagon? Find out why you should get off of it!
Do you have a question? I may have answered it, if not, join us in our Facebook Group Getting Under Your Skin.
Spot training is the idea that you can lose weight or muscle definition in one specific area of your body, but this can't actually be done. Find out why and what you should be doing to loose weight.
I'll be you didn't know there's a problem with essential oils.
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Phenoxyethanol is a preservative used by "green" companies as a replacement to parabens, but it's just as bad.
Phenoxyethanol may be found in your ingredient list under the following names:
Fragrance
Parfum
Optiphen
Rose either 2-phenoxy-ethanol
2-hydroxyethyl phenyl ether
Ethylene glycol monophenyl ether
Phoxytol
Glycol ether
Do you have dry skin or dehydrated skin?
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It's Spring!! Summer is just around the corner and I want you to take really good care of your skin.
Knowing your skin type is the first step in knowing how to nourish your skin.
I'll explain how to determine your skin type and how to take care of your skin.
Your towel is just as much a beauty tool as your makeup brushes.
Here's my to 5 tips to using them the right way
A bit sciency but important to know because you can damage your skin without realizing it.
Makeup doesn't last forever and cosmetic companies aren't legally required to put expiration dates on products.
I've given you some guidelines to following and a tip to keep bacteria off your skin and keep it young, healthy and vibrant.
Meet your host, Donna Mintz, CEO and head formulator of Donna J Skincare. She'll explain why she started a skincare company and how she can help you age with grace, dignity and a whole lot of sass.