Metabolic and Mental Health
Three Tips to Eliminate Loose Skin
Reducing wabbly skin had been much more challenging than receiving my doctorate, but I eventually succeeded over a decade ago.
Key Points
What is loose skin, and why does it matter
Viable options to eliminate loose skin with lifestyle changes
Combination of Fundamentals and a Unique Three-Pronged Approach
Loose skin appears to be a nuisance rather than a health risk. However, excessive wabbly skin portrays mental health risks affecting some people’s self-confidence in social settings and causing anxiety.
Like many fast, fat losers, I also experienced the problem of loose skin in my younger years. It initially bothered me, but later, I motivated myself to use it for my fitness transformation as a health improvement process.
The key lesson was that eliminating loose skin required a holistic health approach, not a quick fix.
Eliminating loose skin took me over a decade. However, some of the proteges who followed my method obtained the same result within a year. Therefore, I’d like to pass along this knowledge in a summary form in this article without going into the scientific details.
Previous stories that I link to include the details. As a basic knowledge, I want to remind my readers that our skin consists of fats, proteins, minerals, and water composed of three layers called epidermis, dermis, and hypodermis.
Even though eliminating loose skin involved many lifestyle modifications, two not-well-known methods, and hormonal balance made the most significant impact on my journey.
They are autophagy and cold exposures.
In addition to this three-pronged approach, I ensured to have a clean diet with moderate protein and healthy fats, an excellent sleep regime, moderate daily exercise, and scheduling fun activities.
Paradoxically, contrary to common beliefs, consuming more healthy fats and collagen from homemade bone broths expedited my fat loss and contributed to eliminating loose skin.
These fundamentals helped my body increase growth hormone naturally, boost testosterone, improve insulin and leptin sensitivity, optimize cortisol (stress hormone), and burn visceral fat naturally by making my body fat-adapted.
This hormonal balance put me in a metabolically advantaged stage. Therefore, the two unusual methods I describe made a ripple effect in eliminating loose skin.
So my point is without having the fundamentals putting the body in a metabolically favorable position, these two methods might not work. Here is a summary of my three-pronged approach explaining the protocol for consideration.
Please note that this is not prescriptive content. It informs how I used these protocols. The implementation might vary from person to person due to multiple factors such as genetics and lifestyle.
1 — Initiating Autophagy Using 3 Powerful Methods
As a catabolic process, autophagy recycles intra-cellular damaged organelles, misfolded and mutant proteins, bacteria, and viruses especially hidden in fat tissues to maintain cellular health.
In other words, this natural and miraculous self-eating process built into our biological system eliminates our zombie cells and harmful pathogens.
Scientists heavily researched the topic in medicine, healthcare, and pharmacology, especially for longevity, metabolic health, and cancer research. The Nobel Prize-winning work of Yoshinori Ohsumi in 2016 made the topic popular.
I used three lifestyle factors that helped me activate autophagy effectively, safely, and naturally. However, I consulted my medical doctors before undertaking some of the activities.
My protocol to initiate autophagy included prolonged water fasting, intense workouts, and the use of a dry sauna.
They altogether made a combined effect contributing to eliminating my loose skin in the abdominal area gradually and naturally.
I provided details in this article titled Three Tips to Initiate Autophagy. As skin cells are mainly made up of fats and proteins, autophagy tapped into both biological constructs.
I did not experience any noticeable side effects in my protocol. However, long-term fasting initially required me to be extra careful even though my body was in a fat-adapted state. The necessary precaution was to ensure I consumed enough electrolytes to stay hydrated during a prolonged fast.
I shared my experience with reducing the side effects of fasting in an article titled How to Reduce Side-Effects of Fasting with Seven Proven Tips. During intense exercises, I ensured my cortisol levels were not elevated. To reduce the side effects of a dry sauna, I always had cold showers after each 15-minute session.
2 — Regular and Deliberate Cold Exposure
In addition to initiating autophagy, cold exposure had many benefits, as explained in this article titled A Cold Shower a Day Might Keep the Doctor Away in My Experience.
The key advantages of cold exposure include improving sleep quality, maintaining a healthy weight and lean muscles, enhancing mood, improving fitness performance, and creating physical and psychological resilience.
I used multiple forms of cold exposure in my protocol.
My routine included going out in cold weather for an hour, walking in garden grass or sand on a beach during the winter months, taking cold baths after saunas, holding ice packs on the abdominal area for 20 minutes, and drinking cold water on an empty stomach before meals.
Regular and deliberate cold exposure significantly increased fat burning by improving my metabolic rate.
In addition, cold exposure through icepacks in the abdominal area targeted the visceral fat in my belly. It enabled them to turn into brown fat, which accelerated fat burning and made the mitochondria denser.
However, the most significant contributing factor to reducing loose skin was its autophagy-initiating feature of cold exposure. As skin cells include fat in addition to protein, minerals, and water, cold exposure and autophagy were powerful in addressing these substances.
3 — Balancing Hormones
Since I have written several articles on the importance of balancing hormones on our metabolic health, I will not repeat them. However, interested readers might check relevant articles as not all hormones might affect everyone.
However, I want to point out that some hormones like cortisol and growth hormone critically impact eliminating loose skin.
From my experience, elevated cortisol levels will delay eliminating loose skin. Hormonal balance made the best contribution to my metabolic and mental health.
Here are the links to articles reflecting hormonal issues for fat loss, gaining lean muscles, and eliminating loose skin.
Lose Visceral Fat by Understanding the Intricacies of Six Critical Hormones
Three Tips to Optimize Cortisol to Melt Belly Fat and Keep Lean Muscles
Make the Body Leptin-Sensitive to Lose Visceral Fat With a Simple Metabolic Shift
Three Tips to Eliminate Insulin Resistance and Shrink Waistline
Melt Visceral Fat Fixing Growth Hormone Deficiency with Three Doable Tips
How Alberto Melted His Potbelly & Doubled Testosterone in a Year
How to Fix Hormonal Sleep Issues & Improve Sleep Quality in Three Easy Steps
Conclusions and Takeaways
Even though loose skin is not an immediate health or fitness problem, it might affect some people’s mental health who have it excessively. From my observations, female friends reacted to the wabbly skin problem more than male friends.
They kept asking “Why Is It So Hard to Get Rid of Loose Skin?” One of the key issues was aesthetics. For some reason, male friends paid less attention to that aspect.
However, those male friends who desired six-pack abs like me were obsessed with loose skin as it was not feasible to have a defined belly without eliminating excessive skin.
Even though my initial goal was to have a defined body, I later used the motivation to improve my cellular and metabolic health by initiating autophagy.
This natural process further enhanced my physical and mental health. In addition, during the process, I experienced deep ketosis, which significantly improved my mental clarity and contributed to my cognitive health by increasing BDNF in the brain.
While eliminating loose skin took me over a decade, some of my friends and proteges achieved it in a year or two by following the protocol I shared with them. They were open-minded, optimistic, and enjoyed experimenting sensibly.
Everyone accepted the situation without shaming their body and other people’s bodies. The acceptance and collaborative action accelerated the process. We all learned about the three layers of skin named epidermis, dermis, and hypodermis with the help of experienced friends majoring in biology and anatomy in our sensible biohacking community.
Unfortunately, I was alone when I was experimenting. I could have done it faster if others had shown me the way and joined my journey.
Therefore, I want to pass along these natural and straightforward techniques to people who can customize them safely with support from their qualified healthcare professionals.
In addition, I can’t emphasize enough that some methods such as long-term fasting, intense workouts, cold exposure, and sauna require consultation from our doctors who have access to our medical history as these techniques put the body under substantial stress.
Here are seven takeaways from my experience in summary format.
1 — Have a clean and customized diet with help from a qualified dietician.
2 — Improve sleep quality and take regular breaks at work mindfully.
3 — Consider intense exercises if approved by your doctor.
4 — Try a dry sauna, steam sauna, or hot spa if approved by your doctor
5 — Consider intermittent fasting and later long-term fasting if supported by your doctor.
6 — Consider cold exposure, e.g., cold showers, ice baths, swimming in cold water, drinking cold water, using occasional ice packs in the abdominal area, and walking in the cold weather, if endorsed by your doctor.
6 — Be proud of your body and see eliminating loose skin as a holistic health goal.
7 — Instead of stressing about your physique, schedule fun activities to balance hormones.
Final Words
When I started my journey, some skeptics, even in medical communities, believed it was impossible and a waste of time. I respected their opinion but did not allow their pessimism and ignorance to ruin my aspiration.
When a scientist or a medical professional says something is impossible, I stay away from them, politely reminding them we don’t know yet how to do many things.
For example, a few centuries ago, people did not know how to travel by airplane from one continent to another, had no clue about the Internet, or couldn’t imagine we could manipulate our genes.
Many things are possible, so we need to figure them out with an open mind, optimism, diligence, and persistence.
Here Is What Happened When I Experimentally Initiated Autophagy Decades Ago
One of the key items in losing belly fat and loose skin is understanding the sugar paradox I explained in the attached story.
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