021 - How Estrogenics Make You Fat, Sick & Infertile w⧸ Dr. Anthony Jay
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In Episode 21 of the Playing to Win broadcast series, I'm joined by Dr. Anthony J of the AstroGen book, "How You Can Stop Erogenizing Your Body" to talk about the dangers of estrogenics and how they affect men.
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all right guys what is up we're live we're at episode 21 of the playing to win uh broadcast
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series i'm joined today by dr anthony j of the astro generation book how you doing dr j doing
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great thanks so a little bit of background i was introduced to uh anthony from um jay campbell and
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he mentioned your book to me about a year ago um i've been tied up with a bunch of stuff and had
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and hadn't had a chance to dive into it and i had another conversation with him a few weeks ago and
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he did an intro and here we are today but um it was a really interesting read i've done i've done a lot
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of um i'm not a biohacker by any stretch of the imagination but i've done a lot of reading and
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listening to books in areas to i mean as you get older it's almost like you have to do this stuff
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you know you have to really pay attention to what you eat what you're you know what's in your
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environment what you put on your body and in your body and stuff like that and i was always interested
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in environmental um endocrine disruptors right so wi-fi bluetooth stuff like that and your book
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covers it from a totally different angle oh yeah estrogens yeah um so towards the end of the book
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it almost seemed like the entire book was really about catching that tarpon though like you're a big
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fisherman oh yeah so um how would you how would you describe the book to the layman out there
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that is looking at the cover with this half eaten tree uh or half live tree and half dead tree and the
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title of the book again is estrogeneration uh hang on where is the subtitle here you know what you go
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ahead and tell them because you wrote it yeah how estrogenics are making you fat sick and infertile
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is the subtitle yeah yeah and the idea was the tree is you know i'm actually kind of doing this
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whole series and it's basically identifying the problems and then the solutions to those problems
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the problems in this case being these artificial estrogen chemicals that are literally all around us
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and most people have no idea and then the solution of course is just you know you can use a sauna there's
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a number of different solutions which of course we'll talk about here but yeah we got lots to get
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into um we did a we did a dna analysis for my 23andme i got a lot of questions for you um where
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should we begin so let's start with the notion of all these environmental estrogens that we're putting
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on and in our bodies and how that affects um i mean 95 95 of my audience is men so let's deal with men
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you know for the sake of the argument here but and how that affects men and their well-being as they age
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right because um when you start to pay attention to blood labs and i still have the stack over here
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as i'm looking at on my table because i've got about 18 of them now but i do them every three
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to four months because i'm on trt uh talked to jay about this a couple years ago and um it's really
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interesting to see how little pivots and change happen you know with small tweaks and changing your
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diet with exercise and all that but there's things that you know i've been putting on my body for years
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and i have some stuff on my table because i was looking at the ingredients as i was looking on your
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website so i've got these sunscreens here these are advertised from costco uh and you've got one
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actually that one there the yellow one the 30 spf right that's not a zinc based one that one is a
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zinc based one the 50 of course the babies get the better stuff um and then i bought this off your
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website after we talked and i took a look through your website which is basically a more natural zinc
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spray but let's start with what we put on our bodies and how that affects the endocrine system
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in males and why it's bad so let's talk about sunscreens first awesome yeah sunscreen is a good
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place to start because most sunscreen in america has endocrine disrupting chemicals it has chemicals
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that act like estrogen and in fact after i published my book so this isn't even in my book this little bit
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but there was a study they did after i published my book and they showed and this was in like cnn and
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everything you can just google sunscreen study estrogen chemicals usually you might have to add
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the word uh benzophenone or oxybenzone you have to add one of these technical chemical terms
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unfortunately because those are the chemicals and that's what i want you to look at on that label
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look and see if there's oxybenzone on either of those you know they make it so small i can't even
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read it with the damn glasses but they got yeah oxy oxybenzone five percent exactly uh pardon me
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yeah is it in both of them or is it just in that one it's in the 30 the 50 is more zinc based it says
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the medical ingredient is zinc oxide 20.6 good so that one's probably good but then it's got a bunch
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of other stuff you can't really pronounce like dimethyl copotonin and c12-15 alkali benzate benzate
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sure does it have uh four methyl benzaline camphor hang on give me a second i'll dive through all
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these four methyl benzaline camphor probably not if it's zinc based i'm sure you're good with that
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one not on this one no yeah i mean there's some questionable chemicals but they're not acting like
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estrogen probably but that first one certainly with the oxybenzone okay that's what i was saying
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because they did a study with oxybenzone now again this is just after i published my book but
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they put sunscreen on people and they tested their blood seven days later and their blood levels
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of oxybenzone which again acts like estrogen in your body it was above the government's own
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recommended limits seven days after one application of sunscreen a crazy crazy finding and even the
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former fda uh chairman came out and said this is unbelievable we got to do more studies you know how
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can this be and then we've had this chemical legal for 30 years and you know of course you can't get
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the the current administration the current fda the current epa you can't get them to say anything
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because you know there's legal stuff and you know they have a lot of ego involved with this stuff but
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there was um some mention in the book about how um sunscreen causes estrogen and i'm probably
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butchering this so maybe you can correct me but uh sunscreen will will will cause a binding effect
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to estrogen receptors or to testosterone receptors so it actually makes it even harder for you to
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produce your own testosterone exactly uh it blocks binding to the receptor for testosterone so because
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of the uv light on your skin it like it actually locks it out right there's two things yeah so i talked
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to an organic chemist about this chemical and it so with the estrogen receptor which is the receptor
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that obviously picks up estrogen when you've got this oxybenzone this estrogen chemical in your
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body if it interacts with the uv light it can link to the estrogen receptor it's like turning on a
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light switch and just leaving it on normally when estrogen comes into the receptor it binds and then
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it goes off you know so you flip on the light you flip it back off so you don't constantly have
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estrogen effects but if you have this oxybenzone and then you fuse it on there with uv light
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you can permanently flip on the light switch in other words permanently activate the estrogen
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receptor if that makes sense and then in terms of the testosterone receptor it actually blocks
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binding to the testosterone receptor so even if your levels look good on testosterone if you're
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loading up on this oxybenzone this artificial estrogen chemical and any other artificial estrogen
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chemicals that we're going to talk about because it blocks binding the receptor the testosterone can't
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even do anything does that make sense it's like basically putting a piece of plywood in front of a hockey
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goal and then shooting pucks at it you can't score you know what i mean it doesn't matter how many
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pucks you have out on the ice and how many players you have you're not going to put any points on the
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on the board because you got a piece of plywood in front of the goal you're blocking the testosterone
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receptor so they call it testosterone uh sensitivity you know it's like insulin sensitivity everybody in
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america they're eating too many carbs and we're all you know we're all basically desensitized to
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insulin we have insulin sensitivity issues and we have the same problem with testosterone so this stuff
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is really bad yeah like i should throw this in the garbage yeah correct you don't put this on your
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kids you don't put it on yourself in fact it's illegal now in like a bunch of different places
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like hawaii it's illegal to use that okay because it's killing off the coral reef which is ironic
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because they wait until the coral reef starts dying and then they start doing the legal stuff
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as opposed to waiting until people yeah it doesn't matter that men are growing breasts it's when
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you know the coral reef starts to die that they're going to do something about it um kind of as a
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side note because i'm always fascinated by the way society behaves and i almost want to say lately but
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it's not lately it's it's it's almost been like this for a while now but it just seems more obvious
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to me now that i'm an older guy that we're kind of pussified right like it and i wonder how much
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you know because of sunscreen because of toiletries because of our diet like i go to the gym it's not
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open right now here in toronto but when i go to the gym i mean there's guys in the change room with
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breasts like literally with female breast tissue um there's a big change in society in general like
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do you think that these um i mean not just the endocrine disruptors like the standard stuff that i was
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familiar with before like um you know bluetooth wi-fi and stuff like that you know having your cell phone
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your pants you know closer johnson all that but um is is a combination of all this in your estimation
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what's what's creating a lot of this weakness in society like the general pacification of the west
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i think so because if you do animal studies with these chemicals like if you give them if you give
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rats bpa or phthalates you know which again are those are in personal care phthalates are particularly
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common in personal care products or parabens you give those to rats and the male rats just are
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completely apathetic they're not interested in females uh they call it male feminization you even
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see gonad changes you know like for example they have reduced anal genital distance if you want to
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get super technical they literally does that mean in layman's terms it is feminized like women have a
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an anal genital distance like the between their vagina and their genital their anus it's a lot shorter
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than males okay so that's like a it's a hormone initiated you know process so that changes in males too
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if you give them a bunch of estrogens yes really you see a bunch of biological i mean you mentioned
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one of them man boobs right obviously that's an estrogenic feminization most scientists don't like
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to call it feminization because it's kind of a politically brave term to say these days but i
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call it feminization i mean there's definitely scientific research papers that literally use the
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term feminization and that's what it is so yeah it's brain it changes the brain it changes the body
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it can happen more to a greater degree to a lesser degree like for example lavender makes
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makes the list in my book lavender essential oil which is one that a lot of people don't think about
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because a lot of health people are using lavender and you know it's promoted as a healthy thing i mean
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it is anti-inflammatory but they discovered that lavender essential oil acts like estrogen in the new
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england journal of medicine they published a study where they had a bunch of children like nine month
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old babies that started developing breasts and going into puberty and they removed all the lavender
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from their personal care stuff because that was the common theme they found and all of them basically
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you know they reversed all of those issues and then they did an additional study on lavender essential oil
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and they measured the estrogen receptor activation so does it flip on the light switch right and it does
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so that's an even more powerful example of you know yeah you see it but if you actually look at the
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estrogen receptor again i'm a biochemist so that's the what i that's the study i want to see to prove
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that it acts like estrogen and sure enough it does and they've tested multiple brands a lot of people
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say well that's your lavender essential oil i get stuff from this brand or that brand and mine is co2
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extracted and all this kind of fancy thing but right it's it's not it's not necessarily brand dependent
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because they tested multiple brands yeah there's a lot of guys that um have ego investments in
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certain brands or even you know types of food like soy is a big one you know in the space that i work
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in a lot of guys will make fun of weaker men and call them soy like you know you know soy boyers
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or something like that and then they'll always have their vegan counterparts come in and try to defend soy
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um you know with all kinds of narratives and stories about how it's not bad for you but throughout
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your entire book you talk about soy in quite great lengths right so what is the what is the sum of
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all these uh parts when it comes to soy like is soy good or bad for men well that's a good question i i
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mean what's funny about soy every scientist agrees it acts like estrogen so you at least have to start
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the conversation there because even the vegans that say it's good for you they admit it acts like estrogen
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so you know that alone for most men is enough to say okay i don't want to have more soy in my food
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and by the way arguments that they tend to push a lot of is like you'd have to eat like buckets of soy
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to convert that much estrogen in your body for it to be harmful is it is it really that much or is it
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like no sushi if i put soy like if i dip my macchi rolls into soy sauce is that bad enough to disrupt
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my endocrine system to you know for that day good question yeah so in canada ironically they did a
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food study with over 100 food items plant foods and all of the plants were under 1000 units of estrogen
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except soy and flax soy and flax were over 100 000 units of estrogen so it was like a night and day
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difference between soy and flax and everything else and what was cool about that study they tested soy
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sauce so they tested natto and all these different you know naturally fermented soy products all of those
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were under 100 units of estrogen so the actual soy 100 000 even soy protein was in the thousands right
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like a lot of the soy products but as soon as you include natural fermentation those microorganisms chew
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up all those estrogens and it depends a lot on your gut health so if you've got a crappy gut
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you know your those soy estrogens are going to go into your bloodstream a lot more have a lot bigger
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impact if your gut's super healthy your gut bacteria are probably going to break a lot of them down
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it's pretty risky and the other thing is there's a more complicated argument a lot of vegans will
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propose at a scientific level where there's there's actually when you have testosterone in your body
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there's only one receptor it's called the testosterone the androgen receptor but with estrogens there's
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actually two receptors that stick to it and one's called estrogen receptor alpha and the other one's
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called estrogen receptor beta so alpha and beta and everybody recognizes in the scientific community
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alpha is pretty problematic alpha receptor increases breast cancer risk in women it increases
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prostate cancer in men it's problematic you don't want to be activating the alpha receptor beta receptor
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is actually protective in in terms of estrogen so estrogen has a lot of protective benefits to it
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if you're activating the beta receptor it's protective against prostate cancer it's protective against breast
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cancer and a lot of other things so the argument most vegans like to propose is that the soy activates
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the beta receptor and they you know michael greger dr michael greger big you know youtube star within the vegan
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community he's the big proponent of this argument and he cites a study that i've looked at and he
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said look look at figure one in this paper it shows beta activation and only a little bit of alpha with
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soy what's what's ironic about that paper is figure two shows the exact opposite in a different person
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so it's very person dependent again way too risky and you know i didn't get into that much we i didn't get
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into the weeds that much in my book i tried to make it really easy for anybody to read but yeah if you
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really if you're really honest with yourself and you really dig into the science i mean soy is
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estrogenic it's something people should avoid yeah and so is uh flaxseed oil which is something i used
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to like routinely blend into my protein shakes for a long time um i learned flaxseed was estrogenic about
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two years ago so i took that out on my diet um you know soy has obviously been out of my diet for a long
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time because i knew that was garbage but um i mean there's still a lot of soy products out there and
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it's infused in a lot of foods i mean it's a filler in a lot of foods i mean even mentioned
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um in the book if you buy something that's labeled vegetable oil 30 of it could be soy right you know
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because soy is a vegetable so um soy is something like soy is something that all men should should
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skip like is that what you're saying or correct unless it's fermented soy sauce fine put a ton of
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it on your food okay so fermented is fine so sushi is good you're good with your sushi you can
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yeah awesome okay all right i don't have to move away from my uh sushi place man because i got this
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great boutique joint that does some good awesome does some good work um okay so let's talk about
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some uh stuff that we're putting in our body was when it comes to food beyond soy and flax um you also
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mentioned a lot with packaging plastic packaging um there's been a big movement lately and a lot of
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people will still buy plastic bottles and drink things out of plastic bottles because it says bpa
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free um but there's still like estrogenics in these plastics yeah oh yeah can you talk about that for
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a little bit yeah for sure so uh when the when so 17 states at least in america outlawed bpa for
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children's products what the companies did instead of using bisphenol a which is this bpa they made
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bisphenol s which is literally if they've done studies it's just as estrogenic as bpa it acts like
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estrogen in your body just as much as bpa but now they can say bpa free and now they're using bps
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and so it sounds good and if they don't want to use bps they can use bpf and they can use bpaf and
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they can literally use like a whole alphabet of different chemicals that are just as estrogenic
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as bpa but sometimes they don't use any of the bisphenols and they just use phthalates so it's plastic
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number one in the little recycling symbol on the bottom of the plastic that's full of phthalates
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and phthalates are also estrogenic so generally you just want to be really cautious of plastic
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there are plastics out there that don't have estrogen but it's it's pretty hard to find them
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it's not super common some companies are really careful about it most companies you can't find it
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in glass or stainless steel right like it's exactly glass is great stainless is great exactly it's not
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and silicone packaging i think you said was also good for storing food yep silicone is good
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um so as far as any other foods to avoid beyond soy and flax what else should men keep their eyes
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out for well smoking cannabis actually acts like estrogen as well um not the edibles for some
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reason just the smoke oh that's interesting and not the thc so vaping is vaping is fine okay there's
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something about smoking because it's the combustion of the the plant versus the cooking of it exactly
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yeah that's interesting so there's something about that so it doesn't mean you can never have it
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it just means you know if you're adding that on top of all the plastics and all the sunscreens and
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all the other shit well then you've got potential issues and that and you see it like in teenagers you
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see more infertility and that sort of thing and in teenagers that are regular smokers of cannabis
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um but other than that you know yeah there's also estrogenics in the drinking water too because
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every woman that's on birth control pills that's peeing out the ee2 into the septic system they can't
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clean that out with the water treatment plant so it ends up back in the water system and a lot of
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people are drinking untreated water that has estrogen in it exactly i think you mentioned in
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your book that it that you have to have a charcoal water filter so i've got a i think it's a five stage
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reverse osmosis water filtration system am i good yep yeah reverse osmosis gets them out okay so would
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like a brita filter do for people because that's a charcoal system too isn't it yep yep they have
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charcoal in those and just make sure every once in a while i find a filter that doesn't have
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activated charcoal and it's crazy but it does they do exist so you do want to double check but most of
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them are good like that okay um so we dealt with water we dealt with foods we dealt with what about
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toiletries um i did a video a couple weeks ago talking about fragrances and some guys lost their
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like they lost their shit because it's like oh you say so you know you said something bad bad about my
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man fragrance and it works on women and i get the girls and you don't know what you're talking
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about it's like dude i i knew 20 years ago this stuff was crap can you talk about uh toiletries and
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fragrances in general when it comes to putting that stuff on your body too oh yeah well i mean they
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intentionally put phthalates in most of them unless it specifically says phthalate free paraben free
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they're usually putting phthalates and parabens and both of those are acting like estrogen
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and i've talked to chemists about this like why do you guys put it in there i mean number one it's
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a lot cheaper right these are petroleum products they can cheat they can use them as cheap fillers
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put like 80 to 90 percent of this cheap stuff in there and put a little bit of fragrance but the
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argument they make is that it carries the fragrance further through the air problem with that is you're
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putting on your skin it's acting like estrogen it's just another source of estrogen so and it's in
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the shampoos too you know so yeah that stuff you got to be cautious with and get decent quality
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personal care products across the board soaps you know so when somebody argues that they spend
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200 on their cologne and it's got that strong fragrance it's it's got phthalates and parabens in
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it a lot of the time most of the time yeah i mean unless it says pal paraben free phthalate free
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it it will no they'll spend more money on the packaging with uh stainless steel and and crystallized
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bottles to you know catch the eye with marketing than they will putting a quality product in the bottle
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right um by the way guys um i've got dr j's book uh in my amazon store so pinned in the top comment
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where it says amazon store all my recommended reads are in there i just added his book to that
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uh you can also go to his site which let me just pop up the screen here because i want to show you
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uh how comprehensive it is you definitely want to get onto his uh website here so this is the book by
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the way well it's kind of like the book cover but um he's got his list of his top 10 items and he also
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has a full list on what i use so a lot of the stuff that we're talking about like soaps toiletries
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hand soaps uh shampoos laundry detergents diaper rash creams uh sunscreen so that sunscreen there is the
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one that i just showed you guys here i ordered that off the site a couple weeks ago um everything
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that you need to grab to replace the crap that you're putting on on your body right now can be
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found on that site so definitely don't ignore that um what else should we cover because we also have a
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dna analysis uh that you did on my uh off my 23 and me how much time do you have for tonight by the
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way um hour and a half if necessary okay so we're at the 22 mark 22 minute mark how much time does it
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take to dive into the dna thing it takes a while it depends how deep you want to go um well i don't
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know how many pages it was it seemed like it was like 15 it's like 15 pages but you know there's a
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lot of pages where you have good genes and there's not it's not necessary to cover a lot of those good
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genes yeah i mean if you want i can just pick out some of the highlights yeah well i got it there on
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the other screen so i can put it up so we can kind of dive through it um you know page by page i got a
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super chat here from popski said fitness wise would you recommend to go animal based protein powder
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if that's cheap and there's a reason behind it recommend to go animal based to go animal based
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protein powder i guess instead of like whey which is based on milk yeah i'm a big fan of collagen um
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they did a study with radioactive collagen because there's a lot of scientific debate about whether it
00:23:43.180
actually goes to your joints and your discs and your back and you think you know your stomach acid
00:23:48.860
breaks all this collagen down into individual building blocks and that just disperses into
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your body right well they gave rats radioactive collagen and then they measured the radioactivity
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and almost all of it was in their joints so it's phenomenal for your joints if you want to take
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collagen it your body can reconstruct it but it does break down into the building blocks but then
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it reconstructs into the joints so i'm a huge fan of collagen and is that from animal based uh protein
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powders yeah correct um your book talked a lot about dairy products and milk specifically
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can we spend some time on that because a lot of people still eat eat a lot of dairy especially
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kids too right yeah and that's definitely another source of estrogen depending on where you're getting
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the dairy um and in fact for you you've got some genes speaking of your genetics if you don't mind
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right i mean you have some genes where you're probably sensitive to dairy it's going to cause more
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inflammation in you than most people have you have you experienced that um as in like uh bloating and
00:24:44.980
bloating diarrhea i get a lot of gas man like i'm farting a lot maybe that's it oh yeah that'll do
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it but then again i don't have a lot of dairy products either good well i mean if you did have
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dairy would it give you like stomach issues no no i never get stomach issues with dairy but i don't
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have it that often i mean if i do it's like you know around thanksgiving or christmas i'll have like
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a big bowl of custard on rhubarb pie for example right sure but you're not drinking milk and stuff i mean
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yeah like for with your genetics i would avoid dairy more strictly than most people because you
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have two genes that are problematic there okay and a lot of people don't it's probably about 50 50 in
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terms of whether or not you have bad genes for dairy so there's a lot of people out there that really need
00:25:27.220
to be careful dairy because not only is there some estrogen chemicals in dairy at least the mass
00:25:32.020
produced dairy but there's also you know sensitivity and inflammation issues in a lot of people
00:25:37.400
how like how important would it be for the average guy i mean not many guys will go and get a 23 and me
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to begin with but once you get a 23 and me study done you can actually send the data over to you and
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you'll do a full dna analysis on it breaking it down which i have a copy over here so we're going to do
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that on tonight's show on my own um report but is this something that many people do is this something
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that you recommend people do if they want to optimize their life i mean if they want to play
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to win at life and live the best life possible like is it worth it oh 100 and it the problem is
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if you just get the 23 and me health report they tell you like you have blue eyes and they tell you
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all this they tell you where your family's from basically yeah and it's not really that important
00:26:22.980
it's not worth 100 bucks you know but the information i mean they do like 650 000 snips of dna
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they have a ton of dna code it's like thousands of pages of dna code and if you actually dig into that it's
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phenomenal and what i always say is basically knowledge is power so the more you know about
00:26:39.200
yourself the more powerful you can be in terms of utilizing that knowledge to you know improve
00:26:44.180
your life so i think it is super important i think it's necessary but obviously i'm biased right i mean
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i have a dna go there literally tonight i have a dna consult i have them every day i do them with pro
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athletes i do them with special forces i do them with you know professional bodybuilders and and
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also just normal people right yeah let's let's go there in just one minute i'm just going to be
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very adb here and grab this uh super chat here yard who says uh what's your take on intermittent
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fasting i'm a huge fan of intermittent fasting the only problem is something like i gave a talk for
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the special forces i gave a couple talks actually and i brought up intermittent fasting because again
00:27:17.200
i'm a huge fan but the whole room kind of went but you know started buzzing i had a couple hundred
00:27:22.640
people in the audience and they all started whispering to each other and i guess there's this big debate
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in the special forces because intermittent fasting and training super hard all day long is not very
00:27:31.400
compatible but so it depends on your lifestyle but i in general i'm a big fan of intermittent fasting
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yeah it's everything that i've seen on it supports that it's good for you it doesn't do anything bad
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really so here's my 20 uh 23 and me page uh for those of you that are interested it turns out i'm 23
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italian 16 british irish and 11 french german and the rest of it's uh broadly uh you know
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northern african or northeastern uh europe but um some of the reservations i've seen some people
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make when it comes to 23 and me is oh bro don't do that man you're gonna give them all your data
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information what's your take on that right i've had this discussion with the military right um what i do
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is i just use an alias when i'm you know when i buy these dna console of these kits for people
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and you know that's that's generally good enough uh but it's not all your data right like it's
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it's just your certain amount of genes i mean i understand it for sure i i think people should
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definitely just use an alias when they buy it most people don't anyways but right i think that's a good
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extra added layer of protection so um you actually do a full analysis on the data that they collect from
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23 and me so you basically emailed me back the sheet and i extracted it into this um simple word
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doc uh i can't remember what it's called but that but that simpler version of word and it was pages
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long like it was it was lines and lines and lines and lines of code was that the 600 000 lines of code
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that you were talking about correct so this is what we got out of that guys so this will be an
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interesting dive here if any if any one of you are interested in uh booking dr j for this year i'm
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just going to go a little bit bigger on the screen to try to fill it up so it's easier to read
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can you see that okay on your screen oh yeah i see great yeah okay so yeah i just have like a cover page
00:29:30.240
with a little page here and then you kind of summarize things like alzheimer's brain performance
00:29:35.240
um you know you talk here about like do you want to walk me through this step by step or you want
00:29:40.100
to read it out like what's the easiest way for you to do this well we'll skip around a little bit but
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i mean i'll give people i think the overview that's important is that i have i break it into five
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categories okay it's a little bit arbitrary it's just how i've done it over the years because i you
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know i've tweaked a little bit and played with this but the brain is the first section of all the genes
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relating to your brain to your stress to your anxiety there's a lot of common ones that a lot of people
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have things like that anything with the brain uh second category is diet uh so you know that's
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where dairy would come in right and you notice that dairy is on there yep and a lot of people have
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nothing in that section so anytime you see blank categories that means you've got good genes there
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you want to see a lot of blank categories um and then keep going down and you'll see the next section
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is vitamin hormone and detox genes which again is a little bit similar to diet but that's where
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we get into testosterone genes we get into estrogen we get in vitamin d which i consider a hormone
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things like that so another you can notice here that your testosterone section is blank which is
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great you've got good genes for testosterone although you have a few estrogen genes that can sometimes you
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know cause some so so i always have um upper high levels of estrogen on my blood panels whenever i get
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them pulled for trt yeah um my doctors got me on some uh natural supplements like dim i eat broccoli
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like it's going out of style yeah um and there's another one i think it's called cryosin which is in
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this other supplement that he gives me but i'm still always like right at the top or even beyond the
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upper levels is that because i convert testosterone uh very very quickly into estrogen or is that because
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of environmental estrogens like you know sunscreens and crap i've been putting on my body
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it's a little bit of both i mean scroll down a little bit more let me see the rest of the estrogen
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genes like yeah i mean you don't so this you see cyp2c19 this is the liver enzyme anytime you see the
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letter cyp yeah you're highlighting it that means it's in your liver it's involved in breaking something
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down in this case it's involved in breaking down estrogen and that enzyme doesn't work as well as it
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should so you're not breaking down estrogen as well as you should so you're aromatizing just like
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everybody else but it's staying in your body longer because your liver is not breaking it down does that
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make sense yeah like i'm not a fat guy so i don't have a lot of belly fat so i'm not storing a lot
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there though exactly yeah it's just the liver just a breakdown issue um you also mentioned to use a sauna
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uh here in this report you also mentioned in the book to use a sauna um towards the end um you said
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infrared sauna is the better type yeah although heat is really important as well like sweating it
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is really important they did a study with the reason i'm i'm such a big fan in terms of estrogen
00:32:25.280
and clear clearing your estrogen is because they did a skin patch study it's like a nicotine patch
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without the nicotine and they had groups of people that went in saunas and groups who like didn't go
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in saunas and then they took off the patch and measured for chemicals and all the people that went
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in the saunas they were like full of bpa and phthalates and oxybenzones and all these estrogens we've
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been talking about and the people that didn't go on saunas they didn't have any of those chemicals
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on those patches so you sweat out these chemicals profusely and also what was really crazy about that
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study is neither group really had any in their urine so they weren't peeing them out but you sweat
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them out so it's a great way to kind of balance your estrogen if you do it at least three times a week
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that was the key what what kind of sauna can get up to 180 because the one at the gym is definitely
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not at 180 it's not even close to it well as long as you're sweating that's the most important thing
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the problem is most of the studies are done with saunas at 180 degrees so i know the sweet spot for
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those saunas is at least 10 minutes but if you're using a sauna that's 160 degrees you probably got
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to go longer like 20 minutes but it's still going to have the benefits the reason i like infrared is
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the heat comes into your body a lot deeper and it's all about speeding up molecular motion allowing
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your cells to clear out those estrogens it's like boiling water right like when you heat up water the
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molecules move faster and then a lot of them shoot out into the air as gas it's the same thing except
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the infrared is heating up internally allowing those molecules to move faster get out in your blood
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you start sweating them out okay so as far as estrogens go i mean you know you've got the same
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thing here that i've already known with eating broccoli cauliflower brussels sprouts cabbage kale
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exactly uh sauna i'll have to pick one of those up um okay so we've got that there what else did we
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need to so shbgs or anything that's not worthy here yeah i mean your shbg might be a little bit
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higher it's a plus it's plus minus gene but so let me back up a step and just make a note that
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in every cell in our body we actually have two copies of dna except egg and sperm cells egg and sperm
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cells only have one copy of dna so of course when egg and sperm cells fuse together that's where you
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get the copy of dna from your mother and the copy of dna from your father and that's also where you
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get these plus pluses and plus minuses because a plus plus means you got a bad version of that gene
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from your mother and a bad version of the gene from your father whereas a plus minus means you
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actually have a good version of a gene from one parent and a bad version from the other parent
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okay so plus minus isn't this problematic okay so that's what that is yeah sometimes it's exactly
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sometimes you see the this the equivalent problems with plus minus genes and sometimes you don't
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they're just harder to predict okay is this something that you took a look at before you
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you chose a wife you know by the way is this something
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no i did not use it as a date all people use it as a 23 me as like dating site i don't know man i can
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see people using this in the future like there's this tv show now apparently where this 48 year this 41
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year old divorced woman is making all these uh guys jump through hoops to you know for the
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privilege of impregnating her and they're doing all kinds of tests on these guys i'm just wondering
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if this is something that people do oh yeah you could it's powerful tool i mean a few weeks ago i had
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a woman she didn't have a single plus plus on this entire report and if i had to estimate you
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probably have 20 most people have 20 a lot of people have 30 40 50 plus plus genes you know some
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people just have a laundry list of bad genes yeah um but this woman first person i've ever talked to
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i've talked to pro athletes that have worse genetics than this particular woman i was talking to
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no plus pluses on this entire report so it does you do find people you know um you said somewhere
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in this report i think it was it might have been towards the end but you said you know based on
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my muscle fiber makeup to lift heavy with low reps too like you also can determine
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the best way to lift weights based on your dna makeup yeah i i'm partners with ben pikulski he's
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a professional bodybuilder trainer he used to compete in mr olympia and things and all the
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bodybuilders that he trains he has them do their dna first with me interesting and i've done you know
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some of these bodybuilders they actually have slow twitch muscles and they get a lot more benefit if
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they do a lot more reps like instead of three you know how all the bodybuilders are three by ten
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three seven reps yeah well if you've got these slow twitch muscles it's actually better to do
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like three but it's 50s you know a set of 50 and then a set of 40 and then a set of 30 something
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like that you can't do three by 50 it's too exhausting but and then like they'll talk to me
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a month later and they'll say like i wish i didn't know about this 10 years ago i cannot believe the
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response my muscles are having right so you know you can even you can even surprise bodybuilders
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sometimes by understanding their own genetics but yeah for you if you scroll down a little bit
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further that's the next section the next section is the gym section or the muscle section okay um i
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wanted to ask you about thyroid here because you said supplement with iodine every day so i've got an
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iodine supplement that i basically drop on my wrist and i just rub between the two wrists on the skin
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like is that the best way to take that supplement i i mean i don't know about the best way but it's good
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yeah i don't have an issue i honestly don't know which one's better orally or skin but as long as
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you're getting some iodine the key is you've got some genes that are problematic in the thyroid section
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i mean do you have any thyroid issues in your extended family and things um no what what do thyroid
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issues look like like low energy or uh yeah generally just low energy no but um but i've been using this
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iodine on you know my wrist on a regular basis i don't usually do it every day maybe like every
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other day i'd you know throw a couple of drops on there and then i just leave it good um yeah that's
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perfect i mean that's the key because and you're eating sushi as well which has a lot of iodine i
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mean the problem is if you iodine is the building block for thyroid hormones so if you don't have
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enough iodine with your genetics you're definitely going to have thyroid issues meaning low thyroid meaning
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less energy okay there's no reason to have less energy it's also metabolism too like the body
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builders like to have a really high dose of some of these thyroid hormones because they get super
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lean and super ripped you know it increases your metabolism you burn fat faster problem is if you
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overdose them your heart rate gets kind of screwy it's dangerous so you don't want to overdo it but
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you see that foxy one gene f-o-x-e-1 this one here yep all right yeah exactly you got we got one two and
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three exactly so it's like having three potholes on your sidewalk right like if you've got a sidewalk
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one pothole is bad in this case you got three potholes on that same gene okay so i definitely
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need iodine here to keep my system running properly exactly they discovered that gene in chernobyl the
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radiation accident oh really yeah and people that have the version that you have the plus plus version
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of that gene you know when they got exposed to radiation and they damaged their thyroid they did not
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heal whereas people with the good version of this gene they healed up just fine that's how they
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discovered this gene and of course now we've done more recent studies on what's the what's going on
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what how does this gene work and it's actually related to autophagy and autophagy is just basically
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cells taking out the garbage so this gene is involved in taking out the trash in your thyroid so your your
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thyroid doesn't quote unquote take out the trash as well as it should and that's where intermittent
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fasting is super beneficial because intermittent fasting is the best way to increase autophagy it's the
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best way to tell your cells to take out the garbage how how long should i intermittent fast for is it
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like um if dinner's six o'clock do i skip breakfast and have lunch is that sufficient or do i need to
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go longer no that's perfect yeah okay and should that be a daily routine for me or yeah yeah okay uh
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histamine intolerance supplement copper right that gene is a copper dependent gene that helps you clear
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histamines okay i already eat a lot of green stuff uh beta carotene retinol is there anything else in
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here that you wanted to highlight um i mean yeah we could talk all day obviously about this stuff let's
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just keep going to the gym section just so people get a sense of the gym oh i have a question for you
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about bilirubin because i remember i had a blood test when i was in my 20s um and the doctor called me
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back in to run it again because he said my bilirubin levels were high what does that mean
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yeah so you've got two genes that are plus plus that lead to higher bilirubin so it doesn't surprise
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me okay bilirubin it's it's actually okay it's an antioxidant but if you get too much of it it can
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lead to gallstones and then they got to remove your gallbladder and all this and it's a huge problem
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okay for the rest of your life it's this giant headache um the most important thing with bilirubin
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is if it gets a little bit high get out in the sun make sure you're getting in the sun because in
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canada it's a little harder yeah maybe go to florida in january and just hit hit a bunch of
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sunshine that breaks it up that helps keep it low if you can't get on the sun use use salicylates
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like use aspirin like a baby aspirin if you take a baby aspirin every day i'll take a baby aspirin
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every day now because i'm on trt anyway yeah so there you go so that helps with bilirubin okay great
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um what else should we take a look at here do you want me to keep scrolling down
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yeah you can keep going well it's funny you see that b12 gene a lot of people are doing b12 of course
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with metformin i do uh b12 injections is that awesome okay yeah i mean you have some yin yang
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here and this is a good example of that like you you have two genes that are a little bit offsetting
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one of them gives you higher levels of b12 with better gut uptake of b12 and then the other one
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has less gut uptake of b12 so you have two completely opposing genes which of course happens because
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you know you got a little bit of italian a little bit of french a little bit of this a little bit of that
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so you have these two opposing genes so in a case like that it's hard to predict how that impacts
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your body just so you know but injections are always good do you feel a difference do you feel
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energy um no but i do feel a sting when i inject it it's the only thing that i inject that kind of
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stings a little bit i'd probably just avoid it because again you have a good gene you've got good
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probably it's probably you know great levels okay um and then i found this interesting toco
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tocopherinol i think yeah yeah tocopherol yeah and i listened to this podcast here that you linked
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as well with this doctor which was interesting so i ordered some of that this is a very powerful
00:42:45.320
antioxidant isn't it correct yeah and a lot of people get screwed up when they have this gene that
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you've got and literally if you're taking just cheap vitamin e that you get in these multivitamins
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which is what i've been using forever so i should chuck that out and just start with that
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stick with the good stuff the tocotrienols yep tocotrienol that's it yeah yeah the tocopherol
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in your case it will literally increase crp do you know what c-reactive protein is or crp on your blood
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tests no um you should check you know like at some point pull out your blood work and just check and
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make sure you're below one because you know crp is a measure it's a marker for inflammation so if
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your crp is high that means you're chronically inflamed you have too much inflammation and
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obviously um is that in the hematology or what section so it's called crp yeah or c-reactive
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protein if they spell it out uh c-reactive cortisol random it'll probably be on that here it is uh c-reactive
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protein 0.44 0.44 good awesome so you're you're eating really healthy you must be exercising that's
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a great number that's phenomenal so you're optimized there thankfully okay you know so that's that's
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saying that that number would improve further by taking the tocotrienols tocotrienols yep tocotrienols
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yeah okay yep um all right uh fructose obviously stay away from sweet shit so gym genes so muscle
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types your fast switch lower rep ranges heavier weights will be more beneficial for muscle development
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so are we talking about like reps around three four five and as heavy as you can go well not as heavy
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as you can go but yeah three four five is good yeah okay like five sets of five reps usually would be
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really good yep okay all right good to know training program variety incorporate a high degree of
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variation in your workout protocols bent over rows rowing machines right um so what are you saying like
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don't do the same exercise like if i'm doing chin-ups for example i mean the gym's closed so
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the only thing i can do for my back right now is just chin-ups so if i've been doing chin-ups for
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four months you're saying doing that is a problem for my genetic makeup or well you just don't respond
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as highly so you've got that it's that dopamine receptor and it even your nervous system will respond
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better with more variation sometimes you can't incorporate variation but if you can figure out some
00:45:01.300
weird way to do something different it's usually beneficial so the rows are an easy example because
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you can do bent over rows you can do the rowing machine you can do dumbbell rows there's so many
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different ways to row yeah pull-ups are harder and i'm not super versed on different ways to do pull-ups
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okay i'm sure if you you know if you but with my genetic makeup you're saying i'll get better results by
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varying the workouts for the for the different muscle groups so backs you know i could do bent over
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rows i could do chin-ups i could do pull-ups i could do like different variations but you're
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saying don't do the same thing every single time well like every six weeks or so switch it up yeah
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okay got it um i got john in the chat over here a buddy of mine uh he says what's this test i want
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to do it so to get this done john you got to go to 23andme and order that dna makeup and then you're
00:45:52.940
going to go to dr j's website let me just pull it up over here so he uses on his website so it's
00:45:58.800
here i'll just copy and paste this in the chat for you guys so you can visit it so it's in the chat
00:46:04.160
now um and then you go to dna analysis on his website and what does this cost it's usually about
00:46:10.920
six hundred dollars and if you use the coaches it's cheaper it's like half the price with my coaches
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that i have okay or four somewhere in there four or three you know it depends there's different
00:46:21.360
packages uh different prices okay so there you go guys so it's on his website if you want to get
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that done so the first thing you need to do is get your 23andme and then they'll tell you how to
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extract the data from that to send it to them so you can get this report over here um hang on a sec
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so we got joints and inflammation if you have so i've got a bad left knee and i've used bpc157 on it
00:46:44.760
uh sometimes i integrate deca into my protocol at a very low dose and that seems to help quite a bit
00:46:50.380
um so what do i need to know about joints and inflammation here based on all these
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yeah scroll down a little more so i can see the other genes in this section okay yeah so you can
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go back up i mean uh it looks like the main gene risk that you have is interleukin so il2ra stands
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for interleukin 2 receptor and il1b stands for interleukin 1 beta so they're both interleukin have
00:47:14.520
you heard of the cytokine storm like when people get covid they get quote-unquote cytokine storm
00:47:18.700
have you heard of that no you get a bunch of inflammation with covid okay um one of those
00:47:26.660
cytokines one of the inflammatory chemicals is called interleukins there's a bunch of interleukins
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interferons tnf-alpha there's a whole bunch of different inflammatory chemicals this is one of
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them and your body makes too much interleukin now if you really had a problem i would get an
00:47:40.860
interleukin antibody and inject that directly and it'll be like a miracle drug but it'll cost
00:47:45.500
crazy amounts of money is that something that i can buy or do i need a script for it yeah you
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definitely need a prescription and in canada it might be harder but the better way to approach it
00:47:56.220
initially at least would be to figure out things that inhibit interleukin and i have an entire
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article there linked under under il1b in that paragraph yep that's il1b this one here yeah you
00:48:09.240
got it that article literally will tell you like 50 different ways to inhibit interleukin naturally
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so like curcumin at least i already take that yeah yeah curcumin inhibits interleukin testosterone
00:48:20.160
inhibits interleukin yeah i got lots of that scroll down to like the towards the bottom of the page on
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that website i'm a scientific advisor for this website so i like it i appreciate it okay and keep
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going you'll see it in a section where it's just bullet points of supplements okay oh here we go
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you're right so i'll keep going sorry diseases associated hormone supplements here we go
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just a little bit you saw uh just a little bit more stevia for example so inhibiting il1b right
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copper oil jasmine tea kombucha blah blah blah they've done studies with cinnamon uh you'll notice
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that intermittent fasting is one of the things that inhibits interleukin so that's beneficial for
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your joints okay all of these things testosterone really beneficial testosterone is probably one of the
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most powerful levers if you were low on testosterone you'd even have more problems with your joints
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probably yeah curcumin you'll notice that and you know a lot of right like they've done a lot of
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studies on interleukin because it's such a problematic chemical it causes a lot of arthritis
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in people really oh yeah and again fascinating we're getting really geeky here tonight guys this is a
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little bit different right well yeah and hopefully it's simple enough for people to at least understand
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that makes total sense to me you know like knowledge is power if you understand this stuff you can use
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it and like i said they have patents and they have antibodies you can inject that specifically
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inhibit interleukin that's the ultimate gold standard i can't wait for the patents to run out
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and then they get really cheap and generic and people will start injecting interleukin antibodies in
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their in their joints but for now i just go natural for the next 10 years until the patent runs out
00:49:57.740
you mentioned three grams of krill oil per day so i take um omega-3-6 um is that sufficient or is
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krill oil a better source of this no it's uh it's perfectly fine omega-3 is
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krill oil is a better quality in terms of the phospholipid form of dha but yeah it's good got
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it okay so we got joints um anything here we should probably highlight well yeah do you have any back
00:50:21.740
disc issues yes lower back yeah many times in my life i've had it go out it's very painful so i use
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an inversion table every morning and it seems to have taken care of it for the most part
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yep yep because that yl1a gene on the back disc plus plus almost everybody who has that gene has
00:50:36.860
low back issues and that's why i say if you have low back pain i specifically say low back there
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because that gene is particularly connected to that so supplement with turmeric it's the same
00:50:49.240
interleukin it's the same problem good okay so i'm on that i mean i haven't had much of a problem
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lately i also use um i also use a juve an infrared light on my back um usually for about 10 or 15
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minutes in the morning like i'll just kind of sit there and i'll just shine it on my back
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yeah try it of course a lot of people use it at night and they've noticed that the or ring when
00:51:10.540
they track their sleep it improves their sleep oh really it isn't published you can't find it
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published but i've seen it so many times it's it's just i've actually tried to get it published i've
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tried to like put together a study i asked juve because i'm friends with the ceo i've been out to
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their place in california and whatnot the headquarters yeah i've asked them to actually
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jay campbell was there with me when we went out cool but i asked them to make me a dummy juve which
00:51:33.280
gives off red light but it's not infrared just so it looks exactly the same so i can use it as a
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control and basically give people at mayo clinic i can give them the fake juve light and then give
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the real juve light and only i know who's getting real who's getting fake and then track their sleep
00:51:47.640
cycles and see how much deep sleep and how much REM sleep they're getting and basically set up a
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scientific experiment to actually prove this because i'm super convinced it improves people's
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sleep because i've seen it over and over so you use it right before bed like within an hour of going
00:52:00.060
to bed do you need to shine it on any body part in particular or is it just get it on your skin
00:52:04.240
yep at least 10 minutes yeah probably 10 minutes yeah okay um so we talked about the juve light
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by the way i initially got that because ben greenfield said to shine it on your nutsack
00:52:17.040
right yeah because it's supposed to increase testosterone um you know since i switched over
00:52:23.920
to trt i'm not i'm not so concerned with shining my nutsack anymore but i use it on uh you know my
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knee joint my back for inflammation and it seems to help with that too so they did a study on alzheimer's
00:52:35.080
with mice they have these mice that get plaques in their brain so they call them an alzheimer's model
00:52:39.700
and they this is a hilarious study because they literally they shined the equivalent of a juve light
00:52:45.100
they had infrared and they had a controlled group of mice where they did not give them any infrared
00:52:49.560
and of course all those mice get crazy alzheimer's and then they had a group of mice where they gave
00:52:53.580
them infrared and it was just massive the reduction and plaques in their brain and alzheimer's and all
00:52:58.940
that so it's super good for the brain but what was the funniest part about this study they actually
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put aluminum foil around the mice's heads in a third group and they shined infrared on them so they
00:53:08.920
didn't get any infrared on their skull but they had it on the rest of their body and it was like it was
00:53:13.560
improved but it wasn't as good as when they actually had it on their skull and they've done
00:53:17.640
cadaver studies with infrared and it goes three inches through your skull so infrared you can
00:53:22.200
literally use it to protect against alzheimer's by putting it directly on your head and getting it
00:53:26.680
into your brain so that's another side benefit if you have a lot of alzheimer's risk in your family
00:53:31.480
with the genetics interesting okay all right so we hit uh back um avoid sugar fructose forms quickly
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spike your blood sugar fructose yeah i mean a lot of people get gout and then they go to the doctor
00:53:44.560
and the doctor tells them stop eating meat which sometimes is effective but most of the time it's
00:53:50.200
a fructose transporter like that slc gene that you were just on yeah and if they eat a bunch of
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fructose like high fructose corn syrup like soda even a lot of fruits have a lot of fructose of course
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and they spike their blood fructose then they get uric acid in their joints that forms crystals it's painful
00:54:07.260
it's gout and all the doctors are focused on is meat interesting um so for sleep genes um
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it says here your body's more optimized when you go to sleep later and wake up later right so when i was
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young younger let's say like even even in my 20s i would need an alarm to get my ass out of bed so i
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could go to work and even then i would set the alarm to like eight i just like wake up at eight o'clock
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now i'm up at at like the crack of dawn like sometimes somewhere between five and six a.m normally
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yep um should i be trying to train my body to go to sleep later and wake up later again or
00:54:45.180
like what's your recommendation based on this over here yeah based on your genetics i would say yes but
00:54:51.040
you can trick your brain into thinking that it's later by just having you know you can use blue
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blocker glasses and things like that to block light earlier so i've got i've got a coating on these
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glasses that blocks blue light so does this affect me during the day like should i wear a different
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set of glasses that doesn't block blue light during the day when the sun's up so it doesn't mess with
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my circadian rhythm yeah yeah i think so i mean scroll to the bottom of this page i just want to see
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if you have any blue light sensitivity yes you're pretty good with blue light some people have blue
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light sensitivity genes where they're genetically disposed to being hypersensitive to blue light and it
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really screws up their sleep cycles and things like that uh but in your case at least you don't
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have those genes so you could kind of go either way with that okay okay and that's pretty much the
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full report i mean obviously you could spend a hell of a lot more time on this with every line um but
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that gives you guys an idea of you know the reality of the differences between people um we're not you
00:55:50.340
know we're not all the same as much as uh society likes to try to level the playing field and make it seem
00:55:55.320
like everybody's the same thing these days um cool cool so you guys have the link there if you want
00:56:02.120
to get more information on how to get dr j to analyze your dna again i dropped the links in the
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chat you're gonna have to go to 23andme buy that report send it over to him and then you're gonna have
00:56:13.180
to pay them for the full analysis on that um i mean if you're serious about playing a win at life
00:56:18.440
and you want to live a fully optimized life as best as you can i'd recommend it i mean there's some
00:56:23.420
interesting things here that came out of it for me like i've like i've switched my vitamin e
00:56:27.740
supplementation there's quite a few actually if i'm being honest it's probably at least five or six
00:56:31.360
i even picked up this aura ring based on your recommendation to try to track the sleep yep that's
00:56:36.260
the best thing i mean you know a lot of people they struggle with deep sleep and you don't really feel
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that different if you if you get like 15 totally struggle with deep sleep yep yeah and i've noticed
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that like a slight change i mean i've even kind of messed around but if you sleep in you'll get loads
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of deep sleep i bet you i can't i can't sleep in though like i'm always up at five six o'clock in
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the morning for some reason um you trained your body yeah anyway but um you know i found it interesting
00:57:02.740
because if i supplement with different things like magnesium gaba um passion passion flower i think is
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one of them uh valerian root like i've kind of tweaked with a couple of different versions of different
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herbs and i've noticed on days when i take the supplements the sleep is far better than the days
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that i don't take them um so it's an interesting little device it's kind of useless for working out
00:57:26.560
i mean you can't grab onto heavy bars and and pick up weights and throw them around but for everything
00:57:30.960
else you can wear it 247 basically oh yeah if you have sleep problems you got to get the aura ring
00:57:35.840
when i gave my talk for the special forces my first talk for them uh they showed me some research
00:57:40.840
they've done with all the different sleep trackers so they tested the garmin vivo smart the apple watch
00:57:45.520
the aura ring or it was by far the best really okay cool they don't have much of course but i can
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just and the other cool thing about is i'm really geeky about um like signals like you know bluetooth
00:57:57.440
and wi-fi so you can put this in airplane mode all the time so it just collects the data
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so it's not sending signals anything when you drop it in the charging thing then it just you know
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switches onto bluetooth connects your phone downloads the data and you put it back in airplane mode and wear it
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again so um you know there's no risk from that perspective um what are your what are your
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thoughts because you don't mention it in the book but things like you know wi-fi cellular tower bluetooth
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um like i've gone to the point that i put my wi-fi time sorry i put my wi-fi router on a timer so it's
00:58:27.720
off at night um i've been to ben's house and he was describing how his entire house is like there's no
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wi-fi in it and all the rj45 in the wall is fully shielded and there's like a master switch in his
00:58:39.440
bedroom he turns off so there's no electricity in the bedroom whatsoever like how how important is
00:58:44.640
that i mean that's kind of extreme but how important is that in general to like not keep
00:58:48.240
your cell phone you know keep your cell phone in your pockets you know for example yeah i certainly
00:58:53.200
am more careful with my cell phone but i'm not that extreme i think it's super important if you've
00:58:58.780
got those genes that give you the sensitivity i mean there's people with genetic issues and they
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notice when the router is on they sleep poor all this kind of thing it's actually pretty uncommon
00:59:07.360
to have that extreme of a genetic issue so i i put my router on a timer downstairs and that's about
00:59:13.340
as far as i go i don't get too crazy on it but i but and and it i all honestly though i haven't done
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a ton of research on it so i'm not really the guy to talk to and the other aspect is um it doesn't act
00:59:24.980
like estrogen either so it's really out of my wheel like the chemicals i talk about because they're
00:59:29.180
directly acting like estrogen in your body you know it's it's a more specific biochemical thing
00:59:35.260
whereas these signals disrupt a lot of hormones and it's it's more mitochondria based so it's it's
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an issue it varies based on genetics and it's you know and greenfield is of course super extreme
00:59:47.620
yeah let me uh let me um grab a couple of these super chats here and questions thoughts on
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chiropractors is maintenance to keep the spinal column straight and spinal column overall care so
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what are your thoughts on on chiropractors yeah i mean i've tried a few different techniques like
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the blair technique and this and that i've not had great luck to be honest testosterone was the
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best thing for my back because i have that same low back gene that you have and it's been nothing
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but problems when i was 12 years old i i herniated or i bulged my disc i was lifting my dad's boat onto
01:00:19.660
the trailer which was way too heavy for me and i threw out my back where i was like bedridden
01:00:23.600
literally since then i've had issues but when i got on i i got it i threw out my back and got a
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prescription for testosterone specifically because i knew it was going to inhibit interleukin and it was like
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a switch it was probably three days later i was back in the gym i was perfectly fine
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and usually like a month for me to heal yeah so i put testosterone right on my back i was putting
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the cream right in there and it was phenomenal so i'm a bigger fan of that personally but i'm not
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opposed to using chiropractor if it works it works test it out right sometimes you just got to try
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different things got another one here from colin he said will led sunlight therapy light supplements
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supplement during winter in canada will led sunlight i guess he means those um the seasonal
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effective disorder lights the satellites yeah i'm not a big fan of the led but i have one of the 500
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uvb ones uh so that's what you got to do if you really have seasonal effective honestly it's either
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go to florida or you got to get one of those actual uv lights or you can use a tanning bed to be
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honest just do it for five minutes don't do it too long um that's the way to go yeah do you get
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vitamin d from those tanning beds and those uh lights oh yeah for sure you do okay and one i have
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is just uvb it has no uva so you don't even get tan from it but okay so you get the effect of the
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vitamin d and but without the damage then yeah without the sunburn okay because i'm right i'll burn
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super easy so yeah and i'm not interested in getting tanned because it just goes away the next
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day anyway um and you've got a light linked in your what i recommend you use on your website too
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so i've already mentioned that before so the link's there uh let me see if i mentioned anything else
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here um there's one here that i wanted to hit from andrew he said how good are supplements vitamins
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uh for in general beyond expiration date so do they turn toxic they're not going to turn toxic
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or do they degrade in potency or anything like that oh yeah they definitely can it depends on
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the supplement though some some molecules are super robust and super stable and then some molecules
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are you know like fish oil and things if it's expired i wouldn't use it um so some molecules are a lot
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more prone to breaking down so it's a little bit of a nuanced perspective there gotcha so um if somebody
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had lower back problems and they've got that gene going on trt would arguably fix it yeah oh yeah
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yeah particularly if your testosterone is low i mean i juice up pretty high when i like i say if i throw
01:02:56.800
my back i jump right on it now and and i shoot way up high i kind of overdose a little bit just
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temporarily just to get out of that and then i can get off of it okay because my testosterone
01:03:06.720
generally is about 650 so i'm pretty good it's not bad okay it's about 500 which i like to see
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i like to see everybody above 500 yeah and i've seen guys like i've i've got this community i see guys
01:03:18.660
and they're sometimes post their uh um blood labs and there's even guys in their 20s that have like
01:03:24.900
low low three sometimes even the 200s it's you know it's ridiculous that guys that age have got such
01:03:32.920
low testosterone but i mean one of the things that you said early on in the book was um based on
01:03:40.280
skeletal records from excavation sites we know that testosterone levels are about half today what they
01:03:45.560
were how long like a thousand years ago 500 years ago oh yeah thousands of years ago yeah i mean
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they've been steadily declining so i think it it has to do with the grains and the introduction of grains
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as opposed to the animal products but who knows exactly well we switched to agriculture about 10 000
01:04:00.960
years ago right so was it prior to 10 000 years that we had higher testosterone levels or exactly yeah
01:04:05.980
way back then the bone structure was super masculine so more like chisel jaw line sort of thing like is
01:04:12.420
that what we're talking about when we're talking about the skeletal okay yep yep and but the crazy
01:04:17.120
thing about it is in the last 50 years it's just tanked you know so it's kind of been on the steady
01:04:22.120
decline steady steady steady thousand and then the last 50 years just plummets and it's been like
01:04:27.420
it i think the average male in the 1980s there's a study called the massachusetts aging study the
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average male in the 80s was about 500 and then the 90s there were about 400 in the 2000s about 300
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that's the average so it's dropping basically you know like it's like it's like when kids can't shoot
01:04:46.920
hoops or dunk the ball they just lower the net for them and that's what the government keeps doing is
01:04:51.780
they just keep lowering the upper levels right because we don't seem to hit them and that's exactly and
01:04:56.180
they've done that with vitamin d they've even done they're trying to do it right now with puberty
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they're trying to lower the normal range for puberty because people are girls in particular
01:05:04.140
are going into puberty so much younger because of these estrogen chemicals do you know what the
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youngest age a girl has given birth at no idea probably nine nine yeah nine you're like can you
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believe that it's insane yeah it's nuts with these chemicals though yeah because that's what they're
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trying to lower the age of they're trying to lower the normal range of puberty at age nine so that's
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age nine but it's absurd it's it's not really solving them it's like the breast cancer right
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like passing out pink ribbons is not going to solve breast cancer dressing up football players
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like newborn baby girls is not going to solve breast cancer getting these estrogen chemicals out of your
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system is going to solve breast cancer but nobody wants to talk about that because they're impeding
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these giant corporations that make a ton of money on these chemicals yeah it's it's really it's really
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incumbent on on you guys yourself to go and do the work and find the answers to these questions and
01:05:56.660
look for bright people that are actually telling these truths in these stories you even have a
01:06:02.320
youtube channel like i don't know if you do broadcasts on these elements or is it mostly on dna type of
01:06:07.180
analysis no both yeah yeah okay so all that's on his website so go visit it and check it out again
01:06:13.220
guys um i don't want to keep you too long because i know that you have another console coming up
01:06:17.660
and i think you've given more than enough value to these guys tonight and you certainly helped me
01:06:21.960
to the 10th degree so um his book is linked in my amazon store below i've mentioned the website if
01:06:28.140
you want to have your dna analyzed you'll have to buy a 23andme send it over to him and then they'll
01:06:34.360
do a consult with you on that it's just one-on-one for like an hour and a half and you dive deep into
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it yep 100 okay um and real real quick so let's just go through the the top 10 here because i've got
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your website up still um and you got your top 10 list of daily estrogens from estro generation that
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people want to avoid yeah correct yeah so if you can walk them through the top 10 here right the
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plant estrogens which includes soy and flax those are the big ones mycoestrogen mold estrogen you find
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a lot of grains that have mold and things like that mold secretes in estrogen sometimes people have
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mold behind their walls that sort of thing it's really problematic atrazine is a herbicide that acts
01:07:15.320
like estrogen so people really it's illegal in europe by the way completely illegal because it's
01:07:20.360
so problematic and then in the united states is the second most used herbicide so that would be used
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on like all plant matter corn most of the grains no just the grains oh grain so like we okay so like
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bread grain type products then okay you definitely want to get those organic in america if you're over
01:07:38.740
in europe it's fine you get whatever but okay yeah and then the triclosan and the alkylphenols you
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kind of have to read the book but you know it's it's related to soaps a lot of the cheap soaps and
01:07:48.120
things have those uh the sunscreen estrogens number five we've talked about those starting out today
01:07:53.880
red number 40 like the red food dyes act like yeah so if you're drinking like those red sports drinks
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you're basically cramming estrogen in your body exactly and it's super funny because all these athletes
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sponsored you know by these companies and then parabens of course we talked about the fragrance
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estrogens the plastic estrogens would include it would be bpa and phthalates and then of course
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birth control is an estrogen is designed as an estrogen all right guys there you have it um let
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me just remove that real quick we'll go back here uh dr anthony jay thank you for your time my brother
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thanks richard appreciate it it's great it's been enlightening thanks