4/05/12 Dr.Oz’s Ultimate Anti-aging Plan for Your Skin Type

4/05/12  Dr.Oz’s Ultimate Anti-aging Plan for Your Skin Type

·         Common mistakes in your beauty routine can add years to your life.

·         Dark Skin:  need to use sunscreens to help your pigmentation.  Every sunscreen company is working on ultra-sheer lotions, so you wont get the white/chalky residue.  Anything that can irritate or dry out the skin and cause blotchy skin or pigmentation.  Switch between using a gentle soothing cleanser and an exfoliating wash.  Exfoliation will give you the glow and break up the pigmentation patches.  After cleansing use a gentle glycolic toner.  At night use a very hydrating night cream that is supplemented with anti-oxidents, peptides, and growth factors –they will help with sagging. 

·         Olive/medium skin tones:  can get hollowing out in the skin.  Can usually tan quite beautifully, but can also have hyper-pigmentation.  Use a cleaner based on skin type, use a gentle cleanser in the morning and something more foaming in the night- use 2 passes to make sure you get it all off.  After cleansing in the morning, use an antioxidant like a vit.c serum, it will help get what the sunscreen doesn’t block.  Use a skin lightening agent at night that has retinol.

·         Caucasion skin tones:  not as much collagen and melatonin as darker skin.  Can get earlier appearance of aging spots and higher risk for skin cancer.  Use a gentle cleanser in the morning, use cleansing makeup remover wipes in the evening before the nighttime routine.  Use a daily sunscreen, not just makeup with spf, look for moisturizers with spf30 and look for vit.A, C and E.  at night use an antioxidant, like a light OTC retinol. 

·         Miracle pill made from the Schizandra Berry.  It is considered a life-extender and a youth-enhancer in Chinese medicine.  It helps you adapt to medical and physical stress.  It is the “5 flavor berry” sweet, sour, salty, bitter and pungent all at the same time.  Used for health purposes, not to eat like a berry.  It protects the lipid membrane of your skin cells from premature destruction and aging, and also is an anti inflammatory and helps rid your body of toxins.  You can use a dried berry in a tea (steep for 5minutes), or have it as a juice- mix with apple juice to make it taste better.  It also boosts energy and helps you stay mentally alert, it improves memory and thought formation mental fatigue and concentration.  Use a 500mg extract capsule daily.

·         How to fake a lift and tuck and fake it like you made it: 

o   Chef Richard Blais (from Top Chef).  Cheaper version of surf and turf with champagne and caviar, and  is even better for you http://www.doctoroz.com/videos/surf-turf .  Swap the filet for hanger steak –lean and more flavor, swap lobster for shrimp, sparking wine like proseco or cava, and make eggplant caviar http://www.doctoroz.com/videos/eggplant-caviar  -it is eggplant and honey, it mimics the texture of caviar.  This version of the dinner costs $8.03.

o   Instead of surgery, use shapewear.  Use Hollywood breast lift tape, found in drugstores, instead of using a bra with straps showing.  The “yummy tummy” shapeware tank helps with the tummy.  “DKNY smoothies”  leggings can be used as outerwear or underwear. 

o   Exercise- David Kirsch’s celebrity workout;   “the Platypus Walk” for your butt.  Knees out and toes out in a squat, put elbows out and fingertips to your head, and stick your butt out and then walk like a duck one leg in front of the other, one at a time.  Keep abs tight the whole time.  http://www.doctoroz.com/videos/david-kirschs-celebrity-workout -for more exercises.

·         A kitchen secret weapon to help you lose weight, cut down on time, and cut down on worry.  The muffin tin!  Use it to do a lasagna , or meatloaf, or herbs (for use in soups and stews) or a drink, and then freeze it for individual use.  Use it for portion control, use it to eat healthy things, you can pre-portion your snacks-veggie sticks, nuts, dried fruits –allow yourself a certain amount you have pre-measured.  You can also use it as a foot  massager and to strengthen your foot muscles and stretch them.  Put a marble or golf ball into the cups, and use your toes to pick it up and move it from chamber to chamber. 

·         Healthy Kentucky fried chicken from Todd Wilbur:  http://www.doctoroz.com/videos/todd-wilburs-healthy-fried-chicken  which doesn’t fry it, and doesn’t contain MSG.  You brine the chicken first, it will make it moist and flavorful.  Original calorie count was 305 calories and 19 grams fat, this is 170 calories and 9grams of fat.  You can serve it with his version of their coleslaw http://www.doctoroz.com/videos/reduced-fat-and-calorie-coleslaw

·         Best anti-aging foods to keep in your fridge:  use pink grapefruit to protect your skin- for breakfast or a snack.  Eat red peppers to help reduce wrinkles- they aid in collagen production.  Collard greens are good for banishing blemishes, use as a base for salads or cook like you would spinach.  You can use cottage cheese as a facial moisturizer- not eating it, you make a moisturizing mask with 2Tb cottage cheese and 2Tb veg oil, apply to face and leave on for 15minutes.