Digital Social Hour - Jeremiah Jimerson On Improving Eyesight, Importance of Laughter & Weight Loss Tips | DSH #204

Episode Date: January 1, 2024

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The majority of our body is all gut bacteria, you know, for context. We have more bacterial cells than we even have human cells. Whoa, that's crazy to think about. So there's more stuff living in us than we know. Exactly, guys. Digital Social Hour. Got a fabulous guest for you guys today, Jeremiah Jermerson. How's it going?

Hey, thanks for having me. Absolutely. So what you been working on lately? What am I working on? Pretty much following everything that I recommend. Trying to get rid of stress, trying to eat better, trying to get better light, everything anti-aging. Yeah, you recommend some fascinating stuff that I haven't seen anywhere. Awesome. Especially with the eyesight stuff. Yep. Yep. Is it true you have a $20 flashlight that you shine in your eyes every

morning? I do. I do. I have a 670 nanometer flashlight. So that's a red spectrum of sunlight or of light. And so that is considered a photobiomodulation. So photobiomodulation is massively studied. And photobiomodulation is basically how light affects our cells, how it actually heals up all of our cells. So this study came out a couple of years ago they took 670 nanometer flashlights and they showed it into the eyes of people and as as you got older what they saw was is better improvements and not only eyesight but color differentiation as well it's skyrocketed Wow and one of the things this happens is is as we get older our mitochondria which is the nuclear power plant of the cell that happens is as we get older, our mitochondria, which is the nuclear power plant

of the cell, it diminishes. And so that's why this really improves this is because photobiomodulation revs that up. So have you measured your eyesight before you started Nofther? I did, I did. I mean, I already had really good eyesight. I got LASIK done when I was 21 years old.

And due to my poor lifestyle in chiropractic school, I mean, I was unbelievably unhealthy. And this is going to be hysterical, but I used to smoke a pack of cigarettes every day. I drank tons of alcohol. I ate fast food. And so within a couple of years, like I noticed my eyesight was actually starting to fail. You know, so I'd always planned to say to myself, you know, someday I'll get LASIK done again. I'll improve that. And so all of the photobiomodulation reversed all of that.

So I see just as good as I did after the LASIK. Wow. So you could get LASIK twice? I think so. Wow, I didn't know that. Yeah, my mom got it, but she's like almost 60 now. And she said it sort of went away at this point. And I think some of that has to do with with inflammation in our body i think that's that's why that can change that

really so inflammation can affect eyesight inflammation can absolutely affect eyesight wow you never hear about that so what exactly so your eyes are actually getting inflamed a little bit basically your entire body can can get inflamed but you know again it kind of comes down to that whole uh you know the the mitochondria which is the nuclear power plant of the cell it basically provides the the energy it's like the battery for for your cells yeah so as we get older our mitochondria decrease in efficiency so just you know it's not going to function you know as well and so due to our lifestyle that can accelerate that interesting and on the diet side what approach are you taking because it seems like every year there's a new superfood, a new trend, a new fad. Are you staying consistent

with what you're doing? Are you changing it up? I always, I'm always experimenting, but, but really what, what I found that it comes down to is, um, is there always has to be, there always has to be context when, when you're eating stuff. You know, I'm not a huge fan of necessarily cutting out, you know, food groups, but, you know, for instance, like, you know, genetically, not everybody can process, you know, dairy, but you can grow gut bacteria in your gut that can actually process the dairy for you. So how would you go about doing that? Say you're lactose intolerant. What would you take to have that in your gut? I like to try to grow this bacteria in my gut, and I'm absolutely in love with this stuff.

It's called acromantia. So it's a specific type of gut bacteria that helps kind of seal up the gut wall. And it plays well with this other bacteria called bifido. And so once you can regrow those gut bacteria in your gut, you can slowly start taking in smaller amounts of dairy uh and and be able to to handle it wow so there are studies where they have gotten animals to to be able to process dairy again that's exciting for people out there that can't eat ice cream or yeah the cheese uh grilled cheese yeah

takes a little bit of work and effort but everything always comes down to to context yeah so how long would you have to take it to eat some? Would you have to take it for like a year? I'd say about 20, 30 days. And it's not that you're actually taking like a probiotic. You have to, you have to, that particular, that particular bacteria doesn't do well as a probiotic. So you have to basically feed it what it likes to eat. Where do you stand on probiotics? I've seen mixed things about it. I mean, I drink kombucha, I eat yogurt, but like, is that something you should be taking daily? Um, you know, kombucha and yogurt is a little bit different in that it has much, much higher levels of good bacteria than you would get in a pill per se. Um, but I'm not a huge fan of probiotics and And it's just because I could take a probiotic

and it can make me feel absolutely amazing. You could take the exact same probiotic and you'd say, oh my God, dude, this makes me feel like I've got the worst brain fog in the world. And on top of it, if like this whole inside of this room here is like the inside of your gut wall,

when you take a probiotic, it would be, if we were trying to paint this inside of this room, it would be like taking a paintbrush and kind of dip it into the paint and you're kind of like spattering it around the walls. You know, it's kind of doing the job, but you know, not really. As opposed to food, if you actually feed your gut bacteria good food, it's like covering the whole inside of your gut wall. So it's a big difference. Interesting. So you talked about inflammation earlier. Your whole philosophy is to just try to avoid or limit it, right? Through proper diet and supplements? It's not just diet and supplements. I mean, it has to be the whole shebang. You have to limit

stress. You have to have good sunlight. You have to sleep well. You have to breathe well. You have to drink enough water. Wow. You know, so there's a lot of different factors. And if you're missing one of those things, limit your toxin exposure. You know, so if you're if you're limiting any of those things, you're going to crash. So you can have somebody having the best diet and, you know, the best diet in the world and they exercise.

But let's say they're under chronic amounts of stress. It's never going to go down. Yeah. Or like, you know, you hear about somebody, you hear about somebody you know like oh man like i know this one guy and he was an avid runner and you know somehow he ended you know and he always stayed away but he never smoked and he never did any of that stuff but he ended up with lung cancer well you know the guy ran outside and you know in traffic and inhaled you know smog and uh carbon monoxide from you know gas exhaust and stuff um you know and stuff. So everything kind of comes

together. You can't have one without the other. Wow. So you mentioned toxic exposure. I've been seeing all this stuff on social media, like household cleaning products, laundry detergents, even shampoo and conditioner. Are you talking about all of that? All of it. All of it. We pretty much live in a toxic world. It's, it's kind of scary. We're exposed to, uh, I've seen studies saying that we were exposed to something like 10,000 different chemicals by the time 10 AM hits. Yeah. Um, anything from, you know, imagine our furniture, uh, off gases, PFAS, which is forever chemicals, which can mess with your endocrine system to your tap water, tap water. They, they just did a study and they found that I want to

say it was 50, 52, 55% of all of the tap water in the entire United States is loaded in PFAS, which is the forever chemicals stuff messes with your hormones. It causes inflammation. It causes cancers. Whoa. You know, detergents. I mean, this stuff is everywhere. You're outside.

You're inhaling, you know, again, carbon monoxide. Yeah. That's scary. So if you want to just take a shower, like, what do you do? You know, and it just depends, like on how how geeky you want to get you know but you can get a whole house uh you know filter like a reverse osmosis is that what you have yeah the kangen machine or whatever i don't do the the kangen uh i've got something uh i think it's like radiant life okay and that hooks up to your showers in your bath too like and all your sinks yep interesting yep i've got a separate

one for for the sink wow yeah that might be worth it because if you're bathing in that it's probably not the best because your body just soaks up everything right your body absolutely soaks it all up man that's scary yeah and with the stress stuff something that's like really concerning because a lot of people are stressed obviously but i never knew it could have that much of an impact on your health yep yep and it's And it's different, you know, and stress comes in all different forms. You know, it's not just always that emotional stress, you know, you can have, you know, bad light, you know, that that's a stress or, you know, not sleeping, you know, that's a stress, you know, there's a lot of different things that can be considered

a stress. What foods have you seen cause inflammation and stress for people like fried foods, right? Obviously, but fried foods, you know, inflammation and stress for people? Like fried foods, right, obviously. Fried foods, you know, it definitely comes down to ultra-processed foods. You know, this stuff absolutely destroys our gut bacteria. It messes with our liver. So whenever I put anything in my mouth, my big thing is I try to think, hey, is this feeding my gut bacteria? The majority of our body is my gut bacteria uh you know the majority

of our body is all gut bacteria you know for for context where we have more bacterial cells than we even have human cells whoa yeah that's crazy to think about so there's more stuff living in us than we know exactly exactly um so in terms of sleep how have you gone about going about that i saw brian johnson just achieve like a 100 score on whoop for four months straight with his sleep. You really, really have to work at it. I mean, you know, blood sugar, you really have to be on top of all of your blood sugar levels, you know.

So if you're eating, let's say, processed foods and you're getting these insulin spikes and these insulin crashes, what's going to happen is, is you're going to get an insulin crash in the middle of the night. Your body ends up spiking up your adrenaline and adrenaline you're you end up waking up in the middle of night all revved up you're trying to you know you're trying to do you know laundry lists in your brain that's definitely happened to me before so you're saying basically not to eat before you sleep um i'm saying you have to eat quality foods throughout the day or if you're constantly stressed you know again

That's gonna take your stress hormones and they're gonna start being all over the place You're gonna again that's gonna kind of wake you up or if you're not getting appropriate light All throughout the day, so you need Sunlight in your eyes very first thing in the morning to be able to start creating melatonin You need to get sunlight a little bit all throughout the day You can't have too much artificial light at night or you start shutting down your production of melatonin. You need to get sunlight a little bit all throughout the day. You can't have too much artificial light at night or you start shutting down your production of melatonin. So from a sunlight perspective, movement, if you're not moving enough throughout the day, when we move, when we walk, when we stay busy and stuff like that, it helps kind of pump our lymphatic system.

So there's all of these kind of key players. And so things won't necessarily work without every without everything. Right. So how much sunlight are you trying to get per day and how many steps you're trying to average? You know, sunlight, I try to get at least like 15 minutes of exposure, you know, very first thing in the morning. I try to shoot for, you know, 10, 20 minutes, you know, kind of middayday you can download an app um i want to say it's called d minder and so you can basically you punch in your your latitude and uh and you punch in your skin type and a couple of other questions and you can get an idea as to how much time you should be spending in sunlight uh during the middle of the day and ideally you know this would be with your

glasses off you know you know shirt off you know try to get as And ideally, you know, this would be with your glasses off, you know, shirt off, you know, try to get as much bare skin, you know, into the sunlight. So different skin types should have different amounts of sunlight. Right. Interesting. You know, so my wife is, she's very pale skinned.

She'll be in the sunlight for like, you know, 10 minutes and she starts kind of getting red. Right. I can be in there, you know, for an hour, you know, so it really depends. And that's why, you know, some people will say, you know, like, ah, you know, can be in there you know for for an hour you know so it it really depends and that's why you know some people say you know like ah you know like avoid sunlight you know put on the sunscreen you know this and this and this everything comes down to to that balance there's a lot of you know the devil is always in the the details yeah i'm seeing mixed things on

the sunscreen stuff now yeah it's scary anything you used as a child growing up that you thought was normal is now like out to you almost you know yeah it's scary absolutely Anything you used as a child growing up that you thought was normal is now like out to you almost, you know, it's scary. Absolutely. Are you a fan going back to the sleep real quick? Are you a fan of the mouth taping trend that's going around? I am a huge fan of the mouth taping trend. Um, it, it, it has helped a lot of patients and clients. Um, you know, even when I've made, you know, videos on social media, you'll often see like, you know, people will comment like, oh my God, you know, like, you know, my sleep just went through the roof. Like I feel so much, you know, you know, clear headed. There's some people that are against it. You know, some of the doctors are against it. You know, it can help, you know, some moderate forms of, or mild to moderate forms of sleep apnea. but if you have severe sleep apnea, you really have to,

you know, see a sleep specialist, but, uh, but it can be a game changer for, for a lot of people. Yeah. I use it every night. I use a brand called hostage tape and it's, it's really impacted my sleep. Honestly. That's definitely legit. Yeah. Cause I could sleep less, but feel better. Cause I used to sleep with my mouth wide open. Yeah. And that's what, what happens, you know, we, we mouth breathe a lot all throughout the day. Our tongues get weak because we're not keeping appropriate tongue posture. So our tongue actually has to be

up in the top portion of our mouth. And if we don't, it actually even starts changing the posture of our face. I've even seen studies showing that having your tongue at the roof of your mouth even increases your strength, you know, so they've shown that even in weightlifters. Wait, tongue on top of your mouth increases your strength. Yeah. So what happens is, you know, what happens is, is that if we don't have appropriate tongue posture as we sleep, and if we're mouth breathing throughout the day at nighttime, that's what ends up happening is,

is our mouth kind of opens up, our tongue starts kind of rolling back and it starts kind of choking us off wow that's crazy because your tongue is pretty long right yeah yeah i never thought of it that way uh what are some common health and nutrition myths you see on social media that irritate you and you want to address wow um i'm gonna say you and you want to address? Wow. Um, I'm going to say, you know, really what it comes down to is, uh, is, is all of the, the baby talk, baby talk. Yeah. It's, it's like, it's like everything, you know, that we, we look at things, you know, from like, you know, like, okay, like, you you know blueberries are good and bananas are are bad and you know vegetables are good but this is bad or you know meat is good and meat is bad you know

again everything kind of comes down to to this this context yeah they oversimplify right they really over simplify it's like like they'll they'll cherry pick studies um and there's always you know there's always you know the the again the devil's in in the details i used to avoid bananas because, you know, I was like, oh, my God, you know, they're high glycemic. They're going to spike up my blood sugar. In reality, you know, it comes down to context. If you eat a green banana, green bananas are really good for feeding your gut bacteria. So all of a sudden you've taken, you know, something that, you know, supposed to be the junk health food and you've turned it into a superfood. I'm glad you said that because I always get hate for eating them kind of green because people are like, you know, supposed to be the junk health food and you've turned it into a super food. I'm glad you said that. Cause I always get hate for eating them kind of green because people are

like, you're weird, but I like them more hard. Yeah. That sounded wrong, but like I like them green for some reason. Yeah. When they have the brown dots, I don't like them as much. Yeah. I'm with you on that. Those are, save those for your smoothies. Yeah. What about eggs? I've seen you say the, the yolk is that part bad for you? The yolk is just, it it's it's really nutrient dense I mean if you think about it, you know, this is this is it's so nutrient dense that it it feeds newborn life I mean, it doesn't get any better than that. Yeah, because there's people that say it's terrible for you now I mean, it's you know, there's there's a lot of you know, fear against cholesterol

There really shouldn't be a lot of fear against cholesterol. Um, but yeah. What's your stance on seed oils? I am totally against the seed oils. Um, you know, there's, there's some countries like Japan that, that eat a bunch of seed oils, but I don't think that they're eating the refined seed oils and they eat a lot of fish in their diet, which helps kind of, you know, balance things out. Right out right interesting i didn't know they were eating seed oils there because they have one of the longest lifespans in japan they do they do what type of seed oils are they eating um i believe they they eat uh canola oil really yeah that's like the worst one i thought yeah wow yeah but again it comes down to in the united states you know it it if if the seed oil is very refined that is what causes inflammation so

that's why i avoid that stuff across the board so when it's refined they're just heating it up right they're heating it up and and it causes it to break down which is going to cause inflammation in your body you know so i mean even even health foods you've really got to watch out you know there's a lot of you know health foods and it's it's you know such a pain in because you have to look at all of your labels when you go to whole foods but yeah you know even at the you know, there's a lot of, you know, health foods and it's, it's, you know, such a pain in because you have to look at all of your labels when you go to Whole Foods, but, you know, even at the, you know, even buying like, uh, you know, even at the salad bar at, at Whole Foods, I'm constantly, I'm like, okay, that has canola oil, you know, avoid that. I'm like, okay, that has, you know, so even though they don't have, you know, like, you know, the, the, the stuff that,

that everybody knows, you know, avoid, you know, let's say vegetable oil and stuff. Um, you know, you always have to read those labels. Yeah. It's's a shame because i used to eat that hot bar at whole foods every week but then i found out they use canola oil and like everything exactly i was like are you serious and even all the healthy snacks at whole foods and grocery stores a lot of them have seed oils yeah and you you and that's why you have to sit there and pay attention to every label and it's not like you know it's not like i'm always going to be you know perfect a lot of times in our household we'll buy some snacks and you know and we we think that you know you just do a glance at it and then all sudden you know a month or two later you're you're looking at it you're like oh my god like seriously

half the bag yeah you're like man i love this stuff all right back to the drawing board i'm gonna find something you know different but you know you you get what you put into it yeah why do you think a lot of foods are banned in europe or not Europe in the, no, in Europe, but not in the U S they have, you know, they, they definitely have a little bit stricter standards and, you know, it's not that it's not that they don't have any junk food. It's not that they don't have any inflammatory food, but there's a lot of foods that we use here. There's like a, you know, titanium dioxide is in a bunch of different candies and they're trying to make that illegal in both, uh, California and, uh, New York, um, BHT and BHA. Um, you know, so there's a lot of, of, of different chemicals like, like that. If you take a look at, you know, just even the ingredients in like, let's say McDonald's in McDonald's United, uh, UK and McDonald's here,

totally different things. Um, they don't use red dye number 40 that's another big one um you know so red dye number 40 very inflammatory can cause a lot of you know adhd with kids that's basically like a food coloring right right make it look red right yeah it's interesting that so much stuff is just banned and it's clearly they've done studies on the ingredients and it's clearly bad for you but it won't get banned here yeah and and that's what they'll say is is you know they'll say well we're not a hundred percent but we don't necessarily want to to take the the chance here yeah you know everything is is money driven yeah i saw you talk about dark chocolate you're a huge fan of that right i am a huge fan of dark chocolate but there's been some interesting

studies kind of coming out about heavy metals in dark chocolate. You know, so it's it's like you you have to, you know, a if you're going to go with chocolate, you want to go with dark chocolate. You want to go with the highest quality possible. And then, you know, B, you really want to watch out for like you just not not going to town on it. And it all depends on, you know, where you're at in terms of your health, where you're at and in terms of your genetics, you know, so genetically for, for me, um, I am a very poor detoxifier. So that means my body doesn't get rid of chemicals that, that well. So I, I really have to watch out for, for that stuff because it's going to cause a lot of longstanding health issues. Yeah. It's really crazy, man. Cause there's always these new foods and then it comes out later that it's not as

healthy as people thought. And it's like, you're constantly changing it up, you know? Right. Right. But, you know, that's that's the best thing is is, you know, try to go with, you know, highest quality, you know, least processed. If you if if you if that's all everybody did was went, you know, the highest quality, you know, least processed. You are you're you're going to win. Yeah. What have you seen work in terms of anti-aging for you and your clients? Have there been any foods or diets or supplements that have been proven to anti-age? Foods, diet supplements. You know, again, you know, I, I, I kind of just concentrate on all of the, those foundational things. You know, I, I think I, I typically

promote skills over pills, you know, so I started doing, you know, functional medicine with, with patients. Functional medicine is you're trying to get to, to the root cause of, you know, people's different, different health issues, you know? So you typically, you know, it's, it's, it's, uh, you spend, you know, the clients will pay you $3,000 and, you know, and that's, that's upfront. And then you end up, uh, you end up running something like a thousand or $2,000, you know and that's that's up front and then you end up uh you end up running something like a thousand or two thousand dollars you know worth of labs and then you sit there and you start you

know just shoving you know supplements at them yeah and so i was doing that with patients and they were getting some good results but you know what it really came down to was everybody was just everybody needed to do all of those foundational things it didn't make a difference if i gave them you know really good anti-inflammatory, if they weren't decreasing their stress levels or if they weren't breathing right, or if they, you know, weren't, you know, drinking enough water, you know, you're going to hit the, hit the wall. So I kind of started dialing back from that, that stuff, because I kind of felt that I was no, no different than, than kind of big pharma. I said, I started saying to people, I said, you know what,

what I want you to do is, is, you know, let's, let's make this easier. Let's focus on skills over pills. Let's focus on, you know, your most minimal effort, maximum benefit bang for your buck things, and just slowly kind of, you know, build upon that, you know, so we focus on, you know, you're going to get more bang for your buck focusing on your gut bacteria and your breathing than you will on any supplement. Yeah. I love that approach because people just, I used to be on like 50 pills a day and I'm like, this is, this is too much. It's getting ridiculous. I mean, we had, you know, we had, uh, you know, patients coming in and they were, you know, you know, prescribed, you know, from different people and then stuff that they had read, you know, online, you know, like 30, 40, you know, different pills. Um, you know, and,

and, and that might be fine, but lot of you know like 99 of the time they were dropping the ball on all of those fundamental things yeah it just got to the point where like i don't know if my liver was hurting or something but i was just eating so many different pills and it's not good when you're eating that many and you don't really know what what types of interactions you know those have yeah. So is it true that clothing can potentially cause cancer? Clothing can potentially cause cancer. Wow. So spandex is loaded in BPA and there was a recent lawsuit, you know, towards and, you know, this is going to make a lot of people cry, but like towards Lululemon, a lot of, you know, athletic performance, uh, clothing

providers, because they found, they were found to have something like 22 times the limit of BPA. Now, you know, your skin absorbs stuff. Um, and so, you know, you don't always have to eat something to, you know, to, to get that, uh, you know, absorption. So, you know, and that's what happens is, is, you know, people wear, you know, like sports bras, you know, underwear, you know, absorption. So, you know, and, and that's what happens is, is, you know, people wear, you know, like sports bras, you know, underwear, you know, the, you know, all of these, these shirts. And so it sits there and absorbs into their skin. Uh, I think they did some study on just even athletic socks and found that they had, you know, it was like 30 times the level of BPA, even, even just handling, you know, your receipts at a store. I stopped doing that. Yeah. You, you actually absorb, you know, BPA and BPA is a major endocrine disruptor. So,

you know, basically what it is, is it, it is, it throws off all of your hormones. It'll throw off all of your hormones. It'll cause cancer. It'll cause, you know, inflammation. And again, it's not, you know, like sometimes people start getting, you know, freaked out about this, this stuff. And it's, you know, what I, what I typically tell people is just, you know, do what you can, you know, you're not gonna be able to like, you know, solve all of these things, you know, all at know. It's like not that good for you. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah, it's scary. In terms of the clothing, so is there clothing that doesn't have those materials? Yeah, I mean, if you can go with cotton, if you can go with merino wool, you know, those types of things, you know, are better. Yeah, I saw my friend Brian Gold.

Shout out to Brian. He bought like EMF boxers. Yeah. And he went to the airport and it just showed up black on the scanner. So they had to pat him down. Yep. Yep. I'm with you. Cause those, apparently those machines that scan your whole body are really bad for you. Yep. And I, you know, and it's, it's always lame, but you know, I, I always opt for, for the pat down. I'm always, you know, having my phone on airplane mode whenever it's on my, my person.

So that's true then the phone actually actually emits radiation that's harmful? The phone does emit radiation that is harmful. It's a very, very, very controversial subject. You got to imagine that any scientist that even begins to start diving into that is going, get his funding pulled. Wow. Cause they just have so much money behind them. Yeah. That makes sense. Yep. So you mentioned breathing a few times now, what is the proper way to breathe? Um, you know, I typically have people kind of focus on longer exhales than, than inhales, longer, longer exhales than inhales, uh uh trying to breathe through your nose you know so trying to avoid you know all of that that mouth breathing uh trying to keep your jaw relaxed

trying to breathe with your belly you know so just trying to do that that diaphragmatic breathing you know you watch people uh you know people will come in and uh and i'm talking to them and i watch and they're just you know you you can see them kind of like breathing with their shoulders you know and so you know we breathe 22 to 25 000 times a day and you know, you, you can see them kind of like breathing with their shoulders, you know? And so, you know, we breathe 22 to 25,000 times a day and, you know, so that'll cause all sorts of headaches, all sorts of, you know, neck issues. Um, you know, so you just have to be, you know, a little bit more mindful, a little bit more, you know, conscious. Yeah. I do the Wim Hof method every day. Have you done that? I did. I just did it this morning. Oh yeah. How many minutes can you hold your breath for? Uh, about four, about four four i just hit a new record two minutes five seconds but

four minutes is impressive yeah yeah it it took a couple of years okay yeah i've been doing it for like six months yeah and that's impressive i know some people up to like five six minutes it's like crazy and and you know you definitely you don't want to do it you know you don't want to do it in the water you don't want to do anything like that you want to do it in a nice safe kind of relaxed place yeah i agree i tried in the water but i got in my own head for sure uh what is this mental hack for weight loss that you've been promoting uh the mental hack for for weight loss you know so uh you know cold adaptation has has been been pretty big and you know i've been studying cold adaptation probably for about 12 years um my clinic was

one of the very first uh clinics with a whole body uh whole body cryotherapy so it's basically a big giant chamber that you would stand in naked and we would drop the temperature down to about minus 270 degrees and basically what it does is it out the body and you start producing more glutathione and more stress resilience. So like if your body can chill out, if your body can handle all of the cold, you sitting in traffic later on during the day

isn't too bad. But one of the things that cold does is it increases something called, it's a special fat. Uh, it's a, it's a fat with superpowers. It's called brown adipose tissue. And so brown adipose tissue, um, basically it burns more calories. Um, and so what you can do is you can, uh, I've, and there's a lot of studies on this, you can actually use menthol on brown adipose, I'm sorry, on areas of your body that would have high amounts of brown adipose tissue. So think about around your collarbones,

think about around your shoulder blades. Sometimes I'll put it on stubborn fat areas. And so you can actually increase that brown adipose tissue and basically turn yourself into a fat burning machine But again, it all comes down to context if you're doing this stuff But then you're eating the wrong foods and you're sleeping wrong And again, you know everything has to have a balance, you know, so if you start Uh, if you start, uh doing too much of this stuff you actually change your gut bacteria

So now they're like well, you know, you know, we're living in Antarctica. So we're gonna need to burn more energy. We're gonna need to stoke the fire. So it's gonna start being able to pull more calories out of your food. Interesting. So how cold do you need to get for that to kick in? Cause I take cold showers.

Is that cold enough? Anything colder than your body temperature is all it takes. But the colder it is, you know, so the minus 270, you know, minus 270 degrees, you know, you were in there for about, you know, two minutes to three minutes. If you were doing something maybe 10 degrees less than your body temperature, you'd have to be there for a lot longer period of time. Right. Yeah. I'm in there a few minutes, but that's probably not long enough to reach the full effect. Um, so is it true that laughing lowers blood sugar and can change your genes? Laughing does lower your blood sugar. It changes your genes. There was, um, some, uh, some interesting

studies about, um, uh, and they came out of, out of Japan. They took, uh, all of these, these diabetics and, uh, and they took half the diabetics and uh half the diabetics they showed them this this terrible boring lecture and so what happens is that their blood sugar went absolutely went through the roof wow they showed the the uh other group they showed them a hilarious comedy show not only did their blood sugar drop down into the the normal range um but 23 genes uh so were 23 genes were changed in terms of genetic expression it's actually crazy because I felt like we were taught growing up that you couldn't really change your genes but now there's all these studies out they can be changed so are you know so we've got so we've got

our genes and then we have something called epigenetics and epigenetics is basically our environment changes our genetic expression. Right. You know, so, uh, you know, if you're, you know, again, if you're under, under stress, it'll, it'll change your, your, your genetic expression. Wow. Jeremiah, I've learned a lot, man. This has been a great episode. I can't wait to implement some of the stuff. Is there anything you want to close off with? Uh, not really, you know, just, uh, again, you know, focus, focus on, on the basics. You can't just, you can't just focus on diet and exercise. You really have to have to go after your stress levels. You have to go after your light. You have to go after your breathing, uh, all of the above, man. I love that. Cause

that's not taught anywhere. People just focus on on diet and exercise But this is like what you really need. Well, thanks for coming on man. Where can people find you? Find me at younger you blueprint calm and we've got some other websites We're gonna be launching some some free courses for everybody And I'm also on social media at younger you doc. So I'd love to see you there. Love it Thanks for watching guys, and I'll see you next time.