No one really tells people that have

anxiety what it is. And this is why very

often people don't have a specific

trigger they can point to. So, they're

trying to pin it on their outside

environment, but the truth is that they

are deficient. Usually in

Gary Brecka.

He's a human biologist.

Who spent 20 years working in life

insurance predicting when people are

going to die to the nearest month.

And now he's on a mission to extend your

life. A couple of days ago someone did a

swab inside of my mouth. What was that

test and why did I do it? You did it to

look at whether your parents gave you a

gene mutation. And it's one of the most

overlooked things in all of modern

medicine because it's this deficiency

that leads to some of the most common

elements that we suffer from. Mental

illness, ADHD, OCD, manic depression,

bipolar, sleep disorders, very severe

gut issues. I mean, there are so many

that don't seem to be fixable with

conventional therapies or dietary

changes because very often disease is

not happening to us, it's happening

within us. And I'm not going to stop

getting the message out to the masses

because

I just think about all the times I could

have

made a real material change in

somebody's life and I didn't have the

opportunity to do it and felt like I was

you know, sitting behind a thick glass

wall just watching blind people walk

into traffic.

Now I got a chance to make a difference.

So, what are like the simple things that

we can be doing to prevent us even

getting these chronic diseases? So,

there's five things that I would commit

to doing on a regular basis. Number one

is upon waking, I would

I wanted to invite in Dr. Carrie Saida

who's going to give me those results of

my test. I want to know there's any sort

of health implications that I should be

aware of. Okay.

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Gary.

Steven. Good to see you back.

Don't throw me off. It's good to have

you I was saying

I knew I'd do your game off there.

Steven.

Great to be back, man. It really is.

If someone's just clicked on this

podcast

and they're wondering why they should

stay and listen. You're going to direct

the conversation. I'm going to go where

you want to go. I'm going to follow my

curiosity and ask questions. But what

are they going to get from this

conversation today if you are at the

driving wheel?

I'm just data on how to live a

healthier, happier, longer life and

maybe answers to some of the most um

pesky health related challenges that

they're having and I and when I say

pesky health related challenges, I mean,

everybody has these little tiny anchors

off their stern, right? Weight gain,

water retention, brain fog, lack of

focus and concentration, poor waking

energy, lack of deep sleep.

And it's shocking how many of these

conditions have

a common repository. I mean, they like

the hub of the wheel where they all

meet. All these individual spokes to

come together to common hub of

methylation. And they and and

methylation is essentially nutrient

deficiencies in the human body.

And

I don't usually start off with this

analogy, but I'll start off with an

analogy.

Um when I was in grad school, first of

all, I'm a human biologist. I'm not a

physician. I My undergraduate degrees

are in biology. My post-graduate degrees

are in human biology.

But when I was in my second four years

of of grad school getting human biology

degree, I had to I had to take all these

plant botany courses,

which I hated cuz I was like I wanted to

study like anatomy and physiology in

human beings, but I'm studying algae and

and but the one thing that stood out to

me about plant physiology was

let's say you have a a palm leaf that's

rotting in a palm tree and you call a

true arborist, a true botanist out to

your house

and they see that that leaf is rotting

in the tree. They won't touch that leaf.

They will core test the soil.

And then they'll say, "You know what,

Steven, there's no nitrogen in the

soil." And they'll add nitrogen to the

soil and the leaf will heal.

Only we've stopped thinking about human

beings this way. We've lost a lot of

faith in humanity and mankind, the

body's ability for this to heal this.

And we believe very often, and this is

true in some cases, that disease and

pathology are happening to us,

not something that happens within us.

And if you go back to the tree analogy,

you know, you could put it anything you

wanted on that soil, right? You could

supplement for the sake of

supplementing. And I think a lot of

people get lost in this realm where

well, I heard NMN is good and

resveratrol is good and CoQ10 and St.

John's Wort and ashwagandha and vitamin

C and I should take a multivitamin and

you know, and pretty soon you have this

paralysis of analysis because you're

supplementing for the sake of

supplementing.

And in the tree's case, if you didn't

find the nitrogen, the leaf never would

have healed. And and the reason why most

of us supplement for the sake of

supplementing is that we don't have

data. We just don't get data on our

bodies. You know, when when when I bring

and you you run into a lot of a lot more

young entrepreneurs than I do, but when

I run into them and I'll bring them up

sometimes when I'm doing a stage talk

and you can question them um about their

priorities. Like, what's the most

important thing to you? My health. Um

how important is health to you? Oh, it's

the number one priority I have. And I

say, well, come come on up here and

let's let's talk about, you know, how

much you're you're prioritizing your

health and you say, um you know, what

kind of business do you have? A

marketing agency. What does your

business earn on a monthly basis?

$148,000

a month. What's your net income? $38,250

a month. How many employees do you have?

16.

What's your hemoglobin A1C?

Blank.

Right? Where are your testosterone

levels?

Um how about your triglycerides?

Do you ever look at your C-reactive

protein? And their face is just blank.

And we have more data on our businesses

than we do on our temple.

And you know, I I I actually saw you on

a stage talk, I believe it was. Um

and you talked about how you could take

anything away from me in my life. You

know, you you you referred to your dog

and your girlfriend.

Yeah. So,

hopefully you still have the dog and the

girlfriend, but Yeah. you said, you

know, if you took my girlfriend away,

you took my dog away. I don't want I

don't want to get you in a fight with

your girlfriend. So, let's talk about

the dog. So, you took my dog away, I'd

still have my business. I still have my

life, right? But if you took away my

health,

I'd lose everything.

Right? And I think most of us don't

realize the importance of it until it is

taken away. And so, recognizing that

that the temple is the most important

vehicle that we have,

I just really encourage people to get

data, basic data on their body so they

have some kind of road map so they are

supplementing for deficiency, not just

the sake of of of supplementing and that

they're getting the most out of their

body because that's what they're going

to get That's how they're going to get

the most out of their business.

You know what I mean? Just

picking up these little tiny anchors

that are nibbling away at productivity.

You know, people that suffer from ADD

and ADHD don't really realize that

ADD and ADHD very often are not

attention deficit disorders or attention

deficit hyperactivity disorders. They're

actually attention overload disorders.

And we characterize people that have ADD

as as not being able to pay attention,

but the truth is they they don't lack

the ability to pay attention. They lack

the ability to pay attention to so many

things.

And if we understand that this is an

overactive mind,

not a mind that's trying to pay

attention to too many uh too many

things, then

we can go about quieting the mind and

not stimulating the central nervous

system to match that pace of the mind,

which is kind of what Adderall and

Five-Ams and and um

uh amphetamines do when you when you you

when you take them for ADD and ADHD. So,

if we understood that

as normal or as good as we think we

feel, we have no idea how good normal

feels until we find the missing raw

material in our body and we put it back.

You want to see magic happen in human

beings?

Find the raw material that's missing and

put it back in their body. And by raw

material, I mean simple things. You

know, I mean, depending on who you talk

to, there's 72 minerals. I think 16 of

those are essential minerals. There are

there are two essential fatty acids.

There are eight essential amino acids.

It is astounding how many people are

clinically deficient in some of those

basics.

And then they go searching in all of the

esoteric super supplements and red light

therapy and and NAD boosting supplements

and they're actually just missing that

one of those raw materials. Basic

essential amino acids, basic fatty

acids, and basic minerals. And that's

where all human beings should start. And

then from there, we should do some

testing, biomarkers in the blood. In my

opinion, every human being should do a

genetic methylation test, the very same

test that you did.

Whether they do it through me or not, a

genetic methylation test is a test

you'll do once in your lifetime and it

will tell you exactly what raw materials

your body can convert into the usable

form and what it can't.

Because in human beings, just like in

that tree analogy, when you have a

deficiency, you get the expression of

disease.

You know, when we say you talk about

deficiencies,

Mhm. it brings me back to something that

I think we talked about briefly last

time, which is it makes me feel like

humans are being born broken.

Is that true? Because if I've got if I'm

deficient in something that my body

needs, then does that not mean that my

body was born broken? It's not that it's

born broken, it's just not functioning

optimally, right? And and all of us have

um

genetic snips. We have these that are

called single nucleotide polymorphisms.

We have these

um our genes which are coding for

enzymes to conduct these different

activities in the body. And what is

astounding about human beings is is how

beautifully intricate the human body is.

We take one raw material, we put it into

a physiological process, and then we

take the waste product from that

process and we feed another process and

on and on. So, for example, we'll take

um folate from green leafy vegetables.

We'll convert that into methylfolate.

Methylfolate becomes one of the most

prevalent nutrients in the human body.

It helps to downregulate an inflammatory

amino acid called homocysteine, which

then turns into something called

methionine, which then goes up to the

brain and helps to quiet the mind. So,

you start with this green leafy

vegetable and it winds its way all the

way up to helping you sleep. And it's

not that the spinach leaf is helping you

sleep, it's what the spinach leaf has

become that's helping you sleep. And

this sequence of events is called

methylation.

And what's astounding about methylation

is that

in many cases when it's broken,

while we can't fix the gene, we can just

supplement for its function.

So, the most common gene mutation in the

world, which we talked about last time

on your podcast, MTHFR,

affectionately called the [ __ ]

gene, um 44% of the population has this

gene mutation. I talk about it all the

time and it's a simple inability to to

to to convert folic acid and its

derivatives um folate into the usable

form called methylfolate. Well, it's

very easy to supplement with

methylfolate and very inexpensive, I

might add, to supplement with

methylfolate. And deficiencies in

methylfolate are are linked to all kinds

of conditions, including neural tube

defects, because it's not folic acid

that prevents neural tube defects, it's

methylfolate that prevents neural tube

defects. It's what the body converts it

into, the usable form. And so, when we

look at um

methylation in the human body, we get an

exact roadmap of what we need to

supplement with, so that we're not

wandering around just supplementing for

the sake of just supplementing.

You mentioned the entrepreneurs that you

meet that you bring up on stage and you

ask them various questions and then you

ask them about sort of biomarkers in

their body. What are the simple

biomarkers you think that everyone needs

to understand because listen, I'm not a

chemist, I'm not going to be a

biologist. So, if there's a couple of

them, I can probably get my head around

them and stay on top of them, but I

can't stay on top of everything. Yeah,

so there there's I would say three.

Okay. Number one is um what's called

glycemic profile, which is a a check of

how well your insulin and sugar

metabolism is. Yep. And it has three

markers, glucose,

hemoglobin A1C, 3-month average of your

blood sugar, and insulin.

So, definitely your glycemic profile,

because blood sugar, I promise you, is

the root of all evil. So, first I would

I would do your glycemic profile.

Second, I would do um

your hormones. Can I just check on the

glycemic profile? That's basically my

relationship with

sugar. That's your relationship with

sugar. And it's it's also your

relationship with insulin, because, you

know, very often even people that don't

eat high amounts of refined sugar and

Ben & Jerry's ice cream every night have

issues with insulin sensitivity.

And so, as insulin

rises, it causes a whole myriad of

conditions. It's one of the hallmarks of

something called metabolic syndrome,

which we're seeing in younger and

younger populations. And it's generally

easy to catch early on. You have three

markers that look at how well you're

regulating your blood sugar, glucose,

which is a measure of your the amount of

sugar in your blood right now,

hemoglobin A1C, which is essentially a

3-month average of your blood sugar, and

then you have your insulin.

And the higher your insulin relative to

your blood sugar, the more insulin

resistant you are, right? So, the more

insulin it takes to drop your blood

sugar, the more resistant you are to

insulin. This is an early warning sign

of metabolic syndrome.

But it's not just the metabolic

syndrome, it's that when insulin rises,

there's a whole downstream cascade of

events, because insulin's not just

responsible for helping us metabolize

sugar, it's also responsible for

blocking other forms of energy use in

the body, one of which is fatty acid

metabolism. And so, generally people

that have very high insulin have very

high blood triglycerides. They have high

blood fat.

And high blood fat and elevated

cholesterol are other markers for

cardiovascular disease. So, by actually

bringing down one biomarker, you have a

positive effect all the way downstream.

And I would say if you're only going to

look at three things, I would look at um

your glycemic profile, your your blood

sugar, and your insulin, and your

hemoglobin A1C.

Hormone panel.

Okay. Um so, looking at your hormones

and then specifically looking at what

contributes to healthy hormone

production, DHEA and a protein called

SHBG.

And then I would look at basic nutrient

deficiencies,

um vitamin D3, magnesium, potassium, and

um vitamin B12, which are on most blood

panels. And that is a great place to

start to get the basics. How am I

regulating my blood sugar? Are my

hormones balanced? What nutrient

deficiencies do I have? And then the

second piece of information I would get,

which you only do once in your entire

lifetime, is is a methylation test. And

these are these are widely available,

you know, all over the world. I'm sure

they're very easy to get in the UK. And

you want to look at five genes, MTHFR,

MTR, MTRR,

AHCY,

and COMT. And just to be clear, so I I

can dumb this down for myself here,

those five genes

relate to how my body processes the

things I put into it at different stages

in that sort of processing line. Yes, I

mean, to to take for example that gene

at the top, COMT.

Um if you look at what COMT does, it

stands for catechol-O-methyltransferase.

So, it's a fancy way of saying it

transfers a methyl group from the

category of neurotransmitters called

catecholamines. And that's a huge

mouthful, but essentially what this

means is these four neurotransmitters

that are called catecholamines are

responsible for our fight-or-flight

response. So, for example, if you drove

home tonight and you got out of your car

and somebody was standing in front of

you with a knife. Mhm. Right? You would

instantly have a fight-or-flight

response. Your pupils would dilate, your

heart rate would increase, your

extremities would flood with blood. You

would begin to have a fight-or-flight

response based on that stimulus. But you

could also be laying in your bed at

night

and you could start thinking about

getting eaten by a shark.

And you could have the exact same

response,

because the brain doesn't really know

the difference between perception and

reality. The the similarity between

these two events, a very real fear and a

reaction to it, and an imagined fear, is

they both meet at

catecholamines. It's a rise in the same

class of neurotransmitters.

So, now some people are very slow to

break these down. And what are the

consequences of this? Well, if you've

ever had anxiety or know somebody that's

suffered from anxiety, no one really

tells people that have anxiety what it

is. They describe the feeling. So, they

say it's a fear of the future. It's

it's a sense of impending doom. It's a

sense of anxiousness.

But what is it? Physiologically, what's

going on in the body? Well, very often

it is a rise in catecholamines, the same

class of neurotransmitters that are that

are involved in a fight-or-flight

response. And this is why very often

people that suffer from anxiety don't

have a specific trigger they can point

to. They could be on a podcast like you

and I are going doing right now, and all

of a sudden as those catecholamines

rise, they get that sensation of

anxiety. And they're trying to pin it on

their outside environment. They're

trying to look for a cluster of symptoms

outside their body. But this is because

they are deficient, usually, in a

complex of B vitamins, um a very

specific form of B12 called

methylcobalamin, methylfolate, these

methylated nutrients that that

downregulate these catecholamines. What

else could it be?

Well, I mean, there are true anxiety

disorders, right? Um and generally

people that have true anxiety actually

know what the trigger is. They're afraid

of heights, they walk to the edge of a

30th floor balcony, they have an anxiety

um attack. They have a fear of flights.

Is this different from So, someone's

been through a trauma in their life, say

they had an early trauma, and then

certain things in their adult life end

up triggering that. Mhm.

This is that's very different from what

you're saying here. So, some people that

have trauma and they wake up, for

example, consistently in the past,

right? Their first thought of the day is

about the pain that they are already

suffering from. Well, these thoughts,

fight-or-flight thoughts, these these

thoughts have a tendency to be

worst-case scenario, because they are

also highly related to catecholamines.

In fact, people that have that gene

mutation fall into one of two

categories. Think about it this way. If

catecholamines rise very fast,

you're a worrier. And the nickname for

that gene is either a worrier or a

warrior,

because as those catecholamines, they

call it fast COMT or slow COMT. So, just

looking at this one gene mutation, if

you're slow to break these

catecholamines down and they rise, what

are the consequences of that? Um I lay

down to go to sleep at night and I'm

body tired, but I'm mind awake. Right?

My mind is just clicking through the

day, thinking about the most innocuous

little thoughts.

Um I have a tendency when I consider

scenarios to go straight to worst-case

scenario. I'm an overthinker. Um I I am

prone to anxiousness and anxiety. I walk

around at a six instead of walking

around at a two. So, things that would

only move somebody from a zero to a two

take me from a six to an eight. Very

often people in their surrounding

environment will say the punishment

doesn't fit the crime, the way that they

react to certain situations. So, this

means that the mind is in awakened

state, a heightened state of alertness.

Think about a fight-or-flight response,

but not quite to that level, but they're

in a heightened state of alertness.

And this gives you that that feeling of

anxiety. Now, what's driving the

catecholamines can have different

drivers. It could be this gene mutation,

it could be trauma, it could be the

presence of a real fear, could be that

you're claustrophobic in stepping on a

crowded elevator. But for people that

have not isolated trauma in their life,

they have a tendency to consider worst

case scenario. They find that their mind

is very active at night, interrupts

their sleep. Or if they get up to go to

sleep at night and they go back to bed

and they can't fall asleep because their

mind is awake thinking about the most

innocuous little thoughts. They have a

tendency to be anxious. They have a

tendency to be a warrior. They have a

tendency to have feelings of anxiety

that are not tied to their outside

environment. Those are all hallmarks of

that gene mutation.

So can I view this as a predisposition?

I you know, I often wonder why we can

all be in the same situation, but we can

have entirely different experiences.

In the case of anxiety, some people as

you report just for some reason they're

just more anxious in the in the modern

world than some other people are. The

modern world has changed. We use screens

and we have notifications. We have all

this stimuli. They're struggling more in

the modern world than others. Um

What you're suggesting is that they

could have a predisposition

to

worry more because of these

catecholamines? Because of the

catecholamines, yes. Because of these

catecholamines, norepinephrine,

epinephrine, ephedrone, dopamine. One of

those we can also call adrenaline. And

so you have the main driver of behavior

and you have catecholamines. And we all

know what adrenaline does in the body.

So when these four neurotransmitters are

not down regulated,

right? Then our mind is awake and it is

very often fearful. Think about somebody

who has a sensation of impending doom or

anxiety without any any trigger. And and

and the other hallmark is they will have

had it on and off throughout their

entire lifetime. Even when they were a

child. When they were a child, they

might not have understood the complex

sensation of anxiety, but they had that

sensation. And then as they grew to be

an adult, they understood that this is

anxiety. I mean, when you when you're

when you're a child, you're just

fearful, right? I mean, you don't know

how to explain to your mom, "Hey, I'm

worried about something that is

might happen in the future, that's

probably not likely to happen, that's

never happened, but I'm still afraid

it's going to happen." It's a very

complex emotion, right? So

they've had it on and off their entire

lifetime. It's very hard for them to

point to the specific trigger that

causes it. The majority of the time if

they try to anti-anxiety medications,

they don't work. They just make them

feel like a zombie. So this is time to

look inside and make sure the body has

the raw material it needs to do its job,

which is the complex of B vitamins to

dismantle catecholamines. So if we went

out into the street now and I pulled in

a hundred people just off the street

that were walking past, Mhm. and we did

these three tests on them to look at

their glycemic profile, their hormone

panel, their nutrient deficiencies,

what are some of the most popular things

that

a random group of people off the street

would be missing that are central to

their high performance? Um so

let's let's take men and then we'll take

women so so we can be specific about

hormones. So

in 50% of that population, you would see

a clinical deficiency in vitamin D3. I

have to say you've actually you actually

run a lot of tests every single month.

Yes. Tens of thousands. We run 20,000 a

month. We do about 20,000 gene tests a

month. I mean, so we so one of the

unique things about

the perspective that I come from is we

have voluminous amounts of data. You

know, we see

20,000 of these new

um

patients a a month testing for for

genetic methylation. And on a lot of

these patients, we also have blood work.

So we have a full what's called a CBC,

comprehensive metabolic panel, lipid

panel, hormone profile, a full thyroid

panel. We have their nutrient

deficiencies that I'm speaking of. Um we

have cholesterol, triglycerides. So we

have a pretty We have about 74

biomarkers on them. Then we also get

this genetic test. And then we look at

what happens to certain biomarkers on

average when you when you simply

supplement for a deficiency. So for

example, I'm not saying that every

person that has high blood pressure or

hypertension has this gene mutation, but

two of these genes are highly linked to

poor homocysteine metabolism. And there

have been plenty of peer-reviewed

studies. We can put the link to the one

below in the Journal of Hypertension,

which linked higher levels of urinary

catecholamines to an and urinary

homocysteine to

cardiovascular disease. Because what

happens is when you have a certain amino

acid in particular rise in the blood

called homocysteine.

As this amino acid rises, it has a

tendency to cause the vascular system to

constrict.

And if we make the pipes smaller in a

fixed system, pressure goes up. But

there's nothing wrong with the heart.

Right? And so think about the fact that

85% of all diagnosis of hypertension is

idiopathic. It's of unknown origin.

Well, of unknown origin means we can't

find anything wrong with the heart.

We've tested the heart, EKGs, EEGs,

stress tests,

dye contrast studies, cardiac cath, what

have you. But we we haven't looked at

the vascular system. We haven't looked

to see was there a simple nutrient

deficiency keeping this person from

breaking down homocysteine, which caused

the vascular system to constrict?

Because we know that there's a

correlation between this

amino acid homocysteine and its elevated

nature and and increased risk of

cardiovascular disease. So before we

actually went the routes of chemicals

and synthetics and pharmaceuticals, why

wouldn't we just test to see see if we

have an issue

um dismantling this amino acid, you

know, breaking this amino acid down into

or something called methionine.

And why don't we supplement for that

deficiency and see if by putting that

raw material back into the body and

bringing homocysteine metabolism into

normal, we can normalize this person. So

So back to your question about the

people in the street, you would see that

50% of them are clinically deficient in

vitamin D3, cholecalciferol, you know,

the sunshine vitamin. Um the darker

their complexion, the higher the

uh risk that they would be clinically

deficient in vitamin D3. And if if you

put that vitamin D3 at the center of a

hub of a wheel and looked at all of the

different spokes, it's one of the only

vitamins that human beings make on our

own. I have argued and and um people

have counter-argued, but I take the

position that it's arguably one of the

most if not the most important nutrient

in the human body. You need all You need

a lot of essential nutrients, but if you

really start isolating them, you know,

vitamin D3 is the only vitamin that

human beings make on our own. Um every

cell in the body has a receptor site for

vitamin D3. And when we're deficient in

this vitamin,

um this nutrient acts like a hormone

sometimes, it acts like a vitamin other

times. We make it from sunlight and

cholesterol. When it's deficient, we

have a compromised immune system. We

know that it leads to osteopenia,

osteoporosis. There are all kinds of

consequences that you wouldn't think

stem from a simple nutrient deficiency,

but they do. One that we get from going

outside in the sun. We get it from going

outside in the sun. We make it from

sunlight and cholesterol. Um and and you

know, if you look at you know, COVID

statistics, it was the second leading

cause of morbidity in COVID. Um and so

you if So first you would see that

they're D3 deficient. The majority of

them are also B12 deficient. If you look

at the vitamin B12, you'd see it's less

than 500.

Um the higher end of B12 is around 1250.

And then you would see

25 to 40% of that population would be

hormone deficient, meaning that their

hormones would be out of the optimal

range, but not because

they have an endocrine system issue per

se, generally because they have

especially in younger ages

nutrient deficiencies. Things like

elevated SHBG, sex hormone binding

globulin, deficiencies in DHEA, raw

materials that the body needs to

manufacture hormones. So a good hormone

panel will tell you not only what your

hormone levels are, but what some of the

nutrients are that are your body's using

to make those hormones. And again, by by

putting some of these raw materials,

very often DHEA, not all the time, but

very often putting DHEA and vitamin D3

alone back into men with deficient

levels of testosterone or deficient

levels of free testosterone or looking

at a protein that interrupts the

conversion of testosterone into free

testosterone called SHBG, by actually

just addressing these, you see that the

hormone levels rise back to the normal

range. They don't need to take hormones

from outside the body and shut their

production down. They need to put

nutrients and raw materials back into

the body so their body can produce

hormones on their own. And then if you

looked at at their glycemic control, you

would see a shockingly high

percentage of people that are

pre-diabetic.

It is an absolute pandemic right now

because the amount of processed foods we

we think that the pre-diabetes

um you know, is only because people that

are eating a ton of sugar. So they must

be drinking soda and eating chocolate

cake and Ben & Jerry's every night, but

that's actually not true. When we

overload the body with high glycemic

carbohydrates, even if they ate a lot of

white flour, white rice, white bread,

white pasta, white potatoes and fruit,

you know, they I'm not saying any of

those things are going to kill you, but

when we eat diets high in refined

carbohydrates, even things that we don't

consider to be sweets, it overpowers our

pancreas and our blood sugar gets out of

control. But wouldn't you want to know

that? Wouldn't you want to know that

um do I have some of these nutrient

deficiencies or hormone imbalances or

poor blood sugar control that could be

nibbling away at my performance? Am I

maybe one raw material, one methylated

multivitamin away or an amino acid away

from being in a state of being optimal?

Maybe even not having to deal with

little things like

um intermittent feelings of anxiousness

and anxiety or poor focus and

concentration or even mild states of

mood numbness. Remember that

nutrients,

amino acids for example,

in our gut become neurotransmitters.

Neurotransmitters form the basis of all

mood. They drive our emotion. They they

um they govern our behavior.

And so is it possible that an amino acid

like tryptophan or phenylalanine or

tyrosine, which becomes serotonin and

dopamine, that deficiencies in these

amino acids could lead to deficiencies

in hormones, which could actually lead

to deficiencies in neurotransmitters

that would be labeled a mental illness.

Yes.

So

again, I feel I feel like I'm eating

your face a little bit, but

but what I what I really mean to say is

that

you know, if

if we would get basic information, basic

data on the body, hormone balance,

um glycemic control, nutrient

deficiencies, if we would actually look

at what our body can convert into the

usable form and what it can't and

supplement for that deficiency,

you would see your body begin to thrive

in ways you never thought possible.

You work with a lot of high-profile

individuals as well. I do. What are some

of the high-profile names that you're

you have permission to share?

Well, clearly anyone that's shared their

their journey with me on on on the

podcast. Um

there's a great hit piece on me and in

the Daily Mail that listed I listed a

lot of them. Um but uh Dana White, um

Steve Harvey, uh Stephen A. Smith, um

Steve Aoki,

um

Kendall Jenner and and I were on a uh

one of her Hulu specials

uh together running some IVs. There are

a few others that will be

public here very shortly that have gone

on podcasts with me and I and it's I

don't necessarily want to be known as

like a celebrity biologist or working

with um just working with professional

athletes and A-listers. It's my message

is for

is actually for the non-woke biohacker.

Like I don't feel like my job is to sit

here and impress you with how smart I

am. I feel like my job is to put

information out to the masses that that

is

educational enough to inspire them to

make a change.

And and I think

all too often we you know, we're we're

we're all competing for eyeballs in this

in this space and we're trying to become

the biggest influencer and we we really

forget about the mission of speaking to

the masses and we just start speaking to

each other. Like we we want to get on

podcasts and stage talks and interviews

and impress people with how much we know

about the carboxylic acid cycle or you

know, electron transport chain or

something going on inside of the

mitochondria and and those minute

nuances are not what's going to impact

humanity.

A lot has changed since we last sat down

in your life.

It has. Yeah, it really has. I feel like

I feel like I live somebody else's life.

I really do. What's what's changed? I

mean, when I when I first reached out to

you, it was because I saw a clip on

YouTube which had 20,000 views. And that

clip on YouTube I found really

interesting. So I think I I personally

sent you a DM and said, "Hey, Gary, do

you want to come on my show?" which I,

to be honest,

never personally send a DM. Because

Yeah, because my team the way our system

works here is

the um they understand what I'm

interested in and curious about right

now. So they'll go out into the market

and try and find people for me. They'll

bring those people those people to me as

a pitch. They'll pitch the individuals

to me and then I have the say whether

I'm curious enough to sit down and have

the conversation right now.

it twice. All right. Yeah.

So in this case it was I I'd seen

something you'd you'd done online, I

don't know, more than a year ago now it

feels like and it was really compelling

to me. So I wanted to sit down with you.

Since then I've observed you're you've

kind of had this sort of meteoric rise

um on loads of different podcasts and

social media and your business has

exploded.

There is something different about you.

Mhm.

And the thing that's different about you

that strikes me is

you strike me as a man that has been

through some [ __ ] Oh, yeah. Frankly.

Yeah. Cuz cuz the

the Gary that I met the first time

versus this Gary slightly different and

it's the type of thing when someone's

been through some [ __ ]

Mhm.

And with all good things come the

opposite. Yeah. It's unavoidable.

Yeah, I mean you you you you go under a

level of scrutiny, you know, you start

off you're like so excited, you're like

I'm going to get the message out and God

God's blessed me with the ability to

take ultra-complicated information,

distill it down and get it to the masses

and then you realize that there are

people that are watching your videos

like a 3-hour podcast and they're

looking for the one gotcha moment.

Right, he said sodium chloride, not

sodium hydroxide. Scam artist,

charlatan, you know, he pretends to be a

doctor, he's not a doctor. I've never

pretended to be a doctor. You will not

find a a video, a stage talk, a podcast,

anything in the media where I've ever

represented that I'm a doctor. I go out

of my way to say that I'm not licensed

to practice medicine. So yeah, I have

become a little more gun-shy and a

little more guarded

um with what I say. It's an effort to be

more precise with what I'm saying. Um

but I'm not going to stop getting the

message out to the masses because

I know that this is God's calling for

me.

I know that.

Because I spent so many years of my life

not in service to humanity.

And I think a lot of people find

their purpose in their pleasure and I

found my purpose from my pain.

What pain?

You know, when when um

when I was doing

life expectancies and and and mortality

predictions,

um

we were sort of brainwashed to believe

that this was just data.

Right? You weren't responsible for it.

You didn't have anything

to do with this person.

I was on a mortality team and uh we were

charged with predicting the life

expectancy of people for um large life

insurance and investment companies.

So when you apply for a large life

insurance com policy, you know,

everybody's on an actuarial curve.

Right? So you're on one, I'm on one,

everybody listening this podcast is on

an actuarial curve. What happens is

when a life insurance company is getting

ready to put 10 million or 20 million or

50 million dollars worth of risk on your

life,

only one thing matters.

How many more months do you have left on

Earth?

And

the science of predicting that

mortality is a very accurate science. I

get a lot of flak about it, but if you

want to know how accurate life insurance

companies are at predicting death,

just look at what happened during the

2008-2009 financial services crisis.

We had

we had 364 banks fail. Not a single life

insurance company failed. A valid death

claim in the United States has never

failed to have been paid. They are some

of the most solvent institutions in the

world. There's not another financial

services enterprise anywhere on the

planet that would take that level of

risk on one variable.

I mean, you have an investment fund.

You wouldn't put that level of risk on a

single variable. Right? How many more

months does this person have left on

Earth? And they have data that no other

medical enterprise has. They have data

that no other collegiate university has.

Not even the government has. They know

the day, the date, the time, the

location, and the cause of death

for millions and millions of lives. So

they know what leads to early mortality.

And so How do they get your sort of

health biomarkers to overlap that with?

Well, first of all, they they do a blood

test on you. So if you've ever had a

large life I'm not talking about term

life insurance where you get a hundred

thousand dollar two hundred thousand or

even a million dollar term life

insurance policy. I'm talking about

permanent universal life or whole life

life insurance. Um also annuities. When

when you um there's something in in the

states called a a SPIA, single premium

immediate annuity where you give the

insurance company, for example, a check

for a million dollars.

They guarantee you an income stream for

life.

Well, how do you think they're

determining that income stream?

They They're predicting how many more

months you have left on Earth. And they

they use morbidity factors and

comorbidity factors and yes, they factor

into to your your recreational profile,

your demographic profile. It's not as

simple as a blood test or a gene test,

but essentially what you do is you start

on a curve in a pool of a thousand lives

that are similar to yours.

And and your life expectancy is the dead

center of that curve. So if your life

expectancy is 200 months, that means in

200 months you have the exact same

chance of being dead as you do of being

alive.

Now, what determines your increased

probability of death or your mortality

factors? Are you obese, diabetic,

anemic? Do you have cognitive decline?

Are you compliant with your medication?

You know, there are all of these

different debits.

And then there are certain debits that

we called comorbidities.

Right? So if you were hypertensive, that

was a debit. If you were if you were

diabetic, that was a debit. If you were

um obese, that was a deb- debit. But if

you were hypertensive, diabetic,

and obese,

it wasn't 1 + 1 + 1, it was 1 + 1 + 1 =

10. Right? These were massive

comorbidity factors.

My job was to read the medical record

and do the medical record extraction.

And we had

incredible data on on on these people.

You saw their trust um you saw their

wills, their trusts, their divorce

decrees. You knew that they were

treating their children differently in

their in their estate, um bank accounts,

brokerage accounts, tax returns, um and

their medical records. And you have

recent blood work on them. But when you

read a medical record on somebody,

there's more than just their height,

weight, and blood pressure and the

medications that they're on. You really

start to get a profile for a lot for the

for the person.

And a lot of times I felt like I was

really getting to know these people,

oddly, because I had so much personal

information on them.

And

you know, a lot of these people's

came alive to me.

I know that sounds very strange, but

when you're reading about

their repeated, you know, visits to the

doctor and they're constantly talking

about, you know, their grandchildren and

then all of a sudden you see in the

medical record where the husband passed

away and then you see the

antidepressants creeping in and you see

um their their weight change, their body

mass index change and you you actually

as you're going through years of their

medical record, you really get a real

profile for them.

And I started to

realize that there were human beings on

the other side of these spreadsheets.

And

there were cases where

I knew that if I could have picked up

the phone and just contacted that

patient,

I could have completely changed the

trajectory of their life.

And I was prohibited from doing so by

law. And

even at one point in my career, I was

threatened with prosecution for

threatening to call a patient and warn

them about um a a

a life-threatening potential

life-threatening drug interaction that

I'd spotted in the medical record

between

two physicians that had written

contraindicated scripts in something

called the MIB, the Medical Information

Bureau, hadn't

uh picked it up. And

the data that I had said that this was

going to lead to a thrombolytic event,

like a plugged a blood clot, a stroke,

you know, a heart attack, an embolism.

And um I remember

calling the human resources director and

just, you know, basically saying that

I'm going to contact this patient. And

and and being threatened with

prosecution. And I

I think about it a lot. And

I just think about all the times I could

have picked up the phone and just

made a real material change in

somebody's life. And I didn't have the

opportunity to do it. And

big part of my career felt like I was,

you know, sitting behind a thick glass

wall just watching blind people walk

into traffic.

And

so I wasn't in service to humanity. All

I wanted to do was be wealthy. I was

very unauthentic.

And then I just woke up one day and

said, "What the hell am I doing? I mean,

I

I have so much information. I'm a human

biologist. And I have

I I've been studying this database for

20 years.

I could help people live healthier,

happier, longer lives.

And

and I quit my career. And I went home

and told my

fiancée at the time, now my wife, that I

wanted to start a wellness firm.

And that was the the the genesis of of

my firm, Streamline. And part of the

trajectory that I'm on.

And so

It still sits with you?

Everyday.

Really? Oh, dude, it's it's

Well, it it sits with me in a good way

because

you know, whereas before

it's it's really hard to imagine, you

know, somebody coming into your office

and going, "Hey, you know, Gary, you

know, my god, remember the um

you know, the Mrs. Smith life expectancy

we we we did 13 years ago, you know, you

did this life expectancy was 188 months.

You predicted 188 months. She died in

184 months."

Oh my god, you did great job. It's

amazing.

The death claim just paid. And I'm like,

"Is it really amazing?"

You know, um

when you start to realize that was

somebody's, you know, it was like

somebody's sister or somebody's daughter

or somebody's mother,

you you you start to realize

that

I I allow myself to be brainwashed and

just think that it was data and and

forget that there was human beings on

the other side of the the spreadsheet.

And so now

I'm sorry, I'm getting emotional, but

but um

you know, now I wake up every day and I

look over my eyes and I go, "Fuck yeah,

you know, I got a chance to to make a

difference." And

and I talk about the research and and

the fact patterns that we saw in

predicting death. And I want to counter

those

so that we can extend life. Yeah, so we

can help people live longer, healthier,

happier lives.

So the

counter arguments that you've

experienced,

you know, you used the word counter

argument in hip hippies. What do those

sort of counter arguments tend to center

on as it relates to your work?

Obviously, you talked about the doctor

thing. I've definitely made some

mistakes, you know, I I I made a mistake

early in my career of of

quoting

articles and not and not research, which

I regret. And I and I've made the most

mistakes.

I think very often what I try to do is

is simplify the message. I talk, for

example, about a 2018 study. We should

put the link to this, um which was in

the journal of um

uh headaches and face pain. There's a

journal of headaches and face pain. I

want to say it was 2018.

There were 8,819 participants in this

meta-analysis. So a very large

um analysis.

And they found

a direct inverse relationship between

sodium intake and migraine headaches.

And meaning that as sodium levels went

up, migraine headaches went down.

Now, by no means am I telling everybody

that has a migraine headache that you

need to take a little bit of salt and

you're going to be fine.

What I'm saying is on your on your

comprehensive metabolic panel, you can

see your sodium level.

When your sodium level gets to a

critically low level, which believe it

or not quite a few people have, people

that regularly salt on their plate,

people that exercise and don't

remineralize with electrolytes, people

that drink um filtered bottled water in

an effort to filter out fluoride and

microplastics, but don't remineralize

their water, get nutrient deficient

sodium.

And you know, remembering that the brain

actually doesn't have any pain

receptors, but the covering of the brain

does. You know, something called the

dura.

And the dura hates two things. It hates

being stretched and hates being

contracted. And what what determines

whether or not it's stretching or

contracting is something called the

osmotic gradient, the movement of water

across the membrane.

And yes, it can be as simple as

supplementing with sodium. Um my

preference would be Baja Gold sea salt

or Celtic salt, um so that you get all

of the other trace minerals as well,

um to permanently put migraine headaches

in into remission. And then, you know,

out come all of the physicians saying

there's no evidence of that. Where are

the clinical trials on that? And the

other

the other

tool that I have in my chest is for 20

years I worked with one of the largest

databases in the world. And we're at the

point now where we see 20,000 new gene

tests a month. I don't know many clinics

that are that busy. So we have

voluminous amounts of data.

We see what happens when you have a high

homocysteine and you put them on you put

a patient on an amino acid called

trimethylglycine and the homocysteine

comes down. And then they go to their

doctor and their blood pressure is

normalized. Not once, not twice, not

anecdotally, thousands and thousands of

times. You see what happens to people

when you bring their hemoglobin A1c and

their insulin back down into the optimal

level and their triglycerides return to

normal and their risk for cardiovascular

disease declines. You see what happens

to C-reactive proteins when people take

simple things like silica clays um and

activated charcoals. And so

I want to keep getting the message out

that

very often disease is not happening to

us, it's happening within us. And very

often it's happening because

of deficiencies in the human body, not

pathology in the human body.

And you know, in in in in in the United

States we're we're by far the largest

spender of on health care. You know, we

spend 4 and 1/2 trillion dollars a year

on on health care in the US.

We have the highest infant mortality

rate. We have the highest maternal

mortality rate. Um even though we lead

the the world in flu vaccinations and

breast screen um and breast cancer

screening and colorectal screening, we

also lead the world in cancer. Um we're

ranked 52nd in life expectancy. We're

ranked 39th in in health care delivery.

Um we're one of the most obese nations

on the planet, twice the rate of obesity

of any other civilized um nation.

And yet modern medicine being

you know, medical error being the third

leading cause of death,

is where we're going to get information

on how we extend our life.

And I watched in medical records, I've

probably read thousands of times more

medical records than most physicians cuz

I read medical records all day, every

day, 6 days a week for for almost 20

years.

And I would see what would happen when

simple deficiencies would be mistaken

as a pathological condition. And I've

talked about these a lot. Um

you know, like clinical deficiencies in

in vitamin D3 for prolonged periods of

time eventually

present as rheumatoid arthritis-like

symptoms. People get joint aches and

pains and and stiff and sore ankles and

they have a hard time making a fist. And

and you know, when you're speaking to

the wrong physician, very often a doctor

will diagnose you based on your medical

history. Not before they do said rates

in rheumatoid arthritis, you know,

actual blood uh checks, they'll say,

"You know what, Stephen, you've got

rheumatoid arthritis." And they put you

on on things like corticosteroids. And

in the mortality space, we had data.

So we had data on all of these

pharmaceuticals. So we knew the

trajectory of of hormones and cell walls

and cell membranes and um production of

vitamin D3 when somebody took a statin

and reduced cholesterol. And we looked

at, you know, they the studies will look

at cholesterol in a complete vacuum. So

LDL cholesterol high, so that's bad.

Let's bring LDL cholesterol down with a

statin, so we decrease the risk of

cardiovascular disease. But then you

have a concomitant outcome where you

you're reducing the ability for the body

to make hormones and cell walls and cell

membranes. And so you buy yourself a

consequence downstream.

When really, if we go back to just

studying the physiology of the human

body, when we in in the mortality space,

I don't think I saw a single centenarian

once, and we processed hundreds of these

death claims. I don't think I saw a

single centenarian that at the time of

death did not have clinically elevated

levels of LDL cholesterol.

So begs the question, is

simply having high LDL cholesterol a

marker for

um longevity or is it a a marker for

cardiovascular disease that needs to be

intervened

with a chemical or a synthetic? And

and these corticosteroids that people

are put on, you know, very often they

they they're they're anti-inflammatory

in the beginning, but then they eat the

joint like a termite.

And

and so these were resulting in

voluminous amounts of joint replacements

so accurately that we would

we were able to predict that the course

of some of these medications would

result in a joint replacement in roughly

6 years.

And so we would artificially advance

people's age 6 years and we would

actually schedule the joint replacement

for them. And then we would reduce

what's called their ambulatory profile,

how well they ambulated, how well they

moved. And as we reduce their mobility,

we could bring in all of these diseases

that exacerbated with reduced mobility.

And in my mind, I'm just watching all

this happen and I wanted to call this

these people and say

I'm not qualified to do that cuz I'm not

licensed to practice medicine, but I I

wanted to call them and just say Mrs.

Jones, stop taking the corticosteroid.

Start supplementing vitamin D3. Get your

B12 level to here. Let's fix your

hormones because this is killing your

red blood cell count and this is what's

leading you to be so exhausted. And and

no one was looking at at these basic

nutrient deficiencies that we would see

run in blood work that would cause all

of these diseases to exacerbate and

people were succumbing much earlier

to death or to the loss of their health

span. How many records do you think you

saw in your time where you saw the full

picture?

I would be working on two or three of

these four of these cases at a time.

Some were shorter cases, some were

longer cases, thousands.

I mean thousands. And in the tail end of

my career, I started to manipulate the

um

record artificially just to see what

would happen to the life expectancy. I

would never submit that as a report, but

I would say, what if I fix the anemia?

What if I actually just corrected the D3

deficiency? What if um you know, I I and

I was able to

um take out the pre-diabetic condition

or reduce their hemoglobin A1C and you

would see the life expectancy jump.

Right? And so these are modifiable risk

factors and I think how many times you

know, I would be reading a medical

record and go, what? I know what this is

going to happen. This is just going to

get worse cuz this patient has anemia.

Like the classic treatment for some

anemias is folic acid, B12 and and iron.

And they would give them folic acid, B12

and iron and it wouldn't correct. Then

they give them folic acid, B12 and iron

and it wouldn't correct. Folic acid, B12

and iron wouldn't correct. And they

wouldn't realize that

um

that person can't process folic acid. If

they gave them methylfolate

methylcobalamin

and iron bisglycinate

the anemia would correct. But these are

all sort of symptoms of further upstream

issues, right? Like something that a

decision that someone has made in their

life typically

typically Mhm. that has caused them to

develop these conditions which far down

the stream, like the tree you talked

about with the bad leaf doctors then

point at the leaf and go, we need to fix

the leaf. Mhm. But it's down in the

roots somewhere. Mhm. So what are the

what are like the

societal and individual level things

that we can be doing

to prevent us even getting these chronic

diseases? Like the the simple simple

things.

I'll tell you the simplest thing that we

can do.

First I you know, we should think about

having an an invisible fence around us.

Right? Like a like a little force field.

And we should filter things before they

make it to the temple.

Um because

either we can filter things for the

temple or we can let the temple be the

filter. So you can drink tap water and

if you drink tap water, your body will

filter out the fluoride, the chlorine,

the microplastics, the pharmaceuticals

or you can filter your water before you

drink it. Right? And and take one toxic

load off your body. So what I would say

is

probably five things that I would

commit to doing on a regular basis.

Number one is upon waking, I would I

would drink a mineral mineralized water.

I would take 10 oz of water and I would

add either a Celtic sea salt or a Baja

gold salt to my water. The reason for

that is that most of us are deficient in

some or several of the trace minerals in

our body. The boring ones, boron,

manganese, molybdenum, selenium.

And stir it up and just whack it back.

The second thing I would do is

Wait, you know what I'm talking about

table salt here. No, no, no, not sodium

chloride. No, I'm talking about Baja

gold sea salt. That's probably the best

salt that

you can put in the human body because it

has all 91 trace minerals. It's tested

down to 250 parts per billion

for microplastics and glyphosate. Um

only about 75% of that sodium crystal is

actually sodium. The rest of them is all

of these trace minerals. You can get

very close to that with Celtic salt.

Right? And if you can't get Celtic salt,

then you could move to a pink Himalayan

sea salt. The problem with pink

Himalayan sea salt recently is that a

lot of it has um heavy metals cuz it's

coming out of China. So I would say the

best salt is Baja gold. A a great salt

is Celt Celtic salt.

And

a decent salt is pink Himalayan sea

salt. Forget table salt. I would just

get that permanently out of your life.

Okay, so number one, I have my Baja

Mineralized. Mineralized. Um and then

number two, I would I would take a DHA

EPA fish oil supplement or a a fatty

acid supplement with DHA or EPA oil. Um

an MCT oil. I'll take a fatty acid um

oil in the morning. An omega supplement.

An omega. Omega 3. An omega 3

supplement. And then I would develop a

morning routine that included the basics

from mother nature, sunlight, grounding

breath work cold shower. Okay, so I

wanted to zoom in here on grounding.

Mhm.

I'm a huge fan of grounding. My

girlfriend grounds and again, listen, my

girlfriend's much smarter than I am at

it transpires because everything she

says, I think I said this to you last

time. Everything she says to me

eventually I sit here with like a

neuroscientist a year later and turns

out she was absolutely right. I thought

she was a bit a little bit kooky for

thinking that getting outside in the

morning and putting her feet on the

ground were

at all beneficial, but I've been told

time and time again it is.

What is grounding and why does it help?

So we get three things from mother

nature, right? We get magnetism from the

earth, we get oxygen from the air, we

get light from the sun.

The further we get away from those

things, the sicker we become. Really?

Yes. So the magnetism

Absolutely.

piece of it sounds like like a spiritual

kooky stuff.

I you know, I mean probably

10,000 years ago they probably thought

the same thing about gravity, you know,

but um

but the earth has a low Gauss current.

Right? I mean we were meant to spend 85%

of our time outside. We spend 97% of our

time indoors now.

The truth is most of us are not getting

enough sun. We're not getting too much

sun. We're not getting enough sun.

And you know, because of the way we eat

and seed oils and everything that are

that are oxidizing in our skin, our

cancer rates are are are exploding, but

not because of our sun exposure, it's

because of our our diet. We could talk

about that later, but

when you touch the surface of the earth,

when bare feet touch a pair of soil,

grass, sand, we discharge into the

earth. And by that, I mean you actually

change the polarity in the body. And

this is measurable. In fact, if you want

to do a little experiment, um find find

somebody that has a microscope, a basic

microscope and get a slide and just take

a prick prick your finger and take a

drop of your blood and put it on that

slide, smear it around and look at it

under the microscope. I think I have a

video of this on my Instagram. And what

you'll see when you look at your blood

in real time is you'll see most of your

red blood cells are stuck together and

clumped up. Not clotted, but they're

attracted to each other. Because when

cells have the same charge, they repel.

When they repel, it increases the amount

of surface area that that cell has to

contact the outside environment. So now

it can exchange waste. It can eliminate

waste, detoxify, repair, can regenerate.

So imagine that you have bloodstream

full of red blood cells and they start

to get opposite charges.

So they attract. And when they attract,

they touch and everywhere that they

touch, that cell loses surface area to

exchange with the outside environment.

When you touch the surface of the earth

for a few minutes, you will repolarize

those. Prick your finger 10 minutes

after you come inside, put it back on

that same slide, look at your blood,

it's going to look like

eggs slithering around in a bowl of oil.

They will bump into each other and

they'll be sliding around, but they will

not be clumped together and stuck. So

what's going on then? May I must be

coming through my feet. The charge

coming through my feet. Yeah, so you're

actually discharging into the earth, you

know, you're exchanging um ions. It's a

low Gauss current. So like a magnet,

you're exchanging ions with the earth

and you're discharging. You're you're

you're grounding. What if I live on the

ground floor, do I still have to go

outside? Yes, you got to touch bare

dirt, soil, grass, sand.

Why can't I if I live on the ground

floor, why doesn't the floor on the

lower floor of the house Because they

they that insulates you from um from the

earth's magnetic field. There's usually

steel, concrete, wood. There's other

barriers, tile, asphalt. There are

things that actually prevent you from

actually contacting the surface of the

earth. You know, there there are there

are grounding mattresses that you plug

into the ground wire and then um that

ground wire, if you if you look at how,

you know, the grounding of a circuit

occurs, at some point is running

directly into the ground. There will be

a pole in the ground that is connected

usually by copper to that wire and

connected to your outlet to ground that

outlet. Can I just get some kind of mat

that does has the same charge?

you could get a PEMF mat. But again, you

know,

one of the things I get a lot of flack

of is is saying that you have to buy all

this expensive equipment. So there's two

ways to do it.

You can buy a pulse electromagnetic

field mat, a PEMF mat. I have one. Um

they cost about five grand. Um so if you

got five grand lying around, it's one of

the best investments you can make. You

put it in your bed, you go to sleep on

it, you you run it you run a low Gauss

current at night, it will help get you

into a deep sleep. You'll wake up

alkaline every morning. Um it will push

the electrosmog right out of your your

body um cuz PEMF gets rid of

electrosmog, 5G, Wi-Fi. When you say you

wake up alkaline every morning. So when

you change the um so the pH of the blood

is a it's a pretty narrow range. It's

about it's about 5/10 of a point. It's

about half a point. And it's a complete

fallacy that you can change the pH of

the blood by drinking alkaline water.

Alkaline water will actually not

actually change the pH of your blood. If

you want to change the pH of your blood

amongst other things, you you apply a

low Gauss current. pH stands for

potential hydrogen. It's a charge. And

so by running a low Gauss current

through the body or touching the surface

of the earth, you actually can move the

pH of the blood slightly. And that does

An alkaline state is a disease-free

state. The more acidic we get, the

sicker we become.

And so

um and so if we want to move the pH of

of the blood slightly, if we want to

wake up alkaline, if we want to run a

low Gauss current through our body, we

can either touch the surface of the

earth or wear a bio PMF mat. See, so

they've done tests where someone lays on

a PMF mat for a certain amount of time.

They then do a blood test and they find

that their blood is more alkaline.

Yes. Mhm. Yes, and that that separation

of blood cells, you can see instantly on

getting off of a PMF mat. Again, I've

got videos of me doing this to my

production manager on um you know, I'm

in my house breaking his finger, putting

it on the

on a slide, putting it on the uh the PMF

and actually looking at it afterwards.

The second thing I would do is I would

learn to do breath work. I use something

called a HyperMax, which is based on um

Dr. Van Arden and Dr. Otto Warburg's um

Nobel Prize

winning work and that is the it's called

multi-step oxygen therapy where you

actually take an oxygen concentrator,

you fill up a bag full of 900 L of 95%

O2 and you actually just breathe that

95% O2 for 10 to 12 minutes while you're

active on a treadmill.

But if you don't want to have an

EWOT, exercise with oxygen therapy

machine, you can learn to do breath

work, engage the auxiliary muscles of

respiration, get oxygen down into the

lobes of your lungs and out of the apex

of your lungs. One of the one of the

articles that I quoted that turned out

not to be a study and I still can't find

the reference for it was that

after age 35 90% of people will never

sprint again.

And again, I haven't been able to find

if that came from a clinical study or if

it was an an article, but

whether or not that's true, the vast

majority of people stop engaging their

auxiliary muscles of respiration.

You know, really exercising our

diaphragm, using the intercostal muscles

between our ribs, pushing air down into

lobes of our body. And as our posture

collapses and our CO2 rises, you know,

if you think about the expired air in

your body from the tip of your nose to

the tip of your mouth all the way down

your esophagus out your bronchioles into

the farthest reaches of your lungs,

that's all expired air. Until you get

the oxygen all the way down and out to

the edges of the lung, you're not

getting oxygen into the bloodstream. So

as we age and our posture collapses, our

respiratory rate gets more and more

shallow. We're essentially

hyperventilating carbon dioxide.

Right? And which is accelerating aging.

I mean, aging is

the presence of oxygen is the absence of

disease. And so by just learning how to

do breath work. So one, I would ground.

Two, I would I would learn to do breath

work. I do a Wim Hof style of breath

work. I do three rounds of 30 breaths

with an extended breath hold every

single morning. It is the one thing that

I never ever ever ever miss. Why? Ever.

Because

I make little promises to myself and I

try to keep them.

And I find that

I lose confidence in myself when I

consistently break really small promises

to myself.

Um and I think a lot of people do this.

And our bodies crave consistency.

And so You lose confidence in yourself.

You say, you know, I'm going to go to

bed at, you know,

10:30 tonight and you go to bed at 1:00

a.m. You know, and then you say I'm

going to work out and first thing in the

morning and you actually don't work out.

Or you get up in the morning you say, I

listened to that podcast, I'm going to

do what Gary said, I'm going to ground

and get some sunlight and I'm going to

do some breath work. And then you

actually don't do it. So these are

little internal promises that you make

to yourself.

And I feel like a lot of people

break these little promises to

themselves. If they're not making them

to their spouse or to their kids or to

their partners or, you know, they're

they're they're not the big promises

that everybody knows about. And I think

it nibbles away at our self-confidence

and our own ability to trust ourselves.

And so

I have a morning routine. Um I'm very

consistent with it. But the one thing

that is portable for me is the ability

to get outside and ground and do breath

work.

And I never ever ever miss.

I can't even tell you how many years

I've gone without missing a single

morning of breath work. The other thing

that it does for me because, you know,

human beings crave consistency. So if

within 30 minutes of waking every day,

no matter what time zone you're in,

you're doing three rounds of 30 breaths,

your body begins to zero in on that and

it begins to understand that that's the

morning. This is go time. And

so simple to do. You know, when I'm

here, I wake up. I might be at a

different time because I'm usually on

the East Coast, so I wake up earlier

here, but I go I open the door, I go out

on the balcony, I sit on the chair, it's

nice and cool outside, I face the sun

and I do three rounds of 30 breaths

every single day.

My partner brought me one of those big

red light panels for Christmas. It was

my Christmas present. And funnily

enough, guess what my Christmas present

to her was as well.

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Yeah. You got a bed or did you get the

panels? The panels. It was so sweet.

like JuveXo or what did you get?