669. The Biohacking Bullshit That Has Gone Too Far

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Health is supposed to give you more life and energy and more freedom and more time with people you love.
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And now you turn into a prisoner of your own wellness routine.
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And there's always there's always going to be another metric.
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There's always going to be another device or another protocol, another one person.
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There's no finish line to optimization.
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So eventually you have to decide, what am I optimizing for?
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Now, let's get into today's episode.
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So.
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So I already know that I'm going to piss some people off with this episode.
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I'm fully aware of it, especially people who own biohacking companies or sell biohacking gadgets, maybe run longevity clinics.
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peptide protocols, just basically people who build an entire empire around convincing you that you need one more thing to become optimized.
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And, you know, quite frankly, if you know me, I don't care if people are getting pissed off because these episodes are for you.
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I care about you.
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And I truly believe that this episode is going to save you a shit ton of money, a boatload of stress, and believe it or not, may even save your marriage, your relationship with your kids, or some of the most important time that you have with the people that you love.
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So I'm going to explain exactly why as we go through this, but I literally recorded this episode three different times because every time it was scheduled to release, there was more information came out about the bullshit biohacking tools and devices that we have out here that then I went back and re-recorded it.
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So this is the final version, I promise.
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But I want you to be armed with all of the information possible.
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And again, the reason I'm doing this is not because I am anti-biohacking.
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I just think biohacking has gone way too far.
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And it's stealing our money and it's stealing joy and time out of our lives as opposed to actually giving back joy and time.
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Now, maybe it'll move the needle a smidgen bit on your health, but that's what we're going to talk about today.
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Now, I talk about biohacking in the Thyroid Fix book.
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If you don't have it, you got to go.
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Why don't you have it?
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Honestly, if you don't have a copy of my book, why?
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It is the Thyroid Bible, by the way.
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There's information out there that isn't in any perimenopause, menopause, or other thyroid books out there, which aren't that many.
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Okay.
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So why don't you get a copy of the Thyroid Fix because you need it.
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If you're over 40, you definitely need it.
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Okay.
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Anyways, there are specific tools that I talk about, biohacking tools in the Thyroid Fix that really do work.
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And right after this episode, you're going to hear another episode coming out either the same week or next week on the beneficial biohacking tools.
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Because there are some.
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And there are things that we can do, should do, that will extend our life and protect our health and improve the quality of life.
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Red light, sauna, targeted supplementation.
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Obviously, optimizing your thyroid and your hormones is the key to anything, any kind of health issue or just having a basis for biohacking.
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Your thyroid and hormones are in the toilet.
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Like you will literally be wasting your money if you don't just start with optimizing your thyroid and your hormones.
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Now, I believe in obviously looking deeper than the standard conventional medicine approach.
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And like I said, you're going to get an entire episode after this about the biohacking tools that I think are worth your time and money.
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So again, yes, biohacking is bullshit, but not all biohacking is all bullshit.
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This is just more that I think we've slightly lost our minds.
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and lost the why behind biohacking.
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Because biohacking was supposed to make our lives better.
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And somewhere along the way, for a lot of people, it started doing the exact opposite.
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And I think there are three ways this happens.
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The first is money.
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The second is stress.
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And the third is your actual life, like your relationships, your family, your ability to be present for the life you were supposedly trying so hard to fix.
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So the first cost, money.
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Let's start with the easiest one.
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Because holy shit, you can spend money in the biohacking world.
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You start really innocently enough.
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You know, you hear something on a podcast or see it in an IG reel that draws your attention.
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You're like, that's going to change my life.
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So maybe you buy a wearable device and then you go get a red light device.
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And then somebody tells you you need a cold plunge.
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Then you need a sauna.
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Then the sauna apparently isn't enough because now you need a specific kind of sauna.
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Then you need special water and an air purifier and a grounding mount and grounding sheets.
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Then you have to test your biological age, throw a continuous glucose monitor on, go to a peptide clinic, buy a bunch of supplements, wear another wearable because apparently your first wearable doesn't track the one metric that you suddenly discovered you need to know.
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And before you know it, you have spent thousands and thousands of dollars on equipment that is just sitting around your house, maybe collecting your clothes or collecting dust.
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So how much of it are you actually using?
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And even more importantly, how much of that biohacking equipment is actually moving the needle?
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Because there are two very different questions here.
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Yeah, you can own a $5,000 device.
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It doesn't mean that you need it.
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Doesn't even mean that you're using it.
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You can own a device that has some legitimate science behind it.
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And that still doesn't mean it's doing anything meaningful for you.
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moving the needle on your health.
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And this is where people feel such tremendous pressure.
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I know because I felt it.
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And that's one of the reasons why I'm doing this episode.
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We all want to be healthy.
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We all want longevity.
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We don't want cancer.
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We don't want dementia or cardiovascular disease.
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We don't want to become frail.
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We don't want to age badly.
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So then when someone comes in and tells you, oh, this is the thing that could help prevent that, of course you want it.
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Of course you do.
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It almost becomes fear-based purchasing.
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And again, I know this because these are the things that go through my mind as well.
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So if they're going through my mind, I know they're going through yours.
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wait, what if I don't get that piece of equipment?
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What if everybody else is doing this and I'm not?
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What if this is the thing that I'm missing?
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They've asked me, told me that this would change my life.
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And now you've spent $20,000 trying not to die.
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But you're sleeping six hours.
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You're not lifting weights.
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You barely walk.
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Your diet's a mess.
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Your thyroid and hormones haven't been properly evaluated.
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You keep going back to your PCP for that.
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That's not optimization.
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That is not optimization whatsoever.
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And that is going to cause more and more spend.
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And it's going to cause more and more stress.
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So here we go.
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The second cost, stress.
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So we buy the biohacking stuff.
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We spend all the money.
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And then something else happens.
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We start to feel guilt.
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We start feeling guilty because we're not actually using all the shit that we just bought.
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It becomes like the treadmill of the 90s or the Peloton of the 2000s, where now it's a great clothes hanger.
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Fantastic.
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And that's about it, because we're not even using it.
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So think about it.
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You probably bought a Peloton or possibly a sauna, cold plunge, maybe hyperbaric oxygen chamber.
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Maybe it's just a red light.
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And now you're like, oh, I got a cold plunge.
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I got a sauna.
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I got to use the red light.
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I got to use my grounding mat.
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I bought the wearable.
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Better check the wearable.
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Signed up for the peptide protocol.
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Better inject those peptides.
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Wait, I bought all the supplements.
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Better take the 37 supplements.
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I bought the special water machine.
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I got to hydrogenate my water.
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I got to drink the special water.
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And then all of a sudden, this becoming healthy thing literally has taken up your life and has become a second job.
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So your morning starts looking something like this.
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All right, hang with me here.
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Tell me if this is you.
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You wake up, but don't get out of bed yet.
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First, you got to check your sleep score and you got to check your HRV and your resting heart rate and your respiratory rate and your skin temperature and your oxygen and your readiness score.
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Oh, shit.
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Your readiness score
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which probably isn't helping your HRV, but don't worry because now you need to go outside.
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Except don't look at your phone first thing in the morning because you need morning light in your eyes before the artificial light.
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So put the phone down.
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Don't look at your metrics and your HRV.
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You got to get outside first.
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Then you can come back in and stress about your HRV and your readiness score.
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So go outside, but maybe you should go barefoot because you need to ground too.
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Oh, wait, you're in Iowa and it's December.
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Okay, you can't really do that.
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And, oh, it doesn't even get light out until like 7 a.m.
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Here you are up at 536 because, you know, you have to work.
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But God forbid you look at your phone and don't turn on an LED light until you can see the natural sun outside.
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And while you're grounding, you need to look at the sun.
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Look directly at the sunrise and then set an alarm on your watch because you've got to look at the sunset too.
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Don't you know that?
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That's going to help you sleep if you look at the sunset.
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but don't stare directly at the sun.
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And you are fasting, right?
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Like it's the more, you're still fasting, of course, unless today is the day that fasting is bad for women.
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I don't know, check Instagram and then come back inside.
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Well, then it's time to take your supplements.
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No, wait, wait.
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Some need to be taken fasted.
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Some need food.
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Some need to be taken with fat.
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Some can't be taken with others.
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Okay, I'll figure this out.
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I'll plan out my entire day around when to take supplements.
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But then I got to get in a cold plunge.
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And I have to red light, meditate, breath work, sauna,
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drink my hydrogen water, check my glucose to make sure the hydrogen water somehow didn't spike my glucose.
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Then I got to inject my peptides, except this peptide is Monday through Friday.
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This one is every other day.
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This one gets cycled.
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This one is before bed.
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This one's fasted.
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And somehow in between all of this, you have to go to work.
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Hmm.
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Maybe you have kids, maybe a partner, spouse.
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Do you have a life?
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Well, now you're stressed because you only got through four of your seven biohacks today.
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And what does chronic stress do?
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What does chronic stress do?
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It screws up your sleep.
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It makes you more hungry and worsens that appetite regulation that you're trying so hard for or that you're injecting GLPs for.
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It can impair glucose regulation, increases inflammation, makes recovery worse, and it can make your thyroid worse.
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Elevated cortisol, impairing T4 to T3 conversion, impairing the actual function and making of your thyroid hormones.
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So for some people, stress can actually cause weight gain.
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Wait a minute.
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Those are the exact things we're biohacking to improve.
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Inflammation, weight, sleep.
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So now we're stressing about gaining weight while doing 14 things to prevent the weight gain.
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And the stress of trying to perfectly execute those 14 things is making the entire process harder.
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That is freaking absurd.
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You bought the tools to reduce stress and now the tools are stressing you out.
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You bought the tracker to improve your sleep.
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And now you wake up anxious because your sleep score sucked.
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And you have all these biohacking things to do today.
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Oh, you bought the CGM to improve your metabolic health, and now you're afraid to eat a banana.
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You bought the peptide protocol because you wanted to feel younger.
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And now you're standing in your bathroom thinking, I really don't feel like being a pin cushion today, but I paid all this money for it.
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Guilty.
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That's me.
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So now you feel guilty, just like I do, if you don't do it.
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That is the second cost of biohacking.
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It isn't just financial.
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It's mental.
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We created a new freaking religion around biohacking.
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And this is really where I think the entire movement started going sideways.
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Biohacking originally came from a really good place.
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Question what you're being told.
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Take responsibility for your health.
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Don't just blindly accept that feeling shitty is normal.
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Look deeper.
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Okay.
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Experiment a little bit, but do it intelligently.
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Find things that improve your physiology.
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Okay, beautiful.
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I agree with all that.
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But then along the way, something happened.
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We went from questioning the dogma of the conventional medicine world to creating a brand new dogma in our functional, integrative, naturopathic wellness world.
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So conventional medicine says, and follow me with this, here's the logic.
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We have conventional sick medicine, though I talk about all the time, the Band-Aid medications that they give you, the lack of testing, the five to seven minute visit.
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So conventional medicine comes in and says, just take this pill.
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Don't ask questions.
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It's time for your statin.
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Just take the T4.
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It'll work.
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Don't worry about it.
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Don't ask me any questions about it.
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And don't ask to be tested.
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The extreme wellness world now says, never eat this food.
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You got to use all of these products.
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Everything in your house is toxic.
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Buy this machine.
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Follow this protocol.
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And don't ask questions.
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It's the same thing.
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Have you noticed that everything is dangerous now in the food world?
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Apparently spinach is dangerous now because of the oxalates.
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Fruit is dangerous.
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Carbs are dangerous.
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Meat used to be dangerous.
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I still like meat.
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Fiber is dangerous.
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Seed oils, lectins, tap water, your cookware.
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Apparently your sheets are toxic.
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Unless, of course, they're $400 grounding sheets.
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At some point, you just have to ask, what in the actual are we supposed to eat?
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And don't worry, somebody on Instagram will tell you that the air is toxic too.
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So don't even question your air.
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All right, food wars.
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Let's take food.
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We have turned nutrition into basically an identity.
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It's like you're part of a tribe.
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Ooh, you're a carnivore.
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Oh, you're vegan.
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You can't play over here with the carnivores.
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No, no, no.
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You're keto, but you're not really carnivore, you're keto.
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And you're animal-based, but you're neither keto nor carnivore.
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You're low-carb, but you're not quite keto, not quite carnivore, you're just low-carb.
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And these people over here are high-carb.
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And then these people are fasting, but these people say don't ever fast.
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So I guess now you have to pick a team, wear like a football jersey.
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Listen, some people, and I always say this, and I say this in the book, your labs will tell you how you should eat.
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Some people just therapeutically do beautifully on keto or carnivore.
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And some people feel like absolute garbage.
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Some people will do better with lower carbs.
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Some people do better with higher carbs.
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Some people have legitimate food intolerances.
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And with oxalates, okay, there are some conditions where oxalates would matter and make a difference, but most don't.
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Some people feel phenomenal eating more plants and some people feel better eating fewer plants.
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Do I think that the plants are going to release toxins that are going to kill us?
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No, but some people just feel better when they have an animal based diet.
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There's nothing wrong with that.
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The problem isn't using a specific strategy to help your health.
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The problem is when that strategy becomes a full-blown religion.
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A diet should be a tool.
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It shouldn't literally become who you are and your personality and who you speak to.
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Like you can't have a vegan friend.
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Now, listen, if I have a vegan friend, I'm going to try to convince that vegan friend to come on over and eat some meat.
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But I'm not going to de-friend her because she's vegan.
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And like I said, the third bucket.
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So we went over money.
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We went over stress.
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The third bucket is how it affects your family.
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And we're going to talk a little bit more about that as well, that you're basically your personal life, because it could consume you and literally pull you away from the things that really matter in life.
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And that's a pretty big bucket.
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Hold on to that.
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We'll circle back to that.
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Let's just keep breaking down all the craziness that's out there, shall we?
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That way you know what to spend your money on and maybe what not to spend your money on.
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Okay, CGMs.
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Let's talk CGMs.
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Continuous Glucose Monitors.
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We're starting nice and easy and cheap, relatively cheap.
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A CGM is a little device that goes on the back of your arm and it continuously reads your
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blood sugar.
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And it is an amazing tool for the appropriate person.
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Like if you have diabetes or significant insulin resistance or metabolic dysfunction, or there's a specific clinical reason we want to see exactly what your glucose is doing, awesome.
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Use the tool.
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I even think there can be tremendous value in a healthy person wearing one for a short period of time just to learn.
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Data is data collection for two weeks, maybe a month.
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And then you end up learning, okay, wow, this particular food or this meal really spikes me.
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I didn't think it would.
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So maybe that's just something that I need to take out of my diet.
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And then this meal that everybody says, oh, my gosh, avoid sweet potatoes.
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It didn't spike me at all.
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So I know my body can handle it.
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Walking after dinner, if you're wearing a CGM, you'll see that that lowers your glucose.
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Sleeping badly completely changes the glucose the next day.
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Okay, great.
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You learn something from that.
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But do you need a healthy, metabolically normal person wearing a CGM 365 days a year and analyzing every piece of food they put in their mouth?
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Probably not.
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At some point, take the freaking thing off.
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You don't need a device continuously confirming that your glucose went up after you ate carbohydrates or didn't sleep.
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That's what glucose does.
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The goal is not a perfectly flat glucose line.
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The goal is metabolic health.
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And those are not the same things.
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So use the tool.
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Use the CGM.
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Learn from it and then move on.
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You don't have to wear it 24-7, 365.
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Next up is mouth taping.
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And again, I'm not telling you that mouth taping is inherently stupid.
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Some people may genuinely benefit from encouraging nasal breathing.
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But we all of a sudden went from maybe nasal breathing is important to everyone should tape their fucking mouth shut every night.
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Maybe before we would tape over your mouth, we should figure out why you can't breathe through your nose.
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Now, I will mouth tape as well because I snore like a trucker for my husband.
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And so when he hasn't slept in a few nights because of my snoring, I'm like, honey, I'll throw some tape on my mouth.
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It'll be okay.
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Forcing me to breathe through my nose.
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But if I have congestion or allergies, then that mouth type might come off sometime in the night because I can't breathe.
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So do you actually know what you're treating?
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Do you maybe have sleep apnea?
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Because that whole question seems to disappear when we're talking about mouth taping.
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And I don't want the mouth taping question.
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gurus to come after me.
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I get it that there are additional benefits to this, even with like kids and their jaw and your facial structure and all of that.
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But again, I know that I get stressed out if I don't mouth tape or I used to rather.
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I've eased off a little bit and taken some pressure off of myself, which is another reason why I'm doing this episode.
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But I did.
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I used to stress.
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I'm like, oh my gosh, I got to bring my mouth tape everywhere I go.
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I need to do this at night
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Moving on, cold plunging.
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Okay, same thing.
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Cold exposure has interesting physiology.
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I mean, there's definite benefits.
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There are definite benefits.
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But now all of a sudden, if you don't sit in 40 degree water at 5.15 in the morning, apparently you're just failing at longevity.
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No, no, no, no.
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You don't need to cold plunge.
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You can.
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You might love it.
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It may make you feel fantastic.
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It does for me.
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It wakes me up.
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But again, I talk.
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got sucked into the guilt of not doing it often enough.
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Right now, I would say I cold plunge once every two to three weeks.
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I'll do it more if my back is really inflamed because it takes down inflammation.
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But if I'm doing it for mitochondrial function, if I'm doing it to brown my white adipose tissue or to increase my metabolism, I'll take T2 instead.
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I show this all the time in my talks, in other podcasts I've done about T2.
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It's just like doing a cold plunge.
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It reduces inflammation.
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It helps with your metabolism.
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It browns white adipose tissue, works on your mitochondria.
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Check, check, check.
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I guess I don't have to get into 40-degree water and sit there and shiver.
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But if it's for you, then yes, do it.
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I mean, there are people that do it every day and swear by it.
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And if that's your jam, that's fine.
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But don't put that kind of guilt on someone else who doesn't want to or who doesn't own one, who doesn't feel like filling up the bathtub with ice every morning.
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It's okay.
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It's okay if you skip the cold plunger.
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That's just not right for you.
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Yes, there are benefits.
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I'm not saying that cold plunging is bullshit and that there's no benefits to it, but you don't have to stress about it.
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Throw it in when you want to throw it in if that's your thing.
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Okay, you ready for the big one now?
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I'm going to sprinkle this in.
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Keep your interest.
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Now let's talk about peptides.
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Because this is a totally other area where I think there can be just tremendous benefit.
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I use peptides.
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I believe in them.
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There are certain peptides that have powerful effects when they are used appropriately.
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But that's the key word, appropriately.
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Why are you taking it?
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What is the therapeutic benefit or target that you're trying to hit?
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What's the dose?
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How long are you taking it?
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Does it need to be cycled?
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What?
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What are we monitoring?
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And when are we stopping it?
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Because regenerative medicine clinics and so-called peptide experts are popping up everywhere right now.
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There are TikTok influencers giving you their affiliate code for a peptide site.
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There are peptide clinics.
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I've heard of people being put on protocols that cost $10,000, $15,000, even $20,000 a year in just peptides.
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And when I ask that person, what are you taking?
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They pull out a list.
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Okay.
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Why are you taking that peptide?
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Oh, I don't know.
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My peptide expert practitioner just put it in my list.
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Okay, why did they put you on that one?
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Well, they said it was good for anti-aging.
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Okay.
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Okay, what are we actually treating?
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This is where optimization becomes literally just throwing shit at the wall and seeing what sticks.
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Take growth hormone peptides, secretagogues.
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Someone might be taking tesamorelin or CJC or ibimorelin or any other peptide designed to stimulate growth hormone.
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And they'll tell me.
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I'm taking this because they said it would make me lose weight.
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Every time I have heard that, I go, okay, hold on.
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That's not the same thing as taking a fat loss drug.
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It's not the same thing as taking a GLP.
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Yeah, growth hormone is involved in body composition.
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And yes, GH and IGF-1 access matters for tissue and recovery and body comp and aging.
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But stimulating growth hormone is not the same as taking something that directly causes significant fat loss like a GLP.
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It's a long game.
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So if somebody sold you a growth hormone peptide as take this and watch the fat fall off...
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You're being scammed.
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That's exactly what I'm talking about.
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Now, the intervention itself, the peptide itself isn't bullshit.
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I'm sure it does increase growth hormone.
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I've tried them all.
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I've tried them all.
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But honestly, I didn't notice a significant benefit from using growth hormone secretagogues.
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And I also know it's a long-term game.
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So it's really hard to see growth hormone
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increasing because it's a slow process.
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And taking a growth hormone peptide is a long game.
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Now, the other thing that you have to consider in taking a growth hormone peptide, which your TikTok influencer certainly didn't tell you, is that if you have cancer cells, if you had a history of cancer, or if you're sitting there with cancer cells, you could actually stimulate their growth.
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Now, do I believe that me taking CJC and ipamorelin caused my cancer cells to grow?
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No, I don't.
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Because I've never used them for that long.
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And my cancer cells grew from atypical cells, which I have a whole separate podcast if you want to hear my cancer story.
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You can go back to last year and go through that.
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My point is, is that you better know.
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what peptides do and whether or not they're actually right for you.
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And just because a peptide guru at a clinic sat down and sold you $10,000 worth of peptides doesn't mean that they're right for you and could do more harm than good.
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Take BBC 157.
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BBC 157 is probably one of the best examples of exactly this because it is a healing peptide.
466
00:28:25.110 --> 00:28:30.276
I will use it around surgeries and my goodness, it absolutely speeds healing.
467
00:28:30.797 --> 00:28:33.138
But now people are taking BPC ongoing.
468
00:28:33.759 --> 00:28:38.421
Not because they tore something or they have a specific tissue injury they're trying to address.
469
00:28:39.141 --> 00:28:43.603
And not even because somebody established a defined therapeutic goal.
470
00:28:44.064 --> 00:28:47.806
They're just taking it forever because somebody stuck it in a glow stack.
471
00:28:48.206 --> 00:28:52.188
And people hear the word glow and think it's going to glow their skin and make them younger.
472
00:28:52.608 --> 00:28:56.010
And they just keep taking it forever because BPC is good for you.
473
00:28:56.630 --> 00:28:58.331
What endpoint are we waiting for?
474
00:28:59.031 --> 00:29:00.272
What are we monitoring?
475
00:29:01.352 --> 00:29:11.811
And again, if somebody has a history of cancer, that is exactly where I want a thoughtful risk-benefit discussion rather than it's a healing peptide.
476
00:29:11.831 --> 00:29:12.692
Everybody should be on it.
477
00:29:13.583 --> 00:29:18.245
The reality is, whether you know this or not, we don't have great long-term human safety data.
478
00:29:18.785 --> 00:29:22.746
There are mechanistic reasons to be cautious in certain situations.
479
00:29:23.387 --> 00:29:27.008
So why would we just casually put someone on it indefinitely?
480
00:29:27.808 --> 00:29:30.349
Peptides are phenomenal tools.
481
00:29:31.050 --> 00:29:40.293
I believe that as they rise in popularity, they will become a tool that we can use in traditional conventional medicine and then we can use it.
482
00:29:40.453 --> 00:29:50.650
if the conventional medicine docs would open their mind to it, it's a tool that we can use to really move the needle when used appropriately, not when purchased from a TikTok influencer.
483
00:29:51.564 --> 00:30:04.509
And listen, I don't care how cutting edge the clinic looks or how hot the guy is online that's talking to you about peptides and how he's really 50, but looks 30 and buff.
484
00:30:05.390 --> 00:30:09.471
Or the woman that looks 30, but she's actually 50 and looks amazing.
485
00:30:09.531 --> 00:30:10.592
Oh, it's just peptides.
486
00:30:10.632 --> 00:30:12.172
No plastic surgery here.
487
00:30:12.192 --> 00:30:14.053
No Botox here.
488
00:30:14.073 --> 00:30:15.894
It's just all my GHKC peptide.
489
00:30:16.392 --> 00:30:18.113
I don't care how many peptides they stack together.
490
00:30:18.133 --> 00:30:23.877
If you're spending $20,000 a year and you can't tell me why you're taking any of them, we have a problem.
491
00:30:24.798 --> 00:30:30.983
A newer phenomenon that came out last year, right around the time I was diagnosed with the big C, whole body MRIs.
492
00:30:31.023 --> 00:30:33.725
People were telling me, go get a whole body MRI.
493
00:30:34.445 --> 00:30:35.266
So let's talk about that.
494
00:30:35.626 --> 00:30:40.850
Whole body MRI scans, because this really has become one of the hottest things.
495
00:30:41.522 --> 00:30:43.703
happening in longevity and biohacking.
496
00:30:43.963 --> 00:30:46.545
This has gained momentum since last year.
497
00:30:47.365 --> 00:30:56.631
So you pay a few thousand dollars, you lie in an MRI machine, they scan your entire body, and the pitch is incredibly compelling.
498
00:30:57.171 --> 00:30:59.413
What if there's something inside you that we don't know about?
499
00:31:00.073 --> 00:31:02.394
What if we catch cancer early?
500
00:31:03.034 --> 00:31:04.694
What if we catch an aneurysm?
501
00:31:05.274 --> 00:31:08.255
What if we find something before you ever develop symptoms?
502
00:31:08.915 --> 00:31:10.496
And listen, I understand the conviction.
503
00:31:10.696 --> 00:31:12.396
I understand the appeal of it.
504
00:31:12.876 --> 00:31:15.457
Because who wouldn't want to catch something early?
505
00:31:16.177 --> 00:31:19.138
And MRI itself doesn't use...
506
00:31:19.618 --> 00:31:20.739
any kind of radiation.
507
00:31:20.779 --> 00:31:22.900
I'm not saying that the MRI is dangerous.
508
00:31:22.960 --> 00:31:24.762
I'm not saying that imaging is bad.
509
00:31:25.382 --> 00:31:34.368
I'm saying that screening healthy asymptomatic people is a completely different question from ordering an MRI because there's a medical reason to look for something.
510
00:31:35.029 --> 00:31:39.252
And you could argue that I had a medical reason to look for something, but here's the thing.
511
00:31:39.872 --> 00:31:46.637
I also heard reports of there being a lot of false positives with these MRI machines.
512
00:31:47.475 --> 00:31:56.023
And the fact that I already had stress from being diagnosed with a big C, and now you're going to tell me, oh, go do a full body MRI.
513
00:31:56.043 --> 00:31:58.165
So maybe they can find something else.
514
00:31:58.245 --> 00:32:00.227
And then I hear, oh, we found something.
515
00:32:00.928 --> 00:32:01.769
Oh, good.
516
00:32:02.429 --> 00:32:05.512
More stress, more tests, more biopsies.
517
00:32:06.193 --> 00:32:12.679
What is that stress that's going to take me a month or two to determine what the hell they saw on the MRI?
518
00:32:12.819 --> 00:32:13.600
Is it cancer?
519
00:32:13.660 --> 00:32:14.460
Is it something else?
520
00:32:14.480 --> 00:32:15.521
Do I have to be worried about it?
521
00:32:15.541 --> 00:32:16.262
Am I going to die?
522
00:32:16.642 --> 00:32:20.285
That stress for two months just set me back 10 years.
523
00:32:21.438 --> 00:32:25.880
Whole body scans will find incidental abnormalities.
524
00:32:26.621 --> 00:32:29.743
And an incidental finding means we saw something.
525
00:32:30.263 --> 00:32:32.184
We don't necessarily know what it is.
526
00:32:32.944 --> 00:32:38.107
Now you got to get another MRI, a CT scan, an ultrasound, blood work, a specialist.
527
00:32:38.788 --> 00:32:40.629
I mean, that's a lot of stress.
528
00:32:41.229 --> 00:32:42.109
What if you have to wait six months?
529
00:32:42.129 --> 00:32:42.470
Six months.
530
00:32:43.270 --> 00:32:47.113
wondering whether or not you have cancer because of false positive results.
531
00:32:47.713 --> 00:32:49.574
And then only to find out, it was nothing.
532
00:32:50.135 --> 00:32:52.256
I heard this exact story from a friend of mine.
533
00:32:52.276 --> 00:32:53.637
It happened to her dad.
534
00:32:54.197 --> 00:32:55.678
There's actually a name for these.
535
00:32:55.798 --> 00:32:57.620
It's called incidentalomas.
536
00:32:58.462 --> 00:32:59.343
which is kind of perfect.
537
00:32:59.563 --> 00:33:01.144
We weren't looking for it, but there it is.
538
00:33:01.665 --> 00:33:03.486
Now it's living rent-free in your brain.
539
00:33:04.086 --> 00:33:12.713
Maybe it's just a little tiny cyst, a benign liver lesion, a tiny little fiery nodule that you only need iodine for.
540
00:33:12.753 --> 00:33:15.495
It's not cancer, but oh my God, it's a nodule.
541
00:33:16.076 --> 00:33:17.157
Get it biopsied.
542
00:33:18.171 --> 00:33:20.813
Human bodies aren't textbook perfect.
543
00:33:21.294 --> 00:33:21.694
They're not.
544
00:33:21.734 --> 00:33:26.919
If you look hard enough at virtually anybody, you are going to find something that looks imperfect.
545
00:33:27.459 --> 00:33:29.801
And that doesn't automatically mean it's a disease.
546
00:33:30.542 --> 00:33:34.846
Yes, whole body MRIs can detect real disease and that's fantastic.
547
00:33:35.286 --> 00:33:39.570
And if you're the person whose cancer was found out early, then amazing.
548
00:33:40.050 --> 00:33:40.691
I'm happy.
549
00:33:41.291 --> 00:33:42.612
That's incredibly important.
550
00:33:43.113 --> 00:33:45.235
But that's why I'm saying this isn't black and white.
551
00:33:45.755 --> 00:33:55.837
You have to understand both sides, false positives, incidental findings, the more, more, more, more imaging, biopsy, specialist expense, anxiety.
552
00:33:56.497 --> 00:34:03.939
And we still don't have good evidence showing that routine whole body MRI screening of healthy people makes them live longer.
553
00:34:04.559 --> 00:34:06.079
So am I saying never do one?
554
00:34:06.339 --> 00:34:08.480
No, there are higher risk people.
555
00:34:08.920 --> 00:34:10.940
There are genetic cancer syndromes.
556
00:34:11.500 --> 00:34:13.821
There are symptoms that warrant imaging.
557
00:34:14.541 --> 00:34:18.203
There are family histories that can change that whole equation.
558
00:34:18.523 --> 00:34:28.488
But if you're a completely asymptomatic person getting a $3,000 scan every year because somebody told you that's what longevity people do, at least understand what you're buying.
559
00:34:29.048 --> 00:34:30.929
You're not simply buying early detection.
560
00:34:30.949 --> 00:34:33.610
You're also buying the possibility of false positives.
561
00:34:34.250 --> 00:34:36.692
And more information does not always equal better health.
562
00:34:37.072 --> 00:34:38.993
Sometimes more information is just more information.
563
00:34:39.993 --> 00:34:41.794
All right, of course, we have to talk about water.
564
00:34:41.814 --> 00:34:46.036
I mean, think about all the different types of water there is out there.
565
00:34:46.317 --> 00:34:49.498
And this is beyond just, you know, filter some chemicals out.
566
00:34:49.999 --> 00:34:56.302
There's oxygen water and still water and alkaline water and ozone water.
567
00:34:56.342 --> 00:34:57.663
And now there's hydrogen water.
568
00:34:58.183 --> 00:34:59.704
We had to biohack water, didn't we?
569
00:35:00.064 --> 00:35:00.364
Yeah.
570
00:35:00.684 --> 00:35:04.046
Oh, wait, did I forget about the electrolyte water and the structured water?
571
00:35:04.086 --> 00:35:04.626
That's right.
572
00:35:05.307 --> 00:35:20.455
And depending on which website you land on, the right water is going to decrease inflammation, is going to decrease inflammation, improve your mitochondria, increase energy, speed up your recovery, prevent disease, reverse aging.
573
00:35:21.487 --> 00:35:22.508
Okay, let's break it down.
574
00:35:22.528 --> 00:35:23.648
First, hydrogen water.
575
00:35:24.229 --> 00:35:28.552
Now, unlike some of the other crazier shit in biohacking, there actually is science here.
576
00:35:28.612 --> 00:35:29.752
There are human studies.
577
00:35:30.393 --> 00:35:34.115
There are possible antioxidant and anti-inflammatory effects.
578
00:35:34.756 --> 00:35:42.761
There are researchers looking at metabolic disease, cardiovascular disease, exercise recovery, and some findings are really positive.
579
00:35:43.301 --> 00:35:45.062
But the effects we're seeing are...
580
00:35:46.523 --> 00:35:49.544
generally like modest, more anecdotal.
581
00:35:50.224 --> 00:35:52.145
And much of the research is just still early.
582
00:35:52.585 --> 00:35:55.606
So I'm not standing here telling you hydrogen water is bullshit.
583
00:35:56.086 --> 00:35:57.086
I'm interested in it.
584
00:35:57.247 --> 00:35:58.767
My friend Natalie Jill uses it.
585
00:35:59.327 --> 00:36:00.568
She swears by it.
586
00:36:00.688 --> 00:36:10.991
What I'm calling bullshit is taking early research and turning it into you have to drink hydrogen water every day if you want optimal mitochondria and longevity.
587
00:36:11.551 --> 00:36:12.852
No, we aren't there.
588
00:36:13.293 --> 00:36:20.959
Don't stress yourself out thinking that you have to buy a $3,000 hydrogen water system or a hydrogen machine that you stick up your nose.
589
00:36:21.620 --> 00:36:24.923
This is where marketing just outruns the science.
590
00:36:25.603 --> 00:36:28.286
There may eventually be some interesting applications for it.
591
00:36:28.386 --> 00:36:29.487
I truly believe that.
592
00:36:30.338 --> 00:36:41.184
But that's vastly different from telling everybody to spend thousands of dollars putting a hydrogen water system into their house before they fix their diet, sleep, muscle mass, thyroid and hormones.
593
00:36:41.785 --> 00:36:47.368
OK, I'm also going to bring in oxygenated water because hydrogen water, like I said, it has some meat behind it.
594
00:36:48.028 --> 00:36:48.929
Oxygenated water.
595
00:36:49.409 --> 00:36:53.912
Water apparently dissolved with extra oxygen in it.
596
00:36:54.527 --> 00:36:56.467
And listen, the marketing pulls me in.
597
00:36:57.148 --> 00:37:01.408
More oxygen equals more energy and better endurance and better recovery.
598
00:37:02.109 --> 00:37:06.570
Except there's one pretty important piece of anatomy that we should remember.
599
00:37:07.150 --> 00:37:08.510
We have these things called lungs.
600
00:37:09.170 --> 00:37:10.810
And that's how we oxygenate our blood.
601
00:37:11.451 --> 00:37:18.192
So you don't meaningfully oxygenate your entire body by drinking oxygen through your gastrointestinal tract.
602
00:37:19.029 --> 00:37:21.151
So, I mean, listen, if you like it, drink it.
603
00:37:21.211 --> 00:37:23.693
If it gets you to drink more water, fantastic.
604
00:37:24.273 --> 00:37:34.761
But if somebody is charging you a premium because they're telling you that extra oxygen is going to dramatically improve your energy and athletic performance, maybe saving your money is a good idea.
605
00:37:35.362 --> 00:37:36.923
Your lungs already have that job covered.
606
00:37:37.521 --> 00:37:39.002
Yes, we have biohacked water.
607
00:37:39.262 --> 00:37:40.242
And this is what cracks me up.
608
00:37:40.662 --> 00:37:42.303
Water used to be just drink water.
609
00:37:43.003 --> 00:37:49.506
Remember when it used to just be, you know, try to drink half of your body weight in ounces of water.
610
00:37:49.526 --> 00:37:50.227
And that was it.
611
00:37:51.027 --> 00:37:55.089
The biggest question I would get from patients is, how much water should I drink?
612
00:37:55.769 --> 00:38:03.272
But oh, no, no, now we're asking, should I drink alkaline water or hydrogen-rich water or oxygenated water or structured?
613
00:38:03.492 --> 00:38:04.392
Has it been filtered?
614
00:38:04.612 --> 00:38:06.273
Should we remineralize it?
615
00:38:06.893 --> 00:38:08.794
Wait, what's the pH of that water?
616
00:38:09.454 --> 00:38:12.315
What's the oxidation or reduction potential of the water?
617
00:38:13.008 --> 00:38:15.972
What's the dissolved hydrogen concentration of that water?
618
00:38:16.613 --> 00:38:18.915
At some point, just drink some fucking water.
619
00:38:19.456 --> 00:38:21.258
Obviously, water quality matters.
620
00:38:21.979 --> 00:38:23.861
And contaminants in our water matter.
621
00:38:23.941 --> 00:38:29.108
That's why maybe filtering it, which we'll talk about in the beneficial biohacking episode,
622
00:38:29.748 --> 00:38:32.329
is easy, cheap, and beneficial.
623
00:38:32.909 --> 00:38:37.031
Because I want you hydrated and mineral content, sure, that can matter.
624
00:38:37.411 --> 00:38:50.575
But the wellness industry, let me say that again, but the wellness industry has an incredible ability to take something fundamentally simple and somehow turn it into a $7,000 appliance.
625
00:38:50.615 --> 00:38:51.516
How do we do this?
626
00:38:52.378 --> 00:38:53.299
Listen, I am guilty.
627
00:38:53.359 --> 00:38:58.524
I had a hydrogen water system at my last house and I didn't take it with me.
628
00:38:58.564 --> 00:39:02.448
I left it there because I can't honestly say I noticed anything.
629
00:39:02.849 --> 00:39:03.489
I really can't.
630
00:39:03.810 --> 00:39:04.671
I didn't notice a thing.
631
00:39:05.511 --> 00:39:11.417
And yes, I still have a little bottle that puts hydrogen into the water and I give it to Riley, my dog.
632
00:39:12.118 --> 00:39:22.911
Because, I mean, A, if it does something okay, but I'm not going to buy a whole house hydrogen system for my water.
633
00:39:23.231 --> 00:39:24.312
I think that's going overboard.
634
00:39:24.873 --> 00:39:30.239
Oh, and while we're talking about turning simple things into products, let's talk about grounding next.
635
00:39:30.259 --> 00:39:30.800
Okay.
636
00:39:30.984 --> 00:39:31.624
or earthing.
637
00:39:32.425 --> 00:39:43.770
There are some small studies suggesting possible benefits around sleep and pain and inflammation and nervous system balancing.
638
00:39:44.451 --> 00:39:56.157
So I'm not going to tell you that grounding is complete bullshit, but I also don't think the evidence is strong enough for me to tell you that you need a $400 grounding sheet plugged into your wall every night.
639
00:39:56.817 --> 00:39:58.478
Because that's honestly where you lose me.
640
00:39:59.098 --> 00:39:59.778
I looked at them.
641
00:40:00.439 --> 00:40:01.099
I didn't buy them.
642
00:40:01.699 --> 00:40:07.782
Because I don't want one more thing with electrical energy plugged in next to my bed either.
643
00:40:08.422 --> 00:40:09.282
And I like my sheets.
644
00:40:09.342 --> 00:40:09.963
How about that?
645
00:40:10.083 --> 00:40:10.803
I like my sheets.
646
00:40:11.203 --> 00:40:12.584
How about we just go outside?
647
00:40:13.124 --> 00:40:13.324
Just...
648
00:40:13.770 --> 00:40:14.510
Touch a tree.
649
00:40:15.231 --> 00:40:17.652
Stand barefoot if it's not Iowa in December.
650
00:40:18.272 --> 00:40:26.136
But somehow we took going outside into a specialized mat or sheets or grounding patches.
651
00:40:26.256 --> 00:40:27.437
Plug yourself into the wall.
652
00:40:27.497 --> 00:40:27.917
Come on.
653
00:40:28.538 --> 00:40:31.759
You know what has much bigger evidence behind it?
654
00:40:32.340 --> 00:40:33.100
Being outside.
655
00:40:33.720 --> 00:40:34.601
Spending time in nature.
656
00:40:35.261 --> 00:40:51.238
Walking, reducing stress, just getting some sunlight, but not stressing yourself out that you have to go out in the sunlight before you take a sip of coffee, before you look at your phone, preferably before you get out of bed, but the sun's not up till seven, but you're out of bed as a...
657
00:40:51.698 --> 00:40:53.039
It's everything I talked about in the beginning.
658
00:40:53.719 --> 00:40:54.840
It's that balance.
659
00:40:55.321 --> 00:40:56.461
Can't go outside.
660
00:40:56.502 --> 00:40:58.063
Take your shoes off if it's safe.
661
00:40:58.623 --> 00:41:00.044
You know, walk around a little bit.
662
00:41:00.064 --> 00:41:01.045
Walk in the grass.
663
00:41:01.085 --> 00:41:01.986
Stand in the dirt.
664
00:41:02.026 --> 00:41:02.986
Don't be scared of dirt.
665
00:41:03.026 --> 00:41:03.727
Sit outside.
666
00:41:03.787 --> 00:41:05.388
Touch a tree if it makes you happy.
667
00:41:05.968 --> 00:41:07.470
I do that all the time when I'm in the woods.
668
00:41:08.130 --> 00:41:12.132
When I'm in the woods hunting, yeah, I just, you know, it's like the energy of the tree.
669
00:41:12.913 --> 00:41:15.014
Spend some time in nature and then just call it a day.
670
00:41:15.594 --> 00:41:18.296
But no, we turned it into another product that you have to buy.
671
00:41:18.896 --> 00:41:23.199
And again, grounding, I'm sure I haven't looked at all the studies on grounding.
672
00:41:23.739 --> 00:41:24.619
I've looked at some.
673
00:41:25.340 --> 00:41:26.641
Yeah, okay.
674
00:41:26.881 --> 00:41:29.682
I can see some benefits, but not enough for me to spend money on it.
675
00:41:30.283 --> 00:41:31.824
I think we just need some perspective.
676
00:41:32.144 --> 00:41:33.985
And we need to pick and choose what works for us.
677
00:41:35.356 --> 00:41:41.972
Now we're going to get to one of my favorite modern biohacks, tracking like everything.
678
00:41:42.529 --> 00:41:45.472
Because apparently now your body needs a dashboard.
679
00:41:45.672 --> 00:42:00.866
So we need to see the heart rate variability, your resting heart rate, your respiratory rate, your skin temperature, your blood oxygen, sleep duration, deep sleep, REM sleep, light sleep, sleep efficiency, recovery score, readiness score, strain score.
680
00:42:01.486 --> 00:42:08.132
Don't forget your glucose and your ketones and your body temperature, biological age, pace of aging.
681
00:42:08.813 --> 00:42:14.435
And if you're really committed, you're checking all of this across multiple apps and multiple wearables.
682
00:42:15.250 --> 00:42:16.051
Now, here's the problem.
683
00:42:16.691 --> 00:42:22.056
At some point, we stopped using this data to better understand our bodies.
684
00:42:22.956 --> 00:42:27.400
And the data became almost a marker as to how we're supposed to feel that day.
685
00:42:28.061 --> 00:42:29.762
So believe me, it's happened to me.
686
00:42:29.802 --> 00:42:31.183
This is why I'm talking about it.
687
00:42:31.764 --> 00:42:32.344
You wake up.
688
00:42:32.484 --> 00:42:33.945
You think you got a great night's sleep.
689
00:42:33.985 --> 00:42:34.706
You feel good.
690
00:42:34.726 --> 00:42:35.367
You have energy.
691
00:42:35.387 --> 00:42:35.947
You're ready.
692
00:42:36.507 --> 00:42:38.769
Oh, and then you look at your freaking wearable.
693
00:42:39.350 --> 00:42:40.991
My sleep score was a 68.
694
00:42:41.592 --> 00:42:42.893
And then suddenly, oh, wow.
695
00:42:43.473 --> 00:42:44.914
Shit, well, maybe I am tired.
696
00:42:45.795 --> 00:42:47.355
Oh, yeah, this isn't going to be a good day.
697
00:42:47.896 --> 00:42:49.897
But I felt great three seconds ago.
698
00:42:51.018 --> 00:42:55.861
But now because of a piece of data on a wearable, apparently I feel like garbage today.
699
00:42:56.501 --> 00:42:57.482
Okay.
700
00:42:57.502 --> 00:42:58.322
Or the opposite.
701
00:42:58.822 --> 00:43:00.303
Maybe you feel exhausted.
702
00:43:00.343 --> 00:43:01.404
You've been traveling.
703
00:43:01.424 --> 00:43:02.485
Your sleep is crap.
704
00:43:02.945 --> 00:43:05.707
Your body is clearly telling you just take it easy.
705
00:43:05.727 --> 00:43:05.827
Okay.
706
00:43:06.407 --> 00:43:10.189
But since your Oura Ring gives you an 87, apparently you're recovered.
707
00:43:10.630 --> 00:43:12.391
So let's go out and do some CrossFit.
708
00:43:12.991 --> 00:43:17.614
Are we now listening to algorithms and devices over ourselves?
709
00:43:17.634 --> 00:43:20.375
Have we lost our own intuition?
710
00:43:20.936 --> 00:43:26.199
We now have to check a watch or our phone to see how we feel instead of just tuning into us?
711
00:43:27.960 --> 00:43:30.761
And then let's talk biological age because this one drives me bananas.
712
00:43:31.361 --> 00:43:39.444
Now we're testing epigenetic age, phenotypic age, immune age, metabolic age, telomere length and telomere age.
713
00:43:40.105 --> 00:43:46.507
And then different companies use different algorithms and different biomarkers and different reference populations.
714
00:43:46.967 --> 00:43:53.790
So you'll take one biological age test and find out that you're eight years younger than your chronological age and then you celebrate.
715
00:43:54.310 --> 00:43:56.911
Then you take another one and apparently you're six years older and you're six years older.
716
00:43:57.451 --> 00:43:59.881
Well, wait, which one of me is dying faster here?
717
00:44:00.539 --> 00:44:02.581
And again, some of the science is fascinating.
718
00:44:03.201 --> 00:44:10.827
Epigenetic clocks are really interesting research tools, and they may ultimately become very useful.
719
00:44:11.268 --> 00:44:24.639
But there is this huge, gigantic leap between this biomarker correlates with aspects of biological aging, and my biological age is exactly 43.7 years old.
720
00:44:24.679 --> 00:44:28.742
Therefore, this $900 supplement protocol reversed my aging by 2.3 years.
721
00:44:30.047 --> 00:44:30.988
Like, come on.
722
00:44:31.368 --> 00:44:34.071
That is just false precision, basically.
723
00:44:34.711 --> 00:44:36.994
Oh, and biohacking just loves false precision.
724
00:44:37.334 --> 00:44:40.237
The more decimal points something has, the more scientific it feels.
725
00:44:40.897 --> 00:44:41.878
Test if you want.
726
00:44:42.219 --> 00:44:48.464
But again, don't let it ruin your year because you're three years older than your actual biological age.
727
00:44:49.185 --> 00:44:58.575
And if you're five years younger, don't think that you can then skip the basics like sleep, nutrition, thyroid and hormones because you got some leeway.
728
00:44:58.595 --> 00:44:59.216
All right.
729
00:44:59.236 --> 00:45:00.617
Of course, we have to talk about supplements.
730
00:45:01.343 --> 00:45:03.745
Now, okay, I own a supplement company.
731
00:45:04.186 --> 00:45:09.370
So listen very, very carefully when I say that you don't need 70 supplements.
732
00:45:09.390 --> 00:45:10.071
You just don't.
733
00:45:10.771 --> 00:45:11.432
I love them.
734
00:45:11.692 --> 00:45:12.513
I use them.
735
00:45:13.254 --> 00:45:14.315
I formulate them.
736
00:45:15.035 --> 00:45:16.016
I recommend them.
737
00:45:16.597 --> 00:45:19.199
But supplementation should be targeted.
738
00:45:19.820 --> 00:45:23.022
There should be a reason why you are taking something.
739
00:45:23.643 --> 00:45:25.384
Maybe we see something on your labs.
740
00:45:25.404 --> 00:45:25.985
Okay.
741
00:45:26.205 --> 00:45:29.308
Or maybe there's a pathway that needs support.
742
00:45:29.949 --> 00:45:31.190
Or you have a deficiency.
743
00:45:31.650 --> 00:45:35.294
Or there's a therapeutic goal and that's why we're using something.
744
00:45:36.115 --> 00:45:39.197
But now supplement buying has become collecting.
745
00:45:39.598 --> 00:45:42.901
Somebody hears about a new molecule on three podcasts and orders it.
746
00:45:43.261 --> 00:45:49.486
And then watches an Instagram reel by this Instagram health influencer and orders another one because that must work.
747
00:45:49.586 --> 00:45:53.949
And then we listen to somebody talk about longevity and we're going to order five more.
748
00:45:54.189 --> 00:45:57.632
And then suddenly breakfast is like 45 different capsules.
749
00:45:58.529 --> 00:46:01.450
More, more, more doesn't mean more optimization.
750
00:46:01.870 --> 00:46:03.310
Sometimes more is just more.
751
00:46:03.990 --> 00:46:08.391
And again, we're criticizing the conventional medicine industry about medications.
752
00:46:08.931 --> 00:46:14.212
And then the wellness industry turns around and replaces the medications with 5,000 supplements.
753
00:46:15.112 --> 00:46:16.992
And I have said this before, and I will say it again.
754
00:46:17.353 --> 00:46:23.554
If you are taking supplements and you can't tell me what half of them are doing, then that's a problem and we need to simplify.
755
00:46:23.594 --> 00:46:25.054
Same thing I said about peptides.
756
00:46:25.897 --> 00:46:50.951
If you don't know what you're putting in your body and what it is supposed to do and what are the pros and what are the cons and how long are you supposed to take it, stop relying on Instagram, ChatGPT, Google, or the IG influencer to tell you what you should do with your body or to even tell you what you are doing with your body.
757
00:46:51.311 --> 00:46:51.972
You need to know.
758
00:46:52.867 --> 00:46:59.969
I say this because I cannot even tell you the amount of times that I have met with a patient and I saw their supplement list.
759
00:47:00.690 --> 00:47:04.631
And most of these patients have come from another functional medicine clinic.
760
00:47:05.051 --> 00:47:08.972
You know, the one I talk about in the thyroid fix, jacks of all trades, masters of none.
761
00:47:09.653 --> 00:47:15.955
Oh, now, if that just piqued your ears up, I want you to grab a copy of the book because that could also save you money.
762
00:47:16.917 --> 00:47:26.081
So a person decides to go to the functional medicine clinic that they heard about on Instagram or it's down the street from their house because they think it's convenient.
763
00:47:26.622 --> 00:47:35.186
And they never bothered to ask if this particular functional medicine practitioner or clinic specializes in thyroid and hormones.
764
00:47:35.846 --> 00:47:39.247
or even can prescribe thyroid and hormones or peptides.
765
00:47:39.847 --> 00:47:48.710
And instead, you get somebody that can't prescribe, so they just bullshit their way through healing you with 20,000 supplements.
766
00:47:48.970 --> 00:47:49.890
So this is what I see.
767
00:47:49.910 --> 00:47:53.791
I'll sit down with a patient, 20,000 supplements, I'll go through them.
768
00:47:53.871 --> 00:47:55.732
I'll ask the patient, why are you taking this?
769
00:47:55.772 --> 00:47:56.552
What's it supposed to do?
770
00:47:57.132 --> 00:47:57.552
I don't know.
771
00:47:58.232 --> 00:48:00.273
Last functional doctor just told me to take it.
772
00:48:01.082 --> 00:48:05.645
Okay, well, there's Mito in the titles, and were you taking it for mitochondria?
773
00:48:06.045 --> 00:48:07.947
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that sounds right, yeah.
774
00:48:08.167 --> 00:48:09.508
I'm improving my mitochondria.
775
00:48:10.168 --> 00:48:11.249
Okay, how long have you been taking it?
776
00:48:11.829 --> 00:48:13.691
Oh, about six months to a year now.
777
00:48:14.251 --> 00:48:15.612
Did it make you feel any different?
778
00:48:15.892 --> 00:48:17.113
Did it improve your symptoms?
779
00:48:17.733 --> 00:48:19.334
Well, no, that's why I'm here sitting with you.
780
00:48:19.955 --> 00:48:20.675
Case in point.
781
00:48:21.396 --> 00:48:29.061
If you don't know why you're taking something, and you don't know what it's supposed to do in your body, maybe stop taking it.
782
00:48:29.657 --> 00:48:31.198
Narrow your supplements down.
783
00:48:31.878 --> 00:48:37.119
In the book, I go over the no-da supplement list, totally pulling from my childhood from the 80s.
784
00:48:37.139 --> 00:48:39.460
Of course, you're going to take these every day.
785
00:48:40.100 --> 00:48:42.401
And the no-da supplement list is the foundation.
786
00:48:42.441 --> 00:48:43.341
It's very basic.
787
00:48:43.762 --> 00:48:44.562
It's very basic.
788
00:48:45.392 --> 00:48:56.658
And then from there, like I talk about in the thyroid fix, we then plug in different therapeutic supplements to treat whatever it is that we're aiming for.
789
00:48:57.218 --> 00:48:58.799
Okay, you want a better metabolism.
790
00:48:58.819 --> 00:48:59.840
You want to lose weight.
791
00:49:00.340 --> 00:49:06.583
Maybe you're taking a GLP, but now you know from listening to my podcast that GLPs don't actually increase your metabolism.
792
00:49:06.603 --> 00:49:08.064
So you have to do something for your metabolism.
793
00:49:08.084 --> 00:49:08.864
So you take T2.
794
00:49:09.064 --> 00:49:09.945
You take thyroid fixer.
795
00:49:10.525 --> 00:49:11.606
Or metabolism fixer.
796
00:49:11.806 --> 00:49:12.046
Cool.
797
00:49:12.506 --> 00:49:16.108
That'll increase your metabolism, help you burn fat, reduce inflammation.
798
00:49:16.348 --> 00:49:16.708
Awesome.
799
00:49:16.868 --> 00:49:17.128
Check.
800
00:49:17.769 --> 00:49:23.672
Oh, you got a blood test back and your sex hormone binding globulin is really high.
801
00:49:24.372 --> 00:49:29.575
And you know that that's going to bind to your testosterone, your hormones, and your thyroid hormone.
802
00:49:30.195 --> 00:49:34.958
So you take something like SHBG to lower the SHBG number.
803
00:49:35.478 --> 00:49:37.659
It's like vitamin D. My vitamin D is a 47.
804
00:49:38.240 --> 00:49:39.180
I know it has to be an 80.
805
00:49:39.801 --> 00:49:43.863
I'm taking vitamin D to raise my vitamin D number.
806
00:49:44.704 --> 00:49:45.944
Simple, easy.
807
00:49:46.585 --> 00:49:48.726
You don't need 5,000 things for your mitochondria.
808
00:49:49.286 --> 00:49:50.127
Just FYI.
809
00:49:51.384 --> 00:49:59.370
Now I want to just shift just a little bit and go a little bit deeper and talk about something I talked about in the beginning briefly, touched on it, but I said I would expand.
810
00:49:59.630 --> 00:50:01.972
This is when biohacking starts taking from your life.
811
00:50:02.873 --> 00:50:06.115
So I know, I mean, we've had some fun on the podcast up to this point, right?
812
00:50:06.715 --> 00:50:07.536
I've been laughing.
813
00:50:07.616 --> 00:50:08.657
I hope you have too.
814
00:50:09.237 --> 00:50:19.265
But I'm just going to pause and stop joking for a minute because the third cost of bullshit biohacking is the one that I think matters the most.
815
00:50:19.987 --> 00:50:24.197
when the pursuit of help starts taking you away from your actual life.
816
00:50:25.300 --> 00:50:31.942
You know, one of the most honest conversations I have heard about this recently came from my friend Ben Greenfield.
817
00:50:32.543 --> 00:50:36.324
And honestly, if there were a Mount Rushmore biohackers, Ben would be on it.
818
00:50:36.804 --> 00:50:51.369
This is a guy who has spent decades experimenting and tracking and testing and training hard and optimizing his body and pushing his performance, all to give us feedback, which I am incredibly grateful for.
819
00:50:51.429 --> 00:50:53.490
I've learned so much from Ben through the years.
820
00:50:54.270 --> 00:50:56.191
He has tried virtually everything.
821
00:50:56.931 --> 00:51:07.596
And recently he had an incredibly vulnerable and honest conversation with Sean Stevenson of The Model Health Show about what happens when all of that goes too far.
822
00:51:08.237 --> 00:51:10.698
He talked about the impact it had on his marriage.
823
00:51:11.378 --> 00:51:17.802
The impact it had on his children and basically said he wasn't really present for the first six years of his kid's life.
824
00:51:18.442 --> 00:51:23.266
The time and attention that all of that optimization was taking away from his family.
825
00:51:23.866 --> 00:51:27.108
I think everybody deep in this world should hear that conversation.
826
00:51:27.688 --> 00:51:32.051
Because this was not somebody standing outside criticizing biohacking.
827
00:51:32.491 --> 00:51:37.715
This was one of the most recognized biohackers in the world saying, I had to look at what this was costing me.
828
00:51:38.435 --> 00:51:42.677
And eventually you have to ask, what exactly am I trying to extend my life for?
829
00:51:43.397 --> 00:51:50.181
What is the point of living to 100 if my obsession with getting to 100 damages my marriage at the age of 55?
830
00:51:50.881 --> 00:51:58.785
What's the point of having the perfect HRV if your kids remember that mom or dad was always doing another protocol instead of spending time with them?
831
00:51:59.545 --> 00:52:08.239
What's the point of a perfect biological age if your spouse feels like your morning optimization routine is more important than spending time together?
832
00:52:08.800 --> 00:52:11.724
Maybe you only have one hour in the morning with your husband or your wife.
833
00:52:12.345 --> 00:52:13.327
Maybe you have 30 minutes.
834
00:52:14.012 --> 00:52:19.835
You could sit down, have coffee, talk, laugh, connect, just be together.
835
00:52:19.855 --> 00:52:22.096
That's what we do.
836
00:52:22.116 --> 00:52:26.358
Or you need to cold plunge, then sauna, then meditate, then ground, then do breath work.
837
00:52:26.579 --> 00:52:27.799
And now that hour is gone.
838
00:52:28.380 --> 00:52:40.246
And I would argue that having coffee and meaningful connection with the person that you love is doing more for you biologically and biochemically than squeezing five more interventions into that hour.
839
00:52:41.046 --> 00:52:47.351
Human connection does more for us with our health, longevity, biochemically.
840
00:52:47.671 --> 00:52:48.852
It's actually measured.
841
00:52:48.892 --> 00:52:50.033
We can measure that.
842
00:52:50.733 --> 00:52:51.494
We don't track it.
843
00:52:52.074 --> 00:52:53.695
And we don't obsess about it, but we can measure it.
844
00:52:54.436 --> 00:52:57.778
That human connection, relationships, that matters.
845
00:52:58.419 --> 00:53:00.080
Look at what we saw during COVID.
846
00:53:00.640 --> 00:53:04.964
People just basically dying and starving for connection.
847
00:53:05.564 --> 00:53:07.706
That loneliness took over their bodies.
848
00:53:07.726 --> 00:53:08.166
Right?
849
00:53:08.406 --> 00:53:11.889
That stress of being disconnected took over.
850
00:53:12.249 --> 00:53:20.815
And that is way worse, way, way, way worse than missing a biohacking session.
851
00:53:21.696 --> 00:53:23.998
Feeling loved and supported matters.
852
00:53:24.438 --> 00:53:28.041
So why are we willing to sacrifice those things in pursuit of health?
853
00:53:28.737 --> 00:53:29.898
And it's not just marriage.
854
00:53:29.938 --> 00:53:31.019
It's not just your kids.
855
00:53:31.679 --> 00:53:34.081
I'm going to expand on the convo with then.
856
00:53:34.682 --> 00:53:36.524
Because here's where I was at back in the day.
857
00:53:36.764 --> 00:53:37.965
You stop going out to dinner.
858
00:53:38.565 --> 00:53:41.167
Because the restaurant doesn't serve the food your protocol allows.
859
00:53:41.768 --> 00:53:44.230
Or God forbid, the restaurant contains seed oils.
860
00:53:44.550 --> 00:53:50.355
You need to find the one seed oil-free restaurant in the three surrounding states that
861
00:53:50.455 --> 00:53:52.797
that you're allowed to go to, otherwise you can't go out to eat.
862
00:53:53.237 --> 00:53:54.478
And you can't connect with your friends.
863
00:53:54.779 --> 00:53:56.580
And you turn down social engagements.
864
00:53:57.200 --> 00:54:01.044
Because the girls aren't going to a seed oil-free restaurant.
865
00:54:01.224 --> 00:54:01.964
I can't do it.
866
00:54:02.425 --> 00:54:05.807
You don't go on vacation because you can't bring your entire routine with you.
867
00:54:06.088 --> 00:54:09.711
You don't have dessert with your kids because you're staring at your glucose monitor.
868
00:54:10.371 --> 00:54:16.255
You become so restrictive around food and obsessive and rigid that you actually give yourself an eating disorder.
869
00:54:16.876 --> 00:54:20.979
You stop doing spontaneous things because they interfere with your routine.
870
00:54:21.639 --> 00:54:26.783
And eventually the pursuit of optimal health starts taking over your life.
871
00:54:26.883 --> 00:54:29.385
And that is the exact opposite of what health is supposed to do.
872
00:54:29.805 --> 00:54:34.889
Health is supposed to give you more life and energy and more freedom and more time with people you love.
873
00:54:34.969 --> 00:54:35.550
And now, you
874
00:54:35.950 --> 00:54:38.533
You turn into a prisoner of your own wellness routine.
875
00:54:39.114 --> 00:54:41.337
And there's always going to be another metric.
876
00:54:41.537 --> 00:54:44.061
There's always going to be another device or another protocol.
877
00:54:44.661 --> 00:54:45.342
Another one person.
878
00:54:45.523 --> 00:54:47.725
There's no finish line to optimization.
879
00:54:48.346 --> 00:54:52.071
So eventually, you have to decide, what am I optimizing for?
880
00:54:52.812 --> 00:54:56.854
Because if your answer is longevity, loving your spouse matters.
881
00:54:57.114 --> 00:55:02.756
Being present with your children, having friends, laughing, going on vacation, that's what matters.
882
00:55:03.416 --> 00:55:09.399
Eating dinner together, sitting on the porch and doing absolutely nothing together matters.
883
00:55:09.999 --> 00:55:11.059
That's all part of health.
884
00:55:11.700 --> 00:55:16.161
And if your biohacking routine is stealing those things from you, maybe it isn't actually making you healthier.
885
00:55:16.782 --> 00:55:19.863
Maybe the healthiest thing you could do tonight is take the wearable off.
886
00:55:20.543 --> 00:55:21.644
And skip the protocol.
887
00:55:22.304 --> 00:55:24.925
And sit down with your family and be there.
888
00:55:25.105 --> 00:55:26.445
Actually be there.
889
00:55:26.586 --> 00:55:27.206
Be present.
890
00:55:28.406 --> 00:55:30.867
So now, where am I pro-biohacking?
891
00:55:31.368 --> 00:55:37.050
Here's where I just want to make an important distinction because there are biohacking tools I absolutely use.
892
00:55:37.430 --> 00:55:39.631
I talk about some of these things in the Thyroid Fix.
893
00:55:40.271 --> 00:55:44.953
Like red light, photobiomodulation, legitimate body of evidence behind it.
894
00:55:45.073 --> 00:55:46.294
Biological effects.
895
00:55:47.114 --> 00:55:48.175
Sauna, love sauna.
896
00:55:48.675 --> 00:55:52.858
Evidence around cardiovascular health, heat exposure, circulation, sweating, detox.
897
00:55:53.058 --> 00:55:53.698
Absolutely.
898
00:55:54.418 --> 00:56:01.163
I support, I use the sauna to support my body's natural just elimination and detox processes.
899
00:56:01.803 --> 00:56:06.126
But I don't tell people that they can sauna their way out of a shitty lifestyle because you can't.
900
00:56:06.866 --> 00:56:11.349
And that's the real difference between the way I look at biohacking and what I think is happening online.
901
00:56:12.089 --> 00:56:13.591
I always ask, is there evidence?
902
00:56:13.731 --> 00:56:14.632
Is there a reason?
903
00:56:14.732 --> 00:56:16.974
What problem are we actually trying to solve?
904
00:56:17.555 --> 00:56:22.960
Because ultimately, when we're looking at the totality of our life, biohacking should be 5%.
905
00:56:23.340 --> 00:56:27.825
The basics, the foundation should be 95%.
906
00:56:28.205 --> 00:56:30.067
But unfortunately, it's flipped around.
907
00:56:30.367 --> 00:56:32.549
People are using the 5% to avoid doing the 95%.
908
00:56:32.769 --> 00:56:33.670
And that's the problem.
909
00:56:36.593 --> 00:56:40.637
The truth is that most underrated biohacks are just boring.
910
00:56:41.138 --> 00:56:42.499
They're boring and they're cheap.
911
00:56:43.000 --> 00:56:48.786
The most powerful longevity tools, build muscle, lift weights, walk, protein.
912
00:56:49.266 --> 00:56:50.848
Can you eat mostly real food?
913
00:56:50.948 --> 00:56:53.891
Maybe sleep, go outside, maintain your relationships.
914
00:56:54.531 --> 00:56:56.854
Maybe don't drink too much alcohol and don't smoke at all.
915
00:56:56.914 --> 00:56:58.035
Try to manage your stress.
916
00:56:58.135 --> 00:56:59.536
Maintain a healthy body comp.
917
00:56:59.697 --> 00:56:59.897
Yeah.
918
00:57:00.117 --> 00:57:01.838
Fix underlying physiology.
919
00:57:02.479 --> 00:57:03.140
Check your thyroid.
920
00:57:03.160 --> 00:57:04.120
Check your hormones.
921
00:57:04.601 --> 00:57:05.501
Get on HRT.
922
00:57:05.541 --> 00:57:06.062
It's simple.
923
00:57:06.082 --> 00:57:07.683
It's not sexy.
924
00:57:08.304 --> 00:57:13.288
Nobody really gets excited about an Instagram post that says, go to bed, eat protein, lift heavy shit.
925
00:57:13.788 --> 00:57:14.209
That's me.
926
00:57:14.769 --> 00:57:15.730
But these things matter.
927
00:57:17.150 --> 00:57:23.052
And this is where I have to talk about the thyroid because you can own every single biohacking device known to man.
928
00:57:23.372 --> 00:57:36.675
You can have the $5,000 red light panel, sauna, cold plunge every morning, wear your Oura ring, take the $10,000 peptides, ground yourself, tape your mouth shut, track your HRV, drink your special water, test your biological age.
929
00:57:37.015 --> 00:57:43.897
But if your thyroid and hormones aren't getting where they need to go, if they're not optimal, if you're walking around with a low T3, yeah.
930
00:57:44.937 --> 00:57:58.611
if you're walking around with an elevator reverse T3, if your hormones are in the basement, if your iron's low, if you're not eating enough protein, you're losing muscle, you're barely sleeping, none of your little biohacking gadgets are going to fix the foundation.
931
00:57:59.211 --> 00:58:03.976
And this is one of the biggest reasons I wrote The Thyroid Fix because I keep watching people chase these symptoms and they're going to fix the foundation.
932
00:58:04.452 --> 00:58:06.613
They're chasing them with biohacking tools.
933
00:58:07.193 --> 00:58:15.975
They're chasing energy with the hydrogen water and the red light and the peptides instead of just fixing their freaking thyroid and hormones.
934
00:58:16.515 --> 00:58:16.795
Guess what?
935
00:58:16.815 --> 00:58:21.076
That'll give you energy faster and cheaper than all the biohacking tools.
936
00:58:21.717 --> 00:58:22.857
They're chasing weight loss.
937
00:58:23.652 --> 00:58:28.114
Okay, again, GLPs don't raise your metabolism.
938
00:58:28.174 --> 00:58:35.657
So when you're done with the GLP, if you haven't checked your thyroid and your hormones or done anything to increase your metabolism, you're gaining all the weight back.
939
00:58:36.457 --> 00:58:37.097
FYI.
940
00:58:37.898 --> 00:58:40.659
People are chasing brain function and sleep.
941
00:58:41.119 --> 00:58:43.040
And they're using these like devices...
942
00:58:44.981 --> 00:58:48.124
Okay, just improve your sleep routine at night.
943
00:58:48.704 --> 00:58:51.567
Maybe you do throw on some blue light blocking glasses.
944
00:58:51.587 --> 00:58:53.168
That's one thing Dave asked for, right?
945
00:58:53.248 --> 00:58:53.528
Right?
946
00:58:53.688 --> 00:58:54.969
Come on, let's do it.
947
00:58:55.650 --> 00:58:57.612
But nobody went upstream and asked...
948
00:58:58.427 --> 00:59:00.269
What is driving this whole thing?
949
00:59:00.830 --> 00:59:02.551
What's driving my weight gain?
950
00:59:02.771 --> 00:59:04.293
What's driving my low energy?
951
00:59:04.313 --> 00:59:06.155
What's driving my insomnia?
952
00:59:06.455 --> 00:59:08.137
What's driving my brain fog?
953
00:59:08.557 --> 00:59:14.864
Maybe I don't need 5,000 supplements, 20,000 peptides, and $50,000 worth of biohacking equipment.
954
00:59:15.064 --> 00:59:18.808
Maybe I just need to optimize my thyroid and my hormones.
955
00:59:19.667 --> 00:59:27.395
You can't optimize a shitty, broken foundation by just throwing things on top of it.
956
00:59:27.736 --> 00:59:29.978
More supplements, more peptides, more biohacking.
957
00:59:30.218 --> 00:59:32.841
You have to fix the foundation and then you optimize.
958
00:59:33.462 --> 00:59:34.423
Then you optimize.
959
00:59:35.158 --> 00:59:43.820
So before you spend another thousand dollars on the newest biohacking machine, supplement, protocol, whatever, I want you to ask yourself these five questions.
960
00:59:44.440 --> 00:59:48.881
Number one, what problem am I actually trying to solve?
961
00:59:49.502 --> 00:59:52.162
Not what did somebody on Instagram tell me that I have.
962
00:59:52.642 --> 00:59:54.683
What problem do I have?
963
00:59:55.423 --> 00:59:58.066
Is it weight gain or inability to lose weight?
964
00:59:58.727 --> 01:00:00.509
Okay, foundation.
965
01:00:00.849 --> 01:00:01.610
How's my sleep?
966
01:00:01.890 --> 01:00:02.831
How's my nutrition?
967
01:00:03.172 --> 01:00:04.012
How's my thyroid?
968
01:00:04.032 --> 01:00:04.773
How's my hormones?
969
01:00:04.793 --> 01:00:05.334
Start there.
970
01:00:05.955 --> 01:00:07.616
And then maybe a CGM.
971
01:00:08.177 --> 01:00:08.938
Boom, done.
972
01:00:09.954 --> 01:00:13.578
Number two, do I have evidence that I have that problem?
973
01:00:13.618 --> 01:00:14.299
Did I test?
974
01:00:14.980 --> 01:00:17.122
Did I get labs, proper labs done?
975
01:00:17.723 --> 01:00:19.886
Or did I just get a TSH, check my thyroid?
976
01:00:20.186 --> 01:00:21.167
What are my symptoms?
977
01:00:21.988 --> 01:00:29.217
Is there something measurable that I can track to see an XYZ device made a difference?
978
01:00:30.299 --> 01:00:38.682
Number three, is there decent human evidence that this particular intervention actually helps my problem?
979
01:00:39.522 --> 01:00:40.362
My problem.
980
01:00:40.923 --> 01:00:46.184
Not just one mechanism, not just somebody on IG saying, this activates this pathway.
981
01:00:46.524 --> 01:00:48.325
Therefore, you'll live to 150.
982
01:00:48.365 --> 01:00:49.886
Like, no.
983
01:00:50.566 --> 01:00:53.507
I want to know if this particular device...
984
01:00:54.347 --> 01:01:03.662
or thing or peptide or supplement will fix my problem that I answered in number one, because I have the symptoms and the tests for it.
985
01:01:04.162 --> 01:01:08.889
And the numbers, like we said in number two, meaningful evidence.
986
01:01:10.100 --> 01:01:13.443
Number four, have I already handled the basics?
987
01:01:14.244 --> 01:01:20.129
Like sleep, like protein, like movement, lifting heavy, activating my muscles, my food quality.
988
01:01:20.189 --> 01:01:22.031
Am I trying to deal with stress?
989
01:01:22.812 --> 01:01:24.594
Thyroid and hormones, how are those?
990
01:01:24.674 --> 01:01:25.735
Basic physiology.
991
01:01:26.918 --> 01:01:34.446
And then number five, which is the most important, is this making my life better or is it making me more obsessed with my health?
992
01:01:35.086 --> 01:01:38.850
Because there is a point where health optimization becomes health anxiety.
993
01:01:38.870 --> 01:01:40.812
It's called orthorexia.
994
01:01:41.372 --> 01:01:43.434
Just like we talk about anorexia,
995
01:01:44.075 --> 01:01:46.618
which is a full-blown eating disorder.
996
01:01:47.299 --> 01:01:50.844
There is orthorexia, which is a full-blown biohacking disorder.
997
01:01:51.505 --> 01:01:53.988
Orthorexic people are so obsessed.
998
01:01:54.028 --> 01:01:56.191
It's everything that we just talked about in this episode.
999
01:01:56.732 --> 01:02:00.016
So obsessed with every single detail.
1000
01:02:00.717 --> 01:02:02.278
that it runs their lives.
1001
01:02:02.298 --> 01:02:04.778
And that's exactly what Ben was being so open about.
1002
01:02:05.359 --> 01:02:06.679
Yeah, it's part of his business.
1003
01:02:06.699 --> 01:02:07.879
It's part of his job.
1004
01:02:08.419 --> 01:02:10.340
But it became his full identity.
1005
01:02:11.020 --> 01:02:15.842
And it wasn't until he got slapped in the face with reality that,
1006
01:02:16.442 --> 01:02:18.083
that he changed.
1007
01:02:18.783 --> 01:02:21.484
And thank God, he has a beautiful family.
1008
01:02:21.504 --> 01:02:29.647
And if you watch that interview, and Sean Stevenson even says this to Ben, and I agree with him wholeheartedly, Ben even looks different.
1009
01:02:30.167 --> 01:02:34.189
He looks lighter, just more relaxed, not as tense and stressed.
1010
01:02:34.889 --> 01:02:41.031
And that actually came from giving up some of the biohacking and giving up the optimization.
1011
01:02:41.692 --> 01:02:44.693
And he actually looks more optimized giving up the optimization.
1012
01:02:46.054 --> 01:03:14.673
If you are just revolving your entire day around trying not to die, if every food scares you, every environmental exposure scares you, your glucose going up scares you, your readiness score freaks you out, biological age freaks you out, an incidental finding on a scare destroys your life for six months, and you need five devices every morning to decide how you feel,
1013
01:03:15.238 --> 01:03:16.459
Are you actually healthier?
1014
01:03:17.099 --> 01:03:19.361
Or did you just create another form of stress?
1015
01:03:20.122 --> 01:03:22.764
So throughout all of this, keep these three buckets in mind.
1016
01:03:22.844 --> 01:03:24.905
Money, stress, life.
1017
01:03:25.306 --> 01:03:27.688
Is the thing worth the money I'm spending?
1018
01:03:28.168 --> 01:03:30.570
Is this thing reducing stress or adding stress?
1019
01:03:31.050 --> 01:03:34.813
And is this thing improving my life and my relationships?
1020
01:03:35.494 --> 01:03:37.115
Or is it solely taking it away?
1021
01:03:37.795 --> 01:03:43.420
Because those three questions may save you more than any biohack you can buy.
1022
01:03:44.303 --> 01:03:46.844
So no, I am not anti-biohacking.
1023
01:03:47.484 --> 01:03:49.465
I am anti-bullshit.
1024
01:03:50.105 --> 01:03:52.106
I am anti-extremism.
1025
01:03:52.466 --> 01:03:58.128
I am anti-spending thousands of dollars to avoid doing the boring things that actually work.
1026
01:03:58.769 --> 01:04:02.850
So use the red light and the sauna and the targeted peptides when they make sense.
1027
01:04:03.250 --> 01:04:06.772
Experiment with the tools that have evidence and fit your goals.
1028
01:04:07.472 --> 01:04:13.036
And please optimize your thyroid, optimize your hormones as the foundation.
1029
01:04:13.756 --> 01:04:16.958
Use targeted supplementation and have some fun with this stuff.
1030
01:04:17.339 --> 01:04:21.541
I mean, I do, but put biohacking back where it belongs.
1031
01:04:21.962 --> 01:04:23.543
Biohacking is the icing.
1032
01:04:24.183 --> 01:04:25.164
It's not the cake.
1033
01:04:25.324 --> 01:04:26.125
It's not the meat.
1034
01:04:26.865 --> 01:04:29.386
Remember, it's the 5%, not the 95%.
1035
01:04:29.686 --> 01:04:31.987
You can't red light your way out of not sleeping.
1036
01:04:32.548 --> 01:04:35.049
You can't cold plunge your way out of not exercising.
1037
01:04:35.289 --> 01:04:37.750
You can't supplement your way out of a shitty diet.
1038
01:04:38.270 --> 01:04:42.272
And you can't peptide stack your way out of not knowing what the hell you're treating.
1039
01:04:42.792 --> 01:04:48.555
And you sure as hell cannot biohack your way around an untreated thyroid or hormone problem.
1040
01:04:49.115 --> 01:04:54.538
And maybe most importantly, you should not be sacrificing the life you have today anymore.
1041
01:04:55.258 --> 01:04:58.999
in the pursuit of extending the life you might have tomorrow.
1042
01:04:59.820 --> 01:05:01.740
So fix the foundation first, please.
1043
01:05:02.341 --> 01:05:09.063
Protect your money and protect your peace and your relationships, then optimize the hell out of what actually matters.
1044
01:05:09.943 --> 01:05:12.464
That is the biohacking that I can get behind.
1045
01:05:13.044 --> 01:05:16.786
And if you have a friend that is biohacking their way to insanity,
1046
01:05:17.386 --> 01:05:25.708
please share this episode with them because it might save them money, stress, relationships, and ultimately their life.