I Analyzed 100,000 DNA Samples - The #1 Diet That Kills You! | Gary Brecka

when you look at all of the variables why are the majority of people not living longer healthier happier more fulfilling lives so Gary Brea is a human biologist and he says to me give me 10 weeks I promise I'll change your life if you want to see magic happen in human beings you first give their body the raw material it needs to do its job we are not a collection of goals we're not a collection of priorities we are a collection of habits what would you say are the biggest Health scams that have been debunked that people continue to believe these are the kinds of questions we say ask ourselves you know why is it that I'm needing an energy drink in the in the middle of the day what is my sleep look like did I exercise this morning most people die in their 70s and leave this earth in their 80s what we're talking about at a minimum is extending your health span to match your lifespan the diet secret is to eat Whole Foods not processed foods but the two non-negotiables in living a long life Gary Brea thank you so much for coming on the ice coffee hour yeah I'm so so excited to be here really appreciate it so you used to predict exactly when people would die how accurate were you and what did you learn about the biggest Killers so so predicting um life expectancy to the month is is is what I did and I didn't do it on my own there was a team of of people that put these models together I mean a it's actually a very sound science I get a lot of flack for saying that uh the team I was associated with could predict more mortality to the month um but it's some of the most accurate science in the world if you look at the voluminous amount of financial services instruments um annuities reverse mortgages life insurance all of this entire category of financial services instruments are based on mortality how many more months does somebody have left on Earth so for example all your listeners that are listening to this right now men and women were all on an Actuarial curve right so if you're a 24y old female you have a life expectancy of x if you're a 54y old male you have a life expectancy of why based on a massive population but if you're a life insurance company and you're getting ready to put 25 million or $50 million worth of risk on somebody's life you don't care where they are on that Actuarial curve you want to know their specific mortality you want to know how many more months does this person have left on Earth so for example there's a whole category of financial services instruments called annuities and an annuity um one type of annuity called a spia is where you write the insurance company a check let's say for a million dollars and they guarantee you an income stream for life as long as you live you're going to get X dollar every single month how do you think they determine that payout it's based on your mortality and what we used to determine that was big data so we didn't use randomized clinical trials we didn't use pH pharmaceutical data we didn't use census data we used Big Data Day date time location and cause of death for hundreds of millions of lives triangulate that back into the record and determine what were the actions what were the what were the markers in this person's blood what were the lifestyle um and demographic data that led to either prolonged or so how much does something like that cost because I look at my parents and family and I'm curious sometimes you have to think to yourself how much longer do you have left with your loved ones I'd be very curious to know if if I want to figure out how long my parents have left to live to be able to cherish every moment make the most of it how much is that so you you you can't go out and just hire one of these companies to do your life expectancy they work behind the scenes for insurance companies for big investment um groups so if you've ever taken out a large life insurance policy or you've had a loved one take out a large life insurance policy someone has done a life expectancy on them and it's using their demographic data and certain uh blood markers um as well as their entire medical history to determine how many more months they have left on Earth and if you want to know how accurate insurance companies are doing this just look at what happened during the 20 8 2009 Financial Services crisis you had 364 Banks fail you didn't have a single life insurance company fail they're some of the most solvent institutions in the world no other financial services Enterprise takes that level of risk on a single variable why isn't there a service out there that could tell you how long you have left to live I think like I would pay $1,000 to know just on average how long I have to live my parents family Jack Jack you know maybe I take a life insurance partnership's going to run like just got to figure we got to figure it out why isn't there a service out there for a th000 bucks tells me one you know what's really interesting I haven't looked into this but um a buddy of mine sent me this app called deathclock which really sounds morid and supposedly again I have I no affiliation with them and I I haven't looked into it myself but he's like hey you got to check this out you know you can put your information into this and it'll tell you how how long you have to live so I haven't looked at it but um number one the the important point about this is that when you look at all of the variables why are the majority of people not living longer healthier happier more fulfilling lives if you look at all the categories that impact that um is it morbid obesity type 2 diabetes is it um hypertension is it genetically inherited disease is it lifestyle risk factors what you'll find is that the vast majority of people are not living longer because of what we called modifiable risk factors which spawn this whole term LIF style medicine modifiable risk factors are changes within the control of that person that would dramatically affect the outcome of their life and and this is part of the reason why I chose to exit that industry and and spend the rest of my life trying to get the word out there on how people can extend their lifespan and extend their healthspan because it's all within our control we we have a tendency to believe that medicine and Optimal Health and um disease and pathology these are all things that are kind of happening to us they're not they're things that are happening within us so if someone were to listen to everything that you have to say and implement it in their lives on average how much do you think they could increase their lifespan seven years seven years not just to their lifespan but to their health span that's the most important thing is we're not just trying to live longer I mean most people most people die in their 70s and leave this earth in their 80s right or they die in their 60s and they leave this earth in their 70s and by that I mean their health span ends um and their lifespan continues for usually 10 years and it's a prolonged uh increasing portion of their life where there's just an increasing level of suffrage until they're gone what we're talking about at a minimum is extending your healthspan to the to to match your lifespan because lifespan is how many years you're you're you're on Earth your healthspan is like how many of those years are you enjoying and the truth is that we chalk so many things up to a consequence of Aging we accept so many things in our life as a consequence of Aging that are not a consequence of Aging at all they're a consequence of missing raw material in the human body and I'll explain that but as we get older and it's this is happening in younger and younger ages by the way you know waking water retention brain fog poor focus and concentration lack of waking energy um poor response to exercise poor short-term recall uh all of these things that that we believe are just conse want of Aging um you know I'm in my 30s I don't remember things as well I'm in my 40s you know I'm I got a spare tire around the middle and I've got a little bit of hypertension and uh you know I never really sleep that well so on that seven-year figure how do you know that so confidently it seems like when you give the response it's like without a shadow of a doubt you know it's seven years how do you know it's an absolute because um in the Big Data models that we had you know in the towards the tail end of my career I would go in sometimes and just manipulate the model because you know during my career I wasn't allowed to have any contact with the patient or any contact with the treating physician and for the record I'm not a physician I'm not licensed to practice medicine um and what the law provided for was when you're applying for a life insurance policy and someone's analyzing your medical data and your demographic data they didn't want that person all of a sudden jumping in and taking over your health care but the truth is that even if I saw life-threatening drug interactions in the record I couldn't contact the patient or the treating physician to warn them so what would be a life-threatening drug interaction so two different pharmaceutical um medications one prescribed by one physician one prescribed by another physician that have what's called a contraindication um some of the contraindications are things like thrombolytic events which are blood clots um so throwing a pulmonary embolism an aneurysm a deep vein thrombosis these are these are drugs that when put in combination with one another can cause um severe reactions like for example some um ssris interact with methylene blue um you know so looking at this vast array of pharmaceuticals that people are on and the interactions between these compounds in the human body and one of the interesting things about pharmaceutical research is it's very myopic very um it's it's studied in a very very narrow vertical so in other words if we're just looking at cholesterol and the effect that a Statin has on cholesterol we're only looking at that outcome we're not saying well what if this person is on a Statin also on high blood pressure medication is suffering from depression and is on an SSRI um and is also taking pain medication well now you have a completely different landscape we don't look at that we don't look at multifactorial drugs in the human body and it and it just takes me back to the the basics for a moment if I was to put up a chart and it's a chart of your cellular biology it's a chart of of What's called the methylation process in your body it's infinitely complex it I mean it it looks like six New York City subway maps stacked on top of each other okay there's transactions and then and Loops feeding into other loops and it looks extraordinarily complex the reason why I show that chart is I say if you look at this chart of your cellular biology the hundreds of billions of transactions going on in your body every day what you won't see on that chart are any chemicals there are no synthetics and there are no Pharmaceuticals and so if we start with the premise that if this intricate Network begins to break down down why are we fixing it with deficiencies that we cannot have because if you want to see magic happen in human beings you first give their body the raw material it needs to do its job which is fascinating to me that we believe this so much in plant physiology but we don't believe it in human physiology as I was pulling up here today you know I saw these palm trees and uh you know in some of these yards if if if a leaf were ever rotting in one of these palm trees and you called the true arborist a true bot out to take a look at that that tree they actually wouldn't touch the leaf they would cortest the soil and they would say you know what Jack there's no nitrogen in the soil and they would add nitrogen to the soil and the leaf would heal human beings are no different when you deprive the body of certain raw material you get the expression of disease and so now we're bringing chemicals synthetics and pharmaceuticals in to fix the expression of a nutrient deficiency the human body needs certain raw Mater materials to to function it needs vitamins it needs minerals it needs amino acids it needs fatty acids um so for example if you um You probably heard the term essential fatty acids that means they're essential for life there are fats that are essential for life there are essential amino acids these are the building blocks of proteins they're essential for life there's no such thing by the way as an essential carbohydrate so just let that sett in for a second no such thing as an essential carbohydrate they're not necessary for life so what happens if if we become deficient in some of the essentials amino acids minerals nutrients fatty acids the very very Basics right you start to get the expression of disease and now we are going to Pharma and modern medicine to say why do I have headaches all the time instead of saying what's causing my headache right um we're going to uh our doctor and they say you you have a little bit of high blood pressure well why do I have high blood pressure they can't find anything wrong with my heart my EKG is normal my EEG is normal my cardiac exams are all normal well we don't know um but but now that we have your family history your your uncle had it your mother has it uh you know your mother's brother has it you have genetically inherited hypertension and you just accept that and you start taking medication for it so you're saying that using the law of big numbers maybe one person can't directly increase their lifespan or health span by seven years but since you had access to 100 hundreds of millions of records of people's lives and their deaths you're able to make these minor tweaks and then see on average based off of those hundreds of millions of records and data points how it would affect their lifespan and on average with these minor tweaks 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deficiencies that go take take the take the most prominent nutrient deficiency in the world which is vitamin D3 okay when God made made us he made us with the ability to make one vitamin if I pulled the blood of everybody listening to this podcast right now you'd see that there are hundreds of vitamins in your bloodstream okay you're only capable of making one and it's called vitamin D3 coloc calciferol we make it from sunlight and cholesterol so think about how important that nutrient that vitamin which acts as a hormone must be to human function if it's the only one that human beings make on our own and in fact that deficiency was the second leading cause of morbidity in covid um that deficiency is one of the leading causes of autoimmune uh disease what are the symptoms of it how do you know I I'll give you a perfect example of what we saw in the medical record all the time you'd see somebody with a clinically deficient level of vitamin D3 and this would go on for years and years and years and years and you'd see that they actually are really susceptible to colds flu L influenza they had repeated viral infections um and then all of a sudden uh when they get out of bed in the morning uh they're the SS their feet and their ankles are really sore and achy when they walk to the bathroom to take their their first pee they wake up sore and achy like they had a workout the night before when they haven't it moves up to their hips and their low back and eventually um they're like you know they go to their Primary Care physici like Doc it hurts when I you know it's like my my hands ache when I make a tight fist well that symptom those symptoms also mimic something called rheumatoid arthritis and so now your doctor goes ah you know what you check you've got you got rheumatoid arthritis um but don't worry I'm going to put you on something called a corticosteroid it's an anti-inflammatory I'm going to give you this and you're going to be just fine well the problem with corticosteroids is um if you start a corticosteroid our record showed that you had six years and one day until you were having a joint replacement and what that meant was the Coro steroid first would um be anti-inflammatory but then it would eat your joints like a termite and so 6 years and one day later you're having a joint replacement and after a joint replacement your Mobility starts to go down and as you become less mobile you bring in all the diseases that exacerbate with reduced Mobility so if you rewind this back you had a nutrient deficiency and one of the most common deficiencies in the world 50% of the world's population deficient in vitamin D3 85% of the African-American and dark complected Latinos are deficient in vitamin D3 um and it's manifesting as something else now you've been diagnosed with a condition you don't have you've been on put on a medication that wasn't required which forced a surgery that was unnecessary which reduced your mobility and brought in diseases from your future that you never would have had and you ended up succumbing to a disease that you never should have had because of surgery that was unnecessary because of a medication that wasn't needed because of a diagnosis that was wrong is it it was a nutrient deficiency is it possible then to game this system with an annuity like let's just say you take out an annuity at 65 years old you're pretty unhealthy and then all of a sudden you get really healthy and then you live as long as possible is that is that doable that's doable but here's the here's here's the sad truth is that the vast majority of people will not do that what the data says is that the most difficult thing for people to do is develop new habits later in life you know we are not a collection of goals we're not a collection of priorities we are a collection of habits so if you have the goal of losing weight but you don't develop the habits of somebody who's losing weight you'll never lose weight it will just remain your goal if you have the goal of being really physically fit or of getting off your medication but you don't develop the habits of somebody who lives a non-hypertensive lifestyle or a fit lifestyle so the the the disconnect is between people's goals and people's habits um and we see this we saw this in the record and the longer that you had certain habits the less likely we would give you a chance of reversing those you know but I mean how many times everybody listening to this podcast is like oh man I told my mom and dad just you know Mom stop eating that dad you got to move more and they're like they're stuck in their ways they're you know they're we're never changing their habits um you know he likes to drink his whiskey he likes his he likes his soda I'm just never going to changes habits so the outlier is somebody who actually will take respons responsibility set new habits and make true habitual change so I'm curious why is soda so addictive because that's one of the things that I've noticed is like the the coke the can of Coke why can't people quit soda so there's there's a lot going on there right um so first of all uh sugar is your brain is crack addicted to sugar okay and your brain is like the little Kim Jong-un of dictators it sits up there takes everything for itself it's nasty if it wants if it wants uh calcium it'll strip it from the bones if it wants a Amo acids it'll strip it from lean muscle tissue if it wants sugar it will activate certain receptors I think the one on the back of the tongue is called the rf12 receptor and it will give you a dopamine reward for giving it sugar it will actually drug you to give it sugar and the way that it drugs you is it releases a little burst of dopamine and which is a mood enhancer and so you don't actually like the soda you're addicted to the soda and this is by Design there are entire Laboratories full of phds that are doing nothing but studying the dopamine release cycle so that certain chemicals and certain artificial sweeteners will ding that dopamine receptor and make you feel better that phone there is more research done on that phone on how to keep your attention span in that phone by giving you constant dopamine rewards and using wavelengths of light to keep you alert and awake certain wavelengths of blue light to raise your cortisol creating a stress response and to heighten the dopamine response so now if you're awake and and alert and rewarded you're going to spend a lot of time inside this phone this little screen and so part of one of the challenges that we face is you know we we were not uh I don't believe in evolution but I'm just going to use this term we weren't evolutionarily designed ancestrally designed to spend all of our time inside of this little 6x4 square and yet we do because there's so much excitement in there there's so much of a reward dopamine reward there's so much blue light that gives me a sense of feeling awake and so part of the challenge that we face is how do we just develop new habits like for example um there is no question at all that sleep is our human superpower it literally is our human superpower and if you were to put a 100 people in a room and you were to ask these people uh you I do this with young entrepreneurs all the time what's more important to you your your health or your wealth your business or your your your biome everybody says man my my my health is so much more important than my business you know um you know being healthy and and and being physically fit or being uh you know not being sick is more important to me than my business and I'll bring them up on stage and I'll say um what kind of business do you run oh I have a uh online marketing agency great how many employees do you have nine what's your Revenue per month 660,000 what's your average revenue per employee $72,400 great what your hemoglobin A1c if face goes blank what's your testosterone level what's your vitamin D3 level so we know more about the income statement the balance sheet and the pnl of our of our businesses than we do about the income statement the bance sheet and the p&l of our bodies and this is our Temple but we don't treat it like a temple right we let thieves into the temple um we don't put things into this Temple that serve us and we expect it to continue to serve and provide for us so it's it's a it's a mentality shift to say okay what can I do for myself so I can then do for the rest of the world and and and if I had to pick one thing it would be it would be sleep I mean the first thing I do when I work with anyone an athlete or uh you know any other clients that I'm well known for quote unquote changing their lives the first thing I fix is their sleep is it true that some people can function better off of less sleep and they don't actually pay any sleep debt or long-term consequences yes there there is um there are people that are actually genetically predisposed to better better sleep um but this just means that they they need less sleep because the the amount of time that you need to spend in bed is related to how long it takes you to get adequate deep sleep and REM sleep so we we most people would say yes I know sleep's really important but I don't know why right and so what happens during sleep es especially deep and REM stage cycles of sleep that's so important well during deep sleep there's a very specific activity that's going on first of all this is when most of our hormones are made um a lot of young menstruating women that have really terrible sleep will be pre-diabetic even though they're not eating an unhealthy diet um so during deep sleep there's a there's an an area of the brain called the glymphatic system we all know what our lymph nodes are because you know they they swell up when we get a sore throat and you touch your neck and it's really sore okay those are your lymph nodes that's the waist elimination system for the body in the brain you have a waist elimination system called the glymphatic system this is the trash removal part of the brain it is active during deep sleep so if you're not getting deep sleep your brain is not eliminating waste it's not repairing it's not detoxifying it's not regenerating so why when you get a poor night's sleep do you wake up foggy well your brain's inflamed because of accumulated waste if you actually got deep sleep you would feel refreshed and focused and clear but what about getting too much sleep because sometimes I'll just oversleep I'll get 10 hours 12 hours sleep and I wake up and I feel awful even though know like I definitely got more than I needed yeah so that's called Sleep inertia um and so basically can can we go down on the road to sleep for a minute because I'm going to give your listeners a couple of really good sleep habits that'll cost them nothing and um if they try these for seven days it'll completely they'll they'll never miss again so first of all it's it's about just being intentional just drawing your awareness to sleep because if you ask most people what do you do to go go to sleep and they're like what do you mean I I get in bed I'm like well what time do you get in bed well whenever I'm done all my [ __ ] um and uh what time do you go to bed each night I don't know sometimes 11: sometimes 1:30 it's it's it's whatever um and so first of all it's just drawing your awareness to sleep I call it bookending your sleep so developing sleep hygiene like a sleep routine is literally one of the secret superpowers that everybody could do that would cost them nothing and so a sleep a good sleep routine would look like this and if your listeners will do this for a week you'll see exactly the power of of sleep so this this this next week just do yourself a favor and pick a bedtime um 10:00 is a perfect one but if that's to early pick 11:00 and make sure that you go to bed at the same time every single night for seven days set an alarm 15 minutes before that time most people set alarms to wake up I'm saying s an alarm to go to sleep and 15 minutes so let's say it's 10 o'cl set your alarm for 9:45 and start this exact sleep routine if you're one of those people that ruminates lays down to go to bed night and your mind wakes up which so many people do their body tired but their mind awake they just lay there and ruminate this is a collection of neurotransmitters in the brain called catacol amines these waking neurotransmitters so first thing you do is you take a contrast shower very simple just go into the shower um turn the water as hot as you can stand it on the back of your neck for about a minute minute and a half step out of that stream of water turn it as cold as it will go step back into that stream of water and and just deal with it for 30 seconds that Wes that would wake me up though yeah it will wake you up temporarily but it will break What's called the catacol amine cycle just like intense exercise will if you ever talk to somebody who doesn't know how to meditate and they can't meditate they can't sort of focus and quiet their mind then they do go to a CrossFit Wad and afterwards they just feel amazing like they they just feel clear and cognizant awake and focused that's because they blew out all the catac colam means during that workout so a contrast shower can do the same thing and then go over and brush your teeth floss um and just a couple of tips on that use a soft toothbrush get rid of fluoride toothpaste use use a toothpaste with hydroxy appetite um floss every night and do something called tongue scraping tongue scraper will probably cost you six or eight bucks a little Co copper tongue scraper evidence is it on that and if you have two or three minutes do some oil pulling take a little scoop of uh uh organic coconut oil and just put it in your mouth and swish the oil around and and spit it back out in the trash can after brushing your teeth after brushing your teeth just pull with a little bit of oil super good for your gum so oil pulling is um it's an ancient aroic way of of actually uh removing um pathogens from the mouth without killing all of the good um bacteria also it also hydrates the gums um you know most of us are using like really hard toothbrushes and we brush back and forth like this and we're actually separating our gum line from our from our teeth we don't have good oral hygiene very few people floss um and if you look at the um connection between the oral cavity and the rest of our biome we're not really connecting some of the conditions that we have to our teeth right we're not connecting the uh root canal that we had you know five years ago which leaves dead tissue in the body which has now become necrotic and has uh an infection called a cavitation we're not connecting that to our early onset cardiovascular disease our hormone imbalance our brain fog our consistent headaches um so so you know do your toothbrush and routine then when you get in your room surgically remove all of the light from the room I mean like a surgeon walk around and try to you know close your drapes if you have an alarm clock on your nightstand throw a towel over top of it if you have a uh if you have like a fire alarm take a little piece of electrical tape and put it over the the the the light on the fire alarm you'd be shocked how little light it takes to raise cortisol levels at night if you are going to be on your phone at night in your bed which I don't recommend but if you are just um go into your settings and set the red screen so that you actually are not looking at Blue Light raising cortisol you're looking at a red screen um make the room as cold as you can stand it 68 or 69 degrees Fahrenheit is actually really good for sleeping and then when you get in bed invest in a $8 eye mask a a simple soft eye mask not the ones with the little velcro straps that that irritate you but a nice fat cotton eye mask when you get in bed just start a series of long slow deep breaths in through your nose pause an out throw straw in your mouth and while you're doing that every time a thought comes into your head just grab that thought and pull it down into your lungs and literally breathe that thought right out of your body you won't make it to 10 breaths and you'll fall asleep and the point of developing this type of sequential sleep routine is that our bodies crave routine one of the things that's happened as we've gotten more and more detached from other nature is we're we're completely out of sync with the Circadian cycle of the Earth we don't we we're out of we're out of we've lost a lot of connection we lost a lot of connection with each other we've definitely lost our connection to Mother Nature and what the Blue Zone research tells us is that this is a non-negotiable right I mean if you look at dieting across the blue zones there's no continuity between diets nobody can make an argument the keto paleo pescatarian vegan vegetarian uh you know diet is the diet to live a long life that's patently false if you go to Sardinia You've Got High carbohydrate consumption ultr long life expectancy go to Singapore you got very high meat consumption Ultra long life expectancies go to the Mediterranean you have high oil and fatty fish consumption Ultra long life expectancy the the the diet secret is to eat Whole Foods not processed foods but the two non-negotiables in living a long life or sense of community and purpose and mobility and exercise later in life and by community and purpose um you know that's that's part of what I'm talking about as our connection back to Mother Nature nature so when you get in bed do this breath work exercise you won't make it to 10 breaths after you do this for 7 days you're going to be shocked how good you start to feel okay I'll do that for seven days but like I am incredibly skeptical when you say you won't make it to 10 breaths because whenever I try to to not think about certain things I just end up thinking about more things and then sometimes like if it goes on for a couple hours I'll look at the clock and be like you know it be like 2: a.m. oh my God like I'm just I just know for a fact I'm not getting any sleep that night so rarely is somebody telling you what that is right so so you know what's what's really uh incredible about the majority of of things I'll do when when I saw different challenges people have anxiety ADD ADHD is is first I I at least let them know what it is right so nobody tells you what's causing that right you you're you you you talk about the characteristics of it like when people say I have I have anxiety I mean I I feel anxious or anxiety all the time and when you ask them what anxiety is they'll say well it's like this sensation of the presence of a fear without the presence of a fear um I get I get very anxious sometimes my heart rate feels like it's racing um I hyperfocus on things okay those are all the characteristics of what you're talking about what is it what is causing that it's causing anxiety and also causing your waking mind is a rise in a very specific category of neurotransmitters called catacol amines the reason why this is important is these four neurotransmitters rise in a fight ORF flight response if you walked outside of this door and went out of your house and somebody was standing in front of you with a knife you would immediately have a figh ORF flight response right your pupils would dilate your heart rate would increase your extremities would flood with bud you would start to have a fight or flight response what is that response it's a dump of these forward neurotransmitters um norepinephrine epinephrine a Fed drone and uh dopamine that's not important but the point is as these four neurotransmitters rise they create first awaken State as they continue to rise they'll create a hyper Alert state as you continue to rise beyond that you'll get anxious anxiousness will give way into anxiety the actual sensation of the presence of a fear without the presence of a fear you can have a panic attack from thinking about getting eaten by a shark just like you can have a panic attack from somebody standing in front of you with a knife one is a very real threat one is an entirely perceived threat chemically they're the same thing so now the question becomes now that we know what it is how do we address it so people that have these types of ruminating thoughts do extremely good on magnesium supplementation especially magnesium 3 and8 that will quiet your mind right it will help you actually break down these neurotransmitters remember in the H in the human mind we don't just create thought we also break thought down or else you'd always be thinking the same thing the reason why you're in different moods throughout the day is we work on a stimulus response so if we didn't break mood down or break thought down we'd always be thinking the same thing or in the same mood however when we create thought at a faster rate than we break it down the Mind becomes clouded and we call this attention deficit disorder and about 70% of your audience statistically speaking based on their age that I looked at your demographics suffers from an add or ADHD at some point during their day or throughout their lifetime and no one tells them what it is right no one tells them it's a rising catacol means it's an overactive mind people with ADD or ADHD don't lack the ability to pay attention they lack the ability to pay attention to so many things so it's not attention deficit disorder it's an attention overload Disorder so you're saying magnesium magnesium is amazing for that yes specifically at night magnesium 3 and eight because there are lots of different times of magnesium so add that and you'll find that you're not ruminating okay I'll add that and I'll do that thing seven days I'll see if it works I appreciate that I appreciate the challeng thank me for that I'm curious when it comes to living longer what about all these Anti-aging products you see are those scams or is it purely just a visual thing to like reduce wrinkles right does does anything really make you live longer now when it comes to running a website I just got to say that it could be difficult to figure everything out from Co traffic uptime security sometimes hosting could just flat out be difficult there could be slow speeds confusing dashboards and when something goes wrong good luck getting help but that all changes with our sponsor kinsta if you need WordPress hosting that just works kinsta takes care of everything so you can just focus on growing your business not fixing your site Kea offers blazing fast speeds with 37 global data centers meaning your website is going to load Crazy Fast which is great for SEO and keeping visitors around and when it comes to security kin has Enterprise level protection so you don't have to stress about hacks or any downtime not to mention their dashboard is modern and intuitive so you don't have to 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two choices we can reattach to Mother Nature or we can use devices that um make up for that deficit so this is where I would start so what is what do we get from other nature we get magnetism from the earth we get oxygen from the air we get light from the sun um I don't think that we emphasize the importance of these three things enough I mean earthing and grounding is actually a very real thing people want to pooo it as some kind of Indian Voodoo science it's not when you take your shoes off and you touch the surface of the Earth there is a phys there's a there is a low gal current that the Earth has and by making contact with it you actually change the physiology in your body what does it matter what you step on like if do I need to step on gr dirt yeah dirt on concrete usually concrete will not be grounded why is that which is because it's insulated from from the earth sometimes there's enough rebar in there that it that it that it's grounded um but you I'm talking about dirt grass sand so how do you mimic the low gous current of the Earth this is where pemf mats come from pulse electromagnetic field right so people buy these pmf mats and put them in their in their beds grounding mattresses are very good for your bed um because a lot of us especially people that are living in condos you know are not in contact with the surface of the Earth you can use grounding sheets you can use a pmf mat but if you don't want to spend the money on that take a few minutes and take your shoes off touch the surface is it just a few minutes is all you need less than six minutes and and what are the like actual benefits that you will see from grounding so to be hyp specific um you will repolarize the surface of your cells so for example if I was and I've done this hundreds of times if you go on my Instagram you'll see I've got videos of of doing this I'll take my production manager he's always my gima pck sorry Max um and I'll prick his finger and I'll put a drop of blood on a slide and I'll actually show you under a microscope what his blood looks like in real time and what you'll see is all the red blood cells they start to get stuck together and clumped up and why is that because if you take a a a rebl cell or a sphere and you actually have two of these side by side if they have the same charge they can't touch like two North Poles of a magnet as soon as they get opposite charges they attract and once they attract they stick together and they get clumped up well as we get less and less in contact with the Earth we build up this charge in the body our cells start to stick together and get clumped up after you lay on a pmf mat for 20 minutes or you go out and do some grounding you prick your your blood your finger again look at the same blood you'll see all of these red blood cells are separated and they look like eggs slithering around in a bowl full of oil they're just passing by each other you've opened up all of that surface area I mean these little things for your cellular biology that thing that would cost you nothing what about going in the ocean I feel like every single time I go into the ocean I feel that is the the quickest that I will ever feel better and a lot of the times if I'm sick and I go into the ocean I notice that my sickness gets dramatically better a lot faster especially if I go surfing or I spend a good amount of time just like in the waves and and yeah in the water well because you're doing three things number one you're grounding probably don't know it um you're getting a high amount of ions which I'll explain in a second and you're also getting sunlight you know we've been taught to fear the Sun I mean uh but if you actually looked at a chart of the parabolic rise of skin cancer it would be superimposable with the parabolic use of sunscreen so why have why have 23 brands of sunscreen been pulled from the market since 2018 for directly being link to skin cancer why did we not have the same rates of skin cancer in the 50s as we do today when we're parabolically using more sunscreen today the ozone layer right the ozone layer is eaten away that we're better at diagnosing it now back in the day it wouldn't have been so abundantly clear well that's I don't believe that to be true I think that what what's what's happened is um we eat such a pro-inflammatory diet now we um 67% of the majority of our diets is highly processed foods these are not even Foods um we we don't eat Whole Foods we don't get the right kind of sun exposure we get no sun no sun no sun then we go out on a vacation and we just hyperdose ourselves and we get fried what I'm talking about is you know there's there's a special part of the first part of the day called first light and this is about the first 60 Minutes of the day there's no UVA and there's no UVB rays during this time of the day there are healthy rays that will create vitamin D3 you let that light touch your skin it does all kinds of benefits which I can go into the science behind that microvascular circulation reduction of inflammation very good for you to get small doses of sunlight every single day in fact it's probably the greatest mood enhancer you could you could ever do if you want to if you really want to reset your circadian Rhythm wake up in the morning with the rise of the Sun and just go out and get natural light into your eyes can you overdose on like vitamin D3 or magnesium very difficult much to overdose on vitamin D3 or magnesium so the reference range for vitamin D3 is 30 nanograms per deciliter to about 100 nigram per deciliter if you were to go out in the sun for 35 or 40 minutes and board shorts or a woman with a bikini on lots of skin exposed um you'd manufacture about 25,000 IUS of vitamin D3 so so with these different vitamins especially water soluble ones um we're meant to actually be able to eliminate higher doses of it because you know you're not really controlling the exact same dose you're taking every day if you were getting it from food so your body can eliminate the excess it is very difficult to overdose on vitamin D3 if you really really overs supplemented if you're taking 5,000 IUS of vitamin D3 every day with 80 micrograms of K2 there's virtually zero chance you overdose and there's extraordinary evidence that staying in the 60 to 80 nanogram range for vitamin D3 which is the higher end of the range has all kinds of benefits it's tied to Red uh reduced uh risk of breast cancer for for women it's tied to better um autoimmune response across the board in men and women uh I think that's one of the foundational um supplements and you know B12 yes it's in a lot of our different supplements workout powders in our vitamins you'll see that sometimes on a blood test the B12 gets really really high but it's a water soluble vitamin and we eliminate it very easily that's something I'm curious about energy drinks and pre-workouts are those really bad for you because I've seen some that have like vitamin B12 and you see it has like 12,000 per of your daily needs plus like Gana and like torine and a whole bunch of caffeine yeah I'm not really yeah I'm not really a big fan of those I mean those are filling a gap that you know you should ask yourself you know these are the kinds of questions we should ask ourself you know why is it that I'm needing an energy drink in the in the middle of the day what does my sleep look like did I exercise this morning am I eating Whole Foods Ming just a pro in in inflammatory diet and it's it's I'm not one of those people that because the research doesn't say to do this um that preaches a really dogmatic diet I I I preach that people should be eating Whole Foods the majority of the foods that we eating are actually have I mean and forget the even really harsh stuff like the forever chemicals like you know glyphosat-prozess that are just straight forever chemicals and and look at in the basic you know in in the American diet for example we have um we're the only country in the world that sprays our entire grain Supply with um something called folic acid we've been led to believe that folic acid is a natural vitamin that's you know most people have heard of folic acid they think it's vitamin B9 it's not folic acid is a man-made chemical that we make in a laboratory you cannot find it anywhere on the surface of the Earth it does not exist naturally Mother Nature um and so why is it so prevalent in our diet well because in 1993 the chemical industry convinced uh the federal government that we needed to spray our entire grain Supply with folic acid all flour all bread all pasta all cereal grains of any kind although we don't call it sprayed with folic acid we call it fortified or enriched so fortified or enriched foods are foods that are sprayed with folic acid so what happens when you take high doses of you know it doesn't sound like a big deal right all this folic acid till you realize it's the most prevalent nutrient in the human diet and it's completely synthetic so I'm not saying don't eat grains or rice or pasta or cereals or bread um or or or things made with flight flour I'm saying eat the nonfortified non-enriched versions of those the organic versions of those you know if if you've ever um like eaten a bowl of pasta and a basket of bread here and you just feel like you want to go to sleep and you're in a bad mood and and and your gut blows up like a tick but then you go to Italy or you go to France you have a fat bowl of pasta and a basket of bread over there maybe even a glass of wine you feel amazing you actually lose weight eating pasta and bread in Europe why is that they don't spray with folic acid why did they start spraying with folic acid do they think at some point there's a benefit or is this just like some company wanting to make money well a little bit of both right there was um uh the intention the the the the the positive intention was they wanted to reduce incidence of neural tube defects in newborns okay so um they looked at um well the majority of people that are having these neural tube defects are folate deficient folate comes from green leafy vegetables it's widely available in nature so they said Well everybody's folate deficient so let's use this synthetic version folic acid we we'll force it into the food supply and then nobody will be folate deficient anymore and it will reduce the number of neural tube defects um and that was great intention what they didn't realize was that 44 to 50% of the population cannot process folic acid they cannot convert folic acid in their bodies into the usable form called methylfolate so what happens now you have a deficiency in methylfolate what does a deficiency in methylfolate cause slow gastrointestinal motility what does that mean that means that you get intermittent gas bloating diarrhea constipation irritability and cramping and what happens when you get those symptoms is you go down the road of food allergies and food sensitivities um you get your gut microbiome checked you go on all kinds of elimination dieses nothing works because you have you your body is missing the raw material methy folate because you cannot convert the folic acid into methylfolate what happened if in what would happen if instead of taking folic acid you took the methylated version called methylfolate those symptoms would go away when young uh women get pregnant the very first thing their OBGYN tells them to do is to take very high doses of folic acid well half of these women can't process folic acid so what happens they develop postpartum depression which for the record begins during pregnancy it's called postpartum depression but it's actually a depressive cycle that begins during pregnancy and then eventually when the pregnancy ends and they stop taking the prenatal vitamin the symptoms go away so they blame it on the pregnancy not on the vitamin so if we would understanding human physiology the solution is not a synthetic chemical the solution is the nutrient the body needs which is called methyl folate so if there are any young women that are planning to get pregnant listening to this podcast don't take a prenatal that has folic acid take a prenatal that has methyl folate your chances of postpartum depression go down your chances of improving the neural tube activity for your baby which is what you want to do go up and you should have a healthy happy pregnancy so we're going to introduce an idea called the 8020 rule I'm sure a lot of you guys are familiar but if you aren't that basically means that 20% of Your Action has 80% of the results so if you were to say three to five things maybe applying the the 8020 rule to this what would you say are the things people should do right now to increase their lifespan or health span so number one fix your sleep and if nothing else start drawing attention to your sleep be intentional about your sleep um number two um I would say is develop a whole food diet right the a whole food diet means that you are eating Foods as close to their natural form as as possible meat fish chicken eggs avocado coconut oil olive oil nuts um and super important um permanently eliminate tap water and Seed oils from your um from your diet I mean uh we we know that uh you know tap water with fluoride and chlorine um has for forever chem in it poly floral alcohols all kinds of things most people don't even know that fluoride is actually not fluoride for your teeth it's it's fluorosilicic acid which is the waste product from phosphate fertilizer production we produce billions of metric tons of phosphate fertilizer in this country every year we have to remove something called floral cisc acid from that or it will kill the plant that's a waste product from that industry's production we take that fisc acid we dump it into our Municipal Water Supply as fluoride it is a neurotoxin and it has been tied to decreased IQs as you increase the amount of fluoride in the in your water um chlorine which I get it is used to sanitize and kill pathogens there are still high amounts of chlorine in our our tap water so if you want to if if you want to do just a couple of things a couple small shifts that will make dramatic shifts in your cellular biology number one focus on your sleep be intentional about Sleep Number Two eat a whole food diet number three uh get rid of seed oils and um tap water uh in your diet and you know focus on eating Whole Foods that's where I would start secondly I would look at your supplementation routine you should be taking a methylated multivitamin uh vitamin D3 an omega-3 fatty acid um preferably one from a black seed oil or from small uh small fish um you taking an omega-3 fatty acid and and also prioritizing protein those are uh those are those are where I would start with you know diet and lifestyle and then I would make exercise non-negotiable and by exercise it doesn't have to be like intense like massive hits cardio and and um you know intense weight training walking is probably the most underrated exercise in the world um you know it reduces your uh improves your insulin sensitivity it allows your muscles to absorb glucose like a sponge if you only have a short period of time to exercise weight training hands down is better than cardiovascular training cross Ross the board in nearly every study that I've looked at so if you only have a short period of time try to lift weight now for tap water what about having a brda like you fill up the little brda things and BR one you know I I used to be a big fan of brda but actually after looking at some of the water testing on it it's sort of gimmicky it's a it's a sediment filter um but the particular matter you really want to get out of the water the polyfloral alals the you know the the fluoride the chlorines um uh microplastics those kinds of things you're not going to get out with a brda what about reverse osmosis reverse is is amazing amazing so if you get a r Ro filter like a four stage AR filter that's incredible remember that you have to remineralize that water my my favorite two bioh hacks uh right now that are very inexpensive are something called um H2 tabs it's putting hydrogen gas in your water and something called Baja gold sea salt it's just a mineral salt it's like a Celtic salt or a pink Himalayan sea salt so many of us are mineral deficient like we don't realize how mineral depleted our soil is and we actually don't put minerals in our body so the the one of the best things you can do first thing in the morning is take an 8 o glass of water you can put one of these hydrogen tablets in there um it's pressed Elemental magnesium drop it into the water it will fill that water with hydrogen gas and then add about a/4 of a teaspoon or a full dropper of Baja gold mineral salt and this will get you all of the trace minerals that your body needs Stir It Up and just whack it back you will never do anything else with your morning routine because that that immediate reduction in inflammation hydrating and mineralizing the body will make you so clear so cognizant so awake when you transition into the day that morning you'll start to feel the power of just putting mineral hydration and reducing after what like 30 minutes an hour um no 2 minutes I would love to try it what do you think about LMN te those little like so L te just like a lot of other electrolyte supplements they focus on the big ones sodium magnesium potassium right but the truth is there there's a whole host of trace minerals that we desperately need Boron manganese mbum silica selenium um you know there there are so many minerals that we need for example most people think that our bones are made of calcium they're not our bones are calcium combines with something called phosphorus and it forms something called hydroxy appetite your bones are hydroxy appetite they're very strong but calcium is only one component in order for this to happen you need 12 minerals right if you are missing any one of these 12 minerals your bones will not mineralize so if you're missing magnesium mbum silica selenium Boron iron um any of this uh silica any of these these 12 so in the morning if we hydrated and mineralized our bodies like a like a bag of Baja gold salt will probably cost you I don't know like 12 bucks and it will literally last you 5 years um so that remineralizing first thing in the morning is so so important um the the the hydrogen tablets that effres into hydrogen gas that hydrogen gas um when you put it into the body because it's the lightest element in the universe it's the most prevalent element in the universe it goes right across the bloodb brain barrier and has dramatic effects on the inflammatory process in the body because people don't realize that 70% of our circulation is not actually done by our heart our heart circulates about 30% of the blood in our body 70% of our circulation is done by an activity called vasomotor or vasomotion think of a snake swallowing a mouse right um so there's no no pressure going in the snake's mouth it's a muscular contraction so it's a WAV like motion so if you want to cater to that part of your circulatory system which is the vast Network in your brain you need to reduce the inflammation one of the safest ways to do that is with hydrogen gas my opinion so hydrate mineralize you know first thing in the morning sometimes you you'll feel like you won't even need coffee you'll be so clear and so awake just from reducing that inflammation if you personally could go back to yourself at 20 years old what's one thing that you would have told yourself stop drinking so much it would be the alcohol yeah probably be the alcohol like I've come full circle on alcohol um and uh and I did some other things things I'm not particularly proud of in the nightclub days but alcohol it's not the alcohol it's what the alcohol becomes so alcohol becomes something called acetal alahh when it's converted into liver and this drops the pH of your blood makes you more acidic you know the hangover that you have is from the acidity it's from the you know which is why breath work can walk you right out of a hangover hydrogen gas can walk you right out of a hangover if you use a hydrogen tablet you can walk your way right right out of a hangover um it's that inflammation that Vaso constriction in fact you know interestingly most people that suffer from headaches um especially chronic migraines uh there's a really interesting uh study in the Wy Journal of headaches where they actually looked at migraine headache suffers and found an inverse relationship between sodium and migraine headaches so in other words as sodium went up migraine headaches went down as sodium went down migraine headaches went up and and what was the reason for this because most people think that the headache is coming from their brain that's not true there are no pain receptors in the brain the brain is actually not capable of generating a pain signal so nothing that you're feeling when your head hurts is your brain there's a covering over the brain called the dura and this like imagine Saran Wrap stretched over the top of your brain right and um the dura is fraught with pain receptors and it hates two things it hates being stretched and it hates being contracted what determines whether or not it's stretching or Contracting the sodium gradient it's called osmosis so very often you can put don't take my word for it please go to the Wy Journal of headaches and read this study um 3919 participants I think in this study it's a very very well structured meta analysis and um and just try especially if you're a migraine sufferer just try adding Baja gold Sea Salt to your morning routine and see if after seven days of doing that you have any any furthere so how do you avoid a hangover um avoid drinking would be the first thing let's just say you're drinking though let's just say you want to have a few drinks but you don't want to feel like crap the next day because I've seen so many things like the charcoal supplements yeah but that's that's trying to bind you know I would say dose up on the B vitamins the complex of B vitamins and a very specific form of B12 called methyl cobalamin um um hydrate while you're drinking and in the morning same exact thing if you want to get rid of a hangover the worst hangover of your life in 10 minutes this is how you do it you take 10 ounces of water put in hydrogen uh an elemental magnesium tablet that will effres into hydrogen gas add a mineral salt you can use Celtic salt you can use Baja gold sea salt I would prefer that not a partial uh supplement that just has potassium magnesium and sodium use a a real mineral salt whack that back and then go outside preferably and just do a short round of breath work try doing five obnoxiously deep breaths um followed by a very long pause on the exhale and I'll explain why and when I mean obnoxious I mean obnoxiously deep breaths get a lot of oxygen into your lungs on on your fifth exhale exhale and hold your breath as long as you can the reason for that is that carbon dioxide is the main vasod dilator in the human body we think it's nitric oxide it's not it's carbon dioxide the reason why you get vascular during exercise is because of the CO2 going back to the heart or going back to the lung and so if we hold our breath what will happen is the CO2 will build up you will get a vasodilation and then when you breathe in again that oxygen will smack the tissues do three rounds of that three rounds of five obnoxious breaths a hydrogen tablet I use one called H2 tabs um to put hydrogen gas in your water and take a and mix it with mineral salt your hangover will be gone in 10 minutes I don't care how hard it is now what about if you get a really bad night of sleep because sometimes we'll be traveling we'll get to the east coast and it's like 2:00 in the morning there and we got to be up at 8 for a podcast we have a short time to sleep and we wake up and I am exhausted and usually that's me going and like chugging back coffee to try to wake myself up is there a better alternative to that yeah so there's three Alternatives one um you already broke one of the Cardinal rules that I wouldn't break I wouldn't have a podcast at 8: a.m. I would prioritize sleep and exercise rather than podcast travel and meetings but if you can't do that which I understand some people don't have control of their schedule um they can't be intentional about sleep and exercise they have to be intentional about their obligations but um so there's three things you can do number one remember that um when you're sleep deprived um part of what's happened is you have a you have some inflammation that wasn't rid from the brain the previous night and you have to preserve the precious amount of oxygen that's in your system because it's fixed the amount of blood in your system is fixed the amount of oxygen that's in your blood right now is fixed as soon as you eat you are going to divert all of those resources from your brain straight to your gut so on days where you have had limited sleep eat very very light these are great days to intermittent fast um they're great days to focus on proteins and fats only um stay away from high glycemic carbohydrates stay away from multiple meals eat light and when you eat just just eat proteins and fats so for example if you were going to eat in the morning have scrambled eggs and a slice of Avoca slices of avocado with some sea salt or maybe some olive oil you know in the afternoon have a you know or in the evening have a piece of fish and and vegetables no starches no carbohydrates and what you'll do is you will divert less blood and less oxygen from your brain to your gut if you actually stood in Fr front of a thermograph which reads the heat in your body and you looked at what your where all the blood was focused in your body before you eat you'd see that your brain is glowing like red and orange lots of blood lots of oxygen up there then you stuff this 30 foot long tube which your intestinal tract is full of food especially High carbohydrate food and your blood will all divert to your gut and it will power you down you will be so sleepy you'll be exhausted it will make you more F that's interesting so I've noticed I don't work as well after I eat I just don't have the energy so what I found is when I wake up the only thing I could do if I want to optimize for like just productivity and efficiency is I make a coffee I put in some protein powder in there and a few other like you know a creatine supplement mix it up and that's all I eat until about one or two because if I eat I just get tired is that the reason why or is it like what I'm eating and I try to eat healthy yeah it's exactly why You' just diverted all that blood to that 30 foot long uh conveyor belt and if you look at 30 feet of intestinal tract you'll see that it's 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completely useless yes lots of supplements people take there what are some of the most common useless supplements um cyano cobalamin form of B12 and a lot of uh multivitamins um some multivitamins are completely useless some multivitamins are completely useless so for example let's let's look at the category of probiotics um so what are probiotics probiotics are bacteria um and how do we sell probiotics on the label we sell it by what's called cfus Colony forming units and we sell it by um the the number of bacteria So you you're walking down the aisle and it's this bottle says 50 billion um cfus colony forming units um and 12 strains and the next one says 10 billion and three strains so obviously we think the one with more is better but if you think about um all probiotics are bacteria right and the only reason that we have a stomach is to kill bacteria that's the role of the stomach the stomach's role is to be the Gateway between your oral cavity and your intestinal tract and to kill bacteria before it gets into your body and so if all probiotic s are bacteria and the stomach designed to kill bacteria then guess what happens when you take a probiotic that's not protected from stomach acid that capsule dissolves and you bathe all of those probiotics in stomach acid and you pass dead bacteria into your stomach so the majority of probiotics do not account for stomach acid so they don't have a capsule that protects them from the stomach acid so they pass into the intestine is dead bacteria really good probiotics um will be inside of a capsule that does not dissolve in acid it dissolves in an alkaline environment so it actually delivers the probiotics to the neighborhood in which they live rather than delivers them into this Acid Bath where they're going to die um so that so if you're going to choose a probiotic I would I would choose one that that um you know protects against stomach acid also um you know we we have to understand that certain vitamins are water soluble and certain vitamins are fat soluble so remember the acronym put your vitamins in the attic and spell attic a d k I still remember this from grad school put your vitamins in the attic and the reason why uh they say put your vitamins in the Attic is because vitamins a d e and K are fat soluble so in the morning when you take a vitamin D3 you should take it with food or you should take one that's suspended in oil because a lot of what we do in the supplement industry is we grab all this stuff from Mother Nature and then we package it to try to put it back in the body and when we take it from Mother Nature we destroy it when we package it we package it in a way the body can't absorb it and then we assume that it's going to act the same way when we put it in the body so really good supplement manufacturers go through a process of properly extracting the nutrients and they package them in ways that are bioavailable so probiotics is probably the biggest one that people are taking that is completely useless unless they're taking one that protects it from stomach acid and they spend lots of money on probiotics if you were to bet on one person living to 120 years old who would it be right now anyone listening to this podcast that's alive in 5 years can live to 120 no question it will be your choice whether or not you want to live to 120 possibly 140 how are they going to do that there are people alive right now that are definitely living to 120 Social Security to live until like security 360 or something yeah a lot of people in the 200s right now that's that's the secret better than the difficult times you you live forever the reason for this is that um this is a really exciting time for Humanity right now because um I believe um and especially you know this Maha movement is going to help Propel this I believe that if you're alive in five years it will be your choice whether or not you want to live to 120 the reason why I say that is for the first time we have the conversion of large data huge pools of data artificial intelligence and early detection and these things are unifying what I mean by this is big data and artificial intelligence is about to circumvent the entire system no longer is Pharma going to control the narrative um and even the FDA CDC will will will do their best but big data is starting to prove what works and what doesn't and it has no agenda so in other words the Statin theory of uh uh the Statin hypothesis of uh cholesterol is being thrown by the wayside a lot of the um hypothesis around hypertension are being um debunked by Big Data a lot of the hypothesis around ssris selective serotonin reuptake Inhibitors is being debunked um so a lot of the chemical synthetic pharmaceutical theory is actually being debunked by large data we're realizing that the way to live a longer healthier happier more fulfilling life is because of modifiable risk factors things like what I just um was telling you about and that the answer is not chemicals synthetics and pharmaceuticals that the answer is nutrients and we're learning how to test the body for certain nutrient deficiencies you want to see magic happen in human beings you give their body the raw material and needs to do its job I think the most undiscussed undiscovered things are things like mineral salt hydrogen gas I think is I think hydrogen water tablets will be as common as a multivitamin in 10 years because the research proves that this element um can not only reduce inflammation lengthen telam improve circulation improve the absorption of our uh vitamins or minerals or amino acids it's so prevalent and it's so harmless we can we can soak injured limbs in this kind of um water we're going to find that hydrating mineralizing and nutrify the body prioritizing sleep connection sense of community and getting back to Mother Nature whether we do it through biohacking modalities or not this is going to prove to be the most massive how long could someone realistically live for is there going to be a point where just like physically we can't get past like 200 years without attaching our head to like a machine and just like being physically present like at what point does the body just naturally break down no matter what you do to it um I don't think we know that answer I think that we're starting to I I think the greatest theory in aging that's emerging now is this theory of imuno fatigue and what it basically what it says is that the immune system as we age is becoming progressively more overwhelmed right like if you if you put a toxic compound into an infant's body you see how fast the body reacts to it by the time you are middleaged you know the amount of glyphosat-prozess true it defends us from you know parasites bacteria viruses but about 65% of the immune system's role is to police ourselves right it's it's it's actually watching our bodies if you think about the fact that every form of cancer regardless of its form or its origin was at one time a healthy cell it's a healthy cell that became metabolically sick and so why do some healthy cells that are becoming metabolically sick get rid from the body and some actually set up shop and become uh a cancer because it's slipped by the immune system so the majority of people listening to this podcast right now have at some point in their lifetime had ctc's circulating tumor cells in their blood the the the stage zero form of cancer but it was a walk in the park for the immune system the immune system saw it and and got rid of it the majority of these um viruses that we get in later in life are not actually viruses that we're catching they're viruses we've always had when people come down with Epstein bar virus that's mono that they had as in eth grade coming back as an adult when you get Chickenpox as a child it comes back as shingles you didn't catch shingles or catch Epstein bar you've always had it so why did it appear in some people and not appear in others because their immune system was fatigued this is a you know when you when you when you realize that 40% of every DNA strand in our body is not human it's viral 60% of our DNA is human DNA 40% of every strand of DNA in our bodies is viral and so why is it that some people get those viruses and some people don't you you probably both have Epstein bar virus your immune system well probably mostly Jack yeah I mean look at him Graham's got the Epstein whatever it is gr's got Epstein's not a good virus right now politically cyto megala virus let's go with that one um Jack definitely has more I can just see it see it in his eyes but um but the whole point is it's it's a message of Hope like I don't want people to feel overwhelmed by this I want people to feel inspired by this because you know the the greatest Pharmacy is the one that God gave us I mean if we if we would get back to the faith in humanity and Mankind the power that this has over this frequency matters sense of community matters what we put into our Temple matters it's so astounding to me that so many of us just let all these thieves into the temple we don't take care of the temple we don't treat our bodies like a temple and then we wonder why it's not serving us um it doesn't take much to be in service to yourself you know just rearranging you know habitual patterns I have a whole community of people My ultimate human Community I'm trying to to affect their habits so that they can make real permanent lifestyle change like how should I be sleeping how should I be waking up what would you say are the biggest Health scams that have been debunked that people continue to believe woo that's actually a really uh um good one there are a lot of those um centered around uh specific interventions like for example I'm a big believer in NAD I don't think that NAD is a scam but I would rather use supplements that improve the body's natural production of NAD than to put um what is NAD NAD is it's it's technically NEC nicotinamide Adine dinucleotide it's Capital NAD with a little plus right so there is a lot of supplements that will say this is an NAD oral supplement you can actually supplement with NAD orally you can do it intravenously you can do it through patches you can actually do it through a sublingual but you can't swallow an Ned capsule um because as soon as it opens so you're just saying nicotine uh nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide NAD nicotine is different um nicotine classic nicotine you're thinking of whether it's whether it's tobacco derived or not actually has some benefits it's just the delivery system that we use that that you know vaping smoking um a lot of the delivery systems for nicotine are the villain not the nicotine compound itself can we pause there for a quick second on nicotine what about the patch or the gum are you saying that nicotine can be good for you yes I'm saying the nicotine can have beneficial um it can have uh benefit in in in the body It's usually the delivery system of getting nicotine that's the issue the smoking so is there a healthy way to get nicotine should you get addicted to nicotine yeah I'm not saying you should get addicted to nicotine but I mean some of the some of the oncology research um some of the some of the competitive binding receptor research that actually shows for example in the beginning of the pandemic a lot of smokers didn't get covid you might have heard of that um fouchy came out and really blasted it but why were smokers not getting covid because SARS K to bound to the same receptors is nicotine we also know that it has beneficial um effects in some uh oncology treat treat ments we don't think of nicotine as being one of the bullets in the Arsenal against cancer but it is emerging as a real but um uh potential for for oncology treatment now for the record I'm not an oncologist or a physician but I've been reading the research um so I think a lot of a lot of these compounds get vilified because of the mechanism we use to get into the body right like I don't have any issues with coffee the whole table's full of coffee beans here um the problem with the majority of coffee is they um um you know it's it's highly uh infested with mold and mold and mot toxin um is you know if you can get mold-free coffees and you can get organic coffees those are amazing but um a lot of our coffees um have mold mold is a gets into the body it reeks Havoc it it's one of those pathogens that stays in your body for years and years and years it flies under the radar because you don't get so sick that you go to the emergency room or so sick to you go to uh the Urgent Care um um but but but back to this this concept of living a long time you know I I I believe that this artificial intelligence early detection and Big Data one of the things that we're able to do now is we're able to go into the body and we're able to test for all of these things that we were previously not looking at mold mot toxins heavy metals viruses parasites which all of us have guys just accept it we all have these these pathogens and we can go in and we can rid the body of these things and what happens when we rid the body of these things the immune system now gets a leg up right because it's not fighting on so many fronts you know it's like you put the best fighter in the world in the center of the Octagon if you just keep adding opponents you know to that to that ring eventually they're going to collapse right they can only fight on so many fronts the immune system is no different right it's it's policing our body for senescent cells it's going after zombie cells it's it's um you know there's a new in Invader that's come in uh you know a virus or a parasite or a pathogen the the gut is starting to leak so now it's got a war right outside of your uh leaky gut and so it starts to fight on so many fronts that it gets weak and it begins to collapse this is when a lot of these viruses start to resurge later in life but what about the hygiene hypothesis that suggests that people do need to get certain sicknesses and viruses and stuff like that so then they can train their immune system to then be able to fight it off that's why a lot of people during Co when they stayed indoors they got sick afterwards because they they didn't have all of these influences and I will tell you the worst thing that we ever did to humanity during Co full stop and this will probably cut your audience right in half was residential quarantining masking and social distancing that was a horrible idea you know the the body responds very well to certain stressors they're called Oris or hormetic stressors so cold plunging for example is a hormetic stress but your body responds very well to it so if you don't load your bones they don't strengthen if you don't tear a muscle it doesn't grow if you don't challenge the immune system it weakens so what you saw was the global effect of weakening the weakening of the immune system we basically shoved everybody indoors took human beings out of contact with other human beings and we weakened the immune system and then what could happened on the backs of the pandemic oh monkey pox what the hell is monkey pox I don't know I never heard of monkey pox no it's always been around it's just such a weak virus we never thought about it and now it's infecting people and bird flu and all of these different strains we're on a eighth version of omnicron you know the the SARS mutation so the best thing that could have happened to you during covid was to get a natural infection and develop a natural immune response right uh so um so we're realizing that the more human beings are in contact with other human beings the stronger our immune system is um just like like the more you load your bones the stronger your bones the more you challenge and you know uh tear your muscles muscle hyperr and muscle hyperplasia the the stronger you become that's why I believe that aging is the aggressive pursuit of comfort and so many of us are we are aggressively pursuing Comfort we regulate our body temperature I mean our our air temperature we regulate all of our lighting you guys can make the surface of the Sun at 1:00 in the morning in here if you want it right that's not natural so what happens is we we get so accustom at wanting to be comfortable that we actually accelerate our age reason why most people don't do cold showers or cold punches is they don't like to be uncomfortable right they won't take that three minutes to do that so you're saying that I'm shortening My Life by not taking cold showers I I do like to be comfortable I mean that's the one thing but I don't see the benefit of like why should I be going outside when it's really cold without all these jackets on like how is that going to benefit me yeah so let's talk about that I mean how does the body strengthen right first of all there's a process in the body it's called hormesis or a hormetic stress this is a stress that you apply to the body that the body strengthens in response to so let's just talk about what happens when you expose yourself to cold temperatures or cold water um cold water will happen much faster because water is 29 times more thermogenic than air meaning it removes heat from the body at 29 times the rate of of air which is why you could die and 72° water but you can't die in 72 de air right so um because your body wouldn't maintain the temperature so let's say a cold shower or a cold plch and look if you don't have five grand to invest in a cold plch just take take Tupperware containers and put water in tupperware container freeze it overnight and drop the ice blocks in your tub the next morning swirl it around you'll have a cold punch for three days so um when you get into cold water um and it doesn't have to be freezing cold 40 to 52° is fine 3 minutes minimum 6 minutes maximum there's no evidence that colder is better or that longer is better remember we're not trying to cold adapt the body we're trying to cold shock the body we're trying to stress it and have it respond right this is why we don't lift weights for four hours every day we lift weights for 30 or 45 minutes and you get a nice hypertrophic response and you strengthen and you don't overstress the body so when you get in cold water four big things happen you get a peripheral vasil constriction and this drivve all of the blood into your core liver lungs pancreas kidneys brain that's very good for you you get an immediate activation of something called Brown fat which is a special type of fat in the body that exchanges a calorie for measure of heat it actually will take a calorie and turn it into heat okay so it increases your caloric expenditure this is very good um and then you release something called cold shock proteins these are reserved proteins in your liver that flood the bloodstream when you get into cold water these cold shock prot prots are magic we're only really now starting to realize the benefit of cold shock proteins there's a couple I've been down the rabbit hole on called Lin L 28a and Lin 28b these are cold shock proteins that are actually um improving insulin sensitivity right and they scour the body of free radical oxidation they improve protein synthesis how well you repair from from an a workout so um you can get all of these benefits including a spike and dopamine just by exposing yourself to cold water right because you know ancestrally we had a lot of hormetic stresses you know you didn't get to regulate the temperature outside you didn't get get to regulate much of the temperature inside um you didn't get to regulate your lighting so much and so having the body go into these different environments um is very very good for you you actually build um you you you strengthen the body what of the most harmful foods that people constantly eat no question it's seed oils and um seed oil so canola uh sunflower safflower grape seed um Palm kernel oil uh vegetable oils the the reason for this is that it's not the it's not the plant okay it's the distance from the plant to the table when you put a a when you put a canola plant or rape seed same thing into a commercial press it comes out gummy and you de gum it with hexane which is a known neurotoxin then you take that neurotoxin degummed oil and you heat it to 405 de you rancid so it's putrified and now it smells and you need to dood deodorize it with sodium hydroxide which is a very powerful carcinogen and then you sometimes bleach it before you bottle it and put it on the Shelf you ever notice when you go down the Shelf the aisle in a shelf in a grocery store and all the vegetable oils Wesson oil vegetable oils they're all exactly the same color that beautiful perfect yellow color that would never happen if you pressed a thousand plants and turned it into oil you would not get that level consistency that's chemically induced and then they put a heart healthy label on it these are pro-inflammatory they cause a massive amount of inflammation in the body so what are the oils you can use in your life well in your kitchen you need five oils you need a grass-fed butter ghee butter uh grass-fed Tallow um coconut oil and an olive oil use the olive oil at room temperature use the others to sauté and cook your Foods they won't denature at high temperatures they have some high smoke points and you're and you're done you'd be shocked where all these seed oils are creeping into to the diet so if I had to pick one that would be it and what's the biggest healthy food that's actually harmful processed yogurt no question I mean you know people is that when they remove the fats out of it so it's like fat Greek yogurt or what are we talking yeah so they'll they so whole Fat Greek yogurt's great raw A2 yogurt is amazing for you um but what we do is we take the yogurt um and we we anytime you see a yogurt that says um um artificial fluit flavors or natural fruit flavors um that's code word for ain't got no fruit okay so it says artificial you know natural blueberry flavor quick way of saying No Blueberries are in here right so what happens is these these flavorings are are bacterio cdal so you're eating the the yogurt to get the probiotics but the flavoring killed all the bacteria so there's no probiotics in there first of all then you strip the fat out of it and then you add um processed ingredients like a lot of them have high fructose corn syrup natural flavors natural colors so the health benefit you think from getting the probiotic um in there is gone and you've added all of these um uh processed ingredients to it whole Fat Greek yogurt is amazing take whole Fat Greek yogurt add a fistful of blueberries and take a teaspoon or teaspoon and a half of monk fruit and mix it up it will be as good as any processed yogurt it's like your new Ben and& Jerry's and it's really really good for you um and you're keeping it in its whole form what's really interesting is sometimes when you take the little you know tear off packs of processed Greek processed yogurt which are terrible for you and you think well it's less expensive but if you buy Greek yogurt in a quart and buy a basket of um uh organic blueberries or raspberries or blackberries and you buy some monk fruit and a raw um and you mix those three things preserving it's a lot less expensive than the processed garbage and it will really serve your cellular bi what about the foods that cause anxiety and stress so things that cause anxiety are um I mean if you have xiety and you're listening to this podcast please do this for 7 days this will materially change your life um get all of the Fortified or enriched foods out of your diet for 7 Days the majority of people that are suffering from anxiety are not suffering from anxiety and and you can prove this by asking them the question if they've had it on and off throughout their lifetime they will say yes um and ask them if they can point to the specific trigger that causes it they will say no and the reason why that's important is because it shows you that it's not coming from their outside environment it's coming from their inside environment these are people that can feel the presence of a fear without the presence of a fear so get folic acid out of your diet for a week supplement with something called methyl folate and get on a good B complex and fic acid is just like enriched flour enriched wheat enriched grains and stuff like that anything enriched is there a difference between making an oatmeal let's say you just have some oats you have some peanut butter you have some water and you have a banana versus putting it all in a blender and making a smoothie no there's no real difference I actually put out a video years ago that said that blending fruits increased their glycemic uh profile meaning it would actually hit your blood sugar faster um isn't that notable that's not that's yeah that's not desirable but it's also not true um and I actually put out a video saying it was true because I i' read an article but I I wasn't smart enough to actually go and look at the the re and but plenty of people crawled out of the woodwork just slaughtered me for it but rightfully so I mean I shouldn't be putting out things that I haven't you know thoroughly thoroughly uh examined so um I took the hit on that one I try to correct the record as much as I can but know blending fruits and and eating them there's there's there's not much of a difference other than you're going to probably reduce the amount of fiber but um in terms of the hit to your blood sugar there's no there's no difference quickly I also am not a big fan of peanut butter you know peanuts are not nuts uh peanuts are legumes they're seeds um they're one of the highest in affet toxins that we know of if you've ever actually uncracked a peanut shell um and you've taken the peanut out and you feel that like soft fuzzy little layer in there behind the peanut okay that's a that's a Mot toxin it's a mold um so very very high in molds I would prefer that you eat other whole nuts like macadamias pistachios walnuts um those kinds what kind of butter could you have could you have like almond butter Al Butters Nut Butter true nut Butters two almond butters that's interesting I feel like everyone kind of heard somewhere in the timeline of their life that blending food just makes it less healthy and then I just took it and ran with it and so I try not to I actually I I actually ran with it uh increasing the impact on your blood sugar for for a while and then you know I started getting slaughtered for it online and then I actually started going down the rabbit hole of the research and it's not true that um it it it you know the funny thing was it the article was very adamant about it that I read and then it just inherently made sense to me well if you take a banana and you liquid and so that makes sense and so I started talking about it and it actually turns out that that's not the case what was the most shocking data point that you've researched about health I would say that the most shocking data point is that people have no idea how impactful simple lifestyle choices could be on the trajectory of their life every single person that is listening to this podcast right now has accepted something as a consequence of Aging consequence of their environment a consequence of stress a consequence of their their busy day that's not a consequence of any of those things it is a consequence of missing raw material in the human body and by that I mean the majority of us are deficient in one of either vitamins minerals um amino acids or nutrients and since we don't know what it is we just accept the outcome as as something that's just something we need to live with in our life I mean God meant for us to thrive we're supposed to sleep like a bear we're supposed to have the libido of a lion we're supposed to have clean clear cognizant waking energy we're supposed to have you know enough energy to get through our day we're supposed to have healthy short-term recall and people just accept that these are not a part of their life for one reason or another and the truth is if they just be a little bit more intentional about their habits what they what they eat and and what they're supplementing with um and I already told you a couple of my favorites massive changes how do you balance being healthy and Longevity with just enjoying life like I heard of some sort of statistic that like eating a hamburger was equivalent to like a certain amount of like a cigarette I don't know that that's true I think a lot of times we're blaming the butter for what the bread did um so uh you know we we um we we when we eat a hamburger it's not the meat and it's not the lettuce It's usually the bun um you know grassfed ground beef is one of the healthiest most nutrient-dense foods that you can eat you know I I eat grass-fed ground beef all the time in fact I eat these organ Blends because I can't I don't like the taste of organ Meats but they they'll blend it with um ground beef is amazing for you so um you could take a a typical nacho platter which is terrible for you and you could replace the nacho Doritos with a Masa chip right which is an organic um um Nono corn that's deep fried and beefed Alo and use a sea salt now you have a a Dorito a healthy form of a Dorito I I love these Masa chips you can then shave um um raw goat cheese on top of it and then slice some avocado cover grass-fed butter how much more expensive is it to do that than just get the nachos for like $0.99 what's really interesting is um you know there's this whole launch of glp ones you know asmic wovi mararo these glp1 um agonists and glp1 is a hormone that we make our gut okay we make it in response to nutrient density so the more nutrient dense the food the higher your gp1 so you actually will eat less of nutrient-dense foods than you will of Highly processed foods this has been approved over and over in multiple inl clinical studies and so by shifting to a nutrient-dense whole food diet you will pay more money but eat less food um and so I can't think of a better place for you to invest your money than in nutrient-dense foods and so if you if you buy cheaper highly processed foods you're going to eat a lot more of those if someone if someone has a $100 budget for health what would you recommend they spend it on if I had a $100 a month um I would I would be taking um hydrogen tablets um I would I would be putting a single hydro which cost you less than a dollar a day I'd add a hydrogen tablet to my drinking water first thing in the morning and I would add a mineral salt um to my morning routine um and I would take if I could only take one supplement I would take a D3 with K2 so for $100 you could take a mineral salt a hydrogen water tablet and a vitamin D3 with K2 and if your budget expanded just a little bit I would um uh I would add a methylated multivitamin is alcohol only ever bad for you um alcohol is always bad for you but it's dose dependent um so the more alcohol the worse um you know if you're looking at uh the healthiest alcohols we can't really use that term to the worst alcohols Tequilas in a category all of its own um the agave plant has some special ways that's processed in the liver so if you are going to drink and you like tequila stick to Tequila um and you're like grossest of all you haven't had a good tequila yet I've had I've had tequila I've had mcow it's yeah mcow is kind of smokey you know too too much for me I mean I I don't I I drink once or twice a year now but but the um um there some of the some of the really um well processed Tequilas such as um there's um what is the one that I I love it's not class aou it's a uh do doares um do o s a r Tes doares I love and I mean it tastes so good it make you cry um these are these these convert very slowly to a cahide um you can drink them with lime juice or lime juice and water um you can actually drink them with with with a you know club soda the overc consumption is obviously the worst thing you know once in a while if you want to have a drink great have a drink take additional B vitamins glutathione is excellent to take before you drink as well it helps with waste elimination and then do that technique that I said in the morning water what about red one because you hear people say it has res veratrol in it it does have Resveratrol um but so does uh so does Resveratrol supplements right I mean you can buy capsule of Resveratrol and not get the alcohol to transport the rest veratrol you know um California Wines in US wines especially are high in sulfites and that's really bad for headaches so if you're going to drink wine French wines and foreign wines are usually better than us wines because they have less and sulfites and the more full bodied the red wine like a Cabernet the better it is for you on the wine scale in a percentage how much is in your control versus how much is Just genetic or good or bad luck oh 90% of it is in your control you think about this every we have 32 trillion cells in the human body we every day 300 billion cells that were with you yesterday will not be with you tomorrow and so if if you're turning over 300 billion cells every single day then this means every 84 days just about every live structure in your body turns over so you'll never convince me that we cannot heal and repair and regenerate and put things in our rearview mirror over the next 84 days of our life depending on what frequency am I saying sending these cells what nutrients am I sending these cells how am I caring for for the temple you can make such a dramatic change over 84 days you can be a completely different cellular human being and I I truly don't care what you have ADD ADHD OCD manic depression bipolar autoimmune you know we have got to stop accepting that these things are permanent and have happened to us and we powerless they have happened within us and we are powerful to change them and this is very true with lifesty changes so on the topic of biohacking if you were to explain it to me like I'm 5 years old how would you do it um I would say it's doing the least amount of a biohacker is trying to compress time and they're trying to get the maximum amount of of physiologic benefit from the least amount of input so for example you don't have time to go out in the sun and expose your skins sunlight every day use a red light therapy bed red light therapy is incredible circulation inflammation um restoring microvascular circulation kickstarting our mitochondria forcing oxygen into our mitochondria now those beds are are very expensive but there's lots of clinics that allow you to use them on a um you know on a membership basis so biohackers are trying to do things like okay I'm going to be in bed for 8 hours what can I do to that bed that makes it a device to enhance my sleep well I can add an eight Sleep mattress I love that yeah I do I use eight sleep and it helps my sleep scores like crazy um so um so I'm going to buy a device that says okay I'm eight hours in bed and what what can I do to enhance my time in that bed so if you're a biohacker you might wear an eye mask you might actually try to have an EMF free environment um or an EMF mitigated environment you might sleep on an eight Sleep mattress um because it's actually going to change your body temperature as you cycle through the different stages of sleep so what's the 8020 of biohacking so the 8020 of biohacking is do 80 perc of it as naturally as you possibly can switching to a whole food diet you cannot biohack your way around a poor diet you can't exercise your way out of poor sleep um fix the fundamental basics in your life first be be conscious and intentional about sleep be conscious and intentional about your morning routine and conscious and intentional about self-care you know 82% of all autoimmune disease affects women females and not men and why is that because women have a tendency to be more selfless than men do they suffer from something called caregiver syndrome putting the needs of others before the needs of themselves to a much higher degree and it may be because they're meant to Bear children but you know they they have a tendency to suffer from more autoimmune diseases right so the truth is when we don't engage in self-care if you really want to be a selfless person and give your time away to your spouse to your kids to your job your career your partners your customers you have to have a portion of the day that belongs only to you only to to you you know digital detox or you guys sent me a question about monk uh what do you call it monk mode monk mode um you know small monk modes is better than intentional you know five days of Monk mode and then back to the rat race so set a block of time for yourself usually in the morning where you are only in service to yourself this might be a stupid question but why does it seem like attractive women always have stomach problems um because every woman that has stomach problem suffers from anxiety they come from the same place 44% of women have um a gene mutation called MTHFR it stands for methylene tetrahydrofolate reductase you don't need to know that I just want you to know I'm smart um so this gene mutation which half of the population has um is this inability to convert folic acid again doesn't sound like a big deal but these women suffer from consistent gut issues and they also have anxiety it is so prevalent that I have never in we had more than 150,000 patients come through our functional Clinic um before I exited I have never seen a woman that suffers from anxiety who did not also have gut issues if you are that woman I want to meet you you're a unicorn but it primarily affects attractive women because it seems like the the the the less attractive they are the less likely they are to have stomach problems I feel like attractive women always have something like they have knee issues or they have like you know acute arthritis or they have some arthritis you know what it it could be hypers speciic these women the more attractive you are the more likely you are to get your way and the more outspoken you've learned to become I think it's God evening the playing field is what I think maybe that could be it maybe they're like you're too hot I'm just going to give you some gut issues like yeah like you can't have everything cuz that would be cheating like you're so rich I'm just going to give you a sore foot you know like throw a little little health issue on give trench I don't know I don't know if there's any science behind it but I'll I'll see if maybe we'll do a hot woman study and see if there no I don't know if there's any signs behind that but like most women maybe they just happen to be attractive but most women that that do suffer from anxiety also have these cut issues what's the dumbest biohack you've ever seen like the stupidest one so I I see it across the board and and it's and it's as a category it's taking biohacking to the extreme right cold plunging for example 3 minutes minimum 6 minutes maximum 48 to 52° no evidence that colder is better no evidence that longer is better but what do you see bio hackers do getting into 37 degree water going underwater with a snorkel for 12 minutes below the surface the water remembering that your brain is only this far inside the surface of your skull it is not good to bake it it is not good to freeze it right going in a 220° sauna for 40 to 90 minutes so so you you it's taking taking these biohacks to the extreme um and so I think that uh you know we overdo it with NAD IVs um NAD is great for you but I mean if you start doing it every single day or every single week you're going to you know you're going to decrease your body's natural production so I think the challenge with biohacking is doing enough to get the benefit but not doing so much that becomes now a detriment and you can do that with everything right I mean exercise everything if someone had let's just say $1,000 what things would you recommend they assess like in terms of in terms of blood work in terms of any sort of testing okay so testing if you have $1,000 would be the following you want to get a I mean you go to your doctor and you request a a panel of labs it's going to have something called a CBC complete bug account it's going to have something called a CMP comprehensive metabolic panel lipid profile hormone profile nutrient deficiencies you want to definitely look at those what nobody is looking at and we should be looking at um and I use one called a vibrant panel there are other panels that you can look at are all of the Invaders that are inside our biome that are wreaking havoc that do not show up on Labs mold mot toxins Metals viruses parasites everyone has them there are consequences to having these in the body they're easy to get rid of if if you know that you have them but the majority of us are suffering from the consequences of having these because we don't even test for them so that's the four big categories mold mot toxin um you know in in my I live in Miami it's the mold capital of the world so many of us have have mold um heavy metals um the um uh viruses and parasites you get those things out of your body you'll thrive in ways you never thought possible and there are so many listeners right now that are suffering from chronic conditions that they do not understand massive brain fog water retention um hormone imbalance um sleep disruption ruminating thoughts anxiety ADD ADHD and and these are consequences of either missing raw materials in the human body which you'll find on a blood test and um or one of these is this just like a a standard blood test when you go to the doctor or is this a very specific thing that you have to order the first one I described is a standard blood test any any general practitioner should be able to give you that um or family medicine doctor um the other one is a more specific it's a it's a uh it's a form of um you know it's just looking at the Invaders that are in your blood right so the other one is more specific what about like testosterone and stuff like that are are we missing anything that because if someone's going to go out and they want to do everything just okay all at once I that's me specifically I want to go I want to measure every single thing that is of any importance yes so if you're a guy and you're measuring testosterone it's important to do a full panel for the hormones right the majority of people about 70% of men that qualify for hormone replacement therapy don't need hormones they need the precursors to make hormones and no matter what anybody tells you there is no better hormone than one the body produces on its own full stop so most of the time men do not have something called true testicular hypofunction which means that their testicles have not lost the capacity to produce testosterone one of two things has happened either the signal has been turned down to the testicle to produce testosterone um or you don't have the precursor the raw material to make the hormone so when you get a hormone panel it's super important that you look at something called LH and FSH in a man you also look at testosterone you look at free testosterone and you look at several other factors one of them is something called shbg sex hormone binding globulin which is a protein that binds to your testosterone and artificially lowers it the other is your reserve of something called DHEA dihydro Epi androsterone DHEA is a precursor for hormones we rarely test for it and if you're deficient in this your body doesn't have the raw material to make testosterone so the equation is not as simple as low testosterone take testosterone the equation is low testosterone why is it a signaling issue or is it a raw material issue I'd rather fix the signal or the raw material and be high why do some people just have way higher testosterone than others just naturally because they're doing the right things to produce healthy levels of testosterone right they're exercising um usually regularly generally lifting weights they're not eating a pro-inflammatory diet um they're eating um uh whole foods that actually give you the raw materials like DHEA vitamin D3 um B12 because as you become deficient in raw materials the body starts to lower its production of certain hormones right um so if you're deficient in vitamin D3 and DH you will be low on testosterone may maybe not because you have a production issue because you have a raw material issue is it true that working out your legs increases testosterone yes sauna working sauna actually is very good for for uh growth hormone as well H just to clarify you're saying a hormone panel a full blood panel and then the other test that you also suggest yeah I use one called vibrant but you don't have to use that one but um that's why I'm giving you the categories mold mot toxin so mold SL mot toxin heavy metals viruses parasites your doctor will know what panel to P once You' given that if you were to assign a challenge to people who have made it to this point in the video what would it be what I would challenge you to do um is I would challenge you to commit to developing the habits that align with the goals of the person you want to become um uh like I I didn't come on here to pitch anything but I have a VIP Community I'm trying to build a community of like-minded people that I am educating to inspire them to make a change and in this community one of the things that we do is we fix things in real time so people that think they have an autoimmune condition or think that they have a person a mental disorder they they have um um hormone imbalance or they just can't lose weight or they can't get their sleep fixed or they can't get rid of anxiety we sort of bring them up on this the virtual stage and I bring a qualified practitioner in and in real time we try to put these things in their rearview mirror over the period of 10 weeks this kind of inspiring message makes people understand that the things that are affecting them are not permanent for for your community I think we I think I put in a a code for for anyone to to get those those hydrogen tablets I was telling you about I want to send all everyone in your community those for free cool um I want people to start to experiment things with things that have a real impact on their physiology and that hydrogen will literally Chang their life um so so for me um I I believe that the days of the celebrity influencer kind of ending the days of the social media influencer ending I believe that you know we need to build a community um of of like-minded people so that you can authentically message to that community and and and have them sort of be the voice to to to to Really make change so for me the entire balance of my adult lifetime I'm pouring into this VIP community so we can really make change so I'm curious in terms of all of this when did you realize that you would be able to turn it into a business um it happened by accident you know I think when I stopped um you know I had a a period of my life where uh a large part of my adult life where um I was very very self-centered um almost narcissistic very focused on just my own needs my own wants the outcomes in my own life um highly focused on trying to be wealthy um and I never really achieved any real level of wealth in fact I had bankruptcy I had a divorce um I had lots of failed Partnerships there became a time in my life where I took radical responsibility for that um I think sometimes the cracks in who you are is is is where the light enters um so years ago first of all I met the woman in my dreams who's now my wife I've been been together 10 years um reconnected with my faith um I decided that I would start spending my time focusing on people's well-being and not on being wealthy and that's when I became wealthy was when I took my eye off the ball of creating wealth and took my and put all my focus into being trying to be in service to to humanity and I started to believe in the universal law of attraction and I started to actually see a lot of these principles really working in my life now for me it happened late I'm 54 years old now um and I wish I'd known that when I was younger you have I think a much more myopic view of the world maybe a much more self-centered view of the world I'm not saying everybody does that um but for me it was reconnecting with my faith getting into a a really sound relationship and committing all of my uh my effort my energy my expertise in in service to trying to help people live longer healthier lives how is your income broken down in terms of like different sources so I'm I'm I make the majority of my income from the the platform the ultimate human platform so it's a media platform it's a podcast um which you know has ad reads on it um we we write a newsletter we host challenges I write Evergreens I get paid for speaking engagements and so when I started the platform I I didn't realize how big it could become how fast it could get big but we set some really strict parameters like I would not message about any product or any service that um I did not either use every day in my daily life or I didn't have firsthand knowledge of and hadn't independently tested um I mean I'm even in litigation over this because I I refuse to promote certain products or services and um and so we we said we're not going to allow products or Services the ability to buy their way onto my platform um I'm either going to thoroughly investigate it and then stand behind it so I'll give the best products not the best known products I will take the best products and make them the best known products help give them a voice um or it's something I use every day in my daily life and what happened that I didn't realize that I in retrospect Looking Back Now was it forced us to develop this very authentic message right because I wasn't messaging for monetary reason I was I was messaging because these were things that make changes that have made real changes in my life or I had tested in my uh clinics and seen it have real impact in people's lives those are the only things that I would talk about I wouldn't just take an exchange of money for you know becoming your your your influencer um I've seen sadly a lot of folks in in my industry that I really look up to that I consider to be mentors very often they'll make it to the top of the mountain and they just become a prostitute for every product or service and I think that people are very sensitive to that um and then you can lose your audience overnight and so um for me I didn't start to really become wealthy and still I still started being very authentic about my messaging and I had to shed the old my old self because I realized the string of broken relationships and string of broken Partnerships and the string of broken finances was not everybody else's fault it was my own and by radically taking responsibility for that and shifting into a mindset of being in service I mean I'm I wouldn't consider myself extraordinarily wealthy but I am much wealthier now than I ever thought I would would be yeah my life like I feel like I live somebody else's life at what point did a certain amount of money affect your perspective on life um I don't know there's a certain amount of money that FS your perspective I mean you you you if you're grateful for what you have um uh you know and and I'm also not the guy out here trying to teach you how to uh you know become rich my my my speech is not this is how you make a lot of money if it helps you live a more authentic life and the byproduct of that is you become wealthy then then great um you know I'm not out here with the money guns and showing you my planes and my cars and you know my my my condos um because that's not going to feed your cellular biology in fact I think the opposite if you're before you start collecting cars and watches you should collect biohacking devices like hyper barracks and red light beds right I mean if I was going to spend 100 Grand on a Ferrari I'd rather spend 100 Grand on a red light bed a l in terms of yourself personally cuz I'm just I'm just curious because this is this is what I'm like really interested in is like money personal finance investing where do you invest is it just in your company or do you do you have like index funds or real estate I I I don't invest in I've gotten burned in everything that I've ever invested in that I didn't understand I got burned in crypto I got burned in memecoins I got burned in real estate stay away from I got burnt and everything other than investing in companies that I believe have the same purpose that I do so you know I am a shareholder in different uh you know bone brth and um uh supplements and things that I believe first of all that I can put on my platform and give a voice to um but also that I believe are in service to humanity they have they serve the same mission that I do so I will incessantly investigate their ingredients or their product or their service and then if it's if it's something that I think deserves a voice you know I would invest in it and help give it a voice let's say 20% of that that spits off to you and say I'm going to buy this index fund and hold on to it or treasuries I know I I own some Bitcoin I own some xrp and other than that I have no no investment funds and I own a bunch of real estate but the majority of my wealth is invested in um companies that I think deserve a voice um you know that's that are going to be in service to humanity if you invest in just let us know ahead of time so we could short it just do the inverse it's like oh [ __ ] if I give you a meme coin definitely short it now I'm really curious what meme coins um oh god there was a there was a bunch of them man I had a buddy come over one day and he's like dud this is going to be the best year of crypto ever and he wrote down all these all these coins and so I was like all right I'll just take a uh I mean Doge was one of them I think that one so is this a few years ago is this like 2021 and you you lost money on Dogecoin no it just sort of didn't go anywhere I mean um but I lost money on a on a on a bunch of these different uh crypto coins I'll send you a list of the ones that I absolutely got smoked on yeah because we're going through that Renaissance again it's it's kind of going back down but yeah for the last few months it's been like meme after meme after meme but I you know I also think if you understand that industry you should be putting your money into that industry I I was you know I was foolish enough to think that you know with no experience and no guidance I was just GNA I like I was going to be the guy to P the next crypto it's interesting sometimes it's I I look at things like that maybe not necessarily meme coins but certain stocks that I buy and usually it's I'm right but just at the wrong time like or but but it's true like there there are certain stocks that I ended up buying that had I just held on to them they would have been just fine but the moment look at Bitcoin man people can't stand the volatility but I think it's averaged over 40% a year if you um 230% annualized return over the last decade which is crazy but yeah in the term it go down more room but then again I'm not the person to give you that advice you know um so for me you know being intentional and authentic about the message has led to more wealth creation than I ever thought that it that it would um and so now I take all of the the the wealth that I have and I redeploy it into other intentional authentic you know Enterprises and and it also helps the the you keep a circle of people around you that have just really like-minded interests you know um and it's astounding to me how many extraordinarily successful people um like Dana White Stephen A Smith Mark Wahlberg you know um Lauren readinger all these folks that I um uh you know Damon John that are close friends of mine have been clients um and and and you look at their trajectory of success and they all have some really common themes like you know they all have really good morning routines they all you practice gratitude they all serve a higher power um they all have a passion and a purpose and you know all of them would feel say that as busy as I look at like from the outside I don't feel like I work a day in my life I just I love talking about sports I love being in the fight game I love acting I love you know uh building you know building businesses and and and so they're all doing what they were called to do and they're passionate and purposeful in in in what they do but they all take this time for selfservice and they all take time to practice gratitude and so I started to realize well you know the biggest most successful people are doing this I should probably do the same thing yeah it's been mark wber is really impressive I mean his physique is just yeah he's in incredible you and I partnered in a in a company together and and uh he was just on one of my challenges my morning routine challenge he was kind enough for free logged in from France and jumped on the zoom and he motivated people with like hey here and don't don't don't think you have a busier schedule than that guy does you know um but he but he takes time he's very intentional about prayer he's very intentional about his morning routine he's very intentional about his physical fitness and then he gives the rest of his day away and he's he's a metaphor for what you can achieve if you just have that and how do you know if you're overdoing it like like a David gogin who's just like you run 20 miles do like a thousand push-ups like are a point of to Too Much I saw I saw him last night I think I think um people like David Goggins you know um uh Brian they're showing us what's possible but not what's probable and I think those those having those kinds of iconic figures out there is is really good you know like a Tom Brady he's going to show you what's possible as a quarterback right I mean it's it's not what's probable not what's likely but it's possible and I think it helps people stretch their imagination and and sort of dream a lot bigger I can be more physically fit I can make more money I could make a greater impact I could you know excel at this career or this sport more than I think that I could I think it's I think it's awesome to have those people that are all the way at the one yard line when most of the society is on the other five yard line to kind of dve do you think what David Goggins is doing is healthy um I don't think that it's healthy long term in terms of you know the wear and tear on your joints um you know I think I think eventually you you you pay a price for that but he's also takes really good care of himself outside of the punishment that he gives himself now um I think long term they're consequences to having multiple fractures and putting that kind of repetitive use on your on your joints the nice thing is that we're developing things like stem cells exosomes and and and other biologics that will help you know mitigate some of that damage so if you marry the best of what modern science has with those kinds of goals and aspirations and Punishment on your body you get a lot more distance out of your body I'm going to ask you a few things I want you to rate them one being horrible 10 is amazing every body should be doing it just one to 10 neut Tropics oh I'll give it a one cryotherapy uh cryotherapy and cold punching I would give a 10 meditation 10 journaling nine light therapy Redlight therapy also a 10 grounding also a 10 stem cells depending on the use a five to a 10 peptides 9 to a 10 daily multivit 10 sleep trackers five intermittent fasting um intermittent fasting just such a non it can be a 10 or a one it's not a one- siiz fits-all buying organic 10 the healthiest man alive AKA Brian Johnson AKA liver King one to a 10 liver king's name is also Brian Johnson yeah but I'm saying like yeah yeah one to a 10 okay one two a 10 um so what Brian Johnson uh is doing um I think we're talking about different Brian Johnson's oh you talking about liver King yeah liver King his name is also Brian Johnson oh okay I'm thinking which is why it's funny to call them both yeah okay um I'm certainly not a fan of anabolic steroids um because of the long-term consequences short-term gain for long-term long-term consequences I think anytime that you can be high on your own Supply um produce your own hormone you know that's that's great I I am a fan of a lot of his ancestral tenants um I think they getting back to our ancestral tenants is one of the healthiest things that we can do now the other Brian Johnson is showing us again what's possible but not what's probable and a lot of people hate on him but the guy is using his own money and he's using data um to try to extend his his lifespan if you don't have people out there blazing the trail and showing us what's possible how are we ever going to know what is is got it thank you so much for coming on the cop you're very generous with your time so we really appreciate that we'll link to your information Down Below in the description as well for anyone who wants to follow along thank you so much and I'll give all of your community a free box of those hydrogen tablets if they just go to the ultimate human.com they can sign up to be a VIP and I'll send everyone a box down below in the description thank you guys for watching thank you guys till next time