August 12, 2025 • 33 mins
In this episode, Jennie sits down with world-renowned dermatologist and wellness pioneer Dr. Nicholas Perricone to talk about the science behind beauty, aging and inflammation. From the power of an anti-inflammatory diet to the myths around nicotine, Dr. Perricone breaks down how we can take charge of our health and appearance from the inside out. Jennie opens up about her own journey with aging and what she's learned from embracing wellness as a form of self-respect.
Find Dr. Perricone's book: The Beauty Molecule: Introducing Neuroceuticals, the Breakthrough for Ageless Beauty HERE
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
You're listening to I Choose Me with Jenny Garl. Hi. Everyone,
welcome to I Choose Me. This podcast. You got it.
It's about the choices we make in life. So today
we're going to be talking about the science of aging
and how our choices affect our skin. Doctor Nicholas Paricone
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is a pioneering dermatologist and a best selling author whose
work has reshaped how we think about beauty and health
from the inside out. He has taught us his three
tier strategy since the nineties. You guys. He has a
new book, The Beauty Molecule, which I have been using
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like a bible. Hello. Doctor Paricone is going to share
why beauty has never been just skin deep and how
the choices we make every day truly matter. I have
long trusted doctor Paricone. He brings deep experience and fresh
insight to the wellness conversation. I'm so pleased to introduce
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doctor Nicholas Paracne. Okay, it is so wonderful to see you,
even if it's on my computer screen.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Well, it's really nice to get a chance to be
with you electronic.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
I'm yeah, I feel like we've been together a long time.
I mean when I say together a long time, but
I remember reading your first book back in the nineties
when you were launching your skincare brand Altogether. I was
a faithful customer of yours, and I've returned to it
in the last couple of years because I had the
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opportunity to be a brand ambassador for Para Cone Empty,
which I've had such a great time doing. So this
feels very full circle for me. And as usual, your
conversations about inflammating have intrigued me once again in this
new book. It's been ten years, right since your last book.
(02:01):
This one is the Beauty Molecule. What is the title
all about.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Well, I did a lot of research, and people said,
why has it been ten years since your last book?
I said, well, I'm looking for new research because I
don't want to be writing a book over and over again,
which many authors do, and you just get the same old,
same old. So what I found out was it all
came down to one molecule in the body that is
anti inflammatory, that effects and basically allows us to have
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memories and for thinking, makes our muscles contract and I can
just go on all day here.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
So it's just one wait, one molecule.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
One molecule does all that. It's called acetylcholine, and you know,
it works throughout our bodies in a way, so it's
a neurotransmitter. But it also works, like I said, for
muscle contraction. So when you actually when when the motor
centers of your brain say okay, I want to move
my arm, it sends a signal and the electrical signal
goes towards the muscle, but it doesn't actually connect with
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the muscle. Is a gap. It's called a neuromuscular junction
and south of acetylcholine, and they're actually receptors on the
muscle and they pick up the set and they contract.
So it's an electric message and it's a chemical message
at the same time. And so it's redundancy with different ways.
And I think that's probably was designed by the creators
so that we have backup systems.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
That yes, well everything you say makes sense. However, I
need like the dialogue for the dummies, Like you know,
when it comes to the science behind skincare, it can
get so confusing and there are so many terms and
things like that, So feel free to speak to me
as if you're speaking to a child. Basically, that's what
I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
No, I'm really good at is translating science into something
that's understandable because it's not. There are no everybody thinks
that science is difficult. No, whenever you're in a specialty,
whether it's medicine or science or any other specialty, they
have their own language. It was important because we need
to communicate our system. But also it comes down to it.
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It's kind of a litist you know, if you have
a different language and makes you look more important.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Tell us why you believe fighting excessive inflammation is basically
the answer to almost everything in regard to skincare and
health in general.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Well, that's a great question, and it started off I
was in medical school and we had to take a
course called histopathology where you spent looking at the microscope.
And so the idea was a seat clinically on the
patient and then going in to see the biopsies and
what it looks like under a microscope. And I'm looking
at this tumor it's called the scraam of cell cancer,
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and it surrounded by inflammation. And what that looks like
under the microscope is we have to stain the tissue
and the immune cells that are around. This thing actually
gets stained blue, so it looks like blue confetti. And
there it was. I said, well, it's a lot of inflammation.
Then I continued with my studies, and there's inflammation everywhere.
It's in arteries, it was in brain. So I talked
to the professors. I said, is it possible that inflammation
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may be driving these pathology pathological problems? Oh no, it
was kind of needs your go No, no, it's your
immune system reacting, which I thought was odd, but anyway,
but I kept that with me, and then as I progressed,
I learned it awful lot. And one of the things
I did notice is when I was doing my looking
under the microscope, I was also doing some clinical work.
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And when I was doing my psychiatric rotation, I noticed
that people who are taking psychemets their skin looked better.
And I said that, and so I was taking this
other call. Of course, it was called embryology. And so
it's nice having all these basic sciences at the same
time you're learning. It was very special school I went
to was they put everything together. It was called the
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problem based anyway, so I'm looking at these people and
I'm reading about this, and I said, wait, a minute.
So I found out that we come from three layers
of tissue. It's called ectoderm, indoderm, and mesoderm. An ectoderm
makes brain and skin. I said, well, if the same
layer makes skin and brain, then there's got to be
this connection. And I call it the brain beauty connection
because that put me on a path. So if anything
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was active in the central nervous system, like psychmds, it
would also affect the skin and vice versa. And so
that's why I came up with a setyl colin and
I started working with that in my products, which you
tried many years ago, because by adding that and it
gets into your skin, it works in the nervous system
and starts giving you tone, and it also gives you
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radiance and all these other things. Poor snapshut. Because it's
all based on this neurotransmitter acetyl colon.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
A cetyl colon.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
That's what we're here for. So that's the beauty molecule.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
That's the beauty molecule. Wow, I feel like I've just
learned something very important to longevity and anti aging.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Acetyl colon and you've been getting that from years and
by the way your skin looks amazing.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Oh why, thank you. I am using some really great products.
I could tell you about them later. No, I've loved,
I've loved. I love your products. They are so science backed,
and you know, I could speak forever about how much
difference I've seen in my skin and how many comments
I get and how many people have turned on to
the products. But back to the book, because I really
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feel like I grew up with self help books and
my mom definitely had your first book. I remember reading
through it, leaping through it, and I love a book
with a good plan, you know, like you break it down,
you make it informational but also attainable because it's broken
down into this easy plan. And you've done that with
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your book and given us this anti inflammatory diet, very
specific specific foods that are non inflammatory. What are some
of the best foods we can stick with? I know
you love your olive oil.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Yes, okay, So once again it's a good question. So
to make it really simple, very basically, is that I
found well, I have a master's nutrition as well, so
I had an advantage of brother.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
That is an advantage.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Yes, it comes down to this, if you have a
food that causes a rapid rise in your blood sugar.
That results in your body secreting insulin, because that's how
we control everything. This insulent allows the sugar to get
into the cell and when that happens, you get a
burst of inflammation in every cell in your body that
lasts for up to three days. So we have to
do is carefully control blood sugar. And that's what my
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diet is all about. So we carefully control blood sugar.
And there's something called the glycemic index. You pick a
little book up and they'll tell you by number what's high.
And you don't want things that are high because that
means it's going to have an instant response. So I
always stay below fifty on the glycemic index. And then
you have to have all of the important things. You
are getting enough protein, you know on the days you
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don't eat enough protein or the days you age, because
it's used for repair of your cell.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
Oh my gosh, doctor par Cone, you're killing me right now.
I'm a plant based eater. So while I want to
have this conversation for everybody that's not plant based, which
is the majority of people out there, I really am
curious how the heck I can follow your program as
a plant based eater.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Well, that's a good question because of a number of
patients who are in the same position that you are,
and and I really wish that I could do the same.
I just can't survive physically on plant based, but I
do not have any joy about thinking or eating other
animal it's just discover Yeah, So here's the way I
would suggest to do this. There are three amino acids
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and they are well branch chain amino acids. And I
don't want to get technical, but the people who use
this are a lot of people who do weight training
because it helps. It's such it's so efficient in terms
of anabolic effects. And so you need to take branch
chain amino acids every day. And the powder you can
get it off of something place like Amazon. You get
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ouder and put it in a drink of yours, taste
a little bitter, and you just get it down and
that makes a video. Do it twice a day and
that will make up. Because the branch chain amino acids
are very important, but you're only going to You're going
to find them the highest level in food that's non vegetable,
that's animal based, So you can just supplement that not
your wonderful philosophical diet in in best of both worlds.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
Yeah, that's great to know. I'm definitely going to look
into that so that can make up the difference in
the protein that I'm not getting from animals because your
diet is very full of salmon in particular. You talk
about how important it is to eat salmon a lot,
and I used to eat salmon, and I could definitely
feel something happening from the inside out when you eat
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that kind of oil from a fish, like it just
sort of replenishes your molecules, I think, in your body.
I mean, I'm no scientist, but it made me feel better.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Well, it is amazing theo's essential fatty acids that are
in salmon because it feeds the brain and of course
brain beauty connection. It makes your skin look radient. So
when I peep put people on a antiflanmatry diet or
I do that before I go on camera, I need
three days and get really strict, and you just have
a secial radiance. Looks like someone has put a light
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bulb in your head. Could you just glo out? It's
just because the rop inflammation, the cells become extremely efficient
in terms of taking up nutrients or kicking out waste.
So you have this, and you also make a lot
of something called nitric oxide, so your blood vessels violate
and you look so healthy. There was a group of
I was working a lot with the makeup artists in
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LA and they said, you know, we hate to put
makeup on people that are on your diet because they
have this natural radiance. So I went and came up
with a new line was called no makeup makeup because
I didn't cover that up and that's what they use now.
And oh, thank God for these wonderful people that are
makeup artists. They just helped me so much in my
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career was suspended.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
You and me both. Let's talk about though, the specific
foods that you suggest on the anti inflammatory diet. One
number one salmon.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
Okay, so number one salmon. Remember we don't want to
have an sugar elevation, so salmon is like really important,
and green salads are really important as well. And I
just love to have a salad every day. It's just
like and my mom said, you know, a salad to
day keeps the doctor don't see me anymore. And for
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that and then also you need to have salads with
lots of colors. And so when I work with the
little kids in school and teaching the nutrition, I talk
about the color quotient. It's like an IQ, it's color quotient.
I want to do is look at the ball and
how many colors can you count? And the more colors
you count, that means you're getting all of these wonderful
chemicals called polyphenols. And polyphenols are anti inflammatory, antioxidant, stabilizes
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blood sugar and keeps you young, multiple colors all day.
And then in addition to that, you know, vegetables. I
think you want something we call well vegetables that are
that are based with certain polyphenols, and so things like
artichokes and things like cabbage and things like that, all
these avocado. Avocado is great because essential fatty acids. It's
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like you have to have that. And you know, when
you're eating avocado, it's just like so creamy. You can
almost feel like it's going to your skin and your brain.
Really really, I.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
Mean it feels like it's feeding me. Yeah, absolutely, I
feel bad. I have a friend that's allergic to avocado,
and I always just think about him and feel bad
for him. Anyway, Sorry about that ben but you definitely
advise using olive oil as your oil of choice for anything.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
So when you go buy olive oil, buy it in
small quantities like little bottles, even though it has an
expiration date of two years. The expiration dates based on
the oil becoming oxidized, so it doesn't taste good. But
the polyphenols, which are really important, and you know you
have good olive oil when you taste it, it's like peppery.
It actually burns the back of your throat. Those are
the polyphenols. But those go away within three months, So
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don't buy a big oh. I mean, yes, it's going
to taste good for three years because it doesn't oxidize.
But you want to have polyphenols, so I buy a little.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
That's a hot tip right there, Yes, small amounts of
all of Well, what's a polyphenol?
Speaker 2 (14:07):
By the way, Polyphenol is just a molecule and it
has a structure that really protects us. It gives up
little electrons that's called reducing agents, and that's anti inflammatory,
so they're powerful anti inflammatory activity. And polyphenols are in
so many vegetable based foods it's incredible. So salads and
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then of course cream beans, and you want to have
you know, as many vegetables like colors when you can
get carrots, and of course there are so.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
Many peppers, yeah, all the colors.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
Of course. Yes, some bell peppers or you know, bell
peppers have more vitamin C than an orange. Really, that's
really high levels.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
Yes, so that's great to know it is.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
So what you want to do is you want to
do this, you have enough adequate protein. So let's just
say you are female and your weights about one hundred
twenty pounds.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
Okay, but okay, you need.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
To have sixty grams of protein.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
It has sixty grams. What does that like break down
to as far as an equation, because I've everybody's hearing
it all over the place. Eat half your body weight
or is that what?
Speaker 2 (15:11):
Yeah, there's different formulas. And you say you need you know,
four milligrams per you know whatever kilo or something, I'd
just say, you know, someone like you, I'd say sixty
grams of protein are important. But if you're a male
and you're five ten and you're lifting weights and you
may need ninety to one hundred grams of protein average.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
Sixty I took yeah, yeah, I took some time. To
track my proteins recently to see how I was doing,
And by like midday, I had already had forty eight
grams of protein just based on my protein shake and
my protein bar that I'd eaten, and you know, whatever
yogurt I had that day. So it really does add
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up fast. It sounds hot, like kind of daunting the
amount that we're supposed to eat, but if you kind
of keep track of it, it lets you know that
it's not as hard as it sounds.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
You.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
I heard you talk recently about nicotine. Why we still
we need nicotine? When I thought nicotine was something that
we shouldn't be consuming.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
Well, you know, nicotine, of course has a very bad reputation. Yeah,
because it's found in the tobacco, but there are other
ways of getting it, So don't judge people by who
they hang around with. And so nicotine like this is
what I do all the time. In fact, I forgot
to do it before our talk here because I was
going to try and life in myself up a little bit.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
But I'm okay, So wait, were you going to slam
some nicotine before?
Speaker 2 (16:36):
I have nicorette them everywhere in my oh my gosh,
and they're like a little way. You know, they're like
little they have like a coating of sugar and peppermint.
I do is I break it up just a little
bit with my teeth and then put us up here
in this one and this side like a.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
Little like a little yeah, and just stay with there, keepsake.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
And then you absorbed the nicotine without swallowing that, because
when you swallow the nicotine you tend to get gastritis
and kind of reflux.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
EA.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
Quick break this crust and then put it up here
and just leave it there for twenty thirty minutes and
then it's absorbed in your body. And so it really
gives you clarity. And the reason I came and said
my book this is so important. So I'm doing all
this heavy duty research. And there's these receptors on the brain.
They're called the nicotinic alpha receptors of acetyl colin, and
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when you occupy that receptor site, it turns inflammation off
in your brain, and the brain gives you brain fog
and also can lead to cognitive decline as we get older.
Sonatine would be just another great way of doing this. Now,
the anti inflamatory diet also lowers inflammation in the brain.
And whenever I'm going to be doing anything on television
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or I'm giving a talk strict three day diet, and
my brain is crisp and clear. But then when I'm
not doing that, I'm not highly motivated. So I can
wake up with brain fog. But I crawl over this
little refrigerator in my bedroom fidging water, which immediately turns
off inflammation in the body.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
Okay, you're talking my language right now. I need to
get rid of the inflammation in my body. I see
you drinking hydrogen water. I want to know what that
is and why you think it's so important, because I
did read about in your book, and I have to say,
I've kind of gone into like a research mode of
figuring out what it is and how do I get
it and all those things I need to know more.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
You can get it at Amazon.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
Uh huh, you can buy Wait, you can buy hydrogen
water on places like Amazon. I've never heard of.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
This, Okay, but I've been on Amazon for like seven
years now. So here's what happened. I had done so
well with my anti inflammatory topicals and my diet and everything,
said to myself, I would like to give back as
thanks to what I discovered, that information was given to
me research and so I said, what I want to
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do is I want to find something that I call
the magic bullet. So the magic bullet would be something
that would be inexpensive, readily available, non toxic, and the
news and I came across this article in a very
prestigious journal ten years ago called Nature Medicine, and they
were talking about the anti inflammatory antioxidant activity of hydrogen.
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Now I'm a biochemist, and hydrogen is something called a
non polar molecule. It just means it doesn't have any
charge on one side or other and non polar moolicus
don't really interact with the body very well. So I
was like highly skeptical. So it was coming out of Japan,
so I said, well, I want to check this out.
So I flew over to Tokyo and I met with
the scientists and met with the manufacturers and learned a lot.
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And then I came back. I'm still skeptical, and I
talked to my partner, who was a genius, and I said, listen,
I one of the things they're touting in Japan, besides
the fact that's anti infligmatry and antioxidant. They said, it
gives you energy. I said, so I want to can
I quantify energy? And two days later he calls me up.
He said, Nick, good news. He said, the only molecule
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that will fluoresce under a certain frequency of light is
called NAD and that's what mean we can measure energy
because you've heard about NAD and everybody buying NAD precursors.
So I said, this is great. So we went ahead
and we did this study. Wasn't huge. It was like
fifty people, double blind, placebo controlled, and we had this
little strap with an led on their arm, and we
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took up to our computer and they drank water. They
didn't know if they were getting. It was just plain cans.
They didn't know if it was regular water or hydrogen water,
and they gulped it down. So I forgot, I'm going
to be there all day because it has to go
in your mouth, swallow, esophagus, stomach stream, circulate to the
farthest part, which is your skin, get into the skin cells,
then get into the mitochondria. I figur it's just going to.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
Take all day, right, It sounds like a process.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
Yeah, So I have my feet up and I'm looking
at the computer and she drinks it and I didn't
even know if it's water or not. Well, also, I
started saying, the indicator going like this two and a
half minutes because hydrogen it is so tiny, it disperses
throughout your entire body in two and a half minutes there,
and it went up to twelve and a half percent
increase in like fifteen minutes and stayed there for hours. So, right,
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you got to throw away NAD. You're spending a lot
of money for that.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
Well, I don't even know what NAD is. Can you
tell me?
Speaker 2 (21:14):
Well, NAD is is a chemical in a body that
basically provides energy. So there's this guy, David Sinclair, and
if you can go on YouTube, and he talks a
lot about NAD and he has a business of selling
NAD chemicals, but they're very expensive, and you can do
padging water, okay, And so NAD is what powers your body,
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and it's so incredible. So I was then convinced. I said, okay,
this is real. Then I went ahead and brought all
the equipment from Japan and then built my own manufacturing
place and millions of dollars later, Hydron water, but I
was eight years too soon.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
So no, eight years too soon.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
Now it's come, it's really come alive, and there's nothing
more compelling then an idea as time has come.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
So hydrogen water is the magic bullet.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
It is, it's the magic bullet I was looking for.
And so since no one was buying it, I was
giving away cases for people who had issues and such
a long list of everything from cancer to bad skin
to acne to you know, and sports performance and then.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
What about tummy problems.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
Tummy problems. Yes, it's very calming.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
It's it's just like micro biomy stuff.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
Oh yeah, it's like so I got to learn a
lot and it's all anecdotal, so I can't tell you
about it, but I cannot tell you that whatever the
deficit was, they came back to me and said, I
am so much better. And so it's just it's just
phenomenal because it's such a tiny molecule and it does everything.
So it's an antioxidant, anti inflammatory, it gives us energy
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and so it's interesting. I had an interview with a
magazine in Long Island in the Hampton and they wanted
a two part interview, so I sent a case over
to the editor and and then my personal assistant called
me and said, oh my god, I just had such
a scare. The editor from that magazine called up and
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she was crying. I said, oh god, what happened?
Speaker 1 (23:16):
She said?
Speaker 2 (23:16):
As I asked her, she said, what happened? And she says,
it's something wrong that well, she said, I've had basically
limes disease embedded in my brain for twenty years and
brain fog. I drank this since the first time in
twenty years. My brain is clear. You turned now she
has to do it every day, but it's better for her.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
Wow, oh my gosh. I've learned about hydrogen water already
from this conversation. Nicotine, how it's not terrible, it's beneficial.
The molecule a cetacling aceta cole I think you're telling
me it again. Let's talk about movement though, Okay. How
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important is movement?
Speaker 2 (24:01):
Okay? Movement is incredibly important. And so when we exercise,
and wh I'm not talking you look people over exercise.
If you're going to the gym and you're there an
hour and a half working out, it's counter productive. I mean,
unless you're like getting ready for some weightlifting contest, which
is by the point zero zero zero, yeah, one percent
of the population. All you really need to do is
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just move, And so I do twenty minutes of stretching
in the morning. Then every I'd say three times a week,
I'll do weight resistance. Were not heavy weights. I mean,
you know, pick them up and do like twenty reps
of something and then you just get this really incredible
warm feeling because it's it's throwing all of these Basically,
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there's all these switches in our body that respond, and
when you do that, we get all kinds of activities.
We're increasing acetyl colon because muscles are contracting, and then
as searchummes. So this is the best part of my research.
And I can't believe I came across this. I was
so happy. They were doing a study looking at a
setyl coline as a reparative agent for the cells because
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it's anti inflammatory. So they fed these little mice or
a high fat diet. They probably took them to McDonald's
every day, but I don't know how they did it,
but anyway, and then they did a biopsy and the
mitochondria they're supposed to look like little footballs with vertical lines.
They're all twisted because this high fat diet, same thing
happened to us, and then they put them They basically
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gave them high levels of seedyl colon using a pharmacologic agent,
which we can do by just in my book, I
give you all kinds of foods that increase acetyl coline
and one thing that does it really well is meditation.
So you get in that meditation shure which I have
right here, and you are preparing your mitochondria. It's like phenomenal.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
Oh my gosh, the benefits of meditation just keep getting
bigger and bigger and more and more, and I love it.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
Well, you're you're basically just your body is just pushing
out of setyl colin into every cell when you're meant
it really the mitochondria of repairing. So this book is
so important and it's not difficult, and you don't have
to know all of this stuff.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
You just follow the rules right, and you make it
really easy to understand. Like the things that we can
do in this day and age to improve are aceto
colon levels.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
So there's all different strategies to do that, and they're
in the book and they're not difficult, and I talk
about people said, I want to know what you do,
So I do spend time with my routine and why
the first thing to do when there's daylight, I go
out and I try to look at the lightest part
of the sky and it automatically sets your receptors in
(26:41):
your brain stem and that controls your metabolism. So I
start that every day with that, and then of course
I start with my antime inflammatory foods, but really I
start with my hygiene water right down and I take
a little vitam and see with it. And then I
talk about my exercise routine and anti inflammatoria and how
important it is the stretching and what you have to do.
But everything should be in moderation.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
It's so yeah, we just need thirty minutes a day,
five days.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
A week, right, That's about all you need. And stretching
is amazing.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
Stretching. I feel like stretching is also connected to the
fountain of youth.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
It sure, absolutely, you do a lot of different chemicals
in your body their positive. And then I really strongly
recommend weight resistance. As we get older, you need to
have weight resistance to keep your bone density pretty high.
And also you need muscle masks, because as your muscle
mask goes down, especially your lower back and your gluteal muscles,
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that's when people fall down. Because if they just work
and do some weight resistance, they can get use muscles
that are strong and they're not going to be falling
over and getting hurt.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
Oh my gosh, it's so important everyone listening to start
working with some weight resistance, even if it's a band
or one of those straps, something that you even your
own body resistance, but build it up to weights because
that I just kind of think of it as me
fortifying the muscle that's holding my bone, that's holding it
together with the next bone. You know. I just feel
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like it's so important.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
And you know, muscle is an insulator, so if you
do bump into something, you do fall, you have a
lot better chance of not having a fracture, right.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
Because nobody wants to be that you're frail. You're so
much more fragile.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
And the other thing too. It's interesting I talk a
little bit about the book, but there are facial exercises
that maintain a muscle in your face and that's very important,
and so you can do this. So I came across
a woman out in California and it's it's called Myofacial
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and it's done for people with issues. But I tried
it and I found that it totally changed my face
in so many different ways. So it's in the book
and you can you can give her a call and
order some of her things. And it's really simple. It's
like using elastic bands and a little I don't a
little butt and with a little string on it and
you put resistance and it does everything. And then also
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what it does. The reason she does this is people
with sleep ATNA once they do these exercises, it strengthens
everything and they don't need their seapap anymore.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
Oh that's a miracle.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
So this is all, it's all miraculous stuff. I'm so
glad I met her.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
Yeah, there's so so many things in the book that
people really, really, really really need to hear. You also
talk about supplementation, which you've always talked about, which I
love and I want to get into all of that,
but I think we'll save that for our second episode.
I think a great way to end this conversation today
(29:40):
would be talking about something that's vital is sleep. And
you know you mentioned it a little bit when you
say you go out in the morning and you look
at the brightest spot in the sky, is that you
adhering to the masterclock.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
Exactly what I'm doing setting that clock. And let me
tell you it works sleep and you sleep well in mine.
But if you don't do that and you stay in
a you know, a dark room or whatever, it's not
it's not right. And then and so there's so many ways.
So this moderate exercise helps, anti emplanmatory diet helps. You
got to set that little clock outside, get out there
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and look at the bright the brightness is even a
gray day, you spend a little more time out there
to get it. Four or five minutes if it's a
bright sunny day, maybe fifteen or twenty minutes if it's
a gray day. But you are really setting that clock,
which is critical. You read your book and understand.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
And then that makes it easier for us to go
and get that sleep that we need every night we do.
I want to ask you before we end this episode,
the doctor Paracone, what was your last I choose me moment?
Speaker 2 (30:43):
Okay, that is a great question. Okay, christ let me
give you some background. I believe, I believe as a
human being and as a physician with thousands of patients,
that we all have a mission on this planet, and
everybody knows that mission is for themselves. I've never asked
a person like and I say, you know, you're right
if it's there, it's there in your head, okay, and
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this mission is something that's going to help other people. Okay.
Before you help other people, you have to take care
of yourself. And that's your IE MEU moment. Okay. So
what I do is I take care of myself because
I have to have a sound body, mind, energy, good
immune system, because I've had a lot of work to
do because I took on a real big mission here,
and so you've got to take care yourself first. That's
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your IE memo. Once you do that, then you have
the energy, the health, and the motivation to fulfill that
dream of whatever that mission is yours. And you know
your mission. I know, I've never talked to someone who
didn't know their mission. It's like almost sub conscious. So
your I memo is very important because then you implement
and you can help thousands and thousands of people.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
I do love that because a lot of people kind
of misconceive the concept of I choose me and think
that it's selfish when I try to remind them that
it's vital to our well being, into the well being
of everybody in our lives.
Speaker 2 (32:03):
Well, parents have to take care of themselves. You have
to take care of their children. I know that, and
they know if they're like, you know, not getting enough
sleep or doing too many things, it's just not good.
So we're all parents of basically the people in the world.
I mean, we're older, we've been here, we're successful. Then
we have time for us to do something. But you
can start early on. I worked with children when I
was an undergraduate and in the inner city in Connecticut
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and a New Haven, and that stuck with me, and
I know you can do so much for these kids.
And then when you go on and so I always
wanted to be a doctor. I always wanted to be
able to help people. And so I'm really happy. I
don't think I've ever worked a day in my life
because I love what I'm doing. And you all have
that thing to do. So o your mission and cure
yourself first, yes, and then you put on your soldier
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suit and go out and do your job.
Speaker 1 (32:52):
Absolutely, Oh my gosh, so much more to talk about.
We are going to continue this conversation, but everybody keep
an eye out for them this bonus content that's coming up,
because you're gonna want to hear about the three day
Nutritional Facelift and so much more. So, definitely check out
the Beauty Molecule by doctor Paracone and we will talk
(33:16):
more about some really good things in our next conversation.
Speaker 2 (33:20):
Okay, great talking with you
You're listening to I Choose Me with Jenny Garl. Hi. Everyone,
welcome to I Choose Me. This podcast. You got it.
It's about the choices we make in life. So today
we're going to be talking about the science of aging
and how our choices affect our skin. Doctor Nicholas Paricone
(00:25):
is a pioneering dermatologist and a best selling author whose
work has reshaped how we think about beauty and health
from the inside out. He has taught us his three
tier strategy since the nineties. You guys. He has a
new book, The Beauty Molecule, which I have been using
(00:46):
like a bible. Hello. Doctor Paricone is going to share
why beauty has never been just skin deep and how
the choices we make every day truly matter. I have
long trusted doctor Paricone. He brings deep experience and fresh
insight to the wellness conversation. I'm so pleased to introduce
(01:06):
doctor Nicholas Paracne. Okay, it is so wonderful to see you,
even if it's on my computer screen.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Well, it's really nice to get a chance to be
with you electronic.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
I'm yeah, I feel like we've been together a long time.
I mean when I say together a long time, but
I remember reading your first book back in the nineties
when you were launching your skincare brand Altogether. I was
a faithful customer of yours, and I've returned to it
in the last couple of years because I had the
(01:38):
opportunity to be a brand ambassador for Para Cone Empty,
which I've had such a great time doing. So this
feels very full circle for me. And as usual, your
conversations about inflammating have intrigued me once again in this
new book. It's been ten years, right since your last book.
(02:01):
This one is the Beauty Molecule. What is the title
all about.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Well, I did a lot of research, and people said,
why has it been ten years since your last book?
I said, well, I'm looking for new research because I
don't want to be writing a book over and over again,
which many authors do, and you just get the same old,
same old. So what I found out was it all
came down to one molecule in the body that is
anti inflammatory, that effects and basically allows us to have
(02:29):
memories and for thinking, makes our muscles contract and I can
just go on all day here.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
So it's just one wait, one molecule.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
One molecule does all that. It's called acetylcholine, and you know,
it works throughout our bodies in a way, so it's
a neurotransmitter. But it also works, like I said, for
muscle contraction. So when you actually when when the motor
centers of your brain say okay, I want to move
my arm, it sends a signal and the electrical signal
goes towards the muscle, but it doesn't actually connect with
(02:58):
the muscle. Is a gap. It's called a neuromuscular junction
and south of acetylcholine, and they're actually receptors on the
muscle and they pick up the set and they contract.
So it's an electric message and it's a chemical message
at the same time. And so it's redundancy with different ways.
And I think that's probably was designed by the creators
so that we have backup systems.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
That yes, well everything you say makes sense. However, I
need like the dialogue for the dummies, Like you know,
when it comes to the science behind skincare, it can
get so confusing and there are so many terms and
things like that, So feel free to speak to me
as if you're speaking to a child. Basically, that's what
I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
No, I'm really good at is translating science into something
that's understandable because it's not. There are no everybody thinks
that science is difficult. No, whenever you're in a specialty,
whether it's medicine or science or any other specialty, they
have their own language. It was important because we need
to communicate our system. But also it comes down to it.
(04:01):
It's kind of a litist you know, if you have
a different language and makes you look more important.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Tell us why you believe fighting excessive inflammation is basically
the answer to almost everything in regard to skincare and
health in general.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Well, that's a great question, and it started off I
was in medical school and we had to take a
course called histopathology where you spent looking at the microscope.
And so the idea was a seat clinically on the
patient and then going in to see the biopsies and
what it looks like under a microscope. And I'm looking
at this tumor it's called the scraam of cell cancer,
(04:34):
and it surrounded by inflammation. And what that looks like
under the microscope is we have to stain the tissue
and the immune cells that are around. This thing actually
gets stained blue, so it looks like blue confetti. And
there it was. I said, well, it's a lot of inflammation.
Then I continued with my studies, and there's inflammation everywhere.
It's in arteries, it was in brain. So I talked
to the professors. I said, is it possible that inflammation
(04:56):
may be driving these pathology pathological problems? Oh no, it
was kind of needs your go No, no, it's your
immune system reacting, which I thought was odd, but anyway,
but I kept that with me, and then as I progressed,
I learned it awful lot. And one of the things
I did notice is when I was doing my looking
under the microscope, I was also doing some clinical work.
(05:18):
And when I was doing my psychiatric rotation, I noticed
that people who are taking psychemets their skin looked better.
And I said that, and so I was taking this
other call. Of course, it was called embryology. And so
it's nice having all these basic sciences at the same
time you're learning. It was very special school I went
to was they put everything together. It was called the
(05:40):
problem based anyway, so I'm looking at these people and
I'm reading about this, and I said, wait, a minute.
So I found out that we come from three layers
of tissue. It's called ectoderm, indoderm, and mesoderm. An ectoderm
makes brain and skin. I said, well, if the same
layer makes skin and brain, then there's got to be
this connection. And I call it the brain beauty connection
because that put me on a path. So if anything
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was active in the central nervous system, like psychmds, it
would also affect the skin and vice versa. And so
that's why I came up with a setyl colin and
I started working with that in my products, which you
tried many years ago, because by adding that and it
gets into your skin, it works in the nervous system
and starts giving you tone, and it also gives you
(06:23):
radiance and all these other things. Poor snapshut. Because it's
all based on this neurotransmitter acetyl colon.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
A cetyl colon.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
That's what we're here for. So that's the beauty molecule.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
That's the beauty molecule. Wow, I feel like I've just
learned something very important to longevity and anti aging.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Acetyl colon and you've been getting that from years and
by the way your skin looks amazing.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Oh why, thank you. I am using some really great products.
I could tell you about them later. No, I've loved,
I've loved. I love your products. They are so science backed,
and you know, I could speak forever about how much
difference I've seen in my skin and how many comments
I get and how many people have turned on to
the products. But back to the book, because I really
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feel like I grew up with self help books and
my mom definitely had your first book. I remember reading
through it, leaping through it, and I love a book
with a good plan, you know, like you break it down,
you make it informational but also attainable because it's broken
down into this easy plan. And you've done that with
(07:29):
your book and given us this anti inflammatory diet, very
specific specific foods that are non inflammatory. What are some
of the best foods we can stick with? I know
you love your olive oil.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Yes, okay, So once again it's a good question. So
to make it really simple, very basically, is that I
found well, I have a master's nutrition as well, so
I had an advantage of brother.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
That is an advantage.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Yes, it comes down to this, if you have a
food that causes a rapid rise in your blood sugar.
That results in your body secreting insulin, because that's how
we control everything. This insulent allows the sugar to get
into the cell and when that happens, you get a
burst of inflammation in every cell in your body that
lasts for up to three days. So we have to
do is carefully control blood sugar. And that's what my
(08:21):
diet is all about. So we carefully control blood sugar.
And there's something called the glycemic index. You pick a
little book up and they'll tell you by number what's high.
And you don't want things that are high because that
means it's going to have an instant response. So I
always stay below fifty on the glycemic index. And then
you have to have all of the important things. You
are getting enough protein, you know on the days you
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don't eat enough protein or the days you age, because
it's used for repair of your cell.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
Oh my gosh, doctor par Cone, you're killing me right now.
I'm a plant based eater. So while I want to
have this conversation for everybody that's not plant based, which
is the majority of people out there, I really am
curious how the heck I can follow your program as
a plant based eater.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Well, that's a good question because of a number of
patients who are in the same position that you are,
and and I really wish that I could do the same.
I just can't survive physically on plant based, but I
do not have any joy about thinking or eating other
animal it's just discover Yeah, So here's the way I
would suggest to do this. There are three amino acids
(09:24):
and they are well branch chain amino acids. And I
don't want to get technical, but the people who use
this are a lot of people who do weight training
because it helps. It's such it's so efficient in terms
of anabolic effects. And so you need to take branch
chain amino acids every day. And the powder you can
get it off of something place like Amazon. You get
(09:46):
ouder and put it in a drink of yours, taste
a little bitter, and you just get it down and
that makes a video. Do it twice a day and
that will make up. Because the branch chain amino acids
are very important, but you're only going to You're going
to find them the highest level in food that's non vegetable,
that's animal based, So you can just supplement that not
your wonderful philosophical diet in in best of both worlds.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
Yeah, that's great to know. I'm definitely going to look
into that so that can make up the difference in
the protein that I'm not getting from animals because your
diet is very full of salmon in particular. You talk
about how important it is to eat salmon a lot,
and I used to eat salmon, and I could definitely
feel something happening from the inside out when you eat
(10:32):
that kind of oil from a fish, like it just
sort of replenishes your molecules, I think, in your body.
I mean, I'm no scientist, but it made me feel better.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Well, it is amazing theo's essential fatty acids that are
in salmon because it feeds the brain and of course
brain beauty connection. It makes your skin look radient. So
when I peep put people on a antiflanmatry diet or
I do that before I go on camera, I need
three days and get really strict, and you just have
a secial radiance. Looks like someone has put a light
(11:04):
bulb in your head. Could you just glo out? It's
just because the rop inflammation, the cells become extremely efficient
in terms of taking up nutrients or kicking out waste.
So you have this, and you also make a lot
of something called nitric oxide, so your blood vessels violate
and you look so healthy. There was a group of
I was working a lot with the makeup artists in
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LA and they said, you know, we hate to put
makeup on people that are on your diet because they
have this natural radiance. So I went and came up
with a new line was called no makeup makeup because
I didn't cover that up and that's what they use now.
And oh, thank God for these wonderful people that are
makeup artists. They just helped me so much in my
(11:45):
career was suspended.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
You and me both. Let's talk about though, the specific
foods that you suggest on the anti inflammatory diet. One
number one salmon.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
Okay, so number one salmon. Remember we don't want to
have an sugar elevation, so salmon is like really important,
and green salads are really important as well. And I
just love to have a salad every day. It's just
like and my mom said, you know, a salad to
day keeps the doctor don't see me anymore. And for
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that and then also you need to have salads with
lots of colors. And so when I work with the
little kids in school and teaching the nutrition, I talk
about the color quotient. It's like an IQ, it's color quotient.
I want to do is look at the ball and
how many colors can you count? And the more colors
you count, that means you're getting all of these wonderful
chemicals called polyphenols. And polyphenols are anti inflammatory, antioxidant, stabilizes
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blood sugar and keeps you young, multiple colors all day.
And then in addition to that, you know, vegetables. I
think you want something we call well vegetables that are
that are based with certain polyphenols, and so things like
artichokes and things like cabbage and things like that, all
these avocado. Avocado is great because essential fatty acids. It's
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like you have to have that. And you know, when
you're eating avocado, it's just like so creamy. You can
almost feel like it's going to your skin and your brain.
Really really, I.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
Mean it feels like it's feeding me. Yeah, absolutely, I
feel bad. I have a friend that's allergic to avocado,
and I always just think about him and feel bad
for him. Anyway, Sorry about that ben but you definitely
advise using olive oil as your oil of choice for anything.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
So when you go buy olive oil, buy it in
small quantities like little bottles, even though it has an
expiration date of two years. The expiration dates based on
the oil becoming oxidized, so it doesn't taste good. But
the polyphenols, which are really important, and you know you
have good olive oil when you taste it, it's like peppery.
It actually burns the back of your throat. Those are
the polyphenols. But those go away within three months, So
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don't buy a big oh. I mean, yes, it's going
to taste good for three years because it doesn't oxidize.
But you want to have polyphenols, so I buy a little.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
That's a hot tip right there, Yes, small amounts of
all of Well, what's a polyphenol?
Speaker 2 (14:07):
By the way, Polyphenol is just a molecule and it
has a structure that really protects us. It gives up
little electrons that's called reducing agents, and that's anti inflammatory,
so they're powerful anti inflammatory activity. And polyphenols are in
so many vegetable based foods it's incredible. So salads and
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then of course cream beans, and you want to have
you know, as many vegetables like colors when you can
get carrots, and of course there are so.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
Many peppers, yeah, all the colors.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
Of course. Yes, some bell peppers or you know, bell
peppers have more vitamin C than an orange. Really, that's
really high levels.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
Yes, so that's great to know it is.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
So what you want to do is you want to
do this, you have enough adequate protein. So let's just
say you are female and your weights about one hundred
twenty pounds.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
Okay, but okay, you need.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
To have sixty grams of protein.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
It has sixty grams. What does that like break down
to as far as an equation, because I've everybody's hearing
it all over the place. Eat half your body weight
or is that what?
Speaker 2 (15:11):
Yeah, there's different formulas. And you say you need you know,
four milligrams per you know whatever kilo or something, I'd
just say, you know, someone like you, I'd say sixty
grams of protein are important. But if you're a male
and you're five ten and you're lifting weights and you
may need ninety to one hundred grams of protein average.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
Sixty I took yeah, yeah, I took some time. To
track my proteins recently to see how I was doing,
And by like midday, I had already had forty eight
grams of protein just based on my protein shake and
my protein bar that I'd eaten, and you know, whatever
yogurt I had that day. So it really does add
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up fast. It sounds hot, like kind of daunting the
amount that we're supposed to eat, but if you kind
of keep track of it, it lets you know that
it's not as hard as it sounds.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
You.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
I heard you talk recently about nicotine. Why we still
we need nicotine? When I thought nicotine was something that
we shouldn't be consuming.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
Well, you know, nicotine, of course has a very bad reputation. Yeah,
because it's found in the tobacco, but there are other
ways of getting it, So don't judge people by who
they hang around with. And so nicotine like this is
what I do all the time. In fact, I forgot
to do it before our talk here because I was
going to try and life in myself up a little bit.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
But I'm okay, So wait, were you going to slam
some nicotine before?
Speaker 2 (16:36):
I have nicorette them everywhere in my oh my gosh,
and they're like a little way. You know, they're like
little they have like a coating of sugar and peppermint.
I do is I break it up just a little
bit with my teeth and then put us up here
in this one and this side like a.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
Little like a little yeah, and just stay with there, keepsake.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
And then you absorbed the nicotine without swallowing that, because
when you swallow the nicotine you tend to get gastritis
and kind of reflux.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
EA.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
Quick break this crust and then put it up here
and just leave it there for twenty thirty minutes and
then it's absorbed in your body. And so it really
gives you clarity. And the reason I came and said
my book this is so important. So I'm doing all
this heavy duty research. And there's these receptors on the brain.
They're called the nicotinic alpha receptors of acetyl colin, and
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when you occupy that receptor site, it turns inflammation off
in your brain, and the brain gives you brain fog
and also can lead to cognitive decline as we get older.
Sonatine would be just another great way of doing this. Now,
the anti inflamatory diet also lowers inflammation in the brain.
And whenever I'm going to be doing anything on television
(17:47):
or I'm giving a talk strict three day diet, and
my brain is crisp and clear. But then when I'm
not doing that, I'm not highly motivated. So I can
wake up with brain fog. But I crawl over this
little refrigerator in my bedroom fidging water, which immediately turns
off inflammation in the body.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
Okay, you're talking my language right now. I need to
get rid of the inflammation in my body. I see
you drinking hydrogen water. I want to know what that
is and why you think it's so important, because I
did read about in your book, and I have to say,
I've kind of gone into like a research mode of
figuring out what it is and how do I get
it and all those things I need to know more.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
You can get it at Amazon.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
Uh huh, you can buy Wait, you can buy hydrogen
water on places like Amazon. I've never heard of.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
This, Okay, but I've been on Amazon for like seven
years now. So here's what happened. I had done so
well with my anti inflammatory topicals and my diet and everything,
said to myself, I would like to give back as
thanks to what I discovered, that information was given to
me research and so I said, what I want to
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do is I want to find something that I call
the magic bullet. So the magic bullet would be something
that would be inexpensive, readily available, non toxic, and the
news and I came across this article in a very
prestigious journal ten years ago called Nature Medicine, and they
were talking about the anti inflammatory antioxidant activity of hydrogen.
(19:16):
Now I'm a biochemist, and hydrogen is something called a
non polar molecule. It just means it doesn't have any
charge on one side or other and non polar moolicus
don't really interact with the body very well. So I
was like highly skeptical. So it was coming out of Japan,
so I said, well, I want to check this out.
So I flew over to Tokyo and I met with
the scientists and met with the manufacturers and learned a lot.
(19:37):
And then I came back. I'm still skeptical, and I
talked to my partner, who was a genius, and I said, listen,
I one of the things they're touting in Japan, besides
the fact that's anti infligmatry and antioxidant. They said, it
gives you energy. I said, so I want to can
I quantify energy? And two days later he calls me up.
He said, Nick, good news. He said, the only molecule
(20:02):
that will fluoresce under a certain frequency of light is
called NAD and that's what mean we can measure energy
because you've heard about NAD and everybody buying NAD precursors.
So I said, this is great. So we went ahead
and we did this study. Wasn't huge. It was like
fifty people, double blind, placebo controlled, and we had this
little strap with an led on their arm, and we
(20:22):
took up to our computer and they drank water. They
didn't know if they were getting. It was just plain cans.
They didn't know if it was regular water or hydrogen water,
and they gulped it down. So I forgot, I'm going
to be there all day because it has to go
in your mouth, swallow, esophagus, stomach stream, circulate to the
farthest part, which is your skin, get into the skin cells,
then get into the mitochondria. I figur it's just going to.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
Take all day, right, It sounds like a process.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
Yeah, So I have my feet up and I'm looking
at the computer and she drinks it and I didn't
even know if it's water or not. Well, also, I
started saying, the indicator going like this two and a
half minutes because hydrogen it is so tiny, it disperses
throughout your entire body in two and a half minutes there,
and it went up to twelve and a half percent
increase in like fifteen minutes and stayed there for hours. So, right,
(21:08):
you got to throw away NAD. You're spending a lot
of money for that.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
Well, I don't even know what NAD is. Can you
tell me?
Speaker 2 (21:14):
Well, NAD is is a chemical in a body that
basically provides energy. So there's this guy, David Sinclair, and
if you can go on YouTube, and he talks a
lot about NAD and he has a business of selling
NAD chemicals, but they're very expensive, and you can do
padging water, okay, And so NAD is what powers your body,
(21:36):
and it's so incredible. So I was then convinced. I said, okay,
this is real. Then I went ahead and brought all
the equipment from Japan and then built my own manufacturing
place and millions of dollars later, Hydron water, but I
was eight years too soon.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
So no, eight years too soon.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
Now it's come, it's really come alive, and there's nothing
more compelling then an idea as time has come.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
So hydrogen water is the magic bullet.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
It is, it's the magic bullet I was looking for.
And so since no one was buying it, I was
giving away cases for people who had issues and such
a long list of everything from cancer to bad skin
to acne to you know, and sports performance and then.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
What about tummy problems.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
Tummy problems. Yes, it's very calming.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
It's it's just like micro biomy stuff.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
Oh yeah, it's like so I got to learn a
lot and it's all anecdotal, so I can't tell you
about it, but I cannot tell you that whatever the
deficit was, they came back to me and said, I
am so much better. And so it's just it's just
phenomenal because it's such a tiny molecule and it does everything.
So it's an antioxidant, anti inflammatory, it gives us energy
(22:53):
and so it's interesting. I had an interview with a
magazine in Long Island in the Hampton and they wanted
a two part interview, so I sent a case over
to the editor and and then my personal assistant called
me and said, oh my god, I just had such
a scare. The editor from that magazine called up and
(23:14):
she was crying. I said, oh god, what happened?
Speaker 1 (23:16):
She said?
Speaker 2 (23:16):
As I asked her, she said, what happened? And she says,
it's something wrong that well, she said, I've had basically
limes disease embedded in my brain for twenty years and
brain fog. I drank this since the first time in
twenty years. My brain is clear. You turned now she
has to do it every day, but it's better for her.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
Wow, oh my gosh. I've learned about hydrogen water already
from this conversation. Nicotine, how it's not terrible, it's beneficial.
The molecule a cetacling aceta cole I think you're telling
me it again. Let's talk about movement though, Okay. How
(24:00):
important is movement?
Speaker 2 (24:01):
Okay? Movement is incredibly important. And so when we exercise,
and wh I'm not talking you look people over exercise.
If you're going to the gym and you're there an
hour and a half working out, it's counter productive. I mean,
unless you're like getting ready for some weightlifting contest, which
is by the point zero zero zero, yeah, one percent
of the population. All you really need to do is
(24:24):
just move, And so I do twenty minutes of stretching
in the morning. Then every I'd say three times a week,
I'll do weight resistance. Were not heavy weights. I mean,
you know, pick them up and do like twenty reps
of something and then you just get this really incredible
warm feeling because it's it's throwing all of these Basically,
(24:44):
there's all these switches in our body that respond, and
when you do that, we get all kinds of activities.
We're increasing acetyl colon because muscles are contracting, and then
as searchummes. So this is the best part of my research.
And I can't believe I came across this. I was
so happy. They were doing a study looking at a
setyl coline as a reparative agent for the cells because
(25:06):
it's anti inflammatory. So they fed these little mice or
a high fat diet. They probably took them to McDonald's
every day, but I don't know how they did it,
but anyway, and then they did a biopsy and the
mitochondria they're supposed to look like little footballs with vertical lines.
They're all twisted because this high fat diet, same thing
happened to us, and then they put them They basically
(25:29):
gave them high levels of seedyl colon using a pharmacologic agent,
which we can do by just in my book, I
give you all kinds of foods that increase acetyl coline
and one thing that does it really well is meditation.
So you get in that meditation shure which I have
right here, and you are preparing your mitochondria. It's like phenomenal.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
Oh my gosh, the benefits of meditation just keep getting
bigger and bigger and more and more, and I love it.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
Well, you're you're basically just your body is just pushing
out of setyl colin into every cell when you're meant
it really the mitochondria of repairing. So this book is
so important and it's not difficult, and you don't have
to know all of this stuff.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
You just follow the rules right, and you make it
really easy to understand. Like the things that we can
do in this day and age to improve are aceto
colon levels.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
So there's all different strategies to do that, and they're
in the book and they're not difficult, and I talk
about people said, I want to know what you do,
So I do spend time with my routine and why
the first thing to do when there's daylight, I go
out and I try to look at the lightest part
of the sky and it automatically sets your receptors in
(26:41):
your brain stem and that controls your metabolism. So I
start that every day with that, and then of course
I start with my antime inflammatory foods, but really I
start with my hygiene water right down and I take
a little vitam and see with it. And then I
talk about my exercise routine and anti inflammatoria and how
important it is the stretching and what you have to do.
But everything should be in moderation.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
It's so yeah, we just need thirty minutes a day,
five days.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
A week, right, That's about all you need. And stretching
is amazing.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
Stretching. I feel like stretching is also connected to the
fountain of youth.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
It sure, absolutely, you do a lot of different chemicals
in your body their positive. And then I really strongly
recommend weight resistance. As we get older, you need to
have weight resistance to keep your bone density pretty high.
And also you need muscle masks, because as your muscle
mask goes down, especially your lower back and your gluteal muscles,
(27:37):
that's when people fall down. Because if they just work
and do some weight resistance, they can get use muscles
that are strong and they're not going to be falling
over and getting hurt.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
Oh my gosh, it's so important everyone listening to start
working with some weight resistance, even if it's a band
or one of those straps, something that you even your
own body resistance, but build it up to weights because
that I just kind of think of it as me
fortifying the muscle that's holding my bone, that's holding it
together with the next bone. You know. I just feel
(28:07):
like it's so important.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
And you know, muscle is an insulator, so if you
do bump into something, you do fall, you have a
lot better chance of not having a fracture, right.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
Because nobody wants to be that you're frail. You're so
much more fragile.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
And the other thing too. It's interesting I talk a
little bit about the book, but there are facial exercises
that maintain a muscle in your face and that's very important,
and so you can do this. So I came across
a woman out in California and it's it's called Myofacial
(28:42):
and it's done for people with issues. But I tried
it and I found that it totally changed my face
in so many different ways. So it's in the book
and you can you can give her a call and
order some of her things. And it's really simple. It's
like using elastic bands and a little I don't a
little butt and with a little string on it and
you put resistance and it does everything. And then also
(29:04):
what it does. The reason she does this is people
with sleep ATNA once they do these exercises, it strengthens
everything and they don't need their seapap anymore.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
Oh that's a miracle.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
So this is all, it's all miraculous stuff. I'm so
glad I met her.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
Yeah, there's so so many things in the book that
people really, really, really really need to hear. You also
talk about supplementation, which you've always talked about, which I
love and I want to get into all of that,
but I think we'll save that for our second episode.
I think a great way to end this conversation today
(29:40):
would be talking about something that's vital is sleep. And
you know you mentioned it a little bit when you
say you go out in the morning and you look
at the brightest spot in the sky, is that you
adhering to the masterclock.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
Exactly what I'm doing setting that clock. And let me
tell you it works sleep and you sleep well in mine.
But if you don't do that and you stay in
a you know, a dark room or whatever, it's not
it's not right. And then and so there's so many ways.
So this moderate exercise helps, anti emplanmatory diet helps. You
got to set that little clock outside, get out there
(30:14):
and look at the bright the brightness is even a
gray day, you spend a little more time out there
to get it. Four or five minutes if it's a
bright sunny day, maybe fifteen or twenty minutes if it's
a gray day. But you are really setting that clock,
which is critical. You read your book and understand.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
And then that makes it easier for us to go
and get that sleep that we need every night we do.
I want to ask you before we end this episode,
the doctor Paracone, what was your last I choose me moment?
Speaker 2 (30:43):
Okay, that is a great question. Okay, christ let me
give you some background. I believe, I believe as a
human being and as a physician with thousands of patients,
that we all have a mission on this planet, and
everybody knows that mission is for themselves. I've never asked
a person like and I say, you know, you're right
if it's there, it's there in your head, okay, and
(31:04):
this mission is something that's going to help other people. Okay.
Before you help other people, you have to take care
of yourself. And that's your IE MEU moment. Okay. So
what I do is I take care of myself because
I have to have a sound body, mind, energy, good
immune system, because I've had a lot of work to
do because I took on a real big mission here,
and so you've got to take care yourself first. That's
(31:26):
your IE memo. Once you do that, then you have
the energy, the health, and the motivation to fulfill that
dream of whatever that mission is yours. And you know
your mission. I know, I've never talked to someone who
didn't know their mission. It's like almost sub conscious. So
your I memo is very important because then you implement
and you can help thousands and thousands of people.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
I do love that because a lot of people kind
of misconceive the concept of I choose me and think
that it's selfish when I try to remind them that
it's vital to our well being, into the well being
of everybody in our lives.
Speaker 2 (32:03):
Well, parents have to take care of themselves. You have
to take care of their children. I know that, and
they know if they're like, you know, not getting enough
sleep or doing too many things, it's just not good.
So we're all parents of basically the people in the world.
I mean, we're older, we've been here, we're successful. Then
we have time for us to do something. But you
can start early on. I worked with children when I
was an undergraduate and in the inner city in Connecticut
(32:28):
and a New Haven, and that stuck with me, and
I know you can do so much for these kids.
And then when you go on and so I always
wanted to be a doctor. I always wanted to be
able to help people. And so I'm really happy. I
don't think I've ever worked a day in my life
because I love what I'm doing. And you all have
that thing to do. So o your mission and cure
yourself first, yes, and then you put on your soldier
(32:50):
suit and go out and do your job.
Speaker 1 (32:52):
Absolutely, Oh my gosh, so much more to talk about.
We are going to continue this conversation, but everybody keep
an eye out for them this bonus content that's coming up,
because you're gonna want to hear about the three day
Nutritional Facelift and so much more. So, definitely check out
the Beauty Molecule by doctor Paracone and we will talk
(33:16):
more about some really good things in our next conversation.
Speaker 2 (33:20):
Okay, great talking with you
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