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Unlock Longevity: Mitochondria Secrets You Need to Know | Dr. Beth McDougall DSH #1142
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Unlock the secrets to living longer and healthier! 🌟 In this episode of Digital Social Hour with Sean Kelly, we dive into mitochondria and their pivotal role in unlocking longevity. 🧬 Join the engaging conversation with Dr. Beth MacDougall as she shares groundbreaking insights into mitochondrial health, biohacking strategies, and the future of aging. 🚀 Discover how optimizing mitochondrial energetics can revolutionize your health and why morning sunlight, red light therapy, and even grounding mats are game-changers. 🌞💡 From improving sleep to boosting energy and reversing aging, this episode is packed with valuable tips you can't miss. 🙌 Tune in now to uncover practical strategies, cutting-edge tools, and the science-backed secrets to living your best life. Don't miss out—watch now and subscribe for more insider secrets! 📺 Hit that subscribe button and join the conversation for more eye-opening stories on the Digital Social Hour with Sean Kelly. 🚀 #biohackingsecrets #longevityjourney #biohacking #biohackingtechniques #healthspan CHAPTERS: 00:00 - Intro 00:29 - What is Energetics 02:15 - Understanding the Aging Process 04:58 - Prolon Fasting Benefits 07:15 - Home Health Machines 09:12 - Importance of Light Therapy 10:15 - TBI Treatment Methods 13:11 - RFK Jr. and FDA Insights 17:21 - Dr. Beth's Health Centers 19:29 - Data-Driven Health Prescriptions 21:45 - Metabolic Testing Explained 25:04 - Best Eating Practices 26:02 - Vegan vs. Carnivore Diet Debate 31:10 - Energetic Nature of Reality 36:05 - Dr. Beth's Other Ventures 39:34 - Benefits of Structured Water 41:00 - Future of Longevity Research 42:58 - OUTRO APPLY TO BE ON THE PODCAST: https://www.digitalsocialhour.com/application BUSINESS INQUIRIES/SPONSORS: [email protected] GUEST: Dr. Beth McDougall https://www.instagram.com/bethmcdougallmd SPONSORS: Prolon: http://prolonlife.com/DSH LISTEN ON: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/digital-social-hour/id1676846015 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5Jn7LXarRlI8Hc0GtTn759 Sean Kelly Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/seanmikekelly/ Digital Social Hour works with participants in sponsored media and stays compliant with Federal Communications Commission (FCC) regulations regarding sponsored media. #ad
Chapter 1: What are the secrets of mitochondrial health?
Forming our steroid biosynthesis even. Steroid biosynthesis? Yeah, so cholesterol is the building block of all of our steroid hormones. So the very first step where cholesterol turns into pregnenolone, which is kind of the grandmother of steroids, happens in the mitochondria.
Oh, wow. That was super important. Yeah, people don't really talk about the mitochondrial health. All right, guys, Dr. Beth McDougall here today. We're going to talk longevity. Thanks for coming in today. My pleasure. Happy to be here. Absolutely. So what's new in the space?
Gosh, so much. We really have the tools now and the knowledge to extend life and health span. And that's what I spend all my day doing with people. Yeah, just looking at studies and seeing what the next new thing is. Yeah. Yeah, it seems like every year there's a new device or a new method for biohacking, right?
And it's really a new understanding. about how you keep your mitochondria kind of energized and really improve the energetics in the system. I feel like with optimal energetics, we don't really have to age. We age biologically, chronologically, but not biologically. Yeah, so what exactly is energetics for people that are pretty beginner to this?
Well, you think about, first of all, just backing up, we live in a field of energy and information. Not only do we live within it, but it lives within us. And we and every other aspect of our material reality is derived from it. And when you look at the kind of structure and makeup of this field, like at the quantum level, it's incredibly potent and energetic.
And the energy transfers up in the kind of a fractal nature of the different scales from the quantum scale all the way up to the universal scale. Wow. And our biology is hooked right into that. It has the same patterns, the same ratios, the same organization, but just at a different scale.
So I really think the mitochondria are kind of our plug-in, so to speak, into this unlimited field of energy. And so if we can keep our mitochondria optimized and really improve mitochondrial energetics, we don't have to age anymore. That's fascinating. So over time, the aging process is because of mitochondrial damage or how does that work exactly?
Absolutely. Yeah. The mitochondria get damaged from toxic fats that collect in the mitochondrial membrane, oxidative damage. And then also we're not spending enough time outside. We've disconnected from the diurnal patterns of the earth. And actually that reconnecting is super critical for optimal mitochondrial function. If you go outside in the morning
put your bare feet on the earth and watch the sun come up and kind of crest the horizon, you're getting the red light, the near infrared light that's very good for the mitochondria. Yeah, good old grounding. Hard to beat that.
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Chapter 2: How does mitochondrial damage lead to aging?
Oh my God, I envision a definitely new era where we're giving kids nutritious food at school for lunch and maybe before school just so that at least if someone doesn't have good food at home, they're having those two meals. Right. Well, I'm actually learning you could eat for a decent price. You know what you're doing. Totally. It doesn't have to be super expensive.
Right. Yeah. No, it's so, it's so important that we're eating vital organically farmed food of multiple varieties and, you know, just really training people kind of common sense about eating and just let's ditch this whole package, highly ultra processed food. Yeah, absolutely. Just poison. Super poisonous. How many centers you got now? Is it just the one?
Just the one right now, but we are, we're developing programs. We're about to do some franchising center. Yeah. Got to come to Vegas. I know it'd be a good spot for one. Very good. People hung over, come up to the center the next day. Yeah. Yeah, I think it's going to be, I think they're going to overtake like just hospitals. Like there's going to be more centers and hospitals eventually.
Well, you know, I was just, you know, I do think Western medicine has its strengths, right? Like, you know, I had a patient whose son had mono and it enlarged his spleen and then he didn't know he had mono and he went out and played soccer, took a knee to the abdomen. And it ruptured his spleen, and they didn't know, and they brought him into the ER.
The doctor kind of noticed something wasn't quite right, did an ultrasound right away. Sure enough, he was internally bleeding, got him into surgery. Like, that's what Western medicine's good at, right? Like, thank God for America, really, because that wouldn't have necessarily been done like that elsewhere.
But, like, what we need, what Western medicine is not good at is teaching people how to be healthy, and how to stay well and how to prevent disease. And actually what's really needed and what Western medicine doesn't do is teaches people how to reverse the trajectory of chronic illness, you know, cause it's really in your control.
If you've got prediabetes, you've got diabetes and you know, that's, you're looking toward a path of like, you know, cognitive decline, heart disease, you know, autoimmunity, cancer because of that. You can turn that train around just by eating differently, beginning to exercise properly, getting your hormones balanced, getting on some peptides that are needed, treating underlying issues.
But this can be turned around in a fairly short period of time. Agreed. Yeah, I think both are needed. Yeah, it saved my life too. Actually, I had pretty bad bronchitis during COVID. Yeah. It definitely saved me. But yeah, preventative, I would go Eastern all day.
Yeah, so we just need these parallel systems. And most of the healthcare is done in the system of wellness care and education and giving people the tools they need. That's what we do at Gizen. We really put the data in their hands. Like we've... we've partnered with a group called heads up and love them because they did exactly what I envisioned.
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Chapter 3: What role does sunlight play in mitochondrial function?
That's where you're measuring your tidal volume of your lungs and you're forced kind of how much air you can blow out in a certain period of time. Interesting. It's just kind of the strength of your lungs because your lungs can be trained. I got to try that one out. It's really cool. That sounds fun. And grip strength, I use those forearm things. Yeah. Those flexors, those are fun.
Yeah. Yeah. That's a good thing. And grip strength, you know, is really kind of just a marker of your, your overall level of fitness. Cause in order to have good grip strength, you're probably having to lift heavy things, you know, and move and, and be, be doing, it's not just about like, oh, I'm training these muscles, but I'm training my whole body and these are improving. Yeah.
But it's associated with longevity. I love that. I had Dr. Andy Galpin on the show. He's one of Huberman's biggest guests. He's like a VO2 max expert, but I showed him my results and he said it was so bad. So I didn't realize how important VO2 max was. It's huge. He said it's one of the biggest markers for longevity.
One of the biggest. It's actually just associated with, you know, just kind of reduction in all cause mortality. If you can improve your VO2 max. And some people are really strong in certain areas and some people are weak in other areas. But what we love to see is like, when you start out at low levels of exertion, you're burning fat.
Chapter 4: How can grounding improve health?
And then there's a point where you kind of switch into carbohydrate burning. And that point is really an interesting point so that you can start to advise people, like depending on what their goals are, like if their goal is to burn fat, you often need to exercise at a fairly low level of endurance to keep in that zone of fat burning. How do you identify that rate? Like when it switches over?
Well, you're measuring the gases in the breath and you emit different gases when you're burning fat versus when you're burning carbohydrates. Oh, wow. I didn't know that. So everyone should find out where they're at.
It's so important. It really is. I mean, like, so, you know, it's just crazy. Like in a given day, so many people come in and they're like, their number one complaint is wanting to lose fat. You know, and some people it's like, I want to put on muscle, but they're super closely linked.
So yeah, we've developed like a full metabolic program where we can test, you know, especially if people are like, I do everything right. I eat well, I exercise, I cannot get this bad off. You know, they're just stuck. Then we'll really broaden out our workout. Workup, we'll do like insulin glucose tolerance tests where we're bringing someone in fasting and then putting an IV in their arm
measuring their blood and then having them drink a solution and then measuring insulin and glucose at different time points going forward to see how is their body handling that sugar load. Then we'll combine that data with the typical blood labs of hemoglobin A1C and the lipid panel and the inflammatory markers. insulin and glucose, and then hormones.
And then we'll do the VO2 max testing and the resting metabolic rate. And then just kind of crunch all that data, especially also including sleep data, because that's hugely important for your metabolism. And then we kind of figure out a program for them. A full circle.
What's the best way to eat? What's the best way for you to work out? Like a lot of times people are... are like carb restricting too much or they're caloric restricting too much. You know, they're not eating enough. That actually happened to me. I was like kind of always been a carb restrictor just traditionally. And then I started intermittent fasting.
And so then my calories went way down and my metabolism slowed down. So a lot of times these things you think are going to be really good end up backfiring because they're too stressful in the body and they release cortisol and that raises your blood sugar, which raises your insulin and continues to bombard your insulin receptors and kind of makes them more resistant.
I can see that because people promote these diets, but it doesn't work for everyone. It doesn't. And, and you know, if it's, if you're stuck, well, let's, let's get, let's, let's get some data and figure out why you're stuck and then make like really accurate recommendations based on your testing of what you can do to kind of turn this around.
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Chapter 6: How do biohacking techniques extend longevity?
Chapter 7: What are the latest tools for optimizing health?
Chapter 8: How do nutritional choices affect mitochondrial function?
Well, yes. And kind of back to what I was saying, like if you have trouble sleeping, it's the diurnal, you're not hooked up with the diurnal cycle of the earth. So going outside in the morning actually informs your body that it's daytime.
And that allows, as those ratios of the different wavelengths of light are shifting throughout the day, then it allows the body to wind down more naturally faster. for sleep at night, provided we're not interfering with a lot of blue light exposure and all of that. So people that work night shifts and graveyard shifts, that must be really bad for you.
It is tough. Yeah. It's really stressful on the body. Yeah. Cause I see the guards at the guard gates or security and they look like they're falling asleep. Yeah, I know. I feel so sorry for people that are doing that. Damn. Yeah. I wonder if there's a, have you seen those things you put on your desk? It stimulates sunlight. Yeah. Do you think those have any effect on this?
I think it would help. Probably they would just have to flip their pattern and get some kind of sun wavelengths at night.
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I always wonder if stuff like that works. Well, yeah, definitely. There's good evidence for that. Really?
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