Optimizing Health: Lifestyle, Nutrition, Sleep, Exercise, and Social Connections

Substances 0:00 0
“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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Nutrition 0:32 0
“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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Stress management 0:39 0
“you got to stop thinking about stress as a negative very often it can be what makes you resilient”

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Sleep 0:49 0
“once you hit the Sleep Cycle that's the end of the road I think sleep is our human superpower”

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Sleep 0:54 0
“yeah 70 million Americans have sleep issues”

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Disease prevention 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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Substances 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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Metabolic health 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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Body weight 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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Nutrition 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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Nutrition 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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Disease prevention 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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Nutrition 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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Nutrition 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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Exercise 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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Nutrition 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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Disease prevention 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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Social connection 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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Nutrition 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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Sun protection 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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Metabolic health 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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Metabolic health 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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Hydration 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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Hydration 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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Sun protection 33:21 0
“if you're not getting sunlight you need to be supplementing with you know vitamin D3”

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Metabolic health 34:53 0
“they're caused by insulin resistance most of the time”

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Hormone balance 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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Sleep 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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Sleep 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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Sun protection 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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Sun protection 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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Metabolic health 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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Metabolic health 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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Circadian rhythm 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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Disease prevention 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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Metabolic health 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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Sun protection 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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Sleep 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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Hormone balance 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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Sleep 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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Sleep 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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Hormone balance 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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Hormone balance 1:02:07 0
“70% of the clients that I see that qualify for hormone therapy are not on hormones”

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Nutrition 1:02:46 0
“saturated fat is amazing it jacks up cholesterol right and it jacks up your testosterone”

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Hormone balance 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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Toxin exposure 1:06:42 0
“they're still bathing their cellular biology in the toxic soup”

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Hormone balance 1:06:51 0
“a lot of the environmental toxins are estrogenic and they do actually affect hormone function”

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Air quality 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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Genetics 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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Nutrition 1:09:23 0
“all you need are nutrients to fix it”

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Nutrition 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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Nutrition 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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Nutrition 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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Nutrition 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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Nutrition 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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Nutrition 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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Nutrition 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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Nutrition 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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Nutrition 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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Nutrition 1:26:16 0
“a nutrient deficiency can lead to a hormone deficiency that gets diagnosed as an organ malfunction”

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Most important takeaways of the video

  1. Higher pharmaceutical usage is linked to shorter life expectancy.
  2. Nutrient deficiency is common, affecting 67% of individuals tested.
  3. Stress is not always negative and can contribute to resilience.
  4. Sleep is crucial and considered a 'superpower' for human health.
  5. Modifiable risk factors significantly impact health and longevity.

Summary of Key Health Insights

Pharmaceuticals and Health Outcomes

The use of multiple pharmaceuticals was linked to a reduced life expectancy, suggesting that higher medication intake might be indicative of severe health conditions. It was advised to minimize unnecessary pharmaceutical use, particularly concerning synthetic and chemical substances known to shorten life spans.

Nutrition and Dietary Recommendations

A significant focus was on addressing nutrient deficiencies, which are widespread and have profound impacts on health. Many people tested showed deficiencies in crucial nutrients like Vitamin D3 and minerals like calcium, which are critical for bone health and metabolic processes. Discussions centered around the inadequacy of supplements like calcium in preventing osteoporosis and the importance of more comprehensive nutrient supplementation.

Role of Sleep in Wellbeing

Sleep was highlighted as a fundamental component of health, referred to as a “superpower” for human wellbeing. Various factors, including high altitude and certain medications, could disrupt sleep by causing hypoxia, which prevents deep sleep cycles.

Exercise and Mobility

Physical activity was directly correlated with disease prevention. Reduced mobility was linked to higher disease prevalence, emphasizing the importance of regular exercise to fend off various health conditions.

Social Connections and Health

Strong social ties and community involvement were significantly associated with lower mortality rates. Isolation was compared to the health risks of smoking, underscoring the need for maintaining relationships.

Handling Stress and Mental Health

Reframing stress as a potentially positive response that can contribute to resilience was suggested, highlighting the importance of perception in managing stress effects.

Metabolic Health and Light Exposure

Metabolic health is influenced significantly by light exposure, with different wavelengths having specific effects on mitochondrial function. Moreover, managing glycemic control was stressed for long-term health and disease prevention.

Environmental and Genetic Factors

The role of environmental toxins was noted as significant in hormone function disruption. Genetic predispositions like the COMT mutation were important in metabolism, affecting hormonal and nutrient pathways.

Hormone Therapy

Hormone therapy was discussed for its potential to improve various health conditions by enhancing oxygenation and red blood cell counts.

Hydration and Its Importance

Choices in water consumption, such as preferring hydrogen water and filtered water, were recommended to optimize health.

Overall, the discourse advocated for a holistic approach to health, emphasizing the importance of lifestyle choices, and environmental factors in maintaining wellness.