it's a lack of this one mineral that's causing your aging spots now what's an aging spot aging spots are also called liver spots which are not really caused by the liver necessarily but if you have a bad liver you probably have similar skin problems so today I'm going to talk about where they come from how to get rid of them why do they uh develop uh kind of patches around different places in your body are they dangerous are they going to turn into skin cancer I'm going to cover all that 90% of everyone over the age of 60 has these blemishes so I am 59 I have something to look forward to next year what we're really dealing with with this darken spot is melanin melanin is a pigment that's behind the color of your skin the color of your hair the color of your eyes and one of the big purposes of melanin is to protect you against a certain type of radiation called UV radiation because UV can create damage in our skin cells especially the DNA our body has created over a long period of time this umbrella that is a protective thing against the cells to protect the DNA against damage and so one of the big things that will trigger more melanin production is more UV radiation The Catch 22 is that we also make vitamin D through this UV radiation when it hits our skin and so melanin is a pigment it's like a natural sunscreen it blocks UV and that's going to also block your production of vitamin D now one of the problems with these blemishes is the treatment that you get when you go to the doctor they'll do all sorts of uh chemical treatments bleaching treatments laser treatments synthetic vitamin A all these different remedies which have side effects but don't worry I'm going to give you a natural solution that does not have have any side effects another interesting point about melanin is that it's not necessarily evenly distributed through their skin there are certain areas that have more than others why is it when someone is younger and they're exposed to the sun they don't necessarily get those little blotches all through the face those aging spots or liver spots yet when we get older we have more of those why is that and that's because as our skin ages it becomes less efficient in regulating melanin and so we really get this overcompensation where our body actually makes more melanin in certain spots and not others and one of the things I want to bring up right now is that when you get UV radiation on your skin you're getting a lot of free radical damage another term for that is oxidative stress probably didn't help you understand it but it's basically a type of stress that occurs at the cellular level and so both from our diet we have antioxidants and also from our body we make antioxidants to help neutralize all of that oxidative stress but the reason I wanted to bring up this word oxidative stress is because oxidative stress is another trigger of melanin it increases more pigmentation just like UV radiation and there's other things that can create more pigmentation as well one thing is when you go through pregnancy you have a higher amount of estrogen and progesterone that can do it also being a diabetic because high levels of insulin also activate melanin this is why with a diabetic uh especially in different places in their body like the fold around their neck the crease around their neck or underneath their armpit or around their elbows they have this darkened skin that's because of insulin inflammation in general can cause this pigmentation to be greater certain drugs can also increase melanin like certain drugs that um help get your heart in Rhythm and even stress can do it as well I don't know if you've ever seen any of my videos that when I talk about high levels of cortisol develop a certain body shape and sometimes I also mention a low level of cortisol where the person is very very thin and very very tan but they have no immune system so in other words there's a lot of things in addition to UV light that can create this uh pigmentation in your skin but I just want to make clear what melanin really does it absorbs UV and it neutralizes the damage by dispersing it through the body and turning it into heat actually like 99.9% of UV light is filtered out by this melanin now let's talk about how to undo this overcompensation of melanin happening in your skin now I looked up four different patents related to using natural things to get rid of uh aging spots or liver spots one patent had a combination of vitamin C grape seed extract and zinc another one had licorice extract it had certain berries all mixed into a cream and then when you look into the research on some of these Natural Things there's a significant uh effect using zinc and selenium on Aging spots and that's the one that I would recommend a little bit more and I'm going to tell you why right now first of all zinc is good for everything related to your skin it's involved in hundreds of different enzyme reactions biochemical Pathways and it's really considered a very powerful antioxidant and it has the ability to naturally lower this excess melanin production now if you combine zinc with selenium I think you have a very powerful onew punch because selenium is the precursor for glutathione which is one of the most powerful antioxidants in your cells and when I say antioxidants I'm talking about something that gets rid of oxidated damage the thing that could be actually creating this problem in the first place and also zinc greatly reduces oxidative damage as well so both of these together can significantly reduce this overcompensation of melanin as well as get rid of some of the triggers that are creating it both of these trace minerals because you don't only need them in small amounts also help you protect DNA so they have a similar purpose to vitamin D which by the way vitamin D alone is very very important as well in this condition and it's really kind of a cat22 because here you are trying to get more vitamin D on the Sun but you're getting more UV as well until the melanin kicks in there and kind of protects you against the UV but then now you're not going to get enough vitamin D so I think a balance of some sun to get your vitamin D but not too much where you burn is going to be the solution but on the internal part of your body your zinc levels your selenium levels which by the way a lot of people are deficient in both of these could be the reason why you're having this overcompensation because the body doesn't have enough antioxidants in the skin to counteract this UV radiation so it has to overcompensate with melanin which is acting like an antioxidant so there's two ways to get more zinc in selenium one is to find some cream with it I would recommend taking Tak them as a supplement and taking them in a um blend of other trace minerals because that way they go on the inside of the body and they end up in your skin eventually and like I said before a lot of people are deficient in zinc and selenium and they're two really important trace minerals for your immune system and also to increase other antioxidants that can help protect you at the skin level and at different levels now since I mentioned zinc if you have not seen this video on zinc I think it'd be very wise to watch it check it out