The Single Most DANGEROUS Ingredient In Your Skincare Product, Why You May Want To Wear Sunscreen Even If It's Not Sunny?!, Stupid Skin Care Myths With Young Goose's Amitay Eshel

Ben Greenfield

Sep 21, 2024

Episode description

In this episode with Amitay Eshel, you'll get to explore the science behind effective skincare, debunk common myths, and discover how cutting-edge ingredients like NAD, peptides, and spermidine are used by Young Goose to target multiple aging pathways. You'll also discover more about innovative formulations that enhance collagen, mitochondrial function, and skin health, including how skincare routines can complement cosmetic procedures. Our discussion covers everything from the role of peptides, red light therapy, and hydration to advanced skin care techniques like dermal devices and exfoliation and much more!

Amitay Eshel—who first joined me for the podcast "Demystifying The Ultimate Biohacked Skin Care Routine, Why You May Want To Think Twice About Skin Lasers, Fringe Skin Ingredients You’ve Never Heard Of & More," is an entrepreneur in the biohacking and beauty fields, and has developed the complete line of advanced skin care products that my wife and I use in our own "anti-aging" protocols. Amitay has held executive roles in the health, wellness, and beauty industry for over a decade, as well as being a business development consultant in that space. As co-founder and CEO of Young Goose, and host of the Young Goose’s Biohacking Beauty Podcast, Amitay has been making waves in the wellness industry through education and innovation.

Young Goose is dedicated to reinventing skin regeneration through advancing cellular science, creating breakthrough treatments that are genetically programmed to work. Amitay's company embodies his two passions—performance optimization and skin health—with products that boost the functions of natural rejuvenation processes in the skin.

For full show notes: BenGreenfieldLife.com/YoungGoose2

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Mindsip insights from this episode:

Beware of 'clean' beauty: natural ingredients can become harmful

Many 'clean' beauty products use natural ingredients that can degrade over time into harmful byproducts, making them potentially worse than products with safe, stable synthetic preservatives.

#skin

#toxins

Utilize red light therapy to enhance peptide delivery to injured tissue

Applying red light therapy to an injured area after a subcutaneous injection of a healing peptide like BPC-157 can help draw the peptide to that specific tissue.

#peptides

#red-light

Utilize TIGOPEPUP4 peptide for enhanced collagen expression in skin

A very expensive and rare peptide called TIGOPEPUP4 can upregulate the expression of collagen genes in the skin and is found in the YoungGoose Hyperbaric Mask.

#peptides

#skin

Avoid face dunking; prioritize full-body cold exposure for systemic benefits

Dunking your face in ice water provides only temporary aesthetic effects and cannot replace deliberate, full-body cold exposure for systemic benefits like releasing cold shock proteins.

#cold-therapy

Utilize Ectoin from tardigrades for skin protection against UV and EMF

A protein called Ectoin, found in tardigrades, creates a protective water shell around skin cells to shield them from UV, blue light, and EMF, with effects lasting up to 11 days after application.

#ectoin

#skin

Avoid topical ascorbic acid to prevent premature aging

Topical ascorbic acid, a common form of Vitamin C in skincare, is one of the worst products for your skin as it can drive premature aging through a process called ferroptosis.

#skin

#vitamin-C

Choose a dermapen for effective collagen stimulation

A dermapen is superior to a derma roller for stimulating collagen because its needles penetrate at a precise 90-degree angle, causing less unnecessary trauma to the skin.

#skin

Avoid building sun callus to enhance vitamin D production

Building a 'sun callus' is counterproductive because the increased melanin that provides minimal protection also significantly reduces your skin's ability to produce beneficial vitamin D from sun exposure.