Well, fat is a great wrinkle filler. But now I have less fat and I still don't look nearly as wrinkled as my friends who are my age.

Carbs screw up your collagen and elastin.

If you read a little more carefully, you'll see that I wasn't offering a conclusive proof.

You're misquoting me.

I don't think the OP was even asking for formal proofs, just for casual opinions.

Not 10 minutes ago one of my regular customers asked how old I was (we were talking about stuff we watched on TV as kids). I told her 44. She just about fell over. She thought I was younger than her and so did I! (She is 40..I thought she was 45-49. Good thing I never opened my big mouth!!!)

just a stroll through the success galleries can show the difference in peoples' faces; even after minimal losses.

When I did low fat people kept telling me how sick and old I looked!

When I used to go workout at the YWCA many of the trainers thought I was in my early thirties. I was 40/41 at the time.

I hear all of the time now that I look radiant, how good my skin looks, how much younger I look, and what a glow I have. I have been hearing this since I started on the low carb. I was losing weight doing low fat for 11 months before I started low carb and nobody told me I looked radiant or that I glowed, that I looked younger or that my skin looked wonderful. Since I used the same skin products then as I do now, I'm guessing the change has to have come about from the low carb. Anecdotal, I know - but gather enough anecdotal evidence in one place, and it begins to add up.

well.... dr. mercola has does a very low carb diet. raw based paleo diet... hes the same age as my diet.. my dad eats extreme high grain carb, drank and smoked for most of his life... mercola and my dad are the same age.. my dad looks alot healthier and younger than mercola.

I agree... the OP asked what did we think... not what does the evidence say.

It's also the genes, Blackjack - the genes! Pick the right ancestors and you can look younger than your peers, regardless of diet. (And not smoking and eating good fats definitely avoid wrinkling.) But Mercola also has been a long distance runner for decades, and runners don't carry much fat. He might eat it, but doesn't hang on to it long enough to do much good.

this is true thinny.. also mercola says he use to be a high carb grain addict for years.. ( he blames his hair loss on his grain addiction)

Speaking strictly for myself, I've always looked ten years younger than I am - even when I was fat. That continues now. But, everyone in my family has looked younger than their age, so, in my case, it's a genetic thing, I guess. I do notice my skin looks healthier, though, but that might be the coconut oil I've been using.

Gary

Yes, I do think people eating paleo/low carb look younger. And noone can take that away from me. I'm entitled to my delusions.
Do I think they'll live longer? That's more important to me. I have no freaking idea. There's lots of evidence that sugar and insulin can speed up the aging of animals. But there's also lots of evidence that protein will do the same thing. But the protein's usually caseine. Or it's purified amino acids, with one or two individual amino acids replaced with glutamic acid or something. So who knows?

So what it boils down to then, is, Do we want more years of life, or life in our years? That's easy - I have been more than half dead on occasion, but living with a debilitating condition isn't really living, either. Postpone the disability as long as possible by eating and living well, and pray for a speedy ending. (It's better to have mourners say - She died too young! than bankrupted heirs to say -She lived too long!)

I think I look way worse.

Why? Too much sun? Too much stress? Too fast a weight loss? Other?