Digital Social Hour
Unlock Your Brain's Full Potential with Biohacking Tools | Patrick Porter DSH #1151
Thu, 30 Jan 2025
Unlock the secrets to optimizing your brain's full potential with cutting-edge biohacking tools! In this episode of the Digital Social Hour with Sean Kelly, we sit down with Patrick Porter from BrainTap to explore how light therapy, sound, and vibrations can revolutionize brain health and performance. Discover how your circadian rhythm, mitochondrial energy, and even your thoughts are connected to your overall well-being. Learn how red light therapy can supercharge your brain's healing process, why movement is essential for mental health, and how simple breathing techniques can transform your life. Packed with valuable insights into optimizing your energy field, boosting brainwaves, and even mimicking psychedelic experiences naturally, this conversation will blow your mind! Don’t miss out on these life-changing tips to enhance your focus, creativity, and health. Tune in now and join the conversation! Watch now and subscribe for more insider secrets. Hit that subscribe button and stay tuned for more eye-opening stories on the Digital Social Hour with Sean Kelly! #neurofeedback #brainfog #biofeedback #biohackingtechniques #biohackingtips #preventativehealthcare #timferriss #neurofeedback #wellnessinnovation #biohackingtechniques CHAPTERS: 00:00 - Intro 00:32 - What is BrainTap 04:18 - Changing Brain Waves Duration 05:00 - Visit srgpros.com 07:20 - Challenges in Brain Wave Movement 08:27 - Exchanging Light Energy with Others 09:52 - Understanding Circadian Rhythm 13:39 - Insights from Ancient Wisdom 17:37 - Exploring Infinite Dimensions 20:50 - Breathing Techniques for Wellness 23:20 - Importance of Deep Sleep 26:30 - The Significance of Sleep 27:50 - Dangers of Semaglutide 28:40 - Brain Reaction to Psilocybin 29:10 - Importance of Gamma Rhythms 29:33 - Brain's Energy Dynamics 30:10 - Introduction to Frequency Medicine 31:10 - Impact of Stress and Sugar 32:30 - Role of Healthy Fats 34:00 - Microplastics and Brain Health 34:57 - Benefits of Sunlight and Grounding 37:04 - Importance of Fats in Diet 38:33 - Role of Niacin in Health 40:36 - Microdosing Mushrooms Explained 43:44 - Existence of the Soul Outside the Body 44:38 - Subconscious Mind Control 49:50 - Issues with the Psychology System 53:05 - Understanding Lie Detector Tests 53:58 - The Power of Hypnosis 56:40 - Where to Find Patrick APPLY TO BE ON THE PODCAST: https://www.digitalsocialhour.com/application BUSINESS INQUIRIES/SPONSORS: [email protected] GUEST: Patrick Porter https://www.instagram.com/drpatrickporter/ https://drpatrickporter.com/ SPONSORS: Specialized Recruiting Group: https://www.srgpros.com/ 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/
Chapter 1: What is BrainTap and how does it work?
And when you think about jet lag, it's really light lag. Everything about you, biologically, is being tuned to the sun.
All right, guys. Patrick Porter from Braintap. Been excited for this one for a while. We booked this almost a year ago. Thanks for coming on, man. You're not in Vegas often. No, no. It's good to be here, though. Absolutely. And everyone, like I said, speaks highly of it. 120,000 users. That's impressive. Is that monthly users?
We have $40,000 on our subscription, but then we have a freemium model. Nice. People will come and go, you know, do what they need to do.
Super cool. Could you explain what BrainTap is for people that don't know about it? Yeah.
BrainTap is a brain fitness company. We do it with light, sound, and vibration. So I've been doing this since 1986. Wow. back before it was popular. I didn't know I was biohacking, which is what they call now. But what we were doing, we were trying to figure out a way to get people out of pain. And with biofeedback, there was no neurofeedback.
Some people ask me, did you go to school for neurophysiology or something? There was nothing like that when I went to school. But what we did was we were looking at hand temperature, respiration rate, heart rate. And what we noticed is when you start calming down and you engage the alpha brainwave, then your body creates its own natural analgesia.
So you don't need as much anesthesia when you're having surgery. You can have less pain. But then we found out all these other things it does. So it expands. So light uses, we can get more into it later, but light actually will stimulate mitochondrial health. build up energy in the brain.
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Chapter 2: How does light therapy affect brain health?
And then once the energy is there, in fact, it's been shown in science that it spins up the ATP production up to 32 times more than you would normally. So if you imagine if you want to heal your brain, you want to bring ATP to the equation because that's the currency that heals the body.
So with red light specifically, because that's the most popular one, I'd say, does that have any healing abilities for the brain?
Oh, yeah. I mean, what it is, we actually tune our light too. It's not just 650 nanometer light or 810 nanometer light. It actually has a sophageal frequency. It has a Noget frequency, and it also has a Rife frequency to it. So we use all those three frequencies because then we can target different regions of the brain
Even though we hear, we think we hear, when you think about surround sound, our brain literally makes that stuff up, right? So it's placing it spatially based on cues from our environment. So what we're doing is we're using those same cues, but instead of, like showing you a picture of an elephant, for instance, we're going to send you the vibration or frequency of that. But we use like water.
For instance, if you and I were sitting by the ocean and we were relaxing, we might start to drift off into a little daydream. That's because the ocean actually evokes a 10 hertz potential, which is alpha. So you just naturally start to create acetylcholine. You start to feel good. You start to fall in love.
When people say, hey, I love the ocean, they're really saying, hey, I'm chemically bonded to the ocean because... all brainwaves also triggered neurotransmitters.
Wow.
And so most people don't, the reason we have a mental health disorder is not because people are crazy. It's because we don't have enough movement. Our brain is, is when we sit, unfortunately we're sitting doing this interview, but when you, when you sit for 20 minutes, it's equivalent to smoking a cigarette. Damn. So our body is designed to move and breathe.
And so like when we go to the mountains, for instance, we're walking along the mountains, people will say, hey, I had a mountaintop experience. You know, they had this great experience. Well, the reality is that what they had was they had a GABA release. GABA is a precursor to DMT. Wow. So for those people that have done any psychedelics, you know, our cells all have DMT in them.
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Chapter 3: What role does deep sleep play in brain function?
Because we did an experiment with psilocybin in Dallas, PTSD. And some of the vets didn't want to take a psilocybin because they didn't know what would happen. So I said, well, let's map the brains of the people on psilocybin. And we did. What we found was there was a region of the brain that was really highly active in gamma.
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Chapter 4: How can breathing techniques enhance wellness?
So when you think about gamma, gamma also produces GABA, which is a precursor to DMT. So when these Buddhist adepts and everybody's meditating, they're in this high state of gamma, they're actually generating a field of energy because they also show that the cells, the output of the cellular energy increases, like I said, 32 times. So when you think about your field, your energy field,
which the NIH actually in 1994 said we have an energy field. All illness starts in the field, not in the body. It's right in the text, but of course medical doctors don't look at that. But it's in there. So when you think about the energy field, so the mind, our mind, if you will, is the electrical activity that interfaces with our brain. And when you have that coherence,
What happens is it starts to resonate. So it takes about seven minutes to do that. Your listeners can go online to YouTube and put in synchronizing metronomes. And they have one that's really cool. It's 300 metronomes. The guy sets them up, starts them all at different times. Within three minutes, those metronomes are all synchronized. Whoa.
Chapter 5: What are the dangers of certain medications like Semaglutide?
They can do the same things with grandfather clocks, you know, when they're swinging back and forth. Yeah. Every one of our cells is vibrating and teeming with energy, and it's observing our environment, saying, hey, is this a safe place for me? Is this okay for me? What's going on?
Well, our cells are either in protection mode, which means they're closed down and they're in contraction, or they're in expansion mode, growth, health, and healing. That's a parasympathetic system. So in the brainwave of beta, which most people operate in, they are shutting down their nervous system. They're shutting down the cellular function. So it's like putting leaves over a fire.
The fire is still burning, but you don't get any of the heat and warmth. So we want to bring that to the equation. So a lot of people can't move their brain waves because they don't have the energy. Wow.
So when somebody says, when Kimmy said, and we did a thing with her where I said, I'll do a 10-minute session with you because we have morning sessions that are 10 minutes to wake up the brain to get the dopamine, cortisol, and norepinephrine going. So we call it digital coffee. You don't need coffee once you do it. the brain gets activated. And she goes, I don't know. So she put the band on.
We had it on a big screen television. And at seven minutes, boom, her gamma spiked. And it kept going. And she said, what happened? I said, well, when it harmonizes, when the brain harmonizes, the two hemispheres start communicating, then it creates this field. And the more energy you have in the field, it just keeps building this field. And of course, there are people that
talk about it more from a metaphysical standpoint of what's going on there. But we know in science that we can actually measure it. Every person emanates a 10 nanometer light. You right now, we're sitting here communicating on a conscious level, but on a light level, we're actually sharing bio-photaic exchange. We're exchanging information based on light.
Interesting.
And it's from every cell.
Yeah, because certain people, after you talk to them, you kind of feel their energy, right?
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Chapter 6: How does movement influence mental health?
Yeah. I mean, when we're younger, we notice it more. Like we walk in on our parents fighting, we feel the vibe, right? Right, right. Oh, man, there's tension in the air. Well, our body is really a sensitive machine that is always... Machine might be a poor word, but it's basically a super sophisticated machine. Every cell is...
in this environment, I guess I need to put in perspective for the listeners. In 2001, when they said, hey, they mapped their human genome, you've probably heard about that. Well, they didn't, right? They only mapped 1%. Could you imagine going to college and you're doing your finals and you only answer one out of 100 questions and you think, hey, I graduated? No.
What they found out in 2018 was that those 99% that they were calling junk DNA, Your body, literally, every DNA pair changes every 40 seconds. Wow. But it's based on something called biophotaic exchange. So every DNA strand has a burst of light. You're like on, off, on, off. Your body's broadcasting this light frequency. Now, in that light frequency is information.
So think of the mitochondria of your cells like our sun's, our solar system, right? Most people don't realize that our biological system is tied to the sun. They call it the circadian rhythm. Every day at 2 o'clock in the afternoon, your temperature drops 2 degrees. Everybody. That's why coffee is so popular and tea and sugar at around 2 o'clock.
Well, what's really telling our body to do is to take a break. These bodies were all designed in the Serengeti. I don't care where you live today. They're all designed to live. So if you think about they were designed to be in that light zone. And when you think about jet lag, it's really light lag because that light is telling you.
So if you don't get to bed and I'm only going to do a few, but everything about you biologically is being tuned to the sun. And when you're out of sync with it, like if you eat poor foods, you're around EMF, you're all these things, they interrupt the flow of that information. But if you're, let's say we have great flow.
If you get in bed by 10 o'clock, you're going to make more melatonin between 10 and 11 than you will the rest of the night.
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Chapter 7: How can you optimize your energy and brainwaves?
Hmm.
If you're not in bed by 11 o'clock, you're not going to clean your liver as well because the liver cleans best between 11 and 12. At 2 o'clock at night, this will be the last one, then we can go on. At 2 o'clock at night, you get an uptick of 2 degrees in your biological system, which is burning out toxins. Now, if your body is dysregulated, You might go three or four degrees.
Now you'll start sweating. You'll have night sweats. And it's not menopause or perimenopause. It's neurological because people have it. We hold on to stress. Think of every cell as a PZO energy generator, which means we collect energy.
you've probably been at a party and the listeners probably have been at a party and you didn't want to go there, but somebody told you to go, but you get there and they're playing all your favorite songs. You're going, Oh yeah, you're tapping your toes. You're bobbing your head. You're having a great time. And they go, Hey, I didn't think you wanted to be here.
You go, well, they're playing on my songs. Well, that's because that music carries a frequency and a vibration. And our cells have something on them called a chromoform. It's a little battery. And what it does is it absorbs energy.
Hmm.
So you probably heard the expression energy vampires.
Yeah.
So there are people that are transmitters. They walk in the room. It gets a little brighter. Everybody gets energized. They go, hey, that person has charisma. And then there's the other person who walks in the room and it gets a little darker. You know, you don't want to be that person because they actually are at a frequency where they're drawing energy from people.
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Chapter 8: What is the connection between thoughts and health?
So it's not like he's someone special. He just has a special knowledge. Once he has that special knowledge, he can package it and teach other people. So the Wim Hof method will, if you're really scared, you should be learning to breathe. Most people don't know how to breathe. When we sit like this, we're sitting here, we're actually compressing our lungs. We're not getting as much.
There's actually a science out there that shows how you grow lungs. You could grow a lung? Oh, yeah. You grow your lungs. They become bigger because what happens is they atrophy because we're sitting so much. We're crunched up and also stress does that. Right. That's interesting. So what are some methods to help with the lung stuff? Well, the biggest thing is to start practicing deep breathing.
There's three breaths that I always teach everyone. Unless they're into biohacking, there's a lot of others. On the BrainTap app, we actually have breath work on there. But in the morning, you should wake up and do something that's going to stimulate the hippocampus and the frontal lobe. And there's something called the breath of fire, which is you just kind of hold your gut in.
like you're holding your breath, and then you breathe through your nose as fast and rapidly as you can. Now, you're going to get a little dizzy, and as soon as you're dizzy, you just take a few deep breaths, and then you go back at it again. You do three reps of that. What will happen is you'll trigger that dopamine, cortisol, and norepinephrine like you had a cup of coffee. Interesting.
Or you can do what's called a psychological breath, which is you breathe in – And, you know, you've probably been around people and they're really stressed out and they go. Yeah, deep breath. Yeah. It's something we naturally do. But why do we have to wait till it happens to us? Let's make it happen through us. So we control it. And our breath does it.
And when people are fearful of speaking, it's all about their breath. In the middle of the afternoon, we should do a box breath. And the reason I do that is there's, I do a lot of work with the special forces and we help them with integrating back into life after all their PTSD and everything they're going through.
And they really need to organize their memories because when you have all these things come at them. So, but let's imagine you're part of Navy SEAL team six or whatever, and you're going to go, I guess, go after a building and there's hundreds of people there and there's only six of you. Well, on the way there, I don't know about you, but I'd be thinking a lot of bad stuff.
What's going to happen to me? But what they're trained to do is do this box breath. And you breathe out. You breathe into the conifor. It's probably the best way to do it. Breathe into the conifor. You hold that for the conifor. You breathe out to the conifor. You hold it out to the conifor. And you keep that box going.
And if you can do three to four minutes, you will find that your brain will become clear. You'll trigger what we call alpha and theta brainwave activity. And that's going to increase your GABA and your norepinephrine. You're going to actually start to feel good. You're going to get, as Wim Hof says, you're going to get high on your own supply. I love it. And then...
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