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Peter (00:00:00):
You're listening to the PK experience podcast where I get inside the minds of today's impact players so I can figure out how they do what they do and then share that with you with the intent to ultimately inspire you to live up to your potential and make a greater impact in the world as well. My name is Peter King. I'm the host of the show and today's impact player is Gary Breca. Gary is the CEO of streamline medical group. He is a human biologist and blood chemist. He's somebody that can examine your blood and figure out what's deficient in your body and ultimately how is that playing itself out in your life. So, uh, I actually did a blood analysis with him, did a call again, he gave me a custom overview of what was, you know, what are the deficiencies that I have, what are areas of improvement that I can do so that I can not go through my day feeling groggy or are absent minded or just, you know, at not at full potential, not at full energy. Um, I've not gone through the whole process just yet with him, but the analysis alone was so eyeopening and he just brings a new perspective that I've never really heard before. And it was the reason why I wanted to invite him onto the podcast. So there's a lot of really great information in here. I think truly that there's information here that can change your entire life. Uh, if properly applied. I'm not a doctor, I have no license. Take this as your information and only do your own research, et cetera. But, um, again, so far it's been something that's been very eye opening for me in my personal experience. But again, uh, I will let you make that determination yourself. There's a lot of really great info in this call. I'm excited to share it with you. So with that, why don't we get into it? Here I am with Gary Breca. All right. I'm here with Gary Breca. Gary, thank you so much for joining me on the podcast today. I, there are a few calls that I anticipate have, have anticipated more and, or more have been more excited about than this call. Uh, I'm a little nervous and I will tell you why. It's because I've done a, uh, I had the pleasure of doing a custom blood work analysis with you and you are identifying, you know, when I was waking up, when I was feeling achy, when I was feeling fatigued to the hour. And, uh, so I'm a little nervous to get some of this information cause I feel like you're going to blow my mind to the point where I'm like, Oh, this is what I've been missing my whole life. I've been looking for this, so.
Gary (00:02:20):
Right. Yeah. Yeah. There's a lot in the blood,
Peter (00:02:22):
so much, man. So, uh, as I said, it kind of really blew me away, but before we get into that, why don't we just give people a brief background about who you are and you know, what's your, what your, what your experience has been that leads you up to this point.
Gary (00:02:39):
Sure. Um, well my name is Gary Brock. I'm the CEO of streamlined wellness and we're a nationwide, um, a consortium of wellness, but it's chain of wellness clinics were across eight States at the moment. But, uh, by way of background, uh, I wasn't always in the wellness space. Um, in fact, for the better part of 20 years, I was a mortality expert for the insurance industry. And so essentially what that means is if I got a hold of five years of your medical records and five years of demographic data on you, I could tell you insurance company, um, how long you had to live to the month and not only how long you had to look to the month, but you know, me, where were you on your mortality curve? But what was the statistical chance that you would die before that? And what it really boiled down to was a whole lot less sophisticated than what most people would like it to be. And that is that, you know, we found three core components to optimal health that not only extended your life span but also extended your health span, but they also things that accelerated disease, accelerated mortality and essentially eroded, um, basic biometric function. And so I really like to talk about those a lot because they're about getting back to the basics. Um, you know, very briefly, they are, uh, hormone balance, uh, glycaemic controls, essentially controlling your blood sugar, um, and certain key nutrient deficiencies. Um, you know,
Peter (00:04:08):
could I, could I interrupt you real quick? Do you have, can you pull the computer a little bit closer? Cause I'm uh, the audio is a little bit low. Yeah.
Gary (00:04:17):
How's that? Is that a little better?
Peter (00:04:18):
Much better. Thank you. It's such important information. I don't want people to miss it.
Gary (00:04:23):
Okay. Now it's breaking up my mind. How has that, is that better?
Peter (00:04:26):
That's perfect. Yeah. You, uh, so you were, you were going over the core components of hormone.
Gary (00:04:33):
So, you know, when we were, when we were trying to predict how long people would live, um, we had to do was we had to look at what are the factors that accelerate death, but not only that accelerate death, but you know, cause disease pathology. Um, and how do you spot them in a 25 year old and a 28 year old? I mean, it's very easy if you have a terminal Neal patient or you have someone who's very, very elderly. But let's say you have a 30 year old healthy male, no other issues going on. How long is that person going to live? What's going on inside his biome that's keeping him from being absolutely optimal. And you know, when we talk about optimal health and you know, especially to younger folks, um, you know, talking about cardiovascular disease and dementia and Alzheimer's and heart attacks and stroke risk and all of that doesn't really appeal to them. But the truth is that changes minor changes in your health profile. And that not only increase libido substantially improve your response to exercise, elevate your waking energy, deepen your Delta wave sleep, improve your cognitive function and improve your overall general appearance. But they happen quickly and they can happen now. So you know, disease and prevention is some lofty, not so distant point in the future, but optimal health is right now. I mean, if you could sleep better, feel better, have more energy, um, increase your libido, improve your response to exercise, generally improve your overall appearance. Um, then those changes are right. And then what they do is they start to affect all of the non touch points in our life, self-image, self esteem or career or relationships. So very often when I read blood labs to somebody, I will talk about what level of success they have in their life. Um, I can see how passionate you are or the lack of passion I can see, um, whether or not you're lucky to have very meaningful relationships in your life and whether or not you're really likely to succeed in your career.
Peter (00:06:26):
I mean, this, this is, this is where you start to really blow my mind personally and I see it because, you know, it's silly to sort of think about, but you get the right vitamin, you get the right sleep, you then wake up, you have, you're better, you're more productive, you're more energetic, you have more patients, you're going to better quality relationships, you're going to make better quality decisions. I mean, the, the ramifications of dialing this in is astronomical for somebody who's, you know, uh, life wellness basically,
Gary (00:06:55):
right? And it's, and it's, it's a little different than a lot of people think. So, for example, when you look at a normal white blood cell, I mean our, sorry, you look at it normal on blood tests, right? Um, almost every blood test that's pulled with hospital, your doctor's office, physical exam, what have you, has a section called the CBC, the complete blood count and this is where they go into the contents of your blood and they literally just count up the contents of your blood. How many white blood cells do you have, how many red blood cells do you have? And most of the time when all that is normal, a physician will say, Hey, there's nothing wrong with you. Everything's normal. But most of my patients are not interested in being normal. Um, most of my patients are being interested in being optimal effect. This patch right here is because we just recently did a deal with the NFL alumni association to care for all the retired athletes that are leaving the Coliseum right there and they're finished with the NFL game and are going back into normal life. We'll still want to maintain optimal health or those that left a long time ago and trying to get it back. So just take a quick example of a normal CVC, right? And you can think of a red blood cell as a tennis ball and there's a fluid inside that tennis ball called hemoglobin. And inside the hemoglobin, that's where oxygen is bound. And what's meaningful about that is everything that you perceive about energy is oxygen in your blood. So if you said, Gary, I had a lot of energy today. Physiologically what you're saying is I had a lot of oxygen in my blood today. So if I could improve, which we can safely and very effectively, if we can improve your blood's capacity to carry oxygen, then I can instantly improve your waking energy. And I'm not talking about caffeinated stimulatory energy, I'm talking about real visceral waking energy. And if I can improve the oxygen carrying content of your blood, then I can also improve your cognitive function. And quite frankly, I can also improve the depth of your Delta wave of sleep. Because what I often ask physicians, when I look at a blood test is I say, why are the patients that are the most exhausted sleep, the worst? And you know the face goes a little blank. And I say, well first of all, let's talk about why they're exhausted. They're exhausted because their blood is hypoxic. So medical term for it lacks adequate levels of oxygen. Doesn't mean you're not breathing well. It means your blood's not holding onto it and carrying it with them. So when that happens, right as our blood oxygen level drops, we get tired and so we're exhausted. But if we were to then look at what is the brains primary function like, what is the brain's hierarchy? Priority of events throughout its day, it's number one priority is blood oxygen. Meaning there is nothing that your brain will not do to to maintain adequate levels of oxygen in your blood. You know, if you stood up from where you're standing right now, went for a brisk walk, your cardiovascular rate, the respiratory rate would increase. Why not? Because your brain knows you're walking, but because your brain sees blood oxygen dropping and as blood oxygen drops, your brain raises blood oxygen by increasing respiration, increasing cardiovascular. Well, what happens when you sleep? So let's say you're exhausted and you lay down and go to sleep. It was the first thing that happens when you start going into a Delta wave sleep. You start respiring more shallow, start breathing more slowly and breathing more shallow. So what does that mean? I'm bringing in less oxygen. But wait, you just told me my blood doesn't carry oxygen. Well that's right. Now you bring less oxygen into a blood profile that can't transport oxygen well, and you're hypoxic. What happens? Your birth prone panics. So what does it do? It wakes you up or how does it wake you up? It pulses cortisol. So you mean to tell me that I'm exhausted and the entire night that I'm sleeping, my brain is doing minimal pulses of cortisol. Keep me from suffocating. Yes, that's exactly what's happening. And then what happens? The shameful side of it is that a lot of people go to the primary care doctor and say, Hey doc, I can't sleep. And the doctor goes, okay, well here's some Zolpidem nitrates, some diazepam, some Xanax, Ambien, what have you. And then they take that and you know what that does? It doesn't let you sleep. It just blocks the brain's view of blood oxygen. And now the brain can't see the deprived to oxygen level and save you. So it lets you go into a hypoxic state. So everybody that wakes up from Ambien or Tylenol PM or his old nitrate or any of these things says, man, I had taken that stuff. It's still in my system the next day. It's actually not in your system. The next day you are feeling the effects of having suffocated for the last six hours. Oh geez. And suffocating, making your condition worse. Here's the good news. You can go into that profile and fix it like that.
Peter (00:11:44):
How do you do that?
Gary (00:11:45):
Right. I knew he would say, how do you do that? I knew you would say that. Um, so how do you fix it? What you do is you restore the biometric pathway, right? And this is what I try to tell our physicians and clinicians and practitioners, listen, before we go looking for disease and pathology, let's just make sure that we've restored the biometric pathways. So where does oxygen raising oxygen in your blood begin? Well, first of all, we know oxygen is carried by red blood cells, more red blood cells or hemoglobin, more oxygen. Okay, so then a natural question is where are red blood cells and hemoglobin made? Okay, well, they're made in the bone marrow. That's the factory. That's the manufacturer for healthy blood. Okay, well, who is the boss of the bone marrow? Who tells the bone marrow what to do hormone called testosterone in men and women? It tells a bone marrow what to do. In fact, that signals called urethra pollicis. I'm sorry, did you see those in both men and women in both been in, okay, you show me a testosterone deficient female, clinically deficient testosterone male. I will show you a deficient red blood cell count deficient levels of hemoglobin, and I will show you a patient that's exhausted, exhaustion. The complainant's brain fog. They complain of fatigue, poor response to exercise. They don't equate it to a hormone level because hormones they create equate to be, you know, having libido or um, water retention or be moody. They don't equate it to their energy level at a hormones related to energy or hormones or the signal to the bone marrow to tell the bone marrow what to do. So now I get the bone marrow's boss involved and I, and I restore an optimal level of hormone so that I'd have an optimal signal to the bone marrow.
Gary (00:13:36):
So the question is how do you restore an optimal level of hormone? Surprisingly, the majority of the time it's without the majority of our patients. Clinically deficient levels of testosterone and free testosterone. Men and women don't need hormone therapy beneath the soil need to keep going in that biometric pathway. And you say, okay, this person's healthy, 35, 40 year old, 25 year old, 28 year old male or female, and they're tired, they're exhausted. And I look at their hormone profile and their testosterone levels are floored out or they're really, really low. The last thing on the face there if you want to do for that person is put them on hormones and make them dependent on hormones for the rest of their life, which is what some people do, which is what uh, yeah, unfortunately what a lot of clinics and um, you know, 60 year old male, that's a different story.
Gary (00:14:30):
But you know, 30 year old male, 25 year old male, four year old, 29 year old female, 45 year old female, you really won't be dependent on hormones the rest of your life. So now what we do is we go below the hormone, we say, well, how are hormones hormones are made from something called D H A and they're made from vitamin D three. So if you're clinically in vitamin D three, you're very likely to be clinically deficient in something called D H E A or high treat hippie. Androsterone. Yeah, D there's no quiz on that. I see you writing that down, but I just, I'm going to Google it later. Oh yeah, you can definitely Google it. This is really sound science. And if you, if there's anything that I ever, and you want the scientific rationale for my statement, you just ask and I will send you the links because I am a big, big believer and not only say what you mean and mean what you say, but you should be able to back it up with sound, um, science research.
Peter (00:15:31):
If I could pause you right there cause one of my main questions to you is everything that you've shared with me on our call previously and now and what I've seen of you online, it all makes so much sense. Why is this not standard information? Why is this, some would even say controversial. I mean it just, it's backed by science.
Gary (00:15:49):
The interesting thing is it's not controversial once you understand, right. Controversial when you don't understand, right? So, um, a lot of the allopathic community, you know, MDs, um, that go to school for a long period of time and they're learned and trained to look for disease and pathology and, and that's a specialized skill, right? When you pick up a lab report on a patient, you want to say, Hey, is there something going wrong in the endocrine system or I think kidney failure. They liver failure.
Gary (00:16:18):
Do they have blood glycemia control issues that I need to worry about? Are there enzymes out of whack or they dehydrated and if not, then that's considered. The absence of disease is considered the presence of health and that's not a true connection, right? My, my patients don't just want to be disease free. They don't want to just not have diabetes or not be obese or not be at risk for cardiovascular disease. They want to be optimal. They want to be beasts. They want to be out there at the top of their game. Let me promise you something you will never release or you will never reach your purpose and you will never achieve your passion in life without your physiology. Those three PS are exorbitantly connected, passion, purpose, and physiology. What happens is the majority of us spent all of our trumps self-help, motivational books, mom following gurus, reading on how to plan to build my business, reading on how to motivate myself, how do I orient my mind and gratitude and how do I think positive thoughts and positive vibrations through my bio and all of that is very important.
Gary (00:17:28):
What's your physiology? It's like the Chinese proverb about the stream over the rock, right? The physiology always drag you back down into the state where you can most comfortably exist. I'll give you an example.
Peter (00:17:45):
that's pretty profound.
Gary (00:17:47):
If you were to look at the lowest form, the lowest frequency, lowest vibration, lowest oxygen and required emotions, and you were to name them, which take the least amount of neurotransmitters, dopamine, norepinephrine, epinephrine, serotonin, which take the least amount of oxygen, what are those emotions, meaning emotions that all of us have readily access to, even if we're sick, even if we're in pain? Well, if you look at those emotions, you'd see that their anger, resentment, jealousy, despair, depression, well, mood, numbness, irritability. Wow. All right. Those are very, very, very easy to access. Almost a hundred percent of the population has the physiology to touch those emotional States. Now let's move up a tier, right to calmness, happiness, right? Joy. If you actually look at the neuronal cascade that's required to experience those emotions, it takes more blood oxygen. They're higher physiologic States. It takes more neurotransmitters. It takes more energy. Many people don't have the physiologic, the physiology to experience those emotions. That's crazy.
Peter (00:19:00):
It's crazy.
Gary (00:19:05):
The labs, sometimes I'll say, listen, I can tell your passion doesn't meet your physiology, and you go, Oh my God, that's so true. That is just not.
Peter (00:19:15):
You're talking about literally the building blocks of emotions, the physiology of emotions, and how, how some people aren't even able to experience certain emotions because they don't necessarily have the proper building blocks to sustainably feel those emotions out.
Gary (00:19:30):
Absolutely cannot have the building blocks to form those emotions. You don't have physiology to get there. In fact, if you move up another tier, right? Let's move up another tier. Passion, elation, arousal, right? Those are, those are all fun ones, right?
Peter (00:19:49):
Gary, you're arousing me right now.
Gary (00:19:52):
Are these my tie shirt? You know you're passionate, elation, arousal, right? Those emotions take an enormous amount that they take high levels of oxygen, they take their high functioning physiologic state, their high frequency, high vibratory, they take a lot of neurotransmissions. You need to be physiologically capable of creating those emotions. So what I tried to do is I try to move patients up a tier or two tiers so that they have readily access to those emotions. So that gratitude and passion and elation and arousal and joy all come very easy. So for example, let's take, let's take two blood profiles and I can, I can absolutely scientifically back this and if you'd like to see the research says something phenomenal emotional physiological research that's going on right now, be happy to share it with you. Please do this to people that have different physiologic States.
Gary (00:20:56):
They both get cut off by the same driver on the same way home and traffic. So someone that's in a low physiologic state, low red blood cell, low hemoglobin, right, has access readily access to anger, gets cut off, beeps, flips the bird, rolls down the window, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah. Barks out the window. A couple expletives whips out around the person goes blasted down the road, spends 15 minutes talking to the passenger about what just happened, about how much they hate going to work because they hate driving in traffic. It can't stand my Antony longer. Nobody knows how to drive. Everybody's an idiot on and on and on like a freight train, right? Then they get home, they carry that emotion right through dinner. Some of them go to bed and they wake up. Still feeling that incident. why? Because their physiology drunk them into that state.
Gary (00:21:43):
Wow. And take the same event with someone with perfected blood physiology gets cut off in traffic. They're going to beat. Maybe they pop the bird. You go out around the person. By the time they're three car lengths ahead, that incident is gone. Yeah, it's left. Why? Because they have the physiology to check that neurotransmitter pathway. They can shut the stimulus off. The stimulus doesn't become a runaway train. We call these people hypochondriacs drama Queens. They're actually not hypochondriacs. They're not drama Queens.
Peter (00:22:16):
Can you, what you mean by the stimulus gets cut off? Like scientifically? What do you referring to?
Gary (00:22:23):
Okay, so scientifically, every neurotransmission pathway in the body works on what's called a stimulus response, right? And just about every neuropathic pathway in the entire human body has a negative feedback loop as well. Something turns it on and something turns it off. So take for example, I take a new shoot, little, um, eight week old puppy.
Gary (00:22:49):
Put it in your lap. It's a stimulus. Cause what happens? You're like, Oh my God, it's so cute. You're so soft. I love you. Love you, love you. I'll snip his nose. Check teeth. You know, you're cuddling it and you're like, so happy flood of serotonin flooded. Dopamine you're like, this feels so good. I love this puppy. And then somebody takes the puppy away. Well, what happens is the neurotransmitter pathway checks that says, okay, stimulus is gone. Remove stimulus has gone. When we remove the response and you go back to feeling how you were perfectly normal. Now take that same thing and apply it to someone who, who lacks the physiology or take that same thing and apply it to anger. Someone gets upset. There's a stimulus that starts a neuronal cascade of emotions. Stimulus dumps, norepinephrine dumps. Epinephrin. Now, Mad, now angry. You locked me out of the house.
Gary (00:23:44):
You called me a name, you hung up on me, right? You didn't call me back. He texted me the wrong words. Now I have a stimulus, right? But the stimulus is gone. Now the text messages, it's morning, right? Girlfriend liked the other house yesterday. The skinny of the step, the driver to cut you off on the traffic is not sitting next to you. He's 40 lanes back. He's turned off, he's gone, right? The stimulus is gone, but you can't check the response. So what happens? It builds and pills, pills I built. And this happens over and over and over and to your physiology has the capacity to check that stimulus. So, and this happens, I mean, I've, let me promise you this. You show me somebody who aligns their passion, their purpose and their physiology. I will show you someone that is immensely successful when you look at some of my more public patients like take a grand Pardot or Alex Morton, you know, he's a young, well now he's 30, just left the millennial stage I guess.
Gary (00:24:47):
Um, you know, these are globe trotting entrepreneurs that have every reason to be stressed out. Have travel schedules that would be kill an army of people their age and parents is 62 year old man. He looks like a 40 year old man. He's as fit as a 30 year old man and he's got the capacity of someone half his age amounts of energy, searing amounts of passion, physiology matches his purpose, matches his passion and he's just dominated.
Peter (00:25:16):
Yeah. You had mentioned, uh, to look at his Instagram account and you can almost see when he started working with you cause he's looking better and younger. And I mean that's just my life. There really is a anti-aging. Uh, uh, can you talk a little bit about that? Cause I know you've, you've got a lot of, um, and.
Gary (00:25:35):
sure that's the science that I'm absolutely fascinated with is anti-aging.
Gary (00:25:39):
Um, and we've got to define that because it gets all these nebulous terms. Um, anti-aging isn't just looking better, right? Or else a facial would be anti aging and the facials, not specialist. Cosmetic anti-aging means that at a cellular level I improve and not slow down or even reverse the cellular aging process. And so how do you do that? Well, first what you do is you dial in your basic biometric function. You see, most of us have a body just trying to dig a hole. It just doesn't have a shovel. Hmm. What I mean is most of us have, a body that wants to work. He wants to make good hormones. It wants you to sleep well once you wake up with energy, it wants to transport oxygen. Well, it just lacks a couple basic things. And unless we ask it what it's missing, we never figured it out.
Gary (00:26:37):
And the funniest thing I find just so ironic is that most of us value where we get our information right. I mean, my partner grant people listen to grant Cardone because he's a real estate billionaire. He's built successful businesses. He can teach you how to sell your way out of anything. So you go to him for information on those things, right? And, and you know, we go to coaches for information on how to play the game. But when it comes to our health, we take everybody's opinion except our own. We take everybody's opinion except the opinion of our own body. Hmm. So you could sit down with your body asking a list of questions. It's called a blood panel. Get a set of biomarkers in. It will give you a very specific roadmap on exactly what to do to make it healthy. It's gonna say like if you sat down with your physiology and said, listen, Peter, uh, what can I, what can I do for you?
Gary (00:27:37):
Just like what happened between us and how I knew so much about what was going on inside your body. Your body answered a whole set of questions. I asked her, I asked it through biomarkers and when I asked it those questions that said, do you know what? I really need some . I need some DHA cause I'm having a hell of a time building hormones. Um, I'd like to raise my red blood cell count because just not enough oxygen to go around. I've got some digestive issues and I'm dehydrated. You fix that and I'll do, here's what I'll do for you. I'll improve your sleep. I'll prove your exercise performance on increase your waking energy, improve your cognitive function and all that passion and all that fun stuff you keep reading about gratitude and self-help and motivational. I'll give you the physiology to experience that all the time. Hmm. That's the trade off.
Peter (00:28:21):
That's my one. Yeah. What's the, what's the word that I'm kind of coming from? Is that more personal development? A world that's very, it's mind based in psychological psychology based. So, for example, somebody, I worked with a lot of guys who have anger issues and will go down a psychology path to figure out, you know, where some of their psychological triggers reside, perhaps even in their subconscious and childhood stories and all that kind of stuff, but really it's just going to say, I'm sorry, say that again. I said,
Gary (00:28:57):
I'll tell you exactly where. Yup, exactly. They reside in something called M, T, H, F, R, methyl tetrahydrofolate reductase. You show me a human being that has anxiety, depression, or anger issues, and I will show you a human being that cannot methalate folic acid. It's methylation. Just the process the body goes through to create building blocks for motion.
Gary (00:29:27):
So we have developed all of these weird ways of explaining something we don't understand. For example, they'll say, Oh, you inherited your father's temper. Oh, you inherited your mom. You worry just like your mom, right? You're depressed just like your sister. Well, you don't inherit depression or worry, anger, short temper. You don't inherit anger management issues. You inherit the lack of ability to methalate the compounds that stopped anger from happening. Wow. You inherit the lack of ability to methylate compounds that cause depression. If you have someone that's listening to this episode, I'm gonna change your life right now. Let's say you got depression, your anxiety, or you have anger management issues. I am actually getting covered in goosebumps saying this, but I want you to Google M T H F R. I want you to Google that and I want you to tell me if that does not sound like it was written specifically for you.
Gary (00:30:31):
And I will tell you this, if you have depression or anxiety or hanger management issues, someone in your immediate family also has the same thing guarantee. It's a parent. I guarantee you it's a sibling. What do you do? You can supplement for it and cut it to zero two zero if you go on my website, you will read testimonial after testimonial after testimonial with people with anxiety so bad they felt about suicide with anger management issues so rampant. They couldn't hold down a job, they couldn't keep a relationship together whose anxiety and anger management has gone down by 85% or going to zero. Yeah, that's okay. So what does w w w walk us through the science of that. What's actually happening to Kyle's chemically? So think about this. Okay, so here's exactly what happens. Okay. One of the most prevalent nutrients in the entire human diet and the entire human in the United States is called folic acid, okay?
Gary (00:31:32):
Folic acid is, is in the grain supply. The government requires that all grains are fortified with folic acid. Well, guess what? 50% of the population cannot properly methalate folic acid.
Peter (00:31:47):
What does methylene mean again?
Gary (00:31:48):
Again, what does that mean? Okay, so let me explain. Methylation. It's a complicated concept, but here's how I explain it. Everything that we take into the human body, okay? Virtually nothing that we take into the human body is used in the form that we take it in. Give you an example. Everybody's heard of B12, right? Okay. B12 is a metal. It's the cobalt metal. When a cobalt metal is put into the human body, it's called cobalamin. Okay? But cobalamin just doesn't float around the bloodstream. Cobalamin is a trailer. It's attached to a truck, and the truck drives it around the bloodstream. Until the body needs it. And when the body needs that metal, the truck and the trailer separate, the cobalamin did go, the trailer goes into a biologic process and the truck leaves his waste.
Gary (00:32:42):
So let's say that you have B12, which is called methyl cobalamin, or actually there's a cyanocobalamin eye drops. Eco Bellamin even in a dentist will develop. But let's just take methylcobalamin for a second. Methyl is the truck. Cobalamin is to be 12 is the trailer. What if I need to get to that trailer, but I cannot separate the truck and the trailer, I cannot methalate those two. And it's as if that B12 never existed. Hmm. If I can't pull it off, it never existed. So what happens? I need it, but I'm deficient in it because I can't methalate that compound. So if I can't separate the truck and trailer, then it's a Ziff. The trailer never showed up in my blood. Take folic acid, for example. Folic acid breaks down into something called methyl Folate. If I can't break full of gas it down into methyl folate, it rises in my bloodstream is something called homocysteine.
Gary (00:33:42):
Homocysteine is 75% of the reason why we have an triggered anxiety. And if you think that I'm close to the Mark, I will hit the Mark with this comment right here. The hallmark of anxiety triggered by lack of methylation is that the anxiety is untreasured, meaning you cannot point to the source. So for example, if if you're, um, claustrophobic and you step onto a crowded elevator, I would expect you to have an anxiety attack. If you're afraid of Heights and you walk out our 34 balcony and look down, I expect you to have an anxiety attack. If you wake up in the morning feeling anxious, you drive home from work and you feel anxiety or anxious or heaven forbid you have a panic attack or you've been told that you have generalized depression, you're just generally depressed, but you can't point to the trigger that is methylation.
Gary (00:34:39):
If you have that scenario, you absolutely have a family member that has that scenario. Here's the second part. You've had it since you were a kid. You've had it since you were a kid. You've always had the gene that makes you unable to methalate that folic acid and the people that are listening to this that know what I'm talking about. Know what I'm talking about?
Peter (00:35:00):
Oh man. I mean you're, you're again, you're blowing my mind. This is truly changing lives. People who are lives in depressed States.
Gary (00:35:09):
Oh my God. I mean, I'm telling you, Oh many patients, patients, it's just my me today. Think about this. 85% of postpartum depression in pregnant females is related to the prenatal vitamin. Why? What's an a prenatal vitamin? 400% of the folic acid, the recommended daily allowance of folic acid. Some of them have 1400% so take a woman, it's pregnant.
Gary (00:35:35):
They can't methalate folic acid and give her 1400% of the regular dose of folic acid. Cause her OB GYN says you need this to have a healthy baby. So she's doing the right thing for her child. And she goes nuts. And everybody says, Oh, it's her hormones. Her hormones are all, or why ones aren't off. She's like every other female, they're supposed to have estrogen at 2,500. They're supposed to have progesterone, you know, four times what it is in the normal, they're pregnant. The hormones are supposed to be all over the place. They're not supposed to go crazy. They go crazy cause they pull her dose with full Casad.
Peter (00:36:07):
Wow. And then they can't metabolite.
Gary (00:36:10):
Oh they can't metabolize it in their app. Remind me to talk to pregnant female that's taken a prenatal vitamin and really felt that anxiety, that depression, that postpartum depression. It is very real. It is very visceral. And then it's fast assault.
Peter (00:36:29):
So he goes to goes, that's amazing. I had somebody else, this might be a good time to just ask you this question about menopause. Cause I asked him, my Facebook community and somebody had asked about menopause. Is there a similar, is there a connection between sort of that transition as well? And.
Gary (00:36:47):
no question. So, so in menopause, three things are going right, um, in menopause. Remember that when we look at female hormone therapy or we look at female hormones, what we want to stop doing is we want to stop looking at the number, right? Because it's perfectly normal for a woman to have estrogen in the four hundreds it's perfectly normal to have estrogen in the teens. No, depending on what part of her cycle she's in. So who's to say that one 79 or 200 or three 20 or four 17 is normal or abnormal?
Gary (00:37:18):
You can't. What you have to do what? You have to look at the ratio, the ratio between hormones. There is a balance between estrogen and progesterone. It must be maintained when that's out of balance. It's called estrogen dominance. One hormone dominates the other hormone, and this happens in menopause. Why? Because menopause is like all the hormones going into retirement. Okay? But it's not like all the hormones get together in a conference room one day and like say, Hey girls, it's been a great, you know, 50 years I'm going to Cancun where you guys go and we're out, you know, and then everybody just leaves the building at the same time. That's not how it goes. Estrogen says, I like this game. I'm going to stick around. I'm going to keep going through the cycle. And progesterone says, I'm out, I'm retiring. Guess what happens now? Gesture on starts to retire.
Gary (00:38:08):
Estrogen keeps going. Now you have estrogen dominance where as normally before menopause they work in face. So you restore the ratio. Don't treat the number of balance guide to have to disclose. I'm not a physician, I'm a blood chemistry human biologist. So we have a on an absolutely unbelievable allopathic team. I have a full time OB GYN, full time anesthesiologist, pain management physician. A neurosurgeon. Joining the team, we just added a board certified internist who's a supplement expert all with an orientation towards wellness. Like I'm talking to you right now. No, I may train them to be labs in a certain way, but they prescribed the meds.
Peter (00:38:53):
um, let's, uh, I w way back earlier in this conversation, I derailed us from the biological chain conversation that we were having. And you started to talk about, uh, where does blood come from and the bone marrow. And then there was something before that even.
Gary (00:39:08):
Yeah. So, so let's look at this. Um, I'm going to draw real quick here. Um, are they gonna be able to see this? I, I can translate, uh, visually for those that are just listening. Oh, okay. So, so then I'll just try to do it as, um, what I, what I always draws, I draw a tree, right? The leaves up here and then you've got the soil and you get the roots way. so no matter what a patient says, I convert what they're saying to physiology. You say to me, Gary, just tired all the time. You know, I don't have a lot of energy. I go, okay, you're low on oxygen. Okay. So that's what, that's what I'm hearing. Um, and I don't sleep well. Okay. Your blood's hypoxic. So now let's trace that back to the, what's the deepest, deepest, deepest you can go into the soil.
Gary (00:39:57):
Vitamin D three cold calciferol, the sunshine vitamin. You see there's hundreds of vitamins in your bloodstream right now. And everybody listening to this podcast has hundreds of vitamins circulating in their blood right now. But guess how many a human being can make one. The human body can only manufacture one vitamin. How important do you think that that vitamin is to human function? It's incredible. If you believe in evolution, we evolved to be able to make one vitamin. If you believe in creation, God created us with the ability to make one vitamin. Either way, we can only make one vitamin D three we make it from sunlight and cholesterol. So let's think about how powerful sunlight is for human beings. First of all, I used to be a mortality expert. If you look at population mortality, the longest life expectancies are, are centered right around the equator of the earth.
Gary (00:40:49):
That's a fact, right? Equated of the Earth pretty 20 degrees latitude that you move away from the equator. Life expectancy drops. In fact, it continues to drop until you get to the polls where the lowest life expectancy in human beings as found in Eskimos when I was born in 1970 and that's going on, we're supposed to live into their fifties I'd have a few years left. I'm 50 now, so I got a few, just a few years left. So, so that's how important sunlight is. How powerful a sunlight. Well, in two minutes, the sun puts enough energy onto the earth to equal all of the energy produced by humanity. The balance of the year. So in an entire year, our planet as a whole creates the same amount of output as the sun creates in two minutes. Hmm. So that drives vitamin D three. If you're deficient in vitamin D three, you are going to have a very likely to have a deficiency and something called D H E A hi high tree up the androsterone DHA is the raw material to build hormones.
Gary (00:41:54):
So here's where a lot of hormone clinics and, and, and doctors that just pull hormone levels go wrong, right? Um, when someone is low on hormones, why not find out if they have the raw material, right? If you're going to build a house, um, if you're going to build a house and you have a beautiful lot and you've got a great architect, you've got plenty of money in the bank and you've got an awesome builder, guess what's not going to happen? If nobody drops off, raw materials. Nothing's going to hit. That house is not going to get built. You've got to drop off two and fours and channels. It's the same way with the endocrine system. There's nothing wrong with the endocrine system. They're able to bill. They got the resources, they've got the money, they've got the people, they're all ready to go.
Gary (00:42:36):
You are just not giving it the raw material. So now you've given D three and you give it to the DHEA and you watch what happens too. Testosterone and free testosterone. I have an 81 year old female that's giving me permission to use her labs. We had time on this podcast. I would show you her before and after labs, eight weeks apart because it's easy to show a 30 year old male, 25 year old female. Everybody goes, okay, I get it. They're healthy. I'll show you. An 81 year old female floored out testosterone, no libido, foggy, tired, sick, cranky, sleeping. 14 hours a day, a cranky, tired old woman. Alright, eight weeks later, her testosterone went from less than three to 30 sex life resumed with her husband. I know that her son didn't want to hear that, but um, and, and her blood counts skyrocketed.
Gary (00:43:27):
She is out of her mind with energy. Why? Because now testosterone puts pressure on the bone marrow to engage in urethra polices. Urethra Polices is the production of healthy red blood cells and hemoglobin. Now you also have to make sure that you have the nutrients there to build blood cells, which is higher than physical. I can aid, um, B six B, 12 and methyl folate. And now the bone marrow starts spitting out healthy red blood cells. Well, what are red blood cells do? They carry oxygen. So it's more of those enter the bloodstream. Guess what happens to the person's waking energy? It skyrockets. And the odd thing is their energy goes up and what happens to sleep, it improves. They can finally enter a Delta wave of sleep because they're not suffocating because their oxygen is so low. I have a physician and I'm almost ready to release his name, but we are about to sign an agreement.
Gary (00:44:15):
I flew from Miami, Florida to Dallas, Texas next to a physician who had 41 employees in a family medicine practice. He was a sleep apnea specialist and I sat down next to him on the flight. He was in the middle seat and I was in the aisle, so I trapped them and my tray table down and blocked his exit and my fiance was on the same flight. She sat behind me and she heard him tell me that he was a physician sleep apnea specialist and she put her, she whispered between the seat. She goes, he's got to eat your face. Okay, so first question I asked him, I said, well since you're a sleep apnea expert, why is it that people that are the most exhausted sleep couldn't answer the question? I said no, and then I explained the hypoxic pathways. Both are leading to low blood oxygen.
Gary (00:45:05):
What if we restored the blood oxygen, cure the sleep apnea. And then the low energy level, right there is not a single, if there's a doctor on this podcast, I defy you to tell me a single disease ed logical pathway. It is not aggravated by low blood oxygen. Hmm. So why would we not just restore biometric function? I mean, I don't know if you can tell just on this call, I'm out of my mind toxin. I pull my blood every 30 days and die on my cell thing. Man, I can barely sit still.
Peter (00:45:36):
I can barely sit still listening to this myself. I, I, there's so much fascinating stuff in here. So on the sleep apnea thing, if somebody actually has a blockage of air pathway, when they relax, you know, they snore. Does it, wouldn't that F I mean even if you're, even if you're blood biochemically, you're good, but you're just not actually getting there.
Gary (00:46:00):
Very few instances. But there are some instances of true, um, obstructive sleep apnea, but think about what's obstructing the airway and when did it start? So it's just like so muscles in our body sphincters in our body. You know, now that I've said sphincter, I don't need to name what we're talking about. You weren't born with the ability to control that. We learned to control that, right? So what happens as we are subconscious and we keep our plot of falls from retreating, well we're, we're, we're controlling the fact that they don't relax to the point where they fall to the back of our air. I mean, why if our, he knows his block, why don't we close our mouth? Because, because even subconsciously while we're sleeping, our mouth will open. But what happens is people are slowly becoming, it's like a plane coming in for a land.
Gary (00:46:54):
It doesn't go straight into the ground. They don't notice that they're coasting down. Let me promise you, 50% of the people left listening to this podcast right now have forgotten what it likes to feel. It feels like to be normal. They've forgotten, right? The only time that they remember what it's like to be normal is when they get sick. And then three days later after having the stomach flu, they go back to feeling normal. Then they respect how good normal fields, it's your true biometric normal. Is this far away from where you are right now as it as that normal was when you were sick?
Peter (00:47:25):
I, if I could just interrupt real quick. I was telling you on our call, I was just, uh, in the mountains for Christmas and uh, got altitude sickness or whatever. They brought in an oxygen oxygen machine, plugged me up to it overnight. I woke up that next day and I thought I was high on something. I, it was like this and it was scary. It was scary to, like you just said, it was so far and above, beyond my normal kind of, you know, sorta, kinda groggy or like kind of pushed through it. Uh, I'll get, you know,
Gary (00:47:55):
yeah. If you remember on the lab before you told me that you said, I got a really good night's sleep and I felt amazing the next day. I said, well, let me just interpret that for you. You've got a really good night's sleep and you breathed a lot of oxygen that night, and then you told me you'd actually put on an oxygen.
Peter (00:48:11):
Yes, correct.
Gary (00:48:12):
That's all. Certainly it is. Yes. This is what I, you know, on on a, I think it's February 3rd, fourth and fifth, there's, I'm in Naples, Florida. There's a summit here called the top summit and all these entrepreneurs and go getters and like top performers, um, entrepreneurs from all over the world, men and women who are coming into Naples, hundreds of paying $1,000 for three days to listen to speakers from phenomenal speakers. In fact, half of the state for my patients. And they're going to learn the right way to motivate themselves. How to wake in gratitude, how to pick their passion, how to drive their purpose, how to find out what their purpose is. They're going to find out how to remove the roadblocks from their roadway to success. And I'm spending an hour talking about how success is in your blood,
Gary (00:49:02):
how success is in your blood. Because if you leave that conference and don't fix your physiology, your passion and your purpose won't matter because physiology drag you back down into the state and which it's decided you will exist. And we know lots and lots and lots of people like this. We always think there's something wrong with them in the head. There's something wrong with them in the body and the blood and it's very easy to fix.
Peter (00:49:30):
Well, when you think about just you know, class systems and you look at the, the, the nutrition and what they're probably getting biochemically you could, you could probably raise a whole generation.
Gary (00:49:42):
That's just my purpose in life. My absolute purpose. When I tell you I get high from these presentations, just talking to people like you and not the people that are listening. I really do. I mean it's, it's like I have a neural cascade going on right now that's better than any drug ever get addicted to in your life. And you know, I talked to a lot of my entrepreneurs and successful coaches, like, you know, the grant card owns, um, this weekend I'll be at the super bowl. On a radio row announcing our partnership with the NFL alumni association. And one of my favorite players, his name is Billy Datas, he's going to be with me. Um, you know, going from Porter station reporter Porter station, if you remember him, he's a super bowl champ. He was running back to the Cowboys, went to the Superbowl with the Cowboys, then later traded to the Ravens and won a Superbowl with the Ravens as a running back.
Gary (00:50:32):
And I asked him, I said, I said, Billy, what was it when you were making that money? And you're a front of that crowd and, and um, you know, you're in great condition, but you know, now all of a sudden that millionaire lifestyle kicked in. What kept you pushing yourself to be at the top of your game? I mean, I know you had passion. I know you had purpose. You certainly had to have the physiology. And one of the things that he described to me was just one of the most beautiful things I'd ever heard. Because what he said was, there's a moment when you're pumping down that field, right? When you're just, you know that you can't take step one micro millimeter faster, right? You're at 100% and at the same time you can hear the crowd. You're, you're alert enough that you can hear the crowd.
Gary (00:51:22):
Sometimes he'd even pick out a single boys. Go Billy, just a single voice and down the field. He noticed that there was somebody standing with a trumpet too close to the sideline. If he stepped out right there, he's going to hit that guy. At the same time, he knew there was a defender coming across the field, full speed, not coming to give them a kiss. Right. And he knew he had to put his hands up, can grab that ball. He said in that incident there was a cascade of emotion neurons going through my body that was so visceral. I was so high. So clear solar from, I can't describe it, but I chased that feeling like a rat to cheese better than anything I'd ever felt touched that ball. I feel the pain in my rib has gone. Hmm. I get up and do it again.
Gary (00:52:07):
And I've talked to grant Cardone about this. Tony Robins, you know these people, they get high when they're on stage. All that vibration, all that energy, all that emotion that's coming into perfect physiology, matched with perfect passion, propelled by a purpose, and I promise you, man, you get your listeners on that train.
Peter (00:52:28):
in the zone, as we call it, on the athletic field.
Gary (00:52:31):
That's a description of in the zone that I'd never heard before. I just was like, wow, that second was so addictive. He's like, why do you think LeBron James is doing? He's worth a half a billion dollar stamp. Any steak dinner he wants, any car he wants than any house he wants, not doing it for the money. What makes him get up everyday and want it more than somebody else?
Peter (00:52:52):
Wow. Talk about translating things into physiology. I mean, you're talking about an actual physiological state of the height of the height of purpose and passion, and.
Gary (00:53:02):
I love it when I've watched my patients. I moved most of my patients up a level, sometimes two levels, and when you just move up a level and eight weeks later they're like, what? I forgot how good it feels to feel this good. And I said, that's just normal. That's your regular normal. You just coasted down here right now, you're back to where you're supposed to be. There's nothing extravagant about what's going on. Your body is doing what your body's doing best. Pharmaceutical free, drug free, just high on your own supply.
Peter (00:53:38):
Um, wanted to talk to you a little bit about, uh, detox and uh, some of the fascinating things that you'd shared with me on our call about the liver and fat loss.
Gary (00:53:49):
Yeah. So, okay, so let's, first of all, I'm going to talk about detox in a second because I'm not a huge fan of detoxing Hom and I'll tell you why. But, um, the liver is the only place in the human body where fat is mobilized or metabolized. Okay? There's only one place in the body where it liver fats broken down. Okay? And that's in the liver. So if you don't give the liver what it means to engage in fatty acid metabolism, then your chances of bringing fat are really pretty minimal. And I'm going to lay out a couple of them. Physiological walls, right? There's laws in physics, okay? There's also laws in the human body, and if you're an engineer, you know that there's certain laws I just can't violate, right?
Gary (00:54:36):
I mean, if I'm in here and nautical engineer there, so there's the physics of flight and there's certain laws I just have to okay in the body the same way. And one of them has to do with how our body prioritizes energy. No matter what you read in Navarro science community, there are no exceptions to these rules, okay? Number one is your body will prioritize over any other energy source glucose. So if there's sugar in your blood, your body will always burn the sugar first before it switches to any other form of energy utilization. How's it do that? Well, when you, when the sugar, high glucose in your blood, you secrete insulin and insulin starts to rise. Most people think that the primary role of insulin is to reduce blood sugar, but that's actually not insulin's primary role. Insulin's primary job is to block you from using any other form of energy.
Gary (00:55:29):
So what does that mean? That means that when insulin is present in your bloodstream and not burn fat, your body cannot enter the fatty acid pathway with insulin present period. So the people that have the highest blood fat eat the highest amount of sugar he pulled that eat the lowest amount of sugar, have the lowest amount of blood fat. I'm a ketogenic Dieter, I have the same blood fat as a vegan. If you don't believe me, you can go to BRCA on Instagram. I, I don't sell anything there. I just try to espouse good scientific, uh, based on support material. But I post my blood labs there every 30 days cause I believe you should practice what you preach. I get 75% of my core can take from fat and have the same blood fat as a deacon. So my triglycerides are generally below 45 in any case.
Gary (00:56:21):
So the number one is glucose. So if you have glucose in the blood, you can't use any other form of energy. The question is, let's say you wake up, fasting glucose is very, very low. Can you go exercise and um, your blood sugar starts to drop? Well, what happens when you don't have any more glucose in your blood? There's a second form of energy. It's a stored form of energy called glycogen that's in your liver, stored in your liver, in your muscles. You have about a 20 minute reserve glycogen. When that's gone, you go to your third resource. It's either going to be fat or it's going to be lean. Muscle fat takes five to six hours to mobilize. Lean muscle takes three minutes. If you're exercising intensely in a fasted state, where do you think your body's getting energy? Muscle, muscle, and my patients say to me all the time, Gary, I don't get it.
Gary (00:57:11):
I wake up fasted, especially women. I have a cup of black coffee. I go to orange theory or I go to this bootcamp. I don't hammer down for 55 minutes. I do that five days a week. I've been doing it for three months and I have not lost a single pound. What is going on? I don't understand. I'm not even eating. I go, well, you're not eating. What's your body is, it's just eating you. Because what you've done is you've forced your body to burn lean muscle tissue to fuel itself. So during your exercise, you're burning lean muscle and at night you're building it back and then the next day you burn lean muscle and then at night you can build it back and you bring the muscle, build it back. And who wants to do that? Right? So there are specific ways to access fatty acid metabolism and one of them, let's do the liver. We can trick the body into stop burning the muscle and you switch to fatty acid.
Peter (00:58:03):
How do you do that?
Gary (00:58:05):
And you would ask that I get paid the big money, big money to say how do you do that?
Gary (00:58:16):
So one of the best ways to do it, I'm going to talk about first in a fasted state and then in non tested state, in a non fasted state, Tim Ferriss is not. Uh, my science, he, he wrote a book called the four hour body. Very, very valid science. The fastest way to do it in a non fasted state is by doing something called 30 30, 30 30 grams of protein within 30 minutes of waking followed by 30 minutes of steady state cardiovascular exercise. What will that do? First of all, what is steady state cardio? Steady state cardio is where your heart rate is at or below 130 beats per minute. I think about, no matter how big you are, no matter man, woman under 35 maybe 130 236 but not one 60 right? Every treadmill in the United States of America has the same thirds divided on it because it's by federal law.
Gary (00:59:07):
The first third says separ. The second, third says Roebuck. The third, third says cardio. 90% of my patients are exercising to be cardiovascular conditioned, but they want to burn fat. Exercise and their goals are diametrically opposed. Cardiovascular conditioning, in fact, metabolism don't go to the same parties. They don't even like each other. What is cardiovascular condition? Cardiovascular conditioning is high heartburn. Cardiovascular exercise. What does that do? It causes a buildup of lactic acid. What does lactic acid do? Your takes the tips of the capillaries and causes them to branch. It's called angiogenesis. It creates new arterial branches. Well, why is that important? Because that means you carry more oxygen to that tissue and are therefore more cardiovascularly conditioned. So if you want to be in great cardio shape, you want to run a marathon, you want to improve your 5k speed, you want to, you know, um, do a triathlon.
Gary (01:00:14):
You're going to have to give up some lean muscle because you're going to burn some lean muscle. That's why I used to be a triathlete in 2010 I was the age group champion for state of Florida amateur in my division. And every guy that I raised with was skinny fat. You know what I mean by skinny fat? Just kind of like lean and squishy. I know, but let's say that your goal is not to improve your half marathon time or to, you know, run an iron man, complete an iron man. Your goal is to be lean and fit. Well. Then you want to drop your heart rate into the fat burn zone, which is very hard to do for a lot of people because what I don't want my body to think is that I need an emergency dump of energy now because if your body needs fuel now, it will go get it by eating you.
Gary (01:01:02):
You have to remember that our brain and our body is very, very primal. We'd like to think the brain is very sophisticated, but it is primal. It cares about one thing cares about survival and it is a nasty, ruthless dictator that puts itself first every time. It's like the Kim Junco and with dictators. So for example, if your brain needs calcium and you don't give it calcium, it will leach it from your bones. It doesn't care that it's giving you off your prostate. It'll steal it from the bones. If it needs amino acids, it'll strip it from lean muscle tissue. It just goes into your body and walks around and just grabs whatever it wants off the shelf. So when I talk about restoring optimal biometric function, I talk about giving enough nutrients to the body so the brain is satisfied and leaves you alone and lets you go do all the other fundings.
Gary (01:01:54):
The same thing happens in the human biome. If you look at the body's number one priority, remember we said the brain's number one priority is blood oxygen. What's the body's number one priority? Digestion. Why? Because digestion equals survival. So why is intermittent fasting so healthy? If the body's primary objective is digestion? Well, here's the answer because when food comes into the body, your body creates such a priority for that food that it will stop doing whatever it's doing. Whatever it's engaged in, cellular repair, detoxification, tissue repair, protein synthesis in the muscle building nicely and muscles, repairing the collagen in your face, growing hair, all of those things, it will stop and it will focus on digestion. Why? Cause digestion means survival. We weren't meant to have a refrigerator, an arms length away, 24 hours a day. When we were created, we didn't know where our next meal was coming from.
Gary (01:02:54):
So we had to prioritize. Digestion and digestion will always Trump any other physiological processes of body. One of the reasons why st Jude's children's hospital is using fasting in prepubescent teens is because they put them in a fasted state. They can fight cancer because their body doesn't stop to digest a meal. It just stays on the cancer like a dog on a bone. We can do that with cellular repair, cognitive function, um, all sorts of physiologic processes in the body. So fasting works because you rearrange the priorities of the body. So if you, whatever, put them back, just eat, you'll kill muscle repair and detoxification and all those pathways. So some of what I try to help people understand just the basics, right? I mean, nothing that I've said today is really earth shattering. It makes sound or shattering, but conceptually it's very simple, right? That's the basics of biometric function.
Peter (01:03:52):
Well, you have a real ability to, to break down very complex things and put them into metaphor and that the average person like myself can understand. So, um, I appreciate that. I kind of get it. I kind of feel like I'm, I'm understanding this, you know, um, I'm wanting to ask you, you had mentioned some things about, uh, Alzheimer's and dementia and its connection to our, the myth of what we understand about memories. And we'd love to have you share your expertise on that.
Gary (01:04:25):
So remember I said that biometric function comes down to three things. Okay. Biometric function comes down to three things. So does optimal health performance, longevity, lifespan, health span comes down to three things. Glycemic control how well you control your blood sugar, hormone balance and nutrient deficiencies. So let me make sure I'm picking the right thing. Okay, so let's talk about glycemic control. Um, blood sugar control. Everyone knows what happens when you become insulin resistant in the body, but there's a very strange concept in modern medicine that the body is here and the brain is over here and somehow the two are not connected. Well, nothing could be further from the truth, right? So what happens when someone either develops diabetes or just has blood sugar control issues in the body? Well, blood sugar rises, insulin rises. The of the nerves hate blood sugar and the hate insulin.
Gary (01:05:21):
So if you've ever heard of somebody with diabetes that has something called peripheral neuropathy, right? That's where the nerves and the fingers and the toes, it's so irritated by insulin and glucose that they actually start to recede. Well, think about this. The only reason why my brain knows that it toes there is because there's a nerve telling it that there's tissue there. What happens when a nerve receipts, guess what else receives? It's right under the artery when an artery backs up. Now that tissue doesn't get any nutrients and it dies. It's called necrosis. That's why diabetics sometimes end in amputations. Now I'm just, that's an extreme example, but um, but that's how damaging blood sugar can be to nerves in the body. Now let's go to the brain for a second. The brain is the most voracious consumer of carbohydrate in the body. 40% of all the carbohydrate you take into the body is consumed by the brain, right?
Gary (01:06:17):
It's, it's only a small fraction of your total weight, but 40% of the carbohydrates consumed there. It has a voracious appetite for carbohydrate. In fact, it can get addicted to carbohydrate very much the same way you can get addicted to alcohol, drugs, nicotine, or any other substance. So few people actually understand that the brain is so uses so much carbohydrate that it can make its own insulin. So what happens when the brain becomes insulin resistant? Sugar starts to build up in the brain. Only the brain doesn't have a place to store it, like the liver or the muscles. So what does it do? It converts it to something called an amyloid plaque and it stores it in the neuro synaptic junction in the space between nerves, it starts to pack it in there. There's a term for this and if you Google it, you'll see that this is some of the most valid science I've talked about this entire day.
Gary (01:07:12):
It's called type three diabetes. It's the only type of diabetes that nobody's heard about. Even though Mayo clinic and Cleveland clinic and in study after study after study, after peer reviewed study after peer reviewed study is proven, the link between Glycemic index and Alzheimer's early onset Alzheimer's is sugar and dementia is sugar being stored in the brain in the form of an amyloid plaque. So what happens when this amyloid plaque builds up, builds up in the junction, the gap between nerves you see in the brain and nerve runs down one path and it gets to a broken bridge and it has to jump a stream onto the next bridge and keep running. Right? And on one side is your conscious and on the other side is your memory and they don't touch right. That nerves got jumped. That space that's filling up with amyloid plaques.
Gary (01:08:06):
So the misnomer about Alzheimer's and dementia is that people lose their memory. The truth is those people don't lose their memory, they lose access to their memory. There's this substantial difference. Huge difference. Yeah. Yeah. I always use. I had a patient in my office the other day. I said if you went across the street to that Walmart, bought a brand new vacuum and brought it into my office and stuck it in the middle of the floor. Is anything wrong with the vacuum? No. Is anything wrong with my electrical outlet in the wall? No. Why doesn't the vacuum work? Because it's not plugged in. Oh cause they're not connected. So I haven't lost the vacuum. I just haven't connected it to the power source. Right. So what happens when I remove the amyloid plaques from the neurosynaptic junction, I plug the vacuum in, right? Memory. Cognition comes back, unless there's been bits going on for years and years and years and then you can actually get tissue atrophy.
Gary (01:09:02):
Once that plaque fills up and closes, the junction shuts down. But prior to that, the physiology, the pathology that builds those plaques up can grow those plaques out. You put those people on a virtually zero glycaemic profile, prescription ketogenic diet, and you watch their cognitive function literally improve month over month. Somebody that's listening to this podcast, it has kids or themselves or loved one that has early onset Alzheimer's and dementia. You go pull their blood work right now and go look at the blood work that they had done months ago and the diagnosis was made. I promise you, you will see elevated glucose and something called hemoglobin a one see their three month average blood sugar will be very awake and you're going to go, why in the hell didn't the doctor tell me this?
Peter (01:09:48):
Geez, sound science. My grandmother had it. She's passed since. But um, man, that would've completely changed the end of changing your entire whole life.
Gary (01:10:01):
By the way, it starts in your thirties, forties fifties starts in your thirties, forties and fifties. So slow process. First you can't find your keys and you can't find your wallet. Then you're parking in the neighbor's driveway and you find your phone in the freezer, right? Then you start recognizing new friends, then you start mechanizing old friends, then you lose touch with your family. So it's a progressive disease showing that something was going on. And I'm like, plaques are cute. You know, modern science is focused on getting the amyloid plaques out of the neuro synaptic junction, right? What I say, well why don't we stop them from getting there in the first place? Right? So imagine that you got a house and you've got a front door and a back door. They're the same size and someone's bringing an amyloid plaques in the front door and modern medicine is grabbing them and taking them out the back door. But every few months the size, the front door doubles, but the size of the backdoor stays the same and then it doubles again and then doubles again. Because this process accelerates, it's like hockey stick, glycaemic resistance accelerates. So what happens to the disease? It accelerates. Why would we not shut down the deposit of the plaques so that we can then remove the plaques, can keep ahead of the game. Okay.
Peter (01:11:24):
As is that really what the genius is that you're talking about this entire conversation is that you're not looking at symptoms and trying to fix symptoms. You're looking at what is the root optimal functionality as a biologist as opposed to a a medical professional. I mean, I know you're in that category, but.
Gary (01:11:45):
yeah, that's exactly it. It's that I, it's not that I don't believe in disease and pathology. I do. I just don't believe that it insists as often as we think. Right, and if we were, listen, our bodies were meant to thrive. God gave us everything that we need to be absolutely optimal, to have the libido of 10 men, to have a strong response to exercise, to have excellent cognitive function, to have a balanced mood, and what we've done is we decimated and then what happens is when it breaks, we don't go back to restoring that biometric pathway. We go to pharmacology and we say, Hey, fix this break. Instead of saying, Hey, why did this break occur and optimal biometric function, this is within reach of all of us, and let me tell you one thing, it is not in some rare blue green algae.
Gary (01:12:39):
It is not buried in the Amazon jungle 40 feet underground in some freaky route that someone discovered that you need to shave and boil and turn into some powder that you take into your body. It's not in the super food. In fact, I see more sensitivity and reactivity of super foods than any other category of food on the planet. More than calories, right? Dope. Spiralina blue, green algae. It's also eating, um, rock maca root powder. Somehow because it's ancient and rare, we think it's valuable and important human function. God did not build us to need things that are scarce and rare to be optimal. The things that we need, sunlight, water, oxygen, hormone balance, but I seem to control lack of sugar. They're really readily avail. And my old grad school professors, my favorite Sam, he used to say, Gary, if you're 40 miles off shore and the boat is sinking, that is not the time to start tuning in the radio station. All right? But most of us are like maca root powder, tumeric, curcumin, and cocuten the ubiquinol form of cocuten. I need that. I need st John's word. I need long liquor. Slippery Elm bark. I need this rare. I did the square root, I can this right buried and I need some blue green algae. And none of it is important about metrics.
Peter (01:13:53):
Oh man, God, yeah, I knew this was going to be earth shattering and I know that this is going to be changing lives. Um, thank you so much for your time today, but I don't want to leave people hanging. What are some common basic things that they can go do right now and, and what, uh, can they do if they to get in touch with you and work with you?
Gary (01:14:14):
Okay, I'll tell you some things. I'll tell you some things that I can do. Um, you know, without even working with me because I always, I'm always suspect when you know, guru gets on and he's like, Hey, well go to my website and find myself. Um, I will look at your blood work, but I don't have somethings to sell. Um, but uh, here's, here's three things that you can do. Um, I also consider myself a biohacker. I'm fascinated by the human bio and how we can use our own biometric function on a day to day basis to get ourselves to the head. So tomorrow morning I'm going to teach you how to do something that's going to make you Bulletproof for the rest of the day. Okay? Um, the first thing we're going to do, um, if you're not already doing it, is we're going to start with a cold shower and it's not a cold shower cause a cold shower wakes you up.
Gary (01:15:00):
Okay? If you don't have access, um, to an infrared sauna, then you can use a shower. The reason for this is there was a special type of protein locked inside of your liver. You're welcome to google these, they are called a heat shock proteins and cold shock proteins. This is very valid science. When you release heat shock or cold shock proteins, what these do is they flood the bloodstream, scour the bloodstream of free radical oxidation, and they skyrocket the rate of protein synthesis. Why do you think athletes get in a tub of cold ice after competition? Number one, it shuts down inflammation and it fades or constricts, but it also floods the body with cold shock proteins. 20 minutes in a sauna or 10 minutes in an ice cold shower or raise your level of cold shock proteins to the point where you start to feel the benefit throughout the day.
Gary (01:15:52):
Okay? The second thing I would recommend is if you've never heard of it, um, the Iceman, Wim Hoff as a method of breathing that takes eight minutes in the morning, oxygen is the root source of all life. In fact, every single human being on the planet dies of the same thing. We all die of hypoxia. The definition of death is lack of oxygen to the brain. So we're all going to end because of lack of oxygen to the brain. So one of the things I like to do in the morning is I like to do three rounds of 30 breasts of Wim Hof breathing. You can look him up. He's the Iceman. I did not develop it. It's a very specific type of breathing that actually will change the oxygen tension in your tissues. You want to talk about being high on your own supply tomorrow? Make sure you're laying down.
Gary (01:16:44):
A lot of people pass out when they do this. Don't worry. Don't fear it. Don't do it while you're driving. You lay down, you go through these 30 breasts, you take a cold shower and then I would implore you other than coffee, water or fats in your coffee, don't eat tomorrow until noon. Hmm. Wake up. And other than coffee with fats or water, don't, eat until noon had an ice cold shower, a 20 minute infrared sauna and three rounds of 30 breath breathing. You will tomorrow feel exactly what it's like to have changed the state for an entire day. Wow. Imagine if we could do that two or three levels above.
Peter (01:17:24):
Oh man. Citing.
Gary (01:17:27):
free advice,
Peter (01:17:29):
invaluable, genuinely invaluable advice. Um, thank you for that. Where can somebody go if they want to connect specifically with streamline?
Gary (01:17:37):
So they want to connect with me or one of our clinical team. You can go to streamline wellness.com streamlined wellness.com.
Peter (01:17:46):
Fantastic. Good. This has been mind blowing. Thank you so much for your time, your wisdom and uh, your passion and your purpose to help elevate others. Cause, um, th this really is the heart of what I want this podcast to be about. And you might be at the very start of that whole heart process. So again, thank you so much for your time today.
Gary (01:18:06):
Yeah, you're very welcome. And I hope your listeners get a lot out of it and I hope to work with all of them on the work.
Peter (01:18:12):
I know you will. All right. Thanks Gary. All right. Talk to you soon.

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