World #1 Biohacker - The Fastest Way To Change Your Health and Live Longer | Gary Brecka

You've been labeled with things you don't have. You are not as sick or as pathological or as diseased or as dysfunctional as you think you are. You may be a few nutrients away from being the most optimal person that you ever imagined.

Gary Brecht is a human biologist and researcher who is the co founder of 10X Health System along with a wide ranging team of experts. His focus is to uncover the safest and fastest way to optimize your mind, body and spirit.

So if we can just improve the nutrient deficiencies in the human population and get hormones to improve and get oxygen up in these bodies, we can literally improve the mood of humanity.

He spent over two decades studying when and how we die, pushing him to focus on how we should live.

I just said, what the hell am I doing? I'm not going to spend one more minute on my life predicting when people are going to die. I'm going to spend the balance of my lifetime helping people live healthier, happier, longer lives. And it's astounding how acute and sharp and focused and aware people are about their business and how completely detached most people are from the temple. Apply that same zeal and intellectual curiosity to your body and you can entirely change the trajectory of your life.

The Icon is a show where we learn life lessons from those who may shape the icon in each of us. Today we jump into the fascinating world of mortality and optimal health.

There are four things that you could do for free that would entirely change the trajectory of your life. And you could start doing these tomorrow.

I'm going to write these down too. Gary Brea welcome to the Icons by motiversity.

Hey man, it's super good to be here, man. Thank you for inviting me.

I mean, this is an honor for us. We've been listening to your work. It feels like every time I hear one of your clips or interviews, I just find myself like immediately compelled by a diet. And what's fascinating is that I'm drawn to the optimal health stuff, but I'm also. When I first came across you, I heard you talking about some of the data that you had access to when you were in the insurance industry and really being able to kind of almost, you know, forecast when somebody would pass to the month. How has that shaped what you do?

You know, what's amazing is I get a lot of flack for that actually online and a few times I've done some interviews where we've gone really deep into that science. But the science of mortality is some of the most accurate science in the world. If you look at, for example, you know, all of the financial services instruments that are actually based on death, that are based on when someone is going to leave this earth. Annuities, reverse mortgages, life insurance, you know, in, in these kinds of financial services transactions of which there are hundreds of billions per year, only one variable matters. And if you, you know, how many more months does this person have left on earth? And everybody that's listening to this podcast is on an actuarial curve, right? If you're a 24 year old FE male, you have a life expectancy of X. If you're a 54 year old male, you have a life expectancy of Y. But when an insurance company is getting ready to take 10 million or 25 million or, or $50 million worth of risk on your life, they don't care where you are on an actuarial curve, they want to know specifically how many more months does this person have left on earth. And if you want to know how accurate they are at doing this, and just look at what happened during the 2008, 2009 financial services crisis, right? We had 364 banks fail. You didn't have a single life insurance company fail. Not one. In fact, the credit derivatives division of aig, one of the biggest life insurance companies in the world, went under. It was the life side that bailed them out. And you remember that insurance companies have data that no other financial services enterprise has. No, no college, university, no research study, not even the federal government. And that is that they know the day, the date, the time, the location, and the cause of death for hundreds of millions of lives. And they not only have that point of death information, right, because you have to file a death claim, but they also know that person's medical records. They know their demographic data. They have, if you've ever taken out a very large life insurance. And I'm not talking about if you take out a term life insurance policy for $200,000. I'm talking about a permanent whole life or universal life policy. You know, it's a pretty invasive process, right? Then they get your trust, your states, your bank accounts, brokerage accounts, all your tax returns. I mean, they look at your divorce decrees, if there's one of those. I mean, it's a very, you know, invasive, you know, proctology exam. And, and then of course, you know, they also get blood work on you. And you know, what was fascinating to me was that, you know, that database, if it could see the light of day, it would permanently change the face of Humanity, I mean, it would upend modern medicine in a way that would be catastrophic. You know, we know that, we know the trajectory and the etiology of every pharmaceutical compound. If you're on a statin, you know, what are the out, what, what are the byproducts of that? What does it do to hormone disruption, cellular wall metabolism? What does it do the production of vitamin D3 and eventually what does it do to the immune system? If you're on corticosteroids, you know, how to, how do these anti inflammatory compounds that initially reduce inflammation, how do they eventually eat the joint like a termite? You know, we knew about the addictive amyloids and opiates before opioids, before long before the opioid crisis. And because we had data, you know, you look at how they're treating, you know, multiple vaccines and multiple boosters and table rating these policies, even without asking that question, they have this data inside of your medical record. And so it's very accurate science. But, but you know, I did this for so many years that eventually I started to realize that, you know, this was not just data, that there was a human being on the other side of the spreadsheet. And you know, the majority of the reason why the people that I was doing life expectancy predictions on were not living healthier, happier, longer, more fulfilling lives were for things that we called modifiable risk factors. And had I just been able to pick up the phone and talk to that person, you know, on average I could have added about seven years to their life. And you know, that began to weigh on me pretty heavily. And I was restricted by law from having any contact with the patient, any contact with the treating physician. So even if I saw a life threatening drug interaction, I couldn't, I couldn't contact the patient. And so eventually I just decided I was not going to spend one more month or week or day or hour predicting how soon people were going to die. And I decided that I was going to spend the balance of my adult lifetime helping people live healthier, happier, longer lives. And so I'm not a physician. I'm a human biologist. I'm not licensed to practice medicine, but I did read medical records eight hours a day, six days a week for almost 20 years. So, so I've read thousands of times more medical records than most physicians because they're practicing medicine. And so, you know, we were spotting trends and looking at ideology of a lot of chemicals and synthetics and pharmaceuticals on human beings and also looking at what types of genetics and what types of blood work markers would set people up for the onset of the severity of, and eventually how soon they would succumb to disease or pathology. Wow.

I mean, I've, I think I'm struck from a couple different angles on that. Like, I think the clarity of working back from death is just really fascinating. You know, obviously the insights that you get from that, but then also the drive of just like, fair enough, all those insights exist. But like you said, there's human beings on the other end of that data and they've got lives to live and there's things that can help them. You know, when I described that you've kind of made this shift from focusing on death to focusing on life, how do you describe what you do?

Well, I mean, you know, so let's take, for example, you know, the fact that over and over and over and over again, one of the things that we would see was what we call iatrogenic illness or, you know, medical misdiagnosis. You know, in the United States, medical error is third leading cause of death. And I mean, there's a 2016 Harvard study, it was repeated in 2019 by Johns Hopkins. The study actually got worse. So, you know, the only thing that kills more people than medical error is cardiovascular disease and, and cancer. And when you think that modern medicines errors are the third leading cause of death, that is astounding. But it's even more shocking when you realize that the third leading cause of death is the industry trying to prevent death. I mean, if you translated that to any other industry would be laughable. I mean, if you were a, you know, if you sold home security systems, but you were the third leading cause of home invasion, or if you, you know, you were a roofer and you were the third leading cause of roofing, Coll, um, you know, I don't think you'd be in business very long. And it just, it spotlights that modern medicine does enormous amount of good. So does big pharma. But the, the, the end result is that, you know, this is not the place to go for optimal health, is the place to go for crisis medicine. You know, we're very good at crisis intervention. I mean, if I hit a windshield at 20 miles an hour, I want a surgeon, I want, you know, I'm going to the er. I want the pain medications, I want it all. You know, if you're going to deliver a baby, you want it, you want to deliver it in a sterile or, and you want an ob GYN there and you want the right drugs and you want to be Dilated, and you want to be, you want to have the pain medication. But when we talk about a state of optimal health and we look at the crisis of chronic disease, you know, heart disease, autoimmune disease, cancers, you know, type 2 diabetes, morbid obesity, we start to realize that, especially in the United States, spending does not equate to outcomes. We spend $4 trillion, you know, multiples more than any other country in the world spends on healthcare. We're ranked 32nd in the world in the delivery of health care. We're ranked 59th in life expectancy. And so what we're, we're doing is we're being, you know, when we barely move the margin on cancer and autoimmune disease, we barely move the margin on cardiovascular disease. And, you know, when you start to realize that it's these modifiable risk factors that could entirely change the trajectory of people's lives. You know, every time I get on a podcast or stage talk or I have an interview, I always say the same thing. If I could boil my entire career down to a single sentence, it would be that the presence of oxygen is the absence of disease. You know, we didn't find a single disease etiological pathway, not one that wasn't having its roots in a lack of blood oxygen or wasn't exacerbated by blood oxygen. In fact, you know, anemia, hypoxia, we call it. In fact, every single human being leaves this earth the same way. We all die of the same thing. The definition of death is lack of oxygen to the brain, hypoxia. But we tended to think of it as an event. A gunshot wound, a bus, a stroke, a car accident. But the truth is, this is a predictable curve. Either we are managing oxygen well or we are managing oxygen poorly. The more poorly we manage oxygen, the faster we are accelerating, not only towards the grave, but towards all cause mortality. One of the reasons why sedentary lifestyle is the leading cause of, of all cause mortality, meaning sitting is the new smoking, is because it reduces the oxidative state. We know that aging, we know that disease is a progressive mitochondrial disease. It's a, it's a dysfunction in the powerhouse of the cell called the mitochondria. And the more that we can feed this mitochondria and properly power it, its favorite fuel source is oxygen. The longer we're going to live, the healthier we're going to live, the more cognizant we're going to be, the less disease prone we're going to be. And you know, the second real fascinating sort of Perry Mason, ta da moment for me was that the majority of the reason why people are not living healthier, happier, longer lives are simple nutrient deficiencies. We are nutrient deficiency and deficient. And when you have a deficiency in the human body, you get the expression of this disease. You know, I remember when I was of disease and pathology, and I remember when I was in grad school and I was getting my second biology degree, my second one in human biology, and I had to take all these plant botany courses, which I hated, but you have to take them. And I'm like, you know, I'm getting a human biology degree here. What am I doing studying, you know, azaleas and rhododendrons, but you have to take them. But, you know, what was fascinating to me was that it doesn't matter what goes wrong in the leaf or the trunk or the branches of a tree. If you had a palm tree and the leaves were rotting, and you. And you called or they were diseased, and you called a true arborist, a true botanist out to your house, they wouldn't touch the leaves of that tree. What they would do is they would core test the soil. And when they got those results, they would say, hey, there's no nitrogen in this soil. And they put nitrogen in the soil and the leaf would heal. But we've stopped thinking about human beings this way. You know, as soon as something goes wrong, you know, we would want to spray poison on it or cut the leaf or trim it or skin the bark or take off the branches. But the truth is, when you deprive the human body of certain raw materials, you get the expression of disease. So, for example, one of the most common misdiagnoses that we saw was it was prolific, was that, you know, people that had a. A prolonged deficiency in vitamin D3, the most important nutrient in the human body, right? The only vitamin that human beings make on our own, we actually only make a single vitamin, right? If I was to pull your blood work right now, you'd see that you have hundreds of vitamins in your bloodstream. You're only capable of making one, and it's vitamin D3. We make it from sunlight and cholesterol. So when you're deficient in this nutrient, right, this vitamin, it also works like a hormone. All of a sudden, after years and years and years, you will begin to present to your doctor with rheumatoid arthritis, like symptoms. Now, you don't have rheumatoid arthritis, but your history is identical. You know, the soles of your feet and ankles are sore and achy. When you get out of bed in the morning, get sick more often. You wake up sore, naked, like you had a workout the night before. When you haven't, eventually it moves up to stiff shoulders and hips and your, your, your neck begins to ache and eventually it's kind of hard to make a really tight fist. You give that scenario to the wrong physician, they're going to say, you know what, you've got rheumatoid arthritis. I'm going to hit you with some high dose prednisone. I'm going to put you on something called a corticosteroid. It's going to take all the pain away. Well, corticosteroid is a, is an anti inflammatory which initially knocks down the inflammation, but eventually it eats the joint like a termite. And so what happens is six years and one day after you start these, you're having a joint replacement. It was so consistent and so reliable that if you were a 60 year old female and I saw you were misdiagnosed with rheumatoid because you had a vitamin D3 deficiency, I would artificially advance your age six years in one day. I would schedule the joint replacement for you. I would then, after the joint replacement, start to reduce what's called your ambulatory profile, how well you moved, how well you ambulated. As I reduced your ambulatory profile, I could bring in all of the diseases that exacerbate with reduced mobility. So now you were diagnosed with a condition you didn't have, put on a medication that wasn't needed, which led to a surgery that wasn't required, which took diseases from your future and brought them forward. And you actually succumbed to a disease you never should have had because you had a surgery that you didn't need because of a medication that wasn't required because of a condition that you never had. And I could give you dozens and dozens and dozens of examples of this. And it's not that physicians are sinister or big pharma's out to kill us, it's that, you know, in, in, in these voluminous healthcare world, we just, we don't have the time to take an in depth look at, at, at patients. You know, we had, the average physician has seven minutes to spend with the patient and so we quickly do the best of our diagnoses and then we put people onto this track of disease and we used to call them anchor diagnoses because once you're diagnosed with hypertension, or hypothyroid or autoimmune or Crohn's disease or. Or rheumatoid arthritis. You are forever that patient. Five years from now, you go to see another doctor, he looks at your records and says, oh, you're hypertensive. Oh, oh, you have rheumatoid arthritis. Oh, you have type 2 diabetes. You have, you know, thyroid disease, you have Crohn's disease, you have autoimmune condition. And they will never go back and check that diagnosis to see if it was properly validated. And so now these people get into a hamster wheel and they just continue along with chemicals and synthetics and pharmaceuticals that are just, you know, eroding the life out of them in many cases. Wow.

I mean, I feel like. I feel like there's about, I don't know, a dozen things that came up in that that I want to really unpack with you. I mean, I'm even caught at that first line where you're talking about the presence of oxygen is the absence of disease, if I got that right. And I feel like, you know, words like oxygen, vitamins, I mean, this is stuff that six year olds know. But somehow about the big storyline of oxygen we're missing. Why? Why do you think we don't know the power of oxygen even though it's so familiar to us?

Well, you know, in my opinion, we've lost a lot of faith in mankind and humanity and the body's ability to heal itself. Right? The ability of this to heal this. Right? Mindset, frequency, nutrients. Our soil is so nutrient depleted. You know, our. We. We are chemically slowly poisoning ourselves. You know, there's fluoride in our water, there's chlorines in our water, there's microplastics, there's. You know, we use glyphosate to spray crops and glyphosate. And then glyphosate started to kill our seeds and started to kill our crops. So then we genetically modified the seeds so we could be resistant into glyphosate. And so a lot of times, you know, instead of just fear mongering, I just say we have to get back to the basics, right? Aging is the aggressive pursuit of comfort. And we, too, aggressively pursue comfort nowadays. We have to stop telling grandma not to go outside. It's too hot, not to go outside, it's too cold. Just to lay down, just to relax to, to eat at the very first pang of hunger. This is just collapsing our natural defense mechanism, right? We have to understand that not all Stress in the body is bad. In fact, a lot of stress is very good. There's a process in the body called hormesis, where if you actually stress it, it strengthens in a positive way. You know, remember, if you don't tear a muscle, it won't grow. If you don't load a bone, it will not strengthen. If you don't challenge the immune system, it will weaken. You know, you're seeing the results of this coming out of a global pandemic. I'm probably going to lose half your audience now by saying this next, but I'm going to say it because it's by position. You know, one of the worst things that we ever did was residential quarantining, masking and social distancing. Because what this did was it took human beings out of contact with other human beings. And you seeing the weakening of the immune system, a global collapse of the immune system. And now you hear all kinds of things. Monkeypox, eighth iteration of Omicron. We're on our sixth or seventh booster now. Why does the immune system need that much support? It's because we weakened it. Right. So aging truly is the aggressive pursuit of comfort. And I believe that people need to get data on their bodies and then put a plan together for their body like they do their business. You know, it's interesting how many entrepreneurs I talk to, and sometimes when I'm on a stage talk, I'll invite a really successful entrepreneur up on stage and I'll sit down with them and I'll say, hey, how much money did your business make last month? Oh, $662,000. Wow. What was your net income? 148,400. How many employees do you have? 17. What's the revenue per employee? 71,200. What's your hemoglobin A1C. What are your testosterone. Where's your testosterone level? Do you know what your insulin is? No idea. Right. So we know more about our business than we know about our own biome, than we know about our own temple. And we think because we're young, we don't need data on our temple. That is not true. We should start to get data and gamify life. We should start to look and see, wow, I'm deficient in vitamin D3. There are genetic tests that you can do, cheek swabs that you can do. You can look at the five actionable genes, five of the actionable genes in the human body, and you can see how is. What are the things that my body can process and what are the things that it cannot? In other words, there's not a single compound known to mankind, not one that we put into the human body that is used in the format that we put it in. Without a single exception, everything that enters the human body has to go through this conversion process to be converted into the usable form. So for example, we put folic acid into the human body. Folic acid is a useless man made chemical we make in a laboratory. We've been lied to and told that it it's a natural vitamin. Folic acid does not occur anywhere naturally in nature. You cannot find folic acid it anywhere on the surface of the earth. But when we put it into the body, the body takes it and converts it into methylfolate. Now, all human beings can use methylfolate. 44% of human beings have a gene mutation called MTHFR that doesn't allow them to convert folic acid into methylfolate. So now what happens when they can't make this conversion? They have a deficiency. And is this deficiency that leads to the expression of the most common ailments we suffer from as mankind? So what happens when you pull methylfolate or the complex of B vitamins or specific forms of B12 like methylcobalamin, simple nutrients? What happens when you deplete these from a human being? Well, the first thing that happens is they have an inability to methylate certain neurotransmitters. So understand that in the United States we define depression, for example, as an inadequate supply of serotonin. So according to this definition, I don't happen to agree with it. But if, according to this definition, if you're low on serotonin, you're by definition depressed. So you would think that the fix would be to raise serotonin. But that's not what we do. We take people that are low on serotonin and we put them on SSRIs, select serotonin reuptake inhibitors, which rations what little serotonin they have. So by definition it never raises serotonin. So by definition it never ends depression. I talked to a client yesterday. I said, how many years have you been on antidepressants? And she said 21 years. And my first question was, well, when did you think it was going to kick in? And if so, if we understand that serotonin is actually made in our gut, 90% of the serotonin in your body is here. If you don't have it here, you can't have it here. So now the question becomes, what do I need to make Serotonin. Well, you need an amino acid called tryptophan, and we methylated into the neurotransmitter serotonin. You need a complex of B vitamins, you need methylfolate, you need B12, you need zinc, you need magnesium. If you're deficient in these raw materials, you are now deficient in the main neurotransmitter responsible for mood, for emotion. You know, we don't have a mental illness crisis. We have a lack of mental fitness crisis. Right? And I could give you disease after disease after disease. You know, people are diagnosed with all kinds of familial or genetically inherited conditions that do not have a gene that corresponds to that condition. So hypertension runs in families. You're not passing hypertension from offspring to offspring. You're passing the inability for the body to refine a raw material, causing a deficiency in that family that is leading to that disease. And so very often, if we want to lower our blood pressure, for example, we can look at how well we metabolize something called homocysteine. So if you're deficient in these methylfolates and these B vitamins and these B12s and the zincs and the magnesiums, you're not able to lower these inflammatory compounds. And what happens? They rise. When they rise in the bloodstream, they irritate the arteries. What happens when you irritate an artery? It clamps down. So if you make the pipes smaller in a fixed system, the pressure goes up. And yet we examine the heart. There's nothing wrong with the heart, but the pressure is still high. And even though we can't find anything wrong, wrong with the cardiovascular system, we still medicate the heart. We hold it responsible for crime it's not committing. Only 15% of hypertensive diagnosis have a reason. 85% of them are unknown origin. And yet we don't look to nutrient deficiencies to say, hey, what could be missing from this person's biome that could be causing it to behave that way? Very much back to the. The nitrogen analogy. You know, if you didn't find the nitrogen deficiency, the rot in that leaf never would have healed. You could have put sulfur, and you could have put, you know, manganese, and you could have put, you know, salt, peat moss, and watered it and everything else. If it didn't have that nutrient, you're gonna get the expression of disease. And so, so many human beings are dealing with things that they are chalking up to a consequence of aging. And they are one or two or three simple nutrients. Away from being optimal. They have no idea how good. Good it feels to feel normal. Right. Clients say it to me all the time, like, oh, my God, Gary, I've been working with you. I feel amazing. I'm like, look, you. You know, not to burst your bubble, but you don't actually feel amazing. You feel normal. I mean, this is. That's what normal is supposed to feel like. You were just nutrient deficient. So you thought that weight gain and water retention and brain fog and poor sleep and for focus and concentration and. And, you know, very poor response to exercise was normal because you were stressed or your kids or your spouse or your age or any number of other nonsense, you know, reasons, but you were just nutrient deficient. Sorry. I feel like I've really.

No, no. I mean, I'm. I'm, like, mentally taking notes and. And you can probably see me writing as we go. You know, we had an interview a little while ago on the show with a doctor. She's 103 years old. Remarkable. Her name is Dr. Gladys McGarry, and she was the. They considered the mother of holistic medicine to the point where, when she was getting into it, I mean, they had to decide how they were going to spell the word holistic didn't even exist then. And she. Yeah, it was amazing. Amazing. And she's still practicing to this day, and so sharp. But she was describing how there's a healer within and there's a healer outside of our body and talked about that awareness that is so important with our. In our own bodies. And it sounds like when you're talking about, you know, getting back to simple things, I mean, these are words that we all know, but maybe we just haven't thought about them or we haven't dialed in, or we know the numbers of our business, but not of our bodies. It sounds like there's a real starting place that just kind of goes back to foundational ideas, but with a bit more of an awareness of maybe where those foundational ideas are getting blocked in the body or getting caught in the body.

I mean, there's two tests that I think every human should do. No, number one, men or women. You should get a blood panel done. Comprehensive metabolic panel, what's called a cbc, complete blood count, a lipid profile, a hormone panel, and then some basic nutrient deficiencies, vitamin D3, B12, DHEA, and. And take a look. In fact, I'll post on my Instagram the. The blood panel that we pull. I'm. We're in the States here in Canada, so, you know, I Couldn't see any of your listeners but and, and show you what we pull in men and women. And this gives you a good casting net, like a good idea. Where are my sugars? Where's my insulin? Insulin? Where's my triglycerides? How's my cholesterol? How are my hormones? And you get this data and the majority of people that have low hormones or elevated cholesterol or or other markers in their blood don't need hormone therapy or medication or synthetics or pharmaceuticals. They need nutrients in order to fix this. For example, if you deplete the D3 and the DHEA from someone's body you want will deplete the level of testosterone. It will look like they are hormone deficient but they don't need hormones, they need the two raw materials, D3 cholecalciferol with vitamin K2 and they need DHEA. You put these two raw materials back into the body, it starts to function like the well oiled machine that it was designed. And you see people with high homocysteine, they take another amino acid called TMG trimethylglycine and it brings their homocysteine down and all of a sudden, sudden their blood pressure goes to normal. Well you actually never had a cardiac issue. Your EKG was normal, your EEG was normal, your heart and lung sounds were normal, all your advanced studies were normal. You had high blood pressure but you didn't have the hypertension diagnosis. You just had high blood pressure because your vascular system was contracted. And so, and, and these are generally harmless ways to neutrify the body and then get out of its way and watch it do, do the most magnificent job you can imagine. And the second one is a genetic test. There are five genes that I think we should look at in the human body and you can do this as early as your kids can chew and swallow. And your listeners may want to write these down because I'm sure there's places in Canada where you can get these kinds of tests done.

I'm going to write these down too.

Yeah, that is the MTHFR gene, the mtr, mtr, AHCY and C O M T Compt. Look at these gene breaks and you can supplement for their deficiency. I'm not saying they're not other genes you can look at. I'm also not saying this is the entire genetic code or everything you need to look at to see if you have a Parkinson's or, or a BRCA gene for predisposition breast cancer. You could do it lost in the human genome. But this is your starting point, these five, because these are the major genes of methylation. These are the major genes that are converting raw materials in the human body into the form that you need. And then you can begin to supplement for deficiency instead of for the sake of supplementing. You want to see magic happen in a human being? Supplement their body for the deficiency that they have and not just the sake of supplements. You know, when I go to most people's supplement cabinets and I open it, I'm like, oh, there's St. John's wort and salt palmetto and CoQ10 and vitamin C and a multivitamin. Like, whoa. Like, there's a ton of stuff in there. And most of the time they don't know why they're taking it or what it's really designed to do. They read an article or they saw something on Instagram. But the truth is, before you go down the road of whether or not a supplement is good quality or not, or it's manufactured in the right facility or it's of the right certain potency, you should ask your body. You should ask the question, does my body need this? That should be the first question, right? Not, is it a good quality vitamin or nutrient, but does my body need it? Because if you don't take what the body's deficient in, all the supplementation in the world will do you no good as soon as you hit the deficiencies. This is when magic happens in the human body. This is when hormone balance returns. You know, and if you think about it, I'm low in vitamin D3 and I'm low in DHEA. So now I'm low into basic nutrients, which has actually drug my testosterone down. And the primary role of testosterone in men and women, believe it or not, is not male characteristics. It's not deep voice, facial hair, aggression, muscles. It's none of those things. The primary role of testosterone, one of its primary roles is to put pressure on the bone marrow to make new red blood cells. So this is called erythropoiesis. So now I'm deficient in DHEA and D3. It's drug my testosterone down. My testosterone falling is taking the pressure off the bone marrow. The bone marrow's dropped its production of red blood cells and hemoglobin. Why is that important? Because a red blood cell carries oxygen inside of a fluid called hemoglobin. And so it's inside this fluid that oxygen is bound. If I lower the number of red blood cells or I lower the amount of hemoglobin, I am dropping the oxidative state in the blood. So what profile do these people have? They're exhausted, they're tired, they have brain fog, their short term recall is starting to go. And this can happen to you in your 30s or even your late 20s, by the way. This is not reserved for old people. And so when our, our hormones drop because of nutrient deficiencies, our bone marrows production of red blood cells and hemoglobin drops, now we have a low oxidative state. Well, guess what else? Cause guess what else. Oxygen is necessary for every elevated emotional state. If you look at passion, elation, joy, arousal, libido, all the sort of, hell, yeah, I won the lottery. Emotions, the really elevated emotional states, they all require oxygen as a part of their molecular structure. So when you're in a low oxidative state, you've now missed out on the upper tier of emotion. So mood starts to flatten. Well now all of a sudden you let this go on for a few years and now you have a mood, mood disorder. Now you have add, or I'm being saying you're being diagnosed with these, you don't have any of these conditions. You have add, you have adhd, you have ocd, you have manic depression, you have bipolar, you have a mood disorder, you have depression, you, you get into the state we call mood numbness, where the peaks and valleys of mood disappear. What if it was as simple and it may be, I'm not saying in every case as going back into your body, getting the data and saying, well, what if I raised my D3 and my DHEA, my testosterone recovered and it put pressure on my bone marrow to produce more red blood cells and fill them full of hemoglobin and I bound more oxygen and I got more energy, my short term recall started to improve and my deep sleep came back. Because everything that a human being experiences about energy, everything that you call energy, is nothing more than oxygen in your blood. If you told me Gary had a lot of energy today, physiologically, what you're saying is I had a lot of oxygen in my blood today. So if oxygen equals energy, which it does, then if I want to raise your energy level, I have to improve the oxidative state of the blood. One of the reasons why no human being has ever woken up laughing is because you don't have the oxidative state in deep sleep to come out and experience laughter. Can you, you know, can you wake up angry? Yes. You know, in fact, you want to do a fun little experiments tonight, Just pinch your spouse while they're in a deep sleep, they will instantly wake up angry, right? Because anger, jealousy, despair, resentment, these motions do not require oxygen. You can be in a deep sleep and instantly wake up angry. So because it's so, these are readily available emotions. So if we can just improve the nutrient deficiencies in the human population and get hormones to improve, improve and get oxygen up in these bodies, we can literally improve the mood of humanity. I know that sounds a bit far fetched, but I mean, that's really kind of my mission in life is to just get the message out there to people that listen, you are not as sick or as pathological or as diseased or as dysfunctional as you think you are. You may be a few nutrients away from being the most optimal person that you ever imagined.

The I think that line around, you know, how much energy do I have today? And that's directly related to your oxygen. I think that's just so, I mean, people can grab a hold of that. It makes so much sense in terms of.

Yeah, I mean, that's what we call a runner's high. You know, that's why people love cold plunges. That's why people love when. What's happening in a cold plunge, right? You had a peripheral vasoconstriction. Where's all that blood go? To the core, into the brain, liver, lungs, pancreas, kidneys, and up to the brain. So what's actually happening? You're getting an artificial concentration of oxygen up to the brain. What's the brain do? Releases endorphins, pleasure hormones, dopamine, which lasts six to eight hours. You know, cocaine lasts nine minutes, right? So. So. And cocaine's very expensive and will end up killing you, right? And Nicole, plunge is, you know, in a cold shower, is free and will change the trajectory of your life. But people don't want to do it because aging, aging is the aggressive pursuit of comfort. You know, I tell people there are four things that you could do for free that would entirely change the trajectory of your life. And you could start doing these tomorrow because, you know, we were meant to spend 85% of our time outside as human beings. That's how we were engineered and ancestrally. And we now spend more than 95% of our time indoors. We regulate everything, our lighting, our temperature, our humidity, every everything. And so if, if you started tomorrow doing four simple things, a few days a week, taking your shoes off and contacting the surface of the earth. Earthing and grounding is a very real.

Thing, like walking on the, on the surface of the earth is what you're saying?

Yes, but I'm talking about dirt, grass, sand, right? Not. Not pavement or, you know, concrete pavers. Not walking outside on your. On the balcony of your condo. I'm on the 30th floor of a condo right here. If you don't have a PEMF mat or want to invest in a PEMF mat for, which is about five grand for free, you can take your shoes off, you can contact the surface of the earth. Earthing and grounding is a very real thing. Human beings build up a charge. When we build up this charge, we discharge into the earth. You want to change the polarity in the body, right? We talk about ph, potential hydrogen being acidic or basic. If you want to shift the PH of the body, you don't drink alkaline water. That's the biggest marketing myth ever sold to the public. You contact the surface of the earth, you run a low gauss current through the surface of the earth. The surf of the earth is magnetic. It has a low gauss current. And if you. You can go to my Instagram at Gary Breca. I actually posted a video where I held the polar end of a. A meter and I plugged the other end into the. Into the ground. And I stood on my tennis shoes and the meter was resting on the post. And as soon as I stepped off my tennis shoes and touched the surface of the earth and completed that circuit, it pegged all the way over to the right. So earthing and grounding can change the polarity in our cells. It'll actually re. It will actually recharge the surface of our cells so they repel one another and are not oppositely charged and attracting to one another and sticking together. If you look at what red blood cells under a microscope, when they get opposite charges, they attract everywhere they touch. You lose surface area. Now, that cell cannot exchange with the outside environment. It can't eliminate waste, repair, detoxify, or regenerate. So touch the surface of the earth. That's the first thing we get from Mother Nature is magnetism. The second thing we get from Mother Nature is oxygen. Right? We get oxygen from the air, and so it's about 21% O2 at sea level. So get outside in the morning and do three rounds of 30 deep breaths with a breath hold in between. Just get the oxygen in. Don't worry about whether it comes in through your nose or your mouth. The style of breath work that I personally use is one called Wim Hof. He deserves all the credit. You can his videos are free online all over the place. There's Wim HOF coaches all over the planet. You can go to my Instagram and I do breathwork tutorial videos. Touch the surface of the earth, do eight minutes of breath work, expose your skin to sunlight during the first 45 minutes of the day. Why is that important? Because first light is the most beautiful beneficial light of the day. It has healthy blue rays of light. You will generate vitamin D3. You can actually take your shirt off and expose it to sunlight. There are no harmful UVA or UVB rays in the first 45 minutes of the day. And then when you're done and you're ready to shower, when you're done showering, take a cold shower for 60 minutes or 60 seconds to three minutes. Now there is a lot of fancy. I actually sell a protocol called the superhuman protocol. It's $150,000. It is a PEMF mat, a hypermax oxygen system and a red light therapy bed for. You can spend $150,000 on that. Or you could get every single one of those things for free by doing just what I said said to do. Touch the surface of the earth, expose your skin to sunlight, learn to do a round of breath work and take a cold shower. I mean, it is amazing what this does for human beings, this hormetic stress. Filling the body with oxygen, changing our mood, elevating our emotional state, resetting our cortisol and our melatonin receptors with first light in the morning. There's enormous amounts of evidence on this, you know, using what God gave us in the natural, natural circadian cycle of the earth and the sun in order to put us back into a healthy biorhythm and recharge us. We are photovoltaic beings. Sometimes we're indoors, so often we go six days a week without even getting any sunlight on our skin. The truth is most of us are not getting enough sun. Not that we're getting too much. And so the simple things that we can do like that getting tap water out of your life for good, you know, I'm not, not drinking chlorinated or fluoridated fluoride laden water. You know, I don't know whose idea was to take fluorosilicic acid, the byproduct, the waste product from phosphate fertilizer production, and put it into our drinking water under the guise that it's good for our teeth. That is the most absurd thing I've ever seen. If, in fact, if you look at the back of a toothpaste label. It even says that if you swallow this toothpaste to contact poison control immediately. Why don't I contact poison control every time I have a glass of tap water? You know, so I should get tap water out of my life. So simple changes that you, you can make, you know, non GMO foods, getting tap water out of your life, avoiding seed oils, breath work, grounding, sunlight exposure, cold showers. None of these things will add a single dollar to your budget and could entirely change the trajectory of your life.

I mean, you're talking about some of the words that would be. People respond to this immediately. Mood, depression, adhd, tiredness. Like, yeah, and it feels like you're seeing, or at least I'm curious, what are the, what's the potential in that? Like, are we seeing. People kind of feel like, you know, I've got a bit more energy or are you actually seeing like significant changes based on work that feels intentional but, but quite accessible for everyone?

Matt. Massive, massive shifts. I have a. It's currently an anecdotal study, but about 17,000 patients that have come through our clinic system. We're sanitizing this data, we're going to feed it through AI and we're hoping to publish it in a very large peer reviewed journal backed by a very, very, very well known Ivy League university. Once this is published, it will actually put a lot of what I'm saying into the light and allow it to go under scrutiny so that, you know, the medical community and the scientific community can evaluate this data for the first time. But you know, essentially these nutrient deficiencies that are leading to the expression of disease. You just said ADD or adhd. I mean, if you think about how many people are either listening to this that are suffering from ADD or ADHD or know somebody who's suffering from that, it's. I bet it's more than 70% of your audience either suffering or know somebody who's suffering. So if we actually talk about what that is, right? What is ADD or adhd? Well, first of all, Attention deficit disorder is not an attention deficit at all. It is an attention overload disorder. It is too many windows open at the same time. You see, people with ADD and ADHD do not lack the ability to pay attention. They lack the ability to pay attention to so many things. So what happens is there is a category of neurotransmitters in the blood that in our brain called catecholamines. Catecholamines are fight or flight neurotransmitters. And understand that in the human Brain, we don't just create thought. We also dismantle thought. We break thought down. If not, we would always be in the same mood. Right? So, like, if you're in an average mood and I walk up and I put a little puppy in your lap, that's a stimulus, you get all lovey dovey, coochie, coochie, scratchy, scratchy, you know, and this is a beautiful, cute little puppy. And I feel this motion of, like, lovey dovey. And then you take the puppy away, my mood goes back to normal. Well, how does that happen? Well, the neurotransmitter cascade that created that mood, when the stimulus is removed, is degraded, so your mood returns to normal. So in. In people with attention deficit disorder, they are actually creating thought at a faster rate than they're breaking thought down. So now the mind gets clouded. Right? So instead of putting raw materials, nutrients, el, methionine, magnesium, zinc, B complex, methylcobalamin, folate, methylfolate, into the body so that they can actually degrade these neurotransmitters and return that thought and expire that thought from their consciousness. What modern medicine says, well, if the. The mind is racing, let's put an amphetamine into the body to race the central nervous system to match the pace of the mind. This is what Adderall and Vyvans and Ritalin are. They're amphetamines. So essentially, what's happening is we're racing the central nervous system to keep up with the mind instead of just breaking thought down naturally and quieting the mind. You see, the reason why somebody with ADD or ADHD can be thinking about a job they're working on and then having their friend walk up. And so thinking about a job, then they start talking to their friend. And while they're talking to their friend, they. They look at a logo on their jacket, which reminds them of a vacation they want to take. So now they're thinking about a job, talking to their friend, looking at a logo, thinking about vacation they want to take. All at the same time. Right? And then when the friend tries to engage them in conversation, they're not paying attention. So we call it an attention deficit disorder. But the truth is, they were paying attention to too many things. So as soon as you start to quiet the mind, this condition eviscerates. In many cases, it eviscerates. And so things like folic acid. 44% of the population has this MTHFR gene mutation, which means they can't process folic acid. Well, what do we feed Kids in the morning, Pop tarts, white bagels, cereal, breads. So now we pump these kids full folic acid. Their mind starts to race. It's a full contact sport to get them in the car to go to school in the morning. Then as soon as they get to school, the call comes home. Little Johnny can't pay attention. He's disruptive. He doesn't follow directions, doesn't finish this assignment. We need to bring in the Ritalin, you know, the Ritalin, to solve this. The truth is we don't need to bring in the Ritalin. We need to get out the folic acid and maybe supplement this child with methylfolate, which you can do for young children. It's very safe. And watch their behavior change in seven days. It's amazing how many moms and dads are like, oh my God, I got a whole new kid in the house. After I got folic acid out and started taking methylated gummies. It's like an entirely new child. And this is true for anxiety, this is true for depression. This is true for all kinds of mental conditions. Ocd. You know, people that have obsessive compulsive disorder have an obsessive compulsive reason to control their outside environment. Because when you lack organization in your, your inside environment, you crave organization in your outside environment. And we call this obsessive compulsive disorder. It's not an obsessive compulsion at all. It's a disorganization internally that can be fixed with nutrients. Same with anxiety. You know, when, when somebody has anxiety and you ask them three questions, you can prove very quickly. I mean this, 64% of Americans anyway report either consistently suffering from, or at some point during their life, suffering from anxiety. You'll never convince me that 64 of people have anxiety, but I know that they're experiencing this. It's because we don't really understand the genesis of what it is. Like, what is it besides it being a fear of something happening in the future? What it is is it's a rise in this neurotransmitter category called catecholamines. And once we understand that, as sophisticated as our brain is, it truly does not know the difference between perception and reality. Right? I always use the example you could drive home tonight and you could get out of your car and somebody is, let's say, standing in front of you with a knife. Well, that's a very real fear. So you would start having a fight or flight response. Catecholamines would flood your brain. Your pupils were with blood, you would start having this fight or flight response. But I'm on the 30th floor of a condo building. You could be laying in my bed tonight and you could start thinking about getting eaten by a shark. I promise you, the chances of a shark getting out of that ocean and coming up that elevator are zero. But you could have the exact same reaction. How is it that you have the same reaction to the presence of a real fear as something entirely imagined? Because at the core, they're the exact same thing. They are catecholamines rising in the brain. So let's say that you have a gene mutation, C O M T COMPTI and you cannot break down these catecholamines so slowly they rise, right? And so now all of a sudden you begin to feel fear without the presence of a fear. We call this generalized anxiety, which is generalized nonsense. We, we, we say that these, you know, true anxiety is I have, I'm a fear of heights. I walk to the edge of a 30th floor balcony, I freak out, I'm afraid of, you know, claustrophobic, I step on a crowded elevator. You know, I, I, I have anxiety. But not just sitting here like us, you and I on a podcast right now and starting to be overwhelmed with anxiety. Not driving home from work on an otherwise innocuous day and being overwhelmed by anxiety. This is coming from within you, not from a cluster of symptoms outside. And this is why most people that have anxiety have had it on and off throughout their entire lifetime. That's your first sign. It's a genetic mutation. They cannot point to the specific trigger that causes it. That's your second sign that it's not really anxiety. And if they've ever tried anti anxiety medications, they don't work. They just make them feel like a zombie. There's your confirmation that it's not truly anxiety, it's coming from your physiology. So I want these people to be filled with hope, not fear and despair, and think that they're trapped in this for the rest of their lifetime, get the nutrients into the body for it to do its job, and this is when the magic happens.

I think you just caught the attention of a lot of people with what you were just saying that there. You know, I've, I've also heard you talk about weight loss and stuff like the 30, 30, 30 rule. Can you let me know what you're learning on that front?

Well, 30, 30, 30 is, you know, is in my invention. That came from Tim Ferriss. He wrote a book called the Four Hour Body. He's an amazing author. He's amazing human. I don't know him personally, but I'm a huge fan of his work. He's kind of a silent mentor of mine. He also wrote League of Titans, which is amazing business book. And so in, in, in the Four Hour Body, you know, one of the things that he said was that, you know, one of the most astounding ways that we found to burn fat was getting 30 grams of protein within 30 minutes of waking, followed by 30 minutes of steady state cardio. I've actually tried this in thousands of clients and had astounding results. So, like, I'd love to take credit for the bracket. You know, it's wim off. I mean, I'd love to take credit for 30.