October 8, 2025 • 54 mins
🔥 Biohacks for Burnout: Fact or BS?
Can you really biohack your way out of burnout? From cold plunges to fasting, from probiotics to peptides — everyone’s trying “hacks” to fix exhaustion and most fail for one important reason we'll discuss in this episode of the Burnout Resolution.
In this episode, Dr. Mylaine Riobé breaks down the hype vs. science so you’ll know what works, what backfires, and how to stop wasting time on the wrong fixes.
✨ What you’ll learn in this episode:
☑️ Why cold plunges help some people and increase stress in others
☑️ The truth about saunas and heat therapy
☑️ Can peptides work for burnout resolution?
☑️ How microbiome hacks can backfire for many
☑️ Intermittent fasting: who it helps and who it harms
☑️ The #1 biohack that always works!
☑️ The secret biohack nobody's talking about yet.
💡 If you’ve tried biohacks that didn’t work, it’s about finding the ones designed for YOUR body and your type.
Timestamps
00:00:06 Introduction – Welcome, Dr. Mylaine Riobé, and today’s focus on burnout biohacks
00:03:22 Why biohacks often fail – lessons from one-on-one and online clients
00:06:32 Dynamic Metabolic Typing and why it matters for biohacks
00:10:03 Enzymes, nutrients, and closing the burnout gap
00:13:01 Cooling vs. freezing – when biohacks backfire on metabolism
00:16:16 Cold-deficient types and why cold plunges may worsen burnout
00:19:17 Hot/excess types – when cryotherapy and cold hacks actually work
00:22:09 How knowing your metabolic type predicts biohack success
00:25:21 Detox trade-offs – reducing inflammation at a metabolic cost
00:28:16 Oxygen, stress, and why fight-or-flight burns you out
00:31:03 Why “excess” metabolic types struggle with one-size-fits-all hacks
00:34:06 Trial-and-error burnout – why generic hacks don’t work long term
00:37:21 Medications eroding metabolism – a hidden burnout trigger
00:40:28 GI infections and burnout – the silent drivers of fatigue
00:43:25 Clearing infections vs. feeding them – the probiotic problem
00:46:37 Prebiotics vs. probiotics – which one is the real “hack”
00:49:34 Food as medicine – when prebiotics help and when they don’t
00:52:33 Quick coherence technique – safe and powerful stress reset
👉 Next Step: Take our 7-Day Metabolic Reset Challenge to discover your Dynamic Metabolic Type and stop guessing which hacks will actually help you. https://bit.ly/3ZYNm9x
To learn more, visit AwakenedWellnessNow.com
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Hey, wellness Warriors.
Welcome to the Burnout Resolution Podcast.
I'm your host, Dr. Mylaine Riobé, andtoday we're tackling whether or not you
can biohack your way out of burnout.
As an integrative medical doctor,I've seen thousands of clients
over the years looking to resolveburnout, fatigue, and exhaustion.
They come to me throughtwo different pathways.
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One is as a one-on-one medicalconsultant in my private medical
practice, and the other is through myonline programs for burnout resolution.
Almost every client has tried one biohackor another, or multiple biohacks over
time trying to get themselves out ofburnout, and the vast majority of the
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time these biohacks don't seem to work.
So we're going to explore why thathappens and how you might be able to
actually use Biohacks in a way that isfavorable to get you out of burnout.
Now, in my personal opinion,I don't believe there is such
a thing as a biohack per se.
I don't think you can necessarilyhack your way to anything.
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There are no shortcuts in our physiology,and in my book, faith, I have a chapter
dedicated to shortcuts are short circuits.
So in order for what we're callinga biohack to actually work for us,
it has to flow with our physiology.
If it doesn't flow with our physiologyand help our physiology to move in
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the right direction, it backfires.
We'll dive deep into whythat happens to people.
Everybody's trying to get themselvesout of burnout because it's so
hard to get the help they need.
Our mainstream medical model reallydoesn't have a means to do the
proper testing and to really getto the heart of why people burnout.
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Mental health professionals serve ahuge role in burnout resolution, but
that's only one piece of the puzzle.
Burnout is a two-sided coin.
It's an emotional issue, whether it'swork or our lifestyles that are burning
us out or just modern living, right?
There's so many challenges today in ourmodern lifestyles that burn us out, so
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there's that emotional side of the coin.
Then there's the physical side of thecoin, and if you're not addressing
both sides of the coin, you're notgoing to break free of burnout.
We don't really have a system ofmedicine within our healthcare
structure as it currently stands,that addresses burnout completely.
The closest system of medicinethat we have for that is
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integrative or functional medicine.
I have clients who haveattempted cold plunges.
Infrared saunas, intermittentfasting, ketogenic diets, cryotherapy
microbiome testing and probiotictherapies, or they use their wearables
and follow the recommendations thatthe wearables tell them to do, and
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the list goes on and on and on.
And it's very hit or miss when peopletry to biohack their way out of burnout.
Not only is it hit or miss, but sometimesthey actually make themselves way sicker.
And I've had clients think it wasbecause they didn't do it long
enough or they didn't do it right,and they kept trying to do it over
and over again only to feel worse nomatter how they modify the technique.
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So whether it's in our one-on-onesessions, in a medical practice setting,
or in our online courses for burnoutresolution, the number one reason that
these biohacks don't work for people.
Because those people did notknow their dynamic metabolic
type before they did the biohack.
So it was a guessing game at that point.
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You can imagine that cold plunges incryotherapy where you're making your body
super cold would be drastically differentthan, for example, an infrared sauna
where you're making your body super hot.
Now, while people maythink that on the surface.
There's no like consequences todoing things like that because
they'll say, well, the cryotherapyis only for a few minutes,
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as you do that on a repetitive basis,it does actually start to shift
the inside physiology of your body.
If it's going against thephysiology of your body, that's
going to make you even worse.
If it happens to be going withthe physiology of your body
to get it in a more balancedstate, then you'll feel better.
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Burnout is already an imbalancedstate, something is off in the
body where you're not meeting yourbody's demands, the supply is not
meeting the demand for some reason.
That could be for multiple reasons.
It could be because there'snot enough supply, so things
are missing in your body.
You may have nutrient deficiencies,hormone deficiencies be missing, other
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components that are necessary foryour metabolism to actually function
to meet the demands of your body.
You get this supply demand mismatchbecause there's not enough supply.
It could also be due to excessivedemand, you're not sleeping enough,
not getting enough rest in general,or there's too much stress.
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So you may not have deficiencies perse, but you still don't have enough.
To meet the increased demand, andthat creates the supply demand
mismatch, which creates the burnout.
So in any one of these scenarioswhere the supply is not meeting the
demand, and there's a big supply demandmismatch, we call that a deficient
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dynamic metabolic type and temperaturereally matters with dynamic metabolic
typing, which is the main factor inwhy doing, for example, cryotherapy,
where you're making your body too cold.
If you're already too cold, it'sgoing to take you even further away
from a balanced state and and moreinto an imbalanced state that's
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going to make your burnout worse.
If you're too hot, if you have ahot, dynamic metabolic type, that
means you feel too warm already.
So if you're doing an infraredsauna and you're already too hot,
you're going to take your body evenmore out of balance, and that's
going to make you feel even worse.
Knowing your dynamic metabolic typehelps you sort your way through all
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the different biohacks so that youknow exactly which ones would work
for you and which ones would harm you.
It's really important to know, and it'sactually pretty easy to find out once
you understand the concept of what's thedynamic metabolic type and which one of
the 6:00 AM I representing in this moment?
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And then once I know mydynamic metabolic type.
Once I know the quality of thebiohack that I'm about to do, I'll
be able to know before I even try it.
So it's not a trial and error thing,I already know I have this dynamic
metabolic type, and so the followingbiohacks are going to harm me, and these
biohacks are going to help me, and we'llshow you how to do that today as well.
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For whatever the reason may be,you're not eating enough or you
have malabsorption like something'sgoing on where you don't have enough
of certain things that you need.
Vitamins, minerals, hormones, enzymes.
The supply is not there to meetthe demand, or the demand is too
excessive to meet a normal supply.
We call that a deficientdynamic metabolic type.
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And it's important to know that thereason of your burnout is because you're
not meeting the demands for some reason.
That's extremely important to know,to get yourself out of burnout
because the strategy that you wouldemploy to get yourself out of burnout
would be to either lower the demand tomeet the supply or raise the supply to
meet the demand so that you narrow thegap.. So knowing you're a deficient
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dynamic metabolic type helps you to knowthat that's the strategy that's going to
work the best for me to get outta burnout.
On the other side, we have an excess,dynamic metabolic type, so you
can be in burnout because you havetoo much of things in your body.
That's actually obstructingyour metabolism.
In other words, it's inthe way of your metabolism.
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So it's not that your metabolism is tooweak, it's that things are in its way.
So we call that an excess, dynamicmetabolic type because there's stuff
in your body that doesn't belong therethat's kind of gunking up the system.
It's blocking the system fromflowing like the water doesn't come
out of the faucet, not because.
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There's not enough water in the faucet,but because something is blocking,
there's debris and calcificationobstructing the pipe and the water
doesn't come out for that reason.
That's an excess dynamic metabolic type.
Metabolically what that is isinflammation, toxins, heavy metals,
it could be, toxins in the formof poorly broken down hormones.
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Everyday garden variety toxins such asplastic, phthalate hormone mimics, which
we find in plastics and animals, forexample, that are fed artificial hormones.
We have these hormone mimickersthat serve as toxins in our bodies.
If this accumulates enough, it's goingto obstruct the flow of metabolism
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and you're going to be burnt outbecause your metabolism just can't
move past those obstructions.
So we call that an excessdynamic metabolic type.
The goal here is not necessarilyto make the supply meet the demand,
but instead to get rid of the junkthat's obstructing the ability of
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the metabolism to move and flow.
So the strategy in an excess, dynamic,metabolic type is to drain out the
toxins, get rid of the inflammation whileyou're protecting your metabolic stores.
For a deficient dynamic metabolic type, wehave to increase metabolism by providing
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the supply that's missing, whetherit's the nutrients, the hormones, the
enzymes, whatever it is that's missing,we replace and that helps to narrow
the gap that's causing the burnout, andthat helps you feel better over here.
The excess dynamic metabolic type.
It's draining out the junk.
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So whether it's a monitored cleanseor detox, this is where saunas come in
because saunas help to detox the body.
They're also putting heat into the body.
This is where once you know if you'rea deficient dynamic metabolic type
or an excess dynamic metabolic type,the next step is to know what is my
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temperature, not your body temperature.
Like when I put a thermometer inmy mouth, what's the temperature?
How do I feel?
What is the sensation oftemperature in my body?
Do I feel cold comparedto most other people?
Do I feel warm compared to mostother people, or do I feel neutral
compared to most other people?
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if you're the friend that every timeyou go out with your other friends,
you're the one that's got the jacketon and they're all fine, you're a cold,
dynamic, metabolic type, if you're theone duking it out with family members
to crank up the A because you feelhot and nobody else in the house does,
you're a hot, dynamic metabolic type.
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Now, sometimes that matches your actualbody temperature, but it doesn't have to.
So this is how, you know I'm acold, dynamic, metabolic type, or
I'm a hot, dynamic metabolic type.
Now you match that with whether ornot you're a deficient or an excess.
Now you know your dynamic metabolic type.
So there are six differentdynamic metabolic types.
There's three on each side of themain categories we talked about.
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So there are three dynamicmetabolic types that are deficient.
So we have the.
Hot deficient, dynamic metabolic type,the cold deficient, dynamic metabolic
type, and then the temperature neutraldeficient dynamic metabolic type.
Same on the excess side.
So we'll have the hot excess,the cold excess, and the
temperature neutral excess.
Now, how you know which of thoseyou fall into, there's five simple
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questions that we ask in our onlineprogram through our burnout assessment
that helps you very quickly know ifyou're deficient or excess, if you're
hot, cold, or temperature neutral.
We go over this in our seven daymetabolic reset challenge so that
you know exactly how to tackle thesebiohacks if you want to try them.
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So as an example.
Why cryotherapy doesn't work for everyone.
And why cold plunges don't work foreveryone is because not everyone
is a hot, dynamic metabolic type.
So in order to correct a cold, excess,dynamic metabolic type, not only do you
have to drain out the inflammation, thetoxins or whatever it is that's gunking
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up the mechanism blocking metabolism.
You also have to get rid of the coldness.
Because what coldness does, ifyou're the one that feels cold all
the time, that means that thingsare also sluggish in your body.
just like in nature, when we coolthings down too much, they will
literally freeze and stop moving.
The same thing happens in thebody, except the body is much, much
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more sensitive then the planet.
So as the planet can toleratewild temperature fluctuations,
the human body cannot.
You have all kinds of mechanisms inyour body keeping your temperature
very stable and very consistent.
So if you start feeling cold.
That is the first sign that yourbody is not capable of doing that.
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It's not capable of keepingyour body temperature even so
that you don't feel hot or cold.
Now, of course, environmentalfactors matter, right?
If it's 99 degrees out,you should feel hot, right?
If it's zero degrees out,probably feel cold, right?
That's appropriate.
It's when it's inappropriatethat it matters.
It's when it's inappropriate, that it'spathological, that it's causing a problem.
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When you're a cold, excess, dynamicmetabolic type, that means the coldness
that's in your body is going tocollapse blood vessels, When we're cold,
the blood vessels close on purpose.
That's why tips of our fingers getnumb and white, some people have even
have a condition called rayons diseaseis because they're already too cold.
So their extremities arealready struggling to maintain
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normal body temperature.
So when they go out in a coldtemperature, that gets worse.
So when you're too cold, your bloodvessels have a tendency to collapse and
close, which means your circulation isgoing to be obstructed, it's not going
to be able to flow properly, and thingsmove more slowly when they're cold.
So this is why people that arecold excess feel burnt out.
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The solution to that is to warm yourselfback up to normal temperature sensation.
You don't want to docryotherapy and cold plunges.
If you're a cold excess, you'regoing to make yourself even worse.
So just because it works for one persondoesn't mean it's going to work for you.
And this is why results are allover the place with cold plunges.
Cold plunges work for people that havehot, excess, dynamic metabolic types.
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The plunge is like a shock, It'smobilizing your energy, so it's draining.
Things that hyper mobilize, shock orstress are draining because they're
moving energy around in a shocking way.
Now because it's cold, it's alsogoing to make you sluggish at
the same time, so you have thatinitial shock of it being draining.
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And then putting more coldinto an already cold body.
If you're super hot in excess, thatmobilization, that shock of your energy is
going to be helpful to get the excess out.
If you're too hot, being in a coldplunge or cryotherapy is going
to close the gap on that heat andmake you more neutral temperature.
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That's actually going tohelp your body improve.
You're making something that wastoo hot, more normal temperature.
This is why cold plunges work really wellfor hot excess, dynamic metabolic type,
and they will make somebody with a colddeficient, dynamic metabolic type feel
beyond awful or a cold excess as well.
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The reason the person with the colddeficient, dynamic metabolic type is
going to feel the worse is becauseit's a draining type of procedure.
It's shocking your body.
Mobilizing energy.
If you're already a deficient dynamicmetabolic type, you already had that
big supply demand mismatch, and nowyou lower the supply even more because
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you've done something that's drainingyou out and you've increased the demand
because you've done something thatshocked your body, increased your stress.
Now you've widened the supply demandmismatch instead of closing it, and
that's why you're going to feel evenworse if you're a cold deficient, dynamic
metabolic type and you do a cold plunge.
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The cold deficient would benefit froman infrared sauna where there's heat
coming into the body, but you want tobe careful because a sauna, right, it's
implies it's going to make you sweat.
So you want the heat, butnot really so much the sweat.
If you can avoid sweating too muchand have the heat still bring your
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temperature up, so it's like a dry heat.
That would be much better.
A heat lamp would be very beneficialin that case because if you're
a deficient, dynamic metabolictype, what does sweating do?
Sweating removes things from your body.
So it's going to lower the supply.
So you want to be careful not towiden the supply demand mismatch.
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A heat lamp is somethingwe use in, acupuncture.
The vast majority of times we're doingacupuncture, we'll put the heat lamp
on the belly or an area that might be.
Experiencing pain or discomfortwill put a heat lamp on it.
That's actually infraredheat, but it's dry heat.
It doesn't make you sweat.
So it's tonifying.
It's not just making you warmerand draining you at the same time
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like an infrared sauna would.
If you can get your hands on aninfrared heat lamp, that would be
more beneficial if you're a colddeficient, dynamic metabolic type.
Now, if you're a cold, excess, dynamicmetabolic type, an infrared sauna
would work really well, the heat of theinfrared is going to make the cold better.
It's going to increase the heat of yourbody, make you less cold, so it's going
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to neutralize your temperature, and thesauna is going to drain out the toxins,
so if you're a cold excess,that means you have.
Extra stuff.
Gunking up your metabolism,making it not flow.
Then you have the cold on top ofthat, making everything stagnant,
so it's just making it even worse.
You want to make yourself warmer,not too hot, but warmer so that
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at the end of the day, you don'tfeel hot or cold on any given day.
You become temperatureneutral, that's the goal.
So you want to do the oppositeof what you are to get there.
So if you're too cold, youwant to make yourself warmer.
So the infrared heat is perfect,and if your excess, you want
to drain that excess out so thesweating is actually beneficial.
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The dynamic metabolic type that benefitsthe most from an infrared sauna is a
cold, excess, dynamic metabolic type.
The dynamic metabolic type thatwould be best suited to cold plunges
and cryotherapy would be a hot,excess, dynamic metabolic type.
Those are the people that havetoo much junk, gunking up the
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system and they're too hot.
They feel warm all the time comparedto other people, sometimes their body
temperature might be just a little bitabove the 98.6 it's supposed to be.
Or they might say things like,my doctors always think I'm sick.
There's nothing wrong with me.
'cause my regular normal temperatureis 99 degrees or something like that.
To know if you're an excess, dynamicmetabolic type, typically you'll feel
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worse if you're sitting still forextended periods, you'll feel sleepy and
you feel like you have to keep gettingup and moving around, or you'll shift
in your chair all the time so thatyou don't fall asleep or feel worse.
Those are the people thatfeel better if they work out.
They have an excess,dynamic metabolic type.
They have to keep mobilizing their bodies.
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To keep moving these toxins to try andget rid of them so they don't gunk up
the mechanisms of their metabolism.
These are the people with theexcess dynamic metabolic types.
If you're hot excess, what that'sloosely saying is that you have
a lot of acidity in your body.
Acids are hot.
They literally make you feelwarmer than you should feel.
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You can also kind of tell a hot access,dynamic metabolic type by their behavior.
They tend to speak loudly,they tend to be very, animated.
Like, we can think of aTony Robbins for example.
He loves his cold plunges, right?
Because he is probably a hotaccess, dynamic metabolic type.
Now, I don't know him at all.
I've never evaluated him.
So it's just an educated guessbased on my observation of him.
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So you can tell he's very expressive, veryanimated, very high energy like, so you,
you can tell like, oh, this, he's probablyan excess, dynamic metabolic type.
So these things suit him really well.
Yes, if you're hot, excess, cold,plunges, cryotherapy, those will do
you a lot of good for some time untilyou become neutral, and then you'll
want to shift your strategy after that.
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Now, if you are a hot deficient,dynamic metabolic type, so for a hot
deficient, you don't really want todo cold plunges or cryotherapy either
because of the shock, again, the stress.
So you're going to increasedemand and not increase supply.
So you want to be very cautious.
The temperatures will match, becauseyou're too hot and you're adding
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cold so that you neutralize yourtemperature, but it's going to
come at the expense of your supply.
So you already have too littlesupply, which is why you're
deficient dynamic metabolic type,so you're going to lose your supply.
So you're not really going tobenefit very much if you're losing
outta one side, what you're puttingin from the other side, right?
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It's like trying to fill up agas tank that has a hole in it.
So knowing your dynamic metabolictype helps you very quickly know,
okay, this is going to work,but this isn't going to work.
If you don't know your dynamicmetabolic type and you're super
curious, I encourage you to join ourseven day metabolic reset challenge.
We go through dynamic metabolic typingand guide you on how to start applying
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this information to your general life,to start getting yourself out of burnout
in a way where you are informed beforeyou try the hack so that you don't
get yourself into deeper trouble.
these one size fits all, biohacksdon't take that into account.
They don't personalize thebiohack for the individual.
it becomes this trial anderror thing, which is why it's
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so hit or miss for people.
Same thing with fasting and ketogenicdiets, both of those are restrictive
either in what you're eating in the caseof a ketogenic diet or when you're eating
in the case of intermittent fasting.
Anything that is restrictive is goingto be draining because you're reducing
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supply in some form or fashion.
Anything that reduces supply isdraining, It's literally coming out.
Or we could see it as detoxing in away but you don't want to detox or
cleanse a system that is depleted.
if you have a deficient dynamicmetabolic type, you don't want
to deplete yourself even more.
This is why intermittent fastingand ketogenic diets can actually
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backfire on people, especially women.
We have, unfortunately, some inherentbiology that allow our modern lifestyles
to drain us out more than they should.
If you didn't see my podcast episode onwhy women have to work harder to stay
healthy, I encourage you to watch that.
It's very eye-opening in terms ofanswering some of the questions about why
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women get more chronic diseases than men.
Why women have an astounding 80%of diagnosed autoimmune conditions
compared to 20% of autoimmune conditionsdiagnosed in men, and why women have
more depression and anxiety than men.
But our biology, it's not that it setsus up to fail, it's our modern living.
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That has set us up to fail, so to speak.
It depletes us more than it should.
Many women are already a bitdeficient just by their nature.
Because we menstruate in particular.
We're literally losing blood oncea month for decades of our lives.
Our supply tends to not be, as, robustas men's, comparatively speaking.
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It's not uncommon for women to be adeficient, dynamic metabolic type.
You can still have toxins andinflammation from deficiency, which we
call a mixed dynamic metabolic type.
Underneath all the toxinspiling up, there's usually some
level of deficiency in women.
So you want to be very measured.
And when you have a one size fits allsolution, like intermittent fasting
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or a ketogenic diet, and you'regoing in already somewhat depleted,
these depleting types of diets areagain going to drop your supply.
While they're anti-inflammatoryon one side, they're draining.
They're using up a supply that youalready didn't really have enough
of in order to get the toxins out,in order to be anti-inflammatory,
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to get the inflammation out.
it's coming at a price.
while you're reducing the junkthat's obstructing your flow of
your metabolism, you're doing itat the expense of your metabolism.
And so you're maintaining thatsupply demand mismatch that was
already causing your burnout.
So this is why these therapies don'twork for very long in women, if at all.
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Now, if you happen to be an excessdynamic metabolic type, and you do
intermittent fasting, you do a ketogenicdiet, you will see a benefit until
you're no longer excessive, untilyour dynamic metabolic type shifts.
If you keep doing yourrestrictive diet, you're going
to become depleted by that diet.
We see this a lot in forumsonline, especially from women.
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They'll say It worked and thenit backfired, or it never worked.
I felt terrible.
I tried it.
And then they'll be encouragedto just keep doing it, your
body will get used to it.
It's not that your body's getting used toyou dwindling your supply, it's that it's
going to shut off enough body functionswhere it's going to force itself to meet
the demand in a. Pathological way, it'sgoing to make two wrongs equal a right.
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If that supply, demand mismatch getstoo big, your body will make two wrongs
equal a right by lowering its demand.
In other words, turning offnon-essential body functions,
lowering metabolism so that it canliterally ration its resources.
If the supply is too low, yourbody understands that very clearly
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as a threat, and it's goingto put itself on a food chain.
It's going to turn offnon-essential functions.
Not a hundred percent off, butit's going to suppress them.
It's going to maybe have them operatingat 50% capacity instead of a hundred.
The tissues are at the bottom ofthe food chain or hair follicles,
skin cells, musculoskeletal tissues.
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So this is where we get dry hair,hair thinning, hair loss, dry
skin rashes, acne, rapid aging.
Joint aches, muscle pain,inflammation, even arthritis.
These things developwhen your body perceives.
It's not, doesn't have enoughsupply to meet demand, so it
starts to shut down Demand.
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That means your body's goingto burn fewer calories.
You don't want that.
You want your body burning optimalcalories to burn those optimal calories
so that your whole body is functioning.
If your body has to ration and put itselfon a food chain, it's going to prioritize.
Things that are important forimmediate survival, your heart and
your lungs deprioritize things thatare not essential for survival.
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Hair growth, skin health, musculoskeletaltissues, connective tissues.
Your body doesn't think those areimportant for immediate survival.
Now people will say, but we needto run when we're under threat.
If the body thinks I'm underthreat in fight or flight,
won't it preserve my muscles?
The answer is no, it won'tbecause you don't use oxygen
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in fight or flight responses.
And the vast majority ofour muscle mass uses oxygen.
We have muscle cells thatwe call anaerobic muscles
or what we call red fibers.
Then we have white fibers, whichare the oxygen using fibers.
Your whole muscle doesn'tneed to use oxygen.
So the parts that would requireoxygen would not really be fed
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as much, and you would losemuscle mass as a result of that.
That is literally your bodyburning fewer and fewer calories.
You don't want to do that because you'resusceptible to inflammation, those toxins
coming back because your immune systemis not a top priority to your body.
So it's not going to controlinflammation as optimally.
It's not going to control detoxificationas optimally, because that's not
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a priority to your body when itthinks it's in survival mode.
Survival mode means my heart's beating,my lungs are breathing, and I'm good.
that's literally whatsurvival means to your body.
Now, that would make us feelabsolutely horrible, right?
Because we want our hair to grow.
We want healthy looking skin.
We don't want to age rapidly.
We don't want to be in a bunch ofpain and lose our muscle mass, right?
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But your body doesn't care about that whenit has this huge supply demand mismatch
that it has to handle on a daily basis.
So we don't want to make that worse.
When we're doing intermittent fasting,ketogenic diets, things like that,
and we already have a deficientdynamic metabolic type, the initial
success that people think they haveis because it's anti-inflammatory.
So whatever toxins were sittingon top of, all that deficiency.
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You're going to temporarilyfeel better as that is relieved,
that's moved out of your body.
But what's going to happen is you aregoing to become more and more depleted.
And this is what we hear thousandsof women say that it made me so
tired I couldn't do it anymore.
They got the initial benefitof it being anti-inflammatory,
but it came at a high price.
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So you don't necessarily want to bean intermittent faster if you have
a deficient dynamic metabolic type.
So who does that work for?
People that are excess,dynamic metabolic types.
The people that say intermittent fastingis the best thing ever, and my ketogenic
diet is amazing, are the people thathave an excess, dynamic metabolic type.
The ones that say, I was curled upin a fetal position after doing this
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for two weeks, and I felt way worse.
Those are the ones that haddeficient dynamic metabolic types.
So again, if you know your dynamicmetabolic type, if it's going to work,
you don't have to torture yourselfthrough all that trial and error.
This one size fits all approachto wellbeing can be potentially
dangerous and unnecessary.
So knowing your dynamic metabolictypes spears you all that ago.
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So why does intermittent fastingand a ketogenic diet help in
excess dynamic metabolic type, andthat whether you're hot, cold, or
temperature neutral, doesn't matter.
It's the fact that you're excess isbecause they were very restrictive, right?
Again, either in what you're eatingas the ketogenic diet or when you're
eating as the, intermittent fasting,that means they are draining by
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their nature and that's why theyare anti-inflammatory or detoxing.
Cleansing.
Now there comes a point where themethod, the biohack has done its work.
If you keep doing it, once you haveleveled out, if you keep doing it
and you think it's a maintenancestrategy, now you're going to run
into trouble because those biohackshave very specific directions.
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They are taking your metabolism.
So cold plunges are takingyou into feeling colder.
And being cleansed and drained out.
So there comes a point where you coulddrive yourself into a cold, dynamic
metabolic type, even if you startedas a hot, dynamic metabolic type.
Do the cold lunch.
So you want to also be awareof when it's time to quit.
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All it's going to do for menow I need to maintain my gain.
When you're trying to get to the top ofthe mountain to feel better and to get
rid of burnout, you want to know whenyou've reached that point and not keep
doing the same restrictive things thatbrought you there so you don't go down
the other side of the mountain and runinto all kinds of other trouble there.
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So you want to find that Goldilockszone once you've done that hack,
and then you stop the hack andyou go into a maintenance plan,
which is also personalized, right?
Because everyone is differentin terms of their need and
their metabolic requirements.
So now let's talk about peptides.
Peptides are proteins, essentially.
GLP-1 agonists are peptides.
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Also insulin is a peptide as wellas growth hormone releasing hormone.
These are all natural things thatyour body already knows how to do.
Peptides are essentially short distancemessengers, so they're local in
the tissues and they're essentiallygiving the cells a message, heal
this tissue, repair that, make this.
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Send this over there.
It's essentially a signal.
A short distance signalas compared to hormones.
Hormones are also proteins, butthey are long distance signals.
Hormones are also messengers, sopeptides and hormones actually work
very synergistically hormones arelike blueprints or the conductor of
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an orchestra reading the sheet music,and then peptides are more localized.
Like each individual musicianplaying their piece with their
sheet music in front of them.
So the orchestra doesn't do wellwithout, the conductor can't
operate without the musician knowingtheir own individual thing that
they do as part of the orchestra.
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So this is how hormones and peptidesare somewhat related to each other.
Hormones we can measure more orless, peptides are really hard
to measure, so we don't reallyknow exactly how to replace them.
So it becomes, again, this trialand error, one size fits all
type of approach, and very oftenthey don't work for that reason.
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So if there's a function that'smissing in your body and it's
due to a hormone being depleted.
Using a peptide is not going to fix thefact that you're missing the hormone.
for example, music not sounding wellin the orchestra, not recognizing
it's because there's no conductorand trying to fix the sheet music
of the individual musicians, right?
It's not going to work.
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So this is why we see peptideshit or miss, not really fully
working for people as a strategy.
It's more of a hack.
we hear of compounds like, BPC 1 57, whichis supposed to protect the body, protect
the ligaments, protect the stomach, healthe gut, have anti-inflammatory effects.
But again, there are so many causesof inflammation that if you're not
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treating the cause of the inflammationand all you're doing is to signal
an anti-inflammatory effect, youare not going to get anywhere.
Same thing with the GLP-1 agonists, right?
We're seeing so many reports now of peoplegetting sick on them, and all you have
to know about the safety of a compoundis to look up its potential side effects.
So we can see potential side effectsof GLP-1 agonists, having a lot of
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involvement of the gastrointestinalsystem, so we can already know
without ever starting on a GLP-1agonist that it's going to influence
our gastrointestinal function.
Now, obviously it's a weight loss drug,So it's implied, but the problem is that
it imbalances the gastrointestinal system.
And knowing how important thegastrointestinal system is now, especially
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the microbiome, it's easy to see whypeople get super sick on GLP-1 agonist.
The problem is we can't get offof them when we get on them,
so we have superstars tellingeverybody to be on one of these things.
When they have no medical backgroundto know the consequences of
using that particular product.
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What happens to people unfortunately,is you're eroding your metabolism.
A GLP-1 agonist will make youfeel like you're not hungry
because it alters that center.
So you'll eat a lot lessand you won't be hungry.
But again, remember that if you'rea deficient dynamic metabolic type
and the reason you're gaining weight.
Is because your body is notburning enough calories because of
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the huge supply demand mismatch.
You take a GLP-1 agonist, you are loweringthe demand by making yourself less hungry.
The problem is the way that the drugworks is by reducing your supply.
So you're just continuing to leave thatgap and it's forcing your body to lose
muscle mass 'cause it's very draining.
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So because it's draining, you'regoing to lose some of the inflammation
that was making you have theweight gain because it's draining.
It's going to force your body tomobilize some fatty tissue, but that's
going to come at the expense of yourmetabolism because it's draining.
You're going to burn fewer and fewercalories while you're using this drug.
So when you get off the drug, nowyour body is burning so fewer calories
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than when you started on the drugthat you just gain your weight back.
Then you have to go back on thedrug, and it just keeps eroding
metabolism, and eventually people getsick because you can only erode your
metabolism so far before the bodybreaks and we get an actual disease.
People report being exhausted on thesedrugs, having low motivation, even
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sometimes depression because of theimpact on the gastrointestinal system.
So, I'm not saying there's no role forpeptides, if you are at significant
risk of death due to obesity, thena GLP-1 agonist may save your life.
Unfortunately, the way that it's beenassimilated into our culture as just
this quick weight loss thing, to getready for a wedding or to look good
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in, this particular outfit you wantto wear to a party, is not the right
signal to be sending, in my opinion.
I do believe that over the yearswe will see just how dangerous
these GLP-1 agonists are.
Perhaps in the future when we developbetter testing and we can really
determine which peptides may bedeficient and we're replacing them to
provide balance into the body, thenperhaps they would be more beneficial.
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We can do that with hormones.
We just can't reallydo that with peptides.
So until we can do that with peptides, Itend to shy away from them as a solution.
So the next biohack is microbiome hacking.
the microbiome is extremelyimportant to the point where the
gastrointestinal system of the humanbeing was deemed the most complex
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ecosystem on the entire planet Earth.
What makes it complex isthe microbiome, literally.
I did a whole podcast on probiotics,so if you haven't seen that one,
I would encourage you to watch it.
We talked a lot about the microbiomein that podcast, but for the purposes
of today's podcast, as a biohack,taking probiotics or prebiotics
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as a one size fits all solutionwill backfire on most people.
I would say probably in my privateone-on-one practice, I'd say almost
half of my clients come in alreadytaking probiotics, and they learned
about them online, or they did alittle bit of research on them, or
they even had a microbiome test done.
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There were specificprobiotics recommended.
What we're learning based on the latestscientific evidence is microbiome
hacking is potentially dangerous andcan actually induce infections in the
gastrointestinal system, which thenimbalances the microbiome even more.
So what people don't usually know isthat the reason the microbiome goes
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out of balance in the first place.
Is usually due to stress and orgastrointestinal infections that are
unseen by our regular medical model.
So there are certain infectionsyou get in the gastrointestinal
system that you know, right?
You have food poisoning, you wentout with a bunch of friends and had
something to eat, and within the nextseveral hours you get sick, right?
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You may have vomiting, loosestools, bloating, abdominal pain.
It's acute.
It comes, it goes within a day or so.
You feel better, right?
We all recognize it.
It makes itself known.
We cannot ignore it.
The types of gastrointestinal infectionsI'm talking about are the ones we
don't even notice that we have.
They don't happen like food poisoning.
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It's not one toxic bacteria thatwe consumed that blew up in our
gastrointestinal system and wreaked havoc.
These are everyday bacteria that aresurrounding us just from day to day, they
might be on an apple that we're eating inour salad on a glass that we're drinking
or utensil that we're eating with.
They're just kind of regulareveryday garden variety bugs.
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They're not necessarilyfood poisoning bugs.
The thing about what imbalancesthe microbiome is stress.
Stress will imbalance themicrobiome emotions actually
influence the microbiome.
This is how emotions influenceour gastrointestinal system.
People feel, stress in their gut.
They have intuition in their gut, forexample, like something's not quite right.
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They'll feel it in their gut.
That's the microbiome being influenced byenvironmental factors, emotional factors.
The food that we eatinfluences the microbiome.
There are studies to show that changingyour diet within two to three days, there
are perceptible changes in the microbiome.
So the microbiome is very adaptable.
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It changes and shifts as necessary.
When we find that when we do a microbiometest, the microbiome is outta whack.
There's a reason for it.
Like the microbiome is doingthat on purpose for a reason.
So hacking the microbiome generallydoes not work until we find the cause
of why the microbiome was imbalanced.
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if you do a microbiome test, andit comes back that your akkermansia
is low, there's a reason for that.
It's not random.
Taking Akkermansia as a probiotic is notgoing to solve the problem, and in fact,
it can imbalance the microbiome in a wholeother direction and increase the risk of
infection if you don't already have one.
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The microbiome is extremely intelligent.
Microbiome testing doesn't necessarilydiagnose infection, so we'd have
to do separate testing for that,although now it's starting to be
incorporated where we'll see whatthey call pathogenic bacteria or.
Non microbiome bacteria that are in thestool with the microbiome, and this is
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often what is causing the imbalance,
they have other unwelcome guestsinvading their territory, so to speak.
Some of those unwelcomeguests may be killing off.
Some of the members of the microbiomemay be causing some of the members
of the microbiome to overgrow andbe excessive in their counts as a
response to the unwelcomed visitors.
we need to know that there's an infectionin the microbiome within the microbiome
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and surrounding the microbiome.
It could be in the small intestine,it could be in the large intestine.
It could be in both places.
you have to know that the hack isgetting rid of the infection, it's
getting rid of the unwelcome guests.
It's not taking aprobiotic or a prebiotic.
when you take a prebiotic, what you'redoing is you're feeding the microbiome.
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Prebiotics with an e, PRE is just food.
It could be different types of fiber.
Green bananas, green plantains, oatmeal.
Those are all prebiotics.
The problem is if you have unwelcomevisitors amongst the microbiome,
you're feeding them too, and they'regetting stronger, and they're going
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to imbalance the microbiome even more.
People can have symptomswhen they do that, right?
They can feel more bloating and morenausea and have more constipation or loose
stools when they're taking a prebiotic,and the microbiome is out of balance.
But again, it's not just a matter of, letme replace the parts of the microbiome
that are low, it's, let me find out whythe microbiome is behaving that way,
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because they're extremely intelligent.
So the microbiome is about200 trillion or so bacteria.
That live in our gastrointestinalsystem, in the colon or the
large intestine specifically.
The reason they're extremely importantis that because they perform millions
of different functions for us that wereally cannot perform for ourselves.
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The microbiome, you might've heard mesay this before, has approximately 4
million genes that code for proteinsand body functions for us and them.
Within our own bodies, our ownstructural cells of our own
bodies only have 25,000 genes.
So they have 4 million, we have 25,000.
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That means the vast majorityof our body function originates
because of the microbiome.
So yes, if your microbiomes out ofbalance, that's a big deal, but knowing
how to rebalance it is extremely importantand is not a one size fits all solution.
Probiotics are not the way to rebalanceit, and prebiotics may not be the
way either if there's infection.
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For the microbiome hacking, youhave to number one, know, do
I have an infection in my gut?
It's not always clear inregular medicine, right?
CAT scans don't show these infections.
Even if you go to a lab and you havea stool analysis, they will miss quite
a few different types of infections infunctional medicine, we do what we call
breath tests and what we call functionalstool analyses where we test the
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microbiome and we look for infections,and we look for small bowel infections
or what we call SIBO and yeast andparasites, and all the organisms that
can cause imbalance in the microbiome,causing it to be dysfunctional.
before you do a microbiomehack, that's number one, do I
or don't I have an infection?
If I have an infection?
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The way to hack the microbiome is totake the infection off its back and to
treat the infection, whether it's sibo,which can be, a long road for treatment.
There may be multiple protocols thatyou need to use to get rid of the
sibo, which I've done some podcastsfor that as well that you can refer to.
And then if there's yeast orparasites and large bowel infections
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as well with bacteria, thoseneed to be cleared out as well.
Once you clear that out.
Then you feed the microbiome.
The hack is the prebiotic,not the probiotic.
the difference between a prebioticand a probiotic is, as we said before,
the prebiotic is food fibers andthings that the good bacteria eat.
You don't want to feed the enemy.
You only feed the ones you want toproliferate and be healthy in your gut.
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Probiotics are the actualbacteria make up the microbiome
that we're dumping into the gut.
Sometimes in astounding amounts,like 200 billion, 20 billion, what
we call colony forming units or CFUs.
Now the idea of probiotics was afunctional medicine, integrative medicine
strategy that was employed because of whatwe used to think about the microbiome.
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When we first understood the microbiomeand we were just scratching the
surface, we thought that there wereonly three species of bacteria we
made these assumptions that, there'sonly three species in the microbiome.
It must be reallyvulnerable to antibiotics.
It must be really susceptible to theenvironment, and so they probably get
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killed off very easily, so we shouldreplace them when we use antibiotics
or if we perceive that someonemight be missing these bacteria.
Well, come to find out in 2012 that thereare not three species in the microbiome.
There's actually 200 species.
Now what we understand is themicrobiome is actually much
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more resilient than we thought.
That doesn't mean when youuse biotics that there isn't
some damage to the microbiome.
We might lose some of thespecies, but we will not lose.
All 200 probiotics are generallybroad and not narrow in their scope.
So what happens when you take largedoses of probiotics and you're dumping
large amounts of bacteria into yourgut, you're causing the microbiome to
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be imbalanced in a whole other way.
I've seen this over and over again.
I've tried to use probiotics in the past.
I tried to be laser focusedwith them and to only give
people the ones that were low.
I had some clients do microbiometesting where the company made their
probiotics based on their test results,and they were only taking the probiotics
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for the species that were low.
And none of it worked it didn't matter howwe tried to manipulate the microbiome with
probiotics, whether we were surgical aboutit or broad about it, it never worked.
We just spun the microbiomeout in some other direction.
With the advantage of being able to dotesting, I was able to convince myself
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like, there is no way to actuallybalance the microbiome with probiotics.
It's not actually possible.
And then the studies started comingout to confirm that like, yeah,
don't use probiotics anymore.
Now that doesn't mean you can't useprebiotics, but you have to make
sure you don't have infection first.
Then they will be helpful.
The microbiome thrives on food.
That's why they live where all thefood is so that they can eat thrive
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and support our body function.
Having foods that are prebiotic innature is really important in general,
but not if you have an infection.
The hack is to find out if you have aninfection and to treat it if it's present.
Then you feed the microbiome,not a one size fits all solution
and requires some testing.
So is there a one size fitsall biohack burnout prevention?
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The answer is actually yes.
Breathwork breathing, HeartMath,and that's why I love HeartMath so
much because it's independent ofa person's dynamic metabolic type,
independent of what's going on.
Everybody needs oxygen.
That's the one universal thing.
The quick coherence techniqueas developed by the HeartMath
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Institute meets that criteria.
Most consistently, they're, differenttypes of breath work, right?
There's box breathing where you'reholding your breath and counting,
four seconds in, you hold your breath,and then eight seconds out, there
are different breath work techniqueswhere you're holding your breath.
Or you're blowing out through your mouthor you're breathing in through your mouth.
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What separates those from the quickcoherence technique where you're
only breathing through your nose isthat when you hold your breath or
when you breathe either in or outthrough your mouth, that's fight or
flight inducing that's causing stress,whereas the quick, coherence technique
is preventing stress.
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there is a way that inducing stress tocalm yourself down can actually work.
But that's if you're an excess dynamicmetabolic type, only because you're
inducing stress, if you're an excessdynamic metabolic type, remember that
there's junk that is obstructing yourmetabolism that needs to be mobilized.
Holding your breath, breathing in andout through your mouth, things like that.
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Inducing stress is going to mobilizethe system for people with an
excess, dynamic metabolic type.
That breath work can be valuable.
For people with a deficient dynamicmetabolic type, it will not be
as useful because again, you'redepleted, you're deficient, and you're
inducing stress, which costs energy.
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So you're going to deplete yourselfmore if you do that type of
breathing on too consistent a basis.
The quick coherence technique is kindof independent of all that because
it's just inducing calm period.
Whether you're an excess dynamic metabolictype, or a deficient dynamic metabolic
type, it doesn't actually matter becausethe quick coherence technique is just
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bringing more oxygen into the bodyto run metabolism more efficiently.
So whether it's because you have.
Inflammation in your body.
That's why they show that the quickcoherence technique can help reduce
inflammation, and they show thatthe quick coherence technique can
actually build metabolism or buildresiliency to stress because it
actually does both fairly balanced.
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It doesn't matter what dynamicmetabolic type you are, you can
actually get benefit from the quickcoherence technique either way.
That's why I love it, becauseit doesn't harm anyone.
There's no downside to doing the quickcoherence technique, whereas there can
be a downside to doing more stressfultypes of breath work if you don't have
the dynamic metabolic type to suit it.
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The quick coherencetechnique is, very simple.
It's deceptively simple, but you're,you're breathing through your
nostrils only and you're taking avery slow, quiet five second inhale.
A very slow, quiet, five second exhalethrough the nose only, just in and out
for three minutes, three times a day isrecommended so that it builds momentum.
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So it's been, shown through30 years of research to build
resiliency against stress.
That is one biohack that I almostuniversally recommend to people
that I know works extremely well.
The second biohack is know yourdynamic metabolic type before you
choose your biohack of choice.
Knowing your dynamic metabolic typetakes all the mystery out, saves you
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a world of hurt in trial and errorin doing things that might actually
make you worse instead of better.
If you're not sure, if you have burnout, Iinvite you to take our burnout assessment.
Just visit our websiteawakened wellness now.com.
If you know you have a burnoutand you want to find a solution,
I invite you to join our sevenday metabolic reset challenge.
If you want to get a sense.
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Of how knowing your dynamic metabolictype can help you quickly move
the needle in getting out burnout.
And if you want to deep dive, I inviteyou to our Wellness Warrior nine
week transformation program wherewe teach you how to do your dynamic
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wellness to get out of burnout for good.
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Thank you as always forwatching and listening.
Hey, wellness Warriors.
Welcome to the Burnout Resolution Podcast.
I'm your host, Dr. Mylaine Riobé, andtoday we're tackling whether or not you
can biohack your way out of burnout.
As an integrative medical doctor,I've seen thousands of clients
over the years looking to resolveburnout, fatigue, and exhaustion.
They come to me throughtwo different pathways.
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One is as a one-on-one medicalconsultant in my private medical
practice, and the other is through myonline programs for burnout resolution.
Almost every client has tried one biohackor another, or multiple biohacks over
time trying to get themselves out ofburnout, and the vast majority of the
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time these biohacks don't seem to work.
So we're going to explore why thathappens and how you might be able to
actually use Biohacks in a way that isfavorable to get you out of burnout.
Now, in my personal opinion,I don't believe there is such
a thing as a biohack per se.
I don't think you can necessarilyhack your way to anything.
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There are no shortcuts in our physiology,and in my book, faith, I have a chapter
dedicated to shortcuts are short circuits.
So in order for what we're callinga biohack to actually work for us,
it has to flow with our physiology.
If it doesn't flow with our physiologyand help our physiology to move in
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the right direction, it backfires.
We'll dive deep into whythat happens to people.
Everybody's trying to get themselvesout of burnout because it's so
hard to get the help they need.
Our mainstream medical model reallydoesn't have a means to do the
proper testing and to really getto the heart of why people burnout.
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Mental health professionals serve ahuge role in burnout resolution, but
that's only one piece of the puzzle.
Burnout is a two-sided coin.
It's an emotional issue, whether it'swork or our lifestyles that are burning
us out or just modern living, right?
There's so many challenges today in ourmodern lifestyles that burn us out, so
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there's that emotional side of the coin.
Then there's the physical side of thecoin, and if you're not addressing
both sides of the coin, you're notgoing to break free of burnout.
We don't really have a system ofmedicine within our healthcare
structure as it currently stands,that addresses burnout completely.
The closest system of medicinethat we have for that is
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integrative or functional medicine.
I have clients who haveattempted cold plunges.
Infrared saunas, intermittentfasting, ketogenic diets, cryotherapy
microbiome testing and probiotictherapies, or they use their wearables
and follow the recommendations thatthe wearables tell them to do, and
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the list goes on and on and on.
And it's very hit or miss when peopletry to biohack their way out of burnout.
Not only is it hit or miss, but sometimesthey actually make themselves way sicker.
And I've had clients think it wasbecause they didn't do it long
enough or they didn't do it right,and they kept trying to do it over
and over again only to feel worse nomatter how they modify the technique.
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So whether it's in our one-on-onesessions, in a medical practice setting,
or in our online courses for burnoutresolution, the number one reason that
these biohacks don't work for people.
Because those people did notknow their dynamic metabolic
type before they did the biohack.
So it was a guessing game at that point.
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You can imagine that cold plunges incryotherapy where you're making your body
super cold would be drastically differentthan, for example, an infrared sauna
where you're making your body super hot.
Now, while people maythink that on the surface.
There's no like consequences todoing things like that because
they'll say, well, the cryotherapyis only for a few minutes,
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as you do that on a repetitive basis,it does actually start to shift
the inside physiology of your body.
If it's going against thephysiology of your body, that's
going to make you even worse.
If it happens to be going withthe physiology of your body
to get it in a more balancedstate, then you'll feel better.
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Burnout is already an imbalancedstate, something is off in the
body where you're not meeting yourbody's demands, the supply is not
meeting the demand for some reason.
That could be for multiple reasons.
It could be because there'snot enough supply, so things
are missing in your body.
You may have nutrient deficiencies,hormone deficiencies be missing, other
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components that are necessary foryour metabolism to actually function
to meet the demands of your body.
You get this supply demand mismatchbecause there's not enough supply.
It could also be due to excessivedemand, you're not sleeping enough,
not getting enough rest in general,or there's too much stress.
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So you may not have deficiencies perse, but you still don't have enough.
To meet the increased demand, andthat creates the supply demand
mismatch, which creates the burnout.
So in any one of these scenarioswhere the supply is not meeting the
demand, and there's a big supply demandmismatch, we call that a deficient
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dynamic metabolic type and temperaturereally matters with dynamic metabolic
typing, which is the main factor inwhy doing, for example, cryotherapy,
where you're making your body too cold.
If you're already too cold, it'sgoing to take you even further away
from a balanced state and and moreinto an imbalanced state that's
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going to make your burnout worse.
If you're too hot, if you have ahot, dynamic metabolic type, that
means you feel too warm already.
So if you're doing an infraredsauna and you're already too hot,
you're going to take your body evenmore out of balance, and that's
going to make you feel even worse.
Knowing your dynamic metabolic typehelps you sort your way through all
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the different biohacks so that youknow exactly which ones would work
for you and which ones would harm you.
It's really important to know, and it'sactually pretty easy to find out once
you understand the concept of what's thedynamic metabolic type and which one of
the 6:00 AM I representing in this moment?
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And then once I know mydynamic metabolic type.
Once I know the quality of thebiohack that I'm about to do, I'll
be able to know before I even try it.
So it's not a trial and error thing,I already know I have this dynamic
metabolic type, and so the followingbiohacks are going to harm me, and these
biohacks are going to help me, and we'llshow you how to do that today as well.
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For whatever the reason may be,you're not eating enough or you
have malabsorption like something'sgoing on where you don't have enough
of certain things that you need.
Vitamins, minerals, hormones, enzymes.
The supply is not there to meetthe demand, or the demand is too
excessive to meet a normal supply.
We call that a deficientdynamic metabolic type.
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And it's important to know that thereason of your burnout is because you're
not meeting the demands for some reason.
That's extremely important to know,to get yourself out of burnout
because the strategy that you wouldemploy to get yourself out of burnout
would be to either lower the demand tomeet the supply or raise the supply to
meet the demand so that you narrow thegap.. So knowing you're a deficient
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dynamic metabolic type helps you to knowthat that's the strategy that's going to
work the best for me to get outta burnout.
On the other side, we have an excess,dynamic metabolic type, so you
can be in burnout because you havetoo much of things in your body.
That's actually obstructingyour metabolism.
In other words, it's inthe way of your metabolism.
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So it's not that your metabolism is tooweak, it's that things are in its way.
So we call that an excess, dynamicmetabolic type because there's stuff
in your body that doesn't belong therethat's kind of gunking up the system.
It's blocking the system fromflowing like the water doesn't come
out of the faucet, not because.
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There's not enough water in the faucet,but because something is blocking,
there's debris and calcificationobstructing the pipe and the water
doesn't come out for that reason.
That's an excess dynamic metabolic type.
Metabolically what that is isinflammation, toxins, heavy metals,
it could be, toxins in the formof poorly broken down hormones.
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Everyday garden variety toxins such asplastic, phthalate hormone mimics, which
we find in plastics and animals, forexample, that are fed artificial hormones.
We have these hormone mimickersthat serve as toxins in our bodies.
If this accumulates enough, it's goingto obstruct the flow of metabolism
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and you're going to be burnt outbecause your metabolism just can't
move past those obstructions.
So we call that an excessdynamic metabolic type.
The goal here is not necessarilyto make the supply meet the demand,
but instead to get rid of the junkthat's obstructing the ability of
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the metabolism to move and flow.
So the strategy in an excess, dynamic,metabolic type is to drain out the
toxins, get rid of the inflammation whileyou're protecting your metabolic stores.
For a deficient dynamic metabolic type, wehave to increase metabolism by providing
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the supply that's missing, whetherit's the nutrients, the hormones, the
enzymes, whatever it is that's missing,we replace and that helps to narrow
the gap that's causing the burnout, andthat helps you feel better over here.
The excess dynamic metabolic type.
It's draining out the junk.
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So whether it's a monitored cleanseor detox, this is where saunas come in
because saunas help to detox the body.
They're also putting heat into the body.
This is where once you know if you'rea deficient dynamic metabolic type
or an excess dynamic metabolic type,the next step is to know what is my
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temperature, not your body temperature.
Like when I put a thermometer inmy mouth, what's the temperature?
How do I feel?
What is the sensation oftemperature in my body?
Do I feel cold comparedto most other people?
Do I feel warm compared to mostother people, or do I feel neutral
compared to most other people?
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if you're the friend that every timeyou go out with your other friends,
you're the one that's got the jacketon and they're all fine, you're a cold,
dynamic, metabolic type, if you're theone duking it out with family members
to crank up the A because you feelhot and nobody else in the house does,
you're a hot, dynamic metabolic type.
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Now, sometimes that matches your actualbody temperature, but it doesn't have to.
So this is how, you know I'm acold, dynamic, metabolic type, or
I'm a hot, dynamic metabolic type.
Now you match that with whether ornot you're a deficient or an excess.
Now you know your dynamic metabolic type.
So there are six differentdynamic metabolic types.
There's three on each side of themain categories we talked about.
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So there are three dynamicmetabolic types that are deficient.
So we have the.
Hot deficient, dynamic metabolic type,the cold deficient, dynamic metabolic
type, and then the temperature neutraldeficient dynamic metabolic type.
Same on the excess side.
So we'll have the hot excess,the cold excess, and the
temperature neutral excess.
Now, how you know which of thoseyou fall into, there's five simple
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questions that we ask in our onlineprogram through our burnout assessment
that helps you very quickly know ifyou're deficient or excess, if you're
hot, cold, or temperature neutral.
We go over this in our seven daymetabolic reset challenge so that
you know exactly how to tackle thesebiohacks if you want to try them.
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So as an example.
Why cryotherapy doesn't work for everyone.
And why cold plunges don't work foreveryone is because not everyone
is a hot, dynamic metabolic type.
So in order to correct a cold, excess,dynamic metabolic type, not only do you
have to drain out the inflammation, thetoxins or whatever it is that's gunking
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up the mechanism blocking metabolism.
You also have to get rid of the coldness.
Because what coldness does, ifyou're the one that feels cold all
the time, that means that thingsare also sluggish in your body.
just like in nature, when we coolthings down too much, they will
literally freeze and stop moving.
The same thing happens in thebody, except the body is much, much
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more sensitive then the planet.
So as the planet can toleratewild temperature fluctuations,
the human body cannot.
You have all kinds of mechanisms inyour body keeping your temperature
very stable and very consistent.
So if you start feeling cold.
That is the first sign that yourbody is not capable of doing that.
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It's not capable of keepingyour body temperature even so
that you don't feel hot or cold.
Now, of course, environmentalfactors matter, right?
If it's 99 degrees out,you should feel hot, right?
If it's zero degrees out,probably feel cold, right?
That's appropriate.
It's when it's inappropriatethat it matters.
It's when it's inappropriate, that it'spathological, that it's causing a problem.
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When you're a cold, excess, dynamicmetabolic type, that means the coldness
that's in your body is going tocollapse blood vessels, When we're cold,
the blood vessels close on purpose.
That's why tips of our fingers getnumb and white, some people have even
have a condition called rayons diseaseis because they're already too cold.
So their extremities arealready struggling to maintain
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normal body temperature.
So when they go out in a coldtemperature, that gets worse.
So when you're too cold, your bloodvessels have a tendency to collapse and
close, which means your circulation isgoing to be obstructed, it's not going
to be able to flow properly, and thingsmove more slowly when they're cold.
So this is why people that arecold excess feel burnt out.
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The solution to that is to warm yourselfback up to normal temperature sensation.
You don't want to docryotherapy and cold plunges.
If you're a cold excess, you'regoing to make yourself even worse.
So just because it works for one persondoesn't mean it's going to work for you.
And this is why results are allover the place with cold plunges.
Cold plunges work for people that havehot, excess, dynamic metabolic types.
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The plunge is like a shock, It'smobilizing your energy, so it's draining.
Things that hyper mobilize, shock orstress are draining because they're
moving energy around in a shocking way.
Now because it's cold, it's alsogoing to make you sluggish at
the same time, so you have thatinitial shock of it being draining.
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And then putting more coldinto an already cold body.
If you're super hot in excess, thatmobilization, that shock of your energy is
going to be helpful to get the excess out.
If you're too hot, being in a coldplunge or cryotherapy is going
to close the gap on that heat andmake you more neutral temperature.
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That's actually going tohelp your body improve.
You're making something that wastoo hot, more normal temperature.
This is why cold plunges work really wellfor hot excess, dynamic metabolic type,
and they will make somebody with a colddeficient, dynamic metabolic type feel
beyond awful or a cold excess as well.
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The reason the person with the colddeficient, dynamic metabolic type is
going to feel the worse is becauseit's a draining type of procedure.
It's shocking your body.
Mobilizing energy.
If you're already a deficient dynamicmetabolic type, you already had that
big supply demand mismatch, and nowyou lower the supply even more because
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you've done something that's drainingyou out and you've increased the demand
because you've done something thatshocked your body, increased your stress.
Now you've widened the supply demandmismatch instead of closing it, and
that's why you're going to feel evenworse if you're a cold deficient, dynamic
metabolic type and you do a cold plunge.
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The cold deficient would benefit froman infrared sauna where there's heat
coming into the body, but you want tobe careful because a sauna, right, it's
implies it's going to make you sweat.
So you want the heat, butnot really so much the sweat.
If you can avoid sweating too muchand have the heat still bring your
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temperature up, so it's like a dry heat.
That would be much better.
A heat lamp would be very beneficialin that case because if you're
a deficient, dynamic metabolictype, what does sweating do?
Sweating removes things from your body.
So it's going to lower the supply.
So you want to be careful not towiden the supply demand mismatch.
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A heat lamp is somethingwe use in, acupuncture.
The vast majority of times we're doingacupuncture, we'll put the heat lamp
on the belly or an area that might be.
Experiencing pain or discomfortwill put a heat lamp on it.
That's actually infraredheat, but it's dry heat.
It doesn't make you sweat.
So it's tonifying.
It's not just making you warmerand draining you at the same time
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like an infrared sauna would.
If you can get your hands on aninfrared heat lamp, that would be
more beneficial if you're a colddeficient, dynamic metabolic type.
Now, if you're a cold, excess, dynamicmetabolic type, an infrared sauna
would work really well, the heat of theinfrared is going to make the cold better.
It's going to increase the heat of yourbody, make you less cold, so it's going
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to neutralize your temperature, and thesauna is going to drain out the toxins,
so if you're a cold excess,that means you have.
Extra stuff.
Gunking up your metabolism,making it not flow.
Then you have the cold on top ofthat, making everything stagnant,
so it's just making it even worse.
You want to make yourself warmer,not too hot, but warmer so that
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at the end of the day, you don'tfeel hot or cold on any given day.
You become temperatureneutral, that's the goal.
So you want to do the oppositeof what you are to get there.
So if you're too cold, youwant to make yourself warmer.
So the infrared heat is perfect,and if your excess, you want
to drain that excess out so thesweating is actually beneficial.
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The dynamic metabolic type that benefitsthe most from an infrared sauna is a
cold, excess, dynamic metabolic type.
The dynamic metabolic type thatwould be best suited to cold plunges
and cryotherapy would be a hot,excess, dynamic metabolic type.
Those are the people that havetoo much junk, gunking up the
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system and they're too hot.
They feel warm all the time comparedto other people, sometimes their body
temperature might be just a little bitabove the 98.6 it's supposed to be.
Or they might say things like,my doctors always think I'm sick.
There's nothing wrong with me.
'cause my regular normal temperatureis 99 degrees or something like that.
To know if you're an excess, dynamicmetabolic type, typically you'll feel
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worse if you're sitting still forextended periods, you'll feel sleepy and
you feel like you have to keep gettingup and moving around, or you'll shift
in your chair all the time so thatyou don't fall asleep or feel worse.
Those are the people thatfeel better if they work out.
They have an excess,dynamic metabolic type.
They have to keep mobilizing their bodies.
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To keep moving these toxins to try andget rid of them so they don't gunk up
the mechanisms of their metabolism.
These are the people with theexcess dynamic metabolic types.
If you're hot excess, what that'sloosely saying is that you have
a lot of acidity in your body.
Acids are hot.
They literally make you feelwarmer than you should feel.
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You can also kind of tell a hot access,dynamic metabolic type by their behavior.
They tend to speak loudly,they tend to be very, animated.
Like, we can think of aTony Robbins for example.
He loves his cold plunges, right?
Because he is probably a hotaccess, dynamic metabolic type.
Now, I don't know him at all.
I've never evaluated him.
So it's just an educated guessbased on my observation of him.
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So you can tell he's very expressive, veryanimated, very high energy like, so you,
you can tell like, oh, this, he's probablyan excess, dynamic metabolic type.
So these things suit him really well.
Yes, if you're hot, excess, cold,plunges, cryotherapy, those will do
you a lot of good for some time untilyou become neutral, and then you'll
want to shift your strategy after that.
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Now, if you are a hot deficient,dynamic metabolic type, so for a hot
deficient, you don't really want todo cold plunges or cryotherapy either
because of the shock, again, the stress.
So you're going to increasedemand and not increase supply.
So you want to be very cautious.
The temperatures will match, becauseyou're too hot and you're adding
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cold so that you neutralize yourtemperature, but it's going to
come at the expense of your supply.
So you already have too littlesupply, which is why you're
deficient dynamic metabolic type,so you're going to lose your supply.
So you're not really going tobenefit very much if you're losing
outta one side, what you're puttingin from the other side, right?
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It's like trying to fill up agas tank that has a hole in it.
So knowing your dynamic metabolictype helps you very quickly know,
okay, this is going to work,but this isn't going to work.
If you don't know your dynamicmetabolic type and you're super
curious, I encourage you to join ourseven day metabolic reset challenge.
We go through dynamic metabolic typingand guide you on how to start applying
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this information to your general life,to start getting yourself out of burnout
in a way where you are informed beforeyou try the hack so that you don't
get yourself into deeper trouble.
these one size fits all, biohacksdon't take that into account.
They don't personalize thebiohack for the individual.
it becomes this trial anderror thing, which is why it's
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so hit or miss for people.
Same thing with fasting and ketogenicdiets, both of those are restrictive
either in what you're eating in the caseof a ketogenic diet or when you're eating
in the case of intermittent fasting.
Anything that is restrictive is goingto be draining because you're reducing
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supply in some form or fashion.
Anything that reduces supply isdraining, It's literally coming out.
Or we could see it as detoxing in away but you don't want to detox or
cleanse a system that is depleted.
if you have a deficient dynamicmetabolic type, you don't want
to deplete yourself even more.
This is why intermittent fastingand ketogenic diets can actually
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backfire on people, especially women.
We have, unfortunately, some inherentbiology that allow our modern lifestyles
to drain us out more than they should.
If you didn't see my podcast episode onwhy women have to work harder to stay
healthy, I encourage you to watch that.
It's very eye-opening in terms ofanswering some of the questions about why
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women get more chronic diseases than men.
Why women have an astounding 80%of diagnosed autoimmune conditions
compared to 20% of autoimmune conditionsdiagnosed in men, and why women have
more depression and anxiety than men.
But our biology, it's not that it setsus up to fail, it's our modern living.
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That has set us up to fail, so to speak.
It depletes us more than it should.
Many women are already a bitdeficient just by their nature.
Because we menstruate in particular.
We're literally losing blood oncea month for decades of our lives.
Our supply tends to not be, as, robustas men's, comparatively speaking.
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It's not uncommon for women to be adeficient, dynamic metabolic type.
You can still have toxins andinflammation from deficiency, which we
call a mixed dynamic metabolic type.
Underneath all the toxinspiling up, there's usually some
level of deficiency in women.
So you want to be very measured.
And when you have a one size fits allsolution, like intermittent fasting
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or a ketogenic diet, and you'regoing in already somewhat depleted,
these depleting types of diets areagain going to drop your supply.
While they're anti-inflammatoryon one side, they're draining.
They're using up a supply that youalready didn't really have enough
of in order to get the toxins out,in order to be anti-inflammatory,
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to get the inflammation out.
it's coming at a price.
while you're reducing the junkthat's obstructing your flow of
your metabolism, you're doing itat the expense of your metabolism.
And so you're maintaining thatsupply demand mismatch that was
already causing your burnout.
So this is why these therapies don'twork for very long in women, if at all.
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Now, if you happen to be an excessdynamic metabolic type, and you do
intermittent fasting, you do a ketogenicdiet, you will see a benefit until
you're no longer excessive, untilyour dynamic metabolic type shifts.
If you keep doing yourrestrictive diet, you're going
to become depleted by that diet.
We see this a lot in forumsonline, especially from women.
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They'll say It worked and thenit backfired, or it never worked.
I felt terrible.
I tried it.
And then they'll be encouragedto just keep doing it, your
body will get used to it.
It's not that your body's getting used toyou dwindling your supply, it's that it's
going to shut off enough body functionswhere it's going to force itself to meet
the demand in a. Pathological way, it'sgoing to make two wrongs equal a right.
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If that supply, demand mismatch getstoo big, your body will make two wrongs
equal a right by lowering its demand.
In other words, turning offnon-essential body functions,
lowering metabolism so that it canliterally ration its resources.
If the supply is too low, yourbody understands that very clearly
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as a threat, and it's goingto put itself on a food chain.
It's going to turn offnon-essential functions.
Not a hundred percent off, butit's going to suppress them.
It's going to maybe have them operatingat 50% capacity instead of a hundred.
The tissues are at the bottom ofthe food chain or hair follicles,
skin cells, musculoskeletal tissues.
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So this is where we get dry hair,hair thinning, hair loss, dry
skin rashes, acne, rapid aging.
Joint aches, muscle pain,inflammation, even arthritis.
These things developwhen your body perceives.
It's not, doesn't have enoughsupply to meet demand, so it
starts to shut down Demand.
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That means your body's goingto burn fewer calories.
You don't want that.
You want your body burning optimalcalories to burn those optimal calories
so that your whole body is functioning.
If your body has to ration and put itselfon a food chain, it's going to prioritize.
Things that are important forimmediate survival, your heart and
your lungs deprioritize things thatare not essential for survival.
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Hair growth, skin health, musculoskeletaltissues, connective tissues.
Your body doesn't think those areimportant for immediate survival.
Now people will say, but we needto run when we're under threat.
If the body thinks I'm underthreat in fight or flight,
won't it preserve my muscles?
The answer is no, it won'tbecause you don't use oxygen
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in fight or flight responses.
And the vast majority ofour muscle mass uses oxygen.
We have muscle cells thatwe call anaerobic muscles
or what we call red fibers.
Then we have white fibers, whichare the oxygen using fibers.
Your whole muscle doesn'tneed to use oxygen.
So the parts that would requireoxygen would not really be fed
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as much, and you would losemuscle mass as a result of that.
That is literally your bodyburning fewer and fewer calories.
You don't want to do that because you'resusceptible to inflammation, those toxins
coming back because your immune systemis not a top priority to your body.
So it's not going to controlinflammation as optimally.
It's not going to control detoxificationas optimally, because that's not
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a priority to your body when itthinks it's in survival mode.
Survival mode means my heart's beating,my lungs are breathing, and I'm good.
that's literally whatsurvival means to your body.
Now, that would make us feelabsolutely horrible, right?
Because we want our hair to grow.
We want healthy looking skin.
We don't want to age rapidly.
We don't want to be in a bunch ofpain and lose our muscle mass, right?
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But your body doesn't care about that whenit has this huge supply demand mismatch
that it has to handle on a daily basis.
So we don't want to make that worse.
When we're doing intermittent fasting,ketogenic diets, things like that,
and we already have a deficientdynamic metabolic type, the initial
success that people think they haveis because it's anti-inflammatory.
So whatever toxins were sittingon top of, all that deficiency.
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You're going to temporarilyfeel better as that is relieved,
that's moved out of your body.
But what's going to happen is you aregoing to become more and more depleted.
And this is what we hear thousandsof women say that it made me so
tired I couldn't do it anymore.
They got the initial benefitof it being anti-inflammatory,
but it came at a high price.
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So you don't necessarily want to bean intermittent faster if you have
a deficient dynamic metabolic type.
So who does that work for?
People that are excess,dynamic metabolic types.
The people that say intermittent fastingis the best thing ever, and my ketogenic
diet is amazing, are the people thathave an excess, dynamic metabolic type.
The ones that say, I was curled upin a fetal position after doing this
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for two weeks, and I felt way worse.
Those are the ones that haddeficient dynamic metabolic types.
So again, if you know your dynamicmetabolic type, if it's going to work,
you don't have to torture yourselfthrough all that trial and error.
This one size fits all approachto wellbeing can be potentially
dangerous and unnecessary.
So knowing your dynamic metabolictypes spears you all that ago.
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So why does intermittent fastingand a ketogenic diet help in
excess dynamic metabolic type, andthat whether you're hot, cold, or
temperature neutral, doesn't matter.
It's the fact that you're excess isbecause they were very restrictive, right?
Again, either in what you're eatingas the ketogenic diet or when you're
eating as the, intermittent fasting,that means they are draining by
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their nature and that's why theyare anti-inflammatory or detoxing.
Cleansing.
Now there comes a point where themethod, the biohack has done its work.
If you keep doing it, once you haveleveled out, if you keep doing it
and you think it's a maintenancestrategy, now you're going to run
into trouble because those biohackshave very specific directions.
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They are taking your metabolism.
So cold plunges are takingyou into feeling colder.
And being cleansed and drained out.
So there comes a point where you coulddrive yourself into a cold, dynamic
metabolic type, even if you startedas a hot, dynamic metabolic type.
Do the cold lunch.
So you want to also be awareof when it's time to quit.
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All it's going to do for menow I need to maintain my gain.
When you're trying to get to the top ofthe mountain to feel better and to get
rid of burnout, you want to know whenyou've reached that point and not keep
doing the same restrictive things thatbrought you there so you don't go down
the other side of the mountain and runinto all kinds of other trouble there.
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So you want to find that Goldilockszone once you've done that hack,
and then you stop the hack andyou go into a maintenance plan,
which is also personalized, right?
Because everyone is differentin terms of their need and
their metabolic requirements.
So now let's talk about peptides.
Peptides are proteins, essentially.
GLP-1 agonists are peptides.
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Also insulin is a peptide as wellas growth hormone releasing hormone.
These are all natural things thatyour body already knows how to do.
Peptides are essentially short distancemessengers, so they're local in
the tissues and they're essentiallygiving the cells a message, heal
this tissue, repair that, make this.
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Send this over there.
It's essentially a signal.
A short distance signalas compared to hormones.
Hormones are also proteins, butthey are long distance signals.
Hormones are also messengers, sopeptides and hormones actually work
very synergistically hormones arelike blueprints or the conductor of
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an orchestra reading the sheet music,and then peptides are more localized.
Like each individual musicianplaying their piece with their
sheet music in front of them.
So the orchestra doesn't do wellwithout, the conductor can't
operate without the musician knowingtheir own individual thing that
they do as part of the orchestra.
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So this is how hormones and peptidesare somewhat related to each other.
Hormones we can measure more orless, peptides are really hard
to measure, so we don't reallyknow exactly how to replace them.
So it becomes, again, this trialand error, one size fits all
type of approach, and very oftenthey don't work for that reason.
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So if there's a function that'smissing in your body and it's
due to a hormone being depleted.
Using a peptide is not going to fix thefact that you're missing the hormone.
for example, music not sounding wellin the orchestra, not recognizing
it's because there's no conductorand trying to fix the sheet music
of the individual musicians, right?
It's not going to work.
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So this is why we see peptideshit or miss, not really fully
working for people as a strategy.
It's more of a hack.
we hear of compounds like, BPC 1 57, whichis supposed to protect the body, protect
the ligaments, protect the stomach, healthe gut, have anti-inflammatory effects.
But again, there are so many causesof inflammation that if you're not
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treating the cause of the inflammationand all you're doing is to signal
an anti-inflammatory effect, youare not going to get anywhere.
Same thing with the GLP-1 agonists, right?
We're seeing so many reports now of peoplegetting sick on them, and all you have
to know about the safety of a compoundis to look up its potential side effects.
So we can see potential side effectsof GLP-1 agonists, having a lot of
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involvement of the gastrointestinalsystem, so we can already know
without ever starting on a GLP-1agonist that it's going to influence
our gastrointestinal function.
Now, obviously it's a weight loss drug,So it's implied, but the problem is that
it imbalances the gastrointestinal system.
And knowing how important thegastrointestinal system is now, especially
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the microbiome, it's easy to see whypeople get super sick on GLP-1 agonist.
The problem is we can't get offof them when we get on them,
so we have superstars tellingeverybody to be on one of these things.
When they have no medical backgroundto know the consequences of
using that particular product.
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What happens to people unfortunately,is you're eroding your metabolism.
A GLP-1 agonist will make youfeel like you're not hungry
because it alters that center.
So you'll eat a lot lessand you won't be hungry.
But again, remember that if you'rea deficient dynamic metabolic type
and the reason you're gaining weight.
Is because your body is notburning enough calories because of
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the huge supply demand mismatch.
You take a GLP-1 agonist, you are loweringthe demand by making yourself less hungry.
The problem is the way that the drugworks is by reducing your supply.
So you're just continuing to leave thatgap and it's forcing your body to lose
muscle mass 'cause it's very draining.
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So because it's draining, you'regoing to lose some of the inflammation
that was making you have theweight gain because it's draining.
It's going to force your body tomobilize some fatty tissue, but that's
going to come at the expense of yourmetabolism because it's draining.
You're going to burn fewer and fewercalories while you're using this drug.
So when you get off the drug, nowyour body is burning so fewer calories
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than when you started on the drugthat you just gain your weight back.
Then you have to go back on thedrug, and it just keeps eroding
metabolism, and eventually people getsick because you can only erode your
metabolism so far before the bodybreaks and we get an actual disease.
People report being exhausted on thesedrugs, having low motivation, even
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sometimes depression because of theimpact on the gastrointestinal system.
So, I'm not saying there's no role forpeptides, if you are at significant
risk of death due to obesity, thena GLP-1 agonist may save your life.
Unfortunately, the way that it's beenassimilated into our culture as just
this quick weight loss thing, to getready for a wedding or to look good
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in, this particular outfit you wantto wear to a party, is not the right
signal to be sending, in my opinion.
I do believe that over the yearswe will see just how dangerous
these GLP-1 agonists are.
Perhaps in the future when we developbetter testing and we can really
determine which peptides may bedeficient and we're replacing them to
provide balance into the body, thenperhaps they would be more beneficial.
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We can do that with hormones.
We just can't reallydo that with peptides.
So until we can do that with peptides, Itend to shy away from them as a solution.
So the next biohack is microbiome hacking.
the microbiome is extremelyimportant to the point where the
gastrointestinal system of the humanbeing was deemed the most complex
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ecosystem on the entire planet Earth.
What makes it complex isthe microbiome, literally.
I did a whole podcast on probiotics,so if you haven't seen that one,
I would encourage you to watch it.
We talked a lot about the microbiomein that podcast, but for the purposes
of today's podcast, as a biohack,taking probiotics or prebiotics
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as a one size fits all solutionwill backfire on most people.
I would say probably in my privateone-on-one practice, I'd say almost
half of my clients come in alreadytaking probiotics, and they learned
about them online, or they did alittle bit of research on them, or
they even had a microbiome test done.
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There were specificprobiotics recommended.
What we're learning based on the latestscientific evidence is microbiome
hacking is potentially dangerous andcan actually induce infections in the
gastrointestinal system, which thenimbalances the microbiome even more.
So what people don't usually know isthat the reason the microbiome goes
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out of balance in the first place.
Is usually due to stress and orgastrointestinal infections that are
unseen by our regular medical model.
So there are certain infectionsyou get in the gastrointestinal
system that you know, right?
You have food poisoning, you wentout with a bunch of friends and had
something to eat, and within the nextseveral hours you get sick, right?
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You may have vomiting, loosestools, bloating, abdominal pain.
It's acute.
It comes, it goes within a day or so.
You feel better, right?
We all recognize it.
It makes itself known.
We cannot ignore it.
The types of gastrointestinal infectionsI'm talking about are the ones we
don't even notice that we have.
They don't happen like food poisoning.
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It's not one toxic bacteria thatwe consumed that blew up in our
gastrointestinal system and wreaked havoc.
These are everyday bacteria that aresurrounding us just from day to day, they
might be on an apple that we're eating inour salad on a glass that we're drinking
or utensil that we're eating with.
They're just kind of regulareveryday garden variety bugs.
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They're not necessarilyfood poisoning bugs.
The thing about what imbalancesthe microbiome is stress.
Stress will imbalance themicrobiome emotions actually
influence the microbiome.
This is how emotions influenceour gastrointestinal system.
People feel, stress in their gut.
They have intuition in their gut, forexample, like something's not quite right.
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They'll feel it in their gut.
That's the microbiome being influenced byenvironmental factors, emotional factors.
The food that we eatinfluences the microbiome.
There are studies to show that changingyour diet within two to three days, there
are perceptible changes in the microbiome.
So the microbiome is very adaptable.
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It changes and shifts as necessary.
When we find that when we do a microbiometest, the microbiome is outta whack.
There's a reason for it.
Like the microbiome is doingthat on purpose for a reason.
So hacking the microbiome generallydoes not work until we find the cause
of why the microbiome was imbalanced.
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if you do a microbiome test, andit comes back that your akkermansia
is low, there's a reason for that.
It's not random.
Taking Akkermansia as a probiotic is notgoing to solve the problem, and in fact,
it can imbalance the microbiome in a wholeother direction and increase the risk of
infection if you don't already have one.
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The microbiome is extremely intelligent.
Microbiome testing doesn't necessarilydiagnose infection, so we'd have
to do separate testing for that,although now it's starting to be
incorporated where we'll see whatthey call pathogenic bacteria or.
Non microbiome bacteria that are in thestool with the microbiome, and this is
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often what is causing the imbalance,
they have other unwelcome guestsinvading their territory, so to speak.
Some of those unwelcomeguests may be killing off.
Some of the members of the microbiomemay be causing some of the members
of the microbiome to overgrow andbe excessive in their counts as a
response to the unwelcomed visitors.
we need to know that there's an infectionin the microbiome within the microbiome
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and surrounding the microbiome.
It could be in the small intestine,it could be in the large intestine.
It could be in both places.
you have to know that the hack isgetting rid of the infection, it's
getting rid of the unwelcome guests.
It's not taking aprobiotic or a prebiotic.
when you take a prebiotic, what you'redoing is you're feeding the microbiome.
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Prebiotics with an e, PRE is just food.
It could be different types of fiber.
Green bananas, green plantains, oatmeal.
Those are all prebiotics.
The problem is if you have unwelcomevisitors amongst the microbiome,
you're feeding them too, and they'regetting stronger, and they're going
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to imbalance the microbiome even more.
People can have symptomswhen they do that, right?
They can feel more bloating and morenausea and have more constipation or loose
stools when they're taking a prebiotic,and the microbiome is out of balance.
But again, it's not just a matter of, letme replace the parts of the microbiome
that are low, it's, let me find out whythe microbiome is behaving that way,
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because they're extremely intelligent.
So the microbiome is about200 trillion or so bacteria.
That live in our gastrointestinalsystem, in the colon or the
large intestine specifically.
The reason they're extremely importantis that because they perform millions
of different functions for us that wereally cannot perform for ourselves.
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The microbiome, you might've heard mesay this before, has approximately 4
million genes that code for proteinsand body functions for us and them.
Within our own bodies, our ownstructural cells of our own
bodies only have 25,000 genes.
So they have 4 million, we have 25,000.
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That means the vast majorityof our body function originates
because of the microbiome.
So yes, if your microbiomes out ofbalance, that's a big deal, but knowing
how to rebalance it is extremely importantand is not a one size fits all solution.
Probiotics are not the way to rebalanceit, and prebiotics may not be the
way either if there's infection.
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For the microbiome hacking, youhave to number one, know, do
I have an infection in my gut?
It's not always clear inregular medicine, right?
CAT scans don't show these infections.
Even if you go to a lab and you havea stool analysis, they will miss quite
a few different types of infections infunctional medicine, we do what we call
breath tests and what we call functionalstool analyses where we test the
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microbiome and we look for infections,and we look for small bowel infections
or what we call SIBO and yeast andparasites, and all the organisms that
can cause imbalance in the microbiome,causing it to be dysfunctional.
before you do a microbiomehack, that's number one, do I
or don't I have an infection?
If I have an infection?
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The way to hack the microbiome is totake the infection off its back and to
treat the infection, whether it's sibo,which can be, a long road for treatment.
There may be multiple protocols thatyou need to use to get rid of the
sibo, which I've done some podcastsfor that as well that you can refer to.
And then if there's yeast orparasites and large bowel infections
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as well with bacteria, thoseneed to be cleared out as well.
Once you clear that out.
Then you feed the microbiome.
The hack is the prebiotic,not the probiotic.
the difference between a prebioticand a probiotic is, as we said before,
the prebiotic is food fibers andthings that the good bacteria eat.
You don't want to feed the enemy.
You only feed the ones you want toproliferate and be healthy in your gut.
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Probiotics are the actualbacteria make up the microbiome
that we're dumping into the gut.
Sometimes in astounding amounts,like 200 billion, 20 billion, what
we call colony forming units or CFUs.
Now the idea of probiotics was afunctional medicine, integrative medicine
strategy that was employed because of whatwe used to think about the microbiome.
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When we first understood the microbiomeand we were just scratching the
surface, we thought that there wereonly three species of bacteria we
made these assumptions that, there'sonly three species in the microbiome.
It must be reallyvulnerable to antibiotics.
It must be really susceptible to theenvironment, and so they probably get
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killed off very easily, so we shouldreplace them when we use antibiotics
or if we perceive that someonemight be missing these bacteria.
Well, come to find out in 2012 that thereare not three species in the microbiome.
There's actually 200 species.
Now what we understand is themicrobiome is actually much
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more resilient than we thought.
That doesn't mean when youuse biotics that there isn't
some damage to the microbiome.
We might lose some of thespecies, but we will not lose.
All 200 probiotics are generallybroad and not narrow in their scope.
So what happens when you take largedoses of probiotics and you're dumping
large amounts of bacteria into yourgut, you're causing the microbiome to
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be imbalanced in a whole other way.
I've seen this over and over again.
I've tried to use probiotics in the past.
I tried to be laser focusedwith them and to only give
people the ones that were low.
I had some clients do microbiometesting where the company made their
probiotics based on their test results,and they were only taking the probiotics
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for the species that were low.
And none of it worked it didn't matter howwe tried to manipulate the microbiome with
probiotics, whether we were surgical aboutit or broad about it, it never worked.
We just spun the microbiomeout in some other direction.
With the advantage of being able to dotesting, I was able to convince myself
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like, there is no way to actuallybalance the microbiome with probiotics.
It's not actually possible.
And then the studies started comingout to confirm that like, yeah,
don't use probiotics anymore.
Now that doesn't mean you can't useprebiotics, but you have to make
sure you don't have infection first.
Then they will be helpful.
The microbiome thrives on food.
That's why they live where all thefood is so that they can eat thrive
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and support our body function.
Having foods that are prebiotic innature is really important in general,
but not if you have an infection.
The hack is to find out if you have aninfection and to treat it if it's present.
Then you feed the microbiome,not a one size fits all solution
and requires some testing.
So is there a one size fitsall biohack burnout prevention?
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The answer is actually yes.
Breathwork breathing, HeartMath,and that's why I love HeartMath so
much because it's independent ofa person's dynamic metabolic type,
independent of what's going on.
Everybody needs oxygen.
That's the one universal thing.
The quick coherence techniqueas developed by the HeartMath
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Institute meets that criteria.
Most consistently, they're, differenttypes of breath work, right?
There's box breathing where you'reholding your breath and counting,
four seconds in, you hold your breath,and then eight seconds out, there
are different breath work techniqueswhere you're holding your breath.
Or you're blowing out through your mouthor you're breathing in through your mouth.
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What separates those from the quickcoherence technique where you're
only breathing through your nose isthat when you hold your breath or
when you breathe either in or outthrough your mouth, that's fight or
flight inducing that's causing stress,whereas the quick, coherence technique
is preventing stress.
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there is a way that inducing stress tocalm yourself down can actually work.
But that's if you're an excess dynamicmetabolic type, only because you're
inducing stress, if you're an excessdynamic metabolic type, remember that
there's junk that is obstructing yourmetabolism that needs to be mobilized.
Holding your breath, breathing in andout through your mouth, things like that.
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Inducing stress is going to mobilizethe system for people with an
excess, dynamic metabolic type.
That breath work can be valuable.
For people with a deficient dynamicmetabolic type, it will not be
as useful because again, you'redepleted, you're deficient, and you're
inducing stress, which costs energy.
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So you're going to deplete yourselfmore if you do that type of
breathing on too consistent a basis.
The quick coherence technique is kindof independent of all that because
it's just inducing calm period.
Whether you're an excess dynamic metabolictype, or a deficient dynamic metabolic
type, it doesn't actually matter becausethe quick coherence technique is just
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bringing more oxygen into the bodyto run metabolism more efficiently.
So whether it's because you have.
Inflammation in your body.
That's why they show that the quickcoherence technique can help reduce
inflammation, and they show thatthe quick coherence technique can
actually build metabolism or buildresiliency to stress because it
actually does both fairly balanced.
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It doesn't matter what dynamicmetabolic type you are, you can
actually get benefit from the quickcoherence technique either way.
That's why I love it, becauseit doesn't harm anyone.
There's no downside to doing the quickcoherence technique, whereas there can
be a downside to doing more stressfultypes of breath work if you don't have
the dynamic metabolic type to suit it.
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The quick coherencetechnique is, very simple.
It's deceptively simple, but you're,you're breathing through your
nostrils only and you're taking avery slow, quiet five second inhale.
A very slow, quiet, five second exhalethrough the nose only, just in and out
for three minutes, three times a day isrecommended so that it builds momentum.
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So it's been, shown through30 years of research to build
resiliency against stress.
That is one biohack that I almostuniversally recommend to people
that I know works extremely well.
The second biohack is know yourdynamic metabolic type before you
choose your biohack of choice.
Knowing your dynamic metabolic typetakes all the mystery out, saves you
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a world of hurt in trial and errorin doing things that might actually
make you worse instead of better.
If you're not sure, if you have burnout, Iinvite you to take our burnout assessment.
Just visit our websiteawakened wellness now.com.
If you know you have a burnoutand you want to find a solution,
I invite you to join our sevenday metabolic reset challenge.
If you want to get a sense.
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Of how knowing your dynamic metabolictype can help you quickly move
the needle in getting out burnout.
And if you want to deep dive, I inviteyou to our Wellness Warrior nine
week transformation program wherewe teach you how to do your dynamic
metabolic type and apply it to yourlife through the four pillars of
wellness to get out of burnout for good.
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I hope you found this podcast useful.
If you did, please like andsubscribe to our channel so we can
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Please share it with anyone thatyou think would benefit from it.
Comment below if there was a biohack thatyou've tried or you wanted to try, but you
weren't quite sure if it would suit you.
So let me know what that is.
If I missed any of them,happy to talk about them.
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That's also on our website, and untilnext time, many, many blessings.
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