What You Didn't Know About CBD & THC, Fixing Lyme Disease, The Full Body Blood Change Reboot, Pepti

I have a master's degree in physiology, biomechanics and human nutrition. I've spent the past two decades competing in some of the most masochistic events on the planet. From seal fit, Kokoro, Spartan, Agoji, and the world's toughest mudder to 13 Ironman triathlons, brutal bow hunts, adventure races, spearfishing, plant foraging, free diving, bodybuilding and beyond. I combine this intense time in the trenches with a blend of ancestral wisdom and modern science. Search the globe for the world's top experts in performance, fat loss recovery, gut hormones, brain beauty and brawn to deliver you this podcast, everything you need to know to live an adventurous, joyful and fulfilling life. My name is Ben Greenfield. Enjoy the ride.

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Welcome. Today's show gonna be good. It is gonna be good. It's with my friend Dr. Matt Cook, who came up to my house in Spokane and we recorded a really great podcast. You're gonna absolutely love this one. If you listen to part one with Matt Cook, perhaps your mind was blown by his knowledge of regenerative medicine and his blend of ancestral wisdom and modern science. You're certainly going to absolutely dig this one, guaranteed. I don't know why I'm talking like a redneck. Anyways, it is officially the new year. This is a time when most of us are joining new gyms and trying out fad diets and making plans to finally get abs. And of course, joining some kind of a challenge can be a good way to jump into the new year. Do you see where I'm going here? Well, one challenge that I am challenging, to overuse that word, you too, is the fasting challenge. The fasting challenge. So I'm going to fast for five days. I'm going to fast from January 7th to January 11th, the fast that I am actually doing. Because you can choose from an intermittent fast, which is very simple, 12 to 16 hours of not eating each day, to a fasting mimicking diet called an fmd, where you get all the longevity benefits of a fast. Maybe not all the fat loss benefits of a fast, but all the longevity benefits of a fast by just reducing your daily calorie intake to 40% of what you normally eat. Then there's like an alternate day fasting where you fast and then you eat the next day and then you fast the next day, then you eat the next day. There is calorie fast, almost like an elemental diet type of fast anyways, though. So what I'm going to be doing is I'm actually going to be doing a liquid fast. But what I've done is I've put together this in depth, comprehensive guide to fasting where you get to pick your poison. You get to choose what kind of fast fast you're going to do depending on whether you're beginner, intermediate, advanced, depending on whether you want to pair this with like a kick ass workout that you've launched into for the new year. Anyways, you can, you can choose your own adventure, but it's all overseen by me and the team at Kion. And you're part of the entire community that is doing this fast along with you. And there's no recommendations or requirements for like special supplements or prepackaged meals or nasty drink mixes. You'll likely actually save money that you typically would spend on your groceries Anyways though, if you want to get in on this fast, it's totally free. You get my free guide called Fasting Decoded. That'll walk you through the whole thing. I'll be leading a leave a live Facebook Q and A during the entire challenge and you can get in on all the goodness@getkeon.com fast. Kion is my company that I'm doing this through Getkion. Kion is K I o n. So you go to get KION.com fast to join the challenge. This podcast is also brought to you by a really fantastic company. It's owned by my friend, Drew Canole. Seven years ago, he was like eating fast food every day and drinking coffee and energy drinks just to stay awake at work. And he got introduced to hippie food. He got introduced to green juice in this case, and the dude just went on a freaking quest. I mean, I knew him back in the day and his entire body has transformed. His eyes, his smile, his skin, everything. So he took a bunch of the juices that he was researching and he managed to put them together into a powder called green juice. It's got chlorella and mint and moringa and spirulina and matcha, beets, wheatgrass, turmeric, everything. But he managed to actually make it taste not like ass. And it actually tastes pretty good. Get a latte frother. You can blend it in with some water. You can throw it into a blender with your superfood smoothie. You could use it during that fast that I was just talking about. It counts very low calorie. Anyways, he's all my listeners, 20% off of all his fine fare at Organifi. So you go to Organifi.com that's Organifi with an I Organifi.com and when you go there, you just use 20% discount code greenfield and you're off to the races. All right, let's jump in with Matt.

So about, I guess it was probably even less than a month ago. I was down in San Jose. I was at the office of Dr. Matthew Cook, BioReset Medical down there. And we recorded based on the feedback, I, I think one of the more mind blowing podcast episodes of 2018 when it comes to cutting edge medicine, rehabilitating the body, recovery. And the thing that happened though, as we recorded that podcast episode at Dr. Cook's clinic in San Jose, is we didn't even touch on like half the stuff that we actually wanted to get into, from like plasmapheresis to hyperthermia to a huge amount on cannabinoids, thc, CBD and far beyond. We talked about ketamine, we talked about strange uses of nootropics like methylene blue. We began to touch on Lyme, but really didn't unpack it much. And his knowledge of Lyme and how to treat it properly and how to fix it is massive biohacking pain. If you didn't hear that initial podcast episode, it's not a required prereq for what you're about to hear, but you definitely want to listen to this as a two parter for sure. So what I'm going to do is I'll link to that initial episode if you go to BenGreenfieldFitness.com BioReset2 that's BioReset the number two. That's where the shownotes for everything that we discuss during this episode will be. And I tend to take copious show notes and there I got the word copious out of my system early in today's show when I'm interviewing Matt. So I'll put all.

The show notes over there@BenGreenfieldFitness.com BioReset2 but last.

A couple came knocking at my door trudging up through the snowy driveway and it was actually Dr. Matt Cook and his wonderful assistant Barb, who oversaw my mind blowing ketamine therapy that I did down there at Matt Cook's clinic and they are here at my house. We're sitting down in my office right now and we've been talking all morning about all the cool things we want to tell you about. So sit back and enjoy part two. Brought to you from my turf rather than Matt's turf, but Matt, wel for part two, baby.

Thank you so much. It's like a total Total pleasure being here. Yeah. Yeah.

Are you feeling. Feeling relaxed? Restored.

You have the coolest house I've ever been to in my life. And you had the. I had the best cup of coffee I've ever had. So it's like going pretty well.

It was a good cup of coffee, Matt's coffee. This morning he did my workout with me. We did it. We did three rounds of five minute high intensity intervals on the aerodyne with body weight exercises in between each. So after the workout, we went trudging outside through the snow in the outdoor cryotherapy to the hot tub. And we jumped in the hot tub, came back inside and made an amazing blend of mushrooms and coffee and a little bit of stevia, which I understand is from Matt, is one way that you can actually protect yourself against biofilm and the gut. All sorts of crazy things. But now we're podcasting, so I should quit droning on. We should jump in. If you don't know who Dr. Cook is, you can of course listen to the previous podcast episode for the Deep Dive. But he is the founder of Bioreset Medical Corporation based out of San Jose. They do extremely cutting edge regenerative medicine, pain medicine, orthopedic medicine. He's a trained anesthesiologist and at his clinic there does stem cell medicine, nerve hydrodissection, pain management, ultrasound imaging, and a lot of the things that we're going to talk about today, he. So it trains physicians. If you're a doctor listening in and you want to bring yourself to the next level, I would also recommend you probably towards the end of the podcast episode, we'll talk a little bit more about how Matt works with physicians too. So we have so many places we could start. But funny story, we were talking, we were actually at a 4M at the anti aging clinic at a 4M, and Barb and I were talking about beta blockers and how athletes. I was talking about archery and how you lower your heart rate before archery. Tell me about your experience with beta blockers for situations in this, you know, like this where you might be anticipatory or nervous about the big show.

Yeah, exactly. It was. I published a paper in otolaryngology, which is ENT surgery, when I was in medical school and I had to give a presentation to about 2,000 doctors and I'd never given a talk to more than 25 people at that time in my life. And so the attending I was working with said, take one of these and it'll just chill you out and make you feel Calm. And it was a beta blocker. And so I took it. And then I started to feel totally relaxed, but I was a little light headed. And I took my pulse and my heart rate was about 25. 25. And I could hear my heartbeat.

Every time it beat as I gave the presentation. But I totally got through it. But that was also the last time I ever took a beta blocker.

Wow. Yeah. I've heard about, like, in the bow hunting industry, people will take these, like, in between. Well, they'll take them prior to going out and doing like a 3D shoot. And what happens is you can literally, like, take a shot. Snipers will use them too. In between heartbeats. Like, your heart goes that slow that you can actually act in between a heartbeat. 25 is pretty low.

Yeah.

What a beat every two seconds.

And so then that's kind of like. That gives you, like, an indication of how to think about things, because there's a sweet spot for almost everything. And if you start to biohack yourself too high or too low, that's when people run into trouble. And then, interestingly, there was a lot of research looking at beta blockers to protect the heart before heart surgery or even big what are called stressful surgeries like carotid artery surgery or brain surgery. And so in my anesthesia career, I actually used beta blockers all the time. So it's kind of interesting.

All right, well, just in case any of you want to rush out there and try a beta blocker. This is not considered to be medical advice, but it's just interesting. The off label uses. There's another off label use, actually, I want to talk about later on if we get a chance to dive into it. We'll save that for later because we were actually talking about bigger things in health and longevity during the time when we first met at a dinner in San Jose, and we were talking about the next big things in the health industry like CBD or keto or. Or just like this whole obsession with longevity and anti aging and transhumanism. Just the whole industry. But one thing that you mentioned, I asked you what are some cool things that a lot of people don't know about that you think are kind of up and coming in the medical industry? And you talked about something called plasmapheresis. I don't know if I'm pronouncing that right. Plasmapheresis. Thank you. Been practicing. So what is plasma phoresis and why should people care about that?

So plasmapheresis is a procedure where blood is taken out of the body, and then the blood is separated into the plasma section, and then the section that has cells like white blood cells and red blood cells, and then the cell portion is given back, and the plasma portion is taken out. And then it can be replaced with albumin, which is basically synthetic protein. And there's a couple other things that it can be replaced with as well. But when that happens, it's kind of like getting an oil change in your car, because in the plasma section is where all the antibodies are. So people who are making. Let's say, people with autoimmune disease that are making too many antibodies, if you take the plasma section out, then you're cleaning and rinsing it. And then there are also sort of an inflammatory milieu in certain conditions. So we're doing a clinical trial where we're treating people in our office using plasmapheresis, and we're looking at things like neurocognitive and neurodegenerative conditions like Parkinson's and dementia, and then also having a pretty strong.

Focus on autoimmune disease, and then also looking at Lyme disease, which can run the whole gamut in terms of physiological effects.

So this is different than parabiosis, like taking the blood of a young human and transferring that into an old human, or like the studies they did at Stanford University on longevity. And then I interviewed the guy from the Young Blood Institute, and he's doing some kind of plasma procedure that sounds kind of similar to this, where you're actually. It's almost like recycling your blood, like being an oil.

Yeah. So I'm working with him.

Okay, so this is that procedure.

This is that procedure. Yeah. And so we're one of many sites where you can get this done in the United States. And he's. Mark is just an absolutely fantastic guy, and he's developed a clinical research tool that allows.

Physicians like me to start to do clinical research, where we design a trial, and then.

We basically submitted to an IRB committee where basically super serious scientists look and make sure everything looks good. And then once they give us the okay that it seems like a reasonable thing to do, then we gather data, and as long as the. And then we can publish then based on that. And so we're trying to sort of move to the forefront of looking at sort of a lot of these integrative techniques and modalities that have been around for a long time, but then to sort of rigorously look and see how we can treat people with specific conditions.

So what kind of people would actually come in and do Something like this.

So.

Most of the people who come in have fairly significant complex illness. And so that's like people like Lyme or something. Lyme or dementia or Parkinson's. And. And then there's a small cohort of people who are health optimizers who want to come in.

A lot of our listeners. What can I do to go.

Great, yeah.

What effect would it have on somebody who's already healthy, relatively healthy?

So that's what we're studying. But then.

Another way to think about that is.

Even if there's someone who's relatively healthy, then try to look under the hood, do a super complex physical exam, do.

Assessment of the.

Labs and inflammatory markers and movement exam, and then try to figure out if sometimes people that are relatively healthy, maybe we find something. And so then we can start to track and see if there's a change. If people do this, we're doing a very robust amount of biomarkers. Like, each person that we do has almost like $20,000 worth of biomarkers.

Holy cow.

That we're looking at before and after.

I thought my $1,000 blood test was expensive.

I know, I know. And so then this is like sort of the Rolls Royce of clinical trials. But then now we're going to actually begin to say, these biomarkers are relevant, these are not. If I have people with.

Neurocognitive problems, these biomarkers seem to be more important, whereas in autoimmune disease, those ones aren't that important. Or maybe they are. And so then this is what we're trying to find.

And so I'm super excited about it.

Very interesting. So that's called plasmapheresis.

That's called plasmapheresis.

How long does something like that take? Like, if somebody shows up and they go through all the biomarkers and health screens, once you actually do the protocol, the oil change, so to speak.

How long, doctor? It's just only about two or three hours.

Oh, wow. So it's just like give the blood, clean it out, put it back in, But.

Exactly. But then our protocol that we're studying is to do that once a week for six weeks. And so we're cleaning a percentage of the blood every week. And so then at the end of six weeks, the idea is that you've had a full oil change and you're ready to. Ready to go for your second.

Okay, so would you see things like decreased CRP and inflammatory. Let's say somebody is healthy already.

Or.

Would it be like something else?

So that would be a great example, like you might see a decrease in the crp. And so then what we're going to do is then treat people through a short window of time, but then continue to track and test people. And so then we're living in an inflammatory society. And so then we have to start to make, make better decisions and do stuff like you do here at your house so that that CRP doesn't creep up. But then we want to be able to see, well, how long is that clinical effect going to last?

Yeah. So in addition to running around outside naked to control inflammation in the snow, you could also go in and just get your blood changed out.

But I think it's more fun to run outside in the snow naked.

It is, it is. It sounds more fun than a clinical blood exchange, but that's fascinating. So plasmapheresis, the other thing actually, and I named it once already, this idea of CBD is one of the other kind of growing interests in the health sector. And I know that that's something that you have some experience in as far as looking into kind of going beyond some of these cannabinoids that a lot of people already know a lot about, like THC or cbd. So tell me a little bit about if you use those in your practice or what your thoughts are on cannabinoids in general.

So physiologically it's interesting because if you think about it, we have cannabinoid receptors in our brain. So there's an entire part of our nervous system that's called the endocannabinoid nervous system.

I think that over the next 10 years, we're going to see a huge surge in the use of these natural plant based compounds to begin to help both health optimizers and then sort of the constellation of people that we end up spending a lot of time with that have real significant problems, from chronic depression to chronic illness.

And when you look, there's compounds called terpenes, there's bioflavonoids, and then there's the actual compounds and it's the combination of those molecules and they call the combination of all of those different molecules the entourage effect, because it's a group effect.

And so I'm working with this company called Unicorn, and what they've done is they've been able to specifically isolate each one of the compounds. And so then they can put them back together in exact formulations. And so we're going to use the clinical trial platform that Mark has developed and start to then begin to take.

You mean Mark, this guy that runs the youngblood?

Yeah, Mark Erdahl.

Okay.

And then we're going to take and actually start to do clinical trials where we give specific formulations where. Because the problem with the entire cannabinoid industry is if you had a product and you took it last week and it was too much and then today it was not enough. And so it's very not. It's traditionally has not been very standardized.

Especially with like edibles and all of these capsules. God knows if you're getting 10 milligrams or 5 milligrams and sometimes I can wind up, you know, when you're at dinner at a restaurant with people and you took some edible and all of a sudden the world is spinning.

Exactly.

It's a bad sign.

And so then I'm sort of real excited to see what happens when you can dial in and exact. And just like everything that I did in my life.

In anesthesia, we're using medications that have a very specific window. If you give too much, you can have a big problem. If you don't give enough, you can also have a big problem.

You have a person getting their knee operated on and they can feel it.

Exactly. And so where we're coming into a space where the specificity is I think going to really change the game for a lot of people in terms of. And there's so many side effects to traditional sort of medication based approaches to psychiatry and psychology.

And I think once we dial in, for example, there's thc. You know, is the thing that we.

Think of as the more psychoactive component of marijuana.

Exactly. And that's the Delta 9 THC. There's something called Delta 8 THC that has almost all of the benefits that we want from thc, but it has a very mild euphoria. And so Unicorn has one of those too.

How would that be different than cbd? Because CBD is talked about for its anti anxiety and antidepressant and anti inflammatory benefits without the psychoactive component of THC. So how would this, the delta 8 THC be different than that?

So the issue is going to be in the Entourage effect. And so they're going to be different but similar. And though sometimes one plus one is going to be four. And so then this is what I think as somebody who's interested in this stuff, the next five or 10 years you're going to see more and more companies coming into this space. There's going to be more and more dialability. And then we're going to. The biohackers out there are going to be able to be testing this stuff and they're going to come back and they're going to really tell us what's happening.

Interesting. So you could take any given strain and you can isolate using something like this technology. This company, Unicorn, is doing specific parts of that strain like Delta 8 THC or Delta 9 THC or CBD or any other derivative, and then recombine them into some kind of medication or supplement or treatment that actually gives you the same synergistic effect as the whole plant component. But you can say, hey, we don't want this one to get you high, so we're going to just remove the thc9. But then you could test that to see if it's as efficacious.

That's perfect. You said that perfectly. And so then the interesting thing is.

You heard about the Rick Simpson oil is something that was sort of.

That's the one where you just need a tiny little grain of rice and it knocks you out for hours and hours and hours.

Exactly. And what he did use that on an airplane once, he created that because. And a lot of people anecdotally have said that it helped them with cancer. And so that was. So now you bring up the whole cancer conversation. And so then what my friends at Unicorn did is they figured out how to isolate everything that was in the rso, the Rick Simpson oil, but dial in specifically so you know what it is and you know exactly what you're getting. And you can dial so you're not going to get knocked out like that.

Right. So it's more precise than just like measuring a little grain of rice. Approximately.

Exactly.

Depending on your experience with rice on your fingertips.

Exactly.

Sitting back and waiting. What happens is funny because I've like, I. I have a little syringe of that that's like my emergency stash. Should I be again, like traveling internationally and just need to knock myself out on a plane or need to push the reboot button on my circadian rhythm after traveling. And, you know, but you're. You're super groggy the next day. You're completely out of commission. If your house catches on fire, like, you're not going to be. You'll be the person getting your ass dragged out of the house. I have friends who are very experienced with many drugs who I've given that to, and they just, Their heads are spinning. One guy in particular was trying to claw off his face at about midnight. So, yes, I see the benefit in being able to dial that back. The terpenes you mentioned when it comes to the terpenes. Can you do the same thing with those or the flavonoids or any of these other components?

Yeah, so you do exactly the same thing. And so then like, you talk about strain, so like, people talk about like Indica or Sativa as being kind of two of the main strains. And then they have a profile of the effect that they have. And that profile largely is because of the profile of what terpenes are in there. And so then, so then.

And there's like hundreds of terpenes.

Exactly, yeah.

Okay, so you can, with this company, Unicorn, where are they based out of?

Seattle.

Okay, so that company is now doing this. And will they be able to basically now, with this new farm bill that's passed, be able to like, grow, produce everything? And can people, once they're starting to produce these, be able to buy them without living in the state of Washington?

I don't have an answer for that, but eventually I think that's going to happen.

Yeah. I mean, I see it's only a matter of time. It's only federal legality kicks in. And honestly, the whole federal legality thing is kind of a joke right now because people are purchasing in any state they want and carrying any state they want. But for the actual manufacturers, I know people who produce stuff in Seattle and they just can't ship it anywhere. Well, they can't ship it period, but they can at least sell it in Washington state dispensaries. But yeah, I mean, this stuff is. It is very helpful medicine and I see a huge amount of value. So if people wanted to kind of of follow what's going on with. A lot of people listen to this podcast and they're either like investors or they're people who just want to keep their finger on the pulse of this stuff. Do they have a website or anything like that, this Unicorn company?

I think it's unicornbrands.com I'll look it.

Up and put it in the show notes for those of you who are interested in or kind of want to dig into that a little bit more. So just go to BenGreenfieldFitness.com BioResource2 BenGreenfulFitness.com BioResource the number two. Did you find it, Barb?

UnicornCannab.

Barb is our handy researcher in the background. What's it called? Unicorncannabis.net okay, we'll put that in the show notes for you guys who want to keep your finger on the pulse of that because it sounds pretty cutting edge, what they're doing. Hey, I want to interrupt today's podcast to tell you about something very woo woo, very spiritual, something I do every day. Every day, without fail. I wake up in the morning and I write down three things. What am I grateful for? What truth did I discover in my reading? Because I always read something devotional or spiritual or sometimes even one single Bible verse. Because every page of my journal that I write this in just has like one inspirational verse that me and actually my mom chose to put together this really special collection of inspirational and helpful verses. And then the final question I ask myself, rather than who am I? What can I accomplish? Me, me, me. I, I, I, I'm good, I'm great, I'm wonderful, and gosh darn are people like me. It is instead, who can I pray for or help or serve this day? So it's called the Christian Gratitude Journal. You don't have to be a Christian to use it. I am, and I think it's great to be a Christian. But you begin each day with this basic inspirational scripture practice of gratefulness, a call to help somebody each day. It's very others facing. It's changed my whole life as far as volunteering and empathy and just a deeper, meaningful, more connected way to start every day. And you can now get 20% off of this gratitude journal. Exactly what I do each morning that I created for anybody else to follow along. Beautiful little hardbound journal that arrives at your house, small enough to fit in a little briefcase or bag or whatever. The coupon code for you is grateful 2019. That's grateful 2019. You get a journal for you and someone special in your Life and start 2019 off right by building a daily habit of gratitude that gets you 20% off. You need to buy two or more journals, meaning for you and a family member, you and a spouse, you and your kid, my twin boys, they're 10. They do it every day. My wife does it every day. It's fantastic if I don't say so myself. Go to christiangratitude.com christiangratitude.com to get this. And again, the code is grateful2019. Also, here's a news flash from my friends at Clearlight Saunas next month. Due to rising manufacturing costs, they're actually increasing the price on their saunas. This is the same sauna I have in my basement, same one I use. I was just in there like a half hour ago getting my sweat on, detoxing, doing some yoga. Anyways, though, so if you want to get this sauna, if it's part of your new year's resolution and start doing more heat therapy. Then this is the time before the price increase. It feels like manufactured scarcity, but they actually are increasing their prices. So. So the deal is that their saunas have a lifetime warranty. They have full spectrum near infrared, mid infrared, far infrared, very low emf. And again, with the upcoming price increase next month, you can now simply go to their website. It's healwithheat.com healwithheat.com or you can check them out on Instagram @clearlight saunas. And all you need to do is mention when you get your sauna, the code Ben Greenfield. And they'll give you all the original pricing, they'll give you an extra discount, they'll give you a free gift, and they'll ship your sauna for free anywhere in the USA and Canada. Very simple. So you go to healwithheat.com you mentioned code BenGreenfield. You get the discount, free gift, free shipping, original pricing. That's the bee's knees, if you ask me. All right, check it out. Healwithheat.com code is BEN Greenfield.

Now, when it comes to another area that I really want to learn a little bit more about, like, I touched on, for example, you know, biofilm and stevia, biofilm, you could probably define that a little bit better than I could. And I feel like maybe you should for the purposes of some of the ways you treat the gut. But a lot of people have gut issues. A lot of people, and as a result, also have brain issues and sleep issues and just life issues based on what's going on in their gut. So when somebody comes to you with gut issues, I know that you have kind of a pretty, pretty comprehensive protocol that you dive into. So what's your approach with the gut?

The gut's like, the most important thing to. To me to fix because it's where most of your immune system is centered. And so regardless of whether you're a biohacker or somebody with the worst case of Lyme, if you don't fix the gut, you're not gonna be able to fix everything else. And if things are going on in terms of problems in the gut, then it often starts to influence the brain, and then things start to go downhill from there. And so in terms of treating the gut, I try to get a sense of what's going on. And so I talk to people and try to get a sense of their symptoms. And.

We do something. We do a lot of testing. So we'll test for parasites. We'll test the microbiome. We'll.

Do actually, like a take a stool sample, and I have a pathologist that will actually look at it with an microscope to look and actually see if there's any parasites or worms.

So this is different than a microbiome analysis. Like, you get it.

He'll actually look at it and he'll see if there's any protozoans, if there's any metazoans. We'll tell us exactly. Candida. And so then after sort of trying to take a full assessment, a lot of times we'll do something called a breath test where we look to see if somebody has sibo.

This will be kind of interesting because I tell a lot of people this.

The small intestine. So when you eat, food goes down your esophagus, goes to your stomach, and then it goes to the small intestine. Now, the small intestine is sterile. Nothing is in there. And then the digestive juices are put into there from the liver, and then the food starts to get digested and it goes all the way through the whole small intestine and then it goes into the large intestine. Once it gets into the large intestine, then there's trillions and trillions of bacteria there. So small intestine, nobody's there.

That confuses a lot of people who take a probiotic and like, they just visualize it going into their gut somewhere. But it has to go stomach through the small intestine, somehow make its way into the large intestine intact, having survived the ascendant nature that it came through to get there, and then populate the large intestine after it passes through. All that stuff you just described.

Exactly. So then imagine, let's say that somebody goes on vacation and then they pick up a parasite.

And so because of that parasite, and the parasites live in the small intestine, and so the parasite starts to live there and it starts to secrete. Have you ever seen, like, at the edge of a pond, it's almost like that kind of collagenous scum type of thing. So the parasites will start to secrete a little film there called a biofilm. Now, that could be caused by parasites or it could be caused by candida that are living there. They're not supposed to be living there. Or some bacteria from the colon could decide to take a little bit of a road trip and come all the way up and they start living in the small intestine.

It's kind of vague. They would describe to take a Road trip. Like is there an actual trigger for them to do so?

So a trigger could be inflammation. So if your GI system isn't working, then people are more likely to have that happen. Okay. And when I say take a road trip and so they come up. And now I have bacteria from the colon living in the gut that's called sibo, or small Intestinal Bacterial overgrowth.

Yeah, I've talked a little bit with actually a guy from your neck of the woods, Dr. Michael Ruscio, wrote a book called Healthy Gut, Healthy youy. And we talked a little bit about SIBO on the show.

Right. So now, so if you, if you imagine sort of there's a full constellation of small intestinal problems. And so then the idea is that first of all you have to figure out what's going on. And then depending on what you have to deal with, then creating sort of a coherent plan to fix that. There's a lot of stuff that you can do from the biohacking side in terms of going on an anti inflammatory diet.

And trying to heal the inflammation in the gut.

We have a product that has immunoglobulins that are from cows actually, and they bind onto toxins, they bind onto C. Diff, they bind onto bacterial cell walls. And so we give this powder and then we give colostrum, I was going.

To say I take colostrum and it does some of the same things. It has immunoglobulins in it.

Exactly. And so then we do a lot of that stuff to try to move all that stuff out. We use biofilm busters to try to break that biofilm down. And then it's interesting, like I had a woman who came to see me that had diarrhea for a 32nd, six years. And so I started her on biofilm busters, started treating her for about like a year. And I was making slow, steady progress, up, down, up, down. And then I found out about two weeks ago that she finally started to release the biofilms and she just said huge mucusy things were coming out. Every day she's been sending pictures to us.

Holy cow.

And so what's a biofilm bus? Well, there's different products that are herbal products and herbal basically concoctions that help to break down those collagenous structures where all of these different organisms are living. And another one to remember that can live in there that is a nightmare is mold. Because if you start, if you're in that and what happens is these things are accumulative. Often they're going on for years and years, years and years. And then you've got a girl that's been, you know, overall pretty healthy and not too many symptoms. And then she goes, I just had this case and moves into a super moldy apartment. And so then now you're breathing mold right above your bed and you're breathing it all night and then some of that comes in and then it starts to live in the biofilm and then secrete mycotoxins.

Yeah, so it's like, because when it comes to mold and mycotoxins, a lot of people think you just switch to a mold free diet, but I mean that stuff just pretty much will live in there forever until you knock it out, right?

Yup.

Interesting. So are there any other things that you do when it comes toto the gut besides this process of testing stool? One thing I actually did want to ask you was the mold and mycotoxin piece with this stool analysis and your official stool inspector, who you have looking at over people's poop, from what I understand, like mold and mycotoxin, usually you'd look for that with a urinary analysis or something like that. Right.

So they're all sort of living in that same spot, but you're not going to see the mold come out on the other side. So the mold, we do a urine test with a couple different companies.

We do essentially almost all herbal approaches to.

Fixing sort of the gut. Because the issue is there's antibiotics that you can take like rifaximin and if they work often it's amazing. But if they don't work, a lot of times it rebounds worse than it ever was. And so our concept is to break down the biofilms, do different sort of concoctions of herbals. And I, I typically will have a long term herbal protocol that's punctuated with surges that we put. On top of that, you can do things like rectal ozone and ozone therapy to help to reset. There's the entire constellation of prebiotics and probiotics to begin to support and reset what's going on in the gut as well. And then a lot of people will have developed food allergies as a consequence of these things. And so then you can test for those and then try to eliminate the foods that you're found to be allergic to. Alternatively.

If you don't have the wherewithal to do that, then you can go on anti inflammatory diets and.

Sort of do your best. And then in terms of healing the gut, things like collagen, bone Broth. So, like, I'm a huge believer in bone broth.

Glutamine, colostrum.

Glutamine. Yes. And I always combine glutamine with the sbi, protect the immunoglobulins.

Basically putting together sort of an entourage of everything that you need to heal the gut and reset it. And then interestingly, that's why I called my company Bioreset. Every system in the body, once you reset it, it typically goes back to acting normal.

Yeah, every. Like we were talking about dinner last night, everything is fixable.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

And that's like your approach with everything. You look at somebody like, hey, that's, that's fixable. And I want to talk about that in Lyme too, in, in a little bit. Oh, I had one other question for you that related to the gun and the biofilm, and that would be the use of antibiotics. And we were talking about off label uses of things like beta blockers for athletes. But another one that we were talking about was the Z pack, which of course is vilified in the wellness industry as a way to press the nuke button on all the good bacteria in your gut. But you were telling me about a very interesting off label use for, for the Z pak, the antibiotic that you've discovered.

Yeah. So there's some evidence that.

Azithromycin has the ability to affect senescence and basically help take senescent cells out of circulation. Now.

That term senescence is really interesting because we have a bunch of cells that are floating around in our bloodstream and some of those are active, and then some of them quit doing their job and they become senescent. Now, the older that we get, more and more of our immune system becomes senescent. And that may be one of the most important reasons why we age.

But you want a certain amount of senescence. Right. You don't want to kill all your senescent cells.

Right. But we generally probably have too much. And so then a lot, lot of modalities have the effect of decreasing senescence. And so this just kind of came up for us a couple weeks ago. And then this famous cell biologist is a friend of mine, texted me and said he needed a prescription for azithromycin. And I texted him back and I said, are you sick or senescent? And he laughed and he said, he said both.

You knew already that there could be a use for this. But, but of course I would say that that's something you'd want to proceed with caution with. There's other Ways to reduce senescent cells without necessarily affecting your gut bacteria.

Exactly. Like quercetin is really good for senescence. And I think that antibiotics are vastly overused. And so I think we want to shift away on the spectrum from antibiotics as much as possible, although they've certainly been good to us over the years.

What about peptides? Do you use peptides? Because when we were at that A4M, for those of you listening in, there's this big conference in Las Vegas over here. It's called a 4am the American. What does it stand for? The American Academy of Anti Aging.

American Society. Something like that.

Yeah, yeah. And anyways, like, everybody and their dog was showcasing samarilin and ipamorelin and BPC157 and TB and cerebral lysine and the one that gives you boners and a tan. What's that one? Melano Tan. Peptides are just all over the place. It seems to me like we're probably going to see those. Somebody sent me a bottle a few weeks ago, I think I was telling you this of like a tablet form of BPC157 that you can take orally. So what's your take on peptides? You use those?

Yeah, and I've been using the oral.

Version of that of BPC157.

BPC157. So it stands for body protection compound 157. And it's. So a peptide is a shorter version of a protein. So a protein is. Imagine a protein is something like the size of a dump truck, and the peptide might be like the wheel on that dump truck. So it's a small segment of it, but it still might be able to have much of the same function of the bigger protein. And BPC157, I think is the most interesting one because it helps almost any tissue system heal.

Yeah, I mean, it's found naturally in the gastric mucosa of humans. Right?

Exactly, exactly. And that's the protein that it was developed from, BPC1577. So I'm using it in combination with stem cells. But I forgot to mention I'm using it for everybody now with GI problems, because I'm using it for its ability to begin to help heal leaky gut. And so I think that one is super sort of, sort of interesting. And I know of no side effects. Like, I know of hundreds of people that have been working with lots of people using BPC157. And so I think that that one's going to be over the long term, just Based on sort of the clinical experience that I have so far, a very same safe peptide for people to be working with.

Yeah, a lot of folks who are just kind of like cowboying their own injury management at home, they'll get BPC157 and then this other peptide called TB500 and the BPC seems to act more on the inflammatory pathways and the TB500 on like the actin and myosin fibers. So you can kind of come at an injury from two different standpoints and they'll just like you get those on insulin syringes and you could just ignore inject subcutaneously around the joint. And that's very efficacious for a lot of people.

Right, right. Yeah, I know. I loved that you told me that because I was like opened my mind up to a whole new way of.

When I started the practice of medicine, patients were profoundly not empowered. And then with.

Now they've got bitcoin and the dark web and then you can get anything.

Exactly. And we empowered them with the Internet. But now people are actually beginning to take sort of matters into their own hands. And interestingly you're doing a lot of the same things. So when I'm doing a hydrodissection procedure now, so where I'm treating a nerve and potentially even doing ultrasound guided therapy into a joint, then I'll give them a bottle of the BPC157.

I'm trying to do basically the same thing that you're doing.

And the synergy is sort of in that, that sort of doctor patient relationship. And what's happening is a lot of great things are coming that I think are going to help people be healthier.

Yeah. Are there any other peptides that you think are quite notable right now, aside from BBC?

Epithelion is interesting because it.

Appears to increase the length of telomeres, but it also seems to affect the hormonal system. And, and then TB500 is a segment of thymosin. And so there are a variety of different peptides that are thymosin related. Thymosin alpha 1, thymosin beta. And.

They have quite a bit of potential to help with chronic infections. So I've been using the thymosin peptides for, for people with chronic infections and almost everybody in the space has migrated to adopting peptides as part of their.

Part of the milieu of.

Their treatment algorithms. And then you can think of sort of different components and then we're going to get better and better and better. So I've got the anti inflammatory component with like BPC157, I've got a hormonal effect and kind of lengthening telomeres. I've got with epithelion and then I've got, with thymosin, I've got the ability to have an effect of sort of stimulating or potentially modulating.

Immune response. And in so many sort of modern conditions.

Have an aspect of immune over response or immune under response. And so the concept of immune modulation and many, many therapies work towards affecting immune modulation in terms of balancing the effect of the immune response. And really we want to balance some sort of rational approach from the perspective of our body to any problem.

Yeah, it's really interesting how these can be stacked. One of my friends emailed me, this was like two days ago and he was like, what do you think about this stack? And it was ipamorelin for growth hormone, tessamorelin for cognitive functioning. CJC 1275 is a muscle builder and fat burner. And then AOD 906 is a fat burner and energy enhancer. DSIP for deep sleep enhancement. And then BPC 157. This is what his, his physician, it was a functional medicine doc had prescribed to him as his stack. And I just find it fascinating how we can use peptides in so many different ways. Now to address all these different variables and compare it to another big one that's similar to peptides has been popular in the bodybuilding industry are these selective androgen receptor modulators or SARMs. But peptides appear to be far more safe, resulting in far less neuroendocrine imbalances. Something like SARMs.

Exactly. And then also there's a couple, there's sort of a whole category of sort of new utropic peptides like CMAC and Sea Lance Cerebralysing. Yeah. And we're looking at those for things like concussion and traumatic brain injury. And then imagine stacks where you begin to do sort of complex things like plasmapheresis to sort of purify the blood and then combining that with peptides, combining that with healing the gut, and then sort of taking a fairly comprehensive approach to any one problem.

It's like the doctor of the future, baby. I like it. It's crazy. So another thing, and then I want to address Lyme, but there was one other thing that you were telling me about that I found intriguing and it might be even something you use in some of your Lyme therapies, and that's hyperthermia. Hyperthermia. Can you explain what that is and where that would fit in.

So hyperthermia is not an FDA approved.

Therapy, whole body hyperthermia. But it's something that we've been studying for actually for quite a while. And I'm in the middle of like a three year program to starting a clinical trial outside of the United States looking at hyperthermia. And it's the main areas where people are studying. Hyperthermia is actually for treating chronic infections and then cancer.

Yeah, I mean, I have a biomat from where those main Korea or something like that up in my bed. I nap on it every day. But when you get it and you open the manual, I mean that's one of the main things they start to pull out is all the research on hyperthermia and cancer. And I actually know a lot of cancer patients who have purchased just that alone, like a biomat. And they'll wrap themselves in mylar blankets and get a sweat and get the infrared therapy and the heat all at the same time. So, you know, again, kind of like a DIY cowboying form of hyperthermia. I just wasn't sure how I was using like a clinical setting.

So.

So.

The clinical setting is there's a couple different ways to do it and we're looking at both. So imagine a super high tech sauna that warms you up. And then the other one is that we do is called vena venous hyperthermia. And so we take blood out.

From the body and then we run it through basically the same.

A warmer. That's like the same thing that I used to use when I used to do open heart surgery. And so we warm that, warm the, warm the. Instead of cooling the blood down, we warm it up and so then we put it back in. And so that's called vena venous hyperthermia. And so then basically what happens is we give sedation and then we warm the body up to 107 degrees. Okay. Or 42 degrees Celsius. And the concept is the cancer can't live at that temperature. And neither can a lot of the.

Infections that people are dealing with, including spirochetes. And there's a real sort of entertaining story about the history of hyperthermia that I could go into.

But the idea is you warm them up and then the things that can't live then start to die or they become weakened. And so they become much more sensitive to other therapies that we give.

That's interesting.

The deal with hyperthermia is kind of related to what I was discussing when I had Dr. Thomas Cowan on my show and how much of an error he thinks it is to whenever someone gets sick and comes down with a fever, do everything that you can to get rid of the fever. Because that's the body's own built in version of hyperthermia, right?

Yeah. And so.

This story is a crazy story.

Yeah, I want to hear it.

So imagine, you know, the 1800s, early 1900s, there's no antibiotics. So if you got an infection, it was like a disaster. Okay. And so syphilis was a disaster in Europe. And so. And what would happen is a lot of people would get it and then it would progress to something called neurosyphilis. And people would become partially paralyzed and they would become psychotic. And there was no way to treat this. And so there was this guy and he's a psychiatrist and he's in kind of the, the school of thought that, you know, he's German. And so the idea is either you think that it's your problems are psychological, it was your mother, or you think that it's physiological. And so he's in this group. And so then what he does is he's very young, in like the late 1890s, and he sees this woman and she gets a skin infection. And so as a result of the skin infection, she becomes super like high febrile and gets really sick and almost dies. But then her neurosyphilis just like totally goes away. And so then. And you know, I had things like this, you know, happen to me when I was young, and it becomes very influential on you. And so you're always like looking at those early cases and like thinking about it. So then he put proceeds to try to treat people with infections for like the next 20 years. And he treated them with like typhoid and all kinds of things. And so then eventually somebody accidentally got admitted to his sanitarium that had malaria that had come back from the war. And so they were like, can we treat him with quinine? And he goes, no. So then he isolates this guy's plasma when he was having a fever, and then he infected a bunch of the patients there. I mean, so this is like definitely like before the Geneva convention also. Yeah, this guy was a little controversial, so. No kidding. But then.

Some of them get all the way better, and then afterwards, he cures them all of their malaria with quinine.

Holy cow.

And so then he ends up treating like a series of nine people and a bunch of them actually like totally just go back to living like their normal lives. And nobody had ever had that kind of Result and it was repeated by some other people and it was called malariotherapy. And he ends up winning a Nobel prize in like 1928. So it's sort of, this is the foundation of the idea of using a fever to try to try to treat people.

And it's very interesting in both the cancer side and the infectious disease side.

Hmm, that's interesting. You know that you and I were talking about this detox retreat that I'm leading over in Switzerland at one of these Paracelsus clinic in the Swiss Alps. And I think hyperthermia is one of the things they do over there. I believe it's more readily available in Europe.

Exactly. Yeah. I talked to like two people who were going on the trip with you.

Yeah, that's gonna be an interesting job. I think it's full people listening and I think I'll put a link in the show notes just in case. But yeah, it's like we're just going to go to Switzerland and reboot our bodies and hike in the Alps and.

Where like I have a guy that.

Had.

Metastatic to his bones prostate cancer and both was told by his urologist here in San Francisco like super high end urologists while he's like over and he went to Germany twice and I just for back pain and we got a pet CT to make sure that the back pain wasn't because the cancer had come back and the cancer is totally gone and PSA is zero. And so it's super sort of exciting the idea. And that's why we're starting these clinical trials so that people don't have to go all the way to Europe and we can basically because I do almost everything that they do over there. But this is one thing that I've got to do outside of the country.

Yeah, that's all man. That whole you can cure cancer stuff and cancer is fixable. Like you get laughed at by the medical community. I'm just saying.

Yeah, I'm being facetious. It's a journey, the cancer. You know, it's interesting I always say like, like and I, I don't even really ever talk about cancer because like if you're helping people with Lyme disease, nobody really cares because they're either really happy you're helping them or they don't believe Lyme disease exists. So either way they're kind of neutral to you.

Yeah, actually I want to talk about that. I want to talk about Lyme disease. So thank you for that perfect segue into Lyme disease which is very complex and I know it's also something that you've worked with successfully with a lot of patients. So I'd love to hear, kind of similar to your approach to the gut, what your approach to Lyme would be.

So the approach to Lyme is similar to the gut. First of all.

We do a lot of testing and interestingly, Lyme is a tick borne illness and so there's a whole bunch of, it's like a gang. So there's this one bacteria that's the main bacteria that causes Lyme disease and it's called Boreala. And so it's a spirochete like syphilis. And so it has a lot of sort of crazy effects like syphilis and also can be real hard to diagnose like syphilis. And so both conditions have been called the great masquerader. The interesting thing is syphilis just was like one thing. If you had syphilis, you had syphilis. With Lyme disease there's a parasite called Babesia and then there's a whole bunch of other things. Bartonella, Anaplasma, Ehrlichia.

There'S some viruses that seem to go with it and then there's often a susceptibility to other problems. So a lot of people with Lyme disease actually have, have mold, a lot of them have biofilms and a lot of them have mold in their biofilms. And so then what I'm trying to do before I go into treating is stepping back and trying at the broadest possible level, trying to say of all of those things, what do they have? Do they have a lot of food allergies? And then within that, do they have pain? A lot of people have pain and then sometimes that in their joints. And so I do diagnostic ultrasound to look in their joints and see if they have fluid in their joints. A lot of people have more a neuro Lyme and a lot of them have concomitant viral infections. And so the beginning is sort of like doing this full assessment. We do a bunch of questionnaires and then try to really establish where we are.

Before we kind of go on.

What modalities have you found to be relatively successful with Lyme?

So then it sort of goes.

At a broad level. Once, once we do the full assessment, then I start people on like a year long or two year or three year long journey where I start them on herbal antimicrobials and I tailor that towards what they have. And so now I'm going to just start chipping away with herbals that are going to sort of break and fight. These are tailored specifically. So if you've got Bartonella, I've got one for that. If you've got Boreala, I've got one for that. So I do that. I do the whole gut thing. So we're trying to break down the biofilms and make sure that they're. Because if you don't fix the gut, then you can't reset the immune system and get everything else working.

Dr. So some of this stuff goes in conjunction with what you've already explained regarding your treatment with the gut.

Exactly. We're putting almost everybody on peptides. Then I do a lot of IV therapy, so I use IV nad, which is great for sort of like biohackers, but a lot of times seems to sort of reset the mitochondria and turn on the ability of the immune system to start to. To fight.

Yeah, we talked about that in the last podcast, how you combine that with things like quercetin for senescent cells or even pre. You have like a cocktail. You do pre ketamine as well.

So I do that for the Lyme people. But interestingly, you know, it depends because we should almost stage Lyme and like, you know, stage one, stage two, stage three, stage four. Because if you said stage four was the worst, I have to be real careful with them because if you give them NAD and it starts to turn their immune system on, a lot of times it's too much. And so I have a little bit of a start low, go slow, where I layer on the herbals, I layer on sort of the fixing the gut. I start with IV therapy to kind of begin to kind of reset and heal things and sort of get that working. If they've got pain, I'll do ketamine if they haven't. In the joint infections, Lyme people tend to respond really well to ozone and placental matrix injections into the joint.

And because ozone's antiviral, antibacterial, antiparasitic, and then interestingly, super off label, but there's IV ozone, and that's something that's done a lot in Germany. And they're studying both IV ozone and rectal ozone to treat Lyme disease, which is super interesting, we like to use the peptides to try to treat it. And then.

To me, probably by far the most interesting thing on sort of the Lyme front is the regenerative medicine applications for Lyme. And so in the first podcast, we talked a lot about exosomes.

Yes.

And I personally think in the future, probably there's going to be 10 exosome treatments for every one stem cell treatment. Because exosomes are kind of all the benefits of a stem cell without a stem cell. And so I've been doing work treating Lyme patients with exosomes and that's been a profoundly positive experience.

Like injecting them IV or intravenous exosomes.

Intravenous.

Okay.

Yeah. And so I've had that before.

Yeah, it's Dr. Harry Adelson.

Oh, great. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I like him. He's a fantastic doctor. And I went to his clinic and it was a really great city.

Yeah, that's where I did the full body stem cell makeover that he does.

Right.

Not inexpensive, but if you just want to do everything, that's the way to go.

Yeah, it definitely is. And then if you imagine.

That the IV exosomes that he gave you have an effect of modulating. So I'm going back to this concept of modulating your immune system. And so I think they seem to kind of modulate the immune system and have a very profound anti inflammatory effect. And so there's this initial effect that happens that's short term, that's the, from the effect of the anti inflammatory effect and potentially a little bit of immune modulation. But then there's a longer term, sort of three to six month effect that comes from an epigenetic and then the immune modulating effects of that. And so then what we're doing is we're doing a series of therapies with those.

But the key to me is that those treatments are resting on top of a real coherent long term comprehensive plan and a long term comprehensive plan both to reset and heal the immune system, what you're fighting and the gut. And then the. So then there's a lot of people that have been doing stem cell therapy for Lyme.

I've done that and I feel that it's a good idea. The conventional sort of wisdom in the Lyme community is if you have somebody who 20% better, don't give them stem cells because it's probably not going to work if they're 70 or 80% better. A lot of times people do real well with stem cells.

My feeling is that sort of no matter where you are, you got to do a complex thing, comprehensive care layer in exosomes. And then I'll sort of go to stem cells next. And then.

We'Re going to start a clinical trial looking at culture expanded natural killer cells.

That's the one in Mexico that we talked about on the last show.

Yeah, that's another one in Mexico but that one is where we take your own blood and then grow natural killer cells. Now interestingly, there's a little theme running through this conversation of things that are good for cancer and also good for infections. So it's always nice if you treat someone for an infection, but it has a side effect of having an anti cancer.

Absolutely.

And so with the killer cells.

There'S actually several clinical trials going on right now looking at using culture expanded natural killer cells to treat like colon cancer for example. And I'm referring people into that trial and so.

And they're giving people a series of these therapies.

And so I personally think that in sort of the next decade that will.

It has amazing effects but it's going to be a while before regulatory wise that comes on board.

Interesting. There's a lot of stuff and I think a lot of especially a lot of like physicians and healthcare practitioners listening in. These are things they may not have been exposed to before. And I know that you help people walk through this like especially healthcare practitioners in terms of learning how to use and how to do some of the stuff that you're talking about. Tell me a little bit about that.

Oh yeah. So we created something called the BioReset Network and you came down to the office we actually built out. It's a cool office, an entire training.

Center, whole like sound healing area and yoga room.

Yeah, so the yoga room because it's hilarious because Barb calls that the yoga room but I call that our teaching center.

We have people come in almost every week to sort of be trained in a lot of these techniques and strategies. And so we built it both for sort of to do therapeutic movement and yoga and stuff like that, but to teach people. And so if you're interested, definitely check out the website and we would be delighted to have you join us.

That's just the normal BioReset medical website.

No, that's BioResetNetwork.com I'll find it, I'll.

Link to it in the show notes for people over@BenGreenfield Fitness.com BioReset number two. And you teach the other thing I know that you're big on and that you're like one of the guys, one of the main guys in the country who teaches this is like the acoustic sound wave therapy, the gainswave stuff.

Oh yeah, yeah. So we're, we're a teaching center for them and for the Oshat P shot as well.

And what's the gains enhancement thing you were telling me about.

Oh. So I'm working with them on developing a technology where we take stem cells technology that is exosomes, and then combine that with platelet therapy as an upgraded ability to do an injection into the penis for rejuvenation.

I've done that, too. That actually works really well.

It works amazing, doesn't it?

Yeah, it's pretty cool. I think, actually, at the same time I did Harry, he had me out for, like, four hours on that table. So I think everything known to man that you could do with stem cells legally.

That's awesome.

Very interesting. Okay, so what I'm going to do is, for those of you listening in again, I'll link to the first episode that we did. Or you could just go to BenGreenfieldFitness.com BioReset if you want to go listen to that first episode. This episode is at BenGreenfieldFitness.com BioReset2. The only thing that I have left to do, really, is figure out what else I'm going to beat Dr. Cook up with today. We could do snow angels. You need to experience, and it's what my children call sugar cookies, which is where you get in the sauna and you heat up in the sauna, hang out with your buddies, whatever. And then you run through the snow on your bare feet out to the cold pool. You take a dip in the cold pool, and then you get in the hot tub, and then you go to the snow and you make snow angels in the snow or you roll down the hill in the snow, so you're just covered in snow. Then you get out of the snow and you go back and you sit in the hot tub and you get, like, pins and needles and this huge release of nitric oxide. And you do a couple rounds of that and you'll feel. You'll feel amazing. You'll sleep like a baby tonight.

I'm down. Yeah, I feel amazing because I grew up about three hours from here in the Rocky Mountain Missoula, so I feel like I'm coming home.

Yeah, that's right, baby.

Home.

That involves running outside in your underwear in the snow and playing like a little kid. So we'll do that. We'll have an amazing dinner. And for those of you who want to learn more. More about Matt and what he does, go see him in San Jose. I'll put a link in the show notes. Also, if you're a physician practitioner who wants to kind of soak up his body of knowledge, look at his physician training program and Matt thanks for banging out round two with me man.

Thanks so much.

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