Gary Brecka
Appearances
PBD Podcast
"The REAL Reason You're Dying" – Gary Brecka SLAMS Corporate Scams, Genetic Tests & Health Myths | PBD Podcast | Ep. 557
What you're about to see in the next five to ten years, the artificial intelligence and big data, are going to circumvent the entire system. You are succumbing to a disease because of a surgery that wasn't required, because of a medication that was unnecessary, due to a diagnosis that was inaccurate. The experts are making the mistake on the reason why you're dying. No question.
PBD Podcast
"The REAL Reason You're Dying" – Gary Brecka SLAMS Corporate Scams, Genetic Tests & Health Myths | PBD Podcast | Ep. 557
If your doctor diagnoses you with thyroid, you're always a hypothyroid patient. And so if you transfer care to another doctor, they look at the record and they go, oh, you know what, Patrick's got hypothyroid, he's got elevated hematocrit, I'm going to continue the blood thinners, I'm going to continue the synthroid.
PBD Podcast
"The REAL Reason You're Dying" – Gary Brecka SLAMS Corporate Scams, Genetic Tests & Health Myths | PBD Podcast | Ep. 557
Because nobody goes back to check and say, hey, I wonder if Dr. XYZ actually properly diagnosed Patrick with this hypothyroid. Or if he actually, maybe his hematocrit in his blood, his blood viscosity has changed, he doesn't need to be on the blood thinner anymore. Maybe his hypertension is actually normal because when he was diagnosed, he was 80 pounds heavier.
PBD Podcast
"The REAL Reason You're Dying" – Gary Brecka SLAMS Corporate Scams, Genetic Tests & Health Myths | PBD Podcast | Ep. 557
He's 80 pounds lighter right now and has adopted a healthy diet and he's on an exercise routine. We're just going to keep him on the hypertension medication. And so... And these had consequences. The more pharmaceuticals you were on, the more accurate your mortality. So the more pharmaceutical compounds we could stack up in a record, the more accurate we could determine your life expectancy.
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"The REAL Reason You're Dying" – Gary Brecka SLAMS Corporate Scams, Genetic Tests & Health Myths | PBD Podcast | Ep. 557
So you take things, for example, like statins. So statins lower LDL cholesterol. There was a prevailing theory in medicine, which is vastly being disproven now, largely by artificial intelligence and big data, that when LDL cholesterol is up, there's an increased risk of cardiovascular disease. And so if we lower LDL cholesterol, we'll lower the risk of cardiovascular disease.
PBD Podcast
"The REAL Reason You're Dying" – Gary Brecka SLAMS Corporate Scams, Genetic Tests & Health Myths | PBD Podcast | Ep. 557
The only problem is you're looking at that so myopically, right? You're just taking that one variable, LDL high, high risk of cardiovascular disease, LDL low, low risk of cardiovascular disease. It's not that simple. In fact, there's no correlation between elevated LDL cholesterol on its own as an independent risk factor and cardiovascular disease, none.
PBD Podcast
"The REAL Reason You're Dying" – Gary Brecka SLAMS Corporate Scams, Genetic Tests & Health Myths | PBD Podcast | Ep. 557
cholesterol does not cause atherosclerotic plaquing or narrowing of the arteries, damage to the arterial wall does, the inflammatory cascade does. And so what happens is, if you understand what cholesterol is, right, it's not a fuel source, cholesterol is a construction material. So the body makes it, the liver makes 85% of the cholesterol in your bloodstream. And what is it used for?
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"The REAL Reason You're Dying" – Gary Brecka SLAMS Corporate Scams, Genetic Tests & Health Myths | PBD Podcast | Ep. 557
Well, we build every cell wall. every cell membrane, every hormone in the human body, and we used to make vitamin D3, cholecalciferol, the most important nutrient in the human body, in my opinion. And so what happens when you push this nutrient low? Well, now you buy yourself consequences down the road.
PBD Podcast
"The REAL Reason You're Dying" – Gary Brecka SLAMS Corporate Scams, Genetic Tests & Health Myths | PBD Podcast | Ep. 557
Now you're interrupting cell walls, cell membranes, hormones, vitamin D3, and now people get on statin, now their joints start aching, their memory starts to go, now they increase their risk for Alzheimer's, early onset dementia, Cognitive decline is one of the fastest accelerants of aging. People that are in steep cognitive decline are not compliant with their medications and protocols.
PBD Podcast
"The REAL Reason You're Dying" – Gary Brecka SLAMS Corporate Scams, Genetic Tests & Health Myths | PBD Podcast | Ep. 557
And so you've taken this one independent risk factor, and because you think you're lowering the risk of cardiovascular disease, you create this entire cascade of problems down the road. And we saw this over and over and over again. In fact, we did not process a death claim, not one, in my entire 22-year career on a centenarian.
PBD Podcast
"The REAL Reason You're Dying" – Gary Brecka SLAMS Corporate Scams, Genetic Tests & Health Myths | PBD Podcast | Ep. 557
that did not have elevated levels of LDL cholesterol at the time of their death. Not once. But modern medicine would say LDL cholesterol is a risk factor for cardiovascular disease. No, it's actually a risk factor for longevity. High LDL and low triglyceride and high HDL cholesterol is a marker for longevity, not for cardiovascular disease. And so we believed a lot in what...
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"The REAL Reason You're Dying" – Gary Brecka SLAMS Corporate Scams, Genetic Tests & Health Myths | PBD Podcast | Ep. 557
pharma and contrived medical trials were telling us was the standard of care, and the standard of care was killing people, flatly, to be honest.
PBD Podcast
"The REAL Reason You're Dying" – Gary Brecka SLAMS Corporate Scams, Genetic Tests & Health Myths | PBD Podcast | Ep. 557
Because few smokers ever quit. It wasn't the presence of the nicotine. It was all the carriers with the nicotine, the tar. Few smokers ever quit. Wow. Way few smokers than you can ever imagine ever quit. And if you think about what smoking is, nicotine addiction, and you just convert it to human physiology, The absence of dopamine is the presence of addiction.
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"The REAL Reason You're Dying" – Gary Brecka SLAMS Corporate Scams, Genetic Tests & Health Myths | PBD Podcast | Ep. 557
Yeah, we actually met in one of Dana's little private rooms there before the fight.
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"The REAL Reason You're Dying" – Gary Brecka SLAMS Corporate Scams, Genetic Tests & Health Myths | PBD Podcast | Ep. 557
So in other words, if you are deficient in dopamine, you will engage in dopamine-seeking behavior. That's why if you've ever been an addict or you've ever known a true addict, their addiction has a tendency to shift. So alcoholics become drug addicts. Drug addicts become workaholics. Workaholics might become workaholics.
PBD Podcast
"The REAL Reason You're Dying" – Gary Brecka SLAMS Corporate Scams, Genetic Tests & Health Myths | PBD Podcast | Ep. 557
They might shift into a healthier addiction, but the addiction never really goes away because the dopamine deficiency – is the main driver of behavior. Dopamine is the neurotransmitter of behavior like serotonin is the neurotransmitter of mood. So we treat physical addiction. We try to treat the nicotine, the suboxone, the alcohol, the narcotic. We don't treat the dopamine addiction.
PBD Podcast
"The REAL Reason You're Dying" – Gary Brecka SLAMS Corporate Scams, Genetic Tests & Health Myths | PBD Podcast | Ep. 557
And this is why a true addict will go through life shifting their addictions. And so when we get back to human physiology, we go, well, what causes deficiencies in dopamine? Right? This is what really led me to leave and start a wellness franchise because I'm like, we have this all wrong. You know, this person doesn't have ADD or ADHD or OCD. This person actually isn't suffering from anxiety.
PBD Podcast
"The REAL Reason You're Dying" – Gary Brecka SLAMS Corporate Scams, Genetic Tests & Health Myths | PBD Podcast | Ep. 557
There's no situation that causes their anxiety. This anxiety comes and goes seemingly without a trigger. So how could that actually be anxiety if there's nothing in their external environment that's causing it? Right. Well, when you start to break down, well, what is anxiety? Anxiety is a rise in a category of neurotransmitters in the brain called catecholamines.
PBD Podcast
"The REAL Reason You're Dying" – Gary Brecka SLAMS Corporate Scams, Genetic Tests & Health Myths | PBD Podcast | Ep. 557
So this person has a catecholamine regulation issue, not the mental disease or the mental disorder of anxiety. Well, how do we regulate catecholamines? We increase the complex of B vitamins. We add something called methylcobalamin. We remove folic acid, which is a synthetic man-made chemical in our food supply, which is not found naturally in nature anywhere on the surface of the earth.
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"The REAL Reason You're Dying" – Gary Brecka SLAMS Corporate Scams, Genetic Tests & Health Myths | PBD Podcast | Ep. 557
And we exchange it for something called methylfolate. Now they regulate catecholamines. When they regulate catecholamines, the anxiety goes away.
PBD Podcast
"The REAL Reason You're Dying" – Gary Brecka SLAMS Corporate Scams, Genetic Tests & Health Myths | PBD Podcast | Ep. 557
You've actually been treating for a disease that was actually a nutrient deficiency, just like you were being treated for rheumatoid when you had a D3 deficiency, just like we put people on thyroid medication when 80% of the thyroid hormone that we measure in the blood, the T3 hormone, is not even made in the thyroid. It's made outside of the thyroid, in the liver, in the gut, in the periphery.
PBD Podcast
"The REAL Reason You're Dying" – Gary Brecka SLAMS Corporate Scams, Genetic Tests & Health Myths | PBD Podcast | Ep. 557
Why are we not looking at whether or not the liver, the gut, and the periphery have adequate nutrients to make the thyroid hormone that is low that is causing us to medicate the thyroid? 85% of all hypertensive diagnosis, when you go into your doctor and they say you have hypertension, You say, well, why? Well, my EKG is normal. My EEG is normal. My heart sounds are normal.
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"The REAL Reason You're Dying" – Gary Brecka SLAMS Corporate Scams, Genetic Tests & Health Myths | PBD Podcast | Ep. 557
My lungs sounds are normal. I had a cardiac catheterization that was normal. I had a dye contrast study that was normal. There's nothing wrong with my heart. Yeah, we know, but we're still gonna medicate your heart anyway, even though we can't figure out anything wrong with it. We don't know why you have high blood pressure,
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"The REAL Reason You're Dying" – Gary Brecka SLAMS Corporate Scams, Genetic Tests & Health Myths | PBD Podcast | Ep. 557
oh what we looked and your uncle has it and your mother has it on you know your grandmother has it on your dad's side so you have familial hypertension well what's that it's genetically inherited hypertension and then you just accept that you inherited a disease from your ancestor so you accept and subscribe to a lifetime of medication but if you just took that one step further and said just out of curiosity what gene
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"The REAL Reason You're Dying" – Gary Brecka SLAMS Corporate Scams, Genetic Tests & Health Myths | PBD Podcast | Ep. 557
did my ancestor pass on to me that's causing this condition to exist? Because you said I inherited it from my ancestor, right? So what gene did they pass on to me? Their face would go blank. You see, we'd map the entire human genome. We know every gene in the human body. If there were a gene for these conditions, we would know what it is. But there's no gene for a lot of these diseases.
PBD Podcast
"The REAL Reason You're Dying" – Gary Brecka SLAMS Corporate Scams, Genetic Tests & Health Myths | PBD Podcast | Ep. 557
Because the disease runs in families, we assume it's a genetically inherited disease. We rarely pass disease from generation to generation. we pass the inability for the body to refine a raw material which causes a deficiency which leads to that disease. this deficiency can be fixed. So for example, take hypertension, just since we're on that subject.
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"The REAL Reason You're Dying" – Gary Brecka SLAMS Corporate Scams, Genetic Tests & Health Myths | PBD Podcast | Ep. 557
Let's take Dana White, because he's been very public about his medical records. We've actually put his medical records on Instagram. So I figure if you put your medical records up to 8.8 million people, you've lost your HIPAA privilege. So Dana, I apologize, brother. We're going to lay it out. So when I met Dino, you know, he was, he was certainly overweight.
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"The REAL Reason You're Dying" – Gary Brecka SLAMS Corporate Scams, Genetic Tests & Health Myths | PBD Podcast | Ep. 557
He was, you know, by BMI charts, he would have been.
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"The REAL Reason You're Dying" – Gary Brecka SLAMS Corporate Scams, Genetic Tests & Health Myths | PBD Podcast | Ep. 557
Yeah. There he is.
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"The REAL Reason You're Dying" – Gary Brecka SLAMS Corporate Scams, Genetic Tests & Health Myths | PBD Podcast | Ep. 557
It's crazy.
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"The REAL Reason You're Dying" – Gary Brecka SLAMS Corporate Scams, Genetic Tests & Health Myths | PBD Podcast | Ep. 557
Oh, he said it's two years since I started my health journey with Gary Braca. Thanks for changing my life, brother. I don't think I saw that, that's awesome. Thank you, Daniel. Yeah, so what was going on up top that wasn't going on at the bottom? So first of all, he was on multiple medications for heart, for high blood pressure. He was what they call it.
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"The REAL Reason You're Dying" – Gary Brecka SLAMS Corporate Scams, Genetic Tests & Health Myths | PBD Podcast | Ep. 557
Blood thinners, diuretics, ACE inhibitors, beta blockers, calcium channel blockers, all things to interrupt the function of the heart, holding the heart responsible for crime it's not committing. And, and so let's, let's just talk about what happened with Dana White. and, So when we looked at Dana's blood work, and for the record, I am not a physician.
PBD Podcast
"The REAL Reason You're Dying" – Gary Brecka SLAMS Corporate Scams, Genetic Tests & Health Myths | PBD Podcast | Ep. 557
I'm not licensed to practice medicine, so I'm not giving medical advice. There was a clinical team that was involved in Dana's case that made the clinical decisions. I want to be clear about that. But when we looked at Dana's blood work and we looked at his genetics, he had a genetic variant that did not allow him to convert an amino acid in his blood called homocysteine.
PBD Podcast
"The REAL Reason You're Dying" – Gary Brecka SLAMS Corporate Scams, Genetic Tests & Health Myths | PBD Podcast | Ep. 557
So he couldn't take homocysteine and turn it into a harmless amino acid called methionine. And this is, this is my point. Yeah. Can you just pull up? Yeah. An amino acid, homocysteine. Perfect call. Um, look at, uh, hyper homocysteinemia. What is hyper homocysteinemia or symptoms of hyper homocysteinemia? Um, Look, so hyperhomocysteine can come off by deficiency in B6, B12, or folate.
PBD Podcast
"The REAL Reason You're Dying" – Gary Brecka SLAMS Corporate Scams, Genetic Tests & Health Myths | PBD Podcast | Ep. 557
Genetic disorders. Okay, so let's just start at the top two. The leading two causes of high homocysteine are nutrient deficiencies. Nobody checked to see if the nutrient deficiency might be what's causing his high blood pressure because what happens when your homocysteine rises? As homocysteine is cruising by the inside lining of your artery, okay, it irritates your artery.
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"The REAL Reason You're Dying" – Gary Brecka SLAMS Corporate Scams, Genetic Tests & Health Myths | PBD Podcast | Ep. 557
And if you irritate an artery, it will clamp down. And if you make the pipes smaller in a fixed system, the pressure goes up. So now I have 63,000 miles of blood vessel in my body. I have this very high level of homocysteine, which is one of the most inflammatory factors in the human body circulating around in my blood, this inflammation circulating around in my blood.
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"The REAL Reason You're Dying" – Gary Brecka SLAMS Corporate Scams, Genetic Tests & Health Myths | PBD Podcast | Ep. 557
And because of that, my arterial system constricts and it drives my pressure up. You go to the cardiologist, which he did. The cardiologist checks his heart and says, man, everything's fine with your heart, but you have high blood pressure. So we're gonna start pounding on the heart for a crime it's not committing to try to lower your blood pressure.
PBD Podcast
"The REAL Reason You're Dying" – Gary Brecka SLAMS Corporate Scams, Genetic Tests & Health Myths | PBD Podcast | Ep. 557
But since the hypertension wasn't coming from the heart, was coming from the constriction of blood vessels because of a simple deficiency in those vitamins listed right there, then the hypertension continued to get worse. He had one of the highest levels of homocysteine that I'd ever seen, that my clinical team had ever seen.
PBD Podcast
"The REAL Reason You're Dying" – Gary Brecka SLAMS Corporate Scams, Genetic Tests & Health Myths | PBD Podcast | Ep. 557
So we put him on an amino acid called trimethylglycine, TMG, which you could get at GNC. We put him on a B-complex, a methylfolate, a form of B12 called methylcobalamin, high doses of those things. And I remember talking to him about his medical records and saying, Dana, there's nothing wrong with your heart. Because I'm not in a position to tell you to stop taking cardiovascular medication.
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"The REAL Reason You're Dying" – Gary Brecka SLAMS Corporate Scams, Genetic Tests & Health Myths | PBD Podcast | Ep. 557
But you will know in due course over the next few weeks when it's actually time to titrate down on your medication. We'll get your cardiologist involved. And so essentially I gave him this... that allowed his body to start metabolizing homocysteine. As his homocysteine level dropped, his vascular system began to relax. As his vascular system relaxed, his pressure dropped.
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"The REAL Reason You're Dying" – Gary Brecka SLAMS Corporate Scams, Genetic Tests & Health Myths | PBD Podcast | Ep. 557
As his pressure dropped, it eventually returned to normal. And we were doing blood pressure three times a day, seven days a week. And by week 21, he was completely off of all of his cardiovascular medication that he had been on for 15 years. Wow. And...
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"The REAL Reason You're Dying" – Gary Brecka SLAMS Corporate Scams, Genetic Tests & Health Myths | PBD Podcast | Ep. 557
Because of the inflammatory cascade, you know, high C-reactive protein, high homocysteine, he had a lot of swelling in his nasopharynx, in the back of his pharynx behind his tongue. So he was also on a CPAP machine. So as he brought that inflammatory cascade down, the adenoid area widened and the sleep apnea went away. So he got off the sleep apnea machine. And then as we started to manage the –
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"The REAL Reason You're Dying" – Gary Brecka SLAMS Corporate Scams, Genetic Tests & Health Myths | PBD Podcast | Ep. 557
what's called the hematocrit, the blood viscosity by simply doing blood dumps, therapeutic phlebotomy, his hematocrit returned to normal, meaning the blood viscosity returned to normal. He stopped having motor oil for blood and he began having water for blood, viscosity-wise. And so now you're off the blood thinners. So he's off of blood thinners. He's off of hypertensive medication.
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"The REAL Reason You're Dying" – Gary Brecka SLAMS Corporate Scams, Genetic Tests & Health Myths | PBD Podcast | Ep. 557
He was off of the diuretics that were actually just stripping potassium out of his out of his tissues. And he got off of all of his medication, his weight dropped, blood pressure returned to normal, sleep deepened, REM sleep extended, deep sleep extended. He was off of the CPAP machine, cognitive function went back through the roof. You know, his weight loss improved every other facet of his life.
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"The REAL Reason You're Dying" – Gary Brecka SLAMS Corporate Scams, Genetic Tests & Health Myths | PBD Podcast | Ep. 557
And now if you look at him now, He's two and a half years out. He's on no pharmaceuticals. He doesn't take any prescription medication. The tinnitus that he had and the vertigo that he had is virtually gone. He's in incredibly good shape and he'll stay here for the balance of his adult lifetime. He looks just like that right now. How much time commitment does it take to look like that?
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"The REAL Reason You're Dying" – Gary Brecka SLAMS Corporate Scams, Genetic Tests & Health Myths | PBD Podcast | Ep. 557
You know, of all the things that I talk about, I get the most flack for that, because people say, well, if you could predict life expectancy to the month, you'd be Jesus. You would have won a Nobel Prize. And I assure you, I'm not Jesus, and I've never won a Nobel Prize. But it is some of the most accurate science in the world.
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"The REAL Reason You're Dying" – Gary Brecka SLAMS Corporate Scams, Genetic Tests & Health Myths | PBD Podcast | Ep. 557
Less than you think. 70% of that is diet.
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"The REAL Reason You're Dying" – Gary Brecka SLAMS Corporate Scams, Genetic Tests & Health Myths | PBD Podcast | Ep. 557
So if you want to get back to the basics and just look like that, what he's really focused on now is life extension, right? So I always tell people, look, in my previous company, we sold a $110,000 red light bed. And if you're getting ready to buy a Ferrari, go buy a red light bed before you buy a Ferrari.
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"The REAL Reason You're Dying" – Gary Brecka SLAMS Corporate Scams, Genetic Tests & Health Myths | PBD Podcast | Ep. 557
That Ferrari is going to do nothing for your cellular biology, but red light can change your life. But what's really interesting is most of these modalities are just mimicking what we get from other nature. You know, so again, we're getting back to what God gave us, not what man makes us.
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"The REAL Reason You're Dying" – Gary Brecka SLAMS Corporate Scams, Genetic Tests & Health Myths | PBD Podcast | Ep. 557
So you can go out and spend $123,000 on a red light bed if you've got that money lying around, or you could just take your shirt off and expose your skin to sunlight for 16 to 20 minutes every morning.
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"The REAL Reason You're Dying" – Gary Brecka SLAMS Corporate Scams, Genetic Tests & Health Myths | PBD Podcast | Ep. 557
You see, we've mapped the entire human genome. But there's no gene for a lot of these diseases. And this study was registered at clinicaltrials.gov. Yes. You can go look this study up. We have this all wrong. The Maha movement is about making changes to the poison that's in our food supply, not eliminating people's choices.
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"The REAL Reason You're Dying" – Gary Brecka SLAMS Corporate Scams, Genetic Tests & Health Myths | PBD Podcast | Ep. 557
um face the sun you know we've been taught to fear the sun you know we get three things from other nature we get the magnetism from the earth which is a very real thing i get so much flack on this on on social media which i can't understand why because it's a very valid concept taking your shoes off touching the surface of the earth earthing grounding is a very real thing um the earth has a low gauss current when we touch the surface of the earth we discharge into the earth you can actually measure this in the blood i've done it real time on stages before in front of
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"The REAL Reason You're Dying" – Gary Brecka SLAMS Corporate Scams, Genetic Tests & Health Myths | PBD Podcast | Ep. 557
tons of people where if we can't touch the surface of the earth, I'll lay somebody on a PEMF mat, pulse electromagnetic field mat. And you just prick their finger, you put on a slide and you show people in real time what your red blood cells look like circulating around in your blood. Well, you'll see that they're all kind of stuck together and clumped up. That's great, Matt, too.
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"The REAL Reason You're Dying" – Gary Brecka SLAMS Corporate Scams, Genetic Tests & Health Myths | PBD Podcast | Ep. 557
Stuck together and clumped up because when your cells have opposite charges, they attract. Soon as you touch the surface of the earth for a few minutes, it repolarizes the surface of those cells and they actually start to free float around. They can't contact each other. Why is that? Because you change the... So if these are two cells and they have the same charge, they can't touch.
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"The REAL Reason You're Dying" – Gary Brecka SLAMS Corporate Scams, Genetic Tests & Health Myths | PBD Podcast | Ep. 557
like two poles of a magnet. As soon as they get opposite charges, they attract. So when your cells start sticking together, everywhere they touch, you lose surface area. What happens when you lose surface area on a cell that's round, that's meant to have all this surface area in contact with its environment? It can't eliminate waste. It can't repair. It can't toxify. It can't regenerate.
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"The REAL Reason You're Dying" – Gary Brecka SLAMS Corporate Scams, Genetic Tests & Health Myths | PBD Podcast | Ep. 557
And now you start suffering all of these consequences for something simple like... I just don't walk on the surface of the earth on a regular basis. Now, if you have the money and you want to save the time, you can get a PEMF mat. You can drop five grand on a PEMF mat or 1,300 bucks on a PEMF mat. But if you don't want to do that, take your shoes off and touch the surface of the earth.
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"The REAL Reason You're Dying" – Gary Brecka SLAMS Corporate Scams, Genetic Tests & Health Myths | PBD Podcast | Ep. 557
You know, if you think about life insurance companies, annuities, reverse mortgages, there's so many financial services instruments that are based on mortality. Right. And they don't care where you are on an actuarial curve. Right. We're all on one. Everybody listening to this podcast right now is on an actuarial curve.
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"The REAL Reason You're Dying" – Gary Brecka SLAMS Corporate Scams, Genetic Tests & Health Myths | PBD Podcast | Ep. 557
You can spend $123,000 on a red light bed or you can take your shirt off and expose your skin to sunlight in the first 45 to 60 minutes of the day. And we are very photovoltaic beings. All red light is doing is taking the beneficial wavelengths from the sun and mimicking those in an inside environment, right? You get real physiologic benefits from red light.
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"The REAL Reason You're Dying" – Gary Brecka SLAMS Corporate Scams, Genetic Tests & Health Myths | PBD Podcast | Ep. 557
Can't afford a cold plunge. Take Tupperware containers, fill them full of water, put them in your freezer, and put blocks of ice into your tub. And you'll do that twice a week because that cold plunge will last you three days. And if you don't have a tub, take a cold shower. One of the best things you can do if you're going to harness your morning routine is –
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"The REAL Reason You're Dying" – Gary Brecka SLAMS Corporate Scams, Genetic Tests & Health Myths | PBD Podcast | Ep. 557
Get up in the morning, get out in first light, the first 45 to 60 minutes of the day when there's no UVA, no UVB rays. Allow the natural sunlight to hit your skin. Start to generate vitamin D3. You are very photovoltaic. It is actually a material fact that your mitochondria are charged by light.
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"The REAL Reason You're Dying" – Gary Brecka SLAMS Corporate Scams, Genetic Tests & Health Myths | PBD Podcast | Ep. 557
First of all, when you say mood, and I convert that to physiology, so that's what I'm going to do, and you say mood or emotional state, what does that mean in the human body? If you said, Gary, what is a mood? What is an emotional state? I would tell you it's a collection of neurotransmitters bound to oxygen. So in other words, mood is a recipe. So
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"The REAL Reason You're Dying" – Gary Brecka SLAMS Corporate Scams, Genetic Tests & Health Myths | PBD Podcast | Ep. 557
If you're a 24 year old female, you have a life expectancy of X. If you're a 44 year old male, you have a life expectancy of Y. But when they're getting ready to take. $25, $40, $50, $60 million worth of risk on your life, only one thing matters. It's how many more months do you have left on earth? And about two and a half decades ago, there was a humongous push.
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"The REAL Reason You're Dying" – Gary Brecka SLAMS Corporate Scams, Genetic Tests & Health Myths | PBD Podcast | Ep. 557
If you said, I want to make happiness, okay, that's so much serotonin, so much dopamine, so much norepinephrine, so much epinephrine, you mix that up, boom, you have the emotion of happiness. You know, I want elation, joy, passion, arousal. Okay, you change the level of serotonin, you change the level of dopamine. And so you create mood. The ingredients for mood are neurotransmitters.
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"The REAL Reason You're Dying" – Gary Brecka SLAMS Corporate Scams, Genetic Tests & Health Myths | PBD Podcast | Ep. 557
So where do neurotransmitters come from? They're made in the gut. 90% of the serotonin in our body is right here. If you don't have it here, you can't have it here. And so like, for example, you know, the serotonin hypothesis of depression says if you're low on serotonin, you're by definition depressed. So your mood is depressed.
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"The REAL Reason You're Dying" – Gary Brecka SLAMS Corporate Scams, Genetic Tests & Health Myths | PBD Podcast | Ep. 557
Do you actually have depression or do you have a deficiency in serotonin? So now if the serotonin hypothesis of depression is true, that means I have low serotonin. And so wouldn't you think that if I'm depressed because I have low serotonin, that the fix would be to raise serotonin? But that's not what we do.
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"The REAL Reason You're Dying" – Gary Brecka SLAMS Corporate Scams, Genetic Tests & Health Myths | PBD Podcast | Ep. 557
We take people that are low on serotonin and we put them on SSRIs, selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors. So what these do, Bind to little sites in your brain and they essentially slow the uptake of serotonin. And the idea is if we ration what little serotonin you have, then you won't go off a cliff.
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"The REAL Reason You're Dying" – Gary Brecka SLAMS Corporate Scams, Genetic Tests & Health Myths | PBD Podcast | Ep. 557
Well, if we know 90% of the serotonin is made right here in our gut, why don't we go to the factory that makes serotonin and increase its production? If I want to improve my mood, let's produce more of the ingredients that create mood. And so how do we make serotonin? Well, we take an amino acid called tryptophan and we methylate it into the neurotransmitter serotonin. What's needed to do that?
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"The REAL Reason You're Dying" – Gary Brecka SLAMS Corporate Scams, Genetic Tests & Health Myths | PBD Podcast | Ep. 557
Methylfolate. B complexes, the methyl form of cobalamin, trimethylglycine, basic nutrients can actually improve the methylation cycle and the utilization, transportation of serotonin. So I would, if you are an entrepreneur, if you are a busy mother, busy father, if being mentally on your game is something that you need in order to succeed in your career, I would focus first on your gut.
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"The REAL Reason You're Dying" – Gary Brecka SLAMS Corporate Scams, Genetic Tests & Health Myths | PBD Podcast | Ep. 557
because we make dopamine in our gut too. How do we make dopamine? We take tryptophan, fetal alanine, we convert it into a neurotransmitter called dopamine. Could serotonin deficiency be a deficiency in the amino acid tryptophan? Yes. Could depression be an inability to methylate proper amounts of serotonin? Yes. And now we're up here messing with the mind.
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We're putting neuroplasticity altering chemicals in the mind to fix a nutrient deficiency. Just like Dana White had a nutrient deficiency in trimethylglycine and he was on cardiovascular medication to fix a nutrient deficiency. Now he's on an amino acid. So his body can actually break these compounds down.
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You know, a lot of times people that have hypothyroid are deficient in selenium, thiamine, and often iodine. And so why are we not first testing for what's missing from what God gave us? That's my whole mantra is that, you know, we're not as sick, we're not as diseased, we're not as pathological as we think we are. We are nutrient deficient.
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And if we would, you know, if you want to see magic happen in the human body, Pat, you give it the raw material it needs to do its job. And so what does it need to do its job? First of all, I would focus on your gut and we can talk about what you could do to do that. But our ultimate human superpower is sleep. If you're not sleeping, you're not performing, full stop.
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I mean, not just because of the life settlement industry, which is the sale of policies in the secondary market, because a lot of people don't realize that your life insurance policy is a piece of personal property like like anything else, like your car, like your house, like anything else that you own.
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So you're not performing at your best athletically. You are certainly not performing at your best cognitively. So if you want to get an edge on the rest of your competition, you have to develop a sleep hygiene or sleep routine. If you ask most of your listeners, what do you do to go to sleep? They'll just say, I don't know, I get in bed. I'm like, well, when do you go to bed?
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Whenever I finish doing my shit. Sometimes it's 1 o'clock in the morning. Sometimes it's 11 in the morning. I can think about an activity people do before they want to go to sleep.
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Oh, dude, that's the best way to reduce catecholamines and put you right to sleep.
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Wives, if you want to extend your life, make love before you go to bed. That's a material fact. But if you ask most people about sleep, this is the most bullied thing in their schedule. Sleep is the bastard stepchild of your day. We push it around because it's the easiest thing for us to manipulate in our schedule. So you need to prioritize self-care or else you will never be able to be selfless.
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And this is why 82% of all autoimmune diseases happen to women. If you take all autoimmune diseases category, about 80-82% of autoimmune disease affect women. Is that because autoimmune is racist or sexist? No, it's because women have a tendency to be more selfless. They suffer from things like caregiver syndrome. They put the needs of others before themselves.
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They're almost genetically programmed to do this.
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They will exhaust themselves for their spouse. And they will put the needs of others first. You know, as a broad statement before the needs of themselves. So women have a tendency to put themselves in the backseat a lot more often than men do. And this constant lack of self-care, which they will very often look at as being selfish, they want to be selfless.
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So they wake up in the morning, going to give all my time to my kids. Then I'm going to go and give my time to my career. And then I'm going to give my time to my spouse. Then I'm going to give it to the kids. And then I'm going to go to bed. And so the first thing that I would say is develop a sleep routine, right? And sleep hygiene works like this.
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If you want to, I mean, you wanna be a super sleeper, you're gonna be a super performer because everyone knows sleep is good for you, but few people know why. Like what's happening during deep sleep? The practice of good quality sleep, yeah. That's number one right there, regular sleep-wake cycle. We're going somewhere.
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So let's just dive into sleep real quick. Because a lot of people struggle with sleep at night. They don't know how to go to sleep at night. I'll tell you why most people listening to this podcast are not sleeping. They're not sleeping because they are body tired but mind awake. As their environment quiets, their mind wakes up.
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and they will tell you, I am not falling asleep because I am thinking of the most innocuous shit. Like I'm, you know, should I have a dinner party? You know, did my belt match my shoes today? Did I get everything on my grocery list? Did I return that Instagram post? Nothing that couldn't wait till the next day. This is called rumination.
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And we ruminate at night because of a category of neurotransmitters called catecholamines. As these neurotransmitters rise, it creates a waken state. So you're body tired, you're exhausted, but you're laying their mind awake. And I'm going to tell you how to solve that in a second. But first, you know, if we just isolate, what's so important about sleep?
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Okay, well, specific things happen during sleep that don't happen during any other time of our cycle. So if you're gonna push anything around in your schedule, push meetings and travel around and prioritize sleep and exercise. And so when you look at what happens during deep sleep, for example, and this is the only time that the brain is actually eliminating waste.
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And so we have a lymphatic system, which everybody knows of. You know, your lymphatics get swollen when you get a sore throat. We got lymph nodes under our armpits. We got them in our groins. We got them all over the body to get rid of waste. In the brain, it's called the glymphatic system. And this system is only active during deep sleep.
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So if you don't get deep sleep, your brain doesn't detoxify. It doesn't eliminate waste. It doesn't repair. It doesn't regenerate. So you're actually building up toxicity in the brain by not having deep sleep.
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So the way that you... Yeah, so let's talk about quieting the mind. Because you just have to keep converting these things to physiology, right? People are like, I can't fall asleep. It takes me two hours to fall asleep. Well, why can't you fall asleep? Because I just am thinking about all the stuff from the day. And then you're like, well, you have OCD or ADD or ADHD. Hypomanic.
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You have all these categories for this. It's none of that. It... Your mind is awake and you are ruminating, unless something catastrophic happened, obviously, you know, divorce, bankruptcy. There are reasons why, you know, you wouldn't sleep. But aside from the obvious, most people have this chronically throughout their lifetime.
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They are chronic poor sleepers and they get in bed, their body tired, but their mind awake. So what is causing awake in state? It's a category of neurotransmitters called catecholamines. If you pull those up, catecholamines. Catecholamines are fight or flight neurotransmitters.
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Okay, so if catecholamines are at like a two, neurotransmitters and hormones play a crucial role in the body's response to stress, fear, and excitement. Okay, so as these neurotransmitters rise, they create one of those things, stress, fear, or excitement. They create a waken state. The more that they rise, the more impact they have on your physiology.
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That's exactly it.
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So at low levels, your mind is awake and it's just kind of buzzing. As it rises a little further, you get anxious. As it keeps rising, you will have anxiety. If they continue to rise, you will have a full-blown panic attack. And if they rise even further, you'll have paranoias.
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And so this entire cascade of mental illnesses and issues, sleep disturbances, sleep disruptions, you know, insomnia related disorders is following this rise and fall of these neurotransmitters. There is a gene called COMT. If you want to pull that, I love how you guys are pulling all this shit up in real time. This is amazing.
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Oh, wow. See how it plays a crucial role in the metabolism of neurotransmitters, particularly dopamine, norepinephrine, and epinephrine. So what are those neurotransmitters? Those are your waking state neurotransmitters. They're also your fight or flight neurotransmitters. You ask anybody that's ever suffered from anxiety, ask them these three questions.
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Have you had it on and off throughout your entire lifetime? Most of the time they'll say yes. Can you always point to the specific trigger that causes it? Most of the time they will say no. I can be on a podcast just like this with you right now and just kind of get overwhelmed with anxiety, right? I can be driving home from work on an otherwise innocuous day and I can be overwhelmed by anxiety.
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Yes. So you want to know specific mortality. So these are called probabilistic models, and essentially it's not that if you have 220 months to live that you're going to die in exactly 220 months. What the model predicts is if your life expectancy is 220 months, for example, just to make one up, that means that you have the exact same chance of being alive as you do of being dead.
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Most people that have anxiety do not need a specific trigger. They don't need to walk to the edge of a 30th floor balcony and be afraid of heights or get on a crowded elevator and be afraid, you know, claustrophobic. What they need is for catecholamines to rise. So now the question is, how do we lower catecholamines?
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Because there are so many quote-unquote mental illnesses that are linked to this gene mutation, which is very easy to test for, and I'm going to tell you how to supplement for it even if you don't test for it, because high levels of catecholamines What does high catecholamine mean? Oh, it means anxiety. It means anxiousness. It means heightened state of fear. It means sweating.
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It means rapid heart rate. So all of these conditions get diagnosed as illnesses or they get diagnosed as mental conditions or mental disorders when the truth is you have high catecholamines. Why do you have these? Because you're deficient in the raw material that breaks down catecholamines. Well, what breaks those down?
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SAMe, which is an amino acid, S-adenosylmethionine, capital S-A-M, lowercase e, which you can also get at GNC or you can get online. These people need extra significant dosages of SAMe. B-complex vitamins, they need a form of B12 called hydroxycobalamin, they need methylfolate.
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So they need the basic nutrients and raw materials that if our soil had the right level of nutrients and if our food was not highly processed and we ate a whole food diet and we took basic supplements, you would find that your body has the raw material it needs to break these kinds of neurotransmitters down. What happens at night when you break down catecholamines? Your mind quiets.
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Another great way to do this is by taking magnesium. Magnesium 3 and 8 is actually very good for this. I actually take a magnesium complex that has all seven forms of magnesium in it. How many supplements do you take throughout the day? I take about nine. That's it? Yeah, nine or ten in the morning. And then I take a magnesium blend at night. But I also have a sleep routine.
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You know, we're such creatures of habit. We design our days from the moment we wake up to the moment we go to bed. And what we should really design is bookending our sleep. And then everything else will fall in line, right? So if I asked you, what's your workout routine? Most people go, I do this, this, this, the bang, bang, bang, bang, bang. I do his cardio two days a week. I do weight training.
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I do upper body, lower body. I alternate days. They'll have a workout routine. Most people have a routine to operate their business. They have regular business meetings. But they don't have a routine to go to sleep and they don't have a routine to wake up. Timing the sleep and wake cycle of your body is your absolute human superpower.
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So here's five things your audience could just do tonight if they're not already doing this. Just this week, just pick a consistent time. So say 10.30 at night. I'm gonna go to bed at 10.30. And then make that promise to yourself and keep the promise. Get into bed at 10.30, even if you don't go to sleep.
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If you're one of those people that ruminates at night, take magnesium, like a magnesium 3 and 8 or a magnesium breakthrough, bio-optimizers, magnesium breakthrough. Take a magnesium at night. If you really have an active mind, before you go to bed, do a contrast shower. Get in the shower. Run the water as hot as you can stand it on the back of your spine. Step out of that stream of water.
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That's your mean mortality, right? You have the same chance of being alive as being dead in 220 months. Now what they're going to want to know is what are the chances that you are on the left side of the bell curve or the right side of the bell curve? And this is where this system of credits and debits comes in, right?
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Turn it as cold as it will go and step into that stream of water and just Deal with it. Sudden. Not gradual. Bang. Shock the body. Right. Like a cold shock protein. Right. So step into that stream of water for 30 seconds and just deal with it. And then get out of the shower and dry off. This will break the catecholamine cycle.
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When you get into your bedroom, drop the temperature down colder than you think, 65 to 69 degrees Fahrenheit. Surgically remove every ounce of light from the room. If you've got an alarm clock on the nightstand, throw a towel over it. You know, if you have fissures in the curtains, try to close them up or get a cheap sleep mask. Get a full, you know, cotton sleep mask. Okay.
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It's hard to say don't use your phone in bed because everybody does. So if you're going to use your phone in bed and just make sure that you turn the red light filter on. And when you're done, you throw it on airplane mode. And then do a breath work technique when you get into bed, which is just long, slow inhales through the nose. Take a four or five second pause.
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Breathe out like you're breathing out through a straw. And just imagine yourself kind of pulling all the thoughts from your head down into your chest and breathing them out. I know that sounds really hokey, but I promise you, you won't even make it to 10 breaths. and start to do this every single night. Consistent bedtime, contrast shower, breath work in bed, night sleep mask, cold environment.
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It's not complicated. That's simple to do. It's super not complicated, man.
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And we all know that mortality debits are things like type 2 diabetes, morbid obesity, hypertension, history of smoking, fatty liver. The obvious things are mortality debits.
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"The REAL Reason You're Dying" – Gary Brecka SLAMS Corporate Scams, Genetic Tests & Health Myths | PBD Podcast | Ep. 557
So the benefits of sex, believe it or not, are actually not from the intercourse themselves. They're from the rise, the impact on a pleasure hormone called oxytocin. It's also called the love hormone. They say that's what's in Cupid's arrow because oxytocin is what creates the psychosomatic response. It's what allows you to create an image in your mind and –
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have an erection or to see a man or see a woman and be aroused, which can actually cause physical changes, right? Cause your heart rate to increase, can cause your pupils to dilate, cause a man to have an erection, cause a woman to have extra vaginal secretions. Your body is actually having a psychosomatic response, psychological incidents that causes a response in the body.
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And this oxytocin, which dogs have about a hundred times the oxytocin in their bloodstream that humans do, which is why they're so damn loyal, right? I mean, you can, you know, most people that have pets know that you can leave for five minutes or five days, you get the same response, right? You're like, calm down, Fife, I just went to the mailbox, right? Like, so it's so true, right?
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And this is why they're so loyal. I love animals, I'm a huge dog fan. But so cuddling, kissing, skin-to-skin snuggling. These have really positive physiologic consequences in the human body. They actually cause the secretion of the pleasure hormone oxytocin. And oxytocin has all kinds of positive effects in the body. So spooning is good for you?
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Dude, spooning, cuddling, skin-to-skin, long hugs, kisses over six seconds. I'm going to be smiling right now. Look at Robbie Sanderson. He's going to go smooch his wife tonight.
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we started that then import demographic data so we would look at lifestyle data and demographic data and we would predict the chances that somebody would actually adjust their lifestyle and potentially fix the problems that they had and this is when the model became extraordinarily accurate because these databases don't forget will have 300 370 million lives
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You know, this is, you know, part of the reason why, you know, we knew in the mortality space that broken heart syndrome is a very real thing. No shit. Oh, very real thing. I mean, there are the mortality, like, How do you see it on the test? You look at the duration of a marriage and the loss of a single spouse and you dramatically reduce the life expectancy of the second spouse. Dramatically.
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It's almost as accurate as hip fractures because hip fractures were one of what we called the triad of death because they were actually poorly understood. Most people think that elderly people fall and break their hip. It's actually not what happens. Their hip breaks and then they fall. And so when... Break comes first before the fall. Instead of the fall, then the break.
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The break causes the fall. The fall doesn't cause the fracture. That's correct. Wow. So grandma's standing at the... you know, sink washing dishes and crack the femoral head breaks off and she falls. And then they say, what happened? I fell and broke my hip. Now your hip broke and then you fell. The reason why, because there's nothing particular about a hip fracture that leads to early death.
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What, what, In older people the reason why the hip fracture is so significant is this is an indication that the skeletal system can no longer support its own weight. You're pretty far progressed in the osteoporotic, osteopenic category. You're way down the road on a brittle bone system. And so it's one of the what we call the tryout of death.
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But we knew in the mortality space that if you wanted to cut someone's life expectancy in half at any age, put them in isolation. Isolation is the most dangerous and destructive thing that you can do to a human being. And I mean socially isolated, isolated from their relationship, elderly people that have had marriages for 40, 50, 60 years and then lose a spouse and are suddenly alone.
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That is a dramatic accelerant for mortality. But isolation happens at very, very young ages too. We are becoming increasingly more isolated. We are – We are drastically out of touch with nature. We are drastically out of touch with other human beings. The worst thing we ever did during the pandemic, I don't care what anybody says, is social distancing, residential quarantining, masking.
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You know, this was horrible for humanity. You had skyrocketing rates of mortality related to loneliness. If you look at the Blue Zone studies, for example, and you actually look at why are hypercentenarians concentrated in certain areas of the world? What were the things that were contiguous to all of the blue zones? Because it wasn't diet, right?
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It wasn't carnivore, keto, paleo, pescatarian, vegan, vegetarian. It was none of those things. If you actually look at dieting and you went to Sardinia, you'd say, okay, well, it's the highest carbohydrate consumption in the world, one of the longest life expectancies. You go to Singapore, one of the highest meat consumptions in the world, one of the longest life expectancies.
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You go to the Mediterranean, very high fatty fish and oils, very long life expectancy. Okay, well, everybody's living long and they're not a continuity between diet. So the only continuity with diets was that they were all whole foods. None of those people were living that long on a processed diet.
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The two things that were not exchangeable, that were non-negotiable, were mobility into later in life. In fact, in Sardinia, Life expectancy, the hypercentenarians, was directly related to the grade of the slope. The steeper the hill you walked up every day, the longer your life expectancy. Wow. Yeah.
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You have a 93-year-old man walking up a 32-degree slope, 10 blocks to go to church and four blocks over to the market, back home. Wow. Live forever. The second was sense of purpose and community.
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and they have information that no other database has because they know the day, the date, the time, the location, and the cause of death for 370 million lives. So they pull that back into these records, and they say what led to this person's early demise, their early mortality.
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It's so visceral and so real. You know, in those areas of the world, in the blue zones, for example, there's no such thing as assisted care living. Right? Assisted care is mom and dad move back in with the kids until the day that they die. Why? Because their only purpose may be to go out to the garden and get vegetables for dinner that night, but they have a purpose. They have a role.
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They have a community around them. And we are surrounded. by communities that are hyper isolating us. Technology is increasing the rate of isolation, the rates of depression in young children are skyrocketing, the rates of autism, attention deficit disorders, what we call behavioral disorders, impulse control disorders, these are all skyrocketing. Why?
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Because there's no communal sense of no relationships, no sense of purpose, no sense of real community. Our communities are in these, you know, hyper electronic environments that actually do not, they're not chicken soup for our soul. And so when you look at these areas where life expectancy was the longest, they had strong senses of community.
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And you can go into the actual record, and you can build a case to say they actually died at 77, but they actually started to die at 41 when this happened. They started a corticosteroid. The corticosteroid actually initially reduced their inflammatory cascade, but then it ate their joint like a termite. And as it ate their joint like a termite, it caused them to have bilateral knee replacements.
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"The REAL Reason You're Dying" – Gary Brecka SLAMS Corporate Scams, Genetic Tests & Health Myths | PBD Podcast | Ep. 557
So three things, you know, number one, I would immediately get all of the folic acid out of their diet. So folic acid is an entirely man-made chemical. We've been lied to and told that it's vitamin B9, it's not. We make folic acid in a laboratory. Around 1993, Monsanto convinced the federal government that we needed to spray folic acid on our entire grain supply.
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"The REAL Reason You're Dying" – Gary Brecka SLAMS Corporate Scams, Genetic Tests & Health Myths | PBD Podcast | Ep. 557
So all flour, all bread, all pasta, all cereals, grains of every kind are sprayed with a chemical called folic acid. Folic acid does not occur anywhere naturally in nature. You can't find folic acid anywhere on the surface of the earth. So these are in foods. We don't call it sprayed with folic acid. We call it fortified or enriched folic.
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"The REAL Reason You're Dying" – Gary Brecka SLAMS Corporate Scams, Genetic Tests & Health Myths | PBD Podcast | Ep. 557
So fortified or enriched food, enriched bleached white flour, fortified whole grains, fortified wheat. You spin around a box of Cheez-Its, it's going to say enriched wheat flour. So fortified or enriched foods are sprayed with chemical folic acid. The reason why I say get folic acid out of their diet is because the majority of these kids will have a very difficult time processing folic acid.
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"The REAL Reason You're Dying" – Gary Brecka SLAMS Corporate Scams, Genetic Tests & Health Myths | PBD Podcast | Ep. 557
So what does folic acid do? Folic acid, when you don't convert it, rises. It actually causes hyperactivity in the brain. It interferes with speed, timing, agility, hand-eye coordination. So the fine motor movements and the things that will take an athlete from being a good eight and a half to a 10. Look at Tom Brady, for example, arguably the greatest quarterback of all time.
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"The REAL Reason You're Dying" – Gary Brecka SLAMS Corporate Scams, Genetic Tests & Health Myths | PBD Podcast | Ep. 557
You can't really make an argument for his physicality. He wasn't the biggest quarterback. He wasn't the most athletic quarterback. He wasn't the strongest quarterback. What was it about him that very few, if any, quarterbacks had? It was his timing. It's timing.
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"The REAL Reason You're Dying" – Gary Brecka SLAMS Corporate Scams, Genetic Tests & Health Myths | PBD Podcast | Ep. 557
You know, the ability to have a trajectory moving away from you, going, you know, increasing its distance and potentially its speed away from you and then moving laterally across a field and then having to throw an object not to where the runner is but to where the runner is going and then to put it on the left shoulder, depending on where the running back is versus the right shoulder, that kind of timing is amazing.
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"The REAL Reason You're Dying" – Gary Brecka SLAMS Corporate Scams, Genetic Tests & Health Myths | PBD Podcast | Ep. 557
So if he didn't cater to the small things... The timing would have eventually eroded. This happens in UFC fighters. It happens in boxers. It happens in athletes of all kinds. What happens in age is not the loss of physical capability first. It's the loss of hand-eye coordination, speed, timing and agility. It's all the fine motor skills.
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"The REAL Reason You're Dying" – Gary Brecka SLAMS Corporate Scams, Genetic Tests & Health Myths | PBD Podcast | Ep. 557
Post-bilateral knee replacement, this caused a reduction in their mobility, what we call the ambulatory profile. As you reduce their mobility, you bring in all the diseases that exacerbate with reduced mobility.
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"The REAL Reason You're Dying" – Gary Brecka SLAMS Corporate Scams, Genetic Tests & Health Myths | PBD Podcast | Ep. 557
So if you actually want to improve that athlete's chances and give them an edge, I would make certain that they are eating a diet that is free of folic acid. There are also a couple of supplements I would put them on. I would make sure that they're taking vitamin D3, about 5,000 IUs of vitamin D3 daily. At 11 years old? At 11 years old, yeah.
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"The REAL Reason You're Dying" – Gary Brecka SLAMS Corporate Scams, Genetic Tests & Health Myths | PBD Podcast | Ep. 557
Assuming that they're a healthy, full-bodied 11-year-old, you know, if they're above 60, if they're in the 60, 80-pound range, right? So if they're very frail and smaller, I would reduce that dosage. I would also make sure at their age that they're on a very good omega-3 fatty acid supplement, black seed oil, really good fish oil supplement, right?
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"The REAL Reason You're Dying" – Gary Brecka SLAMS Corporate Scams, Genetic Tests & Health Myths | PBD Podcast | Ep. 557
So omega-3 fatty acids are really necessary for brain development. They're excellent for their joints, for all forms of recovery from athletic performance. And then there are things you could do if you really wanted to really accelerate things. You could add red light therapy. You could add a hydrogen nanobath. I would have them drinking hydrogen water even at that age.
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"The REAL Reason You're Dying" – Gary Brecka SLAMS Corporate Scams, Genetic Tests & Health Myths | PBD Podcast | Ep. 557
I personally think that hydrogenated water is arguably the most underutilized, scientifically valid biohack in the world.
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"The REAL Reason You're Dying" – Gary Brecka SLAMS Corporate Scams, Genetic Tests & Health Myths | PBD Podcast | Ep. 557
And as you bring those diseases from that person's future into their present, they now succumb to a disease that they likely never should have had because very often they're on a medication that wasn't required. because of a surgery that was unnecessary, because of a diagnosis that very often was incorrect.
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"The REAL Reason You're Dying" – Gary Brecka SLAMS Corporate Scams, Genetic Tests & Health Myths | PBD Podcast | Ep. 557
No one's ever willing to. Anyone that wants to criticize me on hydrogen water, I will invite them onto my podcast and I will openly allow them to express whatever trepidations they have about hydrogen water. I would love to see this.
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"The REAL Reason You're Dying" – Gary Brecka SLAMS Corporate Scams, Genetic Tests & Health Myths | PBD Podcast | Ep. 557
I'd love to see it. Anyone listening to this podcast who wants to come on to the Ultimate Human Podcast, my guest, I will fly you in at my expense. You can actually stay at my biohacking studio. I love that offer. I'm very sincere about that. And we will have an open debate about the benefits and the side effects of hydrogen water. Why don't we look at what the research says right here?
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"The REAL Reason You're Dying" – Gary Brecka SLAMS Corporate Scams, Genetic Tests & Health Myths | PBD Podcast | Ep. 557
And if you can find that, there's a video of me, but I don't know if that's where I'm criticized. A lot of criticisms I deserve. You know, sometimes I put things out that I read in articles and I don't check the publications.
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"The REAL Reason You're Dying" – Gary Brecka SLAMS Corporate Scams, Genetic Tests & Health Myths | PBD Podcast | Ep. 557
Critics of hydrogen, scientific evidence supporting the health benefits is weak, with most studies being small and lacking rigorous methodology, meaning there's not enough data to definitively claim scientific. Okay, so would you do me a favor? You go to Google. You search Journal of Experimental Gerontology. Hydrogen and Water. It was published in November of 2021.
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"The REAL Reason You're Dying" – Gary Brecka SLAMS Corporate Scams, Genetic Tests & Health Myths | PBD Podcast | Ep. 557
November 2021, Journal of Experimental Gerontology. Yeah, pull that one up. Okay, this was a, anybody who wants to criticize, double-blind, randomized, peer-reviewed, published clinical trials. This is the effects of six months of hydrogen-rich water intake on what's called molecular and phenotypic biomarkers. These means they're looking at inflammation.
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"The REAL Reason You're Dying" – Gary Brecka SLAMS Corporate Scams, Genetic Tests & Health Myths | PBD Podcast | Ep. 557
They actually used a marker called TET-2 to actually measure the methylation cycle in these adults. of aging and older adults. The reason why I'm bringing you to this study and not the 13 other studies that I would love to debate on, but this study in particular is because this was done in older ages, right?
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"The REAL Reason You're Dying" – Gary Brecka SLAMS Corporate Scams, Genetic Tests & Health Myths | PBD Podcast | Ep. 557
Most of the time when you see studies in young athletes and healthy young men and women, it's not as applicable. So let's say, let's go to older ages, 70 and above. It is a randomized controlled pilot trial. Okay, so let's scroll down and see what some of these outcomes were. Hydrogen, much water, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. favorably affected several age-related features in the elderly.
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"The REAL Reason You're Dying" – Gary Brecka SLAMS Corporate Scams, Genetic Tests & Health Myths | PBD Podcast | Ep. 557
So let's go and increase their telomere lengths. Those are the lengths of the chromosomes. Like one of the hallmarks of aging is the degradation of the distal ends of the chromosome called the telomere. So the longer the telomere, the younger the biological age of that host. So one of the measures that we use to check your biological age against your chronological age is we look at your telomeres.
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"The REAL Reason You're Dying" – Gary Brecka SLAMS Corporate Scams, Genetic Tests & Health Myths | PBD Podcast | Ep. 557
And it was this type of research that led to the 2016 study that Harvard did that determined that the third leading cause of death in America is modern medicine. It's medical error. You have cardiovascular disease, cancer, and then modern medicine. Modern medicine, number three.
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"The REAL Reason You're Dying" – Gary Brecka SLAMS Corporate Scams, Genetic Tests & Health Myths | PBD Podcast | Ep. 557
If we can lengthen your telomeres, we are extending your lifespan. So can we scroll down? Okay. The molecular markers, DNA, chromosome. Look at all of the things that they measure, and then we're going to see the outcomes.
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"The REAL Reason You're Dying" – Gary Brecka SLAMS Corporate Scams, Genetic Tests & Health Myths | PBD Podcast | Ep. 557
The biomarkers assessed at baseline and six-month follow-up were molecular markers in the blood, DNA, and chromosomes, nutrient sensing, protein and lipid metabolism, oxidative stress, mitochondria, cellular senescence, meaning zombie cells, inflammation, brain metabolism, cognitive functioning, physical functioning, and body composition, as well as resting blood pressure, facial skin features, sleep outcomes, and health-related quality of life.
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"The REAL Reason You're Dying" – Gary Brecka SLAMS Corporate Scams, Genetic Tests & Health Myths | PBD Podcast | Ep. 557
So now let's see what happened when they actually used hydrogen-rich water for six months. And this will be part of my debate with whoever wants to debate me. So a significant treatment time. So there was telomere lengthening with the length increased after hydrogen-rich water intervention over baseline versus the control water. There was significantly higher the... Oh, methylcytosine deoxygenase.
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"The REAL Reason You're Dying" – Gary Brecka SLAMS Corporate Scams, Genetic Tests & Health Myths | PBD Podcast | Ep. 557
Tet-methylcytosine deoxygenase is a marker for methylation. Methylation is the process that your cells are going through to take compounds that enter your body and convert them into the usable form. One of the hallmarks of a youthful biome is that your cellular biology converts things into the usable form very well. It accelerated in the hydrogen-rich water group.
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"The REAL Reason You're Dying" – Gary Brecka SLAMS Corporate Scams, Genetic Tests & Health Myths | PBD Podcast | Ep. 557
Can you go down a little bit further? And they, hold on. It increased brain choline and NAA levels in the frontal gray matter, brain creatine in the right parietal matter. Can we go down a little bit further? So there was no significant differences were found in other outcomes except for a significantly improved chair stand performance.
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"The REAL Reason You're Dying" – Gary Brecka SLAMS Corporate Scams, Genetic Tests & Health Myths | PBD Podcast | Ep. 557
This is where the sarcopenia, which is age-related muscle wasting, right, which happens the older we get, the faster this occurs. So this is their ability to sit and stand, right? So the number of times they can actually sit-stand, their sit-stand ratio.
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"The REAL Reason You're Dying" – Gary Brecka SLAMS Corporate Scams, Genetic Tests & Health Myths | PBD Podcast | Ep. 557
It can be recognized as a possible anti-aging agent that tackles several hallmarks of aging, including loss of function and telomere length shortening.
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"The REAL Reason You're Dying" – Gary Brecka SLAMS Corporate Scams, Genetic Tests & Health Myths | PBD Podcast | Ep. 557
Yes, you can go look this study up. In fact, if you go to, can you go to hydrogenstudies.com? It's not my website, by the way. Okay, hydrogenstudies.com, and just go to view all studies. Okay, there are 1,335 studies on hydrogen water, hydrogen gas here. You can actually go and you can deselect the animals if you want to just see. So go to all test subjects. Click that.
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"The REAL Reason You're Dying" – Gary Brecka SLAMS Corporate Scams, Genetic Tests & Health Myths | PBD Podcast | Ep. 557
Just highlight the humans on the right. So get rid of the mice and the rats and the dogs. Boom. Now just select all. Click select all. Boom. Now you're just, oh, sorry. Deselect all. Collects humans and hit search. Top right. So now it's just going to be in human clinical trials.
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"The REAL Reason You're Dying" – Gary Brecka SLAMS Corporate Scams, Genetic Tests & Health Myths | PBD Podcast | Ep. 557
efficacy and safety of hydrogen therapy in patients with early-stage interstitial lungs disease, successful treatment of myalgic encephalomyelitis and chronic fatigue syndrome using hydrogen gas. I mean, it is mind-numbing. First of all, hydrogen is the most prevalent element in the universe. It's also the lightest element that we know of. In fact, if you say that something is an antioxidant,
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"The REAL Reason You're Dying" – Gary Brecka SLAMS Corporate Scams, Genetic Tests & Health Myths | PBD Podcast | Ep. 557
No question. The experts are making the mistake on the reason why you're dying because our modern medical system – and the good news is what you're about to see in the next five to ten years is you're going to see artificial intelligence and big data are going to circumvent the entire system.
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"The REAL Reason You're Dying" – Gary Brecka SLAMS Corporate Scams, Genetic Tests & Health Myths | PBD Podcast | Ep. 557
What does that mean? Blueberries are antioxidants. Like, what does that mean? It means that it's donating ions, donating electrons, right? So you can actually do a study for yourself at home. Just order something called an ORP meter, oxidative reduction potential meter. You can get it for 10 bucks on Amazon.
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"The REAL Reason You're Dying" – Gary Brecka SLAMS Corporate Scams, Genetic Tests & Health Myths | PBD Podcast | Ep. 557
What this will do is it'll take any compound, like a liquid, you can put it in this bottle and you can measure the ability of this water to either cause inflammation or reduce inflammation. So the more positive the ORP, the more it causes inflammation. This Fiji bottle is going to be about a plus 150. So even though this water will hydrate you, it will cause inflammation.
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"The REAL Reason You're Dying" – Gary Brecka SLAMS Corporate Scams, Genetic Tests & Health Myths | PBD Podcast | Ep. 557
If you drop the hydrogen tablet in there and it effervesced into hydrogen gas and you drank that, it would drop the ORP to negative 400. So now you would take this glass of water, this bottle of water, and you would turn it into an antioxidant. And if you look at, I mean, study after study, I use one called, you can go to drinkh2tab.com. Go to drinkh2tab.com. This is the one I take.
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"The REAL Reason You're Dying" – Gary Brecka SLAMS Corporate Scams, Genetic Tests & Health Myths | PBD Podcast | Ep. 557
They're actually kind of professionals at business scamming. How much time, commitment does it take to look like that? Less than you think.
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"The REAL Reason You're Dying" – Gary Brecka SLAMS Corporate Scams, Genetic Tests & Health Myths | PBD Podcast | Ep. 557
I'm actually a partner in this. That's my son. But go to science. Okay, if you scroll down here, these are the clinical studies. Sorry, keep going. These are the clinical studies, whereas the scientific studies, it should say on their benefits. If you go to the bottom under science, it should show you the studies. We linked them there somewhere, science. Okay, so resources, science.
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"The REAL Reason You're Dying" – Gary Brecka SLAMS Corporate Scams, Genetic Tests & Health Myths | PBD Podcast | Ep. 557
So we should be able to – there were 24 studies done on that elemental magnesium tablet alone. And you look at giving it to – Double-blind studies like the full-blown? The full-blown double-blind studies. And these are the highest level of research. First of all, it's safe across the board because hydrogen is the most – prevalent element in the universe.
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"The REAL Reason You're Dying" – Gary Brecka SLAMS Corporate Scams, Genetic Tests & Health Myths | PBD Podcast | Ep. 557
I mean, it's also the lightest element in the universe. So what happens when you put excess hydrogen into the body? It becomes one of the most anti-inflammatory compounds we know of. Because hydrogen, you can also bathe in it. It will go right transdermal. So if you have knee, hip, shoulder, rotator cuff... You can literally bathe in it, like in the bathtub.
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"The REAL Reason You're Dying" – Gary Brecka SLAMS Corporate Scams, Genetic Tests & Health Myths | PBD Podcast | Ep. 557
Yeah, you know, if you go to John Jones' page, if you go to John Jones' Instagram, It's going to be down there a ways. But, you know, I started working with John Jones before his last UFC fight. And one of the issues that he had, if you keep going back before his fight in November, he did a post with he and I and we were he talked about. There he is. There I am sitting with him right there.
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"The REAL Reason You're Dying" – Gary Brecka SLAMS Corporate Scams, Genetic Tests & Health Myths | PBD Podcast | Ep. 557
And what I mean by that is no longer will the randomized clinical trial that's conducted by a pharmaceutical company that was used to approve a drug through the FDA become the standard of care. The standard of care will be the standard of care that has the best outcome. And large data is going to tell us what the best outcomes come from.
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"The REAL Reason You're Dying" – Gary Brecka SLAMS Corporate Scams, Genetic Tests & Health Myths | PBD Podcast | Ep. 557
Um, so I haven't get into red light bed. I've got him getting in a, you know, I've got him doing oxygen therapy, what's called EWOT exercise with oxygen therapy. I taught him a breathwork technique. Um, but yeah, John will tell you that when I, you know, parachuted into his camp, one of the issues that he had was, you know, just because of his career.
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"The REAL Reason You're Dying" – Gary Brecka SLAMS Corporate Scams, Genetic Tests & Health Myths | PBD Podcast | Ep. 557
He's waking up every day in excruciating pain. At the time, he was only training five days a week. And he was waking up in just pain every morning because of the jiu-jitsu and all the contact sports. And this was right before his... his fight. So we went out there. I added two major things to his routine. He started drinking hydrogen rich water, which is NSF certified.
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"The REAL Reason You're Dying" – Gary Brecka SLAMS Corporate Scams, Genetic Tests & Health Myths | PBD Podcast | Ep. 557
It's just hydrogen and water. And he started bathing in it every night for 25 minutes. By the 21st day, he called me and he goes man i can't believe it i am waking up i am not in any pain wow i'm actually him adding a sixth day of training to my training schedule i'm taking zero credit for his competency in the ring none none whatsoever but what i was able to do was get him out of pain
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"The REAL Reason You're Dying" – Gary Brecka SLAMS Corporate Scams, Genetic Tests & Health Myths | PBD Podcast | Ep. 557
by bathing and drinking hydrogen rich water going into his fight. And I could give you athlete after athlete after athlete after athlete that this works in. I mean, the single best thing that you can, it's about a dollar a day for those hydrogen tablets.
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"The REAL Reason You're Dying" – Gary Brecka SLAMS Corporate Scams, Genetic Tests & Health Myths | PBD Podcast | Ep. 557
I used to promote these hydrogen water bottles, but what I'm finding is the longer you use that bottle, the less part per million hydrogen it makes. And it's too expensive for people. You know, I want my message to be for the masses. And so for less than a dollar a day, you drop an elemental magnesium tablet into that glass of water Any water. Any water.
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"The REAL Reason You're Dying" – Gary Brecka SLAMS Corporate Scams, Genetic Tests & Health Myths | PBD Podcast | Ep. 557
And it will automatically turn it into an antioxidant bomb. If you really think about, like, what do antioxidants do for us besides reduce oxidation? You know, about 70% of our circulatory system, our circulation is actually not done by our heart. People think the heart circulates all the blood in the body. It actually doesn't.
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"The REAL Reason You're Dying" – Gary Brecka SLAMS Corporate Scams, Genetic Tests & Health Myths | PBD Podcast | Ep. 557
It circulates it through the major arteries and the major veins, but it doesn't do the microvascular circulation. That's done by an activity called vasomotor, kind of like a snake swallowing a mouse. And this is the most underserved- Vasomotor? Vasomotor. or vasomotion, right?
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"The REAL Reason You're Dying" – Gary Brecka SLAMS Corporate Scams, Genetic Tests & Health Myths | PBD Podcast | Ep. 557
If you look up that activity, that's how capillaries will kind of move blood through a capillary, kind of like a vasomotor or vasomotion. So, I love that you guys are doing this, this is so awesome. regulation of blood flow in small vessels, right? So what happens is, you know, blood gets brought to the entrance of these vessels and then this vasomotor activity continues the circulation.
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"The REAL Reason You're Dying" – Gary Brecka SLAMS Corporate Scams, Genetic Tests & Health Myths | PBD Podcast | Ep. 557
So if you want to improve the appearance of your skin, fine lines and wrinkles, the blood supply to the back of your eyes, your liver, your lungs, your pancreas, your kidneys, your brain,
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"The REAL Reason You're Dying" – Gary Brecka SLAMS Corporate Scams, Genetic Tests & Health Myths | PBD Podcast | Ep. 557
If you want to improve your microvascular circulation, which is 70% of your circulatory system, you can do things like expose your skin to sunlight, get in a red light therapy bed, exercising your vascular system by cold water immersion and heat exposure to actually dilate and vasoconstrict, and you can take hydrogen.
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"The REAL Reason You're Dying" – Gary Brecka SLAMS Corporate Scams, Genetic Tests & Health Myths | PBD Podcast | Ep. 557
I'll bring them in here. We'll drop three of them in that bottle right there.
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"The REAL Reason You're Dying" – Gary Brecka SLAMS Corporate Scams, Genetic Tests & Health Myths | PBD Podcast | Ep. 557
So for example, just to go back to the case that I was just citing and finish up the first thought. So this practice of predicting death, is this system of credits and debits. And we realized that the reason why the majority of people are not living healthier, happier, longer, more fulfilling lives were because of what we called modifiable risk factors.
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"The REAL Reason You're Dying" – Gary Brecka SLAMS Corporate Scams, Genetic Tests & Health Myths | PBD Podcast | Ep. 557
We're going to put three of them in there called a hydrogen bomb.
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"The REAL Reason You're Dying" – Gary Brecka SLAMS Corporate Scams, Genetic Tests & Health Myths | PBD Podcast | Ep. 557
This one will taste like raspberry. It's flavored with raspberry, but they make an unflavored version.
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"The REAL Reason You're Dying" – Gary Brecka SLAMS Corporate Scams, Genetic Tests & Health Myths | PBD Podcast | Ep. 557
Yeah, that won't do anything close to what hydrogen tablets will do. So that's elemental magnesium.
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"The REAL Reason You're Dying" – Gary Brecka SLAMS Corporate Scams, Genetic Tests & Health Myths | PBD Podcast | Ep. 557
Yeah, just do that one. Drop two or three of them in there. It's going to take about 50 seconds to dissolve. You're going to get to 12 parts per million.
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"The REAL Reason You're Dying" – Gary Brecka SLAMS Corporate Scams, Genetic Tests & Health Myths | PBD Podcast | Ep. 557
So it's actual raspberry. So just hold that up. You see the gas that's going in there? So it's pure elemental magnesium. All 24 of those studies are on that site, drinkh2tab.com. Just go there and read the study. Do not take my word for it. Or go to hydrogenstudies.com. You know, my son and I just did the Great World Race, which was seven marathons on seven continents in seven days. Holy shit.
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"The REAL Reason You're Dying" – Gary Brecka SLAMS Corporate Scams, Genetic Tests & Health Myths | PBD Podcast | Ep. 557
Yeah. I only ran half marathons and I ran one full marathon. But my son ran all seven marathons. Get out of here. On all seven continents. How old is he? In seven days. He's 24. Good for him. Yeah. Cole Brekka. I'm so proud of him. And he started at 210 pounds. He was like 189 when we got home. But he's a beast. There he is. That's us in the Great World Race. That's us in Cape Town, South Africa.
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"The REAL Reason You're Dying" – Gary Brecka SLAMS Corporate Scams, Genetic Tests & Health Myths | PBD Podcast | Ep. 557
So at that time, he had already run a marathon in Antarctica. I'd run 18 miles of the marathon. I couldn't make the rest of it. And he ran the full marathon in Antarctica. We flew five and a half hours to Cape Town and then he ran the marathon in Cape Town. I mean, he looks like, look at those quads.
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"The REAL Reason You're Dying" – Gary Brecka SLAMS Corporate Scams, Genetic Tests & Health Myths | PBD Podcast | Ep. 557
Oh yeah, he's a rugby player. And I mean, he's built more like a rugby player than a distance marathon. I don't know what possessed him to run... When he signed up for this race, I was like, Cole, I hate to state the fricking obvious brother, but you've never run a marathon. But what were you going to say? Did hydrogen water play a role?
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"The REAL Reason You're Dying" – Gary Brecka SLAMS Corporate Scams, Genetic Tests & Health Myths | PBD Podcast | Ep. 557
Hydrogen water is the only reason why he made it across all seven continents. So that is all gas in there. That density you see is all hydrogen gas. You're going to drink that. It's going to go right through your stomach wall, through your esophagus, through the intestinal wall.
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"The REAL Reason You're Dying" – Gary Brecka SLAMS Corporate Scams, Genetic Tests & Health Myths | PBD Podcast | Ep. 557
And it's going to massively reduce inflammation. That's him out on the run.
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"The REAL Reason You're Dying" – Gary Brecka SLAMS Corporate Scams, Genetic Tests & Health Myths | PBD Podcast | Ep. 557
in um antarctica that's the first marathon we did was 26.3 miles there and then that's got to be sick that's where antarctica get out of here really yeah he's actually set a record at uh the clinic where we went and did his vo2 max testing he had a really crazy vo2 max so how many miles did he run in antarctica he ran 184 miles in seven days um but in antarctica he ran 26.3 miles
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"The REAL Reason You're Dying" – Gary Brecka SLAMS Corporate Scams, Genetic Tests & Health Myths | PBD Podcast | Ep. 557
That's Antarctica. How freezing, how cold is it? It was minus 28 with a wind chill of minus 48.
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"The REAL Reason You're Dying" – Gary Brecka SLAMS Corporate Scams, Genetic Tests & Health Myths | PBD Podcast | Ep. 557
Minus 48. Then you get on a plane, you fly five and a half hours and land and got off the plane and ran a marathon in Cape Town, South Africa. And then we got back on the plane and flew 11 hours, 14 hours to Perth, Australia. What does he do for work? What does he do full-time? He works for me full-time, and he is the co-founder of that H2 Tabs.
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"The REAL Reason You're Dying" – Gary Brecka SLAMS Corporate Scams, Genetic Tests & Health Myths | PBD Podcast | Ep. 557
So in other words, things that they could actually take control of or do that would permanently change the trajectory of their life. And for me, that was- For the positive or the negative? For the positive or the negative, right? I mean, lifestyle factors are the greatest impact. Modifiable risk factor. Yeah, modifiable risk factors.
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Whack it right back. If you do that in the morning, you won't even need coffee. And I know it sounds like I'm here to sell you a hydrogen tablet. I actually prefer that everybody take the hydrogen tablet. But you can get hydrogen water generators for your house. You can get hydrogen tablets. You can get hydrogen bottles, but get hydrogen gas into your body.
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"The REAL Reason You're Dying" – Gary Brecka SLAMS Corporate Scams, Genetic Tests & Health Myths | PBD Podcast | Ep. 557
Yeah, I mean, I would prefer you don't drink it from plastic. But, you know, whether you're drinking the filter water, bottled water, you know, I don't think anybody should drink tap water. But whatever vessel you're drinking water out of, just drop a hydrogen tablet in it. It'll take 50 seconds for that to dissolve. You're saying three or just one? Three throughout the day.
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"The REAL Reason You're Dying" – Gary Brecka SLAMS Corporate Scams, Genetic Tests & Health Myths | PBD Podcast | Ep. 557
Three throughout the day. But at least one in the morning. If you're tired or you lack sleep or you're exhausted and that drop in inflammation – will wake you up, not because it's stimulating you.
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"The REAL Reason You're Dying" – Gary Brecka SLAMS Corporate Scams, Genetic Tests & Health Myths | PBD Podcast | Ep. 557
There's no stimulant in there, but you will notice that if you're dragging ass and you do one or two of those hydrogen tablets and you put a high dose of hydrogen gas into the body, it will wake you up because it will reduce that fog and inflammation.
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That's a fancy scientific name for saying things that are under your own control, right? And I mean, trauma. If you had major trauma, car accident, and now you have spinal injury, okay, that's not under your control. But metabolic syndrome, type 2 diabetes, morbid obesity, poor sleep, poor focus and concentration, autoimmune conditions, ADD, ADHD, OCD, manic depression, bipolar.
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Well, there's three things you can do to improve your memory. I mean, first of all, I would lower your glycemic profile. I would dramatically reduce sugar and carbohydrate intake. Not go keto, not go Atkins, you know, or carnivore per se, but we know now that Alzheimer's is type 3 diabetes. If you put in type, just because I know he's going to Google it, so I might as well just get ahead of him.
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Type 3 diabetes. Or type 3 diabetes, Alzheimer's. The type 3 diabetes, they say it's not recognized as a similarity between type 2 diabetes and Alzheimer's. If you keep scrolling down, they hypothesize that Alzheimer's disease may be a form of type 3 diabetes and specifically affects the brain because, you know, a lot of people don't realize this. It's not just the pancreas that makes insulin.
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The brain is so crack addicted to sugar that it can make its own insulin. And what the brain wants, the brain gets. When the brain craves sugar, it will activate dopamine receptors in the back of the tongue, I think they're the RF1A2 receptors, so that it gives you a sort of a reward for giving it sugar. So we know that insulin resistance in the brain
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there's evidence to support the connection between insulin resistance and Alzheimer's. So insulin resistance in the brain, you know, when you don't have places to store sugar in the body, we convert sugar into something called glycogen, we store it in the liver, in the brain there's no place to store it. There are neurosynaptic junctions, these little spaces between nerves.
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So insulin resistance has a massively negative impact on the brain. So before I tell you what to take to improve insulin,
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memory it's what to not do to improve your memory so you want to lower your glycemic profile so lower your blood sugar um your your what's called your hemoglobin a1c the three-month average of your blood sugar will do a lot for your cognitive function that's why if you ever notice how sharp you are in a wake in a alert and aware when you're fasted or when you're hungry
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Like when you're hungry and you're going searching for food, you're actually on your game. You feel alert, you feel awake, you feel focused, you feel cognizant, you feel clear. Why is that? Because your blood sugar is low. And so on the low side, so the lower you can keep your hemoglobin A1C, you know, and a really good hemoglobin A1C is 5.2, 5.3 or less.
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And the more insulin sensitive you are, the sharper your memory is going to be. The second thing is that memory is directly related to circulation. The presence of oxygen is the absence of disease. And as you deprive the brain of oxygen, which is called hypoxia, which by the way is the definition of death, hypoxia, lack of oxygen to the brain.
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But as you just take marginal deficits in the amount of oxygen in the brain, you take significant deficits in your cognitive function. So mobility, exercise, breathing will do more for your cognitive function than any kind of nootropic because you will increase the circulation to the brain.
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And a lot of people don't realize that you can also improve the capacity for your blood to carry oxygen by managing your levels of red blood cells in hemoglobin. So for example,
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The reason why hormone therapy may improve or does improve cognitive function, like when men that are deficient begin in testosterone, for example, or women that are deficient in testosterone get on testosterone replacement therapy or they fix the nutrient deficiencies like DHEA and D3 that cause hormone deficiency.
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These are all conditions that lifestyle changes, modifying your lifestyle can dramatically change not only the impact of but permanently put these things in your rearview mirror. And we would try to predict the chance that somebody would modify their lifestyle and change habits that would affect their mortality debits. And the majority of cases they don't.
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their cognitive function returns or their memory improves or their short-term recall improves. And why is that? Because when you normalize the hormone level, you normalize or increase the level of red blood cells which carry oxygen and it brings more oxygen to the brain. This is why testosterone deficient men have memory issues.
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testosterone, men that are not deficient in testosterone that have a tendency to have less memory issues. So, hormone therapy can be a big, play a big role in cognitive function. HRT or TRT? Oh, no question. I know he's going to do it anyway, so we might as well just do it. But if you go to the Journal of American Urology,
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which is considered the Bible for male endocrine therapy, just go to Journal of American Urology, testosterone, and then open that and scroll down to line 13, where it says counseling regarding testosterone deficiency. Did you say Journal of American Urology? There you go. Oh, that was it. Okay. So scroll down to the line 13, number 13.
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Is that the actual, wait, that's not the actual study. Journal of American Urology Testosterone. Go back, Rob, if you can go back. Journal of American Urology.
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Yeah, there you go. Boom. Okay. Evaluation and management of testosterone deficiency. By the way, this is one of the better peer-reviewed published journals in the world on male endocrine therapy. So we're going to go to the Bible for a second. Keep scrolling down until you get to line 13, which will say counseling regarding the management of testosterone deficiency. 13, there we go.
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Counseling regarding the treatment of testosterone deficiency. So this is what a physician... should say to a patient that is deficient in testosterone, if they're thinking of taking testosterone therapy, clinicians should inform testosterone deficient patients that low testosterone is a risk factor for cardiovascular disease, not the other way around. If you scroll down again,
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Patients should be informed that testosterone therapy may result in improvements in erectile function, low sex drive, anemia, bone mineral density, lean body mass and or depressive symptoms.
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The reason why all of these are affected by all of these energy, fatigue, lipid profiles, quality of life, cognitive function right there is because, and if you go further into the studies and I won't bore you with those, but is because you are improving the presence of oxygen in the bloodstream. And so the more oxygen you have, the better your cognitive function. So first I would lower my sugars.
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I would try to maintain low levels of high glycemic sugars in my blood. I would, if you are young, you shouldn't start hormone therapy, but you should have your hormone levels checked and see if you are deficient in the nutrients that your body needs to make hormones. About 70% of patients that qualify for hormone therapy don't need hormones.
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They need the nutrients that the body needs to make hormones. So if you're clinically deficient, for example, in DHEA or you have high levels of something called SHBG, sex hormone binding globulin, or you're clinically deficient in vitamin D3, these are nutrients that affect the production, metabolism and conversion of the hormone testosterone.
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And if we don't look at these things, we put people on hormone therapy too early, rather than putting them on the nutrients to make their own hormones.
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And so it was very easy to predict their death. But what happened to me was I realized – and this isn't just data. They're human beings on the other side of these spreadsheets. And I made a very conscious decision to – leave that industry and say, I don't want to spend the balance of my lifetime predicting death.
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You know, what's amazing about that is that this is exactly what we discovered in our, in our, um, research in mortality is that so often, so many things go wrong. So if you just look at that myriad of symptoms, right?
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Hypertension, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, cholesterol, obesity, slip disc, prostate impotence, hip osteoarthritis, that seems like the entire world's going to hell in a handbasket, right? So if you treat these like spokes on a wheel, these look like independent variables all going wrong.
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There's a cardiac issue, there's a mental issue, there's a bone issue, there's a circulatory issue, there's a cognitive issue. There's one issue causing everything. And this is what happens and I believe goes lost on modern medicine very often is usually one thing goes wrong that causes everything. You don't have multiple systems going wrong, right?
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I mean people that have an autoimmune disease tend to have multiple autoimmune diseases. Why is that? Because it's a failure of the immune system or not a failure of the immune system. The immune system is usually acting properly because we don't go and find out why the immune system is attacking our tissue. Probably 40% of your audience listening to this podcast right now has some form of
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of autoimmune condition, autoimmune thyroid, Hashimoto's, Crohn's, Sjogren's, you know, a whole number of things. And what modern medicine would have you believe is that, you know, you woke up one day and your immune system is attacking your tissues, right? So if you have Crohn's disease, you woke up one day and your immune system started manufacturing antibodies to your colon.
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Or if you have Hashimoto's, you woke up one day and the immune system started to attack your thyroid. And we immediately assume that the immune system has gone wrong, that the immune system's made a mistake. So we need to suppress the immune system and we need to put anti-inflammatories in the body. Instead of saying, let's just assume that God didn't make a mistake.
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Let's just assume that the immune system is acting properly. We just need to find out why. So in other words, it's attacking the colon, yes, but it's doing it for a reason. Let's figure out why. And the big whys are mold, mycotoxins, metals, viruses, parasites. Those five. Use tests for those five. You will get to the root cause. of, in my opinion, the majority of all autoimmune conditions.
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But we believe that autoimmune conditions happen because the immune system is spontaneously dysfunctional. There are so many people with autoimmune Hashimoto's, and what do they do? They just put them on medication and watch the immune system just slowly attack, you know, the thyroid. But the truth is when you have pathogens in the body, like mold, a mycotoxin, a virus, a virus,
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I want to spend the balance of my lifetime, you know, trying to help people live healthier, happier, longer.
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and you have a healthy cell, and if they're listening to this, they can't see this, but pathogens don't hide like this, right? They hide like this. So in other words, let's say that this is a virus, a mycotoxin or heavy metal, and it's floating around the bloodstream. It's not going to hide outside of the cell, it's going to hide inside the cell. Now the immune system sees this invader.
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How does it get to that pathogen? It manufactures an antibody to your cell to get to this. It's not after the cell. It's not after your thyroid. But if you take heavy metals and you embed them in your thyroid tissue, your immune system will manufacture auto antibodies to the tissue to get to this. So it's just like if, you know, if a crime is committed and
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and the offender ran into your building and locked the door, the police would bust that door down to get to the offender. The immune system will do the same thing. It will bust through the wall of your cell by manufacturing an antibody to get to the invader. It's not after the cell. It's not after the friendly tissue. It's after the invader.
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So why don't we support the immune system and say, hey, why did I wake up one day and I have autoimmune antibodies to my thyroid? Well, maybe you have heavy metals embedded in the thyroid, right? Maybe a mold, mycotoxin. So I always...
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you know, try to preach that there's so much hope for us, you know, by getting back to the basics, neutrifying the body, putting the raw materials in that God gave us to allow our bodies to function properly.
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And as soon as something goes wrong, not assuming that you've had a disease or pathology happen to you, that something deficient has happened within you, fixing that deficiency can fix that condition.
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No, we were, we, we own the largest brokerage firm in the industry for policies in the secondary market. It's called what was it called? Life Asset Group. So it wasn't Life Partners in Waco. No, no, no. It wasn't Life Partners in Waco. It was called Life Asset Group. I later sold that to a big insurance conglomerate. Here in South Florida? No, in New York called Inscap.
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It's so sad. I mean, my wife and I, like so many other business owners, were just completely duped by Grant and his partner, Brandon Dawson. You know, they built an industry on creating the hope, Um, that you can be successful in business by, um, by doing his real estate courses or by allowing Cardone Ventures.
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They have a, um, an entity called Cardone Ventures and supposedly it's a business scaling. Uh, they're professionals at business scaling. They're actually kind of professionals at business scamming. You My wife and I started a company called Streamline Medical Group and we started it because we wanted to make an impact on humanity and we really wanted to shift what was going on in modern medicine.
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We treated Grant Cardone. He had a great experience with us and then he said he was going to buy us and he was going to just blow our business up and we were going to scale to the moon. And what we realized...
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was that really what they wanted to do was take they took over our business now look I take responsibility for this because I signed a really bad contract with some really bad people and I didn't know at the time because I was like this wide-eyed entrepreneur and I wanted to make this huge impact on humanity and
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And Brandon Dawson and Grant were talking about, you're going to build a billion-dollar company. We scaled all of these companies. It turned out to be complete nonsense. Essentially what they did was they paid us nothing for the company. They strung the payouts out over about three years. We got a quarter of a million dollars at the closing, which we were then forced to put into Cardone Capital.
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And we put it into Cardone Capital before Grant Cardone told me that he was under investigation by the feds, that a two-year investigation by criminal investigation was underway at Cardone Capital. And, you know, we put the money in when Grant Cardone knew that he was under investigation. He didn't disclose that to us for another two and a half years.
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And we got into business with them and you go to these events and they're so intoxicating. There's like celebrities on the stage and there's fireworks and, you know, Grant's showing you his planes and his oceanfront mansions. And Brandon's talking about all these businesses that he's scaled and what you realize is happening.
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is they are selling the dream of success, not success, and they built a company that's a fee-based company that is meant to strip fees from these young companies, $3 million to $8 million companies, strip fees out of these companies, take equity in these companies, promise them that you're going to scale. their company, but not have any obligation to scale the company.
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So the entrepreneur is obligated to pay fees. Cardone Ventures is not obligated to scale their business. And they put them in these bear trap contracts. I mean, as soon as we announced the lawsuit against Cardone Ventures, my law firm got hundreds and hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of calls from young entrepreneurs like my wife and I that had been scammed the same way that we had been.
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Yes. My office was in Miami.
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Essentially, they build this massive dream, but the contracts don't reflect what they're promising you. And because you're so intoxicated by this dream of a billion-dollar company and changing thousands and thousands of lives, you sign these agreements because they seem like great people. And then all of a sudden you realize that you've actually not just sold your company, you've sold your soul.
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and they wanna control every word that you say. I mean, I went on the Joe Rogan podcast, November of 2023, coming out of that podcast,
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We did 20,000 genetic tests, did 17 million that month in revenue, and Brandon Dawson and Cardone Ventures sent me a cease and desist because I wore the wrong T-shirt and didn't use an affiliate link that would drive all of those leads into the system that would turn them into other courses, right? But my... My objective when we started was not to pay your company fees to build your business.
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My objective was to get this information to the masses. And then what they did behind our back was the most sinister thing that happened. And this is all in our lawsuit, so I'm not defaming them. What they did behind our back was my wife Sage and I were partners with Grant and Brandon. We were killing it in the genetic testing market. I believed in the gene test. I believed in the supplements.
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It took me two and a half years to formulate the supplement that we used to fix these genetic breaks. And tens of thousands, in fact, hundreds of thousands of people were benefiting from it. We were really addressing the masses. We were killing it. We were doing 17 million a month in revenue. We were doing 20,000 new gene tests. We couldn't even keep inventory on the shelves.
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Then what they did without telling us was they went out and they bought
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company outside of our company they bought a genetic testing lab in Austria they bought a manufacturer of supplements in Austria and without telling us because Brandon Dawson was the CEO of both companies the company he was partnered with my wife and I and Cardone ventures he forced 10x health to do business with the company that he bought outside of our 10x health company
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He forced us to do business with this company halfway around the world. We didn't realize when he was pitching it to us why he was so insistent that we start taking patients' DNA that we were testing in the United States and ship it halfway around the world. So now we do a cheek swab in the U.S. We ship your – or they – ship your DNA to Austria. It gets run in a lab in Austria.
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And then they make your supplements in Austria and they ship your supplements back from Austria, back to the United States. And so when he presented us with this new genetic test, I couldn't understand why is he pushing this so hard? I could... Brandon, this genetic test is terrible.
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First of all, the gene snips in the tests we do in the United States are not even matching the genetic results that you're getting overseas. We're shipping supplements from halfway around the world through customs. They're getting trapped in customs. They're getting sent back. We're not even telling the people here that we're sending their DNA outside of the country.
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They would put DNA swabs in refrigerators for weeks and weeks and weeks before they would even ship it overseas. The supplements were woefully underdosed for helping the patients that we were trying to sell this to. My wife had panic attacks. I had massive headaches and got acid reflux on them. A lot of the compounds hadn't been tested on humans yet or not tested in human trials.
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And so we got to the point where we said, look, I'm not going to sell this test. You've taken the successful test. genetic test and supplements that's helping hundreds of thousands of people. And now you're doubling the price of the genetic test. You're taking it from $600 to $1,200. You're quadrupling the price of these supplements. It's $300 a month and you have to buy three months.
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So it's $900 out of pocket for the average family, which means a family of four is out of pocket $20,000 to do a simple genetic test. which you could take your gene results and run it through ChatGPT and get the exact same results. So I'll tell you right now, if you have a genetic test you've done anywhere in the world, run it through ChatGPT and it'll tell you what supplement. Get out of here.
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Absolutely, man. It's perfectly accurate. I'll put a link to how to do it on ChatGPT for free. So now we have a genetic test that's doubled in price, quadrupled in supplements, supplements that haven't been tested, you know, cheek swabs were sent in halfway around the world and then bang, the shoe dropped.
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We found out they went out and spent $7 million, which they took out of 10X Health in the form of a distribution, bought a company outside of it, and shoved that company down our throats. And I said, I'm not selling this genetic test. And they said, if you don't sell this genetic test, we'll terminate you. And they kept their word. They terminated me.
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And they terminated my wife in a company that we sold our primary residence to start. And we didn't do everything. And, you know, they put $250,000 in our pocket to buy this company, which I immediately put into Cardone Capital. So we never took any money off the table.
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When the company started making money, they stripped $9 million out in distributions to themselves, hundreds and hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of thousands of dollars in totally unnecessary fees because Cardone Ventures, which owned 82% of our company, has this thing called the Strategic Business Unit.
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which is a bunch of untrained young entrepreneurs with no specific expertise in the area of business that they sell services in. And even though they owned 82% of our company, they still charged massive fees every month, which they paid to themselves to scale our business. Our business wasn't scaling because of the strategic business unit.
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Our business was scaling because the message was resonating.
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I mean, I never—first of all, I owe a debt of gratitude to Grant Cardone for even taking the risk of saying that he wanted to partner with our company. I don't take that away from him at all. You know, in fact, a lot of my issues are not with Grant. I mean, I think Brandon Dawson, his partner, is going to be the downfall of the entire organization. Right.
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I don't have real issues with Grant. I mean, he's got a few issues with me because I left. I mean, basically, they said either sell this test or we terminate you. And I said, I'm not selling the test. I am not going to use my reputation to shove this thing down the throat of patients that I care about.
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You know, some of the clinicians that have been in my business since we started that business, some of the employees that are there, Some of the practicing clinicians are some of the best people in the entire world. You want to hear something amazing? So they... What does that wrap? They're now launching the... So on January 4th, you know, I have the Ultimate Human. It's my podcast.
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"The REAL Reason You're Dying" – Gary Brecka SLAMS Corporate Scams, Genetic Tests & Health Myths | PBD Podcast | Ep. 557
They went out on January 4th and bought ultimatehuman.com. I have the Ultimate Human. They bought ultimatehuman.com. And now they're launching... Ultimate human analysis. The 10X brand has been so damaged and so destroyed. Look at that. See any similarity between that logo and this logo? That's Cardone Ventures.
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"The REAL Reason You're Dying" – Gary Brecka SLAMS Corporate Scams, Genetic Tests & Health Myths | PBD Podcast | Ep. 557
That's Cardone Ventures. Are you joking or are you serious? I wish I was joking. They just started this. Yeah. So Brandon Dawson went out while I was his business partner.
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"The REAL Reason You're Dying" – Gary Brecka SLAMS Corporate Scams, Genetic Tests & Health Myths | PBD Podcast | Ep. 557
In March of 2024, while we were still business partners, while Sage and I were running our podcast and feeding leads to 10X Health and boosting 10X Health, Brandon Dawson went out and bought a trademark from a doctor, a trademark called Ultimate Human Analysis. Never even told us.
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"The REAL Reason You're Dying" – Gary Brecka SLAMS Corporate Scams, Genetic Tests & Health Myths | PBD Podcast | Ep. 557
We found out he bought the trademark a few months later, and he goes, oh, I bought this trademark to protect you guys. And we're like, well, why would you buy an Ultimate Human trademark? I've got the Ultimate Human podcast. He goes, yeah, I brought it to protect you guys. So he went out and bought this trademark, sat on it. I sued him on the 26th of December.
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"The REAL Reason You're Dying" – Gary Brecka SLAMS Corporate Scams, Genetic Tests & Health Myths | PBD Podcast | Ep. 557
On the 28th of December, he went out and bought, in the name of that trademark, he bought the social media domains, Ultimate Human Analysis. Then on January 4th, a few weeks into our lawsuit, he bought ultimatehuman.com, and now he's starting Ultimate Human Community, the ultimate human, look at the font, look at the coloring, look at the letters.
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"The REAL Reason You're Dying" – Gary Brecka SLAMS Corporate Scams, Genetic Tests & Health Myths | PBD Podcast | Ep. 557
The brand has been so tarnished that Grant and Brandon just dropped the 10X brand like a stone. And now they're chasing the, you know, obviously the ultimate human brand. We'll see how it goes. But it's just a sad story, man, because I really believe what those guys said. I believe what I heard from the stage. It was a horrible experience. You know, I...
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"The REAL Reason You're Dying" – Gary Brecka SLAMS Corporate Scams, Genetic Tests & Health Myths | PBD Podcast | Ep. 557
the time where we knew we could no longer do business with him, I told Grant we wanted out. And he said, I don't even like the space anyway. Why don't you guys make me an offer to buy my shares? And so my wife and I ran around Wall Street, you know, trying to raise money. We raised about $75 million. And
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"The REAL Reason You're Dying" – Gary Brecka SLAMS Corporate Scams, Genetic Tests & Health Myths | PBD Podcast | Ep. 557
I asked Grant to play backgammon one night and I went up there and I said, you know, look, we need to have a divorce. I don't want it to be a public divorce. I don't want to hurt the patients. I don't want to hurt the clients. I certainly don't want to hurt the employees that were with me from the beginning, these clinicians that have been with me from the beginning.
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"The REAL Reason You're Dying" – Gary Brecka SLAMS Corporate Scams, Genetic Tests & Health Myths | PBD Podcast | Ep. 557
Some of the most intentional good people, really good practitioners are still on the deck of that ship. And I made him an offer. He seemed excited about the offer. He went to his partner, Brandon Dawson. Brandon was like, absolutely not. It's scary trying to steal the business.
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"The REAL Reason You're Dying" – Gary Brecka SLAMS Corporate Scams, Genetic Tests & Health Myths | PBD Podcast | Ep. 557
And I said, look, just so that you know that this is an honest offer, I will not only pay this valuation for your shares, but you can also buy my wife and I out at the same valuation. Oh, it's either we do it to you or you do it to us. I'll either buy your 82% out at this valuation, and at the time I offered them $65 million.
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"The REAL Reason You're Dying" – Gary Brecka SLAMS Corporate Scams, Genetic Tests & Health Myths | PBD Podcast | Ep. 557
Yeah, at the $65 million valuation. So they could buy me, our 18%, and have the entire company, or we would buy their majority interest. They said, it's too little for you to buy our shares, and it's too much for us to buy your shares. So in other words, we don't think you're giving us enough money, but it would be too much. That valuation would be too much for your shares.
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"The REAL Reason You're Dying" – Gary Brecka SLAMS Corporate Scams, Genetic Tests & Health Myths | PBD Podcast | Ep. 557
So they forced us to stay in a loveless marriage, and then they wanted us to sell this abject failure of a gene test, which they know does not work. They try to hire celebrities and influencers to shove this test down people's throats. The market is picking up.
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"The REAL Reason You're Dying" – Gary Brecka SLAMS Corporate Scams, Genetic Tests & Health Myths | PBD Podcast | Ep. 557
on the inauthenticity of the messaging, you know, because the intention when it becomes solely to make money and not, the intention is not to help people with their well-being, the rate of collapse was just cataclysmic, you know. And so, I mean, it's sad, but, you know, so then we ended up in litigation.
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"The REAL Reason You're Dying" – Gary Brecka SLAMS Corporate Scams, Genetic Tests & Health Myths | PBD Podcast | Ep. 557
Here's the thing. We were doing big things together. What we were doing was working. It was the incessant level of greed that they said, we're going to take what's actually really working, what's scaling and what is helping the masses. And we're going to go, we're going to buy a new company for ourselves. We're going to hold it for ourselves.
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"The REAL Reason You're Dying" – Gary Brecka SLAMS Corporate Scams, Genetic Tests & Health Myths | PBD Podcast | Ep. 557
And we're going to force all of this, this, this deal flow that all of these people that are coming into the funnel that were largely coming from like the podcast and stage talks and everything else, you know, and, and, and yes, I will say Grant Cardone did a lot to elevate the, my awareness. And I owe him a debt of gratitude for that. But then, you know, greed just takes over.
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"The REAL Reason You're Dying" – Gary Brecka SLAMS Corporate Scams, Genetic Tests & Health Myths | PBD Podcast | Ep. 557
And you say, well, we're making $17 million a month. We could make $50 million a month if we double the price of the test, if we own the genetics company, if we own the supplements, if we quadruple the price of, you know, the monthly supplements and people, and Gary will just shove it down their throat. And then they ran into a brick wall. I said, listen, man, you bought
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"The REAL Reason You're Dying" – Gary Brecka SLAMS Corporate Scams, Genetic Tests & Health Myths | PBD Podcast | Ep. 557
But our company didn't buy our soul. And it's sad because I want to go back out in the market and help people. I've got 21 more months on my non-compete, so I've got to sit quiet in the United States before I can really get back to what I love to do. So I have to go outside the United States to do it while we see how the lawsuit plays out.
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"The REAL Reason You're Dying" – Gary Brecka SLAMS Corporate Scams, Genetic Tests & Health Myths | PBD Podcast | Ep. 557
He is a great dad. I actually, I actually spent a lot of time around him. Um, And ironically, even Elena that I'm suing right now. And they're great parents, you know, behind closed doors. You know, when I would spend time at their house, I mean, they're very intentional with their kids. And, you know, you see a lot of things on social media, but behind the scenes, he actually is...
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"The REAL Reason You're Dying" – Gary Brecka SLAMS Corporate Scams, Genetic Tests & Health Myths | PBD Podcast | Ep. 557
He is a very good dad. And Elaine is a good mother too. I mean, they really care about their daughters and they're intentional about the way they're raising them. They spend a lot of time with them. You know, you go over to a lot of wealthy people's houses and the kids are always tucked over somewhere with the nanny. You know, it's not like that. You know, I just unfortunately think that
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"The REAL Reason You're Dying" – Gary Brecka SLAMS Corporate Scams, Genetic Tests & Health Myths | PBD Podcast | Ep. 557
There's an incessant level of greed. I think there's good and evil in every person, right?
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"The REAL Reason You're Dying" – Gary Brecka SLAMS Corporate Scams, Genetic Tests & Health Myths | PBD Podcast | Ep. 557
What did you notice? So three things became glaringly apparent. Number one, modifiable risk factors were things that people could change the trajectory of their life. The second thing that was glaringly apparent to us, and remember, we were not allowed to have any contact with the patient or any contact with the treating physician.
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"The REAL Reason You're Dying" – Gary Brecka SLAMS Corporate Scams, Genetic Tests & Health Myths | PBD Podcast | Ep. 557
I have a great marriage.
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"The REAL Reason You're Dying" – Gary Brecka SLAMS Corporate Scams, Genetic Tests & Health Myths | PBD Podcast | Ep. 557
Yeah. I do bear a lot of that responsibility myself. Looking back, I was so caught up in the dream and there was a fear that we didn't know how to scale the business. There was the hope that we could build this into something massive.
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"The REAL Reason You're Dying" – Gary Brecka SLAMS Corporate Scams, Genetic Tests & Health Myths | PBD Podcast | Ep. 557
Even though I could review your entire medical record, I could see, you know, life insurance is a very invasive process. They get your divorce decrees, your bank accounts, mortgage accounts, your trusts, your wills. Especially the bigger it is. The bigger it is, the more invasive it is, right?
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"The REAL Reason You're Dying" – Gary Brecka SLAMS Corporate Scams, Genetic Tests & Health Myths | PBD Podcast | Ep. 557
No, when we worked together, it was amazing. Um, and you know, we both had the same mission. We wanted to help the masses. We wanted it to be affordable. We wanted it to be scalable and it was scaling and it was, but then the podcast, you know, the ultimate human podcast became so popular. Um, just constantly cease and desist.
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And, you know, they were upset I was talking about hydrogen water or talking about amino acids. And I was like, guys, the only way to get to optimal health is not just our supplements or just our red bed or just our gene test. We have to be authentic when we deliver this information to people.
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I mean, if you go back and listen to this podcast, probably 85% of what I said is not going to cost people much of anything. And if it does, you're not even buying it from me. And I believe that that's the way the authenticity of the message makes an impact. Because you can educate people, but if you don't inspire them to make some kind of change, you really haven't done much of anything.
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And it's really sad because it was working. I think just the incessant level of greed. And then, you know, once this lawsuit became public, we opened this hotline for people to call and it's just absolutely ringing off the hook. I mean, our lawyers are deluged with people that have the exact same experience as my wife and I.
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"The REAL Reason You're Dying" – Gary Brecka SLAMS Corporate Scams, Genetic Tests & Health Myths | PBD Podcast | Ep. 557
I mean, dozens and dozens and dozens of businesses, families, relationships ruined because they believed it was being told them from the stage by Cardinal Ventures in these intoxicating environments. They signed these agreements and then they got absolutely...
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"The REAL Reason You're Dying" – Gary Brecka SLAMS Corporate Scams, Genetic Tests & Health Myths | PBD Podcast | Ep. 557
And then they're going to take your medical records, and then someone like myself or another actuary is going to say, these are the tests that I want to run on this person, EKG, EEG. I'm going to run these blood tests, not just a standard blood panel. We can request specific labs on that panel.
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"The REAL Reason You're Dying" – Gary Brecka SLAMS Corporate Scams, Genetic Tests & Health Myths | PBD Podcast | Ep. 557
Oh my God, they lost a lot of credibility. I mean, this is what the whole Maha movement is about. It's about getting the corruption out of our nutritional research and our food supply and our
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"The REAL Reason You're Dying" – Gary Brecka SLAMS Corporate Scams, Genetic Tests & Health Myths | PBD Podcast | Ep. 557
And our medical system, I mean, when you start to look at the statistics, you know, going on in the United States, you know, being the biggest spender in health care worldwide, we spend $4.5 trillion a year on health care. We only lead the world in six things, infant mortality, maternal mortality, morbid obesity, type 2 diabetes, multiple chronic disease in a single biome.
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"The REAL Reason You're Dying" – Gary Brecka SLAMS Corporate Scams, Genetic Tests & Health Myths | PBD Podcast | Ep. 557
And you think, wow, we spend $4.5 trillion a year and we lead the world in all those things. 77% of our military-aged men and women cannot enter military service because of poor health. I mean, that's Department of Defense statistics. You know, 13% of teens are suffering from fatty liver disease. 30% of them are morbidly obese. You know, the question is, what is causing all this?
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"The REAL Reason You're Dying" – Gary Brecka SLAMS Corporate Scams, Genetic Tests & Health Myths | PBD Podcast | Ep. 557
And essentially what you're doing is you're looking at where they are metabolically and then you're looking at the impact of their lifestyle to either accelerate this person toward the grave or decelerate them towards the grave.
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"The REAL Reason You're Dying" – Gary Brecka SLAMS Corporate Scams, Genetic Tests & Health Myths | PBD Podcast | Ep. 557
Parabolic rise in autism, parabolic rises in attention deficit disorder, parabolic rise in, you know, rates of depression, polycystic ovarian syndrome, all of these mental illnesses and chronic diseases on the skyrocketing. And you look at the corruption in our food supply, in our nutritional research, you know, the majority of our public policy research being funded by
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"The REAL Reason You're Dying" – Gary Brecka SLAMS Corporate Scams, Genetic Tests & Health Myths | PBD Podcast | Ep. 557
private enterprise, which is why you get a food pyramid that says that Lucky Charms is more nutritious than grass-fed steak. That's how you get a food pyramid like that. And I think the Maha movement is about... making changes to the poison that's in our food supply, not eliminating people's choices. I don't think anybody wants to talk about, well, you can't smoke, can't drink, can't drink soda.
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"The REAL Reason You're Dying" – Gary Brecka SLAMS Corporate Scams, Genetic Tests & Health Myths | PBD Podcast | Ep. 557
You know, we're going to close down McDonald's. That's not what it's about. It's about saying, why are we subsidizing the industries that are poisoning us the most?
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You know, why do we actually subsidize grain, wheat, soy, corn that are genetically modified crops that are sprayed with forever chemicals like glyphosate that enter our bodies and show up in our bloodstreams and wreak havoc on our cellular biology?
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And, you know, our food stores make it so expensive to have organic or locally grown foods and so inexpensive for the average person to get to these highly processed poisonous, you know, grains and other foods. The majority of our diet, especially in teenagers, is highly processed foods. And it's just wrecking our metabolism. Yeah. And, you know, I'm really excited.
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You know, I'm not an official—I have no government role. I'm not officially on the MAHA committee. I don't have a position in the government. But with everything that I can do, with the entire power of my platform and all of my peers, we are standing behind Bobby Kennedy and this movement in such a unified way because the possibility that we could affect public policy— and make real change.
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And again, what became glaringly apparent to me was that the majority of people that are suffering from chronic conditions have not had a disease or a pathology happen to them that something is happening within them. And by that I mean that the majority of these people were nutrient deficient.
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I mean, I'll go on as many podcasts and stage talks and whatnot as I can try to get the information out because I truly believe it doesn't belong to me. I believe it belongs to humanity. I just sort of, you know, God lets it flow through me. But the possibility to affect public policy and get some of these poisons out of our food supply and actually put vaccines through
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rigorous clinical trials like we do other pharmaceuticals and other forms of FDA-approved devices and compounds and address just the straight corruption in our nutritional research and in our Food and Drug Administration and our Centers for Disease Control so that we have real transparent data coming from real research that's in the best interest of true public policy, not the best interest of private enterprise because we seem to have privatized the profits and socialized the expense.
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And I don't think any American is on board for the highest rates of childhood cancer in recorded history. And the rapidly declining rates of sperm counts and infertility and miscarriages. I mean, it almost makes you feel like it's done on purpose if you're not... Oh, trust me. That's what a lot of people think. So that's why... You sound like a conspiracy theorist, but... But again...
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I appreciate you so much.
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"The REAL Reason You're Dying" – Gary Brecka SLAMS Corporate Scams, Genetic Tests & Health Myths | PBD Podcast | Ep. 557
So simple nutrients, if I put up a chart behind me of your cellular biology and you looked at the 300 billion transactions that are going on inside your cells every single day, what you would find is you would find a whole myriad of vitamins, minerals, amino acids, nutrients, and you wouldn't see any chemicals, you wouldn't see any synthetics, you wouldn't see any pharmaceuticals.
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And what modern medicine has applied is everything that man makes us and taken away everything that God gave us. And what we noticed was that the nutrient deficiencies were leading to the deceleration or the acceleration of mortality. And what I mean by that, so just take the example that I just gave. Take vitamin D3, for example.
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This is, you know, when they talk about medical error, vitamin D3 is arguably, if you were to pick one compound in the human body, that may be the most important thing. When God made us, he made us with the ability to make one vitamin, right? So if I test your bloodstream, you'd have hundreds of vitamins in your bloodstream. You're only capable of making one.
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is vitamin D3, cholecalciferol, you make it from sunlight and cholesterol. About 50% of the world's population is clinically deficient in this nutrient, about 85% of the African-American and dark complected Latino populations are clinically deficient in this nutrient. So what happens when you're deficient in something simple like vitamin D3?
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And eventually, if it's low enough or long enough, you will present to your physician with rheumatoid arthritis-like symptoms. So you're going to go to your doc and you're going to say, hey, when I get out of bed in the morning, the soles of my feet, my ankles are really sore and achy when I walk to the bathroom to take my first pee. Now my hips are a little sore, my low back.
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And, you know, lately it's hard for me to make a tight fist. Right.
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In very many cases, too often to mention that we saw in the record that doctor without doing any other testing, no RA factors, no SED rates is going to go, you know what, Patrick, you've got rheumatoid arthritis, but don't worry, I'm going to put you on something called a corticosteroid and this is going to knock the inflammation down and you'll be fine. So you start a corticosteroid.
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So there was a mistake in diagnosis. First of all, you're clinically deficient in a basic nutrient. So instead of raising your level of vitamin D3, they put you on something called methotrexate or another anti-inflammatory called a corticosteroid. And now this corticosteroid, which initially reduced inflammation, starts to erode your joints.
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It accelerates the erosion of your joints so quickly that it was so accurate that if you started a corticosteroid, we would artificially advance your age six years in one day. and we would artificially schedule a joint replacement for you.
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And from the point where we determined you would have a joint replacement, we would begin to reduce what's called your ambulatory profile, how well you ambulate, how well you move. And as we reduce your mobility, we could bring in all the diseases that exacerbated with reduced mobility. And as these diseases come into your present, now all of a sudden you are succumbing to a disease
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that you never should have had because of a surgery that wasn't required, because of a medication that was unnecessary due to a diagnosis that was inaccurate because of a simple nutrient deficiency. And so, and I could give you hundreds of examples like this.
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You can just keep rewinding all of these consequences in someone's later age and you can rewind it back to that tipping point where things went wrong. And once you've been diagnosed with a condition and it makes it into the medical record, we would call these anchor diagnoses. So if you're diagnosed with hypertension, you're always a hypertensive patient.
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So hydrogen water, the supplement we're gonna put you on with the milk thistle and some other herbs to really ease the liver. Glutathione is excellent for your liver. These are very inexpensive supplements that people can get right over the counter. Your iron looks good. You have healthy amounts of iron in your blood. It's also binding to the right sites very well.
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Your total iron, there's something here called TIBC, total iron binding capacity. I kind of think of this level as a dump truck. As you empty out a dump truck, right, its capacity actually goes up. So as you reduce the iron, as you use it up, then your total iron binding capacity increases. As you empty out the bed of the truck, the truck has more capacity.
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no kidding you got 93 97 year old men and women walking up 30 plus degree slopes 10 blocks to go to church four blocks over to the market four blocks back home um there's no such thing as elevators there there's no such thing as assisted care living facilities assisted care living his mom and dad moved back in with the kids until they pass away and what does that do it gives mom and dad a sense of purpose
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So your levels of iron in your blood are fine. Most men don't have iron deficiency. Women very often, especially if they have heavy menstrual cycle, will sometimes need to supplement with something called iron bisglycinate, which is an iron supplement that helps negate the effects of heavy menstruation. Men, for the most part, shouldn't be taking iron.
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Wow, 99. That's actually not bad at all. So vitamin D3, this is another one that you should have. If you're watching this podcast right now, you want to get your D3 level checked. Functional ranges for D3 are between 60 and 80 nanograms per deciliter. Lots and lots and lots of research on this. that 60 to 80 nanograms per deciliter is the optimal range for vitamin D3.
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There are studies that link this to reduced incidence of breast cancer in women. It's linked to all kinds of improvements in immune function. The range is from 30 to 100. Most people are actually below 30. But your doctor will tell you if you're at 30.1 that you're good. But that's not true. You don't want to just be normal. You want to be in the optimal range. So that's 60 to 80 nanograms.
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So here's something that's going to sound really controversial. So your cholesterol is 238, which most physicians are going to consider high. This is where I'm going to run into a lot of conflict. Your LDL cholesterol is 170, but your triglycerides are just over 100. So... Very often, and this isn't a full cholesterol panel, it's not the amount of cholesterol in your blood that matters.
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#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
It's the size of the cholesterol molecule. Most people think more cholesterol, more cardiovascular disease. That is not necessarily true. Higher LDL cholesterol on its own is not the link to cardiovascular disease. If you have high LDL cholesterol and high triglycerides, this is very bad. Keeping your triglycerides low and the particle size of LDL cholesterol large, this is a recipe for longevity.
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#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
There are also other markers that we're not testing in here, lipo little a, lipo b, which I won't get into on the podcast. But in general, you want low triglycerides, below 149, and slightly elevated levels of LDL cholesterol. This, in our mortality space, was a marker for longevity. The people that lived the longest had low triglycerides and high LDL cholesterol. Is that what I have? Yep.
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That's exactly what you have. Your HDL cholesterol, your high-density lipoprotein, which tells me you're getting healthy fats. You're not afraid of avocados, coconut oil, olive oil, nuts, probably grass-fed butter. I can see those things in your diet. That's your healthy, high-density lipoprotein. That's your healthy levels of cholesterol. Your numbers are excellent.
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Even if their only purpose is to go out to the garden and get vegetables for that night's dinner, right? Or they make, you know, dad's 105 years old and he's still making belts for the community. They have a purpose. They have actually some meaning. And so sense of purpose, mobility to into later in life and whole foods. That's what you get from the Blue Zones.
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So, I mean, dude, overall, you're doing well. We want to try to control the blood sugar a little bit. It would be nice to lower your hemoglobin A1C. Here's a couple other interesting markers. This one is called C-reactive protein. generally considered a marker for cardiovascular risk. If you're above three, you have a high risk. If you're between one and three, you have a moderate risk.
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If you're below one, you have a very low risk. Well, you're at 0.47. That's great. C-reactive protein, again, if you're listening to this podcast, you should have your C-reactive protein checked. It's a nonspecific marker of inflammation. It's kind of the liver's reaction to inflammation somewhere in the body.
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It doesn't tell you exactly where it's coming from, but you can take a deeper dive if this number is high. One of the things that we found in our clinical practice to lower C-reactive protein is using something called a gut binder.
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activated charcoal, silica clay, or a zeolite binder, those things have a tendency to get into the gut and absorb histamines, absorb inflammatory factors and help carry them out. We've seen very good results. Ken, I'm not a physician. I can just tell you what we've seen in our clinical practice. Using gut binders, activated charcoal,
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silica clay zeolite binders has had a very positive effect in in my experience observing um patients in in our clinical practice um this is the silent one that nobody looks at homocysteine We really want homocysteine to be in the single digits. What is homocysteine? This is one of the easiest markers for you to control.
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And so many people have high homocysteine and they're suffering because of it. Homocysteine is an amino acid. It's in everybody's blood. As it's cruising by the inside lining of the artery, if it gets too high, it irritates the artery. When you irritate an artery, it clamps down. And if you make the pipes smaller in a fixed system, that system is fixed, right?
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So if I make the pipe smaller, pressure goes up. So is it possible that your blood pressure is high, not because there's something wrong with your heart, but because you have this elevated amino acid? The research says yes, because if I make the pipe smaller, my pressure goes up.
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And now I'm medicating my heart when really I could take an amino acid called trimethylglycine, which we're putting you on, TMG. This amino acid helps the body metabolize homocysteine. As homocysteine drops, there's a lot of evidence that it relaxes the arterial and vascular system and pressure returns to normal. This is what happened to Dana White. We treated Dana White.
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We should adopt those philosophies here. Not be dogmatic about dieting, right? But... We eat whole foods and move our ass, right? I mean, we regulate everything, our air temperature, our lighting, our temperature in our car, the temperature in our office, the temperature in our home. If you want to make your house the surface of the sun at 1 o'clock in the morning, you can.
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His blood pressure was really high. Nothing wrong with the heart. lowered this insanely high level of homocysteine and his blood pressure returned to normal. Again, I'm not saying that's the only reason for high blood pressure, but you should have that number checked because it's very, very easy to treat.
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Homocysteine is linked to increased headaches, poor circulation, poor eyesight, increased blood pressure. It causes endothelial damage. It causes damage to the lining of the artery. When you get damage to the artery, Cholesterol shows up, cholesterol shows up, you start getting the narrowing, but it's not because of cholesterol, it's because of the damage.
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So homocysteine is one of the simplest things that you can measure and very easy to control. So you're taking something called TMG for that. Where am I at on that? You're at 11.6. The high end of the range is 14.5. I see these in the 20s, high 20s, low 30s all the time. You really want this in the single digits. Okay. Very easy to get down into the single digits. Then we get to thyroid.
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So here's what's interesting about thyroid. So just a quick lesson about the thyroid. The thyroid doesn't determine how much hormone it secretes. It has a boss, like almost everything in the body. The testicles don't decide how much testosterone they secrete. They have a boss. It's the same boss. It's the pituitary.
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So there's a master regulator up here, a puppeteer, that's kind of controlling everything. So the pituitary sends a signal to the thyroid called thyroid-stimulating hormone. Then the thyroid starts to produce Two hormones, T4, I'm being a little simplified, T4 and T3. What these do is they control your metabolism, your body temperature.
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They regulate the amount of, the pituitary also regulates the amount of testosterone that your body produces. In women, it regulates their entire menstrual cycle through something called luteinizing and follicle-stimulating hormone. It will move a woman through the three phases of their menstrual cycle. So the signal from the pituitary to the thyroid is fine.
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The question is, what is the thyroid doing? Well, it's producing these two hormones. It produces the majority, close to all, of the thyroid T4. It only produces 20% of the T3. The rest of that T3 is T4 converted into T3, which happens outside of the thyroid. This is what we talked about earlier, but it's important to know this, that it is deiodinized in the liver, the gut and the periphery.
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So the majority of your T3 hormone is not produced by your thyroid. So when it is low, do not assume that your thyroid is dysfunctional. Assume you have deficiencies outside of the thyroid. Before you start taking thyroid medication and medicating the thyroid for a crime it didn't commit, try supporting healthy metabolism of thyroid T3 outside of the thyroid.
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So selenium, thiamine, iodine, all levels that you can check. Methylated multivitamins, methylfolate. These are all excellent things to help with the process of creating this hormone outside the thyroid. I can't tell you how many thousands of patients have come through our clinic and thanked our doctors for fixing their thyroid. And the doctor has to remind them, I didn't fix your thyroid.
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There's nothing wrong with your thyroid.
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i fixed uh the turnover t4 into t3 outside of your thyroid wow okay wow so it very often this happens in medicine blood pressure high must be the heart can't find anything wrong with the heart medicated anyway um thyroid hormones low must be the thyroid can't find anything wrong with the thyroid medicated anyway then we follow this sequence of events very very often all right
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Just turn all the lights on, right? I mean, this is very unnatural. We've gotten so far out of just the natural circadian rhythm of life. So when Jesse or Jessica was asking about... You know, my tips for living a long life and improving your cognitive function, it would absolutely be mobility, whole foods, focus on sleep. Interesting. So no more escalators. Dude, I have a thing, man.
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Mental illness, imbalance in neurotransmitters, medicate it anyway. Don't fix the neurotransmitter imbalance, medicate. You know, blood viscosity is too high. Don't just do regular blood dumps. You know, thin the blood chemically.
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#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
So very often, if we just get back to the basics and understand the physiology of the body, we can fix a lot of these things without having to rely on chemicals and synthetics. Some good news for you. Your prostate looks great. PSA, prostate-specific antigen, it's kind of a measure of the inflammation in the prostate.
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Lots of men have something called BPH, benign prostatic hyperplasia, which is where you get inflammation in the prostate, get some urinary flow issues. Things that are great for this are turmeric, curcumin. Lots of prostate supplements that are very, very good at reducing prostate inflammation. You do not have that.
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One of the things I caution people against is taking some of the oral forms of these medications like finasteride and Propecia, which a lot of men will take for male pattern baldness, but then it just kills their sex drive and it knocks out their libido. So they're trying to grow back their hair to attract the ladies and then they can't get an erection or can't maintain an erection.
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So if you are taking Propecia or Finasteride for male pattern baldness, just know that you can get it in liquid format and apply it directly to the scalp and not have so much of it go into your bloodstream. It's much better to apply topically, you know, in my opinion, than it is to take it orally. It's designed to...
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#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
Reduce the level of something called DHT, dihydrotestosterone, which binds to the hair follicle and chokes it out. So as we traverse down here a little further, there's a marker here called IGF-1. insulin-like growth factor. Amongst other things, this is a secondary marker of growth hormone in your body.
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#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
When this number gets low, instead of taking human growth hormone, you can actually take a peptide. There are legal and some FDA-approved peptides to raise your growth hormone level naturally. Remember when I said that When you produce hormones, usually there's a boss that determines how much hormone you produce. So growth hormone is produced by the pituitary.
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But the pituitary has a boss called the hypothalamus. And what it does is it turns the pituitary's production of growth hormone on and off. You can mimic this signal with a growth hormone peptide. These are amino acid peptides that will rewind your pituitary to a more youthful level of growth hormone secretion, which I only considered safe. One of the oldest ones is called Sermorlin.
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I think it was first approved by the FDA in 1983. decades of experience with these peptides. They're amino acids, they're metabolites, the body recognizes them. They have a tendency not to create a dependency, not to create tachyphylaxis, which is a desensitization response. I think they're generally considered to be safer than taking growth hormone from outside the body and putting it in.
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#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
You can cycle them very safely, five days on, two days off, according to the research. So talk to your doctor if your IGF-1 is low about raising your own production of growth hormone from your own pituitary. I mean, I don't care what anybody tells you. There is no better hormone in the human body than one that the body produces on its own.
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#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
And so if I can get you high on your own supply rather than taking it from outside the body and putting it in, that's a win, right? You're already clearly on hormone therapy. Your body is behaving the way that it should because you raise testosterone. You raise free testosterone. The pituitary... shuts down your own natural testicular production. How does it do that?
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My team, when we travel, you get on an escalator, you better have a shit ton of baggage that you can't carry up the steps.
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#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
It lowers these two hormones, luteinizing and follicle stimulating hormone. So this is a very natural response that you like to see. As testosterone goes up, the pituitary turns the signal down. So that's what happened. You inject testosterone, tubertery turns the signal down. Perfectly normal response in the body.
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#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
DHEA, believe it or not, this is another one that is really good to check because lots of men that have low levels of testosterone are clinically deficient in DHEA. DHEA, dihydroepiandrosterone, is basically the precursor for testosterone. Amongst other things, we make testosterone from this compound.
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So when this is low, it can lead to low hormone levels, even though there's nothing wrong with your ability to make hormones. You just don't have the raw material to do it. So in men and women, DHEA is a great one to check. It's also super easy to supplement with.
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#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
When you're on testosterone therapy, there are powerful compounds called aromatase inhibitors that they usually put you on to lower your production of estrogen, anastrozole, exomestane, other ones. But a very natural way to get estrogen out of a male or a female bloodstream without... pharmaceuticals is something called DIM, D-I-M, diindolomethane.
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This room is incredible. Like I said, it's full of like knives and guns and bullets, but the stories on the wall in here, it's like the energy in here is so good. You feel safe, like you feel protected. Thank you. You got an awesome spot, man.
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It is synthesized from cruciferous vegetables, synthesized from something called 3-indolcarbinol in cruciferous vegetables. So taking DIM, which is over-the-counter, if you have elevated estrogen or you're trying to control your estrogen, that's another thing to talk to your doctor about. Much safer than being on pharmaceuticals. Right, I know I'm throwing a lot at you.
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My wife says I just eat people's face, so I feel like, nice. She's like, literally, you just... I mean, God forbid you sit next to me on like a commercial play. Eat your face. We actually flew from... from Miami to Dallas a while ago. And so my wife and my son and my daughter sat in the row of three seats behind me.
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And I sit down on the aisle seat in front of them, and there's a dude sitting in the middle seat. So I sit down. I'm like, oh, hey, you know, I'm just making some old talk. I'm like, oh, what do you do? And he goes, oh, I'm a family medicine practitioner. I'm a sleep apnea specialist. Oh, man. I go, oh, are you? And my wife literally sandwiches her face between the seat.
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And she goes, he's going to eat your face. And I did, dude. I put the tray table down so he couldn't get out. I had a three-ring binder.
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#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
I go, let me ask you a few questions, doc. It was so funny. Three hours, I just ate that poor dude's face. He actually wanted to work for me by the time it ended, so it ended up pretty good. Okay, last few things here, man. Another thing you want to look at on a hormone panel, which is very often overlooked, is this guy right here.
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#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
SHBG, sex hormone binding globulin, stands for sex hormone binding protein. It does exactly what its name says it does. It is a protein that binds to sex hormones. Why is that important? Because when this rises in men and women, It inhibits the conversion of testosterone into free testosterone. And what it does is it makes it look like your hormone levels are low.
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#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
When they're not, you're producing adequate levels. It's just this nasty protein is binding to it and carrying it out of the bloodstream. They use SHBG as birth control in women. So, you know, whenever you look at labs on a female that's on birth control, very often their SHBG is through the roof. Okay, that's normal. When that protein rises in a man,
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We do intermittent standing. Intermittent standing.
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#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
If they don't check it, they put them on hormone therapy unnecessarily because SHBG binds to the testosterone and basically... carries it out of the bloodstream without it being utilized. So how do you lower SHBG? There's a couple of ways to do it. One of the best ways that we found to lower SHBG is by taking the mineral boron. It's over the counter. Lots of supplement companies produce it.
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So our clinical team puts men that have high SHBG on boron. As their SHBG comes down, women too, the free testosterone rises. So it's almost like being put on hormone therapy because you get your own natural supply back.
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#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
So when you do a hormone panel, you've got to look at luteinizing hormone, follicle stimulating hormone, testosterone, free testosterone, DHEA, and SHBG, sex hormone binding globulin. Because if you're not looking at those, you're only looking at the hormone. This is where very young men, 21, 22, 23-year-old men that should never be on testosterone get put on injectable testosterone.
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Now they're relying on it for the rest of their life and they can't get their wife pregnant when it's time to have kids. Because taking testosterone also lowers the sperm count. You think of a testicle as kind of like a yin and yang sign. One side produces sperm, one side produces testosterone. Pituitary usually drops the production of both in the presence of testosterone.
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#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
So once you start injecting it, it lowers luteinizing hormone and follicle stimulating hormone, which lowers the production of testosterone and sperm. So one of the ways to avoid that is getting your SHBG checked. And then final thing here, man, your white blood cell count is in the normal range. I want to call your attention to the next levels here. RBC, hemoglobin, hematocrit.
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#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
These are super important because remember I talked earlier about how your red blood cell count. This is what carries oxygen in your blood. Everything that you perceive about energy is nothing more than oxygen in your blood. If you told me, Gary, I had a lot of energy today, physiologically what you're saying is I had a lot of oxygen in my blood today.
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#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
So if oxygen equals energy, which it does, if I want to raise your energy level, I need to raise your oxygen level. How do I do that? I improve the amount of red blood cells in the bloodstream and I improve the amount of hemoglobin in the bloodstream. How do you do that? You restore testosterone levels to normal and that will increase the production of red blood cells.
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I have hardly seen, I don't think, I don't know if I could say I've never seen it, but very rarely have I seen a client that had very low levels of testosterone, clinically low levels of testosterone that did not have clinically low levels of red blood cell, and also complained of fatigue, exhaustion, poor short-term memory, poor focus and concentration. If you want the latest research, Google,
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#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
American Journal of Urology, which is considered the Bible for male endocrine therapy, just put into the Google search engine, American Journal of Urology space testosterone. Scroll down to section 13, and it will say clinical guidelines for testosterone therapy. Read from 13 to 21. You will be sold on male hormone therapy. They dispelled all the myths in this journal. It's a peer-reviewed
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#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
clinical journal, all the research is cited there. Don't take my word for it. That low testosterone is a risk factor for cardiovascular disease, not the other way around. Testosterone does not increase your risk of, or hormone therapy does not increase your risk of cardiovascular disease. Hormone therapy does not increase your risk of developing prostate cancer or exacerbating prostate cancer.
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#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
It can improve erectile dysfunction, anemia, bone mineral loss, mood. All of that research is right in there between sections 13 and 21. Journal of American Urology, Space Testosterone. That's one of the most revered journals in the world, which is why I send people there. If you're a physician and you disagree with that, go to that journal and all the research is cited.
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#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
So you want your red blood cell count to be in the upper end of the normal range. And then you want to keep an eye on hemoglobin, which is the fluid in the red blood cell. You want that towards the upper end of the range. And you keep an eye on something called hematocrit. Hematocrit is a measure of your blood's viscosity.
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It tells me how close is your blood to water or how close is your blood to motor oil. As your hematocrit rises, your blood is thickening. Easiest way to reduce the viscosity of the blood without blood thinners is to do regular blood donations. We call it therapeutic phlebotomy. If you are taking testosterone therapy, your doctor should probably be recommending that you do regular blood donations.
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#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
This for men is very healthy. If you look at the incidence of cardiovascular disease between men and women, you'll see that men lead women by a huge margin until women stop menstruating. Then there's a parabolic hockey stick spike and they begin to approximate men in the incidence of cardiovascular disease. Why is that? Because they stop turning their blood over. Right?
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#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
So doing regular blood donations for men is very healthy, unless you have something going on. I'm not doing that.
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#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
You can select out the animal studies and read the human clinical trials. I think it's the best kept secret in all of modern medicine. I mean, for athletic performance, I mean, you talk to like a John Jones or a Michael Chandler or, you know, some of these other athletes that I've worked with. Simple changes to their regimen, like having them bathe in hydrogen.
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#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
Every three to six months. Okay. Yeah. Your hematocrit is 50.2, which is considered pretty thick. At 51, you're eight-tenths of a point away from having clinically thick blood. Okay. So being clinically out of the range. What you will notice, you'll feel better right away.
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#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
Lots of clinics will also, if you're one of those people that gets lightheaded from donating blood, you're not getting lightheaded from the loss of blood. You're getting lightheaded from the loss of pressure because the amount of pressure in the system is fixed. So if I pull a pint of fluid out, the pressure drops, you get lightheaded.
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#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
So the way to solve that is to talk to your doctor about running an IV put 500 milliliters of just thin, clean fluid in, then put the bag below the level of the heart, pull 480 to 500 milliliters of thick, old, tired blood out. The pressure will remain the same. Okay. The viscosity will change. So I see our clinical team do that a lot.
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#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
last thing i'll point out is at the bottom of your white blood cell count this goes overlooked very often these are in a specific order for a reason neutrophils basophils lymphocytes monocytes eosinophils all these fancy names for white blood cells you should see these numbers like we do in you be highest at the top The next number should be lower.
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#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
The next number should be lower than that, lower than that, lower than that. And eventually they should come to a zero. That V-shaped pattern is a very important pattern. It says how well oriented your immune system is. We judge the strength of the immune system amongst other things by how it lines up and gets ready to fight.
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#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
How many soldiers do I have on the field of battle waiting for the enemy to show up? Your frontline of defense right here is your neutrophils. Plenty of neutrophils, the numbers get smaller and smaller and smaller, and they go down to zero. As the numbers towards the bottom get elevated, it usually indicates some kind of chronic problem. Metals, mold, mycotoxin, viruses.
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That's when you want to make an inspection. You've got zeros at the bottom, that's a great sign. If you've got numbers at the bottom of your white blood cell count, talk to your doctor about digging into why you potentially have a chronic infection. you will find that lots of people that have viral infections are misdiagnosed with neurological conditions.
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#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
It is very common for Parkinson's to be misdiagnosed when it can be a West Nile or a Lyme disease infection or another virus. It's well documented in the literature that the symptoms of a lot of neurological diseases parallel the symptoms of chronic viral infections. So it's always good if you get diagnosed with something chronic to say, let's check for metals, mold, mycotoxins, and viruses.
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#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
And let's just see if my body is not behaving properly because I have pathogenic invader. So I would always talk to your doctor before you accept any of those chronic conditions. diagnoses about looking into whether or not you have some underlying condition like viruses. Dude, overall, I've got men your age that would kill to have these labs.
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#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
Given your history that you disclosed to me on the podcast, you're Well, that makes me feel good. You're doing really well, brother. Thank you. You're doing very well. Thank you. Okay. Last thing we'll do is look at the genetic testing results that you have. Oh, boy. This may come as a shock to you, but you have the motherfucker gene.
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#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
So next time somebody calls you one, say, as a matter of fact, I am. So these genes that are yellow, okay? When we look at genetic reports, they come out all kinds of different ways, but we generally want to see our genes green, which means neither the mom or dad passed the mutation on to us, passed that genetic predisposition.
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#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
When they're yellow, it usually means that one parent gave us the gene mutation. When they're red, which you do not have, it means that both parents gave you the gene mutation. So in a nutshell, you have a genetic predisposition for three things. One, you have a genetic predisposition to be very poor at processing folic acid.
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#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
You would be one of those people that would be really good to get folic acid out of your diet. This does not mean that you can't eat bread, pasta, cereal, grains. It means you have to eat the organic, non-fortified, non-enriched versions of those. Okay. So if you see fortified or enriched on the label, just get it out of the diet. This is the thing I've warned a lot of parents about too.
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#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
Just get fortified or enriched foods out of your kid's diet for one week. Watch what happens. You're gonna be shocked at the behavioral changes. So what would this cause in you? cause your intestinal motility to slow down. So intermittent gut issues that can't be explained by what you're eating. It also,
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
inhibits your ability to metabolize homocysteine, which is why your homocysteine is slightly risen. At the high end, you have a gene mutation called CompT, catechol-O-methyltransferase. This gene mutation makes it slow for you to break down catecholamines. You are absolutely one of those people, which probably 70% of your listeners, when your environment quiets, your mind wakes up.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
When you lay down and go to sleep at night, you have one of two types of sleep patterns. You either lay down tired and your mind keeps you awake and you have a hard time falling asleep, or you fall asleep and once you wake up at night, that's it. You sort of lay there just ruminating. And you will think about the most innocuous nonsense. It will not be,
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
like a life-changing, earth-shattering thought. This is not like divorce, bankruptcy, financial ruin, change of business, career. It's none of those big life-changing events that should keep you awake. It's little innocuous nonsense. It just runs through your head. The best way to quiet that is with magnesium at night, 5-methylfolate at night, and there's a supplement called NeuroModula Complex.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
Excellent for quieting those squirrels and just allowing your brain to calm down at night.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
But dude, I'm telling you, I got 42, 43 year old men that would kill to have these labs.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
Yeah. And I hope that wasn't too much of a science lesson because a lot of times they're, especially like in presentations, they're like, you know, don't talk about the science. Well, they say, don't talk about science, religion or politics. And I think, Pretty much we're talking about science, religion, and politics.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
Yeah, we're definitely going to remain friends. I mean, it was a real honor for me to be here too, man. I super appreciate you inviting me, having me on your show, exposing me to your audience. You know, my intention was to add some value today, so I hope they got value out of it. But...
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
I want to come back to the new studio too, brother.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
Life insurance and annuities. You wouldn't believe the number of financial services instruments that are actually based on mortality. People don't realize how many tens of billions of dollars a year of financial services products are sold and put in force based on when people are going to die. I mean, life insurance being the obvious, reverse mortgages, annuities.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
So an annuity, for example, is you write a check to the insurance company. They guarantee you an income stream for life. What do you think they use to guarantee how long they're going to pay you? Your mortality. When a life insurance company puts $10 million or $25 million or $50 million or $1 million worth of risk on your life, only one thing matters.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
How many more months do you have left on earth? So insurance companies don't care where you are on an actuarial curve, right? Everybody listening to this podcast is on one.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
If you're a 34-year-old male, you have a life expectancy of X. If you're a 51-year-old female, you have a life expectancy of Y. You go apply for a jumbo life insurance policy, which is the area that I worked in, above $10 million in face value. If you ask the insurance company to put $10 million or $20 million or $30 million, $50 million of risk on your life,
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
you better believe that there's somebody in the back room. They're not putting you on an actuarial curve. They're looking at your specific mortality, telling the insurance company, how many more months does this person have left on earth?
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
And I get a lot of flack for this because people say, well, if you could predict, you know, we were talking about this earlier, if you could predict mortality to the month, you know, you would have won a Nobel Prize or you'd be Jesus, but I promise you I'm not Jesus and I never won a Nobel Prize, but it is some of the most accurate science in the world.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
If you want to know how accurate insurance companies are at predicting death, Just look at what happened during the 2008-2009 financial services crisis. We had 364 banks fail. Not one life insurance company failed. Shit. Not one. They're some of the most solvent institutions in the world, and yet they will take tens of millions of dollars worth of risk on one variable.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
water um having them drink hydrogen water and and the reduction in pain level and the improvement in performance um because of the reduction in inflammation but most people that are in the kind of pain that you were in knees hips shoulders rotator cuff low back they're on corticosteroids you know any inflammatories like a methotrexate or dexamethasone or prednisone
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
How many more months do you have left on earth? If you die early, they lose. So they're very accurate at predicting life expectancy. Well, what do they use to predict life expectancy? I'll tell you the three things they don't use, which is modern medicine hates this. They don't use randomized clinical trials.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
They don't take big pharma's trial that says that LDL cholesterol leads to cardiovascular disease, which leads to early death. And so you need to be on this pharmaceutical. They use big data, hundreds of millions of lives. And they know the day, the date, the time, the location, and the cause of death. for 370 plus million lives.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
And so when you know day, date, time, location, and cause of death, you can triangulate that back into the record. And you can say, okay, what are the sequence of events that lead to early death? So if I got 10 years of medical records on you and 10 years of demographic data, we could tell the insurance company how long you had to live to the month. And based on these life expectancies,
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
institutions would take hundreds of millions if not billions of dollars in in risk and they were very very accurate and so um when when you look at that data you know the epiphany that i had was you know i sort of woke up one day and was like what am i doing You know, I'm reading medical records for a living.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
I've read hundreds, if not thousands of times more medical records than a practicing physician because they're practicing medicine. They're not reading records. I just read records. I'm not a physician for the record. I'm not licensed to practice medicine. I'm a human biologist. But I just read medical records for a living. Thousands and thousands and thousands and thousands of medical records.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
And we would put these into a model and we would use it to predict the onset of death. And what became glaringly apparent was that the reason why the majority of people are not living longer, healthier, happier, more fulfilling lives are because of something called modifiable risk factors. So had it not been against the law for me to pick up the phone and contact the patient or contact the client,
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
I could have on average added seven years to those people's lives. No kidding. No question. Because we have lost faith in humanity and mankind and the body's ability to heal itself and the expression of deficiency in the body. So for example, if you were to pull the blood of all of your listeners, you'd find that there's hundreds of vitamins in their bloodstream. Their body can only make one.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
When God made us, he made us with the ability to make one vitamin, a single vitamin. So how important do you think this vitamin is to human health if it's the only one that we make on our own? Okay, this vitamin's called vitamin D3, called the calciferol. We make it from sunlight and cholesterol. You don't need to eat, you don't need to drink, you don't need to do anything.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
You expose your skin to sunlight and have cholesterol in your bloodstream to make vitamin D3. So 50% of the world's population is clinically deficient in this nutrient. 85% of the African-American and Latino populations, darker complected populations, clinically deficient in this nutrient.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
So what happens when you're missing the most important, in my opinion, the most important single raw material in the human body? Well, vitamin D3 deficiency was the second leading cause of morbidity in COVID. Vitamin D3 deficiency is highly linked to brittle bone disease, osteopenia, osteoporosis, autoimmune conditions, also compromised immune systems.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
And so here's a nutrient that we make on our own. It's very easy to supplement with, by the way. And deficiency in this nutrient has all of these expressions of these different diseases. So, you know, your listeners might not be aware that the number one killer of human beings in the world is cardiovascular disease. The number two killer of human beings in the world is cancer.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
called medrol dose packs, or they're taking pain medication. When you can actually take a warm bath in hydrogen gas and get the same effect, and it not only can last longer, it can potentially permanently reverse those conditions. No kidding. Oh, yeah. I mean, after...
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
The number three killer of human beings in the world is modern medicine. It's medical error. Number three? The number three killer of human beings. The third leading cause of death is medical error. If you want to look up the 2016 study, it was done by Harvard University. Just Google 2016 Harvard University study on medical error.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
It was repeated by Johns Hopkins, I think, in 2019, and it got worse, so they published the Harvard study. So, what does this mean? It means that medical error is the third leading cause of death. And now, when you realize medical error is the third leading cause of death, it's like, wow, that's kind of shocking.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
Until you realize that it's the third leading cause of death in the industry designed to prevent death. Like, if you translated that to any other industry, it'd be laughable, right? I mean, if you sold home security systems, but you were the third leading cause of home invasion... you'd probably be out of business, right?
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
I mean, if you were a roofer, but you were the third leading cause of roof collapse, it'd be laughable if we applied that to any other industry. But this is where we go to get our advice on how to be healthy, optimally healthy, when we should be going there for catastrophic medicine. We're very good at heart attacks, hemorrhages, gunshot wounds, knife wounds, broken arms.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
We're very, very good at crisis medicine. What we're not good at is keeping people healthy. And so just to take this one step further. So you have this nutrient, vitamin D3. which we get from sunlight and cholesterol. We've been totally taught to fear the sun, right? The truth is most of us are not getting enough sun. It's not we're getting too much sun. We're not getting enough sun.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
We've been taught to just absolutely shield ourself from the sun. And what's interesting, if you actually overlay the incidence of skin cancer with the parabolic rise in the use of sunscreens, these are superimposable. Since 2018, 23 brands of sunscreen have been pulled from the market for directly causing skin cancer. And yet we've been taught to fear the sun.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
And so we don't get sunlight, our D3 drops. We've developed sayings around this like, don't go outside in the wintertime, you'll catch a cold. Okay, there's no such thing as catching a cold. First of all, that's a fallacy. Going outside in the wintertime is substantially safer than going outside in the summertime because there's a lot more pathogens in warm weather than there are in cold weather.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
There's not bacteria lying around the surface of a 15-degree handrail waiting to infect you. The reason why we associate cold with getting sick is because when it's cold, we layer up. When we layer up, we get less sun. When we get less sun, our D3 drops. When our D3 drops, our immune system is compromised. Wow. Yeah. Wow. It's just the opposite.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
It's the antithetical way that we've been taught to think. Is this...
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
Is that how we've been taught? I mean, if you think about it, yeah, absolutely, it's through marketing. A lot of this is fear-based marketing. I mean, I don't want to get cancer, so I'm going to put bisphenols and phthalates and all kinds of things on my skin to stop the sun from reaching my skin. But you've got to realize your skin is not a barrier. It's a gateway.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
So if you put it on your skin, you should be prepared to eat it. I wouldn't put anything on your skin that you wouldn't eat. And so when you think about the amount of disruption that comes from chemicals just being on the skin, entering the bloodstream, it can wreak all kinds of havoc.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
But what I saw when I was at the insurance agent, when I was in the mortality space, was in the record, you would see this clinical deficiency in vitamin D3, long-term deficiencies in vitamin D3, and you could see it in the blood. Eventually, these people will present with rheumatoid arthritis-like symptoms.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
So what happens when you have a clinical deficiency in vitamin D3 for a prolonged period of time? Well, your immune system is compromised, first of all. The second thing that happens is you start to develop rheumatoid arthritis-like symptoms. The soles of your feet are sore and achy when you get out of bed in the morning to walk to the bathroom and take your first pee.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
You wake up in the morning, you feel like you had a really hard workout the night before when you haven't. Your knees, your hips, your shoulders, and your low back start to ache constantly. Eventually, it's hard to even make a really tight fist. Well, if you go to the wrong primary care physician and you describe those symptoms, they're going to tell you that you have rheumatoid arthritis.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
Do you know how many thousands of times I saw diagnoses
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#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
of chronic condition like rheumatoid arthritis with no testing no ra factors no blood work no sed rates they would just say you know what sean based on what you're telling me you've got rheumatoid arthritis but don't worry i'm going to put you on a corticosteroid okay and then a corticosteroid not steroid like muscles a steroid for any inflammation like methotrexate or prednisone or methylprednisone so now they put you on a steroid
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
The sad thing is for a period of time it works. Pain goes away, right? But steroids, first they're anti-inflammatory, but then they eat your joint like a termite. So it was so predictable that we knew that six years and one day after you started taking corticosteroids, you were going to have a joint replacement.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
And as soon as you had a joint replacement, you were going to reduce your ability to be mobile. As your mobility reduced, I could bring in all the diseases that exacerbate with reduced mobility. So now you had a vitamin D3 deficiency, got diagnosed with a disease you didn't have, put on a medication that wasn't required. Six years later, forced a surgery that was unnecessary.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
That surgery reduced your mobility. As your mobility dropped, all the diseases came from your future to your present. You succumbed to a disease you never would have had, because of a condition that you did not have, because of medication that wasn't required, because of a simple nutrient deficiency. Holy shit. So it's a snowball effect. It's a snowball effect.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
But had I been able to pick up the phone, I get goosebumps even just telling you the stories, because I think about it a lot. Had I been able to just pick up the phone and call these people and say, hey, listen, I'm not a doctor. Stop taking the methotrexate. Take 5,000 IUs of vitamin D3 with 80 micrograms of K2. Wait three months.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
You know, then I could have a demonstrative impact on these people's lives. And so at some point, I just abruptly resigned from that industry. And I went home and told my girlfriend at the time, who's now my wife, I said, hey, I'm going to quit my job today, first of all. I thought I'd throw that at you. And I want to start a wellness clinic. I want to start a functional medicine clinic.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
She's like, you're not even a doctor. I was like, I'll find a doctor. And I did. Dr. Campermore, if you're listening and listening, in Naples, Florida. He was one of the longest practicing anesthesiologists in Naples, Florida. And thank God for him because he took a bet on me. You know...
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
Yeah. It's a tough one. But I was working on a case on a woman that was getting, she had a large life insurance policy. She was actually selling. And she was transferring care between cardiologists. She was in the Midwest, and she was transferring to her winter home in Miami.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
And there's something called the Medical Information Bureau, and it's meant to catch, like, people that are pain medication surfing, narcotic surfing, or contraindications between meds. And the physician in Miami had put a script into the record that was a contraindication, meaning it was going to cause a high chance of causing a thrombolytic event, like a blood clot, a stroke, an embolism.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
And so I saw what she was taking. I saw what was waiting for her. And so I went into human resources, you know, at the time and said,
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
My undergraduate degrees are in biology, and my postgraduate degrees are in human biology, so I've always been crazy fascinated with the human body. And The more I study the human body, the more it's actually strengthened my faith, the more I believe that this was created by a divine being and it wasn't by accident.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
um hey I'm I'm contacting this lady right I mean we were not allowed to have any contact with the client the applicant the treating physician for the right reason again I'm not licensed to practice medicine so you know having me call up and try to make an opinion on their medical cares and isn't right but
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
They were very, not only disinterested in having me contact that patient, I got threatened with prosecution. And so I knew at some point that this lady was gonna get on a plane, go to her, went her home, she was gonna pick up that script and she was gonna have a thrombolytic event. So she was gonna either have an embolism, blood clot, stroke, some kind of clotting event.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
And just the callousness with which I was told not to contact the patient and that I would be potentially prosecuted if I did. That was the final straw for me. That's really what forced my resignation. And I think about that lady a lot. I still to this day don't know what happened. I don't know if the physician caught it, but I also think about how many years I gave to that industry.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
And I was just so myopic. I was very selfish. I was just concerned about trying to be wealthy. And I was doing very well in that industry. So I had kind of a lot of accolades and things, but I was doing nothing in service of humanity. I had real knowledge on how to help people live healthier, happier, longer. you know, more fulfilling lives. And I was just watching these train wrecks happen.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
It was like sitting behind a thick glass wall and just watching blind people walk into traffic. And when you read a certain number of medical records, you see these patterns start to emerge and you're like, you could just start the record and you just knew exactly where the record was going to end. Like, oh, here comes the joint replacement. Oh, here comes, they're on the beta blocker.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
There comes the blood thinner. And the next thing to follow is the antidepressant because of the cholesterol medication. And now they're on an SSRI. And there comes the suicidal ideations. There comes the therapy. Like you could just map out the consequences in the medical record and say, gosh, this person had a little bit of elevated level of LDL cholesterol. Then they got put on a statin.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
It started to drive the cholesterol down. Then the brain fog and the short-term recall and the cognitive function starts to decline. And then the depression starts to creep in. And now they're on an SSRI. And as they become less mobile, they're hematocrit, viscosity of their blood seem to go up. So then they're on the blood thinner and the pressure starts to rise.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
And then they're on a beta blocker, an ACE inhibitor, a calcium channel blocker. And the next thing you know, it's just this massive chemical soup. just trying to regulate all of these processes in the body, trying to regulate blood pressure over here and mood over here and blood viscosity over here and pain over here and cholesterol over here.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
Like, you'll never convince me that two bacteria banged a billion years ago in a mud puddle and a lizard grew out and eventually we became...
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
And nobody's ever really studied the consequences of putting all of this into the same biome. We study things in isolation in medicine very often. Randomized clinical trials are isolated trials where we're only looking at one medication for one outcome in a control group, but we're actually not studying human beings or their cells and the environment that they exist, right?
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
These cells exist in communities. You can't take a cell out of the body, put it in a petri dish, look how it behaves in a lab, and then assume when you put that cell back into the body that it's going to behave the same way. Nothing is further from the truth.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
And this is why we run in these 20-year cycles where we do a randomized clinical trial, drug gets approved, we push the drug on the market, then 10 years later we realize we made a really grave mistake. We got hundreds of thousands of people dying from this drug. We got hundreds of thousands of people now addicted to this drug and now they can't get the drugs. So now they're on the street.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
Like they say that opiates is a rich man's addiction and heroin's a poor man's addiction. And it's very true. You know, a lot of people didn't, they didn't wake up one day and decide they were gonna be an addict. They woke up one day and wanted to feel normal. And in the search for normalcy, they developed an addiction. And now they're running from a low. They're not running towards a high.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
homo sapiens and here we are right um and it doesn't it doesn't even make sense evolutionarily because there's huge gaps in the fossil record but we could talk about that later but but i've been fascinated by the human body and i just believe so much more in what god gave us than what man makes us
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
And so I saw these cycles and I was like, this shit is all wrong. I mean, if we could, if I could have just picked up the phone and called half of these people and said, you need to stop taking this, in my opinion, stop taking the corticosteroid, get off the statin, because we use big data.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
So there was a lot of popularity of marginally increased levels, for example, of LDL cholesterol, which has been vilified, in my opinion, recently. wrongfully, and if you had high levels of LDL cholesterol, you automatically had this crazy high risk for cardiovascular disease. So we would smash the cholesterol down in these really low numbers.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
We put you on all kinds of cholesterol mitigating drugs. And what we would see, not infrequently, in nearly every case, is you would downstream, you would see the consequences of not having this compound in the body. Cholesterol, by the way, is made by the liver. 85% of the cholesterol in your blood is manufactured by the liver. It doesn't come from diet.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
Only 15% of the cholesterol in your blood comes from diet. And most people don't realize that cholesterol is not a fuel source. It's a construction material. We use it to build every cell wall, every cell membrane. We use it to make hormones. We use it to make vitamin D3. You make cholecalciferol from cholesterol. So when you drive this down, the majority of the brain is cholesterol.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
All of a sudden, you start to see cognitive impairment. You see erectile dysfunction. You see hormone dysregulation. Why? Because you make hormones from cholesterol. And yet we're linking it to cardiovascular disease, that it just seems to jump out of the bloodstream and magically stick to the arterial wall or magically pass through the arterial wall. It has to be called to that location.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
There has to be an inflammatory cycle. There has to be something that initiates its arrival. You know, cholesterol is kind of like the fireman. It shows up when there's a fire. It gets called to the site of inflammation. It didn't start the fire. So the notion that if we had fewer firemen, we'd have less fires doesn't make any sense. But that's what...
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
Modern medicine would want you to believe that if we had fewer firemen, we'd have fewer fires. That's not true. And so we found no correlation between elevated levels of LDL cholesterol and cardiovascular disease or early death. In fact, we found the opposite.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
We found in most of the centenarians, in fact, all the centenarian death claims that I processed, people living above age 100, without an exception, in my case, They had clinically elevated levels of LDL cholesterol at the time of their death because many of them died in nursing homes and we had blood work on them.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
And we become a society that's just become so dependent on chemicals, on synthetics, on pharmaceuticals. But when you really start to look at the research, which I'm fascinated by, like my heroes are the scientists and the PhDs and the MDs and the researchers that are doing real work, studying real human beings to try to extend life and improve humanity.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
So if people that had the highest cholesterol were living the longest, then why were we trying to push this compound down? Well, I mean, cholesterol medication is one of the most profitable pharmaceutical compounds until the vaccine came along, one of the most profitable compounds to ever produce. hit modern humanity. I mean, in the 50s and 60s, the cholesterol levels were in the 260s.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
But what do lab results say? Well, LDL cholesterol shouldn't be above 99. As soon as it gets above 99, you get to 120, you're on statin. And now you're taking away one of the compounds that not only forms the brain but reduces inflammation, which repairs damage in the body, which makes hormones, which makes cell walls and cell membranes and vitamin D3, and you're getting rid of it.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
Well, there's consequences to that. So this is what I mean. It's like we've gotten so far away. We've created an industrial complex that is built on a profit center of disease. Type 2 diabetes in the United States is a $110 billion industry. $110 billion in profit a year from type 2 diabetes. So just imagine...
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
whether or not there's a meeting going on in some boardroom to put that industry out of business. There's not, right? We want people to suffer over a prolonged period of time. We don't want you to die early. We want you to suffer for a prolonged period of time.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
And if you look at how pharmaceuticals have crept into the hamster wheel of society at younger and younger and younger and younger ages now, we start on the hamster wheel of pharma. You come out of the womb, and you have barely even taken your first breath. You got erythromycin in your eyes and you're being given a hepatitis B vaccine. Well, what's hepatitis B?
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
It's a sexually transmitted virus or it's transmitted through intravenous drug usage. What are the chances that a newborn fetus is going to be having sexual intercourse or using IV drugs? None. What are the incidences of hepatitis B in prepubescent teens all the way down to infants? Zero. unless the mother had it at birth, which you know, because you can tissue type them.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
And I can give you hundreds of examples like this, but we have just bathed our cellular biology in a toxic soup. We are on the pharma bandwagon from the time we come out of the womb. I think there's 79 vaccines on the vaccine schedule now. This time in the 50s, there was eight. We have pandemics of autism, pandemics of chronic disease.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
We spend $4.5 trillion a year on healthcare, and we are the sickest, fattest, most diseased nation on the planet. We lead the world, not only in medical care spending, but we lead the world in six major categories. Infant mortality, maternal mortality, the lowest life expectancy at birth of any other civilized nation, the next 60 civilized nations.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
By the way, I will put the links to any of these quotes that I say because we're going to get hammered for this by the media. If I make any one of these statements, I'm going to give you the links. You can put it in the show notes. Thank you. Right from the Department of Defense, 77% of our military-age men and women cannot pass a simple physical exam to enter the military, 77%.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
That means three quarters of our military age population cannot serve in the military because they are not physically capable of entering military service and passing a basic exam. Wow. Why is that? I mean, how did we get so deconditioned?
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
Why is it that the majority of teenagers can't do a 30-second dead hang, can't sit on a one-foot-high box jump and stand up, can't run a mile in less than nine minutes, can't do 20 unbroken push-ups or 20 unbroken sit-ups? It's because we are aggressively pursuing comfort. So I don't know how I got down this tangent. I got on a real soapbox there, and I apologize.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
What's happening now is like, and I think this happens in all areas of society, is like the pendulum just swings too far. And I think people say, enough, right?
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
And what you find in most of this research is that we're just getting back to the basics, right? Sunlight, grounding, breath work, whole foods. So hydrogen's been, I mean, you're probably 60% hydrogen by weight. I mean, just think of the percentage of water you are. And it's harmless to human beings, but this gas has anti-inflammatory properties. It feeds a whole class of bacteria in our gut.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
I mean, pretty soon, when we don't have any men and women that are physically capable of entering the military, or when we realize we have the highest rate of childhood cancer in recorded history, when we realize that for the first time in recorded history, our life expectancy is going backwards, then...
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
somebody will take a hold of our public policy and begin to implement the kind of simple changes that could save us from this pathway that we're on right now, which includes a lot of things like getting rid of the corruption in our research institutions. I mean, 93% of the FDA's board has conflicts of interest with Big Pharma and Big Food.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
When you look at our nutritional research, 74% of this is funded by food and pharma, which is why Lucky Charms is shown to be more nutritious than grass-fed steak. It's why they say that highly processed foods, we don't have enough data to say whether or not highly processed foods are having a negative effect on society. So we highly, highly process our food.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
And yet we have an industry that is profiting trillions of dollars on the backs of the pandemic of disease that this food supply creates. And so by getting us back to the basics, we can circumvent that entire system.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
It improves circulation. It improves the absorption of our supplements, our nutrients. So, you know, simple things like switching to drinking hydrogen water, like using a hydrogen water bottle or hydrogen tablets, bathing in hydrogen water, you know, water that's been circulated through a machine that just adds hydrogen gas to the water.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
I mean, are there any good vaccines? Yes. So, first of all, you know, we have to take a step back for a second. And the way we, before COVID, the way we defined vaccines was, you know, these were designed to prevent the infection and the spread. which initially we were told it would prevent the infection. Then we were like, oh, people are still getting COVID.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
And then we were told it would prevent the spread. And we were like, oh, well, it's still spreading COVID. And then we said it would reduce the severity of symptoms. And then we actually found out that it didn't. And so we used to make vaccines. So first of all, vaccine used to prevent the infection and prevent the spread.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
If you get the polio vaccine, you not only don't catch polio, you also don't spread polio. So we redefined that to mean that it prevented the severity of symptoms from that virus. The other thing we used to do is we used to make vaccines, in some cases we still do, out of what's called attenuated viruses. A virus is not a living thing. It's an envelope, like a nucleocapsid protein.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
So imagine an envelope and it has DNA inside of it, but it's not living. What it needs to do is it needs to go up to a cell, a healthy cell, and sort of attach to that cell and inject its DNA. It's like a zombie almost. I mean, it's pretty medieval. Attaches to the cell, injects its DNA, and sort of takes over the function of that cell. Now that cell is infected.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
So what we used to do is we would attenuate the viruses. We would take the DNA out, right? And then we would still put the envelope into your body. And so we would put the polio virus in your body without the DNA. So you couldn't actually catch polio, but your immune system would see that envelope, that nucleocapsid protein. It would manufacture an antibody. So then we said, somebody-
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
Vinpharma came up with the idea that we could do them cheaper and in mass if we actually made synthetic copies of the DNA. So just a quick basic lesson on cellular biology. If you look at a cell, if you go through the wall of a cell and you cross the cytoplasm, you find the nucleus. Inside the nucleus is the DNA. And the DNA is the boss. That's the head honcho, right? The CEO.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
Game changers, psoriasis, eczema, and don't take my word for it, you know, Google around, go to hydrogenstudies.com, read the research for yourself. So this is one of those things I studied, you know, after I really kind of got into the biohacking space because I was in the mortality space for decades, you know, predicting death.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
DNA is running the show. It has two broad roles. One is replication. It makes an exact copy of itself, okay? But the other one is called transcription. It literally writes messages into the cell. It tells the cell what to do. Just like a CEO is giving orders to the board and all of the minions in the company, it's telling everybody what to do. The DNA is doing that too.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
It's sending messages from the nucleus of the cell out into the cell to tell the cell organelles what to do. Those messages are called mRNA, messenger RNA. When they're organic, they leave the nucleus, they go into the cytoplasm of the cell, and they give a command, and they essentially dissolve. What we did was we made a synthetic copy of that message.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
And I'm not currently up to all of the research, but I know that we have been able to pick up those synthetic copies at least two years after being vaccinated. So what does this mean? It means that the message to make the spike protein, which would normally come from the DNA, has been synthetically copied. And so that message goes to the cell and it says, make the spike protein.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
You make a little spike protein. That organelle comes back to its desk. The message is still there. Make the spike protein. It comes back to its desk. Make the spike protein. It comes back to its desk. Make the spike protein. Make the spike protein. Make the spike protein.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
Which spills through the cytoplasm of the cell out into the serum of the blood, can embed itself into the arterial wall, causes a diffuse myriad of symptoms called diffuse vasculitis, which is essentially a term for, or dystonia vasculitis, inflammation of the blood vessel. It can also cause things like thrombolytic thrombocytopenia, which is abnormal platelet clotting.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
It shows up generally in the heart first, because this is the most active area of the body. So you get myocarditis, pericarditis, which was the first symptoms that we saw. But now we're seeing downstream consequences, because what happens when you take the surface area of the lining of your blood vessel? Most people think that the skin is the largest organ in the body.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
The skin has the surface area of about half a tennis court. The inside lining of your blood vessel, of which you have 63,000 miles of blood vessel in your body, has the surface area of about six tennis courts. So it's 12 times the surface area. So what if you get inflammation in all of this surface area? Well, now you've interrupted the most important barrier in the body.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
You cannot get contents from the blood, nutrients from the blood into the tissue. You can't get waste from the tissue back into the blood. So this exchange leads to this diffuse myriad of symptoms, which we are not linking in my opinion, to the vaccine. Imagine the vaccine being the hub of the wheel, and you have all of these symptoms.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
You have mood disorders, you have cardiovascular conditions, trigeminal neuralgias, transverse myelitis, you have hormone imbalances. So you have all of these spokes, right, leaving the hub of the wheel. What's the commonality between them? And, you know, now we have conditions we're calling long COVID, which I think is synonymous with vaccine injury.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
And so we have this diffuse myriad of downstream consequences where people have mood numbness, weight gain, water retention, joint pain, neurological symptoms, memory loss, impaired focus and concentration, mental conditions which we're diagnosing as other mental illnesses, fatigue, and then we throw these blanket diagnoses at them like chronic fatigue syndrome or fibromyalgia, and we're not linking this back.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
to the vaccine, which very often it can be. So the whole point with the vaccines is I sort of felt like this was like a gene experiment almost, like because we were copying the DNA and using a synthetic copy of that to send a message without knowing what the long-term consequences of that were. Now, I'm not qualified to make that statement either, for the record, because we don't have enough data.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
And as I've really started to go down the rabbit hole of what is truly extending life. Like, how do we not just add years to our life? How do we add life to our years? Like, how do we not grow old and have to deal with all the consequences of aging? Well, the way you grow old and don't deal with the consequences of aging is you give the body the raw material it needs to do its job, right?
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
But neither is anyone else. There's no scientist on the planet that can tell you what the long-term consequences of mRNA vaccination is, because we just don't have the data. Operation Warp Speed waived the safety trials. It didn't waive the development of the vaccine.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
It waived the safety trials that normally protect the public from these things being released before we actually have a suitable data set. And again, I'm not pointing the finger on these. You know, we're in a pandemic. I assume everybody was trying to do the right thing.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
But this is why we have such a distrust for the elites now because we realize, hey, maybe they don't have our best interests at heart. And this is why I'm saying that, you know, I believed more at the time in what God gave us than what man made us. I was like, well, what is the mortality rate? Well, the survival rate of this is like 99.7%.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
You know, I sit on the board of the NFL Alumni Association Athletica, and there's like 20,000 or 22,000 members in the NFL Alumni Association. These are retired NFL athletes. I remember when it... When the pandemic first started, and I was like, okay, this is a very non-scientific, non-medical opinion, but, you know, there are nose tackles, retired nose tackles that I know, that I've met.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
These guys are six feet six, six foot seven inches tall. They walk around about 320 pounds. And I also had a five-year-old niece who's 47 pounds. I go, you will never convince me that these two people get the exact same dose of the exact same thing and have the exact same reaction. This guy looks like he ate a water buffalo for lunch. You know, she's 47 pounds.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
You mean I put the same thing into both of their bodies and they both have the same reaction, same amount, same bodies, same reaction? You'll never convince me of that. That was just my initial, you know, filter. I hadn't even dug really into the science and then I just went deep down the rabbit hole of the science of the spike proteins and synthetic messaging and...
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
I really didn't like what I see. But again, I'm not a physician, not a virologist, not really qualified to take that position. So I didn't vaccinate the family or let any of the people that I loved get anywhere near it. And I started messaging people about, listen, you guys should be taking zinc.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
methylated multivitamins high doses of vitamin d3 getting sunlight moving your body um you know hydrating your body building building the defense mechanisms that the body has um because in my opinion that's our best way to you know combat what what was going on it turns out that herd immunity actually turned out to be what ended the pandemic i mean what what what would your advice for for for for parents be like me i mean here here's what i deal with we go to the pediatrician
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
That's the shame because the majority of that pediatrician's office revenue is driven by those vaccine visits because they're on the schedule. So they know every kid is going to have a certain number of visits that they can bill for. Yeah. And they bill those visits for vaccinations.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
Then they shame parents through the public school system and through your pediatrician will shame you into what's not doing the right thing for your kid. But when you start to drill into, well, why was my infant given a vaccine against a sexually transmitted disease that's also transmitted by intravenous drug use when the mother didn't have that hepatitis B? They tissue typed my wife.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
And if you look at the broad research on this, like look at Blue Zones, for example, right, where you have these centenarians, people that live way beyond age 100. If you look at all of these Blue Zone areas of the world, you won't find continuity between diets, right? So the dogmatic dieting is not the answer. So it's not vegan, vegetarian, pescatarian, carnivore, keto, paleo, raw food.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
The viral test of my wife, she didn't have Hep B. Why did you vaccinate my kid against a statistically non-viable risk? A lot of these, the same thing is true with tetanus. I mean, if you look at the number of kids or sub 45 year olds, I actually think it's sub 72 year olds that have died from a cut from a rusty nail, it's zero.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
you, you, to see any statistical validity, you gotta be over 72, 75 years old. We're, we're vaccinating against these. Why are we vaccinating against, um, shingles? Shingles is not something that you catch. It's not a virus that you catch. It's a virus you've always had.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
It's, it's, um, shingles is, is, you know, mono as a child coming back as, as shingles, just like Epstein-Barr is not a virus that you catch. Epstein-Barr is, um, I'm sorry, Epstein-Barr was mono as a child coming back as Epstein-Barr. Shingles is chickenpox that you had as a child coming back as Shingles.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
So I think a lot of times we're led to believe that we catch these viruses, that these viruses happen to us. They don't. They happen within us. If you look at a strand of human DNA, only 60% of an average strand of human DNA is human. 40% of our DNA is viral. 40% of every one of our DNA strands is viral. So what does this mean?
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
It means that every time your DNA unzips and re-zips, we silence those viruses. How is it that you could have had mono in eighth grade and I can still tell when you're 50 years old that you had mono? So I can actually look for the antibodies. I can look for something called IgG antibodies. What are those antibodies doing?
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
So what happens is that when the DNA unzips and it re-zips, those viruses are silenced. What happens is our immune system weakens. As our immune system weakens, we become more susceptible to these viruses not happening to us, happening within us. So when our immune system is weak, wow, we get shingles. We didn't catch shingles. We always had it. It was the chickenpox virus. We got Epstein-Barr.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
And what happened? How did I get Epstein-Barr? Well, mono came back as Epstein-Barr rash, and you could go through a whole sequence of these. So by strengthening the immune system, is the best way to build immunity to these pathogens. You know, when you weaken the immune system, you start to come up with things like autoimmune disease.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
You know, if you have an autoimmune condition, for example, let's say Hashimoto's or Crohn's disease or chagrin's or any number of autoimmune diseases, What you're led to believe is you woke up one day and your immune system decided to attack this tissue in the body. So if you have Crohn's disease, for example, you woke up one day and your immune system is manufacturing antibodies to the colon.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
Well, why did my immune system just decide to attack the colon? First of all, I think we should take a step back and say, I'm gonna assume that God didn't make a mistake. I'm actually gonna assume that the immune system's acting properly. And I just need to figure out why is it attacking the colon?
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
I'm not just gonna assume that my immune system went haywire one morning and just decided to attack my colon. or went haywire one day and decided to attack my thyroid, now I have Hashimoto's, or attack my lacrimal gland in my eye and I've got chagrins. What I'm gonna assume is the immune system is there for a reason, and I wanna figure out why it's there.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
And if you look at functional medicine, a lot of functional medicine doctors will tell you, and again, I'm not a physician, that there is only a single cell layer separating you from your inside world from your outside world. So your intestinal tract is outside of your body. The tube runs through your body, but it's external to your body. It's actually contiguous with the back of your forearm.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
It's not these hyperdogmatic diets. It's whole food diets. You go to Sardinia and you see that it's one of the highest carbohydrate consumptions in the world. Well, how are they eating so many carbohydrates and living to 117 years old? Well, they make their bread from scratch. They make their pasta from scratch. These are all whole foods.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
You can follow the skin inside your mouth all the way down and right out the rectum. So what separates you from your outside world is a single layer of cells. One cell layer. If this cell layer is disrupted,
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
Contents from your gut will leak through the gut and they will get into, it's called leaky gut, they will get into an area of the body, outside the luminal wall of the gut or into the bloodstream where it doesn't belong. And where's your immune system? 70% of our immune system is sitting right outside of our gut.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
And the reason why 70% of our immune system is sitting right here is because that's where all the action is. And so if you have leaky gut and you have pathogens and bacteria and contents from the gut leaking into the bloodstream, the immune system shows up.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
And when something hides in your, like, just to sort of give you a visual, if this is a heavy metal or a virus or a pathogen, okay, and it's going to hide, right? And it leaks out of your gut. And this is a healthy cell. It doesn't park itself next to the cell like this. It parks itself right there. It hides inside the cell. So what happens when you have these contents move into a cell?
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
The immune system is chasing that. Right? Now it's inside the cell. So what does it do? It manufactures an antibody to that cell. Not to kill the cell, but to get to that. Right?
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
So if you help the body find this, the heavy metal, the mold spore, the mycotoxin, the virus, the bacteria, and you support the immune system and seal and heal the gut, you see very often these autoimmune diseases that people are diagnosed with, where they're put on immunosuppressants and they're put on massive amounts of corticosteroids or steroid anti-inflammatories, is because we're holding the immune system responsible for a crime it didn't commit.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
It's actually there acting in your best interest and we're suppressing it. So, you know, in Crohn's disease, and I'm not saying this for all Crohn's disease, I don't know why I just picked that one, but, you know, you interrupt the integrity of the gut, pathogens leak out, the immune system attacks them, and now we go that you've got an autoimmune disease.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
Instead of saying, hey, listen, why don't we do the viral testing, the bacterial testing? Why don't we actually heal and seal and fix your gut? And we know now, for example, that the gut is the gateway. We even call it our second brain. And the reason why we call it our second brain is because our mood and our emotional state, our focus, our concentration, our awareness, our alertness,
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
These are controlled, amongst other things, by neurotransmitters in our brain, the majority of which are made in our gut. You know, for decades, we followed something called the serotonin hypothesis of depression. So the serotonin hypothesis of depression, which was the widely dominant hypothesis in depression, was if you are low on serotonin, you are by definition depressed.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
You go to the Mediterranean, and that flies in the face of modern medical recommendations. High amounts of fat, fatty fish, lots of oils, cheese. And then you go to, you know, the French are screwing the whole thing up because they're smoking cigarettes and drinking wine and eating cheese. And some of those areas, they're living forever.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
Okay, so if the definition of depression is low serotonin, then why isn't the fix to raise serotonin? Right? Because that's not what we do. For the most people that are depressed, we put them on selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors. We put them on SSRIs. And SSRIs, for lack of better words, they bind to a receptor in the brain. They slow the uptake of serotonin.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
So basically they're rationing what little serotonin you have. So it's a form of rationing. Because it's not allowing the brain to uptake it. And the theory is, well, if you don't use it too fast, you don't go off a cliff, right? But if we just took a step back and said, well, where's serotonin come from? Well, 90% of the serotonin in our bodies is right here.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
If you don't have it here, you can't have it here. So is it possible that depression actually begins here rather than in our outside environment? Interesting. Right? And so if 90% of the serotonin, which, by the way, travels up the vagus nerve, goes into the brain, creates mood, creates emotion. If you said to me, what's a mood? What's an emotional state?
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
I would tell you it's a collection of neurotransmitters. If you're deficient in a neurotransmitter, You can't manufacture a mood, and now you have a mood disorder. You have a mental illness. You don't have a mental illness. You have a deficiency.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
If I went to any of the – anybody that's listening to this podcast right now just magically sucked the dopamine out of their body or sucked the serotonin neurotransmitter out of their body, any mood that required that neurotransmitter, they couldn't manufacture. Well, they would be told that they had a mental illness or they had a mental disease or they had a mood disorder.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
The truth is they have a deficiency. Why wouldn't we look to fix the gut to restore the serotonin? so that the brain has adequate levels so you can express normal mood. Instead of just slotting people into these categories and saying, you're mentally ill, you're mentally unstable, you have a mood disorder. As soon as you say that to somebody, they accept that.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
And now they accept that they need to be on a lifetime of medication because something's wrong with their brain. Or something has happened to them that they can't control. And people are walking around suffering from anxiety, from depression. No one even tells them what it is.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
You know, I bet there's a vast percentage of your listeners that at some point in their life, they either are suffering from or they know somebody who's suffering from severe anxiety. And I bet they don't have never even been told what it is. You ask most, practitioners, you know, most physicians, what's anxiety? They're going to tell you that, they're going to tell you the characteristics of it.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
It's a sensation of fear without the presence of a fear. It's the sensation of impending doom without there actually being a threat. You know, I'm taking a scenario in the future to worst case scenario when that scenario has never happened. Well, those are all the characteristics of it. The truth is,
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
Anxiety at its genesis is a rise in a class of neurotransmitters called catecholamines, which creates a fight-or-flight-like response. So if you were able to regulate catecholamines, you wouldn't feel fear, right? If you ask most people that suffer from anxiety three questions, you'll find out very quickly that it's a deficiency and not coming from their outside environment.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
If you know someone that's suffering from anxiety and you say, have you had it on and off throughout your entire lifetime? They'll say yes. If you say, can you point to the specific trigger that causes it? They'll say, no. I can be sitting in a podcast right now with Sean Ryan and I can just all of a sudden be overwhelmed by anxiety.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
And number three, if you say, well, if you've tried anti-anxiety medications, did they work? They'll say, no, they made me feel like a zombie. You get those questions, you know that it's not coming from the outside environment. It's coming from right here. Wow.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
You go to Singapore, it's one of the highest meat consumptions in the world, one of the longest life expectancies in the world. So what's the commonality? The commonality is a whole food diet. You know, in the United States, 67% of our diet is highly processed foods, which are not even foods, right? So I have an intellectual curiosity like a child, like I'm absolutely fascinated by the human body.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
I'm going to put a link because it's going to be too much to go on here. I'm going to put a link to a vaccine schedule, a book that was written by, in my opinion, one of the top MDs, PhDs in the world on what are the viable vaccines and what are the ones to avoid. So you just take his...
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
and he's got all the research and all the cited things, and let's just put it in the show notes so all the families can have access to it. Do you know the name of the book off the top of your head? It's either called Born Immune. I think it's called Born Immune. We'll text you. It's either Born Immune or Born Immunity, but I'm going to put the link in. It's excellent.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
And it's all evidence-based and it's not fear-mongering. And it gives you the actual statistical variables. Like you have a point, you have up. Like if you get this vaccination, your son or daughter has a higher chance of dying in a motor vehicle accident on the way to school than they do of dying from this pathogen. So you decide if you want to vaccinate against it or not.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
I mean, because some of the things that we're vaccinating against are statistically completely irrelevant. You have a near zero risk. We don't vaccinate against near zero risks. There's a risk every time you put your child in the car and go to the grocery store, there's a risk. Every time you get on a commercial airplane, there's a risk. It's a quantifiable risk.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
But we should apply the same kind of just common sense standard to vaccination.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
And most people don't. I mean, if you got one or two and didn't go down the sequence of boosters, it's very likely that you're fine. But I can tell you what you can do.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
Yeah, so there are less expensive versions and there are very expensive versions. Plasma exchange is expensive. That's called therapeutic plasma exchange or total plasma exchange. And essentially what they do there, and I've had it done, it feels amazing, by the way, is they pull your blood out, they run it through a machine, they separate your plasma.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
from your whole blood, and they actually take your plasma out and they replace it with sterile albumin. And so you actually replace the plasma with albumin, which is a sterile fluid that's safe to replace your plasma with.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
Because in your plasma, aside from platelets and other things, are mold spores, mycotoxins, if you have them, viral pathogens, heavy metals, glyphosate, you'll find microplastics, and also spike protein. So there are lots of things in your plasma that kind of hang out in the plasma that can be pro-inflammatory and cause consequences down the road.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
And by exchanging the plasma, the theory is that you can get rid of a lot of those consequences. There is also, Dr. McCullough formulated an over-the-counter capsule that has natokinase, bromelain, and thymulin in it, which are very safe. And these are ways of binding spike protein and carrying it out of the body.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
And I think that we are just barely beginning to understand what God's created.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
You can actually see urinary spike protein levels drop after taking these, and they're inexpensive. They're regular over-the-counter, and there are formulations for spike protein detox. You can even Google spike protein detox, and you'll find ones with natokinase, bromelain, and the thymulin in them. Those are the higher-quality spike protein detoxifications.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
And you can do pre- and post-urine spike protein analyses, and you can actually see that you've reduced it. Wow. If you have severe long-hauler COVID syndrome, and this is not FDA approved, but I've seen the clinical evidence on it. There are clinics outside the United States, some in Tijuana, other parts of the world, where you can do a blood filtration, which is similar to...
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
very similar to dialysis, where you take blood out of one side of the body, you put it back in the other body, and it either runs through carbon filtration or heparin-binding filters or other types of filters, and then it puts the plasma and blood back into the body, and it actually can pull certain... toxic chemicals out. So there's plasma exchange, which I've done.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
and i believe more in its ability to heal itself i believe more in its ability to heal the environment around it um than i do in the you know chemical industrial complex and so you know we should be studying things like that hydration nutrition hydrogen water hydrogen gas these are things that are readily available for us so so when you when i asked you that day if you had any aches or pains and you're like
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
There's blood filtration, which you do generally outside of the United States, which I have not done yet, but I'm doing it in December, just for general longevity purposes. And then there are over-the-counter spike protein detox you can take with the natokinase, the bromelain, the thymulin. Wow. Thank you, Gary. You're awesome.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
Well, I'm not a believer in evolution at all. And I have a faith-based background. I actually... was raised Roman Catholic and oddly... Me too. Were you really? I was. Who's the worst? I'll be honest with you. I hated church when I was a kid. Stand up, sit down, kneel, shake hands. Half of our mass was in Latin.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
But my dad always made me put on a suit coat when I was a little kid and go to church. So I got pretty far away from the church in high school and college. But in grad school, an attorney of mine brought me to a Promise Keepers convention. There used to be a Christian men's movement. I might still be around. I don't hear much about it anymore.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
But there was a huge Christian men's movement called Promise Keepers. And they were hosting an event at Soldier Field. This was in 94. Why did he bring you? Was there something going on? No, he just thought that, you know, he thought like every young man was kind of searching. And, you know, I was in grad school. I was at National College of Chiropractic and I was getting my human biology degree.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
But I think I was probably like every other grad school kid. I was partying and, you know, going out and wasn't particularly responsible. And I had actually just started dating my first wife. And... He was my attorney actually for a car accident. I got rear-ended towing a boat on the highway. And we actually struck up a really good friendship. He was a really good guy.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
He was kind of a mentor to me. And he convinced me that there was like this motivational speakers event happening in Soldier Field. And he invited me to it. And it turned out to be a Promise Keepers convention. And it was this Christian men's movement. And I'll never forget, we were standing in Soldier Field and 70,000 men joined hands and started to say the Lord's Prayer.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
And I knew the Lord's Prayer because I was raised Roman Catholic. And something happened to me. I mean, first of all, I had this just overwhelming sensation that 70,000 men couldn't be wrong. Like, it went from feeling very odd to feeling, like, very right. And then for some reason, I just broke down and just started, like, bawling uncontrollably. And it wasn't sad. I don't know.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
You know, now I think that was the Holy Spirit. But I just started crying uncontrollably. And he was calling people down to the stage to give their life to Christ. Was that gratitude? Yeah. I think it was gratitude, but I think it was also like a sense of relief.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
You know, because I remember leaving there thinking everything I thought about my upbringing in the church, because the church that I went to, and this is not to, you know, this is no condemnation of it, but it just made you feel like a sinner a lot. You know, some of the mass was in Latin. The priest was much older than me. I felt very narrow-minded.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
You got some time? Yeah. Like everything hurts. I go, you're going to wake up tomorrow morning, nothing's going to hurt. I remember, I could see the doubt in your face.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
And I was like, every time I left church, I felt bad about myself. And this movement, this march was like, you can have a direct relationship with Christ. You can lay your problems at the foot of the cross. You don't need all of this superfluous surroundings. You don't need a church or an institution or a group of people.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
I mean, you can get on your knees and just have a direct relationship with Christ. And that to me seemed liberating. And I like the idea of faith because it's the idea of delayed gratification. And I think that's dramatically missing in this world. Me too.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
Because everybody's into like the instant gratification and the idea that we're all heading to a better place and that there is a higher purpose. And... So I gave my life to Christ. And I won't say that I've been the best Christian ever since 1994. I've definitely done some non-Christian things. But that to me has been very liberating.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
You know, I wake up every day now and I go outside, I do my breath work, I do some sunlight. And I always just take a minute to thank God and just say, hey, listen, I'm not here to ask for anything. I'm just here to say thank you. Because I feel for the first time that... God's revealed his purpose to me.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
And I feel like my passion and my purpose, my career, my calling has all kind of aligned itself. And it takes away a lot of the fears. I think Christianity, if you realize that if you wanna shrink your problems, you just grow your purpose. And so it's helped me grow my purpose. And so the friction in my life has seemed so much easier to deal with. Wow.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
And I'm not any more righteous than anybody else, but I feel such a level of conviction now with my messaging and, you know, I've had, of partnerships in the past. Certainly not all my partner's fault, a lot of it my fault, but I just know now that my purpose on this earth is to get this message to the masses.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
No, thank you.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
Yeah, you know, when I first... You know, I founded a wellness clinic with my now wife, girlfriend, in 2017. And, you know, it did very well for itself. In 2021, you know, we sold it and took on some partners and took on a minority stake. We just recently exited that.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
um and and then i started a media platform and the reason why i started the podcast was because um i didn't want the message to be controlled you know i wanted to very often give without the expectation of receipt but i also don't want to create the illusion that um you know i'm just running a philanthropy i've done i've done very well for myself financially i mean god's been very very good to me um
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
But also the messaging is not about any one product or any one service or wearing a certain t-shirt or only messaging about this is the sole and only path to a state of optimal health or to solve your problems. And it happens to be through my supplement or my testing or whatever. you know, only through my clinics. There's so many people out there that are doing incredible work.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
Like my heroes are the PhDs and the MDs and the researchers and the scientists that are actually really making an impact. And one of the things I decided was I want to build a, you know, podcast, a media platform to find the best products, the best services, the best people and try to give them a voice. And unfortunately, that sometimes conflicts with your other clients
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
you know, business endeavors because it may not be the supplement that you manufacture or the test that you require your clients to do. And I think that gets very myopic, right? When you say there's only one way to optimal health and it's through my company, through my supplement, through my testing, through You know, there are so many people that are doing amazing things for this world.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
Some of them I have financial relationships with, like Echo Water Bottles and Perfect Aminos and Baja Gold Sea Salt, but I believe deeply in those companies. And then others that I find that deserve a voice that I get no financial – reward of any kind. I mean, half the brands that I've shouted out on the podcast so far, I have no relationship with at all. They thank me all the time.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
I get tons of their, you know, tons of stuff to the house. But other than that, and it's because I wish more of us thought about that because the tide raises all the boats. And I think that we've been given a gift in my industry, you know, the wellness, functional medicine space, you know, longevity, whatever you want to call it.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
And I think that post-pandemic, there's such a trust, distrust of the global elites. And people realize that, you know what, maybe our government and the elites don't have our best interests at heart. And I need to take this decision, you know, I need to take optimal health into my own hands. I need to become my own citizen scientist. But the question is, where do they go from messaging?
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
If you get on the internet, you'll get paralysis of analysis. I mean, one person tells you the eggs are going to kill you, the next person tells you you've got to be eating eggs every day. One person tells you the carnivore diet is the be-all, end-all, and the next person tells you it's the fastest way to get cardiovascular disease.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
So what I'm trying to do is sift through the noise and be as authentic about that messaging as possible. And a lot of that, there's no way to monetize. But I think that... Again, that's how I know that I'm on God's purpose because this information does not belong to me. It belongs to humanity. I'm just sort of blessed enough to have it flow through me. You're a conduit. Yeah, just a conduit.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
I'm not the genius. I didn't come up with it. I don't have anything special, but it very often flows through me. I made a couple of... public announcements on Instagram the other day. It's still on my Instagram.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
My wife and I sat for three days, almost in tears, because of the thousands, and they're still up on my Instagram, the thousands and thousands of messages we got from people whose lives had changed. And we didn't know who they were. We had no direct contact with them. We'd never benefited from anything we'd done. Just the message hit them at the right time.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
And they either started doing breathwork or sunlight or grounding or cold plunging or eating whole foods. Or they got on some of the supplements that I recommended. They stopped believing that they had autoimmune disease or mental illness or a psychiatric disorder. And they actually started focusing on their gut. And their life completely changed. They're like, I don't have Crohn's disease anymore.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
you know i finally you know started uh started to hack my sleep you know i don't i don't have the mental illness anxiety's gone down 85 um we're able to conceive now because i talk a lot about folic acid and the right supplements that that that young women are trying to get pregnant on trying to conceive um because miscarriages especially in young females are highly linked to a gene mutation called mthfr
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
affectionately called the motherfucker gene, but it stands for methylene tetrahydrofolate reductase. About 44% of the population has this gene mutation. And the first thing that women are told when they get pregnant is to take high doses of folic acid. And most women don't realize that folic acid is not a natural compound. We've been told it's vitamin B9. It's not.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
We make folic acid in a laboratory. Folic acid doesn't occur anywhere naturally in nature. You can't find folic acid anywhere on the surface of the earth. Yet it's necessary to have a healthy pregnancy because it reduces neural tube defects. That's actually not true. Folic acid doesn't reduce anything. Folic acid has to be converted by the body into the usable form called methylfolate.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
in order to prevent a neural tube defect, in order to not have the cell go into something called S-phase arrest. So what happens is if 44% of the population has a genetic mutation called MTHFR, where they can't process this folic acid, and by the way, I'll put the link to the clinical study that supports what I'm about to say, because I get a lot of flack from this too.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
When you take a synthetic compound that didn't even exist until 1993 and you make it a requirement to have a healthy pregnancy, what you're doing is you're assuming that the body would have a deficiency in folic acid, which can't. No one can have a deficiency in folic acid. You can have a deficiency in folate, but you can't be deficient in a synthetic nutrient.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
And you pump the population full of this folic acid. If you don't have the gene mutation, you can create the raw material the body needs called methylfolate. If you do have the gene mutation, then all the folic acid in the world doesn't matter because your body can't create the usable form of that nutrient. And when you can't create the usable form of that nutrient,
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
When your DNA is replicating, it goes into something called S-phase arrest, which is essentially where it stops replicating at that level. And what are the consequences of that? Well, if you look at what this gene mutation, which essentially results in a deficiency in methylfolate, causes, it causes the intestinal motility to slow down.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
So these people have gas, bloating, diarrhea, constipation, irritability, and cramping. And then they start going down all the usual roads. They start going and getting food sensitivity testing and food allergy testing. And yet nothing works. They eat the same thing on Monday and they're fine. They eat the exact same thing on Wednesday and they blow up like a tick.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
And they're like, well, this doesn't make any sense. I ate the exact same food Monday morning and I was fine. I ate it again on Wednesday and now I'm blowing up like a tick. So right there, it should tell you that you don't have an allergy, right? Because allergies are consistent. They're not transient, right?
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
People are not allergic to milk on Monday, unallergic on Wednesday afternoon and reallergic on Saturday morning. Allergies are very easy to spot. Look, there's no adult listening to this podcast right now that has a shellfish allergy that doesn't know it, right? You don't make it to adulthood and not know that you have this allergy.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
So what we fail to realize is very often a nutrient deficiency, specifically methylfolate, because your body can't break down folic acid, this nutrient deficiency can interrupt the pace of the gut, the peristaltic activity of the gut. So what happens when you interrupt that peristaltic activity in the gut? Gas, bloating, diarrhea, constipation, irritability, cramping. Well, what else happens?
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
Amen.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
Well, this is where neurotransmitters are manufactured. This is why to this day, in nine years of being in this industry intensely, I have never met a patient that tells me they suffer from severe anxiety that does not also have gut issues, not once. Because the anxiety is not coming from the outside environment, it's coming from the gut.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
And these poor people go down the road of food sensitivity, food allergy testing, they go on a carnivore diet, they go on keto, paleo, what have you. Sometimes carnivore will solve it because they happen to get to the methylfolate. And when you realize that these are just nutrient deficiencies, and so women, for example, that become pregnant and take high doses of this folic acid,
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
they all of a sudden, they can't process folic acid. So they're taking the folic acid because their doctor tells them to take it to prevent a neural tube defect. So like a good mother, they take it. And then they don't realize that they can't convert it. So it's actually not preventing the neural tube defect and helping the fetus the way they want it to.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
And this high amounts of folic acid rise in their blood and it causes all kinds of psychiatric conditions, including postpartum depression, which begins during pregnancy, even though it's called postpartum depression. And eventually what happens to a lot of these women is their pregnancy ends, they stop taking their prenatal vitamin and their symptoms go away.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
So they blame it on the pregnancy, not on the vitamin. And so, you know, one of the messages that I really try to get out there is that if you have,
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
ADD, ADHD, OCD, focus and concentration problems, or your kids have behavioral issues or they have issues with focus, concentration, completing assignments, paying attention, not being disruptive in class, for one week, get the folic acid out of their diet. Get them on a kid's multivitamin that has methylfolate. Just do this for one week.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
And you tell me if you don't have a completely different child in the house. The reason for this is 44% of the population, including children, have this gene mutation. where they can't process folic acid. Well, where do we find folic acid?
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
Well, in the United States, which is what's really screwed up about our chemical and food industry, in the United States, by law, all white flour, white rice, bread, pasta, cereals, grains of any kind are sprayed with the chemical folic acid. It's not called sprayed with folic acid. It's called fortified or enriched.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
So when you spin a box of crackers around or you see flour or breads or pastas or cereals or grains, and it says enriched bleached white flour, fortified whole wheat, fortified or enriched grains, fortified cereal, enriched cereal, that means it's been sprayed with folic acid. which 44% of the population can't process.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
You take a little child that has this gene mutation, which 44% of them do, and what do we feed them in the morning for breakfast? White bagels full of folic acid, cereal full of folic acid, Pop-Tarts full of folic acid, any of these things. And you dub 1,800% of the daily allowance of folic acid into that little body.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
It's a full contact support to get that kid in the car to go to school in the morning. And when they get to school, the call comes home and it says, hey, little Johnny can't pay attention. He's disruptive. He doesn't follow instructions. He doesn't complete assignments. We need to bring in the Ritalin to solve this. And that's where the hamster wheel starts.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
If you just got the folic acid, the synthetic compound that does not occur naturally in nature, and gave them methylfolate as a supplement, and just got the fortified or enriched foods out of their diet for a week, you'd very often have a completely different. Wow. And there's so many people that are dealing with this.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
You know, these kids that are, I mean, the rates of not just autism, which have gone from 1 in 5,000 to 1 in 32 in the last 40 years, the rates of attention deficit disorder or on an absolute parabolic tear. I mean, you want to talk about a pandemic, but no one really tells you that attention deficit disorder is not even a deficit of attention.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
Attention deficit disorder is not an inability to pay attention. It's actually an attention overload disorder. It's too many windows open at the same time. So people that have ADD or ADHD don't lack the ability to pay attention. They lack the ability to pay attention to so many things. So why is it that you're opening windows faster than you're closing them?
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
The reason is that in the human mind, we don't just create thought. We also dismantle thought. We break thought down. We break down emotion. We break down mood. We break down thought. If you degrade thought at a slower rate than you create it, then the mind becomes very clouded, right? You're thinking about a vacation, a job you're working on, let's say.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
You're thinking about a job you're working on and your friend walks up. And now you're thinking about a job, you start talking to your friend. And you notice a logo on your friend's jacket that reminds you of a vacation you want to take. So now you're thinking about a job, looking at the logo, talking to your friend, thinking about a vacation you want to take. Like all at the same time.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
And then your friend says something to you and you're like not with it. You know, like, you know, hey, are you there? What's happening is you're creating thought at a faster rate than you're breaking it down. Very often stimulated by folic acid and driven by a lack of methylfolate. And so when you put these compounds back in the body, very often thought process returns to normal, right?
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
In other words, the degradation of thought returns to normal and you start sequencing thought normally. Because you didn't have an attention deficit disorder, you had an attention overload disorder. You were opening too many windows at the same time. You know, modern medicine says, hey, if the mind's racing,
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
if you're opening all these windows, so the mind's racing, let's put an amphetamine into the body to race the central nervous system to match the pace of the mind. That's what Vyvanse, Adderall, and Ritalin are. They're basically glorified amphetamines.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
So now you're taking the system, the central nervous system, which is not broken, and you're breaking it to match the system that is broken, which is a terrible idea. It's like getting a flat tire and then getting out of your car and slashing your other three tires to create equilibrium. So one of the messages, I don't even know how we got on this path. I'm like way down the road.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
Cool. So they knew that I was coming on, so there's a word specifically for me.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
We were talking about faith. We were talking about faith. I'm betting that you turned somewhere, dude.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
Take methylfolate.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
Wow.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
I'm glad we are too because, I mean, that's, really, you've got moms and dads listening to this podcast that have little kids that have those issues.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
Degrade. We've got to degrade thought. Same thing happens to people with sleep issues. We're going to get into your labs in a second, and I'm going to explain why people that are the most exhausted, why they sleep the worst. Because you think it would be the opposite, right? You think that people that are really exhausted, the only thing they do well is sleep.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
But actually, the people that are the most exhausted sleep the worst. And I'm going to point out what they need to look at in the labs to fix that.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
But the majority of people that are listening to this podcast right now that have really poor sleep patterns or have just a really tough time sleeping, the reason why they have a tough time sleeping is because when they lay down to go to sleep and they're body tired, their mind is awake. If you ask them, they will tell you, I'm not sleeping because my mind is awake. Not because I'm not tired.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
So what happens is as their environment quiets, their mind wakes up. So why does your mind wake up at night when there's no stimulus? It's because there's a category of neurotransmitters in our brain called catecholamines. These are fight or flight neurotransmitters, dopamine, norepinephrine, ephedrone, adrenaline.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
When these neurotransmitters start to rise, what they do is they create a waken state. If they continue to rise, you'll feel anxious. If they rise further, you'll feel anxiety. If they continue to rise, you can have paranoias or even a full-blown panic attack. So if we realize that as a certain class of neurotransmitters rises, our mind enters awaken state,
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
And if we realize that if we don't have the right raw material in our body, specifically the right complex of B vitamins, methylfolate, a form of B12 called methylcobalamin, which is just a form of the light metal B12, then what happens is we have a difficult time breaking these neurotransmitters down, quieting these neurotransmitters. So at night, our mind wakes up.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
integrate this into their daily routines so the most um underutilized overlooked area um in all of human optimization as we talked about a few minutes ago is sleep if you're not sleeping you're not healing you're not repairing you're not eliminating waste you're not toxifying um and so if i was to just pick one thing um to optimize in my life um to improve my cognitive performance it would be it would be sleep
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
And what we'll do is we'll ruminate on the most innocuous little shit. Like you will lay there just thinking, did I get everything on my grocery list? Did my belt match my shoes? You know, should I have a Thanksgiving Day party with my family? You'll just ruminate on the most innocuous nonsensical things, and it will just eat away at your sleep for hours.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
And people get frustrated because they realize, I'm exhausted, but I can't fall asleep. As soon as you put the right raw materials back into the human body, methylated nutrients, very often their mind starts to quiet down at night, and they don't have to tranquilize themselves to go to sleep.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
And so a lot of the conditions that we accept as a consequence of aging or, you know, little Johnny's just got attention deficit disorder, but everybody's got attention deficit disorder. You know, I have a hard time falling asleep, but I'm, you know, I'm in my forties and I got three kids and I shouldn't fall asleep. And none of that is true. These are not consequences of aging.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
They are consequences of missing raw material in our bodies. And these raw materials are very easy to put back in. So back to faith, sorry.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
And, you know, the challenge with sleep very often, and I want to get into it in your labs because I think we can solve this issue for a lot of your listeners, right? Number one, they should be looking at taking methylated vitamins, taking methylfolate at night, taking magnesium at night, the light metals that create the deficiency that make it hard to quiet the mind.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
The second thing they ought to really think about is getting their blood work done and getting some data and looking at their hormone levels in men, very specifically testosterone, because it's very hard for most physicians to link deficiencies in a hormone like testosterone to poor sleep patterns. But what happens is testosterone...
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
and we can talk about this further with your labs, but testosterone, one of its primary roles is actually not male characteristics. That's why women are afraid of testosterone therapy, because they think it leads to facial hair and aggression and big muscles and a deep voice, and that's actually not true.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
One of the primary roles of the hormone testosterone in men and women is to actually put pressure on the bone marrow to create new red blood cells. So this is called erythropoiesis, right? And the production of new red blood cells. Same thing happens when you go to altitude, for example. So let's say you have low testosterone. and you have low production of red blood cells.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
You don't have anemia, but you have a very low red blood cell count. So what does this mean? You have very few vehicles in your blood to transport oxygen, okay? And this hides in plain sight. So people that have sleep issues or energy issues should listen really closely because you'll go get your blood work done by a physician, and there's a range for red blood cells.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
So it will be within range, but you'll be down in the bottom 10 percentile. Then there's a second thing on your labs called hemoglobin, which is kind of like the fluid in the red blood cell. Tells you how much hemoglobin is in that cell. And that's in the bottom 10 or 15 percentile. They're in the normal range.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
What happens when I start to delete red blood cells from the bloodstream, and when I start to drain them of hemoglobin, and I'm oversimplifying this for a moment, is I have less fluid to carry oxygen And what's the result of that? I'm tired. I'm tired because I'm hypoxic. And I'm hypoxic because I'm low on red blood cells.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
And I'm low on red blood cells very often because I'm deficient in the hormone testosterone. And so when somebody says they're low on energy, if you convert that statement to physiology, they're almost saying I'm low on red blood cells. I'm low on hemoglobin. maybe because I'm low on testosterone, which is why I really believe that people should get hormone panels done.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
And not everybody needs to be on testosterone. There are lots of ways to raise it without taking the hormone. My point is, now if you're tired all the time, right? Because your blood doesn't carry oxygen well. Well, what happens when you go to sleep? you lay down to go to sleep, your respiratory rate gets very shallow, right? You take shallow breaths. So the oxygen level in your blood drops.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
Well, your blood's already poor at carrying oxygen. So now as your respiratory rate drops and the blood oxygen level drops, you're marginally suffocating. And so what happens is as you start to get into a deep sleep, your brain wakes you up. You will pulse cortisol at night to keep your body out of a deep sleep because your brain is keeping you from suffocating. Then people do the worst thing.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
And then followed by a second, third, and fourth, and I'll just lay those out for Jesse. The second would be movement. Again, going back to the discussion we had about the blue zones, one of the things that was common between all of the different blue zones, which was not diet, was mobility into later in life.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
Instead of fixing their hormone and raising their red blood cell count, they actually go to their doctor and say, doc, I can't sleep. The doc gives them Zolapidem nitrate, diazepam, Xanax, you know. Ambien. Lesta, Ambien, whatever it is. What a lot of these drugs do is they essentially blindfold the brain's view of blood oxygen.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
And it allows you to get into a sleep because your brain won't wake you up. But then you wake up in the morning and go, man, I hate taking Tylenol PM because it's still in my system the next morning. Or when I wake up from Ambien, I'm really groggy and I'm foggy. That medication has been out of your system for hours. You are feeling the effects of having suffocated for six hours.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
That's why you're groggy. That's why you can't focus. That's why you're sore and stiff and achy.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
So if you went back and fixed the hormones very often, you would fix the signal to the bone marrow. You would fix the red blood cell count, which would fix the oxygen transport, which would not only give you more energy, but it would deepen your sleep.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
Yeah.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
Well, the main issue with evolution is the following. The main issue with evolution is we have taken enormous scientific leaps in the fossil records, right? So if evolution is true, then you find single-celled or multi-celled organisms, right? And you go from single-celled or two-celled organisms to four-celled, to eight-celled, to 16-celled. You go through a progressive process
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
um evolution if you will of these organisms evolving into an increasingly more being like creature so evolution says basically that some bacteria got together in a mud puddle And they made it, and we went from single-celled organisms to multi-celled organisms to quadricellular to hexacellular to multicellular. And then these organisms began to form into cells.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
that created organ systems, and then you basically had what is a rudimentary non-air-breathing organism that was in the water to an organism that had gills, and then those gills moved out onto land, and then they started to breathe oxygen, and then this whole lineage of species evolved from this. The problem is there's zero evidence of that.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
so sitting is the new smoking sedentary lifestyle is now the leading cause of all cause mortality wow yeah the leading cause it is the leading cause of all cause mortality meaning the the greatest impact on the total number of deaths what's called a modifiable risk factor is sedentary lifestyle i have a saying that aging is the aggressive pursuit of comfort
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
The problem is you have these single-celled organisms and multi-celled organisms, and then there's just a giant gap in the fossil record. And you have animals, and then you have man. But we don't have a fossil record that takes us from single and multi-celled organisms into an entire species. And we just simply ignore that.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
We ignore the science that would validate that evolution was... And two, for me... When I really study the human body, and by the way, we have barely scratched the surface of understanding this thing that God created. It is fascinating in its ability. Modern medicine will say, well, that was a miracle cure. It's not a miracle cure.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
When people are miraculously cured from things, it's because they figured out the deficiency or they figured out that we're an entire being. We've lost faith in the ability that this has over this. The medicine treats our mental health and our physical health almost as separate creatures. And so... You destroy somebody's gut health, their mental health will follow.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
You will not have, again, I've never met a patient that suffers from anxiety that didn't have gut issues. So what I'm saying is you have this perfectly beautiful organism. You have these communities of trillions of cells God gave us everything that we need to thrive. Everything that we need to thrive.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
The best research that is being done on the surface of Mother Earth right now is being done on the basics that God gave us. Magnetism from the earth, oxygen from the air, light from the sun.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
Whole foods, minerals that you would get if you scooped water out of a flowing stream, grounding by discharging into the earth and changing the polarity of your body, repolarizing the surface of your blood cells, learning to actually allow sunlight into your eyes and to touch your skin. We're very photovoltaic beings. And so what happens when we start to disconnect from mother nature?
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
What happens when we start to disconnect from what God gave us and replace it with what man made us? This is how we become sick and diseased and pathological. And the reason why I say that is that this whole ecosystem was meant to work as an entire ecosystem. You can't take pieces of it out and expect to maintain a state of optimal health. So, for example, if you look at our circulatory system...
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
You know, very few people realize that only 30% of our blood is circulated by our heart. Our heart's only responsible for 30% of the circulation in our body. 70% of our circulation is actually not done by the heart. 70% of our circulation is done by an activity called vasomotor. This is microvascular circulation.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
Nobody listening to this podcast has a heart that is strong enough in a single contraction to pump blood all the way to the tip of your toes, to the tip of your fingers, through all the capillaries in your brain, your liver, your lungs, your pancreas, your kidneys, none of us. What happens is we pump blood to the entrance of these capillaries and then an activity called vasomotor takes over.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
Think of a snake swallowing a mouse. So what happens as we age to these capillaries, to this microvascular circulation? Well, as we deprive it of sunlight, which we very often do, it becomes deconditioned, if you will. You lose the vascular laxity. Blood flow begins to decrease.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
The reason why most people start wearing readers in their 50s is not because their eyesight is physically changing, but because the blood flow to the back of their eyes is changing.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
And most of us are aggressively pursuing comfort. We are accelerating the rate at which we age. We have to stop thinking about stress as being a negative, right? Stress can be very good for us. If you don't actually load your bones, they will not strengthen. I don't care how much calcium you take. If you don't actually tear a muscle, it won't grow.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
um when we um when we don't change when we don't vary our temperature right expose ourselves to cold temperatures expose ourselves to hot temperatures when we just keep our temperature perfectly normal we stop exercising our vascular system our arteries are smooth muscle they can actually contract and expand we don't think about exercising our vascular system but it's actually very good for you one of the reasons why i love cold water exposure taking a cold shower getting in a cold plunge or a cold tub
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
is because you're exercising your vascular system. You're causing a peripheral vasoconstriction and a vasodilation, which is actually very, very good for maintaining this microvascular circulation. But we just maintain our body temperature and air temperature and our car temperature and our temperature in our office and our temperature in our home because we don't like to be uncomfortable.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
We got to stop telling grandma not to go outside, it's too hot. Not to go outside, it's too cold. Just to lay down, just to relax, just to eat at the very first pang of hunger. This is collapsing all of our natural defense mechanisms. And so, one of the reasons, you know, getting back to evolution, is you look at how this human body is structured, and...
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
you see that, for example, an artery will have a certain diameter and it carries this warm oxygenated blood away from the heart. And then wrapped around this artery comprising the same diameter but divided into smaller little pipes are the veins. And the veins are smaller in diameter and they're wrapped around the artery to improve the heat exchange.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
And so you start like digging into this and you're like, this is like the most sophisticated engineer in the world designed this system because the warm fluid that's leaving, changes the temperature of the cool fluid that's coming back. And the way you change the temperature is you divide the same diameter into smaller pipes and you wrap it around this other pipe.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
You don't see arteries and veins like this. You see artery and veins like this. And so it's, and I can give you a thousand examples of this. It's just incredible how the body can, you know, when you fast, for example, your body goes into the state called autophagy, where it actually starts to eat cells that are useless in the body. It recycles them, right?
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
You look at any faith in the world, Muslims, Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Hindu, you look at any major religion in the world, they all have periods of fasting. And they have periods of fasting because fasting wasn't just to deprive you of you know, pleasures of the flesh, it was to heal you.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
It was actually designed, when we didn't have the medications that we have today, it was designed to cleanse and heal the body.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
If you don't challenge the immune system, it will weaken. The worst thing that came out of the pandemic, second maybe only to the vaccine itself, and we can talk about that, but was residential quarantining, masking, and social distancing. You took human beings out of contact with other human beings. So what happens when that occurs? The immune system weakens, right? The body's very efficient.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
Because when you go into a fasted state, this miraculous condition starts to emerge where your body efficiently sends the immune system out into the world, and it starts to eat the useless cells in your body and break them apart into the amino acids that we use other places for energy. No kidding.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
incredibly efficient. It's like, you know, like the greatest PhD chemist in the world designed the chemical component. The greatest architectural engineer in the world designed the architecture of it. The structure of it is so incredible. If you look at how we take the same minerals and create bone, calcium, phosphorus,
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
form hydroxyapatite, create this bone, and then we warehouse a factory inside the bone that creates the red blood cells. And the red blood cells are responsible for shuttling the gases around in the body. And this ecosystem is so intelligent And it couldn't, not in my opinion, but in the scientific evidence, it could not have been put together by accident. It didn't happen by happenstance.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
And don't tell me about genetic evolution, because genetically, we've been told things like... you know, we pass disease from generation to generation, which is in most cases is patently false.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
Like, you know, you'll have a lot of listeners right now that you will either have type two diabetes or they'll have hypothyroid or they'll have high blood pressure or they'll have drug and alcohol addiction runs in their family or depression and anxiety runs in their family. And they have been told that these are genetically inherited diseases.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
Because something runs in families does not mean it's genetically inherited. This is another farce that has been promulgated on the populace because if I can convince you that you have a genetically inherited disease, I can convince you that you need to subscribe to a lifetime of medication.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
So you come in to see me as your doctor and I look at your blood pressure and I go, Sean, you have high blood pressure. You go, well, why do I have high blood pressure? I go, well, I don't know. You have a normal EKG, you have a normal EEG, you have normal heart sounds, you have normal lung sounds, you have a normal dye contrast study.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
I did all these tests on your heart and there's nothing wrong with your heart. Why do I have high blood pressure? Well, because your grandfather had it or your uncle had it. So it's familial, it's genetically inherited. The next time a physician says that to you, you need to look them dead in the face and say, what gene did I inherit from my ancestor that gave me that condition?
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
You mean to tell me 85% of the time they diagnose you with high blood pressure, they have no idea what's causing it? That's exactly what I mean. So what do we do in the 85% of cases where we don't know the origin of high blood pressure? We medicate the heart. What do we do in the 85% of cases that we don't know why you have hypothyroid? We medicate the thyroid.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
And so you want to talk about a pandemic in this country. We have a pandemic of holding organs responsible for crimes they're not committing. So many people that are listening to this podcast right now either have high blood pressure or they have a loved one with high blood pressure.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
If you stop using something, it will forget about it. If you put a cast on your left arm, even if it's healthy, and you take it off in six weeks and you compare your left arm to your right arm, it will not only have lost muscle mass, but you will have lost a lot of tissue, right? Not just fat, muscle, tendon, ligament, bone will start to demineralize. Because if you don't use it, you lose it.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
And the type of high blood pressure they were diagnosed with is idiopathic hypertension, unknown origin hypertension. Then they were told because an ancestor had it, they inherited it. But there is no gene for that condition. So it cannot be genetic. And so the same thing happens with thyroid. We diagnose people with low thyroid, and I'm gonna point this out on your labs.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
Generally, broadly, because they have low T3 hormone, right? So the thyroid makes two hormones, T4 and it makes T3. But the little known fact about the thyroid is that it only makes 20% of the T3 hormone in your blood. So if T3 is low, there's an 80% chance it's not your thyroid. But what do we do when T3 is low? We call it hypothyroid and we medicate the thyroid.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
So the question should be, where's the other 80% come from? The other 80% comes from outside the thyroid. It's deiodinized in the liver, which is about two thirds of the thyroid hormone T3. The rest of it comes from the gut and the periphery. But the point is between the liver, the gut and the periphery, this is outside of the thyroid.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
We just hold the thyroid responsible for a crime it's not committing. Instead of looking at, well, what nutrients? Selenium, thiamine, zinc, which are very common, selenium, very common deficiencies in thyroid conditions, less often iodine. But before we look to see if the body has the right raw materials, the right nutrients, we assume disease and pathology.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
And now we're whacking a perfectly healthy organ, accusing it of a crime it's not committing, and people subscribe to a lifetime of the medication because they were told it's genetic because their grandmother or their uncle or their aunt had it, and there's no gene to pass it on to them.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
And so these are the kinds of, you know, again, this brings me back to the discussion about faith because God gave us everything that we need to thrive. If you can't find it on the surface of the earth, you probably don't need it to live a healthy, happy, long, thriving life. Right?
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
It's when we start picking up the things that God didn't give us, we start eating highly processed foods, glyphosates, preservatives, pesticides, herbicides, insecticides, fake foods, dyes, you know, the MSGs, the genetically modified foods, which are not even foods. And we start putting these non-natural compounds into the body. Now we become diseased and sick and pathological.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
And now we're relying on chemicals and synthetics and pharmaceuticals to fix the pathology that was caused by the chemicals, the synthetics, and the pharmaceuticals. It's such a vicious cycle. But if we go back to what God gave us,
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
meat, fish, chicken, eggs, vegetables, sunlight, grounding, breathwork, exercise, nature, water that is free of glyphosate and free of chlorine and free of fluoride and microplastics and pharmaceuticals, you'd find that we could fix this entire pandemic of chronic disease in the country. Just going back to what God gave us.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
And so when we stopped challenging the immune system, the immune system weakened. And then we woke up from the pandemic and everybody went back to quote-unquote normal society. And now you start hearing about things like, well, we're on our eighth version of Omnicron. We're monkeypox. Well, what the hell is monkeypox? Where did that come from? Well, it's always been around.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
It was lab-grown meat. Italy banned that shit. That was crazy. I mean, you know, stem cell-grown meat. I mean, that's a tough one. Pretty wild, huh? It's pretty wild. And now we want to blame greenhouse gases on cow farts. And I'm like, what's this?
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
Well, because everyone listening to this podcast at some point in their lifetime, whether you've had cancer or not, has had cancer cells in your body. All cancer has the same origin. It was at one time a healthy cell, right? So it's a liver cell, lung cell, pancreatic cell, you know, a brain cell. that cell's metabolism shifted, right?
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
So it went from a healthy metabolism, which is usually using oxygen to produce an energy source called ATP, spitting out carbon dioxide. Healthy cellular metabolism, it's eliminating waste, it's repairing, it's detoxifying, it's regenerating, it's replicating. So that was at one time a healthy cell. Something happened to that cell that shifted its metabolism to being sick, if you will.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
It shifts to a different source of energy. It uses sugar. It uses acid. It creates acid as a byproduct. And so why is it that we think that a healthy cell can become a sick cell? But we don't think a sick cell can become a healthy cell. And so, you know, the theory is that once a cell that was healthy now becomes sick, the only way to fix this cell is to kill this cell. Now, very often...
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
There are forms of cancer that have what's called a DNA mismatch, where the immune system actually recognizes the cancer as a foreign body and it begins to wage war on it. This is the whole basis for something called immunotherapies,
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
We've had a lot of clients, and again, I am not a physician and I'm not an oncologist, so I want to make that perfectly clear, and I'm not recommending that you just fast if you have cancer, although I am recommending if you have cancer, you should fast, maybe not just only fast. But in the body, we can create an environment that's very hospitable for cancer.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
we can create an environment that's very inhospitable to cancer. So let's talk about a biome that is inhospitable to cancer. It's not really inviting cancer. Number one, it has few areas of focal hypoxia. It has few areas of the body that are deprived of oxygen. healthy circulation, movement, sunlight, things like red light therapy.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
It's just been so weak that it never manifested itself. But you globally weaken the immune system and now you've got to weaken society without a strong immune system. And you're seeing the consequences of that. So... Sleep first and mobility second. And I don't care how deconditioned you are. You don't have to go out and do like hits cardio and super Spartan races.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
So we have healthy circulation, we have healthy levels of oxygen in the blood. The second thing is we don't have an environment that is very acidic. The pH range of the blood is very narrow, so about a half a point. As you get more towards the lower end of that scale, you get more acidic. As you get the higher end of that scale, you get more alkaline.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
We know that alkaline environments tend to be disease-free environments. Acidic environments tend to be disease-prone environments. The other thing is we can talk about removing the unnecessary assault on our cellular biology. So things like pesticides, herbicides, glyphosates, insecticides, preservatives, So eating whole foods in their natural format, avoiding things like seed oils.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
And if you still don't believe the research on seed oils, Paul Saladino just did a great short documentary on it. Dr. McCullough has done lots of exposés on seed oils. The evidence on seed oils is absolutely valid, even though you will see that NIH research says that
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
that these polyunsaturated fatty acids are not bad for you and you should be eating wesson oil and corn oil and canola oil and safflower oil and sunflower oil and all of these seed oils that are highly toxic to our cellular biology. And very often, it's not even the origin of the seed itself, like a rapeseed or a canola. which is the same thing, or a sunflower or safflower seed.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
What we do is we take these canola plants or rapeseed plants, we put them in a commercial press and the oil comes out very gummy. So we degum it with something called hexane, which is a neurotoxin. Then we take that neurotoxic degummed oil and we heat it to 405 degrees and we turn it rancid. Okay, so now you have a putrefied,
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
rancid oil so then we have to deodorize it so we deodorize it with sodium hydroxide which is a known carcinogen and then we in some cases we'll even bleach it then bottle it then put it on the shelf so it's sometimes it's not even the food it's the distance from the food to the table so if you're listening to this i would make today the day you get seed oils completely out of your diet it's very hard to do sunflower safflower canola rapeseed
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
And I would replace those with four or five different oils. If you're cooking, use coconut oil, which can take high temperatures. Use grass-fed or ghee butter or tallow. All of those are stable at high temperatures. And then at room temperature, use either an avocado oil or an extra virgin olive oil. Those are the only fats and oils you need in your house.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
You can make everything with those, you can cook everything with those, they're safe, they're from nature, and they don't denature at high temperatures. When you take these seed oils and you put them in deep fryers, and you start frying foods in these, you get all kinds of carcinogenic compounds that just spike inflammation in the body.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
And so, you know, I would, if you're listening to this, I mean, I would make seed oils one of the things that you tap water and seed oils get out of your life and your inflammatory cascade will come down in your body. I'll start doing that.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
And I hate to sound like such a fear monger, but the truth is, you know, because we started this whole conversation about evolution is, the fear is just trying to get back around the system to get back to the basics, right? Right, that's what it is. There's a lack of fear in whole foods and the basics. Fruits, vegetables, meat, fish, chicken, eggs, from whole food sources.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
When we take those things and put them through the industrial process before they hit the table, this is where things go wrong, right? I mean, cattle are not meant to be soybean oil and high fructose corn syrup.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
um they don't encounter these things in in nature they don't take steroids they don't take antibiotics they don't get vaccinated but when we when you look at commercial feedlots if you've ever seen an aerial picture of a commercial feedlot there is not one blade of grass on the ground those cattle are standing in four inches of mud. And I'm not kidding. You just Google it.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
You just need to move and three 15-minute walks a day. Apply stress to your body. I mean, the simple fact is if you want to live a long time, lift heavy weight. No kidding. No question. Lift heavy weight. Lift heavy weight. Challenge your body. Tear your muscles. Apply stress to the body. Lift things that are heavy. Not so heavy that you hurt yourself. I don't believe in loading the spine.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
You'll see images of these. Thousands and thousands of acres, as far as the eye can see, they're standing in mud. Very often they're eating grains, which they don't encounter. They're eating soybean. They're eating, and even in some cases, high fructose corn syrup. Sometimes their teeth are rotted all the way up to the gum by the time they're slaughtered.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
Lots of them were dying of type 2 diabetes right before they're slaughtered. But if you take a cow and it's on a pasture and it's eating six or eight different varieties of grass and clothes, And it's eating the grass from the top down where the most nutritious part of the plant is. And it's living for six or seven or eight years before it's slaughtered. And it's a full-grown animal.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
These are highly nutritious whole food sources instead of the commercially processed versions of these. So you have a big veteran population. A lot of these veterans, sadly, are struggling with... mental conditions as a part of their service to our country.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
And then they come back and they're put on the pharmaceutical hamster wheel, but nobody's telling them, how do I get the neural inflammation out of my brain? How do I restore my mood and my emotional state to normal? Nobody's talked to me about fixing my gut to get my neurotransmitters right so my mood stabilizes.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
Nobody's actually talked to me about getting seed oils and these processed foods out of my diet to reduce the amount of inflammation in my brain that could be causing the chronic migraines that I have, the ruminating thoughts nibbling away at my sleep, making me feel like I'm actually losing my mind.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
A lot of these men and women are not as sick or diseased or as mentally ill as they have been led to believe. They don't need chemical intervention in their brain. They need a reduction of the inflammatory process that is causing that to exist. And I'm not saying that in every case. I am not by any means proposing therapy. or counseling or any of those things. I think they all have their place.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
But if you're not talking to these clients and patients about getting these compounds that incite inflammation out of their body and fixing their guts so they can create the neurotransmitters that manufacture healthy mood and healthy emotion, we're missing an entire gap in how we could treat them. They develop dopamine deficiencies, which is the genesis of addiction.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
The absence of dopamine is the presence of addiction. What happens when people's dopamine gets low? They engage in dopamine-seeking behavior, nicotine, alcohol, promiscuity, gambling, risky behaviors, what have you. But they're actually not seeking the high like we talked about earlier. They're seeking the normalcy. All these people just seek normalcy.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
Very few addicts are like, I wake up and just want to get really banged up. Wake up and want to feel normal. What is causing the absence of normalcy? Deficiencies in dopamine? Imbalances in neurotransmitters? Where did the majority of these come from? Good issues.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
But if you can walk, that's excellent for you. It's probably the most underrated exercise in the world. But if you only had time to do cardiovascular training or weight training, I would do weight training.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
Well, you know what a lot of these guys should be doing? Because, I mean, first of all, Plasma Exchange is amazing. These blood filtrations are amazing. I'll put links to places that they can get both. Right now, I have no affiliation with them. I've actually done them myself. I'm a big believer. But they are very often outside of the price point for a lot of people.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
So, what can people do that are listening to this podcast to activate their natural detox pathways? And... materially reduce the risk of cancer. Number one, like we talked about, just getting tap water out of your diet. But number two, our natural detoxification pathways like sweat, for example, regular sauna sessions, I mean, the evidence on dry saunas is in.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
I mean, an extension in all-cause mortality, a reduction in cardiovascular risk, a reduction in cancer risk, significant reductions in autoimmune conditions. And why is this? Because the skin can be used as a secondary route of waste elimination. And so regular sauna sessions, 20 minutes minimum, three times a week.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
Even if it's just body weight exercises, no question. Because weight training beats cardiovascular training, hands down. Muscle is not only our metabolic currency, but muscle is, in my opinion, and probably Gabrielle Lyon would share this with me too, is the largest organ in the body. What does muscle do that we don't know that it does?
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
They have saunas now that are inexpensive enough that you don't even have to have the big, you know, cedar room. They have saunas you can sit in. They have single saunas that you can get online. My preference is dry saunas. That's where most of the evidence is, is sitting in a dry sauna, activating those pathways. Taking things like glutathione,
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
liposomal or transdermal glutathione glutathione is is the most powerful antioxidant in the human body it resides inside of every single cell in our bodies there's not one cell in your body that does not contain glutathione this is an antioxidant that's actually made by the liver and it's called the mother of all antioxidants we actually can do intracellular tests for the level of glutathione and tell exactly when a cell is going to die by its intracellular level of glutathione it's that linked to cellular health
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
So you can supplement with glutathione. You can do it via IV drips. There is a transdermal glutathione that you can spray that you can rub through the skin, which has the right folded proteins to go through the blood and enter the... I mean, through the skin and into the bloodstream and doing regular sauna sessions. These are all ways for us to decrease our susceptibility to cancer.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
I also think, although there's not a direct clinical study stating this, drinking hydrogenated water and reducing the inflammation in the body also helps. makes us less prone to cancer. If you actually want to look at, and you can repeat this at home, you can order a $6 ORP meter from Amazon. It's called an ORP meter, oxidative reduction potential.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
What this meter will do, if you put it in a glass of water or any kind of fluid, is it will tell you what the potential is of that fluid to reduce oxidation. to do lower inflammation. I think I showed you this at my house.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
So you take this little meter, you run tap water. That's going to be like plus 140, 160, right? Meaning it's going to cause inflammation. You take filtered water, still going to be plus 110, 120. It's also going to cause inflammation. You take and add hydrogen gas to the water and it will drop to minus 600. Meaning? Minus 600. Minus 600.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
So if you take that little hydrogen water bottle that we were drinking out of, and you fill it with bottled water, and you put the ORP meter in there, you'll see it'll be about plus 110, plus 120. As soon as you turn the hydrogen gas on, it will drop to minus 600. So it is seven times... more reducing of oxidation. So when something is reducing oxidation, reducing inflammation, what is it doing?
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
It's neutralizing something that's causing inflammation. So when you put hydrogen water into the body, the hydrogen gas into the body, it's reducing inflammation. So adding hydrogen water, regular sauna sessions. Glutathione is an excellent supplement for people that are worried about detoxification.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
We know it holds our skeleton up and it moves our bones around, but... It makes us look good if we're physically fit. But the truth is that muscle is a sponge for glucose. I mean, it absorbs glucose. It uses the sugar in our bloodstream. If you want to lower your blood sugar, move your muscles. It also holds our skeletal system erect. The greatest risk to longevity in the elderly is frailty.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
The primary problem that most people have when they detox from anything, mold or viruses or heavy metals, is the body's detoxification processes are not working. So they take something to detox or cleanse themselves. The body dumps all this stuff into the bloodstream and they get sick as the devil.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
Well, that's why you want to be doing regular sauna, regular glutathione, regular exercise, lots of hydration. Get the body's natural detoxification processes working. And these are things that everybody can do. Like folks that don't have the money to go out and buy a cold punch, just start taking Tupperware containers in your kitchen. Fill them with water. Put them in your freezer at night.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
Take it out the next morning. You'll have a block of ice. Put that in your tub and swirl it around. And in 25 minutes, 30 minutes, you'll have a perfect cold lunch. You don't even have to go to 7-Eleven and spend, you know, whatever, four bucks buying a bag of ice, which gets expensive if you're doing that every day too.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
And just keep rotating these Tupperware containers through your freezer and putting them into your tub. Start changing the temperature of your body. Apply a hormetic stress. Stress the body so that it strengthens. Get your circulation, you know, working. And you can do this if you're deconditioned too.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
people that are handicapped or have reduced mobility, exposing yourself to sauna, exposing yourself to cold temperatures, changing the temperature of the body, mimicking this level of circulation, increasing the heart rate without moving a lot. You can be in a wheelchair and go into a sauna and your heart rate will rise.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
Some of the best research ever done on what's called multi-step oxygen therapy or EWOD, exercise with oxygen therapy, I think it was Dr. Otto Warburg. This research was done by taking deconditioned people. I do this with my parents three times a week. putting them in a sauna, allowing that to raise the heart rate and having them breathe a little bit of oxygen. And just from a nasal cannulas.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
And what this does, the perfusion pressure of the increased heart rate gets this out into the periphery, gets their circulation working. Get oxygen to the brain, get oxygen to the tissues. That's the enemy of cancer.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
Healthy circulation and oxygen and a low sugar environment, low glycemic environment, and a relatively high pH environment in the blood, higher end of the pH scale for the blood, that's a cancer-free environment.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
I'm not going to predict your life expectancy. All right. I've only done that once since I left that career, and that was for Dana White. But I will tell you how... you're going to live a longer, healthier, happier life. You're not bad at all. You're not that at all. First off, when we look at blood work, I want to preface this by saying I'm not a physician. I'm not licensed to practice medicine.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
I don't want to give anybody medical advice. It's also important to just note for the podcast that a licensed physician did meet with you before the podcast. Dr. Keri Sarda went through your blood. The recommendations I'm going to talk about are her recommendations, and she is a licensed to practice medicine physician. What I would prefer to do is talk about how do you read these?
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
How do you interpret a lot of these numbers? What should people look for in their blood work? What should they be asking their doctor to look at? Blood work is excellent because blood gives you data. And it's hard to put any kind of actionable plan in place until you have data, right? And most people, when I talk to them, I speak at a lot of conferences, stage talks, you know, podcasts, whatever.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
That's why grip strength is actually directly tied to longevity. No kidding. When you look, no question, I mean, the elderly, what happens is falls are enormous risks to the elderly and to the frail. Why do people start falling in older ages? Is it because they're losing their balance or they're disoriented?
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
If you ask people, what's more important, your business or your health? 99% of them will say my health. If you ask them, what's more important to you, money or your health, your wellness, your well-being, they'll say my well-being, my health. But then when you really dig deep and you go, well, do you own your own business? Yeah. What did your business make last month? Oh, $622,000.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
What's your average revenue per employee? $58,400 per head. Okay. What's your hemoglobin A1c? Blank. Where's your testosterone? Blank. What's your vitamin D3 level? No idea. So you realize very quickly that while they think they prioritize their health, they really don't. People have been guilted in my opinion into thinking that being selfish, like putting themselves first is very selfish.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
It's actually very selfless. I really encourage people, and I do this as a practice, To give yourself a certain time during the day. So for me, the first 90 minutes of every single day belongs only to me. It doesn't belong to my family. It doesn't belong to my spouse, my clients, my career, my partners, no one. It belongs only to me. After that 90 minutes, I give the rest of my day away.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
So I really cater to my wife, I cater to my kids, I cater to my business, my clients. I have a lot of private clients and I really pour myself into them. But my staff knows that all of my meetings and travel get scheduled around sleep and exercise. Well, I didn't get here today until 10 o'clock this morning, but I got up at 6.30 this morning.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
I can't even tell you, man.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
I flew in last night at a decent hour so I could get decent sleep. So I prioritize my meetings and travel around sleep and exercise, and always the first 90 minutes of my day belongs to me. This morning I did some breath work, I got some sunlight, I had a really good breakfast, and I went down to the gym and got a 60-minute workout at the gym.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
I think if people just made that one shift in their life, Because, and veterans for some reason are especially prone to this. It's called caregiver syndrome. It's where they prioritize the needs of everybody else in their life ahead of their needs.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
And I think this might stem from the training where when I'm certain in SEAL training, and I don't pretend to have any view into that, but very myopically, If you're thinking about the needs of your comrades first and they're thinking about your needs first, that's an excellent recipe for survival. But in the real world, we have to prioritize ourselves. And putting yourself first is not selfish.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
It's very selfless. And so the best place to start is with the blood work, right? Because what's not in your blood is somebody else's opinion. And if you ask an opinion about why you're not sleeping, why you have weight gain, water retention, you know, depression, anxiety, poor sleep, any number of things, you're going to get a thousand different opinions. This will only tell one story.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
It will only give you a fact pattern. And there's three things you should look at in your blood work. You should look at your hormone balance, your glycemic profile, how well are you controlling your blood sugar, which is your glucose, your hemoglobin A1C, and your insulin, and you should look at nutrient deficiencies.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
I'm going to point those out in here, specifically vitamin D3, B12, some of the big ones, DHEA. So when you look at blood work, and hopefully this will be up on the screen, It usually starts with something called the CBC, which stands for complete blood count. So this is where we go into the contents of your blood and we count up the contents of your blood. How many white blood cells do you have?
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
or they trip more often no you probably had six incidences in the last month where you would have fallen if you didn't have the grip strength to stop yourself right but you can hold on to your door handle you can grab the railing of a stair um you can brace yourself on the wall and you just moved on about your day when you're when you're frail and you can't stop the momentum of a fall then you end up with a catastrophic injury and then
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
How many red blood cells do you have? So in your case, your white blood cell count is in the normal range, which is great. I'm gonna come back to that in a second. But at the top of this, you see that you're, we're starting to look at how well you control your blood sugar. First thing we look at is fasting glucose. So your fasting glucose is 99. It's a little on the high side.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
But the most important one is this one right here, hemoglobin A1c. This is the three-month average of your blood sugar. If you ate a box of donuts the morning you took this blood, it wouldn't have moved this number. If you fasted for two days before you did this blood work, it wouldn't move this number. It's a three-month average. You really want this number to be around 5.2 or lower.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
What is it? 5.5. at 5.6 you become pre-diabetic 44 of this country is pre-diabetic um 18 of teenagers have pre-diabetes um and so i'm sorry 44 of teenagers have pre-diabetes 18 of teenagers have fatty liver disease so
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
If you want to talk about what is the most controllable factor in our lives and that is the biggest contributor to all forms of disease and pathology, it would be rampantly uncontrolled blood sugar. And it is silent and you don't feel it. And it causes you to overeat, causes you to gain weight, causes you to retain water.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
It causes an increased risk of cardiovascular disease, causes inflammation, all kinds of things. So hemoglobin A1c is the three-month average of our blood sugar. And then in the latter part of your labs, you'll see insulin. Your insulin is right down in the low single digits at 6.3. That's good. You're not insulin resistant. You are insulin sensitive. So what are a couple of ways?
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
that I could go about lowering the three-month average of my blood sugar. There is a route that you can take called berberine, which has actually been shown in similar side-by-side clinical trials to be as effective if not more effective than metformin, which is what they give to type 2 diabetics to control blood sugar. You aren't at the place where you need medication or anything.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
Berberine would be excellent for you to take with meals. The other thing to do is to watch your high glycemic foods. High glycemic foods are foods that you eat that are not the obvious sugary sweet foods that actually spike your blood sugar. Ideally, you want your sugar to look like rolling hills throughout the day. Most people's sugar looks like a heart monitor.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
When your sugar spikes, your insulin spikes. When your sugars fall, you get very hungry. On the way down, we trigger hunger. So the more your blood sugar travels, The hungrier you are more often, the more you overeat. This is why people that eat the most sugar have the highest blood fat. People that eat the most sugar have a tendency to gain weight the easiest.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
The other thing that happens when we eat a lot of high glycemic foods, what are high glycemic foods? Like white flour, white rice, white bread, pasta, potatoes. And then the obvious cakes, cookies, pastries, pies, brownies, the obvious ones that taste really sweet.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
Without loading our spine, sorry, without loading our skeletal system, it begins to weaken. You know, how many of us know, we used to call it the triad of death in the mortality space when I was doing mortality research. You know, someone would break their hip and within 36 months, they were dead. Why would a hip fracture lead to early death?
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
The ones that aren't so obvious are the breads and the pastas and the rices and things that we eat a lot of that we don't combine with proteins that spike our blood sugar. So I tell people for 10 weeks, just try to get the whites out of your diet. Flour, rice, bread, pasta, white potatoes, sweet potatoes are fine. And then the obvious sugars out of your diet.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
The other thing you can do is take berberine, which is a root, which helps really, really, really is very, very good at controlling blood sugar. So lowering your hemoglobin A1c is one of the best ways to put yourself in a state of reducing all kinds of consequences down the road. The other thing that is excellent for blood sugar is muscle mass. The sponge for glucose in the body is your muscles.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
Our muscles are a sponge for sugars. The more muscle mass you have, the better you are absorbing and maintaining and controlling your blood sugar. People that are very frail, very susceptible to type 2 diabetes, to rampantly high blood sugar,
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
So there's actually some evidence that instead of doing one 45-minute walk in the morning, three 15-minute walks spread throughout the day right after meals is better at controlling your blood sugar than that. A lot of things that we can do that we have control over, like eating a meal and going for a 15-minute walk, are really recipes for longevity.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
As you move down your blood work here and you see this little section here looking at your kidneys, you'll see something called bun, creatinine, and EGFR. This is looking at your kidney health. Blood urea nitrogen and creatinine, for lack of better words, they're kind of the kidney waste products that you want to filter out of the blood. You don't like to see these rising in the blood.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
In your case, they're not. So your kidneys are doing a good job filtering the blood. The question is, how much stress are the kidneys under? And you can get that number from something called EGFR. This is your glomerular filtration rate. This tells you the rate at which blood is moving through your kidneys. The higher the filtration rate, the faster the blood's moving through your kidneys.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
So think about this. The full volume of blood in your body goes through your kidneys 15 times every day. What happens if your kidneys get inflamed or irritated? You have inflammation. The filtration rate slows down. As the filtration rate slows down, the poison level rises. So your kidneys are actually very, very healthy.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
One of the secrets to maintaining healthy kidneys is just staying properly hydrated, controlling your blood pressure. So this is why I tell people you've got to hydrate and mineralize your first thing in the morning. You know, 10 ounces of water, quarter teaspoon of Baja Gold Sea Salt. Then you get your electrolytes.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
So what's really interesting about these is very often when your sodium levels get too low, below 136, I have seen very often in our clinic system, patients complain of regular morning headaches. There's an interesting study I'll put the link to below on migraine headaches, which found an inverse relationship between sodium and migraine headaches. What does this mean?
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
Because the majority of hip fractures in the elderly are not elderly people falling and breaking their hip. The majority of hip fractures in the elderly are the hip breaking and then they fall. And there's a difference between the fracture causing the fall and the fall causing the fracture.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
That as sodium levels went down, the frequency of migraine headaches went up. I've seen this in hundreds of my clients where I actually give them mineral sea salt in the morning and their migraine headaches go away. I'm not saying every migraine headache is related to sodium deficiency. But when you think about it, if you have a headache, okay, where is that coming from?
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
It's not coming from your brain. There are no pain receptors in the brain. The brain is not capable of transmitting a pain signal. So when you actually have a headache, it's not coming from behind your eye or from the brain's temporal or occipital or frontal lobes. It's not coming from the brain. Where is it coming from? It's coming from the covering of the brain. It's called the dura.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
The dura hates two things. It hates being stretched and it hates being contracted. What determines whether or not it's stretching or contracting? Sodium gradient. We have been taught to fear sodium. We've been told sodium is very dehydrating. Nothing could be further from the truth, okay? Not an iodized table salt. I'm not talking about that junk.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
I'm talking about a good mineral salt, like a Baja Gold salt. And why is that? Well, just think about it this way. If you were so dehydrated right this moment that you landed in the emergency room, the very first thing they would give you is a saline IV. Why would they give you saline if it's dehydrating? Well, because it's not.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
I'm going to get all that stuff. There's a website called hydrogenstudies.com. You can go there for free. It's all the consolidated research on hydrogen. Hydrogen gas, using hydrogen to increase circulation, reduce inflammation, improve cognitive function. I mean, just go there and read it. There's animal and human studies on there.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
If you had life-threateningly high blood pressure and you called 911, when the paramedics arrived to your house, they would start a bag of IV fluids and they would squeeze saline fluid into your bloodstream to lower your blood pressure. So the fear of salt, in my opinion, is misguided. And this will tell you where your sodium is so you don't have to guess.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
Your sodiums get low, adding a mineral salt is excellent. You can also see your magnesium levels, your potassium levels here. Those are super easy things to supplement with. So yours are all within range. When you get down here and you see this word alkaline phosphatase, alkaline phosphatase, for lack of better words, is a liver waste product. So we don't like to see this rise in the blood either.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
The liver should be keeping this level at the low end of the range. So your alkaline phosphatase levels are fine. But when I look at the liver enzymes, they're elevated. So liver enzymes, alanine, transaminase, AST and ALT are liver enzymes. So what does this mean? How irritated or how inflamed is the liver? So one of the supplements that Dr. Sartor recommended for you is milk thistle, selenium.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
So when your skeletal system is so weak that it can not only support its own weight, grandma's standing at the kitchen sink doing dishes and her femoral head cracks and she falls and they go, oh my gosh, grandma fell and broke her hip. No, she didn't. Her hip broke and then she fell.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
Maybe we can even put the supplements she recommended right in the show notes. So if people have these kinds of conditions. The other thing that's really good for elevated liver enzymes is glutathione. the master antioxidant in the human body. The liver makes glutathione. It's the master antioxidant in the body. It resides in every single cell in the human body.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
And when the liver gets stressed, it reduces its production of glutathione. So the milk thistle and the liver support that she's putting you on from Thorne, it's a company called Thorne, which I have no affiliation with, should help to address this slight amount of inflammation that you've got in the What would be causing that inflammation? So the main offender is alcohol.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
I know that's not the offender in you. But the main offender for liver inflammation is alcohol because it's not the alcohol itself. It's what the alcohol becomes. Alcohol is converted into something called acetyl aldehyde, which makes your blood pH very low, very acidic. And this irritates the liver. But don't forget, the liver is filtering out everything. The liver is like...
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
If you want any organ on Team Ryan, you want the liver, right? It can take over the function of other organs. It makes cholesterol. It breaks up amino acids. It takes sugar out of the blood and stores it as a storage form of sugar called glycogen. It can take stored sugar, turn it back into sugar, and put actual glucose into the blood. If you're low on blood sugar, it can actually feed
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
sugar into the blood by taking stored sugar called glycogen through a process called gluconeogenesis can create sugar this is filtering out pharmaceuticals acetaminophen, tylenols ibuprofens are very difficult on the liver lots of pharmaceutical compounds put pressure on the liver and then of course all of the major offenders like the seed oils and the highly processed foods put a lot of pressure on the liver to filter those things out
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
pesticides, herbicides, insecticides, glyphosates, preservatives. This is why I tell people, try to shop the perimeter of your grocery store. Stay out of the aisles as much as you can because that's where you're going to get the processed nonsense. And as soon as you have any amount of financial flexibility in your budget, just start to buy organic. Right, as much as you can.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
And so we have pursued comfort so aggressively that we become so frail that we can't even essentially protect ourselves. So those would be my big recommendations would be start a process. I mean, Sardinia, for example, in the Blue Zones in Sardinia, their life expectancy was directly related to the greater the slope they walked up. The steeper the slope, the longer the life expectancy.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
Did you say sugar to the liver? Sugar, not so much of an offender for liver enzymes. That's gonna raise your hemoglobin A1C. What sugar will do is actually cause your cholesterol levels to rise. So think about this. When we eat sugar,
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
or things that raise our blood sugar very quickly, which people know that sugar is the offender, but they don't think about like the breads and the pastas and the cereals and the grains and the things that don't taste sweet, but spike your blood sugar. So when your blood sugar rises, insulin rises. The thing about insulin is,
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
The majority of people think that the primary role of insulin is to lower blood sugar. That's actually not true. The primary role of insulin, although it does lower blood sugar, it allows blood to go into the cell. One of the things that insulin does as its primary role is it blocks any other form of energy use in the body. So what does this mean?
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
This means when insulin is high, you cannot burn fat. So if you've eaten a high sugar and high fat meal, and your insulin spikes, what's happening to that fat? Where does the fat go? It goes into the bloodstream. It shows up in the bloodstream as a triglyceride. High blood fat and high cholesterol is a recipe for disaster. Low blood fat and high LDL cholesterol is a recipe for longevity.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
So in other words, if I want to... healthy levels of cholesterol. I want to maintain low levels of triglyceride, blood fat. The way I lower my triglycerides is I lower the amount of sugar. Sugar is the enemy, man. I'm telling you, the Bible should say sugar is the root of all evil, not the love of money. Because people are not dying because they love money. They are dying from blood sugar.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
And it kills you slowly over time. So for me, with the liver, it would probably be
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
Highly processed foods. Yep, highly processed foods. Yep, highly processed foods. A form of vitamin B12 called cyanocobalamin can be very irritating to the liver. You know, we put a lot of shit on our skin. that not only disrupts our hormones, but it also has to be filtered out by the liver.
Shawn Ryan Show
#163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to Longevity, Aging Myths and the Science of Nutrition
Everything from colognes and shampoos and conditioners to all kinds of cheap lotions, sunscreens that we put on our skin, as that stuff enters our bloodstream, the liver has to filter it out. So if you reduce the toxic load on your body, you reduce the toxic load on the liver.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Back to the Basics of Health: God, Community, Food, MAHA — Exclusive Interview with Gary Brecka
I believe that autism rates, don't quote me on this, but they've gone from roughly 1 in 5,000 to about 1 in 35 the last time that I saw them. It's 1 in 28 now. Okay, 1 in 28. It's insane. 2006 was the last time I saw the statistic. And what is autism? It's a neuroinflammatory condition, right? What could be causing neuroinflammatory conditions?
The Charlie Kirk Show
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Well, I mean, first of all, when we vaccinate against statistically insignificant risks, we could start there by, you know, taking a baby out of the womb and vaccinating them for things like hepatitis B. Yeah, the high risk of getting that. Yeah, sexually transmitted and intravenous drug use, unless the mother was positive, which obviously you know at the time.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Back to the Basics of Health: God, Community, Food, MAHA — Exclusive Interview with Gary Brecka
So those are areas that I think that we could start, right? If our research institutions were truly independent, as they should be, because I think the public believes that they are. They look at the National Institute of Health, the National Library of Medicine, the Centers for Disease Control, the Food and Drug Administration. They say, those guys are here to protect us.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Back to the Basics of Health: God, Community, Food, MAHA — Exclusive Interview with Gary Brecka
So essentially what that means is if the team that I was working with got ten years of medical records on you and ten years of demographic data, we could tell the insurance company how long you had to live to the month. And I get a lot of flack for that because people go, if you predict life expectancy to the month, you'd be, you know, won a Nobel Prize.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Back to the Basics of Health: God, Community, Food, MAHA — Exclusive Interview with Gary Brecka
They're standing between us and the wrongdoers that might not care about our cellular biology, right? And And now if you look at the food that we allow into the public school systems, it's worse than prison food. If you look at the amount of sunlight young children get, it's worse than incarcerated prisoners.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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If you look at the amount of physical education and movement that they get, and we wonder why they have attention deficit disorder and autism and all kinds of learning disabilities. And then what we do is we take their little minds that are racing.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Back to the Basics of Health: God, Community, Food, MAHA — Exclusive Interview with Gary Brecka
And we say the solution to a racing mind, to a rapidly moving mind, is to put an amphetamine into their little bodies to race their central nervous system to match the pace of the mind. So let's take the system that's not broken, the central nervous system, and let's break it to match the system that is. Right?
The Charlie Kirk Show
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It's like if you've got a flat tire and you just got out and slashed your other two tires. Right? We created equilibrium, right? That worked. All right, now everything's the same. We're good. And so, which by the way, that's, you know, Vyvanse, Ritalin, Adderall, these are amphetamines, right? And they affect the neuroplasticity of our children's brains.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Back to the Basics of Health: God, Community, Food, MAHA — Exclusive Interview with Gary Brecka
You know, whereas most of the time when children have attention deficit disorder, it's not an attention deficit at all. It's an attention overload disorder. It's too many windows open at the same time. It's not that they lack the ability to pay attention. It's that they lack the ability to pay attention to so many things.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Back to the Basics of Health: God, Community, Food, MAHA — Exclusive Interview with Gary Brecka
So what we need to do is reduce the amount of things they're paying attention to or quiet the mind, which you can do with things like methylfolate, the complex of B vitamins. But what do we do? We feed them fortified or enriched foods. Fortified or enriched foods are just another label for sprayed with the chemical folic acid.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Back to the Basics of Health: God, Community, Food, MAHA — Exclusive Interview with Gary Brecka
So we take the entire grain supply in the United States, all flour, all rice, all bread, all pasta, and grains of any kind, by law, are sprayed with the chemical folic acid. Most of you think folic acid is a natural B vitamin. It's not. It does not occur anywhere naturally in nature. You cannot find folic acid anywhere on the surface of the earth. We make it in a laboratory.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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This is why if you've ever had pasta or bread in the United States and you blow up like a tick and then you go to Italy and eat a fat bowl of bread and bowl of pasta and you feel fine. If you've ever traveled overseas and actually eaten like that. That's because it doesn't contain the folic acid. It doesn't contain the seed oils.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Back to the Basics of Health: God, Community, Food, MAHA — Exclusive Interview with Gary Brecka
44% of the world's population has a gene mutation that does not allow them to process folic acid.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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Well, it's MTHFR, but it doesn't stand for the motherfucker gene, Charlie. I mean, it stands for methylene tetrahydrofolate reductase. That's literally the acronym MTFR. It is MTHFR, so its nickname is the MF gene. But it stands for methylene tetrahydrofolate reductase. I wasn't making it up. It's a real thing. Yeah, I know. And you don't need to know that. I just want you guys to know I'm smart.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Back to the Basics of Health: God, Community, Food, MAHA — Exclusive Interview with Gary Brecka
But it's actually some of the most accurate science in the world. What became glaringly apparent to me after 20 years in that industry was two things. Number one was that there were human beings on the other side of these spreadsheets. So I began to recognize that it wasn't just data.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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So this gene mutation doesn't allow us to process folic acid. That doesn't sound like a big deal until you realize folic acid is the most prevalent nutrient in the human diet. Why? Because we force it into our grain supply. But we don't call it sprayed with folic acid. We call it fortified or enriched. So now moms and dads are walking down the cereal aisle, and there's two boxes of cereal.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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One says it's fortified or enriched. That's the one they grab off the shelf. Right. And you put this into the little bodies of children. And that's why it's a full contact sport to get them in the car to go to school in the morning. And this goes with all kinds of other mental conditions. We don't have a mental health crisis in this country. We have a lack of mental fitness.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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We are nutrient deficient. And when we get nutrient deficient, we get the expression of disease. How many people in this audience right now have either suffered from or know somebody who's suffered from anxiety? That's like 60% of the audience. No one's ever told you what anxiety is.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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If you ask 10 therapists and five doctors and him and most people in this room, what is anxiety, they will tell you that anxiety, they will describe the characteristics of it. It's inflammation. It is a neural inflammation, but anxiety is a rise in four neurotransmitters called catecholamines. They're fight or flight neurotransmitters.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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If I injected any one of you with these four neurotransmitters, you would instantly begin to have a panic-like feeling. Your pupils would dilate. Your heart rate increase. Your extremities would flood with blood. Only the difference is you don't need the presence of a fear for these to rise. You need a deficiency.
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in methylfolate, the complex of B vitamins, and a very specific form of B12 called methylcobalamin. If you're deficient in that, the catecholamines begin to rise in the brain. When catecholamines rise in the brain, you feel the presence of fear without a fear. That's what anxiety is.
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So why are we not going after the nutritional deficiency in a lot of these patients, and we put them into behavioral therapies? The same thing we do with antidepressants. I have so many clients that have come to see me, and I'm like, how long have you been on antidepressants? They say 15 years, 18 years. My first question is always, when did you think it was going to kick in? Right? Yep.
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So, you know, again, I truly believe so much more in what God gave us than what man makes us. And I believe that if we got back to the basics— Community, whole foods, sunlight, grounding, breath work, focusing on sleep. By the way, if you're not sleeping, nothing else is going well in your life. You cannot supplement your way around poor sleep, right?
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And I realized that had I been able to, which I was prohibited by law, pick up the phone and just contact some of these patients or some of the treating physicians that were seeing these patients, I could have added on average seven years to their lifespan. Not just their lifespan, but their healthspan.
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You can't exercise your way around a poor diet. And so the majority of this, we could take back control of our country. Let's go really quick. No, it's okay.
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Oh, chemtrail.
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So that's outside my core competency. I'm a human biologist, researcher, kind of biohacker. But what I will say about sunlight, and by the way, those are mainly done with aluminum because of its reflective nature, and that's why you see high amounts of aluminum in the atmosphere and high amounts of aluminum in our air quality.
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What I will just say quickly about sunlight is if you're worried about sunlight, just get sunlight in the first hour of the day. There's no UVA. There's no UVB rays. There's just beautiful blue light. You can still raise your vitamin D3 level. You can look in the direction of the sun, reset your cortisol, reset your melatonin, and actually put yourself back on a good circadian rhythm.
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Last question here. Last question.
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So here's my view on vaccines. First of all, vaccines should fit the definition of a vaccine. It should prevent the infection and the spread. If you get the polio vaccine, you actually don't get polio, you don't spread polio. The second thing is it should be a true vaccine. True vaccines are actually what's called attenuated viruses. They are not messenger RNA.
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They're not synthetic copies of our DNA. If you actually were to go inside of a cell and go inside of the nucleus and you were to find the DNA, you'd find that that's the boss, the CEO, the head honcho. It does two things. One, it makes a perfect copy of itself. That's called replication. The other thing it does is it runs the show. It writes messages into the cell to tell the cell what to do.
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So if we were the DNA and you were the cell minions, we would be sending messages into this crowd to go tell you guys to do stuff. That message is called mRNA, messenger ribonucleic acid. What they did was they hijacked the CEO's notepad. And they wrote a synthetic message into the cell. The only problem with synthetic messaging versus organic messaging is that organic messaging degrades.
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Synthetic messaging stays. So now I tell you to go make the spike protein. You get back to your desk. It says make the spike protein. You come back to your desk. It says make the spike protein. You come back to your desk. It says make the spike protein. Whereas an organic message wouldn't do that. So those are not vaccines, in my opinion. And I'm not a physician.
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And so I abruptly quit that career and decided 10 years ago with my wife that I would start a functional medicine clinic and I would teach people how to live healthier, happier, longer, more fulfilling lives.
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I'm not licensed to practice medicine. I should disclose that. Those are gene experiments, right? Those are gene therapies. So we don't know where they're going to go.
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If you go to my Instagram, which is just my first and last name, at Gary Brekka, I put links to what I think is the best vaccine advice from really, really well-credentialed MDs and PhDs for young parents that are looking to navigate that maze.
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Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campus.
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You know what's really amazing is that I travel the world. I have a health and wellness podcast, and so by the grace of God, I get some of the brightest minds in the world come to see me, PhDs, MDs, researchers, biohackers, some of the most progressive minds in the field of longevity. What's very fascinating to me is that we are coming full circle, and we're just getting back to the basics, right?
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We're actually realizing the longevity, anti-aging, bio-optimization, wellness, extending our health span, extending our lifespan has to do with doing more of what God gave us and less of what man makes us. And thank you. And that's just a fact, right? Touching the surface of the earth, breathwork, sunlight, getting reconnected to nature, sense of community, sense of purpose.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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You know, it's really astounding if you look at Blue Zone research, you don't see continuity between diets, right? So there's no dog magnetism. Dogmatic dieting that works. It's not carnivore, keto, paleo, pescatarian, vegan, vegetarian, raw food. It's none of those things. It's whole foods. Eating whole foods will extend your lifespan. Touching the surface of the earth will extend your lifespan.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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Having a sense of community and a sense of purpose will extend your lifespan. Breath work. Breath work will extend your lifespan. Now, the problem is that in comes the agricultural revolution and the corruption in our food supply and the corruption in our nutritional research and the stranglehold that food and pharma has on our public policy.
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And you start to reduce the chances that people can get back to the basics, right? Because when we – the amount of glyphosates and herbicides and insecticides and pesticides and preservatives that is embedded in our food supply – And when 70% of our nutritional research is funded by private companies, you get food pyramids that say Lucky Charms is more nutritious than grass-fed steak.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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And so the public doesn't stand a chance. And when you have 77% of our military-aged men and women that cannot qualify to enter the military because they can't pass a simple physical exam – you realize that we're about to have a national security crisis on our hands.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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And when you realize that as the biggest spender of health care worldwide, $4.5 trillion a year on health care, the United States only leads the world in seven things, maternal mortality, infant mortality, the lowest life expectancies of the next 66 civilized nations in the world at birth, 66 in the world now below some sub-Saharan African nations,
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We lead the world in morbid obesity, type 2 diabetes, and multiple chronic disease in a single biome. And the reason for that is we believe that the solution to nutritional deficiencies, vitamins, minerals, and amino acids are chemicals, synthetics, and pharmaceuticals. And we have sold the public. A bill of lies that disease and pathology is genetically inherited, which it's not right.
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The next time you're told that you have high blood pressure or you have hypothyroid or you have type two diabetes or you have a tendency for drug and alcohol addiction or any number of other things, you know, your thyroid is off because someone in your family had it.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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I want you to look that physician in the eye, and I want you to ask them, if I inherited this from my ancestor, what gene did I inherit from that ancestor that caused this condition to exist? And you watch their face go blank because that gene doesn't exist, which means that those conditions do not exist. We just need to get back to the basics. Our soil is so depleted.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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You know, when you pick up a bag of spinach in a grocery store, the macros have been updated, the protein, the carbohydrate, the saturated fat, all of that. But very often, the mineral content on that label is borrowed from a 1945 soil lineage study. which means that those micros very often haven't been updated for half a century.
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Well, half a century ago, the soil was much different than it is now. And so my whole point is one of hope. It's not going to be found in some expensive, rare nicotinamide mononucleotide, NAD therapy, some rare organism that somebody has discovered in the Amazon jungle. It's going to be found in the basics that is all around us that God gave us.
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What are these?
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So I just reached over. That's actually rude what I just reached over. That's okay. You can do it.
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It's very maha. My wife will tell you I actually have a problem with that. I actually will take things off her plate. You want my phone? And I almost just... I'll work my way there. I think maybe I'm like a classic klepto. I don't know. No, no. I'm just going to put my hand over here.
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No, it's okay. Because you've got ticket service here.
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Number one would be make being selfish non-negotiable, and by that I mean that very often people believe that putting themselves first is very selfish, and it's actually the most selfless thing that you can do. This is especially true with young mothers and fathers.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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We have a tendency to put our families and our careers and our spouses and our employees and our partners and the rest of the world first, and so we don't take time for self-care. And if we take time for self-care, we increase the capacity to care for others. So by that, I mean that you should develop a non-negotiable morning routine.
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And you should always have 30 to 90 minutes of the day that belongs solely to you. My wife knows that the first 90 minutes of every day belongs only to me. And what do I mean by that? That is my time for self-care. I wake up in the morning. I hydrate. I drink 10 ounces of water. I add something called Baja Gold Sea Salt to it. If you want my favorite life hack, it's called Baja Gold Sea Salt.
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For $15, it'll last you five years, a bag of this salt.
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All 91 trace minerals are in there. You put that in water. You hydrate and mineralize the body. The second thing you do is you permanently get tap water out of your life. Fluoride is not fluoride. It's fluorosilicic acid. It's the byproduct of phosphate fertilizer production, and we dump it into our municipal water supply.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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If you go to the NIH, you'll see that fluoride is actually classified as a neurotoxin. So stop drinking tap water. It's full of chlorine, fluoride, and all kinds of other things, microplastics, pharmaceuticals, what have you. The next thing I would do is I would start where you are, and don't think too far into the future.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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I have a very good friend named Ed Mylett, and he said as a kid his father was an alcoholic, and he said every day from the time he was 10 until he was about 18 years old, he would ask his father the same question. He would say, Dad, are you ever going to drink again? And he said, I don't know, son, but I know I'm not going to drink for one more day.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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And I think it's a very profound way of saying that sometimes when we get so far from where we thought we would be health-wise, we think it's too insurmountable to make a change. All you have to think about is the day that's right in front of you. Walking, I will tell you, is the most underrated exercise in the world. It really is. If you want to put walking on steroids, do it outside.
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And if you really want to put it on steroids after that, add a weighted vest. Just walking can change the trajectory of your life. So the three things that I would do is I would try to get highly processed foods out of your diet. I wouldn't be dogmatic about dieting. I would eat whole foods. The second thing that I would do is I would make morning exercise and self-care non-negotiable.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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The third thing I would do is I would start getting used to being uncomfortable. Aging is the aggressive pursuit of comfort. The more aggressively we pursue comfort, the faster we age. We've got to stop telling grandmother not to go outside, it's too hot, not to go outside, it's too cold, just to lay down, just to rest, to eat at the very first pang of hunger.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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This is destroying her natural defense mechanisms, and it's the same with everybody in this room. If you don't load a bone, it will not strengthen. If you don't tear a muscle, it will not grow. And if you don't challenge the immune system, it weakens. You see, coming out of the pandemic, the worst thing we ever did was social distancing, residential quarantining, and masking.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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What you're seeing is the global weakening of the immune system. That's right. Right? So now what happens? Monkeypox. What the hell is that? I mean, I never heard of monkeypox. It's been around all the time, but nobody caught it because it was such a weak virus. We never heard about it. We're on our ninth iteration of Omicron. Right. Because we weakened the immune system.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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You know what human beings are meant to do? Exactly what you guys are doing right there. Be in close proximity to other human beings. Perfectly fine. So walk in the park for your immune system. Right. And then I would begin to add small hormetic stresses by hormetic stresses. I mean, weight bearing exercise directly linked to longevity. And I would add cold showers. It used to being uncomfortable.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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Yes. How many of you do cold showers? Cold water work. I love you guys. All right. And all those things you can do, by the way, for free.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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I have no e-book to sell you.
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Great to meet you in person.
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Okay, I'm going to tell you, but then I am going to disappear before I make it back to my hotel room. So I want you all to open an investigation. Didn't hang myself on a bed sheet. I'm very happy. Great marriage with my wife. God, he was so happy. So here's what I think we could do from a policy perspective.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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Number one, by executive order, we could actually prohibit pharmaceutical companies from advertising directly to the consumers.
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Because they're the only two that allow it. And it is the worst return on investment of any marketing spend on planet Earth. So why do they do it? So they can control the media. I mean, if you're 74% of the operating budget of a media outlet, they're not going to turn on you. So it doesn't matter what the return on investment is. It's not that you want people to learn the Ozempic jingle.
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It's that you want to be the most important.
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Yeah, yeah, I did Dan Bongino's podcast.
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It's not even the B-roll. Do you ever actually listen to some of them? No, I know. It's really sick. What was the one I had to look up on YouTube the other day? Because they were going through. It's always like grandfather pushing his daughter on the swing. I know. Liver failure. Blindness. Occasionally death. My favorite one. I'm going to look this up and give it to you in the show notes.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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And they said, contact your physician immediately if you experience a sudden loss of consciousness. Can you just – I was like, did they – there's no way. I was sitting on the couch. I grabbed my wife. I went to YouTube, and it was like, they didn't say call your doctor if you lose consciousness. They did. But how do you call your doctor if you're unconscious too?
The Charlie Kirk Show
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Well, just so – hey, if you didn't call the doctor, that's on you. I told you to call the doctor. You're passed out. How do you call your doctor? That's what I said. I was like, there's no way. That's exactly what it said. I ran to the – Into my office and YouTube did, and that is exactly what it said. So we could stop the direct advertising to consumers to stop the control of the media.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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You know, I think the other thing that we could do is we could prohibit our Food and Drug Administration, our Centers for Disease Control powers to be from going into the private industries that they regulate.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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No question.
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If you are a senior regulator and you regulate an industry and you're responsible for enforcing regulations in the best interest of public policy and the country, and then you go directly into that private enterprise, but you know that you're moving into that private enterprise long before you depart that portion of your career, how does anyone not look at that as a conflict?
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So my name is Gary Brekka, I'm a human biologist, a biohacker, a researcher. I spent about 22 years in the mortality space as a mortality researcher for large life insurance companies.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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And I think the final thing that we could do is make our public policies and our public nutritional research institutions truly independent. Yes. They should be funded by the taxpayer for the taxpayer. They shouldn't be funded by private industry. What we've done in this country is we have privatized profits and we have socialized the expense. Yeah.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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So the expense goes on to Medicaid, Medicare, and on to the taxpayer, and the profits go into private industry. That same private industry funds 72 to 74% of our nutritional research. Again, this is how we get Lucky Charms being more nutritious than grass-fed steak. This is how you pull physical education out of the public school system.
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This is how you say that the 67% of highly processed food that we feed our children is not toxic and is inconclusive as to whether or not it has an effect on their cellular biology. And yet we have the highest rates of childhood cancer in recorded history.
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And autism. Yeah, I mean, I graduated high school, dating myself right here, but I graduated high school in 1988. Not only did I not know an autistic person, I didn't know someone who knew an autistic person. And, you know, I also have a 16-year-old daughter, and she knows at least 10 children or siblings of her friends. So she could name 10 people off the top of her head.
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Yeah, and avascular necrosis of the hip is what's leading to the hip fractures, the femoral head fractures.
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Yeah, that artery that goes in the femoral head is compromised and now you get no blood flow and then you get that osteoporotic condition in one of the highest load areas of the body. And, you know, most people think that grandma fell and broke her hip, but her hip broke and then she fell. It's an important distinction, right?
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The fracture causing the fall rather than the fall causing the fracture. And that was one of the reasons we called that the triad of death. And I know you're really familiar with that, hip fractures and their propensity to accelerate mortality. But it wasn't the hip fracture that accelerated it.
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the absence of disease.
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Yeah, there's a lot of FLC going around.
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I wholly believe that and subscribe to that because in these modifiable risk factors, first of all, I was prohibited by law from having any contact with the patient or the treating physician. So even if I saw a life-threatening drug interaction I couldn't pick up the phone and warn the physician. And sometimes the MIB wouldn't catch these, right?
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These thrombolytic combinations of different pharmaceuticals. And you'd want to contact the physician because it wasn't done on purpose. It was by error. And the system is very good at catching things like narcotic surfers and things like that. But it's not very good at catching drugs. And just to finish the D3 example, so here's a nutrient deficiency, a clinical deficiency in this.
The Dr. Hyman Show
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Now they're on a corticosteroid. It was so accurate that I would advance your age, artificially advance your age, six years and one day, and I would schedule the joint replacement for you. And then as soon as I scheduled the joint replacement, I would begin to reduce your, at that age, I would begin to reduce your ambulatory profile, how well you ambulate.
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And as you reduced ambulation, what we realized was as you reduced mobility, you would bring in all of the diseases that begin to exacerbate.
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it's a direct correlation. I always say, if you don't move, you won't. That's a good one. I say aging is the aggressive pursuit of comfort, but, you know, the more aggressively we pursue comfort, the faster we age.
The Dr. Hyman Show
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And so, you know, even as- I don't know, these chairs are pretty comfortable, Gary.
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Yeah.
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Okay. And you're getting in the hydrogen bath because I'm excited to hear how that works out for you.
The Dr. Hyman Show
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I know what's going on. That's going all over the internet, guys. Go to www.ultimatehuman.com to see more time with your shirt off. So now they have this clinical deficiency in D3. They've been put on a corticosteroid. I've advanced their age artificially six years in one day. I've reduced their ambulatory profile.
The Dr. Hyman Show
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And now our algorithm would start to bring in all the diseases that exacerbate with reduced mobility. And then what you would see is we could predict not only the onset of, but the severity of, and how quickly you would succumb to a condition. So when you start to rewind that back, and this person died early,
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of a disease that they never should have had because of mobility that was reduced because of an operation that was not necessary because of medication that wasn't required because of a condition that didn't exist.
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five or 9,000 IUs, 10,000 IUs of vitamin D3 daily with a little K2 and apply to load to their bones. That trajectory would have been completely different. Something as simple as that.
The Dr. Hyman Show
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I was actually just gonna say that because I was looking at big data reporting during that timeframe too. But in functional ranges of 60 to 80 nanograms, there was not a single death. That's extraordinary. Because vaccines don't even do that, right? No. They don't prevent the infection or the spread. I mean, that's a whole nother issue.
The Dr. Hyman Show
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And if you want to really see the impact of vaccines, just follow the life insurance companies. So people tell me all the time, oh, well, they don't factor in whether or not you've been vaccinated. I go, you don't think that they factor in whether or not you've been vaccinated? Why do you not think that? And they say, well, they don't ask the question on the application.
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Like they don't have to ask. They can see from your blood. They get it from your medical record. It's just like if you answered on your application, I'm a non-smoker, have you ever smoked? No. Have you ever, you know, vaped or- Well, they check your urine, your blood for- If you show up with nicotine in your blood, I'm going to table rate you as a smoker.
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The Health Conspiracy No One Talks About: Life Insurance, Big Data & Aging | Gary Brecka
You know, it's just like if you tell, you know, there's that section on alcohol. How many drinks a week? One to two, two to five, five to seven. We never believed what they said. If you had liver cirrhosis, we table rate you as an alcoholic.
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Yeah, that's very true. So we just went off the data.
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You know, here's my, you know, my big first line rule is that the best biohacking devices, best biohacking modalities, you know, equipment, what have you, mimic what we get from Mother Nature. And so, for example, you know, we get three things from Mother Nature mainly. We get oxygen from the air. We get light from the sun. We get magnetism from the earth.
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And the further we get away from those basics, you know, the sicker we become. And the truth is that we are so disconnected from nature now. We're disconnected from each other, too. I mean, deep, meaningful relationships, sense of purpose, sense of community.
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The Health Conspiracy No One Talks About: Life Insurance, Big Data & Aging | Gary Brecka
You know, there were a lot of mortality factors that we would study that actually when an elderly person lost their sense of community, either lost a spouse, lost their family, or became isolated, which is the fastest way to accelerate all-cause mortality is to put a human being— Yeah, well, loneliness is like smoking two packs of cigarettes a day in terms of its mortality risk.
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I don't know that that's true, but I would totally agree with that off the cuff because we saw it in the data. We call it broken heart syndrome, essentially spouses that were... And it wasn't so much the loss of the spouse, it was being thrust into immediate isolation.
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Because mom and dad live five states away and the kids are busy and they're raising kids and they see them on Christmas and Easter and New Year's. like most families, and then one spouse falls ill and passes, and now the other spouse is totally isolated. And that isolation, we know that in all forms of animal species and human beings, isolation, it reduces your lifespan.
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So biohacking is having a friend? So back to biohacking, I would say the best devices are the ones that mimic mother nature, right? So things like mineral salts, amino acids, nutrients that you would find in nutrient dense soils.
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The Health Conspiracy No One Talks About: Life Insurance, Big Data & Aging | Gary Brecka
You know, you wouldn't believe the physiologic impact you can have on people just by putting them on a complex of B vitamins, vitamin B12, some methylfolate, which are basic core nutrients required for the process of methylation. And when they're deficient, they become like the hub of the wheel.
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The Health Conspiracy No One Talks About: Life Insurance, Big Data & Aging | Gary Brecka
They have all of these spokes and people think that they have an autoimmune disease and they have a mental illness and they have a weight gain issue and they have sleep disruption and they have anxiety or they have ADD or ADHD. And the truth is they very often have nutrient deficiencies. And so if I was to say, you know, what are the best biohacking devices?
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Those are the devices that mimic mother nature. And so if you didn't have the budget to spend on those, you should be able to duplicate those by committing time, you know, in nature, exposing your skin to sunlight, getting first light in the morning, learning to do basic breath work, touching the surface of the earth, grounding, earthing, which is a very real thing.
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The Health Conspiracy No One Talks About: Life Insurance, Big Data & Aging | Gary Brecka
They're all super expensive things to do, right? Yeah, yeah. I think, in fact, this morning, just as, you know, as sort of a joke, I said, you know, I'm taking my morning antidepressant and And I was out on the balcony getting sunlight and just doing some breath work. And I listed the side effects of enhanced mood and increased focus and concentration.
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And then I said, don't forget your mood enhancer, the best neurotropic. And I just did a round of breath work and got in a cold punch.
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The more pharmaceuticals you were on, the easier it was for us to predict your life expectancy.
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Now we have these devices, cold plunges, which is essentially mimic being hormetic stresses that we might have, you know, found just in our normal.
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The Health Conspiracy No One Talks About: Life Insurance, Big Data & Aging | Gary Brecka
And our bodies react very well to certain stresses. You know, we had to stop thinking about stress as a, as a negative, you know, very often it can, it can be what makes you resilient in the body. very often strengthens in response to stress. I know that you know this. So when we talk about biohacking devices, my favorite would be PEMF mats, pulse electromagnetic field.
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The Health Conspiracy No One Talks About: Life Insurance, Big Data & Aging | Gary Brecka
These mimic the low gas current of the earth. So if you don't have time to earth or ground, come in contact with mother earth. You can use a PMF mat. Probably my favorite device is a red light therapy bed, full body red light therapy. And red light therapy, I mean, the science is in on red light therapy.
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It's very hard to overdose on it if you dose it 10 to 20 minutes a day, even if you're using very powerful nanometer, I mean, milliwatts of irradiance and you're using the right nanometer wavelengths of therapeutic light because you emit the portions of the light spectrum that are damaging.
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and you concentrate the portions of the light spectrum that you would get from the sun that are very healthy. And we're very photovoltaic beings. I mean, light is a very important component to health. It really regulates our mitochondria inflammation. I mean, certain wavelengths of light, for example, in the mitochondria will actually
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The Health Conspiracy No One Talks About: Life Insurance, Big Data & Aging | Gary Brecka
In the Krebs cycle, you'll see that cytochrome C oxidase will bind with a gas called mitochondrial nitric oxide. And when it's bound to mitochondrial nitric oxide, it's sort of like a one-armed man. It can either shake hands with nitric oxide or it can shake hands with oxygen. but it can't do both.
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So in order to bind oxygen and upstage the mitochondria, to have this aerobic cycle, which is roughly 16 times more efficient than the anaerobic cycle, it has to let go of mitochondrial nitric oxide. And one way to do this is to pass red light through the skin and through the wall of the mitochondria. It will literally kick nitric oxide out of the mitochondria.
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You can measure this in the serum of the blood. You can actually do nitric oxide testing pre and post red light therapy and measure the impact of this release of mitochondrial nitric oxide, which will cause a temporary vasodilation. And then it will force oxygen to dock. Well, now if you're forcing oxygen into the mitochondria, I mean, that's arguably... And that's the fuel.
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Maybe.
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That's the tip of the root, right? That's as deep as you get in the soil. Everything improves from there.
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And I think a lot of times we gloss over that a little bit. You know, like, well, the cell has a lot of energy, but what happens when a cell has energy? Well, it can eliminate waste. It can repair. It can detoxify. It can regenerate. And so I... would make a bold enough statement, you know, and I'll make it in front of you. So you take issue this if you feel it's inaccurate, but
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The Health Conspiracy No One Talks About: Life Insurance, Big Data & Aging | Gary Brecka
nearly every form of pathology and disease known to mankind is a shift in metabolism. It's a shift in the metabolism, basically in the mitochondria. The sicker the mitochondria become, the sicker the host will become. And the more fertile you are for all forms of pathology and disease. These are not things that are happening to us. They are things that are happening within us.
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The Health Conspiracy No One Talks About: Life Insurance, Big Data & Aging | Gary Brecka
You could tell them most of the month when someone's going to die. To the month. Yeah, and it's a very accurate model. The reason why we were table rating a lot of these and the reason why we were shortening the life expectancy was because of the intervention of chemicals, synthetics, and pharmaceuticals.
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The Health Conspiracy No One Talks About: Life Insurance, Big Data & Aging | Gary Brecka
And so if I was to say, what's your favorite, you know, biohacking device would be a red light therapy bed. And then you can add things like exercise with oxygen therapy, you know, EWOT. I mean, we know that athletes that would train at altitude would have a proliferative... Perform better. Yeah, perform better. Why? Because you get, you know, enhanced...
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And you're adding red blood cells to the bloodstream, so you have more taxis to shuttle oxygen. And so these are the kinds of devices, you know, I have an EMF tent around my bed and people are like, wow, you're getting crazy about EMS. Well, you know, ancestrally, we didn't really come in contact with a lot of EMFs. And I think that the jury is still out on the implications of 5G and Wi-Fi.
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The Health Conspiracy No One Talks About: Life Insurance, Big Data & Aging | Gary Brecka
Yeah, and if you look at things as they occur naturally in nature, like if you were to take a cup and scoop it out of a running stream and you were to analyze what's in that water, you would find high mineral content, first of all, and not just potassium and magnesium and sodium, the big ones that are in most electrolyte supplements.
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You would find all of the other trace minerals, boron, zinc, selenium, manganese, molybdenum. You find all of these that they're not the sort of headline minerals that most people think about, but... If you back that up and you say, well, what if you become mineral deficient? Well, you need 12 essential minerals to build bone. You don't just need calcium.
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The Health Conspiracy No One Talks About: Life Insurance, Big Data & Aging | Gary Brecka
Calcium combines with phosphorus to form hydroxyapatite, which really makes our bones dense. But in order for that to occur, you need these 12 minerals. And so if you're not getting the 12 minerals, you need to biohack that. You need to add a mineral salt to your morning routine. Maybe it's a Celtic salt, maybe it's a Baja Gold sea salt, which is my favorite.
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But just adding the right raw materials back to the human body, it is astounding what you see happen in human beings when you give their body the raw material it needs to do its job. My other favorite device would probably be hydrogen water and certainly filtering your water. I mean, I think people should get tap water permanently out of their life.
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I always say we end up running a podcast before the podcast.
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we know that it's, you know, it's got neurotoxins in it, like fluorosilicic acid. So many contaminants.
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It really is. I mean, it is mind-numbing. I actually just did a post of backwashing the filter, the four-stage RO filter in my house into my bathtub. And Miami is considered, you know, really healthy water. The municipal water supply is like, it's generally accepted as safe, the grass, you know. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But it's very high in PFAs and polyalkyl phenols.
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The Health Conspiracy No One Talks About: Life Insurance, Big Data & Aging | Gary Brecka
Yeah, forever chemicals. And so it's not voodoo science. To start biohacking yourself, you don't even need a big budget. I tell people they're starting out with cold plunging just to— take ice, put it in a Tupperware, I mean, take water, put it in a Tupperware and stack it in your freezer and throw the big cubes of ice in.
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And when you wake up in the morning, dust it in there and 30 minutes later, getting a cold plunge. Yeah, expose your body to these hormetic stresses, you know, mineralize the body, hydrate the body. I mean, you know, before we got on here, I was showing you the oxidative reduction potential of hydrogen water. I think if you have a choice,
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between drinking regular water or hydrogen water, you should be drinking hydrogen water. If you have a choice between drinking tap water or filter water, you should be filtering your water supply. So I think biohacking is a way of getting us back to the basics. If you're not getting sunlight, you need to be supplementing with vitamin D3. probably the most pandemic deficiency in the world.
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The Health Conspiracy No One Talks About: Life Insurance, Big Data & Aging | Gary Brecka
No question. And we saw these, and then we would have these, you know, in the mortality space, we'd have these things called comorbidities, right?
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The Health Conspiracy No One Talks About: Life Insurance, Big Data & Aging | Gary Brecka
We would see things like insulin resistance being the worst. We looked at glycemic control, hormone balance. Even though hormones weren't being therapeutically tested or measured, we would look at hormone balance. And then we would look at certain nutrient deficiencies, vitamin D3, B12, you know, major nutrients in the body. As part of the insurance screening?
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The Health Conspiracy No One Talks About: Life Insurance, Big Data & Aging | Gary Brecka
As part of the insurance screening for the underlying, because one of the things we wanted to do was assess the chance that this person would correct their behavior. And because the last thing you wanted to do was issue a policy at one level, and then they correct it and
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The Health Conspiracy No One Talks About: Life Insurance, Big Data & Aging | Gary Brecka
Yes, because if I issue a policy now and then I can improve your health and you live longer, I collect more premiums. That's right. You will notice that the annuity companies don't do that because the annuity companies, their risk is that you live too long. Not that you die early. A life insurance company doesn't want you to die too soon because they want to collect premiums.
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The more you're on, the more likely you were to die sooner and the more predictable.
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Yeah, you don't want to be aligned with the annuity company.
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Yes, and it's done after the policy is issued because if I can issue you a standard policy and that can turn you into a super preferred, then that's a win because I issued the policy with a 26 year life expectancy. And if I can get your life expectancy to 37 years more, then that's a major win.
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The Health Conspiracy No One Talks About: Life Insurance, Big Data & Aging | Gary Brecka
On the other hand, if you're an annuity company and I take a payment from you and I'm going to guarantee you an income stream for life, the shorter your life, the larger my return.
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And so, in fact, there was a lot of arbitrage, financial services instruments during my day that have been outlawed since where people would buy life insurance and annuities and pair the two because one was the risk of early death, one was the risk of late death.
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The Health Conspiracy No One Talks About: Life Insurance, Big Data & Aging | Gary Brecka
But so back to what we were saying, there would be underlying issues, like much to what you're saying, we would see people that were clinically deficient in testosterone, for example, men and women, And so this erythropoietic pressure on the bone marrow to create new red blood cells would go down and they would be borderline anemic for decades, right? They didn't have classic anemia, right?
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The Health Conspiracy No One Talks About: Life Insurance, Big Data & Aging | Gary Brecka
But their RBC count would be very, very low. Their hemoglobin would be very, very low. Their mean corpuscular volumes and mean corpuscular hemoglobin concentrations would be very, very low. The red cell distribution width would be very high. So what would happen is Their bodies were carrying oxygen very poorly. They were essentially suffocating to death.
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And in almost all of these cases, we would see this progression of events. So the hormone levels would decline. As the hormone levels would decline, the blood counts would decline. As the blood counts would decline, they would become increasingly more hypoxic. As they became more hypoxic, they were more fibrous. their blood would become more acidic.
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The Health Conspiracy No One Talks About: Life Insurance, Big Data & Aging | Gary Brecka
As it became more acidic, they were more fertile to other forms of pathology and disease. And along this way, almost all of these patients would become sleep deprived. They would have major sleep disruption because when you become really hypoxic, you know, the brain wakes you up by- Yeah, yeah.
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The Health Conspiracy No One Talks About: Life Insurance, Big Data & Aging | Gary Brecka
Because you're hypoxic. So it doesn't let you get into deep or REM sleep. And you start, once you hit the sleep cycle, that's the end of the road. You know, I mean, I think sleep is our human superpower.
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The Health Conspiracy No One Talks About: Life Insurance, Big Data & Aging | Gary Brecka
So for the better part of my career, I was a mortality expert, which essentially means that, you know, we studied mortality, the variable basic tables, not just putting people on an actuarial curve, right? I mean, we're all on one, right? If you're a 54-year-old
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16,000?
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The Health Conspiracy No One Talks About: Life Insurance, Big Data & Aging | Gary Brecka
Biohacking, for example, EWOT, exercise with oxygen therapy, is making that hyperoxic, hypoxic state and
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And most of us don't want to do that. That's why I say aging is the aggressive pursuit of comfort. We would see the more aggressively people pursue comfort, the faster they age, right? We got to just stop telling grandma not to go outside. It's too hot.
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The Health Conspiracy No One Talks About: Life Insurance, Big Data & Aging | Gary Brecka
Male, you have a life expectancy of X. If you're a 34-year-old female, you have a life expectancy of Y. You're lumped into a massive pool of mortality.
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There was a Nobel laureate prize winner for multi-step oxygen therapy.
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um it was otto warburg's wasn't otto warburg um he also won a nobel prize but otto warburg's uh uh cohort that actually did the majority of this work on on multi-step oxygen therapy and this is fascinating um you know even taking deconditioned elderly um patients um they really can't exercise and and even exposing them to heat to to elevate their blood uh i mean to elevate their heart rate a little bit and then
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The Health Conspiracy No One Talks About: Life Insurance, Big Data & Aging | Gary Brecka
But when a life insurance company is getting ready to put $25 million or $50 million worth of risk on your life, or an annuity company is getting ready to issue you a SPIA, what's called a single premium immediate annuity, where you give them a lump sum of cash and they guarantee you an income stream for life,
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and then running a nasal cannulas of oxygen and looking at how fast the mitochondria begin to come back. They sputter and they start in an old motorcycle and it fires and backfires. And then all of a sudden you see these things come back.
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The Health Conspiracy No One Talks About: Life Insurance, Big Data & Aging | Gary Brecka
So basic overview of light, first of all, is light can be damaging and light can be therapeutic. And we have visible light and we have invisible light. So light sort of follows this spectrum. You have X-ray, which is a light, right, which can be very damaging. Then you have ultraviolet, and these are non-visible spectrums.
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You have ultraviolet, UVA, UVB, which are the rays from the sun that cause skin cancer and burn your skin. These are also non-visible. And then you have a very narrow sliver of light, which is the visible spectrum, the red, orange, green, blue, yellow, indigo, violet. You have this very narrow spectrum of light, and within that is the red light spectrum. And I'll come back to that in a second.
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And then above that, you have infrared and near infrared. And not all infrared and near infrared are the same. As you get higher in the wavelengths, you excite different chromophores in the body. What's a chromophore? So like water is a chromophore. And so an infrared sauna, if you lay in an infrared light bed, you don't get hot and you don't sweat.
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The Health Conspiracy No One Talks About: Life Insurance, Big Data & Aging | Gary Brecka
why is that that's because that's a lower wavelength of light so it's not actually causing the water chromophore to vibrate create friction which creates heat and causes you to sweat so in an infrared sauna which is a very high wavelength usually over 1100 nanometers or higher you're going to create heat and you're going to sweat below that you're still in the infrared spectrum but you're not
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creating wavelengths that cause friction and create heat. So something very special happens in the red light and near infrared and infrared spectrum. This slice of light is very therapeutic to human beings. We know that it improves collagen, elastin, fibrin. We also know that- That's all your connective tissue. That's your connective tissue.
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Or you're getting ready to do what's called a reverse mortgage, which means you get to live in your house, but you sell it while you're still alive. All of these are based on mortality. The only thing that matters in those financial services instruments is how many more months does this person have left?
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Yes. I mean it's not just how our skin appears, right? I mean we all want our skin to look better and Red Light even have some FDA authorizations for skin. I mean we know that it can – depending on the severity of hair loss, it's very good for hair follicles. It can restore some hair growth. It's very good for your skin, for – for the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles.
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The Health Conspiracy No One Talks About: Life Insurance, Big Data & Aging | Gary Brecka
I mean, there's lots of studies on the proliferation of collagen, elastin and fibrin. And also of this process of angiogenesis, which is this new capillary formation, new arterial formation that causes arteries to branch and sprout and actually can supply more oxygen to tissues, namely the skin. So the red light, the visible red light is a very shallow light, right?
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It doesn't penetrate very deeply. And so there are lots of red light devices out there, masks, you know, little masks you can wear, devices you can wear on your wrist, mats that you can lay on. But to get into the infrared and near infrared and the real therapeutic spectrums, This takes a lot of power to mimic this spectrum.
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And by power, I mean specifically something called milliwatts of irradiance. So lights measured a couple of different ways. You have the nanometer wavelengths, which is what is the wavelength of this light? Is it 640? Is it 810? Is it 1100? And light essentially does the same thing, just at different depths. So if you use red light, you're just getting very superficial effects.
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You might have some pleasing effects on the skin, like, you know, improved collagen, elastin, fibrin in the surface of your skin. You might have some reduction of fine lines and wrinkles. You could wear one of those hair devices and get some mild improvement in hair density. But if you really want the therapeutic wavelengths, you need power to drive these.
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Yeah.
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So in my opinion, if you're looking at a red light device, especially a red light bed, if it plugs into a regular 110 outlet, it's not powerful enough to create the therapeutic wavelengths that you want. I would wait until you can afford one that actually plugs into like a 220 and uses it Real power, it's drawing down real power.
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So they don't really care where you are on an actuarial curve, right?
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You'll see that as you lower the milliwatts of irradiance, you decrease the penetration of that light, and you essentially decrease its effectiveness. The sun is very powerful, right? If we're gonna mimic the beneficial wavelengths for the sun, we actually need to draw a lot of power, and then we need to force it through as many diodes as possible that are as close together as they possibly can be.
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Yeah, you see very small diodes. Generally, the larger the bulb, the less therapeutic it is, the more superficial. The smaller the bulb, the more therapeutic and the deeper the penetration. You also shouldn't look for red light devices that have a high amount of visible red light. That's the least effective spectrum.
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you want red light devices that actually have a high percentage of non-visible light because that is the therapeutic spectrum. So for example, if you look at the red light bed that I have, when you turn it on, it looks like most of the rows of lights are burned out. That's because they're infrared or near infrared. Those are the real therapeutic wavelengths. Yeah, I noticed that.
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Yeah, yeah. That's what everybody says. They're like, I paid all this money and only half the lights work. I mean, that's exactly what you want. But manufacturers will build these red light walls and then all of the bulbs are visible. already you know that's non-therapeutic. You're just seeing the red light.
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And insurance is priced like that. You have super preferred, preferred, standard. Then you have what's called table ratings.
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And to the consumer, they're like, well, there's more red lights on on this one and fewer on this one. The one that probably looks like some of the lights are off is probably the best device because you're in the invisible spectrum. And so now- And what do those do biologically? So the main thing, well, so first of all, they're very good for vasomotor circulation.
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And a lot of folks are unaware that about 70% of our circulatory system, circulation throughout our body is actually not done by the heart. I mean, none of us has a heart that's strong enough to pump blood from our chest to the tip of our toes, through all of the arteries and capillaries in our brain, to the back of the eye, and through our liver, lungs, pancreas, and our kidneys.
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You know, we're about... 14% arteries were about 11 and a half percent veins. The majority of our circulation is microvascular. Small blood vessels. Yeah, small blood vessels and capillaries. That's about 70% of our circulatory system. That's actually not powered by the heart. It's powered by an activity called vasomotor. It's similar to a snake swallowing a mouse.
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It's almost like a peristaltic activity.
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The Health Conspiracy No One Talks About: Life Insurance, Big Data & Aging | Gary Brecka
Exactly. I mean, you know, arteries are smooth muscle, right? There's three types of muscle in the body. We have the cardiac, which is confined to the heart, and you have which is the muscle everybody knows about, and then you have the smooth muscle.
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It's sort of this differentiating, overlapping layers of muscle that when they contract, they create a wave-like motion, again, like a snake swallowing a mouse. Right, so arteries can dilate, they can constrict, but the most important thing that they do is this vasomotor activity.
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The Health Conspiracy No One Talks About: Life Insurance, Big Data & Aging | Gary Brecka
And the red light is tremendous for vasomotor activity. Like when people start using red light therapy, they'll report things like they stop wearing readers. Like I'm 54 years old, I don't wear readers. Perfect eyesight. And the reason why eyesight begins to degrade in your 50s is not because of something happening to the rods, the cones, the macula. It's not a degenerative process.
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It's a lack of microvascular circulation. So if you restore the vasomotor to the back of the eye, you restore the eyesight. So like Joe Rogan, I was on his podcast a few months ago. He bought a red light bed while he was on the podcast and he texted me five weeks later and he's like, holy shit, bro, I'm not wearing readers anymore. Like literally my eyesight's improved.
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Everybody notices the improvement in their skin. But when you start to improve vasomotor activity, now you're talking about microvascular circulation. So think about all of the compromised areas in the body that receive microvascular circulation. This is all of our joints, our ligaments, our tendons, our musculotendinous insertions.
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They can take genes. They get all of your medical records. They have all your demographic data. I mean, it's a proctology exam. I mean, if you've ever applied for- Maybe a full colonoscope.
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And this is the inside the erector spinae group in the spine, all the microvascular circulation in the brain. These are all enhanced by red light. And so if we can restore vasomotor activity,
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The Health Conspiracy No One Talks About: Life Insurance, Big Data & Aging | Gary Brecka
if we can kick out mitochondrial nitric oxide, the gas that is binding to cytochrome C oxidase that's competing for oxygen, and keeping that cycle anaerobic rather than aerobic, and we can put oxygen into that cycle,
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The Health Conspiracy No One Talks About: Life Insurance, Big Data & Aging | Gary Brecka
Now you're talking about one device that upstages the mitochondria, that improves collagen, elastin, and fibrin in the skin, that improves angiogenesis, the formation of new blood vessels beneath the skin and other areas of the body, and improves microvascular circulation.
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So all these compromised areas of the body, like our knees, hips, shoulders, rotator cuff, low back, these all get the benefit of improved microvascular circulation. And all of a sudden people's back pain goes away or their knee pain goes away. Now, yeah, but... or cartilaginous erosion or some other kind of osteotic condition going on in the joint, it's not going to improve that.
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The Health Conspiracy No One Talks About: Life Insurance, Big Data & Aging | Gary Brecka
So you see reduction in pain, improvement in energy levels, balancing of mood, increased circulation, and all of the benefits that come from that. It's like what you were talking about, where people don't have all of these conditions, they generally have one condition. condition or one state that's causing all of these.
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The Health Conspiracy No One Talks About: Life Insurance, Big Data & Aging | Gary Brecka
I don't think you get as much information from a colonoscope as you do a full-blown life insurance application. Now, I'm not talking about term life insurance. I'm talking about whole life, permanent universal life insurance where people are putting $10 million, $25 million, $50 million of risk on a single life.
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The Health Conspiracy No One Talks About: Life Insurance, Big Data & Aging | Gary Brecka
No doubt. I mean, I think, you know, And red light therapy, in my opinion, is probably the most, has the most single, as a single device, prolific impact on mitochondrial function.
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Yes, you can do it for a reasonable cost. There are lots of clinics that allow people to go into memberships to the really powerful beds, but... There are lots of walls that you can hang on the back of a door or you can sit in front of. Proximity to the panels really matters. To be close to it. You want to be very close to it. You want the light to spread in the skin.
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The Health Conspiracy No One Talks About: Life Insurance, Big Data & Aging | Gary Brecka
You don't want the light to spread before it hits the skin. Because the skin is actually a barrier too. If you actually looked at red light passing through the skin, it doesn't just penetrate it like a laser, it hits it and spreads. So the closer you are to the diode of light, the more likely that light is to spread inside of the tissue.
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The Health Conspiracy No One Talks About: Life Insurance, Big Data & Aging | Gary Brecka
If you look at cadaver studies where they bury light meters in cadavers and they look at penetration of depths, you know, proximity to the light matters. So if you have one of those red light devices, the ones for the, you know, the masks for the face are great for collagen and elastin in your skin, fiber in your skin.
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The Health Conspiracy No One Talks About: Life Insurance, Big Data & Aging | Gary Brecka
But if you really want therapeutic wavelengths, you should use a red light panel that has some density. And look for wavelengths between 680 and 910. In that range, you're going to capture most of the real therapeutic wavelengths. And then if you do want to step up and get a red light bed, make sure it's a red light bed that actually has a commercial outlet. You know, you usually have to have...
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The Health Conspiracy No One Talks About: Life Insurance, Big Data & Aging | Gary Brecka
What happens in those cases is they take not only a deep dive into your demographic data, but I mean, they get everything, your divorce decrees, your trust accounts, your bank statements, your brokerage statements, your... your work history and all of your medical records.
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220 outlet.
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Washer, dryer, yeah. I mean, if you're going to spend that kind of money, get the power.
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So those are the kinds of biohacking devices. But truthfully, people that actually get regular micro doses of sun exposure get the same benefit. So I really encourage people to- Get in nature, get outside. The first 45 minutes of the day during first light, whether it is in any UVA or UVB rays. So you don't have a lot of the damaging rays in the first 45 minutes. That's why- Sunrise.
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The Health Conspiracy No One Talks About: Life Insurance, Big Data & Aging | Gary Brecka
Yeah, sunrise. First light is so important. I was out there. I mean, I flew. I spent 32 hours on a plane. and 38 hours on the ground in the last four days. I left Thursday and came home Sunday to Dubai. So it was 15 and a half hours over there. I think it was like 17 hours back. So it was like 32 hours in the air.
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All I did was just tap into some of the quote biohacking mechanisms that I can, I just posted my sleep score at 99% sleep score. I was showing you deep and REM. And, um, I didn't drug myself to sleep. Um, I just bookended my sleep. I made sure that I do the same routine every single night. I have the same sleep hygiene routine, um, every night and have the same sleep hygiene routine every morning.
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The Health Conspiracy No One Talks About: Life Insurance, Big Data & Aging | Gary Brecka
My body knows that if we're doing, uh,
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It's terrible. And when we talk about these people that have, following this sort of stage of consequences that we would see in the medical record, and I'll come back to my sleep routine in a second. we would see these people that had, especially in their 50s, 60s, 70s, as their hormonal levels would plummet, especially the hormone testosterone.
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Because it's one of the main hormones that's putting pressure on the bone marrow to make red blood cells.
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Yeah, it does so many things.
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Yeah, and I think sadly we think of it as a male hormone. You know, so we think, you know, women think of testosterone, a lot of women, I'm not saying all women, but women will think of testosterone as a very, you know, deep voice aggression, facial hair, muscles. But that's actually really not true.
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The Health Conspiracy No One Talks About: Life Insurance, Big Data & Aging | Gary Brecka
Yeah, I mean, you show me a woman with a testosterone level, you know, less than three and 0.2, 0.3 on free testosterone. There's no sex drive there. And their libido is out the window. And then, you know, of course, when libido leaves a marriage, you know, the opposite spouse will think that love and attraction has left the marriage. They're very different things.
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The Health Conspiracy No One Talks About: Life Insurance, Big Data & Aging | Gary Brecka
And then before they actually issue the policy, they will essentially send a nurse to your house and they will pull whatever biomarker they want. So you got to like have an inside view of what that is. Real inside view. First of all, I'm not a physician. I'm a human biologist. My undergraduate degrees are in biology. My postgraduate degrees are in human biology.
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The Health Conspiracy No One Talks About: Life Insurance, Big Data & Aging | Gary Brecka
Libido is emotion, love and attraction. you couldn't love your spouse and be very attracted to them and have no sex drive. And as soon as you put the sex drive back, all the magic starts again. But when we would see these patients applying for policies and you would see this just long hypoxia, just hiding in plain sight, this low red blood cell count, low hemoglobin levels, inevitably all of them,
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would be on sleep medication. Because, and this is an interesting- It kind of makes sense, right?
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The Health Conspiracy No One Talks About: Life Insurance, Big Data & Aging | Gary Brecka
But it's a really a double edged sword because if you ask most physicians, why do people that are the most exhausted sleep the worst? their face will go blank. They'll go, well, if you're the most exhausted, it's probably the only thing you do well is sleep. But it's actually the opposite because you're exhausted because you're hypoxic, but you're also not sleeping because you're hypoxic.
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The Health Conspiracy No One Talks About: Life Insurance, Big Data & Aging | Gary Brecka
So the people that are the most exhausted actually sleep the worst. And then what happens is they go to their doctor and they say, look, doc, I'm tired all the time and I just can't sleep. And so then they do the worst thing. They put them on some kind of tranquilytic. And what this does is this actually prevents your brain from waking you up, right?
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So your brain is actually trying to save you when it keeps you from going into deep sleep when you're hypoxic, because your respiratory rate gets so shallow that you become severely hypoxic. These people actually gasp at night. If you're sleeping next to them, you'll hear them. You'll actually hear them gasp at night. It's severe hypoxia.
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The Health Conspiracy No One Talks About: Life Insurance, Big Data & Aging | Gary Brecka
And so what happens is trazodone and zolapidem nitrate, diazepam, a lot of these will actually block the brain's view of blood oxygen, essentially shut off the monitoring system. And then it allows them to get into a deep sleep, but they're not actually sleeping, they're suffocating.
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The Health Conspiracy No One Talks About: Life Insurance, Big Data & Aging | Gary Brecka
And so what happens is these people will wake up in the morning and go, man, I really hate taking Tylenol PM because it makes me so drowsy the next day. That medication has been out of your system for hours. You're not feeling the effects of the Tylenol PM. You're feeling the effects of having suffocated for six hours.
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The Health Conspiracy No One Talks About: Life Insurance, Big Data & Aging | Gary Brecka
And so you take a hypoxic person, put them on sleep medication, and force them into severe hypoxia, and that's when the real magic begins. Now you start to see all-cause mortality begin to rise.
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The Health Conspiracy No One Talks About: Life Insurance, Big Data & Aging | Gary Brecka
It doesn't mean that everybody should be on testosterone.
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The Health Conspiracy No One Talks About: Life Insurance, Big Data & Aging | Gary Brecka
Yeah, and I'll be the first one to tell you that 70% of the clients that I see that qualify for hormone therapy are not on hormones. So when I say qualify for hormone therapy, based on their levels, you see a male come in at 262 or 315 on testosterone and their free testosterone is... between four and a half and seven, you know, really low levels of free testosterone.
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And so I spent eight years in formal education just studying human physiology. And they wanted someone like that on the team with the rest of the MDs and actuarial scientists because we were trying to really build a model that was very accurate, probabilistic model that was accurate. What really emerged from this big data
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The Health Conspiracy No One Talks About: Life Insurance, Big Data & Aging | Gary Brecka
It doesn't necessarily mean that their testicular production of testosterone has stopped. It could mean a whole host of things. You know, very often the signaling hormones are low, luteinizing hormone, follicle-stingling hormone. Those are easy pathways to mimic. Very often they're deficient in the raw material that's used to make testosterone. Cholesterol.
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The Health Conspiracy No One Talks About: Life Insurance, Big Data & Aging | Gary Brecka
But no one, I will tell you right now, when I started preaching about this 10 years ago, People thought it was a complete charlatan for saying the people that are on statins, that are on heavy statins, that took their LDL cholesterol from 180, which they put them on a statin for, down to 57, we would see this
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I wouldn't say every single time, but the majority of time in the medical records, they collapse in their hormone function. And as soon as their hormones collapse, now they're hypoxic, they're exhausted, they don't sleep well, the erectile dysfunction, the memory loss, the confusion, the short-term recall issues, all kinds of cognitive impairments.
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The Health Conspiracy No One Talks About: Life Insurance, Big Data & Aging | Gary Brecka
And if you look at the number of cognitive impairments, Alzheimer's, dementia, memory loss, all of the cognitive impairments that start earlier than they should, In almost every case, what we saw was because they had clinically deficient, in my opinion, levels of LDL cholesterol. So you restore the cholesterol, you can restore the hormones.
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The Health Conspiracy No One Talks About: Life Insurance, Big Data & Aging | Gary Brecka
Very often you restore the DHEA level, you restore the hormones. Very often you get sex hormone binding protein out of the way by taking a mineral called boron. You get the sex hormone binding proteins that are actually lowering your free testosterone. You get these things out of the blood or back into normal ranges. By taking boron. If you have high SHBG.
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The Health Conspiracy No One Talks About: Life Insurance, Big Data & Aging | Gary Brecka
And you want to lower sex hormone binding globulin.
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The Health Conspiracy No One Talks About: Life Insurance, Big Data & Aging | Gary Brecka
So people have low hormonal levels and they immediately go on hormone therapy. When, you know, if we look at the cause of the majority of low hormone levels. That's a really important question. There are really three main causes that we have seen. Number one is clinically low levels of LDL cholesterol.
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The Health Conspiracy No One Talks About: Life Insurance, Big Data & Aging | Gary Brecka
And the second one are what I would put in the nutrient deficiency categories, vitamin D3 and high SHBG or low DHEA. And those three are critical to having healthy levels of testosterone. So if you see somebody that has low double digit levels of DHEA, right?
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The Health Conspiracy No One Talks About: Life Insurance, Big Data & Aging | Gary Brecka
Yeah, it's very often caused by stress. It's an easy supplement to take. You supplement them with DHEA and then all of a sudden the hormone production starts again, or you see low signaling from the pituitary, the luteinizing and follicle stimulating, which are essentially your volume knob for turning up or turning down testosterone. They do other things.
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The Health Conspiracy No One Talks About: Life Insurance, Big Data & Aging | Gary Brecka
So very often, we're deficient in the level of the hormone because the signal has been turned down. I mean, when we can't hear the music walking into a room, we don't mess with the speakers, we mess with the tuners.
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The Health Conspiracy No One Talks About: Life Insurance, Big Data & Aging | Gary Brecka
I always say that if this database could see the light of day, it would permanently change the face of humanity.
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The Health Conspiracy No One Talks About: Life Insurance, Big Data & Aging | Gary Brecka
Water retention and feminization. I think you and I are very aligned philosophically that very often we are, even the hormone therapy clinics are just treating the hormone.
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The Health Conspiracy No One Talks About: Life Insurance, Big Data & Aging | Gary Brecka
We should always ask, why is this low? I mean, there is true testicular hypo function, but that's very rare. Primary hypogonadism is pretty rare, but we treat all low hormones as primary hypogonadism and we just put people on hormones. And it doesn't make them, it temporarily makes them feel better, but they're still bathing their cellular biology in the toxic soup.
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The Health Conspiracy No One Talks About: Life Insurance, Big Data & Aging | Gary Brecka
And so they end up going right back to where they were.
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The Health Conspiracy No One Talks About: Life Insurance, Big Data & Aging | Gary Brecka
Yeah, I filter everything. I filter my water, I filter my air. When we're done the podcast, I'll take you out and show you my air filtration. So this is surgically clean air in this house. So it goes through- It feels like it. You know, people that come in here say the air feels different in here.
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And it is different because, you know, I filter it through a HEPA filter, then through a carbon filter, and then essentially it goes into a chamber and it goes through high dose UVA, UVB, and blue and infrared light. and then it gets sucked up into the chamber in the house.
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The Health Conspiracy No One Talks About: Life Insurance, Big Data & Aging | Gary Brecka
Well, I wish I had like secretly downloaded it, you know, like one of those government conspiracies and I had it on a flash drive, you know, because trust me, I would put it in the public domain. Probably go to prison for the rest of my life, but I would get it out there. So I do my best to get it out there with what I've got in my head, but-
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The Health Conspiracy No One Talks About: Life Insurance, Big Data & Aging | Gary Brecka
So that's how you avoid the mold and the mycotoxins and all the other nonsense that's coming through our ventilation systems, because we're in the mold capital of the world here in Miami.
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The Health Conspiracy No One Talks About: Life Insurance, Big Data & Aging | Gary Brecka
But just to bring the hormone thing full circle, there's also a genetic predisposition that women need to watch out for called COMT, C-O-M-T. If you've ever actually seen a Dutch test, a female hormone test, which is,
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The Health Conspiracy No One Talks About: Life Insurance, Big Data & Aging | Gary Brecka
in my opinion, probably the most accurate way to measure, especially cycling in women, because a blood test will only take a snapshot in time, but a Dutch test will actually show you the cycling. And to make sure that they're monophasic, so they're moving from follicular to ovulation to luteal, you know... If you're a menstruating woman, yeah. Yeah, if you're a menstruating woman.
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The Health Conspiracy No One Talks About: Life Insurance, Big Data & Aging | Gary Brecka
And, you know, postmenopausal women still have a cycle. It's just the amplitude is very, very low, right? But they still have somewhat of a cycle. But there is... If you look at a Dutch test, and this just flies by a lot of OBGYNs, you will see an area, you will actually see this gene mutation, catechol-O-methyltransferase, CompT, it's right on the Dutch test.
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And essentially what this is doing is in the elimination pathway of estrogen, sending it down the E2 pathway. So actually getting estrogen out of the bloodstream and putting it into a form where it can actually be eliminated from the blood and not build up in the blood. This gene mutation is- It's a variation, right? It's a gene variation.
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It's essentially responsible for the breakdown of catecholamines, the norepinephrine, the epinephrine, the dopamine, adrenaline.
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And it needs nutrients to operate. That's what's so exciting is like, all this stuff can go wrong and all you need are nutrients to fix it.
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The Health Conspiracy No One Talks About: Life Insurance, Big Data & Aging | Gary Brecka
The very unpopular information that emerged from this, or I shouldn't say unpopular, I should say anti-mainstream, was that the reason why the majority of people are not living healthier, happier, longer, more fulfilling lives, were because of what we called modifiable risk factors. There were the non-modifiable factors, and then there were the modifiable factors.
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You are so singing my tune. And what is amazing too is the profound change that happens when you just give the body the raw material it needs to do its job.
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The Health Conspiracy No One Talks About: Life Insurance, Big Data & Aging | Gary Brecka
We're not as diseased or as pathological or as sick as we think we are. We're nutrient deficient. I mean, we should always start there. We should ask ourselves, what's missing from this biome that could be causing this to happen?
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The Health Conspiracy No One Talks About: Life Insurance, Big Data & Aging | Gary Brecka
So, you know, when you call something essential, that means it's necessary for life, right? So if you, we have two essential fatty acids, you know, if you don't get these fatty acids, they're essential for life. Omega-3s. Yeah, omega-3s, omega-3 fatty acids, EPAs, DHAs. There are eight essential amino acids. You would be shocked how many people are amino acid deficient.
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People think that amino acids are proteins. They're not. They're the building blocks of proteins. And so if you're deficient in the building blocks of proteins, then you can't assemble proteins, which is not just skeletal muscle. I mean, this is our natural killer cells, collagen, elastin, fibrin in our skin.
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The Health Conspiracy No One Talks About: Life Insurance, Big Data & Aging | Gary Brecka
A lot of marketing gimmicks have allowed us to think that we can target direct protein, like we can eat collagen and it shows up as collagen in our skin. It's like, this is patently false. I mean, collagen, I don't have anything against collagen, but it's an incomplete protein.
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But we don't eat our nails to grow our nails, and we don't eat our hair to grow our hair.
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Well, we think we can eat collagen to grow collagen, but yeah, you can eat muscle, but the reason why you eat muscle is to get to the amino acids to build the muscle. That's right. It's not to, that protein is useless until it's broken into amino acids and then reassembled.
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The Health Conspiracy No One Talks About: Life Insurance, Big Data & Aging | Gary Brecka
You could have a restricted range of motion from a massive injury or surgical procedure. That's not modifiable. You have spinal rods in your back. Those are not modifiable risk factors. Modifiable risk factors were diet, lifestyle, supplementation, exercise, mobility. And in my case, I would add to that significant changes in your blood biomarkers.
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The Health Conspiracy No One Talks About: Life Insurance, Big Data & Aging | Gary Brecka
Yeah, so all protein if we oversimplify it for a second, it just becomes the same thing, right? It becomes amino acids and then those amino acids go out and build whatever structure is necessary. We can build muscle, certainly, and we can also build natural killer cells and we can build collagen in our skin and we can build connective tissue and all kinds of things.
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The Health Conspiracy No One Talks About: Life Insurance, Big Data & Aging | Gary Brecka
So I think the three key- Fatty acids, amino acids. Yeah, fatty acids, amino acids, and minerals.
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Which is why we should be the most judicious with our carbohydrate choices.
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I would agree with that.
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The Health Conspiracy No One Talks About: Life Insurance, Big Data & Aging | Gary Brecka
Yeah, I don't even think that we have chronic disease in this country. I think that we have a chronic expression of nutrient deficiency.
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So an essential amino acid, I take one called Perfect Aminos. It's all the eight essential amino acids. It's non-caloric, won't even break a fast. It has all eight of the essential amino acids. Because remember, as soon as you get deficient in one of those eight amino acids, there's a high likelihood that that's converting to fat or into sugar, right? So it's incomplete protein.
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So I take something called Perfect Amino. I take a mineral salt every morning. I take one called Baja Gold Sea Salt, but a mineral salt like a Celtic salt or a Baja Gold Salt.
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I use that as my electrolyte. And then I take a black seed oil. I prefer the black seed oil, the omega-3 version from black seed, but you can also get it from fish sources, omega-3 fatty acid. And then I think- You mean black cumin? Black cumin. Yeah. I think that's a great source.
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I didn't know that, but now it's even better. So I take that every morning and I also take a methylated multivitamin. And the reason why I say methylated multivitamin is because it's the... It is the vitamins in their already methylated form. So instead of taking folic acid, which 44% of the population can't even process, and is contrary to popular belief, not a natural nutrient.
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And so what we noticed was that the reason why we were table rating a lot of these and the reason why we were shortening the life expectancy was because of the intervention of chemicals, synthetics, and pharmaceuticals. And the more pharmaceuticals you were on, the easier it was for us to predict your life expectancy.
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We make it in a laboratory. It doesn't exist anywhere on the surface of the earth. You can't find folic acid anywhere naturally in nature. It doesn't exist. Folate exists naturally in nature. But folate and folic acid follow the exact same physiologic pathway.
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There are about 10 enzymatic reductions that need to happen before that folic acid or folate can be converted by the gene MTHFR into the active form called methylfolate. And there's some really interesting research about methylfolate deficiency and whether or not it can be fixed by taking folic acid and folate. And the truth is that it can't.
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When we started spraying our entire grain supply, all flour, all grains, all rice, all pasta in the United States are sprayed with the chemical folic acid, right? We call this fortified or enriched.
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It's like, you know, I think I heard Max Lugavere say the other day, if your grocery store has a health food section, what does that tell you about the rest of the store?
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Yeah, exactly. So I take a methylated multivitamin. I mean, people see profound and immediate effects when they start taking methylated nutrients, you know, the methyl form of cobalamin. I mean, a methylated form of B12.
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And if you have hyperhomocystinemia, you know, we've, and I'm preparing to publish this data. So we have about 150,000 patients that have, that we've done blood work on 74 biomarkers, and then also done a methylated genetic test looking at the main markers of methylation, COMT, MTRR, MTR, AHCY, and MTHFR.
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And contrary to popular belief, if you have MTHFR, you need to avoid folic acid like the plague, and you have to supplement with methylfolate, 5-methylfolate. And the proof in what's called S phase arrest, which is essentially when the DNA is replicating and copying itself, or even when it's making a transcription, an mRNA message,
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something called S-phase arrest, which is designed to stop the passing of genetic mutations. When the cell goes into S-phase arrest because it's efficient in methylfolate, there's significant clinical evidence, and I'll give you the link to the study, that you can actually restart, you can arrest S-phase arrest and actually restart the replicatory process by adding methylfolate.
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The more you're on, the more likely you were to die sooner, and the more predictable. Because not only could we predict the onset of other conditions, but we could predict the severity of and how quickly you would succumb to them. And so we- We could tell them most of the month when someone's gonna die based on the data? To the month. Yeah, and it's a very accurate model.
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Yeah, and so you have an excess of folic acid and a deficiency of methylfolate. So if you get the folic acid out of the diet and you supplement with methylfolate, magic happens. You see peristaltic activity restore to the gut. You see the normal pace of the gut restore, which in my opinion is one of the most overlooked things in all of modern medicine.
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Yeah, pooping regularly, right? Just being regular, you know?
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I mean, I need to be on a commode. But, you know, methylfolate, of all of the single, and I don't like to say, you know, it all comes down to one nutrient, but If it came down to one or two nutrients, D3 and K2 would be up there. Methylfolate would be right at the absolute top of the chart for me.
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Because if you look at the number of physiologic pathways and enzymatic pathways that methylfolate is directly responsible for, it's downstream from homocysteine regulation and hyperhomocysteineemia we know now can lead to idiopathic hypertension because of the vasospasm that occurs. at least all kinds of other issues.
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Why would it lead to cancer, heart disease, dementia? I've never really fully gotten to express this, but when you start to affect vasomotor activity, microvascular circulation, the amount of organ systems that this impacts, You affect vasomotor activity to the back of the eye, your eyesight diminishes. You affect vasomotor activity in the brain, microcirculation in the brain.
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This is the definition of poor short-term recall and cognitive decline. And this hyperhomocyst anemia, I mean, 85% of all of the essential hypertension diagnoses in America are idiopathic. They're of unknown origins.
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And I get a lot of flack for that because people say, well, if you could predict life expectancy to the month, which I don't do anymore, you would be Jesus or you would have won a Nobel Prize. And I never won a Nobel Prize and I'm not Jesus. I believe in Jesus. And the reason why they say that is because they don't realize how accurate this science is.
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I can tell you the best way to lower homocysteine is 500 milligrams daily in a capsule form of trimethylglycine, TMG. Lots of great manufacturers that make it out there. I make one, Symbiotica makes it, Thorne, pure encapsulations, not an expensive nutrient. If you have hyperhomocysteinemia, that's a must-have supplement. the majority of us will benefit from methylated multivitamins.
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So methylated multivitamins on omega fatty acid, minerals in the morning and amino acid. And that will cover your basis because if you are missing the basics, and then I would add probably to that a vitamin D3 or K2. If you're missing the basics, then nothing else matters. It's like, if you're not sleeping, nothing else matters.
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If I can't fix your sleep, I really can't help you become metabolically healthy.
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And then what happens is we start chasing the expression of disease. When you start blaming organs for crimes they're not committing, when you blame cholesterol, which is like a fireman, for showing up to put the fire out, and you come up with the hypothesis that if we had less firemen, we'd have fewer fires, you're just going down the wrong path.
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When you realize that the majority of our thyroid hormones that are actually... for thyroid diagnoses like low T3 being diagnosed as hypothyroid, the majority of that's not even made by the thyroid, it's deiodinized in the liver and it's in the periphery and in the gut. And so very often we're blaming, you wanna talk about a pandemic- Selenium.
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Selenium, thiamine, and to help this outer ring deiodinize in the liver, which is where two thirds of it comes from and the balance is in the gut and a little bit in the periphery. But the point is that a nutrient deficiency can lead to a hormone deficiency that gets diagnosed as organ malfunction. And now we're pounding a perfectly healthy organ for a crime it didn't commit.
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When at best, it's only gonna change your level by 20%. And we do this with the heart, we do it with the liver, with the lungs, with the pancreas, with the kidneys, with the thyroid, with all kinds of conditions. And if we would just take a step back and say, I wish we would force physicians to study the expression of nutrient deficiency, right?
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Like a botanist or an arborist studies soil nutrients. You know, if you have a leaf rotting in a palm tree and you call a true arborist, a true botanist out to your house, they don't touch the leaf. Soil, right.
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But if you want to know how accurate life insurance companies are, annuity companies are at predicting death, Just look at what happened during the 2008, 2009 financial services crisis. We had 364 banks fail. You didn't have a single life insurance company fail.
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Yeah, there's no nitrogen in the soil, Mark. And you add nitrogen in the soil and then boom, the leaf heals. And you go, wow, how did that happen? You know, we want to cut the leaves, spray poison on it, trim it, skin it, replace it.
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And now we're like, well, now the bark's falling off. Well, and put some more poison on the bark and now the roots are rotting. And so I think... You know, your message, my message is a message of hope because it's a message that we are not as sick or diseased or as pathological as we think we are.
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I mean, you can find me on social media, just my first and last name at Gary Brecka, B-R-E-C-K-A. I also run a podcast called The Ultimate Human, which is in the health and wellness space.
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In fact, some of the largest institutions, AIG, whose credit derivatives division was taking the company under were bailed out by the life insurance. They are some of the most solvent institutions on the planet. They're some of the highest rated financial institutions on the planet.
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You're going to be on there in a few minutes. The Ultimate Human. It's a media platform that I use to just try to message without the expectation of receipt, you know, about things that are working in my life and, you know, great thought leaders like yourself who are my heroes. And I just try to help get their message out. So you can find that at The Ultimate Human.
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So we looked at three main areas. And when we would look through your blood work, we would look at glycemic control, how well you controlled your blood sugar over a lifetime, because we saw that hyperinsulinemia, elevated hemoglobin A1C, and poor glycemic control was a risk factor, was what we call the comorbidity. So were the insurance companies measuring insulin?
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they were measuring insulin, glucose, and hemoglobin A1C.
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What's interesting is you would get 15, 18 or 20 years of medical records on someone and you would see the atherosclerotic, the arteriosclerotic issues. You would see the cardiovascular disease. You'd see the very, very, very low levels of statin controlled LDL cholesterol. but you would see extreme proliferation in cardiovascular disease.
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You would see early mortality in these groups because of what they called non-correlated events, hormonal events, what our scientific team drew back to cell wall cell membrane dysfunction, early onset, not just early onset dementia or Alzheimer's, but all forms of cognitive decline.
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We knew, for example, that LDL cholesterol, for example, was not a risk factor for cardiovascular disease, an independent risk factor for cardiovascular disease.
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Yeah, and that is a material fact, by the way.
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We wanted to see what was the chance that this person would have LDL cholesterol called to the arterial wall, not in what was the presence of LDL cholesterol. If they were hyperinsulinemic, then they had significantly higher incidence of LDL. blacking, scarring, narrowing, and other forms of cardiovascular disease.
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But the centenarians, you know, not once in my entire career, and I don't know that this, I'm not saying this is a blanket statement, but in my career, we processed death claims too. And we didn't see a single death claim on a centenarian, someone that lived to age 100. At that time, many of the policies would do what they call endow at age 100. So at age 100, the policy would just pay out.
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It would pay the death claim. So if you're lucky enough to live to 100, you could screw your kids. I just got my $20 million life insurance policy.
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Yeah. And there are other things called accelerated death claims, where they would actually accelerate the payout while the person was alive if they had a terminal illness. But what was really interesting is I didn't process a single death claim on a centenarian, not one, who lived over age 100 that did not have clinically elevated levels of LDL cholesterol at the time of their death.
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Because very often we had blood work on these people. They would be in cystic care living facilities or other kinds of facilities and we would actually have the data. And due to that for things like, we followed trends in calcium supplementation in the elderly and really in the fact that they weren't really impacting bone density.
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And so osteopenic patients that were put on high doses of calcium still became osteoporotic. And, and, and.
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Like, I mean, that was another one. You know, we, we, it was 2016.
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We didn't measure nutrient levels. And, and, you know, if I had known then what I know now, I think we probably would have measured nutrient levels, but you could, you could surmise from the data because you could see their diet, their lifestyle, alcohol consumption, the medications that they were on. And you could actually follow certain clinical deficiencies.
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Like vitamin D3 was a big one for us. We would see clinical deficiencies in vitamin D3. And I'm talking like single digit, low double digit D3, not- That's bad.
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And you would be- It's common. Surprised how many people have that level of deficiency in D3. So they would have these long running clinical deficiencies in vitamin D3, let's say nanogram per deciliter between seven and 25, even below the lowest threshold for most labs, which will be 30 to 100. And I still think 30 is clinically deficient. Definitely. Yeah.
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But you would see these very low levels of vitamin D3 for years and years and years in the medical record. And then eventually the patient would present to a primary care physician with, rheumatoid arthritis-like symptoms. And I make sure that I say that correctly because they didn't have rheumatoid arthritis.
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You know, very often, we know that, you know, medical error is the third leading cause of death. There's a great study, 2016 study done by Harvard. I think it was actually repeated by Hopkins and got worse in 2019, if you want to look up the study.
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I mean, looking at all the ICD-9, ICD-10, 11 codes, you know, that medical error was the third leading cause of death. And we saw this repeatedly in our insurance actuarial underwriting because, so take this patient that had clinical deficiency in vitamin D3 and they present to their primary care and they start describing the symptoms.
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You know, my soles of my feet are sore and achy when I get out of bed in the morning to walk to the bathroom and take my first pee. My ankles just ache. It takes me 45 minutes to get the motor going. You know, over the last few years, it's moved from my knees now to my hips and low back. I'm really stiff across the shoulders. And lately, it's been hard for me to make a fist, like a tight fist.
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You would be shocked how many primary carers would just say, you know, Mark, you've got rheumatoid arthritis.
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No RA factors, no sed rates, no diagnostic work to confirm that.
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That's what they call it. I'm adopting that saying now.
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It's an actually thing?
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Okay. So we knew about it. We just didn't know the name of it then. And so they would say, you know, we're just, the good news for you is we're going to put you on something called a corticosteroid. You're going to take this oral steroid and everything's going to be fine. And so methotrexate, whatever the corticosteroid was.
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And what we realized in the record, because we were looking at hundreds of thousands of patient records, was that if you started a corticosteroid, you had six years and one day until you were having a joint replacement.
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Is you're kind of off the hook because if you didn't intentionally – create the microaggression. I just perceived it as a microaggression. Depends on who I am. If I'm a white heterosexual cis male, then you're screwed. I got problems. Then you're screwed. So anyway, back to the food supply. We took a U-turn there for a second.
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What's really interesting is if you just take a very 30,000-foot view and you say, let's just look at the Broad strokes on the blue zone research, right? There's no continuity between diets in these blue zones. So it's not keto, paleo, pescatarian, vegan, vegetarian, raw food, Atkins. It's whole food, just what you were just saying.
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Whole food, well, the two things that were non-interchangeable were sense of purpose and community and activity until later in life. So you didn't have any of the blue zones where people didn't feel a sense of purpose and community in life. In fact, there were no such things as assisted care living facilities.
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You know, the assisted care in those countries is mom and dad move back in with the kids until the day that they die.
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Till the day that they die. And there's a lot to be said for that because maybe grandma's only purpose is to go out and get vegetables for dinner that night. But she has a purpose. And she's a part of the community.
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Yeah. You know, we knew something in the mortality space because I used to study mortality and mortality research. And we knew that if you wanted to cut somebody's life expectancy in half at any age, and I mean at any age, you put them in isolation. So as soon as you create isolation... you dramatically reduce, if not half, the life expectancy.
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Now later in life we would call this broken heart syndrome, caregiver syndrome, and these were actually very valid syndromes.
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So if we actually were doing the life expectancy on an elderly spouse who was still applying for insurance or we were looking at what's called a second to die claim on life insurance policy and one spouse had passed away, we would dramatically reduce the life expectancy of the second spouse.
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And the reason why that's important is I think that people don't realize that we are actually being isolated in plain sight. Right. I mean, we are trying to create connection through our phones. We're trying to create connection through social media. And these are not human connections. In fact, you know, if you look at the rates of depression, suicide, suicidal ideation, obesity.
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chronic mental illness. And I think we actually have a chronic lack of mental fitness, not necessarily a mental illness crisis in this country. And if you look at the skyrocketing rates of these conditions and how they are creeping into younger and younger and younger generations, you've got nine-year-olds being treated for depression now. All right. So what's happening?
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What's happening is isolation in plain sight. You know, we don't problem solve anymore. We don't have communities with our friends anymore. We actually don't build social connections. We've lost our connection to Mother Nature. You know, that's why I like going out to my place in Colorado. It's probably like you like bow hunting and just old school connection to Mother Nature.
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I'm working on it, man. You said you were trying to get something outside of town, like a ranch.
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$110 billion, type 2 diabetes alone. That's not a lot of money. It's not like that would change anybody's opinions on things. Well, I mean, a lot of people could live on that.
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We have this place in Colorado. My wife and I, she's been going to for 35 years since she was a little, little girl. When we got together 10 years ago, she started bringing me and my family out there. Her father's got 10 acres, her uncle's got 10 acres, and then this 50 acre piece came on the market. So we bought it and we're building these old school, like really authentic log cabins on there.
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And I write about this all the time because in Miami I have this really fancy place and I've got all this fancy equipment, you know, red light therapy beds, hyper barracks, hydrogen beds, all that stuff. But I'll go out to this Colorado home, put on a 20-pound rucksack. I know you do a 150-pound rucksack, so I feel like a complete pussy.
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I've heard from a lot of people that it's actually better. Actually, that makes a lot of sense to me because you're not just load-bearing the spine.
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Yeah, and I do a lot of farmer's carries. But I'll put on this 20-pound rucksack, go out by myself, put a sidearm in my vest. It's just kind of funny. I took a picture of myself in the woods the other day. I posted it on social media, and I had sidearm people in. Bananas.
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Yeah, so the interesting thing is, you know, look at our food stamp program, which is, you know, the SNAP program, which is one of the biggest subsidies that we have in the government, $120 billion a year. $10 billion of that is going to subsidize sodas.
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It's only when you cross the, apparently if you just come upon the cubs and the mother.
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But anyway, I take a sidearm and I'll march around in there. But when I'm done, I feel like I took a limitless pill. I totally agree with you. Something out there. And I get this little squirrel. It's so funny. I leave my house and start climbing up in the woods. I have this little four-mile kind of track. And there's a squirrel. I don't know if he'll be there this year.
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But every year that I go out there and he barks at me. Right. And he kind of growls. It doesn't sound like a squirrel. Sounds like a little bark. And then he chews acorns off and grabs them with both hands and throws them down on me. It's so funny. And he'll follow me from limb to limb. I shit you not. And I look forward to seeing him every day. Like I feel like he's pissed off.
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But in any case, man, I feel amazing. But you're right. At some point, we have the capacity to replace these oils. We actually have a way to get back away from industrial farming and get back to local farming. I have a very good friend named Alfie Oaks. And he owns one of the more profitable grocery stores in America. It's in Naples, Florida called Seed to Table.
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And he took me out by helicopter one time and we hopped around to a bunch of his organic fields. He's got thousands of acres in the middle of the state of Florida. And he showed me how he's not only able to grow produce organically for less money than he would grow it if he had to use herbicides and pesticides and chemicals.
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He's able to pick it at 9 o'clock in the morning and have it on the grocery store shelf by 2 o'clock in the afternoon. And I watched the whole process go down, thousands and thousands of these acres. And, you know, white flies are the pest flies they're trying to avoid. Instead of spraying for these white flies, what they do is they just use this reflective cellophane.
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They run it down the rows of crops, and it creates this reflection. And it scatters them to the woods. And so now the white flies are not eating the crops. There's no herbicide. There's no pesticide sprayed on these. There's no preservatives. His team picks this stuff by 9 o'clock in the morning. It goes into a processing center. And by processing, I mean it gets washed. That's it.
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And then it's on a truck and it's on the shelf by 2 o'clock in the afternoon. So you can grab a strawberry in this grocery store and eat it. And it was growing at 9 a.m. that morning. And there are mechanisms for us to do that. Yes, I get some stuff needs to be shipped and stored.
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But most regenerative farming practices are not only green and good for the environment, they're economically feasible. They actually make economic sense. And, you know, when he talks about the fact that we've been spraying some of these fields for so many decades... With or so many years with these herbicides and insecticides that there is not a pest for, in some cases, hundreds of miles.
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But we are still spraying for those pests. So you've got to start to question what the motivation is.
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Yep, and grass-fed steak. And then you get to the top and you got soda. So it's just, it's phenomenal. And then the American Heart Association just ironically comes out in favor of soda in the snack food program.
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I'm addicted. I love these too, yeah. Explain to people what these are. So, hydrogen gas, I mean, this is probably my favorite biohack in the world because it'll cost you about a dollar a day. These are called H2 tab. You can get them at drinkh2tab.com. You can actually read the science on it. I think there's two...
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people in the world now, I mean, those that have read the science and take hydrogen gas, drink hydrogen water, and those that don't, or just haven't read the science. Because hydrogen gas, first of all, it's the lightest element in the universe. It's also the most prevalent element in the universe. 10% of your body weight is hydrogen.
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I think, in fact, if you took hydrogen, oxygen, carbon, and nitrogen, that's 96% of your mass. Okay, those four elements. So hydrogen is about 10% of your body weight. And hydrogen is not just an antioxidant. It's a selective antioxidant.
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#2304 - Gary Brecka
So if you look at oxidative stressors like nitric oxide or superoxide or hydrogen peroxide, so all of these oxidative stressors, they can be good in certain amounts. You need a certain amount of nitric oxide in your body, but too much nitric oxide is bad, too much hydrogen peroxide bad, too much superoxide is bad. So if you were to take an antioxidant like vitamin C,
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And take very, very high doses of antioxidants. This can be very bad for you because you're suppressing too much oxidation in the body. You're actually suppressing these oxidative stressors too much. Hydrogen, on the other hand... uses the body's homeostatic process to suppress inflammation. So in other words, it works through something called the NRF2 pathway.
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It affects a protein called NRF2, which moves into the DNA, binds to the DNA, and then the DNA spits out the instructions for catalase, superoxide dismutase, and glutathione. So in other words, you're actually using the body's regulatory system to to actually control inflammation instead of externally trying to control inflammation.
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#2304 - Gary Brecka
And the second thing it does is it targets the only oxidative-free radical that I think all of the science points to, which is hydroxyl radical, having no use in the body. So it selectively targets that and regulates the rest of the inflammatory process by using the body's homeostasis. So it's a I guess a very long-winded way of saying that hydrogen gas can go anywhere in the body.
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It reduces inflammation, improves circulation, improves memory. Really interesting study published on the Journal of Experimental Gerontology, and it was published in November of 2021. And most of these clinical research studies, they'll look at younger populations, like healthier, younger populations. But this actually looked at a six-month study on hydrogen water versus non-hydrogen water
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in 70-year-old and older folks. And they use something called TET2 to measure methylation. They measure cognitive function, sleep scores, sit-stand ratios, how well they're able to sit and stand, telomere lengths in their chromosomes. And the really fascinating thing about this study is it was done during COVID. So these seniors were basically imprisoned. So they were not mobile.
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And the only difference between the groups that they controlled for was the presence of hydrogen water. At the end of the six-month period during the lockdown – The control group had lost 11% in their telomeres. The non-control group had gained 4%.
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#2304 - Gary Brecka
They had better short-term recall, better cognitive scores, better circulation, improvement in cardiac markers, improvement in inflammatory markers like C-reactive protein. I think it's... I think it's the greatest biohack on earth. That and like some sea salt and some amino acids, like a perfect amino. I mean, just covering your bases.
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#2304 - Gary Brecka
I think those are your foundational basics for optimal health.
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#2304 - Gary Brecka
You know, you can bathe in it too. Really? You can actually bathe in hydrogen gas. How many tabs do you put in the water? You can... You can actually put what's called a hydrogen bomb, which just looks like a big bath bomb. It just creates hydrogen gas. It's elemental magnesium. What does it do for you when you bathe in it? It goes right transdermal. It goes right to the skin.
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#2304 - Gary Brecka
Yeah, you know, I checked into my Airbnb here in Austin, which, by the way, love Austin, man. I see why you came here. We covered it all on my podcast, so I won't go down that rabbit hole. But it truly is, man. People are amazing. Food is amazing. Went to this little restaurant called The Well, which I love, and they catered all my food. But there's like a serious wellness vibe here.
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#2304 - Gary Brecka
So remember, hydrogen is the smallest, lightest element that we know of, right? So it will go right transdermal. And these hydrogen gas will form in between water molecules. So a water molecule is H2O, but hydrogen gas can actually exist outside of the water molecule. And when you put excess hydrogen gas into the water, it will go right transdermal.
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And, you know, I have two of these baths at my house. I never talk about it like on social media. So I guess I'm about to talk about it now. But I have literally put people into these tubs. I'm kidding you not crippled with arthritis. And they will skip out of my unit like they won the lottery.
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Or from a hydrogen bath. You can get these machines. I mean, one for your house is about $7,500, $8,000. They make some that make nanoparticles or nanobubbles, which are about one five hundredth the diameter of a human pore. So if you run these things on your face, it'll actually push all the sebum out of your skin. It'll get rid of dandruff, psoriasis, eczema.
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If you have any kind of inflammatory condition like knees, hips, shoulder, rotator cuff, arthritis, low back, bathing in hydrogen gas can be one of the most therapeutic things that you do.
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Can you add it to a cold plunge? you can add it to a cold plunge. And what's interesting about adding it to a cold... In fact, I use this Cold Life Cold Plunge. And I've got these guys trying to see if we can incorporate the hydrogen gas into the cold plunge. So where the motor pulls the cold water out, it's going to send it into a hydrogen generator and then push it back into the tub.
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Because as the temperature drops in water, you can saturate more gas. So a 48-degree cold plunge will hold about twice as much gas as 102-degree you know, warm tub. So if you were like just taking like a warm bath.
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So you're going to be cold plunging for three to six minutes every day or, you know, that's what you and I do. You might as well be in there with hydrogen gas. And so I'm working with these guys from Gold Life to see if we can plumb these hydrogen generators.
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#2304 - Gary Brecka
And basically it creates the hydrogen gas by taking distilled water and breaking distilled water apart and then throwing the gas into the water. And it is noticeably different Thank you.
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#2304 - Gary Brecka
I actually, you know what? I normally don't bring notes, but I was talking to Cali Means on the way over here. And, you know, we're really supporting Bobby Kennedy's whole Maha movement and trying to officially put a committee together to really give him some great talking points and then bring some of the big influencers together to help him message. You know, around the media.
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Yeah, a lot of healthy people. So I check into the Airbnb and I go into the closet, like the owner's closet wasn't locked. And I went into the owner's closet. Of course, it's like all Cheerios and cookies and crackers. And I pulled a couple of bottles of these seed oils out. And I did a little post about it because I was like, look at all the heart healthy labels on this. Right. And and.
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Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
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We talked about seed oils last time, but it's, you know, and I get attacked a lot for it, for saying that these polyunsaturated fatty acids are bad for you. But a lot of times it's actually not the plant itself. It's the distance from the plant to the table.
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#2304 - Gary Brecka
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. is an activity called vasomotor or vasomotion. I think of a snake swallowing a mouse. And we don't really cater to this part of our circulatory system.
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#2304 - Gary Brecka
It's insane. So rapeseed, canola, is a plant. Essentially, you put it in a commercial press, and it will come out gummy. And so to degum it, you use something called hexane. And hexane, if you go to the National Institute of Health or National Library of Medicine, you'll see that that is a known neurotoxin. It's classified as a neurotoxin. Same as fluoride, right?
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So think of a snake. So if the heart doesn't circulate roughly 70% of the blood in our body... How is that circulation occurring? Because obviously blood is still moving. You have about 63,000 miles of blood vessel in your body.
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And so your heart is not strong enough in a single contraction, your left ventricle, your heart that's ejecting that blood is not strong enough to push the blood through 63,000 miles of vessel. And so how does the majority of this circulation occur? Well, the majority of our circulation is microvascular, right? So the microvascular circulation does not move blood by pressure.
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#2304 - Gary Brecka
It moves blood by something called vasomotion or vasomotor. And the best way I can describe vasomotion or vasomotor is to think of a snake swallowing a mouse. And the reason why I say that is because there's no pressure coming in the front of the snake, right? It's not being pushed down the snake's throat. It's being muscularly moved down the snake's throat. So it's a wave-like motion, right?
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#2304 - Gary Brecka
It's this wave-like motion called vasomotor or vasomotion. And vascular laxity, how the laxity that's in your vessels matters, your blood viscosity matters, and inflammation matters. This is why when you look at the percentage of high blood pressure diagnoses, for example, if you were to just Google what percentage of...
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hypertension, primary hypertension, essential hypertension, or high blood pressure, is idiopathic, right, of unknown origin, you'd see that 85% of all high blood pressure, hypertensive diagnosis, are idiopathic. We don't know the origin.
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#2304 - Gary Brecka
And so we examine these people's heart, EKG, EEG, heart sounds, lung sounds, maybe a die contrast study, maybe a CT angiogram, maybe some other kind of diagnostic heart imaging. We can't find anything wrong with the heart. And we medicate the heart anyway, generally for a crime it's not committing. When there's an 85% chance it's actually something other than the heart.
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And we never look to the microvascular circulation. We never look to the 70% of our circulation that's actually not done by our heart. What are we doing to cater to that 70% of our circulation? Well, things like resveratrol, hydrogen gas, lowering our homocysteine, which for most people is very simple to do.
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#2304 - Gary Brecka
I use an amino acid called trimethylglycine to help people metabolize homocysteine because those microvasculature is very susceptible to high levels of homocysteine. And there's so many people that have ailments that are consequences of poor circulation, and we're treating something completely different. So, for example, poor focus and concentration, lots of autoimmune conditions.
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Which is actually fluorosilicic acid. We'll get to that later. But so we degum it with hexane. And then you take this degummed oil and you heat it to 405 degrees, which turns it rancid. I mean, there's no mechanism on earth for temperatures to reach that much, especially plants to encounter this kind of temperature. So Now it denatures, it turns rancid. So now it's putrefied and it smells.
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If you look at the circulation in the brain, liver, lungs, pancreas, kidneys, you'll see that the majority of this circulation is microvascular. You know, I've talked about why you and I both had a positive experience, for example, with red light. What is red light doing to our eyes? Is it fixing the rods, the macula, the cones, the retina? Was there something damaged that red light fixed?
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#2304 - Gary Brecka
No, it just restored healthy vasomotor activity to the back of your eye, which is why I never wear protection in a red light bed. Now, am I saying a red light bed is going to cure your eyesight? No. I'll get so beat up for that. But red light therapy is... is extraordinarily good for vasomotor circulation. Why do you think it improves your skin, the collagen, the elastin, the fibrin?
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Why do you think it reduces fine lines and wrinkles? Why does it improve... Why can it improve our eyesight? Because it restores healthy vasomotor activity. And there's... so much microvasculature in our body that we don't really cater to this entire segment of our circulatory system.
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Think about how small a capillary and artery has to be to carry a fluid to the edge of the lung, exchange a gas with the inside of the lung, pull that gas into the fluid and not bleed into the lung. So just think about how tiny that tube has to be and how many of those you have to have. Because don't forget, right outside of your lungs, you've got fluid.
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Those alveoli are grabbing gas and throwing that into a fluid. Well, at some point, that pipe has to… meet a piece of tissue. How is it not bleeding into that tissue? It is that small. It's microvascular. This is also where hydrogen gas comes into play.
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So I don't know where I was going with that point, but I just find it fascinating that we've got so many things that we can do to cater to a lot of these ailments that people chalk up to a consequence of aging. And they can be as simple as catering to that portion of your circulatory system.
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#2304 - Gary Brecka
Yeah, 20 years. 20 years would be wild. Wild. Be like sending one of them to space, you know? And it's so funny because, you know, we're so wrapped around our medical system that's really 50, 60 years old, 70 years old, and how important a randomized clinical trial is and placebo-controlled randomized clinical trial that's been peer-reviewed and all of this.
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But we negate the Eastern philosophies that very often have been around for thousands of years. So I almost have more, lend more validity to something that's actually stood the test of time. Like something that doesn't work is not going to last a thousand years, you know, by virtue of the fact that it doesn't work. When we were in the mortality space, we never used randomized clinical trials.
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#2304 - Gary Brecka
We used big data. And I think what you're about to see now that I was alluding to before is we've built an entire system on, you know, the most rigorous scientific study being the randomized clinical, you know, placebo controlled randomized clinical trial. So that is the gold standard. And if it hasn't been through this process, it is not valid.
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#2304 - Gary Brecka
So now you have to deodorize it. So we deodorize it with sodium hydroxide. So we degum it with a powerful neurotoxin. We heat it to four to five degrees and turn it rancid. And then we deodorize it with a very powerful carcinogen. And then in some cases, we bleach it and bottle it and put it on the shelf. You ever go to the grocery store and you see the entire... Grocery aisle.
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#2304 - Gary Brecka
Well, we've never done randomized clinical trials on parachutes. I wouldn't jump out of an airplane without one. Who wants to be in that? Who wants to be in the control group? Okay, Stan.
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#2304 - Gary Brecka
You line up here. You're getting a knapsack and a prayer book, and we're getting a parachute.
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We have really good data. And one of the things I used to get just absolutely slaughtered for was I spoke out about the simple LDL hypothesis of cholesterol, saying that there is no correlation between elevated levels of LDL cholesterol on its own and cardiovascular disease. You had to have corresponding increases in triglyceride. You had to have inflammatory factors.
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You usually had to have other metabolic factors like hypertriglyceridemia, hyperinsulinemia. And yet everybody would really come after me for that. And now we're starting to see that the data on statins is really falling apart. I mean, big data is starting to tell us that the extension of life is near zero, but the extension of all-cause mortality is near zero.
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And then the complications downstream, which we never study. I mean, you'll never find a randomized clinical trial looking at more than one pharmaceutical compound in the same biome. Yet almost everybody at the age of 60 is on five or more prescriptions. in concert with one another. We study them independently. We say, okay, if you have high cholesterol, you're on a statin.
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#2304 - Gary Brecka
Okay, that's independent. If you have, you know, your hemoglobin A1C is over 6.4, you're now insulin dependent. Okay, so now you're on insulin. And you've been a little sad lately, so now you're on an SSRI. And your thyroid is hypofunction, so now you're also on a synthroid or levothyroxine or armothyroid. And, you know, your blood's gotten a little thick because you're
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on hormone therapy, so now you are on a blood thinner. We've never studied the compounding effect of all of these different pharmaceuticals in the same biome. We just assumed that the randomized clinical trial in these independent silos is valid even though we're going to smack all of these things together. One of the things that we learned in the mortality space was
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The more pharmaceuticals you were on, the easier it was for us to predict your life expectancy. It was extraordinarily accurate, for example, if somebody started a corticosteroid, which is very common for rheumatoid arthritis and other forms of joint pain and whatnot. If you started a corticosteroid, You had, by our data, six years and one day until you were getting a joint replacement. Jesus.
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#2304 - Gary Brecka
Six years and one day. That's the average? That was the average. So let's say, for example, that- Why is that? Because initially, corticosteroids are anti-inflammatory, but then they eat the joint like a termite.
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#2304 - Gary Brecka
And, you know, we knew this in professional sports. And a lot of careers were ended early from cortisone injections. You know, a lot of athletes had their careers actually end early because they got too many cortisone injections. How many is too many? You know, it sort of depends on the joint and the location.
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#2304 - Gary Brecka
One of them can be very beneficial. In the acute phase of a pain or injury, they can be very beneficial. But what they used to do is because these were repetitive use injuries and, you know, very often they would just dose the athlete up before a game. So, I mean, Joe Theismann. I mean, not Joe Theismann. Joe Montana.
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#2304 - Gary Brecka
It's all these like Wesson oils or vegetable oils, but they're all exactly the same color. Like exactly. They have that same beautiful, clear hue. That's not anything that occurs in nature. You know? No. Have you squeezed 10,000 watermelons into watermelon juice and put it all on the shelf? They would vary a little bit. They would vary a little bit. bit. But there's no variance there.
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You know, he's one of those careers that ended early, very likely because of cortisone injections. And you keep injecting the same ligamentous tissue with cortisone, eventually you will weaken that tissue and it will snap. You know, first it has an anti-inflammatory reaction, but then it starts to break down the cartilage like a termite.
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#2304 - Gary Brecka
In fact, it was so accurate that very often what would happen is people would get misdiagnosed with conditions like rheumatoid because they had the same symptomology as rheumatoid, but what they actually had was a long-term clinical deficiency in vitamin D3.
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And you would see that they would have single-digit vitamin D3 for decades, and then all of a sudden, they would start to present with symptoms that mimicked rheumatoid. They would say, hey, doc, you know, my soles of my feet and ankles are sore when I got out of bed in the morning. to go take my first pee. I feel like I had a workout the night before when I haven't. My low back hurts.
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#2304 - Gary Brecka
My knees and hips and shoulders are stiff. Now it's spread to my upper back. And lately, it's kind of hard to make a really tight fist. If you give those symptoms to the wrong primary care doctor, maybe without doing any confirming diagnosis, without SED rates, without RA factors, they go, you know what, Joe, you've got rheumatoid arthritis.
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#2304 - Gary Brecka
But don't worry, I'm going to put you on something called a corticosteroid. You're going to take this pill every morning. And you're going to be fine, methotrexate, whatever it is. And initially you feel great because it kills the inflammation. But then it starts to erode the cartilaginous surface. So if you think about the fact that you had a nutrient deficiency, that you're now being treated –
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#2304 - Gary Brecka
with a pharmaceutical. And six years and one day later... Now, by the way, the methotrexate, for example, will give you a gene mutation. It will mimic a gene mutation called MTHFR.
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#2304 - Gary Brecka
The motherfucker gene. Yeah, the motherfucker gene. So even if you don't have MTHFR... Let's try one of those. Yeah, I might as well try it. Even if you don't have MTHFR, if you take methotrexate, you inhibit your folate metabolism. Cheers, bro. No hydrogen gas, no coffee. I actually saw you sniffing something on one of your podcasts. What was that?
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#2304 - Gary Brecka
And so this is a chemically controlled process. And it's, you know, again, it's not back to the polyunsaturated fatty acids per se. It's the pro-inflammatory process that they cause. These foam cells and the inflammation in our arterial wall, which actually calls cholesterol to the site of inflammation. And we blame cholesterol for
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#2304 - Gary Brecka
So, you know, high-density lipoprotein and low-density lipoprotein, you know, the HDL, the high-density lipoprotein is generally considered the good cholesterol. And the LDL, the low-density or VLDL, very low-density lipoprotein are considered the bad cholesterol because they're softer, right? But what... What we know now is that the size of the cholesterol molecule matters a lot.
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In other words, the smaller the particulate size of cholesterol, the easier it is to cross into the arterial wall, gets eaten by macrophage, and it forms something called a foam cell, which is essentially this foam cell process of oxidized cholesterol is what is the genesis of narrowing of the arteries. Right. But again, we have to remember that cholesterol is called to the site of inflammation.
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#2304 - Gary Brecka
So if you had two people, one with cholesterol of 100 and LDL cholesterol and another one with cholesterol of 129. Does a person with 129 have a higher incidence of cardiovascular disease? No. Does the person of 129 have a greater risk of a cardiovascular event? No, just because they have elevated LDL cholesterol.
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#2304 - Gary Brecka
Now, if you start to look at other markers like C-reactive protein, which is a great marker for cardiovascular risk, if you look at triglyceride cholesterol ratio, because remember, Fat, triglyceride, is largely transported around the body on the surface of cholesterol. So if cholesterol was a tennis ball, the fuzzy yellow surface would be a fat, triglyceride.
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#2304 - Gary Brecka
And if you remember from high school geometry, as the size of a sphere gets smaller, its surface area to volume ratio goes up. So what that means is if I had two basketballs, dude, I can still, that thing is, I got to seal this thing, dude. It's like, it's like a blind in my left eye. What is it? That's a good question. Ammonia? Ammonia? Ah, it's no joke, man.
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#2304 - Gary Brecka
a lot of the heart disease, atherosclerosis, arteriosclerosis, because it's at the scene of the crime, but it rarely pulls the trigger. I mean, cholesterol is kind of like a fireman. It gets called to the fire to put the fire out. Right. And so the theory that if we had fewer firemen, we'd have less fires is kind of absurd. But that's the theory in LDL cholesterol. It might work in California.
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#2304 - Gary Brecka
I remember my clinic when Dr. Sarda used to tape these things to the wall because she would do these shoulder injections on people and they would get woozy and she would just crack one of those smelling salts and they'd come right back.
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#2304 - Gary Brecka
Not really. So let's say you had two basketballs of cholesterol. This is an oversimplified version for the audience. But you have two basketballs of cholesterol, and they're covered in fat, triglyceride. And let's say I add more triglyceride to the bloodstream, right, which happens when you eat high sugar, high glycemic carbohydrate. Why?
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#2304 - Gary Brecka
Because part of insulin's role is to block forms of energy metabolism that would allow you to burn fat or at least slow those pathways down. So essentially you have two basketballs of cholesterol. And now I want to add more fat to the table. Those two basketballs become four softballs. If I add more triglyceride to the table, they become eight baseballs.
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#2304 - Gary Brecka
If I add more triglyceride, they become 16 golf balls. And if I continue to raise triglyceride, they'll become 32 little BBs. So the point is the amount of cholesterol stayed stable. The amount of triglyceride went up. As the amount of triglyceride went up, the size of the cholesterol molecule got smaller.
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#2304 - Gary Brecka
So the two basketballs and the 32 BBs are the same volume of cholesterol, same nanogram per deciliter of cholesterol, just vastly different sizes. Those 32 BBs, very dangerous. Those two basketballs, very little danger. One is actually a marker for longevity. One is a marker for cardiovascular disease. And it is the same amount of cholesterol, just different sizes. So different sizes. Yeah.
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#2304 - Gary Brecka
Yeah. Your triglycerides would usually go down. Your LDL cholesterol will go up if you're on a ketogenic diet. Dr. I think it's Nadir Singh is his name. Did an unbelievable. He's a cardiologist. Did an unbelievable. a YouTube video on this. I actually did a podcast with Dr. Asim Malhotra, who is a cardiologist. Has he been here too?
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#2304 - Gary Brecka
Hey, shout out to Asim. He's an incredible, incredible guy. And Asim would tell you the same thing, that he fought the British Medical Journal and got publications that he was trying to have published, pulled because he was fighting the narrative on statins, one of the biggest drugs in the world. We knew in the mortality space that...
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#2304 - Gary Brecka
The centenarians that we were processing death claims on, I don't recall a time during my career when we had a death claim on a centenarian, somebody over the age of 100, that did not have elevated levels of LDL cholesterol at the time of their death. Because very often these people would die either in hospitals or assisted care living facilities, and we'd process the death claim.
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#2304 - Gary Brecka
And in order to get the death claim processed, you'd have to know, you know, day, date, time, location, cause of death. And we'd have to get a death certificate. And these people were dying with elevated levels of LDL cholesterol, which you would think, well, wouldn't they have died a lot younger of cardiovascular disease?
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#2304 - Gary Brecka
And now the data is starting to come out to support these other metabolic issues like hyperinsulinemia, hypertriglyceridemia, high blood sugar, that these – are villains that precede cholesterol attaching to the arterial wall. And so when we talk about metabolic health, we really shouldn't just isolate LDL cholesterol. We should be looking at our blood pressure, our abdominal obesity,
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#2304 - Gary Brecka
And I was like, what are some of the wins that we've had in the last week that I don't know about? And so he just rattled them off and I just jotted them down. What are the wins? Well, I mean, you know, so Trump formed this strong kids commission. And if you remember when he first got into office, he actually by executive order, he authorized Bobby to.
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#2304 - Gary Brecka
I could see them passing that legislation. You know what we need? We need less firemen. But- So the theory that if we push down the firemen, which was called to the site of inflammation, meaning we reduce the cholesterol, which was called to the site of inflammation to cause the repair, rather than ask what started the fire, that notion is about to be, I think, blown out of the water by big data.
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#2304 - Gary Brecka
Our sugars mainly, whether or not, you know, what our fasting blood glucose is, what the three-month average of our blood sugar is, our hemoglobin A1C, making sure that's below preferably 5.4. Looking at our insulin because insulin resistance develops a long time before a lot of these things show up.
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#2304 - Gary Brecka
And looking at other inflammatory markers like C-reactive protein and just generalized markers of inflammation. Because most people are eating a very pro-inflammatory diet. And this is why you can't isolate one thing and say seed oils are what's killing Americans. You know, vaccines are what's killing Americans. Aluminum vaccines or, you know, fluoride and drinking water.
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#2304 - Gary Brecka
It's the cumulative dose toxicity of all of these things. You know, our water is toxic and we have fluoride, we have chlorines, we have PFAs, polyfluoroalkyls, we have microplastics, we have bisphenols. You know, I actually did a test on myself and my entire family called a Vibrant Wellness Test. And you it's a blood and urine test.
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#2304 - Gary Brecka
And essentially it tells you whether you got mold, mycotoxins, heavy metals, all of these different things, the amount of BPAs in my blood. And I am I would consider myself pretty on top of my. diet game, the amount of BPAs, there were traces of jet fuel, there were aflatoxins. Jet fuel? There were traces of jet fuel. From all your flying?
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#2304 - Gary Brecka
Like accelerants, like aerosol accelerants, maybe from flying. I fly a lot. My daughter had it in her blood too, and so did my wife. And then we all had very similar species of mold, which we got rid of, and I felt a lot better.
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#2304 - Gary Brecka
It was actually in my daughter's apartment. We actually ended up having our doctor write a letter and break her lease, and we moved her into an apartment right next to us in Coconut Grove in Florida. But she was starting to have—and she's a nurse. And she was starting to have these strange symptoms, just brain fog. Her joints were just killing her in the morning.
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By the end of the day, her ankles were swollen. Her mood started to collapse, like the peaks and valleys of her mood kind of went away.
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she um and she was you know i was bringing her over to to the house and obviously as a biohacker i'm trying to solve everything so i was like we got to do this fiber wellness test medicine we got to figure out what's going on and then boom the mold just jumped off the chart our youngest daughter too is suffering from recurrent sore throats and you know that viruses and i mean bacteria and and mold have been mortal enemies for years i mean think penicillin and bacteria right
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#2304 - Gary Brecka
And so we live in the mold capital of the world, and very often when you get mold toxicity, it's not just a constant infection. It has a latent phase, a dormant phase, and then a sporulating phase. And so these mold infections, which a lot of doctors will tell you are complete nonsense— are absolutely valid. I mean, there are people that right now that have severe brain fog. They have joint pain.
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They have really poor focus and concentration and short term memory issues. They've got hormone imbalance. They've got water retention and they got swollen ankles. And they cannot really figure it out, and they'll do a standard blood test, and you don't see this on a standard blood test.
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And when you do something like a Vibrant and you look at this mold toxicity, you get rid of it, and you see the entire blood panel comes back into optimal ranges, and they feel amazing, just like my daughter. We did EB02. We did sauna. We did gut binders, activated charcoal binders, high doses of glutathione. And over the next few weeks, we slowly walked this mold right out of her system.
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But people suffer from this all the time. In fact, I've been deep down the rabbit hole of a lot of the foundations of these autoimmune diseases because in my previous clinic we had 150 160 000 patients come through our our clinic system and nearly everyone that we saw that had an autoimmune disease was told by their doctor uh you just woke up one day and your immune system went haywire
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I think you're going to see big data, artificial intelligence, and early detection in the next five years are just going to circumvent the entire system.
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So you have Crohn's disease because one day you woke up and your immune system is manufacturing antibodies to your colon. Or you have hypothyroid because you woke up one morning and your immune system is manufacturing antibodies to your thyroid. So now you have Hashimoto's or the lacrimal gland in your eye and you have chagrins or your blood, you have lupus.
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And we immediately just assume that God made a mistake, that the immune system is malfunctioning. Instead of taking a step back and saying, you know, what if actually the immune system is acting properly? What if... God didn't make a mistake. What if it's attacking the colon for a reason? We just have to figure it out.
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And if you just eliminated four things, mold mycotoxin, heavy metals, viruses, and parasites, just those four categories, I believe you would get to the majority of the genesis of autoimmune diseases. Some of these autopsy studies on multiple sclerosis, for example, were 100% positive for certain colonies of helminths.
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Helminths, which are parasites. And these helminth colonies or the larvae from these were actually in the myelin sheath of 10 of 10 autopsies that they did on multiple sclerosis patients. I'm not by any means saying that everybody that has multiple sclerosis has parasitic infection. But there are healthy parasites. There's categories of helminths that are very, very healthy.
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And some of the underdeveloped countries in the world where actually they have these healthy parasites, which we've wiped out for the large part here, they don't get multiple sclerosis or they have very, very low incidence of multiple sclerosis. And one of the theories is that because we have
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We have disrupted the balance of not only bacteria but parasites in our gut, specifically TSO parasites, which are healthy parasites that the pathogenic parasites proliferate and their larvae burrow into the myelin sheath and they're part of the genesis of multiple sclerosis. My whole point in saying that is if you take any pathogen, let's just take this one right here,
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What this is, it looks like a Donald Trump coin. So I don't know if the audience could see this, but let's say this was a mold spore or mycotoxin or this was a heavy metal or even a virus. And this was a healthy cell. You see that they don't hide like this, right? Metals, mycotoxins, mold, viruses, even in some cases, parasites, they don't hide outside of the cell like this. They hide like this.
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Inside the cell. Inside the cell. I mean, but when a virus, when the nucleocapsid protein of a virus attaches to a cell and injects its DNA, that's the way that it takes over that cell. It's kind of like being bitten by the zombie, right? I mean, a virus is not a living thing. It's an envelope that's wrapped around DNA.
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But when that envelope attaches to the cell wall and it squirts the DNA inside, now the virus has taken over the host cell, right? So it's inside the cell. But the point is that... The immune system is not after this. It's not after the cell. It's after this. So how does it get to this? It has to kick down this wall. It has to break through this cell wall.
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And very often, in order to do that, it needs to manufacture an antibody to this cell. If you look, for example, at Hashimoto's, which a lot of people have, these people have Hashimoto's and they're told, okay, well, You woke up one day and your immune system decided to attack the thyroid. You know, you're manufacturing antibodies to your thyroid. And so, well, why is it attacking my thyroid?
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Well, we don't know. Let's look at your family history. Oh, your mom's sister had it and your dad's brother had it. Oh, you have familial Hashimoto's. Even though there is no gene... for Hashimoto's. So you couldn't have inherited it from your ancestor because it now runs in your family.
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You're told that you have a genetically inherited disease and now you have to subscribe to a lifetime of medication instead of taking a step back and saying, well, what would have called my immune system to that site? Look at the incidence of heavy metal toxicity, mercury poisoning in Hashimoto's.
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Look at the amount of lead and mercury poisoning in Hashimoto's because the thyroid has an affinity for heavy metals. And very often when they retreat into the thyroid, the immune system will chase them there. And look at the genesis of a lot of Crohn's disease.
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I mean, a lot of Crohn's disease has to do with the disruption of the single cell layer in your gut that allows bacteria and other pathogenic contents that should stay inside your The luminal wall of your gut, they leak out and they're in an area that they don't belong and the immune system is attacking them there.
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And then we want to hold the immune system responsible for the crime and say, hey, we're going to arrest the police officer for what this criminal did. I mean – Those contents are in areas of the body where they don't belong. And so we're going to put you on an immunosuppressant or we're going to put you on an anti-inflammatory.
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And we're actually going to stop the immune system from protecting you. Instead of saying, what contents could be leaking from my gut that are causing the immune system to light up? And you could just keep going through lots of autoimmune diseases like this, you know, multiple sclerosis, a lot of these conditions. But mold, mycotoxins, metals, parasites, I mean...
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If I was ever told that I had an autoimmune disease, I would not accept it until I'd done those kinds of tests.
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Because the majority of people that had high LDL cholesterol also had high other factors going on in their body. And just like a lot of these randomized clinical trials, we look at things in isolation. We study one thing in isolation. One of the worst things we do, in my opinion, in modern science is study human anatomy or human physiology or biochemistry in isolation.
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So we say we're going to take a cell out of the body. We're going to put it in a lab. We're going to look how it behaves in a Petri dish. And then we're going to assume that when I put that cell back into the body, it's going to behave the same way. And so we didn't solve for all of these other factors. Well, what was the person's insulin level? What was their fasting glucose?
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What was their hemoglobin A1C? What were their other inflammatory markers like C-reactive protein, creatine phosphokinase? What were the other lifestyle factors that were going on? And what you'll find is it...
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correlation between high levels of cholesterol and people that have cardiovascular disease, but not because of the cholesterol, because of all of the diet and lifestyle risk factors that go around it. But we can build a multibillion dollar, in fact, a trillion dollar industry by just lowering this one biomarker.
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And when we lower this biomarker, if that biomarker were directly linked to all-cause mortality, if it were directly linked to the incidence of cardiovascular disease, then we would see in the population where we lowered this biomarker, we would see an extension of mortality, right? Because we said this biomarker was high, LDL.
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So if we lower it with statin, then we're going to see an extension of mortality. And lo and behold, we see no extension of mortality. So how does it continue to be used? Because it's continued to be marketed that way. You have to understand that there's a box that is called the standard of care. And I don't subscribe to the fact that physicians are trying to harm you.
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#2304 - Gary Brecka
In fact, I have the deepest respect for people that are licensed to practice medicine because I'm not one of them. And they go through a schooling to learn to practice within something called the standard of care. If you're outside of the standard of care, your malpractice is at risk, your reimbursement is at risk, your career is at risk.
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So you may very well be doing something that is in your scope of practice, but it is outside the standard of care. So most physicians will migrate back into the standard of care. So even if you go around to a bunch of allopathic doctors and get multiple opinions, they'll all be within this box.
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When you jump outside of that box, you've got to be talking to somebody who's willing to say, okay, you probably have to pay me cash. You probably have put my malpractice at risk. I don't have malpractice coverage for this type of treatment. Not because they're breaking the law. but because they're not within the standard of care.
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It's just like when physicians started to prescribe ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine for COVID when it wasn't the standard of care, even though there were millions and millions and millions of scripts written for these pharmaceuticals that were proven to be extraordinarily safe. I mean, our doctor used to have to write it for joint pain during COVID so she wouldn't potentially risk her license.
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I don't think that we'll ever replace seed oils. Why not? I think what's really interesting is the chemical processing. So another really good thing, and I'm helping to author this paper with Kelly Means and a bunch of other folks... to present it to Bobby Kennedy in looking at the genesis of chronic disease.
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Because if you just, and I know lots of people have talked about this on your show, so I won't belabor the point, but if you look at the spending of $4.5 trillion a year, right, on healthcare in the United States, and then you say, well, what do we lead the world in? Well, as of December 6th, we were ranked 66th in the world in life expectancy.
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We lead the world in morbid obesity, type 2 diabetes, multiple chronic disease in the single biome, meaning not just our population has multiple different chronic diseases, but multiple chronic diseases in the same body because most people don't just have one autoimmune disease or they're not just hypertensive and diabetic.
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They're hypertensive, diabetic, and hypothyroid with an autoimmune, usually multiple autoimmune disease. We lead the world in infant mortality, maternal mortality. And so you've got to ask yourself, how is $4.5 trillion a year in spending leading to these kinds of consequences? And very often, it's actually not the food. It's the distance from the food to the table.
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All the racers go out and start running, and I had these big Timberland boots on and this big puffy jacket, and I was just sitting at the start line, just was going to wait for my son. And I asked the race director, I'm like, how long are these loops? He's like, well, they're six point whatever miles, and there's four of them. And I was like, I could easily do one of these.
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Which I immediately regretted because then the snow starts caking to the bottom of my timberland. So I ended up actually marching and not really running. And it was so funny because my son has these spikes on. So, of course, he laps me. He comes by. He's like, Dad, what the fuck are you doing out here? I thought I'd give it a whirl. So I actually made three loops. So I got 18 miles. Oh, wow.
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He ran the whole 26.3. Then you get on the plane and then you fly five and a half hours in a economy sitting up like this. You fly five and a half hours and you land in Cape Town, South Africa, and you get off the plane and immediately run another marathon. And it's balls hot. Um, and, and then you, we packed up and from that marathon.
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So it's not necessarily the plant. It's what we're doing to process these plants to get them on the table. And so I think what you're going to see is these grass guidelines, generally regarded as safe plants. which is essentially how the FDA decides whether or not you can micropoison the population. So we are allowed to micropoison the population, right?
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So now these marathons were only like five and a half hours, six hours apart. So now you've done two marathons of 24 hours, one in Antarctica, one in the heat, South Africa. And then it was like 11 hours to Perth, Australia. Um, and I ran another half there. He ran a full, full marathon there. Um, and then you're done in Perth, Australia and you pack up and we flew to Istanbul, um,
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And the cool thing about Istanbul is you could you could run on on the Asian side and then run on the European side. So this was like the only night we got to stay into a hotel room and actually take a shower. And so we get to Istanbul and. And the marathon was supposed to be along this wharf. It was like supposed to be. It's pitch black at night. It's the dock is all broken apart.
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You know, there's these big, huge cracks in the sidewalk. And it was 26.3 miles along this wharf. Only the thing was we were told that they were going to get all the fishermen off the wall. And so it was lines and lines and lines of these guys fishing at night. And it would take them. Oh, boy. And they would snap the hooks forward.
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And so we get there and we're like, this is way too freaking dangerous. And I guess the company that they had hired to clear all these fishermen just took their money in and said the whole course was going to be lit. Found out the course wasn't lit. So then you had to wear the headlamps. And so it took him like an hour, around 20 minutes to clear all these fishermen.
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But then we started running and we ran with those, you know, those headlights on. And if you've ever been in a pitch black and you've just watched that light bounce in front of your eyes for, I don't know how my son did it. Because I ran for like an hour and a half and I was like, fuck this, I have nothing to do. Proof. I'm 53. I'm going to be 54. I'm already run a few half marathons.
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I feel really good. So he ran the entire thing and I joined him for a bunch of laps. But finally, he just ripped the thing off his head because that light shaking in front of your eyes for four hours at a time. Pretty soon you just start to go batty. And then you go to sleep. The next day you run on the Asian side. Then it was 19 hours to Cartagena.
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And about a third of the athletes drank the water with the ice or ate the salad that was washed in the water from it. Oh, no. And the worst Montezuma's revenge, Joe, you could ever imagine. Oh, no. Like a third of the plane wakes up six or seven hours into this 19-hour flight just puking both ends.
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People laying in the galleys, just throwing up into the trash cans. Oh, no. And I swear, by the time we had landed, my son had lost so much weight. And then we get to the hotel room, which you actually didn't get to spend the night. We got to the hotel room just to change, and he's in there just puking and crapping. Yeah. And he finally gets his race gear on.
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We're allowed to put certain amounts of pesticides, herbicides, insecticides, preservatives.
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to do a study with Health and Human Services to look into the genesis of chronic disease. Because nobody's talking about it at the National Institute of Health or National Library of Medicine or in our public health policy. Nobody's talking about what's causing this pandemic.
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We go downstairs and like half, half of the athletes are like, look like they're on their deathbed. And because we were late to Cartagena, the race goes off at like 1230 in the afternoon, 12 o'clock in the afternoon. It's fricking 98 degrees, maybe a hundred degrees, 90% humidity. It is the hottest, flattest, most unforgiving course ever.
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And I remember turning to my production, head of my production team, Max, and I was like, Max, there is zero chance he's finishing this marathon. Cause he'd already started about 208, 210 pounds. And he was probably one 90 by this time. And, um, and so I pull up next to my son and I was like, look, man, if you don't give up on this race, you know, I won't give up on you.
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And I sincerely regretted that it's like mile 16 or 18. Like,
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saying that i would run the whole race with him because everything in i've never run a marathon except for that day everything in my entire body hurt joe like like i was in so much pain from the waist down that i think i was just completely numb and he was just going from port-a-potty to port-a-potty puking and shitting puking shitting puking shitting
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And I was having these sentimental moments where I was like, man, I'm so happy to be out here with you, dude. We're going to look back on this one day and wish we were back here. And he would look at me and go, dad, shut the fuck up. And that would quiet down for another 30 or 40 minutes. And then I'd get sentimental again. And he'd tell me to shut the fuck up again.
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It's exactly what's happening. And a lot of experts will say that dosage determines the poison. And that's largely untrue when you talk about cumulative dose toxicity, meaning if I give you this sandwich and this piece of tuna fish and it has a very small safe amount of lead or mercury. It's probably not going to hurt you. Right.
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We ended up finishing the race, though. I don't know how he did it. He sipped little ounces of coconut water for that entire Cartagena race. And then we had to get on the plane and fly to Miami to run the seventh one, which I didn't do. He did. Wow. I don't even know why I brought that up, but it was a crazy, crazy moment.
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There were these women that were running this race, I kid you not, that they had Montezuma's revenge so bad that they would leave the race course and run into the bay that we were running beside and just shit themselves in the bay and then get back out and keep running the race. And the guy that set the world record in Antarctica left the course in an ambulance in Cartagena.
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There's a guy right now in Bahrain staying with Sheikh Nasser, who's one of the sons of the king of Bahrain. And he is running 150 full distance triathlons in 150 days. When I was there, he was on 59. I kid you not.
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#2304 - Gary Brecka
But if you don't methylate that metal out of your body and you keep eating that same kind of fish, I mean, nobody got mercury poisoning from a single piece of tuna fish. What they got mercury poisoning from was continuing to eat the same thing over and over and over and over again. And they got a cumulative dose toxicity, which is what a lot of foreign countries use.
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So, in other words, I can't just say if I put, you know, one drop of arsenic in this glass, is that going to kill you? It might make you mildly sick, cause an inflammatory process. Maybe it's not going to kill you. But if you drink one of those five times a day, seven days a week... Now you're toxic. And that's what's happened to our country. We didn't get here quickly.
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I like the single arm farmer carry. It makes a lot of sense, especially just trying to stabilize your spine.
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Okay. I'm just about there myself. Yeah. Just around two minutes. I put those weighted vests on and- That's a good way to do it.
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I'll take like a 12-pound weighted Aeon vest and I don't think you could do it with a rock, but I do those 12-pound Aeon vests and I just hang. This is one of them too. This one's about 12 pounds, but-
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But you're talking like the L sits where you're holding the bars and you just put your feet straight out.
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Are you a lefty or a righty? So your righty is, that's where you're holding your bow.
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When is hunting season for you, December? September. Oh, September. Yeah. And where do you go, like Utah or Wyoming?
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You know, honestly, I think our long-term plan is to... We've got a beautiful place in Miami is to sell that place and get a spot. I mean, continue to develop our spot in Colorado because there's something about these authentic log...
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cabins glacier fed spring water will and septic you know solar fed electricity yeah like just old school and it makes you so happy and i totally agree with you i wish i wish that people could feel what that feeling is like and they wouldn't chase a lot of other
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It's a connection to Mother Nature. I mean, it's a connection to life.
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I'll tell you a story, a true story about... So my house, we have this... My wife and I sleep in an EMF-free tent. I went a little nuts with the biohacking here. You sleep in a tent? Yeah, so... Every night? We have these... Every night that we're home in Miami. So it's a PVC frame. You know, it's like... Five and a half feet tall, six foot tall, little frame. It's just PVC. It's dirt cheap.
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And then draped over top of it is pure woven silver fabric. So it looks like a mosquito net that's over our king size bed. And in the back of our bed, it clips into this grounding mattress, which plugs into the wall. So the whole cage is grounded. And there's no 5G, no Wi-Fi.
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Oh, okay. I've got my podcast studio inside of one now. Inside of a hyperbaric chamber? Inside of a hyperbaric chamber. How big is your hyperbaric chamber? Huge. It's got two Maybach seats in it. It's got like a 52-inch or 54-inch TV. It's got three AI-powered cameras. My gym is in the hyperbaric, too.
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I have a rower and weights, like a whole set of weights inside there.
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You don't use a high-oxygen environment. I don't think there's any reason to go in a 100% O2 chamber. I mean, none of my chambers will go to 100% O2, so none of them are flammable. You could have a candle inside of there, theoretically. I don't suggest it, but you could.
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Yeah, because if you have 100% O2, you can have static electricity and can light a spark and it can explode.
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So you have to actually put medical grade oxygen into the chamber, which I don't do. You don't.
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So that's also not flammable. That's probably 92, 93% O2. Okay. Pure oxygen, 100% oxygen is flammable. It's just like pure hydrogen gas is flammable. So 100% O2 is flammable. I mean, that terrible accident that happened to that young boy in the Midwest here recently where the hyperbaric chamber actually exploded.
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Yeah. I mean, a young, I think it was five and a half year old little boy was in a hyperbaric chamber. And very sadly, the technician left him in there, didn't ground him. And he had a blanket in there with him, and he moved the blanket, and the static electricity caught 100%. Oh, it exploded. His mother was injured, too.
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I want to say that both the nurse and doctor and the clinic owner have been charged with manslaughter. Oh, my God. Terrible. But those are 100% O2 chambers. It's clear—I mean, it's important to make the distinction that these 100% oxygen chambers, I mean, these are—
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#2304 - Gary Brecka
Those make sense in a supervised hospital environment with, you know, someone standing right outside the chamber the entire time. I've been in one one time in a place called BioAccelerator in Medellín, Colombia. And but the. The home use chambers where you get a prescription from your doctor and you actually get it, probably what you have. Is yours a soft shell?
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Chamber? It's a hard shell? Oh, okay. So that'll probably go to two atmospheres of pressure.
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So Dr. Jason Saunders, who wrote the book Hyperbaric Medicine with Dr. Dimitri. We'll tell you there's a lot of benefits at low pressures, like 1.3 atmospheres, which you can get in a soft chamber. And there are a lot of benefits at higher pressures, like 2 atmospheres. So I never go above 2 atmospheres, twice the atmospheric pressure.
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#2304 - Gary Brecka
If you think about what's happening at twice the atmospheric pressure, you're taking the oxygen from the air, which is about 21% sea level, what we're breathing right now, and you're doubling that. Because you're doubling the pressure. So every 33 feet you go below sea level, you double the atmospheric pressure.
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So when you get to two atmospheres of pressure, you're essentially taking in twice as much oxygen. The oxygen concentration hasn't increased, but the size of the gas has gotten smaller. So now you're perfusing tissues with oxygen that normally wouldn't be as perfused with oxygen. You can also put on the nasal cannulas and get 92%, 93% O2, but that's also not flammable.
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#2304 - Gary Brecka
If you took a nasal cannulas from an oxygen concentrator, like one that works for your EWOD or something, and you lit a lighter in front of it, that gas is not going to catch fire.
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Just a higher concentration of oxygen for things like diabetic ulcers. When you have anaerobic bacterial infections, meaning bacterial infections that do not thrive on oxygen. You have to be careful with aerobic bacteria because there are bacteria that actually feed on oxygen as well. And so you don't want to put somebody who has an aerobic infection into a hyperbaric chamber.
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You want to put somebody who has an anaerobic infection into a hyperbaric chamber. But what's really interesting is, you know, some of the research that's coming out of... Israel, especially, on cognitive function, using 60 days at two atmospheres of pressure and then reducing the pressure over time.
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You know, the improvement in mitochondrial density, the improvement in blood flow, cognitive scoring, reduction of neural inflammation. I know you can't say treat or cure, but they use these to modulate autism. all kinds of neuroinflammatory conditions, Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, which is really linked to type 3 diabetes, which is insulin resistance in the brain.
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But the byproduct of that is this neuroinflammatory cascade. So reducing neural inflammation, you know, there are a lot of benefits to hyperbaric tissue recovery, post-surgical wound repair, post-surgical recovery. You know, these things have Pretty profound.
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60 sessions in 90 days. 60 90-minute sessions in 90 days. You're right. Dr. Saunders talked about that a lot too.
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Yeah, it's a chromosomal end cap. And if you think about it, I have a saying that the presence of oxygen is the absence of disease.
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And I truly believe that because if you look at the breakdown in mitochondrial respiration, which occurs when you deprive the mitochondria of all kinds of things, but mainly of oxygen, which is our fuel source, which is not our fuel source as humans, our fuel source as ATP, but the fuel source for the mitochondria is mainly oxygen.
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#2304 - Gary Brecka
And when you feed it oxygen, you have a 16-fold step up in cellular energy. When you deprive it of oxygen, you have a 16-fold step down in cellular energy, right? I mean, the difference between aerobic and anaerobic respiration or the Krebs cycle having the presence of oxygen or not having the presence of oxygen is a pretty substantial number.
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#2304 - Gary Brecka
And so hyperbarics, because they allow for compressed oxygen, even if you don't increase the percentage of O2, right, you take it, you keep it at 21% like we're breathing right now, but you just double the atmospheric pressure. I mean, the effects are pretty profound. And I believe the risks are low.
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#2304 - Gary Brecka
If you have a physician, you understand how to operate the chamber and you have safety procedures and you're not using 100% O2 and you're at shallow depths, you can ascend quickly without being in trouble. If you're a diver, you understand dive tables. You have to ascend at certain rates and pause at certain levels. So the one that I built, I was like, man, how do I just compress time?
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#2304 - Gary Brecka
I'm like, well, I'm going to work out. So what if I was able to put the gym in there and I'm doing podcasts? I remember the guy thought I was out of my freaking mind when I started talking. It does sound crazy. Yeah, but it's got a Nordstrak rower in there. How big is it? Like the size of this room? It's pretty big. Let me see if I can show you a picture of it.
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#2304 - Gary Brecka
Well, the other one you can lay down in, it's got these seats that recline. It's got a television in it, too, so I go in there and watch the news sometimes. Oh, that's great. Yeah, my wife and daughter goes in there and they just take a nap.
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#2304 - Gary Brecka
Yeah, that's why I'm trying to compress time. Just like if you could get the hydrogen into the cold tub. I mean, he's going to be at my house tomorrow, so we're going to try the hyperbarics.
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#2304 - Gary Brecka
I know they're about to come out with them. I don't know if you can order them on the site yet. I think they're probably going to be if it's if it's 30 bucks for 30 of those H2 tabs, then I would imagine they're gonna be around five or 10 bucks. Ten bucks for a hydrogen bomb to drop into the bathtub.
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#2304 - Gary Brecka
I mean, the machine is, you know, I was actually originally going to order this electrolysis system called a cocoon or it's spelled cake when like the facility out in Las Vegas, which makes oxygen water. That system is like one hundred and ten thousand dollars.
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#2304 - Gary Brecka
And then a buddy of mine, Tyler LeBaron, who's the PhD in the space, told me about this machine I could order from Korea for $7,500, which is the one that I have now. And now I've added a nanobubble machine, and that one's just incredible, I mean, for this transdermal inflammation.
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#2304 - Gary Brecka
I think for, for people that have like, you know, chronic injuries, especially like chronic repetitive use injuries, or they have real severe low back pain, or they've got parents or something that are deconditioned, you know, that have a hard time, um, And exercising, you know, these are great things to do to lower their inflammatory cascade.
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#2304 - Gary Brecka
You know, that and there's something called EWOD, exercise with oxygen therapy, which is kind of based on Otto Warburg's research where, and I do this with my parents because both of my parents are deconditioned. My mom has dual knee replacements and my dad's handicapped from a boating accident years ago.
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#2304 - Gary Brecka
He has no cognitive impairment, but he has some motor coordination difficulties, so it's hard for him to really exercise. And I bought them a sauna, and I put them both in a sauna for 20 minutes three times a week, and they just breathe.
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#2304 - Gary Brecka
There is no question that we have the capacity to produce these and we have the capacity to produce them now. I mean, a lot of these farms don't use the bones from these cattle. They don't use the hide from these cattle. They don't boil on the collagen from these cattle. And they certainly are not making the tallow from the fat from the cattle that are being slaughtered.
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#2304 - Gary Brecka
I bored a hole, and they just breathe through a nasal cannulus, the 92, 93% O2, which is a version of EWOT, the exercise with oxygen therapy or the multi-step oxygen therapy, because if you just can raise their heart rate just a little bit with the heat— And then that extra perfusion pressure really drives oxygen into the tissues. And I'll tell you, it's a noticeable change in them.
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#2304 - Gary Brecka
Just like when you get out of a cold plunge, you had a really good workout. Well, imagine, you know, you're elderly and you're deconditioned. You know, you really don't get your heart rate up. You really don't get your good sweat on. But you go into a sauna, raise your heart rate and breathe some of that 92, 93% of the time. they feel amazing getting out of there.
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#2304 - Gary Brecka
Right. I totally agree. I mean, if you think about what you get from cold punching, let's not overblow it or underblow it. I mean, but, you know, you get, well, first of all, if you exercised intensely, let's just say you did a big squat workout and you tore a bunch of quad muscle. What's going to happen? Inflammation. What's the body going to do?
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#2304 - Gary Brecka
Yeah, the body's going to send more blood flow, more amino acids, more oxygen to those muscles. It's going to pull inflammatory factors like creatinine, you know, the breakdown of muscle, the byproduct of muscle breakdown. It's going to pull that out. So why would you want to stop? How do you say it? It's creatinine? Creatinine.
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#2304 - Gary Brecka
Yeah, that's a kidney issue. It's actually a sign of rhabdomyolytis, right, of overtraining.
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#2304 - Gary Brecka
Yeah, you start to break down. So creatinine is a byproduct of muscle breakdown. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
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#2304 - Gary Brecka
A lot of tallow, a lot of bone broth, a lot of bones, a lot of cartilage, you know, that's entirely going to waste. And if you look at a lot of countries, they will use the entire animal. They'll boil down the bones. They'll use the hide. They'll use the bone marrow.
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#2304 - Gary Brecka
I think you have the perception that there's a big market for it because you're kind of in the know, right? You're probably in the, I hate to use this term, but woke 1%. Oh, no. He's like, did he call me woke? It used to be cool. When I mean woke 1%, I mean, I hate that word, woke.
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#2304 - Gary Brecka
That's my problem. You think that just because people get paid, they do things that are shady.
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#2304 - Gary Brecka
I've told people, you text me and you're like, bro, my eyesight is totally improved.
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#2304 - Gary Brecka
Yeah. I would I would definitely red light therapy. I would add what I gave you the other day, those perfect aminos, which is just essentially the nine essential amino acids.
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#2304 - Gary Brecka
You know, we talk about how most people are trying to dose protein so they can get to the amino acid equivalent, or they're taking imperfect proteins like, or incomplete proteins like collagen, which can't build, which is a great protein, but it won't build muscle because it's an incomplete protein.
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#2304 - Gary Brecka
Yeah. I mean, I think that the idea that we can target direct proteins is a fallacy. You know, I use the analogy that we don't eat our nails to grow our nails and we don't eat our hair to grow our hair. But we think that we can eat collagen to grow collagen. And that's actually not true. I'm not anti-collagen.
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#2304 - Gary Brecka
But I like it because it's kind of like you can just be triggered about anything now, so it's so convenient. Yes. Because I can really silence you if you start out intellectualizing me. I can just be like, dude, you're triggering me. You're hurting me. You're hurting my feelings. You're triggering me with information. I kid you not. I've never talked about this.
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#2304 - Gary Brecka
I'm just saying if you eat collagen or put collagen in your coffee, it doesn't show up as collagen in your skin. My preference would be you take something that has all of the nine essential amino acids. I take one called Perfect Aminos, but there's other products out there that are all nine essential amino acids.
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#2304 - Gary Brecka
I think the best morning cocktail is to take a mineral salt, like a Baja Gold salt or a Celtic salt, add that to your drinking water, drop a hydrogen tablet in there, take a scoop of Perfect Aminos, put that in there, hydrate, mineralize, and get the amino acids.
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#2304 - Gary Brecka
Um, you know, I, I don't, I haven't looked at the, at the, at the bioavailability. I mean, there's, there's two types of creatine, which, uh, you know, monohydrate and HCL monohydrate is where all of the research is. There's a lot more research, uh, on creatine monohydrate. Um, but creatine also comes in the HCL, the hydrochloric form.
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#2304 - Gary Brecka
And I, I tell people that if they, if they take creatine monohydrate and they, and they have bloating, which some women do, they'll have a little water retention or some bloating, then just take the creatine HCL.
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#2304 - Gary Brecka
So it's myofibril uptake or cellular uptake, right? So bioavailability is a lot of things that we pair together for bioavailability, like D3 with K2.
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#2304 - Gary Brecka
Yeah, and magnesium is one of the critical deficiencies.
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#2304 - Gary Brecka
That's good. You take magnesium with D3 and K2. That's perfect. That's a way that wouldn't, you know.
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#2304 - Gary Brecka
You can take too much magnesium. It's a little hard. I mean, it's a really essential light metal. I mean, you have to really over supplement with that. I take a nighttime. I take this thing called by bio optimizers called magnesium breakthrough, which has seven forms of magnesium in it. I'm a big fan of that. You can also isolate the magnesiums if you have trouble sleeping.
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#2304 - Gary Brecka
Magnesium 3 and 8 is really good. Magnesium citrate and glycinate are good for intestinal motility. So if you're not somebody that has regular bowel movements, magnesium deficiency is highly linked to poor intestinal motility. So if you're not somebody that wakes up within 45 minutes of the day and has a bowel movement...
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#2304 - Gary Brecka
I'm probably going to lose half my audience. But I went to Harvard University for this thing, this longevity summit through a very good friend of mine. I won't mention his name because then I'll give away the event that I was at. I called my wife on day two and I was like, babe, I feel like I landed on Mars. I go, I got to get out of here. And she goes, what is going on?
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#2304 - Gary Brecka
So you may want to look to, you know, magnesium supplementation the night prior and see if that fixes your your bowel movement. Also, you know, people that have that ruminate at night who, you know, they lay down to go to sleep and their body tired, but their mind awake.
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#2304 - Gary Brecka
This is generally a rise in something called catecholamines, these these neurotransmitters in the brain that create a waking state. They're also the same neurotransmitters that create anxiety and trigger our fight or flight response. A lot of times magnesium, methylfolate, and a simple B-complex will quiet those squirrels. Very, very simple methylated squirrels.
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#2304 - Gary Brecka
nutrients to actually break down those catecholamines. Because, you know, I talk about this all the time. A lot of people that suffer from anxiety are never really told what it is. Like nobody sits them down and tells them what is anxiety. Like, why do I feel, why do sometimes I feel like I'm in a heightened state of awareness? And then I move from a heightened state of awareness to being anxious.
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#2304 - Gary Brecka
And then I move from being anxious to full blown anxiety. Like I actually feel the presence of a fear. And then, you know, sometimes that presence of a fear goes into like a rapid heart rate or acute hearing or pupils dilate. And then that goes into a full blown panic attack. And if catecholamines continue to rise, you can even have a full blown paranoia.
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#2304 - Gary Brecka
It's this rise in this category of neurotransmitters called catecholamines. So if we identified anxiety as that, and I'm not saying it's always that, but the majority of people have that form where they have metabolism issues because of a gene mutation called CompT. And they are warriors, not warriors. So they lay down to go to sleep at night, their mind wakes up.
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#2304 - Gary Brecka
They start ruminating thoughts at night. If they think about anything at night, they'll take it straight to worst-case scenario. So every scenario that they ruminate on at night, they take it to worst-case scenario.
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#2304 - Gary Brecka
It's absolutely nutritionally related because when you talk about – What do catecholamines do in the body? They're our fight or flight response.
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#2304 - Gary Brecka
So if you walked out of this door right here and somebody was standing in front of you with a knife right in that hallway, besides kicking their ass, your pupils would dilate, your heart rate would increase, your extremities would flood with blood, your hearing would get acute, you would instantly start having a fight or flight response. Well, what happened? Right.
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#2304 - Gary Brecka
I mean, that person didn't do anything to you yet. What happened inside of your body that caused that response? You received a dump of catecholamines, norepinephrine, epinephrine, fedrone and dopamine. One of those we call adrenaline. So so you're in this hyper acute state. So that's that's like we dump those to an eight full blown fight or flight response.
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#2304 - Gary Brecka
Well, what happens if we dump them to a three? Well, if that happens at night, you're body tired, but your mind awake. And so you lay there just ruminating because your mind is in awakened state, even though your body is tired. And so if you look at the pathways that actually break down catecholamines, how do we downregulate catecholamines?
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#2304 - Gary Brecka
Complex of B vitamins, a form of B12 called methylcobalamin, which you can get anywhere, guys. Something called methylfolate. And every once in a while, SAMe, S-adenosylmethione. It is astounding what you can do to human beings by putting those raw materials back.
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#2304 - Gary Brecka
No doubt. Paranoid schizophrenias are the next level. What's really interesting is I interviewed a Harvard physician on my podcast, and he was treating drug-resistant mental illness with diet, mainly keto diets.
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#2304 - Gary Brecka
And he found that the beta-hydroxybutyrate, which is the main ketone body in this, and basic supplementation fixing their methylation pathways, meaning supplementing for methylation, poor conversion of certain chemicals, led to better behavioral changes than they were having in the drug-resistant mental illness group.
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#2304 - Gary Brecka
I said, I listened to a panel of PhDs for four hours debate about whether or not a microaggression is something that could happen to you that you don't recognize that was causing a micro trauma. Yeah. that the other person didn't realize they were doing, but it was still creating an unsafe environment. I think there should be mandatory jiu-jitsu classes for those people. Mandatory jiu-jitsu.
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#2304 - Gary Brecka
And it's really fascinating because we don't like to think that nutrient deficiencies could lead to serious mental illness. Could you just Google methylation chart? Can I just show you a chart of methylation? The reason why I want to put it up here is because—and just click on any one of them once you put it up there. It's going to look like this complicated myriad. Just click on that one.
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#2304 - Gary Brecka
So this is something I've committed to memory. But the reason why I show a lot of people this chart is for what's not on here. So this is what we call methylation. This is the process that's going on 300 billion times a day inside of all of your cells. And you'll see tryptophan and tyrosine and phenylalanine and quinoa gas and lactic acid cholesterol. You see all of this stuff on this chart.
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#2304 - Gary Brecka
The reason why I show people this chart is because this is going on 300 billion times a day inside of your body, every minute, every hour of every day. And what you do not see on this chart is a single synthetic, a single chemical, or a single pharmaceutical. So why is it that we think synthetics, pharmaceuticals, and chemicals could be the answer to deficiencies in this chart? They're not.
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#2304 - Gary Brecka
So what happens if I just start wandering around this chart and I find something like serotonin? I go, wow, let me just let me just serotonin is the main driver of mood. I wonder how serotonin is made. Oh, I actually in fact, there's serotonin right there. What is it made from? Just follow that arrow up. Oh, it's made from tryptophan. And what do I need in order to convert tryptophan to serotonin?
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#2304 - Gary Brecka
I need 5-HTP. I need thiamine. I need a complex of B vitamins. Could it be possible that a complex of B vitamins is stopping me from converting tryptophan into serotonin? Yes. And what happens if I can't convert tryptophan into serotonin? Serotonin drops. And if serotonin drops, I cannot assemble moods that require serotonin.
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#2304 - Gary Brecka
So now I've been told I have a mood disorder and I have a nutrient deficiency. Look at this. Anxiety, ADD, ADHD. See that on there? Okay. What do we make dopamine from? Phenylalanine and tyrosine. What if I had a deficiency in phenylalanine or tyrosine? Oh, I couldn't make the neurotransmitter dopamine. What is dopamine? Dopamine is the main driver of behavior.
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#2304 - Gary Brecka
Well, what happens if dopamine is low? Now I have an addiction. Why? Because the absence of dopamine is the presence of addiction. So could I have addictive behavior because I'm low in dopamine and not actually just addicted to nicotine, alcohol, drugs, promiscuity, gambling? Absolutely. And why is it that most addictions have a tendency to shift and never really go away?
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#2304 - Gary Brecka
If you've ever really been an addict or ever known a true addict, why is it that their addiction has a tendency to shift and not go away?
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#2304 - Gary Brecka
Yeah. So alcoholics become workaholics. Workaholics become work-out-aholics. When I used to compete amateur in long-distance triathlons, most of the guys that I raced with were recovering addicts of some kind.
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#2304 - Gary Brecka
Yeah, I mean, we make $110 billion a year on type 2 diabetes. They're trying to put that out of business for sure, right?
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#2304 - Gary Brecka
The absence of dopamine is the presence of addiction. And we never treat the dopamine deficiency. We only treat the physical addiction. So we get you off alcohol and now you're on Suboxone. You get you off Suboxone and now you're gambling. You're off gambling and smoking cigarettes. You're done smoking cigarettes.
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#2304 - Gary Brecka
Now, why is that? Because they're chasing the dopamine deficiency. Rarely, if ever, did a true addict wake up one day and just say, I want to get really banged up. The majority of addicts woke up one day and said, I want to feel normal. And it was the search for normalcy that developed the addiction. They smoked a cigarette, they felt normal. They took a drink and they could socialize.
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#2304 - Gary Brecka
They were promiscuous and they kind of felt normal. They jumped off a fucking mountain in a squirrel suit and the rush of dopamine actually brought their dopamine level to normal. They actually felt calm 15 inches away from death.
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#2304 - Gary Brecka
Yeah, when they passed the microphone to me, I got so much trouble. I won't say his last name, but Daniel. He's still mad at me right now because of this. They passed the microphone to me, and they're like, do you have anything to add to the conversation? I go, this sounds like...
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#2304 - Gary Brecka
and so the deficiency in dopamine very often drives this and we label these people with mental illnesses we label them with um mood disorders but serotonin is a part of the recipe of mood so if you said to me what is a mood what is an emotional state i would say it's a collection of neurotransmitters bound to oxygen So let's say that you said, okay, what's happiness?
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#2304 - Gary Brecka
Okay, there's so much serotonin, so much dopamine, so much norepinephrine, so much epinephrine. Boom, you put these together, you have the emotion of happiness. Well, what if I just took serotonin out, right? Like what if I went to a bakery chef and said, hey, chef, you can bake whatever you want. You just can't use butter. And so I took butter out. And it doesn't sound like a big deal.
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#2304 - Gary Brecka
It's only one component. But think of how many recipes that would affect. Cookies, pastries, pies, brownies. Well, moods are no different. I say, Joe, you can be in whatever mood you want. You just can't use serotonin. So now any mood that you go to assemble that requires serotonin, you can't manufacture. So now you have a mood disorder.
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#2304 - Gary Brecka
Instead of taking a step back and saying, well, why doesn't he have serotonin? Where's serotonin made? Well, serotonin is made in the gut. 90% of it's right here. So if you don't have it here, you can't have it here. And so then why don't we go to the factory in the gut that makes serotonin? Where is the factory that turns tryptophan into the neurotransmitter serotonin? Well, it's in the gut.
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#2304 - Gary Brecka
What is that done through? A process called methylation. You mean if I'm deficient in certain vitamins or nutrients, that methylation cycle is not working? Am I not producing serotonin and therefore I might have a mood disorder? Yes. Am I saying that all mood disorders come from that? No.
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#2304 - Gary Brecka
But there are so many things that come from this methylation cycle that are so potentially easy to fix with basic supplementation. You know, for two years, for two years in our initial clinic, my wife and I, in our doctor, we pulled blood work. I think it was about 1,600 patients or so that came through our clinic.
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#2304 - Gary Brecka
A bunch of people, this whole panel up here, you guys sound like you boarded a spaceship and literally left Mother Earth because I have no idea what you're talking about. You are talking about trying to identify something that you by its very nature say you don't know if you have it or you don't. So let's just admit that it's a ghost. So how are we going to – we can't measure it. We can't find it.
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#2304 - Gary Brecka
We pulled blood work and we pulled these basic biomarkers, CBC, CMP, lipopanel, hormone panel, and nutrient deficiencies. And then we also pulled this methylation test, right, looking at five genes of methylation. And And you can get these methylation tests done anywhere. And we looked at these five genes.
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#2304 - Gary Brecka
And then what we would do is we would solve with supplementation for the genetic deficiency and watch what happened to the blood biomarkers. You would see kidney filtration rates improve. You would see waste elimination, like people become more regular. You would see C-reactive protein, these nonspecific markers of inflammation drop. You would certainly see things like homocysteine drop.
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#2304 - Gary Brecka
People have very, very high levels of homocysteine. You supplement them with the right nutrients, a B-complex, something called trimethylglycine, and they start to break down homocysteine. And then all of a sudden, they're reporting that their blood pressure is returning to normal and have less frequent headaches.
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#2304 - Gary Brecka
It is astounding to me how many people are just nutrient deficient and don't accept that basic supplementation or, oh, we can get everything from diet bullshit. If you look at a soil lineage study from 1945 and a soil lineage study right now, you would be astounded to see how depleted our food supply is or our soil is. Add processed food and all this other stuff to it. You don't stand a chance.
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#2304 - Gary Brecka
You need basic supplementation. All human beings need the same things. We need two essential fatty acids. Essential means they're essential for life. You need nine essential amino acids. So you can supplement with the nine essential amino acids in the morning. You can supplement with the two essential fatty acids, omega-3 fatty acids like black seed oil or good mega fish oil.
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#2304 - Gary Brecka
You can supplement with the minerals. So many of us are mineral deficient and we don't realize the expression of mineral deficiency.
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#2304 - Gary Brecka
I take one called Baja Gold Sea Salt. It's probably one of my other favorite biohacks because a bag of Baja Gold Sea Salt, like a Celtic salt, will have all these trace minerals in it. A $15 bag will last you five years. It's dirt cheap. And you can take a quarter to a half teaspoon of this, put it in your drinking water. I'll throw a hydrogen tablet in there and some amino acids.
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#2304 - Gary Brecka
Take that with a methylated multivitamin and take that with an omega-3 fatty acid. And you have all the bases covered first thing in the morning.
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#2304 - Gary Brecka
I would take the vitamin D3 with food. I would actually take all of that when I would take the amino acids and the hydrogen and the sea salt on an empty stomach is fine. Whenever you're going to take your multivitamin and your D3, which is fat soluble, I would take those with food. So first thing in the morning, you just hydrated and mineralized the body. just with a basic sea salt.
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#2304 - Gary Brecka
Just hydrate and mineral. And there's a lot of good mineral compounds.
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#2304 - Gary Brecka
Amino acids you take on an empty stomach. And those amino acids, those perfect amino acids, won't break a fast. They're non-caloric, or they have, I think, one calorie. But they won't break a fast. And now you have all nine of the essential amino acids. You've got the majority of the essential minerals. You've hydrated yourself, and you put...
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#2304 - Gary Brecka
We can't prove you have it. We can't prove you don't have it. So how are we going to treat it?
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#2304 - Gary Brecka
hydrogen gas into your to your blood you will feel the difference right you you just feel and it's a simple thing to do and it's such a simple thing to do um and i get so much flack for telling people to do that i'm like it's just these this is just getting us back to the basic i dude i It's crazy. It's just too many crazy people.
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#2304 - Gary Brecka
I love coming out here and chopping it up with you, man. I love having you on, man.
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#2304 - Gary Brecka
And by the way, dude, Joe Rogan on the Ultimate Human podcast. Yes, I did your podcast as well. Yes.
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#2304 - Gary Brecka
That was cool because we went down some rabbit holes, man. It was fun. We went down...
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#2304 - Gary Brecka
You can go to theultimatehuman.com. I have a VIP community there where all I do is just teach. I try to educate to inspire so that people will make a change. So you can join my VIP community there. I'll give you a discount on joining the VIP community. I'll send you a free box of H2 tabs there. uh, for joining up the ultimate human.com. The podcast is the ultimate human.
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#2304 - Gary Brecka
No, no, no. They're like, hey, Stan, how do we get this off the balance sheet, bro? How do we get rid of it? This is stinking up the place.
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127. Dr. Mink Chawla: Blood Filter Seraph-100 Shows Promise To End Long COVID
Roughly 40% of our DNA is viral, and that lots of pathogens that we catch, they're ones we always had, and when our immune system gets run down, they just rear their ugly head.
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Really? Yeah. And as the blood goes through there, there are all these heparin binding sites that it can attach to.
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Right.
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So would you say that the positive outcomes, and I will actually put a link to that study. It's published because I've read it myself. But for those folks that are listening that are not really familiar with it, would you say that the benefits were coming from the direct reduction of the viral load, the SARS-CoV-2 virus being reduced? Yes.
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And then there are other ancillary benefits too, like are you removing inflammatory compounds, cytokines or other things from the blood that are helping the immune system to calm down and stop overreacting?
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127. Dr. Mink Chawla: Blood Filter Seraph-100 Shows Promise To End Long COVID
I am so intellectually curious about his background, the current work that he is doing. the impact that I believe he's going to have on the aging, the longevity market, just bio-optimization in general, helping people live healthier, happier, longer, more fulfilling lives. So you are really in for a treat. Welcome to the podcast, Dr. Mink Chawla. Thanks so much, Gary. Delighted to be here.
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127. Dr. Mink Chawla: Blood Filter Seraph-100 Shows Promise To End Long COVID
I mean, in fact, there's a theory, and I'm paraphrasing the theory now for a moment. I talked to Peter Diamantis about this on our podcast. He was on the podcast right before you. He's, by the way, a huge fan of yours. Oh, Peter's awesome. Huge, speaks very, very highly of you. And I speak very highly of Peter because I just think the world of him. Me too.
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127. Dr. Mink Chawla: Blood Filter Seraph-100 Shows Promise To End Long COVID
We had many podcasts on Peter Diamantis right before you. right before the cameras started rolling. I just, I love what he's doing in the world, you know, with his functional medicine clinics and the amount of money he's raised for specialized research and some of the challenges that he hosts for innovations. Oh, yeah.
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127. Dr. Mink Chawla: Blood Filter Seraph-100 Shows Promise To End Long COVID
Yeah, I've literally been excited about this for the last six months. We've done some Zoom calls together. You're a very handsome man.
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127. Dr. Mink Chawla: Blood Filter Seraph-100 Shows Promise To End Long COVID
biotechnology i mean very interesting left brain right brain guy that's uh just got a big heart and really truly wants to in my opinion change the face of humanity yeah i just think what i love about peter more than anything aside from how gifted he is is his intent is so clear yeah but what he's trying to do yeah and then he just gives you a good hug too oh yeah yeah Good guy.
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127. Dr. Mink Chawla: Blood Filter Seraph-100 Shows Promise To End Long COVID
He's a good guy. Peter, you're very strong. But so one of the things that we talked about was sort of this emerging view of aging as an immuno overload. Yes. You know, like a slow progressive decline in the immune system's ability to fight on so many fronts, right? You take an infant that hasn't been exposed to
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pesticides, herbicides, insecticides, glyphosates, preservatives, you know, topical hormone disruptors and all of these other chemical, synthetic, pharmaceutical compounds that their immune system wasn't meant to fight. And then you add to that its daily activities protecting us from all the bugs and the pathogens and, you know, monitoring us for invaders.
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127. Dr. Mink Chawla: Blood Filter Seraph-100 Shows Promise To End Long COVID
And I don't think that people really realize how much the immune system does on a daily basis that is not directly fighting the invaders. That's right. You know, just cleaning up our own senescent cells. Surveillance. Yeah, surveillance.
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127. Dr. Mink Chawla: Blood Filter Seraph-100 Shows Promise To End Long COVID
Yeah. And so do you subscribe to this podcast? theory on aging that amongst other things, it is the immune system's inability or progressively weakening ability to defend itself on so many fronts. There's just so many things in our blood that it's got to worry about.
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127. Dr. Mink Chawla: Blood Filter Seraph-100 Shows Promise To End Long COVID
But when I was actually first introduced to you, and I did a little background and research on you, and I'd love for you to talk a little bit about your journey to how you got to where you are now, because I think that you are about to make... a major impactful change that may shift the dynamics in the longevity and the functional medicine world. And we'll talk about that on the podcast.
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127. Dr. Mink Chawla: Blood Filter Seraph-100 Shows Promise To End Long COVID
And I think what's really interesting is the technology that you've developed, the serif filter, you know, again, I'm oversimplifying, but what it does is it removes some of the landscape that the immune system is fighting on, right? I mean, because if you can...
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127. Dr. Mink Chawla: Blood Filter Seraph-100 Shows Promise To End Long COVID
filter out things like viral pathogens and, um, inflammatory compounds and even mold or mycotoxins or, um, circulating tumor cells, which, which, you know, it's sometimes a difficult concept for people to really realize that, you know, all cancer, regardless of its former origin, um, was a healthy cell at one time. That's right. Right.
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127. Dr. Mink Chawla: Blood Filter Seraph-100 Shows Promise To End Long COVID
I mean, it was a healthy liver cell and its metabolism shift to becoming sick, or it was a healthy lung cell and something caused it to shift its metabolism. There's a lots of reasons that cause that, but these were still at one time healthy cells. So these are not really things that are happening to us. That's right. They're things that are happening within us. Right.
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127. Dr. Mink Chawla: Blood Filter Seraph-100 Shows Promise To End Long COVID
Yeah.
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127. Dr. Mink Chawla: Blood Filter Seraph-100 Shows Promise To End Long COVID
And so if we could theoretically filter out and just allow the immune system, give the immune system a break, give it some support and some love, it would be able to refocus on.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
127. Dr. Mink Chawla: Blood Filter Seraph-100 Shows Promise To End Long COVID
But I read that you had published 170 peer-reviewed articles. Yeah, that's about where it is now, yeah. I mean, I know collegiate universities that haven't put out 100. So first of all, did you start when you were two? And how did you generate that much valid data?
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127. Dr. Mink Chawla: Blood Filter Seraph-100 Shows Promise To End Long COVID
I want to talk to you about that.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
127. Dr. Mink Chawla: Blood Filter Seraph-100 Shows Promise To End Long COVID
And even though it may not be getting 100% out, Because we know that viruses will retreat to the dorsal root ganglion, right? And so while there may be a high viral load for a period of time in the blood and you clean that up, you can resurge, right?
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127. Dr. Mink Chawla: Blood Filter Seraph-100 Shows Promise To End Long COVID
Yeah. That's the problem. Is to give it enough of a leg up that it goes dormant. I mean, I think a lot of people don't realize, too, that...
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127. Dr. Mink Chawla: Blood Filter Seraph-100 Shows Promise To End Long COVID
roughly 40 of our dna is viral and that that yes you know lots of pathogens epstein-barr not really um pathogens that we catch the ones we always had and when our immune system gets run down they just rear their ugly head right like that's exactly right come back as ebv or or or you know chickenpox can come back as shingles eight percent of our human dna is retroviral in origin
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127. Dr. Mink Chawla: Blood Filter Seraph-100 Shows Promise To End Long COVID
That's a really fascinating point I remember in molecular biology, that we have viruses in our strand of DNA. Totally. And they replicate in silence and replicate in silence.
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127. Dr. Mink Chawla: Blood Filter Seraph-100 Shows Promise To End Long COVID
I think so, too. In fact, I'm going down to get my filter this month or early next. My wife's doing the same thing. We're going to get the hookup to this sort of filter. Yeah, you guys are going to be in the clinical trial, which I think is great. Yeah, I'm super excited about that. And I'll let you guys know how it goes. And I'll do some pre and post, you know, some biomarker testing.
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127. Dr. Mink Chawla: Blood Filter Seraph-100 Shows Promise To End Long COVID
What kind of, for those people that are a little bit more familiar with blood biomarkers, what kind of biomarkers could we look at pre and post filtration? And what could we expect to see after a filter? Let's say somebody's healthy. And then I want to talk about long COVID because long COVID, What did I read the other day? 27 million people or so still affected by long COVID.
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127. Dr. Mink Chawla: Blood Filter Seraph-100 Shows Promise To End Long COVID
If I had a loved one that had cancer right now.
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Yes.
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127. Dr. Mink Chawla: Blood Filter Seraph-100 Shows Promise To End Long COVID
I've said that too. I mean, I've also said that the terms long COVID and vaccine injury could be synonymous.
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127. Dr. Mink Chawla: Blood Filter Seraph-100 Shows Promise To End Long COVID
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127. Dr. Mink Chawla: Blood Filter Seraph-100 Shows Promise To End Long COVID
Now let's get back to the Ultimate Human Podcast. And just super fast, not to do a whole lesson on cellular biology, but our DNA sends messages into the cell, messenger RNA, right? So it transcribes these messages. And for lack of better words, the vaccine is, in some cases, is an mRNA vaccine. And that vaccine is a synthetic copy of that message. That's right.
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127. Dr. Mink Chawla: Blood Filter Seraph-100 Shows Promise To End Long COVID
And so it's not a natural organic copy that was created by your DNA and then thrown out of the nucleus into the cytoplasm of the cell. This is one that was injected into you synthetically to elicit what they hoped would be the same response.
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127. Dr. Mink Chawla: Blood Filter Seraph-100 Shows Promise To End Long COVID
Well, that's what they do. They hijack your cellular biology, right?
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127. Dr. Mink Chawla: Blood Filter Seraph-100 Shows Promise To End Long COVID
I want you to talk about that sequence because it began with a contest, for lack of better words, or a request for proposal, whatever DARPA would call it, to really get ahead of of a pandemic that was coming that wasn't here yet to actually address this pathogen that was going to be in people's bloodstreams that wasn't in their bloodstreams now. Correct.
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127. Dr. Mink Chawla: Blood Filter Seraph-100 Shows Promise To End Long COVID
Right.
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127. Dr. Mink Chawla: Blood Filter Seraph-100 Shows Promise To End Long COVID
Did you get the vaccine?
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127. Dr. Mink Chawla: Blood Filter Seraph-100 Shows Promise To End Long COVID
Yeah.
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127. Dr. Mink Chawla: Blood Filter Seraph-100 Shows Promise To End Long COVID
That's a big number. And considering that 0.1 is the standard. Yeah, and also that this spike protein in overabundance is now being directly linked to all kinds of, you know, diffuse vasculitis, dystonia vasculitis.
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127. Dr. Mink Chawla: Blood Filter Seraph-100 Shows Promise To End Long COVID
And again, I'm paraphrasing, that wasn't in their bloodstreams now and filter it out effectively with basically the fewest amount of side effects. That's exactly right.
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127. Dr. Mink Chawla: Blood Filter Seraph-100 Shows Promise To End Long COVID
Is it because of the synthetic nature of these additional amino acids?
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127. Dr. Mink Chawla: Blood Filter Seraph-100 Shows Promise To End Long COVID
Right.
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127. Dr. Mink Chawla: Blood Filter Seraph-100 Shows Promise To End Long COVID
So this could actually help someone tremendously with long COVID. Whether the long COVID is coming from the vaccine or from the infection.
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127. Dr. Mink Chawla: Blood Filter Seraph-100 Shows Promise To End Long COVID
And for people that don't know what DARPA is.
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127. Dr. Mink Chawla: Blood Filter Seraph-100 Shows Promise To End Long COVID
I would agree with that. And you can, with this filter, you can trap it and get it out. I think so.
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127. Dr. Mink Chawla: Blood Filter Seraph-100 Shows Promise To End Long COVID
for the 27 million people out there that some of you are listening that have long COVID, that's real hope for them.
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127. Dr. Mink Chawla: Blood Filter Seraph-100 Shows Promise To End Long COVID
Yeah, and I love that you're getting after it because I don't think there's a lot of answer for people that are suffering from long COVID. We have so many clients that are suffering from long COVID, whether it's, we'll just refer to it as vaccine injury or whether it's the long COVID from a prolonged infection.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
127. Dr. Mink Chawla: Blood Filter Seraph-100 Shows Promise To End Long COVID
Yeah. And I think that what we're starting to see now is that because something is not directly causal, That, you know, very often we say, well, if there is no direct link, if we cannot link the vaccine to the spike protein to this outcome, then we can't say that it's the spike protein or it's the vaccination. I like the fact that you admitted that.
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127. Dr. Mink Chawla: Blood Filter Seraph-100 Shows Promise To End Long COVID
you wouldn't have gotten vaccinated, nor would you have let your children or your wife get vaccinated.
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127. Dr. Mink Chawla: Blood Filter Seraph-100 Shows Promise To End Long COVID
And I don't think it sits well with anybody else. But the good news is that there's immense hope for people with long COVID because I know there's people listening to this podcast right now that are suffering from long COVID. whether they know that it's on COVID or not, because of this diffuse myriad of symptoms, you know, people just have a mood collapse.
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127. Dr. Mink Chawla: Blood Filter Seraph-100 Shows Promise To End Long COVID
And it's not enough of a symptom in many cases. In some cases it is, but it's not enough of a symptom in a lot of cases to drive someone to the ER or to say, I have to go to urgent care. They just start to tolerate mood numbness and hormone disruption and crushing fatigue and brain fog at a crazy level and a complete lack of libido. And they start to lose those upper tiers of emotional states.
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127. Dr. Mink Chawla: Blood Filter Seraph-100 Shows Promise To End Long COVID
They don't feel passionate or elated or joyful or aroused or really, really happy anymore. So the enjoyment goes out of life. And I've seen this in thousands of times because of our clinic system where people that are
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127. Dr. Mink Chawla: Blood Filter Seraph-100 Shows Promise To End Long COVID
suffering from long covid don't they don't have the exact same symptoms it's not like they all get myocarditis pericarditis trigeminal neuralgia transverse myelitis the really hyper specific things it's sort of this diffuse myriad of muck and they just are not themselves and they know it and sometimes they'll even describe how they're spatially kind of disoriented like i just i don't feel
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127. Dr. Mink Chawla: Blood Filter Seraph-100 Shows Promise To End Long COVID
Like, I'm having this conversation with you, but there's something weird about your distance from me and how I'm interacting with you. I don't feel very present. I almost feel detached. And I've heard this type of description from hundreds and hundreds of people. And it's amazing that there's now hope for them to maybe detoxify from this protein.
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127. Dr. Mink Chawla: Blood Filter Seraph-100 Shows Promise To End Long COVID
And what's really exciting, and I know we have to be cautious about making any claims or going down the wrong road. Yeah. and we'll edit this podcast appropriately, but is that circulating tumor cells eventually become tumors. Yes. And circulating tumor cells also distract the immune system from the nodular tumor that you may already have. Oh, that's right.
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127. Dr. Mink Chawla: Blood Filter Seraph-100 Shows Promise To End Long COVID
Sometimes it's a difficult concept for people to really realize that all cancer, regardless of its former origin, was a healthy cell at one time.
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127. Dr. Mink Chawla: Blood Filter Seraph-100 Shows Promise To End Long COVID
And so it seems to me, Mike, this is not only a preventative thing, this could eventually find its way into mainstream oncology, where you have patients that have metastatic tumors or they have cancers that are nodular or focal. But you're at least able to remove all of the other things that the immune system is chasing these other circulating chemicals.
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127. Dr. Mink Chawla: Blood Filter Seraph-100 Shows Promise To End Long COVID
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So click the link below and you can order yours today. Make sure you get the ultimate human version. Now let's get back to the ultimate human podcast. So I want to shift gears away from cancer for a moment. I mean, first of all, I mean, I'm fascinated by the implications that this may have on cancer.
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127. Dr. Mink Chawla: Blood Filter Seraph-100 Shows Promise To End Long COVID
And I want to talk about longevity, aging, because, you know, when the immune system is worn down and distracted, right, this whole concept of, you know, the immune system being exhausted, immunoxhaustion is I think what Peter Diamantis referred it to. And it made the real light bulb went off for me because what is the difference between a young person and an older person?
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127. Dr. Mink Chawla: Blood Filter Seraph-100 Shows Promise To End Long COVID
I mean, there's been a lot more assaults on the immune system and we are bathing our cellular biology in a toxic soup. If we could remove that toxic soup, it makes very much sense to me that our cellular biology could thrive. What are some of the implications for longevity for anti-aging, for something like blood filtration.
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127. Dr. Mink Chawla: Blood Filter Seraph-100 Shows Promise To End Long COVID
But you don't know what the pathogen is.
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127. Dr. Mink Chawla: Blood Filter Seraph-100 Shows Promise To End Long COVID
So that somebody that doesn't have cancer or doesn't suffer from long COVID, but is really hyper-focused on living as long, as healthy a life, having as long of a health span as possible.
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127. Dr. Mink Chawla: Blood Filter Seraph-100 Shows Promise To End Long COVID
You know, you said hydrogen, so I've got to go down that road a little bit because I get a lot of flack for standing behind hydrogen water so staunchly. And I've done tests, you know, where I... go right on social media and I'll show people how you can reduce the ORP, you know, improve the ORP of, of, of fluid by adding hydrogen gas to it.
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127. Dr. Mink Chawla: Blood Filter Seraph-100 Shows Promise To End Long COVID
Um, you can use hydrogen tablets if you don't have 250 bucks to buy a hydrogen water bottle. Um, but I, what was interesting, we talked about this before you came on the podcast. I want to touch on it for a moment. We, we came together, um, mutually through a friend named David Perez. Yes. And, um, but you, it was the interesting, the pathway that you took there. Cause, um,
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127. Dr. Mink Chawla: Blood Filter Seraph-100 Shows Promise To End Long COVID
I guess a friend of yours sent my Joe Rogan podcast.
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127. Dr. Mink Chawla: Blood Filter Seraph-100 Shows Promise To End Long COVID
Mm-hmm.
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127. Dr. Mink Chawla: Blood Filter Seraph-100 Shows Promise To End Long COVID
Kind of makes us want to go down another road.
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127. Dr. Mink Chawla: Blood Filter Seraph-100 Shows Promise To End Long COVID
I would love to have your expertise because many of the stories that I have seen, the lives that have been impacted by hydrogen,
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127. Dr. Mink Chawla: Blood Filter Seraph-100 Shows Promise To End Long COVID
I don't let people smoke in my bathroom.
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127. Dr. Mink Chawla: Blood Filter Seraph-100 Shows Promise To End Long COVID
I'm so excited about that because I look at the, um, You know, like you talked about earlier, the downside risk, you know, when we refer to the blood filtration, you know, how how safe of it is it to engage in this procedure to try to get the desired outcome? But always knowing that if it doesn't work, what's my downside? Right.
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127. Dr. Mink Chawla: Blood Filter Seraph-100 Shows Promise To End Long COVID
Right.
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127. Dr. Mink Chawla: Blood Filter Seraph-100 Shows Promise To End Long COVID
Which which I think is. a very untenable trade-off very often with modern medicine. It's like, well, this is either going to fix your mood disorder or permanently change the neuroplasticity of your brain and also not work. I feel this way about some of the extreme psychedelics.
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127. Dr. Mink Chawla: Blood Filter Seraph-100 Shows Promise To End Long COVID
I'm actually a big believer in psilocybin and microdosing mushrooms, things like that, and ketamine in controlled environments. I've seen work miracles. I actually have somebody living in my house right now that... suffering from absolutely brutal tinnitus.
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127. Dr. Mink Chawla: Blood Filter Seraph-100 Shows Promise To End Long COVID
Everyone thinks that when they go to shroom trip that I did in college.
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And most of the time you don't trip out, right? You're not losing your mind. And the dosing is very different.
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Half a lick. Just a good actual quarter of it. Like a black lab, kind of like a cat, you know, like, you know, don't get after it.
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I saw something on Instagram the other day. It's funny because we have a home in Colorado and our neighbor's like a mushroom expert and he literally cooks the best mushrooms and it tastes like a delicacy. But it was, you know, you got to think at some point, who was like the first dude that was wandering through the,
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you know the the forest and it was it was a funny meme and it said you know well this one tastes like beef um you know this one killed brian immediately and uh this one made you walk with jesus for six hours right like i don't know who the guy was that ate it and was like well that was delicious and he was fine and the next dude just keeled over and like okay mark that one don't don't eat the ones with the white with the little polka dots you know
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127. Dr. Mink Chawla: Blood Filter Seraph-100 Shows Promise To End Long COVID
But, I mean, we've advanced so much. And, you know, my core interest and my childlike fascination is with extending healthspan and, you know, maybe not even necessarily lifespan. You know, people are going to live to 82, but to live to 81 and a half, right?
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127. Dr. Mink Chawla: Blood Filter Seraph-100 Shows Promise To End Long COVID
And, you know, when I was in the mortality space, it was clear to me that people started dying in their late 50s and early 60s. They might not have left the earth until their late 70s or early 80s, but they started dying in their 60s. And it's just completely unnecessary.
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127. Dr. Mink Chawla: Blood Filter Seraph-100 Shows Promise To End Long COVID
I am too. I'm really delighted about it. So I've got to ask you this question as a, as a physician, scientist, researcher, um, What is exciting you and motivating you right now? Like, where do you see this technology five years from today? And I understand that you can't make any medical claims and I don't want you to make a medical claim or that I believe this is going to cure all cancer.
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127. Dr. Mink Chawla: Blood Filter Seraph-100 Shows Promise To End Long COVID
But what's like, because... You're excited, man. You're on fire. You were on fire when we first started talking. I was like, there's some childlike curiosity that is driving that inside of you.
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127. Dr. Mink Chawla: Blood Filter Seraph-100 Shows Promise To End Long COVID
I think you get more cynical.
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127. Dr. Mink Chawla: Blood Filter Seraph-100 Shows Promise To End Long COVID
I mean, I think it's fascinating for me, like this, just this right now, present time in science, in aging, in mortality, in longevity, bio-optimization, whatever you want to call it. It's such an exciting time. I see, you know, there are a few big innovations, artificial intelligence, which manipulates 700 trillion independent variables and creates an actionable result.
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Right.
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Right.
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Mm-hmm.
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You get to clean them up without leaving all the trash behind in the streets. That's right.
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Mm-hmm.
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Early detection, you know, we're now talking about, you know, at stage zero for cancers, where we talked about stage one, if you catch it early, and this is like pre-stage one. And so this combination of early detection, artificial intelligence, big data, I do feel like the regulatory market is woefully behind and is going to have a very difficult time keeping up with the pace of innovation.
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127. Dr. Mink Chawla: Blood Filter Seraph-100 Shows Promise To End Long COVID
And it's astounding to me the number of chronic diseases multiple sclerosis, Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, not saying all of them, not saying everyone that is diagnosed with those diseases, but how many of these are actually chronic viral or low-grade viral infections?
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It's very compelling. The same is true with colon cancer. Yes. I mean, it's very compelling. I mean, Dr. Minkoff has been on my podcast a number of times, and I've had... Lots of Zooms and interaction with him, you know, rarely has colon cancer patients that are not HPV positive.
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if we could filter out and just give the immune system a break.
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And so I think that the concept of cleaning the blood, reducing the viral load, reducing the cytokines, allowing the immune system to, you know, like put the windshield wipers on so we can see again, because our best defense is the defense that God gave us.
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But it's fighting what man made us.
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It's the first time that I've ever seen anything so exciting that is subtractive and not active. Well, first of all, this has been amazing. I'm definitely going to have you back on the podcast. I wind down all my podcasts by asking all my guests the same question. And there's no right or wrong answer to this question. What does it mean to you to be an ultimate human?
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127. Dr. Mink Chawla: Blood Filter Seraph-100 Shows Promise To End Long COVID
Well, Peter, a lot of love on this podcast today.
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You should chop this up and just start throwing it out on social media, brother, because you got a lot of love today. Well, Dr. Chawla, thank you so much for coming on.
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I'm definitely going to have you again. And as always guys, that's just science.
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I agree. Right? Because we've built a whole medical system on the backs of randomized clinical trials, which are five-year, eight-year, 10-year trials. And then animal studies, then controlled human trials, and then launch. And usually it's three, four, five, six, seven years before we- launch something, and then we go, oh, we made a mistake. And the failure rate's high.
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127. Dr. Mink Chawla: Blood Filter Seraph-100 Shows Promise To End Long COVID
Yeah, and the failure rate's high, and we're 20 years down the road. That's right. That's exactly right. And so the cycle, in my opinion, is just being vastly compressed. But I think it's fascinating. First of all, your background as an intensive care unit physician and also having a nephrology concentration because, or nephrology expertise because the kidney is the great filter of the body.
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127. Dr. Mink Chawla: Blood Filter Seraph-100 Shows Promise To End Long COVID
And it can be our best friend or our worst enemy depending on how healthy it is.
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And so,
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This is getting a window into your brain. You must have automatically been thinking filtration. How do I filter out the bad and still leave the good? That's right. So it can't just be size. That's right. Because size alone is going to take a lot of things out of our plasma and our bloodstream.
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127. Dr. Mink Chawla: Blood Filter Seraph-100 Shows Promise To End Long COVID
that yes, could be pathogenic, but by the time you get down to the size of a pathogen, a virus, well, now you've already eliminated platelets and red blood cells and all kinds of immune cells and natural killers. So you can't just, you know, when you think about this kind of filtration, It's got to be so multifactorial because it's not as simple as people think about air filtration.
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127. Dr. Mink Chawla: Blood Filter Seraph-100 Shows Promise To End Long COVID
Okay, the smaller I make the hole, first I catch cat hairs, and then I catch dust, and then I catch mites, and then I catch viruses. We can't do that in the blood. That's exactly right. And so how did this... technology evolve for you?
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127. Dr. Mink Chawla: Blood Filter Seraph-100 Shows Promise To End Long COVID
As a physician, scientist, researcher, where do you see this technology five years from today?
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Okay.
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Like the endothelium, like the glycocalyx.
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Wow.
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Wow.
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127. Dr. Mink Chawla: Blood Filter Seraph-100 Shows Promise To End Long COVID
I've seen the COVID studies.
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Hey guys, welcome back to the Ultimate Human Podcast. I'm your host, human biologist, Gary Brekker, where we go down the road of everything anti-aging, biohacking, longevity, and everything in between. And as you just heard, today's guest, well, actually, I'm probably more excited than you are about today's guest because I have so many questions for him.
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161. Shayna Taylor: Healing Chronic Anxiety and Gut Inflammation by Returning to Nature
And I think she exemplifies everything about society today when you reach the point where you just say the heck with it. And you hear me talk all the time about how my favorite thought leaders in our space, anti-aging, biohacking specialists, scientists, researchers, functional medicine doctors, they're all getting back to the basics. So today is gonna be an amazing podcast about
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Oh, my God.
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On the land that you currently own but are trying to give back.
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161. Shayna Taylor: Healing Chronic Anxiety and Gut Inflammation by Returning to Nature
OK.
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161. Shayna Taylor: Healing Chronic Anxiety and Gut Inflammation by Returning to Nature
And you got to get out of that. That's what you're trying to get out.
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161. Shayna Taylor: Healing Chronic Anxiety and Gut Inflammation by Returning to Nature
Wow.
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161. Shayna Taylor: Healing Chronic Anxiety and Gut Inflammation by Returning to Nature
So you didn't know him when you were going and buying this land?
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161. Shayna Taylor: Healing Chronic Anxiety and Gut Inflammation by Returning to Nature
That's cool.
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161. Shayna Taylor: Healing Chronic Anxiety and Gut Inflammation by Returning to Nature
How's your Italian?
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161. Shayna Taylor: Healing Chronic Anxiety and Gut Inflammation by Returning to Nature
How's his English?
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161. Shayna Taylor: Healing Chronic Anxiety and Gut Inflammation by Returning to Nature
Good. Okay.
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161. Shayna Taylor: Healing Chronic Anxiety and Gut Inflammation by Returning to Nature
Yeah, because he's obviously fluent. So he's going to, yeah. And growing up from, you know, when they start out being multilingual is easy. It's almost like they don't,
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161. Shayna Taylor: Healing Chronic Anxiety and Gut Inflammation by Returning to Nature
know the difference um but learning it as an as an adult is tough so do you you're living in the property that you're trying to get out of now until you figure it out right no i moved out or okay yeah yeah yeah um so when you say move down are you on the property now
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161. Shayna Taylor: Healing Chronic Anxiety and Gut Inflammation by Returning to Nature
getting back to the basics. So welcome to the podcast, Gina Taylor.
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161. Shayna Taylor: Healing Chronic Anxiety and Gut Inflammation by Returning to Nature
That's awesome. And how far away is that from your place?
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161. Shayna Taylor: Healing Chronic Anxiety and Gut Inflammation by Returning to Nature
So, you know, what's fascinating to me is, so I have, I have a dream of, um, eventually selling my concrete jungle and starting a regenerative farm. Like I want to ride out my years on a regenerative farm.
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161. Shayna Taylor: Healing Chronic Anxiety and Gut Inflammation by Returning to Nature
Your journey is so, it's so unique, but I want to say it's like, it's inspiring because I think you probably have a lot of people go,
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I even have a piece of property that I really like that I've sort of picked out in Colorado place, you know, for grass fed cattle and pasture raised eggs and free range chickens and, you know, hydroponic, you know, micro greens, really nutrient dense micro greens. And, and, um,
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And I grew up on a farm, so what was really weird is when I left high school, I wanted to get as far away from the farm as possible. And then the further I get into adulthood, I want to get back to the farm as fast as possible. And we kind of had that talk before the podcast. Sometimes we just miss that connection with mother nature.
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161. Shayna Taylor: Healing Chronic Anxiety and Gut Inflammation by Returning to Nature
We just miss the basics, just grounding, sunlight, breath work, eating whole foods. I mean, the food in Italy is very clean. I mean, I'm sure you can find bad food. I mean, it's westernized there, too. But for the most part, I mean, it's real, whole foods. And olive oil is arguably one of the best things you can put in the human body. I do a shot of it every day.
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Thank you for the bottle, by the way. You're welcome. But what fascinates me is not only how bold and intimidating and scary it must have been just to relocate your life there, especially as a single woman, is I can't imagine you had a skill set in regenerative farming or anything like that.
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161. Shayna Taylor: Healing Chronic Anxiety and Gut Inflammation by Returning to Nature
gosh I wish I could just do that you know my my I'm stuck in this job or this relationship or you know my kids are in school or whatever it is and they just don't have the gumption to do it I wonder if you just share your story with my audience yeah of course I I actually get those messages every single day yeah we were just talking about it yeah yeah every single day I have people write me about how they wish they could move or it's a plan that they have in a two or three years to
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Wow. That's amazing. And so you were, I mean, how to raise a chicken. Yeah, exactly. And you literally went out there and I don't even know where you get a chicken.
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161. Shayna Taylor: Healing Chronic Anxiety and Gut Inflammation by Returning to Nature
It's probably more common than not.
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I was in Medellin, Colombia a year and a half ago, and I just remember I was at a restaurant and- I was reading the menu of the steak, and the waiter came over, and I was like, do you mind if I ask if this is grass-fed steak? And he looked at me like I had three heads. He's like, what else do cows eat? I'm like, oh, my bad.
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161. Shayna Taylor: Healing Chronic Anxiety and Gut Inflammation by Returning to Nature
So it's a cow in a field. But it's just so funny because they don't know any other way, but here you have to try to get around the system with all the processing and everything. And this brings me back to the conversation we were having before the podcast because Truly, I believe that nature heals.
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161. Shayna Taylor: Healing Chronic Anxiety and Gut Inflammation by Returning to Nature
And I truly believe, because I've seen it in both clinical practice, my own life, my family, is that we're so disconnected from other nature. And we're actually disconnected from each other. Meaningful relationships, just conversation. In my previous podcast, that guest that I had on, she was talking about how we're human beings and not human doings.
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161. Shayna Taylor: Healing Chronic Anxiety and Gut Inflammation by Returning to Nature
Can you just be like, I'm sure you had a lot of alone times on this farm when you first got there, overwhelmed, not with an exact roadmap, probably going to sleep in Italy. And there had to be some nights where you're like, what did I get myself into? Oh yeah.
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161. Shayna Taylor: Healing Chronic Anxiety and Gut Inflammation by Returning to Nature
And so talk a little bit about, I mean, I'm talking about before you had a relationship and someone to share ideas with and things, but like, you know, when you were that single woman by yourself, foreign country, um, just bit off this project that you probably think it was more than I could chew.
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161. Shayna Taylor: Healing Chronic Anxiety and Gut Inflammation by Returning to Nature
What were you doing actively to just reassure yourself, not get into that panic state, not sort of just collapse from- Yeah, from overwhelm.
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161. Shayna Taylor: Healing Chronic Anxiety and Gut Inflammation by Returning to Nature
Because it is back to the basics. There's your grass fed meats, your raw dairies, you know, all of the things that in Italy are just the norm. And here they're the exception.
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161. Shayna Taylor: Healing Chronic Anxiety and Gut Inflammation by Returning to Nature
You're like, what's a Wi-Fi password? He's like, no Wi-Fi.
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161. Shayna Taylor: Healing Chronic Anxiety and Gut Inflammation by Returning to Nature
Which, of course, if you're a model and you're having skin breakouts.
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No way.
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Definitely not at Air One.
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161. Shayna Taylor: Healing Chronic Anxiety and Gut Inflammation by Returning to Nature
Yeah. Wow.
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161. Shayna Taylor: Healing Chronic Anxiety and Gut Inflammation by Returning to Nature
Right. You know why? Why? because Erewhon is not the readily available grocery item. It's the specialty item because it is back to the basics. There's your grass fed meats, your raw dairies, all of the things that in Italy are just the norm and here they're the exception.
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161. Shayna Taylor: Healing Chronic Anxiety and Gut Inflammation by Returning to Nature
I remember Max Lugavere saying one time on a podcast, he's like, if you walk into your grocery store and they have a health food section, What does it say about the rest of the store?
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161. Shayna Taylor: Healing Chronic Anxiety and Gut Inflammation by Returning to Nature
It says everything it needs to tell you. Right. So true. And then the health food section is the most expensive. It's a tiny little area. It's like, you know, the shelves are kind of off on the side. And you're the exception to the rule. I think, you know, which is why I'm so excited about this Maha movement, because I feel like it's not going to happen overnight. No.
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161. Shayna Taylor: Healing Chronic Anxiety and Gut Inflammation by Returning to Nature
You know, going back to supporting our farmers and local agriculture, there are apps now that will tell you where your local farmers markets are, where can you get raw cheese and raw dairy, where can you actually get locally grown chickens, and where can you get, you know, eggs from a hen house, you know, twice a week that are not so commercial.
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161. Shayna Taylor: Healing Chronic Anxiety and Gut Inflammation by Returning to Nature
I think, you know, us getting back to the basics, I mean, number one, you're nutrifying the body, right? I mean, you're getting the minerals, the raw materials, the vitamins, amino acids. And number two, you know, just you're sort of reconnecting with nature. We didn't even think about shopping outside in a farmer's market. You know, we think about under big fluorescent lights in a warehouse.
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And it's nutrient dense too.
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161. Shayna Taylor: Healing Chronic Anxiety and Gut Inflammation by Returning to Nature
Which actually releases GLP-1, which is ozempic, naturally in your gut, right? I mean, it's a hormone we make in response to nutrient density. I mean, and so many people are on a highly processed diet. And so they're not releasing a lot of this satiety hormone that says, hey, stop eating, which is why-
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161. Shayna Taylor: Healing Chronic Anxiety and Gut Inflammation by Returning to Nature
In tons of different studies, you see people given equal caloric density diets, one highly processed and one a whole food diet. People that are eating the whole foods will eat less calories because they're more satiated, because there's more nutrients in people that are processed. Do you notice, I mean, when you come back to the States, do you actually notice the difference?
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161. Shayna Taylor: Healing Chronic Anxiety and Gut Inflammation by Returning to Nature
I'm sure you're militant about trying to control what goes in your body, but at some point, you've got to eat. And so do you actually feel that difference? Everybody I know says, gosh, I go to Italy and have a bowl of pasta and I have a basket of bread and I actually feel fine. I lost weight eating pasta and bread and olive oil and drinking wine in Italy.
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161. Shayna Taylor: Healing Chronic Anxiety and Gut Inflammation by Returning to Nature
Yeah, because you're regular.
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Was your partner in LA?
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I want to talk a little bit about some of the projects you've worked on, the Inner Alchemy and your gut healing course, your online gut healing course. I think we agree, because we talked about it before the camera started rolling, about everything comes back to the gut. I mean, if you heal the gut, you heal the biome.
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161. Shayna Taylor: Healing Chronic Anxiety and Gut Inflammation by Returning to Nature
And I think only recently has modern medicine even begun to shine a glimmer of light on how important gut health is. I mean, it really is only one single cell layer separating us, our outside world, from our inside world. I mean, this system that we call the gut, the colon, the small intestine, the stomach, the esophagus, all of these areas is technically outside of the body.
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161. Shayna Taylor: Healing Chronic Anxiety and Gut Inflammation by Returning to Nature
And so it's as much a barrier to keep things that shouldn't come in out as it is a gateway to let the things that should go in in. And if you think about the sophistication of, before you even understand any of the physiology, like this stuff shouldn't come in and this stuff we need to let in. If we let enough of this in, we're healthy.
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161. Shayna Taylor: Healing Chronic Anxiety and Gut Inflammation by Returning to Nature
If we let some of the things that we shouldn't, we're unhealthy. And in the connection, not only to our immune system, but to our emotions, to our mood, to so many different aspects of being optimally healthy. I believe so many people that are diagnosed with a mental illness, just throw that category out there, or mood disorder, actually just have a lack of mental fitness because of the gut.
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161. Shayna Taylor: Healing Chronic Anxiety and Gut Inflammation by Returning to Nature
So talk a little bit about like, what led you here and what inspired you to put this course together and like, what does it entail?
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161. Shayna Taylor: Healing Chronic Anxiety and Gut Inflammation by Returning to Nature
Oh, wow, because he's in Naples.
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I think the world of him, too, by the way. I use his acid-kicking alcohol.
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I take his vitamin D3 every morning.
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161. Shayna Taylor: Healing Chronic Anxiety and Gut Inflammation by Returning to Nature
Yeah. And it was just like the genesis of serene soul retreats. Is that how? Okay.
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161. Shayna Taylor: Healing Chronic Anxiety and Gut Inflammation by Returning to Nature
Wow, so women come from the States and go to Italy.
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161. Shayna Taylor: Healing Chronic Anxiety and Gut Inflammation by Returning to Nature
How big are these retreats?
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161. Shayna Taylor: Healing Chronic Anxiety and Gut Inflammation by Returning to Nature
Wow. And do they stay at your farmhouse?
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161. Shayna Taylor: Healing Chronic Anxiety and Gut Inflammation by Returning to Nature
Wow. And so you host these retreats for women. When you say a day, it's like breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Do you guys hike?
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161. Shayna Taylor: Healing Chronic Anxiety and Gut Inflammation by Returning to Nature
That's so cool. Yeah. That's so amazing. So, so you're on this journey with Dr. Geoffrey, who's, who's technically working on your God. When I say technically, like he's, he's a technician, right? He's like the specter is low. I would go with the SIBO, you know, H by Lori. So we're, we're addressing all of these issues and, and he, he, He has an amazing gut protocol.
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161. Shayna Taylor: Healing Chronic Anxiety and Gut Inflammation by Returning to Nature
I actually did a challenge with him and it was one of the most successful challenges I've ever had. We had 30, I don't know, 5,000, 37,000 people online and it was amazing. And I also find him, which I think is important in a practitioner, just very intentional and very caring. Like when he engages you, you feel like you're his only client. And we used his greens and then we put together
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161. Shayna Taylor: Healing Chronic Anxiety and Gut Inflammation by Returning to Nature
different recipes with like fermented veggies and everything yeah so you're on on on this protocol and then what did the spiritual journey work look like for you oh man yeah um started with like journaling and and if you don't want to talk about it no no no i'm happy to share Because I feel like a lot of people are spiritually devoid.
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161. Shayna Taylor: Healing Chronic Anxiety and Gut Inflammation by Returning to Nature
And when I say spiritually devoid, it's not that you don't believe in Allah or you don't believe in Jesus. It's like you don't have a calling other than your job. You really don't identify with the purpose. Interestingly, when you look at the blue zones, I talk about this a lot. there wasn't continuity that ran between diets.
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161. Shayna Taylor: Healing Chronic Anxiety and Gut Inflammation by Returning to Nature
The only thing that were not exceptions were mobility into later in life, basically exercise. And it wasn't like intense, you know, these centenarians were not doing hits cardio.
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161. Shayna Taylor: Healing Chronic Anxiety and Gut Inflammation by Returning to Nature
Yeah, walking.
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161. Shayna Taylor: Healing Chronic Anxiety and Gut Inflammation by Returning to Nature
Yeah, gardening, exactly.
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161. Shayna Taylor: Healing Chronic Anxiety and Gut Inflammation by Returning to Nature
But when they gardened, got down on their knees, squatted, you know, stood up, carried a bucket.
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161. Shayna Taylor: Healing Chronic Anxiety and Gut Inflammation by Returning to Nature
But the other was a sense of community and purpose. And is that sort of what you're getting at?
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161. Shayna Taylor: Healing Chronic Anxiety and Gut Inflammation by Returning to Nature
Okay. Like, what's my purpose?
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If you walk into your grocery store and they have a health food section, what does it say about the rest of the store?
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161. Shayna Taylor: Healing Chronic Anxiety and Gut Inflammation by Returning to Nature
They're done eating, but they're just sitting around and they're enjoying that time. And there's kids running around. And the kid gets on the uncle's lap and runs around and then gets on the mom's lap. And it's like there's that –
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interconnectivity around food and you know and i also remember years ago just going back into the early 2000s um you know being super frustrated because in in august when like the europeans take august off like they take august everyone is awesome no one works it'd be like a closing on a real estate project you know like oh we're signing it tomorrow oh my vacation starts tomorrow well that's fine just sign it on vacation nope and and they zero
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unplugged for a month and they take it very seriously.
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No one will wait on you. There's like kind of an, you know, really interesting beauty. Like the, the more my life has grown and expanded and, even socioeconomically becoming more successful because that's how society judges it. I can't wait to reconnect back to the basics. You know, we have this little like ultra not fancy log house in Colorado. I talk about it all the time.
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It's like my favorite place on earth. We went there in the middle of the winter and it was the first time we went in the dead of winter, which kind of reminds me of your trip to Italy because I was like, what the hell did we do?
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And when the contractor left, I realized we were legitimately stuck there. And there's no electricity. There's no running water. And there's no heat. And it was 15 degrees. And the temperature was dropping.
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I had to dig down for firewood and put it in there.
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We got snow and boiled the snow. But it was just something super magical about it. You know, it was funny because when my wife and I woke up, it had gotten so, I had started a fire. So the whole cabin warmed up. And then we went to bed and piled under the covers. Well, of course, the fire goes out every night.
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It's like 5.30 in the morning.
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But it was, no, it's just amazing. And sometimes those connections, and I love the fact that you're doing this for women because... You know, another common theme and a sad fact about autoimmune disease is that the majority of it is in women. About 82% of all autoimmune disease affects women. And I think it has a lot to do with the journey that you were on.
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You know, I mean, here you are a model and you're living in L.A. and you're gluten free and you're dairy free and you're probably running in the right circles and. eating really clean and things are just all wrong. It's really the getting back to the basics that healed me. Yeah. That healed you.
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Wow.
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a basic daily ritual for you look like? I mean, I know that you're a big believer that you need to have rituals, right? What does that look like for you if you're in Italy or when you're here? Cause you're traveling. So how are you maintaining this on the road? What are some of your non-negotiables?
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I mean, you say starting work before you get on your phone.
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And is this like a guided meditation or is it just verbiage?
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Okay.
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Okay. I think a lot of people like me find it really hard. I mean, I think there's so many thoughts that start to creep in. When you start to quiet the mind, it sort of wakes up. And all the things that didn't get attention are now vying for attention. Meditation is a learned practice too. I mean, it's like anything. It's like building muscles.
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You know what's funny is like you either get buyer's remorse or like you're like, shoot, I didn't ask enough. I should have asked for more money.
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I mean, you have to consistently work at it for them to grow. I am committed to learning how to meditate mainly because some of the people I look up to and respect the most meditate regularly. And I've never met somebody ever that has committed to truly learning how to meditate that's done so that's regretted it.
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Not one person. And I know hundreds of people, and every one of them will say it was life-changing. And these are a lot of the folks that socioeconomically, you would really say, okay, they're at the pinnacle of success. And they'll tell you that meditation is one of those things. So I'm definitely still committed.
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Yeah. It's so good. You know, I, I struggle with it so much. You know, years ago I started doing CrossFit and I, What was amazing for me is after every CrossFit workout, I felt so amazing, not like muscle body-wise, but just mentally, like any kind of intense exercise. And it could be anything, it's cardio or just weight training or yoga.
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But when you're done, you haven't for at least a period of time thought about anything other than that. Like if you've ever done CrossFit workouts, you don't think about anything but just trying not to die, right? If you don't want to quit at some point during the workout, you're not doing it right.
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We're so disconnected from Mother Nature and we're actually disconnected from each other.
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But then afterwards, there's this eerily meditative state that you're in where you're just clear and you're cognizant and you're awake. I actually crave that post-exercise window like a rat to cheese. It's kind of like cold plunging for me. It's like one of my drugs of choice. That's one of the things that's non-negotiable for me.
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And I'm not a crazy workout person, but I exercise every day because when I'm done... It's like my transition into the day and I'm like just super aware and awake. And I'm gonna add, you're gonna be the one that's gonna get me to add meditation, so.
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Shayna, amazing. Yeah. We're going to go into my VIP community now. These are like my VIP community is like the community that I'm really trying to build to really kind of change the world. Really pouring myself into educating and trying to inspire them to build an army of people that are doing a lot of what you're doing. So before every podcast, we let the VIP community know who's coming on.
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So they have some questions for you. So we'll go into that room in a second. But before we do, where can my audience find you?
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And it's amazing. By the way, I will link all of this stuff in the show notes for you guys. And we always wind the podcast down by asking every guest the same question. What does it mean to you to be an ultimate human?
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I literally did see that. Did you see that? I did, I was glad you brought it up.
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That was amazing. Well, thank you for being on the podcast today. We're going to follow your journey. Excited about your partnership with Dr. Geoffrey. He's a good friend. He's a great practitioner. He's healed a lot of my community and they know him very, very well.
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So guys, if you're interested in becoming a ultimate human VIP, just go over to the ultimate human.com and sign up to be a VIP and join us in these private communities where you get to spend time. the podcast guests, where we get to have open dialogue, Q&As, special challenges. There's all kinds of benefits. I really pour myself into this VIP community. So I hope that I'll see you there.
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And until next time, that's just science.
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Does it have four seasons or is it?
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But it's temperate, right? I mean-
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Okay.
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Does it have that like seasonal affective disorder period where it's all really gray and not really?
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Talk a little bit about what led you here and what inspired you to put this together and like, what does it entail?
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Wow. So you owned a business.
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You used a business card for personal things.
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Hey guys, welcome back to the Ultimate Human Podcast. I'm your host, human biologist, Gary Brekka, where we go down the road of everything anti-aging, biohacking, longevity, and everything in between. And we have a super treat for you guys today, a really, really unique guest. I mean, my wife is in love with me. with this guest and so is my daughter. And I think so many of you know who she is.
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And we're just coming out of the pandemic here, too, by the way.
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Not to break your story, but as an American citizen, can you just go over and buy land there? You don't have to be native or get any kind of special visa. You can just own land there.
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Okay.
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Okay. So once you got it, then you could assume you're an American.
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So you're, I don't know what your resources were, but it sounds like you drank a lot of resources at this point. Yeah.
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I totally agree with that.
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Yeah, it wasn't the overnight success. People say that to us all the time. You blew up overnight. I'm like, well, it took 22 years and then I blew up.
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Yeah. I mean, and you also have to love it. Like you have to have a passion for it because or else you're just not going to stick with it. I totally agree. I mean, if you don't have a passion and a purpose for it, you really need to find something else. Like I, I feel like I would otherwise do what I do for free. I just somehow monetized it. which is like the greatest blessing.
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purport to know anywhere near as much as you guys do about the market, but I sort of see the days of the straight influencer are kind of numbered. I feel like the people that are out there building communities of like-minded interest where they actually feed their community. You gotta give without the expectation of receipt.
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Oh, I can't wait. So welcome to the podcast, Lauren and Michael Bostic.
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totally some of your community is like well they'll buy product or service that you're endorsing and that's enough to keep the lights on and make a good living um but if you're not providing you know that value uh then your audience is going to go somewhere else absolutely and it's and it's not easy to to create a community so for so for people that are you know um building businesses whether or not it's a you know a blog or a you know a social media empire
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How did you guys go about creating the community that you've done? You come together. The Skinny Confidential has been around for over a decade. But now you guys have turned this into a business and you've built a true community. What's that transition like? Because I've heard you talk about how you correct people all the time and say, I'm not an influencer.
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Like, don't just give me an affiliate link and I'm just going to push your product and ding it for money. I have to believe in it. and has to serve my community. I mean, what are some of those values? What are some of the steps that people can do maybe outside of social media, if they're just building a business?
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Yeah, I'm really pumped that we came here, man. And like the energy is so good in here and you guys have a great studio. And I'm so psyched. I'm sad because my wife Sage should have been with me because she was actually the one that turned me on to you guys. Hi Sage. Hi Sage. Hi Sage.
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What have you learned on this trajectory to say, how does a community just come about?
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You guys have become major influencers in the wellness space. I feel like you guys have given a lot of practical advice.
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Yeah, we totally would love to do that because she's like, see babe, they're building a business together too and they talk about the real shit. And we built a business together. She was a real estate agent and I was a human biologist and we decided we'd start this longevity clinic and we don't find a lot of couples that, and you guys met when you were like, 12, 12. Right.
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i noticed that i mean and i appreciated that it's like almost like um i was almost talking to your audience like talking through you that's exactly what that's what we want you could tell you were thinking like if somebody's watching this what do they want to know that's amazing what brand and what link they want to know they want to know what it is they want to know the details and i'm there i'm there as a conduit to get what they need
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Yeah, we did go off air on it.
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And you guys have become major influencers in the wellness space. I mean, I see your content everywhere. It's on the same platforms that I'm on. I'm more of a scientist, you know, talking about methylation. And I feel like your advice is very, very practical because you're a couple. You're married. You're young. You're building a business. You also have a busy schedule.
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And a lot of times people's big excuse is, I don't actually have time today.
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to either work out or do the things that i need to do to extend my lifespan or i don't have the money to do it i feel like you guys have given a lot of practical advice but for my audience that might not be familiar with you because a lot of my audience is like the hyper scientific you know community that oh they've already turned us on they want to know they want to know how like the mitochondria
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Well, you don't wear readers, right?
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Because he uses the red light.
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It does work. I mean, look, I don't have the credentials either. You know, I'm not a physician. That's the biggest attack that I get. But I'm very vocal about saying I'm not a doctor. I'm not licensed to practice medicine.
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You guys are very good for my, you guys. She's very complimentary today.
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Um, and we don't find a lot of couples, first of all, that met when they're 12, um, and that have started and built businesses together that are just very real and authentic and visceral about that journey as a couple.
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Yeah. How about that? Yeah. you don't say but for red light i mean it really is and look you don't need to go out and buy a hundred thousand dollar red light bed you can there are tons of clinics all over the country you can google red light therapy um and there is probably a clinic within three miles of where you're sitting unless you're rural then it's 10 miles of where you're sitting
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And you can go in and use these things on a membership basis.
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because then you're not even spending 20 bucks on ice at 7-Eleven three days a week. Oh my God, that's so smart. Yeah, just take a Tupperware container, fill it with water.
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Yeah, I tell people breathwork, grounding, sunlight. And a cold punch, which you can make with Tupperware dice. The nice thing about these big blocks of ice, too, and I know I'm supposed to be asking you the questions, but these big blocks of ice is that they last forever. So if you're not using your tub every day, it will literally last for three days. You can have a cold punch for three days.
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It will just stay in there.
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These big blocks of ice will melt very slow. It'll put it right in the low 50s, and you can get in there every day. And by the way, while that one's melting, you just fill it up and put it back in your refrigerator.
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Yeah, yeah. I'm going to patent the Tupperware to make the ice.
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We'll do a collab on it.
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Well, I remember you talked a lot about how in the beginning, you know, you want, of course, everybody wants, you know, the celebrities and the big names and the influence on their podcast to help them grow their platform. But you're not, when you're starting out, you're not getting those people. But you said, I would literally message a thousand people a day. And five would say yes.
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Two years. But I wasn't like ignoring you guys just for the record.
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yeah I agree with you it's like if you said would you do it all over again I kind of have to like think about it right yeah give me a few nights if you said are you happy that you did it I'm like I'm absolutely happy that we did it yes you know what I find like to be more problematic in a relationship is sometimes like you'll go to
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And as a couple, when you guys began to... Because you probably have very different ways of building a business.
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Although you both sound like grinders. We are grinders. That is true. I can just tell a serial entrepreneur is not afraid of hard work. And someone that was a bartender and told no, and it was a female starting a blog when there was no internet, is also a grinder. Um, so those two have to sometimes, um, come to a head, but you still have to keep the, the business going forward.
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Is it because of a shared common vision? Is it a shared purpose? Because I'll tell you what works for my wife and I, but I'm always curious when I talk to other, and I would consider you guys a power couple. Um, you're obviously both very fit. Ed Milet called you the most attractive couple on, on. He's too kind. Yeah.
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internet wow he did right to your face I actually watched a podcast he's like this is the most attractive couple in social media um and he said it a bunch of times which you guys are a very attractive couple thank you Want to get an extra hour of quality good sleep every single night? Let me tell you how I do it. My wife and I sleep on Eight Sleeps Pod 4 Ultra.
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Same thing. You know, there was actually a book called Rocket Fuel. Oh, it's a great book. Yeah. And that book— Orange cover? Yeah, orange cover. And I forget the author's name, but he deserves credit. But he wrote another book, too. But Rocket Fuel came in at a time in our business evolution and our relationship evolution where it could not have been more perfect. Yeah.
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because I was the visionary and she was what the book refers to as the integrator. And as the visionary, you know, to my own detriment, you know, and just to be self-loathing here for a second, I just thought it's all because of me. I'm bringing, you know, everybody's coming in the door because of me. I mean, I'm the voice. I'm the one that's bringing in the revenue.
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I should be able to decide what the direction is the company. You know, it should be my vision. It should be, you know, it should be my choice. And she's like, you have... 15 ideas a week. One of them works. And I make sure that it works. And I make sure that we don't go broke and that we pay our bills on time and that we don't show up to the office and it's locked.
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Right. And I'm like, oh shit, I never really thought about that. She's like, you ever know what? The key works every day when you get to the office. That's because I make sure that the lease is paid on time.
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I mean, look, I don't have the credentials either. I'm not a physician. That's the biggest attack that I get.
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I'm terrible. I've driven to work without pants before.
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I run out of gas twice in the same day. See? I was so furious at Sage one day.
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Exactly. Dude, true story. I got so upset in the office one day. I was like, you know what? I'm leaving. I'm just going to fly up and spend the weekend with my parents. And I storm out of the office, I get in the car, and I'm on my way to the airport, and I literally run out of gas. In the middle of an intersection. We would be fucked if we were married. We would be fucked.
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Which, of course, I also blamed on my wife. So I walk to this gas station. I get a gallon of gas. I get back to the car. I fill the car with one gallon of gas, but I forget that I've only put a gallon of gas in it.
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So then I'm driving back to the office and on the way to the office, I run out of gas again. And so I call Sage and she's just laughing at me, which just totally exploded my head.
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But that book was a good one.
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Great day at the office. You have a great day at home. You have a really crappy day at the office.
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Yeah, so true. So we check each other. That book, that Rocket Fuel book was like the visionary and the integrator. And basically when I was done reading it, I realized
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it's you're so right like all of these ideas and all of this dust that i'm stirring up is actually useless unless it gets practically put in you know i need to read that book immediately it's it's so good it will change the way that you look at him and he looks at you potentially the way but on the flip side it literally changed everything you know i'm more like maybe logistics ops based but if you don't have the big vision and the person that wants to do all these creative things then what do you what are you doing so you know i
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no she she felt the same way it made her realize how important it was like um because if you have a business people have to walk through the door the phone's got a ring right um and i can make that happen but but behind the scenes i mean bills have to get paid and payrolls got to be made and leases got to be done and and and they you know gas has got to get integrated gas is going to go in the tank
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And the integrator doesn't get the credit. The visionary gets the credit because they're the one that's out there. And then I started to actually empathize. And, you know, when we sold our business, one of the interesting things was they did this Dun & Bradstreet on us.
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And I remember when the report came back, they said, we have like Fortune 500 companies in business for 25 years that do not have the credit that you have.
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every single reference you're from your landlord to your vendors to every account that that you had 30 60 90 day rotating credit on you paid them all off that's amazing and that's your wife and that's my wife that is all my wife that is just sage and you were like what who's that who's the landlord i didn't even know we had by the way i drove here didn't even look at my gas i didn't even look at the gas today i have no idea if we have gas in the car
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didn't even look yeah that's me too we flew to bahrain last week and i went we went to meet with the king of bahrain um where's bahrain it's uh off the coast of saudi arabia oh so we flew to london and the geography is not my strong suit yeah so it's it's in the middle east okay and um so we're going to meet the king of bahrain but we arrive at 12 30 in the morning and we're meeting with him at 8 30 in the morning it's totally true story
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and at 8 30 in the morning the desk calls and says hey that you know the his majesty's car is here to pick you up and i'm like great so i've got my shirt on which i just pressed and i had my suit coat on and socks and then i went to my suitcase to get pants and i was like i forgot to pack pants and she's like you forgot to pack pants well what did you wear on the flight
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Sweatpants, the ultimate human sweatpants. And I was like, babe, I am not going to meet the king of Bahrain in ultimate human sweatpants. And so I was like, what are we gonna do? Because we have to be at the palace in less than 30 minutes and his driver's downstairs. So I ran downstairs to the, we were at the Four Seasons in Bahrain.
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And I was like, is there a men's store like anywhere that I can get a pair of pants? And they said, yeah, there's one 15 minutes away, but it doesn't open until 10 o'clock in the morning. It's 830. So I ran into the spa and found like a men's bathing suit cover up. And it was these linen, fully see-through pants, like very see-through.
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and I had black underwear on, and I had black compression socks up to my knees. So I went and met the king of Bahrain in see-through white.
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I have like a very nice black jacket and a black button up shirt on. And then I have straight wrinkled up Lincoln pants.
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I just didn't want the king of Bahrain to read it.
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They're very wrinkly.
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Well, his son, the Crown Prince, who drove us there, was in the traditional candora, but he was super casual. He was just in shirt and regular pair of pants, super easy to talk to, amazing human, and actually very funny.
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I think there's a lot of misconceptions, not to derail the show, but a lot of misconception about what goes on in the Middle East, that it's based on oppression and it's really based on respect. And I've spent a lot of time there and really learned to just love those people. There's a quorum over there and their level of education. Everybody speaks English.
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It's just an unbelievable part of the world. And we better pay attention to what's going on over there because they're going to sprint by us.
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yeah with you and i think you do that with we kind of mix all the things together and make it all work for us throughout the day yeah because you you come from not very similar backgrounds i mean i saw i saw you guys on ed mylett's podcast i know he's been on yours a bunch of times he's a huge fan of ed mylett um there was a story that he told uh from stage one time and it just resonated so much with me it was about his father that was there was an alcoholic
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Innovation, technology, artificial intelligence. They want the best of healthcare. They want...
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they want the biggest brightest minds you know um they're they're they're way more forward-thinking than you you might think and there's something to be said about dictatorships when they truly have the best interests of their people at heart like these these monarchies these these families truly deeply care about their people so when he flies you over there are you guys talking health yes
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He wants to know everything about longevity, anti-aging, bio-optimization.
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They have a whole team of doctors, and they came to the meeting.
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They pull the blood work. They look at the genes that I like to look at, and then I sit down with them and say—
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first of all they know i'm not a physician but i meet with his team of physicians and we go through everything and he puts him on that protocol that is i did it for his son and now his son's a two-time world champion in this really difficult horse race his name's shake nasser that is so cool yeah um we need to do our and like all these young shakes are crazy athletes over there ultra triathloners you know ultra distance marathoners driven cycling super driven i want to do my cheek swap
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Yeah.
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I mean, I think the Maha movement is going to be the greatest thing to ever happen to this country because for the first time, some of these influencers can really affect public policy.
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You know, I had Kelly Means on on my podcast and he's I don't fanboy over a lot of people, but I mean, he and Casey, I mean, I just Stanford trained surgeon, you know, Harvard educated lobbyist and both sort of had this kind of epiphany around the same time. And I just think, you know, Tucker Carlson said it too, he's like, these people are gonna change the world.
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And I believe that, and I'm so excited to be with them on this, you know, Maha movement. But I wanna talk a little bit about that too, because it didn't, your journey didn't start as a health and wellness journey per se, right? But I believe that a large part of it has morphed into a health and wellness journey.
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What are some of the things, what were some of the tipping points for you along that journey? Like you eat a bowl of steak.
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Oh, it's the organ blend.
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I believe that.
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And the ancestral blend is they bend the ground beef with the organ meat. Cause the straight organ meats I can't do either. Like straight liver.
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and the question he kept asking him as a child. And he kept asking his dad if he was ever gonna drink again. And his dad said, I don't know, son, but I know I'm not gonna drink for one more day. And of all the stories he's told, that one stuck with me the most because it's such a metaphor for life to start thinking about things and I think too often we think way too far down the road.
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Really? Cause carnivore MD comes to my house all the time. I love Paul by the way. And he spends a lot of time with me when he's in Miami, but, and he, and he makes me take the raw liver and I'll just throw it to the back of my mouth. And, but it tastes very metallic.
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I will do it because I know about the benefits, but I just don't think that I would, if I had a choice, I would be like, can I just get a bowl of liver?
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We should do the test and we should come back on and go through it on your show. Love it.
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Right. Why am I not having the results that these people are having? And I think you're right. I mean, people miss the foundation, you know, like we talked about the things that are essential, right? And I mean, the word essential means necessary for like essential amino acids, essential fatty acids, essential nutrients. Um, you know, it's funny. I spoke at a, um,
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uh an osteo strong uh conference not too long ago which osteo strong is a it's a a franchise that's basically centered around increasing bone density all right and they're they're these centers that you can go and you can apply loads to your bone and actually take you from being osteopenic and or osteoporotic to actually having normal bone density It's a phenomenal concept.
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But I was so shocked at how many people in that sphere were still on just a pure calcium bandwagon. Like, you know, people are deficient in calcium. Like, listen, nursing homes all over the country are just full of elderly men and women that have been taking calcium supplements for 25 years. And they're still osteopenic and osteoporotic.
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Where is this gonna end up? And we're way too far down the road. Instead of just thinking about what's right in front of us and just trying to get through the day. And I know that health is just a sequence of habits and being consistent. But people that are really obese think, I'm never gonna look like that guy, so I'm not gonna try.
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Because bones are not calcium. Calcium combines with phosphorus to make hydroxyapatite. Bones are hydroxyapatite. And in order for calcium and phosphorus to combine and make hydroxyapatite, you need 12 minerals. You need boron, manganese, molybdenum, selenium, silica.
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That's in the salt that I told you about. So you deplete those nutrients. You can't form bone. And now you have weak bone. And somebody tells you you have osteopenia or osteoporosis. No, you don't. You have a nutrient deficiency in these 12 minerals. What if you could wake up each morning full of energy, focused and ready to conquer anything life throws at you? It's not just a dream, guys.
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Inherently, she.
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Quintan is amazing.
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does she really good for her i want to talk a little bit about your your kids health journey too because there i mean so many parents i have a lot of parents that watch my show too um one of the best episodes i ever had i had my my um seven and ten and ten-year-old nieces on so cute i did a show with them and it just exploded because they talked about their their food choices
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So how do you influence this in your kids? Like, what's a typical day for you as a mom feeding your kids? I get so... Or you feeding the kids.
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Well, you might not look like that tomorrow, but if you did these small things every day, you could get there. But what was interesting about the podcast that I thought when he was interviewing you guys was not only that you guys met at such a young age, but you were a bartender. You were kind of a serial entrepreneur.
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Yeah. Sourdough is alive.
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I do that with the Doritos and the masa chips.
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Have you tried the Vandy chips? Dump the masas into the Dorito bag? That is gangster.
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Yes, they're so good. I have both flavors. Those are dangerous.
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Who wants Doritos?
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Here they are, the masas.
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body in my house i can't believe it yeah so i just try to do my best it's i'm not perfect i just try to modify constantly and i think most moms and dads want to hear that right i mean and work in progress like optimal health for your kids is not the total absence of the bad right but it's just the presence of the good right that's the other thing i mean like i walked into my room today at the four seasons and there was a norman love chocolate on a little thing with the thank you note i ate the normal love chocolate yeah people like what
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you ate the normal love chocolate you're like it's the biggest bar yeah I ate the normal love chocolate it was this big and it was delicious by the way but then you had your brownie protein bar yeah but I'll have a brownie protein bar and a Crestfoot steak and I don't eat chocolate all the time and I'm not shoveling you know I'm not shoveling junk in and if I'm at my five year old niece's birthday party I'm not the guy that's like
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I'm not eating that piece of cake, you know.
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And now you have this amazing podcast and I would call you, you know, very impactful influencers. I mean, I sometimes don't like to use the term influencer, but I think you guys have built an amazing community.
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Oh, he's militant. He was at my Thanksgiving dinner. He was militant.
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three pieces of turkey okay and and apple slices what about no honey and he was anyway no he didn't have any honey and he was very kind enough to eat them very slowly so like he wouldn't and paul if you're watching this i love you brother you know we love him too he's great i love him um but like the funny thing was the second time he stayed with me um so when he comes to miami he stays with me and i and i absolutely love having him over we're like we see eye to eye on so many things
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and um so my whole family's at the at the dinner table and it was it was sage's birthday right yeah it was my wife's birthday and of all so she loves carrot cake so we had a carrot cake in the kitchen and they put the candles in it and my whole family sitting at the table and they're coming out with the carrot cake singing happy birthday and he gets off the elevator and comes into my unit my son sees him
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And he goes, dude, I ran smack dab into Paul Saladino carrying a carrot cake.
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I eat his meat sticks. We meet in the kitchen every morning at my house and we make a raw buffalo milk with, and I'll tell you what, it's delicious. We break his capsules open. We'll put them in the raw buffalo milk. We'll stir it up with a little bit of honey or sometimes some raw maple syrup. That's as good as any Ben and Jerry's you've ever had.
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I get it from a place called Southwest Ranches in Miami. So I get raw buffalo milk. I get raw kefir.
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It is so... That sounds amazing. Raw buffalo milk and a really good espresso mixed together. Dude... That's your new crack. It is the most delicious coffee you'll ever have in your life.
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And can you talk a little bit about the journey from, for my audience that doesn't know you, from bartender to really building this community, not just being an influencer, but the community you guys built together?
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It was like the morbidly obese people with the mask, you know, driving in the car by themselves. And you're like, seriously, like the least of your worries is COVID, my friend.
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Right.
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I think that is a really, yes, it's a really, like they say, never trust a skinny chef.
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right i mean um paul lives it eats it breathes it no paul he's the real deal i will say paul is as legit as it gets we love you paul we love you where's my buffalo milk um where's my buffalo milk but that's a criteria you can move on to like the fringe things once you've satisfied the bases yeah but until then i'm like okay i gotta i gotta maybe be a little hesitant on some of the advice yeah if you're telling me the emfs are gonna kill me but you're yeah i've had i've had i've had a few of those interviews you did get those headphones though
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Yeah, you can get the, what is it? Lambs makes the underwear. It's an EMF condom.
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It's not the shaft. Who wears condoms? It's the balls that you need to protect. It's the sperms and the balls. We really just took a nose dive. We took a nose dive like 15 seconds into your podcast too. What was it?
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Like, all right, we're 15 seconds in.
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No, but this is amazing. So your advice, you know, quick advice to couples starting a business and going into business together.
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My wife and I have this saying, no light between us. And, you know, at the end of the day, we we always put the relationship first. And since since we've done that, not allowing any light between us, because, you know, you find that sometimes people, partners, projects will start to come between you.
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And even people in your sphere will start to notice they kind of have your ear but don't have her ear, and they'll try to create some distance here. Or they have her ear and they don't have yours, and they'll start to try to put a little divide between you. You're right. We have this, and some people are a lot more effective at it than others, right?
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And there's been times in the past where one of us has really bought in to a partner or person, And that person caused a lot of friction and damage. And when we realized, you know what? They had their own interests at heart, not ours. And so we developed this saying, no light between us. And since we've done that, we really have been militant about making decisions together.
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Your spouse is your ride or die.
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You know what's crazy?
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They are greatest moments together. Like we just had the greatest Christmas and, and, and, and last night we actually had my mom's 79th birthday. And the last thing my wife and I said when we went to bed with each other was like, We've had like the last three of the greatest nights of our life have just been exactly that. Just us and the family.
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We all put on wigs and did stupid shit around the house. And our greatest moments are in a one bedroom log cabin in Colorado, in a really small town in Colorado with a wood burning stove. No electricity. It's just a solar fed electricity.
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completely off the grid and we have this big beautiful fancy you know place in Miami with all of this stuff and it's just like when we unplug and it's it's just us that's when it's I'd like a Colorado house like that okay but to be okay
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Amen. That's so good. Well, I wind down every podcast by asking my guests the same question. I'm ask each of you guys this question. There's no right or wrong answer, by the way. And that's what does it mean to you to be an ultimate human?
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You guys sound just like Sage. I wish Sage was here. She's got to come and be on the podcast.
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So now you've got to say something different though.
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That was amazing. Um, whether the answer was plagiarized or not, I thought it was actually very good. And I thought your original answer was very good too.
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It's so true.
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Yes.
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Yeah. You know what is amazing? We talked earlier on your podcast about how sometimes I get imported into these really complicated cases. And in the most complicated of all these cases, the first thing I do is I start to eliminate things. I try to get as much out as I can possibly get out.
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And then you usually find the one thing that's causing everything instead of the everything went wrong at the same time.
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um and i think this is just this is like a metaphor for life almost i mean usually people's relationships don't fall apart for 15 things they fall apart because of one thing and which caused 15 outcomes you know um and it's the same people's health you know i mean simple deficiencies causing multiple things to go wrong but I think we have very similar messages.
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I really deeply appreciate and I admire you guys. I mean, you just built such an amazing brand. You're incredible people. You're incredible humans. I really feel a special kinship with you guys.
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I agree. And you know, that's what social media does to us. Well, guys, I hope you enjoyed this podcast as much as I did. I know it's going to resonate with my audience. I hope you guys will come back on The Ultimate Human. I certainly would love to come back on The Skinny Confidential. And until next time, that's just science.
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Your journey didn't start as a health and wellness journey. A large part of it has morphed into a health and wellness journey. What were some of the tipping points for you?
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But you felt it.
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Yeah, that's just blogs. That's all you have.
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How did it get out there?
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12.
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But you talked about a night when you were bartending and an older, very successful gentleman came in. And I think he was sort of passing some judgment on you. And he's like, hey, what are you going to do with your life? And you brought up the fact that you wanted to start this blog. And he laughed in your face and told you you can never make any money doing that. And at the time...
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Your advice to couples starting a business and going into business together.
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you know, as a bartender, you got this real, I forget the business that you said he started, but he was a very successful guy, very prominent.
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Okay. So the inventor of the airbag, right? So, um, so you couldn't have had a lot of people around you saying, this is how you do it. This is the path that you take. Like you didn't have like mentors, like sort of laying out the pathway for you. Like, like a lot of people do now.
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And I think especially for women, I mean, and, and then you bring your idea up and you share it with somebody who, you know, you know, you probably respect because he successful as the older guy and he actually just trashes your idea. And I want to go back to that moment because you didn't start with a lot of mentorship or a lot of guidance.
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It's not like you had a parent that was, you know, braised the trail for you with their business and you took this business over. You sort of just saw this opportunity, went out and took it. I want to get back to where you grew it into the podcast and when you started to come together as a couple.
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But I want to talk a little bit about why you decided not to quit at that time, why you didn't take that advice.
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Hey guys, welcome back to the Ultimate Human Podcast. I'm your host, human biologist, Gary Brekker, where we go down the road of everything anti-aging, longevity, biohacking, and everything in between. And as you just heard, I have some very special guests on the podcast today. Actually, I'm a very special guest on their podcast, which has turned into my podcast. That's perfect.
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And you're not releasing any GLP-1. You're not getting any satiation. You're not nutrient dense, so your body's not saying, hey, I'm full. I'm satiated. I should stop eating.
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Wow.
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We all should be on the side of the future of our children. And Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is someone I've looked up to for a long time since I really understood his mission. And when you look at the broken health care system in America, we spend $4.5 trillion a year on health care.
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God bless you, man. And God bless that mission because I think when you become a purpose-driven agency and not a profit-protecting agency, and I know that these government agencies are not driven for profit per se, but a lot of these officials move from the public sector into the private sector. It's obvious once you start to peel back the layers of the onion that if you're a
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regulator and your responsibility is enforcement of a private industry that you have a known job offer in where you can move from being a government official that's going to make a few hundred thousand dollars a year into private industry where you're going to make a few million dollars a year. It's hard to not point to that as a conflict of interest.
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Because they're about to make that move.
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I believe that just by observation, you know, just as a consumer.
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If you eliminate big food and pharma from, I mean, just, you know, if you watch the Super Bowl. It would have been Super Bowl.
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We lead the world in six major categories, infant mortality, maternal mortality, morbid obesity, type 2 diabetes, multiple chronic disease in a single biome. And I don't think anyone, including myself, knows the exact reason why. It's so multifactorial. You know, why do we have the highest rates of childhood cancer in recorded history?
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Right.
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Right.
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They will never do that today. You know, that, that to me seems like that's the difficult part for an agency like yours to get into the private sector and effectuate the private sector that way. Unless of course there was some kind of executive order that disallowed pharma from advertising directly to the consumer. Yeah.
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Which do you see a day where that could be a possibility?
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And we're going to end that.
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Yeah, $10 billion, I heard, of the $120 billion, roughly, of the SNAP program.
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And so, you know, I mean, when you think about that, it's just, it's, it's mind numbing. We're paying for the ads and we're paying for the product.
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Yeah, it's fantastic. I mean, it's probably safe to say that your popularity amongst those some of those agencies has has dropped. Do you?
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I agree.
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And do you do that by, I mean, to really address the corruption in nutritional research, do you do that by actually having taxpayer-funded independent research that is what is influencing public policy and disallow the private sector from funding that? nutritional research, especially that would actually have an impact on public policy.
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Right.
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You know, I've raised four children, and I know many of you watching this are parents, and you have to have a concern. What kind of environment, what kind of world is my child growing up in? What's going to happen to them when they get to the public school system? Not how are they educated, but how are they fed? How's their biome being cared for?
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Yes. Yeah.
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And because it's private funded, we can say, if it doesn't go my favor, I'm not going to alter it. I'm just not going to publish it. Well, we do the study.
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Oh, no question.
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I remember.
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What is their pediatrician doing every time that they put a vaccine on the schedule? Do they know the safety and efficacy of that?
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And they will become the preeminent journals. And they're going to become the preeminent journals.
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love that that now our public policy research institutions can actually be the hallmarks of of properly conducted research and a place that we can actually rely on information i'm i'm there is nothing i hate more than having to to divert this podcast i know we we've got a ufc fight that we're going to first of all this was totally spontaneous you know you you came to my house today before the before the fights and uh we had some fun biohacking with you and your family uh
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And, you know, by the grace of God, you agreed to come in and sit down with me for a few minutes. And I know that my audience in the market really appreciates it. But Robert Kennedy, you are doing God's work.
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And there are a lot of people in this country that are praying for you and for your success and, you know, praying for you to stay strong and stay on your purpose and your passion and your mission. I was particularly touched by your testimony to Congress when you were going through your hearings.
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And so today's podcast, I'm recording this intro after the podcast because I wanted to just tell you how impactful it was, how he was able to break down the corruption in our nutritional research and the corruption in our food supply and the influence that big food and big pharma has over our public policy, the policy that determines how your children are fed.
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One of the comments that you made, which I think just exacerbated your conviction to helping heal America, was how you woke up every morning and you dropped to your knees and you prayed for the opportunity that God would give you to be in the position that you're in now. Now here you are. And it's a great honor to just sit across from you and have gotten a moment to ask you a few questions.
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Thank you.
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Music to my ears.
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Yeah. Vitamins and minerals, amino acids, nutrients, peptides. I mean, these things that can heal humanity.
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Yes.
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Wow. Yeah, modern era, medical era.
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how your children are taught, and what our healthcare system covers and doesn't cover. Why are we so pro-chemicals, synthetics, and pharmaceuticals? And why have we gotten away from things like peptides and whole foods and exercise and vitamins and minerals and amino acids and nutrients? The thing that God gave us to make us thrive rather than the thing that man makes us to make us sick.
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We had a great conversation about this today, you know, about the greatest pharmacy, you know, in the world is right here and the power that this has over this. Bobby Kinney, I hope you'll come back and we can continue to chop this up when we have some more time.
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I know we're heading out to the fights right now and Trump's messing up our whole evening because he's, they're closing the roads on us right before the UFC fights in Miami tonight. But God bless you. Thank you for coming on the Ultimate Human Podcast. Thanks for having me. You're very welcome. What does it mean to you to be an ultimate human?
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Yeah.
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There you have it. That's the definition of the ultimate human. Until next time, that's just science.
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And he did such a good job of describing the dependency that our sick care system has created. Sadly, so many Americans, tens of millions of them are dependent on the system. We don't independently have our own healthcare choices because we walk down the aisles
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And the food that we're consuming is actually what's leading to the medication that's required to treat the conditions from this causal relationship between food and chemicals and health. And so I really hope that you enjoy this podcast today.
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You know, Bobby came to my house to join me at the UFC fights and to talk about some of, you know, what we could do together to help make America healthy again. And I just grabbed them and brought them in the room and I sat them down for this podcast. And it was one of the most authentic, genuine podcasts I've ever done because I really felt the intention of this man. And I think you will too.
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And no matter what side of the aisle you're on, I think you will draw some inspiration from this because we are about to have a healthier, happier, more thriving America. So without further ado, please welcome Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to the Ultimate Human Podcast. Hey guys, welcome back to the Ultimate Human Podcast.
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I'm your host, human biologist, Gary Brekka, where we go down the road of everything anti-aging, biohacking, longevity, and everything in between. And today was a giant surprise.
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Well, we have an agency that stands between us and those people, so those things would never make it into the food supply.
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I spoke this morning at the Health Optimization Summit in Austin, Texas, boarded the plane, shot over to here to head to the UFC fights, and I'm joined by a very prominent figure in the space, the leader in the head of the Maha movement, none other than Mr. Bobby Kennedy Jr. himself. Thank you for coming on the podcast. I'm happy to be here with you finally. I'm happy to have you.
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We've had like a really kind of an amazing time so far, you know, with the hyperbaric chambers and we basically did some nutritional IVs. And then we just decided to come in the podcast room and chop it up a little bit. So there's so much going on in the media and in this Make America Healthy Again movement in this space.
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I'd love for you to share with the audience what you are most excited about right now and what they can expect to see from a public policy perspective, a legislative perspective to show that real change is coming.
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Yes. Congratulations, by the way.
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That's the difficult part for an agency like yours to get into the private sector.
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Profitable patients.
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Well, the first treatment for chronic disease was the pill.
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When it comes to snacking, Masa is flipping the script on what real food should look like. Masa chips are crafted with grass-fed beef tallow, one of the healthiest fats on the planet. These chips are packed with essential vitamins like vitamin A, D, E, and vitamin K2, all of which play a role in keeping your skin vibrant, your immune system strong, and your bones solid.
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But here's the real magic about masa. Masa's corn goes through an ancient process called nixtamalization, which makes it way easier to digest and it amps up its nutrient profile. Plus these chips are low in PUFAs, so you won't find any of the inflammatory seed oils that you find in most snacks.
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There's so much going on in the media and in this Make America Healthy Again movement, what they can expect to see from a public policy perspective.
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That is incredible.
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There were high morbidity death tied to deficiencies in vitamin D3.
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This was the late 80s, early 90s.
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And you're not releasing any GLP-1. You're not getting any satiation. You know, you're not nutrient dense. So your body's not saying, hey, I'm full. I'm satiated. I should stop eating.
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Right. Wow. It's so insane to think that it's that sinister. And I think the sad thing, and I don't mean to derail you, is that it's one thing to concoct this whole, contrive this whole mechanism of creating toxicity and chemicals to mimic flavorings to circumvent satiety and whatnot.
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Hey guys, this is Gary Brekka and I'm telling you today truly is a very, very special podcast.
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But I think where it goes lost in the public is they go, well, we have an agency that stands between us and those people. So those things would never make it into the food supply.
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I know very often I'll say this is my favorite guest or I'm really excited to have this guest on, but this particular guest has a very special place in my heart and he's going to have a very special place in your heart too because of the level of conviction that this man has to make an impact on humanity. And by that, I mean, I don't care what side of the political aisle you're on.
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You're looking at the variance between what the solution resonated at initially and what the field is like after you add this compound. And you're saying that's the frequency of melatonin. That's the frequency of caffeine.
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That's what I was going to ask you. They're unique. So repeatably over and over and over and over and over again, these complex recordings are identical. This fuzzy noise is identical when you have this certain compound.
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And when you say field, it's not like a speaker, which is sort of this unidirectional sound wave, right? It oscillates, creates a sound wave. We perceive that as a tone. This is actually a moving, really kind of a messy field. It's sort of the atomic energy in there, for lack of better words.
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It seems to me too, the applications are so vast, especially for addiction, for example. Have you looked at any implications for addictions like smoking, vaping?
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This is the first time I've ever... I didn't even know that was a thing. No offense. There aren't that many of us. There's not that many of you. And you focused on translational neuroscience, microfluidics, and electronics hardware contributing to advancements in neural implants and brain-computer interface technologies.
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which is unique to certain compounds, you're actually recording that really fuzzy staticky kind of, I mean, I remember being at dinner with one of your co-founders and he was telling me how someone that had some either ham radio experience or radio experience happened to be in the lab and was listening to some of these recordings and
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some of the team thought that the recordings were not being picked up, and what he said was, no, that static that you're hearing, that is the... What we're looking for. That's the field that we're trying to measure.
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So in a lab, you're taking a solution or something and you are introducing a compound and then you are recording the... electromagnetic smog, if you will, that that compound is releasing.
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And that electromagnetic smog, and I'm making up my own words for the record because I don't have a PhD in biomedical engineering, but this electromagnetic smog, which is unique to that compound, you can not only record it,
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but then you can replay it exactly exactly as it occurs because if you played it any different it wouldn't be that same it wouldn't be unique to that field compound that's got to be because first of all the devices that would pick that up is one thing but the devices that would retransmit at that at those levels to me seems like you had to invent that side of the equation too
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151. Dr. Brian Mogen: CTO of Hapbee Discusses the Science of Biohacking Sleep
What's wild to me is that a recording of a compound's field replayed into the body has the same effect as the presence of that molecule. Is that, is that?
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And the first thing that came to mind was this brain implant that Elon Musk is working on. Yeah.
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So you can influence the same level of interaction, whether you have the presence of the real compound or you have the presence of the recording of that compound.
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151. Dr. Brian Mogen: CTO of Hapbee Discusses the Science of Biohacking Sleep
So let's take this one step further. I don't know if you guys are following this, but I am fascinated by this because the idea that you could take a compound like melatonin or even caffeine
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and record its molecular energy, for lack of better words, and then replay that molecular energy into the body and have cellular structures and gateways that are in the cell wall and the cell membrane, and even probably more importantly, the mitochondria, which has its own cell membrane.
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So to play these recordings at this atomic level or at this, you know, molecular level and have those locking key mechanisms respond as if the presence of that compound is there is fascinating to me because, you know, the implications to me just like your head wants to just...
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and explode because you know the the issues for example with narcotic painkillers for example aren't the effect that it's exerting at the time it's the all of the codependencies and the addictive cycles and you know the waste elimination pathways to get a lot of these compounds um out of the body because as you know cellular metabolism is a really dirty process and
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When you introduce things into a human body that, you know, cells are influenced by, at some point, that influence not only diminishes, but it turns into other products that the body now has to get rid of, right? I mean, you pour gasoline into your engine, you run your car, now it's exhaust, it's vapor, it's going to the atmosphere. It's just these energies are changing their state, right?
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So when did you realize that, because this began as the Department of Defense Technology or military technology, I could see why they would want to know where all the submarines are under the ocean.
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I mean, that's got to be infinitely complex to listen through because the amount of noise between wherever your device is reading it and the object that you're trying to detect, I mean, there's all kinds of fish and water and molecules and light and pressure and all kinds of things going on to be able to find these sounds and record them or at least identify it as noise.
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that's a submarine, that's a ship, and that's XYZ. What point did you think that you had a... commercial product that could benefit humanity, like the one that you're wearing right now? And what compounds did you start with? Because I'm just thinking of like you guys sitting around the lab one day and you're like, hey, Stan, we isolated melatonin.
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151. Dr. Brian Mogen: CTO of Hapbee Discusses the Science of Biohacking Sleep
You guys start putting these things on and everybody's falling asleep or you get stimulated from caffeine. How did it go from being this technology, this recording and transmission device into an actual wearable technology?
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151. Dr. Brian Mogen: CTO of Hapbee Discusses the Science of Biohacking Sleep
So, I mean, before we talk about the stuff that really freaks me out, I mean, let's talk a little bit about the implications for something like that in spinal cord injuries, which is where a lot of your research was focused, right?
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151. Dr. Brian Mogen: CTO of Hapbee Discusses the Science of Biohacking Sleep
So now someone's in the lab, they have some alcohol, they record the, well, I keep saying electrocardiogram,
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smog for lack of better words they record this cloud this field that is the the way that the molecule of alcohol is resonating and then they take that recording and then they they return that that uh recording back into the body and the person is under the influence of alcohol or feels like they're under the influence of alcohol and when they turn it off they're no longer under the influence
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Because I've actually heard of you guys having parties with these things where you put them over everybody's head and everybody gets a little dose of alcohol and everybody's kind of social and buzzing around. And then when it's time to go, you shut it off and give everyone a little caffeine and out the door they go and you're bone sober and your blood alcohol level zero or near zero. And...
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You're not under the influence of anything.
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And I'm fascinated by the recruiting process where you're like, hey, who wants to come in and not get drunk but get drunk without drinking and wear this necklace?
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Because I don't see a bunch of burly Irish dudes bearded going...
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151. Dr. Brian Mogen: CTO of Hapbee Discusses the Science of Biohacking Sleep
Yeah. That's wild. So you put these happy devices over a buddy's neck. You run the frequency of alcohol, and they felt under the influence. Did you monitor? Did you give them questionnaires?
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Right.
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Right. And when it was all said and done, you shut it off, maybe ran the caffeine five to wake them back up, but there was no... they may have been under the influence of alcohol, but there's no alcohol in their bloodstream. So the liver's not processing this. The liver's not turning it into acetyl aldehyde. Their blood's not getting acidic. They're not damaging their brain.
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151. Dr. Brian Mogen: CTO of Hapbee Discusses the Science of Biohacking Sleep
They're not going to vasoconstrictive process. All of the downsides that we have with alcohol, because I think alcohol, like so many other things, um, we're willing to make this exchange. We're going to take some of the bad to get the good. Oh, it removes my social inhibitions. I get it's going to interrupt my sleep.
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151. Dr. Brian Mogen: CTO of Hapbee Discusses the Science of Biohacking Sleep
I'm going to wake up with a headache tomorrow, but I'm going to have a really good night. And you could probably say this for all kinds of things. I'd rather not take Tylenol or ibuprofen because I know it's hard on my liver or hard on my gut microbiome, but the pain is... the detriment of the pain is worth the downside that some of these compounds have. I'm still fascinated by this.
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151. Dr. Brian Mogen: CTO of Hapbee Discusses the Science of Biohacking Sleep
It is absolutely fascinating to me that you can isolate this electromagnetic smog, for lack of better words. You can impart this frequency into the body, and then the body reacts as though it's under that influence, and as soon as you remove it, that influence stops. Woo! Like many of you, the hardest thing for me is to shut off my mind at night when I want to sleep.
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151. Dr. Brian Mogen: CTO of Hapbee Discusses the Science of Biohacking Sleep
And it's funny because sometimes I'll wake up tired already thinking of when I'll get back to bed again. But exactly the moment that I lay my head on the pillow, it feels like the machine of crazy what-if thoughts has turned back on. Does this happen to you? Let me tell you my new secret to deal with this. You may have heard of Magnesium Breakthrough by BiOptimizers. Thank you. Thank you.
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151. Dr. Brian Mogen: CTO of Hapbee Discusses the Science of Biohacking Sleep
So, you know, in the spinal cord, I think of it like thousands, literally millions of tiny, tiny, tiny little hairs kind of all bound together and they're sending information, you know, back and forth to the brain. Some of it's motor, some of it's coordination, some of it's sensory.
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Thank you.
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Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
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But you're saying that there's some of these pathways, let's say, that could get damaged that deal with motor activity and... And you could use a sensory pathway to maybe send motor information?
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Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
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Thank you.
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what is still functional and take that and enhance the functionality kind of is this kind of the just by way of background you know my personal story with his technology is really fascinating so I'll just throw it out there I was in Dubai several months ago on an unrelated trip and
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one of the sheikhs of Bahrain, Sheikh Nasser, contacted me and said, hey, there's a group over there that happens to be in Dubai right now that I want you to meet with. And there's this really interesting technology that I've been looking at. I'd love for them to come to your hotel while you're in Dubai.
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151. Dr. Brian Mogen: CTO of Hapbee Discusses the Science of Biohacking Sleep
Right. And when you say there's not a lot of actionable output, the wearable is saying, here's your sleep score, here's your recovery, here's your strain in the Heart rate variability was a little low tonight. Your respiratory rate was a little bit low. So you can't take that data now and...
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create something in real time that would address that but you're are you saying that happy will eventually be able to take input data highly individualized right like from my from my whoop that says that you know i've been bed for x period of time my heart rate variability is low my respiratory rate is low um i'm i haven't been able to get into rem or deep sleep and it could take that data and potentially redirect it and say okay we're going to increase the amount of
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151. Dr. Brian Mogen: CTO of Hapbee Discusses the Science of Biohacking Sleep
In terms of the sleep realm, there's people that struggle with sleep. Talk about some of the compounds that you have for sleep and what you're seeing in the community that's using these so far.
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151. Dr. Brian Mogen: CTO of Hapbee Discusses the Science of Biohacking Sleep
Here's a change in timing. It's coming soon. Okay. And you said you have seven compounds now? Yep. That it can effectively mimic and put you... for lack of better words, under the influence of that compound without that compound being in your body. And what are some of those? You know, sleep, obviously.
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151. Dr. Brian Mogen: CTO of Hapbee Discusses the Science of Biohacking Sleep
So what's super exciting about that is that, you know, people, there's a process called tachyphylaxis in the human body, right? A desensitization response. It's like, you know, you sit down next to a woman who's wearing amazing perfume and 30 minutes later, you can't smell the perfume, right? I mean, that desensitization, that tachyphylaxis response has dulled your senses completely.
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to picking up that scent any longer. It's not that she took the perfume off. It's that you don't smell it because you've desensitized. Is there a similar tachyphallactic effect where we would either build the tolerance... Or build a dependency or some kind of desensitization.
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And if the Sheikh of Bahrain calls you and asks you to take a meeting, you kind of take the meeting. He's an amazing guy, by the way. And Sheik Nasser, if you're listening, shout out to you, brother. He's a two-time world champion in this incredibly difficult distance horse race. His family is an amazing family. He's crazy about human performance.
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Getting used to it kind of thing. Okay. But no detriment.
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151. Dr. Brian Mogen: CTO of Hapbee Discusses the Science of Biohacking Sleep
Right. Yeah. That you kind of can. So in your mind, what are the great applications for this technology going forward? How are you guys going to make your impact on the world?
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Sleep, mood, and performance.
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So talk a little bit about what you're doing in each of those categories. You have three essentially settings for sleep, and these are three recordings of compounds that you're then going to play into the body, transmit into the body. And what specifically are those compounds?
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151. Dr. Brian Mogen: CTO of Hapbee Discusses the Science of Biohacking Sleep
Melatonin and adenosine, because there's a THC on there too. And I think that's what they added to mine the other night. And that's what like literally made me feel like I'm sinking down in the mattress. And I don't do any drugs. I don't touch weed and anything like that. It's not that I'm opposed to it or even CBDs. And some people swear by CBDs for sleep and for pain.
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But it was a noticeable difference. And within just a few minutes of putting it on. And so now my body feels that I'm under the influence of those compounds. When I wake up, I can just simply shut it off.
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And since your body believes that you're under the influence of whatever compound, is there a chance that you build a tolerance to THC or to CBD or to the pain medication? I always wonder what about somebody that doesn't drink? Like I don't drink any longer. I drank not so long ago, but I've just cut it out of my life because of the detriments to my physiology.
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He actually puts more technology into his horses, I think, than he does into humans. I like joke with him, and I'm like... Man, when I die, I want to come back as one of your horses, man. Olympic swimming pools and altitude sleeping rooms and red light mats they drape them over and all organic diets. It's amazing how they're pushing the limits of horse racing over there.
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So if I were to use that, I could experience the effects of alcohol and not have the downside consequences.
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Yeah.
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Yeah. I mean, it's, it seems to me too, the, the, the applications are so vast, especially for, um, you know, addiction, for example, um, most people are not smoking or vaping because they like smoking or vaping. It's because of the nicotine.
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Um, and you could, although I'm down the road of all of the positive health benefits on nicotine now, some, some of the nicotine is not even tobacco derived nicotine, but just talking about the compound nicotine, um, Have you looked at any implications for addictions, like smoking?
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151. Dr. Brian Mogen: CTO of Hapbee Discusses the Science of Biohacking Sleep
Wow. And how's that going? What do they report when they're, you know, if you have someone that's addicted to a certain compound and, you know, is getting that addressed, you know, you can actually introduce that compound without any of the negative side effects for them.
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151. Dr. Brian Mogen: CTO of Hapbee Discusses the Science of Biohacking Sleep
So where do you see this going in terms of performance? You know, you were talking about the three big areas that you guys are trying to address. I to me, is where we should all start, right? I believe that sleep is our human superpower. If you're not sleeping, you're not healing, you're not regenerating, you're not, you know, your cells are not eliminating waste, repairing, detoxifying.
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151. Dr. Brian Mogen: CTO of Hapbee Discusses the Science of Biohacking Sleep
So I take this meeting and I'm with a partner of mine from the Middle East and I happen to have my CFO with me. And... This gentleman shows up and he's got this necklace that you've got around your neck right here. And he proceeds to tell me this story about... And I'm going to bastardize it. So the reason why you're here is to clear this up. That sounds good.
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151. Dr. Brian Mogen: CTO of Hapbee Discusses the Science of Biohacking Sleep
You know, we know that our brain's glymphatic system, which is like the lymph system in the brain, is active in waste elimination, you know, at night. So the only time the brain really detoxifies is during this deep, you know, sleep cycle. And in the REM cycle, we're assembling our memories from the day with our subconscious and creating learned behaviors and learn, learn memory.
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So learn, learn memories. It seems to me like if you have compounds that are available to enhance that, they get all of the benefits of that deep sleep cycle without any of the detriments.
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And what can you do for professional athletes today?
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Again, it's multifaceted, but kind of... Do you envision a day, maybe not in the not so distant future, where even doctor's offices, hospitals, and care providers... put this around somebody's neck and prescribe that whatever medication is in this app sort of runs on a, a timer. And well, I guess it wouldn't do that.
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Cause I was thinking, you know, dosing your pain medication or dosing your thyroid medication or dosing any other medication for that matter, where you could, instead of having them ingest that compound, you just start transmitting that.
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But essentially that this company has technology and that has isolated...
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And to date, have you guys conducted any of your own independent research?
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How would it mitigate pain other than if you had a pain medication, you would send that into the body and the body would respond as if it were under that influence?
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And how hard is it to add? In order to add a new product or a new compound that it's mimicking, What's the process to do that? Because I notice it's an app. So I assume that you could update that app remotely. And as you guys come out with more technological innovations, this necklace goes from being like asleep and slightly mentally alert and maybe a neurotropic into being all kinds of things.
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151. Dr. Brian Mogen: CTO of Hapbee Discusses the Science of Biohacking Sleep
these different frequencies that mimic certain compounds in the human body and the long and short of it is they could mimic caffeine, they could mimic the effects of pain medication, they could mimic the effects of adenosine in the brain or melatonin in the brain without putting these compounds into the body but allowing the body to receive this signal as if it were under the influence of one of these compounds.
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Yep.
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Yeah. I mean, again, the possibilities are just endless. So sleep is the primary focus. Where do your users go from there? What do you see after that? The caffeine settings?
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I mean, is there any detriment to using it over and over and over again? Like when you sat down, you were running the nicotine setting. It was interfering with the mic, so we turned it off, but you were running the nicotine setting, and Now you're running nothing, right? Yep. Do you already feel that nicotine has dropped in your body?
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151. Dr. Brian Mogen: CTO of Hapbee Discusses the Science of Biohacking Sleep
Wow, that's just so wild. I mean, you know, eventually the idea you can integrate those into mattresses or any number of other products that become true biohacking modalities. You know, I'm always, I'm a huge fan of this term biostacking.
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Because to me, what biostacking means is you take, you know, multiple devices, biohacking devices, and you just try to do them instead of in sequence, but do them together. Like, for example, I tell, I'm always preaching on social media about the importance of breathwork and sunlight and grounding. Those three just simple things. But you could package everything. all of that together at one time.
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Like for example, I, you know, I will sit on the beach sometimes let the sunlight hit, hit my skin while, while I'm grounded and then I'll do rounds of breath work. So instead of having three separate 20 minute segments, I have one 20 minute segment and we, and we put it all together. I kind of see the same thing happening here where somebody were wearing this device, um, you know, uh,
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the physician could say, here's your prescription. It's loaded into your app. And when you wake up in the morning, you know, just let me know that you're awake and it will run your Synthroid because that has to be done 30 minutes before meals and it has to be done completely by itself. Then your next medication is going to start here.
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You know, you're going to run, you know, something for your blood pressure or... So are you... saying that there's almost no field from any compound that you can't record and then translate, that's covalent.
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And is there any bio-individuality? Like, you know, because... If you and I both took the same number of milligrams strength of melatonin and everybody listening to this podcast, there would be vastly different reactions to it. Some people would say, oh, my God, it felt like I got hit by a sledgehammer. I couldn't even get out of bed the next day. I was so sluggish.
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And then other people would say, yeah, I didn't feel it at all. Is there that bio-individuality to it?
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151. Dr. Brian Mogen: CTO of Hapbee Discusses the Science of Biohacking Sleep
Yeah, they can't process it. Is it the CYP? I forget the exact gene mutation.
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Now, I could, again, overgeneralize. I could see your PhD brain is like, that's not exactly correct. But I'm telling the story. It's my podcast. So I'm just kidding. So we sit down and he puts these. I put one on. My partner puts one on. And my CFO puts one on. And he goes, listen, I'm just going to dial up this sleep setting, this deep, deep sleep setting.
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151. Dr. Brian Mogen: CTO of Hapbee Discusses the Science of Biohacking Sleep
Yeah, there is a gene mutation that breaks down caffeine either quickly or slowly. My wife was so happy because we actually had a genetic scientist over here months ago, and we did this – big genetic test. And, um, when he was going through the results, she, she was so, she was like, if I can't have more than one cup of coffee a day, I am out. Um, because we were looking at caffeine metabolism.
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Luckily she's a very fast metabolizer of it. So she can actually drink more coffee and have more later in the day. Um, and, and, um, This report recommended that I only drink one because I'm a slow metabolizer of caffeine. And I kind of find that on my own. I really don't need caffeine. I've got quite a bit of energy most days. But because of that, I've limited my cups of coffee to one.
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But in this case, I'm not metabolizing it. Right? I'm under the influence of caffeine.
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So somebody could get this and, you know, their husband or their wife puts it on and is like out, like they got hit by a ton of bricks and then they have no effect. So they have to sort of start playing with the compounds.
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151. Dr. Brian Mogen: CTO of Hapbee Discusses the Science of Biohacking Sleep
That is just so wild. I mean, it really proves that these fields are exerting the effect that you're after. So, you know, I got to ask what... Where does this happy technology go from here?
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151. Dr. Brian Mogen: CTO of Hapbee Discusses the Science of Biohacking Sleep
So you, as a scientist, you've got to be, first of all, fascinated to see, because I'm sure in biomedical engineering, maybe there are times where you get to see a product have a mass market effect on humanity. But, I mean, this has got to be pretty rewarding for you to see that you can have, your laboratory science can have a real mass market effect on humanity.
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and if this engineer that developed it for the military, I mean, is, is this, is the technology owned by the military?
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You guys put all the people to sleep you want. We're not worried about it. Yeah, fascinating. Well, I definitely want to have you back on the podcast because this whole innovation of wearables to me is... this conversion that is happening right now between artificial intelligence, big data, and... and early detection.
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But in this case, if you were able to take massive amounts of data, presumably from wearables, and create an actionable response, I mean, that's, you know, so that as I'm going through the day, you know, my whoop is transmitting and it's telling me my strain and my, you know, all of my biometrics are in there.
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And there are things that you could potentially do to follow the data in real time on someone's wearable and say, wow, they're not getting into REM sleep. Let's secrete melatonin. Let's secrete adenosine. Let's bring in some THC and actually in real time take that data and create such a personalized experience, but they're not under the influence of anything, right?
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And he starts running this deep sleep setting. I kid you not. Within 60, maybe 90 seconds, my CFO is sitting in the lobby of the Ritz-Carlton in this meeting with us, falling asleep. And so he goes, do you want me to wake you up? I'll run the caffeine setting. So a few minutes later, he turns on this caffeine setting and it shuts off the impulses for the influence of things like melatonin.
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I mean, and they don't have the detriments of those things. And if they wanted to remove, you know, essentially the influence that that field was having on them, they could do so. It's like if you take a Tylenol PM and you want to get out of bed two hours later, forget it.
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If you, like, pop an Ambien and you're like, oh, shoot, I got to go to the airport and pick up my – there's none of that going on, right? I mean, because you are now – subject to whatever the half-life is of that compound and exerting its effect, and you're just going to have to ride it out. I mean, if you had to eat Guinness... There's no way you're getting in the car in an hour.
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You've got to wait for your blood alcohol to come down. But this would happen so much faster. Man, it's just super fascinating to me. So for my audience that doesn't know you or know about this technology, where do they find you? Where do they find out about this technology?
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Yeah, happy.com. And you guys are talking about this is widely available for consumers now. Yep. So if somebody's struggling with sleep, what would you say the biggest implication is for this technology right now? If I'm a listener and I have this condition now,
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Well, we're going to go into my VIP room now because every time I have a guest on, I bring them into my VIP room to allow them to ask questions directly. So if you're interested in becoming one of my ultimate human VIPs, go over to theultimatehuman.com and just sign up to be one of my VIP members so you can have private podcasts with our guests.
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I also do live coaching, group coaching sessions in there. I write all kinds of specific content there.
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uh for the vip so go over to the ultimatehuman.com and sign up to be one of my vip members um but i i end every every podcast i wind down the same way by asking my guests the same question and um there's no right or wrong answer to this question and it is what what does it mean to you to be an ultimate human for me i think there are a couple pieces one being having the ability to always
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That's awesome. You must be pretty fascinated with the journey that you're on. That was amazing. Dr. Mogan, thank you for coming on the Ultimate Human Podcast today. Let's go check out my VIPs.
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And as always, guys, that's just science.
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And I think it was THC. And it starts the impulse for the influence of caffeine. And he literally woke right up. And then... The rubber really hit the road because he set it on a THC setting. My CFO, if you're listening, Isaac, I love you, brother, but you're going under the bus on this one. And he's sitting there in this meeting. We're in Dubai, very formal meeting. We've met for the first time.
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He's got this thing around his neck and he starts running this THC setting. And a few minutes later, he starts having a fit of giggles. And his eyes look watery and he takes a fist and he kind of bumps my partner in the leg and goes, you got to try this, bro. Which is not how my CFO speaks. And then he started apologizing.
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He started laughing and they shut it back off, turned on the caffeine setting and he was bright, you know, like wide awake again. Had I not seen that?
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or somebody had told me that the technology could do that before this meeting, I probably wouldn't have taken the meeting, just given the limited information that I have and the fact that like my BS meter would have been up so high, but I witnessed it firsthand. And then of course, all of us were like, how do we get one of those? How do we get one of those? And we all threw them around our neck.
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151. Dr. Brian Mogen: CTO of Hapbee Discusses the Science of Biohacking Sleep
We started playing with them for the next day, but I flew home two days later from Dubai. And there's a deep sleep setting on there. And you can actually set the number of hours for deep sleep. And I set it for eight hours. Now, it could be completely coincidence and completely placebo. But I put my seat flat. I went to the bathroom, brushed my teeth, did all my stuff, put my eye mask on.
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151. Dr. Brian Mogen: CTO of Hapbee Discusses the Science of Biohacking Sleep
Hey guys, welcome back to the Ultimate Human Podcast. I'm your host, human biologist, Gary Brekka, where we go down the road of everything anti-aging, biohacking, longevity, and everything in between. And today's guest is a fascinating guest. You know, when I was... Using his technology, my wife and I have been using it for quite some time. My staff has been using it for quite some time.
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I laid down the seat. I turned it on. And I woke up eight hours and two minutes later. And even for me that has my sleep patterns pretty dialed in to get eight straight hours of sleep on a plane is completely unheard of. I don't know if I've ever actually slept eight consistent hours without waking. So something's going on.
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151. Dr. Brian Mogen: CTO of Hapbee Discusses the Science of Biohacking Sleep
So I would really love to talk about, you know, how your background led to the genesis of this technology. Because we were talking before the podcast about how you always start out to do one thing with a technology. And then you start finding out all of these other really interesting verticals and horizontal paths.
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Because I've heard somebody say that, you know, even though all these submarines and even, you know, warships have all of this technology to conceal themselves, they know where they all are.
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You might have seen it on my Instagram. I really wanted to go down the rabbit hole of the science. And so I contacted the company and they said, we'll bring the scientists in, we'll fly them in, put them on your podcast so you can ask them whatever questions you want about the origin of this technology, which I think you're going to find fascinating. But...
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I remember those, you know, we all played with this stick and ball model in chemistry. And I guess that's just a way of getting us to understand, you know, molecular structure at its rudimentary level. But I agree with you. These things are very fluid and they're, you know, electrons are spinning and protons are spinning and you've got an atom and a nucleus. And there's a lot of activity going on.
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And, you know, it's not a static model. You know, we would take the little... they'll sticks out and plug it into another molecule and build molecules. But what you're saying is this, this electromagnetic field or this, this field that these electrons are creating, that's detectable. Exactly.
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151. Dr. Brian Mogen: CTO of Hapbee Discusses the Science of Biohacking Sleep
some of that fuzzy weird movement how with detectors very sensitive can you get unique recordings from different compounds hey guys let's talk about meat for a minute did you know that 96 of the beef sold in stores is not grass-fed that's right most beef comes from cows fed a grain-based diet in feed lots which isn't even healthy for you or the cow
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First of all, welcome to the podcast, Dr. Brian Mogan. Thank you so much for having me. I forgot to even introduce you. But you're a distinguished biomedical engineer with a strong foundation in neural engineering and biomedical sciences. What I found fascinating when I was digging into your background was that you earned your PhD in brain-computer interfaces from the University of Washington.
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That's parkerpastures.com and get $25 off your first order. Now let's get back to the Ultimate Human Podcast. So just to hyper simplify it, you have a solution and let's say you dissolve melatonin or you dissolve caffeine or you dissolve CBD or any other compound.
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This is the new era of protein supplementation, and it's real. If you want to build lean muscle without having to cut, you need Perfect Amino. Now let's get back to the Ultimate Human Podcast. And that's what happened to you. You were on your way to doing something else. You'd had enough. You made a change. And now you're moving this in a different direction.
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Thank you.
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Tell me about Biohack because first of all, I'm a huge fan. I know a lot about it. I want my audience to know about it. I'm going to put links in the show notes below. It's a must watch. I went to the premiere in Vegas, but I'm so excited about, for documentaries like this to start seeing the light of day.
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I'm so excited to have you guys because, like we were talking about before the podcast started, I see so many power couples in this industry now really making a move in an attempt to make a difference. I find that most of them have some kind of story. There was a tipping point, a problem that they solved in their life.
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Because I think for the first time in my adult lifetime, we can go around mainstream media and go directly to the consumer. The consumer has the choice to consume whatever media they choose. And a lot of people are consuming educational media so they can better their lives. So you put together this idea to launch Biohack. By the way, this thing is a massive, Massive project.
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I don't think people realize when they say, yeah, I shot a documentary. It wasn't some dude with a camera on his shoulder and an iPhone. I guess it's series production. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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That's the most vulnerable time in your life when you're at the before stage because you're like, okay, I'm all in, but this could not work.
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Well, I think, you know, when I look at, we did a project in the Middle East, and they had hired a bunch of McKinsey consultants. And one of the things they did was they did this global analysis of interest looking at search engine optimization, likes, shares, forwards, views, comments, you know, videos that were trending.
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Basically, the long and short of it was that if you group these things like biohacking, anti-aging and longevity sort of together, right? whatever you want to call it, bio-optimization, bio-hacking. It is the fastest growing area of interest in the world. And it starts in very young age demographics, like 16, and goes all the way into the late 70s.
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I mean, this isn't like sports, entertainment, country music, you know, these areas that have high levels of but very narrow interest. This is... Every spectrum. Yeah, global in every spectrum. And my opinion is that it was really kind of sparked by the pandemic. I don't know what your opinion is. I'd love to hear your views on it. Absolutely.
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It's the lighting, dude. It's the lighting.
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In solving this problem, they've become some of the most impactful people in the world. And I think that you guys fit into that category for sure. First of all, before we even start, I want to say it was an absolute honor and a blessing. to be invited, Sage and I, to be a part of your SHIELD documentary, She Healed. You guys, we'll link that in the show notes below.
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Yeah, maybe the elites don't have my best interests at heart. Right. And no matter what side of the aisle you're on, pro, anti-vaccine, doesn't matter. You realize that everybody knew somebody whose life was permanently changed by that pandemic. Everyone.
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Yeah, it really does. So now you, you know, you've put this amazing documentary together and you really have done an incredible job. I don't know who was advising you, but I mean, you hand selected just an unbelievable, I'd say every mentor that I've had personally.
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Dr. Hyman, you know, Dave Asprey, and so many others, Dr. Amen, you know, these folks that you were able to get onto this documentary to share their stories. What has been the byproduct of that? I mean, obviously Shield, the next documentary. But how have your lives changed? What's going on in your lives now?
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That's so amazing. Because I think, too, that there are... And when I built my Ultimate Human Platform, I purposely didn't want to do this. But there are a lot of ultra-woke biohackers that are out there just speaking to other ultra-woke biohackers. And I don't have a problem with that. They're very smart people, people that I would consider to be mentors. But they're speaking in a way that's...
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look how intelligent I am, look how much I know. And it's to impress or impact their peer group. But we have to get to the masses. That's my mission is to take the ultra complicated, make it simple and try to feed this to the masses. Because you go out to middle America and they don't even know what a cold punch is. Methylene blue, I mean, NAD.
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And by the time you know what NAD and methylene blue are, you're 80% of the way there. Just by the fact that you even know what those are.
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If you know what a mitochondria is, you're in the top 2%.
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My money, by the way, is on your son. If I can buy stock in him, I feel like he's one of those stocks that you're like, if I could have bought Bitcoin at three cents, because when I walked into the house in Vegas, it was so funny. He's perfectly dressed. He's got the cutest suit on, brand new shoes. And remember it had those like lily pads that you would walk around with the water around it.
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And he wanted to put his foot in the water so bad. And your camera was like, don't put your foot in the water. Don't touch the water. Don't touch the water. And he put his foot over and he put it on the side. And then as soon as the cameraman didn't look, he tapped the water. I go, that's the kid I want. I'm putting my money on him. He's amazing.
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I think medicine very often treats these as separate entities. You can't be sick here and healthy here, and you can't be sick here and healthy here. They're connected. And what's really amazing to me is when I see the best longevity, anti-aging, biohacking treatment options, really what they're doing is almost full circle coming back and empowering the body.
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PRP is platelet-rich plasma, using your own platelets to create healing. And how do we light our own immune system up to turn it on pathogens? How do we activate our detoxification pathways? And I get a lot of that from this documentary. It's a documentary not about lotions and potions and tricks.
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It's a documentary about empowering yourself to take your own healthcare journey into your own hands for you and your family, which is kind of ironically what you guys did to get to where you launched the biohacking documentary.
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So you're with them in 315 pounds.
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Yeah. Well, now you have this amazing platform, this launching pad. By the way, you've built a true media channel. I really want to commend you guys on that. It's not just a docuseries that you've created or a documentary, but an actual, informative, curated repository where people can go and get trusted information from people that have been vetted.
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So I would encourage everybody to check the show notes below and go check out their platform. but now that you're, you've been bitten by this bug, which clearly you both have, you know, where does this go? What's the vision look like for you guys? Cause now I, you know, I just went to, you know, we were featured on your shield documentary and then we went to the Maha ball. Yeah.
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massive presence at the Maha Ball, which was amazing. By the way, the energy at that place, I mean, when Bobby Kennedy gets confirmed, which is today, Bobby. Yeah, it's happening now.
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She interviewed my wife and I. I mean, it was just, it was so incredibly well done.
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And this is free for people that are- It's free.
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Dr. Gandhi. Oh, really?
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Oh, my God, I love him.
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I'm waiting on you, too. My production manager is off camera now going, I got a dude from Intel.
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Laser therapy, ozone therapy. Yeah, the same modalities that we're using in the biohacking space, they're using to biohack the jaw. Absolutely. I got my root canal taken out.
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He cleaned it with red light, he ozoned into the socket, and he packed my own platelet-rich fibrin, the thick fibrin from your platelets. And I mean, it healed, I have no pain. And I had two bad cavitations from two different root canals. And as, whatever you want to call it, woke as I was, I didn't realize even the connection between, you know, the oral health. And this isn't oral hygiene.
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I mean, I'm talking about oral health. Everybody brushes their teeth or, you know, hopefully most of you floss. But this is actually those cavitations that come from... Childhood. Yeah, from childhood. Brute canal, wisdom tooth removal. And, you know, it really is amazing to me because one of the things that I...
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just felt this calling for when i was in the mortality space was i just had this sense that it was all wrong and i was like we keep trying to convince people that disease and pathology are things that are happening to us but they're actually happening within us right you know like if you every cancerous cell in the body was at one time a healthy cell was a healthy lung cell became metabolically ill why can't something that was healthy that became ill
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become healthy again. We just make these assumptions like, well, it only goes one way, or that all of this myriad of things is going wrong in the same person when really it's usually one thing that causes everything. And I think you guys have done a really good job at highlighting that. And I really want to encourage people to check out your platform.
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So now this media platform, you're going to be potentially at the White House. I've actually been invited to some of those as well. And I talked to Sean Ryan about it this morning too. And I think that they're really interested in, in having social media platforms.
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Well, I think the current president, and I don't think anyone would deny this, was elected largely by social media, right? Going around the media and going right to people and big platforms like Joe Rogan and other ones. And some of my close friends, the NELC boys have been on Air Force One more than most senators.
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143. Anthony & Tereza Lolli: The Biohacking Power Couple Who Proved The Medical System Wrong
And it just shows that they have a real interest in messaging directly to the people. And one of the reasons why I got on board with this Maha movement is because the excitement surrounding the possibility of being able to affect public policy. There's only so much your documentary can do. My podcast can do. I have two and a half million followers or 2.2 million followers on Instagram.
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143. Anthony & Tereza Lolli: The Biohacking Power Couple Who Proved The Medical System Wrong
There's 371 million people in the United States. It's hard to make a difference unless you come top down. And I think that For the first time, I'm really very hopeful about this. And just the mere fact that folks like yourselves have a seat at the table shows you that there's some intention to bring this to the masses.
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143. Anthony & Tereza Lolli: The Biohacking Power Couple Who Proved The Medical System Wrong
Well, it can, but you're saying in a positive way.
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143. Anthony & Tereza Lolli: The Biohacking Power Couple Who Proved The Medical System Wrong
And I think he is, too. Hopefully by the end of this podcast, we're going to hear the answer. But, you know, I think, too, that when an industry of any sort or and I notice this sometimes with podcast guests that I have. doesn't like to be challenged. And that's a red flag for me.
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143. Anthony & Tereza Lolli: The Biohacking Power Couple Who Proved The Medical System Wrong
You know, when I'm on podcasts or stage talks or interviews, if I say something and you take issue with it, like, you know, I'm not a big believer in folic acid, for example. I don't think that we should be fortifying or enriching our food supply. But I can give you the whole rationale for that. I'm not just dogmatic about it and say, this is how it is.
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143. Anthony & Tereza Lolli: The Biohacking Power Couple Who Proved The Medical System Wrong
I noticed that when we push on these industries, food, pharma, corruption in our nutritional research and some of our public policy institutions, they get very offended and very nasty. One of the things that I love about RFK's approach is that he says, I'm not anti-vaccine, I'm not anti-big pharma, anti-pharmaceutical. My life was saved by them. And at some point mine was too.
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143. Anthony & Tereza Lolli: The Biohacking Power Couple Who Proved The Medical System Wrong
I severed my radial artery. Hadn't been for the docs in the emergency room, I wouldn't be having this podcast. So I'm a big believer in that. But when you just ask simple questions like, hey, have these been put through the same level of rigorous testing as other things have been put through? You're asking us to put it into our children.
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143. Anthony & Tereza Lolli: The Biohacking Power Couple Who Proved The Medical System Wrong
at a very early stage of life, can we just see that it's been thoroughly tested? When you start to get pushback on things like that, that's when the red flags fly.
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143. Anthony & Tereza Lolli: The Biohacking Power Couple Who Proved The Medical System Wrong
That's what he's saying. Yeah, we're not talking about impending freedoms and saying you can't drink soda, you can't vape, you can't smoke.
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143. Anthony & Tereza Lolli: The Biohacking Power Couple Who Proved The Medical System Wrong
There's something in medicine called informed consent. And informed consent is you don't have to explain it in a way that a patient could conduct a procedure, but you have to explain it in a way that they can weigh the risks. Listen, we're going to put this into your child. Here's what the evidence says. But here are the risks.
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143. Anthony & Tereza Lolli: The Biohacking Power Couple Who Proved The Medical System Wrong
Because I find that a lot of things we do in medicine, we are trying to stop basically something that has virtually a zero risk. Like if you look at the chances of an infant catching hepatitis B, for example, before their pubescent or even teenage years are virtually zero. They have a higher chance of dying in a motor vehicle accident on the way to school. So everything has a risk, right?
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143. Anthony & Tereza Lolli: The Biohacking Power Couple Who Proved The Medical System Wrong
But you're not gonna put them in the car to go to school. So when you explain it to a mother like that, they're like, well, wait a second. I thought this was something that they could get in a kindergarten classroom. There's actually no chance.
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143. Anthony & Tereza Lolli: The Biohacking Power Couple Who Proved The Medical System Wrong
I want to bang this on my head.
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143. Anthony & Tereza Lolli: The Biohacking Power Couple Who Proved The Medical System Wrong
Yeah, they don't privatize profits and socialize the expense like we do here. I mean, we have to understand that we actually have an industry that relies on chronic disease. And it's hard for people to understand that we've actually built a profit center around chronic disease when really we should try to extinguish chronic disease.
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143. Anthony & Tereza Lolli: The Biohacking Power Couple Who Proved The Medical System Wrong
And it should be the least profit that we make, but it's one of the most profitable industries. So it begs the question- Well, if the most profitable thing in the life cycle of a human is a sick child, the system is broken and needs to be fixed. So we talked a little bit about the documentaries and where the platform is going.
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143. Anthony & Tereza Lolli: The Biohacking Power Couple Who Proved The Medical System Wrong
And in a perfect world, what would this platform represent for you guys? My listeners that want to follow you or get involved, get information here. I mean, what are you going to serve up to the public in the next few years?
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143. Anthony & Tereza Lolli: The Biohacking Power Couple Who Proved The Medical System Wrong
I've heard of fecal transplant. I've heard of all kinds of transplant.
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143. Anthony & Tereza Lolli: The Biohacking Power Couple Who Proved The Medical System Wrong
That is incredible. I would imagine that this mitochondrial transplant, there's some experiments where they actually took young mice, blood from young mice, infused it into older mice, and the older mice got younger, and the younger mice actually got older by switching their, their, their plasma was the impetus for Brian Johnson to change plasma with his son. Right.
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143. Anthony & Tereza Lolli: The Biohacking Power Couple Who Proved The Medical System Wrong
And as controversial as that is, I mean, I have no, no issues with it. Um, but, uh, I, I've, I've got to go down the rabbit hole of this mitochondrial transplant because mitochondria are, we've got 110 trillion of these in our body. We're 10% of our body weights, mitochondria. And my belief in a lot of other
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143. Anthony & Tereza Lolli: The Biohacking Power Couple Who Proved The Medical System Wrong
Others in the scientific community believe that aging is essentially the progressive decline in mitochondrial function.
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143. Anthony & Tereza Lolli: The Biohacking Power Couple Who Proved The Medical System Wrong
Well, we're having a great talk.
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143. Anthony & Tereza Lolli: The Biohacking Power Couple Who Proved The Medical System Wrong
How dare you come on The Ultimate Human and teach me something I didn't know.
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143. Anthony & Tereza Lolli: The Biohacking Power Couple Who Proved The Medical System Wrong
Such a blessing because I wake up every day with this childlike curiosity and I'm so excited to be like, I was excited for this interview. Now I'm even more excited about it because of things like this. Like what better thing to spend your time being curious about and intellectually curious about than just how do you live the healthiest, happiest, longest life?
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143. Anthony & Tereza Lolli: The Biohacking Power Couple Who Proved The Medical System Wrong
That's a commitment.
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143. Anthony & Tereza Lolli: The Biohacking Power Couple Who Proved The Medical System Wrong
Yeah, because usually the donor is donating because it was something that happened to them or a loved one that dramatically impacted their life, and now they've given... millions or tens of millions of dollars, endowments to these projects. Obviously they're doing it to help humanity because they didn't want what happened to their loved one to happen to somebody else.
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143. Anthony & Tereza Lolli: The Biohacking Power Couple Who Proved The Medical System Wrong
That's the best. That's the cutest thing I've ever heard.
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143. Anthony & Tereza Lolli: The Biohacking Power Couple Who Proved The Medical System Wrong
Yeah, trust me. You saw my place. It's just a giant biohacking lounge.
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143. Anthony & Tereza Lolli: The Biohacking Power Couple Who Proved The Medical System Wrong
I love it. I was in the sauna until 11 o'clock last night with my son and my youngest. My daughter's a nurse. My little son is a super athlete.
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143. Anthony & Tereza Lolli: The Biohacking Power Couple Who Proved The Medical System Wrong
It brings us all together. And then when we meet, we always talk about those kinds of things, like the food that we're eating, the supplements we're taking. My daughter will be like, look at this dad, I went to see this patient today and this is what they had in their cabinet and this is the condition they're suffering from. It's just so awesome to be on this journey with your family.
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143. Anthony & Tereza Lolli: The Biohacking Power Couple Who Proved The Medical System Wrong
Love it. Well guys, this is amazing, first of all. And we're going to take a few minutes and go into my private VIP community because I told them you were coming on and I always allow them to ask questions of my guests.
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143. Anthony & Tereza Lolli: The Biohacking Power Couple Who Proved The Medical System Wrong
So if you're interested in becoming an ultimate human VIP, you can click the link in the show notes below and become one of my ultimate human VIPs and you'll get to ask questions directly to our guests. But otherwise, I end all my podcasts by asking my guests the same question. So there's no right or wrong answer to this question. But what does it mean to you, each of you, to be an ultimate human?
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143. Anthony & Tereza Lolli: The Biohacking Power Couple Who Proved The Medical System Wrong
Yeah. And, you know, that's the most vulnerable time in your life when you're at the before stage. Yes. Because you're like, okay, I'm all in, but this could not work. And I'm basically going to document my failure. That's right. You know, I do the same thing. I have a VIP community that I share information with.
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143. Anthony & Tereza Lolli: The Biohacking Power Couple Who Proved The Medical System Wrong
Well, those are great answers, guys. So stick around. We're going to go into my Ultimate Human VIP community. And for the rest of you guys, until next time, that's just science.
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143. Anthony & Tereza Lolli: The Biohacking Power Couple Who Proved The Medical System Wrong
And lately I've just said, you know, I'm going to be exceedingly transparent and authentic and talk about my own health journeys because there are still some things, you know, I recently got metal poisoning from a machine that I thought was structuring my water and ended up giving me metal toxicity. And so how am I going to get the metals out of my, you know,
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143. Anthony & Tereza Lolli: The Biohacking Power Couple Who Proved The Medical System Wrong
Out of my blood, my daughter is suffering from severe mold and mycotoxin poisoning from a mold infection. And there's just not a lot of good information out here. Just like what you were talking about. Classic diagnoses. Now you have restless leg syndrome. You have hypertension. You have hypothyroid. You have mild depression.
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143. Anthony & Tereza Lolli: The Biohacking Power Couple Who Proved The Medical System Wrong
Of course you do because you're 315 pounds and you're suffocating all night. Now you have sleep apnea. And it's just all of these spokes of the wheel, right? but not really looking for the hub, right?
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143. Anthony & Tereza Lolli: The Biohacking Power Couple Who Proved The Medical System Wrong
You guys look amazing.
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143. Anthony & Tereza Lolli: The Biohacking Power Couple Who Proved The Medical System Wrong
I'm so excited for documentaries like this because I think for the first time we can go around mainstream media and go directly to the consumer.
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143. Anthony & Tereza Lolli: The Biohacking Power Couple Who Proved The Medical System Wrong
Yeah, but you know, I think when everybody is on this journey, it makes it... My wife and I started a functional medicine clinic 10 years ago in a strip mall. We took over a little vitamin shop in a strip mall in Naples, Florida. And we were both on the deck of the same ship. You know, we're both rowing towards the same goal. We had the same passion, the same purpose.
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143. Anthony & Tereza Lolli: The Biohacking Power Couple Who Proved The Medical System Wrong
I'm not gonna say it was all easy, right? And this probably wasn't... Completely easy journey for you guys too, because anybody that says you can separate work from your private life is lying to you. And as you guys go on this journey, this seems to me, I don't want to put words in your mouth, but inspired your life to go in a different direction.
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143. Anthony & Tereza Lolli: The Biohacking Power Couple Who Proved The Medical System Wrong
We talked a little bit about the documentaries. What are you going to serve up to the public in the next few years?
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143. Anthony & Tereza Lolli: The Biohacking Power Couple Who Proved The Medical System Wrong
And I think this is something that goes lost on a lot of women. I say it all the time. Intermittent fasting is not a one size fits all. And some of the worst endocrine disasters we've seen in our clinic system were young menstruating women that ate in a very narrow feeding window. They had very, very strict diets or very narrow feeding windows, two hours, four hours.
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143. Anthony & Tereza Lolli: The Biohacking Power Couple Who Proved The Medical System Wrong
Which, you know, all the conventional wisdom says, oh, that's great, you know, one meal a day. But for women, it can really jack up your hormones. Absolutely. Especially because of the changes that you have throughout the month, whether you're follicular, ovulation, or luteal, you know, you have different nutritional needs.
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143. Anthony & Tereza Lolli: The Biohacking Power Couple Who Proved The Medical System Wrong
Hey guys, welcome back to the Ultimate Human Podcast. I'm your host, human biologist, Gary Brekka, where we go down the road of anti-aging, longevity, biohacking, and everything in between. And today I'm super excited. We were just talking before the podcast about how the tables are turning to go from being interviewed to being the interviewer. And welcome to the podcast, Anthony and Teresa Lally.
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143. Anthony & Tereza Lolli: The Biohacking Power Couple Who Proved The Medical System Wrong
And this was mold toxicity.
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143. Anthony & Tereza Lolli: The Biohacking Power Couple Who Proved The Medical System Wrong
So he got mold in the first three months of his life.
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143. Anthony & Tereza Lolli: The Biohacking Power Couple Who Proved The Medical System Wrong
Iron, liquid, poison.
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143. Anthony & Tereza Lolli: The Biohacking Power Couple Who Proved The Medical System Wrong
Thank you so much. That's amazing.
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143. Anthony & Tereza Lolli: The Biohacking Power Couple Who Proved The Medical System Wrong
I always wondered what the impetus was for that, because coming from your background, my father has a saying, I think it's the best saying about life, and it's very simple. You just met him, Captain John Brackett, but he says... Life is what happens to you when you're on your way to doing something else.
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143. Anthony & Tereza Lolli: The Biohacking Power Couple Who Proved The Medical System Wrong
If you want protein to build lean muscle, but without the caloric impact or need to cut, you need Perfect Amino. It's pure essential amino acids, the building blocks of proteins in a precise form and ratio that allows for near 100% utilization in building lean muscle and no caloric impact. So we build protein six times as much as whey, but without the excess body fat we normally get during bulking.
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125. Kristen Holmes: WHOOP’s Principal Scientist Reveals Game-Changing Research
Mm-hmm.
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125. Kristen Holmes: WHOOP’s Principal Scientist Reveals Game-Changing Research
Wow.
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125. Kristen Holmes: WHOOP’s Principal Scientist Reveals Game-Changing Research
Wow, I love that.
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125. Kristen Holmes: WHOOP’s Principal Scientist Reveals Game-Changing Research
Yeah.
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125. Kristen Holmes: WHOOP’s Principal Scientist Reveals Game-Changing Research
Mm-hmm.
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125. Kristen Holmes: WHOOP’s Principal Scientist Reveals Game-Changing Research
Wow.
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125. Kristen Holmes: WHOOP’s Principal Scientist Reveals Game-Changing Research
Yeah.
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125. Kristen Holmes: WHOOP’s Principal Scientist Reveals Game-Changing Research
Exactly.
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125. Kristen Holmes: WHOOP’s Principal Scientist Reveals Game-Changing Research
Better in the winter.
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125. Kristen Holmes: WHOOP’s Principal Scientist Reveals Game-Changing Research
Right.
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125. Kristen Holmes: WHOOP’s Principal Scientist Reveals Game-Changing Research
Oh, awesome. Yeah.
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125. Kristen Holmes: WHOOP’s Principal Scientist Reveals Game-Changing Research
Right.
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125. Kristen Holmes: WHOOP’s Principal Scientist Reveals Game-Changing Research
Yeah.
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125. Kristen Holmes: WHOOP’s Principal Scientist Reveals Game-Changing Research
Yes.
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125. Kristen Holmes: WHOOP’s Principal Scientist Reveals Game-Changing Research
Yeah.
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125. Kristen Holmes: WHOOP’s Principal Scientist Reveals Game-Changing Research
Hmm.
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125. Kristen Holmes: WHOOP’s Principal Scientist Reveals Game-Changing Research
Exactly.
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125. Kristen Holmes: WHOOP’s Principal Scientist Reveals Game-Changing Research
Really?
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125. Kristen Holmes: WHOOP’s Principal Scientist Reveals Game-Changing Research
Wow.
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125. Kristen Holmes: WHOOP’s Principal Scientist Reveals Game-Changing Research
Yeah.
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159. Dr. Will Cole: Autoimmune Crisis? Uncover Mold and Toxins Harming You
Yeah. You know what's so crazy is I have people say that and I feel the same way. God is so good because I feel like Once he revealed his purpose to me, the kind of people that have come into my life, people like yourself, that I hold in such high regard. There's so many mentors of mine, like Dr. Mark Hyman and Dave Asprey.
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159. Dr. Will Cole: Autoimmune Crisis? Uncover Mold and Toxins Harming You
Gosh, I'm so glad that you're saying that. So because, you know, I liken cholesterol to a fireman, right? I mean, when there's a fire, the fireman shows up to put it out. When there's damage to the endothelial wall or other cascades going on, you know, cholesterol shows up to sort of plug the hole, if you will, or repair it.
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159. Dr. Will Cole: Autoimmune Crisis? Uncover Mold and Toxins Harming You
And then we blame cholesterol because it's at the scene of the crime for pulling the trigger. And we try to shove cholesterol down as low as we possibly can, especially LDL cholesterol. I actually did an amazing podcast with Dr. Asim Alhotra. Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah, I love him. He's a great, great, great dude. I want his accent.
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159. Dr. Will Cole: Autoimmune Crisis? Uncover Mold and Toxins Harming You
I feel like anything you say in a British accent, if you're a dude, it makes you more attractive and more intelligent. And if you're a chick, it makes you much more attractive. I thought about actually developing one. Yeah, we just sound so more erudite. But then I would forget to do it.
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159. Dr. Will Cole: Autoimmune Crisis? Uncover Mold and Toxins Harming You
I'm just doing it now. It sounds bloody well to me, you know. But, you know, I did a podcast with him. We went deep down the rabbit hole of cholesterol. But then, you know, conventional medicine comes in, shoves cholesterol down as low as they can, 40s, 50s, 60s.
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159. Dr. Will Cole: Autoimmune Crisis? Uncover Mold and Toxins Harming You
Not addressing the underlying metabolic issue, not addressing the toxic soup that people are bathing their cellular biology in that got them into that place in the first place, just using medication to lower that one marker.
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159. Dr. Will Cole: Autoimmune Crisis? Uncover Mold and Toxins Harming You
And what we saw in the big data pools was, you know, then there comes the joint pain and the brain fog and the short-term memory loss and all the other consequences to cell walls, cell membranes, hormones, you know, that sort of thing. And so I love that we're talking about
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159. Dr. Will Cole: Autoimmune Crisis? Uncover Mold and Toxins Harming You
becoming metabolically healthy because I feel like this is the hub of the wheel and you can affect all the spokes by fixing your metabolism. And that has a lot to do with what you put in, what you're drinking, what you're eating, how you're serving your body, how you're sleeping, how you're exercising. It's all of the, I even like the term lifestyle medicine more than functional medicine.
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159. Dr. Will Cole: Autoimmune Crisis? Uncover Mold and Toxins Harming You
Yeah, it's more descriptive to the average person out there. Because it makes people realize that my lifestyle has the greatest impact on my health outcomes. And I don't care how good your physician is, if you're not sleeping and you're eating a highly processed diet and you're not moving your body and you've got unresolved trauma and you're not in any kind of circadian cycle at all,
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159. Dr. Will Cole: Autoimmune Crisis? Uncover Mold and Toxins Harming You
There's almost nothing that they can do for you other than manage your symptoms. Yeah. And it's so empowering to know that if I took these lifestyle choices back under my control, I would have these incredible health outcomes.
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159. Dr. Will Cole: Autoimmune Crisis? Uncover Mold and Toxins Harming You
And some of these guys have just walked through my door to sit down on this podcast and they go, man, thank you, Jesus. It's so amazing to sit here with you. And the fact that you feel the same way is very flattering to me.
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159. Dr. Will Cole: Autoimmune Crisis? Uncover Mold and Toxins Harming You
um and for the record i'm not on i'm not in any kind of official government position or anything right with with maha um other than that you know we we support the movement and we're um we support bobby kennedy and you know go to events get the word out that that sort of thing and try to have a positive influence on how this this gets implemented at least in the court of public opinion um but what's so exciting to me is the opportunity to potentially affect public policy yeah and
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159. Dr. Will Cole: Autoimmune Crisis? Uncover Mold and Toxins Harming You
really go from the top down and had to be you know, someone at the top because of the corruption in our nutritional research, because of the corruption in our food supply, because the unnecessary levels of poison in our food supply, because of unnecessary subsidies, in my opinion, for some of the most highly processed foods on the planet.
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159. Dr. Will Cole: Autoimmune Crisis? Uncover Mold and Toxins Harming You
And a lot of choice that I think the average American is forced to make is a choice based on price and availability. And it's grains, corns, flowers, soy.
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159. Dr. Will Cole: Autoimmune Crisis? Uncover Mold and Toxins Harming You
wheat, those are all your most affordable, most widely available and inexpensive products. And so obviously your dollar is going to go a lot further if you're buying these subsidized commodities and foods than if you even tried to go organic. I heard Max Lugavere say one time on a podcast, he's like, if your grocery store has a health food section, What does that say about the rest of the story?
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159. Dr. Will Cole: Autoimmune Crisis? Uncover Mold and Toxins Harming You
It's so true. Why should we have a health food section? Why wouldn't it just all be health food? Yeah, why are we there? So let's take a step further because my audience is pretty educated on metabolic health and they're very interested in some of the specifics. Everybody is on this journey to be the best version of themselves. I call it the ultimate human version of themselves.
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159. Dr. Will Cole: Autoimmune Crisis? Uncover Mold and Toxins Harming You
And on this journey- The things that we chalk up to a consequence of aging, brain fog, weight gain, water retention, poor sleep, poor focus and concentration, lack of libido. And when you bring in the toxic burden on people, I'd like to talk a little bit about how the toxic burden is impacting autoimmune conditions. Because the one thing that we absolutely saw in our clinic system
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159. Dr. Will Cole: Autoimmune Crisis? Uncover Mold and Toxins Harming You
because I don't see myself like that yet, but eventually I will because I look at functional medicine practitioners like you that are making a real change in the world. And it's just so inspiring. And I think finally, the work that folks like you do is coming out of the shadows.
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159. Dr. Will Cole: Autoimmune Crisis? Uncover Mold and Toxins Harming You
and especially lately, like last five years, is this just parabolic rise. Everybody has Hashimoto's, Crohn's, high ANA titers, speckled ANA titers. And then they go to the primary care and they're like, that could be MS, it could be lupus. You start dropping words like that on somebody,
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159. Dr. Will Cole: Autoimmune Crisis? Uncover Mold and Toxins Harming You
even though they're not necessarily indicative of those specifically, but they're markers that your immune system is in a fight. And then they don't know where to start. And most of the time they're told, because I have clients that I'm working with right now, including some very well-known clients that everybody listening to this podcast knows, that just recently,
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159. Dr. Will Cole: Autoimmune Crisis? Uncover Mold and Toxins Harming You
went to their physician, had these high ANA titers. And in a four month span of time, we're told they have Hashimoto's autoimmune thyroid. And now we're being told that they've got autoimmune markers for something potentially more sinister like lupus or scleroderma or some connective tissue disorders because of these high speckled ANA titers. And it absolutely freaked them out.
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159. Dr. Will Cole: Autoimmune Crisis? Uncover Mold and Toxins Harming You
And in my conversation with them and the clinical team, we calmed them way down to say, listen, we're just going to clean up the environmental burden. And then we'll see if this helps address that issue. So let's start with thyroid, like Hashimoto's. That is a massive one.
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159. Dr. Will Cole: Autoimmune Crisis? Uncover Mold and Toxins Harming You
Yeah, I wouldn't want to be like Brecca's thyroiditis.
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159. Dr. Will Cole: Autoimmune Crisis? Uncover Mold and Toxins Harming You
You know, and it's getting a deserved seat at the table.
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159. Dr. Will Cole: Autoimmune Crisis? Uncover Mold and Toxins Harming You
We hear about metabolic health, metabolic flexibility, metabolic syndrome, but I don't think most people understand what that really means.
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159. Dr. Will Cole: Autoimmune Crisis? Uncover Mold and Toxins Harming You
It's a special time. So, you know, lately, I've been deep down the rabbit hole of- toxicity, because early when we started our functional medicine clinics, you have those clients that are just unresponsive, that are having significant symptoms, and you don't find it anywhere on the labs, right? You look at the labs and you're like, well, you know, you're Your hormones are in a good range.
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159. Dr. Will Cole: Autoimmune Crisis? Uncover Mold and Toxins Harming You
But how did the, how does, what is it about the toxicity that causes the immune system to then say, okay, I'm going after the thyroid peroxidase antibody. I'm going to,
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159. Dr. Will Cole: Autoimmune Crisis? Uncover Mold and Toxins Harming You
plastic yeah i heard on average um was dr gundry that i saw on a podcast i heard on average you know about a credit card a week yeah so you just like statistics instead of throwing your credit card away just eat it and that's about it yeah don't do that but we are doing that without even wanting to do that that's what i mean yeah
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159. Dr. Will Cole: Autoimmune Crisis? Uncover Mold and Toxins Harming You
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The gut, and I want to go into that in a second because I've often described some of these conditions as when an invader hides inside of a tissue or a cell, the immune system will go after that. Like the police chasing somebody inside of a locked home. Offender runs inside, locks the door. the police are going to come bust the wall down.
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The immune system does the same thing, you know, when it chases invaders, mold, mycotoxin, metals, viruses, very often these things harbor inside of healthy tissue or inside of, they harbor in the dorsal ganglion, they harbor inside of, you know, inside the cell wall. And so how does the immune system get in there? It cross reacts with the, you know, with the protein in the healthy cell.
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And so I think, How does somebody go about, if they have one of these conditions, first of all, how do they go about testing to find out what is it that I might have? And then how do you best suggest that they go about healing the gut?
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You've got a decent amount of D3. Your triglyceride and cholesterol is not off the charts. Your C-reactive protein is kind of normal. And they're like headaches, fatigue, brain fog, mood numbness, all the things that are just robbing them of their daily life. And I started then to really look at toxicity, mainly mold, mycotoxins, metals, parasites and viruses.
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um i i like them you like them too are there any others that you recommend yeah and by the way i have no connection with yeah labs at all vibrant labs is great there's a lab i'm always forgetting because they changed their name it was called dunwoody labs but they changed their name you know they're not usually the conventional ones that you get like quest or or uh lab corp or one of the conventional um big laboratories unless your doctor's really skilled at at
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Yeah, and you talk, too, a lot about the emotional connection with the gut. Yeah. And I rarely hear functional practitioners talk about emotion in the gut. Yeah.
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I talk about the Blue Zone studies all the time because I think people shoot past the deeply emotional connection there that there was no continuity between diets in these centenarians, but there was a few things that were contiguous and non-negotiable. One was a sense of community and purpose, which I think is another way of saying our emotional state, our emotional well-being.
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And the other was, you know, mobility into later in life. And so I want to come back to that emotional connection with the gut, because I think this goes right to the heart of why the majority of autoimmune disease is found in women. And I think historically, if you look at female behavior within a familial setting or a relationship setting, they tend to be Sorry, guys.
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And I'm one of you, so I'm not throwing us under the bus. But they tend to be more selfless, putting other people first before the needs of themselves. And there's only so many debits you can take from the account before you need some credits. And by that, I mean, so far, you can put yourself in the back seat. So I'd love to talk about the emotional connection.
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Oh, cause you're just doing telehealth.
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And in almost every one of those cases, we found one of those to be the underlying cause. I know that you talk a lot about metabolic health, metabolic flexibility. I wonder if we just talk about what is metabolic health metabolic flexibility.
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Yeah, the question is about the emotional impact.
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I mean, because, you know, I think that we use stress as this sort of catch-all frisbee we toss in the air. And I can't tell you how many people go to their primary care docs and they're like, eh, there's nothing really wrong with you. You know, just get stress out of your life. What the hell does that mean? I mean, do I just quit my marriage, you know, not talk to my kids and not go to work?
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Because that's where I get my stress from. You know, my parents, my kids, my job.
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No, I'm saying like, it's sort of, it's not, nobody drills into it and says, well, get stress out of your life. Well, how do I do that? First of all, how do I identify?
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And then I want to go down the road of, you know, for the folks that are watching, where would I start, you know, testing for some of these things to maybe find out what's at the root of my autoimmune disease?
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159. Dr. Will Cole: Autoimmune Crisis? Uncover Mold and Toxins Harming You
When you say emotional toxins are stored, you mean that the trauma is stored, so it's kind of stuck in this feedback loop. Because the emotion doesn't create a specific aflatoxin or something. It's that it's the dysregulation of the nervous system because of your emotional state.
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And so what's the first step towards recognizing and maybe implementing some lifestyle habits that are going to actually bring down my uh, emotional stress or lock trauma or just my overall level of stress induced, you know, secondary syndrome.
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Divorced parents and one... One, it's highly traumatized. And one was one and let it go.
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So for people that, you know, not fully embracing the, you know, the therapy or meditation route, just like you said, finding time to just be still and finding time to be present and silent, which I do every morning with breath work. Yeah. It's really interesting. I just had a...
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uh i just had a free challenge that i do every quarter or so online it was an ultimate morning routine challenge and i invited some of the most impactful people in the world onto it laura redding lauren redinger who's uh you know one of the few true female billionaires in the world uh i had mark walberg on there he called him from france and he was on on a movie set had stephen e smith on there uh from espn
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The emotion doesn't create aflatoxin. It's the dysregulation of the nervous system because of your emotional state. It's a piece of the puzzle.
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The reason why I captured these people was because I wanted to show some of the most visible, very busy, you know, like nobody would argue that, you know, hey, Stephen A. Smith doesn't have a very, you know, really busy schedule on ESPN. He doesn't dictate his time, schedule of games and appearances dictates his time, which actually adds a layer of stress.
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That's what I mean.
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And what was really interesting, I found that I had four or five folks on men and women, both all different areas of entertainment, sports, business. Every single one of them without me prompting them said that one of the greatest practices that changed their mind was the practice of gratitude in the morning.
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And I will tell you, five, eight years ago, I would have been the first person to take issue with that. Even though I've been a Christian for a long time, a big believer in prayer, really didn't understand the impact of being silent, of being still, of being present, and of just taking a few minutes for yourself.
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whatever higher power you believe in to be grateful, every one of them said that same thing. And then taking a few minutes to just breathe. And not a lot of time. It's had a huge impact on my life. And it really hit me on this challenge because I was like, here's people, totally different spectrums of the world, but all at the highest end of the socioeconomic spectrum for their field.
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And, you know, without prompting them, they're like, you know, Mark Wahlberg says, first thing I do, I wake up in the morning, drop to my knees and pray. Stephen A. Smith said, I find quiet time and I just... say a little prayer of thanks for what, you know, what's going well in my life. Lauren Renninger, who just recently lost her husband, you know, very, very tragically.
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And her best friend, you know, said, I look in the mirror and I say, Lauren, you're, you're, you're great. And I, And the fact that that basic mindset of being still and present in the morning, that small practice of gratitude and self-awareness, I think that does go lost.
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Wow.
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Wow, and how do you practice self-compassion?
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This is how you talk to yourself, right?
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They're content with them themselves.
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So back to the gut, first of all, I wholly agree with you that finding a practice of gratitude or just taking some time to be silent or aware, breath work. I try to post every morning and I sort of do a play on words. I'm like, I'm taking my morning antidepressant and it cost me zero.
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Or I'll say, because I take a video of me doing the, just getting natural light in the morning, every morning, sunlight in the morning and doing breath work and all of a sudden, often write down the side effects of improved mood, better emotional stability, clear memory.
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And no negative side effects.
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Yeah, no negative side effects at all. And it's free. And if we would just realize the impact that it could make, maybe we'd actually make an effort to do it every day because it's also portable and people can take it with them. And maybe the presence of that would be the absence of their SSRI or some of these other things. In fact, I actually saw a clinical study Joe Rogan turned me on to
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about, you know, exercises versus SSRIs and exercise. I don't want to misquote it, but like a fourfold increase in the, you know, positive outcomes versus taking an SSRI. So, you know, again, back to autoimmune, because I think the basis of autoimmune disease, and so many people listening to this either have an autoimmune condition or they know someone that has an autoimmune condition.
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Every single one of us, every single one of us knows somebody suffering from an autoimmune disease. By the time you had thyroid and Crohn's disease and some of the big autoimmunes, it's everyone. And the fact that it could be this dysregulation from an emotional state, but also a dysregulation from the presence of these pathogens So let's pick one in particular because we're in Miami.
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This is the mold capital of the world. I found out from one of the doctors I had on my podcast. I was like, oh, great. I live in the mold capital of the world.
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Yeah, you're probably moldy.
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Where do you live? Miami?
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Yeah. So first of all, how do we test for it? And then what do we do about it?
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And you know, we see this with metal toxicity and other forms of toxicity. I mean, our bodies clear heavy metals, like they clear light metals just at a much slower rate, but you could have 10 people sit down and eat the same amount of mercury laden tuna fish, you know, over and over and over and over and over again. And you'll have a component of them have you know, critical mercury poisoning.
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Some have elevated mercury levels and the other don't look like they had any at all. So I think you're really on point, you know, pointing out this individuality and how transulfuration and detoxification, glutathione pathways, all of these things matter in terms of getting waste out. And sometimes we don't think of the cellular waste, right? We don't think of this process of metabolism
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cellular metabolism is a really kind of a dirty process and it creates a lot of junk that we have to get rid of through, you know, trans-sulfuration through, you know, our detoxification pathways, glutathione pathways. So your genetics play a role because very often they predispose you to either healthy or slower amounts of waste elimination. And I'm talking about cellular waste.
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And so those people can, like you say, they can be more sensitive.
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And then, so then specifically, what did they do? Like if you found patients with high aflatoxins and mold toxicity and different variants, are you activating their detoxification pathways like sauna?
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I got everything here to get rid of mold. OCAP machines, hyperbaric sauna.
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Oh my gosh. Amen.
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Well, there's no question. I mean, if you just look at big data, if you just take a zoom out for a second, you look at parabolic rise in skin cancer, parabolic rise in autoimmune conditions across the board, roughly 80% of which are in women. You look at parabolic rises in type two diabetes, morbid obesity, multiple chronic disease in a single biome.
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I totally agree with that.
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So by like boiling them down, steaming them down to break up some of the hard digestible fibers, things like that, to really soften them, release some of the nutrients and take the pressure off the gut.
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And where do you fall on like sauna? It's a…
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I think the absence of disease is not the presence of good health.
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159. Dr. Will Cole: Autoimmune Crisis? Uncover Mold and Toxins Harming You
And how about fasting? I know that you've talked a lot. You've talked really extensively about fasting and why fasting works for some people but not for others.
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The earlier the onset of metabolic syndrome getting down into teenage years now, yeah right where we just thought man i can't be killed by a bullet at 15 or 16 or 18 years old you know um and you have to think that it that there's an environmental component yeah to that whereas like yeah maybe the mold it was the straw that broke the camel's back but then it's like the analogy that i use like
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Oh, and I've got the.
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159. Dr. Will Cole: Autoimmune Crisis? Uncover Mold and Toxins Harming You
I mean, it's pretty much nobody that couldn't just do a 24 hour fast, you know, or 12, 12.
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Yeah, I totally agree with that. And then we go down the road of, you know, we talked about mold, you know, mycotoxins, virals. Metals is another really, really big one. I actually accidentally got metal toxicity from a water machine that I got from this doctor that convinced me that it was structuring my water. And I'm
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I'm never that guy that just takes the device from somebody who's like, oh, I'm just gonna start using it or give me your multivitamin and I'll just start taking it and see how I feel. I always am an incessant tester on things. We were talking about this before the podcast. I started drinking it.
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It turns out this, even though he's well credentialed, it was a modified welding machine that actually had lead welds in it. It was from China. So I got metal toxicity, and I've been very transparent about that with my community and how I'm walking myself out of it. You know, I did a provoked chelation test and then eight-hour urine, spotted metals. What did you use for the chelator?
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Yeah, the MSO. And another one, E. I'll get you the second one. So I take two. I take them orally at 1 a.m., 1 p.m., chelation, sauna detox. I help my glutathione. I use gut binders. I space them out between meals. And I've had dramatic drops, and I do ozone on a regular basis. And I'm walking my way out of it, and I'm slowly in my VIP community.
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A lot of choice that I think the average American is forced to make is if they have one of these conditions, how do you best suggest that they go about healing the gut?
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Because I figure if I can get it, anybody can get it. And I think as we're wandering our way through life and, you know, you've got, you know, these aluminum toxicity in the air. You know, if you live in Los Angeles, you know, just think about lighting a home on fire. Smoke. You know, what kind of volatile organic chemicals and polyfluorocles and bisphenols and all kinds of things.
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Accelerants, leads. Flame retardants. Older homes. And so I noticed that, you know, they...
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publish out there the particulate matter level and and i'm like it's not the number of particles in the air it's like what are those particles that's that's what matters is what are they particles of yeah right i mean because if it's you know if just like dust tree bark and yeah you know sand um that's not any you know that that big of a deal but if these are accelerants because of
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you incinerated a structure which has all kinds of things in it, paints and dyes and tar, that's a whole different ball game. And so I think we're gonna see a lot of, unfortunately for people that were stuck in those environments, a lot of toxicity levels for them.
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Yeah, so the final one is metals. So when we, and first of all, testing for metals is tough because I actually did urine and blood and they were mediocre. And then I did the provoked test and that, I mean, they shot off the charts. Provoked means I did a chelation to pull them out of the tissue. That's common.
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Yeah, and we very often, I read Dr. Perlmutter's book, Grain Brain and Gut-Brain Connection. It was the first time that the switch flicked for me that, wow, man, our gut bacteria really drive our cravings and not necessarily for the right things, right? You know, the more highly processed food we eat, the more highly processed food we crave. The more sugar we eat, the more sugar we crave.
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159. Dr. Will Cole: Autoimmune Crisis? Uncover Mold and Toxins Harming You
What are some of the daily habits that are most contributing to the underlying cause of inflammation? You know, I often say inflammation is the root of all evil, right? But, you know, what are some of those daily habits where they're, you know, that are leading to increased levels of inflammation?
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Now, the interesting- Would you also say because they probably have the highest levels of glyphosate?
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Yeah, when you degum things with hexane and you deodorize them with- sodium hydroxide. What could go wrong? My favorite thing is then the American Heart Association comes and puts a heart healthy label right on there. Hopefully that's going to end. The average consumer is cruising down the aisle.
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We get dependent on this dopamine cycle. And, you know, I... And early, again, in my career, when we were doing lots of labs on people, it was really confounding because you think when you talk about, I have an autoimmune disease or my immune system is, like you said, lit up in a fight for one of these environmental toxins.
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If I'm a mom and I'm getting this stuff for my kids and I'm cooking in the kitchen, I'm grabbing the heart healthy label. Exactly. Right? Yeah. So I don't think the jury's out on seed oils. No, I don't. I think the jury's in on seed oils.
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Yeah. I mean, I've completely eliminated it. I drank once last year. It was on New Year's Eve. And I regretted it.
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Tequila. Okay. But, you know, I was like hearkening back to my old, you know, days when I drank. I was like looking for that like awesome, like I was looking for my, you know, my night was going to go from a five to a nine and a half. Yeah. And then I would just suffer the next day. And it went from... It just stayed at a five and I still suffered the next day.
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If it went to a nine and a half, I would have been like, okay, maybe that night was worth it. Yeah, right.
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Well, I did. Of course, then I punched myself and I was like, you know, I did hyperbarics and red light in my hole. you know, my whole, my whole circuit.
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um monk-like life it's it's really it's it's the best of life is feeling great is a is a blessing yeah well i mean dr cole's been amazing um i'm i'm i absolutely am bringing you back on on the podcast for uh for for round two i think you're doing amazing things in the world um I really, I deeply appreciate you coming on.
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What we do now is I, for those that are part of my VIP community, we go into a private room and I allow the community to have some access to you because they knew you were coming on and they can ask you some specific questions. So if you're interested in becoming an Ultimate Human VIP, just go over to the ultimate human.com and sign up to be one of, uh, one of my ultimate human VIPs.
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This is the community that I'm building to change the world. And I can't do it by myself, but I can do it with all of you guys. Um, but before I end the podcast, we always, um, ask every guest the same question. And there's, if you've seen my podcast, you know, it's kind of, um, there's no right or wrong answer to it, but what, what does it mean to you to be an ultimate?
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Classically, you think, okay, the white blood cell counts through the roof and the CBC, the complete blood count would be lit up like a Christmas tree. And that's where I think these evade because they're hiding right in plain sight. And I think most primary care physicians are not trained in functional labs. And so these poor people are going back to their primary care doctor over and over again.
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Wow. That's amazing, man. Well, Dr. Cole, where can my audience find you?
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They're like, you're fine. I'm not fine. I can't sleep. I'm depressed. I have no libido. I've got days of crushing fatigue. My joints ache. Now I've got PCOS. I've got positional orthostatic tachycardia syndrome. I got this POTS. And so it can't be normal.
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159. Dr. Will Cole: Autoimmune Crisis? Uncover Mold and Toxins Harming You
Yeah, and I think the absence of disease is not the presence of good health, right? Because you don't have type two diabetes or don't have hypothyroid or you're not particularly hypertensive doesn't mean, well, then everything's fine. It just means you don't have those diseases. And I want people to thrive in like ways that they never thought possible. That's what God put us on this earth for.
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159. Dr. Will Cole: Autoimmune Crisis? Uncover Mold and Toxins Harming You
He really meant for us to have it all. And so I want to start with metabolic syndrome and metabolic health in general. And then I want to work my way into some of the specifics like mold, mycotoxin, virals, pathogens, some of these, and I certainly want to get into gut health. But for folks that we hear a lot about metabolism, metabolic health, metabolic flexibility, metabolic syndrome,
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But I don't think most people understand what that really means.
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159. Dr. Will Cole: Autoimmune Crisis? Uncover Mold and Toxins Harming You
Hey guys, welcome back to the Ultimate Human Podcast. I'm your host, human biologist, Gary Brekker. We go down the road of everything anti-aging, biohacking, longevity, and everything in between. And my guest today is a guest that my team and I have been watching for a long time.
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Not the LDL cholesterol.
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You know, I've been deep down the rabbit hole lately of autoimmune conditions, of gut health, of inflammation, metabolic health, and he is an absolute genius. expert in all four of these categories. I can't wait to dive into this with Dr. Will Cole today. Welcome to the podcast, brother. Gary freaking Brekker. I can't believe this is happening.
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159. Dr. Will Cole: Autoimmune Crisis? Uncover Mold and Toxins Harming You
That's great. And a lot of people's emotion is so tied to food, which is another indication that, you know, your mood shouldn't shift before you after you eat. Not by much anyway. I mean, you're right.
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But when you have these an emotional roller coaster that follows your hunger patterns and eating patterns, I mean, that's a sign that you are metabolically unhealthy or metabolically intolerant, whatever you want to call it. Because, you know, if I I don't have to eat, I don't have to eat. I don't have to eat. I have to eat right now.
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and then you're hangry and you eat and then your mood returns to normal and then it tanks again as your blood sugar crashes and you have an afternoon crash. I mean, so those kinds of cycles are not normal pathic in terms of how our motion and eating should be tied into each other. Like many of you, the hardest thing for me is to shut off my mind at night when I want to sleep.
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Now let's get back to the Ultimate Human Podcast. So what would be the big markers for people to check? So check engine light is triglycerides over 100, HDL below 59. And, you know, what kind of supplementation addresses that? You know, omega-3 fatty acids or what have you. And what are some of the other markers that they should be?
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That's the doorstep of prediabetes.
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133. Dave Asprey: “Father Of Biohacking” On The War Happening Inside your Cells
Right.
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Okay.
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Right.
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Really want to look into that.
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Mm-hmm.
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Yeah.
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Wow.
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167. Iman Hasan: How to Boost Fertility with Cellular Health Hacks
Because I think most people, when they think about in vitro fertilization or they think about improving fertility, they're talking about how do we better harvest the eggs, not actually what is the quality of the egg itself. And I think there's a notion that because we know that your number is, and you're not manufacturing them, but you are harboring them.
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And so I believe that there is a sentiment that there's not much you can do to improve the health of the egg. There may be something you can do to improve its release or its collection, but it's more than that. What you're saying is there are things that you can do to actually improve the viability of the egg itself.
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Absolutely. And secondarily improve your fertility levels. Can you talk a little bit about that? I mean, let's just say that young menstruating female or a female that has decided that it's time for her to freeze her eggs, so then needs to harvest them and wants the highest quality, you know, most potentially viable egg that she can have. What are some of those steps and tests and...
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167. Iman Hasan: How to Boost Fertility with Cellular Health Hacks
And I had a fascinating discussion with her before the cameras started rolling. In fact, we did half a podcast today in my condo before we came on. So welcome to the podcast, Iman Hassan.
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So many stressed out women are insulin resistant too.
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You're improving their insulin sensitivity.
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then checking your antibodies, looking for potentially Hashimoto's or other.
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You know, I think there's also a misnomer that because I saw this in our patient community in my previous clinic and that was that there's a notion that insulin resistance has to go along with obesity or morbid obesity or some kind of body morphic expression and it's actually not true. I mean, a lot of...
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I would say young fit women, especially younger women, can be significantly insulin resistant but appear to be healthy. Now they're having other symptoms that they'll tell you that they're having. A lot of times it follows gut dysbiosis, it also follows poor sleep schedules, cortisol imbalances, high levels of stress, anxiety, what have you. But outwardly you're looking at this woman
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167. Iman Hasan: How to Boost Fertility with Cellular Health Hacks
Thank you. That's really kind of you. You know, I'm always, I'm always, it gets exciting to me when people say that because some of the mentors that I've had over the years, like, you know, Mark Hyman, some of these other guys have, when I see them walk into my condo, I'm, I'm like a little star struck. You know, my heroes are not like celebrities and athletes.
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you say to yourself that does not look like the picture of someone that would have insulin resistance. And I think it's good that you're highlighting this because these are some of the underlying issues that younger, healthier women might not be thinking about. Because they look in the mirror and they're not morbidly obese.
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167. Iman Hasan: How to Boost Fertility with Cellular Health Hacks
I would naturally think that if I had this underlying metabolic condition, I'd have this physical expression. But what we're finding now, especially in metabolic syndrome, is that it's happening at younger and younger ages. The majority of it, as well as autoimmune, is happening in women, not men, sometimes almost two or three to one.
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And you don't necessarily have to have the expression of that in order to be there. So if... There's a woman that's listening to this podcast right now and is considering going that route to either freeze their eggs or is just trying to get pregnant naturally and wants to have the best experience. How far out do you start and what are some of the ways that they can condition themselves?
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You're like, yeah, I want to have a baby.
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And there's so many women, guys too, that are stuck in that chronic fight or flight. I mean, social media, lack of social connection, poor sleep, poor circadian cycle, poor bio-rhythm, you know, stresses the body out. And we stay in this. sympathetic state, which it sounds misleading because sympathetic sounds like you should be very calm, but sympathetic is just a fight or flight state.
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And in that state, it is astounding to me how many of our basic biophysiologic processes are hampered. One of which... is the waste elimination cycle from cells, which makes that environment that the eggs are in toxic. Right. So I want to be specific here for a moment.
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167. Iman Hasan: How to Boost Fertility with Cellular Health Hacks
First of all, I love what you're saying because, excuse me, I talk about this on my podcast all the time that there are these underlying... toxins that are in everybody's blood, yours, mine, you know, we've all got them. We don't identify them and we do nothing to remove them from our bodies. You know, I use this Vibrant Wellness Test, if you ever use that one.
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No, they are?
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I should have known it, thank you. I'm putting a list of her clients in the show notes below and you could just blatantly use those companies and those products. And I have no affiliation with them at all whatsoever. The reason why I bring that test up in particular is because I was shocked when I got my own results back and my wife and my daughter and now my son have all done this test.
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My heroes are like the big movers in this space. And so I deeply appreciate you saying that. For my audience that's not familiar with you, I think you have a really interesting history. I also think that like a lot of my guests, you solved the problem in your life and you It is probably the reason, the foundation for your level of passion and commitment to this industry.
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167. Iman Hasan: How to Boost Fertility with Cellular Health Hacks
And the amount of microtoxicity we're giving ourselves, glyphosates, the bisphenols, the microplastics, the phthalates, the aflatoxin A, aflatoxin B, the percentage of clients that have chronic mold, chronic mycotoxin, And this sounds so sinister and like we're all fear-mongering, but the truth is we're not. Because such a high percentage of the population has this.
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And once you know, you can now fix it. That's the really cool thing. And most of the protocols to get rid of these things are not onerous and they're not horrifically expensive. So can you talk a little bit about how they would begin that journey? I mean, what kind of testing do you do?
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Right, right.
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When you say fertility levels, you're talking about his sperm count.
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Nicotinic acid or nicotinamide mononuclide.
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Yes. Makes a lot of sense.
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We knew that in the mortality space, too. There's a really interesting—and maybe I'll link it in the show notes because you'll probably find this very interesting— that looked at the incidence of cardiovascular disease between men and women. And you see that women lead men by a huge margin until women stop menstruating.
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And then there's this parabolic hockey stick spike and they approximate men in the incidence of cardiovascular disease. And it's been a while since I read the study, but I remember thinking this has to have something to do with menstruation, right? Turning your blood over because it's very healthy. I mean, a lot of men that go on TRT
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You've really become a voice in women's health and fertility and I think this is a very underserved area of the market right now.
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are really recommended by their doctor to do therapeutic phlebotomy.
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I heard the story about your mother. I'm very sorry to hear about that, by the way. But there are so many people listening to this podcast that are living similar lives and have been on similar journeys. But you turned it into... And it seems that that was a major shift in your life and a level of dedication and sort of commitment, focus, passion that maybe didn't exist before.
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The Egg Whisperer.
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PRP for your ovaries. That is amazing.
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That's incredible.
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It's really interesting too. Men, same thing. In 2018, the Journal of American Urology, updated their testosterone guidelines. And it flipped everything on its head because people think, well, if you start hormone therapy, you're going to increase your risk of cardiovascular disease, heart attack, stroke, an embolism, a DVT, what have you, some kind of clotting event.
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167. Iman Hasan: How to Boost Fertility with Cellular Health Hacks
It turns out that they dispelled all of those myths. And I have to think it's the same thing with women because in women, there are certain ratios of hormones that have to be maintained. Or number one, you guys go nuts.
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167. Iman Hasan: How to Boost Fertility with Cellular Health Hacks
I'll pay for the hormone therapy. You know, there's certain ratios that have to be maintained. And I think there's a real paucity of understanding in the community for non-OBGYNs that don't actually specialize in female hormones, where you just look at this panel and you're like, well, everything's in range. But in range for a woman could be 17 for estrogen, it could be 410 for estrogen.
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167. Iman Hasan: How to Boost Fertility with Cellular Health Hacks
I mean, you have that much of a range. So where do they start? Do you recommend Dutch test? Do you recommend basic female hormone panel?
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Yeah, just want you to not be diseased.
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So true.
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Right.
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And I think very often we find our purpose in our pain. And so I'd love it if you would just share your journey with my audience. And then I have a litany of questions that we're gonna get into, especially for my female audience, fertility, what have you. I think this can be such an exciting afternoon.
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I mean, I think that's better for the relationship anyway that you're on that journey together. Yeah. I mean... probably nothing more important that you're gonna do- Do it together, right? Yeah, than have a child. How about on the male side? What does male preparation look like for men?
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167. Iman Hasan: How to Boost Fertility with Cellular Health Hacks
Wow, that is so true. I mean, we've been taught to fear meat, to fear all kinds of things because they're causing these massive inflammatory responses in the body.
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And I want to go down the mitochondria, you know, band road for a moment because... aging and cellular health are highly dependent on our mitochondrial functions. The battery house of the cell, the battery for the entire body produces something called ATP, adenosine triphosphate, which powers an enormous variety of cellular structures where we would essentially be dead without it.
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And when you're caring for the eggs, then you also are caring for the mitochondria. And what are some things that, you know, men and women, I guess, both could do to improve their mitochondrial health.
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Yeah, I totally agree with that. You know, very often I think we overlook that cellular energy component that you can cater to with exercise, diet, red light therapy, hyperbarics. And, you know, hyperbaric medicine in particular, I'm halfway through the book Hyperbaric Medicine Right Now by Dr. Saunders. There are chapters in there on mitochondrial density.
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And what's astounding to me is that you can actually change the number of mitochondria in your cell. Over time.
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I just never... I mean, as far down the physiologic band road as I've been, I've never realized that you can... I've understood that you can improve their condition. You can actually improve their function. So you might be able to upstage them from staying out of the anaerobic cycle to ATP and to the aerobic cycle, 36 ATP.
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But the fact that you can actually increase the number of mitochondria to me brings you back to your original point, which is the antithesis of aging. Youthful biomes have a higher proliferation of mitochondria. In fact, I just got my glycan age test back. I was so excited. I'm 54, so I'm in my mid twenties now. I think I yelled it coming into my unit today.
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Glycan H test, in case anybody wants to know.
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Yeah. You know, I wonder if you might even talk about this PK protocol because you've done it. Yes. And PK stands for the woman.
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Yeah.
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I literally did one this morning.
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Wow. Autism and ADHD.
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You know, I got some interesting questions in from my audience, which we're going to get to in my VIP group. There's one here that's particularly of interest. I want to read it before we go over to the VIP. It says, what type of nutrition do you recommend for helping detox mold and parasite infections from your system?
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Wow. Love that.
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Yeah. And then are you a fan of activating your natural detox pathways like sauna?
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Yeah, candida too.
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I totally agree with that because you're talking a lot about having couples, especially that are trying to conceive, go on this journey together. And how important is it that they do this together? together rather than separately.
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We're going to birth a human.
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I think it's, I always go back to the longevity research when it talks about sense of community and purpose and how none of the centenarians in any of those regions lacked sense of community and purpose. And I think community and purpose isn't just, I know exactly what I want to do in life. And I love all my friends. Like, you know, I have the coolest tribe.
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Community is just a sense of belonging to something. And purpose is like my life has meaning beyond just what I'm doing on a daily basis. What I found really fascinating, I did this a few years ago and it was very sobering for me, was I wrote my eulogy virtues instead of your resume virtues.
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It's very intense and it's very introspective, but what it will do is it will rattle you, it sort of shakes you out of the present moment and makes you really think about what do I want my life to mean? And it makes you look at your relationships. It makes you look at your career, whether or not you're wasting time with something that you actually really don't love and it's not serving you.
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And, you know, especially with a journey as intimate as, you know, bringing a human into this world. I just found it was a major shift for me. My wife and I built a business together and we read this book called Rocket Fuel and it helped our relationship a lot because it taught us the difference between an integrator and a visionary. And I was the visionary, she was the integrator.
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But this exercise of going through your own eulogy helps you really craft this vision of... What do I want to leave behind? And am I living the life that I want to live to get to that destination? It was really a powerful thing for us. And, you know, especially with something as, you know, intimate, like I say, as fertility, I think people will find it powerful.
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Yeah. You know, and there's a lot of data now showing that Number one, younger females, prepubescent children, I call them children, are entering their menstrual cycles earlier. And there's a trend towards older women entering the menopause cycle much earlier. Sometimes even 10 years earlier than what you would think.
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Yeah. And what do you think is the cause of this? I mean, why are we seeing menstruation beginning in an earlier age and menopausal also beginning at an earlier age, which to me is age reversal.
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Yeah, I totally agree with that. And again, getting back to, sometimes it's the simplest things that you can do that have the most dramatic change. I always tell people to draw their attention to their sleep, to their morning routine, but a couple that's going on on this, journey together.
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I mean, this not only will improve their chances of conceiving, but possibly even set them up for extending their life span.
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Yeah.
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Yeah. You know, it seems like Greece is leading this.
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Yeah, the charge. With fertility, yes. In ovarian research. Yeah. So can you talk a little bit, like what are they,
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Are these PRP injections into the ovaries?
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They inject through the abdominal wall.
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Wow.
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Wow.
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So he's taking menopausal women.
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And putting them back into being fertile.
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To the point where they can conceive.
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I know that the platelet-rich plasma is available in the US. I imagine that that's probably... It's the PRP, yes.
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You're talking about the mesenchymal stem cells.
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And we can use, because I'm associated with the NFL Alumni Association Athletica, we see a lot of those folks that have repetitive use injuries. So I know that we do stem cells into joints, knees, hips, shoulders, rotator cuff. Topically, we use cosmetic hair restoration. So systemically you have to leave the country, but even for these, are these stem cell injections intravenous?
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Yeah, we've talked a lot about fertility on my previous podcast and I really appreciate you sharing this. A lot of what I believe goes overlooked by women is their methylation cycle too. the importance of not taking folic acid but taking things like folinic acid, methylfolate. Interestingly, a lot of women are also using these lipid IV therapies prior to pregnancy with pretty impressive results.
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My former... The clinic director was a board-certified OBGYN, Dr. Sartor is an amazing woman. And there was times where young healthy women were doing these lipid IVs.
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That's amazing.
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You are too?
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I want you to explain it because I just started this PK protocol too. And... And interestingly, like I say, as woke to wellness, whatever you want to call it, as I am, first I was shocked when I did this current wellness test. And I found the level of toxicity from bisphenols and from all of these other things in my blood. And I've done several treatments, EBO2 to get that out.
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But then I did this lipid metabolism and the cell wall test and looking at the integrity of my cell walls, looking at this phospholipid bilayer, looking at its capacity to shuttle nutrients in and out. And it certainly wasn't a disaster, but I just sort of expected to go through the motions and then come back and say, there's nothing you can do for you.
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You're shocked. So can you talk a little bit about this protocol and what it means? Because I think it's not just applicable to fertility. It's overall longevity.
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Wow. You know, I love the concept of women thinking about fertility as... you know, a long game and maybe prepping their bodies a year, a year out from now. My, my chief operating officer for the ultimate human is pregnant right now and she's super healthy and she's super conscious of it. Now, now that first she was worried about getting pregnant and now she's pregnant.
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Now she's worried about vaccines. It just never ends. The ball moves. But I think there's at least a lot of good information out there. And, and, So you're on this journey, you're sharing the journey. What have you noticed on this BK protocol? What did you see in your labs? How did you feel conscientiously? And is it an ongoing thing?
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I think most people, when they think about improving fertility, they're talking about how do we better harvest the eggs, not actually what is the quality of the egg itself.
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Yeah, yeah.
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Yeah, and you're kind of like beaming with energy. So that's good. You can't be like that when you've got all that toxic burden.
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Yeah, you know what I'm gonna do? I'm gonna link a lot of these into the show notes. Cause I know there's gonna be a lot of curiosity in this. We're gonna shift over to the next part of the podcast. I have a VIP community that I leak the guests that are coming on my podcast too. And they are so excited for you. They have a whole list of questions for you. But before we jump to the next part,
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If you're interested in becoming a VIP, you can just go over to theultimatehuman.com forward slash VIP. You can sign up to one of my VIPs. We're going to do live Q&As. We do challenges. We do private podcasts, which we're about to do with Iman. So join my VIP community. I promise you it's the best $97 a month you've ever spent.
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But, you know, before I end each podcast, I ask all my guests the same question. And there's no right or wrong answer to this question. If you've seen the podcast, you know that it's coming. Yeah. What does it mean to you to be an ultimate human?
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Wow.
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I feel like that's a part of the responsibility of the platform of the ultimate human. You know, when I look at the ultimate human, I don't feel like it has any competitors. And I mean, like, not that somebody's not competing with me in the podcast space. I mean that I don't feel like... there is a competitor that I wouldn't feature if they had the right product or service.
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Iman, amazing. Thank you so much for coming on the Ultimate Human Podcast. Now that you are my neighbor, I need to have your husband over so we can do a day of biohacking with Sage and your husband and I and you. But we're definitely gonna do a follow-up to this episode and I'm gonna let my audience know how this PK protocol has gone for me and I'll share pre and post testing.
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But thank you for coming on the Ultimate Human Podcast.
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Where does my audience find you?
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Double underscore.
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Oh, you did that to yourself.
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Oh, she does? Okay.
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I don't know a lot of Amman Hassans.
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IHC Agency. I'm just going to go there and look at all your clients and do business with all of them. Thank you so much for coming on the Ultimate Human Podcast. Thank you so much. And as always, that's just science.
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One of the things that a partner of mine sent to me a while ago that made a lot of sense, but it was troubling to me was it doesn't really matter what the best brand is. What matters is the best known brand.
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And very often you see the best known brands, especially in food and health and wellness and supplements and even a lot of biohacking modalities, the best known brands aren't necessarily the best for you or the best brands. And so I feel like one of my responsibilities is to find the best brands and give them a voice, sort of help push them up through the noise. Is that what you're talking about?
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I feel the same way. Like if I do, if somebody's watching your podcast or my podcast and a commercial comes on for Avis Rent-A-Car, I mean, they kind of realize, okay, YouTube is pushing that commercial to your audience. But if you do an ad read or you take an endorsement or a sponsorship from them, That's an endorsement. I mean, that's you endorsing that product. And I totally agree with you.
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We have the same philosophy at The Ultimate Human is to try to have the message be as authentic as possible. So maybe we just developed a little hack. We'll follow what brands your agency represents.
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Just go with that. It's like a little secret hack of the biohacking community. Yeah, a little backdoor. But, you know, what I find really fascinating is that, you know, the movement from fashion to wellness, that makes perfect sense to me, especially given, you know, the incident with your mother. But you've really become a voice in women's fertility, women's health and fertility.
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I think there's a real paucity of understanding for non-OBGYNs that don't actually specialize in female hormones. Where do they start?
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And I think this is a very underserved area of the market right now because if you look at the rates of women you know, sperm decline, sperm counts, and you look at fertility rates in women, these are both plummeting massively. In fact, for the last more than 10 years, sperm counts have dropped 8% every single year.
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Now, that might not sound like a big deal until you realize, wow, in 10 years from now, 20 years from now, 30 years from now, at this rate of decline, which if it's declining at a percent per year, it's probably going to accelerate. we're going to be infertile in no time, during our lifetime.
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And so I'd love to back up because there's so many women listening to this podcast now that are either engaging in IVF or thinking about IVF or maybe they've gotten to a certain age and they're thinking maybe I should harvest my eggs and just pause the clock for a while. So let's talk a little bit about the state of fertility.
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And then talk a little bit about women's fertility.
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I can't believe it either.
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I told her when she walked in, I'm like, your skin is amazing.
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I just started it today, by the way.
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Five extra years.
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Hey guys, welcome back to the Ultimate Human Podcast. I'm your host, human biologist, Gary Brekka, where we go down the road of everything, anti-aging, biohacking, longevity, and everything in between.
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But the same things are- They're mitochondrial protocols.
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That is incredible. We talked about this in the hyperbaric when you first got here. And I was like, we got to cover this in the podcast because... And that's not even anything that I knew. I thought the distribution of mitochondria was relatively consistent. But you're saying... it's a hundred X or a hundred thousand X to one.
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Wow.
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Incredible.
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And for those folks that don't know what you mean by a round of IVF, What does that mean?
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And today's guest is a very special guest, not just because she's my neighbor, she only was four minutes away from me in the Grove, I just found out, but because she began her career on the marketing side of things in the health and wellness space, and now has become deeply interested and embedded in a voice for women's health in this industry.
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Right.
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It's part of everything. It's the root of all evil.
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That's amazing.
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I mean, you were telling me earlier, and I found it fascinating, about the difference in mitochondrial density between... you're a female egg and the balance of your body and how things like hyperbaric chambers can improve that density, even improve the health of those eggs.
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Foundational health and the extension of our health span is really found in the basics. It is amazing how well the human body functions when you give it the raw material it needs to do its job.
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Yeah. And so, so I, first of all, I would totally agree with you, you know, and activate the natural detox pathways, which is, you know, sauna, hydration, maybe glutathione. I heard you say that you were taking glutathione in a binder as well.
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Or use an activated charcoal, zeolite.
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Is that activated charcoal or do you know what that is?
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Okay, yeah, so that's great because that's binding the toxins. And then EBU or EBO2 is sort of a really advanced ozone. I've posted a lot about it lately where they filter the blood and add ozone to it. Sometimes they will run it through a light filter too and then put it back in. But what's really interesting, we talked about this before the podcast started, is I...
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I took the waste container that had, you know, the collection container and sent that to a lab for urinalysis. And this is where I saw all of the toxins that you're referring to, the aflatoxin A, aflatoxin B, the polyfluoroalkyls, all of these weird accelerants, like, jet fuel and, um, really, uh, you know, crazy environmental toxins, um, that were in there.
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I'm so excited to have you because not just because you're a female guest, because I think you're a female pioneer. And I actually love the fact that you didn't come from a traditionally trained medicinal background. And so tell me a little bit about how this whole... biohacking journey started for you. I mean, to the place where you actually own a functional medicine clinic, right?
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What do you mean by that? I mean, first of all, you and your husband are on a similar journey to my wife and I, like, you know, we're in this like sort of couples journey together. She makes a lot of fun of me, but she's also like fully, fully on board for it. Although I just put a hyperbaric in our master bedroom. So there's a little friction there on that one.
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Yeah. I mean, people think you're crazy, but it's like, I don't collect cars. I don't, you know, I don't, I don't collect watches.
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Yeah, no, me too. I mean, I'd rather buy a red light therapy bed in a Ferrari because Ferrari is doing nothing for your cellular biology. But talk a little bit about what you mean by, you know, female, like female centric longevity protocols.
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Yeah, you know, my wife and I noticed that too. And we noticed it in a clinical practice too, that, you know, one size fits all, let's say intermittent fasting for men versus one size fits all intermittent fasting for women.
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And we, you know, the, some of the worst endocrine disasters we would see in women were young menstruating females that were otherwise, you know, very healthy, fit, active, that had very narrow feeding windows. And when you start to look at it, you know, some of these women would have really responsive insulin. So they were very insulin sensitive and their blood sugar was very often hypoglycemic.
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Which I also think is amazing because you really get to see the outcomes of what you're doing with people. And, you know, a lot of, a lot of my fans and audience have forwarded me your content, including my daughter, right? Probably the reason why she's here and she's a nurse and she's a tough cookie, but she loves you and loves your content.
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nutrients, right? This low blood sugar we're perceiving as starvation. And, you know, I started really going down that rabbit hole too, years ago with women, because you would see, you're right. You know, you, you put men and women on these, these similar protocols and you have vastly different results. And usually it's because a husband and wife are, you know, doing relatively the same thing.
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And it turns out to be a disaster for her and not, not for him. So, I mean, fertility is a huge issue. Before we even talk about improving your fertility, I mean, just the state of fertility right now in the world, certainly in the United States, declining rates of sperm counts, declining fertility rates in women, skyrocketing rates of spontaneous miscarriage. So you're on that journey right now.
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So that's okay if I say that. Yeah, yeah, of course. 27 million people. It's not a big deal. But I'd love for you to talk a little bit about that journey because that is one that is really going to resonate, you know, with my audience.
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And I love how super simple and digestible and authentic, you know, your content is. And I feel like you're also letting people get a lens into your actual life. It's amazing. But tell, tell my audience that doesn't know you a little bit about your journey and how you ended up owning a functional medicine clinic without going to school for functional medicine.
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I like what you're, and I don't mean to interrupt your thought, but I like what you're saying about you sort of preparing the house before. right before you move in. And I think that's so important. We have a lot of experience in biologic stem cells, exosomes, those kinds of treatments.
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And the people that respond the best are the ones that went on a 10 week of pre-treatment before they did that to reduce insulin and lower the inflammatory markers. So I like that you're actually talking about this sort of cleaning up the house before we let them. baby move in. Right.
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Yeah, I totally agree. So, so, um, you said you were going to talk about the nutrition. So, um, there's, I mean, talk about paralysis of analysis.
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If you get out there on Google and you get out there on social media, you will get any woman will just get absolutely paralyzed by information, diametrically opposed information on what we should be doing or they should be doing to prepare for really healthy pregnancy. So what is your dietary journey look like?
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And how do you walk your way out of this toxic burden? Because, you know, a lot of times people like you and I get accused of fear mongering. And it's not that we're trying to say everything is going to kill you.
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Actually, that's very true. but I just say it's trying to kill you. Um, but you know, a lot of, um, what I think people call fear mongering is, is us just trying to help people get around the system, right? Like get through the grocery store, get through a normal day. I did a really interesting exercise after one of Dave Asprey's, um, uh, biohacking events.
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It was, it was years ago when he had, when he first started his biohacking summit and there was a, uh, specialist there. And it was, it was just this questionnaire. And, um, you just walk through the day and it's like, if you've never actually, um, if you're one of those people that isn't conscious of what you're eating and you for a week, you'd sort of document your meals. You're like,
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Holy crap. I eat like three chocolate bars. I ate like, you know what I mean? I ate an extra half pound of nuts. Like you don't realize all of these things that are sort of coming at you. And so, you know, um, it was really interesting for, uh, you know, for my, for my wife, but the amount of toxic burden that you encounter throughout the day, it's like, you know,
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You wake up in the morning, you brush your teeth, okay, well now you realize that's fluoride and high amounts of fluoride. And then you're like drinking tap water and then your shampoo and then your conditioner and then your body wash. And then for women, it's all of these cosmetics. So how did they start this journey of lowering their toxic load? I think the food is relatively easy.
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Oh, EWG. I'm a member of those guys, too. I donate to them, too. They're amazing.
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Yeah, I'm starting to get there too.
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And your radial artery.
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Yeah, there's some Ayurvedic brands out there that are 100% essential oils that smell amazing. Smell so good. I mean, they really smell like a designer perfume. Yeah, totally.
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But in terms of like cost-wise, are you finding that you can, is the industry getting to the point where there's enough competition that some of these really clean products like Branch Basics and some of these other really good brands are available, widely enough available and at a price point where people can afford them?
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149. Kayla Barnes: The Science of Female Biohacking - Gut Health, Toxins, and Menstrual Cycles
And I love too that you talk about sleep because I think very often, you know, especially people that are getting into the biohacking space or just going down the biohacking bandwagon, they want to jump the basics and like get to the exotics. They're like, oh, I read that NAD, you know, it's in your life. So I'm going to start NAD injections, which I don't have a problem with per se. Thank you.
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Thank you.
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Thank you.
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So you did this on yourself first.
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Thank you. Thank you.
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I have a theory that the reason why the majority of autoimmune disease we find in females and not men is because women are so selfless.
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Were you experiencing like anything specific, like severe brain fog?
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Is that the one that you grab?
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So awesome, yeah.
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It's called a nano V.
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What's that? Oh, I think I've seen that machine.
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Okay, and what is that doing?
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Yeah, and is it a gas?
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Wow.
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That's right. I've seen those and I didn't go down the rabbit hole of those. I mean, I know most of the things you're talking about, especially the, the pulse that are actually Cristiano Ronaldo gave me one of those. I would see him in, in Saudi Arabia. And when I left, he gave it to me as a gift. And I first tried it on the plane coming back.
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And then I actually had a client of mine staying with me. He's also a very dear friend. And he was suffering from very severe tinnitus. And it was actually triggering panic. And I was in the living room one day and my son came running around the corner. He's like, hey, dad.
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he's actually laying in the hallway and so I went around the hallway and he was laying up against the wall and he was having a panic attack and I you know the worst thing you can do is try to reason somebody out of having a panic attack there's nothing for you to be afraid of there's no reason for you to feel this way so I just calmly put the pulsato on him and I ran the anxiety app and I'm getting like six minutes into a nine minute session he was
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from a very calm i think it just overrode that signal coming through the vegas nerve so i think i think a lot of these um which you could travel with some of these yeah um but i didn't mean to interrupt you so so the nano v and then you said you also have a pulse electro magnet pmf mat yeah yeah okay i just keep that going actually throughout the day i have it in my office chair oh that's and it's interesting because i did a test the full body like yeah yeah yeah yeah
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Because I'm actually talking about on my... On my challenge on Wednesday, I'm talking about oil pulling, tongue scraping, you know, flossing, the importance of all of those things, even really the importance of getting metal amalgamates out of the mouth.
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Yeah. And even root canals. I mean, I can show you. I don't know. I'm waiting for a tooth because I had a root canal that a biologic dentist cleaned out for me and I had a big cavitation underneath of it. And what was amazing was I'd had two root canals and one day I just bit down on something and I cracked this tooth. And so I called my buddy, he's a biologic dentist, Dr. Gandhi.
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And he was like, take a picture of it. And so I took a picture of it and sent it to him. It was the 19th tooth meridian. So he asked me if I had left anterior shoulder pain, left lower lobe lung pain. And the craziest thing that just literally blew my mind was he said, does your left toe ever go numb?
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Dude, you are breaking me out because I actually do have a little left anterior shoulder pain, which I just thought was a little bicep tendonitis from working out or whatever. And I would only get the left lower low pain when I was doing like hits cardio or something. But my left toe occasionally would go numb.
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And my wife used to tease me because I would like tap it or I would tap it with my heel. And then it wasn't enough to like drive me to it. DR or anything. And he's like, oh, you definitely have a cavitation in that tooth. And when he cone beam x-rayed it, you could see it. And when he took it out, cleaned it, ozone, put platelet-rich fibrin in there, he actually ran ozone gas, red light,
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and replaced it literally within 48 hours, all of those symptoms went away. And that's been two years and it hasn't come back.
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And, or almost two years. So I am such a big believer in that. How do you do ozone oil pulling?
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I have a Simply O3. Oh, nice.
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They make a solution that's already ozonated?
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And it stays in there even when they ship it to you?
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oh that's cool yeah it tastes a little bit like ozone because ozone has a very distinct i i've like come to love it though because i do so many different because you associate it with being clean so you're like yeah it's like i used to love the smell of bleach because it meant that things are i don't like it anymore but i i used it just used to tell me all right well this locker room's clean you know or this is sanitary i don't associate those anymore but um uh so it's it's an oil like a what coconut oil or something do you know
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See, that's the thing about oil pulling, man. It's a, it's a commitment.
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Yeah, there's oral probiotics that you can take too for, I mean, just for your oral microbiome, which are really good. They're like a chewable.
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I forget the name of the brand that I have. Is it BioHarvest? I don't know if I'll find out a link in the show notes, but, um, but it's actually oral, oral probiotic. And I'm, I'm, I couldn't be more on board with you because, you know, I think, um, ancestrally our, our microbiome was so important and it, I mean, obviously it's, it still is. And it all starts in, in mouth, you know, and, and,
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if you actually saw an image of the nerves leaving the jaw and all the pathways out of your mouth, into your neck, into your brain, you realize how pathogens, obviously this is a great way to get in, and where they can go to and how many consequences they can have that are not tying back to our oral microbiome. And what's really interesting,
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is, um, I think dentistry is the only practice of medicine that thinks that you can leave dead tissue in the body, right? So you kill a tooth and you kill a nerve and they're like, well, it's okay to leave that in there. I mean, if your appendix died, they would take it out, right? I mean, if something goes necrotic in your body, you need to remove it.
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Um, so you have these two necrotic things in your, in your mouth. If you've actually had a you know, root canal, but, and you don't feel it. It's like, that was totally painless for me. Had I not cracked that tooth, which I, I look at as a blessing now, I wouldn't have gotten both of these removed.
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And, and it's what everyone called woke to wellness as I am, you know, where, you know, for me to have these two cavitations just literally, literally blew my mind.
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All right. So then you're, you're, you're inching your way through your, now you do take a lot of this on the road. I mean, it's portable for you.
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I could not agree with you more. You know, in fact, I think some of the most frustrating cases that we ever had come through our clinic are our younger fit women that are really healthy and they're exercising and they'll say, look, I wake up at, you know, five, six o'clock in the morning. I have a cup of black coffee. I'm fasted. I go to Orange Theory. I go hammer down for 55 minutes.
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I do that five days a week. I've been doing it for three months and I haven't lost a single pound. Like what's going on? I'm like, you know, you're not eating, but your body is, it's, it's just kind of eating you. Um, you know, you're probably metabolizing a lot of lean muscle and not in your, your fat reserves. And I think sometimes it's counterintuitive, especially for women to eat, to lose.
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Right. I mean, it doesn't, it doesn't, you know, intuitively make sense, but if you, if you keep your protein intake up, you're right. Um, so you make sure that you get protein, um, in the morning. Now, are you spending a lot of time at your clinics? Um,
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So what are some of the most exciting things for you in terms of female health, wellness, longevity? You're either going to bring into the clinic or you want women to know about state of wellness and longevity for women. Where does this clinic take you in terms of the impact you're going to have on women? Female longevity.
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And you committed to that five days a week.
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I mean, cause that's a, that's a buy-in right there.
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Although I did see your first date was in a hyperbaric chamber.
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That's so awesome. I mean, you were in the New York Times for like your labs you made your husband get for it, which I think is amazing. I know you got a lot of flack for it. I think that's amazing. But if you started your first date in it, you're committed to you have it at the house.
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And it goes all the way to two ATA.
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And it's really interesting. The first person that's actually brought that up is that, you know, I had a hyperbaric expert here, Dr. Jonathan Saunders. And he's written two amazing books on hyperbaric therapies. He's a chiropractor. Well, then his PhD in hyperbaric medicine. And he was explaining to me that it's not one or the other, that different pressures actually have different results.
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And the brain protocol at one three to one five,
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also what he was saying and uh the deeper pressures for mitochondrial proliferation and things like that it's it's just a commitment so you know you have to get one at home um but they make some great soft shell chambers that are you know safe and can get you there and i think it's important especially in light of the tragedy just happened recently in the hyperbarics to note that um
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That's so awesome. And we like, how would you characterize your young life at this point. I mean, are you active? Are you working out? Are you conscious of your diet? You're pretty on your game. You just wanted to go next level.
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The hyperbaric chambers that are not 100% O2 are not flammable, right? So they can't become accidental bombs. The ones that run 100% O2, I don't even know if you can even legally get those in the home. But if you can, you shouldn't. Even with the prescription, because those are potentially explosives. Like hydrogen gas, 100% O2 is very flammable. Hi, guys. Gary here.
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So you ran this hyperbaric protocol and you got your loading dose done. Now, do you still do it on a regular basis or?
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If you're a woman, I mean, you should definitely... And the higher the AMH, is this corresponding to a longer... Potentially.
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Right. You know, one of the videos my daughter forwarded to me really caught my eye. That's when I started to take a deep dive on your content. And I super appreciated it because you're being very authentic about you live in L.A.
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And I love that you just said that PCOS is polycystic ovarian syndrome. It's a metabolic disorder. Can you dig into that a little bit? What do you mean by that?
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Yeah, that's amazing. I think that, you know, for the women that are listening to this, which lots of women are going to be listening to this, you know, what I love is there's a place to start that's going to be low or no out of pocket costs, which are things you can fix right away. Like, you know, your sleep, your diet.
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I don't think that, you know, sunlight grounding and breath work can be overemphasized. I don't think that like timing your circadian clock can be overemphasized. So these are all what I would say are, you know, modifiable lifestyle factors that, you know, should be the first go-tos, you know, before you even invest in expensive equipment and whatnot. I mean, just
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Getting yourself back to the basics. In terms of supplementation, what would you say are the go-to female basics?
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Breast cancer, women, I mean, a lot of good studies in the 60 to 80 nanogram range.
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you know, you're in the midst of the wildfires. So you're talking about the air quality, but the one that really piqued my interest, and I want to go down this rabbit hole, was the mold and the mycotoxin poisoning.
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Does NutriVal look at the, like, is that like a cellular nutrition assay? Is that actually looking at cellular concentration? Yeah, it actually is both. Or just like blood?
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Okay, so that's really interesting because, you know, I've found in this type of testing, I didn't know that NutriVal combined the two, but if you do a cellular nutrition assay, like intra-cellular concentration, and then sometimes do blood, which is serum concentration. Yeah. you see things like B12 sky high in the blood, but deficient in the cell.
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And you see that, you know, it's not methylating it. And you switch the form of B12 and it, you know, instantly the cell begins to metabolize it.
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Oh, I do too.
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Singing my tune.
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Methylated B vitamins, methylfolate. Yeah. And the methyl form of B12. I mean, those are just basics. D3, K2, which I really agree with you and a good omega-3.
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Because, you know, as I've been on this journey too, and also own a functional wellness clinic, which I just recently exited, but we had hundreds of thousands of patients and there were always those ones coming through the system that were being treated quote unquote properly, right? Like their triglycerides were in range, their cholesterol was fine.
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Do you just take it beforehand, like 20, 30 minutes beforehand?
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It's a baby one, yeah. And you know, the interesting thing about methylene blue is, you know, it's really effective in low doses. There's a great book. I think it's called The Ultimate Guide to Methylene Blue. And I'll tell you, you can get it on audiobook. And for nerds like us, you know, it's great listening on the plane or something. And
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I've read it probably three times and listened to it probably four times. I've almost committed the entire book to memory. Would I... What I love about it is, I mean, if you're not in love with methylene blue by the time you're done reading that book, you'll never be in love with it.
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And, you know, the way that it enhances, I like the compounds that enhance natural physiology or physiological processes in the body. NMN raising your own levels of NAD, you know, methylene blue improving like the binding affinity of iron and getting more oxygen into the cell, which means more oxygen in the mitochondria, which is really the end game is to try to have super healthy mitochondria.
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And all of these things that you're doing are really just feeding your cellular biology, red light for your mitochondria. I mean, you guys are gonna have the healthiest, I'm going to buy stock in all the babies you have. These are going to be like the healthiest overachievers. So that's amazing. Um, so, um, this Kayla, this has been amazing.
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Um, you know, I'm, I'm, I'm so glad that, that you came on the podcast. Um, I, I definitely want to have you back again, follow your journey, especially follow the journey you're on with your husband. I just think it's, I think it's magical that you, you know, you guys did the, you made him give you the labs before you had your first date in a hyperbaric chamber.
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And you guys are so committed to this journey because I think, um, You know, I think on this longevity and bio-optimization journey in general, I think there's more women than men. And I think a lot of times the husband's not on board with the wife, you know, she's sort of in it on her own.
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Even though I have a larger male audience than a female audience, most of the females that I'm talking to are way more involved and into it. Um, you know, we know they buy 80% of all the supplements. Um, you know, they're listening to most of the podcasts and digesting most of the information out there.
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So I think it's amazing to be, you know, a couple like skinny confidential there, you know, on this journey together, you know? So I think, I think that's amazing. Um, from my audience that, that doesn't know you, where, where can they find you?
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Their hormones weren't particularly out of whack. You know, their CBC and their metabolic panels were normal, nothing going on in the liver. The kidneys were healthy. So, you know, everything was, let's say, quote unquote in range, right? Maybe they need some E3, but nothing was jumping off the page, but they were miserable, like miserable. And the labs were,
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Okay, live-wellness.com. So I wind down every podcast by asking my guests the same question. So there's no right or wrong answer to this question. And then we'll stop the podcast and we'll go into a private room for my VIPs, my ultimate human VIPs. I tip them off to what guests are coming on to the podcast. And so they knew you were coming on. So they have a list of questions for you.
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And I really try to pour myself into this group. So if you're interested in becoming an ultimate human VIP, just go over to the ultimatehuman.com and sign up to be one of my VIPs. It's 97 bucks a month. And I just pour myself into this community. So Kayla, what does it mean to you to be an ultimate human?
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So good. Yeah. You know, and I love that you said that because I think women, especially, um, I have a theory that the reason why the majority of autoimmune disease is we find in females and not men is because women are so selfless and they're
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they very often will view self-care as being selfish but what you're doing is very selfless this is selfless for your husband it's eventually going to be selfless for your kids um your career i'm sure your clinic needs you i'm sure your employees need you and it's like how do you show up for them if you're not you know caring for yourself so yeah i love that i think health is the foundation of greatness i always say that i think longevity is the new um you know it's a new luxury
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I don't know if that's true, but... You can fake a Ferrari, but you can't fake abs.
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You know what I mean? Well, that's awesome. So guys, hopefully you'll join us in the VIP Ultimate Human Community. But if not... I will link all of the topics that we talked about, some of the modalities that we talked about, links to her Instagram and her podcast, and also to some of the products that she mentioned on the podcast today. Until next time, that's just science.
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wouldn't tell the story of the person that was in front of you, you know? So you'd see this, this woman and I'm like, okay, if I believe the diet that you're telling me that you eat, I know that you're active.
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I mean, I'm looking at what you're telling me about your activity level, but you know, they were just bloated or they had massive brain fog or really abnormal menstrual cycling and things that you wouldn't tie back to the bugs and the pathogens, the mold, the mycotoxins, the viruses, the parasites.
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And our functional medicine doctor, Dr. Sardo, who's a board-certified OBGYN, had a lot of training in this area. And she started to bring in these functional labs, like the vibrant testing. And what we'd find were in these unsolvable cases was generally one of these underliers. And when we started testing for those and treating for those, this is when we saw the real miracles happen, right?
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Talk a little bit about what you mean by like female-centric longevity protocols.
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If you want to build lean muscle without having to cut, you need Perfect Amino. Now let's get back to the Ultimate Human Podcast. I think this is one, especially in areas like Miami, we're the most capital of the world. We won that lottery. Go Miami. And, you know, the second one, according to one of the functional medicine docs I know, is actually Malibu, California.
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And I was like, that surprises me because it's not super humid out there.
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Yeah, the water, the climate. Maybe it's because, you know, you're AC in the, you know, in the summertime and maybe they're leaving the windows open in the wintertime. But talk a little bit about the testing that you did. What, if any, symptoms you were having? And like, I'm particularly interested in the journey you went on to walk yourself out of it.
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149. Kayla Barnes: The Science of Female Biohacking - Gut Health, Toxins, and Menstrual Cycles
Hey guys, welcome back to the Ultimate Human Podcast. I'm your host, Gary Brekka, human biologist, where we go down the road of everything anti-aging, biohacking, longevity, and everything in between. And we've been asked lately, well, actually not just lately, but for a year, to just feed the female audience a little better than we've been feeding them on the podcast.
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149. Kayla Barnes: The Science of Female Biohacking - Gut Health, Toxins, and Menstrual Cycles
Yeah.
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149. Kayla Barnes: The Science of Female Biohacking - Gut Health, Toxins, and Menstrual Cycles
Some of these things you don't even recognize. And you start looking it up and you're like, byproduct of jet fuel. Like what? Insane. It's a fire accelerant. And I guess if you think about what's burning in these. I mean, it's, everything's being essentially vaporized. And you said something really interesting to me on my balcony.
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149. Kayla Barnes: The Science of Female Biohacking - Gut Health, Toxins, and Menstrual Cycles
You said, you know, they show that the air quality is decent, but it's actually not the number of particles in the air. It's what's in the particle.
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149. Kayla Barnes: The Science of Female Biohacking - Gut Health, Toxins, and Menstrual Cycles
Walk-in sauna or do you use a sauna blanket?
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149. Kayla Barnes: The Science of Female Biohacking - Gut Health, Toxins, and Menstrual Cycles
And I think there are some giant gaps in the biohacking community in general. Lots of us guys out there, ultra woke biohackers talking to other ultra woke biohackers. And so we've been really focusing on our feminine audience. And so today, please welcome to the podcast, Kayla Barns-Lenz.
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I love that.
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149. Kayla Barnes: The Science of Female Biohacking - Gut Health, Toxins, and Menstrual Cycles
Did you do that at Next Health?
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149. Kayla Barnes: The Science of Female Biohacking - Gut Health, Toxins, and Menstrual Cycles
With Dr. Darshan?
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149. Kayla Barnes: The Science of Female Biohacking - Gut Health, Toxins, and Menstrual Cycles
Yeah, I love him.
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149. Kayla Barnes: The Science of Female Biohacking - Gut Health, Toxins, and Menstrual Cycles
We're going to go into that too. Cause you just piqued the interest of every female on this.
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141. Max Lugavere: Seed Oils, LDL Cholesterol & Inflammation
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141. Max Lugavere: Seed Oils, LDL Cholesterol & Inflammation
Well, you know, I think you see such a parabolic rise in nearly all forms of chronic disease, autism, ADD, ADHD, OCD, manic depression, bipolar, schizophrenia, and then also the more physical characteristics, obesity, multiple chronic disease in a single biome, all of which the United States is leading the world in.
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141. Max Lugavere: Seed Oils, LDL Cholesterol & Inflammation
As we drop to 66th and like 66th in life expectancy, you know, we are leading in these categories. that we don't want to lead, especially after spending four and a half trillion dollars a year on healthcare. If we spend four and a half trillion dollars, man, we should all be flying around with a cape. For four and a half trillion dollars, we should be the healthiest nation in the world.
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141. Max Lugavere: Seed Oils, LDL Cholesterol & Inflammation
And, you know, I'm always cautious to say the pandemic of obesity or chronic disease is directly related to seed oil consumption. I think it is multifactorial. This is certainly a factor. You know, I don't think that the jury is out on that.
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141. Max Lugavere: Seed Oils, LDL Cholesterol & Inflammation
you know oils becoming rancid at high temperatures and therefore you know at least you know to be prudent if you were to wipe seed oils out and add things back in let's say room temperature oils like extra virgin olive oil or cooking in uh high smoke point oils like you know coconut oil or grass-fed butter ghee butter tallow some of these oils that actually can withstand those temperatures
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141. Max Lugavere: Seed Oils, LDL Cholesterol & Inflammation
And you really solve the problem when, you know, your mother was probably the closest, I'm going to assume relative to you. you know, went through that time and you just said, I, I need answers. And so if you guys have not watched the podcast that I did with Max, um, on the journey with his mother and how he became an advocate, um, for, for mental health, it's a really, it's a phenomenal podcast.
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141. Max Lugavere: Seed Oils, LDL Cholesterol & Inflammation
Quite frankly, I think things taste better, personally, when you cook in those oils. And they're the only things you really need to have around your kitchen. But this process of oxidation in seed oils, what are some of the outcomes of having these oxidized oils in high volumes in the bloodstream?
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141. Max Lugavere: Seed Oils, LDL Cholesterol & Inflammation
90%.
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141. Max Lugavere: Seed Oils, LDL Cholesterol & Inflammation
Atherosclerosis. Yeah, narrowing of the arteries. You find a lot of these oxidative species, you know, at the site of inflammation and also, you know, at the site of, you know, where cholesterol coalesce into, you know, these plaques. And I think often we... We blame cholesterol for crimes it's not committing. You know, I often refer to cholesterol as a fireman.
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141. Max Lugavere: Seed Oils, LDL Cholesterol & Inflammation
You know, if your house catches fire, the fireman shows up to put the fire out. But it didn't just show up randomly, right? I mean, if this Airbnb had never caught fire, firemen would never show up in the driveway, right? But if it did, they would show up to extinguish the fire. Cholesterol is usually called to the site of inflammation. And I think it's something that goes lost on a lot of folks.
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141. Max Lugavere: Seed Oils, LDL Cholesterol & Inflammation
I linked all of the research in the, in the show notes and even gave a link to the documentary that he did with his mother. Um, I, I was, you know, Before every podcast, and I know you so well, and we just had a great time at the Maha Ball, which was awesome. We had a great time at the Turning Point Ball, which was a great time, other than the weather. Yeah.
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141. Max Lugavere: Seed Oils, LDL Cholesterol & Inflammation
They just think because of the presence of LDL cholesterol, especially if LDL cholesterol is in higher amounts, then I have a higher risk for narrowing of the arteries or arteriosclerosis. But that's like making the argument that if there were more firemen, we would have more fires. But that line of thinking is not true. And I think it is about to be... majorly disproven.
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141. Max Lugavere: Seed Oils, LDL Cholesterol & Inflammation
But one of the things that I liked that you were saying before the podcast started was we have to understand that these polyunsaturated fatty acids are built on the backs of this entire house of cards built around LDL cholesterol. And if one of those cards like polyunsaturated fatty acids falls apart, the house of cards starts to come down because you're like, well, if...
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141. Max Lugavere: Seed Oils, LDL Cholesterol & Inflammation
If the fact that these, because the pro-seed oil discussion is, well, they lower LDL cholesterol. And isn't LDL cholesterol terrible? Isn't LDL cholesterol bad for you? Isn't LDL cholesterol the genesis of all heart disease? I mean, shouldn't you, if you have high LDL cholesterol, lower it as low as you possibly can? And if seed oil is lower LDL cholesterol, then the argument's over.
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141. Max Lugavere: Seed Oils, LDL Cholesterol & Inflammation
They're not bad for you.
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141. Max Lugavere: Seed Oils, LDL Cholesterol & Inflammation
I love your one-liners, man. It's like the health food line. I'm going to borrow that. You can see it start creeping up in podcasts. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Feel free. Use it. Use it. Credit me. Or don't.
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141. Max Lugavere: Seed Oils, LDL Cholesterol & Inflammation
So it's an industry. This LDL cholesterol is an industry. Yeah.
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141. Max Lugavere: Seed Oils, LDL Cholesterol & Inflammation
Exactly. Yeah. Very interesting podcast with Dr. Gundry on that. In talking about the, the research on platelets, the minimal impact that, you know, that statins had on life extension, which was very, very minimal. And the impact that it had on cardiovascular disease coming from the anti-inflammatory effect, not actually from the LDL lowering effect.
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141. Max Lugavere: Seed Oils, LDL Cholesterol & Inflammation
It was like freaking nine degrees, and all the women were walking a mile in open-toed heels.
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141. Max Lugavere: Seed Oils, LDL Cholesterol & Inflammation
Yeah, I don't think it's directly causal. for LDL cholesterol or directly causal for seed oils, uh, either. But I think the more of these things, you know, it's interesting as I sort of travel the world and talk to experts like yourself and other experts and PhDs and MDs and researchers and are leading minds in the field. Yeah.
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141. Max Lugavere: Seed Oils, LDL Cholesterol & Inflammation
So we're, we're, we seem to be coming full circle, you know, and just getting back to the basics, you know, a lot about what you talked about, how, um, A lot of these polyunsaturated fatty acids weren't even in the diet in the 1900s. And you also saw significantly lower rates of cardiovascular disease. Cardiovascular disease is a relatively new phenomenon, especially in younger ages.
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141. Max Lugavere: Seed Oils, LDL Cholesterol & Inflammation
Yeah, I didn't think about it that way. I should have turned that into a positive. I'm getting all this vasoconstriction and brown fat activation and dopamine, but I was actually pissed off. So maybe the dopamine didn't work.
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141. Max Lugavere: Seed Oils, LDL Cholesterol & Inflammation
In older ages, it was certainly a phenomenon, but it's becoming younger and younger. And so is metabolic syndrome. I read a really interesting... and had a discussion with Dr. Gundry about this, about the metabolic syndrome, which we were discussing before the podcast, abdominal adiposity, hyperinsulinemia, hypertriglyceridemia, elevated or suppressed HDL cholesterol and high blood pressure.
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141. Max Lugavere: Seed Oils, LDL Cholesterol & Inflammation
we really tend to think of these things as these are older age problems, right? Like we think Alzheimer's, dementia, cognitive decline. I'll start worrying about that in my late 60s, my early 70s. But all of these things have a genesis that's decades earlier than they manifest themselves. And obviously diet plays a huge role in that. Now, I know you're a meat eater like I am.
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141. Max Lugavere: Seed Oils, LDL Cholesterol & Inflammation
And I've often heard you dispel a lot of the vegan vegetarian. And not saying attacking vegans and vegetarians, but just just dispelling the myth that you can't be healthy unless you're eating an entirely plant based diet. Yeah.
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141. Max Lugavere: Seed Oils, LDL Cholesterol & Inflammation
It's like, oh. But I ran into a great clip that you did. And I think it was either during a congressional hearing or when you were on Capitol Hill not too long ago. And you made a comment and you said, if your grocery store has a health food section, What does that tell you about the rest of the grocery store? And, you know, as obvious as that is, it just made me go, you know, it is so true.
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141. Max Lugavere: Seed Oils, LDL Cholesterol & Inflammation
Exactly.
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141. Max Lugavere: Seed Oils, LDL Cholesterol & Inflammation
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141. Max Lugavere: Seed Oils, LDL Cholesterol & Inflammation
That's parkerpastures.com and get $25 off your first order. Now let's get back to the Ultimate Human Podcast. Interestingly, I didn't mean to cut you off, but we talked about this yesterday on a podcast I had a pediatrician on, and we were talking about statistical data. I have a background in probability and statistics and mortality modeling.
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141. Max Lugavere: Seed Oils, LDL Cholesterol & Inflammation
And by asking a different question, you can get a completely different answer from the same data. And one of the things that we were discussing was if you have 100 people in a population, for example, and one person is helped by, let's say, a pharmaceutical intervention, And you tweak that pharmaceutical intervention and now 1.5 people out of 100 are helped.
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141. Max Lugavere: Seed Oils, LDL Cholesterol & Inflammation
Well, that's a 50% increase in the efficacy. And so now, you know, consumer sees, well, there's a 50% improvement. And you would think, well, it went from one to 50 out of 100, but it didn't. It went from one and two, one and a half out of 100.
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141. Max Lugavere: Seed Oils, LDL Cholesterol & Inflammation
hyper technically is true but you know when you're looking at the data it's misleading and that's a lot of what happens with epidemiological studies yeah 100% it's like if you are if they take a group of I mean we'll just say like 100 people and
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141. Max Lugavere: Seed Oils, LDL Cholesterol & Inflammation
And it's so interesting how, you know, we're both connected to this Make America Healthy Again movement. And we're both committing time and resources and our platforms to it. And it's astounding to me how... bad it's really gotten.
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141. Max Lugavere: Seed Oils, LDL Cholesterol & Inflammation
Multi-colinearity. Yeah.
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141. Max Lugavere: Seed Oils, LDL Cholesterol & Inflammation
I've never heard of that. Yeah.
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141. Max Lugavere: Seed Oils, LDL Cholesterol & Inflammation
I did a whole podcast on this with Dr. Asim Malhotra. He's a cardiologist out of the UK. He's up for a cabinet position in... in the new administration it's not the american heart association but it's another cardiovascular society and uh and running the health and human services and he said the very first thing that i'm going to do is i'm going to de-correlate ldls
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141. Max Lugavere: Seed Oils, LDL Cholesterol & Inflammation
You know, just how far away from the basics, you know, eating whole foods and nutritious soil and getting back to the basics, the war on saturated fat, you know, the promotion of seed oil, the allowance through grass that's generally regarded as safe guideline that the FDA has that we can actually take microtoxins on a regular basis. And so I want to kind of
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141. Max Lugavere: Seed Oils, LDL Cholesterol & Inflammation
direct risk for cardiovascular disease. And we saw this in our mortality tables where we used large data because when we were determining mortality, we used voluminous pools of data because we were putting people into a cohort of a thousand lives. And we didn't use randomized clinical trials. We used actual data, day, date, time, location, and cause of death and triangulated that back into the
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141. Max Lugavere: Seed Oils, LDL Cholesterol & Inflammation
elevated LDL cholesterol was correlated to decreased mortality, we would have had it as a risk factor, what we call morbidity factor or comorbidity factor, but it wasn't. In fact, it was, it was oppositely correlated in older ages that the higher the LDL cholesterol, the more it was correlated to longevity. We didn't,
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141. Max Lugavere: Seed Oils, LDL Cholesterol & Inflammation
at the time that I was there, processed death claims on centenarians, which we would see from time to time. Sometimes in life insurance, the policy does what they call endows. So if you actually make it to age 100, the death claim pays. So kind of fun to like screw your children and make it to 101 years old and be like, hey, dad just got his life insurance. 101, I'm going on a bender. Wow, yeah.
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141. Max Lugavere: Seed Oils, LDL Cholesterol & Inflammation
I just got 10 million tax free. But, um, uh, but what was interesting about these death claims is many of them died in, you know, hospital or assisted care living facilities or, you know, other kind of areas where we had blood work. And, uh, universally across the board, they had what we would consider to be, you know, elevated levels of LDL cholesterol. Wow. And yet these are the centenarians.
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141. Max Lugavere: Seed Oils, LDL Cholesterol & Inflammation
Yeah, and great longevity. So he and I went deep down the rabbit hole with this. If you want to check that podcast out, it's Dr. Asim Malhotra. But I saw a tweet of yours that I want to dig into because I happen to agree with it. Agree with most of your tweets. Aside from being funny, you've got some great one-liners. But...
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141. Max Lugavere: Seed Oils, LDL Cholesterol & Inflammation
You tweeted about the five best sports supplements, creatine, beta-alanine, nitrates, caffeine, and protein. And I wonder if we might discuss that. I mean, obviously, I think protein is... pretty well vetted and discussed. I don't think anybody considers protein to not be excellent for sports nutrition. But what about beta alanine, creatine, nitrates, caffeine?
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141. Max Lugavere: Seed Oils, LDL Cholesterol & Inflammation
Why did those make your top five list?
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141. Max Lugavere: Seed Oils, LDL Cholesterol & Inflammation
I would, by the way, agree with that. I think it is the most underserved nutrient in 40 plus year old females. Especially perimenopausal premenopausal, postmenopausal women.
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141. Max Lugavere: Seed Oils, LDL Cholesterol & Inflammation
roam around that, that with you, because I consider you an authority on that. And, and maybe we should start with one of the most controversial topics, which is seed oils. And I think that a basic explanation of what is a seed oil? Why is it bad for you? And so pro-inflammatory, we had an awesome discussion before the podcast started about, you know, its impact on LDL cholesterol.
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141. Max Lugavere: Seed Oils, LDL Cholesterol & Inflammation
Monohydrate by far. The monohydrate or the HCL?
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141. Max Lugavere: Seed Oils, LDL Cholesterol & Inflammation
And how does beta alanine play into that?
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141. Max Lugavere: Seed Oils, LDL Cholesterol & Inflammation
Like a niacin flush or something? Yeah, something like that.
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141. Max Lugavere: Seed Oils, LDL Cholesterol & Inflammation
Yeah, and then nitrates because, you know, we classically would look for nitrate-free meats and consider nitrates to be things that are embedded in highly processed meats. Yeah. And are these the same nitrates? Same. Wow.
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141. Max Lugavere: Seed Oils, LDL Cholesterol & Inflammation
Yeah, and just so we don't leave the vegans and vegetarians totally out of the conversation, what are some important things for vegans and vegetarians to pay attention to? I often just highlight the fact that there's a widespread assumption that if it's not meat, it's healthy.
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141. Max Lugavere: Seed Oils, LDL Cholesterol & Inflammation
But if you look at Beyond Burgers and non-burgers and you read the list of ingredients in there, the number that I can't even pronounce and don't even recognize, you know polysorbate 80 and there's just all kinds of binders fillers gelatins thickening agents um you know things that are put in there for for consistency that you do not find anywhere naturally in nature but
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141. Max Lugavere: Seed Oils, LDL Cholesterol & Inflammation
For vegans and vegetarians, what are they particularly depleted in and what do they need to replace that a meat diet is giving them?
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141. Max Lugavere: Seed Oils, LDL Cholesterol & Inflammation
And I thought that your viewpoint on that was really good because you talked about the house of cards collapsing on LDL cholesterol. So I wonder if you might expand on that.
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141. Max Lugavere: Seed Oils, LDL Cholesterol & Inflammation
So you can supplement it from a vegan source or from a vegetarian source. I think so.
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141. Max Lugavere: Seed Oils, LDL Cholesterol & Inflammation
Because I think what, you know, you and I are both involved and really, as we discussed at the beginning, putting our platforms behind this Make America Healthy Again movement, which I'm super excited about, and hoping that it can coalesce into, you know, more of a well-organized movement. A lot of us are trying to do that. In a perfect world, what do you see as...
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141. Max Lugavere: Seed Oils, LDL Cholesterol & Inflammation
You know, what are the biggest threats right now to society because of our, you know, the corruption in our nutritional research and the corruption in our, you know, food supply, chemicals in our food supply? Like, there's so much, you know, like banning Red Dye 3 was amazing. And then everybody, of course, everybody crawled out of the woodwork and said, whatever. What about a red dye number 40?
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141. Max Lugavere: Seed Oils, LDL Cholesterol & Inflammation
And what about, you know, yellow 90? And I agree with that. But in a perfect world, where do we start? And what are some real actionable things that the government could do public policy wise or, you know, to restrict certain corrupt practices to make the biggest impact in the shortest amount of time?
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141. Max Lugavere: Seed Oils, LDL Cholesterol & Inflammation
We're both connected to this Make America Healthy Again movement.
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141. Max Lugavere: Seed Oils, LDL Cholesterol & Inflammation
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141. Max Lugavere: Seed Oils, LDL Cholesterol & Inflammation
And what other areas could this movement really make big pendulum swings with small amounts of action? I've heard Cali Means talk about ending the direct advertising to the consumer because that allows...
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141. Max Lugavere: Seed Oils, LDL Cholesterol & Inflammation
the control of the narrative um and stops anybody from speaking out yeah um but what are some other areas where this make america healthy again movement can make big strides in short short periods of time like what are the must-go's in the food supply yeah well i think um that getting pharmaceutical ads off of tv that's easier said than done to be fair you know a lot of these networks are
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141. Max Lugavere: Seed Oils, LDL Cholesterol & Inflammation
It's as high as 74% that I've read.
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141. Max Lugavere: Seed Oils, LDL Cholesterol & Inflammation
Wow. I actually never thought about that. That's a really good angle. I mean, there's such a large percentage of our public policy nutritional research is funded by pharma. Yeah. I think this has got to be partially responsible for an upside down food pyramid. You know, Lucky Charms, more nutritious than grass-fed steak.
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141. Max Lugavere: Seed Oils, LDL Cholesterol & Inflammation
And if there's any mechanism to flip that pyramid or to be a little more truthful, I'm of the same mindset that you are. We shouldn't restrict free choice, right? Like... People buy cigarettes. Obviously, I don't think anybody buys a carton of cigarettes and doesn't know what the risks are, but they're an adult and they know what the risks are. They can grab that off the shelf.
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141. Max Lugavere: Seed Oils, LDL Cholesterol & Inflammation
I think what you're pointing out is intentionally misleading, you know, heart healthy, fortified, enriched people. And, you know, high fiber. And then on the back, it says high fiber diets are related to improvement in cardiovascular, you know, reduction of cardiovascular disease and improvement in a reduction in colon cancer and things like that.
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141. Max Lugavere: Seed Oils, LDL Cholesterol & Inflammation
And, you know, leading you to believe that that box of cereal reduces cancer.
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141. Max Lugavere: Seed Oils, LDL Cholesterol & Inflammation
And then leaving it up to consumer choice. Yeah. Yeah, I would agree with that too. I mean, I have high hopes for... in this movement to just create less leverage and more transparency. Because I think one of the major things that's gone wrong is we've privatized profits and we've socialized the expense.
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And when I say socialize the expense, Medicaid, Medicare is picking up the cost of this burgeoning, you know, explosive era of chronic disease and type two diabetes and morbid obesity. I know you've been outspoken about classifying obesity as a disease and certainly about it being genetic. So talk a little bit about that. I mean, do you think that obesity should be considered a disease? Yeah.
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141. Max Lugavere: Seed Oils, LDL Cholesterol & Inflammation
Absolutely.
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141. Max Lugavere: Seed Oils, LDL Cholesterol & Inflammation
And from a mental health perspective, what do you think is most, because you're a huge mental health advocate, but what has most dramatically impacted our mental health? And for those folks that are listening, we just gave five of the top supplements for fitness and for sport. What about for... good mental health for cognitive health. We've actually started the discussion on nicotine.
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Um, I'm not quite there yet. You know, we had this discussion in Baja, but, but I'm on the precipice of it because I've heard Huberman talk about it. You know, Ben Greenfield's big on it. Dave Asprey and I spoke about it on his podcast. You and I have spoken about it.
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Um, I, I, I'd love to, because I think as soon as you say nicotine, people think cigarettes, vaping, we're obviously not, you know, talking about those things, but.
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I'm actually seeing some of the cancer binding site research, which seems to be very promising with, you know, even some oncologists recommending nicotine. pure nicotine patches for, you know, patients that are going through oncology treatment.
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I don't purport to know the science behind that, but if we just stick into cognitive function, you know, as a cognitive enhancer, I would say the majority of people over 40 would say, I have some level of brain fog, some level of short-term recall issues, or some level of focus and concentration issues. So if we're just isolating
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cognitive function and the neurotropics, where do you fall on what you feel are the best long-term for our brain health? Aside from maybe the short-term impact of nicotine.
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I think the problem with collagen is people think that we can target direct collagen, right? If you eat collagen, it shows up as collagen in your skin. But, you know, I always use the analogy that we don't need our nails to grow our nails or eat our hair to grow our hair. Fair. And collagen is going to provide, you know, it's an incomplete protein and won't really build muscle.
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But I think it can... become amino acids which can then become collagen, elastin, fibrin in the skin. Do you take it? I don't take collagen, I take these, I take these perfect aminos because that's all eight of the essential amino acids and these actually have nucleotides in them too.
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And I take it because it has such a low caloric impact, less than two calories, but it provides the equivalent of 29 grams of whey protein. So especially, you know, working out in a fasted state, you know, I find that the essential amino acids, They're essential for a reason.
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And if you look at metabolic processing conversion, as soon as you're deficient in even a single one of the essential amino acids, the balance of those are going to become fat or sugar. So the eight essential amino acids in the right ratio is...
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critical and obviously you can get them from high protein sources but i think that way better than bcaas alone yeah yeah you want the full complex yeah because the branch chain amino acids are you know just leucine isoleucine valine um and usually they're in the right ratios that two to one one ratio but i but the branch chain amino acids are only three of the necessary amino acids and i think the old adage used to be well bcaas are um
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We've privatized profits and we've socialized the expense. Medicare is picking up the cost of this burgeoning, explosive era of chronic disease and morbid obesity.
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either metabolized at the muscle level or they're the most commonly used at the muscle level so we should take branched chain amino acids you know prior to workout or during a workout i think you should take full spectrum of the essential amino acids prior to workout or during a workout um so that you can build anything from that complete protein you build natural killer cells you've got collagen you can build muscle you can build you can build anything from those uh essential amino acids well um
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This is amazing, man. I'm super excited about anything that we can do and our peers can do to have a positive impact on this Make America Healthy Again movement. I'm also not directly involved with the administration, but tangentially and significantly supporting that movement. So as you know, I ask all my podcast guests, and you can't give me the same answer that you gave last time.
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Should we look up his last answer? Ooh, I wonder what it was. I asked them all the same question at the end of the podcast before we go into my VIP community. And after you answer this, we're going to go into a private room. If you're interested in becoming an Ultimate Human VIP, you can go to theultimatehuman.com and just sign up to be one of my VIP Ultimate Humans. We do private podcasts.
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I do a lot of one-on-one in group settings um answering questions we do challenges uh we're just building an incredible community of of like-minded folks and i get discounts on all of uh the products that that i i endorse but um before we go into the private podcast for my vip community uh i ask all the guests the same question you know what does it mean to you to be an ultimate human damn
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First of all, when you say refined bleached and deodorized, I mean, you should come to a full stop right now because there's no mechanism in nature for something to be refined bleached or deodorized.
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That was the shortest answer we've ever had. Great. Thank you, Max.
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I think everybody growing up was a big James Bond fan. Favorite, favorite Bond. Who's your favorite Bond? Um, what was the English, uh, Bond, the heavy, uh, accent, English accent actor. I'm having a brain. What was it? Yeah. Sean Connery. Well, it was actually Sean Connery. He just faked the British accent. Did he? Oh, yeah. I guess you're right. Yeah, he did.
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He faked a really thick British accent, but I love Sean Connery. Mine is Daniel Craig. Sean Connery was like... He was a badass at 75. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Like Clint Eastwood, you know? Kind of like tougher and more chiseled at 75 than at 45. He was, yeah.
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Hey, I'm in. Universal Studios. I'm here if you guys want to send me a contract. Well, guys, as always, I'll put the links to any of the topics that we talked about below to the extent that they're research. I'll also try to dig up the studies that you referred to if you help my team get those so I can link those in the podcast below. Where can people find you?
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I mean, my audience for the most part is familiar with you, but where can people find you?
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Well, VIPs, we'll see you in the private room and the rest of you guys until next time. That's just science.
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I'm a huge fan.
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Right. Plus, most of us don't have hexane and sodium hydroxide just lying around.
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I'm going to try to dig that one up. Yeah, yeah. Callie just did a... Callie Means is another good friend of mine and someone I deeply, deeply respect just did a post on the sequence in the manufacturing of seed oils that I thought was really good.
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In a perfect world, what are some real actionable things that the government could do to make the biggest impact in the shortest amount of time?
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It's such a large percentage of our public policy nutritional research is funded by pharma. I think this has got to be partially responsible for an upside down food pyramid. You know, Lucky Charms is more nutritious than grass-fed steak.
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Hey guys, welcome back to the Ultimate Human Podcast. I'm your host, human biologist, Gary Brekka, where we go down the road of everything anti-aging, biohacking, longevity, and everything in between. And a trip to LA would not be complete without having Max Lugavere back on the podcast. It was one of the best podcasts that we've launched.
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And this doesn't exist in the seed oil. Initially, this exists when the seed oil becomes oxidized. And I think the oxidation process, which is also a pro-inflammatory process in the human body, when you have oxidative free radicals in the human body, you create inflammation. And You see, again, it's not causal, but it's correlated.
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You see significant increase, dramatic increase in the consumption of things like refined sugar, but also the consumption of seed oils. I mean, you really can't get away from them. I mean, even if you go to, you know, and my favorite thing is that most of them have a heart healthy label on them. Yes. It's American Heart Association.
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So there's a beautiful picture of a heart with a smiley face and the bright eyes that's on the bottle of seed oils. But the amount of their consumption too is, well, people go, well, I don't grab Wesson oil off the shelf. But you start spinning around the labels of your salad dressings and a lot of your seasonings and everything.
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And even some extra virgin olive oils, you know, until Paul Saladino brought this to my attention, it was a few years ago, I actually thought extra virgin olive oil was extra virgin olive oil. And then when you spin the label around, it's like extra virgin olive oil, palm oil, cottonseed oil, canola oil. And it's right in the bottle that, and all it says on the label is extra virgin olive oil.
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And it's, and, you know, part of, I think, you know, The issue and what, you know, hopefully we're going to help solve with this Maha movement is that, you know, the average consumer doesn't stand a chance. I mean, I can consider us to be pretty woke and educated in this arena and, you know, just getting to the grocery store and just getting through that is a, it's a task.
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It's like a mind game, yeah. And so you think about the middle American mother and fathers trying to do the right thing by the family and trying to raise their kids and trying to eat healthy. And, you know, as I'm cruising down the aisle, I see things like fortified, enriched, heart healthy. Okay. Those are the things that I'm going to grab and throw in my, you know, in my basket.
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I mean, the story that you told about your journey with your mother and Alzheimer's and how you really became an advocate. And I say this all the time. I feel like I start every podcast the same way, but I've truly found that people that are the most impactful, the most passionate, the most driven and purposeful are people that solve the problem in their life.
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I don't think that the majority of Americans even think of muscle as an organ. They don't think of it about it being our metabolic currency.
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And I think when you look at Blue Zone diets, there was no really specific continuity between diets other than that they were all whole foods. I mean, Sardinia was very different from the Mediterranean, very different from Singapore. You'd have very high meat consumptions, long life expectancies, very high.
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carbohydrate consumptions with long life expectancies and then you had very high fat consumptions with long life expectancies and and but they were all whole foods and none of those people were eating a processed diet yeah um you didn't find there besides pesticides and sexicides glyphosates you know the red dye number 40s you know all the things that we invented in the evolution and we slowed it down a little bit right i mean at the beginning of your meal take a deep breath
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We were actually just fanboying over each other and went off. He's like, I'm a fan of yours. I'm like, well, I'm actually a fan of yours. I've been following you for longer. But welcome to the podcast, Dr. Peter Diamantis. My pleasure, Guy.
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Yeah, yeah. I mean, I don't think most people realize that the GLP-1s, the semaglutides and terceptides, These are just mimicking hormones that we produce in our gut. And they respond to, they create satiety based on nutrient density. And so when you're eating highly processed foods, they're not nutrient dense, you're hungry more frequently and you have tendency to overeat.
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I agree with that. I totally agree with that. There's a big movement to get Kellogg's to take, you know, the food dyes, you know, out of the cereals. I'm like, why don't we just get rid of the cereals? You know, taking the food diet from red diet number 40 to a beet juice diet is great.
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Yeah. Yeah, it should be. I think this has, I mean, this is a whole different conversation, but this has to go with, you know, the corruption in our, you know, our research institutions and the stranglehold that big food and pharma has on our public policy and research. And that research needs to be independent. I mean, NIH needs to be, in my opinion, it needs to be independent.
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publicly funded taxpayer funded independent well i hope i hope under rfk that this will make some significant changes whatever your politics make america healthy again fundamental stuff yeah i mean it's hard to disagree with um you know the statistics you know the highest rates of childhood cancer and recorded history we we just now as of december 6th um i just saw this article in the in the daily mail um
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As of December 6th, we're ranked 66th in the world in life expectancy. Four and a half trillion dollars a year we spend on healthcare. And we're ranked, I mean, our ROI on healthcare is horrible.
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Don't be in a sympathetic state while you're trying to eat your food. All right, let's get into the good stuff.
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By the way, I'm going to put a link to the longevity guidebook in the show notes below. I mean, this is available now, but before you sent me a copy.
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Thank you so much. I mean, that is a very high compliment coming from someone like yourself. I've actually been following your trajectory from afar for several years now.
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Yes.
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I kind of find it fascinating how I think you're one of those rare kind of left brain, right brain kind of entrepreneurs that's able to get deeply embedded in the science, but also see how it can have a practical application to humanity. Yeah. And we're both on the same journey, you know, this fascination, this childlike fascination with longevity and the extension of life.
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Yeah.
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Is so important. That actually came out in the Blue Zone research too. Yeah. The sense of purpose, sense of community. Yes. Mobility into later in life. You know, we know from the mortality research that the group I did was a part of that sedentary lifestyle is now the leading cause of all cause mortality.
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It really is. It's the new smoking. Hey guys, I'm really excited to announce this. Perfect Aminos has gotten a serious upgrade. They've added nucleotides, the building blocks of our nucleic acids, DNA and RNA. And this is important. We know essential amino acids are the building blocks of protein and collagen.
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Having all the essential amino acids in the correct ratio is necessary for complete protein synthesis without the caloric impact. But if we want perfect protein synthesis, we need to look at the process of protein synthesis itself. Because if the process is faulty, we won't get the correctly made protein, collagen, fibrin, or the red blood cells in our bloodstream or our muscles.
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We can even stop creation of specific proteins, which can affect us in so many different ways. Our DNA and our RNA are what direct protein synthesis, building new proteins. If our DNA or RNA get damaged from toxins, harmful bacteria, or just plain aging, we get faulty protein synthesis. So cells, enzymes, and hormones are less functional and we get premature aging.
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By adding nucleosides and nucleotides, the building blocks of the nucleic acids DNA and RNA, our cells get exactly what they need to help repair faulty DNA and RNA and improve the process of protein synthesis itself. This is next level science and you need to try these. Now let's get back to the Ultimate Human Podcast.
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we both have that childlike curiosity and fascination with, you know, the extension of life. And I, I think the majority of the really promising research has gone into the serum of the blood through the wall of the cell, through the cytoplasm and into the mitochondria.
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And I think we know mitochondria are not just the powerhouse of the cell, but they are the key in, in my opinion, the opinion of many to, to longevity. And, So what are some of the things that are really exciting you? I asked you this question the other day when we were on a Zoom call, and I really enjoyed your answer. But what's some of the things that really
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waking you up in the morning and exciting you about the field of longevity.
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B-O-L-D?
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So in my audience, this is right up there.
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And, you know, I want to go down that road with you a little bit because, you know, as I've traveled around the world and met with some of the brightest minds and seen all the biohacking equipment in the world, and we're going to talk about some of the things that I think are fascinating both of us in the space of longevity and
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And there were no other interventions. Zero.
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I mean, we're going to talk about me signing up as soon as this podcast is over.
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You know, for folks that are not seemingly familiar with stem cells, and I don't want to put words in Peter's mouth, but these cells that you harvest either from Morton's jelly or these mesenchymal cells or placentas, very often you can put these cells in specific type of media and they react to different ways.
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These secretomes you're talking about or exosomes are a reaction to the cell's media, what its environment is.
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The one thing that seems to stick with me is that we need to get back to the basics and then advance to the fancy stuff. And what is your feeling on that? I mean, what are just the basic building blocks of somebody who wants to live a long, healthy life?
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Yeah, and you can get high molecular weight, hyaluronic acid, you can get growth factors. So you can manipulate the cell to secrete these exosomes or secretomes that are specific to the outcome that you want. Maybe it's joint repair, or it's collagen, elastin, and fibrin, or if it's inflammation reduction, and
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And again, I don't purport to be a stem cell scientist, but I'm fascinated by how they can take this one pluripotent cell and they can bathe it in different media. And it literally is like a chemical factory. And depending on its environment, like a human being, it can have hundreds, if not thousands of different reactions.
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And then you can capture the byproduct of that stem cell's reaction and use it to treat specific conditions.
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When you say allowable, we can use them topically and intra-articulately, right?
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I've seen some studies on this in plasma exchange. Even Brian Johnson even did.
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Yeah, I've done that. Dr. Deshaun did it for me over at Next Health. I did a therapeutic plasma exchange, which was amazing, which is essentially where they take your plasma out. I took about two liters out. It was quite a bit.
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And then replaced that with sterile albumin. I was very tired that night, but it actually worked out because I did it in LA. And then I had a 15 hour flight, nonstop flight to Dubai. And I was on Emirates. So I just laid the seat flat and crashed. But the next day I woke up with a level of clarity I don't recall having in probably 10 years.
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I just felt cognizant, clear, awake, focused, just switched on.
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All of your centers do that?
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No, how do you feel? And I think our plasma is a repository for a lot of the junk, mold spores, mycotoxins, metals, viral pathogens, cytokines. There are all kinds of things that are floating around in the plasma that are not being evacuated.
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Yeah. Yeah. You're taking it from having to fight on so many different fronts to having to fight on fewer fronts. And I think you glossed over something, but I want to drill in. So this filter... Think of a dialysis machine, right?
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Yes, exactly.
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And that's probably the closest thing for people to analyze what it is. And you pull the blood out and it runs through this filtration system and they have heparin binding sites, which vary, when he says the endocallix, the glycocallix, what he means is it's mimicking sort of the lining of the artery, the wall of your vessels. Yes, the inside of your blood vessels.
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Which is where these pathogens like to go. And so they see this surface and, as the surface area of your blood vessels and they attach to it and they can be taken out of the body. And what I found fascinating, and I'm going to have their lead oncologist on the podcast.
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And he's so well-spoken. And I've done a number of Zoom calls with him and I like...
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he's a very giving human being very brilliant but also very well spoken so that you know he's not just talking from phd to phd he's he really has a way of fundamentally helping you understand um and obviously he's an oncologist so um that that helps but how he was explaining this to me which made perfect sense was you know along the lines of this immuno exhaustion where um
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All of us at some point in our life have had circulating cancer cells. Our immune system has taken care of them.
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And all cancerous cells were at one time a healthy cell. I mean, they became metabolically sick. And the idea is if you can get these metabolically sick cells out of the bloodstream or circulating tumor cells, now the immune system has less to do and it has more time and more strength to focus on whether it's a nodular cancer or something else that's going on in the body.
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And I really found that fascinating and also found it fascinating from the risk standpoint because things like chemotherapeutics and high-dose radiation or, you know, aggressive surgical resection, I mean, those have real consequences. They may be necessary, but they have very severe consequences and may not work. Whereas, you know, a blood filtration, if your downside is that it doesn't,
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I love that. Not die from something stupid.
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460 teams, and they're all trying to reduce the age. And how are you measuring that? Telomere is like an age test?
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You're a lot more jacked than you look on camera.
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And when you say intercept these breakthroughs, a lot of these you're tangentially involved in through... Through the XPRIZE, through my venture fund, through the companies I advise, and so forth, yeah. So who's looking at the XPRIZE winner this year? What kind of things are you seeing?
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Well, it's 100 million bucks.
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Because I want to attract people to Austin, not the carbon, yeah.
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Sort of the discipline over motivation. We've actually gotten away from the basics, the basics that you just talked about.
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And so does your book go into some of these topics?
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I made my way through an incredible book. I've actually put it on my top 10 must-reads.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, you are going to find out eventually.
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And that's a scaled-down version of what you're talking about.
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And you plan to bring in AI to overlay a lot of this and make the diagnostic side easier so then maybe it's... On my phone, I have all of my data.
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So a Felton Life client could put that on their phone, get their diagnostics done, and then start asking questions.
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Yeah. And you'll find it early enough. And that's what I talk about a lot is the early detection, the artificial intelligence and the big data. Because one of the things that we realized in the mortality space was the big data was actually more predictive than any kind of randomized clinical trial or a lot of the scientific periodical data that we were getting.
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You could look at large populace of data, 371 million lives in the mortality database that we used to have access to. And we would see things like what you were talking about earlier. Well, there was elevated LDL cholesterol in this entire populace, but the ones that had the lower triglycerides actually had no impact on mortality.
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As triglycerides rose, it actually made the LDL more dangerous and we had an increase in all-cause mortality. So just showing that it's not as linear as we think. Just like you were saying, the fascination that I have with AI are these 700 trillion independent variables. You talk about the number of methylation transactions going on.
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Yeah, the decision processes and all of his supplements fight for the life and his caloric intake, you know, is prescribed, you know, right down to the macros and the micros. And his erection as well. His erection as well. He does talk about that a lot. But, you know, you're also known for taking up to 75 supplements in a day. I think I'm up to 80 now. Are you? I'm not far behind you, by the way.
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And sometimes I'm afraid to even tell people all the stuff that I'm taking because they'll think, wow. But how did you formulate? You don't have to be hyper-specific, but how did you formulate this supplement regimen?
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If you don't have data, you don't have nothing to take action on.
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The scan, yeah.
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Yeah. You know, I talk about this a lot, too. You know, in some of my workshops, I talk to a lot of folks. And it's interesting how people think that self-care is very selfish, right? So, you know, I've developed this philosophy that, and I apply it every day, that the first 90 minutes of every day belongs to me. Yes, your golden hour. Yeah, it's my golden hour.
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I guess you would do it injectably.
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I feel great though. Yeah.
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I feel the exact same way about family. And this goes back to the whole idea about the importance of community and not being in isolation. We knew in the mortality space that if you wanted to cut a human being's life expectancy in half, and I mean at any age, put them in isolation. And it would literally cut their life expectancy in half. Whatever age they are, you could half it in isolation.
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And I think that, you know, again, I don't purport to be a mental health expert by any means, But I think there's an argument to be made that the amount of social media that we consume, the amount of artificial relationships and stimulus that we create.
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It puts them in isolation. Right. and the media on that phone to be out of isolation, I would actually consider that to be in isolation. And so, you know, with life expectancy, the United States is going backwards. It's actually tanking for a whole host of reasons, but not the least of which I believe is we are losing touch with the basics of humanity.
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And it doesn't belong to my spouse or my employees or my clients or my partners or even to my podcast. It belongs only to me. And it sounds very selfish, but then I just give the rest of my day away. I'm very intentional with my children, my spouse, with my team, with the clients. I'm able to be very present with them. And And for me, it's been an absolute game changer.
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You know, mother nature, we don't touch the surface of the earth. We don't get much sunlight. We don't ground. We don't walk in nature. We don't have a lot of human interaction. We have a lot more of an electronic interaction. And I believe that this is a form of isolation. It's removing, again, back to the blue zones. I mean, there were no such things as assisted care living facilities.
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Grandma and grandpa moved back in with the kids until the day they died. And maybe her only role was to go get vegetables for dinner.
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Well, I am really excited that our paths cross. I don't think that you and I have written our... Last chapter, I think we're about to write our first chapter. We're in the introduction, my friend. Our first chapter together. Where do people that haven't interacted with you, where can they find you? Where can they find out more about you?
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That is amazing, man, especially in the area of longevity, aging, bio-optimization. That's fantastic. Well, I want to get every podcast down by asking my guests the same question. There's no right or wrong answer to this question, and that is what does it mean to you to be an ultimate human?
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And then I put some non-negotiables, simple non-negotiables into my schedule, you know, where I schedule all of my meetings and travel around sleep and exercise. Yes. And I'm not the fittest person in the world. And I get some nights where I don't get good sleep. But by and large, you know, my sleep scores are 96% plus. And I don't go a day without doing some kind of physical exercise.
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Yeah, it really is.
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yeah well peter i cannot thank you enough for coming on i mean this is a true honor to have you on here i'm excited to be on on your show too i will put everything that he discussed in the show notes below guys including a link to his book check dr diamantis out um absolute mentor of mine and as always guys it's just science
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It has had the most dramatic change on the amount of enjoyment that I get out of doing what I do.
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When you have artificial intelligence that can take 700 trillion independent variables and create an actionable result.
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Not just the father of longevity.
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That's awesome. Well, he definitely caught the bug. He did. Yeah, we were talking about this before. I think he's showing us what's possible, maybe not what's practical. And I say somewhere between the intersection of a Brian Johnson and practicality. And what we're talking about here.
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My listeners are going to live to 120.
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Greatly offended by what you just said.
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I'm just kidding.
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We're both on the same journey, you know, this childlike fascination with longevity. What are just the basic building blocks of somebody who wants to live a long, healthy life?
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123. Dr. Peter Diamandis: The Future of Health with Stem Cells, Blood Filtration, & AI
Yeah, I totally agree with you. I think that about every half decade, we're going to see three centuries of medical advancement. And what I mean by that is,
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When you have artificial intelligence that can take 700 trillion independent variables and create an actionable result, when you stop doing clinical trials where you study things in isolation, you know, you take a cell out of the body, you look how it behaves in a Petri dish, and then you assume that when you put it back into its community, that it's going to behave the same way.
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I think, you know, you're talking about leaps and bounds. And, you know, I mean, I think the old... arcane, in my opinion, you know, randomized clinical trial, placebo controlled trial that takes, you know, eight or 10 years and then comes out with a compound that let's say gets FDA approved and then goes into the market for 10 years and gets data.
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Right. And you don't figure that out for 20 years until you get really large data. And they go, well, we made a mistake. And we either pay a fine or take something off the market or change it up. I mean, those cycles are so long. And then I think we also have the inhibition.
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And I don't mean this in a negative way, but the regulatory environment just doesn't have the capacity to keep up with the pace of innovation. So I think that stalwarts a lot of what people have available to them. So a lot of treatments that I believe can really can extend life or at least extend health span, stem cells, exosomes, natural killer cell treatments, blood filtration.
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And we can talk about all of those. Yeah, and I actually wanna go down that road. First of all, I'm glad that we agree on the foundation because I think that the greatest shift in humanity, like when you, I was a mortality expert for many decades.
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Chicks love mortality experts. They love... I mean, you can predict death to the month, man. It's a great party trick. Here, give me your wrist. Let me feel your pulse and I'll tell you. Um... But, you know, I think my wife would probably disagree with that.
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But, you know, what's really interesting is, you know, there's so many people that are fascinated by this life extension, you know, extending our lifespan. And I believe that there's evidence-based evidence. modalities, um, and, and things that we can do, but they're just, they're just not available in the United States. You're going to travel outside.
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And so having been a mortality expert, we studied mortality and lifespan. And the greatest advances in life expectancy weren't like major medical breakthroughs or specific tinctures. They were sewers, sanitation. Sanitation, vaccines, pasteurization of milk. Yeah. I mean, there was a massive jumps in life expectancy.
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And I think now what's happened, because I think that aging is the aggressive pursuit of comfort, and people don't want to challenge themselves anymore, is we've actually gotten away from the basics, the basics that you just talked about. And I don't think that the majority of Americans even think of muscle as an organ, right? I mean, they don't think of it about it being our metabolic currency.
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Hey guys, welcome back to the Ultimate Human Podcast. I'm your host, human biologist, Gary Brekka, where we go down the road of everything anti-aging, biohacking, longevity, and everything in between. And as you just heard, today's guest is probably one of the most iconic guests that we've had on the podcast in a long time, if not the most iconic guest. I'm an enormous fan of his.
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Yes. And so I want to talk a little bit about that. And then I want to get right into some of the things that are really exciting you, like blood filtration, stem cells, exosomes, some of these things.
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Yeah, yeah. And I mean, most people aren't going to go, hey, I'm going to Panama and getting a $25,000 stem cell IV.
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You can't take somebody who's in a toxic environment and then just overload them with every supplement and vitamin and mineral and amino acid. Now you're just overloading a body that doesn't process it anyway. They just get on the hamster wheel of medicine and never find a solution.
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Yeah.
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Yeah. And sometimes they don't have the catastrophic symptoms, right? They don't have the symptoms that take them to the ER, but they've got this myriad of symptoms going wrong that seems like the whole world's going to hell in a handbasket. They got brain fog and weight gain and water retention and poor sleep and poor focus and concentration.
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And they've got anxiety sort of out of the blue that's not tied to anything in their outside environment. Right. And they're mood numb. And they know that something's wrong. They're like, man, here I am on the vacation of a lifetime with the people I love the most and a place I've always wanted to go. And I just can't get out of first gear. I can't feel it. I'm just not.
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And they know that something's wrong. And because those symptoms don't link to a specific, that's not type 2 diabetes, hypothyroid, hypertension. Yeah. because it doesn't slot into a neat category, they just get on the hamster wheel of medicine and never find a solution.
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Wow.
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Oh, yeah, yeah, aflatoxin. So I want to walk through a patient experience because a standard set of labs, as people are familiar with, you look at the CBC, you look at the comprehensive metabolic panel, you look at a lipid profile, maybe a hormone panel. some basic nutrient deficiencies, B12, vitamin D3. But for you, is there a sieve that you put them through?
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
So this is going to be the podcast for you, for those of you that have been suffering from that unknown ailment that you just can't figure out. Your doctor's telling you you're okay, your labs look fine, but something's just not right. You're going to want to tune in today. So welcome to the podcast, Dr. Jessica Petras.
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Is there like a vibrant panel or something that you like? I love vibrant.
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Shout out. I love them. You guys should be paying me 10%.
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You did?
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No, I actually just did the Vibrant test because my whole family had mold exposure. My daughter actually just had to have a doctor write a letter to her. The reason why she moved in next to me was because she was living in a mold-infested apartment downtown. Miami, and she started having mold-like symptoms.
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I was just sitting there with her one night and I'm like, Maddie, something's just not right. And we went and did the Vibrant test on her, mold off the charts. And so then I had the condo tested. And they found the same species of mold in the condo that showed up in the blood. And our clinic director wrote a letter. And they were kind enough.
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They let her out of the lease and she moved in next to me.
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But then we started the mold detox program, which is definitely something that I want to talk to you about. Because I pretend to know what I'm talking about with mold, but I really would love to talk to an expert in that arena. Yeah. I think there's a real paucity of expertise on how to support the body's detox, how to detox without making yourself sick.
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Because a lot of these remold, well, there's mold remediation for your house, but a lot of these mold detox protocols make people really, really sick, in my opinion, because they don't fix their own detoxification pathway. It's one thing to dump the mold, out of the tissue, let's say into the blood. But now you're really sick.
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And so if you're not using binders and glutathione and sweat and these mechanisms that activate our own natural detox pathways, then now all you've done is just increase the toxic load.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
Yeah. So let's talk about what kind of symptoms would drive somebody to have... one of these tests. I want to isolate mold for a second. And then I want to go down the lime rabbit hole. And if we have time, I'll go down the parasite rabbit hole. I think all three of these things are so important and they're so not talked about. I put myself on a parasite cleanse for 10 days every few months.
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Yeah.
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Parasite cleansing people unite.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
Yeah. I'll do the fenbendazole and the ivermectin and some other compounds and make sure that I'm taking a lot of glutathione. I'm intentional about sauna. So I just try to... And I always... feel really good afterwards. Sometimes I, because I like to do everything all at once, I do like mold, mycotoxin, metal, and parasites, and then I don't feel so good.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
I'm so psyched to have you. You and I can't get a word in edgewise with each other. We're talking over each other and I'm listening to her, she's listening to me. There's just so many topics that you're a subject matter expert in that I am deeply interested in and my audience is interested in. I talk about this on the podcast all the time.
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Yeah, this happens a lot with our high-dose ozone clients.
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Okay.
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And we're talking about mold toxicity.
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See, I knew I would learn something on this podcast. Already paid for the podcast. I'm telling you. See, there you go.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
So Vibrant Total Tox, just for the people that are listening.
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This is a blood test that you do, and it's looking for all these. It's urine. Sorry, urine test, you're right, that you do, and it's looking for all of these different... I want to back up just for one second because we're getting into an awesome area and say, you know, what are the types of symptoms that someone would be having that would even lead you to say, let's run this panel on you?
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I could not agree with you more. I mean, 70% of our hormone therapy patients that qualify for hormone therapy actually don't need hormones.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
They need precursors for hormones. They need to get other things out of the way, sex hormone binding globulins. And we go straight to- Yeah, cortisol, especially for women. I feel like you can't supplement or treat your way around poor sleep. You can't- Eat your way out of not exercising. There are certain foundational basics. But back to symptoms.
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There's a common theme that I feel runs through the Ultimate Human podcast, and that is that the most impactful people, the people that are the most passionate, that have discovered God's purpose for them, that are out there really changing the world. Sometimes they're not even physicians. They are people that have solved a problem. And maybe it was drug and alcohol addiction.
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Because a lot of people listening to this are in that place in their life where something's going on, they can't put a finger on it. They've been told by everybody that they're fine. And the end road for them is they get referred to psychiatry.
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Yes. Wow.
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Yes. That is incredible. So they're having brain fog, let's say water retention, poor sleep, poor short-term recall.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
PMS, headaches, a lot of these things. And they've been told they're fine. So you run this Vibrant panel on them. And Vibrant's looking at mold, mycotoxins, metals. It's very thorough. Glyphosate. Glyphosate. I mean, some of the things on there, it's like jet fuel. I was like, what? You guys test for jet fuel? I don't know. But they do. The butanes and the butylates.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
The phenols. I mean, it's a very thorough test. And obviously, it's not invasive. It's a urine test. And then you don't have to freak out, right? I mean, the good news is now you've got an enemy. And if you don't know who you're fighting, you feel rather hopeless. But once you identify the enemy, now there's a mechanism to go forward. So now that somebody has...
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
aflatoxin A, aflatoxin B, they have these mold invasions. And you know what's really interesting is we live in the mold capital of the world here. Miami, Florida won the mold lottery. But people that are in drier climates like Malibu or Scottsdale, Arizona, they think, well, we don't have mold out here. Oh, yes, you do. Yeah.
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And because it's not—maybe the environment's not naturally a moldy environment, but just, you know, constructions come a long way, but these moisture barriers are not perfect. That's right. And mold's not something that pops out on the carpet or always comes out of your vents. It's very often behind the wall, and when it sporulates, these are spores that you can't see. You often can't smell them.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
Really sensitive people can. My wife is one of those people who's like— Like we walk into a hotel room and it doesn't have the right scent. We're banging a U-turn. I don't care for the four seasons.
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She is.
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Is that your comtee? Like warrior?
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Okay.
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Yeah, the catecholamethyl transferase gene. I have a fast COMP-T. That's what I have. Oh, you have a fast COMP-T.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
Yeah, you're a warrior. Yes. Yeah, not a worrier.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
Warrior, warrior. You know what's so funny is my wife and I are fast and slow. So she is a warrior.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
Wow. That's why. That's really interesting. It's funny how those warrior and warrior genes really, when you look at it on paper, I mean, they really do manifest. We did these personality tests, and my fear was less than 1%, and her fear was like 99%. Wow. That's probably why she's only had one parking ticket since 1996, and my license has been suspended three times in 10 years.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
Maybe it was tough relationship. Maybe it was financial difficulty. Maybe they had Lyme for a decade and nobody could help them. And they became their own citizen scientists and they fixed this problem. And now they're this booming, impactful, passionate voice for that, whatever it is. So I'd love for my audience to know your story, your background. How did you get here today?
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
Because I keep blowing tolls on I-95. But I'm like, I'm not worried about it. If I go fast enough, maybe it won't pick up my receiver, you know, but it does.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
So you do this test, and let's say that you find a mold species. You know, I've been told that the cardinal rule that you can't violate and sort of nothing else matters in the detox protocol is that a person has got to remove themselves from the toxic environment first.
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Wow.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
So first stage is identify it. And the second stage is get them out of that environment or remediate the environment they're in because nothing that you will be able to do is going to help them if they're just continually inoculating themselves, right?
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
So you get them out of that environment or you remediate the environment. And now what does the protocol look like to fix the nervous system and get them more into balance between sympathetic and parasympathetic? And what is like a supplementation and regimen look like for somebody who's going through a mold detox?
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
They're not going to like me. That's exactly what we've experienced. I'm so glad you're talking about this because most people think I just take something and I start detoxing and then the... And the problem is the detoxification process can make you much sicker than the process of because at least your body has hidden it and it's in the tissues and it's contained it.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
And, you know, it's having a low grade inflammatory response. Your immune system is probably in a low grade fight. It's manageable. And then all of a sudden it flares up. And I noticed, too, that people that have mold toxicity very often, especially younger kids, will have repeated sore throats.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
I feel like there's been this battle between mold and bacteria for so many years, right? I mean, penicillin is mold, right? And it kills bacteria, it's an antibiotic. And so they've had this war going on for centuries. And when they're in the same biome, and somebody has a streptococcal infection, and they have a mold.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
And then when the mold sporulates or flares up, then bang, they've got a sore throat. And then they treat the sore throat with antibiotics and six weeks, eight weeks, nine weeks later, they've got another sore throat. And then they wanna take the adenoids out, right? They wanna take the tonsils out.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
Getting just the natural detox, urine, stool, sweat, helping the liver function, probably kidney function. You get a baseline of nutrients in their body, so you're getting their methylation pathways going. That's right. And then get them sleeping a little bit better, and then a month later, you start the quote-unquote drainage.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
And the castor oil packs are external, right? Yes, they are. Okay, castor oil packs, external, milk thistle. Yes.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
Wow. So I love this because you're sort of this roots-up approach. First, you get them out of the environment. Second, you supplement them, not even for the detox, but supplement them just so that they have healthy biomes. Then you activate the natural detoxification pathways, sweat, urine, stool, liver, kidneys. And then what does the detox look like? When do we go in after the mold?
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
So internal medicine was your specialty, okay.
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And what does a parasite cleanse look like?
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Mimosa pudica.
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Because I feel like you just made that up. I know, right?
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Mimosa pudica just doesn't roll off the tongue. I mean, I might have that for lunch. I mean, I'm going to talk to my chef.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
Oh, yeah, the little dinosaurs. I love those. Because it would come out of a capsule and it would get this big. How'd they do that?
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
Yes. I still like the eighth wonder of the world.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
Really? The parasite in the fish?
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
That is incredible. And are you a fan of like fenbendazole, ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine? Yes. Any of those for parasitic cleansing? Yes.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
The herbs is the part that I'm not very familiar with. So I would love to have, if it's possible, I'll put your protocol and links to your supplements in the show notes because- Um, I'm, I'm such a big believer in this, but I'm not really familiar with the, uh, the different herbs that are really good, especially for mold toxicity. So, so these different, do they come in, are they separate?
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
Do you, or is there like package that you put them on? How does it work?
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I did some this morning thanks to you. It did have a little sulfur vibe, though. I'll be honest with you.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
Everybody hot boxes themselves. They don't want to talk about it, but they do.
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Dutch oven, if you've ever done it.
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No, it really wasn't that bad. Actually, it tasted like lemon. It actually tasted good. You know what's crazy is I've been on this journey for so long. I know it sounds crazy, but I can put something into my body five minutes after I swallow it, or the second that I taste it or put it on my skin, I instantly know if it's working or not. I don't know what it is.
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Yes.
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I inherently can just take it once and go, that didn't do anything. Or I can take it and go, that did something. maybe I'm placeboing myself. Um, but you know, I, I, I actually can see it on, on labs. Like I, um, was experimenting with different things for C-reactive protein. And I finally found this, uh, tinctures, sun foods, brain fuel. And, um,
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
I have a friend right now who just was discharged a week ago from Mayo Clinic in Scottsdale, which, you know, hats off to the Mayo Clinic, first of all, because they saved my friend's life. He was septic when he went in there. But he's in the ICU of the oncology unit, and I did a little post about it. And I walk in there, and he's got a Seagram soda sitting on the tray.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
It had rice bran, bio-aloe, silica clay, much different things in it. And I'm telling you, we started using it in the clinic with clients that had high C-reactive protein and it would just collapse it. And we would bring it back down under 1.3, 0.25. Yours, you were telling me, at one point was eight, which is incredible. I don't think I've ever seen one that high.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
The mean corpuscular volume? Yes. Okay, so that's on your CBC. Yes. Mean corpuscular volume is sort of the volume, the corpuscle is the red blood cell, but it's the volume inside of the red blood cell. So some of these measures kind of go missed, because I don't want to just throw out MCV and people don't know what that means. When you look at a comprehensive metabolic panel,
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very often things like hypoxia hide in plain sight because there's a range for red blood cells, for example, 3.69 to 5.8, I think it is if you're on a LabCorp. And then there's a range for hemoglobin, for example. And you could have red blood cells down in the bottom 10% of the range, but you're normal. Hemoglobin down in the bottom 10% of the range, but you're normal.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
Your RDW is high, your red cell distribution width is high. And this is like hypoxia hiding in plain sight. And the doctor looks at it and goes, all your labs are normal. And they're like, but doc, I am exhausted. I go to bed exhausted. I wake up exhausted. I can't get out of first gear, falling asleep at my desk. You know, it's almost like anemia, but not... meeting the clinical protocol for it.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
So now you have, now you've gotten to the detox part. Yes. And now, what are the nervous system regulatory things that you can do?
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
So gamma-immunobutyric acid with L-theanine. Yes. That's a good one.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
In the functional medicine or lifestyle medicine arena, we forget to take that step back and really look at the person, their lifestyle, their spiritual well-being. Life's not this collection of goals and priorities. It's a collection of habits.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
He's got pureed applesauce, and he's got this sugar-free Jell-O, which, of course, I flip around. I'm like, well, that actually, Red Dye 3 was just banned. They must be getting rid of the inventory. It was just shocking to me because here's this medical system. Clearly the people in there are highly trained.
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I do the same thing. That's so good.
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No, MTHFR, COMT, MTR, MTRR, those matter.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
Right. And so that I look to determine that. Sorry to cut you off, but determine that you're doing a genetic test.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
I totally agree with that. Yeah. We know that frequency can be stored in water. I mean, there's no, in my opinion, controversy about that. That's right. These are repeatable, demonstratable, physical, you know,
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
physical changes to the structure of water and we know that emotion has frequency and that frequency can impact fluid structures and we're 67 fluid absolutely um so i think it's ridiculous for us to not think that our emotions don't have physiologic consequences so in as a part of this detox protocol you're trying to calm their nervous system down by finding out what are your triggers i mean um and and are you are you digging in like what what are your
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That's a big step. That's amazing. I totally agree with you.
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And what does this have to do with like, is this like a deep rooted self image in themselves? Like they say very often, you know, someone that's overweight sees themselves as an overweight person. That's just the image of themselves that they have.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
And it's very hard to overcome that self image or smokers see themselves as a smoker and they don't quit smoking or, you know, I mean, they're there or, or maybe they're an abusive relationship and they've been convinced that they're, you know, not the victim that they're the perpetrator and they've, they feel like bad person. So they're like saddled with guilt.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
And so there are all of these different States that people are in that, And if you don't get that to them and maybe even help them recognize them, give them some form of release. But most people aren't really doing anything to care for their nervous system or their emotional state. They're not engaging in prayer or breath work or, you know, a good, you know. self-care routine.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
You know, had it not, and I can't emphasize enough, had it not been for them, you know, my friend wouldn't be here today because he was very septic and they absolutely saved his life. But once he was stabilized and in there, I was just like, wow, this is the ICU for the oncology unit at arguably one of the best medical systems in the country, maybe even the world.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
It's astounding to me how many people I talk to about, you know, what's your routine to go to bed? And they're like, I'm just getting bed. I'm like, well, when do you get in bed? Well, whenever I'm done with my day. Right. I mean, so now, so now sleep is getting bullied around in the schedule, like the stepchild. And then I'm like, well, what's your morning routine? You know, how do you wake up?
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
I mean, sometimes I brush my teeth. Sometimes I don't depend on if I'm in a hurry or not. I just get dressed and grab coffee, run out the door. So, I mean, that's just wake fight or flight out of the gate.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
I think 82% of all autoimmune diseases in women, I think it's specifically linked to that.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
How do you use the PMF? Do you have them put it in their bed and run it at night when they go to bed? Yes, a lot of times. And then they just fall asleep on it. Okay, great.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
Yeah, because they're always guarded. I've seen that happen to people at our Colorado place. We have Shift Wave. It's a... sort of a combination of frequency and almost like a light massage. And it looks like a lawn chair and you're laying in it.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
Yeah, it vibrates. I know what this is. It has those cylinders kind of behind your calf. I got this thing and unpackaged it and I was like, this is like... I'm not so sure I'm on board for this. And I'm telling you, I had clients get on there and cry when they got off of it. People that had pretty significant anxiety would tell me, wow, this is the first time I actually started to dream.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
I fell asleep and I actually started dreaming. I don't remember the last time I had a dream. I was like a little child.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
Yeah. So there is a shift, you know, state shift, you know, Vemi, these Vemi acoustic beds.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
No, but I will have one here in a day.
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I'm getting ready to move my kids out because I have no more room for stuff.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
And so I didn't mean to interrupt you, but it struck a chord.
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It will be here by Friday. Okay.
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I have a Balancer Pro.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
Really? And so it's rhythmic or it just squeeze and dump, squeeze and dump?
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Wow.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
But you're like the kid from Christmas Story?
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I love that. I love that. Please put that in the show notes. Flo Presso. Flo Presso's just got an order. So I love that because truly this is a really refreshing angle because I think very often we get so bogged down in the science, like what kills it, what eliminates it.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
And even in the functional medicine or lifestyle medicine arena, we forget to take that step back and really look at the person. And, you know, there's the analogy of when fish get sick, you clean the tank, you don't treat the fish. And yet we have the sort of opposite approach in medicine where we have a fish swimming around in toxic soup and we're trying to treat the fish.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
I love that you said that. The tank's dirty and the environment's dirty. And that environment represents their relationships, their diet, their lifestyle, their spiritual well-being, their habits. People, I think, are beginning to realize that life's not this collection of goals and priorities. It's a collection of habits. When I see somebody that's really in good condition...
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I think they'd be ashamed if they knew.
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The minimum I know about them is they have certain habits. And they have some level of discipline. But people have the goal to lose weight, but they don't develop the habits of somebody who needs to lose weight. I mean, they have the goal of being really healthy, but they don't have the habits of a healthy person.
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Visit drinkh2tab.com. That's drinkh2tab.com and upgrade your hydration today. Now let's get back to the Ultimate Human Podcast. So I love that you're treating these. And so you're getting them into a parasympathetic state. So you've done the testing, you found the invader, you got them out of the environment or cleaned the environment up.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
You put them on a basic supplement protocol to just get them functioning as optimal as possible first.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
It's interesting. I saw an interview with Elon Musk one time, and he said that most entrepreneurs think that businesses are about addition, but business is really about subtraction. He has this philosophy that every time He gets in these board meetings and they're trying to solve a problem. The first thing that they have to do is say, what are they going to take away?
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
What are you removing from your department? What is unnecessary? And if you're not coming to these meetings telling them what you're going to delete and you're only coming to add, then he fires you. And here's a guy that's running what?
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six companies all are worth over a hundred billion dollars a piece and sometimes widely different industries, all successful, but it's, and whether you like them or not, it's, it's this philosophical approach to, you know, the same thing with the human body.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
It's like, you can't, you can't take somebody who's in toxic environment and then just overload them with every supplement and vitamin and mineral and amino acid. And, you know, cause now you're just overloading a body that doesn't process it anyway. Yeah.
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Very true.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
People say, I'm really sensitive. No, you're really toxic.
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Thank you.
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What? Cell danger?
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I got to take notes. I never take notes during podcasts.
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I might even watch this one again.
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Right.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
So when you say that you... So you're actually having them do things like grounding, breath work, maybe morning sunlight.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
Huge on that. I actually just had a client who was trapped in fight or flight. Very well-known DJ. And was actually having suicidal ideations because of the severe tinnitus. And it wasn't actually tinnitus from damage. It was tinnitus from... frying his immune system.
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Circadian rhythm, always off, constantly, never waking up or going to bed at the same time, four or five shows in a week, always on a plane, multiple time zones, multiple... Different hotel rooms.
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Well, you know, the first thing I did when he, I actually had him stay with me for a couple of weeks and I would walk into the bedroom and I insisted that he go to bed at the same time every night. Even if he didn't go to sleep, I was like, get in the bed. And literally like a dad and he's a grown ass man. And then I would, you know, I'm up for my morning light.
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I would go in and knock on the door and I would wake him up even if he was sleeping and we would go out every morning We would get sunlight and then his girlfriend would take him down and they would do walks in the park, touch the ground. I'm like, you have to give your body some normalcy.
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Like it just doesn't know when it's awake, when it's supposed to sleep, when it's supposed to be on, when it's supposed to be off. Sometimes you're drinking at one in the afternoon, sometimes 1 a.m., sometimes not at all. Then sometimes benching it like your body has no circadian cycle. And it was astounding what happened afterwards.
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after just about a week of doing this solidly, one night he was like, oh my God, I slept eight hours. And the ringing went from like a 10 to a two. Then we brought in hyperbarics and red light therapy and other things like micellar tumor and curcumin things to just try to reduce inflammation. And now he's back on the road and he did a beautiful post about it.
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But I think, too, a lot of people are not caring for the nervous system. And, you know, I mean, how many times have you been in your physician? They ask you what your diet is or if you exercise or what the stresses are in your life. What do you do for a living? They're just looking straight at the symptom.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
So as you get them into this detox profile, because, gosh, there's so many people that have mold and don't know it. and you're working on the nervous system, what kind of things are they doing at home besides breath work? What kinds of other things you have them do?
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That's what I say too.
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Such photovoltaic beings. We are really photovoltaic and people don't believe that. We've been taught to fear the sun.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
We were talking about this before the podcast. Nothing makes me feel better. I have a busted log cabin, a little one-bedroom log cabin, built a nicer one, but I have a one-bedroom log cabin that Sage and I have on 50 acres in the middle of nowhere, Colorado. And it has solar-fed electricity, glacier-fed spring water, well and septic, propane stove.
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It is the polar opposite of what you see outside the studio. And it's my favorite place on earth. And we'll go, we go out there and spend the whole summer out there with 10,500 feet. And I get up in the morning and I just put this old school, like rucksack on and grab a sidearm. And I go for this little four mile walk in the woods.
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And when I get back, I'm telling you, I feel like I took a limitless pill, you know, and I got all the gadgets in the world in here and they kind of get me the same place, but nothing feels better than that.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
When you do pre-imposed sauna binders? I do. Okay. I do. Do you like activated charcoal, zeolite?
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
So fulvic and humic acids, like, okay. So like, Shilajit is a fulvic mineral. Yes. But you're not talking about Shilajit.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
So you put fulvic acid instead of like methylfolate or-
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Oh, folinic acid I love too.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
I believe in that too. So let's move on to another big invader. I mean, guys, there's so many things we could talk about, like breast implants. I mean, there's just so many things. But I want to talk about Lyme and viral pathogens too, because I've had some experience with these. And I think this is another one that very often hides and doesn't manifest itself.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
And it's terrible for the people that have it. I think the lucky ones are the ones that get the symptoms that are so severe that they actually can't do anything but figure it out. And then they find it. It's the people that actually have, because it hides in the dorsal ganglion, right? Yeah.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
Yeah. And then it has these periods of being dormant or latent and then periods where it surges. And what's incredible is you can do a test and you're, remissive or you only have an IgG response. And then a few weeks later, you're IgM positive. You didn't like re-catch Lyme. It just, like Epstein-Barr, it's not really something you caught. You've always had it, right? It can flare back up.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
And so it flares and then they have all of these symptoms. And usually they seem related to completely different systems. They're joint pain. inflammation, intermittent tinnitus, neuropathic symptoms, tingling, numbness, all of these different symptoms. And we always go to the system that links to the symptom. And by that, I mean, you got these paresthesias, we're after the nervous system.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
You have crushing fatigue, and we're looking at the blood. And then you have a brain fog, and now we're looking at a mental issue. And the truth is, it's like, I say this a lot, it's usually one thing that causes everything. It's the one thing. thing that's at the hub of the wheel and it's causing all of these symptoms.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
So when you test and find somebody who's got a Lyme infection, what's the approach there?
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21-day. Yes. That's the typical, yeah.
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Wow. Almost always with rheumatoid arthritis. What is fascinating is our clinical team found three clients, I call them clients, they're patients of theirs, that have been diagnosed with Parkinson's that actually had chronic West Nile infections.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
And when you actually look at the... literature and you look at the symptomology, they're like pill rolling tremors, dysdiaticokinesia, flexor dystonia, mood collapse. And you run that symptom down to the wrong qualified neurologist and they're like, you have Parkinson's. And then there's usually nothing that's definitively diagnostic. It's not like a brain scan. There it is, right?
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Wow.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
So when you say I got trained in functional medicine, what do you mean? I think people are familiar with allopathic medicine, right? Most MDs are allopathic MDs and they have a specialty and they do plenty of schooling and they're very skilled and they have a high area of expertise in that core competency. What's also kind of astounding to me is the way that we just bifurcate the human body.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
You don't see the amyloids or something. So, you know, it sort of evades capture. And like you say, it masquerades as something else. And now the sad thing is you're on this pathway to being treated for a chronic disease that you do not have. And the invader's still, you know, in the house. It's like the enemy's put on your uniform.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
You're not saying there's corruption in the governmental regulatory bodies, are you? Not at all, Mary. Okay, good.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
So I'm going to make sure that I link those tests in the show notes because, you know, discovering is the first stop, right? Yes. So now once you find it, there's got to be a lot of similarities to mold, mycotoxin, detox, and Lyme detox, right? A thousand percent. I mean, I think that your best—I always believe that your best choice is to empower the immune system to do what it does best.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
Even though Lyme's a formidable adversary, you need to help it out. So what are the ways that you provoke it and then kill it? Yeah.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
Right. I do the same thing with metals, right? I mean, I've actually done, I got this water machine from this doctor that I trusted. He told me it was restructuring my water. It wasn't. It was a Chinese welder. and this Chinese welder that I was running my water through, which I never, ever, ever do.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
I'm such a psycho about testing, but I didn't test this machine because the doctors were so qualified. So I just said, yes, send me one. I started drinking this water, two to four liters a day. And I started having symptoms of metal toxicity. And lo and behold, I had heavy metal toxicity. And the same metals that were in this machine were in my blood. But in my urine.
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But one of the ways that we found it, you know, some of the testing that I did showed very scant levels. And then I did a chelation provocation. Yes. And boom. What did you use? DMSO or DMPS? DMPS, DMSO, EDTA? Yeah, EDTA. EDTA. Yes. And so we provoked it. You know, with a chelation. And then I did an eight hour urine afterwards and it was off the charts.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
It reminds me of like the hub of a wheel and then all of these spokes. And the patient's kind of in the middle of And we're trying to determine, should you see gastroenterology? Should you see neurology? Should you see the OBGYN? Should you see the internist? Should you see the psychiatrist? Because you have a psychiatric issue. You have a gut issue. You have an autoimmune disease.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
And so I think these provocations sometimes are really good ways to say, because remember, not everything is just like floating around the blood waiting to be discovered. Right. I mean, it leaves and enters the tissues. You know, it hides. It goes into dorsal ganglions. It goes into fascia.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
Some of the metal tests now are lights through the palm of the hand, I forget what it's called, but it's looking for the metals in the tissues, not in the blood. And I think this is another way that these things evade capture, at least evade detection.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
Everybody thinks Lyme's permanent, but it's definitely not.
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A lot of people listening to this are in that place where something's going on. They can't put a finger on it. They've been told by everybody that they're fine. And the end road for them is they get referred to psychiatry.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
Okay, because I have often thought there's not just a tick-borne illness. That's right. No doubt.
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Oh, take the fenbendazole or the ivermectin, allow it to work its way through the gut, and then put the binder around it. I got you. Exactly.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
And so like the ivermectin and the fenbendazole, those are going to irritate it or, you know.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
So if you're doing the nervous system regulation, you're doing the detoxification, you're doing some of the binders, giving them support supplement-wise, what are some of the external modalities that you're a big fan of? I know you're a big fan of ozone. Yes. But what mechanism for ozone? Like OCAT?
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
You have a personality disorder. And so what ends up happening is we slot people into these categories. You know, human beings exist in communities. Cells exist in communities. The biome of the human body is a giant community.
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Okay. I love that. I love it. I have one.
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Oxygen, ozone, oxygen. I call it EB02.
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Right. No, so good.
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That makes me feel good. I mean, I've done EBO too. I did three sessions when I found out about the metals. What was really interesting is, you know, the collection container, I was talking to the clinic and I was like, can you send that to the lab? I want to see what's in it because ideally I'd love to see that full of
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
toxins and mold and metals and everything else and they said well it's you know thousands of dollars to get it tested and i was like just send it to the lab as urine you know just so of course we sent it as urine then it comes back to them and kidney failure because my you know blood you read like yeah but so i ignored that part but um but what was in there i should actually i don't mind sharing my test um you should what came out um
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
glyphosates, bisphenols, aflatoxin A, aflatoxin B, microplastics. I mean, everything that that filter works because it was able to filter those things out, put them in the collection container. And then it does lower dose ozone, but it's circular. I think it's only four gamma or something, four or five gamma. Yeah.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
Whereas an ozone IV will do 65 gamma, but it's low gamma and then it runs into the light filter. I felt amazing by my third one. Yeah, I just think you have to watch the sugars, you know, because ozone has a mechanism. I'm not sure what it is, but it really pulls the glucose out of the blood and dumps it into the cell. Yeah. And so your blood sugar lowers. I went from like 130 to in the high 70s.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, that's why I run those super slow.
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It's an ecosystem. And it fascinates me that psychiatric medicine, for example, will treat this. neck up and then there's neck down, right? And like these are somehow not connected. This is just observational, but we've had hundreds of thousands of people through our clinic system.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
Is that total plasma exchange? Yes. Oh, okay. Yeah, I've done TB.
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Yeah, there's a clinic here called Next Health.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
There's a clinic in Sarasota getting it. Is there? Okay. Yeah, this is, you know, they took two liters of plasma out and then replaced it with sterile albumin. So they exchanged the plasma for albumin. And I did it in L.A., and then I had like a 16-hour flight to Dubai, thankfully, because I was very tired. But then the next day, boom.
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I mean, like I was so, I got off that plane and I was wide awake. I was ready to like solve global peace.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
Yeah, yeah. The total plasma exchange.
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Yeah. I mean, look, the jury's in on sauna. I mean, there's no question. I mean, as a standalone modality, I don't know that there's anything that has as much data behind it as dry sauna for all-cause mortality, for reducing toxic load. I'm in there every day.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
Yeah. Dr. Petras, I feel like I could just talk to you all day. I am definitely going to have you back on. I would love. This is amazing. So I want to take a few minutes and go into a private room with my VIP community. These are the folks that I'm the most intentional with. I'm really trying to build a community.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
Well, you're about to go in there right now. We're going to go into the VIP community. Yeah. If you're interested in becoming a VIP member, you can just go over to theultimatehuman.com and sign up to be a VIP member. This is the community I'm the most intentional in. We do private podcasts in there. We do a lot of group Q&As. I have a few hours of Q&As with this group.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
I bring experts on, like Dr. Petras. And we pick different topics and we isolate gut health or brain health or mold or mycotoxins or heavy metals or autoimmune. And we pick different topics and we take deep dives. There's lots of resources in there. So go over to TheUltimateHuman.com and just sign up to be a VIP member. You'll see Dr. Jessica Petras in there in a few minutes.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
But I wind down all of my podcasts by asking every guest the same question. So there's no right or wrong answer to this question. And it is, what does it mean to you to be an ultimate human?
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
And I never once saw a client, I don't have patients, I'm not a physician, but our physicians had patients and I never once saw a client for example, that suffer from severe anxiety that didn't also have gut issues.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
That's amazing. I mean, I truly believe God meant for us to thrive, right? He wanted us to thrive. So that's an amazing answer. Dr. Petras, thank you so much. Thank you for coming on to The Ultimate Human. You're super welcome. So we'll head into the VIP group. And until next time, guys, that's just science.
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Not once. I mean, literally not once. As soon as someone said, I have rampant anxiety or, you know, I'm taking medication for anxiety, instantly I would go to the gut and 100% of the cases they have the gut. So there's... And we know gut-brain connection and gut microbiome, and I think most people are relatively familiar with that.
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Wow. Yes. I know Schellenberger. Absolutely. He's trained a lot of my clinicals team.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
Wow, at the Gerson Institute.
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I mean, lucky for you. I don't know if you knew that. I didn't. Like went to the Harvard University right out of the gate. I mean, those are foundational... in functional medicine and what I would call lifestyle medicine. I mean, that's as good as it gets. And Gershon is infamous for their cancer diets and cancer treatment. So you get trained. And then what did you do? Go into private practice?
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Did you open up a – rent a little place in a strip mall and you – Put a shingle on the wall, how'd it go?
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I was going to say, in LA, an hour can be like two miles.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
And you know what's really interesting is part of the Hippocratic Oath is about our intellectual curiosity, right? Always asking why. And I think... one of the greatest things that a physician especially could possess is that intellectual curiosity is to be just fascinated by what you do. Like I'm fascinated by what I wake up every day, like a little kid.
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Yeah.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
And, and I always, I want to know more and I want to know everything and I'll never know all of it. And I, but I want to know all of it. You know, it's, it's, it's really just an amazing journey and, you know, sitting down with amazing people like you. So, you know, as you moved into this functional medicine role, What really caught your attention? What did you gravitate to?
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Because functional medicine is as broad as allopathic medicine, right? And I'd love to hear what fascinated you and piqued your interest and curiosity and what sort of rabbit holes you decided to go down and become a subject matter expert in.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
Hey guys, welcome back to the Ultimate Human Podcast. I'm your host, human biologist, Gary Brekka, where we go down the road of everything anti-aging, biohacking, longevity, and everything in between. And today, you are in for a real treat, especially you females. My audience has been asking for more female guests and I'm so excited to have this next guest on.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
Just get stress out of your life. Okay, so I'll leave my wife. Not talk to my kids and quit my job. Right? Right.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
And Lyme's a tough one.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
COVID had borders, though. There was a time where you could actually walk up to a bar with a mask on and then take your mask off when you went in. Remember that? COVID didn't go by the bouncer.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
And then it would jump on the plane, but then when you got off the plane, it would jump off. It was pretty interesting.
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It only went six feet.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
Exactly. Okay. And, you know, we were using masks that were like 10 microns, and it's .0003 microns. I'm like, you guys are trying to catch water in a cargo net over here.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
But we can go down that road later. Like many of you, the hardest thing for me is to shut off my mind at night when I want to sleep. And it's funny because sometimes I'll wake up tired already thinking of when I'll get back to bed again. But exactly the moment that I lay my head on the pillow, it feels like the machine of crazy what if thoughts is turned back on. Does this happen to you?
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We're gonna go down the road of environmental toxins, breast implants, mold, mycotoxins, viral pathogens, parasites, all kinds of pathways that I've been talking about expressly in the media for the last few months and especially on my VIP channel. These are the things that just go undiagnosed and even unchecked for sometimes for decades.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
Now let's get back to the Ultimate Human Podcast. So you have this Lyme patient, and I think a lot of physicians' careers are shaped by an interaction with the patient because nothing's worse than not knowing, than having a patient sit across from you, and you're looking at the labs, and you're like, there's nothing in these labs.
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And you can see, and they're describing the symptoms and you just don't have any rationale for it. And your training tells you, well, there's nothing wrong with this patient because the conventional labs don't show it.
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Yeah, CBCs, CNPs.
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131. Russell Brand: EXPOSING the Profit System & Why We're All Getting Sicker
I don't really share the story publicly, but I was actually saved almost 25, 30 years ago. It was 1994, I think, whatever that makes that. My lawyer at the time hoodwinked me into going to a rally called Promise Keepers. And it was like a Christian men's rally. And he never told me that it was a Christian men's rally or I probably wouldn't have gone. And
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131. Russell Brand: EXPOSING the Profit System & Why We're All Getting Sicker
It was in Soldier Field, 70,000 Christian men in Soldier Field, and everybody joined hands and began to recite the Lord's Prayer. Oh, yeah. And I was raised Roman Catholic but got very far away from the church, and I hope that I don't politicize this or, you know, offend my audience because this is just my own personal journey. Um, but my, you know, my parents were very religious.
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He is an incredible comedian, actor, and a wellness inspirational person. individual that's just been on a tremendous journey of his own. So welcome to the podcast, Russell Brand.
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131. Russell Brand: EXPOSING the Profit System & Why We're All Getting Sicker
My dad was Navy captain. My mom, mother worked for the airlines growing up and we had a little, um, church in our town in Lothian, but half the church was in Latin. And, you know, if you know anything about Roman Catholics, like they're very, very traditional, very ritualistic, stand up, sit down, stand up, sit down, kneel, peace be with you, ring the bell, incense, go get communion, sit back down.
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I had no identity. I didn't feel like I identified with the church. And so when I got into college, I got pretty much as far away from the church as I could. But this Christian men's rally, this brought me back into a religious perspective. I actually accepted Jesus that day. I went down to the stage. Why? You know, to this day, I don't know.
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131. Russell Brand: EXPOSING the Profit System & Why We're All Getting Sicker
I was holding hands with all of these men in Soldier Field, and everybody started to recite the Lord's Prayer, and I started bawling. I just started crying, and I didn't know why I was crying. And I looked around, and there were all these other men crying. And in my mind, I said to myself, 70,000 men cannot be wrong. There's 70,000 people in this stadium, and they have no agenda.
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131. Russell Brand: EXPOSING the Profit System & Why We're All Getting Sicker
And the pastor was calling people down to the stage, and I just felt so compelled to I didn't know why I was doing it. I went down there and gave my life to Christ. And I think that very often—and I don't push that on people. I don't judge people for having a different religious motif, and I didn't intend for this podcast to become about religion.
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131. Russell Brand: EXPOSING the Profit System & Why We're All Getting Sicker
But I think so often I had looked at religion as being very confining. And all of the parameters that would be put on you once you became a quote-unquote religious person or you became a Christian or you chose whatever religious past you have, it's actually very liberating. Yeah. For me, Christianity especially, because you just lay your problems at the foot of the cross.
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131. Russell Brand: EXPOSING the Profit System & Why We're All Getting Sicker
You can have a direct relationship with Jesus. You don't need an institutional framework in which I think a lot of people go, look at me. I go to church every Sunday and I've given in the offering or whatever. You know, I've donated to this philanthropy, and I don't believe that you need that to have a godly relationship, you know, with Christ. And that's been very fulfilling for me.
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131. Russell Brand: EXPOSING the Profit System & Why We're All Getting Sicker
And I'm a very imperfect person. I mean, I've been divorced. I've been bankrupt. I've been in litigation, I'm an imperfect person, but I think that what Christianity has allowed me to do is be that imperfect person, recognize it, ask for forgiveness, ask God to keep me on His path. Yes, Gary. I find it as an enormous sense of strength, and I think people that...
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131. Russell Brand: EXPOSING the Profit System & Why We're All Getting Sicker
do not have faith or religion which is fine for them look at people that are religious and think that they are condemning them or they're constantly judging them and it's it's actually the polar opposite right i don't think less of you because you don't have the same religious path that i do um but if you have something that's missing in your life very often it's a it's a spiritual relationship
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131. Russell Brand: EXPOSING the Profit System & Why We're All Getting Sicker
We are spiritual beings. Frequency matters in the human body. Faith is all about delayed gratification. We know that we're headed to a better place. And when you don't even fear dying, you don't fear much else.
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131. Russell Brand: EXPOSING the Profit System & Why We're All Getting Sicker
He is wearing a weighted vest.
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131. Russell Brand: EXPOSING the Profit System & Why We're All Getting Sicker
It's got your name on it. So he walks into my house. I've known him for three, four minutes. He goes, what are you wearing? I said, it's a weighted vest. I take it off, he puts it on, and I don't think you've taken it off since. I'm very happy in that. I took it off in the bath, of course. You did take it off in the bath. So he took a bath with his son and one of his friends.
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131. Russell Brand: EXPOSING the Profit System & Why We're All Getting Sicker
You know, and we talked about not how do we turn the world into Christians, but how do we actually fundamentally make a change? Because I think no matter what side of the aisle people are on or where their beliefs fall, I think everybody would agree that we're a lot more polarized than we need to be. And I don't think anybody can pinpoint exactly what it is.
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131. Russell Brand: EXPOSING the Profit System & Why We're All Getting Sicker
And I think, secondly, you know, we're a lot more sick and diseased and pathological than we really deserve to be. And we have— pandemic of chronic disease and we have a pandemic of mental illness. We have a pandemic of childhood obesity, of childhood cancer, of childhood sickness.
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131. Russell Brand: EXPOSING the Profit System & Why We're All Getting Sicker
And when you see that there's an industry that is there profiting from disease and pathology and sickness and chronic illness so that people suffer over a prolonged period of time, they don't die early, they suffer over a prolonged period of time. There seems to be a way that we can bring society together under the common theme that nobody wants more sick children.
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131. Russell Brand: EXPOSING the Profit System & Why We're All Getting Sicker
Nobody wants a poor quality food supply. Nobody wants an increased amount of highly processed and engineered foods that are not even foods in our diet. But we've developed a society where the wealthiest and most powerful and most influential institutions, now control that segment of the population. Like I worry about our soil health and I worry about the quality of our water.
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131. Russell Brand: EXPOSING the Profit System & Why We're All Getting Sicker
And I worry about the fact that the majority of Americans don't even eat whole foods. 65, 70% of their diets is highly processed foods, engineered foods that are... And people refer to it as fear mongering, but I'm not trying to fear monger. I'm actually trying to help you get around the system so you can get back to just... you know, basic nutritional foods.
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131. Russell Brand: EXPOSING the Profit System & Why We're All Getting Sicker
We've had a whole day of biohacking. He's staying right across the street. So this is how we survived the hurricane. Turns out we see eye to eye on so many things. And we've had some really inspirational discussions. But a lot of my podcast guests, I think, are very analogous to you and your journey in that they had a problem in their life. And they solved this problem.
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131. Russell Brand: EXPOSING the Profit System & Why We're All Getting Sicker
Like, you know, when we were eating here, you know, all day, we've had raw dairy and grass-fed meats. And by the way, he's eating meat now, thanks to Paul Saladino. Shout out to Paul Saladino. And Bear Grylls. And Bear Grylls. So Bear Grylls, you deserve a shout out, too. So, you know, one of the things we talked about is how do we shift back to make popular the, you know, the...
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131. Russell Brand: EXPOSING the Profit System & Why We're All Getting Sicker
the most powerful and most influential institutions now control that segment of the population. We're a lot more sick and diseased and pathological than we really deserve to be.
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131. Russell Brand: EXPOSING the Profit System & Why We're All Getting Sicker
whole food diets and exercise and prayer to whatever God you pray to or mindfulness and awareness and breath work. How do we make that kind of shift to society, especially in the masses?
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131. Russell Brand: EXPOSING the Profit System & Why We're All Getting Sicker
That's a win.
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131. Russell Brand: EXPOSING the Profit System & Why We're All Getting Sicker
When you say military industrial complex companies, I don't think most people understand what you mean. I think most people's interpretation of, and certainly my myopic view, because I don't profess to know much about how spending goes in foreign wars, is that we're sending this money to a foreign country to fight terrorism.
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131. Russell Brand: EXPOSING the Profit System & Why We're All Getting Sicker
their own battle, but you're saying that we're actually sending this back to ourselves to fund our model. Hey, guys, let's talk about meat for a minute. Did you know that 96% of the beef sold in stores is not grass fed? That's right. Most beef comes from cows fed a grain based diet in feedlots, which isn't even healthy for you or the cow.
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131. Russell Brand: EXPOSING the Profit System & Why We're All Getting Sicker
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131. Russell Brand: EXPOSING the Profit System & Why We're All Getting Sicker
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131. Russell Brand: EXPOSING the Profit System & Why We're All Getting Sicker
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131. Russell Brand: EXPOSING the Profit System & Why We're All Getting Sicker
And through the solution to that problem, they've become these massively impactful figures. And I know you've been very open about your history with addiction and how you solved that path. And it turned into... Christianity. It turned into a massive voice for mindfulness, for meditation, for spirituality.
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131. Russell Brand: EXPOSING the Profit System & Why We're All Getting Sicker
It's your expertise. I have eaten your face today. I definitely have.
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131. Russell Brand: EXPOSING the Profit System & Why We're All Getting Sicker
I wonder for my guests that maybe only know you as an actor, comedian in your, I'll say, former life. It's still your current life. How has that journey transformed you, and how has it put you on this path to be such an advocate for mindfulness and spirituality? You've almost even become this anti-corruption advocate. you know, purveyor of the truth.
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131. Russell Brand: EXPOSING the Profit System & Why We're All Getting Sicker
Yeah. And it's not that I'm trying to oppose anything. My message, hopefully, is one of hope, you know, that people don't need to be dogmatic about dieting. They need to be eating whole foods. People don't need to have fancy equipment in gyms. They need to just be moving their bodies more. They need to actually take...
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131. Russell Brand: EXPOSING the Profit System & Why We're All Getting Sicker
their health and wellness into their own hands, start filtering their water, start actually reading labels, start trying to circumvent the system themselves.
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131. Russell Brand: EXPOSING the Profit System & Why We're All Getting Sicker
Because I think if not telling people particularly how to vote or how to think, but if we actually give them the skills so that they can enter an average supermarket, the average family doesn't even know how to spin a box of crackers around and tell whether or not it's nutritious or not. And
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131. Russell Brand: EXPOSING the Profit System & Why We're All Getting Sicker
And mothers and fathers are doing the right thing in their mind by feeding their children ultra-processed foods because the truth is there's a lot of research that is imparted by our public policy institutions that would say that there's no harm for –
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131. Russell Brand: EXPOSING the Profit System & Why We're All Getting Sicker
These foods, things that are fortified, things that are rich, things that are colored, things that are artificially sweetened, artificially flavored. There are these big announcements. I see them in mainstream periodicals that there's really no evidence to say that highly processed foods have a negative impact on health. So we're still investigating it.
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131. Russell Brand: EXPOSING the Profit System & Why We're All Getting Sicker
But right now, Lucky Charms is more nutritious than grass-fed steak. And I just think that it's such nonsense. You know, the real research that I see in the longevity, the anti-aging, the biohacking space that I think is really profound for humanity is getting us back to the basics.
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131. Russell Brand: EXPOSING the Profit System & Why We're All Getting Sicker
And I'm very attracted to people like that because you are so purpose and mission driven. And the media hasn't been particularly kind to you. Sometimes they're not kind to me. And so talk a little bit about this journey from actor, comedian, and addict into the impactful journey that you're on now.
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131. Russell Brand: EXPOSING the Profit System & Why We're All Getting Sicker
It's like sunlight, breathwork, grounding, cold showers, exercise, mobility, sense of community, sense of purpose, whole foods. You know, and people think that when you're trying to back them up to how we did things 50, 60, 80 years ago, that you're also trying to back up how we thought during that time. We're like, well, you know, that was a time where society was a lot more divided.
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131. Russell Brand: EXPOSING the Profit System & Why We're All Getting Sicker
So we don't want to go back to that time. But you actually do want to go back to how our ancestors ate and how they exposed themselves to the sun and how in touch with nature they were. and how they had actually deep, meaningful relationships that weren't like turned over to social media to be, you know, very fake and superficial.
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131. Russell Brand: EXPOSING the Profit System & Why We're All Getting Sicker
And, you know, Bobby Kennedy talks about how when he graduated from high school, and this actually hit me too, because I graduated high school in 1988. So there you go. I've just dated myself. And when I graduated high school, I didn't know a single person that was autistic. I still can't think—I didn't even know somebody who knew somebody that was autistic. Yeah.
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131. Russell Brand: EXPOSING the Profit System & Why We're All Getting Sicker
My 16-year-old stepdaughter, Sage's daughter, knows 10 friends that have autism and knows 15 other families that have autistic children. And so you've seen autism go from 1 in 5,000 to 1 in 32, and that was the last time we had statistics probably— much worse now. And you've got to ask yourself, what is causing this, right?
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131. Russell Brand: EXPOSING the Profit System & Why We're All Getting Sicker
How in the most civilized nation in the world, with the access to health care we have, with $4.5 trillion a year being spent on health care, how are we becoming so sick, so diseased, so pathological, and why are our children having to deal with mental illness at such a young age? And so you bring in a an angle of mindfulness meditation. You know, I hear you talk about this all the time.
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131. Russell Brand: EXPOSING the Profit System & Why We're All Getting Sicker
And what are some of the practices that you engage in on a daily basis that he be grounded and centered, you know, while the media is assailing you? And how do you stay focused on the mission?
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131. Russell Brand: EXPOSING the Profit System & Why We're All Getting Sicker
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131. Russell Brand: EXPOSING the Profit System & Why We're All Getting Sicker
No doubt that we are. I mean, in a teaspoon of soil, there are more organisms than there are people on the surface of the earth. I mean, so what you have is you have these, and I feel like we just switched from you interviewing you to you interviewing me, but I want to answer your question. But you take a teaspoon of soil, you realize how many microorganisms are in that soil.
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131. Russell Brand: EXPOSING the Profit System & Why We're All Getting Sicker
There's an entire ecosystem in that soil. And it's there for a reason. It was designed. It's an unbelievably beautiful design, this ecosystem. And this ecosystem gives rise to soil nutrition, which gives rise to, you know, grasses and plants and plants. In many cases, we eat those plants.
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131. Russell Brand: EXPOSING the Profit System & Why We're All Getting Sicker
In many cases, animals eat those plants, and they eat this diverse ecosystem of bacteria and bugs and fungi and cellulose and all of these different compounds. That gets into their bodies, and then those move up the food chain, and we consume those. And so... This ecosystem from the soil to the human being is a very important lineage.
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131. Russell Brand: EXPOSING the Profit System & Why We're All Getting Sicker
And as you destroy the soil, you essentially destroy the human being. It's like an assembly line, right? You put a part on it at one end and it's getting assembled while it's working its way to the other end. Well, if you destroy it at the beginning of the assembly line, then the part's never fully assembled. So this is the same with the ecosystem of soil and plants and animals.
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131. Russell Brand: EXPOSING the Profit System & Why We're All Getting Sicker
And, you know, there is a way for us to make farming regenerative. There's a way for us to restore the health of our soil. Yes.
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131. Russell Brand: EXPOSING the Profit System & Why We're All Getting Sicker
And so I guess the point that I'm trying to make is that in an industrialized society where the idea is volume and profit and not nutrition, what we've done is we've either intentionally or not intentionally ended up poisoning the masses and creating a pandemic of chronic disease that is now so catastrophic that it could actually collapse the most economically powerful nation in the world.
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131. Russell Brand: EXPOSING the Profit System & Why We're All Getting Sicker
So we're becoming victims of our own, you know, you reap what you sow. And, you know, I think that, you know, when I get back in touch with nature personally, and I post about this all the time, I throw my own self under the bus all the time. Like, geez, guys, I put on a 20-pound ruck vest and went for a four-mile walk in the woods.
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131. Russell Brand: EXPOSING the Profit System & Why We're All Getting Sicker
I feel better than I do getting out of a hydrogen bath, out of a $120,000 red light bed, or using my fancy PMF mat or sleeping in my EMF tent. I feel amazing. just that connection to nature. And if you go back and look at physiologically what we get from nature, we get magnetism from the earth, we get oxygen from the air, we get light from the sun.
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131. Russell Brand: EXPOSING the Profit System & Why We're All Getting Sicker
The further that we get from those basics, magnetism, oxygen, and light, the sicker we become. And I feel like aging is the aggressive pursuit of comfort. You know, people are pursuing comfort so aggressively Now, that we actually accelerate our aging, right? Most people don't like to lift heavy weight. Most people don't like to expose themselves to cold water.
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131. Russell Brand: EXPOSING the Profit System & Why We're All Getting Sicker
Most people don't go outside because it's too hot. They don't go outside because it's too cold. They eat at the first pang of hunger. They want everything to be immediately, instantly satisfied. We control our lighting. We control our temperature. And we're just not exposing ourselves to the hormetic stresses that strengthen us.
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131. Russell Brand: EXPOSING the Profit System & Why We're All Getting Sicker
We can hurry this up.
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131. Russell Brand: EXPOSING the Profit System & Why We're All Getting Sicker
I can feel it.
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131. Russell Brand: EXPOSING the Profit System & Why We're All Getting Sicker
Well, Russell, I know you got to go and get with your kids. So, you know, I end every podcast by asking all my guests the same question. And that is, what does it mean to you to be an ultimate human?
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131. Russell Brand: EXPOSING the Profit System & Why We're All Getting Sicker
That was a good one. So, Russell, I hope that we can have you back again. Come back in the morning. You're only 150 yards away.
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131. Russell Brand: EXPOSING the Profit System & Why We're All Getting Sicker
He was literally shouting from downstairs, screaming up to my balcony, Gary!
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131. Russell Brand: EXPOSING the Profit System & Why We're All Getting Sicker
that wallpaper it'll advance your consciousness by five percent drink this water it's got special magic bubbles in it never been anywhere like this it's a hydrogen water and today i was installing uv filtration and when he got here i had the guys here you know ripping all my ac units out but um but this has been amazing i want to i want to um ask you a couple of questions offline for my uh for my rule bracket vips because they submitted five questions i want to get to and then i want to let you
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131. Russell Brand: EXPOSING the Profit System & Why We're All Getting Sicker
get back to your family but thank you for taking the time today i love it i appreciate you being so raw and so visceral i know that people are going to be some people are going to get the message some people are going to be polarized by this um but feel free to leave your comments guys i want to hear from all of you if you think it was a terrible idea if it was a great idea i'll welcome all of those um the idea is to get the message out and as always that's just science
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131. Russell Brand: EXPOSING the Profit System & Why We're All Getting Sicker
I know you've been very open about your history with addiction, how you solved that path. How has that journey transformed you?
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131. Russell Brand: EXPOSING the Profit System & Why We're All Getting Sicker
We should show the videos that we exchanged because they were absolutely hilarious.
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131. Russell Brand: EXPOSING the Profit System & Why We're All Getting Sicker
Bring the kids, bring the family.
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131. Russell Brand: EXPOSING the Profit System & Why We're All Getting Sicker
Amen.
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131. Russell Brand: EXPOSING the Profit System & Why We're All Getting Sicker
If Russell Brand were to look back on his life, humanity, public policy, what does that look like?
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131. Russell Brand: EXPOSING the Profit System & Why We're All Getting Sicker
You can only have one at a time. This is true. It's like a pub.
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131. Russell Brand: EXPOSING the Profit System & Why We're All Getting Sicker
So true.
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131. Russell Brand: EXPOSING the Profit System & Why We're All Getting Sicker
But, you know, we talked about messaging to the masses and we talked about, you know, sort of just the state of the world and society and how we got here and got so divided and how we got so upside down with, you know, the corruption in our political systems and our food systems and our industry of pharmaceuticals and disease.
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131. Russell Brand: EXPOSING the Profit System & Why We're All Getting Sicker
But turning this somehow into a message of hope is, I think, the greatest gift. And we talked about that a lot today in the eight hours that we spent together, and you had really some incredible kernels of wisdom. And I wonder if you might talk about what your message is to the masses now. I mean, you do talk a lot about mindfulness, a lot about spirituality.
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131. Russell Brand: EXPOSING the Profit System & Why We're All Getting Sicker
You talk about the impact that Christianity's had on you. You found Jesus, or he found you. And you now subscribe to that lifestyle. And so how has that changed your message? And what is your message to humanity now? I mean, if Russell Brand were to look back on his life 25, 30, 40 years from today and say, I accomplished this. my mission.
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131. Russell Brand: EXPOSING the Profit System & Why We're All Getting Sicker
I have this vision in my mind of where I would like to see humanity, public policy, you know, and what does that look like? What does your utopian world look like?
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131. Russell Brand: EXPOSING the Profit System & Why We're All Getting Sicker
Hey guys, welcome back to the Ultimate Human Podcast. I'm your host, Gary Brekka, human biologist, where we go down the road of everything anti-aging, longevity, biohacking, and everything in between. And today's guest is a sure treat. We've had an amazing morning here at the house with his kids and his wife and his family. We see eye to eye on so many things.
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Great ways to add snacks to your daily routines. And you know I have an episode called What's in Gary's Kitchen, and I do lateral shifts where we take all kinds of different foods that you love to eat and swap them for things that are more nutrient-dense that feed your cellular biology. And so if you're into that, today's podcast is going to be a must-watch.
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And that's another thing, you know, we talk about the toxic burden in a lot of these snacks. It's not just the seed oils. I mean, what originally drew me to ancient grain, you know, a friend of mine told me about you named Ben Greenfield and who I'm a huge, huge fan of. And, um,
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he brought my attention to you guys and I started looking at your ingredients, you know, non-GMO corn, organic grass-fed beef tallow, sea salt, you know, spices I could recognize. I think in your traditional ones, that's all you got in there is the grass-fed beef tallow and sea salt. Grass-fed tallow, organic corn, and then the salt or organic or better spices.
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And that's the organic and the non-GMOs is another one because that industry as a whole, in my opinion, is one of the most toxic industries food sources, you know, sources that supplies our food system. And what happens is as a base ingredient, it makes its way everywhere.
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It's like, you know, seed oils are kind of like the root and they go into this trunk and they just branch out into all these different, you know, if you pick up a salad dressing on the...
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Yeah, it's literally everywhere. So, you know, it sounds like just a really interesting journey. And so you get your family to love these chips and- You realize, you know, the light bulb goes off in your head, ding, you know, I'm onto something. And how did this transition into an actual operating business?
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Because I'm always fascinated by people that, and I'm making an assumption about you, so tell me if I'm wrong, but who don't have any specific expertise in a certain market. I assume you didn't have any.
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So welcome to the podcast, Stephen Raffrano. Thank you. Great to be here. So what's your role with Masa? And then I want to take a step back, and I really want my audience to kind of get to know you and know a little bit about your story and what actually brought you here.
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professional experience in food or right anything and and um you know but i also find and i say this all the time on my podcast you know some of the most passionate driven purposeful entrepreneurs i've ever had on this podcast including yourself um they solve some kind of problem in their life and and they're actually solving a big problem for other people i mean you're solving a massive problem and that is is there an antidote to you know our current incredibly unhealthy
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snacking habits without just killing your snacking habit, but replacing it. You know, I call this lateral shift. And the answer is clearly yes. I mean, so it's a massive problem. And so talk a little bit about this transition from backyard turkey fryer to when it became a real thing.
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I found fascinating that I heard you on another podcast talking about this. And one of the things you said, it was just a podcast. It wasn't video. Yeah. One of the things you were talking about is how the manufacturer actually manufactures possibly for multiple brands, maybe 10, maybe dozens of brands.
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And so you're essentially getting the same source, different labels, but you're essentially getting the same ingredient.
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Different packaging around it.
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Maybe the EWG public, not published, but broadcast this.
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I assume you weren't just independently wealthy on your own.
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Okay.
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Such is the life of an entrepreneur, brother. Yes.
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30?
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So are the Vandy chips, by the way. Oh, yeah. Like, you really can't overeat them, which, you know, one of the things I talk about a lot on the podcast is nutrient density. And, you know, I mean- Chips and snacks really shouldn't be the main source of our meal.
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It's an accessory. Yeah, it's an accessory. And nutrient density is what our GLP-1 responds to. Now we have all of these ozempic, guacove, you know, Manjaro, essentially trying to mimic what we already make in our gut. And we make more GLP-1 in response to nutrient density.
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If you actually look at side-by-side trials with, and Mark Hyman talks about this all the time, side-by-side trials of highly processed diets versus deeply nutritious or whole food diets that have nutrient-dense foods,
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you'll find that even when they gave the exact same amount of calories, highly processed calories versus nutrient-dense calories, the highly processed group got hungrier more frequently and hungrier faster. And so the important point about that is that when you eat satiating nutrient-dense foods, you have less of a tendency to overeat. It's really hard to overeat ribeye.
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Yes. Yeah. When the news about them. Yeah, when the news about them.
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It's hard to overeat avocados. You're not going to sit down and eat five avocados because they're just too nutrient-dense. I feel the same way about these because they're a lot more nutrient-dense and caloric and fat-dense than their counterparts, so you're not going to sit down and eat bags and bags of these. Right. Hi, guys. Gary here.
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They've been out there for a long time, but like people started exposing the toxicity.
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Is there an antidote to our current incredibly unhealthy snacking habits without just killing your snacking habit, but replacing it?
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Yeah, send it to me.
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Which is worse because he's like, he's already recovering from alcohol and now he's going to back in the seed oil.
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Yeah. You know what? I love that we were starting to talk about it before the podcast. We were eating lunch. And you talked about constantly – pushing the capacity of ancient grain. And I'd love for you to talk about that, how you are eventually looking to get the price point down and dramatically increase production. I think you told me you're having 20 people involved in making 2,000 bags.
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And eventually you'll have eight people involved in making 10,000 bags. Yeah, it's insane. And that will eventually bring the price point down.
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And you're going to transition this to much, much bigger scale. I mean, talk a little bit about how you're going to do that.
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Yeah.
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I mean, I completely agree with you. So how do you avoid using... artificial additives, preservatives, or other compounds. Because when you look at a commercial chip, I'm not going to name any brand names, but everybody knows the brand names. You don't just have the seed oil. You've got the MSG, the monosodium glutamate. You've got the multiple red dyes.
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This is in theory in my mind.
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And other dyes, orange dyes, yellow dyes, just look at the number of dyes. You often have something called carrageen. You have quote unquote natural flavors, which can be fine, but most of the time it's sinister coverup for shouldn't be there. And then you have the food dyes.
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And so when you think about the kind of bomb that you're putting in your body between the seed oils, the iodized table salt, the food dyes, and then the monosodium glutamate, I mean, these things substantially add up. Not setting aside the fact that they're not only not organic, but they are GMO. They're part of that genetically modified.
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Yeah.
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Well, it's like very, it's very labor intensive, right?
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This is a super labor intensive, super labor intensive.
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So you got, so first of all, where'd you just go get beef tallow? You went to Whole Foods and you bought?
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But, you know, like we said, eventually this is working its way down.
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Because you're going to automation.
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When you look at things that are in some of these other ingredients like MSG, um, you know, which is also seasoning, you know, the one that's not even good to me, you know, very often you'll see carrageen or, or other, other kinds of binders like, uh, soy lecithin or something. Even in snack foods that are competing with them in this category.
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Yeah, it's like when we put folic acid in the food supply and we call it fortified or enriched. Ooh, that sounds like a vitamin. Yeah, it's fluorinated water, but it's really fluorosilicic acid water. But if you said fluorosilicic acid, people are like, wow, that sounds sketchy. That sounds sketchy.
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Like, I don't eat it... Not that you should create a good color. See, I think this... I think the disuniformity, you know, brings us back to something that's more in its natural form. Like, you know, avocados are not perfect when you cut them open.
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You know, one of the things I notice about seed oils, for example, in the grocery store, you ever just notice how you go down the aisle and like the Wesson oil or the vegetable oil, they're all exactly the same color.
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And they're exactly the same consistency. They have that beautiful yellow hue to them. They got the heart healthy label on there. And yeah. You know, that's not how things occur in nature. I mean, if you compressed 100 or 1,000 seeds and produced the oils and you put them in all these bottles, there'd be all kinds of different colors.
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Yeah, a lot of people blow themselves up doing that.
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Some would be gray, some would be darker.
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You know what's crazy, not to get off topic, but I actually, I heard that you can't put the turkey into the fryer when it's frozen or it can literally explode. It has to be room temperature. And like every year around Thanksgiving, thousands of people that are actually frying these things for the first time take a bone frozen turkey and drop it in there and the whole thing blows up. Yeah.
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Right. When it comes to snacking, Masa is flipping the script on what real food should look like. Masa chips are crafted with grass-fed beef tallow, one of the healthiest fats on the planet. These chips are packed with essential vitamins like vitamin A, D, E, and vitamin K2, all of which play a role in keeping your skin vibrant, your immune system strong, and your bones solid.
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But here's the real magic about masa. Masa's corn goes through an ancient process called nixtamalization, which makes it way easier to digest and it amps up its nutrient profile. Plus these chips are low in PUFAs, so you won't find any of the inflammatory seed oils that you find in most snacks.
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And instead, masa uses pure Redmond sea salt, giving you a natural hit of minerals that keep your cells hydrated and your energy steady. So don't just snack. Reach for Masa. It's real food, real health without any of the junk. Grab a bag and I promise you'll feel the difference. Now let's get back to the Ultimate Human Podcast. Now, for you, where is this – so Ancient Grain is the parent company.
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Ancient Crunch, sorry, is the parent company. And I almost – and I like that because I identify most with your masa brand. And then when I started eating the candy and feeding those to my kids, to my family, it's actually – Great way to make, I used it this season when I made party platters for the holidays, because people are always like, well, how can you make a healthy platter for the holidays?
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And the interesting thing is you can actually recreate it in a way that is really nutrient dense and healthy and kind of guilt-free.
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And it actually looks really good, too. You know, it's aesthetically pleasing. You can lay it all out on there. I get a lot of these raw cheeses from my local farm here and local Amish farm, which I love, and yours make a nice mix with that. But where is the brand going? I mean, is this an expansive snack category that you actually want, you know, Ancient Crunch to expand into?
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Are you going to get into other –
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Yeah, and talk a little bit about the sourcing of the actual raw ingredient, the corn, because, and what are the detriments of, I've talked about this before, but I'd love your opinion on the detriments of sourcing the genetically modified corns.
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And this area of snack foods, wheat, soy, corn, these are some of the most, not only pesticide-laden and chemical-laden crops, but also the majority, if not all of them, are genetically modified.
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Don't do that. So you're in your parents' backyard and you take flour. Yeah.
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Yeah, I love that. You're going for organic and then eventually regenerative organic. Yeah. And, you know, a lot of what we talked about before the podcast was what you're doing with your factory in Pennsylvania, you know, and the automation, really getting the labor cost down, which is your highest cost of goods sold now.
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And once this happens, do you foresee, you know, price points in your products growing?
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And they're flexible at that point, right?
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High class problem.
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That's great, though. You know, it's amazing to see products and services like this getting back into demand. And, you know, I'm a huge fan. My audience is a huge fan. I love that you're on the seed oil bandwagon and the artificial ingredients bandwagon and the non-GMO bandwagon because you didn't just fix one of the problems, you fixed all the problems.
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But every guest that I bring on to the podcast, I sort of wind things down by asking them the same question. And there's no right or wrong answer to this question. But what does it mean to you to be an ultimate human?
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That's amazing, brother. Steven, I really appreciate you coming on the podcast. I'm excited to see where this journey goes for us. I'm a big fan of what you're doing. My audience is a huge fan.
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I appreciate more and more companies like yourself coming in and being diligent about their ingredients, being diligent about the way that they're sourcing their nutrients and actually making nutrient-dense foods. Because what's really, really ironic about what you're doing is you're just – circumventing the system and just going back to the basics.
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Well, brother, thank you so much for coming on the podcast. Thanks for having me. We're going to have you back again. And until next time, guys, that's just science.
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I kind of envision you out there in your backyard with the fryer and being like, hey, anybody want to invest? This is my startup company.
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Your seed round starting right out there in the backyard with your Uncle Joe.
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Yeah, business plan. No, guys, really, this is going to be a big thing. Who wants to get in now before we launch it?
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I mean, is this... an expansive snack category that you actually want to expand into.
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Right. Yeah, so true. And I mean, you and I see eye to eye on seed oils. In fact, you know, before we got on the podcast, you were talking about how you were watching my Rogan podcast. I was actually a guest on Joe Rogan. And I was talking about seed oils and that was going back a little while.
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And Paul Saladino was really, I think, probably one of the earliest movers in our space that I recall anyway, talking about seed oils because he was actually breaking down the different forms of,
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on these polyunsaturated fatty acids and talking a little bit about the history of it and i remember being suspect of the seed oil history being so sinister i was like there's no way that these machine lubricants and you know here we go with the next conspiracy theory right it's a machine lubricant and uh you know and then after the war we had all this excessive machine lubricant we didn't know what to do with it and so we started actually putting it into
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And knowing what I know now, nothing surprises me. We do it with fluorosilicic acid as fluoride. We use commercial bleach chlorine to, you know, and then we don't filter it back out, which I'm okay to sanitize with chlorine, but then filter the chlorine out.
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But so for the few folks of mine that are listening to this that aren't really sure what a seed oil is, why are they so damaging and maybe why, You know, such a high percentage of our snack foods are deep fried and everything you find in the grocery store is deep fried in seed oils or even not fried in seed oils. They're just a part of the base ingredients, one, because they're dirt cheap.
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But give me your take on seed oils, why they need to be removed from our diet, especially from our kids' diets.
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Hey guys, welcome back to the Ultimate Human Podcast. I'm your host, human biologist, Gary Brekha, where we go down the road of everything, anti-aging, biohacking, longevity, and everything in between. And today's guest made his way into my house through my kitchen. And...
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You know, with one of the best products that I have in my kitchen, one of the best products on the market, and this is never a podcast about products and services, as you guys know, but in this particular case, I wanted to go deep down the rabbit hole of food safety on the backs of the Baja movement and what we can do and add to our kitchen to maybe replace some of the toxic compounds that our families and our kids are eating.
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And by the way, those types of fats should be 2% or less of your total dietary intake, just as a matter of reference. So if it's 10, 11, 12 times that, there's a whole other cascade of issues. And the challenge with a lot of these is that you don't get sick right away.
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You know, if you ate some of these highly processed foods and, you know, it instantly made you nauseous, you know, that would be its own self-correcting error. The problem is that it makes you chronically ill. Right. And chronically ill is just a moderate rate of suffering over a prolonged period of time. Right. It's not extreme suffering because that would drive you to the ER, the urgent care.
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Right. You know, it's just a sort of a low grade.
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The organic and the non-GMOs, that industry is one of the most toxic sources that supplies our food system.
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Yeah, I talk about this all the time, the difference between cumulative dose toxicity and single dose toxicity. Single dose toxicity theorists say, all right, well, the doses determines the poison. Okay, so... But... I always use the analogy, well, nobody got mercury poisoning from a single piece of tuna fish, right?
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But if you had some mercury in tuna fish and you ate it every single night over a long period of time, you could end up with mercury toxicity. It wasn't the single dose, it was the cumulative dosage.
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And I think, you know, the awareness now of the amount of cumulative toxins that are in, you know, the toxic burden, fluoride, chlorine, microplastics, pharmaceuticals, glyphosates, you know, herbicides, sexicides, pesticides, preservatives, that all of these, you know,
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quote unquote, generally regarded as safe, toxins that have safe levels in a single dose accumulate and they, like exhaust, right? They back up and they blow the engine. If you know me, you know I'm a huge believer in the benefits of hydrogen water.
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147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
And my parents were the same way. Yeah. I was almost sort of not allowed in the house during the day. My parents would be like, what are you doing? Yeah. And there wasn't a lot. Get out of here. Yeah. We didn't have screen time then. I think my generation is the last generation that's actually grown up without a cell phone, without connectivity, without iPads. And so we didn't know any different.
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147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
And so the rule of thumb at my house was you had to be home by sundown. Right. And my dad, Captain John Brecka, he had this booming voice and he would go, Gary! Yeah. And I could be three acres away on a different farm. I grew up in a very rural area of America. I would start pedaling my bike home. But as the sun was coming down, that's when I had to come inside.
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147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
She's delivering must-watch conversations that are reshaping the media. Beyond her media success, she's also a passionate advocate for health, wellness, and fitness, particularly when it comes to nutrition and raising active children. She's also well-known as the wife of Eric Trump, son of our 47th president, Donald Trump.
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147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
Now there's like parents that are, you know, Department of Families and Children is investigating them because they'd let them ride their bike, you know, three blocks to the store.
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147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
You know, you read these stories and you're like, man, has society gone this far?
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147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
The biggest hope coming from this message is the impact that it's going to have on generations because it's going to affect our kids.
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147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
My wife's off. Fortnite, that's it. This is like phone a friend over here. No, really. I've got my wife.
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147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
lack of just human bonding and social interaction. And, you know, we talked about Blue Zones earlier where one of the continuity between Blue Zones was the sense of community, sense of purpose. How do you get a sense of community and purpose from a two-dimensional screen, right? I mean, I still remember...
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147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
like the heart palpitations I would get when you, when I would ask a girl back then was called go with me to go with me. And you would, and I would write a note and then I would give it to my friend. And do you remember that? Yes. No, like circle one. Yeah. And then you would pass it to her.
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147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
Do they still do that? No. Oh, that's so sad. You don't even have to ask someone to homecoming anymore. You just send them a text and then if they say no, you go, I didn't send that text. I don't know what you're talking about. How about this one?
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147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
I forgot that one.
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147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
It's so true. My dad was so much that way. Like if my friends wouldn't come over, shake his, he was so big on shaking hands.
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147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
Eye contact and shaking hands. Maybe it was a military thing. So now I'm big on the same thing, too. Of course. Like, he's like, never do business with a man with a weak hand shake. I mean, that's what he's saying.
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147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
Oh, no. I've seen your father-in-law pick people up off the stage. He comes in hard on that. He comes in hard. Yeah. It's almost like that's where the deal-making starts, I think, with him. Gotta do a body shake with him. He's like, yeah, gotcha, you know. Yeah. But he was always so big on just, you know, the basics. And I feel like a lot of that is just lost.
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147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
But today, we're here to dive deeper beyond politics and headlines to talk about the values, habits, and disciplines that shape her life. We are incredibly lucky to have her with us today. Please welcome to the Ultimate Human Podcast, Laura Trump. Hey!
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147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
And, you know, what's really interesting is in this crazy biohacking world that I'm involved in, you know, the anti-aging and longevity research, bio-optimization, whatever you want to call it. It's so fascinating that a lot of the... the biggest impacts on our longevity and our mortality and our bio-optimization are just those basics, right? Like sunlight, grounding.
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147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
Like today, we ate before we came in here and you're like, this food is awesome.
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147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
It was like- Imagine that. Yeah, chicken sausage.
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147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
No, I didn't use- Is that so sad? I knew you were coming.
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147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
Now let's get back to the Ultimate Human Podcast. Another thing that is, I've got a growing female audience and a lot of these young women are starting on their business journey. And very often they're starting their business journey with their spouse.
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147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
and my wife and i sage beautiful wife back there uh you know we started a business together 10 years ago uh and took over basically a bankrupt vitamin shop in a strip mall we started a business in there and i just remember the struggle the pressure on our relationship the inability to separate business from pleasure right people that tell you by the way that you can have a business with your spouse and separate your business from your personal life are flatly lying to you yep
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147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
You have a great day at the office. You have a great day at home. You have a crappy day at office. You have a crappy day at home. But maybe not from a business perspective, but what you and Eric have gone through, I might even say suffered through, as a couple, as parents, as public figures in the media, some of which we actually talked about right before we got on here, much of it unjustly.
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147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
How did you keep that from trickling its way into your marriage? How do you keep the outside world from coming in and getting between your marriage, kids, your parenting, your relationship with your husband? Because you guys speak about each other so fondly. And I know you behind the scenes, not just in front of the camera. And I think you're an amazing family.
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147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
Yeah, we didn't even plan it. We really didn't, but great minds. You know what they say. She goes, I got the memo, and I was like, yeah, me too. I know. And we got our weighted vests on.
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147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
I think the world of your whole family.
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147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
Thank you.
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147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
I've gotten to know so many of you. the amount of pressure, you know, it had to be a hundredfold what Sage and I went through. And sometimes I say, you know, the best relationships to me are the ones that actually go through all the things that are meant to tear you apart. And you're still there on the other side. But I wondered if you'd just give us some perspective on that.
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147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
So in some ways, it's even it's even a blessing. I mean, it's hard to look at things like that as a blessing. In the moment, you don't look at him like that. Let me be very clear.
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147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
This is awful. It's the injustice of just pure fabricated lies.
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147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
Yeah, it's going great so far. And we had a whole food lunch before we came in here.
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147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
Yeah, I mean, I think so too. And particularly for women, we know that if you look at statistics, about 80, 82% of all autoimmune disease happens in women, happens in females. And you have to ask yourself, well, autoimmune diseases are not gender specific. They're not feminists. They're not racist. Why are so many of these conditions happening in women versus men? And what the data shows is that
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147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
Yeah, she is completely on my bandwagon. Yes. That's for sure. You know, we... She got to the unit and we filmed an episode of her show. And then we walked around and just did a massive amount of biohacking. I was actually really psyched that you would get in the cold plunge with us.
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147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
women have a more difficult time engaging in self-care. They're generally more selfless. They're children, so they become more selfless. They spend a lot of their lives putting the needs of other people first. And very often they'll look at self-care as being selfish. So talk a little bit about how you've been able to maintain fitness and health. Clearly it's a priority.
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147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
I mean, this woman is jacked. I mean, she has... We were going to win the cold plunge and I'm like, I'm a little embarrassed here. Like she's jacked and tan and I'm like pale and not as jacked. Oh my gosh. But it's gotta be a big part of your life. And before you answer, you know, I just ran this challenge. I had this morning routine challenge and I brought some really impactful people on.
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147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
What was fascinating to me about all of them, Mark Wahlberg, Lauren Redinger, Alexia Clark, you know, all these folks that came onto my challenge was they all prioritized their health and fitness. And they found a way to fit it in.
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147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
The majority of people are saying, I just don't have time for that.
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147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
No, I do not think that everyone needs the same amount of sleep. You know, there's quality of sleep and there's length of sleep, right? I mean, REM sleep and deep sleep cycles are really, really important. But the specific time in bed, I mean, my wife will tell you, I was up at 4.30 this morning, like a spring chicken.
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147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
I sent her a video of me working out in the hyperbaric chamber. And then she texted me back, me and her and Eric on a text thread. And she was like, well, I'm just working out in a regular gym.
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147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
I said I'm in a normal gym. I go, what? Normal gym equals normal human.
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147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
One of those people that bullies sleep.
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147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
Eric's like, babe, go to the gym.
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147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
Well, I had to say that to protect my manhood. I couldn't be like... Oh, yours is two degrees colder than mine. You know, there's a scientific reason why mine is.
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147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
Yeah.
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147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
And you fit this in in the morning usually?
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147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
No. It'd be like sleeping. It would just get bullied right out of your schedule. Yeah, exactly. So first thing. You know, it's interesting. I've always been told that I needed to learn to meditate. I do breath work, grounding. I do try to spend some time in stillness and silence, but I can't meditate. And I've even tried these people that take you on guided meditation.
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147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
And, you know, my wife and I, we went on this Ayurvedic retreat. Remember that, babe? And it was like nine days in the Boone, Carolina mountains.
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147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
Way too long, first of all. Oh, my God. Nine days of anything. By day four, I was like, I thought I was going to get hives. Because one of my sentences, I call it, and they called it a treatment, but I felt like it was a sentence. A sentence.
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147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
Because I had attention deficit disorder, the yogi or whatever said, you need to sit in front of, you need to drink a quarter cup of ghee butter and sit in front of this big bay window.
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147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
for three hours every day i go i'm paying for this like what did we pay to be here at this boon when she goes a lot we paid a lot of money to go to this thing and so like day one i was so fidgety i was like i'm literally gonna ask for my money back all right i mean i'm I paid to fly here.
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147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
And look out a window. But what was, what was amazing was I sat there for three hours and towards the end of the third hour, I started to like notice things out the window, like this little squirrel in the branches and some bird coming in and there's some insects running up the tree. And then it finally ended. And I was like, thank God that's over.
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147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
What a fun day.
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147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
I'm so excited to have you on the podcast. You know, I know a lot about you. I've known you and Eric for a long time. And we've been at a lot of UFC fights together, events together. I found out a fun little fact about you. Oh. Interesting, fun fact. You are a bakery chef.
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147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
And then the next day he was like, you have to do the same thing.
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147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
Oh, my God.
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147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
And I was like, are you kidding me? And I literally text her mom and I was like, can you put a Snickers bar in a FedEx package? Market feminine hygiene and FedEx it to me. This is a true story, isn't it? So second day I'm sitting there and I'm looking out the window and I noticed the same squirrel and I noticed the same bird. And then I noticed the insects coming up the tree.
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147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
And I actually noticed that the bird and the squirrel kind of interacting. And then I watched him go through his little daily routine. I'm watching the bird build this nest. And I kind of actually got into it a little bit, this little scene that was unfolding. And when they came to get me, I thought it had been like 30 or 40 minutes and the whole three hours had gone by.
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147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
And the third day, I couldn't wait to get back there because I wanted to see what was going on. And it was just really interesting to me, that perspective of, you know, slowing down and just being present and, you know, increasing your awareness. And I've never been able to do it through meditation, but through exercise, this is like an eerily good way to meditate. Yeah.
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147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
Because you exercise intensely.
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147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
You're wearing a weighted vest right now.
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147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
But so talk a little bit about your morning routine because clearly you're a cold plunger. Yeah. And lots of women are afraid to start doing this. So what was your foray into cold plunging? What's your non-negotiables in the morning? How does your morning go from when you get up until you're done your self-care?
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147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
That's the worst to get out right then because you're just almost through the hot.
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147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
And what did you do? Just bite down and go, didn't I need seven, six, five, four, three, two, one? Or like, my wife plays positive affirmations. Oh, okay. Which I'll tell you a really funny story, actually. She got in the cold punch this morning. And because you're coming here, obviously Secret Service is walking around. She didn't know.
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147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
A pastry chef.
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147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
it's like 7 30 in the morning this morning sage gets out of the sauna she gets into the cold punch and your secret service opens the door there's this armed dude with the earpiece he goes sorry ma'am um and she goes don't mind me nothing to see here yeah she goes that was the first i don't think i've ever had secret service walking on me during the cold punch
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147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
Yes, we talked about that today.
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147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
Yeah.
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And you can use code ULTIMATE for 10% off and start training smarter today. Now let's get back to the Ultimate Human Podcast. I also wanna talk about big, big, big new thing in your life right now. I feel like you're really reaching maybe the pinnacle of your professional career so far, right? So far. With the launch of your new show.
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147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
Wildly successful launch. Congratulations. Thank you very much. You know, how did this come about? I mean, was this always something that you wanted to do? Were you always, as an athlete, were you always interested in media? Do you like being in front of the camera? Did you... I mean, you were chairman of the RNC.
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147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
I mean, you've had a lot of public persona in your career, but talk a little bit about the show. Like, how did it come about? Did Fox hit you up and like, hey, do you want your own show or-
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147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
I said, I was like, no, I can't say no to DJT.
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147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
Your impression is really good. Okay. No pressure.
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147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
I just thought it was so random. Yeah.
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147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
Ooh. I actually remember this on Hannity. Yeah. Talking about this.
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147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
It's crazy to me. It is so crazy. Do you ever look back? Sometimes, I kid you not, I look around and I'm like, I feel like I'm living somebody else's life.
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147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
How did I get here?
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147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
Somebody could literally show up at my condo one day and be like, bro, this was all a ruse. Out you go. And I'd be like, I knew it. Let me grab my shit. I say this all the time.
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147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
I'm gonna be your second episode. Yes, you're on my second episode. Like for me, that's one of those moments for you, like looking in the mirror, I'm like, Am I going to be Laura Trump's second episode? Yes.
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147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
And are you allowed to have some editorial control? Absolutely. Okay, so they're not just like, this is a hot topic. This is trending right now. You can't talk about this. You can talk about that. What's actually a little bit- Because I always wonder if that's going on behind the scenes.
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147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
And you have to add value to the audience.
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147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
And because you're really in service to them, right? You don't own the podcast. The podcast owns you. Yeah. And it's a commitment. You know, every single week, every single, I mean, you have a date and time for the show and you have to be prepared and you have to deliver a product. Right. And you have to do it over and over and over again. And in a way, it's really inspiring and exciting.
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147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
And I'm so happy to hear that you're terrified too.
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147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
I was going to say, does Eric... I don't know if this is good for my Maha movement that we're going to talk about today.
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147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
Yeah. And then when you ask for that and then you get it and then you're like, oh my God, I got to put together all this program. And then you got to start thinking about the guests that I put on or are they too controversial or they do this way or that way. I sort of shed that now.
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147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
When you look at the statistics for kids, young adults, 77%, don't qualify for military service because of poor metabolic health.
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147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
I think the audience that follows me knows that we're just authentically in the pursuit of whatever makes you better, live longer, healthier, happier lives. Speaking of which, you know, getting sort of back to Maha for a moment. Yeah.
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147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
When we look at our healthcare system and the bloated amount of bureaucracy and spending that's going on and the inefficiency in keeping people healthy, we're really good at emergency medicine. There are these terms like functional medicine, lifestyle medicine, and a lot of these don't have a place. They don't have a seat at the table in modern medicine right now.
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147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
This is pre-Maha.
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147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
Lifestyle medicine would be things like we were talking about before the podcast where, you know, if you're type 2 diabetic or you're morbidly obese or you have a metabolic syndrome, conditions that we know can be reversed with dietary and lifestyle changes. And in other words, they're modifiable risk factors. They're in your control. And because there's no mechanism for control,
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147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
a physician to get paid. It doesn't make the physician a bad person, but they have to make a living. But if you come in to see me and I'm your primary care and you're a little overweight, I'll bill you for an office visit and I'll, you know, I'll bill you for a script, maybe for a Zempik or Wagovi. Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Right. And, you know, and I think some of the pushback that I receive for being associated with Maha, and I'll just say I'm not officially in any kind of government role for Maha. I don't work for the administration or have a role there. Other than I'm an enormous supporter and have committed my entire platform to helping get that message out.
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147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
But, you know, one of the interesting pushbacks that I get is that you're going to take away all of our freedom of choice. Um, and, and I think I know what my answer is to that. Um, I would love to hear what your answer is to that. I mean, because I don't think the intention is we're going to tell people stop smoking, stop drinking. You can't buy a vape pen. You can't drink a two liter soda.
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It's very...
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If you want to drink a two liter soda, from my perspective, it's, it's, we're going to get the unnecessary poisons out of the food supply, which no one should disagree with. If you're eating something and it's colored red and you can't taste the difference and one is poisonous and one is not, why are you fighting us getting the poisonous form of that dye out of the food system?
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I'm not telling you you can't eat cereal. I'm telling you you probably shouldn't eat cereal if you want to be healthy. But how do you fight that narrative? You've fought a bunch of false narratives in I feel like you have a PhD in battling the false narrative.
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Yeah, I totally believe that. And speaking of Maha, we covered a lot of Maha on your show. My audience is super fired up about this. The fact that two men from polar opposite ends of the spectrum, you know, political spectrum would meet under the guise of really making America healthy again, to me, I think is one of the greatest political happenings of our time. I really do.
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147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
I'm actually opening some functional medicine clinics on the other side of the world in Dubai and United Arab Emirates. Eventually, I'll come back to the US and do the same thing. But One of the, you know, interesting conversations that I have when I'm over there is they don't have a medical system. They have socialized healthcare.
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And so, you know, eventually all of these expenses roll up to concentrated families. Yeah. And they don't have a profit center based on disease. You know, here we make $110 billion a year on type 2 diabetes alone. Wow. So I think it's going to be hard to... to imagine a day where there's a meeting in a boardroom where they're going, hey, Stan, how do we get this $110 billion off the balance sheet?
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And that's the main driver. But there's a thread moving through all of these conversations that I've been having. And it is that in a lot of ways, they feel somewhat duped by Western medicine. And because they're realizing now that the ballooning cost of caring for chronically ill people, people that get really, really sick and die fast are going to drag on the system.
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It's those chronic conditions that just sort of linger. So you suffer for a long period of time, right? I mean, you might die at 82, but you really started dying at 65, right? And so their view is,
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We're actually going to put in billions of dollars, tens of billions, if not hundreds of billions of dollars into this preventative system where we focus on wellness, we focus on healthy lifestyle habits, and we're going to actually subsidize some of these to push down this tail risk of expense that is coming. And, you know, very superficially, it's a cost-benefit analysis.
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I think the same thing could potentially happen here in the country.
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147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
But do you think that there is ever a day where you see Medicaid, Medicare, you know, public health care potentially covering things like diet and lifestyle changes, you know? Exercise, meditation, peptides. God, I hope so.
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I do too.
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147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
And I find it just so odd that anyone could be on the opposite side of that coin. You know, highest rates of childhood cancer in recorded history, the corruption in our food supply and our nutritional research, and that people still find a way to take issue with it. You're no stranger to that kind of stress. You don't say.
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Yeah. But what's amazing is there's this underlying narrative developing that that's bad, or there's some subversive agenda there, or there's some you know, profit center that we're all trying to get to because, you know, we're advocating for a healthier food system. And I think there are- Of course, there's always going to be that.
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That is so scary.
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I mean, it really is.
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It's so mind-numbing. It's crazy. I mean, I actually know people. family members of employees of mine that were affected by the tornadoes in the Carolinas. And, you know, some of them still don't have homes.
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And then we're like, well, where did all the money go? And then, you know, again, this is usually not a political platform and I don't want to turn it into one, but when you start saying, well, where did all the money go? And then you find out some of the places this went to these NGOs, these non, what do they call them? Government organizations. Governmental organizations.
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They were just essentially fronts for a bunch of nonsense. And these people that are really hurting and they're really in need are not getting Um, you know, they're not getting the basic care that they pay into our tax system.
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147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
Yeah, can you imagine if you went in to see your primary care physician and you're like, you know, I mean, it's just weight. It's just hurting my joints and heavy. And they did some blood work and they were like, hey, you're on the borderline for diabetes. You're pre-diabetic. Here's what we're going to do. We're going to get you some nutritional coaching.
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147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
You're going to start a daily exercise program. Here's where you're going to start with walking, with exercise. You know, slowly getting back to a whole food diet. You know, we're going to get you outside more often. And then we're going to see you in a few months and see how you're doing and find a way to reward physicians and practitioners.
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I mean, the reduction in the total cost of caring for a chronically ill person in this country, just a 15% reduction in that.
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is mind numbing oh my gosh you're talking about three quarters of a trillion dollars um a year and this isn't um by making everybody into super athletes this is just tapping you know the metabolic uh syndrome which is creeping down into younger and younger and younger ages and i think there's also you know an opportunity for us to really affect public school systems.
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147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
I mean, this law that was just passed, I mean, I pray that that's true. I saw it on social media, so I don't know if it is or not, where they said we're not allowing processed foods. That was Arizona, right? Yeah, I mean, processed foods in the public school system in Arizona. I mean, things like that catching on like a brush fire, you know, as a mother. Yeah.
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147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
You've got to be really inspired like that because for you, it's got to be tough too. I mean, you know, how are you getting your kids into training them to be, you know, having healthy habits if they're constantly around kids that are not?
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Their parents love them.
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Yeah. I mean, I'm so inspired by that. I'm so excited about our future. You're the same way. You know, I know what health and fitness and whole foods has done for me and for my family. And I feel like I want everybody to feel like that. Of course. And, you know, when you look at these...
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147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
you know, broad studies where they go into prison systems or public school systems and they do a pilot study where they just make a shift to, um, whole foods, simple, simple things like that. You know, the rates of violence and inmates go down the rates of what they were diagnosing as, um, tension deficit disorders and learning disabilities actually go down. Dr. Dr. Uh,
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147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
hyman talks about this all the time and it's it's so fascinating i think the switch is finally beginning to flick for people that what we put into our bodies matters i mean we know that to an extent but we're starting to realize that like the forever chemicals the fluorides the seed oils these these micro toxins that we keep putting into our system eventually they build up right and they blow the engine yeah you know you know where else i'd like to see it
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147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
It was astounding. You know, you're really touching a heartstring for me and my wife's wide-eyed off the camera. She just actually did a post on this. When was that, like – Last month. Oh, wow. So I have a dear friend of mine of 35 years. He's two years younger than I am. Recently diagnosed with stage four metastatic colon cancer.
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And it's going to be a message of hope because I'm assembling a clinical care team that's going to walk him out of this over the next few months. I'm actually inspired for him. And I have no doubt that he's going to be okay, but he's not in the standard healthcare system.
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147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
um but he ended up because of sepsis he ended up at uh mayo clinic in in scottsdale and and huge shout out first of all to the mayo clinic for saving his life because there is no question my friend would not be on the surface of this earth if it were not for the care that he received there but it was that critical interventional care um you know i mean this it looked like an absolute chemistry lab when i walked into his his room you know potassium you know calcium pumps plasma
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147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
You know, and they just did an incredible job stabilizing him and getting him in a position where he could go start a different, you know, more holistic care for his condition. But... To your point, we walked into the ICU at Mayo Clinic. I mean, these are the sickest people on the planet. And my friend was in a very serious condition. And there was the Jell-O with the red dyes and the fake sugar.
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147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
There was pureed applesauce and then a can of soda. And I even spun the can of soda around. I was like, holy cow, 54 grams of sugar, pureed applesauce. And I saw, you know, the levels of nutrients and minerals and electrolytes crashing in his blood. But I'm like, There's nutrients going into the body. And this is what's being fed.
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147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
I would consider Mayo Clinic, I mean, they're the top dog and the best care. And critically, there's no doubt that they saved his life. But I believe that this is another area where our healthcare system is broken because it still shows you that even the best that healthcare has to offer Still doesn't really embrace the fact that diet and lifestyle has an impact on all this stuff.
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147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
Sort of happens to people.
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147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
Yeah. You know, again, normally my podcast is not political, but there's something in the news right now. I'm inherently political, Gary. I know. You're drawing me in there. Like, here we go. Come on in. Yeah. Hey, I lost 47,000 followers when I posted.
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147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
posted oh my god did you picture um of bobby kennedy and i together um i went through you know um when i would post pictures with your dad at uh ufc i would take a little downtick and then there was one some when i um uh went and went to the inauguration and then i posted one with bobby kennedy i lost 47 000 but then i gained 153 000 i was like oh the tide's shifting here again
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147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
that yeah um there is one major event you know going in on in the world right now um that i'm praying your father-in-law is going to solve and i'm really hopeful and it looks like he's he's going to get it done because we actually have friends that are intimately involved in this conflict with ukraine and and russia and i i don't think a lot of uh
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147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
citizens in America really understand how this industrial war complex works, where it's a giant profit center or more. It's hard for people to believe that we actually may want to engage or support wars as a profit center. Just like it's hard to wrap your arms around the fact that diabetes is a profit center. And so is hypothyroid and cardiac disease and high cholesterol.
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147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
These are actually profit centers. And there's something to be said for... When there's so many tens of billions of dollars to be earned from a conflict like what is happening in Russia and Ukraine, that you have to wonder what the agenda really is. Are we really trying to save humanity? And we really want to stop all these lives from being shed? Or is there a more sinister motive behind it?
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147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
Yeah. Are you hopeful? I mean, we've already seen the world kind of calm down. I've actually personally spent a lot of time on that other side of the world. And I can tell you that there is a very... it's very positive. Like the spirits are being lifted and that we may see this peace blanket start to wrap around that area of the world.
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147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
Do you think your father-in-law is going to be successful in there?
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You do?
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A perpetual state of conflict.
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I'll give you a hundred grand.
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147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
Laurie, you're amazing. I could literally talk to you for hours and hours. Thank you.
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147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
I hope I get to be on your show again. Oh, I hope so too. I definitely hope you'll come back and do the Ultimate Human Podcast again. Yes. So I have a VIP group. These are like my staunchest followers. They pay to be a part of my VIP membership group. They knew you were coming on. So they've got a list of questions for you. So we're going to go into this. Oh, I can't wait.
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147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
little private room and I'm going to allow the questions that they asked for you to answer those. For those of you that are interested in becoming an ultimate human VIP, you can go over to the ultimatehuman.com and just sign up to be one of my VIPs. But Laura, I end every one of my podcasts the same way by asking all my guests the same question.
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And what does it mean to you to be an ultimate human?
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That's amazing. Well, my audience knows who you are, but those that don't can tell them where they can find you, where they can find the show. Yeah.
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147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
Amazing. I will be on her next show. So I hope you guys tune in and we wish her luck with this show. Congratulations on the new show and the new career and congratulations on an amazing launch of your show. And I hope you come back on the Yelp podcast.
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Until next time, guys. That's just science.
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I do too.
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147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
I totally agree. And as someone who gets to peek behind the curtain, not just see the show,
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147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
do you really feel that the administration has embraced this and they're really behind the maha movement do you think that bobby kennedy is going to get the support and the resources that he needs from the administration and do you see this actually going the distance and and having real material change in public policy and really addressing some of the rampant corruption and food supply
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147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
Do you think that there is ever a day where you see public healthcare potentially covering lifestyle changes, exercise, meditation?
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147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
nutritional research you know we've got a food pyramid that says lucky charms is more nutritious crazy we've got 67 of our kids uh diets are our pre-bubescent teens diets is highly processed foods um actually my wife right when we were getting on your show today she stuck this breaking news announcement in front of me and it said what was it arizona arizona passed a state law removing processed foods from the public school system wow that's amazing
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147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
That's amazing.
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147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
I couldn't agree with you more. It's a great time to be alive. I feel the momentum. I see the momentum. And I pray that it continues. But why do you say that the eight-year term with a four-year break was better than an eight-year term consecutively? I noticed you said that break was probably the best thing. Was it because it gave people perspective? It's like, hey—
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147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
this is how bad things can go, and now we're having change, or why that four-year gap was so important?
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147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
A few snakes came out of the woodpile there.
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147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
Hey guys, welcome back to the Ultimate Human Podcast. Today, we have an incredibly special guest, someone who's making waves in media, politics, and the wellness space. She's the host of My View with Laura Trump. So I guess I just gave it away right there. It's a powerhouse program that's dominating cable television.
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I think it's amazing too. And, you know, I think the biggest hope coming from this message is the impact that it's going to have on generations because it's going to affect our kids. You know, and when you look at the statistics for kids that, you know, young adults, 77% of our young military-aged men and women don't qualify for military service because of poor metabolic health.
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147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
You know, when you see the percentage of our nutritional research that's funded by private industry, when you see the conflicts of industry and our regulatory agencies going to work in private industry. And when you take this view, when you take a step back and you go from 30,000 feet to
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147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
we are privatizing the profits and we're socializing the expense, meaning the expense is dropping onto the taxpayer and the profit is going to private industry. And I am a capitalist, trust me. I mean, I have a podcast, I sell things, earn money. I believe in our capitalistic system, but when capitalism is in charge of public policy, I think that's where things begin to go a little wrong.
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147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
So for the moms and the dads out there, especially those that have younger children that are going into the public school system now, Talk a little bit about how you're raising younger, healthier kids. I've heard you talk about social media, how you're filtering social media for them, or at least their contact with social media.
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147. Lara Trump: The MAHA Movement And What It Means for Your Family’s Health
I would love for you to talk about, you know, in your busy lifestyle, how are you raising healthy young kids and inspiring them to do the right things when there's so much negative messaging around them?
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Just last week, her show was the most watched program of the weekend, drawing in almost two and a half million viewers worldwide. surpassing CNN and MSNBC, and even college basketball and ESPN, featuring guests like the Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, White House Press Secretary Caroline Leavitt, and Attorney General Pam Bondi.
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Especially when the friends start getting him, right?
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And how old are your kids? Five and seven. Five and seven. Boy is older, girl is younger.
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139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
Meaning this consistency over time requires discipline, not just to be excited for a period of time. And I tend to believe that. I have a lot of friends that are not physically fit and I do business and counsel a lot of clients that are not physically fit either. But I would agree with you that
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It's an honor and a pleasure. Thank you, man.
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139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
that that first part of the day if that belongs to you and and there's there's such a physical connection to the mind i think if you are weak physically you have a tendency to be weak mentally and i think that we have a
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pandemic not of mental illness in this country i think we have a pandemic of a lack of mental fitness um so i love that that's a foundation for your uh community you know so so boxing is your your passion your purpose for your while i you know i might go so far as to say maybe that's what kept you steady and and maybe kept you from being tugged in the wrong direction in an environment that didn't have a lot of good choices um but
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139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
I appreciate that. You know, it's a very, very common theme that I talk about at the beginning of most of my podcasts, and that's that I find that the most impactful people, the most passionate and the most purpose-driven people in the world, have solved some kind of problem in their life. And I look back at your background.
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139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
Now you're a man, you've got a family. You started a company called the Ambrosia Collective, which is a supplement company. How did you transition to now becoming an entrepreneur? Because it doesn't sound to me like you had a lot of entrepreneurial mentors in your life.
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139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
Is this a part of your, like what's a typical morning routine for you? Is this a part of your morning routine? Like walk me through waking up until like 10 a.m.
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So this allows you to visualize it.
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139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
You're switched on. So where do some of the Ambrosia Collective supplements come into play? Are you taking nootropics before you hit the office? What's your basic supplement routine? I got you.
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139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
You didn't have, I mean, I would call it a troubled background, if you're okay with that term. And I'd love for you to talk about, we're going to talk about some of your successes and some of your passions and some of your purpose, your supplement company, what you're doing in the area of fitness and entrepreneurship. But I really want my audience to kind of get to know you.
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139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
Wow. You maintain this muscle mass once a day. There was a rumor that you're a vegan, too.
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139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
I would absolutely agree with that.
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139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
it was too many weird foods that were super processed that i didn't really know what it was so true to to get that dense amount of protein i think the whole notion that because it's not meat it's healthy i think that's that's the problem i i don't have anything necessarily against veganism or vegetarianism But when you just make the assumption that because it's not red meat, it's healthy.
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139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
I mean, if you ever read the ingredients on a Nunn burger or like a Beyond burger, I mean, you gotta be a pharmacist. And you're a pharmacist, so.
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139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
Yeah, exactly.
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139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
I got one of those pill boxes.
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139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
So that's pretty much my... So this was your foundation. Was this the first real company in the supplement industry? Because then you have Trifecta Nutrition, which is a meal plan.
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139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
Like, where did you come from? How'd you emerge from that? How'd you overcome obstacles? What sort of brought you into this chair today? And, you know, what's your driver, man?
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139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
When you see a big company, like how many employees you got? I mean, what do we have? About 20?
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139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
Right on.
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139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
Okay.
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139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
I mean, when you have... And how do you sell? Is it online? Through retail stores?
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139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
Well, I mean, the best thing for any product is... Is to be good. Yes, for it to be good and actually make an impact. And then you're going to have a massive referral base. And I'm a big believer in that too. And the majority of my clients come from other clients that I work with. I mean, I think that's the...
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139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
That's the biggest hallmark of success is when you're not selling your product to people that are on your product.
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I was talking about it 10 years ago.
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Yeah, I truly believe in that. I mean, I actually think that the, and I'm not a marketing expert by any means, but from what I've seen in the last several years being in this business is that I think that the days of the, you know, the influencer are numbered. I think people that are not building a true community and servicing a true community, they're not actually adding value.
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I think that people are so picky, their attention span is so short that if you are not adding value to their life, I don't care if you're a red carpet A-list celebrity, you're not going to maintain their attention nor gain their trust so that you can just carte blanche say, wear this skirt, drink this water, take this supplement, you know.
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Because that's when... I didn't grow up in Miami, but I'm from the cooking cowboy era in Miami.
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139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
Yeah. You know, it's, it's really interesting. I've done a number of stage talks on this and,
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um there are even some studies in you know the spain scale of emotion the scale of positive and negative emotion and there are even some studies that look at frequency leaving the human body and the frequency of emotion if you believe in the universal law of attraction which i do um you know and most most of my audience does is that the most powerful emotion the most attractive emotion i don't mean attractive in in like an intimate sense i just mean the most attractive emotion
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in a human being is the frequency of authenticity. And I think when we talk about people's intuition, you know, like my wife is very sensitive. Like she'll meet somebody and she'll be like, you know, I don't know about that guy, you know, or she meets somebody and gets a really good feeling. And the vast majority of the time she's right.
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And when I look at the actual science behind that, there's science that says that the more authentic a person is, believes what they're saying, is truthful with their words, then the more attractive they are to other people. And I think that goes back to this whole idea of building a community because it's community. You have to earn people's trust by giving value.
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Just select a vibe on the Happy app and let the soothing electromagnetic waves wash over your body. At Happy, we believe a more rested world is a better world. It's time to change the vibe. Now let's get back to the Ultimate Human Podcast. I love also that you've layered on nutrition, because I think this is the... I don't think that you can exercise your way around a bad diet.
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I don't think you can supplement your way around lack of sleep. I think the foundation...
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for our success which it sounds like you've mastered is you know first of all self-care you know the sleep um nutrition exercise but now you've you've layered in trifecta right and this this is a meal prep company this is this uh you prepare healthy meals yeah so this was a good friend of mine is the founder his name is greg connelly this is a we've been friends forever and greg has been you know he's a bona fide entrepreneur super good guy and he's been you know just
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139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
You know, I get behind a lot of like grass-fed, grass-finished farms. I actually try to buy local. We have a little Amish farm, a little place called Southwest Ranches that we're at right in Miami. And I go there and get raw milks, grass-fed, grass-finished meats, pasture-raised eggs, free-range chickens.
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139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
And I can tell, like when we try, first of all, I love coming to LA because there's an Erewhon. So the team goes to Erewhon and we stock up beforehand and we just eat here.
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139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
Yeah, yeah. 10 grand, you get four meals.
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It'll feed a family of four for about six hours. But, but, but I've, but I prioritize those ingredients over everything. It's like, you know, I spend my money on biohacking devices and, and I certainly did not grow up wealthy, but now that I've had some financial success, I'm like, why would I, Why would I start a car collection when I can actually start a biohacking collection?
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139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
I feel you so much because I have a VIP community called, uh, just VIP ultimate humans. I get energy from this community. You know, when I get on zoom calls, I'm like lit up, you know, I call it my drug of choice. Um, And when I give feedback from the community, it fires me up.
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And so that whole like give without the expectation of receipt, when you see the lives impacted, somebody thanks you for changing their life and they really mean it. I don't know that there's a greater compliment.
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We do, yeah.
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139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
You know, it's really interesting. I went to dinner last night with a very successful entrepreneur and doctor named Dr. Peter Diamantis. And he was talking about this Abundance 360 that he's created with all these thought leaders. And it's about... how to shatter these thoughts of incremental reality.
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139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
So say you're on an, the example he used was, say you're on an automotive manufacturer and your car gets 50 miles to the gallon and you go to your engineering team and you go, listen, you guys got to go back to the drawing board and figure out how to get this car 55 miles to the gallon. He's like, that's one thing. That's a mindset that most people can interpret and understand.
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139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
But if you go to your engineering team and you say, I need this to get 500 miles to the gallon. Correct, yes. then what forces them to do is scrap all of their... Because there's so much efficiency you can get from the tires and maybe upgrading the fuel. But now you've got to go completely back to the drawing board and reset your entire way of thinking.
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139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
And I think this is where you get the Jeff Bezos and the Elon Musk and the real... real thought leaders that innovated something you know incredible um there's lots of other thought leaders but i think a lot of these ideas come out of communities like what what you're building it's like you actually challenge people to solve their own problem and they become
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motivated and passionate beyond anything they ever thought. So where does this go for you? I mean, fitness, lifestyle, nutrition, supplementation, you know, you're building a community. You know, what's down the road for you? I mean, what's Mike Rashid's ultimate goal?
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139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
A lot of opportunity in the Middle East right now.
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Oh, huge fan of him.
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139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
Yeah, and most people have a fear of the unknown. I think that comes from our childhood. We have a fear of the unknown and it paralyzes us and it keeps us, I think, very often in mediocrity for decades because people are afraid to fail in front of their peers or in front of their families or in front of their coworkers or in front of their colleagues.
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139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
And I think fear is so, it can be a motivator, but it can also be paralyzing to you. So you start touching on spirituality. Where does faith fall into this for you? What is faith? What does that mean? To me, it's a belief in something higher than yourself. It's also a belief in a common purpose.
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139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
It's a belief in delayed gratification that maybe this life is temporary and we're headed to a better place. I believe that
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139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
faith is very often missing component in people's lives and they try to replace it with all kinds of things they seek dopamine rewarding behavior um which sometimes can be healthy workaholic workoutaholic sometimes could be negative drugs and alcohol um promiscuity gambling um not all
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139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
I think that we have a pandemic not of mental illness in this country. I think we have a pandemic of a lack of mental fitness.
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139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
not all addictions are necessarily negative, but I think that that behavior is driven by that spiritual hole that's left in people. That's my sincere belief. But where does that fall for you? First of all, what does it mean to you and then where does it fall?
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139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
So it didn't end poorly for your father because of like law enforcement or something. It ended.
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Oh, your stepfather.
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And you need to bounce it off of, They say you need three friends in your life, the ride or die. That's when you call at two in the morning when something's wrong. You need the confidant that you can confide anything to and it stays there. But then you also need the truth teller, the one that
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139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
kind of calls you out on your nonsense not kind of what you need to hear not what you want i need somebody to be direct yeah yeah it sounds like it sounds like you're having a lot of direct sonic conversations but i think that that's where that's where things really take shape yeah for people yeah because uh you know my one of my former mentors and one of the wealthiest people i've ever known told me you know you show me the five people you hang around
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139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
and i'll tell you exactly where you're going to be in in five years and um and i said you can predict half a decade in advance just from the people the five people that are in my inner circle he said absolutely beyond a shadow of doubt with 99 accuracy and and and i said well what matters in those five people and he went through those characteristics and then he also he said if you don't have
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that rock in your life, whether it's your relative, whether it's your business partner, whether it's your best friend, who doesn't let you get away with not being true to yourself and foolishness, then that's where the hole in the ship's gonna come. That's where the water's gonna enter.
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139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
It was absolutely not a money play and it was devastating to me and my wife financially. I mean, financially, it was the worst decision we ever made in the first few years. It put an enormous amount of strain on our family. My kids came out of private school, public school, which I'm not trying to say woes me, my kids weren't in private school, but...
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139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
but that is a woe is me because public school system is just not it's not it yeah it's broken um and um uh you know we sold our primary residence to make payroll because My wife, who's very frugal and very organized and was keeping the books for us, came home one day and she was like, listen, you have a decision to make.
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139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
And she's like, I'm paralyzed, I can't make this decision, but we have 90 days until we are either gonna miss the payroll or we're gonna miss the mortgage payment. And you gotta decide if we're paying the employees or we're paying the mortgage. It was a very easy decision for me. I was like, we got to sell the house.
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139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
Because we're not, nobody's ever going to work for me and get two weeks or 30 days in. And then I tell them at the end of 30 days of hard work that they're not getting paid, that I'm shutting the doors. I'd rather catch up my employees and then shut the doors. I had so much conviction in what we were doing. I knew we were on the side of it.
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139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
right right like and i you know you talk about visualization i could only visualize that that that outcome and to me it was already there so it didn't didn't stress me out at all i didn't i didn't actually feel any right any stress from the financial burden i didn't like the way that it was impacting the family went from four cars to one car and you got three kids and they're in different schools and you got one car and you're
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139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
in the outcome, that destination was so vivid in my mind that I was like, I'm not scared. That's so impressive. I respect that.
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139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
People look now and they're like, man, you blew up overnight. I'm like, no, no, no. I had a really slow curve for 22 years and then a hockey stick spike, but it started a long time ago. Wasn't a success overnight.
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139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
And look, I think you fall into the same, you know, people would call it a grinder, you know, because, you know, it's, I think that you have to be fixated on something in the future and you have to be able to visualize the future. For me, I've learned to be very intentional. Like before I sat down for this podcast, you know, I went around the corner,
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139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
before you guys got here, I just did a few rounds of breath work. And I was like, what's my intention of this podcast? And my intention is I want my audience to get to know this guy. Like I'm getting to know you now, but I want my audience to get to know you through the questions that I'm asking and us being real. And yeah, And, you know, I actually visualize a podcast.
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139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
I visualize our conversation going well. I visualize my audience picking up on it and going, wow, I would have never guessed you had them all. But that was an awesome podcast. I took two, three things away from that. And, yeah. So I'm very intentional that way.
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139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
Yeah. I talked about getting saved 24 years ago. Yeah. And that was a big... moment in my life too. And I don't impose.
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Russell Brand.
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Okay. He's a certified wild man, that guy. I love it. I love it. I get it. I had this weightless vest. I mean, weighted vest. And he was shirtless. He's running around my house. Okay. Barefoot. Yeah, barefoot. We were like, he had his kids over, and his kids were playing with my nieces, and we're chasing each other around. We jumped in the cold plunge. We got in the sauna.
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139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
And then my team's like, we've got to run this podcast. So he just put the weighted vest on, no shirt. And just sat down in the podcast room and rocked it.
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139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
There's something to be said for just that level of brazen authenticity, you know? And I appreciate, I say this all the time because my dad used to say it all the time growing up. He's like, if you don't stand for something, you stand for nothing. So if you're afraid of who you are to the outside world, then... I don't think that life's really going to amount to much for you.
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In an ideal world, you're building a compound in Dubai. And when you say building a compound, it's going to be a community? Yeah, a community, a neighborhood. Okay, we'll keep an eye on it. It's the next Waco, Texas coming in. No, I'm just kidding. You know, maybe. I'm not saying, no, I'm just kidding.
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139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
If I see you start arming up in there, dude.
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139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
When you think about we profit off of incarceration, we profit immensely from foreign wars, we profit immensely from disease. It's not so much that we profit from medicine, it's that we actually profit from the chronic disease that requires the medicine. We profit from the...
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139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
the theory that disease is genetically inherited, because if I can get you to believe that you inherited a disease, then I can easily get you to subscribe to a lifetime of medication. We've lost so much faith in mankind, humanity, the body's ability to heal itself, the power that this has over this.
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139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
And the divinity of God, in my opinion, that we automatically assume that what man makes us is greater than what God gave us.
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139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
And by that, I mean, if we just got back to not bathing our cellular biology in the toxic soup and trying to solve those consequences with chemicals and synthetics, and we got more just back to the basics, which is a lot of... I don't want to turn this into my podcast because it's yours, but...
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139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
I believe that a lot of what has happened in our society is we've just gotten further and further and further away from the basics. Exactly what you're talking about. Nutrition, exercise, mindset, community. And what's interesting is The research supports this. You look at the blue zones, right? What did you find in the blue zones? Well, there wasn't any continuity in diets. Whole foods.
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Sense of purpose.
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And why wasn't it a sad childhood? You had love from your mother?
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139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
Do you have siblings around?
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139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
I think that's the same way with a lot of neurotropics. And, you know, for me, the jury's still out because I haven't finished conclusively reading all the research. But I think there's a lot of promise in...
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139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
things you know like medicinal mushrooms not for tripping but for improving cognitive function i think that you know we have an endocannabinoid system in the body we can look at um endocannabinoids i mean the i i don't think that anything is necessarily off the table especially if it's been put through rigorous you know uh clinical trials right um i think
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139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
sometimes we make enormous leaps in science you know uh people will say cows eat grass cows have a lot of muscle we should eat grass it's like sometimes we draw these conclusions that yeah you know um uh that aren't that aren't linear they don't make logical scientific sense but i one of the things i'm most excited about with this make america healthy again movement is that i think the government is going to be a lot more receptive
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to non-pharmaceutical non-chemical interventions and and actually going back again to the basics diet lifestyle spiritual well-being um sense of community when was that you know the last time that your doctor said wow your blood pressure's high and your thyroid's a mess your cortisol is elevated You got to get stress out of your life.
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139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
And so, okay, Mike, well, you just need to get stress out of your life. So what does that mean? Like get a divorce, stop talking to my kids and quit my job? Because that's where the stress comes from. It's not practical. Like if we were armed to give people really good advice, hey, build a community. Find a circle of like-minded people. Get the toxic relationships out of your life.
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139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
Things that you could actually do, you know, that would benefit you and reduce your stress. Because I would bet that if I looked at your life from the outside in, I'd be like, okay, he's running these companies, he's moving to Dubai, he's got a family, he's got three kids on board. You know, he comes from a, you know, a colored background. He's, you know, now he's iconic in this space.
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139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
You've got a community that you're building. You've got a lot going on. So from the outside in, you'd say, this guy should be really stressed out. And you know, what's amazing is some of the busiest people I've ever known including myself, are not stressed at all because they love what they're doing. Because they found that community. They found that purpose.
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139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
And I think there's a lot more meaning in that in terms of its impact on people's health.
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139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
Yeah, exactly. We've been here a long time.
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139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
What's exciting to me is the potential to affect public policy. Because right now, I've reached millions of people, which has had an amazing impact. And I'm going to continue to do that. You've probably reached millions of people. But... Sometimes, you know, my message is not making it down to the masses. I get you. Right?
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139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
And the possibility that we could potentially affect public policy is very intoxicating to me from the standpoint of making an impact.
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So the public policy side would look like somebody having the intestinal fortitude to stop pharma from advertising directly to the consumer, not so that they don't advertise to the consumer, but so they don't control the media narrative.
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139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
Looking at corruption in our system of the Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and the National Institute of Health, where are they getting their funding from? and is funding for public policy coming from private industry.
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139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
In other words, if the food industry is funding food studies that set our public policy, this is how you end up with a food pyramid that Lucky Charms is more nutritious than grass-fed steak. And to me, that is the greatest oxymoron of all time because the majority of the population, as they probably should, who's going to trust
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139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
or government, you know, when you drop your kid off at public school in the morning, you're usually not worried about what's gonna happen to your kid because you trust that that school system has the best interest of your kid at heart. They're gonna educate them the best they can. They're gonna keep them safe. And they're gonna get back in the car with you that night and things are gonna go well.
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139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
That might not necessarily be the case. And so I either think you remain silent and in my opinion, become a part of the problem. Or you speak up and at least try to do something. And because you can't do everything doesn't mean that you shouldn't do something. Like I'm disappointed in our agricultural secretary that was just hired because she was the president of the...
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139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
seed oil society, which I think is the root of a lot of inflammatory conditions and whatnot. But I'm not like, well, they did that. I'm done. No, I'm still going to do whatever I can to get the word out and have a minor amount of influence that could have a massive impact. And I have nothing financially to gain. I have nothing to sell into this system. I have nothing to benefit from that system.
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139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
I don't want the government to buy my product or service and distribute it to people. I just think if you look at your...
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139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
Yeah, I don't see that as a reason to not try. And you may very well be right. But I'll find out the hard way and I'll give as much effort and time and energy to that as I can. And I think one of the things I see shifting
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is that you know if you what elected the last president was it was circumventing the media and and going through social media platforms podcasts and stage talks and and i'm not saying i'm not i'm not making uh you know an argument for one side or the other what i'm saying is
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I think that there's an opportunity for messages to tap the masses without going through the standard media filter channels, which in my opinion are corrupted.
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That's the way you and I are building our businesses now.
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Give me a like. You know what's cool too is that people can be ultra selective. Like when I turn on the news, I don't have a choice over what's being streamed to me. They're going to talk about
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you know the fires in los angeles or the latest going on in the political arena or the last football game well i might not care about football and i might not watch soccer but i'm gonna have to sit through that whereas now with the with the new you know media platforms they can say man i like this guy's message i'm gonna select in to follow him or follow gary i like what
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what Gary's saying, what he's doing. So people opt in to get that information and they get a lot of condensed information in a narrow area where you like fashion, you're following this person.
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139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
How old are your kids?
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139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
I think to an extent you're right, but I think it goes back to the God helps those who help themselves.
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139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
you you have to put a message out to the world it's going to land on receptive ears for people that are going to take action it's going to land on skeptical ears from people that are going to attack you and it's going to land on ears that just completely uh fall deaf on still doesn't mean that you don't put the message out you know one of the interesting things i've found about just being so consistent and so intentional you know just like having a podcast it's it
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139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
I don't think a lot of people realize what a commitment it is. You have to turn out content every single week and it's got to be entertaining and it's got to serve your audience and it's got to create value or you will lose listeners. And I also turn out something called a podcast short, which I release every Thursday. So it's eight podcasts.
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139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
very large pieces of content that you have to turn out, then that's got to be chopped and edited and translated into other languages. And the words got to be put on and it's got to be, you know, you have to make sizzle reels to grab people's attention. I mean, it's a production and it's a serious commitment.
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139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
What I've found is I'm starting to find, I mean, I found plenty of skeptics, right, that attack me online. Probably got people doing the same thing with you, right? And I think you have to look past that and say, I'm still going to hammer this message because I believe in it so much. And I've seen that community grow. You know, I mean, we had 28 million impressions this month.
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139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
The narrative that bothers me is that... As soon as you become successful messaging, by the mere success that you've succeeded or had some kind of financial benefit from it, that automatically makes it nefarious. And I don't believe that at all. And that's because I desperately try to give people
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139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
low or zero cost choices um and i don't want to be known as the person that only works with celebrities or a-listers or rich people i want to be known as the one trying to make an impact on the masses but some people are so myopic and they'll just they don't realize that I wasn't an overnight success.
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And I'm still as committed to my message now as I was back then, but nobody just knew who I was back then. And the connection that somehow success means you must be doing something nefarious.
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139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
So I've heard you talk about how sports, fitness, particularly boxing was something, because I think everyone needs to have an outlet and something to gravitate to. You know, they say idle time is the devil's workshop. And I would imagine in the kind of environment you were in,
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139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
You're dedicated. You probably have discipline, not just motivation. So just talk about fitness, the foundation for you and how that has shaped you as an entrepreneur.
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139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
Yeah.
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Like, What do they say? Like, you know, everybody enjoys the view. Very few people enjoy the climb. And it's very true. You know, a former mentor of mine said, lots of people want to do what I do, but no one wants to do what I've done. And I think that's, you know, I think that's so true. They don't see the struggle. They only see the outcome.
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139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
That's how you get strong. It's such a best. That's how you get powerful. I would switch it for... It brought my family so tight together. You know, having my kids in the hunt with us. It brought Sage and I, my wife. You know, we were boyfriend and girlfriend. Then we were fiance. And then we were husband and wife. And I think...
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139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
In some ways, the greatest relationships are the ones that go through everything that's meant to tear them apart. And they survive.
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139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
It doesn't seem like that when you're in it.
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you know, a lot of your peers had a lot of time on their hands and maybe gravitated towards things that weren't longevity in terms of their career, maybe not even in terms of their life. So talk a little bit about that transition. You know, it's also really astounding to me the number of successful entrepreneurs I know.
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139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
we're going to move into my uh vip ultimate human community before we do that i i ask all of my guests the same question okay um and there's no right or wrong answer to this question if you watch my podcast maybe you're ready for it um but what does it mean to you to be an ultimate human
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Yeah, nobody gets out of this thing alive.
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That is amazing. Um, well, if you're interested in becoming a, uh, VIP ultimate human, you can go over to the ultimate human.com and sign up to be a VIP. Mike and I are going to move into the VIP chat right now and do some direct one-on-one questions. But until next time, guys, that's just science.
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139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
Stephen A. Smith actually wrote an entire book on it about how they grow up in difficult environments, but the love of a mother is,
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139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
uh was enough of a foundation and uh enough of a grounding force that you could actually make decisions that were different than what your environment was leading you to believe because i've got to imagine if you're in that environment the cool thing to do wasn't to go the opposite direction right so like give give a little insight into you know what led you out of that that
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139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
that life, that environment anyway. And I want to say the lifestyle because you weren't in that lifestyle.
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Selling insurance to mothers to insure their own babies.
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So far it's been pretty dynamic.
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139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
Where does fitness, where does boxing, where does your love of that skill come on board and start to take you in that direction?
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139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
Hey guys, welcome back to the Ultimate Human Podcast. I'm your host, human biologist, Gary Brekka, where we go down the road of everything anti-aging, biohacking, longevity, and everything in between. And today we've got a twist on your usual guests, as you probably heard from his background. He's a fitness icon, an entrepreneur, but like many of my guests, passion and purpose-driven individuals.
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139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
And how has that shaped you as an entrepreneur? Because I think people really omit the physical fitness part. I mean, there's a lot to be said for what a lot of people think is being selfish, which is like giving time to yourself so that you can be selfless and give your time to the rest of the world. I mean, I always give myself, for example, the first 90 minutes of every day.
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139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
I always say the first 90 minutes of every day belongs only to me not to my kids not to my wife not to my business or you know my my clients but after that 90 minutes is over i give everything else away you know i try to be present for my wife for my kids for my business for my clients but i think the only way that i'm able to be that present is because I take some time for self-care.
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139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
And so just talk about it. Is fitness the foundation for you? I mean, clearly you're pretty fit. So it's clearly a priority.
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139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
So welcome to the podcast, Mike Rashid.
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Now let's get back to the Ultimate Human Podcast. I don't see that. I see it as an absolute necessity. I see it as a non-negotiable. And, you know, I've heard other entrepreneurs talk about it. It's like when I see somebody who's physically fit, and this isn't to shame other people, but when I see somebody who's physically fit, I immediately know at least a few things about them.
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139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
they're consistent because you can't can't fake that you can pull up in a ferrari and i may or may not know whether or not you're wealthy right but um because you can fake a ferrari you can't fake being physically fit so what it means is you've had a commitment over a long period of time you care for yourself um you know you're dedicated you probably have discipline not just motivation um
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All the nine major organ systems.
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121. Dr. Matt Cook: Reversing Age with Peptides, Stem Cells & Gene Therapy
Yeah. Yeah. We had a great morning. We did our functional medicine morning. We did the biohacking morning. We did breath work this morning. You showed me some really cool new techniques too for actually creating. Before we did red light, we did red light, steam and sauna, cold plunge, breath work, and breathing.
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121. Dr. Matt Cook: Reversing Age with Peptides, Stem Cells & Gene Therapy
You think even more so than growth hormone peptides and healing peptides. These are the most impactful in terms of their system wide.
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121. Dr. Matt Cook: Reversing Age with Peptides, Stem Cells & Gene Therapy
Yeah, yeah. I don't take peptides every day, but when I do, it's BBC 157 Slank.
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121. Dr. Matt Cook: Reversing Age with Peptides, Stem Cells & Gene Therapy
That's great. So let's climb the ladder of peptides. So the peptides are amino acid sequences, which means that the body recognizes them, which I am, by the way, for the record, a huge fan of peptides. We've used them in our clinic system on well over 100,000 patients and
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121. Dr. Matt Cook: Reversing Age with Peptides, Stem Cells & Gene Therapy
uh virtually no side effects um the downside is occasionally they don't work not that they create harm and i think that risk profile is excellent because a lot of times when we use chemicals and synthetics and pharmaceuticals the downside is that you do permanent irrevocable damage right and and then you can't just say hey my bad i altered the neuroplasticity of your brain and what we decided
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121. Dr. Matt Cook: Reversing Age with Peptides, Stem Cells & Gene Therapy
you know to take this for it didn't work but now you have permanent alteration in physiological function i've seen that quite a number of times you know um with you know amphetamines and things like that that we're using to try to get people around conditions like add or adhd and now somebody's been on a long prolonged dose of adderall that's that where it's progressively gotten you know more and more and more and now you've you know you went in to fix a condition of um
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attention deficit disorder attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and now you created a central nervous system dependency on an understanding okay so i'll take that sometimes works right just 100 so i'll take that one yeah so then
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And after the breath work, you showed me a really cool technique for creating a vacuum in your thoracic and abdominal cavities to actually help drain the lymph, which I want to talk about at some point during the podcast, because I love to give people these tips that they can use that cost absolutely nothing, but could have a profound impact on the trajectory of their life.
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Tide raises all the boats. I say it almost every day.
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I'm such a huge fan of the peptides and their use because of the limited risk profile. Some of these other really advanced, scientifically valid, evidence-based have a real propensity to truly extend life.
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121. Dr. Matt Cook: Reversing Age with Peptides, Stem Cells & Gene Therapy
Now let's get back to the Ultimate Human Podcast. Again, for the listeners that are not exceedingly familiar with peptides, you know, there's some great healing peptides, you know, wound healing peptides, tissue repair peptides, peptides that actually help with not just bumps and bruises, but also micro tears in our ligaments and joints and tendons and cartilage and what have you.
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121. Dr. Matt Cook: Reversing Age with Peptides, Stem Cells & Gene Therapy
And this is the BPC-157, which I'm also a huge fan of. She gave it to me today. So the BPC-157. And I'm also a very big fan of that. And the TB-500.
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121. Dr. Matt Cook: Reversing Age with Peptides, Stem Cells & Gene Therapy
For my guests that don't know you, I mean, you're a medical doctor, but you started your career as an anesthesiologist. Can you talk a little bit about your journey from anesthesiologist to functional medicine practitioner? Because I don't think anybody ever starts out in functional medicine.
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121. Dr. Matt Cook: Reversing Age with Peptides, Stem Cells & Gene Therapy
Yeah, that's amazing. And again, I'm a big fan because the risk profile is really very attractive. And then if we move up the ladder on peptides and we start talking about things like
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121. Dr. Matt Cook: Reversing Age with Peptides, Stem Cells & Gene Therapy
cognition, we're talking about tissue repair, but if we talk about cognition, meaning improving our cognitive function or short-term recall or focus or waking energy or concentration, things like that that are a little more difficult to measure, but people notice and the people around them notice that they're not as sharp or they're just not as attentive or they're not able to focus as much.
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121. Dr. Matt Cook: Reversing Age with Peptides, Stem Cells & Gene Therapy
They're not able to recall things as accurately as they used to. What do we have in the category of cognitive peptides?
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Wow, you can see the viscosity change.
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in just a few weeks it was night and day my father actually called and was like can you tone her down a little bit like he's like she wants to redecorate the whole house she's got all new artwork coming in like she is on fire i mean she went from being mid 70s year old woman cognitively to like an early 40s 100 it was night and day the difference
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121. Dr. Matt Cook: Reversing Age with Peptides, Stem Cells & Gene Therapy
and that was the cerebral lysin peptide um and uh i got it originally injectable now she takes an oral version of it but i'm i'm again i'm such a huge fan of the of the peptides and their use because of the limited risk profile and now we get into the like the really exciting things um you know stem cells
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121. Dr. Matt Cook: Reversing Age with Peptides, Stem Cells & Gene Therapy
exosomes, and some of these other really advanced, cutting edge, but scientifically valid evidence based therapies that are going on in mass outside of the United States. And in some cases are allowed here, some cases are not allowed here, but have a real propensity to truly extend life.
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121. Dr. Matt Cook: Reversing Age with Peptides, Stem Cells & Gene Therapy
and maybe even reverse the cause or reverse the pathology and diseases that we at one time thought were not reversible. Maybe we thought we could halt them, but not actually reverse them. And I'd love first to talk about stem cells. And then how a stem cell secretes an exosome, the difference between the two. And for therapeutic reasons, what are some of your recommendations?
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121. Dr. Matt Cook: Reversing Age with Peptides, Stem Cells & Gene Therapy
Let's just assume for the sake of argument, and I don't mean to off-put my audience, that somebody has an unlimited budget, just for the sake of this part of the discussion. What are some of the things that they could do and expect from some of these biologics like stem cells?
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121. Dr. Matt Cook: Reversing Age with Peptides, Stem Cells & Gene Therapy
Wow. And so the stem cell arrives on the scene because it's called the site of inflammation. And when it arrives, it begins to deploy these little soldiers called exosomes, which are about 1 800th the size of a stem cell. They're nanovesicles, nanoparticles. We've talked about these before on the show.
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121. Dr. Matt Cook: Reversing Age with Peptides, Stem Cells & Gene Therapy
They cross the phospholipid bilayer of the cell without permission, which is a good thing because very often when you have damage to a cell, things are not allowed through the membrane wall. And imagine having a heart attack on your floor, but the paramedic's being locked outside the door. Their proximity doesn't matter. So very often the proximity for a cell to get help
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121. Dr. Matt Cook: Reversing Age with Peptides, Stem Cells & Gene Therapy
doesn't matter because the help is locked outside the door it's outside of their that cell wall and i agree with you i think you know the really promising thing about exosomes is their molecular size and the fact that they don't have dna right so they can't actually transmit a signal from somebody else's body.
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121. Dr. Matt Cook: Reversing Age with Peptides, Stem Cells & Gene Therapy
And they carry something called high molecular weight, hyaluronic acid, and growth factors. So what are the benefits of using these kinds of biologics like exosomes systemically, intravenously?
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121. Dr. Matt Cook: Reversing Age with Peptides, Stem Cells & Gene Therapy
I couldn't agree with you more. I love taking the exosomes. I feel like I'm looking through a 4K screen. It's hard to describe. Your vision is brighter. It's clearer. And you have that just very clear, cognizant, awake, focused feeling. And it's not being stimulated. You don't feel like you did two shots of espresso. You feel just clear and awake and alert and cognizant.
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121. Dr. Matt Cook: Reversing Age with Peptides, Stem Cells & Gene Therapy
And I notice how energetic I am after... doing exosomes um and then my sleep just is incredible so and then above the exosome which you know also really really exciting and i think this is a frontier where we're safely learning to go so that we can actually manage begin to manage longevity and that's the gene therapies um
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They didn't even have television back then.
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And one in particular I want to talk about, because I have some biohacking buddies that did some of these gene therapies, specifically the folistatin, myostatin-inhibiting gene therapy. And one of them put on... 14 pounds of muscle in 45 days. And I remember seeing him at a, I saw him at the conference in, uh, um, in, uh, Europe. And I ran into him. I go, all right, brother, what are you doing?
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121. Dr. Matt Cook: Reversing Age with Peptides, Stem Cells & Gene Therapy
But...
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I mean, did you get on growth hormone? Cause I know he's sort of, you know, not for that. And he said, no, I went to Honduras. I did this, uh, full of stat and gene therapy. And, um, And then I just went deep down the road of this genetic therapy. And I wonder if now, you know, I would consider these to be sort of top of the food chain, longevity, anti-aging treatments.
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Could you talk a little bit about those?
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Yeah, I think he talked about it. Before we air the podcast, I'll make sure he's said it in the podcast. We talked about it on my podcast. Yeah, yeah, okay. So, yeah, Ben Greenfield, shout out, buddy.
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121. Dr. Matt Cook: Reversing Age with Peptides, Stem Cells & Gene Therapy
Ben was doing good before that, but.
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And then that protein is actually, um, is inhibiting the protein that inhibits muscle growth, right? The myostatin, um, protein. And there's a second one, uh, active in there. Yeah. Um, that's actually inhibiting muscle growth because obviously when we damage muscle and it grows back larger, that muscle hypertrophy, that's a well-known concept.
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121. Dr. Matt Cook: Reversing Age with Peptides, Stem Cells & Gene Therapy
But at some point, the hypertrophy is limited by this myostat. And what the full statin does is it it blocks that from working. So your hypertrophy is not as limited. And what do you feel about the safety of some of these therapies? Because when we say gene therapies, I mean, just like you said, it migrates into the nucleus of the cell. And in the nucleus of the cell is our DNA.
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And our DNA is sending messages into the cell, transcription, right? Messenger RNA. But it actually reads our DNA and reads that
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And this is called what?
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The full of statin gene theory does all of this too.
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I'm going to let you guys know how this goes. Honduras, here we come. You know, I want to save some time for my rule bracket community because we've got a lot of questions coming your way for our rule brackets. But I think this approach to slowly climbing the ladder from getting your blood work to your genes done, to supplementation, to fixing your hormones,
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to then incorporating things like peptides, to then climbing into the world of biologic stem cells, exosomes, and gene therapies is the frontier that people are really, really, really curious about. So how can they find out more about you? You've written a book?
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Bioreset.com, okay.
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Yeah, I mean, it took me a long time to, you know, I barely even have TikTok. I mean, TikTok on my phone. So I look, I wind down all of my podcasts by asking all my guests the same question. And there's no right or wrong answer to this question. But what does it mean to you to be an ultimate human?
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That's incredible, man. That's one of the better that I've heard in a long time. Well, guys, you know how to check out Dr. Matt Cook. I'll put all of the information that he just went through in the show notes below. And as always, that's just science.
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Sounds to me like somebody needed some downtime.
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That sounds like something my wife would do to me. And I try to sell it as like a pause. I bought you a three-day vacation by yourself.
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You think even more so than growth hormone peptides and healing peptides, these are the most impactful.
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And what were you injecting them with at that time?
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Hey guys, I'm really excited to announce this. Perfect Aminos has gotten a serious upgrade. They've added nucleotides, the building blocks of our nucleic acids, DNA and RNA. And this is important. We know essential amino acids are the building blocks of protein and collagen.
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Having all the essential amino acids in the correct ratio is necessary for complete protein synthesis without the caloric impact. But if we want perfect protein synthesis, we need to look at the process of protein synthesis itself. Because if the process is faulty, we won't get the correctly made protein, collagen, fibrin, or the red blood cells in our bloodstream or our muscles.
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What does a journey like that look like from whatever state that I'm in now to where I'm really optimized and setting myself up to live a life of longevity, anti-aging?
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We can even stop creation of specific proteins, which can affect us in so many different ways. Our DNA and our RNA are what direct protein synthesis, building new proteins. If our DNA or RNA get damaged from toxins, harmful bacteria, or just plain aging, we get faulty protein synthesis. So cells, enzymes, and hormones are less functional and we get premature aging.
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By adding nucleosides and nucleotides, the building blocks of the nucleic acids DNA and RNA, our cells get exactly what they need to help repair faulty DNA and RNA and improve the process of protein synthesis itself. This is next level science and you need to try these. Now let's get back to the Ultimate Human Podcast.
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You know, we've had some really fascinating conversations over the last few days, and I appreciate you being willing to come and actually stay in the unit with me and spend so much time. We're off to Honduras here soon for some really interesting gene therapy injections. But, you know, one of the things that I really found fascinating about our discussion is that, you know,
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I was talking to you about how do you walk a patient through from where they are to being good, to being better, to being their absolute best? Because I think that a lot of people think the presence of health is just the simple absence of disease. And I think the functional medicine doctor
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would take issue with that and say, it's not just that you're not in a dizzy state, it's that you're in your most optimal state. So for someone listening to this podcast that is really interested in going as far as they can possibly go within the limits of evidence-based medicine, What would a journey like that look like? What would, you know, would there be testing in the beginning?
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And then would you progress to some of the biologics, peptides? What does a journey like that look like from whatever state that I'm in now to where I'm really optimized and setting myself up to live a life of, let's call it longevity, not aging?
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Yeah.
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You actually said that to me at the coffee maker this morning. I was like, I'm feeling pretty good on the top functional medicine experts. I like your biohacking, Pat. I think you got me.
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Hey guys, welcome back to the Ultimate Human Podcast. I'm your host, Gary Brekka, human biologist, where we go down the road of everything anti-aging, longevity, biohacking, and everything in between. And we are very, very blessed to have a good friend of mine.
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than a physician because they can weigh so many different independent variables.
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and then what then we're going to learn a lot we're going to learn exponentially more than we've ever known in the next five to ten years i would agree with that and what's exciting is as all of this data comes in because of artificial intelligence and the capacity to take large pools of data and create an actionable result you can for the first time sieve through it and really create something that's
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actually actionable you know one of the um genetics laboratories that that we work with takes 700 trillion independent variables and creates an actionable result when people how do you take 700 trillion independent variables well i mean if you look at your genome and you look at the possible variants in all of those sequences and the sub alleles and the and and and the gene snips these single nucleotide polymorphs and you and you try to make sense of it
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on a spreadsheet or in an Excel model, you just couldn't do it. But AI can take all of that information and create these actionable results. And I like how you described to me this morning, it has to start with the diet and the lifestyle changes. You don't fix the lifestyle, then you're just
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pushing down from the top right i mean you're you're just you're just fixing the consequences of lifestyle but once you fix those um and you've got let's say somebody's blood work in good condition you know their triglycerides are where they need to be cholesterol as well their hormones seem to be balanced they're not nutrient deficient any longer the big cardiac you know risk markers homocysteine c-reactive protein are all kind of normalized
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He's somewhat of a mentor to me, probably a mentor to a lot of physicians in the functional medicine space, an anesthesiologist that became a functional medicine icon. Welcome to the podcast, Dr. Cook. Thank you so much.
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So I wonder if we might just start with peptides as a treatment option and what they are, what they do, and why we should be using them and where you see it going.
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He was septic, you know, would have died if it was not.
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Yeah, exactly. But what was astounding, my wife did a post about this. She tagged the Mayo Clinic because when we walked in there, He's in the ICU for cancer treatment and he had jello with red dye 40 in it, like sugar-free jello, seagram soda, which was, you know, I spun the can around and like 54 grams of sugar and pureed applesauce. And that was- Poison. Choices of what to eat.
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You know that I always say that I believe the most impactful people in the world and by far and large, The most impactful people I've ever had on my podcast are always those people that have solved a major problem in their life. And when they solve this problem, it puts them on a path to God's purpose for them.
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And so I've now got him with a naturopathic oncologist, interventional radiologist, a full-blown medical oncologist. I'm surrounding him with an entire team. I have a cancer chef, basically, a clean keto chef. And then we're going to migrate him to really nutrient-dense microgreens. I'm shipping him a red life therapy bed. He's going into hyperbaric oxygen therapy. He's doing...
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He's going to do methylene blue. He's going to do regular EB02 ozone. Yeah, the EBU ozone. And he's going to do high-dose vitamin C. And I've got his permission to allow me to share his story in real time. And my intention is to be a part of the team that saves his life over the next six to 10 months. And we're just going to bring everybody along on this story.
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And I have a community called the VIP, Ultimate Humans. And what I've decided that I'm going to do is be really vulnerable and transparent with this community and take people from my own community that had mold, mycotoxins, metals, parasites, pathogens, viruses, and we're going to bring them up on stage.
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I'm going to match them with a functional practitioner, including, you know, and then I'll be a part of the case, not making medical decisions. And we are going to start telling the stories of the miracle of the human body in real time to give people hope. And that's why I'm so interested in your story.
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And that's why I also love a lot of the practical information that you put out that goes viral, just what I call lateral shifts where you show food choices and things like that. So I don't mean to interrupt your story with my own personal story, but It is just astounding to me how often, you know, this is happening.
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You know, very close relative with Dana White's, you know, I finished Dana White's journey. And, you know, he called me and said they're diagnosed stage four colon cancer. It's metastatic. She is, by the way, cancer free now, five months later with non-conventional therapies. And so to give the people that are listening to this hope, because everybody knows somebody
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It's one in five now.
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It's mind-numbing to me that 50% of us are going to develop cancer at some point in our lifetime. And I think when you boil it down to its simplest form and say, what is cancer? So first of all, it's not something that happens to us. It's something that happens within us. All cancer is a healthy cell that became metabolically sick.
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So why do we believe that healthy cells can become metabolically sick? But we don't believe that metabolically sick cells can become healthy, right? Yeah. So can you give me a little more detail about what you did on this journey? And then I want to get to what you're doing right now.
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And if you're okay with that.
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And they go fulfilling their purpose with passion and a level of commitment that is unmatched by anyone else in the industry. And sometimes they're practitioners. Sometimes they're scientists. Sometimes they're soccer moms and dads that just solve the problem in their life. And their level of passion and commitment goes beyond anything that you've ever seen. And today's guest is no exception.
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Modifiable risk factors is the point.
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I would say like the circulating tumor cells is like stage zero. Yeah. You know, because, you know, even stage one right now is, you know, when we say we have stage one, two, three, four. You know, even stage one right now is that's where it's already set up as a disease.
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Right. I mean, that's where the thief has already broken into your house and taken all your stuff. Right. It'd be nice to to, you know, arrest them before they've done anything.
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You probably saved your own life without realizing it.
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It at least slowed its growth and progression.
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Yeah. So more specifically, when you said I did red light, you did full body red light therapy multiple days a week. Were you doing like high dose vitamin C IV?
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So now you're in for the journey of a lifetime.
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Did you put yourself into ketosis?
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No stranger to that. So welcome to the podcast, Taylor Dukes.
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You started like 25 grams.
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Great.
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Was that a neurotic helmet? It's Weber.
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I've read about your story and I've been watching you online. And of course, we just walked around the biohacking lab here for a while. Like all my guests, we start running the podcast before the podcast starts.
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And diet-wise, when you put yourself into ketosis, because I always remind people there's dirty keto diets, there's clean keto diets, just like there's dirty vegetarian diets. Vegetarians can have beer, Doritos, pasta, mac and cheese. So I mean, there's dirty vegetarian diets, like there's dirty keto diets. When you were putting yourself in ketosis, what kind of fats were you using? I
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It's hard to get 75% of your caloric intake from fat, which is really a keto diet. Most people think that keto diet is a high protein, low carb diet. That's not.
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Right, right, right. And I mean, you can have a ribeye steak on there, but fatty ribeye, but you also, you're right. You need to have olive oil, coconut oil. It's more moderate protein.
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But here's the real magic about masa. Masa's corn goes through an ancient process called nixtamalization, which makes it way easier to digest and it amps up its nutrient profile. Plus, these chips are low in PUFAs, so you won't find any of the inflammatory seed oils that you find in most snacks.
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So tell me about that journey.
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And instead, masa uses pure Redmond sea salt, giving you a natural hit of minerals that keep your cells hydrated and your energy steady. So don't just snack. Reach for Masa. It's real food, real health without any of the junk. Grab a bag and I promise you'll feel the difference. Now let's get back to the Ultimate Human Podcast. Where do you fall on the cleansing bandwagon?
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And my team's like, say that on the podcast, say that on the podcast. But I would really love for my audience to get to know you for those that don't know you. And for you to talk a little bit about your journey, because I got to say your journey is one of the most unique, sadly, that we've had on this podcast. But I think it's going to inspire people with a lot of hope.
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Because I feel like, you know, again, just going back to the root of all cancer, which is a metabolically healthy cell becomes metabolically sick. Even though we rarely know exactly what caused it. I mean, if you had a massive... poison exposure or a massive amount of radiation or something, we can usually pinpoint what caused it. But that's very, very rare.
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Most people, their cancer diagnosis is, you know, idiopathic. It's of unknown origin. But the more I get down the rabbit hole of parasites, mold, mycotoxin, metals, and viruses, the more I realize a lot of these have a common origin. That's like the hub of the wheel.
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If you could just eliminate those four things or address those four things, mold, mycotoxin, virus, metals, then you're probably getting to the root of what wore your immune system out in the first place. and allow that circulating tumor cell to slip by. So you said you did a parasitic cleanse as well. So how did you, first of all, did you test for parasites?
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No way.
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Is this because of the outgassing of these? Or do you know why?
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Thalciclovir or something.
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The frequency scans can pick it up. I find that those are actually very good at picking those up, which is why I'm also a believer in frequency to address them. Like that HOCAP machine that we have is transdermal ozone, but it also has a rife frequency in it.
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Have you done a lot of Rife too?
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It's so good because I think, you know, you can empower people as well because, you know, so I sat and had the conversation with my friend this weekend with my wife, his mother, and, you know, he's in the bed in the ICU. We're hoping he's going to get discharged in the next few days. And I said, you know, we're going to commit this very differently.
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We have a team that's going to address your cancer. There's an interventional radiologist, there's a naturopathic oncologist, and there's an oncologist. And these people are qualified to practice that medicine. But then we have another team that's just caring for the host, just caring for you. Who's making your meals? What are you eating? What are you laying in?
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We need to start thinking about being in service to the body and that everything that's gonna enter your body from now on has got to be in service to you. The water you drink has to be intentional. The air you breathe has to be intentional, meaning let's filter the air and make sure that we're not getting mold spores or getting, you know, pet dander or things.
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You know, the bed you're sleeping in, the modalities that you're going to use, you know, all of these things are caring for the host. Because I don't think there's any law that says you have to be sick and emaciated and lose your hair and be – you know, sarcopenic and all of these things when you're going through cancer treatment.
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You know, the majority of the clients of mine that have gone through that, the journey was not that horrific for them.
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Yeah, you can do a lot of things. So were you doing anything to, I mean, obviously you're conscious of your diet. And before your surgery, did the tumor actually shrink?
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I mean, first of all, was your neurologist like, what in the- So I actually have the coolest neurosurgeon.
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I was literally just there.
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Yeah, I agree. I mean, just changing your diet alone is not going to save your life.
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I didn't even, like when I first saw you, I'm like, this chick's got a whole other brain for sure. No, just kidding. No, not at all.
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So they went in through the temporal side?
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Yeah.
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So no chemo, no radiation. And now post-surgery images are good.
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And he got, I mean, was it encapsulated? How did he get clean margins?
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Texas Christian.
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It was brain tissue.
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You know what was crazy? I put it on the sleep setting.
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the other day they they sent me one to evaluate and i was uh i was watching the super bowl yeah and so i just was like you know i might as well give this thing a whirl right now set i said like for the for the sleep setting and i woke up in the middle of the third quarter it was a good game to miss anyway the eagles and i won my back because i had the eagles had to score 24 points so so thank you hired us because i passed out and woke up and i was like
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Go Christians. Yeah.
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Been a lot of Jesus on the podcast lately.
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What kind of symptoms were you having?
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All cancer is a healthy cell that became metabolically sick. Why do we believe that healthy cells can become metabolically sick? But we don't believe that metabolically sick cells can become healthy.
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crackers for this Doritos for this and she gives you practical brands I actually did a little research and sleuthing around and the majority of her swaps are are dollar cost neutral um like or very slight increases in cost like it's not like you're going from a two dollar option to a fifteen dollar yeah going from a two dollar option to a two dollar and fifty cent um option which was really cool and
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And I was deeply appreciative of that because I think a lot of times there's just not good practical information on, all right, listen, I'm a busy mom. I got to walk into the grocery store. Just tell me what to do. And I love that. So I was actually even looking at the M&M swap and the one that I looked up, the one that you swapped.
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really uh they're actually colored with like beet juice and spirulina and like um blueberry and one was like grapeseed peel and i was like this is amazing i didn't know candies could do this a lot of countries have outlawed it and so it's like this is the one thing and my kids know like my sons play baseball and they're like yeah we don't drink gatorade we just drink mom's electrolytes and they're cool with it you know and by the way they're great um and one of your electrolytes made for me
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That's so awesome. I should throw them on the podcast. I had my nieces on the podcast a few months ago.
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And it went crazy viral. For a while, my team was like, I don't know if this is on brand. I'm like, no, this is great. Let's throw it out there. Malia wanted to do it. I'll give Malia credit. I love it. And they were just so attentive and alert and engaged. I mean, even I was sitting there interviewing them, like, you guys are really smart. But they talked about, like, from a kid's perspective.
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And if you're a mom or dad and you've got young kids and you want them to be educated like her kids or like my kids, brother and sister-in-laws, watch that podcast because they feel super empowered. And they were really happy about it.
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Yeah, they're passionate about it. And she's like, they bring their grapes and their own little snack bags. And when the candies and cookies and pastries and pies and brownies and all are being passed around, they're having their own snacks and they're fine with it. And it's kind of like their individuality. And they don't feel like they're missing out. And other kids don't tease them.
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They actually feel like, you know, I'm an individual. This is my thing that I do. And what's really interesting is they even talked about how their friends get really curious. Well, why don't my parents have me do that? I want to do that too. And so it has kind of the opposite effect of what I thought, you know? Yeah. And there's a replacement for all of these things.
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You can take Doritos and have masa chips.
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Yeah, no, I think that's so important. And I think the best thing that you can do is you can educate your kids so that they can be independent. You give them that independence and your kids could probably go into a grocery store and figure out what it is that they wanna eat. So, you know, now in your is your practice active? I mean, are you retired? OK, so you're retired.
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Right. No, that's so awesome. Well, so tell my community how they can find you.
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T-A-Y-L-O-R.
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Wellness on Instagram. And your community, it's a paid community?
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When you say after I healed, how did you-
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That's amazing. So I wind down all my podcasts by asking my guests the same question. Then we're going to go into my, I have a VIP community too. So when the podcast is over, we're going to go into the VIP room and just allow them to ask direct questions. Because I really believe in building this community because...
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Go on that journey.
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I don't think that we can make a real change in the world just by putting out information. I think you have to affect the habits of people's lives. If you want to lose weight, you have to adopt the habits of somebody who's interested in losing weight. It's not just enough to have a goal to lose weight.
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And I want to do something very similar to what you're doing, and that is build a community, hundreds of thousands of like-minded, highly educated people that can go out and empower other people to make changes in their life. And that's how we do it. In fact, I think the day of the celebrity influencer and the online influencer are over, if not severely numbered.
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If you aren't building a community, I don't think you're really in service to that.
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Yeah. Yeah. We did the same thing. And I, and I encourage all of my peers in my, you know, and in the industry to do the same thing because people are looking for guidance and, you know, and a like-minded community to spend, spend time with. And it's, it's really empowering to do that. So, um, so here's the question. You ready? Okay.
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What is it? What does it mean to you to be an ultimate human?
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Couldn't agree with you more.
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I'm going to have you back on the podcast. I love following your journey. My community is going to love you. You're sweet. You ready to go into the Ultimate Human VIP community and take some questions?
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Let's go fire it up. And if you're interested in becoming an Ultimate Human VIP, just go to theultimatehuman.com. You can sign up there. Join my VIP community. You can cancel at any time. This is where we pour ourselves into you guys. We answer your questions. I open up live Q&As. I always give them access to my guests. We're going to bring in functional medicine practitioners that do cases.
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We do Q&As. We do challenges. We do all kinds of things together. And we're even planning our first big experience together as a community. So head over to TheUltimateHuman.com and sign up to join my Ultimate Human VIP community. Until next time, that's just science.
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Wow. Because I was thinking mold, mycotoxin, heavy metal parasite.
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I'm actually doing a parapurge cleanse right now.
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Yeah. God forgive it. You talk about ivermectin. Yeah.
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Yeah.
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I mean, yeah. High intensity interval training is great for you.
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Wow. That's so awesome. But then you had. a monumentous shift, right? I mean, people think that's the journey. That was not the journey.
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Yeah, that was healing 1.0. And this is what really maybe sparked you to really go more of a functional medicine route, right, in your life. Because, you know, what's really interesting is I love this term lifestyle medicine. It's becoming more in vogue. I still don't hear the term that much. You're functional medicine.
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And I think lifestyle medicine is the medicine where you modify the modifiable risk factors, right? Before you even intervene with any kind of even supplements or pharmaceuticals or synthetics or chemicals or modalities or anything, you change the
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We need to start thinking about being in service to the body and that everything that's going to enter your body from now on has got to be in service to you.
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the lifestyle, because in my background in big data, we realized that the reason why the majority of people are not living longer, healthier, happier, more fulfilling lives were because of what we called modifiable risk factors. And that's essentially what started your career, which is amazing because given the timeframe of that, this practitioner was ahead of their time.
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I mean, that's outside the box to really start thinking about, gluten, sleep, stress, relationships, you know, all of these things that are the basic foundational principles of optimal health before, like you said, I went to every doctor.
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So let's move on to the second part of your journey. You're a functional practitioner. You're licensed. You're a nurse. You're practicing. You're actually practicing under a renowned physician that I'm very familiar with. I obviously think the world of Dr. Hyman. He's been here. He's actually one of my mentors and doesn't even know it. Well, he knows it now because I told him, but.
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I think he's written what is 15th New York Times bestselling book. He's incredible. I've probably read them all. So now you're in this world and this is what is super fascinating to me. Yeah. So pick up the story from there.
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Very familiar.
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So I'm trying to put I'm trying to actually bring them to the Middle East right now because I love it. I'm a huge fan.
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Yeah.
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Wow. And you said it was the size of a plum.
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How did it displace that much gray matter and you were having no symptoms?
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Did you see this image yourself? I mean, did your heart just drop?
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OK, so now you're in for the journey of a lifetime.
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Right. So tell me about that journey.
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Right, right, right. I do, too, just because of all the people I've worked with.
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Hey guys, welcome back to the Ultimate Human Podcast. I'm your host, Gary Brekka, human biologist, where we go down the road of everything anti-aging, biohacking, longevity, and everything in between. And today's guest is gonna be really, really impactful for you because of the journey that she's had and now the mission that she's on.
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Did you go down and stay down there?
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Now, a lot of these you can do here. You can do you can do hyperbarics, turmeric, methylene blue. Yeah, you could do. I mean, I have all this stuff.
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You know, and I actually want to go down this this this cancer bandwagon. I mean, obviously, I'm I'm not licensed to practice medicine. I'm I'm a human biologist. And I I emphasize that all the time. But yeah. I have found myself in the middle of so many clients with cancer lately. It is mind numbing.
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This morning I was in the sauna right before you got here on the phone with my CFO and my attorney and my attorney at the end of the call said, hey, do you have an extra few minutes? I got something personal I want to talk to you about. And he says, listen, I have a very good friend. just diagnosed with stage four metastatic colon cancer.
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It's in the liver and the lymph, and he's already got a colostomy bag the day that he found out. Last night, I flew in from Scottsdale because my best friend of 35 years is in the Mayo Clinic Oncology Center. He's in the ICU now. 35 years, he's been my best friend. We were lifeguards when we were 19 years old. Stage four metastatic colon cancer.
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and it spread to all of the lethal three L's, the lymph, the liver, and the lungs. And I was in the room and, you know, around his mom, my wife Sage was there, you know, when Mayo came in and said the hard things to him. And they, this is not even 24 hours old, but basically, Ten-year survival is zero. Five-year survival, 2%.
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Right now, we're talking about prolonging your life, not saving your life. Massive chemotherapy, radiation, colonectomy, colostomy bag, you know, the whole nine yards. And so I went out to provide him an alternative. And I said... First of all, it's good that you're hearing this from Mayo. And Mayo's done, for the record, an excellent job of keeping him alive.
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Yeah, so Dr. Paul Saladino and I have formed an unbelievable friendship, you know, over the last few years, not just being in the same industry, but spending a lot of time in close proximity and really seeing that he practices what he preaches, that I practice what I preach.
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Yeah, yeah. I think it's going to. And if you and I have anything to do about it, you know, it will. I mean, you know, I'm so excited to see the Make America Healthy movement taking off and having a shot at really affecting public policy because, you know, our public policy research really should be independent.
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I mean, that should be taxpayer-funded, independent, you know, third-party research, you know, done through the public university system. and completely independent, when you start to bring in private sector funding and you privatize the profits from these and then you socialize the expense, then you're just creating a problem.
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And I don't think anybody would argue their health care system is broken. You know, $4.5 trillion a year in health care. leading the world in morbid obesity, type 2 diabetes, infant mortality, maternal mortality. We're actually ranked 60th. When I started my podcast, we were ranked 58th. We're now ranked 60th in the world.
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We actually were talking right before the camera started rolling about how there are, and it's hard to get your arms around this, but there are third world nations, third world countries that actually have longer life expectancies than us. It's wild. And by third world, these are people that don't have consistent access to sanitation, to sanitary, clean drinking water.
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They might not have consistent access to sanitary sewage systems, removing the waste and sewage from close proximity to where they live. But they also don't have a lot of access to highly processed foods, seed oils. They're By default, eating whole foods.
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And it's astounding when you think someone living in a first world nation like the United States that spends $4.5 trillion a year on health care is actually not outliving somebody that is essentially living outside under a tin roof, bathing in a stream where the cows bathe and defecate. It's pretty, it says a lot about the state of affairs of where we are.
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129. Paul Saladino, MD: Why 'Heart-Healthy' Seed Oils Are Actually Poison
So what are, what is the, so you have this oxidized oil. And I think you could probably make the same argument for burned meat, you know, nitrates, a lot of other things that can happen when, you know, if you overcook things or overchar things or, but you have this highly oxidized oil. It gets into the body. And then what happens?
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And, you know, every time we meet in the morning, you know, I caught him this morning getting his sunlight and doing his stretches outside on the balcony. the sun. I was like, hey, I'm getting ready to go out there and do my breath work myself. He comes back in. He goes, let me show you my morning elixir. He starts breaking open these capsules of testicle and B vitamins and honey.
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I mean, I know we all know inflammation is bad, but what is it about the inflammation that is bad? What is it that is it doing to the endothelial lining of the artery? Or how is it creating this contact surface that is attracting cholesterol? Which I think a lot of people don't realize that cholesterol is called to the site of inflammation. It's usually called to repair a tissue.
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It doesn't just magically just jump out of the bloodstream and stick to the wall. I don't think it doesn't do that.
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So a lot of physicians would consider that high, above 99?
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We've had raw colostrum over the last few days. I feel amazing. We just started going back and forth about a recent documentary that he published, which is phenomenal. I'm going to put the link in the show notes below. You've got to watch this documentary, which I
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I mean, they're everywhere. Potato chips, nearly every dressing that you pull off of the shelf in breads.
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I think finally closes the chapter on seed oils and the inflammatory nature of these oils and their implications in many of the chronic disease conditions that we are blaming on other natural compounds in the body like cholesterol. And that is not to say that we shouldn't keep an eye on cholesterol, but my point is that we have been blaming the firemen for the fire. for too many years.
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129. Paul Saladino, MD: Why 'Heart-Healthy' Seed Oils Are Actually Poison
We want to make it so simple that LDL high, cardiovascular risk high, LDL low, cardiovascular risk low. So all you have to do is hammer this down. And you know, it's, it's, it is astounding to me that most of the time we're actually not talking about LDL the toxic soup that we're bathing our cellular biology in.
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We want to continue to bathe our cellular biology in this toxic soup and then come down on top of it with a chemical or a synthetic or a pharmaceutical and allow that to be the answer without actually changing the habitual pattern that it brought you there.
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129. Paul Saladino, MD: Why 'Heart-Healthy' Seed Oils Are Actually Poison
I mean, a lot of times when people talk to me about really wanting to lose weight, I walk them through, not to sound harsh, but why are you so fat? Let's figure out why you're so heavy. And then let's not do that. And in the process of doing that, we're also going to put some components in place to make sure that you lose weight quickly and safely and everything else.
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129. Paul Saladino, MD: Why 'Heart-Healthy' Seed Oils Are Actually Poison
But to reframe the way that we talk about the state of the condition that we're in, if you've got metabolic syndrome, the answer isn't, okay, well, let's add insulin and metformin and...
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and beta blocker, calcium channel blocker, diuretic, blood thinner, is not to take the results of this toxic soup and start to manage it with synthetics and chemicals and pharmaceuticals, but it's to say, how did we get into this condition?
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In the first place.
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And I think as I became more and more aware of seed oils, I mean, I have to say for the consumer, it's hard. Yeah. It is difficult to walk down a grocery store aisle, and the deception, in my opinion, in food labeling, too. Heart Healthy is right on the seed oil bottle, by the way, brother.
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And the notion that if we had less firemen, we'd have fewer fires is simply a fallacy. And the large data is starting to prove that. So, Paul, I would love it if you would just give us a little background on the documentary, like what led to it, and give us an overview of what we're going to see in the documentary.
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129. Paul Saladino, MD: Why 'Heart-Healthy' Seed Oils Are Actually Poison
And I specifically want to go down in detail the road of seed oils, because just yesterday, one of the biggest, you know, gurus, longevity gurus in our space. We just talked about it. I won't name any names. You posted that seed oils were safe.
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129. Paul Saladino, MD: Why 'Heart-Healthy' Seed Oils Are Actually Poison
It makes no sense with the big data because you would think with... The parabolic rise in statins, you would have a parabolic reduction in cardiovascular disease. It's still the number one killer worldwide. We don't see much of a reduction at all in cardiovascular disease despite the revolution of statins.
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So we are well capable of controlling cholesterol, but we're not capable of controlling the...
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cardiovascular disease so is it possible this is just why i want to open people's minds because you know your primary care physician might you know staunchly disagree with us is it possible that um we've been actually firing the magic bullet at the wrong target absolutely um you know i i think that we have you want to talk about a pandemic i think we have a pandemic in this country of holding organs responsible for crimes they didn't commit we do this with the thyroid we do this with the heart we do this with the you know most people that have
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129. Paul Saladino, MD: Why 'Heart-Healthy' Seed Oils Are Actually Poison
you know, cardiovascular diagnoses of, let's say, hypertension, you know, essential hypertension or, you know, type two hypertension, whatever you want to call it. These people that have essential hypertension, 85% of the time, their origin is idiopathic, meaning it's of unknown origin. And so when we don't know the origin, How do we know the organ to hold responsible?
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129. Paul Saladino, MD: Why 'Heart-Healthy' Seed Oils Are Actually Poison
It always fascinates me when we say things like, well, you've got high blood pressure. We don't know why, but we're going to medicate the heart. Well, what did you find wrong with the heart? Nothing. So why are we medicating the heart? Well, because we don't have anything else to do. But if you don't know the... Origin, how do we go after the organ?
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129. Paul Saladino, MD: Why 'Heart-Healthy' Seed Oils Are Actually Poison
And so I think that, you know, I've been deep down the rabbit hole of this lately. And it's, I think the, you know, most of the answers to human physiology are a little more complex and a lot less linear than I think modern medicine likes to make them, right? We're an ecosystem. Human beings thrive in communities. Our cells thrive in communities.
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129. Paul Saladino, MD: Why 'Heart-Healthy' Seed Oils Are Actually Poison
Very often what we do is we take cells out of the body. We study them in a Petri dish. We look how they behave in a lab or in certain media, manipulated media. And then we assume that when we put that cell back into the human body, it's going to behave the same way. And it doesn't because you have this giant community.
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129. Paul Saladino, MD: Why 'Heart-Healthy' Seed Oils Are Actually Poison
And I think what you're talking about is the cause and effect, like the downstream effect of... Highly processed foods, highly refined sugars, and then all of the direct insults. Forget the hormone disruptors and everything that we're putting on our skin, but the fake food dyes, the pesticides, the herbicides, the insecticides, the preservatives. All of these things are entering this community.
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They're actually pretty good. We put it in raw milk and then we added honey.
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in our cellular biology. And they are wreaking havoc on its capacity to communicate and exchange with its outside environment. It's clogging up our proton pumps. It's actually interrupting our cell walls and our cell membranes. And when you do this at such a microscopic level, Because we're just a thriving community of these organisms, you get these macroscopic results.
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129. Paul Saladino, MD: Why 'Heart-Healthy' Seed Oils Are Actually Poison
And then we oversimplify it by saying it's just one thing, right? And so... Anyway, I digress a little bit. So let's go back. We put these in. They're pro-inflammatory. And in your case, what you mean by pro-inflammatory is they can actually embed themselves into the cell membrane, which is a lipid bilayer, by the way, for the folks that are...
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129. Paul Saladino, MD: Why 'Heart-Healthy' Seed Oils Are Actually Poison
you know, what's around your cells is something called a phospholipid bilayer, which is sort of a little ring of fat, if you will. And not all fat is created equal. And when these highly oxidized fats get into those cell membranes, they have a hard time getting out. And that cell membrane is super important because it's the gateway from the interior to the exterior.
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129. Paul Saladino, MD: Why 'Heart-Healthy' Seed Oils Are Actually Poison
You know, all of the good stuff is out in the serum of your blood. We got to bring it in. Sometimes there's waste and by waste, I mean cellular waste that's got to get out. And if you interrupt these channels, now you have a metabolically unhealthy cell. And we know, for example, that all cancer It's a metabolic shift in the cell, right? It's all connected. It's also connected.
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129. Paul Saladino, MD: Why 'Heart-Healthy' Seed Oils Are Actually Poison
It's also connected. Guys, let me let you in on one of my favorite snack foods. This is masa chips. If you actually look at the back of the ingredients here, you'll see things that you read and pronounce and understand. Non-GMO corn, organic beef, grass-fed tallow, and sea salt. That's it. Sea salt, beef tallow, and organic non-GMO corn.
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129. Paul Saladino, MD: Why 'Heart-Healthy' Seed Oils Are Actually Poison
Those are the kinds of ingredients we should be using to fuel our body. Those are whole foods in their natural state. I love these. They come in four or five flavors. These are great for your kids. You can replace your Doritos and your other seed oil laden chips with these. They're not super high in sodium, but they do use a little Redmond sea salt. It's mineral rich.
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129. Paul Saladino, MD: Why 'Heart-Healthy' Seed Oils Are Actually Poison
And you know how much I talk about minerals and the need for the body to actually have the 91 essential minerals. We can get these from natural salts. So imagine combining natural salts with organic grass-fed beef tallow and non-GMO corn. This is a perfect snack. This is guilt-free eating. You can replace Doritos. You can actually make nachos with these. All guilt-free. Feed these to your kids.
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I keep them on my shelf. Keep them around. It'll become your favorite snack. Now let's get back to the Ultimate Human Podcast.
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129. Paul Saladino, MD: Why 'Heart-Healthy' Seed Oils Are Actually Poison
Yeah, let's talk about that.
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129. Paul Saladino, MD: Why 'Heart-Healthy' Seed Oils Are Actually Poison
Paul left to go out to dinner last night. And as soon as he left, I slowly poured the cream off the top.
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129. Paul Saladino, MD: Why 'Heart-Healthy' Seed Oils Are Actually Poison
That's a price to stay at my house.
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129. Paul Saladino, MD: Why 'Heart-Healthy' Seed Oils Are Actually Poison
And you know what I find is that a lot of randomized clinical trials essentially end up proving what we know ancestrally from nature. You know, it always takes us back to the basics.
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129. Paul Saladino, MD: Why 'Heart-Healthy' Seed Oils Are Actually Poison
It's interesting how it comes full circle. You know, we go deep down into isolating the oils and their origin and whether or not they're processed or not. And it just basically gravitates us back towards the basic whole foods.
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129. Paul Saladino, MD: Why 'Heart-Healthy' Seed Oils Are Actually Poison
Like, how can you go wrong eating simple?
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129. Paul Saladino, MD: Why 'Heart-Healthy' Seed Oils Are Actually Poison
Yeah. So I want to go down the road of supplementation, right? I mean, we have essential fatty acids. We have essential amino acids, you know, essential meaning they're necessary for life. I don't think many people are not getting these, but there's so many different fatty acid supplements, fish oil supplements, black seed oil supplements. I know plenty of people...
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129. Paul Saladino, MD: Why 'Heart-Healthy' Seed Oils Are Actually Poison
that do a shot of really good olive oil first thing in the morning, which I'm actually a fan of. I need enough of it that I don't have to do it, but I'm a fan of people that don't get enough doing that. So what are...
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129. Paul Saladino, MD: Why 'Heart-Healthy' Seed Oils Are Actually Poison
First of all, can you give a little explanation of the difference between an omega-3 fatty acid and an omega-6 fatty acid and why the ratio is important and where we get omega-3s and 6s? And if somebody is listening to this and they want to start taking a BPA or DHEA or needs to take a fatty acid supplement, what do you recommend or do you recommend getting it from diet?
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129. Paul Saladino, MD: Why 'Heart-Healthy' Seed Oils Are Actually Poison
Where does the omega-6 come from?
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129. Paul Saladino, MD: Why 'Heart-Healthy' Seed Oils Are Actually Poison
Right.
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129. Paul Saladino, MD: Why 'Heart-Healthy' Seed Oils Are Actually Poison
And then you're making sauces out of corn and soy.
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129. Paul Saladino, MD: Why 'Heart-Healthy' Seed Oils Are Actually Poison
And what's the consequences of all of this linoleic acid? Is it because it's composition of the cell membrane?
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129. Paul Saladino, MD: Why 'Heart-Healthy' Seed Oils Are Actually Poison
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129. Paul Saladino, MD: Why 'Heart-Healthy' Seed Oils Are Actually Poison
Now let's get back to the Ultimate Human Podcast. You know, what's interesting too is that I don't advocate really, really hardcore dogmatic carnivore diets, but for periods of time, I've used things like Keto Reset, Carnivore Reset. people's energy level goes through the roof. And I know that is a lot of it is eliminating the bad. Right. Right. I mean, that's probably 70% of it.
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129. Paul Saladino, MD: Why 'Heart-Healthy' Seed Oils Are Actually Poison
The other is the presence of the good. Um, and I don't think that I've had a client that, um, I've put on one of these reset programs, including Dana White, uh, that went through it for 10 weeks. Um,
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129. Paul Saladino, MD: Why 'Heart-Healthy' Seed Oils Are Actually Poison
that didn't report like significant increases in energy, significant increases in mental clarity, significant reduction of gut related issues, even if their gut related issues were mild and some were very severe. I mean, borderline pathological diverticulitis, Crohn's, irritable bowel syndrome, ulcerative colitis, like really complicated concepts in the bowel.
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129. Paul Saladino, MD: Why 'Heart-Healthy' Seed Oils Are Actually Poison
And you see reductions in almost as though it's healing that single cell layer in the luminal wall of the intestine too, because you actually do see inflammatory markers like C-reactive protein go down. And I see improvements in alkaline phosphatase. I see increases in EGFRs, these glomerular filtration rates, which is another sort of ancillary sign that inflammation is dropping.
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129. Paul Saladino, MD: Why 'Heart-Healthy' Seed Oils Are Actually Poison
As you reduce inflammation, you can increase the filtration rate, lower the poison levels. So what's interesting is when you move people onto these transition diets, and the one that you just told me about is pretty aggressive, sugar and white rice. I'm not advocating for that. That one really caught me off guard.
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129. Paul Saladino, MD: Why 'Heart-Healthy' Seed Oils Are Actually Poison
It's low fat. It illustrates the point. You actually see... It's like the tide raises and lowers all the ship. You see increased thyroid production of T4 starts to rise. C-reactive protein goes down. Homocysteine levels drop. Filtration rates increase in the kidneys. You see, obviously, hemoglobin A1C, three-month averages of blood sugar going down, fasting insulin reducing...
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129. Paul Saladino, MD: Why 'Heart-Healthy' Seed Oils Are Actually Poison
overall insulin levels reducing, even alkaline phosphatase and liver enzyme levels, AST, GGT, you know, ALT, these sort of secondary markers of inflammation in the liver, you know. And not that all these levels collapse, but if you compare labs 10 weeks apart and all you did was really put them on something like a carnivore diet,
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129. Paul Saladino, MD: Why 'Heart-Healthy' Seed Oils Are Actually Poison
or in some cases a keto reset, you see this systemic improvement in all of these levels. And that's probably a podcast for another time, the gut being the gateway to the rest of the body. But I have seen those results in patients too. And a lot of it is probably eliminating these seed oils. But the positive effects are rather immediate.
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129. Paul Saladino, MD: Why 'Heart-Healthy' Seed Oils Are Actually Poison
You're making orange juice in the rings.
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129. Paul Saladino, MD: Why 'Heart-Healthy' Seed Oils Are Actually Poison
And you're not afraid of the fructose, fructose in the blueberries. And it's really the combination of having the glucose and the fructose together. I think the body's metabolizing those, not just the presence of fructose on its own.
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129. Paul Saladino, MD: Why 'Heart-Healthy' Seed Oils Are Actually Poison
Because a lot of people attack blueberries.
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129. Paul Saladino, MD: Why 'Heart-Healthy' Seed Oils Are Actually Poison
Yeah.
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129. Paul Saladino, MD: Why 'Heart-Healthy' Seed Oils Are Actually Poison
Yeah. And that's usually a genetic, more of a genetic predisposition. I actually have high LP little a and my cholesterol levels are great. And I'm very cautious about what I eat. So I take Bergamot O, I take slow release niacin. That's helped. I've done TPE, total plasma exchange.
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129. Paul Saladino, MD: Why 'Heart-Healthy' Seed Oils Are Actually Poison
Yeah, I totally agree. Well, what else is exciting you, man? What's new with Paul Saladino? Man, I think that all of this is super exciting for me. I mean, the ability to affect public policy research, we talk about this all the time, is maybe to be...
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129. Paul Saladino, MD: Why 'Heart-Healthy' Seed Oils Are Actually Poison
Oh, yeah, yeah. No, no, I did just see that he was appointed.
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129. Paul Saladino, MD: Why 'Heart-Healthy' Seed Oils Are Actually Poison
I'm very interested in that because a lot of folks that are watching this, you know, that have... They worry about LPLA.
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129. Paul Saladino, MD: Why 'Heart-Healthy' Seed Oils Are Actually Poison
Five lobbyists, according to Cali Means. I mean, five lobbyists for every member of Congress. This is crazy. It's mind-blowing. Can you imagine just five people whose 40-hour work week is designed to do nothing but influence your decision?
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129. Paul Saladino, MD: Why 'Heart-Healthy' Seed Oils Are Actually Poison
And you know what I find is that a lot of randomized clinical trials essentially end up proving what we know ancestrally from nature. It always takes us back to the basics.
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129. Paul Saladino, MD: Why 'Heart-Healthy' Seed Oils Are Actually Poison
I mean, the amount of inbound that you must have to deal with. Just— five people assigned just to you for a single sector of what you're working on as a congressional service person. I mean, it's pretty intense. And I think there's a lot of light being shed on this now, the corruption in the food supply, the corruption in the nutritional research, the conflicts of interest, if not worse.
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129. Paul Saladino, MD: Why 'Heart-Healthy' Seed Oils Are Actually Poison
What's interesting, you know, before we get on this road is, and we talked about this before, is, you know, in the mortality space, when we were doing mortality research tables, when we were building these probabilistic models, it was very apparent to us that the people that were living the longest...
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129. Paul Saladino, MD: Why 'Heart-Healthy' Seed Oils Are Actually Poison
And look, the amount of damage that the corruption causes is really what's sickening. I think politicians have been taking money for favors for decades, but
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129. Paul Saladino, MD: Why 'Heart-Healthy' Seed Oils Are Actually Poison
This is especially troublesome, especially in the era where we have the highest rates of childhood cancer that we've ever had, highest rates of childhood obesity that we've ever had, the most skyrocketing rates of autism, Asperger's, ADD, ADHD, OCD, manic depression, bipolar. These conditions that you just never heard of. 30 or 40 years ago, 50 years ago that are now so prevalent.
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129. Paul Saladino, MD: Why 'Heart-Healthy' Seed Oils Are Actually Poison
You know, I remember RFK made a statement, it really hit home with me. He said, when I graduated high school and I graduated high school in 1988, so I'm really dating myself there. You know, I just, I didn't know when autistic
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129. Paul Saladino, MD: Why 'Heart-Healthy' Seed Oils Are Actually Poison
child um i didn't have any autistic friends i didn't know what that was and i didn't know someone who knew someone who was my 16 year old knows 10 kids in her school she could name 10 people that openly you know have autism or they're in in in um uh programs that are related to you know autistic children or or uh kids with other kinds of neuroinflammatory conditions
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129. Paul Saladino, MD: Why 'Heart-Healthy' Seed Oils Are Actually Poison
And you think, wow, that's super anecdotal, but in my mind, it went from zero to one to 10.
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129. Paul Saladino, MD: Why 'Heart-Healthy' Seed Oils Are Actually Poison
When someone has autism... It wasn't socially unpopular like some of the sexual choices today. It wasn't that people were hiding it. It was that they just didn't have... You don't exhibit it.
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129. Paul Saladino, MD: Why 'Heart-Healthy' Seed Oils Are Actually Poison
all had, and I'm just picking one isolated portion of cholesterol, but they all had elevated levels of LDL cholesterol at the time of their death. We would process a lot of death claims on folks that were, at the time that they passed, they were in nursing homes, and they actually, we did have blood work on them.
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129. Paul Saladino, MD: Why 'Heart-Healthy' Seed Oils Are Actually Poison
To continue the corruption at that level with that kind of expense is astounding to me.
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129. Paul Saladino, MD: Why 'Heart-Healthy' Seed Oils Are Actually Poison
It's more addictive and it... And it's nutrient-deprived, so it's less satiating, right? And if you look at the mechanisms for GLP-1, they have a lot to do with the nutrient density of food releasing the GLP-1, giving us that satiation response.
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129. Paul Saladino, MD: Why 'Heart-Healthy' Seed Oils Are Actually Poison
So if you don't release the GLP-1, if you don't create a satiation response, you're now just eating the same volume and caloric intake, and you're still hungry because your brain is like, I still need... beta-carotene and iron, and I need a complex of B vitamins. I'm nutrient deficient, so let's keep putting stuff in so I can just get the basics of what I need. I mean, inherently, we know that.
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129. Paul Saladino, MD: Why 'Heart-Healthy' Seed Oils Are Actually Poison
I think it's so crazy that we push down on the top of this pandemic of obesity rather than pushing up from the bottom you know i mean again it's the toxic soup we're bathing our cellular biology and not just this magic you know obesity sort of you know i i think i think classifying it as a disease makes people think it happened to them
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129. Paul Saladino, MD: Why 'Heart-Healthy' Seed Oils Are Actually Poison
Yeah. You know what I mean? Like I caught this, like I caught the flu. Right. Right.
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129. Paul Saladino, MD: Why 'Heart-Healthy' Seed Oils Are Actually Poison
You took a long flight and then, you know, the next morning you woke up and you got a sore throat or, you know, you're sick. I mean, that, that, that, the influenza happened to you. Diabetes didn't happen to you. Right. It happened within you. And I think that if we can sort of shift the narrative a little bit, you know, get physical education back in the public school system.
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129. Paul Saladino, MD: Why 'Heart-Healthy' Seed Oils Are Actually Poison
Yeah, put them in the sun, put kids outside.
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129. Paul Saladino, MD: Why 'Heart-Healthy' Seed Oils Are Actually Poison
I saw Tim Gray from the UK did a post the other day where he actually showed a study that prisoners, incarcerated prisoners, get more sunlight on a daily basis than grade school children because they're actually required by law to be outside for an hour. They're given an hour outside every day.
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129. Paul Saladino, MD: Why 'Heart-Healthy' Seed Oils Are Actually Poison
And I don't recall a time, there may have been, but I don't recall a time where we processed a death claim on a centenarian, someone over the age of 100, that did not have clinically elevated levels of LDL cholesterol at the time of their death. And so we actually didn't use randomized clinical trials. We used big data.
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129. Paul Saladino, MD: Why 'Heart-Healthy' Seed Oils Are Actually Poison
Whereas kids go from a covered house to a covered garage to a covered car to a covered school, staying there all day. and then go to a covered car, to a covered garage, back to a covered house. And we just, you know, wonder why we're facing a lot of these crises. And eventually, the research is just going to, again, it's going to bring us back to the basics.
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129. Paul Saladino, MD: Why 'Heart-Healthy' Seed Oils Are Actually Poison
Something like grounding, you know, movement, exercise, whole foods, and, you know, the possibility of even cleaning up the public school food. You know, like when they made the announcement that
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129. Paul Saladino, MD: Why 'Heart-Healthy' Seed Oils Are Actually Poison
Come on. What are we doing? Tell me what gene in the GM carries the fat gene.
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129. Paul Saladino, MD: Why 'Heart-Healthy' Seed Oils Are Actually Poison
I don't know. I've spent the balance of my adult lifetime studying epigenetics and I don't know about that gene.
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129. Paul Saladino, MD: Why 'Heart-Healthy' Seed Oils Are Actually Poison
It's genetic, Gary. You can't avoid it. We say it's genetic very often when it runs in families. And a lot of times that's another fallacy is that because things run in families, they're genetic. And that's absolutely patently false. I mean, there are certainly conditions that are genetically inherited, but significantly less than we've been led to believe.
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129. Paul Saladino, MD: Why 'Heart-Healthy' Seed Oils Are Actually Poison
And one of them is definitely not obesity. I think you can be predisposed, but the predisposition is not a predetermination. You can put somebody without the fat gene in the wrong environment, and they're going to be obese. When I would go to Disney World or Universal Studios,
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129. Paul Saladino, MD: Why 'Heart-Healthy' Seed Oils Are Actually Poison
But I want to get back to the seed oils, and I want to sort of walk people through this because I think inherently people think sunflower, good. rapeseed. It's a plant. Good. We're never eaten by humans. We can talk about rapeseed. I know the whole evolution of industrial, but I'm just saying for the general public, I see soybean oil. Soybeans are healthy. Sunflower oil. Sunflowers are great.
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129. Paul Saladino, MD: Why 'Heart-Healthy' Seed Oils Are Actually Poison
I always tell the story of I spoke at Access Hollywood one time, and I was walking from the back of the park where they picked me up to the studio. And as we're cruising through the park, I mean, you want to see what bad shape we're in as middle America? Just go to Disney World and just take a look around.
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129. Paul Saladino, MD: Why 'Heart-Healthy' Seed Oils Are Actually Poison
And I made a comment about the fanny packs that people were wearing, and I was like, what's with the fanny packs? pandemic. And I was just making a joke because everybody I saw had a fan pack on. And the security guard just very flippantly said, oh, that's because they can't put their hands in their pockets. And I was like, whoa, dude, you're right.
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129. Paul Saladino, MD: Why 'Heart-Healthy' Seed Oils Are Actually Poison
They actually can't get their hands in their pockets. But my other point is that you could see the lineage. There was like a beast grandma in the motorized wheelchair. very often with a two liter of soda in the basket. Oh yeah. And then, um, you know, mom is, you know, kind of waddling not far behind and then, uh, rather obese 12, 13 year old kid.
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129. Paul Saladino, MD: Why 'Heart-Healthy' Seed Oils Are Actually Poison
Um, and I don't think the grandmother passed the gene to the mother, passed it to the son. I think you look at the, you know, the epigenetic.
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129. Paul Saladino, MD: Why 'Heart-Healthy' Seed Oils Are Actually Poison
And then he's sitting on a, you know, uh, uh, uh, bench with a funnel cake and a 64-ounce Big Gold. And I'm running the math in my head. I'm like, 64 ounces of soda. Okay, so that's 29 teaspoons of soda. Okay, so that's because it's five sodas. Sugar, yeah. So like running the math. And a funnel cake is just white flour deep fried in seed oils with 10X sugar. Yeah.
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129. Paul Saladino, MD: Why 'Heart-Healthy' Seed Oils Are Actually Poison
And he's just, that's what's going in. I'm just like, you know, and of course he's sniffling and wiping his face. And I just felt I felt bad and I felt like how uninformed these people must be, because, you know, if you if you went to that mother, she loves her kid. You know, I consider it child abuse. But that that also implies that they really are aware and know what they're doing.
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129. Paul Saladino, MD: Why 'Heart-Healthy' Seed Oils Are Actually Poison
Just the pendulum's just swung that far. We're that far off of any semblance of even basic, you know, fundamental nutrition.
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129. Paul Saladino, MD: Why 'Heart-Healthy' Seed Oils Are Actually Poison
You got like, you know, serves you neutral damage.
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129. Paul Saladino, MD: Why 'Heart-Healthy' Seed Oils Are Actually Poison
I always love it. And I'm sorry for stealing your cream. Oh, we got more. It's been amazing having you on. You know, the last question that I always ask my guests, I asked you this last time, but what does it mean to you to be an ultimate human?
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129. Paul Saladino, MD: Why 'Heart-Healthy' Seed Oils Are Actually Poison
I eat sunflower seeds. Then we take the narrative that these seed oils are bad for you. I think we just need to put it into context. Why are we attacking this plant? Why are we attacking the oil extraction method?
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129. Paul Saladino, MD: Why 'Heart-Healthy' Seed Oils Are Actually Poison
you can't go wrong eating simple whole foods it's just unprocessed animal foods unprocessed plant foods you'll be great we take the narrative that these seed oils are bad for you so i think we just need to put it into context why are we attacking this plant why are we attacking the oil extraction method the only thing that seed oils might have going for them
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129. Paul Saladino, MD: Why 'Heart-Healthy' Seed Oils Are Actually Poison
Yeah, cherry picking.
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129. Paul Saladino, MD: Why 'Heart-Healthy' Seed Oils Are Actually Poison
Because it doesn't create a nonspecific marker of inflammation like C-reactive protein. You're like, it's not driving inflammation. Well, that's not the only marker of inflammation.
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129. Paul Saladino, MD: Why 'Heart-Healthy' Seed Oils Are Actually Poison
Hey guys, welcome back to the Ultimate Human Podcast. You know the drill. I'm your host, Gary Brekka, human biologist, where we go down the road of everything anti-aging, biohacking, longevity, and everything in between. One of my favorite house guests has paid me a visit again before Thanksgiving. And even though he didn't know it, I was like- Let's go.
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129. Paul Saladino, MD: Why 'Heart-Healthy' Seed Oils Are Actually Poison
How do we introduce seed oils? Because we've had polyunsaturated fatty acids. In small amounts.
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129. Paul Saladino, MD: Why 'Heart-Healthy' Seed Oils Are Actually Poison
Potato chips in snack foods, in nearly every dressing that you pull off the shelf in breads. Breads have it. Like you said, dressings. Yeah. And even some of the good dressings. And it'll say, you know, what about expeller-pressed bread?
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129. Paul Saladino, MD: Why 'Heart-Healthy' Seed Oils Are Actually Poison
I'm like, every time we meet in the kitchen, we start running a podcast together. And I was like, dude, let's just go in the studio and rip this because this is really, really good content. Welcome back to the show, Paul Saladino. It's always good to see you, man. Happy to do it.
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163. Dean Graziosi: The ‘7 Levels Deep’ Exercise That Transformed His Life And It Can Transform Yours!
He's an impactful speaker, an entrepreneur, multiple New York Times bestselling author, and he has recently become a very good friend of mine. Welcome to the podcast, Dean Graziosi.
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163. Dean Graziosi: The ‘7 Levels Deep’ Exercise That Transformed His Life And It Can Transform Yours!
Dude, I'm so excited that you're here. And you know what happens to me so many times when I have guests over and I should have a rule that you have to go from the elevator to the podcast room because we ended up doing a podcast.
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163. Dean Graziosi: The ‘7 Levels Deep’ Exercise That Transformed His Life And It Can Transform Yours!
Yeah. And how do people...
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163. Dean Graziosi: The ‘7 Levels Deep’ Exercise That Transformed His Life And It Can Transform Yours!
find that purpose like you know because for me it took until I was in my like mid-40s you know I was I was making decent money um I had a nice the decent house my kids were you know all in school a great family life you know we didn't want for a lot of things um but I think very similar to the transitions that you made I I felt like I wasn't on the path to anything great and I wasn't
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163. Dean Graziosi: The ‘7 Levels Deep’ Exercise That Transformed His Life And It Can Transform Yours!
Yeah, for two hours off camera. And finally we both stood up and we're like, we should probably go in the podcast room. Exactly. The whole reason why we came. And we were talking about everything. Regenerative farming, stem cells. Yeah, we covered it all in about an hour and 45 minutes. I think we solved the Russian-Ukraine crisis. I mean, we covered it all.
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163. Dean Graziosi: The ‘7 Levels Deep’ Exercise That Transformed His Life And It Can Transform Yours!
fulfilling any kind of purpose.
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163. Dean Graziosi: The ‘7 Levels Deep’ Exercise That Transformed His Life And It Can Transform Yours!
Yeah, it wasn't mine. And now I'm twice as busy and I am a hundred more times more things on my plate and I am as content and satisfied as I've ever been. I think from the outside in, it might look like chaos, but to me, it's, it's the only, I wouldn't give it up for a moment because it's purpose driven. But I think a lot of people identify with that, but don't know how to find that.
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163. Dean Graziosi: The ‘7 Levels Deep’ Exercise That Transformed His Life And It Can Transform Yours!
Yeah.
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163. Dean Graziosi: The ‘7 Levels Deep’ Exercise That Transformed His Life And It Can Transform Yours!
Yeah.
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163. Dean Graziosi: The ‘7 Levels Deep’ Exercise That Transformed His Life And It Can Transform Yours!
Yeah.
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163. Dean Graziosi: The ‘7 Levels Deep’ Exercise That Transformed His Life And It Can Transform Yours!
My dad used to say, life is what happens to you when you're on your way to doing something else.
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163. Dean Graziosi: The ‘7 Levels Deep’ Exercise That Transformed His Life And It Can Transform Yours!
Yeah, he's a very simple, like, Captain John Breck, a big shout-out, Dad. He's, you know, my mom and dad are still with us, by the grace of God. Oh, that's amazing. And he was, you know, like, a simple guy, very disciplined military guy. But he would say, life is what happens to you when you're on your way to doing something else.
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163. Dean Graziosi: The ‘7 Levels Deep’ Exercise That Transformed His Life And It Can Transform Yours!
And I was like, I didn't realize how profound that was until I was an adult.
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163. Dean Graziosi: The ‘7 Levels Deep’ Exercise That Transformed His Life And It Can Transform Yours!
Yeah.
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163. Dean Graziosi: The ‘7 Levels Deep’ Exercise That Transformed His Life And It Can Transform Yours!
Because don't you hate it when you're like in high school and your parents are like, well, what do you want to be? What do you want to go to college for?
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163. Dean Graziosi: The ‘7 Levels Deep’ Exercise That Transformed His Life And It Can Transform Yours!
I don't know. I don't know what I want to have for dinner. Exactly. Exactly. Um, so sometimes those, those sayings just, they just go right through you until you get to a certain age.
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Yeah, yeah. No, it was beautifully said. And it was very simple. And like in simplicity, it was really profound. And it's so true because, well, I actually went to undergrad and grad school for biology and human biology. I never really realized how much of an impact that that was going to have because it was years later that it came around and I found it to be really very useful.
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But I'm so excited to have you sitting in this chair.
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But I think it's like you were saying, get in there, roll your sleeves up, fail a little bit because I think... we all crave that safety, right? We don't want to leave the nest unless we have a fully baked plant.
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My dad used to say, life is what happens to you when you're on your way to doing something else. Get in there, roll your sleeves up, fail a little bit, because I think we all crave that safety. We don't want to leave the nest unless we have a fully baked plan.
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And I think my audience is going to get so much value out of this because there's a common theme that seems to run through the majority of my podcast guests. And that's that... they are where they are and they're making such an impact. And they're so passionate and so purposeful because they solved the problem in their life.
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right he's safe he's protected he gets three meals a day can't be hunted can't be killed yeah and he's in a cage right you know yeah so true you got to get out of that comfort zone and so what what are the exercises that somebody could go through i mean how how do you start putting yourself and putting one foot in front of the other and taking that path towards success you you talk about courage not the definition of courage that we find the webster's dictionary but i've heard you talk about your own version of courage before and what does that mean to you what is
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What does courage really mean to you? How does somebody find the courage to do that?
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Yeah. Right. The first course module that I, I built for, my VIP community was mindset because I think a lot of people struggle with mindset, meaning they struggle with just the simple ability to put themselves first, especially women, you know, without putting the needs of other people before theirs. And eventually what happens is this act of being so selfless comes back to haunt them.
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They believe that self-care is being selfish when really self-care is being very selfless.
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Put the oxygen mask on before you assist your own child. You know, if the plane depressurizes, which isn't, you know, a mother's first instinct. It's to try, right? Not to help themselves. But I think there's a lot Of truth in that, you know, you're a much better person and can show up better for your spouse, for your career, for your kids, you know, for your coworkers, for your peers.
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And when I, you know, I obviously knew who you were and your work with Tony Robbins and, you know, what an icon you are for so many entrepreneurs. But when I started to peel back the layers of like, who is Dean Graziosi? You didn't really have like a privileged upbringing by any means, right?
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Yeah, but what are some of the ways that people can shift that inner monologue, that dialogue? Because I think that I talk about, for example, keeping little promises to yourself.
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Okay, so you... And when I say... the promises that you break are the promises that nobody else knows about. Because, you know, you don't tell your spouse, hey, I told myself I'm going to go to bed at 10 o'clock tonight, and then you go to bed at midnight. You just make that promise to yourself. You know, you got home from work that day, and you're like, tonight I'm going to bed at 10 o'clock.
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And you only share that with yourself, and you go to bed at 11.30. You know, tomorrow morning, I'm getting out for a 30-minute walk first thing in the morning. You don't really go for the walk. Nobody else notices but you. And what I believe happens is that... you keep breaking these little promises to yourself and you actually lose trust in yourself. It's so true.
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And you, and you, you actually truly don't believe yourself because your actions don't fall in line. And, and I, and I lose faith in your own. Yeah. So I'm like, we're not this collection of goals and this collection of, of priorities, really a collection of habits. And, you know, if you want to lose weight and you don't develop the habits of somebody who's
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going to lose weight the goal of losing weight or the priority of losing weight is you're never going to get there so if you if you don't get into the habits so if you don't have the habits of someone who's successful or the habits of someone who wants to lose weight or the habits of a champion or the habits of somebody who wants to be financially successful i don't know any other way that you get there you don't develop those habits but it has to start and um
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Like in my course, I always start with the mindset shift. You have to. So how do people begin that shift? How did they start to change that monologue? Because the older we are, the stronger that monologue is.
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And then I think it's sort of a double-edged sword for younger people. And I noticed this in my son and my daughter's generation, not with my son and my daughter particularly, but in their generation, is that they truly want instantaneous gratification. Like they're willing to try jujitsu for three classes. And if they're not a black belt by the fourth class, you know, they're kind of out.
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And it's always exciting for me to talk about, what was the problem that you solved? I've had so many people sit in that chair that they were a soccer mom and they were plagued by Lyme disease and they became a citizen scientist and they solved their Lyme disease.
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And I think that society has set that framework up or, you know, they're looking at Instagram and they're like, well, this kid is making millions of dollars a year doing stupid videos and gambling. So maybe I just want to do stupid videos and gamble. You don't realize that's the one in the million.
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that broke through. So how do you start that?
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I'm so excited for the end of the year this year, you know, working with you and Tony. I'm so excited for it.
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Oh, on these events.
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And now they're one of the most impactful speakers or they were a drug addict or an alcoholic and they overcame the addiction and now they're one of the biggest voices in that industry. So what was your journey like that set you on the path to where you are now?
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Yeah, that stupid little thing. My family doesn't believe in me.
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Now let's get back to the Ultimate Human Podcast. It's so true. Gosh, it's so true. And, and, you know, for someone like you, that's, that's, you've impacted millions and you've made millions. Now that you've achieved that level of socioeconomic success for you, what's, what's on the other side of that? Like what's, what's, what's next for you? Like what, what's still getting you out of bed?
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Really?
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Before you had any business together.
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That's how the conversation went.
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We were going to start a business.
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I didn't know that.
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You were telling me that. I mean, a billion people.
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I mean, that's, you want to talk about making an impact.
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Those are chicken soup for the soul things.
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Like,
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Some of the same events on the stage.
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You know, I think it's so powerful for people to hear ways to quiet that voice of fear and doubt because I think, you know, there's a famous story about – Oprah Winfrey, when she tried all of these diets and tried all of these different ways to lose weight. I guess she tried Weight Watchers and she might be a shareholder now, but she tried Weight Watchers.
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She tried all of these different exercise regimens and she just couldn't lose weight. And she met this philosopher named Gary Zukav. And... who wrote the book Seed of the Soul, and I think he wrote another book called Soul Stories.
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Yeah. And so he was credited with getting her for the first time, getting Oprah Winfrey to lose weight. And I remember reading this story, and someone asked Gary, like, what was it that you did to get her to lose weight? He said, it was very simple. I had her stop seeing herself as a fat person. And I was like, wow, that's really profound. You know, I mean, you're a smoker.
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You see yourself as a smoker. You never stop smoking. And I think sometimes the subconscious way that we see ourselves is what manifests itself in the real world. And when you do these things like break a little promises to yourself, it just, it sort of reiterates and gives a voice to those kinds of things. I think a lot of people,
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yourself included, doesn't sound like you were surrounded by a lot of mentors.
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Right? You didn't have like a rich uncle that had figured it all out that was your mom's brother that was driving a nice car and built a business and was like, hey, Dean, I'm going to teach you how to do it. So I think, you know, very often people fall back on that crutch too is like, well, I don't have anybody to show me. But what you're saying is it really is within you.
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Yeah. But along this journey of yours, because it seems to me like you've really developed a very conscious mindset, like you're very present, you're very in touch with how you feel, who you are, where you want to go. But along your journey somewhere, there had to be some setbacks.
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Even success... had to bring a whole new set of... Without a doubt. Yeah, of setbacks. Are there any that particularly stand out to you, tipping points that you recall?
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What did you do in those moments?
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You make me feel so good about success. I just want to remind you, you're human, but we'll bring you right back down to earth here.
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He told you the story? Yeah.
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He just threw himself at the mercy of the court. Oh, my gosh.
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Yeah.
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You know what I think, too? I think that a lot of the best things in life come from perspective. And I think that when you have that perspective— and then you succeed, even if you marginally succeed.
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So, you know, I look at a lot of the negative things that have, you know, looking back, you would consider it to be negative things. You know, litigation, divorce, bankruptcy, you know, all of these things. I walked out of Louis Vuitton store one time with a pair of sunglasses on my head. And I ended up actually calling the store to report it.
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But I got arrested the next day for walking out of Louis Vuitton as a zero tolerance policy. And they actually arrested me. And, um, and, and my mugshot was in the paper and the case got thrown out and it was, you know, it was, it was, it was a no low process. And I got a lawful denial letter from the court and everything else.
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As soon as the state attorney down with God, she was like, you didn't actually steal these. You reported them before they found out. But, but I'm just saying, I look back at a lot of these things, you know, divorce or bankruptcy, um, um, and God help you. If you've ever been arrested, it's the worst feeling in the world. But, um,
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And the shift, the momentous shift that happened in me because of that event. Because if you just don't stop and you get beyond that.
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You build this resilience.
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I'm a huge believer.
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And you're like, oh my gosh.
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Like many of you, the hardest thing for me is to shut off my mind at night when I want to sleep. And it's funny because sometimes I'll wake up tired already thinking of when I'll get back to bed again. But exactly the moment that I lay my head on the pillow, it feels like the machine of crazy what if thoughts is turned back on. Does this happen to you?
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Now let's get back to the Ultimate Human Podcast. Yeah. You know, but I think there's so much power in, and this is so off my normal topic that I usually talk about, and I don't want to get back to health here in a minute, but, you know, I think there's so much power in just the ability to reframe things.
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You know, like you're talking about, you know, going back into the past and just reframing that. Absolutely. I have a friend, they call him Dr. Rewire. And I actually watched him one night. We went to one of his events at the St. Regis in Salt Lake City. And he brought all these people out around a fire, and people were disclosing some very dark things that had happened in their life.
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And it had to do with very tough breakups or tough relationships, tough emotional journeys that they'd been on, different forms of abuse. And I watched him actually... go into that moment with them and reframe the way that they talked about it and actually walk them from that moment to where they were now and show them how. I would love to watch somebody as a skilled master at that.
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Yeah, his name is Dr. Luke Travote and call him Dr. Rewire. But it was—Sage and I were sitting around this fire, I'll never forget, and I was watching these people go through what seemed like a torture session, right, because they were deep in this traumatic period of their life.
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I remember one girl in particular, her boyfriend had actually put a pistol in her mouth, and he had cocked the handle of the pistol back, and he was threatening— to kill her and you know this massively traumatic event but what it caused her to do was take her kid and and leave and finally leave him and and stop with the trial of abuse and that's a really intense uh story but
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My whole point is that I watched him rewire these people from some of the darkest moments in their life into these very positive launching pads where they were almost like, thank God that happened.
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Actually happened to me. And- You know, not consciously doing it, but sometimes now that I look back on some of these other little tipping points in my life, like, you know, you losing everything with your partner stealing from you.
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I mean, a lot of people would have gotten really pissed off and they would have gotten really angry and they would have diverted all of their energy towards holding that person accountable.
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Dean, this is amazing. I want to shift gears a little bit because I know that you're in good shape. You're in really good condition. Obviously, you're taking care of yourself. What kind of role for you does fitness, wellness... We talked about your diet a little bit beforehand because I think... I think the fuel that obviously goes into our bodies matters.
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And I think that your mindset has a lot to do with how you feel physically. And, you know, sick, fat, tired people don't build empires. True story. What does your routine look like? What are some things that you do? And this is not a biohacking question. You don't have to be super insightful.
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You're my next superhuman project.
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Yeah, same.
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Do you think it's a difference between a victim mentality? And I've heard victor and victim, but, you know, very often we start to repeat patterns in our life because we feel like things are happening to us. Like they're out of our control.
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So you have like an hour easing into the morning.
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And is this like an hour? Do you reflect? Do you practice gratitude?
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Okay, meditation.
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I can't meditate either.
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When you find something that you would otherwise do for free, that you love to do, you really don't feel like you work a day in your life. If you look from the outside in, it seems like I'm working my ass off, but that's what I love to do. Like when I'm on vacation, I want to do this.
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Way down the ground.
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Hey, if you got a two-year-old, that's a good one.
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That alone is a great habit. You're in the 1% of 1%.
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I do the same.
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That's amazing, man. Um, Dean, I, I, we're, we're, we're going to do a series of these first of all, um, cause I'm definitely going to have you back. Um, for my audience that, uh, is not familiar with you, how did they find you? Where can they find you online? And which of your books do you think they should start with?
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That'd be great.
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And they can log in.
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And Dean Graziosi on Instagram. Amazing. Well, I wind down every podcast by asking my guests the exact same question. So if you've watched my podcast and made it to the end, you know this question's coming. And there's no right or wrong answer to this question. But what does it mean to you to be an ultimate human?
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You know, honestly, some of the best answers weren't like the most wildly philosophical.
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Yeah.
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That's amazing. Well, I also have a VIP community, so we're going to head over to my VIP community now. I let them know before the podcast who's coming on.
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They've got some questions waiting for you. If you're interested in becoming an Ultimate Human VIP, just go over to theultimatehuman.com forward slash VIP. You can sign up to be a VIP for $97 a month. I pour myself into this community. In fact, today I have a two-hour live Q&A with them right after this podcast answering any question that you have on health, on wellness,
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Diet, lifestyle, spiritual well-being, biohacking tools, supplements.
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I'll shortcut it for you guys. So go over to theultimatehuman.com forward slash VIP. And until next time, that's just science.
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That's so true.
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I totally agree with you. I mean, I really, really agree with you. So if someone's listening to this right now and they just feel sort of stuck. Yeah. And maybe overwhelmed or like... they don't know how to make that switch. Like they know that they're capable of more and they know that what they're doing is not working. What's a shift that they could make?
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They could sort of change that direction.
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163. Dean Graziosi: The ‘7 Levels Deep’ Exercise That Transformed His Life And It Can Transform Yours!
if someone's listening to this right now and they just feel sort of stuck and maybe overwhelmed what's a shift that they could make that could change that direction i would love for you if take nothing else in this podcast is every time you think you have the answer Hey guys, welcome back to the Ultimate Human Podcast.
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163. Dean Graziosi: The ‘7 Levels Deep’ Exercise That Transformed His Life And It Can Transform Yours!
It's like- You know, I saw you and Ed Milet talking one day. I think it was out on a bluff in California because I think I recognized the background. And you were just talking, it was a very simple story that you told. And you're like, if I'm in a restaurant and I order, you know, well done steak and somebody brings me chicken I'll just eat the chicken, right?
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163. Dean Graziosi: The ‘7 Levels Deep’ Exercise That Transformed His Life And It Can Transform Yours!
Yeah, I got bigger problems. And it reminded me, you're like, I don't get all wound up and, you know, and fire up the waiter and then bring the conversation down at the table. Look at this. They screwed up.
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163. Dean Graziosi: The ‘7 Levels Deep’ Exercise That Transformed His Life And It Can Transform Yours!
So do I. I literally just landed after a 15 hour flight.
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163. Dean Graziosi: The ‘7 Levels Deep’ Exercise That Transformed His Life And It Can Transform Yours!
You're like, no, I feel amazing. Well, I did a sauna and a cold punch, but I'm now I'm back to life.
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163. Dean Graziosi: The ‘7 Levels Deep’ Exercise That Transformed His Life And It Can Transform Yours!
Um, two, two, two reasons. One, because I believe that my, my purpose is way bigger than the problems that I have in my life. And secondly, I know that I'm on God's plan for me because I feel that. And it sounds so cliche.
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163. Dean Graziosi: The ‘7 Levels Deep’ Exercise That Transformed His Life And It Can Transform Yours!
I used to think that this saying was just something you put on a sign, you sort of hung it on your office because it was sort of supposed to be there like a, like an Ansel Adams picture or something. And, um, uh, You know, when you find something that you would otherwise do for free, that you love to do, you really don't feel like you work a day in your life.
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163. Dean Graziosi: The ‘7 Levels Deep’ Exercise That Transformed His Life And It Can Transform Yours!
So if you look from the outside in, it seems like I'm working my ass off because I travel so much and I keep an insane schedule and I speak so frequently and I read incessantly. But that's what I love to do. Like when I'm on vacation, I want to do this.
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163. Dean Graziosi: The ‘7 Levels Deep’ Exercise That Transformed His Life And It Can Transform Yours!
Yeah.
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163. Dean Graziosi: The ‘7 Levels Deep’ Exercise That Transformed His Life And It Can Transform Yours!
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163. Dean Graziosi: The ‘7 Levels Deep’ Exercise That Transformed His Life And It Can Transform Yours!
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163. Dean Graziosi: The ‘7 Levels Deep’ Exercise That Transformed His Life And It Can Transform Yours!
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145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
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145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
And our next guest is an expert, as you heard, on women's health issues, everything women menopause, cycling, birth control, everything in between. And just so happens my wife is having the worst menstrual cramps of her life. And she was like, I want to come in and ask him questions during your podcast. So she's waiting for you literally right outside the door. Okay, great. Good to know.
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145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
So when you have a patient come into your clinic, which I assume is the majority females.
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145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
That's great. And I think that's the way to go. And I think eventually with AI and big data and early detection and telemedicine laws, it's actually going to make this more accessible, not less accessible. I think we also have to modernize the way that we're practicing medicine. It's okay for...
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145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
someone that's been seen by a physician, maybe examined, that's now having a virtual visit with another physician.
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145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
So let's start with women. I want to start at a young age and I want to kind of work our way through postmenopausal because there are lots of questions all along the spectrum.
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145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
the path and you know i have uh two daughters i have a daughter and a stepdaughter um my daughter's 26 my stepdaughter's 16 so she's in the thick of it now meaning you know the choice is about centering around birth control and um you know the prepubescent acne that's now kind of gone away and and you know all the hormonal changes that are going on in their life which is A lot of fun.
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145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
Yeah, I'm sure. I can't wait to experience that. She's going to watch this podcast. Yeah. So I won't say her name. Yeah. Kimball Hoy or King or Brecca. Nothing to do with that. No, she's amazing. But, but, you know, I went through with my daughter too, with the, the, you know, a lot of parents are, you know, watching this and that conversation about birth control is coming up. Sure. And,
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145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
Maybe because they have hemorrhagic periods, but maybe also just for birth control. And I saw a podcast that you were on, which one it was, but you were talking about birth control and the history of birth control. And it was like watching Bobby Kennedy talk about some of these public policy issues. It absolutely blew my mind. And I thought that I was pretty well versed in that area.
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145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
I mean, I certainly understand what they do hormonally, right? SHBG and those other things. But I didn't know about the history of birth control. So can we talk about that a little bit? And then I want to start talking about, you know, young women and the duration of birth control and what kind of effects that has.
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145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
Welcome to the podcast, Dr. Austin Lake.
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145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
It's polycystic ovarian syndrome.
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145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
And you're emitting a third of the menstrual cycle because you're essentially blocking the ovulation. So they're going through the follicular and the luteal phases, but not ovulation.
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145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
honored to get the invitation and honestly the timing was great because we had the invitation then we met at the maha gala and it was like just meant yeah we just set it up and then we you know met at the maha gala timing so yeah and i love that movement i mean uh you know bobby kennedy's officially confirmed now so at the time he didn't praise god he meant that um you know at the time he wasn't really in a capacity official capacity sure but
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145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
And when we say that it affects your emotions or affects your mood, it also affects your desires, meaning what are you attracted to? What are you not attracted to? You know, I've looked at data that showed that, you know, women on birth control have a completely different attraction to their spouse or significant other than when they're not on birth control.
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145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
I was astounded by that. Yeah. I'd hate to be like the dude that's wife gets off birth control and it's like, hey, I also want a divorce. Yeah, right. Just so you know. Yeah, we're done. I'm not really attracted to you anymore. But you think about the fact that limiting that phase of the menstrual cycle could have that profound of an effect on a woman that she might not be thinking about.
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145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
Because we think that it's so simple. Well, if ovulation is the cycle...
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145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
duration where i'm most at risk for getting pregnant then i'll just stop that sure now no big things are simple again no big deal but you you think back to this circadian biology and you know when you start really interrupting the circadian biology i mean i had a client that i was sitting with with a doctor uh our clinic director is a board certified ob gyn and she was um mid late 40s like
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peri-premenopausal area. And she'd been to a bunch of hormone doctors and they told her, well, all your hormones are in range. But when you actually look at the range that they're in, they were in different ranges. You know, some are ovulating, some are in the lateal.
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145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
So, you know, So you're not a fan of birth control, because I want to actually come back to this client. I want to work my way up through the ages of women. Like, what can they do? Or how can they go about making this decision? Because parents are concerned that their young daughters are going to be sexually active.
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145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
And obviously, they're considering birth control, but not understanding the consequences. And I don't think very often their OB-GYN is explaining the consequences.
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145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
Wow, you got four?
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145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
Wow, you're active, dude.
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145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
you got six dude holy cow yeah i got three i picked up one along the way and um hey any one and one and more is great yeah yeah i mean and and i and i love it i make fun of it but i used to always tease my wife and she used to hate it um maybe that's why she's my ex-wife now but um Like when we had our third kid and she would leave town and leave me with the kids.
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145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
I'm like, look, before you leave, just pick your favorite two. And I promise you they'll be here when you get back. But three is just too much for my, and I have ADHD and I didn't know what it was back then. So, you know, but I can keep an eye on two, but the third one's going to wander. I don't know where it's going to go.
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145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
I'm just trying to make her feel guilty for leaving.
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145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
That, not to get totally off topic, because I know there's a lot of women like, hey, I want to talk about my menstrual cramps. But what was amazing was, dude, the energy surrounding, I mean, the whole inauguration, but specifically at that ball. And also how many people are... just freely giving their time.
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145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
I love that you're talking about MTHFR. Nobody talks about that.
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145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
And I think a lot of it is obviously preventing pregnancy, but a lot of it is also like hemorrhagic, you know, menstrual cycles. I mean, cause we see that a lot in our clinic.
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145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
that they're coming to our ob gyn and saying you know it's just i mean they're in school and they're exhausted because they're losing losing yeah losing a lot they're anemic yeah they're anemic basically for short term and and they're exhausted and and already especially in high school you know high school starts the earliest i have my understanding is we're going to actually start to change this but
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145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
I always thought it was odd that as my kids went from kindergarten to grade school to grammar school, you know, and then eventually to high school, that the start times got earlier. Yeah. You know, my sixth grader started at 9 a.m. My ninth grader started at 7 a.m. Wow.
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145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
Folks like yourself and me and Casey Means and Callie and Food Babe and Paul Saladino and so many of the folks in our industry are really excited about the opportunity to affect public policy
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145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
And that's a big difference because, you know, you got to be in class to start at 7am, which means you're getting school 6.30, 6.45, whatever, which means you're probably getting them at 5.30, 6 o'clock at the latest. And I still remember, you know, driving my daughter to school, you know, to high school and just pulling into the parking lot and just watching the zombies walk in.
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145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
And you could tell that kid has not been up for more than 10 minutes. 10 minutes ago, literally, they were still asleep. They were playing video games two hours ago. Hair mess, sweats, some of them, Starbucks coffees. And I know there's a whole conversation around the fact that teenagers actually need more sleep. These aren't lazy teens. They're growing. It's physiological for sure.
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145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
Yeah, it's physiological. And when you have all that biological activity in the body. It's exhausting. Growing is exhausting. My son, I noticed the same thing. Both of my sons, they were playing sports and they were just coming home. Sometimes he would come home from football practice and just literally eat, go straight to bed. And was still exhausted when he was waking up.
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145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
Right, he could never recover. But back to the women's hormones. So I know a lot of mothers are facing this. And so you're saying before you're using You think about birth control either as prophylactic measure against pregnancy or hemorrhagic periods is to look at the whole picture, this whole idea of let's call it lifestyle medicine.
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145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
And I think we start to think of those factors a lot later in life when we don't think about them for teens.
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145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
And is this what your active life program is about? Yeah. Yeah. Talk a little bit about that. Is there, is there, so woman watching this podcast that feels off, right. It feels out of balance, which is very likely hormonal. Yeah. Um, it could be a host of other things. And then I want to talk about, you know, autoimmune conditions as well, but, um, Where do they start?
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145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
What kind of panel do they pull? Where do they start? What are some of the biggest things that move the needle the most for women that are having hormonal imbalance? Like this woman that I was speaking of earlier when I looked at her. I was like, well, look, it looks to me like, first of all, you're completely out of phase. So the level of your hormones doesn't matter as much as your ratios.
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145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
And your ratios are way off, even though they're in the normal range. One's really high, one's really low, and you have estrogen dominance. Right, and you have estrogen dominance, and then they blow up like a balloon. They think that they're fat, but they're not. They're just retaining water in that interstitial space. And estrogen is very good at doing that.
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145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
there are gene mutations like CompT that don't allow estrogen to be eliminated as like the E2 pathway as well. And so then they start retaining a bunch of water. And nothing is more frustrating to a woman than like doing everything right.
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145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
So can you see the omega-6s off the chart when you do that?
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145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
And what do you attribute that to? Seed oils?
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145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
yeah I'm just like how is this you know part of me thinks it's too simple like um you know people want something extra more extra complicated and and I don't even sell those things right so um that freaks people out yeah but uh uh and you know I get accused of trying to push things all the time. I'm like, guys, I didn't, you can go to a Thorne, you can go to Pure Encapsulation.
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145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
You can go to, there's a lot of great options out there, but these are the basics. Right. You can't skip the basics. And I think too that, you know, my research, or not my personal research, sorry, the research that I was reviewing when I was in that industry So there was clear pathways between nutrient deficiencies and the expression of disease.
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145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
And I believe that the root of a lot of these consequences of aging, just based in missing raw materials. I mean, if you don't have enough DHEA, for example, you're never going to construct certain hormones. Right. off the charts or you have adrenal fatigue, you're not going to make certain hormones, especially at night when your body's actually creating these. And we're such circadian creatures.
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145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
And it's just so awesome to see our industry, you know. Participating in it. Because, you know, even in the biohacking world, we obviously all don't agree on everything all the time. But that's the one thing we absolutely are. you know, enormously united.
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145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
So let's talk about a basic panel. And then for listeners right now, especially my female audience, what lifestyle changes make the greatest impact on self-correcting hormonal imbalances?
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145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
And what I mean by that- What healthy foods are not healthy for you?
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Oh yeah, yeah.
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145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
How do you set their sleep circadian rhythm? What do you tell them are the do's and don'ts for sleep?
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145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
Oh, it's terrible. Sometimes catch a second wind. That happens to my wife all the time.
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145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
Like you're like Captain Chatty at one in the morning.
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145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
Now, I totally agree in terms of supplements. You can't supplement your way around porcelain.
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145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
The threonate and the methylfolate just... In my opinion, from my experience with clients, it seems to work really, really well, especially for women with MTHFR, which my wife has. And she'll take methylfolate before bed religiously every night, just a five methylfolate and magnesium three and eight. We take something called magnesium breakthrough, which is amazing. It's just like a combo, right?
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145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
Yeah, all seven forms of magnesium. And the other thing it does is it makes you very regular. Yeah, for sure. And I always tell, you know, clients that, you know, if you're not having a bowel movement at a relatively consistent period of time, usually within 45 minutes of waking, that's something that we need to address.
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145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
Well, I want to continue with the women. So they get this panel done. You start with the basics. You fix the sleep. You start them on basic supplementation, which I would so far agree with everything that you're saying. And I think these are the simple building blocks. These are the easy building blocks that get really overlooked, and they want to go right to hormone therapy, which I'm a fan of.
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145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
Yeah, we can talk about that too.
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145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
It's crazy, though, that not a single Democrat voted for Bobby Kennedy. I know. I was like, who wants to be on the side of the worst health care crisis in modern history that's going on in our country? Yeah. I like what Bobby Kennedy said because he said there's no such thing as Republican children and Democratic children. These are God's children. They're our children. Right. Yeah.
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145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
You cannot miss that. Oh, man, amen to that. I love that.
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145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
But you also need the raw materials, right? You got to have the raw materials. DHEA, elevated SHBG, vitamin D3, which is, I think, the most overlooked supplement of all, right? D3 with some K2. I think that gets overlooked. Either in an oil that already has the fat, so it's soluble, or... Or with food. Yeah, with food. And you look at the levels of chronic deficiency in vitamin D3.
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145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
They say it's 50% of the population. I think it's more like 85% of the population. Yeah, I think so too.
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145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
Below 30, yeah, 30 nanograms.
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145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
And there's some really interesting research around breast cancer risk and other things in women with diabetes. functional ranges being between 60 and 80, having, you know, preventative.
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145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
And I knew from the mortality space that, you know, the second leading cause of morbidity in COVID was a clinical deficiency in vitamin D3.
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145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
No one wanted it to be that simple, but it was. Yeah.
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145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
Clinical deficiency. Clinical deficiency, yeah. Very accurate. Yeah.
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145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
Yeah, it is wild.
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145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
blacks were having higher death rate mortality rate because like well yeah they if they're up in the north northwest and like you don't get much sun and you have more melanin in your skin like you're not going to absorb as much yeah it was all darker complected like latinos and there's probably a metabolic issue there too potentially but i think the vitamin d component is uh yeah it's so so critical huge i mean it's a huge component and i think that's where there was this where it seemed like covid was a little selective yeah but it was i think it was selective to the the biomes that were most likely for it to flourish which are going to be people that are immunocompromised
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145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
Have you been hearing about
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Yeah, because of the nicotine bound to the same receptor.
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145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
Nobody wants to talk about that. I know. I was hoping to talk about that.
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I'm like this close to going down the nicotine bandwagon. Yeah. Well, there's some components to it. Yeah. I think, and we can talk about it. Like non-tobacco nicotine, obviously, not vaping, not smoking. Like a patch. Yeah. But some folks that I really hold in high regard have sent me some really compelling research. Same here. Nicotine and cancer, nicotine and-
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viruses, nicotine, and cognitive function. Testosterone too. Yeah, testosterone. And we have nicotine receptors. And you're right, in early COVID, because it bound to those same receptor sites, a lot of smokers were not getting COVID. Yeah, because they put them in a nicotine patch. Yeah, it would be the most unhealthy. There's even some...
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And the most prosperous thing we can do as a nation is care for that next generation. Right. Absolutely. Right. Because who's going to, who's going to be running the show in a 77% of our military age, men and women can't enter the military because they're not qualified from health perspective. And you got, you know, highest rates of childhood cancer. You've got, you know, I don't want to,
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sort of a groundswell now around nicotine and cancer yeah um you know before i get anywhere near that uh uh you know i'll be i would bring somebody qualified onto the podcast but um i i've seen the the positive benefits of the non-tobacco nicotine. I think a lot of times it's also the delivery mechanism. Right. That's hugely important.
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I'm more open to it than I would have been. Oh, 100%. But I'm getting the same way with cannabinoids because we have an endocannabinoid system. We create cannabinoids in the body. People think cannabinoids are THC. They're not. And CBD, even microdosing of mushrooms. Not the psychedelics, but... reishi, cordyceps, these... For cognition. Yeah, for cognition, replacing caffeine with those.
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I think there's a role for all of these things. It's just that they get so abused that As soon as you bring those up, people think of the abusive roles and not possibly.
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145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
Oh, the Madagascar periwinkle plant.
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145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
You don't have periwinkle in your fridge? Not thematic, it's scary.
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145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
It's one of those forever chemicals. Interestingly, I accidentally got heavy metal poisoning recently. Really? Yeah, I'm actually in the metal detox now. I'm doing it with my VIP community. I'm actually walking them through the whole protocol. What a good opportunity, yeah. Yeah, it was an amazing opportunity. Not so great for you, but great for me.
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mess up the quote, but 13% of our teens, our pre-pubescent teens are pre-diabetic or even diabetic. And metabolic syndrome is beginning earlier and earlier and earlier. I mean, I think people have this idea that this notion that metabolic syndrome is something you get in your 50s or your 60s or your 70s.
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Well, not so great for me, but it's an amazing opportunity because a lot of people have metal toxicity. Number one, they don't know it. Number two, they have no idea what to do. So I've just been very transparent and very vulnerable and authentic about it and said, here's my blood work and here are the collation tests that I did. But here's the protocol that I'm going to follow to get out of it.
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145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
45 days, they're down almost half, which normally would take, eight months to a year. And so I've been just documenting everything. And I got it because I believed a, it wasn't even a friend of mine. It was a doctor that I was referred to that had this machine that he said was restructuring the water. And scientifically, the explanation made perfect sense to me. And he had a PhD in this arena of,
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145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
You think about the fact that limiting that phase of the menstrual cycle could have that profound of an effect on a woman that she might not be. thinking about. I don't think very often their OBGYN is explaining the consequences.
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It's just that the piece of equipment that he was using was actually made to be a welder, not to restructure water. Long story short, I ended up getting lead, which is really bad. And also very high levels of mercury and also iron. So I'm chelating those out of my body. I'm doing EBO2, you know, sauna. Yeah, that's great. I'm using non-chemical binders like activated charcoal, zeolite, sauna.
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145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
Spirulina. Chlora. Chlora. Chlora. But my whole point in saying that is that, you know, a lot of folks just don't, they don't know what to do when they encounter these things. you know, toxic or even to test for these things, mold, mycotoxins, viruses, heavy metals. And a lot of those are flying under the radar of modern medicine because they also don't just pop up on your labs, right?
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They don't usually throw lab values into a tailspin. So they just sort of,
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Well, we're the mold capital of the world right here.
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145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
Well, the amount of metals in thyroid issues is mind-numbing because the thyroid has a special affinity for heavy metals. And the amount of mold and mycotoxin that flies under the radar too. But what I've noticed is when I test what some of these filters are pulling out of my blood, Thankfully, I'm seeing the metals coming out and my serum levels are dropping and my urine levels are dropping.
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145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
And I feel fine now. I didn't initially. But this, you know, I saw the glyphosate and the aflatoxins and I was like, wow, somebody like me is getting... Glyphosate, now I travel, so occasionally it's a 16 hour flight. I eat, I am eating at restaurants, even though I'm trying to be as intentional as possible.
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145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
Then I've got to think, man, the population has got to have so much of these hormone disrupting chemicals. Anyway, I'm going to get back to the female journey. So now they get a hormone panel. We put them on basic supplements. You fix their sleep. I want to move towards the women that are perimenopausal, premenopausal.
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145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
Because this is a really interesting time for them because some of them go through it asymptomatic. Right. And I know several of those, but some of them have crippling symptomology. And tell me where you fall on the hormone scale. Are you pro-hormones? Are you anti-hormones?
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145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
But what about, what about a woman who, um, knows that she's estrogen dominant? Um, is it as simple as taking something like DIMM? Um, or do you, in, in your practice, do you guys rebalance the hormone? Do you actually put them on hormone therapy and fix progesterone levels and, and
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estrogen levels and or do you try to take somebody that's estrogen dominant and and and deal with that you know different way
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145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
doubling and tripling in that short period of time you have to ask the question of like what's going on and that's what's so puzzling like you said about the democrat thing it's like how could you not and you also have to be scared about when you see this parabolic rise right so autism rates have gone and i'm not saying all autism is caused by vaccines or all autism is caused by food dies but right we ought to be having the conversation of hey how did it go from
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145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
Actually for men too.
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Yeah.
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145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
That's where we start. Yeah. You know, you've talked about the dangers of certain supplements and additives. And so what are some things that people should look for in, in, in, in a supplement to maybe avoid some, uh, I mean, especially, you know, women. Yeah.
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145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
Yeah, it's like folic acid and methylfolate. Yeah, perfect example. Huge fan of that.
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145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
one in 5,000. To one in 36. To one in 36, or I even heard one in 32. Wow. But because the stats after that are one in 15, one in 10, one in five.
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145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
It's very synthetic.
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145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
Well, I'm excited for this ebook to come out because I, I, I, you know, I do the same thing. I have a, uh, a guide online too. And I, uh, There are certain contents that are in really inexpensive supplements that not just fillers, but folic acid, cyanocobalamin. It does occur naturally in nature, but it's also cyanide-based B12. Your body's going to have to convert it anyway. Not very efficient.
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145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
I'm just saying, if you're actually going to go out and intentionally purchase a supplement, Usually it's a marginal increase in price to get one that doesn't have the binders, the fillers, the additives, and has already been methylated. And it can be a game changer, especially for women, younger women, menstruating women, and pregnant females to take methylated nutrients versus the other one.
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145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
And diet-wise, first of all, I'm happy you're mentioning grass-fed beef. I mean, where do you fall in the vegan, vegetarianism versus meat-eater category?
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145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
Yes. He said that on my podcast. And he's a pediatrician. And he even said during the course of his practice, the number of autistic kids is parabolic. And again, that's not to say that there's one single cause, but you look at the state, the overall state of health in this country, and we want to balance that with our freedom of choice.
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145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
Regular eaters. Yeah.
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145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
So what are the most...
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145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
common um i guess misconceptions for for women of all ages that they make about hormone therapy or about hormones in general um you think that women are put on hormones too early do you think that hormone therapy is not used often enough like what are some of the big misconceptions that you see coming through your practice that you're clearing up so in at least in my experience a lot of them have tried hormone replacement therapy so i think i'm kind of speaking to that crowd um
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145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
Yeah. I hear Mark Hyman talk about all the time. If you have a sick fish, the first thing they do is clean the tank. Yeah. Right. Yeah. They filter the stuff out of the water. Like they clean up the environment. Right. And the fish shields. But, um, I completely agree with you.
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145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
Yeah, they rarely isolate the fish and then start injecting the fish or putting chemicals or synthetics or pharmaceuticals into the fish. They really clean up the environment.
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145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
So I'm not for getting rid of McDonald's or getting rid of smoking or stopping alcohol from being sold. It won't work anyway. Yeah, it wouldn't work. We tried ProVision once. We tried that once. And the wealthiest people were like the bootleggers. Yeah, right. We'll make it work. So we don't want to make a black market.
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145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
I love too that you're very open about being a, you call it a biblical rooted health practitioner. Yeah. Talk a little bit about what the role of, faith at least for you sure right plays in this in in this scheme grand scheme of things and you know i i feel like bobby kennedy is the same way you know he talks about his his journey and how
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145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
I might be bastardizing his story a little bit, but he stumbled upon a book on, it wasn't really a faith-based book, but it was a book that had him begin to consider faith and belief in something. I don't know the story. It's a really interesting story. And he tells this story about how he wasn't a believer and God didn't believe in Jesus. Dad really didn't have faith in his life.
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145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
He was an addict, but he knew he would do anything that would help him overcome his addiction. And I forget the name of the book. I'd have to find it. And if I do, I'll put it into the show notes because it was such a compelling story.
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145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
Yeah, I'll cut it in. Or I'll just drop it in the show notes for the podcast listeners. But essentially he stumbled upon this book and basically it wasn't a... pro or anti-faith book in and of itself. It wasn't like he found the Bible and he started to read it and was like, oh man, I'm going to start following Jesus.
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145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
What he found was this book that said, it was basically, what do you have to lose? Because if you believe in a higher power, you have faith in a higher power, and you have something to fear, and you believe that there is something that is observing you when no one else is looking, then you can begin to live a life
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145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
that is one that's the same whether or not you're in the presence of other people or not. So in other words, you know, he was like, it really spoke to his heart because the addiction is something that you hid. Sure. You know, it's not like, You would shoot up in a room with a bunch of other people.
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145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
And you also don't want to interrupt freedom of choice, but you also have to have an honest conversation of, well, why are we subsidizing the most chemical-laden foods in our food supply and taxing and making costs unaffordable raw, whole, organic foods? Yeah. And that's where I think the conversation on public policy needs to happen. And then if you have corruption in public policy, if you have...
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145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
You know, you would, you know, you'd go blindly around the corner into the bathroom and somebody's watching. But this whole idea of a belief in a higher power said that there's never a time that you're not, you know, being watched. You might not be being judged, but you're being watched. And it started this road to faith.
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145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
And while he was considering it, he talks about this volleyball game that he was playing. And while he's playing volleyball, somebody hit the ball and it bounced off of a pole. As soon as it bounced off the pole, he goes, that's going to get hit by a truck. And the ball, you got to look this, you have to watch this.
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145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
And it literally, the ball bounced out into a street and got run over by an 18 wheeler. And everybody on the volleyball court was like, And he said it was right after he found this book and he was like, he thought that this was a sign from God. Yeah, sure. And so he took a right turn. That's what it took for him.
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145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
So I think everybody has a different story about maybe you grew up and faith was always rooted in your family. It was easy for you. For me, I was saved by a promise keepers convention years ago. So tell me a little bit about what that was.
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145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
I always call it the temple.
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145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
Yeah, everything.
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145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
Yeah, there was one right there.
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private industry funding public policy research.
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145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
That's amazing, man. Well, first of all, this has been amazing. I'm definitely going to have you back. I want to follow your journey. Tell my audience where they can find you. Yes.
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145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
Okay, great. Well, I wind down all my podcasts by asking all my guests the same question. So there's no right or wrong answer to this question, but what does it mean to you to be an ultimate human?
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145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
I asked Russell Brand. He sat right in that chair. I know.
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145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
He is.
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145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
That's amazing. Well, guys, what an amazing podcast. You know, Dr. Austin and I are going to move into the VIP Ultimate Human group now. If you're interested in becoming a VIP Ultimate Human, it's $97 a month. You can sign up on my website. Just go to the ultimatehuman.com. We do private podcasts. We do all kinds of challenges. We do live group Q&As in there.
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145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
So go over to my website and check it out. And otherwise, as always, it's just science.
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145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
Yeah. Oh, no doubt. That's extremely scary. I mean, fertility rates in men and women, sperm counts in men, fertility rates in women. I can't tell you how, and I want to have this conversation even more in depth with you on the podcast, but I can't tell you. My wife and I started a clinic. I'm not licensed to practice medicine, so I'm a human biologist. Yeah.
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145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
we started a functional wellness clinic about 10 years ago and i'm very interested to hear why you chose to go down the road of women's health because that's a huge topic for us but we started this clinic and just in the seven years that we've been eight years now that we've been intentionally in that space um you know we have seen the impact of infertility i mean the vast majority
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145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
And they don't know that there are alternative options out there. When we look at the pandemic of autoimmune disease, the majority of this affects women. 75 or 80% of all autoimmune diseases are having to
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145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
of our clients that were coming in for hormone therapy and young couples were having trouble either getting pregnant, whether it had to do with the sperm counts, whether it had to do with the fertility of the female, or whether it had to do with miscarriages, frequent miscarriages. And it became such a hot topic within our clinic system because you look at these otherwise
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145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
young healthy childbearing women and young healthy male and you wonder why can't they naturally conceive why these are these birth rates um i mean why is it so difficult to get pregnant why is it so difficult to maintain a pregnancy and so i think a lot of that conversations is going to start in earnest you know because of this movement yeah so well i think i think because if people don't if they again if they associate it with i can't get pregnant because of some external factor
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145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
What made you go the women's health route in functional medicine? Because you're very educated. You have a really interesting career. You went to Tennessee for your functional medicine degree, right?
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145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
There's a problem right there.
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145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
I hope so too because. Yeah, she should be. 27, 28 million people. Yeah, not a big deal. Give or take, so it's not a big deal.
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145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
Hey guys, welcome back to the Ultimate Human Podcast. I'm your host, Gary Brekka, human biologist, where we go down the road of everything anti-aging, longevity, biohacking, and everything in between. And I am super excited for today's guest on the podcast because we don't really get a lot of time to shed light on specifically women's health issues.
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145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
So we are incredible circadian creatures. And I think what you're touching on is when we look at the pandemic of autoimmune disease, the majority of this affects women. It's 75% or 80% of all autoimmune diseases are happening to females.
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145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
Yeah. I mean, why is it so much more of a female issue than a male issue? I think it has to do with how selfless most women are. We used to call...
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145. Dr. Austin Lake: Biohacking Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients
in mortality statistics we used to call it caregiver syndrome sometimes they would call it broken heart syndrome sure you know for spouses that have been married a long period of time yeah but you know women are generally the first to put themselves right in the back seat and say i'm going to care for my spouse i'm going to care for the kids and of course and then then their mother it falls ill and now they're caring for the whole family right and so everybody's needs go before them and they think that that's a very selfish thing to do right
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sort of selfish to take care of themselves.
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137. Dr. Joel Gator Warsh: How Functional Medicine is Transforming Children's Health
And I want to start there because that level of controversy seems to fly in the face of the conventional wisdom of this vaccine schedule. And it's unnecessarily, in my opinion, activating their immune system at such an early stage when it's really just trying to figure out its way in the world. Specifically to the hepatitis B vaccine, what are your thoughts on that vaccine and the timing of it?
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137. Dr. Joel Gator Warsh: How Functional Medicine is Transforming Children's Health
So realistically- What's really interesting is, I mean, there's a quantifiable risk to just about everything. I mean, there's a risk every time that you get in the car to drive your kid to school you could get in a motor vehicle accident.
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137. Dr. Joel Gator Warsh: How Functional Medicine is Transforming Children's Health
And if you look at motor vehicle accident deaths for prepubescent children, you know, that are traveling to and from school or even on public transportation, there is a risk that you'll be involved in a motor vehicle accident. We can't stop taking kids to school. I think what... what vaccines, in my opinion, need to meet is this quantifiable risk hurdle.
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137. Dr. Joel Gator Warsh: How Functional Medicine is Transforming Children's Health
He's written books on parenting, books on vaccination, both of which are on the table right here. I would encourage you to get both of these books if you're a parent or if you're considering the vaccine controversy for your children. He is a board-certified pediatrician here in Los Angeles. I'm out in Los Angeles shooting some podcasts. It's a blessing to have him on the podcast today.
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137. Dr. Joel Gator Warsh: How Functional Medicine is Transforming Children's Health
Okay, yes, the risk is not absolutely zero, but the risk is not zero that you won't break your ankle if you're playing in the yard.
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137. Dr. Joel Gator Warsh: How Functional Medicine is Transforming Children's Health
I guess the million-dollar question as a board-certified pediatrician, the author of this book on vaccines is, did your child get the hepatitis B vaccine?
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137. Dr. Joel Gator Warsh: How Functional Medicine is Transforming Children's Health
Meaning vaccinate, don't vaccinate.
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137. Dr. Joel Gator Warsh: How Functional Medicine is Transforming Children's Health
Okay. And then, you know, there's another controversy around the use of some of these metals, especially aluminum, because aluminum does solicit an inflammatory response, which in the case of a vaccine would heighten the immune system's response to that antigen. And again, correct me if I'm saying something wrong, but the portion of the...
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137. Dr. Joel Gator Warsh: How Functional Medicine is Transforming Children's Health
So welcome to the podcast, Dr. Joel Warsh. Thank you for having me on. It's an honor. Yeah. So, I mean, this has got to be... the hottest topic right now. And I think what happened was the pandemic, you know, sort of split the country in half. You know, people were either pro-vaccine or anti-vaccine. It had a lot to do with their political orientation.
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Aluminum that has not really been studied, does it actually heighten or solicit the inflammatory and allergenic response to other things like pollen, hay fever, ragweed, eggs, and peanuts?
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There seems to be some correlated studies, not causal studies, that would indicate that when we were using these metals in vaccines to elicit this heightened immune response, that in the presence of other antigens that we weren't really trying to inoculate the child against, like peanuts and other things, that if they happen to have ingested peanuts at the time where they
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were getting this vaccine. Now, all of a sudden they have this peanut allergy or they have an allergy to something else because the immune system flared up because of the aluminum carrier that was designed to really heighten the response to that vaccine and sort of crossed over into other areas of now very, what turned out to be very severe allergies. I mean, if you look at it,
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The number of peanut allergies now in young kids, I mean, my father's 82 years old, and I asked him the other day, Captain John Breck, I was like, how many kids did you know growing up that had peanut allergies? He's like, nobody. He actually didn't know anybody that had autism either, which is another whole hot topic, but... And I didn't either as a child.
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Now my 16-year-old knows 10 people with autism. And so there's no doubt that there's skyrocketing rates of autism. The question is why? But I want to get back to the aluminum thing. So three big questions here. Yeah, I'm piling all these.
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Okay, so can we just touch on some of these carrier mechanisms that we're using? We use an attenuated virus, which I think seems to be the safest route to me. And then we also purposely put other compounds in these vaccines so that we heighten the immune system's response, and now it seems to carry over into other reactions.
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My concern with it is- Love to see the conflict of interest on those panels. Yeah, there are plenty. That's another topic.
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There were people that thought that if you didn't get vaccinated, you were... basically fumigating the rest of the population. Then there were people that thought if you got vaccinated, you were part of this massive gene experiment that the government and the World Health Organization were doing. And somewhere in the middle lies the truth.
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I promise they pulled it out after they inoculated millions of kids. Oh, yeah, it was in vaccines.
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Hey guys, I'm really excited to announce this. Perfect Aminos has gotten a serious upgrade. They've added nucleotides, the building blocks of our nucleic acids, DNA and RNA. And this is important. We know essential amino acids are the building blocks of protein and collagen.
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Having all the essential amino acids in the correct ratio is necessary for complete protein synthesis without the caloric impact. But if we want perfect protein synthesis, we need to look at the process of protein synthesis itself. Because if the process is faulty, we won't get the correctly made protein, collagen, fibrin, or the red blood cells in our bloodstream or our muscles.
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And that's the one thing that I deeply appreciated about the book that you wrote. I've also been deep down the rabbit hole on vaccines. I certainly don't purport to be an expert on vaccines by any means. I'm not even a physician or licensed to practice medicine. You are. I'd love for you to tell my audience a little bit about your journey as a board certified pediatrician.
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We can even stop creation of specific proteins, which can affect us in so many different ways. Our DNA and our RNA are what direct protein synthesis, building new proteins. If our DNA or RNA get damaged from toxins, harmful bacteria, or just plain aging, we get faulty protein synthesis. So cells, enzymes, and hormones are less functional and we get premature aging.
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By adding nucleosides and nucleotides, the building blocks of the nucleic acids DNA and RNA, our cells get exactly what they need to help repair faulty DNA and RNA and improve the process of protein synthesis itself. This is next level science and you need to try these. Now let's get back to the Ultimate Human Podcast.
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Well, I would argue that, you know, a lot of times, you know, we say the dosage determines the poison. And I don't know that that's necessarily true a lot of times because very often it's the cumulative dosage that determines the poison. You know, nobody got mercury poisoning from eating one piece of tuna fish.
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right they got mercury poisoning because mercury mercury is extraordinarily slow to be methylated out of the body we do methylate heavy metals and we do slowly eliminate them but it's an extraordinarily slow process and if you keep inoculating the body especially in somebody that's a poor methylator then these these compounds tend to stack up and and then bang you've got mercury poisoning or lead poisoning or aluminum poisoning or heavy metal toxicity
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and all the consequences that go with that, you know, linked to Hashimoto's and all kinds of other autoimmune conditions. And you've got metals embedded in the tissue and they're hard to find because they're hard to find in the bloodstream because they leave the blood go into the tissue. But
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What is your opinion after having looked at all the data on using aluminum as one of these carriers to solicit this immune response? What does the data say?
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So if a parent came into your office and said, listen, I don't want to take the hepatitis B vaccine because nobody in my house has hepatitis B or nobody in my family has hepatitis B. I don't plan to let somebody bleed on my baby. And I don't want to fire up their immune response. What would be your response to that, parents?
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You know, what was your impetus for writing a book on parenting and writing a book on vaccination? What was the objective?
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Where do you fall on, on, the aluminum in vaccines would are you exactly middle of the road hey there's enough evidence to say that they don't cause harm and enough evidence to say that they do cause harm this should purely be the parents decision or do you say you know i'd like to see more safety trials um
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I'd like to see more evidence giving the correlated evidence of this parabolic rise in the vaccine schedule and the parabolic rise in all kinds of childhood issue. We have the highest rate of childhood cancer in recorded history. We have the highest rates of autism. We have the highest rates of obesity. We have the highest rates of metabolic syndrome.
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And they seem to be starting in younger and younger and younger ages. I mean, we have... And I know that's multifactorial, but we have young girls starting their period way before their previous years. And I'm sure you've seen that in your practice too. And I know that there's not one panacea. Oh, it's just the vaccines. Oh, it's just the hormone disruptors. Oh, it's just the shampoo.
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It's just the processed food. I think it's a combination of all of these things, this sort of toxic soup that we're bathing their cellular biology in. But Where do you fall personally on vaccines that have aluminum metals in them as a carrier?
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Thank you.
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Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
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She's also a physician? She's not a physician.
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Thank you. Thank you.
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Thank you.
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Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
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Right, exactly.
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You need the research. Would you agree that autism is a neuroinflammatory condition?
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Would you agree that certain vaccines and vaccine compounds can cause neural inflammation or at least cause... Oh, they can definitely cause neural inflammation.
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And that is why... Encephalopathy, there you go.
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You can use artificial intelligence to even to comb the vast amount of data that we have. I mean, I think I talk about this all the time, the merger of artificial intelligence and big data and early detection.
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could look at this voluminous database that we have and take all of these correlations and independently validate trillions of independent variables and say, this is at least the most likely. Right.
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Yeah, I mean, at a minimum, if a parent came to you for advice and said, listen, I've read your book and I... I'm ready to make a decision. Would you recommend that they, at a minimum, spread the vaccines out? Or are you fine inoculating children with multiple vaccines in one shot?
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Well, you're a board certified pediatrician.
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What are the risks of exposure to some of those diseases?
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So you really shot away from it in the beginning. I think it's politics, religion, and vaccines. Those are like the no-fly zones, right?
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I want to also talk about, we've talked about attenuated viruses, aluminum vaccines. You know, recently we've added mRNA vaccines. And these are messenger RNA. And to oversimplify it, you know, the DNA in the nucleus of the cell, aside from replicating itself and creating an exact copy of itself, it also sends messages into the cell to the different organelles. And those messages are called mRNAs.
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messenger RNA, you know, and messenger ribonucleic acid. So it's sort of like the CEO, which is the DNA inside the nucleus of the cell has a notepad, and he scribbles down directions to instruct a cell organelle to conduct a certain activity. So if I'm the CEO, and if I'm the If I'm the DNA, I write this message, messenger ribonucleic acid. I send it out into the cytoplasm of the cell.
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A cell organelle receives that message and then conducts that instruction. Make this protein, for example. And from my understanding, and I would love for you to clarify this, that... messenger RNA and that the DNA would send into the cytoplasm of the cell, that message that instructs that cell organelle to make certain protein, when it's organic, it degrades over a certain period of time.
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What we did with messenger RNA vaccines, mRNA vaccines, was we made a synthetic copy of that message and we inject this. So we kind of stole the CEO's notepad and said, we're going to write instructions on behalf of the DNA. The cell organelle is not going to know the difference between an mRNA message that came from the DNA and an mRNA message that came from this synthetic inoculation.
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And when that message reaches that cell organelle, my understanding, one of the downsides that does seem to have some significant clinical evidence is that that message does not degrade, or at least does not degrade as quickly as a an organic message would. And therefore there's a tendency for some people, especially to overproduce these proteins, like a spike protein or other proteins.
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So where do you fall on that?
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They're either vaccinate at all costs or your children will die or don't vaccinate at all costs or your children will die.
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Yeah. And I think it would be safe to say that there's... There's no research that would find an organic messenger RNA sequence that left the nucleus of the cell, went into the cytoplasm months or certainly not years after that message was sent. And so if we are picking up mRNA messages years, which I've seen those studies myself, after inoculation,
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That is a very non-natural response that we're asking the body to solicit. And maybe it wasn't intended. I don't know that I fall in the camp that this was a giant gene experiment conducted by a small group of people to take over the world. But I am in the camp of how did we ever do this mass inoculation on the population without long-term safety data? And when you look at
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the way that a lot of these vaccines were approved through these emergency use authorizations. The emergency use authorization was essentially designed to allow for the rapid deployment of a treatment when there were no other treatments available. And I think there were other treatments available. There were other antiviral treatments that had very high safety requirements.
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studies um and and and we're also had high efficacy like hydroxychloroquine ivermectin i mean those two words just got this whole that's it we're canceled forget it so we'll bleep those out and just put the words on the screen and it's so sad because i am and i can tell you are too i'm really trying to have a non-biased discussion.
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I'm not trying to get on here and say that it was all a big giant gene experiment designed to kill everybody. But what I'm saying is common sense says, if we stole the CEO's notepad and we can still find the message years later, That's not the intention. I mean, flat out. I just want to say on that. Let's just call it what it is.
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Tons of people lost their jobs, lost their careers.
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Yeah. And I would suggest that you don't actually.
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Just know that neither side has long-term data. I mean, we're starting to get some now, medium-term data, I guess I would say, and in my opinion, it's not good. But we don't have the long-term data. And that was one of my issues with Operation Warp Speed. It's like, wow, Warp Speed is just basically waving the safety drop. Right, and that natural unity.
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It's not speeding up the deployment of the vaccine. It's just waving what was put there as a fail-safe to protect humanity. I want to kind of shift gears a little bit too, because I'm going to encourage everybody to read your book.
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I've not thoroughly read it, but I've read it and saw the same statistics that you saw, the erosion of confidence in our healthcare and a lot of our governmental elites and of the practitioners, which is sad that it's eroding in the practitioner because I've never met a physician that had a sinister motive once in my life. And I know hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of doctors. And
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And if they made an error, it was an omissive error, not a commissive error. And I think we're blaming them for being a part of this grand conspiracy. And I don't think that the physicians as a whole deserve that label. But moving on now to...
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it's bright in the room a little bit i'm bright i think it's good we're talking that's what all i care about yeah no i i i actually like this discussion i don't know if i'm gonna get you know banned from social media after this one but it is what it is um i haven't been banned yet so you haven't okay so i'm gonna hold on to your coattails so um let's talk about Raising healthy children.
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We know beyond a shadow of a doubt, autism rates are skyrocketing. Autoimmune diseases are skyrocketing. Morbid obesity is skyrocketing. We have the highest rates of childhood cancer in recorded history. We have the highest rates of learning disabilities, which some people would argue, well, now we're testing for learning disabilities and we didn't test for them before.
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Now we have more sensitive testing for autism. We didn't test for that before. I think that that's nonsense. This isn't lightening the room. I'm about to get to the light. We're walking from the darkness. The sun's about to rise here. Just stay with me. And what I want to talk about is, first of all, I love your approach on informed consent for parents.
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And I think the book is going to give people the information they need to make those decisions. And I hope that their pediatricians and their public schools will respect the wishes of parents. But what are, you know, you also wrote a book on parenting and you're a parent and a pediatrician, so clearly you're in authority.
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And what are some things that, some advice that you would give to parents to raise healthy children?
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So how do you set up your home and what are some practical things that a parent could implement? Because I know there's a lot of overwhelm. I actually have quite a few young parents that are heavily follow the podcast and follow me.
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And they're on to like folic acid and methylated vitamins for their kids and eating whole foods, trying to get more whole foods into the house and more highly processed foods out of the house. What are some of your tips and tricks like, hey, here's the four or five things, the basics that you need to do just to make sure that you are healthy?
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Here in Los Angeles, you're growing your own?
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Because I think that's where the nutrients are. There's an app. I'm going to try to find it and link it in the show notes now that you just triggered something in my memory that there's an app that will, you put in your zip code and it will tell you where the local farmer's markets are and if there's an Amish farm next to you. It's Raw Milk Finder. Okay. It's called Raw Milk Finder.
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So maybe that was the one because it's not just finding raw milk. It was also, which you guys can, thankfully in California, you can get. You can get raw cheese and raw milk and you can get grass-fed meats and pasture-raised eggs and free-range chicken and lion-caught fish. And you can get a lot of really good foods in the state. Yeah.
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I think that's the app that I'm talking about where people can put in their zip code and it shows you local farmers markets, local growers, Amish farms, places where you can actually go and get honey and maple syrup and milk and cheese.
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I use Parker Pastures and some of these other services that'll ship to you. Whole Foods, Locally Grown, And what about things like stressors for our kids, screen time, social media, being raised on an iPad? I mean, what are some of your tips and advice for getting kids into an environment where we can
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take advantage of the neuroplasticity and excite their brains and really draw out their creativity. Because what I've been reading a lot lately is that the rigid structure of our school system is antithetical to the way that humans, and obviously children are humans, We truly learn. We learn by exploration. We learn by making a mistake.
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We go to grab a certain thing, it's got a thorn on it and it sticks us. Okay, don't grab that again. We go out and we explore in our world and we problem solve. And I think a lot of those skills are lacking in such an electronic, social media-driven, very superficial society. So as a pediatrician, and I'll confess I haven't read the parenting book yet.
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You talk more about the schedule. This is given at this time. This is given at this time.
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I will so that I can recommend it to my audience, but... What are some advice that they can get from this book?
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What are maybe some quick tips to reduce stress in our kids?
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I love that. So, you know, I first of all, this has been amazing. I'm going to recommend that everybody read read your book. I'm going to delve into the parenting book, even though my kids are fully adults right now and giving me a lot of grief. But I've won the lottery on the kid side because they've all turned out to be just incredible adults. They actually inspire me now.
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But I wind down all my podcasts by asking my guests the same question. So there's no right or wrong answer to this question. And that is, what does it mean to you to be an ultimate human?
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I love that. Well, guys, Dr. Warsh and I are about to move into the private VIP community for my private ultimate human VIPs. If you're interested in becoming an ultimate human VIP, it's $97 a month. I do lots of interactive private podcasts. I do lots of private content, content that I don't share on social media. We do live Q&As. We do challenges. We do all kinds of things as a community.
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So if you're interested in becoming a an ultimate human vip just go over to the ultimatehuman.com and sign up to be a vip and i will see you in the private chat and otherwise as always that's just science
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I noticed that, too. You know, they're either like vaccinate at all costs or your children will die and don't deserve to be in the public school system or. don't vaccinate at all costs or your children die.
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What vaccines, in my opinion, need to meet is this quantifiable risk hurdle. The risk is not zero that you won't break your ankle if you're playing in the yard.
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Yeah, you know, I really have identified with this Make America Healthy Again movement and what Bobby Kennedy is doing.
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inside of the current administration and i i hope he gets confirmed i think that he will because i think that you know you've got to have someone that is on the one yard line to get you know society from the end zone to the 50 yard line right i mean it and it's not that we're going to move the pendulum is going to swing all the way one way or the other one of the things that i really like
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is centered around true informed consent because an educated parent is a great parent. And I think for so many decades, moms and dads in the best interest of their children are like, what does my pediatrician say? What does my primary care doctor say? What does the public school system say? Because obviously these entities must have my kid's best interests at heart.
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And they just blindly sort of followed guidelines. And now I think we're getting back to informed choice, you know, which is informed consent, you know, I guess the legal term in the medical literature.
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And, you know, can we give parents that do not have a depth of expertise on vaccination, both sides of the story, and say, here are the risks if you do vaccinate, here are the risks if you don't vaccinate, and here's kind of where the research and the literature lies.
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And one of the things I do appreciate about Bobby Kennedy is that I hear him talk over and over, not just about informed consent, but about... pushing vaccines to go through the same level of rigorous testing that other drugs and treatments and modalities go through.
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Longer-term studies, larger cohorts, double-blind, peer-reviewed, placebo-controlled, randomized clinical trials, the highest level of scientific scrutiny. Would you agree that that's absent in a lot of... I'm not trying to sway your answer one way or the other.
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Don't mind that we planted a bomb under your seat and I have a little button right here. My whole life now with vaccines is that. I wouldn't be shocked. So, you know, would you agree on the one side of the equation that a lot of vaccines have not gone through extensive, rigorous... testing at the level that other drugs and treatments and modalities have gone through.
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We can stop the podcast right there. Thank you.
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Let's just talk about raising healthy children. What are some advice that you would give to parents to raise healthy children?
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You know, we talked about this before the podcast started. You know, I have a background in probability and statistics and modeling for mortality. And it's really interesting how a good statistician can, without manipulating the numbers per se, falsifying the data and outright committing fraud, but they can ask a different question. And to get the outcome for the headliner that they want to grab.
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So, for example, you have 100 people that take a certain therapeutic intervention and one person gets helped. And then they modify that intervention. And now one and a half people out of 100 get helped. And they go, it's 50% more effective. And so, you know...
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someone reads that and goes, wow, this one is 50% more effective than the other one, but it was a half a person for every hundred people or, you know, top five people for every thousand people. You know, it's really interesting how probability and statistics and statistical modeling
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without outright fraudulently fudging data, can actually lead to different outcomes depending on how you ask this question. And I think very often, from what I've seen, this is what's going on in vaccines. And I want to talk a little bit about the genesis of vaccines. Again, I am not a vaccine expert, but...
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We used to make a lot of vaccines out of attenuated viruses where we would extract the DNA, leave the envelope, the nucleocapsid protein, which would cause this antibody response, right? But it wasn't capable of infecting you. To me, that seems like polio, right? I mean, to me, that seems...
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I don't know, but a more safe way, if that's even a term, to inoculate somebody's body because at least you're infecting them with something that can't actually cause the disease. It can't inject its DNA and take over that cellular, that cell's metabolic functions.
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Right.
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We know autism rates are skyrocketing. We have the highest rates of childhood cancer in recorded history. An educated parent is a great parent. And I think moms and dads are like, what does my pediatrician say? Because obviously these entities must have my kid's best interests at heart.
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Hey guys, welcome back to the Ultimate Human Podcast. I'm your host, Gary Braca, human biologist, where we go down the road of everything anti-aging, biohacking, longevity, and everything in between. And today I have a very, very special guest. So parents, listen up. He is a board-certified pediatrician. I love the fact that he has a functional medicine orientation.
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So I want to walk through some of the more controversial vaccines and some of the more controversial vaccine methods, because I think this is where there's a lot of headlines that are being grabbed right now being hepatitis B vaccine being probably the one that's most common that I see in the headlines right now because this is a
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you know, a virus that is transmitted by sexual activity, by intravenous drug use, and yet it's given within a very short timeframe after birth. And the mothers are tested for hep B, so we know that the mother either is hep B positive or hep B negative, so we know whether or not the fetus has been exposed.
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But after birth, I mean, the chances of a child, you know, engaging in sexual activity or intravenous drug use are pretty much zero. Unless they have a wild baby party, which is what we talk about around here sometimes. Baby parties can get out of hand. Sometimes, apparently. I was going to make a really bad joke, but I won't do that. So baby is born.
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Their little immune system has barely entered this world. I mean, they're adjusting to this entirely new environment. I mean, they're breathing for the first time. They're nursing for the first time. They're out of the womb. And then immediately we hit them with a hepatitis B vaccine for sexually transmitted or intravenous drug use vaccine. that the chances of them contracting are zero.
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It's very impactful to know what someone's driving force is. And it's not that somebody has to have that major of a catastrophic event in their life, but we don't have a lot of time to waste.
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That is crazy. Less than 1% of Americans. Yeah. See, that's my, eventually that is my dream goal. I actually have a map, you know, to get there. I actually plan to sell this beautiful penthouse in Miami and exchange it for a regenerative farm. I actually have a piece of land already picked out. I can't wait for you for that.
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Dude, I can't wait either in Colorado and have, you know, a head of cattle and, you know, this particular piece of land, it's got a beautiful stream, glacier fed land.
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He pushes his physical and mental limits, and Devin's journey is so inspiring and so transformative. He's a very successful entrepreneur. He's the founder of Sweet Honey Farm, which I love, and an advocate for sustainable family-centered wellness. Devin's here to share his philosophies on building resilience, supporting mental health, and his vision for holistic health.
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uh spring water and just bring people there because i feel like a lot of people are just disconnected from disconnected basics mother nature community you know other human beings like um like we vibed when you first walked in the door we had a hug yeah yeah we actually did the heart hug and um and then we had a really good regenerative meal and then we went and did some pull-ups you actually did some muscle-ups i didn't do the muscle-ups but you crushed that
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We're doing it. But yeah, we're doing it. But it's just so awesome. And I feel like the temperature in this country would come down if people were back in touch with nature a little bit, really in touch with humanity, not looking for what's different about your opinion from mine, but what are the things we have in common? Like you were saying here earlier, it made me laugh my ass off.
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You're like... Pet a fucking cow. For real. Yeah, you're out in the garden just shoveling in raw spinach. People forget to act like a kid.
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How did you get into business with Jesse and start All Day Run Club? I mean, I see those all the time.
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We are so excited to dive into the powerful stories and insights that define his approach to life and wellness. Hey guys, welcome back to the Ultimate Human Podcast. I'm your host, human biologist, Gary Brekka, where we go down the road of everything anti-aging, biohacking, longevity, and everything in between.
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So if you were there a few years ago, he beat you by two feet. Correct.
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That's so cool, man. Talk about awesome.
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Sometimes your things are circular too. So you can't really tell who's winning.
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You know, it's, it's really interesting because there's a lot of research out now, um, about, uh, you know, the impact of physical conditioning on mental health and like the, just the, just the impact of a simple walk. versus an antidepressant like an SSRI. Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors are not as powerful as movement for depression. Joe Rogan's talked about this.
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I'm happy to put links to the research in the show notes, but I so totally agree with you because If people would move more, speak more, have more eye contact, get better, you know, back in touch with nature. Not all the time. Not everybody has to move to a regenerative farm.
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And today's guest is a guest, dude, I've been wanting to have you on here for a long time. And we narrowly missed each other. He was actually on the summit down here on a cruise ship and I narrowly missed him, but I got him, captured him. He's on the podcast today. Guys, welcome Devin Levesque. Or no, it's fine. No, not Levesque. You said it, Love... Ake. Love Ake. Love Ake. I love it.
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But once in a while, instead of taking a vacation where you just like go to Vegas and get blasted and you come back more exhausted than you left and you need a vacation from your vacation. Take like a selfless vacation where you actually go and put some hormetic stresses on your body. And, you know, hot, cold, contrast therapy, you know. What is that word? Hormetic. Yeah, hormesis. Hormesis, cool.
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Yeah, so hormesis is, you know, the... You know, it's what happens. It's a scientific term for stressing the body and it strengthens in response, right? I mean, you tear a muscle, it gets larger. You load a bone, it strengthens. It challenges the immune system. It strengthens. You know, so hormesis is the act of like strengthening through cold plunges, right?
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Activating brown fat, you know, shivering, peripheral vasoconstriction.
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Dude, I love that term too.
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I love that, man. So add a hormetic stress, type two fun. Add a hormetic stress. And so do you see these when you're in these communities and you host these events or people come out to your farm? I mean, do you see transformational change? Like what do people, what do they say to you? Like besides thank you, but what are they?
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Devin Love Ake. That's it. Hey, man. I memorized it differently. Love Ake. Devin Love Ake. You know, I was... First of all, man, I'm super pumped about the message that you're putting out in the world.
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And at least know that you can feel them. I think for some people, I say this all the time, I think the majority of people have forgotten how good normal feels. And I liken that a lot of times to nutrient deficiencies, the absence of whole foods, the absence of vitamins, minerals, amino acids, nutrients of all kinds. And So you get them out. It sounds so simple, but you get them off the farm.
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They're touching the ground. They're petting a cow. They're eating spinach out of the garden. They're in a community. But what it does is it reminds them of what normal feels like. And so often when clients of mine are like, oh, my God, Gary, I feel amazing. I'm like, you know, you actually don't really feel amazing. Like what? I'm like, you just feel normal.
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That's how good normal is supposed to feel. That's how God wants us to feel. He wants us to thrive. You're supposed to have it all.
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We ran a whole podcast before we got on the podcast, you know, talking about your regenerative farm and, you know, some of just the amazingly phenomenal physical feats that you've accomplished, climbing Mount Everest, bear crawling an entire... marathon. But there was something about that marathon bear crawl.
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And, and it's just so, you know, so amazing.
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Yeah. And the reason why I agree with that is because, again, you know, hormones, and I don't want to flip the podcast here, but you know, hormones are one of those things that need raw materials to be constructed. Like if you're deficient in DHEA, you're going to be, it's going to be hard for you to build the hormone testosterone.
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If you're deficient in vitamin D3, it's going to be hard to build the hormone testosterone. If you got rampantly high insulin, you know, which is going to lead you to be estrogen dominant. So
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you're when you do when you get the basics right yes rarely there's true testicular hypofunction right testicles for one reason or other damage radiation you know um lots of lots of abuse that can't produce testosterone and by all means you should replace it um in 2018 the journal of american urology updated all their clinical guidelines on on hormone therapy it is it is actually really good for you and can substantially extend wow cool cool um but
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People also want to start a quick fix and do it before it's needed. I mean, no matter what anyone tells you, there's no better hormone than one your body produces on its own.
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So if you can be high on your own supply, healthy levels of growth hormone from your pituitary, healthy levels of testosterone if you're a male from your testicles, healthy levels of hormones, cyclical hormones if you're a female, that's the best life has to offer. And it's usually the absence of the basics. One of the reasons why I really love so much, identify so much with the mission you're on,
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And we've been talking about that. When you sat down, you were telling me, and I'm very flattered by it. You were like, really, I saved my Everest story for this podcast because you haven't really gone out with the story yet. So first of all, I deeply appreciate that. I think my audience is just going to love your message. Tell me about that because I've never climbed Everest.
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I'm actually going on an extreme race with my son in three days where he's doing seven marathons on seven continents in seven days. Yeah, it's going to be a blast for him, 184 miles in seven days. But the cool thing is it's on every major continent in the world. So I'm literally going to see the world in eight days. And it's astounding to me.
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The negative responses that I get from so many people when I just start to talk to them, I'm like, oh, my God, I would never do that. Oh, my God. I could never do that. Think about all that time in the air. Dude, he's going to be torn to shreds. He's not going to be able to move when he gets home. I'm like, dude, we're going to seven continents in seven days.
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When I was actually really figuring out who Devin LeVake was and I went down the Devin LeVake rabbit hole, I stumbled on a talk you did and it actually just really hit my heart because I feel like very often on this podcast, the most impactful people in the world that are really making great change and really affecting a lot of lives have solved the problem in their life.
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This is living, brother.
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And you went solo, fully solo?
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He's awesome. They're special humans, man.
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They're on the same path.
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Maybe it was drug addiction. Maybe it was the loss of a loved one. Maybe it was a bad breakup. Whatever it was. Lyme disease. They solved the problem. And they basically turned that into the most impactful message ever. And you were doing a talk on stage and I heard you say, and I want to dig into this, but I heard you talking about, you know, you're going to bear call a marathon.
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She's going to see this podcast and be like, damn it, he's back.
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Yeah. And I go on these ruck walks, just a straight walk. I put on a 20-pound ruck, and I go on this little route in the woods. When I come back, I'm significantly winded. I feel amazing. Oh man. But I'm also not just pushing straight up a hill and it's, it's a 10 five.
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My son actually did a half marathon from like almost a half marathon in pieces from like 10, five up to 13 and a half thousand feet and back down to prepare for this race. But man, you, you, you, you get a hundred yards. And you gotta take a knee.
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If nobody's been to that altitude, it's hard to respect what it's like when the ambient oxygen goes from 21%, which is sea level, at 10.5, it's about 13.7. And it doesn't sound like a big deal, 7% drop in oxygen, but you dead sprint 100 yards and you're taking a knee.
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You set a world record for it. And the two questions were how and why.
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It was your explanation for the why that really brought things home for me because I like to know what's the driving force behind people. And now I know why you're so inspired. You're so passionate. You're so purpose-driven. But if you wouldn't mind, share that with us. I mean, not just the overwhelming physical feat to bear crawl a marathon.
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So you're back down, you're back up, you're back down, you're back up. You're just getting this acclimation.
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That had to be one of the most difficult things you ever did. For sure. But it was the how and the why.
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And how were the guys that were with you? I mean, what was their state?
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So you have to hike past them.
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So you actually saw dead frozen bodies.
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When you say collapse, the area that you were walking, is that because it's pure ice?
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And it just cracked off and down they went.
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How did those experiences like, you know, the grinding through the pain of a bear crawl, grinding through the pain of Everest, you know, pushing your body to... to the absolute limit, even into the zone of the unknown, right?
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Because, you know, I feel like when you do, you know, you prepare for a race like a marathon or distance race, you kind of know what you're getting into, can manage your exhaustion. Like, look, my son's never done seven marathons on seven continents in seven days, but he knows what a marathon is, right? And if he gets into trouble, he can slow down a little bit and bring himself back.
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And, but these are like, sort of black holes that you're going into black hole right i mean they're they're not pre-planned um obviously you can train but you're also in that black hole like what has what has that done what did that experience do to shape you what what what was your big takeaway from from those it Because nothing prepared you. You didn't prepare to look at frozen dead people. No.
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You didn't prepare to have somebody maybe cut your line and actually take your life because you butt in front of them in line. That wasn't part of your training. Right. So... I think...
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Now let's get back to the Ultimate Human Podcast. Yeah, I think that's such a great metaphor for life is like, you know, you talk about finding that calm in your mind, but being calm under stress. You know, it's like if you've ever done like a really hard yoga session, they wrap you into the candle stick pose or something. And it should be like called the torture pose.
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And, you know, you're there, you're half squatting, your hands are together, your butt's firm, you're holding in your abdomen, and you just start shaking.
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You're meeting people where they are and giving them a space. That's my goal is to calm people's tension in the world by providing these communities. When you sat down, you were telling me a Saved by Everest story for this podcast.
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shaking in pain right and like and you know the sweats coming off of your head but you're just trying to calm your mind in that scenario i feel like you can condition yourself condition your mind it's like why why i tell people to you know if your morning's hard your day will be easy And I'm not saying you have to go in and do a workout that just taxes your joints every day of your life.
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But I, you know, a few months ago, I was like, you know, I really freaking hate wide grip pull-ups and I really suck at them. Do them. And so I'm just, that's why I got a David Goggins in my mind all the time. Like, you pussy, like, do it now, do it now, do it now. And what was crazy is I went in and started doing, I was like, whoa. hold myself, hold myself, hold myself down.
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Like with the gold flakes in it? It's literally the worst liquor in the world.
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And then I just started working through it. Now I'm in there rolling them out and I'm like, it's such a metaphor for life. You'd call it do hard shit. And I think the reason why you want to do hard shit, well, I'd love to hear your reason. Why should people do hard shit?
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I took the family on an extreme Costa Rican vacation about two years ago. And, um, my, uh, my daughter, my, my two sons, my youngest daughter, and, you know, my wife and my son's fiance. And we all went down there and it was really cool. When I say extreme vacation, it wasn't like, definitely not like Everest or bear calling.
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119. Devon Lévesque: What Facing Death on Everest Taught Me about Living
No, only one of us would make it. And that'd be my, my son. But, um, But what was really cool is, you know, we rafted the Pequari River. We did spelunking. We did, you know, rappelling. You know, we had ATVing out in the... You know, we stayed in these lodges that didn't have any running water, freaking bugs everywhere. And in the last night, we were in the... the Pecori Lodge.
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119. Devon Lévesque: What Facing Death on Everest Taught Me about Living
And the next morning I had to leave. I left the family there. I'd leave the jungle at 4.30 in the morning because I had to get to town and take a flight to Miami because I actually had a speaking engagement in Miami. And it was at Live Nightclub in Miami. And, um, you know, somebody had rented, it wasn't a nightclub thing.
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119. Devon Lévesque: What Facing Death on Everest Taught Me about Living
It was like they rented the nightclub and it was, it was actually, um, uh, Dan's Dan Fleishman's, uh, uh, mastermind, a hundred million dollar mastermind. So anyway, but the whole point is I woke up in the jungle. I'd only been there for seven days. I take this flight. I land in Miami. And as I'm like getting to the speaking venue, it all felt so surreal. Like I was looking around.
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119. Devon Lévesque: What Facing Death on Everest Taught Me about Living
I'm like, none of this is necessary. Like these fucking buildings, that Ferrari, this crazy gorgeous nightclub, all these clothes, these fancy clothes. You guys are wearing that $20,000 bag that just passed me in the lobby. Doesn't matter. It was super perspective for me. Like I was almost like, I don't belong here. Like I wanted to go back to the Costa Rican jungle so bad.
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119. Devon Lévesque: What Facing Death on Everest Taught Me about Living
And so I really identify with what you're saying. And I think that by doing really hard shit, people understand that,
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119. Devon Lévesque: What Facing Death on Everest Taught Me about Living
Every 75 minutes.
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119. Devon Lévesque: What Facing Death on Everest Taught Me about Living
Cause I'm re-tapping in. Three saunas, three cold plunges.
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119. Devon Lévesque: What Facing Death on Everest Taught Me about Living
Dude, that's so good, man. Like I said, I think it's such a metaphor for life. And I I remember back when I first started doing CrossFit, because I've always tried to meditate. I do breath work every morning now, which really helps, but I never was able to really, really quiet my mind. And I found CrossFit, and the thing that I loved about it was...
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119. Devon Lévesque: What Facing Death on Everest Taught Me about Living
If you're ever doing a CrossFit WOD and you actually don't want to quit, you're just not doing it right. About 70% of the time, you should really want to quit. It's brutal. It's brutal. Whatever the AMRAP is that you're doing. AMRAP sucked, by the way.
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119. Devon Lévesque: What Facing Death on Everest Taught Me about Living
Amrap is just torture. Amraps are torture because you're trying to condense time. And I realized, you know, over the long term that combining speed and heavy weight was a bad idea. That's why I stopped doing it. I didn't have a problem with heavy weight or a problem with speed, but I think the combination for like deadlift for time, 400 meter sprint, deadlift for time. No good.
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119. Devon Lévesque: What Facing Death on Everest Taught Me about Living
Yeah, that's a recipe for disaster.
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119. Devon Lévesque: What Facing Death on Everest Taught Me about Living
it is right but what do you so what do you think of these hybrid athletes then that everyone's like yeah the deadlift and then run the mile or whatever and is is that is there longevity to that or i think there's there are athletes that you know can condition and and participate that but you know compound olympic lifts um you know like like a real overhead snatch
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119. Devon Lévesque: What Facing Death on Everest Taught Me about Living
right or or a squat snatch i mean that's not something that your average soccer mom should just do twice a week you know after she drops the kids off at school right i mean just come in you know fresh out of bed had a cup of coffee dropped the kids off at school you know pulls in and now she's doing compound olympic lifts and it's um it's not that i have any problem with those activities or even the crossfit games but it's you know what what i saw and i owned a crossfit gym it was it's called real fitness in naples um and
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119. Devon Lévesque: What Facing Death on Everest Taught Me about Living
And we had great programmers, but I did see a lot of people get injured because I think you were taking people too far too fast. Just getting somebody to understand the mechanics of deadlift and safely deadlift real weight or overhead snatch or clean and jerk or just clean. I mean, those are complicated movements. For you to master 15 of those as someone who's not dedicated to that craft...
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119. Devon Lévesque: What Facing Death on Everest Taught Me about Living
I think it's a risk for injury. I actually watched. It was terrible. We had those, they call them the GHD setups where you kind of lock your knees.
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119. Devon Lévesque: What Facing Death on Everest Taught Me about Living
Yeah, we have one on Sweet Honey. I love them too, but I saw... Uh-oh. It was like my fifth day owning the gym, too. I was like, I'm so excited, man. I just put this big investment in. And Sky comes in, and we didn't pre-test him for his level of conditioning. And he jumps in the water.
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119. Devon Lévesque: What Facing Death on Everest Taught Me about Living
When you got in the car.
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119. Devon Lévesque: What Facing Death on Everest Taught Me about Living
He gets him on the GHD, and he goes flying back and splits his linealba from the base of his sternum to the top of his pubic bone. Oh, man. And he just saw everything come out through the skin.
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119. Devon Lévesque: What Facing Death on Everest Taught Me about Living
he ended up getting surgery and being fine but it was like 18 months of recovery for him you know stitching that all back together but it just came came right out and it was just laying outside of his abdomen inside of his skin i did not even know that was possible i'll never forget that um but um now he must have had like a hernia or something uh but in any case i i
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119. Devon Lévesque: What Facing Death on Everest Taught Me about Living
That was the worst thing that I'd seen. But like lots of knees, hips, shoulders, rotator cuffs, you know, people don't work on their shoulder mobility and then they're trying to do a snatch and, you know, just those kinds of things. But I'm not dishing on CrossFit at all.
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119. Devon Lévesque: What Facing Death on Everest Taught Me about Living
But it was my meditation.
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119. Devon Lévesque: What Facing Death on Everest Taught Me about Living
Yeah, it was my meditation because when I was done that workout,
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119. Devon Lévesque: What Facing Death on Everest Taught Me about Living
um because there was that period of time where all you wanted to do was quit there was nothing else on your mind but trying not to quit and at the end i always felt this incredible sense of zen calm like i actually got addicted to it's like the the post cold punch feel yeah like i got addicted to what was coming after right the workouts always sucked but the after was and you know now that i look back it lasted like
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119. Devon Lévesque: What Facing Death on Everest Taught Me about Living
you know, 75-ish minutes. I always remember that by a certain time in the morning, you know, it would wear off. But I clearly remember that, which must be what, you know, you're describing as the flow state.
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119. Devon Lévesque: What Facing Death on Everest Taught Me about Living
That's so awesome. And I had a cosmetic surgeon on here one time, Dr. Cameron Chestnut.
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119. Devon Lévesque: What Facing Death on Everest Taught Me about Living
And what was really cool about him, I'd never heard a physician say this or a surgeon say this is, He doesn't allow himself to schedule more than a certain number of surgeries a week. And I think he only operates two or three days a week. And the reason is because he puts himself into a flow state before every surgery. Because he's like, I want to be so present for that patient.
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119. Devon Lévesque: What Facing Death on Everest Taught Me about Living
I want to be so present for that procedure, for that, you know. And being a patient... you gotta be like, that's the guy that I want. You know what I mean? If you're cutting my eyes or redoing my nose or whatever you're doing on my body, I want you in a flow state too.
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119. Devon Lévesque: What Facing Death on Everest Taught Me about Living
Well, um, first of all, this has been amazing, man. Um, I mean, your, your, your story is inspirational. And I mean, just the way that you're making an impact in a world and building communities is, is incredible.
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119. Devon Lévesque: What Facing Death on Everest Taught Me about Living
I, um, You know, I ask every guest that comes on my podcast the same questions, and there's no right or wrong answer to this, but what does it mean to you to be an ultimate human?
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119. Devon Lévesque: What Facing Death on Everest Taught Me about Living
That's a great answer, dude. I've had a lot of answers, but that one's awesome. Devin, I cannot thank you enough for coming on, brother. You're a bright light in this world. I mean, and you're touching so many lives and I'm going to continue to follow your mission. I hope you'll come back on again.
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119. Devon Lévesque: What Facing Death on Everest Taught Me about Living
I love that.
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119. Devon Lévesque: What Facing Death on Everest Taught Me about Living
i really believe if we can be in the now we can maximize our time and we can truly live with our hands outside our pocket yeah i love that man because it's it's such a metaphor for life and i'm sorry i took you there in that story it's just that because for me and and for my audience you know it's it's very impactful to know what someone's driving force is you know i had a very
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119. Devon Lévesque: What Facing Death on Everest Taught Me about Living
tipping point moment in my life too. And it changed the direction of my career. And then I've had so many blessings bestowed upon me because I became very authentic. I lived a very inauthentic life. And now I live a very authentic life. I'm very conscious, very aware, try to be present. But it told me so much about you. And it gives, I think, people a window into what's driving somebody's passion.
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119. Devon Lévesque: What Facing Death on Everest Taught Me about Living
Grinding through the pain of Everest, pushing your body to the absolute limit. You call it do hard shit. Why should people do hard shit?
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119. Devon Lévesque: What Facing Death on Everest Taught Me about Living
And it's not that somebody has to have that major of a catastrophic event in their life. But we don't have a lot of time to waste. And we got to get our hands out of our pockets.
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119. Devon Lévesque: What Facing Death on Everest Taught Me about Living
Yeah.
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119. Devon Lévesque: What Facing Death on Everest Taught Me about Living
Yeah. You know? And you, you know, and one of the things that I noticed, you know, just sort of following your trajectory and the, you know, as your impact has grown, you're big on communities like, you know, regenerative farms, you have a run club with Jesse Itzler. You know, you're, I think you're a co-founder of Promix.
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119. Devon Lévesque: What Facing Death on Everest Taught Me about Living
Is that an accurate statement? A co-founder of Promix. And you've been really militant about your ingredients. And I think there's a community forming around, you know, that community. I I'd love for you to talk a little bit about, um, you know, building communities because you really do foster this communal sense. And it's like, you give people permission.
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119. Devon Lévesque: What Facing Death on Everest Taught Me about Living
I think they don't have to be a super athlete, right? You like to do really hard shit, climb Mount Everest and bear crawl a marathon, but you're meeting people where they are and giving them like a space to talk a little bit about. I was really fascinated and I'm happy to be very jealous of your regenerative farm, but I'm like, that's my, that's my next dream, dude.
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119. Devon Lévesque: What Facing Death on Everest Taught Me about Living
Today on The Ultimate Human, we're honored to have Devin LeVake. He's an extraordinary individual. He's hilarious. He's one whose life exemplifies resilience, endurance, and dedication to mental health advocacy. He's known for bear crawling an entire New York City marathon, which set a world record, and backflipping on top of Mount Everest.
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153. Patrick Bet-David: Fixing America’s Health Crisis and Biohacking Your Business
This guy, he just posted a video on Instagram.
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153. Patrick Bet-David: Fixing America’s Health Crisis and Biohacking Your Business
150,000.
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153. Patrick Bet-David: Fixing America’s Health Crisis and Biohacking Your Business
He shoots the podcast in his hangar because we're right next to the private FBO here. But this is a guest that I've wanted to have on for a long time. I actually connected with him face-to-face for the first time at a UFC fight. Dana White introduced us backstage, and we agreed to get together. It was a hard time lining our schedules up, but now it's finally happened. I could not be more excited.
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153. Patrick Bet-David: Fixing America’s Health Crisis and Biohacking Your Business
Bobby Kennedy and Donald Trump. These two guys from polar opposite ends of the spectrum get together. Find this sliver and have agreement. This Make America Healthy Again movement. Highest rates of childhood cancer. There's no such thing as Democratic or Republican children. There's children.
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153. Patrick Bet-David: Fixing America’s Health Crisis and Biohacking Your Business
Yeah, I appreciate that so much. You know, I usually don't go into the business on my podcast, but I built this course, and I was like, you know... Should I just sell this course or should I build a community and give it away? And I think that people – what I realize is that if you're trying to make an impact on people's lives, you can't just educate them and you can't just inspire them.
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153. Patrick Bet-David: Fixing America’s Health Crisis and Biohacking Your Business
You have to educate them and inspire them to take some kind of action, make a transformation. Like I talk about taking control of your morning routine. I talk about – you know, sleep habits, bookending your sleep, you know, all of these things that were practical advice that people can utilize for free.
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153. Patrick Bet-David: Fixing America’s Health Crisis and Biohacking Your Business
And I think I've gotten known for that, you know, sort of like the poor man's solution to optimal health. And it's really started to resonate. I built a VIP community that I charge $97 a month for, and it's exploding right now because I take... large amounts of my time and I pour it into this community. But as the community grows, it doesn't take more of my time, you know?
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153. Patrick Bet-David: Fixing America’s Health Crisis and Biohacking Your Business
Welcome to the podcast, Patrick Pitt Davis. It's great. to be here, man. Dude, it's great to be here. We just shot your podcast with me.
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153. Patrick Bet-David: Fixing America’s Health Crisis and Biohacking Your Business
And so that's the way that I've, I've been trying to scale. And I know there's a lot of, you know, people that I respect in this industry that are on the same mission that I am to change the face of humanity that really need this kind of advice from you, because none of us, you know, we're, we're scientists and biohackers and, and,
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153. Patrick Bet-David: Fixing America’s Health Crisis and Biohacking Your Business
you know, longevity researchers and what have you, but we don't have, you know, the skillset and the social media to really try to amplify our message. I normally don't go down the political bandwagon, but because you're so unabashedly not afraid of politics, I've got to open up this door with you.
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153. Patrick Bet-David: Fixing America’s Health Crisis and Biohacking Your Business
You know, Bobby Kennedy and Donald Trump may be two of the most initially polar opposite human beings on the opposite political ends of the spectrum. Find this sliver where they overlap and have agreement, this Make America Healthy Again movement. Highest rates of childhood cancer in recorded history. We're the sickest, fattest, most diseased nation in the world.
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153. Patrick Bet-David: Fixing America’s Health Crisis and Biohacking Your Business
We're ranked 66th in the world in life expectancy. These two guys from polar opposite ends of the spectrum get together, right? Bobby Kennedy's family basically disowns him. His entire party turns against him when he was inaugurated. What was it? Not a single Democrat even voted for him.
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153. Patrick Bet-David: Fixing America’s Health Crisis and Biohacking Your Business
I actually found that when I went to, I went to the inauguration and I also went to the Mahabal and I was there with Bobby Kennedy. The day that I posted this picture, 47,000 people instantly stopped following me on Instagram. I had 47,000 people Delete. You're kidding me. It was like a straight cliff. Now I had 153,000 pick it up afterwards, but I had 43,000 people still follow me.
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153. Patrick Bet-David: Fixing America’s Health Crisis and Biohacking Your Business
And I was talking to the team and I was like, what did I do wrong? Like, you know, trust me, I'm not at the extreme ends of the spectrum. I'm not pushing any specific agenda. I never get political online. But I was like, what is it that makes people So myopic that like what side of the fence are you on?
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153. Patrick Bet-David: Fixing America’s Health Crisis and Biohacking Your Business
He's trying to reduce the rates of childhood cancer, trying to clean up the food supplies, trying to get the corruption out of our nutritional research. You know, how do you watch and listen to that man? Now, if you want to talk about what he thinks about big oil and green energy, I get it. You know, or, you know, transgender women in sports. These are these are like hot topics, you know, abortion.
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153. Patrick Bet-David: Fixing America’s Health Crisis and Biohacking Your Business
We're talking about the nation's children. He says things like there's no such thing as Democratic or Republican children. There's children. And you look at the state of our nation right now, ranked 66th in the world in life expectancy, spending the most amount of money of any other civilized nation in the world.
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153. Patrick Bet-David: Fixing America’s Health Crisis and Biohacking Your Business
Yeah, I told you. It drops your inflammation. It gives your brain that break that it needs. It kind of wakes you up. It's almost like caffeine, but it's non-stimulatory. I'm a huge, huge fan of hydrogen gas, hydrogen tablets in your water. I'm going to go 30 days. I'm committing to it. 30 days. All right. I'm going to send you a 60-day supply. You go 30 days.
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153. Patrick Bet-David: Fixing America’s Health Crisis and Biohacking Your Business
How is it that people are so myopic that they can actually hate this person for being politically affiliated with somebody else and not see the message that he's driving?
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153. Patrick Bet-David: Fixing America’s Health Crisis and Biohacking Your Business
And you let me know honestly what you think after that 30 days.
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153. Patrick Bet-David: Fixing America’s Health Crisis and Biohacking Your Business
I promise you it's such a game changer. There are so many directions that we could go on this podcast. I mean, I've actually been a fan of yours quite a while. I love the authenticity in your message. I love how direct you are. You're an incredible interviewer.
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153. Patrick Bet-David: Fixing America’s Health Crisis and Biohacking Your Business
$88.
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153. Patrick Bet-David: Fixing America’s Health Crisis and Biohacking Your Business
Yeah. You know, I noticed that he's actually surrounding himself with a really solid team. You know, none of us in this space have an official role in the government. But what I appreciate about him is that he's asking the questions and also from the opponents. Right. The pro vaccine, the anti vaccine.
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153. Patrick Bet-David: Fixing America’s Health Crisis and Biohacking Your Business
He's asking from, you know, pharmaceutical companies to chemical manufacturers, to grain suppliers, to farmers. And he's sitting him down and he's saying, you know, what we're doing is not working. How do we fix this?
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153. Patrick Bet-David: Fixing America’s Health Crisis and Biohacking Your Business
And when people cannot defend their position, very often they'll use tonality or threats or they'll just, you know, you find that when you back somebody into a corner on facts or on the science, that's non-defensible. You know, one of the things I've watched him do is slowly expose the lack of
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153. Patrick Bet-David: Fixing America’s Health Crisis and Biohacking Your Business
scientific research, rigorous scientific research that the vaccines should go through, just like every other pharmaceutical intervention. And then when you start to put the pieces of the puzzle together, wow, if you get on the vaccine schedule, that is a multi hundred billion dollar win. And if you get
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153. Patrick Bet-David: Fixing America’s Health Crisis and Biohacking Your Business
physicians like pediatricians to insist that the children stick to this vaccinated schedule, even though most of the time they're not looking at the research and saying, well, I wonder, you know, this hepatitis B vaccine, what's the chances of, you know, hepatitis B? Oh, it's sexually transmitted. It's by IV drug use.
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153. Patrick Bet-David: Fixing America’s Health Crisis and Biohacking Your Business
I mean, it was one of the best podcasts that I've ever been on because I felt like you really drew out of me what the audience wanted to hear. One of the common themes that I find runs through all of my podcasts is you know, and I interview some of the brightest minds in longevity, aging, bio-optimization, whatever you want to call it, is that they solve some kind of major problem in their life.
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153. Patrick Bet-David: Fixing America’s Health Crisis and Biohacking Your Business
We're just going to give it to the babies in the first few days or weeks of life. What's their risk of having a sexually transmitted disease or engaging in intravenous drug use? Zero. Right. We're vaccinating very often against zero risk.
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153. Patrick Bet-David: Fixing America’s Health Crisis and Biohacking Your Business
And I think that he's exposing that. And for someone like me who actually wants to put the entire power of my platform and my voice behind it, If you were in my shoes, do you go all in because this is something that you believe in? It's a good question.
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153. Patrick Bet-David: Fixing America’s Health Crisis and Biohacking Your Business
And because of that, they're so passionate, they're so driven, they sort of find God's purpose for them in some kind of event in their life. And there was a tipping point. A lot of times it's, you know, they had Lyme disease, and they couldn't get help from the modern medical system, and they fixed it themselves.
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153. Patrick Bet-David: Fixing America’s Health Crisis and Biohacking Your Business
Hi, guys. Gary here. I want to take a few minutes of your time to invite you to my ultimate human VIP community. This is a private community with front row seats to my most advanced health protocols, exclusive monthly Q&A calls, a private podcast where you can ask my guests and me your most pressing questions and my own personal wellness blueprints and everything you need to optimize your health.
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153. Patrick Bet-David: Fixing America’s Health Crisis and Biohacking Your Business
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
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153. Patrick Bet-David: Fixing America’s Health Crisis and Biohacking Your Business
Or they overcame drug or alcohol addiction, and now they're one of the biggest proponents and biggest voices in drug and alcohol addiction. In your case, you have this big booming business voice, and I'd like to know, you know, for my audience that doesn't know you, What is your story, your message, your purpose, and how did you figure that out?
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153. Patrick Bet-David: Fixing America’s Health Crisis and Biohacking Your Business
And you look at the state of our nation right now, we're the sickest, fattest, most diseased nation in the world. How is it that people are so myopic and not see the message that he's driving?
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153. Patrick Bet-David: Fixing America’s Health Crisis and Biohacking Your Business
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
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153. Patrick Bet-David: Fixing America’s Health Crisis and Biohacking Your Business
create a legacy after you've already built the enterprise. I've also heard you talk a lot about the impact of social media on your kids, most of the time referring to your daughters. What are some of the things that you do to kind of limit their exposure to social media or kind of curtail what they're going on without being the bad dad? You know, the big Grinch.
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153. Patrick Bet-David: Fixing America’s Health Crisis and Biohacking Your Business
You better wait until your father comes home. That's it. My mom used to say that my whole life growing up. I hated it. I know.
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153. Patrick Bet-David: Fixing America’s Health Crisis and Biohacking Your Business
What's the overview of it say right there?
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153. Patrick Bet-David: Fixing America’s Health Crisis and Biohacking Your Business
Yeah.
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153. Patrick Bet-David: Fixing America’s Health Crisis and Biohacking Your Business
The anxious generation, how the great rewiring of childhood is causing an epidemic of mental illness... Absolutely agree with that. You're going to love this book. Argues that the spread of smartphones, social media and over protective parenting have led to rewiring of childhood. Man, I believe in that so much. You know what's so crazy is when I when I was growing up, It was funny.
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153. Patrick Bet-David: Fixing America’s Health Crisis and Biohacking Your Business
We were actually allowed in the house. My parents wanted me to leave in the morning and come home in the afternoon or the evening. I mean, I had to be home by sundown. I mean, I lived on a farm. My parents owned 12 acres in the middle of a 300-acre tobacco farm. So it was woods, farms, streams. You couldn't get it.
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153. Patrick Bet-David: Fixing America’s Health Crisis and Biohacking Your Business
Yeah. South of Annapolis, Maryland, in southern Maryland. It was in upper Marlborough, which is where Marlborough cigarettes came from and all these. There were just thousands of acres of tobacco. I actually grew up cutting tobacco, which is the hardest labor you'll ever do in your life. But Maryland was one of the only flammable forms of tobacco. Now, I never smoked tobacco.
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153. Patrick Bet-David: Fixing America’s Health Crisis and Biohacking Your Business
I never chewed tobacco. But I cut it as a crop when I was a kid growing up, which, by the way, if you ever cut tobacco... you will know one thing about the rest of your life. You do not want to cut any more tobacco. I don't give a rat's behind how much money you can make doing this.
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153. Patrick Bet-David: Fixing America’s Health Crisis and Biohacking Your Business
I mean, you cut it in August, you walk through these 100-acre fields from one end to the other with a machete, chopping these plants, right? Pushing it over, chopping it, pushing it over, chopping it, pushing it over, chopping it. You plant the plants by hand, putting them single-handedly into this wheel that spins them around and sticks them into the ground.
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153. Patrick Bet-David: Fixing America’s Health Crisis and Biohacking Your Business
In August, you then have to take this tobacco, these sticks of tobacco plants, which will weigh about 60 or 65 pounds. You put four or five plants on there. And you put them on a wagon. You drive it into the barn. And then you climb up in the barn rafters and you straddle these barn rafters. Now, mind you, you're like four or five stories, six stories off the ground.
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153. Patrick Bet-David: Fixing America’s Health Crisis and Biohacking Your Business
These were not built by certified OSHA engineers, right? There was no one with an engineering degree. It was just...
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153. Patrick Bet-David: Fixing America’s Health Crisis and Biohacking Your Business
your neighbor with a hammer and you're up against the tin these tin roofs and you literally have to pull these 65 pound sticks up and hang them pull it up hang it pull it up and hang it you hang one row then you hang the next row until you get down to the base of the barn and then it sits in there and dries and it you know because it's green when it starts and it's brown and they tie it up and all this stuff i don't know how we got on that subject but hardest labor i would ever do no your anxious generation your parents ask you to go out and play and come back like go out don't come until sundown yeah i would leave
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153. Patrick Bet-David: Fixing America’s Health Crisis and Biohacking Your Business
Yeah. I mean, we're the last generation, you and I, that are even going to remember what it was like to grow up without cell phones and without iPads. I remember being overseas and just putting random coins of different sizes into a pay phone, listening for that funny little tone. And then, you know, some French voice, I was in Paris, some French voice to tell me I had a dial tone.
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153. Patrick Bet-David: Fixing America’s Health Crisis and Biohacking Your Business
And I didn't know how much time I had on the phone with my parents. Because he would just shut off, right? If you didn't put enough coins in.
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153. Patrick Bet-David: Fixing America’s Health Crisis and Biohacking Your Business
Politics and Muay Thai. It's actually good that he can defend his political position. Yeah, it's great.
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153. Patrick Bet-David: Fixing America’s Health Crisis and Biohacking Your Business
Okay. I'll have you back on the podcast in 30, 40 years. I look forward to it.
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153. Patrick Bet-David: Fixing America’s Health Crisis and Biohacking Your Business
What are the top three reasons why I prefer a vertical cold plunge versus a lay down tub? Well, I've used both. When you're in a vertical position, your body naturally regulates your breathing better. So if you're holding on to the sides and you're in a vertical position, you can just focus on your breath work and you can stay calm. A lot of people feel more calm
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153. Patrick Bet-David: Fixing America’s Health Crisis and Biohacking Your Business
When they're in a vertical position than when they're laying down in the water and think they might slip under the water. So when you're vertical plunging, you're fully immersed faster. You can focus on recovery, inflammation reduction, and you're not struggling to just stay in a lie down position. Your body floats in an awkward way sometimes. So it's just a more efficient, comfortable experience.
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153. Patrick Bet-David: Fixing America’s Health Crisis and Biohacking Your Business
Make sure you get the ultimate human version. Now let's get back to the ultimate human podcast. You know, I find myself involved in the journey of so many entrepreneurs. I mean, there's sort of two times that they plead for me to come into their life. One is, you know, they're on their journey and something about their current state of health is interrupting their business journey.
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153. Patrick Bet-David: Fixing America’s Health Crisis and Biohacking Your Business
And they're usually not paying attention to it beforehand. They're paying attention once something becomes serious. You know, they went and got a cardiac exam, they found they had a blockage or they could diagnose with an autoimmune condition or they just look in the mirror one day and they're like, holy cow, I'm 48, 50 pounds overweight. I don't even know how I slowly got here.
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153. Patrick Bet-David: Fixing America’s Health Crisis and Biohacking Your Business
And they'll solicit my help and we'll go on this journey together. But interestingly, as... My message has grown and the caliber of people I interact with has grown. A lot of the entrepreneurs that I'm starting to find in my sphere are people that have actually had a big exit. and now struggle with finding a purpose. And so I wonder if you might talk about that.
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153. Patrick Bet-David: Fixing America’s Health Crisis and Biohacking Your Business
Like everybody talks about the journey. Nobody actually talks about the post journey, right? It's like, how do you find validity? And how do you find?
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153. Patrick Bet-David: Fixing America’s Health Crisis and Biohacking Your Business
That is incredible advice. So I know you, this is a lot of what you talk about your sales training at Mar-a-Lago when you have this big sales training. What do you think, I mean, because you've been doing this so long, I mean, what do you think creates value? true sales leadership.
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153. Patrick Bet-David: Fixing America’s Health Crisis and Biohacking Your Business
I know that you try to build sales leaders, but I think a lot of, um, what emerges in, in businesses, there are certain characteristics that are inherent in a person. And, and, and what I've found is that businesses draws those out, right? I mean, it sort of amplifies it. Like they say, uh, you know, money, you know, draws out the personality.
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153. Patrick Bet-David: Fixing America’s Health Crisis and Biohacking Your Business
I saw Bill Cosby years ago had a funny little standup thing and he talked about his buddy was like, yeah, you should smoke weed. And he goes, why should I smoke weed? And he goes, because it enhances your personality. And Bill Cosby goes, what if you're an asshole? It was just kind of funny because it's so true. You know, you don't want to enhance that.
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153. Patrick Bet-David: Fixing America’s Health Crisis and Biohacking Your Business
So, you know, I feel like there's it's certainly drawn out things in me, like it's reeled my purpose to me. And I'm so passionate about what I do and I really feel fulfilled. And I've seen the same come out in my wife. But what draws out? Sales leadership, like what creates true sales leaders?
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153. Patrick Bet-David: Fixing America’s Health Crisis and Biohacking Your Business
And so the one-on-one skill set, I mean, is that like something that people inherently have? How do you develop it in... How do you raise their level of confidence? Or, you know, I'll tell you, for example, my son and I launched this company, Hydrogen Tablets, and we actually are going on stage this week in front of 5,500 people. For me, it's not an issue at all.
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153. Patrick Bet-David: Fixing America’s Health Crisis and Biohacking Your Business
You know, I'm actually looking forward to seeing the crowd. I'm really looking forward to engaging with them. I'm really looking forward to adding value to them. He is crippled with fear about walking on that stage and addressing the crowd. Your son? Yes. Okay. Now, he is an unbelievable communicator. He is incredibly intelligent. He's physically fit. You know, he's an athlete. Yeah.
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153. Patrick Bet-David: Fixing America’s Health Crisis and Biohacking Your Business
He's well-spoken, super articulate, and he's good at the one-on-one. In fact, I actually take a lot of business advice from him and he's my middle child.
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153. Patrick Bet-David: Fixing America’s Health Crisis and Biohacking Your Business
Yeah. I mean, you've got a true media platform. You know, some people think of it just as a podcast. I actually just joined your Manect, which is pretty incredible. It's just a way for you to have more and deeper, meaningful connection with your audience, because I'm always trying to amplify my message. And I was really fascinated by this.
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153. Patrick Bet-David: Fixing America’s Health Crisis and Biohacking Your Business
I love that, man.
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153. Patrick Bet-David: Fixing America’s Health Crisis and Biohacking Your Business
I'm actually going to hopefully get this video to him in time because I think the world of him and his fiance, they've really built this business together and they deserve that time to be recognized for it. You know, my daughter, his older sister has no fear of public speaking.
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153. Patrick Bet-David: Fixing America’s Health Crisis and Biohacking Your Business
My youngest hasn't had a chance to do it yet either, but I really want to see my son step into that role, conquer that fear, because it's right up there with deep water and sharks and fear of heights and everything else.
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153. Patrick Bet-David: Fixing America’s Health Crisis and Biohacking Your Business
Patrick, I could go on and on and on, man, with you for hours and hours and hours. I super appreciate you coming on the podcast today. I wind down all of my – this is like a new angle for my audience too. Normally we're just hardcore into the biohacking, anti-aging, longevity.
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153. Patrick Bet-David: Fixing America’s Health Crisis and Biohacking Your Business
I think this is going to really resonate incredibly well with my audience because everybody has the same fears and aspirations. But I end every podcast by asking my guests the same question. There's no right or wrong answer to this question. What does it mean to you to be an ultimate human?
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153. Patrick Bet-David: Fixing America’s Health Crisis and Biohacking Your Business
That's amazing. Patrick, appreciate you, brother. Where can my audience find you if they want to find out more about you?
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153. Patrick Bet-David: Fixing America’s Health Crisis and Biohacking Your Business
this app that you've developed because it allows people to have direct connectivity to you and allows you to kind of scale your voice. So I appreciate that. So what is the impact, the direction? What is the meaning behind all of this? I mean, in a perfect world, is Patrick Beck David going to Train entrepreneurs, inspire entrepreneurs to build better businesses.
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153. Patrick Bet-David: Fixing America’s Health Crisis and Biohacking Your Business
You know, what's the objective of what you're building here? That's a good question.
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153. Patrick Bet-David: Fixing America’s Health Crisis and Biohacking Your Business
We made a very, very conscious decision. We said, we're teaching people how to better their lives. If we're not doing that for ourselves, then how authentic is our message?
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153. Patrick Bet-David: Fixing America’s Health Crisis and Biohacking Your Business
For someone like me who actually wants to put entire power of my platform and my voice behind it, do you go all in because this is something that you believe in? It's a good question.
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153. Patrick Bet-David: Fixing America’s Health Crisis and Biohacking Your Business
I saw that, man. You guys are just absolutely killing it.
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Minutes roll up.
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153. Patrick Bet-David: Fixing America’s Health Crisis and Biohacking Your Business
Ah, that's how Manect started.
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153. Patrick Bet-David: Fixing America’s Health Crisis and Biohacking Your Business
Wow. Cause you know, it's, it's, you know, I've always said that the information that I have doesn't belong to me. I've always felt that God revealed his purpose for me to me. And that was to take the ultra complicated, make it simple and communicate to the masses. And, you know, to really get a message to the masses, to really try to make an impact on humanity.
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153. Patrick Bet-David: Fixing America’s Health Crisis and Biohacking Your Business
And I've struggled with, you know, how do I scale this message? You know, initially I thought you can't do it through one-on, just simple one-on-ones because there's so many, only so many. So selfishly, I'm gonna hijack my own podcast here for a second. Get some business advice. My wife and I, we founded our little company about nine years ago. We took over a bankrupt vitamin shop in Strip Mall.
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153. Patrick Bet-David: Fixing America’s Health Crisis and Biohacking Your Business
Hey guys, welcome back to the Ultimate Human Podcast. I'm your host, human biologist, Gary Brekka, where we go down the road of everything anti-aging, biohacking, longevity, and everything in between. And today, as you can tell, I'm in a different studio. I actually thought I was walking into an airplane hangar. So I was like, this dude's got an airplane.
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153. Patrick Bet-David: Fixing America’s Health Crisis and Biohacking Your Business
And we had this dream of building a functional medicine clinic, which turned out, came to fruition. And I also started The Ultimate Human, you know, it's a podcast, you're on it right now. But I want to amplify my message to the masses. And I don't really know anything about social media.
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153. Patrick Bet-David: Fixing America’s Health Crisis and Biohacking Your Business
You know, I have a social media team, but like you'll see when I post, I misspell things, I tag the wrong people. Like I just, I don't get it, you know? And so it's not my forte, but the message is my forte. What advice would you give to someone like me, that's continuing to try to amplify the message to build the community. I mean, people tell me I should start like a network marketing company.
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153. Patrick Bet-David: Fixing America’s Health Crisis and Biohacking Your Business
I mean, I don't want to take advantage of people to get the message, but I want to amplify it as much as possible.
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153. Patrick Bet-David: Fixing America’s Health Crisis and Biohacking Your Business
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136. This Morning Routine Will Supercharge Your Energy Levels!
This is the battle we all face. The daily struggle to feel energized, sharp, and ready to take on the day. We wake up feeling foggy, sluggish, and drained. The best version of ourselves feels just right out of our reach. This is the power of starting your day right. A morning routine that doesn't just get you through the day, it propels you forward.
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136. This Morning Routine Will Supercharge Your Energy Levels!
It's not easy to take one step forward when it feels like the world is pushing you back two steps at a time. Now, what if I told you there was one simple thing, just one factor that could make the difference between disappointing yourself and smashing through the goals you've set for yourself? Believe it or not, it all starts with the way you begin your day.
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136. This Morning Routine Will Supercharge Your Energy Levels!
All the distractions, the demotivating hiccups, and the obstacles you face throughout the day, They stem from how you wake up in the morning. That's right, the way you wake up in the morning snowballs into how you perform the rest of the day. It's like building a house on sand. You can't expect to build a solid life on an unreliable morning.
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136. This Morning Routine Will Supercharge Your Energy Levels!
I'm telling you right now, this simple change could transform everything. your energy, your focus, your productivity, not just for the morning, but for the entire day. And I know what you're thinking, Gary, I've tried all the hacks. I've done the coffee, I've done the supplements, the extra hours of sleep, yet I still feel tired like I'm running on empty, just going through the motions.
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136. This Morning Routine Will Supercharge Your Energy Levels!
You're doing everything right, but nothing sticks. Does this sound familiar? This is the battle we all face. The daily struggle to feel energized, sharp, and ready to take on the day. We wake up feeling foggy, sluggish, and drained. The best version of ourselves feels just right out of our reach. But I'm here to tell you it's not out of reach. It's right in front of you.
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136. This Morning Routine Will Supercharge Your Energy Levels!
I'm telling you right now, this simple change could transform everything. Your energy, your focus, your productivity, not just for the morning, but for the entire day. Here's why mornings matter. When you wake up, your body's ready to reset and recharge. It's almost like your body is a battery when you wake up. It's your job to recharge it with the right habits.
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136. This Morning Routine Will Supercharge Your Energy Levels!
All you need is one proven solution to reset your body's natural energy, sharpen your focus, and set a solid foundation for success from the moment you wake up. And you know me, it's not magic. It's not some gimmick or smoke and mirrors. It's just science. This is the power of starting your day right. A morning routine that doesn't just get you through the day, it propels you forward.
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136. This Morning Routine Will Supercharge Your Energy Levels!
I spent years refining a morning routine that's helped CEOs, athletes, and everyday people unlock their full potential. Now I wanna show you how this can work for you too. Good morning. Welcome to the Ultimate Human Podcast. I'm your host, human biologist, Gary Brekka.
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136. This Morning Routine Will Supercharge Your Energy Levels!
And today we're diving into something I believe is absolutely critical for unlocking the best version of yourself, your morning routine. But we're not just talking about any morning routine. We're talking about a routine that sets the tone for success, not just for today, but for your entire life.
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136. This Morning Routine Will Supercharge Your Energy Levels!
This is something that's going to be habitual, something you do every single day that is non-negotiable. You see, the way you start your morning has a direct impact on how you think, feel, and perform for the rest of the day. It's not just about getting through the morning. It's about setting your body and mind up to perform at their absolute best all day long.
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136. This Morning Routine Will Supercharge Your Energy Levels!
So I want you to take a moment and imagine waking up each day feeling mentally sharp. physically energized and ready to take on anything that comes your way. No more dragging yourself out of bed, feeling like you barely slept. No reaching for coffee just to get through the morning. It isn't some distant dream, guys.
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136. This Morning Routine Will Supercharge Your Energy Levels!
It's exactly what my ultimate morning routine challenge is designed to help you achieve. Whether you're a busy professional, a parent balancing a million tasks, or someone who simply wants to take control of their life, this challenge is for you. And the best part, it is completely free, like all of my challenges. Join me, and I promise this challenge will be a game changer for your life.
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136. This Morning Routine Will Supercharge Your Energy Levels!
Bring your family, your friends, your coworkers. Let's make this the biggest challenge I've ever hosted. I'm pouring myself into this three-day challenge. I've done all the research and I have it down to a science. Here's why mornings matter. When you wake up, your body's ready to reset and recharge. It's almost like your body is a battery when you wake up. The battery's only at 20% or so.
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136. This Morning Routine Will Supercharge Your Energy Levels!
It's your job to recharge it with the right habits. And the best part, this is all governed by science. Your circadian rhythm, which is your body's natural clock, governs your sleep-wake cycle.
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136. This Morning Routine Will Supercharge Your Energy Levels!
Your circadian rhythm gets aligned with the sun and the morning sunlight sends powerful signals through your brain that actually suppress melatonin, the hormone that makes you sleepy, and boosts cortisol, which is the hormone that gives you energy.
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136. This Morning Routine Will Supercharge Your Energy Levels!
And by just getting 10 minutes of sunlight in the first hour after you wake up, you're not only boosting your energy for the day, but you're also syncing your body's internal clock, helping you sleep better at night and staying more focused during the day. So if you're tired of waking up groggy, tired and unmotivated, this is the first simple change you can make.
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136. This Morning Routine Will Supercharge Your Energy Levels!
Now that you know why mornings matter, Let me walk you through the key components of my morning routine. These aren't just habits, they're tools, tools that I've spent years refining and perfecting with high performing individuals. And when you incorporate these into your life, you're gonna start seeing real changes real fast.
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136. This Morning Routine Will Supercharge Your Energy Levels!
Starting on February 19th, I'll dive deeper into each of these routines during the live sessions, guiding you through every step of the process, Number one, hydration with purpose. The first thing I do when I wake up is I hydrate. I drink a large glass of water with a pinch of Baja Gold Sea Salt and a squeeze of lemon. Why?
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136. This Morning Routine Will Supercharge Your Energy Levels!
And the best part, this is all governed by science. So if you're tired of waking up groggy and unmotivated, this is the first simple change you can make. Number one. I want you to take a moment and think about your week. Really reflect on everything you wanted to accomplish over the last seven days. Did you hit the gym like you said you would?
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136. This Morning Routine Will Supercharge Your Energy Levels!
Because after seven to eight hours of sleep, your body is naturally dehydrated. Hydration is key to kickstarting your metabolism, balancing your electrolytes, and firing up your body's engine for the day. The lemon adds a burst of vitamin C, which helps detoxify, and the Baja Gold provides essential minerals to replenish what your body's lost at a cellular level. Number two, morning sunlight.
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136. This Morning Routine Will Supercharge Your Energy Levels!
I wish there was a way that I could patent this, but I can't. It's totally free and God gives it to us every single day. Right after hydrating, I step outside and get at least 10 minutes of direct sunlight. This isn't just about feeling good, it's about aligning your biology with nature.
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136. This Morning Routine Will Supercharge Your Energy Levels!
This sunlight exposure helps regulate your circadian rhythm, which boosts serotonin and prepares your body for the day. This is critical for setting your body's energy levels, improving focus, even boosting your mood. Number three, breath work and mindfulness. Next, I take a few minutes to focus on my breath. Just three rounds of deep, slow breaths,
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136. This Morning Routine Will Supercharge Your Energy Levels!
activates the parasympathetic nervous system to calm your mind and reduce stress. Yes, we can wake up in a stressful state. The power of mindful breathing is incredible. It helps you start the day grounded, focused, and calm. I also practice gratitude at this time, on a few things I'm thankful for.
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136. This Morning Routine Will Supercharge Your Energy Levels!
Science actually shows that gratitude can lower stress hormones and release dopamine, the brain's chemical that promotes motivation and positivity. And imagine just getting this for free by putting yourself in a positive mindset. And the fourth is cold exposure. Let's talk about cold exposure. This one is a game changer.
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136. This Morning Routine Will Supercharge Your Energy Levels!
Whether you take a cold shower or do a cold plunge, this practice stimulates your nervous system and gives you an energy boost. It increases circulation, enhances your immune function, and helps reduce inflammation. Cold exposure releases norepinephrine, which is a powerful hormone that improves our mood and even improves our focus. If you wanna wake up feeling like you've hit the reset button,
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136. This Morning Routine Will Supercharge Your Energy Levels!
Cold exposure is key. Now number five, movement. Movement doesn't have to be an intense workout. It can be a 20-minute walk, light yoga, or even light stretching. The goal is to get your blood flowing and release endorphins, those feel-good chemicals that enhance mood and focus. Regular morning movement has been shown to improve productivity and mental clarity throughout the entire day.
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136. This Morning Routine Will Supercharge Your Energy Levels!
And number six is delaying our caffeine. Here's one you might not expect. I delay my first cup of coffee by about 60 to 90 minutes after waking. Why? Because drinking caffeine too soon can interfere with your body's natural cortisol production, leading to energy crashes later in the day. Waiting allows your body to wake up naturally before you start adding stimulants.
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136. This Morning Routine Will Supercharge Your Energy Levels!
You might be thinking, Gary, this sounds great, but will it really work for me? Let me tell you this. The science behind these habits is undeniable. This isn't about overwhelming you with a dozen new things to do. It's about small, intentional changes that stack up over time.
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136. This Morning Routine Will Supercharge Your Energy Levels!
And when you combine hydration, sunlight, mindfulness, cold exposure, and movement with the proper timing, you're creating a system that works with your body, not against it. These habits build on each other to create exponential results. And guys, they're all free. And the best part, you don't have to figure it out alone. I'll guide you through it on the ultimate morning routine challenge.
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136. This Morning Routine Will Supercharge Your Energy Levels!
Here's what you can expect from the challenge. First of all, it's free. Live sessions with me. I'll walk you through every step of my morning routine. I'll explain the science behind it. I'll give you daily actionable steps, clear, simple actions you can take to start seeing results immediately. I'm also a big believer in community support.
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136. This Morning Routine Will Supercharge Your Energy Levels!
I've fostered the most engaging community in the entire wellness space. You can join a group of like-minded individuals who are as committed as you are to leveling up their lives and accountability. I'll be there every day to answer questions directly and share tips and keep you on track. However, you don't have to wait for the challenge to start to make changes.
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136. This Morning Routine Will Supercharge Your Energy Levels!
Here are three steps you can try tomorrow morning. Number one, hydrate first. Drink a glass of water with a pinch of salt. You can use Celtic sea salt or you can use Baja gold salt, which is the one that I use. Add a squeeze of lemon right as soon as you wake up and whack it back without changing anything else to your morning routine. And number two, step outside. If it's cold, step outside.
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136. This Morning Routine Will Supercharge Your Energy Levels!
Get 10 minutes of natural sunlight within the first hour of the day. If you have to layer up, that's fine, but get your eyes out into natural sunlight. Natural sunlight, not through sunglasses, passing through your eyes in the morning is one of the best ways to reset your circadian clock. If it's snowy, cloudy, gloomy, or gray, still go outside. The light comes through the clouds, guys.
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136. This Morning Routine Will Supercharge Your Energy Levels!
Did you give yourself the best shot at a successful week? Or did you let life slip by without truly taking control? And what about work? How much progress did you make on that project you've been thinking about for the last 10 years? Did you wake up every day ready to crush the challenges ahead? Or did you find yourself dragging throughout the day? Did you conquer your week? Here's the thing.
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Some of the light that I want to enter your eyes is not even in the visible spectrum. So a lot of the benefits we get are not actually from the visible light. If you actually looked at wavelengths of light, you'd see that the visible spectrum is a very, very narrow spectrum. And number three, try breath work. Start with three rounds of five deep breaths to calm your mind and focus your energy.
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136. This Morning Routine Will Supercharge Your Energy Levels!
And I do them like this. long and in through the nose with a short pause out through a straw. You can also do it through your mouth. If your nose is clogged, just get the air in and get the air out. At the end of the exhale of five to 10 breaths, just take a long prolonged breath, hold, and then take a long prolonged breath, inhale and restart again.
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136. This Morning Routine Will Supercharge Your Energy Levels!
These steps alone make a noticeable difference in how you feel. If you're ready to go all in and transform your mornings and your life, join me for the free Ultimate Morning Routine Challenge. It is completely free, guys, like all my challenges, and it starts February 19th at 12 p.m. Your morning routine is your foundation for success. It's the first domino that sets everything else in motion.
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136. This Morning Routine Will Supercharge Your Energy Levels!
If you're tired of feeling tired, if you're ready to take control of your energy, focus, and productivity, This challenge is for you. Visit morning.theultimatehuman.com. That's morning.theultimatehuman.com and sign up for free. Together, we'll build a routine that transforms your mornings and your life. Remember, the way you start your day is the way you live your life. And that's just science.
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136. This Morning Routine Will Supercharge Your Energy Levels!
When we think about getting closer to our ideal selves, most of us get stuck. We backslide. We make excuses. We even hesitate. We talk about the changes we want to make, but the follow through doesn't always seem to happen. And the truth is, it's hard. It's grueling. It's so much easier to procrastinate, to push things back. But I want you to hear this loud and clear. It's not your fault.
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170. Top 5 Ways to Eliminate Toxins from Your Daily Life
From the moment you wake up, invisible toxins are flooding your body. From the deodorant you swipe on, to the nonstick pan you fry your eggs in, to the air you breathe during your commute. Toxins are harmful substances that can negatively affect the body cells, organs, and systems, even in small amounts. In our modern world, most of the toxins we counter are man-made chemicals.
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170. Top 5 Ways to Eliminate Toxins from Your Daily Life
These aren't trace exposures, they're daily assaults on your hormones, your mitochondria, and your immune system. But knowledge is power, and when you know where toxins are hiding, you can take control and upgrade your biology. So let's dive in. Toxins are harmful substances that can negatively affect the body cells, organs, and systems, even in small amounts.
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170. Top 5 Ways to Eliminate Toxins from Your Daily Life
Some are naturally occurring like heavy metals or mold spores, but in our modern world, most of the toxins we encounter are manmade chemicals. They're found in plastics, processed foods, cleaning agents, personal care products, and even in the air we breathe.
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They enter the body through the skin, through the lungs, and even through the digestive system, and they're often silently accumulating over time. And while the body is designed to detox through the liver, the kidneys, the gut, the skin, and even our sweat, our current exposure levels can overwhelm these systems, leading to inflammation, hormonal balances, fatigue, and even chronic disease.
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Common types of these toxins include endocrine disruptors. You might've heard this word, But these are endocrine disruptors that interfere with hormones, like BPAs or phthalates. There are also neurotoxins. These harm the brain and the nervous system, like heavy metals and solvents. There are carcinogens, which are things that are linked to cancer, like formaldehyde and certain preservatives.
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And then there are the immunotoxins, which weaken the immune system, like PFAs, the polyfluoroalkyls, and mold toxins. So where are they hiding? Well, synthetic material in our cars and homes release semi-volatile organic compounds, or SVOCs, like phthalates, polyfluoroalkyl substances, commonly called PFAs, and flame retardants when they're heated.
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They're found in plastics, processed foods, cleaning agents, personal care products, and even in the air we breathe. They enter the body through the skin, through the lungs, and even through the digestive system. And they're often silently accumulating over time. These silent saboteurs are hijacking your hormones, inflaming your gut, and speeding up cellular aging.
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These aren't chemically bound, so they often outgas easily, especially when cars reach an interior temperature over 80 degrees Celsius. Due to the tight space and the high surface-to-air ratio, car cabins become hot boxes of airborne toxins. These SVOCs are linked to hormonal disruptions affecting fertility, thyroid metabolism, and even childhood brain development. Even our dishwashing detergent.
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Automatic dishwashing detergents, ADDs, especially liquids and pods, are formulated with powerful alkaline substances, corrosion inhibitors, and enzymes that can be harmful if you ingest them, you inhale them, or even if you touch them. Young children, by the way, are especially vulnerable, as exposure can occur when curious little hands reach for detergent pods or they open the dishwasher doors.
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There are even some common harmful ingredients in dishwasher detergents, like fragrance chemicals. These are linked to asthma, neurotoxicity, and even cancer. Phthalates, which often carry fragrances, can actually damage our DNA, lower our IQ, and even disrupt our hormones. Isothiazolinones can trigger allergic reactions, neurotoxicity, and irritation to the skin, the eyes, and the lungs.
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SLSs, when you see these on labels, these are sodium lauryl sulfates, a surfactant that may irritate skin and even damage the eyes. Very high alkaline liquids with pHs up to 13 can cause internal burns or swelling if ingested, particularly in children. And cookware adds to this toxic load.
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Your cookware might be also leaching toxins into your food, especially under high heat or when scratched or damaged. Toxic chemicals in cookware include these polyfluoroalkyls, these PFAs, especially in these nonstick cookware pans. They cause hormone disruption and immune issues. And black plastic utensils, these are recycled e-waste with flame retardants.
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These brightly colored glazes, they can actually leach heavy metals like lead or cadmium. Even our laptop computers, our phones, and our electronics. Recent studies have shown that using laptops and phones directly on your body can expose you to electromagnetic fields and electric currents that far exceed the safety recommendations of the products themselves.
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In a recent study, it was found that laptops emitted EMFs of up to 49.8% above safety limits, and chargers were even worse, generating currents up to 483% higher than what's considered safe for adults. This is why I always tell my clients not to plug these in next to your nightstand at your bed at night.
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These invisible currents can penetrate deeply into the body and pose serious health risks, especially with prolonged exposure. Exposure to EMFs also significantly increases the production of reactive oxygen species, ROSs, or unstable molecules that attack your DNA. They attack your proteins, and they even attack your lipids.
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This imbalance leads to oxidative stress, which can damage cells and overwhelm your body's natural defenses. Over time, this stress has been linked to major health concerns, including neurological disorders, heart disease, reproductive issues, and even an increased risk of cancer.
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Even more concerning, EMFs may interfere with critical antioxidant enzymes like superoxide dismutase and catalase, which is your body's built-in system for neutralizing harmful free radicals. When these enzymes are impaired, your ability to repair and protect cells diminishes, paving the way for chronic inflammation, accelerated aging, and even long-term health complications.
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You don't have to live in a bubble, but you do need to live with intention. The truth is Think your home is a safe haven? Think again. From the moment you wake up, invisible toxins are flooding your body.
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Despite their names, laptops and phones are not safe to use directly on your lap or your body. So doing so can expose you to hidden radiation, elevate your oxidative stress, and even silently weaken your body's natural defense systems. Aluminum cans and coffee cup linings are another villain. You might be shocked to learn that nearly all aluminum cans are lined with plastic.
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This lining serves a dual purpose. It prevents the beverage from corroding the metal, and it stops them from tasting metallic. However, it also introduces hidden chemicals into your drinks. These plastic linings can contain harmful substances like bisphenols or BPAs, a notorious hormone-disrupting chemical.
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Even if a can is labeled BPA-free, manufacturers often replace BPA with similar chemicals like BPS or BPF, which still carry health risks. These chemicals in the lining can leach into the drink over time, especially in beverages with high acidity like sodas and energy drinks, which is where you find a lot of these aluminum cans.
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Prolonged exposure to these chemicals has been linked to several health concerns, including hormonal imbalances, reproductive issues, increased risk of certain cancers, behavioral changes in children, which I've talked about a lot of times on my podcast. The issue isn't just limited to beverages, however. Canned foods like vegetables, soups, and even meats also have plastic linings.
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This lining not only extends shelf life, but it also prevents corrosion, though it comes at a significant cost. The potential for harmful chemicals to leach into the food, So acidic foods are particularly susceptible as their acidity can cause the plastic to break down faster and release these chemicals right into your meal. You might think that cartons are a safer alternative.
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However, many cartons, especially refrigerated ones, are lined with plastic, making up about 20% of the carton structure. This polyethylene plastic comes into contact with the contents, whether it's milk, juice or broth. So even though these cartons are often marketed as more eco-friendly, they still contain harmful plastic that can leach into chemicals and right into your food.
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And finally, our toothbrushes, our floss and our chewing gum. You might not think twice about your daily dental routine, but some of the products we rely on for oral health come with surprising toxic baggage.
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Dental floss, especially glide styles designed for smooth movement, have been found to contain these high levels of PFAs, polyfluoroalkyl substances, the notorious forever chemicals that accumulate in the body over time and your body has a very difficult time getting rid of, if at all.
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A study published in the Journal of Environmental Health Perspectives found that women who used oral B-glide floss had higher blood levels of something called PFHXS, a type of PFAs associated with immune and hormonal disruption than those that did not use the same type of dental floss.
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Toothbrush handles may also contain PFAs because they're treated with plastics, and these plastics are designed for durability and resistance to wear. Since PFAs are not bound tightly to materials, there is a huge concern about potentially leaching when we have them in frequent use. Chewing gum is another stealthy source of synthetic exposure.
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Many gums contain plastics or synthetic rubbers, like polyvinyl acetate. BHT, which is a preservative, and titanium dioxide, which is used for the coloring. Recent research has found that gums release thousands of microplastic particles into your saliva and within minutes of chewing these gums. These particles can contribute to inflammation and to oxidative stress in your body.
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From skin foundation to deodorant, many of these personal care products contain endocrine-disrupting chemicals, such as parabens, phthalates, and synthetic fragrances, or PFAs. These substances are absorbed through the skin and have been found in human blood and urine, indicating a systemic level of exposure.
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From the deodorant you swipe on to the nonstick pan you fry your eggs in, to the air you breathe during your commute, these silent saboteurs are hijacking your hormones, inflaming your gut, and speeding up cellular aging. But here's the good news. Once you know where they're hiding, you can kick them out, and for good. Welcome back to the Ultimate Human Podcast.
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EDCs and personal care products have been linked to oxidative stress, inflammation, and mitochondrial dysfunction also. all of which are implicated in the pathogenesis of metabolic syndrome. Parabens and phthalates, for instance, have been shown to disrupt estrogen and androgen signaling, potentially leading to hormone-related cancers and reproductive issues.
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PFAs are often added to make up for water resistance and durability. And they're not only persistent in the environment, but they're also bioaccumulative, meaning they build up in the body over time and they alter lipid metabolism increasing insulin resistance. So how do you detox to reduce your toxic load? Start by ditching the plastic.
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I know it's hard, but just make an effort to ditch as much of the plastic as possible. Switch to glass, ceramic, stainless steel, or silicone containers, and never heat your food in plastic. Yes, even if it's labeled BPA-free. Skip the plastic utensils and drinkware too. Let the air flow by cracking your car window before driving and using a HEPA air filter purifier in your home to reduce VOCs.
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and airborne chemicals for paint, furniture, and heating systems. Next, try cleaning up your kitchen. Cook with cast iron, ceramic, or stainless steel. Some of these stainless steel products are surgical stainless steel, and they don't leach any chemicals into your food.
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Instead of nonstick pans, filter your water using a reverse osmosis system that remineralizes your water to remove heavy metals and microplastics. Always scan your label, guys. Avoid products that list fragrances, parabens, sodium lauryl sulfate, phylates, or even PFAs. Use tools like EWG's Skin Deep to vet your personal care products and your hygiene products.
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These are free tools that you can use that will guide you to chemical-free living. Support your body's detox pathways through nutrition, loading your meals with cruciferous vegetables like broccoli, kale, and Brussels sprouts, even regular sauna session, and adding herbs like cilantro and parsley, which can help bind toxic heavy metals.
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Include probiotic-rich foods like kimchi, sauerkraut, and kefir or other fermented vegetables to support your gut and eat plenty of fiber to help eliminate toxins. Under professional guidance, you might even consider adding activated charcoal, corella, or milk thistle to your routine to support your liver's detoxification and binding some of these toxic chemicals and carrying them out of the body.
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And remember, sweat it out. Use an infrared or dry sauna and try dry brushing and exercise regularly. One of the best ways to flush toxins is through sweat and through your lymphatic system. Remember, our lymphatic system is a static system, so we need our muscles contracting in order to eliminate this waste.
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and do your best to reduce EMF exposure by using wired headphones, turning off your wifi at night, and keeping your laptops and phones off your body whenever possible and away from your head at night, especially if they're plugged into the wall. Be mindful of your gum and floss. Choose plastic-free floss made from silk or biodegradable materials, and go with gum brands that don't contain plastics
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BHT, or artificial sweeteners. Brands like Simply Gum or Zellies are great options. And finally, reduce everyday exposure with smarter cookware. Look for labels like PFA-free, PFC-free, or PFOA-free, or opt for stainless steel, cast iron, or carbon steel over nonstick. Never microwave black plastic ever, ever, ever, and avoid putting cast aluminum in the dishwasher.
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I'm your host, human biologist, Gary Brekka. And in this episode, we're pulling back the curtain on the uncomfortable truth. Most of us are living in a toxic environment. Just like when a fish gets sick, we clean the tank, not from air pollution or factory smoke, but from the everyday products you trust the most. You your toothbrush, your gum, even the cup your coffee comes in.
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You can also begin by replacing your scratched or aging pans. Use only cookware that's labeled dishwasher safe to prevent chemical breakdown during cleaning. You don't have to live in a bubble, but you do need to live with intention. The truth is toxins are everywhere, but so are your choices.
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By becoming more aware and making smarter swaps, you're not just protecting your health, you're investing in your energy, your longevity, and your future. Every small change adds up. If you wanna see how I do this, even how I navigate a toxic-free life while I'm on the road, go over to theultimatehuman.com and sign up to be one of my VIPs where you'll get all kinds of behind-the-scenes content.
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You'll get live Q&As with me, I'll show you everything that's in my kitchen. I'll show you what toothbrushes I'm using, what toothpaste I'm using. I'll let you have a full view into how you can design a chemical-free lifestyle. And that's just science.
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152. Oral Health: Is Your Mouth Silently Sabotaging Your Health? Here’s How To Fix It!
What's happening in your mouth isn't just about cavities. It could be a window into your overall health. We're diving into a topic most people overlook, and that's your oral health. Most of us stop thinking about our mouths after we brush and floss.
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And get this, there's a fascinating ancient practice that's getting a lot of attention from modern science. It's called oil pulling. We'll break it down later in the show, but first let's dive into the science and explore how oral health is critical as a cornerstone of your whole body wellness. Oral health is about more than just white teeth and fresh breath.
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The health of your gums, your teeth, your tongue, even your saliva can tell us so much about your risk for chronic disease and even how long you're likely to live. Oral health is about more than just white teeth and fresh breath. Your mouth hosts a complex ecosystem of over 700 species of bacteria. Your mouth isn't just where digestion starts, it's where disease often begins.
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Your mouth hosts a complex ecosystem of over 700 species of bacteria. A healthy oral microbiome, meaning a diverse, well-balanced community of microbes, is essential for proper digestion, for your immune defense, and your overall systemic health. When this balance is disrupted, something called oral dysbiosis occurs.
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This is when harmful bacteria outnumber the good, leading to inflammation, cavities, gum disease, and even systemic infections. According to a study published in the Journal of the Indian Society of Periodontology, poor oral hygiene has been linked to serious systemic issues, including inflammatory bowel disease, heart disease, and neurological decline. Chronic oral inflammation occurs
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gingivitis, and periodontitis doesn't just stay confined to your mouth. It has ripple effects throughout your entire body. Inflammation in the gums allows harmful bacteria to enter your bloodstream and can lead to widespread systemic inflammation.
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According to the NIH and the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, this process may increase your risk of heart attack, stroke, and even cognitive decline. A recent study from the National Institute of Aging followed over 8,000 adults over 65 and found that those with gum disease had significantly higher risks of dementia and Alzheimer's.
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Remember, oral bacteria can migrate to the brain and trigger neuroinflammation, a hallmark of cognitive decline. Meanwhile, other studies have shown that oral bacteria can survive digestion, colonize in the gut, and contribute to things like irritable bowel disease. One review in the Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology
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noticed how oral bacteria like Fusobacterium nucleatum can compromise gut health and impair immune response. Here's where things get really fascinating. Vitamin D is one of the most powerful micronutrients for the body. It's also one of the most underestimated tools for improving oral health. Let's break it down. First, you have your enamel and tooth strength.
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Vitamin D is crucial for calcium absorption and tooth mineralization. Remember, without adequate vitamin D3 and minerals, enamels become weak, porous, and increases your risk of tooth decay, cavities, and even fractures.
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According to a study in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, vitamin D deficiency is strongly linked to tooth demineralization and early childhood caries or cavities. Gum disease and immune function also follow this same path, with vitamin D3 modulating the immune response.
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It upregulates antimicrobial peptides like cathelicidin and defensins, which help neutralize pathogenic bacteria in your mouth. It also reduces inflammatory cytokines like TNF-alpha and interleukin-6 markers directly involved in gum inflammation and gum disease.
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A review published in the Journal of Steroid Biochemistry and Molecular Biology concluded that vitamin D supplementation could actually significantly reduce the severity of periodontitis. Pregnancy and pediatric oral health are also involved in this. Low vitamin D3 in pregnancy is associated with poor enamel development in the fetus, higher rates of childhood caries, and delayed tooth eruption.
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A prenatal deficiency can set a child up for a lifelong history of oral health problems. Adequate vitamin D3 levels also lower systemic inflammation, which helps protect the heart, the brain, and the gut from the consequences of oral pathogens entering your circulation. Vitamin D literally shuts the door on the inflammatory cascade.
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152. Oral Health: Is Your Mouth Silently Sabotaging Your Health? Here’s How To Fix It!
Now let's talk about one of the most powerful natural oral health practices. It's called oil pulling. Oil pulling is the ancient Ayurvedic practice of just swishing oil around in your mouth for 10 to 20 minutes. I do it on a daily basis. I don't do it for 10 to 20 minutes. I'll do it for one to three minutes. But traditionally, it's done with a sesame or a sunflower oil.
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Oral health plays such a pivotal role in how your entire body functions. Now let me leave you with some easy evidence-backed steps to upgrade your oral health and by extension, your brain, heart, gut, and your immune system. Switch to... Did you know that your oral health is directly linked to your heart, your brain, and even your lifespan? What's happening in your mouth isn't just about cavities.
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But today, most people would prefer and I would prefer that you use an organic cold pressed coconut oil because of its high content of lauric acid, which has both antimicrobial and anti-inflammatory properties.
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Studies show that oil pulling with coconut oil reduces streptococcus mutans, candida albicans, can actually reduce these colony counts, it can lower your plaque index scores, it can improve gingival inflammation, and even help prevent bad breath and oral thrush. And unlike chlorhexidine mouthwash, oil pulling doesn't cause tooth staining or alter taste perception. Here's how to start oil pulling.
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Take one tablespoon of extra virgin coconut oil. Make sure that it's organic. Swish it in your mouth as long as you can for up to 10 to 20 minutes. Now, if you're like me, that's a long time, so I do it for less time on a daily basis, but most oil pulling experts recommend 10 to 20 minutes. Do not swallow the oil. Spit it into the trash can, not your sink, because it can clog your sink.
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Rinse with warm water and brush as you normally would. Do this three to five times a week to see the most benefit. Now let me leave you with some easy evidence-backed steps to upgrade your oral health and by extension, your brain, heart, gut, and your immune system. Switch to a soft bristle or electric toothbrush. It reduces gum irritation and improves plaque removal.
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Replace the head every three months if you're using one of those electric toothbrushes. Ditch the fluoride toothpaste, guys. Use a toothpaste with hydroxyapatite. This is a natural enamel-building compound that helps remineralize your teeth without the risks associated with fluoride. Floss first, then brush. Flossing before brushing clears debris and allows your toothpaste to reach more surfaces.
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Oil pull a few times a week. It's simple. It's an ancient practice that reduces bacteria, improves gum health, and detoxifies your mouth naturally. Get sun on your skin or supplement with vitamin D3 and make sure that it contains K2. Aim for 15 to 30 minutes daily or take a high quality vitamin D3 with K2 supplement. Remember, without K2, that calcium won't reach your teeth.
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You should also add magnesium to your supplement routine. You need it to activate vitamin D3. Without it, you're leaving results on the table. And stay hydrated. Saliva is your first line of defense in the mouth, keeping bacteria in check and aiding in remineralization. Feed your oral microbiome as well, guys.
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Fermented foods like kefir, sauerkraut, and kimchi actually help populate your mouth with beneficial bacteria. Also, now's the time to cut down on sugar and acidic drinks, guys. If you do drink them, try to use a straw to minimize enamel erosion. Your mouth isn't just where digestion starts, it's where disease often begins.
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From gum disease to brain fog, from heart problems to gut issues, oral health plays such a pivotal role in how your entire body functions. I like just drawing your attention to this. If you like this episode and want to go even deeper with me, join the VIP group.
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152. Oral Health: Is Your Mouth Silently Sabotaging Your Health? Here’s How To Fix It!
It could be a window into your overall health. One simple ancient practice might just be the key to reducing harmful bacteria and inflammation. Welcome back to the Ultimate Human Podcast, guys. I'm your host, human biologist, and founder of The Ultimate Human, Gary Brekka. And today, we're diving into a topic most people overlook, and that's your oral health.
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Most of us stop thinking about our mouths after we brush and floss, but your oral cavity is actually a mirror into your internal health. The health of your gums, your teeth, your tongue, even your saliva can tell us so much about your risk for chronic disease, your inflammatory load, and even how long you're likely to live.
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144. What Makes Hydrogen Rich Water So Special for Your Health?
I want to take a little deep dive into hydrogen water and hydrogen gas in general and some of the benefits in the human body. Hydrogen is everywhere, very tiny, it's very light, and it has some really, really unique properties. One of them is its property to act like an antioxidant and reduce inflammation.
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But particularly today, one of the reasons why I'm really advocating for hydrogen water and putting hydrogen tablets in your water so you can get them to effervesce into clean hydrogen gas that you can drink is because today's topic is about the microvasculature system. So many of us don't realize that when we look at our vascular system, we have arteries and we have veins.
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But believe it or not, more than 70% of our circulation is actually not conducted by the heart. The 30% of our circulation that is done by the heart are our major arteries and our major veins, meaning there's pressure behind them to send blood to the tissues. There's pressure to return it from the tissues. But about 70% of our circulatory system is what we call microvascular.
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It's tiny little capillaries. Remember, these capillaries, this microvasculature is so tiny, smaller sometimes than a human hair, that even only a single cell can fit into this capillary system and sometimes exchange gas with the lung or deliver gases to tissue, remove gases from the tissue. So think about 70% of your circulation What if this part of our circulation gets compromised?
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when we look at the evidence on hydrogen water because there are a lot of pundits out there saying that hydrogen gas and water has no effect in the human body nothing could be further from the truth studies have explored the use of hydrogen in various age-related inflammatory conditions like osteoarthritis neurodegenerative diseases and sepsis where it may help alleviate tissue damage and improve functional outcomes this is very real science hydrogen gas has tremendously positive benefits in the human body
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Think about how little vasoconstriction it would take in 70% of your vascular system to back pressure up into the system. This is one of the reasons why we're so sensitive to high levels of homocysteine. a natural amino acid that can rise in the blood, potentially cause vasoconstriction and drive pressure up.
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It's also why this part of our vascular system is hard to reach, and it's also why this part of our vascular system is so susceptible to inflammation. So when we look at The evidence on hydrogen water, because there are a lot of pundits out there saying that hydrogen gas and water has no effects in the human body. Nothing could be further from the truth. You can go to hydrogenstudies.com.
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There are about 1,335 published studies on there. Not all of them are on hydrogen water. Some of them are on hydrogen gas. Some are in animals and not in humans. But you can actually deselect to get to the human studies. And you can look at the difference between hydrogen inhalation,
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um which is a well-known therapy for reducing inflammation and you can look at putting hydrogen gas into the water to also have all the physiologic effects one of the studies was so interesting to me i wanted to talk about it today because it was published in the journal of experimental gerontology and this was published in november of 2021. this is a summary of it i'm going to take you to the study itself but it said that hydrogen gas and this was
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This was people that actually drank hydrogen gas-infused water. It was a six-month study, it was double-blind, it was peer-reviewed, it was an excellent clinical trial, it was randomized, and it even had a control group, a placebo group. And so what they did was they took 70-year-old or older men and women, divided them into groups,
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where one group drank hydrogen gas-infused water, the other did not, and they measured all kinds of physiologic biomarkers. They used something called TET2, which is methylation activity in their bodies. They actually measured certain compounds in the frontal lobe of the brain. They measured their sit-stand ratio.
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They actually measured their sleep, their cognitive function, their short-term recall, and several markers of inflammation. I'm going to read the summary first. Hydrogen has demonstrated significant anti-inflammatory properties suggesting its potential as a therapeutic agent for age-related inflammatory conditions. Inflammation is the root of all evil. We know that.
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So with studies showing that hydrogen inhalation or consumption of hydrogen-rich water can mitigate inflammation by down-regulating pro-inflammatory cytokines, these are inflammatory factors that are in our blood, and protecting against oxidative stress in aging models. Here are the key points from the study, and then I'm gonna take you to the actual study.
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It was believed to exert its anti-inflammatory effect by selectively scavenging harmful reactive oxygen species. So remember, when something is an antioxidant, it reduces inflammation. When something causes oxidation, it is causing inflammation, and this can be reduced by putting the two together to neutralize that inflammatory cascade.
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Studies have explored the use of hydrogen in various age-related inflammatory conditions like osteoarthritis, neurodegenerative diseases, and sepsis, where it may help alleviate tissue damage and improve functional outcomes. Why would hydrogen be so good at getting to tissues and improving inflammatory-related conditions in the tissues, like peripheral neuropathy, like poor circulation?
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Because that is microvascular circulation. This very light, very tiny element crosses the blood-brain barrier very easily, and it is also considered harmless to human beings. I mean, the vast majority of us by weight are water, and hydrogen makes up the majority of water, hydrogen gas.
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Hydrogen can be administered through inhalation of hydrogen gas, drinking hydrogen-rich water, or via intravenous infusion of hydrogen-saturated saline. That's not what we're talking about today. We're talking specifically about this study. in the Journal of Experimental Gerontology.
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And what was really fascinating about this was that the outcomes in this study, and we actually, I'm going to show you a separate one now, benefits of hydrogen water. I'm going to link this study as well. Extra healthy or a hoax. This was a systemic review of different mechanisms of getting hydrogen gas or hydrogen water into the body.
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It's been shown to be beneficial in mitigating oxidative stress-induced damage through its anti-inflammatory and anti-apoptotic pathways. and they conducted a systemic review and they looked at a number of articles, total of 25 articles were included in the systemic review. So let's go down and see what it concluded. So we're in the conclusion section.
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One of the reasons why I'm really advocating for hydrogen water is so you can get them to
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Said that it was found that drinking hydrogen rich water for six months, this was in the 70 year and older group, that drinking hydrogen rich water for six months was harmless and also had a favorable effect on many of the factors associated with aging. Factors like pain, metabolic processes in the brain, strength in the lower extremities, and several other factors.
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So reducing inflammatory factors, improving strength, lengthening telomeres, which is one of the hallmarks of aging, improving different pathways that they were measuring in the brain, improving methylation, they used a TET-2 marker to actually measure methylation, And so you can get these. I used to get a lot of flack for promoting these hydrogen bottles, which I'm still a big fan of.
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But they're $250 to $300. You can get compressed magnesium, elemental magnesium tablets, which are called H2 tabs, which is what I take every day. Get high part per million hydrogen water for less than a dollar a day. I use these guys. They're called... H2 tabs, you can get them at drinkh2tab.com. It's just drinkh2tab.com. They're less than a dollar a day.
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You drop these in water, it effervesces into high part per million hydrogen gas and you can get all of the benefits of hydrogen gas in a single pressed elemental magnesium tablet. They're super easy to travel with. It has probably become my favorite and number one health hack because I think everybody can benefit from hydrogen-rich water.
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It's gained worldwide attention over the last few years for its potential health benefits. I'm going to link this article. The one that I really wanted to highlight was this study that I was referencing that was published in the Journal of Experimental Gerontology. It was published in November of 2021.
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It was a six-month hydrogen-rich study where they took molecular hydrogen and they measured phenotypic biomarkers of aging in older adults 70 years and older.
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The reason why I like this randomized controlled pilot trial is because the majority of this research is done in young athletes that have ankle injuries, for example, and they compared soaking the ankle in hydrogen-rich water to the RICE protocol, rest, ice, compress, and elevate.
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So they compared that to actually hydrogen soaking, and hydrogen improved these outcomes because hydrogen didn't constrict the blood vessels and stop the site of injury from removing inflammatory factors and stop it from allowing fresh blood flow, it actually improved the blood flow, especially in the microvasculature, so you actually had accelerated healing.
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Hey guys, I want to talk about some awesome research that I've been studying on the effects of hydrogen-rich water on the human body, how it can reduce inflammation, how it can lengthen telomeres, how it can improve muscle function, brain function, short-term recall, memory, sleep, and other markers of aging and general markers of inflammation.
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They did the same thing putting hydrogen tablets in the buccal fold of athletes after concussions, and they looked at how they behaved and how they recovered from concussion bores, and they found that actually hydrogen helped improve the post-concussion recovery phase. All of this is related to inflammation, very likely related to the circulation in the microvasculature. This is very real science.
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Hydrogen gas has tremendously positive benefits in the human body. When we look at the abstract here and we look at how well this study was run, And we look at what happened in the baseline control model that was only drinking water versus the ones that had hydrogen-rich water. Methylation increased in the hydrogen-rich water group.
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Hydrogen-rich water was superior to control water to increase brain choline and NAA levels in the left frontal gray matter. Significantly improved chair-stand performance after hydrogen-rich water intervention compared to the control group. It reduced other inflammatory markers. You can actually see the exact blood biomarkers that they measured.
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Homocysteine, resting blood pressure, body composition, facial skin features, sleep outcomes, and health-related quality of life all improved by drinking hydrogen-rich water. So this is not a sales pitch. This is real sound science.
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A lot of people that haven't read the science, I think there's two types of people out there, those that have read the science that are taking hydrogen-rich water and those that are just unaware of it. I think this is the easiest and least expensive hack that you can add to your daily routine. It's less than a dollar a day. You can get these hydrogen tablets and you drop them into water.
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It effervesces into the pure gas and you can actually turn your drinking water into an antioxidant-rich hydrogen bomb. So I hope you guys enjoyed this episode. Let me know if you actually like more of these whiteboard episodes. I always said if there was money in teaching, I would have been a teacher. But here's to your health, guys.
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Start adding hydrogen-rich water to your daily routine, and I promise you, you'll see the benefits.
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I want to take a deep dive into the science right now, so let's get to work. This is absolutely one of my favorite topics and one I get a lot of flack for all the time. So I want to take a little deep dive into hydrogen water and hydrogen gas in general and some of the benefits in the human body. First of all, hydrogen is the lightest element on earth.
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It's actually the most abundant element in the entire universe. So hydrogen is everywhere. It's very tiny, it's very light, and it has some really, really unique properties. One of them is its property to act like an antioxidant. One of it is the property to actually reduce inflammation. And I want to talk a little bit about the science of that.
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126. Polyphenols: The Brain-Boosting Compound Hidden in Your Kitchen
One of the most powerful things you can eat isn't just good for your body, it's incredible for your brain too. Polyphenols. These are plant-based compounds. They're found in foods like berries, tea, and dark chocolate, and they're emerging as game changers. Polyphenols don't just fight inflammation in the body, they target it in the gut, which is where it all begins.
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They're found in foods like berries, tea, and dark chocolate, and they're emerging as game changers. They fight inflammation, they improve our gut health, they even sharpen cognitive performance. So today, we're going to uncover how polyphenols can help strengthen the gut-brain connection and enhance both your mind and your body.
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We know that inflammation is one of the biggest threats to both your body and your brain. And polyphenols are potent antioxidants that neutralize these free radicals, which are unstable molecules that damage your cells. This is key because oxidative stress is one of the main drivers of chronic inflammation.
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Polyphenols don't just fight inflammation in the body, they target it in the gut, which is where it all begins. Take berries, for example. These vibrant fruits are packed with polyphenols, and studies show they can help alleviate gut inflammation. This is huge because a calm, healthy gut translates into better digestion, a balanced mood, and sustained energy.
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But here's where it gets really interesting, guys. Polyphenols also work in the brain. They modulate neuroinflammation, one of the leading causes of mental health challenges like depression, anxiety, and even Alzheimer's disease. These compounds create a protective barrier against brain fog, mood swings, and long-term cognitive decline.
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polyphenols strengthen your gut barrier, which can prevent leaky gut, allows harmful substances to enter your bloodstream, and triggers systemic inflammation. If you're looking to maintain mental sharpness as you age, polyphenols are a non-negotiable addition to your diet. You're not only protecting your brain from damage, but you're also enhancing your brain's ability to learn and remember.
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Polyphenols actually block inflammatory pathways in the gut, like NFKB, which are also linked to chronic inflammation in the brain. It's like creating a firewall for your brain, preventing those long-term risks and supporting mental clarity. Your gut isn't just the foundation of digestion, guys. It's the control center for your overall health.
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And polyphenols play a crucial role in maintaining a healthy gut microbiome, feeding the good bacteria, and suppressing the harmful ones. They're prebiotics, meaning they actually fuel bacteria like bifidobacterium and lactobacillus, which are vital for gut health. But polyphenols don't just support the good guys. They also work to suppress bad bacteria like salmonella and staphylococcus.
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This balance is essential for reducing gut inflammation and improving your body's ability to absorb nutrients, fight off infections, and even regulate your immune system.
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By promoting a healthy gut microbiome, polyphenols strengthen your gut barrier, which can prevent leaky gut, and that's a condition that we know allows harmful substances to enter your bloodstream and trigger systemic inflammation. Studies have shown that polyphenol-rich diets help support gut barrier integrity, they improve immune function, and even reduce inflammation.
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So this makes polyphenols not just a tool for digestive health, but also a proactive measure to combat systemic inflammation and prevent chronic health issues. Now let's talk about brain power. Polyphenols are more than just an anti-inflammatory superhero. They are directly linked to cognitive function. How? By boosting the production of brain-derived neurotrophic factor. This is called BDNF.
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BDNF is like fertilizer for your brain. It promotes growth of new neurons. It improves synaptic connections and supports memory and learning. When you're consuming polyphenol-rich foods, you're not only protecting your brain from damage, but you're also enhancing your brain's ability to learn, focus, and remember.
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Research shows that polyphenols, particularly those found in foods like berries, boost blood flow to the brain, they enhance cognitive function and clarity, and reaction time. So long-term consumption of polyphenols has even been linked to reduced mental fatigue and improved attention span. Sounds amazing.
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So if you're looking to maintain mental sharpness as you age, polyphenols are a non-negotiable addition to your diet. They don't just protect your brain from age-related decline. They help you think faster. They make you sharper and with greater mental clarity, even as you get older.
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126. Polyphenols: The Brain-Boosting Compound Hidden in Your Kitchen
Now that we've seen polyphenols benefit both in your brain and your gut, let's look at some easy way to incorporate them into your diet. So first of all, you can snack on polyphenol-rich foods, things like blueberries, strawberries, and blackberries, which by the way are also very low on the glycemic index.
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These antioxidant-packed fruits are not only delicious, but they provide an easy way to support your gut health and to boost your cognitive function. Secondly, we can indulge in dark chocolate. Now, don't go overboard on this, but that's right. Dark chocolate, 70% cacao or higher, isn't just a treat for your taste buds. It's neuroprotective and it is a powerhouse.
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It's rich in polyphenols that support cognitive health and even boost your mood. So feel free to enjoy a square or two of dark chocolate. We can incorporate herbs and spices into our diet. Polyphenol-rich herbs like rosemary, thyme, and oregano are great for adding flavor to your meals, and they pack a punch when it comes to supporting brain and gut health.
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Now that we've seen polyphenols benefit both in your brain and your gut, let's look at some easy ways to incorporate them into your diet. So first of all, Is the secret to a sharper mind hiding in your pantry? The answer just might lie in the polyphenols found in everyday foods, from vibrant fruits to dark chocolate.
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This makes them an easy addition to any dish. So remember, try to eat the rainbow. The brighter the better. Vibrant plant foods like peppers, spinach, and tomatoes are packed with polyphenols. The more variety you eat, the more diverse the benefits for your brain and your gut. Polyphenols aren't just a trendy health buzzword, guys. They are crucial.
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They are an element for maintaining a sharp mind and a healthy gut. So by adding these polyphenol-rich foods to your diet, you're reducing inflammation, you're enhancing your gut health, you're boosting your cognitive function, and the best part? You don't have to make drastic changes.
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Simple additions like a handful of berries or a cup of green tea can make a massive impact on your overall well-being. So remember, the gut and the brain are intimately connected, and nourishing both is key to unlocking your true potential. So make a habit of incorporating polyphenols into your daily routine and start reaping the rewards of a clearer mind, a happier gut, and a healthier you.
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Thanks for tuning in today, guys. It's the small consistent choices like adding a square of dark chocolate or a colorful salad to your plate that make all the difference. So go ahead, add a little more polyphenol power to your diet and see how it transform your health. Until next time, remember, you are what you eat and every choice you make brings you closer to your ultimate self.
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And that's just science.
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See, these natural compounds don't just help fight off oxidative damage, they also work wonders in your gut, leading to clearer thinking and a calmer mind. Today, we're diving into polyphenols and the impact they have on the gut-brain access and why you need them in your life. Welcome back to The Ultimate Human, where small, intentional choices lead to massive impacts on your health and wellness.
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126. Polyphenols: The Brain-Boosting Compound Hidden in Your Kitchen
I'm your host, human biologist, Gary Brekka, and if you've been with me before, you know how much I emphasize the importance of what you put on your plate. So here's something exciting. New research is proving that one of the most powerful things you can eat isn't just good for your body, it's incredible for your brain too. Polyphenols. These are plant-based compounds.
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160. Are Natural Deodorants Better for You? Here Is The Science Explained
Are natural deodorants actually healthier or just another wellness fad? Antiperspirants alter your armpits natural bacterial balance causing odor rebound and skin issues. A CDC study found parabens in 99% of Americans urine samples and these are linked to early puberty, reproductive issues, and even possibly breast tumors.
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Yes, but at what cost? Aluminum accumulates in our bodies and it isn't benign. Research by Dr. Philippe Darby found aluminum linked to genomic instability in human breast cells, potentially promoting tumor growth. Over half of all breast cancers occur near the underarm or axillary region. Is that a coincidence or maybe a clue? Now, there are parabens.
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These are cheap preservatives that mimic estrogen in our bodies, disrupting our hormonal balance. A CDC study found parabens in 99% of Americans' urine samples, and these are linked to early puberty, reproductive issues, and even possibly breast tumors. There's something called triclosan.
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Originally a hospital-grade antibacterial agent, triclosan is an endocrine disruptor linked to lower thyroid hormone levels and antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Though banned from soaps by the FDA, it still sneaks into deodorants. And then there are phthalates.
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Hidden behind the word fragrance, phthalates help scents linger, but they block testosterone signaling, which impacts fertility, development, and even asthma in children. And then there's polypropylene glycol. This is derived from petroleum. This ingredient smooths the application, but it can irritate your skin and stress out your liver and your kidneys with repeated exposure. Fragrances.
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The black box of deodorants. Companies do not have to disclose its contents. This mystery blend often hides allergens, phthalates, and volatile organic compounds linked to headaches, allergies, and even asthma. And then there are the silicas and the talcs. These moisture absorbers come with inhalation risk, lung irritation, and potential asbestos contamination, especially in talcs.
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Conventional sticks carry toxins linked to hormone disruption, cellular damage, and increased cancer risks. Hidden behind the word fragrance, phylates help scents linger, but they block testosterone signaling, which impacts fertility, development, and even asthma in children. And then there are the cancer risks.
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And then there's sterith chemicals and aerosol propellants. Ethoxylated emulsifiers like sterith-20 can contain carcinogenic contaminants like 1,4-dioxane. Aerosols use butane, which is linked to benzene, a known carcinogen in recent recalls. These ingredients aren't rare. They're in brands you know and trust. You're not just stopping sweat.
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You're dosing yourself with an ongoing chemical experiment. So what does this mean for your body? Well, it could mean hormone chaos because endocrine disruptors like parabens and phthalates confuse your body's hormone signaling, leading to issues from weight gain to reproductive health. There's even mitochondrial sabotage.
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Aluminum damages mitochondria, and these are your cells' energy factories, creating oxidative stress, fatigue, and even cognitive decline. And then there are the cancer risks. Benzene, talc, aluminum, each linked in studies to increase cancer risks, especially breast and ovarian cancers. And then there's the whole microbiome mayhem.
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160. Are Natural Deodorants Better for You? Here Is The Science Explained
Antiperspirants alter your armpits' natural bacterial balance, causing odor rebound and skin issues. So how did we get here? Well, a century ago, deodorants were simple zinc creams. As hygiene standards evolved, the early 1900s introduced aluminum salts like aluminum chloride, primarily due to their sweat-balking effectiveness.
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However, aluminum was initially met with hesitation due to skin irritation and acidic properties that damaged clothing. The industry overcame these concerns through aggressive marketing campaign, normalizing sweat-free armpits and transforming deodorant usage into a social necessity.
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And then the mid 20th century advancements, they brought parabens into the spotlight, valued for their cost effectiveness and shelf life preservation capabilities. During the same era, triclosan emerged from hospitals into consumer products under the allure of antibacterial benefits.
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Phthalates were incorporated to enhance fragrances, leveraging regulatory loopholes that allowed undisclosed chemical cocktails under the term fragrance. Polypropylene glycol and aerosol propellants became the mainstays due to their affordability and consumer appeal for convenience.
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Regulatory oversight lagged significantly behind these innovations, creating a landscape where potentially hazardous chemicals went unchecked for decades. It wasn't until recent years, driven by growing consumer awareness and independent research, that these ingredients began facing scrutiny and regulation. Awareness has sparked a remarkable shift.
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160. Are Natural Deodorants Better for You? Here Is The Science Explained
Over the past decade, natural deodorant market has surged dramatically, reaching $138 million in 2024 alone, significantly outpacing conventional deodorants. This growth is driven by consumers increasing demand for transparency, safety, and toxic-free products.
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Benzene, talc, aluminum, each linked in studies to increase cancer risks, especially breast and ovarian cancers. Switching to natural obstinance isn't just about smelling fresh, it's about empowering your health. So what does this mean for your body? Are natural deodorants actually healthier? Hello, and welcome to the Ultimate Human Podcast.
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Independent brands like Native, Schmitz, and Primarily Pure have successfully disrupted the traditional deodorant market, proving that safer ingredients can effectively control odor. Major corporations quickly noticed, leading to Procter & Gamble to acquire Native and Unilever to buy Schmitz, recognizing the unstoppable shift towards cleaner products.
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Retailers have even adjusted, with mainstream stores like Target dedicating entire sections to natural and aluminum-free deodorants. Digital trends such as armpit detox challenges have further propelled interest, highlighting consumer willingness to prioritize health over convenience.
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Today, traditional deodorant giants like Secret and Dove have expanded their product lines to include aluminum-free and paraben-free options, a testament to the power of consumer-driven change. The natural revolution isn't just a fad. It's a substantial and lasting response to decades of exposure to harmful chemicals, making a new era of informed, health-conscious living.
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So here's the action plan. Switching to natural deodorants takes a strategy. Audit your deodorant. Read labels carefully. Look out for aluminum, parabens, and vague words like fragrance. Embrace yourself for a transition. Expect a short adjustment period with increased sweating as your body detoxifies. Use a clay or even an apple cider vinegar mask to cleanse residues and reset your microbiome.
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Then adjust to your routine. Shower daily, wear breathable clothing, and reapply natural deodorants as needed. Lastly, hydrate, eat greens, exercise regularly, and sweat safely in saunas to aid your body's natural detoxification pathways. You have sensitive skin? Choose baking soda-free options from brands like Schmidt's or Primally Pure. Are natural deodorants healthier? Absolutely.
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Conventional sticks carry toxins linked to hormone disruption, cellular damage, and increased cancer risks. Switching to natural options isn't just about smelling fresh, it's about empowering your health. freeing your cells and reclaiming your well-being. Take a moment to grab your deodorant, check the ingredients, and if it's a chemical stew, make the upgrade. Your cells will thank you.
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This has been Gary Brek on the Ultimate Human Podcast. Thank you for joining me on this deep dive into deodorants. Perhaps not the most glamorous topic, but an important one. I hope you feel informed, equipped, and motivated to take action. Go forth and conquer your day, odor-free and toxin-free. And remember, that's just science.
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I'm your host, human biologist, Gary Brekka, and today we're diving into a question that hits you right in the armpits, literally. Are natural deodorants actually healthier or just another wellness fad? If you've ever wondered about aluminum, parabens, or that mysterious fragrance hiding in your deodorant and how these ingredients could secretly be sabotaging your health, you're in the right spot.
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So first, let's talk about the toxic cocktail hiding under your arms. Most conventional deodorants contain chemicals developed decades ago in labs, not in kitchens. Here's a quick breakdown of the most harmful chemicals you'll find in a lot of our underarm deodorants. Aluminum compounds. These metals plug your sweat glands and are used in antiperspirants to stop perspiration. Effective?
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134. Bioavailable Meat: Why Your Body Needs It More Than You Think
What if I told you that the secret to unlocking optimal health physically, mentally, and emotionally could be found in the food that you eat? I'm talking about meat, specifically bioavailable meat. Bioavailability refers to how well your body can absorb and use the nutrients in the food that you eat. It's not just about eating calories.
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134. Bioavailable Meat: Why Your Body Needs It More Than You Think
And today we're discussing something that could completely change how you think about food. bioavailability, and nutrient density in meat. Bioavailability refers to how well your body can absorb and use the nutrients in the food that you eat. It's not enough to consume nutrients. Your body has to use them. Regarding nutrients, meat is one of the most bioavailable sources.
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134. Bioavailable Meat: Why Your Body Needs It More Than You Think
Meat contains high quality proteins, essential vitamins, and minerals that your body can absorb efficiently to perform at its peak. But the real power lies in how these nutrients fuel your muscles, your brain, and your immune system. Today, I'm gonna break down how meat supports muscle growth, brain health, and overall vitality.
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You'll understand why meat's critical to optimal health and why it's one of the best ways to fuel your body. Now, I always choose a good grass-fed, grass-finished beef, but I'm gonna share exactly how you can harness the power of meats for better energy, more mental clarity, and improved performance. Before we dive into specific nutrients, let's first understand why bioavailability is so important.
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134. Bioavailable Meat: Why Your Body Needs It More Than You Think
It's about making every bite count and about making every bite nutrient dense. Today, I'm going to break down how meat supports muscle growth, brain health, and overall vitality. You'll understand why meat's critical to optimal health and why it's one of the best ways to fuel your body. Studies have actually shown that the protein absorption rate from animal sources can be as high as 90%.
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134. Bioavailable Meat: Why Your Body Needs It More Than You Think
Bioavailability refers to how much of a nutrient can be absorbed and utilized by the body. Some nutrients are easily absorbed, while others are not. This is critical because it determines how effectively your body can use the food you eat. For example, protein in meat is highly bioavailable. This means your body can absorb almost all of the protein it needs to build and repair tissues.
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134. Bioavailable Meat: Why Your Body Needs It More Than You Think
The same goes for vitamins and minerals found in meat. Animal-based foods tend to have better bioavailability compared to some plant-based foods, which is why meat is often considered a nutrient-dense powerhouse. So when we talk about bioavailability, it's not just about getting enough of a nutrient. It's about ensuring that your body can utilize what it gets.
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134. Bioavailable Meat: Why Your Body Needs It More Than You Think
Let's start with protein, or more specifically the building blocks of proteins, amino acids, because amino acids are the building blocks of life. Remember, amino acids are used to build tissues, build muscle, and produce enzymes and hormones. The protein bioavailability in animal products, especially red meats, poultry, and fish, is incredibly high.
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Studies have actually shown that the protein absorption rate from animal sources can be as high as 90%, meaning your body can absorb nearly all of the amino acids it needs to function optimally. Red meats like beef and lamb are considered the gold standard for protein bioavailability. If you're going to eat these meats, make sure they are grass-fed and grass-finished.
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They're not commercially raised or fed corn, wheat, soy, and some of this other garbage that they feed themselves. to non-grass-fed animals. These meats offer all the essential amino acids necessary for life in the correct ratios your body needs for muscle repair and growth. This is why lean red meat is often recommended for individuals focused on strength training or muscle recovery.
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Poultry like chicken and turkey also provide high-quality protein but tend to be lower in fat compared to red meats. This makes poultry an excellent choice for those looking for a leaner protein source. And fish, let's not forget about fatty fish, guys. Salmon, mackerel, and sardines. Fish not only provide protein, but they're also an excellent, significant source of omega-3 fatty acids.
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The American diet tends to get very overloaded on omega-6 fatty acids, so fatty fish is a great way to get your omega-3s, which are essential for heart health, brain function, and reducing inflammation. Next, let's talk about vitamins, specifically vitamin B12, which, by the way, is a light metal. And vitamin D, which I would argue might be the most important single compound in the human body.
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134. Bioavailable Meat: Why Your Body Needs It More Than You Think
It's the only vitamin that human beings make on our own. We actually make it from sunlight and cholesterol. So vitamin B12 is found almost exclusively in animal products, and it's one of the most bioavailable vitamins in meat. Your body can absorb B12 from red meat, liver, and fish at nearly 100% efficiency. B12 is crucial for nerve function, red blood cell production, and DNA synthesis.
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134. Bioavailable Meat: Why Your Body Needs It More Than You Think
Without adequate B12, this valuable light metal... you can experience fatigue, memory issues, and mood disturbances. Vitamin D is another vitamin that's found in meat, specifically fatty fish and animal liver. Vitamin D is fat-soluble, so consuming it with fat-rich meals, like a fatty piece of beef, improves its absorption.
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134. Bioavailable Meat: Why Your Body Needs It More Than You Think
This is why animal-based foods tend to have better bioavailability compared to some plant-based foods, which is why meat is often considered a nutrient-dense powerhouse. Meat is an excellent source of complete proteins that contain all the essential amino acids your body cannot produce. These amino acids are critical for processes such as...
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134. Bioavailable Meat: Why Your Body Needs It More Than You Think
Meat with a higher fat content, such as a ribeye steak, my personal favorite, offers better vitamin D bioavailability. This vitamin is essential for bone health, guys, immune function, and reducing inflammation. Now let's break down the minerals, focusing on iron, zinc, and phosphorus.
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134. Bioavailable Meat: Why Your Body Needs It More Than You Think
Remember, so many of us are deficient in the minerals, not just the essential amino acids or essential fatty acids, but so many of us, and I talk about this all the time, are deficient in minerals. We need 91 essential minerals to really thrive and function. So iron, zinc, and phosphorus. Now, iron is found in abundance in red meat, poultry, and fish.
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134. Bioavailable Meat: Why Your Body Needs It More Than You Think
Heme iron, which is found in animal products, is absorbed by the body at a rate of about 15 to 35 percent, much higher than non-heme iron from plant sources, which is absorbed at about 2 to 20 percent max. Iron is essential for red blood cell production and oxygen transport. This is why beef, lamb, and liver are excellent choices for improving iron levels and boosting energy.
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134. Bioavailable Meat: Why Your Body Needs It More Than You Think
Zinc is another key mineral and a light metal that is highly bioavailable in animal products. Foods like red meat, shellfish, and poultry are excellent sources of zinc, which is crucial for immune function, wound healing, and DNA synthesis. Your body absorbs 50 to 60% of the zinc from these sources. Phosphorus is found in poultry and beef and is essential for bone health and cellular function.
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134. Bioavailable Meat: Why Your Body Needs It More Than You Think
It has a bioavailability of about 40 to 70% in meat sources, which is much higher than plant-based sources of phosphorus. So it's not just what you eat, it's also how you cook it. Cooking methods significantly affect how well your body can absorb nutrients from food. Remember, my favorite things to cook in are oils that are either grass-fed butter, ghee butter, tallow, or coconut oil.
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134. Bioavailable Meat: Why Your Body Needs It More Than You Think
You can use other oils, but look at their smoke point to make sure you're not denaturing these oils or turning them rancid at high temperatures. Boiling and steaming, these are methods are great for retaining proteins, but they actually may cause a loss in water-soluble vitamins like vitamin C and folate. However, steaming tends to preserve more nutrients than boiling.
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134. Bioavailable Meat: Why Your Body Needs It More Than You Think
Frying can destroy heat-sensitive vitamins like vitamin C, while grilling can enhance the bioavailability of certain nutrients like lycopene in tomatoes or beta carotene in sweet potatoes. However, grilling at very high temperatures may create harmful compounds. called heterocyclic amines. So moderation is key if you're doing a lot of outdoor grilling.
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134. Bioavailable Meat: Why Your Body Needs It More Than You Think
My favorite tip for cooking meats is low and slow. You get a good surgical stainless steel pan, none of this nonstick surface, get a good surgical stainless steel pan or an iron skillet, put a little grass fed butter in there, put your meats in and cover it and cook it low and slow. Now let's tie this all together and talk about the health benefits of consuming bioavailable meat.
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134. Bioavailable Meat: Why Your Body Needs It More Than You Think
Muscle development. Meat is an excellent source of complete proteins that contain all the essential amino acids your body cannot produce. These amino acids, which I talk about all the time, are critical for processes such as muscle protein synthesis, which repairs and builds our muscle tissue, but also for collagen, elastin, fibrin. Even our natural killer cells are built out of these amino acids.
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134. Bioavailable Meat: Why Your Body Needs It More Than You Think
So compared to plant-based protein sources, meat proteins often have higher digestibility and bioavailable value, which contributes to better muscle health. Studies show that consuming red meat helps boost muscle mass and strength in individuals, particularly when paired with strength training. Let's talk about cognitive function.
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134. Bioavailable Meat: Why Your Body Needs It More Than You Think
You know, the iron, zinc, and vitamin B12 that are found in meat are crucial for our brain's health. Meat consumption has actually been linked to improved cognitive function, particularly in children, due to these vital nutrients.
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134. Bioavailable Meat: Why Your Body Needs It More Than You Think
However, processed meats, bacon, sausages, have been associated with a very high increased risk of cognitive decline and dementia due to their high sodium and nitrate content. So if you're going to eat Meats that are at a deli counter make sure they are nitrate-free.
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134. Bioavailable Meat: Why Your Body Needs It More Than You Think
So now that we've unpacked why bioavailable meat is essential for your body and health, let me give you some actionable steps to take starting today. First, if you're not already incorporating more red meat, poultry, or fish into your diet, I want you to start.
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134. Bioavailable Meat: Why Your Body Needs It More Than You Think
Aim for at least two to three servings of bioavailable meat per week, whether it's lean cuts like chicken breast, fatty cuts like salmon, or nutrient-dense options like liver. Secondly, pay attention to your cooking methods.
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134. Bioavailable Meat: Why Your Body Needs It More Than You Think
Use steaming to preserve nutrients or low and slow cooking, but be mindful of how much heat you apply if you're grilling or frying to avoid damaging vitamins and minerals, and do not cook in oils that can have really low smoke points. So again, let's look at using grass-fed butters, ghee butters, tallow, or coconut oil. And third, don't just think about the protein.
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134. Bioavailable Meat: Why Your Body Needs It More Than You Think
Think about all the other nutrients you're getting from these meats. B12, iron, zinc, and vitamin D. These nutrients play a huge role in your overall health. So start planning your meals with those in mind. If you need more iron or vitamin B12, make sure to add beef, liver, or salmon to your plate. If you need zinc, add shellfish or poultry.
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134. Bioavailable Meat: Why Your Body Needs It More Than You Think
What if I told you that the secret to unlocking optimal health physically, mentally, and emotionally could be found in the food that you eat? That's right, I'm talking about meat, specifically bioavailable meat. We all know that meat is packed with nutrients, but what if I told you it's not just about what you eat, but how well your body can absorb and utilize those nutrients?
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134. Bioavailable Meat: Why Your Body Needs It More Than You Think
Finally, start building meals that optimize both your bioavailability and your health. Combine your meats with nutrient-dense vegetables for maximum absorption and ensure that your body gets the most out of every bite. Meat is more than just a food. It's a fuel for your body. It's packed with nutrients your body can absorb and use efficiently.
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134. Bioavailable Meat: Why Your Body Needs It More Than You Think
So whether you're focused on building muscle, improving brain function, or simply living a healthier, happier life, meat plays a crucial role. So next time you sit down to a meal, remember you're not just feeding your body, You're fueling it for success. You know, recently there's been a craze about these GLP-1s, ozempic, wagovi, manjaro, these GLP-1s or GLP-1 agonists.
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134. Bioavailable Meat: Why Your Body Needs It More Than You Think
Remember, GLP-1 is a hormone that we actually make in our gut, glucose-like polypeptide, and we make it in response to satiation. And how do we become satiated? We eat nutrient-dense foods. This is why if you took two identical plates, one was a highly processed meal and the other one was a nutrient-dense whole food meal,
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134. Bioavailable Meat: Why Your Body Needs It More Than You Think
the one that ate the nutrient-dense whole food meal would be satiated for longer. In other words, they would not get hungrier faster. It's been proven that when you put identically caloric diets on the table and you have two different groups, one group eating a highly processed meal, one group eating very nutrient-dense meals,
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134. Bioavailable Meat: Why Your Body Needs It More Than You Think
the nutrient-dense group will eat less frequency and they will be satiated longer and therefore consume on average 500 less calories per day. Think about how 500 calories adds up seven days a week, 365 days a year. Guys, if you can incorporate some of these whole foods that we discussed on today's podcast, you're on your way to creating your own factory for GLP-1 right in your own gut.
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134. Bioavailable Meat: Why Your Body Needs It More Than You Think
You don't need to get it from Wagovia or Zampic. You can get it from what God gave you, and that's your natural response to nutrient-dense foods. This is why we always come back to the same topic when we talk about diets. We never talk about dogmatic dieting. We talk about eating logically. Whole foods. Whole nutrient-dense foods is the key to longevity.
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It's been proven in the blue zones to your health, guys. Thanks for tuning in, guys, to the Ultimate Human Podcast. If you found this episode value, share it with someone who could benefit from this knowledge. And remember, bioavailability is your key to unlocking true health. And that's just science.
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134. Bioavailable Meat: Why Your Body Needs It More Than You Think
Today, I'm gonna break down exactly why meat, particularly red meat, poultry, and fish, should be at the center of your diets if you want to optimize your health and performance. It's not just about eating calories. It's about making every bite count and about making every bite nutrient dense. Welcome back to the Ultimate Human Podcast, guys. I'm your host, human biologist, Gary Brekka.
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168. What Is Mold Toxicity? Symptoms, Causes, and Solutions
If you've been feeling off lately, chronic fatigue, brain fog, or you've been told it's all in your head, but you know something is wrong, you need to hear this. Mold toxicity happens when your body becomes poisoned by toxic byproducts produced by molds. These are called mycotoxins. When inhaled or ingested by humans, they hijack our biology.
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168. What Is Mold Toxicity? Symptoms, Causes, and Solutions
So stick around because by the end of this episode, I'll show you how you can join our ultimate detox challenge completely free and start clearing this out of your system. So let's get started. What is mold toxicity? Mold toxicity, also known as biotoxin illness or CIRS, chronic inflammatory response syndrome, happens when your body becomes poisoned by toxic byproducts produced by molds.
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168. What Is Mold Toxicity? Symptoms, Causes, and Solutions
These are called mycotoxins. These mycotoxins are microscopic chemical weapons. They're designed by fungi to destroy bacteria, out-compete other organisms, and survive. But when inhaled or ingested by humans, they hijack our biology. Here's the scary part. You don't even need visible mold growth to have a major exposure.
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168. What Is Mold Toxicity? Symptoms, Causes, and Solutions
Mold can grow behind drywall, under your floorboards, inside an HVAC system, or it can lurk in old water-damaged areas, and you'd never even know it. And it's not just about allergy symptoms. Mold toxins disrupt your cells at a mitochondrial level, damaging your energy production, immune signaling, hormone balance, and your brain function. Mycotoxins are lipophilic. This means they love fat.
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168. What Is Mold Toxicity? Symptoms, Causes, and Solutions
And guess what your brain, your nerves, and your cell membranes are made of? So once inside, mycotoxins can damage your mitochondrial function, causing fatigue and cognitive decline. They can disrupt your immune balance, leading to autoimmune symptoms. They can even trigger massive inflammation by activating cytokine storms. They can compromise our gut lining, which leads to leaky gut.
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168. What Is Mold Toxicity? Symptoms, Causes, and Solutions
Mold toxicity equals inflammatory breakdown inside your body over months or even years. Yet mainstream medicine still largely ignores the systemic effects of chronic low-level exposure. Many sufferers spend years, even decades, misdiagnosed and mistreated. Mold isn't just bad for your lungs. It's bad for your brain. It's bad for your emotions and your very ability to think clearly.
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wreck hormone signaling by interfering with HPA axis. And over time, this toxic burden leads to symptoms like chronic fatigue that no amount of sleep fixes, brain fog, memory lapses, even mood swings. It often leads to sinus congestion, chronic coughs, shortness of breath, even joint pain, muscle aches, and strange neurological sensations.
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168. What Is Mold Toxicity? Symptoms, Causes, and Solutions
New food sensitivities and histamine intolerance are another sign of mold toxicity. Skin rashes, itching, unusual infections. Does any of this stuff sound familiar? Let's go into the hidden history of mold disease. Detoxifying from mold isn't a new age idea. Ancient civilizations like the Egyptians knew that water-damaged structures bred disease.
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168. What Is Mold Toxicity? Symptoms, Causes, and Solutions
Ayurveda and traditional Chinese medicine both linked dampness, miasma, to chronic illness. Fast forward to the 20th century, scientists began identifying specific mycotoxins responsible for massive die-offs in livestock and even crops. Aflatoxin, one of the deadliest, was first discovered after a mysterious outbreak wiped out poultry in the 1960s.
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168. What Is Mold Toxicity? Symptoms, Causes, and Solutions
Today, the World Health Organization and EPA acknowledge mold as a serious environmental health risk, yet mainstream medicine still largely ignores the systemic effects of chronic low-level exposure.
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168. What Is Mold Toxicity? Symptoms, Causes, and Solutions
Meanwhile, researchers in journals like Clinical and Experimental Allergy and Toxological Sciences have documented the link between mold exposure and neurological disorders, autoimmune disease, and even respiratory illness and cancer. So why does mold illness get missed? Most conventional doctors are trained to spot acute mold allergies, not chronic mold toxicity. Here's the difference.
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168. What Is Mold Toxicity? Symptoms, Causes, and Solutions
A mold allergy equals things like sneezing, runny nose, itchy eyes, and this is right after exposure. But mold toxicity equals inflammatory breakdown inside your body over months or even years.
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168. What Is Mold Toxicity? Symptoms, Causes, and Solutions
Because symptoms are systemic and vague, like fatigue, depression, and pain, patients often get misdiagnosed with things like fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome, anxiety, IBS, or you're just told sadly that it's all just in your head. And even worse, the conventional diagnostic tools simply aren't built for mold illness.
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168. What Is Mold Toxicity? Symptoms, Causes, and Solutions
Standard blood work often appears normal and imaging scans rarely reveal chronic inflammatory changes caused by these mycotoxins. The complexity of SIRS means it requires a different lens, one that considers environmental exposures, genetic susceptibility, and biomarkers of inflammation.
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168. What Is Mold Toxicity? Symptoms, Causes, and Solutions
Research published in Toxins in 2020 confirmed that mycotoxin-related illness is grossly underdiagnosed, often requiring specialized environmental health practitioners to properly recognize and treat it.
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168. What Is Mold Toxicity? Symptoms, Causes, and Solutions
Specialized testing like urine mycotoxin panels, HLA-DR genetic testing, visual contrast sensitivity tests, and inflammatory markers such as C4A, TGF-beta-1, and MMP9 are essential to uncover the hidden mold burden. Without a skilled provider or skilled testing, many sufferers spend years, even decades, misdiagnosed and mistreated.
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168. What Is Mold Toxicity? Symptoms, Causes, and Solutions
You need specialized testing, urine mycotoxin tests, visual contrast sensitivity testing, inflammatory markers like C4A, TGF-beta-1, MMP9, and mold-specific IgG panels. Mold isn't just in swamps and basements. Today's homes and offices are practically breeding grounds for mold. Tight, energy-efficient construction traps moisture. HVAC systems often circulate mold spores.
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168. What Is Mold Toxicity? Symptoms, Causes, and Solutions
Water leaks from roofs or plumbing or even floors create hidden reservoirs for water to pool and mold to form. Buildings with previous water damage rarely get properly remediated. The most common indoor mold offenders include things like aspergillus. This is found in dust, old foods, and your AC units. Stachybotrys, often referred to as black mold, grows on wet drywall and insulation.
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168. What Is Mold Toxicity? Symptoms, Causes, and Solutions
Detoxifying from mold is not about killing mold inside your body. out. Welcome back to the Ultimate Human Podcast. I'm your host, human biologist, Gary Brekka. And today we're diving deep into one of the most insidious health threats of our time, mold toxicity.
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168. What Is Mold Toxicity? Symptoms, Causes, and Solutions
Penicillium, which is found in damp carpets and wallpaper, is another one that goes mist very often. and cladosporium, common on wood, textiles, and in HVAC systems. You can breathe it in, absorb it through your skin, or even ingest it in contaminated foods. One of the most devastating effects of mold exposure is what it does to your brain.
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168. What Is Mold Toxicity? Symptoms, Causes, and Solutions
Studies published in Healthline and the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology reveal that mycotoxins can cross the blood-brain barrier and trigger things like memory loss, personality changes, anxiety, depression, difficulty in concentrating, sleep disturbances,
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168. What Is Mold Toxicity? Symptoms, Causes, and Solutions
Research from Frontiers in Immunology explains how mycotoxins can induce microglial activation, an inflammatory response in the brain leading to neural inflammation, oxidative stress, and even neuronal death. Chronic exposure can result in a neurotoxic cascade, and this impairs executive function, processing speed, and emotional regulation.
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168. What Is Mold Toxicity? Symptoms, Causes, and Solutions
At Amen Clinics, brain scans showed visible patterns of hypoperfusion, decreased blood flow in mold-exposed individuals, patterns that mimic traumatic brain injury. A study in Toxological Sciences further showed that exposure to airborne mold spores and mycotoxins disrupted neurotransmitter balance, notably reducing dopamine, serotonin, critical chemicals for mood, motivation, and cognition.
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168. What Is Mold Toxicity? Symptoms, Causes, and Solutions
The bottom line, mold isn't just bad for your lungs. It's bad for your brain. It's bad for your emotions and your very ability to think clearly. If you're wondering if this could be you, watch these for red flags.
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if you feel worse in certain environments, like at home or at work, or if symptoms improve when you're on vacation, or if you have multiple chemical sensitivities all of a sudden out of the blue, if you have chronic sinusitis or infections, bronchitis or lung issues, or if you're not getting better with typical treatments. labs show low MSH, elevated C4a, TGF beta-1, or something called MMP9.
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168. What Is Mold Toxicity? Symptoms, Causes, and Solutions
If you checked more than a few of these, you'd need to consider mold as a root cause. Detoxifying from mold is not about killing mold inside your body. It's about removing the mycotoxins and restoring the immune balance. Here's a real framework. The first and most important thing in any kind of mold exposure is you must remove yourself from the exposure location.
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168. What Is Mold Toxicity? Symptoms, Causes, and Solutions
Get a professional mold inspection. Use ERMI or HERT-SMI2 testing in your home. You can write those down. ERMI or HERT-SMI2 testing in your home. Remediate or remove it if necessary. You can open drainage pathways by hydrating aggressively, supporting liver and lymphatic system with things like glutathione, regular sauna sessions, and gut binders.
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and try to ensure that you have daily bowel movements. Bind and remove these toxins with gut binders, activated charcoal, bentonite clay, chlorella, and modified citrus pectin. Time your binders 90 minutes away from your food or your supplements so you're not binding the nutrients from the food that you eat.
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You can support your immune and your mitochondrial function with things like NAC, glutathione, CoQ10, and omega-3 fatty acids. Infrared and dry saunas are amazing for removing these toxins from the body. Rebounding, that's jumping up and down on a little trampoline. Dry brushing and lymphatic drainage are excellent ways to help your lymph system start to pull these things out of your tissue.
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And you can repair tissue damage with gut healing protocols, things like collagen, glutamine, and probiotics. For nervous system regulation, I like breath work and vagus nerve activation. Here's the truth. Detoxifying mold safely and effectively requires a system, and that's exactly what we built for you. So join us on the 23rd through the 25th of June for the Ultimate Detox Challenge.
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Remember, it's completely free like all of my challenges. You will learn exactly how to test, detox, and reset your body from hidden environmental toxins like mold, metals, and so much more. I'll be guiding you through every step of the process with the same protocols I use with elite athletes and all my CEOs and private clients. Don't guess, don't wait. Your health is just too important.
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Join my free challenge today by clicking the link in the show notes and register today. This is Gary Brekka, and you've been listening to the Ultimate Human Podcast. I really hope that I see you on the Ultimate Detox Challenge, completely free, June 23rd to 25th. And until next time, stay toxin-free, stay sharp, and that's just science.
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168. What Is Mold Toxicity? Symptoms, Causes, and Solutions
If you've been feeling off lately, chronic fatigue, brain fog, allergies, strange rashes, or you've been told it's all in your head, but you know something is wrong, you need to hear this. Mold toxicity is not just about black spots on your ceiling. It's a hidden epidemic that could silently be sabotaging your energy, your mood, your immune system, even your brain function.
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168. What Is Mold Toxicity? Symptoms, Causes, and Solutions
Today, we're gonna break it all down. What mold toxicity actually is, how it hijacks your biology, the science behind mold illness and something called chronic inflammatory response syndrome, the hidden places that mold hides, and why most doctors miss it, and what you can do to take back your health.
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150. Alex Tarnava: Unlocking Longevity with Hydrogen Water - Anti-Aging, Increased Energy & Reducing Inflammation
To where you can take elemental magnesium, compress it, have it sink to the bottom of a glass, and ever vest into.
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150. Alex Tarnava: Unlocking Longevity with Hydrogen Water - Anti-Aging, Increased Energy & Reducing Inflammation
First reaction is, well, doesn't the gas just float to the top and then, you know, go out into the atmosphere? You know, how are you able to ingest the hydrogen gas and have it, you know, create its therapeutic effect in the body? I can tell you that I feel the difference. I've almost replaced caffeine with hydrogen.
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validated research to really support some of the claims. And we probably have the world's most renowned expert on the podcast today developed and patented the first clinically valid hydrogen tablet, which I use every day, H2 tabs.
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150. Alex Tarnava: Unlocking Longevity with Hydrogen Water - Anti-Aging, Increased Energy & Reducing Inflammation
I've noticed that truly when I travel and sometimes I do my best to schedule meetings and travel around sleep and exercise, but sometimes flights happen when flights happen, meetings happen when they happen, or you're just in a different time zone. And there is a significant improvement I notice in mental alertness and just my general sense of, I would say, cognitive energy, right?
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150. Alex Tarnava: Unlocking Longevity with Hydrogen Water - Anti-Aging, Increased Energy & Reducing Inflammation
You don't feel stimulated, but you just feel more clean and clear and awake and focused. Interestingly, I read a study. I think it was actually with your tablets, and I'll put the links in the study notes below. It was in the Journal of Experimental Gerontology, and it was in November 2017. of 2021.
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150. Alex Tarnava: Unlocking Longevity with Hydrogen Water - Anti-Aging, Increased Energy & Reducing Inflammation
And what I found really fascinating, because I've been not down the road of developing hydrogen tablets or hydrogen water bottles, but of researching the hydrogen gas, because I think it's one of those things that, in my opinion, will be as common as a multivitamin in 10 years, because the evidence is so strong. I think so, yeah.
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But what I read in this journal of experimental gerontology was that...
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they were 70 year olds and 70 and up yes i think 77 or something this was the average age yeah okay okay so then you're obviously very familiar with it and i might paraphrase it wrong but they this was a six-month study and it was it was uh double blind it was placebo controlled and so one group was drinking hydrogen water um and i forget what the parts per million were the other group was not but they measured telomere lengths which improved um
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They measured cognitive scoring, which improved. They measured sleep. So they actually were looking at stages of sleep, deep REM sleep. They measured their sit-stand ratio, which I thought was really interesting. I mean, that there might be some effect on sarcopenia, like age-related muscle wasting.
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They measured different factors in the frontal lobe of the brain, their reaction times, and across the board, And all of these metrics improved. And they even used a marker, TET2, I think. TET2. To measure the methylation.
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But I really want to go down the rabbit hole of the research into how can hydrogen gas be simply incorporated into your life and make a major improvement on your health journey. So welcome to the podcast, Alex Tarnova. Tarnava. Tarnava. You know, there's a common theme, and my viewers hear me talk about this all the time, that runs through most of my podcasts.
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So we doubled that in the blood.
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I saw that, which it's also a marker of methylation, which I'm very interested in, because I think that when the body's able to take compounds and convert them into the usable form, you know, you're improving the cellular metabolism, and you're making that cell less susceptible to all forms of disease and sickness, because it can eliminate waste, and it can repair, it can detoxify, it can regenerate.
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But I thought it was fascinating that they actually were measuring markers of methylation in 70 plus year olds. So TET2 was my idea?
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So if the research came out not in favor of what you were doing, you still wanted them to publish it. Exactly. Love that.
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I've read a lot of them. We have ankle injuries, CTEs, traumatic brain injuries, inflammatory compounds. And I actually want to do that. I want to go down sort of the road of hydrogen gas and its implication in a bunch of different categories.
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And that is that I feel like the people that are the most passionate, the most purpose-driven, that are making the biggest change in the world are people that have solved the problem in their life. And you have a really interesting story about what led you to hyper focus on hydrogen gas and elemental magnesium. I wonder if you might share that story and then let's get into the science.
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So we've had a lot of exposure to hydrogen gas. And obviously, it's a necessary element. But I mean, I would say that, what are we, 60% or 67% water by weight? Yeah. So obviously, we have a lot of hydrogen.
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Yeah, absolutely.
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It's fascinating to me because I think it has so many implications. You know, it's a part of my daily life. But there are a lot of people that poo-poo the hydrogen water bottles or poo-poo hydrogen tablets or just hydrogen gas as a therapeutic measure for reducing inflammation, for improving circulation.
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Um, we now have clinical evidence to support that, but I, I want to kind of break down the different categories because there's a several areas where I'm hyper interested in what hydrogen gas can do for sports performance, what it can do for cognitive function. Um, I, both my parents drinking hydrogen, uh, gas water, you know, every day.
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And I can tell you, I have emphatically noticed the difference in their acuteness, uh, And their memory, their recall, my father says it about my mother all the time. So let's just break down once we get this hydrogen gas into the body. First of all, how is it getting through the stomach?
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Once it gets through the stomach and enters the small intestine or perfuses through the blood brain barrier, what is it doing? How is it? How is hydrogen gas?
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Because you're behind the body's physiologic process to create homeostasis rather than imposing it upon the body.
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It's sort of a selective antioxidant, if you will, meaning that if we can get behind our own cellular physiology, our own cellular biology to create homeostasis, reduce the inflammatory response when it's not needed... and not inhibit the inflammatory response where it is.
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Like I've started taking it before hyperbaric sessions because I know that these oxidative species, you know, high amounts of oxygen under pressure can actually have negative effects like it can have positive effects. And I can mitigate some of those by taking the hydrogen but actually potentially distress acutely.
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Yeah. And, you know, I notice in athletes, I've introduced several very dominant athletes like Michael Chandler or John Jones, other athletes that I... I can't name because they're not public about their work with me. When I introduce hydrogen water, it seems to close that last five yards for them.
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It reduces the amount of pain that they wake up in in the morning, like knees, hips, shoulders, rotator cuff. I've seen firsthand what happens to people when I put them in a hydrogen bath. You know, I was getting ready to invest almost $100,000 in this electrolysis unit that made oxygen water. And I got this hydrogen... generating machine and started to use it in my bathtub.
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And what I've seen get in and out of that bathtub is nothing short of miraculous. I don't even talk about it online because so many people would say you're a charlatan because you can't put somebody in a hydrogen bath that has crippled with arthritis and then they just walk out of your...
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Well, I read the study that you published on, it was a lateral ankle injury, and it was recovery after acute injury. And what I thought was fascinating was it reduced the inflammatory process, but didn't reduce the inflammation. And I know that sounds like an oxymoron, but ice creates this vasoconstriction. And what you were doing was comparing the rice method, rest, ice, compress, elevate,
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to the use of hydrogen and hydrogen wasn't creating this constrictive effect which was reducing the presence of inflammation it was actually reducing the inflammatory response but improving the circulation so there's cool research on that that you know cold exposure reduces blood plasma flow right so you're not getting healing to where you've injured right because the plasma has the platelets and the platelets carry the growth factors which causes the healing
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Oh, it's circumference. Yeah, the the the I read another one of your studies. I've read a lot of your studies, by the way. that was looking at CTE and traumatic brain injury and immediately post-concussion using H2 tabs in the buccal fold, just putting it there and letting high amounts of hydrogen gas get into the body so that you can reduce the inflammatory response post-concussion.
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I don't want to misquote it because it was your study, but I want to say that, you know, the way that concussions are evaluated, you use the standard concussion evaluation protocol. And there are a number of categories that qualify you for having a concussion. And he had, I want to say, 13 of them. 24. The next day that was cut in half.
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And then the severity score how they they rate the severity of these different measurements was also cut in half. In fact, it was cut by more than 70%. And I remember reading as I was so blown away that I was like, why not immediately after concussion? Are we not just giving hydrogen gas? I think in the future we might.
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there is a significant improvement in mental alertness almost replaced caffeine with hydrogen i feel the difference you don't feel stimulated but you just feel more clean and clear and awake there are a lot of people that poo-poo the hydrogen tablets as a therapeutic measure for reducing inflammation hydrogen is in fact a weak antioxidant in vitro and it's only driving towards homeostasis and this is actually critically important because
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This is amazing. I mean, you know, first of all, I think it's an area that's vastly understudied. I think it's also because of the trouble that industry has with, you know, patent protection and copyright protection, trademark protection around this, you know, element, which you've patented, but around this element and its impact on physiology. I want to
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bring this down to a practical standpoint like some actionable steps that people that are watching this podcast might might take away um how do they incorporate hydrogen gas into their daily routine and why would they want to do that and what can they expect in terms of absorption for their vitamins minerals amino acids nutrients gut health. I think we should touch on a few areas.
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We can touch on metabolic, the anti-aging aspect. You know, they estimate as high as 80% of Americans have some form of metabolic syndrome.
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Just by adding each
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It's safe to say that right now, molecular hydrogen, hydrogen gas has a positive effect on metabolism. And when we say metabolism, so we throw that word around a lot, you know, a metabolic syndrome is
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complex of a bunch of different variables that probably the most impactful would be insulin resistance you know that is the root of a lot of evils but also you know elevated triglycerides you know hyper triglyceridemia hypertension abdominal fat elevated cholesterol and and restoring
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homeostasis and restoring the gut barrier, that single cell barrier that protects our inside world from our outside world. You know, if I had a penny for every ailment that was a byproduct of gut dysbiosis, I would be a very wealthy man and I have
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in the last 10 years become very interested and fascinated by ways that we can properly heal and seal and restore function to the gut because it's the genesis of a lot of autoimmune, if not all autoimmune disease, it's the genesis of a lot of, um, uh, pro-inflammatory conditions, not the least of which is elevated C-reactive protein. There's just so many, um,
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downsides to not having a properly regulated gut. And very often, it's not just a matter of taking probiotics, or even in some cases, switching your diet to eat the right foods, because if you wipe these bacteria out, You need to restore the gas that the bacteria that are now gone would have otherwise produced.
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Okay.
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So, you know, I'm interested in about how could somebody incorporate these H2 tabs, which is the elemental magnesium that effervesces into hydrogen gas. How does someone that's watching this podcast that's interested in getting hydrogen gas into their daily routine, maybe doesn't have the money for, you know, a hydrogen bottle, You know, what's the dosage? How do they take it?
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You want a high dose intermittently because you want the stress and the recovery. So let's say 750 milliliters like a, you know, Mountain Valley spring water. Yeah, you can drop a couple of tablets in there. And then wait for it to effervesce and then whack it back.
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metabolic impaired middle-aged people usually uses about 12 ounces 333 times a day and on the elderly we used a cup so we used 250 milliliters or eight ounces because the point is any amount helps but for so many to say okay i'm going to put this into my daily routine i'm going to take a room temperature glass bottle of water drop a tablet or two in it um and then chug it as fast as you can
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So... By the way, C-reactive protein should be less than three. It should technically be less than one. Yeah. If you want to have a really low risk of cardiovascular disease.
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You want to get the dosing right to have a better effect on the body.
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Yeah. And you know, what I find is that if I do the hydrogen first, I really don't want caffeine. I'm just, you know, I'm more wide awake, more focused, more clear. And then I'm exit with the
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an amino acid product you know it's just essential amino acids and and then i just go in and and hit the gym and i'm always looking for ways that we can kind of biostack things take something like um you know the fluid that's going to hydrate you and make it anti-inflammatory by lowering its orp which it clearly does um but then also there must be some effect on
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on the lactate threshold because i noticed that if i do what i've affectionately called hydrogen bomb i'll put five of these in a uh you know in about 750 mls and when it effervesces whack it back i can absolutely tell that my workouts can be more intense with less muscle burn
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And for people that are not familiar with C-reactive protein, it's a nonspecific marker of inflammation. It doesn't tell you exactly what's causing it, but it tells you that something is going on in your body. The liver is reacting, creating this protein that is an indicator of of inflammation, could be in the brain, could be in the liver, the lungs, the pancreas, the kidneys, and the blood.
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Well, Alex, I want to follow this research that you're doing. I'm going to put links in the study notes to all of the research you published so far and links to other research on hydrogen gas and the H2 tabs, this elemental magnesium. I'll even put some information on how people can find the H2 tabs if they're interested in adding these.
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What I like is that now we're under $1 a day for people to incorporate hydrogen gas into their lifestyle instead of several hundred dollars for hydrogen gas. And a consistent dose.
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Right, but with those tablets, you're getting a safe, consistent dose every time. In fact, I'd love to even do another podcast on women's health because I've noticed again anecdotally when my wife has really bad menstrual cramps that it seems to mitigate the intensity of those cramps too. So I'd love to go down the rabbit hole with you on that. We're diving deeper.
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So we can really start narrowing in on the research. That's amazing, man. Well, I end every podcast by asking all my guests the same question, and there's no right or wrong answer to this. But it is, what does it mean to you to be an ultimate human?
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It could be coming from just about anywhere, but when it gets really, really high, like what you're explaining, this is cause for investigation. So you have this elevated C-reactive protein, you know, you're crushing fatigue, which is, by the way, classic viral.
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Man, I really appreciate you coming on. Guys, I hope that this has given you the depth that you need to maybe incorporate hydrogen gas into your daily routine. It's one of those, I think, must-have biohacks that's affordable for the masses. I'm going to stay very close to the research. on hydrogen gas, hydrogen water, hydrogen inhalation, because I'm absolutely fascinated by it.
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I will link all of Alex's studies in the study notes below, as well as a link to some other studies that are not Alex's, but we'll give you further background if you really want to go down the hydrogen rabbit hole. And as always, until next time, that's just science.
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Right.
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Hey guys, welcome back to the Ultimate Human Podcast. I'm your host, human biologist, Gary Brekker, where we go down the road of everything anti-aging, biohacking, longevity, and everything in between.
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I started compressing them. And you eventually ended up patent.
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this because I mean I take your tabs your h2 tabs every day I travel with them now they're super easy to use you know I either use the hydrogen water bottle I use these tablets and interestingly you know a lot of my audience is like listen I don't have 250 bucks or 275 bucks for a hydrogen water bottle but these tablets are inexpensive but the elemental magnesium is this what's effervescing into the hydrogen gas
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When I talk about hydrogen in the water, their reaction is, well, doesn't the gas just float to the top, go out into the atmosphere? How are you able to ingest the hydrogen gas and have it create its therapeutic effect in the body?
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And as most of you guys know, I am way down the rabbit hole and a big, big proponent of hydrogen gas, hydrogen water, as a way to reduce inflammation, improve our circulation, as a way to actually just make this a part of our health and wellness journey.
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Wow. And so many of us are so deficient in this essential metal. We really are. Yeah, we are. I think 80% to 90% of the US population.
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Now, were you drinking them?
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And by the way, elemental magnesium is flammable and it burns at a very high temperature.
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And I am so excited for today's guest because we are going to go deep down the rabbit hole of the science behind hydrogen gas and how this gas, this simple gas, can change the trajectory of your health journey. And I've been using hydrogen water for years now. I was a big proponent of using it for exercise, for improving performance. But now we have the scientifically proven
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Today, we're diving into a subject that's as hot as the drink itself, coffee and caffeine. It's a ritual, an energy burst, even a source of comfort. It's about supercharging your cardiovascular health, protecting your brain, and improving your metabolism. But what's happening in your body when you take that first sip?
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And today, we're going to unpack the science behind coffee, why it's one of the most underrated health tools, and how you can use it to your advantage. Let's get into it. We all know that coffee is a major player in the morning day hustle, but what's happening in your body when you take that first sip?
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The magic behind it is caffeine, the world's most widely consumed psychoactive drug, and it works wonders for your body. Caffeine's primary mechanism is blocking adenosine receptors in your brain, and these receptors are responsible for making you feel sleepy. So when caffeine blocks them, your body starts pumping out more dopamine and norepinephrine, which increases alertness and focus.
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It's why your brain feels clearer and sharper after that first cup in the morning. But the benefits don't end at increased alertness. Caffeine also ramps up thermogenesis, which is your body's process of generating heat and burning energy. This leads to enhanced metabolism, making it easier to burn calories and increases fat oxidation during physical activity.
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Your body starts pumping out more dopamine and norepinephrine, which increases alertness and focus. The magic behind it is caffeine.
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For years, this was a debate about whether coffee was good or bad for your heart. The truth is, the science is now clear. Coffee is not only good for your heart, it might be one of the best things you can drink for long-term cardiovascular health. The magic here is in coffee's polyphenols, which act as a powerful antioxidant that protects your cardiovascular system from oxidative stress.
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These antioxidants help neutralize free radicals in your body, which are responsible for damaging your cells and accelerating the aging process. By protecting your blood vessels from oxidative damage, polyphenols help maintain optimal blood pressure, reduce inflammation, and improve overall cardiovascular health.
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In fact, coffee has been shown to lower your risk of developing diseases like type 2 diabetes, coronary artery disease, and stroke by 49% thanks to the powerful anti-inflammatory properties of these polyphenols and chlorogenic acid. So when you drink coffee, you're not just getting an energy boost, you're investing in your long-term heart health. So let's talk about your brain.
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I know many of you rely on that morning cup to get you through the mental fog, but did you know coffee is actively protecting your brain too? Coffee has been shown to significantly reduce the risk of developing Parkinson's disease. A study with over 184,000 participants found that regular coffee drinkers have a 40% lower risk of developing Parkinson's compared to non-drinkers. The reason?
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the world's most widely consumed psychoactive drug and it works wonders for your body it's why your brain feels clearer and sharper after that first cup in the morning but the benefits don't end at increased alertness a 2025 study found that drinking two to three cups of coffee daily lowered the risk of cardiovascular disease related mortality the magic here is in coffee's polyphenols which act as a powerful antioxidant that protects your cardiovascular system from oxidative stress
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Caffeine blocks A2AR receptors in the brain, which helps regulate motor function, something that Parkinson's disease depletes over time. Similarly, caffeine protects your brain from Alzheimer's disease.
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Regular coffee consumption reduces the onset of Alzheimer's by 31% due to the reduction in beta amyloid deposits, which are these sticky proteins that are the hallmark of Alzheimer's and impair memory and they impair cognitive function. By blocking A2AR receptors, caffeine helps reduce the toxic buildups in your brain, keeping your memory sharp and your brain healthy.
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Now let's dive into how caffeine works in your body beyond just waking you up. First off, caffeine has a significant half-life. meaning it stays in your system for a long time. It's usually around four to six hours, but it can stay active in your body for up to nine and a half hours, especially if you drink a large amount.
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This is why it's important not to consume caffeine too late in the day because it can mess with your sleep. And as we know, sleep is everything. I call it our human superpower. One of the most interesting effects of caffeine is its ability to suppress appetite.
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Caffeine stimulates hormones like GLP-1, which is known to reduce hunger, but it also increases your energy expenditure by improving thermogenesis and fat oxidation. What does that mean for you? Better workouts, better calorie burn, and a boost to your metabolism. So, okay, we know coffee is a powerhouse for your health, but let's get practical.
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How do you maximize the benefits of coffee, and how do you make sure you're doing it in the right way? First, choose high-quality coffee. Not all coffee is created equal. Many have molds. You want it to be certified mold-free. Over 90% of coffee beans from Brazil are contaminated with molds, like aspergillus, which does produce mycotoxins that can lead to respiratory infections and kidney damage.
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Look for brands that are tested free for harmful molds and mycotoxins. Don't overdo it, guys. While coffee has an amazing benefit, moderation is key. Studies suggest that drinking a cup, but no more than three a day, is optimal. And going beyond that will reduce some of the benefits, especially in terms of sleep disruption.
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If you go over this three cups a day, the advantages start to plateau and you risk getting jittery or experiencing a crash. And remember, with coffee, timing is everything. Since caffeine stays in your system for hours, make sure you drink your coffee in the morning and not too late in the afternoon. Aim for your first cup within 60 minutes of waking.
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I prefer to delay that to 90 minutes of waking so that you can allow the adenosine to build up and the coffee to exert its maximum effect. And don't go past 2 p.m. Keep your circadian rhythms in check.
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I aim to have my coffee 60 to 90 minutes after I wake up and this is because of recent research indicating that the coffee binds to the adenosine receptor and we want as much adenosine bound as possible when we have that first cup to maximize its impact. Coffee isn't just for your brain, it's for your body too. You can use it as a performance enhancer.
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Drink a cup of coffee about 30 minutes before a workout to boost fat burning and even your exercise performance. Studies have actually shown that caffeine enhances your endurance and and helps you get more out of your training sessions.
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Those of you guys that are aware my morning routine includes sunlight, grounding, breath work, trying to get outside and get sunlight onto my body, and very often red light and cold plunging, know that I delay the onset of my coffee 60 to 90 minutes after I wake up. Remember, when we're waking in the morning, let's let cortisol do its job.
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Expose our skin and our eyes to sunlight, allow the cortisol to rise, which is our waking hormone, allow the melatonin to dissipate, and 60 to 90 minutes seems to be the optimal window to allow adenosine receptors to fully bind and for coffee to exert its maximum effect.
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I know most of you guys crack your eyes open and wanna go straight to the pot of coffee, but if you can find something else to do in your morning routine to take up that first 60 to 90 minutes, I promise you you'll benefit more from the benefits of coffee. So to sum it up, coffee isn't just a way to get you through the morning, it's a powerful health tool.
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From improving cardiovascular health to protecting your brain from neurodegenerative diseases, coffee has science-backed benefits that go far beyond the usual energy boost. But remember, quality and timing matter. Choose high-quality, mold-free coffee and consume it in moderation and drink it in the morning to get the most out of its effects.
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So when you drink coffee, you're not just getting an energy boost, you're investing in your long-term heart health. How do you maximize the benefits of coffee and how do you make sure you're doing it in the right way? First, Welcome back to the Ultimate Human Podcast.
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Incorporate coffee into your routine and enjoy the many benefits, whether it's improving your heart health, enhancing your mental clarity, or boosting your metabolism. But do it in the right way to ensure you're optimizing your health and performance. Thanks for tuning into the Ultimate Human Podcast. Remember, coffee's more than just a pick-me-up. It's a powerful ally in your health journey.
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So the next time you reach for that cup, remember, you're not just fueling your day, you're fueling your health. And that's just science.
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I'm your host, human biologist, Gary Brekka, and today we're diving into a subject that's as hot as the drink itself, coffee and caffeine. But before you sip your morning cup, let me ask you this. Have you ever thought about what's really brewing inside that mug? For many of us, coffee is more than just caffeine fix. It's a ritual, a moment of peace, an energy burst, even a source of comfort.
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But what if I told you that coffee is actually one of the most powerful tools you can use to boost your health, your energy, and your performance? That's right. Coffee isn't just about getting you through the morning. It's about supercharging your cardiovascular health, protecting your brain, and improving your metabolism.
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Today, we're addressing a major health threat that's often overlooked and doctors don't check for it, and that's mold exposure. Mold is actually a type of fungus and it thrives in damp human environments and it plays a crucial role in decomposing organic matter.
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So in this episode, we're going to cover exactly what mold is, the health risks associated with mold exposure, and most importantly, how do we detox from it so you can restore your health and get back to feeling your best self. Mold is actually a type of fungus and it thrives in damp human environments, almost always in dark environments, and it plays a crucial role in decomposing organic matter.
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And if you have any access to a dry sauna, that is one of the best ways to activate your detox pathways in addition to mineralizing and hydrating the body to help get rid of those things in your urine and your stool. So that's what we did to remediate it. It worked very, very well. And I know a lot of people just don't talk about mold mycotoxins and their exposure.
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And what happens is people just end up with these low-grade chronic infections that just nip away at their productivity. Their mood is numb. They're emotionally off. If they're females, their cycle can be off. If they're men, they actually get not depressed, but you get something called mood numbness where the peaks and valleys of mood disappear. Your sleep becomes irregular.
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You very often have headaches. You have severe brain fog. You have respiratory issues. And generally, it's not quite enough to drive you to the emergency room or to the urgent care. You just sort of deal with it. You might actually be dealing with mold exposure. Thanks for tuning in to the Ultimate Human Podcast.
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If you found this episode helpful, please subscribe, leave a review, and share it with anyone who might benefit. Wish you luck. And as always, guys, it's just science.
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It reproduces by releasing microscopic spores into the air, which is called sporulating, and which can then spread and grow on various other surfaces. So while mold is essential for nature's cycle of decomposition, it becomes a serious problem when it starts growing indoors and invades our bodies.
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Some molds are harmless, but others, like black mold, produce mycotoxins that can have severe health consequences. According to a study published in the Mycological Research in 2019, long-term exposure to these toxic molds has been linked to respiratory problems, cognitive dysfunction, and weak immune systems. So there's several types of molds.
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we know that mold can be found indoors or outdoors but it's the indoor mold that is the bigger concern for human health due to the closed environments and the prolonged exposure long-term mold exposure can weaken the immune system actually making you more susceptible to infections remember mold detox isn't about just cleaning up your environment it's about creating a safe space for your body to heal and i know a lot of people just don't talk about mold mycotoxins and their exposure and what happens is
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There are molds that are allergenic, and these molds, such as aspergillus and penicillin, may cause allergic reactions, but typically don't pose long-term health risks. There are toxic molds. These molds, like Stachyboitris, Stachyboitris chardum, known as black mold, produce mycotoxins that are harmful when inhaled or when they're touched.
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So mycotoxins can lead to a wide range of health problems, from neurological issues to immune suppression. A report in the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences emphasizes that mycotoxins can contribute to chronic inflammation, fatigue, and even neurodegenerative conditions.
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We know that mold can be found indoors or outdoors, but it's the indoor mold that is the bigger concern for human health due to the closed environments and the prolonged exposure. So let's look at where mold tends to grow. So outdoors, mold is naturally occurring outdoors in areas with high moisture, such as forests or marshes and gardens.
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And mold plays an essential ecological role by breaking down organic materials like fallen leaves and dead trees and turning them into organic matter. Indoor mold grows in areas where moisture is present, poor ventilation exists, or there's water damage.
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The most common places for mold indoors include your bathrooms, due to the constant moisture in showers, sinks, and tubs, so bathrooms are prime spots for mold growth. Kitchens are another hotspot, with moisture from cooking and dishwashing creating the perfect environment for mold.
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Basements and crawl spaces are also areas that tend to be cooler and more humid, making them ideal breeding grounds for mold. Attics and heating and ventilation systems where poor ventilation can cause mold to thrive. This is where mold can even grow in your HVAC system and it can spread throughout your entire home.
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Exposure to mold can lead to a wide range of health issues, especially if it's toxic mold or if exposure is prolonged. So here's what mold exposure can do to your body. Respiratory issues. Mold exposure can irritate the respiratory system. This leads to chronic asthma, chronic sinusitis, coughing, wheezing.
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And according to a study in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, mold exposure is a significant risk factor for respiratory issues, particularly in individuals with preexisting asthma or allergies. There are even neurologic symptoms. Mold exposure, particularly to black mold, has been linked to cognitive dysfunction, brain fog, headaches, and even memory loss.
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A study published in Frontiers in Public Health in 2019 highlighted that individuals exposed to mold reported symptoms like fatigue, difficulty concentrating, and mood disturbances. And then there's skin irritation. Mold exposure can cause skin rashes, allergic reactions, or even infections in the skin.
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The molded spores or mycotoxins that irritate the skin do so by triggering conditions like eczema. So then there's the immune system suppression. Long-term mold exposure can weaken the immune system, actually making you more susceptible to infections. Studies include one from the Cleveland Clinic, which shows that mold mycotoxins disrupt the immune response and cause chronic inflammation.
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What does this do? It contributes to autoimmune conditions. If you find mold in your home, it's important to address it immediately. There is no chance that you can detoxify from mold exposure until you address the environment that started it. Prolonged mold exposure can lead to serious health consequences. So taking action is crucial. So first identify the mold source.
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The first step is to find the source of the moisture and mold can only grow where there's consistent moisture. So fixing leaks or water damage is the key to preventing further mold growth once you've remediated it. Mold testing. If you're unsure whether or not you have mold, it's hidden behind walls or under floors, consider hiring a mold testing professional.
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So tools like moisture readers and infrared cameras actually help them detect mold, maybe even behind the walls that are not visible. Now you have to remove the mold. For small mold infestations, you can clean it yourself using non-toxic solutions. But research shows that natural cleaners can be effective. Things like vinegar, according to a study published in the Scientific Reports.
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Vinegar's antifungal properties killed nearly every form and a strain of mold. Hydrogen peroxide. The Journal of Environmental Health research showed that hydrogen peroxide effectively kills mold on hard surfaces. And then there's baking soda. This natural scrub can help remove mold from surfaces without the use of harsh chemicals.
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However, for large infestations, especially if it's black mold, it's recommended to consult a professional mold remediation service. Toxic molds need to be handled with care to prevent spreading spores or even further exposure to you or your family. Prevent future mold growth. How do you do this?
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Well, after you've dealt with the immediate mold exposure, the next step is to prevent mold from growing again. Some important steps that you could take. Primarily, fix the leaks. Immediately repair leaks and water damage in areas like the roof, walls, and pipes. You can also improve ventilation.
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Make sure your home is properly ventilated, especially in areas that are prone to this type of moisture.
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so use exhaust fans in the kitchen and bathrooms and consider a dehumidifier to reduce moisture levels especially if you're in an area of the country that has basements use mold resistant materials when renovating use mold resistant paint drywall and insulation in high moisture areas like basements and bathrooms and while professional mold remediation is necessary for large infestations there are natural alternatives to handle small mold problems
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Research supports their effectiveness in controlling mold growth. Tea tree oil. A study in Letters and Applied Microbiology found that tea tree oil's antifungal properties can be used to inhibit mold growth, especially on porous surfaces. And then there's citrus seed extract.
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According to a study in International Biodeterioration and Biodegradation, citrus seed extract has been shown to kill a variety of mold species. Neem oil. This oil has antifungal properties and studies suggest it's effective at controlling mold on various surfaces. Mold may be small, but its impact on your health can be huge.
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If you find mold in your home, take immediate action by identifying and eliminating the moisture source, cleaning the affected areas with natural alternatives, and preventing future growth. It's also essential to support your body's detoxification pathways to ensure that mold doesn't affect your health.
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Mold isn't just something that makes your home smell musty. When it comes to your health, mold exposure can have serious consequences. Take it from me, I happen to live in the mold capital of the world in Miami, Florida. Whether you've noticed a damp area in your basement or you've been feeling sick and you don't know why, mold might be the hidden culprit.
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Remember, mold detox isn't about just cleaning up your environment, it's about creating a safe space for your body to heal. So in our clinic system, we've treated lots of patients that have had mold, and primarily what we do is a three-step process. The number one and most important, and I wouldn't do anything else until you complete step number one, because if you don't complete step number one,
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Nothing else matters. And that is get yourself out of the environment where the mold exposure existed. If you can't remove yourself from the environment, you need to remediate the mold with a professional mold service in that environment because if you're still getting the spores and the mold and the mycotoxins into your respiratory system, there is zero chance that you will detox.
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Number two, activate your own natural detox pathways. And what do we mean by natural detox pathways? Well, sweat is number one. The more often and frequent you can get into a dry sauna and actually sweat for 20 minutes a day, the better you will actually eliminate these toxins. There's recent studies actually showing that all kinds of things come out when you get into a dry sauna.
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Not only is it good at extending life, and reducing cardiovascular risk, but it also is one of the best waste elimination pathways that the body has. So many of us, especially in the winter months, just don't sweat anymore. So if you can find yourself a dry sauna or you have one in your house, this is a great place for you to start the natural detoxification pathways.
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I'm gonna do a whole nother podcast short on the types of things that come out in our sweat, but we're finding glyphosates, herbicides, pesticides, insecticides, Some preservatives coming out through the skin, and it's a great way to begin the detoxification process from mold. Number two, our clinical team usually puts people on something called glutathione. Glutathione is an antioxidant.
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It actually resides inside of every single cell in your body. That's right. Every cell in your body contains glutathione. This is an antioxidant that is made from amino acids in your liver. It's produced by the body and very often increasing your exposure to glutathione can help with your detoxification pathways. I use one that is called Gluteral.
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It's a topical spray that you actually spray on the softer areas of your skin. So areas that would otherwise touch if you were not wearing clothing, which happens to be excellent ways to get the glutathione compound into the blood.
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There's also liposomal glutathione, and there's some great brands of oral forms of glutathione out there, but it is excellent for strengthening your detoxification pathways. And then finally, you can actually begin the mold detoxification process. There are lots of mold detox protocols out there.
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What I will caution you against is starting a mold detox protocol before you have activated your body's own detox pathway. glutathione, hydration, removing the mold exposure, and sauna are essential to your own natural detox pathway. So harness those options first and then begin a mold detox. So I'll tell you about a personal experience that we had.
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Today, we're diving into how mold affects your health, how to detox from it, and what you can do to start feeling better. So let's get into it. Welcome back to the Ultimate Human Podcast, the place where small, intentional steps lead to big health transformations.
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My wife and I own two small homes in Naples, Florida, both of which were destroyed not once but twice by hurricanes. We had 36 inches at one time, and we had almost five feet the second time. The drywall was soaked. All our kitchen cabinets were soaked. The floorboards were pulled up off of the bottom. We did remediate the mold.
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We noticed that when we went back into the house, it still had the strong, pungent smell of mold. Unfortunately, my wife, Sage, spent lots of time with our youngest daughter in the house, removing personal items and trying to get the mess cleaned up. And we did some respiratory studies on her. She wasn't really feeling well. She had some headaches. She had some digestive issues.
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She was beginning to have hormone dysregulation. So a blood test confirmed high exposure to mold mycotoxins. So I'll just tell you what we did just as a way of being transparent. We used something called ozone and there are several ways that you can get ozone.
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You can get ozone intravenously by having a qualified practitioner inject ozone gas into an IV bag that has your blood in it and putting it back in the body. You can do something called EBU, which is cycling your blood through a filter, which contains ozone. You can do something called 10-pass ozone. And there are even machines, I have one in my house called a HOCATT, H-O-C-A-T-T.
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And these machines put ozone transdermally through the skin. So if you've had mold exposure, and you don't want the IVs or you don't want to be stuck with a needle, Google around and find a clinic that has a HOCATT, H-O-C-A-T-T, and you can do transdermal ozone under the guidance of a qualified practitioner.
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And these are excellent ways to detox, not just from mold, but also from the mycotoxins, viral pathogens, and often even heavy metals. So we used a combination of regular sauna, glutathione IVs, and regular ozone IVs, and transdermal ozone, and we were able to get the mold and mycotoxin levels all the way down. I also have an air filter in my house that filters down to 0.3 microns.
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I'll put a link to the one that I use in the bottom of the show notes if you're interested. But this will not only filter the mold, mycotoxins, the spores out of the air, but it has an ozone setting on the air filter. So when you leave the room, You hit this setting, you can run it for 15 minutes, 12 hours, 24 hours, or 48 hours.
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I'm Gary Brekka, your host, and today we're addressing a major health threat that's often overlooked and doctors don't check for it, and that's mold exposure. You've probably heard about it, but mold exposure can go unnoticed for a long time before it starts causing noticeable health issues.
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Remember, you don't want to have anything living in the house when you run the ozone. You don't want to have pets or kids or your in-laws or any kind of animals in little cages like hamsters or anything like that because ozone will kill everything. However, as soon as the air clears, it's perfectly safe to go back in your home and the ozone gas will
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even kill mold and mycotoxins and spores on the back of your drywall if you actually have a subfloor like a wooden subfloor it can even kill termites under your subfloor so it's an excellent way to really saturate the house with something that is safe when you're not directly exposed to it and you can re-enter the house immediately i'm not a huge fan of using these bombs that they have that have
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really, really harsh chemicals, lots of forever chemicals that have a tendency to last for days or weeks or even months after you bomb the house with them. The nice thing about ozone gas is that it will permeate your ventilation system. It'll get into your HVAC. It'll go through the coils in your ventilation system.
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I went the next psycho step of even adding HEPA filtration with carbon, with a charcoal filter. And then I installed these UVA and UVB light filtration devices right in the flume where the air passes up into the air handler. The reason why I took such extreme measures is because we live in Miami, so we're kind of in the mold capital of the world.
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If you live in the Midwest or cooler climates, probably not necessary to go that far, but if you've had regular moisture in your basement, might be nice for you to think about looking at these UVA, UVB filters that go into your HVAC system
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adding charcoal filter and HEPA filtration to your filtration system and remember to check the coils in your HVAC that is a favorite spot for mold we think because there's heat and cold in those areas that we wouldn't get mold in there and that's exactly where we actually found the mold in our home So UVA, UVB light, if you actually have the mold remediated, you can get an air filter.
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Again, I'll put the link to the one that I use. You can run ozone gas in the house. You can even rent these ozone misters. You can even get them on Amazon. They're not very expensive. You want to fully remediate the mold and then start your natural detox process using ozone transdermally, intravenously, talking to a qualified practitioner about glutathione IVs or transdermal glutathione IVs.
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Maybe you've upgraded your beans. Maybe you're using organic. Maybe you're grinding your coffee fresh, but then you pour in your creamer. And what you may not realize is that one little splash, it's a metabolic wrecking ball. It's the most damaging thing in your entire morning routine. This isn't just about coffee.
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And like many people trying to get healthier, maybe you've upgraded your beans, maybe you're using organic, maybe you're grinding your coffee fresh, but then you pour in your creamer. And what you may not realize is that one little splash, it's a metabolic wrecking ball. It's the most damaging thing in your entire morning routine because the average coffee creamer is not even food.
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It's a chemistry experiment of synthetic flavorings, blood sugar bombs, seed oils, and gut-disrupting emulsifiers. And the worst part, it's being sold to you as a health product. So today we're pulling back the curtain. I'm going to walk you through what's really inside the most popular creamers, and we'll talk the science, we'll talk gut health, blood sugar, mood cravings, and even kids.
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And then I'll show you what to use instead. This is a deep dive. Trust me, it's going to change the way you start your day. Let's start with the big picture. Coffee creamer has become a $5 billion global industry. How? By disguising itself as dairy. But it's not dairy. In fact, most non-dairy creamers have absolutely nothing to do with milk.
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It's about waking up to what you're putting in your body because your body's not a science experiment. Let's start thinking of our body like a temple. Coffee creamer has become a $5 billion global industry. How? By disguising itself as dairy. But it's not dairy. In fact, most non-dairy creamers have absolutely nothing to do with milk.
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They're emulsified seed oils mixed with sugar, stabilizers, and lab-made flavoring agents. Some even have synthetic vitamins thrown in just so the label can say, fortified. This didn't happen by accident. This happened by design. Back in the 1960s, the war on fat began. Saturated fat and cholesterol were wrongfully blamed for heart disease. So companies like Nestle and Dannon saw an opening.
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They launched non-dairy creamers, filled with hydrogenated oils and corn syrup solids, and they marketed these as heart-healthy, and they were modern. They were cheaper to produce, had a really long shelf life, and were made in labs, not on dairy farms. When the science finally caught up and trans fats were outdated as dangerous, the creamer companies just pivoted again. They went vegan. They went
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plant-based. They switched to sunflower oil, canola oil, and oat milks. And they leaned hard into branding, clean fonts, calming colors, and buzzwords like gluten-free, cholesterol-free, and no artificial flavors, even when the last one was a lie. So let's break it down. What's actually in these bottles? Let's start with Coffee Mate French Vanilla. one of the top sellers in the country.
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Here's what's in it. Corn syrup solids, hydrogenated vegetable oil, mono and diglycerides, sodium caseinate, carrageen, artificial flavors, and cellulose gum. That's not food. That's an inflammatory bomb. Corn syrup solids spike your blood sugar worse than glucose. They actually cause a rise in insulin faster than straight blood glucose. The glycemic index is 130, and that is a metabolic disaster.
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Hydrogenated oils are trans fats, still present in trace amounts. These fats damage arterial walls, disrupt mitochondrial function, and increase the risk of heart disease. And then there's carrageen, a very common thickener, and it's been linked in multiple studies to gut lining inflammation, IBS-like symptoms, and insulin resistance.
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According to the NIH, carrageen can exacerbate intestinal permeability, which can trigger autoimmune issues in vulnerable people and is the definition of leaky gut. And then you have artificial flavors, which are proprietary chemical blends. The FDA allows these formulas to be hidden from consumers, meaning you have no idea what's actually in them. Now let's look at Silk Oat Creamer.
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This one's marketed as a clean, vegan, and heart-healthy. Sounds great, until you realize the oats are loaded with maltose, a sugar that spikes glucose even faster than table sugar. Combine that with cane sugar and sunflower oil, and you've got a triple threat. Blood sugar instability, oxidative stress from seed oils, and gut disruption from gallon gum. What about Khalifa Farms Almond Creamer?
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Looks sleek, minimalist, non-GMO, but it's made with sunflower oil, guar gum, locust bean gum, and natural flavors, all emulsifiers, all additives, and all gut irritants. A recent review in Frontiers in Nutrition showed that these kinds of emulsifiers thin the mucus lining of your gut, disrupting your gut microbiome, and can actually trigger systemic inflammation. Even the clean ones like nut pods,
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They still contain gel and gum, sunflower lecithin, and natural flavors. Better? Maybe. Clean? Not really. So what's the big deal? Let me break it down across four systems. Metabolic systems. These creamers drive blood sugar spikes. Whether it's oat milk, cane sugar, or corn syrup solids, the result is the same elevated glucose and insulin overproduction.
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They're emulsified seed oils mixed with sugar, stabilizers, lab-made flavoring agents, and gut-disrupting emulsifiers. And the worst part, it's being sold to you as a health product. These fake creamers alter dopamine secret. The sugar plus the fat plus the synthetic flavor combo lights up your brain's reward system, just like junk food does. That means more cravings, more crashes, less clarity.
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This is what leads to fat storage, crashes, and even cravings. Over time, this contributes to insulin resistance. This is the precursor to type 2 diabetes and metabolic syndrome. And then if we look at gut health, emulsifiers like carrageen, gel and gum, and mono and diglycerides disrupt the gut lining. They thin this mucus barrier and they allow pathogens to enter the bloodstream directly.
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This is called leaky gut and it can lead to food intolerances, brain fog, joint pain, even autoimmune diseases. And then if we look at our hormonal disruption, seed oils are high in something called linoleic acid, an omega-6 fatty acid that oxidizes rapidly. This interferes with cell signaling, reduces testosterone production, and blunts thyroid hormone output.
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Studies in endocrinology show a direct correlation between high linoleic intake and low androgen levels in men. And then if we look at the neurological issues, these fake creamers alter dopamine signaling. The sugar plus the fat plus the synthetic flavor combo lights up your brain's reward system, just like junk food does. That means more cravings, more crashes, less clarity.
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And over time, this affects mood regulation and mental resilience. This isn't happening by accident, guys. This is an engineered addiction. Companies create what's called a bliss point, a precise ratio between sugar, fat, and mouthfeel that triggers dopamine and makes you feel good temporarily. Then it leaves you needing more.
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They use lab formulated flavorings to override your body's natural satiety signals. They also use tiny serving sizes like one tablespoon on the label to under report the sugar and fat, but no one's using just one tablespoon. You're pouring three to five tablespoons into a cup of coffee, maybe even more. That turns five grams of sugar into 20 grams before you even start breakfast.
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So here's where it gets truly disturbing. We're often giving this stuff to our kids. Pumpkin spice creamers, for example, flavored oat milk lattes, fun vanilla flavored almond drinks. The next generation is being conditioned to consume emulsified oils and synthetic sweeteners before they even hit puberty.
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According to the Journal of Pediatric Obesity, kids today are consuming five times more omega-6 linoleic acid than kids just 30 years ago. You combine that with sugar and emulsifiers, and we've got an epidemic of childhood metabolic dysfunction, and no one's talking about it. You didn't need to give up coffee. You just needed to upgrade your creamer. Here's what I recommend.
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If you can, start with raw milk. It contains natural enzymes, lactase, and even probiotics. It's rich in fat-soluble vitamins like A, D, and vitamin K2, which actually support immune function and hormone balance. I also use coconut creamers. You can actually buy organic Thai coconut creamer right in your grocery store.
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It's inexpensive, and if you like that creamy mouthfeel in your coffee, try an organic coconut creamer. Add a touch of raw honey, not pasteurized, not filtered. Raw honey contains antibacterial compounds, antioxidants, and it doesn't spike insulin the way that sugar does. If you can tolerate dairy, go with grass-fed heavy cream and pure maple syrup.
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Heavy cream provides clean, saturated fat, which stabilizes blood sugar. And maple syrup has compounds like quebecol, which are anti-inflammatory and loaded with minerals. Or keep it simple, black coffee and cinnamon. Improves insulin sensitivity and reduces your post-meal glucose spikes. Want a pre-made solution? I use the Alka-Mind Norotropic Creamer. Salted caramel or vanilla are my favorite.
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There's no seed oils, no sugar, just functional fats, norotropics, and adaptogens to fuel your body. So here's my challenge to you. Tomorrow morning, flip the bottle, read the label. Ask yourself, would I eat these ingredients off of a spoon? If not, stop drinking them, guys. Your body's not a science experiment. Your metabolism, your gut, your brain, your hormones, these are sacred.
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And over time, this affects mood regulation and mental resilience. What's actually in these bottles? Let's start with... If you're watching or listening to this episode, there's a pretty good chance you drink coffee. What if I told you in your morning routine you're starting off with something like liquid sugar, carrageens, rapeseed oil, or di-potassium phosphate?
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Let's protect them. Let's start thinking of our body like a temple. Start your day with real fuel. Start your day like an ultimate human, because this isn't just about coffee. It's about waking up to what you're putting in your body. And once you know, you can't unknow.
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I'm Gary Brekka, and if you'd love to know what my wife and I do every morning to start our day, how we hydrate, mineralize, what we put in our coffees, what supplements we take, head over to theultimatehuman.com forward slash VIP, sign up to be one of my VIPs, and we can do live Q&As where I answer all
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all of your questions, do private podcasts, and even give discounts to all of my members on all of the products that we use. And that's just science.
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Well, you might not think that you're drinking it, but you are. Today, we're gonna go down the road of everything coffee creamer because we are putting so many things in our coffee that are harming our cellular biology. It's the fuel that gets our engines running.
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132. Seed Oils: The Cooking Oils in Your Kitchen Could Be Fueling Cancer (UCLA Study)
What if I told you that one of the secrets to better health, reducing inflammation, and even slowing down cancer growth could lie in something as simple as fats? The fats you consume, especially seed oils, could either be fueling disease or protecting your body. Seed oils are vegetable oils that come from seeds like canola, sunflower, soybean, corn, and cottonseed.
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They last a long time and they're found in so many of our processed foods. But what most people don't realize is that these oils may be playing a dangerous role in fueling inflammation, chronic disease, and even cancer.
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In today's episode, we're going to break down the science behind seed oils, the omega-6 to omega-3 ratio, and why getting this balance right is so crucial for your long-term health. Plus, we'll dive into a study that shows just how powerful the right fats can be in reducing cancer progression.
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And of course, I'll give you practical, actionable steps you can start using today to balance your fats and optimize your health. First things first. What exactly are seed oils? Seed oils are vegetable oils that come from seeds like canola, sunflower, soybean, corn, and cottonseed. These oils are rich in omega-6 fatty acids, which in moderation are essential for our bodies.
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These are involved in cell structure, energy production, and even hormone regulation. The problem is, however, that these omega-6 fatty acids are overrepresented in the modern diet, largely due to the widespread use of seed oils in processed foods, fried foods, and even in many home kitchens. Here's where things get tricky. Omega-6s and omega-3s, essential fatty acids,
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need to be in balance, but the average Western diet is overloaded with omega-6s, with the ratio between omega-6 and omega-3 often as high as 15 to 1 or even 20 to 1. Ideally, this ratio should be around 1 to 1 for optimal health, equal amounts of omega-3s and equal amounts of omega-6s.
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These oils are rich in omega-6 fatty acids. One of the most concerning areas of research is the connection between seed oils, omega-6s, and cancer, specifically prostate cancer. When you consume too many omega-6 fatty acids and not enough omega-3s, it triggers a state of chronic inflammation. Chronic inflammation weakens our tissues. It impairs our immune function.
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When you consume too many omega-6 fatty acids and not enough omega-3s, it triggers a state of chronic inflammation, which is at the root of many of our chronic diseases, including heart disease, diabetes, arthritis, and yes, even cancer. Now you might be asking, why is this imbalance so dangerous? Omega-6 fatty acids promote inflammation. Inflammation isn't inherently bad.
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It's part of your body's natural defense system. But when you have too much of it, your body systems start to break down. Chronic inflammation weakens our tissues, it impairs our immune function, and it creates the perfect environment for diseases like cancer to grow and thrive. Seed oils, being high in omega-6s, are a significant driver of this inflammation.
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The Western diet, which is often high in processed foods, fast food, and packaged snacks, is packed with omega-6s and very low in omega-3s, the anti-inflammatory counterpart to omega-6 fatty acids. When omega-6s outweigh omega-3s, it creates a vicious cycle that can lead to a range of chronic diseases, including cancer.
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One of the most concerning areas of research is the connection between seed oils, omega-6s, and cancer, specifically prostate cancer. This is where things get truly eye-opening. Dr. William Aronson at UCLA conducted a study that explored how different types of dietary fats affect prostate cancer growth. The study followed 100 men with early-stage prostate cancer for one year.
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These men were divided into two groups. One group consumed a diet high in omega-3 fatty acids and low in omega-6s, focusing on foods like wild-caught salmon, walnuts, and flax seeds, and reducing seed oils. The second group maintained a typical Western diet, rich in omega-6s. The results were striking. The omega-3 group showed a 15% decrease in tumor aggressiveness.
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The control group, which stuck to the standard Western diet, had a 24% increase in tumor growth markers. This study confirmed what we've been saying all along. The types of fats you consume truly do affect cancer progression.
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Omega-3s found in foods like fatty fish and flax seeds have a protective effect, counteracting inflammation, whereas omega-6s, commonly found in seed oils, promote tumor growth. So what's actually happening at a cellular level when you eat these fats? Here's how it works. Inflammation. When you consume too much omega-6, it promotes chronic inflammation.
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Inflammation is like a wildfire in your body, damaging tissues and lowering your immune defense. This creates an environment where cancer can thrive, as the immune system is too weakened to fight abnormal cells and gobble them up right out of your bloodstream. A study in Cancer Research in 2020
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found that omega-6 fatty acids activate inflammatory pathways, such as the COX-2 enzyme, which accelerates cancer growth. When we look at tumor growth specifically, inflammation causes tissue damage, suppresses the immune response, and promotes angiogenesis, the growth of new blood vessels to feed tumors. Omega-6s in excess fuel this cycle, allowing tumors to grow and spread unchecked.
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Now let's talk about omega-3 benefits. Omega-3s, on the other hand, have anti-inflammatory properties. These fatty acids reduce the production of pro-inflammatory cytokines and help the body's immune system stay strong. By incorporating omega-3s into your diet, you essentially are putting out the fire that the omega-6s start.
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Let's take a closer look at some of the serious health risks tied to consuming too much omega-6 in the form of seed oils. When looking at cancer progression, studies have consistently shown that high omega-6 intake accelerates tumor growth, especially in cancers like prostate, colon, and breast.
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The Journal of Clinical Investigation in 2019 reported that excess omega-6s lead to increased inflammation, which is directly linked to more aggressive forms of cancer behavior. If we look at chronic inflammation, the imbalance between omega-6 and omega-3 promotes systemic inflammation, which is the root cause of many of our chronic diseases.
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and it creates the perfect environment for diseases like cancer to grow and thrive. Inflammation is like a wildfire in your body, damaging tissues and lowering your immune defense. But what most people don't realize is that What if I told you that one of the secrets to better health, reducing inflammation, and even slowing down cancer growth could lie in something as simple as fats? It's true.
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Research in Cleveland Clinic found that chronic inflammation due to excess omega-6s was linked to heart disease, diabetes, and autoimmune conditions. What about our weakened immune response? High omega-6 consumption can impair immune function, making it harder for your body to fight cancer and other diseases.
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This is a critical concern, especially in cancer treatment, where immune function plays a pivotal role in fighting abnormal cells. Now let's talk about the good news. There's so much you can do to reduce the risk of chronic disease, including cancer, by adjusting your fat intake. What about reducing inflammation? Balancing your omega-6 to omega-3 intake helps reduce systemic inflammation.
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In fact, a study in the Frontiers of Physiology in 2022 found that reducing omega-6s while increasing omega-3s significantly lowers inflammation, improving overall health, and reducing chronic disease risk. What if we were talking about slowing cancer growth? Diets rich in omega-3s help slow the progression of tumors and reduce cancer growth markers.
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The UCLA study showed that those who reduced omega-6s and increased omega-3s saw slower tumor growth, demonstrating the protective effects of omega-3s on cancer. What about improving our metabolic health? Reducing seed oils and increasing omega-3s supports better weight management, reduces obesity-related risks, and improves metabolic function.
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The Cleveland Clinic has even shown that omega-3 rich diets improve fat metabolism, helping manage weight loss and prevent metabolic syndrome. Balancing omega-6 to omega-3 fatty acid intake doesn't have to be complicated. Here's some simple and effective steps you can take right away. Replace your seed oils with healthier alternatives. So let's talk about cooking oils.
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Swap out seed oils like canola, soybean, and sunflower for oils like olive oil and avocado oil or coconut oil. These oils are low in omega six and more heart healthy fats. Personally, I use four oils in my kitchen to cook with either a beef tallow, a grass fed butter, a ghee butter or coconut oil. These have very high smoke points and they don't denature at high temperatures.
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Let's talk about what foods we can prioritize. Make omega-3 rich foods like wild-caught salmon, mackerel, walnuts, and flax seeds, even chia seeds, the centerpiece of your diet. And avoid omega-6 processed foods. So stay away from fried foods, packaged snacks, and baked goods that contain high amounts of seed oils. Start to read the labels.
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Always check ingredient labels for hidden seed oils like corn, soybean, or sunflower. You'll be shocked how many places these show up. And what about anti-inflammatory foods? Well, if we focus on green leafy vegetables, cruciferous vegetables like broccoli and berries to fight inflammation naturally, we're well on our way to adding the right foods to our diet.
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These foods are packed with antioxidants and vital nutrients that support your body's healing process. What about some actionable steps you could start today? Let's go to your kitchen. Swap out the seed oils for olive oil or avocado oil when cooking. My preference would be grass-fed tallow, ghee butter, grass-fed butter, or even a coconut oil.
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Stock up on omega-3 rich foods like salmon, walnuts, and flax seeds. And while you're shopping, check your labels for seed oils and packaged foods. Avoid anything with corn, soy, or sunflower oil. And choose whole, unprocessed foods over prepackaged options. How about at mealtime? At mealtime, you could add walnuts or chia seeds to your salads, your smoothies, or your oatmeal.
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You can pair fatty fish with leafy greens for a nutrient-packed anti-inflammatory meal. And we can also educate ourselves. We can learn about the omega-6 to omega-3 ratio and how it impacts our health. Consult with a nutritionist or functional medicine practitioner if you want further personalized guidance, but reducing seed oils isn't just about cutting out something.
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It's about giving your body the tools it needs to thrive. By balancing your omega-6 to omega-3 intake, you can fight inflammation, slow disease progression, and take control of your health. It's not about being perfect, guys. It's about making smarter choices every single day. And remember, small changes can lead to big impacts. It's never too late to start.
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The fats you consume, especially seed oils, could either be fueling disease or protecting your body. Today, we're diving into the science behind seed oils, omega-3s, and how they're linked to prostate cancer. We'll explore why balancing these fats could be a game changer for your and your family's health. And I'll even show you how you can start making changes today. So let's get into it.
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Welcome back to the Ultimate Human Podcast, guys. I'm your host, Gary Brekka, human biologist. And today we're tackling a topic that could seriously change the way you think about food and fat. Seed oils, omega-3 fatty acids, and they're linked to prostate cancer. You see, seed oils like canola, soybean, sunflower, safflower, and corn oil are everywhere and they're super cheap.
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The modern world has introduced tens of thousands of new chemicals into our air, our water, food, and most of which our ancestors never even encountered. Today, we're breaking down one of the most misunderstood, controversial, and essential topics in all of health optimization. Detoxification.
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Your body is dealing with more biological noise, more toxins, more disruption, more internal chaos than at any other point in human history. So let's get started. What is detoxification really? Detox isn't some radical cleanse. It's not starving yourself. It's not living off lemon juice and cayenne pepper.
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Detoxification is a critical biological process that your body's doing right now, every second of the day. It's your body identifying, neutralizing, and eliminating harmful substances, chemicals, heavy metals, molds, toxins, pesticides, plastics, pollutants, even metabolic waste. The organs involved? Your liver, kidneys, gut, skin, lungs, and your lymphatic system.
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These are your built-in purification plants. But here's the problem. We weren't designed for the toxic burden we're under today. So who needs detox? The short answer? everyone. But here's how you know your body is asking for detox.
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You wake up tired even after a full night's sleep, or you have brain fog or short-term memory issues, or you have chronic skin conditions like eczema, acne, or even psoriasis, hormonal imbalances like irregular menstrual cycles or a low libido, or you have digestive issues that are unexplained like bloating, constipation, diarrhea, cramping, and irritability, or even increased food sensitivities.
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Detoxification is a critical biological process that your body's doing right now every second of the day. It's your body identifying, neutralizing, and eliminating harmful substances. But if you want to thrive in this modern world, you need to actively support it. Detox isn't some radical cleanse. It's not living off lemon juice and cayenne pepper. Real detox requires a strategy.
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or you're suffering from anxiety, irritability, or mood swings. If you have joint pain or inflammation, or even swelling in random areas of your body, these are not random. They're signals your body is waving the white flag, telling you it's overwhelmed. Why detoxing is more important now than ever before. Here's the truth. We're living in a toxic soup.
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We are bathing our cellular biology in this toxic soup. The modern world has introduced tens of thousands of new chemicals into our air, our water, our food, even our environment, and most of which our ancestors never even encountered. So let me break it down.
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mold toxins from water-damaged buildings and contaminated foods, heavy metals like mercury, lead, and aluminum in our water, our air, our fillings, and even our cookware, pesticides and herbicides on non-organic produce, hello, glyphosate, plastics and phthalates in our food packaging, cosmetics in our water bottles, endocrine-disrupting chemicals in personal care products and cleaning products, there's air pollutants from industrial emissions and vehicle exhaust, even EMFs from our devices, Wi-Fi and smart tech,
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And when your body can't eliminate them fast enough, those toxins get stored in fat, in brain tissue, and in your organs. That's when damage begins. So let's go into the history of detoxing. Detoxing isn't new, it's ancient.
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Ayurvedic medicine, one of the oldest forms of medicine known to mankind, traditional Chinese medicine, Hippocratic medicine, they all emphasize detoxing the body of impurities. Oil pulling, for example, is an ancient Ayurvedic detox for oral pathogens. Sweat ceremonies, indigenous sweat lodges to purge impurities. Fasting, used for centuries to give the body a metabolic reset.
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Even Hippocrates said, illness do not come upon us out of the blue. They are developed from small daily sins against nature. And many of those sins are the toxins we're exposed to daily. Modern science has finally caught up to what ancient wisdom always knew. So now it's time for the science on detox. There are two main phases of detoxification that happen in your liver.
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Phase one, your liver uses enzymes to transform toxins into intermediate metabolites. Then during phase two, those metabolites are bound to other molecules so they can be excreted safely. But if phase one outpaces phase two, your body ends up with highly reactive compounds floating around doing a lot of damage. So to support both phases, your body needs things like glutathione,
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N-acetylcysteine, or called NAC, B vitamins, magnesium, amino acids, and antioxidants. If you're deficient in these, your detox system stalls. That's when the symptoms show up. That's when chronic illness kicks in. Now, what are we detoxing from today? Let's be real. We're not just detoxing from junk food or a weekend bender.
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We're detoxing from mold, mycotoxins, heavy metals, mercury, lead, and aluminum, BPAs, phthalates, and microplastics, pesticides and glyphosate, the fluoride and chlorine I always talk about in our water, VOCs, which are volatile organic chemicals in paints, carpets, and air fresheners, EMFs and blue light disrupting our sleep and our circadian rhythm, our medications and our prescription residue, which is stored in our tissues,
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Even stress creates metabolic waste. Cortisol leaves a byproduct load your body has to clear. And for some people, especially those with the MTHFR gene mutation I talk about all the time or sluggish detox enzymes, this toxic load builds up faster than their body can handle. Okay, so here's how to actually detox the right way. This is where most people get it wrong.
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Detoxing isn't a trend, it's biology. And it's right now. Your body is dealing with more biological noise, more toxins, more disruption than at any other point in human history. And when your body can't eliminate them fast enough, Welcome back to The Ultimate Human.
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Detox isn't about going cold turkey off of caffeine or on a juice cleanse. Real detox requires a strategy. Here's the five-step process I use with private clients and elite athletes. Number one, I open the drainage pathways. You can't flush toxins unless your liver, gut, kidneys, skin, and your lymph are moving. That means hydration, movement, and daily bowel movements.
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You have to support the liver and the lymph system using things like milk thistle, NAC, dandelion, and bitters. Dry brushing, rebounding, sauna therapy. These are all ways to activate your natural detox pathways. The third thing we do is we bind the toxins. You combine these with things like activated charcoal, bentonite clay, zeolite, or chlorella.
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166. How to Detox Your Body Naturally and Feel Energized FAST!
These are sponges that trap toxins and escort them out of the body. The fourth thing you can do is sweat it out. Infrared sauna and dry saunas are powerful for releasing fat stored toxins. Two, I like to hydrate and mineralize before I get into a hot sauna. Dry saunas we have centuries of data on are excellent ways to detox and activate your natural detoxification pathways.
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166. How to Detox Your Body Naturally and Feel Energized FAST!
When you sweat, you're not just losing water and sodium, you're eliminating waste. Our liver actually uses the skin as a secondary route of waste elimination. Most of us are not heating our bodies up or sweating on a regular basis, so we're not even activating our most active detox pathway. The fifth thing I do is I rebuild.
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166. How to Detox Your Body Naturally and Feel Energized FAST!
Support mitochondria with things like CoQ10, B vitamins, and omega-3 fatty acids, which many of us are severely deficient in. And then we can heal the gut lining with things like collagen, glutamine, and probiotics. Detoxing is a lifestyle. It's not a weekend trend. Your body detoxes every single day. But if you wanna thrive in this modern world, you need to actively support it.
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166. How to Detox Your Body Naturally and Feel Energized FAST!
This means cleaning up your inputs, filtering your water. As soon as you have the wherewithal to buy an under the counter water filtration system, it's one of the best investments that you can make.
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buy organic when possible, switch to clean personal care products and household products, target eight hours of uninterrupted sleep, prioritize mental detox, cold exposure, breath work, grounding, and even silence. Here's the good news. You won't have to figure this all out alone.
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166. How to Detox Your Body Naturally and Feel Energized FAST!
I've taken all of this science, all of the strategies I use with CEOs, pro athletes, and high performance, and I built it into a simple, powerful, free three-day experience. As always, all of my challenges are free, and I built the ultimate detox challenge to answer all of these questions. You'll learn exactly how to test for mold and metals.
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166. How to Detox Your Body Naturally and Feel Energized FAST!
You'll get protocols to support your liver, your lymph, your brain, and your gut. You'll feel so much lighter, clearer, more energized, maybe for the first time in years. And it's all happening June 23rd through the 25th. So if you're tired of guessing, if you're ready to feel better fast, If you wanna take back control of your energy, your focus, and your cellular biology, go sign up now.
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Again, it's completely free, and you can join me and thousands of others for a full detox reset. Just go to the link in the show notes and take the first step. This is Gary Brekka, and you've been listening to the Ultimate Human Podcast. Stay toxin-free, stay sharp, and I'll see you at the next challenge. And until next time, that's just science.
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166. How to Detox Your Body Naturally and Feel Energized FAST!
I'm your host, human biologist, Gary Brekka, and today we're breaking down one of the most misunderstood, controversial, and essential topics in all of health optimization, detoxification. Now, before you tune out and think, oh, detoxing, it's just a wellness buzzword. I'm here to tell you, you've never heard detox like this.
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166. How to Detox Your Body Naturally and Feel Energized FAST!
We're gonna dive deep into the science, the history and the why behind detox. We'll talk about who needs detox, what we're detoxing from in today's world and how to do it effectively. And most importantly, how to know when your body is screaming for it. Because detoxing isn't a trend, it's biology. And it's right now.
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148. Better Than Cardio? How Weighted Vests Hack Your Fitness Biology
Today we're going to break down the benefits of rucking, dive deep into how a weighted vest can supercharge your workouts, and explore the science behind why this is a game changer for your health and your performance. Whether you're a busy professional trying to juggle work and fitness, a parent looking for a simple way to get in shape, this workout is for you.
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148. Better Than Cardio? How Weighted Vests Hack Your Fitness Biology
Whether you're a busy professional trying to juggle work and fitness, a parent looking for a simple way to get in shape, or someone trying to enhance their overall health without spending hours in the gym, this workout is for you. And here's the best part. All you need is a weighted vest and the willingness to put in the work.
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148. Better Than Cardio? How Weighted Vests Hack Your Fitness Biology
You can take the workouts you're already doing and get more out of doing the same workout. When I I first started incorporating a weighted vest into my workouts, the impact was immediate. I noticed improvements in my stamina, my energy levels, and my strength almost overnight. But don't just take my word for it. Let's look at the science.
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148. Better Than Cardio? How Weighted Vests Hack Your Fitness Biology
Adding weight to your walk doesn't just make it harder, it makes it smarter. Research actually shows that wearing a weighted vest during exercise, like rocking or walking, can lead to an increase in peak running speed, a 20% increase in leg stiffness, days of training. Now, you might think these numbers are small, but the long-term benefits of rucking with a weighted vest are significant.
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148. Better Than Cardio? How Weighted Vests Hack Your Fitness Biology
As we age, we lose muscle mass and our balance declines. but using a weighted vest during physical activity can help slow down or even reverse some of that decline. So the good news is that wearing a weighted vest while walking or rucking has been shown to help maintain bone density and even slow down the process of bone resorption.
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148. Better Than Cardio? How Weighted Vests Hack Your Fitness Biology
You're not just working harder, you're training smarter. These small improvements add up over time, giving you sustained performance gains without risking joint stress or even burnout. Here's where it gets really interesting. For athletes, this can be a game changer because it's not just about improving sprint time. It's also about increasing endurance.
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148. Better Than Cardio? How Weighted Vests Hack Your Fitness Biology
So whether you're sprinting, cycling, or you just want to improve your stamina, adding weight to your body while walking or rucking increases the energy expenditure required for each movement. And this leads to more efficient calorie burn and improved overall performance.
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148. Better Than Cardio? How Weighted Vests Hack Your Fitness Biology
Now let's talk about some of the physical benefits of rucking with a weighted vest that go beyond just improving your cardiovascular fitness. As we age, we lose muscle mass and our balance declines. This is called sarcopenia, but using a weighted vest during physical activity can help slow down or even reverse some of that decline.
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148. Better Than Cardio? How Weighted Vests Hack Your Fitness Biology
Moms that have been carrying their babies around in slings, you guys are doing this already. And studies have shown that 100% of individuals who use a weighted vest during physical activity experienced improvements in strength and endurance. That's compared to just 48% of older adults who didn't use a vest.
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148. Better Than Cardio? How Weighted Vests Hack Your Fitness Biology
Adding a weighted vest to your routine helps you keep your muscles strong, your posture aligned, and it also improves your balance, which is critical for avoiding falls as we get older. I actually wear this thing all day, every day, and I don't even notice that I have it on. I get compliments that it's just a vest and nobody even realizes that there's 10 or 12 pounds in here.
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148. Better Than Cardio? How Weighted Vests Hack Your Fitness Biology
For women, especially maintaining bone density is critical to long-term health. Osteoporosis is a common issue as we age, and it makes bones more fragile, increasing the risk of fractures and frailty. So the good news is that wearing a weighted vest while walking or rucking has been shown to help maintain bone density and even slow down the process of bone resorption.
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148. Better Than Cardio? How Weighted Vests Hack Your Fitness Biology
In fact, research shows that women who ruck with a weighted vest can reduce bone resorption by up to 19%. This means that adding weight to your walk isn't just about strengthening your legs or burning more calories, which it is. It's also about keeping your bones strong and resilient over time. Why not take the workouts that you're already doing, add weight, and just get more for the same benefit?
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148. Better Than Cardio? How Weighted Vests Hack Your Fitness Biology
But the benefits of rucking go beyond just physical health. There's also a significant impact on your mental well-being. Exercise in general, as everyone knows, is great for your brain, but rucking with a weighted vest takes it up a step further. The act of carrying weight forces you to engage more muscles. It requires a higher level of coordination and balance.
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148. Better Than Cardio? How Weighted Vests Hack Your Fitness Biology
This increases the brain's demand for oxygen, which enhances cognitive function and mental clarity. Studies have actually shown that regular physical activity, like rucking, improves our memory, reduces anxiety, and boosts overall mental well-being. Rucking is a simple, low impact way to reduce stress.
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148. Better Than Cardio? How Weighted Vests Hack Your Fitness Biology
This means that adding weight to your walk isn't just about strengthening your legs or burning more calories. It's also about keeping your bones strong and resilient over time. Studies have shown that 100% of individuals who use a weighted vest during physical activity experienced improvements in... Welcome back to the Ultimate Human Podcast.
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148. Better Than Cardio? How Weighted Vests Hack Your Fitness Biology
The act of being outdoors, if you've seen any of my videos, one of my favorite things to do is just put a weighted vest on and go for a walk in the Colorado mountains. My wife and I spend the summers out there. It's nice and cool.
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148. Better Than Cardio? How Weighted Vests Hack Your Fitness Biology
We're at altitude around 10,500 feet and more than any of the expensive equipment that I have in my condo in Miami, I like just putting on a weighted vest and going for a walk in the woods. The act of being outdoors, moving your body, and carrying weight has shown to help reduce cortisol levels, I've experienced that myself, and elevate endorphins, the body's natural mood boosters.
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148. Better Than Cardio? How Weighted Vests Hack Your Fitness Biology
You really want a good antidepressant? Put a weighted vest on and go for a walk in the woods. Pair that with deep, mindful breathing, and you've got a workout that not only strengthens your body, but also helps clear your mind. Let's dive into a topic that I know is on many of your minds, metabolic health.
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148. Better Than Cardio? How Weighted Vests Hack Your Fitness Biology
Weight loss, fat burning, and improving metabolic efficiency are goals for most of us, whether you're training for an athletic performance or you're aiming for just a healthier lifestyle. Research conclusively shows that wearing a weighted vest can boost your metabolism, leading to increased caloric burn and enhanced fat loss.
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148. Better Than Cardio? How Weighted Vests Hack Your Fitness Biology
This is especially true for individuals with obesity or metabolic disorders. One study found that individuals who used a weighted vest during workouts burned five times more fat compared to those who didn't. I will link that study below.
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148. Better Than Cardio? How Weighted Vests Hack Your Fitness Biology
This means that by adding a manageable load, a few pounds for women, a few more pounds for men, you can significantly enhance the fat burning effects of your exercise routine, improve your insulin sensitivity, and even combat metabolic disorders like type 2 diabetes.
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148. Better Than Cardio? How Weighted Vests Hack Your Fitness Biology
I don't mean you can cure them with a weighted vest, but we can do everything that we can to make our bodies more insulin sensitive and reduce the amount of fat that we're carrying. Now that we know the science behind rucking in weighted vests, let me share one brand that I trust and I use every day in my daily life. It's called Aion Gear, A-I-O-N.
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148. Better Than Cardio? How Weighted Vests Hack Your Fitness Biology
These vests are designed for comfort, durability, and maximum performance. The one I'm wearing, I just wear around wherever I go. I have a tighter one that I wear when I exercise. Ion vests are the go-to choice for professional athletes with teams like the Denver Nuggets, Philadelphia Eagles, and Ohio State Wrestling using them to build strength, enhance performance, and even prevent injuries.
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148. Better Than Cardio? How Weighted Vests Hack Your Fitness Biology
The Ion vest uses something called dynamic resistance technology, which provides a more comfortable and effective resistance than other vests on the market. Unlike traditional vests that put strain on your back and your neck and your shoulders, Ion Vests distribute the weight evenly and it makes it easier to maintain proper posture and get the most out of your workout.
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148. Better Than Cardio? How Weighted Vests Hack Your Fitness Biology
So whether you're rucking, hiking, or you're doing some resistance training, Ion Vests are the best choice for anyone that's looking to level up their fitness routine. Now that you understand the incredible benefits of rucking and wearing a weighted vest, which is one of my favorite go-to workouts, let's talk about how you can start incorporating it into your routine.
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148. Better Than Cardio? How Weighted Vests Hack Your Fitness Biology
Like all exercise routines, just start slow. If you're new to rucking or weight training, just start with a light load, five to seven pounds max for women and seven to 12 pounds for men. Gradually increase the weight as you build strength and endurance. You can focus on your form, Proper form is crucial when you're wearing a weighted vest or doing any kind of activity.
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148. Better Than Cardio? How Weighted Vests Hack Your Fitness Biology
So keep your posture upright, engage your core, and maintain a steady pace to get the maximum benefit while you're avoiding injury. And you can even track your progress. Keep a log of your time, distance, and the weight. Gradually increase the weight over time, increase your duration of your rucks, and push your body to improve your stamina. It's great for your VO2 max as well.
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148. Better Than Cardio? How Weighted Vests Hack Your Fitness Biology
If you're like me and you're incorporating rucking into your weekly routine, aim for two to three rucks a week to start. This frequency will help you see the benefits without overloading your body. Once you're comfortable, you can increase the frequency and the duration. I like to add variety. Change up your terrain to make your rucking sessions more challenging.
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148. Better Than Cardio? How Weighted Vests Hack Your Fitness Biology
I like being in the woods, but try taking your vest to hills or trails or to stairs and start engaging different muscle groups and keep things fresh. Pair rucking with mindfulness. Rucking's a great opportunity to clear your mind, focus on your breathing, the rhythm of your steps, and the sound of nature around you. This isn't just physical exercise, it's really therapy for your mind too.
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148. Better Than Cardio? How Weighted Vests Hack Your Fitness Biology
Whether you're an elite athlete or you're someone just looking to improve your overall health, rucking with a weighted vest is a powerful science-backed tool for achieving your fitness goals. It builds strength, it enhances endurance, it boosts your metabolism and improves mental clarity all while protecting your bones, your muscles and your joints. So what are you waiting for?
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148. Better Than Cardio? How Weighted Vests Hack Your Fitness Biology
Grab a weighted vest, start rocking, watch your body and mind transform. The science is clear. Weighted vests are the key to unlocking your full physical and mental potential. Thanks for tuning into this Ultimate Human Podcast. If you're ready to take your fitness to the next level, check out Ion Gear's weighted vest and get started today.
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148. Better Than Cardio? How Weighted Vests Hack Your Fitness Biology
I'm your host, Gary Brekka, and today we're talking about one of my favorite fitness tools that's been around for centuries, but it's gaining more and more attention in the fitness world for its incredible benefits. I'm talking about rucking, and specifically how adding weight, a weighted vest, to your routine can completely change your approach to training and help unlock your physical potential.
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148. Better Than Cardio? How Weighted Vests Hack Your Fitness Biology
Remember, strength starts with the basics, and that's just science.
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148. Better Than Cardio? How Weighted Vests Hack Your Fitness Biology
I know what many of you are probably thinking. Isn't rucking just walking around with weight? And you're right. But rucking is far more than just a simple workout. It's a science-backed full body training tool that can significantly boost your strength, improve your cardiovascular health, increase your bone density, and even sharpen your mental resilience.
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148. Better Than Cardio? How Weighted Vests Hack Your Fitness Biology
Today, we're going to break down the benefits of rucking, dive deep into how a weighted vest can supercharge your workouts, and explore the science behind why this is a game changer for your health and your performance. Before we get into the science, let's make one thing clear. Rucking isn't just for military personnel or elite athletes. It's for everyone and anyone.
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140. Q&A: Post-Chemotherapy, Metal Toxicity, Menstrual Cramps, & Fish Oil
The Q&A, which is so popular, is backed by popular demand. You asked, we're going to answer. What is the recommended daily dosage of fish oil and how can people avoid the fish burp? So I've got two answers to this. What are the best recommendations for someone experiencing severe menstrual cramps and heavy bleeding? First, I would talk to your OBGYN to see that you are having.
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140. Q&A: Post-Chemotherapy, Metal Toxicity, Menstrual Cramps, & Fish Oil
They'll thaw in your stomach and you won't get the burps. Can you recommend a trusted brand for methylated B vitamins? Well, soon I'll have my own brand out, but for right now, I get methylated B vitamins from Thorne or Pure Encapsulations or Symbiotica. Make sure they are methylated like the Thorne Methylguard Plus or that they have the methylcobalamin and the methylfolate versions of folic acid.
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140. Q&A: Post-Chemotherapy, Metal Toxicity, Menstrual Cramps, & Fish Oil
What are the best lifestyle changes and supplements to support someone recovering from chemotherapy? So I would say if you're recovering from chemotherapy, you don't want to put too much of a hormetic stress on the body. So here would be my top supplements post-recovery. Number one, VPC-157. It is a body protection compound 157. This is a gastric pentadecapeptide.
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140. Q&A: Post-Chemotherapy, Metal Toxicity, Menstrual Cramps, & Fish Oil
Very good at repairing damaged tissues, good at healing and sealing the gut. I would say that ashwagandha is a good calming supplement to take post-chemotherapy. Absolutely vitamin C. I would take the liposomal form of vitamin C or intravenous form of vitamin C. Those would be my go-tos.
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140. Q&A: Post-Chemotherapy, Metal Toxicity, Menstrual Cramps, & Fish Oil
I would also maintain adequate levels of vitamin D3, 5,000 IUs with K2 to support healthy immune function and recovery from chemotherapy, which can suppress the immune system. What are your thoughts on grounding sheets versus earthing and bare feet? And is there a difference in benefits? I always prefer getting things from Mother Nature.
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140. Q&A: Post-Chemotherapy, Metal Toxicity, Menstrual Cramps, & Fish Oil
If you can do your walks outside, I say there's always a good, better, best. Walking on a treadmill is good. It's better to walk outside. It's even best to walk outside in sunlight without sunglasses. So my thoughts on grounding sheets versus earthing is that if you can get it for free from Mother Nature, that's the best place to get it.
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140. Q&A: Post-Chemotherapy, Metal Toxicity, Menstrual Cramps, & Fish Oil
I totally understand if you're in a cold climate or it's not practical to walk outside. What are the best nutritional strategies to improve liver and gallbladder health? Well, a couple of known supplements that support liver health are milk thistle. One of my favorites is glutathione. Glutathione is actually the master antioxidant in the human body.
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140. Q&A: Post-Chemotherapy, Metal Toxicity, Menstrual Cramps, & Fish Oil
What should someone consider when addressing copper toxicity or heavy metal exposure in the body? Well, as someone who's dealt with heavy metal exposure, I have a lot of knowledge on this. So there's a number of things that you can do. What are the key supplements for lifestyle changes you'd recommend for someone battling autoimmune conditions like lupus or arthritis?
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140. Q&A: Post-Chemotherapy, Metal Toxicity, Menstrual Cramps, & Fish Oil
It resides inside of every living cell in your body. There's not one cell in your body that does not contain glutathione. which tells you how important that is to detoxification. So many people have impaired glutathione synthesis, which is done in the liver, and glutathione is also very good for your liver and improving your liver health.
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140. Q&A: Post-Chemotherapy, Metal Toxicity, Menstrual Cramps, & Fish Oil
I also might think about taking a gut binder, like an activated charcoal, a silica clay, or a zeolite. These binders help remove toxins and inflammatory compounds from
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140. Q&A: Post-Chemotherapy, Metal Toxicity, Menstrual Cramps, & Fish Oil
your body so they're great ways to support liver and gallbladder health what are your recommendations for someone experiencing severe menstrual cramps and heavy bleeding well first i would talk to your ob gyn to see that you are having normal hormone cycling second i would think about looking at your iron levels um and your
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140. Q&A: Post-Chemotherapy, Metal Toxicity, Menstrual Cramps, & Fish Oil
hemoglobin and red blood cell count to make sure that those levels are not getting anemic. So you're actually not losing so much blood that you are developing anemia. There are forms of iron that are easier on your stomach, like iron bisglycinate tends to be very easy on the stomach and doesn't constipate you.
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140. Q&A: Post-Chemotherapy, Metal Toxicity, Menstrual Cramps, & Fish Oil
My wife takes iron bisglycinate right before her menstrual cycle begins so that she avoids the loss of iron. She also craves red meat during that time. Iron bisglycinate generally is given every other day so that it doesn't build up too quickly in your system.
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140. Q&A: Post-Chemotherapy, Metal Toxicity, Menstrual Cramps, & Fish Oil
But I would actually get a full hormone panel done and I would look at whether or not you are aphasic or monophasic with your hormone cycling. I would look at supporting nutrients like DHEA and the sex hormone binding globulin, which will be in your bloodstream at high levels if you're on birth control.
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140. Q&A: Post-Chemotherapy, Metal Toxicity, Menstrual Cramps, & Fish Oil
And I would make sure that you have adequate levels of vitamin D3 and I would check your iron panel. That would be where I'd start for severe menstrual cramps and heavy bleeding. What are the key supplements for lifestyle changes you'd recommend for someone battling autoimmune conditions like lupus or arthritis?
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140. Q&A: Post-Chemotherapy, Metal Toxicity, Menstrual Cramps, & Fish Oil
So first of all, if you have lupus or arthritis, I had either of those conditions, I would do four types of testing. Mold, mycotoxin, metals, and viral testing. I would also do a parasite test if you can find a good one. The reason for that is very often things that we think are happening to us are happening within us.
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140. Q&A: Post-Chemotherapy, Metal Toxicity, Menstrual Cramps, & Fish Oil
Recurrent low-grade viral infections, mold and mycotoxins, and heavy metal poisoning go unnoticed, don't show up on normal labs, and very often can lead to the genesis of autoimmune conditions. So I would be going after the testing to find out what kicked these conditions off in the first place. What's your advice for those suffering from psoriasis? Same thing with psoriasis.
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140. Q&A: Post-Chemotherapy, Metal Toxicity, Menstrual Cramps, & Fish Oil
If you have lupus or arthritis, I would do four types of testing. What are the best lifestyle changes and supplements to support someone recovering from chemotherapy? I would say if you're recovering from chemotherapy, you don't want to put too much of a hormetic stress on the body. So here would be my top supplements post recovery. Number one.
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140. Q&A: Post-Chemotherapy, Metal Toxicity, Menstrual Cramps, & Fish Oil
I would start cleansing the liver. I would get off of all processed foods. I might even consider doing a strict carnivore diet for 10 weeks, allowing eggs and berries and natural honeys. I would stay hydrated with hydrogen water, and I would bathe in hydrogen water for psoriasis flare-ups. What should someone consider when addressing copper toxicity or heavy metal exposure in the body?
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140. Q&A: Post-Chemotherapy, Metal Toxicity, Menstrual Cramps, & Fish Oil
Well, as someone who's dealt with heavy metal exposure, I have a lot of knowledge on this. So there's a number of things that you can do. I'll start with the best and go down to the good. First of all, you need to start to think about where you might have gotten the metal toxicity to begin with.
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140. Q&A: Post-Chemotherapy, Metal Toxicity, Menstrual Cramps, & Fish Oil
Just like mold poisoning, you don't want to be in an environment where you're continuing to breathe mold. You don't want to be continuing to expose yourself to toxic heavy metals if you can find the source. Likely sources are in unfiltered tap water, and very often municipalities do allow certain levels of copper or heavy metals to actually come through in the water to support.
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140. Q&A: Post-Chemotherapy, Metal Toxicity, Menstrual Cramps, & Fish Oil
supposed to be filtered out because of the age of our pipes and because of the inability to control where the water goes after it leaves the treatment plant. Very often, these are sources of toxicity. So have your water tested and try to find out what is inoculating you. Secondly, there is a type of a metal test where you do a chelation IV, which uses chelation therapy to draw the metals out of
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140. Q&A: Post-Chemotherapy, Metal Toxicity, Menstrual Cramps, & Fish Oil
your tissues, and then you do an eight-hour urine test post-chelation to really get an accurate measure of how much metal is in your body. Metals are tricky. They evade urine and blood testing very often. Also a light technology, which I'll link in the show notes below, that you can actually expose your palm to. It will look for metals in your tissues.
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140. Q&A: Post-Chemotherapy, Metal Toxicity, Menstrual Cramps, & Fish Oil
But my favorite test for metal toxicity is chelation followed by eight-hour urine. What supplements or protocols do you recommend for someone trying to reverse or slow dementia progression? Well, red light therapy has shown really good promise in dementia. Also, there are red light helmets that are specifically designed to get red light deep into the brain.
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140. Q&A: Post-Chemotherapy, Metal Toxicity, Menstrual Cramps, & Fish Oil
One of the ones I've used in the past myself is called a neurotic helmet. I used it on both of my parents to help with cognitive function. I also think that the peptide cerebrolysin is something that should be looked at. Vinyl resveratrol is great for circulation. Keep these people hydrated. Keep them moving.
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140. Q&A: Post-Chemotherapy, Metal Toxicity, Menstrual Cramps, & Fish Oil
That is another thing that really helps to slow down all kinds of neurocognitive disorders. And I would look at viral and metal testing. Very often, Symptoms in the brain, especially with memory and cognition, mimic the symptoms of chronic viral mold, mycotoxin, or metal exposure. What are the top steps truck drivers can take to maintain good health given their long hours of sitting?
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140. Q&A: Post-Chemotherapy, Metal Toxicity, Menstrual Cramps, & Fish Oil
Take more frequent shorter breaks rather than less frequent longer breaks. In other words, instead of stopping once and taking a 45-minute break, stop three times and take a 15-minute walk. Walking and mobility are the best ways to wake you up. Don't become dependent on stimulants and caffeine or taking Adderall or other amphetamines.
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140. Q&A: Post-Chemotherapy, Metal Toxicity, Menstrual Cramps, & Fish Oil
Become dependent on short breaks and get right back on the road. My suggestion would be stay hydrated with hydrogen water. Make sure that you have methylated multivitamins and stop more often and take more shorter breaks. Hey guys, thank you for tuning in. Always submit your questions. I'll do my best to answer them as accurately as possible. And until next time, that's just science.
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140. Q&A: Post-Chemotherapy, Metal Toxicity, Menstrual Cramps, & Fish Oil
Hey guys, welcome back to the Ultimate Human Podcast. The Q&As, which is so popular, is backed by popular demand. You asked, we're gonna answer. So question number one, what is the recommended daily dosage of fish oil and how can people avoid the fish burps? So I've got two answers to this. Number one, it's based on concentration. Here's how you can check for a good fish oil.
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140. Q&A: Post-Chemotherapy, Metal Toxicity, Menstrual Cramps, & Fish Oil
Make sure it is a deep fish oil that uses small fish like mackerels, sardines, smaller fish are better for fish oils and make sure that the fish oil is in a two to one ratio. ratio. Two parts omega-3 fatty acid to one part omega-6. If you want to avoid the fish burps, just freeze your fish oil capsules. You can actually take them when you're frozen.
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122. Stress Your Way to Better Health with Hormesis
What if small doses of stress could actually make us stronger, sharper, and even extend our lifespan? The powerful concept of hormesis, or what's sometimes called good stress. Think of hormesis like a workout for your cells.
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122. Stress Your Way to Better Health with Hormesis
What if small doses of stress could actually make us stronger, sharper, and even extend our lifespan? Today, we're unlocking the science of hormesis, which involves these short controlled moments of stress, like cold exposure, intermittent fasting, or intense workouts. These aren't random challenges. They're science-backed practices designed to boost our resilience and overall health.
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You know, one of my favorite sayings is that aging is the aggressive pursuit of comfort. So let's start by defining hormesis itself. Hormesis is essentially our body's adaptive response to moderate controlled stressors.
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When they're exposed to controlled stress, they adapt and they become stronger, building resilience not just in one area, but across multiple systems essential for overall health. First, cold exposure. Then there's intermittent fasting and caloric restriction. And of course, exercise, one of the most well-known hormetic stressors.
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Whether it's a shift in temperature, a dietary adjustment, or a physical challenge, these small stressors prompt an adaptive process in our cells and tissues, making us more resilient and improving our functionality. It's a concept that flips the conventional thinking about stress on its head.
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Rather than being harmful, intentional mild stressors can help us build mental and physical toughness, increase our energy, and even promote longevity. And this response is happening at a deep cellular level. Think of hormesis like a workout for your cells. When they're exposed to controlled stress, they adapt and they become stronger, preparing you to handle future challenges more efficiently.
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This is known as the hormesis effect or a hormetic response. When we introduce mild stresses, it triggers a series of cellular processes that deliver long-term benefits like slowing down aging, strengthening health, and boosting resilience. Now let's talk about what we mean by good stress.
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This type of stress is all about introducing small, controlled challenges to our bodies, like a cold plunge, a few hours of fasting, or a short, intense workout. These activities don't push our bodies past their limits. Instead, they encourage growth and adaptation. When we introduce stressors like these, our body experiences a temporary disruption in its balance, known as homeostasis.
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This disturbance activates cellular defense mechanisms and it kicks off a repair process and works to restore our stability. So over time, these responses strengthen our body's ability to handle bigger challenges, building resilience not just in one area, but across multiple systems essential for overall health.
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Let's dig a bit deeper and look at some specific examples of hormetic stressors and the unique benefits they bring. First, cold exposure. Think of a cold shower or an ice bath. Now, it may feel uncomfortable, but the benefits of cold exposure are profound.
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When you expose your body to cold, it increases levels of endorphins and norepinephrine, which actually elevate our mood, reduce feelings of stress. So research also shows that cold exposure can lower our cortisol levels, our body's primary stress hormone. And this helps us build mental toughness and resilience over time. Next, we have heat exposure, like what you experience in a sauna.
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Regular sauna sessions can improve cardiovascular health by enhancing blood flow, reducing blood pressure, and decreasing inflammation. These combined effects lower the risk of cardiovascular disease. Studies have even found that regular sauna sessions can increase growth hormone levels, supporting muscle growth, bone density, and having a healthy body composition.
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Then there's intermittent fasting and caloric restriction. While not for everybody, these are powerful ways to activate hormetic responses in your bodies. Fasting improves insulin sensitivity, which actually supports better blood sugar control. helps with our cholesterol levels, and our triglyceride management, which is a measure of our blood fat.
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Fasting also activates autophagy, a cellular sort of cleanup process that recycles damaged proteins and supports cellular health and longevity. And of course, exercise is one of the most well-known hormetic stressors. Physical activity, especially high-intensity interval training, or HIITs, triggers biochemical effects that benefit not only your muscles, but also your cardiovascular systems.
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HIT in particular has been shown to stimulate the creation of new mitochondria, those tiny little powerhouses in our cells that fuel our muscles, enhance energy levels, and do so many other benefits, including provide us with cellular energy. But the benefits of hormesis go beyond just the physical. These stressors also build mental and emotional resilience.
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They require mental endurance that carries over into other areas of life, helping us handle stress more effectively. Imagine a world where controlled stressors don't just challenge us, but actually make us healthier, more resilient, and even slow down the aging process. It might sound surprising, but... Hey guys, welcome back to the Ultimate Human Podcast.
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Activities like cold plunges and intense workouts don't just train our bodies, they train our minds. They require mental endurance that carries over into other areas of life, helping us handle stress more effectively and with greater resilience.
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Beyond resilience, these short-term stressors also support long-term energy by activating cellular repair processes and boosting our mitochondrial function. You hear me talk about the mitochondria all the time, the powerhouse of the cell. The only thing that fuels our energy levels and fuels human beings is the ATP produced by these little monsters. you have 110 trillion of these in your body.
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These cellular boosts not only improve energy levels, but even have implications for slowing down the aging process at a cellular level. Hormetic stressors also enhance mental clarity. By balancing neurotransmitters like dopamine, norepinephrine, they improve mood and help us adapt to daily stressors. In controlled doses,
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Stress can actually sharpen your focus, elevate your mood, and boost our overall sense of well-being. And finally, these stressors also contribute to overall longevity by reducing inflammation, enhancing immune function, and even lowering the risk of chronic disease.
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So consistently practicing hormetic stressors offers protective effects against health risks like cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes, and even metabolic syndrome, which almost 50% of the nation has today. Now, let's look at some specific research that highlights the benefits of hormetic stressors.
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One study found that regular cold exposure led to a 29% reduction in sickness absence among its participants. Additionally, cold exposure can improve mood by increasing norepinephrine levels, enhancing alertness and focus, and may even help alleviate symptoms of anxiety and depression.
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Research on intermittent fasting reveals that it activates cellular repair processes like autophagy, which is crucial for slowing aging. Fasting has also been shown to improve metabolic health by regulating blood sugar, reducing insulin resistance, and lowering inflammation, all of which decrease the risk of chronic diseases like type 2 diabetes.
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And studies on saunas have linked regular use to better heart health with reduced risks of hypertension and cardiovascular disease. Saunas also help increase circulation and reduce cortisol levels, mimicking the effects of moderate exercise and contributing to improved mood through the release of endorphins. High intensity interval training or HIIT is another powerful example.
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Research has shown that even just 10 minutes of intense interval training can produce health benefits similar to 50 minutes of moderate exercise. HIT also improves insulin sensitivity, it lowers your blood pressure, and increases your VO2 max, which is a key measure of physical fitness, making it a potent hormetic stressor.
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Now you might be wondering how to start to integrate these powerful hormetic stressors into your daily life. Here are a few practical tips to get you started. Cold exposure. Start small with a 30-second shower at the end of your warm shower.
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Gradually start to increase the exposure over a few weeks, paying attention to how you feel after each session and slowly building your tolerance to colder temperatures and longer durations. Remember, very little evidence that colder or longer is better. Small amounts of exposure to these hormetic stressors can be fantastic. Let's go to fasting. Ease into fasting with a simple 12-hour fast.
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Just fast from dinner to breakfast the next morning. Let's say from 8 p.m. to 8 a.m. As you get comfortable, you can extend your fasting window and try fasting a couple of times a week. Just make sure to focus on hydration and balanced meals before and after fasting.
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one of my favorites sauna if you're new to the sauna start with 5 to 10 minutes at a moderate temperature temperatures between 120 and 140 degrees fahrenheit then gradually increase your time as your body adapts you can go as high as 160 to 180 degrees fahrenheit i would not ever get into a sauna above 180 degrees fahrenheit and i wouldn't stay in a sauna that is above 160 for more than 15 minutes
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Drink plenty of water to stay hydrated and make sure to allow time for cooling down after you get out. Balance stress with recovery. It's just as important to balance stress days with rest days. Alternate between cold or heat exposure, fasting or intense exercise, and then give your body time to recover.
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Recovery practices like gentle yoga or my favorites like breath work, PEMF, exposure to sunlight are all excellent ways to support this adaptation process. One of my favorite things to do is actually alternate between sauna and cold plunge. So when I do something called a transition shower or something to break the catecholamines, lots of you guys, you ruminate at night when you get into bed.
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So you go down to go to sleep and your body tired, but your mind awake. You have a hard time shutting off your mind. Well, what is a contrast shower? What is contrast therapy? The contrast therapy is something that you do to add a hormetic stress that actually calms your mind down.
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I'm your host, human biologist, Gary Brekka, and today we're going to explore the powerful concept of hormesis, or what's sometimes called good stress. You've heard me talk about this all the time. So imagine a world where controlled stressors like cold plunging, fasting, or sauna sessions don't just challenge us, but actually make us healthier, more resilient, and even slow down the aging process.
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One of my favorites, and it's portable, you can use it anywhere in the world, is you step into a shower, take a regular warm shower. At the end of that, turn the water as hot as it will go. Let it run on your spine for about a minute. and then step out of that water stream, turn it as cold as it will go, and then step back in and deal with it. Just deal with it for 30 seconds to a minute.
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When you get out and dry off, you'll find that those catecholamines, those racing thoughts, those ruminating thoughts have been blown right out of your mind. And then I like to also balance that with breath work when I get into bed. I like to do slow rhythmic breathing, about a five to seven second inhale through my nose, followed by a pause, and then followed by a long exhale through a straw.
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Try this tonight when you get in bed and see if you could even do 10 rounds of that breath work before you're absolutely falling asleep. Those of you guys that see me post my sleep scores all the time, I'm generally falling asleep in less than five minutes. It astounds my wife all the time.
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Sometimes she says I fall asleep in the middle of my own sentences and it's because that breath work and the contrast therapy are a great way to break the mental stress and strain of your day and make a transition into your sleep.
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Now, if you're fortunate enough to have a sauna and a cold plunge, which you don't need to do this, but if you do, 20 minutes in a dry sauna followed by a one-minute cold plunge where you submerge your head for about three seconds and get out and dry off will do the same thing. So balance stress with recovery. It's just as important to balance stress days with rest days.
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Alternate between cold or heat exposure, fasting or intense exercise, and then give your body time to recover. Recovery practices like gentle yoga, breath work, stretching, deep breathing, these further support your adaptation process. Mindfulness is another one of my favorites. You know, as I've gotten older, I've gotten considerably more mindful.
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So consider using mindfulness techniques like meditation or deep breathing either before or after these practices to enforce your resilience. Taking a moment to reflect after each session can boost mental clarity and support your body's adaptation to stress. The truth is, stress can be a powerful ally if we know how to embrace it intentionally.
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By incorporating small, controlled stressors into our lives, we can transform our health and resilience because it's not about avoiding stress. It's about using it to thrive. Stay strong, stay resilient, and remember, as always, that's just science.
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It might sound surprising, but that's exactly what hormesis is all about. This process activates our body's natural adaptive responses, boosting mood, speeding up cellular repair, and even helping us feel and function our best. So let's break down how these simple strategic practices can supercharge our mental, physical, and cellular health. To kick things off, I want to ask a powerful question.
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156. 3 Biohacks Every Parent Must Know to Optimize Their Child’s Health
Did you know that children, even toddlers, can benefit from the same cutting-edge biohacks that are transforming adult health and longevity? These seemingly small changes can completely transform a child's energy, even their cognitive development and their future health outcomes.
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It's about understanding the biology of childhood, how their brains grow and how their little hormones develop, how their immune systems mature, and applying science-backed principles to give them the healthiest start to life. This episode is for parents, soon-to-be parents, teachers, and anyone who cares about raising the next generation of ultimate humans. So let's dive in.
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Let's start with the foundation of it all, nutrition. You are what you eat and what you eat eats, but kids are literally built from what they eat. Childhood is a period of explosive growth in both brain and body, and the nutrients a child consumes during these early years directly shapes their future cognitive ability.
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We're diving into an often overlooked but vitally important topic, biohacking for your kids and how to go about doing so. No, this isn't about putting your five-year-old in a cold plunge every morning. It's about removing obstacles, whether they be synthetic, chemicals, inflammatory foods, poor sleep, or even digital overload.
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It shapes their emotional regulation, their immune strength, and even their metabolic function. A 2020 review of nutrients confirms that omega-3 fatty acids, vitamin D3, zinc, and magnesium are crucial for neural development and and behavioral regulation in children.
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Essential fatty acids like DHA and EPA, which are found in wild-caught fish and cod liver oil, are absolutely critical for synapse formation in the brain and neuroplasticity. Yet most children consume far below the recommended levels. At the same time, we have to be mindful of what we remove.
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Additives like red dye 40, high fructose corn syrup, and industrial seed oils are not just empty calories for kids, they're inflammatory agents. Red dye, for instance, has been linked to multiple studies to increase hyperactivity and inattentiveness in children with attention deficit disorder or hyperactivity disorders.
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Meanwhile, ultra-processed snacks packed with artificial flavors, emulsifiers, preservatives, these are disruptors to the gut-brain axis. Gut dysbiosis in kids and children has been tied to neurodevelopmental disorders and immune dysregulation.
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Simple interventions like replacing sugary cereals with protein-rich breakfasts, incorporating fermented foods like sauerkraut or kefir, and reducing processed snacks can meaningly improve your kids' stability, their mood, and their emotional state. Hydration is often another overlooked piece. Mild dehydration has been shown to impair cognitive performance and attention in children.
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Now let's talk about your sleep. It's not just rest, it's regeneration. A 2023 meta-analysis in Sleep Medicine Reviews found that children exposed to screens within an hour of bedtime had a 98% higher odds of delayed sleep onset and 83% higher odds of shorter total sleep time. The fix? A consistent bedtime routine for your kids.
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No screens, one hour before bed, a cool pitch black room, and if needed, a red bulb at night. You could even add in a warm Epsom salt bath and magnesium lotion on the feet for your kids, and you've got a powerful ritual to transform their little nervous system into parasympathetic mode. Let's move on to supplementation.
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Modern agricultural practices and indoor lifestyles have made nutrient deficiencies very widespread, especially in children. A landmark study, which was recently published in the Journal of American Medical Association Pediatrics, showed that 61% of US children had inadequate levels of vitamin D3, while magnesium deficiency affected almost 35% of kids globally.
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These nutrients regulate everything from neurotransmitter balance to immune cell signaling. Vitamin D3, paired with K2, supports calcium metabolism. It boosts their immunity and it reduces inflammation. Magnesium is one of the most important light metals in the body and it's essential for over 300 enzymatic reactions which help regulate sleep and they even buffer stress.
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156. 3 Biohacks Every Parent Must Know to Optimize Their Child’s Health
It's about understanding the biology of childhood and applying science-backed principles to give them the healthiest start to life. Childhood is a period of explosive growth in both brain and body, and the nutrients a child consumes during these early years directly shapes their future cognitive ability. Now, here's an area many parents overlook.
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Clean omega-3s from fish oil or algae play a critical role in myelination, which is the covering of their nerves, attention span, and emotional regulation. But be cautious. Many children's supplements are loaded with sugars, artificial sweeteners, and dyes. Choose professional grade products in liquid, powder, or capsule form, maybe even gummy form, depending on your child's age.
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156. 3 Biohacks Every Parent Must Know to Optimize Their Child’s Health
So let's talk about movement. Children were born to move, but our culture forces them to sit still for most of the day. In fact, a lot of public school systems have removed physical education entirely from their programming. According to a 2019 study in the Lancet Child and Adolescent Health, only one in
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five children globally meets the World Health Organization's recommendation of 60 minutes of physical activity daily. Lack of movement is tied to higher risk of obesity, anxiety, depression, and even reduced academic performance. Encouraging daily outdoor activity, especially in the morning light, helps reset their little circadian rhythm.
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It improves their mood and enhances their vitamin D synthesis. Let them go barefoot in the grass. Grounding has been shown to reduce cortisol and help support autonomic nervous system balance. Resistance-based play like climbing, jumping, carrying builds bone density and neuromuscular coordination. Now here's an area many parents overlook, emotional regulation.
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Children absolutely experience stress, but they often lack the tools to name, process, or discharge it. Teaching breathwork and mindfulness at an early age can dramatically impact their resilience, reduce their anxiety, and improve their sleep quality.
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A randomized clinical trial that was published in Mindfulness in 2020 showed that four weeks of mindful breathing significantly improved emotional regulation and reduced cortisol levels in children aged 8 to 12. So simple techniques like 4-7-8 breathing. Four seconds in, seven second hold, and eight seconds out.
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followed by simple guided visualization or even humming, which actually stimulates their vagus nerve. This can quickly shift the child into a calm, parasympathetic state. These practices are especially effective, parents, when we build them into our routines before school, after an emotional outburst, or as part of the bedtime wind-down routine. Next up is their environment.
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156. 3 Biohacks Every Parent Must Know to Optimize Their Child’s Health
We often think about food and exercise, but we forget that a child's surroundings, air, water, and household products can have a dramatic effect on their cellular biology. According to the Environmental Working Group, the average newborn has over 200 synthetic chemicals in their umbilical cord blood. including neurotoxins like BPAs, bisphenols, and even flame retardants.
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Filtering your home's tap water using a HEPA air purifier, switching to fragrance-free non-toxic cleansers, and ditching plastic containers whenever possible are all effective ways to reduce the toxic burden on our little ones. Even small swaps like replacing plastic sippy cups with stainless steel or avoiding dryer sheets can make a big difference over time.
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Every reduction in chemical exposure is a step toward lowering the inflammatory load on a developing little body. Finally, let's talk about digital hygiene. The rise of screens has created a silent crisis in childhood development. Excessive screen time is associated with reduced sleep, increased anxiety, impaired attention, and delayed language development.
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In fact, a study in JAMA Pediatrics found that preschoolers exposed to more than two hours of screen time daily scored significantly lower on cognitive tests. It's not about eliminating technology entirely. It's about using it intentionally. So let's set some boundaries. No screens an hour before bed. no devices in our bedrooms, and consistent digital detox blocks throughout the week.
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Encouraging analog activities like reading, puzzles, drawing, and outdoor play especially to train attention span and creativity. Let them problem solve. Here's what I want to leave you with. Biohacking for kids isn't about perfection. It's about creating the conditions for biology to thrive.
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It's about removing obstacles, whether they be synthetic, chemicals, poor sleep, inflammatory foods, or even digital overload, and allowing the body's innate intelligence to express itself fully. Start with one thing, just one. Maybe it's replacing their cereal. Maybe it's adding magnesium at night. Maybe it's getting everyone barefoot in the yard tomorrow morning.
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The beauty of biology is that it responds quickly to the right inputs. And these habits, they compound. They build confidence. They change generational health. I've always had health issues. and wellness as a cornerstone of raising my own children. All three of my children are very woke to the importance of exercise, being outside, connecting with nature, and even connecting with each other.
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They limit their screen times at night. And growing up, we always made fun activities around 5Ks, turkey trots, swim meets. And even if your kids are not involved in structured sports, you can get them involved in full family activities, like maybe signing up for the next 5K. Maybe have the family do a sprint triathlon together or just get used to walking and talking together without your phones.
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Did you know that children, yes, even toddlers, can benefit from the same cutting-edge biohacks that are transforming adult health and longevity? From sleep optimization to gut health, sun exposure to screen time habits, these seemingly small changes can completely transform a child's energy, their behavior, even their cognitive development and their future health outcomes.
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Just simple little things that you can do with your family, especially outdoors, that will dramatically change the trajectory of their life. I even did a great podcast with my nieces, Coral and Anya. If you haven't checked it out, I'll link it in the show notes below. Two beautiful girls, well-spoken, and they know more about nutrition than most conventional adults.
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I'm really proud of them, and they speak right to the hearts of other children. If this episode opened your eyes, please share it with another parent, teacher, or caregiver. And if you want access to the research behind the scenes content directly to me for live Q&A, then check out my VIP group in the show notes. This is Gary Brekka, and you've been listening to the Ultimate Human Podcast.
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Let's raise a generation that's resilient, focused, strong, and rooted in health, one biohack at a time. And until next time, that's just science.
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Welcome back to the Ultimate Human Podcast. I'm your host, human biologist and founder of the Ultimate Human, Gary Brekka, and today we're diving into an often overlooked but vitally important topic, biohacking for your kids and how to go about doing so. No, this isn't about putting your five-year-old in a cold plunge every morning.
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130. Red Light Therapy: Scam or Science? Here's What The Research Says
Whether you're an athlete looking to recover faster, someone dealing with chronic health issues, or just someone looking to optimize your health, red light therapy has something for everyone. The secret to better health, sharper focus, and even faster recovery lies in something as simple as light. It's true. We have the science to back it up.
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I'm your host, human biologist, Gary Brekka, and today we're diving into red light therapy or photobiomodulation, one of the most exciting advancements in health and wellness. It's not just a tool for biohackers or the wealthy anymore. Red light therapy is becoming mainstream in an approach to improve circulation, reduce inflammation, and enhance overall vitality.
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We'll explore photobiomodulation, how it works, its incredible long-term effects, and why you should consider integrating it into your wellness routine. So let's break down why this non-invasive therapy is becoming so popular and how it can benefit you. Red light therapy works wonders in improving something called vasomotion, the spontaneous constriction and relaxation of blood vessels.
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Think of a snake swallowing a mouse. It's the process that helps regulate blood flow at a local level. When red light, around 670 nanometer wavelengths, penetrates your skin, it stimulates the release of nitric oxide. This nitric oxide is released from something called your endothelial cells. These are the ones that are lining your blood vessels.
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boosting circulation to enhancing brain function and reducing inflammation red light therapy is revolutionizing how we think about wellness a study published in frontiers in physiology in 2022 found that red light therapy can help prevent the buildup of plaque in the arteries which is critical in reducing risk of heart attacks and strokes remember our heart circulates about 30 percent of the blood in our bodies and the rest of it is this vasomotor activity
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Nitric oxide is a powerful chemical that signals the smooth muscle around the vessels to relax. causing them to widen or dilate. This dilation improves blood flow, oxygen, and nutrient delivery to tissues.
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Research from PubMed has shown that red light therapy can enhance circulation, particularly in people with chronic conditions like diabetes, hypertension, where their microcirculation is compromised. You might have heard me talk about microcirculation. It is 70% of the blood circulating in our bodies. Remember, our heart circulates about 30% of the blood in our bodies activity.
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Studies reveal that red light therapy helps combat circulatory issues, including impaired wound healing and retinal damage, potentially preventing complications like neuropathy and delayed wound healing. For athletes, listen up because enhanced vasomotion means faster recovery.
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After intense workouts, red light therapy delivers essential nutrients to muscle tissues, clears lactic acid, and accelerates muscle recovery. Research from Frontiers in Physiology suggests that athletes who use red light therapy post-exercise experience less muscle soreness and better performance than those who don't.
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You might have seen on my social media I use this in all of the professional athletes that I work with. Whether you're trying to recover faster, manage a chronic condition, The localized circulation boost from red light therapy is a game changer for your health.
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Those of you that are just looking to improve the collagen, the elastin, and the fibrin in your skin, and maybe take on more youthful appearance, you get benefits too. Now let's dive deeper into the long-term benefits of red light therapy.
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While it's often associated with short-term benefits like improved circulation and reduced inflammation, red light therapy offers profound long-term effects that enhance your overall health. For example, chronic disease prevention.
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One of the standout long-term benefits of red light therapy is its ability to reduce oxidative stress and chronic inflammation, two major contributors to a range of chronic diseases like atherosclerosis, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease.
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A study published in Frontiers in Physiology in 2022, which I'll link below, found that red light therapy can help prevent the buildup of plaque in the arteries, which is critical in reducing risk of heart attacks and strokes.
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By decreasing inflammation at a cellular level, red light therapy can help prevent chronic disease before it starts, making it an essential tool for maintaining long-term health. If we look at cognitive function, red light therapy also promotes better brain function by improving cerebral flow and enhancing vasomotor stability in the brain.
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Remember, vasomotor is that peristaltic, wave-like motion of our microvasculature that circulates blood through some of our smallest capillaries into some of our most important tissues. This has long-term implications for cognitive health. especially in preventing cognitive decline associated with age.
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Studies show that enhanced blood flow to the brain as supported by red light therapy can improve focus, memory, and mood. It reduces the risk of vascular-related cognitive decline, such as Alzheimer's disease and dementia. According to Frontiers in Neuroscience, in 2022, improving cerebral flow through red light therapy has the potential to help maintain cognitive function as we age.
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Now, let's talk about anti-aging because red light therapy is really gaining popularity in the anti-aging world due to its ability to promote cellular repair, stimulate collagen production, and enhance skin elasticity. Regular red light therapy helps reduce wrinkles, fine lines, and skin sagging.
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Studies even show that red light therapy enhances fibroblast activity, which increases collagen production and improves your skin's texture. It makes red light therapy a powerful tool not for just rejuvenating your skin, but for maintaining your skin's health at a cellular level. What if we talk about musculoskeletal health?
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For people dealing with chronic pain, joint issues, or recovering from injuries, red light therapy has long-term benefits in tissue repair and muscle recovery. There was a recent research study published in the Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology that found that red light therapy accelerated the repair of musculoskeletal injuries and reduced inflammation and stimulated tissue regeneration.
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Studies show that enhanced blood flow to the brain as supported by red light therapy can improve focus, memory, and mood. Here's why you should consider incorporating red light therapy into your routine. Number one. What if I told you that the secret to better health, sharper focus, and even faster recovery lies in something as simple as light? It's true.
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Whether you have osteoarthritis, tendonitis, or muscle strain, as red light therapy becomes more mainstream, there's a growing variety of devices available for use at home or in wellness centers. The type of device you choose depends on your goals, whether you want to target the face, your whole body, or specific areas for pain. Let's take red light therapy face masks for example.
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Face masks are becoming very popular. This is a device for targeted therapy on the skin. They often feature both red and near infrared lights to improve skin health, reduce wrinkles, and stimulate collagen production. These masks are excellent for anti-aging and skin rejuvenation. They're easy to use at home, and they can be part of a daily skincare routine, and they are not that expensive.
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Red light panels, for example, step the game up a little bit because panels are often used for whole body treatments. They typically provide a larger surface area for exposure, making them ideal for pain relief, reducing inflammation, dealing with back pain, or improving circulation. These devices are particularly effective when used to target large areas of the body like the back or the thighs.
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Let's talk about full red light therapy beds like the one that I have in my home. Red light beds are typically used in professional wellness centers. They provide full body exposure to red, near infrared light, and they allow the users to enjoy benefits of red light therapy in a more immersive setting. These beds are ideal for people seeking muscle recovery,
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enhanced skin rejuvenation, and pain relief over a much larger area. There are many clinics around the country that allow you to use these beds on a membership basis, reducing your cost and easing your access to these beds.
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I don't expect anyone to go out and spend five or six figures on a red light therapy bed, but you can find a wellness center in your area where you can likely access these devices much less expensively. Lastly, let's talk about handheld devices. Handheld devices are portable and versatile. They can be used for targeted treatment in specific areas like joints, muscles, or the face.
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These are great for those of you that want quick treatments on the go or for specific pain relief. Once primarily seen in the realm of biohacking, red light therapy is now becoming very mainstream and accessible to everyone and more affordable.
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Wellness centers and spas are starting to incorporate red light therapy into their service offerings, meaning that you can access these on a membership basis and they offer everything from facial treatments to full body red light therapy sessions. As research continues to grow, more people are seeing the benefits of red light therapy for general wellness, not just for treating specific conditions.
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It's now a tool for improving overall health, managing chronic conditions, and enhancing recovery times for athletes. No longer a niche practice, red light therapy is increasingly being used in clinical settings with more practitioners integrating it into their treatment protocols.
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If you don't want to invest in a red light device just yet, many wellness clubs, gyms, and spas now offer red light therapy sessions at a fraction of the cost of purchasing your own equipment. This makes it easier for you to experience the benefits without a large upfront investment. Look for wellness centers or clinics near you that offer red light therapy as part of their services.
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Whether it's for skin rejuvenation, pain relief, or recovery, you can try red light therapy for a reasonable price before deciding if it's the right tool for your health routine. The science behind red light therapy is clear. It's non-invasive. It's an effective way to promote cellular health, improve circulation, reduce inflammation, and boost your recovery.
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Red light therapy isn't just for biohackers or athletes. It's for everyone who wants to improve their health and wellness. Whether you're looking to reduce chronic pain, boost your energy levels, or simply maintain a healthy youthful appearance, red light therapy can help you achieve those goals. Here's why you should consider incorporating red light therapy into your routine.
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Number one, it's backed by science. Studies have consistently shown red light therapy's positive effect on circulation, tissue repair, and inflammation. I will put the links below to those scientific publications. No side effects. Unlike so many treatments, red light therapy has minimal to no recorded side effects, making it very safe for most people to use regularly.
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Whether you choose to use an at-home device or visit a wellness center, consistent use of red light therapy will provide lasting health benefits. Track your progress and see how this simple, non-invasive therapy can help you unlock better health and wellness. Red Light Therapy isn't just a short-term solution. It's a long-term investment in your health.
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Try it for yourself and experience the difference it can make. Thanks for tuning in to the Ultimate Human Podcast. If you found this episode helpful, please subscribe, leave a review, and share it with anyone who might benefit. And until next time, remember, it's all about making smart choices for your health, and that's just science.
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Red light therapy, RLT, or photobiomodulation uses specific wavelengths of red light, near infrared light, to supercharge your cells and transform your health. And the best part, we have the science to back it up. From boosting circulation to enhancing brain function and reducing inflammation, red light therapy is revolutionizing how we think about wellness.
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I always say if I only had one device in my house and I have all kinds of biohacking devices, it would probably be a red light or red light therapy bed. Today, I'll break down the science behind red light therapy, why it's more accessible than ever, and how it could be the game changer your body's been waiting for. Welcome to the Ultimate Human Podcast, guys.
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164. Top 2025 Health News Updates: FDA Bans Toxic Petroleum-Based Food Dyes, Sleep Crisis Fueling Dementia Risk, & More!
For decades, industries pushed toxic chemicals into our food, our water, our homes, and our bodies without any consequence. Now we are standing at the edge of a massive shift in human health. The walls are starting to crack, science is catching up, and the public is forcing and demanding change.
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Finally, after decades of studies, petitions, and outcry, the FDA has announced plans to phase out eight petroleum-based dyes from the American food supply.
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These dyes, Red 40, Yellow 5, Yellow 6, Blue 1, Blue 2, Green 3, Orange B, and Citrus Red 2 have been linked to hyperactivity and attention deficit disorder symptoms in children, gut dysbiosis and microbiome disruption, DNA damage and oxidative stress, and potential carcinogenicity in animal models. European regulators have restricted many of these dyes all the way back to 2008.
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They require warning labels on products containing them. Meanwhile, American children ate colorful cereals, candies, and snacks loaded with these chemicals for decades. Synthetic dyes were introduced in the early 1900s and they were derived from coal tar and later from petroleum, an oil-based product. They were even marketed as safe without any comprehensive long-term safety data.
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We're bringing you the health news you need to know, the real wins, the real threats, and what you can do to take control of your health in 2025 and beyond. Today's updates are packed with
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It took generations and mountains of scientific evidence to finally push action. So what are some action steps you can take today? First, read every label. Avoid any artificial colorings. Choose brands that are using natural colorants like turmeric, spirulina, and beet juice. Because even as regulations phase them out, companies will still push inventory until the last minute.
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So protect yourself, protect your family. Stunning fact number two, lack of deep sleep in middle age could increase dementia risk by over 30%. And we are so chronically sleep deprived. Let's talk about the brain.
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New studies out of UCSF, the NIH, and multiple international sleep research groups have confirmed that lack of quality REM and deep sleep during midlife dramatically raises your risk of developing Alzheimer's and other dementias later in life. Each 1% decrease in time spent in REM sleep was associated with a 9% increased risk of developing dementia.
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Lack of slow-wave sleep, what we call deep sleep, accelerated brain aging and amyloid plaque buildup, Why? Because during deep sleep, your brain's glymphatic system, think of it as a neurological sewage system, flushes out metabolic waste, beta amyloid, and other neurotoxins. Without enough deep sleep, waste accumulates, inflammation skyrockets, and neurons die.
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Ancient medical systems like Ayurveda emphasized hours of rest long before brain imaging even existed. Modern science is only now validating that deep rest is fundamental to longevity. That's why I always say sleep is our ultimate human superpower. So here's some action steps you can take to start implementing right now. Prioritize deep sleep like your life depends on it, because it does.
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164. Top 2025 Health News Updates: FDA Bans Toxic Petroleum-Based Food Dyes, Sleep Crisis Fueling Dementia Risk, & More!
major wins for clean food and health freedom, groundbreaking science on sleep, brain health, and disease prevention, shocking revelations about ultra-processed foods and hidden toxins, plus actionable steps you can start today to upgrade your biology. So let's dive in. Number one. Welcome back to the Ultimate Human Podcast.
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Sleep in a completely dark, cold room. I like to sleep between 65 and 68 degrees Fahrenheit. Get morning sunlight exposure to anchor your circadian rhythms and actually help you get into a good biorhythm of sleep that night. Avoid screens and blue light after 8 p.m. Consider magnesium glycinate, glycine, and meditation to enhance your REM cycle of sleep. Sleep is not wasted time, guys.
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It's peak maintenance mode for your brain. Number three shocking fact, ultra processed food additives create toxic clusters that raise diabetes risk. This new study should be a wake up call. Scientists from Harvard and multiple international institutions analyzed thousands of ultra processed food products and found that it's the clusters of additives
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not just a single ingredient that fuel metabolic diseases like type 2 diabetes. Some of the key findings were that combinations of emulsifiers like polysorbate 80 and carrageen disrupted the gut lining integrity. Preservatives plus artificial sweeteners distort glucose metabolism and frequent consumption raised type 2 diabetes risk by 29%. Why? These are chemical cocktails.
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They alter your gut microbiome, they increase insulin resistance, and they drive systemic inflammation. In the 1960s and 70s, the food industry actually began using synthetic emulsifiers and stabilizers to extend the shelf life without doing any safety studies on chronic exposure. We're now seeing the consequences play out in skyrocketing diabetes, obesity, and autoimmune disease rates.
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So here's some actionable steps. Stick to a single-ingredient, whole-food diet. Eat meals your great-grandparents would actually recognize. Avoid ingredient lists longer than five words, and if it looks like it came from a lab, not a farm, it's probably not even a food. Bonus wins that you might want to know about?
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164. Top 2025 Health News Updates: FDA Bans Toxic Petroleum-Based Food Dyes, Sleep Crisis Fueling Dementia Risk, & More!
PFAs, polyfluoroalkyls, bands are accelerating nationwide, cutting out forever chemicals from packaging, cookware, and even our textiles. Glyphosate-free certifications are rising dramatically, and companies are waking up to public demand. Water quality grants are funding filtration upgrades in low-income areas, and EMF awareness is finally gaining mainstream traction.
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The tide is turning, guys, but you have to stay awake. You have to stay ahead. And at the end of the day, you are the filter for whatever the system allows. So toxins in your food, your liver has to neutralize them. Chemicals in the air, your lungs have to detoxify them. Heavy metals in the water, your kidneys have to excrete them.
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If you don't actively support these organs and don't actively detox, you carry that burden with you year after year after year, decade after decade, until it becomes a disease. This is Gary Brekka. Stay sharp, stay strong, stay toxin-free. And until next time, that's just science.
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164. Top 2025 Health News Updates: FDA Bans Toxic Petroleum-Based Food Dyes, Sleep Crisis Fueling Dementia Risk, & More!
I'm your host, human biologist, Gary Brekka, and today we're doing something different, something absolutely essential. We're bringing you the health news you need to know, the real wins, the real threats, and what you can do to take control of your health in 2025 and beyond. Because here's the reality. We are standing at the edge of a massive shift in human health.
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164. Top 2025 Health News Updates: FDA Bans Toxic Petroleum-Based Food Dyes, Sleep Crisis Fueling Dementia Risk, & More!
For decades, industries pushed toxic chemicals into our food, our water, our homes, and our bodies without any consequence. Now, finally, the walls are starting to crack, science is catching up, and the public is forcing and demanding change. But you have to be vigilant. You have to be proactive. You have to be educated. Because the system still is not protecting you. You have to protect yourself.
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164. Top 2025 Health News Updates: FDA Bans Toxic Petroleum-Based Food Dyes, Sleep Crisis Fueling Dementia Risk, & More!
So today's updates are packed with major wins for clean food and health freedom, groundbreaking science on sleep, brain health and disease prevention, shocking revelations about ultra processed foods and hidden toxins, plus actionable steps you can start today to upgrade your biology. So let's dive in. Number one, the FDA will phase out petroleum-based synthetic food dyes. Wow.
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146. Your Body is BEGGING You to Know This About Alcohol!
today we're tackling a topic that has a huge impact on your health one that's deeply ingrained in our social culture yet often goes unchecked when it comes to its consequences i'm talking about alcohol alcohol dehydrates you it inhibits the production of anti-diuretic hormone which is responsible for retaining water in your body research conclusively shows that alcohol can reduce brain activity in areas critical for learning and for memory
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In this episode, we'll unpack the science of alcohol's effect on your body, why eliminating alcohol can transform your health, and practical steps you can take to cut it out and reclaim your life. it's about taking control of your well-being and optimizing every aspect of your health. Let's start with the immediate effects of alcohol and what they do to your body.
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First off, alcohol dehydrates you. It inhibits the production of antidiuretic hormone, ADH, which is responsible for retaining water in your body. Without it, you end up urinating more frequently. This is often how diuretics work, leading to dehydration. This can lead you to feeling fatigued, sluggish, and mentally foggy the next day. Mental fog is another immediate consequence.
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Even moderate alcohol consumption impairs cognitive function. It affects your memory, your attention, and your reaction time for up to 24 hours. Research conclusively shows that alcohol can reduce brain activity in areas critical for learning and for memory. This results in decreased productivity and mood shifts, making it harder to perform your best in both work and your daily life.
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But here's the thing. While immediate effects are noticeable, it's long-term consequences that are even more concerning. Alcohol doesn't just impair your function for a day, it contributes to lasting damage to your liver, brain, and your overall health. Chronic alcohol consumption leads to fatty liver, liver inflammation, and even liver cirrhosis.
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These conditions are major causes of liver-related deaths in Western countries. Your liver is responsible for detoxifying your body. It's one of the greatest filters that we have. And alcohol interferes with this process by converting it into something called acetyl aldehyde, which is a toxic substance that damages your liver and it harms your overall metabolism.
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This is where it gets really alarming. Alcohol is a group one carcinogen, meaning it's directly linked to several types of cancer, including mouth, throat, liver, colon, and breast cancer. In fact, consuming just one to six drinks per week increases a woman's risk of breast cancer by 24%.
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In 2024, studies revealed that alcohol is the third leading risk factor for cancer behind smoking and obesity. Alcohol contributes to nearly 70,000 cancer cases in the United States every single year. Now let's talk about one of alcohol's most insidious effects. how it disrupts your sleep and your cognitive function.
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alcohol doesn't just impair your function for a day it contributes to lasting damage to your liver brain and your overall health if you're waking up feeling tired and irritable alcohol could be a significant contributor over time it can lead to chronic insomnia worsening depression and even sleep apnea the challenge with reducing alcohol is often rooted in our social pressure and habits and not in foundational good health by reducing alcohol you're not just making a small change in your routine you're transforming your health for the better
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If you're one of those that participated in my WHOOP sleep study, my actual, one of my sleep challenges, you know this to be true already because alcohol might make you feel drowsy at first, but it actually disrupts your sleep cycle. It reduces REM sleep, which is the restorative stage critical for memory and mood.
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This is where we actually take the learned behaviors from the day and we process them with our subconscious. So if you actually are taking on difficult tasks, alcohol can interrupt your absorption and affect those memories. So alcohol also decreases slow-wave sleep, which is necessary for deep rest and for physical recovery.
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If you're waking up feeling tired and irritable, alcohol could be a significant contributor. Over time, it can lead to chronic insomnia, worsening depression, and even sleep apnea. Long-term alcohol consumption accelerates brain atrophy. This is a known fact, especially in areas related to memory and learning.
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Studies showed that excessive drinking increases the risk of dementia by at least 10% compared to those who drink less. So this is a serious consequence for your long-term mental health. It's easy to overlook the negative effects of alcohol because it's so embedded in our social rituals.
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Whether it's having a drink with friends, celebrating a milestone, or just unwinding after a long day, the media has positioned alcohol as a socially acceptable way to relax. But just because everyone else is doing it doesn't mean it has to be in your best interest. The challenge with reducing alcohol is often rooted in our social pressure and habits and not in foundational good health.
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It's tough to step away from something that feels so ingrained in social events, but making that change can drastically improve your health. This is about breaking free from the cycle of using alcohol as a quick fix for stress and social bonding. And let me tell you, life without alcohol is not only possible, it's incredibly rewarding.
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Now let's talk about the benefits you'll experience once you eliminate alcohol from your life. The changes are real and they're backed by science. When you cut out alcohol, your liver can start to heal. Studies actually show that heavy drinkers who abstain for just two to four weeks experience significant reductions in liver inflammation and improvements in liver function.
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By cutting out alcohol, you drastically reduce your risk for cancers related to alcohol consumption. You also improve your chances of living a longer, healthier, happier life, free from the heavy burden of cancer risks. When you stop drinking, you'll experience improved sleep quality, longer REM cycles, and a huge increase in your daytime energy.
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Imagine waking up every day feeling rested, clear-headed, and ready to take on whatever comes your way. That's the power of eliminating alcohol from your life. So how do you begin cutting alcohol out of your life? Let me give you a few actionable steps that will make this transition a little easier. First of all, start small.
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I remember Ed Mylett sharing a video online, and I repeat this all the time. He talked about growing up as a young boy, and his father was recovering from alcoholism. And he asked his father, he said, Dad, do you think you're ever going to drink again? And his father said, I don't know, son, but I know I'm not going to drink for one more day. And it's all about starting small.
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If you're used to drinking regularly, start off by reducing your alcohol intake. Try eliminating it one day a week and then gradually increase the number of alcohol-free days. Track your progress and be kind to yourself as you make these changes. You can also set boundaries. If you're in a social situation where drinking is common, set clear boundaries for yourself.
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Decide in advance how much you'll drink or if you're gonna drink at all. It's easier to stick to your decision when you've already made it beforehand. And third is you can find substitutes. There are plenty of non-alcoholic beverages available today, sparkling water with lime, non-alcoholic beers, or even mocktails.
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These can satisfy the craving for something refreshing without the harmful effects of alcohol. You can also shift your social activities. If you normally hang out at bars or parties, try shifting your social activities to places that don't revolve around drinking. Outdoor activities, fitness classes, or even board game nights are all amazing alternatives. Focus on your health.
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Remember, when you cut out alcohol, focus on the positive benefits that you're going to experience. Imagine clearer skin, more energy, better sleep, a sharper mind. By shifting your focus to these benefits, you'll find it easier to stick to your decision. This week, I challenge you to take one step towards reducing your alcohol consumption. Start by eliminating just one drink.
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Notice how your body responds and pay attention to how you feel mentally and physically just by doing that. I know it's not easy, but the science is clear. Cutting out alcohol will have a profound effect on your health. You'll sleep better, you'll think more clearly, and you'll feel more energized, I promise you.
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By reducing alcohol, you're not just making a small change in your routine, you're transforming your health for the better. Thanks for tuning into the Ultimate Human Podcast. If you're ready to take the next step in transforming your health, I encourage you to take a hard look at your relationship with alcohol.
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146. Your Body is BEGGING You to Know This About Alcohol!
Let me give you a few actionable steps that will make this transition a little easier. First of all, Welcome back to the Ultimate Human Podcast. I'm your host, Gary Brekka, and today we're tackling a topic that has a huge impact on your health, one that's deeply ingrained in our social culture, yet often goes unchecked when it comes to its consequences. I'm talking about alcohol.
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You'll be amazed at the positive changes that follow when you take control of your body and your mind. So until next time, remember, small changes equal big results. And that's just science.
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146. Your Body is BEGGING You to Know This About Alcohol!
Did you know that alcohol is one of the top five causes of chronic disease worldwide? While a glass of wine or beer may seem like a harmless way to unwind, the reality is that alcohol can wreak havoc on your body in ways you might not even realize. From disrupting your sleep to increasing your risk of cancer, liver damage, and even cognitive decline, alcohol is silently undermining your health.
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138. The Dark Truth About US Baby Formula & What’s Really Inside
Have you ever wondered what's really in your baby's formula and how it could be affecting their health in the long run? Formula is designed to mimic the nutrient profile of breast milk. It includes proteins, fats, carbohydrates, vitamins, and minerals that are essential for the baby's growth and development.
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138. The Dark Truth About US Baby Formula & What’s Really Inside
Welcome back to the Ultimate Human Podcast. I'm your host, human biologist, Gary Brekka, and today we're tackling a topic that every parent and health enthusiast should know about baby formula. The choices we make in early nutrition can really set the stage for lifelong health. Did you know that ingredients in baby formula vary significantly between the United States and other parts of the world?
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Today, we're gonna break down what's inside the bottle, why it matters, and the potential health risks linked to some of the common ingredients in US formulas. Let's break it down. Let's start with a basic question. What exactly is baby formula? Formula is designed to mimic the nutrient profile of breast milk.
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It includes proteins, fats, carbohydrates, vitamins, and minerals that are essential for the baby's growth and development. However, while formula is meant to provide the best substitute for breast milk, the quality and safety of these ingredients can vary widely, especially based on where you are in the world.
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However, in the US, many baby formulas contain ingredients like corn syrup, sucrose, soy protein isolate, and palm oil. These ingredients are widely used because they are cost-effective, easy to produce, and they're shelf-stable. Research shows that high fructose corn syrup is a major contributor to fatty liver disease, and it messes with the liver's ability to regulate blood sugar.
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In the US, many baby formulas contain ingredients like corn syrup, sucrose, soy protein isolate, and palm oil. These ingredients are widely used because they are cost-effective, easy to produce, and they're shelf-stable. However, these ingredients can be problematic for infant health over time. On the other hand, many European formulas are held to stricter regulations.
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Organic and clean label ingredients are prioritized, and potentially harmful additives like kerogen and synthetic preservatives are avoided at all costs. European formulas are designed to more closely replicate the nutrient profile of breast milk with fewer additives, fewer preservatives, and artificial components.
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Today, we're going to break down why these differences matter and what you need to know as a parent when choosing your formula for your child. Let's talk about America versus the rest of the world and what are some of the key differences. High fructose corn syrup and added sugars. Let's start with one of the most concerning ingredients in many US formulas, high fructose corn syrup or HFCS.
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High fructose corn syrup and sucrose are used in many formulas to provide energy. The problem is that these sugars, while quick to give an energy burst, are linked to several long-term metabolic problems. Research shows that high-fructose corn syrup is a major contributor to fatty liver disease, and it messes with the liver's ability to regulate blood sugar. If this sounds alarming, it should be.
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This can lead to insulin resistance, type 2 diabetes, and obesity, yes, even in children. Now, in Europe, high fructose corn syrup and sucrose are banned or severely limited in baby formulas. Instead, formulas in Europe rely on lactose, the primary sugar found in breast milk.
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Lactose provides a steady, balanced energy supply without disrupting the metabolic process or contributing to obesity and insulin resistance. The second is soy protein isolate and phytoestrogens. This ingredient is often used in U.S. baby formulas for babies who have milk allergies, but soy contains something called phytoestrogens.
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These are plant-based compounds that can mimic estrogen in their little bodies. Studies have even shown that prolonged exposure to high levels of phytoestrogens during infancy could potentially disrupt hormonal development and brain development. More concerning, research suggests that soy-based formulas could influence the timing of puberty and even lead to reproductive issues later in life.
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In Europe, soy protein isolate is typically used under medical guidance and is not the first choice for infant formulas. That's an important distinction. European formulas prioritize whey and casein proteins, which are closer to breast milk and easier for babies to digest. These proteins also have more natural composition and don't carry the same hormonal risk associated with soy.
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Palm oil is another one, and its impact on nutrient absorption needs to be examined. So let's talk about palm oil, which is a common fat source in the US.
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While palm oil is inexpensive and stable, studies have shown it reduces calcium absorption, which can lead to weaker bones in infants, and it also causes gastrointestinal discomfort in a lot of babies, leading to gas, bloating, and digestive upset. In Europe, palm oil is restricted or avoided, and healthier alternatives like some dairy-based proteins and dairy-based fats are preferred.
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This can not only promote better calcium absorption, but they can also reduce the risk of gastrointestinal distress. Plus, they're more in line with the fat composition found in breast milk, making them a healthier choice for babies. Next, let's dive into carrageen, a thickening agent used in some US formulas to improve texture and shelf life.
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This can lead to insulin resistance, type 2 diabetes, and obesity, yes, even in children. A 2021 study found that added sugars and formulas contribute to rapid weight gain in infants, which sets the stage for childhood obesity. By choosing formulas with lactose instead of added sugars, parents can help prevent obesity and metabolic issues for their little babies later in life.
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Carrageen is linked to gastrointestinal inflammation, irritable bowel syndrome, and digestive issues, which is especially concerning for infants with developing digestive systems. Additionally, many US formulas contain artificial flavors, colors, and preservatives, which definitely disrupt the microbiome and the immune system development.
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In Europe, carrageen is actually banned because of its potential to cause inflammation. European formulas focus on clean label ingredients using natural preservatives and avoiding artificial additives that can harm infant health. Less is more in Europe, and formulas are designed to mimic the natural composition of breast milk. Let's break down some of the research backing these concerns.
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The impact of added sugars on metabolism. A 2021 study found that added sugars in formulas contribute to rapid weight gain in infants, which sets the stage for childhood obesity. By choosing formulas with lactose instead of added sugars, parents can help prevent obesity and metabolic issues for their little babies later in life. Second are hormone disruptors mainly found in soy.
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Research has shown that prolonged exposure to phytoestrogens in soy formulas can delay puberty in males and accelerate puberty in females, which can have long-term consequences on brain development and reproductive health. So what should you do as a parent? Here are some actionable steps to make the best choice for your baby. First, research ingredients.
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Look for formulas that use lactose as the primary form of sugar and avoid those with high fructose corn syrup or maltodextrin. Check for natural DHA, ARA sources and avoid hexane extracted oils like seed oils. Prioritize quality certifications. Opt for USDA organic or EU organic certified formulas. These are certifications that ensure higher standards and avoid certain harmful additives.
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Look for probiotics and prebiotics. Choose formulas that include probiotics or prebiotics which support a healthy gut microbiome and immune development. Consult your pediatrician. Always talk to your pediatrician if you have concerns about your baby's formula. They can provide advice on specific baby needs. And finally, understand international regulations.
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If you're considering European formulas, make sure they meet FDA import standards for US use. European formulas are held to higher safety standards, but you should still ensure that they're legally approved for US use. Choosing the right formula for your baby is one of the most important decisions you'll ever make. especially as a parent.
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With the knowledge about the ingredients and regulations in the US versus the rest of the world, you can make informed decisions that support your baby's health and wellbeing. By prioritizing formulas with clean ingredients, minimal additives, and natural sources of nutrients, you can help ensure your baby gets the best start possible. Thanks for tuning in today to the Ultimate Human Podcast.
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If you found this episode valuable, share it with other parents and be sure to check out the resources we've discussed today. Keep making informed choices on your family's health. After all, it starts with what's in the bottle. Remember, knowledge is power when it comes to your baby's nutrition. Stay curious, always ask questions, and make decisions based on what's best for their long-term health.
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And that's just science.
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138. The Dark Truth About US Baby Formula & What’s Really Inside
So what should you do as a parent? Here are some actionable steps to make the best choice for your baby. First, Have you ever wondered what's really in your baby's formula and how it could be affecting their health in the long run? For many of us, that bottle is a go-to solution when breastfeeding isn't an option. But do you know what's actually inside that formula?
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138. The Dark Truth About US Baby Formula & What’s Really Inside
From hidden sugars to questionable additives, the ingredients in US formulas are drastically different from their counterparts in other parts of the world. Today, we're diving into the science behind these differences, the health risks that they might pose, and what every parent should know to make the best, most informed choice for their baby's health. So let's dive right in.
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You asked, I answered. So here we go. Let's fire this up. For those of us who experience acid reflux, what are some effective natural approaches to manage it or eliminate it? Generally, acid reflux is actually caused by, for new mothers experience, postpartum brain fog and mood shifts. What lifestyle supplementation approaches can help rebalance hormones and alleviate these symptoms?
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So remember, there's a pH scale, which stands for potential hydrogen. As you get higher on that scale, you get more alkaline. less acidic. As you get lower on the scale, you get more acidic and less alkaline. The sphincter muscle that's at the top of your stomach that separates your esophagus from your stomach is called the cardiac sphincter. Cardiac because it sits right outside the heart.
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And when that sphincter muscle opens, it's opening in response to more alkalinity. It closes in response to increased acidity. So as the pH drops in the stomach, that muscle constricts. As the pH rises, that muscle relaxes. So the opposite of what you think is happening.
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Generally, acid reflux, although it can be caused from other things, but a lot of gastroesophageal reflux disease or acid reflux is actually caused by too little stomach acid. So there's something called beta-ene hydrochloride. Thorne makes it.
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There are bundles that you can buy from Thorne and other manufacturers that will actually help to concentrate the acid in your stomach so that the pH level drops and you can hopefully stop experiencing acid reflux.
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If you've been on proton pump inhibitors or acid blockers like Tums, for prolonged periods of time, you want to titrate off of these things slowly, but make it a goal to get off of PPIs, proton pump inhibitors, or acid blocking agents that you're using to control acid reflux. Can a colonoscopy or related procedures disrupt gut health?
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And what procedures can one take to minimize any adverse effects? Again, I'm not a physician. I'm not licensed to practice medicine. I am not a big fan of colonoscopies because they flush the bowel of a lot of the bacteria that you have.
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Can a colonoscopy disrupt gut health? Are there potential long-term impacts of statin use that people should be aware of? For some with an egg allergy looking to maintain nutrient-rich diets, what are some excellent high-protein replacements for eggs? Other high-protein replacements include whole foods.
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Very often people that have been diagnosed with Crohn's go in for colonoscopies and they actually have bowel flushes done and the bowel flushes all of the beneficial bacteria out of the gut. I would follow the advice of your gastrointestinal specialist.
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However, one of the best things that we can do to minimize the effects of a colonoscopy would be to be diligent about repopulating the gut post-procedure. This would include taking a very healthy probiotic or also Dr. Gundry, who is a cardiologist turned functional medicine practitioner. He makes one called BioComplete 3. I'm a big fan of that. No, I'm not an affiliate with that company.
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I have no financial arrangement with him whatsoever. I'm just a big fan of his BioComplete 3. I also believe in the probiotic that I make because it actually protects the bacteria from the stomach acid and opens in an alkaline environment. But repopulating the gut is not just as simple as taking probiotics. You want to also take what's called prebiotics. These are the food that bacteria eat.
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You may have heard of prebiotics and probiotics. Probiotics are the bacteria themselves. Prebiotics are the food that the bacteria feed on. The best source of prebiotics, in my opinion, are fermented vegetables. Things like fermented kimchi or fermented sauerkraut, pickled vegetables, or even kefir. The reason why these are so good is because they not only bring probiotics with them,
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but they also bring prebiotic fiber, insoluble fiber, which actually converts into something called free fatty acids, which is excellent for inflammation. Okay, so let's move to the next question, which was, what are some effective long-term approaches to recover from mold or mycotoxin exposure and detoxify the body safely? This is an excellent question.
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So three big things that you need to do with mold. The number one is the absolute most important. If you're found to have mold or mycotoxicity on a blood test or some other kind of test, the number one thing you have to do is get out of the environment with mold.
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You will never heal or detoxify from mold or mycotoxin poisoning while you are still in the house that got you the mold toxicity in the first place. The second thing I would do, and I sell a very good one on my site, I'm not just trying to sell you an air filter, but we sell an air filter that goes down to 0.3 microns, right on the ultimate human, and it also has an ozone setting.
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And the reason why I like ozone with mold and mycotoxin poisoning is is that you filter the air down to very, very, very small microns to take the mold spores and the mycotoxins out of the air, as well as some viruses, dust particles, and other contaminants that are in our air, you know, aluminum fragments and what have you.
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But the thing that you can do when you leave the room is you can actually run an ozone setting and ozone gas will actually kill mold on the back of your drywall. It can even disinfect your air supply.
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I prefer... What are some effective long-term approaches to recover from mold or mycotoxin exposure and detoxify the body safely? The number one thing you have to do is... Hey guys, welcome back to the Ultimate Human Podcast. I'm your host, human biologist, Gary Brekka.
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But number one thing to do is if you are still in the home or the place, the condo that got you the mold exposure, you have to move out of that location and get to a place that's been certified to be mold-free. Number two, you should take a binder. There are several binders that are very good for mold toxicity, certain zeolite binders, charcoal binders.
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A good friend of mine, Dr. Daryl Geoffrey, makes an excellent binder at Kick Your Acid. He makes a binder that is specific for mold toxicity that I am a huge fan of. I actually use his coffee creamers too, but that would be my second recommendation. And the third would be that ozone, either intravenous ozone,
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ebu ozone or 10 pass ozone as well as transdermal ozone by using something called a hocat machine hockett h-o-c-a-t-t spans for hyperthermic ozone carbonic acid transdermal therapy that's a fancy way of saying a box that steams your body up and releases ozone gas through the skin and allows for the slow detoxification of mold and mycotoxins
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There's another product called Metal and Chemical-Free Cleanse. It's by Dr. Minkoff at Body Health, which I think is a sublingual, which is also good for mold, mycotoxins, metals, and other contaminants. And then the final thing that you want to do is retest every three months for your mold or mycotoxin levels to see if they are decreasing.
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Again, if you don't get out of the mold or mycotoxin environment, there will be zero chance you will be able to detoxify from those compounds. The next one was, are there potential long-term impacts of statin use that people should be aware of, especially concerning cholesterol and overall metabolic health? Absolutely. Cholesterol is a construction material. It's not a fuel source.
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We use it to build cell walls, cell membranes. We use it to make vitamin D3, cholecalciferol, which we make from sunlight and cholesterol. So cholesterol very often gets a bad rap, and it is the oxidation of the cholesterol that causes the problem. Very often, statins have been linked to early onset of some forms of cognitive decline.
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I did an excellent podcast with Dr. Asim Malhotra, M-A-L-H-O-T-R-A. He is a cardiologist from Europe. He's got a number of published articles in the British Medical Journal. He's a very credentialed cardiologist, and I would suggest that you watch that podcast.
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We go deep, deep, deep down the rabbit hole of the long-term impacts of statin use and making you aware of what the risks are, and especially concerning cholesterol. For some with an egg allergy looking to maintain nutrient-rich diets, what are some excellent high-protein replacements for eggs? Well, number one for me would be Perfect Aminos.
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It is a blend of the eight essential amino acids that's non-caloric and it's equivalent to 30 grams of protein and it's 99% absorbable. Another one of my favorite, believe it or not, would be shelled hemp seeds. For every single gram of carbohydrate, they have 10 grams of protein and are packed with heart-healthy omega-3 fatty acids. Other high protein replacements include whole foods.
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I prefer grass-fed beef. pasture-raised chickens or wild-caught fish. Those would be my next three go-to choices. Remember, you can also get high protein in areas where you might not be looking for it. Things like cottage cheeses are excellent sources of high-quality protein. Even raw yogurts are excellent sources. Raw A2 full-fat yogurts are great sources of protein.
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Given the chronic nature of Lyme disease, what is a comprehensive strategy to support recovery and manage symptoms effectively? the first thing you've got to do is you've got to improve your immune system. You know, so many people that are on immunosuppressants or have other chronic infections end up with long-term viral pathogens.
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Remember, a lot of times the viruses that we have are not viruses that we caught. They're viruses that we've always had. You know, like a mono comes back as Epstein-Barr. Chickenpox comes back as shingles. So what we want to do is we want to support our immune system. One of my favorite things to do to support the immune system is to take resveratrol. I take a form called Vasovir. resveratrol.
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You asked, I listened, and so this is your chance to have the questions you submitted to my team at the Ultimate Human answered right here on this podcast. So let's get into it. For those of us who experience acid reflux, especially triggered by fatty foods or tomatoes, what are some effective natural approaches to manage it or eliminate it?
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Make sure you do a genetic test so your elimination pathways are working well, especially your glutathione detoxification pathways. Regular intravenous therapy with high-dose vitamin C has been showed to have a profound effect on Lyme recovery. Also, managing, healing, sealing, and repairing your gut so that your immune system is not involved in a multi-front war while it's also trying to
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kill viral pathogens. There's no magic bullet for Lyme disease, but a comprehensive strategy to boost the immune system and to attack the virus is the best way to go. For someone with gastroparalysis dependent on long-term antibiotics, what steps might help them taper off medication safely while supporting gut healing?
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Well, if the gastroparesis caused you to go on antibiotics, then it depends on how long this gastroparesis lasts. Currently unaware of people having gastroparesis that lasts a lifetime without also having to have surgery to resect that area of the bowel.
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This isn't a core competency of mine, but I would absolutely encourage you to do everything to make sure that you have healthy gastrointestinal functions. So things like methylfolate, which are good for your gastric motility.
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Also, pre and probiotics, eating foods that have prebiotics like your fermented vegetables, probiotics that you can take orally, a good brand of probiotics like Dr. Dundry's BioComplete 3. And then also things like colostrum. I make a colostrum. There's a brand called Omra that makes a great colostrum. If you can actually get raw colostrum from the farmer's market, that's even better.
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I would be constantly doing things to heal and seal and repair the gut. I might also think about taking a supplement called Toxiprevent Lower GI, which is a great binder to help you get inflammatory compounds out of the gut. What are the most effective peptides for naturally raising testosterone levels? And how can one use these safely?
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Well, the best way to use them is to have a licensed physician prescribe them for you. So find a functional medicine physician that's actually got some experience in peptides and hormones and talk to them about peptides that you have read about or have heard about.
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So, peptides that boost testosterone are things like Gnatarellin, which is a peptide that mimics the action of the luteinizing and follicle stimulating hormones that are released from the pituitary to stimulate testosterone production. There are other peptides that are good for testosterone, even some that are outside the peptide category, like Tonkat Ali.
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I would have a full-blown hormone panel done to see if you're deficient in the raw materials that build hormone testosterone, like a deficiency in DHEA. But if you have a good licensed physician, a general medicine practitioner, someone that understands how to read a hormone panel, they can usually send you down the right road for peptides.
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For new mothers experience postpartum brain fog, hyperhidrosis, and mood shifts, what lifestyle supplementation approaches can help rebalance hormones and alleviate these symptoms? Number one, take a prenatal that is, and you can take prenatals after the child is born, take a prenatal with methylated multivitamin, meaning that has methylated nutrients in it. And by all means, stop folic acid.
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Get folic acid out of your diet, which are fortified or enriched foods. Stop the folic acid, begin a methylated multivitamin test, and supplement for deficiency based on your genetic results. All right, that wound it up. Wow, that was great. I hope that was enjoyable for you guys. Please continue to submit your questions. I want to be as responsive as I possibly can. I'm here to serve you guys.
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Well, I would say stop eating fatty foods or tomatoes, but let's take it a step further. Very often when we actually eat highly acidic foods like tomatoes and other acidic compounds, if you have acid reflux, this can significantly aggravate it. It's important to back up and understand what acid reflux really is. It is usually a deficiency in the acid concentration, not too much acid.
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So if you tell me what topics are on your mind, where there's controversy you'd like me to clear up, or what topics you'd like to see further research or even experts on my podcast to break the ice, I'm happy to do that for you. Submit your questions to info at theultimatehuman.com. We'll consolidate those questions and we will get back to you with a podcast short to answer them.
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Until later, it's just science.
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When you extend your normal overnight fast by just a few hours, let's say skipping late night stacks or just delaying your breakfast, your body shifts from burning sugar into burning fat for energy, a metabolic switch with huge payoffs. You start clearing out fat stores and resensitizing your cells to insulin, which means better blood sugar control.
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A systematic review of 40 studies found intermittent fasting can cut about 7 to 11 pounds over 10 weeks on average. But fasting isn't just about the scale. It triggers a cellular cleanse called autophagy. Nobel Prize winning research behind this. Your cells gobble up debris and they use it to regenerate. It's like a detox for your cells, potentially slowing aging and even preventing disease.
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Research in animals shows lifespan extension with fasting and emerging human studies hint at improvements in biomarkers of heart health, cholesterol, and inflammation when intermittent fasting is practiced consistently. Harvard Medical School notes that intermittent fasting can improve blood pressure, cholesterol levels, and even reduce inflammation in the body.
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There's even evidence that it boosts brain health, possibly increasing BDNF, brain-derived neurotropic factor, a growth factor that helps create new neurons and synapses in the brain, enhancing your learning and your memory. No pill can do all that, and you're doing it for free. The beauty of intermittent fasting is flexibility. A popular beginner approach is the 16-8 method.
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You fast for 16 hours, including sleep, and you eat meals within an eight-hour window. For example, 12 p.m. to 8 p.m., then water, black tea, coffee, until the next day at noon. During the fasting period, you're allowed water, black coffee, or teas, just no calories.
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At first, you might feel a little hungry or cranky as your body adapts to that normal break in the frequent eating cycle, but by week two or three, most people feel a surge in sustained energy and clearer headspace. No more 3pm crashes because your metabolism has learned to smoothly tap into the fat stores as fuel.
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One study in cell metabolism showed that early time-restricted eating, like an earlier dinner, improved metabolic health in pre-diabetic men. The key is consistency, guys. Pick a schedule that suits your lifestyle and stick to it. Even a 14-hour fast, say 7pm to 9am, can confer benefits if 16 feels too hard. Tonight, Finish your last meal by, let's say, 7 or 8 p.m.
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Then don't consume any calories until breakfast a bit later tomorrow. Aim for 12 to 14 hours of a fast to get yourself started. Do this a few times a week. Pay attention to your body, and within days, You'll notice less bloating, steadier energy, and that light yet focused feeling indicating your body is running cleaner. Intermittent fasting is a tool.
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Use it wisely and you can fundamentally upgrade your biology. You've just been harmed with five of the most potent zero-cost biohacks on the planet. But knowledge means nothing without action, guys. I challenge you starting today to incorporate these habits into your life. Drink in the morning sun, breathe with intention, embrace the cold, prioritize your sleep, and try a new fasting window.
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Your body is incredibly adaptable and wants to heal and deserves to thrive. When you give it the right stimuli, the changes can be almost miraculous. And remember, these hacks are for everyone. Men, women, young or old, midlife, busy, parent, college student, you don't need permission or fancy equipment to begin. You just need the commitment to yourself.
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I'm talking about better sleep, sharper focus, a boosted immune system, and sky-high energy levels. No fluff, just the biological truth. Are you ready? All right, let's dive in here on the top five free biohacks ranked by public interest and proven by science. Your transformation starts right now. So let's start off with number five, optimizing your sleep by mastering your sleep hygiene.
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Imagine 30 days from now, you bounce out of bed clear-headed, you're leaner, you're stronger, your mood's upbeat, and you haven't even had a sniffle while people around you are catching colds. That's what's on the table. I see it every day in my clients and I live it myself. Now it's your turn. Pick one of these five and do it tomorrow morning. Experience the change.
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Then share this episode with someone you care about and let's create a ripple effect of empowered, healthy humans. No more excuses or waiting for the right time or the right product. The ultimate human is already inside you. Unlocked by these simple habits. You've got this. Now make it happen. I'll see you on the next episode. And until next time, that's just science.
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You always hear me say sleep is our human superpower and that's because it is. Seven hours of high quality sleep isn't a luxury, it's a biological necessity for peak mental and physical performance. If you're skipping sleep, you're sabotaging your potential.
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I'm talking about better sleep, sharper focus, a boosted immune system, and sky-high energy levels. No fluff, just the biological truth. I'm gonna hand you the top five free biohacks that anyone can implement starting today. In a world obsessed with expensive supplements and gadgets, you already possess the tools for radical improvement.
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Studies show that people who sleep less than six hours a night are four times more likely to catch a cold compared to those getting seven plus hours. Chronic short sleep disrupts your immune system and ramps up stress hormones. We know that sleep deprivation is even a form of torture. It's not just about avoiding illness. Your brain literally cleans itself during deep sleep.
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It flushes out toxins and it solidifies your memories. Research found that about seven hours per night is the sweet spot for cognitive function and mental health in adults. Anything less or much more correlates with impaired focus, mood swings, and even long-term risk of cognitive decline. So how do we hack our sleep for free? Create a sleep fortress. Start by keeping your room cool.
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And by cool, I mean 67 to 69 degrees Fahrenheit. Keep it very dark. Surgically remove all of the light from your room. And when I say surgically, kind of put your curtains together, throw a towel over your alarm clock, even take a piece of tape and put it over that little annoying light that's on your fire alarm. Get your room as dark as you can possibly get it.
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Science shows that it takes very little candle wattage coming through our eyelids to raise our cortisol levels. And quiet the signals in your brain to let your brain know it's time to shut down. The second thing you need to do for sleep is set a consistent bedtime. All of the research, including what was recently published by Whoop, says that consistent sleep aligns your natural circadian rhythm.
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So this doesn't cost you a dime, but it allows you to keep your promises to yourself about putting yourself to bed. We think about setting alarms to wake up. I want you to begin to set an alarm to go to sleep. Avoid screen time for one hour before bed.
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If you have to use screen time in bed, find the red light setting on your phone so the blue light is not as ambient at night, rising your cortisol level and causing you to wake up. Before bed, the blue light is like an anti-sleep drug, tricking your brain into daytime mode. Instead, dim the lights and maybe do some light reading or meditation.
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And by honoring a nightly wind-down routine, you're going to start to train your body's melatonin on cue, leading to faster sleep onset and deeper rest. The result? You're going to wake up feeling recharged with higher alertness and a stronger immune defense. So tonight, aim for seven to eight hours. Cut off electronics 60 minutes before bed. Stop eating two hours before bed.
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Your future self, energized and illness resistant, will thank you. My final tip for sleep is once you're in bed, if you don't have a sleep mask, I want you to do this easy breath work technique. Long, slow inhale through your nose. Followed by a three to five second pause and out through a straw.
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By being consistent about your bedtime, stopping foods two hours before bedtime, limiting or eliminating screen time, cooling your room down, darkening your room, and focusing on that breathwork technique at night, you can get consistent sleep at no additional cost. The final trick is to actually imagine taking all of those racing thoughts from your head, breathing them into your lungs,
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Your body is begging for these hacks, and once you deploy them, the results will speak for themselves. These are the same strategies I use with world-class athletes, peak performers, and let me be clear, these hacks are for everyone. You don't need permission or fancy equipment to begin. You just need the commitment to yourself. Let's start off with...
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holding them in your lungs and breathing them out. Just a form of visual conscious meditation. Number four, harness the power of breath work. This is conscious breathing, drawing your attention to your breath, exercising your intercostal muscles, which are called auxiliary muscles of respiration. And here's the shocker.
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Something as simple as controlled breathing can flip your body from stress mode into superhuman calm within minutes, changing you from a sympathetic state, fight or flight, into a parasympathetic state, rest and digest. Most of us go through the day chest breathing in fight or flight, never tapping into the full capacity of our lungs.
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Remember, the top third of your lungs up here is called the apex. This is the lowest volume of our lungs. Down here at the bottom are the lobes of our lungs, big healthy sacs that we can fill with air. Biohackers and neuroscientists alike are raving about breathwork and it's free and they rave about it for a good reason.
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A recent meta-analysis and scientific reports found that practicing breathing exercise significantly decreased stress and improved overall mental health. Deep, slow breathing can trigger your vagus nerve, which in turn lowers your heart rate and your blood pressure. Think of the vagus nerve as a tree in your head that drops these roots down and spreads them all throughout your gut.
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It can lower blood pressure and pull you out of anxiety's grip. In fact, daily sessions of deep diaphragmatic breathing have been shown to reduce resting blood pressure levels and cortisol levels, combating hypertension and stress at their core.
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I know so many of you are suffering from anxiousness, anxiety, racing thoughts, ruminating thoughts, or just a really active mind, and drawing your attention to your breath is one of the best ways to hack your biology for free. How does it work? Think of breathwork as the remote control for your nervous system. When you take slow, deep breaths,
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Let's say inhaling for four seconds, holding for four, and exhaling for six to eight seconds, you activate your parasympathetic rest and digest response. Sometimes these breathwork techniques are referred to as natural Xanax. They're that powerful. This floods your system with a sense of calm and focus.
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A study from 2023 confirmed that even brief daily breath work can boost your mood and reduce anxiety more effectively than just mindfulness and meditation. The beauty is you can do this anywhere. It's portable, anytime, in your car, at your desk, lying in bed. I do not suggest you do it while you're driving or you're standing.
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I prefer that you're sitting in a parked car or laying in bed or sitting or resting comfortably. For beginners, I recommend the 4-7-8 technique. Inhale through the nose for a count of four. Hold for seven seconds. And exhale slowly through the mouth for eight. Make a straw-like pursing your lips. Repeat this for a few cycles. Get off of your phone.
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Preferably look outside into nature as far out on the horizon as you can. Even if it's too cold to go outside, just gaze outside into nature. And within minutes, you'll feel a tangible shift, a loosened neck, unclenched jaw, and a clear centered mind. Tomorrow morning before grabbing your phone, spend five minutes on deep breathing. Try belly breaths or the 4-7-8 method.
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You'll carry steady calm into your day and with practice, you'll become virtually unshakable under pressure and your body will begin to clue into this type of breath work as a way to relax. Number three, morning sunlight exposure. Activating your circadian rhythm. Guys, the science is in, it's clear.
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We no longer think that waking with the sun and consistent bedtimes does not have an effect on your cellular biology. It absolutely does. We are circadian creatures. We are creatures of habit. Our bodies crave routine. So the moment you wake up, one of the most powerful things you can do is step outside and embrace the natural sunlight.
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Even if it's cold and it's cloudy, this is not just about getting vitamin D, though that's a bonus. It's about setting your internal clock. A lot of the light that resets your cortisol and your melatonin receptors will come right through the clouds. Your brain's circadian rhythm controls your energy levels, hormone release, and even how well you sleep at night.
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Hey guys, welcome back to the Ultimate Human Podcast. I'm starting a series on my favorite free biohacks. So here's five free biohacks that you need to know right now. What if I told you the most powerful upgrades to your body and your mind cost nothing at all? This isn't hype. It's hard science.
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Morning sunlight is the key that winds this clock correctly. Exposure to bright light first thing in the morning sends a signal to your suprachiasmatic nucleus, your brain's timekeeper, that it's daytime, triggering a cascade of healthy hormone production. Science backs this up.
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Research from Stanford shows that getting natural light in the morning strengthens your circadian rhythm and leads to better quality sleep at night. In fact, just 5 to 10 minutes of morning sun can help you fall asleep faster and sleep deeper the night that you get it. So here's why this is a game changer. Early sun exposure boosts your mood and focus all day long. And how?
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Sunlight hitting your eyes, yes, you need to be outside, at a window, indoor lighting is too dim, triggers the release of serotonin, the neurotransmitter that makes you feel calm, positive, and focused. That serotonin later converts to melatonin in the evening, prepping you for effortless sleep. Additionally, natural light inhibits the excess melatonin that can make you groggy in the morning.
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It's basically telling your body, wake up, let's crush the day. One study even found that people who got ample morning sunlight had more balanced hormones and were less prone to depression and seasonal affective disorder. And get this, morning sun can even help you manage your weight.
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A study in WebMD noted that 20 to 30 minutes of morning light was associated with lower BMI, possibly because sunlight may help shrink fat cells, and definitely because it encourages you to be more active earlier in the day. Within 30 minutes of waking, go outside and get natural light in your eyes. No sunglasses, guys, just natural light.
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If you want to put this on steroids, take a short walk or just enjoy your coffee by a bright window. Do this for a week and note the surge in your daytime energy and how much better you sleep as a result. The sun is nature's original biohack. Let's use it. Number two, cold exposure. Ignite your body's revival mode. Ready for a wake-up call?
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Cold exposure is the biohack that will snap you awake, turbocharge your mood, and harden your resilience. This is one of the best hormetic stresses we can introduce to the body, all in under three minutes. cold showers, ice baths, or a brisk water swim, you can choose your own adventure. You don't need to invest in an expensive cold plunge. You can take a cold shower.
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If you have a tub, you can put Tupperware containers in your freezer full of water and the next day take them out, drop these ice blocks in your bathtub, and you will have a cold plunge for free that doesn't cost you a dime and will last you three days. It's not just about toughening up. When your body hits cold water, massive physiological magic happens.
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Adrenaline spikes, circulation surges, and your brain floods with neurotransmitters. One study found that immersion in 14 degrees Celsius water boosted norepinephrine by 530% and dopamine by 250% above baseline. I will link the studies below. Dopamine is your motivation and your pleasure chemical. A 250% increase is like a natural high.
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In the next 20 minutes, I'm going to hand you the top five free biohacks that anyone can implement starting today. These are the same strategies I use with world-class athletes, peak performers, celebrities, A-listers. And let me be clear, each hack is completely free. It's backed by research and so efficient, it's almost criminal for me not to share it.
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translating into sharpened focus and an elevated mood lasting for hours after cold exposure. That's why so many swear by cold shower each morning to feel alert and optimistic. But the benefits don't stop at mood. Cold exposure can dramatically strengthen your immune system. It can also reduce inflammation.
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And in a large randomized clinical trial at the Netherlands showed that people who entered their daily showers with a cold blast Just 30 to 90 seconds called in sick to work 29% less than those who didn't. Think about that. Nearly a third reduction in illness-related absenteeism just from a cold rinse. The cold essentially trains your blood vessels and your immune cells.
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Initially, it triggers a spike in inflammatory markers. That's your body mounting an immune defense. But over time, it leads to a reduction in chronic inflammation and increase in circulating immune cells. Athletes have used ice bath for years to reduce muscle soreness, and now we know it also builds resilience at a cellular level.
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Plus, cold exposure stimulates brown fat, a type of fat that burns calories to generate heat, thereby boosting your metabolism and your insulin sensitivity, so it's a one-two punch. You burn more fat, and you train your body to handle stress better. Now, I'm not saying it's easy. I'm saying it's worth it. If you're new to this, start small. Finish your warm shower with 30 seconds of cold water.
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Breathe through it. Slow, deep, intentional breath. Let the water hit you and just deal with it. You'll go from... to I got this in a matter of days. As you adapt, try a full minute or an ice bath on the weekends. Feel that invigoration? That's the rush of endorphins and anti-inflammatory proteins lighting you up. Tomorrow morning, take your usual shower, but end it on cold.
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Stand under that chilly water for 30 seconds. You work your way up to 90 seconds because you can handle it. Build up from there. Consistency is the key, and daily cold dosages keep your dopamine up, inflammation down, and train you to embrace discomfort. This hormetic stress is like a gym workout for your cells, and you'll soon notice an increase in energy and that mental edge that sets you apart.
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And finally, intermittent fasting. While I don't believe this is for everybody, time-restricted eating can reset your metabolism. The number one free biohack crowned by search trends and success stories alike is intermittent fasting, or as I like to call it, teaching your body to run on rocket fuel. Intermittent fasting simply means cycling between periods of eating and not eating.
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And before you panic, this isn't about starving yourself. It's about optimizing when you eat and letting your body do the maintenance. Science has revealed profound benefits when we give our digestive system a break.
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We are fasting.
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America is eating 15 hours a day. And in the study that they did, people ate 17 times a day. I said, there's no freaking way people eat 17 times a day. He said, yeah, 17 times a day.
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Welcome back to the Ultimate Human Podcast. This is the short version where I answer the most commonly submitted questions and I try to put them into one concise short. So here we go. How do you know if you have a hidden parasite and how do you get rid of it? We all have parasites. The question is whether or not is folic acid actually toxic and should pregnant women avoid it?
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If you have a child that has recurrent sore throats, that has swollen glands in the back of their throat, and you're considering actually a tonsillectomy where you actually take the tonsils out or take out the adenoids to try to widen the throat, you may want to do mold and mycotoxin testing first. Mold and viruses, mold and bacteria have had a war going on for centuries.
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And so flare-ups often come from the mold sporulating. Mold also causes a sensation of brain fog, hormonal disruption, sleep disruption, and a flattening of mood. So if you have these kind of unexplained symptoms, one of the things that you should be tested for is mold and then talk to your doctor about a mold detox. One of the best ways to remove mold from your body is to activate your
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your own natural detox pathways. Things like glutathione, binders for your gut, charcoal binders, deolite or silica clay binders and sweating as often as you can. 20 minutes, three times a week in a dry sauna is a great way to activate your natural detoxification pathways. Stay hydrated.
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So if you're using a multivitamin or you're going to take a folic acid supplement, look for the methylated version called methylfolate on the back of the label, and you'll be doing yourself a lot of good, especially if you're a pregnant woman and you're concerned about healthy pregnancy. Why do most multivitamins actually do more harm than good? I don't know that multivitamins actually cause harm.
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But the number one thing, if you believe you've been exposed to mold or you are certain you have mold toxicity, nothing else matters but this. So if you don't remember anything from this podcast other than this next statement, please write it down. Nothing matters if you have mold toxicity more than getting yourself out of the environment where you were exposed.
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So have your house tested and remediate the mold. Have your car tested, your boat, wherever you are spending time, your office where you think you might be gaining this mold exposure. Find it and eradicate it because you will not ever address your mold toxicity while you are constantly inoculating yourself. Hope you found these helpful. Please continue to submit your questions.
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I love answering these in short form format. And if you're interested in more one-on-ones, live Q&As, private podcasts, and my 10-month course to becoming the ultimate human version of yourself, all of this I've put into my VIP group. You can become a VIP for $97 a month by going over to theultimatehuman.com forward slash VIP and signing up to be one of my VIPs.
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To your health, and that's just science.
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I just don't think that a lot of them are benefiting you. So for example, a lot of multivitamins will contain things like folic acid or cyanocobalamin, these very low or non-bioavailable forms of ingredients. One of the reasons why I recommend methylated multivitamins. I actually designed one called 10X Optimize.
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You can find it anywhere on Amazon, but there are lots of good methylated multivitamins. Thorne, Pure Encapsulation, Symbiotica, they all make great methylated multivitamins. I have no relationship with those brands, but they make good methylated versions of your multivitamin. How do you know if you have a hidden parasite and how do you get rid of it?
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There's lots of things that would indicate that you have a parasite, but here's the shocking news. If you're watching this podcast, you have parasites. We all have parasites. The question is whether or not we have parasites that are doing harm. Very often what you'll see on a blood test is very, very, very low odds. iron levels, especially in men.
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These are indicative of parasitic infections, but gut dysbiosis, brain fog, hormonal imbalance, even autoimmune conditions are linked back to helminth parasites and other parasites. I actually recommend doing a parasitic detox, which you should talk to your own doctor about because I am not licensed to practice medicine, but I do take a form of ivermectin and fenbendazole.
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Folic acid is not toxic. Folic acid is just... Why do most multivitamins actually do more harm than good? So for example, a lot of multivitamins will contain things like
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I take it three times a year just as a general parasitic detox. Lots of countries do these naturally so they can rid themselves of parasites on a regular basis. Talk to your functional medicine doctor about whether or not a parasite cleanse is right for you. I think they're very beneficial.
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what does your poop say about your health wow that is an interesting question but it says a lot about your health so here let's talk poop for a moment first of all every day you should be waking up and within 45 minutes of waking you should be having your first bowel movement your bowel movement should be solid not hard like constipation and not soft or runny like diarrhea but it should be a firm bowel movement and you should have one within 15 minutes of waking every morning
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One of the reasons why a lot of us are not having regular bowel movements, not the only reason, is because we are magnesium deficient. There are lots of products you can get out there for magnesium deficiency. Magnesium 3 and 8 is actually very good for bowel movements. I actually take a magnesium breakthrough product that has all seven.
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forms of magnesium in it, but you should be actually having regular bowel movements at a minimum of once a day. Most healthy bowels will eliminate two to three times per day. So the frequency of your bowel movements says How is your deodorant messing with your hormones? Wow, I just did an entire short on deodorant. So go back and find that deodorant short. It's completely free.
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I actually go through all the ingredients that are disrupting your hormones. But as a beginner, you should be thinking about the fact that we use aluminums to actually block our pores. Remember, there are deodorants, which actually allow you to sweat and cover it with a fragrance. And there are antiperspirants, which actually block your sweat glands from producing the sweat.
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how does alcohol consumption affect long-term health and what are your recommendations well if you are going to drink alcohol please what's the one supplement you've never taken why hmm i don't know that there's a single supplement but there are some ingredients like Welcome back to the Ultimate Human Podcast.
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162. Q&A with Gary: Parasites, Mold Toxicity, Folic Acid, & Testosterone Boost
Those are particularly harmful because very often we're using aluminum to block those sweat glands. Switch to a natural deodorant. You will find that they are the same price. They will block the same amount of odor and they are not wrecking your hormones at all. and clogging the axillary lymph nodes, which are right here in the axillary region of your arms, very, very close to your breast.
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162. Q&A with Gary: Parasites, Mold Toxicity, Folic Acid, & Testosterone Boost
Why are kids hitting puberty earlier and what's really causing it? Well, it's hard to say that it's a single cause, but it's multifactorial. In fact, the Maha movement is looking at this right now. Is it vaccinations? Is it the endocrine disruptors that we're giving our children? Is it the actual mimicking of estrogen that comes from things like hormone-laden chicken?
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162. Q&A with Gary: Parasites, Mold Toxicity, Folic Acid, & Testosterone Boost
So here's a way to actually start safeguarding your kids. Try to go organic. Try to feed your kids whole foods. Highly processed diets interrupt our endocrine system. Lots of things like BPAs, these bisphenols are actually estrogen mimickers and they can actually have kids hitting puberty earlier.
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162. Q&A with Gary: Parasites, Mold Toxicity, Folic Acid, & Testosterone Boost
In fact, a lot of young women are starting their menstrual cycles, not just in their teens, but starting them before their teenage years, what we call prepubescent years. And so these are very dangerous signs that we're actually taking in chemicals that are actually mimicking hormones in our body. like estrogen mainly, things like soy, things like carrageen, other thickening agents.
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162. Q&A with Gary: Parasites, Mold Toxicity, Folic Acid, & Testosterone Boost
So switching to a whole food diet is one of the best ways to safeguard your family from hormone-disrupting chemicals and stop your kids from entering puberty early. What's the one supplement you'd never take and why? I don't know that there's a single supplement, but there are some ingredients like cyanocobalamin, the cyanide-based form of vitamin B12. It's the cheapest form of vitamin B12.
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162. Q&A with Gary: Parasites, Mold Toxicity, Folic Acid, & Testosterone Boost
It's in a lot of your supplements, protein powders, and energy drinks. Look for that on the back of the label. I like to avoid cyanocobalamin. Another one I would never take is folic acid. It's the synthetic form of folate, and you can find folate or methylfolate or 5-methylfolate or even something called folinic acid in your supplements, and those are better choices.
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162. Q&A with Gary: Parasites, Mold Toxicity, Folic Acid, & Testosterone Boost
Remember, if you're taking a probiotic, make sure that your probiotic protects the probiotic from the acid in your stomach and opens in an alkaline environment so those probiotics are dropped off in your intestine, not bathed in the acid in your stomach juice where they can't survive. What are the most common nutrient deficiencies and how can they be addressed?
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162. Q&A with Gary: Parasites, Mold Toxicity, Folic Acid, & Testosterone Boost
The three most common nutrient deficiencies are mineral deficiencies, omega-3 fatty acid deficiencies, and amino acid deficiencies. Now, these deficiencies can be fixed by putting a mineral salt in your drinking water in the morning. As you know, one of my favorite biohacks is Baja Gold Sea Salt. You can put a heavy pinch of this in your water in the morning.
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162. Q&A with Gary: Parasites, Mold Toxicity, Folic Acid, & Testosterone Boost
You could also use a Celtic salt or any number of other mineral salts. I believe that hydrating and mineralizing our body first thing in the morning is a great idea. I also take a supplement called Perfect Aminos, which is all nine of the essential amino acids.
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162. Q&A with Gary: Parasites, Mold Toxicity, Folic Acid, & Testosterone Boost
If you're going to take a protein in the morning, make sure it is a complete protein, meaning it has all nine of the essential amino acids. So take a supplement that has all nine of the essential amino acids and supplementing with a good omega-3 fish oil or something like a black seed oil in the morning will cover your bases.
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162. Q&A with Gary: Parasites, Mold Toxicity, Folic Acid, & Testosterone Boost
If you're not getting enough sunlight, you may also want to add a vitamin D3 with K2. Generally 5,000 IUs, international units of vitamin D3 with about 80 micrograms of K2. Can you explain the misconceptions surrounding cholesterol and its impact on health? Well, cholesterol has been vilified for years as the genesis of heart disease. Now think of it as the firemen.
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162. Q&A with Gary: Parasites, Mold Toxicity, Folic Acid, & Testosterone Boost
Firemen are called to the scene of a fire because something has gone wrong. There's inflammation, there's a fire. So they're called to put the fire out. Cholesterol is kind of like the fireman. It gets called to the scene of inflammation to help repair the lining of your arteries and repair damage caused by inflammation. So inflammation is what makes the phone call.
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162. Q&A with Gary: Parasites, Mold Toxicity, Folic Acid, & Testosterone Boost
Firemen just don't show up for no reason. The thought that if we had fewer firemen, we'd have less fires is kind of absurd. So the link between simple LDL cholesterol and cardiovascular disease is not as strong as the link between the type of cholesterol and cardiovascular disease. So remember that only about 15% of the cholesterol in your blood comes from diet.
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162. Q&A with Gary: Parasites, Mold Toxicity, Folic Acid, & Testosterone Boost
This is the short version where I answer the most commonly submitted questions through all of our social media channels, and I try to put them into one concise short. So here we go. Is folic acid actually toxic and should pregnant women avoid it? Folic acid is not toxic. Folic acid is just the synthetic form of folate, which occurs naturally in nature.
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162. Q&A with Gary: Parasites, Mold Toxicity, Folic Acid, & Testosterone Boost
85% of the cholesterol in your bloodstream is made by your liver. And if you want to lower your cholesterol, you can do so naturally with things like red yeast rice. You can also do it by changing your diet to a whole food diet and reducing your intake of processed foods and high glycemic sugars. If you wanna deep dive on cholesterol, I did an absolutely deep dive with Dr. Asim Malhotra.
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162. Q&A with Gary: Parasites, Mold Toxicity, Folic Acid, & Testosterone Boost
You can look this podcast up, it's entirely free. One of the most published cardiologists in the United Kingdom, a phenomenal physician and a cardiac surgeon. He is an amazing individual and we actually did an entire podcast just on cholesterol. So Google around for the ultimate human and Dr. Asim Malhotra.
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162. Q&A with Gary: Parasites, Mold Toxicity, Folic Acid, & Testosterone Boost
It should answer all of your questions about cholesterol and I'll link the podcast for you below. What are your recommendations for naturally boosting testosterone levels? Well, nothing beats regular sunlight and exercise. Exposing your skin to sunlight first thing in the morning and exercising, especially weight training, is the fastest way to boost your testosterone levels.
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162. Q&A with Gary: Parasites, Mold Toxicity, Folic Acid, & Testosterone Boost
The next best way is to actually look at your blood. Pull a full hormone panel. Take it to your doctor and have them look at your testosterone, your free testosterone, and then some of the other things that impact your hormone levels. Things like SHBG, sex hormone binding globulin, a protein that's in everybody's blood, but when it rises too high can suppress your free testosterone levels.
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162. Q&A with Gary: Parasites, Mold Toxicity, Folic Acid, & Testosterone Boost
Look at your nutrient deficiencies, things like vitamin B12, vitamin D3, and specifically something called DHEA, dihydroepiandrosterone. That's a mouthful, but just remember the acronym DHEA. Deficiencies in these nutrients can actually leave the body unable to build the hormone testosterone.
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162. Q&A with Gary: Parasites, Mold Toxicity, Folic Acid, & Testosterone Boost
Very often we are nutrient deficient and that nutrient deficiency leads to an inability to properly build hormones. What are your recommendations for managing autoimmune conditions through diet and lifestyle? Well, autoimmune conditions are a vast category of issues that affect the body.
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162. Q&A with Gary: Parasites, Mold Toxicity, Folic Acid, & Testosterone Boost
If your doctor cannot tell you why you have an autoimmune condition, then a very good idea, in my opinion, is to talk to your doctor about viral testing, heavy metal testing, mold and mycotoxin testing, and viral testing. Look for viruses, mold mycotoxins, heavy metals, and parasites, and you may find what is triggering your immune system to attack your tissue.
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162. Q&A with Gary: Parasites, Mold Toxicity, Folic Acid, & Testosterone Boost
I am by no means saying that autoimmune diseases are always caused by one of those four things. Getting those things out of your body as potential triggers is a great place to start. The other thing to manage autoimmune conditions and just manage your health in general is switch to a whole food diet. Focus on your sleep and stress is a major contributing factor to autoimmune.
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162. Q&A with Gary: Parasites, Mold Toxicity, Folic Acid, & Testosterone Boost
You may not know that 82% of all autoimmune diseases are found in women. So why would autoimmune disease prefer females over males? It's not a sex-related issue. It's an issue related to stress. stress, and very often how women will put the needs of other people first before the needs of themselves.
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162. Q&A with Gary: Parasites, Mold Toxicity, Folic Acid, & Testosterone Boost
They have a tendency to put themselves in the backseat, which we call caregiver syndrome, and not take the time for self-care, sleep, rest, relaxation, and actually de-stressing. So one of the ways you can do this is find a simple routine that you can add to your dry saunas, cold plunging, or reading in bed, something that you can do that is just your own individual method of de-stressing.
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162. Q&A with Gary: Parasites, Mold Toxicity, Folic Acid, & Testosterone Boost
Remember, folic acid does not occur anywhere naturally in nature. You cannot find folic acid anywhere on the surface of the earth. I do think that pregnant women should avoid it because pregnant women may or may not know whether or not they have the gene mutation that does not allow them to metabolize folic acid. This gene mutation is called MTHFR.
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162. Q&A with Gary: Parasites, Mold Toxicity, Folic Acid, & Testosterone Boost
How can individuals optimize their vitamin D3 levels safely and effectively? Well, I think the best way is to get natural sunlight. If you're worried about UVA and UVB rays damaging your skin, morning light or what they call first light, which is about the first 45 to 60 minutes of the day, has no damaging UVA or UVB rays.
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162. Q&A with Gary: Parasites, Mold Toxicity, Folic Acid, & Testosterone Boost
It's a very safe time to expose as much of your skin as possible directly to sunlight. Nothing beats all of the metabolites that come in conjunction with vitamin D3 when you expose your skin to sunlight. Remember, human beings only make one vitamin. It's called cholecalciferol, vitamin D3. We make it from sunlight and cholesterol.
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162. Q&A with Gary: Parasites, Mold Toxicity, Folic Acid, & Testosterone Boost
So just think about how important that must be to human function if it's the only vitamin that human beings make on our own. Deficiency in vitamin D3 is linked to all kinds of conditions, including increased rates of breast cancer in women, bone disease, and autoimmune conditions. So how does alcohol consumption affect long-term health and what are your recommendations?
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162. Q&A with Gary: Parasites, Mold Toxicity, Folic Acid, & Testosterone Boost
Well, my recommendation is no alcohol, but I know that that's tough for a lot of you. If you are going to drink alcohol, please don't drink it within two hours of bedtime. It is 100% going to destroy your sleep. Remember that alcohol becomes something called acetyl aldehyde, which lowers the pH of your blood, making it more acidic and And as you become more acidic, you become more disease prone.
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162. Q&A with Gary: Parasites, Mold Toxicity, Folic Acid, & Testosterone Boost
You put the body in a disease prone state. So keeping your blood pH towards the alkaline side is always, always a good idea. So my recommendations to negate the effects of alcohol long-term are just to wipe it out entirely. If that's not for you, control your drinking at least within two hours of bedtime, or it will wreck your circadian rhythm.
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162. Q&A with Gary: Parasites, Mold Toxicity, Folic Acid, & Testosterone Boost
Can you discuss the importance of hydration and the best practices for maintaining it? Yes, make it a habit every single morning to drink a minimum of eight to 10 ounces of water right out of bed.
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162. Q&A with Gary: Parasites, Mold Toxicity, Folic Acid, & Testosterone Boost
Get up in the morning, brush your teeth, do your tongue scraping, your oil pulling, use your hydroxyapatite toothpaste, head over to your kitchen, and even before you have your coffee, fill up a nice glass of filtered water, put a healthy pinch of Baja Gold Sea Salt in there, Stir it up. If you're like me, you'll add perfect aminos.
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162. Q&A with Gary: Parasites, Mold Toxicity, Folic Acid, & Testosterone Boost
You'll add something like a hydrogen tablet so you can actually hydrate, detoxify, mineralize, and reduce inflammation. But hydration practices are best done first thing in the morning. Why? Because it will turn back on the response for satiation. So many of you that are watching this podcast right now have been dehydrated for so long, your body has lost the sensation for thirst.
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162. Q&A with Gary: Parasites, Mold Toxicity, Folic Acid, & Testosterone Boost
If you can go an entire day without your body reminding you to drink even a single glass of water, you're clinically dehydrated. It takes four days to turn this back on just by adding a little mineral salt and a big eight to 10 ounce glass of water to your morning routine. What are the implications of mold exposure on health and how can we detox from it? Wow.
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162. Q&A with Gary: Parasites, Mold Toxicity, Folic Acid, & Testosterone Boost
The mold exposure, first of all, a great question because mold and mycotoxins goes missed on so many different labs. It's one of those underlying chronic conditions that people just learn to live with and rarely do our primary care physicians test for mold or mycotoxin exposure. I live in Miami. It happens to be the mold capital of the world. So we won the mold lottery down there.
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162. Q&A with Gary: Parasites, Mold Toxicity, Folic Acid, & Testosterone Boost
Now, you don't have to go out and get tested for it. You can just take the converted form of folic acid called methylfolate.
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162. Q&A with Gary: Parasites, Mold Toxicity, Folic Acid, & Testosterone Boost
There are several tests you can do for mold. One is called Vibrant. I'm no relationship with them, but it's a great test for mold. Lots of tests that you can do for mold or mycotoxin exposure, but here's how it manifests in the body.