Gary Brecka and a co-host identify three habits that speed up skin aging: poor sleep that disrupts growth hormone and skin repair, chronic stress and elevated cortisol, and overextending yourself across multiple roles. Internal optimization beats external fixes.
What are some of the lifestyle choices that people are doing every day that are accelerating their skin age?
In the world we work in, I think the key things that we see is poor sleep, sleep hygiene, disturbed sleep, not getting into deep sleep. That's causing accelerated aging. You say it all the time, your body repairs itself at night. Growth hormone is produced at night, happy hormone is produced at night, and the skin microbiome is repaired at night. Then we've got cortisol, we've got stresses. We have more stresses now than we've ever had. Right now we're all living multi-hyphenate lives. We've got multiple roles. Our bodies weren't designed in that manner. So we're both burning the candle at both ends. We've both got multiple businesses and multiple roles. We're pushing our body to a limit that we've never pushed it, i.e., the ultimate human, right?
Right.
If our body hasn't caught up with what we're supposed to be doing, then physiologically we have to look at you on the inside and optimize that.
