Dr. Matt Cook
Appearances
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
121. Dr. Matt Cook: Reversing Age with Peptides, Stem Cells & Gene Therapy
Who's the queen of healing in the body is the stem cell. The immune system is the system that heals musculoskeletal problems. It turns out that there's a peptide that is an immune peptide that tends to be very helpful.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
121. Dr. Matt Cook: Reversing Age with Peptides, Stem Cells & Gene Therapy
And so there seems to be about an order of magnitude less side effects and complications. And then for us, our pillars, which I think are probably fairly similar to yours, we have 12 pillars, cell biology, musculoskeletal system, and genetics, and then nine pillars that are organ systems.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
121. Dr. Matt Cook: Reversing Age with Peptides, Stem Cells & Gene Therapy
I would agree with that. And so then basically there's multiple peptides for each of those organ systems and for each of the pillars. And so then when we're working with people and then we're working on optimizing their life, and then I would say there's two things. One is if there's a problem, then you might be working on the gastrointestinal system and you might be giving supplements.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
121. Dr. Matt Cook: Reversing Age with Peptides, Stem Cells & Gene Therapy
I'm delighted to be here and even more delighted to hang out with you.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
121. Dr. Matt Cook: Reversing Age with Peptides, Stem Cells & Gene Therapy
You could also give a peptide that would help the gastrointestinal system. you might have a neurological problem. And so there are supplements that'll help with the central nervous system, but there's also peptides. And so then now we're designing peptides as a strategy that will address every organ system. And so then to answer your question,
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
121. Dr. Matt Cook: Reversing Age with Peptides, Stem Cells & Gene Therapy
i got i got somebody we we spent a year and all of a sudden their lifestyle is perfect okay then we spent another year and they solved basically their brain fog and all of their kind of main problems and so here they are we've got all of their data they've got wearables and they're getting their labs and they're in a good place where are we going to go from here right
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
121. Dr. Matt Cook: Reversing Age with Peptides, Stem Cells & Gene Therapy
So then the most impactful peptides are this category of peptides that are immune peptides that tend to stimulate or regulate the immune system. Wow.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
121. Dr. Matt Cook: Reversing Age with Peptides, Stem Cells & Gene Therapy
In terms of a system-wide, and I'm going to say that at the end of 2024, coming out of COVID. And so then what happens is the immune peptides, when we travel and we're on planes overnight and our immune system is a little down, then we take immune peptides and they stimulate the immune system. If we get a cold, we start taking immune peptides right away.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
121. Dr. Matt Cook: Reversing Age with Peptides, Stem Cells & Gene Therapy
And so then that cold lasts for a day and a half instead of 10 days. And so then you have an ability to be basically released into the wild and running around and exposed to risk. And so then we've got peptides basically for everything. And so then you can regulate. And peptides, for the most part, last about a day. So they're a short-term thing. And so I don't necessarily do peptides every day.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
121. Dr. Matt Cook: Reversing Age with Peptides, Stem Cells & Gene Therapy
I feel like the Dos Equis commercial.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
121. Dr. Matt Cook: Reversing Age with Peptides, Stem Cells & Gene Therapy
Exactly. And so then it's a real nice regulatory tool that you can use. And we travel with them. And then interestingly, they're very helpful tools as part of a functional regenerative medicine strategy towards optimizing the body. So we even do injections with them.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
121. Dr. Matt Cook: Reversing Age with Peptides, Stem Cells & Gene Therapy
In a situation like that, then what for the ADD people, then there's an idea. One of my lines is a rising tide lifts all boats. I say the same thing.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
121. Dr. Matt Cook: Reversing Age with Peptides, Stem Cells & Gene Therapy
Don't I, guys? Yeah. Okay, amazing. And so then the one functional medicine idea is if you could just improve mitochondrial function, then you're going to improve cognitive function. And so then we like to use SS31 stabilizes mitochondrial membranes. SS31. Like to take NAD, which will also...
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
121. Dr. Matt Cook: Reversing Age with Peptides, Stem Cells & Gene Therapy
donate electrons in the mitochondrial chain so it helps give you energy and so then uh just that combo and then we'll take c c max which increases bdnf which is brain derived neurotrophic factor and cognition will help for cognition and then a lot of people with add
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
121. Dr. Matt Cook: Reversing Age with Peptides, Stem Cells & Gene Therapy
actually have a little bit of immune over activation which basically leads to um blood flowing with more viscosity and and i think that's one of the reasons for brain fog and so we'll give often a little bit of ta1 or bpc 157. that as a stack is way better for mental clarity than a stimulant ah and so then the the add conversation is a is a conversation that would be like
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
121. Dr. Matt Cook: Reversing Age with Peptides, Stem Cells & Gene Therapy
I could probably just quit everything else and just have a scaled approach to ADD and we beat stimulants every day.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
121. Dr. Matt Cook: Reversing Age with Peptides, Stem Cells & Gene Therapy
That's right. So that's been this tag team combo that people have used both for pain and for inflammation. And remember I said there's something for every organ? Basically, BPC is actually a gastrointestinal peptide, but when we eat, it's secreted. And so the idea is we're mostly hooligans and we're going to do whatever we're going to do.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
121. Dr. Matt Cook: Reversing Age with Peptides, Stem Cells & Gene Therapy
So our body makes some anti-inflammatory things to protect us from ourselves. Now, then the other thing to remember is what all of the who's the queen of healing in the body is the stem cell. So the immune system is the system that heals musculoskeletal problems.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
121. Dr. Matt Cook: Reversing Age with Peptides, Stem Cells & Gene Therapy
And so then it turns out that there's a peptide that is an immune peptide, which is called TB500, which is a fragment of the thymus and beta-4 peptide. But that immune peptide tends to be very helpful for connective tissue healing. And so we'll combine BPC and TB500 together. And together, that combo is very helpful. And you can do it in your belly or your hip for a systemic effect.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
121. Dr. Matt Cook: Reversing Age with Peptides, Stem Cells & Gene Therapy
But you can also, if you have pain somewhere, do a site injection.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
121. Dr. Matt Cook: Reversing Age with Peptides, Stem Cells & Gene Therapy
Okay, so then probably C-Max, which I mentioned, is going to be your best cognitive peptide that's commercially available. And so then that one increases BDNF, which is the brain-derived neurotropic factor. And why is that important? It's like an antioxidant to the brain. Wow. And so then we have probably on average... more neurological inflammation than we can handle.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
121. Dr. Matt Cook: Reversing Age with Peptides, Stem Cells & Gene Therapy
And that as we get older, our ability to handle neurological inflammation goes down. And then inflammation tends to go up. And a lot of times that comes from gastrointestinal inflammation. That's why they call it the gut-brain axis. So then one thing is going to be to do something for the brain. The other thing is going to be to do something for the gut to heal that so we don't have
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
121. Dr. Matt Cook: Reversing Age with Peptides, Stem Cells & Gene Therapy
inflammation that's getting causing leaky gut that's going to leaky brain right and so then you could go make it easy since you already talked about it bpc 157 which is the gastrointestinal peptide also promotes something called angiogenesis which is blood vessel growth wow and it also improves the flow of blood so like if i do an iv and then i do bpc 157 iv
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
121. Dr. Matt Cook: Reversing Age with Peptides, Stem Cells & Gene Therapy
What happens is you can see that the blood becomes a little bit thinner.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
121. Dr. Matt Cook: Reversing Age with Peptides, Stem Cells & Gene Therapy
The viscosity changes for sure. Wow. And so a lot of times people will just do BPC plus C-Max, which is a great cognition enhancer. Adding NAD, like we were talking about in the setting of somebody with ADD, can be helpful. The...
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
121. Dr. Matt Cook: Reversing Age with Peptides, Stem Cells & Gene Therapy
Right. Yeah, that's so true. That's so true. Yeah.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
121. Dr. Matt Cook: Reversing Age with Peptides, Stem Cells & Gene Therapy
I would say that there's an idea that immune stress and immune activation leads us to have basically more antibodies floating around in our blood that could be binding onto things, which is decreasing viscosity and decreasing blood flow. Right. And so then things that can regulate the immune response. And so one of those at a peptide level would be something like thymus and alpha-1. Mm-hmm.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
121. Dr. Matt Cook: Reversing Age with Peptides, Stem Cells & Gene Therapy
So I... I thought I was going to be an expedition doctor and go on big journeys. And I needed to be in a field where I could take six months off and go to Everest. Wow. And so I went into anesthesia and started doing that with the idea that I could be in a real technical with a lot of physiology. So I was really interested in physiology in medical school. And so it was... doing that.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
121. Dr. Matt Cook: Reversing Age with Peptides, Stem Cells & Gene Therapy
Another thing to go up the ladder, another thing that regulates immune function is exosomes. And so then you could potentially take exosomes with any of those other products, and you could do them either subcutaneously or IV. You could even inject it into your joint, and then some of that's going to be absorbed and will have a systemic effect.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
121. Dr. Matt Cook: Reversing Age with Peptides, Stem Cells & Gene Therapy
yeah and so you'll a lot of times we'll do an injection for somebody and uh all we'll do is do a shoulder joint injection and they'll go oh how come my brain fog just totally went away wow when you get injected with that yeah yeah which i want to get to next um you know i i my mother had some struggles for a while because she was bedridden from a bilateral knee surgery that she had and i put her on cerebral lysine um and i'm telling you
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
121. Dr. Matt Cook: Reversing Age with Peptides, Stem Cells & Gene Therapy
Okay, great. So there was this great idea that they figured out that a stem cell
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
121. Dr. Matt Cook: Reversing Age with Peptides, Stem Cells & Gene Therapy
actually has the potential to turn into any other type of cell pluripotent so it's kind of pluripotent and so then this was this idea and so then for the first half of uh my experience in regenerative medicine which was sort of like right at the beginning this was this idea and so we were focused on that and and i was and still am fairly involved in adipose stem cells
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
121. Dr. Matt Cook: Reversing Age with Peptides, Stem Cells & Gene Therapy
um and so then we were having this idea that that could go turn into a cartilage cell or it could go turn into a tendon cell so then it's a it's a total solution uh and it's the name was mesenchymal stem cell basically what happened is is the person arnold kaplan who passed away but it's like one of the godfathers of regenerative medicine figured out
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
121. Dr. Matt Cook: Reversing Age with Peptides, Stem Cells & Gene Therapy
that these stem cells don't really turn into another cell but what they do is they basically secrete little liposomal balls of that have signaling molecules inside that tell other cells what to do it's kind of like currency and so then instead they change the name to medicinal signaling cells and so stem cells are essentially a little mobile pharmacy
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
121. Dr. Matt Cook: Reversing Age with Peptides, Stem Cells & Gene Therapy
And then they show up and then they secrete exosomes. And the exosomes is kind of like currency that goes around, currency and information that just goes to the other cells in the area. And then it initiates healing. So it tells them how to behave. It tells them. And basically what happens is if we have inflammation, let's say you get a trauma. We were talking about this today.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
121. Dr. Matt Cook: Reversing Age with Peptides, Stem Cells & Gene Therapy
It causes inflammation, which causes increased blood flow and pain. That's just a signal for a stem cell that may be there or that migrates from the bloodstream. And then the stem cell turns the inflammation off as the first step in healing. There's a whole bunch of steps that happen after that that are coordinated by the stem cell.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
121. Dr. Matt Cook: Reversing Age with Peptides, Stem Cells & Gene Therapy
And I got really lucky that the year that I got out of my residency was the year that ultrasound basically came onto the market where we had portable ultrasounds that we could use. You're really dating yourself with that. You're around for the invention of... That was born in 1842. But that's why I'm an anti-aging doctor.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
121. Dr. Matt Cook: Reversing Age with Peptides, Stem Cells & Gene Therapy
And so the stem cell secretes exosomes that, and I basically, I always tell people, economic indicators are good, kind of like right now. You can get a loan, the economy is going to be getting better, and we can do a remodeling project and fix this muscle that was torn.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
121. Dr. Matt Cook: Reversing Age with Peptides, Stem Cells & Gene Therapy
So then I would say the most important thing is they tend to regulate immune function. And so we live in a sea of inflammation and we had that one bruise, but then that turned into 10 and that turned into inflammation in our liver and fatty liver and inflammation in our brain and our gut. And so we have more inflammation than we can handle.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
121. Dr. Matt Cook: Reversing Age with Peptides, Stem Cells & Gene Therapy
And then the cells are just waiting for a signal that everything is okay, that they can start to heal. And so then exosomes are very anti-inflammatory. And so when I take a big trip and I got back from Dubai and you take exosomes, it's almost like you're feeling like you just took a shower and all the stress on the inside of your body just went away.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
121. Dr. Matt Cook: Reversing Age with Peptides, Stem Cells & Gene Therapy
It was like horse and buggy.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
121. Dr. Matt Cook: Reversing Age with Peptides, Stem Cells & Gene Therapy
And so then when I was in my residency, we basically would use a nerve stimulator and we would use landmarks to know where a nerve was. And then we would go and then we would touch the nerve, which would sometimes hurt a little bit, but then the person would be twitching. And we would turn the stimulator down to know that we weren't in the middle of the nerve.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
121. Dr. Matt Cook: Reversing Age with Peptides, Stem Cells & Gene Therapy
Yeah, 100%. Can I say that person's name? Yeah, it's Ben Greenfield. Yeah. I think Ben's talked about it.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
121. Dr. Matt Cook: Reversing Age with Peptides, Stem Cells & Gene Therapy
You're looking good. I love you, Ben. We love you, Ben. So then I was in London at that health summit. Yeah, I saw you there, too. I was literally standing and, like, on my phone, and then I hung up, and then I was looking at him just like he was at the camera, and I just was like, fuck, that guy's jacked. Yeah. And then I was like, and then I'm looking.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
121. Dr. Matt Cook: Reversing Age with Peptides, Stem Cells & Gene Therapy
Yeah. And then he's he's looking at me and we're both looking at each other. And then I and then I didn't I didn't even recognize him was so big. I did it also. And I've put on about eight pounds. And so then let me tell you about the science of this one. And remember, the body has a number of different ways of communicating with itself. One is hormones. One is protein-based things.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
121. Dr. Matt Cook: Reversing Age with Peptides, Stem Cells & Gene Therapy
If it's a baby protein, it's a peptide. If it's a long protein, it's a protein. Mm-hmm. One thing you could do is inject it. If you inject it today, it's going to have a nice effect today, but it's going to be gone tomorrow. Right, peptide. And it's easy to inject peptides. It's a lot harder to inject a protein. Folistatin is 344 amino acids long.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
121. Dr. Matt Cook: Reversing Age with Peptides, Stem Cells & Gene Therapy
So then what happened is there's two ways to do this, but there's a company called Minicircle. And what they did is they took the gene for folistatin. So it's a gene that codes for 344 amino acids. And they put it in a circular plasmid. And then you can inject that into your shoulder. It gets absorbed by the cells. And then it pulls that plasmid into the nucleus.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
121. Dr. Matt Cook: Reversing Age with Peptides, Stem Cells & Gene Therapy
It doesn't actually get incorporated into your chromosomes. But while it's in there for about a year and a half, your body prints that plasmid. And so then when it prints that plasmid, it actually makes... full of statin. So instead of doing an injection every day, then for a year, year and a half, you have this protein at a higher concentration in your body and it's floating around.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
121. Dr. Matt Cook: Reversing Age with Peptides, Stem Cells & Gene Therapy
and then put numbing medicine around those nerves. And so basically, I was doing nerve blocks, running surgery centers, and doing basically surgery for sports medicine. But I started to realize surgery was not the panacea for healing athletes that we thought it was. And so then I began to get skeptical. And so almost right away, I started becoming a functional medicine doctor. Wow.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
121. Dr. Matt Cook: Reversing Age with Peptides, Stem Cells & Gene Therapy
full of stat and dna and takes we'll take the command from both yeah okay that's really and and we you know i would say this this one's really early and so then this this one i uh it's it's funny um uh some friends of mine asked me to fly down to honduras just to do some vetting
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
121. Dr. Matt Cook: Reversing Age with Peptides, Stem Cells & Gene Therapy
of the technology so i wasn't really planning on doing it although i'd had a whole bunch of my patients have an incredible experience with it and i uh i told you in the i'd had this long experience doing adipose stem cells where we do a liposuction and harvest some stem cells so i i show up
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
121. Dr. Matt Cook: Reversing Age with Peptides, Stem Cells & Gene Therapy
And the doctor who is doing the study in Honduras is a doctor named Dr. Terry, who me and him had the same mentor in adipose stem cells, Bob Alexander. And so then we, so I showed up and I was like, oh my God, I've known this guy for 12 years and is an amazing doctor.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
121. Dr. Matt Cook: Reversing Age with Peptides, Stem Cells & Gene Therapy
And, um, and so then he walked me through their trial and he'd, he'd personally treated 250 people and had followed up with them all. And he hadn't had any negative side effects. There is a trend for LDL to go up by about 10 points. And so that's about the only negative, but it lengthens telomeres. It decreases biological age. So this is a very big anti-inflammatory effect.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
121. Dr. Matt Cook: Reversing Age with Peptides, Stem Cells & Gene Therapy
Full of statin. Full of statin.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
121. Dr. Matt Cook: Reversing Age with Peptides, Stem Cells & Gene Therapy
Yeah. So it has a host of benefits that are above and beyond just muscle, but particularly anti-inflammatory. And then I would say that we've had a lot of people emotionally feel better. Wow. I'm in.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
121. Dr. Matt Cook: Reversing Age with Peptides, Stem Cells & Gene Therapy
Because you need to. I need to write a book. Yeah, you really need to. I need to write a book. It would be a bestseller. You're going to find me at a bunch of international stem cell clinics. Yeah, stay tuned. Because you and I have got some unplanned. We're using these Mu stem cells. which I think are going to absolutely transform regenerative medicine. I think so too.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
121. Dr. Matt Cook: Reversing Age with Peptides, Stem Cells & Gene Therapy
And they're the most effective stem cells that I've ever found. And we've been doing it for a long time for orthopedic and for pain issues. But you can find us at bioreset.com.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
121. Dr. Matt Cook: Reversing Age with Peptides, Stem Cells & Gene Therapy
The most impactful peptides are this category of peptides that are immune peptides that tend to stimulate or regulate the immune system. Wow.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
121. Dr. Matt Cook: Reversing Age with Peptides, Stem Cells & Gene Therapy
And I promise that I'm going to actually start doing social media.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
121. Dr. Matt Cook: Reversing Age with Peptides, Stem Cells & Gene Therapy
And so I studied Qigong and Chinese medicine and Ayurveda and got board certified in functional and integrative medicine. And so I was on this kind of 12-year journey of a little bit of a schizophrenic life of living like this super straight Western medicine injection job and then kind of an alternative. And so I would work in the mornings.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
121. Dr. Matt Cook: Reversing Age with Peptides, Stem Cells & Gene Therapy
I would say there's two things. One thing is living in the moment. And then the other thing is the arc of what your life and what it means and what you're going to do. And so for me, and these great European philosophers and physicians came up with all of these stages of life where you go through life. basically identity and family and relationships and all this stuff.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
121. Dr. Matt Cook: Reversing Age with Peptides, Stem Cells & Gene Therapy
But then the final stage is generativity when you give back. Wow. And so then and I always said that basically everything else doesn't matter. And I basically feel that way. And what really matters is if you can have a meaningful impact that gives back to everyone. To humanity. And so then for me, being an ultimate human is actually having an ultimate impact.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
121. Dr. Matt Cook: Reversing Age with Peptides, Stem Cells & Gene Therapy
And at the same time as that, being present and awake and being your best version of yourself.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
121. Dr. Matt Cook: Reversing Age with Peptides, Stem Cells & Gene Therapy
uh in the surgery center in the afternoons and then um in the afternoons you were more western medicine qigong ayurveda exactly these are some of the oldest medicines in the world i think ayurvedic medicine is the oldest form of medicine in the world and super super advanced super advanced stuff and so then um and then what happened about halfway through uh i came home and one day barb goes oh guess what i found out what you're going to do for the rest of your life
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
121. Dr. Matt Cook: Reversing Age with Peptides, Stem Cells & Gene Therapy
And then I go, what's that? She goes, oh, they're doing injections with ultrasound and putting something around nerves that's not local anesthetic. And I go, really? And I go, where is it? She goes, oh, it's happening tomorrow. I bought you a plane ticket. I got you a hotel and I signed you up for the course.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
121. Dr. Matt Cook: Reversing Age with Peptides, Stem Cells & Gene Therapy
Exactly.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
121. Dr. Matt Cook: Reversing Age with Peptides, Stem Cells & Gene Therapy
So, and when I got, I showed up, I had already been doing ultrasound-guided injection basically all day for the last... Because what my old job was, I would put the brachial plexus, which is all the nerves that go to your arm asleep, and then we would do shoulder arthroscopy, but we wouldn't have to put the person to sleep. Ah, okay.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
121. Dr. Matt Cook: Reversing Age with Peptides, Stem Cells & Gene Therapy
And so then when we found out that there were other things, next thing you know, we're putting dextrose, followed by PRP, followed by peptides, stem cells, exosomes, and all of the regenerative things that we now inject around nerves. Right. And then as soon as we started doing that, then all of a sudden the awareness sort of came out of regenerative medicine.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
121. Dr. Matt Cook: Reversing Age with Peptides, Stem Cells & Gene Therapy
So we started injecting ligaments, tendons, fascia, nerves, and joints. Wow.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
121. Dr. Matt Cook: Reversing Age with Peptides, Stem Cells & Gene Therapy
So at the very beginning, we were doing the injections with PRP. And what PRP is, is if you do a blood draw and you take and you isolate platelets in the blood and then those platelets, you can concentrate them and inject and they've got a lot of growth factors. Right. Eventually then we started to move up the ladder of regenerative medicine to better and better products.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
121. Dr. Matt Cook: Reversing Age with Peptides, Stem Cells & Gene Therapy
We're designing peptides as a strategy that will address every organ system.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
121. Dr. Matt Cook: Reversing Age with Peptides, Stem Cells & Gene Therapy
And so now we have a wide variety of different products that we inject with. And we can inject those not just into joints and nerves, but also we can put them IV. And so we combine that with glutathione and vitamin C and all of that stuff. So there's a systemic approach and then a local approach.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
121. Dr. Matt Cook: Reversing Age with Peptides, Stem Cells & Gene Therapy
You've got to pick the low-hanging fruit and you've got to start with...
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
121. Dr. Matt Cook: Reversing Age with Peptides, Stem Cells & Gene Therapy
Okay, that's a great question. And I feel like I'm doing that here because we're doing all of these fundamental things. And so... You've got to pick the low-hanging fruit, and you've got to start with the easy, low-cost things to do, which is super healthy lifestyle, perfect diet, and then all of the lifestyle biohacking things that we're all doing. Like what we did today. Yeah.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
121. Dr. Matt Cook: Reversing Age with Peptides, Stem Cells & Gene Therapy
Exactly. So that's the foundation. And I think that it's probably a year... curriculum to learn how to design your life so you create the space for all of that stuff and as i was i was saying to barb we basically feel like we got we we live the perfect lifestyle and then i go carrie's better at biohacking than we are yay
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121. Dr. Matt Cook: Reversing Age with Peptides, Stem Cells & Gene Therapy
Yeah, you beat me. And it's amazing here. But so then the next thing is, where are we starting? What's our baseline? You need a before and after if you're going to say, what's the best place we can go? You've got to have data. Mm-hmm.
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121. Dr. Matt Cook: Reversing Age with Peptides, Stem Cells & Gene Therapy
and so then um i'm i'm part of a team that we're developing an ai platform and then we're going to do all labs wearables and then track all modalities that are done so we're tracking peptides stem cells exosomes and then every other intervention gene therapy that people are doing to really know how people are doing we need to have heart rate variability and you know my issue is i basically started to have
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
121. Dr. Matt Cook: Reversing Age with Peptides, Stem Cells & Gene Therapy
the amount of data that i used to get i could kind of i had it all in my head and then now basically i get a pile this big it's from five or six different countries uh and i don't have access to your wearables I don't have access to all this data. And so nobody's able to pull this into one central place. So one, we've got to organize that and then track that longitudinally over time.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
121. Dr. Matt Cook: Reversing Age with Peptides, Stem Cells & Gene Therapy
And then basically, you use basically language modeling to understand labs and data and conversation. And ultimately, that's going to be an assist to a consult. And then ultimately, that's just going to be sitting here doing a consult better than
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
121. Dr. Matt Cook: Reversing Age with Peptides, Stem Cells & Gene Therapy
Exactly. And so then the other part of it is, If you look at the big pharma companies, when they're trying to determine effectiveness of their drugs, they use a quantitative model. And so we're using a large quantitative model to turn that lens of looking at all of this data in terms of effectiveness of stem cells, exosomes, peptides, regenerative medicine, gene therapy.
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121. Dr. Matt Cook: Reversing Age with Peptides, Stem Cells & Gene Therapy
And so then now you're tracking all of that.
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121. Dr. Matt Cook: Reversing Age with Peptides, Stem Cells & Gene Therapy
100%.
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121. Dr. Matt Cook: Reversing Age with Peptides, Stem Cells & Gene Therapy
Okay, amazing. So I was saying our body has about five different ways that it communicates with itself. And so hormones, cytokines, vitamins, and minerals, and proteins. And these proteins are made up of amino acids. And so then if you have a protein that's more than 50 amino acids long, that's called a protein. If it's less than 50 amino acids, it's called a peptide.
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121. Dr. Matt Cook: Reversing Age with Peptides, Stem Cells & Gene Therapy
So a peptide is a baby protein. And so then an example of a protein would be like insulin. It binds onto an insulin receptor, opens a channel, and so then that causes sugar to go inside of a cell. So proteins or peptides basically bind onto receptors and then cause something to happen. Now,
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121. Dr. Matt Cook: Reversing Age with Peptides, Stem Cells & Gene Therapy
if we take a drug a drug is usually trying to hack biology but biology typically tries to overcome that hack so a lot of times then as a result over time you end up having to take more of that drug and there's a lot of side effects In the case of a peptide or a protein, we're just giving the actual thing that's working in the body, kind of like when you take a hormone.