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May 5, 2025 77 mins
What if you could predict how long you’ll live—and actually change it? In this powerful episode, Brandi Harvey sits down with human biologist and longevity expert Gary Brecka to talk about bio-optimization, emotional health, and taking radical ownership of your well-being.

Gary breaks down how science, spirituality, and mindset intersect to transform lives—sharing the same insights he’s used to help top performers and celebrities unlock peak health.This conversation will challenge what you thought you knew about your body and inspire you to live longer, stronger, and more intentionally.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The reason why most people are not living healthier, happier
longer are for what we called modifiable risk factors. Let's
say you start to develop high blood pressure and they go,
your mother had high blood pressure. We have genetically inherited hypertension. Well,
the next time a doctor says that to you should
look them right in the face and say, well, what
gene did I inherent from my ancestor that gave me
this condition? Yeah, and watch their face go.

Speaker 2 (00:21):
Blank, because you inherit the choices.

Speaker 1 (00:24):
You made the choices. It's so true that God gave
us everything that we need to thrive. The more I've
studied the human body, the closer it's brought me to God.
We're so nutrient deficient that we get the expression of
these nutrient deficiencies. You're being treated for a mental illness
that is the result of a nutrient deficiency.

Speaker 3 (00:41):
So how many people are going to the doctor and
being diagnosed with things that are really due to the
mineral deficiencies in their body.

Speaker 1 (00:48):
Oh my gosh, it's an absolute pandemic. The third leading
cause of death is medical error. We have put more
faith in what man makes us, absolutely than what God
gave us. It's night and day. The difference you can
get with mobility, sense of community, and a whole food diet.
A lot of us are out there. We're eating non
nutrient dense foods and then wondering why we're fat? Why

(01:10):
am I fat? Right? What got me here? Instead of
thinking that if I take a drug to lower my
cravings and then I will just eat less junk, but
I'm still bathing my cellular biology in a toxic soup.

Speaker 2 (01:21):
What is the type of food?

Speaker 3 (01:23):
What are the foods that we should be eating that
are non negotiables in our life? Welcome to Vought Empowers
Talks where we don't just scratch the surface, we dive
deep into the lives of some of the world's most
amazing change makers.

Speaker 2 (01:39):
I'm your host, Brandy Harvey.

Speaker 3 (01:41):
Now, y'all, this one is gonna be so good today.
The man, the myth, the legend is here. We're gonna
talk all things health and vitality. Gary Brucca is a
renowned human biologist, biohacker, and longevity expert. As the host
of the number one wellness podcast, The Ultimate Human Podcast's
mission is to empower you with the knowledge and tools

(02:03):
to achieve peak performance and vitality. With over twenty years
worth of experience as a human biologist, Gary is on
a mission to change the face of humanity by helping
his clients find innovative ways to achieve absolute peak function
in their bodies. Gary believes the ultimate superpower is sleep.
Bought Empowers Talks. Welcome human biologists, human expert, and entrepreneur

(02:27):
Gary Brecca to the show.

Speaker 1 (02:29):
Wow, that was great. I'm like, man, I want to
tune into that.

Speaker 2 (02:36):
Listen.

Speaker 3 (02:36):
I'm so excited. We got a little bit before the
show started. You gave me my hydrogen tablet, So I'm
kind of feeling like a power ranger, right, Yes you are.
I'm super charged up because I got my hydrogen tablets.
But I mean you are really on this mission to
change the way people live their lives and improve their health.

Speaker 1 (02:58):
Yes, I really am. You know, my career in the
mortality space.

Speaker 2 (03:03):
This was so interesting to me, like twenty years right, twenty.

Speaker 1 (03:07):
Years Yeah, So we were developing models. I mean, believe
it or not, there's a lot of financial services instruments
that are based on mortality annuities, life insurance, reverse mortgages,
and when a life insurance company is getting ready to
take ten million or twenty five million dollars worth of
risk on your life. They really don't care where you

(03:27):
are on one of those actuarial curves. They want to
know your specific mortality. How many more months does this
person have left on earth? And it's some of the
most accurate science in the world. I mean, if you
want to know how good life insurance companies are at
predicting mortality, just look at what happened during the two
thousand and eight two thousand and nine financial services crisis.
We had about three hundred and sixty four banks fail.

(03:50):
We didn't have a single life insurance company fail. There's
no other institution that takes that kind of risk on
just a single variable more months to somebody have left
on Earth. And what was really fascinating about this research,
looking into all things mortality, cholesterol, lifestyle, diet, morbid obesity,
type two diabetes, metabolic syndrome, all of these conditions, was

(04:13):
that the reason why most people are not living healthier, happier, longer,
more fulfilling lives are for what we called modifiable risk factors.

Speaker 3 (04:23):
Oh, Gary, I want you to get into this. You
know this is why you're here.

Speaker 1 (04:28):
Yes, yeah, this is why yeah. I mean, modifiable risk
factors are simple changes that are in control of the
individual that if they would make these switches, these shifts,
they would dramatically change not only extend their lifespan, but
they would dramatically extend their health span. You know, your
audience that's listening to this podcast right now is for

(04:51):
the most part, I believe they are walking around at
about fifty or sixty percent of their true state of normal.

Speaker 3 (04:57):
Wow, yeah, fifty their way.

Speaker 2 (05:02):
Why do you say that?

Speaker 3 (05:02):
Because you said these modifiable risk factors is diet, is lifestyle,
it's nature, but it's also isolation.

Speaker 1 (05:09):
It is you know, so to be very specific, you know,
the human body. If I was to put up a
chart of your human your cellular biology up on a screen,
and maybe I'll show you one, we can throw it
up for your viewers to look at, it would look
like this really complex, intricate maze of arrows and circles

(05:29):
going everywhere and all of these different compounds. It would
look super complex. Because every day that we're alive, three
hundred billion cells that were with you yesterday will not
be with you tomorrow. We turn over about three hundred
billion cells a day. We have about thirty two trillion
cells in the human body. So that means about every
eighty four days you're completely new cellular human being. And

(05:51):
if you look at this chart, as complex as it
as it seems, I point this out to people because
of what you don't see in the chart. What you
don't see in there are any chemicals. You don't see
any synthetics, and you don't see any pharmaceuticals. Yeah, what
you do see are vitamins, minerals, amino acids, nutrients. You know,

(06:13):
all human beings need the same basic things. We need
two essential fatty acids, we need nine essential amino acids. Right,
These are the building blocks of proteins. We need essential fats,
which are the building blocks of nearly everything else. There's
no such thing as an essential carbohydrate, right, So carbohydrates

(06:34):
are not essential for life. Just let that settle in
for a second.

Speaker 2 (06:36):
Yeah, let us settle in, Gary, let us set carbs
are not essential.

Speaker 1 (06:41):
They're not essential for life. You can not name an
essential carbohydrate. My point is become nutrient deficient. Right, So
we believe this in plant physiology. So if you had
a leaf rotting in one of your palm trees at
your house, and you called a true arborist, a true
botanist out to your house. They wouldn't touch the leaf, right,

(07:01):
They would cortest the soil, the soil, and they would say,
you know what, there's no nitrogen in this soil, and
they would add nitrogen to the soil and the leaf
would heal. Human beings are no different. We've been led
to believe that we inherit disease from our ancestors, yeah,
which for the most part is patently false. I mean, so,
for example, we've mapped the entire human genome. We know

(07:24):
every gene in the human body. And so if you
suddenly in your mid forties, let's say you start to
develop high blood pressure, and you go to your doctor,
and your doctor examines your heart and your EKG is normal,
your EEG is normal, your heart sounds are normal, your
lung sounds are normal, your whole cardiac exam is normal.
You still have high blood pressure. Then they go, oh,

(07:46):
I see that your your mother had high blood pressure,
your father's brother, your uncle, right right right, you have
genetically inherited hypertension. Well, the next time a doctor says
that to you should look them right in the face
and say, well, what gene did I inherit from my
ancestor that gave me this condition? Yeah, and watch their
face go blank.

Speaker 2 (08:07):
Because you inherit the choices, you married the choices.

Speaker 1 (08:11):
What we inherit from, what we pass from generation to
generation is rarely disease. What we pass from generation to
generation is the inability for the body to refine a
raw material, which causes a deficiency which leads to that disease.
So I'll give you an example. About half of your audience,

(08:32):
statistically speaking, has a gene mutation called m T h
f R. I won't tell you what the nickname is
for that gene. If you see it on the paper,
you'll figure it out. No, tell us, Gary, the nickname
is the mother gene, but I try not to say it.
You pulled it out of me. But it doesn't stand
for the mother gene. It stands for methylene tetrahydropolate reductas

(08:56):
the reason why I'm telling you this is because so
many fans have this gene mutation. And what it does
is it does not allow you to It's actually more
prevalent in African American community, like some conditions. So what
doesn't allow you to take the nutrient folic acid and
turn it into the form that the body can use

(09:18):
called methyl folate.

Speaker 3 (09:19):
I'm so glad you're going down this path of folic
acid because it was all my things to talk about
with you, because this is a synthetic nutrient that has
been created, right, and we really cannot break down follic acid.
But it's we've been told that you have to give
a mother fullic acid. You have to you give up
your intake of folic acid.

Speaker 1 (09:41):
Yeah, I mean, folic acid is a completely synthetic, man
made chemical. You can't find folic acid anywhere on the
surface of the Earth. It does not exist naturally in nature.

Speaker 3 (09:50):
This was so intriguing to me when you said this,
because I was like, oh my God, because of course,
our entire lives, we've been led to believe all the
things we've been led to believe.

Speaker 1 (10:02):
Yeah, so now think about this. So about half your
listeners have this gene mutation mthfr, and so it doesn't
allow them to convert this full of acid into the
usable form. And in human beings, what happens is any
compound that enters our body, any vitamin, mineral, amino acid, nutrient,
any raw material we put into the human body goes

(10:23):
through a process of being refined turned into the usable form.
Nothing that you eat, or drink or breathe is used
in the format that you put it into the human body.
Without a single exception, Everything goes through this refining process.
I always use the analogy that we pull crude oil
out of the ground, right, but you cannot put crude

(10:45):
oil into your gas tank because the car doesn't understand
that fuel source. You have to take crude oil, you
have to refine it into gasoline. Now the car can run.
So in human beings full of acid, for example, you
put this nutrient into the human body, it's useless until
the body converts it into something called methyl fol eight.

(11:07):
Well what if you can't make this conversion. Well, now
you have a deficiency. And what are the consequences of
this deficiency. Well, a methyl folate deficiency leads to all
kinds of things. So the primary one is that it
affects the motility of the gut. So you got to
think of your intestinal tract, your gut as a thirty
foot long conveyor belt. Okay, it's thirty feet long. You

(11:28):
put contents on it as one at one end, they
exit the stomach and then thirty feet later it exits
the rectum. The pace of this conveyor belt is extremely important, right,
I mean, think about it. If you went into any
factory in the world that worked on a conveyor belt
system and you doubled the speed of the conveyor belt,
the entire line would break down. If you halted the

(11:50):
conveyor belt, if you reverse the speed of the conveyor belt,
the entire assembly would break down. And what happens to people,
and there's a lot of your listeners that are affected
by this right now, is you have this deficiency in
methyl folate. Whi's very easy to fix, by the way,
I'll tell you how to do it. And so the
intestinal motility is off, and you're walking around with gas
or bloating or diarrhea, constipation, or irritability or cramping. So

(12:13):
what do you do? You think about what was the
last thing that I ate? And you go on all
kinds of elimination diets, and you do allergy testing, you
do food sensitivity testing, and nothing seems to work right.
And because you're not thinking about the speed of the
conveyor belt, you're thinking about what did I just e,
what did I put on the que contents in my gut?

(12:34):
What's my gut microbiome? And so these conditions learn to
be something that we just quote unquote live with. Right,
But this is a deficiency. And now once you affect
the motility of the gut, you think about what other
things are going on in the gut. Well, ninety percent
of the serotonin in our body is right here. And

(12:54):
if you can't make serotonin here and it's deficient, then
you can't have it here. What a serotonin do? Serotonin
is the main driver of mood. So now you have
a mood disorder or a mental illness, right, or you
can't convert dopamine. So, for example, how do we how
do we make neurotransmitters which is what forms our mood?

(13:17):
Like if you said to me, Gary, what is mood?
What is an emotional state? I would tell you that
it's it's a collection of neurotransmitters bound to oxygen. So
let's take a bowl and say, all right, we want
to make happiness. Okay, that's so much serotonin, so much norropinephrin,
so much epinephrin, so much dopamine. Boom, you have the
emotion of happiness. What if I say, well, you can

(13:39):
be in any mood that you want, you just can't
use serotonin. Ooh, ause you can't make it now, so
you can't use serotonin. So now any mood that requires
serotonin you can't assemble. So because of this deficiency, you've
been told you have a mood disorder or a mental disorder.
So now you're you are dealing with add or ADHD

(14:00):
or OCD, or manic depression or bipolar or any other
number of conditions, and you're being treated for a mental
illness that is the result of a nutrient deficiency. I mean,
it's so true that God gave us everything that we
need to thrive. You know, the soil is now so depleted,

(14:22):
we're so nutrient deficient that we get the expression of
these nutrient deficiencies. I mean, if you look at nursing homes,
for example, all over the country, they are full of
elderly men and women that have osteopenia or osteoporosis, this
brittle bone conditions, and they've been taking calcium supplements for

(14:43):
twenty five years. It's not calcium, it's minerals, it's nutrients.
So for example, if we just want to take bones
for a second. Our bones are actually not calcium. Our
bones are calcium combined with something called phosphorus that forms
a compound called hydrox the appetite, same thing our teeth
are made out of. In order for this to happen,

(15:04):
we need twelve minerals. If you're missing boron, manganese, molybdums, selenium, silica, magnesium.
If you're missing any one of these twelve minerals, you
can't form bones. And now you have brittle bones. And
now you're being treated for a brittle bone disease. That
is the expression of a nutrient efficiency.

Speaker 2 (15:24):
So is this why?

Speaker 3 (15:24):
I mean, there's so many things places I want to
go with this conversation, from the mood disorder and mental
health and the crisis that we see in America. Yes,
and then with everybody breaks a hip when they get
over seventy years old. So what minerals are we missing

(15:44):
that we can get every single day in the food
that we're taking.

Speaker 1 (15:47):
That's a great point. I mean most people think that
the elderly have a tendency to fall and break their hips. Yeah,
very frequently, That's actually not true. What happens is their
hip breaks and then they fall. The fall I think
I does not call the fracture out. Yeah, the fracture
causes the fall. And so why that's so important is,

(16:09):
you know, Grandma is standing at the saying she's washing dishes,
and all of a sudden crack, her hip breaks, her
femeral neck of her femur breaks and she falls, and
then you get the call, Hey, grandma fell and broke
her hip. No, her hip broke and then she fell.
And the reason why that's so important is because at
the point at which your skeletal system can no longer

(16:31):
support its own weight forget trauma, right, I mean just
support its own weight, that is a sign of how
demineralized that person is. And what's the easiest way to
get minerals in the morning. You can take I take
something called Baja gold sea salt. This is probably one
of my favorite bio hacks. A ten dollars bag of
this stuff will literally last you five years. It's a

(16:53):
mineral salt. You can also use Celtic salt, but a
mineral salt will have the complete profile of these minerals
that your body needs. So in the morning, if you
just took a half a tea spoon of this mineral salt,
put it in water, stirred it up and whacked it back.
You would hydrate and mineralize the body. Now you're giving
the body the raw material, the basic building blocks it

(17:15):
needs to function. First in the morning, first thing in
the morning, hydrate and mineralize the body. You know.

Speaker 3 (17:20):
You know all this Celtic sea salt I have at
my house, I could be doing this every single morning.

Speaker 1 (17:24):
Every single morning, got it. I think Celtic salt is great.
Baja gold is one that I use because it has
a great mineral profile. They test these salts for all
kinds of things like heavy metals and glyphysatan things, so
they're very clean salt. But when you give the body
that those minerals back to that you know, palm tree example,

(17:45):
if you didn't find the nitrogen missing in that soil,
that leaf would have never healed. Yeah, and we would
spend a lifetime up there in the leaf like trimming it,
cutting it, spray and poison on it, trying to treat
the leaf. But the truth is we had a nutrient
deficiency and as salt, for example, we've been taught to
fear salt. Yeah, but nothing could be further from the truth.

(18:08):
You know. I'm like, if you were if your blood pressure,
let's say, was so high right this moment that you
called nine to one one, the first thing they would
do when they got here is they would bag sodium.
They would bag sodium chloride into your veins to lower
your blood pressure. If you were so dehydrated right this
moment that you landed in the emergency room, the very

(18:29):
first thing they would give you is a saline I fee.
And there's a very interesting study published in the Wily
Journal of Headaches. It's a very renowned journal on headaches,
and it was looking at migrain sufferers and what they
found was they found an inverse relationship between sodium and
migraine headaches. In other words, as sodium went up, migrain

(18:53):
headaches went down. As sodium went down, migrain headaches went up.
And why is that. It's because people think when they
have a headache or migraine that the pain is coming
from their brain, but that's not true. The brain actually
doesn't have any pain signals. Your brain is not capable
of generating a pain signal, So then where's the pain

(19:14):
coming from. It's coming from the covering of the brain.
Imagine taking a piece of sirene rap right and wrapping
it over the brain. It's called the dura. And this
sirane rap is fraught with pain receptors, and it hates
two things. It hates being stretched and it hates being contracted.
What determines whether or not it stretches or contracted sodium.

(19:36):
So by taking mineral salts very often. I'm not saying always,
and I'm not telling you if you're on migrain medication
to stop taking mibragrain medication. But what I am telling
you is, if you suffer regularly from migraine headaches or headaches,
especially in the mornings, which are dehydration related mainly, try
adding a mineral salt to your morning routine and see
if in forty eight hours of seventy two hours those

(19:59):
headaches become a permanent thing in your past.

Speaker 2 (20:01):
Oh wow.

Speaker 1 (20:02):
And so this is what I mean by mental nutrient deficiencies.
You know, we get deficient in vitamin D three, you know,
the sunshine vitamin.

Speaker 3 (20:12):
That's one of the things when you start testing for
your hormones, you start doing your blood work. One of
the things, because I've been told this that vitamin D.

Speaker 1 (20:20):
Is low, no question. I mean that's probably one you
know among the biggest pandemics in the world is that
is a clinical deficiency and vitamin D three. So this
is the sunshine vitamin. So when God made us, he
made us with the ability to make one vitamin. So
if I tested your blood right now, or anybody in
the studios blood right now, you'd see that you have

(20:42):
hundreds of vitamins in your bloodstream, you're only capable of
making one. So how important do you think that vitamin
is to human function? So, vitamin D three we make
from sunlight and cholesterol, right, So when sun hits our
skin and interacts with cholesterol through the kidneys, we make
something vitamin D three. It acts partially like a hormone,
It acts like a vitamin. When you have a clinical

(21:05):
deficiency in D three, which by the way, was the
second leading cause of morbidity and COVID. When you have
a clinical deficiency in vitamin D three, you know what
are some of those consequences, Well, your immune system gets compromised,
you're joint to start to ache. We used to see
in the mortality space over and over and over again,

(21:25):
people go into their primary care doctor, and they would
be reporting the symptoms of vitamin D three deficiency. Yeah,
the doctor would hear the symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis, and
they would often diagnose them with rheumatoid based on their symptoms.

Speaker 2 (21:43):
Based on them not having high D three levels.

Speaker 1 (21:47):
Based on a deficiency and vitamin D three.

Speaker 2 (21:49):
So how many.

Speaker 3 (21:50):
People are going to the doctor and being diagnosed with
things that are really due to the mineral deficiencies in
their bodies.

Speaker 1 (21:57):
Oh my gosh, it's an absolute pandemic. I mean, if
you look at the leading causes of death in America,
number one is cardiovascar disease. Number two is cancer. The
third leading cause of death is medical error. And if
you just pause for a second and think, wait a second,
the third leading cause of death is the industry designed

(22:19):
to prevent death. You know, if you translated that to
any other industry, it'd be laughable. Right, if you sold
home security systems, but you were like the third leading
cause of home invasion, right, I don't think you'd be
in business very long. But we're like, I know where
I'm going to, you know, get my get healthy. I'm
I'm going to go to the third leading cause of
death and ask them what they would do. And that's

(22:40):
not to put poo modern medicine or to attack physicians
or even big farm I mean, because I think the
industry really is designed to try to help people. But
what we've done is we have put more faith in
what man makes us, absolutely than what God gave us.
And I believe so much more on what God gave
us than what man makes us. Meaning, before we assume

(23:00):
that the body is making a mistake, that we are dysfunctional,
or we have a disease or a pathology, we should
first ask do we have the raw materials to function properly?
Don't ask me why the leaf's rotting if there's no
nitrogen in the soil.

Speaker 3 (23:17):
I mean, a well mind creates a well body, right,
And so I want to go back to the mood
disorder because we have so many people, especially living in
the United States, who are clinically depressed, who are on antidepressants,
were on some sort of medication to help regulate the mind.

(23:38):
And so I want you to really talk about this
mind body connection and how our mood is being altered
by the foods we eat, the deficiencies that we have,
the lack of serotonin, how we need to all these
different things, you know, what's playing into it?

Speaker 1 (23:52):
You know, interestingly, there was an emerging theory in depression
called the serotonin hypothesis of depressions well documented, and essentially,
this serotonin hypothesis of depression says, if you are low
on the neurotransmitter serotonin, you are by definition depressed. So
if we just take that definition for a moment and say, okay,
if I'm low on serotonin, I'm by definition depressed, then

(24:14):
the solution should be to raise serotonin, right, But that's
not what we do. Very often. We put people that
are low on serotonin onto something called SSRIs selective serotonin
reupticke inhibitors. So what these do is they essentially they
block the uptake of serotonin, and so in essence, what

(24:36):
they're doing is rationing what little serotonin you have. So
by definition, it doesn't raise serotonin, so by definition, it
doesn't end depression. I've had clients come in through our
clinic system all the time and I'll say, well, how
long have you been on any depressants. They'll say fifteen years,
eighteen years. I go, well, when did you think it

(24:57):
was going to kick in? When we think that this
is any depressivet is.

Speaker 2 (25:02):
Gonna be Yeah, after fifteen years.

Speaker 1 (25:05):
After fifteen years, and so then we ask ourselves, Okay,
where's serotonin made in the body. It's made in the guy.
How do we make serotonin? We take an amino acid
called trip the fan, the one that's famous for making
you sleepy, yeah, Thanksgiving dinner, and we methylate it into
the neurotransmitter serotonin. So there's no there's no serotonin pills

(25:25):
that you take. You actually make serotonin, ninety percent of
which is in your gut. We make serotonin, then it
travels up something called the vegus nerve and goes into
the brain and creates your mood. So is it possible
that you're a deficient in the amino acid trip to fan,
one of the essential amino ASTs. Absolutely? Is it possible
that you are missing the complex of B vitamins and

(25:47):
something called methyl kobaluman and form of B twelve that
helps you methylate these neurotransmitters. Could it be? And I'm
not again, I'm not saying this is all causes of depression,
But sometime people will look around at their life and
they will go, Okay, I'm married to somebody that I'm
deeply in love with. I got two great kids, I've

(26:09):
got a decent job. I'm not particularly under any financial strain.
There's no strife in my life. I'm not dealing with
any major trauma. Why can I just not get out
of first gear? Why is it that I go on
a vacation with the people I love the most to
a place I've always wanted to go, and I just
can't feel my environment. And there's so many people that
just accept this as a consequence of aging, and it's not.

(26:29):
It's a consequence of sing raw material. And the reason
for a lot of these is because this deficiency causes
a deficiency and serotonin. So imagine now that you have
a deficiency and a neurotransmitter, and mood is a recipe
it requires certain neurotransmitters, but you don't have one of them.

(26:53):
Now you go to assemble a mood, but you're missing
an ingredient. Now you have a mood disorder. You have
a mental illness. You know, so many people that probably
listening to this podcast right now are suffering from anxiety
or they know somebody that is suffering from anxiety. It's
rampant and no one's ever actually told them what anxiety is. Right,

(27:15):
if you ask, if you ask ten people, including most therapists,
what is anxiety, They're going to tell you it's the
sensation of a fear without the presence of a fear.
It's this feeling of being anxious. Yeah, it's like rapid
heart rate. But what is it? What's causing that? You know?
So very specifically, anxiety is linked to a rise in

(27:40):
a category of neurotransmitters. Okay, they're called catechola means there's
four of them. So when these four neurotransmitters rise, we
begin to experience a fight or flight symptoms. So if
you walked out of the studio and went outside to
walk to your car and somebody was standing in front
of you with a knife, okay, very real threat, your
pupils would dilate, your heart rate would increase, your extremities

(28:03):
would flood with blood. You would start having a fight
or flight response. Okay, what caused that? Because that person
hasn't touched you, just the presence of that fear caused
a spike in these catcola means and caused all these
this cascade of events in your body. But what if
you were I stayed at the Waldorf across the street
last night, great spot, by the way, And what if

(28:24):
I was laying in bed in the Waldorf last night
and I just started thinking about getting eaten by a shark.
Now I could rationalize to myself the chances of a
shark getting out of the Atlantic Ocean.

Speaker 2 (28:35):
And come to a comeing to Atlanta.

Speaker 1 (28:37):
Yeah, you don't have any shark fights in Atlanta, right,
I checked the news and in biting me my bed
in the in the in the Waldorf are zero. But
I could have the exact same response. I could literally
throw myself into fight or flight. The reason why it's
important to look at those scenarios is because how could
I have the same reaction to the presence of a

(28:59):
real fear as to an entirely imagined fear. My reason
for that is because chemically, neurophysiologically, they're the same thing.
So now we're starting to narrow things down a little
bit and say, okay, well, then if these neurotransmitters rise,
I start to feel anxiety, which is why most people
that have anxiety will tell you three things. They will

(29:19):
tell you I've had it on and off throughout my
entire life, my entire life. Yeah, number two, I cannot
always point to the specific trigger that causes it. They
could be on a podcast like we are right now
and just you know, just all of a sudden be
overwhelmed with anxiety. They could be driving home from work
on an otherwise innocuous day and be overwhelmed with anxiety.

(29:39):
So we try to connect how we feel to our
outside environment, and very often it's not something that's happening
to us, it's something that's happening within us. And the
third thing they'll tell you is that they've tried anti
anxiety medications and they either didn't work or they made
them feel like a zombie. Yeah, so their two choices

(30:01):
where feel anxious or that feeling of impending doom and
anxiety and rapid heart rate or what have you, or
be a zombie. Those are their choices. So if we
take that a step further and we go, okay, well,
how do I break down these catechola means how do
I actually break these neurotransmitters down that cause these feelings?

(30:21):
Because when they're at baseline, you feel fine. As they rise,
you begin to feel anxious. As they continue to rise,
you feel anxiety If they rise any further, you begin
to have physical symptoms like a panic attack, rapid heart rate,
dilated pupils, sweaty palms. If it rises even further, you'll
become paranoid. You'll have paranoias. So how do I keep

(30:44):
these from rising? We take the complex of nutrients that
helps our bodies break down these neurotransmitters. Believe it or not,
the complex of B vitamins, methylcobalamin, methyl folate, very retible,
readily available supplements. By the way, I don't sell any
of these. I'm not here to sell anybody's supplements.

Speaker 3 (31:05):
There are plenty of you're for giving out the ones
that you say I work really well.

Speaker 1 (31:08):
Yeah, I see out thorn appear, encapsulations, SymbioticA, a lot
of great brands out there, life extension, and I have
no affiliation with any of those brands. I just think
that they're doing the right thing in their formulations for
their for their you know, for their users. And it
may be I'm not saying all the time, but it

(31:29):
may be as simple as you have these deficiencies that
are causing the expression of these conditions. You know, I
got very popularized for working with Dana White and I
want to be cautious by saying, you know, I'm not
a physician, I'm not licensed to practice medicine. But Dana
was suffering from a rampant hypertension, uncontrolled hypertension. He was

(31:51):
on multiple hypertensive medications. So the clinical team, physicians and myself,
we looked at his record. Was interesting was most of
his cardiac exams were normal, but he still had this
crazy hypertension even on medication. And then we looked at
his genetics and found a gene mutation that did not

(32:14):
allow him to break down an amino acid in his
blood that every listener to this podcast right now has
in their blood. It's called homocysteine. And I'm not saying
this is always the root of hypertension, but when you
see hypertension traveling in families, Oh my uncle had it,
my mother had it, my aunt had it, my father
had it, you have to be cautious that your doctor

(32:37):
says you have genetically inherited or familial hypertension, because if
I can get you to believe that, I can get
you to subscribe to a lifetime of medication. And so
what runs in a lot of these families is this
elevated amino acid called homo systeine, which you can easily
check on a blood test. And when homo systeine is

(33:00):
sort of cruising around the insidelining of your arteries, okay,
it irritates your artery, And if you irritate an artery,
it will clamp down. And if you make the pipes
smaller in a fixed system, this is a closed system,
pressure goes up. Now you got told that you have
high blood pressure, but they can't find out why, so

(33:22):
they told you it's because your family history. So now
you accept that you have a disease that was passed
to you from a previous generation. So now you start
the medication. When the reality is, what if I'm just
deficient in the minerals, in the vitamins and the nutrients
that break down homo system. What if I tried taking

(33:42):
something like trimethyl glycine on over the counter amino acid,
and as that homocysteine fell, my vascular system began to relax,
and as the pipes relaxed, the pressure comes down. Because
very often we label these diseases is diseases or pathologies

(34:02):
instead of labeling them for the nutrient efficiency. That's leading
to them.

Speaker 3 (34:06):
I think that's going to free so many people though,
Like that really has a power to free people. Yeah,
because it has the power to get them one to
think about their body in a different way. Because Western
medicine has really given us this, there's a peal to
solve it, right, not understanding that there's a deeper connection

(34:27):
with the mind and the body.

Speaker 2 (34:28):
That's really happening.

Speaker 1 (34:29):
So true, I mean, you know, yeah, I would say
second maybe to vaccines and cholesterol medication. You have the
you know glp ones, zempic what gov munjarro, you know
what's called simaglotide two sepatide. And I'm not anti those
glp ones or GDP agonists at all. I just think

(34:51):
that if we ask ourselves, well, what is a GLP one?
You know what is th epch what? Gov? Well, they
are mimicking a natural hormone that we make in our gut. Well,
how do we make this hormone? Well, it largely responds
to nutrient density. So in other words, when we eat
non nutrient dense foods, we don't feel satiated.

Speaker 2 (35:14):
Oh, like most people in the United States America, So.

Speaker 1 (35:17):
What do we do we overeat? And by the way,
there are hordes of clinical studies that prove this. You know,
if you laid six avocados out on a table and
you tried to eat your way through six whole avocados,
it's gonna be hard. It's gonna you're probably vomiting.

Speaker 2 (35:31):
It's gonna be hard.

Speaker 1 (35:32):
There's too much nutrient density. If you put, you know,
six ribbis in a line, you try to eat your
way through a full blown ribbi, you wouldn't wouldn't make
it to the end. But if you had six bags
of potato chips.

Speaker 2 (35:41):
Maybe you can just eat one.

Speaker 1 (35:45):
Two pounds.

Speaker 2 (35:47):
You know what I said, Just that I get to
the bottom of the bag.

Speaker 1 (35:51):
We ought to do an experiment right here. Well, we'll
see if you can get through six bags of skittles
or six avocados. But the point is that so a
lot of us are out there, We're eating non nutrient
dense foods and then wondering why we're fat, and we
rarely ask ourselves. We say, you know, I really want
to lose weight, instead of saying, not to sound too harsh,

(36:14):
but why am I fat? Right? What got me here?
Why don't yeah, why don't I not do what I
did to get myself here instead of thinking that if
I take a drug that my body makes on its
own to lower my cravings and then I will just
eat less junk, but I'm still bathing my cellular biology

(36:35):
in a toxic soup.

Speaker 3 (36:36):
GMing Jew she's a Chinese medicine practitioner at Los Angeles
Reestling Dear the show, and she talked about how we
should not eat ice, and she correlated like blood stagnation,
liver stagnation, and poor digestion that's free, true, and so
she talked a lot about like the pathology of it
with especially with African Americans. And so we've been in

(37:00):
this conversation and I have been weaning myself off of
ice before Gmin came into the show, and so I
have not had any ice since she's done the show.
And so we were talking about it before you got
in here, and Jada's like, I like smoothies. I just
cannot give up my smoothies.

Speaker 1 (37:15):
So you can have a smoothie and just use you know,
milk out of refrigerator or whatever you're going to make
your smoothie with at cool temperatures, because your body can
raise a cool temperature to a warm temperature. But when
you put ice in, now you're dropping the temperature beyond
the range that it can warm. Before that the enzymes
start to digest it, so you're passing really just completely

(37:37):
undigested contents into the gut. In about one hundred and
fifty thousand patients that have been through our clinic system,
I never once met someone that's suffering from anxiety that
did not also have gut issues. Not once. So as
soon as somebody tells me they have rampant anxiety, I
know they have gas, floating, diarrhea, constipation, irritability, off and on, unexplained,

(38:02):
and they've had it all their life. Yeah, And we
don't relate these two. In fact, we see different practitioners
for both. Sure therapists for my anxiety and I'm going
to my g I or my primary care for my
my for your.

Speaker 3 (38:14):
Good Yeah, I think too, Like with the conversation about
us bathing ourselves, especially when we look at the United
States and the numbers of obesity. Oh, now you know,
I mean over I mean almost half of Americans are
overweight or OBEs. I mean, and that number of spikes
with black women.

Speaker 1 (38:31):
It's not it's not just it's not just obesity if
you if you look at the United States in general,
we we spend four and a half trillion dollars a
year on healthcare. Okay, so we're we are the largest
spender of healthcare worldwide. We lead the world in six things.
Morbid obesity, UH type two diabetes, multiple chronic disease in
a single biome, infant mortality meaning number of infants that

(38:55):
die at birth, maternal mortality the number of mothers that
die at birth. And we have to ask ourselves why
is it that we lead the world in these things?
And we're the largest spender on healthcare. And if you
look deeper into the statistics, you see that seventy seven
percent of our military aged men and women do not
qualify for military service due to poor health. Three quarters

(39:19):
of the military age men and women do not qualify
for service due to poor health. So what do we do?
We lower the standard? Right, Oh, well, maybe you don't
have to run a mile in under nine minutes.

Speaker 2 (39:28):
We lower the standard.

Speaker 1 (39:30):
Yeah, we don't have to do a which I'm not
a fan of at all, especially when you talk about engineers, pilots,
military service. Let's yeah, let's not lower those standards. And
so you have to then you you wonder where do
we fall in life expectancy? Well, we're now ranked as

(39:53):
of December sixth of last year, we're ranked sixty sixth
in the world in life expectancy. We are this, we
are this sixty sixth in the world, which means that
we rank beneath some sub Saharan South African nations, nations
that don't have clean water and sanitation, Well we rank
below them in life expectancy. So if we keep peeling

(40:14):
this onion, when we say, well, what's different here that
you don't see in these other countries, Well, mainly that
the majority over sixty percent of our diet is highly
processed foods. And by highly processed foods, I mean that
we have not only additives, preservatives, pesticides, herbicides and secticides,
those types of things, but we actually have a system

(40:37):
that's built on something called grass generally regarded as.

Speaker 2 (40:41):
Safe, generally regarded as safe.

Speaker 1 (40:44):
Grass guidelines generally regarded as safe. So you will see
this on the FDA's website that this is generally regarded
as safe. Right, the fact that we are really walking
work is generally regarded as but I don't know.

Speaker 3 (41:03):
Go plan traffic it's generally just watch out.

Speaker 1 (41:09):
Yeah. So, so we've based our system of allowable toxicity
on a low standards, Yeah, on something called single dose toxicity. Okay,
So what this means is, in a single dose, if
I give you a certain level of mercury, a certain
level of red dye three, which well now that's illegal,

(41:32):
thank god, thank god, red die forty, yellow dyes, blue dyes,
artificial ingredients, kerriage, and all of these things. If I
give you this in a single dose, what happens, well,
not much, but a lot of other countries will use
something called cumulative dose toxicity. So if you think about it,
nobody ever got mercury poisoning from a single piece of
tuna fish. You got mercury poisoning because you ate a

(41:54):
small cumulation of mercury, or you were, you know, in
slightly exposed to mold, or you are slightly exposed to
any number of other toxins, and eventually it was symptomatic.
And so the real research points to getting back to

(42:14):
the basics. I mean, if you really look at the
blueszone research around the world.

Speaker 2 (42:18):
I mean, great documentary on Netflix, the doc.

Speaker 1 (42:21):
Everybody should watch.

Speaker 3 (42:22):
Everybody should watch that docuseries, because it really does show
you how around the world people are living these really long,
beautiful lives that are very healthy, that are full of vitality.

Speaker 2 (42:33):
But they're walking every day.

Speaker 3 (42:34):
Gary, They're walking up heels at ninety years old. Yeah,
and we have so many of our grandparents that cannot
walk without a walker, my grandmother.

Speaker 1 (42:44):
Yeah, I mean. So, there are three takeaways from the
blue zone research. And I've interviewed doctor Walter Longo, who's
largely considered he wrote the book The Longevity Diet. He
also is I would consider the leading researcher in intermittent
fasting and what's called, you know, fast mimicking diets. And
if you look at blue zones, you're not going to

(43:06):
find any continuity between diets. Meaning it wasn't keto, paleo, uscatarian, vegan, vegetarian, rough,
it wasn't any of these like you know Atkins. It
wasn't a dogmatic dieting. Okay, so what was it? They
were all eating whole foods. There's not a single region
in the world with centenarians that eats a highly processed diet.

(43:27):
You go to Sardinia, You've got the highest carbohydrate consumption
in the world, one of the longest life expectancies. You
go to Singapore, one of the highest meat consumptions per capita,
one of the longest life expectancies. You go to Mediterranean,
they eat very high fatty fish, fatty oils like holive oil,
Ultra long life expectancy. Then the French are kind of
screwing up the whole model because they're smoking cigarettes, eat cheese,

(43:47):
triggen wined and they're living forever, right, But the point
is they're all eating whole foods. The two non negotiables
that we I believe have lost in our society in
general were a sense of community and purpose. Yeah, and
mobility into later in life, which you just pointed out.
In fact, you said they're walking up hills. In Sardinia,

(44:11):
they had centenarians and then they had a hyper They
had this concentration of hyper centenarians one seventeen one nineteen. Wow,
really old people. And they were like, what is it?
And they started looking at all these different variables. I mean,
they eat more fish, are they you know, are they
sleeping better? What is it? And they were, oh, my gosh,
it's directly related to the grade of the slope that

(44:32):
they walk up. Wow, So you got ninety eight year
old men and one hundred and one year old women
walking up these thirty degree slopes ten blocks to go
to church and then walking down to the market and
then walking home. There're no elevators, there's no escalators. There's
no such thing as assistic care living in a lot
of these zones. Assistic care is mom and dad moved
back in with the kids until they pass. And what

(44:54):
this does is it fosters a sense of community. You know,
we we knew in the mortality space when I was
when we were doing mortality modeling that if you wanted
to cut a human beings life expectancy in half, and
I mean in half at any age, you put them.

Speaker 2 (45:11):
In isolation, isolation.

Speaker 1 (45:13):
And we think about isolation as being alone, but we
are isolated in our communities now. You know, we get
most of our stimulus from this four inch by six
inch square. We get our dopamine addiction from there. We've
lost a true sense of connection. We're completely disconnected from
other nature. And if you look at what we get

(45:35):
from other nature, you get magnetism from the earth. Amazing
for you just taking your shoes off, touching the surface
of the earth. We get oxygen from the air. Most
of us breathe so shallowly that we are just slowly
suffocating to death, which, wow, by the way, is the
way that all human beings leave this earth. We all
leave the earth the same way. We all die of
the exact same thing. The definition of death is hypoxia

(45:59):
lack of oxygen to the brain. And we think of
it as an event, right, A gunshot, wound to boss,
a stroke, a heart attack, what have you. But the
truth is it's a predictable curve. Most of us breathe
so shallow you know. After our thirtieth birthday, I read
a statistic. I don't know if there's a clinical study
to back it up, but I read a statistic that
said that after the age of thirty, less than five
percent of the population will ever sprint again sprint sprint,

(46:25):
So that means we're not using those auxiliary muscles of
respiration are intercostals, like we're not breathing, We're not.

Speaker 3 (46:32):
So as a woman over forty years old, the fact
that I can get on this treadmill or go outside
and steal sprint on two heels, I'm already beating the statistic.

Speaker 1 (46:41):
Top one percent. That's why I like breath work because
you can mimic sprinting activity by doing just learning to
do five to eight minutes of breath work a day.
Don't let these muscles atrophy. Right, most of us spend
the majority of our time breathing with the what's called
the apex of our lungs. You look at our lungs,
they actually get small or towards the top, and then
you got this big lobes of the lungs down near

(47:04):
your diaphragm. So we we start breathing shallowly with the
top of our lungs.

Speaker 2 (47:08):
Right, I find myself.

Speaker 3 (47:10):
I have to catch myself throughout the day a certain
points scary because I have to say breathe.

Speaker 1 (47:16):
Deep, yes, yes, take deep breast.

Speaker 3 (47:19):
Brandy like, because I do find myself at certain points
in a day like.

Speaker 2 (47:25):
Yeah, you take these short high box like.

Speaker 1 (47:29):
And then we tell Grandma not to go outsides too hot,
not to go outsides too cold, just to lay down,
just to relax, to eat at the very first pang
of hunger. We are destroying her natural defense mechanisms. Right.
We were meant to challenge our bodies and have our
bodies strengthened. There's a process in the human body called
hormesis and it's it's or hormetic stresses. These are stresses

(47:53):
you apply to the body where it strengthens and response. Right. So,
for example, if you don't if you don't load a bone,
it won't strengthen. If you don't tear a muscle, it
won't grow. If you don't challenge the immune system, it weakens,
which is back to the point we talked about at
the beginning of the podcast. You know, one of the
worst things we did to humanity, and I know this

(48:13):
is probably going to cut your audience right in half.
People get so upset when I say this, but one
of the worst things we did to humanity during the
pandemic was residential quarantining, social distancing, and masking. Yeah, full stop.
The reason for this is we took human beings out
of contact with other human beings. And if you don't
challenge the immune system, it begins to weaken. So, what

(48:33):
happened on the backs of the pandemic, and forget what
side of the vaccine equation you're on. What happened on
the back of the pandemic, Well, you had all of
these things creep in like monkey box. Yeah, the house monkey.
I mean, where did that come from?

Speaker 2 (48:44):
Where did it come all these weak yeah.

Speaker 1 (48:47):
Viruses, and it started to prey on us because our
immune system was weakened. Right, I mean again, God meant
us to be in proximity of other human beings. You know,
we can defend our immune systems should be able to
defend these pathogens very easily. If you look at the
research comparing things like mobility and exercise and sleep and

(49:08):
diet to serotoonin reuptakeing, hippitters and depressive therapies, it's night
and day the difference you can get with mobility, sense
of community, and a whole food diet. You just did
those three things.

Speaker 3 (49:23):
I mean say it again for the audience. Mobility that
means moving your body, moving your body every single.

Speaker 1 (49:29):
Day, every single day. And you know, we think you
know it comes to put it super simple. If you
want to live a long time, lift heavy weight, right,
Muscle is our metabolic currency. It's so, it is true. Yeah,
I'm a weightlifter.

Speaker 3 (49:44):
I've been lifting weights since my twenties, so I was
a former fitness competitor. So I love I love bodybuilding.
I love lifting weights. So every morning I always say,
like Monday through Friday, I'm doing hard things. I start
my day off lift being heavy weights because it sets
my day up.

Speaker 1 (50:03):
And then you'll notice that if you do that consistency consistently,
when you get those little assaults during the day, somebody
writes a nasty message about you on social media, some
of the comments about your podcast. You don't forget you
because we're all going to have those things. They sort
of roll off your back instead of being the thing
that actually breaks you. And and so that's called hormesis.

(50:24):
You know, it's like cold plunging people. I have a
saying that aging is the aggressive pursuit of comfort.

Speaker 2 (50:31):
Aging is the progressive pursuit of comfort.

Speaker 1 (50:33):
Aging is the aggressive, aggressive pursuit of comfort.

Speaker 2 (50:37):
Of comfort.

Speaker 1 (50:37):
You know what most of us do as we get
older is we aggressively seek comfort. Do not like to
be uncomfortable, and we will do anything to not be uncomfortable.
So we regulate our d air temperature, regular temperature in
our car, we regulate our lighting, We regulate everything.

Speaker 2 (50:53):
That is so good because it's so true, so true.

Speaker 1 (50:56):
So true, and so we If you don't control your
reaction to being uncomfortable. It will control you. And by that,
I mean, you know, by by becoming so softly, by
regulating everything. I tell people, listen, if you don't want
to do a cold plunge, just take a cold shower.

Speaker 3 (51:16):
I did a cold shower this morning because you were coming, Gary.

Speaker 2 (51:19):
I was like, let me get to it, let me
just start. Gary.

Speaker 3 (51:23):
I was like, I didn't cold this morning because I said,
Gary is coming on the show.

Speaker 2 (51:29):
Brandy, you're it's in the right direction.

Speaker 1 (51:34):
I had your dad on my podcast. I know him.
I had to literally stop three times because his description
of him taking a cold plunch first time. If you
guys haven't seen that, it's the best comedy show you'll
ever see in your life. And I know the man's
known for comedy, but him getting into that cold plunge,
I mean he used to call me all the time,
Lord Jesus, Is there anything else I can do? Get water?

Speaker 2 (51:58):
It's uncomfortable, yes, it's it comes so uncomfortable.

Speaker 1 (52:01):
But you know what happens when you expose your body
to that stress. That's a hormatic stress. And look, you
don't need to go out and in vest thousands of
dollars in a cold punch. You can do a couple
of things. First of all, you can take a cold shower.
You could take tupperware containers filling full of water, put
them in your freezer and make big blocks of ice
and throw them in your bath. Up You'll have a
cold punch for three days, all right, So if budget

(52:23):
constraints are the issue, you can do it on a budget.
And what happens when you expose your body to cold water,
and I'm not talking for prolonged periods of time.

Speaker 2 (52:32):
There's three minutes, three minutes, three minutes.

Speaker 1 (52:35):
Three minutes. You can do anything. For three minutes.

Speaker 2 (52:36):
You can do anything.

Speaker 3 (52:38):
I know.

Speaker 1 (52:38):
I kid, you can hear me talking to you and
shower this mart She's like, Gary said, I could do
it for three minutes.

Speaker 2 (52:43):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (52:43):
So what happens is you get this peripheral vase of
constriction right, drives all the blood into your core, liver, lungs, pancreas, kidneys,
your brain. And then what happens is your body activates
a very special type of fat in the body called
brown fat. Brown fat is our thermostat. Right, when you
take a cold shower or you get out of a

(53:04):
cold plunge, Okay, the air is seventy five degrees. Your
body has been in fifty degree water. How does it
go past that seventy five degree air and go all
the way to ninety eight point six How does it
continue to maintain that temperature gradient with its environment? That's
your brown fat exchanging calories for heat. There's a cost

(53:27):
to keeping your temperature that high. The cost is calories,
and so it will take a calorie exchange it for
a measure of heat. Then what will happen is your
liver will dump a very specialized type of protein into
your bloodstream called a cold shock protein. If you want
to ever be fascinated your board sometimes just google cold
shock proteins and look at the myriad of things that

(53:47):
this does in your body. They're actually studying some of
these cold shock proteins Lend twenty eight A and Lin
twenty eight B for their effects on insulin sensitivity, meaning
cold showers, hold bathing can actually improve your sensitivity to insulin,
meaning lower insulin resistance. And the other thing it does

(54:08):
is it causes a massive dopamine release, and you know
dopamine being the main driver of mood, makes you feel alert,
It makes you feel awake, clear, focused. I mean, you
could be in a bad mood getting into a cold punch.
You cannot be in a bad mood getting out right.
They think. You know, sometimes if you want to, if
you want to fix somebody's depression instantly, just push them

(54:31):
in cold water. Yeah. And so if I can get
a dopamine spike, release cold shock proteins, activate brown fat,
get a peripheral vaso construction in three minutes, I can
do all that good for my body. Then why wouldn't
I just take that small amount of suffering to strengthen
my body? And the answer is that most people don't
want to be uncomfortable.

Speaker 2 (54:51):
They don't want to be uncomfortable.

Speaker 3 (54:53):
But in order for your body, your life to go
to another level, you're gonna have to have some discomfort.

Speaker 1 (55:00):
It's the same thing but fasting. You know, every religion
known to mankind has had fasting as a foundation of
their religious Catholicism, Christianity, Buddhism, Hindu, Muslim, Islam. They all
have fastings. And why because centuries ago we didn't have

(55:24):
access to kind of medications and things we had now,
So we had to allow the body to heal itself
and magic things happen in the human body when you fast.
And again, why don't most people fast? They don't like
to be hungry, they don't want to be uncomfortable. When
you're hungry, you're alert, you're oriented, you're sharp, like right
before you eat. That's where you are the most alert

(55:45):
in a wake because ancestrally, we were hunting for food.
And so if we learned to fast two or three
times a year, two days, three day water fast, what
this does for your cellular biology is astounding, because the
body is so fascinating. When you don't give it a
fuel source and it doesn't get a chance to eat,

(56:07):
it continues to eat, but it eats by eating you.
And what it eats is the least efficient part. First.
You know, it's like mother nature. You know the weakest,
you know, the weakest animals in the herd. It's I mean,
it's sad, but it's true. I mean the herd has
got to progress, and so the weakest animals fall behind.
They get eaten first if they if the herd had

(56:29):
to slow down, you'd put the whole herd at risk.
Human body is no different. We have cells in our
body called sinescent cells, sinessen cells are also called zombie cells.
These are the cells in your body and that are
no longer capable of doing their job. So imagine having
a company with millions of employees, and you got a

(56:50):
bunch of lazy employees sucking off the payroll, not doing
their job. What the immune system will do is go
in and eat them and replace them with somebody that
will do their job.

Speaker 3 (57:00):
If only that was just like how it worked out
in the real world outside.

Speaker 1 (57:06):
We hired the terminator would just come in and just.

Speaker 3 (57:09):
Eat my seriously eating, just like a game of pac
Man exactly.

Speaker 1 (57:13):
And so what happens is you got like red blood
cells that can't carry oxygen. You got white blood cells
it can't mounted immune defense, you got platelets that can't
carry growth factors. Your body will break these cells apart,
turn them into fuel, break them into amino acids, and
literally clean you out of all of this useless garbage. Right,

(57:34):
it will turn it into fuel. It's so incredibly intelligent.
I mean, the more I've studied the human body, the
closer it's brought me to God. Because there is no
way that this happened by accident. No, right, You're never
going to convince me the two bacteria got together one
day in a mud puddle, and you know, they did
a bacterial smooch and they had a bacteria family, and
then you know, lizard grew out and the next thing

(57:55):
you know, we had apes and monkeys and human It's
not there's so many gaps in the fossil record for evolution.
I don't I don't want to turn this into that
debate on the podcast. But this was designed by God.
And if the more we study human physiology and get
away from chemicals and synthetics and pharmaceuticals, the more we

(58:15):
realize the magnificence of what we have. And if we
would give this body the raw material it needs to
do its job, and by that I mean basic vitamins, minerals,
amino acids, and by the end of the podcast, I'll
tell you what some of my favorites are, which by
the way, are not mine, then you would see human
beings start to thrive in ways they never thought possible.

Speaker 3 (58:36):
You talk about the amino acids and the different things
that we can add in, and those are like supplements
or vitamins, right, but then you say a whole food diet,
and so many people we got all the diets out here.
We got the vegan, the vegetarian, the paleo, the keto,
all the different diets.

Speaker 2 (58:57):
What is the type of food?

Speaker 3 (58:58):
What are the foods that we sho should be eating
that are non negotiables in our life?

Speaker 1 (59:03):
So I do think that animal protein needs to be
a part for.

Speaker 2 (59:07):
The vegans because I was vegan. I was vegan for
five years and I eat fish every now and again.

Speaker 1 (59:15):
Good.

Speaker 2 (59:17):
But you're saying animal protein should be in the diet.

Speaker 1 (59:20):
No question, animal protein should be in a diet.

Speaker 2 (59:22):
Where is dumb? He's out of the room. He's a vegetati,
he's a vegan.

Speaker 1 (59:25):
Okay, well we'll fix that. So h you know. And
the reason for this is because something is not meat
does not mean it's healthy.

Speaker 2 (59:35):
Nor we know they're for sure.

Speaker 1 (59:36):
Looked at the ingredients on a non burger.

Speaker 3 (59:40):
I don't eat any of those things. So none of
the mock meats, the fake meats.

Speaker 1 (59:45):
So even if you are vegan or vegetarian, you're already
so you're vegan or vegetarian, you can have white flour,
white rice, white bread, white pasta, white potatoes, get beer,
you have potato chips, right, so you can have all
of these things that are not meating. I think this
is where we go wrong. So by whole food, I

(01:00:05):
mean that we need to eat foods as close to
its natural form as possible, farm to table sort of
idea line caught fish, pasture raised eggs, you know, free
range chicken, grass fed meats, and vegetables that are grown
in without the herbicides, pesticides, insecticides, preservatives. A lot of

(01:00:27):
what we spray on our crops, glycasay being the nastiest,
are what we call forever chemicals. Our body doesn't have
a mechanism to get rid of these things, and so
it sounds like fear mongering, But we're not fear mongering.
We're actually just trying to get around the system and
get back to the basics. You know, your grandparents knew
what was up. My mom my grandmother used to can vegetables.

Speaker 2 (01:00:48):
My grandmother's garden, both my grandmother's garden.

Speaker 1 (01:00:51):
They garden. They probably you go downstairs in their basement.
I'm like, Granda, this is so creepy. It got like
pickles and kimshi.

Speaker 2 (01:00:58):
And sour krap, and yeah, that stuff.

Speaker 1 (01:01:01):
Is so good for you. The fermented veggies are one
of the most nutrient dense foods you can put in
the body, and they have both soluble and insoluble fiber.
Insoluble fiber becomes something called three fatty acids, which are
non negotiable for human beings. The insoluble fiber crets bulk
in our intestines, you know, link to reduce rates of

(01:01:22):
colon cancer. So eating a diet that is in its
whole food form. So for example, you know, I talk
a lot about seed oils, and people think that I'm
attacking the plant. I'm not. I'm attacking the distance from
the plant to the table. Because when you take a
canola plant, for example, we also call it a rape seed.
We just don't like to sound a rape seed, so

(01:01:43):
we go with canola. And so you take a canola plant,
you put it in a commercial press and it comes
out gummy. Right, So now we degum it with something
called hexane, which is a very powerful known neurotoxin. So
we take that neurotoxic degumed oil and then we heat
it to four hundred and five degrees and that turns
it rancid. So now it's putrefied, and so then we

(01:02:06):
deodorize it with something called sodium hydroxide, yikes, powerful carcinogen,
and then often we'll bleach it and then bottle it
and put it on the shelf. You ever walk down
the isle in a grocery store and you notice, like
all the vegetable oils are exactly the same color, same color,
except perfect, beautiful, little bright light yellow. And it's clear
that didn't happen in nature, right, it was chemically processed

(01:02:29):
to look that way. And then the biggest sin is
we take a hard healthy label from the American Heart
Association and we stick it on the bottle and then
it says, you know, heart healthy. It's just like full
of acid. You know, in nineteen ninety three, when the
chemical industry convinced the US federal government to spray the
entire grain supply with full of acid, which is in
the United States, all flour, all bread, all pasta, all cereous.

Speaker 2 (01:02:50):
That's why it say it's enriched or fortified.

Speaker 1 (01:02:54):
So those are the two ways that we disguise that
we don't say sprayed with full of acid.

Speaker 2 (01:02:58):
We say it's enriched.

Speaker 1 (01:02:59):
We say it's enriched or fortified. And so the sad
thing is, you know, the good mom that's walking down
the cereal aisle is like, well, there's four boxes of cereal,
and then these two are enriched and fortified. Let me
the enriched or the fortified one eat essential vitamins and
we throw that in our in our basket. You know
what's amazing is whole foods. Real whole foods don't make

(01:03:22):
health claims. Like you don't go to the vegetable aisle
and it's like, uh, you know, you see the avocados,
this is good for your heart, this is uh, you know,
great for digestion. You don't go to the you know,
the area where you see the onions and this is
excellent for colds. You go to all the processed foods,
and what's all over the boxes of processed foods health claims,
all the health claims part healthy, good for essential vitamins.

(01:03:46):
It's because we need to make health claims to draw
you into these processed foods. But you know, there doesn't
need to be a health claim on an avocado or
a piece of grass fed steak next time. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:03:56):
So for the person who is listening right now, who's like,
you know, I don't make the money to eat healthy.
It's too hard for me to eat healthy. I'm trying
my best check to check all the things. What would
you tell them.

Speaker 1 (01:04:09):
I would tell them, do yourself a favor. Shop the
perimeter at the grocery store. Next time you're in there, okay,
try and stay out of the aisles. You will find
that you eat significantly more highly processed foods that supposedly
cost you less then you do nutrient dense foods, which
will cost you more. The other thing you can do

(01:04:29):
is you can prepare nutrient dense foods. So I actually
did this comparison. I have this thing on my social
media I call lateral shifts where I take any food
that someone likes to eat, I am open the refrigerator.
I do sometimes live on Instagram. Open the refrigerator and
I say, okay, what do you like to eat in there?
And I promise them three things number one or two things.

(01:04:51):
Number one, I won't change the flavor, the taste profile,
and number two, I will not add a dime to
their budget. So you know, they'll open the refrigerator and
I'll see all these US yogurts and I'll go, okay,
you like that. I won't name the brand, but that
brand of processed yogurt with fruit on the bottom. Let's
take one of those out and they take it out
and we spin it around and it says, okay, high
fruit those corn syrup. Natural flavorings. Yeah, natural fruit flavor

(01:05:15):
and natural fruit flavor is just a code word for
ain't got no fruit, right, that's what That's what that means.
So natural blueberry flavor means ain't got a single blueberry
and as fifty four grams of sugar and two grams
of protein, I go, okay, So which one do you like?

Speaker 3 (01:05:32):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (01:05:32):
I like the blueberry. Okay. So next time you go
to the store, I want you to buy a quart
of whole fat Greek yogurt, and then I want you
to just get a basket of organic blueberries, and we're
gonna get monk fruit. We're gonna get a bag of
monk fruit and bulk. And then when you get home,
you're gonna take You're gonna put about a cup of
that yogurt into a bowl. You're gonna take a fistful

(01:05:53):
of those blueberries, and you're gonna take a tea spoon
or two of monk fruit, and you're gonna mix it up,
and now you're eating whole fat green yogurt. Which has
all of the fat and has all of the proteins.
It's very low in carbohydrate. You're eating nutrient dense, antioxidant
rich organic blueberries and monk fruit, and it tastes amazing,
and the cost goes down because your cost to buy

(01:06:17):
it in those convenient little tear off packs is actually
more than your cost to buy whole food in bulk.
So very often it's not less more expensive, I think is.

Speaker 3 (01:06:28):
What people don't realize it is really costing them in
the long run.

Speaker 1 (01:06:32):
Oh dude, you can either pay now or pay later. Yeah, right,
And if you looked at your productivity, your quality of life,
you know, like I say, sleep is our human superpower.
I mean, if you're building a business, or you're just
trying to contribute to the business that you're working at,
and you're trying to raise a family, and you're trying

(01:06:52):
to give so much of yourself, you've got to feed
the temple. You know, we have to think about our
bodies as a temple, and we let the thieves into
the temple, and then we wonder why it's a mess.
And so I try to encourage people to build this
you know, imaginary fence around themselves and filter things before

(01:07:14):
we let them in the temple. Right, just make a
draw your awareness to what you're about to eat and say,
should I let this into the temple? Does this deserve
to be in here? And you'll find it's a lot
easier not to let these thieves into the temple. My thieves,
I mean, they're just stealing from your cellular biology.

Speaker 2 (01:07:31):
Right.

Speaker 1 (01:07:31):
They're causing you inflammation, They're causing your brain fog. They're
causing you weight gain, water retention, joint eggs, poor focus
and concentration, all these things that we chalk up to
a consequence of aging that are not a consequence of
aging at all. There are a consequence of missing raw
material in the human body.

Speaker 2 (01:07:47):
Okay, Gary, I know we could talk all day.

Speaker 3 (01:07:50):
I know I'm so far over time on listen, we
are so far It's okay, But I think this conversation
is so ness here because we have so many people
who are trying to mask the problem the pain with
appeal with something that they think that they got from
the doctor is going to solve all the things. But

(01:08:12):
it really comes down to the raw materials, as you say,
the nutrients and the deficiencies that many of us are
suffering with on a daily basis that are contributing to
our aging into our illness. All right, So before you go, though, Gary,
I do need some essentials though from it, because for
those people who are trying to fight the aging process,

(01:08:35):
which I don't think you're gonna win.

Speaker 1 (01:08:38):
Other time is undefeated so far undefeated.

Speaker 3 (01:08:41):
Yeah, But when we think of some of the anti
Asian methods like the nads that are becoming really popular
on the injectables, the pep tides, what are some essentials
that we can put into into play into our lives.

Speaker 1 (01:08:54):
Okay, So I'll talk about those in a second. First,
let's start with the foundation, right, you should be if
you're not getting adequate sun, which you know, eighty five
percent of the African American community is clinically deficient in
vitamin D three, So we should be taking five thousand
I use vitamin D three with something called K two daily.
We should be taking a methylated write that word down,

(01:09:17):
methylated multi vitamin. It's a multivitamin that's already been converted
into what your body can use as fuel. So the
fullic acid has already been turned into methyl folate. The
B twelve is in the form of methyl covelment. I
really suggest that people take a mineral salt, a Baja
gold Celtic salt, take a quarter to a half teaspoon

(01:09:40):
of that in eight to ten ounces of water every morning,
and whack it back. The majority of your audience listening
to this podcast right now is so clinically dehydrated that
they have lost the sensation for thirst, Meaning the majority
of your listeners, just statistically speaking, can go an entire
day without drinking a bottle of water. Yeah. Body will
not remind them to drink. Okay, it only takes four

(01:10:03):
days to get this back if you have mineral salt
your water in the morning. I believe that the greatest
discovery for combating inflammation and improving our digestion is hydrogen water.
And I used to be a big advocate.

Speaker 3 (01:10:21):
Yeah, okay, because I got my tablets and Gary, Yes,
I have my tablets, so go ahead.

Speaker 2 (01:10:27):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:10:27):
So for about a dollar a day, you can put
an elemental magnesium tablet. You can drop it into that
water you drink in the morning, and it's flavored.

Speaker 2 (01:10:37):
I'm drinking raspberry right now.

Speaker 1 (01:10:38):
Raspberry is amazing. And the first thing you can do
is you can hydrate mineralize and reduce the inflammation in
the body. These are very inexpensive ways. I take one
called drink H two tab dot com. I'm actually going
to give your audience a code to put into my
VIP group. Vault is the code, so you can go
to my website, the Ultimate Human dot Com sign up

(01:11:01):
to be a VIP, You put in the vault and
I'll send you a box of these hydrogen tablets for free.
All of the research is on there, especially in the elderly,
people that have joint pain, people have poor focus in concentration,
people that are having sleep disruption, people that are struggling
with inflammation, which is the majority of us. Hydrogen gas,
the lightest most prevalent element in the universe, is a

(01:11:23):
game changer for that and it's about a dollar a
day for those. So those are your basics, right, that's
basically where you want to start. Vitamins, minerals, amino acids.
I take something called perfect aminos, which is all nine
of the essential amino acids. It will not break a fast,
It only has a single calorie, and it gives you

(01:11:44):
all of the building blocks for the proteins in your bodies.
You see amino acids are not proteins. They are the
building blocks of proteins. And there's a lot of fallacies
out there about protein, like we can target direct protein
in the body, which is not true. You can't eat
collagen to grow collagen in your skin, Like we don't

(01:12:05):
eat our nails to grow our nails. We don't eat
our hair to grow our hair. We think we can
eat collagen to grow collagen. That's not true. Collagen, like
every other protein, way, protein, eggs, steak, fish, chicken, all
becomes the same thing. It becomes amino acids. So most
of us are amino acid to fission. So if you
started in the morning with minerals, hydrogen, water, amino acids,

(01:12:26):
vitamin D three, a methylated multi vitamin, you've got your
basis covered. You will be astounded at the dramatic change
in symptoms you thought you just had to live with
the rest of your life. If you just did that,
and I'm talking anxiousness, anxiety, add adhd, OCD, poorsley, poor

(01:12:47):
focus and concentration, all these things that a lot of
your audience is just accepted as a part of their life. Yeah,
so now once you get those bases covered, now you
move into what I call the exotics, so peptides. I'm
a huge fan of peptides. Peptides are amino acids, amino
acid sequences. They usually cause the body to do something

(01:13:09):
it would otherwise do naturally. So, for example, there are
peptides that can restore your tuitary glands ability to make
more growth hormone. Right, So instead of taking growth hormone
from outside the body and putting it in, you can
actually raise your own level of growth hormone. Right. You
can be high on your own supply, which is always

(01:13:31):
better than taking it from outside the body and put
it in. There are peptides like BPC one five seven
that accelerate healing. They're great.

Speaker 2 (01:13:39):
That's the wolverine like the wolverine peptide.

Speaker 1 (01:13:41):
That's the wolverine peptide. Yeah, because the way the body heals.
One of the mechanisms that the body uses to heal
is by recruiting platelets to the site of injury, having
a platelet burst and drop off. Growth factors. Growth factors
are all the magic in the human body. Know for
years that you can take somebody's blood out, spin it down,

(01:14:04):
take their platelets and inject them into the sight of
their own injury like their rotator. Coffer their knee or
their hip or their low back and see miraculous acceleration
in wound healing. I love those kinds of modalities where
we take the healing power of the human body and
we concentrate it in an area where it's needed the most.
So there are peptides for wound healing. There are peptides

(01:14:26):
that are targeted at aging lengthening our telomeres, epitalon. There
are peptides that are targeting things like anxiety. They're called
anti anxiolytics. Slank as a peptide for that. There are
peptides to improve our skin, like GHKCU. So if you
can find a good functional medicine doctor that is skilled

(01:14:48):
in peptides, you can also dramatically harness the body's ability
to improve those different areas.

Speaker 3 (01:14:57):
Gary, You're gonna have to come back, that's all it is.
It's just you're going to have to come back for
a part two. But as we begin to close out,
what's one word you're committed to in this season of
your life?

Speaker 1 (01:15:09):
Authenticity? You know, I read a study on the Spain
Scale of emotion, and this is the scale of positive
and negative emotion. And there was a large part of
my life when I was in the mortality space where

(01:15:29):
I was a very inauthentic person. I didn't really believe
in the universal law of attraction. I do now because
I realized it's a law in physics. But what's interesting
about this study is that it looked at the amplitude
of different emotional frequencies leaving a human beings body, and

(01:15:51):
authenticity was the most attractive, meaning not in a sexual sense,
but like people can have, they either are attracted to
or reject in authentic people. Like we say women are
more intuitive, that's actually not true. They're more sensitive to frequency,

(01:16:15):
and so women are able to detect when somebody's inauthentic
or not. I have this battle with my wife all
the time now just giving up, and I just take
her word for it because she's like, I don't like
that guy, and I'm like, what's make look at his
shoes pulled up in a Ferrari, let's just bright new suit.
And then like, you know, six months later, you're pulling.

Speaker 2 (01:16:34):
The night out of your back.

Speaker 1 (01:16:34):
Yeah. So I've intentionally focused, uh, you know, the last
several years, ten years of my life on faith and
trying to be very truthful with my words and and
more of an authentic.

Speaker 3 (01:16:51):
Human, a more authentic human, to be the ultimate human,
to be the ultimate human. Yeah, Gary Brackett, thank you
so much. Your knowledge is so so refreshing. Thank you
for sharing it with our audience. Vought Empowers Talks another
good one for the books. Be sure to share this
with someone who needs to up their authenticity in this
season of their life to become the ultimate human that

(01:17:13):
they have been called to be. I'm your host, Brandy Harvey.
Until next time, eat well, give a damn move your
body every single day.

Speaker 1 (01:17:20):
Peace,
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