CAN BEING A VEGETARIAN AGE YOU?

by mary schook
Once upon a time I was supposed to come out with an amazing anti-aging product that had to do a lot with body's own collagen production. Due to legal issues with the manufacturer (who mistakenly thought they were the retailer) it never came to market....yet.

OUR BODIES DON'T ABSORB EVERYTHING
I learned through the process more about how the body absorbs nutrients and what doesn't make it past stomach acid (hydrochloric acid). For instance most probiotics never make it past the stomach because the acid burns it right up. I already talked about that in a past Tuesday tip.

AMINO ACIDS: THE BUILDING BLOCKS
Our bodies need something called amino acids. You can read more about amino acids HERE. Amino acids are not generally produced by our bodies and they are also not stored by our bodies, thus we need to consume them through our foods on a daily basis. They are an essential component to anti-aging.

CARNIVORE VS HERBIVORE
Now the controversy begins with carnivore vs herbivore. In my observations of thousands of people, those who eat solely a vegetarian diet happen to age faster. Those that eat a very small amount of organic meat and a high plant-based diet including essential fatty acids have amazingly bouncy skin versus thin skin.

Hear me out here. I only observe faster aging in those that CONVERT to vegetarianism. I find that this can happen for a few reasons:

TOO MANY CARBS
The first is because many vegetarians are just avoiding meat and end up substituting with a lot of simple carbs, breads and more. This increases the risk of diabetes and aging because something called glycation happens. The sugars break down proteins in the body. Those proteins are essential in cellular function. Your cell loses function, it slows and dies a.k.a. aging.

INCOMPLETE DIET
The second is most people who switch to a plant-based diet do not get all of the complex amino acids. Amino acids are the repair and the function of the body. You have to be a very good vegetarian to truly get all of the essential building blocks and I just can't say I really know that many people who are that great about their diets.

ABSORPTION
The third reason is a theory, but is backed by some science. I find that bodies that have been introduced to meat at some point in the early years are used to complex amino acids you can really only find in meat. Even if you don't agree with that theory, science says that since meat is not actually digested, but rots in the system into complex amino acids that are absorbed into the bloodstream. Where meat becomes a problem is though how it is prepared, antibiotics, improper food combining (starches and dairy should not go with meat) and Americans just eat way too darn much of it!!!

CARNIVORES HAVE CRAPPY, HIGH-RISK DIETS
Carnivores can have really poor diets too. After seeing the documentary Vegucated I just really didn't want to eat meat again, BUT when I tried going organic and then vegetarian for a friend, but my skin went drier because I depend on my fish for dewy skin and the elasticity just wasn't the same. I gave it about four months and had to go back to having some organic meat on occasion. My skin is much happier for it.

FINAL THOUGHTS
I used to find that vegetarians usually have better skin because they are not exposed to the hormones that you get from meat and dairy. I can't say that now. I have a couple of vegan restaurants around me and many of those adults have severe acne. I suspect it's from all of the soy. Soy can really play with endocrine system, which controls our hormones. That is an entirely different Tuesday Tip.

No matter what you choose just make sure you eat whole, living foods. Our bodies are dying from the processed crap! Try to know a little more about where your food comes from. This pink slime broadcast is enough to hopefully turn anyone off of industrial meat!!!!

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ADDITIONAL TEXT UPDATE AS OF 1/23/13

A client of mine just came in with a medical article about the connection between collagen and the amino acid glycine (www.wrightnewsletter.com). According to the article glycine is essential in collagen production and if the amount of glycine does not meet the amount of needs from collagen production then the skin gets visibly thinner. Glycine makes up one-third of that #1 protein.

According to the institute of plant biology it is rare in plants to find glycine.

ReferenceC. Ringlia, B. Kellera,* and U. Ryserb
a Institute of Plant Biology, University of Zürich, Zollikerstrasse 109, 8008 Zürich (Switzerland), Fax: +41 1 634 8204, e-mail: bkeller@botinst.unizh.ch b Institute of Plant Biology, University of Freiburg, A. Gockelstrasse 3, 1700 Freiburg (Switzerland)


If you google glycine rich foods or plants with glycine you're going to mostly find it in animal sources and soy is mostly genetically modified and has loads of endocrine disruptors.


Looks like I'm going to have to redo this entire entry later now that I found the key to the data I was looking for.