PBD Podcast - Health Expert - Secrets Big Pharma Doesn’t Want You To Know | PBD #801
Episode Date: May 19, 2026Patrick Bet-David sits down with health expert Paul Saladino, MD to break down GLP-1 weight loss drugs, Big Pharma, obesity in America, testosterone decline, microplastics, processed foods, Botox, loo...ksmaxxing, and the growing health crisis impacting modern men and women.-------Ⓜ️ MINNECT WITH PAUL SALADINO: https://bit.ly/4fujfis🥩 LINEAGE PROVISIONS - USE PROMO CODE PBD FOR 15% OFF AT CHECKOUT: https://bit.ly/4dj1LUX⚕️ PAUL SALADINO'S CHANNEL: https://bit.ly/4tIoC0Y 💬 TEXT US: Text “VAULT” to 310-340-1132 to get the latest updates on speakers at The Vault Conference 2026!🦁 THE VAULT 2026: AUG 31ST TO SEPT 1ST: https://bit.ly/4mZdLhDⓂ️ CONNECT ON MINNECT: https://bit.ly/4kSVkso Ⓜ️ PBD PODCAST CIRCLES: https://bit.ly/4mAWQAP👔 BET-DAVID CONSULTING: https://bit.ly/4lzQph2 🥃 BOARDROOM CIGAR LOUNGE: https://bit.ly/4pzLEXj🇰 KALSHI: http://kalshi.com/pbd
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I think plastics are the coming storm for humans.
It looks like a condom.
So we're drinking water out of a condom.
This is also a condom on the inside.
You can use sodium hydroxide and dissolve the aluminum,
and there's a condom on the inside of this can.
They can carry like a Trojan horse.
BPA.
Endocrine disruptor.
Reducing our exposure to plastic is probably one of the single most important things
we could do in our lives.
Charles Barkley, he's lost 85 pounds.
Is he better off using GLP1?
One of the first issues I have with these GLPs is you're probably on them for life.
The thing about these medications is they can increase suicidality.
When you mess with neurotransmitters in the brain, it's very powerful.
He's about to take all these pills in his mouth.
I held it. I took the bottles away from him.
He's like, Pat, I'm begging you, please. I've got to take it.
You don't know how much pain I'm in right now.
I have seen so many people reverse depression without medications by returning to high quality foods.
Why do we get so fat in America?
We are eating this tainted food that is.
full of all these ingredients that no one can pronounce.
These food ingredients are literally poisoning our brains.
So you got all these maxing, balls maxing.
So if we want to looks max, we just really need to return to the way that humans have eaten.
Clavicular, I actually met clavicular.
It was just painful.
It's definitely hurting him long term.
He's not optimizing for longevity or help.
I've never seen this before.
Biohacker Brian Johnson makes shock and reveal about his girlfriend's vagina being the top 1%.
I've met Kate and Brian, and they basically,
said, we want to do everything for attention we possibly can. I get it. This is an attention economy.
What is Kate doing that's improving the her vaginal microbiome? It's not eating garbage food.
This is honey from my house. This is not a hallucinogenic, honey. I wouldn't do that to you.
Starting to see unicorns. They complement the muscle meat. When do we start eating heart,
organ testicles that you're talking about? When do we stop eating it? Because in Iran, we eat that
kind of stuff. Exactly. It's a Western thing.
It's the United States, you know.
I went to Tanzania a few years ago and spent time with the Hadsah.
And they're near Lake Yossi.
There's some of the last hunter-gatherers left on the planet.
It's like something out of a different video game, you know?
They're literally living in these statched huts.
They make their own bows and arrows.
I got to hunt with them.
And we went and we hunted a baboon.
And they killed a baboon.
And they have to kill these baboons because this is all they have to eat.
And the first thing we do when they killed the baboon successfully with their own hands
and the arrows and knives that they've essentially
made themselves is you throw it on the fire, you burn off the hair, and we eat the organs.
They're passing around liver, pancreas, kidneys, heart.
They're eating the whole thing. The next morning...
Raw, or they're cooking it. They're cooking it on the fire. The next morning,
the hunter whose blow kind of killed the baboon offers me the head. It's like the scene,
you've ever seen that movie Indiana Jones in the Temple of Doom? Or they crack open the
it was like that. It was a cooked baboon brain. He goes, here, you want some? And this is the
moment, Pat. This is like the decision point. You're like,
Okay, yes, I'm doing it.
I'm in Tanzania with a Hada tribesman.
I'm eating baboon brain.
Was anything disgusting?
I think it was all amazing.
Okay.
Yeah, but I mean, for a lot of us, it defends our Western sensibility.
So I think in the last probably 100 years, especially in the West, in the United States, specifically,
so many ethnic traditions like yours eat the organs, but we've totally forgotten.
It was normal for us.
Yeah.
Like when we came here, I'm like, I'm surprised more don't.
We ate liver like raw.
Like I was telling you, we would go to this place in Iran called Al-Bali.
Obali, and it was up in the mountains in Iran, and you'd go there, and they would take the liver, and they would cook it, raw 10, 15 seconds, and then put it in the bread, take it out, put some greens, put some salt, you'd eat it.
It was so good.
Until today, one of my favorite things to eat is liver, and I can't find many people that like eating liver.
It's an acquired taste, and we've lost it.
But then you look at the nutrient profile, it's like a multivitamin, and then liver and the organs,
contain unique peptides.
Everybody's talking about peptides today.
Organs contain peptides.
Animal foods contain peptides, small protein fragments
that have biological roles in humans.
So we've forgotten this.
Well, here's my concern.
Every time you come here, I worry.
It creates anxiety for about two weeks for me.
When I know I'm doing a podcast with you, and here's why.
Last time you were here, January 22nd, 2025 is the last time had Celsius.
And I would drink two Celsius a day.
This is probably not a good video.
We can't say this is brought to you by Celsius.
This is not brought to you by Celsius, right?
And Celsius actually pays very good sponsorship money to a lot of, it tastes so good.
You're like, Pat, this is horrible for you.
Last time I had it.
And so this time, I got a lot of different props that I brought.
I got some props too.
Yeah, I know you got props.
I got some stuff that the girls brought.
Okay.
Popular drinks that I want to get your thoughts in Zinn.
You know, we got the vape.
We got all this plastic.
Should we drink water out of these guys?
The Fiji water.
I know we offered you Fiji.
You turn it down.
Turn it down.
We've already rejected us.
We've got all this stuff.
We'll get into this stuff.
Yeah, yeah.
But the first thing I want to start off with you is the following.
The other day I'm watching a, I was watching either playoff game or something.
And then I saw Barclay come up.
And Barclay was doing a GLP1 commercial.
I'm like Charles Barkley.
I've seen the Serena Williams one for only $10 or whatever.
So it's more of a money ad that she does and she's lost a lot of weight.
But then I saw Barclay.
And I saw the numbers reported that Barclay had lost,
he went from 360 pounds to weighing 352 pounds to 267.
He's lost 85 pounds using this product on Maunjaro,
which is like a form of a GLP1, okay?
And he says, I know GLP ones are effective.
I witness it myself.
The difficult part was obtaining medication.
He wants to get back to his playing days,
which, by the way, he looks great.
He's 250. He's 267 pounds today.
Playing days was 250.
And then I had Umberto and Rob pull up some stats on obesity and being overweight.
And I saw the video you posted of New York back in 1920 versus today.
Rob, I don't know if you have that clip or not.
And this is such a great video of comparing what America looked like in 19-20.
Well, it's overlapping because he's speaking on it.
So if you can find another one, Rob, we'll show it.
It's just 19-2.
You type in on X, New York, 1920 versus Today.
And the numbers we pulled up is in 1920, only 3% of Americans were obese.
Today it's 41%.
Why do we get so fat in America?
It's over 70% obese and overweight, Pat.
Over 70% obese and overweight.
And that's according to CDC, by the way, that number you're given.
That's according to CBC, CDC.
And so this is crazy.
And it's so interesting because I think that more than anything,
the GLP1 conversation.
Manjaro is a dual agonist, so it's GLP1 and GIP.
It's also called TIRZepitide.
These medications work, but the fact that they work so well,
I think is a clarion call to this idea that, like,
how did we get so fat?
This question you're asking,
they partially ameliorate a problem
that did not exist 100 years ago.
You look at New York, we were not fat.
And so I think that this is a clear indication
that our food supply has just become,
so badly tainted. And Oprah's talked about this. She had a very viral clip on the view. I think it was
from 2024 or 2025 where she said, I have the fat gene, which is not true. There's no such
thing as a fat gene. But what there is is something called food noise. This idea, and I think
poor Oprah didn't realize this. She used to promote Weight Watchers, right? So she was promoting
low quality food in low calorie packets. When we are eating this tainted food that is full of all
these ingredients that no one can pronounce. You, your great-grandmother, my great-grandmother,
wouldn't recognize these food ingredients. These food ingredients are literally poisoning our brains,
the satiety centers in the hypothalamus of our brains, and we cannot stop eating.
And so in some ways, these GLP-1s, Manjaro, Ozempic, and Redatrutide, which is a triple
agonist, they sort of address this food noise, the poisoning of our brains by the food,
but there are things to think about here. There are potential downsides to these medications
also. But for me, the biggest thing this conversation around Ozampic, Manjaro, and Reda Trutide says is
how did we get so poisoned by our food? If we need a medication to actually calm the food noise,
to partially reverse the complete destruction of our satiety that these engineered foods have caused,
can't we just talk about going back to simple foods? Because in the early 1900s,
most of what we ate were single ingredient foods. We talked.
talked about this on the last podcast. What are single ingredient foods? Beef, chicken, fish,
pork, right? Lettuce, apples, celery, these are single cheese, milk, these are single ingredient
foods. It is virtually impossible to get fat or stay fat eating those foods. It is very...
Even if you overeat. It's very difficult to overeat those foods because our body has a programmed
satiety mechanism in our brain that is hundreds of thousands of.
of years old. It's very difficult to overeat steak and boiled potatoes. It's very difficult to
overeat steak and lettuce. It's very difficult to overeat chicken and avocado. You will get a very
clear satiety signal and you're just not interested in eating. So then let me ask you this question.
I read a book called Ageless Man. I don't know if you've heard of this book. Ageless Man
where it talks about in the book that men with lower-tileged.
testosterone is worse for their health than higher testosterone.
And they did a test on rats or I don't know,
mouse, certain testing they did,
given them testosterone and seeing how they would,
and they would live longer, ageless men.
So the argument then becomes,
you're better off being on TRT than not being on TRT.
Okay, there's a benefit to it.
Some people are not sitting there saying,
okay, Charles Barkley, he's been dealing with weight for a while.
Is he healthier, continuing to live his lifestyle?
doesn't change anything. He stays at 352, doesn't use GLP1,
or is he better off using GLP1, drop into 267, he's carrying 85 pounds less fat?
What's a better decision for a guy like Barclay?
It's almost certainly using the GLP 1.
So in this case, it's a good case to use it.
It's a good case to use it, provided that Charles won't change his diet, right?
And we can talk about the long-term consequences of using that GLP1, potentially.
But yeah, yeah, there is a use case for these medications, unquestionably.
In some ways, like I said, they probably reverse or help address the poisoning of our brains that's been going on by our food system.
The first choice that I would have for Charles is, can we just get you a chef to cook you delicious food that's singling...
You can afford that.
Yeah, to get you single ingredient foods all the time, because that, I believe, is going to lead to better long-term weight loss.
One of the first issues I have with these GLPs is you're probably on them for life.
So if Charles stops the GLP1, the research is pretty clear that he's going to regain the weight within one to two years, almost all of it and sometimes more.
Why is that?
Because when you use the GLP1s, there are changes that happen in the body that don't catch up to the changes that you're making with food.
So when you're using a GLP1, it creates satiety.
There are some potentially beneficial metabolic effects of these medications.
But when you stop it, you're going to go back to eating the food you were eating before.
because you haven't made lifestyle changes.
You haven't developed discipline.
You haven't understood how to make the right food choices.
And your eating habits are going to outpace your metabolism.
Because these GLP will slow down your metabolism because you're eating less food.
And so you've lost fat.
You've also lost muscle mass.
Muscle mass is positive for our metabolism.
Muscle mass burns calories when we're sitting here having a podcast.
That's what you want.
And so if you're on a GLP 1, you have to be very careful.
You don't lose too much muscle mass by continuing to exercise.
continuing to eat enough protein.
But when you stop it, the eating habits that you never fixed will outpace the metabolism
that's been changed by the GLP's.
There's a study that came out saying that when you stop a GLP 1, you regain the weight
four times faster than if you stopped exercise, four times faster.
So this is the problem.
And so it's great for the pharmaceutical companies.
I think that they say Manjaro, Terseptitide, is the number one selling drug in the world now.
Wow.
And I think people are suggesting that red at a drug,
Trutide, which is the triple agonist. It's not FDA cleared yet, but probably will obtain
FDA clearance in 2027, will be the best-selling drug in the world almost immediately.
And so here we are with very widely used drugs that people may need to be on for life
to maintain the, quote, benefits. That's a little concerning because people run into GI
side effects, people can run into other side effects, ocular side effects, and then what do you
do if you cannot continue. The discontinuation rate of these drugs is not insignificant because people
do run into side effects. So is it a short-term fix? Potentially. Does it have side effects? Yes.
They're fairly safe drugs on balance. They're not perfect. They're fairly safe. But I want people to
understand that when you take these drugs, you are essentially committing yourself to a lifelong
use of the drug, which is always a little bit concerning for us, right? And there is another way,
which is, like we said, humans have eaten single-ingredient foods
or foods that your great-grandmother would recognize the label for hundreds of thousands of years.
Try getting fat on chicken breast and avocado.
It doesn't happen.
Regular food, but that's boring, right?
That's slow.
That's, come on, Paul.
I don't have the time for that.
You know, I would much rather take the shortcut.
10 million people, according to JPMorgan Chase, are using GLP-1s, 2025.
They're estimating it's going to be $25 million by 2030, 4-year-old.
years from now. And then on top of that, the cost is what, $1,200 a month, they say, give or take.
If you have insurance, of course, it's a different story, but $1,200. So the average person to do $1,200
and you'll need to be on it for, you know, depending, let you say it's a year program, that's $15,000.
That's a big cost to a lot of different people. So some of these insurance companies are now
adding it to it. So then the question becomes, what is it really, is it really, when I talk to people
who use it. All it does is it tells you're not hungry. Is that really all it does?
It does a few more things in that. It's a diabetes drug. It's not like it was. It's also a
diabetes drug. They're also using it for addictions. It's being studied for addictions, which is a very
interesting sort of sidebar because the GLP1 receptors do occur in the pleasure pathways in the brain.
So there's a lot of complex names here, VTA, ventral tegmental area, nucleus accumbens. These are the
pleasure pathways in our brain that are activated with nicotine, with alcohol, with romance, sex,
learning. And so I think that the next use we'll see for these medications is with addictions,
but then there's another sort of corollary conversation. And this is perhaps not the most
important part of the GLP1 conversation, but it is relevant for some people that is it possible
that if you use these medications, it will affect your ability to make new relationships
fall in love and desire.
And at this point, it's purely anecdotal,
but the conversations on X are very compelling.
What does that mean?
What does that have to do with relationships?
Well, because if you're overstimulating,
so GLP1 agonists,
if you're overstimulating the GLP1 receptors
in the pleasure pathways in the brain,
the VTA, the nucleus accumbens,
are you blunting your ability,
just like they're going to be effective for addictions?
They sort of decrease the food reward,
and they're going to decrease the reward of alcohol.
they decrease the reward of smoking and potentially other addictive drugs?
Are they going to decrease the normal pleasure pathways that are activated when you fall in love
with someone, when you have desire?
This is a concern.
Again, I don't think this is the primary conversation, but this is the corollary conversation
of maybe it's not a good thing to be on these for the rest of our lives.
And we don't know.
I want to be very clear.
We don't know the answer to this.
But if you look at 2005, right?
If I'm not mistaken, GLP-1's first one that was FDA-approved,
was sold in 2005.
So we only have 20 years of data on this.
That's for Ozempic, for semaglutide,
and Manjaro is very more recent,
and Reda-Truthide has never been approved by the FDA.
So we don't even have long-term data on Reda-Truthi.
Is it on track to get?
It is.
It is 2027, yes.
So for someone like Charles Barkley, great example,
probably on balance.
These are positive if he can't make lifestyle changes.
But what about the millions of young men
who are at 15% body fat,
and could just eat single ingredient foods
but are going to take redatrutide or terseptide
to get down to 11% to look shredded.
Is it going to affect relationships?
Is it going to affect how we relate to people?
It's a really compelling question
because the neurobiological mechanisms in our brain are there.
And if you look on X, there are a lot of these threads.
People are saying, I was at a conversation.
I just saw it last night.
You can pull it up on X.
I don't know the account.
I think it's Tyler Durden's account.
It's this guy, this eponymous account from Fight Club.
And he was just saying, I was at dinner the other day, and people were saying that they're falling out of love on OZemPEC.
And it was like over a million impressions or something.
It was really interesting that when you put that out there, people are actually saying, this happened to me.
Now, again, there are lots of cases where...
Can you pull that up?
I'm actually curious to know the comment section on what they said, if you find that.
Was that recently?
I just saw it last night.
So it's got to be pretty recent on his account.
We can find it.
I would say, yeah, search for Tyler Durden, like, falling.
out of love, g-l-p-1s or something, yeah.
But keep going.
Yeah, I'm tracking. So falling out of love.
And there's been a lot of, there's been a lot of theorizing around this just because of these
neurobiological preserved pathways in the brain. So who knows here, right? Who knows?
But I think that my point with Ozempic, Manjaro, Tersepotide is there is another way, right?
And I wish I could have told this to Oprah 15, 20 years ago. There is another way to do this.
And it's, it goes back to something that's not.
not sexy. That's a little bit easier that requires discipline, but that works longer term,
which is, hey, simple, single ingredient foods, this is the way. Yes.
Hearing some interesting stories from friends who have friends taking peptides,
falling completely out of love overnight with wives and partners, go a little bit lower.
You're not permitted to come in this post if you took field, the COVID IQ test,
the rule of 5.5 billion cheers. Go lower. Let's see if people are saying it this stem,
keep going lower.
Yeah, that's interesting to be thinking about that.
Kills enjoyment.
And by peptides, he's talking about GLP-1s here,
because those are the peptides that are affecting the enjoyment
in the ventral tegmental area, the nucleus accumbens.
And it's something we don't know for sure,
but it's very concerning.
Could it be that it's, because every time there's something,
there's fear porn, could it be the fact that you're on GLP-1s,
if you're 350 pounds and you don't make a lot of money
and you're not that successful,
odds are your wife is probably close to 350 pound type of a person.
I don't know if I'm being a pre-key.
I'm just saying statistically.
Unless if you're Charles Barkley, you're famous.
You're going to get any girl you want for the most part.
But odds are you're not dating somebody as attractive as you.
So then all of a sudden you get on GLP once and Ozambic.
And you lose 50, 60, 70 pounds.
I'll let you say you were 220.
Now you're at 150.
You look amazing.
People are now looking at you.
Maybe it's not that you're falling out of love with your spouse.
Maybe you now have options you didn't have before.
It's very possible.
And there are, there certainly are situations where both people in the relationship get on these medications.
Both people become more attractive and probably the relationship gets better.
But I just think it's a really interesting biological mechanism in the brain with no neurological pathways.
And you can look it up too.
These medications do have effects for addiction.
So there's something going on.
Oh, no question about that.
No question about that.
And there's no biological free lunch path.
And that's just a little note of caution that I want to add to these,
a little asterisk I want to add to these medications.
No biological free lunch.
When people are saying red at true tide is the best thing since sliced bread,
I'm thinking just wait.
Just wait, you know, because there's no biological free lunch.
Well, we'll see that part on what's going to happen.
The reality of it is in U.S.,
I think the OZempic product by itself plus the diabetes combined together
as a $40 to an $80 billion industry right now,
and they're saying it's going to get to $200 billion by 2030, 2035.
So when you see a number like that, this brings me up to the next question.
Last year, Big Pharma spent some $7 billion on advertising.
And one of the conversations you and I had, as well as I had with Bobby,
was with Maha and when he would get in, that at it, there you go,
$7 billion in 2025 Big Pharma.
That's a lot of money.
So that money is going to media, you know, channels, CNN,
And everybody's, get Fox, NBC, they're all getting a part of that money.
But one of the things we discussed was there's only two countries in the world that allow this.
It's us and New Zealand that, you know, Maha would possibly work on eliminating Big Pharma from being able to advertise on TV.
How much progress have you guys made on that?
I don't think there's been much progress on that, unfortunately.
Why do you think that is?
Well, you talked about it before because if you eliminate the pharmaceutical ad revenue from television stations,
you're going to see all the television stations collapse.
We can look up the amount of money spent by, we're looking at it right now,
but how much of any television station, any news channel is pharmaceutical ads?
It's a lot today.
I started off with the first story being Barclay because I saw it on an ad.
Yeah.
So if I don't see that on ad, I don't know if I know that Barclay lost weight.
What does it say, Rob?
13.1% of all national linear TV ad spends were from Big Pharma in Q3.
13%.
Pharma spending grew to 16% by 2025.
Yeah, well, that's, yeah, it's a big, it's a big deal.
A lot of ads.
What's the likelihood that they'll get it done?
Or this is something that's probably not going to get done.
I don't see it happening.
Okay.
It's just, it's too close to home, you know, it's too close to home.
I can't see it.
The lobby is too strong.
And again, I would love to see it happen.
A lot of people watch television.
A lot of people are influenced by these ads.
I don't see it happening, unfortunately.
Okay, let me ask you this next question.
So for me, when I go through this, I ask myself, what's next, right?
Because you see drugs that came out that were revolutionary that we use.
GLP 1 being one of them, and that came out in 2005.
Then you go look at when hair transplant became a thing, and that was back in 19, I want to say, 1960s, if I'm not mistaken.
Let me see this here.
Yeah, so you got hair transplant in 1960s, first performed in 1950 by Dr.
Norman R. and Trich.
That was the first one we ever did.
Breast implants since 1962,
okay? First silicone implants was in
1962. Birth control pills.
May 9th, 1960. FDA approved.
A lot of people say that was one of the worst things that we did
with birth control pills.
You got Viagra's March 27th, 1998.
You know, a lot of happy campers because of that one,
okay, but they also say there's some side effects.
But then you got the GLP ones April 2005.
What do you think is going to be?
the next big thing that hasn't happened yet.
In terms of advances?
Advances or even, you know, a pleasure, quick fit.
Because remember, Viagra, that was like a guys who were making a kill and just selling
that pill.
When it first came out, pharmaceutical salespeople were all going to, you know, saying, hey,
I want to be able to sell that product.
I heard guys are making $2,000, $400,000 a year.
It was such an easy product to sell to doctors.
What do you think could be the next thing?
Next big thing.
We're becoming more vain.
Social media is not going away.
We want to look good.
You know, we want to look sexy.
We want to look appealing.
This is a tough one, Pat.
I don't know here.
You know, I mean, peptides and GLP.
GOPs are a peptide.
But I think we've kind of already talked about this.
But I think peptides and GLP's are the next big thing.
So I think from GLP's, we have to say, it's kind of already here is the peptides.
You know, now we've got the GNRH secretagogues.
We've got BPC 157.
You've got the other classes of peptides that people are using also.
I think that's already here.
that's going to happen as well.
And that, just like the GLP, has some pretty significant contingencies to think about.
But is it insecurities?
Because you got guys who have hair issues and guys who don't have hair issues.
And there's a massive insecurity that causes people to say, let me go fix my hair.
And you can go to Turkey, do it for whatever, $4,000 to $6,000.
Or you can do it here for $25,000 to $30,000.
The other day, my son, both of them are like,
oh, dad, I don't know if you know or not.
What's that, buddy? You're going bald here.
And they take a video. They're like, look at this.
I can see. I said, buddy, take that camera off my head right now.
You know, they're kind of going through the whole thing.
Boys are very different. They have no filters.
In security breast implants, right? Some people in 60s, 1962, Rob.
How old was Marilyn Monroe in 1962? I wonder.
What year was Marilyn Monroe born?
She was born in 20. Oh, she died in 62.
Interesting. The year she died, they came out with breast implants.
So maybe everybody wanted to be, you know, kind of like her.
So insecurities with birth control, maybe that's more like a risk,
allow me to be reckless and have sex without having anything to worry about.
Viagra, there's an element of insecurity, GLP ones, weight.
Botox is already huge, you know?
Massive. It's a massive number, by the way, on Botox.
It's a big number, and there's some really interesting stuff with Botox.
There's a clip circulating from Euphoria Season 3.
I don't watch this, but I saw it.
maybe we can pull it up. It's two characters. It's at one of the characters' weddings,
and there's this really interesting juxtaposition of one actress has a large amount of
Botox in her face. And the other actress, Sidney-Sweeney, doesn't have as much Botox.
And so it's a clip where they're at, the Sydney-Sweeney's character is at her wedding,
and these two characters are arguing, and then one character with Botox on her face is saying,
we paid for our kids college fund
and you can see her getting very angry
and her face isn't moving at all.
And then Sidney Sweeney says,
what does that have to do with me?
And you can see her furrowing her brow
and her, you know, the muscles of the glabella muscles
and the forehead.
It's very interesting because we'll find the clip.
It's out there on X for sure.
It's just, it's at her wedding, you know,
and the one actress.
But what's interesting about this for me is...
What's wedding Botox?
See if it comes up.
If you type in Botox?
is that I found a recent study and I posted about this on X that where you inject the Botox in your face matters.
So there's some studies that show.
There's some studies that show.
It's like some the middle of the podcast.
He goes on porn hop back on.
There's some studies that show that if you inject the frown lines with Botox, it improves depression scores.
So there's something called this theory of embodied emotions, that when we feel an emotion,
whether it's sadness or happiness or other emotions that I'll get to in a moment, our face moves.
And our face moving with these emotions is integral to actually feeling the emotion.
So if you inject the frown lines in the face, or maybe these 11s here in the middle of your face,
I've never had any Botox, but, you know, I look at my face and I think, should I get this?
And then I read this study.
If you inject the frown lines or you inject the places in your face that are
being expressed when you have negative emotions,
it actually improves depression scores.
But if you inject the parts of your face like the laugh lines,
it worsens depression scores.
Because you can't, the theory would be
you can't express the happiness as much.
And so there was a recent study that looked at that,
and then it also looked at, and again, it's one study,
and I think it was a small study of 36 women,
but there was a seeming and finding
that when they injected certain areas of the face,
women reported less orgasm intensity.
Because...
You couldn't see...
if they're enjoying it or not.
Well, because they can't express the enjoyment on their face
when they're having the orgasm because you're paralyzing the facial muscles.
So moving your face, yes, this is exactly it.
So this is the, they use something called the sexual satisfaction score.
And so they had lower orgasm intensity and enjoyment because you can't,
you need to move your face to embody an emotion.
It's interesting.
Again, it's one study, but there's a lot of people,
getting Botox? And I thought that clip from Euphoria was fascinating because you can see this woman
getting very angry and her face isn't moving. As you and I are talking to each other, I'm looking
at your face. There's a complex inner plane. Is Pat angry? Is he sad? Is he happy? Does he like what I'm
saying? Think about the bonding that goes on between a mother and a child. No question. Think about
the complex emotional dance that happens between two people during courtship. And think about the way
that paralyzing too much of your face could affect this. Again, I'm not saying,
saying comedians must hate this yeah if you go to like comedy club and like you know uh highland park
Dallas and everybody's on Botox and you're like are these people enjoin it or not you just can't
tell because they're not smiling you can't tell and so look there's there's ways apparently again
I've never had any Botox but there's ways that you can do baby Botox and maybe not paralyze it
or be careful with the muscles but you know you say what's next and I'm thinking well at least
what's now like I just think there's a word of
caution with Botox. And I know women and men want to look young. And look, I've got some lines
across my forehead that I'm self-conscious about. But do I want to affect my ability to feel an emotion?
And do I want to affect my ability to bond with someone potentially my future kids? That's something
to consider. No, I mean, listen, you look at me, you can see freeways on my forehead. You see this
stuff in the middle of my eye. That's important. I love it. I love it. But, you know, it is a big
business when you look at Botox, the numbers on it is staggering on how many people are using it.
I think it was 85% of people that use, do we have the numbers on that with Botox, Rob?
It's a very, very high number on what percentage are women and how much money is being spent in it
and what we're doing with that.
Yeah, right there, 85 to 94% of all Botox cosmetic procedures are performed on women with
millions receiving injections annually in the U.S. while only 1% total U.S. population gets Botox.
survey indicate up to 42% of women have had the treatment, the highest usage in among women 40 to 54,
though preventative Botox is surging in those under 40.
Preventative Botox.
What is preventative Botox?
It's women in their 20s and 30s who say, I don't want to get a wrinkle, so I'm going to paralyze the muscles now.
They don't have a wrinkle they're trying to get rid of.
They're trying to prevent wrinkle.
This is, I mean, it's kind of scary, you know.
It's, you think, I mean, there's women in their 20s.
now getting Botox for sure. For sure. That's wild when you think about the space we're getting
into. But let's talk about this. So what else it can get into? Because I asked a question, I said,
okay, so what are some things that people would want to see happen next? That could be the next big
phenomenon. I'm sure you've seen the whole, you know, insecurity with heights, right?
With a leg lengthening surgery. Surgery involves deliberately breaking the bone
then slowly lengthening it to use an internal rod.
And the bone lengthens one millimeter per day.
The lengthening phase takes about three to four months.
And approximately six months later, you could grow six inches in height.
They're doing it here for $125,000 to $135,000.
But if you want to go do it in Europe or different places,
it can do for $25,000 to $30,000.
And some people that take it may never be able to run again.
Yeah, here's one guy.
Oh my gosh.
Six inches for height.
This gets into like looks maxing.
This gets into looks maxim.
But height is another one of those things, right?
Yeah, yeah.
You know, hey, I'll make more money if I'm above six feet tall.
If I'm five, six, I add six inches.
I'm five, eleven, six feet tall.
Do you see this thing getting bigger or you think this is a little bit more limited than the other?
This is pretty tough because I think people are not going to do this.
What was the movie that just came out?
I think it was called, I'll think of it over the course.
there was a character in this movie.
It was Pedro Pascal was in this movie,
and his character in the movie had the surgery.
I'll think of the movie.
Anyway, it's scary because the materialists.
So it's a romantic movie.
I watched it on a plane.
It's Pedro Pascal, Dakota Johnson.
And, you know, there's like this love triangle
between Dakota Johnson, Chris Evans, and Pedro Pascal,
and Pedro Pascal.
One of them is a rich one.
The other one's a waiter.
Is this the one?
Yes, I got it.
And so Pedro Pascal comes from a very successful family.
He's in New York.
He's an entrepreneur.
He does private equity or something.
And he's had the surgery.
Anyway, it comes up in the movie.
It's interesting.
To me, I think this is too far.
This is a bridge too far for most people.
You can't run.
What if you fall?
You think about this in the UFC,
Connor McGregor, Anderson Silva,
the guys who break their tibia,
when they kick someone in the leg,
and then they have a plate,
and they're sort of hampered for the rest of their life.
kick things. I mean, not everybody wants to kick things. But, you know, if you want to do intense
sports, like, what if you want to move in your life? You're really limiting what you can do with
these surgeries. So I don't know about this. It's pretty crazy that people are actually doing this.
I mean, the look-smassing stuff goes crazy, people, bone-smashing, jaw surgeries, implants.
The thing I want to say about height is that there's a, there's compelling evidence that what
you feed children during their growing years can affect height.
Obviously, the genetics have a factor.
You're tall, your wife's height, these kind of things, these will affect your children's height.
But we see this across the world.
Height in both men and women is correlated with nutrition and correlated with the consumption of animal products, and specifically vitamin K2.
So vitamin K2 is a form of vitamin K that occurs in animal foods.
It's in things like cheeses or full fat milk, meat, liver, we talked about, butter.
this is vitamin K2, and there is compelling evidence that giving children enough vitamin K2 when
they're growing, which means feeding them liver or liver supplements or butter, things that we're
afraid of feeding them enough meat will allow them to achieve their maximum potential height.
K2?
Vitamin K2 is linked to height.
Yes, because vitamin K2 is involved in bone turnover.
And vitamin K2 deficiency appears to cause calcification of the growth plates.
So when you have enough vitamin K2, you manage calcium stores in the body properly and where your body puts calcium.
As an adult, adequate vitamin K2 is consistently and significantly associated with lower rates of calcific aortic sclerosis, so calcification of the aortic valve and atherosclerosis of our arteries.
So vitamin K2 is found in animal foods, cheeses.
This is a famous observational study called the Rotterdam study.
those who had the highest level of K2 in their diet, the highest tertial of vitamin K2,
had the lowest all-cause mortality, the lowest atherosclerosis risk, and the lowest amounts
of calcific aortic sclerosis, calcification. But when you're growing, you don't want
the growth plates to calcify. So you make sure your children are getting enough animal foods,
eggs, butter, liver, things like this red meat that we shouldn't be afraid of. That allows
the growth plates to not calcify too early and to stunt growth. So look, you know, I'm 5-9. I always
wish I would 5-11 or 6-0, and I'm thinking, I wish my parents had fed me more eggs, you know,
or a little better diet. Both my parents were doctors, but I grew up in the low-fat crates.
And, you know, we had kind of an average standard American diet. Who knows? I mean, it's worked
out. I mean, I'm fine in the end, but I can't, I can tell you that as a man who is 5-9,
I look at men who are six feet or 6-1-1-5. Man, I wish, you know? Do you say, do you still say that?
I still think about that, you know, I still think about that.
And I even saw this bone surgery.
Should I get that?
And I thought, no, I couldn't do that.
I'm too active.
You're active.
You're running.
You're surfing.
Well, I'm kicking.
I want to do martial arts.
You send me videos of stuff you're doing in Costa Rica, the surfing.
And it's the sickest.
Every time you send me the video, I'm in an office.
I'm like, this guy is sending me another one of these videos that he's enjoying
himself in Costa Rica.
Anyway, yeah, I want to be able to do those things.
It'd be tough to do that if you add those.
I would never do that.
But before the podcast, we were talking.
about children. I have an amazing girlfriend. She's now my fiance. And we want to have kids. And I'm
thinking, every time I see this stuff, I think, how do I want to feed these children? And of course,
me, we're talking about Paul Saladino. I'm going to feed my kids animal foods. I'm going to feed my kids
meat and liver, either in capsules or in real liver or eggs. And because I want my children to have as
much of an ability to live their life as healthy as possible. End of story. So it's interesting stuff.
Yeah, no question. The vitamin K, what was it again? K2?
Vitamin K2, interesting thing to look at.
You know, it's one of my kids is like, hey, what am I getting my growth spurt?
I said, buddy, I don't know. I don't know when you're going to get it.
One of them is size 11 and a half feet. The other one is size 8.
He's like, am I going to, how tall you think I'm going to myself?
When it comes on to heights, I don't know what to tell you.
How old is he?
He's 12.
He's got time.
He's got time, yeah, but his brother is a giant.
He's becoming, he's a big boy.
He shakes. His hands are the same size as my hands at 14 years old.
So he's a big boy. He's getting bigger.
But we'll see what happens.
Some of it, you just have to wait.
The other part is when you're saying vitamin K2, we've got to look into that.
Let me ask the look maxing questions.
So you got all these maxing, right, balls maxing, looks maxing.
You got people talking about go lay down and, you know, naked under the sun.
You got hitting this stuff with your jaw and do the jaw surgery because you're going to get better.
better with girls and all this other stuff.
Which one of these do you say there's credibility there
because it's like put ice on your testicles.
The reason for it is there.
The reason why everything drops is because it's trying to cool off.
So find a way to cool off.
Then you'll read stories about sauna.
Sauna's not good because it lowers your sperm count
if you're using sauna too often at a certain temperature.
There is so much information that you're like,
if you do this, it hurts this, but it helps us.
But if you do this, it helps this.
But it hurts this.
So to the average person, where are you at with these maxing stuff?
It's interesting. I did a post on X, and we're actually going to be filming a video this week.
We're in Miami about natural looks maxing.
Clivicular, I actually met clavicular last year in Los Angeles before he got more popular, and it was just painful.
He was just so, you know, he's been on testosterone since he was 14 or 15 years old.
He's 14 years old.
Maybe 15 or, he's been on testosterone at large doses, 300 to 400 milligrams a day for so long.
and he's taking so many different peptides and medications,
and you look at his supplement stack.
I did a video about critiquing his supplement stack.
It's definitely hurting him long term.
He's not optimizing for longevity or health.
He's optimizing for looking a certain way right now.
But look, here's what I think about it.
Like attractiveness has a biological correlate.
When we are more healthy, when children are fed a more nutrient-rich diet,
when they're fed a better diet,
their faces become more wide.
their teeth develop more properly.
All of what we're seeing, a lot of what we're seeing with looks maxing
is trying to counteract the fact that most of us were raised with garbage diets.
So again, we're kind of back to parents or future parents.
Think about how you're feeding your children.
Or even now as adults, we can affect the way we look with the quality of the way we live our lives.
What's one of the easiest ones we can do?
Sleep enough.
Totally changes your attractiveness, right?
Get enough sleep, which we can talk about.
eat foods with nutrients. And I think plant foods are fine, but we keep coming back to this idea
that a lot of the nutrients we need to be optimally fertile, have optimal libido and sex trap,
optimal hormones, and optimally attractive, are found almost exclusively or predominantly in
animal foods. And yet we've been told to fear those. So animal foods, especially things like
eggs, egg yolks, don't fear the egg yolk, red meat, liver like we talked about. These are how we
start to naturally look smacks. These are the things that widen our jaws.
there was a guy in the 1940s named Weston A. Price.
You ever heard of him?
No.
He was a dentist.
He was kind of like the original explorer, the original Indiana Jones.
He went all over the world and studied indigenous populations all over the world,
and he took stunning photographs.
So he wrote a book called Nutrition and Physical Degeneration,
which is very dry and very thick.
But the photographs, maybe you guys can pull up some of the photographs of the people he noted all over the world.
You see these wide jaws, these perfect.
arched palates.
Look at this guy's teeth.
There's no dentist, right?
These are not veneers.
There's no tooth whitening.
It's a black and white photo.
But look at the width of that palette.
The average palette used to be 50 millimeters across.
Today, it's 34 millimeters.
What?
This is almost entirely due to the quality of our food.
It's these easily chewable foods.
This is juxtaposing, you know, children in developed society.
eating processed flowers and processed sugars with indigenous people.
They're not even really brushing their teeth.
They're not doing anything crazy.
They're not taking their appetite.
There's no looks maxing going on here.
Those are beautiful humans, right?
On the left side of this photo, who are eating traditional diets.
This is an incredible juxtaposition that we have forgotten.
So if we want to looks max,
we just really need to return to the way that humans have eaten.
And I know that I keep saying this,
and maybe it sounds pedestrian,
but there's so much wisdom here.
Look at this, these are from the 1940s, and this has largely been forgotten.
Those pallets are wide.
This is what's attractive to us, a wide jaw, a big palate, a, you know, a maxillary bone that
is fully developed.
And this predominantly has to do with the quality of the foods we're eating and actually
activating the mass that are muscle by chewing foods.
When we activate muscles in our jaw, it triggers bone deposition because the muscles have
to pull on the bone.
So if we are not chewing, right?
You think about this.
When was the last time you actually chew something that you had to really chew?
A lot of us cut the tendons off of our stakes because we don't want to chew.
It's too chewy, right?
This is, we need this today.
All of us, kids need it, adults need it.
The mass that are muscle is so strong and it pulls on the jaw and then bone deposition occurs
because the bone is pulling, the muscles pulling on the bone.
The bone has to lay down actual osteoblasts have to lay down bone.
and lay down matrix
because the muscles pulling on it so hard.
So we think about this, it's like,
all this looks maxing has its root
in our evolutionary history.
You want a mate that's healthy
because you want to make healthy children.
So it's not, in some ways you think it's vain,
oh, this woman wants to look at,
this guy wants to look good,
no, what you're trying to do
what we've forgotten about
is actually signal to a mate
that you're healthy.
Well, why not actually just try
and be healthy rather than faking it,
right?
So it's pretty interesting to me.
How deep?
because you're in this world.
What do you see in how far people are going?
What's some crazy things people are.
I saw the hammer thing.
The hammer.
What else are you seeing?
Well, they're doing jaw implants, right?
They're getting all sorts of facial surgeries.
Guys will get facial surgeries on their eyes.
We have a guy that does jaw surgeries.
It's $70,000.
He does.
He's the best guy in America.
And he's done 2,000 plus of those.
And people pay him $70,000 to be able to fix the jaw to look,
you know, the way they wanted to love.
Strong jaw. Yeah.
And so remember, like, the reason you have, the strong jaw is a signal of health
and fertility to a potential mate.
And you can improve this without a jaw surgery.
Yeah, this is crazy.
So what does this do, though, when he's hammering it?
Is this supposed to do anything?
Yeah, the idea.
The idea is that if you break the bone, it's going to grow back in a certain way.
And there might be some, there might be some truth to this.
And, like, let's be honest, like, why not just get it?
nutritionally, right? Like, I don't think people should be smashing their face. And it's,
it's an indication that we're all sort of eating these easily predigested soft foods, which
are poor in nutrients. People are doing crazy stuff. I mean, veneers are common. And the thing with
veneers, that's potentially problematic, is that when you have a veneer, can you actually acclude, right?
Can the bite, can you bite down in the proper way in your jaw? All of this is really important
for proper alignment of the jaw, avoidance of temporal mandibular joints.
syndrome. So I think that the problem with this is that in five to ten years, a lot of these
looks maxing therapies, especially the stuff that Clavikio is talking about, are just going to lead people
to be miserable. He's not going to look great in 10 years, you know?
You don't think he's going to look good in 10 years? I don't think he's going to look very good in 10 years.
He's definitely not going to look good in 20 years. He's only 21 years old or 20 years old.
He's so young, you know, and he's definitely changing the trajectory of his health in a negative
way, unquestionably. Yeah, a lot of people are a lot of young men, you know, they'll see who
whoever's the hottest person today and they want to replicate that person.
And he is getting a lot of guys that are talking about, you know, I'm speaking at a school today
right afterwards, career day.
And I'm going to be asking, every time I go to schools and I'm talking to kids, you know,
10 to 18 years old, I want to ask them, who do you guys follow today?
Who do you look up to today?
And you'd be amazed at what names are coming up.
What names come up?
He's one of the names that comes up in the top five right now.
So when you ask him, it's scary.
Well, it is a trend and a pattern.
and the parents must take responsibility to educate.
It's nothing new.
This has always been the case.
Yeah.
You know, where people will, I mean, at one point, people were worried about, you know, Elvis shaking his hips.
And, hey, don't do that in front of girls.
This is not good.
It's going to make, you know, girls want to have sex and all this other stuff.
But sometimes we exaggerate it.
Sometimes it's like a trend and it goes away.
And sometimes it stays.
I don't know if this is going to be a trend or if it's going to stay or now.
I know forever we're going to want to look better and be more attractive to the opposite.
It's like, that's never going away.
So do it the right way, you know?
So my hope, and I would love to, this would be really cool,
I would love to talk to some of these kids and say,
hey, do you want to do this but also live to be 85 years old
and playing with your grandkids?
Hey, guys, stop eating junk food, you know?
Stop drinking Coca-Cola.
Stop, you know, eating Cheetos, stop eating McDonald's,
and actually eat real food.
You said it earlier on the podcast.
We always want the shortcut.
There's no free lunch here.
But if kids, and this is one of the things that makes me,
the happiest is when I meet a young adult.
Everybody, every once in a while,
I'll meet a fan who's 15, 16 years old,
often with their parents,
but sometimes the 16-year-old influenced their parents
to start thinking about health, and they found value.
The other way around.
Interesting.
And the parents found value,
and they found some value in my content.
I think this 16-year-old, this 17-year-old,
you're so far ahead of the curve,
if you are thinking about food quality now,
if you are thinking about the fact that
So much of what we're talking about today on the podcast is achievable with simple,
high-quality food.
And yet, what are we bombarded with?
It is low-quality food, which shrinks our jaws, makes us less attractive and makes us
obese.
There's an easy way.
I shouldn't say an easy way.
There's an easy way with the cheap shortcuts.
And there's a simple, clear way to do it, which is going to require discipline, but it's
going to give you this trajectory and knowledge for the rest of your life.
Yeah, so people want to be what?
If you were to say people want to be stronger, smarter, more attractive, wealthier, taller,
you know, those are some of the things that, you know, we'll see.
But also you have your friend Brian Johnson, which I know you guys are having dinner tonight.
Good friends, very good friends, you guys are.
Brian Johnson, an article goes viral for him.
So for men, it's about, hey, I wouldn't mind my package being a little bit bigger, right?
Guys are always into, hey, penis enlargement, whatever you in the...
I've never seen this before.
Biohacker Brian Johnson makes shocking reveal about his girlfriend's vagina being the top 1%.
If your girlfriend's vagina is in the top 1%, do you want to advertise it?
Well, this guy just did, right?
So if you go on the bottom, this is so funny.
It's like, you know, the article goes into saying he's never shot away from sharing, you know,
fame biohacker across a new Rubicon on TMI while many plebeians may boast about their partners,
emotional intelligence, running emotional, you know, Johnson is out there publicly praising his top.
to your girlfriends. Kate O'Tole's
private's million followers. He posts
the video, 48 years old.
Just gave Kate
Sex, goodnight. This guy's a little weird. Go a little bit lower.
But I want to show the chart that he puts up.
Okay, go a little bit lower. It's as if it's a stock.
Okay. And even go a little bit lower. You'll see the,
you'll see the chart he posts right there. This is the one.
So he gives her a top score
because she's in the top 1%
you know, result. Low is 5%. Below median is where
most women are at? What is he talking about? You can see it at the bottom on the x-axis. It's the
microbiome. Yeah. So you have a microbiome in your gut, and women have a microbiome in their vagina.
We also have a microbiome on our skin, in our mouth. All of the orifices of our body have microbiota,
have organisms. And so somehow they're saying, oh, when you culture this vaginal flora,
it is, they're rating it objectively on this scale. So great.
I think that the indication here for people is just that, hey, look, what is Kate doing that's
improving her vaginal microbiome?
It's not eating garbage food.
I've met Kate and Brian, and to be fair, they basically said, we want to do everything
for attention we possibly can.
I get it.
This is an attention economy.
They said that.
They said that.
Well, this is getting a lot of, this story is getting a lot of attention, you know.
I mean, and, you know, Brian is very good at virality.
Hey, I just had sex with Kate.
Let me show you my vagus, my vagus nerve score.
Let me show you my whoop score after I had sex with Kate.
Hey, I'm going to inject my-
He's tracking his data while he's having sex with Kate?
Yeah.
And what's he looking for?
What data is he looking for?
I think he was looking for heart rate variability afterwards.
But again, it's like, okay, great.
Like, you're getting a lot of attention saying.
Is he like on a bunch of, I visualized it's having the EKG stuff on his body?
Like he's got these, you know, and then honey, let's go out of us like, hey, I'm ovulating, babe.
Let's go.
We're going to have a kid.
What's he?
I think he just has a.
who whoop band on and he's looking at his HRV and his, you know, his vagal tone.
Not a lot of wires and all the, no, I don't think, although I wouldn't be what's going to get
caught in different things.
I wouldn't put it past him, but he's definitely about virality, oftentimes at the expense of decorum,
perhaps. So yeah, this is great. Like, women should be thinking about the quality or the
composition of their vaginal microbiome, just like men should be thinking, or all of us should be
thinking about the composition of our gastrointestinal microbiome. And these are in a large part
driven by the quality of our diet.
You know, and so great,
Kate's not eating junk food.
She has a good microbiome score on a vagina.
Awesome. If women see that and they
understand how she got that. Who does that please?
If you're in the top 1%, is that better for your mate
or is that better for you? It's probably better for both
people because when you're having sex, you're obviously
very intimate with the vagina.
And we know that when there is vaginal dyspiosis,
vaginas are not as much fun to be around,
predominantly because of the smell.
And just that it's not as much fun
for women. They can get more infections and things like this. So it's better for both partners to have
a healthy microbiome in the vagina, in the mouth. You don't want to kiss someone with bad breath. It's kind of the
same thing. Got it. Interesting. So it's more about smell about than anything else. Probably, yes. And
for the woman, it's about the propensity for urinary track infections or the propensity for fungal
overgrowth, yeast infections, et cetera. So when you have a healthy microbiome in the vagina, a woman is
going to be more resilient against the wrong type of organisms, fungal or bacterial, overgrowing
and creating yeast infections, bacterial vaginosis, or urinary tract infections. So how does that apply to
men? Now flip it and put it on men. I think that, you know, a man is going to have a skin microbiome,
and your skin microbiome is going to affect the woman's vaginal microbiome also. So you want to be
healthy. Your skin microbiome is in large part due or connected with your gastrointestinal microbiome. We know
that for men and women, the right type of flora in our gut affects the regularity with which we have
bowel movements, which is super important for humans and human health. It affects whether we get
bloated or gassy, which is no fun. It affects our ability to digest food. It affects systemic inflammation.
And so we as humans are sort of this symbiotic organism with the trillions of bacteria,
viruses, and fungi that live within us. Have you heard the statistic that most scientists now agree
that we are more not human than we are human.
There are perhaps, you know,
10 to the 15th cells in the human body.
There are probably 10 to the 16th plus organisms
in your gut and around you.
You are at least an order of magnitude,
perhaps two orders of magnitude,
not human, more not human than you are human.
This is DNA that is not yours.
So we are this sort of symbiotic simulacrum of humans,
and we affect those organisms
based on how we're moving through our environment
and what we're eating.
Pretty interesting.
It's funny you say this because, you know, when I was single, if you smoke cigarettes,
you know, I was dating a beautiful girl, you know, a former Miss California type of a girl.
But she's, you know, she wanted them smoked and I couldn't deal with it.
I couldn't deal with the smell.
Another one was, you know, even if she came out of the shower, there was still a bit of a stench.
Okay.
And I'm not even talking about down there just here.
And I couldn't deal with it.
Another one was she was great, but she smelled like copper.
And I would say, why do you smell like copper?
Her skin would smell like copper.
And, you know, for somebody that's extremely sensitive with scent, you know, so now this,
but this is not even about what they all look physically great, but the smell was I was throwing it off.
So now bring it to men, let's stay on this.
Typically when you talk to guys, they'll talk about, you know, when boys are comfortable and they want to talk to each other,
they'll open up, boom.
It's either ED.
They can't get it up.
It's either they can get it up, but they come very quickly.
So climax very, so stamina is the problem, or its size.
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They get a hammer and just hit their junk and say, hey, listen.
No, no.
I don't know.
Let's talk about erectile.
Bob, don't try that.
I'm just asking before you guys.
I'm worried about Humberto goes and says.
Let's talk about erectile dysfunction first.
So erectile dysfunction, we talked about this earlier in the podcast,
directly linked to the absolute collapse of men's testosterone and metabolic health.
So if you look at the 1920s pictures that we showed earlier in the podcast of New York,
those men, our great-grandfathers, our grandfathers, had testosterone that was higher than ours.
right and across the board so the average testosterone give or take from what we can say today
100 years ago for men in their 30s and 40s was probably in the 800s 800 nanograms per deciliter
today it's 400 450 so we've just collapsed and I think that that that in combination with our
overall metabolic health and this is the quality of the food we're eating but also our toxic
environment which we can talk about so we are swimming in an environment that is full
of compounds, whether it's BPA, thallates, PFAs, which are forever chemicals, or
microplastics and pesticides, which in the microplastics can carry all those chemicals
into our body. These are endocrine-disrupting chemicals. So we are not only eating poor quality
food, we are not eating the nutrients needed to have healthy testicles, which produce
testosterone in the Ladig cells, and the Sertoli cells support that. We are also imbibing,
putting on our skin, washing our hair, breathing in, chemical.
drinking chemicals in cans, in plastic bottles, in plastic cups that are actively disrupting
our ability to make these hormones. And then we are ending up with 30-year-olds and 40-year-old men
who have erectile dysfunction. Now, then they go to the doctor. The doctor says, hey, your
testosterone is 300. Here's testosterone. And to me, this is, there's nothing intrinsically wrong
with testosterone supplementation, but I think that we are failing to talk to these men about what could be
causing this because you can correct it, right? So you think about how quickly men get testosterone
prescriptions. I saw Jeremy Renner was on a podcast recently saying he's on TRT, his testosterone was
2 to 300. I think he's early 50s. More in the actor. Yeah, the guy who he's in the Marvel
movies. Is that the Hurt Locker, the same guy I'm thinking about? Oh yeah, yeah. Yeah. He's phenomenal.
Yeah. And he, so he was on. He said he was at 200? 200 to 300, I think, yeah. He was on Chris Williamson's
podcast talking about peptides and TRT. And what did he do?
to improve his. Well, he just took TRT, you know? So for me, this is like, okay, the problem is
if you go to a doctor, so I know that a lot of men listening to this might be 30s, 40s, 50s,
if you go to your doctor and they say, hey, your testosterone is 300, 400, it should be 800,
you know, and there is a biological precedent. It's possible to be in your 40s or 50s and have
testosterone in the 700s or 800s. My testosterone was 860. I don't take anything. I'm 48 years old.
So like, and I've met many men who show this.
You can, there's nothing about being a man in your 40s, 50s, or even 60s that says your
testosterone needs to fall off a cliff.
But we go to the doctor, we say, hey, my testosterone's 300.
They say, here's TRT.
Did your doctor check your vitamin D level?
Did your doctor check your zinc level?
There's really good evidence that if your zinc level is less than maybe 80, 80 milligrams per
decibelts, I think it's them units.
It might be, I think it's a micrograms per deciliter for the zinc.
If your zinc level is less than 80, your testosterone could improve, could double just by zinc
supplementation.
So make sure you check your zinc level, and men could be supplementing with zinc.
Zinc is, of course, found in a very bioavailable form in red meat, animal foods, which we are eating
less of.
Now, the thing with zinc, just to put an asterisk here, is that you don't want to take zinc
without copper long term.
So if you do 15 milligrams of zinc, you probably need at least one milligram of copper if you're
going to take it long term.
But so many men could improve their testosterone.
Osrin levels by checking their zinc level and supplementing with a little bit of zinc,
be aware of copper.
But the list goes on.
What are you exposed to?
How many plastics are you ingesting?
How many cans are you drinking out of?
How many plastic bottles are you drinking out of?
How many plastic containers are you cooking your food in?
What is your talk?
You're fully against that, 100%.
Fully against this.
There's a great clip.
We can find it from Joe Rogan's podcast.
And it's just, it's an anecdote from one of his friends.
But he said, and I think this is true, he said, my first.
friend had testosterone that was maybe 300 and he got all the macroplastics out of his life he significantly
decreased plastic exposure and his testosterone went to 1200 so this is really again it's just an anecdote
but let's talk about plastic exposure because this is really interesting and you've got a lot of
props here for me right now so i think that for men baseline start with a good quality diet start
with single ingredient foods or foods with ingredient labels your great grandmother would recognize
eat animal foods.
You need those nutrients.
You need zinc, you need vitamin D, you need magnesium,
you need selenium.
These are core nutrients for your testicles to actually work.
And then you want to think about minimizing your exposure
to endocrine disrupting chemicals.
So let's start with cans.
The bloom pop may not be the best example,
but imagine this is a Coca-Cola
because there's an actual study done at Columbia University
where they use something called stimulated ramen scattering.
to look at nanoplastics.
And I want you to guess
how many nanoplastics they found
in a single can of coke
using this microscopy.
Now, nanoplastics are particles of plastics
that are less than one micrometer in size.
You have microplastics,
which are larger than a micrometer.
Yeah, you want to play this?
This what?
Oh, yeah, yeah.
We'll talk about this, too.
So guess how many microplastics
they found in a can of cope?
How many?
3.7 million in a single can of Coke.
What does that mean to us?
That's a lot of microplastics.
The same study, the same group at Columbia, found 250,000 nanoplastics.
15 times more, 16 times more than just that.
In the plastic bottle, right?
So plastic bottles, 250,000 microplastics per liter.
3.7 million.
3.7 million in a can of Coke.
Now, the numbers just mean that on a daily basis, we are ingesting millions,
and millions of nanoplastics.
And if you look at this, when you actually assay this,
we are literally full of these plastic particles.
They've been found in every single man
that's ever been studied in their testicles.
They've been found in brain, ovaries, kidneys.
Every organ in our body is full of these particles.
They can directly be damaging to our ability to produce hormones.
They can directly affect the ability of these cells
in our testicles to produce hormones.
And these microplastics, these little particles of plastic,
and I know I sound doom and gloom here,
but I'm just giving information
so people can make better choices.
They can carry like a Trojan horse, BPA, endocrine disruptor, right?
PFA's, forever chemicals.
They can carry pesticides.
They can carry phalates.
The plastic particles bring in other chemicals.
So reducing our exposure to plastic
is probably one of the single most important things
we could do in our lives for men or women.
And the reason we have this one is because, Pat,
what is this cup made out of?
Paper.
it's actually lined with plastic.
This is lined with plastic?
It's lined with plastic in here
because if this were pure paper,
the liquid would soak through.
So if you soak this paper in water,
you can peel away the paper
and see the plastic in here.
It looks like a condom.
I've done this multiple times
in my social media.
It looks like a condom.
So we're drinking water out of a condom.
This is also a condom on the inside.
You can use sodium hydroxide
and dissolve the aluminum
and there's a condom on the inside of this can.
So the reason the close
Coke has so many microplastics is because it's probably acidic.
This is going to be a lot of microplastics when you pour your boiling coffee into the paper
cup. And it is just exploding plastic particles into your coffee. So we think about this,
and I said at the beginning of this podcast, that this wasn't going to be easy for you or for anyone,
but I think knowledge is power and you know better, you do better. When you reduce your exposure
to plastics, whether it's cans, plastic bottles, paper cups, which are aligned with plastic,
plastic containers that you should never store your food or heat your food in, you will
significantly improve your health, probably increase your testosterone, maybe improve your
erectile dysfunction without these medications. Just because of plastics. I think plastics are the
coming storm for humans. This is the storm. This is the thing that we are not seeing. Plastics,
in my opinion, I could be wrong, this is the new smoke. So now you drink out of a, you brought
you got your own bottle of water. We gave you the bottle of water. You refused it. You too. You brought your own.
It's in glass. And I just want to mention that there was a study saying, oh, glass bottled water has more microplastics than plastic. But if you look at that study carefully, it only looked at large particles. And the numbers they were suggesting were three to four microplastics per liter. So that's what I want to contrast. Three to four microplastics per liter in a glass water bottle.
Which is 3.7 million nanoplastics.
And 250,000 in this guy.
Yes.
Wow.
So don't think about microplastics.
So what do I do when I go to a restaurant and I say, can I have some water?
What do you tell them?
Do you bring your own water when you go to a restaurant?
No, you could ask for bottled water at a restaurant.
This may sound, I think most people would understand you don't want to drink tap water, right?
Because tap water has other problems, whether it's forever.
Tap water is a major source of exposure for humans for forever chemicals, which are the PFAs.
And forever chemicals do what they say.
They kind of stick around in the environment and they can stick around in our bodies.
and these are known endocrine disruptors.
So you don't want to be drinking tap water.
So you go to a restaurant, you should probably be having a nice dinner and using bottled water.
Ask them, what water do you have?
Is it in glass?
I don't think many nice restaurants are going to serve you Fiji and plastic,
but sometimes they do.
Make sure it's in glass, and it can be sparkling or still.
And there is variability in the quality of glass bottled waters.
I did a study, which is on my YouTube channel, and I compared bottled waters.
any bottled water in plastic is going to be better than tap water.
So that's what you want to do.
But thinking about your water,
I think most people could significantly improve their toxin exposure
just by putting a reverse osmosis filter under the sink in their house.
$400 to $600.
All the water you drink is going to be very, very clean
because it's reverse osmosis.
You're going to fix all these things.
Jens, if you're watching this, remember Saladino, Paul is on Mnack.
So you may have some private question.
and you want to ask him, that's the whole purpose of Meneck.
Go Meneck.
He actually responds back to a back on Menects,
and very popular on Meneck with the questions guys are asking him.
So, E.D. clear, simple stuff.
Like, I like anything that's very simple.
Get rid of plastics is what you're talking about.
Improve the quality of your foods.
And like we said with Jeremy Renner, like, okay, did you need TRT?
Fix all the other things first.
He had an injury, right?
So he couldn't move and he had some things that,
I don't know how many bones he broke.
Something happened to the guy, if I'm not mistaken.
What happened to him?
Did he get in?
Snow plow accident.
Oh, yeah.
He got into so he couldn't even move his body to increase his testosterone.
So maybe for him he needed it.
Maybe.
Yeah.
So, okay, so we got that part.
Stamina.
Is this also apply on stamina?
Yeah, I think that, you know, stamina is probably an interesting thing.
And it's like, I think that when you are.
Is it more here?
It's probably more on your brain, yeah.
And it's like, you know, we'll get into a little sexual coaching.
Guys, just go slow.
Breathe.
you know, you'll get it back.
And I think that when you're sexually healthy,
when your hormones are properly aligned,
the stamina will come, you know, take your time,
don't rush.
Women are going to like it when you take your time with them.
Nobody wants the rush, you know.
And so that's a whole different thing,
but take your time, go slow.
It's called stop watching porn.
Yes.
Porn is.
Yes.
And one of the best clips I ever saw was Pamela Anderson
coaching her son that porn is,
is not really what women won in real life.
And she said, I used to,
you ever seen this interview with Pamela Anderson?
No.
It's a great clip.
And I think her son is sitting right next to her while she's saying this.
Yeah, it's the second one.
We don't need to play it.
I think it's a five-minute clip.
But she says, I would go out on dates,
and I would see guys were like just throwing me around and hitting me.
I'm like, what are you doing?
I'm not enjoying this.
It's like I had to coach my sons that don't have sex like the way you do.
And porn, it's a great clip for everybody to watch.
but that's a different story.
Okay.
So that's more mindset.
ED is diet size.
We're kind of back to children, you know.
So parents feed your boys animal foods.
Getting them enough of these nutrients will allow for proper full development of the penis size.
We know that as boys are entering puberty, dhty levels, so dihydrotrotestosterone levels,
testosterone levels, these are linked to how healthy the boy is in puberty.
but who are some of the least healthy
like young men in the world
the ones entering puberty they're eating Chipotle, they're eating
McDonald's, they're eating Burger King and so
some parents may say Paul, I'm going to
call you out on this one so there's
some size incompetent and they don't eat too well
you know what I'm saying so sometimes
it's not necessarily as a kid that some people are born
with it right? A part of it is just genetics
and you're born with it. Part of it is genetics I think
you know micropenus is rare
and look you can't change that
there's a guy in Germany that dealt with that he had a hard
with that. He wanted to kill everybody in the world.
And apparently he was dealing with micro penis issues.
I don't know.
Very angry guy. Very angry guy.
I can understand why.
I can understand why. It's like,
it's rough.
But you know.
What do you do with that, though? What do you do with that?
Micropin, you can't, you can't do much with micropinus, you know?
But, like, I think that for young boys...
Just broke so many people's hearts right now.
Let's pay very close attention to the retention of the podcast.
You're run a YouTube channel.
I want to see if it goes like this.
Literally the podcast just went limp right now.
But like, you know, micropinus, we're talking like an inch, you know, or two.
We're not, like, there are statistics on the average penis size across the world.
And it's smaller than most men think, you know?
I saw this on X because, of course, I'm curious, like, what's the average penis size?
How do I stack up, right?
And you know, like the largest average penises in the world were seven inches.
A lot of average penis size across the world is five-ish to six inches.
So I think a lot of men might think that they are under-equipped because they are, again, watching porn and seeing male porn actors with very large penises.
And we can get back to Pamela Anderson here.
I think if you talk to women in a very candid way, women will tell you you don't need to have an 10-inch penis.
You don't need to have a Coke bottle thick penis to please a woman.
You know, the vagina is very wide after the aperture.
So if you look at a female's vagina, the opening of the vagina is more narrow.
But within an inch or two, the vagina becomes very wide.
So what are you, you know, like what matters is the length of your penis may not matter as much as you think.
And probably there is a lot of variability between women and what they like sexually.
But if you look at the G spot on a woman, it's within the first inch or two of the vagina.
You don't need a...
You just gained them back.
We got them back.
You don't need an eight-inch penis to hit...
And if you got an eight-inch penis, great, man.
Congratulations.
You don't need an eight-inch penis to hit the G-spot.
What you need is to be a present lover.
You need to have an emotional connection with the woman.
Never thought the podcast would go in this direction, right?
And you need to understand women's anatomy.
So let me just drop something on the men watching this.
The clitoris is...
real. Number one, the clitoris is real. The clitoris is not only the small, little organ that you see
at the top of the labia. The clitoris goes around the labia. The clitoris extends backward. If you've
ever seen a picture of a three-dimensional clitoris, it's much larger than what...
Careful with your search, Ryan. Type in three-dimensional picture of a clitoris.
Can't believe we're doing this, but we're there folks. And so, like, there's a lot. You know,
what's interesting is that the labia of a woman's vagina,
china are the same things that form into the scrotum of a man. So, and then the clitoris is the same
thing that becomes the penis. And so that you think about a penis growing, the penis also extends
further into a man's body than just what's exterior. So there is a lot more tissue there to work with.
And thinking about how to pleasure a woman without watching porn is the way to do this. So I think
for the majority of men watching this who think that their penis is not big enough, you're probably
wrong. It's just that maybe you're not, you're not using it properly, you're going too quickly, you're watching
porn and if you talk to women they'll probably tell you it's fine so that's what i would say now again
i think that your and this is where we really need to talk to the young people like the quality of
the food that young men eat almost certainly will affect optimal penis growth so yeah it's important
you go okay next story here hopefully we kept him this was great now i think we gain him back we have a
new massive audience so for those you guys i want to get graphic manette uh paul he'll tell you more
about it if this is something you want to learn about.
Breath. Let's talk about bad breath.
Okay. So, of course,
what you put in your mouth and what you eat and what
you put in your stomach. So for
some people, maybe
could it be that you never had breath
issues and all of a sudden you start having
breath issues, but you didn't change anything about your diet?
So one, what causes somebody
to have bad bread? Because in business
and sales, like over the years, I've coached a lot
of guys that are selling and I'll say,
you know, why is my closing ratio
so low? Well,
quite honestly, you smell.
You know, if you go into a family's house and you're talking to them,
you're getting close to them, it smells.
So one is they use products to help with their breath.
But then the other thing is, what can I do that could be internal,
that maybe I'm starting to have bad breath?
This is microbiome.
This is microbiome.
So we talked about vaginal microbiome.
We talked about gastrointestinal microbiome.
The microbiome in your esophagus and your actual mouth,
which are connected directly to your stomach,
your duodenum, right, your small intestine.
This is what creates bad breath.
This is what creates halitosis is the technical term.
So how do we fix those things?
You fix those things.
I sound like a broken record pat,
but it's important because we keep coming back to this idea.
You fix this things with quality of diet.
So you can change the halitosis in your mouth, in your gut,
which is dyspiosis, by eating better quality foods.
That is the answer.
In the short term, yes, use breath mints.
Mouthwash is interesting, right?
Because there's studies showing that if,
use mouthwash before you go to the gym, this can affect your ability to gain muscle because
the bacteria in our mouth produce nitric oxide. Nitric oxide is systemic and is one of the
vasodilatory gases, compounds in the human body. So I can't say this for sure, but I suspect
there might even be evidence that if you use too much mouthwash, if you destroy the microbiome
of your... It's actually bad for you. I've seen that too much mouthwash is bad for you. It's bad for
you. It can affect your vascularity, your ability to dilate. It might even affect erectile.
Why? Help me understand that.
Because the bacteria in our mouth produce nitric oxide naturally.
So you need some of that bacteria in your mouth.
You need back.
The bacteria in your mouth are essential.
They're essential.
Do you use mouthwash?
I do not use mouthwash.
I have not used mouthwash.
I remember when I was in, before I went to medical school, I went to PA school.
And I was in PA school at George Washington University.
And I was going to see a girl.
And I just did the listerine and just crushed it and walked out the door.
My dad goes, whoa.
And I was like, it's fine.
It's fine.
That's the last time I remember using mouthwash, you know.
So what do you not use?
So if I was to go, you know, you go to someone's, I think I saw an article the other day,
if you go to a man's bathroom, there's six to eight products.
But if you go to a woman's side of the bathroom, there's 332 products.
Some ridiculous amount of products versus what we have as men.
If somebody goes into your bathroom, what products do you have?
You have, I have a toothbrush that is made from plant fibers.
So there's no, there's no plastics.
Toothbrush made from plant fibers.
So it's an electric toothbrush.
I type in that right.
The bristles are made of castor oil derivative.
Something like that?
I think that it's called Surrey, I think, is the brand of the toothbrush.
I have no affiliation.
It's an electric toothbrush.
And the bristles are made of plant fibers.
Because I don't want plastic toothbrush bristles, right?
And you think about just like microplastics, when you brush your teeth with a plastic bristle toothbrush, you're releasing micro-anananaptics into your body.
So there's a toothbrush.
Pat, I don't use toothpaste.
Zero.
I don't use toothpaste.
And by the way, just to say, I don't smell your...
breath. Thank you. So then you use deodorant? I will use deodorant, but I will use a natural
deodorant or I will use rubbing alcohol. If you look at deodorants, you have to be very careful.
Rubbing alcohol instead of deodorant? You can. It's the simplest form of...
Now, why do you now use deodorant? Because Liver King also wasn't using deodorant.
Well, yeah. When he walked in, by the way, I'm not going to lie to three people passed out.
It was, do you remember that day, Rob? Yeah. It was, and we were stuck in a vault.
because we used to do our podcast on a bank vault.
It was a bad situation.
The bad situation.
So look, just like your mouth, the breath, your human smell is also determined by the quality of the food you eat.
Your microbiome determines all or has a large influence on all these things.
So when I use deodorant, I will use a natural deodorant.
I don't want phalates.
I don't want parabins.
Again, endocrine disruptors going directly into my body.
Your armpits are very, they're very porous.
They're very absorbable.
You can take a lot of things.
I don't want aluminum.
So deodorant's fine.
Just look for a natural deodorant.
Give an idea.
Like what?
What's a good one?
I'd be using the same thing for 30 years, and I love it.
I use a polo sport, the red one, whatever the polo sport is.
I'm not sure.
That's natural.
I try a bunch of, no, it's not natural.
No, but what do you suggest?
That's what I'll use.
You know what is good?
It's primarily pure.
That's what I use.
That exact product you have there is what I use.
So we can look at the ingredients in that.
And I'm sure there's going to be some scents, some phylates.
At least it's aluminum-free.
I used to use this 30 years ago.
Primally pure.
No affiliation, but this is a great company for deodorant.
What is it called?
Primally pure.
Primally pure.
Yeah.
So you see there was fragrance on your deodorant.
This is essentially phalates.
So these are endocrine-disrupting chemicals.
Yeah.
So this primarily pure is a good deodorant company.
No affiliation, but these are good people I know them.
Okay.
What else?
So what else is in the bathroom?
So, so.
Shampo, so, you know, so you don't have toothpaste.
You have that toothbrush.
I don't have toothpaste.
I think toothpaste is kind of a scam.
If you want to use toothpaste, use a natural toothpaste.
I have concerns about fluoride in toothpaste.
It's very high.
And when we look across population data,
it's pretty strong signal that very high levels of fluoride exposure,
fluoride exposure, are associated with lower IQs.
So I'm not going to actively ingest fluoride.
I don't need fluoride in toothpaste.
There are natural toothpaste out there.
But something as simple as a combination of coconut oil and baking soda
can be a great toothpaste.
When I use toothpaste, that's what I use.
Coconut oil baking soda.
Be a little careful.
You don't want to brush too hard with a baking soda.
You can strip the enamel, but most of the time, it's fine.
So no deodorant.
In the shower, I don't use shampoo.
I use soap sometimes, and it's a tallow-based soap.
I don't even know the brand.
There's like, you know.
So, you know.
So, in your hair?
No, no, I use soap on my body.
You know?
So you don't wash your hair out of my hair with shampoo.
Just rinse it as well.
Just rinse it, yep.
I mean, I'm in the ocean all the time.
When's the last some use shampoo?
It's been a long time, Pat.
10 years?
Stop.
20 years?
20 years.
But you look at most shampoos,
and you have, you know, sense and, again, all the same sort of problems.
And there are studies done on women, but I'm sure we'd see the same thing in men.
When you simplify your self-care regimen, the amount of these endocrine or something chemicals
decrease meaningfully in your body, assayed through urine.
I don't put lotions on my skin pad.
I don't know what else people use.
Shaving cream. Do you use shaving cream?
I don't use shaving cream.
I use aloeuvre-gill on my face.
You use aloeira and then razor jane.
Just any kind of razor.
Any kind of razor.
Yep.
So I, and you can see I like to keep the scruff.
But yeah, I will use aloe vera on my skin.
I don't use, I don't use traditional sunscreens.
When I go in the ocean, I use a tallow-based sunscreen.
I make it myself.
You know, it's tallow, it's coconut oil, it's non-nano zinc, and it's a little bit of beeswax.
I just put it on my face for Costa Rican surfing in the morning.
How often do you surf in Costa Rica?
Every morning.
Every morning, man.
What time?
Six.
Every morning.
Yeah. And what are you going to do if you come down here?
I've got a foil board. So a foil board is like a board with a mast and a foil underneath.
And it kind of goes on the water. It like flies on the water. I might do some paddle boarding. That's a foil board.
Oh, that's cool. I've seen those. Yeah. I've got a foil board for here.
And you don't need waves for that. You don't need waves for that. There's an electric foil board that I have or you can find little swells. You can foil board. Yeah, I'll do paddle boarding down here.
Have you ever surfed in Costa Rica where you encountered sharks or anything?
I've never seen a shark in Costa Rica.
I saw a shark in Australia.
There are sharks out there.
I've seen small sharks when I was snorkeling on an island called Canyo Island,
which is 32 miles off the coast of Costa Rica where I live.
Small sharks, reef sharks.
I've never seen a crazy shark.
I've gotten stung by a stingray on my foot, and that hurt like crazy.
So a stingray got me on my ankle.
And I've been stung by jellyfish that were quite painful.
Not all of them are bad.
but otherwise nothing.
And Costa Rica is amazing.
It's pretty safe for surfing.
But so you think about it.
Like there's no shampoo in my shower.
Maybe there's a bar of tallow soap.
We've done videos on this.
My bathroom is so boring.
There's nothing on the counter.
You know, there's nothing on the counter.
And so it's just, it's not that any of these things are intrinsically bad.
It's this that I don't feel like I need them.
And if you want to use these home care products,
read the ingredients.
Be very careful because they do contain a lot of endocrine disrupting compounds.
I want to ask you this next question.
A man who impacted tens of millions of men around the world,
Jordan Peterson, whom you and I both know about. And he has dealt with certain challenges.
I remember in 2019 when I had an event with him, the late Kobe Bryant and President Bush and
Billy Bean. That was the event I had at Mirage, I believe. And he was one of the guys that we
had there. Right after the event, that's the last interview that he did. Stories have now come out,
which his daughter's spoken about, now his wife is openly talking about this. So this is public
information. Jordan Peterson's wife says he's in another realm of pain from psychiatric medication
injury. If I'm not mistaken, that's your major in school was psychiatry, an element of it,
right? I did my residency after medical school in psychiatry. I never really practiced,
but I was interested in mental health. Okay. So if you go a little bit lower with this, Rob,
on what we see here. So neurological injury is suffering from medication-induced neurological
injury. Dr. Peterson is at home with family and helpful companions. He's not talking
about going back to work yet.
Feels like if it's another realm of pain,
his mornings are brutally painful and discouraging for him later,
much later in the day.
He sometimes feels some relief.
The damage tone from the psychiatric medication
from over six years ago takes patience,
time and loving attention.
Go a little bit lower, Rob.
It's been well documented.
His medical struggle with benzos,
which there's many different types of benzos
that he openly talked about.
His family has previously drawn attention
to the severe difficulties he experience from the withdrawal.
So a lot of people are using medication today, a lot of them.
Michaela's posted multiple videos to see what's happening while she gives the updates.
And so whether it's Xanax, whether it's clonopin, whether it's Valium,
whether it's a loresopan, whether it's a lot of this stuff,
what have we learned from the side effects of this?
This is a public figure that we all follow.
billions and billions of views online, what do we not know about it yet that we're starting to learn?
These benzodiazepine medications commonly prescribed for anxiety, overprescribed, very addictive and very
habit-forming. They oftentimes, as we're seeing here, can semi-permanently change the structure of
the brain at the level of neurons. They affect a neurotransmitter called GABA, GABA-urgic
transmission in the brain, and this is a, it's generally an inhibitory neurotransmitter. And so the
benzodiazepines make the, you know, the ability of this inhibitory neurotransmitter more in the brain.
And so it's calming.
It's a similar mechanism to alcohol.
And if you know, alcohol is one of the things that you can die from the withdraw.
There are very few things that you can die from withdrawal.
You know, somebody comes in, they're addicted to cocaine or they're addicted to meth.
They're not going to die when they withdraw.
When you stop taking benzodiazepines or alcohol, you can die from the withdraws because of the way it changes your brain.
And so what Jordan appears to be suffering from now,
it's unclear to me why he originally started using benzodiazepines in the first place,
whether it was anxiety.
But they're prescribed far too commonly by physicians.
They're just, you know, it's easy to get Xanax.
It's easy to get Valium.
Zanax is very quick acting.
It's very commonly abused.
They're prescribed so commonly.
And we're back to why are so many people anxious?
Why are so many people struggling with these issues?
Now, a very close cousin of these medications,
are things like Ambien, the sleep medications.
They're non-benzodiazepine, sedative hypnotics,
but they're also habit-forming.
So when we're talking about sleep disturbance,
which is a cousin of anxiety,
we're giving out Ambien to people easily.
And then it's almost impossible to get off.
I have a good friend, a well-known woman in the podcast space,
and she cannot get off Ambien.
She's been on Ambien for years for sleep,
and I'm thinking, this is not good for you.
It's not healthy.
We need detox.
centers to get people off this, but people need to be very careful before you go on anxiety medications.
A lot has come out recently also about SSRIs or other types of antidepressants, which can be
SNRIs or there's dopaminergic mechanisms for the antidepressants.
But these medications are hard to get off.
Did you see Theo Vaughn on Rogan recently saying, I've been on antidepressants SSRIs since I was
22 years old or something?
Stop.
Yes.
And he wants to get off, but he has trouble getting off.
and they make him feel flat.
Because that's what these medications do.
They don't necessarily fix the problem with depression.
Depression is not.
That's the clip right there.
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Play this, Rob. I've not seen this.
I really like what Theo has been saying lately about God and relationship.
Is that the clip right there?
I think there's a different one, but it's from the same episode.
Oh, yeah, you can find it.
Yeah.
So he said he's been on SSRIs.
Let's just watch that, Rob, if you can put that.
What do you think is going to happen?
You think we're going to be okay?
I hope so.
Of course.
I don't know. Do you think about it?
Is this about it?
I can't believe we went to this war.
Okay.
Yeah.
So we're, one of the reasons I didn't practice psychiatry.
So just so people understand, everyone goes to the same medical school.
I got an MD from the University of Arizona.
And then you choose.
I had the option to choose internal medicine, surgery.
At the time I was really interested in depression and anxiety and neuroinflammation
connections between these medications, these, these, um, pathologies.
But I was so disillusioned by what I saw during my four-year residency at the University of
Washington in psychiatry that I didn't want to practice because what happens is so quickly we
get patients on these medications, whether it's a benzodiazepine for anxiety, whether it's an
SSRI for quote depression. In the clip, Theo says, Joe says, why'd you get on it? He says,
oh, I think I had a bad breakup. You think you had a bad breakup, right, which is probably not
biological depression. It's just situational stress. And somebody puts you on an SSRI medication.
You remember what pill he said he was taking?
I don't think he said what pill.
Prozac is common, right?
There's other ones.
But then people end up on it for a long time, and it makes them feel flat.
Depression is not the absence of serotonin in the human body.
You can flood the synapses in the brain with serotonin and create flat.
This might be the clip.
To get off of antidepressants completely, man.
This is all off, certainly.
I want to feel how I'm supposed to feel so I can have thoughts and actions.
that make me feel connected to the world.
That shit makes you feel dead, man.
So why did you take them in the first place?
Because I was in a bad relationship 20 years ago
and I was having a tough day at school
and they fucking put, they gave them to me
and then I never got off.
Really?
Because when you get off, I think we talked about this once it's hard.
Yeah, it makes you more depressed, more fucked up
and you're all in balance and probably you're addicted.
I lost a friend.
I lost a friend in 2000.
because he couldn't get off of it.
May 2nd.
I lost the friend to my best friend.
Couldn't get off of it.
And one day, we were at
Restaurant Shakies in Glendell.
And he went in his car and his Mustang
to get something out of the car.
He's about to take all these pills in his mouth.
I held it.
I took the bottles away from him.
He's like, Pat, I'm begging you, please.
I got to take it.
You don't know how much pain I'm in right now.
We took him, we put him in a rehab.
He was there for 12 days.
And then he got out.
He was good for a couple weeks.
and then boom, one day I got the call
and he woke up on top of a Bible
in his bed and never woke up.
That was the last day.
So a lot of people are dealing with this
and some of them are dealing with it privately
and no one knows about it.
At least Theo is dealing with it publicly.
So he's going to get help.
And the thing about these medications
is they can increase suicidality.
The very thing you're trying to circumvent
with the medications,
when you mess with neurotransmitters in the brain,
it's very powerful.
So do not take this lightly.
And so again, let's go back.
back. What do I believe is causing depression in most people? It's a neuroinflammation. Do you,
have you ever felt the way it feels when you have the flu or you have a sickness, right? You sometimes
feel irritable. You can almost feel that your brain is in. Heavy here. Heavy in your brain.
It's for me, when I don't sleep well, if I'm stressed, it feels like there's sandpaper around my brain.
I'm just irritable. I'm not a good person. And I think, I can't know for sure, but I'm pretty sure
that this is the way that someone with profound depression feels every.
single day of their life. This is neuroinflammation. And you can see that. When we have a sickness,
the flu, whatever, the inflammatory cascade that happens in our human body moves to the brain. It crosses
the blood-brain barrier. So what I want people to understand is the depression is fixable,
just like so many of the things we've been talking about. And again, broken record, it starts with
the quality of the food you eat. I have seen so many people reverse depression without
medications by returning to high-quality foods. It's just this is the answer.
Peterson was eating steak. Remember when he said, I only eat steak. So he went to the only steak
diet. He was on the benzos from previously. I think he had, so Jordan and the whole Peterson
family is interesting. They have a strong autoimmune predilection in the family. So Jordan had some
sort of autoimmune orthropathy. Michaela had this. And Jordan, Jordan was the reason I originally
started thinking about diet and thought about the carnivore diet because it significantly helped him.
But I think he was on these benzodiazepines from what he was suffering from before the carnivore diet.
Do we know what it was, Rob?
That Jordan had?
Yeah, to get on benzodia.
I don't know if he's told the story before.
I don't know if he has either.
Yeah, I don't know if he's told the story.
And I do know he went to Russia to be able to deal with it.
That was for the acetheasia for the withdrawal.
That was part of the withdrawal.
So the clear thing that I want people to understand.
You're debilitating anxiety.
The anxiety was overture by severe autoimmune reaction to food that caused intense,
physical symptoms, including insomnia and sense of impending doom.
What is impending doom mean? Like doom and gloom, you think everything's going to be bad?
Yeah, you think something, you think the sea, the sky is falling. So this, my suspicion,
he says he began 2016 to 2017. I think Michaela got him on the carnivore diet to help this.
That I remember. And it did help it, but then he had the long-term side effects from the
benz-well, he says on the bottom 2019, the dosage was increased in April of 2019,
following a series of family crisis, one old will be his wife diagnosed with a rare
terminal form of cancer.
So he stayed on it.
And then he stayed on it.
Yeah.
So what's interesting is that, you know, Jordan's diet used to be not great.
He was eating the standard American diet.
He was having this psychiatric manifestation of a pad diet.
So we've talked about so many manifestations of poor diet in this podcast, whether it's hormonal,
erectile dysfunction, depression, obesity.
These things are all connected.
The quality of the food we eat, this, I feel like this is, you know, I've been doing this work
for probably six or seven years now, Pat.
And this is really the main message that I'm.
I've come to believe and that I want to try my best to get out there in the world, that whatever
you are suffering from, you can fix this very likely or improve it significantly by improving
the quality of your diet.
And we started the podcast talking about GLPs.
Great.
They might be effective.
But what are you missing?
You're not fixing your diet.
You get on TRT too fast.
You're not fixing your diet.
You got to fix the foods you're eating.
And what's actually causing depression, anxiety, erectile dysfunction, testosterone,
to job, obesity, you fix the root cause.
Okay, so let's deal with this because today, whether it's doom scrolling, right,
or the dopamine detox and porn, TikTok, gaming, social media, overstimulation,
we are like all over the place, right?
You're like, oh, my God, I'm seeing a bit.
How many likes?
How many followers?
How many this?
How much subscribe?
Everything is about there, right?
So it creates a lot of anxiety because data's in our face right there, information's in our face right there.
So anxiety, okay?
anxiety. Today, we have more pressures
to show up to the public. Judgment is higher,
right? What if this? What if I feel? What if I fall? What if
it's embarrassed? What if I get embarrassed and humiliating
in front of everybody? What do you tell a
Jordan Peterson in 2016
before he's going to get on this, on how to deal with anxiety?
What do you tell a 17-year-old kid
who is comparing himself to his friends and his classmates
that is dealing with anxiety? What do you tell a 28-year-old
that is thinking about getting married and he's in a relationship,
but he doesn't know if he's ready to get married,
and he has so much anxiety thinking about the future.
What do you tell these folks?
Two things.
Fix your diet and go in nature.
Because I think that when we go into raw nature,
everything makes more sense.
I think a lot of the symptoms broadly for humans that we're suffering from now
are because of the way we've become divorced from nature.
It's just when I'm out surfing in Costa Rica,
and you're in a huge ocean.
Oh, everything makes sense.
You cannot stand in front of a mountain at a lake
by yourself with people you care about
and think, oh, you know, it's just everything starts to make sense.
You get perspective.
Tell me why.
I think that as humans, we are connected to nature
in ways that very few people are talking about.
We're trying to become more and more civilized, right?
And I think that we need nature.
We don't need to live in the woods.
You know, you don't need to be.
a hermit, but we actually need to go into raw nature to keep perspective on our lives.
You ever look at the stars and think, whoa, we are so small.
When was the last time you saw the stars?
Like really saw the stars?
Honestly, when I would walk my two dogs, they both died about six months ago, seven months ago,
but whenever I would walk my dogs at 10 o'clock, 11 o'clock at night, because that's when I would walk them,
I would always look at the stars.
So it's not something I've done the last few months.
It's pretty hard to look at the stars and lack.
You just think I'm so small.
Whatever I'm worried about right now,
I am a human being who apparently has consciousness on a blue rock
in the middle of a universe.
That is massive, you know?
Look, there are things that happen in our lives that are stressful,
but we are little organisms on a rock
in the middle of a massive universe,
and I think we forget that.
So just take a breath.
get perspective, go into nature and realize it's going to be okay. It's going to work out. You got to
fix your diet. You got to fix the biochemistry. But I think we need nature to keep us in the right frame.
I do this myself. I get worried, you know, about this stress or that stress or this business or that.
And you think, oh, look at the stars. On a really cloudless night, somewhere without a lot of light pollution,
there are so many, you've never seen stars. You're like, oh my God, this is beautiful.
And I think for the human organism, when we do that, when we're in front of a mountain and we can see the
grandeur and the scale of what is around us in the world, it does something to our parasympathetic nervous
system, this calming nervous system. Even when we look at a horizon, we look at a view, why are
waterfront houses the most expensive? Because they come with calm. They come with parasympathetic
nervous system activation as you're looking at a vista. So much of what we're doing today is right around
us. We're looking at a phone. It's right in front of us. The podcast studio, everything is 15 feet away.
what if you could see a mile your brain completely changes you just get calm you know we're looking at a
screen how often as to for us as humans do we take into a vista that's grand you know and for most of us it's
going in nature driving to an overlook or if you're lucky enough to live in a house with a water view or a
or a mountain view you've got it that's why those houses are more expensive because we're calm there
because that's what are we need that as humans you need to see where you are being in environments like this
I mean, it's amazing to be here with you on this podcast.
But being environments like this, this is stressful for us as humans.
No, I agree.
I agree on that part.
But give me, so those two hacks, both of them are long-term thinking.
Give me the part about how to control your imagination.
I have my own way of doing it.
I'm curious to know what you would say.
When your imagination goes off, okay, you're about to go into a big business meeting.
You're about to give a speech in front of, you know, thousands of people.
You're about to do a podcast that's a live stream.
This is pre-recorded is different.
You can edit.
Live stream is you're being judged every second, right?
It's just going, going, go, and going.
Most people cannot do live stream because it's too much.
You're about to give a speech in front of your 30 students in high school,
and they're judging it.
They're looking at you.
What do you tell yourself to control imagination at that time?
You know, there are breathing techniques.
In terms of self-talk, I think you just have to,
when what you are doing in those situations is aligned with something you're passionate about,
I fall back to that personally.
You know, before this podcast, I'm thinking,
oh, I hope I'm coherent.
I hope I'm clear on this podcast.
I hope I can deliver value.
And what I go back to from myself is, well, you know,
I've done the preparation.
I've worked for this.
I've done my research.
You know, I've done my research.
It's like when I used to do running races.
The hay is in the barn, they would say.
You know, you've done the training.
And if you've done the training and you've done the preparation
and you haven't a real,
passionate emotional connection to what you're doing, that's going to come through and you're going to be
fine. People are going to see that. I think that some of the most meaningful feedback that I get from
people in my audience is that they can see passion and intention come through in my content. And that's
not something I'm trying to do. But that makes me feel good, Pat. It makes me think, okay, maybe I'm doing it
somewhat right. I can always get better. But if people that see my content can tell that I care about
the quality of their life, I've been successful. That's the most important thing for me,
that if my actual genuine interest in giving people value that will improve the quality of their
life comes through, that's, I think, I'm always a little bit surprised that people follow, you know,
But that would probably be my guess for why people find value or like what I do, if they like what I do.
You're very sincere.
I'm telling you, I don't know if I told you to for some.
Maybe I did.
When we were together, my wife would send me videos of you.
And you know which videos?
The ones when you go into market.
Yeah.
And you're like at Walmart or Target or Whole Foods.
And you're like, let me tell you about this.
Let's take a look.
Let me tell you about this.
And you would kind of go through it.
But it's something a lot of people deal with today, anxiety.
and I think half the time it's here,
it's preparation, it's spending too much time in the future,
you know, it's spending too much time,
what if this goes wrong?
What if that goes wrong?
And do you believe in God yourself?
I believe in something bigger than us.
I don't know that I call it God,
but I believe in something bigger than us.
You meditate, do you pray?
I do.
I talk to something bigger than us.
Sometimes I call it the universe, whatever.
Yeah, I'm sort of ecumenical, perhaps.
Got it.
So do you think that gives you an element of believing
the future looks bright,
and it kind of brings a calming feeling to you?
It helps. It definitely helps.
And, you know, people will sometimes say to me something
that kind of hits at a core level.
Like, they might say, Paul, well, you've been given a gift.
And I think, okay, cool, I should be grateful for that.
If I have the ability to speak in a certain way,
to be a conduit for ideas that probably don't even come from me, Pat,
you know, they probably come from something bigger than me,
then that's a gift.
And my job is just to be the best funnel for that information.
and that's bigger than me.
You know, that's bigger than me.
You don't have kids yet.
Not yet.
You want to have kids?
Yeah.
Okay.
How are you?
There's a book that my assistant told me about 20-some years ago called 1001 questions to ask before you get engaged.
And it was by this man named Norman Wright.
And I said, have you read it?
I said, I've never read of it.
I said, do you think you need to read it?
So I read it.
And one of the questions on the, by the way, it's literally a book, 101 pages.
It's just questions.
And blank.
Questions, blank.
I eventually ended up bringing them to an event.
I bought a thousand of this copy of this book,
and I started giving it away to people.
Patty Lopez, Sandra Lopez,
Leo's wife gave this to me.
She was listened to Christian radio.
She said, you should listen to this.
With kids, how are you going to have the conversation?
I don't even know.
Maybe you haven't thought about it.
What's the faith conversation going to be with your kids?
I think I'm going to go, I'm going to show them nature.
And for me, this is my personal experience.
I think there's a couple things I think about here when I feel beauty when I feel moved I think how do I feel that
you know there's got to be something bigger than me what is beauty what is my sense of beauty when I'm in
the ocean when I'm looking at a mountain I'm like that is beautiful what is that pat that to me
the fact that I can sense beauty is a reminder that there is something bigger than me and then I look at
biologically, my biological mind kicks in and says, look at us, look around us. Things that are
alive fight entropy. We stay organized. Entropy is one of these laws of thermodynamics. The universe
tends toward disorder. If you have something and it is not alive, it decays, right? You put a
piece of bread on the counter, it becomes moldy. You know, a fruit rots. You know, it's been picked from
the vine. A fruit doesn't rot on the vine. It only rots when it's dead, generally speaking,
sometimes maybe, but you can see that like the human body doesn't decompose until we are not alive.
There is some sort of life force in a human that fights entropy.
And what is that? That's interesting to me. What is this animating force of life at the level of
our mitochondria, at the level of energy production that allows us to fight entropy?
Why does a tree, when you kill a tree, it falls apart, you know?
But a tree is alive. It fights entropy. A rock, maybe not alive.
beautiful minerals doesn't fight entropy. It's decays, right? You get erosion. You know,
that's interesting to me that we are, we are anti-entropic machines. And that's sort of the
combination of like my overly analytical thinking and some sort of philosophy.
What's your birthday, by the way? What months your birthday? June. June 29th.
June 29th. June 29th. We got married on June 26th. My youngest daughter's born on June 26th,
and Tom Ellsworth is born on June 23rd. You know,
When you're talking about this, my son, oldest son, I'm a sports guy,
so I'm hoping my kids want to play professional sports one day.
Oldest son, I would take him in my backyard.
He's eight, nine months old.
I'm giving him balls, you know, basketball, baseball, could care less.
He goes straight to dirt, and he's picking up a warm.
And he's picking up dirt and just playing with it.
I would, you know, we would take him places, could care less.
Oh, my God, we're sitting front row, seed sports.
It's sleeping on the couch.
We took him to Alaska.
Paul, it was a whole different experience
when we took him to Alaska.
We're walking up in nature.
This kid is enamored.
He switched on.
He switched on.
We went to all this.
It was the biggest, I think Alaska has like,
we're the biggest mating area for bass.
I don't know if I'm,
can you type on Alaska bass mating?
And so we went there.
We went into mountains.
He saw this big eagle that was shot
and his beak was broken.
He was fascinated by it.
What kind of fish is?
Is it that's a...
Salmon.
Salmon.
Go salmon.
Yeah.
Is it a salmon mating returned?
Yeah.
And by the way, they were swimming up.
It was a beautiful thing to see.
But nature is a beautiful thing.
And sometimes we do need to go out there and see it
because you see how beautiful the world is.
You see how beautiful the universe is.
I mean, don't you think that if, you know, like that's...
Again, like I said, I don't think...
I don't necessarily call what's bigger than us God.
But if they're, you know, that's God's creation.
You know, that's God's palette right there, you know?
That's one of the ways that nature is incredible.
It's very humbling.
And I think that as humans, we forget this.
And I think that a lot, I think I don't really spend a lot of time in the political
sphere, but I do think a lot of political decisions would be made differently.
A lot of the decisions people make broadly in government and the decisions that I get frustrated about,
I think would be different if people had more time in nature.
I think one of the things for us as humans that's caused us to go off track is that we're not spending enough time there.
And that sounds, that sounds passe, but you know what I'm saying.
By the way, I think we need people like you to remind us of that regularly,
to go in nature.
I really believe that because we're getting more and more so caught up in business, buildings.
We're not going out there.
It's a beautiful thing when you're going out there and seeing it.
And by the way, so this product here, okay, are you paying me to endorse this and talk about this?
No, I don't think so.
Just so you guys know this.
He hasn't paid me a penny for this.
Okay, I'm not happy about it, but he hasn't paid me a penny.
I can't
I can't stop eating this
and you send me a box
by the way sat there
and then I tried
I text you I said what is this Paul
this is ridiculous
every time you send me a box
it's over it's done with
so tell me about this lineage
protein bar for humans
so you got one right there
if you want to open it
I brought some other protein bars here
to compare
so if you read the ingredients
and look
real food first
we talked about single ingredients
foods
but the protein
Bar market is massive and humans need convenience.
You said after this podcast, you're going to your son's school.
You know, convenience, we need these things on the run.
I know that people want protein bars.
And I'm all about real food, so I wanted to make a protein bar.
What's out there?
You got Quest bars.
The ingredients are crazy.
You got erythritol.
You got glycerin.
You got sucralose.
You got polydextrose.
You got things that you don't even know what's in here.
You got seed oils.
You got protein pop.
Tarts today with artificial colors. You got red 40 in here, a dye that's been known to cause
attention issues in kids. You got, I mean, what's out there in the market for protein bars is
pretty darn bad. You got palm oils. Again, glycerin, natural flavors. We can't even pronounce
these ingredients. You got bars like this with fake fats like EPG in the David bar that caused people
to have gas with discharge and oily spotting on their underwear because this, like EPG is a cousin
of that. Remember that Alestra? So I thought, okay, let's make a process.
protein bar and I've got an amazing team at lineage
and one of the guys in my team
has been in the protein bar space. What we were able to
do with this was make a protein bar with 20 grams
of protein and I don't want this to be an ad.
I just want people to understand that these foods are out there
that are more convenient. 20 grams
of protein tastes amazing. I mean,
you can test. Or you don't like the taste.
No, no, I texted you. I texted you.
So you can say, did I text? Yeah, you texted me.
And this is the only thing I texted and I told you. I like
the other beef jerky stuff. Yeah, yeah, we got you some.
This is my number one. Yeah. And we gave it
to your guys and they just, they loved it all around.
the, it's really good. It's all ingredients. You want to read the ingredients on the label for people.
Like, it's, you're going to, right, you recognize all the ingredients. That's what's cool.
Are you going to make me remember that I need glasses?
I want me to read them? Yeah, if you can read it.
So, you got grass-fed weigh protein concentrate. You got grass.
Yep. Most of it. Yeah, you got grass-fed collagen. There's organic coconut nectar,
which is just from the coconut sap of the coconut tree. It's a prebiotic. You got grass,
fed beef tallow. That's a fat made from beef. You got organic strawberries, wild blueberries,
organic lemon juice, organic raspberry extract, and this one is split here. I got to look at that other
ingredient. But yeah, you got all these. These are all... Quarterbox. Just quarter box for yourself.
Natural food. What's the website, Rob? And you got organic, you got raw honey. It's lineage provisions.com.
Lineage provisions.com. And, you know, it's like, I always think, if you have time, Pat,
to make yourself some steak and put it in a glass container
and take it with you on the road.
Real food first.
If you're in a run,
we want it to make a good quality protein bar
to compete with all the other garbage out there.
I've got a couple of their gifts for you.
Can I give them to you?
Of course.
So this, this is honey from my house.
But that's honey from Mariola bees.
I don't know if you want to get a little spoon and try some.
This is honey from Mariola bees.
These are my bees on my house farm in Costa Rica.
This honey is different than anything you've ever had.
It's much more watery and it's a little more acidic.
Oh, you know what?
I had this at a Michelin-Star Restaurant in Aspen on top of ice cream.
They put it on top of ice cream.
I'm like, what are you doing?
He says, just trust me.
It's insane.
These are stingless bees.
Yeah, they're Mariola bees.
I'm going to use this plastic.
That's okay.
We're going to make an exception.
All right.
We're going to make an exception.
It's just one.
We're going to make an exception.
I'm a huge fan of Honeypat in the lineage bar.
We've got lineage honey, which is from apis bees, apis meliflora, which are the stinging bees.
But this is stingless bee honey.
And what's really cool, I have a video coming out about this.
When you look at their hive, they don't make the comb.
They make these little pods and the honeies in these pods.
This is the one that's tough to find, right?
This is very hard to find.
You can only find it in Central and South America.
This is not a hallucinogenic, honey.
I wouldn't do that to you.
Starting to see unicorns.
So I wanted to bring that.
So that's from my house to you.
That's a personal gift for me.
I love it.
Thank you.
I also brought you this because I want to, we didn't have a ton of time on the podcast to talk
about it, but it's something we can talk about offline.
This is a CO2 meter, Pat.
And right now, it's actually pretty great.
It says 492 parts per million.
The reason I bought this is because I thought that maybe we talked about on the podcast,
the quality of your sleeping environment means everything for your regeneration and how good you feel
the next day and your working environment.
I think you should get a few of these for your office over there and just make sure the CO2 levels
are not high in the building because we know what's good what's bad so you want it to be less than
750 parts per million i have no affiliation this is just a brand of a co2 monitor you want an n dr
nr indi r infrared co2 monitor but what they found is that when you're sleeping in co2 that's more
than 900 parts per million you're not as sharp the next day something for you how can i upgrade pat
he's already crushing life how can i upgrade your performance maybe this put it in your bedroom at
night and check what your CO2 level.
If it's high, you just open a window, right?
You want the CO2 ideally to be less than 750 and then put it in your office, put it in
your working environment because if your CO2 and your working environment is above 900 or
1,000 parts per million, there are studies showing you are actively degrading your ability
to make conquest tax, actively degrading your ability to make complex decisions and to complete
complex tasks.
So for people that work for you at valutainment, you got to make sure the CO2.
to environment in an office is low enough so that people's brains work. I think that's fascinating.
I'm going to put that right next to my office today, and then I'll take it put it right next to my
bedroom. Every time I meet with you, my health gets better. That's the goal. I love that. That's why I
love talking you. And we're going to put the link below. Yeah. And then I brought you these
organs too. This is from heart and soil. So we talked a lot about liver. How many did I should I take
a day? Six. Holy shit. That's going to be tough. It's Oregon. So this is testicle.
six a day. This one is testicle and liver. We talked a lot about testosterone, erectile dysfunction.
So the reviews on this one are incredible. So the two companies I built are lineage, hard and soil.
And these are two of the things I'm most proud of that we built. These are testicle capsules.
We have some for your wife, too, so that you guys are balanced, you know, because these affect, a lot of people feel like they affect the libido.
It's not fair for. Only me to have testicles. We should share it. I got you.
We have a corresponding one for ladies, which has ovary's uterus and flopian tubes.
So we're not going to give your wife testicles.
We're going to give your wife the corresponding female organs.
Got it.
Okay.
So we got to get more organs.
I respect that.
You don't play around.
I appreciate that.
Yeah, yeah.
Well, with that being said, also, if you have any questions for Paul, you can manak them,
asking me any questions.
And Rob, let's also put the channel below for people to go find him with his podcast.
Paul.
It's a pleasure.
Thank you so much.
Thank you so much.
Thank you for having me.
Take care, everybody.
Bye bye, bye, bye, bye.
Hey guys, I am Paul Saladino.
You can find me on Menect.
If you have any questions about diet, health, recovering from chronic illness or autoimmune disease.
I'm excited to connect with you guys all there, and I'll see you in there.
