Dr. Austin Lake
Appearances
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
a 16 year old or even a 13 year old on birth control to control an issue that doesn't actually solve any problems but creates a lot more problems you start seeing the side effects of not having ovulation and that's a big problem long term and you start seeing issues like endometriosis and pcos you look at these young healthy childbearing women and you wonder why is it so difficult to get pregnant why is it so difficult to maintain a pregnancy
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
family the house work financials all this stuff and then it's like we expect them to have good functioning hormones and our society is full of passive men and very strong like women who want to take charge right and i think we got to have a balance to that you know we have to have a balance to how we're going to manage that long term short term i think you know having um
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
a female who wants to build a career and wants to like gain education and like work out like that, that can work. Like you can do that, but you have to have this, like this offloading of these responsibilities in some capacity. And I think our society financially or whatever, even just from our perspective on, on sex, like, I think we have this idea that, It has to be a certain way.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
And I just think that's, I think it's leading to our demise when it comes to our health problems. It's encouraging people to destroy their bodies.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
Yeah, and now it's just virtual. So it was brick and mortar. Now we just do 100% virtual.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
It's more glorified coaching or consulting. I think people need that more than they even realize.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
yeah i so from my understanding of the history um margaret sanger was one of the pioneers in the early 1920s of the eugenics movement right they were for this whole kind of pure society so they wanted to kind of control population and ensure that I mean, it was very racist. It was very discriminatory and very much in line with Nazism and all that stuff. So not a good place to start.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
Like white Aryan wanted- Yeah, just a pure society. Pure society. Like white society, I guess. And so a lot of this birth control was directed through Planned Parenthood in these areas that were not white. They were more lower income and maybe different ethnicities. And I was a tongue twister, but-
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
they were just they were kind of targeting these certain areas of of the population they didn't want right and so that was kind of the beginning point of that and i think since then planned parenthood has obviously separated themselves with margaret but the thing that concerned me was looking into when birth control became a big deal was mostly in the 70s like it became a little bit more popular and there was a different doctor involved with that that kind of formulated that and um
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
looking at the connection there with the feminist movement was also when that was happening. So it was empowerment of women, which again, we want women to vote. We don't want to have free speech. Like all those things are good. Like there's no question about that. Right. But it was more about, Hey, if you want to get out and work, like you don't want to be having babies. Right.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
So like, let's just stop your ovulation cycle. And like, let's just, You don't need to worry about that, right? And so you start having more women doing that.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
And I think it's just that has only increased since the 70s and to where now a 16-year-old is being put on birth control or even a 13-year-old is on birth control to control an issue that doesn't actually solve any problems but creates a lot more problems. You start seeing the side effects of not having – ovulation and not having a proper cleansing of your uterus. That's a big problem long-term.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
And you start seeing issues like endometriosis and maybe PCOS, depending on how far it goes. Gosh, there's so much PCOS out there.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
Yeah, thanks for having me, Gary. It's been... I was very...
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
because of insulin resistance, right? You got all these high carb, carb-refined carbohydrates being consumed in conjunction with endocrine-disrupting chemicals, you know, fragrances, lotions, you know, people think, especially young girls, lathering that on their system and on their skin. And next thing you know, you have this hormonal storm that happens.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
Which is really when women are probably at their strongest and most resilient and high energy. So you kind of take a woman who's like going through a full gamut of emotions and energy cycles and just how they feel. And then you take out the best period of that cycle. And it's like you're dropping their the way they feel drastically.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
That's why I think depression and anxiety is so high in women that take birth control. I think it's 30% or more maybe are having pretty severe anxiety and depression when they're on birth control. And again, it's a third. You're missing a third of that.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
Yeah, I've seen that.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
Yeah, you gotta look at day 21 typically when you're optimizing that.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
Yeah, thoroughly enough. I think, yeah, so if you had a teenager, and I'm trying to, like, picture my own daughters here, like how I would talk to them. How old are they? Five and three. Okay. And then I have a seven-year-old son and then a four-month-old son. Okay.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
Yeah.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
He has six, yeah.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
And she's like, I hate it when you say that. It's like my babies.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
No, that's true. Yeah. I think, um, So if it were my kids, if it were my daughters, uh, I think the, the whole sex conversations, uh, that's its own conversation by itself, right? Like kids are going to go off and do things that are maybe not what you plan for them to do.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
Um, but I think if you, if, if somebody, if somebody is saying you need to be on birth control, the first question I would ask is like, okay, well, what are they like? What symptoms are they having? What kind of problems? Like, is this something that's, You're trying to control with menstrual cramping before cycle begins. Is it debilitating in that way?
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
Okay, if it is, what are you doing leading up to the beginning of your menstrual cycle? Because once you enter that luteal phase, your need for B vitamins increases, magnesium increases, omega-3 increases as a foundation. And then you also understand that you're going to be kind of on the tail end of this bell curve.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
And if you start here at the follicular phase and you kind of get ovulation, you kind of hit the luteal phase, It really is like you're kind of coming off this high, right? And that high is going to require you to understand, like, maybe I shouldn't be exercising quite as hard as I happen. And a lot of these young athletes that are being pushed and pushed and pushed,
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
not considering their cycle and not, I think that's such a conversation I think should be so foundational, but whoever does that, like what coach is like, okay, girls, like where you at in your cycles, you know? Instead of it's like, go, go, go, go, push, push, push. And it's like, hey, they may not actually have it in the tank right now.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
And we can work on getting it in the tank, but having the understanding that when female bodies are not consistent, like a male, male's hormones are very consistent. for a long time, females are all over the place. And that's why I think female are so challenging is that we're not considering those fluctuations.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
And I think that's, that would be the first thing is just like, are we pushing our daughter too hard? Yeah. Um, is she pushing herself too hard? If her culture is pushing herself too hard, is she sleeping? So can you read them conversation? Is she, she taking basic supplements? You know, is she, um, Is she MTHFR? Does she have MTHFR?
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
Nobody talks about that. And women have it more often than men. Significantly more often. Yeah, what, 60-40 or something like that? Yeah, 60-40. Yeah, so those kind of conversations, just having that awareness of what are they actually up against on a consistent basis? And then, obviously, you have to touch on food. If they're eating everything else that they're...
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
schools feeding them or their friends are consuming and they're consuming all these processed foods like all the things that you always talk about that i love like it's like if that's a part of their daily regimen where their insulin's becoming less sensitive with their inflammation skyrocketing their omega-6s are off the chart and they're deficient and all these other things vitamin d omega-3s like you cannot expect that their hormonal building blocks are going to be there for their thriving of their of their body because like they're pushing uh they're pushing a survival response through cortisol
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
And that directly will tank progesterone. And that will directly affect conversion. Yeah, sleep. And then it'll affect their conversion of estrogens from testosterone and that aromatase pathway. And that's where PCOS becomes a lot more problematic for these younger women. And so I think there's so many things that need to be done before birth control is even considered.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
let alone the prevention of a child, but like just in terms of prevention of the symptoms, we have to figure out like, what are we trying to accomplish here? And I think that's the starting point.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
um i never did yeah i mean i knew nothing about this stuff and i my parents didn't know either you know and so i think i think for people like us who are in this world and this is constantly what we do and think about it it's like super obvious right like it's like oh just this is what you have to do but there's somebody else that's not in this world they have their responsibilities they have their job
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
Um, they're doing what they're told and they're doing what they think is best. And so they think this birth control is the best option So we love our daughter. Let's do what's best for her, right?
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
But I think if you if you understand like, okay Maybe we can say like that's not best right and just like get that out of the way Then it just opens the door for people like let's let's evaluate our life. Let's figure out what we can do Again, that's not expensive. Like this is not expensive stuff. Like it doesn't need to be a
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
a ten thousand dollar a night resort in mexico to make this happen like this is stuff that you can do starting now but it requires intentionality and discipline and a belief that you can actually impact it and fix it right so i think that's where again i always have to start there with my clients and just making sure that they understand what's possible
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
And then from there, we just break down their life. We were talking about this other guy who's like a financial auditor, and he'll have people come in on his podcast, and he'll just rip them a new one and be like, you're spending all this money. They said they have no money. And then he looks at their finances and they're like, you have way more money than you think you have.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
well yeah i think there's there's the the grassroots effect that has to be there so there needs to be a i think a bottom up and a top down to kind of solve the whole problem right so we have to have the top down i think that's what rfk is going to give us the best chance for i mean There's not many options out there. When you compare it to our last HHS secretary. Oh my gosh.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
You're just being foolish with it. You're not being intentional. And I kind of do it with my clients. I just look at it like, hey, you say you've done everything and nothing works, but have you done this? Have you tried getting your circadian rhythm balanced? Have you tried not eating these foods? Have you tried taking these supplements and being consistent with them?
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
Have you actually followed a protocol? Like, have you kind of done some detailed lab work? Like, have you, have you done this stuff? Right. Well, I've tried a little bit of this, a little bit of that.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
because of insulin resistance, right? You got all these high carb, carb-refined carbohydrates being consumed in conjunction with endocrine-disrupting chemicals, you know, fragrances, lotions, lathering on their skin. And next thing you know, you have this hormonal storm that happens.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
And exercising and they're not gaining or they're losing, they're not losing any weight. They may be gaining weight.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
Yeah. Yeah. So we start with whatever labs they've had done. We kind of analyze what were they, where they currently are. Most panels are pretty basic. So we can kind of facilitate and recommend like what they think, they should get. And we'll usually start with, you know, looking at micronutrients, making sure that they have sufficient B vitamins, you know, vitamin.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
Yeah, we have to start with that. Omega-3, we do a fatty acid panel just to make sure that they have that box checked.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
I've only had one person that was not like on the extreme side of the range. Like they were actually like in the moderate area of the range with their omega-3 to omega-6 fatty acid ratio. Most people are like so off the charts with omega-6s. It's unbelievable.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
Yeah, seed oils are diet. I mean, a deficiency of omega-3s in our food that they're consuming. So they're not getting any balance. Yeah, I think everybody needs to substitute with omega-3s.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
I heard you talking on a podcast and my wife, Carly, she showed it to me and she's like, I wonder if he's like seeing what you talk about because he asked you like, what are the top five things you recommend everybody should do? Yeah. And like you recommended the things and I was like, that's exactly what you recommend. And it's like, I agree. It's like, You got to have vitamin D3 with K2.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
You got to have magnesium. You got to make sure you have sufficient omega-3 fatty acids. And, you know, you can throw in a couple of different things, multivitamin B complex, whatever. But like those are so crucial to just basic foundational health. I agree. For the human being. And they're not being, like I talk about it all the time. And I know you talk about it all the time too.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
But it's still, people don't know about it.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
To him, I think we had a pretty good chance to make some change. Yeah, I would really agree with that.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
So we'll start with the first visit I do with my clients is we'll walk through their life, all the kind of things we're talking about at the beginning of the podcast, just like what is holding you back from being consistent? Like what true obstacles do you really have? Because some people have legitimate obstacles in their way. We can't change everything.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
But we meet them where they are, and I provide them a meal plan that I've – it's an elimination-style process we go through. I call it diagnostic because it really is kind of helpful to diagnose like what – I always say, what healthy foods are not healthy for you?
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
What I mean by that is that eggs, for example, that's a big spectrum of what quality is and also how your immune system responds to it. Eggs are a superfood. Like if you do all of them, they're fantastic. If you don't, they trash your immune system. And so- If you aren't allergic to the egg proteins. Right, or the egg proteins or just like what's in the egg, corn and soy and all that stuff.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
So there's that conversation of like, hey, we got to figure out if that's a problem for you. But the only way to figure that out, at least in my opinion,
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
is to get them to where they feel better so the first four to six weeks like i want to see that their their weight has changed because if they have if they have this inflammatory weight like that should start to fall off um i want to from an elimination diet that plus kind of like whatever protocol we get them started on from a supplement perspective it usually involves
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
the foundational principles that I talked about. Every once in a while, there'll be a couple variations here and there. But we always mean where they are and say, hey, if you own these supplements that are quality and the dosages seem to be sufficient, let's keep those and start with those. You gotta take them, but you gotta start with that.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
If they don't, I'll make some suggestions on different options and brands that I think are a better fit for them. But it's just, there is recommendations, right? Depending on where we need to go from there, we get that foundation set. We get their sleep circadian rhythm set. We get their hydration.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
Well, there's core principles to it, right? Like most biohackers or just people that are in this moral turn of health space, understand like there are core principles to health that you can't skip over. And I think our government has different ideas on that and they think you can. And I think that's why we're seeing such issues with our health.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
Yeah, it's all the typical. Limit blue light. Limit your intake of food a few hours before you go to bed. Make sure you're not overhydrating right before bed because you need to wake up and go to the bathroom. Make sure your electrolytes and minerals are all balanced beforehand. Make sure that you're not just...
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
zoning out watching tv before you're trying to go to sleep and then fall asleep 10 minutes later and you wake up an hour later and you're all disrupted and i think the biggest thing that i try to tell people though is there's this i like to use this example of missing the bus to sleepy town which is very childish but it works for people and it's just saying like you know there's there's a bus that's going to take you right to sleep it's the first bus is great like it's going to take you right to your destination you're going to get there feeling refreshed and all good to go the next day if you miss that bus like you know you're getting tired at 8 30 9 o'clock you're like oh i'll just push through and
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
I'll catch the next bus at 10 30. I'll go to bed then. You may not go to sleep right away. Like you might have a cortisol spike. You're going to have an issue with your melatonin dropping. The next thing you know, you're having a rough road all night long and you wake up feeling tired. And so understanding like. And the later bus is even worse.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
Yeah. Second wind phenomenon.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
Right. You gotta cut it off here. But it makes sense hormonally, right? And again, for women to understand how cortisol will directly affect their progesterone and how it'll affect their sex hormones is critical because you're robbing Peter to pay Paul kind of situation with your hormones.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
There's a certain number of hormones you can make from your cholesterol and it's gonna be diverted depending on what your body needs. Cortisol is a surviving hormone. If you're like, hey, I'm stressed out. I'm watching something that's stimulating. I'm staying up past my bedtime. And now we're getting into a stressful conversation. And now all of a sudden I'm hyped up.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
You're not going to fall asleep. That's not how your body's designed. It's making you more alert. So those basic things, just making sure people understand. And I never assume with anybody. I always make sure this is what we have to do. they tell me all the time, I've done everything. I'm like, I, I take your word for there.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
But more times than not, we're not actually doing it, it gets back to this whole idea of honoring your body and understanding like, what am I trying to do with this? And I can, we can get into that a little bit, but you have to do all those foundational sleep hygiene principles first. Like those are, those are absolute necessities.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
Yeah. But if you, so if you do those things and then you start supplementing with like magnesium glycinate, L-theanine or, you know, something in that ballpark, that's usually enough for most women to start initiating a good sleep cycle. Um,
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
And then from there, if they're having like true insomnia, you know, where they can't fall asleep or they can't stay asleep, that's where I have a couple different protocols I've used in the past where it's like we'll do a short, short term of a low dose melatonin, like 0.5 milligrams.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
It's just, we've skipped over these core foundational principles of what it means to be a healthy human being. And you can't do that. Like there's consequences to that. So it doesn't need to be political. I think the whole thing, making this whole conversation political is It's just ridiculous because people need to be healthy.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
If they're not on any SSRIs or anything like that, we'll maybe recommend like 5-HTP for a short period of time just to kind of help that process get going in conjunction with magnesium, glycinate, or L-threonate, depending on what kind of issues are happening. That's usually more for like a racing mind, in my opinion, if they're struggling with that.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
Well, that's one of the primary ways we detox, right? Yeah. And so, so many women, they have thyroid issues and they have sluggish bowels. You know, they don't detox. And they're like, I go every once, every couple of days. Right. That's not normal. You know, you should be going multiple times a day. Right. Ideally. So, do you want to go more to sleep or do you want to talk about...
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
Yeah, and I think I want to get back to what you said. You said something really interesting of this idea that it can't be that simple. It must be something more difficult.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
And sometimes it is really tricky because we're dealing with human beings and you don't always know everything that's going on. But I think we want an excuse to be able to kind of just do what we want. It's hard being consistent. It's hard being disciplined. It's one of those things that
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
um i think it's one of those like choose your heart you know yeah right like what do you want and down the road but like hard work sucks too yeah it does really sucks yeah i mean they're both hard but like the short-term satisfaction short-term you know instantaneous gratification idea is like that's what instagram is all about like it's just hitting that all the time and so we're getting that programmed into ourselves like constantly so putting our effort towards something that we won't see results on for like two to three weeks which is to me it's like
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
I mean, I've had people that had fibromyalgia, that had debilitating hormonal issues, diabetes, autoimmune conditions that were just debilitated. And three weeks, their symptoms start going away. And they're just like, I didn't even know this was possible. They lose weight, they start feeling energized, they're like, what am I supposed to do with this energy?
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
I'm just like, God created our bodies to heal.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
Your body is craving healing.
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I would agree. Suboptimal deficiency for sure. Yeah, suboptimal. Clinical deficiency is like that's below 30.
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Okay, and that's crazy too. But like below 55? Yeah. Like that's most people.
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Protective, yeah.
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Yeah.
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There was a stat, I'm trying to remember what the percentage was. It was like 70 or 90% of people that died from COVID were like deficient.
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Which is wild.
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And also like they're calling it a racist virus because, you know,
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the amount of smokers that didn't die from COVID?
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Yeah.
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I'm not trying to bring it up on purpose, but I thought it was a good opportunity.
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Well, because even if you're using like a pouch or something, there's a bunch of aspartame in there, bioengineered food ingredients and stuff like that. So it's like a lot of gums have, by the way. People never talk about gum. Like gum's one of the worst things that we're chewing on all day long that have all these chemicals in it. Right. Yeah, anyway, that's just a fun conversation.
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But I'm the same as you.
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It always gets back to this concept, too, of the things that are coming from our earth that are healing. It's an alkaloid from this Madagascar periwinkle plant. I feel like you just made that up.
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I grow those on my balcony. I practice saying that like 20 times. The Madagascarian plant.
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Yeah, not that form. South Polynesian. No, but there's this alkaloid compound that's, I think it's called vincristine. It's what they use for chemotherapy. It's like $28,000 a gram. Okay. 10 times what it is for gold. And it's like, so what it does is there's, this is something else that sounds weird, but the shikimate pathway within plants is like what allows this to be produced.
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And there's other plants that have the same pathway that is producing these alkaloids that are very helpful for the human body, right? When we consume them. Well, glyphosate blocks that pathway. And so there's all these other foods that we're consuming that are not getting, we're not getting this access to these alkaloids that would normally be there.
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And so you're eating this food that's like cardboard that doesn't have any nutritional, real nutritional value and anti-cancer properties to it. And that to me is just like, they know it's worth that much and they know it's beneficial in that way and they're harvesting it. But yeah, I didn't hear about this until like a few weeks ago.
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Spirulina or anything like that? What's that? Spirulina.
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Yeah, they're very, very hidden. I had a client recently, she had mold. So we tested her. She was having terrible issues with thyroid. Estrogen was just all out of control. So I was like, do you have any, like, where do you, like, she lives in Florida. And so I was like, do you have any mold issues?
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We won the mold lottery in Miami. Oh, I'm sure. I can't imagine. And so I was like, have you checked for mold and all that? And We had her do mold tests, and sure enough, Xerolone, or I can't remember how to say it, it's a type of mold, but it affects estrogen activity, right? And so she was very estrogen-dominant, and also her thyroid was just completely out of whack. And sure enough, like,
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She's starting to see huge improvements by getting that. But that was something that I didn't even realize.
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Historically, that was the case, but that's old data at this point. Yeah. when you see the the complete decline even in the last 20 years like since 1990 especially last 30 years but even the last 20 years you see a shift where things are
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Yeah. I mean, considering hormones rule the world, I'm very pro-hormones. But you're talking about like- Hormone supplementation. Yeah. Obviously, bioidentical is what I preference. Of course. I've had a lot of clients that have come to me after they've been on bioidentical hormones for a while. And they're like, hey, it was great the first few years, doesn't seem to be working anymore.
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And that's where we start to intervene. I always tell my clients, if you're on them currently, you may not need to be at the same dosage that you were on to start. And so as you start fixing some of these issues, we always recommend they go back to wherever the doctor is and have them reevaluate it and adjust it and change them down because we don't want to start creating more problems.
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If you give a woman testosterone and she doesn't convert it well, and she starts converting more androgens and she's not going to have, she's going to have more problems than she started off with long-term. And so I think it has to be a very complimentary kind of approach with it. And that's where, again, where we fit in. We're not prescribing them. We're not telling them to get off them.
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We're just saying like, hey, this is where you are with your lifestyle. This is how we're going to help support you in that and help you implement these changes. And then let's let your body tell you via testing, like what you need to do next. And they, they love that because there's no shortage of hormone prescription out there. Like everyone wants to do that.
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So again, it's going to depend on what's kind of driving it. If it is a deficiency or if it is something like their gut health because of how involved your gut is in detoxing estrogen and metabolizing it. And so a lot of women have, and I shouldn't say a lot, but women that have high estrogen, they have also high beta-glucuronidase.
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And so that affects the enzyme that will help to detox estrogen out of your system in phase two detox. And so If the body doesn't do that because they have a processed diet and all these deficiencies, then like that's the first place I assume is like your microbiome is probably disrupted.
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And that's a very, again, that's why they see a huge effect with the diet we put them on because it's very focused on their microbiome and getting beneficial bacteria and eliminating processed foods and high inflammatory foods and also getting their macros corrected to where they're getting sufficient fat and protein.
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along with all these other things we've talked about, their body starts to rebuild their microbiome. And then when it does that, beta-glucuronidase comes down to a normal level, and their detox ability goes up. And next thing they know, they've lost 15 pounds in four weeks. None of it is usually... They're not losing muscle. They're losing water weight and some fat, but mostly water.
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It's inflammatory. When they see that happening, then we get their estrogen to where it's more appropriate. At that point in time, like you were saying, we look at the ratios. Is the ratio between progesterone and estrogen, is that more in balance? I think as women are transitioning from
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you know, 45 to 55, their primary ability to produce progesterone is limited because they no longer produce in their ovaries, they produce in their adrenal glands. So if your adrenal glands are taxed all the time, you're not gonna be able to produce as much progesterone as quickly as you need to when you need it.
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And that's why I think, again, women have to- That's a game changer for sleep for women too. So huge.
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Oh yeah, for all of us. So the hard part though is like, okay, where are they from here to getting to here? And like, sometimes it does require
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dim or you know chase tree berry or whatever it is to kind of help get those balances right but that's not the first place we start like that to me is so we have four phases the the third and fourth phase are really focused on metabolic and sex hormone health but i don't i always tell them like we can't get here until we get this this your your inflammation your detoxification under control yeah if we do that like it'll pave the way for rapid success in these other phases with your thyroid and your sex hormones
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That's where I think, that's where I think people need to start.
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Besides all the like additive and like, I have a whole, like I have a book on all this stuff, but like one of the, I have a whole list of like, you have a book on it. Yeah, it's not officially out. It'll probably be out by the time this is out, but it's probably going to just be an e-book. It's called Holy Health. It's like W-H or W-H-O-L-L-Y. And it's like a play on just like being whole, right?
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But also it's kind of funny. So I talk about a whole list of ingredients like carrageen and titanium dioxide and magnesium stearate, all these basic ones that shouldn't be in there. But then you have to look at the quality of whatever supplement you're taking.
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So if you're taking something like a B6 supplement, it's like there's P5P, pyridoxal 5-phosphate, and there's also pyridoxine, HCL, or whatever it is. So that's synthetic, not a natural form of that, and that's going to be not a danger, but more... less easily absorbed for the body.
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Yeah, right. Yeah. And so getting those things right is where I just, I try to educate them. I try to show them. That's why I think for them coming to me, they're like, what do you think I should be taking? Like even the supplement conversation, like I'm taking this one is this okay? And I'm usually like, well, not so much.
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And it's like, this is an alternative option you can look at. It's natural and it's going to be absorbed and this is how you can absorb it. And so this is when to take it. This is how much to consider taking. So that's where we start with a lot of these people. But I think if you I don't even know where to start with that.
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Cause there's so many supplements that we could talk about depending on which supplement you want to know. Um, but I think it just depends on the supplement you're.
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And that kind of just sparked something in my mind, but- A lot of, you know, we're talking about food. Like we always want to start with food, right? Like I think supplements, I'm a huge fan of supplements. I use them all the time, endorse them a lot. But some people are like, why can't I get it through food? Like, well, there's a lot of reasons for that.
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But if you're eating even quality food, I switch my clients over to, you know, grass-fed, grass-finished beef if we can. Of course. Get them all those staples going. Yeah.
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But some people are like, I'm doing that. I've been doing that. And I'm still not seeing, my B12 is still low. I'm like, okay, well, how's your stomach acid? What do you mean? Like, well, I don't have any acid reflux. Maybe I do have acid reflux. I'm on a PPI, a proton pump inhibitor.
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Well, I heard Joel, he had Dr. Joel Warsh, he was saying it's one in 22 in California.
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And my B12 is low. My iron is low. My vitamin D is low. It's like, well, like your stomach acid is not acidic enough to actually absorb these things and break them down. And the way you can figure that out is that intrinsic factor is what helps, you know, B12, for example, actually get into your cell.
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And so that's a, I always forget to mention this, but like that's one of the starting points with this whole conversation with our clients is like, How is your stomach acid? That is a starting point of health. If you don't chew well and you don't break it down well, and you're expecting your microbiome to be good, it's impossible.
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You can take a bunch of these supplements, but you could get it through eating grass-fed beef and some of these other nutrients, these other amino acids, and you would probably be better off than where you currently are. And then we can start to fill your needs with supplements and things like that. So it has to start with that whole holistic perspective.
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I'll just say I've converted a lot of vegans into regular eaters. Okay. Omnivores.
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I haven't seen enough to support that that's a good idea. And I've had a lot of clients that were really struggling. Very, very clean in their life. Very low chemical toxins coming through their diet and things like that. But they weren't getting enough of the foundations through animal products.
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And I think, again, I have a hard time getting a blanket statement on that because I think it can be very helpful and effective for women depending on where they are in their journey. I would just encourage women to, again, get back to this misbelief that they have no role in this whole conversation. I try to explain things in very...
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of like analogies so like if you think about like a king in a castle who has his people in front of peasants in front of him he has his knights and protecting him and all that like if there's a threat he's gonna be the first one to leave he won't return until everything's all safe and sound and that's kind of what your hormones do like they're very much responding to an environment at least your sex hormones like they're not going to be there when you're surviving and so if your environment is constantly
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sending a signal to your hormones that they need to respond to this dangerous environment. You just can't expect your sex hormones to be well supplied.
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You have to believe that first. Start with that. Don't let the misconception or maybe even deception of our society tell you it's not in your hands because I think a lot of it can be in your hands. From there, you can make an informed decision about what hormone replacement therapy will look like. How much? What kind? Am I doing testosterone, progesterone, and estrogen?
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Or am I just doing testosterone? Or am I just doing some progesterone? Because getting a multitude of different hormones coming into your system and not converting well, because you still are lacking B5 and B6, and you still have issues with methylation, and you still have this issue with your gut, it's not going to go well for you long term, at least in what I've seen.
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So you have to kind of build, yeah, get the fish tank clean, and then start to figure out what you need to do from there.
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And again, that's not going to solve every single problem. But I think you have to start there, right? Yeah, and I think a lot of people get so discouraged and hopeless with their effort. And I always tell people, it's like, if you can get that set up first, it's like a good financial investment. Like you can make money while you're sleeping.
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You can be building better health while you're sleeping. If you get these things in alignment, your body can move away from just being like, I think people focus on doing a lot of healthy things, but they don't focus on healing. And there's a big difference. Healing is very active and very intentional and very specific.
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And it's figuring out what your problem is with a qualified practitioner to then identify what your healing protocol looks like. If you broke your wrist, you wear a cast, you don't just take it off on the weekends. You keep it on, you heal it for eight weeks, and then you get back to rehabbing. And that's the process. with our hormones and with our health, we don't view it that way.
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We kind of just like, well, I'm eating pretty healthy. I'm doing some things. I wear my blue light blocking glasses and I try to keep my stress low. And it's like, okay, those are all very good things. But like, what is missing in your specific system requires specific information. And then you have to follow that pathway.
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Just cut it in real quick.
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These women are getting testing done. They'll come back in six months and they'll put on a home replacement therapy and things will change short term, but then they go right back to where they were because they never fixed any of the foundational problems that were existing.
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So the biblically rooted thing is probably the most important aspect of this whole thing from my practice's perspective in my life. But I think there's two simple ways to think about it. There's a conversation that we are ignorant to things we don't know. God says in Hosea 4, verse 6, I think that my people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. That's a problem.
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We don't want to be destroyed by things we don't know. The second thing is iniquities. Those are things that we do know we do anyway and don't really care. It's like, I'm going to harm my body. And this was a more recent revelation that I had about the verse, I think it's 1 Corinthians 13, your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit.
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In that, it says, though, like, you know, your bodies are not your own. They were bought with a price. Therefore, honor God with your bodies. And the thing that stuck out to me was like, oh, this isn't mine. Like, if I borrow somebody's car, like, I fill it up full of gas.
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Yeah. But, like, if I borrow somebody's car, like, I fill it up full of gas. Like, I'll maybe clean it out a little bit. If it's my car, I'm like, eh, I don't know. It's fine. I'll just maybe not wash it this week or fill it up. But I think having that perspective, like, this is not mine. Like, this is a vessel that God gave me to be a steward over.
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That belief is so impactful when it comes to this health stuff because you can have all the information. People have so much information these days about what they could potentially do with their health. Yet most people don't take any action on it. And I think we were talking about this today on the way over here. It's just like in Ecclesiastes, King Solomon had everything.
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Richest person probably ever. Thousand chariots, thousand wives.
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A thousand wives is a lot of wives. Maybe that's where he went wrong. That was his downfall for sure.
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But like, you know, he's talking about and he always says meaningless. It's all vanity under the sun and all this stuff. And I think from a believer's perspective, even just like an average person that isn't a believer, it's like, well, it's all meaningless. What does it even matter? But that's not the point of Ecclesiastes.
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Like the point of Ecclesiastes is that it's not like the actual real word is like a Hebrew word is like Hevel is like what meaningless means. So we associate with like nothing. Hevel is like, it's like you can't grasp it. It's like seeing fog go across. Like you see it, you don't understand it. You can't like put your hand on it, right? So that's kind of what life is. It's like life is Hevel.
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Like it's not something that we can fully grasp and put our hands on, but it's not like pointless. Like there's so much value in our life, but we can't go one side of making it all about, might as well not do anything because what's the point? And we also can't make it about making it an idol to where like, this is all it's about. And like my health is everything and my biomarkers are everything.
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And like my fitness is everything. Cause like that's, that's not healthy either. So I think for me as a Christian, it's like, I have to kind of constantly be in this, this mindset of like, it's not this, it's not meaningless, but it's not everything at the same time. And like, this is for me, it's like, God has a plan for my life that is bigger than I even understand. And he has an impact.
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And I can tell, I can tell you a bunch of stories about this, but before I even blew up online, I prayed that God opened the floodgates and bring people to me like two years ago. And each time, like sitting here with you right now, it's just like, so, so surreal because like, I never would imagine this would ever happen. But like when it happens, I'm like, Oh, like I prayed for this to happen.
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And as a child of God, He likes giving good gifts and he likes showing off a little bit and saying, hey, I am in control. I am in control here. Don't forget, I am in control. This life is not meaningless. It's not pointless. You are here for a reason. I think as parents, as people who are trying to better their health, you have to figure out what is that reason for you?
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And I think this is where I, that question of, of, okay, if you incentivize people for, for, I don't even personally, I don't even think it's about money. I think it goes much deeper than that. I think it's something to do more because like you could make money off of healthy people. Like incentivizing people to get healthier, you can make a bunch of money off that, right? You could.
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What is that why to where all this effort that you're putting in, all this toil, like King Solomon talks about in Ecclesiastes, the toil is our reward. The toil is worth it. Hard work is good.
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Understanding why you're doing it is better. And I think if people can get that correlation dialed in to where they know that if I do these things, it's going to yield a result and that it's worth it, people are going to invest in their health and that they won't have nearly the issues that they're having now because they see that what they do matters and that there's some level of
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like purpose and all that. And it's not about all the money we make and all that stuff. Like that's all going to fall away at some point. It's like if you build a sandcastle, like you start at 7 a.m. in the morning, you build this magnificent sandcastle and it's beautiful. You're like really, you're like toiling with it. You're laboring with it, doing it with your child or something like that.
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And then next thing you know, the tide comes in and washes it all away.
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Like that's what our life is. Yeah. But like all that, that whole process building a sandcastle wasn't for nothing. It all had value.
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145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
So online at my Instagram, you guys can link that. I usually have a link at the top of my page. Dr. Austin Lake? Yeah, dr.austin.lake. dr.austin.lake. That's right. Okay. I currently have a website that's transitioning, and so it's going to be under... holy.health. Transitioning to what, a male or female?
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145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
Transitioning from a... So we're building... We're going to start training coaches to operate in this because we've had such a high demand for what we're doing, just like yourself. And so we're building a training program for coaches to help them to go out and to service these people that need help to help implement this stuff.
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145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
And again, it's not that it's secretive information, but it's just people need help with implementation. So It's going to be this new thing that we're doing. That's why it's transitioning to a different website, but I'll be talking more about that on my social media and stuff. So you can find, you can also just Google my name and you'll find stuff on me.
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145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
Russell Brand stole the answer. I watched that episode.
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145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
That dude is amazing.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
He is so smart. Yeah, he said Jesus Christ, which that's such a perfect answer. I don't know how you're going to beat that. I think it's along those lines of imaging who Christ is, and it's loving the Lord your God with all your heart, mind, and soul. and in loving other people as yourself. Those are really hard things to do. Those are the two greatest commandments that God has put on our life.
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145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
Very simple, but to be able to do that, to have the mental clarity, to be able to have the energy, to be able to be the hands and feet of our creator, it's very difficult. And so being an ultimate human for me is really getting my body in a position, getting my mind in a position to where I can be obedient to God's calling. That to me would be an ultimate human.
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145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
And I think that's what's going to eventually start happening. But I think it really gets at a deeper issue of like just nefariousness. I think there's like a heart and soul issue of why people would want to see people not flourish and prosper. And also not to be able to replace a population because that's what we're seeing now is we can't replace our population with what we're currently doing.
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145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
they don't realize oh i actually have some control over my fertility and there are things that i can do to change it i don't have to be on maybe i don't do ivf right i don't have to just say no and look at adoption like i can actually get my body in a state where fertility is more likely like i think that's where that empowerment piece is so important people but it gets back to your belief to even understand that it's possible you don't know it's possible like i think that's just the card the hands have been dealt and they don't know that
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145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
There are alternative options out there. And that's why things like this is so important for people to know. Like, hey, I was watching this podcast and they were talking about how you can improve your fertility and you can do these things and it's free or very inexpensive and most people can do it. That's so empowering to know that that's an option.
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145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
females and that's why things like this is so important for people to know like you can improve your fertility and you can do these things and it's very inexpensive and most people can do it like that's so empowering to know that's an option for women that are having hormonal imbalance where do they start this was like a more recent revelation that I had about
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145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
That was where I got my doctorate. I'm not a physician either. I don't prescribe medications. I don't even prescribe hormones. I think there's plenty of people out there that do that. What I saw was that they were doing those things and it still wasn't working. And they were on all these medications, thyroid problems, hormonal issues, and chronic pain.
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145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
I was like, I just started asking, how do you sleep? What supplements do you take? What's your diet like? And I started asking these questions back in 2017 and realized that those things were not being done. And yet we're assuming that they have a deficiency of medication when the reality is they have all these other deficiencies that aren't being met. And so I started seeing that
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145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
happen and then i started seeing a lot of women come through my practice just like having all those issues way more than men and i think when you say your practice what kind of practice do you have so it so we have a so it used to be a brick and mortar practice in colorado we had um i my he wasn't a business partner then and now we're we took a break now we're business partners again um he's a he's an md functional medicine certified all that and so we created this practice um functional medicine based
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145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
alternative health practice um just out of need like we saw a huge need in our local community in colorado northern colorado and um started to kind of just help women and men at that time but we had way more women coming in with health problems and i started to figure out you know i was just like these
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145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
these women are not getting help with the implementation of this information like they're getting testing done they'll come back in six months and they'll get put on a home replacement therapy and things will change short term but then they go right back to where they were because they never fixed any of the foundational problems that were existing and so right i started to ask a question like well if they're not going to take like if if somebody else is like who else is going to do this if it's not for me right that was kind of question i asked is like i can't assume that somebody else is going to do this like i have to be the one to fill the void here so
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145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
Let's start filling the void. That combined with the fact that my mom had a ton of health problems. She was the ultimate mom, gave of herself all the time to a fault to where she had nothing to give.
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145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
Yeah, to a fault. And brother had cancer when he was 14. Parents had an extreme amount of stress that they were going through. Mom became a really big...
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145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
worrier rightfully so you know i'm seeing your 14 year old son go through cancer and leukemia and all these terrible things that he had to go through and then the financial consequences of the care they had to purchase or i guess afford and all that it was really difficult to do that with insurance and stuff and so it put a ton of stress on my parents um and then it affected
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145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
My mom got, she has adult onset stills disease. It's a pretty rare autoimmune condition. Her ferritin is sky high all the time because she's chronically inflamed. Her homocysteine is chronically high. Very, very, the highest I've ever seen actually. Wow. So her blood pressure probably through the roof.
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145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
Blood pressure is, her blood pressure is okay, but she's very, and I hope she's okay with me sharing all this information.
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145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
Um, but she's, she's like very, um, she's, she's an excellent mom, but she gives of herself so much. Right. And so that, that's why I started seeing with my clients is like, okay, this is how my mom was. And this is what's causing her life. And is this happening to these other women? Like, so what's, what's your, what's your sleep routine? Like, what's your sleep hygiene like?
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145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
well you know i take care of everybody i feed them all clean up the house and then i have a little bit of time for myself and so i don't want to go to bed right away and have you know like a decent bedtime like i'll stay up till 11 11 30 and then i get like a second wind i can't fall asleep and then i'm up and i have a hard time sleeping throughout the night well what's your morning like well i wake up tired i drink a bunch of caffeine you know i don't eat breakfast and i kind of skip all that stuff and then i go to the gym i work out really hard and can't lose weight i'm just like okay so like i'm starting to see this pattern here like i'm seeing why this is happening but i had to figure out
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145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
the why behind my client, like with my clients, like why it was happening. Because if you just say, Hey, you got to do these things.
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145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
And they're like, okay, great. But transferring that over to my life logistically is not that easy. And it's like, well, it can be, if you start to kind of break it down in these little micro goals to where you can start to understand if you, if you eat after six o'clock at night, your insulin becomes a little bit less sensitive. Your cortisol is going to be affected.
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145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
So your sleep is going to be affected. And then you're going to be tired the next day. And so if you don't break that cycle, you can't expect your hormones, which are being produced at night, to be well supplied. You can't expect that your immune system is going to be well supplied either because your natural T cells, killer T cells are gonna be greatly reduced from having poor sleep.
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145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
And so your thyroid's gonna be more subjected to issues. And so you start showing them kind of how this stuff happens. And then they're like, oh, I need to go to bed at a consistent time.
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145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
And like five times more than males.
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145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
So I kind of look at from like, as a Christian, like a biblical perspective on that conversation, I look at the husband and the wife, right? It's like from the get-go, if you believe in Adam and Eve, which I do, like you look at the tendency that we all have from more of like a sinful nature or whatever, it's men tend to be a little more passive
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145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
we have a leadership role, maybe that we're supposed to be fulfilling, and we are like, I don't really, that's too much. I don't really wanna do that. And so we kind of pass things off to our spouse. And I think women kind of have this like, okay, well, I guess I'll pick up and I'll run with it and I'll run the show here. So you're taking on all your regular responsibilities,