WEBVTT - #1903 Inflammaging - Dr. Jeff Gross 0:00:00.560 --> 0:00:04.640 Hello, everyone, Welcome to the You Project. We're just in 0:00:04.680 --> 0:00:06.960 the middle of some mayhem and ridiculous over here at 0:00:07.000 --> 0:00:10.600 typ Central Tiffany and doctor Jeffer probably, I'm going to 0:00:10.640 --> 0:00:14.560 be honest, not a great combination. They get a little 0:00:14.600 --> 0:00:19.119 bit ahead of themselves. Tip's about to get a free consult. 0:00:19.480 --> 0:00:22.799 I was somehow talking about my left testicle and that 0:00:22.960 --> 0:00:25.520 was all before the good stuff is about to start. 0:00:25.640 --> 0:00:27.080 So good morning, Tif. 0:00:27.000 --> 0:00:30.320 Good morning, good morning, all right, I'm good. 0:00:31.040 --> 0:00:34.760 Hello Jeff Hello, Hello, good morning to you, and good 0:00:34.840 --> 0:00:36.559 afternoon from Las Vegas. 0:00:37.400 --> 0:00:41.600 Oh bloody Las Vegas. Have you been to Las Vegas? Tip? No, No, 0:00:42.280 --> 0:00:45.599 It's the city that never sleeps, dude. I've been there 0:00:45.640 --> 0:00:51.839 a couple of times. It's it's a lot, it's sensory overload. 0:00:53.000 --> 0:00:57.400 It's it's a lot, but it's it's cool. I would 0:00:57.400 --> 0:01:01.240 not want to live there, which is not to say 0:01:01.280 --> 0:01:05.640 it's not amazing, but I'd have ADHD and all the 0:01:05.720 --> 0:01:13.920 things if I live there. It's busy. How's your Let's 0:01:13.920 --> 0:01:16.760 dive right in, because you know we're very open here 0:01:16.800 --> 0:01:20.360 at the U Project. How's your erry menopausal body going, Tip? 0:01:20.560 --> 0:01:22.520 What bloody chaos hearts? 0:01:22.640 --> 0:01:23.560 I've had enough of it. 0:01:23.680 --> 0:01:25.560 I've got three and a half hours sleep the night 0:01:25.560 --> 0:01:29.200 before last for no reason. I've got almost ten last night. 0:01:30.360 --> 0:01:33.800 I'm getting I'm getting pains, which I haven't had since 0:01:33.840 --> 0:01:38.600 I was an adolescent child. I'm tired, I'm demotivated. It's 0:01:38.800 --> 0:01:40.280 utter bullshit. 0:01:41.520 --> 0:01:43.160 And do you want to punch someone in the face? 0:01:43.400 --> 0:01:46.080 Yeah, but don't have the bloody energy that I used to, 0:01:46.200 --> 0:01:48.000 So I'm not even getting to punch people in the 0:01:48.040 --> 0:01:49.400 face like I normally do. 0:01:50.760 --> 0:01:53.840 Well, Doctor Jeff, no pressure, but if you could fix 0:01:53.880 --> 0:01:56.480 all of that in the next forty minutes, that'd be great, 0:01:57.600 --> 0:02:03.760 easy peasy. When I start feeling shit, Tiff, I feel 0:02:03.760 --> 0:02:07.520 like I'm consulting you now. Just get comfortable. Just line 0:02:07.560 --> 0:02:10.480 the couch. When when did all of this mayhem start? 0:02:11.120 --> 0:02:14.560 So back when I reckon it was a couple of 0:02:14.680 --> 0:02:17.079 years ago, two and a half to two years ago. 0:02:17.120 --> 0:02:19.799 It was back remember when I was going to start 0:02:19.840 --> 0:02:24.000 fighting again and I and I apped my training and 0:02:24.040 --> 0:02:27.520 then I just crashed and then I couldn't recover, and 0:02:27.560 --> 0:02:30.200 then so it kind of started there. And then I 0:02:30.240 --> 0:02:32.560 started asking a question, but I was like, oh, is 0:02:32.600 --> 0:02:35.880 this just burnout? Is this just training? Is this? And 0:02:35.919 --> 0:02:38.880 then I just feel like two years have passed and 0:02:38.919 --> 0:02:41.080 I've tried all of the things that I'm in a 0:02:41.320 --> 0:02:45.480 same but maybe a even more declining state of like okay, 0:02:45.600 --> 0:02:47.240 a less and less is working now? 0:02:48.160 --> 0:02:53.000 Wow yeah wow Wow. Over to you, Doc. I mean, 0:02:53.040 --> 0:02:54.800 if you could come up with some kind of magic, 0:02:54.919 --> 0:02:57.760 that would be great, no pressure, but you know. 0:02:57.919 --> 0:03:05.520 The magic exist. It's called bioidentical hormone optimization, where both 0:03:05.560 --> 0:03:08.520 for men and women. Of course, with women it's more precipitous, 0:03:09.200 --> 0:03:12.120 it's a rapid decline, whereas men we have more gradual 0:03:12.160 --> 0:03:17.240 decline in our hormones. And it works like this as 0:03:17.280 --> 0:03:20.480 you age. It was always thought that your hormones tend 0:03:20.560 --> 0:03:26.680 to decline in men testosterone and women estrogen, progesterone and testosterone. However, 0:03:27.280 --> 0:03:29.799 what if the opposite were true? What if you age 0:03:29.880 --> 0:03:33.240 because your hormones decline, wouldn't that encourage you then to 0:03:33.480 --> 0:03:38.600 not let them decline or replace them artificially with bioidentical 0:03:38.640 --> 0:03:41.640 And I keep saying bioidentical, so it's clear I don't 0:03:41.680 --> 0:03:49.240 mean synthetic derivatives of horse urine aka premarin. So for 0:03:49.800 --> 0:03:52.960 both men and women, the longer you preserve a youthful profile, 0:03:52.960 --> 0:03:57.320 of hormones, the longer you will live. Women who have 0:03:57.680 --> 0:04:02.840 later pregnancies and later cycles live longer. This is well known. 0:04:03.400 --> 0:04:05.440 So if you want to live long and preserve your 0:04:05.440 --> 0:04:09.760 bone density and not want to punch everybody and sleep 0:04:10.280 --> 0:04:13.120 and not have dry eyes and dry other parts and 0:04:13.160 --> 0:04:16.080 not lose your hair, you have to get ahead of 0:04:16.080 --> 0:04:18.040 this before it happens. In your case, you're playing a 0:04:18.080 --> 0:04:19.839 little bit of catch up. Tip. But that's okay, we 0:04:19.920 --> 0:04:23.040 got you right, and you need you probably need a 0:04:23.080 --> 0:04:27.560 little estrogen, a little nighttime progesterone. You'll sleep like a 0:04:27.600 --> 0:04:31.680 baby again. You'll have the motivation, which is probably some 0:04:31.760 --> 0:04:35.040 low testosterone you need replaced, and all this. You check 0:04:35.080 --> 0:04:38.279 some blood tests. It's easy to do and I don't 0:04:38.440 --> 0:04:41.960 know how rarely available it is where you are, but 0:04:42.720 --> 0:04:45.240 it is a growing industry here in the US. 0:04:46.720 --> 0:04:49.240 Wow, have you had any blood tests done? Tip? 0:04:49.520 --> 0:04:53.760 Yeah, I have just started about two weeks ago on 0:04:54.760 --> 0:04:57.920 estrogen gel. I don't know if it's bioidentical. I need 0:04:57.960 --> 0:05:00.800 to check out. That's not a question. I'd right, and 0:05:00.880 --> 0:05:05.200 progesterone tablets, so I'm just waiting. Apparently they'll take anything 0:05:05.240 --> 0:05:07.880 up to three months to really start to kick in 0:05:07.920 --> 0:05:09.080 and feel some effects. 0:05:09.760 --> 0:05:10.200 That's fair. 0:05:10.560 --> 0:05:12.520 Yeah, that's fair. 0:05:12.680 --> 0:05:14.000 Okay, good, you're on the right path. 0:05:14.240 --> 0:05:16.159 Yeah. And I have a friend a couple of years 0:05:16.160 --> 0:05:18.000 older than me, and she's been on this path for 0:05:18.000 --> 0:05:21.640 a while and she has also just started taking testosterone 0:05:21.640 --> 0:05:24.280 as well, and she said that has worked wonders for her. 0:05:25.800 --> 0:05:29.560 It's really a thing women like women starting to take 0:05:29.839 --> 0:05:33.720 like a little bit of testosterone. Generally it's cream, right, doc. 0:05:34.920 --> 0:05:37.720 Yeah, that's kind of the low dose application. It can 0:05:37.760 --> 0:05:41.440 be injectable, but to help maintain muscle mass and other things, 0:05:41.480 --> 0:05:44.279 women have testosterone in them normally, there is a normal 0:05:44.320 --> 0:05:45.360 amount for women. Yeah. 0:05:46.440 --> 0:05:50.120 Yeah, wow, well we will. We'll be cheering you on 0:05:50.720 --> 0:05:59.120 you and your hormones on tiff in your endocrine system team. Thanks, yeah, yeah, 0:05:59.160 --> 0:06:03.800 team tiff Hi Doc, now to you, how are you? 0:06:03.880 --> 0:06:06.560 What do you mean up to? Has things? Has Las Vegas, 0:06:06.560 --> 0:06:07.920 has life, has business? 0:06:08.600 --> 0:06:15.120 Well, thank you for that compound question. I had just 0:06:15.240 --> 0:06:20.400 got back from the Biohacking conference in Austin, Texas. We 0:06:20.400 --> 0:06:22.400 were there for better part of a week. It is 0:06:22.440 --> 0:06:27.640 a forty three hundred people who are longevity enthusiasts looking 0:06:27.680 --> 0:06:34.720 at the latest biotech supplements. You know, energies, infrared, you know, 0:06:34.800 --> 0:06:38.120 exercise everything, you would have loved it. It's right up 0:06:38.120 --> 0:06:42.279 your alley, as they say. And I got to speak. 0:06:42.320 --> 0:06:45.159 We presented, you know, we had a booth there and 0:06:45.200 --> 0:06:47.640 it's all about longevity. So I did a little homework 0:06:47.680 --> 0:06:50.839 before we jumped on here, and I wanted to see 0:06:51.080 --> 0:06:58.120 if you knew why the Australian life expectancy is longer 0:06:58.120 --> 0:07:01.640 than the US life expectancy, so you're going to live longer. 0:07:02.600 --> 0:07:06.600 In twenty twenty one, Australia had an average life expectancy 0:07:06.640 --> 0:07:10.040 of eighty three point two years. Well, well, the US 0:07:10.120 --> 0:07:15.160 it's seventy eight point four years, and that was probably 0:07:15.160 --> 0:07:17.400 based on data prior to twenty twenty one, so it's 0:07:17.880 --> 0:07:21.800 I don't think it's corrected for COVID yet, but that's. 0:07:21.680 --> 0:07:24.520 A big gap. That's nearly a five year gap. Yeah, 0:07:24.920 --> 0:07:31.800 I mean it's definitely you know, I think the idea 0:07:31.840 --> 0:07:34.040 that the rest of the world has about Australia is 0:07:34.120 --> 0:07:36.920 not a particularly accurate one. It was once upon a 0:07:36.960 --> 0:07:41.960 time in that where this outdoorsy, super active, super healthy 0:07:42.480 --> 0:07:48.200 everyone in Australia surfs and it's we're a very cosmopolitan, 0:07:49.040 --> 0:07:52.960 urban country. I mean most people in Australia. I don't 0:07:53.000 --> 0:07:55.400 know what it is, but it's probably eighty five ninety 0:07:55.400 --> 0:07:58.440 percent of people in Australia live in cities and suburbs 0:07:59.120 --> 0:08:03.720 like this. Great, Like our land is almost the size 0:08:03.760 --> 0:08:07.560 of you know, North America, but it's it's you know, 0:08:07.600 --> 0:08:10.320 we only have twenty six million people versus three hundred 0:08:10.320 --> 0:08:14.040 and thirty million people, and so people around the world 0:08:14.040 --> 0:08:17.560 assume that we're just spread out over this big, vast continent, 0:08:18.920 --> 0:08:24.200 but we really live on the perimeter. And yeah, did 0:08:24.200 --> 0:08:25.760 my microphone just go off again? 0:08:25.840 --> 0:08:26.160 Tiff? 0:08:26.560 --> 0:08:26.800 Yes? 0:08:28.040 --> 0:08:29.840 And now is it back back? 0:08:29.960 --> 0:08:30.200 Yep? 0:08:31.080 --> 0:08:36.720 Sorry everyone, we're having little microphone episodes today. But I 0:08:36.760 --> 0:08:39.400 don't know, like I feel, we're just as obese, and 0:08:39.440 --> 0:08:42.280 we've got just as much diabetes and just as many 0:08:43.320 --> 0:08:46.120 you know, related issues. What's your theory. 0:08:47.880 --> 0:08:50.960 I think it's it's the pesticides and our food and 0:08:51.000 --> 0:08:53.600 the other preservatives in our food. On this side of 0:08:53.600 --> 0:08:57.960 the planet, we've been poisoning ourselves for years. And there's 0:08:58.000 --> 0:09:02.200 now a move afoot too hopefully correct that take it out, 0:09:02.280 --> 0:09:05.120 but you know, the damage is done, right, So a 0:09:05.200 --> 0:09:07.560 lot of people have been poisoned by this. 0:09:08.440 --> 0:09:12.640 That's I saw this thing yesterday that it was like 0:09:12.679 --> 0:09:15.760 a hook, you know how they're like, you know, learn 0:09:15.840 --> 0:09:18.840 why people who live within five hundred meters of a 0:09:18.880 --> 0:09:23.040 golf course something like, I forget the exact number, but 0:09:23.080 --> 0:09:26.720 three hundred percent more likely to get Parkinson's disease. And 0:09:26.760 --> 0:09:32.440 I'm like, that's the weirdest fucking correlation ever. So people 0:09:32.480 --> 0:09:34.719 who live within maybe it was I don't know, five 0:09:35.200 --> 0:09:39.800 eight hundred meters or yards whatever, and then I looked 0:09:39.800 --> 0:09:42.800 into it. It's because of all the chemicals they use 0:09:42.960 --> 0:09:47.200 on the golf course. Yeah, all the pesticides, and because 0:09:47.240 --> 0:09:49.839 it because it people breathe it in. People who live 0:09:49.880 --> 0:09:55.720 within a certain proximity of that are getting sicker quicker 0:09:56.600 --> 0:09:58.600 while they think, oh wow, we live on the back 0:09:58.640 --> 0:10:02.960 of a golf course, this is beautiful. Yeah. So I 0:10:03.000 --> 0:10:06.920 actually know someone who lives on a golf course like that. 0:10:06.920 --> 0:10:11.120 That's a it's like a gated community, and yeah, they're 0:10:11.520 --> 0:10:15.160 fifty meters from a fucking golf from a fairway. 0:10:15.280 --> 0:10:20.960 So yeah, yeah, I think I think that's it's the poisons, 0:10:21.000 --> 0:10:24.480 the chemicals. I agree with you. I think this is 0:10:24.760 --> 0:10:27.079 an ongoing issue because if you order if we if 0:10:27.080 --> 0:10:31.640 you and I both buy the same box of crackers. Yeah, biscuits. 0:10:31.640 --> 0:10:33.040 I don't know what you calm down there, but you 0:10:33.080 --> 0:10:36.040 know ours will have twenty five more ingredients than yours will. 0:10:36.840 --> 0:10:40.199 Yeah, it's it's and it's so funny. I mean, we've 0:10:40.400 --> 0:10:43.520 we've gone down this route before, talking even about cereals 0:10:43.800 --> 0:10:48.080 and things where you you know, like there's there's very 0:10:48.120 --> 0:10:52.640 popular cereals in Australia and America. I know where it's. 0:10:53.320 --> 0:10:56.800 You look at the back and there's in this what 0:10:56.960 --> 0:11:01.240 seems like this simple breakfast, there's fifty different ingredients and 0:11:01.280 --> 0:11:03.800 thirty of them you've never heard of. You don't, and 0:11:03.840 --> 0:11:08.040 it's just it's just you know, preservatives and additives and 0:11:08.480 --> 0:11:14.360 coloring and chemicals, and yeah, I know that's the I mean, 0:11:14.800 --> 0:11:17.920 I wanted to ask you. I've avoided this for seven years, 0:11:17.920 --> 0:11:20.959 not seven years, five years, this topic and I don't 0:11:21.000 --> 0:11:25.560 want to open the door too wide, but what are 0:11:27.120 --> 0:11:30.480 what are your thoughts on the COVID vaccine now that 0:11:30.559 --> 0:11:33.960 we've got some and it doesn't need to be controversial, 0:11:34.679 --> 0:11:37.320 but like it just seems there's more and more coming 0:11:37.360 --> 0:11:40.400 out now and I've, like I said, I've consciously avoided 0:11:40.400 --> 0:11:43.360 this topic because I think it's just too much hype 0:11:43.400 --> 0:11:47.760 and hysteria and hate and you know, silos of thought. 0:11:47.880 --> 0:11:51.720 But do you think it's overall it's a good thing, 0:11:51.960 --> 0:11:54.760 was a good thing, was a bad thing. I don't know. 0:11:56.559 --> 0:11:59.040 I'm going to try to be as objective as possible 0:11:59.160 --> 0:12:03.320 so people can make their own conclusions. But one from 0:12:03.320 --> 0:12:08.160 a pandemic perspective, it probably did help diminish the virulence 0:12:08.200 --> 0:12:12.240 and the spread. From an individual perspective, I think it 0:12:12.400 --> 0:12:17.560 probably we are now seeing some of the downside, the 0:12:17.720 --> 0:12:21.880 medical downside to these things. You know, we've got evidence 0:12:22.000 --> 0:12:26.680 that we've done some harm. 0:12:26.760 --> 0:12:30.920 Yeah, well it's there's I don't know, And maybe you 0:12:30.960 --> 0:12:34.080 know when you're like, you watch one thing. I watched 0:12:34.080 --> 0:12:36.280 one thing a few weeks ago. Now I'm getting all 0:12:36.320 --> 0:12:38.480 the things and I'm like, maybe I need to watch 0:12:38.480 --> 0:12:40.600 something from the other side of the fence to get 0:12:41.120 --> 0:12:45.760 a different perspective. I noticed on your website I was 0:12:45.800 --> 0:12:47.679 having a look the other day that one of the 0:12:47.720 --> 0:12:54.480 things that you do is bioage biological age testing. And 0:12:54.880 --> 0:12:57.319 we've spoken about this a bit, but we're nearly two 0:12:57.320 --> 0:13:00.640 thousand episodes in, so if you couldn't, you know, simple terms, 0:13:00.679 --> 0:13:04.120 explain to people what you mean by biological age, and 0:13:04.160 --> 0:13:08.520 then two tell us about the protocol. How you do it? 0:13:09.360 --> 0:13:14.320 Yep. So think about a seven year old woman, okay, 0:13:14.800 --> 0:13:18.040 and you got two seven year old women right next 0:13:18.040 --> 0:13:20.360 to each other. One is getting ready to go into 0:13:20.360 --> 0:13:24.240 a nursing home. She's got white curly hair, wrinkles in 0:13:24.280 --> 0:13:28.440 her face, creaked the old knees, and she's stooped over 0:13:28.480 --> 0:13:32.959 with a cane. And one is in a workout outfit 0:13:33.000 --> 0:13:35.600 and she's going to yoga class and she's full of energy, 0:13:35.679 --> 0:13:38.840 and she looks younger and feels younger. Those two women 0:13:39.000 --> 0:13:42.199 were born on the same day. Yeah, but one of 0:13:42.240 --> 0:13:47.160 them is obviously physiologically or biologically younger, and that's that's 0:13:47.200 --> 0:13:50.520 because her cells have been taken better care of during 0:13:50.559 --> 0:13:56.319 her lifetime. They've been exposed to less chronic inflammatory degenerative changes, 0:13:57.520 --> 0:14:04.160 less inflammating, which is a combination of inflammation aging. So 0:14:04.160 --> 0:14:09.319 so there are blood tests different types that can study 0:14:09.360 --> 0:14:11.400 that and give you a number. And you can actually 0:14:11.720 --> 0:14:17.319 take interventions. Get in scheap, eat right, you know, meditate, 0:14:18.160 --> 0:14:21.360 you know all kinds of things, take supplements, what have 0:14:21.440 --> 0:14:25.400 you lose weight, and you can lessen or reduce or 0:14:25.440 --> 0:14:31.760 reverse your aging process at a cellular measure doesn't change 0:14:31.760 --> 0:14:36.560 your calendar date, but it changes your functional effective biological age. 0:14:37.160 --> 0:14:38.360 So that's what that's all about. 0:14:39.480 --> 0:14:43.880 I find it interestingly the thinking around aging two. Like 0:14:44.240 --> 0:14:47.120 I'm sure it happens in the States, but in Australia 0:14:47.160 --> 0:14:50.000 there's a term which is age appropriate. Then fill in 0:14:50.000 --> 0:14:55.800 the blank, age appropriate clothing, age appropriate exercise, age appropriate 0:14:56.000 --> 0:14:59.800 fucking relationships. Oh you're too old, you're too young for 0:15:00.240 --> 0:15:03.560 or him, or you know, whatever it is, whatever it is, 0:15:04.880 --> 0:15:07.240 And it's so funny, Like I think, you know, there's 0:15:07.240 --> 0:15:10.400 that famous saying we don't grow old because we know. 0:15:10.520 --> 0:15:13.240 We don't stop playing because we grow old. We grow 0:15:13.280 --> 0:15:16.760 old because we stop playing, right, And I feel like 0:15:16.840 --> 0:15:19.280 a lot of the things that we should do when 0:15:19.320 --> 0:15:23.040 we are older, and by older everyone I guess I 0:15:23.120 --> 0:15:26.920 mean forty five fifty plus, right, they're the things we 0:15:26.960 --> 0:15:30.640 should do. We should bounce to basketball, we should throw 0:15:30.680 --> 0:15:33.640 a ball, we should walk on top of a bloody 0:15:33.720 --> 0:15:36.000 fence or whatever. Not a high skinn ef fan, but 0:15:36.080 --> 0:15:37.880 you know what I mean, all the things that we 0:15:37.920 --> 0:15:41.480 did that involve balance and coordination and muscular endurance and 0:15:41.520 --> 0:15:45.560 aerobic endurance and fun. We seem to put the brakes 0:15:45.600 --> 0:15:48.760 on that because we shouldn't do that at your age. 0:15:49.360 --> 0:15:54.080 And I think that you know, how much fun and 0:15:54.120 --> 0:15:58.800 also how much benefit would be in people kind of 0:15:58.840 --> 0:16:06.000 rethinking that and engaging in activities which not only physiologically, 0:16:06.040 --> 0:16:08.720 but emotionally and psychologically have great benefits. 0:16:11.360 --> 0:16:13.920 Yeah, I couldn't. I couldn't agree more. I think you're right. 0:16:14.360 --> 0:16:17.560 It starts with the mindset and then act on that. 0:16:17.720 --> 0:16:21.040 So execute on those ideas and stay young and active 0:16:21.160 --> 0:16:28.600 and move, exercise, play, diminish your internal mental psychological stress 0:16:28.680 --> 0:16:32.960 and you'll you'll you'll do well, and that will keep 0:16:33.040 --> 0:16:34.280 you younger. I agree. 0:16:34.880 --> 0:16:37.360 How do you test someone's biological age? I know it's 0:16:37.360 --> 0:16:40.800 not a perfect science, but what what kind of happens? 0:16:41.640 --> 0:16:44.160 So there are a bunch of different correlates. One is 0:16:45.000 --> 0:16:47.960 there are some applications maybe on your phone, you're a smartphone, 0:16:47.960 --> 0:16:50.040 where you can take a picture of your face and 0:16:50.200 --> 0:16:53.720 through some various metrics it can it can estimate your 0:16:54.120 --> 0:16:57.240 biological age. There are other physical tests you can try, 0:16:57.280 --> 0:16:59.200 where how long can you hang from a pull up bar? 0:17:00.840 --> 0:17:03.920 What's your grip strength? How long can you stand on 0:17:03.920 --> 0:17:07.800 one leg? That kind of thing. Those those are one 0:17:08.119 --> 0:17:11.040 another physiologic measures. Then there are blood tests, and some 0:17:11.080 --> 0:17:14.560 of the blood tests look at things circulating in your bloodstreams. 0:17:14.600 --> 0:17:19.480 Some of them look at intracellular markers like methylation of 0:17:19.480 --> 0:17:21.760 your DNA, which is a slow change in your DNA 0:17:21.920 --> 0:17:25.359 with age, like the length of your telomeres, which are 0:17:25.400 --> 0:17:27.840 the sort of the ends of the shoe string of 0:17:27.840 --> 0:17:30.159 the DNA, and it changes over time. Every time a 0:17:30.240 --> 0:17:35.200 cell divides, that becomes more afraid and then you want nice, 0:17:35.280 --> 0:17:39.159 tightly compacted you know, like brain new shoelaces, right, you 0:17:38.960 --> 0:17:41.199 want you don't want them falling apart at the tips. 0:17:42.600 --> 0:17:48.560 What's the end? What's the end physiological result of anxiety? 0:17:50.080 --> 0:17:50.679 Anxiety? 0:17:51.240 --> 0:17:53.040 What's happening happening in our body? 0:17:54.000 --> 0:17:58.879 So anxiety increases the stress response, the fight or flight 0:17:59.600 --> 0:18:06.639 mechan the epidephrin or adrenaline release, the cortisol release, which 0:18:06.680 --> 0:18:09.440 is the pro inflammatory aspect of the body. The body 0:18:09.440 --> 0:18:12.040 has yin and yang, so we have we are supposed 0:18:12.040 --> 0:18:14.720 to be somewhat you know, inflame during the day. You 0:18:14.760 --> 0:18:18.880 get inflamed when you wake up, when your cortisol you know, 0:18:19.040 --> 0:18:22.200 surges in the morning, and when you eat. Eating is 0:18:22.240 --> 0:18:25.280 actually proneflammatory. But we need it and during the night 0:18:25.320 --> 0:18:28.840 you repair, you're anti inflammatory, or you go from the 0:18:28.840 --> 0:18:31.919 sympathetic nervous system, the fight or flight side, to the 0:18:31.960 --> 0:18:35.440 relaxed side, the parasympathetic side, and that ying and yang 0:18:35.480 --> 0:18:37.840 is part of our circuitian rhythm. And if you don't 0:18:37.840 --> 0:18:41.399 have enough parasympathetic like when Tiff did not sleep that 0:18:41.440 --> 0:18:43.800 one night, she's paying for it the next day. And 0:18:43.880 --> 0:18:47.639 you accumulate that too much anxiety, that too much stress, 0:18:47.680 --> 0:18:52.560 that too much adrenaline, and too much cortisol, and it 0:18:52.640 --> 0:18:57.560 has adverse and accelerated degenerative changes at the cellular level 0:18:57.560 --> 0:18:59.439 and then at the body level. That's why you have 0:18:59.480 --> 0:19:02.480 two seventy year old women and one looks all beat 0:19:02.560 --> 0:19:05.560 up and old at seventy, and one could be very youthful, 0:19:05.760 --> 0:19:08.439 and you might think she's just turning fifty. 0:19:09.880 --> 0:19:11.560 What do you think? And I mean, these are all 0:19:11.720 --> 0:19:14.760 just opinions, but maybe you've got some science behind it. 0:19:15.880 --> 0:19:18.280 And I know both of these things have an impact, 0:19:18.320 --> 0:19:20.680 But what do you think is more of a factor? 0:19:21.800 --> 0:19:28.040 Great sleep, consistent good sleep, or being able to consistently 0:19:28.160 --> 0:19:33.000 be calm, an absence absent of or free of anxiety 0:19:33.080 --> 0:19:33.760 or stress. 0:19:35.520 --> 0:19:38.160 That's that's a good one. I think free of all 0:19:38.200 --> 0:19:42.400 stress is sort of a unicorn situation. So I think 0:19:42.800 --> 0:19:51.679 I think restorative, really good sleep can somewhat forgive some stress. 0:19:52.200 --> 0:19:53.960 Yeah, I think they kind of go hand in hand. 0:19:55.080 --> 0:19:58.560 So there's a famous Australian swimmer over here. Isn't an 0:19:59.359 --> 0:20:02.600 Olympic goal medallist. You would never have heard of him, 0:20:02.600 --> 0:20:06.480 but his name's James Magnuson. Anyway, he's been getting a 0:20:06.520 --> 0:20:08.720 bit of airtime in the last week or two. TIF 0:20:08.800 --> 0:20:10.280 Have you seen those photos of him? 0:20:10.359 --> 0:20:10.719 Yeah? 0:20:11.520 --> 0:20:15.800 Fucking hell, Oh my god. Hey everyone, if you want to, 0:20:16.640 --> 0:20:18.800 if you want to look him up right now, doc 0:20:18.840 --> 0:20:23.399 go James m a g n U double S N 0:20:24.760 --> 0:20:31.520 and the Enhanced Games. The Enhanced Games. So he's a 0:20:31.560 --> 0:20:37.800 well known, well respected Australian swimmer, olympian and he's taking 0:20:38.359 --> 0:20:40.680 part in the games that are coming up very soon. 0:20:40.760 --> 0:20:45.120 The doc's putting on his classes and the idea while 0:20:45.119 --> 0:20:48.040 he's looking there, everyone. The idea, as I understand, of 0:20:48.119 --> 0:20:51.240 these games is that the athletes can use whatever the 0:20:51.240 --> 0:20:55.200 fuck they want, right, So they're using steroids, they're using 0:20:55.280 --> 0:20:59.200 growth hormone, they're using testosterone to see what the human 0:20:59.200 --> 0:21:02.360 body can do. Have you got those photos of him, 0:21:02.440 --> 0:21:03.639 like a before and after. 0:21:05.280 --> 0:21:07.440 Let me put him before and after. It just brings 0:21:07.520 --> 0:21:09.440 up a bunch of photos. So I don't know what's 0:21:09.880 --> 0:21:12.080 what's enhanced, and what's not. Here's a before and after. 0:21:12.119 --> 0:21:17.640 Oh yeah, so he's got some significant improved muscle gain 0:21:20.320 --> 0:21:24.520 his arms, his chest, his abs. He's probably lost, not 0:21:24.600 --> 0:21:26.280 that he had any fat to begin with, a little 0:21:26.280 --> 0:21:30.040 fat too, So yeah, this is a guy that's either 0:21:30.119 --> 0:21:32.680 taking HGH human growth hormone, or one of the growth 0:21:32.680 --> 0:21:35.200 hormone releasing peptides which are very popular. 0:21:35.920 --> 0:21:38.359 Yeah, what do you what are your thoughts on, just 0:21:38.400 --> 0:21:41.680 out of curiosity, not from a medical clinical professional perspective, 0:21:41.720 --> 0:21:43.960 but just as a as a blog who's interested in 0:21:44.000 --> 0:21:46.720 training and bodies and sport and performance. What do you 0:21:46.800 --> 0:21:49.200 think of the concept of an enhanced Have you heard 0:21:49.240 --> 0:21:50.440 of the enhanced games? 0:21:51.440 --> 0:21:53.600 Not not in a real sense. I think I saw 0:21:53.640 --> 0:21:58.120 a parody of it on a TV show, comedy show. 0:21:57.920 --> 0:22:03.239 But noctually it's a real thing. Anyone who breaks a 0:22:03.280 --> 0:22:07.560 world record gets a million US. Yeah, it's a real 0:22:07.600 --> 0:22:10.360 thing and it's happening. TIF Can you just find out 0:22:10.359 --> 0:22:12.960 when is it happening this? I feel like it's in 0:22:13.000 --> 0:22:15.679 a few months. It's pretty close. What are your thoughts 0:22:15.680 --> 0:22:15.960 of that. 0:22:15.960 --> 0:22:24.200 Doc, Well, I mean it, it certainly doesn't imbue fairness, 0:22:24.640 --> 0:22:28.560 right because you you know, so it shouldn't count as 0:22:28.600 --> 0:22:33.440 a world record. It's like Barry Bonds and American Baseball 0:22:33.440 --> 0:22:35.760 when he hit the you know, the most home runs. 0:22:35.760 --> 0:22:37.639 But oh, by the way, he was juice and he 0:22:37.720 --> 0:22:42.840 was taking something, so you know, not fair right, Yeah, 0:22:43.720 --> 0:22:46.160 he got it. He has an asterisknicks to his name 0:22:46.280 --> 0:22:50.240 for that record, so es So I don't know about that, 0:22:50.320 --> 0:22:52.479 but it's interesting, and I can tell you that a 0:22:52.600 --> 0:22:59.440 vast majority of my biohacking clients, including myself, do fall 0:22:59.520 --> 0:23:01.720 under this. Now I'm not seeking a world record. I'm 0:23:01.720 --> 0:23:06.160 not competing, but I'm enhancing. Yeah, you know, I'm pushing 0:23:06.200 --> 0:23:09.000 sixty and I need some muscle mass. I need to 0:23:09.040 --> 0:23:13.040 burn fat better. I need to metabolism up. I need 0:23:13.080 --> 0:23:14.600 to be at the top of my game because I'm 0:23:14.600 --> 0:23:17.760 doing top of the game touch stuff with stem cells 0:23:17.760 --> 0:23:22.080 and regenerate medicine. So I'm doing all that peptides testosterone 0:23:22.320 --> 0:23:27.000 growth hormone releasing peptides, and you want to you know, 0:23:27.440 --> 0:23:30.479 this falls under the bioidentical hormone optimization that we were 0:23:30.520 --> 0:23:34.440 talking about with Tiff. These are ways to keep your 0:23:34.560 --> 0:23:38.200 cells functioning at a younger behavior. And if your cells 0:23:38.200 --> 0:23:41.040 are functioning a younger behavior, your organs are. If your 0:23:41.119 --> 0:23:43.720 organs are your body is, your body is, you are 0:23:43.840 --> 0:23:44.919 effectively younger. 0:23:47.920 --> 0:23:52.720 And that's becoming more and more kind of this approach 0:23:52.760 --> 0:23:56.320 to anti aging. And you know, human optimization and using 0:23:56.560 --> 0:24:02.080 growth hormone or testosterone. It's like coming close towards normal 0:24:02.160 --> 0:24:03.119 in the States now. 0:24:04.640 --> 0:24:09.080 Any enthusiast health and wellness alternative health and wellness enthusiasts, 0:24:09.840 --> 0:24:14.720 we call them biohacker. It is almost ubiquitous. I mean 0:24:14.840 --> 0:24:17.000 the people I met at this event we just got 0:24:17.000 --> 0:24:20.080 back from forty three hundred people, the vast majority either 0:24:20.119 --> 0:24:22.119 heard of it or on some element of it. 0:24:22.960 --> 0:24:27.040 And what's the emergent thing in that space, what's new, 0:24:27.119 --> 0:24:31.200 what's shiny? What are people excited about in the biohacking world. 0:24:31.840 --> 0:24:35.399 Peptides There are thousands of different small proteins called peptides 0:24:35.920 --> 0:24:42.679 that have bioactivity, helps stimulate healing, help stimulate metabolism, muscle gains, 0:24:43.640 --> 0:24:46.120 things like that. And there are some very big players 0:24:46.119 --> 0:24:50.199 in the space, and you see tons of new businesses 0:24:50.240 --> 0:24:53.560 popping up where you can buy these peptides. So that's 0:24:54.119 --> 0:24:56.280