The Megyn Kelly Show - Red Light Therapy, the Best Morning Routine, and Why Peptides are "Big Pharma's Worst Nightmare," with Gary Brecka | Ep. 1361

Episode Date: July 16, 2026

Megyn Kelly is joined by Gary Brecka, founder of The Ultimate Human media platform, to discuss why morning sunlight is one of the most powerful ways to start your day, the health benefits of natural light, how crucial breathing is to a morning routine, common misconceptions about sunscreen, concerns over chemicals absorbed through the skin, the health benefits of sunlight, alternatives to self-tanner, how helpful Hormone Replacement Therapy can be, the way estrogen and other hormones change throughout a woman’s life, the role of testosterone for women, the health benefits of mineral salts and creatine, why too much calcium can be a bad thing, how powerful hydrogen can be to your health, the science behind red light therapy, the natural and "free" way you can achieve the similar results, the benefits of infrared and dry saunas, the five major factors he believes contribute to many autoimmune diseases, what people with autoimmune conditions should consider to improve their overall health, the health benefits of fermented foods, how peptides act as signaling molecules in the body, why peptides are "Big Pharma's worst nightmare," and more.   More from Brecka- https://www.theultimatehuman.com/   Supersure Insurance: Upgrade your business insurance to a year-round SuperAgency at https://Supersure.com/Megyn Herald Group: Learn more at https://GuardYourCard.com Birch Gold: Text MK to 989898 and get your free info kit on gold Relief Factor: Reclaim your mobility and celebrate your freedom from aches this year by grabbing your $17.76 3-week QuickStart at https://ReliefFactor.com or by calling 800-4-RELIEF.     Follow The Megyn Kelly Show on all social platforms: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/MegynKelly Twitter: http://Twitter.com/MegynKellyShow Instagram: http://Instagram.com/MegynKellyShow Facebook: http://Facebook.com/MegynKellyShow Find out more information at:https://www.devilmaycaremedia.com/megynkellyshow Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Welcome to The Megan Kelly Show, live on Sirius XM Channel 111 every weekday at New East. Hey, everyone, I'm Megan Kelly. Welcome to the Megan Kelly Show. Today, we have one of the most preeminent health and wellness experts in the world. Gary Breka is a human biologist, biohacker, and influencer who sits at the helm of RFKJ's Maha Action Committee. That's Make America Healthy again. Once upon a time, he worked for insurance companies tabulating the expected lifespan

of their customers. Now he uses those same skills to help you beat the odds. He has millions of followers on social media. He has a hit podcast and he is in demand worldwide as an expert in the longevity space. He's founder of the ultimate human, a movement designed to help you feel better, look better, and live longer, naturally. He has many, many prominent fans, including Joe Rogan and UFC President Dana White, who said that, quote, to say Gary Breka saved my life is the understatement of the century. When you sign your insurance policy for some brokers, that's the finish line, handshake,

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I'm so excited to be back, Megan. We had such a great time last time. I felt like our time got cut too short, so maybe we'll have time to take a deep dial on some things today. Same. There is so much I want to ask you about. Let's just start at the beginning, and by that I mean this morning. The Gary Breka morning routine. Go. Yeah.

Are you wanting to just rip it? Yeah, let's rip it. So I call it bookending your sleep. You know, so I have a specific sleep hygiene that I used to go to bed and the same thing to wake up. The thing about this routine is that it's easy. It's portable. You can do it anywhere in the world. I've proven it number of times by sharing my sleep scores onto Instagram.

You know, last year, I think when I did 14 cities and 18 days and was able to maintain 88% and higher sleep scores, even though I was changing time zones every day for 14 days, people's ears perked up and they started to listen. Because the truth is that sleep is our human superpower. And so I bookend it by using the same routine to go to bed and the same routine to wake up. So morning routine is within 30 minutes of waking every day, I find my way outside into natural sunlight. You know, what's fascinating about natural sunlight is that it doesn't get the credence that it deserves.

Sunlight, certain wavelengths that are only in natural sunlight that are constant on, they're flicker free. I'm not talking about through a window. I'm not talking about through your drapes. I'm talking about exposing your eyes to natural sunlight. This helps set your circadian cycle. So we actually have a clock in our brain. It's called the supra-chaismatic nucleus.

It's a very sophisticated name for basically the puppeteer in your brain that is setting your circadian rhythm. And what's so important about circadian rhythm is that this is what governs your menstrual cycle in a female. This is what governs your sleep and wake cycle in all human beings. when your cortisol rises, when your melatonin calms down. This actually governs your digestive tract. It actually sends signals to your digestive tract that you're awake and peristolsus can begin,

which is why most people don't use the restroom and have a bowel movement at night. They usually have it first thing in the morning. And so the circadian clock is so important, not just to longevity, but it's very important to how well we sleep that night. The one thing that you can do that is absolutely free to ensure that you get a good night's sleep tonight is get sunlight in your eyes this morning. So within 30 minutes of waking, I'm outside, I'm in natural sunlight. I realize people live in cold climates. They live in dark climates.

This light does penetrate through the cloud, so it doesn't matter if it's overcast. Get outside in sunlight, and I do three rounds of 30 obnoxiously deep breaths. and at the end of each round of deep breaths, I do a prolonged breath hold. And the science behind this is very valid. In fact, if you really want to be blown away by what breathwork can do to the human body, regulate the immune system, tap into our autonomic nervous system, just watch the documentary on Wim Hof called The Iceman, and you will become a believer in breathwork.

I think because sunlight and breathwork are free, people don't allocate it the same level of, validity that it deserves. So I'll do three rounds of 30 breaths. At the end of my 30th breath, and I would encourage you if you're a novice to breathwork, just start with five breaths. I do an extended breath hold. And the reason for that is it allows the carbon dioxide to build up in my bloodstream. Carbon dioxide is the main vasodilator in the human body. The reason why we get vascular when we go to the gym and exercise is because of the CO2 going back to the lung. And so we want to dilate that vasculature first thing in the morning. This is a very simple way for us to wake up.

And our bodies are creatures of habit. They crave routine. You know, when you want your body to trust you, you do the same thing at the same time every day. Give it some consistency, something that when you're traveling or when you're in a different time zone or when you're staying in a different environment, sleep environment, you're at a hotel, you're at an in-laws house, something that your body can queue into to know this is time to wake up. And if you make yourself get into sunlight within 30 minutes of waking, do three rounds of five to 10 to 30 deep breaths with an extended breath hold in between, if you do that consistently for seven days, you will never miss another day. It will become your new drug of choice because nothing will make you feel better for longer. It improves your mood,

improves your emotional state, gets oxygen to our tissues, gets our digestive tract going, spikes our cortisol, reduces our melatonin, and sets us up for a great night sleep that night. You know, it's really fascinating too, and we can get into more detail on this. But if you look at autoimmune disease as a category, 85% of all autoimmune disease is found in females. And why is that? It's not because autoimmune disease is selective by sex. It's selective by weakness. And very often, women especially do not feel safe in their own bodies.

And by safety, I mean out of the fight or flight response. You know, our nervous system, which is regulating everything, not the least of which is cycling in women. Our nervous system has two states. One is called the sympathetic state, the fight or flight state. One is called the parasympathetic state, the rest and digest state. You want to be in a parasympathetic state to wake up, to go to bed, to digest food, to regulate your hormone cycle.

So some of these things that we do, tell our body that it's safe. Things are okay. This is a routine that you can rely on, that you can learn to trust. And those habitual patterns are something that if you build over a lifetime, we'll pay tremendous dividends. Oh, that's fascinating. Now, tell me about, you mentioned it doesn't matter if you live in a cold environment or an environment where it's dark. You know, our friends in Alaska, for example. But, you know, typically during the school year, most parents wake up at 6 a.m. in that hour,

because they have kids that they have to get off to school, and it's dark everywhere. Pretty much everywhere it's dark at 6 a.m. You're not really getting sunlight. Is the rule the same? The rule is the same. If you can't get into sunlight within the first half hour because you're waking up too early,

then after you drop the kids off at school, spend eight minutes outside facing the sun, allow the sunlight to hit your skin. I don't know if you've seen the recent research that's come out on sunscreen and exposure to sunlight, but the incidence of skin cancer is significantly lower in groups that do not consistently use sunscreen.

Now, I'm not talking about bathing in the sun for hours. I'm talking about eight to 12 minutes of direct sunlight. Sunlight has wavelengths. They're constant on wavelengths that pass through your eyes, and they trigger very specific activities in the brain, one of which is to tell the super chasmatic nucleus, this master puppeteer, that it's morning, it's time to raise my cortisol,

it's time to drop my melatonin, and it puts it onto a very good cycle. We used to sleep and wake with the sun. We are so disconnected from the cycle of Mother Earth now, and our schedules are so discombobulated. Sometimes we get up at 6 a.m., sometimes 9 a.m., sometimes 4.30, depending on whether or not we have a flight, we've got to get the kids to school, or it's a weekend,

and we're going to catch up on our sleep. So that consistency gives your body a routine that can rely on. And when you are in dark environments, if you take the kids to school, let's say before the sun, rises. When you get back to the house, spend a few minutes outside, do a few rounds of breathwork, very simple, go back inside and tell me how good you feel when you start your day. Can I ask you about the studies you mentioned? I thought it was observational, but on the sunscreens, because as somebody who's very fair, you know, I'm, I am part Italian. I'm more

Irish than I'm Italian. Are you really? Okay. But there's no evidence of the Italian in my skin at all. I don't see the Italian in there. No, my grandfather's name was Angelo de Mayo. I mean, fresh off the boat from Italy. Okay. But nothing. Anyway, nothing but the temper. That's why I got the temper, the fire, but I didn't get the skin.

Anywho. But, you know, everyone in my family has had some form of skin cancer. Thank God, no melanoma, but like the basal cells and the squeamus and all that stuff. And I actually asked my dermatologist, I'm very, very tuned into skin cancer issues. you know, is this possibly true? Like, should I be not wearing sunscreen and my kids? And she was like, absolutely not. You do need to wear the sunscreen and your kids need to wear the sunscreen.

And her take on that study was that it's, I don't know how to phrase it, but basically the people who aren't wearing sunscreen tend to be darker skinned people. People who aren't like me who can tolerate the sun much, much. much better than the likes of me can. And so, yeah, of course, they're not going to, long term, if you study those people, they're going to say, no, I don't use sunscreen, and they're not going to have skin cancer. Whereas if you took a bunch of Irish people like me and put us out there for 30 years without wearing sunblock, our cancer rate would be through the roof. So what do you make of that? That's actually not true. If you actually look at population data, I used to be a mortality expert for

a large life insurance company. So we studied population data, mortality data. I mean, And you can make some broad analogies. For example, some of the longest life expectancies in the world are centered right around the equator, 20 degrees. Is it longitude or latitude? Latitude from the equator. It used to be, it's not this way anymore, but historically, as you got closer to the poles, life expectancy was precipitously lower. In fact, when I started my career about 25 years ago, Eskimos, true Eskimos, had the shortest life expectancy of any race on Earth. And when you got closer to the equator, you extended life expectancy.

So it's not whether or not you can use sunscreen. It's the type of sunscreen that you use. So if you were to actually look at skin cancer trends, because we've known about skin cancer for decades before the advent of aerosol sunscreens and topical sunscreens, we knew that skin cancer existed. Look at skin cancer rates in the 40s, 50s, 60s, 70s. What you'll find is if you superimpose a chart, Now, this is correlated, not causal, so you could call it anecdotal.

But if you were to superimpose a chart of the parabolic horizon skin cancer, it would be superimposable with the parabolic use of sunscreen. Does that mean that you shouldn't be using sunscreen? No. It means that you should be using a type of sunscreen that has titanium dioxide or what's called non-nanazinque. You want things that sit on the surface of the skin and reflect sunlight. What you don't want, because the skin is not just a barrier.

It is a gateway. It is a gateway directly into the bloodstream. It's the largest organ in our body. And so we eliminate waste through the skin. One of the reasons why sauna is one of the best ways to reduce all-cause mortality and cardiovascular disease is because we use the skin to eliminate waste. But it is not just a barrier. It is a gateway.

We transmit medications through the skin, patches, creams, sprays. So when you apply scumnscreens, paraminobinzolic acid and other binders, fillers, agents that are meant to create aerosols, aerosol sprays, those chemicals, and it's not the sunscreen that is the issue itself. It is the chemical carriers in the sunscreen that show up in the bloodstream. And if you look at that study, some of the concentrations of these chemicals, parameda benzodia-benzellicase, being one of them, Paba, were 400 times the safe allowable limit, and the FDA safe allowable limit. And you would think that if I'm spraying it on my skin, it's not transmissible and can't be picked up in the serum of the blood, but that's actually not true. The skin actually transmits a lot of these molecules right through the skin into the bloodstream.

So it's the carriers that are taking the sunscreen and making it into an aerosol or making it into a gel that's very easy to spread on your skin. Those carriers, those chemicals transmit right through the skin. They get embedded in the dermal layer of the skin. They also enter the blood. and this is where you have issues with skin cancer. Because all cancer, regardless of its form or its origin, was at one time a healthy cell. So there's no form of cancer that was not initially a healthy cell. So what happened to that cell?

It became metabolically sick. It shifted its metabolism. If it happens in the liver, you have liver cancer. If it happens in the lymph node, you have lymphatic cancer. You know, if it happens in the spleen, you have spinaic cancer. And so what causes healthy cells to become sick? Well, very often, what causes a healthy cell to become sick? We know radiation can do this, which comes from sun.

We also know that chemicals can do this. So when we apply harsh chemicals to the skin, we can very often cause an accelerated shift in that cell's metabolism, which is the genesis of cancer. So if you're going to apply sunscreen, and I am actually a fan of sunscreen, there are a lot of tallow-based sunscreens that use non-mano-zinc, There are sunscreens that use titanium dioxide.

These are extraordinarily safe. When I was 19 years old, it was a lifeguard in Ocean City, Maryland. Remember everybody had the white noses? And then they came out with colored zinc oxide. Yes. So a lot of us had blue noses, pink noses, whatever. Those sunscreens are extraordinarily safe. You can get them clear now.

You can get them in gel format. You can get them in pace. So if you're going to apply sunscreen. Yeah, because that's the downside of the zinc. Is it just it's so, you're so white. You go from white to even whiter. Yeah, you do look like Casper the Friendly Ghost. And just by saying Casper the Friendly Ghost, I'm dating myself.

I think that show went up 30 years ago. I'm right there with you. And if you remember it, you're as old as I am. But so these topical sunscreens that have titanium dioxide and zinc oxide. That's the direction you want to go. Okay. All right. Well, got it.

That's good to know. But now I'm getting concerned that my long-term editorial producer, Debbie Murphy, she lives in Canada, damn Canada, as we call it. And she's been warning me against putting on the self-tanner, Gary, for a long time, a long time, you know. Like, when you're pasty, though, especially as a woman, like, you do tend to want to fight it somehow. What's the solution? Just get a tan, or? No, there's a peptide.

I never really considered. I never really considered. There's a peptide called melanotan. which will do it naturally. And it will activate melanocytes in your skin. Systemically, you'll get an even tan. If you do go in the sun, you will accelerate your tan. So you'll be the darkest you've ever been.

Stop it right now. This is sci-fi. No. Milano-tanin. Look it up. Milano-tanin. It is a very state. People are taking this and it's making them tan?

Oh, no question. And it has a bunch of other positive events. in the body, but Malamatanin is a pet. I'm doing this on the air. People are going to watch me tan. How long does it take? We'll come back and do a follow-up show in 45 days. You're going to look like you're Italian. So now you'll start to fit your heritage. Yeah. That's amazing. Is it over the counter? Technically, you could get it over the counter. It's considered a supplement, but you want to get it from a licensed compound pharmacy. What's called a 503. That's spectacular. Yeah. Okay, great. I wish I had invented that.

That's very good to know. All right. So wait, a couple of other questions on the morning routine. So you get the sunlight, you wake up. Now, here's a question I have for you. A lot of women my age, we don't sleep well. You know, it's like the menopausal process, which I've now found out takes forever. Yes.

Can start in your late 30. Like, yeah, it's like 15 years you're stuck in like whatever paramedopause or menopause. I don't even know what it is anymore. But you don't sleep well. I don't know anyone my age female who sleeps well. So I've told the audience before, I did start H.R.T., which I really like. Good for you. It's been actually kind of miraculous.

And that I do do the estrogen. I do the cream. It's great. Yes. And I'm so dumb to think, like, of course those hormones can pass through my skin, but I'm fine with a self-tanner. Okay, I needed this conversation, Gary. Anyway.

So the progesterone, though, it's a problem for me and a lot of my girlfriends. Like, not everybody tolerates progesterone well. It makes me, for example, super bloated, like uncomfortably bloated and I hate it. Right. So then the doctors are like, oh, you can do it, IUD. I'm like, I don't want to do an IUD. I don't want to do any of that crap. But the problem is if you don't, you have to do progesterone if you're taking estrogen

to protect against uterine cancer. That's what the doctors say. But the problem is progesterone makes you uncomfortable, and yet it's the key part of HRT that helps women like me sleep. It's what makes you sleep. It gets you through these metapausal weirdnesses. And I wonder if you have any thoughts on that. Like, is there any solution for women who are between 40 and 60 having sleeping difficulty, but who either don't tolerate progesterone well or who just don't want to do HRT? Yes. So, first of all, the movie back on this happens to be a core competency of mine. And I think it's one of the most

underserved areas of all of modern medicine is female hormone therapy, perimenopause, premenopause, and menopause. You know, as you know, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration just recently removed the black box warnings from female hormone therapy because nearly 51 million women suffered for decades because they thought that hormone therapy, and specifically estrogen, led to an increased risk of breast cancer. We know that that is patently false. You know, if you look at the study that that came from, which was called the Women's Health Initiative, one of the largest hormone studies ever done. It was bastardized and misreported. And essentially, what came out of that study was not that there was a 20% concomitant increase in breast cancer. There was a 20% relative

risk reduction in breast cancer. And that's why I applaud the FDA for that. Marty McCarrie did that before his tenure ended. Yes, God bless him. And they removed the black box warnings from female hormone therapy. So let's just back up a little bit. And let's just talk about what premenopause and menopause actually is, right? I mean, when you're in menopause, you still have a cycle. It's just that your amplitude is lower. So you have a very high amplitude cycle, very definitive cycles between follicular ovulation and luteal, as you are menstruating female. And as you get older, this amplitude begins to drop.

Still have a cycle in menopause. It's just very, very low. So it's important to understand, first of all, that this cycling decline, can begin in your late 30s. And the signs are not things that drive you to the emergency room or take you to the ER or get you over to the urgent care. They are signs like brain fog, waking, water retention, poor focus, poor concentration. The hallmark sign is exhaustion upon waking in the morning, which is an inverted cortisol and melatonin cycle, which I'm going to talk about in a second. There is a gold standard test for women. And if your female audience is listening, I think they should, to write this down because it may completely change their life. There's a gold standard test called a Dutch test.

One of the most dangerous things to do in female hormone therapy is to prescribe your entire complement of hormones based on a blood test, just a simple one-time blood test. A blood test is a snapshot in time. A menstruating female, it's perfectly normal for her estrogen to be in the 400s. It's perfectly normal for estrogen to be in the teens. So who's to say that 172 or 210 or 68 or 99 is high or low? But you don't know unless you know exactly what stage of her cycle she's in, follicular ovulation and luteal, and you know whether or not all of those hormones are entering or exiting the cycle together.

What happens in these different stages of menopause is that all the hormones and a women's body don't get together in a conference room one day and go, okay, girls, it's been a great run. We're all out of here. right they get together in the conference room and estrogen goes no no no I'm going to stick around a while progesterone says I'm out pregnant alone says I think I'm going to hang out for a few months and then I'm going to leave testosterone's like I'm totally out of here I've been in here long enough so you get this weird cascade of everything from lack of libido to brainfall to waking

to water retention to mood changes to emotional changes the female's attraction to their spouse shift during this period of time. Does it mean that they don't love their spouse? It means that, and very often, sadly, in relationships, we couple libido and arousal with love and attraction. You can be deeply in love with your spouse. You can be very attracted to your spouse, and you can have no ability to be aroused and no libido. That's usually because free testosterone is low. So these strange things happen where you're like, well, I'm still in love with my significant other, I'm still attractive, my significant other, I'm just not aroused, I have no libido. Or you wake up in the morning more exhausted than when you went to bed. Or someone that is extraordinarily organized.

This is what happened to my wife. I'd encourage you to go watch the podcast that I did with my wife, Sage Workinger, because we went through menopause together. We did the Dutch test, and then she was very transparent, put her entire cascade of hormones. She had every symptom that a female could have all the way through to frozen shoulder, something called adhesive capsulite. I have a friend who has that right now. It's menopause. I will tell you, your friend is between 42 and probably 54 years old. And it's very painful for her to lay it on her shoulder.

She probably has a difficult time raising it above the level. Yeah, she just got a shot in it. Oh, boy. She got cortisone. And next recommendation tell her to be very careful is they're going to recommend manipulation under anesthesia, which is where they actually put her to sleep, and they break those adhesions while she's sleeping. They physically break those.

Oh, my gosh. It's called adhesive capsulitis. Within three weeks of starting hormone therapy, her frozen shoulder will be gone. My wife's shoulder went from being raised to here, to straight up in the air, no pain. Your friend will also tell you that it's very painful to lay on that shoulder. If she rolls over on it, it will just wake her up. And she'll tell you that it's restricted. And then she'll do simple things like she'll bend down the tire shoe and forget that she has this,

and it will take her to the floor. It's very, very painful, this adhesive capsulitis. Wow. This is a byproduct of estrogen metabolism. And if you wanted to have one lever to torture a woman, it would be estrogen, right? Because as you, and estrogen is a category of hormones. There's E1, E2, E3, what's called Estradial, Estreone. These different hormones are high and low at different times in a woman's.

cycle in her life cycle of her menstrual cycle until she goes into menopause. By moving these estrogen levers, you affect skin elasticity. So all of a sudden they look in the mirror and they're like, I feel like I've aged 10 years and six months. So the elasticity is leaving their skin. Libido crashes. The exhaustion in the morning, they start to retain water because remember the primary role of estrogen is to retain water in the interstitial space. The reason why estrogen goes from a high of about 400 in a menstruating female to a high of about 4,500 is because when they get pregnant is so that you can retain water, pad the uterus, protect the fetus. But when we're older, we don't want to retain water. These women think that they're getting fat,

and they're not getting fat. They're getting water retensive. This also happens to women that eat in a very narrow feeding window, which is why one of the most dangerous things that menstruating women can do is intermittent fasting in a very, very narrow feeding window. And you want to frustrate a female when they start intermittent fasting with their spouse, husband's got all the energy in the world, he's putting on lean muscle, sleeping like a bear, wakes up like a tiger, doing great in the gym, a woman's eating in the same narrow feeding window, can't get out of bed, starting to get bloated, is also exercising, is barely eating and is gaining weight.

You know, that's because you throw off the estrogen cycle and the body starts to retain water. So let me walk you through what the solution to this. is the solution is a 24-hour urine test called a Dutch test. And you do this test once, and what it shows is the entire complement of hormones. And don't assume that because some of the hormones are tanking heading into menopause, that all of the hormones are tanking. In fact, I'd be very surprised if the reason why you react poorly to progesterone is because your progesterone in its cycle is probably normal. And you may be low on Pregnenolone. You may be low on one of the three estradiols, the estrogen hormones.

You're almost certainly low on testosterone and free testosterone. So when you treat women for hormone therapy, you replace the entire complement of hormones. We do not shoot women with rifles. In other words, you don't take darts and throw them at hormones. You replace the entire complement of hormones. And the reason for that is because it's it's called hormone replacement therapy, is that hormones are not cumulative. So I often will open some of my hormone lectures by asking a room full of physicians. Let's say you have two men. One has a testosterone of 200.

One has a testosterone of 600. And you're going to put them on hormone therapy. Who gets more testosterone? The guy with 200 or the guy with 600? And the answer is they get exactly the same amount. reason for that is as soon as I replace their testosterone, both of their production is going to zero or near zero. So if I give each of them 200 milligrams of testosterone,

they will end in the same place. If a man stops taking testosterone, will his body kick back in and make the testosterone again? Depending on how long he's been taking it, which is why I'm a much bigger fan of peptides, like his peptin, can add aurelin. I'm a big fan of something called enclomaphene. These will signal the testicles to increase their production.

So then they're high on their own supply. And no matter what anyone tells you, there is no better hormone than one the body makes on its own. So as men age, they can develop something called primary hypogonadism, where they cannot produce their own testosterone. And in that case, absolutely replace testosterone. The evidence is clear. 2018, the Journal of American Urology, updated all of their clinical guidelines on male hormone therapy.

Having low testosterone is a risk factor for cardiovascular disease. Replacing testosterone does not increase your risk of cardiovascular disease. In fact, it reduces it. There are 10,000 receptors for testosterone in the male heart. It's the highest of any organ in the body, so you don't want it to deprive it of testosterone. if you're a man. There is not an increased risk of prostate cancer. There's not an increased risk of prostate enlargement. And there is not a correlated risk or a causal risk for cardiovascular disease. So you replace it if you can't produce it. You stimulate it. Got it. If you can produce it.

So I want to go back to women for a second and close that loop. A Dutch test will give your OBGYN, hopefully a functional OBGYN, everything that he or she needs to say, okay, here are the hormones that are deficient, I am going to bring those back into the normal level. Here are the hormones I'm going to leave alone or I'm going to replace. And then you replace that entire complement of hormones. And it is a game changer for women because no woman only suffers from the classic signs of menopause. Classic signs are the hot flashes. Classic sign is low libido. Classics line is sleep disruption. They usually have this myriad of other symptoms that they don't attribute back to, you know, the poor focus, poor concentration, lack of waking energy, you know, brain fog.

These are things crushing fatigue for no reason, waking exhausted and then having what they call crushing fatigue during the day where they just feel like they really have to take a nap. Your listeners do not have to suffer. Get that Dutch test, get it to a functional medicine doctor, and get those hormones replaced. You're not increasing the risk of breath. So now, not to beat a dead horse, but if you don't sleep well, notwithstanding, because I am doing the HRT and I love it,

there are some out there who are saying like 20 milligrams, I don't know if that's a unit of creatine, and you're going to feel a lot better. And I've never taken creatine. I don't know whether that's something we should be considering. But like, is there any like bounce back tool? Yes. So there are a bunch of things that can mitigate the effects of poor sleep.

So first of all, why sleep important? There's two phases of sleep. They're extraordinarily important. One is called REM phase. This is where we are assembling memory, right? Learned memory. So maybe you learn something on this podcast today. And when you go to sleep tonight, your subconscious, your hippocampus and your prefrontal cortex,

these two will connect. And this will become a learned memory. You'll remember what maybe that you learned during this podcast or a lecture or an interview. or another guess that you had on. So that is called learn memory. That's assembled during REM phases of sleep. During the deep phase of sleep, something called the glimphatic system is active.

So we have lymph nodes in the body, right? The lymph nodes that swell when you get a sore throat. We have a glymphatic system in the brain, which drains waste from the brain. And by waste, I mean inflammatory proteins, cytokines, histamines, these inflammatory proteins that if they are not drained from the brain will stay in the brain.

And these are the genesis of a lot of things. Alzheimer's, dementia, early onset, cognitive decline, which, by the way, are not conditions of you losing your memory. It is a fallacy that people that have Alzheimer's are losing their memory. They are losing access. You can't access your memories. Your memory. I am sitting right now, physically sitting in a memory care facility.

It is called regentra. I'm checking my mother and my father in today into assisted care. It's actually independent and assisted care living because there is a project here called Regentra where they're using red light therapy, hydrogen gas, vibration shake plates to dramatically improve cognitive outcomes in the elderly. And what we are seeing coming out of these studies is absolutely mind-numbing, controlling their glycemic profile or blood sugar and reducing these inflammatory compounds. So let's go back to sleep because that's what you asked about. So creatine is one of those things in high doses that crosses

the blood brain barrier. And what it does is creatine can actually mitigate the effects of sleep deprivation. So my wife going through menopause was having a very difficult time sleeping. I mean, if she slept more than two or three hours at a stretch without a long period of waking, that was a good night for her. So she was taking 20 milligrams of creatine daily because in high doses it does cross the blood-brain barrier and there is evidence that it can mitigate the effects of sleep deprivation.

So if you are a female, over 42 to 44 years old, I would insist that you are on a minimum of 5 milligrams of creatine a day. Full stop. Is it something you have to build up, you know, like 5 milligrams first? a week, 10 milligrams for two weeks, and then graduate to 20. No, the loading dose is sort of a bodybuilder holdover, where you did a loading dose of

creatine for a week, and then you actually went down to five milligrams. That's, those studies are related to muscle hypertrophy, growing lean muscle, tearing a muscle, having the muscle grow back larger. When we're talking about the cognitive benefits, in the inflammatory benefits, anti-inflammatory benefits, 20 milligrams of creatine split into two 10 milligram doses. It's very safe. Okay. You just put it in like a glass of water? Put it in a glass of water. Now, here's the difference between the two creatines. Monohydrate, there's more clinical evidence on monohydrate. I am actually a fan of both

monohydrate and creatine, hydrochloride, HCL. Women sometimes will find that they bloat less on HCL, hydrochloric because it is 40% more water soluble. One of the things that creatine does, which is why bodybuilders love it, is it holds water in the muscle, but it also holds water in the gut. And so dissolve your creatine completely or use a form that has other carriers like a symbiotica gel-pack creatine, a very, very good form monohydrate. Start with five milligrams and then work your way up. Don't do a loading dose at first.

five milligrams, week one, and week two, you can switch all the way to 20 milligrams a day. You will notice the difference in cognitive function in 24 hours. Some people even say the same day. Because sleep deprivation doesn't, it leaves these inflammatory proteins in the brain, so you want something to cross the blood brain barrier and help get them out. So you could do that every day regularly or just save that for when you had a bad, nice sleep? So if you don't have consistently poor sleep, if poor sleep is something that is not common to you, so it only happens when you travel, only happens when you're stressed, only happens when you

change time zones, then you can save those large doses of creatine for that period of time. If you're going through menopause or you are a chronically poor sleeper, I would recommend that you take the 20 milligrams of creatine daily. It is a game changer for cognitive function. in this memory care facility i'm in coconut creek florida um these uh 80 85 90 year old um patients are on high doses of creatine 20 milligrams of creatine a day my mother is on 20 milligrams of creatine a day and it is having very very positive outcomes on learn memory short-term recall focus um uh concentration what's the shape bed you said there's what was that thing you mentioned i red light therapy i know that that sounded familiar um um um Then there were two other things. And the second of them was something about a shake bed? Shake bed. It's low vibration therapy.

So what happens in the elderly and deconditioned people is, you know, they can't get into zone two cardio. And they can't exercise. We all know the benefits of exercise, right? Maybe we can go down that road. But if you don't, you know, exercise is probably the single best hallmark activity to ward off aging, all-caused mortality, cardiovascular disease. You see this in blue zone studies.

You see this in meta-analyses. You see this in all the big... Alzheimer's. Alzheimer's, which is now also being called type 3 diabetes. If you Google type 3 diabetes, you'll see that type 3 diabetes is Alzheimer's. We used to think that Alzheimer's was the presence of neurofibrillary tangles and amyloid plaques.

That is the byproduct of Alzheimer's. The genesis of Alzheimer's is insulin resistance. So if you only had one biomarker that you were tracking and you said, I'm only going to choose one biomarker that I'm going to manage for the rest of my life, if you managed your insulin level and what's called your hemoglobin A1C, the three-month average of your blood sugar, that would probably do more to ward off all-cause mortality than anything else that you do, which is why exercise is so beneficial.

But they're doing a few things here. One, they're using low-impact vibration. So these vibration plates put several Gs of force through the body in very short bursts, vertical bursts. The reason why that's important is it helps the bones to strengthen and remineralize. You know, for decades, we always thought that brittle bones was low calcium, but that is patently false. Our bones are not even calcium. Our bones are calcium bound to something called phosphorus, and they form something called hydroxyapitite. So our bones are hydroxyapatite, not calcium. In order for calcium and phosphorus to bind, you need 12 minerals. If you're missing any one of those 12 minerals, your bones do not ossify, and you get osteopenia or osteoporosis. You can go to assisted care living facilities all over the world and see elderly men and women that have osteopenia or osteoporosis that have been on calcium supplements for 25 years. I promise you this. Calcium is,

not the answer. Minerals are the answer. Taking a mineral salt would do more for bone density than taking calcium. Usually these people are not calcium deficient. Most of us are not calcium deficient. By the way, if you take too much calcium, it ends up in the arterial wall. This is where we get calcification and hardening of the arteries. So mineral salt is something that should also be in your daily routine. I take a mineral salt called Baja Gold. There are lots of great mineral salts out there. Redmond salt. Cal-Tal. How much of that do you put in? I actually saw you mention that and I ordered it. How much of that do you put, like in the morning, my doctor actually told me a while ago, start your day with a glass of water and put a little salt in there. Yes. He doesn't,

he didn't recommend it for my husband who's got some high blood pressure, but for me he did. But is it just a pinch? You know, there's, so Baja Gold has a liquid mineral dropper. This is probably the cheapest biohack in the world, and it's my favorite biohack. You can buy a bag of this salt for about 15 bucks the last year five years. I buy the liquid mineral salt that comes in a dropper, and I put two squirts of it in a glass of water in the morning with all eight essential amino acids and a hydrogen tablet. I put those three things in water and I whack that back. First thing in the morning. And I never, ever, ever, ever miss that.

All nine essential amoeia. And that gives you the hydrogen and that gives you the minerals you need? I probably have those with me. I literally never leave home with these things. So hydrogen gas, this is the one that I use. I use one called H2Tab. I love a prop. Sorry, I'll take that up.

No, I love it. The visual aid? Everybody loves the visual aid. This is, I will tell you that the role of hydrogen gas in the human body, mark my words on this, is the greatest discovery of our millennia. hydrogen water, hydrogen inhalation, and even bathing in hydrogen gas will be as common as a multivitamin in 10 years. The evidence is absolutely crystal clear. And I am talking about human trials of peer-reviewed, placebo-controlled, randomized clinical trials conducted at gold standard universities that are in the public domain that have been published.

hydrogen is the smallest, lightest element in the universe. It's highest on the periodic table. It's also the most prevalent element in the universe. 10% of your body weight is hydrogen, so it's harmless to human beings. The role that hydrogen gas has in human body, we have only recently discovered. So hydrogen acts as what's called a selective antioxidant. So in other words, it doesn't just reduce oxidative stress. it reduces oxidative stress to neutrality.

It restores something called redox homeostasis. And why is that important? Because too much inflammation, too much oxidation, too many free radicals, very bad. Too little inflammation, too few free radicals, too little oxidation also very bad. You want to be a balance that would just call it. called redox homeostasis, you want there to be a balance between what's called inflammation and reduction. But when you take hydrogen gas, it restores this to neutrality, to balance, and stops, even if you take too much. There is not a professional athlete that I work with. There's not a

VIP client whose health trajectory I manage, who is not regularly bathing in hydrogen gas, and does not take hydrogen water tablets every single day. And you can just take elemental magnesium, which is what a hydrogen tablet is, drop it into water, and it will effervesce into pure hydrogen gas, and you can drink it. So what happens when that goes into the body is it neutralizes these free radicals. So when we say something is an antioxidant, for example, like what does that mean? Blueberries are antioxidants. Vitamin C is an antioxidant. Quercetin is an antioxidant. What does that mean? It means that it donates electrons. So something is causing free radical damage and oxidative stress.

You neutralize it by giving it electrons. So hydrogen, because it can pass through your skin, through your bones, through your cell wall, right through your joints, through the capsule of your joint, it can go right through your spine. It is the smallest, lightest element in the universe. It's the fraction of the size of a virus. And so it goes everywhere in the human body and reduces this inflammatory cascade. I don't even talk about this in the public domain because people would call me a complete charlatan. But I have a hydrogen bath at my house.

And I have put people into that tub, Megan, nearly crippled with arthritis, and they will skip out of my unit like they won the lottery. My wife, Sage, has an L5S1 fusion, spinal fusion in her back. And if you know anything about spinal surgeries, they never really go well. You just buy yourself a problem down the street. Anybody that's had back surgery. In another life, I was married to an interventional pain management doctor. Were you? And he used to say, I can help anybody except somebody who's actually had back surgery.

Yeah. And usually starts with a dysectomy, starts with a fusion, and then it goes to another level and another fusion and another dysectomy and then rods. So my wife, Sage, has an L5S1 fusion. So she had her sacrum fused through her first lumbar vertebrae because of a really bad car accident she was in. And ever since then, you know, when that surgery acts up, it just goes right upper spine. And it just cramps her whole spine down. If I bathe in hydrogen gas for 25 minutes, she'll sleep eight hours through the night.

I like it. What? It's an, it is a selective antioxidant. I will send you the research, the published research on this, and you can put it in the show notes, your readers can, or your listeners can check it out for themselves. There's also a website called hydrogen studies.com, where you can see all 1,500 peer-reviewed studies. You can select out the animal studies, just look at human studies. It will be as common as a multivitamin, especially in professional sports.

Because professional sports is quick. Can I ask you a quick question on this? Is this because I had Dr. Casey Means on the program. Oh, gosh, I love her. Her brother, Callie and I are very, very close. I love him, too. I know because you're very active in the Maha space. They're both brilliant.

We're so lucky to have them. But she was the first person who just insisted that I get the RO filter in my house, which I did, the carbon filter and the RO. Yes. But a friend of mine was saying that they had, they've gone next level, and they've put one of these. Like, is this possible to have a, is it a hydrogen filter in their house? Like, do I need something other than the RO now? Like, what is this? How would this work in terms of consuming water?

I will tell you that the single best under-the-counter water filtration system in the world is called a mall water filter, M-A-W. I think it's mall wellness. That tells it I have it under every sink in my house. I have it under every sink and every property that I have. So what this does is uses sediment and reverse osmosis, these these, these, these, these, these, different carbon filters and different filters to completely destructure the water. So you have, you take out fluoride, chlorine, microplastics, pharmaceuticals, what's called PFA's, polyfluor alkyls.

I live in Miami, we have some worst municipal water. They'll tell you that it's clean, but I've had it tested. Arsenic, palladium, cadium, nickel, trace amounts of lead, not significant amounts of lead, but chlorine, fluoride, microplastics, I would argue that one of the best things that you can do as a passive wellness hack, meaning not something you have to be active in doing, like getting in a sauna or getting in a red light bed,

is to put water filtration in your home. So this mall wellness filter, M-A-W wellness, what it will do is it will destructure the water, and then before it comes out of the sink, it will make the water alkaline, it will add electrolytes back to the water, and it will remineralize the water. So it destructures it, and then restructures it coming out of the...

So I still put my hydrogen tablet in there, but I would argue that that is the single best water you can put in the human body. Because it's... It's so helpful. I'm going to go out of shopping spree after this. Although, I imagine that the Maa water filter is pricey. And for people who don't have money to spare, can you just try to put that on one filter and go from there? I mean, like, you know, that sounds like a lot to put it all over your house.

Yeah, there's a filter called a cold life that you can actually screw on just to your sink. And that will do fluoride chlorine microplastics, which is a long way to getting really healthy water. If you want the gold standard, an under the counterwater filtration, you know, these things are, it's an investment you make once and it is pricey. You probably could finance it. But if you added up all of the bottle of water that you drank, you know, I just traveled with an aluminum bottle that I filled up from that filter this morning. So you actually can save on glass bottle of water and plastic bottle of water by actually having water filtration your home.

And then you're cooking with it. You're drinking it. Your kids are drinking it. Your spouse is drinking it. You know, it's probably, I think, as a single intervention, one of the best things that you can do. Wow. And all the things that you're saving yourself, as you said, you're not, now you're not drinking chlorine. You're not drinking all the arsenic. And your children aren't either. So it's, it is an investment.

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He's founder of the Ultimate Human Media Platform. And let me tell you something. I know you're very familiar with this story, Gary. But there it is, Ultimate Human. It wasn't that long ago, I don't know, maybe nine, ten months, maybe a year where I was, I was watching something that you had done. And you were telling the Dana White story, CEO of UFC. And it led me down a rabbit hole into Dana White videos talking about his health. And I'm going to let you set the stage in a second for his turnaround.

But I just want to show the audience this. So I get to this video where he's laying out part of what Gary's protocol for him has been and how it's been. absolutely life-changing. This is a guy who was on blood pressure medication. They were going to be doing these, like, aggressive interventions, like surgical interventions on his heart. He thought he had a limited time on this earth left when it came to his blood pressure and his heart issues. And then Gary came into his life. Long story short, he's off all meds. He's off all of them now. Thanks to Gary. And here's some of what he put on the internet that he does, which I find fascinating. So first, there's Dana here there's this video of him getting into this red light bed.

So he doesn't just do red light for the face. He does red light. He's in the bed. He's got his shorts on. That's all he wears. And he goes into this red light bed that he pulls down over him. I think it's 20 minutes a pop. He says he does this at least a few times a week. And this is one of the ways in which he starts his day. Then he also says he does this. He runs on a treadmill while breathing oxygen. Now I have done this at this spa, not far from me. We call it. We call it. at med spa or a gym spa spa gym and uh this is like a big thing where they have you at this gym spa we ride a bike when we put these oxygen masks over our faces and then you put the little like a handle on on the mountain where your oxygen goes way down and off the mountain where you get all sorts of good oxygen flowing in through this mask so it's the same sort of approach i don't understand it any better when i do it there than i when i watch dana doing it here we'll get to that with Gary. And third, Dana shows us that he goes on something called a P-E-M-F pad that here in his video, he just lies on it on like a massage table. You can see him pressing a button. But he says that he

sleeps on this every night. And that seems like another very low-impact way of improving your health. If you just have to sleep on a pad, I mean, this is right up our alley. Is it not people we're like we can get just a little bit better without all of that looks highly pleasant, to be quite frank. So walk us through the Dana White story and those protocols there, Gary. So I'm going to tell you the expensive way to do it and then the free way to do it. Because, you know, the best biohacking modalities, what they do is they take the best of what Mother Nature has to offer us and they just make it convenient.

Very often I say I'm a much bigger believer in what God gave us than what man makes us. I'm a bigger believer in our God-given immune system than I am in chemicals and synthetics and pharmaceuticals. And the same thing is true with a lot of biohacking modalities. So I'm a huge believer in red light. I'm a huge believer in PEMF, pulse electromagnetic field. And I'm also a big believer in what Dana was doing, which is called EWAT, which is based on Dr. Wardle-Warberg's research who won two Nobel-Nobel prizes in modern medicine called multi-step oxygen

therapy. So if you can afford those pieces of equipment or you have access to them in a spa or a gym, by all means, regular red light therapy, regular sauna, regular PEMF, even cold immersion, and something called intermittent hypoxia, those are phenomenal things for your body. They not only shift your cellular biology, they improve your VO2 max very often at rest, and they have proven life extension capabilities, and I'm going to explain that in a second, proven, clinically proven life extension capabilities. In fact, I'm in the process now of opening 600 ultimate longevity centers all over the country because I really feel like my message is for masses, not just for the top 2% of a society

that can afford that type of equipment, a red light bed, like that, a really good red light bed will cost you $100,000. So if you're getting ready to buy a Ferrari, buy a hyperbaric or a red light bed. You don't have the money for a Ferrari or a red light bed, you know, you find your way to one of these centers. And there'll be 600 of these around the country in the next few months. That's great. That's great news.

Yeah, it's a, I'm really excited about some project that Tony Robbins' life force is involved, for the corporate practice of medicine, hormone therapy, nutrient deficiencies, peptides. But most importantly, you know, low-cost memberships where people can actually go in and use sauna, red light, hyperbaric chambers, PMF, like you're seeing there with Dana, and something called intermittent hypoxia. And I want to explain those in a moment. But if you cannot afford a red light bed, a PMF, an EMF, and a MWAT machine, get sunlight on your skin, learn to do breath, and touch the surface of the earth. You will get the same, very close to the same outcomes, because certain wavelengths of red light, we are very photovoltaic beings. So red light therapy,

the primary role of red light therapy is it passes through the skin. Remember that light doesn't care about inflammation, it doesn't care about the cell wall, it doesn't care about the tissue, it passes right through your skin. And when it passes through the skin, one of the things that it does is, without getting too scientific, is it goes into a little organelle in the cell called the mitochondria. And the mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell. It's a little battery that's inside of your cell. And we have about 110 trillion of these in our bodies. 10% of your body weight is mitochondria. So you've got 110 trillion of these in your cells. They're very important. And they're making energy. They're making this form of energy called ATP. What's fascinating about the

mitochondria is that there's a motor inside of the mitochondria. And every time it makes one revolution, it has two choices. It can either create two units of energy, two ATP, or it can create 36 units of energy, 36 ATP, one turn, and it's either 16 times more powerful or 16 times less powerful. So what determines whether or not it's 16 times more efficient or more powerful or 16 times less? the presence of oxygen. If oxygen enters that cycle, aerobic respiration, you get 36 ATP.

If carbon dioxide, anaerobic respiration enters that cycle, you get 2 ATP. One of the things that red light does is when it passes through the wall of this mitochondria, it kicks out a gas,

a gas called mitochondrial nitric oxide, and forces oxygen to dock. So it's almost like taking a hammer and driving oxygen, into the battery, the powerhouse of the cell. So red light therapy heals you and gives you energy from the inside out. Certain wavelengths of sunlight do the same thing.

So yes, red light therapy is excellent for you. How many times a week would you be doing that? Well, red light therapy is dose dependent, just like sauna. So if you look at the research on sauna, dry sauna, for example, and the data is clear on dry sauna. I don't think anyone in the functional medicine or biohacking space would argue the impact of sauna. And it reduced... Just just to clarify, dry sauna is like what you know of as sauna.

Wet sauna is steam room. I mean dry sauna and infrared sauna. So they're both dry. Oh, okay. One uses light to create friction and heat you up. The other uses heat to heat you up. A dry sauna is usually about 160 to 180 degrees. An infrared sauna is usually about 100 and 150 degrees.

55 degrees, but it also makes you sweat. It makes you sweat by using wavelengths of light to create friction in water chromophores. So it actually also makes you sweat. Either of those is fine. An infrared sauna or dry sauna. I'm not a fan of commercial steam rooms unless they filter their water because commercial steam rooms usually bring in the municipal water. And then you are vaporizing fluoride gas, chlorine gas, polyfluor alcohols.

Whatever is in that water, you're turning into a gas. Good point. And the way that we take a poison and turn it into a bioweapon is we vaporize it. Right. I mean, you and I could be sitting in front of a desk with a pile of anthrax on our desk. No problem. If you lit that on fire or vaporized it, big problem, right? There's a dark thought.

Yeah, I got really dark there for a second thing. Sorry. Wow. There I was in the steam room enjoying myself until I got poisoned by anthrax. Yeah, it was all fun and games until all. Gary vaporized the anthrax, you know. But, and I'm not saying municipal steamrooms are that bad, but when you walk into a lot of these, yeah, locker rooms, you smell the chlorine, right? Yeah, that's right.

You can just smell it. And it's chlorine gas and fluoride gas. So unless you're filtering the water in your steam room, I would avoid that. I wouldn't use municipal water. But if you filter it, great. But so we know that sauna reduces all-cause mortality. Meaning we know that the reduction in cardiovascular risk and the reduction in all-cause mortality clearly causal, not correlated. It is a clear line in the scientific literature.

So son is one of those things that if you're on a longevity bandwagon, it should be, you know, somewhere in your stack. But it is also dose-dependent. So five days is better than two. Two days is better than one. Red light therapy is the same way. The more consistently you lay in a red light therapy bed, the more youthful in appearance you'll take on. You will notice extraordinary youthful changes in your skin. Why?

Because it's very good for collagen, for elastin, for fibrin, and for something called vasomotor circulation. Vesomotor is something you may even want to write down because most people think that our heart circulates all the blood and body. They're cardiologists that think that, but that the heart circulates all the blood running through our body. That is not true. The heart circulates about 30% of the blood in our body. Nobody has a left ventricle with a single contraction that is strong enough to push blood 63,000 miles. You have about 63,000 miles of blood vessel in your body, including venules and capillars and arterials. So this 70% of our circulation, how does that 70% of the blood circulate. It's circulated through this activity called vasomotor. So I want you to think of a snake

swallowing a mouse. Okay, we don't put a hose in the snake's mouth and push the mouse along. What happens is there's a muscular, like peristolsus, a muscular motion that moves that mouse down the snake's body. That's how the bolus of blood is moved through 70% of your circulation. So vasomotor, this microvascular circulation, we never examine it. We don't image it. We don't treat it. We don't even talk about it. And so what happens as we age is we get compromise in this vasomotor circulation.

Red light therapy is one of the best things you can do for vasomotor circulation. And if you go back to Dana White, Dana White had what's called brittle hypertension when I met him. And brutal hypertension means that you have extraordinarily high blood pressure all the time, and it's not controlled well by medication. He had been on beta blockers, calcium channel blockers, diuretics, something called ACE inhibitors. None of it was working to keep his blood pressure down. What was fascinating was that Dana was told he had familial hypertension. He was told he had genetically inherited hypertension, and I want to make something super clear. for your listeners. In modern medicine, there's a type of diagnosis called idiopathic. So when a

physician has no idea, in fact, the Latin root of that is unknown origin. So when you have a condition and we don't know why, we just diagnose it as idiopathic. You have idiopathic hypertension. You have idiopathic hypothyroid. You have idiopathic autoimmune, which means we have no idea what cause this. 85% of all primary hypertension diagnosis are idiopathic. So when they are medicating your heart for a crime they cannot prove it's committing, it's because they do not know the origin. And that's in the record, idiopathic. And so when we can't explain things in medicine, we look for other routes to validate it. And one of the routes they do is they look at your family history. And they go, oh my gosh, Megan, look at this. You have high blood pressure.

We've examined your heart. There's nothing wrong with your heart, which is what happened to Dana. Your EKG is normal. EEG is normal. Heart sounds are normal. Lung sounds are normal. Cardiacast normal. Di-contrast study. All of these advanced studies are all normal. So we can't find anything wrong with the heart. We want to medicate the heart anyway. So we look at your family history and we go, oh, look at that. Your father's brother has hypertension. Your mother had hypertension. You have familial hypertension. You have genetically inherited hypertension. Well, if I can get you to believe that you have a genetically inherited disease, I can get you to subscribe to a lifetime of medication.

But if we took that conversation one step further, and you looked at a physician in the eye and said, if I inherited this disease from my ancestor, what gene did they pass on to me that caused this condition to exist? That's when their face would go blank. Because that gene does not exist. There's not a gene for hypertension. There's not a gene for hypothyroid.

There's not a gene for type two diabetes. drug and alcohol addiction, depression, and anxiety. All of these things run in families. None of them are genetic. So that is a critical distinction. So they diagnosed Dana with idiopathic hypertension, hypertension of an unknown origin. The reason?

Familial genetic hypertension, even though there's no gene for hypertension. So the first thing, conversation I had with Dana was, well, they don't know the origin. They're medicating your heart for a crime they cannot prove it's committing. In fact, your cardiac workup says the opposite. You have no cardiac anomalies, your EG, EKG, heart and lung sounds, and all of your cardiac workup has been normal for 10 years. Dana's response, I won't say his exact response on the show because it's very colorful. But he said, what in the, B, am I on all of these medications for?

And so what I found was that he had an amino acid in his blood. Please, if you have hypertension, write this down. He had an amino acid in his blood called homocysteine. Homocysteine is in everyone's blood that's listening to this conversation right now. Homocysteine is normal in our bloodstream. Our body takes homocysteine, breaks it down, and turns it into another amino acid called methionine, which then quiets the mind. So when homocysteine rises, which is genetic, you inherit poor homocysteine metabolism, which means you inherit high homocysteine. You do not inherit hypertension.

And so when this amino acid rises and it's cruising by the inside lining of your blood vessels, it irritates your blood vessel. And if you irritate a blood vessel, it irritate a blood vessel, it will clamp down. And when you make the pipes smaller, in a fixed, excuse me, a fixed system, the pressure goes up. An apprentice plumber knows, if I want to increase the pressure,

I decrease the diameter of the pipes. So you have 63,000 miles of blood vessel in your body, 70% of which we never image and never, and never examine. And if you get vascular constriction, basal constriction, and that 70% of your system, the pressure is gonna go up. Just like if I was,

wanted to raise your blood pressure right now, I just put some Norma Tech compression boots on your legs. Your blood pressure will skyrocket. Nothing wrong with your heart. If I take the boots off, pressure goes back to normal. So what happened to Dana over 21 weeks, and I would encourage your audience to write this down, too, if they have hypertension, check your homocysteine level. If you have high homocysteine, that means that you have vascular constriction. If you have vascular constriction, you likely have high blood pressure, and this is well documented in the literature, you take an amino acid called TMG. You can get this over the counter, tri-methylglycine.

What TMG will do is help your body metabolize the homocysteine. So over 21 weeks, as Dana took this amino acid, and he began to metabolize homocysteine. As his homocysteine level dropped, his vascular system began to relax, and as it relaxed, his pressure returned to normal. So after 21 weeks, he was off all of his cardiovascular medication. He is no longer brittly hypertensive.

He does not take medication for his heart, and he takes an amino acid called trimethylaclycine, TMG. It's incredible. Perfectly normal. Absolutely incredible. Just just circle back before we move on. We talked about red light bed. We talked about the treadmill with O2. Yeah, so the treadmill with oxygen, let's talk about the free version of that.

As I said, I would tell you what to do for free. If you can afford any walk, get on a treadmill and breathe the oxygen. If you can't, learn to do breathwork. That breathwork that I described at the beginning, three rounds of 30 deep breaths, obnoxious, like deep breaths in through your lungs, really expanding your rib cage, exercising the auxiliary muscles of respiration, and then out through a straw. Three rounds of 30 breaths, followed by an extended breath hold. And then the final one is touching the surface of the earth.

It's called earthing or grounding. And I used to get a lot of flack for this 10 years ago, but it's not the new sign. I know. That's real, though, right? It's real. You discharge into the earth. You can hold a voltage meter in. Get one off of Amazon. Put one pin of the voltage meter in your hand.

Plug the other one into the ground. And then stand barefoot on top of your tennis shoes. Okay, hold the voltage meter. Step off of your tennis shoes onto bare ground and watch the meter peg all the way to the right. So you have to have your shoes off. That's important. Yes. You want to touch the surface of the earth with bare ground.

feet. It's called grounding or a thing. That's why people feel so good when they go to the beach. And the PEMF does that for you. It's kind of a substitute if you can't. Yeah. I mean, if you live in a very snowy air, by the way, does it work in a snowy area? Like if you were standing on snow. It does. It'll work on cold ground too. What's fascinating too is a lot of commercial buildings are grounded. So like if you actually live in a commercial condominium, you're in New York City and you're like, Gary, there's no dirt around. Um, uh, you can, You can also get a grounding test meter on Amazon. There's six bucks.

And you can hold it and take your shoes off and stand on your tile floor. You may be grounded because commercial buildings run steel. And they also have steel poles. So very often the concrete surfaces in those buildings are grounded. So you may be on the 15th floor, but fully grounded. You can just touch the surface. So the earth, touch your tile and you'll be grounded. on the subject of you know the the the dana white revolution do can we talk about ldl there's such a debate over ldl

and i actually was looking into this recently because like my doctor i've told my audience this he loves the statins he thinks everybody should be on a statins he thinks they should be in the drinking water literally said that to me i love my guy but he's he's more of an old school you know He's not functional medicine. But I'm into functional medicine. So, like, it's interesting for me. But so he loves, loves, loves the statins. But now I know, I've had enough people on the show that I know that there's a real question about statins.

And there's a real question about whether we should be focused on LDL cholesterol at all. Oh, you're great. Peter Atia, who's, he's in the longevity space. He does believe. Did he resurface? Well, I don't know. Maybe he's not functional, but he's in the longevity. But he loves this.

He wants LDL. down. He also believes LDL should be low and you do have to worry. And my doctor was telling me in Europe, they want your LDL to be like below 60. I mean, that's really low. And, you know,

they'll lead you to believe you're going to have a heart attack if you don't manage the LDL. So where do you stand on LDL? So first of all, let's talk about what cholesterol is and what it's not. So cholesterol is not a fuel supply. Your body cannot use cholesterol for energy. So what is it?

It's a construction material. We use it to build every cell wall, every cell membrane. We use it to make vitamin D3, the only vitamin that human beings make on our own. Human beings only make one vitamin, and it's vitamin D3, called a calcifero. We make it from sunlight and cholesterol. You don't need to eat, drink, or supplement. You just expose your skin to sunlight, have cholesterol in your bloodstream. You'll make vitamin D3.

So just think for a moment, how critical that must be to human function. if when God made us, he made us with the ability to make one vitamin. So it's a construction material. And so secondly, cholesterol is also a transport molecule. So if cholesterol was a tennis ball, the fuzzy yellow surface on the top, that would be a triglyceride, a fat. So fat, triglyceride, is transported around the bloodstream on the surface of cholesterol. So if you remember from high school geometry that as the size of a sphere gets smaller, its surface area to volume ratio goes up. Why is that?

Oh, boy. Hold on. I'm going to explain it in the way that your audience is going to get. Bring it home, Gary. For the naysayer nerds. So let's say you had two basketballs of cholesterol sitting on your desk. Okay. They're covered in fat. And you want to add more fat to your desk.

You want to put more fat on those basketballs. How do they hold more fat? Two basketballs become four softballs. You add more fat to the bloodstream. Four softballs become eight baseballs. You add more fat. Eight baseballs become 16 golf balls. You add more fat.

16 golf balls become 32 little BBs. Now, those two basketballs are markers for longevity, large puffy cholesterol. The 32 BBs are markers for cardiovascular disease. Same level of cholesterol, different size. Does that make sense? Yeah. The two basketballs have the same surface area as 32 little BBs. Those 32 little BBs are very dangerous because they will pass through the endothelium,

the arterial wall. They'll get eaten by a macrophage. They'll start the production of what's called foam cells, which is the genesis of placking, scarring, narrowing, cardiovascular disease. Cholesterol by itself doesn't magically just jump out of the bloodstream and stick to the arterial wall. You need oxidation, and you need that molecular size of the cholesterol to be very small. So, I'm going to say something that's going to sound controversial,

but if anyone has evidence to prove this statement wrong, I'm happy to look at it. No one hasn't ever been able to do this for me so far. But there is zero, and I mean zero. Evidence, anywhere in the peer-reviewed published clinical literature. Linking elevated levels of LDL cholesterol on its own to cardiovascular disease. You have to have a corresponding increase in triglyceride, or you have to have the small particle size. Now, lipo-a, lipolittle A, which is genetic, is a very important.

very dangerous form of cholesterol. Right now, there are no pharmacological solutions for that. PKS-39 inhibitors do not reduce lipol little A. There may be solutions by the end of this year, but as we stand right now, there are not pharmacological solutions for lipol little A, lipo B. So what happens is we've selected one myopic view of cholesterol, LDL. And we've said LDL high, cardiovascular risk high, we need to get it low. That is not true. And I will tell you that, in the evidence, because when I was in the mortality space, we had access to the day, date, time, location, and cause of death for 371 million lives. I can tell you in 22 years, I never processed a single death claim on a centenarian, somebody who lived over age 100, that did not have clinically

elevated levels of LDL cholesterol at the time of their death. And if you look at blue zone studies, elevated LDL cholesterol, low triglyceride. If you look at the centenarian, you look at the Centenary and death claims that I processed, high LDL cholesterol, low triglyceride. If you want to focus on a single variable that makes your cholesterol less lethal, control your insulin. Insulin resistance is a greater marker for cardiovascular disease, insulin, and hemoglobin A1C, than LDL cholesterol. I am not a physician, so let me be the first one to say that. I'm not a physician and I am not licensed to practice medicine. But I am a data scientist and I have read the data.

If it were me or my loved one, I would not take a statin if purely my LDL cholesterol number was elevated, especially if I had normal to low triglyceride. So. I'd ask you a question then. If you're a diabetic whose insulin is controlled, right, if you're a medicated diabetic who's controlling her insulin, all the time. Shouldn't you then never die of a heart attack? Like, because- Well, what's interesting is-

your insulin's always under control. If you look at the category of diabetes, so diabetes, if there's a measure called the hemoglobin A1C, okay, this is the three-month average of your ball of sugar. It goes from 4.8 to 5.6 on most standard lab values. In that range, you're considered to have normal blood sugar. Between 5.6 and 6.0, you are

considered pre-diabetic. Between 6.0 and 6.4, you are diabetic, but not insulin-dependent. So insulin dependence, you can have diabetes and not be insulin dependent. You can have diabetes and require insulin. So if you look at the incidence of cardiovascular disease in type 2 diabetics, meaning they are diagnosed with diabetes, then you have a lot of, you, you have, you find significantly higher rates of cardiovascular disease. In fact, insulin is a more correlated risk to cardiovascular disease than LDL cholesterol. It is a greater predictor of cardiovascular risk and disease than LDL cholesterol on its own. Insulin resistance is what causes cholesterol to oxidize.

So if you're going to monitor, if you just had an LDL cholesterol number and you have, had your insulin and hemoglobin A1C, I would control my blood sugar before I took a stat. Because the uncontrolled bulk of sugar. And the thing about blood sugar is it's not just sugar. I mean, obviously, if you're having boatloads of candy and ice cream and sugary products, that's not good. But you could eliminate all that and still have high blood sugar, right? Like, that's right. For example, if you have hunks of bread, your body recognizes that as sugar. It processes that as a sugar. There are ways of spiking that blood sugar that have nothing to do with the consumption of actual sugar.

That's right. Yeah. And the big offenders are white bread, flour, rice, pasta, grains. Those are the ones that they don't taste sweets, who we don't think of them as spiking blood sugar, but they spike blood sugar. Fruits that in and berry, great. Be buried protein forward with your diet. Saturated fats and proteins are fine. as long as you do not also have high glycemic carbohydrates with them.

We just updated the entire, not just the food pyramid, but the nutritional guidelines to be very protein forward. We also ended the war on saturated fat. When we launched the war on saturated fat, we began the explosion of high sugary drinks, sodas, snacks, and highly processed foods. And look at the rates of diabetes when we went, after fat and replaced it with sugar.

Everything got worse. And I know, Gary, you say just to get the same, we have to take a break, but you say the number one, the only diet rule that matters is to avoid processed foods. I mean, processed foods are the devil. Like, you can't eat them. You do not buy them. Do not have them in your pantry. Do not give them to your children.

Avoid them like the plague. Yes. This is very true. And just quick, because I know we're talking on time. Blue Zone Studies, meta-analyses, and big data all line up. There's no argument for dogmatic dieting to extend life. It's not keto, paleo, pescatarian, vegan, vegetarian, carnivore, you know, raw food. The secret to extended life is the absence of processed food. You can do fine on a vegetarian diet.

It's difficult, but you can. Very difficult on a vegan diet. But you can do it on a vegetarian diet. Difficult, but you can do it. You can do it eating fish, chicken, meat, eggs, as long as you are not taking in high amounts of highly processed food and you are watching your sugars. Honey is great. You know, fruits and berries are amazing for you. It's not no sugar.

It's eating sugar in moderation. And when you look at all of the areas of the world where we have life extension, there is no presence of processed food. Wow. Think of that. And we are the capital of the world when it comes to that stuff. $5 trillion a year. It's pushed on us everywhere. And we're the sickest, fatest, most disease, or a nation in the world. All right. Lots more to get to, including fermented foods. We're going to play you what Cheryl Hines says about RFKJ and his obsession with steak and fervents, as he calls them. And then what about peptides? Is there something we should be?

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He's founder of the Ultimate Human Media Platform. Find it now at the Ultimate Human.com. All right, Gary, I have so many things I need to get through with you in the last 13 minutes. Okay. We'll bang through a bunch of quick hits. Let's go. All right. There's a lot.

Okay. This is from you. You do not have an autoimmune disease. You have a pathological infection. So if you think you have an autoimmune. disease, you say there are five things that you need to think about. Forget what the disease is, forget lamentations about having one. There are five things you can look into to improve your health and how you feel. The first one on the list is mold. Very interesting. Do you want to keep going

from there? Yep. Micotoxin, parasite, virus, and heavy metal. I'm going to do a little. I'm going to do a little demonstration here that may be the most significant thing that you learn about autoimmune. Now, I am not saying that all autoimmune disease is caused by those five things. What I am telling you that is that as a category of disease, 85% of autoimmune is diagnosed as idiopathic, which means that you're led to believe that you woke up one day and for no apparent reason your immune system turned on your colon so you have Crohn's. You woke up one day, and for no apparent reason, it started to attack the myelin sheath of your nerve. You have multiple sclerosis.

It went after your thyroid. You have Hashimoto's, the chagrins, lacrimoglion of the eye, and on and on and on. So if this, this is a piece of gum, but if this was a mold spore or a mycotoxin or a parasite or a virus or a heavy metal, and this is a healthy cell, this does not hide like this. it hides like this. And that's a very important distinction because the immune system is hyper-vigilant. It wants to get to this, right? And it's hiding.

Just for listening audience, he's putting the bad thing in the middle of his fist. He's saying it's like hides in the middle of your system there. Keep going. Yeah. So think about, if somebody across the street from your house

robbed the bank and ran into your house and barricaded himself in your house, the police would bust down that door to get to the perpetrator. They're not just showing up to your house to kick in the, door for no reason. They're kicking in the door because the perpetrator is inside. So the immune That's why your autoimmune markers are up. There's something bad happening inside of you that they're after.

Exactly. So we can take one of two types of belief if we have no explanation. One, God made a mistake. The immune system just attacked you for no reason. God didn't make a mistake. The immune system is there for a reason. So the police officer just showed up and barricaded through your door and ran around your house. Or he kicked in the door to get to a perpetrator. So what happens when the immune system reaches the wall of a cell and it doesn't have permission to go inside? The way it gains permission to go inside, pick down the door, is it manufactures an antibody to that tissue. So if you look at the incidence of heavy metal toxicity in Hashimoto's, which is autoimmune thyroid, you would find that very often, not always, but very often these patients have high levels of metals embedded in their thyroid. Why? Because the thyroid has an affinity for heavy metals. So mercury toxicity, palladium, lead, arsenic, very often will gravitate into the thyroid. And then what happens? The immune system is chasing that perpetrator, and it begins an autoimmune response. If you have Crohn's disease, the immune system didn't just wake up one day and attack your colon for no reason. Usually what has happened is that you have damaged the single cell layer of the inside lining of your intestine.

You have something called leaky gut where contents from the inside of your intestine are leaking it through the wall and into the bloodstream. And the immune system arrives there and starts a fight. And then we suppress the immune system. We hold it responsible for a crime. It's not committing. And we give you high doses of corticosteroids, anti-inflammatories, to try to control the inflammation. Instead of saying, why did the immune system show up in the first place? why is police officer at my house kicking in my door?

Oh, there's a bank robber inside. Oh, there's a heavy metal. There's a mold spore or mycotoxin, a parasite. Viruses, same way. When a virus arrives to a cell, what it does is it sticks to the cell wall and injects its DNA. And then it takes over the function of that cell. A virus is not a living thing.

It needs a cell to survive. So it survives by injecting its DNA. It's like being bitten by a zombie. Now you're a zombie, right? So a cell bitten by a virus becomes that virus for lack of better explanation. And also I just want to say Dr. Dale Bredesen, who is a brilliant doctor who studies Alzheimer's and dementia, he says looking at all those things also helps prevent Alzheimer's. Because you're reducing your viral load, you're reducing your toxic load, which will help, you know, your brain. Amen to help.

In addition to these other things. So, yeah, this can help you in a number of ways. Look at the back. Wait, I want to keep going because there's so many, so many other things. Okay. You had a woman on your show recently talking about your feet. No one thinks about their feet as important to longevity. But I listened to the two of you and I went, I have to say, I bought a pair of the ugliest sneakers I have ever seen. But they're going to make us live longer somehow, Gary.

I know, but they're so not fashionable, Megan. But, I mean, just look at the general shape of the foot. shape like a Y. Look at the general shape of a shoe. It's shaped like a pyramid. Like a pizza. Yeah, pizza. It's shaped like a slice of pizza. But that's usually processed food. So let's stay away from the pizza analogy. Manga. shaped like the capital building. So you have this pizza shape to most shoes, but you have a Y shape to our feet. And if you look at what happens, bunions and corns and And things like that, the toes start to turn in towards each other. We also, because our shoes, some running shoes even have carbon fiber insoles, like flat insoles.

So we're losing the original strength of our feet. There's an amazing book called Born to Run. It was about Mexican tribes that run 60, 70 miles on a regular basis every week barefoot. And they have no ankle injuries. They have no foot injuries. They don't have knees and hip and low back injuries. because the foot is adaptive. The put has 300 planes of motion that it moves in, has 20, want to say, seven bones.

So the foot is meant to adapt to different surfaces. It's meant to be malleable. And when we cast it and we put it in narrow toes, high heels are the worst than the most poor anatomical position for women. And so we do damage to our feet. You know, I've seen photographs of a lot of NBA players, famous NBA players. These are online. They're the grossest things you've ever seen. Ingrown hair, I mean, ingrownails, toes literally overlapping with other toes. You know, this very pizza shape to all of the toes at the distal end of the foot. So this is a very unnatural position for us. So yes, wider-toed, Y-shaped shoes. Great for you. Being barefoot is excellent for you. Toe strength is right.

up there with grip strength in terms of how we can determine how balance we are. So in elderly people that lose toe strength and they lose foot strength, it's very easy for them to fall. And she was saying that if you keep your toes out and you like lift your big toes, that's good. Like do that to keep your, you know, some toe strength. Separate your toes apart so that they're not together. Try the exercise where you just try to raise just your big toe. It's way harder than you think.

All right. Now, what about ferments? Because RFKJ and a bunch of other people in the administration are on some diet where they're eating red meat and ferments only. Well, right now, he is only eating meat and fermented vegetables. So what that looks like is in the morning at 6.30, he's cooking a steak and eating sauerkraut. So what happens to you guys go out to eat? Is he, like, waiting to get back home to eat? Now this is, I don't know if he wants me saying this either, but who cares. He's so dedicated to this diet that he's eating that he will bring his own sauerkraut to a restaurant, which by the way, Katie, you will appreciate this because we'll be in the car dressed up. I'll have like a little. And he's got his cluck bag of sourcrown.

No, I'll have my little clutch, right? One of my good bags that I only take out every once in a while because I don't, I want to keep. them nice and he'll hand me a bag of sourcrow and say can you put this in your bag and I'll say I actually cannot and I you know if you would have told me when we were inside I would have brought a different bag but what you're about to put in in this bag is not okay I'm going to give this bag to one of my daughters so when she you know when I die this is not a sauerkraut bag If you tell me ahead of time I can bring a sourcrown. You know what I mean?

It's too much. You tell me in advance. I won't bring the Chanel. I won't bring the Chanel. Exactly. What do you make of those? So fermented foods are going to, first of all, they're excellent for your body. They have great probiotic flora in them.

I eat a lot of sourcrow, a lot of kimchi, some really interesting research coming out on kimchi and microplastics, correlated, not causal, meaning they can remove microplastics from the body. This is a correlated result so far. But fermented foods have two things. One, they have soluble and insoluble fiber. Soluble fiber is what turns into free fatty acids and produces something called buterate, which is an anti-cancer molecule, and it also lowers inflammation. Insoluble fiber moves through the gut as bulk.

And we know that high fiber diets are correlated to decrease risk of colorectal cancer. And so one of the things that you can do is reintroduce fermented foods, and you get the benefits of soluble and insoluble fiber reduction of inflammation. We would call these foods anti-cancer. They're not to treat cancer, but we call them anti-cancer. The bulk moves through as bulk, and the soluble fiber turns into free fatty acids and buterate. Really good for you. All right, there's a free tip for you.

Now, peptides, all the latest, you know, big celebs, they love the peptides. I'm a big fan of peptides. I've used them myself and use them with really. good effect, you know, on a couple of injuries. I love peptides. Peptide plumping or nail polish. Peptide plumping. I guess I just don't really care about my nails.

I've been enjoying my peptides. I got restocked on my pet dives, which I kind of cycled off, and I love them. These peptides, these are pills. I love them. BPC-157, a synthetic 15 amino acid pepric. derived from a protein found in human gastric juice marketed for tendon ligament muscle and gut repair. Is that something we should be taking? And is there another peptide you like? No question. First of all, so just a quick explanation on peptides. Peptides are not new novel

recently discovered molecules. Peptides are generally things that are made endogenously in the human body. Insulin is a peptide. GLP 1 is a peptide. We have a trillion dollar industry built on the back of a peptide that we make in our own gut. And we make this peptide, GLP1, in response to nutrient density. GHKCU, the famous copper peptide for the skin, we make this in the human body. So peptides very often are endogenous. We make them in the human body. That's the first thing.

The second thing is they are signaling molecules. They usually tell the body to do something. Produce more growth hormone. Produce more testosterone. Send platelets to this location. and heal this tissue. So it taps into the body's innate systems that already exist. Very often as we age, the body does not lose the ability to produce youthful levels of things

like growth hormone, testosterone, other hormones. The signal gets turned down. So in other words, if you walked into a room and you could barely hear the music, you wouldn't go mess with the speakers, you would find the tuner, and you would turn the tuner up, and the music would play louder. This is how peptides work. They're signaling molecules. They're like the tuner.

And so because they're amino acids, they actually have enzymes in the body that recognize them and can break them down and eliminate the waste. The reason why you don't desensitize to food, you can eat 1,500 calories a day for the rest of your life. Why don't you have to eat 10,000 calories 10 years from now? Because your body is not desensitizing to food. It's not building a tolerance to food.

Why? Because we recognize it. We have enzymes to break it down. We can store it as energy. We can use it to build structures or we can eliminate it. Peptides fall into this category. What's fascinating about peptides. I think these are Big Farmers' worst nightmare.

Is that it can signal the body to accelerate wound healing. BPC 157, TB 500, GHKCU. Peptides that already exist in our body, amino acid chains that we already have, we can add these back to the body, and we can accelerate. wound healing. There are peptides that are anti-anxiolytic that actually reduce the impact of anxiety. They have impacts on brain-derived neurotropic factor, BDNF. There are peptides that cause our body to secrete something called telomerase and lengthen our telomeres. So peptides are something that we've been using for the last 10 years in clinical practice. My team of physicians probably

written over a quarter of a million prescriptions for peptides without a single, adverse event, serious adverse event, itching and rashes at the site of injection, minor infection at the site of injection for not being sterile, or some of the side effects, but those are not related to the peptide. Those are related to the injection. There are certain peptides that have contraindications. You used to always have a physician do these, but the pharmacy compounding advisory committee is meeting on the 23rd of this month, and I pray that there is a positive recommendation to the FDA that they turn into guidance on peptides, taking these off of the category two and putting them on the category one list.

I will be in Washington on Monday advocating for this myself. That's great to hear. Okay, well, I'm excited by these because, as you say, Big Farmers' Nightmare, they actually seem like they're helping people, and it's not necessarily a game of. And now you're hooked for life, and we're just going to make tons of money off of you. And the more I hear, the more interested in I am. I don't think I'm on any peptides, but I'm interested. I don't think of all right.

I love that. You can go to my website. I'm going to have to actually look. And I do a whole educational theory on peptides. I loved our conversation. I'm so grateful to you, Gary. Thank you. Thank for all the great work you're doing.

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