The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka - 212. Dr. Barbara Sturm: How to Heal the Skin from the Inside Out

Episode Date: October 23, 2025

Your skin isn’t aging because of time, it’s inflamed, dehydrated, and systemically damaged by the very products marketed to save it. Join me and renowned skincare innovator Dr. Barbara Sturm as we dismantle the conventional dermatology playbook and rebuild skin health from a foundation of anti-inflammatory science. We touch base on the gut-skin connection, how seed oils trigger inflammatory cytokines linked to skin cancer, and why your skincare ingredients matter as much as the food you eat.  Join the Ultimate Human VIP community for Gary Brecka's proven wellness protocols!: https://bit.ly/4ai0Xwg Listen to "The Dr. Barbara Sturm Podcast" on all your favorite platforms! Spotify: https://bit.ly/4hk3HwC Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/4qemWfc   Connect with Dr. Barbara Sturm Website:https://bit.ly/3J07mmR  YouTube: https://bit.ly/47aDiwA  Instagram: https://bit.ly/42VwEsV  TikTok: https://bit.ly/4qoCm0A  Facebook: https://bit.ly/48J6Eom  X.com: https://bit.ly/4ho8hKh  LinkedIn: https://bit.ly/4hog3UI  Thank you to our partners H2TABS: “ULTIMATE10” FOR 10% OFF: https://bit.ly/4hMNdgg BODYHEALTH: “ULTIMATE20” FOR 20% OFF: http://bit.ly/4e5IjsV BAJA GOLD: "ULTIMATE10" FOR 10% OFF: https://bit.ly/3WSBqUa EIGHT SLEEP: SAVE $350 ON THE POD 4 ULTRA WITH CODE “GARY”: https://bit.ly/3WkLd6E COLD LIFE: THE ULTIMATE HUMAN PLUNGE: https://bit.ly/4eULUKp WHOOP: JOIN AND GET 1 FREE MONTH!: https://bit.ly/3VQ0nzW MASA CHIPS: 20% OFF FIRST ORDER: https://bit.ly/40LVY4y VANDY: “ULTIMATE20” FOR 20% OFF: https://bit.ly/49Qr7WE AION: “ULTIMATE10” FOR 10% OFF: https://bit.ly/4h6KHAD A-GAME: “ULTIMATE15” FOR 15% OFF: http://bit.ly/4kek1ij PEPTUAL: “TUH10” FOR 10% OFF: https://bit.ly/4mKxgcn CARAWAY: “ULTIMATE” FOR 10% OFF: https://bit.ly/3Q1VmkC HEALF: 10% OFF YOUR ORDER: https://bit.ly/41HJg6S BIOPTIMIZERS: “ULTIMATE” FOR 15% OFF: https://bit.ly/4inFfd7 RHO NUTRITION: “ULTIMATE15” FOR 15% OFF: https://bit.ly/44fFza0 GOPUFF: GET YOUR FAVORITE SNACK!: https://bit.ly/4obIFDC GENETIC TEST: ⁠https://bit.ly/3Yg1Uk9 Watch  the “Ultimate Human Podcast” every Tuesday & Thursday at 9AM EST: YouTube: https://bit.ly/3RPQYX8 Podcasts: https://bit.ly/3RQftU0 Connect with Gary Brecka Instagram: https://bit.ly/3RPpnFs TikTok: https://bit.ly/4coJ8fo X: https://bit.ly/3Opc8tf Facebook: https://bit.ly/464VA1H LinkedIn: https://bit.ly/4hH7Ri2 Website: https://bit.ly/4eLDbdU Merch: https://bit.ly/4aBpOM1 Newsletter: https://bit.ly/47ejrws Ask Gary: https://bit.ly/3PEAJuG Timestamps 00:00 Intro 00:15 Barbara & Gary’s Journey 03:39 Inflammation & Skin Health 08:23 Building Skin from the Inside Out 10:20 Amino Acids: Protein Building Blocks 13:54 Signs of Skin Inflammation 19:04 Anti-Inflammatory Diet Basics 20:18 Sunscreen & Skin Cancer Link 23:38 Dangers of Seed Oils 26:07 Simple Skincare Routine 30:52 Travel Skincare Tips 31:34 Sodium Balance & Hydration 36:51 Red Light Therapy Benefits 39:44 Minimizing Hormone Disruption 44:23 Reducing Inflammation 50:10 Gut Microbiome & Skin 53:10 Ingredients to Avoid 54:35 Supplements for ADD/ADHD 57:27 Protecting Eye & Skin Health 1:01:52 Thoughts on Laser Treatments 1:03:28 Using UVA/UVB for Natural Light 1:05:33 Whole Foods for Longevity The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka Podcast is for general informational purposes only and does not constitute the practice of medicine, nursing or other professional health care services, including the giving of medical advice, and no doctor/patient relationship is formed. The use of information on this podcast or materials linked from this podcast is at the user’s own risk. The Content of this podcast is not intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Users should not disregard or delay in obtaining medical advice for any medical condition they may have and should seek the assistance of their health care professionals for any such conditions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

If you look at skin and skincare and dermatology, they give you cortisone, they give you antibiotics, they give you a laser treatment, not very skin friendly if you think about. It's more like attacking skin and taking skin layers off. It's really fascinating too, is we think that we damage our skin very often from the outside in, but it gets damaged more often from the inside out.

You know why everybody says you should use sunscreen, and it comes a lot from dermatologists, right? Use sunscreen 24-7, but that's because whatever they're doing, destroys your skin barrier. Of course they need to tell you, use sunscreen 24-7, but someone who has really healthy skin shouldn't just use 24-7 sunscreen,

especially when we live in London. In the US, 23 brands of sunscreen have been pulled from the market since 2018 for correlated risk to skin cancer. But the law for the filter for sunscreen haven't changed in the US for more than 20 years. Lots of questions about maintaining your skincare routine while you travel, especially for people

that are spending a lot of time on airplanes. This is easiest for products, but I wanted to give you like a very, very, very basic, simple, and very effective skin care routine. Welcome back to the Ultimate Human podcast. In this episode, I sat down live at the health experience in London with one of the most influential voices in the entire skin care space. Dr. Barbara Sturm, you know her as a global skincare icon,

but today we're talking about something far deeper than that, anti-inflammation, not artificial intelligence, anti-inflammation. We go down the rabbit hole of how chronic inflammation drives aging, fatigue, and disease, and more importantly, how to reverse it through lifestyle, nutrition, and recovery. Barbara is a powerhouse in every sense of the word, and this conversation is packed with science, passion, and practical steps you could take right now. Let's dive into the power of anti-inflammation with Dr. Barbara Sturm. You know, I've actually known Barbara for years.

Should I talk about our journey? Can I like... Yeah, it's so sweet. Throw it out there? Yeah, it's so sweet. So... Should I say it because it was my journey finding you? Yeah.

So I have been obsessed with exosomes since 25 years. And when I created the vampire facial, 25 years ago... She created the vampire facial, by the way, if you know the blood facial. I was talking because I was taking the anti-inflammatory proteins from. from your blood. And my professors would say, one of my professors, that's amazing what you do. But the future are exosomes, 25 years ago.

So I was like looking for the exosomes. And I knew how to create them out of the blood, but not any other way. And then I created some exosomatic products. Anyways, I found Gary's for friends. And he sits in Miami. I was in LA. I was super, super burned out.

And I hardly made it to Miami. My assistant was just dragged. I had like a big week in New York, but I made a stop in Miami. I come to Gary's office and we start geeking out on science and I became a totally different person. He put this IV-driven me with vitamins, whatever, exosomes. But we were talking like for three hours. Yeah. I swear, I went, I left your office feeling like a newborn and I had the craziest week in New York.

No problem. I mean, seriously, and I was like, this is my guy, I love him, he's amazing, and you know how amazing he is, but it made such a big difference for me in my life, so I listened to him. You know, and all we did was, I mean, she came and she was exhausted, and she was like, I am so completely burned out, as you know, she's built one of the most iconic skincare brands in the world, Dr. Stern Cosmetics, they're in every major city in the world, and she was just absolutely fried, had been burning the candle at both ends. And I looked at her methylation and looked at the deficiencies that she's had.

And so all we did was put together a vitamin I-V-drip. If you're familiar with a Myers cocktail, you know, vitamin C, periodoxine, riboflavin, thyme, niacin, niacin, panethinic acid, all the B vitamins, a specific kind of B-12. And it hit her bloodstream and the lights came on. No, but the exosomes. And then we did an exosome IV. And exosomes are very similar. I know we're taking this off topic and we'll get back on topic.

They're very similar to stem cells, but they're about 1,800th the size of a stem cell. And an exosome doesn't carry any DNA, so it's not capable of sending a signal. But it carries something called high molecular weight, high oeronic acid, and it also carries growth factors. And the fascinating thing about exosomes is they can go places in the body that other cells and stem cells, cells, even vitamins and nutrients can't, because it's about the size of a virus. And so it enters, goes right through the cell wall without asking for permission, and it shuts off the inflammatory cycle. Inflammation, anti-inflammation, AI, anti-inflammation.

Which brings us to our, so we have a list of the most commonly asked questions here. A lot of this is going to relate to skincare, but a lot of it's just going to relate to general health. So we took the hundreds of questions and the ones that were asked the most frequently, we just put them onto a list here, and I'm going to pose them to Barbara, and I'll answer them the best that I can. But what exactly is inflammation? And why is it so critical to understanding inflammation in skin health?

So inflammation is immune response we need. So when something enters the body virus or bacteria, we need inflammation to appear to fight those things that come into our body. So we need it. But if inflammation becomes chronicle and on a high level, then inflammation can be quite dangerous for us because it degrades our tissue, it starts chronicle diseases, autoimmune diseases.

So inflammation goes together with all the things we don't want. It can cause cancer. And regarding our skin, everything we don't like about our skin, redness, impurities like cystic acne, wrinkles, whatever we don't like about our skin goes together with inflammation. So it's very important to bring inflammation. inflammation under control. Yeah, I'd like to talk about inflammation as a necessary balance to survival.

You know, not all inflammation is bad. If you were walking down the street one day and you stepped off a curb and you twisted your right ankle, how does the body know to heal the right ligament and leave the left ligament alone? Well, the way that it knows that tissue is injured is if that ligament received a small tear, you broke a cell in that ligament called a fiberblast. And what that cell will do is it will start signaling into the bloodstream to say, hey, I'm hurt, I'm hurt, I'm hurt. That signal is inflammation.

These are interleukins and cytokines. And what happens is, as that signal enters the bloodstream, a very special cell in your bloodstream called a platelet is listening for that signal. And as it cruises by in the bloodstream, a platelet bursts, and it drops off growth factors. So think of a platelet as a pinata, and the confetti inside the platelet has growth factors. These are the healing power of the human body. How many of you heard of platelet-rich plasma, PRP injections, the vast majority of you? So all PRP injections are doing is taking the vast healing power of the human body and concentrating

it in a single location. You draw your blood, you spin it down, you remove the platelets, you know, and the plasma, and you re-inject that into your knee, your hip, your shoulder, your rotator cuff, and it actually accelerates healing. You can do the same thing with things like peptides. How many of you have heard of BPC 157? This is a pretty woke audience. I hate that word woke, but I don't mean woke,

but I mean aware of health. So BPC 157 is a peptide, and what this peptide does is it amplifies the signal of inflammation. So that torn ankle that I was talking about, maybe it was sending an inflammatory signal into the bloodstream at a level two, so it was whispering into the blood that it was injured.

If you could make it scream into the blood, then as the platelets are cruising by, more platelets will migrate to that region, and they will drop off growth factors and accelerate the wound healing process. One of the reasons why I'm so fascinated by peptides is they capture the body's innate ability to perform its own function.

You can rewind your pituitary to a more youthful level of growth hormone secretion. You can lengthen your telomeres with telomeres lengthening peptides like an epitalon. You can actually reduce inflammation by putting peptides like BPC 157 into the bloodstream, TB 500 into the bloodstream, and actually accelerating wound healing. Gary, this is amazing for any acute injury. So I want to bring it back to the skin because we're doing on purpose a lot of injuries to our skin.

For example, who's using retinol? So with retinol, we cause a lot of inflammation on a daily or three, times a week basis. So what's happening with the inflammatory response here? Because you basically start this inflammatory response on a constant basis. What happens to our healing factors? What happens to all the emergency help? Do they exhaust?

Yes, they do get exhausted. I mean, you know, very often, you know, a lot of skincare routines I'll refer to as borrowing from your future. So you get a present return today. a cost tomorrow, thinning the cell layers, we're actually removing the protective seven layers of dead skin that are on top of your skin for a reason, not getting to the root cause of skin degradation, which is a lack of healthy blood flow, what we call angiogenesis, a deconstruction of the skin, which is a reduction of collagen, elastin, and fiber,

and the scaffolding that holds the skin together. And so, you know, I'd love for us to talk about building the skin from the inside out and rather than the outside in. So what are some things that people could do an anti-inflammatory diet, for example, that would result in better looking, more youthful appearance? But what's happening if you use retinol on a constant basis? If you use retinol on a constant basis, you're borrowing from your future. You're using an inflammatory response to call blood flow and to call tissue regeneration to that site, but you're dismantling the long-term capacity for the future.

skin to repair itself. So if you do it in an acute phase and you use all these peptides and everything your body has to offer, then it's amazing to use that inflammatory response. But if you do it on a regular basis, you kind of run out of your healing factors. You kind of exhaust your system. You always call inflammation back to the site. And that is a little bit of a dangerous situation besides that you constantly destruct your skin barrier, constantly disbalance your microbiome.

Yes, we have a microbiome on our skin. So the organ's skin is getting harmed every day by skin care ingredients, and this is what we have to think about. Look, we're all sitting here, and we're listening to Gary, and we love him. We're listening to you, actually. But we want to know. They're here to see you. But we want to know what actually can we learn to stay healthy, to stay young,

to stay in good shape, and when we want to hear that, We talk about our organs like heart, liver, kidneys, whatever. Who thinks about the skin? The skin, oh, well, whatever is. Playground for marketing, you know, whatever marketing gives us, you know, we just put it on our skin, and let's scrub it off, let's make it red, and like, oh, have you heard of this machine? And, you know, whatever, you know, makes your skin red and inflamed,

that's what we shouldn't be doing. You know, I think if you really look at the genesis of collagen, elastin, and fiber, and these are built from amino acids. We talked earlier about not being able to target direct amino acids. We don't eat our nails to grow our nails. We don't eat our hair to grow our hair. But we do believe that we can eat collagen to grow collagen. And all of those things are patently false, right?

I mean, if we can't target direct protein in the human body. There's no certain form of protein that you can eat that will show up as muscle tissue. There's no certain form of protein that you can eat that will show up as collagen or, or elastin or fibrin, what you can do is you can give your body the building blocks of proteins. The building blocks of proteins are amino acids. When you become amino acid deficient, you lose the capacity to build proteins. And we think of proteins as muscles, but proteins are all of these different systems in the body. Our natural killer cells are made from proteins.

How many of you have done a fast, like a three-day water fast? You know what the biggest benefit to fasting is? Stem cells is a big benefit from fasting. Have you heard of a senescent cells? How many of you have heard of a senescent cell? So how many of you're not going to raise your hand no matter what I say? At least there's some honest people in here.

One person raised their hand. It's like, I'm not going to answer anything. So senescent cells are in effect cells that are in your body that are living that can no longer perform their function. As we get older, the percentage of senescence grows. The percentage of red blood cells that can no longer carry oxygen grows. Now, this cell is alive, but it can no longer perform its function. But the body won't replace it until it's gone.

You have platelets in your bloodstream that can't carry growth factors. So they're essentially useless, but they're taking up space. You have natural killer cells, white blood cells, that can't mount an immune defense. So these are senescent cells. We often call these zombie cells. The body is so incredibly efficient that if you put yourself into a fasted state, then the first thing the body will do as a fuel source is it will digest,

it will metabolize senescent cells. It eats the herd from the weakest animal forward, right? It eats from the back to the front. So one of the fascinating things about fasting is you recycle your cellular biology. It's like if you own a company, and I'll use this example. I won't make you raise your hand. And you have a company full of lazy employees. Wouldn't you like to get those employees,

get their butt out of that seat? Not so easy. Yeah, it's not so easy. Well, you can't eat them like the immune system does. The immune system eats lazy employees. So lazy employees are senescent cells. They're taking up space. They're drawing down on the payroll,

but they're not producing anything. If you could get them out of the seat, not by eating them. That's the immune system analogy. and replace them with a productive employee, you'd have a much more efficient organization. And this is how the body organizes itself when you put it into a fasted state.

It metabolizes senescent cells. It also dramatically reduces inflammation. You know, one of the fascinating things about cellular biology is that we have ways now of following a white blood cell around the bloodstream and finding out, you know, where the inflammation is. and a lot of this ends up in the skin. So I want to keep this on skin care.

And I want to talk about how inflammation can be seen on the skin and the face. What are some manifestations of skin inflammation? I mean, whatever we, I just said that, whatever we don't like about our skin, aging goes together with inflammation, retness, psoriasis, aging, whatever it is, acne, cystic acne, perioreal, My dermatitis, everything is a sign of inflammation. So inflammation makes sense to turn around, keep it under control.

And we can do this not just with our skincare products that shouldn't be inflammatory, but should be ideally anti-inflammatory. So my whole philosophy from 25 years of orthopedic research, and lots of things... By the way, she's a doctor too. Yeah. Dr. Barbara Serb. So my background. My background is orthopedics, and sometimes she's an orthopedic doctor, not a dermatologist.

And then, you know, lots of things now in the skin canistery come from orthopedics. So exosomes, we used 15 years ago in the orthopedics. I was treating patients with rheumatoid arthritis. I injected their exosomes. They were pain-free for three months. That was mind-blowing. And I maybe only injected like two, three knuckles. And the whole body was pain-free for three months.

It was unbelievable. There was nothing else working or just really, really horrible medication. And, you know, we want to get away from medication, from the pharma industry, if possible. And that was mind-blowing. And so many things come from the orthopedic, and my background comes from an anti-inflammatory science background. And if you look at skin and skincare and dermatology, if you go to a dermatologist, they give you cortisone, they give you antibiotics, they give you a laser treatment, an acid pill, they give you a retinal glycolic. So not very skin-friendly, if you think about, you know.

It's more like, you know, attacking skin and taking skin layers off. So coming from this orthopedic background was probably quite a good idea at the time. I mean, it's like my brand started like 15 to 20 years ago. I started with the blood cream, adding my blood to the creams, and it just changed and transformed my skin, I transformed my patient's skin and really has been working for a long time and so science became like a part of skin care now

but obviously now science is also being used for marketing so you know it's not just that a brand says science science base I inspect or science meets whatever you know you always have to do your own research you have to really dig deeper as to write people and follow a little bit your gut feeling you know which brand means it

and the brand you can trust. We actually did a clinical study together about, what, two years ago? Yeah. We should publish that, honestly. And we should actually follow through on what we were thinking to tell. We did the study and we never published it, but we should publish it. But essentially what we did was we wanted to see if we could suspend an exosomes in a fat-based cream. So she had lipid molecules in her creams, and we had exosomes, which usually don't have a very long shelf life at room temperature.

And so we retained a lab, and they did punch biopsies on a 27-year-old female, 36-year-old female, 57-year-old female, and a 65-year-old female. So they did punch biopsies of the skin. And we cultured their skin tissue, what's called their fibroblasts in a lab. So we actually grew layers of skin in a lab. And we applied a base cream of hers, a Dr. Stern base cream, that we had embedded exosomes in. And then we did electrophoresis and other stuff. every 30 days, 60 days, and 90 days to see if the tissue was still viable,

if the exosomes were still viable. What we found out was really fascinating. We found out not only a dramatic drop over 90 days in all of the inflammatory markers. These are called interleukins. Massive drop in inflammatory markers, but we found the proliferation of not only collagen, but elastin and fibrin, the scaffolding of the skin.

And what I thought was really fascinating was around Around 90 days, this process of angiogenesis began in this tissue in a lab, which meant that it started to begin to sprout new blood vessels. So angiogenesis is new blood vessel growth. Ultimate rejuvenation. Yeah. And we should have launched a product on the back of that, but we did. We did. We did it.

I just remembered that. But we are going to publish, we are going to eventually publish that study. But the long and short of it is that these lipid molecules, you might have, there's a lot of products here that are liposome. If you've seen that term liposomal, it's essentially taking a nutrient and putting it inside of a fat molecule, a liposome, usually so it can survive first-pass metabolism. It can get through the digestive system, make it into the gut where it can actually be absorbed, glutathione and NAD or classic compounds that are used in the liposomal delivery systems. But we did it for skin care, and it turned out to be phenomenal experiment. So another huge question was, how do we eat to influence inflammation, both in triggering it and helping calm it?

What does an anti-inflammatory diet look like? I mean, Harvard did a study which says that anti-inflammatory foods is mostly a green leafy vegetables, salmon, macrile, walnuts, almonds, berries, oranges, cherries, olives, super anti-inflammatory. You know, everybody knows that omega-3 fatty acids. are highly anti-inflammatory. So any type of fatty fish is really good. You should stay away from fried food, processed meat, sugars.

I mean, you're so educated, you know all this, but it really makes sense to follow through on an anti-inflammatory diet. And, you know, when I say it needs to be balanced. You know, it's not like you should never eat dessert or should never do this. But I would stay away from any fast food, any fried, anything that makes you, I've been eating healthy since I'm 16, and I only like healthy food. I really don't like anything else anymore.

I feel like it's a habit, you know? If you never eat it, you never grave it. I raised both my children on still water and healthy food. My kid asked for lunch for a salad, yeah? She's 11. She doesn't eat fries. She doesn't eat all this because she doesn't get it. from me. And she could. I took her once to McDonald's just so she sees it from the inside and

we bought some fries and a burger. She took one fry and she said, Mama, thank you for never giving me toxic food. That's good parenting. Yeah. You know, it's really fascinating too, is we think that we damage our skin very often from the outside in, but it gets damaged more often from the inside out. From the inside out. One of the most fascinating studies that I I've seen on skin cancer, and I've talked about this before in other lectures. If you've seen it, it's on my Instagram, where I show you a superimposable chart looking at the parabolic rise in skin cancer from the 1950s through 2022, and it is superimposable with the parabolic use of sunscreen.

And that doesn't make sense, right? Why would we have such a parabolic rise concomitant with the parabolic use of sunscreen? You know why everybody says you should use sunscreen? and it comes a lot from dermatologists, right? Every of your dermatologists, use sunscreen 24-7. But that's because whatever they're doing is highly anti-inflammatory and destroys your skin barrier.

So they take your protection tool completely apart. Of course they need to tell you, use sunscreen 24-7, but if you have a strong skin, a strong outer layer, and I'm not talking about super fair skin or people who have, like, skin cancer in the history and the family,

whatever, we have to be more careful. But someone who has really, healthy skin shouldn't just use 24-7 sunscreen, especially when we live in London. It's different when you go on the mountain close to the sun or in a desert or to the Mediterranean in summer. You don't go outside without sunscreen, but this 24-7, I don't understand. And how important is the morning sun? I mean, Gary talks about it all the time. And, you know, the sun is so much needed for our vitamin D production, which is important for our bones, our immune system, our respiratory drug, our mental health.

with our blood flow. The sun also produces something called nitric oxide in the skin, which vasodilates makes the vessels a little more elastic, and then the blood flow is much better. You have way less problems with your heart, way less heart attacks, way less. It's so important to get some sun. And there's so much controversial discussion also about sunscreen,

especially now in America, yeah. In the US, you know, 18 or 23 brands of sunscreen, I've been pulled from the market since 2018 for correlated risk to skin cancer. I really find that fascinating. But the law for the filter for sunscreen haven't changed in the US for more than 20 years. Yeah.

I mean, I use a sunscreen just to tallow with zinc oxide, just a non-dano zinc on the skin. Very good. You can almost eat this stuff. But what's interesting about the study, and I'm happy to talk on my instrument if you want to read it, they found the same pro-inflammatory sites. cytokines in all of these skin cancer conditions, and most of these cytokines were coming

from the diet. They were highly linked to seed oils, rancid seed oils. And I get a lot of flack for attacking seed oils and saying we shouldn't be eating seed oils. But the truth is I'm not attacking the plant. But when you take a canola plant, which is also called a rape seed, but it sounds much better to say canola than rapeseed, but when you take a canola plant and you put it in a commercial press and it comes out gummy and you de-gum that with hexane that's a very powerful neurotoxin and then you take that de-gummed oil that you've degummed with hexane and you heat it to 405 degrees

that turns it rancid so now you have a putrefied oil and it smells and so they deodorize it with sodium hydroxide which is a very very powerful cocinogen so you de gum it with a neurotoxin you deodorize it with a carcinogen and then generally we will bleach it and then bottle it and then put on the shelf. Now, if you're in the United States, the American Heart Association will come along and put a heart-healthy label on there to help suck you into the shelf. You know, you ever walk down the aisle of seed oils, western oil and canola oils and vegetable oils, and they all have that exact same beautiful, perfect, yellow hue, they're all the same color. Just know that's not how it occurs in nature. It's been bleached to look that way. And so I'm not attacking the plant. I'm not

attacking the sunflower, the safflower, the soybean, or the rape seed, I'm attacking the distance from the plant to the table. So, highly processed to seed oils are one of the worst things you can put in your bodies. You know, I really think that we could only have four oils in our kitchen. You could have a grass-fed butter, a ghee butter, a coconut oil, and a good olive oil. And you could do just about anything with those four oils, maybe even an avocado oil. But all of these rancid seed oils were actually, those cytokines were actually showing up in this, in the, uh, in the skin biopsies of oncology patients. So I just, I thought that was fascinating

because we have been taught to fear the sun, right? And it's just so necessary for us. She was talking about first light. The first 45 to 50 minutes of the day is a very, very special type of light. There's no UVA or UVB rays in first light. So if you're worried about skin damage, but you wanna expose your skin to light,

first light is very beneficial. It's medicine. I mean, it actually research. your cortisol receptors, it resets your melatonin receptors. First light will do more to restore your circadian rhythm than just about anything. So for someone that's just starting out with skincare routine or is lost in the maze of skincare routine options, what is a good basic skincare routine? Because there's lots of discussion about exfoliation.

There's lots of discussions about what creams work and you have to do a night cream. Some of these are 15 stages, 15 slides. 15 steps to like, I know what's on my wife's counter. And going from left to right, I mean, I could only get through that once. My ADHD kicks in at about product six, right? What's important for the skin to balance your skin? Antinflammation, we just know this now, but what's really important also is hydration. So if you have dry skin or dehydrated skin, we have to fix that.

That is what causes all your problems, broken skin barrier, water leaves the skin, turns epidermy water loss, and then you get wrinkles, we don't want that. So hydration is the key to healthy, do, beautiful, glowy skin. And then something like nutrition for our cells, for our skin cells, but also what I took as the active ingredient in my skincare product is telomeres activation. Gary just talked about telomeres lengths, and this is really the life-limiting factor of a cell, when the telomeres shortened the little caps of the chromosomes,

until our cell mutates or dies. And you may have 40 to 60 cell divisions. A turtle, for example, has 110. The turtle gets to live 220 years or 200, whatever years. But 200 or, yeah, 200, no? I don't know how long the turtles live. I'm a human biologist, for the record. No, but absolutely the cell division,

a number of cell division is the absolute proven anti-aging or aging theory. So that's the proof of aging. And the telomeres is so important to keep long. And that's why we added our telomeres activators into the skincare. And then all these nutrition. And when it comes to skin cells, we want, I always compare grapes and raisins. So raisins are the dehydrated skin cells.

The grapes are the hydrated skin cells. Two things. The raisins don't really look so great on our skin. You want the plump raisins, but also the raisins have these beautiful osmosis channels to take on active ingredients to go through all their cell divisions. So this is important that we keep the cells and our skin extremely hydrated. So for our skincare routine, I always would recommend a cleanser that is hydrating. So our foam cleanser, for example, extremely hydrating is aloebara, urea, beautiful pH because it also matters.

If you would wash your face with soap, which is very alkaline, you mess up the pH of your skin, which is slightly acidic. And then the microbiome is messed up. skin barrier is messed up. So the pH of the product really matters and that's why like skincare brands should really point out what their pH is. So our cleanser has this beautiful pH. Then twice a week you use the enzyme cleanser.

It's the most gentle form of exfoliation. It's done with peptide, with enzymes. They get activated, it's a powder, get activated with water and then you mix it in your hands, you wash your face. I have it in the shower, you can use it also, they call T.R. Caratosis, Pilar, super, super good. And you do this twice a week. And then have a haloronic serum.

That's the grape maker. The haloronic serum is non-negotiated. It's the white t-shirt of your skincare routine. Everybody has to have it morning and night. Grape maker. And then if you have a beautiful face cream that looks everything and gives the right lipids for your skin barrier because you always have to support and strengthen our skin barrier.

If you have like these four products, you are golden. golden. You have glowing, beautiful skin. You have balanced skin. I promise you your skin will change. It will transform. It's very important that you don't mess with these crazy

ingredients, that you just give the skin what it needs. If you would go on these four products, and you can complain to me if it doesn't work, but I can swear to you and promise that this routine will change your skin. Because it's always easy, you know? It's like

you go in a store and you're like, this brand, and this color and then, you know, this marketing, and you create your own little routine in the bathroom and look so cute. But, you know, you should decide for one brand you trust and then go with it. Because if you curate it, you don't know how they interact these ingredients

and what the one does and the other jeopardizes. So stick to one brand and give it a try or chance. And also, Sturm looks so good in the bathroom. You know, you don't want all these other colors. So lots of questions about maintaining your skincare routine while you travel, especially for people that are spending a lot of time on Airborne. Look, this is easy. It's four products.

That is easy. I could give you 10 more products, which we don't really want. I would add the exosomes, definitely. But I wanted to give you like a very, very basic, simple and very effective skincare routine. So cleanser? The cleanser, enzyme cleanser, the haleronic serum face cream. Do those. I use the face cream also over.

my eyes. Obviously, if you're, like, super into skincare, have your eye serum, your eye cream. You do all this. But I wanted to give you, like, the simple, and you are on the go, and you can travel, and you have those, you're golden. Okay. For someone just starting to shift their diet, what are a few simple daily food swaps you recommend to help support an anti-inflammatory lifestyle? I know you're a believer in an active lifestyle. What movement-based activity have... I love that you read the questions for me. I'm reading them, yeah. You want to read them?

I know, I love it. I love it. But I wanted to ask you a question actually about the periphery, because you said, you know, the microcirculation in the periphery is always a problem. And you know what I do in the morning? I drink my lemon water, and I drink a lot of water first thing in the morning because I'm really bad in drinking throughout the day. So I get a lot of water in in the morning.

and Gary always recommends to take your Celtic salt or mineral salt or whatever salt it is. The Baja gold salt right there. Yes, and then you rub it on your tongue and because of the salt, your water also goes into the periphery otherwise it stays on the main road. But we want it like in all these little streets, right? Yeah, you know, it's interesting because we've been lied to about sodium mainly.

You know, if any of you right now, if your blood pressure was so high that it became life-threatening, and you called 911, well, you don't call 911 here. What do you call? 9-99. So you called 9-99, and the paramedics showed up, and your blood pressure was extraordinarily high. Does anyone know what the first thing they would do is? Sold, yeah. They would actually bag you with saline.

They would take a bag of sodium water, and they would squeeze it into your veins to lower your blood pressure. A very, very interesting study published in the Wiley Journal of Headaches. This is a journal, a peer-reviewed clinical journal that is dedicated solely to headaches, and they found an inverse correlation between sodium intake and migraine headaches. There are 8,900 people in this study. Now, why would sodium be inversely correlated to migraine headaches? Meaning, as sodium went down, the incidence of migraines went up. And when sodium went up, the incidence of migraines went down.

Well, it starts with where the pain's coming from. If you've ever suffered from a migraine headache or you've ever had a headache, all of us have had a headache, we think the headache is coming from our brain. That's actually not possible. Your brain does not have any pain receptors. Your brain is not capable of sending a pain signal. So the pain that you're feeling in your head, no matter where it is, can't be coming from your brain.

So the question is, where is that pain coming from? It's actually coming from the covering of the brain. It's called the dura. It's like saran wrapped, sort of wrapped over the top of your brain. And the dura is fraught with pain receptors. And the dura hates two things. The dura hates being stretched and it hates being contracted. And what determines whether or not it's stretching or contracting is the sodium gradient.

My wife and I cannot even begin to tell you how many thousands of headache and migraine sufferers have come through our clinic system that we have put into permanent remission by putting them on Baja gold mineral salt, an actual sodium sea salt. It's fascinating because you are not hydrated when you have water in your blood. You're hydrated when you have water in your tissue. And what causes the water to leave the blood and enter the tissue is the sodium gradient. It's called the osmotic gradient. The vast majority of us are sodium deficient.

We don't actually have the right sodium balance. So we walk around dehydrated all the time, not the least of which is our skin. And so I think this is such a big topic. This is so important for the skin. but so important for every organ. And you know why we get like under eye darkness and those bags? There's an issue with microcirculation, the periphery, and the blood is just static there.

And then water gets into the tissue and you get these bags and then the blood is not oxygenized and then you get the darkness. So I think this could solve a lot of these issues as well. I totally agree with you. You know, there's a reason why this room is set up the way that it is with nine essential amino acids, all 91 essential minerals, and hydrogen water.

Because the combination of those three things, if you do those in the morning, if you take in all nine of the essential amino acids, you can build any protein source in the body. If you take in all 91 trace minerals that the body needs, your methylation has the raw material it needs to do its job. And if you had hydrogen gas, which is one of the only true selective antioxidants

that you can put into the human body, you will not only reduce inflammation, you will restore the microvascular circulation to normal. I've talked about this in two lectures now. You're probably getting tired of me saying it, but our heart doesn't circulate all the blood in the body. 70% of our circulation is not done by our heart. There's no pressure in 70% of your circulatory vessels,

including in the vasculature in your skin. There's zero pressure in those vessels. So how is that blood circulated? It's circulated by an activity called vasumobos. like a snake swallowing a mouse. So vasomotor and vaso motion are more important to skin health than cardiovascular circulation. And so how can we restore vaso motor?

Minerals, hydrogen gas. Red light therapy is excellent for that. In fact, red light therapy is a phenomenal way to improve fine lines and wrinkles in your skin because it is improving circulation to the skin. How many of you use red light therapy? Oh, wow. It's like the whole room.

Yeah. I mean, whole body red light therapy. Even red light therapy for the face is phenomenal. And probably for a different reason than you think. Not to get, most of you are science nerds, so can I get science-y for just one quick second? Inside every cell in your body are these little powerhouses called mitochondria. You have about 110 trillion of these in your body. Aging is a slow, progressive decline in the amount of mitochondria, mitochondrial density.

As you lose mitochondria, you age in an accelerated rate. One of the fascinating things about red light is when it passes through the mitochondrial wall, it kicks out a gas called mitochondrial nitric oxide, and it forces oxygen to dock. Now that doesn't sound like a big deal until you realize that if oxygen enters a cycle called the Krebs cycle, your cell has 16 times the energy. You produce 32 ATP for every revolution versus 2 ATP, and I'll back out of the science now, but essentially what red light therapy does is it forces energy into your cells by actually forcing gases like mitochondrial nitric oxide out of the Krebs cycle. It dissociates

it from cytochrome C oxidase and forcing oxygen to dock. So imagine by doing nothing other than exposing your skin to red light, you would have a 16-fold step-up in cellular energy. But I want to say this mask, this LAD mask, it's better if you have a whole panel Obviously, not everybody has space for the big bed, but if you have a panel, you can sit in front of. It's better to catch your whole body with the red light and not just like the mask. It's a little gimmick here.

I would really recommend investing in something like a panel, no? I would totally agree with that. And if you've ever laid in a red light therapy bed for any prolonged period of time, the longer you use red light, the more youthful in appearance you'll take on. Also, the lower your baseline level of inflammation, the better your vasomotor circulation.

And all red light is doing is harnessing the best of what Mother Nature gives us. It's deleting the UVA and the UVB, the damaging rays, and using the beneficial rays from the sun to penetrate the skin and give your skin the benefits of light. We are very photovoltaic beings. In fact, I think our dissociation with Mother Nature, we could go down that road another time, but our dissociation from Mother Nature,

our lack of connection with Mother Nature, is one of the reasons why we have such a sick and nature. aging population. So this was obviously spelled wrong. Should we talk about endocrine disruptors? Endocrine disruptors? I think that's also something which is so important. Oh, that's a good one.

Let's talk about endocrine disruptors in our skin care as well, you know? Because there's so much horrible things in skin care but also in hair care. You know, scalp is the skin too. And when we wash our hair, there's so many like silicones. and tinsides, and fragrances, and microplastic, whatever is in shampoos. I think shampoos is one of the worst products in the beauty industry besides makeup. But there's a lot of endocrine disruption, and maybe you want to explain it. But for me, it's very important with every product I create to minimize endocrine disruption.

So I have shampoes, conditioner. I have a shower gel, a V collection for the female genital. because that pH in the female genitals is very ascetic. And if you wash with a normal shower gel, then the pH becomes alkaline, and then we suffer UTIs, Canada, all these problems because other bacteria, then the one we want there are coming in

and disturb our microbiome. So this is something we have to be also very, very careful with. But endocrine disruption is whatever we do, whatever we buy in a supermarket, don't buy plastic wrapped cheese. wrapped chicken or you have like a whole list of things that... Well, I mean, the main are what's called thylates and parabins. And thylates, parabins, which are found in natural fragrances, natural scents.

So thylates and parabins are very aggressive hormone disruptors. In the previous session, we were talking about female hormone therapy, and we were talking about a very specific test that I think, all women should do if you think your hormones are often. It's called a Dutch test. And it's a 24-hour urine test, and it looks at the actual full cycle of a woman. It looks at the ratio of hormones to one another.

Because in women especially, the ratio of hormones is much more important than your levels. If you get a blood test, you get a snapshot of the level of hormone in the body. That tells you nothing about whether or not your estrogen dominant, estrogen deficient, or whether or not you have the right level of progesterone, pregnant alone, or all of these other factors.

A Dutch test is that we'll look at the ratios through a 24-hour cycle. You will find women that use high amounts of parabins and thylates actually have very disrupted estrogen cycles. They have severe inability to eliminate estrogen, which means that you cannot get... There's two ways to become estrogen dominant. One is for a woman to overproduce estrogen. Another one is to under-eliminate estrogen. So if you're not getting rid of it, it's just as bad as producing too much.

The result is the same. You get a build-up of something called phytoestrogens. You begin to retain water. You start to look puffy all over, and you don't realize that this is actually related to your skin care routine or your cosmetic routine. So thylates and parabens are especially terrible at hormone disruption because they actually block the elimination of estrogen down a pathway

called the E2 pathway. They chemically block that elimination. And so by getting these out of your skin care routine, you can actually improve your hormonal cycle. I don't know if that answer your question or if I just ate everybody's face. No, I think that's great. Because my wife says I just eat people's face.

Like God forbid you sit next to me on a commercial flight. It's because I will eat your face. We just flew from what, Dallas to Miami to Dallas. And we sat down, I sat down in the seat. My family sat in the road. behind me and I sit down and I'm on the aisle seat and this dude is sitting next to me and the family's behind me and I sit down and I was like you know introduce myself I'm like what do you do for a living he goes oh I'm a family medicine practitioner I'm a sleep

apnea specialist I go oh are you and um and so sage wedges her face between the seats and she goes he's going to eat your face and I did I put the tray table down so he couldn't get out I had a three ring binder I pulled out and I opened the three-ring binder, but ate his face for... At the end, though, he wanted to work for us, did he not? He did. So what one... This says, just so you know why I paused on this question,

it says, what one rectal-practical specific tip? And I think it's reliable or relatable tip. Would you share that we reduce inflammation in our lives and quickly reap some anti-inflammatory benefits? So I think everybody, knows that sleep is one of the most important things when it comes. We just talked about it, you know, because I got woken up this morning at six to catch a train. She was cranky when she walked in here, boy.

Yeah, so I only had six hours of sleep. That really does a lot to your brain and, you know, your immune system goes down, your inflammation goes up for me. I cannot live on six hours' sleep. I just, I'm so energetic and I can run a full day, no problem, but I need myself. sleep. So sleep is highly important to minimize inflammation. Obviously your diet, obviously your stress levels. We don't want cortisol rising in our bloodstream because that causes a lot of inflammation. And then absolutely important, whatever we put on our skin, whatever we wash our hair

with, whatever we eat out of plastic, out of whatever it is that touches our body, our clothes. I mean, this stuff is not good on your skin. You should not wear a sensitive. You should not wear a You should not wear polyester. I trained my 11-year-old pepper because she likes these brands 11-year-old like. And then she goes into the stores and then she reads, what's in, is it really cotton or what is it, you know? And then she said, oh, we cannot buy that. It's just good to look at these things, you know, and just,

and obviously our, you know, workout clothes, it's the worst what we could put on our bodies, but nevertheless we do it sometimes. But then when you're done with your workout, take it off, take a shower, get this stuff off your body. I don't think we realize, you know, I think everybody knows that sleep is beneficial. Most people don't know why it's so beneficial.

You know, we talked in an earlier segment about the difference between deep phases of sleep and REM phases of sleep. Deep sleep is essentially the only time that your brain is eliminating waste. So we have a lymphatic system in our body, but we have a glymphatic system in our brain. in our brain, and the glymphatic system is the lymph nodes of the brain.

And so the brain has a special pathway to eliminate waste, called the glymphatic system. This system is only active during deep sleep. So during deep phases of sleep, your brain actually loses inflammation. It actually deswells, if you will, and loses inflammation. These channels open up, and waste is eliminated from the brain. The reason why you wake up foggy after not getting a good night's sleep is because you have toxicity and inflammation built up in the brain from a lack of deep sleep. So I think sleep is our human superpower.

Whenever I work with an athlete, the very, very first thing I do is I fix their sleep. And then REM phases of sleep is where we're assembling memory. So we take learned memory from the day and we assemble it at night and becomes actually a learned memory. Our prefrontal cortex and our hippocampus begin to communicate. There's also a really interesting clock in our brain. And this is the master clock. It's called the Super Chiasmatic Nucleus.

And this clock runs our entire biological ecosystem. It runs your entire circadian cycle. And there are different clocks in different areas of your body. Your digestive system runs on a clock. Your sleep wake cycle runs on a clock. This is why tying yourself to the sleep wake cycle of the sun can be so important. Waking with the sun, getting sunlight into your eyes first thing in the morning, has real benefits to cortisol and hormonal cycles and melatonin cycles.

And it's also why when you throw off your sleep wake cycle, you also throw off your digestion. One of my travel tips that I tell everybody if you travel a lot, and we'll be in 14 cities in 18 days, this is city 9 or 10 for us, is you know, you can't control when you go to bed and when you wake up very often when you're traveling. You can control when you eat. And we are much more tied to our digestive cycle than you think. We're even more tied to our cycle of digestion. and then we are, the sleep-wake cycle of the sun.

So I live on the East Coast in Miami. I usually go to bed at 10 and get up at 6 a.m. So this entire time traveling, I will never feed myself between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m. East Coast time. I will at least control the variables that I can control when I travel. So I'll throw off one of my clocks because my sleep and wake cycle with the sun will be different, but it won't throw all of the clocks off.

So if you go to a new destination, you're only there for a few days, you're getting up at a different time, you're going to bed at a different time, and then you start eating when your body thinks you should be sleeping, you will wreck your circadian cycle. If you preserve your eating window, you will stay on your circadian cycle.

So that's just take that... Super interesting. You want to do with it, but that's one of my tips for travel. By the way, the skin also has a circadian cycle. The skin, when you fly back from the U.S. to Europe, for example, your skin things, you know, It's like, it depends where you're coming from.

But the day cycle is different to the night cycle. In the day, the skin is about protecting and, you know, protecting the skin. In the night cycle, it rejuvenates and it gets ready for the day. So when you now, for example, you know, board a plane in New York, come to Europe and you come out in the morning where you still think it's night, but your skin, you know, your skin thinks it's night, but you're already in the day.

The sun hits your skin or the daylight and your skin is not ready for it. So you have to be really careful how you treat your skin, don't run into the sun, or you have to be really mindful that the skin has the same differences in their circadian.

Can we talk a minute about the impact of the gut microbiome on the skin and the process of methylation? You can explain this much better than me. You're the doctor. Yeah, but you're the... You're the teacher. You're the one who explains it better than anybody.

Yeah, I think, you know, it's fascinating how many skin issues are directly related to our gut microbiome. You know, I really got turned on to the gut microbiome by Dr. Perlmutter. Years ago, we wrote a book called Grain Brain. He wrote another one called The Gut Brain Connection. And he directly linked different microbiota and the gut to different skin conditions. You know, I get a lot of questions about eczemae and psoriasis. It's fascinating the correlation between two strains of bacteria in the gut and eczema and psoriasis. In nearly all of the patients that suffer from these two waste elimination conditions through the skin,

they have the same two class of bacteria missing from their gut, a bifidobacterium and a lactobacillus that are missing from their gut. And the absence of these bacteria forces the body, mainly the liver, to use the skin as a secondary route of waste elimination. You know, the skin's not just a barrier, it's a gateway. And so we actually eliminate waste through our skin. This is a reason why we have two types of sweating. We have passive sweating and active sweating.

Passive sweating, we sweat to drop body temperature. Active sweating, we sweat to eliminate waste. And we've all experienced this, because when you get the flu and you're cold and you're in a cold room and you're freezing, you're sweating. Why are you sweating when your body is freezing? because you're not passively sledding to reduce your body temperature, you are actively sledding to eliminate waste. And so a healthy gut microbiome, things like fermented foods.

I can't think of anything that is more beneficial for your gut microbiome than fermented foods. Kim's shrieks, sourcouts. I know a lot of you don't like to eat those. Foods that are pickled, pickled in vinegars. Because these foods have something called soluble and insoluble fiber. soluble fiber forms the bulk that moves through our gut, but the soluble fiber turns into something called free fatty acids. And free fatty acids are some of those anti-inflammatory compounds in the human body. They actually ravage. They're a scavenger for free radical oxidation. So just

by changing our diet, especially incorporating fermented foods, you can actually really repair and heal your gut microbiome. You know, the other thing that I'm such a huge fan of, and I'm a little bias because I have a genetic test that's available for sale at this event, but is fixing your genetic methylation. You know, most of us do not know what we're deficient in because we don't know where our gene breaks are. And certain gene breaks lead to certain deficiencies. And these deficiencies can be supplemented for. So instead of supplementing for the sake of self-finding, we can supplement for deficiency. So why don't we open it for a couple of questions? Is that cool? With you? Anybody have any questions?

Yes, ma'am. You mentioned a few ingredients that are bad and, like, cause inflammation in your skin, like retinal. Are there any other ones that we should think about avoiding? I know, like, acids are very common? Like, are there good ones, bad ones? And, like, what should we avoid and what should we choose to go for? Definitely stay away from anything that has fragrances.

Fragrances is also a very important endocrine disruptor. And it's totally overused in skincare. shouldn't be in skin care, it shouldn't be also on your skin. So if you like a fragrance from any whatever byrida, put it on your t-shirt or your clothes, but not on your skin because it disrupts your skin barrier. But also stay away from mineral oils, for example, high amounts of alcohol, like those kind of things that would stay away.

Then glycolyc, then acid peals. Definitely not in your skincare routine. If we have a whole list put together with ingredients, I think your team has that. We can send out to you. If anybody's interested, send an email to Gary's team. We did like a whole... I have a website called theultimatehuman.com

and we'll... Yes, ma'am. You touched on ADHD. Are there any supplements or sort of ingredients that you would say to focus on alongside good sleep, you know, good diet? There's no question. You know, first, if you suspect ADHD, I would absolutely do a genetic methylation test.

Again, I think that everyone should do this test once in their lifetime because the genes you're born with are the genes you die with. You will never guess again on what you need to supplement with because you will supplement for deficiency, not just the sake of supplementing. In ADHD and ADD both, which is an overactive mind, it's too many windows opening at the same. time. It is not an inability to pay attention. It's an inability to pay attention to so many things. And so this is a big fallacy with ADD and ADHD. And so when we create thought at a faster rate than we break thought down, we have what's called attention deficit disorder. We have too many thoughts, too many windows open at the same time. It's a fallacy that people with ADD and ADHD cannot focus or concentrate. They actually have a tendency to hyper-focus

It has to be on something that they are interested in. And so the main deficiency in attention deficit disorder is methylfolate, and it is highly tied to a gene mutation called M-T-H-F-R. There's seven-fold the increase in ADHD and M-T-H-F-R positive variance than in non-positive variance, because the absence of methylfolate does not allow the proper pace of breaking down thought of dismantling neurotransmitteriors. And so the mind is racing.

Modern medicine's solution is to put amphetamines into the body, to race the central nervous system to match the pace of the mind. This is what Vivans Adderall and Ritalin are. They're amphetamines. So in that case, you are breaking the system that's not working, the central nervous system, to match the system that is broken, which is the poor breakdown of neurotransmitters.

So two things I would do if you suspect ADHD. One, I would get a genetic methylation test. deflation test. And secondly, I would get all of the folic acid out of that person's diet for just one week and you will have a completely different human being in the car. I mean, if it's a full contact sport to get your kid in the car to go to school in the morning, get the folic acid, which is fortified or enriched foods out of their diet for one week, supplement them with 800 micrograms of methylfolate and you will see a life-changing experience. Yeah. Zinc and magnesium are also major.

OK, one more question. One more question for bothering that she has to go. OK. I have to go? No. It's fine. I don't have to go anywhere. All right.

Two more questions. Yes, ma'am. So we know that when we wear sunglasses, our skin doesn't really understand that we are exposing to the sun, so it's less protective towards the sun. So now my question is, since in the background space, now we talk about how the lights affect our skin, for example, wearing like blue blocking glasses will help.

And also at sunset time, there's another lens that is simulating the sunset. And then at night, you should wear like the red light. But that's on the eyes, you know, but the skin also read the light as well. So now wearing those, it will be less effective to the skin to protect. Like since Barbara say that there's a circadian rhythm of the light. So once it's protecting and then at night is rejuvenating. So now my question is, with these glasses, we're doing better or not, depending on the health of the skin and the eyes and everything is interconnected.

I hope you understand it. It's a very complicated question. Yeah, no, I can't. Well, go ahead. You answer it. I'll take each other. The eyes is one thing, and it's very good to protect your eyes and engage with your eye health. But for the skin, and I give you this example,

if you're now sitting at night in bed and go shopping on Netaporte, on your iPad, that's definitely not good for your skin. Or you wake up and you look at your phone, definitely not good for your skin, but also for your circadian rhythm because you wake up and you think it's day again regarding the eyes and the connection between the glasses for your eyes and your skin that I...

So what's interesting about blue light blockers and red light glasses is we're actually trying... What's fascinating is we're just trying to get back to the basics. You know, we're actually trying to circumvent all of this. I have a saying that aging is the aggressive pursuit of comfort because the more aggressively we pursue comfort, the faster we age. We regulate everything now. We regulate our indoor air temperature. We regulate our lighting. And so if you want to make your bedroom the surface of the sun at 1 o'clock in the morning, you can.

You can just crank the lights up. This throws off our circadian cycle. We're very photovoltaic beings. We used to actually sleep and wake with the cycle of the sun. We don't do that anymore. And so when we have bright lights, especially fluorescent lights and artificial lights, these lights are not constant. They flicker.

It's called hurts. How many times the light comes on and off in a second? Those hurts are not natural hurts. So what they are is they're very stimulatory to your brain. So the reason why you would wear red light glasses, you wouldn't need red light glasses if you slept and woke with the sun or if you used biocentric lighting. But because most of our lighting is artificial, we want to actually protect ourselves from the waking cycle that that light is stimulating us to do.

So red light glasses are just a way of us to block the artificial light so that we're not being woken by that light at night. Blue light, especially from our phones, is clinically designed to keep the brain awake. There are also wavelengths in there, believe this or not, that are clinically designed. They're actually augmented to stimulate the dopamine receptors, to actually give you a dopamine reward for staying.

engaged. So those screens are actually designed to be addictive. They're designed to create a waken state and to create a heightened state of dopamine. So that's what blue light glasses. I don't wear readers, but I wear blue light glasses a lot. They're in my pocket right now. I wore them on my previous stage talk. So I wear blue light glasses during the day. Sometimes at night I will wear red night glasses if I'm not going to bed early. But it's only a way for us to protect ourselves from artificial light, not from sunlight. By the way, the HV light, the blue light, penetrates the skin very, very aggressively.

It's short wavelengths and can cause same problems like sun, for example, like pigmentation, premature aging, cancer. So it's same aggressive, and we don't really have like the sunscreen for the HV light. I created actually a product. I don't know if it's on the market right now because it wasn't so perceived because it was too early. Maybe it's called anti-pollution drops, and those drops were, you know, They were really great to block out the HV light the same.

It hydrated, so it really, really engaged with our skin barrier and strengthen it by the same time. We could block out the HGV light. It's a really good product, by the way. Yes, Van. I have a question about lasers, because we live in time where you have so much, like, so many treatments that one can take. Is there any that you would recommend or you would stay away from all of it?

And then I have a second question about UV lamps, because there are a lot of lums that have infrared, but you can also have the UV right now. Is that good? Is that bad? Is it worth having? I'll let her answer the question on lasers and I'll handle the question on UV.

So I'm not a big fan of lasers because everything that aggressively targets your skin. It's one thing if you have agnescarring or a thing you want to get rid of, you know, when you tried everything else and you do it one time, but then your doctor has to give you all the side effects, how it can damage your skin,

and how your skin can be infected, can be all kinds of things, how you protect it after the treatment. But lasers are used for anti-aging protocols. And, you know, I personally wouldn't dare to hurt my skin so much because I'm also, I would be scared how it grows back, how it comes back. And, you know, I've seen ladies there have done many, many laser treatments,

and then they walk around with these long sleeves and these hats, you know, and their skin looks totally dead and spotty because when we constantly get damaged our skin barrier the sun causes pigmentation and it just kills your skin and I personally

I would stay away from everything aggressive except when there's an indication where you have this one-time treatment or something but I'm personally I like to keep what I got in the best possible shape so UVA and UVV lights

for indoor use are usually designed to replace natural lighting when you don't have access to it. You know, as a population mortality expert, I can tell you that the longest life expectancies on Earth are centered right around the equator. I forget what the exact number was, but for every 20 degrees, is it, longitude or latitude,

that you move away from the equator, there's a precipitous drop in life expectancy until you get to the poles where the shortest life expectancy on Earth exists. A true Eskimo has the shortest life expectancy on Earth. And a lot of the reason why they have shortened life expectancies is one, they've become cold adaptive. We use cold water therapy to cold shock the body. Those cold punches back there will cold shock the body.

They will not adapt you. Once you become cold adaptive, you actually begin to develop excess adipose tissue in the cell layer in your skin. The second is that when people don't have, they go 24 hours, 48 hours, weeks, sometimes months, without any sunlight exposure. This is very detrimental because there are certain wavelengths of light from the sun that actually cause us to make vitamin D3. We make colicalciferal in our body, the only vitamin that a human being can make on our own. If I drew the blood of anybody in this room,

you would have hundreds of vitamins in your bloodstream. Your body is only capable of making one, and it's vitamin D3. You don't need to eat, you don't need to drink. You just need to expose your skin to sunlight. We make vitamin D3 from sunlight and cholesterol. cholesterol. When cholesterol and sunlight combine, they go through the kidney and there's a little process, we make something called vitamin D3, colicalciferal. It's arguably the single most important nutrient in the human body. It acts like a vitamin. It acts like a hormone. It acts like a calcium

transport molecule. It's fascinating what this nutrient does in the human body, vitamin D3. And about 85% of the world's population is clinically deficient in that nutrient. Awesome. Should we do one more question? Oh. One more question. Yes, sir. First of all, thanks for your time and knowledge. This has been one of the best experience I've had. I'm always working away and there's always like chip shops, McDonald's, like bad food places. What snacks and deep packaged foods could I take with me?

What snacks and prepackaged foods? Healthy snacks. Yeah. I mean, I personally like dried meat products. I eat a lot of lineage beef sticks. I'll take Parmesan crisp. I take Parmesan crisp. I take a lot of stuff on the road with us.

Raw go cheese. Nuts are excellent snacks for you to keep around that are actually very filling. So nuts, olives, meat sticks, grass-fed, grass-finished meat sticks. Those are usually my go-toes. Not to plug a brand here, but I'm a big fan of whole foods. Body health actually makes a whole-food bar that is pressed, and it is preserved by putting CO2. into the bag and not by adding preservatives. And if you actually flip that, the ingredient list over,

you'll recognize everything on there. There are dried fruits, dried vegetables, coconut oil, raw cacao, almonds, coconut oils. These are whole food ingredients. And the secret to longevity is eating a whole food diet. It's the absence of processed foods, not the presence of a dogmatic diet that extends life. Carnivore wasn't what extend life.

Keto wasn't what extended life. Vegan was in what extended life, vegetarian, paleo, pescatarian, Atkins. They were not dogmatic diets. They were diets completely absent in processed foods. Not a blue zone in the world has the presence of processed foods. And so foods as close to their natural state as possible. You know, what's fascinating is very often it's not even the food. It's the distance from the food to the table.

Just like I talked about the seed oil. It's not the sunflower, the safflower, or the soybean. That's the issue. It's the distance from those to the table. So those are some of my favorite go-toes. Guys, thank you so much for your time. I really appreciate it.