#53 Secretos de longevidad que transforman tu salud con Gary Brecka (ingles con subs en esp)

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Este episodio es fantástico porque es con uno de los mejores biohackers del mundo. Es excelente para tu salud, pero fue hecho en inglés porque Gary Braykan no habla español. Si tú no hablas inglés, te recomendamos que lo veas en video, ya sea en Spotify o en YouTube, porque ahí tiene subtítulos en español. Disfrútalo. Oh my God, guys. You don't know who I have here today. I'm so excited. He's a scientist, a human biology biohacker. He's the founder of The Ultimate Human. He has worked with people like Dana White, founder of the UFC, and many other people. But especially, he's a passionate person. He's very passionate about human longevity and health. It's Gary Brecka.

Hey, welcome, Gary.

Thank you so much. How are you, Gary?

So fun to have you here.

What a pleasure to be here. I really enjoyed your event. You've got an amazing community that you've built.

And I— thank you, thank you.

I really think that the, you know, the future is in really building communities, and you guys have built an incredible community. Um, they were really sticky. They didn't want to let me out of the room.

None of us wanted to let you go. Okay, so let's start with your story, because I know, uh, you can predict almost to the month when a person is going to die of natural causes. Can you tell us how you started doing this?

Yeah, so there's, um, so I was, um, a mortality modeling expert, uh, for, for many years, which is essentially there's a niche market of life insurance, uh, that predicts mortality to the month. And, and sometimes when I say that, like, uh, you know, there's companies out there that can tell you when you're going to die to the month. Yes. Um, and I get a lot of flack for that, but the truth is it's some of the most accurate science in the world. I mean, there are tens of billions of dollars of financial services products every single year that are put in place that are designed to predict how many more months you have left on Earth. I mean, life insurance, reverse mortgages, annuities. Well, so for example, if you give— there's a, there's a financial instrument called a SPIA, Single Premium Immediate Annuity. You give the insurance company a check and they guarantee you an income stream for life. What do you think they're guaranteeing that income stream on? Or they're going to put $25 million or $50 million worth of, um, risk on your life. Uh, you know, how do you think they're determining your premiums?

So depending how much money they offer you, you know, kind of like how good, how good your health is.

If they offer you a lot of money, go to the doctor. Um, if they're like, we're going to pay you basically nothing forever, no, then you're good, then you're good. So, so basically, you know, all of us are on an actuarial curve, right? You know, if you're a 52-year-old male, you have a life expectancy of X. If you're a 25-year-old female, you have a life expectancy of Y. But when they're getting ready to put that kind of risk on your life, they don't care where you are on an actuarial curve. They want to know your specific mortality. And this was a very accurate science. If you want to know how good life insurance companies are at predicting death, just look at what happened during the 2008-2009 financial services crisis. We had 364 banks fail. You didn't have a single life insurance company fail. They are some of the most solvent institutions in the world. They're some of the most well-capitalized institutions in the world, and they are very good at what they do. And we use big data. This database had hundreds of millions of lives. And remember, they know the day, the date, the the time, the location, and the cause of death of all these people. Yeah, hundreds of millions of lives. And you can pull that back into the record and you can say, what was the sequence of events that led to this person's, um, departure? And, and what we realized over and over and over again was that the reason why people were not living healthier, happier, longer, more fulfilling lives was because of something called modifiable risk factors. Meaning if they— if I had been legally able to pick up the phone and just contact that patient, that client, and, um, and, and just have a conversation with them, I could have added on average, when I would model it, 7 years to their lifespan, 7 years to their healthspan.

But they wouldn't let you.

I was legally prohibited from contacting those, those clients.

So there's like a moral gray area there, right?

There—

well, there's a legal area, there's a legal hard line. So when you give your, um, medical records and all of your information to a life insurance company. They're allowed to review that to determine the price you're going to pay for the policy. They cannot get involved in the practice of medicine in your life. So even if I saw life-threatening drug interactions, I couldn't contact the patient or the treating physician to give them a heads up. And we knew, um, you know, on about 2016, according to the Harvard study— and there was another study that was followed up by Hopkins— that Medical error is the third leading cause of death. Um, and, and, you know, if you think about how astounding that is for a minute, you have cardiovascular disease, cancer, modern medicine.

Wow.

And so modern medicine and the errors that modern medicine makes is the third leading cause of death. Now, that's astounding enough until you realize that they're the third leading cause of death in the industry designed to prevent death.

Yes.

Yes.

I mean, if you applied that to any other industry, it would be laughable. I mean, if you sold home security systems, but you were the third leading cause of home invasion, right? No one would buy your product.

It's contradictive.

Yeah. I mean, so if you apply— if you were a roofer and you were the third leading cause of roofing collapse, you know, you would not have a great business. And, you know, here in the United States, you know, we're the largest spender on health care worldwide. We spend $4.5 trillion a year on health care. We only lead the world in 6 things: infant mortality, maternal mortality, meaning mothers dying at birth, infants dying at birth, type 2 diabetes, multiple chronic disease in a single biome. And we are now ranked 66th in the world in life expectancy.

Wow.

And so you gotta ask yourself, like, what is, what is wrong with our medical system? And why is it that—

and the food industry as well, right?

Oh, and the food industry as well. I mean, we could talk about the corruption in our food supply, the corruption in our nutritional research. You know, I'm, I'm I'm a big supporter of the Maha Movement and the Maha Campaign because, you know, for the first time, at least in my lifetime, there's an opportunity to affect public policy and maybe make real change. But when you realize that 77% of our military-aged men and women do not qualify for military service because of poor health, you know, more than— more than 74% of our nutritional research is funded by big food companies. This is how you get a food pyramid that says that Lucky Charms is more nutritious than grass-fed steak. It's mind-numbing. And, um, but just to get back to my career path, I, I just decided, um, that, you know, one day I began to realize it wasn't just data, that there was human beings on the other side.

Somebody's father.

Yeah, yeah, it's somebody's mother, it's somebody's sister, it's somebody's father. And, and I had all of this knowledge on how to make a change, how to make an impact. And so I abruptly left that industry And I started a functional medicine clinic, which did extraordinarily well with my wife about 10 years ago. We just exited that business, and I just decided I would spend the rest of my life teaching people how to live healthier, happier, longer, more fulfilling lives.

Awesome. Do you know when you're going to die?

I was just going to ask.

I've done one life expectancy since I left that industry, and it was on Dana White. And then, of course, he started talking about it. Now I'm famous for predicting death, but I don't do that anymore. Um, you know, I, I prefer to teach people how to live healthier, happier, longer lives because the truth is we are not as sick, we are not as diseased, we are not as pathological as we've been led to believe. We are nutrient deficient. You see, we believe this in plant physiology. If anyone listening to this podcast had a, uh, a leaf rotting in a palm tree and in their yard, and they called a true arborist, a true botanist, out to their house. They wouldn't touch the leaf, right? They would core test the soil, and they would say, um, you know what, Margarita, there's no nitrogen in the soil. And they would add nitrogen to the soil, and the leaf would heal. Human beings are no different. When you deprive the human body of certain raw material, you get the expression of disease. And yet We've been lied to very often that because you have high blood pressure and your uncle had high blood pressure and your grandfather had high blood pressure and your mom's brother had high blood pressure, you have genetically inherited hypertension, you have familial hypertension. And that's just not true. You know, the next time a physician tells you you have a genetically inherited disease or you have a family history of this disease, say, ask them, what gene did my ancestor pass on to me that's causing this condition to exist? What gene did they give me that— why do I— if I have high blood pressure because my father has it, um, what gene did he pass to me? If I have to know, there is no gene. There is no such gene. And so if we've mapped the entire human genome, we know every gene in the human body. If there was a gene for these specific conditions, we would know. Now, I'm not saying that there is no case where um, um, genetic deficiencies lead to disease. But the reason why the majority of diagnosis is what we call idiopathic— so for example, um, people that have high blood pressure— everybody listening to this podcast, uh, either knows somebody, um, who has high blood pressure or has high blood pressure. There's no question. Um, if you ask them, what kind of hypertension do you have, they're going to say, oh, I was diagnosed with something called idiopathic hypertension. I was diagnosed with high blood pressure of an unknown origin.

That's what idiopathic means.

Idiopathic means— it should be idiot.

It's kind of like the motherfucker gene.

Yeah, it's like the motherfucker gene. Oh, you can say motherfucker on this podcast?

Yeah, sure. Oh, awesome.

All right, we're going to have a lot of fun. Um, and, and so my, my point is that once I get you to accept that you have a genetically inherited disease, I can get you to subscribe to a lifetime of medication. Very, very rarely do we pass disease from generation to generation. What we pass from generation to generation is the inability for the body to refine a raw material, which causes a deficiency, which leads to that disease. I have a question, and that deficiency—

is there a psychology component here that like, oh, my dad had cancer and my grandmother had cancer, so I believe I have cancer? And therefore I get it.

There's a psychological component, but there's also an environmental component, right? Right. So, you know, when, when you're raised in a certain household and you develop certain habits and you have certain nutrient deficiencies, you follow the, you know, the pathology of your ancestors. But the truth is that when we're not passing disease from generation to generation, we're passing deficiency from generation to generation. So I'll give you a perfect example.

And habits also, right?

And habits and lifestyle habits.

It's like nurture versus nature.

Yeah, you know, I love this new term lifestyle medicine, right? Because lifestyle medicine, you know, you'll never go into your doctor's office and have them tell you, um, I'm pre-diabetic, uh, and the— and he says, listen, we're going to put you on a 10-week keto diet reset, you're going to do 10,000 steps a day. Um, what's your sleep like? What time do you go to bed? Do you have a morning routine? What's your oral, uh, care routine like? None of those questions. They go, well, your, your hemoglobin A1c is 5.6. At 5.7, you're pre-diabetic. Um, when you get to 6.0, yeah, we'll get you on insulin, metformin, and glucophage to control your, your insulin level rather than removing the habits that have led to you becoming diabetic. And this is so true in so many cases. When the body is deprived of certain raw materials— I'll give you a perfect example, um, Vitamin D3, which I would argue is the most important nutrient in the human body. It's the only vitamin that human beings make on our own. So when God made us, which— and I do believe that we were made by God— when God made us, he does— he designed us to be able to make one vitamin. If I was to test your blood right now, there would be hundreds of vitamins in both of your bloodstream. Your body's only capable of making one.

Is that the one the sun gives us?

The vitamin D3. We make it from sunlight and cholesterol.

Amazing.

And So what happens when you become deficient in vitamin D3? Because we've been taught to fear the sun. The truth is, sun is not our enemy. I mean, if you actually were to look at a chart of the parabolic rise in skin cancer, it would be superimposable with the parabolic use of sunscreen.

Wow.

The more sunscreen we've used, the faster the acceleration of skin cancer. Since 2018, 23 brands of sunscreen have been pulled from the market for directly causing cancer, yet we are taught to fear the sun.

And they tell you to apply the sunscreen so that you don't get cancer.

Yeah, so you don't get cancer.

So that's just crazy.

I should have done that before the podcast, but I'll, you know, in the show notes I'll show you the comparison between parabolic rises in skin cancer with the parabolic rise use of sunscreen. And, and so the, the issue is, um, is, is not the sun, all right? The issue is the, the, the, um a lot, very often the sunscreens and the chemicals that we're putting on our body. We think of the skin as a barrier. It's not a barrier, it's a gateway. And so when we reduce the amount of sun that we get, we lower our vitamin D3. This is where the term, uh, you know, in the wintertime, hey, put your jacket on, don't go outside, you'll catch a cold. There's actually no such thing as catching a cold. There are less viruses, pathogens, bacteria outside in cold weather than there are in hot weather. We should tell you to be careful catching a cold when it's 80 degrees out, if that's the case. But when it's cold outside, we're like, "Don't go outside, you'll catch a cold." Why do we associate cold weather with getting sick? Because when it gets cold— There's no sun. There's no sun. Oh.

That's why you get depressed, tense, and overwhelmed. Winter blues.

Seasonal affective disorder is a very real thing. Light regulates our cortisol patterns. So what happens if you become deficient in vitamin D3? Well, eventually what happens is you will, and I used to see this all the time in the medical record, hundreds, hundreds, hundreds of times. I would see that client was deficient in vitamin D3 for years and years and years, and then they begin to have rheumatoid arthritis-like symptoms. Now, you don't have rheumatoid arthritis, but when you get out of bed in the morning, the soles of your feet and your ankles are really, really sore. When you walk to the bathroom to take your first pee, um, it moves to your knees and your hips and your low back, and then it You're like checking. And then, and then eventually it's hard to make a really tight fist, like your knuckles hurt. And if you tell that sequence of events to the wrong physician, they will say, you know what, Marguerite, Sophia, you've got rheumatoid arthritis. I'm going to write— don't worry, I'm going to write you a prescription for a corticosteroid. You're going to start taking this and all the pain is going to go away. Well, the problem is you have a deficiency in D3. And we would see this in the medical record. Now you're on a corticosteroid. Now, very often they do this, they will diagnose you with this without doing any blood work, any sed rates, or what's called RA factors, rheumatoid factors. And now you're on a corticosteroid. We knew from, from our big data analysis that once you started taking a corticosteroid, you had 6 years and 1 day until you were having a joint replacement. Because corticosteroids are— first, they're anti-inflammatory, but then they eat the joint like a termite. And so it was so accurate that if you were a 60-year-old woman and I saw that you were misdiagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis and started taking the prescribed corticosteroid, I would artificially advance your age 6 years and 1 day. I would schedule the joint replacement for you, and then I would begin to reduce what's called your ambulatory profile. How well you ambulate, how well you walk. And as I reduce your mobility, I could bring in all of the diseases that exacerbate with reduced mobility. And now what happened was more pills.

That's crazy.

You succumbed to a disease that you never should have had because of a surgery that wasn't required, because of a medication that was unnecessary, because of a diagnosis that didn't exist, because you had a nutrient deficiency. And so that's one example, and I could give you hundreds of examples. You know, there's people listening to this podcast right now that are suffering from attention deficit disorder or severe anxiety, and no one has, has ever told them what that is. If you put 100 people in a room that suffer daily from anxiety and you said, what is anxiety? What have you been told anxiety is? They will tell you It's kind of a fear of the future. It's a sensation of impending doom. It's this sensation of fear, sometimes without the presence of a fear. Sometimes my heart rate increases. Sometimes I get sweaty, I get nervous. So those are— shortness of breath, shortness of breath. Those are all the characteristics of anxiety. But if you ask somebody that suffers from anxiety these 3 questions, I can show you that it's a nutrient deficiency. Number 1, you say, have you had anxiety on and off throughout your entire lifetime? They'll say yes.

I'm saying yes.

I'm saying yes too. Oh, good.

We're going to fix it right now. Are you guys ready?

Let's do it.

Is this giving you anxiety?

Actually, no, I'm very intrigued.

So good. And the second one is, can you always point to the specific trigger that causes it? Like, do you need to be afraid of heights and walk to the edge of a 30th floor balcony, or claustrophobic and jump on a crowded elevator? No, that's what almost everyone says. Okay, so right there I'm telling you, you don't have anxiety. I'm gonna explain.

It just comes out of the blue.

It comes out of the blue. That's not anxiety. Let me explain what that is. But the, um, and then third one is, if you've ever tried anti-anxiety medications, did they work? And usually the answer is no, they kind of made me feel like a zombie. You know? Yeah, it's kind of like your choice is I, I'm a, I'm a zombie or I have anxiety. So people are like, okay, I'll be a zombie.

Yeah, like they don't completely fix it.

Yeah, that's our—

those are like your two choices.

Yes.

So, so the question is, what is anxiety? Very specifically, anxiety is a rise in a category of neurotransmitters in your brain called catecholamines. There are four of norpinephrine, epinephrine, ephedrine, and dopamine. Um, that's not important. I just want you to know I'm smart.

Um, we know, trust me.

I, I, I need to speak words once in a while. Your audience doesn't know I'm smart.

No.

So, so these 4 neurotransmitters are the same neurotransmitters that come out in a fight-or-flight response. So if you walked outside this, this door and somebody was standing outside with a knife right in your face, um, you would immediately— your pupils would dilate, your heart rate would increase, your extremities would flood with blood. You would start to have a fight or flight response. Right. And that fight or flight response is a spike in these catecholamines. Okay. So now let's not say that there's somebody with a knife. Let's say that you're laying in your bed tonight and you start thinking about getting eaten by a shark.

Hmm.

You know darn well a shark is not getting out of the Atlantic Ocean. Coming up Los Olas Boulevard, right? Getting out, getting in the elevator with this little flipper, right? Coming up to your apartment and biting you in bed. But you could have the exact same reaction. So how is it that I can have the same reaction to the presence of a real fear as to an entirely imagined fear? Because at their hub, they're the same thing. They are a rise in catecholamines. So if we know that when catecholamines rise They trigger the sensation of fear. They actually trigger the sensation of panic, impending doom. They can actually accelerate your heart rate. They can dilate your pupils. They can make your hearing more acute. They can make your palms sweat. And you don't need the presence of a fear. Now we're starting to identify the villain is the rise in these catecholamines. And what happens is anxiety travels in families. You don't inherit anxiety from your ancestor. You inherit, inherit a deficiency in the raw material that your body needs to break down catecholamines. And very specifically, those are a complex of B vitamins.

Okay.

A very specific form of B12 called methylcobalamin, and a very, very important nutrient in the human body that 44% of the world's population is deficient in or has a gene mutation and cannot create called methylfolate.

Is that the motherfucker gene?

That's the motherfucker gene. For the record, that stands for methylene tetrahydrofolate reductase. Um, not motherfucker, but yes, it's way easier.

Everybody—

people are Googling motherfucker gene right now.

They're finding themselves—

they're finding some really, really good websites right now.

Desarrollarte una mente millonaria. Te voy a enseñar a gobernar tus emociones y a crecer tu negocio. Link abajo. Can you test for that, see if you have that gene mutation?

You can test for that gene mutation, but let me, let me give you 5 characteristics. If you have that, I would think in my career you have the, you have the motherfucker gene. Um, not just if you're a motherfucker. Um, so, um, anxiousness and anxiety, classic outcomes of MTHFR. Um, Uh, gut-related issues. So intermittent gas, bloating, diarrhea, constipation, irritability, and cramping.

I think we have them.

Yeah, I have never once, once in, in hundreds of thousands of clients that have come through our clinic system, not once have I ever met someone who suffers from severe anxiety that does not also suffer from gut issues. Not once.

They're related.

They're absolutely related. And, and we should talk about how to fix those because, um, And, and the reason why they're related is because they're related to the same deficiency. They're not the same disease, they're the same deficiency that expresses itself as a disease. So think about the hub of a wheel, bicycle wheel, with all of these spokes, right? So you have all of these conditions. I have poor sleep, I have ruminating thoughts. Like, I already know that when you guys lay down to go to sleep at night, you're in—

your environment quiets, your mind happens to me, I go to sleep but my mind doesn't. Yes, she, she brights up, she lights up.

It's really funny, she lights up. And I'll tell you exactly what she thinks about. Um, she thinks about the most innocuous little nonsense, like, did I get everything on my grocery list today? It's like, um, should I have a Thanksgiving Day party with clean dishes? Um, did I return an email? You know, did I do that post on Instagram? It's just, it's nothing that couldn't wait till the next day. These are not like earth-shattering, life-changing thoughts. It's not death of a loved one, bankruptcy, divorce. You know, it's, it's not these big cataclysmic events in our life. It's literally your grocery list.

Yeah, right.

And so many people suffer from this because if we have a hard time regulating this rise in catecholamines— let me take you through the cycle. So when we're calm, we're calm. As catecholamines rise, our brain becomes very active. It starts to wake up. It starts creating thought at a faster rate than we break thought down. And if we create thought at a faster rate than we break it down, our mind becomes very clouded, and we're told we have attention deficit disorder. Very often people that suffer from anxiety are also told that.

Yes.

Yeah, there you go. So, and attention deficit disorder is not an attention deficit at all. It's an attention overload disorder. It's too many windows open at the same time. You see, people that have ADD or ADHD do not lack the ability to pay attention. They lack the ability to pay attention to so many things. And so there's a difference. So what happens is the mind is overactive. So you're thinking about a job you're working on, and your friend walks up, and you're thinking about a job, you start talking to your friend. And while you're talking to a friend, you notice a logo on their jacket that reminds you of a vacation you want to take. So now you're talking about, you know, you're thinking about a job, talking to a friend, looking at the logo, thinking about a vacation you want to take. Day. And then your friend goes, hey, Margarita, my, uh, my grandmother passed away on Sunday. And you go, that's a great idea.

Yeah, right, because you're not— you're not paying attention.

You're all over the place. Yeah, you're all over the place.

And so modern medicine says, hey, if the mind is racing, let's put amphetamines into the body. Adderall, Adderall, Vyvanse, Ritalin— these are amphetamines to race the central nervous system to match the pace of the mind. Right? So let's take the system that's not broken, let's break it to match the system that is. It's literally like getting a flat tire and getting out of your car and slashing your other 3 tires.

Yeah.

Go, okay, I got equal.

Now we're good, we're on the floor. Yeah.

So, so let's go back to the 4 catecholamines.

Catecholamines.

How do you regulate?

You're a good student. Um, you're a good student. So what we need to do is we need to put the raw material. See, people that have this gene mutation. So what is MTHFR? Do. It takes folic acid, um, and folate, and it converts it to the form that the body can use. So first of all, we have to understand that there is not a single compound known to mankind— there is no vitamin, mineral, amino acid, protein, fat, carbohydrate, nutrient, nothing— that we put into the human body that is used in the form that we put it in. Everything without exception has to be converted into the usable form. It's just like we pull crude oil out of the ground, but you can't put crude oil in your gas tank, right? The car doesn't understand that fuel source. Crude oil has to be refined to gasoline. Now the car can run, right? Right. So you put vitamins, minerals, amino acids, nutrients, raw materials, proteins, carbohydrate— you put all of these fats, you put all these things into the body. Now the body has to take those and convert them into what it can use, right? Right. So if you put folic acid or folate into the body— and, and for the record, folic acid doesn't sound like a big deal, but folic acid is the most prevalent nutrient in the human diet. So, uh, and for the record, folic acid is also an entirely man-made chemical. You cannot find folic acid anywhere in Mother Nature. It does not occur naturally anywhere on the surface of the Earth We make it in a laboratory in the United States. By law, we are required to spray off all flour, all bread, all pasta, all cereals, all grains of any kind with folic acid.

But so do we need it?

We do not need it. I'm going to tell you what we need.

We—

so we, we don't need folic acid. We need folate, and we need the body to convert that to methylfolate.

Okay.

If you can't make this conversion, you have to supplement with methylfolate. So if your body can't convert this raw material, you have a deficiency in methylfolate. What does methylfolate do? Methylfolate helps to downregulate catecholamines. Methylfolate is responsible for the peristaltic activity in the gut. So remember, there's no, there's no pressure behind our, our gut. So it's not like the heart, right? It's not like our veins and our arteries where the heart has is pumping, um, blood. Our, our intestinal tract is a 30-foot-long tube. We put contents on this conveyor belt at one end when they exit the stomach, and it travels along this conveyor belt and it exits the rectum. That conveyor belt is moved by an activity like phasomotion called peristalsis, same way you swallow a piece of chicken, right? Well, that is highly dependent on methylphenidate. Folate.

So, so, so let me just— for everybody that's, um, not a scientist, not a scientist— so if you have a gene mutation, that's the MTHFR gene that we call the motherfucker because it's easier. You have that gene mutation, you do not convert folate into methylfolate, right? And then your—

and then you—

four guys are going to raise.

Yes. And like, and so think about the history of what, what, what we've done since, since we chemically began to produce folic acid. What have we done? You have OB-GYNs that will tell pregnant women as soon as they get pregnant to take high doses of folic acid because they say folic acid prevents a neural tube defect in your baby. That is absolutely false. Methylfolate prevents a neural tube defect.

So where do we get that?

Yeah, that's like saying, that's like saying put crude oil in your gas tank. Yeah, if you can't convert the crude oil to gasoline, it will never run your car. If you can't convert the folic acid to methylfolate, it will never prevent a neural tube defect. If pregnant women took methylfolate, they would not only prevent a neural tube defect, they would very often prevent postpartum depression.

Oh damn.

Why does most postpartum depression in pregnant women start when they begin the prenatal vitamin? Because the high dose of folic acid they cannot convert, and they go crazy. You give high doses of folic acid to somebody with the MTHFR gene mutation, they will go nuts. This is the— this is, this is where 85% of postpartum depression comes from. Eventually, when a pregnant woman's pregnancy is over and they stop taking the prenatal vitamin, the symptoms go away. So they blame it on the pregnancy, not on the vitamin.

Oh.

And so, um, if you, if you are pregnant and you're listening to this, don't take folic acid. Take, take a prenatal with methylfolate.

Where do we get methylfolate, a good one?

Um, so there are lots of great manufacturers that make um, you want to write this word down: methylated. You want to take a methylated multivitamin. This is a multivitamin that assumes your body can't convert everything. Yeah, it's all gasoline and no crude oil. Okay, right, because the majority of vitamins are crude oil.

It's like assuming you can convert them to gasoline, and if you, if you have the motherfucker, you can't convert them. Therefore, you just find any excuse in the world.

Sure, just, just get it out. Just, just, just, just let it go. So I mean, come on.

Ah, that's funny. Okay, I just really want to understand. So if you have the gene, you can convert it. So you take the mutation, the mutation, you, you go straight to the already converted— go to the raw material, to the raw methylated multivitamin.

Yeah, methylated multivitamin.

And that has the B12 also that we need.

It has the form of B12 that you need. There are forms of B12 that occur naturally in nature And there are forms that we make in the laboratory, um, that occur scantily in nature. One of them is called cyanocobalamin. It is a cyanide-based form of B12. So B12—

isn't cyanide a poison? No. Yes, it is, right?

Yeah, that's it.

That's how they kill people in movies. Yeah, with cyanide.

Yeah, that's like—

people tell—

they kill them in real life too. They do it, they do it in the movies and in real life. So, so, um, so imagine, you know, using— B12 is a metal, by the way. It's a light metal like zinc, magnesium. Most people don't realize that B12 is, is a, is a vitamin, yes, but it's a light metal. It's a very necessary metal in the human body. Um, it's the cobalt metal. When we put it in the body, it's called cobalamin, and what it's bound to gives it its name. Methylcobalamin, for example, that means a methyl group bound to a metal. And that's the most bioavailable form. Your body needs this. What's happened over, over the last several decades especially is our soil has become so depleted in nutrients, raw materials, minerals. If our soil is depleted in minerals, that means what grows in them and what eats from them is depleted in those minerals and, and, and nutrients. So the nutrient density of our food has gotten to the point where we're actually missing vital nutrients in the human body. So for example, you know, if you want to have strong, hard bones, people think you need lots of calcium. That's actually not true. Our bones are not made of calcium. Calcium combines with something called phosphorus. It forms something called hydroxyapatite, and it— and that's what makes our bones and makes strong bones. Same thing our teeth are made out of. So if calcium forms with hydroxyapatite to make or phosphorus to form hydroxyapatite to make strong bones. What else is needed? You need 12 minerals. If you are deficient in any one of 12 minerals, you're going to have osteopenia or osteoporosis. And what's the doctor going to do? Tell you to take calcium. Well, you can just go through all the nursing homes in the country and you will see hundreds of thousands of elderly men and elderly women that have osteoporosis or osteopenia, brittle bones.

Taking calcium.

They've been on calcium supplements for 25 years.

And nothing happens.

It's not the answer. We are mineral deficient. We are nutrient deficient. Like, so I tell people, like my favorite biohack in the world besides this that's in front of me, H2 tabs, is a mineral salt called Baja Gold Sea Salt.

Yes, I heard you talk about that, yeah.

And the reason why I like the mineral salts is because these have all the trace minerals that the body needs.

Baja Gold Salt.

Yeah, I mean, that's, like a $10, $12 bag of that salt will last you 5 years. I mean, it's the cheapest biohack. When you wake up in the morning, take an 8-ounce glass of water, take a quarter to half a teaspoon of this mineral salt, put it in the water, stir it up, and whack it back. Hydrate and mineralize the body. So because when you're missing these certain minerals, the body doesn't function properly.

You're making me—

Did we finish off the anxiety one? Did we finish anxiety?

I don't think we did. Methylated vitamins would help.

Methylated vitamins would help. So I want people that have anxiety that are listening to do an exercise for 7 days. This will change their life, which includes their children. Because when children have anxiety, if you think about what a complicated emotion that is, a 5-year-old cannot say, Mommy, I have the sensation of fear without the presence of a fear. I'm scared, but I know I shouldn't be afraid. I have nothing to be afraid of, but I still am scared. Like, they don't understand that, so they act out, right? I mean, when you're fearful, the next emotion is angry or outburst because you're scared. And so, uh, what do we feed our children first, first thing in the morning before they go to school? For example, Pop-Tarts, um, flour bagels, cereal. Um, these are high doses of folic acid. So now you put this into one of their little bodies that can't process it Now it's a full-contact sport to get this kid in the car to go to school in the morning. Then the call comes home from the school that says, hey, little John or little Juan, or he can't pay attention, he's disruptive, he doesn't follow directions, he's not completing his assignments. We need to bring in the Ritalin to solve this, right? Active mind. We need to race the central nervous system. No, we need to calm the mind down. So get the folic acid out of their diet for one week. So if you suffer from anxiety, do the same thing. Folic acid is found in any food that is fortified or enriched.

Okay.

So we don't— we sort of lie to the public. We don't say sprayed with folic acid. We say fortified or enriched because it sounds great because you're walking down the cereal aisle and that box of cereal is not fortified. And that one is. I grab the— oh, that one's fortified. That one's enriched. If you read the back of any label, it will say enriched bleached white flour. Um, fortified whole wheat.

Those are chemicals.

That's chemical folic acid added to that product. Get the folic acid out of your life for a week. Take a complex of what's called a B complex, a methylated B complex, methylcobalamin— make sure it has that form of B12— and 1,000 micrograms, 1 milligram of methylfolate.

Okay.

And that will change your life.

I just have one question. To get rid of all the folic acid, I have to get rid of all the, the white flour, processed stuff, bread, pasta, cereals that are not organic, right?

So all the organic versions of those, um, like the way that we used to make grains, um, the way that— this is why when people travel from the US to Italy, they're like, you can eat everything. I go to Italy, I have weight, I have a fat bowl of pasta, I eat a basket of bread with olive oil, and I lose weight, and I feel great, and I'm regular, my bowel movements are regular. I don't have anxiety. And then I come back to America and I have a bowl of pasta and 2 slices of bread and I, you know, and I feel sad and my energy sucks out of me and my gut is disrupted and I'm bloated. And then I get constipation because this is sprayed with folic acid. They're also high in seed oils, but they're sprayed with the chemical folic acid.

So let's get rid of processed carbohydrates for a week and take the vitamins that you explained. I'm gonna put them in the link also. So, you know, you know the protocol. You had a question about—

yeah, I just want to know, yeah, how do you find out what nutrients you have a deficiency on?

So you can do a blood test for it, you can do a genetic test for it. Um, if you, if you started a day by taking, um, like a Baja Gold salt, um, uh, and then you added your methylated multivitamins, you added methylcobalamin, methylfolate, and you actually got folic acid out of your diet— and for the record, you getting, getting fortified or enriched foods out of your diet doesn't mean you can't eat rice can't eat pasta, can't eat, uh, cereals. If you want to eat those things, just eat the non-fortified, non-enriched version, right? Um, so that you're not, uh, taking that chemical in. And I know it sounds crazy, but it really is that simple. And that alone, um, adding, you know, and then adding 5,000 IUs of vitamin D3 daily so you don't get D3 deficient. Um, because, you know, vitamin D3, it's such a necessary compound in our—

what are the symptoms of deficiency of vitamin D3?

So what's really interesting is the symptoms of vitamin D3 deficiency are not the ones that drive you to the ER, take you to the— to take you to the urgent care. They're the ones that create long-term chronic conditions that we assume are consequences of aging. I'm just getting old, right? We feel that, well, when I get older, I just start wearing readers. You know, when I get older, my low back hurts all the time. When I get older, I just don't sleep so well. I have ruminating thoughts. I've got a little weight gain, some water retention. I have poor focus. I have poor concentration. I have brain fog. I get a great idea in the bedroom. I walk to the kitchen, I wonder what the hell I'm doing in the kitchen. None of that is a consequence of aging. It is a consequence of missing raw material in the human body. God wants us to thrive. If you put the right raw materials in the human body, it will behave in ways you can't imagine.

I have a question about the sun though. So the sun gives you vitamin D. Can we fix these issues by going outside?

You can fix this issue by going outside. The truth is we are actually very photovoltaic beings, which means we actually charge like a battery from sunlight. And it's, it's a hard concept for people to believe, but it is very true. We have gotten so far out of sync with the circadian cycle of the sun. We used to wake and sleep with the sun, right? Sun rose, we got up, we hunt, we fish, you know, we, we, we built things, you know, we roamed and traveled. When the sun set, we lay down and went to bed. Our circadian rhythm is very tied to light. So when light passes through your eyes in the morning, it helps raise cortisol, which is a waking hormone. It helps decrease melatonin. It helps to also— you'll, you'll see that adenosine is rising. It also has an effect on our mood, on our emotional state. If you follow me on Instagram, every morning I do breathwork at first light. So you guys probably know this. And every morning I will post, I'm taking my morning antidepressant because it's— I'm not actually taking it. I hope people know that.

Sunbathing. Sunbathing and doing breathing.

Not even sunbathing. Just going out, take your shirt off, look in the direction of the sun and let sunlight hit your skin. What's really interesting is in the first 45 to 60 minutes of the day, there's no UVA or UVB rays. So there's no damaging rays from the sun. It's only healthy, natural blue light. It helps make vitamin D3. It passes through your eyes. It resets your circadian cycle. I mean, if you have sleep issues, you have— besides going to bed at the same time and waking at the same time for 7 days, just wake up in the morning, expose your skin to sunlight, look in the direction of the sun, allow the sunlight to hit your skin directly to the— not at the sun.

But on the outside, yeah, you guys are on Key Biscayne.

I actually look at Key Biscayne every morning. The sun beautifully rises right over where you live, right? And I sit down on my balcony and I just, you know, look like towards that bridge. The sun's over here, um, and this will naturally reset cortisol, melatonin, adenosine. It will elevate your mood, your emotional state. When light passes through our skin, very, very, very special thing happens. Inside of our bodies, um, inside of our cells is a little organelle called the mitochondria. Okay, the mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell. You are actually not powered by the food you eat or the air you breathe or the water you drink. You are powered by one energy source, it's called ATP. So when we eat, when we actually eat, we truly are not eating to feed ourselves. Nothing that we eat can be used by a single cell in our body. The only reason why we eat is to feed our gut bacteria. That's the only reason why we eat. Our gut bacteria eat to feed us. There's an intermediary between your meal and your cellular biology, and it's called your microbiome. So you eat to feed them, they eat to feed you. Um, so be nice to these guys.

Yeah, yeah.

Um, there's about 110 trillion of them working for you.

And you said hydrogen water helps with your gut bacteria?

Hydrogen water not only helps with your gut bacteria, it helps with is, you know, inflammation is the root of all evil. Um, you know, if you look at the majority of the genesis of chronic disease— cardiovascular disease, autoimmune disease, cancer, uh, you know, the majority of these pathological conditions— you will see that they have inflammation at their root. Inflammation is the root of all evil. So for example, we blame cholesterol for clogging arteries. Cholesterol doesn't just magically jump out of the bloodstream and stick to the arterial wall. Cholesterol is called to the site of inflammation to put out the fire. Cholesterol is a fireman. It did not start the fire.

So it's not the— it's not the bad guy.

No, very often what we do is, um, we blame the fireman for the fire. We, we— there's a theory, you know, uh, You know, modern medicine says, well, if we had less firemen, we'd have less fires, because every time there's a fire, the fireman shows up. But the truth is, the fireman was called there to put the fire out, right? Cholesterol is the same way. Cholesterol is not a fuel source. The body can't use cholesterol for energy, okay? So it's— 85% of it is made by the liver. Cholesterol is a construction material. It is used to build cell walls, cell membranes, make every hormone in the human body. We use it to make vitamin D3. We make vitamin D3 from sunlight and cholesterol. So what happens— our brain is more than 60% cholesterol. What happens when we push down our level of LDL cholesterol? We deprive the body of the raw material it needs to make cell walls, cell membranes, hormones, and vitamin D3. So why would we want to push that down? There is, and I will say this, um, ZeroLink. Between elevated levels of LDL cholesterol on its own and cardiovascular disease. You have to have a corresponding increase in something called triglyceride. But let's back up for a second. So if I didn't have inflammation damage to the arterial wall, I wouldn't have— if I didn't have a fire, the firemen wouldn't show up. We could be in this podcast studio all day. A fireman is not going to come through that door. If we start a fire in here and the fire alarm goes off, he's going to show up. Okay. He was called here. Cholesterol is the same way. When there's damage and inflammation, it will be called to that site. Because it's at the scene of the crime does not mean that it pulled the trigger.

And so, so we bought that little bottle that you carry everywhere.

I'm going to show you hydrogen. I'm going to show you why I think this is.

Okay, and then tell us about it.

And, and do you mind if I link the studies to this? No, no, no, go ahead. Because for those people that are science spirit animals, they might even believe what I'm going to say.

We love everything you do.

Yeah, but the lightest element in the universe is hydrogen. It's also the most abundant element in the universe. The majority of, of your cellular makeup is hydrogen. It's harmless to human beings. When you, um, drink hydrogen gas infused water, hydrogen water, it will not only reduce inflammation and improve circulation, it will improve the absorption of your vitamins, your minerals, your amino acids. Think about the fact that 70% of the blood that's circulating in your body is not done by your heart. You know, you know, most people don't know that the heart only circulates 30% of the blood in your body.

I didn't know that.

70% of your circulation is something called microvascular. Microvascular— these are, these are capillaries smaller than a human hair. Just think about it for a second. How small does a, does a, um, a blood vessel have to be to meet the wall of the lung and exchange a gas with the lung but not bleed into the lung? That's how tiny these are, right? These are what serve your, your liver, your lungs, your pancreas, your kidneys, your eyes, your, your, your lungs. 70% of our circulation is microvascular. It moves blood by this activity called vasomotor. Think of a snake swallowing a mouse.

Yeah.

Okay. So we don't even address that 70% of our circulation. We only look at the 30% that the heart does. But the truth is, if you want to have a real impact on hair, skin, nails, the, the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles, memory, um, focus, concentration, speed, agility, timing. You, you need to have the circulation in the microvascular system working.

And that's what hydrogen water—

that's what hydrogen does. Um, it is astounding. I'll, I'll link, you know, you can— when you have injuries, you can actually soak injuries in hydrogen water. I'm going to show you, you're going to show us something. If you—

I don't know, we're going to describe it for people that are listening and then for people that are viewing. So we're going to put water.

So I'm going to take a bottle of water. Yeah. And I'm going to measure this water's ORP. I'm going to measure its oxidative reduction potential. That's a fancy way of saying—

What's that? Yeah.

You don't know?

No, no.

I'm going to measure. So if I want to see if something is causing inflammation or reducing inflammation, I can measure it's ORP. Oh, the, the more positive the number, the more it's causing inflammation. The more negative the number, the more it's reducing inflammation.

Does it have to do with alkalinity or—

um, no, alkalinity is another thing. Yeah, alkalinity has nothing to do with, with it. In fact, drinking alkaline water will not change the pH of your body.

Okay.

It's one of the biggest marketing myths ever to the public.

That's a myth.

Um, alkaline water is usually good for you because it's also filtered. Um, but the, um, but drinking alkaline water will not change the pH of your blood. So like when we say blueberries are antioxidants, which they are, what does that mean? Like what is an antioxidant? Like we always talk about a vitamin C is an antioxidant. What does it mean to be an antioxidant? It means that you can donate electrons. So if something can donate electrons, it can reduce inflammation. Inflammation. Okay, if something steals electrons, it increases inflammation. So I can measure this. So, so what I don't want to—

this is just bottled water.

Yeah, and by the way, you can order this, this meter off of Amazon.

Um, what's the name of the meter?

$12 ORP meter.

ORP meter.

So I want you to just read out this number. It's positive. I don't know if the camera—

can I turn it?

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198, 199.

Okay, can they see that? You can see 198, 199. So that is highly positive. That's 198 above zero. So this water, while it will hydrate you, it is causing inflammation.

What?

Yes.

Water?

Yes.

I need to—

so what happens?

Buy me one of those.

What happens if I just take Elemental magnesium, and I drop it in this water and I create hydrogen gas. So as soon as that hydrogen gas begins to enter the water, let's see what happens to that number.

It's going way down.

Super fast. It's negative now.

It's negative. Now it's reducing inflammation. Do you see that?

Wow.

Negative 1, 107, 215, 220.

It's gonna go a little bit because it has like, um, hold on, there we go. Minus 26.

200.

250. Mom, you're blind.

It's gonna go to— it's gonna go to over minus 300.

Wow.

From plus 190 to minus 300. So every time you drink water, you drop a—

this—

these will cost you less than a dollar.

You don't ever drink water without it?

Never.

Official hydrogen tablet.

I have one product and it's— this is your H2 tablets. My son and I formed that company because I get it. Um, you can go to drinkh2tab.com. Drinkh2tab.com.

That's amazing.

Um, I believe that hydrogen gas— you can put a link. I believe that hydrogen water is the most undiscovered biohacking and aging secret on the planet because it's harmless to human beings. Look at the amount of gas that's in there. You see all that gas in the water? Those are micro bubbles of hydrogen.

Would some people tell you about water has two molecules of hydrogen already?

Yes, but they're not free molecules of hydrogen. You need to put extra hydrogen into the water. Okay, right. So, so the hydrogen that's in there is bound to oxygen. I'm adding hydrogen that is unbound, right? So, so you're seeing like there's your regular water it's filling with gas. So if I drink that water, it's going to go right through my esophagus, through my stomach wall.

It's— I want it.

Yeah, I'm going to drink it. If you have a headache. Yeah, just put—

I get headaches every day.

Okay. That's usually a sodium deficiency. We should talk about headaches, but take 2 of these hydrogen tablets, drop them in water and just drink it back as soon as it is done dissolving. It takes about 50 seconds to dissolve. I used to be a big promoter and I'm still a big believer in the hydrogen bottles. The challenge is that those are $275 to $300. Um, I got a lot of flack from my community. Like, people are like, I can't afford $300 for this hydrogen bottle. So I found a patent holder that patented taking elemental magnesium and compressing it into a tablet that creates hydrogen gas. When you put that into water, it creates 12 parts per million hydrogen gas. Hydrogen water versus 2 or 3 parts per million for most of these bottles. Um, and it's less than a dollar a day. I'm telling you, my two favorite hacks are the sea salt and hydrogen.

So I love it.

Baja Gold salt and the H2 tab.

So I have another question. Um, as a biohacker, um, they tell us to do— well, I obviously, I don't know if you specifically, but biohackers say that saunas are anti-inflammatory. What do you think about that?

Oh, it's so true. So You know, sauna is our natural detoxification pathway. So we have several ways that we can eliminate waste from the human body. We, um, we convert cellular waste into— through a process called transsulfuration and glutathione pathways— into something the body can eliminate. We can eliminate through sweat, we can eliminate through urine, we can eliminate through stool, or we can eliminate it by turning it into something else, right? So Um, so when we talk about detoxing the body, um, very often, you know, people are— in fact, the majority of your audience listening to this is suffering from one of five things and they don't know it. Either viruses, parasites, mold, or mycotoxins. Um, mold, mycotoxins, virus, parasites, and heavy metals. These kinds of things get into the human body. Unless we specifically test for them, we don't know we have them. They cause symptoms that are very strange when we go see our doctor that don't show up on a normal lab report.

So they—

you go into your doctor and you're like, man, I got headaches all the time, I get recurrent sore throats, I have crushing fatigue. Some days I literally just feel like I can't get out of bed. Lately, my mood has been very flat. You know, I'm just mood numb. I can't get excited about things. You know, I just went on vacation to a place that I love the most with my family that I adore, my husband that I, that I love. I've always wanted to go here and I just couldn't get excited about it. And these are things that we find acceptable. It's like living your life— I'm sorry, at a 5 out of 10 or like a C+. You just—

and we don't know. Yeah, because that has become our normal.

Yeah, because this becomes your normal. And so what happens when, when viruses, parasites, heavy metals, mold, mycotoxin, which, by the way, Miami is one of the mold capitals of the world. We know, unfortunately, we, we won the mold lottery here. And very few Few physicians will test for this. And, and so these things go on, on notice. So sauna is one of the best ways to activate your natural detoxification pathway. Another one is to take, um, glutathione, which is the most prevalent, um, antioxidant in the human body. We actually make glutathione in our liver. Every single cell in your body, every single one, contains glutathione.

Do you believe in IVs with glutathione?

I do believe in IVs of glutathione when you, um, when you need a boost. But you can take glutathione in a liposomal form. You can take it in a transdermal form. There's one called Gluteril, G-L-U-T-E-R-Y-L, that you can actually spray on your skin and rub it right through your skin.

It helps to detoxify.

It helps you to naturally detoxify.

Nice.

If you have— if you are detoxifying from anything, if you're doing a parasite cleanse, a juice cleanse, a water cleanse, if you're doing a fast, a fast, You want to be activating your natural detox pathways. There is nothing worse than detoxifying a compound from your tissues and dumping it into your blood and not helping your body eliminate it. So sauna is amazing for you.

For how many times a week should we do it?

20 minutes, 3 times a week would be where the therapeutic dosages are.

Nice.

Sauna is one of those that's actually dose dependent. The more often, the better. So if you did it 6 days a week or 7 days a week, even better. You want to make sure that you're staying hydrated, that you take like a Baja Gold salt or another mineral salt to make sure that you don't become electrolyte deficient. But the more you sweat, the healthier you are, full stop. I mean, um, so sweating is, is one of the reasons why intense exercise is so good for you, and, and you feel so amazing. You've actually cleaned your blood, right?

Right.

You skyrocketed your endorphins, your dopamine's high. Runners high, um, and, and, and you're literally cleaner from a cellular level after exercise than when you started.

I've, um, I met people that they do Ozempic for, um, reducing inflammation. Yeah, or Mounjaro. What do you think about Ozempic and Mounjaro?

Yeah, so Ozempic is something called semaglutide. Mounjaro is something called tirzepatide. There's a little bit of a difference between the two. One's a GLP-1, one's a GLP-1 and something called a GDP. Um, so if we just back up for a second and talk about what they are, right? So, so GLP-1 is a hormone that we produce in the gut. It's actually a natural hormone. We make it, um, and we make it in response to nutrient density. It is our satiety hormone. So in other words, it tells you that you're full, right? So if, if you set 5 avocados on this table and peeled off the skin, you would not be able to eat your way through 5 avocados. Why? Because they are so nutrient dense and so satiating. Your GLP-1 would skyrocket and it would tell you, you are full, you are stuffed, stop eating. Even if you had the room in your stomach for 5 avocados, you're not going to— you couldn't eat 5 ribeyes, right?

You would—

they're so nutrient dense, you would be satiated. You could eat 5 bowls of cereal very easily.

Oh, for sure. Yeah. Right.

Been there.

Popcorn.

Yeah.

You could eat 5 bowls of Skittles. You could eat an entire bag of Oreos. So it's— so our brain—

because they don't have nutrients, then nutrient density.

Your brain is saying, I didn't get the nutrients I need. I'm not releasing GLP-1.

Keep eating.

That's so interesting.

Yes. So if we talk about why most of us need GLP-1, it's because we're not eating whole foods. Oh, right. So the question should be not do I need to lose weight? The question you should ask is, why am I fat? Um, that's sounding super insensitive. I mean, you know, usually it's because— usually it's because you've been bathing your cellular biology in a toxic soup. So if we don't— I'm actually a fan of the GLP-1s, but before I say what I'm— why I'm a fan of them and and how I would be a fan of using them. I want to say that morbidly obese, type 2 diabetics— I mean, these can be literally life-saving, so let's call a spade a spade— but, but they've become vanity drugs, and, um, uh, you know, they become vanity prescriptions now. Um, and, and the truth is we should be asking ourselves, why am I heavy? Am I heavy because I'm overeating? Because I'm eating a highly processed diet? I mean, if you look at the Blue towns all over the world, and you say, what's the diet that people are eating that are living the longest? There is no—

no, no answer to that.

Oh, yes, you're getting— you're getting exactly the mangoes off the tree.

Yeah.

If you go to Sardinia, one of the highest carbohydrate consumptions in the world, one of the longest life expectancies. If you go to Singapore, you have one of the longest life expectancies, um, in the world, the highest meat consumption per capita. Then you go to the Mediterranean one of the longest life expectancies, very high in oils, very high in fatty fish. And then the French are screwing the whole thing up because they're eating cheese and drinking wine and living forever. So, yeah, some of them are smoking too into their 90s. I do not recommend smoking. But so the point is, it's not keto, paleo, pescatarian, vegan, vegetarian, raw food, carnivore. It's not the dogmatic diets. What's, what's the theme of all of those diets?

They're natural, natural stuff.

Whole foods.

Whole foods.

They are all whole foods, unprocessed, None of the Blue Zones had highly processed diets. All of the United States is a highly processed diet. This is why we were ranked 66th in the world in life expectancy, beneath some sub-Saharan South African nations that don't have clean water and sanitation.

Wow.

We are micropoisoning ourselves to death. And so, um, so back to GLP-1s. The more nutrient-dense the food, the more GLP-1 we, we secrete.

And the less hungry you are and the less hungry.

What are the superfoods you recommend?

So superfoods, I mean, a lot of people are going to disagree with this, but I would say meat, fish, eggs, avocados, olive oils, coconut oils, grass-fed butters, microgreens if you're going to eat greens, because these are very nutrient-dense, very satiating foods. Foods. Um, people have a tendency to be grazers. They have a tendency to eat highly processed diets that don't stimulate GLP-1. There have been many studies on this, and the less GLP-1 you secrete, the hungrier you get faster. So we overeat in calories because the body is craving nutrients. The brain is like, I don't have what I need. Let me tell you something, the brain is like the little Kim Jong-un of dictators. It's nasty. It's like the honey badger, doesn't give a shit. It sits up there and it takes everything for itself.

So I have a question there. If I get a methylated multivitamin, would I be less hungry because I have more nutrients?

You're— if you get a methylated multivitamin, um, you hydrate, take hydrogen water, you're going to start to restore your gut motility. That's the first thing. If you don't wake up every morning and have a bowel movement within the first hour of the day, that's something you need to get into check.

That's something I noticed when I started taking hydrogen water. I, I they got better motility.

Yeah.

And, um, better like mental clarity.

Oh, instant. And I mean, you will instantly be— but that's the drop in inflammation leading to the increase in mental clarity. So if you want to improve your focus, your concentration, your, your, um, short-term recall, put hydrogen gas into the human body. Drink hydrogen water. Um, I, I really think, you know, if I could think of other biohacking habits, sure, you know, $100,000 light bed would be amazing, but a dollar a day hydrogen tablet and, you know, 15 cents a day or 10 cents a day mineral salt will change your life. So will an $8 sleep mask, right? Um, so there are some things that we can do that cost little to nothing.

What's the sleep mask? So, so, you know, I have a challenge with sleeping. Oh, you do? Okay, so falling asleep— once I fall asleep, but it, it, it takes for— I don't know, it's hard for me.

Yeah, the reason why you don't fall asleep is because um, your mind is awake. So we talked about this. So there's, um, so I would love for you to start taking magnesium at night before bed. Um, there's a specific product I, I use. It's not my product. It's called— it's by Bio-Optimizers. It's called Magnesium Breakthrough. Um, and they have another powder called Sleep Breakthrough. And I'm not saying that's the only one. You can, you can look online for, for, um, for supplements that have magnesium 3 and 8. But this has all 7 forms of magnesium. Essentially what it does is help to quiet the mind. And so if you ask most people listening to this podcast, um, uh, what do you do to go to sleep? What's your sleep routine? They'll go, uh, I just get— I get in bed. What time do you get in bed? Whenever I'm done. Let me tell you something. Sleep is our human superpower. That is our absolute superpower. The better you sleep, the better you perform, the better you eliminate waste, the better your cells repair, detoxify, regenerate, the more sharper your, your mind, the better you perform athletically. Because there's some magic that happens during sleep that doesn't happen any other time of the day. When you start disrupting sleep in women that are premenopausal, you will find that they have hormone disruption, estrogen dominance, they have elevated levels of cortisol, Sometimes they can even become pre-diabetic from lack of sleep. And it's—

it—

that sounds astounding, but it's very true. So what are the things that happen during sleep that are so important? I mean, everybody sort of knows sleep's important, but if you ask them why, um, so there are two particular phases of sleep: REM and deep sleep. When you get into deep sleep, this is when a very specific, um, uh, waste elimination process in your brain starts. We have the lymphatic system in the body, and everybody knows that because your lymph nodes swell when you get a sore throat. Sometimes you get sore lymph nodes under your arms or in your groin. Okay, so we have a lymphatic system that eliminates waste in our body. In the brain, it's called the glymphatic system, and it eliminates waste from the brain. Um, this— so the glymphatic system is only active during deep sleep. So if you're not getting deep sleep, your brain is not detoxifying. Repairing, regenerating, eliminate waste. Um, so if you want to eliminate waste from your brain, you get deep sleep. If you want to— if you want to improve your learning and your retention, you take the conscious thoughts from your day and you stack them with your subconscious at night. That learned behavior happens during REM sleep. That's when we build our memory. We take all the things that happen to us during in the day, we marry them with our subconscious. And now I, you know, I sat in a lecture and the professor taught a bunch of things up on the board. At night, I'm assembling that, and I'm— I'm— that learned behavior is being structured.

So if you don't get REM sleep, you'll have like bad memory, and this could be due to inflammation, that you don't get good sleep, toxins. So basically being inflamed, is that how you say it? Yeah, suffering from inflammation leads to having bad memory.

Yeah. So I'll give you 5 things that all your audience can do for free tonight.

Amazing.

Change the course of their sleep. So first of all, um, sleep is the thing that is bullied in our schedule. Most of us, it's like the stepchild. We, we push it around in our schedule. Like, um, I schedule all of my meetings and travel around sleep and exercise, full stop.

Amazing.

So, so I prioritize sleep, not meetings, not travel. And, and so, um, for the next 7 nights, I want you to pick a time that you can reliably go to bed. Let's say it's 10 PM. I want you to set an alarm for 15 minutes before that, because consistency in bedtime is one of the most important things. We are circadian creatures. We are creatures of habit. The more consistent we are, the better we function. So set an alarm for 9:45 at night. At 9:45 at night, I want you to do something called a contrast shower. Get into the shower, warm water, turn around, run the water as hot as you can on the back of your neck for like a minute or two. Then step out of that stream of water. Most people are not going to like this. Turn it as cold as the water will go. Step back into that stream of water for 30 seconds and just deal with it. Just deal with it. And then turn the water off and dry off. Get out of the shower. This is going to break the catecholamine cycle in your brain.

Nice. I love cold showers.

Wait, that's at night?

At night. I'm only talking 30-second cold showers, right? Hot on the back of your spine, and step out of the water stream, turn it cold, step back in, and like, go take a big deep breath, go, ah, it sucks, I hate Carrie, I hate the podcast, and get out, right? And, um, and suffer for 30 seconds, deal with it, dry off. And then, um, and then I want you to do 4 more things. Um, I want you to surgically remove the light from your Yes. Okay, like your life depends on it. If you have a fire alarm, stick a piece of black tape over those lights. If you have an alarm clock, throw a shirt over top of it. You know, try to stitch your, your curtains together.

Make it pitch black.

Pitch black if you can. Um, darken— I mean, uh, cool the room down to about 69 degrees Fahrenheit. Colder than you think.

Yes.

Okay, if you're going to be on your phone at night, um, switch to the red light setting on your screen. You can go into your settings and you can actually set the red light. Yeah, if you click it 3 times, there you go.

Yeah.

So switch it, switch it to red light. Get yourself a sleep mask. You can order them for, I don't know, $8 or $9 on Amazon. Don't get the ones with the strap. Get the ones that are a full soft sleep mask. Go right over top of your ears and make sure that you surgically remove all the light. Why? Because light causes cortisol to rise in our brain.

So the mask is to make it darker.

Make it darker. You want it as dark as possible. Okay. If you're one of those people that doesn't like to sleep in a dark room, then leave the nightlight on, but use a sleep mask.

Yeah.

So that if you wake up and, you know, there are people that— my daughter's one of them. She can't sleep in a really dark room. Just freaks her out. Yeah. You can put a nightlight on and, and but use a sleep mask so that you have to raise it. When the blue light that comes from cell phones, the reason why they say don't be on your screen at night is because that directly stimulates cortisol. So you're telling the brain to wake up while you're trying to go to sleep.

Yeah.

Okay. And then I want you to, um, I want you to lay in bed and I want you to do exactly this breathwork technique. I want you to take a long, slow inhale through your nose, pause for 2 or 3 seconds, and breathe out through a straw. The straw is very important. Sorry, did that make a lot of noise in the mic? Um, that's good. While you're doing that, I literally want you to envision taking all the thoughts from your brain and breathing them into your lungs. Hold those thoughts there and breathe them out the straw. Zootopia 2 has come home to Disney+. Let's go! Get ready for a new case.

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Oh my God, it's very relaxing.

Crazy, right? They call that—

making me sleepy.

Yeah, it's making me sleepy.

Instantly sleepy, right?

Oh my God, you're a genius.

That is the drop in catecholamines. They call that natural Xanax. Oh, mimics the effect of a Xanax.

We like it.

Just— and so if you add the visualization to it, so it's like, did I get everything on my grocery list? What time do I have to take take the kids to school, put it in your mouth, all down here.

Oh, that's so cool.

And then, and then take the magnesium.

Do I have to get on Instagram? You know, breathe those in. What's that? And then taking the magnesium. So that's, that's a sleep routine. But most— set that alarm 15 minutes before, get in bed at 10 o'clock. What happens to us that we do not realize, and it destroys our faith in ourselves, and it actually affects our ability to trust ourselves to ourselves. And what I mean by this is there are promises that every single person that is listening to this podcast makes only to themselves every day, and we consistently have developed habits that break those promises. And I'm not talking about what you say to your spouse or your kids or your co-workers. I'm talking about you were waking up this morning, you were brushing your teeth, you're like, you know what, I really do need to be more consistent. I'm going to bed at 10 o'clock tonight, and then you go to bed at 11:30. And then the next day you tell yourself you're going to bed at 10 o'clock and get in bed at 1 o'clock in the morning. And then you tell yourself, I'm going to work out first thing in the morning, I'm actually excited to get to bed because I'm working out first thing in the morning. You skip the workout because you got it.

Yeah.

The only one that knows about that is you. Subconsciously, what we learn to do through a hippocampal prefrontal cortex sequence of communications, which I could explain, um, is we actually learn to distrust ourselves. We consistently break promises to ourselves. If we want to build our self-confidence, if we want to actually take command of our circadian cycle and we actually develop habits of healthy sleepers and habits of being able to make a promise and keep it to ourselves, this has so many, um, positive effects for us. It's unbelievable. So this next week, promise yourself you're going to go to bed at 10 o'clock and get in bed at 10 o'clock. It is so rewarding from so many If it has to be 11, make it 11. Yeah, but keep the promise. Set the alarm clock 15 minutes beforehand. This is what I'm trying to teach the world. It's like most of what I teach is free. Like, I've developed this VIP community that I'm committing the balance of my adult lifetime to building a community that I can teach and train and educate so they can go out and teach and train and educate the rest of the world. I'm going to give it to your listeners, um, for free this month. We'll use, uh, what is it, Pasos? Okay, so if they go to my website and they enter Pasos, uh, if they go to theultimatehuman.com, sign up to be a VIP, and they just put that Pasos in, we're going to do live sessions, live Q&As for a few hours every month, and you'll get the first month free. They get a— it's get a first month free. Yeah, because I want to restore faith in mankind and, and humanity. I want to restore people's belief in the ability for the body to heal itself, the, the power that this has over this, and, and show them that there's nearly nothing that you're facing that we can't, we can't address by putting the right raw material into the human body. It's such a magnificent machine when we really understand it, and people people can't imagine that their autoimmune condition, their Hashimoto's, their, their Crohn's disease, their weight gain, their water retention, their brain fog, their poor sleep, their focus, their concentration, their, their lack of libido— like, I still love my spouse, I'm still attracted to my spouse, but I have no libido, I don't get aroused, I have no sexual desire— those are different things. You know, I mean, relationships are destroyed because people believe that love and attraction are the same thing as libido. So when libido leaves relationships, one or the other perceives that love and attraction has left the relationship. And those are very different things. These can be fixed by balancing hormones and nutrients. Um, I mean, if you don't love the person, you're not attracted to them, that's a different story. So, so many people are deeply in love with their significant other, and they're very attracted to them,, but they don't understand why they have no impetus for— no arousal. Libido is a very psychosomatic— it's a very complicated process, but it can be fixed. And so it's just amazing, like, you put the love and libido back into them, to a marriage. You just restore people's deep sleep, you get them doing a healthy morning routine, you, you, you, you hydrate, you mineralize and nutrify the body. You can turn people into superhuman amazing. You know, most of us are walking around at maybe 55 or 60% of our true state of normal. We've forgotten how good normal feels, right? You know, people like 10 weeks after they're in my VIP course will be like, oh my God, Gary, I feel amazing. I'm like, you don't feel amazing, you feel normal.

You know, you showed the feel.

That's how you're supposed to feel. Like every day you're supposed to have the libido of a tiger, you're supposed to sleep like like a bear. You're supposed to, you know, wake up and be clear and focused and alert. You're supposed to have the full range of emotions. God wants us to thrive. Um, and if we just put the right raw materials into the human body, man, we thrive in ways we never thought.

Gary, thank you so much.

You're a genius.

I wanna, I wanna close with one question. Do you think we're gonna be able to live to 200?

If you are alive in 5 years, it will be your choice whether or not you want to live to 120, to 40. Wow. Right now, that's where the science is.

Okay.

Yeah.

Thank you so much. You're the best.

Looking forward to working with your community.

You're the best.

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