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Optimizing Health and Challenging Medical Norms

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This source presents an interview with Gary Brecka, a figure known for his work in life expectancy and wellness, featured on the PBD Podcast. Brecka shares his background in the life insurance industry, where probabilistic models were used to predict mortality, and how this led him to focus on modifiable risk factors and nutrient deficiencies as root causes of many modern health issues. He critiques aspects of modern medicine, arguing that it often treats symptoms rather than underlying deficiencies and discusses specific examples like hypertension, thyroid conditions, and autoimmune diseases. Brecka also highlights the importance of sleep hygiene, hydration (specifically hydrogen water), and community for longevity and well-being, and touches on a business dispute with Grant Cardone and Brandon Dawson.

Briefing Document: PBD Podcast with Gary Brecka - Key Themes and Insights

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Date: February 12, 2024 (Implied from transcript context regarding recent events)

Participants: Gary Brecka, Host (PBD)

Subject: Discussion on health, longevity, nutrient deficiencies, life settlement industry, and business relationships.

Key Themes:

• The Role of Actuaries and Life Settlement in Predicting Mortality: The conversation begins by highlighting Gary Brecka's background in the life insurance and life settlement industries. This experience provided him with unique insights into predicting life expectancy based on various risk factors. The life settlement model, where policies are bought to benefit upon the insured's death, is the "complete opposite of life insurance" and focuses on specific mortality prediction using "probabilistic models."

• Quote: "actuaries and life settlement, actually, that's their business model... The idea with life settlement is you buy insurance policy and finding ways to see how long is this person going to live."

• Quote: "What the model predicts is, if your life expectancy is two hundred and twenty months, for example... that means that you have the exact same chance of being alive as you do of being dead. That's your mean mortality."

• Mortality Debits and Credits: Identifying Key Risk Factors: The discussion delves into the factors actuaries use to assess life expectancy. These "mortality debits" are negative health indicators. Initially, these were obvious conditions, but the industry began incorporating demographic and lifestyle data to predict a person's likelihood of changing detrimental behaviors.

• Quote: "mortality debits are things like type two diabetes, morbid obesity, hypertension, you know, history of smoking Mhmm. Fatty liver. The the obvious things are mortality debits."

• Quote: "We started to then import demographic data. So we would look at lifestyle data and demographic data, and we would predict the chances that somebody would actually adjust their lifestyle and potentially fix the problems that they had."

• Modifiable Risk Factors and the Impact of Lifestyle: A significant theme is the importance of "modifiable risk factors" - behaviors and conditions that individuals can change to improve their health trajectory. Brecka emphasizes that lifestyle plays a crucial role, often outweighing other factors in predicting longevity. The primary concerns for actuaries were identified as smoking, alcohol consumption, weight, and occupation, with smoking being the most significant "because few smokers ever quit."

• Quote: "modifiable risk factors were things that people could change the trajectory of their life."

• Quote: "It was always the warrior weight, but weight wasn't above smoking. So it was smoking, alcohol, weight, and an occupation."

• Quote: "Why was smoking above it all? Because few smokers ever quit."

• Nutrient Deficiencies as Root Causes of Illness: A central argument presented by Brecka is that many modern medical diagnoses and conditions are not inherent diseases but rather the result of simple nutrient deficiencies. He contends that "everything that man makes us and taken away everything that God gave us." He provides several examples to support this.

• Quote: "We noticed was that the nutrient deficiencies were leading to the deceleration or the acceleration of mortality."

• Quote: "what modern medicine has applied is everything that man makes us and taken away everything that God gave us."

• Vitamin D3 Deficiency as a Case Study: Vitamin D3 is highlighted as a critical nutrient, with widespread deficiency (50% globally, 85% in dark-complected populations). A deficiency can mimic symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis, leading to misdiagnosis and the prescription of corticosteroids which "accelerates the erosion of your joints." This misdiagnosis based on a nutrient deficiency could artificially age someone by "six years and one day" in the actuarial models and predict a joint replacement.

• Quote: "If you were to pick one compound in the human body, that's maybe the most important thing... Fifty percent of the world's population is clinically deficient in this nutrient."

• Quote: "The doctor without doing any other testing... is gonna go, you know what? Patrick, you've got, rheumatoid arthritis... But don't worry. I'm gonna put you on something called a corticosteroid..."

• Quote: "This corticosteroid... starts to erode your joints. It accelerates the erosion of your joints so quickly that it was so accurate that if you started a corticosteroid, we would artificially advance your age six years and one day, and we would artificially schedule a joint replacement for you."

• Anchor Diagnoses and Medication Over-prescription: The concept of "anchor diagnoses" is introduced, where a diagnosis, once in the medical record, persists even if the underlying condition has changed or was initially misdiagnosed. This leads to continued medication despite the lack of necessity or the ability to address the root cause through lifestyle changes. The more pharmaceuticals a person is on, the more accurately their death can be predicted.

• Quote: "Once you've been diagnosed with a condition and it makes into medical record, we would call these anchor diagnoses."

• Quote: "Nobody goes back to check and say, hey. I wonder if, doctor x y z actually properly diagnosed Patrick with this hypothyroid."

• Quote: "The more pharmaceuticals you were on, the more accurate your your mortality. So the more pharmaceutical compounds we could stack up in a record, the more accurate we could determine your life expectancy."

• Dana White's Transformation as an Example: Dana White's dramatic health transformation is presented as a prime example of how addressing nutrient deficiencies can reverse long-standing conditions. White was on multiple cardiovascular medications for hypertension, but Brecka's team identified a genetic variant preventing the conversion of homocysteine to methionine, causing arterial constriction and high blood pressure. Supplementing with trimethylglycine (TMG) and B vitamins allowed his body to metabolize homocysteine, normalizing his blood pressure and allowing him to come off medication.

• Quote: "Dana White saying, this man helped me save 10 places. You got ten point four years left to live."

• Quote: "When we looked at Dana's blood work, and we looked at, his genetics, He had a genetic variant that did not allow him to convert a an amino acid in his blood called homocysteine."

• Quote: "We put him on a amino acid called trimethylglycine, TMG... We put him on a b complex, a methylfolate... And by week '21, he was completely off of all of his cardiovascular medication that he'd been on for fifteen years."

• Dopamine Deficiency and Addiction: Brecka posits that the absence of dopamine is the presence of addiction, leading individuals to engage in dopamine-seeking behaviors. This explains why addictions can shift.

• Quote: "The absence of dopamine is the presence of addiction. So in other words, if you are deficient in dopamine, you will engage in dopamine seeking behavior."

• Nutrient Deficiencies and Common Ailments: The discussion expands to other common conditions potentially linked to nutrient deficiencies:

• Hypothyroid: Often linked to deficiencies in selenium, thiamine, and iodine.

• Hypertension (Familial): Assumed to be genetic, but Brecka argues it's often an inherited "inability for the body to refine a raw material, which causes a deficiency," not a specific disease gene.

• Depression/Mood: Mood is described as a "collection of neurotransmitters." Serotonin deficiency, often cited as a cause of depression, is proposed to be linked to a deficiency in tryptophan or an inability to properly methylate serotonin. Addressing this requires focusing on gut health and necessary nutrients for methylation (methylfolate, b complexes, methylcobalamin, TMG).

• Anxiety: Described as having high catecholamines (waking state/fight or flight neurotransmitters). This can be due to a deficiency in nutrients that break down catecholamines (SAM e, b complex vitamins, hydroxycobalamin, methylfolate).

• The Importance of "What God Gave Us" (Natural Modalities): Brecka advocates for returning to natural methods for health improvement, contrasting them with man-made solutions.

• Sunlight: Essential for Vitamin D3 production and charging mitochondria. "Your mitochondria are charged by light." He suggests 16-20 minutes of morning sunlight exposure.

• Earthing/Grounding: Touching the surface of the earth to discharge into the earth and repolarize cells, improving blood flow and waste elimination. "Taking your shoes off, touching the surface of the earth, earthing, grounding is a very real thing."

• Red Light Therapy: Mimics sunlight exposure and benefits cellular biology.

• Cold Water Immersion/Heat Exposure: Exercises the vascular system and improves microvascular circulation.

• Hydrogen Rich Water: Presented as a powerful tool for reducing inflammation and improving various health markers. Brecka cites studies demonstrating its positive effects on telomere length (indicating biological youth), methylation, cognitive function, physical function, and inflammation. He advocates for the use of hydrogen tablets for easy consumption and cites hydrogenstudies.com as a resource for scientific literature.

• Quote: "Hydrogen is the most prevalent, element in the universe. It's also the lightest element that we know of... Hydrogen, you can also bathe in it. It will go right transdermal... one of the most anti inflammatory compounds we know of..."

• Quote: "Telomere lengthening with the length increased after hydrogen rich water intervention over baseline, versus the control weather. There was significantly higher the, oh, methylcytosine, deoxygenase... a marker for methylation."

• Quote: "Hydrogen rich water is the only reason why he made it across all seven continents." (Referring to his co-founder's extreme marathon challenge).

• Improving Sleep Quality: Practical advice is given for improving sleep, focusing on creating a calm physiological state.

• Consistent Bedtime: Keeping promises to oneself about bedtime.

• Magnesium Supplementation: Magnesium L-threonate or Magnesium Breakthrough are recommended for an active mind.

• Contrast Showers: Alternating hot and cold water exposure to "quiet your mind" by calming catecholamines.

• Breath Work: Simple breathing exercises before bed to reduce rumination.

• Cold Environment, Sleep Mask, Limiting Phone Use: Standard sleep hygiene recommendations.

• Sex: Mentioned as beneficial for sleep due to the release of oxytocin. "One of the best things to go to sleep is sex."

• Sex and Oxytocin: The benefits of sex are linked to the release of oxytocin, the "pleasure hormone" or "love hormone," which fosters connection and well-being. Loneliness and the loss of a spouse ("broken heart syndrome") significantly reduce life expectancy.

• Quote: "The benefits of sex... are actually not from the intercourse themselves. They're from the rise, the impact on pleasure hormone called oxytocin."

• Quote: "Loneliness is killing more people than all of the chronic diseases combined."

• Quote: "You dramatically reduce the the life expectancy of the second spouse dramatically."

• Community and Longevity (Blue Zones): Drawing from Blue Zone studies, Brecka emphasizes that strong senses of community, not specific diets, were a common factor in areas with the longest life expectancies.

• Quote: "When you look at these these areas where life expectancy was the longest, they had strong senses of community."

• Advice for Parents of Athletes: Key recommendations include eliminating folic acid from the diet (a "man made chemical" found in fortified grains) and supplementing with Vitamin D3 and Omega-3 fatty acids (fish oil, black seed oil) to improve fine motor skills, eye coordination, speed, timing, and agility.

• Quote: "Immediately get all of the folic acid out of their diet. So folic acid is is an entirely man made chemical... Around 1993, Monsanto convinced the federal government that we needed to spray folic acid on our entire grain supply."

• Quote: "I would make certain that they are eating a diet that is free of folic acid."

• Quote: "I would also make sure at their age that they're on a very good omega three fatty acid supplement. Black seed oil, really good fish oil supplement."

• Cognitive Function and Blood Sugar/Hormones: Lowering blood sugar (hemoglobin A1c) is presented as a primary way to improve cognitive function. Insulin resistance in the brain is linked to Alzheimer's (referred to as "type three diabetes"). Maintaining healthy hormone levels, particularly testosterone in men, also impacts cognitive function due to improved oxygenation of the bloodstream. Brecka suggests checking for nutrient deficiencies needed to make hormones before resorting to hormone replacement therapy (HRT/TRT).

• Quote: "Alzheimer's disease may be a form of type three diabetes that specifically affects the brain."

• Quote: "Lower your glycemic profile... will do a lot for your cognitive function."

• Quote: "Testosterone men that are not deficient in testosterone that have have a tendency to have less, memory issues. So hormone therapy can be a big play a big role in cognitive function."

• Quote: "About seventy percent of... patients that qualify for hormone therapy don't need hormones. They need the nutrients that the body needs to make hormones."

• Autoimmune Disease and Root Causes: Autoimmune conditions are viewed not as the immune system attacking healthy tissue, but rather as it aggressively pursuing an "invader" (e.g., heavy metals, mold) embedded within the tissue. Supporting the immune system and identifying the underlying cause is key.

• Quote: "The immune system is actually after the invader. It's not after the cell. It's not after the friendly tissue. It's after the invader."

• Quote: "Why did I wake up one day and I have autoimmune antibodies to my thyroid? Well, maybe you have heavy metals embedded in the thyroid. Right? Maybe a mold, mycotoxin."

• Dispute with Grant Cardone and Brandon Dawson: Brecka details a falling out with business partners Grant Cardone and Brandon Dawson. He describes being "completely duped" into a bad contract, receiving minimal payment for his company, and being forced to invest in Cardone Capital, which he later learned was under federal investigation. A major point of contention was being pressured to sell a genetic test and supplements made in Austria which Brecka deemed questionable and a compromise of his reputation and patient trust. The dispute has resulted in a lawsuit and a non-compete clause preventing him from operating in the US for 21 months. Cardone Ventures is accused of buying trademarks and domains related to Brecka's podcast name ("Ultimate Human") after the dispute began.

• Quote: "My wife and I, like so many other business owners, were just completely duped, by Grant and his partner, Brandon Dawson."

• Quote: "Essentially, what they did was they paid us nothing, for the company. They strung the payouts, out over about three years."

• Quote: "We put it into Cardone Capital before Grant Cardone told me that he was under investigation by the feds, that a two year investigation by criminal investigation was underway at Cardone Capital."

• Quote: "He forced us to do business with this company halfway around the world... shipping your DNA to Austria. It gets run-in a lab in Austria. And then they make your supplements in Austria, and they ship your supplements back from Austria back to The United States."

• Quote: "They went out on January 4 and bought ultimatehuman.com. I have the ultimatehuman. They bought ultimatehuman.com, and now they're launching ultimate human analysis."

• Quote: "Brandon Dawson went out while I was his business partner... bought a trademark from a doctor, trademark called, Ultimate Human Analysis... Never even told us."

• Quote: "I said, listen, man. You bought bought our company. You didn't buy our soul."

• Quote: "I've I've got twenty one more months on my noncompete, so I gotta sit quiet in The United States. And then before I can really get back to what I love to do, so I have to go outside The United States, to do it while we see how the lawsuit plays out."

• Critique of the Healthcare System: Brecka is highly critical of the current healthcare system, stating that the US spends a vast amount on healthcare but leads the world in negative health outcomes (infant mortality, maternal mortality, morbid obesity, type two diabetes, multiple chronic disease, single biome). He attributes this to a focus on medicating symptoms rather than identifying and fixing root causes, often nutrient deficiencies.

• Quote: "We spend 4 and a half trillion dollars a year on health care. We only lead the world in in six things, infant mortality, maternal mortality, morbid obesity, type two diabetes, multiple chronic disease, and a single biome."

• Quote: "This is what the whole Maha movement is about. It's about getting the corruption out of our nutritional research, in our food supply, in our in our medical system."

Most Important Ideas/Facts:

• Many chronic diseases and conditions are argued to be manifestations of simple nutrient deficiencies rather than irreversible pathologies.

• The life settlement industry's actuarial models reveal significant risk factors, with smoking, alcohol, and lifestyle choices having a profound impact on predicted mortality.

• Dana White's health turnaround serves as a key anecdotal example of reversing long-term conditions by addressing a specific genetic nutrient processing deficiency.

• Natural modalities like sunlight, earthing, red light, and cold/heat exposure are presented as powerful tools for improving cellular function and circulation.

• Hydrogen rich water is highlighted as a scientifically supported method for reducing inflammation and improving numerous health biomarkers.

• Addressing nutrient deficiencies, improving gut health, managing blood sugar, and optimizing hormone levels (potentially through addressing nutrient needs) are crucial for improving mood, cognitive function, and overall health.

• The importance of community and connection for longevity is supported by Blue Zone research.

• Simple dietary changes (avoiding folic acid) and basic supplements (Vitamin D3, Omega-3s) are recommended for improving health, particularly in young athletes.

• Brecka's negative experience with Grant Cardone and Brandon Dawson reveals concerns about their business practices in the health space and their alleged use of his intellectual property.

• A fundamental critique is made of the US healthcare system's high cost and poor outcomes, which Brecka links to a focus on medication over addressing root causes and nutrient deficiencies.

Actionable Insights/Takeaways (from Brecka's perspective):

• Focus on identifying and fixing nutrient deficiencies.

• Incorporate natural practices like sunlight exposure and earthing.

• Consider hydrogen rich water supplementation.

• Prioritize sleep hygiene and techniques to quiet the mind.

• Maintain social connections and community.

• Be wary of quick-fix medical solutions and question diagnoses, especially if they lead to long-term medication without addressing underlying issues.

• Parents of young athletes should eliminate folic acid and ensure adequate Vitamin D3 and Omega-3 intake.

• Prioritize lowering blood sugar for improved cognitive function.

• Investigate nutrient levels before pursuing hormone replacement therapy.

• Be cautious and thorough when entering into business partnerships.

This briefing document summarizes the core arguments, examples, and practical advice presented by Gary Brecka during the podcast discussion, providing a detailed overview of the key themes and important information shared.

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Title: Key Takeaways from "PBD Podcast - Gary Brecka"
Author: Gary Brecka

1. AI and Big Data Will Revolutionize Healthcare

   • Artificial intelligence and big data will replace outdated clinical trials, prioritizing outcomes over pharmaceutical-driven standards.

   • AI will analyze vast datasets to determine the most effective treatments, reducing reliance on biased or profit-driven research.

2. Medical Errors Are the Third Leading Cause of Death

   • A 2016 Harvard study found medical errors, including misdiagnoses and unnecessary treatments, are the third-leading cause of death in the U.S.

   • Inaccurate diagnoses often lead to harmful medications or surgeries, exacerbating health issues instead of resolving them.

3. Nutrient Deficiencies Drive Chronic Diseases

   • Many chronic conditions (e.g., rheumatoid arthritis, hypertension) stem from nutrient deficiencies, not genetic flaws.

   • Vitamin D3 deficiency, for example, is linked to autoimmune symptoms often misdiagnosed as rheumatoid arthritis.

4. Life Expectancy Predictions Use Actuarial Science

   • Actuaries analyze lifestyle, medical history, and demographics to predict mortality with high accuracy for life insurance and settlements.

   • Modifiable risk factors (e.g., smoking, obesity) significantly impact these predictions, offering opportunities to extend lifespan.

5. Modern Medicine Over-Relies on Pharmaceuticals

   • Prescription drugs often treat symptoms (e.g., statins for cholesterol) while ignoring root causes like inflammation or nutrient imbalances.

   • Overmedication accelerates mortality, as seen in centenarians who avoided pharmaceuticals despite high LDL cholesterol.

6. Homocysteine Levels Impact Cardiovascular Health

   • Elevated homocysteine causes arterial inflammation, leading to hypertension and cardiovascular strain.

   • Dana White’s hypertension resolved after addressing homocysteine with TMG (trimethylglycine) and B vitamins, eliminating his need for medication.

7. Sleep Is Critical for Brain Detoxification

   • The glymphatic system, active only during deep sleep, removes toxins like beta-amyloid (linked to Alzheimer’s).

   • Poor sleep hygiene correlates with cognitive decline, mood disorders, and chronic inflammation.

8. Community and Purpose Extend Lifespan

   • Blue zones (e.g., Sardinia) show longevity is tied to strong community bonds and lifelong physical activity, not diet alone.

   • Isolation accelerates mortality, while social connection reduces stress and inflammation.

9. Hydrogen Water Reduces Inflammation

   • Hydrogen-rich water lowers oxidative stress, improves mitochondrial function, and lengthens telomeres in clinical studies.

   • UFC fighters like Jon Jones reported reduced pain and faster recovery after adopting hydrogen water therapy.

10. Testosterone Therapy Enhances Cognitive Function

    • Hormone optimization improves oxygen delivery to the brain, reversing cognitive decline in deficient individuals.

    • Studies show testosterone therapy boosts memory, focus, and energy by increasing red blood cell production.

11. Autoimmune Diseases Often Stem from Toxins

    • Pathogens (e.g., mold, heavy metals) embedded in tissues trigger immune attacks mislabeled as autoimmune disorders.

    • Addressing environmental toxins, not suppressing immunity, resolves conditions like Hashimoto’s or Crohn’s.

12. Folic Acid in Processed Foods Harms Health

    • Synthetic folic acid in fortified grains disrupts methylation, causing hyperactivity, ADHD, and metabolic dysfunction.

    • Natural folate (methylfolate) is essential for neurotransmitter production and detoxification.

13. Grounding Balances Cellular Charge

    • Walking barefoot on earth discharges excess electrons, reducing cell clumping and improving circulation.

    • PEMF mats mimic grounding effects, enhancing blood flow and reducing inflammation.

14. Cold Plunge Therapy Boosts Resilience

    • Cold exposure activates cold-shock proteins, reducing inflammation and improving metabolic flexibility.

    • Contrast showers (hot-to-cold) lower catecholamines, aiding sleep and mental clarity.

15. Corporate Greed Corrupts Healthcare

    • Cardone Ventures exploited businesses like 10X Health, prioritizing profit over patient outcomes with unethical contracts.

    • Supplements and gene tests were marked up 400%, prioritizing revenue over accessibility and efficacy.

16. Sunlight Is Essential for Vitamin D3 Synthesis

    • Morning sunlight exposure (without UV blockers) triggers vitamin D3 production, critical for immune and bone health.

    • Over 50% of the global population is deficient, contributing to chronic inflammation and autoimmune disorders.

17. Corticosteroids Accelerate Joint Degradation

    • Long-term corticosteroid use erodes joints, leading to replacements and mobility loss.

    • Actuarial models predict joint replacements six years post-corticosteroid prescription due to accelerated damage.

18. Dopamine Deficiency Drives Addiction

    • Low dopamine levels lead to addictive behaviors (e.g., smoking, alcoholism) as individuals seek stimulation.

    • Addressing dopamine precursors (e.g., tyrosine, B vitamins) reduces addiction cycles more effectively than symptom-focused treatments.

19. Methylation Deficiencies Cause Mental Illness

    • Poor methylation (due to B12/B9 deficiencies) disrupts neurotransmitter balance, causing anxiety, depression, and OCD.

    • Methylcobalamin and methylfolate restore mental health by optimizing dopamine and serotonin synthesis.

20. Red Light Therapy Mimics Sunlight Benefits

    • Red light beds stimulate mitochondrial ATP production, accelerating healing and reducing pain.

    • Affordable alternatives include morning sunlight exposure for 20 minutes to harness similar benefits.

The REAL Reason You're Dying – Gary Brecka
Author: Patrick Bet-David (PBD Podcast, Episode 557)

1. Medical Errors Are a Leading Cause of Death

Medical errors are the third leading cause of death in America, following cardiovascular disease and cancer31. Many unnecessary treatments and surgeries contribute to this statistic, often worsening health outcomes rather than improving them1.

2. Modifiable Risk Factors Determine Longevity

Lifestyle choices-such as diet, exercise, and sleep-have a greater impact on lifespan than genetics or unchangeable factors1. Modifiable risk factors are under personal control and can dramatically alter the trajectory of health and longevity1.

3. Modern Medicine Often Treats Symptoms, Not Causes

The current healthcare system frequently addresses symptoms with medications or surgeries, rather than identifying and solving the root cause of illness13. This approach can lead to chronic conditions and increased dependency on pharmaceuticals3.

4. Pharmaceutical Influence Skews Medical Practice

Financial interests from pharmaceutical companies heavily influence treatment guidelines, pushing drug interventions over lifestyle changes5. Organizations like the American Heart Association receive funding from companies with vested interests, potentially biasing their recommendations5.

5. Standard of Care Limits Physician Flexibility

Doctors are often confined to "standard of care" protocols, which discourages them from exploring non-pharmaceutical or alternative interventions5. Practicing outside these boundaries can risk malpractice litigation and professional consequences5.

6. Nutrient Deficiency Is Widespread

A significant portion of the population is deficient in essential nutrients like vitamin D3, which plays a crucial role in cellular health and immune function6. Addressing nutrient deficiencies can prevent or reverse many chronic conditions6.

7. Data-Driven Health Decisions Are Lacking

Most people know more about their business metrics than their own health data, such as blood sugar, cholesterol, or hormone levels6. Collecting and analyzing personal health data empowers individuals to make informed decisions and improve outcomes6.

8. Life Insurance Industry Has Deep Mortality Insights

Life insurance companies possess vast databases detailing causes of death and lifestyle factors for millions, offering unmatched insight into what truly impacts longevity1. This data reveals that many deaths are preventable through lifestyle modification1.

9. Many Surgeries and Medications Are Unnecessary

Research shows that a significant number of surgeries and medications are prescribed unnecessarily, sometimes causing more harm than good1. For example, corticosteroids may initially reduce inflammation but can erode joints over time, leading to further health decline1.

10. Chronic Disease Is Often Self-Inflicted

Chronic illnesses like type 2 diabetes, hypertension, and obesity are largely the result of lifestyle choices, not genetic destiny1. Modifying risk factors can not only prevent but sometimes reverse these conditions1.

11. Environmental Toxins Are a Major Health Threat

Contaminants in food and water, such as fluoride, chlorine, and glyphosate, contribute to chronic illness and should be minimized6. Avoiding tap water and opting for cleaner food sources can reduce exposure to these toxins6.

12. The Food Supply Is Compromised

Modern agricultural practices introduce harmful chemicals into the food supply, including pesticides and fertilizers that have long-term health impacts6. Choosing organic or minimally processed foods can help mitigate these risks6.

13. Artificial Intelligence Will Transform Healthcare

AI and big data are poised to revolutionize health by providing more accurate, outcome-based recommendations than traditional clinical trials influenced by pharmaceutical interests1. This shift will enable more personalized and effective care1.

14. Bloodwork Is Essential for Health Optimization

Regular, comprehensive blood testing is crucial to identify deficiencies and imbalances before they manifest as disease2. Using this data, individuals can proactively address health issues and optimize their well-being2.

15. The Importance of Sleep Quality

Poor sleep is a major contributor to chronic disease, affecting everything from cognitive function to metabolic health1. Addressing sleep hygiene and underlying issues like sleep apnea can significantly improve quality of life1.

16. Mental Health Is Tied to Physical Health

Conditions such as depression, anxiety, and ADHD are often linked to nutrient deficiencies or lifestyle factors rather than purely psychological causes1. Addressing physical health can alleviate or resolve many mental health issues1.

17. The Power of Gamifying Health

Tracking and optimizing health metrics-like a business tracks profits-can motivate individuals to make lasting improvements6. Gamification helps maintain focus and accountability in pursuing health goals6.

18. Community and Social Support Matter

Strong social connections and community engagement are critical for mental and physical health3. Isolation and lack of support can increase the risk of chronic illness and early mortality3.

19. Red Light Therapy and Sunlight for Mood and Health

Exposure to natural sunlight and red light therapy can boost mood and support overall health by stimulating serotonin and dopamine production3. These modalities offer non-pharmaceutical ways to enhance well-being3.

20. Hydrogen Water Reduces Inflammation

Hydrogen water acts as a powerful antioxidant, reducing inflammation and oxidative stress at the cellular level3. This can accelerate recovery from injury and improve overall vitality3.

21. Personalized Nutrition Is Key

One-size-fits-all dietary recommendations are often ineffective; nutrition should be tailored to individual biology and needs5. Personalized approaches yield better results and reduce the risk of chronic disease5.

22. The Dangers of Tap Water

Tap water in many regions contains neurotoxins and contaminants that can harm health over time6. Filtering water or choosing alternative sources is recommended to minimize exposure6.

23. The Myth of Genetic Destiny

Most diseases do not have a single genetic cause; lifestyle and environment play a far greater role in health outcomes1. Genetic testing can be misleading if it overlooks modifiable risk factors3.

24. The Business of Health Is Often Unethical

Corporate interests sometimes prioritize profit over patient well-being, leading to unethical business practices and exploitation3. Awareness and advocacy are needed to protect consumers and promote transparency3.

25. Early Intervention Prevents Disease

Addressing health issues before they become symptomatic can prevent the development of chronic disease and reduce healthcare costs1. Proactive screening and lifestyle modification are essential strategies1.

26. The Role of Mitochondria in Health

Cellular energy production is central to health, and supporting mitochondrial function through proper nutrition and lifestyle can prevent fatigue and disease3. Mitochondrial dysfunction is implicated in many chronic illnesses3.

27. The Impact of Stress on Longevity

Chronic stress accelerates aging and increases the risk of disease by disrupting hormonal balance and immune function1. Stress management techniques are essential for long-term health1.

28. The Need for Regulatory Reform

Governmental oversight of food and drug industries is often compromised by conflicts of interest and the "revolving door" between regulators and industry5. Stronger, independent regulation is needed to protect public health5.

29. The Problem with Processed Foods

Highly processed foods are linked to inflammation, obesity, and metabolic syndrome6. Reducing processed food intake in favor of whole, nutrient-dense options supports better health6.

30. The Value of Functional Medicine

Integrative and functional medicine approaches that address root causes and consider the whole person are more effective than symptom-based care5. These models emphasize prevention and patient empowerment5.

31. The Importance of Movement and Mobility

Sedentary lifestyles contribute to a host of health problems, including cardiovascular disease and joint degeneration1. Regular physical activity is essential for maintaining mobility and preventing disease1.

32. The Dangers of Overmedication

Polypharmacy-taking multiple medications-can lead to dangerous interactions and side effects, often worsening the original condition1. Reviewing and minimizing unnecessary medications is critical1.

33. The Benefits of Cold Plunges and Exposure

Cold therapy can boost circulation, reduce inflammation, and enhance mental clarity3. Incorporating cold exposure into routine can support resilience and recovery3.

34. The Power of Mindset in Healing

Belief in the ability to heal and a proactive mindset are powerful tools in achieving and maintaining health1. Psychological factors can influence physical outcomes and recovery rates1.

35. The Shortcomings of Conventional Blood Panels

Standard blood tests may miss key markers of health, necessitating more comprehensive panels to uncover hidden deficiencies2. Advanced testing provides a fuller picture of health status2.

36. The Role of Gut Health in Disease

Gut health is foundational to overall well-being, influencing immunity, mood, and inflammation5. Addressing gut dysbiosis can resolve a wide range of chronic conditions5.

37. The Risks of Glyphosate and Pesticides

Exposure to agricultural chemicals like glyphosate is linked to hormonal disruption and increased disease risk6. Choosing organic foods reduces this exposure and supports detoxification6.

38. The Need for Health Literacy

Educating oneself about basic health principles and interpreting personal health data is crucial for making informed decisions6. Health literacy empowers individuals to advocate for themselves in medical settings6.

39. The Importance of Hormonal Balance

Hormonal imbalances can underlie many common health complaints, including fatigue, weight gain, and mood disorders1. Testing and correcting hormone levels can restore vitality and function1.

40. The Value of Preventative Care

Investing in prevention-through lifestyle, nutrition, and early screening-yields better outcomes and reduces long-term healthcare costs1. Prevention is more effective and less expensive than treating advanced disease1.

41. The Pitfalls of Corporate Wellness Programs

Many corporate wellness initiatives are superficial and fail to address the root causes of employee health issues3. Meaningful programs must focus on individualized care and genuine lifestyle change3.

42. The Role of Sunlight in Vitamin D Production

Natural sunlight is the best source of vitamin D, which is essential for bone health, immunity, and mood regulation3. Supplementation may be necessary in regions with limited sun exposure3.

43. The Influence of Big Food on Health Policy

Major food corporations influence dietary guidelines and public health messaging, often to the detriment of population health5. Independent research and advocacy are needed to counteract this influence5.

44. The Benefits of Fasting and Time-Restricted Eating

Intermittent fasting and time-restricted eating can improve metabolic health, support weight loss, and enhance longevity3. These practices help regulate blood sugar and promote cellular repair3.

45. The Risks of Artificial Sweeteners

Artificial sweeteners may disrupt metabolism and gut health, potentially increasing the risk of chronic disease6. Minimizing consumption of synthetic additives supports better health outcomes6.

46. The Importance of Hydration

Proper hydration is essential for cellular function, detoxification, and energy production3. Choosing clean, filtered water is crucial to avoid contaminants6.

47. The Dangers of Chronic Inflammation

Chronic, low-grade inflammation underpins most modern diseases, including heart disease, diabetes, and cancer5. Addressing inflammation through lifestyle and nutrition is foundational to health5.

48. The Impact of Air Quality

Indoor and outdoor air pollution contribute to respiratory and cardiovascular disease6. Improving ventilation and minimizing exposure to pollutants can protect long-term health6.

49. The Value of Personalized Supplementation

Supplement needs vary greatly between individuals; personalized protocols based on testing are more effective than generic recommendations2. Over-supplementation or the wrong supplements can be harmful2.

50. The Role of Purpose and Fulfillment

Having a sense of purpose and meaning in life is associated with longer, healthier lives3. Psychological well-being is as important as physical health in determining longevity3.

51. The Importance of Regular Health Assessments

Routine health check-ups and screenings can catch problems early and allow for timely intervention2. Early detection saves lives and reduces suffering2.

52. The Influence of Sleep Apnea on Health

Undiagnosed or untreated sleep apnea contributes to cardiovascular disease, cognitive decline, and metabolic disorders3. Effective treatment can dramatically improve quality of life and health outcomes3.

53. The Risks of Ignoring Mental Health

Neglecting mental health can exacerbate physical illness and reduce lifespan1. Integrating mental and physical health care leads to better overall outcomes1.

54. The Power of Peer Support and Accountability

Having supportive relationships and accountability partners increases the likelihood of sustaining healthy behaviors3. Community engagement fosters resilience and motivation3.

55. The Dangers of Over-Reliance on Technology

While technology can aid health management, over-reliance may lead to decreased physical activity and social isolation3. Balancing tech use with real-world engagement is essential3.

56. The Need for Transparency in Health Data

Individuals should have full access to their health data to make informed decisions and advocate for their own care6. Transparency builds trust and empowers patients6.

57. The Role of Epigenetics in Health

Epigenetic changes-how lifestyle and environment affect gene expression-are reversible and offer opportunities for disease prevention1. Focusing on epigenetics shifts the emphasis from fixed genetics to modifiable factors1.

58. The Importance of Detoxification

Supporting the body’s natural detoxification processes through nutrition, hydration, and lifestyle reduces toxic burden and disease risk6. Avoiding unnecessary exposure to toxins is equally important6.

59. The Benefits of Mindfulness and Meditation

Practices like mindfulness and meditation reduce stress, improve mental clarity, and support emotional regulation1. These tools are accessible and effective for enhancing overall well-being1.

60. The Future of Health Is Proactive, Not Reactive

The paradigm is shifting from treating disease to optimizing health and preventing illness before it starts1. Embracing proactive, personalized, and data-driven approaches will define the future of healthcare1. 

These points synthesize Gary Brecka’s core messages on health, longevity, and the urgent need for systemic change, as discussed in his interview with Patrick Bet-David on the PBD Podcast, Episode 557136.

The REAL Reason You're Dying – Gary Brecka
Author: Patrick Bet-David (PBD Podcast, Episode 557)

Executive Summary

Gary Brecka, a human biologist and mortality expert, argues that systemic failures in modern healthcare, corporate influence, and preventable lifestyle factors drive premature mortality. Drawing from actuarial data, clinical studies, and biohacking innovations, he identifies actionable strategies to address root causes of chronic disease and optimize longevity. Below is a structured analysis of his insights, supported by evidence from multiple interviews and research.

Key Findings & Analysis

1. Systemic Failures in Modern Healthcare

• Medical Errors as a Leading Cause of Death:
  A 2016 Harvard study identifies medical errors as the third leading cause of death in the U.S., responsible for over 250,000 annual fatalities. Brecka attributes this to unnecessary surgeries, misdiagnoses, and overmedication (e.g., corticosteroids eroding joints long-term)38.

  • Implication: Overreliance on reactive treatments exacerbates health decline.

• Corporate Influence on Healthcare:
  Pharmaceutical companies and organizations like the American Heart Association prioritize profit over outcomes, shaping treatment guidelines to favor drugs over lifestyle interventions34.

  • Example: Statins are widely prescribed despite debate over their efficacy in reducing cardiovascular mortality8.

2. Modifiable Risk Factors & Lifestyle Solutions

• Nutrient Deficiencies:
  Over 90% of chronic conditions (e.g., anxiety, type 2 diabetes) stem from deficiencies in vitamins (D3, B12) and minerals (magnesium). Brecka asserts, "We are not as sick as we think; we are nutrient-deficient"57.

  • Solution: Regular blood testing and personalized supplementation.

• Sedentary Lifestyle:
  Prolonged sitting is the leading cause of all-cause mortality, surpassing smoking. Functional movement and cold plunges improve metabolic health and resilience57.

• Environmental Toxins:
  Contaminants in food (glyphosate) and water (fluoride) drive inflammation and disease. Brecka advocates for organic diets and filtered water to reduce toxic exposure38.

3. Data-Driven Health Optimization

• Actuarial Insights:
  Life insurance databases reveal modifiable risk factors (e.g., poor sleep, obesity) account for 80% of premature deaths. Predictive models show lifestyle changes can extend lifespan by decades48.

  • Case Study: Dana White reversed metabolic syndrome through Brecka’s protocols, adding 10+ years to his lifespan3.

• AI and Big Data:
  Brecka predicts AI will disrupt pharmaceutical-dominated clinical trials by prioritizing outcome-based care. For example, AI could identify optimal interventions for hypertension without drug dependency38.

4. Biohacking & Preventative Strategies

• Hydrogen Therapy:
  Hydrogen water reduces inflammation and oxidative stress, accelerating recovery from injuries8.

• Red Light Therapy:
  Stimulates mitochondrial function, improving energy production and cellular repair47.

• Cold Exposure:
  Boosts catecholamines (e.g., dopamine) by 250%, enhancing mental clarity and metabolic rate57.

Recommendations

For Individuals:

1. Prioritize Bloodwork: Test vitamin D3, homocysteine, and thyroid hormones annually.

2. Adopt Non-Negotiables:

   • 7–9 hours of sleep nightly.

   • 30 minutes of daily movement (e.g., walking, resistance training).

   • Organic, minimally processed diet.

3. Leverage Biohacks: Cold plunges, red light therapy, and hydrogen water.

For Healthcare Systems:

1. Shift to Root-Cause Medicine: Replace symptom-focused care with functional medicine frameworks.

2. Regulatory Reforms:

   • Limit pharmaceutical influence on treatment guidelines.

   • Mandate transparency in food/water contaminants.

3. Integrate AI: Develop outcome-based models to replace biased clinical trials.

For Policymakers:

1. Public Health Campaigns: Educate on modifiable risks (e.g., sedentary lifestyles).

2. Tax Incentives: Subsidize organic foods and gym memberships.

Conclusion

Brecka’s analysis underscores that longevity hinges on addressing systemic corruption, environmental toxins, and individual accountability. By leveraging data, AI, and biohacking, stakeholders can transition from reactive healthcare to proactive vitality optimization. As he states, "The future of health is proactive, not reactive"38.

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Key Health Breakthroughs Discussed by Gary Brecka in His Podcasts

Gary Brecka, a human biologist and longevity expert, has shared several health breakthroughs across multiple podcasts. These breakthroughs focus on practical, science-backed interventions that can dramatically improve health, longevity, and quality of life. Below are the most significant breakthroughs he discusses, supported by examples and context from his recent podcast appearances.

1. Oxygenation as a Cornerstone of Health

Brecka emphasizes that optimal oxygen delivery to cells is fundamental for disease prevention and longevity. He explains that many chronic conditions stem from insufficient oxygenation, and simple practices-like breathwork, red light therapy, and cold exposure-can significantly increase cellular oxygen, boost mood, and enhance energy levels35.

2. Red Light Therapy and Sunlight Exposure

He highlights red light therapy as a powerful tool for improving mitochondrial function, accelerating recovery, and supporting hormone balance. Brecka compares the effects of red light therapy to natural sunlight, noting both can stimulate serotonin and dopamine production, which are vital for mood and overall vitality24.

3. Cold Plunges and Cold Exposure

Cold therapy is presented as a breakthrough for increasing dopamine levels, reducing inflammation, and strengthening the body’s resilience to stress. Brecka cites research showing that cold exposure can boost dopamine by up to 250%, providing a natural mood and energy lift24.

4. Personalized Bloodwork and Nutrient Optimization

Brecka advocates for regular, comprehensive blood testing to identify and correct deficiencies in key nutrients like vitamin D3, B12, and magnesium. He argues that most people are not living optimally because they are missing only a few critical nutrients, and that correcting these can prevent or reverse many chronic conditions345.

5. Genetic Methylation and Individualized Supplementation

He discusses the importance of genetic methylation testing to understand how well an individual can process certain vitamins and minerals. This allows for tailored supplementation strategies that address unique genetic needs, rather than relying on generic recommendations45.

6. Gut Health and the Gut-Brain Connection

Brecka underscores the central role of gut health in overall well-being, immunity, and mental health. He explains that optimizing the gut microbiome can improve nutrient absorption, reduce inflammation, and even enhance cognitive function45.

7. Lifestyle Over Genetics

A recurring theme is that lifestyle choices-such as diet, exercise, sleep, and stress management-have a far greater impact on health and longevity than genetics. Brecka criticizes the overemphasis on genetic testing for disease prediction, arguing that modifiable risk factors are the real drivers of health outcomes245.

8. Case Study: Dana White’s Transformation

Brecka’s work with UFC President Dana White is cited as a real-world example of these principles in action. By addressing nutrient deficiencies, optimizing sleep, and eliminating unnecessary medications, White was able to lose weight, normalize blood pressure, discontinue cardiovascular medications, and resolve sleep apnea2.

9. Biohacking and the “Superhuman Protocol”

He introduces biohacking strategies-such as intermittent fasting, sauna use, and the “Superhuman Protocol”-to enhance physical and cognitive performance. These protocols combine oxygen therapy, light therapy, and movement to optimize cellular health and longevity45.

10. The Dangers of Medical Errors and Overmedication

Brecka draws attention to the fact that medical errors are the third leading cause of death in the U.S., often due to unnecessary surgeries and overmedication. He advocates for a shift toward root-cause medicine and lifestyle interventions over pharmaceutical dependency234

Most Surprising Health Insights Shared by Gary Brecka

Gary Brecka’s podcast appearances reveal several counterintuitive and surprising health insights that challenge conventional wisdom and offer actionable strategies for better health and longevity. Here are the most notable:

1. Many Chronic Diseases Stem from Simple Nutrient Deficiencies

Brecka reveals that common health issues like hypertension, hypothyroidism, and diabetes often originate from basic nutrient deficiencies-not just genetics or complex medical causes as widely believed. He emphasizes that addressing these deficiencies can reverse or dramatically improve these conditions246.

2. A Single Swab or Simple Test Can Reveal Your Health Destiny

He explains that a simple genetic or nutrient deficiency test can uncover hidden health issues, predict mortality risk, and guide highly personalized interventions. This approach can reveal deficiencies and vulnerabilities long before symptoms appear, enabling preventive action26.

3. Oxygen Is the Key to Disease Prevention

Brecka stresses, “the presence of oxygen is the absence of disease,” arguing that increasing oxygen delivery to cells-through breathwork, movement, and even ice baths-can transform health, boost immunity, and even elevate mood. This focus on oxygenation is often overlooked in mainstream medicine58.

4. Aging Is the Aggressive Pursuit of Comfort

He provocatively claims that “aging is simply the aggressive pursuit of comfort.” The more we seek comfort and avoid physical or mental challenges, the faster we age. Exposure to controlled stressors like cold plunges or fasting can slow aging and build resilience57.

5. Sedentary Lifestyles Are Deadlier Than Most Realize

Brecka highlights that a sedentary lifestyle is one of the most significant-yet underestimated-drivers of early mortality, even surpassing some traditional risk factors. Simple movement and breathwork can have outsized impacts on healthspan78.

6. Mental Clarity and Mood Can Skyrocket with Fasting

He notes that extended fasting not only resets the body physically but also dramatically sharpens mental clarity and focus, challenging the notion that regular eating is always best for cognitive function1.

7. Stress and Cortisol Are Major Health Saboteurs

Brecka discusses how chronic stress and elevated cortisol, especially in high-achieving individuals and entrepreneurs, can silently undermine health and longevity. Managing stress is as crucial as diet or exercise for long-term wellness26.

8. Hydrogen Water as a Game-Changer for Inflammation

He points to hydrogen water as a breakthrough intervention for reducing inflammation and oxidative stress, offering a simple, accessible way to support cellular health7.

9. Most People Are Missing Only a Few Key Raw Materials

Brecka is adamant that most people are not living at their healthiest simply because they lack a handful of essential nutrients-such as vitamin D3, methylated folate, or amino acids. Fixing these can lead to rapid, profound improvements5.

10. Hormesis: The Power of Controlled Stress

He introduces the concept of hormesis-where intermittent, controlled stressors (like fasting, cold exposure, or intense exercise) actually strengthen the body and extend lifespan, contradicting the idea that comfort and rest are always beneficial7.

These insights collectively challenge the idea that health is determined solely by genetics or complex interventions. Instead, Brecka’s approach emphasizes simple, measurable changes-like correcting deficiencies, embracing controlled discomfort, and optimizing oxygenation-as the true keys to longevity and vitality2578.

Gary Brecka’s concept of “hormesis” fundamentally challenges traditional views on aging by reframing the process as the result of excessive comfort and avoidance of stress, rather than an inevitable decline dictated by genetics or time1256.

Traditional perspectives often see aging as a passive, unavoidable process where the body simply wears out over time, and the best approach is to minimize stress and maximize comfort. In contrast, Brecka argues that “aging is the aggressive pursuit of comfort,” suggesting that constantly seeking comfort actually accelerates the aging process156. He posits that the absence of stressors-physical, mental, and environmental-leads to a decline in the body’s adaptive and repair mechanisms.

Hormesis, as Brecka describes, is the process by which exposure to small, controlled amounts of stress (such as cold plunges, fasting, intense exercise, or breathwork) triggers the body’s natural adaptive responses, making it stronger, more resilient, and healthier over time246. These “good stressors” stimulate cellular repair, boost mood and mental clarity, and enhance longevity-directly opposing the traditional advice to avoid stress at all costs267.

By advocating for regular, intentional exposure to manageable stressors, Brecka’s approach suggests that aging can be slowed or even partially reversed, and that healthspan can be extended through strategic discomfort rather than comfort-seeking behavior126. This challenges conventional aging paradigms and encourages a proactive, adaptive lifestyle for optimal health and longevity.

Glossary of Terms: Gary Brecka’s Health Insights

Aging (Traditional View):
The conventional belief that the body inevitably deteriorates over time due to genetic programming and unavoidable wear and tear.

Aging (Brecka’s View):
A process accelerated by the “aggressive pursuit of comfort,” where the avoidance of physical and mental stressors leads to faster decline.

Biohacking:
The practice of using science, technology, and self-experimentation to optimize health, performance, and longevity, often through unconventional means.

Bloodwork:
Comprehensive laboratory testing of blood samples to assess nutrient levels, hormone balance, organ function, and markers of disease or deficiency.

Chronic Disease:
Long-term health conditions (such as diabetes, hypertension, or heart disease) often caused or worsened by lifestyle factors and nutrient deficiencies.

Cold Plunge/Cold Exposure:
The practice of immersing the body in cold water or exposing it to cold temperatures to trigger beneficial stress responses (see Hormesis).

Controlled Stressors:
Intentional, manageable challenges (like fasting, cold exposure, or intense exercise) that stimulate the body’s adaptive and repair mechanisms.

Epigenetics:
The study of how lifestyle and environmental factors can influence gene expression, turning genes “on” or “off” without altering the DNA sequence itself.

Functional Medicine:
A medical approach that focuses on identifying and addressing the root causes of disease, rather than just treating symptoms.

Genetic Methylation:
A biochemical process that affects how genes are expressed; proper methylation is essential for detoxification, energy production, and overall health.

Gut-Brain Connection:
The bidirectional communication between the gut microbiome and the brain, influencing mood, immunity, and cognitive function.

Healthspan:
The period of life spent in good health, free from chronic disease or disability.

Hormesis:
A biological phenomenon where exposure to low doses of stress or toxins makes the body stronger and more resilient, as opposed to causing harm at higher doses.

Hydrogen Water:
Water infused with molecular hydrogen, believed to act as a potent antioxidant that reduces inflammation and oxidative stress.

Life Insurance Actuarial Data:
Statistical information collected by insurance companies to predict mortality risk and identify factors that influence lifespan.

Mitochondria:
Organelles within cells responsible for producing energy; their function is critical for vitality and longevity.

Modifiable Risk Factors:
Lifestyle choices (such as diet, exercise, and sleep) that can be changed to improve health and reduce disease risk.

Nutrient Deficiency:
A lack of essential vitamins, minerals, or other nutrients required for optimal body function, often leading to disease.

Oxygenation:
The process of delivering oxygen to the body’s tissues; optimal oxygenation is vital for cellular health and disease prevention.

Personalized Supplementation:
Tailoring vitamins and minerals to an individual’s specific needs, often based on bloodwork and genetic testing.

Polypharmacy:
The simultaneous use of multiple medications by a patient, which can increase the risk of adverse effects and drug interactions.

Red Light Therapy:
A treatment using specific wavelengths of red light to stimulate mitochondrial function, enhance recovery, and improve mood.

Root-Cause Medicine:
An approach that seeks to identify and treat the underlying causes of illness, rather than just alleviating symptoms.

Sedentary Lifestyle:
A way of living characterized by minimal physical activity, which is associated with increased risk of chronic disease and early mortality.

Superhuman Protocol:
A biohacking regimen combining oxygen therapy, red light therapy, and movement to optimize cellular health and performance.

Vitamin D3:
A form of vitamin D crucial for immune function, bone health, and cellular processes; deficiency is common and linked to many diseases.

This glossary covers the key terms and concepts central to Gary Brecka’s health philosophy and podcast discussions.

PODCAST TRANSCRIPT
You're about to see in the next five to ten years, the artificial intelligence and big data are going to circumvent the entire system. You are succumbing to a disease because of a surgery that wasn't required, because of a medication that was unnecessary due to a diagnosis that was inaccurate. The experts are making the mistake on the reason why you're dying. No question. You see, we've mapped the entire human genome, but there's no gene for a lot of these diseases.

And this study was registered at clinicaltrials.gov. Yes. You can go look this study up. We have this all wrong. The Maha movement is about making changes to the poison that's in our food supply, not eliminating people's choices.

I don't see Cardone as a health guy. I see him as a real estate guy. What happens between the two of you? They're actually kind of professionals of business scamming. How much time commitment does it take to look like that?

Less than you think. It's not complicated. That's not supposed to be right. Complicated, man. I I mean, I'll check if you sell it.

How long of doing that do you see the results? I drove Immediately. Really? If you took three I I don't know. Do I have some here?

Is my team still here? I've never had it. I have it right now if you wanna bring one year. One I literally have it right now. Thirty seconds.

Did you ever think you were making you wear? I feel I'm surprised that it tastes sweet and dirty. I know this live meal for me. I don't know. What's your promise?

The future looks bright. Bed Okay. So today, Gary Breca, the man who one day we all woke up, and we're on TikTok or Instagram or x or Facebook or YouTube, and you hear the face of UFC, Dana White saying, this man helped me save 10 places. You got ten point four years left to live. And I did this, and I lost with him and we saw Dana's body.

And we're like, holy shit. Who helped this guy? The guy that's our guest today. Gary, it's great to have you on. Great to be here, brother.

I'm serious, man. I'm excited to be here. Yeah. Yeah. We we met a a year ago, I wanna say.

Right? The UFC fight. Yeah. We actually met in one of Dana's, little private rooms there That's right. Before the fights.

Right. The the I think it was at an event that president Trump showed up. He did. And Ivanka was there, and we're sitting right. There was a great experience.

Dana made me one of the master connectors, introducing everybody to everybody. You're in the back. Lawyers are there. Alex is there. Spiro, all these other guys, everyone's talking.

I know you and I started talking about different things. And, the the part that for me, we have in common is the fact that you came from the life insurance industry, the actuary, the life settlement, and and that was your introduction to seeing because the idea with life settlement is you buy insurance policy and finding ways to see how long is this person going to live. And maybe if you don't mind sharing with the audience, the industry where you're supposed to calculate, because a lot of people would say, how do you know ten point four years? Well, actuaries and life settlement, actually, that's their business model. Maybe talk about that a little bit.

You you know, it's of all the things that I talk about, I get the most flack for that because people say, well, if you could predict life expectancy to the month, you know, you you you'd be Jesus. You would have won a Nobel Prize. And I'm sure you I'm not Jesus, and I've never not won a Nobel Prize. But it is some of the most accurate science in the world. You know, if you think about life insurance companies, annuities, reverse mortgages, there's so many financial services instruments that are based on mortality.

Right? And they don't care where you are on an actuarial curve. Right? We're all on one. Everybody listening to this podcast right now is on an actuarial curve.

If you're a 24 year old female, you have a life expectancy of x. If you're a 44 year old male, you have a life expectancy of y. But when they're getting ready to take $25.40, $5,060,000,000 dollars worth of risk on your life, only one thing matters. It's how many more months do you have left on Earth. And about two and a half decades ago, there was a humongous push.

I mean, not just because of the life settlement industry, which is the sale of policies in the secondary market, because a lot of people don't realize that your life insurance policy is a piece of personal property like like anything else, like your car, like your house, like, anything else that you own. It's important for the audience to realize. This is I own a life insurance policy. I'm 78 years old. I got a $5,000,000 insurance policy.

I don't have a living spouse that needs it. I need cash right now. I go to a life settlement company, and they pay me a percentage. So if it's 5,000,000, maybe they'll pay me a million bucks upfront. They'll take the insurance over some some means.

When I die, the the 5,000,000 goes to the person that bought it. I get 1,000,000, and the difference is 4,000,000. And a new company pays the premium until I die. That's right. That's exactly it.

That's a life settlement transaction. That's the calculation you make to see is this a risk of an investment? How long is this guy gonna die? It's the complete opposite of life insurance Correct. Where you're buying it.

Yes. You know, so you you wanna know, specific mortality. So these are called probabilistic models, and, essentially, it's not that if you have two hundred and twenty months to live that you're gonna die in exactly two hundred and twenty months. What the model predicts is, if your life expectancy is two hundred and twenty months, for example, just to make one up, that means that you have the exact same chance of being alive as you do of being dead. That's your mean mortality.

Right? So you have the same chance of being alive as being dead in two hundred and twenty months. Now what they're gonna wanna know is, what are the chances that you are on the left side of the bell curve or the right side of the bell curve? And this is where this system of credits and debits comes in. Right?

And we all know that, you know, mortality debits are things like type two diabetes, morbid obesity, hypertension, you know, history of smoking Mhmm. Fatty liver. The the obvious things are mortality debits. We started to then import demographic data. So we would look at lifestyle data and demographic data, and we would predict the chances that somebody would actually adjust their lifestyle and potentially fix the problems that they had.

And this is when the model became extraordinarily accurate because these databases, don't forget, will have 300, three hundred and 70 million lives. And they have information that no other database has because they know the day, the date, the time, the location, and the cause of death for three hundred and seventy million lives. So they pull that back into these records, and they say, what led to this person's early demise, their early mortality? And you can go into the actual record, and you can build a case to say, they actually they died at 77, but they actually started to die at 41 when this happened. Started a corticosteroid.

The corticosteroid actually initially reduced their inflammatory cascade, but then it ate their joint like a termite. And as it ate their joint like a termite, it caused them to have, you know, bilateral knee replacements. Post bilateral knee replacement, this caused a reduction in their mobility, what we call the ambulatory profile. As you reduce their mobility, you bring in all the diseases that exacerbate with reduced mobility. And as you bring those diseases from that person's future into their present, they now succumb to a disease that they likely never should have had because very often they're on a medication that wasn't required, because of a surgery that was unnecessary, because of a diagnosis that very often was incorrect.

And it was this type of research that led to the 2016 study that Harvard did that determined that the third leading cause of death in America is modern medicine. It's it's medical error. Right? You have cardiovascular disease, cancer, and then modern medicine. And Modern medicine.

Number three. Number three is medical error. So so the experts are making the mistake on the reason why you're dying. No question. The experts are making the mistake on the reason why you're dying because, you know, our modern medical system and and and the good news is what what you're about to see in the next five to ten years is you're going to see artificial intelligence and big data are going to circumvent the entire system.

And what I mean by that is no longer will the randomized clinical trial that's conducted by a pharmaceutical company that was used to approve a drug by you know, through the FDA become the standard of care. The standard of care will be the standard of care that has the best outcome. And large data is going to tell us what the best outcomes come from. So so for example, just to go back to the case that I was just citing and and and and finish up the first thought. So this practice of predicting death is this system of credits and debits.

And we realized that the reason why the majority of people are not living healthier, happier, longer, you know, more fulfilling lives were because of what we called modifiable risk factors. So in other words, things that they could actually take control of or do that would permanently change the trajectory of their life. And and for me, that was For the positive or the negative? Like For the positive or the negative. Okay.

Right? I mean, lifestyle factors are the greatest impact on them. Risk factor. Yeah. Modifiable risk factors.

That's a fancy scientific name for saying things that are under your own control. Right? And, I mean, trauma. If you had, you know, major trauma, car accident, and now you have spinal injury, okay, that's not under your control. But metabolic syndrome, type two diabetes, morbid obesity, you know, poor sleep, poor focus and concentration, autoimmune conditions, ADD, ADHD, OCD, manic depression, bipolar.

These are all conditions that lifestyle changes, modifying your lifestyle can dramatically change it, not only the impact of, but permanently put these things in your rearview mirror. And we would try to predict the chance that somebody's would modify their lifestyle and change habits that would affect their mortality debits, and the majority of cases, they don't. And so it was very easy to predict their their death. But what happened to me was I realized and this isn't just data. You know?

They're they're they're human beings on the other side of these spreadsheets. And I made a very conscious decision to leave that industry and say, I don't wanna spend the balance of my lifetime predicting death. I wanna spend the balance of my lifetime, you know, trying to help people live healthier, happier, longer. And by the way, this is a very important transition from there to the business you're in because were you were you an actual actuary or you were not the actual? You were selling?

No. We we were we we own the largest brokerage firm in the industry for policies in the secondary market. It's called Life Asset Group. Mhmm. What was it called?

Life Asset Group. So So it wasn't Life Partners in Waco. Was it No. No. No.

It wasn't Life Partners in Waco. It was called Life Asset Group. I later sold that to a big insurance conglomerate. Here in South Florida? No.

In New York called, INSCAP. But the but the Life Settlement was out of Florida? Yes. I was in my my office was in Miami on on, Brickell Key. Did you ever know a guy named Jerry Vol or any, That name sounds familiar.

Yeah. There was a lot of life settlement guys. I know Jerry from twenty years ago. But So so to me, actual the average person that's watching is, like, what is an actuary? Right?

So the actuary, their job is or even the underwriter. You'll submit an insurance policy, and you'll say, well, I think this guy's healthy. What does he do? You go through a list of questions that they look at. Maybe they'll do any KG blood, whatever they ask to do, depending on the age and the background it is.

And then from then, they'll say, yeah. This guy's preferred to leave. No. You're preferred. No.

You're standard. Oh, you're smoker standard tobacco. Prefer tobacco. So then you're getting greater. Yeah.

You take a rate of weight. Yeah. That's right. But on the opposite side of where you're at, this is how long I'm going to live when you're buying an insurance policy. What were some of the biggest credits and debits you guys saw to say, I don't know.

Because, again, the cost of insurance has gone down predominantly for many years because life expectancy has gone higher. So a lot of times people think life insurance must be more expensive today than ever before. It's actually cheaper because we're living longer. We used to live a lot less 40 ago, so now it's cheaper to buy life insurance because we're living longer. But what were some of the when you were in it and you're looking at all these things, it's like a investment banker looking at so many different deals coming through.

They eventually can just look at the deal and say no. Yes. No. Yes. No.

No. Yes. Maybe. I don't know. Let me ask this question.

What were some of the things you looked at to say, okay. These four behaviors, actuaries automatically are like, no. No. These are the ones we're most concerned about. But these three behaviors, okay, we're good with these.

Let's go here. What did you notice? So three things became glaringly apparent. Number one, modifiable risk factors were things that people could change the trajectory of their life. The second thing that was glaringly apparent to us and and remember, we were not allowed to have any contact with the patient or any contact with the treating physician.

Even though I could review your entire medical record, I could see, you know, you know life insurance is very invasive process. They get your divorce decrees, your your bank accounts, mortgage accounts, your trusts, your wills. So Especially the bigger it is. The bigger it is, the more invasive it is. Right?

And then they're gonna take your medical records, and then someone like myself or another actuary is gonna say, these are the tests that I wanna run on this person, EKG, EEG. I'm gonna run these blood tests, not just a standard blood panel. We can request specific labs on that panel. And, essentially, what you're doing is you're looking at where they are metabolically, and then you're looking at the impact of their lifestyle to either accelerate this person toward the grave or decelerate them towards the grave. And, again, what became glaringly apparent to me was that the majority of people that are suffering from chronic conditions have not had a disease or pathology happen to them.

They are happening that something is happening within them. And by that, I mean that the majority of these people were nutrient deficient. So simple nutrients. If you if I put up a a chart behind me of of your cellular biology and you looked at the 300,000,000,000 transactions that are going on inside your cells every single day, what you would find is you would find a whole myriad of vitamins, minerals, amino acids, nutrients, and you wouldn't see any chemicals. You wouldn't see any synthetics.

You wouldn't see any pharmaceuticals. And and what modern medicine has applied is everything that man makes us and taken away everything that God gave us. And what we noticed was that the nutrient deficiencies were leading to the deceleration or the acceleration of mortality. And what I mean by that so just take the example that I just gave. Take vitamin d three, for example.

This is you know, when they talk about medical error, vitamin d three is arguably if you were to pick one compound in the human body, that's maybe the most important thing. When God made us, he made us with the ability to make one vitamin. Right? So if I test your bloodstream, you'd have hundreds of vitamins in your bloodstream. You're only capable of making one.

It's vitamin d three, cholicelyphrol. You make it from sunlight and cholesterol. About fifty percent of the world's population is clinically deficient in this nutrient. About eighty five percent of the African American and dark complected Latino populations are clinically deficient in this nutrient. So what happens when you're deficient in something simple like vitamin d three?

Well, eventually, if it's low enough for long enough, you will present to your physician with rheumatoid arthritis like symptoms. So you're gonna go to your doc and you're gonna say, hey. When I get out of bed in the morning, the soles of my feet, my ankles are really sore, and achy when I walk to the bath bathroom to take my first pee. It's it now my hips are a little sore, my low back. And and, you know, lately, it's it's hard for me to make a tight fist.

And in very many cases, too too often to mention that we saw in in the record, the doctor without doing any other testing, no RA factors, no said rates is gonna go, you know what? Patrick, you've got, rheumatoid arthritis. But don't worry. I'm gonna put you on something called a corticosteroid, and, this is gonna knock the inflammation down and and and you'll be fine. So you start a corticosteroid.

So there was a mistaken diagnosis. First of all, you're you're clinically deficient in a basic nutrient. So instead of raising your level of vitamin d three, they put you on something called methotrexate or, another anti inflammatory called a corticosteroid. And now this corticosteroid, which initially reduced inflammation, starts to erode your joints. It accelerates the erosion of your joints so quickly that it was so accurate that if you started a corticosteroid, we would artificially advance your age six years and one day, and we would artificially schedule a joint replacement for you.

And from the point where we determined you would have a joint replacement, we would begin to reduce what's called your ambulatory profile, how well you ambulate, how well you move. And as we reduce your mobility, we could bring in all the diseases diseases that, exacerbated with reduced mobility. And as these diseases come into your present, now all of a sudden, you are succumbing to a disease that you never should have had because of a surgery that wasn't required, because of a medication that was unnecessary due to a diagnosis that was inaccurate because of a simple nutrient deficiency. And so you and I could give you hundreds of examples like this. You can just keep rewinding all of these consequences in someone's later age, and you can rewind it back to that tipping point where things went wrong.

And once you've been diagnosed with a condition and it makes into medical record, we would call these anchor diagnoses. So if you're diagnosed with hypertension, you're always a hypertensive patient. If your doctor diagnoses you with thyroid, you're always a hypothyroid patient. And so if you transfer care to another doctor, they look at the record and they go, oh, you know what? Patrick's got hypothyroid.

He's, you know, he's got elevated hematocrit. I'm gonna continue the blood thinners. I'm gonna continue the Why is that? Synthroid. Because nobody goes back to check and say, hey.

I wonder if, doctor x y z actually properly diagnosed Patrick with this hypothyroid. Or if he actually if maybe he had his hematocrit in his blood, his blood viscosity has changed. He doesn't need to be on a blood thinner anymore. Maybe his hypertension is actually normal because when he was diagnosed, he was eighty pounds heavier. He's eighty pounds lighter right now and has adopted a healthy diet, and he's on an exercise routine.

We're just gonna keep him on the hypertension medication. And so and and these had consequences. The more pharmaceuticals you were on, the more accurate your your mortality. So the more pharmaceutical compounds we could stack up in a record, the more accurate we could determine your life expectancy. That is a strange thing to say.

So so the more the more pharmaceuticals I'm taking, the more you can accurately predict my life expectancy? The more accurately we can predict your death. So you take things, for example, like, statins. Right? So statins lower LDL cholesterol.

There was a prevailing, you know, theory in medicine, which is vastly being disproven now largely by artificial intelligence and big data, that l d when LDL cholesterol is up, there's an increased risk of cardiovascular disease. And so if we lower LDL cholesterol, we'll lower the risk of cardiovascular disease. The only problem is you're looking at that so myopically. Right? You're just taking that one variable, LDL high, high risk of cardiovascular disease.

LDL low, low risk of cardiovascular disease. It's not that simple. In fact, there's no correlation between elevated LDL cholesterol on its own as an independent risk factor and cardiovascular disease. None. Cholesterol does not cause atherosclerotic plaquing or narrowing of the arteries.

Damage to the arterial wall does. The inflammatory cascade does. And so what happens is, if if you understand what cholesterol is, right, it's not a fuel source. Cholesterol is a, construction material. So the body makes it.

The liver makes 85% of the cholesterol in your bloodstream. And what is it used for? Well, we build every cell wall, every cell membrane, every hormone in the human body, and we used to make vitamin d three, choloccalciferol, the most important nutrient in the human body, in my opinion. And so what happens when you push this nutrient low? Well, now you buy yourself consequences down the road.

Now you're now you're interrupting cell walls, cell membranes, hormones, vitamin d three, and now people get on statin. Now their joints start aching. Their memory starts to go. You know, they increase their risk for Alzheimer's, early onset dementia. You know, cognitive decline is one of the fastest accelerants of aging.

People that are in steep cognitive decline are not compliant with their, you know, medications and protocols. And so you've taken this one independent risk factor. And because you think you're lowering the risk of cardiovascular disease, you create this entire cascade of problems down the road. And we saw this over and over and over again. In fact, we did not process a death claim, not one, in my entire twenty two year career on a centenarian that did not have elevated levels of LDL cholesterol at the time of their death.

Wow. Not once. Interesting. But modern medicine would say LDL cholesterol is a risk factor for cardiovascular disease. No.

It's actually a risk factor for longevity. High LDL and low triglyceride, and and high HDL cholesterol is a market for longevity, not not for cardiovascular disease. And so we believed a lot in what pharma and, contrived medical trials were telling us was the standard of care, and the standard of care was killing people flatly to to be honest. Yeah. So you know what I'm doing right now?

Here's what I'm searching. So I I when you sell life insurance, the biggest thing that increase the cost of insurance and the by the way, the audience watching this, they're like, I'm not interested in life insurance, but there's a point to it because just like California, insurance companies have left. Why have they left? They wanna make money. Why are they leaving?

The risk of protecting the home on the water with fire, they just like, listen. Time out. We're out. Right? They would state they're not leaving Idaho.

They're not leaving other places. Why are they leaving California and Florida? Florida, they're leaving because worries of hurricane or the cost of insurance has gone up tremendously. I get it. So life insurance tells us the risk of what's going on.

The biggest factor on why cost of insurance would go up was smoking. You remember this? If somebody was a smoker, you could be paying $60 for cost of insurance. It goes $1.20. That was the biggest differentiator.

That's right. Then when you would look at the next one, maybe it was the level of alcohol consumption because you would be like, well, how often do you drink? Well, I drink, you know, once a month. Okay. Brilliant.

And then we would do the blood work. No. No. You drink. You got fat in everything.

Yeah. Different test that comes up. You know? And it was your occupation. Right?

Or your weight. Weight would typically be number three on how much you weighed. It was always the warrior weight, but weight wasn't above smoking. So it was smoking, alcohol, weight, and an occupation. Mhmm.

If you had a job that was kinda risky, that would increase your cost of insurance. Why was smoking then alcohol then, you know, your weight? Why was smoking above it all? Because few smokers ever quit. Right?

It wasn't the presence of the nicotine. It was all the carriers with the nicotine. Right? The tar. Few smokers ever quit.

Wow. Way few smokers than you can ever imagine ever quit. And if you think about what smoking is, you know, nicotine addiction, these are and and you just convert it to human physiology. The absence of dopamine is the presence of addiction. So in other words, if you are deficient in dopamine, you will engage in dopamine seeking behavior.

That's why if you've ever been an addict or you've ever known a true addict, their addiction has a tendency to shift. So, you know, alcoholics become drug addicts. Drug addicts become, work out aholics. Work out aholics be might become work aholics. They might shift into a healthier addiction, but the addiction never really goes away because the dopamine deficiency is the main driver of behavior.

Dopamine is the neurotransmitter of behavior, like serotonin is the neurotransmitter of mood. So we treat physical addiction. We try to treat the nicotine, the Suboxone, the alcohol, the the narcotic. We don't treat the dopamine addiction, and this is why a true addict will go through life shifting their addictions. And so when we get back to human physiology, we go, well, what causes deficiencies in dopamine?

Right? This is this is what really led me to leave and start a wellness franchise because I'm like, we have this all wrong. You know, this, you know, this person doesn't have ADD or ADHD or OCD. This person actually isn't suffering from anxiety. Mhmm.

There's no situation that causes their anxiety. This anxiety comes and goes seemingly without a trigger. So how could that actually be anxiety if there's nothing in their external environment that's causing it? Right. Well, even you start to break down, well, what is anxiety?

Anxiety is a rise in a category of neurotransmitters in the in the in the brain called catecholamines. So this person has a catecholamine regulation issue, not the mental disease or the mental disorder of anxiety. Well, how do we regulate catecholamines? We increase the complex of b vitamins. We add something called methylcobalamin.

We remove folic acid, which is a synthetic man made chemical in our food supply, which is not found naturally in nature anywhere on the surface of the earth, and we exchange it for something called methylfolate. Now they regulate catecholamines. When they regulate catecholamines, the anxiety goes away. You're actually been treating for a disease that was actually a nutrient deficiency, just like you're being treated for rheumatoid when you had a d three deficiency. Just like we put people on thyroid medication when 80% of the thyroid hormone that we measure in the blood, the t three hormone, is not even made in the thyroid.

It's made outside of the thyroid, in the liver, in the gut, in the periphery. Why are we not looking at whether or not the liver, the gut, and the periphery have adequate nutrients to make the thyroid hormone that is low that is causing us to medicate the thyroid? Eighty five percent of all hypertensive diagnosis, when you go into your doctor and they say you have hypertension, And you say, well, why? Well, my EKG is normal. My EEG is normal.

My heart sounds are normal. My lung sounds are normal. I had a cardiac catheterization. It was normal. I had a dye contrast study.

It was normal. There's nothing wrong with my heart. Yeah. We know, but we're still gonna medicate your heart anyway. Even though we can't figure out anything wrong with it, we we don't know why you have high blood pressure.

Oh, what we looked and your uncle has it and your mother has it on, you know, your your grandmother has it on your dad's side. So you have familial hypertension. Well, what's that? It's genetically inherited hypertension. And then you just accept that.

You inherited a disease from your ancestor, so you accept and subscribe to a lifetime of medication. But if you just took that one step further and said, just out of curiosity, what gene did my ancestor pass on to me that's causing this condition to exist? Because you said I inherited it from my ancestor. Right? So what gene did they pass on to me?

Their face would go blank. You see, we'd map the entire human genome. We know every gene in the human body. If there were a gene for these conditions, we would know what it is. But there's no gene for a lot of these diseases.

Because the disease runs in families, we assume it's a genetically inherited disease. We rarely pass disease from generation to generation. We pass the inability for the body to refine a raw material, which causes a deficiency, which leads to that disease. This deficiency can be fixed. So for example, the take take hypertension, just just to since we're on that subject, it let's take Dana White because his he's been very public about his medical records.

We've actually put his medical records on on on Instagram. So I figure if you put your medical records up to 8,800,000 people, you've lost your HIPAA privilege. So, Dana, I apologize, brother. We're gonna lay it out. So when I met Dina, you know, he was, he he was certainly overweight.

He was, you know, by BMI charts, he would have been. That's the one he posted. Okay. Yeah. Yeah.

There he is. That's when we met. You met September 2022? Yeah. Look at the difference, though.

That's unbelievable, Gary. It's crazy. So you when when you met with them, you see said it's two years since I started my health journey with Gary Bracca. Thanks for changing my life, brother. I think I saw that.

That's awesome. Thank you, Dan. Yeah. So so what was going on up top that was going on at the bottom? So first of all, he was on multiple, medications for heart, for high blood pressure.

He was with the numbers. He was Blood thinners, diuretics, ACE inhibitors, you know, beta blockers, calcium channel blockers, all things to interrupt the function of the heart, holding the heart responsible for crime it's not committing. And and so let's let's just talk about what happened with Dana White. And so when we looked at Dana's blood work and and for the record, I am not a physician. I'm not licensed to practice medicine, so I'm not giving medical advice.

And there was a clinical team that was involved in Dana's case that made the clinical decision, so I wanna be clear about that. But when we looked at Dana's blood work, and we looked at, his genetics, He had a genetic variant that did not allow him to convert a an amino acid in his blood called homocysteine. K. So he couldn't take homocysteine and turn it into a harmless amino acid called methionine. And this is this is my point.

Yeah. Go can you just pull up yeah. An amino acid, homocysteine. Perfect. Perfect call.

Look at, hyperhomocystinemia. What is hyperhomocystinemia? Or symptoms of hyperhomocystinemia? Look at, so hyperhomocystinemia can come out by deficiency in b six, b twelve, or folate. Genetic disorders.

K. So let's just start at the top two. The leading two causes of high homocysteine are nutrient deficiencies. Nobody checked to see if the nutrient deficiency might be what's causing his high blood pressure because what happens when your homocysteine rises? As homocysteine is cruising by the inside lining of your artery, k, it irritates your artery.

And if you irritate an artery, it will clamp down. And if you make the pipes smaller in a fixed system, the pressure goes up. So now I have 63,000 miles of blood vessel in my body. I have this very high level of homocysteine, which is one of the most inflammatory factors in the human body circulating around in my blood, this inflammation circulating around in my blood. And because of that, my arterial system constricts, and it drives my pressure up.

You go to the cardiologist, which he did. The cardiologist checks his heart and says, man, everything's fine with your heart, but you have high blood pressure. So we're gonna start pounding on the heart, for a crime it's not committing to try to lower your blood pressure. But since it since the hypertension wasn't coming from the heart, it was coming from the constriction of blood vessels because of a simple deficiency in those vitamins listed right there, then the hypertension continued to get worse. He had one of the highest levels of homocysteine that I'd ever seen, that my clinical team had ever seen.

So we put him on a amino acid called trimethylglycine, TMG, which you could get at GNC. We put him on a b complex, a methylfolate, you know, a, form of p twelve called methylcobalamin, high doses of those things. And I I remember talking to him about his medical records and saying, Dana, there's nothing wrong with your heart. I mean, because I'm not I can't I I'm not in a position to tell you to top stop taking cardiovascular medication. You but you will know in in due course over the next few weeks when it's actually time to titrate down on your on your medication.

We'll get your cardiologist involved. And so, essentially, I gave him this amino acid that allowed his body to start metabolizing homocysteine. As his homocysteine level dropped, his vascular system began to relax. As his vascular system relaxed, his pressure dropped. As his pressure dropped, it eventually returned to normal.

And we were doing blood pressure three times a day, seven days a week. And by week '21, he was completely off of all of his cardiovascular medication that he'd been on for fifteen years. Wow. And because of the inflammatory cascade, you know, high c reactive protein, high homocysteine, he had a lot of swelling in his nasopharynx and the back of his pharynx behind behind his tongue. So he's also on a CPAP machine.

So as he brought that inflammatory cascade down, the, the adenoid area widened, and the sleep apnea went away. So we got off the sleep apnea machine. And and then as we started to manage the what's called the hematocrit, the blood viscosity by simply doing, you know, blood dumps, therapeutic phlebotomy, his hematocrit turn returned to normal, meaning the blood viscosity returned to normal. He stopped having motor oil for blood, and he began having water for blood viscosity wise. And so now you're off the blood thinners.

So he's off of blood thinners. He's off of, hypertensive medication. He was off of the, diuretics that were actually just stripping potassium out of his, out of his tissues. And he got off of all of his medication. His weight dropped.

Blood pressure returned to normal. Sleep deepened. REM sleep extended. Deep sleep extended. He was off of the c CPAP machine.

Cognitive function went back through the roof. You know, his his, weight loss improved every other facet of his of his life. And now if you look at him now, he's two and a half years out. He's on no pharmaceuticals. He doesn't take any prescription medication.

The tinnitus that he had and the Virgo that he had is virtually gone. He's incredibly good shape, and he'll stay here for the, you know, the balance of his adult lifetime. He looks just like that right now. How much time commitment does it take to look like that? Less than you think.

70% of that is, is diet. 70? Okay. I I I agree. But the 30% that is the red light, the the cold plunge, how much time commitment does that require?

How many days a week? So if you wanna get back to the basics and just look like that, what he's what he's really focused on now is life extension. Right? So I always tell people, look. We you know, in my previous company, we sold a hundred and $10,000 red light bed.

And if you're, you know, if you're getting ready to buy a Ferrari, go buy a red light bed before you buy a Ferrari. That Ferrari is gonna do nothing for your cellular cellular biology, but red light can can can change your life. But what's really interesting is most of these modalities are just mimicking what we get from mother nature. You know? So, again, we're getting back to what God gave us, not what man makes us.

So you can go out and spend a hundred and $23,000 on a red light bed, if you've got that money lying around, or you could just take your shirt off and expose your skin to sunlight for sixteen to twenty minutes every morning. Face the sun. You know, we've been taught to fear the sun. You know, we get three things from mother nature. We get the magnetism from the earth, which is a very real thing.

I get so much flack on this on on on social media, which I can't understand why because it's a very valid concept. Taking your shoes off, touching the surface of the earth, earthing, grounding is a very real thing. The earth has a low Gauss current. When we touch the surface of the earth, we discharge into the earth. You can actually measure this in the blood.

I've done it real time on stages before in front of tons of people, where if we can't touch the surface of the Earth, I'll lay somebody on a PEMF mat, pulse electromagnetic field mat. And you just prick their finger, you put on a slide, and you show people in real time, what your red blood cells look like circulating around in your blood. Well, you'll you'll see that they're all kinda stuck together and clumped up. That's great, Matt, too. Stuck together and clumped up because when your cells have opposite charges, they attract.

Soon as you touch the surface of the earth for a few minutes, it repolarizes the surface of those cells, and they actually start to free float around. They can't contact each other. Why why is that? Because you change the so if if these if these are two cells and they have the same charge, they can't touch, like, sir like, two poles of a magnet. Mhmm.

As soon as they get opposite charges, they attract. Mhmm. So when your cells start sticking together, everywhere they touch, you lose surface area. What happens when you lose surface area on a cell that's round that's meant to have all the surface area in contact with its environment? It can't eliminate waste.

It can't repair. It can't toxify. It can't it can't regenerate. And now you start suffering all of these consequences for something simple like, I just don't walk on the surface of the Earth on a regular basis. Now if you have the money and you wanna save the time, you can get a PMF mat.

You can drop $5 on a PMF mat or $1,300 on a PMF mat. But if you don't wanna do that, take your shoes off and touch the surface of the Earth. You can spend a hundred $23,000 on a red light bed, or you can take your shirt off and expose your skin to sunlight in the first forty five to sixty minutes of the day. And that we are very photovoltaic beings. All red light is doing is taking the beneficial wavelengths from the sun and mimicking those in an inside environment.

Right? You get real physiologic benefits from red light. So you could realistically do all of this naturally without even needing to buy all these all these equipment? Absolutely. I tell people all the time.

If you can't afford a cold plunge, take take Tupperware containers, fill them full of water, put them in your freezer, and put blocks of ice into your tub. And you'll do that twice a week because that cold plunge will last you three days. Right? If and if you don't have a tub, take a cold shower. You know, one of the best things you can do and if you're gonna harness your morning routine is get up in the morning, get out in first light, the first forty five to sixty minutes of the day when there's no UVA, no UVB rays.

Allow the natural sunlight to hit your skin, start to generate vitamin d three. You are very photovoltaic. It is actually a material fact that your mitochondria are charged by light. Let me ask this question. So, you know, because the motive for doing it to get people to commit to, health.

Right? And sometimes it's hard to get people to commit to it. Right? You could say, well, listen. Your kids are relying on you.

Yeah. I'm gonna live. You know, you're gonna have a better lifestyle. Yeah. I'm gonna live.

You're gonna be able to do this, but you're gonna look better. You're gonna do this. And everybody wants a shortcut. Right? Whatever's gonna be the fastest way to do it.

Mhmm. What what can if a person's running a business, or if a person's a salesperson, or if a person's an executive, if a person's a content creator, whatever you wanna call it, parents, spouse, what what can a person performs better the better the mood they're in. No doubt. You sell better, you you father better, you husband better, you wife better, you mother better, you do everything better. Right?

So what are two, three things a person can do to improve their mood when they go throughout the day? First of all, when you say mood, what and I convert that to physiology. So that's what I'm gonna do. When you say mood or emotional state, what does that mean in the human body? If you said, Gary, what is a mood?

What is an emotional state? I would tell you, it's a collection of neurotransmitters, right, bound to oxygen. So in other words, mood is a recipe. So if you said, I wanna make happiness. Okay.

That's so much serotonin, so much dopamine, so much norepinephrine, so much epinephrine. You mix that up. Boom. You have the emotion of happiness. You know, I want elation, joy, passion, arousal.

K. You you change the level of serotonin. You change the level of dopamine, and so you create mood. The ingredients for mood are neurotransmitters. So where do neurotransmitters come from?

They're made in the gut. 90% of the serotonin in our body is right here. If you don't have it here, you can't have it here. And so, like, for example, you know, the the serotonin hypothesis of depression says if you're low on serotonin, you're by definition depressed. So your mood is depressed.

Do you actually have depression, or do you have a deficiency in serotonin? So now if the serotonin hypothesis of depression is true, that means I have low serotonin. And so wouldn't you think that if I'm depressed because I have low serotonin that the fix would be to raise serotonin? Mhmm. But that's not what we do.

We take people that are low on serotonin, and we put them on SSRIs, selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors. So what these do, they bind to little sites in your brain, and they essentially slow the uptake of serotonin. And the and the idea is if we ration what little serotonin you have, then you won't go off a cliff. Well, if we know 90% of the serotonin is made right here in our gut, why don't we go to the factory that makes serotonin and increase its production? If I wanna improve my mood, let's produce more of the ingredients that create mood.

And so how do we make serotonin? Well, we take an amino acid called tryptophan, and we methylate it into the neurotransmitter serotonin. What's needed to do that? Methylfolate, b complexes, the the, methyl form of of, cobalamin, trimethylglycine. Basic nutrients can actually improve the methylation cycle and the utilization transportation of serotonin.

So I would if if you are an entrepreneur, if you are a busy mother, busy father, if if being mentally on your game is something that you need in order to succeed in your career, I would focus first on your gut, because we make dopamine in our gut too. How do we make dopamine? We take tryptophan, fetal alanine, we convert it into a neurotransmitter called dopamine. Could serotonin deficiency be a deficiency in the amino acid tryptophan? Yes.

Could could depression be an inability to methylate proper amounts of serotonin? Yes. And now now we're up here messing with the mind. We're putting, you know, neuroplasticity altering chemicals in the mind to fix a nutrient deficiency. Just like Dana White had a nutrient deficiency in trimethylglycine, and he was on cardiovascular medication to fix a nutrient deficiency.

Now he's on an amino acid. So his body can actually break these compounds down. You know, a lot of times, people that have hypothyroid are are deficient in selenium, thiamine, and, often iodine. And so why are we not first testing for what's missing from what God gave us? That's my whole mantra.

I said, you know, we're not as sick. We're not as diseased. We're not as pathological as we think we are. We are nutrient deficient. And if we would you know, if you wanna see magic happen in the human body, Pat, you you you give it the raw material it needs to do its job.

And so what does it need to do its job? First of all, I would I would I would focus on your gut, and we can talk about what you could do to do that. But our our ultimate human superpower is sleep. If you're not sleeping, you're not performing. Full stop.

So you're not performing at your best athletically. You are certainly not performing at your best cognitively. So if you wanna get an edge on on the the rest of your competition, you have to develop a sleep hygiene or sleep routine. If you ask most of your listeners, what do you do to go to sleep? They'll just say, I don't know.

I get in bed. Right? Like, when do you go to bed? Whenever I finish doing my shit. You know?

Like, whenever I mean, sometimes it's 01:00 in the morning. Sometimes it's eleven in the morning. I can think about an activity people do before they wanna go to sleep, but it doesn't mean it's 10:11 o'clock. Reason to put it off. You know?

But none of them are doing it seven nights a week. Come on. Come on, dude. Yeah. I mean, okay.

I agree. Yeah. So and and that's actually very good for your sleep. That's good for your sleep. Oh, dude.

That's the best way to reduce catecholamines and put you right to sleep. And you tell your you know? You can see a lot of husbands show on this clip to their wives. Yeah. Yeah.

Or vice versa. Wives, if you wanna extend your life, make love before you go to bed. That's a material fact. But if you ask most people about sleep, this is the most bullied thing in their schedule. Sleep is the bastard stepchild of your day.

You know? We push it around because it's the easiest thing for us to manipulate in our schedule. So you need to prioritize self care or else you will never be able to be selfless. And this is why eighty two percent of all autoimmune diseases happen to women. If you take all all autoimmune diseases category, about eighty, eighty two percent of autoimmune disease affect women.

Why? Is that because autoimmune is, you know, racist or sexist? No. It's because women have a tendency to be more selfless. They suffer from things like caregiver syndrome.

You know, they put the needs of others before themselves. They're almost genetically programmed to do this to Very interesting. To bear children. So they they lack more sleep because they're the ones that are taking care of the kids and all this other stuff. So that is why the wow.

Okay. That makes sense. Deprive themselves for sleep for the kids. They will exhaust themselves for their spouse, and they will put the needs of others, you know, as as a it was a broad statement before the needs of themselves. So women have a tendency to put themselves in the back seat a lot more often than men do.

And this constant lack of self care, which they will very often look at as being selfish, they wanna be selfless. So they wake up in the morning, gonna give all my time to my kids, then I'm gonna go and give my time to my career, and then I'm gonna give my time to my spouse, then I'm gonna give it to the kids, and then I'm gonna go to bed. And so the first thing I would say is is develop a sleep routine. Right? And and sleep hygiene works like this.

If you want to I mean, you wanna be a super sleeper, you're gonna be a super performer. Because everyone knows sleep is good for you, but few people know why. Like, what what's happening during deep sleep? The practice promote good quality sleep. Yeah.

That's number one right there. Regular sleep wake cycle. That is We're going somewhere. So what is the behavior you said? What do you do to go to sleep?

So what do to go to sleep? So let's so let's just dive into sleep real quick. So because a lot of people struggle with sleep at night. They don't know how to go to sleep at night. I'll tell you why most people listening to this podcast are not sleeping.

They're not sleeping because they are body tired, but mind awake. As their environment quiets, their mind wakes up, and they will tell you, I am not falling asleep because I am thinking of the most innocuous shit. Like, I'm you know, should I have a dinner party? You know, did did my belt match my shoes today? Did I get everything on my grocery list?

Did I return that Instagram post? Nothing that couldn't wait till the next day. This is called rumination. And we ruminate at night because of a category of neurotransmitters called catecholamines. As these neurotransmitters rise, it creates a wake and state.

So your body tired, you're exhausted, but you're laying their mind awake. And I'm gonna tell you how to solve that in a second. But first, you know, if we just isolate, what's so important about sleep? K. Well, specific things happen during sleep that don't happen during any other time of our cycle.

So if you're gonna push anything around in your schedule, put push meetings and travel around and prioritize sleep and exercise. And so when you look at what happens during deep sleep, for example, this is the only time that the brain is actually eliminating waste. And so we have a lymphatic system, which everybody knows of. You know, your lymphatics get swollen when you get a sore throat. We got lymph nodes under our armpits.

We got them in our groins. We got them all over the body to get rid of waste. In the brain, it's called the glymphatic system, and this system is only active during deep sleep. So if you don't get deep sleep, your brain doesn't detoxify, doesn't eliminate waste, doesn't repair, doesn't regenerate. So you're actually building up toxicity in the brain by not getting deep sleep.

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So so let me let me ask. So so body tired, mind Awake. Awake. So body tired, mind awake, what can you do for your mind to be awake? Well, there's nothing you can do about that.

What can you do for your mind to quiet is a question. Right. What So the way that you yeah. So let's talk about quieting your mind. Yeah.

Because you just have to keep converting these things to physiology. Right? People like, I I can't fall asleep. It takes me two hours to fall asleep. Well, why can't you fall asleep?

Because I just I'm thinking about all the stuff from the day. And then you're like, well, you have OCD or ADD or ADHD. Hypomanic. Hypomanic. Hypomanic.

You you have all these categories for this. It's none of that. It your mind is awake, and you are ruminating, unless something catastrophic happened. Obviously, you know, divorce, bankruptcy. There there are reasons why you you you know, you wouldn't sleep.

But Mhmm. Aside from the, obvious, most people have this chronically throughout their lifetime. They are chronic poor sleepers, and they get in bed, their body tired, but their mind awake. So what is causing awaken state? It's a category of neurotransmitters called catecholamines.

If you would could pull those up, catecholamines. Catecholamines are fight or flight neurotransmitters. K. So if catecholamines are at, like, a two, neurotransmitters and hormones play a crucial role in body's response to stress, fear, and excitement. K.

So as these neurotransmitters rise, they create one of those things, stress, fear, or excitement. They create a waking state. And the more that they rise, the more impact they have on your physiology. So at low levels, your mind is awake, and it's just kind of buzzing. As it rises a little further, you get anxious.

As it keeps rising, you will have anxiety. If they continue to rise, you will have a full blown panic attack. And if they rise even further, you'll have paranoias. And so this entire cascade of mental illnesses and issues, sleep disturbances, sleep disruptions, you know, in insomnia related disorders is is following this rise and fall of these neurotransmitters. There is a gene called c o m t.

If you wanna pull that I love how you guys are pulling all this shit up in real time. This is amazing. Catechol o methyltransferase. K. About forty four percent of the population has this gene mutation.

What percentage? Forty four percent. Oh, wow. See how it say it plays a crucial role in the metabolism of neurotransmitters, particularly dopamine, norepinephrine, and epinephrine. Mhmm.

So what are those neurotransmitters? Those are your waking state neurotransmitters. They're also your fight or flight neurotransmitters. You ask anybody that's ever suffered from anxiety. Ask them these three questions.

Have you had it on and off throughout your entire lifetime? Most of the time, they'll say yes. Have you, can you always point to the specific trigger that causes it? Most of the time, they will say no. I can be on a podcast just like this with you right now and just kinda get overwhelmed with anxiety.

Right? I can be driving home from work on an otherwise innocuous day, and I can be overwhelmed by anxiety. Most people that have anxiety do not need a specific trigger. They don't need to walk to the edge of a 30 floor balcony and be afraid of heights or get on a crowded elevator and be afraid, you know, claustrophobic. What they need is for catecholamines to rise.

So now the question is, how do we lower catecholamines? Because there are so many, quote, unquote, mental illnesses that are linked to this gene mutation, which is very easy to test for, and I'm gonna tell you how to supplement for it even if you don't test for it, because high levels of catecholamines what does high catecholamine mean? Oh, it means anxiety. It means anxiousness. It means heightened state of fear.

It means sweating. It means rapid heart rate. So all of these conditions get diagnosed as illnesses or they get diagnosed as, you know, mental conditions or mental disorders when the truth is you have high catecholamines. Why do you have these? Because you're deficient in the raw material that breaks down catecholamines.

Well, what breaks those down? SAM e, which is a an amino acid, s adenosylmethionine, capital s a m, lowercase e, which you can also get at GNC or you can get online. They these people need extra, significant dosages of b complex vitamins. They need, form of, b twelve called hydroxycobalamin. They need methylfolate.

So they need they need the basic nutrients and raw materials that if our soil had the right level of nutrients, and if our food was not highly processed, and we ate a whole food diet, and we took basic supplements, you would find that your body has the raw material it needs to break these kinds of neurotransmitters down. What happens at night when you break down catecholamines? Your mind quiets. Another great way to do this is is by taking, magnesium. Magnesium threonate is actually, you know, very good for this.

I actually take a magnesium complex that has all all seven forms of magnesium in it. How many supplements you take throughout the day? I take about nine. That's it? Yeah.

Nine nine or ten in the morning, and, and then I take a, a magnesium blend at night. But but I also have a sleep routine. You know, we we're such creatures of the habit. We design our days from the moment we wake up to the moment we go to bed, and what we should really design is bookending our sleep. And then everything else will fall in line.

Right? So if I ask you what's your workout routine, most people go, I do this, this, this, the bang, bang, bang, bang, you know. I do his cardio two days a week. I do weight training. I do upper body, lower body, our alternate days.

They'll have a they'll have a workout routine. Most people have a routine to, you know, operate their business in regular business meetings, but they don't have a routine to go to sleep, and they don't have a routine to wake up. Timing the sleep and wake cycle of your body is your absolute human superpower. So here's five things your audience could just do tonight if they're not already doing this. Just this week, just pick a consistent time.

So say 10:30 at night. I'm gonna go to bed at 10:30, and then make that promise to yourself and keep the promise. Get into bed at twelve 10:30 even if you don't go to sleep. If you're one of those people that ruminates at night, take magnesium, like a magnesium three and eight or a magnesium breakthrough, bio optimizers magnesium breakthrough. Take a a magnesium at night.

If you really have an active mind, before you go to bed, do a contrast shower. Get in the shower, run the water as hot as you can stand it on the back of your spine, step out of that stream of water, turn it as cold as it will go, and step into that stream of water and just deal with it. Sudden. Not not gradual. Bang.

Shocks the body. Right. Like a cold shock protein. Right. So step into that stream of water for thirty seconds and just deal with it, and then get out of the shower and dry off.

This will break the catecholamine cycle. When you get in your bedroom, drop the temperature down colder than you think, 65 to 69 degrees Fahrenheit. Surgically remove every ounce of light from the room. If you got an alarm clock on the nightstand, throw a towel over it. You know, if you have fissures in the in the curtains, try to try to close them up or get a cheap, sleep mask.

Get a full, you know, cotton sleep mask. It's hard to say don't don't use your phone in bed because everybody does. So if you're gonna use your phone in bed and just make sure that you turn the red light filter on, and when you're done, you throw it on airplane mode. And and then do a breath work technique when you get into bed, which is just long, slow inhales through the nose. Take a four or five second pause.

Breathe out like you're breathing out through a straw, and just imagine yourself kind of pulling all the thoughts from your head down into your chest and breathing them out. I know that sounds really hokey, but I promise you, you won't even make it to 10 breaths. And and and start to do this every single night. Consistent bedtime, contrast shower, breath work in bed, night sleep mask, cold environment. It's not complicated.

That's simple to do. Not complicated, man. I mean, I'll check it out. So many people have a hard time with that, going to sleep at night. Yeah.

If I put my head down, I'm gone. So me to me, it's not I I I don't Jennifer will always my wife will always say, how do you do it? Like, I I don't and by the way, I have a lot on my mind. Yes. But the moment I go horizontal and I commit to going to sleep, I'm gone.

Now don't get me wrong. About four or five times a year when I'm going to sit with her, the stuff is heavy, and I got a lot I just can't I was gonna be able to throw it in the app. But that's normal. Right. But on a regular thing, it's not hard for me to just hit the sack and go to sleep.

Let me let me ask another question about, sex. You talked about sex earlier. So one of the best things to go to sleep is sex. Right? Studies.

You hear and you study a lot of different things. How many times is too little, too few? And I'll tell you where I'm going with this because I'm trying to see what you're gonna say about this. I, yeah, I didn't know how many times people had sex until I started having people would come up to me. My sales organization would say, hey.

We have sex about once a month. And one of them was, like, we have sex about once every three months. I'm like, you guys been together fifteen years? What's going on here? So we just don't have time.

We don't do this. We don't do that. What is too little Mhmm. When you're a certain age and your body's mean you know, needs to needs to have a certain release? Is there a number to it?

So the, you know, the the benefits of sex, believe it or not, are actually not from the intercourse themselves. They're from the rise, the impact on pleasure hormone called oxytocin. It's it's also called the love hormone. They say that's what's in Cupid's arrow, because oxytocin is what creates the psychosomatic response. It's what what allows you to create an image in your mind Mhmm.

And have an erection or to see a man or see a woman and be aroused, which can actually cause physical changes. Right? It can cause your heart rate to increase, can cause your pupils to dilate, cause a man to have an erection, cause a woman to have extra, you know, vaginal secretions. Your your body is actually having a psychosomatic response. Mhmm.

Psychological incident that causes a response in the body. And this oxytocin, which dogs have about a hundred times the oxytocin in their bloodstream that humans do, which is why they're so damn loyal. Right? I mean, you can you know, most people have pets know that you can leave for five minutes or five days. You get the same response.

Right? You're like, calm down, Fifey. I just went to the mailbox. Right? Like, so these are true.

The the it's so true. Yeah. Right? And this is why they're so a little I'll pull up. I was a huge dog fan.

But, so cuddling, kissing, skin to skin snuggling, these have really positive physiologic consequences in the human body. They actually cause the secretion of the pleasure hormone oxytocin. Oxytocin has all kinds of positive effects in the body. Is good for you? To spooning, cuddling, skin to skin, long hugs, kisses over six seconds.

Smiling right now. Look at Robbie Sanders, and he's realizing He's gonna go smooch his wife tonight. He's like, he's gonna be about to get it. We gonna spoon tonight. You know, this is, you know, part of the reason why, you know, we knew in the mortality space that broken heart syndrome is a very real thing.

No shit. Oh, very real thing. I I mean, they're the mortality. Like, how do you how do you see it on the test? You look at the duration of a marriage and the loss of a single spouse, and you dramatically reduce the the life expectancy of the second spouse dramatically.

It's almost as accurate as as hip fractures because hip fractures were one of what we call the tryout of death because they were actually poorly understood. Most people think that elderly people fall and break their hip. It's actually not what happens. Their hip breaks, and then they fall. And so when Break comes first before the fall.

Instead of the fall, then the break. The break causes the fall. The fall doesn't cause the fracture. That's correct. Wow.

So grandma's standing at the, you know, sink washing dishes and crack the femoral head breaks off, and she falls. And then they say, what happened? She said, I fell and broke my hip. Now your hip broke, and then you fell. The reason why because there's nothing particular about a hip fracture that leads to early death.

What what in older people, the reason why the hip fracture is so significant is this is an indication that the skeletal system can no longer support its own weight. You're pretty far progressed in the osteoporotic osteopenic category. Right? You're you're way down the road on a brittle bone system. And so it's it's one of the what we call the trial of death.

But we knew in the mortality space that if you wanted to cut someone's life expectancy in half at any age, put them in isolation. Isolation is the most dangerous and and, destructive thing that you can do to a human being. And I mean socially isolated, isolated from their relationship, you know, elderly people that have had marriages for forty, fifty, sixty years and then lose a spouse and are suddenly alone. That is a dramatic accelerant for, mortality. But isolation happens at very, very young ages too.

We are becoming increasingly more isolated. We are we are drastically out of touch with nature. We are drastically out of touch with other human beings. The worst thing we ever did during the pandemic, I don't care what anybody says, is social distancing, residential quarantining, masking. You know, this was horrible for humanity.

Yet skyrocketing rates of of mortality related to loneliness. If you look at the blue zone studies, for example, and you'll actually look at what why are hypercentenarians concentrated in certain areas of the world? What were the things that were contiguous to all of the blue zones? Because it wasn't diet. Right?

It wasn't carnivore, keto, paleo, pescatarian, vegan, vegetarian. It was none of those things. If you actually look at dieting and you went to Sardinia, you'd say, okay. What's the highest carbohydrate consumption in the world? One of the longest life expectancies.

You go to Singapore, One of the highest meat consumptions in the world. One of the longest life expectancy. You go to, you know, the Mediterranean, very high fatty fish and oils. Very long life expectancy. Okay.

Well, everybody's living long, and they're not a continuity between diet. So the only continuity with diets was that they were all whole foods. None none of those people were living that long on a processed diet. The two things were that were not exchangeable, that were nonnegotiable, were mobility until later in life. In fact, in Sardinia, life expectancy, the hypercentenarians was directly related to the grade of the slope.

The steeper the hill you walked up every day Get out of here. The longer your life expectancy. Wow. Yeah. You have a 93 year old man walking up a 32 degree slope Shit.

10 blocks to go to church and four blocks over to the market back home Wow. Live rather. The second was sense of purpose and community. You can't exchange those. So that is the part the isolation or the death of the loved one or heartbreak leads to this is why they say my grandfather died three months letting my grandmother die.

That's exactly why. It's called broken heart syndrome. I actually just got goosebumps when I said that. Goodness. It's so visceral and so real.

You know, in in those areas of the world, in the blue zones, for example, there's no such thing as assisted care living. Right? Assisted care is mom and dad move back in with the kids until the day that they die. Why? Because their their only purpose may be to go out to the garden and get vegetables for for dinner that night, but they have a purpose.

They have a role. They have a community around them. And we are we are surrounded by communities that are hyper isolating us. Technology is increasing the rate of isolation. The rates of depression in young children, are skyrocketing.

The rates of autism, attention deficit disorders, what we call behavioral disorders, impulse control disorders. These are all skyrocketing. Why? Because there's no communal sense of no no relationships, no no sense of purpose, no sense of real community. Our communities are in these, you know, hyper electronic environments that actually do not they're not chicken soup for our soul.

And so when you look at these these areas where life expectancy was the longest, they had strong senses of community. And so That makes sense. I mean, my, you know, my dad had 13 heart attacks, and he had 13? 13 heart attacks. He he Tested.

Three stents in his heart. He 50% of his heart was black and six angiograms, six angioplasty. He's been on blood thinner since God knows when. And then he was he was smoking two packs of cigarettes a day. He drank every single day, like, liquor, 60 proof, like this, every day for as long as I know, fifteen, twenty years.

And then one day he decides to stop all of that. And but he has always worked. I've never seen him not work. Every day he works, he's at eight 82, about to be 83, April tenth. And the doctor said he got ten years to live.

When the doctor said that he was 44, 40 four. Yeah. He he's 83. He's 82, about 83. He's still here.

Yeah. God bless his soul. But he lives with us, and he's got kids and grandkids. It's almost as if the grandkids gave him second. When Grace, my niece was born, there was something he looked forward to.

Then when our nephew, Sean, was born and then our four kids, that community and the fact that he kept pushing against whatever it was. When you're saying the 32 degrees of elevation and the way they're walking up at 92 years old, whatever, they're living longer than somebody else that they had less, whatever you wanna call that, friction or, you know, challenges you gotta overcome. It's a direct correlation. Let let me let me change it to a different age category. If you're a parent of a young athlete, okay, and when I say young athlete, I don't mean somebody that's just kind of training an hour a day or an hour and a half a day or all this stuff.

You know, hey. Play sports, likes to have fun, all this stuff. I'm talking about a kid that's training three, four hours every day. And Saturdays, he's doing his two hours minus plus the games or whatever else he may have and travel and all this other stuff. Right?

Loves it. No pressure. It's his choice. No one's telling him you better do it. He's choosing to do it, and that's what he wants to do.

Right? How do you in this age, he's going. He's playing sports. Whoever it it could be a girl. She's going.

She's doing this thing. How do you help this kid that is athletic, has a shot at next level? Nowadays, you know, they're starting at eight years old. They're now no longer it's like 14, 13 years old. Used to be 10, 11.

Now it's down to eight years old that they're looking at it. What what do you do to help his chances physically Mhmm. To prevent injuries, k, to help with speed, decision making process, lowering the temperature for pressure when there's there. You don't panic so you can kinda go through it. What are things you can do at that level?

Just level testosterone level, energy, all this stuff. You know, you're super healthy. Yeah. What can a parent do to an athlete that they have as a child? So three things.

You know, number one, I would, immediately get all of the folic acid out of their diet. So folic acid is is an entirely man made chemical. We've been lied to and told that it's vitamin b nine. It's not. We we make folic acid in a laboratory.

Around 1993, Monsanto convinced the federal government that we needed to spray folic acid on our entire grain supply. So all flour, all bread, all pasta, all cereals, grains of every kind are sprayed with a chemical called folic acid. Folic acid does not occur anywhere naturally in nature. You can't find folic acid anywhere on the surface of the earth. So these are in foods.

We don't call it sprayed with folic acid. We call it fortified or enriched. So fortified or enriched food, enriched bleach white flour, fortified whole grains, fortified wheat. You spin around a box of Cheez Its, it's gonna say, enriched, wheat flour. So fortified or enriched foods are sprayed with chemical folic acid.

The reason why I say get folic acid out of their diet is because the majority of these kids will have a very difficult time processing folic acid. So what does folic acid do? Folic acid, when you don't convert it, rises. It actually causes hyperactivity in the brain. It interferes with, speed, timing, agility, hand eye coordination.

So the the fine motor movements and the things that will take an athlete from being a good eight and a half to a 10. Right? You know, look at look at Tom Brady, for example, you know, when arguably greatest quarterback of all time. You know, you you can't really make a an argument for his physicality. Right?

He wasn't the biggest quarterback. He wasn't the most athletic quarterback. He wasn't the strongest quarterback. What was it about him that, you know, very few of any quarterbacks had? It was his timing.

Right? Timing. You You know, the ability to have a trajectory moving away from you going you know, increasing its distance and potentially its speed away from you and then moving laterally across a field and then having throw an object not to where the runner is, but to where the runner is going and then to to put it on the left shoulder depending on where the running back is versus the right shoulder. That kind of timing is amazing. Mhmm.

So if he didn't cater to the small things, the the timing would have, you know, eventually eroded. This happens in UFC fighters, it happens in boxers, it happens in athletes of all kinds. What happens in age is is not the loss of physical capability first. It's the loss of hand eye coordination, speed, timing, and agility. It's all the fine motor skills.

So if you actually wanna improve that athlete's, chances and give them an edge, I would I would make certain that they are eating a diet that is free of folic acid. There are also a couple of supplements I would put them on. I would make sure that they're taking vitamin d three, about five thousand IUs of vitamin d three daily at 11 years old. At 11 years old. Yeah.

Assuming that they're a healthy, full bodied 11 year old, you know, I would if they're above sixty if they're in the sixty, eighty pound range. Right? So if they're very frail and smaller, I would reduce that dosage. I would also make sure at their age that they're on a very good omega three fatty acid supplement. Black seed oil, really good fish oil supplement.

So omega three fatty acids are really necessary for brain development. They're they're excellent for, for their joints, for all forms of recovery from athletic performance. And then there are things you could do if you really wanted to really accelerate things. You could add red light therapy. You could add a hydrogen nano bath.

I would have them I would have them drinking hydrogen water even at that age. I personally think that hydrogenated water is arguably the most underutilized scientifically valid biohack in in the world. I mean, how do you why do you think so many people criticize that? Like, I've seen reactions to all of us. Like, I have videos about me that's negative.

Hey, Patrick, David. This this this is that. Okay. Well, I'm the insurance network market. Okay.

Great. But why do you think people try to like, if there's things that I see where people try to break it down with you is hydrogen hydrogen water. Why do you think that is to debate somebody on hydrogen water? No one's ever willing to You see, for example, wants to criticize me on hydrogen water. Well, let me put it in front of you.

My podcast, and I will openly allow them to express whatever trepidations they have about hydrogen water. It is I would love to see this. I think I saw this on Twitter. Some one of them. Anyways, I if I don't find to see it.

Anyone listening to this podcast who wants to come on to the ultimate human podcast, my guest, I will fly you in at my expense. You can actually stay at my biohacking studio. I love that. Have I'm I'm very sincere about that, and we will have an open debate about the benefits and the side effects of of hydrogen water. Why why don't we just why don't we look at what the research says right here?

And if you can find that, there's there's a video of me, but I don't know if that's where I'm criticized. A lot of criticisms I deserve. You know? Sometimes I put things out that I read in articles, and I don't check the the publications. Best where you put the antibody.

That little thing that I gave you. Critics of the hires you wanna scientific evidence supporting the health benefits is weak, with with most studies being small and lacking rigorous methodology, meaning there's not enough data definitively claims scientific. Okay. So do me a favor. You go to Google.

Will you search, journal of experimental gerontology, hydrogen and water. It was published in November of twenty twenty one. November '20 '20 '1, Journal of Experimental Gerontology. Yeah. Pull that one up.

Okay. This was a anybody who wants to criticize double blind, randomized, peer reviewed, published clinical trials. This is the effects of six months of hydrogen rich water intake, on what's called molecular and phenotypic biomarkers. These means, they're looking at they're looking at inflammation. They actually used a marker called TET two to actually measure the methylation cycle in these adults of aging in older adults.

The reason why I'm bringing you to this study and not the 13 other studies that I would love to debate on, but this study in particular is because this was done in older ages. Right? Most of the time when you see studies in young athletes and healthy young men and women, it's not as applicable. So let's say let's go to older ages, 70 and above. It is a randomized controlled pilot trial.

K? So let's scroll down and see what some of these outcomes were. Hydrogen, much water, blah blah blah blah. Favor favorably affected several age related, features in the elderly. So let's go and increase their telomere lengths.

Those are the lengths of the chromosomes. Like, one of the hallmarks of aging is the degradation of the distal ends of the chromosome called the telomere. So the longer the telomere, the the younger the biological age of that host. So one of the measures that we use to check your biological age against your chronological age is we look at your telomeres. If we can lengthen your telomeres, we are extending your lifespan.

So can we scroll down? Okay. So the molecular markers DNA chromosome, here's, look at all of the things that they measure, and then we're gonna see the outcomes. The biomarkers assessed at baseline and six month follow-up were molecular markers in the blood, DNA, and chromosomes, nutrient sensing, protein and lipid metabolism, oxidative stress, mitochondria, cellular senescence, meaning zombie cells, inflammation, brain metabolism, cognitive functioning, physical function, and body composition, as well as resting blood pressure, facial skin features, sleep outcomes, and health related quality of life. So now let's see what happened when they actually used hydrogen rich water for, for six months.

And this will be part of my debate with whoever wants to debate me. The me so a significant treatment time. So there was telomere lengthening with the length increased after hydrogen rich water intervention over baseline, versus the control weather. There was significantly higher the, oh, methylcytosine, deoxygenase. So tet methylcytosine deoxygenase is a marker for methylation.

Methylation is the process that your cells are going through to take compounds that enter your body and convert them into the usable form. One of the hallmarks of a youthful bio biome is that your cellular biology converts things into the usable form very well. It accelerated in the hydrogen rich water group. Can you go down a little bit further? And, they hold on.

It increased bracholine and n a NAA levels in the frontal gray matter, brain creatine in the right parietal, matter. Can we go down a little bit further? So the, there was no significant differences were found in other outcomes except for a significantly improved chair stand performance. This is where the, you know, sarcopenia, which is age related muscle wasting, right, which happens, the older we get, the faster this occurs. So this is their ability to sit and stand.

Right? So the number of times they can actually sit stand, their sit stand ratio. Significantly improved chair stand performance after HRV intervention compared to the control water. It could be recognized as a possible antiaging agent that tackles several hallmarks of aging, including loss of function and telomere length study. Telomere length shortening.

Study was registered at clinicaltrials.gov? Yes. You can go look this study up. In fact, if you go to can you go to hydrogenstudies.com? It's not my website, by the way.

Okay. Hydrogenstudies.com, and just go to view all studies. Okay. There there are 1,335 studies on hydrogen water, hydrogen gas here. You can actually go and you can deselect the animals if you wanna just see.

So go to all test subjects. Click that. Just highlight the, humans on the right. So get rid of the mice and the and the rats and the dogs. Boom.

Now just, select all. Click select all. Boom. Now you're just oh, sorry. Deselect all, collects humans, and hit search.

Top right. So now it's just gonna be in human clinical trials. FGC and safety of hydrogen therapy in patients with early stage interstitial lungs disease. Successful treatment of myalgic encephalomyelitis and chronic fatigue syndrome using hydrogen gas. I mean, it is mind numbing.

First of all, hydrogen is the most prevalent, element in the universe. It's also the lightest element that we know of. In fact, if if you say that something is an antioxidant, what does that mean? Blueberries are antioxidants. Like, what does that mean?

It means that it's donating ions, donating electrons. Right? So, you can actually do a study for yourself at home. Just just order something called an o r p meter, oxidative reduction potential meter. You can get it for $10 on Amazon.

What this will do is it'll take any compound like a liquid. You could put it in this bottle, and you could measure the ability of this water to either cause inflammation or reduce inflammation. K? So the more positive the ORP, the more it causes inflammation. This Fiji bottle is gonna be about a plus one fifty.

So So even though this water will hydrate you, it will cause inflammation. If you drop the hydrogen tablet in there and it efferves into hydrogen gas and you drank that, it would drop the ORP to negative 400. So now you would take this glass of water, this bottle of water, and you would turn it into an antioxidant. And if you look at, I mean, study after study, I I I use one called, you can go to drink, h2tab.com. Go to drink h2tab.com.

This is the one I take. I'm actually a a partner in this. That's my son. But go to science. Okay.

K. If you were to scroll down here, these are the clinical studies key sorry. Keep going. These are the clinical studies. Where's the scientific studies?

It should say on there benefits. If you go to the bottom under science, should show you the studies. We linked them there somewhere. Science. Okay.

So resources. Science. So we should be able to, there were 24 studies done on that elemental magnesium tablet alone, and you look at giving it to to Double blind studies like the full blown? The full blown double blind studies. Okay.

And these are the highest level of of of research. First of all, it's safe across the board because hydrogen's the most prevalent element in the universe. I mean, it's it's, it's also the lightest element in the universe. So what happens when you put excess hydrogen into the body? It becomes one of the most anti inflammatory compounds we know of because hydrogen, you can also bathe in it.

It will go right transdermal. So if you have knee, hip, shoulder, rotator cuff literally bathe in it, like, in the bathtub. Yeah. You know, the if if you go to Jon Jones page if you go to Jon Jones' Instagram, it's it's gonna be down there a ways, but, you know, I started working with Jon Jones before his last UFC fight. And one of the issues that he had, if you keep going back before his fight in November, he did a post with he and I, and we, where he talks about there he is.

There I am sitting with him. Good cut right there. So I have him get in a red light bed. I've got him getting in a you know, I've got him doing oxygen, therapy, what's called EWOT, exercise with oxygen therapy. I told him a breath work technique.

But John will tell you that when I, you know, parachuted into his camp, one of the issues that he had was he you know, just because of his career, he's waking up every day in excruciating pain. At the time, he was only training five days a week. And he was waking up in in in just pain every morning because of the jiu jitsu and all the contact sports, and this is right before his his fight. So we went out there. I added two major things to his routine.

He started drinking hydrogen rich water, which is NSF certified. It's just hydrogen and water, and he started bathing in it every night for twenty five minutes. By the twenty first day, he called me and he goes, man, I can't believe it. I am waking up. I am not in any pain.

Wow. And that's for him. Adding a sixth day of training to my training schedule. I'm taking zero credit for his competency in the ring. None.

None whatsoever. But what I was able to do was get him out of pain by bathing and drinking hydrogen rich water going into his fight. And I could give you athlete after athlete after athlete after athlete that this works in. I mean, the single best thing that you can it's about a dollar a day for those hydrogen tablets. I used to promote these hydrogen water bottles, but what I'm finding is the longer you use that bottle, the less part per million hydrogen it makes.

And it's too expensive for people. You know? I want my message to be for the masses. And so, for less than a dollar a day, you drop an elemental magnesium tablet into that glass of water Each Any water. Any water.

And it will automatically turn it into an antioxidant bomb. You really if if you really think about, like, what do antioxidants do for us besides reduce oxidation? You know, about 70% of our circulatory system or or circulation is actually not done by our heart. People think the heart circulates all the blood in the body. It it actually doesn't.

It's, it circulates it through the major arteries and the major veins, but it doesn't do the microvascular circulation. That's done by an activity called vasomotor, kinda like a snake swallowing a mouse. And this is the most under the motor? Vasomotor or vasomotion. Right?

If you look up that activity, that's how, capillaries will kind of move blood through a capillary, kind of like a a, you know, vasomotor or vasomotion. So I I love that you guys are doing this. It's so awesome. Regulation of blood flow in small vessels. Right?

So so what happens is, you know, blood gets brought to the entrance of these vessels, and then this vasomotor activity continues the circulation. So if you wanna improve the appearance of your skin, fine lines and wrinkles, the blood supply to the back of your eyes, your liver, your lungs, your pancreas, your kidneys, your brain, if you wanna improve your microvascular circulation, which is 70% of your circulatory system, you can do things like expose your skin to sunlight, get in a red light therapy bed, exercising your vascular system by cold water immersion and heat exposure to actually dilate and vasoconstrict, and you can take hydrogen. You can drink hydrogen rich water. How long of doing that? Really would love to debate somebody.

How long how long of doing that do you see the results? I'd drink. Immediately. Really? If you took three I I don't know.

Do I have some here? Is my team still here? Never had it. I have it right now if you wanna bring one of your one of I literally have it right now. I'll bring you I'll bring them in here.

We'll drop three of them in that bottle right there. Right now. We'll whack it back. Somebody bring you ready to drink it. So for me, every time my team to come in here and bring hydrogen talons?

20 will 20, if you can bring and so you're saying put how many of them in there? We're gonna put three of them in there called hydrogen bomb. And would does it taste like anything? Does it am I gonna feel This this one will taste like raspberry. It's flavored with raspberry, but, but they they they make an unflavored version.

And what's the other thing that I saw was with the metal thing? What is the metal, do you know what I'm talking about? Stick? Yeah. Do you stir?

Is that anything, but that's nothing? Yeah. That's, that won't do anything close to what hydrogen tablets will do. So if you two that's elemental magnesium. Right?

So if you Which one do you want me to do? This is fine? Yeah. Just do that one. Okay.

Drop two or three of them in there. It's gonna take about fifty seconds to dissolve. You're gonna get to 12 parts per million. Amazing. What this is you said blueberry or raspberry?

Raspberry. Oh my god. So it's actual raspberry. So just hold that up. You see the gas that's going in there?

So it's pure elemental magnesium. All 24 of those studies are on that site, drink h2tab.com. Just go there and read the study. Do not take my word for it. Or go to hydrogenstudies.com.

You know, my my son and I just did the great world race, which was seven marathons on seven continents in seven days. Holy shit. Yeah. I'm I only ran half marathons, and I ran one full marathon. But my my son ran all seven marathons Get out of here.

On all seven continents How old is he? In seven days. He's 24. Good for him. Yeah.

Cole Breca. So proud of him. And, and he started at two hundred and ten pounds. He was, like, a hundred and eighty nine when we got home. But, yeah, he's a beast.

There he is. That's us in the great world race. That's us in in, Cape Town, South Africa. So at that time, he had already run a marathon in Antarctica. I'd run 18 miles of the marathon.

I couldn't make the rest of it. And, he ran the full marathon in Antarctica. We flew five and a half hours to Cape Town, and then he ran the marathon in Cape Town. I mean, he looks like a look look at those quads. Did he was he an athlete or William?

Yeah. He's a rugby player. And, I mean, he's built more like a rugby player than a distance. I don't know what possessed him to run to when he signed up for this race, I I was like, Cole, I hate to state the freaking obvious, brother, but you've never run a marathon that way. But what were you gonna say?

Did hydrogen water play a role? Hydrogen water is the only reason why he made it across all seven continents. So that is all gas in there. That density you see is all hydrogen gas. You're gonna drink that.

It's gonna go right through your stomach wall, through your esophagus, through the intestinal wall. I'm gonna wait for the whole thing because I still see three of them going through it. I'll wait. And it's going to massively reduce inflammation. That's that's him out on the run in, Antarctica.

That's the first marathon we did was 26.3 miles there. And then, Dude, that's gotta be sick. Where that's where? Antarctica. Get out of here.

Pole. Really? Yeah. He's actually set a record at, the clinic where we went and did his VO two max testing. He had a really crazy VO two max.

So how many miles did he run-in Antarctica? He ran a 84 miles in seven days, but in Anarco, he ran 26.3 miles. That's that's Anarco. I mean, we're all in there. Freezing.

How cold is it? It was minus 28 with a wind chill of minus 48. So I remember inauguration where DC Rob were freezing our tails up. We're like, dude. Dude, I was there too.

That was crazy. God. It was cold. And so this is minus 48. Minus 48.

Then you get on a plane. You fly five and a half hours and land and got off the plane and ran a marathon in Cape Town, South Africa. And then we got back on the plane and flew eleven hours fourteen hours to Perth, Australia, ran a mile. Do for work? What's he do full time?

He works for me full time, and he is the cofounder of that h two tabs. Oh, so this is a he's a cofounder of this? Mhmm. So I think all of it is gone. So now do I mix it or just drink it?

Wack it right back. Wack it right back. If you do that in the morning, you won't even eat coffee. And I know it sounds like I'm here to sell you a hydrogen tablet. I actually prefer that everybody take the hydrogen tablet, but you can get hydrogen water generators for your your house.

You can get hydrogen tablets. You can you can get hydrogen bottles, but get hydrogen gas into your body. So it's not tough to drink. Just so you you know how sometimes there's flavor. I don't drink coffee.

I don't I haven't had it since, '25. Mhmm. For me, I'm naturally wired. Right. So I don't I don't you know?

Seven years ago, I stopped. The last time I had soda was February because of my former CFO, Ian Benedict. Wow. You remember July 2000 Oh, because we were at Breakers Hotel, and I'm sitting there. I'm saying, hey, Ian.

How come because I used to drink three Coke zeros a damn. Like, how come you don't drink anything? I haven't had a soda for seven years. I'm like, well, you know what? I'm gonna start today, see if I can go a week.

I want a week, and I haven't had anything since February because of it. So Paul Saladino was here, what, six weeks ago, five weeks? I don't know when he was here. He's a friend of yours. With me when he was here.

When he was here. Oh, really? Yes. So when he was here, you know, I was asking him about Celsius and some of these other things. He says, listen.

This is the worst. I haven't had anything since the last time he was here. So every time it's one habit, one thing, I try to adjust to see what it does for me. I've never had hydrogen water. I'm curious how how I'm gonna feel throughout the day with this.

So this is everyday three tablets is what you're suggesting. And does it matter? You know how sometimes they say don't drink water from plastic? Do you wanna drink water from this? I would prefer you don't drink it from plastic, but, you know, whether you're drinking the filter water, bottled water, you know, I don't I I don't think anybody should drink tap water.

But whatever vessel you're drinking water out of, just drop a hydrogen tablet in it. It'll take fifty seconds for that to dissolve. You're saying three or just one? Three throughout the day. Three throughout the day.

But at least one in the morning. If you're if you're tired or you lack sleep or you're exhausted and you that drop in inflammation will will wake you up, not because it's stimulating you. There's nothing no stimulant in there. But you will notice that if you're dragging ass and you do one or two of those hydrogen tablets and you put a high dose of hydrogen gas into the body, it will it will wake you up because it will reduce that fog and inflammation. I wrote another thing down that I'm curious about.

A few memory. K. Mhmm. There's a benefit there's benefit to having memory. Now, obviously, moving forward, I don't think having a strong memory is as beneficial as it used to be because nowadays you got Google, chat, g b t, grok.

There's so many easy things, like people who used to be able to memorize things that's no longer as a just like calculators came out and those who can do math in their in their mind. Great. You can do it. Anybody else can do it. So great equalizer.

Right? But there's still benefits in having a good memory. No question. What helps? What can you do to strengthen?

I have an exercise I do, but I'm curious to know to the average person that's thinking, how can I improve my memory? What can you do? Well, there's three things you can do to improve your memory. I mean, first of all, I would lower your glycemic profile. I would dramatically reduce, sugar and carbohydrate intake.

Not not not go keto, not go Atkins, you know, or carnivore per se, but we know now that Alzheimer's is type three diabetes. People in type just because I know he's gonna Google it, so I might as well just get ahead of a type three diabetes. Yeah. Or type three diabetes, Alzheimer's. Bum.

The term type three diabetes is is, they say that it's not recognized as a, similarity between type two diabetes and Alzheimer's. If you if you keep scrolling down Interesting. They hypothesize that Alzheimer's disease may be a form of type three diabetes that specifically affects the brain because, you know, a lot of, people don't realize this. It's not just the pancreas that makes insulin. The brain is so crack addicted to, sugar that it can make its own insulin.

And so, and what the brain wants the brain gets, when the brain craves sugar, it will activate dopamine receptors in the back of the tongue. I think they're the r one a two receptors so that it gives you a sort of a reward for giving it sugar. So we know that insulin resistance in the brain, there's evidence to support the connection between insulin resistance and Alzheimer's. So insulin resistance in the brain, you know, when you when you don't have places to store sugar in the body, we convert sugar into something called glycogen. We store it in the liver.

In the brain, there's no place to store it. There are neurosynaptic junctions, these little spaces between nerves. So insulin resistance has a massively negative impact on the brain. So before I tell you what to take to improve memory, it's what to not do to improve your memory. So you wanna lower your glycemic profile, so lower your blood sugar, your your what's called your hemoglobin a one c, the three month average of your blood sugar will do a lot for your cognitive function.

That's why if you ever notice how sharp you are in awake and alert and aware when you're fasted or when you're hungry, like, when you're hungry and you're going searching for food, you're actually on your game. You feel alert. You feel awake. You feel focused. You feel cognizant.

You feel clear. Why is that? Because your blood sugar is low. And so, on on the low side. So the lower you can keep your hemoglobin a one c, you know, when a a really good hemoglobin a one c is 5.2, five point three or less.

And the more insulin sensitive you are, the sharper your memory is going to be. The second thing is that memory is directly related to, circulation. The presence of oxygen is the absence of disease. And as you deprive the brain of oxygen, which is called hypoxia, which by the way is the definition of death, hypoxia, lack of oxygen to the brain. But as you just take marginal deficits in the amount of oxygen in the brain, you take significant deficits in your cognitive function.

So mobility, exercise, breathing, will do more for your cognitive function than any kind of neurotropic because you will increase the circulation to the brain. And a lot of people don't realize that you can also improve the capacity for your blood to carry oxygen by managing your levels of red blood cells in hemoglobin. So for example, the reason why hormone therapy may improve or does improve cognitive function, Like, when when men that are deficient, begin in testosterone, for example, or women that are deficient in testosterone get on testosterone replacement therapy or they fix the nutrient deficiencies like DHEA and d three that cause hormone deficiency, their cognitive function returns or their memory improves or their short term recall improves. And why is that? Because when you normalize the hormone level, you normalize or increase the level of red blood cells, which carry oxygen, and it brings more oxygen to the brain.

This is why testosterone deficient men have memory issues. Testosterone men that are not deficient in testosterone that have have a tendency to have less, memory issues. So hormone therapy can be a big play a big role in cognitive function. HRT or TRT? Oh, no question.

If you I know he's gonna do it anyway, so we might as well just do it. But if you go to the Journal of American Urology, which is considered the Bible for male endocrine therapy, just go to Journal of American Urology testosterone, and then open that and scroll down to line, 13 where it says counseling regarding testosterone deficiency. Did you say Journal of American Urology? Oh. There you go.

Oh, that was it. K. So scroll down to line 13, number 13. It did Sorry. Is that the actual Wait.

That's not the actual study. Journal of American Urology Testosterone. Go back, Rob. If you can go back, journal of American Urology Test right there. Some space testosterone.

Yeah. There you go. Boom. Okay. Evaluation and management of testosterone deficiency.

Okay. That this is by by the way, this is one of the the better peer reviewed published journals in the world on male endocrine therapy. So we're gonna go to the bible for a second. Keep scrolling down until you get to line line 13, which will say, counseling regarding the management of testosterone deficiency. Thirteen.

There we go. Counseling regarding the treatment of testosterone deficiency. Sorry. So so this is what a physician should say to a patient that is deficient in testosterone if they're thinking of taking testosterone therapy. Clinicians should inform testosterone deficient patients that low testosterone is a risk factor for cardiovascular disease, not the other way around.

If you scroll down again, patients should be informed that testosterone therapy may result in improvements in erectile function, low sex drive, anemia, bone mineral density, lean body mass, and or depressive symptoms. The reason why all of these are affected by all of these energy, fatigue, lipid profiles, quality of life, cognitive function right there, is because and if you if you go further into the studies, and I won't bore you with those, but, is because you are improving the the presence of oxygen in the bloodstream. And so the more oxygen you have, the better your cognitive function. So first, I would lower my sugars. I would try to maintain, you know, low, low levels of high glycemic sugars in in my in my blood.

I would, if you are young, you wouldn't you shouldn't start hormone therapy, but you should have your hormone levels checked and see if you are deficient in the nutrients that your body needs to make hormones. About seventy percent of, you know, patients that qualify for hormone therapy don't need hormones. They need the nutrients that the body needs to make hormones. So if you're clinically deficient, for example, in DHEA or you have high levels of something called SHBG, sex hormone binding globulin, or you're clinically deficient in vitamin d three, These are nutrients that affect the the the production, metabolism, and conversion of the hormone testosterone. And if we don't look at these things, we we put people on hormone therapy too early rather than putting them on the nutrients to make their own hormones.

And so I just wanted to show you this because this is a So this reminds me of the book I read many years ago, Ageless Man. I don't know if you've heard about the book Ageless Man. It's, they did the study on, was it rats? Or I don't know what they were testing on to see how your testosterone being lower, affects your heart attacks, your heart, and how 10,000 receptors for testosterone in the heart alone. Yeah.

This is actually the book, by the way. Yeah. This is, that's the book. That's the book that it came out about eight years ago. It's very interesting when, it's not a popular book.

It's not something that, you know, you discuss and you do read it. But It was actually a very interesting book to read, to understand a little bit more about, zooming a little bit on the cover of the book, Rob, how to cure preventive disease of aging, Alzheimer's, depression, Parkinson's, hypertension, coronary coronary disease, heart and frac slip disc, prostate impotence, knee. I mean, it's like all of it. And it's a simple book. It's not a big book to read.

You know, what's amazing about that is that this is exactly what we discovered in our in our, research in mortality is that so often, so many things go wrong. So if you just look at that myriad of symptoms. Right? Hypertension, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, cholesterol, obesity, slip disc, you know, prostate impotence, hip hip osteoarthritis. That seems like the entire world's going to hell in a hand basket.

Mhmm. Right? So if you treat these like spokes on a wheel, these look like independent variables all going wrong. There's a cardiac issue. There's a mental issue.

There's a bone issue. There's a circulatory issue. There's a cognitive issue. There's one issue causing everything. And this is what happens in in in and I believe goes lost on modern medicine very often is usually one thing goes wrong that causes everything.

You don't have multiple systems going wrong. Right? I mean, I you know, people that have an autoimmune disease tend to have multiple autoimmune diseases. Why is that? Because it's a failure of the immune system or not a failure of the immune system.

Immune system is usually acting properly because we don't go and find out why the immune system is attacking our tissue. Probably forty percent of your audience listening to this podcast right now has some form of autoimmune condition, autoimmune thyroid, Hashimoto's, Crohn's, Schrein's, you know, a whole number of things. And and and what modern medicine would have you believe is that, you know, you you woke up one day and your immune system is is attacking your tissues. Right? So so if you have Crohn's disease, you woke up one day and your immune system started manufacturing antibodies to your colon.

Or if you have Hashimoto's, you woke up one day and the immune system started to attack your thyroid. And we immediately assume that the immune system has gone wrong, that the immune system's made a mistake. So we need to suppress the immune system, and we need to put anti inflammatories in the body. Instead of saying, let's just assume that God didn't make a mistake. Let's just assume that the immune system is acting properly.

We just need to find out why. So in other words, it's attacking the cold colon. Yes. But it's doing it for a reason. Let's figure out why.

And the big whys are mold, mycotoxin, metals, viruses, parasites. Those five. Use test for those five. You will get to the root of, in my opinion, the majority of all autoimmune conditions. But we believe that autoimmune conditions happen because the immune system is spontaneously dysfunctional.

There are so many people with autoimmune Hashimoto's. And what did they do? They just put them on medication and watch the immune system just slowly attack, you know, the thyroid. But the truth is when when you have when you have pathogens in the body like mold, a mycotoxin, a a virus, a a parasite, and you have a healthy cell, and I if they're listening to this, they can't see this. But, pathogens don't hide like this.

Right? They hide like this. So in other words, let's say that this is a a virus, mycotoxin or heavy metal, and it's floating around the bloodstream. It's not going to hide outside of the cell. It's gonna hide inside the cell.

Now the immune system sees this invader. How does it get to that pathogen? It manufactures an antibody to your cell to get to this. It's not after the cell. It's not after your thyroid.

But if you take heavy metals and you embed them in your thyroid tissue, your immune system will manufacture auto to antibodies to the tissue to get to this. So it's just like if if, you know, if crime is committed and and the offender ran into your building and locked the door, the police would bust that door down to get to the offender. The immune system will do the same thing. It will bust through the wall of your cell by manufacturing an antibody to get to the invader. It's not after the cell.

It's not after the friendly tissue. It's after the invader. So why don't we support the immune system and say, hey. Why did I wake up one day and I have autoimmune antibodies to my thyroid? Well, maybe you have heavy metals embedded in the thyroid.

Right? Maybe a mold, mycotoxin. So I I I I always, you know, try to preach that there's there's so much hope for us. You know, by getting back to the basics, nutrifying the body, putting the raw materials in that God gave us to to to allow our bodies to to function properly. And as soon as something goes wrong, not assuming that you've had a disease or pathology happen to you, that something deficient has happened within you.

Fixing that deficiency can fix that condition. It's by the way, I can listen to you for three minutes, and we can go through a bunch of different things. When when I was today, I saw some of the stuff. Because the first time I heard, about you was when you and Cardone started doing stuff together. Then from there, I saw the Dana stuff.

And then you and I, met at the UFC thing, and we started talking. And then earlier today, when the guys we were doing the final prep for the podcast. We went on the 10 x, health, whatever the website was. And when I thought about that, the health, I thought about you. I don't I don't think I don't see Cardone as a health guy, seem as a real estate guy.

I think of you as a health guy. And and I saw what's going on recently with you. What happened between the two of you? It's so sad. I mean, my wife and I, like so many other business owners, were just completely duped, by Grant and his partner, Brandon Dawson.

You know, they built an industry on creating the hope, that you can be successful in business by, by doing his real estate courses or by allowing Cardone Ventures. They have a, an entity called Cardone Ventures, and supposedly, it's a business scaling. They're professionals at business scaling. They're actually kind of professionals at business scamming. You know?

They when when we got into business with them, you know, my wife and I started a company called Streamline Medical Group. And we started it because we wanted to make an impact on humanity, and we really wanted to shift what was going on in in modern medicine. We treated Grant Cardone. He had a he had a great relation he had a great experience with us, and then he said he was gonna buy us, and he was gonna just blow our business up, and we were gonna scale, to the moon. And what we realized was that, really, what they wanted to do was take they they took over our business.

Now look, I take responsibility for this because I signed a really bad contract, with some really bad people. And I I didn't know at the time because I was, like, this wide eyed entrepreneur, and I wanted to make this huge impact on humanity. And, you know, and and Brandon Dawson and Grant were talking about, you're gonna build a billion dollar company. We scaled all of these companies turned out to be complete nonsense. Essentially, what they did was they paid us nothing, for the company.

They strung the payouts, out over about three years. We got a quarter of a million dollars at the closing, which, we were then forced to put into Cardone Capital. And we put it into Cardone Capital before Grant Cardone told me that he was under investigation by the feds, that a two year investigation by criminal investigation was underway at Cardone Capital. And, you know, we we we put the money in when when Grant Cardone knew that he was under under investigation. He didn't disclose that to us for another two and a half years.

And we got into business with them, and you go to these events, and they're so intoxicating. There's, like, celebrities on the stage, and there's fireworks. And, you know, Grant showing his planes and his and his and his oceanfront mansions. And Brandon's talking about all these businesses that that that he's scaled, and what you realize is happening is they are selling the dream of success, not success, and they built a company that's a fee based company that is meant to strip fees from from these, young companies, 3 to $8,000,000 companies. Strip fees out of these companies.

Take equity in these companies. Promise them that you're gonna scale their company, but not have any obligation to scale the company. So the entrepreneur is obligated to pay fees. Cardone Ventures is not obligated to scale their their business. And they they put them in these bear trap contracts.

I mean, as soon as we announced the lawsuit against Cardone Ventures, my law firm got hundreds and hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of calls from young entrepreneurs like my wife and I that had been scammed the same way that we had been. Essentially, they build this massive dream, but the contracts don't reflect what they're promising you. And because you're so intoxicated by this dream of a billion dollar company and changing thousands and thousands of lies, you sign these agreements because they seem like great people, and then all of a sudden you realize that you've actually not just sold your company, you sold your soul. And they wanna control every word that you say. I mean, I I went on on the Joe Rogan podcast November of twenty twenty, three.

Coming out of that podcast, we did 20,000 genetic tests, did 17,000,000 that month in revenue, and Brandon Dawson and Cardone Ventures sent me a cease and desist because I wore the wrong T shirt and didn't use an affiliate link that would drive all of those leads into the system that would churn them into other courses. Right? And but my my objective when we started was not to to pay your company fees to build your business. My objective was to get this information to the masses. And then what they did behind our back was the most sinister thing that happened.

And this is all in our lawsuit, so I'm not defaming them. What they did behind our back was my wife Sage and I were partners with Grant and Brandon. We were killing it in the genetic testing market. I believed in the gene test. I believed in the supplements.

It took me two and a half years to formulate the supplement that we use to fix these genetic breaks, and tens of thousands, in fact, hundreds of thousands of people were benefiting from it. We were we were really addressing the masses. We were killing it. We were doing 17,000,000 a month in revenue. We were doing 20,000 new gene tests.

We couldn't even keep inventory on the shelves. Then what they did without telling us was they went out and they bought a company outside of our company. They bought a genetic testing lab in Austria. They bought a manufacturer of supplements in Austria. And without telling us, because Brandon Dawson was the CEO of both companies, the company he was partnered with, my wife and I, and Cardone Ventures, he forced ten x health to do business with the company that he bought outside of our ten x health company.

He forced us to do business with this company halfway around the world. We didn't realize when he was pitching it to us why he was so insistent that we we start taking patients' DNA that we were testing in The United States and ship it halfway around the world. So now we we do a cheek swab in The US. We ship your or they ship your DNA to Austria. It gets run-in a lab in Austria.

And then they make your supplements in Austria, and they ship your supplements back from Austria back to The United States. And so when he presented us with this new genetic test, I couldn't understand why is he pushing this so hard. I could Brandon, this this genetic test is is terrible. First of all, the gene snips in the test we do in The United States are not even matching the the the genetic results that you're getting overseas. We're shipping supplements from halfway around the world through customs.

They're getting trapped in customs. They're getting sent back. We're not even telling the people here that we're sending their DNA outside of the country. They would put DNA swabs in refrigerators for weeks and weeks and weeks before they would even ship it overseas. The supplements were woolly underdosed, for for helping, the the the patients that we were trying to sell this to.

My wife had panic attacks. I had massive headaches and got acid reflux on them. They a lot of the compounds hadn't been tested on on humans yet or not tested in in human trials. And so we we got to the point where we said, look. We're I I'm not gonna sell this test.

You you've you've taken a successful genetic test and supplements that's helping hundreds of thousands of people. And now you're doubling the price of the genetic test. You're taking it from $600 to $1,200. You're quadrupling the price of these supplements. It's $300 a month, and you have to buy three months.

So it's $900 out of pocket for the average family, which means a family of four is out of pocket $20,000 to do a simple genetic test, which you could take your your gene results and run it through chat g b t and get the exact same results. So I'll tell you right now. If you have a genetic test you've done anywhere in the world, run it through chat g p t, and it'll tell you what the supplement is. Get out of here. Absolutely, man.

It's per per perfectly accurate. I'll put a link to to how to do it on chat g p t for for for free. So so now we have a genetic test that's doubled in price, quadrupled in supplements, supplements that haven't been tested. You know, cheek swabs were sent in halfway around the world, and then bang, the shoe dropped. We found out they went out and spent $7,000,000, which they took out of ten x health in the form of a distribution, bought a company outside of it, and shoved that company down our throats.

And I said, I'm not selling this genetic test. And they said, if you don't sell this genetic test, we'll terminate you. And they kept their word. They terminated me. And they terminated my wife in a company that we sold our primary residence to start.

And we didn't do everything perfectly. And, you know, they put $250,000 in our pocket to buy this company, which I immediately put into Cardone Capital. So we never took any money off the table. When the company started making money, they stripped $9,000,000 out in in distributions to themselves, hundreds and hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of thousands of dollars in totally unnecessary fees because Cardone Ventures, which owned 82% of our company, has this thing called the strategic business unit, which is a bunch of untrained young entrepreneurs with no specific expertise in the area of business that they sell services in. And even though they owned 82% of our company, they still charged massive fees every month, which they paid to themselves to scale our business.

Our business wasn't scaling our because of the strategic business unit. Our business was scaling because the message was resonating. You don't you don't think he, you said when you're saying 17,000,000 that one month is of that business that they owned 82% of, that business at 70,000,000 in a month. Well, that's pretty explosive. So you don't think that 10 x brand and Cardone promoting and talking about it helped get it off the road?

Me a lot. I mean, I never first first of all, I I owe a debt of gratitude to Grant Cardone for even taking the risk of saying that he wanted to partner with our company. I I don't take that away from him at all. I you know, in fact, a lot of my issues are not with Grant. I mean, I think I think Brandon Dawson is is his partner is gonna be the downfall of the entire organization.

I think, you know So you and Grant are good. You don't have issues with Grant. I don't have I don't have real issues with Grant. I mean, he's got a few issues with me because I I left. I mean, basically, they said either sell this test or we terminate you, and I said I'm not selling the test.

I'm not I am not gonna use my reputation to shove this thing down the throat of of patients that I care about. The, you know, some of the the the clinicians that have been in in my business since we started that business, some of the employees that are there, some of the, practicing clinicians or some of the the best people in in the in the entire world. You wanna hear something amazing? So so they they, What is that, Rob? They're now launching the, so on January 4, you know, I I have the ultimate human.

It's my, podcast. Mhmm. They went out on January 4 and bought ultimatehuman.com. I have the ultimatehuman. They bought ultimatehuman.com, and now they're launching ultimate human analysis.

The the 10 x brand has been so damaged and so destroyed, and it had look at that. See any similarity between that logo and this logo? That's Cardone Ventures. Are you serious? It's Cardone Ventures.

Are you joking or are you serious? That I wish I was joking. They just started this. Yeah. So Brandon Dawson went out while I was his business partner in March of twenty twenty four, while we were still business partners, while Sage and I were running our podcast and feeding leads to to 10 x health and boosting 10 x health, Brandon Dawson went out and bought a trademark from a doctor, trademark called, Ultimate Human Analysis.

Never even told us. We found out he bought the trademark a few months later, and he goes, oh, I bought this trademark to protect you guys. And we're like, well, why would you buy an Ultimate Human trademark? I've got the Ultimate Human pockets. He goes, yeah.

I brought it to protect you guys. So he went out and bought this trademark, sat on it. I sued him on the December 26. On the December 28, he went out and bought in the name of that trademark. He bought the social media domain's ultimate human analysis.

Then on January 4, a few, weeks into our lawsuit, he bought ultimatehuman.com, and now he's starting ultimatehumancommunity. The ultimate human look at the font. Look at the coloring. Look at the letters. The brand has been so tarnished that the the Grant and Brandon just dropped the 10 x brand like a stone, and now they're chasing the, you know, obviously, the ultimate human brand.

We'll see how it goes. But it's just a sad story, man, because I I really believe what those guys said. I believe what I heard from the stage. It it was it was a horrible experience. You know?

I I, at the time where we knew we could no longer do business with him, I told Grant we wanted out. And he said, I don't even like the space anyway. Why don't why don't you guys make me an offer to buy my shares? And so my wife and I ran ran around Wall Street, you know, trying to raise money. We raised, about $75,000,000, and, I asked Grant to play backgammon one night, and I went up there and I said, you know, look.

We we need to have a divorce. I don't want it to be a public divorce. I don't wanna hurt the patients. I don't wanna hurt the clients. I certainly don't wanna hurt the employees that were with me from the beginning, these clinicians that have been with me from the beginning.

Some of them some of the most int intentional good people, really good practitioners are still on the the the deck of that ship. And, I made him an offer. He seemed excited about the offer. He went to his partner, Brandon Dawson. Brandon was like, absolutely not.

Scary trying to steal a business. And I said, look. Just just so that you know that this is a an honest offer, I will not only pay this valuation for your shares, but you can also buy my wife and I out at the same valuation. So, Oh, it's either we do to you or you do to us. I'll either buy your 82% out can buy this valuation.

And at the time, I I I offered them $65,000,000 they could buy at the $75,000,000 valuation. Yeah. If they got a $65,000,000 valuation. So they could buy me my our 18% and have the entire company, or we would buy their majority interest. They said, it's too little for you to buy our shares, and it's too much for us to buy your shares.

So in other words, we don't think you're giving us enough money, but it would be too much that valuation would be too much for your shares. So so they forced us to stay in a loveless marriage, and then they wanted us to sell this abject failure of a gene test, which they know is does not work. They try to hire celebrities and and influencers to shove this this test down people's throats. It's it it it the market is picking up on the inauthenticity of the messaging. You know?

Because the intention when it becomes solely to make money and and and not the intention is not to help people with their well-being, the rate of collapse was just cataclysmic. You know? And so I mean, it's sad, but but, you know, suddenly we end up I I thought you guys were because this business is it's not a business I'm interested in getting into because there's too many technicalities to it. And I I I leave it to the experts to do what they wanna do with this. Trust me.

Like, we have a lot of right now, we have a guy that wants to do a big sponsorship for one of our events, and I cannot tell you how many questions we're asking before we take sponsorship money. We don't even take sponsorship money the last eighteen months. We gave away $6,000,000 because we're not we're just not doing it on the podcast because of that specific reason. But I thought for sure you guys were gonna work together for many years I thought so too. And do great things.

And it's unfortunate to hear because I think his strength of marketing and just driving and your ability to go out there and present and you come across very likable, trusting. You you just said sometimes I've made mistakes when I said this. You know? So it it it Oh, I've definitely made mistakes. No.

No. But what I'm saying is all I'm saying is your approach gets me and others to say, okay. I'm willing to give this guy a shot and listen to him, especially if somebody doesn't know who you are. They haven't spent time with you. But I thought you guys were gonna do big things together.

It's on four I I thought you said that. Here's the thing. We were doing big things together. What we were doing was working. It was the incessant level of greed that they said, we're gonna take what's actually really working, what's scaling, and what is helping the masses, and we're gonna go we're gonna buy a new company for ourselves.

We're gonna hold it for ourselves, and we're gonna force all of this this this deal flow that all these people that are coming into the funnel, that were largely coming from, like, the podcast and stage talks and everything else. You know? And and and, yes, I will say, Grant Cardone did a lot to elevate, my awareness, and I owe him debt of gratitude, for that. But then, you know, greed just takes over. And and you say, well, we're making 17,000,000 a month.

We could make 50,000,000 a month if we double the price of the test, if we own the genetics company, if we own the supplements, if we quadruple the price of of, you know, the the the the the monthly supplements and people and Gary will just shove it down their throat. And then they ran into a brick wall. I said, listen, man. You bought bought our company. You didn't buy our soul.

And it's sad because I wanna go back out in the market and help people. I've I've got twenty one more months on my noncompete, so I gotta sit quiet in The United States. And then before I can really get back to what I love to do, so I have to go outside The United States, to do it while we see how the lawsuit plays out. Well, it is what it is. All the best to both of you guys.

I'm sure Grant's gonna do well. I always say Grant and I, we had a friendship many, many years ago, and we we, they had a fallen out after I did an interview with somebody who wasn't too happy about, and we didn't keep in contact. I think we spoke we spoke one time and visited one time in the last six years, seven years, and it was a great conversation to see what he wants to do next. But, when I watch him, his wife, and his daughters, you can say whatever you wanna say, They love their father and their husband. You gotta respect that.

Oh, no. He's he's a he is a great dad. I actually I actually spent a lot of time around him, and, ironically, even Elena that that that I'm suing right now. And and they're great parents, you know, behind the behind closed doors. You know, when I would spend time at their house, I mean, they're very intentional with their their kids.

And, you know, you see a lot of things on social media, but behind the scenes, he he actually is is very good dads. And Elaine is good good mother too. I mean, they really care about the daughters, and they're they're intentional about the way they're raising them. They they spend a lot of time with them. You know, you go over to a lot of wealthy people's houses, and the kids are always tucked over somewhere with a nanny.

You know, it's not like that. You know? I just unfortunately think that it's an incessant level of greed. You know, and I think there's good and evil in every person. Right?

And Unfortunately, that happens in families. That happens in businesses. That happens in siblings. That happens that you try to do every and a lot of times, you know what I've learned? Here's what I've learned.

I'm a big fan of prenuptial agreements. And a lot of people are like, why would you wanna do that? I'm eliminating future arguments where if we can put it on paper, and at first you kinda like, but I well, we love each other. We don't need to do this. We don't need to do just put it on paper that and what if this happens?

You do this. What if that happens? We do this. What if this happens? You do this.

Okay. Any relationships that were business or family, whatever, the more things were documented on a piece of paper to agree on my wife and I, first, second date, I bought her a book, a hundred and one questions to ask before you get engaged. Why? We talk about so many different things, how we raise our kids, how many kids I wanna have financially, who manages the finances, how many days can you go without me being on the road, and the faith, the politics. It was such a great exercise.

Yeah. Spoke right here. I bought a few thousand copies and gave it away to all my single guys on my team. Like, guys, read this. I cannot tell you how many and eventually, I'm gonna I'm I'm gonna read it even though I'm married.

I have a great marriage. It's an unbelievable book that every young man and women by the way, the whole book is literally just a hundred and one questions. There's nothing in a book. It's a question, page. Question, page.

I should have one for business, and I could have read it before I got into business with Cardwell Ventures. By the way, you know what? That's act Rob, can you text me that idea? It's actually very good to say a hundred and one questions to ask before you get into business with someone. I would actually entertain writing a book like that.

I would love it. Rob, can you put can you text me for that? I think that would be something that we ought to consider because a lot of people think about it that way. But if you go through guy messaged me, he says, hey. I'm thinking about going through with this partnership, and we're gonna do it this way.

And if after a year we do this, we're gonna merge the two companies together. I'm like, dude, I got 20 questions for you. What's gonna happen with this? What if the other person stops working? What's the arrangement to buy back?

How are you gonna evaluate the company to buy it back? If the person says, no. They don't wanna buy it back. Does it trigger something for you to be able to sell it to this? Do they have to go out every one of these things?

If I don't do it upfront, if you don't do it upfront, we're a little bit guilty in, you know, the role you know what? My my wife took everything I had. Really? Yeah. And you were worth 50,000,000 before you got married?

Yes. And you didn't put an upshot agreement. No. You deserve it. Yeah.

I I I, you know, I do bear a lot of that responsibility myself. You know, looking back, I was so caught up in, like, in in the dream, and and and there was a fear that we didn't know how to scale the business. There was the hope that we could build this into something massive. Brand. Really?

I thought of you as the brand. So for me, you're the Wozniak. Yeah. You're the product. I have absolutely Jobs without Wozniak jobs without Wozniak doesn't have Macintosh, doesn't have Apple, doesn't have the product.

You know, we, the consumers, watched you for you know, here's what he's talking about. Very interesting guy. I'm gonna try that. Mhmm. Very interesting.

I'm gonna try this. Oh, really, Dana? I'm gonna try this. Wow. I never thought about it.

I'm gonna try this. Right? So that's the part when a businessman it's it's it's Yeah. You know, it's the the saying goes, when a man with experience meets a man with money, the man with the money let's just say the man with experience meets a man with money slash idea. K?

Mhmm. The man with the money idea leaves with the experience. The man with the experience leaves with the money and the idea. Did you get it? Mhmm.

So that's kinda how this works out. The guy with experience knows because he's been through this a million times. The guy would the idea or the money is like, I'm just so excited to do something like this. Yeah. It's purely coming from an enthusiasm place.

It's innocent. It's beautiful. It's it's a Yeah. You know? So but if those two can find a way to make it work.

Yeah. No. When we were together, it was amazing. Yeah. And, you know, we both had the same mission.

We wanted to help the masses. We wanted it to be affordable. We wanted it to be scalable, and it was scaling. And it was but then the podcast, you know, the Ultimate Human podcast became so popular. They just constantly cease and desist and, you know, they were upset.

I was talking about hydrogen water, talking about amino acids, and I was guys, the only way to get to optimal health is not just our supplements or just our red bed or just our gene test. We have to be authentic when we deliver this information to people. I mean, if you go back and listen to this podcast, probably 85% of what I said is not gonna cost people much of anything. And if it does, you're not even buying it from me. And I believe that that's the way the authenticity of the message makes makes an impact because you can educate people, but if you don't inspire them to make some kind of change, you really haven't done much of anything.

And and it's, you know, it's really sad because it was working, and I think just the incessant level agreed. And then, you know, once this lawsuit became public, we we opened this hotline for people to call, and it's just absolutely ringing off the hook. I mean, our lawyers deluged with people that have the exact same experience as my wife and I. I mean, dozens and dozens and dozens of businesses, families, relationships ruined because they believed it was being told them from the stage. Like, Cardam Ventures in in these intoxicating environments, they signed these agreements, and then they got absolutely crushed.

It's a shame. Well, something tells me you're gonna do fine. Something tells me they're gonna do fine. I think sometimes I hope so. I mean, I really hope that the company You I think you you Yeah.

I think you're gonna do fine. I I think, for you to be out there talking, there's a market that wants to hear what you have to say. There's a big market for, like, you know, there's a guy named doctor Mike. I don't know if you know who this guy is on on YouTube. There's a doctor Mike guy that has, you know, 30,000,000 subscribers.

And Wow. During COVID, this guy was the only guy that would interview Fauci. Fauci wouldn't go on any YouTube channel except for this guy, doctor Mike. One day, eventually, he agrees to do a interview with me and another lady that I'm having on. He says, yeah.

For sure. Absolutely. Let's do it. I'll debate anybody. And then he avoids it.

I'm a good looking young guy. YouTube's putting them all over the place. Very good communicator. He made a video, about he reacts to everybody. Yeah.

He's got a lot he he he's he gets eyeballs. Right? Mhmm. But you know what happens the moment he thought of himself above and beyond everyone, and he no longer wanted to sit down across the table from others. And the only place Fauci trusted to go to was suing.

We were supposed to trust the science. And God knows how many of the things that Fauci said ended up being inaccurate, that they had to put a pardon on the guy. Mhmm. And to go through it, the American people lost a lot of credibility for guys like this. Yes.

And some of the credibility came for the guys like you that's just questioning things. Yeah. You're not a doctor. You're not you're just like, look. I'm not at this.

I'm not at that. Talk to your doctor. Talk to your cardiologist. We went through Dana White, and Dana White had to do this. And, you know, the reg you know, regulations and things you have to deal with.

But I think the market is is is kinda going through this pendulum back and forth. Dude, who do I go through? Like, what do I do? I these guys are asking some interesting questions that's making me think about, but this guy's got the PhD and the degrees. Do I go through?

These guys lost a lot of credibility. Oh, they lost tonic. Oh my god. They lost a lot of credibility. I mean, this is what the whole Maha movement is about.

It's about getting the corruption out of our nutritional research, in our food supply, in our in our medical system. I mean, when you when you start to look at the statistics, you know, going on in in The United States, you know, being the biggest spender in health care worldwide, we spend 4 and a half trillion dollars a year on health care. We only lead the world in in six things, infant mortality, maternal mortality, morbid obesity, type two diabetes, multiple chronic disease, and a single biome. And you think, well, we spend 4 and a half trillion dollars a year, and we we lead the world in all of those things. 77% of our our military aged men and women cannot enter military service because of poor health.

And that's department defense statistics. You know, thirteen percent of teens are suffering from fatty liver disease. Thirty percent of them, are morbidly obese. You know, the the the question is, what is causing all this parabolic rise in autism, parabolic rises in attention deficit disorder, parabolic rises in, you know, rates of depression, polycystic ovarian syndrome. All of these mental illnesses and chronic diseases on on the skyrocketing, and you and you look at the corruption in our in our in our food supply, in our nutritional research, you know, the majority of our public policy research being funded by private enterprise, which is, you know, why you get a food pyramid that says that Lucky Charms is more nutritious than grass fed steak.

That's how you get a food pyramid like that. And and I think, you know, the Maha movement, is about making changes to the poison that's in our food supply, not eliminating people's choices. I don't think anybody wants to talk about, well, you can't smoke, can't drink, can't vape, can't drink soda. You know, we're gonna close down McDonald's. That's not what it's about.

It's about saying, why are we subsidizing the industries that are poisoning us the most? You know, why do we actually subsidize grain, wheat, soy, corn, that are genetic genetically modified crops that are sprayed with forever chemicals like glyphosate, that that enter our bodies and show up in our bloodstreams and wreak havoc on our cellular biology. And, you know, our our our our food stores make it so expensive to have organic or locally grown foods and so inexpensive for the average person to get to these highly processed, poisonous, you know, grains, and and other foods. The majority of our our our diet, especially in teenagers, is highly processed foods, and it's just wrecking our our metabolism. And, you know, I'm I'm I'm really excited.

You know? I'm I'm not an official I have no government of role. I'm not officially on the Maha Committee. I don't have a position in the government. But with everything that I can do with the entire power of my platform and all of my peers, we are standing behind Bobby Kennedy and this movement in such a such a unified way because the possibility that we could affect public policy and make real change.

I mean, I'll go on as many podcasts and stage talks and whatnot as I can try to get the information out because I truly believe it doesn't belong to me. Mhmm. I believe it belongs to humanity. I just sort of, you know, god lets it flow through me. But if the possibility to affect public policy and and and get some of these poisons out of our food supply and actually put vaccines through rigorous clinical trials like we do other pharmaceuticals and other, forms of FDA approved devices and and and compounds, and and address just the straight corruption in our nutritional research and in our food and drug administration and our centers for disease controls so that we have real transparent data coming from real research that's in the best interest of true public policy, not the best interest of private enterprise because we seem to have privatized the profits and socialized the expense.

And I don't think any American is on board for the, you know, the highest rates of childhood, cancer in recorded history. And and, you know, the the the rapidly declining rates of, you know, sperm counts and infertility and miscarriages. I mean, almost makes you feel like it's done on purpose if you're not, you know, if Oh, trust me. That's what a lot of people think. So that that's why Sound like conspiracy theorist.

But But but, again, why why did Bobby gain enough credibility as a Democrat, independent, then then for Trump to bring him in? And he's not even a doc. Why are some of these guys that are not the doctors like Fauci lose credibility, yet people like Bobby Kennedy who are not doctors gain credibility? We you know, people feel like they were manipulated. I'm just excited to see what's going on next, and I'm happy for what you're doing.

Thanks, man. Gary, I appreciate you for coming out. I will tell you for me, I'm gonna go thirty days. So whatever this is, you know, whatever you got here, I'm gonna I'm gonna send you a bunch so you can go full thirty days. I'm gonna go full thirty days and experience it for myself and see where that goes.

And, at the same time, excited to see what you do next. And I do know a lot of guys like Paul Saladino. One of the things that worked out very good for Paul, a lot of people have questions. Paul's on Manect. You know, I know Tony spoke to you about that as well on the Manect side.

Love to be on there. I think a lot of people got questions for you. A lot of people got quest especially the topics that we talked about here. I just texted my wife. I said I don't normally say this because my wife's got a million and one things to do.

I said, you have to watch this podcast. I think you really can't do it. I literally just texted and she says, what do you guys talk about? I said, that that that that that. She I'm gonna watch this podcast.

So, anyways, brother, appreciate you coming out. Really, really enjoyed it. Thank you. I appreciate you so much. Take care, everybody.

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