27. 6 Month Health Transformation, How Steffin Kuzman Lost 100+ lbs and Got His Confidence Back At 62!

£109 in six months, if I don't.

Lose weight, I'm gonna die. That I really thought that every day when I woke up was my last day on the earth. I don't want to. I don't ever feel like I used to. You know what I'm saying?

I want to throw up. Stefan's before picture, the picture of the day that we met. Your triglycerides were through the roof. Diabetic insulin was through the roof. Kidney filtration rates were slow. Your liver was under a lot of stress. And now. And just the last blood work in 62 days is phenomenal.

And you said, hey, in 120 days, people recognize you. And that's kind of what I've gone by.

We are at the tail end of a beautiful story.

I mean, my life is completely changed from energy level. Once you get your body healthy and your cells healthy, the weight will fall off. I sleep phenomenally. I wake up in the morning refreshed, can't wait to get up and go work out. It's phenomenal. It's, it's. I can't even put into words how happy that I am. I always have this new found passion for wanting to get my day started, get going. I don't say things I don't mean. This is like the best thing that ever happened to.

Ultimate Human. Hey, guys, welcome back to the Ultimate Human podcast. As we get ready for the next episode, it's a little bit of a different episode than what we normally shoot. You asked for more real people on real health journeys and a lot more detail about what they went through to accomplish their health goals. And so this is the episode for you. One of my favorite clients, Stefan, documents his health journey. He had a dream when we started of losing 105 pounds without an ounce of lean muscle tissue. The clinical team and Dr. Sarda did an amazing job. I counseled him on his diet and his lifestyle changes and his exercise routine, and we documented the entire thing at 12 weeks. We documented it again at six months. I know you're going to find this episode as inspiring as I did. There's something for everybody to take away from this episode. It's never too late to get started.

Dude.

These are some of my absolute favorite moments because, you know, I looked at once in a while, just take a patient and showcase them and kind of show the journey. Because we met in May of this year. It's what, what's today? September.

September 7th.

September 7th. Okay, so September 7th, September 8th. Whatever it is, we're we're here in the octagon, and my man Stefan from Vegas. You know, you actually tracked me down. I think you did tracked me down online. And I love this guy because he's very tenacious, and he is like, listen, man, I saw your line and I was like, I'm gonna work with that guy. I don't care. I have to fly to you.

That's true. I remember the first conversation actually gave me your. Your assistant Mariah's number, and then I hit up her and I said, I don't care. I'll come down and I'll fly to Miami. You know, I'll be honest with you. It was worth every penny.

Thank you.

Every. Every cent that I spent on. Even all the superhuman stuff, the red light therapy, the mat and the. And the oxygen. Wow.

We went straight into a commercial. So thank you. But. But, you know, you know, I'd like to really showcase the patient journey because somebody's watching this right now and going, you know, I'm where that guy is, or where that guy was. And, you know, we only started 62 days ago.

Right.

So in 62 days, tell me a little bit. I know what I see. Right, Right. I mean, your colors, even. You lost a lot of chance.

Lost about 60 pounds. 68 pounds, 59 pounds.

That's almost a pound a day.

Well, no, it is, but, you know, the first 10, 15 pounds comes off pretty easy, obviously because of the. A lot of water weight and stuff. But, you know, look, I've lost weight before in my life, but you never feel good doing it because you're always depleting or missing something in the protocol.

That's why we brought the Peptides.

Right. So I got. So I'm Every. Every supplement you gave me, along with the other stuff that you gave me, I take religiously. Yeah. You know, I stopped, pretty much stop drinking. I eat religiously. I eat a very clean diet. Just, you know, in the morning, you know, basically a small amount of chicken, scrambled eggs, and a half an avocado. Yep. That's exactly what I told you to eat. And then for dinner, you know, I'll have maybe a piece of salmon and some vegetables. That's about it. So I don't miss anything. I feel satiated all day.

That's the thing I want people to know is like, of course the first few days is going to be tough, right?

But.

But once you're in it, like, how hard has it been? It's been miserable.

First day, you think, okay, I got about 120 days. It's daunting because you think, you know what I have all these days, can I really do it? Am I going to stay on this? I live above a casino. Yeah. I'm an elevator ride down from Aria down to the casino floor where everything is temptation, drinks, food, everything, you know, that goes along with that five minute ride. Well, I'm just saying. So when they had that temptation, do you have the willpower to be able to sustain this kind of a program? Because you got to be religious with it. Right, Right. But so I get taught to myself. I'm not. I'm going to get. Get this done. And so once you're into it, once you're into about two weeks or even 21 days when you. A habit becomes formula. You know, your body forms a habit. I mean, it becomes a habit. It becomes. I want to throw up.

Stefan's before picture, the picture of the day that we met. I mean, because, you know, we'll flash it up on the screen because I want you guys to see where he started and where he is right now. I mean, he. I just walked in the room and I was like, what in the hell is going on? I mean, you lost half a man in your face. Five chins in, you know, on your chins. You look. You look great.

It's 16 inches on my waist. 16? Yeah. 16. Dude, I'm telling you, 16 inches. I wanted eight more inches put on my belt, and I'm down to the last one.

Yeah, he told me he was. He uses the same belt so he can measure his progress. So he's not throwing that belt away. He just keeps putting.

That's right at the end. We're gonna have cutting the end off and, and making it shorter and getting.

You know, we'll make a sofa out of the. Out of it when we're done. But, you know, the. The astounding thing is, and I like to highlight this all the time because it's, you know, everybody sees what's going on in the outside. Your color gets very even, your energy level goes up, you start losing weight, start looking a lot better. But what's fascinating for me, what really, you know, floats my boat or, you know, really is like chicken soup for my soul is what's going on in the inside. Because when we met, if you don't mind me saying, you know, you. You were what's called hyper. Hypertriglyceridemic. Your triglycerides were through the roof. You were a diabetic. I. I don't even. I'm not even sure you were aware of it until I started explaining.

I was pretty aware of it, yeah.

Okay. That you were a diabetic and you know, insulin was through the roof. You know, your kidney filtration rates were slow, your liver was under a lot of stress. And now in just the last blood work in 62 days is phenomenal.

Yeah, my, my, my, my fasting blood sugar was 71 from 98. My triglycerides were down. My A1C is down to 52. You know, 5:2.

By the way, if you know anything about hemoglobin, A1C 52 is, is phenomenal. That's almost hypoglycemia.

It was 5:9 when we started. So.

Yeah, it was 5:9. It was, it was, you know, at that, at that 6.0 range, you know, you're diabetic at, at about 6.4 to 7, you start becoming just again.

If we're being completely honest in my sex life, my sex drive, my whole sexual. And I, and I, you know, I'm single, I date number of hot looking.

Girls in Vegas, number, look in Vegas.

But listen, I'm be honest with you that I had no, I couldn't like do anything. And now back here we are two months later, I'm back to what, I'm 20.

And this is the thing that I love to talk about too. You know, it's like if you think about all the spokes of the wheel and, and you know, you look at the blood work or, or, or you make an observation of somebody, it looks like the whole world's going to hell in a handb know, you're heavy, you're, you've got diabetes, you've got high triglycerides, you've got high insulin. You know, liver's under a lot of stress, kidneys under a lot of stress. And in 62 days without being tortured, some diet, some lifestyle changes and yes, you know, you, you spend some money on a PEMF mat, a red light therapy and, and, and, and an oxygen bag. But I want to highlight the fact that people can get the same value. They can get it from taking their shoes off and walking on the surface of the earth. Learning to do breath, exposing your skin to sunlight.

Yes.

If you've got a budget, do what Stefan did. Buy a red light therapy bed, buy a, you know, hypermax oxygen system and buy a PEMF mat. That's great. You bring the outside in magnetism, oxygen, light. But I want to emphasize the fact that just incremental changes in what you do every day Are what make the difference. It's the consistency in your routine.

Now my consistency goes even down to every morning I wake up and I. Then I get. I'll take some pre workout stuff, I'll do my workout, then I'll come back and I'll do my red light therapy, you know. But I did the mat. I'm sorry. Before I even got out of bed. So bottom line is I do have this whole regimen.

Yes.

And, and I even go to the same place to eat every day which is a. It's a place that all bodybuilders and people eat type of thing. Really clean food, all grass fed beef and chicken and.

Is that here?

Yeah, it's called Protein House. It's over Protein House over on Eastern. So.

Okay.

You know, I'm sure a lot of your. It's pretty, it's pretty close.

Probably a lot of the fighters and.

Those guys, all those guys go. But, but bottom line is I just eat completely healthy. Right. And so I used to drink a lot whiskey and beer. A lot of beer. It's all carbohydrates and stuff. I have no beer.

A lot of folic acid.

If I'm going to drink, I'm not going to date or something. I'll have maybe a shot of vodka with, with some plain soda. But you don't even drink that. I mean I just sip it on it for like for an hour or two and that's all I have. Yeah. So I don't, I don't, I'm trying to. I don't, I don't introduce any, any things in my body that will raise my insulin level. Good. I keep my insulin level steady. But I also very. I'm very sensitive to spec on my insulin. So that's why I eat only I don't eat carbs. Yeah. If I eat any carbs, just do vegetables, that type of thing. I'll eat some broccolini, that type stuff.

Right. So talk to me about like mental energy, mental clarity, like short term recall.

Focus, that kind of thing back on one thing you said a few minutes ago before. I forget because it's important.

Sure.

So every day that I woke up back a couple months ago, I always thought is taking my last day because I always felt so bad that I could die.

Really.

I always, I've never, I think, I don't know if you told me this when I met you but I always thought, okay, I'm so heavy. I'm not gonna get any better. But is in my, you know, I haven't had A cardiology workup. It was fine because I did cardio every day of my life prior to be getting heavy. Right. So you're saying. So, but I moved here and the pandemic hit two months after I moved here. All I did for a year when I was unemployed was drink, eat, gamble, that kind of thing. Right. So, yeah, that's when I got mostly out of shape. So my point is, I thought, you know, I. I'm gna. Have a heart attack. All my friends, some of my friends are already dying. I'm gonna have a stroke. I'm gonna have something. I'm gonna be a vegetable. I mean, every day I had a little aching pain or a pain in my chest. I thought that was gonna be the day. Something, you know, it was gonna be the enemy. So that. So now, you know, I wake up with a whole different attitude, obviously. But I feel like I did when I was younger because I was always in great shape when I was younger. Yeah, I bodybuilded. You know, I used to be Chippendales for a number of years and stuff. You know, I was. I was in a great shape. I was. I love that part of my life. And I felt that was kind of missing, but I thought, could I ever get it back? And I really felt with my motivation, I didn't have it. I tried to start Mondays a day I'm going to start this diet. Okay. By Friday, I was off Tuesday. I never had the motivation or the. The stick to itiveness to really get on it. But since I'm on this whole regime. Yeah, Regimen.

Yeah.

That really gets.

And I give you what to do every day. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, accountability to.

Really understand kind of where we're going. And you said, hey, in 120 days, people will recognize you. And that's kind of what I've gone by. It's kind of my. Kind of my credo. You know what I'm saying?

Yeah.

Thing. So that's pretty much it.

Hey, guys, I think the most important website you may ever go to is the ultimate human dot com. That's the ultimate ultimatehuman dot com. Because on this website, we can directly interact with one another. You can give me suggestions for podcast guests and topics that you'd like to see me cover. You can ask me any question that you'd like. More importantly, you can sign up for my entirely free newsletter. It comes out every single week. I write this so I can get the information to the masses on how to live a healthier, happier, longer, chemical free life. You can also sign up for a pre order of my book. And if you'd like to take the genetic test that I talk about all the time, it's available there too. And lastly, you can even see all of the products that I use in my daily life for a chemical free, healthy living style. A lot of people ask me, you know, what do you use in your daily life, Gary? What do you brush your teeth with and clean your countertops with? Well, it's all there if you'd like to see it. And you can again ask me any question that you'd like and get my free newsletter, theultimatehuman.com I promise you that information will help change the trajectory of your life. And now back to the ultimate human podcast. That's fantastic.

As far as the mental part of it, you know, again, it goes back to what I just said. It's like, you know, you, you in your mind have a goal. You set your goals. In my life, I'm very successful in business, in every other thing I've done in my life. And because that's because of my, of my personality and just my, my focus and what I do, right. This is all about the same thing. It's like your job, you know, it's the same thing. You focus on it, you make sure that you, you keep on, on, on the dot. And I told you I was going to do it when I left your.

Your dude, you were, you were very convicted.

I was gonna freaking do it. And I'm, I'm not, I'm a man of my word and everything I do. So that's it.

Yeah, and, but we, I, I knew that you were either going to flick that switch or you weren't, and you did. And as soon as you flick that switch and you've checked in with me a lot and you've checked in with the team a lot and you know, you, yeah, which, which, which we love, we love a lot of questions. Make sure that you're, you're fully on the plan if you ever like.

Well, at first I was a little.

Bit have a question you gotta get.

At first I was like, am I doing the right thing kind of thing. But Devin, yeah, your counterpart, Devin's amazing. He is great customer, sir. I told him not to, but, but.

He'S, that's his thing, you know, he's awesome.

And you know, once in a while I'll get the iv, I'll get the Myers cocktail type of thing. I'll have your nurse come over and give me that at my office.

Right.

Or what have you type of thing. I don't like to get swollen, though. So there's, you know, a lot of sodium in that. In that saline bag type. Right. I don't like looking puffy for a couple days. Right. I do my own. My own hydration. But yeah. Because I'm doing kind of a keto diet, Right?

Yes.

So. And I don't want to get like a keto flu situation. Right? You don't want to. That's right. Yeah.

Which comes from low sodium.

That's right.

Yeah. And. And you know what I want to also emphasize is, is the relative short distance that we've gone so far. I mean, 62 days is not a long period of time.

The scope of the big picture is.

Nothing to be waking up 62 days ago wondering if it's your last day on earth. And that's. Thank you for sharing.

That's the truth.

That's very vulnerable of you. And a lot of. A lot of. A lot of clients are not that forthcoming.

Exactly how it is.

And. And now to wake up and feel like you got a purpose and a passion and a mission and you actually got something bigger to live for, I mean, that's amazing.

You know, I'm only halfway there. And here's the thing. So just because they were doing this thing tonight, it was unexpected for me. I didn't realize I was doing this.

Yeah. It was like getting the right.

But, but, but. But here's the thing. But because I'm only halfway there, I don't. I'm not going to say, well, gee, I'm. The rest of my laurels, I'm go out tonight and I'm gonna have a pizza.

Right.

That's not who I am. I'm only halfway there. And I even went 120 days. It's not like I'm just all of a sudden to change. It's a lifestyle change, and you have to make this lifestyle for forever. And once you reach that goal and you get yourself in a position where you feel. Start feeling great. You don't want to start feeling great.

No. You never want to go back. And that's what I want to do. I want people to know that you can set that hook so, so quickly. That position where Stefan was and want to be in a position where he is, you could be 62 days away from feeling the best that you felt in your adult lifetime. I mean, I tell people all the time you're walking around about 55 or 60% of your true state of normal. You have no idea how good normal can feel.

No, trust me, I, I, you remember once you get back there, because I felt normal. I felt good my whole life. But you don't remember till you feel it again, you know?

Yeah.

And as I mentioned before, because it's.

A slow process to get where you.

Were on the bristles on the sexual side. I mean, you get that part of your life back. Back that's a fulfilling part of your life that when you're missing that half of you is gone.

Yeah.

It's embarrassing on other parts too when you're with people in this nut. But now, you know, you're back feeling great in every aspect. That to me is like, dude, I'm not gonna lie to you. It's, I mean, and I have to thank you because honestly, you're welcome. Thank you for working with me. I told you this before, sort of crying, but. Oh, but dude, no, I just, I just literally wanted to thank you because. Because really, I don't know if I had any other real hope or any other way I could do it. I mean, I tried Benazotti's keto camp and stuff, but he's not, you know, it's not the sports, not there and you're just doing keto and that's. But there's more than just doing keto in this situation. You need to, you know, with your whole genetic testing and figure out what your body's missing and also using the supplements to replace the things that your body is lacking type of thing. Yeah, yeah. That's all the stuff you really need to really feel. Start feeling good. And that's how as you feel good, that's how it keeps you motivated even further. So we'll see in, in 60 more days. Yeah. How I look and we'll go.

This is what we call an outtake. So this is not going to air until we get the other 60 day episod on. But this is going to be a really interesting thing to show. The 62nd day and then the 120th day and the massive change. So stay tuned.

I told you I wanted to be your poster child.

You're going to be my poster child.

I said, dude, I wanted to be. You know, he did.

Everything that he's saying right now is very true. I mean first he hunted me down, he insisted on coming to Miami to see me. Flew out from Vegas, we spent whole afternoon together. You know, we, we looked at the blood work, we looked at the genetic testing. The clinical team put together a protocol. You to your credit, have stuck to it like Gospel.

I haven't cheated. There's not one day that I didn't do anything that shouldn't. My goal is to get off my blood pressure medication.

Yep.

Get off my. That's all I take is. All I think is blood pressure medication. I take. I take some. I take some Amlodipine, 5mg, and I take Valsartan 320. But. But as you said, you start. I don't want to start, you know, feeling dizzy. And then all of a sudden, this snap. It was. I get lower, I think, hopefully. And also, too, you know, I use a CPAP machine every night. I like to get rid of that CPAP machine because it's only geared. Geared towards my neck being fat.

Right.

Not being able to breathe when I sleep. I haven't. I haven't slept without a CPAP machine probably in eight years because I woke up twice in afib. We could be without it. Right. You know what I'm saying?

So, yeah, we could be 60 days away from that.

Well, hopefully. I mean, that'd be kind of cool. Not that. I'll be honest with you. I'm not even sure I could sleep without it.

Yeah, it's your blanket now.

You're used to it, though.

It's your safety blanket.

I used to fall asleep. The wheel of my car, drive home from the office. I mean, I was. I wasn't sleeping and. And that causes, you know, other things, like depression. I wasn't depressed, but, you know, I just was.

Mood numbness. Yeah.

Trust me. I was always in a bad mood. You know, I was in a bad mood because I always felt like. I always felt horrible and I looked really bad. And I'm a guy who grew up, up, as I told you before, working at Chippendales. And I was always a model kind of guy. You know, I've showed you pictures that. That, you know, once. You. Which. And you. I didn't. I didn't have appeal to the opposite of sex. I just felt like my life was over. I mean, I'm not gonna lie. It's just that you feel like you're just not a different person now. All that stuff's coming back. I feel that's what makes you really feel even better. Yeah, it's the emotional side of the whole situation. Not just the weight loss and stuff. Not how I feel. The emotional side of. If even my employees go, God, you're such a good mood today. You know, I'm like, they're not used to see me in a good mood. Right. Because I was not in the mood.

Oh, this is amazing. All right, well, stay tuned. 60 more days at the 120 day mark. We're going to come back and recheck in. And just remember, as always, that's just science. That wraps up Stefan's journey after 12 weeks. Now here's part two, the rest of his six month health transformation. Hey, guys, welcome back to the ultimate human podcast, where we go down the road of everything. Longevity, anti aging, biohacking, and everything in between. This is a podcast today that we are filming the tail end of. We've, we've recorded the journey of a client of mine and a patient of my clinical team, Stefan Kutzman. And Stefan first came to me in June of this year. So it's been six months. Six months. Just almost six months to the day. It was on the 16th, today's the 17th. Almost six months to the day. And he told me, he said, gary, my goal in life is to lose a hundred pounds. And in doing so, I want to make sure that I'm healthy during that time frame. I want to make sure that I don't harm myself, that I don't borrow from my future. And so I got together with my clinical team, we pulled some blood on Stefan. We are at the tail end of a beautiful story. And I like to tell these stories because somebody watching this podcast right now is where Stefan was only six months ago. And I want you guys to see and hear from Stefan about what his journey's been like and how he stayed committed to this journey and why you should join this journey if you haven't begun so already, because life and normalcy is right around the corner. If you've got an entire superhuman inside of you that is just begging to come out, now is the time to make that transformative change so that what you've been educated on and inspired by causes you to make a transformation. So, Stefan, welcome back to the podcast.

Thank you.

Yeah. And, you know, I, I, first of all, I appreciate that you've been willing to come on and be so vulnerable because, you know, a lot of people in your position are not willing to share this with the outside world either, you know, because they just don't want to put it out there in the public domain or they're, they're ashamed of it or, you know, any number of reasons. And so they become very reclusive about it. And rather than talk about it or take action, they just continue to let the current state of affairs, you know, drag on. And so, so what I want to do is I want to first talk about the first day that we met because this is, this is an aggressive, driven human being. Let me know is not in his vocabulary. And so he aggressively sought me out. I remember the first conversation he said, I said, listen, I don't care where you are, how much it costs. I, I'm coming to meet you. I'm, I'm ready to start this transformation. He was in Las Vegas at the time, right?

I live in Las Vegas. Yeah, but I, but I, but I actually knew someone who gave me a.

Mariah's phone number, my assistant.

And I, I left her a text or emailed. We've traded information. And then I told her what I wanted to do and I wanted to get on your program. And then she sent me the genetic test and the, the blood work stuff and we got that done. But, but, but otherwise I, I want, I told some other friends of mine, you know, that I wanted to meet you and they didn't want, you know what I'm saying? So I had to do it myself.

Yeah, well, somehow you made your way to me, right? He came down to see me in Miami. We sat down, you know, he had had his blood work done. I just want to give you guys some numbers. You know, at the time that we met his triglycerides, the level of blood fat in his blood on a fasted basis were over 400. He also had a clinically deficient level of healthy cholesterol, which is HDL. He had a hemoglobin A1C. The three month average of his blood sugar of around 6.0. Remember, you're at 6.4. You're actually a full blown diabetic. His testosterone was in the 2002. His free testosterone was even lower. He had severe insulin resistance, meaning that his insulin was no longer capable of controlling his blood sugar. He's clinically deficient in vitamin D3. You were on a CPAP machine. Yeah, yeah. And, and we sat and we put a protocol together and, and yes, I will tell you, first of all, number one, this was not expensive. Number two, the majority of what he did was make lifestyle and exercise changes. And I want to talk about some of those and then I want to talk to you about the blood work that he has now. Triglycerides have normalized. They are below 140. He is not only no longer insulin resistant or pre diabetic, he is low on average blood sugar. His hemoglobin A1C is 4.8 now. Right, and you're no longer insulin resistant, which means he's had a complete reset. Now, what did we use to do that? Now, in this case, when you're morbidly obese and diabetic, or morbidly obese and pre diabetic, the clinical team did put him on a peptide called Tirzepatide, which is the Manjaro peptide, if you're familiar with that, is not Ozempic or Wegovy. It is not semaglutide. We use something called Tirzepatide, which in side by side clinical trials, FDA approved here in the United States, actually perform better for weight loss and for insulin and blood sugar control. So one of the risks of using these types of GLP1 inhibitors is that they, they actually can cause muscle and tissue wasting. So a third of the weight that most of these people lose, and even in some cases a larger percentage, up to half of the weight that these people lose is lean muscle mass, lean body mass. And so to prevent that, the clinical team put them on a peptide called Sermorelin. This is a growth hormone peptide, growth hormone releasing hormone. It essentially rewinds the pituitary to a more youthful level of growth hormone secretion. It's a 44 chain amino acid sequence. He put it under his tongue at night before bed. And other than that, what did we do during the last six months? Because, you know, we're tying this in with the, with the last podcast that we shot. We did it in the UFC octagon, and at that point you'd lost 60 pounds, 65 pounds. And you said, I want to lose another 40 pounds before I do the final podcast.

I lost 50. So you lost 50. 109 pounds of madama.

109 pounds in six months and no lean body mass.

So.

Yeah, so no loss of lean body mass.

My arms are bigger because I worked out, you know, with Kevin.

Yep.

But at the end of the day, really, it's. Which, it's, it's a. It's the supplements I take. Yeah, I take your multivitamin, which is, you know, the methylated vitamin. Right.

I take TMG trimethylglycine. And that was. Actually, trimethylglycine is one of the things the clinical team used to bring down the he. The. The elevated homocysteine. And a lot of people have an amino acid in their blood called homocysteine. When this amino acid rises, it can cause inflammation. One of the things it causes is a potential spasm or a reduced lax in the vascular system. And when that happens, when we, we reduce the flexibility of the vascular system, we we take it from a garden hose, let's say, to a PVC pipe. It can drive our pressure up. Not always, but it is, it is an underlying factor.

Down to. So, you know, I, I take Vinya, which is the revisitrol. Yep, yep.

The resveratrol.

Resveratrol. I take the peptide at night. I take a peptide. I take BPC157.

I love that peptide. I love that peptide.

Take that, that. And I take vitamin D3.

Vitamin D3, twice a day.

I'm some of stuff, I think twice a day. So. But. And a boron, which is boron to.

Help bring down sex hormone binding globulin.

So. And then, you know, I do a shot, obviously we talked about testosterone, get my level up, obviously, testosterone on Monday and Thursday. I do, yeah.

And for the record, his testosterone level is Perfect. It's around 900. Previously was in the 200s. And when the clinical team looks at testosterone, they, they try to separate whether or not somebody has what they call prim hypogonadism or secondary hypogonadism. One of them primary is when the testicles are losing their capacity to secrete the hormone testosterone. These are generally the patients that qualify for hormone therapy. The second type is called secondary hypogonadism. And this is where the signals are low and you're not producing testosterone, in which case you can turn the signal up. Enclomiphene is one thing that the clinical team uses. They also use hcg, human chorionic inadotropin, or the generic version called ganatarelin.

I take that also.

Yeah, you take that also to make sure that you don't have testicular shrinkage and that you're, you know, you're, you're, you don't completely stop producing your own testosterone. Hey guys, if you've been watching the ultimate human podcast for any length of time, you know that one thing I do not do is push products. I do not just let any advertiser into this space because I believe that the products that appear on the ultimate human Podcast should be things that I use every day in my life to improve my own physiology. One of them is something called the Echo Go Plus. The Echo Go plus is a hydrogen water generator that you can take on the go. You essentially take the top off of this bottle. You pour bottled water in this and repeatedly it will make high part per million hydrogen water. You press this little button, you'll see these bubbles going up in the water. That's hydrogen being created in the water. There are all Kinds of peer reviewed, published clinical studies on the benefits of hydrogen water, including reduced inflammation, better absorption of your supplements, better absorption of your foods, better balance of the stomach acid, and it feeds an entire class of bacteria in your gut. Hydrogen water, in my opinion, is the most beneficial water that you can drink. And now you can take it wherever you go. You can go to echo e c h o h2o dot com. That's echo e c h o h2O dot com. Enter the code ultimate10 for a discount. Echo h2o. Enter the code ultimate10 for A discount. And now back to the Ultimate Human podcast.

So that. So, but, you know, I'll be honest, you know, with the testosterone levels, I mean, my life is completely changed from an energy level, sexual level. I'm single.

So a little too much information there, Stefan.

Well, just, just saying, like, like completely. But you know, at the end of the day, you know, when I was, you know, 345 pounds. You know what I'm saying?

Yeah.

Like, literally, like just walking around, like my feet shrunk enough now that my, my boots and all my, all my shoes fit perfectly. Like, I was having a problem even with my shoes, but even walking because my, my feet would swell up or I would get like, you know, you know, all kinds of pains. I literally, I think I mentioned this in our first podcast together that, that I really thought that every day when I woke up was my last day on the earth, you know?

Yeah.

And I wake up now, know every day. And I do, you know, we do the Superhuman protocol. So on top of what I do in the supplement category, I do red light therapy every day, 20 minutes every.

Day with the red light panels.

Right. And I do it with the MF mat.

Yeah. PMF mat. Yeah.

So I do the PMF mat every morning and every night, you know, so. And then. And I do the Hypermax Oxygen.

Yeah.

When I start my cardio for 15 minutes. Right. So.

And I just want to say something to the folks that are watching the podcast right now. Look, if you have the financial wherewithal to buy a PEMF mat, you know, the one that we sell is five grand. If you have the wherewithal to buy the red light panels and the Hypermax oxygen, by all means buy those things. It'll cost you about $18,000.

18,000.

However, you can get the same benefits for free. You take your shoes off and contact the surface of the earth. You can discharge into the earth, earthing and grounding. God gives that to us every single day. You can get first light in the morning, expose your skin to sunlight during the first 45 minutes of the day. There's no UVA, there's UVB rays during that time. If you, if it's way too cold to go outside, you can sit by a window and allow the sunlight to hit your skin. And you can learn to do breath work. If you, if you want a breath work video, there's a bunch of breathwork videos on theultimatehuman.com There are more breathwork videos on my Instagram at garybreca. But I want to just emphasize that the supplement routine that he's on was inexpensive. The dietary changes that he made were inexpensive.

Keto.

Keto, yeah, he went keto. Of course, we put him into a ketogenic state and, and then, you know, the, the exercise changes were less expensive. I don't want to put out the notion that you have to spend tens of thousands of dollars with me or with somebody else to get to these fancy pieces of equipment. That is not the secret. If you want the convenience of it and you have the budget, great. If not, we can do it the way that God intended it and expose our skin to sunlight, light. Learn to do breath work. Touch the earth with the surf, you know, the surface of the earth with your bare feet. And you can learn to take cold shower. All of these things can help change the trajectory of your life.

Actually bought a plunged up.

Oh, you did?

All right.

Have you gotten in it yet?

It's not here yet. So.

Okay.

Because they're slow right now because the Christmas holidays. But yeah, no, I'm not the plunge.

That's super.

And I live in a high rise, you know, so that, that isn't exactly the easiest way to like you have to put, put. I have to put in my bathroom.

Yeah.

And like, you know, you said as far as grounding myself naturally, I live in a high rises.

Right.

There's not, you know, in downtown Vegas. There's not many places you can get.

Right. You know, but I mean, you have the financial means. I just want to make sure that the folks that are listening that, that, you know, it's put it this way, may not have that disposable.

Every, every single thing that I've invested financially has been way worth it because your health cannot put a price tag on your health.

Yeah.

And I think that, you know, when you know. So even now as I move forward in the program and I'll never go off the program. Like the program I think is.

I love that man.

What's that? I Love program. The program for me is, is my current way of life. Like, I don't, I don't consider myself to be on a diet. I don't consider, I don't consider myself to be on any kind of program that I'm getting. People say, well, how long you'd be on it for? Well, no, it's like a lifestyle, you know, it's like what I do every day. And I don't want to go back to feeling like I used to feel.

Yeah.

So. And I want to get better. I'm not, I'm not finished yet. So you see the current.

Maybe we'll do a follow up.

Follow up. That's what I'm saying. So you saw, you saw me two in October.

Yeah.

You see me now, 50 more pounds later.

And we're going to put up some, some before pictures too. I mean, I want people to really see this journey.

Feel free. But I'm not, I'm not done. I still want to reach the goals. I want to look like I did back. And this is information that I don't know if I told you, but you know, back in the day before, before I moved to Vegas here four years ago, I got here, I was in not bad of shape. It's the four years living here, the pandemic hit. You know, I was eating, I was drinking, I started drinking beer. I stopped working out for the first time in my life after all, my whole life of working out, doing cardio. And I just got fat.

Right.

So I was just like temporarily fat. Like I was, I wasn't always fat, you know, I was. A matter of fact, I used to be a male dancer back in the day. 11 years at the Chippendales.

Are we going back into that career? Are you thinking about picking it back up?

I am not though. No. But really, I mean, I was, I was only temporarily fat, so.

Right.

I knew it was like before. It's fairly bad. Well, I think some people, unfortunately, unfortunately somebody, they live their whole life right. With a weight problem. Like they've been heavy their whole life.

Sure.

So they never know what it is to be thin. And I, I, you know, when, when I met you, you know, my goal was because I lost my motivation for some reason. I just didn't, I couldn't. I remember I'm gonna start a diet on Monday. And then by Tuesday I was offered her. The weekend would come around, I'd, you know, be binge eating, whatever it may be. I started eating a lot of sugar and that kind of thing. Sugar is what kills you, obviously. Oh, my gosh. I eat no sugar. I eat no carbohydrates. Really? You know, once, maybe once a week, I'll do. Do right now. I'll do, like, a carb cycle because I. I think it's good. Because you want to do.

It is good carb cycle. And. And for your gut, Florida.

I go, like, keto flex. So I go carb cycle maybe on Sundays or Mondays, whatever, you know.

Great.

Okay.

That's a great idea.

At the end of the day, like. Yeah, I just. I'm not gonna never go back to that.

I want to talk about how you felt when we met and what. How I didn't think I looked that emotional journey.

I didn't think it looked that bad till I saw the pictures.

Yeah.

Someone sent me that picture that I showed you. You.

Yeah.

I mean, I'll be honest with you. In your mind, your mind's eye, you only see yourself as a certain way. And because I was, you know, leaner my. In my. During my life, I never really realized I was that big until I saw a picture, and I'm like, wow.

Yeah.

And that's where I really got kind of, like, concerned, because I was like, you know, I never. I just thought I'm gonna die if I don't. If I don't lose weight or put myself in a better, healthy. But, you know, the whole thing is, I don't think it's about losing weight. I think was more about getting healthy first. First, once you get your body healthy and your cells healthy, the weight will fall off because, you know, you. A lot of things, especially when you talk about cells that I'm become an expert in looking at the whole cellulose thing.

Yeah. Yeah.

We've had three or four of these mitochondria.

Yeah.

And obviously, if you have inflammation around your cells, the good stuff can't get in, the bad stuff can't get out. So your body won't lose weight. It's just. You're stuck in this unfortunate, like, prism of. Just of. Of. Of unhealthiness. So I felt like through all the things that we did and all the supplements and. And working out and changing my diet, I felt like I. Healthy first, really. And then the weight kind of came off.

Yeah. That's so good. Simultaneously, because I remember you. You know, we've had several calls and obviously in several zooms since then, you were like, I feel like an entire human being inside of me came out. Even got emotional with me one time, which I really, really.

I get emotional now, if you like.

Hey, if you want to, if you.

Start thinking about it.

Yeah.

And people start. When people come up to me, like recently, over the last couple days, people come up to me and say, wow, we haven't seen you in so long. You look, you look phenomenal.

Yeah.

And it may almost like crying with people because I, you know, I feel like that's kind of was my goal was to be able to tell people, hey, man, I wasn't. I'm always been this fat pig, you know what I'm saying? I just. And that to me, if I could really tell anybody else that's listening to this podcast today, that if you feel like, you know, you're just, you don't have hope or you feel like you've lost your motivation, that there's always like a better day. There's always, especially with your program, if you, you want to reach the goals. I think, you know, I felt like I, I felt like I had, I was accountable to you. And if I'm accountable to somebody, you're accountable to something like that.

I kept you very accountable.

You keep, you keep, then you keep, you keep on the program. You know, you feel accountable. If you don't feel accountable to anybody, that's just you. Sometimes it's hard to motivate yourself.

Yeah. And, you know, one of the things we also did was we kind of gamified this journey. We said, hey, your triglycerides are here. We want to get them here. Your insulin is here. We want to move that down. Your hemoglobin, A1C, the three month average, your blood sugar. We're gonna. And, and, and you got so into those numbers every time we talked, you.

Know, especially the A1C because I was diabetic almost. I mean, 6.0 is like right on the brink of being diabetic. You know, at the end of the day, you know, now when I look at my my A1C and it's 4.8, I feel that's my biggest accomplishment. I feel all the other things too. Well, I don't use a CPAP machine. I don't.

That's another thing. I've had a lot of clients come off.

Sometimes I kind of do use it because, you know, I'll be honest with you, it gives me a good night's sleep. Really, it does. It gives me. But I'll tell you something else. Some of the other supplements I take before I go to bed, like the, the Samorin type of thing?

Yeah.

Yep.

The Samorin.

I get this deep, deep sleep. I get, I like, I feel you.

Take a magnesium thinine and melatonin combination. If people want to know what that is. It's magnesium theme and melatonin and it's very low dose melatonin. It's only 3 milligrams. However, some people don't do well with melatonin. They can take a magnesium threonate at night and that usually helps, you know, restore good sleep.

I just tell you that I sleep phenomenally. I wake up in the morning refreshed. I can't wait to get up and go work out or do my thing for the day to start.

What's a general day like with you? What, like what, what has really changed emotionally and you know, my body get.

My body wakes me up sometimes 5, 36 in the morning. I do a lot of east coast business. So I'm on the phone.

Are you waking up sore naked like you used to? Do you feel like you got hit by a truck?

I feel phenomenal because you told me.

You woke up in the mornings. You used to feel like you got.

Hit by a bed in the morning, like. And I didn't want to get out of bed. I would lay there for a couple hours trying to get myself motivated to get and go to the office or get myself going, going. I wasn't working out then so you know, the other day. But now I've got this. I, I literally get up in the morning, I can't wait to get going, work out, put on my, I've knew all new gym clothes, that kind of thing. I go to the gym, I have a gym in my house and I go see my trainer Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday. So. But end of the day I always have this new found passion for wanting to get my day started and get going because I feel so great, you know. And during the day I don't get tired. I used to fall asleep at the wheel of my car, go driving home from the office. Wow. I don't get tired. I feel like I've got, you know, bundles of energy. Like I can go, you know, I could, I could, you know, literally I, I first I force myself to go to sleep usually around no later than 10 o', clock, usually around 9. I like to get, I like to get at least eight hours of sleep, you know. Sure. And, and I find too when I use that, when I use the PMF situation pulse electromagnetic put it, I put it on the tranquility, Tranquility setting.

That's my favorite too.

Then I feel like, I feel like, you know, that puts me to sleep gives me more, more. But you know, a lot of times I'll do my red light therapy too in the evening too because I think it really relaxes my body and that gives me even a deeper sleep just from doing that. But I don't do it in the morning after I do my hypermax sometimes because I'm too. I don't have time. I'll do it in the evening and I feel like puts me to sleep too.

Yeah, it's so good. You know, it's, it is again about getting us back to the basics. So that PEMF mat is mimicking the magnetic current of the earth. It's limited. It's called a low gauss current.

And the funny part, I listen to all your, all your talks, like even the blurbs on, on social media, Instagram, the one talk you were talking about where like demagnifies your body from all the, all the cell phones and all the stuff that your body is, is is taking in all day long. That getting rid of all that, that's probably in itself just, you know, a huge benefit obviously too. Right. All the things that you take in.

Most of us have a very difficult time meeting our protein needs. And certain protein sources like whey protein and others can be as little as as 20% absorbable. This is 99% absorbable and it has all of the essential amino acids that the body needs to build lean muscle, to recover, to improve our exercise performance and most importantly to repair after we have intense exercise. So this is called perfect amino by Body Health. It's like I said, 99% absorbable. It only has two calories. Eventually the caloric intake has virtually no caloric intake. It will not break a fat fast. It tastes amazing. You mix it in water. I take this literally every single morning. If you're working out in a fasted state, you have to take a full spectrum amino acid prior to your workout to preserve your lean muscle and make sure that you're recovering properly. And again, it will not break your fast. So the caloric impact is virtually zero. You get all of the full spectrum amino acids. It tastes wonderful. I use it every single day. You can go to bodyhealth.com forward/ultimate. That's bodyhealth.com ultimate. And look for the perfect aminos. They actually come in capsules if you're on the go or it becomes in several flavors that they make in a powder, which I love. It's flavored with natural means of flavoring, so there's no artificial sweeteners. In here. So this is one of my absolute favorite products. Give it a try. If you're working out at all, you need a full spectrum amino acid, go to bodyhealth.com that's bodyhealth.com ultimate. I love their lab tested products. You can actually see the absorption rate for all of their products. They've got great electrolyte protein combinations. My favorite is the perfect Aminos. Bodyhealth.com ultimate and now back to the ultimate human podcast. But you know, emotionally, what has happened, like to your confidence level, your self image, your self esteem, like how has it affected your relationships and your, and your career?

Obviously that's why I'm single. And so, you know, and I, unless you. I was always somebody who had no problem dating or meeting people, that type of thing. When I got heavy, obviously it became harder. Now that I'm back in shape and I look better, my face looks better, I could, I have 100 more confidence. I have no problem meeting the opposite sex or anybody else. Even in business, when I'm in meetings or looking people right in the eye or feeling confident about who I am. I mean, I'm a leader, CEO, they're in life, always on stage leading out a follower. That's who I am as a person.

Right.

And I have no problem. I have no. I was born with a lot of confidence, right? But I feel like, yeah, I feel like I lost my inner soul and who I was when I was not myself. Now that I'm back, I feel like I'm a completely different person. And my, my business dealings or people I've, I've, you know, meet or I'm proud to be looking them right now and looking as I feel like I, I look good. So I'm, I'm standing on, in front of somebody. Before I was like making excuses about why I had, why I look, the way I look looked.

Right.

It just was, it's a whole different mindset. I mean, obviously you know this, right? So you've heard this. I do.

But you know, I, I really, I love these kinds of vulnerable, visceral, real podcasts because someone that's watching this is identifying with this right now and going, you know what?

More than someone, probably a lot of people.

Yeah, I'm gonna, you know what? I've been inspired. I've been educated. I'm gonna make the transformation. Today's the day. And you don't have to do the transformation with me by any means or even with my team. You need to get data on your body. Body by getting a Blood test that has a basic comprehensive metabolic panel. CBC, your lipids, your hormones in your basic nutrient levels. In fact, if. If you want to even put the. The panel that we pull at our clinic, I'll post that to either the ultimatehuman.com or my social media so that people can take it to their doctor, get it done under their own insurance. Or if you're outside of the country and you're not able to access one of our clinics, you can just get this done on your own, you know?

You know, the funny part is you're doing this big water fast coming up on Tuesday y. For three days.

I got almost 50,000 people.

50,000. 50,000 people that are part of that, right?

Yeah.

Well, the group of people that you have on your supplements, 10x health, the things that you put out there, like, from, you know, because obviously you see it on Instagram, you see all the ads hen health. That. That's more than 50,000 people, I'm sure. And. And be honest, that group, like your. Your fasting group, I mean, those people all shoe sh. You should have a. A Facebook group for just your people on 10x health that can share their stories and. And give motivation. That's a great idea on that. Give motivation on their programs. I'll be honest. I would. This is. I told you this briefly one day, but, you know, I notice you don't have a 10x health here in Vegas. I'd almost open one, get some investors, open one up. Because I really, to be honest with you, it's kind of like pay it forward a little bit, you know?

Right.

Like, I tell everybody about your program and, and how I got where I am right now and in a short amount of time type of thing, that it took six months of nothing. Right. So. But I've tell people almost like you're. I'm. Like you're. I'm preaching your. Your whole program every day because I want to. And I think that. I think that if you had a Facebook group of just your 10x health people, we could all get together and talk about our stories and I think motivate each other. I think that would be phenomenal.

I think that's a great idea. I set up a Facebook group for my water fasting challenge. I have a VIP group where I actually interact with those groups. And I. And I want to continue that because I think.

Think.

I think one person's story is on that.

On that group.

And, And. And listen, it. This has not been a long journey.

No, six months.

Yeah, six months, guys. And and how many pounds 100 thing.

Is six months today? Because tomorrow's 23 weeks. Right. But here's the thing. I've been in pretty decent shape for the last couple months, so it didn't take long to really see good results. I saw results the first month, I remember. But I mean, again I, but I was seeing real results in two and a half years, months. Even my employees were going like, wow, you look great. You know, and I think they didn't think I could probably do it because, you know, I used to go out and drink a lot and, and, and consume all kinds of garbage food, pizza and all this stuff. I don't even hardly drink anymore.

Right.

You know, I'll have one that. But I just, I just. Because you know what? Not because I, I don't want to, I don't want to. I don't ever feel like I used to. You know what I'm saying? So that's it. But really I'm, I just can't say enough great things. And like quite frankly, at the. Here we are, the holidays.

Yeah.

And my biggest Christmas gift gift to, to myself was you. You know.

Oh, thank you, brother. That means a lot.

I, I'm, I don't say things I don't mean. If you, anyone knows me out there that's listening to this.

Yeah.

I don't see things I don't mean. This is like the best thing that ever happened to me.

Thank you.

And, and even my, even my mom, who's still 86 years old, lives here in Vegas and stuff, you know, thought, oh yeah, it's just some, you know, this and that you're not going to follow with this and that type of thing. You know, I saw my mom obviously at Thanksgiving and, and she's wow. You know, she's like, wow. You know, so those are all the things that really is kind of like a, like the gratitude that you feel in your heart that, you know, I did it for myself. And I feel just that whole feeling of doing something and, and reaching that goal is, is 100% makes you 100% feel better.

Yeah. And, and, and the fact that this occurred over a six month period of time. It's six months is the blink of high. Right. And, and, and the other thing that I want to talk about, you know, for the people that are possibly starting on this journey and are not yet motivated, they just can't, they can't quite take that step that you took.

Took.

You know, one of the things that you said that I really keyed in on Was that you felt the benefits early.

Right.

And then once you felt the benefits, then it was no longer a struggle.

First two weeks. Within two weeks, I started feeling better, you know, Two weeks. The. The supplements that I was taking made my body feel better. My diet and cleaning out my system, obviously, and. And doing keto and getting your body, you know, goes. Like you talked about autophagy earlier. You know, your body starts eating its own fat, which is basically what.

Not just fat, but it starts eating useless cells in the body, which are called senescent cells.

So, you know, but. But then. And then I started to be able to feel like I could walk faster. You know, one day, all of a sudden, I was walking somewhere here in Vegas. I was walking, and I thought, you know, I'm not even tired. I'm not even huffing and puffing. I mean, I felt like, wow.

I remember you used to wheeze when you would sit. No, I could hear you breathe.

Trust me, I was. I would wheeze driving the car, like, you know, wow. And. And that whole thing. So, you know, my only benefit to even being, you know, obese. Obese was that because I worked out every day of my life. Prior to the four years I didn't work out, my. My cardiologist said, hey, your heart's still in great shape. You don't have any blockages, that type of thing. So I felt like, wow, Gee, that was a bonus for me because I didn't feel like I was, you know, but I did feel like, you know, with either blood pressure or sleep apnea or something, I felt like I was gonna die every day.

Yeah, I remember you told me that. You said, I feel like my weight's killing me.

No, I mean. I mean, you look at me. So many people don't know this about me, but I'm 62 years old.

Yeah.

Like, most people think I'm probably late, early mid-40s, you know, type of thing.

Right.

So that. And I. I feel like I look. I got younger looking just doing this, but. But. But I. But, you know, that. That to me. Do I have 62 to you? I'm 62.

62. Yeah.

My mom forgot how old I was.

Did your mom forget how old she was?

No, she knows.

That's awesome, man. Well, listen, this has been amazing. I'm so glad that we wrapped up this journey with this podcast. We're going to actually, you know, show this entire journey from beginning to the middle to the end.

Show the.

Show the picture.

That picture will, like, go, wow you.

That picture. I'LL make sure that we throw that one up.

I may have a couple more I'll send you.

And, you know, I. I end every podcast the same way. I always ask my guests this question. What does it mean? And by the way, there's no right or wrong answer to this. What does it mean to you to be an ultimate human?

I mean, first of all, I never knew that was even possible, like that was even out there as a possibility. But the fact that I'm currently doing the whole Ultimate Human program and the protocol and all the things we've talked about, it's phenomenal. I can't even put into words how happy that I am, how happy I am on a daily basis because my whole attitude has changed. And people recognize that because I'm not such an asshole, because I always felt like I was in a bad mood all the time. So what it means to me to be an ultimate human is priceless.

Yeah.

One word.

Amen. Well, guys, I hope that this found its way onto the heart of somebody that needed to hear these words today and that this inspires them, or someone you know or someone you love that you could forward this podcast to, to make a change, to be educated, to be inspired, and to make that transformation to change their life. Because it can happen quickly. And there's a whole new you inside of you if you are on the journey that Stefan is already on the other side of. And as always, that is just science.