Gary Brecka exposes how $110B in diabetes revenue and $120B in food stamp subsidies—including $10B for soda—drive silence on chronic disease roots, despite seed oils’ neurotoxic processing (hexane, heat, sodium hydroxide) fueling inflammation. He challenges LDL’s "bad" label, citing Dr. Malhotra’s statin critique and metabolic factors like insulin resistance, while linking autoimmune diseases to hidden pathogens (mold, parasites). Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) emerges as a tool for modulating neuroinflammation, with Israeli studies showing 20-year biological age reversal in 60 sessions; Brecka’s custom chamber blends exercise and relaxation. Cold plunges defend fat-burning benefits, creatine-HMG combos optimize cognition, and methylation deficiencies—often ignored by Big Pharma—reveal processed foods’ hidden toll, urging simple supplementation over pharmaceuticals to restore health. [Automatically generated summary]
I actually, you know, I normally don't bring notes, but I was talking to Callie Means on the way over here.
And, you know, we're really supporting Bobby Kennedy's whole Maha, you know, movement and trying to officially put a committee together to really give him some great talking points and then bring some of the big influencers together to help him message, you know, around the media.
And I was like, what are some of the wins that we've had in the last week that I don't know about?
And it's, you know, again, it's not back to the polyunsaturated fatty acids per se.
It's the pro-inflammatory process that they cause, these foam cells and the inflammation in our arterial wall, which actually calls cholesterol to the site of inflammation.
And we blame cholesterol for a lot of the heart disease, atherosclerosis, arteriosclerosis, because it's at the scene of the crime, but it rarely pulls the trigger.
I mean, cholesterol is kind of like a fireman.
It gets called to the fire to put the fire out.
So the theory that if we had fewer firemen, we'd have less fires is kind of absurd.
That's the theory in LDL cholesterol.
It might work in California.
I could see them passing that legislation.
You know what we need?
We need less firemen.
So the theory that if we push down...
The firemen, which was called to the site of inflammation, meaning we reduced the cholesterol, which was called to the site of inflammation to cause the repair, rather than ask what started the fire, that notion is about to be, I think, blown out of the water by big data.
I think you're going to see big data, artificial intelligence, and early detection in the next five years are just going to circumvent the entire system.
I think what's really interesting is the chemical processing.
So another really good thing, and I'm helping to author this paper with Kelly Means and a bunch of other folks, to present it to Bobby Kennedy in looking at the genesis of chronic disease.
Because if you just...
And I know lots of people have talked about this on your show, so I won't belabor the point, but...
If you look at the spending of $4.5 trillion a year, right, on healthcare in the United States, and then you say, well, what do we lead the world in?
Well, as of December 6th, we were ranked 66th in the world in life expectancy.
We lead the world in morbid obesity, type 2 diabetes, multiple chronic disease in the single biome, meaning not just our population has multiple different chronic diseases, but multiple chronic diseases in the same.
in the same body, because most people don't just have one autoimmune disease, or they're not just hypertensive and diabetic.
We lead the world in infant mortality, maternal mortality.
And so you've got to ask yourself, how is $4.5 trillion a year in spending leading to these kinds of consequences?
And very often, it's actually not the food.
It's the distance from the food to the table.
So it's not necessarily the plant.
It's what we're doing to process these plants to get them on the table.
And so I think what you're going to see is these GRAS guidelines, generally regarded as safe, which is essentially how the FDA decides whether or not you can micropoison the population.
So we are allowed to micropoison the population, right?
We're allowed to put certain amounts of pesticides, herbicides, insecticides, preservatives.
And a lot of experts will say that dosage determines the poison.
And that's largely untrue when you talk about cumulative dose toxicity, meaning...
If I give you this sandwich, this piece of tuna fish, and it has a very small, safe amount of lead or mercury, it's probably not going to hurt you, right?
But if you don't methylate that metal out of your body and you keep eating that same kind of fish, I mean, nobody got mercury poisoning from a single piece of tuna fish.
What they got mercury poisoning from was continuing to eat the same thing over and over and over and over again.
And they got a cumulative dose toxicity, which is what a lot of foreign countries use.
So in other words, I can't just say if I put, you know, one drop of arsenic in this glass, is that going to kill you?
It might make you mildly sick, cause an inflammatory process.
Maybe it's not going to kill you.
But if you drink one of those five times a day, seven days a week, now you're toxic.
And that's what's happened to our country.
We didn't get here quickly.
We got here by slowly stacking these micropoisons.
So you think that all the foods, all the salad dressings and all the french fries and all the things that are cooked in food oil, we have enough beef tallow, we have enough olive oil, we have enough avocado oil that we could...
Switch all those things out, and everything would be great.
There is no question that we have the capacity to produce these, and we have the capacity to produce them now.
I mean, a lot of these farms don't use the bones from these cattle.
They don't use the hide from these cattle.
They don't boil on the collagen from these cattle, and they certainly are not making the tallow from the fat from the cattle that are being slaughtered.
No. I went to Harvard University for this thing, this longevity summit.
A very good friend of mine.
I won't mention his name because then I'll give away the event that I was at.
I called my wife on day two.
And I was like, babe, I feel like I landed on Mars.
I go, I gotta get out of here.
And she goes, what is going on?
I said, I listened to a panel of PhDs for four hours debate about whether or not a microaggression is something that could happen to you that you don't recognize that was causing a microtrauma that the other person didn't realize they were doing,
What's really interesting is if you just take a very 30,000-foot view and you say, let's just look at the broad strokes in the blue zone research, right?
There's no continuity between diets in these blue zones.
So it's not keto, paleo, pescetarian, vegan, vegetarian, raw food, Atkins.
Whole food, well, the two things that were non-interchangeable were sense of purpose and community and activity until later in life.
So you didn't have any of the blue zones where people didn't feel a sense of purpose and community in life.
In fact, there were no such things as assisted care living facilities.
You know, the assisted care in those countries is mom and dad move back in with the kids until the day that they die.
And there's a lot to be said for that because Maybe grandma's only purpose is to go out and get vegetables for dinner that night, but she has a purpose.
Yeah. You know, we knew something in the mortality space, because I used to study mortality and mortality research, and we knew that if you wanted to cut somebody's life expectancy in half at any age, and I mean at any age, you put them in isolation.
So as soon as you create isolation, you
You dramatically reduce, if not half, the life expectancy.
Now, later in life, we would call this broken heart syndrome, caregiver syndrome.
And these were actually very valid syndromes.
So if we actually were doing the life expectancy on an elderly spouse who was still applying for...
Or we were looking at what's called a second-to-die claim on life insurance policy and one spouse had passed away.
We would dramatically reduce the life expectancy of the second spouse.
And the reason why that's important is I think that people don't realize that we are actually being isolated in plain sight, right?
I mean, we are trying to create connection through our phones.
We're trying to create connection through social media.
And these are not...
Human connections.
In fact, if you look at the rates of depression, suicide, suicidal ideation, obesity, chronic mental illness, and I think we actually have a chronic lack of mental fitness, not necessarily a mental illness crisis in this country.
And if you look at the skyrocketing rates of these conditions and how they are creeping into younger and younger and younger generations, you've got nine-year-olds being treated for depression now.
So what's happening?
What's happening is isolation in plain sight.
You know, we don't problem solve anymore.
We don't have communities with our friends anymore.
We actually don't build social connections.
We've lost our connection to Mother Nature.
You know, that's why I like going out to my place in Colorado.
It's probably like you like bow hunting.
It's just an old school connection to Mother Nature.
My wife and I, she's been going to for 35 years since she was a little, little girl.
When we got together 10 years ago, she started bringing me and my family out there.
Her father's got 10 acres, her uncle's got 10 acres, and then this 50-acre piece came on the market.
We bought it.
We're building these old school, like really authentic log cabins on there.
And I write about this all the time because in Miami I have this really fancy place and I've got all this fancy equipment, you know, red light therapy beds, hyper barracks, hydrogen beds, all that stuff.
But I'll go out to this Colorado home.
Put on a 20-pound rucksack.
I know you do a 150-pound rucksack, so I feel like a complete pussy.
At some point, we have the capacity to replace these oils.
We actually have a way to get back away from industrial farming and get back to local farming.
I have a very good friend named Alfie Oaks, and he owns one of the more profitable grocery stores in America.
It's in Naples, Florida, called Seed to Table.
He took me out by helicopter one time and we hopped around to a bunch of his organic fields.
He's got thousands of acres in the middle of the state of Florida.
And he showed me how he's not only able to grow produce organically for less money than he would grow it if he had to use herbicides and pesticides and chemicals.
He's able to pick it at 9 o'clock in the morning and have it on the grocery store shelf by 2 o'clock in the afternoon.
And I watched the whole process go down.
Thousands and thousands of these acres.
And, you know, white flies are the pest flies they're trying to avoid.
Instead of spraying for these white flies, what they do is they just use this reflective cellophane.
They run it down the rows of crops and it creates this reflection and it scatters them to the woods.
And so now the white flies are not eating the crops.
There's no herbicide.
There's no pesticide sprayed on these.
His team picks this stuff by 9 o'clock in the morning.
It goes into a processing center.
And by processing, I mean it gets washed.
That's it.
And then it's on a truck and it's on the shelf by 2 o'clock in the afternoon.
So you can grab a strawberry in this grocery store and eat it.
And it was growing at 9 a.m. that morning.
And there are mechanisms for us to do that.
Yes, I get some stuff needs to be shipped and stored.
But most regenerative farming practices are not only green and good for the environment, they're economically feasible.
They actually make economic sense.
And, you know, when he talks about the fact that we've been spraying some of these fields for so many decades or so many years with these herbicides and insecticides, that there is not a pest for, in some cases,
hundreds of miles.
But we are still spraying for those pests.
He's like, you've got to start to question what the motivation is.
Hydrogen gas, I mean, this is probably my favorite biohack in the world because it'll cost you about a dollar a day.
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You can actually read the science on it.
I think there's two people in the world now.
I mean, those that have read the science and take hydrogen gas, drink hydrogen water, and those that don't or just haven't read the science because...
Hydrogen gas, first of all, it's the lightest element in the universe.
It's also the most prevalent element in the universe.
10% of your body weight is hydrogen.
I think, in fact, if you took hydrogen, oxygen, carbon, and nitrogen, that's 96% of your mass.
Okay, those four elements.
So hydrogen is about 10% of your body weight.
And hydrogen is not just an antioxidant.
It's a selective antioxidant.
So if you look at oxidative stressors like nitric oxide or superoxide or hydrogen peroxide, so all of these oxidative stressors, they can be good in certain amounts.
You need a certain amount of nitric oxide in your body, but too much nitric oxide is bad.
Too much hydrogen peroxide is bad.
Too much superoxide is bad.
So if you were to take an antioxidant like vitamin C, And take very, very high doses of antioxidants.
This can be very bad for you because you're suppressing too much oxidation in the body.
You're actually suppressing these oxidative stressors too much.
Hydrogen, on the other hand, uses the body's homeostatic process to suppress inflammation.
So in other words, it works through something called the NRF2 pathway.
It affects a protein called NRF2, which moves into the DNA.
Binds to the DNA, and then the DNA spits out the instructions for catalase, superoxide dismutase, and glutathione.
So in other words, you're actually using the body's regulatory system to actually control inflammation instead of externally trying to control inflammation.
And the second thing it does is it targets the only oxidative-free radical that I think all of the science points to, which is hydroxyl radical.
So it selectively targets that and regulates the rest of the inflammatory process by using the body's homeostasis.
So I guess a very long-winded way of saying that hydrogen gas can go anywhere in the body.
It reduces inflammation, improves circulation, improves memory.
There's a really interesting study published on the Journal of Experimental Gerontology, and it was published in November of 2021.
And most of these clinical research studies, they'll look at younger populations, like healthier, younger populations.
But this actually looked at a six-month study on hydrogen water versus non-hydrogen water in 70-year-old and older folks.
And they used something called TET2 to measure methylation.
They measured cognitive function, sleep scores, sit-stand ratios, how well they're able to sit and stand, telomere lengths in their chromosomes.
And the really fascinating thing about this study is it was done during COVID.
So these seniors were basically imprisoned.
So they were not mobile.
And the only difference between the groups that they controlled for was the presence of hydrogen water.
At the end of the six-month period, during the lockdown, the control group had lost 11% in their telomeres.
The non-control group had gained.
They had better short-term recall, better cognitive scores, better circulation, improving in cardiac markers, improving in inflammatory markers like C-reactive protein.
I think it's the greatest biohack on earth.
That and some sea salt and some amino acids like a perfect amino.
I mean, just covering your bases.
I think those are your foundational basics for Optimal.
I mean, one for your house is about $7,500, $8,000.
Some that make nanoparticles or nanobubbles, which are about 1 500th the diameter of a human pore.
So if you run these things on your face, it'll actually push all the sebum out of your skin.
It'll get rid of dandruff, psoriasis, eczema.
If you have any kind of inflammatory condition, like knees, hips, shoulder, rotator cuff, arthritis, low back, bathing in hydrogen gas can be one of the most therapeutic things that you do.
And what's interesting about adding it to a cold...
In fact, I use this Cold Life cold plunge.
And I've got these guys trying to see if we can incorporate the hydrogen gas into the cold plunge.
So where the motor pulls the cold water out, it's going to send it into a hydrogen generator and then push it back into the tub.
Because as the temperature drops in water, you can saturate more gas.
So a 48-degree – quote me exactly on this – but a 48-degree cold plunge will hold about twice as much gas as a 102-degree warm tub.
So if you were just taking a warm bath.
So you're going to be cold plunging for three to six minutes every day.
That's what you and I do.
You might as well be in there with hydrogen gas.
And so I'm working with these guys from Gold Life to see if we can plumb these hydrogen generators.
And basically it's – It creates the hydrogen gas by taking distilled water and breaking distilled water apart and then throwing the gas into the water.
And it is noticeably different when you bathe in this gas or not.
Like I had Sean Ryan over to my house for a podcast one time and, you know, he's all banged up from being a Navy SEAL and he's got nips and bibbles all over his body.
And he just thought it was really weird because I was like, dude, you got to get my bathtub.
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When you were telling me that these bottles, water bottles that generate hydrogen, they're great in the beginning, but that over time they deteriorate.
Would the same issue happen with the hydrogen generators that you would use for the cold plunges?
So a lot of the ways that you create high part per million hydrogen gas in these water bottles.
And I actually just won.
I'm about to put a press release out about it.
I actually just won a $16 million civil judgment against a...
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But essentially, at the bottom of these bottles, there's something called a proton exchange membrane.
And this proton exchange membrane comes in contact with the water through electrolysis, and it creates the hydrogen gas.
The problem with these bottles is that this electrolysis process, if you put tap water in there and use chlorine, can actually create...
Chlorine gas.
You can also create something called hypochloric acid.
So what happens is over time, the bottles that I tested, because I used to be a huge fan of these bottles and I carried them everywhere.
And I would notice that it didn't bubble as much, you know, four or five months after I, you know, had this had the bottle.
And so I sent it to be tested.
And lo and behold, it.
You know, these proton exchange membranes break down over time.
So the first time you use the bottle, you're getting very high par per million hydrogen.
But four or five months later, you're getting almost none.
Maybe six months later, you might be getting zero.
So it's circulating through this machine and it's creating, you know, using electrolysis and creating the hydrogen gas going back and...
To the tub, because you don't need...
You're not trying to drink a therapeutic dose.
You're trying to bathe in a dose.
You don't need as high par per million, so you don't need the pressure.
But the really cool thing is, because if you do it in a cold plunge, and when I pull this off, I'll send you one.
If you do it in a cold plunge, because as the temperature drops, you can dissolve more gas in that volume of liquid.
So ideally, you would have the...
Hydrogen generator outside of your cold plunge, let your cold plunge run and fill with hydrogen gas, and then you're getting in there for the anti-inflammatory response anyway, a lot of times, plus the brown fat activation and cold shock protein release and peripheral vasoconstriction and all of that.
But you would now be exposing yourself to very high doses of hydrogen gas.
You'd feel amazing getting out of there.
When I bathe in that hydrogen gas, so my wife, Sage, I had a really bad car accident right before we met 10 years ago, and she severely damaged her spine, her L5S1, and ended up having to have a spinal fusion.
And so her L5S1 is fused.
And even though she's thin, she's fit, she gets a lot of low back pain.
And when her back pain flares up, there's no chance she's sleeping.
But when we put her into that hydrogen nanobath, I mean...
25 minutes in there, she sleeps like a little baby.
And it's very calming, too.
It's that shifting you from that sympathetic state, that kind of fight-or-flight to that parasympathetic state of rest and digest.
You can feel the effects of that hydrogen gas when it goes transdermal and starts to relax you.
I mean, just throw one of those bath bombs in there and feel how much different your body feels when you're bathing in hydrogen gas.
It's incredible.
I really feel like it is one of the best.
Hacks that so few people are using.
I mean, so many people aren't anti-inflammatory.
So many people are suffering from inflammation, not just neural inflammation in the brain, but nonspecific markers of inflammation like C-reactive protein, homocysteine, that are causing all kinds of havoc.
I mean, you think about the fact that about 70% of our circulation is not done by our heart.
Our heart circulates about 30% of the blood in our body, but the other 70% of the circulation is an activity called vasomotor or vasomotion.
Think of a snake swallowing a mouse.
And we don't really cater to this part of our circulatory system.
So if the heart doesn't circulate roughly 70% of the blood in our body, How is that circulation occurring?
Because obviously blood is still moving.
You have about 63,000 miles of blood vessel in your body.
And so your heart is not strong enough in a single contraction.
Your left ventricle, your heart that's ejecting that blood, is not strong enough to push the blood through 63,000 miles of vessel.
And so how does the majority of this circulation occur?
Well, the majority of our circulation is microvascular.
So the microvascular circulation does not move blood by pressure.
It moves blood by something called vasomotion or vasomotor.
And the best way I can describe vasomotion or vasomotor is to think of a snake swallowing a mouse.
And the reason why I say that is because there's no pressure coming in the front of the snake, right?
It's not being pushed down the snake's throat.
It's being muscularly...
So it's a wave-like motion, right?
It's this wave-like motion called vasomotor or vasomotion.
And vascular laxity, the laxity that's in your vessels, matters.
Your blood viscosity matters.
And inflammation matters.
This is why when you look at the percentage of high blood pressure diagnoses, for example, if you were to just Google what percentage of...
Hypertension, primary hypertension, essential hypertension, or, you know, high blood pressure is idiopathic, right, of unknown origin.
You'd see that 85% of all high blood pressure, hypertensive diagnosis, are idiopathic.
We don't know the origin.
And so we examine these people's heart, EKG, EEG, heart sounds, lung sounds, maybe a Dicontra study, maybe a CT angiogram, maybe a...
Some other kind of diagnostic heart imaging.
We can't find anything wrong with the heart.
And we medicate the heart anyway, generally for a crime that's not committing, when there's an 85% chance it's actually something other than the heart.
And we never look to the microvascular circulation.
We never look to the 70% of our circulation that's actually not done by our heart.
What are we doing to cater to that 70% of our circulation?
Well, things like resveratrol, hydrogen gas, lowering our homocysteine, which is...
For most people, it's very simple to do.
I use an amino acid called trimethylglycine to help people metabolize homocysteine because those microvasculature is very susceptible to high levels of homocysteine.
And there's so many people that have ailments that are consequences of poor circulation and we're treating something completely different.
So, for example, But we're focused on concentration, lots of autoimmune conditions.
If you look at the circulation in the brain, liver, lungs, pancreas, kidneys, you'll see that the majority of this circulation is microvascular.
You know, I've talked about why you and I both had a positive experience, for example, with red light.
What is red light doing to our eyes?
Is it fixing the rods, the macula, the cones, the retina?
Was there something damaged that red light fixed?
No, it just restored healthy vasomotor activity to the back of your eye, which is why I never...
Wear protection in a red light bed.
Now, am I saying a red light bed is going to cure your eyesight?
No. I get so beat up for that.
But red light therapy is extraordinarily good for vasomotor circulation.
Why do you think it improves your skin, the collagen, the elastin, the fibrin?
Why do you think it reduces fine lines and wrinkles?
Why does it improve?
Why can it improve our eyesight?
Because it restores healthy vasomotor activity.
So much microvasculature in our body that we don't really cater to this entire segment of our circulatory system.
Think about how small a capillary artery has to be to carry a fluid to the edge of the lung, exchange a gas with the inside of the lung, pull that gas into the fluid and not bleed into the lung.
So just think about how tiny that tube has to be and how many of those you have to have.
Because don't forget, right outside of your lungs, you've got fluid.
Those alveoli are grabbing gas and throwing that into a fluid.
Well, at some point, that pipe has to meet a piece of tissue.
How is it not bleeding into that tissue?
It is that small.
It's microvascular.
This is also where hydrogen gas comes into play.
I don't know where I was going with that point, but I just find it fascinating that we've got so many things that we can do to cater to a lot of these ailments that people chalk up to a consequence of aging.
And they can be as simple as catering to that portion of your circulatory system.
It would be so fascinating to run a study, a long-term study on twins, identical twins, and have one person just eat the standard American diet and the other person follow all these protocols.
Hydrogen gas, fitness, healthy food, no seed oil, no drinking, and just see.
Wild. Be like sending one of them to space, you know?
And it's so funny because, you know, we're so wrapped around our medical system that's really 50-60.
Years old, 70 years old, and how important a randomized clinical trial is, and placebo-controlled randomized clinical trial that's been peer-reviewed, and all of this.
But we negate the Eastern philosophies that very often have been around for thousands of years.
And I almost have more, lend more validity to something that's actually stood the test of time.
Something that doesn't work is not going to last a thousand years.
You know, by virtue of the fact that it doesn't work.
When we were in the mortality space, we never used randomized clinical trials.
We used big data.
And I think what you're about to see now that I was alluding to before is we built an entire system on, you know, the most rigorous scientific study being the randomized clinical...
You know, placebo-controlled randomized clinical trial.
So that is the gold standard.
And if it hasn't been through this process, it is not valid.
Well, we've never done randomized clinical trials on parachutes.
I wouldn't jump out of an airplane without one.
Who wants to be in that?
Who wants to be in the control group?
Okay, Stan.
Yeah. You line up here.
You're getting a knapsack and a prayer book, and we're getting a parachute.
And one of the things I used to get just absolutely slaughtered for was I spoke out about the simple LDL hypothesis of cholesterol, saying that there is no correlation between elevated levels of LDL cholesterol on its own and cardiovascular disease.
you had to have corresponding increases in triglyceride you had to have inflammatory factors you usually had to have other metabolic factors like hypertriglyceridemia, hyperinsulinemia
I mean, big data is starting to tell us that the The extension of life is near zero,
but the extension of all-cause mortality is near zero.
And then the complications downstream, which we never study.
I mean, you'll never find a randomized clinical trial looking at more than one pharmaceutical compound in the same biome.
Yet almost everybody at the age of 60 is on five or more prescriptions.
But we don't study prescriptions in...
In concert with one another, we study them independently.
We say, okay, if you have high cholesterol, you're on a statin.
That's independent.
If you have, you know, your hemoglobin A1c is over 6.4, you're now insulin dependent.
Okay, so now you're on insulin.
You've been a little sad lately, so now you're on an SSRI.
And your thyroid is hypofunction, so now you're also on a synthroid or levothyroxine or armothyroid.
And, you know, your blood's gotten a little thick because you're...
On hormone therapy, so now you are on a blood thinner.
We've never studied the compounding effect of all of these different pharmaceuticals in the same biome.
We just assumed that the randomized clinical trial in these independent silos is valid, even though we're going to smack all of these things together.
One of the things that we learned in the mortality space was the more pharmaceuticals you were on, The easier it was for us to predict your life expectancy.
It was extraordinarily accurate, for example, if somebody started a corticosteroid, which is very common for rheumatoid arthritis and other forms of joint pain and whatnot.
If you started a corticosteroid, you had, by our data, six years and one day until you were getting a joint replacement.
In the acute phase of pain or injury, they can be very beneficial.
But what they used to do is, because these were repetitive use injuries, and very often they would just dose the athlete up before a game.
So, I mean, Joe Theismann.
I mean, not Joe Theismann.
Joe Montana.
You know, he's one of those careers that entered early, very likely, because of cortisone injections.
And you keep injecting the same ligamentous tissue with cortisone, eventually you will weaken that tissue and it will snap.
First, it has an anti-inflammatory reaction, but then it starts to break down the cartilage like a termite.
In fact, it was so accurate that very often what would happen is people would get misdiagnosed with conditions like rheumatoid because they had the same symptomology as rheumatoid,
but what they actually had was a long-term clinical deficiency in vitamin D3.
And you would see that they would have single-digit vitamin D3 for decades.
And then all of a sudden, they would start to present with symptoms that mimicked rheumatoid.
They would say, hey, doc, you know, my soles of my feet and ankles are sore when I got out of bed in the morning to go take my first pee.
I feel like I had a workout the night before when I haven't.
You know, my low back hurts.
My knees and hips and shoulders are stiff.
Now it's spread to my upper back.
And lately, it's kind of hard to make a really tight fist.
Symptoms to the wrong primary care doctor, maybe without doing any confirming diagnosis, without SED rates, without RA factors.
They go, you know what, Joe?
You've got rheumatoid arthritis.
But don't worry.
I'm going to put you on something called a corticosteroid.
You're going to take this pill every morning.
And you're going to be fine.
Methotrexate, whatever it is.
And initially, you feel great because it kills the inflammation.
But then it starts to erode.
The cartilaginous surface.
So if you think about the fact that you had a nutrient deficiency, that you're now being treated with a pharmaceutical, and six years and one day later...
Now, by the way, the methotrexate, for example, will give you a gene mutation.
I did want to ask you about cholesterol before I forget.
Where did the narrative come from that there's good cholesterol and bad cholesterol, and that HDL's good, LDL's bad, you want to lower your LDL, and you want to take a statin?
So, you know, high-density lipoprotein and low-density lipoprotein, you know, the HDL, the high-density lipoprotein, is generally considered the good.
And the LDL, the low density or VLDL, very low density lipoprotein, are considered the bad cholesterol because they're softer, right?
But what we know now is that the size of the cholesterol molecule matters a lot.
In other words, the smaller the particulate size of cholesterol, the easier it is to cross into the arterial wall.
It gets eaten by macrophage and it forms something called a foam cell, which is essentially this foam cell process of oxidized cholesterol is what is the genesis of narrowing of the arteries, right?
But again, we have to remember that cholesterol is called to the site of inflammation.
So if you had two people, one with cholesterol of 100 and LDL cholesterol and another one with cholesterol of 129, does the person with 129 have a higher Incidents of cardiovascular disease?
No. Does the person of 129 have a greater risk of a cardiovascular event?
No, just because they have elevated LDL cholesterol.
Now, if you start to look at other markers like C-reactive protein, which is a great marker for cardiovascular risk, if you look at triglyceride cholesterol ratio, because remember, fat, triglyceride, is largely transported around the body on the surface of cholesterol.
So if cholesterol was a tennis ball, The fuzzy yellow surface would be a fat triglyceride.
And if you remember from high school geometry, as the size of a sphere gets smaller, its surface area to volume ratio goes up.
So what that means is if I had two baskets...
Dude, I can still...
That thing is...
I gotta seal this thing, dude.
It's like...
I'm gonna go blind in my left eye.
I'm trying to be smart and I can't see out of my left eye.
I remember my clinic when Dr. Sardi used to tape these things to the wall because she would do these shoulder injections on people and they would get woozy and she would just crack one of those smelling salts and they'd come right back.
And Asim would tell you the same thing, that he fought the British Medical Journal and got publications that he was trying to have published, pulled because he was fighting the narrative on statins, one of the biggest drugs in the world.
We knew in the mortality space that the centenarians that we were processing death claims on, I don't recall a time during my career when we had...
A death claim on a centenarian, somebody over the age of 100, that did not have elevated levels of LDL cholesterol at the time of their death, because very often these people would die either in hospitals or assisted care living facilities, and we'd process the death claim, and in order to get the death claim processed, you'd have to know day,
date, time, location, cause of death, and we'd have to get a death certificate.
And these people were dying with elevated levels of LDL cholesterol, which you would think, well...
When they have died a lot younger of cardiovascular disease, and now the data is starting to come out to support these other metabolic issues like hyperinsulinemia, hypertriglyceridemia, high blood sugar, that these are villains that precede cholesterol attaching to the arterial wall.
And so when we talk about metabolic health, we really...
We shouldn't just isolate LDL cholesterol.
We should be looking at our blood pressure, you know, our abdominal obesity, our sugars mainly, whether or not, you know, what our fasting blood glucose is, what the three-month average of our blood sugar is, our hemoglobin A1c,
making sure that's below.
Preferably 5.4.
Looking at our insulin because insulin resistance develops a long time before a lot of these things show up.
And looking at other inflammatory markers like C-reactive protein and just generalized markers of inflammation.
Because most people are eating a very pro-inflammatory diet.
And this is why you can't isolate one thing and say seed oils are what's killing.
You know, vaccines are what's killing Americans.
Aluminum vaccines or, you know, fluoride in drinking water.
It's the cumulative dose toxicity of all of these things.
You know, our water is toxic.
And we have fluoride, we have chlorines, we have PFAs, polyfluoroalkyls, we have microplastics, we have bisphenols.
You know, I actually did a test on myself and my entire family called a vibrant wellness test.
And you...
It's a blood and urine test, and essentially it tells you whether you've got mold, mycotoxins, heavy metals, all of these different things.
The amount of BPAs in my blood, and I would consider myself pretty on top of my diet game.
The amount of BPAs, there are traces of jet fuel, there are aflatoxins.
We actually ended up having our doctor write a letter and break her lease, and we moved her into an apartment right next to us in Coconut Grove in Florida.
But she was starting to have, and she's a nurse, and she was starting to have these strange symptoms, just brain fog.
Her joints were just killing her in the morning.
By the end of the day, her ankles were swollen.
Her mood started to collapse, like the peaks and valleys of her mood kind of went away.
I was bringing her over to the house, and obviously as a biohacker, I'm trying to solve everything.
So I was like, we've got to do this vibrant wellness test medicine.
We've got to figure out what's going on.
And then, boom, the mold just jumped off the chart.
Our youngest daughter, too, is suffering from recurrent sore throats.
And you know that viruses and, I mean, bacteria and mold have been...
Mortal enemies for years.
I mean, think penicillin and bacteria, right?
And so we live in the mold capital of the world, and very often when you get mold toxicity, it's not just a constant infection.
It has a latent phase, a dormant phase, and then a sporulating phase.
And so these mold infections, which a lot of doctors will tell you are complete nonsense.
Are absolutely valid.
I mean, there are people that right now that have severe brain fog.
They have joint pain.
They have really poor focus and concentration and short-term memory issues.
They've got hormone imbalance.
They've got water retention.
And they got swollen ankles.
And they cannot really figure it out.
And they'll do a standard blood test.
And you don't see this on a standard blood test.
And when you do something like a Vibrant and you look at these, This mold toxicity, you get rid of it, and you see the entire blood panel comes back into optimal ranges, and they feel amazing.
Just like my daughter, we did EBO2, we did sauna, we did gut binders, activated charcoal binders, high-dose glutathione, and over the next few weeks, we slowly walked this mold right out of her.
But people suffer from this all the time.
In fact, I've been deep down the rabbit hole of a lot of the foundations of these autoimmune diseases.
Because in my previous clinic, we had 150,000, 160,000 patients come through our clinic system.
And nearly everyone that we saw that had an autoimmune disease was told by their doctor, You just woke up one day and your immune system went haywire.
So you have Crohn's disease because one day you woke up and your immune system is manufacturing antibodies to your colon.
Or you have hypothyroid because you woke up one morning and your immune system is manufacturing antibodies to your thyroid.
So now you have Hashimoto's or the lacrimal gland in your eye and you have chagrins or your blood, you have lupus.
And we immediately just assume that God made a mistake, that the immune system is malfunctioning.
Taking a step back and saying, you know, what if actually the immune system is acting properly?
What if God didn't make a mistake?
What if it's attacking the colon for a reason?
We just have to figure it out.
And if you just eliminated four things, mold mycotoxin, heavy metals, viruses, and parasites, just those four categories, I believe you would get to the majority of the genesis of.
of autoimmune diseases.
Some of these autopsy studies on multiple sclerosis, for example, were 100% positive for certain colonies of helminths.
Helminths, which are parasites.
And these helminth colonies or the larvae from these were actually in the myelin sheath of 10 of 10 autopsies that they did on multiple sclerosis patients.
I'm not by any way...
It means saying that everybody that has multiple sclerosis has parasitic infection.
But there are healthy parasites.
There's categories of helminths that are very, very healthy.
And some of the underdeveloped countries in the world where actually they have these healthy parasites, which we've wiped out for the large part here, they don't get multiple sclerosis or they have very, very low incidence of multiple sclerosis.
And one of the theories is that because we have...
We have disrupted the balance of not only bacteria but parasites in our gut, specifically TSO parasites, which are healthy parasites, that the pathogenic parasites proliferate and their larvae burrow into the myelin sheath and they're part of the genesis of multiple sclerosis.
My whole point in saying that is if you take any pathogen, let's just take this one right here.
I don't know what this is.
It looks like a Donald Trump coin.
So I don't know if the audience could see this, but let's say this was a mold spore or mycotoxin or this was a heavy metal or even a virus.
And this was a healthy cell.
You see that they don't hide like this, right?
Metals, mycotoxins, mold, viruses, even in some cases parasites, they don't hide outside of the cell like this.
I mean, but when a virus, when the nucleocapsid protein of a virus attaches to a cell and injects its DNA, that's the way that it takes over that cell.
It's kind of like being bitten by the zombie, right?
I mean, a virus is not a living thing.
It's an envelope that's wrapped around DNA.
But when that envelope attaches to the cell wall and it squirts the DNA inside, now the virus has taken over the host cell, right?
So it's inside the cell.
The immune system is not after this.
It's not after the cell.
It's after this.
So how does it get to this?
It has to kick down this wall.
It has to break through this cell wall.
And very often, in order to do that, it needs to manufacture an antibody to this cell.
If you look, for example, for Hashimoto's, which a lot of people have, These people have Hashimoto's and they're told, okay, well, you woke up one day and your immune system decided to attack the thyroid.
You know, you're manufacturing antibodies to your thyroid.
And so, well, why is it attacking my thyroid?
Well, we don't know.
Let's look at your family history.
Oh, your mom's sister had it and your dad's brother had it.
Oh, you have familial Hashimoto's.
Even though there is no gene.
For Hashimoto's, so you couldn't have inherited it from your ancestor.
Because it now runs in your family, you're told that you have a genetically inherited disease, and now you have to subscribe to a lifetime of medication.
Instead of taking a step back and saying, well, what would have called my immune system to that site?
And look at the incidence of heavy metal toxicity, mercury poisoning in Hashimoto's.
Look at the amount of lead and mercury poisoning in Hashimoto's because the thyroid has an affinity for heavy metals and very often when they retreat into the thyroid, the immune system will chase them there.
And look at the genesis of a lot of Crohn's disease.
I mean, a lot of Crohn's disease has to do with the disruption of the single cell layer in your gut that allows bacteria and other pathogenic contents that should stay inside.
The luminal wall of your gut, they leak out and they're in an area that they don't belong and the immune system is attacking them there.
And then we want to hold the immune system responsible for the crime and say, hey, we're going to arrest the police officer for what this criminal did.
Those contents are in areas of the body where they don't belong.
We're going to put you on an immunosuppressant or we're going to put you on an anti-inflammatory.
And we're actually going to stop the immune system from protecting you.
Instead of saying, what contents could be leaking from my gut that are causing the immune system to light up?
And you could just keep going through lots of autoimmune diseases like this, you know, multiple sclerosis, a lot of these conditions.
But mold, mycotoxins, metals, parasites.
I mean, if I was ever told that I had an autoimmune disease, I would not accept it until I'd done those kinds of...
Because the majority of people that had high LDL cholesterol also had high other factors going on in their body.
And just like a lot of these randomized clinical trials, we look at things in isolation.
We study one thing in isolation.
One of the worst things we do, in my opinion, in modern science is study.
Human anatomy or human physiology or biochemistry in isolation.
So we say we're going to take a cell out of the body.
We're going to put it in a lab.
We're going to look how it behaves in a Petri dish.
And then we're going to assume that when I put that cell back into the body, it's going to behave the same way.
And so we didn't solve for all of these other factors.
Well, what was the person's...
Insulin level.
What was their fasting glucose?
What was their hemoglobin A1c?
What were their other inflammatory markers like C-reactive protein, creatine phosphokinase?
What were the other lifestyle factors that were going on?
And what you'll find is correlation between high levels of cholesterol and people that have cardiovascular disease, but not because of the cholesterol, because of all of the diet and lifestyle risk factors that go around it.
But we can build a multi-billion dollar, in fact, a trillion dollar industry by just lowering this one biomarker.
And when we lower this biomarker, if that biomarker were directly linked to all-cause mortality, if it were directly linked to the incidence of cardiovascular disease, then we would see in the population where we lowered this biomarker, we would see an extension of mortality,
right? Because we said this biomarker was high, LDL.
So if we lower it...
With statin.
Then we're going to see an extension of mortality.
And lo and behold, we see no extension of mortality.
You have to understand that there's a box that is called the standard of care.
And I don't subscribe to the fact that physicians are trying to harm you.
In fact, I have the deepest respect for people that are licensed to practice medicine because I'm not one of them.
And, you know, they...
They go through a schooling to learn to practice within something called the standard of care.
If you're outside of the standard of care, your malpractice is at risk, your reimbursement is at risk, your career is at risk.
So you may very well be doing something that is in your scope of practice, but it is outside the standard of care.
So most physicians will migrate back into the standard of care.
Go around to a bunch of allopathic doctors and get multiple opinions.
They'll all be within this box.
When you jump outside of that box, you've got to be talking to somebody who's willing to say, okay, you probably have to pay me cash.
You probably have put my malpractice at risk.
I don't have malpractice coverage for this type of treatment.
Not because they're breaking the law, but because they're not within the standard of care.
It's just like when physicians started to prescribe ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine for COVID when it wasn't the standard of care, even though there were millions and millions and millions of scripts written for these pharmaceuticals that were proven to be extraordinarily safe.
I mean, our doctor used to have to write it for joint pain during COVID so she wouldn't potentially risk her license.
What happens is you develop a herd mentality because the system for reimbursement, how they get paid, the system for coverage, how they get malpractice coverage, and the system for their career is all dependent on things being inside of a certain box.
And the standard of care for someone with elevated LDL cholesterol is to put them on a statin.
If you don't do that, you could be risking your license.
And why is that the standard of care?
Because pharma dictates that that's the standard of care.
They also dictate the reimbursement rates.
And so if you look at the study that was done in 2016 by Harvard, which determined that medical error was the third leading cause of death.
I think it was repeated by Hopkins in 2019.
But the Harvard study in 2016 is very clear that the third leading cause of death in America is medical error.
And when you look into the study for why, you know, were doctors just killing people?
No. What happened was they looked at ICD-9, ICD-10, ICD-11 codes, how they're coding, you know, the diagnosis of what's happened to you.
I have to, as a doctor, I've got to sort of slot you into a diagnostic code so I can get reimbursed and you can get medication and we can all get paid.
But if I don't have a diagnosis to slot you into, I got to pick sort of the next nearest one.
And there is no diagnosis or way for me to be reimbursed or to make a living if I go, look, Joe, your hemoglobin A1c is like 5.7.
You're early stage pre-diabetic.
You know, you've got a little abdominal obesity going on.
Your blood pressure is creeping towards the high side.
Your fasting glucose is really high.
Some diet and lifestyle choices.
Tell me what's going on in your life.
What's a typical day of your diet look like?
You know, can I put you on a treadmill for 25 or 30 minutes?
Can I talk to you about intermittent fasting?
You know, can I talk to you about things like a whole food diet?
No. None of that.
All of that is outside the standard of care.
If something happens to you and I haven't practiced within the standard of care, I'm at risk.
And so I think a lot of that is what's really exciting about Maha's.
I think a lot of that is going to begin to change.
You're going to see Bobby Kennedy and his team, again, in my opinion, you're going to see Bobby Kennedy and his team, which have been empowered to make real change, not just getting poison out of our food supply and having the generally regarded as safe guidelines look at food safety before we put it into the public domain.
But you're really going to see him go after.
Corruption in our nutritional research, corruption in our governmental oversight bodies.
How is it that we can have people that sit in the Food and Drug Administration and regulate private industry and at the end of that regulatory career go in to work for the same industry that they purported to regulate?
And sometimes for 10 times what they would make as a regulator.
It seems to me like you would get arrested for that in another industry, right?
I mean, if you did that in the securities industry, the banking industry, you wouldn't get away with it.
And, you know, north of 70%, I think the number 74% of our nutritional research is funded by private industry.
You know, we privatize the profit, but we socialize the expense.
And by this, I mean, like, we socialize through the tax.
Subsidized medical system, Medicaid, Medicare, the expenses, right?
So the expenses go on to the taxpayer, but the payments go to private industry.
So we privatize the profit and we socialize the risk.
And then the private industry that benefits from this doesn't even have a fiduciary to the patients that they serve.
They actually have a fiduciary to the investor.
And they can go to prison for not actually performing for their investor.
They can't go to prison for not performing for their...
For their patients.
So if I make a pharmaceutical that goes into your body, but somebody invested in my company to make that pharmaceutical, my responsibility is to them, not to you.
So now you get harmed.
You get harmed.
I'm held harmless.
But if I harm him by not selling it to you for the right margin, he gets to put me in prison.
It's so ass-backwards, and it's such an uphill sludge.
I mean, what the current administration has to do, what Bobby Kennedy has to do, is sort of restructure decades and decades of what's essentially corruption.
Wow. I could only imagine because the amount of profit, you know, when you're talking about these industries, the amount of money they generate is astronomical.
And they're responsible for...
So much of the advertising revenue of mainstream media that mainstream media not only will not cover the negative aspects of their drugs but will heavily criticize anyone who tries to go outside the narrative.
And I mean, you know, look at this, you know, this strong kids commission.
You know, it's the idea is to
to.
Go to schools, put physical education back into schools, get highly processed foods out of the schools, and actually not to fat-chain kids, but to pro-bodymorphic.
Encourage them.
Like, yes, it's okay to not want to be sloppy and out of shape and to call that out and to actually be physically fit and healthy.
It's not that you have to be there to gain status, but it's okay to not want to be fat.
Look, I don't think you should shame people and be cruel to them.
However, if someone pulls you aside and says, hey, Bobby...
You're overweight and it's fucking up your health and, you know, it's really bad for you.
If that makes you feel bad and that feeling bad inspires a change in your lifestyle, in your diet, in exercise routines and what you do, that's positive.
And sometimes you have to feel bad.
Like someone has to give you an F for you to realize, oh my God, I'm going to fail in this class unless I study harder.
Yeah. Like, that's part of life.
And you can't just coddle people and expect success.
It's one of the most important aspects of athletics.
Because athletics are a very clear, it's a very clear formula.
That the more work you put in, the harder you train, the more results you'll get.
As long as you're not overtraining and, you know, you do it correctly.
It's the ultimate sieve.
Yeah. You work hard, you will get results.
It's a vehicle for the rest of your life.
If you can learn that at a young age, that's why I think athletics are so important for young people.
If you can learn that at an early age, that the discomfort is necessary for growth, like being tired, pushing yourself, working out when you don't want to, pushing yourself to the point where your body has to adapt and grow and become stronger.
is a part of this process and it's beneficial and through doing that you will actually feel better it is actually a medicine if you could get the way if you get the way I feel after I have a heart if I cold plunge have a hard workout get in the sauna stretch out and then Go about my day.
If you could put that in a pill, people are like, oh my god, my new anti-anxiety medications is so incredible.
I'm so happy that I went to this doctor because he put me on the right stuff.
Yeah. That pill, especially if it did all the things that exercise did without exercise, it would be the most valuable pill in the world.
But getting people to...
To feel discomfort voluntarily is so difficult when people have this sedentary lifestyle and this lazy mind and this entitlement that so many people have where they feel like the world owes them something.
Instead of,"I've owed myself.
I've got to work for myself.
I've got to put off these feelings.
Delay these feelings of, you know, relaxation and comfort and delay it and give myself some voluntary discomfort so that I can feel true peace.
But thankfully, the general, the general is what I call the one part of my brain that I try to keep the most dominant, where I tell myself, shut the fuck up.
And then you fly five and a half hours in economy sitting up like this.
You fly five and a half hours and you land in Cape Town, South Africa.
And you get off the plane and immediately run another marathon.
And it's balls hot.
And then we packed up from that marathon.
So now these marathons were only like five and a half hours, six hours apart.
So now you've done two marathons in 24 hours.
One in Antarctica, one in the heat in South Africa.
And then it was like 11 hours to Perth, Australia.
And I ran another half there.
He ran a full marathon there.
And then you're done in Perth, Australia, and you pack up and we flew to Istanbul.
And the cool thing about Istanbul is you could run on the Asian side and then run on the European side.
So this was like the only night we got to stay in a hotel room and actually take a shower.
And so we get to Istanbul, and the marathon was supposed to be along this wharf.
It's pitch black at night.
The dock is all broken apart.
There's these big, huge cracks in the sidewalk.
And it was 26.3 miles along this wharf.
Only the thing was, we were told that they were going to get all the fishermen off the wall.
And so it was lines and lines and lines of these guys fishing at night.
And they would snap their hooks forward.
So we get there and we're like, this is way too freaking dangerous.
And I guess the company that they had hired to clear all these fishermen just took their money and said the whole course was going to be lit.
Found out the course wasn't lit, so then you had to wear the headlamps.
And so it took them like an hour, hour and 20 minutes to clear all these fishermen.
But then we started running and we ran with those headlights on.
And if you've ever been in pitch black and you've just watched that light bounce in front of your eyes, I don't know how my son did it.
Because I ran for like an hour and a half and I was like, fuck this, I have nothing to prove.
I'm 53. I'm going to be 54. I've already run a few half marathons.
I feel really good.
So he ran the entire thing, and I joined him for a bunch of laps, but finally he just ripped the thing off his head because that light's shaking in front of your eyes for Four hours at a time.
Pretty soon you just start to go batty.
And then you go to sleep.
The next day you run on the Asian side.
Then it was 19 hours to Cartagena.
And about a third of the athletes drank the water with the ice or ate the salad that was washed in the water from...
That would quiet down for another 30 or 40 minutes and then I'd get sentimental again and he'd tell me to shut the fuck up again.
We ended up finishing the race, though.
I don't know how he did it.
He sipped little ounces of coconut water for that entire Cartagena race.
And then we had to get on the plane and fly to Miami to run the...
Seventh one, which I didn't do.
He did.
I don't even know why I brought that up, but it was a crazy, crazy moment.
There were these women that were running this race, I kid you not, that they had Montezuma's revenge so bad that they would leave the race course and run into the bay that we were running beside and just shit themselves in the bay and then get back out and keep running the race.
And the guy that set the world record in Antarctica...
My friend Cam Haynes, when he was preparing for one of those ultra runs, when you run for three days, like 240 miles, he was running a marathon a day while he was working an eight-hour job.
And again, he's like 6'7 or something crazy like that.
Built that way.
Wow. But he does a lot of carrying stuff and walking stuff.
Yeah. He feels like it's very important for your overall strength.
I would agree with that.
Not just to be able to sit there and push stuff and do squats in place, but to move with things where you're balancing and counterbalancing, moving left foot, right foot, left foot, right foot.
No, but what I do now is, because my bow is pretty heavy, it's 85 pounds to pull it back, but I'm doing it like, when I'm really training hard, like it's getting close to September, I'm probably shooting 100 times a day.
So I'm 100 times, I'm pulling back 85 pounds.
So now what I do, and I learned this from Cam, I take a 10-pound dumbbell, and I hold it with my right, because I pull my bow with my right arm, so I put a 10-pound dumbbell.
with my right arm and hold it out.
And then with my left arm, I have a cable, like a cable machine.
And I'm pulling back the same, I'm mimicking the exact same.
I'm holding the bow with my left arm to stabilize it, and I'm pulling it back with my right arm.
So now, to counter that, I immediately go to the gym right after.
So one of the things I'm noticing is like, boy, I get fucking so sore on my left side now.
Because this is fairly recent.
I've only been doing this for a couple months.
The left side to stabilize it.
But I think I should have been doing it the entire time.
Because I was getting really bad lower back pain last hunting season.
And it was...
Just because of tendons.
I was just overusing, because you're stabilizing, right?
So you're pulling back the bow, and you're holding it in place, and you're stabilizing on your right side.
And after your form kind of breaks down, because you get a little tired, now I just, when I feel my form breaking down, I stop.
I just stop shooting.
So instead of shooting 100 times a day now, maybe I'll shoot 30 or 40 and I just stop.
I won't push.
Because it's a meathead mentality that my stupid brain won't abandon.
Even though I know it's like injuring me.
It actually became a problem and it was hurting me when I was playing pool.
I did a bunch of things to deal with it.
One of the things I did is this thing called New Fit, which helped a lot, where they put electrodes on your muscles and then you go through a series of core routines while you're doing that.
No, I have a bar, like a straight bar, and I'll put, like, my right leg forward, and so I've got the bar back on the right side, and I'm twisting forward.
So I'm doing that.
So a lot of rotational exercises, and I'm also twisting up, you know, and I'm doing a bunch of different things to twist.
Another thing I do is I sit on a pad with my legs elevated, and I have a kettlebell, and I'll...
Twisted to the side with my legs up in the air.
So I'm getting all this rotational exercises into my system now that I didn't used to do before, but I really should have been doing from the beginning.
I always did abs.
I always did the hip glute thing where you lean all the way back.
Honestly, I think our long-term plan is to, we've got a beautiful place in Miami, is to sell that place and get a spot.
I mean, continue to develop our spot in Colorado because there's something about these authentic log cabins, glacier-fed spring water, will and septic.
You know, solar-fed electricity.
Yeah. Like, just old school.
Old school.
And it makes you so happy.
And I totally agree with you.
I wish that people could feel what that...
Feeling is like and they wouldn't chase a lot of other...
Well, I think there's also some intangible input that you're getting from society that you're not thinking about, but that affects you, that's absent when you're in the woods and you feel refreshed because of that.
So the one that I used to go to, they would give you a mask and you would wear the mask and oxygen would get pumped into your mask while you're in the hyperbaric chamber.
I mean, that terrible accident that happened to that young boy in the Midwest here recently where the hyperbaric chamber actually exploded.
What happened?
Yeah, I mean, this young, I think it was five and a half year old little boy was in a hyperbaric chamber and very sadly, the technician left him in there, didn't ground him.
And he had a blanket in there with him, and he moved the blanket, and the static electricity caught 100% O2.
So if you look at some of the therapeutic benefits for things like diabetic ulcers, burns, things like that, where, you know, necrosis, tissue necrosis, those make sense in a supervised hospital environment with,
you know, someone standing right outside the chamber the entire time.
I've been in one one time in a place called BioAccelerator.
Medellin, Colombia.
But the home-use chamber is where you get a prescription from your doctor and you actually get probably what you have.
So that'll probably go to two atmospheres of pressure.
That's really good.
So Dr. Jason Saunders, who wrote the book Hyperbaric Medicine.
Dr. Dimitri will tell you there's a lot of benefits at low pressures, like 1.3 atmospheres, which you can get in a soft chamber.
And there are a lot of benefits at higher pressures, like two atmospheres.
So I never go above two atmospheres, twice the atmospheric pressure.
If you think about what's happening at twice the atmospheric pressure, you're taking the oxygen from the air, which is about 21% sea level, what we're breathing right now, and you're doubling that.
Because you're doubling the pressure.
So every 33 feet you go below sea level, you double the atmospheric pressure.
So when you get to two atmospheres of pressure, you're essentially taking in twice as much oxygen.
The oxygen concentration hasn't increased, but the size of the gas has gotten smaller.
So now you're perfusing tissues with oxygen that normally wouldn't...
Okay. Okay.
Okay. Diabetic ulcers.
When you have anaerobic bacterial infections, meaning bacterial infections that do not thrive on oxygen, you have to be careful with aerobic bacteria because there are bacteria that actually feed on oxygen as well.
And so you don't want to put somebody who has an aerobic infection into a hyperbaric chamber.
You want to put somebody who has an anaerobic infection.
But what's really interesting is some of the research that's coming out of Israel, especially, on cognitive function, using 60 days at two atmospheres of pressure and then reducing the pressure over time, the improvement in mitochondrial density,
the improvement in blood flow, cognitive scoring, reduction of neural inflammation.
You can't say treat or cure, but they use these to modulate autism, all kinds of neuroinflammatory conditions, Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, which is really linked to type 3 diabetes, which is insulin resistance in the brain.
But the byproduct of that is this neuroinflammatory cascade.
So reducing neuroinflammation.
There are a lot of benefits to hyperbaric tissue recovery, post-surgical wound repair, post-surgical recovery.
And if you think about it, I have a saying that the presence of oxygen is the absence of disease.
And I truly believe that because if you look at the breakdown in mitochondrial respiration, which occurs when you deprive the...
Mitochondria of all kinds of things, but mainly of oxygen, which is our fuel source, you know, which is not our fuel source as humans.
Our fuel source is ATP.
But the fuel source for the mitochondria is mainly oxygen.
And when you feed it oxygen, you have a 16-fold step up in cellular energy.
When you deprive it of oxygen, you have a 16-fold step down in cellular energy.
I mean, the difference between aerobic and anaerobic respiration or the Krebs cycle having the presence of oxygen or not having the presence of oxygen is a pretty substantial number.
And so hyperbarics, because they allow for compressed oxygen, even if you don't increase the percentage of O2, right?
You keep it at 21% like we're breathing right now, but you just double the atmospheric pressure.
I mean, the effects are pretty...
Pretty profound.
And I believe the risks are low.
If you have a physician, you understand how to operate the chamber, and you have safety procedures, and you're not using 100% O2, and you're at shallow depths, you can ascend quickly without being in trouble.
If you're a diver, you understand dive tables.
You have to ascend at certain rates and pause at certain levels.
So the one that I built, I was like, man, how do I just compress time?
I'm like, well, I'm going to work out.
So what if I was able to put the gym in there?
And I'm doing podcasts.
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I remember the guy thought I was out of my freaking body.
I don't know if you can order them on the site yet.
I think they're probably going to be, if it's $30 for 30 of those H2 tabs, then I would imagine they're going to be around $5 or $10.
$10 for a hydrogen bomb to drop into the bathtub.
I mean, the machine is, you know, I was actually originally going to order this electrolysis system called a Cocoon.
It's spelled Cakewin, like the facility out in Las Vegas, which makes oxygen water.
That system is like $110,000.
And then a buddy of mine, Tyler LeBaron, who's the PhD in the space, told me about this machine I could order from Korea for $7,500, which is the one that I have now.
And now I've added a nanobubble machine.
And that one's...
Just incredible, I mean, for this transdermal inflammation.
And I think for people that have, like, you know, chronic injuries, especially like chronic repetitive use injuries, or they have real severe low back pain, or they've got parents or something that are deconditioned, you know, that have a hard time exercising,
You know, these are, these are, you know, great things to do to lower their inflammatory cascade.
You know, that and there's something called EWOD exercise with oxygen therapy, which is kind of based on Otto Warburg's research where, and I do this with my parents because both of my parents are deconditioned.
My mom has dual knee replacements and my dad is handicapped from a boating accident years ago.
He has no cognitive impairment, but he has some motor coordination difficulties.
So it's hard for him to really exercise.
I bought them a sauna and I put them both in a sauna.
For 20 minutes, three times a week, and they just breathe, I bored a hole, and they just breathe through a nasal cannulus, the 92, 93% O2, which is a version of EWOT, the exercise with oxygen therapy, or the multi-step oxygen therapy, because if you just can raise their heart rate just,
you know, a little bit with the heat, then that extra perfusion pressure really drives oxygen into the tissues.
And I'll tell you, it's a noticeable change in them.
Just like when you get out of a cold plunge, you've had a really good workout.
Well, imagine, you know, you're elderly and you're deconditioned.
You know, you really don't get your heart rate up.
You really don't get your good sweat on.
But you go into a sauna, raise your heart rate, and breathe some of that 92%, 93% of it too.
This is a kind of important thing to talk about because there was a study that was released recently that showed that when people use the cold plunge after workout, you see a decrease in hypertrophy.
I mean, if you think about what you get from cold plunching, let's not overblow it or underblow it.
Well, first of all, if you exercised intensely, let's just say you did a big squat workout and you tore a bunch of quad muscle, what's going to happen?
Inflammation. What's the body going to do?
Yeah, the body's going to send more blood flow, more amino acids, more oxygen to those muscles.
It's going to pull...
Inflammatory factors like creatinine, you know, the breakdown of muscle, the byproduct of the muscle breakdown.
And what's interesting is, you know, a lot of athletes, really conditioned athletes get it too because they have a tendency to be mentally a lot stronger than their bodies.
And then there's something on EGFR, which is your kidney filtration rate, which is your glomerular filtration rate.
It's how quickly is the blood moving through your kidneys.
Because about 15 times every day, the full volume of your blood goes through your kidneys.
But if you think about what happens when you get into a cold plunge, so first you get this peripheral vasoconstriction.
And then you get a release of...
Something called cold shock proteins.
And if you ever really want to have some fun, just Google around about cold shock proteins.
Look at LIN28A and LIN28B.
These are cold shock proteins that are being actually researched for their impact on insulin sensitivity, improving insulin sensitivity.
And then, you know, you activate a very special type of fat called brown fat, which essentially exchanges a calorie for a measure of heat.
So it takes a calorie and turns it into heat.
That's a very good thing.
If I'm taking calories and turning them into heat, you know, there's a cost to raising your thermostat.
And you think if you're in, let's say, 50 degree water and you get out of 50 degree water and you're standing in a 70 degree room, how's your body go to 98.6?
Right. How do you actually not only, how do you exceed the temperature of the room you're in?
Well, your metabolism is raised largely because of the activation of brown fat.
And there's a cost to that.
The cost is calories.
So anybody tells you that cold plunging is not good for burning fat, I think, is missing the breadth of the science.
And then the final thing you get is you get this spike of dopamine, which lasts hours.
Yes. And that's where you get that, like, laser focus.
I would add, when I gave you the other day, those perfect aminos, which is just essentially the nine essential amino acids.
You know, we talk about how most people are trying to dose protein so they can get to the amino acid equivalent, or they're taking imperfect proteins like, or incomplete proteins like collagen, which can't build, which is a great protein, but it won't build muscle.
Yeah, I mean, I think that the idea that we can target direct proteins is a fallacy.
You know, I use the analogy that we don't eat our nails to grow our nails, and we don't eat our hair to grow our hair, but we think that we can eat collagen to grow collagen, and that's actually not true.
I'm not anti-collagen.
I'm just saying if you eat collagen or put collagen in your coffee, it doesn't show up as collagen in your skin.
My preference would be you take something that is a It has all of the nine essential amino acids.
I take one called Perfect Aminos, but there's other products out there that are all nine essential amino acids.
You know, I haven't looked at the bioavailability.
I mean, there's...
Two types of creatine, which, you know, monohydrate and HCL.
Monohydrate is where all of the research is.
There's a lot more research on creatine monohydrate.
But creatine also comes in the HCL, the hydrochloride form.
And I tell people that if they take creatine monohydrate and they have bloating, which some women do, they'll have a little water retention or some bloating, then just take the creatine HCL.
I mean, you have to really oversupplement with that.
I take a nighttime...
I take this thing by BioOptimizers called Magnesium Breakthrough, which has seven forms of magnesium in it.
I'm a big fan of that.
You can also isolate the magnesiums if you have trouble sleeping.
Magnesium 3 and 8 is really good.
Magnesium citrate and glycinate are good for intestinal motility.
So if you're not somebody that has regular bowel movements, magnesium deficiency is highly linked to poor intestinal motility.
So if you're not somebody that wakes up within 45 minutes of the day and has a bowel movement...
You may want to look to magnesium supplementation the night prior and see if that fixes your bowel movement.
Also, people that ruminate at night, they lay down to go to sleep and they're body tired, but they're mind awake.
This is generally a rise in something called catecholamines, these neurotransmitters in the brain that create a waking state.
They're also the same neurotransmitters that create anxiety and trigger our fight-or-flight response.
A lot of times, magnesium.
Methylfolate and a simple B-complex will quiet those squirrels.
Very, very simple methylated nutrients to actually break down those catecholamines.
Because, you know, I talk about this all the time.
A lot of people that suffer from anxiety are never really told what it is.
Like, nobody sits them down and tells them, what is anxiety?
Like, why do I feel...
Why... Sometimes I feel like I'm in a heightened state of awareness.
And then I move from a heightened state of awareness to being anxious.
And then I move from being anxious to full-blown anxiety.
Like I actually feel the presence of a fear.
And then, you know, sometimes that presence of a fear goes into like a rapid heart rate or acute hearing.
Pupils dilate.
And then that goes into a full-blown panic attack.
And if catecholamines continue to rise, you can even have a full-blown paranoia.
It's this rise in this category of neurotransmitters called catecholamines.
So if we identified anxiety as that, and I'm not saying it's always that, but the majority of people have that form where they have metabolism issues because of a gene mutation called CompT.
And they are worriers.
Not warriors.
So they lay down to go to sleep at night, their mind wakes up.
They start ruminating thoughts at night.
If they think about anything at night, they'll take it straight to worst case scenario.
So every scenario that they ruminate on at night, they take it to worst case scenario.
You know, what's really interesting is I interviewed a Harvard physician on my podcast, and he was treating drug-resistant mental illness with diet, mainly keto diets.
And he found that the beta-hydroxybutyrate, which is the ketone body, the main ketone body in this, and basic supplementation, fixing their methylation pathways, meaning supplementing for methylation,
poor conversion of certain chemicals, led to better behavioral changes than they were having in the drug-resistant...
And it's really fascinating because we don't like to think that nutrient deficiencies could lead to serious mental illness.
Could you just Google methylation chart?
Can I just show you a chart of methylation?
The reason why I want to put it up here is because...
And just click on any one of them once you put it up there.
It's going to look like this complicated myriad.
Just click on that one.
So this is something I've committed to memory.
But the reason why I show a lot of people this chart is for what's not on here.
So this is what we call methylation.
This is the process that's going on 300 billion times a day inside of all of your cells.
And you'll see tryptophan and tyrosine and phenylalanine and quinoa gas and lactic acid, cholesterol.
You see all of this stuff on this chart.
The reason why I show people this chart...
It's because this is going on 300 billion times a day inside of your body, every minute, every hour of every day.
What you do not see on this chart is a single synthetic, a single chemical, or a single pharmaceutical.
So why is it that we think synthetics, pharmaceuticals, and chemicals could be the answer to deficiencies in this chart?
They're not.
So what happens if I just start wandering around this chart and I find something like serotonin?
I go, wow, let me just, let me just, serotonin is the main driver of mood.
I wonder how serotonin is made.
Oh, I actually, in fact, there's serotonin right there.
What is it made from?
Just follow that arrow up.
Oh, it's made from tryptophan.
And what do I need in order to convert tryptophan to serotonin?
I need...
5-HTP.
I need thiamine.
I need a complex of B vitamins.
Could it be possible that a complex of B vitamins is stopping me from converting tryptophan into serotonin?
Yes. And what happens if I can't convert tryptophan into serotonin?
Serotonin drops.
And if serotonin drops, I cannot assemble moods that require serotonin.
So now I've been told I have a mood disorder and I have a nutrient deficiency.
Look at this.
Anxiety, ADD, ADHD.
See that on there?
Okay. Well, what do we make dopamine from?
Phenylalanine and tyrosine.
What if I had a deficiency in phenylalanine or tyrosine?
Oh, I couldn't make the neurotransmitter dopamine.
What is dopamine?
Dopamine is the main driver of behavior.
Well, what happens if dopamine is low?
Now I have an addiction.
Why? Because the...
Absence of dopamine is the presence of addiction.
So could I have addictive behavior because I'm low in dopamine and not actually just addicted to nicotine, alcohol, drugs, promiscuity, gambling?
Absolutely. And why is it that most addictions have a tendency to shift and never really go away?
If you've ever really been an addict or ever known a true addict, why is it that their addiction has a tendency to shift and not go away?
Rarely, if ever, did a true addict wake up one day and just say, I want to get really banged up.
The majority of addicts woke up one day and said, I want to feel normal.
And it was the search for normalcy that developed the addiction.
They smoked a cigarette, they felt normal.
They took a drink and they could socialize.
They were promiscuous and they kind of felt normal.
They jumped off a fucking mountain in a squirrel suit and the rush of dopamine actually brought their dopamine level to normal.
They actually felt calm 15 inches away from death.
And so the deficiency in dopamine very often drives this.
And we label these people with mental illnesses.
We label them with mood disorders.
But serotonin is a...
Part of the recipe of mood.
So if you said to me, what is a mood?
What is an emotional state?
I would say it's a collection of neurotransmitters bound to oxygen.
So let's say that you said, okay, what's happiness?
Okay, there's so much serotonin, so much dopamine, so much norepinephrine, so much epinephrine.
Boom, you put these together, you have the emotion of happiness.
Well, what if I just took serotonin out?
Right? Like, what if I went to a bakery chef and said, hey, chef, you can bake whatever you want.
You just can't use butter.
And so I took butter out.
And it doesn't sound like a big deal.
It's only one component.
But think of how many recipes that would affect.
Cookies, pastries, pies, brownies.
Well, moods are no different.
I say, Joe, you can be in whatever mood you want.
You just can't use serotonin.
So now any mood that you go to assemble that requires serotonin, you can't manufacture.
So now you have a mood disorder.
Instead of taking a step back and saying, well...
Why doesn't he have serotonin?
Where's serotonin made?
Well, serotonin is made in the gut.
90% of it's right here.
So if you don't have it here, you can't have it here.
And so then why don't we go to the factory in the gut that makes serotonin?
Where is the factory that turns tryptophan into the neurotransmitter serotonin?
Well, it's in the gut.
What is that done through?
A process called methylation.
Do you mean if I'm deficient in certain vitamins or nutrients?
That methylation cycle is not working.
I might not produce serotonin and therefore I might have a mood disorder.
Yes. Am I saying that all mood disorders come from that?
No. But there are so many things that come from this methylation cycle that are so potentially easy to fix with basic supplementation.
You know, for two years in our initial clinic, my wife and I and our doctor, we pulled blood work.
I think it was about 1,600 pounds.
We pulled blood work and we pulled these basic biomarkers, CBC, CMP, lipid panel, hormone panel, and nutrient deficiencies.
And then we also pulled this methylation test, looking at five genes of methylation.
And you can get these methylation tests done anywhere.
And we looked at these five genes.
And then what we would do is we would solve with supplementation for the genetic deficiency and watch what happened to the blood biomarkers.
You would see kidney filtration rates improve.
You would see waste elimination, like people become more regular.
You would see C-reactive protein, these nonspecific markers of inflammation drop.
You would certainly see things like homocysteine drop.
People have very, very high levels of homocysteine.
You supplement them with the right nutrients, a B-complex, something called trimethylglycine, and they start to break down homocysteine.
And then all of a sudden they're reporting that their blood pressure is returning to normal and have...
Less frequent headaches.
It is astounding to me how many people are just nutrient deficient and don't accept that basic supplementation or, oh, we can get everything from diet bullshit.
If you look at a soil lineage study from 1945 and a soil lineage study right now, you would be astounded to see how depleted our food supply is or our soil is.
Add processed food and all this other stuff to it, you don't stand a chance.
You need basic supplementation.
All human beings need the same.
We need two essential fatty acids.
Essential means they're essential for life.
You need nine essential amino acids.
So you can supplement with the nine essential amino acids in the morning.
You can supplement with the two essential fatty acids.
So make a three fatty acids like black seed oil or good mega fish oil.
You can supplement with the minerals.
So many of us are mineral deficient and we don't realize the expression of mineral deficiency.