Gary Brecka: How To Identify Your Triggers & BIOHACK Your Anxiety Away!

in the industry that I was previously associated with which was large life insurance if the database that I had access to could see the light of day it would upend modern medicine in a way that would be catastrophic we could tell the insurance company how long you had to live to the month Chief Human biologist Gary Brea he's going to make you superum we know that sedentary lifestyle is the leading cause of all cause mortality you're breathing in that repetitively expired air dropping that oxidative State you're making the blood more hospitable to [Music] disease hey everyone I've got some huge news to share with you in the last 90 days 79.4% of our audience came from viewers and listeners that are not subscribed to this channel there's research that shows that if you want to create a habit make it easy to access by hitting the Subscribe button you're creating a habit of learning how to be happier healthier and more healed this would also mean the absolute world to me and help us make better bigger brighter content for you in the world subscribe right now the number one Health and Wellness podcast Jett J shett the one the only Jett you talk about the ability to predict how long someone will live and that sounds fascinating and crazy at the same time how is that possible well first of all it's based on large data and it wasn't me just looking at blood work and Gene tests and saying I can tell you how many more months you have left on Earth but if we got in the industry that I was previously associated with which was large life insurance if we got 10 years of medical records on you and 10 years of demographic data we could tell the insurance company how long you had to live to the month and there are enormous companies that do this if the biggest one is probably a Fano and Associates but this is based on very very large pools of data and remember that life insurance companies have data that no other financial services Enterprise has no other you know bank has CDC doesn't have it Collegiate universities that are doing longevity studies don't have it and that is that they know the day the date the time the location and the cause of death for hundreds of millions of lives and they have blood work on these people they have um you know very in-depth um analytics on their demographic data if you've ever applied for a large life insurance company or large life insurance policy let's say 5 million 10 million $25 million policy there was at some point somebody determining not where you were on an Actuarial curve but your specific mortality and the way that it's done is you start with an Actuarial curve right so if you're 35y old male you have a life expectancy of x if you're 28- year old female you have a life expectancy of Y the question is not where are you on that curve but what is your specific mortality and it's incredible how big data Trends can actually predict not only the onset of and the severity of but how quickly you will succumb to certain disease conditions and what became glaringly apparent to me was that you know if the database that I had access to during that 20 plus year career could see the light of day it would permanently change the face of humanity it it would upend modern medicine in a way that would be catastrophic because they have real data you know so if you went to your um cardiologist for example and he put some heart stints in your heart and you left his office um you may or may not ever see him again he doesn't know if something happened to you 3 days later or 30 years later and you if you passed because of complications related to the heart stint or or just died of happy ripe old age but the insurance company know exactly Day date time location and cause of death and you can triangulate that back into the record and you can see where the mistakes were made either in Diagnostics as we know medical error is the third leading cause of death and that doesn't mean that doctors are out to kill people um or that the Health Care system is out to kill people what we know that it's completely overburdened and sometimes medical error occurs it just happens to occur at a rate that in the United States at least is the is the third leading cause of death and if you ever want to question whether or not insurance companies are good at predicting mortality just look at what happened during the 2008 and 2009 Financial Services crisis we had we had 364 Banks fail you didn't have a single life insurance company fail in the United States a valid death claim in America has never failed to have been paid now that's an impressive statistic but you also have to realized that only 2% of life insurance policies ever pay a death claim 98% of all life insurance policies lapse so uh I guess I you know really belabor that point but you the the science of mortality is some of the most accurate science in the world and if you really boil it down to the sum of its components you find that it's predict where processes in the body that are running on Parallel tracks will finally converge right what we call comorbidities when that happens there is a parabolic rise in the ability to predict the terminal end of somebody's life we know that for example all human beings leave this earth the same way we actually all die of the same thing it's called hypoxia lack of oxygen to the brain so when you can no longer sustain enough oxygen to the brain that you don't have brain function that's essentially the definition of death and we think of it as uh an event like a gunshot wound a heart attack a bus a stroke you know some other kind of event but the truth is that this is a predictable curve um we used to uh use an underlying what we call a hypoxic curve how well is this person managing oxygen or how poorly are they managing oxygen and once we were able to predict that looking at red blood cell counts hemoglobin levels hormone levels nutrient deficiencies you can very accurately discern whether or not somebody has a fighting chance of getting out of their condition or of that condition you know resulting in their demise and you know two things were very trying for me in that industry one was that you know I really began to realize that it wasn't just data there were human beings on the other side of these spreadsheets but the second immensely obvious point that came out of 20 years in that career was that the majority of the reason why people are not living healthier happier longer more fulfilling lives is were because of things that we called modifiable risk factors just simple changes that they could have made to their daily routine that would have materially change the trajectory of their life in most cases they had to do with simple basic nutrients that were missing from their body that were causing the expression of disease and you know anemas D3 deficiencies hormone imbalance not because of their endocrine system had a a particular uh disease or pathology but because it was nutrient deficient and it became so obvious to me that if I had just been able to pick up the phone and call any number of these people you know I could have could have dramatically changed the trajectory of their life wow I mean when I'm hearing you talk about oxygen to the brain which sounds so obvious but it's something that is rarely articulated ox to the brain is not just gas entering the brain you know if you if you look at the molecular structure of a lot of the states in the brain that we talk about like if you were to say um to me what is a mood what is an emotional state well it's a collection of neurotransmitters in most cases bound to oxygen if you look at the molecular structure of some of these activated deactivated neurotrans transmitters or some of these the differences between different moods elevated emotional states passion Elation Joy arousal or suppressed emotional states anger you know Vengeance despair you'd find that a large reason a large um difference between these two emotional states is the presence of oxygen you know one one of the reasons why no human being is ever woken up laughing is because you don't have the oxidative state to experience laughter but can you wake up angry very easily lower to your emotional states do not require the presence of oxygen and so when you know if you want to do a fun experiment tonight just just pinch your wife while she's in a deep sleep she will instantly wake up angry right I I actually don't suggest that and then I may love but if you wanted her laugh right if you wanted her to be joyous um if you wanted her to be elated aroused you you would have to you know wake her up improve the oxidative State and then allow those emotions to come in to play and and so you know I have a saying that the presence of oxygen is the absence of disease and so we know and you know very well because you're you're you're in the space that we feel emotion in an area of the brain called the amydala right little two little almonds um and the fascinating thing about this area of the brain where we experience every emotional state that we we can experience if you're angry you're angry in the amydala if you're you're you're elated you're elated in the amydala area of the brain is that it is according to MIT the sole gateway to the hippocampus which is where our memory is stored and so when you start thinking about that from a physiological standpoint like well the sole gateway to the hippocampus is through the Amiga but when you start thinking it from a practical standpoint then the sole gateway to our memory is through our current emotional state and if that's how we access memory and memory is what we draw upon you know our prefrontal cortex and our our our Consciousness our future draws from our memories then if the Amiga is what accesses the the hippocampus part of the brain and and Taps into our memory and then our conscience pulls from our memory then this essentially means that your current emotional state determines your future and I just feel like if we could improve the capacity for people to experience elevated emotional states for prolonged periods of time not like a heart monitor right because you find find so many people that are not in good physiological condition that are trying to become in better emotional condition right better mood um and they're only able to reach these emotional states for short periods of time like a like a heart monitor so um and they do all the right things they wake up they Journal they read self-help motivational books they go to the right seminars they try to um Express gratitude um even even fake their way through it but as soon as they're done that intentional focus it drops back down into the state where they most comfortably exist and I believe a lot of this has to do with the oxidative state in the brain it also has to do with nutrient deficiencies right I mean we every every emotion that we can feel every every mood that we can experience as a collection of neurotransmitters as we have imbalances and deficiencies in these then we cannot manufacture the moods and the emotional states that we that we really want to experience and then we're told we have a mood disorder MH um or a mental illness and and I think very often we just have a lack of mental Fitness and so when when you realize like the the happiest people are the people that are moving the most that have the greatest sense of purpose and that they're not necessarily the the world's greatest biohackers but they're eating Whole Foods they're moving their body a lot they have a sense of purpose you look at the blue zones and and some of the things that actually extend life you know we would see this in the medical record um yeah were those people actually having some alcohol yeah were those people actually having a little bit of elevated LDL cholesterol sure um did those people eat um sweets once in a while yeah they sure did um but they moved on a consistent basis and they had relationships and they had a sense of purpose and for the most part they ate Whole Foods and not any particular type of Whole Food not any particular type of diet wasn't a carnival diet that extended their life it wasn't the keto diet that extended their life it wasn't the raw food vegan diet that extended their life it was the whole food diet you know just eating real Whole Foods um so I kind of diverted there for a second I get where you're going yeah sometimes my wife is like you just eat people's face and like you know so government you sit next to me on like a commercial flight or something oh yeah I love it I love it just e how do we how do we how do we do that though like how do we get more oxygen to our brain like what does that mean what does that look like well I mean we know that sedentary lifestyle is the leading cause of all cause mortality right and why is sedentary lifestyle the leading cause of all cause mortality we know that that sitting is the new smoking well we know why smoking was bad for you right it destroyed the lungs um but uh and you know that the nicotine caused permanent lung damage and but it wasn't the really the nicotine it was the reduction in the oxidative State and when the body doesn't have oxygen it can't really defend itself I mean if you actually were to go in through the wall of a cell go through the cytoplasm and and and find the little organel floating around in there called the mitochondria which there's probably a thousand or so per cell and 32 trillion cells so it's estimated we have 110 trillion mitochondria about 10% of your body weight of these little mitochondria these are this is the true energy source for human beings and when cells become metabolically sick and usually begins in the mitochondria um including the Genesis of of of cancer and and forms of all kinds of different pathologies so when the mitochondria does not have the right oxidative State um you have a 16-fold step down in its production of energy and what happens when you take you know a 16-fold step down in the energetic state of a cell is now that cell can no longer eliminate waste repair detoxify regenerate and so you're becoming metabolically sick mainly because of the deficiency in oxygen it's not that linear but that is the main component and sedentary lifestyle means that um we have prolonged periods of where our respiratory rate is very shallow when our respiratory rat's very shallow the majority of the air that we breathe in and out is high in carbon dioxide see expelled air I mean right now every time you let out a breath from the tip of your nose and the front of your lips all the way down your esophagus through the back of your ferx and all the way down and out to the bronchioles your in your lungs this is all expired air so when you breathe in and out if it's very shallow you're breathing in that repetitively expired air and you're dropping that oxidative state in the blood you're making the blood more acidic you're making it more hospitable to disease um not alkaline and less hospitable and not full of oxygen which is energetic and so what ways to get more oxygen obviously things like breath work just simply moving your body give us give us one that so I I love what you're saying here because it's so fascinating to understand that the reason a shallow breath is reducing our lifespan is because of this idea of just how much can get stuck and lost in there that's changing in the gases yeah and so what are some breath work practices because I think what we don't realize today is with everyone dealing with anxiety dealing with stress dealing with pressure we're all subconsciously breathing far more shallower and we're breathing quicker and you got these shorter quicker breaths and I think sometimes we're doing it without knowing at all what are some great breath work practices that you stand by there so you know I don't have a breath work practice that I that I take credit for I use a whm Hoff style of breath work I mean you you could spend a lifetime going and and I encourage people to do so I mean the lifetime going down the the just the breath work Avenue there there's breath work to wake up there's breath work to go to sleep but I think it's important you know as a as a part of a really daily Health practice longevity practice see you're just taking a deep breath now now I'm like suggestion he's like that's what I'm saying yeah I'm like yeah let's get really Che like I'm not dying anytime soon I'm not going I'm not going down every listening and watching is taking a breath right now too everyone's like everyone's doing the same thing I'm doing they're doing it right now everyone's like counting how long their breath is right now the truth is you know it's better to breathe deeper and longer and less frequently than it is to breathe more shallow and less frequently um in fact Wim Hoff in some of his teachings will do a very simple exercise where he'll say I just want you to look down at your watch and I want you to count the number of times you breathe in and out in the next minute and people just they don't know that they're actually being tripped and and what he's showing is that the majority of people are are are breathing 15 18 sometimes 20 breaths in 60 seconds and what this is showing you is if you're breathing that frequently you're breathing that frequently because of the very little amount of oxygen that you're getting and so you're breathing shallow and your buddy is trying to get more oxygen then he says okay count the number of breaths in the next minute I want you to only take four breaths for the entire minute one every 15 seconds and you're going to breathe in and you're going to pause and you're going to breathe [Applause] out and so essentially what he's trying to demonstrate is that in that same minute four breaths actually was equivalent to 15 or 18 or 20 breasts in the same period of time but they were four deep breaths as we age I read a statistic I don't know if there's any valid signs behind this or not um I actually got hassled online for for repeating this but I read a statistic that after age 30 less than 95% of people will ever Sprint again wow I don't know how much truth there is to that but as I kind of just Meander my way through the world I I I I have a tendency to think that it's you know fairly close and if it's not 95% of people maybe it's 70% of people but after age 30 and this means that we're not using our auxiliary muscles of respiration we're not using our intercostals we're not using our diaphragm to massage our intestines we're not correcting our posture and getting you know air down into the loes of our lungs and out of the Apex of our lungs and and so what Wim Hoff talks about is is um I do three rounds of 30 breaths um every morning takes about 8 minutes there that is the one thing that I do that I never ever ever ever Miss three rounds of 30 breaths that uh every minute you're only taking four breaths no no so it's three rounds to 30 breaths so the the one minute of four breaths was just a way of showing you how you're actually hyperventilating yourself you're actually you know if you're taking 20 breasts in a minute or 15 breaths in a minute those are really short breaths and which means you're not drawing in a lot of oxygen and you made it through the next minute breathing less than a quarter of the the amount of time and it just shows you that it's because during those 15 or 18 breaths you use the Apex of your lungs during those four breasts you use the loes of your lungs where 2third of the storage capacity is and so it's just demonstrating the the fact that getting oxygen deep into the loaves of our lungs and into our bloodstream is a very very healthy thing and it not only elevates your mood and your emotional state but it is the antithesis of disease it can actually even alkalize the blood um so I do three rounds of 30 breaths obnoxiously deep breath and then exhale and then on your 30th breath and you exhale and you hold as long long as you can when you start you might be holding your breath for 15 seconds 20 seconds after several months of doing it because the the oxygen tension will change the storage capacity changes um you'll be up to I'm up to almost four minutes now so I can hold my breath for four minutes between rounds and you want on that exhale you want to build carbon dioxide you you that's the main Vaso dilator in in the human body it's not nitric oxide it's carbon dioxide the reason why we get vascular during exercise is because of the carbon dioxide traveling back to the lungs um not necessarily because of the pressure so we want the carbon dioxide to build up we want that vasod dilation and then post vasod dilation we take a nice obnoxiously deep breath in we let that air out and we start again it's like my coffee my caffeine my My Double Espresso in the morning I call it my drug of choice because my body craves it like a rat to cheese So within 30 minutes of waking every day I'm finding a spot to do 30 minutes of breath work and and the great thing about it is number one it's free and number two it's portable um you do it in a you sound a little weird doing it in the hotel room or in airplane bathroom um you know when I'm on Long flights I I go in the restroom and do it God only knows what they think I'm doing in there why would you doing your seat Well um like everybody out there stressing out yeah I to ring the flight attendent call button but uh I was actually on a long flight from Dubai um back to New York and and and actually the a few times ago when I was in LA I went LA to to Dubai on Emirates and um and they got a big bathroom in in the front of the plane there and I just went in there and had at it you know do like 25 air squats and then I would do 25 deep press 25 air squats 25 deep press and I I could see the looks on people's face when I came out of the bathroom but I'm like I feel great and then and then every hour on the hour I was going back in and doing the same thing I know they were thinking God just give it a r give it a break guy they need a gym on planes yeah they we need to normalize gyms on planes G on Yo somebody was actually talking to me about my friend Mikey Wang was talking me about that the other day how he wants to put gyms on planes take out the bar and put even if you just put like some TRX bands um or something you know I I can't I can't imagine a squat rack with some you know freeways but um but what a cool thing it would be if if the business class section in the back like in Emirates it's it's a bar back there with you know with a cool TV and little Lounge seats but I I'd love for him to put some eyelets around and just throw up some TRX bands I I would be back there doing in fact I had a whole group of people in the back of the planes about 12 or 13 of us last time on my way to Dubai um and it convinced everybody to do breath work and we all sat in a big circle on the back of that uh Airbus and uh and dead breath work for like 20 minutes it was amazing Gary what's that I want to go back to something you said earlier what's the relationship between mental health and vitamin deficiencies well if you look at um I don't think this is talked about enough I don't think it's talked about enough either um you know when we talk about mental health a lack of mental Fitness you know so many mental health disorders are in my opinion poorly understood they are defined one way and treat a different way I just had Dr Palmer from from uh um from Harvard on my podcast it was fascinating how he was treating and he's a board certified psychiatrist an MD and Harvard professor and he's treating some of the most drug-resistant psychiatric illnesses and I'm talking about the most awful of psychiatric illnesses you know paranoid schizophrenia the the the the conditions where people are literally tortured inside their own head voices what have you and they're drug resistant and he treated them with um supplements and ketogenic diets and again I'm not trying to oversimplify you know mental health by any means and saying if you're suffering from sphere depression just get on a ketogenic diet that's not at all what I'm saying but if you look at the if you keep digging in and you say okay what is a mood what is an emotional state um these are collections of neurotransmitters they're recipes right um what is anxiety it's an excess it's an elevation of a category of neurotransmitters called catacol amines so if catacol amines rise in your brain you will feel fearful you will actually feel the presence of a fear without the presence of a fear and when we understand that the brain can play tricks on us because it truly doesn't know the difference between perception and reality you know I use the example that if you drove home tonight and you got out of your car and somebody was standing in front of you with a knife um very real fear right your you would begin to have a fight ORF flight response pupils would dilate heart rate would increase your extremities would flood with blood but you could also be in your place here and we're very high on the mountain in La um and you could be laying in your bed tonight you could start thinking about getting eaten by a shark you know that the chances of a shark getting out of the Pacific Ocean and making it up there right that your Hill right even if you had an Uber um when we are are virtually zero but you could have the exact same reaction how is it that I could have the same reaction to the Pres of real fear is an entirely imagined fear because at their core at the Hub or all these spokes meet it's the same thing it's a rising catacol amines so if we know fear can be born from a rise in catacol amines then we know anxiety and anxiousness can be from a rise in catacol me this is why so many people that have anxiety or experience anxiousness very often will say I've had it on and off throughout my entire lifetime and I cannot point to the specific trigger that causes it they could be sitting on a podcast like we are right now very calm their staff around nothing to be afraid of and all of a sudden become overwhelmed with anxiety so um and then we take it a step further and we say well where are these neurotransmitters come from how do we make neurotransmitters well the majority of these are made in the gut um serotonin for example is methylated in the gut we take a simple amino acid called tryptophan we methylate it into the neurotransmitter serotonin it travels up the Vegas nerve and it creates a mood we take pheny alanine and Ty and we turn those into dopamine the main driver of behavior so if we know that mood and behavior driven by neurotransmitters that are derived from amino acids then why isn't it possible that deficiencies in amino acids could give rise to deficiencies in neurotransmitters could could then be interpreted as a mental illness and again I'm not trying to oversimplify mental illness by any by any means I believe in therapy I also believe that you know meds do work in in in many cases but um why wouldn't we start first if we Define for example depression as an inadequate supply of Serotonin then why are we not trying to raise the level of Serotonin if we Define some addictive Tendencies as an inadequate supply of dopamine the absence of dopamine is the presence of addiction one of the reasons why addiction has a tendency to shift is because we never treat the dopamine deficiency we only treat the physical addiction right so these are why drug addicts become alcoholics alcoholics become Workaholics Workaholics become Workaholics um you know you shift one addiction for another because that deficiency in dopamine drives you to feel want to feel normal and and this is where I believe most addiction starts is the search for normaly not the search for a high right I don't believe that most most addicts woke up one day and said I want to get really banged up they woke up one day and said I want to feel normal yeah or numb or numb numb yeah yeah and in this search for that numbness or the search for that normal whether it was alcohol or nicotine or priscu or what have you um they felt that that either that numbness or that sense of normaly and then the addiction Grew From that and so they they were then running from a low not running towards a high and this is one of the reasons why I have so much empathy for people that are trapped in the cycle of addiction and I think that more addictive therapy needs to address these dopamine deficiencies but now we're getting down to the the possibility that um nutrient deficiencies could give rise to neurotransmitter deficiencies that could give rise to states of mental instability and then we label this mental illness you have ADD ADHD you have OCD you have manic depression you have bipolar you have schizophrenia you have um generalized anxiety you have generalized depression which I personally think are nonsense but again I'm not attacking the mental health profession when you deprive the human body of certain raw materials you get the expression of dis disease and we accept this in so many different areas of medicine but we don't really accept it in mental illness right I mean how how is a leading PhD from Harvard having success treating drug-resistant mental illness with diet because it's not the diet it's the nutrients that they were deficient in um and how is it that people that experience um High rates of anxiety and anxiousness and attention deficit disorder or attention deficit hyp activity disorder can sometimes do something as simple as take a methylated multivitamin and experience a dramatic reduction in their symptoms because nutrients matter the human being is such a the human body is such a fascinating machine you know it's the more you you study human physiology the more you you believe in God because there's no way that this was just assembled by accident or by chance over time right you'll never I don't care how much time you give two bacteria in a mud puddle you're never going to get a human being out of it and the intelligence with which it's designed how one raw material enters a cycle it gets used it creates waste and then that waste is is accepted and taken into another cycle and it's and it's utilized and it's like one man's trash is another man's treasure and cellular metabolism is so fascinating because one amino acid enters a cycle and it gets converted into something completely different homosysteine gets get metabolized into methionine homosysteine then can be one of the most inflammatory compounds in the human body this gets metabolized into methionine which then goes up into the mind and quiets the Mind by by dismantling by by by essentially downregulating catacol amines these fight-flight neurotransmitters so puts people into a calm state of being calm so then you start to understand well the majority of people that have sleep disturbance have one or two types of sleep patterns they are either lay down to go to sleep body tired and they are mind wake mhm so when their environment quiets their mind wakes up why does the Mind wake up when the environment quiets because you have excess catamin in the brain there's a there's a gene mutation called comp T CT catacol Oyl transferase it's a fancy way of saying the the gene that codes for the enzyme that that breaks down this class of neurotransmitters that downregulates them well let's say that this gene mutation you have this and and and you have an impaired ability to downregulate catac colam meines that doesn't sound like a big deal until you realize that catac colam Mees create a waken state in the brain and so this waken state usually happens at night and somebody will lay there and they will just think about the most innocuous little thoughts while they are exhausted they're just like did I get everything on my grocery list um did my belt match my shoes we changed the uh juny label to fuchsia from dark blue you know and you're like why am I thinking about this at 2:30 in the morning right or you get up to use the restroom and you go back to bed and you lay there and your mind's awake and so you don't have a sleep disorder you don't have a mental disorder um you don't have generalized anxiety you don't have a mood disorder you have excess catacol amines in the brain and very often these can be downregulated very simply with complexes of B vitamins methylated um uh B12 methyl folate the raw material that the body needs to downregulate these and by by not giving the body the raw material we get this expression of disease and then we say this person has this condition you know it I tell the same story all the time a lot about when I was in grad school and I took these these plant botney courses um which I didn't like to take because I wanted to get a human biology degree and I had to study algae um which wasn't wasn't super wasn't super interesting to me that's what was so interesting about biology growing up I I remember there's so many subjects now I'm like if I knew that Neuroscience was a part of you know looking at biology and so many other things I would have been fascinated by itar about plant biology I didn't care yeah me too I I really could have cared less about plant biology but and then you know then you have to start Rock stratas and and you know fossil lineages and all this other kind of stuff and I'm like who who makes a career out of this um but uh but you can actually get a degree degree in traffic management too so I guess that that I'd rather study rocks than traffic no offense to the traffic experts out there you guys are killing it but um uh but you know when you when you start to realize that I'm just still laugh we cut that out be like what an cck out just lost half your audience right there like don't don't offend the traffic guys dude somebody's got to figure out when these lights go on and off um go sorry I I'm just having a good time with you I'm having a good time too but I I don't know how we got down that road but but in any case you know when you when when you're studying plants all right goe go go I don't know why that's so funny yeah hopefully hopefully your listeners think it's so funny but when you're studying plants got it and you we'll cut it maybe we should leave it in actually kind of like it um you you don't think you have a lot of traffic experts to listen to the podcast no probably probably a very low you you probably lose two followers on that one it's worth it you know if if you have a leaf that rotting in the top of your palm tree and you call a true arborist a true botanist down to your house and you know they'll look at that leaf and they won't touch the leaf they won't even touch the tree they'll CEST the soil and they'll say um you know what Jay there's no nitrogen in this soil and they'll add nitrogen to the soil and the leaf will heal we stop thinking about human beings this way we go very quickly to chemicals and synthetics Pharmaceuticals as a way to solve potential nutrient deficiency in the human body and we're fascinating machines like plants and when if you didn't add nitrogen to that soil all of the things that were good for that plant um would have done nothing right you're like well maybe we should water it water's great for plants when you put water on there and nothing happens maybe we should add sulfur sulfur is great for plants and you and you put sulfur you put Pete M on there and you're like Pete mus is great for plants and this happens in human beings too we don't get data so we actually never find the nitrogen we never find the raw material that's actually missing that's causing the expression of disease and this is how most people wander their way through their supplement routine they they get they get lost in the Myriad of great supplements and they start supplementing for the sake of supplementing well is NN good yeah it's great it raises NAD levels um is Resveratrol good yeah it can lengthen telm says St John's worth good is ashwagandha good is Sal plemento good should I take CoQ10 I mean you you can make an argument for all of these different things that we could supplement with but like the missing raw material like the missing nitrogen in the soil if you don't find the deficiency none of that matters and that's why I tell people that they should get data on their body you know there's 74 biomarkers that I look at in the blood they're right up on my Instagram if anybody wants to take those biomarkers off my Instagram take them to your doctor your your Healthcare practitioner and say hey will you look at these in my blood and have your doctor interpret those that's a great place to start I put the the the Gen me that I think are the most impactful for mental health and for gut health and for mood and for anxiety and for quieting the mind and for the research that I've I've been able to uncover on ADD and ADHD and poor sleep um poor focus and concentration and you could take those five genes and you can um you know find a genetic methylation uh counselor or find a place to get a genetic methylation test and get data so that you go you know like you were telling me but when we sat down before the podcast you were telling me where you to get your blood work done that's great because you're getting data you're not just aimlessly wandering around going I don't know if I feel good I don't know if I feel normal I don't know if I could feel better I don't know if maybe some of the little nagging things that are going on in my life and I don't know if you have any but of course yeah I mean I'm not sleeping as good as I could and been working out and I don't have a response to exercise like I wanted I feel like my focus is off you know my waking energies a little I was going to ask you actually about that because I think a lot of people feel and and I want to talk about some of the symptoms that I hear from our community our audience of what people feel and to get your take on how to combat that so one of the biggest things I hear from people is Jay I'm just feeling brain fog right I'm just feeling like I have no Clarity like I struggle to make decisions I'm feeling a sense of low energy and so like I'm lethargic like these are very common things so with brain fog what's going on there well I mean everything that you um feel about energy like when you say I don't have I'm low on energy physiologically what you're saying is I'm low on oxygen in my blood because everything that you perceive about energy is nothing more than oxygen in your blood so if oxygen equals energy which it does then if I want to raise your energy level I need to improve the oxidative State and how do I do that well one of the ways and I'm not saying this is the only way but one of the physiologic pathways is um if we know energy equals oxygen then we take it a step further and we say well um what carries oxygen around the human body well red blood cell carries oxygen inside of a fluid and I'm simplifying for you Ultra work biohackers but the you know the red blood cell carries oxygen inside of a fluid called hemoglobin so if I'm low on red blood cells right I'm low on vehicles to carry oxygen if those red blood cells are further deficient in hemoglobin then the few cells that I have that are able to carry oxygen have less fluid to carry oxygen therefore I'm hypoxic and it hides in plain sight so then the question becomes Where are red blood cells and hemoglobin made well they're made in the bone marrow so how do I get the bone marrow to make more red blood cells in hemoglobin I go to the Bone marrow's boss um which is the hormone testosterone um in men and women one of the one of the roles of testosterone is urethr oesis to put pressure on the bone marrow to make new red blood cells and in nearly every case where we see clinically deficient levels of this hormone testosterone free testosterone we see Rebels and hemoglobin towards the low end of the range and then you look at well what is testosterone made from well I mean it's made from several things but largely from DHEA so if I'm a deficient DHEA I should get that fixed and and and what is the next macronutrient below DHEA vitamin D3 so you go oxygen red blood cells bone marrow hormone testosterone dhaa D3 so if you start in the root and you raise your D3 level to the optimal fun functional range which I think most practitioners would agree is between 60 and 80 and then you raise your DHEA into the optimal range and you wait to see if your hormones respond um and if your testosterone Rises especially your free testosterone Rises your red blood cell count and hemoglobin will go up as your red blel count and hemoglobin level rise the amount of oxygen that you transport in your blood will rise and you will perceive that as more energy you will perceive that as improved focus and concentration and your sleep will deepen why because in low respiratory States when our respiratory rate gets very shallow um we want our blood to be very good at carrying oxygen because if you're already poorly transporting oxygen and then you try to get into a deep sleep and your respiratory rate drops and you get to where you are hypoxic your brain will wake you up it will wake you up by pulsing cortisol and so you people that have that are exhausted sleep the worst and and ask a physician sometime why is it that people that are the most exhausted sleep the worst they very rarely connect the fact that they're low on oxygen which is why they're tired and have brain fog and they're low on oxygen which is why they're not sleeping because their brain is waking them up and then they do the worst thing they go to their doctor and they go I can't sleep and so then the doctor suggests something like AUM nitrate diazapam you know um Desta ambient and and essentially they tranquilize you and and what's happening when you take a lot of these sleep medications not all of them but when you take a lot of these sleep medications is you're in a low oxidative state so your brain's trying to save your life and wake you up um and then you take a sleep medication and you block the brain's view of blood oxygen so now the brain can't isn't able to try to save your life and wake you up and so now you get into a deep sleep and you wake up the next morning you go man I hate taking Tylenol PM because it is I am so groggy um it's still in my system the next morning that's actually not true that that Drug's been out of your system for hours you're feeling the effects of having suffocated for 6 hours and so suffocating yourself to sleep and then and then now you've slept but you get up from the sleep medication and you are still exhausted and you still have brain fog so there are other potential causes but but you know that is the one the one the one nice thing about the clinics that we have is you know we see 20,000 new new [Music] can be re restored there's a significant difference between the memory actually fading which it does in the later stages and access to the memory fading so the oxidative state of the body is very important which is why I I think people really need to get data if your hormones are in the optimal range your you're you're not nutrient deficient um you're not insulin resistant I'm not saying that your blood Labs need to be perfect but by dialing in a few markers in your your hormone levels and your nutrient levels you can live a dramatically different life MH and in the majority of cases probably 70% of the cases people that qualify to be on hormone therapy don't even need hormones they need the nutrients to make hormones and that to me is really exciting you mean I could just be deficient in something like DHEA like D3 I could have an elevated protein like shbg and I could I could take something simple like Boron and and lower that and raise my hormones and feel a lot better yes I'm not saying that you have to go and get on hormon injections by any means but I am saying that you need to get data on the deficiency so that you can drive a state of being optimal because so many people that um I work with will will call me like you know weeks into our journey and say oh my God Gary I feel amazing um including like Dana White and I'm like you know you really don't feel amazing they're like what I say you feel normal right that's how normal supposed to feel you're really supposed to feel that good right this was we're not used to that though we're not used to that yeah I was going to ask you what what does it feel like have you worked in your clinics with women preparing to give birth and then post giving birth yes quite a bit in fact our Clinic director is a board-certified um OBGYN she's a gynecological surgeon um she's got a double Masters because I feel like that Journey we still don't talk enough about how challenging it is on the human biology oh yeah it's it's it's um very challenging I mean if you look at a woman's you know what happens during woman's menstrual cycle and you look at uh what happens when she becomes pregnant it's perfectly normal during regular regular cyclical periods of her cycle for her estrogen to be as high as you know in the 400s perfectly normal for it to be in the teens so it has a very large frequency you know um rise and fall depending on where she is in the cycle soon she becomes pregnant you know estrogen goes into the 4 thousands um mainly because you know one of estrogen's primary role is to retain water um to pad the uterus and and protect protect the fetus has other other roles but it retains water but postpartum you don't want to be estrogen dominant um and you know it's it's not necessarily for for women especially the the level of hormone it is the ratio of hormones in their body and you know Dr Sardis who's who's our OBGYN is phenomenal about pre and postpartum care um she's an enormous believer that certain Gene mutations like mtfr which increase the frequency of of miscarriage she delivered 9,000 babies so she's very qualified to speak on that um that the G mutation that is one of the most common G mutations in the world the MTHFR what do it do it stands for methylene tetrahydrofolate reductase it is the gene that that codes for the conversion of folic acid and its derivatives like folate into the usable form called methylfolate and this is what I mean and we have a process in body called methylation which is where we take one raw material which is useless folic acid for example entirely useless in human folic acid does not prevent neural tube defects it doesn't prevent anything until it is converted into methylfolate so what if your body can't make this conversion well it might not sound like a big deal until you realize that number one it's the most common gene mutation in the world and number two folic acid is the most prevalent nutrient in the human diet in the United States so if you have an issue converting the most prevalent nutrient in the human diet into the form that your body can use you have a significant deficiency and the expression of this deficiency is increase in the number of miscarriages um um infertility a difficulty in getting um pregnant I'm just talking about in the female cycle um postpartum depression which can actually begin before the pregnancy ends we call it postpartum depression but very often it begins during the pregnancy and women that have this MTHFR gene mutation the first thing they're told when they get pregnant by their OBGYN is to take high doses of folic acid well if you put 1400 or 1,00% of the daily allowance of folic acid into somebody a woman like that who has that gene mutation and cannot process it that is a disaster and she develops postpartum depression before the pregnancy ends and um eventually when the pregnancy ends she stops taking the prenatal vitamin and the symptoms go away and so she blames it on the pregnancy not on the vitamin and this is another you know pandemic that we see is that pregnant women all of them could use methylfolate less than 60% of them can use folic acid so why don't we just give women methyl folate why don't we actually just give them the form that would um that their that their body can use by the way folic acid also is a man-made chemical you can't find folic acid anywhere on the surface of the Earth it does not occur naturally in nature so someone convinced me how you know a synthetic chemical that we make in a laboratory is somehow necessary for Optimal Health yeah it's it's bizarre isn't it it can't be yeah you know wasn't even around I don't think until 1993 or so what did we do before that just suffer um so I'm a huge believer that um you know getting back to the basics is really the gateway to Optimal Health how do you know if you have that mutation and what do you do about it you do a uh a genetic cheek swab um so there's a cheek swab test you you you swab your cheek usually put it in a test tube you send it to the lab and they'll send you back the results um even 23 in me I do I do genetic tests at at 10x Health um you do not have to do the test through me but you know we do 20,000 of these a month um I'm sure 23 me does something similar to that but you also get a lot depending on the type of genetic test you do you you you'll get a lot of um non-actionable data right I mean like I if I pulled your entire genetic code I could see that you have dark olive skin you have green eyes you have brown hair you have detached earlobes but there's nothing you can do with that genetic information um you want you want to look at the genes responsible for converting raw material vitamins minerals amino acids into the usable form I I I always use the analogy that we we pull crude oil out of the ground right but you cannot put crude oil into your gas tank the car doesn't understand that fuel source crude oil has to be refined into gasoline now the car can run human beings are no different we put vitamins minerals amino acids nutrients all proteins into the body which are useless in that state until they are converted into the gasoline into the form that the body can use and this is governed by several of our genes and they're very easy to look at and you only do that test once in your lifetime that's fantastic thank you for that I think that's going to help a lot of people listening or watching because I feel like question when we're thinking about people have planning for kids or have had kids and they're struggling and again I think we all do this and that's why I'm so glad we're talking about this because I think the first thing we blame is our mind that's the first thing we all do is we judge ourselves and we go I'm not strong enough I'm too weak I'm mentally not there I'm not figuring it out there's something wrong with me right but we're not looking at the fact that let me actually take a look at what is wrong and which part of it and where has it gone wrong yeah you know you know what I think we tried to do I mean just naturally instinctively is when we don't feel good or something seems to be going wrong in our bodies we're anxious we're worried we're depressed um or there's something more physical we're bloated we're constipated we're irritable we got cramps um we're fatigued we begin to look at our outside environment right we look at what's called a cluster of symptoms and a cluster of symptoms is very often nonsense we diagnosed Abraham Lincoln with a you know depression 150 years ago with a Custer symptom so we did the same kind of diagnos IC use a similar diagnostic tools today what if you consider that it's not something happening to you it's something happening within you right like that leaf that was rotting in the palm tree nothing happened to it something happened within the soil that and then caus something to happen within the tree which translated to that leaf and I I always use that example because it starts people thinking that you know what maybe I'm not as sick or pathological diseased or mentally ill as as I think um you you know people very often that suffer from gut issues I mean we see this thousands and thousands of times so they're like they get gas or bloating or diarrhea or constipation or irritability or cramping and they are always trying to relate it to what they last ate because that makes sense right I ate something and now I blew up like a tick it must have been what I ate but you you may not be considering that if you're deficient in meth folate for example very simple nutrient that the peristaltic activity of the gut is off so the pace of the gut is off you know you you can think of the human intestinal tract is a 30 foot long conveyor belt you put contents on it at one end and as it traverses to the other end from the stomach to the rectum there's a very specific sequence of events that needs to occur there's acidic bacteria in the proximal end of the small intestine there's there's alkaline bacteria and the distal end near the rectum what if you just change the pace of that conveyor belt what if you went into any factory in America that works on a conveyor belt system and double this speed of the conveyor belt the whole line would break down what if you went into any factory in America and reversed the speed of the conveyor belt the whole line would break down but there's nothing wrong with a conveyor belt and so you know it sends people down the wrong road because they're like well should I get my gut bacteria checked should I get my but gut biome looked at should I start taking probiotics should I U maybe take a you know antibiotics and maybe maybe I have sibo should I change up my diet and and nothing really seems to work because if they think it's something happening to them rather than something happening within them and this happens very often with anxiety with you know people that suffer from anxiety generally have the same three characteristics generally if you'll ask them have you had it on and off throughout your entire lifetime they'll say Yes um can you point to the specific the trigger that causes it no having any anxiety medications helped you no they just make me feel like a zombie those are very commonly the same sequence of answers so so that's that is not something happening to you that's something happening within you if I ask you if you have anxiety and you go yes I'm afraid of heights and every time I walk to the edge of a 30th floor balcony I freak out yes I'm claustrophobic when I step on a crowded elevator I really get anxious but if you say yes okay well what causes it I don't know what makes it come and go pretty much anything um you know have you had it on and off throughout your life time yes then this is a sign that this is a genetic mutation that's led to a deficiency that's causing the expression of that condition we very rarely pass disease from generation to generation we do pass deficiency we pass these genes that that are either broken or operating and when they're broken for a lack of better words these Gene Snips the body has an inability to convert a certain raw material into the usable form which means that this deficiency is passed from generation to generation right so an A deficiency in the ability to downregulate um homosysteine means that you get the expression of hypertension so you see that hypertension runs in these families even though there's not a hypertension Gene you see that the inability to convert thyroid hormone T4 into thyroid hormone T3 which is a de ionization process in the in in the liver and the gut and the periphery that this process is is impaired so so people have hypothyroid but the hypothyroid runs in families so but there's no specific hypothyroid Gene and and you could go through dozens and dozens and dozens of cases like this we accept that things are inherited or familial because they run in our family not because we consider that the deficiency may run in our family and the deficiency can be fixed two more things I want to ask you Gary I want to get your thoughts on this tap water what is wrong with tap water and what is wrong with plastic bottles we'll start with tap water I mean there are two or three things that I think that everybody should get out of their life permanently out of their life tap water is definitely one of them and the reason for this is that um it contains you know high amounts of fluoride contains high amounts of chlorine it also contains microplastics um very often now it contains high levels of [Music] glyphosat-prozess step further and I do this with entrepreneurs all the time I was actually at a u uh an an event this week with uh Damon John and and it was high level it Tuesday night yeah I was going to be there oh you were I was traveling yeah I come there okay and this isn't to pick on Damon he's a very good friend of mine I love Damon he's done a lot for me and he's um and he's just an incredible entrepreneur and uh he's been a very very good friend to me but we were um in a room with um you know entrepreneurs and if you went around that room and we asked several of them what's more important to you your business or your health and they'd say my health um but then you bring them up and you say um well you know how much money did your business make last month $628,000 um what was your net income 142,500 how many employees do you have um 17 what's your hog glob and A1C like right what is your where your testosterone levels blank right so so true we Our intention is to put our health first but our activity is is is very different right and and I could have asked them 15 more questions about their income statement their balance sheet their p&l the best marketing strategy where they're getting the ROI what their you know what their best return is on Facebook ads or any number of other things and they would have hit every one of those metrics don't know if they have a clinical deficiency in vitamin D3 or not they don't even have the most basic of information and so this goes back to you know we we need to put a an imaginary fence around ourselves and start filtering things before they make it to the temple just consciously being intentional about what we're letting into the temple it's very easy for me to look at food and say um are you going to serve me or are you going to steal from me because if you're going to steal from me I'm not going to let you into the temple you wouldn't knowingly let a thief into your house right so tap water is one of these things um you know there um fluoride which we know is neurotoxic and if you don't believe fluoride is neurotoxic just find a you know just find a uh you know a fluoride toothpaste label in your house if you're using Crest or Colgate or any toothpaste with fluoride and flip it over and look at the back because there's a required FDA warning on there and it says if more than an amount used for brushing is swallowed contact Poison Control immediately It also says keep Out Of Reach of children um under six years of age um and it also says do not use more than a p sized amount so if you swallow more than a p sized amount of fluoride toothpaste you are supposed to contact Poison Control immediately you will get four times that amount of fluoride in 6 8 oun glasses of water so why wouldn't I call Poison Control at the end of every day when I'm drinking 68 oun glasses of water I according to the previous disclosure I should call Poison Control at the end of every day and let them know I've been microp poisoned there is a um an interesting um uh study that was published by the national toxicology program in in in March of 2023 and they they were able to pull this data um from the CDC through a through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit and what it found was in 52 of the 54 Min uh uh studies that they reviewed and in nearly every municipality in America that had fluoridated water they found an inverse relationship between IQ and fluoride so in other words as fluoride went up IQ went down so the more fluoride in the water the lower the prepubescent IQ and if that's not enough data ask we have to ask ourselves where do fluoride come from well fluoride is fluosilicic acid fluosilicic acid is a byproduct of phosphate fertilizer production it's also a byproduct of aluminum production but the majority of the fluoride that we use in Municipal Water Supplies comes from phosphate fertilizer production it is the waste from phosphate fertilizer production because if we leave it in in phosphate fertilizer it burns the root of plant and actually so so we can't keep it in because it kills the plant so we take it out and we have a big stockpile of fluosilicic acid so what are we going to do with it well let's dump it into the Municipal Water Supply because there is marginal and I would call it weak evidence that we can remineralize the enamel with fluoride and stop tooth decay which you can also do with hydroxy appetite and other things that are safe and um so we dump this into the water supply but now the evidence is clear that this neurotoxin in small doses over time it's not the dosage determining the poison it is the cumulative dosage determining the poison um and and one of the challenges that I find with a lot of government regulatory guidelines is that there are safe levels of Mercury right there are safe levels of fluoride there are safe levels of cyanide um but our bodies clear these at different levels nobody got mercury poisoning from one piece of tuna fish right they got mercury poisoning because they ate you know small doses of mercury over a prolong period of time so fluoride is one of those things tap water is definitely one of those things to permanently get out of your life I use something called an an echo water filter um and uh it's a four-stage AR filter and then it actually adds um hydrogen uh to to the water on the way out um and because the water is Dem mineralized I just remineralize it with a with a salt called Baja gold salt but you could also use Celtic sea salt I like this Baja go because it has all 91 trace minerals and they test it for microplastics and whatnot but just about every grocery store chain in the world has Celtic salt so you could four stage AR filter your water add Celtic or Baja gold Sea Salt to your water to remineralize it um and you're covering the basis of of not missing one of the 91 nutrients 16 of which are essential for human function amazing what a great answer I'm hoping no one please stop drinking tap water yeah yeah please it is the worst thing daily call to the you know daily call to poison control yeah poison control I mean that is like you know you just think about just these things that we're so conditioned to do on a daily basis and we're like ah this doesn't me it I don't feel any different and then it just adds up and accumulates why would I want to put something into my mouth consciously that if I swallow it I have to call it poison control center for totally and then you think well how much is being absorbed through my gums how much you know the thinnest skin in the in your body is on the floor of your mouth and it is fraught with blood vessels one of the best delivery mechanisms besides the you know oral the first pass metabolism is sublingual um so so now I'm drinking tap water all day and then I'm sublingually and then you know the second thing that's in there is chlorine and I did a really interesting video on my Instagram the other day and people it really made an impact a ripple effect I went to the faucet and I filled up two glasses with tap water clear um glasses with tap water and just set them on my counter and I have my um one of my heads of production just take four fingers and hold them down in one of the glasses and he held them there for about a minute um and he took his fingers out and by the way you can do this um the kit to do this you can order on Amazon for six bucks and then I took a chlorine testing kit and I put drops of chlorine in in one glass and I put drops or drops of the chlorine tester in in the other glass one of them tested very high for chlorine one of them tested as having no chlorine and so the question is where did the chlorine go well it was absorbed into a skin in just that 60c period wow and so that's how good the that that transdermal it will absorb that chlorine and you can do that you can get a chlorine testing kit for about six bucks on Amazon just try it take your Tapo you'll never drink it again take two glasses of tap water fill it up put it on your counter put your fingers down in one glass of tap water for 60 seconds take them out and test both for chlorine you'll find whatever glass you put your fingers and tests for no chlorine now imagine that's fluoride microplastics and other things and and you know when we talk about plastic bottles and microplastics you know BPA the bisphenols um these these bpas were um until the 60s they were used as a synthetic estrogen so it was used in female hormone therapy labor induction um um and other forms of female hormone therapy now how some scientists with way too much time on his hands realize that if you actually mix a petroleum based product with this synthetic estrogen um this b f all this BPA that you'll make the surface of the plastic more viscous um and therefore you know like oils and Waters and fluids and things won't stick to it um how they figure that out I'm not sure I'm not sure how that combination occurred but make no mistakes the bpas are synthetic estrogens um and there's some indications that there is enough BPA inside of the lining of a of a non-bpa free can of like um tomato paste for example which acidic Foods leech it out heat leeches it out to actually shift a woman's menstrual cycle so from ovulation to or folicular to ovulation so imagine that you could actually just be eating of food with enough bisphenols in it that not disclosed on the label that you don't know are in there because it's leeching from the plastic to actually shift your menstrual cycle that is astounding to me and so um yeah plastic plastic bottles is one that I would try to get out as much as you can too Gary I love we have covered so much great ground today that we've never never covered on the show before so I want to say a big thank you to you because welcome there are so many things that I know that everyone's going to be listening there's so many actionable things I know that people can practice straight after this episode we end every episode of on purpose with a final five and these questions have to be answered in one word to one sentence maximum wow so Gary Breet these are your final why didn't you tell me about this so I could have had like a really cool answer right so question one what is the best advice you've ever heard or received the best advice I've ever heard or receive is you if you want to shrink your problems grow your purpose beautiful very aligned uh second question next time you come on the show we're going to talk about that because you have to come back this is amazing yeah second question what is the worst advice you've ever heard or received your perfect way you are question number three what is something that you used to Value but you don't anymore wealth question number four how would you define your current purpose in life I would Define it as god-given and Fifth and final if you could create one law that everyone in the world had to follow what would it be the pause before you speak that's great Gary Breer everyone if you don't already follow the ultimate human podcast subscribe online follow him on Instagram make sure you share your greatest takeaways with us both tag us both whether you're using X or Instagram or Tik Tok whatever it may be I want to see what you're playing around with what you're testing what you're experimenting and what you're applying to your life if you listen to this episode I want you to choose one thing that resonated with you just one habit just one practice and I want you for the next s days to commit to yourself promise to yourself that you're just going to do it just as it is for seven days experiment with it and then tell me and Gary what it was like Gary thank you so much super welcome I really en on purpose you are fantastic at what you do and I'm so grateful to spend time with you man thank you brother appreciate you if this year you're trying to live longer live happier live healthier go and check out my conversation with the world's biggest longevity Doctor Peter ATA on how to slow down aging and why your emotional health is directly impacting your physical health acknowledge that there is surprisingly little known about the relationship between 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