Gary Brecka Live at the Biohacking 360 Conference 2025 in Romania | TUH #232
Gary Brecka argues that depression, ADHD, hypertension, and autoimmune conditions often stem from correctable deficiencies in vitamins, minerals, and amino acids rather than genetics. He uses cases like Dana White's to show how restoring methylfolate and selenium can reverse these conditions and extend lifespan.
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371 million lives.
About 22 years.
Seven years (on average).
About 32 trillion cells; he states the body is 'completely new' every 84 days (300 billion cells turnover per day).
63,000 miles of blood vessels.
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Do you want to talk about a pandemic in this world? We have a pandemic of medicating organs in the human body that have committed no crime. I really don't like the fact that in modern medicine we have this excuse. It's called idiopathic. Idiopathic means of unknown origin. If the origin is unknown, we should not stop until we find it. We shouldn't stop there and treat for a condition when we do not know the root cause. There are tens of millions of people walking the face of this earth right now that are on immunosuppressants, on anti inflammatories, on corticosteroids, on things to manage this immune system that just went haywire. Unlocking our immune system is the secret to longevity. This is where true life expectancy is extended, is by empowering the God given immune system to do its job. There is no smarter resource on the planet than your immune system. We have adopted so many fallacies in modern medicine. The biggest one is. Oh, yeah. Hey, Romania. Oh, amazing. What a beautiful country. What beautiful people. What amazing fun facts about your country. You know, I was actually doing some research on Romania. You have the heaviest building in the world. I mean, that's so random. It sinks 1 millimeter every single year. And you're the home of Dracula. That is pretty cool. Transylvania is like a real thing here. You have lots of bears. I mean, there's so many fun facts I've learned about Romania. Just absolutely beautiful. Thank you so much for having me. My name is Gary Brecke. I'm a human biologist, a researcher, biohacker. You know, for the better part of 22 years, I was a mortality researcher for large life insurance. And what this means was If I got 10 years of medical records on you and 10 years of demographic data, we could tell the insurance company how long you had to live. And I get a lot of flack for that because people say, well, if you could predict death to the month, you would have won a Nobel Prize when. I have never won a Nobel Prize. But I promise you, it is some of the most accurate research in the world. You see, the database that I used to have access to had 371 million lives. And they knew the day, the date, the time, the location, and the cause of death for 371 million lives. And what we would do is we would pull that information back into the record and we would look at what are the patterns, what are the things that were causing people to leave this earth too early. And if I was to Summarize my entire career into just one sentence. It would be that the reason why the vast majority of people are not living longer, healthier, happier, more fulfilling lives are for what we called modifiable risk factors. These were relatively simple dietary and lifestyle changes that if they would have implemented them, would have added on average seven years to their lifespan and to their health span. And this database, unfortunately will never see the light of day, because if it did, it would be catastrophic. It would benefit humanity in a way that would be so impactful that it would upend modern medicine in a way that would be catastrophic. So that database, unfortunately would never see the light of day. And during my career as a mortality researcher, I was not allowed to have any contact with the patient or any contact with their treating physician. So even if I was looking at a record and I saw life threatening drug interactions, I couldn't pick up the phone and warn the patient. At one time in my career, I was threatened with criminal prosecution because I wanted to contact a woman and warn her about a life threatening drug interaction in a cardiac medication she was about to take. And so on that day, I walked into my human resources director's office, I turned in my resignation, and I decided that I didn't want to spend the rest of my life predicting death. I wanted to spend the rest of my life teaching people to live healthier, happier, longer, more fulfilling lives. And so that's why I'm standing in front of you today. So, thank you. So we are going to have a lot of fun today. We're going to talk about a lot of things we're not supposed to talk about. Politics, religion and science. So we're going to cover it all because. And then what I'm going to do at the end of my presentation, and I cannot emphasize this enough, and this is my favorite part of every talk that I do, is we're going to open the floor to questions and I'm going to take any ailment that you or a loved one suffers from, any ailment, add, adhd, ocd, manic depression, depression, bipolar, autoimmune cancer, migraine headaches, any ailment. And I am going to tell you right here, from this stage, in front of this crowd, what raw material is missing from that person's body that is causing that condition to exist. You see, we have lost faith in humanity and mankind and the body's ability to heal itself. We have gravitated more towards what man makes us and less of what God gave us. And I believe so much more in what God gave us than what I do and what man makes us that. The reason why I do this is to prove to you that the body can heal itself. This is such a magnificent machine. And we're going to go deep into that research today. So I start every presentation by saying the same thing again. In my career, 22 years as a mortality researcher, this may be the most important sentence that you read for the balance of your lifetime in terms of how many more years do you have left on Earth? What does your brain fog look like? Your weight gain, your water retention? What is your hormone balance look like? Because in 22 years of mortality research, we did not find a single disease etiological pathway that did not have its roots in the absence of oxygen or. Or was not exacerbated by the absence of oxygen. And I'm going to give you some more details on that later. Also, when I take the stage, I make two bold promises every time. If you listen to what I'm going to ask you to do today, and you follow, will add seven years to the health span and the lifespan of every person in this room. And the second promise that I make is the promise to take any ailment that you or a loved one suffers from and tell you what's truly going on in their biology. You see, we have adopted so many fallacies in modern medicine. The biggest one is that what goes into my body and her body and his body and her body and everybody else's body in this room is treated exactly the same way. Nothing could be further from the truth. The second is that disease is genetically inherited, that we inherit a lot of disease and pathology from our ancestors. If you have high blood pressure, hypertension, for example, how many of you either have or know somebody who has high blood pressure? Put your hands up nice and high. Okay? That's about 50% of the room. You know what happens in the vast majority of cases where you're told you have high blood pressure? They do a cardiac exam and you have a normal EKG and you have a normal EEG and you have normal heart sounds and you have normal lung sounds and you have a normal dye contrast study and a normal chest X ray and a normal cardiac catheterization, and they can't find anything wrong with the heart. So what do they do? Medicate the heart anyway for a crime we cannot prove it's committing? And if we don't have an explanation for why you have a certain condition, they're going to look at your family history and they're going to say, well, look at that. Your mom's sister or your father's brother had high blood pressure. You have familial hypertension. You have what we call genetically inherited hypertension. I'm here to tell you that if you look that physician in the eye and you say, what gene did I inherit from my ancestor that caused this condition to exist? Their face will go blank. Because in the vast majority of cases, that gene does not exist, which means that those conditions do not exist. So we do not pass disease from generation to generation. What we pass from generation to generation is the inability for the body to refine a raw material, a vitamin, a mineral, an amino acid, a nutrient. This causes a deficiency which leads to that disease, and that deficiency can be fixed. And we're going to talk about that today. Going back into human physiology, restoring the faith in mankind and humanity and the body's ability to heal itself. The human genome is specifically designed to not pass on disease. No one in this room would be sitting here if our genes did not specifically eradicate disease. In fact, we are designed specifically to not carry pathology and disease from generation to generation. It's very exciting for me when we go back into human physiology and back into the human genome, and we give people the faith and the hope to heal from whatever ailment they are suffering from. You know what's amazing? You have about 32 trillion cells in your body every day that you are alive. 300 billion cells that were with you yesterday will not be with you today. And tomorrow, 300 billion cells that were with you today will not be with you tomorrow. So every 84 days, your body is a completely new cellular human being. If I met you today and met you 84 days from today, you would be an entirely different human being, down to the last living cell. And so why is it that we don't believe that we can heal from whatever is facing us? If every 84 days, we turn over all of the live cellular structures in the body? And so the question becomes, what energy are we giving those cells? What frequency are we sending those cells? What nutrition are we giving those cells? What environment are those cells in? And if we can change those things, then we can change the outcomes. You know, there's so many diseases and pathologies and stories that I'm credited with, and they call these miracle cures. Like, I have some secret potion, right? Gary Brecke has this secret way of curing and healing all of these conditions. None of that is true. I have a secret way of going back into your human biology and just restoring the body's ability to heal itself. And it's been a magnificent journey. And so we're going to start here. I want you guys to memorize this, please. There's going to be a quiz on that later, so just take a few minutes, take it all in once you memorize it. Thank you for coming. My stage talk is over. So the reason why I show you this slide. This is a slide. Look at you guys taking pictures. Some of you are like, I've got to memorize that. You're great students. Thank you. I have memorized that, by the way, just so you know that I'm smart. This is a chart of what is going on inside of every single cell, inside of every single body sitting in this room. 300 billion times a day, these transactions are going on. The reason why I show you this slide is because if I was to continue to blow this slide up, every person in this room would recognize the vast majority of what is on that slide. You know what's making your cellular biology work? Vitamins, minerals, amino acids, nutrients and oxygen. This is the foundation of cellular biology. When you go into this chart and you start to pull things out of this chart, you start to delete a certain amino acid, you deprive the body of certain minerals, you pull certain nutrients out of this chart, you get the expression of disease. And so we're here today to go back into our human physiology and talk about what. What really is the foundation of longevity, of anti aging, of true wellness. How do we at any age function at 100%? And how do we find the missing raw material and then put it back into our body so it can function at its best? And so I always start by taking some of the larger categories of things that we suffer from as humanity. How many of you are, for example, suffer from or know somebody who suffers from ADD or adhd? Put them up nice and high. That's great. How many of you know somebody or have suffered from depression? Put them up. Amazing. How many of you are not going to raise your hand no matter what I say? Okay, there's one poor lady over here that's raised her hand every time you need to see me after because we need to get to work right away. So let's just pick a couple of these things. Let's talk about attention deficit disorder, and then we're going to talk a little bit about depression just for a moment. So attention deficit disorder, which I was diagnosed with as a very young child, it turns out between the sixth grade and the eighth grade, when I was A very small child. My teachers thought that I was an idiot savant or that I was autistic. It turns out I have a hyper developed area of my brain and I'm clinically photographic. So I have an extraordinary capacity to record information that I see visually. My wife will tell you it's only visual, it's not auditory. I don't remember anything that you tell me, but if I see it, I will record it. I can't read for pleasure. I rarely look at menus and restaurants. I never read magazines for pleasure because I have this overdeveloped center of my brain. But I was put, put into a program for, at the time, Attention deficit disorder and learning disabled children. And essentially what this program was, they had a bunch of trampolines and they would have these hyperactive kids like me run around in circles. And then they would sit us at a desk and they would teach us for about 15 minutes and then we would run around again. And as it turns out, I didn't have attention deficit disorder at all. I had a hyperdeveloped area of my brain, but I was nutrient deficient. And so I know so many people that have suffered from ADD and adhd. And the truth about this is Attention deficit disorder is not an attention deficit at all. It is actually an attention overload disorder. It is too many windows open at the same time. So in the human mind, we don't just create thought, we also break thought down, we actually dismantle thought. And if you create thought at a faster rate than you break thought down, then the mind gets very clouded. So the question is not how do we take the central nervous system and put an amphetamine into the central nervous system. Vyvanse, Ritalin and Adderall to race the central nervous system to match the pace of the mind. That's what modern medicine says. It says if the mind is racing, then let's take the central nervous system, let's speed it up to match the pace of the mind. And so we created amphetamines to do this. So let's take the system that's not broken, the central nervous system, let's break it to match the system that is. So the next time you have a flat tire, I want you to get out of your car and slash your other three tires, create equilibrium, and then call your husband and tell him what you did. See how that works out. So in attention deficit disorder, the mind is opening windows faster than it's closing them. So the focus should be on how do we quiet the mind, not how do we race the central nervous system? And I'm going to talk about how exactly we quiet the mind, because in people that have ADD or adhd, you could be thinking about a job you're working on, and your friend walks up. So now you're thinking about a job, and you start talking to your friend. And while you're talking to your friend, you notice a logo on their jacket, and that reminds you of a vacation you want to take. So now you're thinking about a job, talking to your friend, looking at the logo, thinking about a vacation you want to take all at the same time. And then your friend goes, you know what? My grandmother passed away on Sunday. And you go, that's a great idea. Right. And we call this an attention deficit, but it's truly an attention overload. And so we're going to talk about how do we solve things like that, because there is nothing wrong with you. The body has an impaired ability to break down the neurotransmitters of thought. The exact same thing happens in depression. And so let's go into the slide for a second. Let's just blow up an area here and let's talk about depression for a second. Again, so many of you, about half this audience raised your hand when I said, how many of you have suffered from or know someone who suffers from depression? Do you know that the. You don't have to raise your hand. Again, you're an overachiever. Right there. Yeah. You got straight A's in college. Yeah, we know. These are the. I want you to work for me. Yeah, she's like, depression. Yeah. So we have developed a theory of depression called the serotonin hypothesis of depression. What this theory says is that if you are low on serotonin, the neurotransmitter serotonin, you are by definition depressed. So then you would think if the definition of depression is low serotonin, that the treatment should be to raise serotonin. Makes sense, right? But that's not what we do. We take people that are low on serotonin and we put them on something called an ssri, a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor. So what these drugs do is they ration what little serotonin you have. So by definition, they never raise serotonin. So by definition, they never end depression. I can't tell you how many clients of mine, I don't have patients. I'm not a physician, so I have to watch saying that word. I can't tell you how many clients of mine I've sat across from that have suffered from depression. And I will say, how long have you been on an antidepressant? Oh, 15 or 18 years. I go, great. When did you think it was going to kick in? Should we just run this for another two years and see how that goes? Because by definition, we are not ending depression this way. So, serotonin. Does anyone know where serotonin is made in the body? Where's the factory for serotonin? In the gut, right here. 90% of the neurotransmitter serotonin is right here. And if you don't have it here, you can't have it here. Depression can begin in our outside environment. It always ends in our inside environment. Serotonin is the main driver of mood, is the main driver of emotional state. When the absence of serotonin, you cannot build the emotions of joy, elation, arousal, happiness, passion, elation. So these are the drivers of our emotional state. And so if I went into the gut and I said, well, take a step further, how do we make serotonin? Well, we take an amino acid. It's called tryptophan. It's inside everybody's body right now. And tryptophan, this amino acid, gets methylated into the neurotransmitter serotonin. So if you have a deficiency in tryptophan, which the vast majority of depressive patients have, or you have a deficiency in the raw material, it takes to turn that into a neurotransmitter called serotonin. You have a deficiency in serotonin, and you have what we would call clinical depression. And so what does it take to take tryptophan and convert it into the neurotransmitter serotonin? It takes that exact consequence of B vitamins, riboflavin, thiamine, niacin, pantothenic acid. It takes a very specific form of folate called methylfolate, and it takes a very specific form of B12 called methylcobalamin. B12 is one of the most necessary light metals in the human body. Yes, B12 is a vitamin, but it is a metal. And this metal, this light metal, is critical to converting tryptophan to serotonin. If you have a deficiency in any of those raw materials, you have impaired conversion of tryptophan into serotonin. And by definition, you are depressed. And so can we go back into the factory that makes serotonin and turn that factory back on? Yes, I have done it more than 200,000 times in our functional medicine clinic in the United States. And I Would be more than happy to share this data with you. So we go back into the gut, we put the raw materials back in that cause the body to methylate tryptophan into serotonin. As that neurotransmitter rises, you see these symptoms begin to eviscerate. We do the same thing with attention deficit disorders. We put the raw material into the body to begin to quiet the mind so people can actually begin to break down. They can begin to break down these neurotransmitters and their mind quiets. One of the foundations of this is removing the ability or removing the inability of the body to take folic acid and turn it into this nutrient called methylfolate. You know what is astounding in the United States in 1993? Monsanto. I'm not a big fan of Monsanto. They probably have a hit on me somewhere. But Monsanto convinced the US Federal government that we needed to spray our entire grain supply with something called folic acid. How many of you have heard of folic acid? Okay. Do you know that folic acid is an entirely man made chemical? Do you know that folic acid does not occur naturally in nature? Do you know that you cannot find folic acid anywhere on the surface of the earth? We make it in a laboratory. And folic acid is now the most prevalent nutrient in the human diet. It is an entirely synthetic chemical. Yet we have convinced tens of millions of pregnant women that folic acid is absolutely necessary to have a healthy pregnancy. That is patently false. What folic acid becomes in the human body, methylfolate is essential to a pregnancy. Folic acid does not prevent neural tube defects. It does nothing of the sort until it is converted into the form the body can use. So what happened when we started spraying all of our grains, all flour, rice, pasta, cereals, with the chemical folic acid? You saw skyrocketing rates of add, adhd, ocd, manic depression, bipolar behavioral disorders, impulse control, and skyrocketing rates of postpartum depression. In fact, there are no clinical studies. And if you're an obgyn, I'm happy to have this debate with you. There are no clinical studies here in OB GYN linking directly a causal relationship between hormones of pregnancy and postpartum depression. Yes, lots goes on in a woman's body when they get pregnant. Their estrogen goes from in the four hundreds to in the four thousands. There are massive shifts so that the body can retain water, pad the uterus, and protect the fetus. But there are no clinical studies. But yet we still blame postpartum depression on the pregnancy. The truth is, postpartum depression, which usually begins during pregnancy, postpartum depression, the onset of coincides almost universally with the woman taking high doses of folic acid. You see, 46% of the people in this room and 46% of the people in this world have a gene mutation called mthfr. Have you ever heard of mthfr? Yes. I won't tell you what the nickname is for that gene, but you can figure it out. So this gene mutation does not allow or impairs the body's ability to take folate and folic acid from our diet and convert it into the usable form called methylfolate. So when this conversion is impaired, first of all, all the folic acid in the world will do nothing for you. When this conversion is impair, the body has a deficiency in something called methylfolate. And this deficiency expresses itself as depression because it occurs during the pregnancy. We call it postpartum depression and usually onsets during pregnancy. What eventually happens is the pregnancy ends, the woman stops taking the prenatal vitamin and the symptoms go away. So we blame it on the pregnancy and not on the vitamin. The U.S. federal government, the FDA, the Food and Drug Administration, 11 days ago just approved the first prescription strength methyl folate called folinic acid for neurodevelopmental disorders, the treatment of postpartum depression and attention deficit disorder. Exactly what I am going to tell you today about the missing raw material in that body. And this leads to all kinds of consequences that we call mood disorders or mental illnesses. I truly do not believe that we have a pandemic of mental illness in this world. I believe we have a pandemic of a lack of mental fitness. And so we're going to talk about how do we become mentally fit? What do we put into our body so our brains are mentally fit? The same thing happens with ocd. How many of you have ocd? Go ahead. My wife better be raising her hand. Yes, right there. Okay. Yes, we have OCD in our marriage. I do a lot of apologizing for things I haven't done. You know, I mean, God forbid that I do the laundry and then dry the laundry and then fold the laundry, but I don't put it back where it belongs. That's a character flaw of mine, and I'm deeply sorry for that. So in OCDs, the same thing happens when we have disorganization in the mind, when our mind is very, very active and it runs all the time. We crave organization in Our outside environment. Since we cannot organize our inside environment, we have to hyper organize our outside environment. Right. So people with this condition, if you have a project that you're working on or something you need to study for and pay attention, and you're sitting at a desk with your computer and the desk has to be clean, but then the room the desk is in has to be clean. And God forbid there is a sock next to the baseboard on the floor, because the sock needs to move before I can focus on what's in front of me. Yeah, I see a lot of people going, yeah, that's me. And so how do we actually quiet the mind? And we're going to talk exactly about that. There's another very interesting pathway where we convert an amino acid called tyrosine into the amino acid called. I mean, into the neurotransmitter called dopamine. In the mortality space. When I was doing this 22 years of research, we had a saying in our office that the absence of dopamine is the presence of addiction. The absence of dopamine is the presence of addiction. If I was able to stick a magic syringe in the shoulder of anybody in this room and just suck the dopamine out of your body, you would immediately begin to engage in dopamine seeking behavior. What is that? Drugs, alcohol, nicotine, promiscuity, gambling, thrill seeking, workaholic, workout aholic. These conditions that if you've ever known a true addict or you've been a true addict, have a tendency to shift. Addiction rarely, if ever goes away. Addiction, it just shifts. We might exchange one unhealthy addiction for a healthy addiction, but it rarely goes away. And the reason for that is we do not treat the root cause, which is the deficiency in dopamine. If you do not replace the driver of behavior, you will have a constant drive to seek dopamine. If you show me a child that can play video games 12 or 14 hours a day, I will show you a future addict. We need to supplement that child as soon as possible to turn that dopamine back on. They are not playing the video game because they like the video game. They are playing the video game because it makes them feel normal. Nearly every form of addiction known to mankind did not begin with a search for getting really banged up. No addict just woke up one day and said, I want to get really banged up. Do you guys say banged up in uk? They say pissed. What do you say here in Romania? What? Bat. Bat. Like a bat. Okay. That means you want to get banged Up. Okay. Bat. Okay, good. I learned something new today. Thank you. So no addict woke up one day and said, I want to get bat. Okay, that's a good one. What they did was they woke up and they said, I want to feel normal. And it was the search for normalcy, where they developed an addiction. And now they're not running towards the high, the bat. Right. They are running from a low. And so this is why I give so much of my time to drug and alcohol and addiction treatment programs, because we have to go in and solve the dopamine deficiency, not the clinical dependency. Clinical dependencies are easy to solve. Modern medicine solves them by shifting you from one drug to another drug. Suboxone, Naltrexone, all kinds of things that we use to get over the physical addiction. And now you don't have a physical addiction anymore. You still have a dopamine deficiency. So now the next cycle of addiction begins. If we fix the dopamine deficiency, we put this permanently into remission. And how do we make dopamine? Well, we take the amino acid tyrosine, and we convert it into the neurotransmitter dopamine. And this is the driver of behavior. And I have seen this thousands and thousands and thousands of times. And we could just keep going through condition after condition after condition. And every person in this room has some raw material that is missing from your body that is holding you back from being absolutely optimal. And I'm going to tell you exactly how to find that raw material and then how to put it back into the human body. I mean, wouldn't you like to know if something as simple as a mineral deficiency, an amino acid deficiency, a vitamin or a nutrient deficiency was keeping you from being in the best possible state that you could be? Of course we would. Right. The human body is such a fascinating machine. I might divide the audience in half by saying this next sentence. But the more I study human physiology, the more I believe in God. I do not believe that this was created by accident. You are never going to convince me that a billion years ago, two bacteria made love in a mud puddle. And then a lizard crawled out. And then eventually we had a banana, and then a couple of rabbits, and then we had apes, and then, boom, there's a human. We're missing entire sections of the fossil record to prove that it is a fascinating machine. And you look at the engineering behind this magnificent body, and you see that it just needs nutrients to survive. And so there's a really fascinating case that I was made somewhat famous for how many of you know Dana White from the UFC or of Dana White? Okay, so he's the bald, very outspoken CEO of the ufc. And I met Dana White about two and a half years ago. When I met Dana White, he was suffering from something called brittle hypertension. So his blood pressure was so high that they kept throwing medication at it to try to lower his blood pressure. At the time, he was on a beta blocker, a calcium channel blocker, an ACE inhibitor, and a diuretic, all trying to lower his blood pressure because they couldn't bring his blood pressure down. What they did was they. They said, we're going to do the next phase. We're going to do a heart ablation. We're actually going to go in through the rib cage, and we are going to burn what's called the atrioventricular node of the heart. We're going to permanently disable the heart to try to lower your blood pressure. By the grace of God. That surgery was scheduled 11 days after I met him. And so I met Dana, and he was on all these medications, and I did a blood test on him, and one of the things that I found was he had a gene mutation called mthfr, and he had a second gene mutation called compt, and he had one called mtr. So he had these gene mutations, and what these gene mutations did to him was it impaired his ability for his body to take an amino acid called homocysteine that is inside the blood of every single person in this room. And he couldn't take homocysteine and convert it into something called methionine. Now, that doesn't sound like a big deal until you realize. Can I go to this whiteboard for a second? Are there markers that I can use? Oh, there they are. They're hiding in the back. So they say, don't talk about science and don't get. Can I talk about science for a second? So can you guys all see this? Okay, depending on what you paid, you know, you get to see the whole view. So, first of all, how many of you know, what percentage of the blood in our body does the heart circulate? How much of our blood is circulated by our heart? 100%. 70%. It should be 100%. You're right. No. The heart circulates 30% of the blood in your body. You have 63,000 miles of blood vessel in your body. 63,000 miles. The vast majority of your circulation. If I was to draw this out, the vast majority of your circulation is not done by the Heart, it is done by an activity called vasomotor. 70% of our circulation is not done by the heart. 70% of the circulation in your body, there's no pressure in those blood vessels. 70% of this circulation is done by this activity called vasomotor. Think of a snake swallowing a mouse, right? When a snake swallows a mouse, we don't put a garden hose in the snake's mouth and push the mouse along. It is a muscular contraction. So 70% of the blood in 63,000 miles of arteries and venules called microvasculature, is circulated by this activity called vasomotor. Yet, what we do is we test the 30% that is done by the heart. This is what all of our cardiac exams look at. EKGs, EEGs, dye contrast studies, cardiac catheterizations, chest X rays, heart sounds, lung sounds. All these are looking at is the 30% that's done by the heart. Yet this entire 70% is done by this activity called vasomotor. So what happens if you have a gene mutation that causes this amino acid, homocysteine, to rise? Well, as homocysteine rises and it's cruising by the inside lining of your arteries, it irritates your artery. And when you irritate an artery, it clamps down. And if you make the pipes smaller in a fixed system, this is a closed system, the pressure goes up. The pressure is rising. Not because your heart is not functioning or over contracting. The pressure is rising because your vascular system has constricted. As that pressure rises, because your homocysteine is elevated, which, by the way, is genetically inherited. You get told you have familial hypertension because that condition runs in families. You are told that you have a genetically inherited hypertension. 85% of all hypertensive diagnoses are idiopathic. They are of unknown origin. 85% of all hypothyroid is idiopathic. Of unknown origin. 88% of all autoimmune disease is idiopathic, of unknown origin. And yet we medicate the organs for crimes they are not committing. You want to talk about a pandemic? In this world, we have a pandemic of medicating organs in the human body that have committed no crime. And so what I had to do for Dana to believe this was I had to pull 10 years of medical records on him and physically go into his office and lay it out. And I said, Dana, here are 10 years of medical records on you. You have never had an abnormal ekg, not once. You've never had an abnormal eeg. You have had. Every stress test has been normal. All your advanced cardiac workup is normal. I don't believe that you have hypertension. I believe that you have high homocysteine. So we checked his homocysteine. It was the highest I had ever seen in my clinical career. His homocysteine, if you know anything about this marker, was in the low 30s. It should be in the single digits. It should be below nine to be in a great range. And so this amino acid was so high, his vascular system had constricted. What happens when the vascular system constricts? Well, this is why the vast majority of people begin to wear readers in their 40s and 50s. By the way, these are not readers. They're blue light glasses. I do not wear glasses. I'm 55. I have perfect vision. So why does our eyesight start to suffer in our 40s and our 50s? Nothing's wrong with the rods, the cones, the macula, the retina. Nothing's wrong with your eyes. Nothing's wrong with your cornea. Your intraocular pressure is normal. All of your eye exams are normal. Why does your eyesight begin to degrade? Because the vasomotor circulation to the back of the eye is compromised. And this vasomotor is connected to so many conditions in the body. Renault syndrome, cold fingers and toes. That is a circulatory issue. The vast majority of neuropathology, things like peripheral neuropathy are related to circulation, not your nerves. In fact, if I wanted to give anybody in this audience peripheral neuropathy right now, I would just put a tourniquet on your forearm. What would happen if I put a tourniquet on your forearm? Well, in about 10 minutes, you'd have tingling and numbness. You'd have what we call paresthesias. In about 25 minutes, this entire limb would go numb. In an hour, I could pinch the top of your hand as hard as I could and you wouldn't feel it. Nothing wrong with the nerves in that limb. What would happen if I took the tourniquet off? All that sensation would return, right? So I explained this to Dana, and I said, I'm going to put you on an amino acid. It's called tmg. It's called trimethylglycine tmg because you have a gene mutation that impairs this conversion of homocysteine. I'm going to give you an amino acid that skips that gene mutation and allows your body to begin to metabolize homocysteine so over the next 21 weeks, as he began to take this amino acid, his homocysteine level began to fall. As his homocysteine level fell, his vascular system, for the first time in 25 years, began to relax. As the vascular system relaxed, his blood pressure began to return to normal. I'll never forget the day that he called me and he said, gary, something's really wrong. And I said, what's up? And he said, for the last few days, when I walk into the gym and as soon as I step on the treadmill or I pick up a weight, I immediately get lightheaded, like I feel woozy and dizzy, I go, that's a great sign. He's like, what the hell are you talking about? And I said, well, when your blood pressure is high, your medication will make it normal. When your blood pressure is normal, your medication will make you hyposystolic. It will actually push your blood pressure too low. This is the first sign that we can start to titrate you off of your medication. So I brought in a physician. Because I am not licensed to practice medicine, I brought in a physician to monitor this, and we began to titrate him off of his medication. 21 weeks later, he was completely off of blood pressure medication. To this day, two and a half years now, since I met Dana White, he has perfectly normal blood pressure, and he is no longer on medication. And so Dana called the cardiac office in Los Angeles, and it happened to be the head of cardiothoracic surgery. He was seeing one of the top cardiologists in the world, and he canceled the heart ablation surgery. The cardiologist immediately called him back and said, hey, listen, brother, this is not like getting a nose job or, you know, a tummy tuck. This is not voluntary surgery. It's not cosmetic. You can't cancel this procedure. This is life saving. And he said, well, my blood pressure is normal. And so his surgeon said, well, the medication's finally working. He goes, no, no, no. I'm off all my medication. And he said, I met this human biologist named Gary Brecka. How do you think that conversation went? And true story. So Sage and I were sitting at dinner one night, and I had my phone on the table, and there was this call that kept coming in from Los Angeles. It was a Los Angeles number. It was like, bzz, bz, bzz. And then it would go away. Then 30 seconds later, it went away. And 30 seconds later, I was like, I better answer this. So I answered the phone, and the voice on the Other side said, gary Brecke. I said, yes. He said, this is Dr. Ram Dandelaya, head of cardiothoracic surgery, Cedars Sinai in Los Angeles. I was like, oh, boy, is this going to be a good one? And he said, listen, I don't know who you are. I don't know what you're doing, but I don't believe in a thing that you're doing. I believe that you're playing with people's lives. I have insisted that Mr. White fly out to our cardiac unit and complete his entire cardiothoracic workup. Again, he said, Mr. Breca, so help me God if this is not perfect, this will not be the last call you get from me. And he hung up the phone. And my wife goes, wow, he was pleasant. So exactly that happened. Dana White went out to Cedars Sinai. He spent three days in the cardiac unit. They did an entire cardiothoracic workup. And to Dr. Dandelia's credit, he called me three weeks later. And when I answered the phone, he said, gary? I said, yes. He said, this is Dr. Ram Dandelaya, head of cardiothoracic surgery, Cedars Sinai in Los Angeles. I go, you're really proud of your credentials. Do we have to go through this every time? You know? Gary Brecke, human biologist, biohacker researcher, mortality expert. Thank you. So he said, you know what, Mr. Breck, I owe you an apology. He said, I have to tell you, in 27 years of cardiothoracic practice, I have never seen a brittle, hypertensive patient ever come off of the qualification list for heart ablation. And I've never seen a brittle, hypertensive come off of their cardiac medication. And he said, would you humor me? Would you mind walking me through what you did? So we spent three hours on the phone. We talked about homocysteine metabolism, vascular laxity. We talked about the endothelial damage. We talked about the inflammatory cascade that comes from calling the immune system to the wall of the arteries. We talked about peripheral vasoconstriction. I was mortified when I found out that he also thought the heart circulated all the blood in the body. He remembered from medical school that that wasn't true. So we brought him back to that. And to this day, I now sit on a complicated case committee with Dr. Dandelaya and some other physicians from Cedars Sinai, solving really complicated cases that make no medical sense, that don't fit to medical dogma. But to his credit, again, he was just exacerbated by the fact that we could Fix this with a nutrient deficiency. So what causes us to have impaired homocysteine metabolism? There's a gene mutation. And so when I look at the human genome, I don't look at all of your genes. I look at 12 specific genes. I don't care about your hair color, your eye color, your ancestry, your skin tone, whether or not you have detached earlobes, or the right length between your first and your third digits. What I care about is what can your body take that it brings into the body, and what can it convert into the usable form, and what can it not? You see, there is not a single compound known to mankind, not one that we put into the human body. There is no vitamin D, no mineral, no amino acid, no protein, no carbohydrate, no fat, no nutrient of any kind that enters the human body and is used in the form that we put it in. Without exception, everything gets converted into the usable form. So think about how we pull crude oil out of the ground. You cannot put crude oil into your car's gas tank, right, because the car doesn't understand this fuel source. Crude oil has to be refined into gasoline. Now the car can run. Human beings are no different. This process of converting crude oil, the raw material, into gasoline, the form the body can use, this process is called methylation. And if your methylation is broken, you have a deficiency, and that deficiency can be fixed. And if it is broken in one cell, it is broken in all 32 trillion cells in the human body. Fixing that affects every single cell in the human body. This happens with detoxification pathways called glutathione and transulfuration. It happens with so many things. In fact, a few weeks ago, I was on a panel and I got asked a question. I thought it was one of the most difficult questions I've been asked in a long time. The moderator said, if you were to put all of the top anti aging experts, longevity experts, wellness Experts, the top PhDs, M.D. researchers, and you put them all in one room, the top 50. And you said, agree on one theory of aging, just one theory of aging, what would that theory be? And I had to really think about that. And I said, I know that we would all agree on the theory of immunofatigue, a slow, progressive, overwhelming of the immune system. See, what causes us to age is when our immune system is so distracted trying to protect us that it no longer has the time to police us. When you're an infant, 65% of your immune system's activity is policing you, is monitoring what's going on inside the castle walls. By the time you are in your 40s, it is spending 65% of its time protecting you. Parasites, mold, mycotoxins, heavy metals, and all kinds of microtoxins that we put into the body. And then all of a sudden, a circulating tumor cell slips by or a senescent cell stays for too long. What we call zombie cells, or your cellular rate of death and regeneration called autophagy gets off the immune system. Unlocking our immune system is the secret to longevity. What if we could reverse that and in later ages of life, we could restore the immune system to spending 65 or 70% of its time policing us. This is where true life expectancy is extended. This is where true anti aging occurs, is by empowering the God given immune system to do its job. There is no smarter resource on the planet than your immune system. We're going to talk about that for a minute. After 21 weeks, no more hypertension. And he had been told, just like the vast majority of you have been told, that he had familial hypertension. He had genetically inherited hypertension, even though no one could tell him what gene he inherited that was causing that condition to exist. Essentially, what I'm trying to do is restore the faith back into humanity and mankind about our body's ability to heal itself. Let's do a couple more. Maybe hypothyroid. How many of you have or know somebody who has hypothyroid? Oh, gosh, this poor lady has raised her hand for every single thing. Yeah, you definitely need to see me after the. No. So let's talk about hypothyroid for a second. You know when we diagnose hypothyroid because the thyroid makes two hormones, right? These are called T4 and T3. Does anyone know what percentage of the thyroid hormone T3 the thyroid makes? How much is that? Because you follow me on Instagram. Okay, well, that's cheating. You just cheated in front of the whole. You should be ashamed of yourself. No. Yeah. What percentage? 20. So wait a second, I'm diagnosed with hypothyroid or my loved one is diagnosed with hypothyroid and the thyroid only makes 20% of the hormone that we're using to blame the thyroid for not doing its job. So this means that there's an 80% chance it's something else, right? How many of you said you have hypothyroid? Okay, you're going to love this. Let's just use this beautiful lady here in the front for an example, by the way, aside from being a scientist, I'm also a great artist. I mean, it's basically a photograph. I mean, if your family saw that, they'd be like, that's her son. So the thyroid is right here in the throat, right? And it makes these two fascinating hormones. It makes something called T4, and it makes something called T3. That's a terrible three. It makes something called T3. The vast, if not all, of hypothyroid diagnoses are low T3, but yet the thyroid only makes 20% of that hormone. Does anyone that doesn't follow me on Instagram and hasn't cheated by watching my videos, does anyone know where the rest of that thyroid hormone T3, is made? In the liver. The liver. It's liver. No. Yes, in the liver. The vast majority of it is made in the liver, some in the gut and some in the periphery. But what happens is Thyroid hormone T4 is converted into thyroid hormone T3 outside of the thyroid. This happens in the liver. It is called deiodenization. And it's where we take T4 and we convert it into T3. We make some other byproducts, too, iodothyronine. And we actually make something called reverse T3, which calms the thyroid down. But for the purposes of this discussion, we make this in the liver. We make this by converting T4 into T3. Now, in order to make this conversion, you need a few nutrients. You need selenium, you need thiamine, you need iodine. A pandemic deficiency right now, second only to vitamin D3, which is the most common clinical deficiency in the world. Second to A deficiency in D3 is a deficiency in something called selenium. When we put selenium in the body, our genes turn selenium into something called selenomethionine. It becomes something called selenocysteine. And that compound goes into the liver and it converts thyroid hormone T4 into thyroid hormone T3. So if you have a gene mutation that impairs your ability to use selenium, or you have a deficiency in this nutrient, your body is missing the raw material it needs to make this conversion. Your T3 drops. Well, when your T3 drops and it shows up low in your blood, you're told you have hypothyroid, there's only a 20% chance that you have hypothyroid, there's an 80% chance you have poor conversion of T4 into T3. I cannot tell you the thousands and thousands of clients that we have fixed this conversion with nutrients and restored normal levels of T3, and hypothyroid goes into remission. So very often we just stop when we see an anomaly in the human body. We say, wow, thyroid hormone. T3 is low. What makes T3? Well, probably the thyroid. Let's medicate the thyroid. Levothyroxine, synthroid armor, thyroid, natural dissected thyroids. Again, accusing the thyroid of a crime that it is not committing. Instead of going back into human physiology and asking the first question, does this body have the raw material it needs to do its job? And if not, let's put that raw material back and see how it performs. You know what is astounding? We believe this in plant physiology. If you had a leaf rotting in a palm tree and you called a true arborist, a true botanist out to look at that leaf, they wouldn't even touch the leaf. They would cortest the soil and they would say, you know what? There's no nitrogen in the soil. They would add nitrogen to the soil and the leaf would heal. Human beings are no different. When you add the right raw material to the soil, the leaf heals. And I'm not saying in every single condition, but in the vast majority of these conditions, I really don't like the fact that in modern medicine, we have this out, this excuse. It's called idiopathic. Idiopathic means of unknown origin. If the origin is unknown, we should not stop until we find it. We shouldn't stop there and treat for a condition when we do not know the root cause. This happens the vast majority of time in autoimmune. We're going to talk about this, too. So just to throw a couple big ones out there, how many of you either know someone or have suffered from any of these Crohn's disease, Hashimoto's chagrins, multiple sclerosis, these are all autoimmune diseases. And what are you told when you get diagnosed with an autoimmune disease? Well, if you have Crohn's disease, you're told that you woke up one day and your immune system, for no reason, just began to attack the colon. And because it's attacking the colon, you have an autoimmune disease called Crohn's. If it's attacking the lacrimal gland of the eye, you're going to be told that you have chagrins. If it's burning random holes in the myelin sheath of your nerves, you're going to be told that you have multiple sclerosis. If it's attacking the thyroid gland. You're going to be told that you have Hashimoto's, and then you ask your doctor what is causing this condition to exist. It's idiopathic. Ah, but look at that. Your uncle and your aunt and your grandfather had it. You have familial Hashimoto's, you genetically inherited this autoimmune disease. You genetically inherited Crohn's, you genetically inherited your propensity for multiple sclerosis, lupus, chagrins, any number of other conditions, yet 88% of the time we do not know the origin. And in 100% of the time, we hold the immune system responsible for a crime it is not committing. There are tens of millions of people walking the face of this earth right now that are on immunosuppressants, on anti inflammatories, on corticosteroids, on things to manage this immune system that just went haywire. Well, guess what happens in the human body if you have a pathogen. Let's say don't go anywhere. Let's say that this is a mold spore, or it's a mycotoxin, or it's a parasite, or it's a virus, or even worse. Let's say this is a heavy metal and this is a healthy cell. Let's say it's a thyroid cell. Let's say that this is one of the cells in your thyroid and this is a heavy metal called mercury. This metal is not going to hide like this. It's going to hide like this. That is an important distinction. So much so, I'm going to show it to you again. This metal, this mold spore, this mycotoxin, this parasite, this virus does not hide like this. It hides like this. Why is that so important? Because the immune system is hypervigilant. It is after that. But when it reaches the wall of a cell, it doesn't have permission to come inside. So if somebody robbed a bank down the street from here and that bank robber ran into this room and barricaded himself in the room, what would happen? The police would kick down that door to get to the perpetrator. Were they trying to destroy the door or are they trying to get to the villain? They were trying to get to the villain. The immune system is no different. If it wants to get to this, it has to go through this. And very often in the human body, in order to gain permission to enter a cell, it has to kick down the door. How does it kick down the door? It manufactures an antibody to that Cell, not to kill the cell, to kill the pathogen. In the vast majority of Hashimoto's, which I call Hashi nonsense. In the vast majority of Hashimoto's, we have heavy metals embedded in the thyroid. The thyroid is like a magnet for heavy metals. Mercury, arsenic, palladium, cadmium, lead. Heavy metals are gravitating to the thyroid. That's what calls the immune system. You see, the police don't just show up for no reason and start kicking in your door, right? They show up because there is a pathogen there. There is a villain there, and they need to get to that villain. And to do so, they will destroy the structure to get in and capture that villain. The immune system is no different. It will go right through the wall of a cell. So much so that it will manufacture antibodies to the coating on the phospholipid bilayer of that cell in order to gain permission to come in, not to get to you, to get to that. That is such an important distinction. This is the reason why 88% of all autoimmune conditions are idiopathic. A fascinating study was published by a pathologist a few years ago. I'm happy to link this study or let you read it for yourself. And he asked the question, he said, you know, I see so many patients that are, that are coming through my pathology lab with multiple sclerosis. Now, multiple sclerosis is a condition where the immune system again woke up one day and for no reason, it began to attack the nerves. Specifically, it began to attack something called the myelin sheath. So inside the human body, I want you to think of a nerve as a copper wire inside of a rubber sheath. If I were to take a knife and just nick this rubber wire, I mean, nick the rubber down to the copper wire, the signal would arc where that damage has occurred. Multiple scleroses are multiple sores, scabs on the myelin sheath. When they actually get down to the nerve, the nerve arcs. And this is where you get the symptomology from this condition. And he said, it's very strange to me that if the immune system is attacking the myelin sheath, if it can dissolve this, this coating, this rubber coating on the nerves, why isn't it uniformly dissolving the myelin? And secondly, why isn't attacking the myelin everywhere? It seems to be very specific. It burns a very specific hole, like a rifle shot or an arrow. And it burns one here and then it burns one there. And it burns one here and burns one there. It seems to be very site specific. So he did post mortem autopsies on multiple sclerosis patients. In 100% of those cases, he found the same helminth parasite, the same cestode nematode. It's a corkscrew parasite that burrows into the myelin sheath. And he hypothesized that if in 100% of these postmortem autopsies, they had the same corkscrew parasite, that the immune system was not trying to kill you, it was trying to save you. It was actually trying to preserve as much tissue as possible by not attacking all of the myelin, by attacking the site where these exist. And actually, the step was to suppress the immune system and hold the immune system responsible for this condition, rather than saying, could it be a pathogen calling the immune system to that site. You see, in the human body, the immune system, like a police officer, does not show up for no reason and just kick in your door. The immune system is called to that location. There is a perpetrator here. Please come get it. And we could go through condition after condition after condition. And again, I'm not saying 100% of the time, but the vast majority of the time. So anytime we have an idiopathic diagnosis, we should stop and say, I will not accept that this is idiopathic. I need to find the origin and start asking the question instead of immediately saying, I'm going to go this direction and assume that the immune system has committed a crime that I can cannot prove it's committed. And for the rest of this person's life, they are on immunosuppressants or anti inflammatories or corticosteroids because their immune system just went haywire for no reason at all. And so this is my deep belief in what God gave us and not what man makes us. Chemicals, synthetics, and pharmaceuticals are rarely the answer to nutrient deficiencies. In that chart that I showed you earlier, there was not one chemical, not one synthetic, and not one pharmaceutical. I'm not saying they do not have a role. And if you're a physician, I am not attacking your profession, nor am I attacking Big Pharma. I don't believe that there's a conspiracy theory going on at the top of Big Pharma or by the medical association to keep people sick. I just believe this is the way that we have developed because we assume that the body has made a mistake when we should assume God did not make a mistake. We just have to figure out why it's here. Okay, I feel like I'm throwing a lot at you guys right now. My wife says that. Oh, awesome. Thank you. I never know if I'm losing you. Like when I see people leaning back in their seat like this and their eyes starting to roll back. My. Okay, let me take my foot off the gas here for a second. Because my wife is like, you just eat people's face. You have to give them a break. We actually got on a plane a few months ago. We were flying from Miami to Dallas. And we get on the plane and I'm in an aisle seat and my family is in the three seats behind me. My wife, my outspoken wife. And I sit down next to this poor soul and I, you know, I just break into a conversation with him. I'm like, oh, you know, what do you do? And he goes, I'm a family medicine practitioner. I'm a sleep apnea specialist. I go, oh, are you? And then my wife, she slams her face between the seats and she goes, he's going to eat your face. Be careful. And I did. I put the tray table down so he couldn't get out. And I had a three ring binder under the seat. I put it up there. I said, let's talk about sleep apnea. And then I just killed this poor guy for three hours. Truly amazing. Thank you. I think they are mesmerized. Yes. Yes. Yeah. Thank you. I'm not watching the clock, so I apologize. Thank you very much, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you guys so much.
