Glow15: A Science-Based Plan to Lose Weight, Revitalize Your Skin, and Invigorate Your Life

My Mom read this book first and mentioned that she couldn't put it down. After reading it, I realized that I was feeling the same! There is a plethora of cutting edge health information which we both found very useful. There are some great recipes for simple do-it-yourself facials and scrubs, which we loved. There are also many good healthy recipes to choose from and some easy to follow exercises. There are several testimonials throughout of people saying how following her principles has changed their lives. This author has definitely earned her 5 stars for Glow15.

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As I consider myself fairly fit and healthy and know my body really well after decades of dieting etc, I'm drawn to this book by its holistic approach and skin rejuvenation aspect as most autophagy readings seems to be focusing primarily on weight loss.I'm on a healthy lifestyle 80% of the time other than the occasional festive period or cheat days (my diet revolves around ketogenic mainly plant based fat, bulletproof, water fasting, warrior fast, protein fast, complex carb cycling - no simple carb). I've read quite a bit on autophagy and tried but only really sees its strong effect during and after a 5 day Water fast (can't measure it other than journalling my potentially biased observation of energy level, skin, body/muscle ache due to detox(?)), and normally makes me skin looks bad and dull on days 3/4 and it starts to glow on day 5/6, similar thing with energy level.After trying glow 15 I will reduce my water fast to 2/3 times a year. with this diet I could tell my skin glowing similar to a 5 days fast without the body ache or dull skin. Although my body isn't in a ketogenic state (daily measure of ketone says so) most of the time, as higher carb intake during low protein days, I still managed to trim a bit around my thighs and upper body which is quite shocking as I totally did not expect this. (my body fat is around 18% which is just OK for me, a non althelete with a desk job - anything lower, as tried out in my 20s, I'll start having problems with hormones and irregular period and rough and wrinkled skin). This is probably water loss although my body is quite toned, but I'd imagine it'll be more for someone with a higher bmi. Also as I do 5 day water fast 4-5 times a year this bit of loss is impressive, I don't think this is muscle loss as my overall protein level is maintained and replenished on high days.Definitely adding this to my roster now. It's not the easiest diet as one has to count protein carefully on low day (yay I now know the protein count for a cauli or fennel) and on high days I tend to get some "out of control" moment that I need to reel myself in... (which is funny and for some reason I think it's easier to do a 5 day fast than this, cos the craving will go away after day 3 where I enter a zone of zen and have no reaction to any food esp sweet or carbs!!!)

Major inflammation foods included in this book, like cheese (dairy) and eggs for people with autoimmune disease, there is no word about the inflammation effects on food groups, like nightshades, dairy, eggs, peanuts and gluten. I thought this book was to promote cellular health and to turn off the inflammation pathways while incorporating the benefits of cyclical fasting. The author has an autoimmune disease herself so I think it is really weird to include all this dairy based dishes and recipes for example.

This is a must read! I followed this protocol for 5 weeks and dropped 6% bodyfat, cholesterol levels, my energy soared. I have continued to apply AUTOPHAGY principles and feel 20 years younger. I am 55. I LOVE this book!