Keto has made me younger

#1

So something cool happen tonight that I just had to come and share.

I’ve often shared on here before how miraculous the Keto diet and fasting has been for me and my health, as well as making me look 10-years younger than I am. Well tonight we went out to eat, which is a rare thing for us these days. It was a steakhouse and while I ordered only steak, shrimp, and salad, I did order a Michelob Ultra because I hadn’t had a beer in almost three years, and I read it’s one of the lowest carb beers. I got one for my 26 year old son too. The waitress carded us both!! I’m 59!! I feel like my lips alone prove I’m old since they lost all their fullness in recent years. :rofl: So I thought she was joking. She stood there deadpan and waited for me to give her my license.

Neither my husband nor my son looked surprised or acted like it was an odd request. They both said that in lower lighting I could easily pass for someone a lot younger. But still, under 21?? That’s a stretch. Mayyyyybe someone in my upper 30s if the lights were almost off? :rofl::rofl:

Anyway, it felt pretty good and I wanted to come here and share so those new to the diet can see there’s another benefit beyond weight loss and improved health. I did look like I was in my mid to late 60s up to 2-1/2 years ago. I looked wretched. But today I could easily pass for late 40s and am wrinkle free. Obviously losing weight is going to make any of us look younger, but a low carb diet with occasional extended fasting helps the skin too. I do also drink collagen peptides every single day. I guess that’s the magical trifecta.

Anywayzzz, little moments like tonight feel so good.

#2

Congrats! Most people put me around 35 or so, which I’ll take because I’m about to turn 44 next month, but I’m thinking you’re at the freak level that my wife is, she’s 40 and people think she’s in her late 20’s, she’s been working for the same company for 8yrs now, but last year moved to a different location and after a couple of months she was allowed to get an assistant and people were like “How’d you get an assistant”? What are you, a couple of years out of college? That made her day!

Collagens great, for joints as well, you think that’s a crazy Peptide, look into GHK-Cu! Basically the skin effects of Growth Hormone, but doesn’t bankrupt you.

(Geoffrey) #3

Congratulations. It’s a good feeling.

I’m 68 and get carded all the time but it ain’t because I look young it’s just the stores’ policy. :rofl:

On a side note though people are surprised when they find out I’m 68.

#4

That’s great to hear!

Recently, my dentist thought I was super young too. Haha. :smile:

#5

WHAT.
Even if you look young, very very young adults are still different! :smiley: You are something special, never heard about this! You must have multiple things going right regarding looks, brilliant!

Wow. We lost this in our 20s, well once someone thought I am around 20 when I was 35 (it was one person, I doubt I looked that young but I always looked younger than my age…) but nothing since then, my SO and I got wrinkles in our 40s…
And if I will ever lose fat, I will have even more wrinkles. Oh well. I won’t complain. And my lips never were full to begin with. You must have good genetics regarding looks! Of course, lifestyle matters a lot too.

That’s it, we order some again… :smiley: It was the plan anyway, we only did one “session” (one bag for both of us until it run out, it was too short so not much could have been expected) before.

Actually, not necessarily. My SO’s Mom had no wrinkles on her face because it was fuller… My aesthetics genetics aren’t so great, I manage to be fat and wrinkly… And my head has fat too, it’s visible, still. Thankfully my health genetics are pretty good so I really don’t complain, I like to be healthy and not having a doctor :slight_smile:

Yeah, that is in my plans too, I hope I can back doing them soon, I really should push things I KNOW good for me a bit more already.

Congrats!!! Wow, again.

(Robin) #6

The magic words… collagen peptides.
Tho, I haven’t been carded in ages.

(Marianne) #7

I’ve never heard of this. Is it a topical or do you consume it? Can you recommend a brand?

#8

It’s either a topical or injected. Topical can be good for face, injecting it does everywhere. Can also reduce scars, tighten skin, smooth lines and wrinkles, can even reverse gray hairs to a point. For topical, there’s some on Amazon, if it’s cheap, it’s fake typically.

You can also get it as a raw powder to mix into other moisturizers or serums you already have. Last time I did that I bought this one, since Peptide Sciences is very well trusted in the Peptide world.

https://www.peptidesciences.com/ghk-ghk-cu-200mg-topical

Seems pricey, but that’s a lot of it, mostly when I use it I inject it, way cheaper and then it works systemically, but that’s not for everybody clearly.

(KM) #9

Yow. $200 for 200 mg? Isn’t that, like, less than an eighth of a teaspoon? Need some serious magic for that price!!!

#10

Also true GHK-Cu is blue. I see a lot of topical serums claiming to be it that are clear. They aren’t using the proper peptide or it is too diluted. It should be blue.

I never thought of that helping my skin much, but I guess it does! I do have a GHK-Cu serum I use around my eyes. It’s blue. I have used it for about three years. I can’t credit it with losing the wrinkles on the rest of my face but maybe it has helped with my eyes.

I use this one:
https://a.co/d/afVi5Ev

Since I only use it on my eyes one bottle lasts me about four months, I use subscribe and save and get it for $28, so that is about $7/mo.

#11

That is wonderful. I am experiencing the opposite. Until a few years ago people thought I was in my late thirties, then late forties. Now people are not surprised at my age (late 50s early 60s). Part of that is that since I have lost weigh, wrinkles do show more. Especially that channel area on my neck which I never had before 5 years ago.

Having said that, I am always surprised at people’s ages. I would say 1 out of 100 looks significantly younger. There was a 64 year old that I met at a convention that I really thought late 30s. Most people it is the other way. I was in a store a few years ago and the cashier mentioned the movie “Carrie” and said I was probably too young to have seen it (came out in early 70s). I thought he was mid 60s, turns out he is a year younger than me

I think there is a genetic element. Two of my kids (one mid twenties, the other late teens) keep getting mistaken for much younger. My younger one who was 18 at the time when we went to renew her passport was asked why her father did not come as well. When I said she was 18 the clerk looked embarrassed. If you are under 16 both parents have to come or sign something. The funniest is my older one. He really does look like a high school freshman even in his mid twenties. When he went to buy himself beer they would charge him $15 which was expensive for the beer but he assumed it was the area. They never asked him for ID but he did not think about it since he was well over 21. One day his friend buys the beer and was only charged $10. They had assumed he was buying it illegally and they were charging him a premium

My father also always looked much younger. The number of times people assumed we were married is ridiculous. He no longer does but still looks ok for his age. My mother always looked her age until about 10-15 years ago. Now she looks (and acts) about 15 years younger. She is very active every day. Always has been but has not let up

(Manda) #12

It’s likely that it’s their policy to card everyone. I don’t doubt you look fantastic for your age, but I’ve never in my life seen someone almost 60 be taken for under 21.

#13

Me neither. :rofl: And I don’t wear any makeup at all except mascara. LOL. It’s not like I was trying to cover up my age. Maybe it is my genes like Shinta was saying. But … I def don’t look under 21 at all. I can see maybe 20 years younger than my age, that’s possible, but no younger than that. Still the girl carding me genuinely was confused. And we had been to this restaurant on Father’s Day. I had ordered my other son his beer when he was in the bathroom and they didn’t card me then. :woman_shrugging:t3:

(KM) #14

I have occasionally been mistaken for someone much younger - mostly when I was still a bit chubby and not with my thinner keto-face. I think it had something to do with the particular person seeing me at a certain angle, in a certain light, or having a preconceived notion about me. Nonetheless, it’s awesome when it happens! :rofl:

(Marianne) #15

Thank you!

Sign me up!

(Marianne) #16

Yes, me, too. I think I look young for my age (maybe in part to my persona?), but when I lost so much weight, my face “fell.” Also contributed that I had lost and gained weight so many times that my skin was already stretched to some degree.

(KM) #17

When I was in my early 40s i hired a couple of college kids to help me move boxes of paperwork. One of them was being kind of a sex pest until he got a look at the files sticking up for my old tax records from the late 70’s early 80’s. He asked why I had my parents tax documents and I said oh, no, they’re mine. His face dropped to the floor and he said, “OMG, how old Are you?” End of sex pest. He looked like he’d almost accidentally eaten a spider, but I had a good laugh over that one! Fool.

(Brian) #18

Congrats on the compliments of looking younger! It is nice to feel that when it happens… though I kinda think carding is a requirement, not an option for most servers so even if you look 128 years old, they still gotta. :wink:

I have noticed that there is quite a remarkable appearance of youth that happens in some people, some in the keto and some in the carnivore community. (It would be inappropriate for me to elaborate with any detail.)

We’re the same age. I only wish I’d been able to ditch the vegan / vegetarian lifestyle a few decades earlier. Damage was done, some of which isn’t reversible. (Can’t grow a new set of choppers. :frowning: ) But I did have a remarkable transformation after making the change about 7 years ago. I could do an awful lot of stuff that I was just too fat and unhealthy to do after so many decades of vegan / vegetarian abuse. Oh if there were a reset button… (and not just for health stuff)…

#19

Yes was in a chain drugstore about 10 years ago. There was a woman there with her 10 year old. She looked about 40. Was trying to buy cigarettes and did not have ID. I might have considered helping if it was anything else other than cigarettes but I thought the policy was ridiculous. I asked the cashier if my grandmother in her wheel chair was trying to buy them would you still card and she said yes

#20

I had not thought about facial skin stretching, another thing to worry about, LOL

When I looked 20 years younger 5 years ago, I would remember my grandmother and aunt at the same ages. Perhaps because I was 5 or 10 then, but they looked much older to me than what I saw in the mirror. Even when my mom was my age, she did not look as old as my grandmother did to me.

While some do not age well and those always surprise, I do feel like many of my contemporaries look younger than late 50s or at least not how late 50s looked when I was kid. I am not sure whether it is botox (have never tried) and better sunscreen or moisturizer, people being more concerned or is it that they only dress younger. Everyone that you see in old photos is always very formally dressed, perhaps with grandma hair in a silver bun. However to me it is something about people being more youthful later. Probably just being silly but that is my perception