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Jacket design by Janet Perr

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Author Photograph by Rekha Garton

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Dillon, Roxy.

Title: Bio-young: get younger at a cellular and hormonal level / Roxy

Dillon, BSc, MSc.

Description: First Atria Books hardcover edition. | New York : Atria

Books, 2015.

Identifiers: LCCN 2015014733

Subjects: LCSH: Aging--Prevention. | Longevity. | Aging--Nutritional

aspects.

| Dietary supplements. | Hormone therapy. | BISAC: SELF-HELP / Aging. |

HEALTH & FITNESS / Beauty & Grooming.

Classification: LCC RA776.75 .D55 2015 | DDC 613.2--dc23 LC record

available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2015014733

ISBN 978-1-4767-9681-9

ISBN 978-1-4767-9685-7 (ebook)

The information given in this book is intended as information and is not a substitute for medical advice. If you suffer from any medical condition or if there is any possibility of pregnancy, please consult an appropriate physician for advice before implementing any of the suggestions made in this book. Before using any topical treatment, please test it on the inside of your wrist and wait twenty-four hours. If any redness, rash, or irritation develops, find an alternative from the list of suggestions applicable to the condition you wish to treat. Do not use any substance you are allergic to.

The treatments included in this book are only for adult use.

For my children, for Matilda, and for MK

Youth is wasted on the young.

Oscar Wilde

So stay young with Bio-Young !

Roxy Dillon

M y love for nature and its potential to heal and support the bodyfrom vitamins, tinctures, and supplements to food, herbs, and botanybegan very young. A dear family friend, a dermatologist, encouraged me at just three years old to enjoy half a lemon and a handful of vitamin C tablets every day. This became my favorite snack and was intended to ward off colds and flu at the time and keep my skin supple as I aged. I was so fascinated with the idea that vitamins could help our bodies function and thrive that I often recited a vitamin alphabet for funvitamin A, vitamin E, and vitamin Cthe way other kids sang their regular ABCs. I memorized their dosages by age six, and around the same time, I became fascinated with plants and flowers, too. I grew up in Slovakia. Sometimes I rode the train for almost two hours to simply visit a meadow where a deep purple orchid called Epipactis atrorubens grew. When I couldnt get there, Id pull out a card Id bought with a dried silver edelweiss pressed onto it. Id lift the cellophane that protected the flowers starlike shape and touch its small, downy petals. To me, nature was a source of beauty, fascination, usefulness, and wonder.

I bought my first book on DIY beauty treatments, Natural Beauty Secrets by Deborah Rutledge, when I was thirteen and began concocting my own face, hair, and body preparations. The first one I made was a lanolin-based cleansing lotionI was so impressed when it quickly washed ink stains from my fingers! A cultivated interest in nature transitioned into a greater passion for science and biology on an academic scale. I studied neuropsychology and neuroscience in college, and after graduation, counseled clients on nutrition and herbal treatments. I earned a masters degree in biochemical pharmacology, with postgraduate research on nutrition, serotonin and depression, and the sodium, potassium, and calcium channels in neurons. Throughout, I was fascinated with how our cellular and hormonal functioning affects how we agea field thats grown rapidly in the last fifteen years. In an ideal marriage of my personal passions and scientific research and discovery, Ive used natural substances to restore and reverse the aging process in thousands of clients ever since.

In my practice, I treat various aspects of what we call agingfrom heart disease, to diabetes, to cancer. People turn to me when they feel theres nothing the doctors can do, which makes success with natural therapies all the more gratifying. As a result, Ive always been at the forefront of this field. For instance, I recommended gou qi zior gojiberries for kidney and eye health more than a decade before they were known as a mainstream superfood; I advised the topical use of Vitasorb C, which is a preparation for internal use, years before the first serum appeared on the market to treat wrinkles; and I recommended that my patients use flax oil and healthy fats at a time when doctors insisted that fat and cholesterol were bad for their health, and now the latest research shows that many are not.

In my own life, I love trying out new treatments on myself based on exciting scientific findings that ultimately form the basis of what I believe, study, and practice. My own anti-aging routine varies according to what I need that day or week, but I assure you that Ive used every suggestion in this book. My goal is always to activate anti-aging pathways, and to keep cellular and hormonal function at a youthful level. If my hair needs a boost, Ill use rosemary and eucalyptus, or maybe lard or lanolin; if my skin looks tired, Ill go for avocado oil and licorice; and if its sagging, Ill concentrate on an almond oil and dill essential oil mix to increase elastin. At its simplest, I take fenugreek powder and fennel powder every day by adding it to a liquid. I take boron and vitamin E and eat whole-wheat pasta and soy yogurt every day. I use estrogenic herbs on my face, hair, and bodyincluding licorice, which I extract and then add to an avocado oil base, plus a fennel, aniseed, ylang-ylang, and dill essential oil combination blended with a cocoa butter or avocado oil base. To make it easy for you, the specific plan I lean on most is at the end of this book, in chapter 12. And as a result of all my anti-aging efforts, at the age of fifty-eight Im frequently thought to be in my thirtiesno matter what age you are now, you can look significantly younger with the Bio-Young program!