TRIGGERnometry - Don’t Die Before Your Time - Longevity Expert Gary Brecka

00:00:00.560 You're the guy single-handedly responsible for transforming Dana White.

00:00:05.440 We built a system of crisis medicine, not a healthcare system, and we have been led to

00:00:12.080 believe that this is the system that's going to bring us to a state of optimal health. It's not.

00:00:16.640 It's for crisis intervention. You want to see magic things happen in your body. Test for what

00:00:22.640 it's deficient in and then just give it the raw material it needs to do its job. You'll be shocked

00:00:27.040 how well it performs. So first, let me tell you four things that you can do that are absolutely free.

00:00:34.320 Garrett Brecker, so much to talk with you about. I mean, you're the guy

00:00:37.920 single-handedly responsible for transforming Dana White. We'll talk about that. But first,

00:00:43.040 I want to talk a little bit about the background that brings you to where you are because one of

00:00:46.640 the things you used to do, fascinatingly, is predict how long people are going to live and

00:00:51.360 when they're going to die. Can you talk to us about that a little bit?

00:00:53.840 Sure. I was a mortality expert for large life insurance companies and large life

00:01:00.160 insurance policies. And what this meant was we know that everybody is on an actuarial curve.

00:01:06.320 Both of you are on one. I'm on one. Everybody listening to this podcast is on one. If you're

00:01:10.400 a 34-year-old male, you have a life expectancy of X. If you're a 25-year-old female, you have a life 0.97

00:01:15.280 expectancy of Y. But the truth is that when an insurance company is getting ready to put

00:01:21.440 specific risk on your life, $10 million, $20 million, $50 million worth of life insurance

00:01:27.120 on a single life, only one thing matters. And that's how many more months does that person

00:01:32.400 have left on Earth? And interestingly, insurance companies have data that no other financial

00:01:39.200 services enterprise has. The federal government doesn't have it. Universities and research foundations

00:01:44.560 don't have it. And that is that they know the day, the date, the time, the location,

00:01:49.520 and the cause of death for hundreds of millions of lives. And when you know that specific piece

00:01:55.760 of information, you can pull it back into that person's records. Don't forget they also have

00:02:00.560 medical records on these people. They have blood work. They have some type of gene testing.

00:02:04.480 They have all of their medical history. They have a blood test that they've done on their own.

00:02:08.480 And so we take that data and we create pathways to predict how soon someone is going to die. And

00:02:17.040 these predictions were done, you know, to the month. And I get a lot of flack about it, but the truth is,

00:02:21.920 it's some of the most accurate science in the world. You know, I've said many times that the database

00:02:27.200 that I had access to, if that database could ever see the light of day, it would permanently change the

00:02:33.440 face of humanity. I mean, it would upend modern medicine in a way that would be catastrophic,

00:02:38.240 because we know the trajectory of these chemicals and synthetics and pharmaceuticals. We know what

00:02:43.280 happens when people are just missing the basics in nutrition and supplementation. And we can

00:02:51.120 accurately predict not only the onset of, but the severity of, and how quickly somebody will succumb to

00:02:57.120 disease or pathology. And, you know, if you want to know how accurate they are doing this,

00:03:02.160 just look at what happened during the 2008 and 2009, you know, financial services crisis.

00:03:07.280 We had 364 banks fail. You didn't have a single life insurance company fail. Not one. In fact,

00:03:13.680 when the credit services division, derivatives division of AIG, one of the largest life insurance

00:03:18.080 companies in the world, went south and almost took the entire company over, it was the life division

00:03:22.800 that bailed them out. A valid death claim in the United States has never failed to have been paid.

00:03:28.960 Not once. There's not one valid death claim ever issued on a life that's failed to have been paid.

00:03:33.040 There's some of the most solvent institutions in the world. And this is because they're very

00:03:36.960 good at what they do, right? No other financial services enterprise would take that level of risk

00:03:41.840 on a single variable. There's no venture capital fund, no angel investor, you know, no hedge fund,

00:03:48.080 um, no mutual fund that would take that level of risk on, on just one single variable. So they really

00:03:53.760 have honed in the science. And, you know, what was astounding about being in that career was that,

00:04:00.640 um, you know, as I started to spend more and more time in that career, I realized a number of things.

00:04:07.760 Uh, number one, that there were, uh, it wasn't just data, right? There were human beings on the

00:04:13.120 other side of these spreadsheets. Um, and even though you get brainwashed into being told that,

00:04:18.560 hey, you have nothing to do with this case, you're not responsible for getting this person

00:04:22.240 into this condition. You're not responsible for getting them out of this condition.

00:04:25.760 At the end of the day, it became very hard to separate myself from the fact that there was a human

00:04:29.600 being, you know, on the other side of the spreadsheet. And had I just been able to pick up the phone and

00:04:35.680 call them, um, I could have materially changed the trajectory of their life. Um, I was precluded by

00:04:42.000 law from doing that. Even if I saw life-threatening drug interactions, I could not pick up the phone

00:04:47.360 and mourn the patient. I couldn't even pick up the phone and tell the treating physician.

00:04:51.360 And when you're looking at this voluminous amount of data, so my, my job was to basically

00:04:56.080 read medical records for, for 20 years and to extract from the medical record the pertinent

00:05:02.320 information needed to predict life expectancy. And when you're reading that voluminous amount

00:05:07.840 of medical records, you start to see patterns. Um, you see that the, the reason why most people

00:05:14.240 are not living healthier, happier, longer, more fulfilling lives are because of what we call

00:05:19.760 modifiable risk factors. You know, things that people could change in their life, most of them quite

00:05:26.320 easily. They had to do with basics of activity, basics of nutrition, understanding the human

00:05:31.840 biome, the fix in, you know, anemias, vitamin D3 deficiencies, simple nutrient deficiencies

00:05:37.200 that these people had that were dramatically reducing their quality of life. And that's why

00:05:42.080 you'll hear me say, you know, every chance that I get that, um, I have two sayings. One is that the

00:05:47.600 presence of oxygen is the absence of disease. Um, because we did not study a single disease

00:05:53.520 etiological pathway, not one that did not have its roots in a lack of oxygen or was not exacerbated by

00:06:01.040 a lack of oxygen. Everything from autoimmune diseases to Alzheimer's, to dementia, um, to ADD,

00:06:07.040 ADHD, OCD, manic depression, bipolar, all kinds of conditions, type two diabetes. And, and the second

00:06:14.400 was that human beings are not as sick as we think we are. We don't have pandemics of mental illness

00:06:22.640 and pandemics of, um, uh, you know, in genetically inherited disease. We have a pandemic of missing

00:06:30.000 raw material in the human body. We have nutrient deficiencies that are leading to the expression

00:06:36.000 of disease in most cases. You know, when you deprive the human body of certain raw materials,

00:06:41.040 I mean, pick one vitamin D3, for example, you get the expression of what happens when you deploy that

00:06:46.400 nutrient, right? So compromised immune system. We know D3, for example, was, uh, the second leading

00:06:52.000 cause of morbidity and COVID, um, deficiency in D3 is why COVID disproportionately affected minorities,

00:06:58.480 not because their minority status, but because of the pigment of their skin, which actually drove

00:07:02.080 their D3 levels down even lower. And, and so if, if we would go back to the basics, put our faith back

00:07:09.600 in humanity, back in mankind, back in what God gave us and give the body the raw material it needs to heal

00:07:15.440 itself, you would see magic things happen in this world.

00:07:19.760 Gary, I want to get back to that in a second, but first I'm just so fascinated by this idea of being

00:07:24.320 able to accurately predict, uh, people's life expectancy on an individual level. Uh, particularly,

00:07:29.920 you know, I think I'm pretty sure I have life insurance and, and the, the information you'd get

00:07:34.320 about me would be like my age, uh, my sex, the fact that I broke my arm playing basketball a few years

00:07:41.520 ago. And that's sort of probably about it. How on earth can you predict how long I'm going to live

00:07:46.320 based on things as basic as that? So I've, I've worked in the jumbo life division. You're not

00:07:50.720 going to get a life insurance policy over $5 million of face value without them sending a nurse out to

00:07:55.440 your house and doing a blood draw without them getting all of your demographic information, your

00:08:00.160 trust, um, you know, your trust wills, your divorce decree. If you were divorced, um, your banking

00:08:06.480 information, your, um, all of your health records as far back as they can go, usually five to 10 years.

00:08:12.800 And, and then a specific blood test before the policy is incepted. So you can go online and get

00:08:18.160 a term policy for a million dollars and, and submit some basic information. That wasn't the life

00:08:23.600 insurance division I worked in. I worked in the division of, um, uh, whole life and universal life

00:08:29.520 policies. These are policies that are meant to be carried all the way to term. Um, not like a term

00:08:35.360 life insurance policy, 98% of term policies, never pay a death claim. Only 2% of term policies

00:08:41.360 actually result in the death claim. So you could go on right now to any number of websites and say,

00:08:46.480 I need a hundred thousand dollar 10 year term life policy. And they're not going to send a nurse to 1.00

00:08:50.720 your house. And they're not going to do an, uh, a deep dive into your, um, medical records because

00:08:57.360 they know there's a 98% chance that that term policy will lapse because at the end of that five

00:09:02.480 year or 10 year or 20 year term, that policy goes to zero. It's usually meant to cover the breadwinner

00:09:08.160 during the, um, during the formative years, maybe, you know, um, maybe a mother or father,

00:09:13.920 that's the working one and the other one's home with the kids. And if you lost that income,

00:09:18.160 it would be catastrophic and it needs to be replaced. But 15, 20 years down the road,

00:09:22.640 that insurance policy is no longer needed. When you talk about big whole life, big universal life

00:09:27.440 policies, 5 million, 10 million, 25 million, 50 million in face value, which is a lot more common

00:09:33.040 than you think. Um, and these are the policies where they are predicting, um, life expectancy to

00:09:38.320 the month and they're, or using a third party life expectancy company. And they're very accurate

00:09:43.920 with the data and the medical. That makes sense. So what are some of the like key takeaways that,

00:09:49.440 that you would be looking for? What is the thing that you'd be like? Oh, that's definitely

00:09:53.120 telling me some really useful information that I'm looking for this. This is going to have a

00:09:57.440 material impact. Like what are some of the basics? Um, so a lot of the basics were medical misdiagnosis,

00:10:03.280 um, um, chronic conditions that were left untreated. So for example, we would see over and over and

00:10:10.080 over again, we know, for example, from a night, uh, from a, uh, 2016 Harvard university study,

00:10:16.400 and then a repeated study by Johns Hopkins in 2019, that medical error is the third leading cause of death.

00:10:23.120 Wow. So the number one killer of human beings worldwide is cardiovascular disease. The number

00:10:27.520 two killer is cancer. The number three killer is modern medicine. It's a medical error. You're

00:10:32.480 welcome to look that study up. Um, the 2016 study pegged it as the third leading cause of death. The

00:10:37.680 2019 study, it got worse. So they published the 2016 study and buried the 2019 study. Um, but you know,

00:10:45.600 take for example, uh, a common thing that I would see in the medical record. Somebody comes in with a

00:10:50.240 long-term clinical deficiency in vitamin D3, the sunshine vitamin, which, which I would argue

00:10:55.520 is the single most important nutrient in the human body, right? It's the only vitamin that a human

00:10:59.920 being makes on our own. Um, there's scantily a single cell in the entire human body that lacks

00:11:05.200 a receptor for this nutrient. It acts like a hormone. Sometimes it acts like a vitamin.

00:11:09.840 We make it from sunlight and cholesterol. Um, I mean, just, just think for a second,

00:11:14.480 if the human body only makes a single vitamin out of the hundreds of vitamins in your bloodstream,

00:11:20.160 how important should that, do you think that nutrient is to human function? Well,

00:11:24.480 50% of the world is clinically deficient in this nutrient. Um, 85% of dark complected populations, 1.00

00:11:29.760 African-Americans, Latinos, Middle Eastern populations are clinically deficient in this

00:11:34.400 nutrient. And very often when you deplete vitamin D3, cholecalciferol, simple nutrient,

00:11:40.080 the human body, you get the expression of other conditions. And I can't even tell you how many

00:11:45.920 times more times than I could count. Um, a patient with a long-term clinical deficiency and vitamin D3

00:11:51.360 would go into their primary care physician and say, listen, doc, I, I wake up sore and achy in the

00:11:55.680 morning. Like, like I've had a workout the night before when I haven't, the soles of my feet, my ankles

00:12:00.320 are sore when I get out of bed to walk to the bathroom first thing in the morning. You know, now my hips and

00:12:05.360 my knees hurt. And lately it's, it's actually hard to make a really tight fist. And the, and, uh,

00:12:10.720 the primary care doc goes, um, because of the parallel of that symptoms to something called

00:12:16.160 rheumatoid arthritis, primary care doc goes, you know, you've got rheumatoid arthritis. I'm going

00:12:20.720 to hit you with some high dose prednisone. You're going to feel a lot better. And then I'm going to

00:12:24.080 put you on something called a corticosteroid. And this is just an oral capsule. You're going to take

00:12:28.560 it every day and your joints aren't going to ache. And the truth is that, um, once you started

00:12:34.000 corticosteroids, we knew in the mortality space from decades of research that you had six years

00:12:39.760 and one day until you were having a joint replacement. It was so accurate that I would,

00:12:45.280 if you were a 60 year old female misdiagnosed with rheumatoid and you started corticosteroids,

00:12:49.920 I would artificially advance your age six years and one day. And I would begin to reduce what's

00:12:55.600 called your ambulatory profile, how well you move, how well you ambulate. And we know now that sitting

00:13:01.040 is the new smoking, right? Sedentary lifestyle is the leading cause of all cause mortality,

00:13:06.800 right? So the more sedentary we become, the faster we're going to die. And I can give you the root

00:13:11.760 cause of that. But, um, you know, we, we, we, we just don't move much anymore. And so, and this is why

00:13:19.040 I also say that aging is the aggressive pursuit of comfort. I mean, we, we so aggressively pursue

00:13:25.760 comfort that we accelerate our aging, right? We have to stop telling grandma not to go outside. It's too hot. 0.57

00:13:30.800 Not to go outside. It's too cold just to lay down, just to relax, to eat at the very first

00:13:36.320 pang of hunger. This is collapsing all of our natural defense mechanisms. But if we go back to

00:13:41.760 this D3 deficiency and, um, you advance their age six years in one day, you schedule the joint

00:13:47.680 replacement. You start to reduce the way that this patient ambulates, how mobile they are.

00:13:52.880 And now once I reduce ambulation, I can bring in all of the diseases that exacerbate with reduced

00:13:58.000 mobility, right? All of the cardiovascular conditions that exacerbate all the muscle

00:14:02.640 atrophy, something called sarcopenia, which is age related muscle wasting. And I can accelerate

00:14:07.840 your decline and I can bring diseases forward from your future into your present, most likely

00:14:13.680 that you never would have had. So if you rewind this scenario, you were diagnosed with a condition

00:14:19.040 that you did not have. You were put on a medication that you did not need, which caused you to have

00:14:23.840 a joint replacement that wasn't required, which reduced your mobility unnecessarily and brought

00:14:29.600 diseases from your future into your present. You died from a condition you never should have had

00:14:35.280 because you were diagnosed with a disease that you didn't have, put on a medication that wasn't

00:14:39.360 required and had a surgery that was unnecessary. And this happens way more often than you think.

00:14:44.640 And as soon as we would see that, we call these anchor diagnosis, because as soon as you are

00:14:49.200 diagnosed with a disease or a condition, rheumatoid, manic depression, bipolar, ADD,

00:14:54.960 ADHD, type two diabetes, a high blood pressure, hypothyroid, as soon as you're diagnosed with

00:14:59.760 any of these conditions, it's anchored in the record. And every physician that treats you from

00:15:04.800 that day forward just carries forward that diagnosis. They don't go back and say, hey,

00:15:09.440 I wonder if this physician pulled said rates and rheumatoid factors. And I wonder if they actually

00:15:13.840 did the right testing to determine if this condition existed. No, they accept that diagnosis

00:15:18.160 and they pull forward from there. Once you're hypertensive, you're always treated as a

00:15:22.640 hypertensive patient. Once you're rheumatoid, you're always treated as a rheumatoid patient.

00:15:26.880 Once you're Crohn's disease autoimmune, you're always treated as Crohn's disease autoimmune.

00:15:31.680 And we found a paucity of understanding of what these chemicals and synthetics and

00:15:38.880 pharmaceuticals would do. I mean, we knew that opiates had an addictive amyloid long before you ever

00:15:44.000 heard of the pain addiction crisis, right? We knew that patients weren't off of this.

00:15:48.560 Why? Because we had all of their medical records and we could see that they were going to the VA

00:15:52.720 and going to a primary and going cross state lines to another doctor and getting pain medication.

00:15:59.120 And they clearly had an addiction. And then we would give them very little chance of getting

00:16:04.000 off of that addiction, or we would walk them on to other addictions. Pain medication is a rich

00:16:09.120 man's addiction. Heroin is a poor man's addiction. And so...

00:16:12.240 Gary, can I just stop you there? Look, what you're saying is fascinating and heartbreaking at the same

00:16:18.720 time. Because you're describing a system that, whilst well-intentioned, is making people even more sick.

00:16:27.760 No question.

00:16:28.800 So I guess my question is, how can this be allowed to happen? And in a society which is as litigious as 1.00

00:16:37.120 the United States, how come there haven't been thousands of lawsuits because of this?

00:16:41.680 Well, there have been thousands of lawsuits. I mean, there are multi-billion dollar class

00:16:46.240 action payouts every single year. Go watch the documentary on the opiate crisis. Nobody was

00:16:52.960 criminally charged. But billions of dollars were paid out. But if you make 18 billion dollars on

00:16:58.320 a drug and you settle a two and a half billion dollar lawsuit, understand that profits are not

00:17:03.120 clawed back. Fines are inflicted. And so there's a certain amount of legal reserve for every single

00:17:11.680 one of these, you know, pharmaceuticals. And again, I'm not attacking big pharma. And I am not attacking,

00:17:18.800 you know, the government saying there's a conspiracy theory to kill us. But we built

00:17:22.720 a system of crisis medicine, not a health care system. And we have been led to believe that this

00:17:30.320 is the system that's going to bring us to a state of optimal health. It's not. It's for crisis

00:17:35.040 intervention. I mean, if I hit a windshield at 20 miles an hour, 30 miles an hour, I'm going to the

00:17:39.760 ER. I want a surgeon. I want pain medication. I want if I get pain in my shoulder, you know,

00:17:44.320 radiating down my arm, I'm going to the emergency room. I'm not anti-modern medicine. But what I'm

00:17:49.680 saying is putting a state of optimal health for human beings in the hands of modern medicine, which

00:17:55.600 is where it is now, is a very poor choice. Right. I mean, I remember when I was in grad school and I

00:18:03.600 was getting my second biology degree, this one in human biology, and I had to take all these plant

00:18:08.480 botany courses. And, you know, I hated them, but you have to take them. And so I'm there studying

00:18:14.600 plants. And the one thing that kept striking me was that it does not matter what goes wrong in the

00:18:20.780 leaf or the branch or the trunk of a tree or brush shrug. If you call a true botanist or true arborist

00:18:27.240 out to your house, they won't touch the leaves that are rotting in the top of the tree. They will

00:18:31.180 core test the soil. And they'll look at the soil and they'll say, you know what, there's no nitrogen in

00:18:35.920 this soil and they'll add nitrogen and the leaf will heal. And we've stopped thinking about human

00:18:41.820 beings this way. Right. We've lost all faith in mankind and humanity. And we we we don't look for

00:18:48.340 nutrient deficiencies in human beings. We assume that diseases are genetically inherited. And in many

00:18:54.300 cases, that is patently false. The majority of diseases we call genetically inherited are not disease

00:19:01.300 passing from generation to generation. It is an inability for the body to refine a raw material,

00:19:09.160 for example, taking folic acid and turning it into the form the body uses called methylfolate.

00:19:15.180 You inherit genetic deficiencies in a metabolic process called methylation, which leads to those

00:19:24.220 diseases. You didn't inherit hypertension. In most cases, you didn't inherit a gene that gave you

00:19:30.640 hypercholesterolemia, hyperinsulinemia, hypertension, depression, anxiety. You inherited an inability

00:19:40.160 from your ancestor to refine a raw material. This caused a deficiency, which led to that condition.

00:19:49.300 And these deficiencies can be fixed. And so this is this is the entire point. Right. I mean,

00:19:55.780 if that tree were truly diseased, you'd have to send somebody up the ladder and start cutting off the

00:20:00.160 branches and trimming the leaves and skinning the trunk. But the truth is, there was nothing wrong

00:20:04.160 with the tree. It was deficient in raw material. And human beings have become super deficient in basic

00:20:11.180 raw materials. Our food supply is hyper depleted now because of what we put into the soil. Our water

00:20:18.600 supply has fluoride, chlorine, phosphates, microplastics. It has, you know, pharmaceuticals.

00:20:26.080 These get into the body and they disrupt the metabolism of the body. It's it's, you know,

00:20:31.560 a lot of what I preach about is just getting back to the basics. You know, meat is attacked. The truth

00:20:37.260 is, most meat is very, very healthy for you if it's grass fed and grass finished. But when we industrial

00:20:42.020 raise cattle on corn syrup and and soybean powder, which they're never eating naturally in nature,

00:20:50.100 of course, the meat fills with pus. And we get a disproportionate ratio of omega six to omega three.

00:20:54.500 And we're putting inflammatory compounds back in the human body. And so what was fascinating to me

00:21:00.300 was that, you know, I wanted to pick up the phone and call those patients and be like, hey,

00:21:04.640 you don't have rheumatoid arthritis. Just take some vitamin D3 and get off the methotrexate

00:21:08.940 because this is impairing your ability to absorb other nutrients. And the first thing that would happen

00:21:15.040 is the consequences of these medications. We knew, for example, you know, back to corticosteroids,

00:21:22.840 you take a corticosteroid, it shuts your gut down. As soon as you shut your gut down,

00:21:26.640 you reduce the nutrients you absorb and you reduce the nutrients you absorb. You compromise

00:21:30.420 the immune system. You compromise the immune system and nutrients. You have a problem with

00:21:34.920 cell walls, cell membranes and hormones. Now you're hormone deficient. You're not exchanging

00:21:39.780 and eliminating waste through the cell wall like you were anymore. Inflammation starts to rise in the

00:21:46.500 body. And now this myriad of conditions shows up a few years down the road that you never would

00:21:51.100 have had had you just put the right raw material back into the human body.

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00:23:42.620 months free. Now, back to the show. It's very interesting you say that, Gary. And what do

00:23:49.740 you say with genes such as the Baraka gene, which people have isolated and said, you know,

00:23:56.740 if you have Baraka 1, I think it's your 90% more likely to develop breast cancer. If you have

00:24:01.460 Baraka 2, I think it's 80%. Yes. So there are genes, not all of them, there are genes that

00:24:09.400 predispose you to certain conditions, and there are some genetically inherited diseases. But let me

00:24:15.700 promise you something. 64% of the world's population does not have hypothyroid. 55% of the world's population

00:24:22.120 is not hypertensive. They don't have the disease hypertension. If you actually look at the categories

00:24:27.360 of these diseases, just take hypertension, for example, 85% of all hypertensive diagnosis, meaning

00:24:35.100 diagnosis of high blood pressure, are idiopathic. What's idiopathic mean? It means of unknown origin.

00:24:41.740 So that means only 15% of the diagnosis of high blood pressure, we can point to the cause. Yes. That means

00:24:50.280 85% of the time we have no idea what's causing it. And what do we do? We medicate the heart. We medicate

00:24:55.240 the heart for a crime it's not committing. The majority of people that have high blood pressure have a normal

00:25:00.000 EKG, a normal EEG. They have normal heart and lung sounds. They have a normal die contrast study. They have

00:25:05.420 normal cardiac catheterizations. So why are we still medicating the heart? Because we're not looking at the

00:25:10.560 biome. We're not looking at the fact that this hypertension that ran in this family, because it is

00:25:17.620 familial, meaning genetically runs in the family, does not mean that disease hypertension is being

00:25:25.160 passed from generation to generation. In rare cases, it is. But what it means is that we have passed a gene

00:25:32.960 mutation, interrupting the ability for the body to refine a raw material. In most cases, it's an amino

00:25:40.140 acid called homocysteine. This is what happened with Dana White. And if homocysteine rises in the

00:25:48.260 bloodstream, as it's cruising by the inside lining of the artery, it irritates the artery. When you

00:25:54.780 irritate an artery, it clamps down. If you make the pipes smaller in a fixed system, pressure goes up.

00:26:03.240 And so now the pressure is rising, but there's nothing wrong with the heart. So we examine the heart,

00:26:07.280 there's nothing wrong. And we say, we don't know what causes it. And we medicate the heart. So now you're

00:26:11.300 medicating a perfectly healthy organ, beta blockers, calcium channel blockers, diuretics. What are these

00:26:16.040 doing? They're stripping nutrients out of the body, potassium, magnesium, sodium, electrolytes. Well, what

00:26:22.340 needs electrolytes to function? The heart. And so it's an interesting dichotomy of how we're so myopic

00:26:29.340 when we look very often at disease. Some of the worst research ever done on this planet is when we study

00:26:35.040 cells or organs in human beings in isolation, right? Not a single cell in your body exists in

00:26:42.340 isolation. In fact, if you want to cut a human being's life expectancy in half, any person walking

00:26:47.800 this earth, no matter what age they are right now, they can be 15, they can be 50. You want to cut

00:26:53.080 their life expectancy in half, put them in isolation. You will cut their life expectancy by 50%. This is what

00:27:00.160 happens to cells in isolation. You know, they're in an environment where they're exchanging frequency,

00:27:05.060 they're exchanging electrochemical signals, they're exchanging with their outside environment,

00:27:08.880 they're eliminating waste, they're repairing, they're detoxifying, they're dividing. And then

00:27:12.520 we pull the cell out, we stick it in a Petri dish, and we do a bunch of stuff to it. And we say,

00:27:16.460 whoa, this is a magnificent discovery. Look how this cell behaved in the Petri dish. Then we put the cell

00:27:22.800 back into the body and nothing of the sort happens. And so what I'm saying is what God gave us

00:27:28.780 is meant to thrive. We were meant to have it all. We were meant to have the libido of a lion.

00:27:34.620 We were meant to have sleep like a bear. We were meant to have the waking energy of a freaking tiger. 0.98

00:27:38.860 We were meant to have sharp, clear, cognizant function. We were meant to sleep deep, get a deep 0.84

00:27:43.680 theta wave of sleep. We were meant to have managed emotional state. But the truth is,

00:27:51.680 as you begin to deplete nutrients, you get the consequences of those diseases. I don't think

00:27:57.220 that we have a mental health crisis. I think we have a lack of mental fitness.

00:28:05.860 What do you mean by that, Gary? What do you mean by a lack of mental fitness?

00:28:10.140 Well, what does it mean to be mentally fit? What is a mood? What is an emotional state?

00:28:14.660 So let's talk about brain chemistry for a minute. If you said to me, what is a mood?

00:28:20.280 What is an emotional state? I would tell you that it's a collection of neurotransmitters

00:28:24.480 bound to oxygen. So for example, every elevated emotional state that a human being can experience

00:28:31.980 requires oxygen as a part of its molecular structure. So for example, passion, elation,

00:28:39.740 joy, arousal, libido, all the sort of hell yeah, I won the lottery emotions,

00:28:45.660 all require an elevated oxidative state. So if this is the reason why no human being has ever

00:28:52.220 woken up laughing, you don't have the oxidative state to experience laughter. But can you wake up

00:28:57.320 angry? Yes, because anger does not require oxygen, neither does despair, jealousy, resentment. And so

00:29:04.140 these are readily accessible emotions. So what happens is our physiology drags us down into the state

00:29:12.220 where it most comfortably exists. So if you have a low oxidative state in the blood, low red blood cell

00:29:18.780 count, low hemoglobin, you're anemic, or even not anemic, but you're borderline anemic, your doctor

00:29:25.720 tells you that you're normal. Well, now you have low levels of oxygen in the blood, you're not going to

00:29:30.960 reach an elevated emotional state for any period of time other than something that looks like a heart

00:29:35.820 monitor. And you're going to spend your life journaling and searching and reading self-help motivational

00:29:40.640 books and trying to get in the right rooms and waking up in gratitude. And your emotional state

00:29:45.180 is going to go right back down to where your physiology drags it. We need data on ourselves

00:29:50.860 in order to drive a state of optimal health. You know, most entrepreneurs, it's astounding. They

00:29:56.060 know more about their business than they know about their own blood. They know more about their

00:30:01.040 business than they know about their own, their nutrition. I do this all the time where I'll take

00:30:04.700 young, hard charging, successful entrepreneurs. I'll bring them up on stage and I'll just say,

00:30:09.240 hey, how much money did your business make last month? You know, $662,400. Awesome. What

00:30:17.500 were your net revenues? $144,315. How many employees do you have? 16. What's your revenue

00:30:24.200 employee? $72,400. Just out of curiosity, what's your glucose level? What is your testosterone?

00:30:32.720 Do you have any idea what your insulin level is? Do you know where your D3 stands? Blank.

00:30:40.240 Right. That's astounding to me that we have more data on our business than we have on our temple.

00:30:46.360 And right. So it's in the temple is what's driving the business. You know, the business isn't driving

00:30:51.420 the temple. And, and so, um, you know, when, when, when you look at that, you know, going back to mental

00:30:57.820 fitness, um, where are these neurotransmitters made? Well, 90% of them are in your gut. 90% of the

00:31:04.100 serotonin, the main driver of mood dopamine, the main driver of behavior is made in the gut. We

00:31:09.620 take amino acid called tryptophan. We methylate it in the gut into, um, a neurotransmitter called

00:31:16.200 serotonin goes up to the brain, creates a mood. What if you can't, what if you have an impaired

00:31:21.440 conversion of, um, tryptophan into serotonin? What if you can't convert phenylalanine and tyrosine at the

00:31:28.960 right rate to, um, dopamine? Well, now you get the expression of that disease. You know, we used to

00:31:35.320 for decades, we defined depression as an inadequate supply of serotonin. So the prevailing, um,

00:31:43.560 definition in all of modern medicine was if you're low on serotonin, you're by definition depressed.

00:31:48.360 You know, not one SSRI raises serotonin. So you would think if the definition is I have low serotonin,

00:31:55.660 then the fix would be to raise serotonin, but that's not what we do.

00:31:59.300 We actually take people that are depressed. We put them on selective serotonin reuptake

00:32:02.920 inhibitors. These, and what these do effectively, not exactly, but effectively, they ration what

00:32:07.960 little serotonin you have. So by definition, they never end depression. So by definition,

00:32:14.200 um, you stay on these longer than, than you should. I mean, I have clients come in all the time. I'm

00:32:19.360 like, how long have you been on an antidepressant? 15 years, 18 years. I go, okay, well, when did you

00:32:24.840 think it was going to kick in? Um, but if we understand that these neurotransmitters that

00:32:30.400 we're trying to raise are methylated in the gut, we understand that depression rarely begins in the

00:32:34.640 outside environment. Same with anxiety, right? Same with ADD and ADHD. You know how many

00:32:40.060 entrepreneurs are, are, are hindered by attention deficit disorder or attention deficit hyperactivity

00:32:46.140 disorder? ADD is, is, is not an attention deficit at all. It's an attention overload disorder. You see

00:32:53.600 in the human brain, we don't just create thought. We also dismantle thought. So if you don't break

00:32:59.920 thought down, it's called catecholamines, a flood of neurotransmitters in the brain. If you don't break

00:33:07.680 down catecholamines because you lack the complex of vitamins, you lack methylated B12, and you lack

00:33:14.700 methylfolate, which are the big ones that help do this. Um, then you are creating thought at a faster

00:33:21.480 rate than you're breaking it down. And the mind becomes clavid. People that have ADD do not lack

00:33:28.060 the ability to pay attention. They lack the ability to pay attention to so many things. And then we say,

00:33:34.840 well, this is an attention deficit disorder. It's actually an attention overload disorder. And then

00:33:38.920 what does modern medicine say? It says, well, if the mind is racing, then let's put an amphetamine into

00:33:44.380 the body to race the central nervous system to match the pace of the mind. This is what Ritalin

00:33:50.140 and Adderall and, um, Vyvanse do, right? They're amphetamines. So now what happens? You create a

00:33:56.440 non-physiologic response. You build a tolerance. You build, um, a dependency, even worse. And now the

00:34:03.200 only thing that's certain is that the dosage of that medication is going to go up and you are, um,

00:34:08.920 um, inhibiting, you're not raising the very neurotransmitter that the body needs.

00:34:13.500 When, when our gut is healthy and when we have the right methylated vitamins in our body, this is

00:34:19.680 why I think just about everybody should be taking a good vitamin D3 with K2 supplement. You definitely

00:34:25.120 don't have to take mine. Gary, Gary, this is what I was going to say. So what you just did there was a

00:34:29.800 very beautiful analysis of the things that are going wrong. The things that are going wrong in

00:34:35.460 people's bodies are things that are going wrong in the medical system. So what are the solutions to

00:34:42.200 this? How can people live a better and healthier life? And, but Gary, by the way, before you answer,

00:34:47.520 I just wanted to add, cause I was about to ask you the same question that, uh, what I said to you

00:34:52.040 before we started, which is there's a lot of people talking about medicine and how to be healthy and

00:34:56.860 whatever on the internet. But I think one of the reasons we are so interested in talking to you is

00:35:01.000 you've worked with a number of people, Dana White being the most obvious example,

00:35:05.040 where you literally see the transformation and Dana himself has come out and talked about

00:35:10.800 the difference it's made in his quality of life as well. So the question is, if I'm an ordinary

00:35:15.960 person listening to this, what do I do? How do I find out what are some of the things that I may want

00:35:21.040 to look out for as symptoms, et cetera? How do I get to the place Dana is getting without having his

00:35:26.740 money? Yeah. So first let me tell you four things that you can do that are absolutely free. Okay.

00:35:32.580 And then I'll tell you four things that you need to do that are going to cost you next to nothing.

00:35:36.900 Right. And you don't have to pay me for this. You can do this on your own. You know, first of all,

00:35:41.040 one of the things that we have come to know in the, in the anti-aging and longevity space,

00:35:45.420 biohacking space, bio-optimization, whatever you want to call it, is that the further we get from

00:35:50.680 the basics, the sicker we become. Human beings were meant to spend 85% of our time outdoors.

00:35:57.680 We spend 97% of our time indoors. Now we go from a covered house to a covered car,

00:36:03.420 to a covered garage, to a covered office, to a covered mall, right? I mean, we, we, we,

00:36:08.480 we don't spend much time outdoors. What do we get from other nature? We get three things from other

00:36:12.520 nature. We get magnetism from the earth. We get oxygen from the air. We get light from the sun.

00:36:18.020 You want to change the entire trajectory of your life. Put these four things into your life. They will

00:36:22.940 cost you nothing and you can do them anywhere. Number one, try to get natural sunlight touching

00:36:29.000 your skin once a day. Six, eight, 10 minutes is plenty. Because we are photovoltaic beings.

00:36:37.060 Yes, you can go out and buy $120,000 red light bed. I sell one, but you do not need that $120,000

00:36:43.020 red light bed to get the photovoltaic benefits that we can get from other nature. And expose your skin

00:36:48.980 to sunlight, preferably at first light, because during the first 45 minutes of the day, there's

00:36:53.140 no UVA, there's no UVB rays. There's only healthy blue light from the sun. This will reset your

00:36:58.680 cortisol receptors. It will reset your melatonin receptors. Um, and it will start the process of

00:37:03.640 making vitamin D3 and it's free. The second thing you should learn how to do is, um, learn how to do

00:37:09.900 breath work. And the reason why I say this is there are four minute, six minute, eight minute breath work

00:37:15.360 routines. I have an eight minute breath work routine. I do it religiously every single day.

00:37:21.500 I don't think in 40 months I've missed a single day. I'll literally miss a commercial flight

00:37:25.880 to not miss breath work. And because we can reset our circadian cycle by within 30 minutes of waking

00:37:33.420 every day, finding a quiet place, preferably facing the sun, preferably outside, depending on the weather

00:37:38.540 and doing three rounds of 30 obnoxiously deep breaths with a breath hold in between. What does

00:37:45.520 this do? Well, since the majority of us are not moving and we're not breathing, we lose these

00:37:51.040 auxiliary muscles of respiration. Our diaphragm doesn't massage our intestines. We don't get oxygen

00:37:55.540 down into the lobes of our lungs. So learn to do three rounds of 30 breaths. I follow a Wim Hof 0.94

00:38:01.120 style of breath work. It's available for free all over the internet. It will take you eight minutes.

00:38:05.680 You do it every morning within 30 minutes of waking to tell your body, this is what we do when we wake

00:38:12.540 up. When you change time zones, you're doing it within 30 minutes of waking. It will help reset your

00:38:17.400 circadian rhythm. So expose your skin to sunlight and do eight minutes of breath work. The third thing

00:38:23.480 you could do is a few times a week, more often if you can, but a minimum three times a week, try to get

00:38:28.700 bare feet touching bare grass, soil, dirt, sand. Come in contact with the surface of the earth.

00:38:36.120 Earthing and grounding is a very real thing. It is not mumbo jumbo. It is not a bunch of spiritual

00:38:42.300 nonsense. We discharge into the earth. If you actually look at human beings, we build up a

00:38:47.800 charge and it is complete fallacy that you can change the charge in the human body by drinking

00:38:52.320 alkaline water. That's the biggest marketing myth ever sold to the public. You cannot change the pH of

00:38:57.400 the blood by drinking alkaline water. You can by contacting the surface of the earth. pH stands for

00:39:02.760 potential hydrogen. It is a charge. So if you want to repolarize the surface of your cells,

00:39:08.320 contact the surface of the earth. You can also do this by buying an expensive PEMF mat.

00:39:13.080 They're about five grand. You don't need to do that. Contact the surface of the earth. And the

00:39:17.420 third thing I would do is I would add an ice cold shower for 60 seconds to three minutes once a day. 0.95

00:39:24.160 The majority of people are not going to take this advice because it's uncomfortable. But this routine

00:39:29.400 will take you all of 10, 12 minutes to contact the surface of the earth, expose your skin to

00:39:35.100 sunlight, do a round of breath work, take a cold shower. No need to buy an expensive cold plunge.

00:39:39.460 You're going to shower today anyway. Just turn it as cold as it will get when you're done and step

00:39:44.460 into that stream. And why do you want to constantly do this? Well, because the body has a process called

00:39:49.500 hormesis where it is stressed and it strengthens in response. One of the worst things we continue to do

00:39:57.740 is look at stress as being a negative for human beings. If you don't tear a muscle, it will not

00:40:04.140 grow. If you don't load a bone, it will not strengthen. If you don't challenge the immune

00:40:09.100 system, it will weaken. We are seeing right now the consequences of a globally weakened immune system.

00:40:16.000 I'm probably going to lose 50% of your audience on this next statement because people are like,

00:40:20.900 oh, you're a political sycophant, whatever. I get attacked for it all the time. But the worst thing

00:40:25.140 that we ever did to humanity, and I'm a human biologist, was residential quarantining, social 0.98

00:40:31.020 distancing, and masking. I'm sorry. Yeah, you've just won over our entire audience, Gary. Don't

00:40:35.260 worry about that. I lose half my Instagram followers every time I talk about, you know.

00:40:41.120 No, no, we're very much with you on that one. So those are four great things. And you know what?

00:40:47.000 It's so interesting to me what a lot of the stuff you're saying resonates with some of the stuff that

00:40:50.900 I just know experientially. For example, you talk about the importance of the gut.

00:40:56.340 This whole, like, Ayurvedic medicine is based entirely on the idea that you treat the body

00:41:01.140 through food and nutrition and gut health. And the showers thing, we've been doing it for years,

00:41:07.700 going to the sauna, doing the cold showers, cold plunges in between, and stuff like that.

00:41:12.420 But I'm going to take on board all the other stuff that you're saying because I'd really love to

00:41:16.360 give all of this a go. You mentioned there's also some stuff that people don't need to spend a huge

00:41:21.520 amount of money on but can do as well. Can you talk to us about that? Yeah. So there's three

00:41:25.460 things that you need to permanently get out of your life, right? Because these are products of

00:41:30.060 the industrial revolution. We were never meant to come in contact with these things. I think we

00:41:34.640 just start with the premise that we have two choices, right? We can either filter our environment

00:41:42.480 and we can filter things before they enter our body, or we can allow our body to be the filter.

00:41:48.320 So, for example, when I look at food, I literally look at food and I say, are you going to serve me

00:41:53.400 or are you going to steal from me? Because if you're going to steal from me, you're not coming

00:41:57.220 into the temple. I don't care how pretty your suit is, how well you're dressed, and how much,

00:42:01.620 you know, how good the icing on the top looks. If you're going to steal from me, you're not coming in.

00:42:06.260 And it's kind of an easy premise for me to guide myself because I put a very high value on my

00:42:13.460 energy level. So, number one, permanently get tap water out of your life. Tap water has fluoride,

00:42:21.860 it has chlorine, it has microplastics, it has pharmaceuticals that I'm talking about here in the

00:42:25.860 United States and abroad. Fluoride is a neurotoxin, it is a byproduct, it is a waste product from

00:42:33.100 phosphate fertilizer manufacturing. It's called fluorosilicic acid. And we have to discard the

00:42:39.420 fluorosilicic acid because if they kept it in fertilizer, it would kill the seed. So now we

00:42:46.140 take this and we dump it into our municipal water supply. And every time that we drink water,

00:42:50.700 we're getting fluoride, we're getting chlorine. In fact, if you want to do an amazing experiment at

00:42:54.720 home, order a $1.50 or $1.99 chlorine testing kit. And these are little droppers that you can,

00:43:01.960 you know, you take a glass of water, you can put a few drops in it. If it turns bright yellow,

00:43:07.660 it's got the presence of chlorine. Fill up two glasses of water from your tap. Just do this

00:43:12.680 sometime. Take two glasses of water from your tap, set them on the table. Put your fingers,

00:43:17.320 four of your fingers down into one glass of water and leave them there for a minute.

00:43:21.400 And take your fingers out and put the drops in both glasses of water. You will notice one glass of

00:43:26.300 water is full of chlorine. The glass you put your fingers in has no chlorine. Why is that?

00:43:31.400 Because it went into your skin. You see, because our bodies absorb that. And so I think that people

00:43:37.720 should invest in a water filtration system. I think it's critically important. I use one called

00:43:44.440 an echo water filtration system. I also use a hydrogenator. I hydrogenate all my water. I think

00:43:53.140 it's the best water you can put in a human body. Just pour water into one of these things, you hit a

00:43:57.700 button and it actually starts to make hydrogen water. If you look at the research on hydrogen

00:44:01.440 water and how it feeds the gut and feeds a whole class of gut bacteria called hydrophiles and

00:44:07.240 improves absorption of nutrients, supplements. So the first thing is get tap water out of your life.

00:44:13.740 The second thing is to get GMO foods out of your life. If you look at the trajectory of research

00:44:18.820 right now from 2009 to 2023, we are now really beginning to realize the implication of using

00:44:27.900 genetically modified foods and putting these into the human body. First of all, we didn't

00:44:32.960 genetically modify seeds to increase the crop yield. We didn't genetically modify seeds to increase

00:44:37.700 nutrition. We genetically modified seeds to make them resistant to glyphosate, a poison that is found in

00:44:44.500 roundup and insecticides. So it's easy when you're going through the grocery store. This is part of

00:44:50.140 what I mean about developing this mentality of filtering things. Filter your water before you put it in.

00:44:56.020 Filter your food by just understanding some basics. I'm not going to eat GMO foods. And the third thing is

00:45:01.540 not to ingest seed oils. Again, I got shadow banned all over Instagram for a big expose that I did on

00:45:10.380 seed oils. And I said, listen, I never said seed oils were bad for you. I said, industrial processed

00:45:15.300 seed oils are bad for you. When you take a canola plant and you put it in a commercial press and it

00:45:20.400 comes out gummy, and then you degum it with hexane, a neurotoxin, and then you heat that degummed neurotoxic

00:45:27.040 oil to 405 degrees, which turns it rancid. And then you deodorize it with sodium hydroxide, a known

00:45:33.940 carcinogen, and then you bleach it and bottle it and put it on the shelf. That is one of the most toxic

00:45:39.660 compounds you can put in the human body. It's increasing the rate of skin cancers. It's

00:45:44.400 increasing the rate of atherosclerosis, arteriosclerosis. It's doubling the rate of

00:45:48.820 cardiovascular disease. And these are unnatural things to put in the body. So those are three

00:45:53.260 things that may add something to your budget. Water filtration, not getting GMO foods out of your

00:46:01.000 diet because non-GMO is slightly more expensive, and getting seed oils out of your diet. If you want

00:46:06.380 to make it simple, get five oils. You can use a coconut oil, a ghee butter, a grass-fed butter,

00:46:11.960 or tallow for cooking, and you can use an extra virgin olive oil for all your room temperature

00:46:16.140 stuff. It's really all you need. You can do anything with those five.

00:46:20.260 And can you... Yeah, sorry, carry on.

00:46:21.800 If you want to take it to the next level, this is where you start to get data. I believe that every

00:46:28.540 human being, once in their lifetime, needs to do what's called a genetic methylation test.

00:46:34.740 And what is this test? It's usually a cheek swab that you send into a laboratory. You can get them

00:46:40.760 all over the place. You do not have to get the test through me. There's all kinds of great genetic

00:46:45.040 testing companies out there. You do a cheek swab. You send it in. When the results come back,

00:46:50.620 this test will tell you, and this will never change. You only do this test once in your life.

00:46:55.060 This test will tell you exactly what your body can convert into the usable form and what it can't.

00:47:02.140 And then you supplement for that deficiency. I promise you the most magic things happen in

00:47:09.300 human beings when you supplement for deficiency and not the sake of supplement, right? So many of us are

00:47:15.520 caught up in whether or not a supplement is a good supplement. CoQ10, John's World, turmeric, curcumin,

00:47:21.560 ashwagandha, NMN, nicotinic acid. You know, all of these supplements are great. The question is,

00:47:27.600 do you need them? What is my body deficient in? Because if you had to put nitrogen into the soil

00:47:33.880 of the plant, the example I used before, everything, potash, whatever you put on that soil, you know,

00:47:40.440 sodium, sulfur, calcium, the plant wouldn't heal. As soon as you give it the missing raw material,

00:47:47.640 that's when magic happens. And you can find that on a genetic methylation test.

00:47:51.300 That way for the rest of your life, you'll never guess again on what you need to supplement with

00:47:56.460 and whatnot. Here's my supplements right here. Um, you know, where are they? I take a resveratrol. I

00:48:04.980 take a, um, trimethylglycine. I take a complex of, um, methylated multivitamins, magnesium, and zinc.

00:48:12.000 Not much. Um, and it's astounding. I post my blood work to Instagram roughly every 90 days

00:48:18.040 so I can, you know, kind of battle the bro science community. Um, uh, and, and, and just,

00:48:25.140 you know, put it out there. I have the same blood fat as a vegan and I get 75% of my caloric intake

00:48:29.720 from fat. So Gary, what we're talking about here is revolutionary. How can people get a hold of

00:48:40.260 these particular type of, uh, tests? Is it, are there lots of companies that do it? Are there very

00:48:45.920 few? Yeah. So you want to, um, um, especially if you're outside the U S you want to search for

00:48:50.800 something called a genetic methylation test. Okay. I specifically look at five genes. I look at

00:48:59.120 MTHFR. It's infectionally called the motherfucker gene. I look at MTR, MTRR. I'm saying these slow so 0.99

00:49:09.340 they can write them down. A H C Y and C O M T. You will cover such a dramatic voluminous amount 1.00

00:49:19.400 of consequences that people are chalking up to aging just by looking at those five genes and

00:49:27.380 supplementing for those deficiencies. ADD, ADHD, OCD, manic depression, bipolar, you're, um, very

00:49:35.120 often hypertension, not always hypertension, people that have poor gut issues. Anyone with anxiety has

00:49:40.880 to do that test. Anyone with depressive history has to do that test. If you have trouble sleeping,

00:49:46.400 chances are you fit into one of two categories. You either lay down to go to sleep at night and you

00:49:51.860 have a hard time falling asleep because your mind keeps you awake because as your environment quiets,

00:49:57.100 your mind wakes up. And if you talk to people that have this consequence and you ask them, well,

00:50:01.700 what are you thinking about? They'll say, I'm thinking about the most innocuous little nonsense,

00:50:06.560 like whether or not I got everything on my, you know, grocery list or whether or not I returned that

00:50:10.800 email or my belt match my shoes today. Um, and, or they fall asleep and they wake up because their

00:50:17.180 mind wakes them up. This is a simple issue with excess catecholamines in the brain. As soon as you give

00:50:24.040 the body, the raw materials, L-methionine, SAMe, B-complex and complex of B vitamins, methylcobalamin,

00:50:31.820 you see that the mind calms at night. And, and now people don't have a hard time falling asleep

00:50:37.960 because it wasn't that they weren't tired. It's that their mind was awake. And so you want to see

00:50:43.520 magic things happen in your body, test for what it's deficient in, and then just give it the raw

00:50:49.220 material. It needs to do its job. You'll be shocked how well it performs. Is this the reason,

00:50:53.960 Gary, why so many people who have got anxiety and depression tend to have irritable bowel syndrome?

00:51:00.480 It's exactly the reason why, right? Because where is 90% of the serotonin in the body?

00:51:05.540 It's in the gut. If you don't have it here, you can't have it here. First of all, no one ever really

00:51:10.740 defines what anxiety really is. I mean, what is anxiety? Well, anxiety is, we know, we know how to

00:51:16.460 define it, right? We know that it's a fear of the future. It's a general, um, um, it's like a

00:51:22.440 fight or flight feeling. But when we actually delve into anxiety and we, and we ask, you know,

00:51:27.740 from physiological standpoint, what is it? Well, first of all, um, we have to understand that the

00:51:32.920 brain, as sophisticated as we'd like to think it is, it's, it's, it's really not, right? It's that the

00:51:38.060 brain is actually very primal, right? You know what the brain cares about? It cares about survival

00:51:42.000 and it's nasty. Like it's like the little Kim Jong-un of dictators sits up there, takes everything

00:51:47.640 for itself, right? If it wants calcium, it'll leach it from the bones. If it wants amino acids,

00:51:51.760 it'll strip it from lean muscle. If it wants sugar, it'll activate a receptor on the back of the tongue 0.79

00:51:56.400 and give you a dopamine reward for giving it sugar. But when we talk about anxiety, um, we also have to

00:52:02.640 understand that the brain doesn't understand the difference between perception and reality.

00:52:06.560 So I always use the example that if you drove home tonight and you got out of your car and somebody

00:52:12.420 was standing in front of you with a knife, you would instantly have a fight or flight response,

00:52:17.020 right? Pupils would dilate, your heart rate would increase, your extremities would flood with blood.

00:52:21.740 You'd start having a fight or flight response. Gary, we live in London. We're used to it, mate.

00:52:28.360 You'd be like, Hey brother, I put the knife down. What do you, what do you need? Here's 10 pounds.

00:52:33.300 I have actually heard that the last time I was in London, my buddy told me not to wear my watch out.

00:52:39.860 I go, what? Get where you're watching London, LA and now London. Um, so, but think about this.

00:52:48.980 I'm on the 30th floor of a condo building right now, right? So you could be sitting at, you could

00:52:53.040 be laying in my bed in there and start thinking about getting eaten by shark and the chance of a

00:52:59.240 shark getting out of that ocean. Whoops. Getting out of that ocean and coming up that elevator

00:53:05.540 are zero, but you can have the exact same response. Why is that? Because the same cascade of

00:53:12.720 neurotransmitters that showed up when that guy was in front of you with a knife is the one that shows 0.51

00:53:17.260 up when you thought about getting eaten by a shark. So once you understand that you don't need the

00:53:22.140 presence of a fear to feel fear, you start to understand the genesis of anxiety. So if we take

00:53:28.540 it a step further, what's creating that fear? A class of neurotransmitters called catecholamines.

00:53:34.880 When they rise in the brain, you get the presence of fear. You don't have to be on the 30th floor of a

00:53:40.980 balcony and walk to the edge. You don't have to be claustrophobic and step on a crowded elevator.

00:53:45.120 You don't have to be afraid of flights and getting on an airplane. You can be sitting

00:53:47.800 on a podcast like we are right now. And people that suffer from anxiety could start becoming

00:53:53.640 overwhelmed with anxiety. And the worst thing you can do is try to reason them out of having anxiety.

00:54:00.260 You know, tell them there's no reason to feel that way. There's nothing wrong with you. There's

00:54:03.780 nothing to be afraid of. But at the end of the day, if we understand that this is a rise in catecholamines

00:54:10.200 and the basic B-complex and L-methionine and methylfolate are what degrade these catecholamines,

00:54:19.200 then why wouldn't we try putting those raw materials back into the human body to see if we could

00:54:23.800 permanently put anxiety in our rear view mirror? People don't want it to be that simple, but very

00:54:28.460 often it is.

00:54:31.040 Well, Gary, it's really, I'm glad I've seen a couple of your interviews, but I'm really glad

00:54:36.440 we had you on to talk about this stuff because I am genuinely going to go out and give all of this

00:54:40.740 a go. I've been meaning to for a long time, but I'm very keen to see how it works out. And maybe

00:54:46.420 I'll report back and see how it goes as well.

00:54:48.660 Let's do it.

00:54:49.720 Yeah, I'd love to as well, Gary, because what you were talking about, particularly when it comes to

00:54:55.800 anxiety, is somebody who has anxiety and ADHD and, you know, you do the meditation, you work out,

00:55:02.000 you do, you know, I mean, those things help.

00:55:04.460 Those are all coping mechanisms.

00:55:06.140 Yeah.

00:55:06.780 They teach you to cope, right? You're just adding power to the motor to get through it. We're talking

00:55:14.360 about removing.

00:55:16.060 Yeah.

00:55:16.660 Right.

00:55:16.960 Yeah. So I definitely, definitely want to, I'm definitely going to give this a go.

00:55:20.660 Absolutely.

00:55:20.940 Me too. Me too. Well, before we move on to questions from our supporters on Locals and elsewhere,

00:55:27.880 uh, our last question in the, in the main interview is always the same, which is what is the one thing

00:55:33.200 we're not talking about, uh, at the level of our society that we should be?

00:55:37.440 Um, um, the commonality between all of us, you know, um, it's, it's interesting how much flack I

00:55:44.260 get when I do posts with certain people. I do a post with Dana White. People go, he's an atheist.

00:55:48.120 How do you work with him? I do a post with Grant Cardone. They're like, he's a Scientologist.

00:55:52.280 How could you do a post with Steven Seagal? And they're like, he's a Putin supporter. How could you?

00:55:56.160 I said, because I see a human being and, and I don't ask for your political or religious

00:56:03.800 affiliation or anything else, nor do I really care. I see a human being and there is much more

00:56:10.420 than we have in common than we have, um, in, in differences. And I think sadly, um, our governments

00:56:17.220 are doing a very good job at pointing out the differences and dividing us. I mean, when I was

00:56:22.580 growing up, it used to be okay to be a Republican at a democratic dinner and just talk about your

00:56:27.000 decisions. Now you can't even be in the same house. Um, and, and I think that's the first

00:56:32.680 thing in this. And the second thing is, um, I don't think that we're talking about basic nutrition

00:56:37.960 enough anymore. What we allow into our food supply and processed foods and the amount of, um, um,

00:56:45.640 sugars that we allow into the human diet. And, and this, this theory of single dose toxicity,

00:56:52.480 which is horrible. We should use something called cumulative dose toxicity to determine whether or

00:56:58.420 not something is poisonous. Um, to me is a travesty because people, uh, sadly trust our government

00:57:05.280 and, uh, they trust them to keep them healthy and keep their water clean and keep their food

00:57:09.660 nutritious. And, and none of that is, is very true. All right. Well, Gary, listen, thank you so much.

00:57:15.780 Uh, head on over with us, uh, to locals and elsewhere for questions with our supporters.

00:57:21.380 Let's fire it up. What is the importance of sleep to general health, brain function, weight, et cetera?

TRIGGERnometry - January 10, 2024

Don’t Die Before Your Time - Longevity Expert Gary Brecka

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