The Squeeze - Chervin Jafarieh: The First Day of the Rest of Your Life

Episode Date: June 14, 2023

Get ready for an enlightening and engaging episode as your hosts welcome Chervin Jafarieh, founder of Cymbiotika, a company offering cutting edge, pure products that improve energy levels, focus, physical stamina, and overall health! Chervin shares how his passion for health and wellness developed and explains his dissatisfaction with our state-sponsored education system, which he believes has lost its way. Chervin then dives into our food system, and explains that we haven’t been growing real food in a while and are instead consuming “dead food.” He discusses his own dietary practices, including intermittent fasting, and emphasizes the importance of hydration and sunlight. He explains the motivation behind creating Cymbiotika and his desire to help people achieve optimal health. Chervin criticizes both the pharmaceutical industry and the supplement world, and proposes Cymbiotika as a way to help with a problem we shouldn’t even have in the first place. Lastly, he shares which supplements you should explore if you’re interested in getting started, such as magnesium. We hope you’re able to take away as much as we did from this informative and wide-reaching conversation. Follow Chervin @chervin333 and visit cymbiotika.com  Thanks to our awesome sponsors!  Ice Barrel — Go to icebarrel.com/THESQUEEZE and use code THESQUEEZE to get an exclusive offer. Ice Barrel offers a 30 Day Money Back Guarantee and 100% Satisfaction  Cymbiotika — Visit cymbiotika.com and use code THESQUEEZE for 15% off sitewide  To email us your questions or share your story, you can reach out to [e-mail]. Be sure to rate, review, and follow the podcast so you don't miss an episode! Plus, follow us on Instagram, @thesqueeze and personally @taylautner and @taylorlautner.   To learn more from The Lemons Foundation, follow @lemonsbytay on Instagram and visit lemonsbytay.com  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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When life gives you lemons, what do you do with them? over here at the squeeze, we talk about it. Hello, hello, hello, everyone. Hello. I was just going to attempt Adele's hello. It's me. No. How does it go?

That's it. Hello, it's me. I pull out my phone and I have a laptop right. When you said it's me, all I could think of, it was I'm the problem. It's me. Oh, funny. And then I completely lost hello by Adele. Anyways, welcome back to the squeeze, guys.

Oh, my gosh. I am Taylor Lautner. I am also Taylor Lautner. And yeah, we are thankful to have you joining us today and every week. Yeah. But especially today because that means you haven't gotten rid of us yet. Yes. That means you still like us and you're still listening, which we are honored.

You are loyal. That you are spending your Wednesday. I mean, even if you're listening to this on any day of the week. We're honored that you're choosing a listen to us. Very appreciative. Yeah. The conversation we had with Cherveen. Yes.

But Sherveen founded the company Symbiotica. Yes. Which we are very big fans of genuinely. I mean, they have a lot of incredible game-changing products. But at least for me, the most common one you see is the liposomal. The liposomal packets. Yeah. Yeah, basically they symbiotica believes that food is the best medicine and they've just really seen like that diets and things nowadays are really just lacking nutritional value.

So they decided to fill the gap. They have great ingredients. Everything is made like top tier and their stuff tastes good too. Like sometimes with liquid supplements, I'm like a no go on it. But they taste great. Yeah. I mean, he talked with us about, and when we say top tier ingredients, like, we're not just saying that. He told us multiple stories on and off camera where, like, to get one ingredient, they went to this place in Iceland and talked to this farmer in Iceland.

Don't give it all the way. Okay. But it's just mind blowing. Like, we're talking top tier. Yeah. It is the best of the best and the best for your body. Yeah. And that's what you want to be putting in your body too. If you're taking a supplement or vitamin, whatever it is, you don't just want to be taking some. Yeah. Something that has just as much bad things in it than the good. Yeah. Especially like sugars too. There's so many things that are like powdered stuff that is loaded with sugar. But they do it good. But our conversation with him, obviously we talked a lot about symbiotica, but we talked a lot about him. And he is a big believer. He's just a big health and wellness guy. And we learned some interesting stuff.

Our conversation, our notes didn't really even play. I think we said like three things from our notes. And yeah, we usually have like, you know, like six or seven bullet points. Yeah, that we want to touch on with, I guess. And this conversation was, we asked one question and it just rabbit trailed off

and just so many fascinating conversations. Yeah. That we just gave up on. the notes. Yeah. We covered so many cool topics that. Yeah, I'm looking back on them now and I'm like, we talked about way more than any of this stuff. The one that I remember off the top of my head that was very fascinating to me was his outlook in, I've heard this outlook before, but the way he puts it really hit me over the head and was, and that was his outlook on like the educational system. Yeah, a lot of interesting conversations with that, too.

Things, questions that I've wondered and just, it's a really cool perspective on life and how our bodies work, how the world works, perspectives that I've never even, like, thought of before. Like, some things he said, I was like, why didn't I, like, that's common sense. Why didn't I think about that before? Yeah. But it's really cool. And I think you guys are going to absolutely love this episode because he is just lovely and

we the conversation was so great he left and I was like I feel like I just like learned a bunch of things I had to stop myself from taking notes on my laptop during our thing with him oh my gosh I learned more during this conversation than yeah I've learned in the last year of my life yeah so enjoy this episode jervine thank you so much for being here welcome to the squeeze hey it's an honor to be here with your husband and um let's let's squeeze each other heck yeah Squeeze it up. Let's freaking do it. First off, I obviously, we'd like do some research about you prior to coming in. And I was hit with a plethora of things that you have done, things you've learned, things you talk about, mentoring people, teaching people, all of these things. Where did this passion for health and wellness start for you? Before he gets into that, you want to skip our icebreaker? Oh, sorry. We start every episode.

I was so excited that you're here. She's so excited to dive in with you. But we do start every single episode with a segment called Citrus. Got Real. Fine. My question can wait. Let's break the ice. In this jar in Citrus Got Real, we have a bunch of random questions.

They're fun icebreaker questions. So if you would like to stick your hand in there. Okay, let's go. It's your first time doing that. Yeah, sorry. I was excited. If you could have one superpower, what would it be? Okay.

Oh. Well, I'll just answer that. I don't need to get too spiritual on that one. The ability to have my material body be able to levitate. I'd love to fly. Okay. I'd love to fly. It's just, you know, my spirit animal, hawk, owl, birds of prey, just being able to soar in the clouds and above streams and mountains and forests, that's really just been like my childhood fantasy.

It always has been. So that would be my superpower. Oh, wow. It's so funny. I've always been the exact same. Yeah, growing up when I was a kid and, I mean, still today, if anybody ever asked me, if you could have a superpower, what would it be? I've always said to fly.

Yep. It's just the limitlessness of it. Yeah. I don't know what it is, but that has always been my answer. Maybe we need to get a wingsuit. Yeah, something. Jetpack. Have you done that?

I've been wanting to do it, but my team won't let me do it. You know, they're like, they're like, they're like, We need you around a little longer. Wait, what is a wing suit? You've seen a wing suit? You just like... It's like a squirrel. It's like a squirrel suit.

Oh. And... You look like a flying squirrel. Yeah. You... The trajectory is three feet, horizontally, one feet vertically. So that's a speed consequence. So you're actually kind of flying.

And you can jump off a cliff. You can jump off a plane. I'd probably do it off a plane first and foremost before I'd like free dive off a clip. Whoa. It's epic. Yeah, it's... You eventually parachute. You do.

Yeah, you have a parachute. Yeah, yeah. Okay. Wow. I would be terrified of that. I'll send you a video of that. It's fire. Have you?

I've never done it. Have you jumped out of a plane? I have not. I haven't either. Yeah. Yeah. I don't think you could pay me to do that. I know.

I say that I want to fly, but I'm like terrified of all those things. I'm like, I'll never jump out of a plane. Yeah, though. I'm trying to think what my super. I think my superpower would be like, endless learning. Endless learning. Like memory.

Like learning and like retain like not. losing any information. Retaining all information. That's such a odd answer. But it, but I love learning. We're going to work on that today. Oh, we're going to develop that superpower. Okay. That's their focus. She's excited about that because she loves learning and she somewhat recently has like felt like your like memory just is like foggy and things that you used to just know all the time. You're like, where, how did this escape me? Yeah, I worked as a COVID nurse and developed, um, like severe PTSD from it. So my brain is still trying to figure itself out. Wow. A little bit, but yeah, definitely, definitely a little foggy up there now. Yeah. Well, I'm, I'm here for that too. Okay.

You know, that's part of my passion. I think it goes into your first question of how did I get in health and wellness. Yeah. And it was, you know, just being a pure investigator since day one, always wanting to learn how things work and not taking the status quo and not listening to what, you know, the TV was saying or what my elementary teachers were saying, you know, and that's part of my gene keys. It's part of my human design. I'm a one three generator, which means I'm the investigator, anarchist, and the martyr. So I'll go all the way to the very edge of our realm to figure out what's happening here and I don't take things at face value. And that goes with all areas of my life, whether it's spirit, whether it's material science,

whether it's relationships, it's just always, how do we get better? How do we calibrate better? And not to a point where it's stressing you out and just making you so analytical about everything, but having passion about it and really loving it. And we've all experienced standards, state-sponsored schools, middle school, high school, really against that whole system. You know, like indoctrinating a child, teaching them things that they're never going to need to know at ungodly hours, 7.30 a.m., sitting in a chair when you're eight years young, learning nonsense, and then forcing them that you're going to have to memorize this and pass some exam. What is that teaching the child in terms of their development?

It's actually shutting down their development and their intuition, which is a big part of our growth and our spirit. And I think we're in a stage now where we're a generation lost and people are not, they haven't been developing the faculty of developing that connection to things that they love because they've been stripped from it at such an early age and put into a box. Yeah. And so for me, I wasn't put in a box. My parents, you know, they immigrated here from Iran to have Persian background. Grew up in La Jolla, California, down in San Diego.

Love La Jolla. And, you know, just was in this ecosystem of ancient, you know, modalities and ancient systems of the world from the Persian connection, but also learning new sophisticated things in San Diego. I could see that there was so much suppression going on in terms of how we're teaching kids and how we're developing children from the beginning. And so that opened my eyes up at an early age. And then through mentorship, I was mentored by my cousin David Avocado Wolf. David Wolf created the raw food movement in the late 90s and into the 2000s.

He's 11 years older than me. He was the most famous health guy for at least 15, 20 years in the alternative health space. He's the one that brought cacao and moranga and all the herbs to North America. That was him. Wow. And so I was a child under his scope, learning all these things, learning about traditional Chinese herbal medicine and Ayurveda and connecting the dots outside of the allopathic science. Yeah.

Let's just treat one little thing and not look at your body as an entire whole system. Yeah. And that just ripped me open. And from there, it was getting into Waldorf education. Dr. Rudolph Steiner's principal foundational educational system, which is, again, developing faculties of a child at an early age, not indoctrinating them, just holding a nice incubator for them to grow and find things that they love and to experience. And so that was a brief snapshot of where my world's collided with all these ethereal practices and these ancient practices that are so profound at an early age. And that inspired me to keep going and take it to where I am today. Yeah. Wow. It's a trip. Yeah. That's awesome. I have two quick questions from that. Cal told me you were going to open up rabbit holes. We love a rabbit hole. Why avocado?

Yeah, so in San Diego, avocado trees are like synonymous with like North County San Diego and all that. And so he just had an addiction of planting avocado trees. It just became a passion of his. And eventually he started the fruit tree planting foundation, which has grown, I think, over two, three million fruit trees to date. And so his nickname was avocado. Everybody in the scene was like, oh, it's avocado. And he just took that on. Well, if you have any pointers on how to successfully grow an avocado tree, we have them, but they don't do very well.

They're struggling a little bit. Yeah, they can be finicky at a young age. There's a whole process to them of shading and the whole thing. We definitely could talk about that. They're like teenagers when they're young. Yeah. So funny. Rebel teenagers.

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If you, you know, wouldn't put your kid in the normal school system like that, what would you do? I think, you know, I like to have compassion for where people are at. And of course, you know, if there's an option to homeschool and you're doing it with epic people and there's a tribe involved, that's why I always say when it's time to create family, you need badass sisters involved, you need badass brothers involved. You need a tribe. You know, you need a crew. And I would personally homeschool my children when I have kids, if I have kids,

before sending them to a standard public school. and that's not taking a knock at the teachers there. Yeah. It's just the system right now is, has lost its way. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I always say, like, we talk about it a lot.

I mean, not that young of age, but it's so true. But I feel like I hear it very much so in college. Like, don't teach you, like, how to do your taxes, like how to, like, actually do, like, actual life things. Life things that we need to be learning, not, you know, I guess I get things like go with career pass. to take, like, before you got a nursing school or before I come a doctor, you got to take biology, got to do this, that together. But, you know, if you're in a communications degree, you don't

need to be taking, you know. Yeah. It's really backwards. Yeah. Like, what a revelation. Like, maybe we should teach a child how to balance a checkbook. Yeah. And like real trades. Yeah. You know, things that you do with your hands. You know, Rudolph Steiner, who's a clairvoyant spiritualist late 1800s, late 1800s, as spiritual as he was, he also was very clear, like a child, even adults, we need to be doing things with our hands. You know, there's a faculty that's developed by growing a garden. Like if your children, if you're listening right now and you have kids, start a garden with them.

I know it might be cliche to say that. But the intangibles that occur from having someone having to take stewardship of growing food, not just planting the seed, but nourishing the seed, just like a relationship. Yeah. It just branches out into so many different areas. and intangibles that you can never teach through an indoctrinated curriculum. It just doesn't add up.

Human beings were not meant to be in artificial boxes under artificial lights with artificial temperature controls. We're supposed to be in the elements. We're supposed to be adapting to stress, which is called hormesis, that which does not kill you, makes you stronger. That's why we jump in cold rivers and we do all the crazy stuff that we do.

But that's how our body responds to these things. Children need that stimulation growing up. If they don't, if they're just stuck on the iPad, they're just stuck on the DoorDash. Now they're just bringing food to you. They're not developing those intuitive qualities and energetic faculties. And that's creating a level of depression. That's creating a level of what am I doing in this world? What's, you know, their dopamine is all dysregulated.

So there's no like building something up to have a great finish off. It's more just like, I just want something now. Instinct gratification. That's doling the sense. of our generation today. And we're in dire situation. Like, I keep it real. Where we're at right now is absolute disaster.

Yeah. Our top soils destroyed. Our hydrological cycle is destroyed. We've polluted this system so gnarly. The fear factor is another part of this as well. There's so much fear that everyone's just looking to escape at this point. Yeah. And escapism is not just drugs and alcohol and sex and gambling.

It's your food. it's being an asshole, it's terrible relationships. It's like that's what it's all about. So I'm passionate about these things. I feel like it's my purpose to be shining some truth onto that and to wake people up in a very heart-centered way, not in a judgmental way. It's all discernment.

I mean that. This is coming from trial and error and really evaluating and understanding the system. It's not a conspiracy theory. We're not talking about, you know, aliens coming and all that bullshit. That's all illusion. We're talking about like,

this is where we're at today. Yeah. Yeah. I think that's why I was like so excited to have you is because I know how passion. Like I get so fueled when I talk to people that are passionate about like whatever they're doing. They're there.

Yeah, whatever it is. Whatever it is that they're doing. If they're passionate about it, I am locked and loaded. I am fully there. Like, teach me all you know. I guess that goes back to my learning thing. Passion is it. Yeah.

That's what we're talking about with the kids. Yeah. Yeah. Like they need to be passionate. about things. You're not going to be passionate if you're sitting in your chair for four hours at 7.30 a.m. in a classroom from a teacher that doesn't want to be there. You get what I'm saying? How you do anything is how you do everything. And that will translate into everything else that they do in life. For sure. Passion is everything. So thank you for saying that. Yeah. I mean, on the note of passion,

something that you talk about is how food can be our best medicine. And that's something that I feel like I have seen firsthand, you know, like working in the hospitals, a lot of my patients were like older immigrants. They're not born and raised in the United States. They come from other countries where their food isn't as polluted as ours is. And I see them eating this food that in their home country that they can eat and, you know, they'll be fine. But here, you can't do it.

And that's something that I'm really passionate about. I would just love to hear why you believe that so strongly. Well, the fact of the matter is is that we haven't been growing real food in quite some time. Yeah. You know, the advent of chemical engineering and chemical-laden agriculture, I'm not just talking about glyphosate, but just the entire tilling of our top soil has destroyed the biotics of where these foods are supposed to be growing. You add in the fact that you have a high pollution rate, you have runoffs, whatever they're spraying in the skies,

and then just a complete lack of connection to the earth from the farmer, because there's no more medium chain farms anymore, it's all large-scale monocropping. There's no frequency in that food. Think about it. When you eat an orange, what does an orange actually represent?

The orange is not only is it filled with, you know, hydrogen and carbon and minerals and things of the earth, it's actually sequestered sunlight. Food is sunlight, right? You're eating at the sun, ultimately. It's the sun that created the energy for that fruit to flower and then create a fruit. Well, the fruits that we're eating today have no more sunlight in them. And instead of having sunlight, they have no more nutrition of them.

There's no electrical energy. There's no embodiment to it. And so we're eating dead food. They can look good on the outside, but there's nothing there. And when you have a society that for the last hundred years has been eating denatured food over and over, you're getting a lot of people that are overeating, but they're starving. And when I see overweight children especially, outside of, you know, maybe there's a serious condition involved, but I'm generally speaking, I don't see a kid that eats too much.

I see a kid that's starving. They're eating empty calories. They're eating food that has no nutritive qualities. It's denatured, it's de-mineralized. There's no enzymes in it. They're getting nothing out of it. They're basically just getting glucose and fructose and sugar spikes and insulin problems. Then that's leading towards metabolic diseases.

Not to mention we'll talk about the herbicide, fungicide, larvicide, insecticides, all the sides, all the suicides that are in there. It's hectic what's happening. And organic doesn't really give us much. Organic just says that certain, you know, pesticides aren't in there. That's it. And so for me, it's so critical that we figure out this food problem. And that's why, you know, that's why I developed somiotica.

Yeah. We shouldn't be eating supplements. I mean, there is a case to be made that we can go into even higher potential on supplementation. But for just the, just to stay at homeostasis, we should be getting our nutrition from our food. problem is that this is where we're at with our food today. Yeah. And so, you know, we have a biodynamic farm. So I'm a biodynamic farmer, which is a specific way of farming.

And it's actually really powerful to understand the aspects of biodynamics. It was designed to actually connect us to the earth and connect their hearts to the earth. And the side effect was healthy food. The goal wasn't healthy food. Oh, wow. That's the side effect. That's cool. It's kind of like, you know, abundance, right?

like doing what you're passionate about and what you love to do every single day, the side effect is abundance. Yeah. You know, income and currency and currency, you know, it's a currency. It's like an electric energy. That's why they call it currency.

So for me, you have to be in the place where you know this is your purpose. This is what you're here to do. And if it's to be the best teacher of all time, be the best teacher of all time, be the best mother, be the best mother all the time, be the best husband, whatever it is,

is that we have to step into that, passion and do things right. And just to circle back to food, we have to figure out our food systems right now because it's devastating. This is what's leading us towards all these issues, because if we're eating denatured food and we're getting polluted with pain and fear and toxic burdens, then you're hit with, you know, you're under the slave of the debt capitalistic system. Yeah. I mean, forget about it. There's no, there's a reason why everyone's turning to entertainment and things to get their head straight because that's their coping mechanism.

They can't look at things the way it is. And it's wild out there. Look what we just went through over the last three years. I mean, that shows you how malleable we are or how rigid we are as a society and almost slaves to the machine. So the more we take ownership

and become our own doctor and our own scientists and our own and not saying someone's coming to save us, the better chance we're going to have. And that's where we need to head. That's what sovereignty is all about. My whole thing at the end of the day, at all my, you know, my, my, my, my, my perspective, it all comes down to freedom, you know, and what freedom truly means, the actual philosophy of freedom. It doesn't mean that being like locked up in jail somewhere caged up. It's, it's in your mind. It's like, how limiting are you? How

How much of a slave are you to something else that's going to dictate your life? And that's something that I like to investigate on a deeper level. And when I go into my meditations and stuff, so we got to figure out our food system. For sure. Yep. Are there any basics, like couple foods that you would say we need to be incorporating more of this into our diet and we need to be getting rid of these kinds of foods? Are there any of those that just stick out? Yes.

So everyone's a little bit different. Okay. We come from different backgrounds. We have different microbiomes. You know, what could be someone's medicine, could be somebody else's poison. Yeah. And then also through time of, you know, antibiotics and other things, someone might be just dilapidated to a certain point and have to rebuild a certain process. Yeah.

It takes a, it takes, you know, really getting into the weeds and figuring out your current situation. But on an overall level, I'm a qualitarian, okay? So, or flexitarian. I don't buy into the isms, you know, from veganism to carnivorism to all the isms out there. It's just, it's too limiting. I find balance in the seasons. I'm a seasonal eater. And I'm very careful on my food combinations.

You know, there's certain foods that you just don't combine with each other. Interesting. Right? Like, for example, you know, this country, you know, they serve you three or four entrees and then they bring the dessert. Yeah. Right. You don't want to follow up a heavy protein and fat dish with sugar on top. Yeah.

Unless you're trying to make kombucha in your stomach and cause all kinds of different things to happen. So we have to really figure out like our design. How does the body work? How do we metabolize? So fruits always come first and things of that nature. We can talk about intermittent fasting. Yeah. I used to have my window from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m.

2 to 6. 2 to 6 was my window for a while. I've switched it. Ow. I'm now preferring to eat on the rise, you know? And you'll finish early? And finish early. Really?

That's been a game changer for me, you know, going to bed empty. It just feels so much better. and I don't have any energy swings throughout the day because I'm getting my I'm getting my main meal in first thing on the rise and that's empowering my brain that's also empowering my workouts I'm able to get through it and so you know we source meats from farms that are practicing field kill and doing that the right way a sacred way I did not support big commercial meat agriculture I think it's a dark industry and you know there's a lot of vegans that have a problem with my position on that as well.

And I just say that this is what is working for me. Yeah. You know, and I can understand their moral perspective because I know that the system is not the best ever. And but this is what's working for me. We like raw dairy. Yeah. You know, so if it's raw A2 cow milk,

that's coming from the A2 genetic cow, raw cheeses. I love the whole fruits, you know, So when I'm on the island, I'm eating those fruits. A lot of the fruits that, unless you're growing at yourself here, or it's from a farmer's market that you know they're practicing good practices. You just clearly can't trust the fruits. I eat raw egg yolks, but not the whites. The whites need to be good.

Just the yolk. As soon as you heat the yolk, it becomes denatured. That's where all the growth factors and cholesterol and enzymes are. A lot of sprouts. I love sprouts. I always add sprouts to everything. and of course, you know, symbiotica. There you go.

Heck yeah. Wait, do you finish eating before six? Yeah. You do? No, yeah. How do you do that? You're having, you get like major hunger pains throughout the night? I'm a late eater.

It's like my number one weakness. Okay. I don't get hungry until at least noon. Yeah, we're opposite. I wake up like hungry and I'm like ready to eat food. And Taylor's like, no. Well, if you're eating late at night, that makes sense. Yeah.

Yeah. So it's just your body starts to acclimate to your system. Yeah. Right. So whatever system you're in place, it just adjusts. We're creatures like that. You know, the body's, you know, very, sometimes it takes getting out of your comfort zone a little bit. Yeah.

That's what, you know, that's what doing a 21-day fast is all about, right? It's just like reset, you recalibrate. Yeah. We take for granted, like, just thinking about food starts so many biological processes. within the body. You know, your saliva gland start to activate. Your liver starts to release enzymes, hydrochloric acid and your gut starts to produce. Just thinking about food. Yeah. So just think about, like, what kind of, you know, magnificent integration occurs when you eat a whole meal. Like, there's so many things going on. You know, your body has to break it down. It has to

ultimately metabolize it, which means that the liver is involved and has to geotag all. You know, all that information and say, okay, this goes here, this goes there. That's what, you know, the liver does. The liver is the center point of all of that. Everyone thinks the liver is just detoxifying. No, that's just one part of it. The liver is developing hormones. It's doing all that stuff.

Interesting. Then the gallbladder comes in and makes its way into, you know, different parts of the body. It makes its way all into your bloodstream. It's a whole process. Then you have to eliminate. That's why fasting is so powerful, you know, because you're basically telling your body, okay, slow down, stop.

And then after about 24 hours, your body goes into autophagy, which means, in Greek, means self-eating. And once you're an autophagy, your metabolism starts triggering the eating of things in the body that don't belong there, like cancer cells and growths and all these things that, you know, cysts in the body. That's what fasting's all about. And once you're in day three, day four, then you've passed. that hunger wave, the ghrelin, because your body's used to, like you're in that system.

After day four, I don't even think about eating anymore. I'm not even sleeping much. Most of sleeping is predicated on digesting food. Think about that. You know how you wake up and you have, you know, film on your teeth and buggers in your eyes and that's all because your body's been cleansing all night. And that's a very intricate process that happens, you know, usually about an hour or two after you go to sleep, which is why it's important. to go to sleep before midnight. Okay. Every hour before midnight, it's considered double hours.

So if you go to sleep at 10, you're really getting four there. Okay. You know. That's helping my case of going to bed earlier. That sure is. Hydration. All right. We've had enough for me.

Yeah. Sorry. I'm ruining people's lives, but hydration is also probably one of the most important things. Most people that are reaching for food are actually dehydrated. Yeah. You know, we're clinically dehydrated as a population for a number of reasons. We're drinking things that act as a geretic.

We're drinking coffee and teas and sugary stuff and soda up, all this stuff. All that stuff, just alcohol, all that stuff is cooling water out of your body out of the cell. It's out of the cell. And then people will just start gulping whatever water. That's not hydrating you. That water has no idea what it's doing. That's why you have to have very specific forms of water. And they have to be filled with a little bit of sea salt and some minerals.

And that's really key. to stay hydrated. And if you're not hydrated, then all of your other things, you're just chasing, you know, and people getting chronic headaches and are always sick and all these things, that could be chronic dehydration. I found myself doing that exact same thing, like feeling like I need to have food, but really I'm just thirsty. And I'm like, like craving something. I'm like, you hear me say that not often, but I feel like I've been saying that somewhat recently. It's like, I'm craving something. I'm craving like a food or something. And then I, Like, I'm like, oh, when's the last time I even, like, had water?

How much water have I consumed recently? Yeah. But that, I resonate with that a lot because I'm definitely guilty of that or that has hit me. Do you just put sea salt in your water? I do. Yeah. So I drink spring water. I'm a big spring water.

Spring water and then put your own sea salt in it. Yes. Usually like a pinch of Celtic sea salt. Okay. And then we use our molecular hydrogen. So we have the strongest molecular hydrogen on symbiotica, which amplifies. the hydrogen in the water. Hydrogen is the strongest antioxidant in nature and the smallest, so you can neutralize every free radical in the body. It's very powerful stuff. So we use a little bit

of sea salt and molecular hydrogen. And that's what we're drinking first thing on the rise. As we're naked on the earth, getting activated by the sun, which is another thing that we forgot to do. That's how our immune system begins. That's how our melatonin production begins. Most people who can't sleep at night, I'm like, are you getting naked in front of the sun at 630 or 7 a.m? No, that's your problem. You're not getting sunned. So we talked about symbiotica a little bit. I would love to know what, when you launched, what were the products that you started with?

Because I mean, there's a bunch now. We're fans of it. We love the liposomal, the vitamin C packs. Oh my gosh. That's so good. Those are our go-to. We love this. We've gone through like 11 iterations of that to get to where it is now.

Yeah, we're always getting better. How you do anything is how you do everything. So we could have sat back and said, oh, this is great. It's crush and everyone's loving it. Let's tweak it here. Let's get it better here. Every year, it's like, oh, another iteration, another iteration. My team's like, gosh, everyone, come on.

Just please, no, sorry. We're perfectionists. We're always going to get better and better. Symbatica, again, was birth out of the dream that we can help people. That's how I created it initially. It was like, this is ridiculous. The supplement industry is kind of a joke. that we all know the big bad pharmaceutical conglomerons.

It's all symptomology. How do we treat your symptom and comes with a whole linear Fed effects? Don't get me going on that one. Yeah, it's bizarre a world. Like, let's put, you know, duct tape over this and just don't think about it. That's especially what that's what symptomology is. Yeah. But the supplement industry was just as bad.

There were so many bad actors in this space. Yeah. So many groups or people or individuals that wanted to just, make money. And it was a race to the bottom to just slap a label on some bullshit manufacturer and, you know, have a spokesperson or whatever, some kind of guerrilla marketing. And I've been around that space since I was a kid because of my mentorship and seeing the industry. And I had the, you know, I was blessed to be around really passionate people that didn't care about building massive huge companies that were all just about helping people.

and sourcing the best stuff, like artists and brands and stuff. And so that's what Somatica was birth with. I wanted to be an artisan brand. And I wanted to bring the Rudolph Steiner influence, the biodynamic influence, and the culture of that into how we develop products and really teach people why these things are important. It's important that people understand what it is that we're offering

because the placebo effect is so much stronger, especially if that placebo material is real, right? Because a sugar pill will work if you believe it's going to work. But imagine it's not a sugar pill. And it's the most complex compound coming from the best sources on earth with the best intention and the highest potentiality. And you know what it does. And so that's how Somatica was birth. The first product was our omega formula by source pure dekosa hexanoric acid DHA omega oil from a rare hairlum strain of algae called chisocratium coming from Nova Scotia. And it's very crafted, how they crack the cell using warm water.

And this is pure DHA, which is what our brain and eyes and central nervous system are made of. And I was like, you know, this whole fish oil industry is kind of hectic. You're selling people on something that they could just go to the primary source. Why get it from a fish? You know, it just felt gnarly for me. And so the Omega was birthed out of it. of that. Then I sourced astazanthin. Are you familiar with that? What astazanthin is? No. I think so. It's the most beautifying compound in the world, more beautifying than collagen or anything

like that. It comes from an algae that when it's disturbed, the green algae turns blood red. And that blood red is a carotenoid. Carotenoid is a pigment. That's why a carrot's called carrot. It's from that word carotidot. Really? It's a pigment. Yeah, it's like watermelon has anthocyanin, which is another pigment. And so this algae protects itself by releasing this. This material is 6,000 times more powerful than vitamin C as an antioxidant, 4,500 times more powerful than vitamin E. It's the pigment that makes salmon pink and lobsters red and flamingo's pink. What? Yeah, it comes from an algae. And so we, so I was like, where are we going to get this? And I was like, we're going to go to

fucking Iceland to do this because that's the purest place on Earth. And so I was connected to Iceland to a grow farm there that grows the algae on geothermal water. Wow. Like, you can't get more pristine than this.

This is probably the most pristine place left in this plane of existence is from Iceland. So I went over there, just fell in love with the culture. We're very close to the Scandinavian culture, my family, my friends. I stayed with the

president of Iceland back in 2016 and it's just epic epic like that like energy of survival over there that builds you know it builds your character and so those people are are badass i want to go there you got to come maybe just come with us i think we might go this summer oh wow um for the midnight summer it just doesn't get dark there it's a trip oh you definitely got to do the aurora borealis chase with us chasing the northern lights that's a whole another experience that's on my bucket list yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah we've we've done that It's full on. So this algae, they basically disturb the algae and they can collect that acetanth.

That's in the omega formula. Wow. It's in the omega formula. So, yeah, it's just, we just keep adding cool things to these things. And so that's the beginning. That was the first product of symbiotica. And then from there, I don't even know how many we have now, 25. They're all like children for me.

And what's really cool is symbiotica. I'm just one small sliver of symbiotica now. that's really cool. We have the most epic dynamic team of just everybody that's all in, everybody that cares and is passionate about helping people. You know, half our staff has probably come from referral or from people saying, I just want to get on board this movement because you guys aren't a company. You guys are a movement. And so my partner, so my partner is actually an old friend of mine since childhood that contacted me one day and said, you know, whatever you're doing, I want to get involved. I don't want my kids to remember. He's got two

beautiful girls. I don't want my kids to remember me for being daddy with money. I want them to remember me for making a difference in this world. And what you're doing is inspiring. And I'm ready to sell all my businesses. He was a serial entrepreneur, Harvard guy, hyper-intelligent. He's designed as a CEO in life. He's just that guy. And he goes, you're wearing all these hats. You're the CEO, your chief scientific officer, your developer, all face of, just let me come in and be your CEO. And within a year and a half, he had moved his family back to California from Atlanta. And he's my right-hand man.

He's my guy. And he's built this, him and his team have built this organization to a place where we can go have fun and develop things and do all the cool stuff that we love to do. Where everybody's in their best, and that's what Somatica is. And that's the name. The name, when I came up with that name, I was like, symbiotic, symbiosis. This was after a big, big ceremony I did in Oregon under the Eclipse Festival in 2017. That's when I realized the name, Symbiotica.

Because you started, you launched in 2018. 2018, that's right. And here we are. We're the fastest growing direct-to-consumer brand in the world right now. Well. We've won fastest-growing company. We've won Inc. 5,000 fastest-growing company twice, two years. years in a row. And we're in the top 600 out of the world. And we're one of two companies in that

600 that hasn't taken any outside money. So we don't have, we didn't go through seed run founding. I don't have a board that I have to report to. And you got to have this margin, blah, blah, blah, blah. We don't care about that stuff. Like at first it was a learning curve. Because our products are expensive to make. We're bringing in raw materials that are high quality. We have trademarked stuff in there, the highest, highest end. And we put a, we, our packaging, everything is top notch. Yeah. And so this isn't like the standard, you know, what you're buying at Whole Foods or something

or, you know, whatever. And so I told, I told my team, I said, just stick with me here. Once this gets out, we're not going to have a problem. And they stuck with it and they crushed it. And here we are having this conversation with the werewolf of some movie. A lion on the wolf I love that you Two things

I love that you like Just how much you say like You know It's not just me It's a group It's a team I feel like That just speaks a lot

To your character And I mean to your company too That's so sweet I feel like I mean Even us too So many people Just like Don't know where to start

With supplements They're like I want to start Incorporating some health Into my life If there is If you could pick A couple

That you're like This is a good place to start with incorporating, what would that be? You're like all of them. Choose your child. It's like symbiotica.com. Yeah, choose your child. A lot of the formulas are umbrella formulas, which will help everyone. Some of them are very, very intricate and isolated. I would say first and foremost, you know, you start with the basic ones, the magnesium, for example. That's our top seller. And so are you familiar with our magnesium?

Uh-uh. Okay, so magnesium is the most important mineral for human beings in terms of how we adapt to stress and how our cells communicate. Magnesium, so you're familiar with how minerals work, like, why does zinc do this? Why does copper do this? Why does silver do this in the body? Why does gold do this in the body? Why does silica do this?

It's interesting. We're made of this earth. Yeah. Like these are earthbound minerals that, We're carbon-based and electrical base, but we're made of the actual Earth. Yeah. Like, that's a trip. If I took all the organic compounds out of your body, organic meaning from the earth,

you'd wither away and die. We wouldn't be here. Calcium. If calcium's gone, your structure falls apart. Yeah. If silica's gone, your tendons and ligaments, everything, organs start to detach, skin starts to detach. If magnesium is out of your body, you can't communicate, your cells can't communicate,

and nothing functions. magnesium is the conductor of every cellular communication. So each mineral has something called a subatomic charge. That's where you see in the periodic table, right? It's got this many electrons, this many protons, right? Those charges just look like numbers, but they're unique and special to how the body calibrates with them in our operating system. So magnesium creates communication between cells.

It allows processes to communicate and co-factors to exist. So we are extremely depleted in magnesium today. And that's why everybody's stressed out. How am I getting my magnesium? You're not eating foods that are magnesium rich, probably, and the soil shot. Yeah. And so where's the most place where you're not getting magnesium, your brain? Your brain has a barrier.

And if you're depleted overall, like holistically in your body or globally in your body, then you're definitely depleted in your brain. So what we did is we partnered with Magteen. Magteen was a form of magnesium that was developed at MIT. Oh, wow. And this form is in something called threonic acid. And it's a particular form of magnesium that crosses the blood brain barrier at a freaking rapid clip, like almost 80, 90% more than any other form of magnesium. And we put that into an ultra-fine liposomal form.

And so you're basically, you're getting that, you're getting a whopping dose, 1,300 milligrams per serving. That's what I just had before here. That's why I'm like, I'll lit up. Oh, oh, wait. That's what just came up on my thing. Oh, yes. It looks like the same packet as the vitamin C ones, right?

But it's a different color. It's white. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's what just popped up on my thing. Yeah, he was wondering about that. Yeah. Funny. Yeah, I need to get those.

You need to get it. And it's, it's unbelievable. It gives you energy? You said you just had one. That's why you're feeling whatever. It gives me, well, well, the thing is about, certain things is if you can rest the nervous system to take it out of sympathetic and into parasympathetic, which means calm relaxation, that means you have more energy now at that point

to focus to get what I'm saying. The thing like, for example, when you take caffeine or coffee for that matter, a lot of people can't do caffeinated stuff and work out. Yeah. I have a lot of friends that can't do stims, stimulation stuff. Yeah. Right. Well, what happens? The caffeine shoots, their body's already acidic and they're already stressed out for whatever reason and for all the things we talked about previously. Then all of a sudden, you throw an avalanche of stimulants in their body and they go throttle into sympathetic state,

which is panic, fight, flight, hide, all of that. And at that point, you can't tap into a conversation like this. You can't focus on a workout. And so something like magnesium L3 and 8, it brings you back into parasympathetic, which is rejuvenation, body relaxing, calm, still, but focused. You with me on that? Yeah.

And so that's what a product like that does. I take two or three of those a day. And our whole thing is, you know, we want to heal the system and get into the system by giving the materials that we're missing. And that whole system is called orthomolecular medicine. Orthomolecular medicine is a study that, A lack of nutrients leads towards pathology and autoimmune and all those conditions. Yeah.

So that's a good one. Okay. Our glutathione is phenomenal. That's probably our top three. You know, all these products, we have them everywhere now. I mean, we make products for Air One. Our products are Air One and they love the glutathione. Our vitamin C is on their register everywhere.

Yeah. That's how we first discovered it. Yes. Vitamin C is phenomenal. Yeah. Our B12 is just a whole other level of B. We have the best B12 on Earth by far hands down because B12 people just hear what what what is B12? Yeah.

We have the there's three forms of active B12 and one form that's not active that's actually injectable. That's not you shouldn't even be injecting. So B12 shots. I used to get B12 shots. You used to get B12 shots. So that's cyanide. Okay. And that B12 is irrelevant in the body.

I can't believe right in the butt. Drain the butt. I used to do that too. It's archaic, actually. So we have methylcobalamine, adenosocobalamine, and hydroxocobalamine. These are three viable, biologically active forms of B12 that we have in our product. And we also have L-Methylate. We have vitamin B6 pyridoxene.

We have phobic minerals. We have all these active compounds just in one tincture. And this is helping. so many people. This cellular energy, this is cleansing the body, this is helping the body methylate. Have you heard of the term methylation? I've heard of it. I don't know. Have you heard of

the gene mutation, the 5H2? The MTHFR gene mutation, sorry. I need more magnesium L3 and 8. A lot of kids think they're on, the families think they're on the spectrum when the child

just can't methylate properly. Methylation is how the cell detoxifies itself. and how the body recognizes, okay, it's time to do cellular program death on this cell and recreate or just cleanse the cell. That's called apoptosis cellular death. And MTHFR gene mutation, which 60-70 percent of the population has some variance of it. I have one of them. It doesn't allow, it gets in the way of the enzyme needed to properly methylate. So if that's the case, we need methylating compounds like methylobalamine and L-Methylate and glutathione and things like that

that help cleanse the cell. These are the things that we do at symbiotica and we do a good job of it. Yeah. Yeah. I'm going to listen to this back. Yeah, we're literally going to go. I need to replant.

I have all my seeds waiting. I'm going to go plant them in the garden after this. Then we're going to go to Airwond and pick up all this stuff. And have fun with it. Yeah. Have fun. And our whole thing, too, is we wanted to make them taste good. Right?

Yeah, they do. Yeah. No artificial flavors, no weird natural flavors bullshit. All organic compounds, all sea salts, all citrus extracts, like the best of the best. Like you shouldn't have to sacrifice getting nutrition in by getting poison in. Like what? What kind of oxymoron is that? It's just ridiculous.

Yeah. Yep. And I really appreciate you guys having me on. And thank you for being here. This conversation. Absolutely. I'm so excited to watch this back. I know.

I just want to relearn it. Half the time I was like wanting to take notes. Take notes. Same. You're not taking notes right now, Taylor. Calm down. Do you guys resonate with this message? Yeah.

I'm just curious. Yeah. How are my crazy? No. Tell me to me straight. I might be crazy. I don't know. No.

Okay. Yeah. No. I legit was wanting to bust out a notepad too. So. Okay. That was awesome. Thank you so much.

It's an honor. I really appreciate what you guys are doing and getting involved in this kind of stuff and spreading messages. We're all storytellers. This is what it's all about. It's like, let's unite. Let's, you know, let's do this together. We're not alone.

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