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Gary Brecka: The TRUTH About Biohacking, Light Therapy, and Nutrients
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“the more Pharmaceuticals you were on the easier it was for us to predict your life expectancy the more you were on the more likely you to die sooner”

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Gary Brecka: The TRUTH About Biohacking, Light Therapy, and Nutrients
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“all you need are nutrients to fix it yeah 67% of people we test are deficient in one of our nutrients”

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Gary Brecka: The TRUTH About Biohacking, Light Therapy, and Nutrients
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“you got to stop thinking about stress as a negative very often it can be what makes you resilient”

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Gary Brecka: The TRUTH About Biohacking, Light Therapy, and Nutrients
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“once you hit the Sleep Cycle that's the end of the road I think sleep is our human superpower”

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Gary Brecka: The TRUTH About Biohacking, Light Therapy, and Nutrients
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“yeah 70 million Americans have sleep issues”

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Gary Brecka: The TRUTH About Biohacking, Light Therapy, and Nutrients
Optimizing Health: Lifestyle, Nutrition, Sleep, Exercise, and Social Connections 5:43 0
“the majority of people are not living healthier happier longer more fulfilling lives were because of what we called modifiable risk factors”

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Gary Brecka: The TRUTH About Biohacking, Light Therapy, and Nutrients
Optimizing Health: Lifestyle, Nutrition, Sleep, Exercise, and Social Connections 6:17 0
“the reason why we were shortening the life expectancy was because of the intervention of chemicals synthetics and pharmaceuticals”

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Gary Brecka: The TRUTH About Biohacking, Light Therapy, and Nutrients
Optimizing Health: Lifestyle, Nutrition, Sleep, Exercise, and Social Connections 7:51 0
“we looked at three main areas and when we would look through your blood work we would look at glycemic control, how well you controlled your blood sugar a lifetime”

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Gary Brecka: The TRUTH About Biohacking, Light Therapy, and Nutrients
Optimizing Health: Lifestyle, Nutrition, Sleep, Exercise, and Social Connections 8:00 0
“hyperinsulinemia, elevated hemoglobin A1c, and poor glycemic control was a risk factor was what we called a comorbidity”

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Gary Brecka: The TRUTH About Biohacking, Light Therapy, and Nutrients
Optimizing Health: Lifestyle, Nutrition, Sleep, Exercise, and Social Connections 11:18 0
“we followed Trends in calcium supplementation in the elderly and really the fact that they weren't really impacting bone density and so osteopenic patients that were put on high doses of calcium still became osteoporotic.”

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Gary Brecka: The TRUTH About Biohacking, Light Therapy, and Nutrients
Optimizing Health: Lifestyle, Nutrition, Sleep, Exercise, and Social Connections 11:53 0
“you could see their diet their lifestyle alcohol consumption the medications that they were on and you could actually follow certain clinical deficiencies like vitamin D3 was a big one for us we would see clinical deficiencies in vitamin D3 and I'm talking like singled digit low double-digit D3 not not B.”

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Gary Brecka: The TRUTH About Biohacking, Light Therapy, and Nutrients
Optimizing Health: Lifestyle, Nutrition, Sleep, Exercise, and Social Connections 12:48 0
“the patient would present to a primary care physician with rheumatoid arthritis like symptoms and I make sure that I say that correctly because they didn't have rheumatoid arthritis.”

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Gary Brecka: The TRUTH About Biohacking, Light Therapy, and Nutrients
Optimizing Health: Lifestyle, Nutrition, Sleep, Exercise, and Social Connections 14:29 0
“if you started a cortical steroid you had six years in one day until you were having a joint replacement because initially they steroids definitely are not good they cause osteoporosis they you know degrade your bones they can cause aular necrosis of the hip.”

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Gary Brecka: The TRUTH About Biohacking, Light Therapy, and Nutrients
Optimizing Health: Lifestyle, Nutrition, Sleep, Exercise, and Social Connections 16:43 0
“we just launched a 10day detox program which I've wrote a book about 10 years ago and we in 10 days you know people have up to a 70% reduction in all symptoms from all diseases by just a simple set of Lifestyle Changes in a week”

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Gary Brecka: The TRUTH About Biohacking, Light Therapy, and Nutrients
Optimizing Health: Lifestyle, Nutrition, Sleep, Exercise, and Social Connections 17:58 0
“as you reduced ambulation what we realized was as you reduced Mobility you would bring in all of the diseases that L exercise more disease yeah it's it's a direct correlation”

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Gary Brecka: The TRUTH About Biohacking, Light Therapy, and Nutrients
Optimizing Health: Lifestyle, Nutrition, Sleep, Exercise, and Social Connections 19:29 0
“had they taken 5 or 9,000 IUS 10,000 IUS of vitamin D3 daily with a little K2 um and applied a load to their bones um that trajectory would have been completely different”

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Gary Brecka: The TRUTH About Biohacking, Light Therapy, and Nutrients
Optimizing Health: Lifestyle, Nutrition, Sleep, Exercise, and Social Connections 20:00 0
“you would get more likely to end up in the hospital and die if you had low vitamin D and from the Israeli data if your vitam was over 50 and the reference range is 20 to 30 depending on the lab if it was over 50 there was nobody who died”

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Gary Brecka: The TRUTH About Biohacking, Light Therapy, and Nutrients
Optimizing Health: Lifestyle, Nutrition, Sleep, Exercise, and Social Connections 23:25 0
“we are so disconnected from nature now we're disconnected from each other too I mean um deep meaningful relationships sense of purpose sense of community um you know there were a lot of mortality factors that we would study that actually when when an elderly person lost their sense of community their lost a spouse or family or became isolated um uh which is the fastest way to accelerate all cause mortality is to put a human is like smoking two packs of cigarettes a day in terms of it's mortality risk”

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Gary Brecka: The TRUTH About Biohacking, Light Therapy, and Nutrients
Optimizing Health: Lifestyle, Nutrition, Sleep, Exercise, and Social Connections 24:44 0
“things like mineral salts um um amino acids um nutrients that you would find in nutrient-dense soils you know you wouldn't believe the physiologic impact you can have on people just by putting them on a complex of B vitamins vitamin B12 some methylfolate um which are which are basic core nutrients required for the process of methylation and when they're deficient they become like they Hub the wheel they they they have all of these Spokes and people think that they have an autoimmune disease and they have a mental illness and they have a weight gain issue and they have sleep disruption and they have anxiety or they have ADD or ADHD and the truth is they very often have nutrient deficiencies”

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Gary Brecka: The TRUTH About Biohacking, Light Therapy, and Nutrients
Optimizing Health: Lifestyle, Nutrition, Sleep, Exercise, and Social Connections 27:06 0
“you emit the portions of the light spectrum that are damaging um and you concentrate the portions of the light spectrum that you would get from the Sun um that are very healthy”

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Gary Brecka: The TRUTH About Biohacking, Light Therapy, and Nutrients
Optimizing Health: Lifestyle, Nutrition, Sleep, Exercise, and Social Connections 27:33 0
“certain wavelengths of light for example in the mitochondria will actually uh in in in the KB cycle you'll see that cytochrom se oxidase will will will bind with a gas called mitochondrial nitric oxide”

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Gary Brecka: The TRUTH About Biohacking, Light Therapy, and Nutrients
Optimizing Health: Lifestyle, Nutrition, Sleep, Exercise, and Social Connections 28:00 0
“in order to B oxygen and upstage the mitochondria you know to to have this aerobic cycle which is roughly 16 times more efficient than the anerobic cycle it has to let go of mitochondrial nitric oxide”

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Gary Brecka: The TRUTH About Biohacking, Light Therapy, and Nutrients
Optimizing Health: Lifestyle, Nutrition, Sleep, Exercise, and Social Connections 30:46 0
“if you were to take a cup and scoop it out of a running stream and you were to analyze what's in that water you would find high mineral content first of all and not just potassium and magnesium and sodium the big ones that are in most electrolyte supplements you would find all of the other Trace metal Boron zinc selenium manganese”

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Gary Brecka: The TRUTH About Biohacking, Light Therapy, and Nutrients
Optimizing Health: Lifestyle, Nutrition, Sleep, Exercise, and Social Connections 33:07 0
“I think if you have a choice between drinking regular water or hydrogen water you should be drinking hydrogen water if you have a choice between drinking tap water or filter water there you should be filtering your your water supply.”

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Gary Brecka: The TRUTH About Biohacking, Light Therapy, and Nutrients
Optimizing Health: Lifestyle, Nutrition, Sleep, Exercise, and Social Connections 33:21 0
“if you're not getting sunlight you need to be supplementing with you know vitamin D3”

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Gary Brecka: The TRUTH About Biohacking, Light Therapy, and Nutrients
Optimizing Health: Lifestyle, Nutrition, Sleep, Exercise, and Social Connections 34:53 0
“they're caused by insulin resistance most of the time”

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Gary Brecka: The TRUTH About Biohacking, Light Therapy, and Nutrients
Optimizing Health: Lifestyle, Nutrition, Sleep, Exercise, and Social Connections 35:03 0
“we would look at hor hormone balance and then we would look at certain nutrient deficiencies um vitamin D3 B12”

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Gary Brecka: The TRUTH About Biohacking, Light Therapy, and Nutrients
Optimizing Health: Lifestyle, Nutrition, Sleep, Exercise, and Social Connections 38:17 0
“almost all of these patients would become sleep deprived, they would have major sleep disruption because when you become really hypoxic, the brain wakes you up.”

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Gary Brecka: The TRUTH About Biohacking, Light Therapy, and Nutrients
Optimizing Health: Lifestyle, Nutrition, Sleep, Exercise, and Social Connections 38:28 0
“when you go to altitude you can't sleep well, people like fly to Aspen and whatever they cuz you're hypoxic so it doesn't let you get into deep or REM sleep.”

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Gary Brecka: The TRUTH About Biohacking, Light Therapy, and Nutrients
Optimizing Health: Lifestyle, Nutrition, Sleep, Exercise, and Social Connections 44:12 0
“you have ultraviolet UVA UVB which are the you know Rays from the Sun that cause skin cancer and burn your skin”

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Gary Brecka: The TRUTH About Biohacking, Light Therapy, and Nutrients
Optimizing Health: Lifestyle, Nutrition, Sleep, Exercise, and Social Connections 48:14 0
“the sun is very powerful right if we're going to mimic The Beneficial wavelengths for the sun we actually need to draw a lot of power”

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Gary Brecka: The TRUTH About Biohacking, Light Therapy, and Nutrients
Optimizing Health: Lifestyle, Nutrition, Sleep, Exercise, and Social Connections 45:11 0
“in an infrared sauna which is a very high wavelength usually over 1100 nanometers or higher you're going to create heat and you're going to sweat”

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Gary Brecka: The TRUTH About Biohacking, Light Therapy, and Nutrients
Optimizing Health: Lifestyle, Nutrition, Sleep, Exercise, and Social Connections 45:23 0
“something very special happens in the red light and um near infrared and infrared Spectrum this slice of light is very therapeutic to human beings”

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Gary Brecka: The TRUTH About Biohacking, Light Therapy, and Nutrients
Optimizing Health: Lifestyle, Nutrition, Sleep, Exercise, and Social Connections 50:25 0
“it's powered by an activity called vasomotor it's uh similar to a snake swallowing a mouse so almost like a peristaltic activity um little smooth muscle fibers in the blood vessels that sort of move the blood along”

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Gary Brecka: The TRUTH About Biohacking, Light Therapy, and Nutrients
Optimizing Health: Lifestyle, Nutrition, Sleep, Exercise, and Social Connections 51:51 0
“Everybody notices the Improvement in their skin um but when you start to improve vasm odor activity now you're talking about microvascular circulation so so think about all of the compromised areas in the body that receive microvascular circulation this is all of our joints our ligaments um our tendons our muscular tendonous insertions um this is the this is the um inside the erector spiny group in the in the spine all the microvascular circulation in the brain these are all enhanced by red light”

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Gary Brecka: The TRUTH About Biohacking, Light Therapy, and Nutrients
Optimizing Health: Lifestyle, Nutrition, Sleep, Exercise, and Social Connections 54:42 0
“and the impact you can have on by treating mitochondria is so important and it's one of those Hallmarks of Aging that we talk about I wrote about my book Young Forever that is actually Central to so much of what goes wrong if you're M aond you're messed up you're you're in bad shape”

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Gary Brecka: The TRUTH About Biohacking, Light Therapy, and Nutrients
Optimizing Health: Lifestyle, Nutrition, Sleep, Exercise, and Social Connections 57:05 0
“you don't have a lot of the damaging rays in the first 45 minutes that's why Sunrise first light is so important”

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Gary Brecka: The TRUTH About Biohacking, Light Therapy, and Nutrients
Optimizing Health: Lifestyle, Nutrition, Sleep, Exercise, and Social Connections 57:46 0
“I just bookended my sleep I made sure that I do the same routine every single night. I have the same sleep hygiene routine every night and I have the same sleep hygiene routine every morning.”

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Gary Brecka: The TRUTH About Biohacking, Light Therapy, and Nutrients
Optimizing Health: Lifestyle, Nutrition, Sleep, Exercise, and Social Connections 58:35 0
“testosterone um because it's it's one of the main hormones that's putting pressure on the bone and Marrow to to make newells and to build bone and to build muscle and everything else yeah it does so many things it's an anabolic hormone meaning it helps to build tissue”

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Gary Brecka: The TRUTH About Biohacking, Light Therapy, and Nutrients
Optimizing Health: Lifestyle, Nutrition, Sleep, Exercise, and Social Connections 1:00:42 0
“your brain is actually trying to save you when it keeps you in from going into deep sleep when you're hypoxic because your respiratory rate gets so shallow that you become severely hypoxic”

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Gary Brecka: The TRUTH About Biohacking, Light Therapy, and Nutrients
Optimizing Health: Lifestyle, Nutrition, Sleep, Exercise, and Social Connections 1:01:04 0
“trazodone and zum nitrate diazapam a lot of these will actually block the brain's view of blood oxygen essentially shut off the monitoring system and then it allows them to get into a deep sleep but they're not actually sleeping they're suffocating”

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Gary Brecka: The TRUTH About Biohacking, Light Therapy, and Nutrients
Optimizing Health: Lifestyle, Nutrition, Sleep, Exercise, and Social Connections 1:01:50 0
“hormone therapy can help people increase their oxygenation increasing the red cell count which helps their SLE”

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Gary Brecka: The TRUTH About Biohacking, Light Therapy, and Nutrients
Optimizing Health: Lifestyle, Nutrition, Sleep, Exercise, and Social Connections 1:02:07 0
“70% of the clients that I see that qualify for hormone therapy are not on hormones”

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Gary Brecka: The TRUTH About Biohacking, Light Therapy, and Nutrients
Optimizing Health: Lifestyle, Nutrition, Sleep, Exercise, and Social Connections 1:02:46 0
“saturated fat is amazing it jacks up cholesterol right and it jacks up your testosterone”

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Gary Brecka: The TRUTH About Biohacking, Light Therapy, and Nutrients
Optimizing Health: Lifestyle, Nutrition, Sleep, Exercise, and Social Connections 1:03:56 0
“you restore the cholesterol you can restore the hormones very often you restore the DHEA level you restore the hormones very often you get sex hormone binding protein out of the way by taking a mineral called Boron”

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Gary Brecka: The TRUTH About Biohacking, Light Therapy, and Nutrients
Optimizing Health: Lifestyle, Nutrition, Sleep, Exercise, and Social Connections 1:06:42 0
“they're still bathing their cellular biology in the toxic soup”

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Gary Brecka: The TRUTH About Biohacking, Light Therapy, and Nutrients
Optimizing Health: Lifestyle, Nutrition, Sleep, Exercise, and Social Connections 1:06:51 0
“a lot of the environmental toxins are estrogenic and they do actually affect hormone function”

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Gary Brecka: The TRUTH About Biohacking, Light Therapy, and Nutrients
Optimizing Health: Lifestyle, Nutrition, Sleep, Exercise, and Social Connections 1:07:14 0
“I filter my water I filter my air when we're done the podcast I'll take you out and show you my air filtration so this is surgically clean air in this house.”

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Gary Brecka: The TRUTH About Biohacking, Light Therapy, and Nutrients
Optimizing Health: Lifestyle, Nutrition, Sleep, Exercise, and Social Connections 1:07:59 0
“there's also a uh genetic predisposition that women need to watch out for called compt c m t”

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Gary Brecka: The TRUTH About Biohacking, Light Therapy, and Nutrients
Optimizing Health: Lifestyle, Nutrition, Sleep, Exercise, and Social Connections 1:09:23 0
“all you need are nutrients to fix it”

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Gary Brecka: The TRUTH About Biohacking, Light Therapy, and Nutrients
Optimizing Health: Lifestyle, Nutrition, Sleep, Exercise, and Social Connections 1:12:15 0
“vitamins which is very important for these Pathways like vitamin D, iron, zinc I mean it's just it's staggering how these are so common and they're affecting so much of our biology that makes us eventually have what Robert Heeney who was an incredible vitamin D scientist called long latency deficiency diseases.”

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Gary Brecka: The TRUTH About Biohacking, Light Therapy, and Nutrients
Optimizing Health: Lifestyle, Nutrition, Sleep, Exercise, and Social Connections 1:13:06 0
“we're nutrient deficient I mean we should always start there we should ask ourselves what's missing from this biome that could be causing this to happen.”

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Gary Brecka: The TRUTH About Biohacking, Light Therapy, and Nutrients
Optimizing Health: Lifestyle, Nutrition, Sleep, Exercise, and Social Connections 1:13:20 0
“the most important nutrients that we're missing and what are the supplements that we should be taking okay um so you know when you call something essential um that means it's necessary for life right so if you we have two essential fatty acids you know if you don't get these fatty acids they're they're essential for Life Omega-3s yeah Omega-3s omega-3 fatty acids um EPA dhas they're eight essential amino acids.”

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Gary Brecka: The TRUTH About Biohacking, Light Therapy, and Nutrients
Optimizing Health: Lifestyle, Nutrition, Sleep, Exercise, and Social Connections 1:16:50 0
“I take one called perfect aminos it's all the eight essential amino acids it's non-caloric won't even break a fast it has all eight of the essential amino acids because remember as soon as you get deficient in one of those eight amino acids there's a high likelihood that that's converting to fat or into sugar right so it's incomplete protein.”

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Gary Brecka: The TRUTH About Biohacking, Light Therapy, and Nutrients
Optimizing Health: Lifestyle, Nutrition, Sleep, Exercise, and Social Connections 1:17:53 0
“I also take a methylated multivitamin and the reason why I say methylated multivitamin is because it's the vitamins in their already methylated form so instead of taking folic acid which 44% of the population can't even process um and is contrary to popular belief not a natural nutrient we make it in a laboratory it doesn't exist anywhere on the surface of the Earth you can't find folic acid anywhere naturally in nature um it doesn't exist folate exists naturally in nature um but folate and folic acid follow the exact same um physiologic pathway there are about 10 enzymatic reductions that need to happen before um that folic acid or folate can be converted by the gene MTHFR into the active form called methylfolate.”

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Gary Brecka: The TRUTH About Biohacking, Light Therapy, and Nutrients
Optimizing Health: Lifestyle, Nutrition, Sleep, Exercise, and Social Connections 1:20:11 0
“if your level of homosysteine which is a a blood test that is better than just checking your folate in your blood is if your fet's over 14 you you increase your risk of Dementia by 50% so this is just simp things you can do to actually so true and if you have if you have hyper homosymia you know we we've um and I'm I'm I'm preparing to publish this data so we have about 150,000 patients that have that we've done um blood work on 70 7 uh4 biomarkers and then also done a methylated genetic test looking at the main markers of methylation compt mtrr MTR ahcy and and mtfr um contrary to popular belief if you have MTHFR you need to to avoid folic acid like the plague and you have to supplement with methyl folate five methyl folate um and the the the the proof in what's called s-phase arrest which is essentially when the DNA is replicating um and and copying itself or even when it's making a transcription an mRNA message um something called s-phase arrest which is designed to stop the passing of genetic mutations um when when the cell goes…”

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Gary Brecka: The TRUTH About Biohacking, Light Therapy, and Nutrients
Optimizing Health: Lifestyle, Nutrition, Sleep, Exercise, and Social Connections 1:24:21 0
“it's insulin resistance, it's sleep apnea, it's nutrient deficiencies, it's lead heavy metals toxins we we actually can identify what these things are and get rid of them”

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Gary Brecka: The TRUTH About Biohacking, Light Therapy, and Nutrients
Optimizing Health: Lifestyle, Nutrition, Sleep, Exercise, and Social Connections 1:24:34 0
“the best way to lower homoy um is 500 milligrams daily in a capsule form of trimethyl glycine TMG”

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Gary Brecka: The TRUTH About Biohacking, Light Therapy, and Nutrients
Optimizing Health: Lifestyle, Nutrition, Sleep, Exercise, and Social Connections 1:24:49 0
“the majority of us will benefit from methylated multivitamins, Omega fatty acid, minerals in the morning, and adding probably to that a vitamin D3 or K2”

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Gary Brecka: The TRUTH About Biohacking, Light Therapy, and Nutrients
Optimizing Health: Lifestyle, Nutrition, Sleep, Exercise, and Social Connections 1:26:16 0
“a nutrient deficiency can lead to a hormone deficiency that gets diagnosed as an organ malfunction”

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