In this episode, Dana White talks about his journey from being diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes, to taking a DNA test that changed the course of his entire life, and how it changed the way he looked at his own mortality. Joe and Dana talk about the importance of taking the test, and why it could be the key to saving your own life. Dana White is a former UFC fighter, mixed martial arts fighter, and co-owner of some of the sport s biggest sports teams. He has been in the business for a long time and has been a part of the UFC for a lot of years. He is also a pediatric neurologist, and has worked with many of the world s most elite athletes, including UFC President Dana White, to help them get better and live a longer life. Joe talks about Dana's journey with diabetes and how the test changed his outlook on life and how important it is to take the test. Joe also talks about genetics and genetics in general and how genetics plays a role in hypertension, which is one of the most common types of blood clotting disorder in modern day medicine. If you're interested in learning more about genetics, check out Joe's book, "Genetic Inheritance: The New Biology of Disease" on Amazon Prime and Amazon Kindle: The Ultimate Guide to Life and Health, available for free on the Kindle Fire, the Kindle, the iBook, and the iWatch app, available on the Apple App Store and Google Play, or go to the App Store, or wherever else you get your eReader, and Kindle, and get a copy of the eReader app, and use the Kindle Pro, and Paperback, or any other non-fiction book, or paperback edition of the Kindle or hardcover edition of The Good Ecclesiastes, also available for $99 or Kindle, $99.99.00.00, and $49.99, and other Audible, and Audible Pro.99 Pro.00 Pro, or $99 Pro, Probed Probie Probie, Proteus Protea Proteas Proteaus Proteau, or you can get a Kindle Pro Probiebiebie, and more! Subscribe to the epsiode, Kindle Pro and Kindle Pro? Subscribe to The Good Mythology, The GoodLife Podcasts, The Badger, The ULTIMATE GoodLife GoodLife, and Subscribe to GoodLife Journal, and GoodLife Proteemia, and much more!
00:01:37.000So, you know, I recently met Carrie and she had kind of a life-changing experience as well.
00:01:43.000You know, if you know anything about her journey with Lyme disease and chronic viral infection, I mean, she really struggled and ended up healing herself.
00:01:52.000And she took the same test that Dana White did.
00:02:23.000Okay, so in human beings, there's a similar process called methylation.
00:02:27.000There's not a single compound known to mankind, not one.
00:02:30.000There's no vitamin, no mineral, no amino acid, no nutrient, no protein, no nutrient of any kind that enters the human body and is used in the format that we put it in.
00:02:41.000Without a single exception, everything we put into our bodies has to be refined and Into the usable form.
00:02:47.000If you can't make this conversion, you have a deficiency.
00:02:52.000It's this deficiency that leads to the most common ailments that we suffer from.
00:02:58.000So that process is called methylation.
00:03:01.000And there are several genes that govern it.
00:03:04.000This is where a lot of the misconception about genetically inherited disease comes from, right?
00:03:08.000We'll say, well, Joe, you know, your father-in-law has...
00:03:34.000So we say that things are genetically inherited because they run in families.
00:03:40.000But it's rarely the disease that's passed from generation to generation.
00:03:45.000What we pass from generation to generation is the inability to refine a raw material, which causes a deficiency, which leads to that disease.
00:03:56.000And what generally leads to hypertension?
00:03:58.000So, if you look at Dana White's case, right, is a perfectly common case.
00:04:04.000In fact, the Journal of Hypertension published an article In November 19th of 2017, if you want to look that article up.
00:04:12.000And essentially linking an amino acid in the bloodstream called homocysteine to hypertension.
00:04:19.000And the reason for this is you got homocysteine in your blood.
00:04:23.000Everybody listening to this podcast has homocysteine.
00:04:26.000But if you have an impaired ability to break homocysteine down, right, to take that amino acid, homocysteine, and convert it into a harmless amino acid called methionine, if you can't make this conversion, homocysteine rises.
00:04:42.000It causes something called hyperhomocystinemia, high homocysteine in the blood.
00:04:46.000When homocysteine rises, it becomes one of the more inflammatory compounds in the human body.
00:04:51.000As it's cruising by the inside lining of the artery, it starts to irritate the artery.
00:04:56.000It actually reduces the artery's elasticity and can even cause it to constrict.
00:06:46.000You think you would feel high blood pressure, but very often it's the silent killer because you don't feel it.
00:06:53.000It's not like you hear your blood rushing in your ears, although you may.
00:06:56.000It's not like you feel pressure in your head or pressure in your neck or pressure in your chest.
00:07:01.000That's why high blood pressure, hypertension, is one of the silent killers in cardiovascular disease, right?
00:07:06.000In fact, one of the first primary symptoms is sudden death.
00:07:12.000So we often put people on hypertensive medication before we actually look at whether or not they have high levels of homocysteine or whether or not they might have a gene mutation specifically called MTR, and you could test for it, or MTRR. And what this gene codes for is it codes for the enzymes that break down homocysteine and turn it into an amino acid called methionine.
00:07:39.000And so if this conversion is impaired, And this homocysteine starts to rise and your vascular system constricts, it can drive your pressure up.
00:07:50.000And it drives your pressure up without anything being wrong with the heart.
00:07:53.000So then we start standing on the heart, which is what happened in Dana's case.
00:07:57.000Beta blockers, calcium channel blockers, diuretics, all of these things.
00:08:01.000His blood pressure was still through the roof.
00:08:15.000Well, we were actually, you know, our clinical team was taking his blood pressure two or three times a day, seven days a week, and it was consistently very elevated, even though he was on blood pressure medication.
00:08:55.000Well, I mean, cardiovascular disease, and there are certain, you know, direct genetic links to cardiovascular disease, but they're very rare.
00:09:03.000But diet, atherosclerosis, you know, narrowing of the arteries, arterial sclerosis, hardening of the arteries, calcifications in the arterial wall can cause pressure to go up.
00:09:14.000You know, regurgitations in heart valves can cause, you know, pressure to increase.
00:09:20.000But when you think about the heart as a muscle, right, and all four chambers are circulating blood normally, and it's got a good vascular supply, but it's beating into constricted pipes, think about what happens.
00:09:43.000I didn't, you know, learn my trade in medical school.
00:09:48.000I took eight years of undergrad and postgraduate education in human biology.
00:09:53.000But for 20 years, I was a mortality expert in the insurance industry and I just read medical records for a living.
00:09:59.000So the vast amount of what I've come to understand about modern medicine has just come from reading thousands and thousands and thousands of medical records.
00:10:07.000And you can see very often that when people were being diagnosed with high blood pressure, They were always looking at the heart.
00:10:16.000They never looked outside the heart to say, well, could it possibly be beating into a dysfunctional arterial system?
00:10:22.000And so in Dana's case, and I should have brought the numbers because I had the week over week numbers.
00:11:39.000And so, you know, sometimes I use the analogy that, you know, when I was getting my second human biology degree, I was in grad school to get my human biology degree, I had to take all these...
00:11:51.000Plant botany courses, which I hated, but you have to take them.
00:11:57.000Morphology of thalophytes and all these crazy courses about plants.
00:12:00.000But the one thing that really stood out to me by taking all these plant biology courses is that if there's ever anything wrong with the leaves of a plant, like the tree, the trunk, the leaves, or the branches, and you call a true arborist or a true botanist out to your house,
00:12:18.000They won't even touch the leaves or the branches of the trunk of the tree.
00:12:21.000The first thing they'll do is they'll core test the soil.
00:12:26.000And then they'll add nitrogen to the soil and the leaf will heal.
00:12:30.000But we don't think about human beings like this anymore.
00:12:32.000I feel like there's such a positive understanding of deep human physiology in a lot of the medical community, not all the medical community.
00:12:41.000Have faith in mankind and humanity and the body's ability to heal itself and whether or not someone might be deficient in a raw material, not pathologic or diseased.
00:12:51.000So, for example, in Dana White's case, he was diagnosed with idiopathic hypertension, which he essentially did not have.
00:13:27.000That's why if you look at certain diets, like high folate diets, like carnivore diets, diets that are high in dietary folate, leafy greens, Grass-fed meats, eggs, dairy, you'll find that they have lower incidences of cancer diets and high dietary folate.
00:13:47.000So this is a raw material that we can get from our food, but very often our food is just so nutrient deficient.
00:13:54.000We update the macros on the back of a lot of labels, but if you look at the micros, like how much iron is in spinach or calcium is in spinach or how much nutrients are on the label of most foods, I mean, it's a fraction of what's actually listed there.
00:14:10.000And so we're nutrient deficient, right?
00:14:13.000Human beings are not as sick as we have been led to believe we are.
00:14:17.000The majority, in my opinion, of pathology and disease as we know it today are nutrient deficiencies, missing raw material in the human body.
00:14:26.000And we just accept all these things as a consequence of aging, weight gain, water retention, you know, lack of sleep, poor focus and concentration, lack of waking energy, hormone imbalance.
00:14:36.000And we think that the body has all of these different pathologies and diseases, but the truth is it's usually nutrient deficient.
00:14:43.000It's astounding what happens to human beings when you give their body the raw material that it needs to do its job.
00:15:49.000Morbid obesity, type 2 diabetes, atherosclerosis, arteriosclerosis, but those are usually more sinister and visible.
00:15:57.000You know, there are a lot of healthy-looking individuals in their 20s and early 30s that are walking around with hypertension, with high blood pressure, and don't know it.
00:16:09.000There are a lot of young, healthy-looking individuals that are walking around with metabolic syndrome, which is a combination of very high blood fat, triglycerides, abdominal fat, high blood pressure, high insulin, and high sugar.
00:16:25.000But they don't manifest to the outside world, but it's going on on the inside.
00:16:30.000That's why I say I think everybody, once in their lifetime, We're good to go.
00:16:54.000One of the most common gene mutations in the world is called MTHFR. It's called the motherfucker gene.
00:17:00.000It stands for methylene tetrahydrofolate reductase, but we call it the motherfucker gene.
00:17:05.000This gene is estimated to be compromised in somewhere between 40 and 60 percent, depending on the study, 40 to 60 percent of the population has this gene mutation.
00:17:15.000And what this gene mutation does is it interrupts the ability to convert folic acid Into the usable form called methylfolate.
00:17:26.000And while that might not sound like a big deal, until you realize that folic acid is the most prevalent nutrient in the human diet.
00:17:33.000Folic acid, by the way, is an entirely man-made chemical.
00:17:50.000And then what we've done since 1993 is we've sprayed all of our grains, all white flour, all white rice, all white bread, and grains of any kind are sprayed with this chemical folic acid.
00:18:20.000Well, I mean, without going down the whole road of conspiracy theory, I mean, you look at the same, you know, pharmaceutical companies that produce folic acid, and you look at some of the downsides of having a synthetic form of a vitamin like folic acid in the diet.
00:18:37.000And how it's correlated to higher incidences of ADD, ADHD, OCD, manic depression, bipolar.
00:18:45.000It's correlated to poor gut motility, mood imbalance, anxiety.
00:18:50.000And because when you put this raw material into the human body, if you can't metabolize it, if you can't methylate it into the usable form, first of all, you now have a deficiency in the form your body needs and an excess in the nutrient you can't process.
00:19:10.000So instead of folate, it's folic acid.
00:19:13.000And what does your body try to do with that?
00:19:16.000So your body tries to convert folic acid Eventually into something called methylfolate.
00:19:23.000There's a few steps in between tetrahydrofolate, dihydrofolate, but essentially folic acid and folate, which you can find all over the surface of the earth, gets converted into the usable form called methylfolate.
00:19:54.000It helps to actually break down catecholamines, which are fight or flight neurotransmitters that can actually stimulate thought.
00:20:00.000And so people will go a lifetime eating white bread, white flour, white rice, white pasta, you know, breads and cereals of all kinds, and they're reading the label and they're like, wow, it's fortified, it's enriched.
00:20:13.000But fortified or enriched for 44% of the population means you can't break that nutrient down.
00:20:20.000This is why there's a lot of evidence that getting folic acid out of the diet I mean, if you're a parent and you're listening to this podcast and it's a full-contact sport to get your kid in the car to go to school in the morning, Look at what you're feeding them.
00:20:35.000The standard American diet is going to be like a Pop-Tart, a white bagel, a bowl of cereal, right?
00:20:39.000And all of those are fortified with folic acid.
00:20:43.000Well, there's a 44% chance your kid can't process that.
00:20:46.000And you're amping them up in the morning.
00:20:48.000It can literally be like cocaine for a six-year-old, right?
00:21:17.000And, you know, essentially what that does is it says, all right, well, if the mind is racing...
00:21:22.000Then let's put an amphetamine into the body to race the central nervous system to match the pace of the mind, which is a horrible solution.
00:21:33.000How about we just quiet the mind, right?
00:21:36.000Because, you know, in our brains, we don't just create thought.
00:22:31.000So, you know, you're thinking about a job you're working on and your friend walks up.
00:22:35.000And you're thinking about a job and you start talking to your friend and you notice a logo on your friend's jacket that reminds you of a vacation you want to take.
00:22:41.000So now you're thinking about a job, talking to your friend, looking at the logo, thinking about a vacation you want to take all at the same time.
00:23:00.000If you look at the link between that simple gene mutation MTHFR and its incidence in stroke, cardiovascular disease, its incidence in ADD and ADHD and OCD,
00:23:22.000But enough of a prevalence to say, why wouldn't we just take folic acid out of the diet, add methylfolate, and take a shot at correcting the course of these conditions?
00:23:34.000So, folic acid, when did it get introduced into the human diet?
00:23:40.0001993 is, I think, when the federal government signed a deal to spray our entire grain supply with folic acid.
00:23:47.000I want to say it was 1992 or 1993, and I forget if it was Monsanto, I forget the pharmaceutical company that convinced the U.S. government to spray our entire grain supply.
00:23:57.000But before that day, like, you ever notice when you go to Europe And you eat bread in Europe.
00:24:11.000Because I'd always been told that it's heirloom grains and that the wheat that we have today has been modified for higher yield for smaller acreage.
00:24:21.000Well, genetically modified, first of all.
00:24:48.000But if you go back to the folic acid and seed oils, for that matter, but if you go back to the folic acid theory, if we stop spraying our grains just for 30 days, don't even stop eating white bread, white flour, white pasta, white rice,
00:25:07.000I don't eat any of those things, but if that's what you eat, don't stop eating them.
00:25:11.000Just switch to the organic ingredients.
00:25:14.000Non-fortified, non-enriched version and watch what happens to your mood, your focus, your concentration, your short-term recall, the depth of your sleep and your waking mind at night.
00:25:25.000But the vast majority of wheat and rice and things that you do buy will have been enriched with folic acid.
00:25:31.000All of it in the United States is, unless it's organic.
00:26:25.000You know, I hear about a lot of people that have gluten allergies and gluten intolerances, and now I'm wondering, like, what does that mean?
00:26:32.000Well, the foods that contain gluten, very often the foods contain folic acid.
00:27:17.000Are they told to take it in supplemental form?
00:27:20.000Are they told to take it in form of foods that are sprayed with folic acid?
00:27:24.000They're told to take it in supplemental form.
00:27:26.000If you look at the majority of cheap prenatal vitamins, right, the good ones, like Thorin, Pure Encapsulation, some of these really good big brands, they will have methylated versions of vitamins, right?
00:28:33.000You get the methylated form of that nutrient.
00:28:36.000This is why I say if you look at five particular genes, MTHFR, M-T-R-R, M-T-R, A-H-C-Y, and Comp-T. Dude, if you find that you have one of those gene mutations and you supplement for their deficiency,
00:28:55.000magic things will happen in your body.
00:28:58.000You know, because if you have that, for example, there's a gene mutation called COMT, catecholomethyltransferase.
00:29:05.000And, you know, we all know people that are suffering from anxiety.
00:29:08.000If we haven't suffered from anxiety ourselves, chances are we know somebody who's suffered from anxiety.
00:29:13.000And if you really break down what anxiety is, right, a fear of the future, you know, we have to understand that it doesn't require the presence of a fear for us to feel fear, right?
00:29:26.000So you could drive home tonight and pull into your driveway and when you get out of your car, somebody's standing in front of you with a knife.
00:31:27.000It's a water-soluble vitamin, so unlike vitamins A, D, E, and K, which are actually fat-soluble that you need to take with food for them to be absorbed, you can actually take those even on an empty stomach as long as you're not taking it with a bunch of other vitamins that cause you to be nauseous because it changes your stomach pH.
00:31:43.000I think every single person should be at a minimum on a methylated multivitamin.
00:31:48.000The basic raw materials that your body needs to perform the process of methylation because methylation is how we create neurotransmitters, right?
00:31:58.000I mean, we make serotonin from taking tryptophan and amino acid and methylating it into serotonin.
00:32:19.000You just have a lack of mental fitness.
00:32:21.000And this is why I think that we're so quick to say that we have pathology and disease or dysfunction, and then we go to chemicals and synthetics and pharmaceuticals.
00:32:34.000And I'm not anti-pharmaceutical, but what I'm saying is before we diagnose somebody with a mental illness or an autoimmune disorder or with an allergy or a sensitivity or irritable bowel syndrome or any number of other conditions, we should ask ourselves, What raw material could be missing from their body that could be causing this to happen?
00:32:55.000When I was in the mortality space for 20 years, I was reading medical records, just horrific voluminous amounts of medical records.
00:33:05.000I would see simple nutrient deficiencies get misdiagnosed as autoimmune conditions more times than I can even remember.
00:33:14.000So, for example, you know, you'd have people go into their primary care physician, and I would look at their medical records for 5, 8, 10 years.
00:33:21.000Sometimes we had more than 10 years of medical records, and I'd see, man, this person has single-digit vitamin D3 levels.
00:33:27.000Like, they are so clinically deficient in vitamin D3. And vitamin D3, you know, goes from about 30 nanograms per deciliter to 100 nanograms per deciliter.
00:33:37.000But chronic deficiency in vitamin D3, the sunshine vitamin, The only vitamin, by the way, that human beings can make on our own.
00:33:43.000I think it's arguably the most important nutrient in the human body.
00:33:46.000In fact, it was the second leading cause of morbidity in COVID for people that had deficiency.
00:33:50.000And it's also why we said that COVID disproportionately affected minorities, because there's a higher incidence of Vitamin D3 deficiency because of the pigment of their skin.
00:34:01.000But we would see these deficiencies in vitamin D3 that have gone on for decades, right?
00:34:06.000Now, all of a sudden, the patient is going into their doctor and saying, Doc, I wake up sore and achy in the morning like I had a workout the night before when I haven't.
00:34:13.000The soles of my feet and my ankles are sore when I get out of bed in the morning to walk to the bathroom.
00:34:17.000My knees and hips really bother me lately.
00:34:20.000Just this past few weeks, it's kind of hard to make a fist.
00:34:23.000You would be shocked how many family medicine practitioners go, you know what, Joe, you've got rheumatoid arthritis.
00:34:29.000I'm going to hit you with some high-dose prednisone.
00:34:31.000I'm going to put you on something called a corticosteroid, and you're going to be fine.
00:34:35.000Well, we knew in the mortality space that if you started corticosteroids, you had six years and one day until you were having a joint replacement.
00:34:44.000It was so accurate that if I saw you were misdiagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis and started a corticosteroid, I would artificially advance your age six years and one day, and I would schedule the joint replacement.
00:34:55.000And then what I would do is I would model the reduction in what we called your ambulatory profile, how well you ambulate, how well you move.
00:35:06.000Sedentary lifestyle is the leading cause of all-cause mortality.
00:35:09.000And so as I reduced your mobility, I would bring in all the diseases that exacerbate with reduced mobility.
00:35:15.000So now if you rewind that, you had a simple nutrient deficiency in vitamin D3, cholecalciferol.
00:35:21.000You were diagnosed with a condition you did not have, put on a medication that wasn't required, which led to a joint replacement that wasn't necessary.
00:35:31.000How do these corticosteroids, how do they ruin your joints?
00:35:55.000You know, repeated cortisone injections have ended a lot of...
00:35:59.000Professional athletic career is probably Joe Montana being the biggest, but that's why we try to reduce the amount of cortisone that we actually put into athletic injuries now.
00:36:12.000It becomes cytotoxic to the joint because it interrupts the protein metabolism in the synovium of the joint.
00:36:18.000And so what happens is the joint begins to dry out.
00:36:21.000And the friction surfaces become less lubricated and then begin to contact one another.
00:36:25.000And as they contact one another, because this protein is broken down, we rear the friction surface away and you get down to anchor cartilage, which we call bone on bone, and there's a lot of nerves there and you start to get a lot of joint pain.
00:36:38.000So corticosteroids will also, like methotrexate, They also block and interrupt the ability for the body to convert folate to methylfolate.
00:36:51.000They artificially give you the same condition as this gene mutation, which is why one of the biggest side effects of corticosteroids is gut issues because methylfolate is involved in the motility of the gut.
00:37:04.000You now start taking a corticosteroid And it shuts your gut down.
00:37:09.000And by corticosteroids, are you talking about prednisone?
00:37:11.000Like, what are the ones that they prescribe?
00:37:13.000Prednisone, methylprednisone, and other oral corticosteroids.
00:37:17.000I have a friend who had gout, and they put him on prednisone.
00:37:21.000For short periods of time, you know, in the acute inflammatory stage, it's okay.
00:37:26.000But to take prednisone systemically for a prolonged period of time, you're going to start to hear that he starts to get low back pain.
00:37:35.000Well, first of all, I'd be very surprised if he doesn't have gut issues.
00:37:38.000If you ask him, hey, do you notice the incident of gas, bloating, diarrhea, constipation, irritability, cramping, kind of going up when you started those corticosteroids, he'll go, yeah, dude, my gut's a freaking mess.
00:37:49.000You know, constipated sometimes, then I get diarrhea, sometimes I blow up like a tick.
00:37:55.000So to take it back to cortisone, so if someone has an injury, would you advise them to never take cortisone?
00:38:05.000I think most orthopedics now are trying to get away from repeated injections of cortisone other than at the inception of the acute injury.
00:38:13.000Because I know a lot of athletes, you know, they'll get a cortisone shot if they have to perform.
00:38:18.000Yeah, I mean, if they have to perform.
00:38:19.000But remember, that's also going to cause, you know, ligamentous and tendinous laxity.
00:38:24.000You know, it actually can be cytotoxic to those tissues.
00:38:28.000It's cytotoxic to fibroblasts, which are the little cells that are embedded in those tissues that actually help promote healing, right?
00:38:36.000Because there are cells in injured tissues that are essentially, through the inflammatory process, calling platelets to the site of an injury.
00:38:45.000Which is one of the ways that we heal.
00:38:47.000We call platelets to the site of the injury.
00:38:49.000The plate itself is kind of useless, but it has growth factors inside of it.
00:38:53.000When it arrives on site, it bursts, it drops off the growth factors, and now you start this healing process, which is one of the reasons why PRP works so well, you know, platelet-rich plasma.
00:39:02.000You're taking all the platelets from the body and you're concentrating them into a site of injury.
00:39:08.000It's why I used to love PPC-157 until the FDA just What the fuck is that about?
00:39:17.000What's astounding is I read that whole report and it wasn't for safety reasons.
00:39:23.000It wasn't because of the reporting of massive amounts of anaphylactic shock or hospitalizations or overuse or somebody having some kind of illness or effect or shock because of it.
00:39:40.000It was because of the lack of safety data.
00:39:43.000Which is another way of saying it hasn't been paid to be put through full-blown FDA clinical trials, which no one's going to do.
00:39:50.000So does that make BBC 157 impossible to get now?
00:39:59.000I mean, I can't even begin to tell you how many thousands and thousands and thousands of patients my clinical team has put on BPC-157, never with an adverse event.
00:40:13.000It's actually synthesized from gastric juice, so it's actually tolerated very well orally.
00:40:19.000I've started to see it orally, which I never really saw before.
00:40:22.000I always saw it as an injectable, but I see it advertised as orally.
00:40:25.000Well, site injecting it to the site of an injury, like if you have a lateral epicondylitis or something, you inject it to that site of injury is very good, right?
00:40:32.000It'll localize there and kind of help call platelets to that location.
00:40:36.000But it's also extraordinarily good for leaky gut.
00:40:41.000So people that suffer from inflammatory conditions of the bowel, irritable bowel syndrome, Crohn's disease, diverticulitis, those sorts of things, you know, BPC-157 can be just a game changer because it is tolerated well.
00:41:04.000I mean, same with growth hormone peptides, you know.
00:41:06.000Well, semoralin's still being allowed, but ipamoralin, CGC1295, MK677, ibutamorin.
00:41:13.000These growth hormone peptides that kept people off of exogenous growth hormone, That worked with the naturopathic circadian release of growth hormone that helped lots of older people fight sarcopenia, age-related muscle wasting, with virtually no side effects.
00:41:28.000By the way, you know, Samorlan, I think, was first FDA approved in 1983, if I remember correctly.
00:41:33.000So, you know, these things have been around for decades.
00:41:40.000And thousands and thousands of patients without an adverse event, and we're going to have to drop it.
00:41:46.000And so do you think they're doing this because they want the drugs to go through the safety protocols or do you think they're doing it because they see that people taking peptides limit the amount of pharmaceutical drugs they take?
00:42:01.000Well, I think it's a little bit of both, right?
00:42:05.000I mean, the question is, where is the impetus coming from?
00:42:08.000Is it coming from the impetus to protect the public?
00:42:10.000Because if you're trying to protect the public, then why would you look at the...
00:42:15.000Yeah, look at the addictive amyloids and opiates and look at the side effects of...
00:42:18.000I mean, the whole serotonin hypothesis and depression has been disproven, but we still put people on SSRIs for depression, you know, serotonin reuptake inhibitors, and people are on these things for 15 or 18 years.
00:42:29.000Which is another, by the way, thing that methylation helps to fix.
00:42:33.000It's not that all depression is related to methylation, but the prevailing theory when I was in the mortality space was that if you were low on serotonin, you were by definition depressed.
00:42:45.000And I was like, well, if the serotonin hypothesis were true, I was thinking about this back then, and now it's been disproven, then if low serotonin were depression, then why wouldn't we just raise serotonin?
00:42:56.000Why would we put people on a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor that just rations or slows the uptake of serotonin rather than increase the supply of serotonin?
00:43:05.000Like with 5-HTP? Like with 5-HTP, with like turning methylation back on, with 5-methylfolate, with the complex of B vitamins.
00:43:15.000Reducing, you know, urinary catecholamines are associated with anxiety and depression, and you can reduce urinary catecholamines with simple supplementation, B-complex of methylated vitamins.
00:43:26.000You know, methylated folate, sometimes something called SAMe, S-adenosylmethionine.
00:43:32.000These are generally harmless amino acids and methylated vitamins that people just need so their body can perform its duties, so it can perform its job.
00:43:43.000You know, like I work with people all the time that come in and they're like, man, my gut is a mess, Gary.
00:43:50.000You know, I've had irritable bowel syndrome or I've had, you Crohn's disease or diverticulitis or I have intermittent gas and bloating and constipation and irritability and cramping.
00:43:59.000And, you know, I look at their allergy test and they're like, man, I'm allergic to all these things, wheat, soy, corn, dairy, blueberries, bananas.
00:44:42.000He wasn't made famous for the automobile.
00:44:44.000He was made famous for the assembly line.
00:44:47.000So the assembly line was just a glorified conveyor belt.
00:44:51.000You put a part on it at one end, and as it kind of traverses the assembly line, every few feet, somebody just tinkers with the part, tinkers with the part, and by the time it reaches the end, it's fully assembled.
00:45:01.000Well, the human intestinal tract is no different, right?
00:45:43.000And you change the motility of the gut.
00:45:47.000You get all of the outcomes that look like...
00:45:54.000Food sensitivity, food allergy, you know, bacterial flora being off and then people start shoveling down probiotics and they get all this allergy testing and they go on these restrictive diets and it doesn't seem to help because they haven't addressed the motility issue.
00:46:09.000Methylfolate, complex of B vitamins, very often will give your body the raw material it needs to restore that peristaltic activity.
00:46:17.000And then you can get off the proton pump inhibitors and the Tums for the acid reflux, which is now, you know, screwing things up down the line.
00:46:25.000So, you know, again, I always come back to this theory that we should always look at the soil.
00:46:30.000Before we diagnose the disease or the pathology, because there's very little to lose by saying, what nutrient deficiency could this person have that could be causing this condition to exist?
00:46:41.000It's like when people come into our clinics for hormone therapy, you know, very often, we don't put them on hormone therapy, just put them on nutrients to support healthy hormone therapy.
00:46:50.000I mean, if you have low vitamin D3, low DHEA, and high protein in your blood called SHBG, your hormones are going to be off, right?
00:46:59.000Free testosterone is going to be clinically deficient.
00:47:02.000Testosterone will probably also be low.
00:47:07.000Your endocrine system hasn't failed you.
00:47:09.000Your body just doesn't have the raw material it needs to do its job to produce those.
00:47:14.000So, you know, I really wish we would stop, or we would start going back to studying human physiology and saying, what could we put back in this body so it could perform optimally?
00:47:27.000I really think magic things happen to human beings if their body just has the raw material and needs to do its job.
00:47:36.000The vast majority of people are nutrient deficient.
00:47:39.000They're nutrient deficient, but they don't know what nutrient they're deficient in.
00:47:42.000They don't know what these five genes tell them, and they don't know whether or not they should be supplementing with methylfolate, avoiding folic acid, whether or not their sleep is related to their gene mutation.
00:47:54.000So for example, if you have the gene mutation Comp T, you have one or two types of sleep patterns.
00:48:01.000You lay down tired to go to sleep, so you're body tired, but your mind is awake.
00:48:06.000And so what happens is your environment quiets, your mind wakes up.
00:48:10.000And these people, if you ask them, well, what are you thinking about at night?
00:48:14.000They'll tell you it's the most innocuous little nonsense.
00:48:17.000It's like, did I get everything on my grocery list today?
00:49:13.000Physiologically, when you tell me you work well under pressure, you're saying to me, well, I lack the ability to set priorities internally, so I use external pressure to set my priorities for me.
00:49:26.000Well, what if you didn't have to rely on that extra stress?
00:49:31.000What if you didn't give equal weight to every thought that came into your mind?
00:49:36.000What if you weren't laying awake all night thinking about, you know, what color dishes you'd use for a Thanksgiving Day party and you'd lay down and actually just went right into a deep delta wave of sleep?
00:49:44.000I mean, just think of the impact that that would have on the balance of your lifetime.
00:49:48.000And you may be one simple supplement away from that.
00:50:05.000It's this, very often, it is this release of these catecholamines into the brain, ephedrine, norephedrine, epinephrine, dopamine, one of which we call adrenaline.
00:50:17.000And so you don't need a massive dump like a fight or flight response.
00:50:21.000You just need to have them rise and not be able to break them down at the right level.
00:50:28.000So for someone who has a very hard time going to sleep at night, what would be a good supplement for them?
00:51:03.000So S-adenosylmethionine is very commonly, it's one of the most highly required methylated nutrients in the human body.
00:51:12.000We also make SAMe and eventually homocysteine breaks down to methionine and then eventually S-adenosylmethionine, which goes into the brain and helps quiet the brain.
00:51:22.000And so we need certain raw materials, methylated nutrients, to perform certain basic functions, right?
00:51:29.000Remember that the majority of our neurotransmitters are right here.
00:51:32.000Probably 90% of the serotonin in your body is here.
00:51:34.000If you don't have it here, you can't have it here.
00:51:37.000So rarely do serotonin imbalances start here.
00:51:41.000And so by taking a methylated multivitamin, which is very simple to get, methylated folate, a complex of B vitamins, SAMe, trimethylglycine if you have high homocysteine, you have a shot at feeling the difference between good and great.
00:51:58.000I mean, I think most people are walking around right now at about 60% max of their true state of normal.
00:52:05.000They just accepted such an erosion of their baseline sense of normalcy.
00:52:09.000They've forgotten what it feels like to be normal.
00:52:11.000They're like, I'm just supposed to not sleep that well.
00:52:13.000I'm supposed to get a great idea in the bedroom and walk through the kitchen and wonder what the hell I'm doing in the kitchen.
00:52:18.000You know, I'm supposed to have this little bit of weight gain or water retention around.
00:52:22.000I'm not really supposed to be responding to exercise in my 40s or my 50s.
00:52:35.000So, for people that suffer from anxiety, what would be the thing, like, so if you wanted to look for some sort of a genetic component to these people having anxiety?
00:53:50.000We rarely say, why don't we supplement anxiety?
00:53:54.000For the breakdown of catecholamines, fight or flight neurotransmitters, which are associated in urinary excretions with anxiety, why don't we supplement for the proper breakdown of catecholamines and just see what happens?
00:54:08.000And you watch people's anxiety eviscerate.
00:54:14.000Magnesium, calcium gluconate, hydroxycobalamin, this specific form of B12. When you take a complex of B vitamins, a certain form of B12, methylcobalamin, hydroxycobalamin, methylfolate,
00:54:30.000and you put it into these bodies and they start breaking down catecholamines for the first time and getting rid of them.
00:54:36.000They may, for the first time in their adult lifetime, be anxiety-free and be like, what in the hell did I wait so long for?
00:55:18.000Now, if you look at a B-complex, it should contain all of those things.
00:55:24.000By virtue of the fact that it's a B-complex.
00:55:26.000If you go to a good vitamin manufacturer, you should see that their B-complex is pyridoxine, riboflavin, thiamine, niacin, panathenic acid.
00:55:35.000And then you'll see little certain forms of it.
00:55:37.000The one thing you want to avoid like the plague in the B12 category, and I get a lot of shit for this, but is a form of B12 called cyanocobalamin.
00:57:20.000It has to be converted into hydroxycobalamin.
00:57:22.000It's astounding that we're allowed to do this, right?
00:57:25.000Because in the U.S., we use something called single-dose toxicity to determine whether or not something is dangerous for you.
00:57:31.000And people that say things like the dosage determines the poison, that is pathetically nonsensical because nobody gets mercury poisoning from a single allowable dose of mercury.
00:57:44.000Nobody gets chemical poisoning from a single small dose of a chemical.
00:57:50.000But let's go down here and go to view more at the bottom.
00:57:57.000So, just read that sentence right there.
00:58:01.000See, hydrogen cyanide is a highly toxic, see that?
00:58:04.000Yeah, highly toxic conjugate acid of cyanide that is used as chemical weapon agent.
00:58:38.000But if you look at the fluoride studies in 3,600 municipalities around the United States, there's an inverse relationship between the concentration of fluoride and IQ. Yeah.
00:58:57.000I think it was originally fluorohexane, which actually was a byproduct of fertilizer production, and they realized that when they kept the fluorohexane in the fertilizer, it killed the seed.
00:59:05.000So they pulled it out, and they wondered, well, what the hell are we going to do with all this fluorohexane?
00:59:09.000Well, I guess we'll convince water municipalities to put it into the water, because there's a marginal amount of evidence that it can create a nanoparticulate layer over the enamel, and it could potentially prevent tooth decay.
00:59:40.000And, you know, when you look at it, it's like, I was looking at the back of some of these, I did a post on this the other day, I was looking at the back of these toothpaste labels and it literally says to call poison control if you swallow it.
01:00:47.000Is it just some sort of a predatory relationship that the fluoride manufacturers have?
01:00:51.000Don't think of the position that you're in.
01:00:53.000You're a municipality, and like, well, guys, we've been giving you this fluoridated water for 25 years, and it's cancer-causing neurotoxin.
01:00:59.000We're going to go ahead and pull that out.
01:02:24.000And then you go to my reels and it's about 20 reels down.
01:02:28.000You'll see the little clouded fact check thing they put over top of it.
01:02:32.000And it says, false information, CY. And then you have to click through and it says, food grade seed oils are not toxic for human beings, experts say.
01:02:44.000I'm like, well, I'd love to debate that expert.
01:08:23.000In the United States, the Food and Drug Administration, which, by the way, has never been known to be corrupt, Which says food regulations recognize canola oil is safe for human consumption.
01:08:32.000Furthermore, a Tufts University nutrition scientist told lead stories.
01:08:43.000Told lead stories there's no basis for the claim that food-grade canola oil is unsafe for humans to consume.
01:08:49.000In fact, evidence suggests that canola oil may benefit heart health.
01:08:54.000The claim about canola oil's toxicity appeared in a video posted on Instagram December 25th, 2022. In that video, an unidentified on-camera narrator claimed canola oil is toxic.
01:09:15.000The claim that canola oil is an old canard.
01:09:21.000In 2019, for instance, Lead Stories debunked a claim that canola oil causes brain damage, dementia, and weight gain.
01:09:31.000Emailed to lead stories, Alice H. Lichtenstein, director and senior scientist of the Cardiovascular Nutrition Laboratory at Tufts University Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, emphasized that claims that food-grade canola oil is toxic for humans are There's no basis on which to claim that any canola oil on the market contains uric acid or the oil extracted in any way that is different from other plants,
01:10:02.000Look, canola oil is made by a process of chemical refinement called RBD, refined, bleached, deodorized, which involves the use of hexane, which is what I was just talking about, a volatile solvent with low toxicity.
01:10:59.000And this is the thing that we do in this country.
01:11:04.000We have something called single-dose toxicity, which means that if this capsule has a certain amount of arsenic in it, but it's not enough to cause a toxic reaction, then I can still give it to you.
01:11:13.000But it's the cumulative dose toxicity most European countries use, which is why...
01:11:19.000There are dozens of compounds that are legal in the United States that aren't legal anywhere else on the surface of the earth.
01:11:25.000They're certainly not legal in Europe.
01:12:12.000So, you know, it's all of these little microtoxicities, right, that are adding up.
01:12:18.000When you look at cellular metabolism and how it's interrupted by all of these microtoxins, one of the reasons why people, when they go on certain types of diets, like a carnivore diet, experience such a dramatic improvement in health is because the majority of what's happening is they're removing a lot of these toxic chemicals.
01:13:08.000Not that sunflower seeds are bad for you, but those seed oils are bad due to the process, due to the hexane, due to the deodorizers.
01:13:15.000Yeah, the polyunsaturated fatty acids, I mean, this is what causes the oxidation, you know, and cholesterol, you know, gets oxidized, and it actually starts the atherosclerotic process, it starts the plaquing and the scarring, and it actually makes these, you know, turns them into free radicals.
01:13:31.000So you're saying that seed oils themselves cause the plaquing?
01:13:34.000Seed oils themselves cause the oxidation of cholesterol, which leads to plaquing.
01:13:42.000I mean, there's very little evidence linking LDL cholesterol on its own to cardiovascular disease.
01:13:48.000Now, there are some apolipoprotein A's, apolipoprotein B's, but when you look at your...
01:14:04.000I mean, marginally elevated cholesterol, when we were in the When we were in the mortality space, it was a marker of longevity.
01:14:12.000At the time, what we would do is if you had low levels of triglyceride and you had marginally elevated LDL cholesterol and high HDL cholesterol, the high-density liver protein, we would actually extend your life expectancy.
01:14:29.000If you were clinically within these certain margins, if you were very low on cholesterol, like your LDL cholesterol was clinically pushed down.
01:14:38.000Remember, cholesterol is not a fuel source, right?
01:14:41.000The body can't use cholesterol for energy.
01:14:49.000It's a very necessary construction material.
01:14:53.000And it gets vilified because it's at the scene of a lot of crimes, but it's not pulling the trigger, right?
01:14:58.000I mean, a more dangerous measure would be to have high cholesterol and very high triglycerides, because then you start to reduce the particulate size of cholesterol.
01:15:08.000You know, so remember, like, from high school geometry, as the size of a sphere gets smaller, its surface area to volume ratio goes up.
01:15:17.000And so a lot of these small particulate cholesterols are very dangerous because they pass through the arterial wall, they get kind of eaten by a macrophage, and they start this process of scarring.
01:15:27.000But just having elevated levels of LDL cholesterol was a marker for longevity in our mortality space.
01:15:36.000So are there foods that when combined with high levels of dietary cholesterol, like, is there things that you should not eat while also consuming high levels of dietary cholesterol and they work together in a negative way?
01:15:52.000Yeah, I mean, I'm not aware of any link between dietary cholesterol and serum concentration of cholesterol.
01:15:58.000Only 15% of the cholesterol in your bloodstream comes from diet.
01:16:01.00085% of the cholesterol in your blood is manufactured by the liver.
01:16:04.000So if you want to lower your cholesterol, we have to lower what we put into the front door of the liver.
01:16:10.000If you put high glycemic carbohydrates in the front door of the liver, you will likely get not just high triglyceride, but also elevated levels of Cholesterol out the back door.
01:16:20.000So elevated levels of cholesterol and high triglycerides are the problem.
01:16:59.000So now, remember, you know, this syndrome called metabolic syndrome, which is showing up in younger and younger and younger ages now, right, is this combination of You know, abdominal fat, high triglyceride, high blood fat, high insulin,
01:17:16.000hyperinsulinemia, high levels of sugar, which is called hemoglobin A1c, the three-month average of your blood sugar, low HDL cholesterol, the healthy cholesterol, and high blood pressure.
01:17:29.000And if you have any two of those five, you have metabolic syndrome.
01:17:33.000He had all five of those five in a really bad way.
01:17:52.000We're going to try to put you into a state of ketosis so your body starts to use beta-hydroxybutyrate and fat as a fuel source so we can actually drive the triglycerides in your blood down.
01:18:14.000But all the fancy equipment, the red light therapy bags, the Hypermax oxygen, the PMF, all those things you can get for free by just You know, going out in sunlight, grounding, and learning how to do breathwork.
01:18:25.000But most people don't give it the credence that it deserves because it's free, right?
01:18:29.000It's like, you know, most people don't even want to take a cold shower, much less get into a, you know, a cold plunge.
01:18:37.000You know, most people don't want to wake up with the sun and take their shirt off and go outside and expose it to natural sunlight.
01:18:42.000Most people don't want to take eight minutes and do breathwork.
01:18:44.000But if you just added those three things to your morning routine, you'd change the entire trajectory of your life.
01:18:54.000And I try to tell people that all the time.
01:18:55.000Yeah, I mean, if you've got $125,000 or $150,000 lying around and you want to buy the top-of-the-line red light bed, you want to buy the top-of-the-line cold plunge, and you want to buy a PEMF mat, and you want to buy a Hypermax oxygen system, then by all means, because those do work, they'll make it convenient for you.
01:19:11.000Because all they're doing is bringing...
01:19:14.000The best of what Mother Nature has from the outside and bringing it in.
01:20:44.000I mean, so if you look at the wavelengths of light that are really therapeutic, the 680 to 720 nanometers, 810 and 940. There are other wavelengths, but those wavelengths in particular will do some very, very special things.
01:20:58.000You know, not only will they help improve collagen, elastin, fiber, and synthesis in the skin, so red light therapy is actually very good for your skin.
01:21:06.000The longer you use a red light therapy bed, the more kind of youthful appearance you'll take on.
01:21:11.000Ooh, youthful appearance, young Jamie.
01:21:45.000Because they'll tell you to use it every day if you have an injury.
01:21:47.000Well, does it not harm you when you have an injury?
01:21:49.000And it only harms you when you don't have an injury?
01:21:51.000I mean, if you got a little more sunlight exposure one day and had those same nanometers of wavelength passing through your skin, did you do damage on the days that you had slightly more sun exposure?
01:22:02.000Because, you know, the real magic of red light, I mean, there's a lot of magic to red light, you know, reduced inflammation, increased microvascular circulation.
01:22:11.000But really what happens inside the mitochondria, I have kind of a saying that the presence of oxygen is the absence of disease.
01:22:20.000Because during my 20 year career in the mortality space, we did not find a single disease etiological pathway that did not have its roots in a lack of blood oxygen.
01:22:30.000Or specifically was not exacerbated by hypoxia, right?
01:22:37.000And if you think that we all die the same way, right?
01:22:40.000I mean, every human being leaves this earth the same way.
01:22:42.000We all die of hypoxia, lack of oxygen to the brain.
01:22:45.000But it's just what causes that to happen, right?
01:22:48.000Is it a gunshot wound, a boss, a stroke, you know, heart attack?
01:22:54.000This level of oxygen management in the body is a measurable thing.
01:22:58.000You're either using oxygen very well, and therefore you are slowly approximating the grave, or you're using oxygen very poorly, and you are accelerating towards the grave.
01:23:09.000So, for example, when you look at how human beings are truly powered, right, like where do we really get our energy from?
01:23:17.000It's really one energy source called ATP, right?
01:23:19.000And it's produced inside this little organelle called the mitochondria.
01:23:22.000There's about 110 trillion of these in your body.
01:23:25.00010% of your body weight is mitochondria.
01:23:28.000And the mitochondria has a voracious appetite for oxygen.
01:23:33.000When it receives oxygen, It will create 16 times more energy.
01:23:38.000It will produce 36 ATP rather than 2 ATP. So imagine a little mitochondria that has a motor inside of it called the Krebs cycle.
01:23:47.000And every time this motor makes one revolution, it has two choices.
01:23:50.000It can either create two units of energy, 2 ATP, or it can create 36 units of energy, 36 ATP. The difference between a 16-fold increase or 16-fold decrease in energy is the presence of oxygen.
01:24:04.000And so if oxygen enters this cycle, right, it produces 16 times more energy, it puts out water and it also puts out carbon dioxide.
01:24:14.000If there's no oxygen present, it only produces two ATP and it releases lactic acid, which by the way doesn't make your muscles burn, but it releases lactic acid.
01:24:26.000So, what if when you used a red light bed, one of those wavelengths of light actually goes through the mitochondrial wall, and it goes into this motor, it goes into the Krebs cycle, and it actually kicks out a gas.
01:24:39.000called mitochondrial nitric oxide and forces oxygen to dock.
01:24:44.000There's a little place in this motor called cytochrome C oxidase and cytochrome C oxidase is like a one-armed man.
01:24:51.000He can either shake hands with oxygen or he can shake hands with nitric oxide, but he can't do both.
01:24:57.000So if I can get him to let go of nitric oxide and grab oxygen, I can get a 16-fold increase in mitochondrial output.
01:25:21.000If you don't have the budget for a red light bed, but the majority of people don't, the benefits of getting first light in the morning are so much more astounding than you think, but because it's free, people don't, you know, they don't think of it as that important.
01:25:37.000Yeah, so this will go a few inches into the skin, 360 degrees around.
01:25:40.000If you look at photobiomodulation and the treatment of Parkinson's syndrome, like using red light therapy on the skull for neurogenic disorders and neuroinflammatory conditions, if you look at arthritic conditions and all kinds of inflammatory pathologies in the body and the impact of photobiomodulation,
01:26:00.000it is astounding what light does in the human body.
01:26:03.000And what is the difference between like what that does and what like one of those juve wall does?
01:26:08.000So it's the milliwatts of irradiance for one, which is the power, kind of how strong it's being pushed.
01:26:16.000Whether or not you can regulate the hertz, right?
01:26:22.000This is kind of the frequency of the light.
01:26:25.000And then there's the different wavelengths hitting you at the same time.
01:26:29.000You generally find therapeutic wavelengths between 680 and 720 nanometers, specifically 810 and 940. Those are the ones that have the most clinical research on them.
01:26:43.000And so I think it's actually FDA approved for the skin and certain eye treatments, but I'd have to go back and check that.
01:26:50.000But I think Red Light does have an FDA approval.
01:26:54.000But laying in red light therapy every day, if you do that for a month, even if you did it 10 minutes a day for 30 days, at the end of that month, you would notice a profound and material change in your performance.
01:27:18.000A full body red light therapy is best.
01:27:22.000We already know its effects for wound healing, collagen, fibrin, elastin, inflammation reduction, the improvement in microvascular circulation, so like in your eyes, liver, lungs, pancreas,
01:27:38.000That photobiomodulation is very good for neural inflammation.
01:27:43.000And because of the way that it upstages the mitochondria, just think you got 110 trillion mitochondria in your body.
01:27:49.000If you could power those mitochondria up, if you could get a 16-fold step up in cellular energy, just think of the amount of extra waste elimination, repair, detoxification that you could cause.
01:28:31.000Why do they tell you to cover your eyes?
01:28:33.000Well, because, you know, I guess the bright light, if you're staring directly at one of those lights, if you have some kind of photosensitivity or damage to your rods or your cones, your macula or your retina, I mean, if you had eye pathology, which you would know about, then there might be some downside consequences.
01:28:49.000But you just lay there and stare at that fucker?
01:28:51.000Right at the light with my eyes wide open.
01:30:46.000I've been learning this stuff for so long, but that's part of the problem is it's so difficult to, like, maintain this information in your head.
01:31:02.000Like social media and podcasts and stage talks and things like that for me to be speaking to my peers.
01:31:07.000I feel like the woke biohacking crowd has enough woke biohackers that are doing a great job out there that somebody needs to just talk to the masses.
01:31:16.000There's a bunch of fucking grifters in that woke biohacking crowd.
01:31:20.000There's a bunch of unhealthy-looking douchebags that are selling nonsense.
01:31:25.000I know a few of them, and I know they're frauds.
01:32:47.000You swab your cheek, you put it in a little test tube, you send it to the lab, and then the results come back to you.
01:32:53.000For the balance of your lifetime, you will never guess on what your body is deficient in, right?
01:32:57.000Because you will know what it can methylate and what it can't.
01:33:01.000And then just start supplementing for the sake of deficiency, not the sake of supplementation, and step back and watch what happens.
01:33:08.000Forget all the fancy Amazon roots and, you know, rare supplements that only one company has that they patented and trademarked and it's the secret to optimal health.
01:33:17.000Because by the time you get way down the road to all of the, I would say, enhancement type supplements, like I'm a huge fan of NMN, I'm a massive fan of resveratrol, you know, stem cell stimulatory supplements and things like that, you've got to cover the basics.
01:33:34.000You've got to get the foundation right.
01:33:35.000The soil has to have the right nutrients so the body can perform its basic functions.
01:33:40.000And then you can start targeting things with mycelized turmeric and curcumin and NMN and you can start taking creatine to help with muscles.
01:33:49.000You can do all of those additional things.
01:35:42.000So I think the best kind of water you can put into the human body is hydrogen water by a landslide.
01:35:48.000If you're going to drink spring water, drink Mountain Valley.
01:35:52.000By the way, I don't have any deal with Mountain Valley.
01:35:54.000I have no particular reason to push them.
01:35:57.000But if you can, hydrogen water, by all of the clinical studies, there are probably 1,400 published peer-reviewed clinical studies on hydrogen water, more than any other type of water on the planet.
01:36:09.000And, you know, there's a whole class of bacteria in your gut called hydrophiles.
01:36:13.000You can actually increase the absorption of all of your nutrients and your supplements.
01:36:19.000And where does one get hydrogen water?
01:36:20.000I have a link to the one that I use on my Instagram.
01:37:58.000I haven't personally seen the studies on...
01:38:00.000There's a lot of hydrogen water companies out there, and I don't have an opinion about them one way or another because I never actually tested them.
01:38:06.000Everything that I speak about or plumagate, I've usually third-party tested myself, and I'll experiment on myself too.
01:38:15.000I'll go into a red light bed and say, okay, if I lay in this red light bed and it's supposed to release nitric oxide from my mitochondria, Yeah.
01:38:42.000And then I would get into bed for 20 minutes, and about 10 minutes after I'd get into bed, I'd test it again and see that it was like a dark blood-red Cabernet, just showing that my nitric oxide level spiked.
01:38:51.000I'm like, okay, now I can see that the claims that this was making is having a physiologic response, because there's no way for my nitric oxide level to spike.
01:39:01.000I do the same thing with, like, these PEMF mats, these Pulse Electromagnetic Field Mats that run low-gauce current through the body.
01:39:10.000You know, supposedly what they will do is they'll change the surface polarity of your cells.
01:39:15.000So if you like were to prick your finger and put it on a slide and look at your blood under a microscope, you'd see that most of your red blood cells are kind of stuck together and clumped up, right?
01:39:24.000They're sort of traveling around the bloodstream in packs, almost like too many cars trying to take the same exit.
01:39:29.000But then when you run a low gas current through the body, like contacting the surface of the earth, when you're asking me, what does grounding do?
01:39:36.000You contact the surface of the earth or lay on a PEMF mat.
01:39:40.000And when you're done, prick your blood again, put it back on the same slide, look at it under a microscope and you'll see all your red blood cells have separated.
01:40:24.000You can get a microscope online for about $400.
01:40:26.000You can get Darkfield, something called Darkfield, and you can put your blood on a slide and watch what happens after you've been sleeping all night before you go out and touch the surface of the earth and then prick your finger 10 minutes later after you come in or 10 minutes after you get off a PMF net.
01:40:39.000And what is more beneficial, PMF, Matt, or the grounding of the earth?
01:40:45.000The problem is that most people just don't have the time or the wherewithal to touch the surface of the earth.
01:40:50.000You know, they're in Michigan or Canada, or it's dark when they leave in the morning, dark when they come home in the morning, or they live in a condo high-rise, or they're in New York City, and it's hard to find actual dirt, grass, sand that you'd want to walk on without hypodermic needles and dog shit.
01:41:05.000So, you know, I live in downtown Miami, and, you know, in the mornings I would take my elevator down, walk across the street, take my shoes off, and I called it Four Corners.
01:41:15.000There was a little park right next to the American Airlines Arena.
01:41:19.000I'm downtown where the heat play and I would just walk the four corners of that park You know in the morning with my shirt off just getting sunlight and doing some breath work I would go back inside to my mood my emotional state my energy everything through the roof and then take a cold shower That's it.
01:41:35.000I mean, most people, you know, again, not the super ultra woke biohacker, but the basic humanity, we have, you know, we have subscribed to the fact or I've subscribed to the fact that aging is the aggressive pursuit of comfort.
01:41:51.000I really think aging is the aggressive pursuit of comfort.
01:41:54.000The more aggressively we pursue comfort, the faster we age.
01:41:58.000And so most people just don't want to wake up in the morning, expose their skin to sunlight, do a little breath work, ground, touch the surface of the earth, and then take a cold shower.
01:42:09.000None of which would add a penny to their budget and would absolutely change the trajectory of their life.
01:42:14.000And then as you get more money, then you can add a red light therapy bed.
01:42:44.000And so you plug it into the wall, you put it underneath your mattress, and then when you go to bed, you hit two buttons, and for 30 minutes it will run a low gas current through your body.
01:43:18.000I mean, I think if you look at some of the, you know, the ancestral books on mankind, you'll see that we were really designed to spend more than 85% of our time outside.
01:43:31.000We spent 95% of our time indoors right now.
01:43:34.000In fact, most people spend more than 97% of their time indoors.
01:43:37.000They go from a covered house to a covered garage to a covered car to a covered office to a covered gym.
01:43:53.000This is collapsing all of our natural defense mechanisms.
01:43:56.000That's why things like cold water immersion that we don't want to adapt to that shock the body Tap into all of these, you know, primal mechanisms to protect us.
01:47:05.000Most of the time I do it first thing in the morning.
01:47:06.000My regular routine is first thing I do is get in there and then work out.
01:47:12.000So I get in there and then I have a series of body weight routines that I do to heat my body back up.
01:47:17.000Simple stuff that I'm not going to get hurt with like I'll do 100 push-ups and 100 bodyweight squats.
01:47:22.000And by the time I'm done with those, generally I'm heated up.
01:47:25.000I do them in sets of 20. So I'll do 20 push-ups, 20 bodyweight squats, 20 push-ups, 20 bodyweight squats, then I take a little break, and then I do it again, and then I do it one more time.
01:48:09.000Well, like, when I do rounds in the bag, Even if I do my bodyweight squats, my sit-ups, my push-ups, by the time I get to hitting the bag, I'm still not sweating.
01:48:19.000You know, because it's so fucking cold.
01:48:56.000One of the things I do is I use, when it comes to training like with weights and kettlebells, I treat kettlebells like it's a skill.
01:49:03.000And I think that is something that I learned from Pavel Tatsulin and studying his strong first protocol.
01:49:10.000He advocates a long rest period in between workout sets and more repetitions in terms of volume by virtue of the fact that you have larger rest periods.
01:49:23.000And a lot of people feel like they're being lazy when they do that because they're not pushing themselves.
01:49:31.000So if I'm strength training, like the heaviest kettlebell, occasionally I'll lift a 90-pound kettlebell.
01:49:38.000I'll do my cleans and presses with a 90. But the vast majority of my work is warm-up sets are done with a 35, and it's generally like one arm swings, both sides, 10 reps, two sets.
01:49:50.000Then I move into a 50-pound kettlebell, 10 reps, two sides, and then I move to 70. So you're doing single arm with 50 pounds?
01:49:59.000And then when I get, then I do 70 with single arm.
01:50:02.000And then when I get to 70, now I'm moving into clean press, and then I'm moving into windmills, and I'm moving into between the legs, and all that is with 70s.
01:52:01.000So the branched chains are three of the nine.
01:52:03.000You know, that's the leucine, isoleucine, valine.
01:52:06.000But I think the branched-chain amino acid theory has really been, you know, debunked now that you just need to take branched-chain amino acids, BCAAs before a workout.
01:52:15.000The old theory used to be that, well, those are the amino acids that are really metabolized at the muscle level, so they're not cleaved through the liver.
01:52:21.000But the truth is that you really need a full-spectrum amino acid.
01:52:24.000So you need all, at minimum, all nine of the, you know, essential amino acids.
01:52:29.000Do you have all this stuff for sale on your site?
01:53:20.000But hopefully they'll switch that to methylcobalamin.
01:53:25.000So I formulated a 10x health form of electrolytes, but high levels of sodium, magnesium, potassium.
01:53:36.000And contrary to popular belief, I mean, so many people are afraid of sodium.
01:53:42.000We've, you know, we've seen blood work on thousands and thousands and thousands of people.
01:53:46.000And, you know, there have been clinical studies that show an inverse relationship between sodium and migraine headaches, meaning as sodium levels go down, the incidence of migraine headaches go up.
01:53:57.000As sodium levels go up, the incidence of migraine headaches go down.
01:54:00.000I'm by no means saying that all migraine headaches are caused by sodium, nor am I saying that everybody that has a sodium sensitivity should take sodium for a migraine headache.
01:54:08.000I'm well aware that sodium is implicated in cardiovascular conditions and blood pressure.
01:54:13.000However, when you do a blood test and you see that your sodium levels are low, let's say 134, 135, 136, 137, or 138 in that range on your blood test, and almost every blood test that has a comprehensive metabolic panel will give you a sodium level.
01:54:30.000If you are waking up three, four, five days a month with a headache or you get regular migraine headaches, watch what happens when you start to add Celtic sea salt to your drinking water or something like, you know, an electrolyte blend that I make or an LMNT to your morning routine.
01:54:47.000Watch what happens to those headaches.
01:54:51.000And so most of us are clinically deficient in sodium.
01:54:56.000There's this theory that sodium is very dehydrating.
01:55:03.000And nothing could be further from the truth.
01:55:06.000We are not hydrated when we have water in our blood.
01:55:08.000We're hydrated when we have water in our tissues.
01:55:10.000And what determines whether or not water leaves the blood and enters the tissue Is the osmotic gradient, the osmosis.
01:55:17.000So if we are deficient in sodium, we have an imbalance in this gradient.
01:55:23.000And so it's amazing what happens to performance and headaches and migraines when people just add a little bit of sodium to their drinking water.
01:55:34.000So if you don't want to buy one of these packets, just get Celtic sea salt, which has all kinds of extra minerals in it.
01:55:40.000It has none of the potential downside of heavy metals like pink Himalayan sea salt does.
01:55:46.000So pink Himalayan sea salt is dangerous?
01:55:48.000Pink Himalayan sea salt is great, but I saw a study where they actually tested Several different varieties of pink Himalayan sea salt, and they've actually found mercury and heavy metals in a lot of them.
01:56:02.000They found heavy metals in the pink Himalayan sea salt, never in the Celtic salt.
01:56:08.000I don't know how they're finding it or why it's in there.
01:56:10.000Like, I saw Paul Saladino posted something the other day that showed that half of the chocolate brands that I was eating had heavy metals in them.
01:56:18.000I was like, damn, Paul, how'd you do that?
01:56:21.000I mean, in the really good eco-friendly brands and Human, which was a brand that I loved, had really high levels of metal.
01:56:27.000And I was like, shit, how did these, you know, I only eat the really, really high percentage kow-kow ones once in a while, but they seem to have high amounts of heavy metals.
01:56:36.000The Celtic sea salt, which is inexpensive, is probably the best salt you can put in the body.
01:57:31.000Like, you know, berries, natural honeys, things like that.
01:57:36.000So what you did with Dana White, the first thing you did was you got him on a ketogenic diet.
01:57:42.000Yeah, I put him on what I called a prescription ketogenic diet, which meant that I wrote a diet right down to his grocery list and said, Dana, if it's not on this list, you cannot eat it.
01:59:13.000Look, reduced viability of tumor cells to the cell cycle or rest in apoptosis induction with that Pisces resveratrol did not induce the apoptosis concentration.
01:59:24.000Pisces resveratrol is better than resveratrol.
02:00:12.000It is astounding the, um, And the clinical outcomes that, you know, we see in patients that we put on this stuff, I mean, increased circulation in the brain, you know,
02:00:28.000Renald syndrome and circulation and even peripheral neuropathies that are related to circulation seem to eviscerate.
02:01:48.000But grass-fed meat and grass-fed animal products, eggs and dairy, when these fats are broken down and turned into water in the Krebs cycle, what happens is...
02:02:01.000It produces a type of water in the cell called deuterium depleted water.
02:02:05.000If you really want to blow your mind sometime, look up deuterium depleted water.
02:02:11.000It is astounding the number of pathologies and diseases that are linked to deuterium water.
02:02:18.000Deuterium water is, you know, water is two hydrogens and one oxygen.
02:02:23.000But when you actually have an extra neutron, which doesn't sound like a big deal, molecularly, when you have an extra neutron, what happens is when that water molecule enters the Krebs cycle, it breaks the Krebs cycle.
02:02:34.000It actually wrecks the mitochondrial metabolism.
02:02:38.000When you eat a diet high in grass-fed animal fats, eggs, dairy, fatty fish, the type of water that the body creates is called deuterium depleted water.
02:03:08.000I only drink a half a gallon of water.
02:03:09.000So how does my body produce a gallon of water?
02:03:11.000You produce water inside your cells the same way we produce it in space.
02:03:15.000You take two hydrogens, one oxygen, you put them together, you have a water molecule.
02:03:19.000You're not capable of drinking enough water in two weeks to power your mitochondria for 50 minutes.
02:03:24.000You have to create intracellular water.
02:03:27.000So we take these gases, we put them together, we create cellular water, and then we break it apart inside of the Krebs cycle.
02:03:34.000So when that water becomes heavy, deuterium, Some of the water that's entering that Krebs cycle starts to break the Krebs cycle and reduce its efficiency.
02:03:46.000When that water is light, like when it's generated when you're in ketosis or from grass-fed animal fats, eggs, dairy, things like that, Or actually even plant-based fats like shelled hemp seeds.
02:04:04.000That water is light, and when it powers the mitochondria, it doesn't break any of the Krebs cycle.
02:04:11.000And deuterium-depleted water is now being used in cancer treatments, in all kinds of oncology treatments for difficult-to-treat cancers like glioblastomas and other things.
02:05:40.000And then we also put them on a peptide.
02:05:43.000At the time, it was a growth hormone peptide, sermoralin and ipamoralin.
02:05:47.000One is a GHRP, a growth hormone-releasing peptide.
02:05:50.000The other one is a GHRH, a growth hormone-releasing hormone.
02:05:53.000We use these in combination to make sure that when you take this at night to try to capture that circadian pulse of growth hormone, that you stimulate both the hypothalamus and the pituitary.
02:06:04.000Just in the off chance that your pituitary had recently secreted growth hormone, we could actually override that negative feedback loop and make sure that every time that he took it, he got a secretion of nighttime growth hormone.
02:06:16.000Because I also wanted to deepen You know, deep into sleep.
02:06:20.000Then I went aggressively after the inflammation with one of the products I make myself, which is called 10X Brain and Immune Boost.
02:06:28.000But I also put them on a mycelized turmeric and curcumin drops.
02:06:33.000So these are nanoparticle turmeric and curcumin with bioaloe that you put under the tongue that go right into the bloodstream and immediately...
02:06:42.000For people that have problems urinating because their prostate is swollen, a few drops of mycelized turmeric and curcumin, that problem just eviscerates.
02:06:52.000So I was really aggressive after inflammation and circulation.
02:06:56.000I didn't actually have him exercising intensely at first because...
02:07:02.000You know, with insulin resistance and being pre-diabetic and just two or three tenths of a point away from being actually diabetic, with a triglyceride level at that life-threatening level and also having that abdominal adiposity and then very severe hypertension with this very elevated hyperhomocyst anemia,
02:07:29.000It's actually a vitamin I designed myself.
02:07:31.000It took me about two and a half years to get all the methylated nutrients into the right formulation so that I could address all of these genetic breaks that he had, one of which was particularly his inability to methylate homocysteine.
02:07:46.000So I put him on a vitamin called 10X Optimize that I formulated myself.
02:07:56.000He took two capsules of trimethylglycine in the morning.
02:07:59.000And I'm telling you, Joe, week over week over week, if you ask him, he will tell you every week my average blood pressure reading started to come down.
02:08:17.000Every week my body fat percentage began to drop and I was muscle protecting him with a peptide so he wouldn't so he wouldn't muscle waste he would just fat waste because most people when they say I want to lose weight they really mean I want to lose fat right they don't mean I just want to lose weight right This is the problem with Ozempic and Terzepatide and Wagovia and a lot of these other drugs is they don't put the patient on a peptide to protect the muscle.
02:08:40.000So a third of the weight that they lose is lean muscle mass.
02:08:42.000If we put them on a peptide with some of these weight loss drugs, it would protect their muscle and they'd have a propensity to lose more fat and they'd still get all the benefits of the blood sugar control and everything else.
02:09:07.000I think his blood pressure was already normalizing.
02:09:11.000By week five, my clinical team, again, I'm not licensed to practice medicine, but Dr. Sarda had titrated him down off of all of his cardiovascular medication.
02:09:20.000So he was completely off his cardiovascular medication.
02:09:23.000He was completely off of the blood thinner.
02:09:25.000He was off of the diuretic that he was on.
02:09:29.000He was off of one other medication that he was on.
02:10:22.000But he's like, we should do a post and just throw my blood work out there and let people try to poke holes in it because here's where we started, here's where we ended.
02:10:31.000So we did it and we threw his blood work up on there and we just showed where does insulin start, where did it end, where does triglyceride start, where did it end?
02:10:38.000If what you did to him was available as a pharmaceutical medication, it would be the most popular thing available.
02:10:45.000If there was something that they sold from Pfizer that you could just inject into somebody that would provide those results, holy shit, everybody would be lined up to take it.
02:10:52.000Dude, and now he feels like he's 25 years old again.
02:11:22.000He and I, you know, worked on some other things together.
02:11:26.000You know, his UFC medical director, Dr. Davidson, is, you know, part-time joining our clinical team now because, like, all of these allopathic physicians have said, wow, I mean, like, this has really worked.
02:11:39.000I mean, when you have data to show what works, not just the subjective data, oh, I look better, I feel better, I sleep better.
02:11:45.000When you have real objective data, you're...
02:11:48.000You were almost an insulin-dependent diabetic and now you have normopathic blood sugar on your own.
02:11:53.000You had hypertriglyceridemia and now it's normal.
02:11:56.000When your HDL cholesterol was floored out, now it's in the upper end of the range and your LDL cholesterol is normal.
02:12:05.000And the same thing happened with the thyroid because he thought he had hypothyroid, which a lot of people think they have because the thyroid produces these two hormones.
02:12:14.000It produces T4 and it produces T3. And the majority of the time when hypothyroid is diagnosed, we diagnose it because people have low T3, right?
02:12:24.000But the little known fact about the thyroid is that it only produces 20% of the T3 in your blood.
02:12:30.000So the question is, where does the other 80% of thyroid hormone T3 come from?
02:12:35.000Because when it's low, we still medicate the thyroid.
02:12:38.000I mean, you want to talk about a pandemic.
02:12:39.000We have a pandemic in this country of holding organs responsible for crimes they're not committing and then pounding them with medication and chemicals.
02:12:48.000So if you look at the thyroid, and this happened to Dana's case too, he had low T3. You know, again, the question is, where does the rest of the T3 hormone come from?
02:12:58.000Well, it is methylated from T4. We take T4 and we break it down into T3. And this happens in the gut, right?
02:13:07.000So low T3 is not usually a problem with the thyroid.
02:13:10.000It's usually a problem with methylation in the gut.
02:13:12.000And so when he got on that 10X Optimize, when he started taking the B-complex and the specific form of B12, the trimethylglycine and methylfolate, that's what he was on, It turned the methylation cycle back on.
02:13:25.000He started breaking T4 down into T3. Then T3 hormone rose back into the normal range.
02:13:29.000And he was like, holy shit, dude, you fixed my thyroid.
02:13:31.000And I go, no, no, I didn't fix your thyroid.
02:13:33.000I fixed your methylation in your gut, which occurs outside of the thyroid.
02:13:38.000Yes, you were on thyroid medication, but that organ was being held responsible for a crime it wasn't committing.
02:13:44.000So we didn't actually fix the thyroid.
02:13:47.000There's millions of people listening to this podcast right now that have been diagnosed with hypothyroid.
02:13:59.000And I'll come back in a week and a half, and I'll read the results without knowing anything about you, and it'll blow your mind what I can tell you about yourself.
02:14:05.000How you think, how you go to bed, how you wake up, what your short-term recall is like, what's going on in your blood work without seeing your blood work, your family medical history, whether or not a mother or father has hypertension or hypothyroid, because we have just been fed this nonsense that so much disease and pathology is Is passed from generation to generation and the sad thing is if I can get you to subscribe to the fact that you have a disease I can get you to subscribe to a lifetime of medication,
02:14:37.000But if it's a nutrient deficiency Well, then I supplement a client into no longer being a client, right?
02:14:45.000And that's why I want to spend a balance of my lifetime telling people, like, how do you find the raw material that's missing in your body?
02:14:51.000How do you put it back and go on about your life?
02:14:53.000At least that is a starting point, right?
02:14:56.000And it's astounding how many pathological conditions or conditions that we call consequences of aging we are just accepting.
02:15:04.000As consequences of aging, not realizing that they are nutrient deficiencies in the body.
02:15:08.000But listen, dude, this is what we're gonna do.
02:15:35.000So if I'm in this state right now and maybe there's a bunch of shit that I could fix, particularly I'm excited about this idea that hypothyroidism is something that could be fixed because I've always been told that it's not.
02:15:45.000That it's something that you just have, it's genetic, someone else in your family has it, you're fucked.
02:15:51.000Next time somebody tells you you have a genetically inherited condition, look the doctor right in the eye and say, what gene did I inherit from my ancestor that causes this condition?
02:16:01.000Yeah, the last thing you want to do is not go to that doctor.
02:16:03.000Well, that's one of the things that Dana said, he'll never go to a doctor ever again for general health after his experiences with you because it's just been so life-changing.