The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka - 195. Michael Sileck: Sea Salt Benefits, Mineral Depletion & Soil Health Crisis

Starting point is 00:00:00 I think one of the biggest challenges in America is people don't know who grows their own food. Very often it's not the food. It's the distance from the food to the table. If we just get back as close to the soil as we can get, that's the secret. This has been a long-standing problem, and unfortunately it's gotten a lot worse in the last 70 years on an already bad decline. I think a lot of people are really familiar with the gut microbiome, but not in soil health in soil microbiome. All life begins in soil. Soil is not just dirt, but it's an active breathing organism. And like you said, what we eat, what that eats matters. And so food, it's not just about being unprocessed and unrefined.

Starting point is 00:00:33 It actually has to be grown from the right building blocks. It starts with the soil and it starts with mineral nutrient density. What is it specifically that's in mineral salt that allows it to be a good fertilizer? The extra minerals? It is, yes. We need to bring the minerals back into the food. I think the majority of America had hypertension or some kind of cardiovascular issue. First thing they do is stop taking salt.

Starting point is 00:00:55 Does low salt necessarily mean heart healthy? It does not. No. If you're doing all the right things to change your diet, you need to... Hey guys. Welcome back to the Ultimate Human podcast. I'm your host, human biologist Gary Brecker, where we go down the road of everything, anti-aging, biohacking, longevity, and everything in between. And today I have a very special. special guest, Michael, who's become an incredibly good friend of mine. We're actually partnered in a sea salt company that his family founded and started. I fell in love with this family and their commitment to the resources that they are actually mining and putting back in human being's body. As you know, I am an enormous fan of Baja Gold Sea salt. I'm an enormous fan of the minerals that are in mineral salts, not just the sodium content. But today we're going to

Starting point is 00:01:54 take a diversion into how this kind of agriculture can restore life to the soil. You know, Bobby Kennedy talks a lot about it's not seed to table. It's really soil to table. And what's happened over the last 50 or 60 years to our soil? Why is, why is soil health so important to your health? Why is it so important to your kids' health? And why could the depletion of the minerals and the vitamins and the nutrients in our soil be contributing to the chronic pandemic of disease in America. So we're really going to explore how if we got back to the soil to the roots, we would really restore the nutrient density to our food, our microbiome, to our animals, to our plants that we're consuming because the truth is we're not what we eat or what we eat eats

Starting point is 00:02:42 or what we eat grows in. Is that sound accurate? Absolutely. You nailed it. Yes. Yeah. Yeah, and I'm so excited to have you today. I'm a big fan of your family. You know, I've gotten to know your mom and dad and your brother very well and, you know, the mission of your family with Baja Gold Sea Salt and Sea Agri solutions. And, you know, I want to take a little diversion. You know, my audience is probably pretty familiar with your mineral salt because I talk about it all the time and I use it all the time. But, you know, I think the side of the business that a lot of people are not familiar with is your, you know, commitment to soil health. Yes. And your sea agri and and see 90 solutions.

Starting point is 00:03:23 Can we just talk a little bit about soil health? Because, you know, we were at dinner last night. And you were talking about the soil microbiome. And I think a lot of people are really familiar with the gut microbiome. But talk a little bit about soil health and soil microbiome. Absolutely. So all life begins in soil. Soil is actually the biggest living organism that you can think of on the entire planet.

Starting point is 00:03:49 So soil is not just dirt. I know that's a common misconception, but soil is an active living, breathing organism. And like you said, what we eat, what that eats matters. And so what plants grow in, the animals that are grazing on those plants, what the environment that they're living in looks and feels like is really important. And so it really does all start in the soil with the soil microbiome. And what I love about Baja Gold, and thank you so much for saying that about our family, we feel really committed to this purpose.

Starting point is 00:04:18 It starts with the soil. and it starts with mineral nutrient density. And we have origins actually with a doctor who worked in soil health back in the 40s and 50s. And so that is where all of this started from. Wow. You know, I read a soil lineage study. I published it months ago. I didn't publish it.

Starting point is 00:04:37 I put it on my social media months ago. And I'm going to misquote it. But essentially, it was looking at the nutrient density of spinach, broccoli, cabbage, There were several vegetables that they chose between 1945 and 2018 and the depletion in the mineral content and the nutrient density, even in some of these organic produce items, was astounding to me. And you realize that they've got to get these nutrients from somewhere. I mean, obviously, plants photosynthesize, they get light from the sun and they turn that

Starting point is 00:05:19 into energy and they grow, but they, but really, they get the nutrient density from the soil. They do, yes. And how you treat that soil, your farming techniques, fertilization, how you manage that soil really matters, and it really impacts the overall health of the soil. So you mentioned 1945, unfortunately, we've actually been denigrating our soil for long before that. So the C90s story actually begins in the 30s, 40s, and 50s. And Dr. Maynard Murray, who really pioneered this idea of sea energy agriculture, he looked at data from the early 1900s and found that even by the 40s, you were starting to see declines in vitamins and minerals in the produce that you're growing, the grains that you're growing. And then ultimately, the animals that graze on those,

Starting point is 00:06:03 that grass, that pasture, it also is dropping in magnesium and calcium content in the milk, in the beef that you're eating. So my point is this has been a longstanding problem. And unfortunately, it's gotten a lot worse in the last 70 years on an already bad decline. Is that because of industrial farming? I mean, is it because we're monocropping? We're just planting the same crop over and over and over and over again. And obviously the same plant is going to take the same nutrients and therefore you're not really restoring those nutrients back to soil. And how do you solve for that? I mean, what are the kind of farming practices that would really support healthy soil health? Absolutely. There are five key soil practice. And you had mentioned, you know, organic produce is also undergoing this challenge. There are, Yeah, the study that I published was organic products. Organic, exactly. And so consumers do their best to try and understand, okay, I should buy organic. I should consume organic.

Starting point is 00:06:55 Organic doesn't necessarily refer to the entirety of how you manage your soil and how you grow things. It really just refers to the inputs or the fertilizers and the way that you maybe fertilize what you're growing. So there's a whole other world about how you treat your soil, what you think about from a five-and-ten-year plan perspective. So there's a wonderful work in the space by a gentleman named Gabe Brown and others in the regenerative ag industry. But there's five key soil health practices. So just quickly, the first one is you want to minimize disturbance of the soil. So for many, many centuries, there's been, or decades, rather, there's been heavy tillage, which is this idea of like removing the entirety of the top soil to plant the next season's crop.

Starting point is 00:07:36 And so you actually remove a lot of the healthy tissue. When you say remove it, don't we just kind of turn it over? Or do they actually remove it? Well, you may, that's fair. You may really just be turning it over. What you're doing is breaking all those bonds and connections for the bacteria. and the fungi that live within that soil. So you're heavily disrupting the life.

Starting point is 00:07:53 So you might as well be removing it. So you're having a really negative impact on the health of the soil. The second thing that you want to do is make sure you have what's called crop or soil armor. And so you want to make sure that your soil always has something on it so that you don't have just wind and various other things kind of blowing away top soil into the wind, if you will. Right on. The next thing you mentioned. And soil armor is a crop.

Starting point is 00:08:13 Soil armor is just anything. It could be crop. It can be residue. So instead of once you maybe harvest, your crop instead of fully removing the remaining corn stalks or something like that, you want to leave some of that on your, on your land there. A good example of this is, you know, the American lawn, right? Everyone wants to blow their leaves away and kind of have that pristine American lawn. In the fall, it's actually pretty beneficial to leave the leaves on your soil and on your grass over the winter period because they kind of start to compost and help support the soil life. I know it's not as pretty, but that is beneficial from a soil microbiome standpoint. Yeah. And okay, so now number three, is what? So number three, what you want to do is have diversity. So you mentioned monocropping. So it's really important not to continually mine out of the soil, the same minerals and trace element. So when you grow something, you're essentially mining the soil for minerals and vitamins. When you grow

Starting point is 00:09:02 produce, when you grow grains, when you grow grass, you're pulling and extracting things out of that soil. If you're not allowing that soil to kind of experience different extractions, if you will, and different types of root growth and bacterial interactions, you go down this path of soil degradation. So number three is going to be diversity in what you're growing. So at the most basic level, this can be just alternating between crops on a seasonal basis. But then you also want to be working in like cover crops as well. And so that's another, that's the fourth principle actually is going to be always having living roots in the soil. Wow. So you want to make sure that you don't just, you know, have your seasonal summer harvest and then let the soil be dormant because that bacteria

Starting point is 00:09:43 lives in a symbiotic relationship with what's growing. So you want living roots. in the soil interacting with those enzymes, that fungi, and that bacteria so that maybe that is not your cash crop, if you will, but it's called a cover crop so that you're benefiting the soil microbiome for the next season. That's wild. You know, I grew up, and I want to hear the fifth one in a second, but I grew up on a farm. It was a tobacco farm in southern Maryland, and my parents owned the center 12 acres, and so they just leased it out to a farmer. So my, when my dad was in the Navy, my mom was a flight attendant. He didn't farm the land, but we'd least the land to a farmer. And then that had hundreds of acres of tobacco. But one of the things

Starting point is 00:10:22 they did was they grew soy, winter wheat, corn, and tobacco. Perfect. And so sometimes in the winter the fields would just be completely covered in winter wheat. And there's actually a point where the winter wheat looked amazing. It looked like a beautiful golf course. It's like two weeks long. And then it looked like crap again. But I do remember like as a kid because I cut tobacco. as a kid. I never chewed it or smoked it or anything like that. But I cut green tobacco, which, by the way, is the hardest labor you'll ever do in your life. You only need to cut tobacco for one season to know you never want to do that again. But I would notice sometimes when I would pull the plant over, sometimes when the root would come out of the ground,

Starting point is 00:11:09 there would be white fungi on there. Like this, it looked like feta cheese in the soil. So, you know, thinking back, you know, I never really realized there was this microbiome that's as diverse as our gut microbiome. It is. So what is the fifth one? So the fifth one is going to be thoughtful animal integration, actually. And this kind of goes back to ancestral land management. So in the old days, if you will, you know, before synthetic fertilizers and whatnot, we lived in homeostasis with plants and animals and humans. And so the most simple example of this is you know that you can use manure as a fertilization tool.

Starting point is 00:11:49 And so having a pasture setting where you are growing grass for your animals, you have cattle that come in there. They eat the grass, of course, and then they create waste product. Yes. You can see it. Take a dump. And what's great about cattle is they have no shame. So they'll stomp in that waste product. And they'll actually bring it into the soil for you.

Starting point is 00:12:10 And so they're self-fertilizing that land in a way that we've never. really been able to replicate. So their waste product actually has the same gut bacteria and biome from the soil that they're growing. So it's all in symbiosis there. It's all working together. And then you also have this idea of, you know, diversity because if you've ever seen cattle or whatnot, they will have maybe seeds of other plants that kind of get attracted to them. And then they stop them into a different pasture. And then all of a sudden you have a different, you know, species of grass growing over there. And so you end up with this really nice, non-humogenous kind of pasture setting. Yeah. And that leads to very, very healthy soil because of all of these

Starting point is 00:12:47 elements working together. Yeah. You know, it's interesting to think about sea salt, right? You know, as being a potential fertilizer source. So talk to me a little bit about that because, you know, I do remember there were times where they would actually bring topsoil in to sometimes to these fields. And it was always very black. It was very, very dark. And it was kind of of light and fluffy, maybe it had Pete Moss in it or something like that, but they would, every few years, they would bring in multiple trucks and the trucks would, you know, drive in these lines and dump it out in the fields and then they would till it back. Looks like chocolate cake.

Starting point is 00:13:24 Yeah, yeah. It was like, it was. Not the soil, but this soil that they brought in was literally like chocolate cake. So, but where do, because I don't think that most of us think about salt as, we know it's a mineral, but as something that could fertilize the soil. But it's more than just that, right? It is, yes. And I'm excited to kind of share more about what C-90 and Baja Gold are relative to table salt,

Starting point is 00:13:48 of course. Yeah. We are not talking about table salt, NACL here. Sodom chloride. This is a mineral-rich sea salt. It has a significantly lower sodium chloride percentage and much higher proportionally, magnesium, calcium, boron, all of your trace minerals and all of the, you know, accompanying macro minerals.

Starting point is 00:14:06 So the story is really cool. Actually, this gentleman, Dr. Maynard Murray here, so he was a doctor and he was looking at the food nutrient analysis in the 40s and 50s. And at this point, you were already seeing these declines in mineral content, essentially, from what we were growing. And he made the connection that human health was also declining because the food that we were eating was not mineral rich. So the theme of this whole episode is minerals. Why don't matter? Yeah. No, listen, you don't have to convince me.

Starting point is 00:14:32 You're just going to convince people that are listening. So he said, okay, if we're not getting the minerals from our food, we need to bring the minerals back into the food. And he also found that around that time, there was a lot of just work being done around blue zones and marine life and kind of better understanding oceans. You know, people still say to this day, we better understand outer space than we do our own oceans, right? And so you can imagine there's still a lot of research going on. We refer to the oceans as saltwater when really that's that kind of betrays what it is. It's really this complex, mineral-rich saline solution. It's not just salt water, right?

Starting point is 00:15:04 It has magnesium, potassium, calcium, all of Earth's minerals and trace elements. And so what Dr. Murray said was, if our soils are depleted from all of these minerals and trace elements, can we use this, you know, God-given miracle solution here, the ocean, which is so full of vitality, and re-fertilize, remineralize our soils? And so his whole journey started with that concept. Can you bring the vitality of the ocean to America's heartland and help grow healthier food for our people? One of my favorite biohacks outside of breathwork by far is mineral salts. Baja gold sea salt. It's got all of the trace minerals that the body needs.

Starting point is 00:15:42 You know, most of us are not just protein deficient, meaning amino acid deficient or fatty acid deficient. We are mineral deficient. So a quarter teaspoon of this in water first thing in the morning will make sure that you get all of the essential minerals that you need. It tastes amazing. In fact, I made a steak today. I actually made a grass fed steak with grass fed butter and I put just mushrooms and a little bit of rosemary and I sprinkled Baja gold sea salt all over the top. Try it. It'll be your new favorite for cooking too. It's the cheapest and one of my favorite biohacks. I don't know. A $15 or $20 bag of this will probably last you five years. It's literally the world's best biohacking secret. Now let's get back to the Ultimate Human podcast.

Starting point is 00:16:18 And now how do you harvest it? I mean, I know it's harvested in Mexico and I've looked at your practices, you know, sort of staying away from the perimeter of these big flats where they, where the salt, you know, dries, where the mineral salt dries and, and harvesting more towards the center. So you have, you reduce the metal content, which we should talk about, too, because there been a lot of, you know, salts in the news lately, Celtic salt, um, uh, pink Kimmelay and sea salt that have been really pinged for having abnormally high and dangerously high in some cases, you know, heavy metal content. Is it naturally occurring?

Starting point is 00:17:02 Is there a way to remove it? Should we remove it? Should we be concerned about it? How does it get in there? Yeah. So thanks for bringing that up. I want to answer that truthfully, transparently, and with full context. So Baja Gold is unequivocally safe and healthy to consume.

Starting point is 00:17:17 I stand by that by actually feeding it to my children. I have three young children. We eat Baja Gold every single day. Baja Gold is an unrefined sea salt that has been used throughout human history since the Roman times and really all the way back to biblical times. There has never been a single documented case of any negative interactions from heavy metals within sea salt. Okay. But they are present. I mean, you have heavy metals in broccoli.

Starting point is 00:17:42 You have heavy metals in cacao. And that is the context. Yes. So the amount of, as we grow as a species, we're able to actually detect at low. lower and lower thresholds. And so what you may not have been able to test for 10 or 15 years ago, you can now get into parts per billion of certain things and certain elements. And so Baja Gold, the one that most everyone talks about is lead. And so Baja Gold does have a very minute amount of naturally occurring lead within the Baja Gold sea salt.

Starting point is 00:18:09 That amount of lead is less than or comparable to a single serving of something like spinach, quinoa, baked potato, or even a sweet potato. And so when you think about the earth's crust and soil, there is a very minute amount of heavy metals in our soil. Right. So root vegetables, leafy greens, they will also have a very minute amount of heavy metals. Again, the amount that you're consuming is the important part there. You don't consume a significant amount of salt throughout your day, the way you do with other things. So it's really important to look at not just the quote unquote percentage or the parts per billion, but the actual amount consumed in micrograms, for instance. Yeah. You know, we also methylate heavy metals. I think people struggle to understand that. There are so many light metals in the body, magnesium, zinc, copper, vitamin B12 is a metal, that we don't realize are so important to our mental health. They're so important to our emotional health. They're so important to our physical fitness, nerve transmission. There's so many things that these light metals do. As soon as you say heavy metals, like mercury, leg,

Starting point is 00:19:17 arsenic, balladium. When you get into the heavy metals, the reason why these metals are heavier is because they, well, they're heavier on the periodic table, but they also take longer for the body to metabolize. So really, in that case, the dosage is determining the poison because you don't want to overdose on these or you want to take such minute amounts, as you're saying, parts per billion, that your body can slowly methylate those. out of the body and they're not, they're not overwhelmed. But how does the, how does the salt become so mineral dense? You know, is it because you're, you're harvesting it from the bottom of the ocean? Like, how does it become so mineral rich? So a couple of years ago, I had to become a real

Starting point is 00:20:02 salt expert. So I've studied a lot about how people created salt all the way back to the Roman times. So people have been looking for ways to create salt. Salt has been such a critical part of the human race, you know, before refrigeration, salt was the main form of storage and preserving foods. So it was absolutely critical up until like the last 200 years or so as like an actual functional part of people's lives. There's also a lot of evidence that the amount of salt that was consumed by the human populace before the invention of processed foods and sugar was possibly 5 to 10x as high as it is today. So the human body actually needs and can benefit in certain instances from pretty heavy salt intake when you're consuming a whole food diet and we don't have other processed items within your kind of your body, if you will. I was actually listening to the podcast with Stephen, I believe, is his name the other day. And he made the interesting point about seed oils and alcohol and how there's such a proliferation of seed oils in our guts these days that actually we can consume less alcohol.

Starting point is 00:21:00 Wow. And so that's an interesting way of, okay, if there's other quote unquote poisons or bad things, that actually throws off the ability to consume and benefit from more healthy natural things, if that makes sense. Yeah, that makes a lot of sense. So the scene, so C90 is our agriculture brand and our Baja gold is, of course, our human health and wellness brand. And so we have this spot in the Baja Peninsula. So the Baja Peninsula is on the western part of the North American continent. And we use the Sea of Cortez ocean water.

Starting point is 00:21:28 So the Sea of Cortez is a very clean, pristine body of water. And this was actually selected by Dr. Murray because he did a couple of years, maybe up to a decade of ocean water research. And he was really focused on improving the health of the human populace. And he said, I will, if you've ever been in logistics, Dr. Murray was a smart guy. He said, I'll never change the world if I have to ship liquid containers of ocean water from Florida or wherever into the middle of Illinois. It's not going to work.

Starting point is 00:21:58 It's just it just doesn't work. You can't get enough ocean water. It's too expensive. And so he said, I need to find a way to concentrate this down to a sea salt that maintains as much of the minerals and trace elements as possible. And so he identified five key factors where you would have the most mineral rich sea salt. And so the first is you start with a mineral-rich body of water. The Sea of Cortez has elevated mineral levels. So it's a very rich, clean, mineral-rich body of water.

Starting point is 00:22:24 The second is that you want a location where either currently or previously there was a freshwater connection point into that body of water. So you almost create more of a brackish water. Yeah, an estuary. Exactly. So, yeah. So we had the Colorado River from Millennia would run into the Sea of Cortez. And now it was dammed off about 100, 150 years ago. But for many millennia, you brought the minerals from the Rocky Mountains down into the Sea of Cortez.

Starting point is 00:22:49 Oh, wow. So you had this mineral soup kind of occurring there. You also have the San Andreas fault line, which runs directly underneath, of course, California, but then the Sea of Cortez. And within that, you have these geothermal vents that push up these rare earth elements. So you have even more uniqueness with the mineral composition of that water. And then lastly, you want to, of course, be in an area without industry or pollution. And then you want to ideally be in an area where you can produce consistent mineral salt year round.

Starting point is 00:23:18 And so that means your weather patterns have to be appropriate and your heat. So essentially it's very hot, very arid year round, very minimal humidity. So you're really just in perfect conditions to produce this salt year round. Wow. Does it occur when the water recedes and it dries? Is that what happens? Is there a time of year where the salt flow? Flats at the bottom of the ocean, they're exposed to the sun?

Starting point is 00:23:45 And is that when you harvest them? So we actually are about 12 miles inland off of the actual Sea of Cortez. And so that's important because the lunar tides will bring the water about 12 miles inland. And we have constructed, essentially dug out these retention ponds we call them or salt flats. And so the tide brings the water in. It fills up the salt flats. This happens about four times per year. And then over a period of four to six weeks, the salt will dehydrate out to those beautiful.

Starting point is 00:24:11 sea salt crystals. Yeah. And then you can harvest them. You know, I was telling someone the other day, I said, you realize that if your blood pressure was so high right this moment that you called 911, when they got on site, the first thing they would do is they would actually bag you with saline. It's not water. It's saline. Yeah, yeah. It's not water. You know, and when you're so dehydrated that you, you know, need intravenous fluid, the first fluid they give you is the saline ib. I mean, when I was racing triathlons, whenever somebody we would call it bonging, would bonk and end up on the side of the road.

Starting point is 00:24:44 Usually what would happen is they would get severe cramps first and that would make them stop. But if they were, you know, a more accomplished athlete, they could push themselves into that real threshold of dehydration and mineral depletion. And sometimes they wouldn't even put these people on a gurney or anything. The paramedic would pull up on a motorcycle and hook a saline line up right there.

Starting point is 00:25:09 So I think there's a lot of misconceptions around salt that sodium is just dehydrating, that it raises your blood pressure, that it dries out your skin, all of these things when I believe that the reality is different, especially when you talk about mineral salts. Yes, salt is the electricity of life. All living things need salt.

Starting point is 00:25:30 All living things very likely need more salt than what is currently recommended. And that goes for the soil, through the animals and all the way to human beings. Yeah. You know, I also have been studying methylation pathways and the number of times that key minerals are required in these pathways is mind-numbing.

Starting point is 00:25:51 And I've always tried to put forward the notion that the majority of humanity is not as sick or diseased or as pathological as we think we are. We are nutrient deficient. And I think one of the most overlooked because it's rarely talked about are actual minerals. people know what potassium magnesium and sodium are right because they those are the big ones it's in every electrolyte drink but when you get into the boron manganese malibdom silica the ones that are

Starting point is 00:26:16 i guess less sexy for yeah the trace minerals yeah the trace minerals those are equally as important and the realization for me several months ago that even eating organic um that it's very difficult if not almost impossible to get your mineral content into into the optimal range. Yes. And so talk a little bit. It doesn't need to be that way. Yeah, no, it definitely doesn't.

Starting point is 00:26:42 Look, I say all the time, and I won't hide it. I mean, I think Baja Gold is probably my favorite and least expensive biohack. I mean, I don't know, a $15, $20 bag of that will last due years. I mean, it's really, and you can get all the minerals that you need. What was astounding to me is that we're also using mineral salt to restore soil health. So what else is in the salt, besides sodium, obviously, sodium chloride? What else is in the salt that just makes it so viable for restoring the soil? Of course. So it is God's building plan. It's the entire periodic table of elements

Starting point is 00:27:18 in a consistent proportional balance to really feed your enzymes, your bacteria, and your fungi in your soil microbiome. So you had mentioned kind of the trace minerals. They are critically important to soil health. And unfortunately, if you go and get an agriculture degree, they're really only going to harp on 12 to 20 minerals that need to be restored into the soil. But what we have found is that it is critical to have the entire spectrum of trace minerals available. We may not be able to specifically say what mineral 52 exactly does. And it is usually context dependent. But making sure that they are all available in, you know, present if the soil needs them is critically important and it can unlock genetic potential in ways that you might not have seen before. And so

Starting point is 00:28:04 soil varies significantly from coast to coast. The amount of, you know, the type of soil that you see, the minerality differences between soil in Illinois versus Washington is very, very different. So what C90 does is actually allows you to provide a full spectrum of minerals and trace elements and allow that soil to kind of work through what it needs context dependent to unlock its, its most perfect self, if that makes sense. Wow. What are some of the myths about salt and mineral salt or even sodium that bother you, that bother you?

Starting point is 00:28:37 Because there's something that bother me. Yeah, no, it's a great question. You know, the entire C90 business is, the open question is, you want me to put salt on my land? Well, I don't understand. Yeah, I mean, if I were a farmer, that would kind of be my first reaction to. And you talk about, you know, the salting of Carthage and kind of some historical things. as well. And so there is, you know, an education that needs to occur. And it's not just sodium. We've done tests where you do, if you take like table salt, for instance, and you do a side by

Starting point is 00:29:06 side with C90, the results are dramatically different. In 90% of cases, just putting pure table salt will not provide benefits for you. But when it's C90, which is a reduced sodium, extra minerals and trace elements, you know, solution for you, then that soil responds positively. Then you get the plant growth, you get the nutrient density improvements. So that's the number one thing on the agriculture side of things is just help me understand why I need to do this. And then, of course, on the human health and wellness, there has been a war, if you will, against salt and perpetrated by other individuals to really elevate, well, maybe sugar should be, you know, more, you know, more acceptable. And so there are certainly a common understanding that I should, I can eat more sugar than

Starting point is 00:29:53 salt. And I would say that is completely backwards. Wow, that's insane. Yeah. And, you know, what is it specifically that's in the mineral salt that allows it to be a good fertilizer? The extra minerals? It is, yeah. So it's that natural mineral composition. What we found is that the bacteria and the fungi within the soil microbiome, they use the C90 nutrients as a food source. And so this isn't necessarily feeding the plants. It's feeding maybe to your point earlier. It's feeding what feeds the plants. So it gets that soil microbiome, the gut health of the soil going in a way that it can process all environmental factors and then provide the most nutrient rich and medium for that plant to grow in. You know, I think, too, when we talk about minerals, like I said, people know the big

Starting point is 00:30:40 ones, potassium, sodium, magnesium. You don't realize the molybdom, the silica, the manganese, the boron, you know, all of these other copper, all of these other minerals, that are naturally occurring in nature that are critical to biophysiologic processes. You know, I believe that the majority of our country is mineral deficient. They are. Full stop, yes.

Starting point is 00:31:04 Okay, great. And that if you actually saw this chart, and I do this sometimes when I do stage talks, I'll put up this really complicated chart of methylation pathways and cellular biology. And I do it first to freak people out a little bit because it looks so complicated. There's like arrows going everywhere and there's circles.

Starting point is 00:31:22 And if you've ever seen a methylation chart, guys, just Google one and your eyes will roll back in your head. But the reason why I do that is because I tell people to look at that chart. And as they zoom in on it, they start to realize they know, they recognize the name of all of the compounds on that chart. Oh, they're like, oh, that's a tryptophan. That's an amino acid. Oh, that's magnesium. That's zinc. That's copper.

Starting point is 00:31:46 That's iodine. That's palladium. that's that's or not pladium that's boron and you start to see the importance of these minerals in your cellular physiology because our cells are so busy they're like many businesses right i mean they've got to eliminate waste they got to repair they got to detoxify they got to regenerate they got to bring things through this phospholipid bilayer membrane they've got to participate in oxidative phosphorylation, you know, the mitochondria has got to create energy. And this takes fuel. Yes. And very often, I think we think of the fuel as our macros, like how much protein am I

Starting point is 00:32:28 getting, how much sodium, I mean, sorry, how much carbohydrate am I getting, how much fat am I getting. But the truth is, beyond those macros are the micros, are the traces, are the traces, are the minerals. And what are some of the consequences of us not having mineral-rich soil or not having mineral-rich bottom? If you know me, you know I'm a huge believer in the benefits of hydrogen water. H-2-Tab delivers cost-effective, portable tablets that generate ultra-clean molecular hydrogen at 12 parts per million, one of the highest concentrations on the market, with over 1,300 published

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Starting point is 00:34:02 density of the food that we're eating leaves our bodies malnourished and hunger and hungry, excuse me, but it's a hidden hunger because you don't, you're not going without food. You're going without minerals. Yeah. And so your cells, like you mentioned, don't have the basic building blocks that they used to receive from the food 100 years ago. It's the same reason why you know, you'll eat 2X the amount of volume as you would have 50 years ago and you'll feel less full.

Starting point is 00:34:27 You'll feel bloated and like, I don't know why I needed to do all that. And I still don't feel satiated. You go to different cultures that are ahead of the curve in this and you'll have a plate that looks tiny and you're like, where's my triple patty Big Mac of whatnot, you know, and you're like, what is this? And then you eat it. You're like, oh, my gosh, I'm so satiated. Yeah. Because that food is so mineral rich. It's a true whole food. You know, a whole food does, it's not just about being unprocessed and unrefined. It actually has to be grown from the building blocks. Um, because, uh, you know, it's interesting, uh, when you think about

Starting point is 00:34:58 produce and you think about growing, going to the grocery store, right? We have a lot of like specifications and governance around processed foods. You have your nutritional facts. You have all of your regulations, if you will, you know, um, there's not really a whole lot of regulation around what a tomato is. Right. Right. And so, like, if you think about going to a grocery store 50 years ago or just going to the farmer's market then, 50 years ago, 60 years ago, a tomato was so much more mineral dense

Starting point is 00:35:25 and nutrient dense than it is today, but they're still called tomatoes. Right. And so it's not the, you know, the population's fault that this is happening. They don't even know it because how could they? Yeah. But, you know, there's this other parable where people talk about, oh, my gosh, I've, I've, I remember growing up, it's always like, I remember growing up on Papaw's farm and the vegetables we would get from his garden were so delicious and just so, like, fulfilling. And now I go, I've been chasing that at every farmer's market and whole foods for years.

Starting point is 00:35:56 And I can't ever find. I try organic. I try all these different things. But that richness of like homegrown, nutrient dense produce is something that like it locks into your brain almost just like instinctively. Yeah. And people know what they need. They just can't find it. Yeah. What are some of the outcomes you see when farmers start using a mineral sea salt on their land?

Starting point is 00:36:19 Because even for me, that was I grew up on a farm. I'm familiar with farming practices. I'm very familiar with different types of fertilizer. Actually, where our fluoride comes from is that floric acid that's being discarded from fossilite fertilizer production. But what are some of the outcomes that farmers experience when they actually just start to put mineral-rich sea salt into their soil? Absolutely. So most farmers are businesses. So number one, we're going to help your business from an overall, you know, economic perspective. So if you look at your net inputs, right, you can most, in most cases, you can reduce a lot of your synthetic fertilizers. I will say that C90 is not fully and exclusively an organic and regenerative agriculture input. It has a whole place within conventional agriculture as a substitute or something to work in parallel with current farming practices.

Starting point is 00:37:08 So while we maybe prefer organic and regenerative agriculture, if you are using traditional conventional methods, C90 is still a great product for you. So you can reduce whatever your input structure looks like today and the outputs of what it is that you're growing are going to be superior either from a quantitative, a quantity standpoint and or a qualitative standpoint. And so what we mean by that is the amount of bushels per acre that you're growing, which is what you're selling, that's going to be elevated. for you. But the actual quality of what you're growing, if that is important to your context, will also be more valuable. So if you're selling, hey, for instance, you want to look at your protein

Starting point is 00:37:48 and your RFV values, which is this is kind of farmer parliaments, but the quality of what you're growing is superior because it's more mineral rich. And so you might be able to sell that at a higher price, for instance. Or if you're feeding that to your animals, and I want to talk animals kind of in a second, the animals benefit

Starting point is 00:38:04 from that. Yeah, they benefit from mineral, rich produce. Yeah, I totally agree with you. It must be frustrating that you hear a lot about salt not being heart healthy, salt raises blood pressure, even though, yeah, I talk about this all the time. If you were your blood pressure was so high that you called 911, the first thing they would do when they got there is they would bag you with sailing. And sometimes they'll actually just squeeze it in to try to rapidly,

Starting point is 00:38:31 rapidly to lower your blood pressure. And I think the majority of America, if probably, the majority of people listening or watching this podcast would say, yeah, you know, my father or grandfather was, you know, had hypertension or had some kind of cardiovascular issue. And the first thing they told them to do was stop taking salt. And I mean, can you speak on that a little bit? I mean, does low salt necessarily mean heart healthy? It does not, no. And there has been a significant amount of research in this space from qualified individuals. And we can post, that maybe in the show notes of yeah i'd love to i'll link in the show notes for sure um but the the amount

Starting point is 00:39:13 of definitive research that says low salt is better for your heart is is virtually no it is very context dependent and in general i think it's safe to say in general if you are following a exercise protocol and eating healthy and you're practicing healthy lifestyles the amount of salt that your body not only could uh benefit from but really needs is going to be much higher than what the recommended level is right today i think the recommended level is right today i think the recommended level for sodium is about 2,000 milligrams per day, 22,200 milligrams per day. There's research that would show, again, if you're a healthy, active individual, you should be closer to that 4,000 to 6,000 milligrams of sodium per day to help keep everything

Starting point is 00:39:54 moving. Again, salt is electricity. So it provides the electricity for your cells. If you are eating a mineral salt as well, then you're getting that magnesium. They talk about the sodium potassium pump and that connection. And so you have that added potassium to help your hydritorial. and your overall cellular, you know, processes. Okay.

Starting point is 00:40:12 So, yeah, so no, we, we believe that, again, everyone's context is individualized, and they need to speak with a nutritionist and their doctor. But in most cases, the idea that lower salt is a healthier option, we would disagree with that. I would totally disagree with that, too. I take this mixture every morning when I get in the sauna, and I'll put Baja Gold Sea salt. I put a little turmeric, and I put a couple tabs. of hydrogen tablets in there and a scoop of perfect aminos, man, I feel amazing, especially after I sweat and that stuff circulates around. I mean, I can actually feel the minerals

Starting point is 00:40:49 like going into my body, like legit feel it. Yeah. And then days when I travel and forget it or don't have it, I notice the difference. Yeah. And, you know, I've actually read reviews, peer reviews, where there was actually an interesting article published in the Wiley Journal of headaches. And they looked at migraine. headache sufferers. And did you see that one? Yeah. I mean, I've talked about it a lot where they found an inverse relationship between sodium and deep in the study, if you read it, it was sodium and other minerals. And highlighted the difference between mineral salt and just table salt, iodized table salt, because I want to make it clear we're just not talking about iodized table salt. And I guess in

Starting point is 00:41:33 the commercial production of a lot of salt, for some reason, there seems to be high lead contents showing up, not in Baja Gold, but in some of, you know, your peers in the mineral salt industry. And it's freaking people out. You know, a lot of the pink Himalayan sea salt that was coming from China had extraordinarily high mineral content. And I, you see sales of that, those kinds of mineral salts plummet. And then recently, I'm not trying to throw Celtic salt under the bus. I used to take Celtic salt. I would actually put it straight on my tongue. I looked at the level of lead coming out in some of the reports on Celtic salts and it was very high. Is that because of industrial processing? Is that because of how it's harvested? Because, you know, there is going to be

Starting point is 00:42:23 some heavy metal content in produce. It's going to be in mineral salt like we talked about earlier. But what keeps your heavy metal content so low? And where are these heavy metals coming from that are showing up in a lot of these mineral salts? Sure. So we're looking at mineral unrefined sea salts is where typically there's these challenges. Unrefined meaning it's just not highly processed. Correct. It's actually more natural.

Starting point is 00:42:48 Okay. You're not denaturing it and just taking the actual salt out. So the amount. Yes, exactly. Yeah. So how we harvest and where we harvest is really key to this. So we start with a very pure mineral source. We have a couple of different filtration elements throughout the process there.

Starting point is 00:43:05 But really the key is that we have very, very large salt flats. Historically, salt flats have been a little bit smaller. And so there is pieces of all elements in ocean water, but the surrounding ponds themselves can also have some of these heavy metals. And so Baja Gold is unique. Correct, exactly. And so Baja Gold is unique in that we only have. harvest from the very center of our ponds and our ponds are like 10 or 20 times larger than most traditional pond. So instead of having like a nine by nine, you know, yard square yard

Starting point is 00:43:39 pond, um, you're going to have more of a football field size pond for Baja gold. So it's significantly larger. So you are, I mean, 200 feet away from that perimeter where you're harvesting Baja gold from. So, okay, um, it is a very clean and pure salt. Um, you had mentioned and some of the others, you know, they have trace elements of these potential heavy metals in them. And we do think the difference largely is because of the size of our salt plants and how we kind of harvest it. So you kind of, you leave some waste or you actually don't harvest around the perimeter. We don't harvest around the perimeter. Yes, exactly. And then I'm always curious about, um, what the process of salt is. So you, I mean, harvesting the salt. So you go

Starting point is 00:44:20 and you scoop the salt out and you bring it over to the plant. And then what happens to it? Is it going to big, like, stainless steel drum and you, like, slowly get dried? I mean... Yeah, so we have... So we can do salt 101. Why don't we... Yeah, yeah, because I'm really curious, you know?

Starting point is 00:44:37 There used to be the show on... It might still be on cable called How It's Made. Yeah, there you go. Do you ever see that? And, like, I stopped eating half the things in my life because I saw how they... Like, if you ever watch sausage, it's like, you'll never eat sausage again. But it was a really cool show. It was...

Starting point is 00:44:53 But they never did one on... mineral salt. So there's three, I categorize there's three different types of salt. So we'll start with kind of the worst type. So that's going to be your table salt. So highly processed, refined table salt. For really millennia, table salt didn't exist because humans hadn't kind of invented it yet, if you will.

Starting point is 00:45:12 It was produced to allow salt to be more of a commodity, more easy and accessible for people to use. And then it was kind of taken in a, I would say, a negative direction by processed foods, right? because you can use it so readily and it's so inexpensive to, you know, you can integrate it in everything. Right. So what table salt is, it either originates as rock salt, which is then processed and stripped of minerals and trace elements, or in some cases, it actually originates as unrefined sea salt, and then they strip the minerals and trace elements out of it. They bleach it oftentimes to make it pure white. And then they will add one of two things, possibly both.

Starting point is 00:45:51 in the, I want to say the 30s and 40s, there was a goiter challenge in America because we had a severe iodine deficiency as a country. And so the, I think it was the FDA, they regulated this idea of putting artificial or synthetic iodine into salt. And so the reason I bring this up is people will say, what is iodized salt? What does that mean? So there was a regulation to put synthetic iodine into salt. So you will see on your grocer regular table salt and then iodized salt. That's what that is. They take table salt.

Starting point is 00:46:21 They add, I think it's either half or 1% of iodine, and then they call it iodized salt. Okay. That's one of the two things they add. The other is many salts will contain an anti-caking agent or what's called a flowing agent. And so salt is naturally hydroscopic, which means it attracts moisture and it tends to clump up. Right. Even table salt, which has been dried and processed. Yeah, yeah.

Starting point is 00:46:43 You go to restaurants and they put rice in there. Exactly. Yes. To try to absorb some of moisture. Yes. So there are other synthetic ways to do this. Some of them are more healthy than others, but it's an artificial component that's being added. Some of them are aluminum-based, I believe.

Starting point is 00:46:59 Wow. So do your research, look into that and look at the back of your salt canister. It'll tell you what's in it. So that is table salt. We never recommend table salt for anything. Right. Neither do I. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:47:10 The next best thing is going to be rock salt or earth salt. And so what rock salt and earth salt is, it's a close cousin of unrefined salt. sea salt. It is a body of water that was captured by the tectonic plate movement generations ago, millennia ago. And so it ultimately dried out that ocean water and left behind a salt mine, essentially. And so when you hear pink Himalayan salt, that's a rock salt or an earth salt. There was a body of water in Pakistan that was free flowing at one point in time. The plates moved around it. The mountains moved around it. We're talking eons here, right? And captured that body of water. And over time, it dries out and it leaves behind salt.

Starting point is 00:47:50 What's interesting is these are deposits that are thousands and thousands of years old. There is some interaction with the soil and the earth around it. And so pink Himalayan salt is pink because of the excess iron. It has absorbed over generations. And so that's not necessarily a bad thing or a good thing. It just is why it is pink. Now, that indication also shows you that there's other imbalances in pink salt. So you're going to have different levels of magnesium and potassium and all of your trace minerals versus an unrefined sea salt.

Starting point is 00:48:21 So that's Pink Himaland. There's Redmond is in America. Same concept. It's an underground salt mine. Okay. So then the best category is unrefined sea salt. This is heritage style salt creation, free flowing ocean water into a salt basin or a salt flat that you exclusively let the sun dehydrate, preserving all of your minerals and trace elements, resulting in the lowest sodium, proportionally relative to your macros and traces.

Starting point is 00:48:49 That's a Baja gold. So Baja gold, you know, it's flashy, new, exciting. It's a centuries-old innovation. We're not remaking the wheel here. So this is how salt used to be made. This is if you take, you know, a rock and you pour some salt water on it at the beach, you let it sit in the sun. You're going to get some salt.

Starting point is 00:49:07 Right. It's not all that dissimilar from what we do. Okay. We have a different location and different processes, but that's the same concept. So you mentioned from the salt flats to the facility, we bring the salt there, we do some screening for grain sizes, and then we bag it. That's it. There is no other processing.

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Starting point is 00:50:16 TUH10 for 10% off and get access to the same premium grade peptides that I trust with my own health. Now let's get back to the Ultimate Human podcast. How does, you know, when we talk about hydration, it's interesting to talk about salt and hydration at the same time. I mean, we've known this in athletic performance for for years that you know athletes need higher amounts of salt when they're respiring but uh you know i i've i've often used in clients of mine that have very high triglyceride levels fat levels in their blood i very often used uh keto resets what i call a 10 week ketogenic reset putting somebody on a very clean keto diet um so that and they can begin to switch their fuel source from glucose to beta hydroxybutyrate over to a fat

Starting point is 00:51:07 source. And when they do that, and their body metabolizes and begins to break down the triglyceride, the fat that's in their blood. And it's a really fast way to reduce triglycerides in the blood, kind of restore that balance was originally formulated for epilepsy, a lot of other benefits. but their sodium requirements go up by fourfold. Interesting. And so can you talk a little bit about the reason why sodium and some of these minerals are so important in hydration? Absolutely.

Starting point is 00:51:43 I mean, from a hydration standpoint, the first thing we talk about you mentioned athletes is perspiration. So we are constantly even sitting here. We are perspiring out minute levels of sodium and all of your minerals and trace elements. So you are perspiring them out, so you need to replenish them. And so that's why it's not enough to just drink water. You need to make sure that you're getting all of those electrolytes as well.

Starting point is 00:52:05 On a cellular level, there are specific needs for sodium, for potassium, and for magnesium to help regulate the osmosis process, I believe, from a cellular hydration standpoint. And then the other macros and some of the traces also play roles in like muscle recovery, in regulating daytime versus sleep time functionality within the body within regulating reproductive health within the body as well. And so it's all of,

Starting point is 00:52:32 I think what is happening in the situation you described, we've heard of something called like the keto flu, which is like, and so people are like, I take a ton of Baja gold and it really helps with the keto flow.

Starting point is 00:52:43 Well, yeah, it'll completely avoid it. I mean, the keto fluid. It's because the kidney is using four times the amount of sodium When you're in a ketogenic state, then if you're not in a ketogenic state, your sodium need quadruples, and you shouldn't get the sodium from high-dized table salt. I agree with that.

Starting point is 00:53:01 And we've seen this. And one of the ways that I manage it in my clients is giving them high-dose of a mineral salt. Yes. Yeah. Of a mineral salt. And that's the key with earlier of, you know, if you're doing all the right things to change your diet, right, be more healthy, and then all of a sudden you're moving your nutritional source to this practice, but you're also trying to follow a low salt diet, it won't work for you. Yeah. So that doesn't, you know, you need to pick carefully what it is your following. Yeah. So how much, uh, Baja gold, for example, should people consume in a day? So of course, they should always talk to a nutritionist and their doctor and kind of work through that plan for them. Um, the average recommended sodium

Starting point is 00:53:39 level is about 2,300 milligrams per day. Um, again, we found and, you know, others in the space have started recommending 4,000, 6,000, even 8,000 milligrams per day. It really is context dependent. It depends on how often you're exercising, how heavily you're exercising, what your overall nutritional patterns look like. Thank you for dinner last night. Unbelievable. Unbelievable. But such clean, simple food that you can add, not that we need it to, but you can add more sodium into it because you're not getting it from the food itself. My point in saying this is if you are shopping in the middle of the grocery store, right, in the middle aisles, you probably need less Baja gold

Starting point is 00:54:19 because you're getting so much sodium from all that packaged and processed food. If you can transition to the outer aisles and start eating whole foods exclusively, start really narrowing in on those basic building blocks, then yes, your sodium content will be elevated. You're going to want it for seasoning and for flavoring, but then also for your cellular kind of overall health.

Starting point is 00:54:37 So it's not as simple as just, okay, start taking 6,000 milligrams of Baja gold every day. It needs to be more thoughtful, if that makes sense. Yeah, that makes a lot of sense. Um, are there any kind of, uh, salt miss that, that bother you? Well, we've covered a, yeah, we've covered a couple of like that, that it's, you know, increases blood pressure, that it's, you know, not heart healthy or that it dehydrates you. One thing, one thing I will say, just a nitpick, right?

Starting point is 00:55:03 Yeah. But so I mentioned the three different types of salt. So table salt, rock salt, and then mineral sea salt, unrefined sea salt. So there is a practice of labeling and you take an unrefined sea salt, you process. it. You either wash it, dry it, or do other things to it. And then the mineral content is nowhere near a Baja Gold or a Celtic. It's not that in any way. It's not even a mineral salt. It's not a mineral salt, but they sell it as a sea salt. And so you'll look and see and the manufacturer will say, well, it started as a sea salt. So it's a sea salt. Right. It is challenging

Starting point is 00:55:38 to really educate on the difference between those two. So that is, that's a personal pet people of mine. I go to the supermarket and I'm like, gosh, that is not a real sea salt. salt. Yeah. You know, I've heard Bobby Kennedy say it before, too, and I say it a lot that, you know, it's not, very often it's not the food. It's the distance from the food to the table, right? It's the processing. We put it through. Seed oils are a prime example of this, you know, the processing of the seed oils, processing of meats, processing of vegetables. You know, sometimes it's the industrial processing, and that's what you're referring to. That just destroys it. We just get back to as close to the soil as we can get.

Starting point is 00:56:16 I mean, that's where, that's the secret. I think one of the biggest challenges in America is people don't know who grows their own food. And if you told our ancestors that 150 years ago, they wouldn't even be able to comprehend that statement. Right. But if you, for a vast majority of people and said, do you understand kind of where these food staples come from, how they're grown, where they're grown? We don't know. Oh, yeah. I'm not, you know.

Starting point is 00:56:39 Right. Exactly. And so getting back to, if you look at blue zones, like two of the big things for blue zones are community and whole foods. Right. They're located in different parts of the world, but it's always community and it's always whole foods. And so getting back to that principle of even if it's just going to your local farmer's market, you don't have to grow your own entire food source. But knowing that it came from, you know, two streets down or whatnot and being able to shake your farmer's hand and say, thank you. And now I understand where this is coming from. The gut synergies, all of that ties together. And it's in ways that maybe we don't fully understand, but the world worked that way for many thousands. of years. And it worked well. And now, you know, it's challenged. So, you know, I've been on this journey with your family for a while. And I already talked about how much I respect you and your family and the practices that you're using to make sure that you're not destroying the mineralization and salt. But you guys just made it into whole foods. You're like big time now. Don't forget about me, by the way. Don't forget about the old of anhuman and all my peeps. But what's next for

Starting point is 00:57:41 Baja Gold? Are you going to expand your product line? Because I know it's Celtic salt and pink Himalayan salt. I mean, they're like in everything, you know, electrolyte drinks and they're in they make all kinds of steak seasonings and things. You know, part of me wishes you guys would expand to those, those areas, because I would be, I would be a user. That's for sure. Yes. So for Baja Gold, we have a lot of exciting things coming. So stay tuned. Yes, we're working on different ways to use Baja Gold within those types of applications. Try to make it more user-friendly and more accessible. I will say, I guess, maybe one myth is, or one misconception. People, wonder why the Baja gold is wet or a little bit moisture and damper than a typical salt.

Starting point is 00:58:20 So the only of that's a good question is, why is that the case? When you use an unrefined heritage creation process, you do not expose the salt to significantly high heat temperatures like a traditional processing plant would. And so there is a little bit of moisture in your salt. That's completely normal. Some people will call us to open their bag and say, it must have been a rainstorm or something. What happened here?

Starting point is 00:58:42 So actually, that's the mineral magic. is preserving that little bit of moisture within your salt there. So that's completely okay. That's actually meant to be that way. But we are working through, you know, how can you have a grinder or a shaker application while preserving those minerals and trace elements? So pull some of the moisture out without extracting the minerals.

Starting point is 00:59:02 Without extracting minerals, yes, exactly. So that's on the docket. Yeah, I'd like to put a state seasoning on the menu for you guys to work on. I like it, yes. You can call it Gary's blend, yeah, I'll be a big fan. of that. Michael, this has been amazing. It's just been an incredible journey with you and your family and I deeply appreciate, you know, your commitment to quality and not over-processing, you know, your mineral salts. You know, I wind all of my podcasts down by asking my guest

Starting point is 00:59:32 the same question. So there's no right or wrong answer to this question. And that is, what does it mean to you to be an ultimate human? Gary, I'm very blessed to have a very fulfilling professional life. I have a really awesome personal life, really great friends, great family, but my most important job every single day is dad. And so when I think about being an ultimate human, it's about being the ultimate father. It's about being the ultimate dad. And with my wonderful wife, making sure that my three kids grow up to be curious, selfless, respectful, intelligent, and just above all good people. And that's the legacy that we leave. You know, one day we all we all go yeah and what's left behind is our kids yeah and time's undefeated for sure

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The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka - 195. Michael Sileck: Sea Salt Benefits, Mineral Depletion & Soil Health Crisis

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