So I was reading a bit of philosophy recently (a bit of Alain Badiou and Sartre). Since I’m not a native English speaker it was hard to read, but I think I pulled through for most of it. Regardless, the “language” and altered definitions these modern philosophers use is unnecessarily complex in my opinion. It’s like linguistic masturbation, showing off to other philosophers who would read their books.

And then it occurred to me.

See, I’m Greek. I’m used to the idea of Socrates walking down to the Athenian Agora and starting talking to strangers. Presenting them with questions, with riddles, with thoughts they never thought possible. Diogenes was always my favorite philosopher because he was a no-shit guy. He had some ideas, and he lived by them, and showed others how to live a good life too.

To me, that’s the real worth of a philosopher. A philosopher for me is not different than what one would consider a “holy man” who talks to, and freely advises strangers in the streets or other settings. But in this case, instead of spreading religion, he spreads knowledge, opens minds, and instigates progress. He’s the Initiator.

Instead, what we have today is these academic types who speak a language that no one understands. The public doesn’t understand them, plain and simple. This is a crime in my opinion. It’s a major disservice to 2700 years of philosophy. So what kind of philosophy is this today? Only for those who pay to learn about it in these private colleges of ours? It’s like their language is so complex on purpose. When was the last time that Badiou hosted a FREE summer camp for example? He’s a communist after all, but I’ve never heard of him do anything for the “community”.

And let me go a step further. When was the last time that a philosopher walked down the mall, sat down with a sign saying that he’s available for any type of conversation, and awaited people to come to him? I’ve never seen any philosopher doing this neither I heard of anyone doing this, and yet this is the DEFAULT behavior I’d expect from a philosopher. A philosopher doesn’t have to become a missionary man or join a humanitarian cause in order to do “good”. Or write books that are more difficult to decipher than Chinese knots. The philosopher can do good by changing his society directly around him by opening their minds. When this happens, the “good” will automatically propagate like wildfire.

I would honestly sit down with such a person to discuss stuff, from ethics to art, to whatever. And in fact, I’ve done something similar once. In 2000, when I was still living in the UK, there was a (Catholic, I believe) monk in the High Street of Guildford (the town I was living at the time). He was sitting in the middle of the closed-down and busy-by-shoppers street, having a second chair next to him, with a sign saying that he’s available to talk. The time was 4 PM, it was almost night (November) and he was ready to pack and leave. I sat down with him and we talked. He did indeed help me (loneliness was my problem at the time), even if I wasn’t particular religious. He was a really smart guy! At the end, I asked him how many others sat with him that day. His reply: “you were the only one”.

Update: Translated to Greek.

A lot of people today still claim that the Mediterranean diet (especially the Cretan one) is the best diet in the world, but the truth is that it “was”, not “is”. Things changed in the last 30-40 years in these countries, and now the people living there are full of disease, as everyone else in all of the Western countries are. Having originated in rural Greece, this is my opinion why this diet worked well, until about the 1970s:

1. Geography
This is really the biggest point. This is a climate that it has harsh-enough winters and hot summers, surrounded by sea. All the fish, fruits, vegetables and meat one could think of can survive there. It is the best place to live in the world, food resources-wise. Too much of everything will kill you (even water), so Mediterranean people just ate seasonal things, a little bit of everything.

2. Spelt, not wheat
Cretans traditionally used spelt and farro/emmer (types of ancient wheat with low amount of gluten), not the Frankenstein selected wheat that’s available today. Additionally, very few of their dishes/foods used it. They would also not eat cereals (mainland Greece used a type of lacto-fermented porridge-like wheat cereal called “trahanas”). Gluten was not as omnipresent as it’s today for Cretans.

Today’s problem with gluten is two fold: first, we eat a sort of wheat super-gluten, bio-engineered & non-digestible. Secondly, it’s mostly a matter of reaching a certain threshold during our lifetime (different for each person), at which point our immune system can’t deal with it anymore (had too much of it). Cretans were never reaching such thresholds by using [fermented] spelt at low quantities. Rice/corn was not regular there either, while they always ate our potatoes skinless (skin is where potatoes store their toxins).

3. No sugar
Cretans would eat a lot of vegetables (a lot of them wild) and have fruits and honey as desserts. They would also use honey as a sweetener for some dishes. Both fruits and honey are mono-saccharides, which are the only sugars easily digestible by healthy humans. Poly-saccharides that don’t get digested end up in the gut, where they become food for the microbes that live there, over-populating them. The key to human health is the balance of the gut micro-biota.

4. Plenty of Omega-3
Lots of fish/shellfish and non-vegetable oils (they’d slowly cook with pure olive oil) means one thing: a better balance of omega-3 to omega-6. Possibly as close to 1:2, while most Western people today have a ratio of 1:25, literally killing them slowly.

5. Fermented legumes
As it’s been demonstrated in the lab, most legumes lose their lectins when they’re fermented. Fermentation is key to render a lot of “problematic” food inert. I clearly remember my mom fermenting our beans/lentils overnight (soaking them into water or dairy) before cooking them for a long time the next day. To be fair, not all legumes are created equal. Some are more poisonous than others (especially the colorful ones).

6. Fermented dairy from the right animals
Most dairy consumption in Greece was fermented AND from goats/sheep (not from cows). Goat/sheep’s casein is more compatible with the human digestion than modern cow casein. Greek yogurt has proved its efficacy aiding the fixing of gut problems, but also our cheeses carry a lot of this micro-biota too (not just the well known feta, try mizithra instead). The Greek equivalent of kefir is called xynogalo (although home-made kefir is more potent).

7. Coconut
For the Cretans in particular, coconuts actually grow there. The coconut factor is well known among Paleo dieters.

8. Local Delicacies
Cretans in particular would eat some types of insects, snails, raw artichokes and other types of food that are simply not common in the rest of the Mediterranean cuisine. These have nutrients not found elsewhere (e.g. insects have lots of K2 Mk4). And of course, a lot of wild, bitter greens (which thankfully they’re still common among older people in Greece).

9. Greek Mountain Tea
This is a miracle herbal tea that science only recently has started to unravel. Just read the research! I wish more Paleo people were aware of it, the thing works. Cretans also used dictamnus, a local herbal tea, also known for its health benefits.

10. Less red meat
As much as Paleo people would eat red meat almost daily, I’m actually not a big fan of this idea. I think meat should not be consumed more than 2-3 times a week. More (healthy, wild) fish and shellfish is best instead, and a lot of vegetable dishes are good too (even if you cook them in animal fat and bone broth).

11. Offal and bone broth
What, you thought they would throw that stuff to the dogs?!? They ate it! Delicious eggs from local hens too.

12. Lots of herbs
Herbs are known to help with various health conditions. In the Greek/Cretan cuisine, these are used a lot. These days mostly oregano is used, but in the older days there was a much wider array of herbs used.

13. Sun and exercise
A lot of sun, daily. Up in the mountains with the goats and sheep, or down to the fields. Nobody was a couch potato. And of course, snoozing under trees from 3 to 5 PM, when the heat was at its highest. My goat & sheep herder grandfather at 84 years old now can go up the rocky mountain like it’s leveled asphalt. I lose my breath after 3 minutes trying to catch him.

In other words, Cretans and most Greeks were closer to Paleo than most dietitians today would like you to think. When they push down Paleo and try to tell us that the original Cretan diet was the best, they need to get their facts straight, because the two diets are not as far apart as they would like you to think.

As to why the diet was better in Crete and not in another island (e.g. Sicily, Rhodes, Cyprus etc), I believe it’s because of its relative long distance from the mainland. Small boats could not make it to Crete, only bigger ones could. This relative isolation has made Cretans to keep their original, traditional diet for longer than other islands did. But it’s already gone now. Greece really became “modern” in the last 30-40 years (mostly after its induction to the European Union), so cow dairy became the norm, lots of wheat, cheap vegetable oils, and processed/sugar foods too, while the consumption of traditional fermented foods, offal, bone broth, wild mountain vegetables etc went down.

I haven’t blogged here for a while, I mostly write on Facebook and my TumblR these days.

In the meantime my collages have taken off. I have over 3000 followers at TumblR now, and a lot of my collages are going viral lately. I even had a few sales! This has brought attention to some sites and wrote about my work, or interviewed me. Here’s two of them: 1, 2.

“Normalization“

I’m thinking of putting together an animated short movie using elements from my collages, we will see how this will turn out.

Other than that, I’m getting ready for a surgery (tumor that I had for years, thankfully benign), while right now I have a pinched nerve on my neck and I can’t do all that much. My Paleo diet is out of the window too, downgraded to plain gluten-free. I need to get back on the boat though, because my health can get bad without it. It will be my 1 year anniversary on 3rd of September, the day that I found the solution for my 10 year old health problem.

I see the weirdest things in my dreams. This morning I saw what could be a great adventure-action-mystery video game.

In my dream, I visited an old Renaissance castle, as a tourist — most of it was in ruins. The castle had a history of a “major event” that archaeologists still were not sure what it was about. When I visited the nearby museum’s basement, where they keep stuff that they don’t always display, I opened the curtains in that room in order to see better. There was a big sword in a rock (like Excalibur), and only when a ray of light touched it, I was able to remove it (when nobody was looking…).

When that happened, I was transported back to the Renaissance period, when the castle was active. I was told that my clothes are weird, and I was presented with a mystery to solve (and fight for). But my time in that time period was fixed (looking at an iPhone to check the time, while I was 400 years into the past). If I didn’t make it in time back to the portal, I would die.

When I would get back to present time, I would try to continue to uncover the mystery by searching for clues (since the “event” had already happened, there were clues in the present day castle and museum that were not available when back in time). Only when a clue was uncovered in the present time, I could then go back to the old time and continue with the investigation, and so on.

Well, that was my dream. I’m pretty sure it would do an interesting adventure game, especially like the ones we had in the ’90s for the PC (remember “I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream”, “Beneath a Steel Sky” or “The Dig”?).

I will be transitioning to a home-made toothpaste. Even on the low-carb hard-core Paleo/ketogenic diet, I still grow a bit of tooth plaque within a few months’ time. My goal is to not accumulate ANY plaque on my teeth ever again, to have fully re-mineralize my teeth (already healed ~80%), to have fully heal sensitivity in my front teeth (already healed ~70%), and to fix receding gum lines (healed only about ~10% so far — sorry for the ugly picture). Overall, my teeth are hundreds of times better than they used to be pre-Paleo (I used to have transparent teeth, I was *that* sick from nutrient malabsorption in the last 10 years), but they’re still not fully healed yet in the 9 months I follow the diet. Obviously, more radical steps are required.

I use a fluoride-free & SLS-free toothpaste, but the commercial ones are still not as optimal as they could be. I will be combining the following home-made paste with:
1. The Paleo diet ( + goat/sheep fermented dairy, primarily home-made goat kefir)
2. Some supplementation (primarily D3, Ω-3, Mg, K2 Mk4)
3. Flossing before going to bed
4. Soft-brushing 2-3 times a day (depending on how many times I eat a full meal).
5. Cut-down on snacking between meals as much as possible.

After searching for days on research papers and elsewhere online, I have decided on the following ingredients. Here’s the recipe in short, although I haven’t figured out the exact dosage yet, and obviously I don’t know if they chemically react together in a bad way or not (hopefully not):
- virgin, cold-pressed, unrefined coconut oil (anti-microbial, anti-fungal)
- Q10-ubiquinol (capsule’s liquid, regenerates gums)
- concentrated Trace Mineral Drops (re-mineralization)
- calcium carbonate powder (abrasive agent)
- oregano oil (diluted, anti-microbial)
- aluminum-free baking soda (whitening, cleaning)
- vodka or ouzo (anti-microbial, taste – γεια μας!)
- sea salt (minerals, optional)
- peppermint oil (for its taste, optional)

Calcium carbonate should not be used every day, and baking soda should be used only a few times a month after you have reached the white color you desire.

While most of these ingredients are found in various home-made toothpaste recipes online, they are not all usually found in a single recipe. And the one ingredient largely missing from these “traditional” home-made toothpastes is Q10-ubiquinol. Anecdotal reports claim that the specific Ubiquinol form of Q10 can work magic on your gums & teeth (and wrinkles) when applied directly on them, and not just when ingested (I personally eat a lot of offal that contains Q10). Crack addicts have been using the trick for a few years now, to regenerate their gums and teeth!

I don’t have any cavities left, but I believe that with this whole protocol even small cavities can be fixed (big ones still require a dentist). I will be reporting again with my progress and findings about all this in 6 months time.

In other news, we had a great sashimi lunch with JBQ, in our balcony: 6 kinds of raw fish, and salmon eggs. I didn’t used to eat fish eggs, but now I’ll have to, in order to get enough vitamin K2 in the Mk-4 form (menaquinone-4). Apparently, chicken eggs don’t have as much Mk4 as goose, duck and fish eggs do. Grass-fed butter contains Mk4, but according to tests done to such commercial butters, depending on the batch and season, you get very different results about how much Mk4 they actually contain!

Mk4 specifically drives calcium to bones, hair, nails and teeth, instead of having that calcium calcifying our arteries. The Western diet is highly deficient of Mk4, while it’s abundant in hunter-gatherer societies. In fact, pregnant women there are fed preferentially foods containing MK4, as it’s the only K form that can reach the placenta and help the fetus grow a skeleton. Enough daily sun (D3), Mg, and Mk4 are the main reasons why hunter-gatherers don’t need dentists, they have larger and stronger teeth than we do, and they’re perfectly pearly-white, and in the correct shape.

And where do these “uncivilized” societies find the bulk of their K2 Mk4? Yes, there’s some in the offal of game, and some in fish roe, but the bulk comes from insects, and possibly also insect eggs & larvae worms. We either go back to eat what we’re evolve at eating, or we will die from diseases of “civilization”.

Well, either that, or we just need a shaman.

Update, Feb 17th 2013: No new cavities, no plaque on this protocol. Works for me! Thanks to an orthododist, I found the reason of my receding gum on the specific tooth, pictured above: It’s not nutrition or bad hygiene to blame (as most of my older dentists claimed), but rather its neighbor tooth which is severely out of alignment, pulling the gum around it (it’s been doing that since I was 7 years old). To fix this, I’ll be putting braces this coming week!

Some of my plants this year. Unfortunately, my tarragon, sorrel, radishes, cilantro and some others were eaten by slugs just when they sprouted. Hover your mouse over the images to read what kind of plants these are. My crown jewels this year are in the last picture, beets and carrots.

Wow! As much as I can’t stand Bill O’Reilly, he got it right about the no-wheat diet on his show. If that was not enough, io9.com had an article today that eating like a caveman is the way of the future. Paleo is going mainstream big time, and this is not because it’s a more efficient weight loss diet than calorie restriction (it’s not, at least for me it wasn’t), but because so many people found their health back that it makes them advocate it strongly. I do so too, since I got my life back because of Paleo, and this has put me at odds with people who are not open to the possibility that this is not a fad diet, but rather a cure for many diseases of civilization (from immune, to inflammatory, to hormonal, to mental conditions). I know how this makes us, Paleo advocates, sound crazy to many people who expect science to find a “magic pill” for them to get cured, but I know when I’m right, and I know when to shut up when I’m wrong. This Paleo (+fermented goat/sheep dairy) thing, it fucking works better than any drug (for most situations).

When I decided to go public describing all my health problems on my blog, it was a difficult decision, because admitting publicly and eponymously that I had alopecia, IBS-D, situational depression, and a gazillion other illnesses (I was with one foot to the grave), is not an easy thing. But I thought to myself that if in the process my story helps ONE person in this world, it’s worth all the ridicule I can get. From what I’ve been told, my story helped a number of people. This fills me with joy, it’s a wonderful feeling to know that you helped someone getting healthy again and living their lives to the fullest.

As for the people who don’t necessarily doubt Paleo’s health-healing abilities, but they didn’t follow through with the diet because “giving up grains is too difficult”, then one thing is clear: “you are not desperate enough”. When you get desperate enough, as I was, giving up grains will be the easiest thing in the world.

I will close this admittedly annoying blog post by sharing a little story. September 7th 2011. Just 4 days of Paleo at the time. JBQ and I we are on the plane from Paris to SFO, a full flight. Everyone looks like a zombie on the plane. Babies are crying, parents are pissed off, and everyone is looking so freaking tired. And then it was me. iPod on my ears, volume jacked up, and I’m seriously headbanging. I had more energy than anyone else in that plane, heck, I had more energy than I had in the last 10 years of illness put together! Later, my husband told me: “seeing you in that plane so alive, that was the moment I knew that this diet, at last, would change our lives”.

I’m not looking at selling my collages, but I did have a look at the various art shop options that exist online. I checked the 5-6 most popular ones and I was shocked that there’s curation for most of them, before they get accepted to their store. They somehow think that they’re galleries instead of shops. I don’t have a problem with curation for gallery-like shops, but when they market their solution as a semi-generic “art shop”, then curation becomes a problem.

To give you an idea of what I mean: art is a bit like fashion sometimes. Various styles come in and out of fashion as time goes by. If you want to see what’s “in” in terms of high art, you check TumblR’s art tag. It measures the “beat” of modern art pretty accurately, both commercial high art, and underground high art. And then of course there’s the collage tag, which is also a popular form of art, and there you can see what kind of collages are popular nowadays.

So what I found out was that the collages on some of these curated art shops are old-style. They don’t reflect the “now” of the art form. Obviously, the people who curated these collages have a concrete idea of what’s “nice”, usually an idea formulated many years ago, and so they pick collages and art that’s simply not that current anymore.

No matter how you put it, crowd-sourcing is the way to go. No matter if you’re Google, Amazon, Twitter, or an art shop, letting democracy decide what’s popular will eventually give you the most accurate results, and better sales. And that’s why I find Society6 to be the best place to sell art prints today. Etsy.com is popular too, but because they also sell other types of stuff, they require all of their artists to send their art prints themselves (this requires artists to buy expensive printers). On Society6 instead, you just upload your file, and they take care of the printing/framing etc as it gets sold. That’s how it should be done, Society6 makes sense, at least for digital artists.

When that fateful day of September 3rd 2011 I dropped grains completely and found back my health, I did it originally through the SCD diet (similar to Paleo), that also embraces the healing of the gut via home-made, lactose-free, probiotic yogurt. I’ve since moved to Paleo/Primal (which is a more complete diet than SCD in my opinion), but I kept SCD’s yogurt regimen, specifically from goat milk, which is more tolerable than cow dairy (goats have A2 casein, instead of the human-incompatible A1 found in most cows).

Six months passed, and with the additional help of ketosis, most of my ailments are completely vanished. I’d still get an occasional IBS breakout, no more than what would be considered “normal” though by most people.

For a month now, I don’t do yogurt anymore, I’ve moved to home-made goat kefir (fermented for 24-36 hours). Kefir contains up to 40 types of bacteria & yeasts, while yogurt usually contains 3 to 10 strains of bacteria. It also contains up to 5 trillion of these organisms, while yogurt usually goes up to 1-2 trillion per cup (a probiotic pill usually has up to 15 billion, most of them already dead by the time they’re bottled). Even people with lactose intolerance can tolerate kefir better than other dairy. Most importantly, the kinds of bacteria/yeasts that consist kefir, actually colonize the human gut, while yogurt’s strains only pass through, and are active in the gut for a short period of time. In other words, kefir is way more potent than yogurt.

Kefir is the stated reason why Caucasus people used to live up to 150 years old, before the modern cuisine caught up with them too. Kefir doesn’t only have internal healing and anti-cancer properties, but it can also heal external wounds. Its bacteria/yeasts strains work together in (visible by the human eye) colonies called “grains”, and attack any foreign microbe that is not part of their pack. E.Coli doesn’t stand a chance if it has the bad luck to fall into a cup (or a gut) of kefir.

My kefir, fermenting goat milk

Since I started having kefir, I haven’t had a single breakout of IBS, even when I stopped my Paleo-ketogenic diet and went plain Paleo (devouring quite a few carbs per day). Under “normal” circumstances, that would give me IBS symptoms at least once a week, but not while drinking kefir, no. In my mind, there’s no going back to yogurt, other than as the occasional treat: kefir is here to stay. It’s easier to make than yogurt too!

So why does kefir works so well? It’s for the same reason why some times fecal transplants from family members work for the treatment of IBS, SIBO, or C-Diff and other super-bugs: because you repopulate the gut with healthy strains that are compatible with the human gut. Kefir was probably “invented” by mistake. In the olden days, people would use the tripe of goats/sheep as a flask, to store milk or water. It probably only took one “bad” home-maker woman to not properly sterilize the tripe with hot water, before turning it into a flask. So the surviving bacteria from the tripe of these animals, fermented the milk. The poor husband, high up in the mountains of Caucasus taking care of his animals, had the choice of either drinking this weird sour milk/water, or go thirsty for the rest of the day. He drank it, he didn’t get sick by it, and so the story of kefir started. That was 2000 years ago, and while it’s just an assumption on my part on how it all started, it feels natural that it probably started this way. In contrast today, probiotic pills and yogurt strains are extracted from bovine tripe, but again, cows are incompatible with the human physiology, so these strains don’t stick in our gut. Goat/sheep’s strains do, so kefir became a superfood.

One word of caution though: to get these great benefits of kefir, you MUST make it yourself. The store-bought kefir products only have the limited effect of yogurt has, but not the extended properties of kefir. You see, you can’t bottle kefir with active yeasts in it: the alcohol produced by the yeasts would create pressure into the bottle, exploding it by the time it reaches the grocery store! Plus, the USDA is strict about some organisms that they haven’t fully researched yet, so kefir manufacturers in the US are forced to use the few well-known yogurt strains to make kefir. So if you want to get it right, you have to make goat kefir yourself. Buy the kefir grains from Amazon or elsewhere (make sure these are NOT kefir “starters”, but actual grains), and grow them according to instructions. Let them multiply and be happy & merry!

And as always, PubMed is your friend. The proof is in research too, not just anecdotal reports.

I will be 39 years old in a few months, and this got me thinking about anti-aging strategies. Some people tell me that I look younger than my age, but I think it’s time to start thinking about the inevitable. At first, I was naive enough to go search about “what the best face cream” would be. Soon I realized that these creams don’t really work, and they would be wasted money. A cheap, natural hydrating cream for face & eyes would be enough. To really make a difference though, the change must come from inside.

Dr Jack Kruse, the most crazy Paleo doctor out there (also the most interesting), has many blog posts on anti-aging, that go well beyond nutrition and supplements. He goes into reprogramming the human body with cold thermogenesis, even “lite” hibernation and fasting. But these are too extreme regimens, I just want something to ease up my wrinkles, not to outlive Galapagos tortoises.

So I went again to my new best friend, the US government’s PubMed, and started reading. Most of the chemistry described goes over my head, but I can still put 2+2 together and draw conclusions. So after two weeks of research, this is what I came to understand it could give me back 5 years in terms of of looks/energy, and extend that look for a longer period. Please note that this regimen is for skin and hair only, there is additional supplementation for mental & joint health, but Paleo itself is good-enough to provide the necessary nutrients for these two anyway. Also note that this is what I’m doing for myself, it’s not a medical suggestion to you.

STEP 1: Follow Paleo/Primal for life
No way around it. Even if you never put in your mouth a single pill of the ones suggested below, this diet is a must for longevity and overall health. Here is a description of the diet, the top-10 superfoods that must all be eaten, and here’s why dairy can be included in the diet, as long as it’s from buffalo, camels, goats or sheep (but not US cows — only butter & cream from them).

STEP 2: Lifestyle changes
Doesn’t have to be strenuous exercise. 45 minutes, 3-4 times a week. 30 minutes of slow and fast running (alternate, 2 miles overall), and 15 minutes of weights. That’s it. You need no trainer or to pay a gym for it. Or you can alternate that with some yoga too. Consider some meditation too, which can put your cortisol & stress under control. And of course, SLEEP. At least 8 hours day. Make time for it!

STEP 3: Basic supplementation
No matter what diet you follow, there are some nutrients that the modern Western humans are deficient on. These are:
- D3 at 3000-5000 IU, daily, in the mornings. Get tested every 6 months for toxicity levels though.
- Magnesium Malate, daily, 20 minutes before bedtime. Malate is the most absorbable form.
- K2 Mk4, every 2-3 days.
- Fish or krill or fermented cod liver oil, almost daily.
Then, the following are as important, if the diet is not balanced:
- Calcium, only if you’re not doing dairy, every 2-3 days. I’d suggest you go for home-made goat kefir instead.
- C + Bioflavonoids, only if you are not eating fruits for some reason (you should), or if you’re feeling a virus coming your way.
Supplement for other vitamins too accordingly after you do a blood test, or if you track your food intake on a site like Cron-o-meter btw. E.g. you might find you’re low on iron, or manganese, or folate. Especially if you’re trying to get pregnant, you might need to lightly supplement with it for months before conceiving (just make sure it’s not folic acid, folate is a different form).

STEP 4: Skin-specific supplementation
These are the supplements that visibly change the skin and energy levels. On old people these supplements would help too, but not as visibly as in younger people. I include links to the supplements I usually buy myself, these are NOT paid/advertizing links in any way.
- CoQ10-Ubiquinol. 100 mg, daily. In addition to taking the pill, you can also apply its liquid to tooth gums and at a lower dosage, to wrinkles directly.
- PQQ (PyrroloQuinoline Quinone). Every 2 days or so.
- BioSNP’s anti-oxidant & anti-inflammatory formula. A lot of different powerful anti-oxidants in one pill. Take one pill every day (not the suggested 3, it’s strong).
- Acetyl L-carnitine. Ever 3-4 days or so.

STEP 5: Supplementation after a certain age
Don’t take these before the age of 30 or 35. You can increase the days you take these as you age. Take it easy in the first few years.
- R-Lipoic Acid. It must be the R- form. Every 2-3 days or so, in the mornings.
- Collagen Type I and III. Every 2-3 days, not at the same day as the other collagen below, or when you’re cooking with bone marrow broth.
- Collagen Type II. Every 2-3 days, not at the same day as the other types.

Other anti-oxidants you can add to the mix are cranberry extract and Astaxanthin/Lycopene, but the suggested BioSNP formula is already pretty good. For hair, consider taking some Biotin every 3-4 days or so (supplements usually contain way too much in them), and E-tocotrienols (no tocophenols in it). This vitamin E 125 mg version is pretty strong, so take it occasionally and only if you’re somewhat deficient on vitamin E, or use the lower 50 mg version.