The Biohacking Mistake Everyone Makes | Everything's Energy Ep-35 - EEShow (Everything's Energy Show)

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JohnXD (00:00):
What are you willing to do and and how much time are you

(00:02):
willing to dedicate to it? Andwhat kind of result are you
looking for ultimately? There'sthe other thing about
biohacking. It depends on whereyou where you start at, but what
are you looking to do? Are youlooking to be in better shape?
Are you just looking to not haveto take pharmaceuticals? Are you
looking to just not have to goto your doctor every two weeks?
What are your goals? And what'syour five year goal? What's your
ten year goal?
And what's your investment?We're an investment. You are the

(00:23):
best asset you could possiblyhave. There is no greater asset
than you.

Roland (00:28):
You are tuned in to the Everything's Energy Show. Today,
I am your host Roland, and weare focusing on a very hot topic
that pretty much everyone'sdoing nowadays. And if you
haven't heard the termbiohacking, either you don't
have a cell phone or you've beenliving under a rock. And for the
sake of diving into thespecifics of biohacking, I have
what I wanna say is Las Vegas'leading biohacker with me today.

(00:49):
I have John Wetzel or aka JohnXD.
I don't know how you prefer tobe addressed, but Either way.
Either one works. John, thankyou for being here. How are
doing?

JohnXD (00:56):
Roland, I appreciate it, man. Thank you so much for doing
this. I know we had a good timelast night and I look forward to
doing this because we we reallyconnected last night and we got
to understand each other. Thankyou much.

Roland (01:07):
You're welcome. For context, we did a little, event,
an event night last night whereI spoke about HRV, heart rate
variability in the nervoussystem. And it was cool to see
your OsteoStrong location. Mhmm.People are wanting to biohack
nowadays.
Everyone has a cold plunge or aninfrared sauna, a red light
panel, all these differentdevices. For those who have
heard the term biohacking butare still confused as to what it

(01:29):
is, can you define it for us?

JohnXD (01:31):
So my definition, what I tell people a lot of times is
biohacking is simply doingsomething natural for the body,
that gets a result, usually inhealth and fitness. And the
other way I describe it is too,is it's natural and holistic
medicine but we actually havedata to prove that it works. You
know, like we talk aboutgrounding, we can see the blood
changes when we do grounding, wecan see that some of these, our
systems change when we do thesecertain biohacks. And being able

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to prove it, that's reallywhere, for me, biohacking gets
all its credit because we knowthese things have worked for
thousands of years. Right?
The Aztecs and the Incas andsome of these ancient societies
have used these things, but,they didn't have the data to
prove it. They didn't have a wayto say, hey. We can say concrete
evidence that this actuallyworks and it does this or that.
And so what we're fortunateenough in the new world that
we're in with the science thatwe have and, and people learning

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about cellular health and cellsand mitochondria and all these
cool things that we, you know,these all these buzzwords that
are out there. Now we're divinginto the actual science and
saying, hey, we can prove thatit works.
And so for biohacking, think ofdoing something natural for your
body that lets your body useyour natural resources of things
that your body knows to do andget you a result. So is it more

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of

Roland (02:39):
a health based practice or is it for the performance
crowd? Because I see two pathswith biohacking. I see people
and and I've actually andsometimes been a little bit
critical about biohacking, Ilove a little bit of friction in
conversations because I think itmakes it interesting. I see
sometimes groups of people whojust want to jump on the
bandwagon of the coolest thing.And they'll pay for these

(03:00):
experimental procedures.
They'll buy these expensivepieces of technology and they
don't really know what they'redoing, but they just want to be
their best all the time. Almostlike not allowing the respect
for the body's natural rhythmsto ever be honored. It's like, I
will be one hundred and tenpercent no matter what the odds,
no matter what the cost. Then Isee people who are trying to fix

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themselves from a healthperspective maybe when the
medical system has failed them.You being someone with your
finger on the pulse, where doyou see the world of biohacking
currently in terms of I guess,those who resonate with it most
strongly?
What crowd are you seeing?

JohnXD (03:34):
I'm actually seeing both sides, really. I work with, you
know, because what we do atOsteoStrong, we're doing
skeletal strengthening. So withOsteoStrong, we're we're
building the bones. Right? We'retrying to help the bones get
stronger so we can support ourstructure.
Right? Because the foundation ofall of our structure is the
bones. What I see with that is alot of people are looking to,
extend their lifespan and andimprove their health span

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because, again, lifespan is onepart of the equation, health
span is the other.

Roland (03:58):
Do you define those?

JohnXD (04:00):
So we all want to live longer, right? That's lifespan.
We all want to get older, right?We all want to get to a
different age and a differentnumber and an increased number.
But if you don't have yourhealth span to do that, you're
not going make it or you'regoing have a miserable time when
get there.
We see a lot of people nowadays,they're breaking down and
they're on these these walkers,these scooters, these
wheelchairs. And, unfortunately,when they get in the wheels, I
keep keep telling people thewheels are like the the sentence

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and that's it. They don't getoff the scooters. They don't get
out of the wheelchairs. It'sit's really a sad thing to see
because they're letting theirbody break down instead of being
proactive and doing somethingabout it.
Obviously, know that if we don'tdo anything active, our body
will start to decline and startto break down. That's something
that's been proven time and timeagain over hundreds of years.
But what I'm seeing in thebiohacking world is seeing

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seeing both sides. I haveperformance athletes. I have a
triathlete that she's crushingraces at 56, and she's running
past 40 year old, women and andjust destroying races because
she's stronger and she's betterand she's just not breaking.
For me, the the the coolest partwith her story is she's been
doing triathlon for over tenyears. And before she got to me
two two and a half years ago,she would get injured all the

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time, like four, five, sixinjuries a year where, you know,
you if you get injured asprofessional athlete or a high
performance athlete, yourtraining starts from zero again.
Well, she's never really havingto start from zero because she
doesn't get injured. So nowshe's standing on podiums. Now
she's she's improved herperformance level in a in a way
that I it's fantastic to see.
And then I see the other peoplethat have a why of why am I

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doing this biohacking thing?Because like you said, the
medical system has failed them,and and they don't want their
health to decline. They seetheir mom, they see their aunt,
they see their cousin, they seetheir friends, relatives, or or
you know anybody that's aroundthem and they see them breaking
down and they see them goinginto that health decline and
either they don't want to dothat because they've seen what
could happen to them potentiallyor they realize that I just

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don't have to do that becausethere's so much cool technology
out there if we lean into thescience that's where it really
kind of you know mashes bothsides because the science is
there to support both right wecan see that different
modalities work for differentthings but also are synergistic
for both, for performance andfor health because, and

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especially a performanceathlete, I mean think about what
they do, a lot of them, youknow, they're not even looking
at their health, they just wantto perform better, right?
They're not looking at hey, Iwant to be, you know, I'm
performing at 30 years old andI'm a high performance athlete
but I want to get to 50 and beable to pick up my kids or be
able to, you know, go play withmy dog and get off the ground
when I'm done playing with them.
Well, if you don't take care ofyour body, your body will, I

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like said, break down,especially the athletes because
they do so much, damage a lot oftimes to their body and never do
recovery. Mhmm. One of thecoolest things that I think I've
I've I've learned along thisway, as a big Tom Brady fan,
most people, some people know methat I'm from New England. I'm
from Rhode Island. So I was bornand raised in New England
Patriots.

Roland (06:43):
Right? A rite of passage.

JohnXD (06:44):
You have to, like, read the history the Patriots. How
This it is.

Roland (06:47):
So you and the Packers. Yeah. Yeah. Even the Green Bay
Packers fans.

JohnXD (06:50):
We didn't know any better. I I tell people all the
time. It's funny because when Iwas a child, I didn't know that
there was other teams. I knewthere was other teams that
played the the Patriots. I knewthere was other teams that
played the Red Sox, but I justdidn't know they where they
were, how they how that allworked.
Big cultural indoctrination. RedSox, Bruins, and, Patriots and
Celtics, that was it. Okay. Sobut, what we look at is these

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high performance athletes, youknow, like a Tom Brady. Tom
Brady dedicates two minutes toevery minute of performance or,
exertion that he does.
So he's looking at recovery asone of his best assets. And I
love that because recovery issuper important. I had to learn
that hard lesson myself. I was29 years old. I wanted to be in
the best shape of my life, and II crawled into a Gold's Gym.

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And I had a friend of mine thatwas a personal trainer. He he
brought me in the gym, and Icrawled in one day, and I was
two to three hours a day for thenext couple years for seven days
a week, six to seven days aweek. I was Easter Sunday, I was
in the gym. It didn't matter.And all I knew was go, go, go,
hour and a half of cardio, hourand a half of free weights.
So I was dedicating hours of mylife and I did rip off all the

(07:54):
weight. I took off all theweight that I had on me. I was a
little bit heavy and I was twoforty pounds and I went down to
one hundred eighty and I feltgood but the problem was I
wasn't healthy. I was eatingTaco Bell. I was eating you know
fast food.
I wasn't doing any recoverywhatsoever. I never gave my body
a chance to actually calm downand recover from anything I was
doing. And now fast forward tohere I am at 51 years old, and

(08:16):
I'm in better shape than I wasat 30. I'm in better shape than
I was at 18. And it's becauseI've learned recovery and I've
learned to embrace recovery.
Stuff like red light, stuff likevibration, stuff like hydrogen,
molecular hydrogen, brain tap,align mat, you know, these are
all the PEMF, all thesedifferent things that I have as
modalities that are helping mybody recover so I can be active

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and perform at any level I wantto. And again, at 51 years old,
I don't look at life as a, oh mygoodness, I'm getting older. I
got to stop and slow down. Ilook at why do I have to and why
should I? Because at the end ofthe day we're all going to get
older right our number is goingto go up but to me it's just a
number and that's what I'mseeing in the biohacking world
with some of the people likemyself where we're looking at it

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as a I want to perform you knowI'm not a high performance
athlete or I'm not an athlete atall but if I want to go hiking
or I want to go play pickleballor baseball or you know go run
around a track or whatever theheck I want to do I want to be
able to do it withoutlimitations and then you look at
the other side of people arebreaking down man and how do we
help them how do we help them ina way that's you know efficient?

(09:18):
Because the other thing aboutbiohacking that a lot of people
don't realize when when they saybiohacking, it's about being
efficient with your time andwith your body because we know
that time is one of our mostvaluable assets. Right? We can't
buy time. I had a brilliant manmany years ago and he we had
this conversation. He was one ofmy one of my good friends.
And and he said, you know, hegoes, what's the one asset we we
can't just ever have back? And II was very confused at the time.

(09:41):
He goes, time. He goes, can'tbuy it and you can't get it
back. He said, so you have tofor every moment and appreciate
every moment you have.
Mhmm. But also look at what doesyour future look like? Does your
future look good or does yourfuture look like you're gonna be
starting to break down andstarting to have all these
problems that everybody seems tohave in society? And that's
where I I kinda took a pause andwent, you you know, you've gotta
make a good point. How do youuse your time?

(10:02):
Are you efficient with yourtime? Or do you just waste time
by scrolling on Instagram anddoing these death scroll doom
scrolling as we do call it.Mhmm. You know? But what if you
were doom scrolling while youwere sitting on a PEMF mat and
breathing molecular hydrogen?
That's Well, something that Ido. You know, if I'm going to
search, you know, if I'm goinggo on social media, if I'm going
do some of this stuff, what I dois I find a way to maximize my

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efficiency while I do it. I'mnot just going to waste time
when I do stuff.

Roland (10:26):
Interesting. It's an interesting perspective. So if I
understand correctly thedefinitions of the difference
between lifespan and healthspan,we could say lifespan is how
many birthdays you get tocelebrate. Healthspan might be
how subjectively good do youfeel as you get into the latter
part of your And you're sayingbiohacking's main goal as you

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see it. Mhmm.
Performance enhancement. Yeah.But the true value is as the
numbers on the calendar clickup, you don't have this big drop
of Correct. Senescence. Right?
That this how do I feel? Can Ido the things that I always want
to do?

JohnXD (11:00):
Because longevity.

Roland (11:01):
Yeah. You're very right about time being our most
valuable resource, right? Peoplethink it's energy or some people
think it's money, but there onlyis ever the present now. So that
is an interesting aspect. Wetalked about the medical system
failing people.
And I think now more than ever,are wanting less drugs and
they're wanting more alternativetreatments. I don't like that

(11:21):
word alternative.

JohnXD (11:22):
I know. It lumps us in with a weird demographic and

Roland (11:25):
a weird There is no there's no alternative culinary
industry. There's food, there's

JohnXD (11:29):
no food, so there's healthcare

Roland (11:31):
or there's not healthcare. Correct. They want
modalities that are outside theconventional allopathic medical
system. How does someoneinitiate going into biohacking
knowing nothing about it? Like,where do you suggest people
start and what should they lookfor if they want to investigate
biohacking?

JohnXD (11:49):
That's a that's a good question because for me, it was
all about just research. I I'm aI'm a I'm a nerd when it comes
to research. Just wanted tounderstand the truth. I wanted
to understand the research. Iwanted to understand the
science.
I wanted to understand if I'mgonna buy this red light, why am
I paying $1,400 for this thisred light and why am I doing it
every day? What is it gonna dofor me? And so for me, I I
leaned into the science. What Ido tell people is, and I've I've

(12:11):
since been fortunate enough,seen my, know, the group we did
last night, and I've beenfortunate enough to be
surrounded by a lot of medicalprofessionals, doctors, stuff
like that to kind of let mebounce things off of nowadays.
But I didn't have that at first.
What I had was I learned aboutOsteoStrong and that was my
first introduction tobiohacking. I learned about this
skeletal strengthening thing andI had never thought about my

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bones. I had always thought, youknow, we got to build muscle,
right? We got to get strongerand build muscle. That's what
we're taught.
And, at fifth or I was 40, let'ssee, 20 was in my 40s, mid 40s
and I learned about thisbiohacking thing and I was like,
wait a second, so bones areimportant too just like muscle.
And once I started learningabout the biohacking of
OsterStrong and buildingskeletal strengthening, then I

(12:54):
kind of went forward and once Igot into Oster Strong and
started becoming the owner ofOster Strong here in Vegas, what
else can I do? What else can Iadd on? And it was kind of
subtle changes for me. Andthat's what I tell people is
look at your foundationals.
Okay? Foundationals for me, foodand water. Okay? Let's bare
minimum strip it down. What areyou eating and what are you
drinking?
Those are my first two thingsthat I ask most people is, let

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me let me take a peek at yourdiet, and let's let's see what
kind of water you're drinkingfirst. Are you drinking really
good water? Are you drinkingclean water? Are you drinking a
bunch of water out of plasticbottles? Are you drinking tap
water?
Which please don't ever do that,especially in Vegas. Or and what
kind of food are you eating? Imean, are you going to the fast
food places twice a week? Areyou going to Starbucks all these
different times of the week?What are you putting in your
body?

(13:36):
So the way I look at biohackingis if I'm going to drive a
Ferrari, I'm not going to takeit to Jiffy Lube, nothing
against Jiffy Lube, but I'm notgoing to take it to, you know,
and put regular unleaded gas init. I'm going put high
performance gas in it. You know,I want to take care of that the
best I possibly can and give itthe fuel to do what it's
supposed to do. Because if Iwould mash that gas in my
Ferrari, right, I want it totake off. I don't want it to

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start bucking down the streetand and and sputtering.
Mhmm. But the same thing withour body. We have to put clean
fuel in our body, first andforemost.

Roland (14:05):
So that's layer one. Layer one is That that's not
biohacking, though. That'sfoundational health. One zero
one.

JohnXD (14:10):
Yeah. The very first biohack that I really started
getting into besides theOsteoStrong was BFR bands, blood
flow restriction bands. Mhmm. Bthree sciences. This guy
introduced me, he put thesethese bands on my arm, we pumped
up the air and you do a littleworkout with them and you you
actually, fatigue the musclefaster and you're you're
depleting the oxygen in themuscle.
And I saw this as a way to bemore efficient with my work

(14:33):
outs. So once again coming fromthose three hour workouts that I
used to do, if I can do thatsame workout in twenty minutes
and get the same results, wellthat's really cool because now I
just gave myself back, you know,two hours plus of time and we
talked about the time being themost valuable asset. So I look
at what are you willing to doand how much time are you
willing to dedicate to it andwhat kind of result are you

(14:54):
looking for ultimately? There'sthe other thing about
biohacking, it depends on whereyou start at but what are you
looking to do? Are you lookingto be in better shape?
Are you just looking to not haveto take pharmaceuticals? Are you
looking to just not have to goto your doctor every two weeks?
What are your goals? And what'syour five year goal? What's your
ten year goal?
This is something we talk aboutwhen I've got a coaching program
that we're getting ready tolaunch. And we talk about what's

(15:16):
your goals and what's yourinvestment? There's the other
thing. We're an investment. Youare the best asset you could
possibly have.
There is no greater asset thanyou.

Roland (15:25):
Kind of you. Thank you.

JohnXD (15:26):
Had this I had this conversation last night with
somebody actually, and they theythey appreciate the way I put
this. If I was gonna say, hey,Roland, I'm gonna give you this
car. Okay? It's gonna be brandnew, but it's the only car
you're ever gonna get for therest of your life. Okay?
I'm gonna give you this car, andyou can never buy another one.
You have to drive this car untilthe day you die. Well, how are
you gonna take care of that car?You're gonna change the oil.

(15:46):
You're gonna change the tiresand rotate the tires.
You're gonna fix make sure thebrakes are good. You're gonna
make sure the fluids are good.You're gonna maintain that car,
usually with exception becauseyou know that if it runs out,
you don't get another one. Well,what about our body? We get one.
We get one shot at this. You getone. I get one. Everybody out
there just gets one shot, butthey don't think of it that way.
They don't think of this is theonly car you're ever gonna get

(16:08):
for the rest of your life.
How would you take care of it?Same kind of concept. So for me,
I look at what's your investmentand what's your goals? Those are
the first two things that wereally try to dive into with
people. What are you looking todo with yourself?
Are you looking to get agedgracefully and just run a ride
it out and you just wanna, youknow, be able to be somewhat
healthy enough to do where youcan go to shows and you can have

(16:28):
some drinks and you can go partyand you can do your normal
stuff? Or do you really wannafind true health where you can
thrive as you get older? Becausefor me, now that I know that age
is a number and I've put thatinto the mindset, I want to
thrive. I want to keep gettingbetter. I want to keep fine
tuning.
So what I started with, like Isaid, I started with the blood
flow restriction bands, that wasreally my dive into all of it.

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Then I added vibration. I addedfull body vibration and, you
know, stimulating the body andstimulating the circulation in a
different way. And then my thirdone, added in, I added in red
light. And now ironically, doall three of those at once.
We call it bio stacking.

Roland (17:05):
Bio so so there's there's an evolution of
biohacking called bio stacking.Okay. So just so I'm following
here. Level one is thefoundational decisions of
health, especially say relatedto what you're ingesting,

JohnXD (17:16):
food product.

Roland (17:17):
Correct. Sounds like level two isn't going to the
devices. Level two sounds likeit's getting specific on what
your desired outcome is or yourintention, And should then
you're getting into theselection of the modality Mhmm.
Next. So why don't we go intosome of these modalities?
Because I think these things areoverwhelming for people from a
multitude of reasons. One, theymay be intimidating. Mhmm. Like,

(17:37):
let's imagine a 68 year oldperson jumping into a coal
plunge.

JohnXD (17:41):
Oh my goodness.

Roland (17:42):
That could be a terrifying as an experience. It
also could be a contraindicatedthing depending upon the person
and their health status. So youobviously have to qualify the
person. The second thing is someof these devices seem strange.
Mhmm.
They seem almost a littlequackery like. Like I'm gonna
stand on something and just letit shake me like a you know like

(18:03):
I'm getting visions of those

JohnXD (18:05):
Fat loss devices.

Roland (18:06):
Remember the

JohnXD (18:06):
one with the band around the stuff

Roland (18:07):
that just

JohnXD (18:08):
shakes the living hell out of somebody? I still say
they were onto something theyhad no idea what they had.

Roland (18:11):
Well, sometimes people do things and the intention is
wrong, but the device it's notthe tool. It's the intention of
the use. Right? Yeah. So let'stalk about some of these
modalities and what the reportedbenefits are and how the body is
going to take whatever themodality does and receive
benefit from it.

JohnXD (18:27):
Yeah. So we start with stuff like I I I always lean
into the noninvasive stuff, likestuff like red light and
vibration where it's not, youknow, sticking needles in myself
and cleaning out my blood andall this other stuff that, you
know, some of the extreme stuffthat people do. That's where it
gets a little bit confusing andscary for people.

Roland (18:42):
And expensive. But I

JohnXD (18:43):
look at noninvasive. I mean, a good example is is a PE
meth mat. Okay? You're familiarwith Align, you're familiar with
Align mat PE meth. What it is issimply a mat that you lay on and
because it has the current goingthrough it and because it has
these crystals in it that holdenergy and release these
negative ion, what it's doing isit's just kinda calming your
body down and putting your bodyinto that repair and recover
state, rest and digest.

(19:05):
Right? Mhmm. We've got twostates. We've got fight or
flight and rest and digest wherewe wanna get into that rest and
digest more than we wanna be inthat fight or flight. And stuff
like noninvasive stuff,something like an alignment
where you're able to do that,that's something that kinda good
for everybody.
You know? There's there's a lotof there's very few
contraindications.

Roland (19:22):
I was gonna ask, is there anyone that this doesn't
work for?

JohnXD (19:25):
There's certain people that I would say, hey. Let's
have you checked out by amedical professional to see, you
know, if they've got suchextreme stuff going on with
their different different thingsgoing on. I I don't know. I I
would I would be cautious onputting somebody that's pregnant
on a mat, you know, certainthings that, you know, you just
want to be cautious about it.But for the most part, there's a
lot of these things like thatthat that we can do that are

(19:46):
that are beneficial for mostpeople without a lot of
contraindications.
Mhmm. Red light therapy isanother one. Red light, there's
very, very little there iscontraindications, but there's
very few. Photo photosensitivityand some of the things like
lupus with photosensitivity,it's not recommended for red
light. Cancer, they're stillfifty fifty on.
We're still trying to do someresearch on that. But the red

(20:08):
light has been around since thenineties, right? It's been
around really popularized in thenineties with NASA.

Roland (20:13):
Basically, light's been around since the sun existed.

JohnXD (20:15):
Well, red light Yeah. Red light's been around since
the dawn of time. My my otherstatement with that is, the
Aztecs and the Incas actuallyused red light and and people
really didn't they don't thinkabout that. Mhmm. So the Aztecs
and Incas, when they weresitting around by a campfire
after they hunted their food andthen they sat around at the
campfire with no shoes ongrounding to the earth and they
were eating food, talking totheir friends in their
community, and they were sittingaround campfires.

(20:36):
Well, what's the light in redred and yellow light is in
campfire? So they'rereenergizing, restoring their
body. They just didn't know whatthey were doing. Like I said
Keeping warm also. Keeping warmalso.
Because ancient societies werealso outside a lot of time.
Mhmm. So we also look at theelements, you know, the sun
grounding to the earth, water,air, clean air, you know, going
for a walk in the forest, youknow, which I wish I could do
here in Vegas. I don't have thatability.

Roland (20:57):
Go walk in the dust bowl in the

JohnXD (20:59):
desert. Yeah. I can go I can I

Roland (21:00):
can It is you know what? There is a beautiful expanse of
feeling. I sometimes when I'mhere, I go for a drive, towards
Pahrump, for example, and I'llpull off the highway, and I'll
just go in this one of these,it's like a relief center
parking lot, but there's trails.Yeah. And there is this feeling
of just sturdy groundedness withthe expansiveness of the desert

(21:20):
because I I think everything hassomething to offer.
And then there's also Red Rock.You go down to the Red Rock
area.

JohnXD (21:26):
I've had fun. Gorgeous. Oh, it's beautiful.

Roland (21:28):
Wherever you are, you have no excuse to get into the
elements. Yeah.

JohnXD (21:31):
That's the thing. The elements are around us and
that's something that, you know,I I lived in Florida for
seventeen years, and I I lovedmy Florida because I lived
across the street from thebeach.

Roland (21:39):
You have Florida Man energy.

JohnXD (21:40):
Yes. I do. And I love I I'm one of the few people that
love humidity. Everybodycomplains about humidity here in
the dry desert, but I'm Iactually love it. And when I
lived across the street from thebeach, I would go to the beach a
lot of times and both day andnight.
And, you know, I the runningjoke is, you know, why long
walks are on the beach are socool. You know, it's it's not
because you're with yourgirlfriend or your your, you
know, your your loved one. It'sbecause you're actually rain

(22:02):
energizing your body. You'regrounding to the earth. You've
got salt water.
You've got air. You've freshair. You got sun generally. So
all these different elements arehitting you at the same time
while you're with a companionpossibly. So that's why people
like long walks on the beach.
I used to go at night as welland and just listen to the water
and just listen to thefrequencies and the sound and
stuff like that that washappening in the water. And that

(22:23):
would put me into that calm andrelaxed state. You know, I I I
lived a different life when Iwas in Florida because I I was
a, photographer, and I did a lotof stuff in nightclubs and and
these these high energyenvironments, you know, mixed
martial arts and boxing where,you know, everything is
adrenaline and energy and yougotta take yourself down from
that. You've gotta try to calmyourself back down. Mhmm.
Something that we're gonna talkabout probably here in a little

(22:44):
bit about the the nervoussystem. Mhmm. And so for me, it
was, you know, doing all thosethings and having the elements
around me appreciate theelements. But then now that I'm
in the desert, I look at thesame kind of thing is what can I
do? Well, I can go to Lee Canyonor I can go to Red Rock or I can
go hiking and something and getthat fresh air and get that
outside experience where I'm notconnected to electronics or
anything and really kind ofreset the body.

(23:07):
Also a great opportunity forgrounding, you know, because You
wanna walk, there's plenty ofIt's my mind you, it's gonna be
a 120 degrees.

Roland (23:14):
If you don't like the bottoms of your feet, you can
subject them

JohnXD (23:16):
to that.

Roland (23:17):
But it's an interesting topic to dig into for a second
because if you actually look atwhat most biohacking tools are,
they're trying to replicate someaspect of what nature gives us.
Absolutely. You know, I'm of themind if you, and this might not
be a popular opinion with peopleor you as a biohacker, if you
live in an environment that isvery conducive to you being

(23:39):
interfacing with nature as muchas possible, you probably don't
really need a lot of thebiohacking things. You probably
don't. That's my belief.
I agree. But as I say that ifyou look at the population as a
whole, especially in the Westerndeveloped world and
subcategorize those who live incities, whenever I work with my
clients, I ask them how often dothey take off their shoes and

(24:00):
walk barefoot? How much time doyou spend outside in a day? Do
you see a sunrise? Do you see asunset?
And do you get some fullspectrum light in the middle of
the day between 10AM and 2PM?

JohnXD (24:10):
You lost most people at full spectrum light.

Roland (24:12):
Yep. You know? And and it's a symptom of society. Mhmm.
So I think for me as a personwho's in the health industry and
interested in biohacking, Ithink if you frame it through
that lens where you're trying toreplicate that which your body's
expecting that unfortunately itdoes not get subjected to
because of the lifestyle

JohnXD (24:33):
that

Roland (24:34):
you have unconsciously chosen to have to support you,
your family, whatever. Like it'sno one's fault that they're not
getting outside as much as maybethey want to. Working from home
thing has made it more likelythat people can work in the
backyard if they have a goodinternet connection. But you
know, by and large, we areindoor animals. Like an indoor
cat life or a zoo animal in abuilding all the time, going

(24:56):
from place to place in a car.
We do lights all Chronicallyconnected to, electronic devices
that emit a variety of differentfrequencies which have been
proven to be disharmonious tothe frequency that is us, which
is energy and material form. Sothat's where I think the
argument about biohacking, is ituseful versus is it not needed

(25:17):
for someone? That's the basis ofthe rationale that I'll push
back on when someone tells meeveryone needs to biohack. But I
appreciate that you have thesame perspective.

JohnXD (25:26):
Yeah. It's like I said, I have the same thing because I
biohacking is not for everybody.It's pick what you are trying to
connect to. Mhmm. You know, likeI said, we gotta find out what
you want as a goal.
If I don't know what you want asa goal, I can't direct you to
anything. I need to know youreven give me some simple ideas
of what your starting goal is.Hey. I wanna be in better shape.
Wanna lose some weight.
I wanna be able to walk aroundthe block. Mhmm. I wanna just

(25:47):
not I I wanna not just feel likeI'm nervous all the time. I
wanna feel like I'm not stressedall the time. What is your end
goal?
How do you wanna feel? And thenlet's let's dive into how we can
get you there. Mhmm. And itcould be something as simple as
literally telling somebody to gooutside and stand in the park
for five or ten minutes and walkaround the park with no shoes
on. I've I've actually toldpeople to do that.
I'm like, hey. When's last timeyou I've done the same thing.
When's the last time you'vetouched grass? And they look at

(26:08):
me strange when they startthinking about, well, when is
the last time I touched grass?Well, if it's been more than,
you know, a month two, you mightwant to look at that.
You know, when's the last timeyou went out and saw morning
sunlight? You know, it's it'sget that full spectrum light,
get that light in your in yourin your body and let your you
know, we were many years ago,the sun was kind of like
demonized, know, with eggs.Remember the last few years were

(26:28):
starting to come back.Cholesterol and that light
giving you skin cancer. I mean,God forbid, we have real light
and and have beautiful, sunlighthitting our skin to activate the
the photosensitivity that ourbodies have to the light.
We're photobiomodulationcreatures. We need light.

Roland (26:44):
You know? Photobiomodulation. So just to
break that down, the modulationor the influence of your
physiology changing beingexposed to light.

JohnXD (26:52):
Yes.

Roland (26:53):
That's and it goes both ways. Right? One of the most
valuable biohacks that I'vepersonally used is like, don't
wear glasses. I don't actuallyhave a prescription, but we're
in the studio right now. Theselights are insanely bright.

JohnXD (27:05):
Yes, they are.

Roland (27:06):
Blue light, which is the dominant spectrum of light
that's in most high efficiencyenergy bulbs

JohnXD (27:11):
is

Roland (27:12):
actually not very good for you. Correct. It can
dysregulate what's called yourcircadian rhythm. Correct.
Compromise sleep quality.
And it's something that mostpeople don't give two thoughts
about because again, it's notpart of what we consider because
it's a symptom of our normalsociety, a normal environment.
So,

JohnXD (27:30):
yeah. So sleep so sleep is another one. That's another
great foundational that a lot ofpeople miss. For me, my
background dictates that, mysleep was definitely
compromised. So getting in alittle bit of my background, I
was a nuclear submarine, torpedoman.
So, basically, I went on fastattack submarines out of Pearl
Harbor, Hawaii, and I wasstationed and trapped into a

(27:53):
submarine for, you know, weeksand days on end. And sunlight
there? No sunlight. But you'realso the thing that people don't
realize is when I the time thatI was in, we were actually in
eighteen hour days. So this iswhere it gets really fun because
you're in an eighteen hour day.
So you're six on so you're sixon your whatever your watch
station is, then your next sixhours is supposed to be your
what you call off going watchstation where you perform your

(28:14):
maintenance and do your dutiesthat you have to do. And then
the next six hours istechnically for quote unquote
sleep, and then you are back onwatch. So if we do that though,
and we go, okay, I was on watchfrom midnight to 6AM. From 6AM
to noon, we usually run a lot ofdrills, right? We always train.
Training in a submarine happensreally every day because you
always want to be prepared forthe unexpected. And so 06:00 now

(28:36):
till noon, we're doing trainingand that's your time to do your
work where you didn't get achance to do your work
necessarily. Then from noon to6PM, you're doing more training
because we train in theafternoon as well. And now
you're back on watch at 6PM. Sofrom midnight until 6PM, you've
never even had a wink of sleep.
And now you're back on watchfrom 6PM to midnight. And then
maybe at midnight, you get to goto sleep for a little bit. So

(28:59):
when I got out of that, I mean,was, I was fortunately 21, you
know, years old, almost 22 yearsold when I got out. So I was
fortunately still in thatyounger time, but I know my
sleep was trashed.

Roland (29:09):
You used a lot of your reserves at a younger age.

JohnXD (29:11):
My sleep took a hit. Absolutely. And that's where I I
you know, even getting back now,you know, we've done my nervous
system. Right? We did a testwith me last night.
And and looking at that andgoing, okay. What what happened
in the past is what we can kindalook at to see why we're in the
situation we're in now. And as abiohacker and somebody that
actually takes care of myselfand does a lot of the
modalities, out there, I knowsleep is important and I try to

(29:34):
get my proper sleep which is whyI have things, technology to use
like an an Align Mat and anotherdevice called BrainTap which
some people may or may not befamiliar with, but it's a really
good device to try to help withthe sleep.

Roland (29:44):
Explain it a little bit if you want.

JohnXD (29:46):
BrainTap is something that basically, it's a headset
with a visor that comes over theeyes. Mhmm. And in the headset,
in the ears, you have red andblue light to activate the
mitochondria in the hemoglobinstimulated and try to help with
the nervous system. And thelights in the front are the blue
light when you put the visor onand you put the program on,
they're flashing in your eyes totry to help your body regulation

(30:09):
with your nervous systemregulation. So right eye goes to
the left side, left eye goes orleft side goes to the right side
of the brain.
And there's different programsfor it. There's everything from
just sound like alpha sound,delta sound, there's different
frequencies or even some ofthese programs where there's
somebody talking to you and kindof helping you with things and
kinda just, guiding you throughalmost meditation

Roland (30:31):
and putting It is like a guided meditation.

JohnXD (30:33):
A meditative state. Yeah. But the nice part about
that is that a lot of times willyou know, I fall asleep with it
on. You know, I'll I'll belistening to whatever even if
it's somebody talking or not,and I fall asleep with it on.
Well, the benefits are I mysubconscious is still taking
that information in.
So even though I'm out like alight, I wake up and feel
refreshed because mysubconscious still heard
everything that was being said.Mhmm. And then like the when I

(30:55):
do delta at night for thefrequency and I can knock myself
out pretty quick. And for me,somebody that's always had
trouble falling asleep, that'sstaying asleep is usually not my
problem. My my problem hasalways been falling asleep.
Soon as my head hits the pillow,I'm thinking about what I did
yesterday, what I have to do sixmonths from now. Mhmm. What am I
doing two weeks ago? You know?It's it's it's all these

(31:15):
different things that we we callit not being able to shut off.
In the military, we called itfailing open, you know, in which
certain valves when they whenthey when they break, they
actually fail into open positionversus a closed. And that's how
my brain was. It would fail inthe open position and I'm just
wired. I can't fall asleep.Mhmm.
So now I have the ability to putthis headset on, put a program
on and usually anywhere fromeleven to twenty two minutes,

(31:38):
sometimes thirty minutes,doesn't matter. But what will
happen is my body will go intothat rest and relax and recover
state. The beautiful part ofthat for me is once actually,
you know, wake up when thatheadset's still on me, I take
the headset off, set it on mynight on my nightstand, and then
I can go back to sleep. I canactually fall back asleep just
in in seconds, which has been ahuge benefit for me because it's

(31:58):
something that I've never beenable to do. Once I'm up, once
I'm you know, once you're awakein the middle of the night, I'm
awake.
And a lot of people have thatproblem. Especially, I I deal
with a lot of seniors, andthat's something that's really,
really popular in the seniorcommunity is that once they wake
up, they're awake.

Roland (32:12):
Busy mind or just they they can't go back

JohnXD (32:14):
to I get people that wake up at three, 04:00 in the
morning, and they're like, John,once I get up, I'm up. Mhmm. And
so I've introduced some of themto the BrainTap, and, I've I've
got some really good resultswith that, man. I get people
sleeping through the night now.

Roland (32:25):
You know, it's not typically thought of as a
biohacking device because it'smore of an experiential thing,
but the EE system, which is thebasis for why this show exists,
in some ways is the ultimatebiohacking tool. And, what
doctor Sandra has often said isit actually lends itself
incredibly well to using othermodalities while in there

(32:47):
because the room in and ofitself generates an efficient
coherent field of energy thatallows the efficiency of the
body's recovery to, you know,multiply in terms of its speed
of of enhancement. So if you'rein a room like that and you want
to down regulate, that's one ofthe most powerful effects of the
EE system because it puts youmore into that. If you want to

(33:08):
look at it from a brainwavestate, you know, deep alpha
theta. So that's kind of thatflow state meditation cross
over.
And that usually does correlatewith increased vagal tone
activity in the nervous systembecause it really is about
healing. So, you know, it mightbe really cool to try some of
these devices like go to an EEsystem and bring a brain tap.

JohnXD (33:29):
Yeah. You know? And see what happens.

Roland (33:30):
Oh, it would probably just be layered. Bio there you
go. We found bio stacking withinthe

JohnXD (33:35):
EE system. Look. We can bio stack in any way. I mean, I
I bio stack with, with Alignmat. So I'll put the Align mat
down.
I'll put my brain tap hydrogencannula in my nose, and I'll
breathe molecular hydrogen whileI'm laying there on the Align
Mat with BrainTap. And that'sthree devices all at once and
twenty minutes to half an hour.And I wake up feeling refreshed
and feeling amazing or even, youknow, if even if I do it in the

(33:56):
middle of the day. A lot oftimes on my day off at, like,
11:00 in the morning, I'll godownstairs and and I have the
Align Mat in my in my house, inmy living room. I'm one of those
rare people in my house is thiscrazy Biohack Center.

Roland (34:07):
Shocking that you have a crazy Biohacking house where the
guys gonna be watching HackingLas Vegas

JohnXD (34:11):
T walks in and they go, okay. I know exactly where
you're at. And, like, you got afitness center in in one room
and then all my biohackingstuff, it's really obvious what
I do. But, again, I I, you know,I talk about with laying on this
Align mat and breathing thehydrogen and having brain tap
on, how hard is that to laydown? How hard is it to just lay
down and relax?
That's exactly what I'm doing.But I'm also resetting my body

(34:32):
and trying to regulate mynervous system. Because as we
saw last night, we actually dida test with me and we did a
couple tests with me and kindashowed that I am in fight or
flight for the most part. I amthe high adrenaline person Mhmm.
High energy person, and that'snot news to me.
I I've known that for a verylong time. Mhmm. But I look at,
what I wanna do is I wanna showwhat happens after I do the

(34:54):
Align Mat. So when I did theAlign Mat and BrainTap for the
very first time together, we dida neural check before and a
neural check after. So we did soI I actually I'd love to show
you that and show you whathappened to me and my body
completely shifted.
That's actually what made me buyBrainTap. Mhmm. Was because I
did that, and I saw the shiftand went, oh my goodness. This
is perfect for me. This isexactly what I'm looking for.
Because, I mean, I'm I'm I'm inthis body. I know what I mean. I

(35:16):
know who I am. I know I'm highenergy. I know I'm, you know,
all go, you know, never stop.

Roland (35:22):
Mhmm.

JohnXD (35:22):
I know how I am. But I also know that that's going to
affect my health. And so I lookat that as a as a piece of my
puzzle because the other thingof this is it's all a piece of
the puzzle. Right? We're we'rewe're have this big beautiful
tapestry, and there's a lot ofthese pieces, you know, nervous
system, brain health, actualfitness and and muscle
structure, bone structure, youknow, food and and clean water.

(35:45):
There's this big tapestry thatwe have and all these different
pieces of the puzzle. You justhave to figure out how it fits
in and how you can fit it intoyour lifestyle. There's the
other thing. Now I know peopledon't have any time but how can
we do something simple you knowlike I said if we could do a
twenty minute brain tap whilelaying on a line mat and
breathing the hydrogen that'stwenty minutes of your day. Do
you have an hour for yourself ina day?
I always tell people this too doyou have an hour? Do you take

(36:09):
one hour for yourself per day?There's twenty four hours in a
day. Do you take one hour foryourself? You're worth it.
You're worth at least an hour aday. What do you do for
yourself? And that could besomething as simple I read a
book or I like doing this, likerelaxing or I like eating,
making food. It doesn't matterwhat you like to do, but if you
take that hour for yourself, beyour best self advocate. You're
your best asset.

(36:30):
You have to take care of it. Bethe best version of yourself.
Not a hard concept.

Roland (36:36):
Well, it's it's a nice way of looking at biohacking as
a perspective or a potentialentry point into self work and
self development. Because whatyou just described there, you
know, being quite vulnerablewith your own admission of, the
things in your world that shouldshall we say, and are not ideal
and how they're regulatingthemselves right now. You have

(36:57):
to know yourself, and you haveto have enough self awareness if
you are gonna start some ofthese things to know that you
may need something to help youbetter yourself from the
position that you're currentlyin. Correct. Because for most
people, they kind of just becomeautomatically programmed to live
life on repeat to some degree asthe day before was, as the day

(37:18):
before that was.
There's a consistency and amomentum that their behaviors,
habits, and and activities areprogrammed by. For people to
want to change their health,they have to break habit.

JohnXD (37:30):
Correct.

Roland (37:30):
Habit and behavior are not the same thing. And there's
an old saying that I like thatshort term motivation leads to
failure. Mhmm. Habit isefficient. And because it's
efficient, it doesn't takeenergy.
You don't have to think aboutit. You don't have to interrupt
what it is that you'veprogrammed yourself to do.
Behavior takes work and itdoesn't give you an immediate
feedback of, reward and pleasureseeking because oftentimes you

(37:54):
don't do new behaviors well. Ifanyone's ever golfed for the
first time in their life, Iguarantee you many people never
go back to the golf coursebecause of the experience they
had. Because they didn't thrive,they shit the bed for lack of
better

JohnXD (38:06):
decision. Didn't go well. Yeah. So from what you're

Roland (38:09):
saying here, see that the message that you're putting
out, it's a nice way to look atit because that tapestry was a
beautiful example of knowthyself, become self aware of
what needs work in your life,and then start to get
quantified, self quantified inmaybe figuring out what's going
on with your body. Mhmm. Why doyou not sleep well? Why do you
have a hard time relaxing? Maybefor some people it's their

(38:32):
digestion's off or they getheadaches or they have energy
pot of coffee a day?
Yeah. Coffee's delicious.

JohnXD (38:37):
I like coffee. Much of coffee is good. So

Roland (38:40):
maybe it is something as simple as biohacking is kind of
like a twenty first centurywindow into the avatar, if you
will, of each person's body thatthey're given and the
personality and the nervoussystem and how things are wired
Mhmm. Where you can start tofocus on changing yourself so
you can improve that health spanin addition to the lifespan and

(39:01):
that quality of life.

JohnXD (39:02):
Quality of life. That's a huge one. That's something
that's that's stuck with me fora very long of life. Mhmm. So
with me in, 2011, my mom was 65years old.
Okay? And she was five foottall, a hundred pounds soaking
wet, ran around the beach. Imean, she was a beach girl. She
was she looked like a differentnationality because she was so
dark because she had so muchsun. And and she loved life and

(39:24):
she lived life.
And in 09/26/2031, she actuallyhad a brain hemorrhage. And she
had a blood vessel break in theback of her brain and filled her
brain with blood. And when Iwent in hospital that night
because she went into a coma,the doctor said something very
specific to me that I will neverever forget in my entire life.
He he you know, we asked, youknow, how long you know, how
does she recover from this? Andhe goes, there really isn't any

(39:47):
recovery.
He said, the best you could hopefor is vegetable. And I said,
okay. I said, we're not doingthat. And he said, you have to
look at quality of life overquantity of life. He goes, how
did she live?
I said, she she was at the beachthis morning. I said, so she
lived every minute, and she shedid the things that she wanted
to do. She was retired fromwork, and she wanted to hang at
the beach. She loved my daughterto death, and she loved going to
the beach with my daughter. Sothat's what she did, and that's

(40:08):
what she loved to do.
And, unfortunately, hersituation, she kinda went out
that way. But at the end of theday, when he said that quality
of life thing, I've never forgotthat. Mhmm. And I I look at that
going forward of, I wanteverybody to have quality of
life. I don't want everybody tobe shortchanged on on having
quality of life and especiallyas they get older.
Because what we see a lot oftimes is we see that quality

(40:29):
start to diminish. Right? We seeat a certain age, you know,
start aches and pains start,then, you know, joint pains
start and then they don't wantto move around because
everything hurts and, you know,they go to the doctor, they get
medications and then it doesn'treally fix the problem, it just
leads to more problems and moremedications. Their quality of
life decreases. And usually at acertain age, and it decreases

(40:50):
rapidly.
And that's the thing that Ireally look at. How do we fix
that? How do we get people tounderstand quality of life?
Because there's an interestingconversation because a lot of
people don't understand that.What does that mean, John?
Well, it means not going to thedoctor every week. It means
doing the things that you wantto do for you, not the things
that you have to do becauseyou're trying to keep yourself
alive. Is it something simplethat we could add into your

(41:10):
lifestyle, some of thesebiohacks that we could add into
your lifestyle that would giveyou a better quality of life?
You know, what you didn't haveto do 16 doctor's appointments
this year? What if you did two?
You know, and each time you wentto see the doctor they went, you
know what? You're in greatshape. Everything is looking
perfect. Your blood work looksgreat. I'll see you next year.
That's what most people wouldlove to hear. But instead, most
people hear, okay, well, I'mgonna give you these three

(41:32):
prescriptions. You know, makesure you pick them up at the
pharmacy this week. And it'sunfortunate because they don't
understand the differencebetween quality and quantity.
Quantity, we are gonna getolder, right?
And potentially, that's the goalof lifespan, get older.

Roland (41:42):
It's inevitable.

JohnXD (41:43):
Inevitable, hopefully. But we want quality of life
while we do that. I don't wannabe in a walker or on a walker. I
don't wanna be in a wheelchair.I don't wanna be on one of those
scooters.
I I I really just dislikescooters. I I I think that has
been one of the worst things wecould have done in society
almost because it really forcedpeople to be lazy. It forced
people to get into this habit ofonce I get that scooter, I don't
have to walk around anymore. Idon't have to make any effort

(42:05):
anymore. I can go to the store,they provide me a scooter if I
don't have one.
And unfortunately, see thesepeople starting to get bigger
and bigger and bigger becausetheir quality of life is
diminishing. Mhmm. Becausethey're stand they're not
standing up anymore. They're notmoving around. They're not
moving that body to get the thejoints moving, to get the blood
flowing, to get all thesethings, these natural systems
that we have that workfantastically, but you've got to

(42:26):
put in a little bit of work.
And a little bit of work couldbe just walking around your
neighborhood. Take your dogs fora walk. Take your grandchildren
for a walk. Take your kids for awalk. Do something.
Do something active. That'ssomething that we did see in in
in COVID. We've seen peoplerealize how bad of health they
were in. Mhmm. If nothing else,the blessing in disguise of
COVID was people got exposed tohow bad of health they were
actually in because that personthat hadn't walked around and

(42:49):
hadn't done anything for fifteenyears except for watch TV every
time they got home from work,they said they wanted to go walk
around their neighborhood fortwo miles, you know, because
they wanted to get someexercise.
They walked half a block andcouldn't do it. And it's because
they just hadn't focused onanything. They just didn't
realize that fifteen years ofinactivity would would lead to
this result. You know, it's itseems like a lot of people are

(43:09):
confused as to, well, if I if Idon't use it, I lose it. And
that's that's how our bodiesare.
Our body is designed that way.You have to put strain on the
body. You have to put effortinto the body to get the body to
keep going. The the the easy wayto look at it for me when I
like, I look at the astronauts.The astronauts go into space.
Right? What they're doing isthey're removing gravity from
the body. Well, what happens?Your your body's full of

(43:30):
muscles. Right?
So your heart, your lungs, yourbrain, your connective tissue,
all of that stuff gets weakerbecause it doesn't have strain
on it. Right? Gravity ismissing. So we lose strain. And
the other big one is digestion.
People don't even think aboutthat one. Well think about your
digestion system. Your digestionsystem is a flowing system,
right? It's a gravity drivenflowing system. And if you take
gravity away from that body, nowwhat happens is those systems

(43:53):
don't work right.
So those people come back fromspace and they have all kinds of
problems, medical problems,health problems. Same with
somebody with a coma, the sameexact situation. You take that
body and you don't move it for awhile, They don't get them up
and run them down the hallway.They get them up and move them
slowly because you've got muscleatrophy. Mhmm.
So we look at all thesedifferent things of, wait a
second. If you the science hasproven time and time and time

(44:14):
again. If you don't use it, youlose it. It couldn't be any
simpler than that.

Roland (44:18):
So it sounds like the concept can be encompassed in
the term personalresponsibility. Accountability.

JohnXD (44:24):
Yeah. One simple word, accountability. Okay. You have
to be your best advocate. No oneis gonna take care of you like
you.
And and that's something I sayto people all the time. And it's
very true. I take care of mebetter than anyone possibly
could. And and it's because I II like living and I I like being
here and I like being able to docool things and meeting cool
people. Yeah.
You know? I mean and you've seenthe crowd we had last night. We
we have fun. We we enjoy people.

Roland (44:46):
It comes full circle. That's amazing. Yeah. I I
appreciate that perspective,John. And I think that's
something that is, digestible,pun intended, just talking about
the digestive system, for peopleto hear.
But it's also a little bit of, aprod in the in the direction of,
look. No one's coming to saveyou. The difference between
someone who unfortunately getsprocessed by the system and
someone who finds their way outof a bad place is personal

(45:09):
responsibility Mhmm. Catalyzingbehavior change Mhmm. And
accountability to sustain that.
And it's not so complicated thateveryone can do it. I believe
Every single person withinreason of those who may have,
you know, situations andscenarios where unfortunate
actions may have happened, but,you know, everyone can get in

(45:30):
better shape should they wantto. The human will is a very
powerful thing.

JohnXD (45:33):
Consistency. Simple consistency. Right? Being
consistent with something. Everyday, you eat food and drink
water.
You're consistent with that. Youdo it every single day.
Otherwise, you die. Right? Ifyou don't drink water and you go
I think it's, like, three days,you can go without water and
pretty much your system startsshutting down.
So your body knows that you haveto be consistent and you have to
have water and you have to havefood. And that's just a piece of

(45:56):
the puzzle. Why can't youincorporate that into
everything? So for me, red lighttherapy is a great example for
me. I bought a red light panel11/09/2022, and I have used that
every day, twice a day.
I've missed maybe five days inthree years. And it's just
because I was traveling and andstuff like that. But other than

(46:16):
that, I wake up in the morning,and I do red lights while
standing on a vibration plate.And it's just a it's just a
lifestyle thing for me. It's notlike a, oh, well, I gotta get
this red light in, and I gottado this thing.
I just wake up, and I knowthat's what I have to do.

Roland (46:28):
Yeah. You've made it part of your normal thing.

JohnXD (46:29):
It's part of my normal thing. Then I make my protein
shake, you know, with all myother supplements in it. Again,
it's just a normal thing. It's Iknow it's gonna take me ten
minutes to get all the powdersput in there and get my my my
capsules and stuff put together.It's gonna take me ten minutes,
but it's already factored intomy day.
Mhmm. It's not something weird Ihave to do. It's already
factored in. The time's alreadybeen allotted for it. You know,
remember people used to readnewspapers.

(46:50):
Remember that? Back in the day,people used to get out this
newspaper. They

Roland (46:52):
would Sure some people still do.

JohnXD (46:53):
And I'm sure some people still do. Yeah. But what do they
do? They consistentlyconsistently do do it. It.
If you notice that the thepeople that read newspapers and
especially I had a grandfatherthat was like that, man, and he
he read newspapers and that'swhat he did. He he would get the
paper off the porch andconsistently did that. Mhmm. But
what if you did that withanything? Take that time and
consistently put it towardssomething taking care of
yourself.
Put it towards something goodfor you. How hard is that? Well,

(47:15):
once you do it for so manytimes, it's gonna be adapted
into your lifestyle and you'rejust gonna not not not do it.
It's just habit. Now it's youformed a beautiful habit and
it's a positive habit that canhelp you get a result, usually a
positive result.
Smoking smoking is a great one.Smoking. You look at how
consistent people are insmoking. Think about smoking.

Roland (47:33):
I didn't say smoking is a great one. You're
contextualizing that statement.

JohnXD (47:35):
Smoking smoking cigarettes Yeah. Is is a great
example of consistency. Yes.People That's that smoke
cigarettes are very consistentwith it. They're dedicated to
it.
And especially you try to tellthem, hey, why don't you just
take a break and not smoke for awhile? They get mad at you.

Roland (47:48):
Well, there's a habitual dependency

JohnXD (47:50):
Yeah.

Roland (47:50):
Chemically that's actually driven there too.
Right? Yeah.

JohnXD (47:52):
But because they've done it so long that these people
can't stop because it's just soit's part of their lifestyle.
They've allotted the time.They've allotted the resources.
They've allotted the effort todo it. Because smoking
cigarettes, you have to make aneffort to go to the store,
purchase the cigarette, bring ithome or or smoke it in your car.
There's there's some steps thatyou have to do and be consistent
with those steps to make thathappen. Mhmm. But it's just like
anything. Why can't you do thatwith food? Why can't you do that

(48:15):
with exercise?
Why can't you do that with with,recovery things like biohacking,
you know, simple red light orsimple Align Mat or Brain Tap?
Be consistent it.

Roland (48:23):
Fair.

JohnXD (48:24):
I like consistency.

Roland (48:25):
I can align with that. So in all of this stuff we
shared today, John, if you candistill it down to maybe some
final takeaway messages or asingular focus takeaway message
for anyone listening, maybethey're interested in starting
biohacking. Maybe they don'tknow what to do. What would you
say the best first step is todo? And then how would you
suggest that they maybe start torearrange some things some

(48:46):
things in their lives tomaintain it?

JohnXD (48:49):
First thing is is, like, I I always go back to what are
your goals and what are you whatis your investment? Your
investment should be you. Right?You're not an expense. All these
biohacking modalities and toolsand, you know, memberships and
all that, that's that's justmoney.
It's a tool. But it's not anexpense. It's an investment. So
my takeaway from from most ofthis is, what are you looking to
invest in yourself and how areyou looking to invest in

(49:10):
yourself? Is it, you know, youwanna you wanna have, the
ability to wear the fancyclothes?
Do you wanna wear the fancy or,you know, have the fancy watch?
Or do you wanna just be inreally good shape? You know,
everybody has a thing that theywanna do and and how they wanna
portray themselves. For me, Ialways looked at being in shape.
It it people treat youdifferently, as weird as it
sounds to say.
People treat you differentlybecause they understand that
there's a discipline that goesinto. This is earned. This is

(49:32):
not bought or paid for. I can'tlook this way because I paid a
bunch of money to do it. Youknow, some of the richest people
in the world, money doesn'tmatter when it comes to health.
They can't buy their health. Sofor me, it's being your own self
advocate, being your, the theperson that takes care of you
the best, and having consistencyand having accountability. If

(49:53):
you're gonna do something andyou're gonna put your money or
your effort towards it, do it.Don't don't half ass it. Don't,
you know, dip the toe in andthen, know, hey.
I I took these supplements, Ionly took them one time out of
two months. Hey. I I I I didthis red light but I did it one
time in six months. You know beconsistent with it and then
track your results. There'sanother thing that people don't

(50:14):
do is they don't look at hey howdo I monitor what's happening
and how do I understand if I'mgetting a result good or bad.
You know, this is something withwe talk about the nervous
system. If we don't track thesethings, how do you actually know
what's going on? Luckily, like Isaid, I'm fortunate enough to
have some doctors around me thatwe, you know, work and blood
microscopy and all these othertests that I do to show my body
is going in the right direction?Or if it's not, how can I adjust

(50:37):
and make some moves to make itgo that way? So if somebody's
looking to get into this, thethe first thing I you know, are
you gonna be consistent?
Are you gonna be accountable foryourself? That's the very first
and foremost thing you need tolook at if you wanna do any
biohacking. Don't just jump inand go buy yourself a cold
punch, red light, you know,vibration plate. Hey. I'm gonna

(50:57):
buy this vibration plate.
That's really cool. I'm excited.I wanna get it are you gonna use
it are you gonna use it at likethree times a week five times a
week give me a number how muchare you going to be able to be
consistent with that product orwith that modality and if the
answer is you can't be don't getthat one that meant maybe that's
not the right thing for you Andmaybe you will get it down the
road. Maybe you will adapt to itin time. But start with

(51:19):
something you can be consistentand something you can have
accountability for.
That's what I would say.

Roland (51:24):
I love that. It's a it's a wonderfully practical first
step. Right?

JohnXD (51:28):
I think so.

Roland (51:29):
John, thank you so much for sharing all your wisdom,
your insights, your experience,your stories. If people do wanna
check out more about yourlocation, what you're doing,
where can they find you?

JohnXD (51:38):
I'm in Las Vegas, so I tell people to go to biohacking
las vegas dot com. That's mywebsite for the the biohacking
movement that we're creatinghere, which you're part of that
now. I hope you realize that youare part of our biohacking
movement here in Las Vegas.We're trying to we're trying to
turn Sin City healthy. That'sthe first place.
And then, john x d b three is myInstagram. Biohacking Las Vegas

(51:59):
is is an Instagram as well. Weactually have a TikTok as well.
If you just look up john x d, alot of the stuff will kind of
pop up. I'm the only John XD inthe world.
I I did that for a very specificreason. There's a lot of Johns
in the world. There's only oneShocking. There's only one John
XD. Fair enough.
And that's that's how it allstarted. It's it's just people
didn't understand, you know,they put their number in their
their my number in their phoneand like, I have a lot of John's

(52:20):
in my phone. I'm like, put XDbehind it. Once upon a time, my
company was called ExtremelyDigital. I as a photographer,
Extremely Digital because I wasdoing digital photography and I
was one of the first ones to dothat.

Roland (52:30):
Got

JohnXD (52:30):
you. Extremely Digital made sense with the XD. Right.
So I said, look, just put XDafter my name and this way you
can't forget me and it stuck.There's people that have known
me for twenty five, thirty yearsthat have no idea what my last
name is.

Roland (52:41):
It's okay, man. You get a little bit of anonymity but
also some some uniqueness.

JohnXD (52:45):
But I know if I walk into a room and they see me with
my hair, they know XD's in thehouse. XD's there.

Roland (52:49):
Yeah. Bleach blonde goes a long way.

JohnXD (52:50):
It does. Hair everybody ever says blondes don't have
more fun. I I tell you it'sincorrect. We do.

Roland (52:55):
What a great way to finish off. Thank you as always,
guys. Please do like, share, andsubscribe if any of this
information does resonate withyou. It's always a pleasure to
bring some amazing content yourway. We'll see you next time on
the Everything's Energy Show.
Take care.

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