The Dylan Gemelli Podcast - Episode #52 Featuring Anti Aging Expert Dr. Bill Andrews! Uncover the SECRETS to REAL anti aging! TELOMERES, TELOMERASE, Mitochondrial Health and the role of lifestyle in anti aging!
Episode Date: September 23, 2025Episode #52 Featuring Anti Aging Expert Dr. Bill Andrews!! Get ready to uncover and learn about the true secrets to anti aging! Dr. Bill Andrews is well known as the world's foremost authority on ...TRUE anti aging! If you want to learn how to truly extend your life as well as your QUALITY OF LIFE, THIS IS AN EPISODE YOU CANNOT AFFORD TO MISS!! Dr. Bill goes in depth with Dylan providing an in depth understanding on telomeres and telomerase and how he has uncovered the secret to extending our life spans. Learn about telomere lengthening and shortening, what causes shortening, how our lifestyles play a role, the relationship between telomeres and mitochondria, the concept of telomerase, how long we can ACTUALLY live now and what the future holds for our lifespans!!! Dr. Andrews also discusses Telo-Vital, a natural supplement that he helped created to help with telomeres!!! This is the episode we have ALL BEEN WAITING FOR!!!!! Purchase Telo-Vital and OPTIMIZE YOUR AGE!!! SAVE $70 here!!!!!! hthttps://aee.thegoodinside.com/special-offer-telo-vital-870232-lp Check out Dr. Andrews Here: https://sierrasci.com/dr-bill-andrews/ Today's episode is sponsored by TIMELINE To PURCHASE MITOPURE visit Dylan's landing page and use code DYLAN to save 20% OFF!! https://shop.timeline.com/DYLAN _______________________________________________________________________________ Get the Apollo Neuro for $90 OFF!! USE CODE GEMELLI to save https://apolloneuro.com/gemelli TONUM supplements for the MIND AND BODY! USE CODE "DYLAN" to save!! https://www.tonum.com/DYLAN THE BREAKTHROUGH MIMIO HEALTH FASTING MIMETIC SUPPLEMENT! 20% OFF with code Gemelli https://mimiohealth.sjv.io/c/6588260/3323599/30611 TRULY Increase Your NAD LEVELS with WONDERFEEL NMN: https://getwonderfeel.com/?utm_source=DylanGemelli&utm_medium=podcast MESCREEN: The world's first and only at home mitochondrial efficiency test Save $100 with CODE DYLAN https://mescreen.com/cart/47561239626013:1?discount=&ref=DYLAN HIRE DYLAN ON THE MINNECT APP HERE: expert.minnect.com/@DylanGemelli Follow Dylan on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter and Tiktok @dylangemelli and PLEASE SUBSCRIBE and leave reviews!! MAKE SURE TO GO TO DYLAN'S YOUTUBE CHANNEL for MORE video content!! https://www.youtube.com/@DylanGemelliBiohacking Email Dylan for booking, collaborations and/or to apply for the Dylan Gemelli Podcast DylanGemelli@gmail.com Visit Dylan's Homepage https://dylangemelli.com
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all right everybody welcome back to the dylan jemeli podcast now many of you that follow me you see that i bring
on some of the most renowned knowledgeable guests in the world in the biohacking world and the health
and fitness world and i have had the blessing to speak to the best but i have to tell you
something about my guest today. As many amazing people as I just mentioned that I've talked to,
this man has taken it to another level of intelligence, integrity, and blew me away with the
conversation we had before in his knowledge base. And we didn't even get into a fraction of
things prior. So I cannot wait to talk to him today and introduce you to him. So just a quick
rundown, which is a very short amount of his accolades. I can't cover them all in
an intro or I'd be going way too long, but he is a leading expert on longevity research.
Now, as a renowned scientist and anti-aging researcher, he's been featured in many areas that
you've heard of, popular science, the Today Show, the Doctors TV show, numerous documentaries
on the topic of life extension. Now, he has his PhD in molecular and population genetics in
1981, and he spent much of his career in medical research. And he was also recognized for his work
on cancer research with second place at the 1997 National Inventor of the year. He has over 50
patents and key roles in the discovery of several major biotech breakthroughs. And he's led the
research to discover the enzyme whose absence is responsible for human aging. And we're going to get
into that today. And he brings years of expertise in biotechnology and longevity research to the
Touchtone Essentials Advisory Board, which as you know is one of my favorite companies. So, I know
that that's a lot, but it's really a little for what he actually can do. And my friends, welcome Dr.
Bill Andrews. Well, thank you for that. Great introduction. Glad to be on your show. It's great to have you,
man. Like I said, I'm really, really excited to talk to you. I've been looking forward to this, and you blew my
mind with your knowledge base. So let's dig into this a little bit here. Look, you're known for a lot.
Like I just rattled off there. You have so many amazing things. But let's shift backwards a little
bit here. How did you become so smart and knowledgeable on so many different things? Where did you
study? Like, what was it that enthralled you to get into what you do today? I've always been
interested in finding ways to make people happier and healthier. You know, it's like living's the
greatest thing that ever happened to us. I hate the idea that some people just can't enjoy living.
And I'd like to do away with some of these dumb things that interfere with us enjoying living.
I actually was first motivated by my father, who turned out to be always interested in anti-aging.
When I was 10 years old, when he first approached me after realizing how interested I was in
science and medicine, and he came to me and said, Bill, when you grow up, you should become a doctor and find a cure for aging.
And that's even discussed in some of the documentaries that you mentioned, especially the Immortalists that I co-starred with Auburgy.
But my father's in that, and he and I talk about how he was obsessed with aging his whole life.
He never understood why nobody's already cured aging.
He thought it was a disease.
So I really got into it really early on.
I mean, in high school and college, I was starting anti-aging clubs, you know, having discussions about what aging is, why we age, how we age.
and of course how not to age.
And some of these people that I talked with
who were really interested in us
ended up later getting Nobel Prizes.
So I was working with a pretty elite group of people.
Like everything we compared to tugger wolves,
okay, all help.
There's a tugger work.
Things pulling one direction or another,
including aging.
So we use analogies like that to really understand things.
And when people first discovered,
like the Hayflick limit,
when Leonard Hayflip first discovered
that cells can only divide a certain number of times,
human cells,
at least can only divide a certain number of times.
It became really clear that this was something that played a big effect on human health,
not just aging, but health in general.
So how could a cell know how old it is or how many times it can divide
or how many times it has divided?
And with everything we knew about biochemistry,
all we could come up with was the only mechanism that could exist inside of a cell
was something like ride tickets at an amusement park.
That was our favorite analogy there,
where we would talk about how every time a cell,
it loses a ticket somehow.
And when it loses its last ticket, the ride's over.
The cell dies.
And the human dies.
The, uh, this typically cells die long before they lose their last ticket.
In fact, it's, it's typically when a cell dies from wear and tear.
Another cell has to divide to replace that cell.
And that's when it loses the ride tickets.
So that was the other frustrating thing that we all had because we always said that
all the twos and twos have to add up.
And a lot of theories on aging didn't make sense.
Okay.
And because the two and twos didn't explain everything.
The question was, if a cell gets damaged from wear and tear and can be replaced by another cell,
why do we ever age?
Okay.
So, you know, because we can always be replacing our butt tissues.
We're not like old trucks sitting in a field that are having wear and tear from wind and rain and sun and things like that.
We have the ability to replace these cells.
Well, when it was learned that human cells can't divide indefinitely, that became a really great answer that a lot of us got really excited about.
about, okay, so now we can explain why we age because after a while we quit being able to
replace the damaged cells. And that's where this ride ticket is an amusement part came from,
is how could we explain that? But it wasn't, I mean, I would say we were talking about that
in the 1970s, our early 70s, late 70s, but it wasn't until the early 1990s that I first
heard that telomeres shortened. The telomers are at the very tips of our chromosomes.
And I don't want to make it sound like it's just aging.
It's all aspects of health.
Okay.
So before I just go there, let me just say that throughout my high school,
college and graduate school, I was focused on what do I need to know to understand
the why and the how of age, so that I can figure out how not to age.
And so everything I did, courses were all related to this.
And believe it right, it's not just biology.
It was also psychology.
It was also statistical theory.
It was like courses in logic.
Just to be able to, and data analysis,
study designs, data analysis,
just my ability to be able to read studies
and figure out were they legitimate,
the scientists that authored the study,
know what they were doing, things like that.
So it made it possible if I could weed out the crap
from the real stuff.
So, right.
But the most exciting thing happened, it was a big aha day when I was sitting in a conference in 1993, I guess it was, in Lake Tahoe.
And I heard a scientist, Dr. Calvin Harley, talk about the fact that telomere shortened and that he was, he had written a paper on the telomere theory of aging.
And I'm sitting there, I think, my God, this is it.
These are those right tickets.
They're the first thing that I'd ever heard of that could be the ride tickets.
He said, Dr. Calder-Harley said, I can measure the length of your telomeres.
And I can tell you how old you are.
And more importantly, I can tell you how long it'll be before you die voltage.
Exactly what we wanted from the ride tickets.
And so I was there at the bottom of the podium before we even got off the stage and said,
has anybody figured out how to add ride tickets back?
He didn't use the analogy right take us, but, you know, essentially, I essentially figured out how to relinquents.
I don't know if I mentioned.
Tilemers are found at the very tips of our chromosomes.
I skip that part.
And if you think of a chromosome like a shoelace and the genes that give us our hair color, eye color, everything like that are all along the shoelace.
Yeah.
Telomeres are like the aglitz on your shoelaces that protect your shoelaces, that they bury caps.
Those are telomeres on our chromosomes.
So our DNA, our chromosomes, have agglits like shoelaces that protect them.
And that's what telomers are.
But the telomers actually play a bigger role than just protecting the DNA.
They actually play a role in turning genes on and off on the chromosomes.
Because like every gene or let's say most genes have something next to them like a dimmer switch
that turns the gene on and off and on and off.
That's what epigenetics is.
Okay, the study of epigenetics is turning this dimmer switch on and off to produce.
reduce the amount of, let's say, light from electric light bulb, but also the amount of product
that gets produced from the gene. And so telomeres have the ability to regulate those dimmer
switches, and the shorter the telomere gets, the harder it is to reach all those genes. So
when we age, we start seeing changes in us, okay, that I mostly do to the changes in those
dimmer switches. And we and others have been able to adjust those dimmer switches, this is the study
of epigenetics, to be able to turn things back. And like studies of human skin grown on the back
of mice have been able to do that, regulate these genes. You find skin becomes young in every way
imaginable. Human cells just grown in petri dishes. There's been mice studies that have done this.
Now, I want to make it clear, mice do not age like humans. Right. So the best studies are the
ones where they used engineered mice that do age like humans. Because it is possible to engineer
mice to have certain biochemical pathways that are the same as humans. And that's the best way
to study the human pathways. So Dr. Rhonda Pinnall at Harvard, who actually became the head of MD
Anderson, he actually constructed a strain of mice that age like humans. And I think a lot of the best
studies came from those mice. Yeah, and let me just say that the only animals on the planet that have
been shown to age like humans by telomers shorting are non-human primates, dogs, cats, horses,
sheep, pig, deer. And I think that's it. Every other animal has been shown to age by different
mechanisms like oxidative stress, mitochondria dysfunction. Of course, humans age by mitochondria dysfunction
and oxidative stress too, but in a very different way than mice. And so in order to really study
human aging, you've got to engineer the mice that age like humans. And that's Dr. Rhonda Pinnel's
mice really did that. And Diane Sawyer did a great interview with him 10 years ago, maybe,
where he talked about all these mice and showed how he could reverse aging in these mice in every way
imagine. It's a little hard to actually do the same things with humans because the treatments,
the way you had to engineer these mice to do this. And the way you don't have to engineer the
humans, but you still have to do things to the humans to get them to reverse their aging process,
which sometimes are very difficult and harmful to do. And so most of the science,
science right now is figuring out ways to safely adjust aging markers and things like that. Not so
much what needs to be done. We know what to do. I mean, we just have to figure out ways of safely
changing these things. I've got several questions here. So I have spent several years now studying
mitochondrial and cellular health and, you know, trying to learn and understand how that truly
affects our aging process, but our quality of life and the feelings that we have, you know, being
that it's source of energy and everything.
So I guess what I'm,
I am going to have multitudes of questions here for you,
but let's start with some more basic things.
With the telomeres in general,
is there a certain age where we can expect these to start,
you know,
losing their function,
so to speak,
or, you know, degrading down?
And then also,
is there something that can cause that to happen earlier?
Is it something diet related?
Is it something disease related?
Like, what are the actual causes of this degradation or lessening of effect that they might have?
Let me first say, the tumors don't normally shorten by degradation.
Okay.
Okay.
The terminology that's used in the science and even I'll say telomeres shorten, but they don't.
They actually, so if you have a really great diet, lead a perfect lifestyle, have great genetics,
Your telomer is only shortened by what's called the end replication problem.
So when your cell divides everything inside the cell needs to be duplicated so that the two
daughter cells are identical to the parent cell.
Okay.
Well, one of the things that has to be duplicated is the DNA that I mentioned before with the genes
and so in human cells, when we replicate the DNA to make a new copy of it, so duplicate
the DNA to make a new copy of it, our machinery inside of our cells to do the replication,
cannot replicate all the way to the very tip of the chromosome.
So as a result, the new chromosome is shorter than the original chromosome.
That's called the end replication problem.
So that's the thing that when we do the math on the rate of cell division and the rate of telomers
shorting and when does telomeres get so short that you can't function anymore, we can calculate
that pretty exactly.
you can not possibly live longer than 125 years because of the end replication prompt.
This is why telomeres are the best clock of aging that I've ever seen.
And every other clock, which I believe are great for measuring,
they are almost certainly controlled by the telomere shorting clock.
Just the telomeres are a lot harder to measure.
Thelomere likes a lot harder to measure than like DNA methylation and IgG glycosylation,
which are some of my favorites.
But we can also cause telomers to be great.
Okay.
And that's called what I call accelerated telomer short.
Okay.
All of us have terrible lifestyle habits.
We're not going to live to be 125 years because we all have accelerated telomere shortening.
And that's going to limit our lifespan lower than 125.
But like smoking, obesity, those things accelerate it fast.
There's genetic mutations that people,
people can have that will accelerate telomereening. Drinking will accelerate telomacorning.
That's one of my favorite examples to discuss how telomacorning works. We can also undo those
things, okay? So genetic mutations, I think I just mentioned that through, but genetic mutations,
there are things that can accelerate telomacority. So oxidative stress, inflammation are the main causes,
but you can take antioxidants and you can take anti-inflammatories and you can decrease the rate
accelerated telomac shortening. You can also meditate. So psychological stress actually accelerates
telomercore me. I've been a keynote speaker at meditation conferences where I've explained how people
meditating a lot are doing themselves a great favor service and by slowing down their aging process.
And I show that with data looking at telomere likes, how people who meditate a lot actually have
longer telomers than their friends their same age that don't meditate a lot. Exercise is kind of like
a Goldilocks one kind of thing. It's like,
There's such a thing as too much exercise and too little exercise, both of the third will
decrease, increase the rate of telomer shortening, but intermediate is great.
Now, when I say over-exercise, I don't mean how much time you spend exercise.
I mean how hard you do it.
I run every day, okay?
But I keep it fun, okay?
When it quits being fun, I quit, and I try to always combine it with adventure.
And I measure my inflammatory markers all the time, and they're always low.
I can run a marathon the next day not be stiff as a board like most runners are because my
bodies learn that does not some danger thing happen in my body. I don't want to just focus on running,
but kayaking, bicycling, hiking, hiking, all these things. If you're doing any kind of
endurance exercise, your body can, if you do it occasional, your body will think, okay, something's
infecting you and it induces an immune response to fight that. That's what inflammation is. Now, if you
exercise all the day, your body, every day, your body doesn't feel that way. And if you,
if you keep it fun, your body never feels that way. And if you keep it fun, it's just amazing how
easy it becomes to do endurance sports all the time without ever having inflammatory responses,
things like that. I mean, I used to hold the world record for the most 100-mile races run
in a year. Okay. Jeez. And I had fun. I mean, I didn't finish all of them. I could have done more,
but there were some where I just didn't have fun anymore.
And I decided to quit and save it for the next time.
But I still ended up breaking the world record without even knowing there was a world record at the time.
I was just enthralled by the adventure, the adventure ultra-marathon.
You get to go out in the wilderness where nobody ever goes.
They drop supplies for you by helicopters so that you can get to a certain point of replenish your water and food and things like that.
You carry a backpack and you run 100 miles.
You know, I became very addicted to that sport.
But, you know, I also, like I run every day.
I'm about 20 plus days away from my 2000s consecutive day of running.
That's over five years.
I become addicted to it.
I panic that I'm, oh, did I forget to run today or something like that?
I just, I love it.
But the adventure, like I speak at running conferences and I will tell people how to make running fun.
And I say combine it with adventure.
Don't stay on a trail, go off trail.
Okay, go through the country, wilderness.
Discoveries you make are incredible.
You see a coyote, follow it.
Go where that coyote does.
You drive the coyote crazy,
but at least you're going to go see places
that nobody else ever goes to.
And so just don't get lost.
Yeah.
But they'll always be able to find your way back.
Do it all the time.
Be consistent.
Keep it fun.
And that's going to slow the rate of your aging down.
So we're looking at,
if we're looking at blood markers here,
and that would help us decipher what kind of maybe telomere health we have.
We'd be looking at inflammation, like high-sensity C-reactive protein probably and those kind of markers.
We'd be looking at cortisol for stress, right?
And then anything else that would be tell-tale signs that we need to really work on to make sure that we're staying on the right track health-wise with those.
Sometimes it's really hard to know that you have inflammation.
It's one of the causes of heart disease, for example, and people don't really feel the inflammation.
And so I actually recommend a test called the Alcat test, ALC-A-T.
Okay.
I think we're heard.
And it's Google at and find it.
And it tells you what foods and supplements and anything you choose cause inflammation in your cells.
So it's not a measure of allergies.
Allergies a whole different antibody system.
Okay.
is measuring sensitivities to foods that induce that induce inflammation.
So you can take this Alcat test.
I take it every year, okay, and it changes every year, okay?
Especially because if you eat a lot of something over and over and over again,
you induce an immune response in a very high number of cases.
But if you occasionally eat it, the immune responses can go down.
So it changes.
So I get it done every year, and I find out what foods are causing inflammation in me,
and I quit eating them.
okay or I slow down on eating them and wait and get tested a year later and then I go back to eating them again.
That's the best kind of markers, I say plural, because you're testing a whole bunch of different things there.
Right.
But, you know, that's a test I highly, you're highly recommend.
Okay.
Excellent.
Tumorocrosis factor.
I mean, I'm trying to think of other inflammatory markers, but Cereactor protein is my favorite.
Yeah.
As you and cortisol is also important.
People often think cortisol is bad for you.
The cortisol is actually a natural anti-inflammatory.
It's actually cortisol is produced because it's fighting your inflammation.
So it's a marker.
So if you see cortisol, that means you have inflammation because it's there fighting.
Well, and plus it depends on the time of day you're getting tested too.
And I don't think a lot of people understand the correlation there.
And that's really a lot of these tests, honestly.
And if you're fasted or not, and I mean, we could go on and on on that.
But I think people don't understand there's a variety of ways that these numbers could get skewed or thrown off.
not really accurate. So I think that's important too to, to remember. Yeah. Consistencies
maybe a good way to do it. That's right. Because, yeah, because, you know, things change at all,
all the time. But I'm trying to think of what else to answer here. The surprising thing was,
that I found was there's two studies at least showing that pessimism, people that are pessimistic
have shorter telomeres than people that are optimistic. Well, I don't know. It says if you don't
believe you're going to live to be 100 years old. You probably won't live to be 100 years old.
If you believe it, your chances increase. You know this, and I don't have any science to prove this,
but the more negative you are and the more that you think something bad is going to happen,
ultimately it will. And the less healthy you're going to be because stress never are, I guess,
getting anger or getting worried about something, never fixed a problem. It only exacerbates it.
And so I think that a lot of people, while all of the science is so important, a lot of people don't realize just some basic things like this correlate with our overall health and the importance of kind of having stress release.
I do it through prayer.
You talked about meditation.
I think that's a huge thing like we're talking about here that goes along with everything else that you discuss and teach.
You have to have it all put together or it doesn't really matter.
It's a whole mindset, whole way of thinking, really controls your aging.
And I like the fact that I've become so knowledgeable on the subject.
I just naturally fall into all those different tracks and stuff like that.
I want to make it clear that I don't believe telomer shorning is the only cause of aging.
And it's my whole life, I've been studying all aspects of aging.
It's just that I reached a point where I realized that no matter what else we do to cure aging,
aging is never going to get cured.
we're never going to live longer than 125 unless we solve this hard, fast telomers shortening problem.
Okay?
Because that's a block we cannot exceed.
I mean, no matter what you do to extend your life, you will never live longer than 125 without solving the telomber shortening problem.
And there's a lot of great things that are going to happen in the future.
Meeting intelligence in outer space, life forms in outer space, understanding the origin of the universe,
I want to be around for those, you know.
I don't suffer from a fear of dying.
I used to hold the world speed record for airfoot water skiing,
and I used to compete, and some of the competitors would get killed during the races.
I mean, I was a nutcase.
I've always been a nutcase.
So I'm not afraid of dying.
I'm just afraid of not living, really.
I'm afraid of missing out, missing out on the great things that are going to happen in the future.
And I'm the world's greatest Star Trek fan just because I just dream every time I watch an episode of Star Trek.
I think of aging as multiple sticks to dynamite.
We have to solve them all.
And maybe we might find one that controls everything.
But I'm very interested in mitochondria.
Healthy had mentioned mitochondria.
Extremely important thing that people really need to stay on top of.
oxidative stress, inflammation, NAD levels.
There's so many different things that I do to maintain my health,
especially while we're still short of having a way of relinquency telomeres
to the extent that our reproductive cells do.
I don't know if I mention that.
The reason why I target, the way I discover this enzyme called telomeres
was realizing that if every time a cell devise our telomeres get shorter,
there's no way we could exist as a species because our reproductive cells
require a cell division. And so if every time our reproductive cells, like cells producing our
avian sperm, every time those cells divided, the telomeres got shorter, our children would be born
with shorter telomeres than we have. Their children born with shorter telomers than they have.
We would have been extinct as a species 300,000 years ago because we wouldn't have any DNA well.
And so our reproductive cells produce something that prevents telomers shortening.
And we discovered this enzyme telomerase right after that guy,
that spoke on stage and talked about telomers short, and I asked him if anybody has lengthened
him, and figured out a way to relinquent telomeres, and he said, no. And I said, let me come
and work with you. I'll have it figured out in three months. And he did. I mean, I had a pretty
illustrious career, a big reputation for getting a lot of big biotech blockbusters done,
invented and things like that. So he offered me the job right then and there. Three months,
17 days later, my team and I discovered human telomerase,
and I blamed Calvin Harley for the extra 17 days because it was such a distraction.
But yeah, but we discovered this enzyme telomerase,
and we're able to quickly show that we could totally stop the aging process
in human cells in the petri dish.
We could reverse aging and human skin grown on the back of a mouse,
and then Dr. Rhonda Pinnall using his,
his engineered mice, he was able to show that he could reverse aging by lengthening teleners
in those mice. And that's what the Diane Sawyer special that I mentioned before was all about
talking about those mice. Now the question is, how can we do this in humans without
putting telomerase into human cells isn't going to cause any problems? It's delivering
the method to produce telomerase into the cell. That's the big true.
trauma. So you can use gene therapy, which is a way of putting a gene into a virus and infecting
yourself with that virus and it carries that gene into your cells. And that produces telomerase.
That's pretty much mostly how everything's been done. All the research has been done by
delivering a new telomeres gene to the cell. You can imagine that's not the safest thing to do.
You don't want to start infecting all of this. Now we are working on trying to make gene therapy
safe, but we're not very yet. It still requires years and years of clinical studies. But what I've
been trying to do was find, because our reproductive cells produce, because they produce telomerase,
the lank and tulamores, that means every cell in our body has the gene for producing telomerase.
That gene is just shut off. Like I was talking about the epigenetics before the dimmer switch.
What telomerase? There's a gene for telomeres. There's not just hair color, eye color. There's genes
for everything, one of those genes is telomrots. It's actually on cron. So number five. A protein
called a repressor binds to the dimmer switch and shuts telomerase off as soon as we're conceived.
Okay, actually before three, okay, so we start aging from the day we're conceived. And that,
I've never answered another question. When does telomer shortening start affecting us from the day
were conceived. The second cells start dividing, we start experiencing changes because of
telomerelline. So we have this repressor protein binding. So I, my research has been mostly on trying
to find plant extracts, nutraceuticals, things like that that can get inside of our cells.
When you take a, when you eat a plant or something like that, it's plants made up of hundreds of
thousands of different chemicals, okay? Those chemicals get into your stomach, they get absorbed into
your blood. They migrate through the body. And they do things.
things, okay? Well, we're looking for some of those chemicals that might actually get inside of
ourselves, just lodge that repressor and allow the tolerated gene to turn on. So we have found
a lot of things. We've tested, like, I want to say, 500,000 different chemicals, things like that,
but mostly just for research studies. But we've also tested close to 20,000 different plant extracts.
And I'm not talking about whole plants, because whole plants never work.
Okay, there's always so many chemicals in that there's going to be things that might turn on
the salamorous gene, but there's also going to be things that might inhibit along the long
ries. So we have to do our fraction. We have to fractionate the plant extracts. We make an extract,
then we separate it into different components based on size and charge and solubility and things
like that. So we work with a company in New Zealand that makes these plant extracts for us.
And for every plant, let's say pomebrandt, they'll send us,
20 different fractions of pomegran.
And with test all 20,
and in the case of pomegranate,
we did find a fraction that did dislodge that repressor
and turn on its psalmary shank.
99% of the time we don't,
we don't find any fractions to do,
but we have found 40 or 50 now
different fractions of plant extracts
that do induce production of tularis.
Unfortunately, just not enough to relate.
to lengthen. And there I want to talk about the tug-of-war analogy again.
Yeah.
We're used a lot of different things, but telomere shortening is, and lengthen is like a tug-of-war.
In our reproductive cells, you have shorteners that pull to shorten every time a cell divides,
and you have lengtheners that pull the lengthen it back. Shorten lengthen. This tug-of-war
is going on on and on in our reproductive cell. The only thing, the thing that lengthens is
the enzyme telomerics.
things that shorten are the end replication problem like I talked about before, but also free radicals,
inflammation, anything.
Okay.
So in all the other cells of our body, because this repressor is shut off this formers change,
we only have the shortener.
So we have these shortener's pulling the shortener telomere.
Now, some of those shorteners are because of free radicals and inflammation.
Some are due to the end replication problem.
We can get rid of the ones that are causing accelerated telomeration.
shorting, but we're still left with the ones they're shortening because of the end of replication
problem. And that's what limits our lifespan to 125 years. We have now found plant extracts,
fractions of plant extracts that can add people to the other side of the tug of war by inducing
a little bit of telomerase. But we haven't gotten to the point yet of winning the tug of war.
Okay. So shortens, telomerase relengthens a little bit. Shortens further. Toulomeres relengthens a little bit. Shortens further.
or lengthens a little bit. So we're not reversing Aege, but we sure are slowing it down.
Right. And that's really important. And maybe 20, 30 years from now, we're going to start
finding people that exceed 125, especially if they've been leading a perfect lifestyle and have good
genetics and things like that. Now, that said, we also know that when telomeres, the shorter
telomere gets, the easier it is to lengthen them. Okay. And so in my,
my books and a lot of my talks, I talk about how during this struggle, and I'll actually show
people pulling in each direction. But the people pulling a shortened are falling off a cliff.
Okay, so the number of people shortening are decreasing and decreasing and decreasing the shorter
the illness gets. So you get to a point where even insufficient amounts of telomerase
activity to reverse aging could at least lengthen those shortest dealers. And so we are finding
but really right now can only amount to anecdotal responses.
We are finding things of where people are seeing things that look like age reversal.
It can only be explained by they had critically short telomers in certain tissues or organs of their body,
and something like, that's something that produces a low-level amount of phthalmaries will relinquen those telomeres a little bit,
causing the symptoms of age reversal.
Okay.
And those have been mostly noted with vision improvements,
hair color coming back, hair coming back, endurance,
people's endurance coming back,
which is suggesting something related to muscle
or heart function or something like that,
having critically short chelmer someplace.
But it can only work if the reason
your vision went bad or the reason you lost your hair, your hair color change,
is because of telomers short. But if it did happen, I do talk to people all the time.
There are people that I know of their, in their mid-90s that are taking products to induce
lengthening of their telomers, and especially with the shorts. And I am seeing some major,
I talk to them like once a week. I'm seeing major changes in them. Okay. And so I'm thinking that
The older you are, or the, let's say I don't like older,
the more longer live you are.
Life's about living, not getting old.
The longer word you are,
the more critically short telomeres you're going to have
throughout your body,
and the more positive results you're going to see
from inducing telomerase expression.
Got it.
So you're basically, the worse off you are,
the more response you're going to see
if you're addressing the issue is what you're saying.
I mean, in short, let me ask you this.
So how would you know, let's say somebody has heart disease, I'm just throw something out there or cancer or any major diseases, how would you know if the cause or contributor to said disease or issue was the shortening of telomeres?
Would you be able to decipher that through testing or something that you observe or see or is it just kind of like an educated guess?
No, no, actually we have a lot of data, like let's say baboon studies, things like that,
where we have actually been able to check the cells of the heart, the cells lining in the blood vessels,
smooth muscle cells, endothelial cells, things like that.
And we have shown a very high correlation between telomere length and heart disease.
Same with cancer, brain issues, Alzheimer's, all these kind of things.
Now, so, I mean, people could do this if they don't mind being super invasive.
I mean, you can have an angiogram done and go in and take out some of the,
carve out some of the endothelial cells and have your telomere lengths measured.
It's, I wouldn't recommend it.
You can do it just like we did with the baboon models and things like that.
But, you know, the bifurcation that exists like just above our legs,
where the arteries and the veins and stuff like that are bifurcate to go to both legs.
Well, at that bifurcation, it's like those blood vessel coming down, there's a V.
At that V, there's a lot of turbulence from all the blood, just like there's turbulence at a river
that suddenly you come to a fork in a river.
There's a lot of turbulence in most there.
Well, that turbulence causes loss of endothelial cells that align the blood vessels.
And so, phylameres shortened at a faster rate there than elsewhere.
So a lot of the studies that we've done have been looking at the endothelial cells.
of those cells in the application.
I'm probably getting more medical and technical
than you probably want.
It's like we do know those things.
Yeah.
It's like great.
The only unfortunate thing is the main way
to measure telomere length
is in blood.
And because blood is easy.
You can also measure it in your,
the cells lining your inside of your mouth
and stuff like that.
It's,
it's questionable how
biologically relative the cells
inside your mouth are relative to your blood.
But even there, I don't like the measuring biomarkers of aging inside your blood because the population of your blood is changing all the time.
And so, and this makes a lot of products confusing to understand.
So you can do things.
You can do a therapy.
You can get inside of a chamber.
You can get inside of a box and get it close to lights.
You can try supplements.
You can try diets.
lifestyle things. And you can find that afterwards, your telomers and your blood are longer than they
were before. Okay. But not because they got lengthened. The only way to show that they got lengthened
is by showing that you had induction of telomerase expression. Because since I mentioned before,
telomeres is the only way to lengthen telomers. But what is really happening is if you do, so in your blood,
you don't have all your cells have the same telenoid.
It's a entire bell distribution.
You have cells in your blood that have short telomeres.
You have cells in your blood that have long telomeres.
And it's a bell curve kind of distribution.
It all depends on how many times has that cell divided,
how many times has that blood cell divided before them, okay?
And some have divided a lot, some have divided a few times.
So you have a really mixed population.
Now, it also turns out that blood cells that have critically short telomers or even short telomones are more sensitive to toxins.
So if you do something that's toxic to your body, you will actually preferentially kill the cells with the shortest telomers.
Well, as a result, the average length of your telomeres goes up.
Okay.
Just like if you've fired your dumbest employees in your company, the average IQ of your company goes up without any about you sporter.
Okay, right.
So your telomere lengths can increase.
And so a lot of people think they're increasing their telomer lengths because they do a product that's actually toxic.
It's killing the cells.
It's changing the population of the cells because it killed the cells with the short telomers.
And they think, well, their telomeres got longer.
But they do.
They didn't get lengthened.
And the problem is that not only did they not get lengthen.
Other cells have to divide or replace those killed blood cells, and that causes telomere shortening.
There's also cells in our bone marrow and elsewhere immune cells that have really long telomeres.
Even if you're 90 years old, you have cells called naive cells and memory cells held over from infections you got when you're a child that have long telomers.
And when you do something that's immunogenic, and I'll take a product or do something that's immunogenic, you can induce those cells to start dividing and infiltrating the blood.
But that makes, again, makes your average chelma length longer without any lengthening,
just as if you'd hired a bunch of geniuses for your company.
The average IQ of the company got smarter without any,
the average IQ of the company got higher without anybody getting any smarter.
And so, so this is, this makes blood a really bad thing.
I say everybody, you know, go ahead and get your telomers measured, your DNA methylation measured,
your IGG glycosylation measure.
All of those things are subjected to the same problems I just described for
fuelment.
Okay.
The older cell is like the more, you know, IGG glycosylation or the methylation type of
things will affect, they're correlated with aging.
Those cells are going to be preferentially killed by the toxins or these cells are going
to be induced from your bone marrow just without, and cause those.
markers the change too. So it's, I say the really only way to really test aging is what I call
the Betty White test. Okay. I, you know, when you go into your doctor's office and you say,
I wish somebody would make me young, you're not asking the doctor to make your telomeres look longer
in a blood test or make your DNA methylation patterns look younger in a blood test or your
IDG glycosylation to look younger in the blood test. You want to look and feel. You want to look and feel
and behave 25 again.
Damn right.
So what I do is I show a picture of Betty White
at a lot of my presentations at 25 and 85.
And I just say, does anybody here not know
which photo of Betty White was taken first?
Because everybody knows.
I mean, we don't have markers.
We can't, nobody can point.
If you took the 85-year-old picture,
erase the wrinkles, turn the hair colored,
they've got rid of the fat in the face,
you would still know that that was the later picture.
Why?
We don't know.
There's so many different things, so many markers that we can visualize.
Just like when you walk down the street and you see somebody attractive of the opposite sex, why?
How is that?
What is, that's called cognitive algebra.
Okay.
You are factoring a lot of different things subconsciously into an algebraic equation to come out with an answer.
And that's how you determine that some.
somebody's attractive.
You know, it's the same.
But same thing for,
how do you know when you walk down the street
that somebody's in their 50s
and somebody else is in their 20s?
It's an algebra.
It's an algebraic,
cognitive algebra thing that's going on.
And so I always say,
and that's part of my reason why I studied psychology.
So I got, I got, when I was an undergraduate,
I got degrees in both biology and psychology
because I wanted to really learn
about measuring aging and things like that.
Like the artificial intelligence, cognitive algebra, things like that,
those are courses I was taken in the 1970s.
But so the Betty White test is really the only thing that matters.
And so if somebody comes along and says they have a product that reverses your agent,
and believe me, there's a lot of them that say that.
Oh, yeah.
They're not reversing their agent.
They might be reversing some health factors, okay,
that make you feel better and things like that,
but they're not reversing your aging.
The only way, if somebody says they have a product of versus your aging,
it's not true unless you pass the Betty White test.
And nobody has ever passed the Betty White test.
The exception might be Liz Parrish,
who actually did go to a lot of extensive extremes
to treat herself with gene therapy and stuff like that.
And she's, she has maybe has some signs of action.
Let me ask you this because in my area of more expertise that I've done for so long,
human growth hormone is known as the fountain of youth and the anti-age.
These are names that get thrown around about it, which I know is BS personally.
But there are factors there that it helps to improve.
Is there any correlation there between growth hormone, whether taken exogenously or released
you know, some other peptide that could release it in terms of like anti-aging effects or is that totally different, completely different side of things?
You may or may not know that I'm actually one of the inventors of human growth hormone. Okay. So back in my early days working with Genentech, I was the person that figured out how to produce human growth hormone in bacteria in a form that didn't cause immune reactions. So, so I have a big knowledge of human growth hormone. And yeah,
Very correlated with aging, but at the time, we were only interested in making baby dwarfs grow tall.
We had an idea that it would be an anti-aging thing or a illegal sports enhancing drug.
We did produce that.
So injections with human growth hormone work 100 times better than any growth hormone releasing factor or a torch.
A peptide that induces, you know, those kind of things.
But it's a lot more expensive.
Sure.
So the really successful bodybuilders and weightlifters and things like,
that are using authentic human growth hormone being injected, even though it costs like
$4,000 a month.
At least it used to you, maybe it's even more now.
The peptides and stuff like that, they produce a small amount.
Yeah, which are actually probably good.
I'm not going to say people shouldn't do it.
But it's better than doing nothing.
Okay, so even growth hormone, keeping human growth hormone levels high is important,
just like keeping a lot of hormones high, especially after you.
get in your 50s and 60s and stuff like that, especially post-menopausal women,
those antroposal men, things like that. It's important to be getting your hormones up
right levels. And there's really good doctors to be seen to do that.
All right. Yeah. So I do. I do, brother. That's what I do.
Both hormones are not reverse agent. In fact, it might actually accelerate ageing.
Really? Yeah. Because because, because.
It induces cell division.
The way human growth hormone does is induces cell division,
and the cell division is going to cause telomer shortening.
But here's something.
And the same is true for microderm abrasion.
Anybody, any woman or man who's treating their face with acids or lasers,
you kill cells, it makes them look young.
It's a boost of youth, but you're actually accelerating your aging
because you're killing cells.
Other cells have to divide to replace those cells.
Same is true for immune boosters.
You're causing cell division.
immune boosters are accelerating Cillomers shorting.
Wow.
Here's the caveat.
What's the point of living a long time if you're not living?
Okay.
I believe in taking human growth hormone.
I don't take it.
I'm more of a runner than I'm a bodybuilder.
So I really feel up.
But I do take some hormones because I'm 73 years old now.
So I'm trying to stay as healthy as I can.
And there's definitely a decline of hormones is definitely decreases.
health or in fact,
he would recent cardiovascular disease too.
So, but,
good point.
I say,
I say all the time,
what's the point of living if you're not living?
Long time if you're not living.
Do these things if that's how you enjoy living.
And I will come through.
I will have something.
If I continue my research,
the way it's gone right now,
I believe that we could have something
that could really like them telomers,
not just slow down the tug of,
but win the tug of war
within three years from now
and people will be able to
find them. We haven't talked about
this. You mentioned Touchstone, you work with Touchtown.
I think Touchtone is the greatest company in the world.
They are.
I've been working with them for two years now, too.
Yeah.
But they're now selling a product
that contains plant extracts,
fractions of plant extracts that I've discovered
that will induce the longers.
Well, that's how I was blessed
to meet you. It was through them,
and that's where I was going to go with
and we're going to have to,
I'm going to do a part two with you
where we cover all of this product
because it's so amazing,
but let's do a little quick touch on it now.
Let me just,
I'm a marketer and say,
oh, no, that's not,
no, you've never come across like that,
but if something's been created
or you've worked on something,
that's why I even began to talk to them
was because I am ridiculously particular
about who I will associate with
that's selling,
something. I just don't. I'm jaded. I've been doing this way too long, you know, 15 years in the
supplement industry and around bodybuilders and everything. I don't. I've seen everything.
So you can't really, okay, any human can be tricked, but it's going to be a lot harder with me, right?
And so this, in particular, and learning about this, this whole concept of telomeres and how it relates
in our cellular health and aging, that's what enticed me to even say, okay, I have to,
I have to dig into this and I have to learn more. And listening to you today has enthralled me to the
point of when we're done, I'm just going to go read. Like on my Friday, when I was supposed to be
resting with my wife, I'm literally going to get off here and go read because it's too
intense and too amazing. This product, I would like to touch a little bit on
the makeup of it and why it
can work. We're going to do a whole other episode. I use it.
I have it every day. It's sitting here on my desk.
So I'll get it. Go ahead.
Talk about how you came up with this or contributed to come up with it and
why it's so effective.
The idea of finding things that would dislodge this repressor from the dimmer switch to
liquid polymer's chain turn on. That's been something we've been working on for years.
We've developed high throughput assays that get run by robots. We have million-dollar robots here.
Actually, can the room right behind me on the wall right behind me, there's a million-dollar robots,
not a human-looking robots. They're like on benches that robotically test plant extracts or anything
that we want to test, including we've tested mattresses, we've tested radiation, we've tested,
We've tested different wavelengths of light, things like that.
But we test up to 4,000 different things a day with our robots.
Fractions of plant extracts is one of the main things.
So it takes about two days to get a result.
But we've tested, like I said, plus the 20,000 different fine extracts.
And these assays we have, these high throughput assays, all they do is they measure how much a long race gets experienced.
rest in human cells. So we have human cells in petri dishes that robots even make the cells,
culture the cells, let them incubate for 24 hours, then go ahead and add the different plant
extracts to the cells, put them back in the incubator, bring them out of the incubator again,
test them 24 hours later for telomerous expression using what's called a PCR acid.
And we have found several that reproducibly turn on the swam machine.
And the five best are in this product here.
I don't know.
Let me see if I can get that in the camera.
Clear, but it's probably not clear enough.
The, it's, people can find it on their website.
But the five top fractions of the plant extracts are in this product.
And, like, number one, the most potent that we've ever discovered is actually a fraction of turmeric that actually lacks curcuminic.
Really?
Yeah.
And there's a lot of studies suggesting that curcumin is actually a thalamrace inhibitor.
Okay.
And so that's probably the explanation as to why, like, total turmeric won't work.
Got it.
Tumric lacking curcumin does work.
Now, we don't know what else is messing.
We just know what's a fraction.
We haven't gone and tested each of these fractions to find out what are the two to 20,000 different chemicals they're in there.
It's just that we know that one of those is actually getting absorbed into your blood and inducing a long-reasing separation.
Wow.
So there's five others there.
And the reason why we have five in there isn't just to make it look complicated.
When I was talking about this repressor shutting off this dimmer switch, all of our studies,
and this is one of the reasons why we use chemicals a lot, is that we could be able to design
chemicals to study it more accurately.
We are coming to the conclusion that there's actually more than one dimmer switch and more
than one type of dimmer switch and more than one type of repressor shutting these dimmer
switches off. And so we think that some of the reasons why we only get partial turning on is because
we're only just lodging one of the repressors. So the idea is that take as many as we can
mix them together and hopes that we're going to dislodge more than one. And it's right now
very difficult for us to distinguish between which repressor is being dislodged. So right now
But Gamble is by putting five of them in that there's going to increase the chances that we're repressing more than one, de-repressing more than one.
So how did this actually work then this product?
Is it going to provide what we need to help with some of that shortening?
Or what is it going to do?
And what would one potentially feel from taking it?
Well, theoretically, people shouldn't feel anything because it's slowing down aging.
I mean, and there's no way.
to measure a slowing of aging. But people are saying things, including me. Okay. And I'm not,
I don't feel, I've been through so many clinical studies. I mean, that way back even with human
growth hormone, rithropotin, beta serum, a whole bunch of dimmerit, tissue plasmidivetion
activate, a whole bunch of drugs that I invented that have been through clinical studies. I know not
that, I know placebo effects. I've seen. Yeah. Oh yeah. I've seen people's cancers get cured. They're
getting the placebo. Okay. And because they believe.
I believe, okay, it's not like that.
So I'm not prone to placebo effects, but I've seen changes, okay?
And so I don't know what's going on, but it's so I believe that if we are seeing any age reversal, it's got to be doing,
there's critically short chilomeres in us that are getting a length of a little bit.
You shouldn't see anything with this line of age, but I don't want to encourage people to take justice, okay?
I mean, I think this is probably the most important thing or tied with the most important thing that anybody could be doing to slow down and possibly reverse their aging.
But until we have something so potent that is actually winning the tug-of-war, I highly recommend doing everything you can to make your mitochondria healthy.
I mean, energy, your loss of energy with age is mostly due to mitochondria dysfunction.
Okay.
So doing whatever you can.
And then like NAD levels are going to help it.
So I take my nicotine, my riboside every day.
Okay?
So just to increase my NAD levels, I take a resveritrol.
I do a lot of different things in addition to telibati.
If I had to, somebody who told me I could only take one, it would be telovital.
But I'd be upset about the fact that especially that I couldn't take something to help my mitochondria.
That's my stack is the Tila vital with might appear, which is your lithon A.
And that's what I'm doing.
I'm 43 and I want to be filling like in my 30s.
And, you know, I found some things with my heart that I found earlier on, blessed that I found it early.
And these are the types of things that I know that need to be done to ensure that I'm not having poor quality of life in my 40s and 50s when we should be enjoying it our most.
you know, and I want to look good, feel good.
And the things that you and I are talking about today are things that a lot of people
are being more apt and keen to understand now,
but really didn't think about a lot before.
And I want to bring that to light that these are things that can be done.
You don't just have to go, oh, it's inevitable.
I'm going to age or this is going to happen.
Well, if you think that way and live that way, then it's going to happen a lot faster.
But you can do things like we're talking about to slow it, hopefully reverse it one day,
and live a hell of a lot better and happier life.
And you and I are, you know, our mission is we may come from different backgrounds and
intellects, but our mission's the same.
And you are one of the most intelligent guys I've ever seen and met.
And I think, you know, letting people see that and understand it is going to make a huge
impact.
And that's why I'm so thankful to be talking to you about this.
And I think that your work speaks for itself, but your delivery and your, the way,
that you are so positive and so joyful in the way you present it and it comes across so easy.
I love it.
It helps tremendously.
And I think more people need to understand you give all these tools.
You give all of these ideas and thoughts.
But like you said, the attitude and the way that we function mentally, too, play such a huge role in this.
So it all has to come together.
And I really appreciate your breakdown of this.
and the conveyance because you speak with a lot of science,
but you make it very easy to understand and follow.
So I just, I really appreciate it.
My goal is to extend my own lifespan.
You said you're 40 something?
I'm 73.
I'm 73.
Okay.
I've been,
and one of the also important things that I have been doing
besides trying to slow down the ailment is mitochondria health.
And I've been studying mitochondria in a lab since the 1970.
And, you know, I'm very, very interested in the mitochondria theory of Asia and how to reverse that and stuff like that.
I think one of the best, and the best thing that's ever come along is urolithin A.
Okay.
I think that that's, because urolithin A is responsible for the clearance and disposal of dysfunctional mitochondria.
And that is something that when mitochondria start getting dysfunctional, especially if they're
starting to produce a lot more free reticles. They need to get targeted for disposal. So I've
studied that pathway a lot. And erolithin A is something that induces that pathway to get rid of
the dysfunctional mitochondria. You also have to have mitochondria biogenesis.
You can replace those mitochondria, and that won't happen when kilomers are short. Okay,
there's lots of studies showing that mitochondria, this biogenesis, depends a lot on
palm telomeres, especially genes called PGC1 Alpha,
one and two, other genes do there, all encoded by the nuclear chromosomes,
not the mitochondria, even.
And so telomeres affect the dimmer switches of even the mitochondria.
The genes that produce, the proteins that make a mitochondria encoded by,
90% of the mitochondria is encoded by the nuclear chromosomes.
most people don't know this.
And so the dimmer switches get turned on and off
for like producing PGC1 Alpha
that are involved in making new mitochondria.
And so it's a combination.
I mean, the best thing I had to pick one thing,
I'd be too vital.
If I had to pick two things,
it would be, that it might appear.
Okay.
And it's because of the ureolithin A.
Yeah.
Those two things are extremely important.
Most studies you ever find on aging would talk about telomere shorting and mitochondria.
There is not aging.
Ah, man, we're going to have to do an entire thing discussing mitochondria and telomeres.
And also, I'm obviously inviting you back to discuss the telivital more and to go into that more because, I mean, I can't believe I've been talking to you this long.
I feel like I've been talking you five minutes.
And that's part of what I love about this.
So we're going to make this a big series if you're good with that
because this is some of the most beneficial stuff I've ever heard, man.
I would like, I enjoy talking to you.
I would love.
I do too.
And it's, yeah, you're very knowledgeable about aging and health and things like that.
And it's refreshing.
I do a lot of podcasts, but it's refreshing to talk to somebody that actually
knows what I'm talking about.
about so oh yeah i'm enthralled man i don't if you i i rarely rarely do a podcast where i'm taking
notes like literally writing notes down or looking rough up as someone's talking to me and you've seen
me continuously do that and so i have i have study stuff here that i'm going to do when i'm done
and i'm going to be bugging you for information because i this is what i do man like i live this and
i can't get enough and what you're talking about is stuff that has it's really
been the shape of the scope of my work the past couple years and you know I'm having an expert
to the level of your expertise is what I've been looking for so I'm going to bug you but it's
it's all for a good purpose my mission in life is to make the world happier and healthy
a great opportunity for me to be able to do that you know I as you mentioned before I was
second place for national dinner the year for my cancer research the people that got
first place were the people that invented the HIV protease inhibitor. So, God, not a shabby thing to be
second to them. But the, and this was a contest that included even new bicycle gear shift knobs and
new cameras and things like that. So this was a pretty prestigious award to get. And it was because
of my research and cancer. But I've also invented a lot of like treatments, therapies and stuff like
that for heart disease, like tissue plasmusin, activator, with repotent, phromobotin. Phromobod. And
And so we, I mean, we could do episodes on anything, cancer, heart disease, Alzheimer's.
I mean, these are the subjects I spent a lot of time working out.
This is my, I live this.
I work every day.
I'm in a building right now.
I'm in a small closet-sized office right now.
But this is a 10,500 square foot facility filled with lab equipment to do just about everything.
We don't do testing.
People shouldn't come here to get blood work done.
we do research, discover new things and stuff like that.
I mean, it's a ditting.
I love that field.
But yeah.
Well, I really, really, really, really appreciate your time.
I can't explain you in words how valuable this was to me and to everybody.
And I think this is just a start of a long series and hopefully a long relationship I have with you, man,
because I really, really, really valued this a lot.
So I just want to thank you for this.
but all of your years and years of sacrifice and research and everything that you've given to all of us.
And thank you for what you're going to do in the future because I know you're really just getting going, man.
And I'm here to support you and help you however I possibly can and help you spread your word.
So thank you so much for everything.
All right.
Well, thank you for having me and giving me the opportunity to talk.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
So why don't you tell everybody where is a place to, do you have any things that you put out, any content, anything for people to read, a website?
Where can people follow you?
Well, since I just do research, I'm not really good at keeping my website up to date.
I don't market anything.
I just have companies sometimes come to me and say they're very interested in the research I'm doing.
Can they market some of the products that would benefit humans?
And sometimes I say yes to that, okay, especially touchstone essentials.
I was very impressed when touchstone essentialists approached me.
I forget it.
Somebody recommended that they approached me.
They approached me.
We had a long talk.
I was super impressed with them.
And so we licensed these nutraceuticals to them that had really just been sitting on the shelf
because they didn't reverse aging, which is what I really won't accomplish.
But, okay, so you can go to touchstones.
website. That's what, so it's the good inside.com. I recommend going there because you can learn a lot
about me and what I'm doing there. Uh, but my website is Sierra si dot com. S-I-E-R-R-A-S-C-I.com.
But they can also email me and that's probably the best thing to do. I'm really good
because I love taking a rest break and responding to email so people can email me.
I respond to everything, and that my email address is B as in Boy, Andrews, at SierraSai.com.
Again, that's S-I-E-R-R-A-S-C-I, short for Sierra Sciences.
We don't market anything.
We just do research.
We license things to other companies, and they market them.
And then, so, you know, we do get a royalty from the different companies that are marketing.
marketing products that we discovered here. We get a raw that 100% of it goes into our research,
okay? Because that's all really I care about is getting research done to cure diseases,
not just aging, but everything. I love it, man. I really do. Well, awesome. I hope people take
advantage of that, that you're very generous for giving out your email address. So thank you for
this interview and for everything. And everybody, I want to encourage you to check out the
touchstone website that Dr. Bill gave out.
I'm going to link an opportunity to take advantage of a nice deal on the TILIVIAL
product in the description.
I stand by it.
I'm using it.
I'm a big advocate and proponent of it.
And I'm going to be talking a lot about it.
And as you can see, I've already started to do.
So everybody, I appreciate your time.
And I really hope you found this extremely impactful.
And we're going to have a several part series to this.
So stay tuned for plenty of.
more to come Dylan Jameli and Dr. Bill Andrews signing off. Thank you.
