MRP Living Light Q & A [Jan 19, 2024]

Happy Friday, everyone. Hope you're all having an amazing day so far. Welcome. Welcome. And as you're all entering the room, let me know in the chat one thing that you're grateful for today. Great to see you, Stephanie. Great to see Julie, Colleen, Alice, Ed, Lena. And if you could turn your cameras on, that would be amazing as well. I know some of you sometimes drive during this session, but I invite you to get present and turn your camera on as well so we can see your beautiful faces. So were any of you able to join? We had sent an email about a breath work session last night. Was anyone able to join? Colleen did. Okay, great. Anyone else? Pauline, were you able to stay for the whole thing? Yeah.

Okay.

Did you enjoy it?

Good.

If you want to unmute and share, because today I was actually thinking of playing just. I know it was two hours, but I know we kind of block an hour for our session today, but I was gonna just play, like, the first half of the replay the first hour because I thought that it was a very powerful workshop and some great takeaways, which, you know, sometimes we say we'll watch a replay, but then it never happens. So since we're all here right now, present, and we've dedicated this time to be here, I was gonna play the replay. So you can go ahead and share. I think you're unmuted.

I. A lot of the things I had learned before, and it might have even been from him, because I'm trying to remember when I saw your husband before, like, years ago. I'm just trying to. If it was through a functional medicine symposium or. Anyway, I'm asthmatic, and I always appreciate the breath work. And I. After four years of masking, I finally got Covid a couple months ago, and I'm still. I still got a little bit going on, but definitely that breath work really helped me even last night, to sleep better. But I've been mouth taping my husband. I have been mouth taping for easily over five years now, since we were probably, like, months old and he first started talking.

Yeah, yeah, He's. He's like the pioneer of the mouth taping.

Yeah. So I've been doing that for a while. I had to stop while I had Covid and even like a couple of. I started this week again, and it.

It.

I had to. I woke up and I was choking. Right. So, yeah, I was still having some issues.

But, yeah, I think for sure, when we're using the mouth as a backup, if we're congested or have a cold, then you probably don't want a mouth tape, but definitely a, a good day to day practice otherwise.

And I found that a lot of the, like, the anatomical information is very helpful for me to the persistent or the frenulum issue. I, I can see my frenulum, but I can touch the roof of my mouth very easily. Like it's not a problem. But so I don't know where that gray area is to get. Yeah.

I mean, yeah. So it's best to see an airway dentist because of course we can't diagnose and they can let you know, you know, what stage of. If you do have a tongue tie, first of all. And then you know what stage it's at. Right. Whether it's a more severe one or less severe one, and whether or not they would recommend releasing the tongue tie or not as well. So there is a website. I'll share it. It's called ask the dentist.com and there's a directory of airway dentists because there's. They're not as popular, but I think it, the movement is growing because it's kind of the equivalent of functional medicine. Right. It's root cause dentistry and really approaching whole health. So hopefully you can find one in your area through that website. Okay.

So as.

Yeah, sorry, can I, can I ask a question?

I don't.

It's not related to airway at all. It's just. Okay. I did Amy Meyer's functional medicine diet a few years ago too. And I'm. I'm just wondering, like, nightshade plants like peppers and tomatoes and whatnot were excluded during the, the cleaning. The autoimmune diet. And I'm just wondering why you guys allow them. Like, I don't, I don't know if it's something I should remove or. Or not.

Yeah. So great question. So nightshades are problematic for certain people, specifically those who have autoimmune conditions. So we include them in the diet just because, you know, it can become like, especially because they're. Most of them are free vegetables. If we remove those, then it does become more limited in terms of options. So if people do have joint pains or if they're struggling with autoimmune issues, then, you know, we will recommend sometimes for them to omit them. But for the most part we'll keep them in and then slowly reintroduce them back. If, Sorry, if, if you are having those problems will omit them and then see, because sometimes people are sensitive to maybe tomatoes, but not bell peppers. Right. So sometimes it's individual in Terms of which specific nightshade someone might be more sensitive to as well.

Thanks.

Yes, you're very welcome. Okay, so, you know, some of you just popped in here, so as always, if you could share something in the chat that you're grateful for, I would greatly appreciate that. Thank you so much. For those who have shared. And I had kind of started off with asking if any of you had attended the breathwork masterclass yesterday put on by Sachin, and if you didn't, then I was going to replay that for you all. It was two hours. I know we have an hour dedicated, so I'll play kind of the first half and then maybe we can do the second half next week. So if you do have questions pertaining to, you know, your reset or any other questions, we can take those initially. Maybe we'll spend like five, 10 minutes, and then we'll move into the replay of yesterday's breathwork session. So we'll start off with questions because I do want to make sure that we address those first. So if anyone has a question, you can unmute yourself or put that in the chat and then we'll go ahead with the. The breathwork class from yesterday. Anyone have a question about the reset? I know Colleen just asked about nightshades. Anything else coming up for anyone? Carol, go ahead and unmute.

I have tons and tons of questions.

Okay.

But this one, I find I'm not really releasing. You say it might be like on average of a pound a day. I'm on day 15. I think I'm down six pounds.

Okay.

But I'm also, I'm. I'm having. I'm struggling a lot, so I am making sure I'm. I'm doing the correct measurements, the correct stuff. I'm sticking, like. So I'm sticking to everything. And I'm not eating past six, so I'm in the. I'm in the window. So I'm following everything. So I'm wondering why I might not be.

Yeah.

So everyone's unique. Average weight loss is about 0.5 pounds per day. So not a pound. It's 0.5. And usually at the halfway mark, you know, most people around the 10 pound range at the lower end, and at the higher end, some people are a little bit higher. So everyone's a little bit unique. If you don't have as much weight to release, sometimes it can be a little bit slower initially, making sure you're drinking lots of water, making sure. Including lots of free vegetables. We want to make sure that you're not under exercising or over exercising. So 20 to 30 minute walk a day. Also making sure that you're having proper bowel movements is going to be important as well. So we start there and then if your weight does plateau, then we do have a few kind of tips or tricks that we can recommend to you to get over that hump. But we want to make sure all of those things are checked off first. Also, stress is a big one. Right. So if you have a lot of stress, if you're not sleeping well, then your weight loss will slow down a little bit as well. So those are just a few things for you to look out for. Yep, go ahead.

And also, I didn't take this on more for the weight loss, but more for like brain fog and all the other things that I'm experiencing. Is there an average time to see kind of results in all those areas?

Yeah. So usually we find that most people, their symptoms do improve within the first few weeks. If I know for you, you're doing the higher end program, so there is some testing involved which might give us a little more insight into your case. I would reach out to Alice and Sachin if you are experiencing, you know, any kind of difficulty or plateau and, you know, maybe we can give you a little more guidance.

Yeah, I can, I can message Sachin. No, I am, I am sleeping. I'm taping my mouth. I'm getting good sleep. I'm in bed 10 till 6.

That's generally.

The aura ring hasn't arrived yet.

Okay. So that'll give us a little more insight in terms of like, because, you know, there's, we all might think we get good sleep, but we don't really know unless we have objective data in terms of how much REM sleep we're getting, how much deep sleep we're getting, whether we're tossing and turning a lot. So that aura ring, once you start wearing it, will give us a little more insight in terms of the quality of sleep you're getting. Because if you are experiencing brain fog and you're not sleeping well, that can explain a lot.

Okay.

What other questions? Anyone have any questions about their program going once, twice. Oh, Colleen. Yep. Go ahead and unmute.

I, I'll just ask this. We have, we have a whole mousse in our freezer. Okay. And I'm hoping that I, I think moose meat's acceptable because it's really low fat.

Right.

Like it should be okay.

Right.

Even it's very high in protein. Like it's much more than beef. So do I, do I need to edit like eat less than 4 ounces.

Or I'll have to look that particular protein up because I don't think it's in the guide. And then I'll get back to you.

Okay?

Yep.

Thanks.

No worries. Okay. And you know, as I'm playing the replay from last night, like, if any questions do pop up front of you, as. As I'm playing it, just type it in the chat and we can address it in the chat as well. So no worries about that. Okay, so I'm going to go ahead and share my screen. Can everyone see?

Okay.

And then I'm going to share my. Can you all hear properly?

Okay, My invitation to all of you is to have your cameras on, and we'll give everyone just a couple minutes. Headphones are best for today's, Like, forever. Okay. That was about 5 minutes and 25 seconds for some of you, probably felt like forever. Some of you probably think your monkey mind was like, when is this song over? How much longer do we have? But here's the thing. Our breath is something that we can always be present to. What I'm going to share with you today is going to be ultra simple, yet has the capability to be ultra sophisticated. Just like there's an app for everything, believe it or not, there's. There's a breath for everything. The pace at which we breathe, the intensity at which we breathe, the nostril which we breathe from and through, the amount we hold our breath on, the inhale and the exhale, all of these things can be modified and tweaked and adjusted to literally change your physiologic state. So if you learn nothing else from today, hum your favorite songs. Okay. As long as you can. Exhale as much as you can for as long as you can. The vibration in your throat is going to activate your vagus nerve. Most people's vagus nerves are understimulated. Your vagus nerve is probably one of the most important nerves in your body, and one of its greatest innervations occurs in the diaphragm. Your diaphragm is that muscle. Diaphragm translates loosely to the word horizon, which separates the heart and the lungs from the rest of the trunk organs. So when we activate our diaphragm, when we activate our vagus nerve, we activate a parasympathetic response in the body. If you're a clinician, I guarantee you that your clients will heal better, faster, and more completely if they're in a parasympathetic state. And I almost guarantee you, I actually guarantee all of you, you're a clinician, that your clients are not healing as quickly as they possibly can because they're not activating their parasympathetic nervous system enough. And breath is literally the fastest way to do that. And today I'm going to show you how your unconscious mind uses breath and how you can consciously override your breath to create the same effect. Okay. I want to start by sharing a really simple exercise with you. And I'm just going to stop sharing my screen here for a moment and all right, there I am. Big screen. So what we're going to do is we're going to do something called a physiologic sigh. The physiologic sigh is a really simple exercise. You can do this exercise to come off and from a stressful situation. If you had a stressful day at the office, and you're going to leave it at the office and you don't want to bring it into your house, this is a good breathing technique to use before you come into the house. If you had a stressful day at home and you don't want to bring it into the office, then you can do this while you're sitting in the parking lot at work. And within minutes, not even minutes, within a minute or two, you're going to start feeling totally different. Okay. You can also do this exercise with your clients so many times. I'll start my sessions with this because as we're going to do now, because if I can shift somebody into a more parasympathetic state, they're more focused, they're more present, they're more receptive to learning, and they're primed to remember more. Right? We always want to set our clients up for success. I don't want to do this amazing webinar and masterclass and then you forget everything. Just like you don't want to be in a meeting and have your clients forget everything you told them. So by simply doing something as simple as shifting their state, we prime them to receive more of what we have to offer. Okay? So it would behoove me to. To have people come in into a stressful situation and go right into teaching without shifting their state. Okay, so here's what we're going to do. It's really simple. Most of what I'm going to share with you today is embarrassingly simple. And you'll probably be asking yourself, how come nobody told me this? That's what I was asking myself, and nobody was telling me this, and nobody's teaching this. So I decided to Teach it. And that's what I get to do all over the world. Now, I just came back from St. Kitts and I was discussing breathing with dentists, because dentists, our dental health plays a huge role in how we breathe. And so now I get to work with dentists from all over the world, not only teaching them about breathing and breathing practices, but how breathing affects our entire systemic physiology. And so it has an effect on our gross anatomy and our cellular physiology. So let's do this quick exercise and then let's go right into some of the trainings that I'm going to do today. So we're going to set up nice and straight. Okay. And I won't get into some of the advanced techniques, but we're just going to assume everyone is breathing correctly. So if we were in person, I would probably do an assessment. Does your rib cage expand adequately? We're just going to assume that that's the case for everyone. So we're going to take a three stage breath. The first stage of that breath is going to be into a nice soft belly, right in. In our Western world, we always think of six packs. If you ever see a yogi, their belly is usually kind of hanging out because they're breathing into it. When we have a tight abdomen, which many people have, we end up taking short, shallow breaths. So we want to make our abdomen nice and loose. Just relax our belly. Okay. Let it all hang out. And so we're going to take a nice deep breath in through our nose, into our belly. I'll walk you through it. Don't start yet. And then we're going to take a second breath into our lungs. And then we're going to take a super set of breaths, three tight breaths into our throat. So we're going to really inflate the entire system. Then we're going to hold at the top and we're going to then do a Kegel exercise, which is squeezing your pelvic floor. And I'll walk you through all this as we go through it. And then we're going to really let it out with an audible sigh. Okay, so it's a really simple exercise. I'll walk you through it, but let's all just close our eyes for a moment, Take a few deep breaths, some cleansing breaths you can take. Let it all the way out. Take another breath in. Let it all the way out. Now place your tongue at the roof of your mouth, gently behind your teeth. This is a magic button. We'll talk more about this in a minute. Just place your Tongue there. And now take a nice deep breath into your belly. Filling your belly. Imagine your belly expanding like a ball balloon. Now let's take another big sip of air into the lungs. And then one more sip of air through the mouth. A three step breath. Squeeze your pelvic floor. Just hold for five seconds. 1, 2, 3, 4, 4, 5. Let it out with an audible side drop your shoulders. Relax all the way out the very bottom. Exhale three more times. All right, take another deep breath into the belly. Sip of air into the lungs. Triple breath into the top of the throat, holding at the top, squeezing our pelvic floor for five seconds. Three, two, one. Let it out with an exhale all the way out, audible at the very bottom. We're going to do a triple breath out. Let it all the way out. Another deep breath into the lungs, into the belly. Filling that belly, breathing in through our nose, filling those lungs up Sharp inhale into the lungs again. Another triple breath into the throat, Holding at the top, releasing on my count. 3, 2, 1. Let it out with an audible sigh. Triple breath at the bottom, let it all the way out. Okay, nice breath into the belly again. Sip of air into the lungs. Triple breath in at the very top, Holding, letting it out with an audible sigh. Make this the longest, loudest sigh you've done so far today. In 3, 2, 1. Let it all the way out, all the way out. And find your normal breathing pattern. Okay, wonderful. So from a show of hands, put on gallery view. From a show of hands, how many of you feel even more calm now? Okay, so that looks like all of you. That was three and a half minutes. Okay, so you can only imagine that once you get better at this and I was teaching you how to do it too, so it took a little bit longer. But imagine what can happen if in three and a half minutes you can completely shift your physiologic state. So what we did so far was about a five and a half minute song and a three and a half minute breath work. So we're at like nine minutes. Okay, this is something you can do. I don't always encourage you to do it while you're driving, but the humming you can certainly do while you're driving. You can do it while you're in the shower, you can do it in between meetings. Right. Powerful tool, this physiologic sigh you want to do in a seated position. Okay, so really simple. How many of you think you can do that? How many of you can see yourself incorporating something this simple into your life? Awesome. Right. Here's the thing with breathing is that the shifts happen so fast and you'll learn why as we get into today's presentation. So you're ready to get started, you're ready to learn. Got your notepad and notebook handy? Just show me a sign, type it into the chat. I'm ready to go. And hold on to your hats. Okay. Breathe slow, Breathe intentionally. As we go through this information and as we go through this, and really before we go through this, I'm going to teach you how to breathe during this presentation. Who wants to know how to breathe during this presentation? While you're listening so you can be most receptive to learning, Raise your hand if you want to know how to breathe right now. Right. Don't fall back into your default breathing pattern. We're going to do something called a coherence breath. A coherence breath is where we get into a state of our nervous system where our head and our heart are connected. Right? That's what coherence is referred to as. The Heartmath Institute has studied this for almost 30 years. And so what they discovered is we can use our breath to increase our hrv. And the higher our HRV gets, the higher our nervous system's resilience gets. So we've become more tolerant and resilient to stress. Many of us have heard of the term allostatic load. An allostatic load is like a bucket filling up. So every morning, hopefully that bucket is as empty as it can be and the daily stressors of life will start filling that bucket up. One of the ways to empty that bucket is by using your breath. Okay? And so HRV measures something called heart rate variability. It's the variation between each heartbeat. The longer the variation is, the greater the variation is, the more relaxed you are. Okay. So we use our breath to raise our hrv. If some of you have a heartmath device, you can test it and get that immediate neurofeedback. When we breathe in for six seconds and out for six seconds, it's going to feel really long. Here's what you may not know. Most people over breathe. Most people are chronic over breathers and because of that, they shorten their lifespan, they increase oxidative stress, and they stay in this perpetual fight or flight. When we go to a six second breath, it's going to feel really long because for some of you, that's a very foreign way of breathing. When I first started breathing this way, it was foreign for me too. So let's just practice this. We're going to put our tongue at the roof of our mouth. And just go ahead and take a nice cleansing breath out. Breathe all the way out through your nose or your mouth. I might breathe through my mouth just so you can hear me. And now with the tongue at the roof of our mouth, let's take a nice breath in through the nose for six seconds. 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. Out. 2, 3, 4, five, six. In. 2, 3, 4, Five, six. Out. 2, 3, four, five, six. So keep that pace. When you breathe at that pace, you increase oxygenation to the brain. Most ancient prayers are actually sung and recited at this six second cadence. So the ancients knew something that we're only now discovering. This technology is built into each and every one of us. So it's at your disposal. This is how I breathe when I'm checking my emails. This is how I breathe on zoom calls. This is how I breathe when I'm driving. And this is what keeps my nervous system calm and centered. So I'm receptive to my environment and I'm creative and I am calm and I am relaxed. When you change your breath, you change the magnetic field around you. Because when you change your breath and you slow down your breath, you change, slow down your heart rate. And when you slow down and get into this coherence breath, your heart and brain are connected, right? How many of you think we need people's brains and hearts more connected right now? Raise your hand. Right? And of course, all of us could use more of that in our own lives, right? Many of us are stuck in our heads. And so the biggest and most important journey you'll ever make in your Life is those 18 inches from your head down to your heart. And literally, right, anatomically, our breath is right there, right? Taking us down that little elevator, those 18 inches into our heart. When we sink into our heart, we make more intuitive decisions. We make decisions that the entire world benefits from, decisions that we don't regret, decisions that we can lean into. So when you're making important decisions, learning important information, tune into how you're breathing, because that will tune in to where blood is going in your body, in your brain, and how receptive you are to learn. Okay? Raise your hand if you've already learned something new. All right, so my job here is done right now. We're just in bonus time now. Amazing. So let's go through this. I have lots of content to cover, and I want to make sure that you get it all. I promised all of you a gift, so I'm gonna get that to you in just a moment. Okay? Now what I want you to know is that your breath is the most powerful health technology you've never heard of. So in the words of Ram Dass, I want you to be here now, be fully present to what I'm gonna say today. It changed my life. It may change your children's lives. It may even change the life of a loved one that you have. Okay, we take 23,000 breaths a day. Most of them are unconscious. You just took a bunch of conscious breaths today in this moment, in this 25 minutes that we've been together, but what about the rest of the time? Now we can breathe unconsciously just as well as we can drive unconsciously. Some of you drove to work today and barely touched the wheel or barely were focused on the wheel or where you were going because you've committed this to your unconscious capabilities. Okay? So we take 23,000 breaths a day. Most of them are unconscious. And believe it or not, we consume 30 pounds of air every day. You actually consume more air than all the water and fluids that you drink and all the food that you eat. Okay? So it's something that we interface in our environment with more than anything else. 30 pounds a day, right? So pick up a 30 pound dumbbell. That's how much air you breathe every day. There are more molecules of oxygen in every breath that we take than there are grains of sand on the entire planet. Let that sink in for a moment. With every breath you take, there's more molecules of oxygen than grains of sand on the planet. And everything I'm going to share with you today, you can go and fact check it, okay? You're going to hear a lot of, a lot of breathing puns today, right? Like, what I'm going to share is going to blow your mind. And it's really going to give you a new insight into this gift that you've always had. Here's another fun fact. Every red, red blood cell carries 1 billion molecules of oxygen through 60,000 miles of vessels, okay? So all those little grains of sand, those oxygen molecules bind up to those red blood cells that you have that carry them to all the tissues in your body. The only place that we use mitochondria is in the oxygen is in the mitochondria. So this is where all that oxygen gets delivered to, thanks to our red blood cells. Here's another fun fact. The slower we breathe, the more oxygen we actually absorb. So when somebody's losing their breath or they're hyperventilating, having an asthma attack, what do we tell them to. Do we tell them to take a deep breath? Right? Take deep breaths. Take deep breaths. Well, it's actually not true. We should be telling them to take cleansing exhales because the reason that they're hyperventilating or they feel like they can't breathe is because they've packed all that CO2 to the bottom of their lungs. And so the urgency to breathe doesn't come from needing more oxygen. The urgency and anxiety caused by us feeling like we need to breathe actually comes from high concentrations of CO2. We'll discuss some exercises to build up your CO2 tolerance. Building up CO2 tolerance literally makes you more resilient to death, right? So we, we declare somebody as being dead when their brain is no longer functional, right? When there's no brain signal, that's when we officially declare someone as being dead. Well, that happens because we can't deliver any more oxygen to the tissue and we become CO2 intolerant. So we'll talk about how to literally not die. Okay? The slower we breathe, the slower we age. So there's all kinds of fancy pills and potions and things that you can do to cheat death, but the most effective thing that you can do is breathe slower, okay? So before you buy into all these pills and potions and injections and all kinds of stuff that, that's out there slow down your breathing. If you keep this six second cadence that I taught you and that becomes your default breathing pattern, you're automatically going to live longer. Here's an interesting graph that shows you the correlation between respiratory frequency, that's how many times we breathe per minute, and lifespan. So if you look at the lifespan of a turtle, for example, it breathes about four breaths per minute. Your dog, on the other hand, which ages seven times faster than you, takes 35 breaths per minute. So the pace at which we breathe is deterministic in how long we're going to live. The greatest predictor of lifespan is lung capacity. So the more oxygen and air that you can breathe into your lungs, the bigger you can expand your lungs, the longer you're going to live, right? And so this all kind of makes sense when you think about it, but how do we actually do that? Right? How do we increase our lung capacity? We'll talk about that today. And some of you have already done that just by doing some of the breathing exercises. All right? For every ten pounds that we lose, 8.4 of those pounds are through the lungs. Raise your hand if you could. You want to lose a few pounds Be honest. Okay, so where does that weight go right when we lose it, where does it actually go? Well, when we breathe in oxygen and nitrogen and all kinds of other gases in the air, the oxygen gets delivered to our mitochondria. And the byproduct of mitochondrial respiration, or the exhaust produced by the mitochondria, just like our car produces exhaust, is CO2 and water. So 8.4 of those 10 pounds of energy that we consume of fat, let's say, is turned into carbon dioxide. And the rest of it, we either sweat or pee out. That's where your fat goes. That's where your energy goes after you burn it. Okay. Another interesting fact is that the average person burns about 1200 calories per day simply breathing. So a lot of times, people's hunger comes from over breathing. This is why when people cut back their calorie intake, they feel really hungry. However, if you were to breathe slower, you would actually burn less calories a day, which means your metabolic demands of food would be much less.

Right.

Food's getting more expensive, isn't it? It's like 30% inflated. What if you breathe 30% slower, you need 30% less food and you wouldn't be malnourished. Okay. So simple things like this can make a big difference. One of the key contributors to oral health is how we breathe as well. So I don't know if there's any dentists that are tuned in today, but a dentist will very likely tell you that how you breathe determines how many cavities you're going to have. In fact, the number one cause of cavities is mouth breathing. What happens when we breathe through our mouth, which about 50% of the population does habitually? We dry out the saliva in our mouth, and that causes an overgrowth of the wrong type of bacteria. Saliva is protective of our teeth. What also happens when our mouth dries out is we don't produce healthy bacteria that produce something called nitric oxide, which you'll learn a little bit more about today. When nitric oxide was discovered, the fact the discoverers of nitric oxide earned and were awarded a Nobel Prize. That's how important that molecule is. It's a very important signaling molecule in your body. Nitric oxide, in case you're wondering, naturally lowers your blood pressure. Nitric oxide kills viruses and bacteria on contact. So the bacteria in your mouth makes nitric oxide in your nasal mucosa. So the lining of your nose is lined with mucosa, a membrane that produces high amounts of nitric oxide. Now, that makes Sense that we make it there and produce it there. Because when we breathe, we want to kill all the pathogens and viruses that are in the air, don't we? So nitric oxide is produced when we breathe correctly. In fact, when we breathe through our nose, we make six times more nitric oxide than breathing through our mouth. When we hum like we were earlier, we make 15 times more nitric oxide. So you literally create this pharmacy of defense just by simply changing how you breathe. Nitric oxide also increases vasodilation. And what that means, the fancy word for some of you, what that means is it opens up our blood vessels. So I'll give you an example of where that's important. When they first started testing Viagra, Now, I got all the men's attention. Viagra was initially developed as a blood pressure medication. What Viagra does is it recirculates nitric oxide. It doesn't help you make more. It recirculates nitric oxide. When they were studying this drug in men, because most medical research is done on men, the men reported a very interesting side effect, and that's how they discovered this blockbuster drug. This is also why during COVID men were being prescribed Viagra to help them with COVID because it increases nitric oxide. You know what destroys nitric oxide levels, aside from mouth breathing? Mouthwash. So all the bozo experts, all the health experts, right? They didn't teach you anything about breathing. They told you to use mouthwash, destroyed your oral microbiome and made you more susceptible and prone to getting whatever disease is floating around. Now, when we breathe through our nose, we also have a more parasympathetic and resilient nervous system and immune system. Now, where does your immune system start? Anyone know where their immune system starts? Starts in your nose, right? That's your first defense, right? 30 pounds of air move in and out of your face every day. That's the biggest interface you have with your environment is what you're breathing in. So, of course, it makes sense that your immune system starts in your nose. You know what the number one comorbidity was for people hospitalized during COVID Hypertension. Number one comorbidity. And all you had to do was teach people how to breathe. By breathing correctly, you naturally lower blood pressure. You increase nitric oxide production, which lowers blood pressure. You open up the blood vessels, which lowers blood pressure. How come nobody taught us this? How come nobody connected these dots for us? Right? We were told to do the exact opposite of what was good for us. In fact, a Canadian company, a Pharmaceutical company started developing a nitric oxide spray. So you'd spray it up your nose to kill the bacteria and viruses. Well, guess what? You make it right. You're not only the pharmacy, you're the surgeon. And you're the doctor. You're all of the above. Okay? So if you want less cavities, breathe through your nose, not your mouth. The way we breathe also determines our facial structure. So you can literally change the shape of somebody's face, especially your children's faces, by changing how they breathe. You'll learn more about that in a moment. Our breathing signature also informs our nervous system to create specific hormones and neurotransmitters. I'll prove that to you unequivocally today. So a little bit about me and my journey and how I got to be speaking about this stuff and doing this. If you told me five years ago you'd be talking about breathing all over the world, I would have told you you're crazy. So on the top, that's me about four years ago, four and a half years ago, when I met my now mentor, Giovanni, who introduced me to Wim Hof breathing. I went to Wim Hof training class. He was the instructor, and we just really connected instantaneously. And here's me and him in a picture together. Now I want you to pay attention to my facial structure, especially right in through here, right around my nose. The picture below is just recently in March, I went to hang out with James Nestor in Costa Rica at a breathing retreat. Super amazing and fun. If you ever have a chance to go, I highly suggest it. And now I want you to pay attention to my facial structure. Do you notice something different? Do you notice how my face is wider and how that it's opened up a little bit and I'm even more handsome in the second picture? It literally changes our facial structure. Okay? Now, what else got me into breathing was when I was a few years younger, my son, he went to the dentist. And the dentist said, well, we've got good news, Mr. Patel, and we've got bad news. Good news is you've got a handsome boy. Bad news is he's got too many teeth. And right. There should be a red flag for you, right? Because God don't make no junk. Nobody's born with too much too many teeth. There's no such thing. Right? Are animals in the wild having their wisdom teeth pulled? Are their faces overcrowded with teeth? You'll never see that in the wild. So what's happened with human beings is because we Chew our food less, right? Most healthy foods are mechanically processed, right? When somebody drinks a smoothie, they're getting a lot of nutrition, but they're not getting stimulation. The average hunter gatherer used to chew their food four hours a day. So it's no wonder when people turn 40, 50, 60 years old, their teeth start falling out of their face because their jaw was never stimulated enough. Okay, so if we don't use it, we lose it. What also happens when we chew our food is our jaw and our maxilla and our upper palate expands so we have a nice wide open jaw to receive all those beautiful teeth. So we went to three different dentists, and the dentist said, well, we got to pull his teeth. I said, well, I'm going to go with a different plan. Went to another dentist, they said, well, we're going to pull his teeth. Went to another one, they said, we're going to pull his teeth. And then finally, James Nestor's book came out. And I heard him speak and I read the book and it just blew me away. So I went to the last dentist we went to and I said, have you read this book? And he said, no. I said, well, okay, you're no longer our dentist. And we finally found a specialty dentist who specializes in airway dentistry and whole health dentistry. And my son then had a palate expander put in. So we opened up and expanded his upper palate so that all of his teeth could come in. Nobody's got too many teeth. Our faces are getting smaller and smaller and smaller. So if your children are young enough, pay attention to how they breathe. My son was a mouth breather and it was the cutest thing because his mouth would be open, he'd be drooling all over the pillow. Made for great pictures and memories, but made for detrimental sinus health and detrimental facial structure. You have built in braces. Your tongue and your lips are braces. So when our tongue sits in the roof of our mouth, it pushes our palate outwards and it pushes our teeth forward so there's enough space and expansion to occur. But if our tongue sits in the bottom of our mouth, then there's nothing pushing our palate out. Our face becomes narrow. What this leads to is chronic mouth breathing, which leads to adenoids, leads to tonsils overgrowing, it leads to chronic low grade anxiety, it leads to poor focus. In fact, 30% of ADHD is actually associated to dysfunctional nighttime breathing. So if your children are misbehaving, they're probably mis breathing. So now my son mouth tapes every Night. He's got his expanders in. He's got a nice wide smile and a handsome face and a beautiful, broad palette. Okay? So if your children are young, pay attention to how they're breathing. You'll save thousands and thousands of dollars on dental bills and, or, you know, braces and things like that. Now what I also get to do, which is super fun, is I get to facilitate breathing experiences. So this is me facilitating breath work for about 85 of the world's leading healthcare practitioners at an event in Arizona. So I'm trying to bring this to more people because I want them to bring it to their people. How many of you have learned at least one thing that you're going to share with somebody else today? Raise your hand if that's the case. Okay, awesome. Maybe even hopefully more than one thing. Now, for me, fortunately or unfortunately, I still don't know what I want to be when I grow up. So maybe five years from now, I'll be talking about something else. But right now, in this moment, this is what excites me the most. Now, because I can't cover everything today, I did put together a little bundle for everyone. So I'm going to drop this link in the chat for you to pick up. And you know, I believe the best things in life are free. So this is a free bundle for all of you. And when you get this bundle, it will unlock a few wonderful tools that I have and, and resources that I've created for you that are, are totally going to be life changing. So let me drop this link in the chat. You can go there and grab that and enjoy. There's full out breathwork experiences in there, there's keynotes that I've done and also if you go through them and you get one of the, one of the emails will also invite you to request the slides from today. So I'm happy to send those over to you, but you got to get registered first. All right, so what's my objective today? My objective today is mission's already complete. I just want one person to learn one new thing and I think I already did that. So now again, we're in bonus time. My second objective is to teach you things that are simple and easy for you to apply and implement tonight. Okay. I'm going to show you how to breathe tonight so you can fall asleep faster. I'm going to teach you how to breathe first thing in the morning when you wake up so you don't need that cup of coffee. Who's in? Raise your hand if you're in. All right? And then everything that I can fit in in between. Now, Leonardo da Vinci said that the greatest sign of sophistication is simplicity. And so I've been searching, searching, searching. Like, what's the simplest thing that I can give my clients to do, right? Is it giving them supplements? Is it giving them exercises? Is it giving them, you know, a new meal plan? What is it that I can do that is simple and yet sophisticated? Okay, Steve Jobs echoed this sentiment as well. And so here I am, Satchin Patel, echoing this sentiment too. The body is the greatest and most sophisticated thing that I'm aware of, which means that it should probably be the simplest thing to take care of, right? Our current medical paradigm, as awesome as it is, has gone down the route of what's the most complicated way to fix people, right? So to. To. And. And sometimes it doesn't even work, right? If the last three years haven't proven that to you, then I don't know what else it's going to take. Right? It's almost embarrassing how little our current healthcare system has to do or to teach us about actually being healthy. All right? The word doctor means teacher, not prescriber, right? The word Dr. Docer is a Latin term. So it's really our obligation and our namesake to teach our communities how to be healthy, not how to pop more pills. So today you're going to learn pill strategies for things that you're probably taking supplements for, things that I was prescribing supplements for. So breath, as I've defined it, is the zenith of sophistication and simplicity. The breath is where both of these intersect one another. Okay? The breath is something that we all do. We've all done our entire lives, but we've done it unconsciously. What I also want to share with you is that the breath is the steering wheel of the nervous system. So just like when we drive, we can kind of be. We can drive unconsciously, steer unconsciously, you know, raise your hand if you've ever driven, and five miles later, you're like, where? How did I get here? Right? You're like, in your thoughts, right? You're lost in your thoughts. And so most of our day, we're lost in our thoughts. But just like we can grab the steering wheel in our car and change directions, we can grab our breath and change direction, we can change where blood is going, we can change the chemistry of our body, we can prime ourselves for what we're about to do, right? Doesn't it make sense that if I'm Exercising, I need to be breathing a little bit differently than when I'm checking my email. Right? Wouldn't it make sense that I'm breathing a little bit differently if I'm trying to relax and go to bed? Right. So what if we could tap into this? Your body's already doing this. So let's talk about why we breathe. That's a good place to start. We breathe first and foremost, not because we need more oxygen. We breathe first and foremost to remove CO2. Okay? That's where the urgency to breathe actually comes from. It's innate to enhance and increase the likelihood of our survival. Next, we breathe to make energy in the mitochondria. Okay? So without oxygen, just like your car is not going to get very far. If I put something in the air filter and clog it up, your own mitochondria, the engines inside your cells aren't going to get anywhere. We also breathe to regulate our ph. So I can change the PH of your blood by simply changing how you breathe. We can do alkalizing breaths. And this is the way your body gets rid of excess acids. Right? Because we use CO2, we dissipate CO2 through our lungs. Next, our breath assists our heart in pumping blood. So every time you breathe in and out, your diaphragm moves up and down. The diaphragm is referred to as the second heart in Chinese medicine. There's three hearts. The one in our chest, the diaphragm, and our soleus muscles, which are the muscles in our calves because they pump blood from our lower extremities back into the upper body. So with every breath we take, our lungs squeeze our heart so it doesn't have to work as hard. And our diaphragm moves up and down, assisting our breath. So there's actually a beautiful synergy of these organs taking place to help us breathe. Okay? 40% of our blood pressure that our heart produces actually comes from breathing. So people who are dysfunctional, short, shallow breathers, guess what? Their heart has to work extra hard to pump the blood, right? Imagine you're a short, shallow mouth breather. You're not making nitric oxide. You're not using your lungs to assist in pumping. Your diaphragm's not moving up and down properly. You're stuck in perpetual fight or flight. You're telling your nervous system you're in fight or flight. And then, guess what? You go to the doctor. They give you something for blood pressure, they give you something for stress. They give you something for inflammation. They give you something for Your immune system because it's not working properly. Got a bunch of cavity in your cavities, in your teeth. You're snoring at night. I mean, this. This is just a recipe for somebody's metabolic health to be completely destroyed. Is this making sense to everyone? Like, I'm. As I'm talking, I'm blowing my own mind. Raise your hand if your mind is being blown right now, right? Just like, connecting all these dots. Like, once I saw this, I was like, holy shit. Like, why isn't anyone teaching this? It's just, like, so simple that anyone can understand it. We also breathe to move lymph. So some of the biggest lymph nodes in our body are underneath our diaphragm, right? So, God, don't make no junk. We're designed to be simple to take care of. All we had to do was learn how to breathe correctly, and all these other dominoes start falling. Where do most cancers start? They start in the lymph. And if your most important lymph pump is your diaphragm, and the way we move our diaphragm up and down is how we breathe. Imagine now we can significantly reduce the likelihood of cardiovascular issues and cancers and other chronic diseases in the abdominal area. Most people's diseases, like, nobody comes to me with fingernail cancer, right? They come to us, and they've got, like, stomach cancer or liver cancer or kidney cancer or colon cancer because they can't move the waste out of those areas. This pump, this piston that's moving up and down in your chest 23,000 times a day is supposed to be moving all that junk for you, okay? It's supposed to be happening automatically next. We use our breath to regulate our emotions. What's an example of that? Right? Funny you ask. Laughing is a form of breath work. Crying is a form of breath work. Sobbing is actually one of the best ways and one of the best breathing signatures to release emotions. That's why we sob. But what's the thing that we're told to do when we're crying? What do our parents sometimes tell us to do? They don't let us cry it out. They tell us to stop crying so we don't release those emotions. We store them and bury them into our tissues. Many people, I just had this happen last week, or this week, I guess, in St. Kitts. One of the guys that was there, big, tough guy. Once we started doing some diaphragm release exercises and we found some trigger points or he found the trigger points, he starts sobbing uncontrollably because when he was young, he was bullied. And so he would always keep a stiff, rigid abdomen because he was always afraid of getting punched in the stomach. And so he had this trigger point that was an emotional point for him. And when you released, just released all that suffering. Okay? So sometimes when you start digging in there, you might find that you've got some trigger points. We also regulate our emotions through other means. Okay. And we'll. I'll talk to you about this. Like when my wife and I are having a conversation, what I'm paying attention to is not just her body language, I'm paying attention to her breath. When her breath gets into a certain pattern, I know that I need to back off. Okay? A lion, when it roars, that's a form of breath work, right? So there's all these different things that we do to regulate our emotions. Humming, that's a form of breath work. We'll go through some other examples as well. We also use our breath to increase and promote circulation. I'll give you an example. If a lion were to walk into the room, and assuming you're not a lion tamer, what's the first thing that you would do? How would you breathe if a lion walked into the room? Go ahead and type that into the chat for me. What would you do? Don't be shy. All right, here's what we would do, right? We would gasp. What does that do? Quick expansion of our lungs, right? Squeezes our heart, instantly increases blood pressure, starts pumping that blood to our arms and legs so we could run away from whatever is chasing us. So we use our breath to literally change our physiology. And how quickly does that happen? Does it take minutes for that blood flow to start increasing to the periphery, or does it happen instantaneously? Instantaneously, right? So now we start seeing how breath is instant. It's like connected to all these things that nobody's been talking about. Okay. Now we can also use our breath to create spiritual experiences, out of body experiences, breakthrough experiences. And that's one of the things that we do. We'll do, you know, some of that today, but we actually do a 90 minute session. And if there's enough demand after today's session, then maybe we can do something like that in the near future. But those are experiential, transformational sessions where we start really moving some of the emotion that's stored in our body. So the breath is one of the most effective ways to do that. So how should we breathe, right, now that we know how important it is and how it's all connected. How should we be breathing in order for us to maximize?

Okay, how did everyone find that so far? Did you learn something new? Okay, what was your biggest takeaway so far? Type that in the chat. And I know we're at the top of the hour, so we'll wrap up with our biggest takeaway. And if there are any other last minute questions that you all have, we can take those as well. Practice slowing down my breathing. Yes. So there's, like I said, that app on your phone, you can download it. It's called I Breathe. Let me just make sure. And you can set. Set it to a cadence of, you know, six seconds on the inhale, six seconds on the exhale. And if you're doing passive work, it'll just kind of like gently ding to remind you when to breathe, when to inhale, and when to exhale. Annalisa says continue to focus on breathing through the nose daily. I'm going to upload this into your practice better program modules under the breathing module. So I know many of you are asking for the replay.

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Might want to watch it again or share it with someone. So I'll put it in your practice better program modules.

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And next week we'll continue with the second half, and if you have any other questions, let me know. Thanks, everyone. I hope you found that informative. You know, one of the main benefits of this program is to really shift your body more into a parasympathetic state. And the best way to do that is through your breath. Okay? So that's why we focus so heavily on breathing in this. In this program. Okay? Because all healing repair regeneration occurs when we are in the parasympathetic state. Okay, well, have a wonderful rest of the day. Let me know if you have any other questions. If not, then we will see you next week. Julie says, grateful to learn how we heal ourselves. Between dentistry and the medical and veterinarian systems, they're so far from actually healing any of us. Yes, very true. Excellent. Thank you. K. See you next week, everyone. Have a wonderful day.

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