Young and Profiting with Hala Taha - Gary Brecka: I Can Predict How Long You Have Left to Live! 10X Your Health With These 3 No-Cost Bio Hacks | E250

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Starting point is 00:01:41 We are excellent at crisis management, but we are terrible at bio optimization. More than 90% of your listeners are walking around at about 60% of their true state of norm. They have forgotten what normal feels like. And the difference between where they are now and where they could be is simply knowing what deficiencies are going on in your body and supplementing for those deficiencies rather than supplementing for the sake of supplementing. Once you unlock that deficiency, you're on your way to a state of optimization that you never thought possible. What is up, young and profitors? You're listening to YAP, Young and Profiting podcasts where we interview the brightest

Starting point is 00:02:30 minds in the world and unpack their wisdom into actionable advice that you can use in your daily life. I'm your host, Halitaha. Thanks for tuning in and get ready to listen, learn, and profit. [♪ Music playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing. Gary Brekkah is a biohacker, human biologist, and one of the world's foremost experts on how thinking differently about nutrition can protect us against aging and disease and make us the best version of ourselves. For years, Gary worked for insurance companies, helping them predict how long it was going to be before their clients were going to die. Now he helps people learn how long they can really live for. Gary, thanks for joining us for this super important conversation

Starting point is 00:03:30 and welcome to Young & Profiting Podcast. So excited to be here. I am very excited for this conversation. I love talking about biohacking and you are so experienced. And when I was doing research for this podcast, I found out that you spent 20 years in the life insurance industry and you basically would predict when people would die to the nearest month. And first of all, I didn't even know a job like this existed.

Starting point is 00:03:56 So it was so fascinating to me. How did you end up in the life insurance industry to start with? You know, what's amazing is how much of this science is actually done on an annual basis. I mean, there's more than $30 billion of these types of policies issued every single year. And remember, in the life insurance industry, when a life insurance company is getting ready to put $5 million or $10 million or $25 million worth of risk on your life. There's only one variable that matters, right? I mean, and it's how many more months do you have left on earth?

Starting point is 00:04:30 And so some of the most accurate science in the world is actually held by life insurance companies. I always used to say that if that database that I had access to could see the light of day, and unfortunately, it never will. But if it could, it would permanently change the face of humanity. I mean, it would upend modern medicine in a way that would be catastrophic. And I made my way there because, you know, in my undergraduate degrees,

Starting point is 00:04:54 were in biology, my postgraduate degrees were human biology. So I'm a human biologist by trade. I had another concentration in neuroscience. And when I graduated, I went into this industry, I thought temporarily to work as a mortality expert because I was just fascinated by the data. And if they got five years of medical records on you and five years of demographic data, you know, we could tell the insurance company how long you had to live to the month. And after doing this for more than two decades, I really began to realize

Starting point is 00:05:28 that these were not just spreadsheets, right? This was not just data. There were human beings on the other side of these spreadsheets. And you know, I was prohibited by law from contacting the patients. So even if I saw life-threatening drug interactions, I could not contact the patient to warn them. And it became glaringly apparent to me that the reason why people were not living longer, healthier, happier lives was not pathology, was not disease, was not some catastrophic illness that they had. It was for things that we called modifiable risk factors. Right? I mean, if I had been able to just pick up the phone and talk to that patient I could have added on average Seven years to their health span not just their lifespan, but how many healthy years they had left on earth and

Starting point is 00:06:16 one day I had a massive epiphany and and over a case that I was working on that they prohibited me from contacting the patient and I just decided that I wasn't gonna spend one more day in my life predicting death. I was going to spend the balance in my lifetime trying to help people live healthier, happier, longer lives. I always say if I was to boil that entire career down to a single sense, it would be that the presence of oxygen is the absence of disease. Nothing is more truthful than that statement. We did not find a single disease

Starting point is 00:06:47 etiological pathway, not one, that did not have its roots in what we call hypoxia, lack of blood oxygen, or was not exacerbated by a lack of blood oxygen. And this includes every form of cancer, autoimmune disease, Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, early onset dementia, type 2 diabetes, waking, water retention,

Starting point is 00:07:05 hormone imbalance, all of these things because the body is in a hypoxic state. In fact, all human beings leave this planet the same way. We all die of the same thing. The definition of death is lack of oxygen to the brain, hypoxia. Only we tend to think of it as an event, right? A gunshot wound, a car, a boss, a stroke, a heart attack. But the truth is this is a predictable curve.

Starting point is 00:07:28 You are either managing oxygen well or you are managing oxygen poorly. The more poorly you manage oxygen, the faster you are accelerating towards the grave. The better you manage oxygen, the less quickly you are accelerating towards the grave and all forms of pathology and disease. Well, this is gonna be a juicy, juicy interview

Starting point is 00:07:46 because I have so much to dig into. There's some interviews where I'm always excited to interview guests, but there's some topics where I'm like, man, this is so interesting and nobody talks about it. And this is one of those interviews where I'm like, this is just so interesting. But before we dig into a lot of the things

Starting point is 00:08:04 that you just said, because you just rattled off a lot of information that I into a lot of the things that you just said, because you just rattled off a lot of information that I have a lot of follow up questions for. But let's take it back to your childhood for a minute. What was your first childhood memory of getting interested in human biology? So I grew up on a 300-acre tobacco farm in Southern Maryland, upper Marlboro, Maryland, the Marlboro man.

Starting point is 00:08:24 Never smoked tobacco, never chewed tobacco. My parents owned the land and they leased it to a farmer to grow agriculturally. And I was an only child. And you couldn't even see another house from my parents home. So I spent actually a lot of my time alone in the woods, you know, I would, you know, go into the woods during the day. I would ride my bike eight miles to my best friends house. There was a lot of animals on the adjoining farm next to me. I got really fascinated by nature and animals, you know, and I was always fascinated when cattle or horses or livestock got sick.

Starting point is 00:09:00 As a little young child, and they would call this veterinarian out and the veterinarianian would show up and do some magic stuff, and then all of a sudden this animal would heal. And I just thought that that was really, really cool. And when I got into school, I found out in the eighth grade, I was tested as clinically photographic. For a while, they thought I was borderline savant, or maybe maybe on the autism spectrum, because I had such a hyper concentrated photographic memory, which I later, you know, I've learned to use as a superpower. And so I naturally gravitated towards science because science is a lot of road memorization.

Starting point is 00:09:34 So chemistry, anatomy, science came very, very easy to me. You know, I've learned to manage being clinically photographic. Now I don't, I can't read for pleasure, for example, so I don't read menus in restaurants, trying not to look at street signs, things like that because I record all the information that I see. But in terms of building a basis for a future in science, it was sort of especially well crafted for a voluminous amount of storage of detailed information. And so my grade school years, in my high school years, were all full of science experiments. I was a super, super science geek.

Starting point is 00:10:14 And then when I went to college, I chose biology as a major chemistry as a minor. And then I took, you know, I'm on for four more years of just human biology. You talk about everybody can unlock their superhuman and it's clear with this photographic memory, you literally are superhuman. And I thought it was very interesting to find out that there's disadvantages to you having this photographic memory. Like you were just saying, you don't read menus or read anything for pleasure because essentially you can memorize anything, like anything that you see, you can just memorize. Yeah, so like I don't take the seat back

Starting point is 00:10:52 magazine out of the pocket in front of me on a flight because three months later I'll tell you where the, you know, sales center is for a condo project in Sao Paulo, you know, just so you can store senseless information as well. But I've learned to cultivate that, you know, I'm I am obsessed with the human body and its form and its function. And when I was in the insurance industry, I had access to this database of 370 million lives. And remember that insurance companies have data that no other enterprise has, no other medical enterprise, not even the federal government, the CDC, the National Institute of Health, because an insurance company knows the day, the date, the time, the location, and the cause of death for 370 million lives. We know exactly the disease,

Starting point is 00:11:37 ideological progression of things like statins, all forms of pharmaceuticals, narcotics, cortical steroids, commonity depressants, antibiotics, we know exactly what happens and what the impact is on mortality when people are subjected to these kind of chemicals or synthetics or pharmaceuticals. And if you really wanna look at health trends, follow the life insurance industry,

Starting point is 00:12:01 because they have data on what terminates people's lives and they have voluminous amounts of that data. Remember, they bet tens of millions of dollars on a single risk factor. And so that was naturally fascinating to me until I really had this sort of moral epiphany about wasting my life predicting death instead of spending my life impacting life. Do you ever think that this data would become available publicly or that there could be some sort of regulation to make that data available publicly so that we could save more lives? Do you think that would ever happen? Unfortunately, no. I mean, the insurance lobby

Starting point is 00:12:42 is the second most powerful lobby to Congress, first being big pharma, and then right behind them, you have big oil. So it's very unlikely that something that they're able to use to profiteer from in these financial services products, because remember, there are a lot of financial services products that are based on when you're going to die. Anuities, reverse mortgages, life insurance, these are all products that are based on human mortality. And so that database is highly, highly, highly guarded by that industry. You know, we knew, for example, in the 90s that opioids had an addictive amyloid long before you heard about the pain medication crisis. And we thought that they were just pain amyloids, but we realized

Starting point is 00:13:26 that there was mixed in there. There was an amyloid that not only could cause a cardiac event, but also created an addictive quality, which from pharmaceutical standpoint is a home run, right? Because if I can, I can create something that's addictive and toxic, then I can actually get patent protection and I can become a prescriptive pharmaceutical. As soon as something's toxic and addictive, it's prescribed and patented. And if it's prescribed and patented, then it's covered by health insurance. If it's covered by health insurance and it's patented, you have a monopoly. And so a lot of these compounds that we put into our bodies that are seeking to reduce inflammation or to elevate serotonin or reduce

Starting point is 00:14:07 the use of serotonin or elevate thyroid function are actually also designed to create dependency reliance and what we call tachafalaxis, a desensitization response. And that's all built in so that they can create the longevity and the patent protection, the prescription protection, the prescription protection of it. The truth is, I think the second big thing that I learned in studying mortality for 22 years is that the majority of the reason why people are affected by aging, for example, and we chalk all these things up to a consequence of aging, weight gain, water retention, brain fog, porous lee, poor focus and concentration, lack of waking energy.

Starting point is 00:14:49 These things that we accept as a consequence of aging, they are not a consequence of aging at all. They are a consequence of missing raw material in the human body. You deprive the human body of certain raw material, certain nutrients, minerals, vitamins, amino acids. You get the expression of that disease. Then we label this as a disease, and we treat it chronically as a disease. When the truth is, there are a lot of myths about how disease travels in families.

Starting point is 00:15:21 For example, we say that people have genetically inherited hypertension. They have genetically inherited hypothyroid, genetically inherited depression, anxiety, alcohol addiction, you know, all of these things that run in families. But what's fascinating about quote unquote genetically inherited disease is that we've mapped the entire human biome.

Starting point is 00:15:40 We know every single gene in the human body and no physician can tell you what gene causes any of those diseases. The reason why they can't tell you what gene causes those diseases, like hypertension, hypothyroid, hypercholesterolemia, hypertrageless rademia, all these genetically inherited diseases, is because that gene does not exist. And if that gene does not exist, then it means that those diseases do not exist. We do not pass disease from generation to generation. What we pass from generation to generation is the inability for the body to refine a raw material. This causes a deficiency, which leads to that disease.

Starting point is 00:16:22 So for example, if I was able to magically go into your body and deplete vitamin D3, the single most important nutrient in the human body. If I could go in and magically deplete vitamin D3, you would eventually develop rheumatoid arthritis like symptoms. Now, you don't have rheumatoid arthritis, but you would develop those parallel symptoms amongst other things, hormone imbalance, you know, brittal bones. But if you went to the wrong physician and you started talking about your medical history and said, listen, doc, I get out of the bed in the morning, my my feet and ankles are sore when they touch the ground in the morning, I wake up sore and achy like I had a workout the night before.

Starting point is 00:16:56 Lately, you know, my neck is really stiff and so is my low back and it's kind of hard to make a fist. The wrong physician is going to go, you know what? That's exactly what rheumatoid arthritis does. You have rheumatoid arthritis. I'm going to put you on a corticosteroid on any inflammatory to help you manage these symptoms. You start on corticosteroids, but what you don't tell the patient is that once you start a corticosteroid, you have six years and one day until you're having a joint replacement. Then you have a joint replacement, your mobility begins to reduce.

Starting point is 00:17:27 So for example, if you were a 55 year old female, 60 year old female, and you applied for life insurance policy, and I saw that you had been misdiagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis, even though I knew you only had a vitamin D3 deficiency, and I saw that you were put on corticosteroids. I would artificially advance your age six years and one day, I would schedule the joint replacement for you, and then after the joint replacement surgery, I would reduce what's called your ambulatory profile.

Starting point is 00:17:54 How well you emulate, how well you move. And as I reduce your mobility, I can bring in all of the diseases that exacerbate with reduced mobility. We know now, for example, that sitting is the new smoking. Sedentary lifestyle is the leading cause of all cause mortality. And so, now that I advanced those diseases that you never would have had, now you end up succumbing to a disease you never would have had because you were diagnosed with a condition that you didn't have

Starting point is 00:18:22 but on a medication that was not required, which caused a surgery that you didn't have, but on a medication that was not required, which caused a surgery that was unnecessary and led for you, your passing seven years earlier than you should have passed. And I can give you hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of examples like this. And the truth is there's such a positive understanding of basic human physiology and the majority of the medical community that we have stopped. We just don't have faith in human beings and mankind and humanity and the ability of this to heal this and how powerful frequency

Starting point is 00:18:53 and how powerful how basic exercise and sunlight and grounding and hydration and simple things back to the basics, how much this could entirely change the trajectory of somebody's life. They're listeners right now listening to your podcast, I and I bet more than 90% of your listeners right now are walking around at about 60% of their true state of norm. They have forgotten what normal feels like. They have accepted this baseline sense of normalcy. They might think they feel great. They have no idea how good normal could feel.

Starting point is 00:19:25 And the difference between where they are now and where they could be is simply knowing what deficiencies are going on in your body and supplementing for those deficiencies rather than supplementing for the sake of supplementing. This is so crazy. Hearing this information to me is almost shocking. It's overwhelming because you think about everything's working against us.

Starting point is 00:19:50 It's like your health insurance is working against you. The pharmaceutical companies are working against you. The life insurance companies are working against you. The doctors, I think, have good intentions, but they don't know enough. They believe medicine is good because they have to, because otherwise it makes what they do evil. Don't get me wrong. I hit a windshield at 25 miles an hour. I mean, I want to surge in, I want pain killers. I'm going to the ER, but when you realize, you know, there was a 2016 Harvard University study, it was repeated again by Johns Hopkins in 2019. We know now that modern medicine, medical error, is the third leading cause of death.

Starting point is 00:20:28 So modern medicine kills more people than morbid obesity and diabetes combined. And when you start to think that only cardiovascular disease and cancer kill more people than modern medicine, it's astounding, but when you really process the fact that the industry designed to prevent death is the third leading cause of death. That is just mind-blowing. If we translated that to any other industry, it would be laughable, right? I mean, if you

Starting point is 00:20:52 sold home security systems and you were the third leading cause of home invasion, you'd probably be out of business, right? Are you a rougher and you were the third leading cause of roof collapse. Probably wouldn't sell a lot of roofs. But we accept this in modern medicine, but we are excellent at crisis management, but we are terrible at bio-optimization. And there are 32,000 named diseases, you know, in the PDR and the physician's death reference, 32,000.

Starting point is 00:21:21 Nearly every single one of these can be traced back to nutrient deficiencies in the human body. You know, sometimes when I speak on stage, I will make a bold statement and say, I will take any disease, any ailment that you or a loved one is suffering from 80, 80, 80, HD, OCD, manic depression, drug and alcohol addiction, poor sleep. And I will tell you exactly what raw material is missing from that person's body so that you can replace it and have that condition of this rate.

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Starting point is 00:26:18 Terms and conditions apply. Need to hire? You need indeed. It's so incredible and so you always use this analogy. Our bodies are beautiful machines. We need the right raw materials. You mentioned that D3 is a big one. What are some other raw materials that are commonly missing from people that cause disease? So we have to think about the body, the human body this way. Remember that there is not a single compound. This is the most important concept. If anybody takes anything away from this podcast, this is the takeaway. The most important concept to understanding really good human optimization is understanding that there's

Starting point is 00:26:54 not a single compound known to mankind, not one. There's no vitamin, there's no mineral, there's no amino acid, there's no protein carbohydrate, no nutrient of any kind that enters the human body and is used in the format that we put it in. Without exception, everything that we put into our bodies gets converted by the body into the usable form. This process is called methylation. So it's like we pull crude oil out of the ground, right? But you cannot put

Starting point is 00:27:25 crude oil into your gas tank because the car doesn't understand that fuel source. Once crude oil is refined into gasoline, now the car can run because it understands that fuel source. Human things are no different. So we put all kinds of compounds into our body. Let's take the number one nutrient, the human diet, folic acid, for example. So folic acid for the record is an entirely man-made chemical, right? It is a synthetic chemical. We make it in a laboratory. It does not occur anywhere naturally on the surface of the earth. You cannot find folic acid anywhere in nature, but we've been thought to believe that folic acid is a necessary nutrient. It's the most prevalent nutrient in the human diet, by the way.

Starting point is 00:28:06 It's in all white flour, all white rice, all white bread, all white pasta. It's in all greens of any kind. And we don't call these foods sprayed with folic acid. We call them fortified or enriched. Let's take just folic acid for a moment. Well, we know that when folic acid enters the body, it's useless until the body converts it into something called methylfolate. Now the body can use it.

Starting point is 00:28:32 Well, what if, like, 44% of the population, you have a gene mutation called MTHFR. I don't want to cost one your podcast, but it's affectionately called the motherfucker gene. It actually stands for methylene tetrahedral folate reductase, but everyone calls it the motherfucker gene because it's MTHFR. And 44% of the population, including 44% of your listeners, have this gene mutation. Well, if you have this gene mutation, you cannot convert the most prevalent nutrient in the human diet into the form your body can use.

Starting point is 00:29:03 So what does this mean? This means that the level of folic acid skyrockets and the level of necessary methylfolate to carnins. Now you have a deficiency. What are some of the expressions of that deficiency? Well, depending on how severe this gene mutation is, nearly everyone that has this gene mutation reports some form of anxiety. So if you either suffer from anxiety or you know somebody that's suffering from anxiety, if you ask them these three questions, you can prove very quickly that it is not coming from a cluster of symptoms in their outside environment. It is coming from their physiology.

Starting point is 00:29:38 And the first question is, you know, have you had this on and off throughout your lifetime? Most people will say yes. The second question is, can you point to the specific trigger that causes it? Most people that suffer from chronic anxiety will tell you, no, I cannot point to the specific trigger that causes it. I can be driving home from work on an otherwise innocuous day. I can be overwhelmed with anxiety. I can be at dinner with my friends and start having just these feelings of anxiety as

Starting point is 00:30:03 your second clue that it's coming from your physiology and not your outside environment. And the third question is, if you've tried anti-anxiety medications, did they work? And they'll say no, they made me feel like a zombie. So now, how could this deficiency in methylfolate cause this anxiety condition? And it is, by the way, it's the same with depression,

Starting point is 00:30:22 it is the same with ADD and ADHD, which are not attention deficits at all. They're attention overload disorders. They are not attention deficit disorders. And so when you break down the physiology of what is anxiety, well, it's an excess rise of something called catecholamines. These are fight or flight neurotransmitters. And we think that we need to have the presence of a fear in order to feel fear.

Starting point is 00:30:50 That's absolutely not true, right? If you drove home tonight and you got out of your car, and somebody was standing in front of you with a knife. That's not obvious, very real fear. You would have a fight or flight response. Your pupils would dilate your heart rate, you would increase your extremities, you would flood with blood. But I'm here in would dilate, your heart rate would increase, your extremities would flood

Starting point is 00:31:05 with blood. But I'm here in my log cabin, and as you can't tell, I'm in taking Colorado at 10,500 feet. I could be laying in that bunk bed right there, and I could start thinking about getting eaten by shark. Now, the chances of a shark making a 10,500 feet up into the mountains, inviting me in that bed are zero, but I could have the exact same response. So how is it that I can have fight or flight response to the presence of a fear and a fight

Starting point is 00:31:34 or flight response without the presence of a fear? In fact, without even the chance that that fear would come true. This is because of a rise in something called catacolomines. Deficit in methylfolate does not allow us to metabolize these phytoflight neurotransmitters, and so they rise and fall seemingly without trigger, and they can go all the way to the point where they trigger a panic attack. If you actually look up this gene mutation, MTHFR, and anxiety, you will read a hordes of peer-reviewed published clinical literature that link this simple, fully, methylpholate deficiency to these conditions. And it is the same link to attention deficit disorder. We've sort of labeled ADD as an attention deficit or attention

Starting point is 00:32:20 deficit hyperactivity disorder. It's not a deficit of attention at all. It's an attention overload disorder. It's too many windows open at the same time. And why does that happen? Because in the human brain, we don't just create thought. We also dismantle thought. And if you don't break thought down at the rate that you create thought,

Starting point is 00:32:42 the mind gets very clouded. Now, you are paying attention to too many things. It's not that you can't pay attention, it's that you can't pay attention to so many things. I mean, a lot of peace can come to these people by using the right balance of B vitamins, the right balance of specific forms of B12, and using methylfolate.

Starting point is 00:33:01 That's why I think everybody, once in their lifetime, should do a gene test and look for five actionable genes. It's only a test you do once, you'll never repeat it. Once you know exactly what your body can convert and what it can't, now you supplement for that deficiency and just watch the magic happen. This is pretty interesting. So you're saying in order to understand what raw materials you need or what you need to change with your body, you've got to do some sort of genetic testing. And not because you want to figure out what diseases you've inherited, you actually want

Starting point is 00:33:34 to figure out what genes. What deficiencies you have. What deficiencies you have. Stop supplementing for the sake of supplementing and you can start supplementing for deficiency. The question we should ask when we're about to supplement is not what's the quality of the supplement? Where was it manufactured? What's the reputation of the manufacturer or the person that's pushing this? The first question we should say is does my body need it? Then go down the road of the quality of the supplement because there are a lot of phenomenal supplements on the market,

Starting point is 00:34:05 pure encapsulations, born, symbiotic, I mean, these are amazing supplement companies, and the products that they manufacture, including my own at 10X Health, are products lots of people need, but not everyone needs the same thing. And so once you unlock that deficiency in your body, you're on your way to a state of optimization that you never thought possible. I mean, clients of mine tell me all the time, they're like, oh my God, Gary, I feel amazing. And I just remind them, you actually don't feel amazing, not to burst your bubble.

Starting point is 00:34:37 That's what normal is supposed to feel like. You just forgot how normal is supposed to feel. It's so fascinating. So I want to talk about oxygen because I know that oxygen is a really important topic. Like you mentioned earlier, the definition of death is hypoxia, which is a lack of oxygen to the brain. You also mentioned that if you could boil your entire career down into one sentence, it would be that the presence of oxygen is the absence of disease.

Starting point is 00:35:05 So talk to us about why oxygen is so important. Obviously, we all know about breathing, right? We can't go very long without breathing, but it's more important than that. You know, we know that aging aside from being the aggressive pursuit of comfort is a mitochondrial disease. So inside of every cell in your body, you have thousands of these little motors called mitochondria. Human beings are not powered by the air we breathe, the water we drink or the supplements

Starting point is 00:35:33 we take or the food we eat. We're powered by one energy source. It's called ATP. And this adenosine triphosphate is made in a battery inside the cell called the mitochondria. And inside the mitochondria, there is a motor, right? It is spinning around and it's creating this energy. Well, every time this motor makes one revolution, it has two choices.

Starting point is 00:35:55 It can either create two units of energy, two ATP, or it can create 36 units of energy. Same term, it's either 16 times more powerful or 16 times less powerful. It's a really hard concept to grasp. It's like walking onto a car light and the salesman says, hey, there's two choices here. It's the same car. It comes in a 1600 horsepower version or a 100 horsepower version. or a 100 horsepower version. 100 horsepower is like a lawn mower, and 1,600 horsepower is like a professional NASCAR. And so this is what's going on inside the cell of our body.

Starting point is 00:36:32 10% of your body weight, by the way, is mitochondria. You have 110 trillion of these in your body. Anything that down regulates the mitochondria or harms the function of the mitochondria accelerates aging and makes fertile ground for all forms of pathology and disease. So now we're kind of inside the cell, inside the mitochondria, talking about this little motor called the CREP cycle.

Starting point is 00:36:56 We're going to talk about aging in performance. We have to talk about mitochondrial function, right? We know that the dysregulation of mitochondria is linked to every form of disease and pathology in the human body, including Alzheimer's and dementia. You know, there's so many myths about these disease. For example, we know that Alzheimer's now is not Alzheimer's disease at all. It's type three diabetes. The big lie, the big myth about Alzheimer's is that patients are losing their memory.

Starting point is 00:37:21 That's actually not true. They're losing access to their memory. losing their memory. That's actually not true. They're losing access to their memory. And the access to this memory is disabled in large part because of down regulation in the mitochondria. So we know that this mitochondria can produce 16 times more energy or 16 times less energy. So what determines whether or not it's 1600 horsepower or 100 horsepower? The presence of oxygen. horsepower or 100 horsepower, the presence of oxygen. If oxygen enters that cycle, it creates 16 times more energy. If oxygen doesn't enter that cycle, it creates 16 times less energy. And so here is where the importance of oxygen comes into play. And when you start talking about, well, how can I better manage oxygen? Well, I'll give you some free ways to do it right now.

Starting point is 00:38:07 And all this is doing is getting back to the basics, right? So if you've ever heard of Earthing or grounding, which is where you take bare feet and touch barissoil. And think about that. If you're listening to this podcast, think about the last time that you had bare feet touching barissoil. I mean, like dirt and grass and sand. Okay, that was the last time

Starting point is 00:38:25 that you actually discharged into the earth. Human beings, we build up a charge in our body. You know, we all know about the acid alkaline scale. Well, pH stands for potential hydrogen. It is a charge. If you wanna change the pH of the body, you don't drink alkaline water. That was the biggest marketing myth ever sold to the public.

Starting point is 00:38:47 You cannot make the body alkaline by drinking alkaline water. If you want to make the body alkaline, you change the charge. How do you change the charge? You run a low-gouse current through the body. There's two ways to do this. There's a way that you can pay for, and there's a way that it's free. If you want to pay for it and you buy a PEMF mat pulse electromagnetic field, right and you lay on that mat

Starting point is 00:39:15 16 to 30 minutes a day you just put it in your bed and every morning that you wake up you will wake up alcholina It will alkalize all 32 trillion cells in your body If you don't want to spend five grand on a PEMF mat then take your shoes off six minutes a day and come in contact with the surface of the earth. Right? Magnetism in the earth will change the polarity in your body. It will change the polarity of the surface of every cell in the body and what will happen is instead of cells sticking together because they have opposite charges, they will repel because they have the same charge. Why is that important? Because if I can increase the surface area of the cell,

Starting point is 00:39:47 now the cell can exchange with its environment, eliminate waste, repair, detoxify, regenerate. And this also increases the surface area to absorb oxygen from the bloodstream. So, magnetism is one way to improve the oxidative state of the body. The second is oxygen itself. This is why sedentary lifestyle is the leading cause of all-cause mortality because we are getting less oxygen and therefore less circulation.

Starting point is 00:40:14 The majority of these pathologies and diseases too have a circulation component. So I tell people that to learn to do an eight-minute breathwork technique, I borrowed it from Wim Hof. I'm not the purveyor of this technique. You know, he's the father of modern breathwork. You go to my Instagram, I do tutorials on Instagram all the time about breathwork, but you can wake up in the morning. You can do eight minutes of breathwork, three rounds of thirty breaths with a breath hold in between.

Starting point is 00:40:42 And this does two things. Number one, the number one vasodilator in the human body is not nitric oxide. Nitric oxide, by the way, is toxic. So if you're listening to this podcast and you're taking nitric oxide supplement because you're an exercise enthusiast or you're a bodybuilder, you want to meet more vascular, please stop. That is toxic to the mitochondria. It actually completes four oxygen in the mitochondria. Something called cytochrome-seoxidase. It pulls oxygen out and forces itself to dock. The major phasodilator in the human body is carbon dioxide. Carbon dioxide causes our veins to dilate. So by doing breath work and flooding the blood with oxygen, and then holding our breath for a prolonged period of time and dilating our blood vessels.

Starting point is 00:41:26 We actually, when we breathe in again, we get more oxygen to the tissues. We can actually change the oxygen tension in our tissues. Now, I use something called a hypermax oxygen system, a multi-step oxygen system. Again, it's about five grand, but it's an oxygen mask. You put it on, you breathe 93 to 95% or 2 for 10 minutes, while you're mildly exercising,

Starting point is 00:41:47 but you do not have to spend money on that system. You can learn to do breath work. And then the third thing is to expose your skin to natural sunlight. And the truth is, most of us are not getting enough sun. It's not that we're getting too much sun. And the safest time to expose your skin to sunlight is the first 45 minutes of the day, well, during first light, because there's a very special type of light during that 45 minutes. It's there's no UVA, there's no UVB rays, so nothing that can damage your skin,

Starting point is 00:42:14 nothing that can burn your skin. And, you know, I sit out on my porch with my shirt off, I'm in a pair of shorts, even when it's cold outside. And I do three rounds of 30 breaths. I expose my skin to sunlight. Sunlight, certain wavelengths of sunlight, when they pass through the skin, they will go into the mitochondria. They will go into the motor of the crebsicle. They will kick out nitric oxide and force oxygen to dock just by exposing yourself to sunlight. Now I also have a red light therapy bed and red light therapy as you may or may not know is the rage in sports recovery and anti-aging and healthy skin now. But if you don't want to go out and spend money on a red light therapy bed, you can expose your skin to sunlight. So those are three things your

Starting point is 00:43:01 listeners could do for free starting tomorrow, grounding, sunlight, breathwork to absolutely change the trajectory of their life. And reason why most people will not do it is because it's too easy. It's because they're like, it can't be that simple, but it is. And, you know, I really try to impress upon people how these tiny little habits could completely change the trajectory of their life This has been such valuable Information and so I interviewed Wim Hof on this podcast. Oh, I'm one of certain slide. Yeah, I'm going to the period films with him this year Oh really, he's awesome. Yeah, I loved him. He was an inspiration

Starting point is 00:43:42 So let's talk about hormone balance because loved him. He was an inspiration. So let's talk about hormone balance because hormone balance is a topic that I think is starting to bubble up more in society and culture. I'm seeing a lot more like Instagram reels about hormone balance, especially for women. Why is hormone balance something that we need to understand more and what are some key tips that you have to improve our hormone balance? So let's talk about basic human physiology for a moment and where hormones fit into physiology, right? So I would say the greatest single reason

Starting point is 00:44:12 why people walk through the door of one of my clinics at Tenex Health is because the biggest complaint is, I just don't have the same energy I used to have. I just lack energy. You know, my waking energy, I feel like my short-term recall is not what it used to have. I just lack energy. You know, my waking energy, I feel like my short-term recalls not what it used to be. And I just basically lack energy. So when you say you lack energy, if we convert that to physiology, basically what you're saying is, I'm not low on energy, I'm low on oxygen,

Starting point is 00:44:36 because everything that you perceive about energy is nothing more than oxygen in your blood. So I want you to imagine a tree for a moment. Now, let's start in the leaves, and I'm going to walk you all the way down into the roots below the soil. So up in the leaves, you're saying, I lack energy. So when you say you lack energy to me, I know that you're low on oxygen. What transports oxygen around the blood? A red blood cell?

Starting point is 00:45:00 And the fluid inside the red blood cell called hemoglobin. So that means I want to raise the number of red blood cells and I want to raise the amount of hemoglobin they have. So let's move down the tree. Where do I go to get more red blood cells and more hemoglobin? Well, I go to the factory that makes red blood cells and hemoglobin, and that's the bone marrow. So now I get to the factory,

Starting point is 00:45:21 and I want to increase its production. How do I increase its production? Well, the boss of the bone marrow is the hormone testosterone. In men and women, the primary role of testosterone is not male characteristics. It's not deep voice, aggression, facial hair, muscles. It's none of those things. In men and women, the primary role of testosterone is to put pressure on the bone marrow to increase red blood cells. It's called urythropoesis.

Starting point is 00:45:48 So if I'm deficient in testosterone, I'm very likely deficient in red blood cells in hemoglobin. So how do I raise testosterone? Why don't you start taking testosterone? I go further down the tree and I find out what is testosterone made from. It's made from something called DHAA, and you can get your DHEA tested. If you are clinically deficient in DHEA, you will be deficient in testosterone. If you are deficient in testosterone, your bone marrow will produce less red blood cells

Starting point is 00:46:18 in hemoglobin. If you produce less red blood cells in hemoglobin, you will be low in oxygen. If you are low in oxygen, you will be low in oxygen. If you're low in oxygen, you'll be low in energy. So that now let's just go right through the soil into the root. What is DHA mod from? Vitamin D3. So the first thing we wanna do

Starting point is 00:46:35 before we start talking about taking hormones is we want to make sure that our D3 is in the optimal range and our DHA is in the optimal range. Because 70% of the clients that we see that are deficient in hormones do not need hormones, they need the raw material for the body to make hormones. So D3 and DHA will raise testosterone, raise the pressure on the bone marrow, improve red blood tone hemoglobin levels, and improve your oxidative state. We'll be right back after a quick break from our sponsors. Young and profitors, even though I interview the brightest minds in the world, I still seek

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Starting point is 00:53:29 by Thread Bank pursuant to a license from Visa USA Incorporated. So let's switch gears and talk about sugar for a minute. Is sugar our crypto-knight? Rook, I'll call you over. Yeah, it's our crypto-knight when come from being becoming superhuman. So the truth about sugar is that, you know, first of all, we have to understand that the brain has sophisticated as we'd like to think it is. It's actually not.

Starting point is 00:53:54 The brain is very primal. And you know what the brain cares about? The brain cares about survival, right? If the brain wants calcium, it will leach it from the bones. If it needs amino acids, it'll strip it from lean muscle. And if it wants sugar, it will leach it from the bones. If it needs amino acids, it'll strip it from lean muscle. And if it wants sugar, it will activate a receptor on the back of the tongue, called the RF-1A2 receptor.

Starting point is 00:54:13 This is a very special receptor because things have to be swallowed to trigger this receptor. And when it passes by this receptor, this receptor doesn't register sweet. It releases dopamine. And this is why most people are not don't just like sugar, they are addicted to sugar. In fact, the entire synthetic sugar industry, Aspartame, Stukerloose, all of these synthetic sugars or sugar substitutes.

Starting point is 00:54:38 The majority of their chemical component is not designed to taste sweet. It is designed to ding the dopamine receptor. It is designed to cause your brain to release dopamine, which gives you a pleasure response, which is why people are addicted to sodas, artificial sweeteners, and sodas, which is why people are addicted to all kinds of sugar because they don't just like the taste of sugar, they are addicted to the dopamine. And in the mortality space, we used to say the absence of dopamine is the presence of addiction. The reason why most addiction has a tendency to shift, if you've ever been an addict or ever known a true addict,

Starting point is 00:55:18 drug addicts become alcoholics, alcoholics become work out of holics, work out of holics become work of a holics, why does addiction have a tendency to shift because we never address the dopamine deficiency? If I was able to magically go into your body right now and deplete dopamine You would begin to engage in dopamine seeking behaviors, right? Dopamine is the primary driver of behavior. So our tone in is the primary driver of mood so is the primary driver of behavior, serotonin is the primary driver of mood. So when we talk about sugars, we really have to talk about this dopamine cycle. And that's why sugar addiction is right

Starting point is 00:55:51 up there with drug and alcohol addiction. We have increased the intake of sugar 400 fold in this country since 1964. The worst thing that ever happened to humanity was the war on fat in the 90s and where they started to replace everything with high sugars. We know now, for example, that Alzheimer's is type three diabetes. It's insulin resistance in the brain. So sugar is really the root of all evil. So when it comes to sugar, then, are you suggesting that we should like completely remove sugars?

Starting point is 00:56:23 Is it something that we don't need as a raw material? No, I'm just saying that we should eat when we eat whole foods and we eat less processed sugar, and this is where we get into trouble, right? Processed foods and high glycemic sugars, especially your white sugars, and these are really dangerous for you. The majority of my sugar intake comes from three sources, natural honey, natural maple sorbs, and fruits that end in berry. The problem with the majority of sugars is that they don't only do they dig the dopamine

Starting point is 00:56:59 receptor and then fall off, which makes you crave the next sugar ding, but what sugar does is it raises our insulin level. And most people think that the primary role of insulin is to lower blood sugar. And that's actually not true. The primary role of insulin is to block any other form of energy use in the body. So if insulin is high, the body cannot burn fat. So what happens when insulin is high? We store fat in an accelerated rate. The first place that fat builds up is in the blood.

Starting point is 00:57:31 So people that eat the most sugar have the highest blood fat. So the heaviest people eat the most sugar because high sugar causes high insulin, high insulin, forces fat storage. Your body does not have the choice to use fat as an energy source. One of the healthiest things you can do for a lot of my patients that are sugar addicted or they have high triglycerides, high fat in the blood, I do what's called a keto reset. I put them on a prescription keto genic diet for 10 weeks. It's a very easy diet to get used to.

Starting point is 00:58:06 And at the end of that, you start to reintroduce sugars and you give their pancreas a break. You make them insulin-sensitive again. High levels of insulin is one of the signs of something called metabolic syndrome. And high insulin leads to another symptom of metabolic syndrome called high triglyceride. leads to another symptom of metabolic syndrome called high triglyceride. So high insulin, high blood sugar, high blood fat, mild abdominal obesity. This is what we call metabolic syndrome. It's the leading cause of cardiovascular disease, which is the leading cause of death worldwide. And all of this can be traced back to sugar. And so when people say, well, what diet should I be on?

Starting point is 00:58:42 It should be on a whole food diet? It doesn't matter, keto, paleo, carnivore, raw food, vegan, vegetarian. You need to be eating clean whole foods. Wild caught salmon, pasture raised chickens, free-range eggs, organic grass-fed meats. These are excellent sources of nutrition for you. And organic fruits and vegetables. More processed foods, especially processed sugars we have, the higher the incidence of all disease pathways. So I know we were talking about Wim Hof previously, and one of his big core concepts is this

Starting point is 00:59:18 need to make sure that we're uncomfortable, right? That we're always so used to like air conditioning and all these things that just make us comfortable, comfortable and kind of complacent. You also agree that aging is the aggressive pursuit of comfort, the more we aggressively see comfort, the faster that we age as something that you say. Talk to us about the need to be uncomfortable sometimes. There is a process in the human body called hormesis. Hormesis is a stress strengthening response. So for

Starting point is 00:59:48 example, we know that if you don't load a bone, it won't strengthen. If you don't actually tear a muscle, it won't grow. If you don't challenge the immune system, it will weaken. And so we've got to stop telling grandma not to go outside. It's too hot, not to go outside. It's too cold, just to lay down, just to relax, to eat at the very first pang of hunger. This is collapsing all of our defense mechanisms. Not to get political or alienate half your audience or anything, but one of the worst things

Starting point is 01:00:17 that happened to us during the pandemic was social distancing, residential quarantining, and masking. Those were so antithetical to human survival and our basic human physiology that we are seeing now the outcome of a global collapse of the immune system. So when you take human beings out of contact with other human beings, when you've forced them into the residences, when you mask them up,

Starting point is 01:00:43 when you social distance them, when you don't expose them to daily pathogens, and viruses, and bacteria, what happens is the immune system starts to weaken. We're on our eighth variant of Omnichron. So why is our immune system so weak? Why are we so susceptible? Because we actually stopped challenging the immune system. This is why things like cold water exposure are so good for you. I know Wim Hof is a major fan of that. Remember, we're not trying to become cold adapted.

Starting point is 01:01:11 We're trying to cold shock the body. So what happens, for example, when we expose the body to cold water, when we get a peripheral vasoconstriction, we actually get an increase in the release of endorphins like dopamine that actually give us a pleasure response. We force all the oxygen into the core to our liver, lungs, pancreas, our kidneys up to our brain.

Starting point is 01:01:31 We activate brown fat, which is our thermostat in the body. We improve our metabolic rate. And you can do this by getting in cold water three minutes a day or taking a three minute cold shower. Now, why won't most people do that? Because it's uncomfortable. We don't like to go outside because it's's uncomfortable. We don't like to go outside, because it's too hot. We don't like to go outside, because it's too cold. We like to just lay down and relax,

Starting point is 01:01:50 because that's comfortable. We stress the body. It has a whor-medic response and it strengthens. And so, the reason why I say aging is the aggressive pursuit of comfort is that most people just, they avoid exercise or high temperatures or low temperatures or cold exposure or all of these things because they just don't want to be uncomfortable.

Starting point is 01:02:10 I would love to close out with a few of your favorite stories of how you've basically transformed people's lives. I know that you have a lot of celebrity clients like the UFC president Dana White, but whatever examples you want to give of how you've actually transformed people's lives through all that you work with human biology. Well, you know, my favorite stories are where you're taking myriad of seemingly unrelated symptoms, right? So think about all these symptoms people have as like spokes on a wheel, waking, water retention, poor sleep,

Starting point is 01:02:45 hormone imbalance, lack of focus, lack of concentration, low waking energy, poor libido. It seems like the whole world's going to hell in a hand basket. What I always try to do is I look for the hub. Where do all of these things meet? So for example, the only white just disclosed on my podcast, very publicly, my work with his mother-in-law. She's 79-year-old woman, beautiful woman, who was diagnosed with three very significant conditions, early onset dementia, peripheral neuropathy, and congestive heart failure. When you ask yourself, where do all of these meet?

Starting point is 01:03:20 So the clinical team and I sit around, remember, I'm not licensed to practice medicine, so eventually there is a physician involved that is licensed to practice medicine. Where do all these things meet? They all meet at circulation. If I reduce circulation to periphery, I get the symptoms of peripheral neuropathy. If I reduce circulation to the brain, I get these symptoms of early onset memory loss or an early onset dementia. If I reduce circulation to the heart, I get the expression of congestive heart failure.

Starting point is 01:03:46 And so these are not independent of one another. They all meet at this core of circulation. So we use things like oxjumbas, hydrogen water filtration systems for her drink hydrogen water, resveratrol to increase blood flow, and simple raw materials in nutrients to improve the blood flow and simple raw materials and nutrients to improve the blood flow and circulation.

Starting point is 01:04:08 Sixty-five days later, after she was diagnosed with these conditions, she no longer qualified for those diagnoses. There's so many people that are listening to this program right now that have some kind of condition going on in their body, and they've been told they have hypothyroid, or they've been told they have hypertension, and they've just accepted that diagnosis, and they've been told they have hypothyroid, or they've been told they have hypertension, and they've just accepted that diagnosis, and now they've subscribed to a lifetime medication. I would really encourage them to get that one-time

Starting point is 01:04:32 genetic test on. You do it once in your lifetime. You never guess again on what you need to supplement with, and it could permanently change the trajectory of your life. So most of the listeners that are tuning into the show, they're probably in their 30s. Where can we go to learn from you? What books do you have? What websites do you have? What services products? Like, how can we further work with you to learn from you on how to optimize our bodies?

Starting point is 01:05:00 I just started a podcast on human optimization called the ultimate human. Amy Whiten was a guest on there. You'll see Stephen A Smith, Steve Harvey, Steve O. Key, lots of Steve's. And you'll see lots of average patients. But I also interview the leading PhDs and MDs and researchers in the world on bio optimization, longevity, optimal health. On my Instagram, I don't do anything but teach. So if you just go to

Starting point is 01:05:25 add Gary Brekka, just my first and last name, you'll see tons of videos on breathwork, morning routine, cold plunging, oxygen, light, magnetism. You'll see all of the different topics that I lecture on. I put all of my staged talks onto my Instagram. And then finally, you can go to 10X, the number 10, the letter X, healthtest.com and order that gene test. You can see the supplements that I've manufactured myself and I have tons of information on that site on bio optimization. Awesome. Are you in business with Brent Cardone? He also came on this podcast. 10X Health, is he an investor or something?

Starting point is 01:06:04 Yes. It was Streamline Medical, was my company eight years ago. Grant acquired it, and now he and I, and my wife and Brandon Dawson are partners in 10X Health. Oh, awesome. He's been looking amazing. Oh, yeah, he was my way different. He was on my early success stories, right? One of my earliest clients, and you know, Grant does not look, act, or perform like a 65-year-old man. No. Right. One circles around most 25-year-olds. The last two questions I ask all my guests are the same, and then we do something fun at the end

Starting point is 01:06:34 of the year. So the first one is, what is one actionable thing our young and profitors can do to become more profitable tomorrow? Find something that you would otherwise do for free and monetize it. And what is your secret to profiting in life? And this can go beyond business financial, but what is your secret to profiting in life? My secret to profiting in life is really kind of aligning my purpose with my passion. I'm passionate about the human body and human physiology and my purpose is to change the face of humanity. And because those two are so aligned, I really, I know this sounds so altruistic and cheesy,

Starting point is 01:07:09 but it's true. I don't feel like I work a day in my life. This podcast did not feel like work. I really enjoyed this podcast. And when I go off the phone, I've got a dozen calls lined up with clients and patients and my clinical team. And none of that feels,

Starting point is 01:07:23 like I'm excited to get off of this podcast and get on those calls. I feel like most people have a passion, some people have a purpose. If they don't align their passion, their purpose, what really lights your fire, wakes you up in the morning. What would you otherwise do for free? And then when you have a purpose like, you know, which is by the way linked to longevity, all of the blue zones in the world isolated the fact that the elderly people still felt like they had a purpose. So when you have a purpose, meaning, you know, minus to change the face of humanity, this information that I have does not belong to me.

Starting point is 01:07:53 It belongs to your listeners, it belongs to mankind. I'm just blessed enough to have it flow through me. Since I'm so almost economically passionate about the human body and I read voraciously and I study voraciously and my purpose is to touch the face of humanity. Those two aligned and I'm telling you it's like, I feel like I won the lottery every day. Yeah, I can feel the passion through you and I'm totally aligned. I totally agree with everything you're saying and Gary, even a wealth of information, I can't wait to have you back on the podcast.

Starting point is 01:08:23 Thank you so much for your time. Where can everybody learn more about you and everything that you do? What are your main channels? My Instagram at Gary Breka. Amazing. Thank you so much, Gary. You're so welcome. Thank you for having me on. I really liked this conversation with Gary Breka. It was so eye-opening and I found it so moving

Starting point is 01:08:45 what he said about not wanting to waste his life predicting death when instead he could spend it impacting life for the better of humanity. I think that's something we can all strive to do, whether a biohackers or not. Gary offered us so many actionable biohacks but I wanted to flag a few that he emphasized. He told us that his entire career boils down to this one sentence. The presence of oxygen is the absence of disease. So how can we better manage the oxygen levels in our body? The easiest way to do so, says Gary, is an activity cult grounding, which basically means take off your socks and shoes occasionally and just let your feet connect with the earth. The second technique is breathing. He recommends the 8-minute routine pioneered by Wim Hof, who we also had on the show in episode

Starting point is 01:09:29 number 175. Better breathing helps boost our oxygen levels and offsets the sedentary lifestyles that so many of us have today. And the third way to help your oxygen levels is exposing your skin to natural sunlight. This is the safest to do in the first 45 minutes of the day. Gary kills two oxygen birds with one stone by sitting on his porch in the morning sun to do his breath work.

Starting point is 01:09:51 Finally, I was really struck by Gary's emphasis on seeking discomfort. Aging, as he puts it, is the aggressive pursuit of comfort, something we're all guilty of. But if we want to slow down aging, we need to make ourselves uncomfortable. So seek out good stress, whether it's a cold shower, fasting, or intense exercise. Just like you have to tear a muscle to build it, you have to challenge your immune system and your body to strengthen them.

Starting point is 01:10:15 And that means embracing discomfort. Thanks so much for listening to this episode of Young and Profiting Podcast. If you listen, learned and profited from this conversation with the fascinating Gary Breka, then please share this episode with your friends and family. It would really mean a lot to me if you helped spread this podcast by word of mouth. And if you did enjoy this show and you learned something new, then why not drop us a 5-star review on Apple Podcast. We have over 4500 reviews because we have such incredible listeners like you. You can also find me on Instagram at YappwithHalla or LinkedIn by searching my name, it's Halataha. Before we wrap up, I want to give a big shout out to my incredible Yapp production team. Thank you for all you do behind the scenes. This is your host, Halataha, Nino.

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