Keto has made me younger

#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

(KM) #21

Smoking cigarettes also seriously ages a face, and fewer women smoke these days.

I think it’s a combination of pressure to look younger, permission to look and act younger (that is, people no longer listening to the message that it’s time to climb into the rocking chair and die when they hit 60), and better products, Botox and fillers.

(Edith) #22

Sounds impressive. I may have to splurge and try some.

(Edith) #23

How long does one 200 mg bottle last?

#24

There is an upper limit to nutritional glycine (and collagen) as it is an oxidisable amino acid that in some people can cause inflammation if used in excessive amounts. The metabolic break down products of oxidised glycine are the inflammatory component.

As a side-note I take 500mg Vitamin B3 (niacinamide or nicotinamide*) twice daily because I am Australian. Too much life-long sunshine and UV damage. Vitamin B3 has its effects at the mitochondrial level in cells and cellular mitochondrial efficient energy production. Dermatologists have started to recommend topical skin-absorbent gels for Vitamin B3 dosage. People claim they look younger with the resultant effects of the Vit B3. It could be an adjunct therapy for those seeking youthful looks.


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Niacinamide and nicotinamide both represent the same chemical compound, which is the amide form of vitamin B3. They are interchangeable names for the molecule that plays a critical role in cellular energy production in the body. Both terms describe a compound that is vital for numerous biological processes, including the conversion of food into energy.

(Marianne) #25

I agree with you. I think people today look much younger than their years, unlike in the past. I’ve seen pictures of my parents in their 40s/50s/60s, and they looked “old.”

#26

You have now touched on one of the great controversies in the anti aging world. About 5 years ago Dr. David Sinclair wrote a book which basically touches on NAD and its precursors, including NMN and NR as reving up your mitocondria. Other people have gotten into this discussion as well. There are some claims about NMN and helping with skin cancer. NAD is connected to Niacin B3

Note this is quite controversial, some were concerned about NMN/NAD supplementation in cancer. This studies shows a good result but some are concerned about risk


https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10055624/#:~:text=The%20relationship%20between%20NAD%20and,trigger%20cell%20death%20[8].

https://siteman.wustl.edu/pathway-linked-slower-aging-also-fuels-brain-cancer/

I have a couple of dark spots that started 15 years ago. I had them frozen once but they came back. I have been using a commercial niacimide elixir on them for a couple of years and they have definitely faded from what they used to be. Could be other things in it but I really use very few lotions

(KM) #27

I took NMN orally for about a year and noticed no effect at all on my energy or the condition of my skin or anything else. Non-slow-release niacin causes my head to burst into flames, so I know that does something, but whether it’s effective or has any long lasting effect on my skin is another question entirely.

I hate to think I’m being led down the same sort of snake oil path as Big Med, just without any oversight so I can’t even be sure I’m taking what I think I’m taking. On the other hand, I hate to think I’m missing out on something that might be the hack of the century! :roll_eyes:

(Doug) #28

So true. Early 1960s - visiting distant cousins in eastern Kentucky, U.S., rather a ‘land that time forgot,’ even then (just as the country as a whole approached a period of rapid change). Very friendly, welcoming people, but ‘hard’ - hard lives, hard existences, a dirt floor in part of the house. They took little for granted, and they all smoked.

Absolutely! Attitude and knowledge of what is possible changes everything. My grandfather and grandmother on my dad’s side, born 1903 and 1911. They were thus in their 60s and 50s as those same 1960s progressed. ‘Old’ - they had grandchildren, after all. They were settled, and somewhat in stasis. Nothing wrong with that, per se (if one is happy), I feel, but to live that way now, personally, no… There are always new things.

They didn’t die early; he lived to 97, she to over 100. So, for 40 or 50 years they were ‘old.’

I live very near a converted rail road line that’s now for walking, running, cycling, dogs, etc. Many people in their 50s, 60s, 70s, or even older, and they move and look good. Didn’t see nearly as much of that 60 years ago.

#29

That is so interesting. I have wanted to try it but the potential side effects being unknown scare me it sounds like the science it very unsettled. I took NAD for about a month and found I was more tired but that could have been my own nonsense. Other than the serum and whatever else is in the various lotions I buy and then barely use, I also take Niacin whenever I remember. You are supposed to take it in the morning but I always forget. It seems to have no effect on me. Meanwhile this guy talks all about the benefits he has gotten
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AijQDJmpCFA

(Bob M) #31

I also tried NAD and didn’t like it.