Month: September 2019

September 20, 2019 at 04:30AM by CWC No matter how personally accomplished you feel after completing all the steps of your skin-care routine, you might want to hold on your mental high five until you’ve added one last step. According to John P. Salerno, MD the medical director at Salerno Center NYC, if your serums and moisturizers aren’t lined up next to ingestible supplements in your medicine cabinet, you could be missing out. Translation: Your topical efforts might not be as effective as they could be if you aren’t supporting them at the source of your skin’s woes, says Dr. Salerno—AKA, in your cells. “Ingestible beauty can help increase collagen protection as well as help limit free radicals, supporting our skin at the cellular level, from the inside out,” Dr. Salerno explains. “Thus, it has the potential to be more powerful than a topical option.” “[Ingestible beauty] has the potential to be more powerful than a topical option.” The ingredient he cites for cellular support is CoQ10, an antioxidant found in supplements like MitoQ that helps your body create cellular energy and neutralize free radicals, according to Dr. Salerno. And since free radicals are basically the arch nemesis of skin-care lovers everywhere, CoQ10 could help you work toward a generally glowier complexion. “Internally, free radicals caused by environmental factors [such as UV radiation and pollution] can cause damage to the skin if not managed by the body’s own supply of antioxidants, including CoQ10,” Dr. Salerno says. “This can lead to

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September 20, 2019 at 12:01AM by CWC Some people swear they can drink coffee all day—even after dinner—and still drift off to sleep minutes after their head hits the pillow. Others won’t touch caffeine at all after early afternoon, saying if they did, they’d be “up all night.” My colleague’s doctor advised her to should stop drinking coffee by 10 a.m. in order to avoid disrupting her sleep cycle. But is there a specific time of day when we should cut ourselves off from caffeine? To find out when exactly when to put down the mug, I turned CEO and co-founder of FitnessGenes Dan Reardon, MD, who has studied how coffee affects different people. “The speed at which you metabolize caffeine creates a natural cut off point through the day,” he says. “Whereas a fast metabolizer might clear 100-200 milligrams—what’s in a typical cup of coffee—in just a few hours, it might take a slow metabolizer 12-hours plus, which could impact sleep.” If you’re a fast coffee metabolizer, Dr. Reardon recommends having your last cup by 5 p.m. (Sorry, coffee isn’t recommended for anyone much later.) “Let’s not forget that even for a fast metabolizer of caffeine, there could still be a cumulative effect of drinking lots of coffee early in the day, which could slow down the rate at which they break down their caffeine later,” he says. If you are a fast metabolizer who enjoys multiple cups a day, he says, cut yourself off by lunchtime so your

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